Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1897, APRIL. 1093 DISTINGUISHED MEN. I)l].TllS U14 I)lCTINGI7ISl{EI) MEN. -lpril 1.3-Simpson Park (see) dies at Liberty. and is buried at Platte City. Levi Hurst (see) dies the lith inst. at Ridgeley. Saddler llutler died at Kansas City the 13th. and was buried at \eston; he was born at Locl;p01t. N. Y.. August 21, 1.826; was at one t.ime may-or of \eston, and was superintendent of the furniture factory of that city. Clinton C0(l{Illl (see) died the 19th inst. at his home near 1la.tte City. and was buried in the Platte City Cemetery. Jacob Baker (see) died the 6th. .l[nil.1-I)r. H. Menifee Clark married Mary P. Tobbs. April lbAt the interstate oratorical contest at Columbia, Mo., Perle D. Decker. of Park College. won the highest honors. April 18~CHI{IS. COLIIMBUS REDMAN died at Portland, Orergoli. He was a. son of Rev. Vm. Redman, rst presiding elder of this Methodist district, a11d was born at Franklin. Howard County, Mo. July 31, 1827. He married, rst, Reb. Ferguson. and settled at Platte City after the war. He engaged in the lumber business at Tracy; bought and shipped apples; and built the Phcenix Mills. His wife (lied December 15, 1871, leaving: 1, Mary L. Greggs; 2, Margaret 0. Coughlan; 3. R. C. Redvman; 4, E. A. Redman; 5, W. V. Redman. After the death of his wife, Hr. Redman removed to Santa Clara, Cal., where he married, sec- ond. Miss Elizabeth J. Ashby, who was born in Platte County. She is the mother of: 6, C. C. Redman (ii). In 1880 Mr. Red-man re- moved to Portland, Oregon,where he died. He was a distimgtlislied architect, and erected many public buildings, as well as a large number of private dwellings. He Was a nephew of Jas. R. Burck- hartt, and a brother of Mrs. M-ollie Reeves. April 19The Missouri River attains the height of 22:} feet above low water. The melting snows above, with abundant rains in this locality, put the Missouri over the low bottoms. and stopped the railroads for a week. Mails came by the Rock Island and the Maple Leaf roads. Platte River covered the l-ow bottoms, was three feet on the turnpike West of the Platte City bridge, and in places touched the rails of the Rock Island road at Tracy. But little damage was done to farmers, as all the land became ready for theplow in ample season. The Platte was highest April 25th. POST-OFFICE CHANGES. Eulla Turner, of Linkville, succeeds E. Slaughter. Ben Smither, at New Market, succeeds James Hateld. Adam Glebb is appointed for Tracy, a11d Theo. Lentz for Beverly. --lpril 2bElder Riall, of the Camden Point Orphan S-chool, gave his girls an outing, and, with the cadets of the Military Institute, visited the Soldiers Home and Fort Leavelmworth. The party numbered 61. Measles and whooping-cough prevalent. but no deaths.