Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Judge D. T. McGOWN

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Page 919

Judge D. T. MCGown, one of the leading farmers of Barton County, Mo., has
been a resident of Golden City Township for about nineteen years.  He was
born in Virginia in 1828, and is a son of Daniel and Frances (Corley)
McGown,the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Virginia.  In
the fall of 1833 the parents emigrated with their family to St. Charles
County, Mo., where Judge D. T. McGown was reared to manhood on a farm.
At the age of twenty-one years he took the overland route to California,
and was engaged in mining in that State for three years, meeting with
reasonable good success.  He returned to Missouri via the Isthmus of
Panana and New Orleans, and purchased a farm in St. Charles County, on
which he resided until 1858, when he sold out and established a general
mercantile store at Foristell, which he conducted for three years.  In
1864 he moved to Bartholomew County, Ind., but returned to St. Charles
County, Mo., at the end of one year, and in 1870 came to Barton County,
where he bought a 160-acres tract of raw land, which he has since nicely
improved with good buildings, etc.  In 1858 he was married to Agnes Gray,
who was born near Madison, Ind., and by her is the father of the following
children: George Q., a merchant of Wellington, Kan.; Minnie G., wife of
M. Wright; Allie, wife of Elmer McGuffee,of Barton County; Mary, Fannie,
Thomas and Harry.  Mrs. McGown is a member of the Christian Church.  
Judge McGown is a Democrat politically, and has held various township
offices, as well as county judge and assessor.  He belongs to the I.O.O.F.

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