Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1881, JAN. 718 BUSINESS MEN. JANUARY Jan. 1 - W. M. Paxton issued his first volume of peoms, 135 pages, entitled "A Century Hence and Other Poems". He distributed gratuitously the whole edition of 600 volumes. Railey & Bros.' deposits, $140,949.94 Revival at Parkville; 85 additions to the Presbyterian Church. Large quantities of apples were frozen last fall on the trees, and are still hanging on. NELSON J. ALEXANDER Nelson J. Alexander having died, December 8, 1880, his widow administers. He was born in Milledgeville, Ga., February 29, 1812; married January 3, 1841, Lucy A. Vaughn, daughter of Thomas Vaughn, of Liberty, Mo. She was born in that place January 3, 1822. She still lives at the old homestead near Iatan, a hale, handsome, and kind-hearted lady. Mr. Alexander came west in 1837, and located near Iatan. He was engaged in various enterprises, at one time a merchant, at another a speculator in hemp and other produce, or dealing in cattle, or trading on the plains. He ran the Union Mills for some years, and in old age and reduced fortune, he retired on his farm and died. He was