Biographical Sketch of Angus A. Cantley, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Angus A. Cantley is a farmer and stock raiser of Boeuf Township, where
he was born in 1828, and is one of the thirteen children of John and
Sarah (Gibson) Cantley, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively.
The father was born in 1788, and in 1807 came to what is now Franklin
County, whither his father had preceeded him.  Here he married about
1810, and lived for a short time on Berger Bottom, then settled on
Boeuf Creek, near where Detmold now is, being the first to settle so
far up the creek, which was several miles distant from any white
settlement.  Here, with the aid of the Indians, he built a horsemill,
which for years supplied the people, with meal for miles around.  He
reared a large family of children, who became useful and exemplary
citizens, and died in 1852.  He was a great hunter, and was frequently
called upon to aid in defense against the Indians; during the War of
1812 he was called up the Mississippi River.  His father, John Cantley,
was of Irish descent, and was also a native of Virginia.  The mother of
our subject died about 1858.  Both parents were devout members of the
Baptist Church for many years.  Angus A. Cantley was educated in the
common schools.  In 1850 he married Miss Mary, daughter of Caleb and
Rachel Bailey, who were born in North Carolina, married in Kentucky,
and settled in Franklin County about 1804 or 1805, where they reared
thirteen children.  Mrs. Cantley, the eleventh child, was born in 1823.
Of this large family all lived to have homes of their own, and were 
among the esteemed families of the county.  Seven children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Cantley, five of whom are living, viz.: James P.,
La Fayette, Amanda Alice, Livingston, and Angust A., Jr.  Mr. Cantley
settled about six miles west of New Haven, and in 1865 removed to two
miles south of Dundee, where he has a farm of eighty-seven acres, the
result of his own labor.  He has led a quiet, industrious life and has
long been known throughout the county as an honest and upright citizen.
He served thirty days in Company F, under Col. Gague, of the Enrolled 
Missouri Militia, in 1862.  Politically a life-long Democrat, Mr. Cant-
ley cast his first presidential vote for Pierce, in 1852.  Mrs. Cantley
has long been a member of the Baptist Church.  Mr. Cantley's eldest
brother, John Lewis, is one of the oldest men in Franklin County, being
now over seventy-two years old, and is still living near where he was
born.

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