xxvi CONTENTS CHAPTER XXXVIII THE NEWSPAPERS Cape Girardeau — The First Paper — Bollinger — Butler — Carter — Dunklin — Iron — Jefferson — Madison — jMississippi — New Madrid — Pemiscot — • Perry — Reynolds — Ripley . — St. Francois — Ste. Genevieve — Scott — Stoddard — Wash- ington — Wayne — The Great Work op Newspapers. 529 CHAPTER XXXIX SOME BIOGRAPHIES Louis Houck — Lownes H. Davis — Robert H. Whitelaw — William B. Wilson — Judge John W. Emerson — Samuel S. Hildebrand — Samuel Byrns — B. B. Cahoon — James D. Fox — J. J. Russell — H. J. Deal — Absalom McElmurry — William Dawson — Joseph Hunter — John A. Mott — Robert A. Hatcher — Eliza A. Carleton — William Carter — Placide DeLassus — James R. McCormack — Milton P. Cayce — Gustavus St. Gem — Charles S. Hertich — M. L. Clardy — Marshall Arnold — James P. W^vlker — N. B. Henry — F. P. Graves — Firmin Desloge. 548 /,
