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| Name |
Alexander Denny |
| Prefix |
Captain |
| Born |
17 Jun 1826 |
Howard County, Missouri  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Notes |
- CAPTAIN ALEXANDER DENNY,
farmer and stock raiser and dealer. Captain DENNY's life has been more than an
ordinarily active one, as well as more than ordinarily successful. Soldiering,
school teaching, mining, teaming, merchandising, farming and the stock business
are the occupations that have successfully employed his time from early manhood
to the middle of the afternoon of life, and in all of them he has shown that he
possesses the qualities that win success in whatever situation one may be
placed. Some will fail anywhere, others nowhere, and Captain DENNY is one of
the latter class. He was born in this county, June 17th, 1826, and was a son
of James DENNY and wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth BEST, both natives of
Kentucky. They were married here, however, in 1818, the same year that his
father cast his fortunes with the "Boone's Lick country." Alexander grew up on
his father's farm in this county, and in youth secured a good ordinary English
education in the common schools and by diligent study at home. When twenty
years of age, being naturally of a spirited and enterprising disposition, he
became a soldier in the Mexican war, enlisting under the old Missouri hero,
General DONIPHAN, in 1846, and serving until the general discharge at New
Orleans, in 1847. He then came home and engaged in school teaching, which he
followed until 1849. That year the California gold excitement broke out , and
young DENNY was one of the first to brave the hardships and dangers of a trip
across the plains and over the cloud-capped heights of the Cordilleras, to the
Hesperian gardens of the Pacific coast. Nor was he one of the faint-hearted
many that lost their courage amid the trials of pioneer experience and returned
to the feather-bed ease of home life. He remained until 1856, digging deep
into the bowels of the earth for gold, and teaming through the Indian hemmed
mountain canons. His California life was not without substantial results.
Returning home in 1856, he engaged in merchandising and farming. In 1871 he
conducted a successful store in Roanoke, but that year sold out and turned his
whole attention to farming and the stock business. He has a magnificent farm
of a thousand acres finely improved, on which he grows grain and other products
and raises stock on an extensive sacle. He is also one of the leading stock
dealers in the county. During the late war, Captain DENNY commanded a company
of enrolled militia, and acquitted himself of the service with marked honor.
January 22d, 1856, he was married to Miss Mary A. SNODDY, and eight children
bless their conjugal life: Lizzie B., Joe S., Fossie, Kate M., Zannie M., Ula
B., James M. and David B. The "black camel, Death," as Abd-el-Kadir has
appropriately named it, has knelt at their door, and a loved one, a son, George
C., has been borne away.
HOWARD COUNTY MISSOURI BIOGRAPHIES (Prairie Township) page 570
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| Person ID |
I5693 |
Root Tree |
| Last Modified |
29 Jan 2017 |
| Father |
James Milton Denny, b. 1 Jan 1790, Garrard County, Kentucky , d. 21 Jan 1859, Walnut Grove, Howard County, Missouri (Age 69 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Best, b. 23 May 1799, Madison County, Kentucky , d. 3 Mar 1863 (Age 63 years) |
| Married |
Mar 1818 |
Howard County, Missouri |
| Family ID |
F1998 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Ann Snoddy, b. 2 Aug 1836, Armstrong, Howard County, Missouri , d. 2 Sep 1939, Marshall, Saline County, Missouri (Age 103 years) |
| Married |
22 Jan 1856 |
| Last Modified |
29 Jan 2017 |
| Family ID |
F2012 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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