HENRY KING ENLOE


 Dr. Enloe, dentist, lives in Versailles where he is successfully engaged as a dentist.  He was born a
mile and a half west of Russelville, Cole county, Missouri, March 1, 1867.  His father, James Enloe, was
born June 24, 1838, seven miles west of California, Missouri, in what was then Cole county, but the same
place is now in Moniteau county.  James Enloe’s wife’s maiden name was Mary Ann Ryan.  She was born in
Calloway county, Missouri, June 16, 1843.  James Enloe came to Morgan county February 1, 1891, from
Sheldon, Vernon county, Missouri.  The family had in former years lived in Smithton, Missouri, and it was
there that James Enloe lost his wife, September 6, 1896.  the children having married and left home, Mr.
Enloe now lives the most of his time with his sons and daughters.  Following are the children born to James
and Mary Ann Enloe:  Alice, born August 11, 1864; Flora, born October 29, 1865;  Henry King, born March Margaret Pink, born December 16, 1873; Lillie, born November 2, 1875; Hugh Frederick, born November the mother died.  In 1867 and 1868 James Enloe was county school superintendent of Cole county.  He was
a federal soldier in the civil war and in 1862-3 he was second lieutenant in his regiment.  H. K. Enloe, about
whom this sketch is written was educated in the public schools and at Hooper Institute, Clarksburg,
Missouri.  He is a member of the Versailles Methodist church where he has held his membership six years;
he has been a member of the I.O.O.F. 14 years and a member of M.W.A. one year.  October 4, 1900, he was
married to Margaret M. Damph, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Damph of this city.  To this union were born
two children.   An infant boy died March 25, 1906, and the second child, a son, James Phillip, was born Feb.  

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LYCURGUS J. BAUGHMAN
 Rev. Baughman now lives at 236 West Cooper street, Sedalia, Missouri, but he is an old
Morganite, as the following history will show.  he was born in Florence, Morgan county, Missouri, January mother was Rachel Slater, born in Richland county, Ohio, in March 1822.  In the fall of 1838 William
Baughman and family came here from Richland (now Ashland) county, Ohio.  William Baughman’s wife
died in Florence in November, 1875, and William Baughman’s wife died in Florence in November, 1875, and
William Baughman died at his home in Florence January 22, 1897.  The following children were born to
William Baughman and wife: Mary Jane, 67 years old; Anarene J., 65; David V., (dead) 64; Selenda G., 56;
Esther 61; Thomas H., 57; James S., (dead; Edward E., 52; Clarissa E., (dead); 48; Rachel R., 46; Margaret
E., 44; Albert W., 42.
 William Baughman was a blacksmith by trade and was one of the oldest settlers at Florence.  He
run a blacksmith shop in that town before most of the people now living there were born.  Few men were as
industrious and studious.  He got his education by self application and pouring over what few books were
printed in his day and age.  He was elected four times to represent Morgan county in the legislature and
made a faithful servant of the people.  He waged some of the strongest campaigns ever made in the county.
He was loved and admired for his sturdy honesty and he was a speaker that the people liked to hear.
Lycurgus Baughman was educated in private schools in Florence and only attended one term of public
schools.  Public free schools were unknown when he was growing up.  He has been a member of the
Missionary Baptist church since September 13, 1860, and a minister of the gospel in that church since 1872.
November 22,  1860, he was married to Mary F. Simmons, J.P. Monholland, a justice of the peace,
performing the ceremony.  following are the names of the children born to Rev. L.J. Baughman and wife: Lycurgus, dead, 36; Rachel B., 34; Charles J., 31; Leonard F., 29; Lucy Josephine, 25.  Daniel A. is a
commercial traveler and is one of he best known drummers in the state. Rev. Baughman served Richland township, this county, as a justice of the peace 10 years.   Rev. Baughman was
born and raised in Morgan county.  He lived here till March 7, 1905, when he moved to Sedalia where he
now lives.  He submits the following note concerning his history.
 “I was converted in August 1860, and on September 13, following, I was baptized into the
fellowship of the Florence Baptist church, since the time I have been a member of the Baptist church as
follows: Bethlehem, Mt. Olive, Versailles and am now a member of the First Baptist church of Sedalia.  I
was granted the privilege of exercising in public about the year 1870.  On November 1, 1872, I was ordained
to the full work of the ministry at Freedom Baptist church, four miles north of Versailles.  This ordination
took place while the Lamine Baptist association was holding its first meeting.  Out of the seen ministers who
formed the presbytery only one survives and that is Rev. J. E. Sims, of Versailles.  Since my ordination I
have been pastor of he following churches:  Pleasant Hill, three years; Beulah, two years; Mt. Olive, nine
years; Mt. Carmel, two years; Flat Creek, three years; Salem, nine years; Big Buffalo, nine years; Bethel, one
year; Ritchie, thirteen years; Beulah (now Syracuse), two years; Oak Grove, two years; Central Gravois,
nine years; New Hope, two years; Florence, one year; Olive Branch, three years and am now serving
Georgetown, Pettis county, twice a month, and West Union and Ritchie churches, in Morgan county, each
once a month, as a supply.”
 
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PETER HARMS


 Peter Harms is a typical German-American.  He lives eight miles northwest of Versailles on his
farm where he has lived many years, and where he has been prosperous because he has been industrious and
frugal.  He was born in the state of Hanover, Germany, May 21, 1837.  His father and mother were John and
Bettie Harms and were also born in Germany, in Hepstedt.  Uncle Peter Harms came to Morgan county in
the year 1857.  His parents never came to this country.  They are both dead.  The names of the children born
to John and Bettie Harms were:  Gesche, born in 1828, living in Los Angeles, California.  She married a man
by the name of Schroder; one child, a boy, born in 1832, and Peter, the subject of this sketch.  John Harms
was a cabinet maker.  Peter was educated in the common schools of Germany.  He has been a member of the
Methodist church about forty years.  He was married in Morgan county December 11, 1862, to Gesche
Gehrs.  The children born to this union were: Bettie A., born April 24, 1864; Martha M., born May 24, Harmon R., born January 4, 1876; and one son born and died July 19, 1878.
 Uncle Peter Harms took up American ways immediately on coming to this country  and has made
an excellent citizen.  He has been a strong supporter of public schools, as most Germans are, and he has
educated all of his children and made teachers of most of them.  Bettie A. died this year (1907).  She had
been a teacher for many years and was regarded as one of the best in all the country.  Misses Katie and Sena
are prosperously engaged in business in Kansas City and are doing well.  The boys are farming and doing
well in that pursuit.  In politics Uncle Peter is a working Republican and he has been so faithful to his party
that his party has quite often solicited him to make the race for some good office in the county but he has
steadily refused to do so.  He has lived in Morgan county  fifty years and no citizen in it has more friends
that he has.  He stands for law and order and is a good citizen, neighbor and friend.
 

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JACOB CLINE


 Jacob Cline, farmer, was born in Morgan county, Mo., August 14, 1843, and is one of four
members of a family of five children born to the marriage of Jacob Cline and Talitha Ard, who were born in
Virginia and Kentucky, respectively.  The father was a practicing physician for many years, and was very
successful.  He died November 22, 1864, and his wife November 14, 1878.  Our subject remained with his
parents and attended the common schools until August 27, 1862, when he enlisted in Company F.,
Twenty-ninth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, participating in the battles
of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, and the siege of and campaign around Vicksburg and Resaca.  He
received two gunshot wounds in the battle of Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.  then he returned to Chattanooga,
being placed on detached service, and participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., against
Gen. Hood.  Joining his regiment at Goldsborough, N.C. April 9, 1865.  Then they marched through to
Washington D.C. and were discharged June 12, 1865.  Mr. Cline then returned to Morgan county, Mo., and
until 1872 worked on the old homestead, near Florence.  He was married February 8, 1872, to Minerva A.
Wilson, a daughter of ex-Judge Wilson, by whom he has three children:  Edwin S., born June 22, 1873;
Everett, born November 2, 1875; and Jacob, born January 11, 1878.  Mrs. Cline died April 6, 1882, and
February 22, 1887, he married Mrs. Annie Crawford, by whom he has four children, as follows: Chas. H.,
born March 4, 1888 and died September 30, 1890; Edna Gertrude, born March 29, 1890; William Joseph,
born August 17, 1892; Myrtle B., born April 16, 1896.  Edwin S. Cline died November 6, 1906.  Bazile
Cline, a brother of Jacob Cline, died August 8, 1891.  Dr. R. A. Cline, another brother , died June 6, 1907.
 Jacob Cline served as county judge from 1893 to 1895.  His father served as county judge in 1861.
For many years Jacob Cline lived on a farm near Stover where he was prosperous and where he made an
exemplary citizen.  In the fall of 1906 he rented
 


the feedyard then owned by his son, E. S. Cline, for a period of five years and at once made preparations to
move to Versailles.  E. S. Cline died shortly after these arrangements were made and in the spring of 1907
Jacob Cline took charge of the feedyard in partnership with Jacob Cline Jr. and Orville Mew.  This company
bought the Versailles elevator and are now conducting that in connection with their feedyard.  In politics
Judge Cline has always been loyal to the principles of the Republican party and is held in high esteem by all
who know him as an enterprising, public spirited and law abiding citizen.
 

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ROBERT ARTHUR NORFLEET
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 Mr. Norfleet and his wife live  in Excelsior, this county.  Mr. Norfleet was born January 5, 1870, at
High Point, Moniteau
 


county, Missouri.  His father was John W. Norfleet, born in Cole county about 1829, and his mother’s
maiden name was Sarah C. Nichols,, born in Calloway county about 1842.  Mr. Norfleet came to Morgan
county March 15, 1897, from High Point.  His parents never lived in Morgan county.  His father is still living
at High point; his mother died at High Point in 1881, in April.  He has one brother and three sisters, all
living.  His father was a farmer and never held office of any kid.  R. A. Norfleet was educated in the public
schools and in the Missouri State University at Columbia.  He is a member of Versailles lodge I.O.O.F.  His
wife’s maiden name was Minnie A. Tising and she was raised at High Point.  For a year or so after coming
to Morgan county Mr. Norfleet was justice of the peace and in 1904 he was elected representative of
Morgan county.  The Republican county convention of the year nominated M. S. Evans, now of Topeka,
Kansas, for representative but in a few weeks after the nomination was made it was discovered that for some
reason Mr. Evans could not hold the of fice should he be elected.  He withdrew and the Republican county
central committee very wisely put Mr. Norfleet on the head of the ticket.  Although Mr. Norfleet had but six
weeks in which to make a campaign he made every hour count and left no stone unturned and he defeated
his Democratic opponent, John A. Hannay, by a good majority.  Mr. Norfleet made a good and influential
representative.  He was given second place on the committee of Appropriations.  He took an active part in
financial matters of state and was regarded a s a safe and useful man in the legislature.  He was re-elected in He was active in causing the building of the new hospital in the state prison.  He worked hard to have the
Missouri supreme court building built of Missouri stone, which was not done.  In 1906 he was appointed by
Governor Folk as the Republican member of the Junketing committee which has to visit and inspect all of
the state institutions and make their report to the legislature.  He received much applause for the good work
he did on this committee.  Mr. Norfleet is the present member of the legislature for Morgan county.

 


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PETER GEORGE WOODS
 

 
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 Dr. P. G. Woods lives in Versailles.   He is a retired business man.  He was born December 19, name was Sicily Patterson; she was born July 30, 1807.  In December, 1855, Samuel H. Woods and family
moved to Morgan county, Missouri, from Franklin county, Va.  Samuel H. and wife
 


are both dead.  He died July 13, 1876, and his wife died August 28, 1868.  Dr. P. G. Woods has one brother
living, Dr. Charles Carroll Woods, a leading minister and religious writer of St. Louis.  The following
brothers and sisters are dead:  Mary Agnes died at the age of 78; Samuel Robert 77; Emily Ruth 72; William
M. 64; Nancy Julia 18.  Dr. C. C. Woods, living in St. Louis, 69 years old, while Dr. P. G. Woods, the
subject of this sketch, is 63.  This was a large family and all lived to ripe ages except one daughter.  The
father of Dr. P. G. Woods was a farmer and as far as the Doctor can remember his father never held any
office.  Dr. P. G. Woods was educated in the common schools of Morgan and Saline counties and is a
graduate of a St. Louis medical school.  He has been a leading member of his church, the Disciples of Christ,
twenty-one years.  He has been a Mason 40 years and a K. of P. twelve years.  November 10, 1868, he was
married to Susan Harriet Parkes who is the sunshine of the Doctor’s home today.  The children born to this
union are:  Edna, now dead; Eve wife of Rev. D. C. Peters, of Trinidad, Colorado; Richard, of St. Louis;
Nancy, wife of Dr. E. P. Yarnell, dentist, of Versailles; Herbert, single; Arno, single.  Dr. and Mrs. Woods
are pardonably proud of the records of their children.  Edna married Joseph Banks, a prominent business
man, and died shortly after her marriage.  In speaking of her Dr. Woods says: “She is among those’who have
washed their robes and made them white.’”  Eve married Rev. D. C. Peters, one of the leading preachers in
the church of the Disciples of Christ.  Richard is a lawyer and otherwise well educated.  He lives in St. Louis
were he has large business connections.  Nancy married Dr. E. P. Yarnell, a prominent and popular dentist
of this city.  Herbert is a graduate of the Missouri state university and has held the chair in chemistry in some
of the leading universities.  He has recently accepted the chair of animal Husbandry, in the chemical
department of the State University of the state of Ohio.  Arno, the youngest son, has been attending some of
the leading colleges of the country and will enter some eastern university this fall where he expects to
complete his education. “Our children,” says the Doctor, “are well-behaved, God-fearing men and women.”
 Dr Woods has practiced medicine forty years and is learned and up to date in his profession.  On
account of the fact that he is wall fixed financially, he does not practice medicine as much as he used
 

 
 to do but he is quite frequently called in consultation with other doctors in important cases.  Dr.
Woods was one of the founders of the Bank of Versailles and it was largely through his manipulations as
president of that bank that it has grown to its present popular and prosperous dimensions.  as president of
the bank for more than a quarter of a century Dr. Woods helped more poor and needy men than any other
man we have any record of in the county.  In this and many other ways he has been a benefactor to the race
in this community.  He helped many up but helped none down, is as happy a compliment as we can pay him.
Dr. Woods was treasurer of Morgan county twelve years.
 
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