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EARLY SETTLERS IN
CAIRO TOWNSHIP
LEONARD DODSON
FROM KENTUCKY
ANDREW GOODDING
FROM KENTUCKY
SAMUEL MARTIN
FROM KENTUCKY
COL ROBERT
BOUCHER FROM KENTUCKY
ISAAC BAKER FROM
KENTUCKY
BENJ HUNTSMAN
FROM KENTUCKY
DANIEL MCKINNEY
FROM KENTUCKY
JAMES COCHRAN
FROM KENTUCKY
WM KING FROM
KENTUCKY
JAMES T BONEY
FROM NORTH CAROLINA
BENJAMIN DAMERON
FROM NORTH CAROLINA
W S DAMERON FROM
NORTH CAROLINA
JUDGE JOSEPH
GOODDING FROM KENTUCKY
JUDGE JOSEPH
GOODDING IS SAID
TO HAVE BEEN THE
FIRST SETTLER IN THE
TOWNSHIP.HE CAME
FROM KENTUCKY TO
HOWARD COUNTY
MO IN 1818,THEN CAME TO CAIRO
TOWNSHIP IN 1823.
THE TOWN SITE
ORIGINALLY COMPRISED
FORTY ACERS
OWNED BY W S DAMERON,WHO
DONATED FIVE
ACRES FOR DEPOT PURPOSES.
THE REMAINING 35
ACRES WERE LAID OUT
IN LOTS AND
SOLD.THE NEW TOWN WAS AT FIRST
CALLED
FAIRVIEW,BUT THEIR BEING ANOTHER
TOWN OF THE SAME
NAME ,IT WAS CHANGED TO
CAIRO AT THE
SUGGESTION OF THOMAS DAMERON.
P G MCDANIEL OF
KENTUCKY ERECTED THE FIRST STORE
THOMAS DAMERON
ERECTED THE FIRST DWELLING HOUSE
J C TEDFORD WAS
THE FIRST PHYSICIAN
ABNER LANDRAM
WAS THE FIRST BLACKSMITH
THOMAS CARTER
WAS THE FIRST SHOEMAKER
B R BOUCHER
TAUGHT THE FIRST SCHOOL
THE METHODIST M E
CHURCH SOUTH ERECTED
THE FIRST CHURCH
EDIFICE
THOMAS DAMERON
WAS THE FIRST POSTMASTER
AND WROTE THE
FIRST MAIL LETTER SENT
FROM THE TOWN
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