The Garth Families of Boone County, Missouri

Jefferson Garth was born in Scott county, Kentucky, May 22, 1803. He is the son of John and Sally (GriflSth) Garth. He came to Boone county, Missouri, in the fall of 1836. Nine years previous to emigrating to Missouri, he married Mary Ann, daughter of Geti. Robert S. Russell. By this marriage they have had eight children, seven sons and one daughter, of whom two sons, Robert and Thomas Allen, are dead. Walter W. Garth, clerk of the circuit court, is the youngest of the family. William is a farmer in Clay county. Samuel has 41 cattle ranche in the Indian Nation, where he is now living. Henry H.

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HENRY HARRISON GARTH.

Mr. Garth is another citizen who can boast of having been to the manner born." He is the son of Jefferson and Mary Garth, old residents of the county, and was born in Columbia, May 5th, 1841. He was reared in his native town and educated in the University there. His first business experience was that of clerk for Stone & Son in the dry goods business in Columbia. In May, 1865, he went to Rocheport and engaged in the grocery business, and is still in the same line of business at the same place. On the 9th of October, 1862, he married Miss Bhodie Turner, of which union there has been born one child, a daughter, named Lizzie. Mr. Garth belongs to Boone lodge, No. 121, I. O. O. F., and is an honored citizen of Rocheport.

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W. W. GARTH.

Walter Warren Garth was born in Columbia, January 27, 1848. lis father is Jefierson Garth, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Boone county, who came from Scott county, Kentucky,.nd settled here in 1836. Walter Garth was educated at the common schools and at all three of the Columbia colleges — the University, the baptist and the Christian. At the age of eighteen, or in the year 1866, le was appointed deputy circuit clerk by John M. Samuel, the then incumbent of the office. He held this position until 1874, when he was elected to the office, and became, at the age of twenty-six, circuit clerk and recorder of Boone county. In 1878, after a close and exciting contest, he was reelected over Mr. Woodson, one of the most popular men in the county. Mr. Garth has filled the office to the general satisfaction of all the people, and has made for himself hosts of friends by his courteous, accommodating conduct as a public officer and as a man.

Mr. Garth is a prominent member of the Masonic order. He hu taken all the degrees up to and including that of Knight Templar. He has been master of the blue lodge; T. I. G. M. of the council; H. P. of the chapter, and E. C. of the commandery. He and Mrs. Garth are members of the Presbyterian church.

October 7, 18GY, when but nineteen years of age, Mr. Garth married Miss Eva Samuel, a daughter of Hon. John M. Samuel, and a most accomplished young lady, and a graduate of Bellwood seminary, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Garth have had born to them six children, four of whom are yet living, viz.: Mary, Jefferson, Lucy and William. Their oldest son, John, a bright, promising lad of thirteen, the pride and fond hope of his parents, and a favorite with all who knew him, was one of the victims of the Samuel's pond disaster, November 29, 1881, mention of which heart-rending circumstance is to be found-elsewhere in this history.

The Garth family were Unionists, but not Radical, during the civil war. Samuel A. Garth, a brother of the subject of this sketch, commanded a company in the Federal service. Walter Garth is in politics a Democrat, fully in accord with and strong in the faith of the party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Possessed of a genial, kindly nature, an active, intelligent spirit, troops of friends, a splendid record as to past conduct, ''Wat." Garth's future is promising, and his life can hardly fail of being a success.

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ARCHIBALD TURNER GARTH.

Mr. Garth is the son of John R. and Kate M. (Turner) Garth and was born in Boone county, Missouri, February 24th, 1852. His father John Robert Garth, was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, November loth, 1827. He was married in Boone county, Missouri, in January, 1851, to Miss Catherine M. Turner. He was one of Columbia's most enterprising merchants and best citizens. He died suddenly on the 23d of July, 1877, at the residence of his son, A. T. Garth, and is buried at the Columbia cemetery. Our subject, A. Turner Garth, was educated at the State University and at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, of St. Louis. In 1873 and 1874 he was engaged in the boot and shoe business in Columbia, and in 1877 and 1878 he was with R. H. Clinkscales in the grocery business. In the spring of 1880 he went back upon the farm and has dealt largely in stock ever since. He handles none but the best blood, and has shipped many young cattle to Kansas and other Western States. He is interested in a very large herd of cattle in Dickerson county, Kansas, and in the spring of 1881 he shipped an extra large lot of stock to the West. He and his brother, S. T. Garth, have a very large farm, well appointed in all modern improvements and well stocked with thoroughbreds. The home farm is called the Rose-Bud Herd Farm, and is one of the best upon the celebrated Two-mile prairie. Mr. Garth was mar- Tied October the 8th, 1872 to Miss Ella M., daughter of I. W. and A. B. McDonald, of Kansas City. They are best with one child, Roberta B. Mr. and Mrs. Garth are members of the Christian church and he is a member of the A. O. U. W. society.

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