Loretta wrote: > > Hello Margaret, > > I would really appreciate your doing a lookup for me in the following > book. I would like any information pertaining to Robert Acock page > 265. Thanks for all you do for the rest of us! > > Dallas County, Missouri, History > aka The Dallas County Missouri Story (1841 - 1971) > > Sincerely, > Loretta/Dallas, TX Loretta, I decided to share this with everyone on the Dallas County List because it is so interesting. Page 265 is in Chapter 9, "Recreation, Lodges and Clubs" Section 2, Clubs. Starting on page 264 is an item "History of Dallas County as Delivered by Dr. Eleazer Hovey at the July 4, 1876 Centennial Celebration" Paragraph 1 states "The entire verbatim speech as carried on the complete front page of the Buffalo Reflex, Thursday, July 6, 1876 follows:" On page 265: "The struggle for an organized existence of the county of Dallas, are well remembered by the old citizens still living and they point to the Martin Randleman spring just east of town, as the place where a very exciting political campaign speaking took place between Robert Acock, of the central part of (then) Polk [County], which then extended from the now eastern line of Dallas, then the Western line of Pulaski to the county of Dade, and a Mr. Jones who lived in the western part of Polk, and who wished to divide the county near the center, making two counties of Polk, with a county seat near this place for the one, and in the western part of Polk for the other. Mr. Acock pledged the people of the eastern part that if he was elected he would see that they should have a county to their liking. He succeeded in his election and the following session, to wit, in 1840, he introduced a bill into the legislature for the organization of a county with its eastern line where it now stands, not extending over further west than the middle of Range 20. The euphonious and suggestive name "Wolf County" was proposed for the new territory, but through the intercession of Hon. John S. Phelps, then a member from Greene county, the western limits were in 1842 extended three miles west to the Range, including Range 20 west, where it has since remained, and its named changed to that of its principal stream, Niangua. On Dec. 10, 1844, it was changed to its Present name of Dallas. I found Robert E. Acock in the list of Missouri State Legislators <http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/arch.html> (Go to Historical Listing of Missouri's State and Federal Officials). He was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives from Polk County in 1838, 1840, 1852 and 1854. In 1842 he was elected to the Missouri Senate from the 18th Congressional District. John S. Phelps served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1840 - 1842 and in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1844 - 1860.