History of Jefferson City, (Cole County) Missouri United States of America

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George W. Hough, publicist, was born in Loudoun county, Va., April 17, 1808; a descendant of Richard Hough, who came from Cheshire, England, to Pennsylvania under the auspices of William Penn in 1683. Richard's grandson, John Hough, removed from Bucks county, Pa., to Loudoun county, Va., about 1750, and there married Sarah Janney. George was married in 1833 to Mary C., daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Maine) Shawen. In 1838 they removed to Missouri, settling in Jefferson City, where he engaged in merchandising until 1854, when he retired from business. He was a representative in the Missouri legislature, and in 1854 was the candidate of the Democratic party for representative in congress, but was unsuccessful. In conjunction with Judges William B. Napton, William Scott and Carty Wells he participated in framing the famous Jackson resolutions introduced by Claiborne F. Jackson in the Missouri legislature in 1849. These resolutions pledged Missouri to co-operation with the Southern states in' the event of conflict between North and South. In 1854 Mr. Hough was appointed by Governor Price a member of the board of public works of Missouri He was a curator of Missouri State university 1854-56, and one of the founders of the Historical Society of Missouri. Of his children, Warwick became a prominent lawyer and jurist in Missouri: Charles Pinckney, a physician, practising in Salt Lake City, and Arthur M., a lawyer, at Jefferson City, Mo. Mr. Hough died at Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 13, 1878.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Sappington Marmaduke, governor of Missouri, was born near Arrow Rock, Mo., March 14, 1838; son of Meredith Miles Marmaduke . He was a student at Yale college 1850-52, at Harvard, 1852-53, and was graduated at the U.S. Military academy July 1, 1857. He was brevetted 2d lieutenant, 7th infantry, Aug. 1, 1857, and was attached to the Utah expedition, 1858-60. He was stationed at Fort Webster, New Mexico, 1860-61, and resigned from the U.S. army, April 17, 1861. He raised a company of state guards in Missouri and was elected colonel of a regiment which he commanded at Booneville, June 17, 1861. Disapproving the military plans of Governor Jackson, his uncle, he resigned his commission and offered his services to President Davis. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant and assigned to Gen. W. J. Hardee's staff, serving in southeastern Arkansas. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and later in 1861, colonel of the 3d Confederate infantry in Hindman's brigade, Hardee's corps, Army of Mississippi. He commanded his regiment at Shiloh, where he was wounded, and he was promoted brigadier-general for gallantry in that battle. He was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi department in August, 1862, and commanded the fourth cavalry division in General Hindman's army in northwestern Arkansas and Missouri. He was in Missouri in 1863, assisted General Carter and his command in their escape near Girardeau; and in the attack on Helena, July 4, 1863, he commanded his cavalry division in Holmes's army, and opposed Gen. Frederick Steele's advance on Little Rock, Aug. 1-Sept. 14, 1863, where he was in Price's corps, E. Kirby Smith's army, and covered the retreat of Price's army. He captured the camp and stores of the Federal army at Pine Bluff, Arkansas river, and succeeded in delaying General Steele by frequent attacks, so that Banks and Steele could not join forces, and this delay resulted in the defeat of Steele's army at Jenkins's Ferry, April 30, 1864. He was promoted major-general for his services at Jenkins's Ferry, and on Oct. 25, 1864, was taken prisoner at Mine Creek, Linn county, Kan., during Price's raid in Missouri. He was confined at Fort Warren until August, 1865, and on being released went to be Europe. He returned to Missouri in May, 1866; engaged in the commission business in Jefferson City, 1866-69; in the life insurance business, 1869-71, and then in journalism as part owner of the Jonrnal of Commerce. He established the Evening Journal in St. Louis, and also conducted the Illustrated Journal of Agriculture until June, 1873, when he became secretary of the state board of agriculture. He was railroad commissioner for Missouri, 1875-80; an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1880 and was governor of Missouri, 1885-87. He died in Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 28, 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor