NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11246 PENDLETON CO – JOHN THOMAS RULE – Rule, Eastin, Carstarphen, Ogle, Birkhead #11246 – Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, pp 725-6. John Thomas Rule, county treasurer of Pike county, Missouri, was born on the banks of the Licking River near Falmouth, Pendleton county, Kentucky, October 16, 1819. He is the son of Edward B. and Mary (Eastin) Rule. When he was eight years of age his father died, and in the year 1828 his mother came to Missouri and settled on a farm in the western part of Pike county, on Peno Creek, where he was reared and lived with his mother until of age. He then went to Wisconsin and engaged in lead mining, in the Pigeon lead diggings for ten years, up to 1850, when he went to California and mined for gold on the Middle Fork of the American River until 1853, when meeting with success in his operations returned to Pike county and engaged in general merchandising at Louisiana, having associated with his brother as J. T. & E. B. Rule. They continued in the business until 1865, when they became associated with E. Carstarphen in the firm name of Rule & Company, they purchasing the May Flower flouring mills at Louisiana. His brother dying in 1869, the firm was changed to J. T. Rule & Co. Becoming financially involved they were forced to make an assignment for the benefit of their creditors in 1877. In 1878 he was elected one of the justices of Louisiana, and held the position until the fall of 1882, when he was elected treasurer of Pike county. January, 1855, he married Eliza Ann, daughter of Adrian Ogle, who died at Louisiana June 17, 1873, by whom he has four children living: Laura E., wife of Dr. W. W. Bickhead of Louisiana; Samuel E., Adrian O., assistant librarian of the St. Louis Law Library of St. Louis; and Virgil R. He has lost two children: Willie, who died in infancy in 1863, and Mary E., who died August 10, 1881, at the age of twenty-five. For several years she had been a prominent teacher in the public school at Louisiana, and her death was deeply felt by the community, possessing rare abilities, amiable and kind in her intercourse with others, a consistent Christian, and member of the Christian Church, she had drawn to her many friends. He is a member of the Christian Church of Louisiana, and has served as an elder since 1870. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx