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1851 - 1856: Fayetteville, Cumberland Co., NC: Entered the wholesale grocery and cotton house of A. W. Steele.
1856 - 1857: Lima, IL: Move to IL and taught school.
1857 - 1863: Moved to Saline Co., MO
1863 - 1866: Was mining in the mountains of Colorado, Montana & California; returned to Pettis Co., Missouri & opened drug store in Dresden.
1870 - 1975: Moved to Windsor Twp., Missouri & opened another drug store.
STAFFORD, M. L. - b: 1834 Guilford Co, NCsource: 1883 History of Henry Cou nty, Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 596 residence: Windsor Twp
M. L. Stafford was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, October 5, 1834, and was the son of Z. J. Stafford, a native of Stafford County, Virgini a, whose father was Robertson Stafford. The wife of Z. J. Stafford, former ly Hannah Haines, was of a Quaker family, originally from Pennsylvania. S he was born in North Carolina, and was a daughter of Isaac Haines, of Penn sylvania. Her uncles, Jacob, Joshua and Job, were early settlers of Dayton, Ohio. Young Stafford early exhibited a remarkable taste for books. When a boy he was once sent by his father to market, and there saw for the first time a book store. Delighted as he was he purchased a number of books, and while on the way home, 110 miles, devoured them by the light of pine knot camp fires. He completed his education at Trinity College, of North Carolina, and after leaving school entered the wholesale grocery and co tton house of A. W. Steele, at Fayetteville, that state, remaining there f or four years. In the spring of 1856 he removed to Illinois, taught school for a time at Lima, and in 1857 came to Missouri, locating in Saline Co unty. In 1863 he visited the mountains of Colorado, Montana and Californi a, and spent the time until 1866 in mining. Returning to Pettis Count y, he opened a drug store in Dresden, and in 1870 he came to Windsor and started a like establishment here, which he conducted for five years. He w as the first man, in company with Capt. J. M. Burrus, to introduce the raising of flax in the county, and this industry has grown from a few hundred bushels shipped at first, to fifty car loads, shipped during the seas on of 1882. In 1879, he formed a partnership with W. J. Livingston in t he grain trade, in which he is now engaged. Politically Mr. Stafford is a Democrat, and in 1878 he was asked for permission to lay his name before the county convention for representative, but declined. In 18 82 he declined to become a candidate for county judge. He is a man well read and far better posted on politics, public men and the current literature of the day than the average person, and now his greatest pleasure is to be found in the quiet of his home with something new and instructive to read. He married Miss Elizabeth Patrick of Saline County in 1870. She was the daughter of Miles and Barshalic (Oliver) Patrick, the form er of Kentucky. The latter was a sister of Mr. M. Oliver. They have two children: Florence and Fred. Mr. S. belongs to the Masonic fraternit y. He is connected with the Peytons, an old and influential family of Virg inia.
SOURCES: (1) E-mail dated Dec. 14, 2001 from Tom Stafford
( 2) http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohenry/biography/hcbioS2. htm
Born:
- 1900 Census has him born in Oct 1834.
Census:
- Jun 1880. Listed as Mosus or Macus Stfford, a grain dealer, with wife Elizabeth, daughter Florrence, son Fred and widowed mother-in-law. Parents born in NC.
Buried:
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1832 - 1911 (78 years)
