NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11186 BULLITT CO – JOHN MIDDLETON – Middleton, Wright, Shannon, Fern, Price #11186: Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 584. Bullittt Co. John Middleton, blacksmith and wagon maker and dealer in agricultural implements, Clarksville. He was born in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, September, 1833. When about four years old, in 1837, he came to Missouri with his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (nee Wright) Middleton, they settling in Pike county on the farm now known as the Shannon farm, where they lived until 1839, and then came to Clarksville, where his father died in 1843. He there continued to live with his mother, and as soon as old enough assisted her to maintain her family. His first work when a mere lad was to haul cord wood with a yoke of oxen, receiving twelve and one-half cents per day wages. In 1854 he began to learn the trade of blacksmithing in the shop of his elder brothers, L. and J. Middleton, being with them until 1857, when he and John Fern bought his brothers’ establishment and have carried on the business of wagon-making, blacksmithing and dealing in agricultural implements ever since, under the firm name of Middleton and Fern. September 17, 1861, he married Miss Maggie, daughter of Bird Price, of Clarksville. They have one son, James B., a merchant of Clarksville. Himself and wife are members of the Christian Church at Clarksville, of which he has been a deacon for eight years. He is a member of the Clarksville Lodge No. 53, I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand; also of Calumet Lodge 1968, K. of H., of which he is assistant dictator, and of Clarksville Lodge No. 94, I. O. G. T., he being the first worthy chief of the lodge. He has served as councilman at different times about ten years. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch