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MINOR GILMORE is a highly respected and well-to-do agriculturist of Johnson County, residing on section 12, township 45, range 25. He is a native of this state, having been born in Morgan County, October 8, 1845. His parents, Scott and Nancy (Burch) Gilmore, were born, respectively, in Kentucky and Tennessee. They first located on a farm in Morgan County, this state, prior to the birth of our subject. This tract Scott Gilmore entered from the Government, and there the parents continued to live for many years. On selling their estate they removed to Pettis County, where they had a large tract of land within twenty miles of Sedalia.

The parents of our subject carried on farming and stock-raising on the above farm until their return to Morgan County. The farm which they then purchased was two hundred and eighty acres in extent, and it was on this property that Minor was born, the father dying there nine years later. Mrs. Gilmore lived to the age of threescore years and ten. Her children were seven in number, those besides our subject being William, John, Giles, Jane, Lean and Monroe, all deceased.

Minor Gilmore when quite young assumed the responsibility of caring for and supporting his widowed mother. He sold the old place two years before her death and removed seven miles northeast of the homestead, where they were renters. After the death of his mother he continued to make his home on that place with a brother until his marriage, in 1877, to Miss Nancy A. Kendrick. She was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Kendrick, who were then living in Pettis County, and was born in 1859.

On establishing a home of his own, our subject rented a farm two miles from Florence, where he lived for two years. His wife died in the mean time, but he continued to live there until removing to Pettis County, a few months later. While there he lived with his father-in-law, and a year thereafter took up his abode with them in Johnson County, whither they had removed. For four years he was an inmate of their household, and at the end of that time was married to Miss Louisa Atwood, a native of North Carolina. Her parents are still living, the mother making her home on the farm in Dallas County, this state, while Mr. Atwood is a resident of Tennessee.

After his second union Mr. Gilmore located on a piece of property one-half mile south of his present estate, but only lived there three years, when he moved to another tract two miles southwest. His stay there was of short duration, for within a year we find him living on the former place, where he made his home for eight years. He then took up his abode on his well improved farm located near Pleasant Point Church. Mrs. Louisa Gilmore was called hence in June, 1893.

By his first marriage our subject became the father of one child, who died in infancy. He is not a member of any church organization, and in the matter of politics always votes for Democratic candidates.