William Henry Harrison, of Boonville, Missouri, is a difficult man to track down, due to the unfortunate circumstance of sharing a name with the ninth President of the United States. This William Harrison was born in Howard County, Missouri, on June 10, 1842.
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12 Nov 09
Daniel Whitlow of Kentucky
Daniel Whitlow was born in 1795 in Kentucky, to Pleasant Whitlow and Tabitha Tudor. He married Francis Ray “Fannie” Tison on May 6th, 1835. Daniel moved to Illinois in the mid 1800s, and is listed in the 1850 census for Greene County, Illinois as a farmer.
5 Nov 09
William Wyatt Whitlow of Greene County, Illinois
William Wyatt Whitlow was born on April 1, 1834, in Greene County, Illinois to Daniel Whitlow and Francis Tison (”Fannie”). He worked as a farmer in Greene County for most of his life, and eventually worked as the Commissioner of Highways. In 1856 he moved to Montgomery County, Illinois, and married his wife, Fannie Elizabeth [...]
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14 Jun 09
Augustin Troxclair and Felicite LeBoeuf, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Augustin Troxclair (also spelled Trosclaire, Troxler, Troxclaire, among others) lived in St. James Parish, Louisiana, just west of New Orleans. He was born in Saint James Parish in about 1820. Augustin was married to Felicite LeBoeuf, who was born in St. James Parish around 1810.
The 1860 census for St. James Parish lists Augustin as a [...]
30 Nov 08
Harvey Spaulding Clapp
Harvey Spaulding Clapp was born in Moretown, Vermont, in 1817 to Rufus Clapp and Wealthy Parkhurst Spaulding.
He traveled extensively throughout the Great Lakes as a marble salesman and kept a diary, which, although it consists almost entirely of mundane business transactions, shows him to have possessed an extraordinary intellect. The diary, written in the summer [...]
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7 Sep 08
Senator Moses Clapp
Moses Edwin Vail Clapp was born on May 21st, 1851 in Delphi, Indiana, son of Harvey Spaulding Clapp and Jane Abigail Clapp (nee Vandercook). He went to law school at the University of Wisconsin. At age 23, Moses married Harriet “Hattie” Allen of Indiana.
Moses and Hattie Clapp had four children:
Catrina Clapp, born in 1880.
Harvey Spaulding [...]
14 Aug 08
Britton Frank Stamps
Britton Frank Stamps was born December 13th, 1791 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. He was the son of James Stamps and Sarah Johnson. He was quite active in politics both in Georgia and in Alabama, and over time served as Sherriff, Justice of the Peace, Justice of the Inferior Court, and U. S. Marshall. He was [...]
26 Jul 08
Cosby Berryman Harrison
Cosby Berryman Harrison was born in about 1801 in Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County). He moved to Boonville, Missouri (Cooper County) around 1826. In 1827 He married Mary Callaway, whose great uncle Flanders Callaway eventually married Daniel Boone’s daughter. They had 12 children:
James Abram Harrison, married Fannie Smith
Sidney Ann Harrison, married Willis Tackett
Mary Catherine Harrison, married [...]
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