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Ebenezer West
West, E. Hon.
Ebenezer West was born near Parkersburg, in
Montgomery county, Indiana, February 9, 1829. He lived in
his native county until he reached the age of eight years,
when his parents removed to Boone county, same State, and
settled near Lebanon, where he lived with them until
attaining his majority. On the 28th of November, 1850, he
was united in marriage to Miss Julia Ann Robinson
[sic], and began farming upon a farm he had previously
purchased, in Boone county, and there continued to live
until 1853, when he sold his farm and removed to Lebanon.
There he was employed for two years in the county recorder's
office, then as bookkeeper for Conrad Perkins, a
merchant of the same place, after which he learned the
photographer's art and carried on that business in Lebanon
until 1859. In this latter year he removed to Missouri, and
settled in Bancroft, this county, where be engaged in
photographing until the breaking out of the war, in 1861.
He gave his services to the cause of the Union, enlisting in
Company H, Twenty-third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, under
Col. Jacob T. Tindall, and was elected second
lieutenant of his company. In September, 1861, while his
company was in quarters at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, he
was detailed ,on a recruiting expedition to Daviess county,
and while on his return with recruits was attacked by
bushwhackers, near Spring Hill, where himself and three men
were wounded. This laid him up for three months in the.
hospital at Chillicothe, during which time the captain of
his company having resigned he was promoted to fill the
vacancy. At the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, where the
colonel of the regiment was killed, he, with the remnant of
the command, was taken prisoner, and confined in the
Confederate prisons at Selma, Alabama, and Madison, Georgia,
until the following January, when he was exchanged.
Returning to his company, then stationed at Berger,
Missouri, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, on guard duty,
he remained one month, then resigned on account of ill
health, caused by wounds and prison exposure, and returned
to his home in Bancroft. He engaged in the photograph
business until the spring of 1864, when he sold out and
engaged in merchandising in the same place, with Nathan
Nichols, under the name and style of West &
Nichols.
In the fall of 1868 he retired from the firm and opened a
cabinet and wagon shop in Bancroft, continuing the business
until 1875. He was elected to represent Daviess county in
the General Assembly of the State, for the term of two
years, in 1872; and served his constituents honorably and
well during that time. In the spring of 1877 he removed to
Gallatin, where he still resides, engaged in painting. Mr.
and Mrs. West have one child, Mary E., born near
Lebanon, Indiana, June 30, 1852, now wife of Dr. George A.
Lieslie, of Bancroft.
Contributor Note: Ebenezer West was the son of
Willis & Eleanor (Dixon) West. The correct
name of Ebenezer West's wife is Julia Ann
Robertson, daughter of William O. & Mary Ann (Charles)
Robertson, granddaughter of Jesse & Sarah (White)
Robertson.
Submitted By:
T. Stover - October 21, 2006
Source: "History of Daviess County, Missouri -
Gallatin City, Daviess County, Missouri, Biographies."
(Publisher unknown)
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