My Genealogy Hound

ALDEN C. BESSE, farmer and breeder of fine stock, section 17, post-office Carthage. He is a native of the Buckeye State, born in Auglaize county, at Uniapolis, a town located and named by his paternal grandfather, who was a native of Bangor, Me., and could trace his genealogy back in an unbroken line to the Plymouth pilgrims. His wife was a Virginian by birth, named Farrow, of an old Virginian family. Our subject moved with his father to Henderson county, Ill., at the age of eleven. He came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1867, and located in Madison township, where his father died March 22, 1876, aged fifty-two. Though having the choice of adopting one of the learned professions, our subject early showed a preference for pastoral life, and has since given his time and attention to tilling the soil. He was married Oct. 17, 1880, to Miss Mary E., daughter of William and Elizabeth McGuire, well known and respected residents of Jasper county. Mr. Besse has in his composition enough Yankee pluck and energy to make him an active go-ahead business man, and does not propose secreting the “talents which his Lord hath given him,” but rather placing them where they will result as a benefit to humanity and profit to himself. He is turning his attention to the propagation of fine stock, and has on his farm, “Cedar Hill,” a herd of pedigreed Short-horns of the “Bates family.” His farm consists of 160 acres, well calculated for stock, having many valuable advantages which he proposes utilizing.