Schuyler County Missouri Biographies

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Schuyler County Missouri

J. R. Blackwood

J. R. Blackwood, senior member of the firm of Blackwood and Hombs, is a son of Joseph and Kittie (Jones) Blackwood, who were married, and for many years resided in Kentucky. At an early day they settled in Marion County, Mo., where the father still lives; the mother died in 1852. The father is a carpenter by trade, and both himself and wife were united with the Presbyterian Church many years ago.

J. R. is the youngest of six children, and was born January 12, 1852, in Marion County, Mo., and was but an infant at the time of his mother's death. His education was limited to the common schools of the country. Soon after arriving at maturity he engaged in the stock raising business with a cousin, but after two years embarked in the mercantile life in Hunnewell, Mo. He remained there a year, when he sold out and removed to Macon City, where he was employed by the firm of Goldsbury & Stephens. In 1882 he came to Glenwood and opened a general store in partnership with W. H. Sipple. Later he sold his interest and engaged in the boot and shoe business at Canton, but in a year returned to Glenwood and became a member of the firm of Blackwood & Hombs, and is now one of the enterprising and prosperous merchants of Glenwood.

In 1883 he was united in marriage to Miss Addie, daughter of Dr. T. W. Reed of Macon City, Mo. Mrs. Blackwood is a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Mr. Blackwood is a Democrat. In Masonry he is a member of Greenwood Lodge, No. 427.

Source: History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, Volume 2, Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888

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