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Dr. Jonathan Inglish, one of the pioneers of Moniteau County, Mo., was born in Cole County, of that State, in January, 1827, and is the third in a family of ten children born to James and Mary (Vivion) Inglish, natives of Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively. The father came to Missouri in 1816; was married in the county, and engaged in farming and stock-raising. He improved considerable land in the county, and was an enterprising and successful farmer. He was quite an active politician, and was a member of the Legislature one term. He died August 24, 1876, and his wife died December 8, 1877, at the age of seventy-one years. The father was a great hunter, killed many bears, and for a number of years lived on that kind of meat. He settled in Missouri when it was a Territory, and had not been surveyed. He has the chain and compass that was used in surveying the country, and has also the original surveying book. The Inglishes were of English descent, and the Vivions of Irish and Dutch. Grandfather Inglish was a captain in the War of 1812. Dr. Jonathan Inglish was reared to farm life, assisted his father in clearing up the place, and received his education .in the subscription schools of the country. Later he engaged in teaching, and followed this profession for some time, and also at the same time was engaged in the study of medicine. In 1852 he engaged in the practice of medicine, which he continued until 1872, and during those twenty years had a large practice. During the war he had to ride day and night. He was married in Moniteau County, Mo., in 1863, to Miss Henrietta Akers, a native of Tennessee, and the daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Sartin) Akers, natives of Tennessee. Mr. Akers was in the War of 1812, immigrated to Missouri in 1854, and settled in Walker Township. Both are now deceased. Dr. Jonathan Inglish, after his marriage, settled where he now lives, and bought a timber tract of eighty acres. This he has improved and added to until he now has 240 acres of fine arable land. He has been engaged quite extensively in the stock business, and has been unusually successful. Dr. Inglish has never taken a very active part in politics, and votes with the Union Labor party. Socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., California Lodge No. 183. He has been a member of the Masonic lodge for about twenty-six years, and has long taken a decided interest in Masonry. He assisted in organizing the school district of the township, and taught two terms in the same. He lost his excellent wife March 30, 1884. She was born November 10, 1834, and was nearly fifty years of age at the time of her death. By that union Dr. Inglish became the father of one child, Milton A., who was born February 6, 1876, and who is at present attending school. Dr. Inglish is a member of the Christian Church, and has been for many years. His wife was a member of the same church, and died in that faith.