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JOHN L. SETTLE
John
L. Settle, jeweler and stationer of Fredericktown, was born in Madison
County, Mo., in 1861 and is the son of Henry and Mary Jane (Graham)
Settle, and grandson of William Settle, who was a native of
Murfreesboro, Tenn., born in 1809.
He came to Missouri in 1833 and after living one year in
Bollinger County, moved to Madison County, and here in 1835 he and C. T.
Graham erected a small church, now known as Big Creek Baptist Church.
William Settle was ordained minister in 1839 and was soon
appointed American Baptist Home Mission secretary as missionary of
Southeast Missouri and North Arkansas.
He labored in this good cause for five years, and while thus
employed lived in Ripley County.
In 1855 he became a missionary of the Southern Baptist
Convention, through the Baptist Convention of Southeast Mo.
in 1868 he became pastor of Castor Church at Marquand and at
Marble Hill.
In 1870 he organized a church at Fredericktown and died the same
year.
Carter T. Graham, maternal grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was born in Tennessee in 1800 and came to Madison County in
1822.
He was a Baptist Minister and was called the “farmer
preacher.”
He died in 1861.
Henry Settle was reared in Madison County, on a farm, and was
married in 1860.
He afterward located near the old homestead where he remained
until the spring of 1865, when he moved to Ironton and engaged in
merchandising, but died the same year while in the prime of life.
His wife was bone in Madison County, Mo., in 1842 and was of
Irish descent.
She was the daughter of Rev. Carter T. Graham, who was a Baptist
minister, as before mentioned.
Mrs. Settle was the mother of three children:
John L., Newton G., and H. Maggie (wife of John T Bruce).
John L Settle remained on the farm until eighteen he went to
Fredericktown and attended the high school at that place for two years.
The following two years he attended William Jewell College at
Liberty, Clay Co., Mo.
At the age of twenty-one he entered the teacher’s profession
and taught two terms, one in Madison County and the other in Scott
County.
In 1885 he and J. L Woolford became partners in the jeweler and
stationer line in Fredericktown, and at the end on one year Mr. Settle
sold his interest and went on a tour through the West “sight seeing”
until he grew weary of this, when he returned to his birthplace and
purchased the stock of Mr. Woolford.
Since January, 1888, Mr. Settle has been conducting the business
o his own responsibility.
He was married January 31 of the same year to Miss Callie
McCreary, a native of Tennessee, born in 1868, and the daughter of
Robert McCreary.
Mr. Settle is a Prohibitionist in his political views and he and
wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.
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