Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1860, JAN. 289 W. B. ALMOND. BUSINESS MEN JANUARY Jan. 2 - E. H. Norton nominated at St. Joseph. over J. N. Burnes, for Congress, by the Democratic Convention. W. F. Perrin. president of the Weston and Plattsburg Turnpike Company, reports 5 1/4 miles of the road complete. Jan. 1 E. N. O. Clough, agent, reports that he had subscribed for the county $200,000 for stock in the Parkville & G. R. Railroad. The subscription to the Platte County Railroad is reduced from $150,000 to $120,000. The county court subscribes $30,000 to the Weston & A. Railroad Compnay, and James G. Spratt is appointed agent to enter the same on the company's books. The Platte County & Ft. Des Moines Railroad incorporated by the Legislature. The name was subsequently changed to the Leavenworth & Ft. Des Moines Railroad, and still later, to the Chicago & S. W. Railway. After the road was finished it became a part of the Chicago, R. I. & P. Railroad system. A financial panic is brewing, in view of the expected war between the States. Gold is hoarded, bank bills are discounted, silver is going out of circulation. FEBRUARY Feb. 9 - The county court increases the subscription to the W. & A. Railroad Company to $50,000, and S. P. S. McCurdy is appointed to enter the subscription on the company's books. A. J. Morrow having: died. J. H. Nash administered. Bond, $15,000. MARCH March 3 - The New Market Christian Church organized. JUDGE WM. B. ALMOND March 4 - Judge Wm. B. Almond died at Leavenworth and was buried at Platte City. He was born in Price Edward's County, Va., October 25, 1808; graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1829; emigrated to Missouri, settled at Lexington, entered the store of Robert Aull as a clerk, visited the Rocky Mountains with William Sublette, in the employ of the Fur Company of St. Louis, and studied law with Judge Ryland. February 28, 1837, he married Bethenia Jack, daughter of Capt. William Jack