File submitted for USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Missouri History Page by Phyllis Lake, 9 November 1998.  Link change or update: 4 Dec 1999

From The History of Lincoln County, Missouri, (Chicago : Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888) p. 406.

AUBURN.

A small village ten miles north of Troy, was laid out in April 1838, on lands of Daniel DRAPER, Sr., and Philander DRAPER, on the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 50 north, Range 1 west. The plat was acknowledged before James WILSON, a justice of the peace. The latter is now residing at Auburn, at the advanced age of ninety-four years. The vicinity of Auburn was noted, in the early history of the county, on account of the prominent men who settled there, and on account of STOUT's Fort, which was erected at the spring, a short distance south of where Auburn stands. In the early days Thacker VIVION had a cotton-gin near Auburn, and it was a common sight, so says a noted old settler, Walter PERKINS, now departed, "to see cotton-seed in heaps larger than the gin-house." For many years Auburn was a place of considerable business, but since the railroads were completed through the county, it has declined, so that at the present writing it contains one general store and the postoffice, kept by J. M. TERRELL; a blacksmith shop, by C. TEAUGE; a Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and a few residences. Dr. William MCCLURE is believed to have been the first physician who practiced at Auburn. The present resident physician is Dr. Joseph A. KNOX. James WILSON was a justice of the peace in the Auburn vicinity for a great many years. The first marriage ceremony he performed was in 1833. The contracting parties were Hiram MCDONALD and Eliza Ann TILFORD. Auburn has about seventy five inhabitants.

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