The Missouri herald., 1922-05-05

When a man comes before tht
peoule rs candidate for public of
flee, there is natural and just de
sire to know something about hi
ancestry. Like father, like son,
is phrase which has proven true
so often in showing the influence o.
heredity, and that 1t has a guide il
judging the character Of indi
viduals.
In this favored Republic, forum.
ately, we have no titles of nobility
but each individual is ranked ac.
cording to his own virtues or faults
and the qualities we demand are
those of honesty, industry sobriety
and good judgment. If a mans
parents have shown these qualities
in their daily lives, one is safe in
assuming that they have been hand
ed down in greater or less degree to
himself.
In our western states we have a
population which is noted for the
possession of those sturdy and up
right traits of character that gave
our pioneers the ability to wrest
the wilderness from the forces of
nature and the savages of the for
est, and carry the star Of empire
across the prairie wastes to the roll
ing billows of the Pacific. Our west
ern states are now peopled largely
by the descendants of those hardy
and daring pioneers, and we find
in them the same homely, yet ster-
ling, virtues that distinguished their
fathers and grandfathers.
1t was this spirit of enterprise
and the hope of establishing him
self and his children in a new and
more promising country that some
years before the Civil War led a
native of Virginia named Peter w.
Coleman to leave that state and
come as pioneer to Pemiscot Coun-
ty, Missouri
In those days of slow and difficult
transportation, that journey, which
one of our express trains now COW
ers in less than a day, was a serious
undertaking, fraught with dangers
and uncertainties which we of today
can hardly realize. The old prairie
schooner" or Conestoga wagon, with
its plodding team of oxen, which
now has become a curiosity, was the
familiar mode of transportation.
There were wild animals, highway
men and lurking savages to be fear
ed, and at the end of the journey all
the trials and deprivations attendant
upon settlement in new and
sparsely populated country.
After the long and slow journey
on land, at last the broad and ma
jestic waters of the Mississippi
came in view, and here the little
family loaded their few worldly eff
fects on boat and continued on the
remainder of their journey on the
great river to a place formerly
known as Lower Cow-Skin, and
which is now Sanford, some four
or five miles west of Holland, Mis-
souri,.
The nearest shipping point for
this place was little town called
Lintdale, Missouri, about mile
above the present location of Tyler
Missouri. and Lintdale being then
a thriving little shipping point,
George l. Coleman, the man from
whom ! got the middle initial in my
name, Shelley |, Stiles, and which
name is the good old Scotch name,
"Iverson," the oldest son of Peter |
w. Coleman, decided to leave the |
rest of the party in Cow-Skin, All
locate at Lintdale, Missouri.
This he did, and taking unto him
self wife, he entered the general
Understanding a ware
house and shipping business. as at
that time large numbers of cattle
were brought In from the cane
brakes. where they roamed wild, AMI
were shipped to Cincinnati, Ohio,
and New Orleans, La. by boats on
The old Anchor Line and Collar Line
which were in operation at that
lime; and Lintdale was also the
principal shipping point for the
products raised in our sister coun-