Henry Long, Justice of the Peace for the people of Bigelow.
Mr. LONG'S father was from North Carolina; he emigrated to
Tennessee, where he married a lady of Tennessee birth. (neither the name
of the father or mother is given in the atlas.)
Henry C. LONG
was born in Powell's Valley, Claiborne County, Tennessee, January 20, 1819.
Available schooling was of ordinary quality and the old-fashioned
subscription schools furnished the rising generation of that period
the only chances to secure an education.
He lived there in Claiborne County until 1832, then emigrated
with his father to Morgan County, Illinois, where they settled on a farm
near Jacksonville.
Henry LONG married Susanna MATTHEWS on June
4, 1840. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. He farmed in Illinois
until 1855, not following his father and younger brother to Texas
in 1850. He moved to Missouri, arriving in Holt County, April 6, 1855.
He settled in Benton township 4 miles south of Mound City along
the bluffs above the Missouri River bottomland. He was in the militia
during the Civil War and assisted in the organizing of one of
the first companies of militia ever raised in Holt County for co-operation
with the Federal forces.
In 1864, he returned to Morgan County, Illinois, but returned to Holt
County after six months. He settled on the Missouri river bottomland 5 miles
south of Bigelow and bought an interest in a steam mill which
he ran from 1866 to 1867. He farmed after selling his interest
in the mill.
In 1869 he moved to his present residence 3/4 of
a mile west of Bigelow. His first wife, died February 28, 1866. He
married Mrs. Ruth TITUS in Oct. 1868; she died in the fall of
1871. The people of Bigelow township elected him to magistrate
in 1870 and again in 1874.
His decisions have invariably been
upheld in higher courts. He is also postmaster at Bigelow, receiving
his commission April, 1875 under the administration of President
Grant. In politics, he was raised a Democrat; he acted with the
Democrat party up to the time of the Civil War and has since been
a Republican.
Source: "An Illustrated Historical Atlas Map, Holt County, MO.
Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia, 1877
Provided by Dave Roberts of Lyon County, Kentucky,
a former Holt County resident.
