History of Daviess and Gentry counties, Missouri . e is divided into six districts. The first district is composedof, Atchison, Andrew, Clinton, Clay, Caldwell, Carroll, DeKalb Daviess,Grundy, Gentry, Holt, Harrison, Jackson, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway;Platte, Ray and Worth Counties. A. C. Lingley, St. Joseph, is the divisionengineer. As an incentive to roadbuilding, the Federal Government donated 650trucks and tractors to be used for this purpose. The records of the StateHighway Board, July, 1921, showed that five trucks and one tractor hadbeen allotted to Daviess County. Railroads.—The sett
History of Daviess and Gentry counties, Missouri . e is divided into six districts. The first district is composedof, Atchison, Andrew, Clinton, Clay, Caldwell, Carroll, DeKalb Daviess,Grundy, Gentry, Holt, Harrison, Jackson, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway;Platte, Ray and Worth Counties. A. C. Lingley, St. Joseph, is the divisionengineer. As an incentive to roadbuilding, the Federal Government donated 650trucks and tractors to be used for this purpose. The records of the StateHighway Board, July, 1921, showed that five trucks and one tractor hadbeen allotted to Daviess County. Railroads.—The settlers were not slow to realize the importance totheir communities of the location of the railroads. Towns and countiesuntouched by the railroads would clearly suffer, to the profit of those lo-cated along them, and this fact not only created intense rivalry among thevarious towns and counties but also operated to the advantage of the rail-roads and their promoters who were in a position to demand concessions to> 5^ O CtrdCd D en ; rr>. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOK, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS B L HISTORY OF DAVIESS AND GENTRY COUNTIES 129 and assistance from the localities traversed by them as well as to deriveprofit from speculation in lands along the proposed routes. The first railroad project to take definite form contemplated a roadacross northern Missouri, connecting Hannibal and St. Joseph. In Feb.,1847, the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad was chartered by the Wilson, of Daviess County, was named as one of the directors. Avigorous canvass was immediately opened along the line to secure subscrip-tions from the several counties. Meetings were held in every county seatand town. A large meeting or convention, was held in Chillicothe, June 2,1847, at which delegates from Buchanan, DeKalb, Ray, Grundy, Caldwell,Livingston, Linn, Macon, Shelby and Marion Counties were present. JudgeAustin A. King of Ray County, was elected president, and Dr. J
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