HISTORY OF JOHNSON CO., MO. 1881
transcribed for the WWW by James Baker©1999 jrbakerjr@prodigy.net

WILLIAM E. SEAMANDS,
of the firm of W. E. Seamands & Co., was born in Fleming county,
Kentucky, in 1840. Isaac, his father, was a native of Virginia,
born in 1800, a farmer, who removed to Kentucky in 1820, and to
Johnson county, Missouri, in 1849. He died suddenly of heart
disease in 1855. William, on his arrival here, was about nine
years of age. His youth was spent on his father's farm. After
attending school, he engaged in teaching school and proved to be
very effecient. Quitting this he entered Fleming's college,
Kentucky, where he continued until his health failing he left
school and again engaged in teaching, taking charge of a select
school, of Popular Plains, Kentucky, where he taught one year,
during which he married Miss Bette Christy, a native of Kentucky.
He then went to Fayetteville, this county, where he engaged in
the merchantile trade, which he followed two years. In March
1871, moved to Warrensburg and went into the county clerk's
office as a deputy, with S. P. Sparks, and held that position for
four years, and was afterward employed as a clerk in Mr.
Christy's store, four years; then made an engagement as
traveling salesman with R. W. Atwood & Co., of St. Louis. Two
years later he commenced business in Warrensburg, with a
former member of the firm. Mr. Seamands has two children, one
son