{"id":467,"date":"2019-11-01T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/1890skirksville\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:23:22","slug":"biographies-benton-township","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/1890skirksville\/portrait-gallery-1898\/biographies-benton-township\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographies (Benton Township)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Thomas Christian, a farmer and stock raiser, was a native of Adair County. He was the youngest of Thomas & Elizabeth (Jones) Christian’s four children.\u00a0\u00a0[Elizabeth’s Journal obit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thomas W Fickel, of Hocking County, OH, moved to Adair County with his parents and new bride, Adeline Webb, in 1869. The younger couple settled in Benton Township where Thomas farmed until 1909 when he retired and moved to Kirksville.\u00a0 That summer, he was appointed County District Judge to complete the term of the incumbent who had resigned. \u00a0He served until the next election but was unsuccessful in his bid for election in 1911.\u00a0 Thomas and Adeline had two sons, William and John.\u00a0 He and his second wife, Jennie Henry, had five children: Charles, Leo, Frank, Mary and Roy.\u00a0\u00a0[Violette; KDE obit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lafayette Lorton was four weeks old when his parents moved to Adair County from Burlington, Iowa.\u00a0 Raised on a farm near Sublette, he began farming on his own as soon as he reached his majority and in 1895 purchased 300 acres just north of Kirksville.\u00a0 He was a well respected breeder of hogs, cattle and horses.\u00a0 Anna (Vaughn) Kerns, a native of Sullivan County, MO, was a widow with two sons when she and Lafayette married in 1887.\u00a0 Together, the couple raised four children; the Kerns boys, Alexander & James, and their own two sons, George & Jessie Lorton.\u00a0[Violette; KDE obits]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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John Lowe was a farmer-stockman who came to Adair County in 1866. He and his wife, Armilda, are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery east of Kirksville.\u00a0\u00a0[Adair Co Cemeteries]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Peter H More, a farmer and stockman, was born in Fredericksburg, OH and moved to Adair County, MO as a young man.\u00a0 A few years later he married Susan Smith, a native of Randolph County, MO and the couple raised eleven children, some of whom, along with spouses, are pictured here. \u00a0The Mores moved to the drier climate of Kinsley, KS in 1908.\u00a0 Susan died there and Peter returned to Kirksville to make his home with a daughter and son-in-law in 1915.\u00a0[KDE & Journal obits]<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Farmer and stockman Frank Spitzer was born in Harrisburg, VA, and raised in Breme, OH. He lived for a time in California in his twenties and while there met Eugenia Chandler, a young lady who had been raised in Adair County, MO. \u00a0The couple married in 1885 then moved back to her home county and settled on a farm just north of Kirksville.\u00a0 They were the parents of four daughters and one son.\u00a0\u00a0[KDE obit]<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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