Luther Henry Sr (Monument and Portrait) CRUMBAUGH

24 Jul 1849/1850 Columbia Boone MO
5 Aug 1914 Tipton Ford Newton Co MO*
Son of Henry Crumbaugh and Dorothy Ann Gentry
Married Sarah G “Sallie” Harbison 16 Mar 1880 Neosho Newton MO
General livestock agent of the Kansas City Southern Railway and prominent citizen of Neosho.

*Research Note: Died in a Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad gasoline motor car which was somewhat like a trolley and nicknamed a "doodlebug") vs. Kansas City Southern passenger train accident near Tipton Ford in Newton Co.

'General livestock agent of the Kansas City Southern Railway and prominent citizen of Neosho.'

The below information are excerpts from The Neosho Times and Columbia Tribune:

"The deceased leaves a wife and three children, Dr. Andrew Crumbaugh, a veterinarian of Neosho, and Mrs. Leta Rathell, also of Neosho, and Mrs. Mary Utley, of Trenton, Missouri. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. J.V.C. Darnes and Mrs. H.H. Lipscome, of Kansas City, and a half brother of J. Ed. Crumbaugh and Miss Cornelia Crumbaugh of Columbia, also a first cousin of Mrs. Jno. S. Aukeney, Gentry Clark, Marshal Gordon and N.T. Gentry of Columbia.

Mr. Crumbaugh was born in Columbia at the old Crumbaugh residence sixty-five years ago, and was a son of the late Henry Crumbaugh, one of the best known, most progressive and most highly esteemed business men of his time...
Mr. Crumbaugh married Miss Sallie Harbinson, a daughter of Maj. A. J. Harbison, then a Columbia lawyer, but later of Neosho. Mr. Crumbaugh left Columbia shortly after his marriage, about 1881, and has ever since resided in Neosho, where for twenty-five years past he has been livestock agent for the Kansas City Southern Railroad. Although there have been great changes in the management of that road during the time, Mr. Crumbaugh has continuously held his position, and it is said, and no doubt truthfully, that he was well acquainted with every livestock man within miles of that road, from one end to the other.

While he lived in Columbia, Mr. Crumbaugh was city weigh-master, and deputy sheriff of Boone County, he was also extensively engaged in buying and shipping all kinds of livestock. No man was better known all over Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas, and no man was more kind to his fellow man that Luther Crumbaugh...

As a deputy sheriff of this county, Mr. Crumbaugh swam his horse across the Missouri river near the present town of Huntsdale, in pursuit of a horse thief, whom he captured in Moniteau County. In 1870, when it was necessary to carry Boone County's bid for the Missouri Agricultural College, Luther Crumbaugh was selected, and he rode from Columbia to Jefferson City, arriving there at six a.m. the citizens of Columbia held their bid back {un}til a late hour the night before, so as to raise as much money as possible, and it was not given to Mr. Crumbaugh {un}til about midnight when he was told to hurry with it to the state capitol. There was then no railroad connecting Columbia with Jefferson City, and Mr. Crumbaugh was considered the best horseman for such a journey, and he proved himself equal to the task. The trip was such a hard one, and so much speed was necessary in order for the bid to be received in time, that Mr. Crumbaugh's horse died a few minutes after reaching Jefferson City, but the bid was received in time, and the prize awarded to Boone County. Mr. Crumbaugh was one of those loyal citizens of old Boone, who thought that no work was too hard, no night too dark and no weather too severe for him to assist his friends. It is, therefore with peculiar regret that Columbians learn of the death of such a man."

Contributed on 9/5/24

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