Chronology of Henry County

1833

First horse powered grain mill in what is now Henry County: put up in the fall by Dr. Henry Wade, on section 4 of Tebo, near one of the branches of West Tebo Creek.

First physician to reside in what is now Henry County: Dr. Richard Wade, settled on section 4 of what is now Tebo Township.

First school taught in what is now Henry County.

Mormons driven from Jackson County.

Parks settlement located in what is now Leesville Township

October 20: First male child born in what is now Henry County: Preston Blevins

1834

Leesville laid out. Originally called Tebo.

May: Lafayette County Court creates Springfield Township, which included all of Tebo Township east of the range line between ranges 26 and 27. Tebo Township now included what are now Bogard, Big Creek, Honey Creek, White Oak, Walker, Davis, Deepwater and Bear Creek townships and Springfield Township the other townships of present day Henry County.

December 13: Missouri legislature passes an act creating Rives County, named in honor of William C. Rives, of Virginia.

December: Anderson Young and Daniel McDowell of Lafayette County and Daniel M. Boone of Jackson County appointed as a commission to locate a county seat for Rives County.

1835

Calhoun is platted. 2 acres were set aside as a public square. It never became county seat, being too far from the center of the county.

First Post Office, at Goff's, William Goff as postmaster.

First water powered grain mill in Rives County opened by Littleberry Kimsey on section 4 of Honey Creek township.

Thomas and Charles Waters open the first store in Rives County, 200 yards from the Avery cabin. Clark & Bogg opened another store. James Field then opened a store near Goff's cabin, and Hall & Ketcham opened a store at the ford on Tebo Creek, known as "the store down on the creek".

February 13: St. Clair County is placed under the civil and military jurisdiction of Rives County.

May 4-5: First county court meeting for Rives County, held at Henry Avery's place on Section 10 of what is now Tebo Township. (The County Court was what is now called the County Commission, the governing body for the county.)

May 5: County Court lays out four township in Rives County, based on an east west line running through the center of Township 42 and a north south line running through the middle of Range 26. Big Creek Township was in the northwest corner of the county, Tebo Township in the northeast corner, Grand River Township in the southwest corner of the county, and Springfield Township in the southeast corner. St. Clair Township was also created, covering all of St. Clair County.

September 4: St. Clair Township is divided on a north south line on Range 25, into Wablaw (later Waubleau) Township on the east and Monegaw Township on the west.

September: First circuit court held in Rives County, at William Goff's place, on fractional section 1 of what is now Deer Creek Township, south of Calhoun.

November 12: First marriage made after the organization of Rives County, Mr. Thomas A. Knox and Miss Nancy Allen, officiated by Rev. Abraham Millice.

1836

First houses and stores in Calhoun, several of them moving up from Goff's, several miles south in the Tebo Bottoms.

Howell Lewis, a nephew of George Washington, settles in Deer Creek township

Huntley's Mill established in Clinton township.

November 8: Peyton Parks is appointed County Seat Commissioner, and proposed county seat was named Clinton, in honotr of DeWitt Clinton, lawyer, statesman and Governor of New York.

November: Buyout of Indian claims to the Platte region completed.

November: County Court accepts a report prepared by Anderson Young, Daniel McDowell and Daniel M. Boone, the commissioners appointed to locate a county seat for Rives County, selecting a location in the southeast quarter of Section 3, Township 41 North, Range 26 West, and appointing Peyton Parks as county seat commissioner to lay of the county seat and sell lots. Under Park's direction James M. Goff surveyed 64 lots and the streets surrounding the public square, forming the first portion of the town of Clinton, named after Dewitt C. Clinton, former Governor of New York and chief promoter for the building of the Erie Canal.

1837

First building erected at Clinton was the Wallace Brothers store.

Post Office moved from Goff's to Calhoun.

February: County Court holds its final meeting at Goff's cabin.

February: First sale of lots at Clinton grossed $1,356.48.

March 28: Platte Purchase region added to the State of Missouri. (Includes all of present counties of Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Holt, Nodaway and Atchison

May 1: First meeting of the County Court at the new county seat. (Probably in James B. Sear's house; they certainly met there in June. From November, 1837 the County Court worked out of Mr. Littleberry Kimsey's house, then moved to Robert Sprawl's house sometime in 1838, and then to John Parks' house later in 1838.

August 7: John F. Sharp appointed agent of county to file preemption rights on the townsite of Clinton.

August: Clinton's first hotel/tavern established, by John Nave.

Fall: First school district organized in the county, District No. 1 of Township 42, Range 26 (now Fields Creek Township).

November 17: 1st State Capitol at Jefferson City burned.

December 9: Thomas B. Wallace, commissioner to superintend public buildings, and his assistant John F. Sharp, present plans for a brick courthouse for Rives County on the public square at Clinton. The county court approved the plans and appropriated $2,500 to build it. John D. Mercer was awarded the contract to build the courthouse.

December 12: John F. Sharp files for purchase of the quarter section making up the county seat at the U.S. Land Office at Lexington, Missouri.

1838

First ferry license issued to Edward Mulholland for a ferry over the Grand River in section 9, Township 40, Range 25, east of present day Brownington. Ferry rates were set at 6 cents for a man, 12 cents for a man and horse, 25 cents for a one-horse wagon, 31 cents for a two-horse wagon, 50 cents for a four-horse wagon, and 4 cents apiece for hogs, cattle, and sheep.

Mormons driven from Missouri.

January: Contract let to John D. Mercer for construction of the court house at Clinton.

March: New survey completed and additional lots placed on the market at Clinton.

May 8: John D. Mercer posts bond, accepting contract to build the courthouse.

1839

The "North Carolina" colony arrives, settles in Henry County. Includes the Walls, Fewell, Stone, Howerton and Lindsey families.

Well is constructed on the public square near the courthouse.

January 11: Osage Indians agree to remain within the borders of the Osage Nation in Indian Territory and no longer hunt in Missouri.

May 14: Sardis Baptist Church organized, in an old log schoolhouse near Tebo Creek.

August: Court house at Clinton is completed. It had cost $2,565.00 and was built from brick burnt right on the courthouse square.

Fall: "Honey War" between Missouri and Iowa over the disputed border. Militia called out but no fighting done and boundary dispute then sent to the courts.

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