. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. andHENRY s. gever. Served as Speaker of the house for the first live years after the admission of Missouri to statehood; waselected Senator in 1851 and served until 1857, being the only Whigever elected to the Senate from Missouri. While in Washington, made an argument in the famous Dred Scott case which attract-ed attention throughout the world. As a lawyer, he stood at the headof his profession; a man of excellent ability, pleasing manners and ofhigh character. His death occurred at St. Louis, March 5, 18
. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. andHENRY s. gever. Served as Speaker of the house for the first live years after the admission of Missouri to statehood; waselected Senator in 1851 and served until 1857, being the only Whigever elected to the Senate from Missouri. While in Washington, made an argument in the famous Dred Scott case which attract-ed attention throughout the world. As a lawyer, he stood at the headof his profession; a man of excellent ability, pleasing manners and ofhigh character. His death occurred at St. Louis, March 5, 1859. John Rice Jones, of Pike coun-ty; located in Missouri in 1808,and was the first English lawyerin the state, and a member ofMissouris first Supreme (^ had been President of the Ter-ritorial Council and a member ofthe first Constitutional Conven-tion. His death occurred in 1824,He was a man of great popularity,high character and excellent abil-ity. James S. Rollins was bornApril 19, 1812, in Madison coun-ty Kentucky; graduated at theState University of Indiana, in. JOHN rice JONES. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 49 1830; studied law, graduating three years later at the TransylvaniaLaw School, in Kentucky, and soon afterwards settled in Boone coun-ty, Missouri, engagino; in the practice of law Avith distinction; electeda member of the Legislature in 188S, and was again elected in 1840-16-54-60-68, serving at least half the time as a member of the Senate. Inhis school history of Missouri, Hon. P. S. Kader, of Brunswick,speaks of Mr. Rollins as follows: To him is largely due the educa-tional system of Missouri. lie is properly called the Father of the
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