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1887 History of Vernon County, Missouri, page 400:
Charles L. Humble
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Section 29, Post-office,
Humble).
With but limited advantages in early life and without the care and
guidance of a father, Mr. Humble, by his own exertions and personal
worth, his indomitable energy and perseverance, has achieved a degree of
success in life that many whose opportunities were all that could be
desired would be glad to claim. Like other influential citizens of this
community he came originally from Illinois—Morgan county—where he was
born August 10, 1838. His father, Charles Humble, a farmer and
stock-raiser by calling, was a native of Bourbon county, Ky., and after
leaving that State became settled in Morgan county, Ill., where he
remained some six years. Moving with his family to Adams county, he
purchased and improved a valuable farm of 400 acres. While a young man
he married Miss Nancy Wilson, also a Kentuckian by birth. He died
before the birth of his son, on December 25, 1837, his wife surviving
him until August 28, 1884, when she, too, was called away from this
earth. Three of the 11 children given this estimable couple are now
living. One of these, Charles L., and youngest in the family, is
briefly outlined in the present sketch. Deprived of his father before
the date of his birth and growing up at a time when things were so
different from those of the present day, his educational facilities were
indeed meager and the hardships which fell to his lot difficult to
overcome. To attend an inferior subscription school taught in a log
building he had to walk six miles, but as has been proved in later years
even this teaching was of lasting benefit. March 4, 1859, Mr. Humble
was married to Miss Margaret E., daughter of Adam Rose, of Adams county,
Ill., and the following children have been given them: James D., Adam
L., America J., Harlow, Mary M., Carrie M., who was born May 4, 1877,
and died September 25, 1878, and John W., all at home. In 1866 Mr.
Humble located in Livingston county, Mo., but the following year moved
to Linn county, where he was occupied in farming until his removal to
Vernon county in 1869. Here he has since resided and at this time he
owns one of the finest estates in the county, containing over 900 acres,
land well improved and under thorough cultivation. In every sense of
the term he is a representative agriculturist. In politics Democratic,
he is a leading man of his party throughout this locality, and as a
live, progressive citizen, he is ever ready to aid meritorious
enterprises. In earlier days he was quite a hunter, and in his
possession now is a gun with which he has killed more than 200 deer.
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