JAMES B

JAMES B. ANTHONY

James B. Anthony, who is one of Madison County's thrifty farmers and stock raisers, was born in the year 1825, and is the son of William and Jane (Marshall) Anthony. The father was born in Virginia, and was by occupation a farmer. He moved to Missouri in 1819 and located in Madison County, and educated in the pioneer log schoolhouses of early days. In 1846 he went to Texas, and in 1849 started for California with an ox-team, being on the road 120 days. There, like many others, he prospected for gold and was reasonably successful. After remaining in the land of gold two years he took ship at Sacramento, was in a fearful storm that threw him out of his regular course fifty-nine days, and returned by the Nicaragua route. He reached home in 1851, and after remaining here until the next spring, he and several of his brothers returned to California, where they remained until 1855, when they returned to Missouri. Here Mr. Anthony engaged in farming and in the rearing of livestock, which he followed until the war, when his experience a a pilot began. He enlisted under Marmaduke in Company A, Seventh Regiment, which was afterward consolidated into Geoffrey's regiment. He was then sent to Louisiana and kept on the outposts until the surrender of Price. Mr. Anthony is now sixty-three years old and is not married. He is the owner of 200 acres of land in Castor Township, and is a genuine Democrat in politics. He has been a member of the Christian Church for forty years.