Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1856, AUG. 1317 P. R. WAGGENER. State Senator. and E. I. I)uncan, (,7. A. lerry. and John Vilson were elected representatives; W. 11. Spratt. shei-ill; I). 1. Lewis. countv clerk; Layton. lil()&l(1lllllSi. and llays, county judges; Jas. Stone, Six, assessor: ll. .1. F1eel:l11d. treasurer; 11. N. Jenks. sureyor; and J. M. Basset. circuit attorliey. Aug. 1JAn extra Platte .Al.rgu.s- is issued. giving an account of Jim Lanes outrages in Kansas upon unotlendi11g Pro-s1avery citizens. many of WllOI1l are lnurdered. The women and children are ying. and Lecompton has been burned. Bosh .~1ug. 19Hoppe is killed and scalped by Fuget near Leaven- worth. The latter is tried and acquitted. Panic at Leconipton. on account of Free Soil threats to de- stro) it. Capt. J. Y. Reid is at Vestport. Aug. .25Acting Governor Woodson. of Kansas. by proclama- tion, announces that the Territory is in a State of insurrection and rebellion. and calls on la w-abiding citizens to rally to his support. Aug. 28 Gov. Shannon, of Kansas, resigns, and is succeeded by Gov. J. V. Geary. THE BORDER STRIFE. Aug. 2.9-D. R. Atchison, J. V. Reid. B. F. Stringfellow, A. IV. Doniphan. a11d others publish a11 address. announcing a deter- mination to execute the law. Free State men enter the Territory in small squads, with arms concealed. and join Lane at Lawrence. PEYTON R. YA(}(arE.lv.I{. Peyton R. \aggener having died in June, D. P. Lewis was ap- pointed county clerk. and was elected in August by the people. Mr. Vaggener had not long been in the county (having come in April, 1843) before he became a general favorite, and was elected county clerk in August, 1854. But ill health succeeded, and he could give but little attention to the duties of his oice. He and his widow are atfectioiiately remembered in the county. He mar- ried April 7. 1842. in Kentucky. B. S. \illis. Children: I. FANNIE B. YVAGGENER, b. May 9. 184?; 1nd Emmett E. Barbee. son of Eleas. II. BAILEY PEYTON WAGGENER. b. July 19. 1847; md lIa.y 27. 1879. Emma Hetherington. dr. of a banker of Atchison. Mr. Waggener is an eminent lawyer of Kansas, a railroad attorney. and a politician who aspires even to the United States Senate. I remember him when a beautiful boy on the streets of Platte City. He helped support his estimable mother. and I furnished them with a house to live in. Ye are proud of him. III. JAMES W. WAG IENER. b. in 1852. Lives in Atchison. Kansas. and is superintendent of the electric street railroad.