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S W Creson, president of
the Moberly Wholesale Grocery Company,
is one of the substantial
business men of Moberly. He is a native of
Missouri and was horn in
Howard County, Jan. 27, 1853. He is a son
of Thomas H. and
Caroline (Collier) Creson, Thomas H. Creson 'was
horn in Surrey County, N.
C., in 1823, and came to Missouri with his
parents when he was 14
years of age, in 1837. He was the son of
George Creson, who upon
coming to Missouri, settled in the northern
part of Howard County, in
Burton township, where he improved a farm
and spent the remainder of
his life. He died in 1881. Thomas H. Creson,
like his father, was also a
tiller of the soil. He bought and improved a
farm in Howard County
and was engaged in farming and stock raising
throughout his active
career, except during the period that he served in
the Civil War. During the
course of that conflict he enlisted in the
Confederate army, under
the standard of Gen. Sterling Price, and was
with Price's command at
Baton Rouge, La., when the war closed. He
then returned to St. Louis
by steamboat and to Howard County, where
he resumed the peaceful
pursuit of farming until the time of his death,
in 1885. His wife, Caroline
(Collier) Creson, was born in St. Clair
County, Ill., in 1828, and
died Oct. 17, 1859. They were the parents of
the following children:
Mary L., Highee, Mo.; S. W., the subject of this
sketch; James M., Highee,
Mo.; Eunice A., deceased; Mrs. Josephine
Bartee, deceased, and
Rebecca L., deceased.
S.W. Creson was reared
on the home farm in Howard County and
attended the public
schools and in 1875-76 attended the States Normal
School at Kirksville. In
early life he was engaged in teaching and for
nine years taught school in
Howard and Randolph counties and was one
of the successful teachers
of this time, He was also engaged in farm-
ing in Howard County
while he was teaching. He then engaged as clerk
in the Grange Store at
Yates, Mo., and after clerking there for three
years he purchased that
business and successfully conducted a general
mercantile grocery
business at Moberly, as is set forth elsewhere in this
volume.
May 27, 1877, S. W.
Creson was united in marriage with Miss Susan
E. Robb, of Howard
County, Mo. She is a daughter of Samuel and
Sarah E. (Lesley) Robb.
Samuel Robb and his wife were pioneer set-
tlers of Howard County.
He died March 10, 1876, at the age of 45 years
and his wife lived to the
advanced age of 84 years and died in-March,
1919. His remains are
buried in the cemetery at Log Chapel in Howard
County, and she is buried
in the Sharon church cemetery in Howard
County. To Mr. and Mrs.
George Creson have been horn one daughter,
Bertha A., who married R.
M. Allen, secretary of the Moberly Wholesale
Grocery Company, a
sketch of whom apepars in this volume.
Mr. Creson has not only
been successful and active in a business
way, but during the course
of his career he has always given public
affairs thoughtful
consideration and a good citizen's attention. He has.
served two terms in the
State Legislature, including the session of 1901
and 1905, and never
missed a roll call, He is a member of the Masonic.
Lodge.
Mr. Creson was one of the
organizers of the Yates Savings Bank,
Yates, Mo., and was
president of that bank until 1913, when he sold
his interests, He is the
owner of 340 acres of valuable land just north
of Yates, Mo.
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