Biographical Sketch of Otho J. Hurley - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Otho J. Hurley, postmaster at Savannah, MO., and editor and proprietor
of "The Democrat", was born at Hagerstown, MD., and educated at Mount
St. Mary's College, near Emmettsburg, in that State.  At the breaking
out of the war he was studying law with Hon. R. H. Alvey, the present
presiding justice of the supreme court of Maryland, and after the
present presiding justice of the supreme court of Maryland, and after
completing his studies in 1862 he entered the Confederate army, joining
Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, which company, during the latter 
part of the war, was transferred to the First Maryland Cavalry, the
captain of Company K being commissioned colonel of the regiment.  At 
the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Hurley was acting adjutant of the
regiment.  After the war he returned to his home in Maryland, and
remained there until June, 1867, when he started west, stopping in
Indiana, where he remained between five and six years, engaged for the
greater part of the time in teaching.  He married an Indiana lady, and
went to St. Louis, where he remained during the winter of 1872 and 
spring of 1873.  In October, 1873, he located in Savannah, and in
August, 1876, established "The Democrat", a weekly newspaper, Democratic
in politics, which he still edits.  His appointment as postmaster at
Savannah he received on the 14th of January, 1886.
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