Henry County in the prairie region of west central Missouri was organized in 1834 and first named for Virginia statesman William C. Rives, then renamed for Patrick Henry in 1841 after Rives changed from Democrat to Whig. The county lies within the 1808 Osage Indian land cession, and the old Harmony (Osage) Mission Trail and the Texas-Sedalia Cattle Trail ran through it. Pioneers, mainly from Kentucky and Tennessee, arrived in the early 1830s, and a number of Germans came in the 1850s. Clinton, the county seat, was named for New York Governor DeWitt Clinton and stands on a site chosen in 1836 by county commissioners Daniel McDowell, Henderson Young, and Daniel M. Boone, the eldest son of Daniel Boone; a U.S. Land Office operated there from 1843 to 1855. Early schools included E. P. Lamkin's Academy from 1879 to 1896 and Baird Female College from 1885 to 1910, founded by H. T. and Priscilla Baird. In the Civil War, Henry County supplied troops to the Confederates at about ten to one for the Federals, and the area experienced troop movements, guerrilla raids, and skirmishes, including two at Clinton. The M.K.T.R.R. dates from 1870 and the Frisco from 1885. One of Missouri's leading coal-producing counties, Henry County is also noted for poultry, dairy, and livestock farms. Its towns include Calhoun, founded in 1835 and home of a U.S. Land Office from 1861 to 1863; Windsor, laid out in 1855; Brownington, in 1869; Urich, LaDue, and Montrose, founded in the early 1870s; and Hartwell, Blairstown, and Deepwater, in the early 1880s. Points of interest include Chalybeate Springs near Clinton and the city's Artesian Park on South Grand River. In Englewood Cemetery in Clinton stands McLane Chapel, Catherine McBeth's memorial to her grandfather, pioneer W. H. McLane, and the cemetery contains the graves of H. W. Salmon, state treasurer from 1873 to 1875; B. G. Boone, state attorney general from 1885 to 1889; J. B. Gantt, judge of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1890 to 1900; James Lindsay, Missouri Supreme Court commissioner from 1923 to 1930; John H. Britts, noted amateur geologist; and C. C. Dickinson, a long-time congressman. Soprano Gladys Swarthout was born in Deepwater, W. T. Thornton, territorial governor of New Mexico from 1893 to 1897, in Calhoun, and in Clinton for a time lived soprano Vera Courtenay Thomas, singer Jane Froman, and educator U. W. Lamkin.