My Genealogy Hound

WILBER FISK HAUGHAWOUT, the subject of this sketch, was a native of Ohio, being born in Winchester, Brown county, Jan. 29, 1842. Going to Wisconsin when very young his boyhood days were spent in that state. Having attained to the years of manhood, he determined to try his fortune in the great State of Missouri, arriving in Jasper county in 1867. He was married Feb. 28, 1866, to Miss Sarah Mansell of Lafayette county, Wis., where she was raised. Their family consists of six children Willie, Frank, Edgar, Harry, Bessie, and Lillie. Mr. and Mrs. Haughawout have been members of the M. E. Church. Mr. H. is interested in the finest and largest flouring-mill in Jasper county, namely the Roller Mills, one mile west of Alba on Spring River near Mill Lake, on the site of the old Quaker Mills. There are four wheat burs, two middlings and one for corn, the flour capacity being 150 barrels per day; there are two double rollers, patent process, and the most modern machinery. There are three millers, two packers, two roustabouts, and one clerk employed. The cost of the mill was $50,000, and the running expenses are over $1,000 per month. To show that farming pays in Jasper county, Mr. Haughawout harvested 3,000 bushels of wheat from 90 acres, or 33 bushels per acre. He sold his wheat at ninety cents in the shock, paying in one crop for the land, sowing, harvesting, and threshing, and leaving $150 net gain. More winter wheat is sown now than ever before, and it never looked so well.