Schuyler County Missouri Biographies

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Schuyler County Missouri

Judge Enoch Crim

Judge Enoch Crim is a native of Clark County, Ky., and was born in 1827. His parents, John E. and Mildred (Sears) Crim, were both natives of the same county, and were born in 1806 and 1808, respectively. They were married, and lived in their native county until 1836, when they removed to Monroe County, Mo. After thirteen years residence there they went to Lewis County, where they died in 1883 and 1879, respectively. Both were members of the Christian Church. The father was a farmer, and an ardent Democrat, and as such served as constable in Lewis County sixteen years.

Enoch is the eldest of a family of nine children, and was reared upon the farm. His early educational advantages were very limited, his school life not exceeding a year, but by patient study and reading, by the light of a bark fire after his daily duties were discharged, he acquired a good practical business education. At the age of twenty he was engaged to drive a team of oxen to Santa Fe.

He returned home in 1848, and was united in marriage to Nancy Peacher, a native of Howard County, Mo., born in 1832. To them eight children were born: Ann C., Margaret E., John A., Enoch W., Frank P. and Warren E. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Crim located in Monroe County, and in 1854 removed to Lewis County, Mo., where they remained but two years. They next located in Schuyler County, and settled upon the farm where they now reside, which contains 219 acres of fertile and well-cultivated land.

Mr. Crim has now been a resident of Schuyler County, and lived in the same vicinity over thirty-one years. He is a successful farmer, and one of the best citizens of the county. He served as constable five years, and from 1874 to 1882 filled the office of probate judge, and for the last fourteen years has been a school director. In politics he is a Democrat, and himself and wife are worthy church members, he belonging to the Missionary Baptist Church, and she to the Christian.

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

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