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HON. JOHN N. SCHOOLER, farmer and stock-dealer. Prominent among the early settlers of Jasper county appears the name of the subject of this brief sketch. He was born in Allen county, Ohio, Dec. 17, 1838, where he was reared until seventeen years of age, when he came with his parents to southwest Missouri, and settled on Dry Fork Creek, in Jasper county, where his residence now is. At the breaking out of the war he was a staunch Union man, and at the occupation of the county by the Federal troops under the redoubtable Sigel, Mr. Schooler, from his perfect knowledge of the country, was chosen guide to that general, which he faithfully fulfilled until relieved from that duty on the morning of the battle of Carthage. He subsequently removed with his parents to Ringgold county, Iowa, where he married Miss Mary J. Homewood, a native of Ohio, March 25, 1866. She died in Jasper county, Mo., March 3, 1872, leaving two children, Nettie Lynn and Mary Louisa. He was married again April 13, 1876, to Miss Clara L, Murphy, a native of Ohio, from which union there are two children Katie T. and Frank J. His farm, Springdale, consists of 800 acres, 500 acres under plow, and 300 acres in pasture and woodland. The improvements are excelled by none in the county. On the farm is a good substantial stone residence, large barn, and out-buildings; also a fine spring, from which the farm takes its name, gushes forth convenient to the buildings, and flows a fine stream of clear, pure water, forming the principal tributary to Dry Fork Creek. Mr. Schooler, though never an aspirant for political honors, was elected to the Thirty-second General Assembly of the State of Missouri, on the Republican ticket, in 1882, and represented the people of the county fairly and impartially in the sessions of that honorable body, with profit to his constituency and credit to himself.