Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, 1888
| Puxico is a flourishing new town in the northern part of Stoddard County, on the Cape Girardeau Southwestern Railroad. It was located in 1883 and incorporated as a village in 1884. It now has a population of 400 or 500. This rapid growth is due mainly to its position in the center of the large timber industry of T.J. Moss, the largest tie-contractor in the State. There are now three general stores, conducted by T.J. Moss, John A. Hickman and H.B. Purcell & Co.; two drug stores, by J.M. Simpson and J.A. Hickman; a hardware store, by Hawks & Evans, and a newspaper, the Puxico Express, edited by E.S. Hickman, besides two churches and a schoolhouse, a Masonic lodge and a lodge of A.O.U.W. |
| Puxico Lodge, A.O.U.W., was organized on September 17, 1885, with Bird Martin, M.W.; J.H. Tanner, P.M.W.; F.H. Bilbrey, G.F.; G.B. Desken, O.; W.A. Bacon, Financier; A.H. Carver, Receiver; J.N. Clark, I.W., and G.W. Clodfelter, O.W. |
| Puxico Lodge, A.F. & A.M., was organized under a dispensation in January, 1888, with W.H. Hickman, W.M.; J.W. Fristoe, S.W., and T.S. Hickman, J.W. |
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