Peers.Edward.J.BIO The following are brief sketches of county officers in an out of print book published in 1888 called "The History of Lincoln County" MO. They mention people who had connections with KY. Eugene N. Bonfils was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 13, 1820; moved to St. Louis, July, 1842; to Lexington, KY., in 1846; granduated at Transylvania University, July, 1849; came the following month to St. Louis County, where he taught school; came to Troy in May, 1852 and commenced the practice of law. Besides offices named above, was probate clerk for four years preceding his election as judge, and held other positions of trust. Edward J. Peers came from Kentucky; he was a graduate of West Point and a maor of militia. He ided in Try, September 9, 1862. Jonathan Riggs was a native of Campbell County, Ky., and the son of Rev. Bethuel Riggs, the first Baptist preacher of this county. He came to this county in 1812, and made an honorable record during the war. He married Miss Jane Shaw, by whom he had eleven children. After the war he settled north of the Cuivre, on the Troy and Auburn road, where he died in 1834. He was a brigadier-general of militia. John Snethen was born in Estill County, Ky., and came with his father to Montgomery County in in 1808. Durning the War of 1812 he was in the forts in Howard County, and went to school with Kit Carson. He married Miss Euphemia Wells, sister if Judge Carty Wells, by whom he had six children. He was a merchant of Troy for thirty-seven years. David Stewart was born in Montgomery County, Ky., January 24, 1798; came to this State and settled near Palmyra in 1829, and came to this county the following year. He was a brigadier-general of the militia. He and his wife were both killed by a runaway horse attached to a buggy, while on their way to church at Louisville, on Sunday, June 11, 1871. He was a sprosperous farmer, and enjoyed, to the day of his death, the confidence and esteem of all who knew him; he was a sincere Christian gentlemen. Henry Watts was born in Kentucky, and at an early age came to this county. He wa scolnel of militia, and eas under marching orders with his regiment in Gen. Johnathan Riggs; brigade for the Black Hawk War, in 1832. he died in 1840. Charles Wheeler was born in Hanover County, N. H., April 1, 1794; moved to New Castle, Henry Co., Ky., in 1820; had charge of New Castle Academy nine months; went next year to Bedford County, and taught school. He came to Alexandria, in this county, in 1825; went Jefferson County, Ky., in 1828 taught school one year, and returned in 1829 to Troy, where he lived until his death, January 21, 1873. Richard Henry Woolfolk was born in Jefferson County, Ky., in October, 1803; studied medicine in his native State, and came to Troy in 1825; established and maintained a good practice in this and St. Charles Counties for about twenty-five years. In May 1828 he married Miss Helen B. Wells, sister to Judge Carty Wells. He died in this county. Morgan Wright was born in Bourbon County, Ky., and came at an early day to this county; he was abrother to the late Edward Thomas J. Wright; he married a daughter of Judge James Duncan of this county, and died at his home in Clark Township about the year 1852. Contributed by "M./T. Durning" Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1997