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MARTHA SHEPARD MSB©KALB. 
 
 Aged 79, dorr, i-eb. 25^ 1801. 
 
SUPPLEMENT No. i 
 
 Edition B of the MacDonald Genealogy. 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 RECORDS OF THE DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 JESSE PETER, 
 
 One of the Pioneer Settlers near Mackville, Washington County, 
 
 Kentucky; 
 
 TOGETHER WITH A FEW REMARKS ON 
 
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 And whatever other Information of Value concerning this Branch of the Name 
 
 COULD BE COLLECTED UP TO FEB. 25, 1880. 
 
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 frank vl McDonald, a.b., 
 
 HARVARD LAW STUDENT, CAMBRIDGE. MASS. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : 
 
 JOHN WILSON AND SON, 
 
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 1880. 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 This memorial of the Peter family I affectionately dedicate to its 
 oldest surviving member, my grandmother, Martha Shepard McDonald, on 
 her seventy-ninth birthday, as a slight testimonial of the esteem, veneration, 
 and love in which her long, pure, and noble life is held by her children, her 
 grandchildren, and other related and unrelated friends. For us, in these 
 changing times, to have ever present a living example of so many, so con¬ 
 stant, and so great virtues, reproaches us in our moments of despondency and 
 despair, inspires us with confidence in the beauty and richness of life, and 
 makes us all feel that thus to live, and in such Christian faith calmly to 
 meet the ills of this world and expectantly await the joys of the other, with 
 an eternal youth in our heart and a sublime peace in our souls, is the 
 only true solution of our career here below, and the surest promise of 
 eternal bliss hereafter. May this dear soul be spared to us for yet many 
 years; and when, in the course of time, she is called from us, as called 
 we all must be, may her noble influence, like other bright things, never 
 die, but live fresh and potent in the memory of her offspring! 
 
11 Ah me! full sorely is my heart forlorn 
 To think how modest worth neglected lies.” 
 
 Shenstone. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PETER FAMILY. 
 
 T HE early history of the Peter family has, I regret to say, been nearly lost ; 
 
 and, from the time we pass beyond the life of Jesse Peter, the few records 
 that have been handed down are far from forming a connected story. They are, 
 in fact, so frequently interwoven with legendary reports that it is difficult to dis¬ 
 tinguish where the fable ends and the truth begins. At the same time, there is 
 undoubtedly enough left to enable a careful and patient worker to reconstruct 
 the whole genealogy of this worthy line of our ancestry ; and I hope that some 
 of the descendants with historical tastes will turn their attention to these ques¬ 
 tions and fill up the blank spaces which intersperse so largely the narrative I have 
 to submit. 
 
 In the following pages I have not attempted to notice many of the numerous 
 traditions from which the missing facts must be drawn, because to mention such 
 reports and not discuss them in full would produce needless confusion. I have 
 aimed to collect only the main and best authenticated statements, and to join 
 them together in such a way that others, following after me, may have reliable 
 guide-posts along the path of their labors. 
 
 I have desired, in particular, to show the cause of our immigration to this coun¬ 
 try, and in what general line of investigation we must seek for the more detailed 
 events that have now passed from the memory of the later descendants. 
 
 The motive, as we are all aware, which induced our Peter forefathers to cross 
 the Atlantic, was to devote their lives and efforts to the establishing of Methodism ; 
 and consequently their whole history must be sought for in connection with the 
 rise and growth of that church. They were among the first to herald its tidings 
 in this country ; and, in the promotion of its interests, they labored and died ; 
 but, since nothing more than the most general record of that denomination’s early 
 days has ever been gathered or published, it is no easy task to trace the labors of 
 any of that larger band of less-noted names, who have found as yet no historian 
 to chronicle their little grains of seed which they planted with the sweat of their 
 brows in every civilized part of our country ; and which they nursed, and prayed 
 over, and tenderly watched, until now their plants have grown to be one of the 
 most vigorous and wonderful groves of Christian workers the world has ever 
 known. 
 
 But there are ways, a few of which I shall refer to later, of following the lives 
 of many of those early missionaries, if time, means, and patience be used ; and, 
 in the hope that such will be forthcoming, from some one, in our case, and that suc¬ 
 cess will crown the attempt, I pass on, for the present, to a general consideration 
 of the part borne by our Peter ancestors in starting the glorious religious work. 
 
 And here, for the sake of fixing the probable time and movements of the indi¬ 
 vidual in the army of toilers, it will be necessary to review briefly the origin and 
 
development of Methodism, and to try and detect, as far as possible with our limited 
 knowledge of the facts, when and where our ancestors became identified with this 
 cause, entered into it for a life pursuit, and enlisted in its ranks for America ; and 
 to discover, also, whatever else we can bearing on their history both before and 
 after reaching this country. 
 
 The Methodist Church, as we all know, is one of the churches which have 
 drawn gradually away from the English or Episcopal creed until, by their numer¬ 
 ous and radical changes, they reveal scarcely a trace of connection with the 
 mother-stem. Its founder was John Wesley, who was born in 1703, who studied in 
 Oxford, became a Fellow of Lincoln College there, and was ordained as deacon in 
 1725. From his youth he felt a call to a special field of religious work; and, 
 although it was not until after his death, in 1791, that the form of his mission as¬ 
 sumed a definite and a harmoniously working shape, yet already in 1729, we find 
 him joining with his brother and fifteen Oxford students in a close and penetrating 
 study of the Bible, accompanied with a zealous searching on his part for the best 
 means of making public the cause he felt to be striving for utterance within 
 him. The somewhat retired and exclusive ways of these very religious young 
 men created for them the nickname of “ Methodists,” in derision of their 
 “methodical ” ways ; which epithet they willingly adopted afterwards, as an indica¬ 
 tion of those “ who lead a life according to the methods laid down in the Bible,” 
 and which designation has now passed to the most flourishing and enthusiastic 
 church in the new continent. 
 
 The original intention of Wesley and his associates was, it seems, nothing more 
 than to introduce a number of reforms into the Established Church, or, at the out¬ 
 side limits, to found a branch with all the essential points the same, and differing 
 only in many of the details. In this, however, as in most other alterations of old 
 and set institutions, it was soon found that the pulling out of one brick after another 
 toppled over the whole structure, and made it necessary to build up from the 
 foundations a new and totally different edifice, which revealed only here and 
 there in some of its parts and materials the connection it once had with the 
 more ancient and, in the estimation of many, “antiquated” temple. And thus it 
 has happened that, the breach once made, the two churches grew so widely apart, 
 and are only in late years again nearing each other in the steps that they take in 
 common with all live religious organizations toward a broad, general view of man’s 
 moral obligations, fronrqwhich each sect is to differ only in a few minor respects. 
 
 To return to the efforts of Wesley, we find that his first reception by the people 
 was cool and unfruitful. Not until the powerful aid of George Whitefield had 
 been enlisted did Methodism begin to attract general notice. In the meanwhile, 
 Wesley had been away on a very eccentric converting expedition to the settlers 
 and Indians of Georgia, where he remained from 1735 to 1738, and, on account 
 of his asceticism and caustic remarks, had succeeded in making himself thoroughly 
 disliked. 
 
 In 1738, Whitefield went out to join him, but remained there only one year, 
 when he returned to his labors in England, whither Wesley had preceded him. 
 Whitefield was, however, back and forth across the ocean many times between the 
 years of 1738 and 1770. 
 
 For the next few years, after 1741, there arose a number of dissensions in the 
 church ; one part after the other splitting off on technical differences of opinion, 
 
into which we shall not enter here. Whitefield demanded, among other changes, 
 a complete rupture with the English Church ; but Wesley was not favorable to so 
 decided a step, although in later years he acquiesced in such a policy for the 
 American Methodists, who were thenceforth free from all allegiance to any 
 religious organization. 
 
 By 1750, we find that the power of Methodism was becoming a source of 
 trouble to the Established Church, and measures were enacted against it, which 
 served, of course, to give it all the firmer hold in the minds of the people. The 
 wave of conversion swept into Wales with great force, and on over many other 
 parts of Great Britain. To follow up the history of this church is one of the 
 most fascinating studies that a student can have placed before him ; but for us to 
 give a more extended notice of it here is not advisable, although undoubtedly it 
 is not far from this very time that our Peter ancestors in Wales joined in this 
 movement, and were led in consequence to migrate as its missionaries to America, 
 and into what was then the far, far West. But our information of their exact 
 movements at this period is so meagre at present that we must leave a more 
 elaborate notice to a later day, when other facts shall have been gathered, and a 
 more complete account can be written. 
 
 To turn to the American continent, where Methodism was to become one of 
 the leading religious powers, we see that in 1766 a little band of Methodists first 
 started in New York, with their local preacher Philip Embury, and in two years 
 had erected a chapel. This was the first of Methodism in this country, and the 
 old church on John Street, now in the heart of the down-town business of our 
 great metropolis, marks where the great religious wave started that washes to-day 
 the shores of every village in these United States, and spreads even to all 
 quarters of the globe. 
 
 During the five years that followed 1766, several local preachers were sent over 
 by Wesley to America ; but no regular ministers having authority to organize a self¬ 
 working church-body had ever left Europe. At the convention in England, of 
 August, 1771, Wesley, after reading a communication from the disciples of the 
 new world, in which they asked for leaders, exclaimed: “ Our brethren call aloud 
 for help ; who are willing to go and help them ? ” Several volunteered, but Fran¬ 
 cis Asbury and Richard Wright were the chosen ones ; and around the former of 
 these names groups more than a passing interest for us, not only because we are 
 Methodist descendants, but because, as we shall see later, we of the Peter family 
 are bound to him by the association of kinship. I shall dwell, therefore, a little 
 longer on his life, and not pass it by with the mere notice of his name. And this 
 I can do all the more appropriately from the fact that the rise and growth of the 
 Methodist Church in America are inseparably linked and coincident with every 
 move of Francis Asbury, from the time he leaves England to the hour of his 
 death, on the 31st of March, 1816. Most of the facts I take from W. P. Strick¬ 
 land’s exquisitely written life of this apostle of the Methodist belief, a book which 
 every one ought to read ; although I have found great help in Stevens’s “ History 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” and numerous other treatises and reviews 
 which it will be needless to enumerate here. 
 
 Francis Asbury was born the 20th August, 1745, near the foot of Hempstead 
 Bridge, in Staffordshire, a short distance from Birmingham, England. His father’s 
 Christian name was Joseph, and his mother’s, Elizabeth. She was a Rogers by 
 
birth, and her home was in Wales. They had but two children by this union, one 
 of whom was a girl, and she died in her early years, leaving Francis an only child. 
 As he never married, that branch of the family became extinct with him. His 
 early life was one of great thoughtfulness and meditation. At the age of seven 
 he was converted, and began soon afterwards a regular study of the Bible, in 
 which he became intensely interested. He was kept at school for a while, but 
 most of his later education was accomplished under private instruction. On Aug. 
 iS, 1767, at one of the conferences of the Methodist Church, to which persuasion 
 he had been drawn, there were “ admitted on trial ” “ nine new preachers, among 
 whom was young Asbury, afterwards the chief founder of American Methodism.” 
 
 I pass over the intervening years of his beautiful life, just as I have hurried 
 over his earlier years, to the 4th of September, 1771, when he set sail for America; 
 never again to see his native land, nor the beloved features of his father and mother. 
 He gave up everything for the mission upon which he was now entering. After 
 a voyage of from eight to nine weeks, he landed at Philadelphia, and was most 
 enthusiastically received from the little church which had been started there by 
 members from the New York flock, and to whom Wesley had sent Joseph Pilmoor 
 and Robert Boardman as ministers, but the latter of whom was then presiding over 
 the New' York branch. Asbury started out at once on a visit to all the parishes, 
 particularly of the North, and was the “ first to initiate the regular circuit work of 
 the Methodist Church.” In 1772, the preachers having all met in Philadelphia, 
 “ it was agreed that Boardman should go for that year to Boston, Pilmoor to Vir¬ 
 ginia, Wright to New York, and Asbury to Philadelphia.” 
 
 On the 10th of October, 1772, Asbury received a letter from Wesley, ap¬ 
 pointing him “Superintendent of the societies in America,” and on Dec. 27, 1784, 
 he was ordained bishop. 
 
 And here begins one of the most marvellous careers that any man has ever 
 gone through in this world. In every place do we find traces of Asbury. Now 
 he is in the extreme Southern States, and not long after in the wilds of New 
 England. To-day he is threading his way through the dangerous paths of Western 
 Virginia and out into Kentucky, and not long afterwards we see him presiding at 
 the conferences in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities on the Eastern shore. 
 In all the numerous demands of life, we find him ready and willing to do the 
 giant’s part. Now we hear of him at some distant small log-cabin gathering in 
 the unsettled wilderness, and now at the large reunions in the most populous 
 cities. He founded the first Sunday-schools in 1786, — four years before the 
 more organized efforts of Robert Raikes, in Gloucester, England, — and the 
 first love-feasts and camp-meetings; and “he ordained upwards of three thousand 
 ministers, and preached seventeen thousand sermons, besides attending to the 
 varied and multitudinous duties connected with his peculiar relation to the church 
 and his episcopal office.” 
 
 To dw r ell in any manner upon the long and wonderful efforts of this pioneer 
 bishop of the Methodist Church in America, would be indeed a pleasing occupa¬ 
 tion ; but it is rendered impossible by the limited nature of the sketch that we 
 have in view'. All we want for the present is enough to enable us to locate the 
 movements and history of the early members of our family in this country, in 
 their aid in carrying on this noble work. As we proceed in this inquiry, it will be, 
 
necessary, of course, to make frequent reference to particular parts of Bishop 
 Asbury’s life, and to enter, at such times, into them more in detail. 
 
 With this brief and unsatisfactory review of the Methodist Church, I now pass 
 on to the special history of our American forefathers, and shall try and outline, so 
 far as I am able from the insufficient data, the part that the Peter family bore in 
 connection with the events referred to in the previous pages. 
 
 For years, and ever since the fall of the Stuarts, there had been smouldering 
 in Great Britain a deep hatred of the high-church tendencies of the Established 
 Church. The masses of the people could have little sympathy with a mode of 
 worship which was indeed splendid and dazzling, but which was intended alone 
 for the satisfaction of the higher cultured and the aristocracy of the nation. If 
 the people was to have all the forms of the Romish persuasion again forced back 
 upon it, it wished also the means of enjoyment of these forms to be placed within its 
 reach, and to be made as accessible as they are in the Catholic churches. And this 
 one feature in the differences between the Episcopalian and Catholic rituals is of 
 much more significance to this day than might seem possible at first thought. In the 
 Catholic services there is a field provided for the most humble, the most ignorant, 
 — and where intelligence cannot be appealed to, superstition and fear are, — 
 but, on the other hand, there is equal care to meet the wants of the higher mind, 
 and the more fervent enthusiasm. So elaborate and exhaustive, in fact, are the 
 provisions, that the officials deem them comprehensive enough to correspond to 
 any want, and sodong as you do not attempt to believe otherwise, you will have 
 no difficulty; but dare once to think and act for yourself, and heresy is the 
 brand with which you are stamped, and persecution is your fate. 
 
 In the Episcopal service, however, there is little or no thought for the masses, 
 and intellect is the main element to which any appeal is made. 
 
 Here, then, we find England under the sway of a cold, reasoning church, 
 which had all the forms, and yet not the spirit of that other church that the 
 people had been taught to hate, and from the evil effects of whose political 
 tyranny they had scarcely recovered. 
 
 There were, it is true, a number of different sects and offshoots of the 
 Established Church in existence around in the country, — such as the Puritans and 
 English Presbyterians, — but they were more or less closely allied at that time to 
 the regular church, and could not help partaking more or less of its spirit. For 
 some reason Scotch Presbyterianism never secured much of a firmhold in 
 England. 
 
 Under these circumstances, can we wonder that the body of the people was 
 longing for some warm-hearted, earnest, soul-stirring, and soul-appealing religion ? 
 Can we be surprised at their apathy and indifference in the observance of the wor¬ 
 ship under the Established Church ? And should we reprehend them for looking 
 with distrust upon the new high-church ceremonies, that kept restoring form after 
 form of the very Romish service from which their fathers had passed through fire 
 and blood to free them? Could it be expected that these less scholarly persons 
 could draw the fine distinction between the presence of the old forms, and the 
 absence of the spirit which had lent to them their danger for the liberties of the 
 people ? No ; it was natural that they should then, and do largely even to-day, 
 although time and experience have somewhat soothed their fears, consider one as 
 the necessary companion of the other. 
 
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 At such a time, and fully penetrated with the unanswered yearnings of thou¬ 
 sands of hungry souls, John Wesley and Methodism bring their joyful message to 
 the world. People at first hardly believed their senses; the long-wished-for 
 draught was presented to their lips, and yet they did not dare to quaff it. It was 
 too good to be true. And Wesley, who was a better scholar than a Methodist 
 preacher, did not best understand the power of making them share the feelings 
 and confidence of his own heart. But when, later, the wonderful eloquence of 
 Whitefield, the man who has been called “The St. Paul of Modern Times,” broke 
 in upon their expectant souls like a second Pentecost, who can be astonished that 
 their tongues were loosened, there hearts filled to overflowing, and their souls 
 wrung with the agony and despair of the repentant sinner as yet unconsious of his 
 acceptance at the throne of grace ? Was such an awakening more than natural ? 
 
 Among the earliest fruits of the enunciation of this beautiful view of religion, 
 were two converts in Wales, named Richard and William Peter. To their souls 
 the message came with more than usual force : it took complete possession of 
 them, and thenceforward they determined to devote their lives to sharing with 
 others the blessed light they had received so generously from on high. They 
 spent a period in preparation for this career, and then started out preaching, 
 being chosen by Wesley for that work in Wales, their native place. Their results 
 were so decidedly favorable that Wesley called them to larger fields ; and, finally, 
 induced them to join other missionaries and carry on the cause in the new world, 
 where the set forms of society, and the accumulated superstitions of ages, would 
 not be acting as constant checks to their fervor and hindrances to their success, 
 Thither they went, and settled for the most part in Virginia. 
 
 At this point our information becomes very uncertain, and the large blank of years 
 between now and the settlement of the descendants of the brothers in Mercer 
 County, Kentucky, is in need of many additions to make the line of their move¬ 
 ments complete. From this point on, I can give only facts with a number of prob¬ 
 able conjectures, and must leave to careful research to correct and complete these 
 more or less perfect surmises. At just what time the conversion of these brothers 
 took place we are uncertain, but think it was during 1741. When they left for 
 America is also variously stated ; and it would not be safe for me to venture a state¬ 
 ment in regard to that, any more than to say that it would not be strange if they 
 had accompanied Asbury in 1771, since Richard’s wife was an Asbury, and he 
 would thus be drawn more closely to him than to any of the other missionaries. 
 Several reports claim that these brothers came to America with Wesley in 1735, 
 entered upon the work with him in Georgia, and then remained working and 
 preaching among all the colonists from there to Virginia, and that they were 
 largely instrumental in inducing young Asbury to come over. So numerous are the 
 traditions here that it will not be advisable to decide in favor of any, until we have 
 more light on the subject. Thus much only is certain, that they labored for many 
 years in Virginia, and for a considerable time in the town of Petersburg. And here 
 it may be as well to correct a curious idea, which some of the older members of 
 the family have handed down in a semi-legendary shape, which is, that the city of 
 Petersburg was named in memory of the labors of these two brothers. That they 
 labored there is, I think, beyond question ; and that they were largely instrumental 
 in effecting the great revival of the summer of 1773, is equally certain ; but it 
 w r as not the custom nor right of Methodist preachers to remain very long in one 
 
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 location, so that such short stays as they made in that place would have been barely 
 sufficient to have a city named after them. In Howe’s “ History of Virginia” 
 (p. 243), it is stated that that the earliest proprietor of the site of Petersburg was 
 Thomas Pitt, who received the grant for it previous to 1646. But, as Howe says, 
 “the town derived its name from (Major) Peter Jones, who opened a trading 
 establishment with the Indians at an early day, a few rods west of what is now 
 the junction of Sycamore and Old Streets. The locality was called Peter's Point , 
 subsequently changed to Petersburg And farther on, he continues : “ In the Oc¬ 
 tober session, in 1748, in the 22d year of the reign of King George II., the towns 
 of Petersburg and Blandford were established.” 
 
 When the elaborate diary of Bishop Asbury shall have been published and well 
 edited, and when the various other church records of the missionary days of 
 Methodism in America shall have been brought within reach of the general reader, 
 it may be possible for us to know more about the part our ancestors bore in the 
 early labors of the church. 
 
 That their whole time was given up to religious work, we have always under¬ 
 stood ; but amongst so large a number of earnest, modest toilers, it is not strange 
 that we should fail to have better means of tracing them. As the influence of the 
 new light began to spread, these brothers were chosen to lead the vanguard of the 
 mission ranks. On, on they pushed, up the James River into the mountain fast¬ 
 nesses of the Alleghanies, and over into what was then the limit of civilization, 
 where, weighed down by years, they rested just a little while ; and then, one after 
 the other, many thousand miles from home, strangers in a strange land, they ended 
 their long and useful lives : William earlier, but Richard and his wife each in 
 their hundredth year. God bless the memory of such noble examples of Chris¬ 
 tian sacrifice! And, as Mr. Strickland says, “We may dwell here a moment to 
 remark, that local preachers have been of eminent service to the Methodist 
 Church, both in Europe and America. They proved valuable assistants to Wesley, 
 and went everywhere, sharing his labors and reproaches in preaching to the desti¬ 
 tute in town and country. Itinerant as was the economy of Methodism, and exten¬ 
 sively as did the regular preachers travel from place to place, yet they could not 
 visit all places, and many a section of the country was prepared, through the 
 labors of local preachers, for the visits of Wesley and his itinerant helpers, as in 
 the case of the labors of Nelson at Bristol and other places. But more especially 
 have their services been valuable in this widely extended country, particularly in 
 early times. When the history of the church shall have been written up, it will be 
 found that in many of our large cities and towns, and populous neighborhoods 
 where Methodism flourishes, and is first for numbers and influence among the 
 sister churches of those places, the seed was sown first by the hand of the local 
 clergy, who labored in the vineyard of their Master without the hope of fee or 
 reward, except what they looked for in heaven. Unaided and alone, in the midst 
 of sacrifice, toil, hardships, aye, and not unfrequently of bitter persecution such 
 as would dampen the zeal and slacken the energies of most of us who have en¬ 
 tered into their labors, have they gone up to the high places of sin with the handful 
 of corn, whose spreading and multiplying products now “shake like Lebanon.” 
 All honor to those noble men who braved the toils and hardships incident to the 
 planting of Methodism in this country ! Their “ testimony is in heaven and their 
 record on high ; ” and when they who served, and they who reaped, shall come 
 
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 together at the angel shout of harvest home, may we all rejoice together! As we 
 write, a host come thronging on our memory. It may be said of many of them, 
 as was said of an earthly warrior,— 
 
 ‘ They sleep their last sleep, 
 
 They have fought their last battle ; ’ 
 
 and the sound that shall wake them will be the voice of Him who called them 
 into the field of conflict, and whose spirit nerved them for the fight. Faithful 
 men, ye ‘ have fought a good fight, have finished your course,’ and have entered 
 into the rest and blessedness of heaven.” 
 
 Richard and William settled and died in Western Virginia, but of their further 
 history we are not, at this point of our investigations, able to give much that is 
 definite. Owing to their active missionary life, their home relationships were 
 neglected ; and, indeed, we have always understood that they would never have 
 married, if they had not done so before their conversion. In this way we can ac¬ 
 count for their small families, which omission on their part, however, their chil¬ 
 dren and descendants seem to have rectified, and to have amply provided thus far 
 against the extinction of the name. Richard had one son, William, it seems ; but 
 whether there were more children I cannot say. And this William had, so far as 
 we know', the following children : Jesse, Richard, Reuben, Jordan, Lew'is (killed by 
 lightning), Samuel, Elizabeth, and Nancy. Concerning the lives of these children 
 u'e have also only the most imperfect reports, so that we shall pass them by for the 
 present, and return to William, the brother missionary of Richard. He had two 
 children, Jesse and John, and whether there were any more or not, I am also 
 unable to state. The record of the life of John I have not been able to secure, 
 and must, therefore, defer a notice of him until a later day. 
 
 Jesse Peter, on the other hand, u'as my great-grandfather, and he is the an¬ 
 cestor whose descendants are traced in the following pages. 
 
 As I have remarked in my contributions to the “ Early History of Bryan 
 McDonald,” of Delaware, Jesse Peter immigrated in his youth from Virginia to 
 Kentucky, and became one of the largest, ablest, and most successful farmers in 
 all that part of the country; but was no less famous as a class-leader, and a kind 
 of local preacher in the Methodist belief. For a layman he took a w'onderfully 
 active part in every religious v'ork ; and a considerable portion of his best energies, 
 for more than fifty years and up to the time of his death, were willingly and 
 effectively spent in the service of his church. His house was known as the home 
 and resort for Methodist preachers throughout all that district; and from his doors 
 went forth one of the strongest and purest domestic influences that has ever 
 emanated from any household at any time. In those days of stern principles, 
 strong virtues and strong characters, he w'as naturally and willingly a leader. 
 
 With all these excellent qualities, which gave him for those days a position 
 equal to that held by the foremost of our time, he was yet far from having the 
 least spirit of arrogance or show'ing a forgetful and slighting bearing towards those 
 beneath him. The Bible was his guide in every action, and he delighted in justify¬ 
 ing his excessive liberality to the needy, and his large sympathy for them, by numer¬ 
 ous quotations from the gospel, with the text of which he was very familiar. 
 During the time for camp-meetings, he would hitch up his teams, take his family 
 
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 and servants, and drive to the proposed grounds, remaining for ten days at least. 
 On such occasions he was not only prominent in supplying spiritual food by his 
 telling speeches ; but he would bring with him from home enough to nourish and 
 take care of two or three hundred persons during the whole session of the gather¬ 
 ing. And hardly would one of these assemblies have passed when he would 
 return to his farm, lay in a fresh supply, and start for another camp-meeting in 
 some other district. Every year he passed thus three or four weeks of his time 
 and best efforts in the cause for which they had assembled. His manner of 
 speaking was by beginning in a conversational tone, and carrying on a kind of 
 questioning and answering with his hearers ; and then, gradually, as their attention 
 was fixed, he would warm to his subject and deliver one of his stirring exhorta¬ 
 tions. He had great personal magnetism, a pleasing voice, and his manner of 
 address was more than commonly engaging, so that his words were always listened 
 to with great respect. He was, furthermore, a magnificent singer, and his sweet 
 penetrating notes could be heard above and through the whole assembly. He 
 had never received any training in singing, but he sang as naturally as the birds 
 in the forest around him • and yet his musical abilities were of a high order. His 
 children have, many of them, been endowed with fine musical talents, and Mount- 
 ford, in particular, was very gifted in this direction. Thus, it will not seem strange 
 that this rare excellence should have made his labors all the more desirable in 
 these out-door praise-meetings. Then his personal qualities, his religious fervor, his 
 pure life and generous acts, lent to his well-argued, concisely-stated thoughts an 
 influence which many more polished, higher educated men’s efforts failed to 
 secure. Jesse Peter was certainly a very remarkable man, and the gap left by his 
 death in his peculiar field has never been wholly filled. The remembrance of him 
 and his works, although not as extensive as it would have been with telegraph, 
 railroad, and printing-press to circulate it, pervades nevertheless many homes all 
 over the Union ; and for his descendants, at least, it is one of the sweetest and 
 richest heritages he could have left them. It is to be hoped that with this glorious 
 example before them, many of his children and grandchildren may imitate and, if 
 possible, equal it. 
 
 Jesse Peter married three times, and most of his large family are noticed else¬ 
 where in these pages, so that I shall not take them up again here ; but to his fourth child 
 and oldest daughter, my grandmother, Martha Shepard Peter, I propose devoting a 
 somewhat more extended notice, as I draw to a close the introductory sketch of this 
 worthy side of our family history. 
 
 Martha Shepard Peter, named after her uncle Shepard Sweeney, was born on the 
 25th February, 1801, in the northwest part of Mercer County, Kentucky, between 
 Bardstown and Lexington, but much the nearer to Bardstown. Her mother’s name 
 was Milly Sweeney, a born Virginian, whose father, Moses Sweeney, and his wife, Eliza¬ 
 beth, had come from there with seven sons and six daughters, all fine-looking, intel¬ 
 ligent children. This Elizabeth Sweeney had twin babies before she was sixteen years 
 old, one of whom, Joseph, lost a leg at 45, and his sister Mary both legs at 75, so that 
 their misfortune made them known to the community as “ the twin Sweeneys with 
 but one leg between them.” One of the Sweeney boys became a Carmelite preacher 
 of considerable note. In Collins’s “ History of Kentucky”, and in other papers, I find 
 notices of the earliest discoveries of Petroleum in that State ; but I think, unless I am 
 greatly mistaken, that the first coal-oil found in Kentucky was right there on Sweeney’s 
 
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 farm, on Green River, Casey County. For a long time it was considered as a curi- 
 ositv and a nuisance, when people began finally to detect anti-rheumatic and many 
 other medicinal properties in it, and then it was put up and called “ American Oil.” 
 
 Jesse Peter married, of course, in Kentucky, and settled in Mercer County. In 
 those days the vast forest and lands of that portion of the country were almost un¬ 
 known to the white man, and the Indian and the bear still roamed unmolested 
 through their native haunts. On many an occasion during the first years of the 
 family’s life there, they were all in danger of being exterminated. To take to the 
 woods, hide in the hollow of a tree, and wait in anxiety until the impending threat had 
 been removed, was with them, as with other pioneer settlers, where resistance was 
 impossible, no uncommon step. 
 
 In about 1810, the family moved to Washington County, and settled on their 
 large farm, three miles easterly from the village of Macksville. There the children 
 grew to manhood and womanhood ; there the old folks were buried one by one ; and 
 there, to-day, is a part of the old homestead under the superior and appreciative 
 care of its present owner, Jesse’s grandchild, Paris Peter. In one corner of the farm, 
 and on a picturesque site, is the Peter burying-ground ; and in its enclosure may be 
 seen the final resting-place of a number of those noble souls who hewed their rough- 
 cut way, at every personal sacrifice, that their posterity might start where they left off, 
 and reach the places that were of necessity inaccessible to them. The only question 
 now r is, have all of their descendants made proper use of their vantage-ground? 
 And, as so typical of the efforts of our forefathers in their struggle for an existence, 
 I may be pardoned, I trust, for citing this little episode from Howe’s “ History of Vir¬ 
 ginia.” It is concerning General Charles Scott, a native of Cumberland County, 
 Virginia, a distinguished officer of the Revolution, and subsequently Governor of 
 Kentucky. 
 
 “ Scott was a man of strong natural powers, but somewhat illiterate and rough 
 in his manners. When a candidate for governor, he was opposed by Colonel Allen, a 
 native of Kentucky, who, in an address to the people when Scott was present, made 
 an eloquent appeal. The friends of the latter, knowing he was no orator, felt dis¬ 
 tressed for him; but Scott, nothing daunted, mounted the stump, and addressed the 
 company, nearly as follows : 
 
 ‘ Well, boys, I am sure you must all be well pleased with the speech you have 
 just heard. It does my heart good to think we have so smart a man raised up among 
 us here. He is a native Kentuckian. I see a good many of you here that I brought 
 out to this country when a wilderness. At that time we hardly expected that we 
 should live to see such a smart man raised up among ourselves. You, who were with 
 me in those early times, know we had no time for education, no means of improving 
 from books. We dared not then go about our most common affairs without arms in 
 our hands, to defend ourselves against the Indians. But we guarded and protected 
 the country, and now every one can go where he pleases; and you now see what 
 smart fellows are growing up to do their country honor. But I think it would be a 
 pity to make this man governor ; I think it would be better to send him to Congress. 
 I don’t think it requires a very smart man to make a governor, if he has sense enough 
 to gather smart men about who can help him on with the business of state. It 
 would suit a worn-out old wife of a man like myself. But, as to this young man, I am 
 very proud of him ; as much so as any of his kin, if any of them have been here 
 to-day listening to his speech.’ Scott then descended from the stump, and the 
 huzzas for the old soldier made the welkin ring.” 
 
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 To resume our narrative. Martha’s mother died at the early age of thirty-eight, 
 on May 6, 1812, and was buried there in the family graveyard on the farm. Martha 
 was left now as the oldest girl, and the one expected to take charge of and manage 
 all the household affairs. To look after eight children, and attend to their thousand 
 and one demands, was a weighty task to place upon the shoulders of an eleven-year- 
 old girl; but she took hold with a will, and rose equal to the emergency. And add to 
 other grievances, the second marriage of the father to a lady whose tastes were so 
 strongly in contrast with those of his previous wife, and with those developed in the 
 children, that there could never be much affiliation between the two sets of characters, 
 and you have a most trying position for a young person of twelve to fill. But she 
 seemed to sweeten under adversity, for never was her temper ruffled, but with gentle¬ 
 ness and efficiency she regulated the life in the household. The new mother left 
 nearly all the work for the step-children to do, and on many an occasion might there 
 have been serious breaches in the domestic harmony, if Martha had not stepped in 
 and soothed the rising storm. With a training of this kind, facing an unfriendly fire 
 in a disadvantageous position, she did not grow peevish and sour-tempered, but 
 ripened into a beautiful and lovable woman ; a significant prototype of the noble being 
 we now have before us after a long and not uneventful life of seventy-nine years. 
 “ Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth,” at times, and her early career was one in 
 which she needed the full faith of her heart not to believe otherwise ; while, on the 
 other hand, the glorious light of soul that illumines her waning days gives evidence 
 not only to her, but to all who know her, of the full force and beauty of that divine 
 utterance. Losing her mother at such an early age, and being called to such mature 
 duties, it is easy to see how she passed rapidly over the period from childhood to 
 womanhood. That interesting, most enchanting period of girlhood was almost left 
 out of her life, and it was never brought home to her in its force until she came to 
 live it over and over again in her sympathies with her own dear children, as they 
 grew one by one to womanhood or to manhood. Yet there is a brief, bright spot in 
 her early years that she calls her girlhood, and to which now and then her memory 
 willingly returns, and around the delightful associations of which it lingers and plays as 
 in the years now so long gone that their number makes us almost dizzy to try and run 
 them over. What momentous changes have we not passed through, as a nation, since 
 those early days; and what great revolutions must have been carried on in the minds 
 of those individuals who have kept pace and expanded with this great country’s 
 fabulous developement ! And yet, who can ever offer the equivalent of those first 
 years around our childhood’s home ! What other scenes, that later years will bring, 
 can ever so dazzle by their brilliancy as to prevent our recollection from turning back 
 to the plainest, lowliest cottage around which our footsteps bent for hours and days 
 in the golden childhood ! Parents little realize, at times, how rich an heritage they 
 could leave for all the dreary after-years of care-bound life, in just casting here and 
 there an added halo round the early sports and dreams of youth. Childhood is a 
 period which goes with us to our graves, and the nearer we draw to the “ pearly 
 gates,” the more closely do the joyous scenes of our first years come vividly back 
 upon us. We have journeyed in a circle and are once more near the starting-point. 
 It is a fairy-land to which we always turn with pleasure, for the grim spectre Respon¬ 
 sibility bids us there farewell; in those sweet realms his footsteps ne’er have trodden. 
 And how we love to hear our grandsires speak of those days, which seem so far from 
 and yet so near to us ! How natural it is to hear my good old grandmother tell about 
 
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 the family ot her rag-dolls on whom she lavished all the affection of her little heart, 
 all a mother’s care for her own children ! So strange it seems, at times, that already 
 in the infant stage the maternal instincts of later life should be thus strongly fore¬ 
 shadowed ! And when, by some mishap, her brother broke one of her affection’s 
 idols, the flood-gates of her grief were opened up, and, as her mother said, “ she wet 
 the floor with tears.” She never had so many that she could not deeply feel the 
 loss of one ; a trait of character which, unappreciated by those around her then, has 
 been so truly and sadly impressed upon us by the departure of those loved ones who, 
 in their prime of life, bade us all “ good night,” and have gone before to bid us there 
 “ good morning.” God grant that in that happier land our broken links may be 
 united once again, and welded in a bond which shall never know another parting. 
 
 At the age of seven she started to school; but she had received, of course, already 
 considerable tutoring at home. She had to leave at six in the morning, and did not 
 get back until six in the evening. It was a walk of several miles, and for the larger part 
 of the way through the woods. She was obliged to pass over most of it alone, except 
 when there happened to be others going in the same direction, which did not occur 
 very unfrequently, and by some means or other, she says, her escort was not always a 
 girl either, even if he did have to wander a few miles out of his way. Poor fellow ! 
 But I don’t know as he was to be pitied after all; he had a very pretty and fasci¬ 
 nating companion, to secure whose smiles was evidently worthy of some sacrifice. 
 Human nature was the same then as to-day, and “ how dearly he had paid for the 
 whistle,” he had time to ponder over on his way back in solitary glory. 
 
 At school, the best for those times, the course of studies was primitive in a remark¬ 
 able degree ; the spelling-book and New Testament comprised the whole curriculum. 
 When they had learnt all there was in the first, and read the other through a sufficient 
 number of times, they were ipso facto graduates, and as well educated as anybody 
 needed to be. Grandmother was remarkably bright, having an excellent memory, 
 besides being a willing and faithful worker; so when the end of her last school-year 
 drew near, and there was the competitive examination for the prize, she stood up and 
 began at the beginning of Noah Webster’s spelling-book, with its 1,400 words, and 
 repeated and spelled every one from beginning to end with only nine hesitations over 
 the word that followed next. This was certainly a remarkable feat of memory for such 
 a young girl. To remember by heart 1,400 unconnected words in their proper order 
 is worthy of a scholar of the finest intellect and most thorough discipline. She won 
 the prize, which was the immense sum of fifty cents, which she carried home, laid 
 away, and then worked a month and a half at weaving in extra hours until she had 
 made enough to raise her treasure to one dollar and a half, whereupon she saddled 
 her horse and rode sixteen miles to the town, and invested the whole amount in a 
 pair of pink dress shoes. 
 
 She was very handy with the needle, and accomplished a number of those unwise 
 feats of skill in spider-web gymnastics in which young girls delight to the injury of 
 their eyesight, nervous system, and general health. When she was thirteen, she pur¬ 
 chased, among other things, material for one of those old-timed jaconets, which she 
 made and embroidered in the most elaborate but tasty manner. 
 
 Her numerous household duties rendered it, at this time, impossible for her to 
 attend to much more than the daily demands of the domestic economy; in the care 
 for which she was the great bulwark of the family. 
 
 At the age of sixteen she very naturally joined the Methodist Church, and 
 
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 in its ranks she has remained ever since. During her married life her home and 
 table were ever open to the preachers of the gospel; a privilege which was evidently 
 abused, at times, by some of the less conscientious of their number. Some of her 
 children tell many a joke at the old lady’s expense, in how the best things were kept 
 for the ministers and they were left out in the cold, or had to wait longer, in any case, 
 for their turn than they thought was necessary. There is, of course, a great deal of 
 exaggeration in their statement of the case ; but it cannot be denied that the impres¬ 
 sion then made upon the minds of some of the more sceptically disposed among 
 them, by what seemed to them ministerial favoritism, has produced so strong a reaction 
 in the other direction, that to-day they entertain anything but admiration for a certain 
 class of preachers, especially of the Methodist persuasion. No such a resentment, 
 however, is cherished by either her oldest son, Dr. R. H., or her youngest, Colonel 
 Mark L. 
 
 At the age of eighteen she was acknowledged to be the belle of the neighbor¬ 
 hood, and was then “wooed and won ” by Colonel James McDonald, to whom she 
 was married on the 28th September, 1819. Her bridal costume, a “ big ” thing for those 
 days, was remarkable for a lace cap trimmed with chenille, without any veil, and silk 
 gloves and black kid slippers. 
 
 From this time on her life becomes necessarily merged in that of her husband, 
 and will be described when his biography is written up. They moved soon after to 
 the old Richard McDonald homestead on Long Lick, three miles west of Macksville. 
 
 By the time that she had been married twenty-two years, she had eleven children, 
 and they were all living but one, who had died an infant. 
 
 For many years, she spun and wove and made all the clothes, and attended to 
 all the other household duties besides. Of course she had slaves to assist, but they 
 needed nearly as much care as their services compensated for. 
 
 In 1851 Colonel James, and what remained of the family, all left for the farm they 
 had purchased in Andrew County, Missouri. There they remained until May 15, 1859, 
 when he and his wife and younger children left for California, arriving there on the 18th 
 August. They settled in Sacramento, where Colonel James died the 16th March, 1865. 
 The family moved soon afterwards to San Francisco, and have remained there ever since. 
 Grandmother is now living with her only surviving daughter, Mrs. Josephine Elliott, 
 corner Bush and 7th Streets, in Oakland, just across the bay from San Francisco. The 
 old lady is now in her eightieth year, and is in good physical condition. Her mind 
 is clear, her disposition as sweet and sunny as ever, and her heart overflowing with 
 kindness for every one that comes in her way. She is the great comfort of her rel¬ 
 atives and friends, and she seems to be the centre around which the different members 
 of our family gravitate. She brings them together, keeps them mutually interested 
 each in each, and checks to her utmost that tendency, which many persons of inde¬ 
 pendent natures show, to draw gradually farther and farther from each other. May 
 her noble life be spared to us for yet many years ; and when finally she bids us all her 
 last farewell, may her influence, and the memory of her love, make us forget our 
 little differences, and bind us closer in an union which death alone shall sever ! 
 
 But we cannot leave this narrative without giving an outline of the life of Colonel 
 James McDonald, the husband of Martha Shepard Peter, for it would be like pass¬ 
 ing by without mention the incidents around which the larger part of her life was 
 grouped. We shall not dwell on his career in detail, as it is our expectation at 
 some later day to write his biography at length. We shall aim to give only enough 
 
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 to furnish an intelligent idea of the principal moves in his life. And the first part 
 we take from our “ Contributions ” published last summer. 
 
 Colonel James McDonald, the oldest child of Major Richard McDonald, was 
 born the 16th day of December, 1797, on the old Homestead near Mackville, 
 Kentucky. His father died and left him at the tender age of twelve, with his 
 mother, and two brothers, and three sisters, the responsibility for whom was mainly 
 thrown upon his shoulders ; thus developing at an early period of his life that self- 
 reliance and executive ability which so characterized his future career. 
 
 His education was as good as the time and facilities of the country in which he 
 lived afforded, which were at best, as compared with those of to-day, limited. Up 
 to his seventeenth year, he took charge of his father’s farm, assisted his mother, 
 and aided all he could in raising the family. So steady, industrious, and capable 
 was he, that he was cited by all who knew him as the exemplary young man of 
 that district. 
 
 At about the age of seventeen, he turned over the farm to his brothers, and went 
 as an apprentice to the tanner’s business, under a man named Hillery Hays, — a 
 gentleman of fine principles, who had much to do with moulding the character of 
 many of the first young men of the day who were studying under him. It was in 
 consideration of the esteem in which Colonel James held this almost foster-parent 
 to him, that he named his first-born Richard Hays in memory of him. After three 
 years’ apprenticeship, James was made foreman and principal of the extensive 
 business in which he had learned his trade; and he continued in this occupation 
 until, at the urgent request of his mother and the family, he consented to return 
 and take charge of the old paternal farm. 
 
 Not long after, in 1819, he married his former school-companion and favorite, 
 Martha Shepard Peter, fourth child and oldest daughter of Jesse Peter, as before 
 stated. He then took up his farming in earnest, and became a great success in 
 it. He had a special fondness for improving the stock by breeding, and to the study 
 of this specialty he devoted a large portion of his spare time and means. He was 
 one of the first men in Kentucky who started that system of crossing the different 
 grades of stock and raising the quality of the successive types, which theory, as 
 pursued and perfected under men like Alexander and others, has since given to 
 Kentucky the prominent rank of America for fine stock, and for fast horses in 
 particular. 
 
 From the leading position that Colonel James grew gradually to occupy, and the 
 potent influence he swayed in his community, he was led, much against his incli¬ 
 nations, to accept the call of that constituency to serve in the Legislature of his 
 State. In the winter of 1828-29, he represented Washington County at Frankfort, 
 the capital of Kentucky; and so popular was his course as a Representative, that 
 he was elected and returned the following year, 1829-30, and again in 1832-33, to 
 the same position in the lower house of the Legislature. 
 
 Being wearied of public and desiring to return to private life, he tried to with¬ 
 draw from further nomination for office, and to go back to his favorite pursuits on 
 his beautiful farm. He was, however, not suffered to retire at that time, but was 
 again sought out the next year, and prevailed on to permit his name to be placed 
 on the ticket as candidate for State Senator. As he was always earnest and zealous 
 in what he undertook, he entered the campaign with an unmistakable determination 
 to do his part. He canvassed and stumped the county in opposition to Richard 
 

 JAMES M c DONALD. 
 
 
 
 
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 Spalding, one of the ablest and most influential men of the State. It was one of 
 the most exciting and most fiercely contested State Senatorial elections ever known 
 in Kentucky, and, whichever candidate won it, had to accomplish his success by 
 superior ability and force in his statement of the issue. McDonald, who was a good, 
 logical speaker, beat his adversary and was elected by a handsome majority over 
 him, and served a term of four years, from 1833-37, ' n t * ie State Senate ; whereupon 
 he positively declined any further political office, and terminated therewith his pub¬ 
 lic career. His policy was at all times satisfactory to his constituency, although, 
 in instances, not exactly in accordance with their first views of the situation ; but, 
 by the end of each term, the justice of his policy was recognized and his popularity 
 proportionately strengthened. 
 
 He was in the Senate with, among other prominent personages, two of Ken¬ 
 tucky’s most talented and distinguished citizens, the gifted Thomas Marshall, of 
 Lexington, and James Guthrie, of Louisville, the latter of whom was afterwards 
 Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan, from 1853-57. 
 
 It was during his term in the Senate that many important changes were made in 
 the means of advancing and developing the State’s industries, and, perhaps, none 
 more important than aiding in building what was then a great wonder, the first 
 railroad in Kentucky, from Frankfort to Lexington, a distance of some thirty-eight 
 miles. 
 
 About this time the great fertile West was being opened up to settlers, and the 
 rising ambitious young men of the family could not feel contented with remaining at 
 home, however strong might be the desire of their family and friends to hold them. 
 Already long before, their first-born, Richard Hays, the pioneer child of the family, 
 had left and entered upon the study of medicine, and had been having a fine prac¬ 
 tice alternately in Nauvoo and Prairie de Roche, in Illinois, until, by reason of health 
 and other considerations, he had wandered on to Sacramento, California, where he 
 had located and was doing well. His brother, Captain James, influenced naturally 
 by the good result of R. H.’s venture, was the next to bid farewell to Mackville; 
 leaving in October, 1849, an ^ going overland through Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa 
 to Rochester, Missouri, where he stopped that winter with his brother-in-law, Dr. M. 
 F. Wakefield, and his sister, Milly Ann. Next spring, May 15, 1850, he started for 
 California, where, after an eventful trip, he was welcomed by his brother Richard, 
 in Sacramento. And, in this connection, it may be well to mention an incident 
 which is, we believe, not generally known. In the latter part of August his party 
 stopped on Carson River, at the mouth of Cold Canon, not very far from Gold 
 Hill, and the now world-famous district of the Comstock lode. He here separ¬ 
 ated from the rest of his companions, who continued on into California, and he set 
 out all alone on an exploring expedition into the canon and the region around 
 Mount Davidson. He here found what he thought was gold in rich yields ; so he 
 took a pair of old overalls, tied the legs together, filled them with the dirt, and, 
 being a man of large size and great strength, carried it on his shoulders way down 
 to Carson River. There he secured an emigrant woman’s old milk-pan, and washed 
 his dirt, and revealed the little yellow particles just as he had suspected ; which 
 was, I think, beyond question, the first find of gold made by any white man on 
 what is now the “ bonanza ” quarter of the mining world. It was not many days 
 until other prospecters were in those parts, but he preceded them all quite a 
 while. 
 
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 By the next year the California fever had spread over the whole Western country, 
 and the young men were on the move for the Pacific Coast. Realizing that it 
 would be improbable that they could ever reunite their family in Mackville, the 
 old folks concluded to follow the younger ones and keep together the best they 
 could. With this view, the old place at Mackville was reluctantly, regretfully 
 sold, and a large farm of six hundred acres purchased on the Platte, near 102. 
 
 This was not far from Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, whither their oldest 
 daughter, Milly Ann, had moved from Rochester, Missouri, and settled with her 
 husband, Dr. M. F. Wakefield, and were in good circumstances, and anxious to 
 have their parents near them. 
 
 In the spring (March) of 1851, Marion Jasper was sent ahead from Kentucky, 
 with the servants Uncles Ralph and George, to prepare and have the farm ready 
 for the remainder of the family, who arrived in the fall of that year. 
 
 The spring of the next year found the influence of the California fever unabated, 
 and if anything increasing; so Marion Jasper and Dewitt prepared their four-mule 
 team and a light spring wagon, and left on the 21st of April, 1852, to join their 
 brothers. 
 
 They were posted how to make the trip, and passed over in one of the quickest, 
 if not the quickest, time ever made by a private party in those days across the 
 plains. At Goose Creek Mountains they abandoned their wagon, and “ packed 
 in,” as the technical term is. They arrived in Sacramento July 7, 1852. 
 
 Thus, one by one, the children were finding their way to the shores of the Pacific ; 
 and every year the pressure was becoming greater on the old folks to follow after. 
 They had, in the meanwhile, since the boys were all gone, given up the farm and 
 moved into Savannah; and, so long as Milly Ann and all the girls were together, 
 they could not decide to take the final step. However, in January, 1858, Milly 
 Ann died, and, now this strong band having been severed, they began to prepare 
 for the overland journey. On the 15th of May, 1859, they bade farewell to Savannah, 
 and all its associations. Here had been quite a rallying-place for all the family, 
 Colonel James’s brother Joseph having been there awhile, before going to join his 
 brother, Dr. Griffin, in Georgia. Two of the family, Joseph William, in 1855, and 
 Milly Ann, in 1858, were buried there ; and the loss was most bitterly felt, as they 
 vvere the first break in the family circle for over thirty years, and seemed like an 
 ill-omen to foretell the dreadful ravages which were to be made in later years upon 
 the most beautiful and fascinating members of the household. 
 
 During his stay in Savannah, Colonel James was prevailed upon to accept the 
 office of mayor, which he filled, so long as he was there, with great credit. 
 
 The trip across the plain proved to be a very severe one ; the year was dry and 
 pasturage and water were scarce, whereby they were compelled to make long and 
 forced marches over the parched plains. In the Humboldt Valley, that terrible 
 Sahara of our country, it seemed at times as if every day was to be their last. 
 After much privation they arrived in Sacramento on the 18th of August, 1859. In 
 the meanwhile, their son James, who was single, and well to do, had provided a 
 pleasant home for them on M Street, between 7th and 8th Streets. There they 
 settled, and lived a peaceful, contented life, surrounded by most of their children. 
 In 1861, the flood that buried the city in water for months came as an un¬ 
 pleasant surprise; and the subsequent Civil War, and the strong Southern sym¬ 
 pathies of Colonel James and all his family, except Dr. R. H., subjected them to 
 
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 many political persecutions, which added some stirring scenes to the course of 
 their experiences. 
 
 The bitter remembrances of the treatment of some of the mob-elements, during 
 those times, has created in the mind of one of the sons, Captain James, anything 
 but a pleasant recollection of the whole town ; which place he left as soon after¬ 
 wards as it was possible to arrange his affairs, and has never been back, except in 
 the most transient manner, to see, since that day. 
 
 Colonel James was taken by a severe attack of congestive fever, originating in the 
 digestive organs, and died on the 16th of March, 1865. lie was buried first in 
 Sacramento, and was moved later to the McDonald family-lot, in the Masonic 
 burying-ground, of San Francisco, where he now lies surrounded by many of his 
 children and grandchildren ; some of the fairest of whom quickly followed him, and 
 left us just as they had blossomed into the beautiful strength and grace of woman¬ 
 hood. 
 
 Colonel James was a man of about 5 feet io }4 inches in height (although all of 
 his boys but one are over six feet high), and weighed about 160 pounds. He had 
 a close-built, muscular frame, of sinewy texture, which gave him great activity and 
 great power of endurance. Very few men of his weight were his equals in strength. 
 In his prime, he was able to lift up a forty-gallon barrel of cider and drink from 
 the bung-hole, which feat he did time and again whenever the credibility of the 
 claim was called into question. His hair and beard were sandy color, and his skin 
 was fair and clear, with a reddish tinge which gave him at all times a remarkably 
 fresh and healthy appearance. His habits were regular and exceedingly tem¬ 
 perate ; his health was excellent, and but few spells of sickness ever troubled him, 
 until the final attack, from which he died. He was a man of great energy and 
 enterprise, and yet remarkably cool-headed and moderate, with all his enthusiasm. 
 He was affable and kind-hearted and generous to the needy and deserving wherever 
 he found them. He was an extremist, if in anything, on the question of advanced 
 education ; and in all church, school, and other institutions for disseminating moral 
 and intellectual culture, he was known as a zealous friend and co-worker. His 
 position was generally a leading one in life, and we think we may safely say that 
 his influence was a good one, and that the world with which he came in contact is 
 better for his having been in it. To my youthful mind, I can well remember that, next 
 to my father, he seemed to me to be my ideal of a man; and the many stories and 
 little moral lessons that he told me as I attended him on his walks, or sat beside 
 him on a stool in his room, have so often recurred to me in my later years, that 
 they have lent an added charm to my birthplace ; and in the slightly changed words 
 of our beloved Longfellow: — 
 
 “ Fairer seems my native city, 
 
 And the sunshine seems more fair, 
 
 That he once has trod its pavement, 
 
 That he once has breathed its air.” 
 
 In closing, I would return my sincere thanks to Mr. Paris Peter and Mrs. 
 Athenia Flournoy, of Mackville, Ky., and to Mrs. Parthenia Rue, of Santa Rosa, 
 Cal., for their deep interest in, and valuable contributions to, my labors on the 
 Peter family ; while the whole material concerning the McDonald name here 
 embodied has been the result of the individual labors of my father, Dr. R. H. 
 
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 McDonald, President of the Pacific Bank, San Francisco, California. It is needless 
 to add that all these labors of family love are conducted solely at his expense. 
 
 Now, in the hope that this brief memorial of our family, hastily arranged for 
 the seventy-ninth anniversary of my dear, good grandmother, Martha Shepard 
 McDonald, will be acceptable, as a slight evidence of the love in which she is 
 held by her children and grandchildren, I bid you all, dear relatives, and you in 
 particular, my aged and yet so youthful grandmother, an affectionate farewell. 
 
 Yours, with much love, 
 
 frank v. McDonald. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., February. 1880. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 A. The name of the village where our ancestors lived in Washington County, Ken¬ 
 tucky, is now called Mackville, by the Post-office Guide ; but the correct name should be 
 Macksville. The place was named after the MacKittricks, and the twin brothers, Richard 
 and Alexander McDonald, and these three parties lived in and around the village for a 
 long time before any other settlers arrived there. From these three Macks the name 
 was and should be Macksville. It was a community of considerable size and influence 
 fifty years ago, but has, owing to emigration, the war, and other disturbing causes, 
 greatly decreased in numbers and importance. There are still, however, many persons 
 there, who are good and noble representatives of the old families from which they spring 
 directly or indirectly. It is strange to say that not one of the homesteads of our first 
 ancestors in these parts remains in the possession of a descendant bearing the original 
 name. The Richard McDonald place is in the hands of a stranger, a Mr. Rayborn; the 
 Alexander McDonald place is in the possession of the husband of his grandchild, a Dr. 
 Redding ; and the Jesse Peter farm has also passed into other hands, although the place 
 adjoining is owned by his grandson, Paris Peter, whose careful and sympathetic oversight 
 watches and preserves zealously all the landmarks and tangible associations in and around 
 the ancestral place. 
 
 B. In Collins’s History of Kentucky, Vol. II. p. 749, James McDaniel is accredited 
 to the House of Representatives of Kentucky from Washington County for the year 
 1828. This is an error : it should be James McDonald, the same party given for the ses¬ 
 sions of 1829 and 1832. It is natural that this mistake should have been made, as the 
 McDonalds were in early times known more as MacDanls and McDaniels than in any 
 other way, and many of the public records have the names confused in a variety of forms. 
 Collins’s history is an admirable work, showing a fabulous amount of labor and care, with 
 few, yes, very few inaccuracies, and this little error should not be considered at all to its 
 discredit; a more natural interchange of name was hardly possible. I make the correction 
 here, in order to save any further misunderstanding, but not in the least as an adverse 
 criticism of his beautiful and thorough work. 
 
 C. The Mount Davidson referred to in the mention of Colonel James and his son 
 Captain James (page 19) is the location on the side of which Virginia City, Nevada, now 
 stands. It is here where the great mines of the Comstock lode are situated, the two 
 most famous of which, the “California” and the “Consolidated Virginia,” have since 
 become world-known by the name of the “Bonanza” mines. When the rich deposit was 
 struck, it soon spread that a “bonanza,” the Spanish fora “good thing,” had been found, 
 and the name was ever afterward attached to those two mines. It was in the very place 
 
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 whence, in later years, millions and millions of money were to be drawn, that Captain 
 James McDonald gathered his dust, and carried it down to the river to wash. 
 
 D. I desire to return my thanks to Mr. J. A. J. Wilcox, of No. 12 Pemberton Square, 
 Boston, Mass., for the friendly interest and painstaking care he has shown in the execu¬ 
 tion of the four steel-engravings for this book ; and likewise to express my gratitude to 
 Messrs. Harroun and Bierstadt, 58 and 60 Reade Street, New York City, N. Y., for similar 
 courtesies on their part in the printing of the “artotypes” of the “ Baby,” and the “ Class 
 Cup.” These are such good imitations of photographs that I wish to call special atten¬ 
 tion to them. They are made by a photographic negative, transferred to a gelatine plate. 
 They then use a prepared paper and fine photo-lithographic ink. These plates are not 
 the result of light, producing chemical combinations. They are printed in a press, just as 
 lithographs are, and the ink is, so to speak, a printer’s ink. They will not fade, and are 
 uniform, much like other press-work. 
 
 E. It will be impracticable to send a print of this or other family-works to every mem¬ 
 ber of the connections, and, in order that the books may be made accessible to as many 
 parties as possible, we shall have to send copies to the best library in most places where 
 descendants are living. We would ask you, therefore, to forward the name and full address 
 of such library in your town as you deem the best depository for the books, and we shall 
 try and mail to them this and other publications that we may edit on family history in the 
 future. For the present, we shall deliver to the following places : — 
 
 British Museum Library, London, England ; Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland; 
 Royal Historical Society, Edinburgh, Scotland ; Harvard College Library, Cambridge, 
 Mass.; New England Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass. ; Boston Public Library ; 
 Library of Mount Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley, Mass.; Yale College Library, New 
 Haven, Conn. ; Astor Library, New York City, N. Y. ; Vassar College Library, Pough¬ 
 keepsie, N. Y. ; Union College Library, Schenectady, N. Y. ; Princeton College Library, 
 Princeton, N. J. ; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Wilmington Public 
 Library; Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington ; State Library, Dover, Delaware ; 
 Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. ; State Library, Richmond, Va.; State Agri¬ 
 cultural College Library, Blacksburg, Montgomery Co., Va. ; State Library, Frank¬ 
 fort, Ky. ; Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Cal. ; State Library, Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 F. These abbreviations have been used in the following pages : — 
 
 b., for born ; m., for married; unm., for unmarried; d., for died; bur., for buried; 
 prob., for probably ; Me., for Methodist; Presb., for Presbyterian ; Cong., for Congrega- 
 tionalist. 
 
 Sn., for Sunday; M., for Monday; T., for Tuesday; W., for Wednesday; Th., for 
 Thursday; F., for Friday; S., for Saturday; and occasionally others, which will be 
 easily recognized. 
 
 Caution. In my “Contributions to the Early History of Bryan MacDonald,” page 12, 
 I recommended a Mr. Albert Wells of University Place, New York City, as a party to 
 address for genealogical investigations. 1 have since discovered that the work he or his 
 correspondents did for me is wholly unreliable ; and this revelation, added to my experi¬ 
 ence with him in numerous other ways, now leads me, much against my wishes, to with¬ 
 draw what I said in his favor, and to advise the members of our family not to enlist in 
 any manner his professional services. 
 
 I would also caution them most urgently against accepting results from any one in 
 these fields, where there is so much room for pretence and deceit, without having first 
 carefully tested the merit of every report. 
 
GENEALOGICAL RECORDS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF JESSE AND MILLY PETER, 
 
 OF 
 
 MACKVILLE, WASHINGTON CO., KY. 
 
 JESSE PETER, son of Wm. and Fanny Peter, b. Sn., 29 April, 1770; m. 1st, 
 Milly Sweeney, T., 5 Nov., 1796; 2d, Elizabeth Graves, T., 6 Dec., 1814; 
 3d, Nancy Drane, Sn., 25 Sept., 1842. He d. F., 14 Jan., 1848. Milly 
 Sweeney, dr. of Moses and Elizabeth Sweeney, b. T., 22 Dec., 1774, d. T., 
 10 May, 1814. Elizabeth Graves, dr. of Wm. and Nancy Graves, d. W., 6 
 Apr., 1842. Moses Sweeney, father of Milly, d. 17 June, 1813; his wife 
 Elizabeth d. 27 Oct., 1832. It was she who first introduced the well-known 
 “ Red Coat ” apple (a pure seedling) into Kentucky, by bringing the 
 seed with her from Virginia, about a century ago. 
 
 Jesse’s children by his first wife were : 
 
 1. Mountford, b. Sn., 15 Oct., 1797 ; d. Th., 14 Apr., 1864. 
 
 2. Jordan, b. Th., 10 Jan., 1799; d. 1871 (?). 
 
 3. Archibald, b. Th., 4 Feb., 1800 ; d. 4 Feb., 1800. 
 
 4. Martha Shepard, b. W., 25 Feb., 1801. Living cor. Bush and 7th Sts., San 
 
 Francisco, Cal. 
 
 5. Hardin, b. F., 31 Dec., 1802 ; d. Th., 3 Feb., 1853. 
 
 6. Preston, b. Sn., 5 Apr., 1804; d. 23 Apr., 1830. 
 
 7. Kiturah, b. T., 25 Sept., 1806. Living in St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 8. China, b. M., 31 Oct., 1808 ; d. 16 Apr., 1863. 
 
 9. Paris, b. W., 6 May, 1812 ; d. (varioloid) 4 Dec., 1861. 
 
 His children by his second wife were : 
 
 10. Gideon, b. Sn., n Feb., 1816 ; d. Th., 12 Oct., 1837. 
 
 11. Milly Sweeney, b. F., 18 Dec., 1818. 
 
 12. Elisha, b. W., 29 Mar., 1820; d. S., 18 Jan., 1823. 
 
 13. Hartford (M.D.), b. M., 31 Dec., 1822 ; d. F., 5 Apr., 1872. 
 
 14. Cyrus, b. T., 20 May, 1823; d. 1844. 
 
 15. Cynthia, b. S., 15 Jan., 1825. 
 
 16. Frances, b. 10 Sept., 1830; d. 15 Feb., 1831. 
 
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 Of Jesse Peter’s children 
 
 Mountford m. twice, and his children follow later. He raised two large families, 
 and d. at the age of 72. Like his father he was a very religious man and 
 naturally a leader in whatever he entered. 
 
 Jordan moved to Salem Co., Ill., where he m. ; and the record of his family, as 
 complete as it could be secured, comes hereafter. 
 
 Martha Shepard was m. to Col. James McDonald (McDonald Genealogy, 
 Edition B, No. 84, where their family is given in full, and whence it is taken 
 later, to make this whole Peter connection more complete). He was the oldest 
 son of Major Richard McDonald (No. 26), of Mackville, Washington Co., Ky. 
 It is their oldest son, Dr. R. H. McDonald, President Pacific Bank, San Fran¬ 
 cisco, Cal., who is supplying the means for carrying on all our family researches. 
 Of this part of the family, however, somewhat detailed biographical notices will 
 follow at a later day. 
 
 Hardin m. Mary McDonald (No. 95, Ed. B, McDonald Genealogy, whence their 
 family will be taken and can be found later). She was a dr. of Alex. Mc¬ 
 Donald of Mackville, Ky. 
 
 Preston was unm. and died in Indiana. 
 
 Kiturah was m. to Judge John Spence, and details of their family will follow. 
 
 China was m. to Robert S. Mitchell. Had no children. 
 
 Paris m. Mary Flournoy, 'I'll., 1 Dec., 1836. Family follows later. 
 
 Milly S. was m. to Joseph Turner. Family given further on. 
 
 Dr. Hartford m. 1st, Ellen Cornish; 2d, Arena Shewmaker. Families later. 
 
 Cyrus drowned in Castile River, Clinton Co., Mo. His body was not found until 
 ten days later, when it was buried in a beech grove at that place. 
 
 Cynthia was 111. to Brazeal Parrott, Jan., 1842. Family given in its order. 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF MOUNTFORD PETER, THE OLDEST CHILD 
 OF JESSE AND MILLY PETER. 
 
 i. MOUNTFORD, the oldest child of Jesse Peter and Milly Sweeney, a man of 
 brilliant faculties, an accomplished musician, and a good scholar, m. ist, M., 
 22 Dec., 1817, Sallie Peter, dr. of William and Margaret Peter. Sallie was b. 
 28 Feb., 1796, near Springfield, Ky., and d. of infant fever in Spencer Co., 
 Indiana, 5 Oct., 1826. He m. 2d, Th., 11 Mar., 1830, Mrs. John H. Parrott 
 (born Elizabeth Pile, dr. of Benjamin and Ruth Pile), who was b. 31 Oct., 
 1799, and d. in Washington Co., Ky., 22 Mar., 1865. Mountford died of 
 pleuro-pneumonia 14 Apr., 1864; his second wife of typhoid pneumonia. 
 They are both bur. in the Jesse Peter graveyard on the old farm. 
 
 Mountford’s children by his first wife were : 
 
 1. Bernarden, b. in Spencer Co., Ind., 7 Mar., 1819. Living in Franklin, 
 
 Ind. 
 
 2. Paris, b. Indiana, 12 July, 1821. Living in Mackville, Washington Co., 
 
 Ky. 
 
 3. Vernetta, b. Indiana, 26 Mar., 1823 ; d. 21 May, i860. 
 
 4. Armenius, b. Indiana, 8 Jan., 1825. Living in St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 5. Jesse, b. Indiana, 1 May, 1826. Living in Salinas City, Cal. 
 Mountford’s children by his second wife were : 
 
 6. Arimathea, b. Washington Co., Ky., 28 Dec., 1830; d. Washington 
 
 Co., Ky., 30 June, 1849. 
 
 7. Almira, b. Washington Co., Ky., 18 Jan., 1834 ; d. Texas, 5 Nov., i860. 
 
 8. Preston (M.D.), b. Washington Co., Ky., 29 Jan., 1836. 
 
 9. Emory, b. in Washington Co., Ky., 27 Dec., 1837. 
 
 10. Athenia, b. Washington Co., Ky., 20 Apr., 1840. Living in Mackville, 
 
 Ky. 
 
 11. Orceneth, b. Washington Co., Ky., 27 Mar., 1842. 
 
 Of Mountford’s children, 
 
 BERNARDEN, the oldest child of Mountford and Sallie Peter, left Mackville, 9 
 July, 1837, and moved to Mt. Washington, Ky. From there he went to Louisville, 
 10 Mar., 1849. He there studied and learned in detail the cabinet trade, and 
 architecture and house building, — theoretically and practically. He m. Matilda 
 D. Wells, dr. of John F. and Amelia Wells, 11 Feb., 1841, and on 4 April, 1855, 
 they moved to Franklin, Indiana, where they have since lived. They have 
 raised a good, religious, intelligent, and interesting family, and some of the chil¬ 
 dren, we are told, are even very gifted, especially in music. This is particularly 
 the case with his daughters Kate and Mattie. 
 
 The family is as follows : 
 
 ib. Sarah Elenora, b. 20 Mar., 1842, Bullitt Co., Ky.; d. 13 Aug., 1842, 
 in Mt. Washington, Ky., of cholera infantum. 
 
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 2b. Laura Amelia, b. 31 Jan., 1844, in Bullitt Co., Ky.; d. 9 Sept. 1846, 
 in Mt. Washington, Ky. 
 
 3b. Mary Kate, b. 26 Apr., 1846, in Bullitt Co., Ky. ; was m. 11 Nov., 
 1870, in Franklin, Ind., by Rev. H. T. Buff, to Rev. Wiley F. 
 Ackman, of the Christian, now called Campbellite church. He was 
 b. 12 Sept., 1845, ' n Jessamine Co., Ky. The parents are both 
 living in Middletown, Ind., and they have one child, Bernarden 
 Marshall, b. 14 May, 1872, in Jefferson Co., Ky. 
 
 4b. Alsimedia, b. 18 Sept., 1848, in Bullitt Co., Ky.; d. 7 July, 1849, 
 in Mt. Washington, Ky. 
 
 5b. Isadore Vernetta, b. 22 May, 1851, in Jefferson, Co., Ky., was nr. in 
 Franklin, Ind., 22 May, 1873, by Rev. Wiley F. Ackman, to James 
 L. Davis. He was b. 29 May, 1850, in Monroe Co., Ind. The 
 parents are both living in Franklin, Inch, and have one child, Emory 
 Peter, b. 12 July, 1874, in Johnson Co., Ind. 
 
 6b. Mattie, b. 21 Oct. 1853, in Jefferson Co., Ky. 
 
 7b. William, b. 15 Feb. 1858, Johnson Co., Ind.; d. u Sept. 1858, in 
 Franklin, Ind. 
 
 8b. Lulie, b. 12 June, 1862, in Johnson Co., Ind. 
 
 9b. Anna, b. 7 Jan. 1864, Johnson Co., Ind. 
 
 All the living members of the family, except Mrs. Ackman and husband, reside 
 in Franklin, Ind. ; and, with the exception of Mary Kate and Isadore Vernetta, none 
 of the children are married. The religious belief of Bernarden and family is 
 Campbellite or Christian, and they are the only descendants of Mountford who are not 
 Methodists. 
 
 PARIS, the second child of Mountford and Sallie Peter, m. 27 Nov., 1872, Bettie 
 Busby, in Washington Co., Ky. Have one child, a sweet little girl, Athenia, b. 27 
 Oct., 1873. He lives on the homestead of his father, adjoining the old Jesse 
 Peter farm. He went to Nashville, Tenn., and studied building practically and 
 theoretically. He gained great success as carpenter and architect, and as a 
 mechanic he was considered at the head of the trade. When family demands 
 made it necessary he gave up his business to take charge of the old farm. He is 
 a man of sterling qualities, of a high moral and religious character, and is in even- 
 respect a worthy representative of the old Peter stock. It has been through his 
 labors and those of his sister Athenia that we have been able to gather these 
 scattered records of the Peter branches. Without their assistance, which has been 
 given continuously and zealously, it would not have been possible to present 
 this genealogy in any but a very mutilated and defective condition. They have 
 worked long and searchingly for the results attained, and it is largely due to their 
 labor that these records, necessarily imperfect as they must be considering the 
 haste in which they were compiled, have reached a suitable form for presentation. 
 
 A detailed account of the life of Cousin Paris would be very interesting to 
 all of us, but the haste necessary in preparing this work, and the large 
 
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 amount of labor he has had to bestow in securing the scattered records 
 herein embodied have made it impossible for him to find leisure for an 
 autobiographical sketch. In order, however, that we may have some data on 
 which to build future reports, I glean here and there a few items from his 
 scattered correspondence. ' 
 
 He left his father’s house in the suburbs of Mackville, Ivy., in 1843, and 
 went to Tennessee. He started, lived, and grew up on his own resources, for 
 about sixty cents in cash was the extent of his finances at the beginning of 
 his career. He apprenticed himself for three years in the carpenter’s and 
 joiner’s trade in Nashville, during which time he was so faithful and so free from 
 sickness that he missed work only two and a half days. He then engaged 
 himself as a journeyman carpenter in the same place, until 1849, when the 
 cholera almost depopulated the city. While in Nashville he was a “Son of 
 Temperance ” in good standing seven years ; and having musical talent, he 
 was also connected with a band for three years. In the prosecution of his 
 business, he had at one time a very narrow escape. A scaffolding gave way, 
 and he was thrown from the top of a house to the ground, a distance of over 
 twenty-eight feet. He was badly bruised and stunned, but recovered with¬ 
 out any permanent injuries to remind him of the fall. 
 
 After 1846 he began the study of the higher branches of architecture, and 
 in 1850 he was called to build the Stewart College in Clarksville, Tenn., 
 which he completed to the great satisfaction of all interested. His success 
 as an architect was continued, but he invested his money in loans, and lost 
 largely, like others of those days, on account of the introduction of the 
 bankrupt law. 
 
 He had contracted for the building of a fine Episcopal church when the 
 war broke out, and the contract was annulled. Not being able to come 
 North, to avoid being drafted into the Confederate army he entered as a 
 volunteer for one year, on Sept. 1st, 1861. He went to Fort Donaldson in 
 November, was engaged in the battle fought there on the 15th February, 
 1862, and on the following day was taken prisoner with seven thousand 
 others. They were transferred to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., where they 
 remained from Feb. 21st to Sept. 5th, when they started South to be exchanged. 
 On the next day, about one hundred and twenty miles from Cairo, Ill., part 
 of the train (engine and seven cars in front) ran off a high bridge into 
 a ravine from twenty to forty feet below. There were only three or four 
 killed at once; but many were bruised and badly wounded. It was a horrible 
 scene, and more sickening than a battle. Paris was only badly bruised. 
 On the 8th September, they left Cairo on a Federal fleet for Vicksburg, where 
 they were exchanged on the 17th. After having been under the command of 
 a dozen generals, wandering up and down the Mississippi for about three 
 months’ time, they marched finally to Port Hudson, La., Nov. 1st. On 
 Dec. 14th they had a little fight, chiefly artillery and gun-boats, not much 
 damage done on either side. March 14th, 1863, about eleven o’clock at night, 
 
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 they had a “ most terrific, awfully grand, and magnificent ” bombardment by the 
 Union mortars, gun-boats, and men of-war. It lasted about three hours. 
 The rebel batteries burned with hot shot the Mississippian, one of the 
 attacking men-of-war. 
 
 On the 19th March, 1863, he received his discharge and transportation 
 papers ; and, after a tedious, expensive, and protracted journey, he reached 
 Clarksville, Tenn., on the 15th April. 
 
 After the war he returned to look after his father’s place, where he now 
 lives, in the suburbs of Mackville. 
 
 Paris is an active church-member of the Methodist denomination, and is an 
 advocate of all liberal and progressive movements. He is always to be found 
 on the side of advanced moral and educational views. Although he served 
 in the Confederate army, his sympathies were largely with the North. He 
 believed in the freedom of the slaves, although he was not in harmony with 
 the manner in which that emancipation was secured. 
 
 VERNETTA, third child of Mountford and Sallie Peter,was m. 7 Apr. 1859, by Rev. 
 H. C. Northcott, in Mackville, Ky., to Addison Durham. She d. 21 May, i860, 
 in Boyle Co., Ky., and was bur. there. Husband, a farmer, a Methodist and a 
 son of Thomas Durham, d. 12 June, 1876. Vernetta died a few days after the 
 birth of her first child, which did not survive her long. 
 
 ARMENIUS, fourth child of Mountford and Sallie Peter, m. 5 June, 1859, in 
 Forest City, Holt Co., Mo., Sarah Reinhardt, Rev. Mr. Fulto, of the Presb. 
 Church, officiating. She was b. 6 Mar., 1842, in Buchanan Co., Mo., and her 
 * parents were Caleb and Eunice Reinhardt. The children of this union are : 
 
 1. Mountford, b. 4 June, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. ; d. 1 7 May, 1863. 
 
 2. Alva Lee, b. 18 Jan., 1863, Andrew Co., Mo. ; d. 13 Feb., 1865. 
 
 3. Alice, b. 1 Apr., 1865, Andrew Co., Mo. ; living. 
 
 4. Robert Newton, b. 2 Nov., 1868, Andrew Co., Mo.; living. 
 
 5. Kiturah, b. 31 July, 1874, St. Joseph, Mo. ; living. 
 
 6. Mountford and Alva Lee of these children d. in Andrew Co., Mo., 
 
 but were bur. in Rochester, Mo. 
 
 JESSE, fifth child of Mountford and Sallie Peter, m. 13-May, 1862, by Rev. J. 
 C. Simmons, Sarah Ann Rabjohn, who was the oldest dr. of Edwin and Susan 
 Rabjohn, and was born in Truro, England. Jesse and wife are living at 
 Salinas City, Cal., and have had the following children : 
 
 1. Jessarah, b. 7 April, 1863, Salino Co., Cal. 
 
 2. Edwin Mountford, b. 8 Aug. 1864, Salino Co., Cal. 
 
 3. William Dea, b. 2 Dec. 1865, Sonoma Co., Cal. 
 
 4. James McDonald, b. 20 June, 1867, Sonoma Co., Cal. 
 
 5. Thomas Way, b. 25 June, 1869, Sonoma Co., Cal.; d. 12 March, 
 
 1879, bur. in I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Salinas City, Monterey Co., Cal. 
 
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 6. Susan Alice, b. 28 March, 1871, Salinas City, Monterey Co., Cal. All 
 the children are at home in Salinas City, with their parents, except 
 Jessarah, who is in Sacramento attending school. 
 
 ARIMATHEA, the first child of Mountford and Elizabeth Peter, that is, by the 
 sec'ond marriage, was m. Aug., 1848, in Indiana, to William Leachman. 
 Like Vernetta Durham, she died in child-bed, 30 June, 1849. Her husband 
 married again, and is living with this second wife and carrying on the 
 blacksmith business in Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 ALMIRA, second child of Mountford and Elizabeth Peter, was m. 26 Jan., i860, 
 in Washington Co., Ky., to Felix McKittrick, who was a son of old Robert Mc- 
 Kittrick. Felix was raised by his aunt, China Mitchell (daughter of Jesse and 
 Milly Peter). Almira, his wife, died 5 Nov. i860, in Texas, also during her first 
 confinement, and her child did not survive. Felix is still living and is now in 
 Texas, a dealer in cattle. He has never married again. 
 
 PRESTON, the third child of Mountford and Elizabeth Peter, was m. 26 May, 
 1864, near Mackville, Washington Co., Ky., by Rev. Geo. W. Dungan, to 
 Mary Isabella Harber. Miss Harber was b. 6 Oct., 1844, in Madison Co., 
 Ky., and her parents were David Morrison and Jerome Harber. Dr. Preston 
 graduated M.D. in the Medical Department of the University of New York, in 
 March, 1861. He and his wife are of the Methodist persuasion. Their 
 family is as follows : — 
 
 1. William Preston, b. 30 Jan., 1866, in Springfield, Ky. 
 
 2. Leslie Harber, b. 12 Sept., 1868, in Springfield, Ky. 
 
 3. Robert Hewett, b. 17 March, 1870, in Louisville, Ky. 
 
 4. Emmett Morrison, b. 12 Oct., 1871, in Louisville, Ky. 
 
 5. Emory Evan, b. 29 June, 1874, in Pleasant Run, Ky. 
 
 6. Laura, b. 3 Feb., 1876, in Pleasant Run, Ky. 
 
 7. Alice, b. 31 Oct., 1879, in Allensville, Ky. 
 
 The children, a fine promising family, are all unmarried. 
 
 EMORY, the fourth child of Mountford and Elizabeth Peter, is living in Texas, 
 trading and shipping cattle, and is a lively young bachelor. 
 
 ATHENIA, the fifth child of Mountford and Elizabeth Peter, was m. 18 March, 
 1869, in Washington Co., Ky., by Rev. Win. F. Vaughn, to Thomas M. Flour¬ 
 noy. Her husband was b. 10 Jan., 1827, and is living with his wife in the 
 house where he was born, on the edge of Mackville. He never lived at any 
 other place. He was the youngest son of Jas. and Martha O. Flournoy, and a 
 grandson of Samuel Flournoy, one of the early-day settlers from Virginia. 
 He is a farmer and a Methodist. He has been in feeble health for two 
 years, in consequence of an enlargement of the spleen. They have never 
 had any children. 
 
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 Athenia is an intellectual woman of great activity and large executive ability. 
 She is the leader of church and Sunday-school organizations, and a constant 
 worker in all educational and religious movements. Like most of Mountford’s 
 children she has, as an added accomplishment, a fine ear for music, and sings 
 
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 easily and correctly. She is the one, as previously remarked, who has been of such 
 great assistance in our labors in these family investigations. 
 
 ORCENETH, sixth and last child of Mountford and Elizabeth Peter, m. io Feb., 
 1870, Rev. Wm. F. Vaughn officiating, Kate Turner, who was b. in Washing¬ 
 ton Co., Ky. Her parents were Harrison and Eliza Turner. Orceneth is a 
 farmer and a school-teacher. They have no children. They are Methodists. 
 
 This ends the record of the descendants of Mountford, oldest child of Jesse 
 and Milly Peter. We pass now to the 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF JORDAN PETER, THE SECOND CHILD OF 
 JESSE AND MILLY PETER. 
 
 2. JORDAN, the second child of Jesse and Milly Peter, was one of the most 
 pure-hearted, earnest, and powerful Christian characters that we ever meet 
 in this world. These may seem strong terms, but they are not even 
 striking enough to characterize this truly remarkable man. He seemed to 
 inherit the piety, eloquence, musical talent, and deep religious fervor of 
 his father, and his whole life was wrapped up in working for the salva¬ 
 tion of souls. One who knew him well, and who is an excellent judge 
 of character, thus writes incidentally of him : “ Jordan Peter was one of 
 the noblest, and certainly the most truly pious, man I ever saw. Of all 
 the Peter name — not excepting the preachers, William and Simon Peter, 
 distant cousins of this branch of the family — he seemed to me to be the 
 most beautiful and most attractive type. In my intercourse with him 
 for years I cannot recall a single word or deed which was not in harmony 
 with a noble, Christ-like soul. ‘ He was in the world, and yet was not 
 of the world,’ and, in fact, he seemed too good for such a worldly world. 
 He was charitable to a fault. With his numerous other powers, that of 
 a peculiarly stirring, deep, rich, melodious, plaintive voice makes an 
 ineffaceable impression on my mind. His thoughts and actions were 
 always in the spirit of the guiding words, ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ ” 
 
 It is to be regretted that the records we have to submit of the descendants 
 of Jordan Peter are so imperfect, but the family has wandered off from the other 
 branches, and its members have failed to keep up correspondence with their kins¬ 
 men, so that we have not been able to reach the various lines in time to secure 
 full returns for this book. The records, such as we have them, are as follows: — 
 Jordan m. twice, ist, 21 March, 1822, Elizabeth Hansbraugh. She was b. 28 
 Feb., 1805, and d. in child-bed 7 Feb., 1834, in Sullivan, Ind. Their religious 
 belief was Methodist, although Miss Hansbraugh had been raised a Baptist. 
 The children by this first marriage were : 
 
 ij. Milly Ann, b. 21 Jan. 1824; living in Maltoon, Ill. 
 
 2j. Mary Jane, b. 1 Oct., 1826 ; d. unm. 6 March, 1877. 
 
 3j. Emily, b. 6 Feb., 1828 ; living in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 4j. Elizabeth, b. 20 Nov., 1829 ; living in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 5j. Schuyler, b. 25 Jan., 1834; d. 6 Feb., 1834, in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 Jordan m. 2d, 9 July, 1835, Sarah Gilkison. She was b. 10 March, 1811. 
 Jordan d. of diabetes 2 Aug., 1870, in Sullivan, Ind. From this second 
 marriage the following children were born : 
 
 6j. Jason Lee, b. 20 Aug., 1836, in Sullivan Co., Ind. ; living in Sul¬ 
 livan, Ind. 
 
 7j. Edith, b. 21 March, 1838, in Sullivan Co., Ind.; living in Sullivan, 
 Ind. 
 
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 8j. Robert Clinton, b. 8 March, 1840, in Sullivan Co., Ind.; living in 
 Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 9]. Martha, b. 8 July, 1842, in Sullivan Co., Ind. ; living in Sullivan, 
 Ind. 
 
 ioj. Ann Mariah, b. 6 March, 1844, in Sullivan Co., Ind.; living in Sulli¬ 
 van, Ind. 
 
 11 j. Margaret Adelaide, b. 19 June, 1846, in Sullivan Co., Ind. ; living 
 in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 i2j. Catherine Amanda, b. 8 Jan., 1848, in Sullivan Co., Inch; living in 
 Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 i3j. China, b. 21 Oct., 1849, in Sullivan Co., Ind. ; d. of typhus 10 Dec., 
 1865, in Sullivan Co., Ind. 
 
 14j. Sarah Ellen, b. 3 April, 1851, in Sullivan Co., Ind. ; living. 
 
 15j. Frances Caroline, b. 2 March, 1853, in Sullivan Co., Inch; living. 
 i6j. Hester Delilah, b. 19 May, 1855, in Sullivan Co., Inch ; d. 3 Oct., 
 
 ^ss- 
 
 MILLY ANN, the oldest child of Jordan and Elizabeth Peter, who was m. 
 to a James Peter, I have been unable to reach in time, and consequently 
 their family record is wanting. 
 
 EMIEY, third child of Jordan and Elizabeth Peter, was m., 24 Mar., 1846, 
 in Sullivan, Inch, by Rev. Lealdus Forbs, to LaFayette Stewart. He was 
 b. 12 Apr., 1826, in Greenville, Floyd Co., Ind. His father’s name was 
 Isaac Stewart, his mother’s, Susan C. Redman. Isaac Stewart was b. 3 
 Apr., 1792, in Jefferson Co., Ky., seven miles from Louisville, and cl. Aug. 
 13, 1863, in Sullivan, Ind. Miss Redman was born in Clark Co., Inch, 
 8 Mar., 1795, and cl. 14 Oct., 1832, in New Albany, Inch 
 
 The children of LaFayette and Emily Stewart are : 
 
 is. Isaac Peter, b. 21 Jan., 1847, * n Sullivan, Inch, cl. 8 Dec., 1872, in Sulli¬ 
 van, Ind. He m. 13 Dec., 1866, at Sullivan, Inch, by Rev. John 
 Montgomery, Eliza C. Johnston. They had one child, William La¬ 
 Fayette, who was born 4 Jan., 1870, and is living at Oaktown, Ind. 
 
 2s. Joseph Lane, b. 3 Sept., 1849, Graysville, Inch, m. in Sullivan, Ind., by 
 Rev. John Montgomery, Presbyterian, Martha Burks, who was b. 
 22 Nov., 1849, at Merom, Sullivan Co., Ind. The parents are both 
 members of the Presbyterian church. Miss Burks’ father, Porter 
 Burks, came from Kentucky about 1836, to Sullivan Co., and has 
 since lived there. His wife, Margaret Brocan, was a native of In¬ 
 diana. She was thrown from a wagon, and died in consequence of the 
 injuries received. 
 
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 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lane Stewart have two children : 
 
 1. Charles Edward, b. 21 Oct., 1869, in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 2. Margaret Emily, b. 18 Apr., 1874, in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 The parents and children are all living in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 3s. Penina Belsora, b. 24 Jan., 1852, in Graysville, Inch, d. 30 Aug., 1854, 
 in Sullivan, Ind. 
 
 4s. Charles Marion, b. 13 Jan., 1855, in Sullivan, Inch, m. 26 Mar., 1874, 
 by Rev. J. B. Danse, in Fort Wayne, Inch, Sarah M. Crawford, who was 
 b. 7 Nov., 1854, at Fort Wayne, Ind. The wife belongs to the Baptist, 
 the husband to the Presbyterian denomination. They have had one 
 child : 
 
 Bertha Florence, b. 14 Jan. 1875, * n Sullivan, Ind., where the 
 parents and child are living. 
 
 5s. Florence Bell, b. 7 Nov., 1857, in Sullivan, Inch ; living. 
 
 6s. Susan Caroline, b. 3 Jan., 1861, in Sullivan, Inch, cl. 2 Nov. 1861. 
 
 7s. LaFayette (Jr.), b. 12 June, 1864, in Sullivan, Inch ; living. 
 
 8s. Ralph, b. 6 Feb., 1868, in Sullivan, Ind. ; living. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. LaFayette Stewart and children are living in Sullivan, Inch 
 He is agent for a number of large insurance companies, principally those of 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 In compiling the statistics of the descendants of Jordan Peter, I have found 
 a willing and efficient co-worker in Mr. Stewart, and I here wish to acknowledge 
 his valuable and timely assistance. 
 
 ELIZABETH, fourth child of Jordan and Elizabeth Peter, was m. to William 
 McKendrey Eaton. She is living at Blue Mound, Ill. With few exceptions, 
 her children belong to the Republican party and the Methodist church. 
 I regret that the record is not more complete. The family, as I have it 
 through the kindness of Mrs. Elizabeth Peter, is as follows: 
 
 ie. Emily M., b. 28 Nov., 1846, in Sullivan Co., Ill., was m. to M. R. Wet¬ 
 zel. Their children are: 
 
 . [1. Clara N., b. 18 Mar., 1868, Christian Co., Ill. 
 
 2. William McKendrey, b. 1 Jan., 1872, Christian Co., Ill. 
 
 3. Pearl, b. 1875, Christian Co., Ill. 
 
 4. Ira D., b. 1 Nov., 1876, Christian Co., Ill. 
 
 5. Nelly, b. 16 Feb., 1879, Christian Co., 111 . 
 
 2e. Mary E., b. 13 Feb., 1848, in Sangamon Co., Ill. ; d. 16 Mar., 1848. 
 
 3e. Eliza J., b. 2 Nov., 1849, ' n Sangamon Co., Ill.; m. to A. C. Butler. 
 Their children are: 
 
 1. Wilbur F., b. 21 Apr., 1872, in Bement, Ill. 
 
 2. Lena J., b. 2 Nov., 1876, in Moawequa, Ill. 
 
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 4e. Margaret A., b. 24 Aug., 1851, in Sangamon Co., Ill.; was m. to W. A. 
 Clawson. Their children are : 
 
 1. Gertrude A., b. 1873. 
 
 2. Myrtle, b. 4 Apr., 1875. 
 
 3. Perelee, b. 30 July, 1878. 
 
 4. b. Mar., 1880. 
 
 5e. William L., b. 10 Aug., 1853, in Sangamon Co., Ill. 
 
 6e. Jordan S., b. 22 Jan., 1856, in Christian Co., Ill. 
 
 7e. Charles R., b. 20 Sept., 1857, in Christian Co., Ill.; d. 5 Oct., 1857. 
 
 8e. Artemisia, b. 6 Aug., 1861, in Christian Co., Ill.; d. 6 Sept., 1861. 
 
 9e. Dora, b. 6 Feb., 1865, in Christian Co., Ill. 
 
 JASON LEE, the oldest child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, m. 4 Nov. i860, in 
 Sullivan, Ind., Christiana E. Curtis, who was b. 14 Feb., 1839, i n Sullivan 
 Co., Ind. They belong to the Christian (or Campbellite) Church. Their chil¬ 
 dren are: 
 
 1. Malvinah Frances Caroline Somirah, b. 9 Aug., 1861. 
 
 2. Eunice Albina Luella Roseyle, b. 15 Apr., 1866. 
 
 3. Oma Anna Elizabeth, b. 16 Apr. 1868. 
 
 All the children were born in Sullivan Co., Ind., where they and their parents 
 reside at present. 
 
 EDITFI, second child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, was m. 25 Dec., 1857, to 
 Hardy Osburn, and d. 2 Mar., 1879. Their children are: 
 
 1. Martha Alice, b. 7 Oct., 1859. 
 
 2. Robert, b. n Feb. 1863. 
 
 3. Mary Jane, b. 3 Jan. 1865. 
 
 The family is Methodist. 
 
 ROBERT CLINTON, third child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, m. 13 Jan., 
 1870, by Rev. J. W. Walker, to Sarah Elizabeth Dudley. They are living 
 in Sullivan, Ind., and have remained in the Methodist Church. They have 
 no children. To Mr. Robert C. Peter I am also indebted for friendly assistance 
 in this work. 
 
 MARTHA, fourth child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, was m. 7 Apr., 1867, to 
 George W. Smith ; but through some oversight, their family record has not 
 reached me. Mr. Smith has also been one of our constant contributors. He 
 and his wife are Presbyterians. 
 
 ANNA MARIAH, fifth child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, was m. 15 Feb., 
 1866, in Sullivan Co., Ind., by Rev. Mr. Walker, to William M. Knotts. Mr. 
 Knotts was a victim to consumption ; he d. 14 May, 1879, in Florida, but was 
 brought home for burial. He was b. 21 Jan., 1839, in Sullivan Co., Ind. 
 They had no children. 
 
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 MARGARET ADELAIDE, sixth child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, is un¬ 
 married. and lives where she was born, in Sullivan Co., Ind. She is an 
 earnest and noble worker in the Methodist Church. 
 
 CATHERINE! AMANDA, seventh child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, was m. 
 by Rev. T. Davis, in Sullivan, Ind., to Edward Perry Smith. They are 
 Methodists, and their family is as follows : 
 
 1. Walter A., b. 8 Feb., 1877, in White Co., III.; d. 13 Aug., 1S77, 
 
 in Calvin, White Co., Ill. 
 
 2. Norah, b. 3 July, 1879, in White Co., Ill. 
 
 They are living in Calvin, White Co., Ill. 
 
 SARAH ELLEN, ninth child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, was m. 20 Dec., 
 1871, in Sullivan, Ind., by Rev. Hiram Gillmore, Methodist, to Edward M. 
 Roberts, who was b. at Frankfort, Ky., 31 Jan., 1851. They have had no 
 children. They are members of the Methodist Church, and faithful workers 
 in its ranks. They are now living in Grayville, White Co., Ill. 
 
 FRANCES CAROLINE, t#nth child of Jordan and Sarah Peter, was m. 21 May, 
 1873, in Sullivan, Ind., by Rev. Mr. Armstrong, to James P. Walls, who wasb. 
 30 Apr., 1848. Their children are : 
 
 1. Ora May, b. 22 May, 1874, in Sullivan, Ind. ; living. 
 
 2. Dora Lee, b. 9 Oct., 1875, in Sullivan, Inch; d. 25 Nov., 1S75, 
 
 in Paxton, Ind. 
 
 3. William Tell, b. 13 Feb., 1877, in Paxton, Ind. ; living. 
 
 4. Mina L., b. 20 Dec., 1879, Paxton, Ind. ; living. 
 
 The family is of the Campbellite denomination, and are all living in Sullivan 
 Co., Ind. 
 
 This ends the record of the descendants of Jordan Peter, second child of 
 Jesse and Milly Peter. We now pass to the 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF MRS. MARTHA SHEPARD McDONALD, THE 
 FOURTH CHILD AND OLDEST DAUGHTER OF JESSE AND 
 MILLY PETER. 
 
 4. MARTHA SHEPARD, named after her uncle, Shepard Sweeney, the fourth 
 child and oldest daughter of Jesse Peter and Milly Sweeney, was m. to Col. 
 James McDonald (No. 84, Ed. B, McDonald Genealogy), near Mackville, 
 Washington Co., Ky. His father was Major Richard McDonald (No. 26, 
 Ed. B), who had come with his twin brother Alexander in early times from 
 Virginia, and settled on Long Lick, near Mackville, Ky. Until her tenth 
 year her life was spent in Mercer Co., Ky., where her parents lived. Her 
 mother was the daughter of Moses Sweeney, a Scotchman. Col. James, 
 her husband, was a man of prominence in that portion of his State. He 
 served in various public positions, and was in the House of Representatives 
 of Kentucky in 1828, ’29, ’32, and in the Senate from i 833-’37. The 
 McDonalds to whom he belongs landed in Delaware in 1689, migrated in 
 part from there to Virginia, and have since scattered all over the Union. 
 He died 16 March, 1865, and is now buried in the Masonic Cemetery, San 
 Francisco, Cal. His widow lives with her only surviving daughter, Mrs. 
 Elliott, cor. Bush and 7th Sts., Oakland, Cal. Col. James McDonald and 
 Martha Shepard Peter were married 29 Sept., 1819, at the Jesse Peter home, 
 three miles from Mackville. Ky. Rev. Nathan Hall, of the Presb. belief, a 
 particular friend of the family, officiated. From this union the following 
 children were born (the numbers are from Ed. B, McDonald Genealogy) : 
 
 257. DR. RICHARD HAYS, the “pioneer” spirit of this family, was born 21 
 June, 1820, near what the Post-office Guide now calls Mackville, though it 
 should be Macksville, Washington County, Ky. 
 
 Since then his life has been a very eventful one, carrying him in its calls 
 through all portions of our country, and several times to Europe. In this brief 
 notice it would be impossible to present even an outline of his career; none, 
 therefore, is attempted. In a more extended work, at some future time, I hope 
 to have the pleasure of entering into detail upon the scenes through which he 
 has moved, but must pass them by for the present. There is only one prominent 
 trait in his character to which I wish to call attention in this place, and that 
 is his manly ambition. With his early years, we see him striving for an elevation 
 of character, and for the perfection of the greatest gifts of intellect and heart. 
 A strong religious spirit, the best education possible, and good health, were in 
 his youth, in his manhood, and have been ever since the acquisitions he has con¬ 
 sidered of paramount importance in life. 
 
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 It is a common thing to find people ascribing to youth virtues which a 
 long and trying career have developed, and they begin to remember, when success 
 has crowned the efforts of the man in advanced age, that such and such character- 
 traits were prominent even in his childhood, when before they never thought of 
 detecting those peculiarities, which, to be candid, probably did not exist there 
 except in a very rudimentary state. 
 
 Such, however, was not the case with Dr. R. H. McDonald, as I shall illus¬ 
 trate by a letter further on. Early in life, his main policy was thought out and 
 developed, and steadily, for years and years, he kept working for the results which 
 he finally reached for the most part, and which he hopes to see more and more 
 attained as his life-work nears its final form. 
 
 He has never wavered from a strong moral, honest, industrious course, and 
 his voice and means have ever been ready in the support of religion, education, 
 and temperance. In connection with his business, he has managed to send out and 
 carefully distribute more than one hundred million well-written, true, and manly 
 appeals for temperance, moral rectitude, and industry, besides the hundreds and 
 hundreds of letters he has written to friends and relatives on these subjects. His 
 life, too, under most trying circumstances, has been morally pure and spotless, and 
 his business actions, although energetic, have been honest and open-handed. A 
 copy of his latest labors in the temperance cause I append at the end of this 
 book, and to its contents I most earnestly invite the attention of all well-wishers 
 of our kin in particular and of the human race in general. If, after reading and 
 thinking it over, you should desire additional copies of this circular letter, 
 you can secure them by addressing him, care Pacific Bank, San Francisco, 
 California. In any case, I beg of you not to fail to read the letter : it will do you 
 no harm, whatever may be your views, and it may lead you to consider some sides 
 of a question which never occurred to you before. 
 
 In evidence of his unusually well and early established principles, I beg leave 
 to submit for your perusal a letter, which he wrote in 1844, at the age of 23, to 
 his cousin Paris Peter, now living near Mackville, Ky. This letter, kept by its 
 owner under somewhat curious circumstances, is a forcible illustration of those 
 traits of character which we see soon after forming the guiding principle of the 
 young man’s life, and which are now visible in all his actions, as is universally 
 conceded by those who know him. This letter, be it remembered, was between 
 young men, friends and cousins, and yet notice the manly, high moral tone of it, 
 the appeal for better education, the desire to enter the battle of life well prepared, 
 and with a pure heart and firm resolve to face whatever it might have in store. 
 There are not many young men in our times 'who, with fellow-companions, 
 would show such firmness of character and speak for such a noble course of 
 life, however strongly they themselves might feel; but here the convictions were 
 so grounded that they clamored for utterance. I give you, on this memorial 
 occasion, this old and to me precious letter, just as it is, with its imperfections, 
 and I trust that it will bear to you, as it certainly does to me, an unmistakable 
 evidence of the existence, years before its writing, of the beautiful virtues which 
 break forth again and again from its lines : — 
 

 
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 At Home, Sugar-Tree Grove, Washington Co., Ky., 
 Mr. Paris Peter: March 9, 1S44. 
 
 Dear Cousin, — Your letter came to hand in good time, judging from the 
 date of it. I was truly glad to receive your friendly lines, notwithstanding the 
 sharp reproofs they gave me ; for perhaps the censures were just. As for paying but 
 little attention when you told me you were going away, I can only excuse myself by say¬ 
 ing that I fully expected to see you again, before you started. And as for my absent- 
 mindedness, 1 hope my apology will be sufficient when I tell you that I was so deeply 
 immersed in a love-scrape that I could riot think of anything else, and you met with 
 about as much attention as any one other than the precious apple of my eye. But I 
 thank my stars such is not the case at present ; I have entered into a new state of exist¬ 
 ence, figuratively speaking. I have laid aside those numerous rounds of affected 
 pleasures, and am endeavoring to gather in those wandering and prodigal notions that 
 beset me so awfully on all sides; and I am trying to collect them into one body, and con¬ 
 centrate them into a channel of useful knowledge ; but they are a little like the healing of 
 an old chronic disease ; when I think that I have perfectly cured the disease, the first 
 thing I know it is breaking out in some other place. But I think that by repeated appli¬ 
 cations of strong resolution, I shall overcome the disease, at least sufficient to give 
 Reason her sway instead of Passion. 
 
 Macksville got too small for me, and 1 left it some time ago, and have come to the 
 country to give myself more room, and have been going to school here some few weeks 
 and expect to go several months longer. I have no set time how long I shall go, but 
 more than likely about two years. I am boarding at home and going to Logan Boslee in 
 the seminary in town. He is an excellent teacher, and has a large school. Paris, sad 
 experience has taught me that without an education a man makes but a small show in this 
 enlightened and religious world. Though many of my golden moments have fleeted by 
 into eternity laden with almost every folly of youth, there are many to come yet, if my 
 hopes should not be nipped by a premature frost in the days of my youth, and I intend 
 to improve the future by the follies of the past. 
 
 Your letter seems to have been written under a great depression of spirits, which 
 makes me feel very unpleasant to think that I should have a near relative, a stranger in a 
 strange land, denied some of the highest privileges of society. Well, I say to you, stick 
 to the text in your letter: if your position there never entitles you to those privileges, 
 your conscious innocence will calm your bosom ; a gem worth thousands of fortunes 
 beautified by all the praise of human flattery, if this be spotted over with guilt.* But no, 
 a man who pursues this course cannot be kept down ; he is like pure gold, the more you 
 rub it the brighter it shines, and every inch he gains he holds it, though his progress be 
 slow. Let such reflections be your encouragement. 
 
 Paris, permit me here to drop you a word of friendly advice, it is this : come home and 
 go to school, or go to school where you are. I know that your education like my own is 
 limited ; and without a good education you can be but poorly prepared for any business 
 in life ; while with it you can be prepared for almost any calling. From what I learn from 
 you, you can be making but very little where you are, although I do not learn what you 
 are or have been doing, or what you expect to do; but I have no doubt but that your 
 father would board you and send you to school as long as you might wish to go. A 
 couple of years going to school would soon pass by, and would entitle you to a station 
 among mankind which you need never look for under present circumstances ; and I wish 
 to impress this fact serously upon your mind, and I wish you to read this part 
 of my letter to some of your friends, who have a good education and ask their 
 
 * The letter has become blurred here and in several other places from folding, and the words are too indis¬ 
 tinct to be read with certainty. I have given them just as they appear, without trying to establish their intended 
 connection. 
 
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 advice ; but not to an}' one who knows not the worth of it. In saying this to you, 
 
 I do not wish to dispossess Aunt Allie of the only one, perhaps, on earth, to whom 
 she looks as a protector; but it is better for her to swap you for some one else 
 during a time, than that you should miss one of the greatest fortunes man ever possessed : 
 
 I mean, a cultivated mind. Now there are many arguments I could use to you on this 
 subject, and would take great pleasure in doing it, but have not room on this little 8 by 
 to sheet, so I shall just ask you to reason with yourself on this subject, and see if I am 
 not right. 
 
 Now for something else. Our country has been generally in good health. Since you 
 left here, there have been but few deaths, but many births ; only few marriages, but a 
 great many expected. I will here name some of these changes: first, deaths,—old 
 Uncle Alexander McDonald and his old servant Jim, Eliza Chain, Grandpa, old Sam, and 
 others. Of marriages, John Bosley and Hettie E. Head ; Melissa Shewmaker and a man 
 from near Danville; Wilkeson Hall and some lady, I forget her name ; Jemima Farris 
 and D. Askins ; Mary Gibbons and Berdetta Levi of Louisville are to be married the 
 4th of April, I am to be second best in the game for him by the side of Mary A. Spears. 
 
 . . . There are others, but I shall leave you to guess at them. 
 
 We are all doing the best we can here ; my father is carrying on the plough business on 
 a pretty large scale ; he will have finished about a hundred ploughs by the first of April, 
 during the fall, winter, and spring, about half of which he has sold already. I think that 
 it will result very profitably for him. 
 
 We have had a good many very fine parties in and about Macksville this winter, and 
 there are several others in anticipation. I am often inquired of what has become of you. 
 1 have been telling them that I learned you had gone to Tennessee, but did not know for 
 sure, as I had not heard a word from you since you left. They tell me often that they 
 would give a good deal to see you, and are wishing for your return. Now, Paris, you see 
 I am so near the end of my paper that I must come to a close. The family all wish to be 
 remembered to you with their best respects. I war.t you to write again soon, especially 
 in relation to your going to school. 
 
 R. H. McDonald. 
 
 P. S. ( Written on the margins.') Mother, Milly Ann, and myself want our compliments 
 sent to Aunt Allie. Tell her for me that I do not intend staying here any longer than enough 
 to complete my education ; then I intend setting up my shingle in some new country for an 
 honest living. The Platte makes the brightest spot in my memory, at present. ... I 
 suppose you heard that Uncle John and Kitty were here last fall. Uncle Joe 
 had his pocket-book stolen with $180 in it ; on his return home he got his book, but lost 
 the money. Thos. Laum and Richard Gibbons, who went to the Platte last spring, have 
 both lost their wives and three or four of their children. That is the country for you, 
 Paris ; there perfect equality reigns among all virtuous members of society. Old man 
 Robinson, T. J. Shaw, and the whole business, are going to start in a few days to Mis¬ 
 souri. Robinson sold his property to Logan and John Bosley. Hartford and Fanny have, 
 I think, dissolved all intentions. Cyrus is leaning up to Adaline Shewmaker like a sick 
 kitten to a warm jamb. I think that they will marry ; if not, it w'on’t be his fault. 
 
 Paris, that little dove you spoke of, I would like to know who she is ; I can’t guess. 
 Eliza Wycoffis living with Ad., and Ad. is safely lodged in the arms of Jone Gray. John 
 Wycoff is keeping a drug-store in Harrodsburg. Nute Bennett is one of the wildest and 
 prettiest girls we have here. Bernetta and Mary Potts have both improved very much, 
 and say they are both going to school this summer, and I have no doubt but that they 
 will. Bill McDonald is keeping store for J. M. Smith. Milly Ann is not married yet, 
 but wants to be very much. Mary I. Mitchell is single yet and as pretty as ever, there 
 is an old widower after Amanda D., with a sharp stick, but I don’t think that he will get 
 her. 
 
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 Our Uniform company is yet in vogue, but gone pretty much to nothing. I am the 
 only commissioned officer in it, and I am going to resign on the next muster-day. Martha 
 Flournoy is yet single, and is prettier than ever. Miss Jane Hickman is trying to make 
 up another school in Macksville, but I don’t think that she will succeed. Busby has re¬ 
 turned, and has brought back, I understand, $100 of Aunt Aide’s money. Beverly Dick¬ 
 erson is setting to Martha Schooling. Old John Peter has sold his farm to Sam Peter, 
 and is going to start to Mo. in a short time. Macksville is a very civil place, and the 
 Temperance cause holds its own. Farewell. R. H. McD. 
 
 To Mr. Paris Peter, Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 The Platte, to which he makes frequent reference, was that great district 
 in Western Missouri which was just then being settled ; it had been purchased 
 from the Indians, and was being quickly taken up by new incomers. It went by 
 the name of “ Platte’s Purchase ” or “ The Platte.” A few years before, he had 
 been on a visit up there among his relatives living in different sections* and had 
 seen frontier life in all its romance. The whole expense of the trip, too, he had 
 paid out of his own savings. 
 
 As may be inferred from several allusions of the letter, he was then studying 
 medicine, which he continued at Springfield for two years, and then went to the 
 medical school in St. Louis, Mo. After leaving there, he entered into practice at 
 Nauvoo, lived through and took a prominent part in the disgraceful scenes incident 
 to the expulsion of the Mormons there ; and, although having no sympathy with 
 their creed, he tried, at the frequent peril of his life, to stand up for their rights 
 as men and fellow-citizens. When it was no longer possible for any law-abiding 
 citizen to remain and prosper in that place, he left for the Southern States, but 
 settled, by a strange accident, in Prairie de Roche, Ill. Pie there built up a fine 
 practice, but was forced to abandon it on account of poor health, which that 
 malarial district brought on. 
 
 He left, in 1849, for the Pacific coast, had a very noteworthy trip across the 
 plains, and reached California about July 15. He settled in Sacramento, where he 
 engaged at first in selling miners’ outfits, then resumed his practice of medicine, 
 and built up a fine business. He was county physician until he finally withdrew from 
 the profession and went into the drug business. He was the largest wholesale 
 druggist in California for years. He retired from active business on the Pacific 
 coast, sold his drug-houses in Sacramento and San Francisco, and for several years 
 kept only the New York branch which is now under the direction of his partner, 
 Dr. J. C. Spencer. 
 
 In 1878 Dr. R. H. went back to San Francisco, never having transferred his 
 citizen-rights from California, identified himself more closely with the Pacific Bank, 
 of which he was one of the founders, and had been for a long time a director, and 
 became its vice-president. He is now its president, and his brother, Captain 
 James, also one of its founders and continual directors, is its vice-president. 
 Together they manage a good, conservative bank. A copy of its last statement 
 I submit herewith. 
 
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 K. K. McDonald, President. J. M. McDonald, Vice-President. S. G. Murphy, Cashier. 
 
 PACIFIC BAPTK. 
 
 Cor. Pine and Sansom Streets. 
 
 CAPITAL STOCK, paid up - 
 SURPLUS - - - - 
 
 * 1 , 000,000 | 
 
 © 439 , 115.21 j 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., Jan. i, 1880. 
 
 Dear Sir, — With the opening of the New Year, and the evident prospective revival of 
 business in all branches, we desire to call your attention to the annexed Statement of the 
 affairs of this bank ; and to offer you our services, should you at any time desire to open an 
 account in this city, or make any change in your present banking arrangements. 
 
 STATEMENT. 
 
 ASSETS. 
 
 Real Estate.£150,000.00 
 
 Bills Receivable.1,206,349.14 
 
 Overdrafts (Solvent). 66,960.7s 
 
 Security Investments. 3,504.50 
 
 Land Association and Dock Stocks . . ' 6,188.40 
 
 Due from Banks and Bankers . . . 191,872.39 
 
 Cash (Coin in our Vault).997,503.01 
 
 £2,622,378.22 
 
 In accordance with the requirements of the 
 above Statement. 
 
 LIABILITIES. 
 
 Capital Stock . £1,000,000.00 
 
 Profit and Loss . 439,113.21 
 
 Due Depositors . 1,069,001.13 
 
 Due Banks and Bankers . 114,026.88 
 
 Due Dividends . 235.00 
 
 £2,622,378.22 
 
 g Laws of the State of California, we hereby verify the 
 
 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, City and County of San Francisco, rr. — R. H. McDonald, 
 President, and S. G. Murphy, Cashier of Pacific Bank, do make oath and say that the foregoing statement is 
 true to the best of their knowledge and belief. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of January, 18S0. 1 R. H. McDonald, President. 
 [seal] E. H. Tharp, Notary Public. } S. G. Murphy, Cashier. 
 
 From our long experience in banking in this city, we have a thorough knowledge of the 
 business in all its details, and no efforts will be spared by us to render to those opening accounts 
 with us every advantage appertaining to their interest. 
 
 We give advice in detail of all credits, and acknowl¬ 
 edge promptly all letters, and will furnish a private 
 Telegraphic Code to correspondents, when requested. 
 
 Shipments of Gold and Silver Bullion will have 
 special care and prompt returns- 
 
 Being connected by Telephone with all the princi¬ 
 pal warehouses and the Produce Exchange, we 
 keep thoroughly posted in the Wheat,Grain, and Flour 
 market, and are prepared at all times to make loans 
 on Flour, Wheat, and Barley, and other improved 
 merchandise in warehouse. 
 
 Investments made on Commission, and special at¬ 
 tention given to the negotiation of first-class loans of 
 cities, counties, and other corporations. 
 
 We buy and sell Bills of Exchange on the princi¬ 
 pal cities in the United States, England, France, and 
 Germany. 
 
 Yours, very 
 
 Collections made and prompt returns rendered at 
 market rates of exchange. 
 
 Telegraphic transfers made with NewYork, Boston, 
 Chicago, and principal cities of the U. S. ; also, cable 
 transfers to Europe. 
 
 Letters of Credit and Commercial Credits issued on 
 the principal cities of the United States and Europe. 
 
 Loans made on good collaterals or approved names. 
 Good Business Notes and Drafts discounted at lowest 
 market rates. 
 
 Deposits received, subject to check without notice. 
 
 National, State, City, and County Bonds and War¬ 
 rants, and other Securities, bought and sold. 
 
 We respectfully call attention to our facilities for 
 doing every kind of legitimate Banking Business. 
 
 A Prudent and Conservative Course is one of the 
 first principles of successful Banking. This will be 
 our policy. 
 
 respectfully, 
 
 R. H. MCDONALD, President. 
 
 S. G. MURPHY. Cashier. 
 
SARAH M M c DONALD. 
 
 
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 Dr. R. H. McDonald lias always shunned the responsibilities of executive 
 positions, for he has claimed that there were many others whose early oppor¬ 
 tunities had been more favorable, and better fitted them for filling those leading 
 places. He has, nevertheless, against his will, been unanimously selected to fill 
 various offices of importance, into the enumeration of which I cannot enter here, 
 and when so called, has done his best to meet the duties devolving on him, 
 and, I maybe pardoned for saying it, has, I think, invariably acquitted himself with 
 credit. Besides the position of presidency of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco, 
 which he accepted in January, 18S0, he is a director of the Farmers’ Bank of 
 Savannah, Andrew County, Mo., of the Eufaula National Bank, Eufaula, Ala., and 
 of the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, Ya. 
 
 In 1851, on 5 Aug., he married Mrs. Sarah Mariah Steinagel. She was 
 born at Atlas, Pike Co., Ill., on 3 Feb., 1823, but almost her whole life was spent 
 near Quincy, Ill., whither the family moved. Her parents’ names were Daniel and 
 Elizabeth Whipple. Daniel died 8 Nov., 1841, aged 59 years 1 month; she died 
 27 May, 1838, aged 49 yrs. 2' mos. 16 days. This branch of the Whipple 
 family has been more or less prominent in our history : one of them was a signer 
 of the Declaration of Independence ; another member of the family was the general 
 and engineer who constructed the system of forts around Washington, D. C. ; and 
 Bishop Whipple, the great Indian advocate, is another of the same connection. 
 
 SARAH M. WHIPPLE was m. 1st, 9 May, 1839, by Rev. Mr. Fisher, to Joshua 
 B. Ijams, who died 7 Apr., 1844, aged 29 yrs. 3 mos. and 7 days. From this 
 union were born : 
 
 William Henry H., b. 3 Sept., 1840; d. 17 Jan., 1852, aged 11 yrs. 4 
 mos. 14 days. 
 
 John Daniel, b. 20 Nov., 1842,1s assistant cashier, Pacific Bank, San 
 Francisco, Cal., and m. Dec. 25, Christmas Day, 1876, Florence Line- 
 kin,who was b. 14 Dec., 1S52. They have one child, a bright little 
 girl, Martha Adelaide, who was b. 20 Nov. 1878. All are living and 
 doing well in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Sarah M. Ijams was m. 2d, to Charles Frederic Steinagel, by Rev. Mr. Marks, 
 30 Sept., 1846. He was b. in Obermohmen, Dukedom Darmstadt, Germany, 
 8 July, 1817; d. cholera, Fort Laramie, 16 June, 1850, aged 32 yrs. 10 
 mos. 24 days. By this marriage they had the following children : 
 
 Charles Frederick, Jr., b. 10 July, 1847 ; d. 1877, by a railroad accident. 
 
 Theodore Christian, b. xi Mar., 1849; d. 7 Nov., 1850, aged 1 yr. 7 
 mos. 27 days ; bur. Sacramento Cemetery, Cal. 
 
 Sarah M. Steinagel, was m. 3d, in Sacramento, Cal., by Rev. J. A. Benton, 
 Congregat. (valedictorian, Yale, ’42), on 5 Aug., 1851, to Dr. Richard Hays 
 McDonald. She died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 21 Oct., 1866, after a long 
 illness of an attack of ceresis of the liver, and is buried in lot No. 1744, 
 Battle Hill District, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, L.I. By this last mar¬ 
 riage they had the following children : 
 
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 493 - Frank Virgil, b. 20 Apr., 1852, was graduated in 1878 at Yale, and 
 in 1879 at Harvard; is at present a Law Student in Harvard 
 University, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 494. Richard Hays, Jr., b. 28 Aug., 1854, in Sacramento, Cal. ; is now 
 
 in the class of 1881, at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. 
 Both 493 and 494 are unmarried. 
 
 495. Martha Shepard, b. 7 Apr., 1859, in Sacramento, Cal.; was m. 17 
 
 Feb., 1879, to John C. Spencer, Jr. Have one child, a boy, 
 named McDonald Spencer, who was b. 28 Nov., 1879. Their 
 address is 117 W. 61st St., New York City, N.Y. 
 
 As this child is the third great-grandchild of Martha Shepard McDonald, 
 and the first great-grandchild by a mother who was before marriage a McDonald, 
 and as it is the only class-cup boy ever known in the family, I have thought it fit¬ 
 ting to embody here its picture and the picture of the “ class cup” of which it has 
 just been the recipient, with a report of the proceedings. 
 
 It is an old-time custom in most colleges to present to the first-born boy of 
 any member of the class, a cup, cradle, or something similar, as a token of their 
 interest in the new generation, and their willingness to stand as its godfather. The 
 child is called the “ class-boy ” or “ cup-boy,” and the cup the “class ” or “ baby 
 cup.” In this instance, the father is a student at Columbia College, New York City, 
 and as the ceremonies are a little peculiar there, I submit the account of them 
 taken from the Columbia (College) Spectator of Jan. 27, 1880, pages 104-106. 
 
 A little more detailed report of the presentation appeared in the “ Acta Col¬ 
 umbiana,” Vol. XII., No. 8, but reached us too late for first consideration. The 
 “ Spectator ” says : — 
 
 THE BABY CUP. 
 
 It had been rumored that the Sophomores were to present Mr. Spencer with 
 a baby cup, in honor of his son and heir, and in consequence, Prof. Van Amringe’s 
 room was crowded, on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 14, with an enthusi¬ 
 astic throng, composed of all the classes, from the gravest and most-beavered Senior 
 to the youngest and most lamb-like Freshman, with here and there a Miner in his 
 overalls, fresh from the sweet-smelling laboratory. 
 
 President Gillies called the assembly to order, and announced that Mr. Ro- 
 maine would present the cup. Mr. Romaine said : — 
 
 “Gentlemen, — After the able speech of the gentleman who has just pre¬ 
 ceded me, I feel that I can hardly say anything further ; nevertheless, a few remarks 
 from me on this occasion may not be entirely out of place. (Cries of ‘ Go on !’ etc.) 
 Little did we think, when we first began our now dearly beloved Anglo-Saxon Reader, 
 that the first words which met our eyes on the opening page of the book were to be 
 so ominous. There we read, as the gentlemen will remember, Sum man has seed 
 saw {great applause), and it is in honor of this event that we are gathered here 
 to-day. 
 
 “ When I look about me and behold the beaming countenances of members of 
 other classes, a sense of profound pity steals over me, as it doubtless does over 
 
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 every other member of the Class of ’82, that they have never had the opportunity 
 of celebrating such an event as this. (. Applause from ’82.) It is true they may 
 claim that their collegiate career has been marked by circumstances equally impor¬ 
 tant ; but, gentlemen of the Class of ’82, what care we for the scholarship and 
 classic attainments of ’80, for the prowess at the oar, and the immense powers at 
 engulfing the foaming zythum of ’81, for the infantile ( immense uproar) horde and 
 hyperbolic cheek of ’83 ( cheers from ’82, and hoivls from ’83), as long as ’82 is the 
 first class in this, or, as far as we know, in any other college, that has presented a 
 bona-fide Baby Cup in its Sophomore year? {Great applause.) 
 
 “The gentleman in whose honor we are assembled here to-day has a material 
 advantage over the ordinary married man. When the time comes, as it soon will, 
 when he shall take his little cooing infant upon his knee, and shall sing to him 
 nursery rhymes and songs in his sweetly persuasive voice, he will not be compelled 
 to fall back upon the hackneyed themes of Mother Goose, but will be supplied 
 from his college associations with an almost inexhaustible fund of anecdote and 
 song. What could be more pleasing to the infantile ears than to be told, for 
 instance, how the fellows stamped with their footsy-tootsies on the floor of the room 
 of him who is said to be vcrrarov kv elpr ' jvrj , vcrraros kv 7roA.e/ia) /cat — (The remainder of 
 this quotation was lost in the noise which followed somebody’s exclaiming, ‘Who 
 was Great Scott ?’ the whole class respondiffg, ‘Last in peace, last in war, and last 
 in the heart of the Sophomore ! ’) 
 
 “ I see you know the translation of that quotation. But, gentlemen, I will not 
 detain you any longer, for I see Mr. Nies looking at me with longing eyes, and I 
 know he wants to get off a poem which he has written for the occasion. I therefore, 
 in behalf of the committee, present to you, John Campbell Spencer, for your son 
 and heir, McDonald Spencer, the Baby Cup of the class of ’82.” 
 
 Mr. Spencer rose to receive the cup, and was greeted with loud and prolonged 
 cheers and vociferous demands for a speech, in response to which he divested him¬ 
 self of a most voluminous ulster, and, ascending the platform, began : — 
 
 “ Fellow-classmates, — Making speeches is not my forte, but I thank you all 
 for the memento ( cheers for the memento) and the kind thought you have shown 
 for my son and heir. ( Cheers for the son and heir,followed by more for the wife.) 
 Outsiders and sister colleges ( prolonged cheers for Vassar) — I repeat, outsiders 
 and sister colleges make a mistake when they accuse Columbia of lack of fellow- 
 feeling and student life, and the present occasion is an evidence of their error. I 
 thank you for the memento, and Mrs. Spencer thanks you for the interest you have 
 shown in her husband and son. 
 
 “ When I first learned of the proposition, it was as a jest (here some misguided 
 Senior, forgetful of his dignity, remarked, ‘Jest so,’ which nearly caused the orator 
 to faint ; but, recovering himself, he continued), — it was as a jest, and as such I 
 treated it; but it has turned from jest to earnest, and it is with the greatest pleasure 
 that I appear before you to receive such an honor. 
 
 “ It seems right, however, that I should give to the voluntary godfathers some 
 account of their godson. At birth the young man weighed 8J^ pounds, but since then 
 he has increased till he now tips the scale at 9 pounds. He has dark hair ( Cries of 
 1 Like his father P) and dark-gray eyes, and a small snub, which his mother says will 
 soon become a handsome nose like that of his father. {Laughter.) 
 
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 “In conclusion, I would state that you all know my course, and that, if you 
 wish to be the recipients of a Baby Cup, I would say to each of you, ‘ Go and do 
 likewise.’ ” 
 
 Mr. Spencer sat down amid great applause, and the President then announced 
 that Mr. Nies would read a poem which he had prepared for the happy occasion. 
 
 Mr. Nies thereupon took the platform, and, though strenuously urged by 
 several to mount on the table, remained content where he was, and, having mildly 
 deprecated the idea that he was burning with anxiety to deliver his poem, and hav- 
 ing begged the indulgence of the audience on account of the difficulty of his theme, 
 he recited the following : — 
 
 “ My classmates, brothers of the hour, 
 
 Here gathered at this happy time, 
 
 I know that from your hearts there pour 
 Good wishes, more than I can rhyme, 
 
 For this, our baby boy ! 
 
 “ The time must come when we must part — 
 
 Our happy college days shall end ; 
 
 But, in the world’s wide, busy mart, 
 
 With thoughts of other things we 'll blend 
 Our first, our baby boy ! 
 
 “ Hail to the Class of Eighty-two! 
 
 And may a lasting, joyful pride, 
 
 Mingle the dashing White and Blue 
 ' With praises that shall long abide 
 
 For this, our Soph’more boy]! 
 
 “ And thou, our youthful friend, wilt know, 
 
 When thou art old enough to sup 
 Thy tea or beer or wine, or so — 
 
 Thou drink’st it from the Baby Cup 
 
 We gave our baby boy ! ” 
 
 President Gillies, at the conclusion of the poem, announced that Mr. Otis, the 
 Class Historian, would make a few remarks. The Historian rose and made a few 
 humorous remarks, and closed by saying that he “ offered to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer, 
 who was one of Vassar’s fairest daughters, the congratulations of ’82.” 
 
 The Class President then informed all but the Sophomores that, if they would 
 retire, the class would hold a meeting, and the room was thereupon cleared. 
 
 258. MILLY ANN, the second child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, b. 
 
 31 Jan., 1822, near Mackville, Ky., wasm. by Rev. William Conway, Meth., 
 17 Dec., 1844, to M. F. Wakefield, M.D., who was bom near Bloom¬ 
 field, Nelson Co., Ky., 16 July, 1816. She died 29 Jan., 1858, and w r as bur. 
 in Savannah, Andrew Co., Mo. Their children are : 
 
 A 120. James William, b. 13 July, 1847, near Mackville, Ky., and 
 d. 20 July, 1847. 
 
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 A 121. Sam Bell, b. 12 Apr., 1848, near Mackville, Ky.; m. Sarah 
 Webster. They are living in San Francisco, Cal., where he 
 is one of the most prominent mining-stock brokers of the 
 Pacific Coast. 
 
 Sam Bell studied in Savannah, Mo., then went away to school, and entered finally 
 the University of Indiana, where he graduated A.B. in 1868, and received degree 
 of A.M. from same institution ' in 1871. He then returned to his native place, 
 took charge of the homestead, and read a little medicine under his father, with the 
 intention of preparing for that profession. He abandoned this idea, however, and 
 under the auspices of his uncles went to California, and entered the mining 
 connections of that State. He was secretary of a mining company and afterwards 
 superintendent of a mine. He then came to San Francisco, where the assistance of 
 his uncles and the proofs he had given of his capabilities in the mountains at the 
 mines themselves secured for him several secretaryships of mines. Later, he entered 
 the office of his uncle, Colonel Mark L. McDonald, then the leading stock-broker 
 of California. Here he remained until Mark L. went East, and gave up his business 
 to his assistants. Sam Bell, who had been admitted to the San Francisco Stock 
 Board, paying his $ 26,000 for a seat, was now able to operate for himself, which 
 he did successfully. When the large patronage of his uncle Mark L. was placed 
 at his command, he was skilful enough to hold it, and has even added to it. 
 He formed later a copartnership with Mr. A. W. Foster, Mark L.’s leading man, and 
 the firm has undoubtedly the largest and best-paying line of custom of any brokers 
 on the coast. 
 
 The office of S. B. Wakefield & Co. is 322 Pine Street, and Sam Bell’s private 
 residence is corner of Post and Polk Streets, both places in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Sam Bell and Sarah Webster were m. 26 May, 1875, ' n Savannah, Mo., by the 
 Rev. Mr. Cruikshanks, at the house of the bride. Miss Webster was b. 20 
 Aug. 1851, in Canandaigua, N. Y.; her parents’ names are J. N. and Naomi 
 Webster, her mother’s maiden name was Morgan. 
 
 Sam Bell and wife have the following beautiful promising children : 
 
 Sam Bell, Jr., b. 8 May, 1876, in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Franklin Webster, b. 18 Nov., 1878, in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 These are the first two great-grandchildren of Mrs. Martha Shepard McDon- 
 Donald, and McDonald Spencer, the class-cup boy, is the third. 
 
 The other children of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Wakefield are : 
 
 A 122. Martha Abigail, b. 19 Apr., 1851, in Rochester, Mo., and was 
 m. 1878, to J. E. McLogin. 
 
 A 123. Alice Copies, b. 2 Feb., 1853, in Savannah, Andrew Co., Mo.; 
 d. 29 July, 1855. 
 
 A 124. Mary Elizabeth, b. 4 Feb., 1854, in Savannah ; d. 27 Apr., 1855. 
 
 A 125. Mary Alice, b. 10 Sept., 1856, was m. 1879, to N. Kirtly. 
 
 A 126. Franklin, b. 19 Dec., 1857 ; d. 21 Jan., 1858. 
 
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 All the children, with the exception of Sam Bell, are living in Savannah, 
 Andrew Co., Mo. 
 
 In 1S5S, i2 Aug., Dr. Wakefield married a second time. His wife was 
 Hannah" Ann, the dr. of Joseph and Mary Roberts of Shelby Co., Ivy. 
 She was b. 7 Aug. 1838, in Shelby Co., Ivy. Their children are: 
 
 1. Edward Everett, b. 3 Oct., 1859, Savannah, Mo. 
 
 2. Louonne (?) Steel, b. 4 Dec., 1861, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 3. Milly Ann, b. 1 Jan., 1863, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 4. Louella, b. 25 Mch., 1866, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 5. Josephine, b. 28 Aug., 1868, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 6. Frank, b. 22 Feb., 1872, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 7. Edy Lee, b. 28 Jan., 1875, Savannah, Mo. 
 
 8. Ethel, b. 6 Apr., 1879, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 All the children are unmarried and are living at the old homestead, a large and 
 beautiful place in Savannah, Andrew Co., Mo. 
 
 259. MARTIN PIERCE, third child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, b. 
 
 15 Feb., 1824; d. 15 Mar., 1824, in Mackville, Ky. 
 
 260. CAPTAIN JAMES MONROE, the fourth child of Colonel James and Martha 
 
 Shepard McDonald, who was b. 10 July, 1825, followed his brother Dr. 
 R. H., in the next year, 1850, to California, where he has remained most 
 of his life since. 
 
 He has been repeatedly called to fill public offices, although much averse to 
 being brought before the public and never courting notoriety. In 1859-60 and 1860- 
 61 he was elected State Senator from Sacramento, then by far the most populous 
 and influential constituency of California, and since then he has with difficulty 
 avoided nomination to positions of public trust. He has turned his attention chiefly 
 to large and enterprising improvements for developing the resources of the coast. 
 He and his brother R. H. were the two men chiefly concerned in building the first 
 overland telegraph ; he and Mr. D. Kingsbury constructed the admirable system 
 of roads from Placerville to Carson, before the Comstock lode had acquired 
 notoriety, or the Pacific R.R. taken definite shape ; and to the residents of California 
 his name is familiarly connected with many enterprises which have had for their 
 aim the greatest good for the community. He has never married. His address 
 is in care of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco, Cal., of which he was one of the 
 incorporators, has always been a large stockholder and a director, and is now again 
 its vice-president. A more detailed account of his interesting life will follow at a later 
 day. 
 
 261. DEWITT LIVINGSTON, fifth child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, 
 
 b. 7 Sept., 1828; m. by Rev. Mr. Holson, Presb., in Lexington, Mo., 26 
 Mar., 1857, Martha Ellenor Hunter. She was b. 25 Mar., 1837. in Cal- 
 lawa Co., Mo., and her parents were William Hunter and Sarah M. (Tal¬ 
 bot). D. L. and wife are living cor. McCallister and Larkin Sts., San 
 Francisco, Cal. 
 
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 Dewitt is the hopeful and enthusiastic child of the family. He is a genuine 
 representative of the combined Southern and Western man. His genial, easy-going, 
 care-shunning ways never allow his sky to be so overshadowed that a flood of light 
 may not break through. In the gloomiest hours he is always cheerful, and for him, if 
 for any one, every cloud must and does have its “ silver lining.” No financial ad¬ 
 venture, however disastrous, crushes his spirit, for the same quick intelligence that 
 discerned “ millions ” in the investment before it proved to be a will-o’-the wisp, dis¬ 
 covers other millions in some new field which he has ready in lieu of the abandoned 
 scheme. His fertile fancy is indeed all the while creating “ gigantic speculations ” 
 enough to keep a small community busy testing their practical value. Yet, not¬ 
 withstanding this dreamy and imaginative side of his character, he has great executive 
 ability, and a good solid reserve of hard common sense to draw on. His character 
 is, in truth, a combination of qualities very difficult to describe in so brief a space 
 as that to which we must here be confined. He came to California in 1852, and has 
 lived there till this day, more intimately bound up with her history perhaps than 
 any other member of the family has been. He is a man of the people, and is 
 known to more persons than almost any one man in San Francisco. You will find 
 him one moment chatting with a leading man of the coast, and five minutes after¬ 
 wards talking with some poor workingman. He is a fine conversationalist, and 
 is overflowing with wit. His views are liberal, if anything, too liberal, especially 
 in religious matters. He is generous to a fault, and his friends and acquaintances 
 always find him ready to share whatever he may have, be it little or plenty. His 
 kindness of heart is so great as to be a really serious drawback to his material 
 prosperity. 
 
 “ De ” or “ D. L.” as he is always called, has been associated with so many 
 organizations and offices, public and private, that it would be impossible to enter 
 into a fuller specification of them. He is identified at present with mining in¬ 
 terests, and holds numerous positions in various corporations. I mention a 
 few, quoting at random from a number of the “ Mining Review ” that lies nearest 
 at hand. He is a trustee of the Belmont Mining Co.; president of the Fourth 
 of July Gold and Silver Mine; a trustee of the Pauper Mine; president of 
 the Stock Broker Silver Mining Company; a trustee of the Bateman Gold and 
 Silver Mine ; president of the Crescent Mill and Mining Co. ; a trustee of 
 the Josephine Consolidated Mining Co.; president of the Globe Consolidated 
 Mining Co., «Src. His home ties are strong ones, for there his affections are 
 centred, and his life is wholly wrapped up in his children. His family is as follows : 
 
 496. James Monroe, Jr., b. 2 Nov., 1858, in Sacramento, Cal. He is a 
 
 student at law, under Judge Lake of San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 497. William Hunter, b. 6 Dec., t86i, in Sacramento, Cal.; d. 9 Apr., 
 
 1862 ; bur. in Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 498. Laura Lee, b. 16 May, 1864, in Sacramento, Cal. Living at home. 
 
 499. Elizabeth Blythe, b. 16 May, 1869, in San Francisco, Cal. Living at 
 
 home. 
 
 500. Dewitt Livingstone, Jr., b. 2 Feb., 1876, in San Francisco, Cal. Liv¬ 
 
 ing at home. 
 
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 262 . MARION JASPER, sixth child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, was 
 
 b. 16 Jan., 1831 ; m. by Rev. W. A. Scott, in San Francisco, Cal., 27 Feb., 
 1873, Alice Booth, who was born 23 Apr., 1852, in Dundee, Scotland. 
 Her parents were Alexander Booth and Isabella (Simpson). They have had 
 no children. 
 
 Jasper McDonald has been connected with a great variety of investments, and 
 has long been one of the leading operators in the mining-stock market of San Fran¬ 
 cisco. In 1861 he was paymaster and general overseer in the construction of 
 the overland telegraph, and his hands joined the ends of the wires which completed 
 the circuit between the Atlantic and the Pacific coast. He was largely instrumental 
 in furnishing, at great personal risk, the necessary information for Genetal Connor’s 
 regiment to enter Salt Lake City, in 1862, in face of the Mormon opposition. He 
 then left for Montana, and was one of the principal parties in locating, surveying, and 
 laying out Virginia City. He built from his own designs and successfully worked 
 a wooden quartz mill, the first mill running in those parts. At Bannock City he sur¬ 
 veyed and had constructed a large water-ditch. In those lawless and dangerous 
 times his life was often imperilled by his determination to “ see fair play,” and have 
 as orderly and well-regulated proceedings as could be secured under the circum¬ 
 stances. In 1865 he returned to California, and moved to San Francisco, in which 
 city he has resided since, leaving it only for occasional visits to the Eastern States. 
 He is a member of the San Francisco Stock Board, and has been in it day in and 
 day out through all the ups and downs of the last twelve eventful years of its history. 
 He and his wife are living at present at the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 263. MARCUS LINDSAY, the seventh child of Col. Janies and Martha S. McDon¬ 
 
 ald, was b. 5 May, 1833 ; m. by Rev. J. C. Simmons (Mo.), 15 June, 1866, 
 Ralphine North, who was b. 6 Nov., 1842, in Natchez, Miss. They are living 
 in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Mark McDonald prepared for college, and entered Wesleyan; but left there, 
 for some reason, and entered Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., on Sept. 15, 1858, 
 and graduated A.B. in July, 1859. He then went to California, engaged in various 
 pursuits, finally entering the San Francisco Stock Board, of which he has been 
 one of the leading men for the last ten years. His name is a familiar one to almost 
 every one in San Francisco, and forms an inseparable part of the history of the mining 
 investments of the Pacific Coast. Lately, however, his health has induced him to 
 withdraw to private life, and he is intending to settle on his estates in Santa Rosa, 
 in which place he has introduced some great improvements, having built among 
 other things the water-works which he now owns. Amidst the matter-of-fact pur¬ 
 suits of a stock-operator’s life, he has not grown oblivious of the aesthetic side of life, 
 but has kept fresh his literary and artistic tastes, which he hopes now to have more 
 leisure to gratify. He has had the following beautiful, intelligent, and promising 
 children : 
 
 500. Alice Lee, b. 3 Dec., 1866, in San Francisco, Cal.; d. 21 Feb., 1869 ; bur. 
 in Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
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 501. Marcus Lindsay, b. 6 June, 1868, in San Francisco, Cal. Living at home, 
 
 and is a fine, temperate, promising young man. 
 
 502. Ralphine North, b. 1 Sept., 1869, in San Francisco, Cal., d. 30 May, 1877, 
 
 bur. in Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Stewart (named after A. T. Stewart), b. 28 Aug., 1S75. Living at 
 home. 
 
 Mabel North, b. 5 Sept., 1879. Living at home. 
 
 264. JOSEPH WILLIAM, eighth child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, 
 
 was b. 21 Apr., 1835 ; d. 26 May, 1855, and was bur. in Savannah, Andrew 
 
 Co., Mo. He never married. 
 
 265. JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE, ninth child of Col. James and Martha S. 
 
 McDonald, b. 6 Dec., 1837. Was m. in Savannah, Mo., by Rev. John Baxter 
 
 (Me.), to Robert W. Elliott, who was b. 9 Aug., 1831, in Clay Co., Mo. 
 
 Mrs. Elliott is a woman of exceptional ability. She is particularly gifted 
 in music, and her children, especially Mark and Adelaide, inherit this talent. 
 But she is also a woman of numerous and varied accomplishments, and is 
 constantly adding to her store. She reads much and reads carefully. She 
 is, however, far from being a recluse, for no one is more fond of company or social 
 gayety, in which element she easily and unconsciously shines. She is a bril¬ 
 liant conversationalist and a good writer, excelling especially in the imaginative 
 and descriptive styles. The only surviving daughter of Mrs. Martha Shep¬ 
 ard McDonald, she is, of all her children, the one best fitted for making the 
 closing years of the old lady’s life smooth and pleasant. They are living happily 
 in their pleasant home, cor. Bush and Seventh Streets, Oakland, across the bay 
 from San Francisco, Cal. All wants of the mother are provided for, as far as 
 possible for means and affection to do it, by her son, Dr. R. H. McDonald ; 
 and whatever demands he, being a man, cannot meet, to those his sister Josephine, 
 and her daughter Adelaide attend. 
 
 The children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are : 
 
 A 127. Adelaide DeWitt, b. 18 Mar., 1856, in Savannah, Mo. 
 
 A 128. McDonald, b. 6 Jan., 1858, in Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 A 129. Marcus Lindsay, b. 22 Sept., 1859, in Solano Co., Cal. 
 
 Richard Hays, b. 2 Oct., 1876. 
 
 The children are all living at home, and are none of them married. 
 
 Adelaide was a student at Mills’s Seminary, but was forced to leave on ac¬ 
 count of poor health. She visited her relatives in Mo., greatly improved there, and 
 has now returned home, and is studying in the Art School in San Francisco. Mc¬ 
 Donald is a private secretary of his uncle, Dr. R. H. McDonald, president of the 
 Pacific Bank, San Francisco, Cal. Mark is at the Commercial School in San 
 Francisco. And the baby, Richard Hays, is enjoying life, making mud-pies, 
 and is the delight of the family, of his grandmother in particular. 
 
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 We pass now to one of the briefest and saddest chapters of our family history', 
 — the mention of the remaining children of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, 
 Maria Louisa, Alice Fisk, and Martha Harriet. 
 
 They were three of the loveliest and most beautiful women I ever saw, and their 
 future seemed to be one of greatest and fairest promise; yet not one of them lived 
 long enough to more than just taste the pleasures of the life about to open before 
 them. One after the other, they faded and left us, like the rose when struck by 
 the winter’s blast. To such a loss it was hard then and is still hard to feel 
 reconciled. But why tarry o’er these sad memories ? The oldest was : 
 
 266. MARIA LOUISA, tenth child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, was 
 
 b. 14 Apr., 1840, and m. by Rev. W. F. Lucky (Mo.), on 17 Aug., 1867, 
 in San Francisco, to Alvin Whitfield Whitney, who was b. 27 May, 1839, 
 in East Corinth, Me. She d. n Apr., 1870, and is bur. in Masonic Cem¬ 
 etery, San Francisco, Cal. He was living in Virginia City, at last reports. 
 They had one child, a handsome little boy. 
 
 A 130. Alvin Whitfield, Jr., b. 27 July, 1869, in San Francisco, Cal.; d. 15 
 May, 1870, and is bur. in Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Maria Louisa, as well as her sister Alice Fisk, died of consumption, brought 
 on by carelessness. They would attend balls and evening entertainments, dance 
 until overheated, and then, tempted by the delightful climate, would venture out 
 and promenade without sufficient protection. Then, as now, young ladies thought 
 it advisable to harden themselves to the necessary exposure for balls which low- 
 necked dresses entail by never wearing flannels, and the result in this case was an 
 occasional cold, a cough, and finally the fell destroyer, consumption. 
 
 What stronger proof is needed of the folly and sin of such an abominable 
 and unnatural custom than the fate of these two beautiful sacrifices ! And yet 
 these are only two of many that are, even to this day, finding their way to early 
 graves, led by nothing more than a little vanity and perseverance in anything but a 
 commendable cause. 
 
 267. ALICE FISK, the eleventh child of Col. James and Martha S. McDonald, was 
 
 b. 21 Mar., 1842; d. 16 June, 1867; and was bur. in Masonic Cemetery, 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 She was certainly one of the sweetest and loveliest of women. No one 
 that I ever met has left such a pure and ennobling impress on my mind. The 
 recollection of her is the richest souvenir of my life. 
 
 268. MARTHA HARRIET, the twelfth and youngest child of Col. James and 
 
 Martha S. McDonald, b. 15 Aug., 1848. Was m. by Rev. W. A. Scott 
 (Presb.), 22 Feb., 1870, in San Francisco, to Frank Swift, who was b. 30 
 Oct., 1847, in Allentown, Ala. She d. 1 June, 1874, and is bur. in Masonic 
 Cemetery, San Francisco. Cal. 
 
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 Frank Swift was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Judge Swift, of Sacramento, 
 Cal. Judge Swift and Mr. Louis Sloss of the Alaska Fur Co., in San Francisco, 
 were the two companions of Dr. R. H. McDonald on the way across the plains 
 in 1849. They entered in business together in Sacramento on arrival, and worked 
 along for several months in partnership, when each man started out for himself. 
 They have, however, been firm friends ever since, and the judge and the doctor 
 have been closely connected for years. They were among the original founders 
 of the First Congregational Church in Sacramento, and until 1861, when the doc¬ 
 tor left Sacramento for New York, they were in and out of each other’s places 
 daily. Frank Swift was a handsome, successful, and popular young man ; and 
 his untimely death seemed a sad sequel to the loss of his youthful wife, in her 
 child-bed, and the subsequent death of his remarkably intelligent and fine-looking 
 children. I insert the following brief tribute to the memory of Frank Swift, taken 
 from one of the daily papers : 
 
 SWIFT — Died, in this city, January 6, 1877, Frank Swift, a native of Wilcox, Ala¬ 
 bama, aged 29 years, 2 months, and 8 days. 
 
 Hgf^ The funeral will take place to-morrow (Monday), at 11 o’clock, A.M., from 
 St. John’s Church, Post Street. 
 
 It is not strange if sometimes this fell destroyer should strike the strong and 
 spare the weak. Death is as natural as life, for death is as natural as birth. With 
 every incentive to live, with friends, relatives, position, and intellect, he has fallen 
 prone like a blasted pine. Sorrowing friends may console themselves with the 
 reflection that it is the end of all things, but philosophy poorly heals the bleeding 
 heart or the anguished soul. But though departed he leaves a memory that will 
 not fade. Like the amaranth it will with time renew itself. Strong in his own 
 manhood and self-respect, generous and charitable in.his instincts, he received the 
 love of his intimates and the respect of his friends. Following his remains will 
 go many a silent prayer, and with the clods that cover his casket will fall tears 
 as pure as ever wept o’er mortal man. J. L. 
 
 The children of Frank and Mattie Swift were : 
 
 A 131. Jasper McDonald, b. 18 May, 1871, in Sacramento, Cal.; d. 21 
 Sept. 1874 ; bur. in Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Florence, b. 23 Jan. 1877 ; d. May, 1877 ; bur. in Masonic Cemetery, 
 Francisco, Cal. 
 
 This ends the record of the descendants of Colonel James and Martha Shepard 
 McDonald, oldest daughter of Jesse and Milly Peter. We now pass on to the 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF HARDIN PETER, FIFTH CHILD OF JESSE AND 
 
 MILLY PETER. 
 
 5. HARDIN PETER, the fifth child of Jesse and Milly Peter, m. 27 Dec., 1827, 
 near Mackville, Ky., Mary McDonald (95, Ed. B, McD. Gen.), a dr. of 
 Alexander (27, Ed. B, McD. Gen.). She was b. 1 Nov., 1805, and d. 1 Nov., 
 1868, and is bur. at the Peter Homestead, Washington Co., Ky. Their chil¬ 
 dren were : 
 
 A ARABELLA, first child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. in Mackville, 13 Feb., 
 1829 ; d. 30 Aug., 1832 ; bur. on Peter Homestead, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 A 57. LEMUEL, second child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. 4 Oct., 1830, on the 
 Homestead, near Mackville, where all the subsequent children were born. 
 He m., by Rev. J. Hancock, of the Presb. Church, 21 Dec., 1854, in 
 Mackville, Ky., Sallie Reed, who was also b. in Mackville. Her parents 
 were Robert Reed and Nancy (Peter). The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Peter are : 
 
 1. Mattie McBrayer, b. 22 Oct., 1855, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 2. Mary, b. 16 Apr., 1858, near Iowa Point, Kansas. 
 
 3. Wilbur, b. 28 Dec., 1861, near St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 4. Irvin Rue, b. 18 Mch., 1864, near St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 5. Kate Bell, b. 22 Sept., 1866, near St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 6. Lemuel Dewitt, b. 23 June, 1868, near St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 7. Alexander Munroe, b. 16 Apr., 1870, near St. Joseph, Mo 
 
 8. Harry Clay, b. 21 Oct., 1874, near St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 9. Rufus Lee, b. 16 Dec., 1878, near St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 Lemuel and wife, and their children, are living in Buchanan Co., Mo. ; their 
 post-office address is Agency, Buchanan Co., Mo. Lemuel is of the Methodist per¬ 
 suasion, is a farmer and surveyor. He and his sister Parthenia were married the same 
 day, and both have already celebrated their silver weddings. 
 
 A 58. PARTHENIA, third child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. n Dec., 1832, 
 was m. by Rev. John Hancock (Presb.), on 21 Dec., 1854, to James B. 
 Rue, who was b. 29 Oct., 1830, in Harrodsburg, Ky. His parents were 
 Jonathan Rue and Cynthia Boice. The children of James and Parthenia 
 Rue are well educated and promising in every sense of the word. 
 
 The family record is : 
 
 1. Edmund Davison, b. 27 June, 1857, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where 
 
 all the children were born. 
 
 2. Mary Cynthia, b. 1 Jan., 1859. 
 
 3. James Officer, b. 11 Nov., i860. 
 
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 4- Harry Hardin, b. 8 Jan., 1863. 
 
 5. Herbert Bunyan, b. 4 Nov., 1864. 
 
 6. Stella Vernon, b. 20 July, 1870; d. 27 Apr., 1871 ; bur. in Walnut 
 
 Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, la. 
 
 7. Gertrude Alice, b. 14 Aug., 1872. 
 
 The family all live in Santa Rosa, Cal., with the exception of Edmund D., who 
 is with his cousin, Sam Bell Wakefield, in San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Rue was 
 engaged for a number of years as teacher in, and later as superintendent of the public 
 schools in Council Bluffs, la. Mrs. Rue, a woman of unusual ability, has, I thankfully 
 acknowledge it again here, found leisure, with all the numerous demands on her time, 
 to be one of the chief contributors in compiling these genealogies of the Peter family. 
 
 A 59. ELDRIDGE, fourth child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. 6 May, 1835 ; d. 
 
 unm. 15 Mar., 1872, and was bur. by the Masonic Fraternity, in Mary¬ 
 ville, Nodaway Co., Mo. 
 
 A 60. FLAVIUS, fifth child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. 30 Dec., 1838; m. 
 
 Aug., 1872, Carrie Christisen. They have no children. Both live in 
 Alameda, Cal., but his business is in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 A 61. THEOPHILUS, sixth child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. 27 Apr., 1840; 
 
 m. 7 Dec., 1865, by Rev. Mr. Campbell, near Mackville, Ky., Lettie Farris 
 (A 33, Ed. B, McD. Gen.), a dr. of Isaiah Farris and Elizabeth McDonald 
 (87, Ed. B, McD. Gen.) who was b. Jan. 25, 1841. Theophilus and 
 Lettie Peter have had the following children : 
 
 1. Lee, b. 1866, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 2. Hollie, b. 1869, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 3. Eldridge, b. 1871, near Maryville, Nodaway Co., Mo., where 
 
 the family are living at present. 
 
 A 62. WILBUR, seventh child of Hardin and Mary Peter, b. 16 Sept., 1842 ; m. 
 
 27 Dec., 1870, Sarah B. Jenkins of Richmond, Ky., who was b. 10 
 Feb., 1843, near Gallatin, Term. 
 
 They have had the following children : 
 
 1. Lula M., b. 25 Nov., 1871, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 2. Wilbur T., b. 30 Sept., 1874, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 A 63. KERON or Kate, b. 16 Nov., 1844; m. by Rev. W. C. Campbell (Me.), 
 on 7 Dec., 1865, James Alsop Redding. She d. 25 Mar., 1870, and is 
 bur. at the Jesse Peter homestead, near Mackville, Ky. Their children 
 have been : 
 
 1. Mary Naomi, b. 16 Oct., 1867, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 2. Joseph Wilbur, 17 March b. 1870, near Mackville, Ky. 
 
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 Keron died when Joseph Wilbur was eight days old, and he has been brought 
 up by his uncle and aunt, Joseph E. and Mary Redding, of Yazoo City, Miss., where 
 he is, at this writing, a bright boy. Mary Naomi is with her father on the old 
 Alexander McDonald homestead, near Mackville, and is a very sprightly and 
 lovely little girl, or perhaps, young lady, I should say. 
 
 This ends the record of the descendants of Hardin and Mary Peter ; and we now 
 pass to 
 
 6 . PRESTON, the sixth child of Jesse and Milly Peter, who moved to Indiana, studied 
 and received his license as a Methodist preacher, and died at the early age 
 of twenty-six. He was a bright, well-informed, and well-educated young man. 
 His successes, so decided for so early an age, gave promise of eminence in 
 later years. 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF MRS. KITURAH SPENCE, THE SEVENTH CHILD 
 OF JESSE AND MILLY PETER. 
 
 7. KITURAH, the seventh child of Jesse and Milly Peter, a woman of most lovable 
 character, visited her brother in Indiana, in 1826, and there met Judge John 
 Spence, afterwards county judge and magistrate, to whom she was married on 
 1 June, 1826. He was b. 28 Jan., 1806, and d. 28 Sept., 1872. He was for 
 many years county judge and magistrate in Andrew Co., Mo., and was a 
 man of sterling integrity, fine accomplishments, and undoubted ability. 
 
 Aunt Kitty, as she is always called, is one of the most noble characters we 
 ever see, and one that seems to shed upon all with whom she comes in contact a 
 Hood of sunshine, peace, and happiness. Her life has not, however, we are sorry 
 to say, been as serene as it has deserved to be, for she has had brought home to 
 her in some instances — 
 
 “ How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is 
 To have a thankless child ! ” 
 
 She has not met with her merited returns from all of her children, and when 
 the awful day of reckoning comes there will be a crushing account against some of 
 their indifferent and neglectful acts that oceans of repentant tears will then fail to 
 wash away. If they are wise they will hasten to make good the sins of omission 
 and commission in the past, and cheer her few remaining years with a small 
 return of sympathy and love for the years of faithful, devoted motherly care she 
 so willingly and affectionately bestowed upon them. Her family is as follows: 
 
 ik. Minerva Jane, b. 25 Eeb., 1828. 
 
 2k. James, b. 4 Nov., 1829 ; d. 20 June, 1848. 
 
 3k. China, b. 14 Aug., 1831 ; d. Sept., 1831. 
 
 4k. Martha Ann, b. 18 Oct., 1832. 
 
 5k. Pauline, b. 20 Sept., 1835. 
 
 6k. Jordan Peter, b. 19 Mar., 1834 ; d. 1 Mar., 1835. 
 
 7k. Albina, b. 14 Oct., 1837; d. 10 May, 1862. 
 
 8k. Jahaziel, b. 11 May, 1839; d. 10 Nov., 1843. 
 
 9k. Susan Ellen, b. 30 Jan., 1841 ; d. 7 Aug., 1841. 
 
 MINERVA JANE, oldest child of John and Kiturah Spence, was m. 14 Feb., 
 1847, in Rochester, Mo., by Rev. Baxter, to James F. Strock. The parents are now 
 living at Avenue City, Andrew Co., Mo., and their family was all born in Rochester, 
 Mo., and consists of: 
 
 im. Samaria Ann, b. 22 Nov., 1847; d. 27 May, 1862, in Fairview, Mo. 
 
 2m. John E., b. 25 Jan., 1849; m - 3 ° Sept., 1875, Elizabeth Tibbits; 
 they live in St. Joseph, Mo., and have one child, Adelaide, b. 21 
 March, 1879. 
 
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 3m. Parthenia, b. 23 Feb., 1851, was m. 28 Jan., 1874,to John P. Tate. 
 They live in Rochester, Mo., and have one child, Carl R., b. 17 
 Dec., 1874. 
 
 4m. George G., b. 29 Apr., 1853; resides in St. Joseph, Mo., and is 
 engaged in teaching. 
 
 5111. Janies March, b. 26 Feb., 1855, m - 5 Mch., 1876, Alice Matteson. 
 The family live in Rochester, Mo., and have one child, Orpha, 
 b. 23 Sept., 1878. 
 
 6m. Martha Olivia, b. 1 Dec., 1856. 
 
 7m. Minnie Jane, b. 16 Dec., 1858. 
 
 8m. Samuel Bell, b. 26 Dec., i860. 
 
 9m. William P., b. 22 May, 1863. 
 
 10111. Caroline E., b. 14 Nov., 1865. 
 
 1 im. Cora, b. 14 Dec., 1867. 
 
 All the children after James M. are unmarried, and are living at home with their 
 parents in Aifenue City, Mo. 
 
 MARTHA ANN, fourth child of Judge John and Kitty Spence, was m. 
 to Newton Bird, a miller and a farmer, and is living in St. Joseph, Mo. 
 They have had the following children : 
 
 1. Macon J., unmarried. 
 
 2. Steele M., unmarried. 
 
 3. Kiturah E., unmarried. 
 
 4. Laura M., unmarried. 
 
 5. James, unmarried. 
 
 PAULINE, fifth child of Judge John and Kiturah Spence, was m. to 
 
 O. Dillard Allen, a Presbyterian minister, and they are living at Ridgely 
 
 P. O., Platt Co., Mo. They have had the following children : 
 
 1. Monte K., unmarried. 
 
 2. Lillie, unmarried. 
 
 3. Stella, unmarried. 
 
 4. Robert, unmarried. 
 
 5. John, unmarried. 
 
 6. Pauline, unmarried. 
 
 ALBINA, seventh child of John and Kiturah Spence, was m. to John W. 
 Holt, and they live at Salem, Nebraska. So far as we know, they have 
 no children. 
 
 The imperfect condition of the records of the family of John and Kiturah 
 Spence is due to the fact that our communications sent to many of the children have 
 remained unanswered, and what we have has been secured through the help of 
 other relatives, in particular through the kindness of Mr. Lemuel Peter of Agency, 
 Buchanan Co., Mo., and Mr. Jas. F. Strock, Avenue City, Mo. 
 
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 8. CHINA, the eighth child of Jesse and Milly Peter, was m. in 1826 to Robert S. 
 Mitchell, and passed most of her life in and near Mackville, Ky. 
 
 Having no children of her own, she had more leisure to gratify her charitable and 
 Christian-spirited impulses, and her character was certainly one of the sweetest and 
 noblest we ever meet with in this world. She was gifted with a fine, clear, strong 
 voice, and like her brother Jordan, she was deeply pious. The “morals of the 
 church ” at Mackville were governed principally by her, and they have never since 
 reached that degree of purity which they attained under her guidance, although Mrs. 
 Athenia Flournoy carries on the good work, and labors even harder in the Sunday 
 School than did her Aunt China. 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF PARIS PETER, NINTH AND LAST CHILD OF 
 JESSE AND MILLY PETER. 
 
 9. PARIS, the ninth and last child of Jesse and Milly Peter, m. Mary Flournoy, 
 Elder Turner Smith, officiating, 1 Dec., 1836, near Mackville, Ky. She was 
 b. 6 June, 1S16, and was a dr. of James and Martha O. Flournoy. 
 
 In the fall of 1861 Paris was on the petit-jury, Circuit Court, Springfield, 
 Ky., where in some way he was exposed to small-pox. When it was discovered 
 that he had the disease, all the family were immediately vaccinated ; but two of 
 the children, Robert and Walter, caught the trouble, and died in a few days after 
 their father, who succumbed to one of the most confluent forms of that terrible 
 malady, on the 4 Dec., 1861, and is buried in the Peter burying-ground on the old 
 homestead. His children have all died but three, one of whom, Samuel, is living 
 with his mother at the old place on Long Lick, near Mackville. In the civil 
 war, one of the children was in the Federal and one in the Confederate army ; 
 the former was wounded, and died afterwards from the effects of it. All the chil¬ 
 dren were born near Mackville. 
 
 The family record is : 
 
 1 p. James McDonald, b. 28 July, 1838, m. 23 Apr., 1867, in Ray Co., 
 Mo., by Rev. W. Alexander, Malia Bowers, who was b. in 1843, 
 in Bedford Co., Term., daughter of Giles and May C. Bowers. 
 James and family are living in Sedan, Chautauqua Co., Kansas. 
 
 1. Mattie E., b. 10 Feb., 1866, nr. Millville, Ray Co., Mo. 
 
 2. Alice P., b. 20 May, 1870, nr. Millville, Ray Co., Mo. 
 
 3. Samuel, b. 21 June, 1872, nr. Millville, Ray Co., Mo. 
 
 4. Charles C., b. 28 Oct., 1876, in Sedan, Chautauqua Co., 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 2p. Thomas Jefferson, b. 23 June, 1842 ; d. 5 Apr. 1866, at Denver 
 City, Colorado. 
 
 3p. Elizabeth Julia, b. 21 Apr., 1S47 ; d. 25 Oct., i860 ; bur. Cemetery 
 nr. Mackville, Ky. 
 
 4p. Mountford, b. 20 Sept., 1849. Living. 
 
 5p. Robert Mitchell, b. 20 July, 1852 ; d. 20 Dec., 1861 ; bur. Jesse 
 Peter homestead, Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 6p. Walter Millan, b. 13 Oct. 1854 ; d. 14 Dec., 1S61 ; bur. same place. 
 
 7p. Samuel Holloway, b. 21 June, 1857, and is living at home with his 
 mother. 
 
 This ends the record of the descendants of Jesse and Milly Peter. I now 
 pass to those of Jesse by his second wife, Elizabeth Graves. 
 
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 GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF 
 JESSE AND ELIZABETH PETER, OF MACKVILLE, 
 WASHINGTON CO., KY. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF MRS. MILLY SWEENEY TURNER, FIRST 
 CHILD OF JESSE AND ELIZABETH PETER. 
 
 11. MILLY SWEENEY, who is still living, and is the eleventh child of Jesse 
 and second of Elizabeth Peter, was m. 25 Aug., 1836, nr. Mackville, Ky., 
 to Joseph Turner. He was b. 22 Jan., 1809, in Lincoln Co., Ky., d. 6 
 Apr., 1865, and is bur. in Jesse Peter graveyard. The cause of his death 
 was pneumonia. He was a Methodist, as were his parents, Caleb and 
 Sarah Turner. Their children were all born in Mackville, Ky., and were 
 as follows : 
 
 im. Marianne, b. 22 Mch., 1838; d. of pneumonia, 17 Feb., 1870, and 
 is bur. in Cornishville, Ky. In Oct., 1855, she was m. by Elder 
 Levin Merritt to Turner J. Debaun (De Baun), who was b. 23 
 Sept., 1834, in Mercer Co., Ky., and resides in Cornishville, Ky. 
 His parents were Joseph Debaun and Mary Bottoms. Turner 
 Debaun belongs to the religious sect called Reformers. His 
 family is : 
 
 1. Joseph Samuel, b. 7 Aug., 1856. 
 
 2. James Abraham, b. 4 Dec., 1857 ; died young. 
 
 3. Iverson Edgar, b. 4 Dec., 1859 ; died young. 
 
 4. Margaret Pleasant, b. 5 Feb., 1861. 
 
 5. Laura Odella, b. 18 July, 1863. 
 
 6. William Homer, b. 10 Apr., 1865. 
 
 7. Sarah Hester, b. 4 Apr., 1867. 
 
 8. Frank b. May, 1869. 
 
 The children were all born in Mercer Co., Ky., and are all, with the 
 exception of 2 and 3, living in Cornishville, Ky. 
 
 2m. Lavinia, b. 29. Apr., 1840 ; d. 3 March, 1842 ; is bur. in Jesse Peter 
 graveyard. 
 
 3m. Jesse Peter, b. 16 Sept., 1841 ; d. 14 Feb., 1842 ; is bur. in the 
 same place. 
 
 4m. James Harrison, b. 30 Nov., 1842 : d. 19 Dec., 1845 ; is bur. in 
 the same place. 
 
 5m. Sarah Elizabeth, b. 19 Jan., 1845, in Washington Co., Ky. ; was m. 
 19 Apr., 1870, by Elder Levin Merritt, in Washington Co., Ky., 
 to Clayton A. Phillips, who was b. 14 Apr., 1840, in Madison 
 Co., Ky. His father’s name was James Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Clayton Phillips are Methodists; live near Mackville, Ky., and 
 have the following family : 
 
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 1. Samyra, b. Jan., 1871, in Mercer Co., Ky. ; d. 30 June, 
 
 1872 ; bur. in cemetery nr. Mackville, Ky. 
 
 2. Mary Hester, b. 3 May, 1872, in Mercer Co., Ky. 
 
 3. Kirk Baxter, b. 25 Aug., 1873, in Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 4. Hartford Thompson, b. 26 March, 1876, in Mercer Co., Ky. 
 
 5. Maude, b. 25 Apr., 1877, in Mercer Co., Ky. 
 
 6. Myrtie Sweeney, b. 9 Oct., 1878, in Mercer Co., Ky. 
 
 6m. Quintilla, b. 22 Dec., 1848 ; living. 
 
 7m. Hartford, b. 17 Oct., 1850; living. 
 
 8m. Leonidas, b nr. Mackville, Ky., 27 Oct., 1852, in Washington 
 Co., Ky., m. 27 Nov., 1879, by Rev. Wm. Shoesmith, Miss Sue 
 Foster, who was b. 18 Feb., 1861, in Washington Co., Ky. 
 Her parents were Green and Catherine Foster. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Leonidas Turner have no children. Her parents were Reformers, 
 and his Methodists ; but the young couple have joined no church. 
 9m. Milly Ann, b. 30 Aug., 1862 ; living. 
 
 10m. Frank Ulysses, b. 24 Jan., 1864; living. 
 
 Of the remaining descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Debaun, if any there be, I 
 have no statistics. 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF HARTFORD, FOURTH CHILD OF JESSE AND 
 
 ELIZABETH PETER. 
 
 13. HARTFORD (M.D.), m. 1st in Nov. 1851, Jane Ellen Cornish, in Cornish- 
 ville, Ky. She was b. in Mercer Co., Ky., and d. of typhoid fever, 14 
 Sept., 1853, and is bur. in Cornishville, Ky. Her father was Col. L. C. 
 Cornish. Hartford m. 2d 30 Sept. 1857, Arena Shewmaker, in Washing¬ 
 ton Co., Ky., Rev. Frank Phillips, officiating. Miss Shewmaker was b. 5 
 Feb., 1835, in Washington Co., Ky. Her parents were Uriah and Nancy 
 Shewmaker. Hartford’s second wife is living. Dr. Hartford’s family by 
 his first wife, Jane Ellen, was : 
 
 ih. LUDWELL CARTER, b. 22 Nov., 1852, in Cornishville, Ky. He m. 
 9 Nov. 1S76, Ann Mariah Brown, in Washington Co., Ky., Rev. D. G. 
 B. Demaree officiating. Miss Brown was b. 12 Apr. 1856, in Wash¬ 
 ington Co., Ky., and is a daughter of Thomas and Emily Brown. Lud- 
 well and wife are both living and are Baptists. They have one child, 
 Thomas Hartford, b. 6 Apr., 1878. 
 
 2h. JESSE S., the second and last child by Dr. Hartford’s first marriage, 
 was b. 11 July, 1853, in Cornishville, Ky.; d. unmarried, 15 Sept., 1853, 
 and is bur. in Cornishville, Ky. 
 
 Dr. Hartford’s family by his second wife, Arena, was all born in Cornishville, 
 Kentucky, and is : 
 
 3h. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. 28 June, 1858, is a Methodist. She was 
 m. 20 Sept., 1878, to John Sweeney Yankey, in Washington Co., 
 Kv., by Rev. Miles Saunders. His parents were Andrew and Nancy 
 Yankey. Both Mr. and Mrs. John Yankey are living at Pleasant 
 Grove, Ky. They have no children yet. 
 
 4b. JOHN BELL, second child of Dr. Hartford, by his second marriage, 
 wasb. 30 Sept., i860, and is living and unmarried. 
 
 5h. FRANCIS CALVIN, last child of Dr. Hartford, was b. 10 Jan., 1863, 
 and is also living and unmarried. 
 
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 DESCENDANTS OF MRS. CYNTHIA ANN PARROTT, FIFTEENTH 
 CHILD OF JESSE, AND SIXTH OF ELIZABETH PETER. 
 
 15. CYNTHIA ANN, was m. 19 Jan. 1843, by Rev. Jesse Bird, nr. Mackville, 
 Ky., to Brazeal Parrott. He was b. 6 June, 1818, nr. Springfield, Ky., 
 and his parents were John H. and Elizabeth Parrott. Both parents are 
 living. They have had eleven children, all born near Mackville, Ky., and 
 in the following order : 
 
 ic. John Hewlett, b. 12 Dec., 1843 ; unmarried. 
 
 2c. James Rhodurn was b. 24 Dec., 1845, nr. Springfield, Ky. ; m. 29 
 July, 1867, in Washington Co., Ky., by Rev. William Corn, 
 Sarah Margaret Bess, dr. of Samuel and Elizabeth Bess. 
 James R. and wife are Methodists and reside nr. Cornishville, 
 Ky.; they have the following children, all living and unmarried : 
 
 1. James William, b. 19 July, 1868. 
 
 2. Mary Lee, b. 24 Apr., 1871, in Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 3. Brazeal Lee, b. 26 May, 1873, ' n Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 4. Ina Jane, b. 25 Feb., 1876, in Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 5. Emory Jane, b. 2 Nov., 1878, in Washington Co., Ky. 
 
 3c. Elizabeth Francis, b. 1 May, 1848; m. to Richard Littrel. 
 
 4c. Richard Thomas, b. 8 Sept., 1850 ; unmarried. 
 
 5c. William Shelby, b. 26 May, 1852, in Washington Co., Ky.; m. 8 
 June, 1873, in Washington Co., Ky., by Rev. David Bruner, 
 Sarah Elizabeth Cary, dr. of John and Miranda Cary. They 
 live in Cornishville, Ky., and have the following children : 
 
 1. Mary Francis, b. 3 May, 1874. 
 
 2. Lulie Francis, b. 9 July, 1876. 
 
 3. William Kirkus, b. 6 Nov., 1878. 
 
 6c. Hartford, b. 11 Aug., 1854, in Washington Co., Ky.; m. 2 Nov., 
 1878, in Washington Co., Ky., by Mr. Jack Cocknougher, Belle 
 Inman, who was b. 29 Nov., 1862, in Washington Co., Ky., and is 
 a dr. of William and Francis Inman. They moved 2 Mar., 1880, 
 to Collin Co., Texas, nr. McKenney P. O. The husband is Meth¬ 
 odist, the wife Baptist. They have one child : 
 
 William Brazeal, b. 2 Feb., 1880. 
 
 7c. Lavinia Jane, b. 4 Sept., 1857 : m. to Jewett Gully. 
 
 8c. Susan Mary, b. 16 Dec., i860 ; d. Feb., 1865 ; bur. Jesse Peter 
 burying-ground. 
 
 9c. Robert, b. 19 Sept., 1861, unmarried, 
 ioc. Jesse, b. 6 May, 1S64, unmarried. 
 
 1 ic. Milly Ann, b. 29 Nov. 1866, unmarried. 
 
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 All of the children with the exception of Susan Mary are living. 
 
 The remaining children of Jesse and Elizabeth Peter — Gideon, Elisha, Cyrus 
 and Frances — died unmarried. 
 
 This ends a brief and unhappily a defective record of one of the best lines of old 
 Kentucky families. I regret the incompleteness of the report, but this is the neces¬ 
 sary consequence of the neglect or indifference of some members of the family, for 
 it is rather upon full and general contributions than upon individual investigation that 
 the fulness of record such as this must depend. I return herewith all that I have 
 received from such contributions and all that I have gathered during a careful and 
 extended research. Hoping that the future will enable us to supply the missing parts 
 and to build up the whole into a complete and harmonious structure, I remain, 
 sincerely, 
 
 Your loving grandson, 
 
 frank v. McDonald, 
 
 Hai-vard Law School Student, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
TO MRS. MARTHA S. McDONALD 
 
 ON HER SEVENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, 
 
 FROM 
 
 HER GRANDSONS, FRANK V. AND RICHARD H. McDONALD. 
 
 Dear Grandmother:— 
 
 If not delayed, this will reach you about the time of your seventy-ninth birth¬ 
 day, on which occasion, we are sure, your children and grandchildren will gather 
 round you, bearing loving wishes and tokens of affection in honor of that happy twenty- 
 fifth of February. To us, whom duty holds on these distant shores, such an expression 
 of feelings is denied, though no one of those around you can be more desirous than are 
 we that you should know and feel that we are always mindful of you, and concerned in 
 all that pertains to your happiness. We do not know whether there is to be any cere¬ 
 monious observance of the day , but whether, surrounded by a merry band of your 
 descendants, you listen to the sincere, informal, and fervent congratulations of the older 
 members of the family, to the eloquent addresses of those in the strength of manhood and 
 the bloom of womanhood, or to the elaborate and fanciful exercises in rhetorical encomia 
 indulged in by the younger offspring, or whether you pass the day in unpretentious quiet, 
 you will, we know, find time to read these plain, unvarnished lines, testifying of our 
 interest in your well-being and our appreciation of the example you have set before us in 
 your long and beautiful life. 
 
 Because we are so far away, we are not able to indulge in those expressions of family 
 regard which a nearer residence would make natural and possible ; but that we are by no 
 means forgetful or indifferent, your own feelings must abundantly assure you. We have, 
 however, thought that on a day so memorable as the present one, it would be pleasant for 
 you to receive from our hands some tangible, and, if possible, lasting evidence of our 
 attachment; we have therefore made the attempt to gather up and classify the records of 
 the acts and history of our own and of the Peter side of our family. These facts have 
 been slowly compiled, but are now somewhat hastily arranged in order that they may 
 reach you, if possible, at a time when your mind will naturally revert to the scenes of 
 earlier years, and when such memories will serve the twofold purpose of recalling more 
 vividly to the actors themselves the incidents and their associations, and of impressing 
 upon the now plastic hearts of the younger generation the virtues and the noteworthy 
 events in the lives of our ancestors, — those who have left us, and those who are so nearly 
 ready to pass from the trials of this world to the glories and rewards of that other and 
 happier land. 
 
 You will find many omissions and numerous errors, perhaps, in these pages, but 
 these will all be filled out or corrected, if the returns reach us within the coming month ; 
 and if you can urge any of our kin to contribute their missing portion, by so much 
 more will the work near a complete and satisfactory form. We realize, dear Grandmother, 
 that it is evident to you, at least, how desirable it is that we rescue now, before it is too 
 late, many of the links which have dropped from our chain, and which are gradually 
 rusting or straying from their connection. There are some, we know, who sneer at all 
 such efforts, who, even when most charitable, look with indifference upon them : their 
 idea, when they have taken trouble to form one, is that history should be the record of 
 great men and their wonderful achievements, and that nothing else is worthy of record. 
 
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 Fortunately, however, such ideas do not control the thinking class of the world; on the 
 contrary, it becomes more and more apparent that great men, while deserving of all 
 honor, have not always achieved greatness by their own unaided endeavors, for the united 
 exertions of multitudes of less noted men have reared the eminence on which these 
 more favored individuals could stand and rise into prominence. In most cases, the 
 shining light is nothing more than the focussed rays of less brilliant flames. A striking 
 illustration of the force of this view can be drawn from the known composition of 
 the electric light, which is so prominently before the public to-day : it is only the result 
 of the combination of the thousands of elements which go to make up its current. It is, 
 therefore, clear that, interesting as may be the study of the lives of leading men, it is 
 generally more profitable to make among the lives of the masses the starting-point of our 
 investigations. Not that we cannot work the other way, only we must be careful not to 
 stop until we have carried our researches to their furthest limit. This principle embodies 
 one of the most valuable services that Darwin and the modern school of progressive 
 development has conferred upon the human race : while it has led us to many hasty and 
 incorrect conclusions, it has taught us to go to the beginnings of growth, to trace step 
 by step, whether by induction or deduction, the successive stages through which man has 
 passed to become what he is to-day. In pursuing this study it is significant to note how 
 the great lights of history “pale their ineffectual fires” as, one by one, they lose the 
 virtues falsely ascribed to them, and the glory of deeds wrought by unknown workers, 
 which they had appropriated, bursting upon the world in this blaze of borrowed light, 
 dazzling their bewildered contemporaries, and going down to posterity as heroes; but they 
 cannot shine forever in this reflected light, for here the historian comes to the rescue, 
 making known the deeds of humble toilers who have passed into forgetfulness, and strip¬ 
 ping from would-be heroes their falsely won fame, thus enabling us to give honor where 
 honor is due. 
 
 It is also wonderful to observe how surely those individuals and races who have 
 neglected to cultivate to the utmost all their powers, have fallen and have been trodden 
 under foot in the life-struggle. I do not doubt that, looking back over your long and 
 eventful life, you can recall many individuals, — entire families, perhaps, — whom you 
 have seen 
 
 “ around you fall 
 Like leaves in wintry weather,” 
 
 who, having become victims to dissipation in one form or another, have long before this 
 ended their career, either by bringing disgrace on themselves and their friends, or by 
 untimely deaths. “The survival of the fittest” is of all nature’s laws the one most mer¬ 
 cilessly executed, and woe to him who is rash enough to throw away any of the forces 
 with which nature, never too prodigal, has endowed him : the penalty is sure. Other 
 things being equal, the men whose vitality is strongest, who keep unimpaired their 
 strength of mind and body, will enjoy the most, suffer the least, and will wield the 
 greatest power. 
 
 Now, dear Grandmother, the object of these researches is to follow out this working 
 of nature’s laws in our own history. The ruined lives of those who have wasted their 
 gifts and misused their power will teach us what we must avoid, if we would prosper as 
 individuals and grow as a family ; while the ennobling examples of virtuous, industrious, 
 and well-regulated lives should lift us to their plane, and enable us, profiting by their 
 experience, to go even higher. It is, as you know, a natural expectation that every gen¬ 
 eration, starting where the preceding one began, but having the advantage of “the long 
 results of time,” shall pass more quickly through the preliminary stages of its life-work, 
 thus saving time and energy for conquering new fields, and so reach more advanced 
 planes of development, from which their descendants, in turn, will be able to go yet farther. 
 We must thus progress continually, or, arriving at a stand-still, we shall soon enter upon 
 
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 the downward road. It is evident that this desirable result of gaining a little ground with 
 every succession of offspring can be secured only by husbanding our resources; and the 
 men or women who indulge to excess their passions must expect to fall behind what they 
 should be. not only to the extent of that gratification, but much more; for it is easier 
 to slide down-hill than to plod up. “Indulging to excess,” you will notice we have said; 
 and this is what almost all agree in condemning, each reserving, however, the right to 
 determine where moderation ends and excess begins. Now, we do not deny that every 
 man bas a right to define excess in his own way, but by no means an unlimited and unre¬ 
 stricted right to apply his definition: we should no more accept it than, in law, we should 
 accept any unauthorized definition of crime, or of right, in morals, or of liberty, in ethics. 
 All these conceptions admit, it is true, of great freedom of construction, but there are points 
 beyond which there is a neplus ultra , where the limit is practically, if not theoretically 
 reached: this limit is marked by the aggregate result of the most successful lives, the 
 combined experiences of many years and of many individuals. From these resources, 
 we draw the knowledge that practically enables us to place the bounds of excess ; and 
 your life, dear Grandmother, furnishes to the student one more fruitful source for the 
 comparisons and conclusions which may be drawn from well-spent lives. It is true that 
 different countries, different climates, and different temperaments place different bounds 
 to excess ; but, taking all these influencing circumstances into consideration, there is 
 everywhere an acknowledged limit. Experience has taught us, furthermore, that it is 
 always dangerous, often fatal, to risk approach to those limits, since, in some moment of 
 forgetfulness or indiscretion, they may be overstepped. Again, “familiarity breeds con¬ 
 tempt,” and, like the young man who lived near the great Niagara, we may grow careless 
 of consequences until we venture once too often, and swept over and down to total 
 destruction. But this risk of nearing the verge of the abyss has been so frequently the 
 theme of moralists that I shall not dwell on it here, but shall leave it with the quotation of 
 Pope’s well-known forcible lines : — 
 
 “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien 
 As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; 
 
 Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
 
 We first endure, then pity, then embrace.” 
 
 We have thus seen that there are practical limits to excess, which it is dangerous, if 
 not ruinous, to approach. 
 
 Now, dear Grandmother, we are sure of being upheld by your experience when we 
 claim that it is by far the safer way for the people of this country, with their nervous tem¬ 
 peraments and the constant demands made on their vitality by their eager, unsettled life, 
 to utterly renounce all habits that tend to lead them to excess ; and I think that you will 
 agree with us in placing in the foremost ranks of these habits the drinking of all kinds of 
 intoxicating beverages, the use of tobacco, gambling, and impure thoughts and language. 
 
 We shall not make any personal application of the truth of these statements; the 
 few instances there are in our family — and thank Heaven they are few!—are too well- 
 known among us to need mention. 
 
 “ We know,” some may say, “ how to use God’s gifts in moderation, and we are not 
 so bigoted as to be extremists. Should there chance to be danger, we know when to 
 stop.” Perhaps they are, and perhaps they are not; perhaps they will, and perhaps they 
 will not. This is a question we will not argue here ; but it is only right, on such an 
 occasion as this, since we have never made our position known, that we, two of your 
 grandsons, should remove all doubt concerning our views on these subjects, and give, as 
 we have done, some of the reasons on which we base our convictions. Looking at these 
 questions in the light that we do, we must say that we feel that we have neither time nor 
 strength to play against such dangerous odds, and that we cannot recognize as good 
 
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 counsellors, or associate, heart and hand, with those who try the dangerous policy of 
 steering between Scylla and Charybdis. When there is a safer, smoother passage 
 around these rocks, we prefer to take it, even at the sacrifice of a little passing enjoyment. 
 In our country, where a man never knows what career the future has in store for him, he 
 should live on the alert, prepared to assume, with mind and body in their best possible 
 condition, whatever may fall to his lot ; and the man who squanders his intellectual 
 activity and physical forces in the gratification of his appetites, is not the man to choose as 
 a companion or accept as a guide. This, we think, will clearly define our position in this 
 matter. 
 
 We have not been led to this course by the natural impulse of a child to follow in 
 the footsteps of his father; for these convictions, although influenced, it is true, by his 
 example, have been reached only after years of independent investigation, and that, too, 
 in different paths. 
 
 But we have wearied you, perhaps, and trespassed too long on your time. We only 
 wished to assure you that you have two grandchildren, at least, who have profited by your 
 life and acts, and who appreciate the value of those habits of firm self-control and total 
 abstinence you have so faithfully endeavored, by precept and example, to inculcate upon 
 your descendants. We hope that we may so live that our lives may embody the same 
 virtues which have hallowed and enriched the life of the beautiful, happy old grandmother 
 of seventy-nine years, who smiles on us to-day. May she be spared to us yet many 
 years, and may her influence rest like a benediction on us all through this battle of life, 
 and bring to us her own calm, holy resignation when we near the brink of the last river 
 that separates us from the joyful meeting beyond ! 
 
 Your loving grandsons, 
 
 FRANK AND RICHARD. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 14, iSSo. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 [Ch. stands for child; par., for parent; f., for family; nc., for name and connections. 
 The numbers refer to the pages of the book.] 
 
 A. 
 
 Abbreviations used in this work, 23 ; Ack- 
 man f., 27 ; Allen f., 58 ; Artotypes, 23 ; 
 Asbury, Francis, sent by Wesley to 
 America, 7, 8; related to the Peter 
 family, 7 ; outline of his life, 7, 8 ; 
 Joseph, his father’s, and Elizabeth, his 
 mother’s name, 7 ; Francis made Super¬ 
 intendent, then Bishop, 8; his great 
 work in the church, 8; Askins f., 40. 
 
 B. 
 
 Bennett, Nute, 40 ; Benton (Rev. J. A.), 
 43; Bess, nc., 64; Bird f., 58; Board- 
 man, Robert, sent by Wesley to New 
 York, 8; chosen by the conference to 
 preach in Boston, 8 ; Boice (Cynthia), 
 54; Bonanza mines, 19; Booth, nc., 50; 
 Bosley, Jm., 40 ; Bottoms (Mary), 61 ; 
 Bowers, nc., 60 ; Brocan, Margaret, 33 ; 
 Brown, Anna Mariah, 63; Burks, nc., 
 33 ; Busby, 41 ; Butler f., 34. 
 
 C. 
 
 Carson River and Capt. James McDonald, 
 19; Cary, nc., 64; Caution not to enlist 
 services of Albert W T ells, 23 ; Christisen, 
 Carrie, 55; Clawson f., 35; Columbia 
 College Class Cup and Baby for the Class 
 of 1882,44, 45, 46; Comstock lode, 19; 
 Cornish, nc., 63 ; Crawford (Sarah M.), 
 34; Curtis, Christiana E., 35. 
 
 D. 
 
 Davidson, Mount, Virginia City, and Gold 
 Hill, 19, 22; Davis f., 27; Debaun f., 
 61 : Dickerson, Beverly, 41 ; Dudley, 
 Sarah Elizabeth, 35 ; Durham, Addison 
 and Vernetta, 29. 
 
 E. 
 
 Eaton f.. 34 ; Elliott, Josephine Bonaparte, 
 17; Elliott f., 51 ; Embury, Philip, first 
 local preacher of the Methodist Church 
 in America, 7. 
 
 F. 
 
 Farris, nc., 40, 55; Flournoy, Athenia, as 
 contributor to this genealogy, 21, 30, 31 ; 
 Flournoy, nc., 30, 41 ; Mary Flournoy, 
 nc., 60; Foster, Sue, 62. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gibbons, nc., 40; Gilkison, Sarah, 32; 
 Gold Canon and Gold Hill, 19 ; Gray, 
 Jone, 40; Guthrie, James, in Ky. Legis¬ 
 lature with Col. James McDonald, 19. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hall, Wilkeson, 40 ; Hansbraugh, Elizabeth, 
 32; Harber, nc., 30; Harroun & Bier- 
 stadt, artotype painters, 23 ; Hays, 
 Hillery, 18; Head, Hettie E., 40; Hick¬ 
 man, Jane, 41 ; Holt f., 58 ; Hunter, 
 nc , 48. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ijams f, nc., 43 ; Inman, nc., 64. 
 
 J- 
 
 Jenkins, Sarah B., 55 ; Johnston, ElizaC.,33. 
 
 IC. 
 
 Kirtly, nc., 47 ; Knotts, nc., 35. 
 
 L. 
 
 Laum, Thomas, 40; Leachman f., 30; 
 Levi, Perdetta, 40; Libraries where 
 copies of this family history will be 
 deposited, 23; Logan, 40. 
 
 M. 
 
 McDaniel, James, representative of Wash¬ 
 ington Co., Ky., a mistake for Col. James 
 McDonald, 22 ; Mackville, origin of 
 name, 22; MacKittrick, nc., 22, 30; 
 McLogin f., nc., 47; Marshall, Thomas, 
 in Ky. Legislature with Col. James 
 McDonald, 19; Matteson, Alice, 58; 
 Methodist Church, its general history, 
 6-12; its influence reaches Wales, 7; 
 cause of its popularity, 9; the work of 
 local preachers, 11 ; Mitchell, China, nc., 
 30, 59; Robert S., 59 ; Mary I., 40. 
 
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 mcdonalds. 
 
 Alexander, 40; Alice Fisk, 52 ; Mrs. Alice, 
 
 50 ; Alice Lee, 50 ; Bill, 40 ; Dewitt L. 
 and M. Jasper start for Cal., 20; Dewitt 
 Livingston f., 48, 49 ; Dewitt L., Jr., 49; 
 Elizabeth, 55; Elizabeth Blythe, 49; 
 Frank Virgil, 44; Griffin, Dr., at Savan¬ 
 nah, Mo., 20 ; James, Col., 37; his life 
 briefly sketched, 17-21 ; James Monroe, 
 Capt., leaves Ky. for the West, 19 ; a 
 very short notice of his life and works in 
 California, 48 ; James Monroe, Jr. (son 
 of D. L.),49; Joseph, Dr., at Savannah, 
 Mo., 20 ; Joseph William, 51 ; Josephine 
 Bonaparte, 51 ; Laura Lee, 49; Mabel 
 North, 51 ; Marcus Lindsay, friendly to 
 religion, 17; his family, 50, 51 ; M. L., 
 Jr., 51 ; Martha Louisa, 52 ; Marion 
 Jasper, 50; Martha Harriet, 52; Martha 
 Shepard, this book dedicated to her, 
 oldest living descendant of Jesse Peter; 
 sketch of her life, 13-17; her family, 
 37 ; Martha Shepard (her namesake and 
 dr. of Dr. R. H.), 44; Mrs. Martha 
 Ellenor, 48 ; Martin Pierce, 48 ; Mary 
 (dr. of Alex.), 54; Milly Ann, 40, 46; 
 Ralphine, Mrs., 50; Richard, Major, 
 homestead, 17, 18 ; Richard Hays, Dr., 
 37 ; an old letter of his, 39-41 ; 
 pioneer in the family, 19; his long labors 
 on the family history, 21 ; his aversion to 
 holding public offices, 43 ; his family, 43 
 -46; his son, Richard Hays, Jr., 44; his 
 wife, Mrs. Sarah Mariah, 43; Stewart, 
 
 51 ; William Hunter, 49. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nauvoo, Ill., where Dr. R. H. McD. first 
 practised medicine among the Mormons, 
 19, 41 ; North, Ralpine, 50. 
 
 O. 
 
 Osburn f., 35. 
 
 , P. 
 
 Pacific Bank, its relation to R. H. and [. 
 M. McDonald, 22, 41, 48 ; its statement, 
 42 ; Parrott (Mrs. John H.), 26 : Parrott 
 f., nc., 64 ; Petroleum, where first known 
 in Ky., 13 ; Petersburg, Va., how named, 
 11 ; Phillips f., 61, 62; Pile, nc., 26; 
 Pilmoor, Joseph, in America, 8; Prairie- 
 de-Roche, Ill., where Dr. R H. McD. 
 practised medicine, 19, 41 ; The Platte, 
 or Platte's Purchase from the Indians, 
 41 ; Potts, nc., 40. 
 
 PETER INDEX. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 Historical sketch of the early days of 
 this family, 5-12; parts of the family 
 chronicles uncertain, 5 ; Peter ancestors 
 identified with the growth of the Metho¬ 
 dist Church, 5 ; Peter ancestors first con¬ 
 nected with the Methodist cause, 7; 
 Richard and William, early converts, 10; 
 come to America, 10 ; die in Va., 10 ; 
 Richard’s son William has issue : Jesse, 
 Richard, Reuben, Jordan, Lewis, Samuel, 
 Elizabeth, Nancy, 12; William, the 
 early convert, brother of Richard, had 
 two sons, Jesse and John, 12 ; this last 
 Jesse is the ancestor whose name is on 
 title-page of this book. 
 
 NAMES ALPHABET 
 
 Alexander Munroe, 54; Alice, 29, 30; 
 Mrs. Alice, 58 ; Alice P., 60; Almira, 
 ch., 26, par., 30 ; Alsimedia, 27 ; Alva 
 Lee, 29 ; Anna, 27 ; Ann Mariah, 33 ; 
 Arabella, 54; Archibald, 24 ; Arena, 
 63 ; Arimathea, ch., 26, par., 30 ; Arme- 
 nius, ch., 26, par., 29; Athenia, 21, 26, 
 27, 3 °) 31 ; dr. of Paris, 27. 
 
 Bernarden, 26. 
 
 Carrie, Mrs., 55 ; Catherine Amanda, 33; 
 Charles C., 60 ; China, 24, 25, 59: dr. 
 of Jordan, 33 ; Cynthia, ch., 24, 25, 
 par., 64; Cyrus, 24, 25. 
 
 Edith, 32; Edwin Mountford, 29; El- 
 dridge, 55 ; son of Theoph., 55 ; Elisha, 
 24 ; Elizabeth, 32 ; dr. of William, son 
 of Richard, the missionary, 12 ; Mrs. 
 
 ICALLY ARRANGED. 
 
 Elizabeth, 57 ; Elizabeth Julia, 60 ; 
 Emily, 32 ; Emmett Morrison, 30; 
 Emory, 26, 30 ; Emory Evan, 30; 
 Eunice A. Roseyle, 35. 
 
 Flavius, 55 ; Frances, 24; Francis Calvin, 
 63; Frances Caroline, 33. 
 
 Gideon, 24. 
 
 Hardin, ch., 24, 25, par., 54; Harry Clay, 
 54 ; Hartford, Dr., ch., 24, 25, par., 63 ; 
 Hester Delilah, 33; Hollie, 55. 
 
 Irvin Rue, 54 ; Isadore Vernetta, 27. 
 James, 33 ; James McDonald, 29; son of 
 Paris, 60 ; Mrs. Jane Ellen, 63 ; Jason 
 Lee, 32; Jesse, son of William, first 
 Peter ancestor well-known, 5-12; his 
 life, 12, 13 ; his brother John, 12 ; their 
 second cousins, Jesse and Jordan, 12 ; 
 
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 Jesse f., 24 ; son of Mountford, ch., 26, 
 par., 29: Jesse S., 63; Jessarah, 29; 
 John. 40 (see Jesse, 12); John Bell, 63; 
 Jordan, ch., 24, 25, par., 32. (For Jordan 
 see also Jesse, 12.) 
 
 Kate Bell, 54; Keron, 55 ; Kiturah, ch., 
 24. 25, par., 57 ; dr. of Armenius, 29. 
 
 Laura, 30: Laura Amelia, 27; Lee, 55; 
 Lemuel Dewitt, 54 ; Leslie Harber, 30 ; 
 Mrs. Lettie, 55; Lewis, 12; Ludwell 
 Carter, 63 ; Lula M., 55 ; Lulie, 27. 
 
 Malvinah F. C. Somirah, 35 ; Margaret 
 Adelaide, 33 ; Martha, dr. of Jordan, 33 ; 
 Martha Shepard, her life, 13—1S ; ch., 
 24. 25. par., 37; Mary, 54; Mrs. Mary, 
 54; Mary Jane, 32; Mary Kate, 27; 
 Mattie, 27 ; Mattie E., 60; Mattie 
 McBrayer, 54 ; Milly Ann, 32, 33 ; Milly 
 Sweeney, ch., 24, 25, par., 61 ; Mount- 
 ford, ch., 24, 25, par., 26 ; son of Paris, 
 60 : son of Armenius, 29. 
 
 Nancy. 54 ; Nancy, dr. of William, son of 
 Richard, the pioneer preacher, 12. 
 
 Oma A. Elizabeth, 35 ; Orceneth, 26, 31. 
 
 Paris, ch., 24, 25, par., 60 ; son of Mount- 
 ford, contributor to this work, 21 ; ch., 
 26, 39-41, par., 27-29; Parthenia, 54; 
 Preston, 24, 25; Dr. Freston, ch., 26, 
 par., 30. 
 
 Richard and William, our first ancestors 
 known to us, early converts to the Metho¬ 
 dist Church, 10 ; came to America, 10 ; 
 died in Va., 12 ; Richard and Reuben, 
 grandsons of Pichard, 12; Robert Clin¬ 
 ton, 33; Robert Hewett, 30 ; Robert 
 Mitchell, 60 ; Robert Newton, 29 ; Rufus 
 Lee, 54. 
 
 Sallie, ist wife of Mountford, 26; Samuel, 
 son of Wm., son of Richard, the preacher, 
 12; Samuel, 60 ; Samuel Holloway, 60 ; 
 Mrs. Sarah B., 55; Sarah Elenora, 26; 
 Sarah Ellen, 33 ; Sarah Elizabeth, 63 ; 
 Schuyler, 32 ; Susan Alice, 30. 
 
 Theophilus, 55; Thomas Hartford, 63; 
 Thomas Jefferson, 60; Thomas Way, 
 29. 
 
 Vernetta, ch.. 26, par., 29. 
 
 Walter Millan, 60; Wilbur, 55 ; son of 
 Lemuel, 54; Wilbur T., 55; William, 
 brother of Richard, 12 ; William, son of 
 Richard, 12; his children, Jesse, Richard, 
 Reuben, Jordan, Lewis, Samuel, Eliza¬ 
 beth, Nancy, 12; William, 27; William 
 Dea, 29 ; William Preston, 30. 
 
 R. 
 
 Rabjohn, nc., 29; Robert Raikes’ first 
 Sunday school, 8; Rayborn, in posses¬ 
 sion of old Major Richard McDonald 
 homestead near Mackville, 22 ; Redding, 
 Dr., f., nc., 22, 55, 56; Redman, Susan 
 C., 33; Reed, nc., 54 ; Reinhardt, nc., 
 29; Rue, Parthenia, contributor to our 
 work, 21 ; her family, 54, 55 ; Roberts, 
 nc., 36 ; Robinson, nc., 40. 
 
 S. 
 
 Sacramento, Cal., 19-21 ; Savannah, Mo., 
 20 ; Schooling, Martha, 41; Scott, 
 Gen. Chas., candidate for governor of 
 Ky., 14; Shaw, T. J., 40; Shewmaker, 
 nc., 40, 63 ; Simpson, Isabella, 50 ; 
 Sloss, Louis, 53; Smith, nc., 35, 40; 
 Spears, Mary A., 40; Spence, Kiturah, 
 f., nc., 57 ; Spencer, Dr. John C., 41 ; 
 John C., Jr., Mrs. Martha Shepard, 44; 
 McDonald, “ the Class Cup Boy,” 44 
 -46; Steinagel f., nc., 43 ; Stewart f., 
 nc., 33; Strickland’s Life of Bishop 
 Asbury, 7 ; Strock f., nc , 58 ; Sweeney, 
 nc., 13 ; Swift f., nc., 53. 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot, Sarah M., 48 ; Tate f., 58 ; Tibbits, 
 Elizabeth, 57 ; Turner, Kate, Harrison, 
 Eliza, 31: Turner, Milly Sweeney, 
 Joseph, and f., 61, 62. 
 
 W. 
 
 Wakefield, fi, nc., 19, 20, 46-48; Walls 
 f., 36; Wells, Albert, not to enlist his 
 services, 23 ; Wells f., nc., 26; Wesley, 
 John, founder of Methodism, 6 ; Wesley 
 in America, from 173^-1738,6; Wetzel 
 f., 34; Whipple f., 43; Whitefield, 
 George, the great leader of the Methodist 
 Church, 6, 7 ; his wonderful eloquence, 
 10 ; Wilcox, J. A. J., the engraver, 23 ; 
 Wright, Richard, sent by Wesley to 
 America, 7 ; Wycoff, Eliza, 40. 
 
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 Capital Stock.$1,000,000 00 
 
 Profit and Loss. 439,115 21 
 
 Due Depositors. 1,069,001 13 
 
 Due Banks and Bankers. 114,026 88 
 
 Due Dividends.... . . 235 00 
 
 $2,622,378 22 
 
 III accordance with the requirements of the Banking Laws of the State of California, we hereby verify the 
 above Statement. 
 
 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, City and County of San Francisco, ss.— R. II. McDonald, President, and S. G. Murphy, Cashier 
 of Pacific Bank, do make oath and say that the foregoing Statement is true to the best of their knowledge and belief. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of January. 1S80. I R. II. McDONALD, President. 
 
 [seal.] E. H. THARP, Notary Public. i S. G. MURPHY, Cashier. 
 
 From our long experience in Banking in this City, we have a thorough knowledge of the business in all its 
 details, and no efforts will be spared by us to render to those opening accounts with us every advantage appertaining to their 
 interest. 
 
 We give advice in detail of all credits, and acknowl¬ 
 edge promptly all letters, and will furnish a private tele* 
 graphic code to correspondents, when requested. 
 
 Shipments of Gold and Silver Bullion will have 
 special care and prompt returns. 
 
 Being connected by Telephone with all the principal 
 warehouses and the “Produce Exchange,” we keep 
 thoroughly posted in the Wheat, Grain and Flour market, 
 and are prepared at all times to make loans on Flour, 
 Wheat and Barley, and other approved merchandise in 
 warehouse. 
 
 Investments made on Commission , and special 
 attention given to the negotiation of first-class loans of 
 cities, counties and other corporations. 
 
 We buy and sell Bills of Exchange on the principal 
 Cities in the United States, England, France and Ger¬ 
 many. 
 
 S. GK MURPHY, Cashier. 
 
 Collections made and prompt returns rendered at 
 market rates of exchange. 
 
 Telegraphic transfers made with New York, 
 Boston, Chicago, and principal cities of theU. S.; also, 
 cable transfers to Europe. 
 
 Letters of Credit and Commercial Credits issued 
 on the Principal Cities of the United States and Europe. 
 
 Loans made on good collaterals or approved 
 names. Good Business Notes and Drafts discounted at 
 lowest market rates. 
 
 Deposits received, subject to check without notice. 
 
 National, State, City & County Bonds & Warrants, 
 
 and other Securities, bought and sold. 
 
 We respectfully call attention to our facilities for 
 
 doing every kind of legitimate Banking Business. 
 
 A Prudent and Conservative Course is one of the 
 
 first principles of successful Banking. This will be our 
 policy. 
 
 Yours, very' respectfully, 
 
 R. H. McDONALD, President. 
 
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 LEGAL DECISIONS. 
 
 The following legal decisions l\v U. S. Courts j 
 have been setectedaud embodied iu this circu¬ 
 lar, with the thought ihat they might be of use 
 to the Banking fraternity: 
 
 Bank Stock Transfer.—A bank, it has been 
 held in a well-considered case, has the right to 
 refuse to transfer shares of stock of its stock¬ 
 holder. where it has any lien thereon, until the | 
 lieu is discharged, and that, too, although the 
 shares belong to an individual partner, and the 
 debt is i firm debt—though the bank may have 
 a balance in favor of the lirin at the time of its 
 re fns .1 to make the transfer.—Mechanics’ Bank 
 v. Earle, 4 Ilawle, 3S4 (?). 
 
 And where the by-laws of the bank forbid the 
 transfer of its stock, while the owner is indebt¬ 
 ed to the bank, and the owner does transfer it 
 to another to enable the transferee to obtain a 
 loan or discount on the strength of the stock, 
 and he so obtains the loan from that bank, the 
 stock will be liable for the debt of the trans¬ 
 feree.—Burford v. Craudell, 2 Crunch, 86. 
 
 But where the statute of the State gives the 
 bank a lien on its stock for whatever its deposi¬ 
 tor and owner of the stock may owe the bank, 
 all parties are bound to take notice of the lien; 
 and should the stockholder, while indebted to 
 the bank, make an assignment of his stock, 
 though to a party for value and ignorant of the 
 ndebtedness to the bank, or of the fact the law 
 gives the lien, yet he will take the stock subject 
 to the lien.—Union Bank v. Laird, 2 Wheaton, 
 390. 
 
 Also, where the depositor dies, having a bal¬ 
 ance on the books of the bank to his credit, and 
 owes the bank on a judgment and also on a con¬ 
 tract not in a judgment, the bank has the right 
 to set off his balance against the contract debt, 
 and thus secure whatever advantages the judg¬ 
 ment lien may give it on other property of the 
 depositor.—State Bank v. Armstrong, 4 Dev., 
 519. 
 
 Where parties seek to negotiate loans from a 
 bank, it is the right, nay, the duty of the bank, 
 to investigate the title and true ownership of 
 stock certificates which are offered as collateral 
 security for the loan, especially if the parties 
 are not known to the bank, so as to satisfy it¬ 
 self beyond question that the party offering the 
 certificate of stock has a perfect right to do so. 
 Certificates of stock are not negotiable like 
 promissory notes, and possession in hands of 
 innocent holders even does not confer title, in 
 case they have been stolen from the true owner 
 or altered as to the amount they represent. 
 The above is laid down as the true principle 
 governing such certificates by lion. I. 11. Bed- 
 field in a note to Matthews v. Massachusetts 
 National Bank, as reported in March number, 
 1875, of Am. Law Register, and is well sup¬ 
 ported by authorities. 
 
 Purchaser with Notice.--If one purchase 
 land of the owner, knowing that the latter has 
 already mortgaged it to another, although by a 
 wrong description, such purchaser will take the 
 land subject to the mortgage. Even if the pur¬ 
 chaser have no actual notice of the mortgage 
 having been made by such wrong description, 
 yet if the circumstances attending the transac¬ 
 tion are of a character to put a reasonable dili¬ 
 gence, lead to a discovery of the existence of 
 the mortgage, the purchaser will be bound in 
 the same manner as if he had actual notice.— 
 Slattery vs. Bafferty, Supreme Court, Ill. 
 
 Partnership.—If the name of a partnership 
 firm be merely the name of an individual part¬ 
 ner, proof that he signed such name to a bill of 
 exchange is not enough to make the firm liable 
 on the bill. To establish (he liability the holder 
 of the bill must further prove that the signa¬ 
 ture was put to it by the authority and for the 
 purposes of the firm.—Yorkshire Banking Co. 
 | vs. Beatson, Court of the Queen’s Bench. 
 
 Record of Deed.— A deed is, iu contempla¬ 
 tion of law, recorded when it is left for record 
 at the recorder’s office, and is valid notice from 
 that tirno though it be recorded in the wrong 
 book and omitted from all the deed and mortgage 
 indices.—Croll vs. Thomas, Sup. Court, Pa. 
 
 Protested Payment of Taxes. Paymeut 
 of taxes, though made under protest, is volun¬ 
 tary unless made under legal or actual compul¬ 
 sion, and cannot be recovered back.—Oceanic 
 Steam Nav. Co. vs. Tappan, U. S. Cir. Ct. 
 South Dis. N. Y. 
 
 Promissory Note. —In the absence of fraud 
 the maker of an accommodation note cannot 
 set up want of consideration as a defense 
 against a holder, with notice to whom it has 
 been pledged as collateral security for anteced- 
 cent debt by the payee for whose accommoda¬ 
 tion it was made.—Twining vs. Hunt, Phila¬ 
 delphia Ct. Com. Pleas. 
 
 Pledge of Commercial Paper. —While a 
 person holding goods or personal chattels in 
 pledge may sell them to pay the debts after ma¬ 
 turity, a pledgee of commercial paper, in the ab¬ 
 sence of a special contract, has no right to sell 
 such securities, but must collect them, and after 
 paying his own debts he must account to the 
 pledgor for the balance.—Union Trust Co. vs. 
 Higdon, Sup. Ct., Ill. 
 
 Verbal Promise. —A verbal promise to pay 
 the debt of another is within the Statute of 
 Frauds, and is void if made to the creditor, but 
 not if made to the debtor. —Pratt vs. Bates Sup. 
 Ct. Mich. 
 
 Government Bonds and Notes. —The bank 
 and treasury notes of the United States, pay¬ 
 able to bearer at a definite future time, are ne¬ 
 gotiable commercial paper, and their transfer- 
 ability is subject to the commercial law of other 
 paper of that character.— Vermilye & Co. v. 
 Adams Express Co., 21 Wallace U. S., 138. 
 
 Where such paper is overdue, a purchaser 
 takes it subject to the rights of antecedent hold¬ 
 ers to the same extent as in other paper bought 
 after its maturity.—Ibid. 
 
 No usage or custom among bankers and 
 brokers dealing in such paper can be proved in 
 contravention of this rule of law.—Ibid. 
 
 It is their duty, when served with notice of 
 the loss of such paper by the rightful owner, 
 after maturity, to make memoranda or lists, 
 where the notice identifies the paper, to enable 
 them to recall the service of notice.—Ibid. 
 
 Overdrawn Account. —Directors of a com¬ 
 pany are not to be held personally liable to find 
 cash for checks drawn by them as officers of 
 their company upon the company’s hank, and 
 which the hank may choose to honor when the 
 company has no funds at the bank.—Beattie v. 
 Ebury (Lord), 41 L. J., Chanc., 20; 7 L. B., 
 H. L. Cas., 102. 
 
 Bank v. Bank of Penn., 39 
 
 T., 17G. Girard 
 Bonn. St., 92. 
 
 Statute of Limitations. —It has been held 
 that the Statute of Limitatious begins to run 
 against a banker’s certificate of deposit, payable 
 on demand, from the date of the same, and no 
 special demand is necessary to put the statute ' 
 iu motion.—Brummagiu v. Tallant, 29 Cal., 503. 
 
 Important to Public Land Purchasers — 
 
 The Secretary of the Interior has rendered a de¬ 
 cision of importance to all purchasers of public . 
 lands by “ private entry,” holding that when¬ 
 ever, prior to patenting, it is discovered that: 
 the land previously offered and entered as agri-: 
 cultural is really mineral in its character, the 
 entry must be cancelled, aud the land reserved : 
 for entry under laws specially applicable to min- : 
 iug lands. The issue was presented by (he case : 
 of Smith Scrogains vs. Charles E. Culver et al. 
 involving title to a tract of 2,000 acres of land 
 in Camden (Arkansas) district, which was pur¬ 
 chased from the Government at private entry 
 in 1878, subsequently found to contain argenti- ! 
 ferous lead ores. 
 
 Certificates of Deposit, payable at their re¬ 
 turn to the bank, properly indorsed, are, in legal 
 effect, promissory notes payable on demand, and 
 the Statute of Limitations begins to run against 
 them from their date, and that no one can be 
 held a bona fide purchaser of them who does not 
 take them within a short time after their issue. 
 —Samuel A. Tripp et al. v. Curtenius et al., 25 
 Mich. Sup. Ct. Beps. Gate v. Patterson, 25 
 Mich., 191. 
 
 / _ 
 
 A certificate of deposit, payable on demand 
 without interest, and a certified check are in 
 legal sense the same thing, are governed by the 
 same rules, and that no more lapse of time will 
 render such check or certificate past due or dis¬ 
 honored. They are both a promise to pay 
 money on demand, without interest, which in¬ 
 dicates an intention to leave it on deposit but 
 for a short time.—Meade v. Merchants’ Bank, 
 52 N. Y. 147. Merchants’ Bank v. State Bank, 
 10 Wall., 648. Willets v. Phoenix Bank, 2 Duer, 
 121. Farmers’ and M. Bank v. B. and D. 
 Bank, 4 Kern , 624. Smith v. Miller, 43 W. 
 
 
 Promissory Notes. — Consideration need 
 not be alleged. The omission of the words, 
 
 “ for value received,” in a promissory note, is ■ 
 not material. 
 
 In an action upon such a note, it is not nec- ■ 
 essary to allege in the complaint that there was ' 
 any consideration therefor. 
 
 A description of the note is sufficient without; 
 an averment of the consideration.—Underhill : 
 vs. Phillips, 17 N. Y. Sup. Ct. Beps., 591, 
 
 Fraudulent Representations — Compro- i 
 mise Induced Thereby. —Where a creditor is • 
 induced to compromise a debt upon the receipt 
 of fifty cents on the dollar, by means of the 1 
 false and fraudulent representations made to : 
 him by the debtor, that another of his creditors : 
 has agreed to accept such compromise, the; 
 creditor may, upon discovering the falsity of;; 
 such representations, maintain an action against; 
 the debtor to recover the damages sustained by 
 reason thereof. 
 
 Silver and Fractional Currency. — Ex- 
 
 Secretary McCullough suggests that the only 1 
 way to push silver into general circulation 1 
 is to retire all notes under $10, this to be done 1 
 gradually, beginning with one and two dollar 
 bills. It is well known that the Bank of Eng -' 
 land issues no notes under five pounds. The . 
 natural result is that people carry gold sove-1 
 reigns and half-sovereigns, and silver half- 
 crowns, two-shilling pieces and sixpences, for ; 
 small change. The notes under $10 in this ; 
 country amount to about two hundred million • 
 dollars, and their retirement would bring into ■ 
 use that amount of gold and silver. We have ' 
 already done away with fractional currency, 
 and substituted silver for it, and the change ! 
 proposed would hardly he greater. 
 
 Employment for Rich Young Men.— The 
 
 New York Times says: One of our difficulties of , 
 the future, if not of the present, is the rich ; 
 young man; what shall we do with him? Here ; 
 is an admirable theme for Charles Francis; 
 Adams, Jr. England is about the only land ; 
 where the rich youug man is turned to some ; 
 useful account. There he travels, or goes into < 
 the Guards, then into Parliament, attends • 
 Quarter Sessions, and raises big gooseberries, 
 monster turnips and prize cattle. Here, on the ■ 
 other hand, he only plays poker, polo, whist 1 
 and billiards, belongs to the Union and Knick- ' 
 erbocker, goes abroad, passes the winter at | 
 Nice or Monaco, gambles, drinks, keeps fast: 
 horses, and sometimes other fast cattle, and ; 
 “does no good,” as his elderly spinster rela-; 
 tives have it. If, on the other baud, he goes ; 
 into business, the chances are he looses every ; 
 cent he has. Perhaps the very best thing he ; 
 could do would be to go into politics. There is ; 
 a great and growing respect in this country for • 
 any man who goes into politics with honest in- • 
 tent, and not “ on the make,” and once in pol- ■ 
 itics a man soon grows interested in them. 
 
 
From tile Address of the Hon. A. A. Har- from the millionaire to the laborer, the gay and $ 
 deuburg before the Bank Clerks’ Mutual the grave, the bold and the sensitive, the strong ! 
 Benefit Association, of New York, we 
 
 
 STATISTICS. 
 
 Statement of the amount of Precious Metals 
 produced in the States and Territories 
 west of the Missouri River, including 
 British Columbia (and Receipts in San 
 Francisco by Express from the West 
 Coast of Mexico) during the year 1879 . 
 California .$ 18 , 190,973 N. Mexico . 622,800 
 
 Nevada_ 21 , 997,714 Arizona_ 1 , 942,403 
 
 Oregon.... 1 , 037,901 Dakota.... 3 , 208,987 
 Washingt’n 85,336 Mex.,W.C. 1 , 683,718 
 
 Idaho. 2 , 091,300 13 . C. 976,742 
 
 Montana.. 3 , 629,020 Utah. 5 , 468,879 
 
 Colorado.. 14 , 413,515 - 
 
 Total.... $ 57 , 349,501 
 
 The bullion from the Comstock Lode con¬ 
 tains 41 20-100 per cent, gold, and 58 80-100 per 
 cent, silver. Of the so-called base bullion from 
 Nevada, 27 per cent, was gold, and of the whole 
 product of the State, 27 50-100 per cent, was 
 gold. 
 
 The gross yield for 1879 , shown above, 
 segregated, is, approximately, as follows: 
 
 Gold .$ 32 , 539,920 
 
 Silver"!...'. 38 , 623,812 
 
 Lead. 4 , 185 , < 69 
 
 Total.$ 75 , 349,501 
 
 The outlook for 1880 does not indicate a 
 greater product than for 1879 . 
 
 Annual products of Lead, Silver and Gold in the 
 States and Territories west of the Missouri 
 
 1870 ... 
 
 ...$ 36 , 750,000 
 
 1875 ... 
 
 ... 39 , 968,194 
 
 1871 ... 
 
 ... 34 , 398,000 
 
 1876 ... 
 
 .. 42 , 886.935 
 
 1872 ... 
 
 ... 38 , 177,395 
 
 1877 ... 
 
 ... 44 , 880,223 
 
 1873 ... 
 
 ... 39 , 206,558 
 
 1878 ... 
 
 .. 37 , 576,030 
 
 1874 .. 
 
 ... 38 , 466,488 
 
 1879 . .. 
 
 ... 31 , 470,262 
 
 The exports of silver during 1879 to Japan, 
 China, India, the Straits, etc., have been as 
 • follows: From Southampton, $ 33 , 000 , 000 ; Mar¬ 
 seilles and Venice, $ 5 , 000 , 000 ; San Francisco, 
 $ 8 , 000 , 000 . Total, $ 46 , 000 , 000 , as against $ 39 ,- 
 000,000 from the same places in 1878 . 
 
 The California Quicksilver product in 1879 
 ! was 73,879 flasks, produced by mines as follows: 
 
 Flasks. 
 
 Great Eastern... 1,470 
 
 California. 1,026 
 
 Pope Valley .... 989 
 
 Oceanic. 779 
 
 St. John. 546 
 
 Sundries. 750 
 
 Total. 73,879 
 
 Fliisks 
 
 New Almaden . . 20,709 
 
 Guadalupe. 15,540 
 
 Sulphur Bank.. 9,242 
 Great Western... 6,880 
 
 New Idria. 4,425 
 
 Redington. 4,516 
 
 Napa Consoli’ed. 3,605 
 
 Altoona . 1,906 
 
 Oakland. 1,505 
 
 At the close of the last fiscal year the bonded 
 debt of the United States was as follows: 
 
 Bonds at six per cent. $ 354 , 910,750 
 
 Bonds at five per cent. 692 , 445,550 
 
 Bonds at 4 and one-half per cent 250 , 000,000 
 
 Bonds at four per cent. 627 , 334,800 
 
 Refunding certificates. 28 , 723,660 
 
 Navy Pension Fund. 14 , 000,000 
 
 Total.$ 1 , 967 , 414,780 
 
 Advice to those in debt. — Make a full 
 estimate of all you owe, and of all that is 
 owing to you. Reduce the same to a note. As 
 fast as you collect, pay over to those you owe. 
 If you cannot pay, renew your notes every year, 
 giving Ihe best security you can. Go to busi¬ 
 ness diligently and be industrious. Waste no 
 idle moments; be very economical in all things; 
 discard all pride; bo faithful in your duty to 
 God, by regular and hearty prayer, morning 
 and night; attend church Sunday, and do unto 
 all men as you would they should do unto you. 
 
 If you are too needy in circumstances to give 
 to the poor, do what ever else is in your power, 
 cheerfully; but, if you can do so, help the poor 
 and unfortunate. 
 
 Pursue this course diligently for seven years, 
 and if you are not happy, comfortable and 
 independent in your circumstances, come to 
 me and I will pay your debts.— Ben Franklin. 
 
 take the following noble thoughts: 
 
 No profession invites us to sterner responsi¬ 
 bilities, none can call for a higher grade of 
 character than that which ought to mark the 
 career of every bank clerk. 
 
 With hours ostensibly selected from that part 
 of the day in which men of business are the 
 most engaged, they are frequently extended to 
 those which mark the setting of the sun. The 
 farmer may leave a furrow to be plowed, the 
 painter may take an occasional rest to gather 
 newer inspiration, the sculptor may choose a 
 better frame of mind to evoke the ideal from 
 the real, and win his immortality, but the bank 
 clerk knows no cessation from ledgers which 
 must balance, or cash which must be proven, or 
 checks and promises to pay which must be for¬ 
 warded, for integrity holds the scale and char¬ 
 acter is in the balance; the weary round of toil 
 is still the same. He who is true finds but fee¬ 
 ble praise; he who is suspected is at once con¬ 
 demned. 
 
 Moneys, counted by millions, pass continually 
 through their hands; errors of omission or com¬ 
 mission, however innocently made, of checks 
 or credits, may involve the reputations of busi 
 ness firms, and scatter ruin and dismay around 
 them. And yet, for all this, but one compen¬ 
 sation: the conviction thai while faithful to his 
 trust, his position is considered secure from the 
 ordinary mutations of capital invested, and he 
 may at least console himself with the reflection 
 that if the chances of promotion are but few, he 
 becomes better qualified when promotion is at¬ 
 tained. But there are other and brighter phases. 
 
 If his hours of employment be so steadily and 
 laboriously occupied, yet each day winds up its 
 own responsibilities, and he is free for such 
 other pursuit as he may elect. He has many 
 hours still for mental cultivation not vouchsafed 
 to those whose work is never done, and whose 
 cares invade the circles of home and check the 
 smiles which alone can render it the sweetest 
 spot of earth. 
 
 That you may possess a bonded character for 
 high integrity is but the greater reason why the 
 world in all its relations has a reason to expect 
 more from you. 
 
 To the young clerk commencing his duties, 
 what can prove of greater utility than that of 
 living for the achievement of some noble pur¬ 
 pose aside from his immediate vocation? His 
 platform of duty from ten to three o’clock may 
 not be more than four feet square, but the ac¬ 
 quisitions of an immortal mind may be as 
 boundless as the universe of thought. True 
 manhood in a republic such as ours requires 
 something more than mere devotion to the or¬ 
 dinary behests of business. We must under¬ 
 stand something of the great principles which 
 underlie the structure of free government, and 
 their relations to and effects upon society around 
 us. We are at once the ancestors and the heirs, 
 comprehending within our brief litetime all the 
 dignities which in other respects it required 
 ages to accomplish. 
 
 Connected, as your duties are, with the prac¬ 
 tical workings of finance, why should you not 
 seek to become masters of its science? * 
 
 Nations, like individuals, to become powerful 
 and respected, must give heed to the injunction 
 of the Hebrew lawgiver that “the rich ruleth 
 over the poor, and the borrower is servant to 
 the lender.” And no nation can long maintain 
 ascendency whose plighted obligations are held 
 with feeble confidence, while avarice aud lux¬ 
 ury, ever the result in the decaying fortunes of 
 a State, sap its foundations and precede its ruin. 
 
 Presidents and Cashiers may strain every 
 nerve and work with an unceasing fidelity, but 
 the dealings with the great mass of depositors, 
 from whom a bank derives its greatest prosper¬ 
 ity, is mainly with its clerks. A genial, kindly 
 bearing wins many to your institutions, aud 
 gives strength and character to them; for no 
 relations of business can be more delicate than 
 those entrusted to you, and all ranks, all classes, 
 
 No country, however naturally full of re¬ 
 sources, will become rich and prosperous, or 
 after becoming so, long remain so, unless the 
 arts and industries are fostered. 
 
 man and the timid maiden, each are the wit- i 
 nesses of courteous demeanor, and each aids in i 
 no small degree in the formation of your repu¬ 
 tation. 
 
 Silently, but surely, these influences will : 
 work and affect your personal and official char¬ 
 acter through the long years to come. In your 
 first decade you have attained to vigorous man¬ 
 hood. The vestal fires you have kindled have 
 not gone out; the altars you have raised have 
 not been overthrown. May you so guard the 
 flame that each occasion like the present shall i 
 witness its increasing glow, to purify and refine 
 you for tae stiuggles andduties of life. For the 
 world is one grt at altar where many sacrifices 
 are made, and whether propitiatory or not, de¬ 
 pends upon the spirit in which they aro offered. 
 
 The following compilation, from the Com¬ 
 mercial Herald and Market Iteview, refers to the 
 business of California and Pacific Coast: 
 
 California product of Wheat in 1879 , 22 ,- 
 400,000 centals. 
 
 Wheat and Flour Exports in 1879 , 12 , 074 ,- ; 
 
 997 centals. 
 
 Wheat and Flour Exports for 23 years, 
 112 ,000,000 centals. 
 
 Barley crop of California in 1879 , 6 , 000,000 . 
 centals. 
 
 Gold and Silver yield in 1879 , $ 75 , 500 , 000 . 
 
 Gold product of the Pacific Coast since 1848 , 
 $ 1 , 622 , 040 , 000 . 
 
 Silver product of the States and Territories ■ 
 west of the Missouri River since 1858 , $ 446 ,- 
 625 , 000 . _ 
 
 Combined Gold and Silver product of the 
 
 Pacific slope since 1848 , $ 2 , 068 , 665 , 000 . 
 
 Gold and Silver Exports in twenty-three 
 years, $ 917 , 029 , 600 . 
 
 Coinage in San Francisco Mint in 1879 , 
 $ 38 , 065 , 750 . _ 
 
 Coinage of San Francisco Mint from 1854 
 to Dec. 31 , 1879 , $ 590 , 126 , 750 . 
 
 Combined Exports of Merchandise aud 
 Treasure (exclusive of Merchandise by railroad) 
 in 1879 , $ 62 , 782 , 500 . 
 
 Mining Stock Sales, 1879 , (San Francisco 
 Board) $ 70 , 119 , 665 . 
 
 Aggregate Mining Stock Sales in the regu¬ 
 lar session of the San Francisco Board since its 
 organization in 1863 , $ 1 , 934 , 700 , 000 . 
 
 Lumber Imports at this port in 1879 , 225 ,- 
 000,000 feet. 
 
 Domestic coals received in twenty years, 
 3 , 944,855 tons. 
 
 Wool clip in 1879 , 46 , 900,000 pounds. 
 Product of Wine in 1879 , 5 , 500,000 gallons. 
 
 Tonnage Movement of Central Pacific Rail¬ 
 road in 1879 , 3 , 030 , 317,000 pounds. 
 
 Quicksilver Prcduct in California in 1879 , 
 73,500 flasks. 
 
 Value of Manufactures in San Francisco 
 in 1879 , $ 40 , 000 , 000 . 
 
 Banking capital of the State, $ 175 , 000 , 000 . 
 
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 (Dear Sir: 
 
 I forward to you this address together with 
 P fac-similes of my “Blue Ribbon Temperance 
 | Pledge,” which I have written and published in 
 1 this form for general circulation among Sabbath 
 | Schools, Children and Teachers, Clergymen, 
 f- Good Templar Lodges, Sons of Temperance 
 1 Divisions, Temperance Societies, and to all 
 
 y others in sympathy with this good cause. 
 
 In view of the Alarming Spread of In¬ 
 
 temperance, we earnestly invite your co-op 
 eration and influence in arresting and annihi¬ 
 lating this gigantic evil, which, more than all 
 other ills combined, is retarding the moral 
 and physical growth—aye, sapping the very 
 life-blood of our country. 
 
 Our Influence. 
 
 Our influence may be silent, and scarcely 
 perceptible to ourselves, but still it is going 
 forth in power. Silent forces are ever the most 
 potent on earth. We are touching our 
 fellow-beings on every side ; and they are 
 affected for good or evil by what we say or do. 
 They too are touching others, and thus widen¬ 
 ing the circle, perpetuating our influence, 
 wherever we are. In the family circle, above 
 and beyond all the teaching, the daily life of 
 each parent and child, mysteriously modifies 
 the life of every person in the household. The 
 same process, on a wider scale, is going on 
 through the community. No man lives to 
 himself, and no man dies to himself. Every 
 man may choose what his influence shall be, but 
 whether he shall exert an influence or not is be¬ 
 yond his control. 
 
 I appeal to all good people to co-operate in 
 arresting and annihilating the gigantic evils 
 which are retarding the moral and physical 
 growth, and are undermining the very founda¬ 
 tions of our country. Our nation is emascula¬ 
 ted, its vigor destroyed by these evils. Relieve 
 the blood of the nation of these corruptions, 
 free its mind from the drunken lethargy 
 these twin poisons impose upon it, and you 
 will free its Courts from hardened criminals, 
 its scaffold from wretched victims, its alms¬ 
 houses from degraded paupers, its insane 
 asylums from hopeless wrecks of humanity, 
 its streets from idlers, its homes from beggary, 
 and its purse from high and needless taxation. 
 
 I am often told that so large a number of 
 men are engaged iu the manufacturing, vending 
 and traffic in ardent spirits and tobacco, and 
 that these customs and habits are so firmly fixed 
 in the minds of the American people, that I had 
 as well try to stay the mighty waves that lash 
 our cliff-bound ocean, or butt my head against 
 the “Pyramids of Egypt” with the hope of 
 unsettling their foundations, as for me to at¬ 
 tempt to break them up. I must admit that the 
 odds seem fearfully against me, but it is my 
 wish and determination to do what I can to arrest 
 these great and threatening evils. 
 
 Many cannot or will not understand or 
 appreciate my efforts in this work, nevertheless, 
 I wish to cast my weight on the side of common 
 humanity, and work while I can, that the world 
 may be a little better when I am gone that I 
 have lived in it. 
 
 I feel it both a duty and a pleasure to do what 
 I can for the common welfare of the people. 
 The stronger should, by light, look after the 
 weaker, to advise, instruct and assist them. No 
 one should live unto himself. 
 
 Intemperance and Tobacco. 
 
 Please allow the following reasons, in 
 part, to plead with you as my apology for the 
 liberty I take in asking your co-operation in 
 this work for the good of humanity. My de¬ 
 sign is to furnish forcible arguments and sugges¬ 
 tions concerning the wide spread effects of 
 these twin evils, Intemperance and Tobac¬ 
 co. The tail of one is but the head of the 
 other. All users of Tobacco are not drunkards 
 or bad men, but all drunkards and nine-tenths 
 of all bad men use Tobacco. The evils arising 
 from tobacco are less apparent at first, but none 
 the less fatal. 
 
 Intemperance —by which I mean the use of 
 ardent spirits in any manner as a beverage, 
 and tobacco in all its forms as a luxury or 
 habit, are evils of such enormity that they may 
 be said to embrace all others ; they are cer¬ 
 tainly unlike all others, they wound wherever 
 man is vulnerable. This cannot be said of any 
 other evils to which man is heir. 
 
 The use of Intoxicating Drinks and 
 Tobacco —for they are always together in 
 cases of drunkenness—mortgages the farm, fills 
 poor houses and prisons; retards public im¬ 
 provements, promotes ignorance and wretched¬ 
 ness, brings disaster to the merchant-ships and 
 the railroad trains, lights the torch of the in¬ 
 cendiary, maddens the brain of the robber and 
 assassin, closes the shop, bank, factory, store; 
 writes “bankrupt ” upon many a promising en¬ 
 terprisers the great curse of the manufacturing 
 village, and dooms the city to vice, violence 
 and misrule ; tends to deteriorate, morally and 
 physically, the offspring yet unborn of those 
 addioted thereto. 
 
 This state of things, if produced in any 
 other way, would spread weeping and sackcloth 
 over nations and continents. Any sweeping 
 pestilence that could do this would hold a na. 
 tion iu alarm, and diffuse from one end of it to 
 he other trembling and horror. 
 
 It is well understood that this is the effect of 
 the use of these banslul articles— alcohol and 
 tobacco. The effect is not casual, inciden¬ 
 tal, and irregular. It is uniform, certain, 
 deadly as the sirocco of the desert. 
 
 It is not a periodical influence, returning 
 at distant intervals, but it is a deadly pestilence, 
 breathing always; diffusing its poison when 
 men sleep, and when they wake ; by day and 
 by night; in seed time and in harvest. 
 
 Hogshead of Rum or Tobacco. 
 
 The destroyer seeks his victim alike in 
 every hogshead, be i t rum or tobacco. He ex¬ 
 empts no man Irom danger who uses either; and 
 is always sure of prostrating the most vigorous 
 frame ; of clouding the most splendid intellect ; 
 of benumbing the most delicate moral feelings ; 
 of paralyzing the most eloquent tongues; of 
 teaching those on “whose lips listening senates 
 hung,” to mutter and babble with the drunkard, 
 and of entombing the most brilliant talents 
 and hopes of our youth ! 
 
 The use of these twin poisons is not only 
 occasionally injurious, but it is like the genera¬ 
 tion before the flood in its effects, evil ; evil, 
 only, and that continually. It should be a 
 sufficient argument with any reasonable man 
 to know that this combination of evils as an 
 enemy to man wounds him wherever he can be 
 wounded. 
 
 Sickness is an evil, but it wounds only 
 his health; misfortune may take away his pro¬ 
 perty, it wounds but only his property. 
 
 Slander may take away hi* good name, it 
 wounds only his character. Blindness may 
 take away his sight and Deafness his hearing, 
 and so with all his senses, but these afflictions 
 touch not his true manhood. 
 
 Death may take his life, but he dies sound 
 of mind and in the hope of immortality, and 
 thus it is throughout the whole catalogue of 
 evils both moral and natural, they all come 
 single and alone. 
 
 Alcohol and Tobacco, when they strike, 
 strike from head to foot, when they wound, >'4 
 
 they wound in every part. 
 
 They take health, property, friends, man¬ 
 hood, character, liberty, sight, hearing, 
 brutalize all moral instinct, degrade the in¬ 
 tellectual faculties, natural affections, destroy 
 every talent for good, take life and destroy the 
 immortal soul. 
 
 By accident, a 
 but he dies sane. 
 
 Fool. 
 
 man may die of poison, 
 The Drunkard dies a 
 
 Three Modes of Using Tobacco. A 
 
 Of the three methods of using tobaooo, 
 
 that of smoking has insinuated itself most ex¬ 
 tensively among the youth of this country, and 
 is the most hurtful use that can be made of the 
 weed. Tobaoco employed in this way, being 
 drawn in by the breath, conveys its poisonois 
 influences to every part of the lungs. There 
 the noxious fluid is absorbed in the minute 
 spongy air cells, and has time to exert its per¬ 
 nicious influence on tha blood — not vitalizing, 
 but vitiating it. The blood imbibes the stimn. 
 laut narcotio and circulates it through the whole 
 system. It produces, in consequence, a feb¬ 
 rile action in persons of delicate habits, where 
 there is tendency to weakness and the tubercu¬ 
 lar deposit in the lungs. The debility of these 
 organs, consequent o» the use of tobacco, must 
 favor these deposits, and thus the seeds of 
 consumption are sown. This practice im¬ 
 pairs the taste, lessens the appetite and weakens 
 the power of the stomaoh greatly. The preva¬ 
 lence of a craving thirst among smokers can 
 be traced to its action o» the lungs, because the 
 nicotine is there, instead of in the stomach. 
 The liquors that are drank do not alleviate the 
 thirst, but rather aggravate it. It is time med¬ 
 ical testimony was turned to this point, and 
 the great danger pointed out that threatens to 
 make us a nation of Sybarites and pigmies. 
 
 The use of tobacco disturbs the regular 
 pulsation of the heart: 
 
 Tobacco users are thus hourly in danger, 
 and often suddenly fall dead. The habit weak¬ 
 ens the mind, enfeebles the memory, paralyzes 
 the will, produces morbid irritability, diseases 
 the imagination, deadens the moral sensibili¬ 
 ties, and is continually an assault and battery 
 on the nervous system, the intellect and the 
 soul. 
 
 A strong and sensible writer thus tersely 
 expresses a great truth—Tobaoco has utterly 
 ruined thousands of boys. It tends to the soft¬ 
 ening of the bones, and it greatly injures the 
 brain, the spinal marrow, and the whole ner¬ 
 vous fluid. A boy who smokes early and fr e¬ 
 quently, or in any way uses large quantities 
 of tobacco, is never known to make a man of 
 much energy, and generally lacks muscular 
 and physical as well as mental power. We 
 would warn boys, who want to be any thing in 
 the world, to shun tobacco as a most baneful 
 poison. 
 
 
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 Speaking of the decay of the senses 
 caused by tobacco, The Scalpel, a celebra¬ 
 ted medical journal, says : “If there is a vice 
 more prostrating to the mind and body, and 
 more crucifying to all the sympathies of man's 
 spiritual nature, we have yet to be convinced 
 of it.” 
 
 Professor Mead, of Oberlin College, says: 
 “The tobacco habit tends to deaden the 
 sense of honor, as well as of decency, and 
 none are more likely to practice deception un¬ 
 scrupulously than those who use tobacco. 
 Young men who neither fear Gcd nor regard 
 man—who have not even respect for woman, 
 which shows the lowest possible moral condi¬ 
 tion apparently enjoy the privilege of blow¬ 
 ing their tobacco smoke iuto the faces of 
 ladies who pass them. The patience with 
 which citizens submit to this nuisance is to 
 me marvelous.” 
 
 Thomas Jefferson said: “The culture of 
 tobacco is productive of infinite wretched 
 ness.” 
 
 The strongest tobacco contains six or seven 
 per cent, of alkaloid nicotine, a dark, acrid, 
 t ib.u-co oil, a most virulent poison. A drop 
 of the concentrated solution being sufficient 
 to kill a dog, and its vapor destroying 
 birds.— Appltion’s Cyclopedia. 
 
 Using tobacco, especially smoking, weak¬ 
 ens the nervous powers, favors a dreamy, im¬ 
 aginative, and imbecile state of mind ; pro¬ 
 duces indolence and incapacity for manly or 
 continuous exertion, and sinks its votary into 
 a slate of careless or maudlin inactivity, and 
 selfish enjoyment of his vice.—Dr. Copeland. 
 
 If people could see the loathsome dens 
 in which much of the tobacco they use is 
 manufactured, (hey would recoil, ere befouling 
 themselves with matter thus concocted by filthy 
 hands in filthier holes. 
 
 Cost of Drinks and Tobacco 
 
 foe 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , and 50 yeaes. 
 
 Fathers, mothers, guardians, young men 
 and maidsns please read the following Table 
 of Calculation, and see what it costs a young 
 man, starting at the age of twenty, to take 
 three d rink s at ten cents each, and smoke 
 three cigars at ten cents each, daily, making 
 the expense sixty cents per day. The small 
 amount of sixty cents per day, if deposited in a 
 Savings’ Bank at eight per cent, per annum 
 interest and compounded every six months, will 
 produce the results as given in the following 
 table: 
 
 1 st ten years, between age of 20 and 30 , $ 3,290 
 
 2d 
 
 3 d 
 
 4 th 
 
 5 th 
 
 30 and 40 , 10,500 
 40 and 50 , 26,200 
 50 and 60 , 60,690 
 60 and 70 136,360 
 
 You will observe that the above includes 
 no extra expenditure for smoking or chewing 
 tobacco or cigarettes, snuff or even an occasion¬ 
 al “ Bottle ot Wine,” but merely one cigar 
 after each meal, and three drinks during 
 the day and evening. We believe the above 
 estimate below rather than above the average 
 with those indulging in these luxuries or more 
 properly dissipations. 
 
 More than Dollars and Cents. 
 
 There are results in this world, which cannot 
 be estimated by dollars and cents. The time 
 wasted in the indulgence of these pernicious 
 habits, which tend to keep a man away from 
 his family during those hours in which a wife 
 is entitled to her husband's company, should 
 be a matter of very serious consideration. 
 
 Money is not the standard of value, when 
 character, manhood, and all that is ennobling in 
 human nature, is taken into consideration. 
 
 IDO,000 Hum Sellers. 
 
 There are in the United States 190,000 
 licensed rum-sellers, 2,000,000 habitual 
 drinkers. 600,000 hopeless sots, 60,000 
 drunkards who fall into dishonored graves an¬ 
 nually. Nearly all the murders committed are 
 the results of drinking and drunkenness. Care¬ 
 ful estimates show that there are fermented 
 and distilled liquors yearly used in the United 
 States to fill a canal four feet deep, fourteen 
 feet wide, and 120 miles long; and liquor shops 
 enough, side by side, to make a double row, or 
 street, 100 miles long. It costs $11,000,000 
 a year to support tlie paupers of 
 tlie United States. $200,000,000 
 is invested in the liquor trade 
 alone ; and how much in tobaoco I have no 
 statistics to show. 
 
 Vote for Temperance Men. 
 
 Friends of Temperanoe, and all lovers of 
 your country, I beseech you to hold counsel to¬ 
 gether; show your determination, by acts as 
 well as woids, to crash out the use, manufac¬ 
 ture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and 
 poisonous, brutalizing tobacco. Voteforgood 
 temperance men at your elections, and, as far 
 as possible, make every vote a temperance 
 pledge, until you have rid the land of these 
 deadly poisons, and by so doing deserve the 
 blessings of the good and the wise. 
 
 Let all good citizens demand the passage 
 and enforcement of an ordinance strictly and 
 sternly forbidding the sale of drinks or tobac¬ 
 co to minors. There is probably at this time 
 no greater hindrance to religion and morality 
 than the use of tobacco. The trumpet of 
 battle has been sounded among good and re¬ 
 ligious people, against this terrible evil, affect¬ 
 ing so seriously our people, especially the 
 young of our country. Very soon all will have 
 to take sides on this question, and I appeal 
 especially to all the boys and girls in the land, 
 to enlist under the banner of perfect purity in 
 all things. 
 
 Young Men and Women Beware 
 
 of social influences and the demons of fashion 
 that tempt you to drinking habits, resulting, 
 step by step, in familiarity with vioe and intem¬ 
 perance, a loss of self-respect, and, as the first 
 step in remedying these great evils, sign the 
 
 “ Blue Ribbon Temperance Pledge,” 
 
 and keep it sacredly, and you are secured against 
 all such dangers. 
 
 Our Name — “Blue Ribbon Temperance 
 Pledge,” we derive from Numbers 15 , 3 Sand 40 . 
 
 The people of Israel were forgetful of God s 
 commands, and He directed Moses to tie a 
 blue ribbon to the hem of their garments, where 
 it would be constantly before their eyes, that 
 they might “remember his commandments, to 
 do them.” 
 
 The Blue Ribbon should be put on with the 
 signing of the pledge, and worn both as a 
 badge and a symbol. 
 
 Please read the Card carefully, and intro¬ 
 duce it to your Sunday-schools, and by such 
 organized action as you may deem proper, 
 obtain all the signatures possible, and thus 
 add your influence to the great work of bring¬ 
 ing about a healthy state of public sentiment 
 on these two monster evils. 
 
 If you will do nothing more, pledge your¬ 
 selves not to drink wine or other intoxicat¬ 
 ing drinks, or smoke or use tobaoco, at the 
 expense of another. This will commend itself 
 to every person of lady-like and gentlemanly in¬ 
 stincts, and put an end to social treating. 
 
 Temperance men and women of all ages, 
 organize yourselves iuto temperance societies 
 for efficient work, and destroy the yoke of alco¬ 
 hol. It is upon wives and helpless children 
 that these great evils fall most heavily. Wick¬ 
 
 ed, sinful, debasing and ruinous as they are, 
 they find their countenance and sanction in 
 public opinion, and here they must find their 
 correction. 
 
 Ask yourselves tlie following 
 questions: 
 
 Does it pay to have fifty workmen, with 
 their families, poor, half led or starving, to 
 support one liquor saloon and tobacco shop ? 
 
 Does it pay to receive a few dollars for a 
 license to conduct this nefarious business and 
 have one citizen in jail, tried, convicted and 
 hanged for murder, at a cost to the county of 
 $20,000, while the rumseller who sold him the 
 drink that induced him to commit the crime, is 
 free from legal responsibility. 
 
 Does it pay to have hundreds and thou¬ 
 sands ot intelligent young men turned into 
 hoodlums, thieves and vagabonds, that a few 
 men in a neighborhood may lead a lazy life in 
 selling them ram and poisonous tobacco? 
 
 Put alcohol and tobacco, as luxuries, out 
 of existence, and you have annihilated the 
 greatest curses and tyrants of the human race. 
 Banish the cause, and depraved appetites will 
 cease. You will restore the Drunkard to 
 himself, his business, his family and friends, 
 put fire on his cold hearth, food on his bare 
 table, clothing on his ragged and neglected chil¬ 
 dren, rejoice the heart ot his wife in peace and 
 plenty, give nerve to his arm, give joy to his 
 toil by day and repose to his mind by night 
 All this is possible, if good men and women fr 
 will join in a common effort—not fanatically, 
 but firmly—to proclaim their principles every¬ 
 where, and boldly stand by them. ^ 
 
 Preachers in our Pulpits. 
 
 Is it right to have preachers in our pul¬ 
 pits, and intrust teachers in our schools 
 and Sabbath-schools with the care, instruc¬ 
 tion and guidance of our children, that drink 
 ardent spirits, or use tobacco in any form— 
 whose precept and example are potent in 
 influencing our children for good or evil ? Pa¬ 
 rents, please think a moment about these honest 
 facts. They must come home to every one 
 who loves his children, and earnestly desires 
 their instruction and best interests. 
 
 Does it pay to tolerate any traffic which 
 breeds poverty, crime, idleness, agony, shame 
 and death wherever it is allowed ? I say not ! 
 
 Rum and tobacco sellers, you alone who 
 think these iniquities do pay, tell the pale,wast¬ 
 ed wife and mother, and the ragged, neglect¬ 
 ed children, that out of the ram and tobacco 
 you have sold their husbands and fathers you 
 have become rich. 
 
 Tell the drunkard that for his withered, 
 bloated body’s death and his soul’s perdi¬ 
 tion, you have been paid so much money. 
 
 Tell the orphans in the street that you 
 robbed them of parents, home, bread, education 
 and friends, to live a lazy, easy life yourself. 
 
 Stand by the graves of the last 12 months 
 and shout to the 60,000 sots who die annually, 
 that you are one of those to whom they are in¬ 
 debted for their desolate death-bed, and that you 
 sacrificed them for gold. 
 
 Follow your victims to the bar of God, 
 where you must speak the truth—there will 1 e 
 no prevarication there—and say beforo Eternal 
 Justice, “ I slew them, and have brought end¬ 
 less perdition upon myself for the sake of a 
 short and infamous life on earth.” 
 
 Tobacco used in any form 
 
 Is poisonous to the human body, especially 
 so to the nervous system. It destroys the vi¬ 
 tality of children in their tender growing years, 
 and to a greater or less extent stunts the growth 
 of all who use it. No young man using to¬ 
 bacco ever developed into the same muscular 
 and nervous vigor and manhood, he would wit h-^ 
 
<{ out it. It renders children inclined to be 
 weak, feeble, and helpless, or causes their death 
 at an early age, and must be regarded as one 
 of the chief reasons why our boys are not 
 growing up vigorous and strong as in earlier 
 times, when medicated cigarettes and cigars 
 were little known and seldom used. 
 
 I have no time nor space here to 
 relate facts and figures, but if you will take the 
 trouble to read scientific treatises and inves¬ 
 tigations, giving the baneful effects of tobacco 
 upon the human system, especially upon the 
 young, you will see that I have sufficient reasons 
 for speaking as I do of this poison and vice. 
 Aside from its poisonous effects, it is a useless, 
 expensive, and filthy habit, when chewed, 
 smoked, snuffed, dipped, or used in any form 
 whatever; and for social and cleanly reasons 
 should be avoided as any other disagreeable and 
 unfortunate nuisance. The aroma of a cigar 
 may be agreeable to the senses for the moment, 
 but it is all gone with the smoke; nothing but 
 the offensive nicotine is left behind, and this 
 has the same effect upon clothing, and the car¬ 
 pets and drapery of the room, as that produced 
 by the commonest pipe. 
 
 Cars, Table and Church. 
 
 We often sit down in the cars, at table, 
 at church, in a room by the side of men, oth¬ 
 erwise looking clean, whose hair, whiskers, and 
 clothing, are so laden with the odor of nicotine 
 that their presence is intolerable to ladies, and 
 those unaccustomed to such company. We 
 gladly move away from them, and avoid, when 
 we can, a repetition of the contact. 
 
 It is evident to those who have given 
 much thought and careful study to the effect 
 of tobacco upon the good morals and physical 
 health of the rising generation, that the time 
 has now arrived when an earnest raid should be 
 commenced against that evil,and an effort should 
 be made to carefully guard the young against 
 the pernicious use of tobacco, in all its forms, 
 by showing them that it impairs digestion, de¬ 
 presses the vital powers, causes the limbs to 
 tremble, and weakens the action of the heart. 
 
 Parents, Guardians, Friends, 
 
 see to it, that no time is lost. Let our little ones 
 be warned, ere it be too late. What will satisfy 
 their taste this year will not be sufficient for the 
 next, and so both smoking and chewing, like 
 drinking, will certainly increase from year to 
 year, until the man who, a few years ago, was 
 but a very moderate user, becomes the slave 
 bound in Promethean chains that he cannot or 
 will not break, and which will surely tell most 
 seriously upon his health in later years. To see 
 men more wedded to a spittoon, cigar or pipe, 
 than to their wives, is most unfortunate. It is 
 too often the case, that they will desert their 
 company to get somewhere to smoke and ex¬ 
 pectorate their tobacco juice, and smear their 
 doorsteps, porches, and often parlors, with their 
 filthy quids. After a time, they become so 
 blunted in feeling by their use, that they are 
 neglectful or indifferent to the feelings or pleas¬ 
 ures of others, and like many men even high 
 in position, will puff away at all times and 
 places, with utter indifference to the rules of all 
 decent society. 
 
 Tobacco is injurious to the Teeth. 
 
 This has been demonstrated by scientists and 
 the dental profession generally many times. 
 Dr. John Allen, the father of dentistry in New 
 York, whose written works on dentistry are 
 known everywhere, assured me that tobacco, 
 however small the quantity taken, is injurious 
 to the teeth, and that the effect upon the gums 
 and teeth, and in fact upon the whole system, 
 is most baneful. “No man who uses it, and 
 comes to me for advice and consultation about 
 his teeth, can sit in my chair a moment with¬ 
 out my discovering the unmistakable disease 
 tinge and puffiness it gives the gums; and, usu¬ 
 ally, I find greater difficulty in getting the im¬ 
 
 pression of the mouth than I do with sound 
 healthy gums, free from the poison of nicotine. 
 I u those who chew or smoke to any great extent, 
 the gums are spougy and tender, preventing a 
 close fit when the artificial teeth are inserted. 
 I am caused greater trouble, and give less satis¬ 
 faction to tobacco users, than I am when operat¬ 
 ing upon a mouth free from tobacco or nicotine 
 poison—so much so that I feel compelled to 
 make an extra charge upon all such for the 
 additional trouble nnd work I am called on to 
 perform to make satisfactory work. 
 
 The teeth of tobacco users, later in life, 
 often fall out without decay, on account of the 
 saliva loaded with nicotine poison diseasing the 
 mouth and gums, destroying the penostium that 
 forms the tie or cement between the tooth and 
 the jaw, causing it to drop out, aud, when decay 
 has set in, this poison is very corroding upon 
 the bony structure of the teeth, and such are 
 much sooner destroyed than those of a healthy 
 mouth, which is free from this corrosive poison. 
 I hope men will not deceive themselves about 
 matters so important to their health and best 
 interests. 
 
 The National Dispensatory, 
 
 a work of preeminent authority, by Drs. Alfred 
 Stille and John M. Maisch, published but a 
 few months since, on the Physiological Effects of 
 Tobacco, says, “ The excessive use of tobacco by 
 smoking, snuffing, or chewing lessens the nat¬ 
 ural appetite, more or less impairs digestion, 
 and induces ccnstipation, while itirritates|the 
 mouth and throat, rendering it habitually con¬ 
 gested and destroying the purity of the voice. 
 It induces an habitual sense of uneasiness and 
 nervousness, with epigastric sinking or ten¬ 
 sion, palpitation, hypochondriasis, and neu¬ 
 ralgia. Chewing and snuffing tend to cause 
 gastralgia, but smoking neuralgia of the fifth 
 pair of nerves. (These are the nerves that 
 principally supply the face and head.) It ren¬ 
 ders the vision weak and uncertain, causing 
 objects to appear nebulous, or creates muscas 
 volitantes, and similar subjective perceptions. 
 In numerous instances it has caused destruc¬ 
 tion of the optic nerve. Similar derange¬ 
 ments of hearing occur, with buzzing, ring¬ 
 ing, etc., in the ears, and even hallucinations 
 of this sense. Often there is a feeling of a 
 rush of blood to the head, with vertigo and 
 impairment of attention, so as to prevent con¬ 
 tinuous mental effort. The mind is also apt to 
 be filled with crude and groundless fancies, 
 leading to self-distrust and melancholy. The 
 sleep is restless and disturbed by distressing 
 dreams. It impairs muscular power and co¬ 
 ordination, probably both by interfering with 
 nutrition and by exhausting nervous force, 
 and usually keeps down the growth of muscle 
 and the deposit of fat; and it acts upon a certain 
 number, in almost all cases, as a poison.” 
 
 In our Efforts tor Reform. 
 
 All great reforms are accomplished by graded 
 efforts, and with a high standard. The work of 
 reform in our own lives is by successive steps, 
 requiring a life-time to attain the end sought. 
 Universal temperance cannot be attained by 
 any overwhelmning coercive measures. Like 
 all reforms, and like physical changes within the 
 human organism, it must be by a gradual pro¬ 
 cess, according with the standard, of education 
 upon this subject. The temperance pledge is a 
 great and useful thing, but it must be re-invig¬ 
 orated by Christian principle. It must have the 
 heart of its being in a pure religion. 
 
 Every ounce of liquor costs the poor man 
 a loaf of bread, and every paper of tobacco 
 or cigar the same. The fire liquor builds in 
 a poor man’s stomach and brain, extinguishes 
 the fire on his hearth; while the fiery blood 
 that rushes through his own veins, madly burn¬ 
 ing his life away, is transmitted to his help¬ 
 less children, producing and perpetuating a 
 race of paupers and criminals. 
 
 If there were no rum or tobacco made, 
 
 one Iri 
 
 sold or used as a luxury, there would be no one 
 out of work, or starving. 
 
 Make the temperance movement felt ev¬ 
 erywhere, and ultimate victory is sure to come. 
 Organize, with determination to triumph, 
 and hundreds of thousands will flock to your aid. 
 Every such movement as Temperance and 
 Tobacco reform needs continual renewing. 
 The power of tho tide of this reformation de¬ 
 pends on the thousands upon thousands of rills 
 that shall continue to flow into it. 
 
 The Religious Principle 
 
 is the most powerful agency in the world. 
 Whatever controls that, controls the world. If 
 it can be enlisted in the cause of temperance, 
 thr.t cause .must succeed. That it should be so 
 enlisted is most evident, for the highest points 
 of good reached in the temperance cause coin¬ 
 cide perfectly with the principles of religion. 
 
 There is no form ot evil that the church 
 may not remove; and if the church could be 
 brought fully to the support of the abolition of 
 the use of ardent spirits and tobacco, the days 
 of these evils would be numbered. But instead 
 of the support which the cause of moral reform 
 has a right to expect from the church, she is too 
 often found arrayed in her practice against 
 it. This is often seen in her traffic in drinks, 
 tobacco, cigars, lottery schemes, games of 
 chance, etc., at her socials, festivals and fairs. 
 
 A wise general is always careful on which 
 side he kills. And it the church would heed 
 the teachings, both by precept aud example, of 
 its great Leader, it would not show the morti¬ 
 fying spectacle of wielding the very weapons of 
 Satan for filthy lucre. 
 
 Every such act is as much a betrayal of 
 Christ and his cause, as the treatment he re¬ 
 ceived from Judas, or the defamers of the tem¬ 
 ple, whom he scourged from its sacred wall?. 
 Shame upon all Christians who would not 
 scruple to take the devil’s power to run the 
 Lord’s mill. 
 
 The habit fixed in ioutli governs 
 the Man. 
 
 Thousands of prematurely gray heads to-day 
 are hastening to the tomb, because of the perni¬ 
 cious habits of their youth. 
 
 Habit may be good, but it is always despot¬ 
 ic. We are free to choose what habits shall 
 reign over us, but we are not free to reject the 
 dominion of a habit that has been indulged aud 
 grown upon us from childhood. 
 
 The young can have no stronger reason 
 than the Power of Habit to induce them to 
 scrutinize the influences which are now forming 
 their character. 
 
 The middle-aged and the old have but little 
 interest in such an investigation, for on them 
 the omnipotent past has already fixed its im¬ 
 press for all time to come. Their intellects have 
 already received form and hue from opportuni¬ 
 ties, well or ill improved—long since gone, but 
 still working powerfully in the character for 
 good or evil. 
 
 The young are now forming habits which 
 shall become thus potent with them, therefore 
 we have brought this appeal in their behalf. 
 
 In conclusion, we would ask, is this a busi¬ 
 ness which was ever engaged in with a desire to 
 honor God ? Is the manufacture and use of 
 these poisons something over which a man can 
 pray ? 
 
 And now we submit these thoughts to your 
 careful consideration. If moral, the manufac¬ 
 ture, traffic, and use, should be driven on with 
 all the power of American energy; with all the ■ 
 aids of wealth, and all the might of steam, and ' 
 all the facilities of railroads; for our Country 
 and the Church call all men to honorable em¬ 
 ployment. But if it be immoral aud wrong, it 
 should be abandoned at once. This is demand¬ 
 ed alike by both Church aud State. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Most respectfully yours, 
 
 k. h. McDonald. 
 
 
The following are fac-similes, face and back, of our “Blue Ribbon Temperance Pledgee” Card. 
 They can be obtained, in any number, upon application to the 
 
 Methodist Book Depository, No. 1041 Market Street, or the 
 American Tract Society, No. 757 Market Street. 
 
 SCRIPTURE AUTHORITY FOR WEARING THE BLUE. 
 
 “ Speak unto the Children of Israel, and hid them that they pnt on a RIBBAND OP BLUE. 
 That ye may look upon it; that ye may ee^mbee.”—N umb, xv, 33—40. 
 
 THE ELBE RIBBON ISA BADGE OF TEMPERANCE, AND WORN BY MANY OF ITS FOLLOWERS. 
 
 ^C/FICCOASl 
 
 HATlOHAL 
 
 :iMNC? UH10* 
 
 GOD helping me, I, THE UNDERSIGNED, pledge my word of 
 honor to abstain from the use of DISTILLED, FERMENTED and MALT 
 LIQUORS, as a beverage, and from the use of TOBACCO in all its forms; 
 and I will use all honorable means of inducing others to do the same. 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
 
 
 The IUJ>lc is a Total-abstinence boob. The ■word 
 wine occurs in it 261 times; 121 times it contains warn¬ 
 ings; 71 times, warnings and reproofs; 12 times 
 j pronounces it as poisonous and venomous; 5 times to¬ 
 tally prohibits it. Wine dishonored Noah, defiled JLot, 
 
 1 caused priest sand prophets tostnnible and fall, made 
 '.rounds without cause, and wrought woe and sorrow. 
 
 olomon styled it a Mocker, and ONE who is greater 
 than .Solomon alluded to it as a symbol of wratb. 
 
 '14) RAC CO, chewed, smoked, snuffled, or used in 
 any form, is unhealthy, expensive, uncleanly and inconven¬ 
 ient, producing deadening and injurious effects on the nerv¬ 
 ous system; and is especially injurious to children and youth, 
 dwarfing more or less mind, body and morals. Fathers, mo¬ 
 thers, friends, will you set the example, and use your influ¬ 
 ence against those pernicious habits? If you will think sori- 
 ously on this subject, and deal honestly with your convictions, 
 we feel confident you will join in this effort. 
 
 Sir Astley Cooper, the great English surgeon, said:— 
 “I new r suffer ardent spirits in my house, thinking them 
 evil spirits; andif thepoorcould witness the white 1 Iv¬ 
 or s, dropsies, and shattered nervous systems which 
 
 I have seen, as the consequences of drinking, they would he 
 aware that spirits and poisons are synonymous terms.” 
 
 Moderate Brinking leads to I>rnnkenness; 
 
 Drunkenness leads to poverty, misery, sickness, crime, insan¬ 
 ity, suicide and death ; makes widows and orphans, shortens 
 li fe, makes hard times, tills our jails and poorhouses, ruins 
 
 1 young men and kills old ones; increases our taxes, and re- 
 | tards the progress of religion. 
 
 8600,000,000 are Spent annually in our country forB 600 000 persons in the United States are drunkards, 
 intoxicating liquors, or more than for bread. | Of these, CO,000 annually fill dishonored graves; 
 
 INTEMPERANCE among women is increasing 
 at an alarming rate; statistics prjve its prevalence to 
 he f tartling. In the upper circles of society, it is impos¬ 
 sible to give a correct statement of its increase, because the 
 retire 1 life of most women favors the indulgence in seerr t, 
 ■■specially during its earlier stages. But among the 
 
 1 over classes of our cities we have no difficulty in esti¬ 
 mating the inroads Rum is making. 
 
 THE CAUSES of Intemperance are social 
 temptations whenever woman mingles in society; for 
 winc-driuking has become a custom almost as universal 
 as eating, in fashionable circles. 
 
 INTEMPERANUE affects a woman’s moral char¬ 
 acter more powerfully than it docs that of a man. Under 
 
 it she becomes coarse in manner, gross in thought and feel¬ 
 ing, and vulgar in speech. When her system has beeomo 
 alcoholized, litr mind also becomes animalized, and slio is 
 sure to transmit to her children these degrading qualities 
 in a ten-fold greater degree than does the father with the 
 same habits. This fact all medical authorities admit, that tho 
 future life of the child—mental, moral, and physical 
 —depends chiefly upon the purity of the mother. 
 
 TDHE REFORM must begin in home circles. 
 Mothers must teach their daughters to abstain from 
 drinking wine, if they would keep them from drinking 
 brandy. Teach them that any stimulant which produces 
 a temporary exhilaration, if repeated, will soon beeomo a 
 fixed want of the system, and every nervo will cry out for it. 
 
 Additional Circulars like this can also be had at the above-mentioned places.