Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1885, APRIL. 814 J. c. BERRY. \~eston elected C. D. Xoble mayor. Platte City has no saloons, no marshial, and no preacher. State school moneys appropriated to Platte, $9,428.79. Baker &. Colman are building an opera house and two large store-rooms on Block 30, Platte City; and F. Krause is building :1 block of stores and offices on Block 29, Platte City. April 10JOHN C. BERRY died near Grayson. He was born in Fayette County. Ky., April 17, 1817. He settled, in 1838, eight miles east of Platte City; married April 14, 1844, Susan Rog- ers. daughter of General Willia.m Rogers. He was a. brother of James H. and William G. Berry. None of his posterity remain in Platte. Though a farmer, his education was superior, his reading gecneral, and his literary taste cultivated. Breen retires, and Mrs. Annie Gabbert takes the Exchange Hotel at Weston. April 15FERD. LAMAR commits suicide near Pleasant Ridge, by shooting himself in the brain. He married October 15, 1877, Louisa Beck, and left a child, Sophia Lamar. DR. GEO. W. FIELD. Dr. George XV. Field died a.t Platte City. He was born. in Bourbon County, Ky., March 30, 1818. His parents were John Field and Elizabeth Early. The father died when the son was an infant. He graduated at the Ohio Medical School June 24, 1840. With his mother he ca.me to Clay County in 1837, and thence removed to New Market. February 14. 1854 he married Lucy E. Duncan. daughter of Judge Edward P. In 1878 he re- moved to the Tebbs farm, two miles east of Platte City. He was an excellent physician, and did a large business. His estate amounted to $50,000. He was a man of sound judgment, and in his profession there were few superiors. Quiet and thought- fuk his words were few, but always pointed. He owned the Tracy Mills for a time, was interested in the Bank of Platte Cminty. and was ready to embrace and engage in any enterprise that promised a good return. I thus wrote of him: Few men have exercised more thought. Or used so well their reasoning powers; His plans were laid. and meas-ure-s wrought By mental toil in weary hours. His intellect. with cultureis grace, Gave form and force to what he said; (oniplaisam-e sat upon his face, And dignity adorned his head. .I1-s. Field lives in Platte City. She is yet a handsome and dignied matron. Children: I. DESDE.IO1. J. FIELD. b. Aug. 25. 1850; d. March 15, 1893: Ind Aug. 1870. John L. Carmack. son of Geo. W. (i:1rma-l; and Martha D. Washington. of Campbell County,