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Richmond Conservator
Richmond, Ray County, Missouri
July 21, 1892
Ex-Congressman W.J. Stone, Democratic candidate for governor of
Missouri, was born May 7, 1848, in Madison county, Ky., and was the
youngest of four children by his father's first marriage. He worked on
his father's farm and attended school until 1863, when he went to live
with his sister at Columbia, Boone county, Mo. He attended the State
university three terms to which was added a thorough commercial
education at St. Louis. On his return to Columbia he entered the law office
of his brother-in-law, Squire Turner, and two years later was
admitted to the bar. A partnership was then established with Judge A. H.
Carleton, of Bedford, Lawrence county, Ind. In 1869 he moved to Nevada,
Mo., and engaged in the practice of his profession.
In 1884 Mr. Stone was nominated and elected as representative to the
Forty-ninth congress from the Twelfth district of Missouri. He served
three terms in succession in congress. In 1890 he declined to be renominated
to congress. Though not a candidate for any office that
year, he made over thirty speeches in Missouri and several other states. His
record in congress was excellent. He took a prominent part in the
passage of the law by which the railroad land grants made twenty five years
ago were forfeited and the land restored to the people.
Contributed by a "Friend of Free Genealogy".
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From "History of North Washington"
Published 1904
Contributed by: Sara Hemp <cryssara@merr.com>
Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb <nancyg@theofficenet.com>
Oliver U. Hawkins,
editor and proprietor of
the Springdale Record, Stevens County, has been an active and
enterprising citizen of the town since 1900. He was born in
Schuyler County, Illinois, September 16,1868, the son of James and
Martha (Kenny) Hawkins. The father was a native of Illinois,
the
mother of Ohio. They located in Illinois at an early day. The father of
James Hawkins served in the Black Hawk war, and James, himself, was a
veteran of the Civil War, having passed three years in the service,
during which time he endured many hardships. He was mustered out at
Mobile August 12,1865. He died July 9,1903. The mother of our subject
died April 22, 1876. Three children were born to them; Emmaletta,
residing with her brother; John, living in Stevens County; and Oliver
U., our subject.
Having secured an excellent education in
Cass and
Morgan Counties, Illinois, at the age of seventeen he began
working with his father in the broom manufacturing business, which
employment he continued eight or ten years. He then went to Missouri
and published a newspaper, the only Republican organ in Shelby county.
It is now called the Farmers' Favorite. This property he disposed of in
1889, and opened a broom factory, conducting the same but a short
period. Returning to Illinois he engaged in farming for two
years, He then went to Macomb Illinois, where he was employed in
different newspaper offices, and then moved to Brooklyn, Illinois,
where for the following four years he drove stage.
In 1900 Mr. Hawkins came to Stevens
County, and in
1902 he put forth the first issue of the Spingdale Record, a
meritorious publication, now having a large circulation and other
evidences of prosperity. On May 5, 1889, he was united in marriage to
Miss Lieuvenia Hopper, daughter of Shelby and Emily (Simms) Hopper,
natives of Illinois. They settled in Shelby County, where the father
died in 1899. The mother is still a resident of that county. To them
were born nine children, seven of whom are still living: Elisha and
Matthew, at Kallispel, Montana; Minnie, in Omaha, Nebraska; Alice, wife
of Levi E. West, in Sandusky, Montana; Amos, at Augusta, Illinois;
Alfred, in Colorado; Jesse, in Shelby County, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have four children, Monia,
Harold, Hazel, and Chester.
He is a stanch Republican, and as an influential
editor,
manifests a lively interest in the welfare of that party. He is a
member of the M.
W. A., at present being V. C. of his camp; and of the I. O. O.
F.
Mrs. Hawkins is a member of the R. N. A., of which she is Receiver, and
of the Congregation church.