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E. H. DAY

E. H. Day, mayor of Fredericktown, justice of the peace, sewing machine dealer and undertaker, was born in Brown County, Ohio, in 1845, and is the son of Absalom and Caroline (Willey) Day. The father was born in 1817, in the same house in which his son E. H. first saw the light of day, and was a cabinet maker and carpenter by trade. He was reared and grew to manhood in his native state, and has here passed his entire life. He has for the past twenty-nine years been a resident of Adams County. His wife was born in 1823 in the same State and County as her husband. She died in 1855. Of their children, two lived to be grown and two are now living: E. H., and Caroline M. (wife of A. C. Butler), who is living in Adams County, Ohio. E. H. was educated in the district schools, and when the war broke out he became one of the "Boys in Blue."July 16, 1863, he enlisted in Company B, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, for three years, but was in the service two years, two months and two days, operating in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was mustered out at Nashville and discharged at Columbus, Ohio, in August 1865. After the war he attended school for a few terms and began working in his father's shop. He resided in Adams County, Ohio, until 1871, when he went to Montgomery County, Mo., and established a sewing machine agency. In 1874 he came to Fredericktown, Mo., where he resumed the same line of business. In 1883 he added reapers and mowers, and April of the same year he added undertaking, and has carried on the combined business from that time up to the present, with good success. January 6, 1877 he married Miss Carrie Campbell, a native of Crawford County, Mo., born in 1853, and the daughter of Zachariah Campbell. To this union were born two children: Walter and Myrtle. In 1880 Mr. Day was elected mayor, and in 1884 was re-elected and still re-elected in 1887. He is the only justice of the peace in St. Michael Township, and administers to his neighbors difficulties with judicial fairness. He is a Post Commander of the G. A. R., and is quartermaster of Post No. 174, Department of Missouri. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., being Past Grand of Madison Lodge No. 172 of Missouri, and Secretary of the same, is a Master Mason, and an ancient member of the K. of H. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife is a member of the Christian Church.