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EARLY SETTLERS
SUGAR CREEK TOWNSHIP
AMONG THE
EARLIEST SETTLERS HAVING MADE
THEIR HOMES IN THE
COUNTY BEFORE IT
ORIGINATED WERE
REUBEN CORNELIUS
BENJAMIN HARDIN
MALCOLM
GALBREATH
T N GALBREATH
FROM THE LATTER
NOW LIVING IN PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP
WE LEARN THAT IN
1822 WHEN HE FIRST
SETTLED THERE AND
EVEN AT A MUCH LATER
PERIOD
ELK,DEER,BEAR,WILD TURKEYS,AND
GROUSE WERE
ABUNDANT GAME,WHILE WOLVES,FOXES,
WILD CATS,AND
PANTHERS WERE NUMEROUS.
AMONG THE EARLY
SETTLERS WERE.
COL P P RUBY
T P WHITE
JOHN HANNAH
ALEXADER JONES
JOHN GRIMES
ELIJAH WILLIAMS
PATRICK LYNNCH
W H BAIRD
ELI OWENS
WILD HONEY WAS A
PROFITABLE CROP AND
COULD BE FOUND
WITH LITTLE LABOUR.IN
1823 OR 24 MR
WHITTENBURG BUILT A MILL
I THE SOUTHEASTERN
PART OF THE COUNTY,
AND MR GOGGIN ONE
WITHIN THE PRESENT
CORPORATE LIMITS
OF HUNTSVILLE.
HISTORY OF
MOBERLY MO
IN 1858 A CHARTER
WAS GRANTED TO THE
CHARITON AND
RANDOLPH RAILROAD COMPANY
WITH AUTHORITY TO
CONSTRUCT A ROAD FROM A POINT IN
RANDOLPH COUTY
TO BRUNSWICK IN CHARITON
COUNTY.IT WAS
DESIRABLE THAT THIS ROAD SHOULD
TAP THE NORTH
MISSOURI ROAD AT THE MOST
CONVENIENT POINT
FOR ITS CONSTRUCTION,AND WHAT
IS NOW MOBERLY
WAS FIXED UPON AS THE POINT
OF DEPARTURE.THE
COMPANY LAID OFF A TOWN AND DROVE
STAKESMARKING THE
LOTS.THE VILLAGE OF ALLEN
ONE MILE NORTH OF
MOBERLY NOW STANDS COTAINED
SEVERAL HOUSES
AND WAS THE SHIPPING POINT
FOR HUNTSVILLE
AND OTHER POINTS WEST.TO INDUCE
THE ABONDONMENT
OF THIS VILLAGE THE CHARITON
AND RANDOLPH
COMPANY OFFERED TO ALL WHO WOULD
REMOVE THEIR
HOUSES TO THE NEW SITE THE SAME
AMOUT OF GROUND
THEY OWNED AND OCCUPIED IN ALLEN.
THIS WAS IN THE
SUMMER OF 1861,BUT THE INHABITANTS
OF ALLEN EITHER
HAD NO CONFIDENCE IN THE COMPANYS ABILITY
TO BUILD THE ROAD
OR THOUGH THEIR OWN TOW BETTER LOCATED
AND DESTINED IN THE
FUTURE TO BEAT ITS RIVAL
WHICH THEN EXISTED
ONLY IN NAME AND ON MAPS.
FOR WHATEVER
CAUSE THE PROPOSITION WAS REJECTED BY
THE MAJORITY AND
WAS ACCEPTED BY ONLY ONE PERSON.
PATRICK LYNCH AN
IRISHMAN WHO STILL RESIDES NEAR THE
CORPORATE LIMITS
OF MOBERLY (1884),HAD A SMALL
ONE STORY FRAME
HOUSE IN ALLEN AND BELIEVING THE
JUNCTION WOULD
ONE DAY BE A BETTER POINT HE PLACED
HIS DOMICILE O
ROLLERS,TOOK A YOKE OF OXEN,AND
DREW IT TO WHAT
WERE THEN AND STILL ARE LOTS
11 AND 12 IN BLOCK 12
FRONTING ON CLARK STREET
OPPOSITE TO THE
MERCHANTS HOTEL AND RUNNING EAST
WITH REED STREET
TO THE ALLEY BETWEEN CLARK
AND STURGEON.THE
WEST END OF THESE LOTS IS NOW
OCCUPIED AS A
GROCERY STORE BY MESSRS HEGARTY.
THIS WAS THE
BEGINNING OF MOBERLY,THE LAND AROUND
WAS A PRAIRIE
WITHOUT WITHOUT FENCE OR ENCLOSURE
OF ANY KIND,AND
HERE PAT LYNCH LIVED WITH HIS
FAMILY SOLITARY
AND ALONE.THE ALLENITES LAUGHED
AT HIM BUT HE
STUCK TO HIS CONTRACT AND STAYED.
THE CIVIL WAR PUT A
TEMPORARY EMBARGO UPON TOWN
BUILDING AND
PATRICK CONCLUDED TO PROFIT BY HIS
LONELY POSITION.HE
PLOWED UP THE STAKES SET TO MARK
THE LOTS AND
CULTIVATED THE LAND ON THE WEST SIDE OF
THE RAILROAD
WHERE THE BUSINESS HOUSES OF MOBERLY
NOW
STAND.NOTHING WAS DONNE TOWARD THE FURTHER SALE
OF LOTS BY THE
CHARITON RANDOLPH RAILROAD COMPANY
AND PAT CONTIUED
TO OCCUPY THE PLACE AND HOLD THE
FORT DURING THE
CONTINUANCE OF THE WAR UNMOLESTED BY
BY SOLDIERS.
WHEN BUSINESS
BEGAN TO REVIVE AFTER THE CESSATION OF
HOSTILITIES THE
FRANCHISES AND PROPERTY OF THE CHARITON
AND RANDOLPH
RAILROAD COMPANY PASSED ITO THE HANDS OF THE
NORTH MISSOURI
RAILROAD COMPANY,AND THE PROJECT OF
BUILDING THE ROAD
AND EXTENDING IT TO KANSAS CITY
WAS RENEWED.AT
THE HEAD OF THAT COMPANY WAS ISAAC M STURGEON
OF ST LOUIS A
PRACTICAL BUSINESS MAN OF EMINENT ABILITY
AND FORECAST AND
WAS ENDOWED WITH AN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF
ENERGY AND
ENTERPRISE.HAVING DETERMINED TO COMPLETE THE
EXTENSION TO
KANSAS CITY IT SEEMED TO BE CERTAIN THAT
A LARGE TOW
WOULD GROW UP SOMEWHERE ABOUT MIDWAY
BETWEENN THE
EASTERN AND WESTERN TERMINI OF THE ROAD.
THE JUNCTION OF
THE NORTH END WITH THE WESTERN BRANCH
SEEMED TO OFFER A
GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO LAY OUT AND ESTABLISH
SUCH A
PLACE.MOBERLY WAS THEREFORE RESURVEYED AND AND A
SALE OF LOTS WAS
ADVERTISED TO TAKE PLACE ON
THE GROUNDS
SEPTEMBER 27 1866.IN THE FIRST MAP OF THE
PLACE ISSUED BY THE
AUCTIONEERS, MESSRS BARLOW,VALLE AND
BUSH OF ST LOUIS
MACHINE SHOP GROUNDS WERE INDICATED AND
THE PICTURE OF A
HOUSE SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING A SOUTHERN
COTTON GIN
COMBINED WITH A KETUCKY ROPE WALK AS SKETCHED
ON ITS FACE.THE
TERMS OF THE SALE WERE ONE THIRD CASH WHEN
THE DEED WAS
READY,ONE THIRD IN ONE YEAR,AND ONE THIRD IN
TWO YEARS,WITH
INTEREST AT THE RATE OF SIX PERCENT ON
DEFERRED
PAYMENTS-$10 ON EACH LOT TO BE PAID AT THE TIME
OF BIDDING.THE SALE
WAS PRETTY LARGELY ATTENDED AND
LOTS SOLD AT FAIR
PRICES.THE LOT ON WHICH THE MERCHANTS
HOTEL NOW STANDS
SOLD FOR $150,AND SOME OTHER LOTS
BROUGHT PRICES
RAGING FROM $85 TO $125.THE AVERAGE PRICE
OF LOTS AT THIS
SALE WAS BETWEEN $45 AND $50.BEFORE
THE SALE BEGAN MR
STURGEON ORDERED LOTS 11 AND 12 IN
BLOCK 12 BE MARKED
OFF TO PATRICK LYNCH AND A DEED TO
THEM BE MADE,HE TO
PAY $1 AS RECORDERS FEE.THIS AS MR
STURGEON SAID WAS
IN CONSIDERATION OF THE FACT THAT
PAT HAD HELD THE
CITY DURING THE WAR WITHOUT THE LOSS
OF A LIFE OR A
HOUSE.AMONG THE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE
WHO NOW LIVE IN
MOBERLY WERE.
WM H ROBINSON
O F CHANDLER
DR C J TANNEHILL
ELIJAH WILLIAMS
JOHN GRIMES
ERNEST MILLER
C OTTO
J G ZAHN
PATRICK LYNCH
AND OTHERS
PHERHAPS WHOSE NAMES WE MAY NOT
HAVE LEARNED.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE SALE S P TATE BEGAN CONSTRUCTION
OF A HOTEL ON THE S
W CORNER OF CLARK AND REED STREETS.
THE STRUCTURE WAS
A TWO STORY FRAME.JOHN GRIMES ALSO
BEGAN THE BUILDING
OF A HOTEL ON STURGEON STREET WHICH
BEING COMPLETED
BEFORE TATES IS THE FIRST HOUSE EVER
BUILT IN MOBERLY.IT
IS THE AMERICAN HOTEL NEAR THE CORNER
OF STURGEON AND
ROLLINS STREETS AND NOW OCCUPIED BY
MARTIN CURRY AS A
HOSTELRIE.MESSRS CHANDLER,OTTO,
ROBINSON,MILLER,M
CDANIEL,AND OTHER PARTIES FOLLOWED
IN RAPID
SUCCESSION,AND THE NOISE OF HAMMER AND SAW
WAS HEARD
EVERYWHERE ALONG CLARK,REED,STURGE ON,AND
COATS STREETS.
MR ADAM GIVEN
NOW OF THE BANKING HOUSE OF AVERY,WOOLFOLK
AND CO OWNED A
HORSE MILL AND SAWED THE LUMBER FOR THE
FIRST HOUSE
ERECTED IN MOBERLY.
THE FIRST BRICK
HOUSE BUILT IN MOBERLY WAS THE DWELLING
WHICH STANDS ON
THE SW CORNER OF COATES AND WILLIAMS
STREET ERECTED BY
PERRY MCDONALD.
THE NAMES OF THE
FIRST DEALERS IN THE LEADING
LINES OF TRADE.
DRY GOODS-TATE
AND BENNETT
DRUGS-O F
CHANDLER
GROCERIES-
LAMPTON IMMEDIATELY SUCCEDED BY MARTIN HOWLETT
HARDWARE-WILLIAM
SEELEN
FURNITURE-H H
FORCHT AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER J G ZAHN BOTH
HOUSES BEING
OWNED BY E H PETERING.
LUMBER,SASH,DOORS
,AND BLINDS,-H H FORCHT FOR E H PETERING.
JEWELRY-JOHN H
KRING
LIVERY-WHITE BROS
CLOTHING-LEVY AND
KRAILSHEIMER
SHOES AND BOOTS-L
BRANDT
BUTCHER-HENRY
OVERBURG
BARBER-O N KAARE
THE FIRST OFFICERS
OF THE TOWN WERE
TRUSTEES
A T FRANKLIN
PRESIDENT CHAS TISUE,L BRANDT,
ASA BENNETT,AND
WILLIAM SEELEN.
MARSHALL MARTIN
HOWLETT
JUSTICE OF THE
PEACE E SIDNER
CONSTABLE CHAS
FEATHERSTONE
NOTARY PUBLIC W E
GRIMES
POSTMASTER CHAS
TISUE WHO WAS ALSO AGENT OF THE MERCHANTS
UNION EXPRESS
COMPANY.
AN ELECTION WAS
HELD FEBUARY 1 1873 TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER
A MAJORITY OF THE
CITIZENS OF THE TOWN ARE I FAVOR OF
HAVING THE TOWN
OF MOBERLY INCORPORATED UNDER A SPECIAL
CHARTER BY ACT OF
THE LEGISLATURE.J T YOUNG,J H BURKHOLDER,
H M PORTER,B Y N
CLARKSON,AND T P WHITE HAVING BEEN APPOINTED
THE PREVIOUS
DECEMBER TO DRAFT THE CHARTER.THIS ELECTION
RESULTED IN
FAVOUR OF THE CHARTER.
THE FIRST ELECTION
UNDER THE CHARTER WAS HELD APRIL
8 1873 AND RESULTED
AS FOLLOWS.
T P WHITE MAYOR
COUNCILMAN AT
LARGE C P APGAR
COUNCILMEN
1ST WARD H C MOSS
2ND WARD WILLIAM
SEELEN
3RD WARD D H FITCH
AND B R WHITE
CLERK C B RODES.
MAYORS FROM THE
ORGANIZATION IN 1873 TO 1884
T P WHITE 1873-74
J H BURKHOLDER
1874-75
W L DURBIN 1875-76
J C HICKERSON 1876-
77 AND 1877-78
W T MCCANNE 1878-79
J H BURKHOLDER
1879-80
GEORGE L HASSETT
1880-81
P J CARMODY 1881-82
DANIEL S FORNEY
1883
PRESENT CITY
OFFICERS AND COUNCILMEN (1884)
CITY ATTORNEY W S
SANFORD
RECORDER D A
COATES
CLERK CHARLES L
HUNN
COLLECTOR JOSEPH
B DAVIS
MARSHALL GEORGE
KEATING
TREASURER C P
APGAR
COUNCILMEN
W CHISOLM
J A CAMPLIN
E H MIX
M A HAYS,
W M COYLE
NORRIS TUTTLE
COAL MINES
WILLIAMS MINE
LOCATED THREE FOURTHS OF A MILE NW OF MOBERLY
IN THE NE PART OF
THE CITY AND JUST BESIDE THE RAILROAD
TIMOTHY COLLINS
HAS SUNK A SHAFT.
GRIST MILLS
FLOURING MILL WAS
LOCATED IN THE EASTERN PART OF
THE CITY OWNED BY
THE MESSRS SIMON BROS.
RAKE AND STACKER
FACTORY
VERY RECENTLY
MESSRS FORT AND WAYLAND OF THIS CITY HAVE
BUILT NEAR THE
UNION DEPOT A HOUSE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
THE CHAMPION
STACKER AND RAKE.
SODA BOTTLING
MESSRS STRATTMAN
AND BRO HAVE A VALUABLE SODA WATER
MANUFACTURY IN
THIS CITY.
REAL ESTATE
AGENCIES
MESSRS STEWART
,WILSON AND BRAND IS THE OLDEST IN THE CITY.
MESSRS
PORTER,HUNN AND PORTER ARE THE THE NEXT OLDEST
MESSRS HANNAH AND
GRAVELY DO A LARGE PURCHASING,SELLIN G,
AND EXCHANGE
BUSINESS.
JOHN L VROOM HAS
EVERY KIND OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY
FOR SALE.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
1884
L E WOLFE
SUPERINTENDENT
W E COONS
PRINCIPAL
F G FERRIS
ASSISTANT
MRS A BAIRD
MISS BARBERA
MULLIN
NELLIE O KEEFE
REBECCA HENDRIX
ANNA BUCHANAN
LIZZIE SHAUGNESSEY
IDA B ROOTE
FLORA PYLE
BETTIE WILLIAMS
KATIE ELLIOTT
KATIE WILLIAMS
M A SCRUGGS AND
WIFE TEACH THE COLORED SCHOOL
HOTELS IN MOBERLY
1884
THE GRAND CENTRAL
ELEGANTLY EQUIPPED AND FURNISHED
HAS 80 ROOMS.IT IS
OWNED BY WILLIAM SMITH AND UNDER
THE PROPRIETORSHIP
OF GEO S MERRITT
P J CARMODY IS THE
PROPRIETOR OF THE MERCHANTS HOTEL
A LARGE 3 STORY
STRUCTURE OF 60 ROOMS.
THE COMMERCIAL IS
CONDUCTED BY GEORGE W MORRISS
THE FLORENCE IS
CONDUCTED BY W G HEROLD
THERE ARE
NUMEROUS SMALLER HOUSES IN MOBERLY.
BANKS OF MOBERLY
THE MECHANICS
BANK,W F ELLIOTT PRESIDENT,HOWARD JENNINGS
CASHIER,HAS A
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF $30.000 AND IS
THE OLDEST BANK IN
THE CITY.
THE EXCHANGE
BANK,ADAM GIVEN PRESIDENT,O E HANNAH CASHIER
HAS BEEN IN
OPERATION NINE YEARS.
THE RANDOLPH BANK
OPENED IN 1882 AND HAS B F HARVEY
PRESIDENT,J C
SHAEFER CASHIER.
COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS
THE COURT OF
COMMON PLEAS WAS ESTABLISHED AT MOBERLY
IN 1875,WITH
JURDISTICTION OVER ONE TOWNSHIP.THE JUDGE OF
THE SECOND
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WAS THE EX-OFFICIO JUDGE OF
THAT COURT.THIS
WAS THE HON GEORGE H BURCKHARTT WHO HAS
EVER SINCE
PRESIDED.C H HANCE WAS THE FIRST CLERK.THE
SEAL OF THE COURT
IS THE PICTURE OF JUDGE BURCKHARTT HORSEBACK
WITH FIVE HOUNDS
IN PURSUIT OF A DEER.DURING THE FIRST WEEK IN
SEPTEMBER 1853
JUDGE BURCKHARTT WITH FIVE HOUNDS OF THE
ST HUBERT BREED
STARTED A DEER IN WHAT IS NOW THE CORPORATE
LIMITS OF
MOBERLY,AND KILLED IT WHERE THE ORCHARD OF
HENRY GRIMES NOW
STANDS.IN MEMORY OF THAT EVENT AND IN
HONOUR OF JUDGE
BURCKHARTT THE SEAL OF THE COURT
WAS MADE.
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