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 80 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI Neiswauger, Peter Crites, Frederick Lim- baugh, Leonard Welker and Frederick Slink- ard. They were all Protestants, being mem- bers of the German Reformed church. In 1804 Colonel Bollinger induced Reverend Samuel Weiberg or Whybark, to come to the settlement and to become the minister of the colonists. Reverend Whybark remained un- til his death in 1833. He preached over very extensive districts in Illinois and IMissouri. Among these settlers Colonel Bollinger was a leader, and was appointed by Don Louis Lorimier as captain of the militia. He or- ganized a very efifective company, which was said by Lorimier to be a model company. Bollinger erected a mill after his arrival, which was the only one in the section, and it served farmers for a long distance aroiind. Bollinger was a large and powerful man, of generous disposition and very popular. He was a member of the Territorial assembly, and after the admission of Missouri to the Union he became a member of the state senate in 1828, and was president of the state sen- ate, and a presidential elector in 1836. As was elsewhere stated, his only daughter, Sarah, became the wife of Ralph Daugherty. It is said that she was educated in North Carolina and that she was a musician and the owner of the first piano brought to Cape Girardeau county. The next settlement in Bollinger county seems to have been made in 1800 on Castor river near where Zalma now stands. Irvin Asherbramer was probably the first settler and he erected a w^ater-mill at this place which is still in operation. Other early settlers in the same neighborhood were : Daniel Asher- bramer, Phillip and William Bollinger, Jo- seph Watkins, Robert Harper and Edward Hawthorn. The first settlement in Wayne county was made in 1802 ; this was where the village of Patterson now stands and the settlers were: Joseph Parish, Thomas Ring, David, Charles and Robert A. Logan. Ephraim Stout receiv- ing a grant on the St. Francois, below the set- tlement made by the Logans, but removed in a few years to Iron county and was the first settler in Arcadia valley. Jacob Kelly was one of the wealthy and influential settlers and was the first justice of the peace. Others who are mentioned as having lived here in early times were : Tilman Smith, James Caldwell and Francis Clark.