THE

HISTORY

OF

JACKSON COUNTY,

MISSOURI,

CONTAINING

A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, ITS CITIES, TOWNS, ETC.,

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS CITIZENS, JACKSON COUNTY IN THE LATE WAR,
GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS

AND PROMINENT MEN, HISTORY OF MISSOURI, MAP OF
JACKSON COUNTY, MISCELLANEOUS
MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

(includes Magill's Geography & Geology of the SE Mo. Lowlands)
History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gas-
conade Counties, Missouri

History of Southeast Missouri (Goodspeed's) Indexed
The Joseph Hunter and Related Families

Hunter

King .
Kochtitzky

Paxton.

Peterson & Hanson.

Annals of Platte County, Missouri

Pilot Knob: Thermopylae of the West

Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region (Goodspeed 's) Indexed

The history of Jackson County has been written, in many respects, under trying circumstances. There has been no lack of material, but the work of col lecting and compiling the same into one homogeneous record has been attended by many obstacles and perplexities.

While it has been an interesting occupation to gather from the oldest citizens their reminiscences of events occurring in the first settlement of Jackson County, her metropolis, towns and villages, it has also been one of arduous labor and delicate responsibility, necessitating the careful perusal of many old volumes, and newspaper files, those daily records of by-gone years. Many of the founders of our great cities and towns may still be found where they first settled and like sea shell found where the ocean once surged, tell of a tide of life of which little is known by the present generation. The old pioneer has often been able to narrate with clearness many important events, but utterly unable to give the date, which is so essential in a historical work. The records of the county and the files of the oldest newspapers have furnished much matter of inestimable value.

In the absence of written record, it has often occurred that different individuals, honest and sincere in their statements, have given conflicting versions of the same events, and it has been a matter of much care and delicacy to bring harmony out of these conflicting statements. It has been our aim to record only such facts as are based upon the most reliable and trustworthy authority, and to this end we have exhausted every available source of creditable information. How well the task has been performed, the intelligent reader must judge.