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Archibald M. Sevier, editor and publisher of the Neosho Times, was born in Greene County, Tenn., August 2, 1829, and is a son of John Sevier, who was born in Rappahannock County. Va. The mother’s maiden name was Sophia Garroutte; she was born in New Jersey, and is of French descent, her father having come from France to the United States with Lafayette. Archibald M. Sevier is the seventeenth of eighteen children, and spent his early life in his native State. He became a resident of St. Louis in 1854, and there worked at the printer’s trade, which he had previously learned. In 1858 he came to Neosho and purchased the Neosho Herald, which paper he issued until June, 1861; afterward joined the Federal army, Eighth Missouri Cavalry, and was appointed regimental quartermaster, serving during the existence of this cavalry division as A. A. Q. M., on the staff of Col. Lewis Merrill, and also as quartermaster at Dewall’s Bluff, and then with his regiment until the close of the war. He was mustered out in 1865, and returned to Newton County, where he engaged in farming. In 1869 he established the Neosho Times and has continued the publication of the same up to the present time. He was elected one of the State railroad commissioners in 1878, and served in that capacity for six years. Pauline B. Sutton became his wife in 1861. She was born in Newton County, and is a daughter of Stephen D. Sutton, one of the pioneers of the county. Mr. Sevier’s grandfather, Col. John Sevier, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, having commanded a regiment at the battle of King’s Mountain, and was afterward governor of Tennessee for twelve years.