Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1842, JAN. 46 WESTON INCORPORATED. married June 21, 1837, in Indiana, to Maria Freeland, b. May 20, 1820; d. 1896 ; daughter of the late Judge John Freeland. After editing the Shelbyyille, Indiana, Statesman two years, he came with the Freeland family to Platte; here he spent nineteen years in editing and publishing the Eagle, the .1rgus, the Tenth Legion, and other papers, all strongly Democratic. But when the war came on. a11d dangers threatened on account of his Southern sympathies, he went to Helena, Montana. where he published the Rocky Mountain Gazette, from August 11, 1866, to September 2, 1872. He afterwards published the Bozeman Times for three years. His living children: I. ALLEN McLANE WILKINSON, b. at Platte City, November 13, 1848. II. RALEIGH T. WILKINSON, b. at Camden Point, August 13, 1853. His children: 1. Henry C. Wilkinson 2. John W. Wilkinson (a captain in the U. S. Army) 3. Dora Wilkinson Mr. E. S. Wilkinson was in Winstons Regiment. and at Pea Ridge. Corinth, etc. He and his wife both died in Cal. in 1896. whither they had gone for their health. WESTON INCORPORATED. Jan. 11 The county court incorporated Weston. Geo. Beeler, Abel Gilbert. John Thornburg. T. F. Warner and Jerry Woods were the trustees. ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL TOWNSHIPS Jan. 12The county court, on application, ordered notice to be given for the inhabitants of T. 52, R. 34. to meet at the house of .Iiehael Byrd, to organize for school purposes, the 3d of March. 1842. The State law made each congressional township a corpora- tion. to be divided into districts. for separate schools. The 16th sections were "squatte-d upon. and no one dared to bid a,:ainst the squatters for their lands. They therefore got their lands at the lnininiuni price of $1.25 per acre. The principal of the Township School Fund is only $21,000. Had there been a fair sale. the fund would now be $200.00(). Allen Mcliane had lIHi(]wll(i(ll(t enough to condemn this fraud. in the Eagle, and when he uttered for office. he found his course had lost him votes. .enrl ::H the lownship. of the ou11t were organized in 1841 and 1842. and selmol-lunises were built in many districts. They were of round or hewed 1o;rs. with a door on one side. and a long hori- zuntal wimlnw on the other. Below the window a sloping board .ered for desks. Seats were punt-heons or slabs set upon -mlen poles. for legs. FEBRUARY Feb. 7 - Peter Simmons' will probated - John Bretz executor. Bond $2,000.