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December 6, 2021People

Thomas J. Sportsman

Thomas J. Sportsman was born September 4, 1862, at Thayer, Missouri, and spent his entire life in Linn County. For many years, he engaged in farming in the vicinity of what is now Marceline. When he was a young man, he used his team of horses and did grading for the road bed on … > More >

December 6, 2021People

Judith Thomas Family

Mrs. Thomas is the daughter of John and Elizabeth McGown Henry. She is one of five children born to this union. Mack, Minnie, Charlie (deceased), and John, of Troy, Missouri, and Judith of Marceline.

Mack was the father of Earl Henry and grandfather of B. M. Henry of this city.

John married Miss … > More >

December 6, 2021People

G. H. Freeman

George H. Freeman, one of Marceline’s pioneer citizens, was born September 2, 1849, in Macon County. In 1878 he and Nancy Ellen Pillars, of Macon County, were united in marriage. To this union was born three children: Orbra L., 1880; Richard C., 1883; and Jennie Lynn (Freeman) Wilson, 1885.

On October … > More >

December 6, 2021People

E. W. Taylor

E. W. Taylor moved to the vicinity of Marceline in 1869. During the spring and summer of 1887 he was active in construction work on the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway (now called Santa Fe.)

In March 1888 he entered the drug business with his father and Dr. La Dow on West Santa Fe … > More >

December 6, 2021People

B. F. Simpson

In March 1903, the B. F. Simpson family of Kansas City and the J. B. Miller family from Tina, Missouri came to Marceline. They opened a dry goods and women’s ready-to-wear store in the B. B. Putman building near the present site of the James McLaughlin building.

Mr. Simpson started his career in merchandising … > More >

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