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- Cadwallada Brown Churchill was sent to St. mary's College near Lebanon in
Marion County, Kentucky to receive his education, and while attending
school he was employed as a clerk in the merchantile store of his uncle
Alfred Mackenzie Brown. This exposure to the world of business supposedly
influenced Cadwallada Brown Churchill to take up that line of work. So at
the age of 24 years in 1852, he moved to Linn Crek, Camden County,
Missouri which was at that time a thriving wholesale point doing business
with all Southwest Missoure and Northern Arkansas. Very soon after his
arrival there, he began working for Dodson, Roberts & Co., one of the
antebellum wholesale firms of that area. He worked there until 1854 when
he and James W. Vernon started a boot and shoe business. Owing to a
depression in the business and a favorable opportunity to sell out, he and
Mr. Vernon disposed of this enterprize. From 1855 to 1859, he was
employed as a bookkeeper for Popplewell, Dodson & Davis, as well as their
successors in business, Popplewell, Swink & Company. In 1859 he started
his own merchantile store in Lebanon, Missoure but sold out to Robey &
Ivey during the Civil War. At this time he moved back to Linn Creek,
Missoure to farm; however, not happy in the role of a farmer, he opened a
drug store in Linn Creek, Missoure in 1879. In 1881 he was back in the
merchantile business with J. A. Vernon, a son of his business partner 27
years before. Vernon & Churchill was successful for a number of years and
was eventually succeeded by Churchill & Company, of which Cadwallada Brown
Churchill was the senior partner. Sometime before 1890 he retired to his
home in Lebanon, Missouri as well as three times the Deputy County
Treasurer of Camden County, Missouri. He was also a member of the
I.O.O.F. Cadwallada Brown Churchill and his first wife, Mary Frances
Vernon, made their home in Lebanon, Missouri. Cadwallada Brown Churchill
was described as a Kentucky gentleman--chivalrous, courteous, and
sensitive. Among strangers he maintained a quiet, gentlemanly reserve.
With friends he was highly genial, pleasant, and entertaining. He and his
second wife, by whom he had all of his children, made their home on a farm
in Goodwin Hollow just two miles west of Lebanon, Missouri. There all of
their children were born.
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1828 - 1893 (64 years)
