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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NOTABLE & INTERESTING PEOPLE & FAMILIES
OF ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MISSOURI

(Under Construction)

 

AUBUCHON FAMILY
BECK, Oliver Redwing & Mary (McFadden)
BOHMAN,Michael J. (Prominent Farmington Businessman)
BRAUER, Robert E. (Retired Federal Judge)
BROWN, Edith (25 Years In An Orphanage)
CANTWELL, Harry (Sr.)
CARUTHERS, Benjamin E. (State Representative)
CAYCE, Milton P. (Pioneer Settler & Prominent Farmington Businessman)
CLAY, John S. (Lawyer/Probate Judge/Senator)
COLLINS, Jim & Virginia (First Managers of K.F.M.O. Radio)
COMPTON BROTHERS - The Singing Compton Brothers Grow Up
COPELAND, Dr. W. A. (Farmington Physician)
COTTLE, Captain Warren (Revolutionary War Veteran)
CRANE, Clinton (President of St. Joe Lead Co., 1912-1947)
DAVIS, Alonzo Sinclair (A. S.) - Pioneer Farmington Businessman
DEARING, Falkland "F. H." (long-time St. Joe Lead Co. official)
DENEKE, Dr. Wesley A.  (Beloved and Prominent Educator)
DOSING, Nancy Jane ("Aunt Nan")
DOSS, Sam (legendary law enforcement officer)
DOWNING, Dr. Benjamin R. (leading county physician)
DUNN, Frances (She's Proud of Her Home Town - Bonne Terre)
GOFF, James L. (Prominent and Influential Merchant, Banker, and Farmer)
GOODMAN, Jake (Pioneer Businessman)
GROOM, Frank (former County Court Judge)
HALE, Dr. Stephen Ferguson Hale (son of Thomas Harvey & Margaret Eads Haile)
HANEY, Dr. Thomas Lee (Beloved Flat River Physician for 25 years)
HOFFMAN, Perry (Merchant, Farmer, State Representative)
HUSKY, Ferlin (Lead Belt Boy Who Became Country Music Legend)
KEITH, Dr. Frank Lee (Prominent County Physician for 44 Years)
JANIS BROTHERS (Six Bachelor Brothers of Bonne Terre)
JASTER Don (Creator of Miniature Replicas of Bonne Terre Landmarks)
LAWSON, Jack (The Man Who Loved Bonne Terre)
MATKIN Family of St. Francois County
McDANIEL, John (Well-Known Mine Captain)
McEWEN, Dr. G. A. (Prominent Physician)
McGINNIS, Dr. E. E. (Prominent Bismarck Physician)
MOSLEY, Jean Bell (Beloved Missouri Author - Born in Elvins)
O'CONNELL, Charles Michael (Farmer, Railroad Engineer, State Representative)
PARKER, Bonnie (Movie Star from Bismarck)
PARSONS, Charles B. (Father of Bonne Terre)
PEERS, Phillip (Left His Mark on Both Nation and City)
PERKINS, Joseph D. (School Commissioner, Prosecuting Attorney, Circuit Judge)
POSTON, Dr. Charles P. (Prominent Physician & Surgeon of Bonne Terre)
RINKE, Henry Hugo (Prominent Undertaker & Flat River Businessman)
ROBERTSON, Howard E. (A Quiet Man Who Left His Mark)
ROUX, Maud (Bonne Terre's Senior Businesswoman)
SKINNER, Glen (Knob Lick Fire Tower Renamed in his Memory)
SON, Dr. Thomas A. (Beloved Bonne Terre Doctor for Over 40 Years)
TURLEY, Dr. Lee (Physician to 3 Generations, Delivered 6,213 Babies)
WAGNER, Gary W. (Prominent St. Francois County Attorney)
WELBORN, A. L. (Contractor, Farmer, Police Officer, State Representative)
WILLIAMS, Clyde (Congressman Eighth District)
WILLIAMS, Dr. George Benjamin
WILSON, George M.
YEARGAIN, John Wesley
ZAPF FAMILY (Prominent Bismarck Farming Family)

The following are Goodspeed's Biographical Sketches from St. Francois County, Missouri, published in 1888, many of which were transcribed for us by
Mary (Hutchings) Taylor.   Thanks Mary!

ABERNATHY, James A.

ALEXANDER, John C.

ALEXANDER, Lawson

ALLEN, John

ANDERSON, Andrew

ANDREWS, William H.

ASBURY, Samuel L.

AUBUCHON, Adrian

AUBUCHON, Basile

AUBUCHON, Ferd.

AUBUCHON, Francis

AUBUCHON, Peter (Judge)

BARNHOUSE, Carico J.

BARRY, William S.

BEAL, I. G.  

BLANKENSHIP, Joseph 

BLANKS, W. P.

BOSS, A. D.

BOYER, JACOB

BRADLEY, John L.

BRYAN, William H.

BURKS, John T.

BYINGTON, Edward

CARLETON, Eliza

CORWIN, Alvin B

   

GHERMAN, T.

GRAVES, Fayette P.

 

HAILE, Samuel G.

HAILE, Thomas H.

HARTSHORN, John

HIGHLEY, John W.

 

 

PIGG, Thomas P.

RARIDEN, Willard

 

SIMMS, T. J.

TILLMAN, R. V. 

 

 

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IN MEMORY OF ......


Ruby (Robertson) Becker



The following are Goodspeed's Biographical Sketches from Perry County published in 1888 which are on the Rankin Family History website.  If any of these surnames are in your line, you might want to check them out because many St. Francois County residents migrated from the Cape Girardeau/Perry County/Ste. Genevieve County area.  

Drury Abernathy    Logan M. Anderson    Prof. Werner Asche  
  Peter V. Beauvais    John P. Bergmann    Joseph Felix Bey  
Prof. George M. Beyer    Maurus Biehle    Joseph Blechle  
 William Blechle    Frederick Boehme    George Brewer  
 Gregory Brewer    Judge R. M. Brewer    Judge R. V. Brown  
William Varner Brown   James Burgee   Joab W. Burgee  
Henry T. Burns   William Cambron   A. H. Cashion  
Casimir Chappius   James T. Christian    Lewis Cissell  
Vincent Cissell   Henry Corse   J. B. Davis  
Fr. D. L. DeCeunynck    Ceran F. DeLassus    J. R. & L. DeLassus  

 Jules Denizet  

James H. Difani    William Andrew Difani  
 John Dippold    John C. Doerr    Louis Doerr  
 William J. Drumtra    Joseph Duerr    Francis Duvall  
 W. P. Faherty    Douglas C. Farrar    John C. Farrar  
 Robert Y. Farrar    Dr. Florence Feltz    Clement J. Fenwick  
 John Z. Fenwick    William Furth    Frank J. Geile  
 Henry M. Geile    John F. Geile    F. E. Geohring  
 Andrew Gorman     Alexander Grass    James T. Greenwell  
 James Grimaud    Rev. A. G. Grimm    Louis Guyot  
 J. W. Hart   Rev. Joseph C. Hembree    John Hof  
 Peter Hoffman    Augustine S. Holster    J. & L. P. Hooss  
 Thomas Hooss    Andrew Huber    Henry Huber  
 Joseph F. Huber    Robert H. Hudson    John A. Hughey  
 Hon. Anton Hunt    Henry G. Kiesler    Charles A. Killian  
 John M. A. Killian    William Klemp    Andrew Klump  
 August Klump    John Kuennell    Charles F. Lawrence  
 Maj. Felix Layton    James Layton    Thomas H. Layton  
 William Litsch    Gabriel Lottes    August Lueders  
 William A. Lueders    Leo Manning    Henry Markwort  
Stephen McAtee    Charles J. McBride    John C. McBride  
 Auguste Mercier   Stephen Miles    William Victor Miles  
Bernard Modde   Francis X. Moll    Ambrose J. Moore  
 Basil Moore    Ignatius Moore    Joseph V. Moore  
 Laurence S. Moore    Thomas F. Moore    Thomas J. Moore  
James Moranville    Anson H. Morey    David F. Morton M. D.  
Pancratius John Muench    John P. Munch    George Neubeck  
 John V. Noell    Sebastian Olivar    Henry C. Oliver  
 H. G. & C. Palisch    Thomas L. Phillips    Theo Picou  
 Henry Pingel    John C. Popp    Alban Prost  
 Claude U. Prost    Henry F. Quick    John Rauh, Jr.  
 Edward Robb   Thomas W. Robinson   Thomas B. Sanders  
 William Sandler    Martin Schamel    Anthony H. Schindler  
 Clement Schindler    Joseph Schindler    Raymond Schindler  
 Caspar Schlatman    G. F. Schmidt    Thomas Seemes  
 Dr. Reuben Shelby    William H. Shoults    Francis S. Smith  
 Richard Swann    Charles Thieret    L.& O. Thorpe  
 James F. Tucker    Leo P. Tucker    Nerius Tucker  
Simeon S. Tucker    Emanuel Urban   Venantius Van Eeckhoute  
Henry Verschelden    John L. Vessels    John F. Walker  
Rev. J. M. Warren    R. C. Waters, M.D.    Charles A. Weber
 Weinhold Bros.    Joseph G. Weinhold    Prof. J. H. Welp  
 Walter S. Wilkinson    William R. Wilkinson    Robert M. Wilson  
 Mathias Wukasch    Simon Yount    Ferdinand Zoellner  
Susan Manning

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