Dr. A.D. Hill Dr. Alonzo Dufrey Hill was born in Schuyler County, New York on August 24, 1836. He attended the University of Miami Medical College in Ohio and became a doctor in his native county. When Civil War broke out, he joined the 9th New York Heavy Artillery...
J.J. Dowdy Drug Before he died in 1945, John J. Dowdy was one of the only people still in Dexter that could have claimed they were there when Dexter was born. Dowdy was a little boy on that hot August day in 1873 when thousands of people were present during the...
John N. Miller John N. Miller was born on December 7, 1851 in Stoddard County on land not far from where the future town of Dexter sprang up in 1873. Known as, “Bud,” the young Miller was one of the first to build a commercial building at the intersection of Walnut...
The Bank of Dexter In 1889, a group of Kentuckians traveled to Stoddard County with the purpose of starting a bank in Dexter. Their intentions seemed honest enough that locals invested in the group’s plan to build the county’s first bank. Local business leaders got...
In 1866, one of Dexter’s most interesting and influential citizens was born near Bloomfield, Missouri – Carrie Lee Carter. Carrie Lee Carter’s family hailed from Tennessee before moving to Bloomfield just before the Civil War. Her father, Alison E. Carter was a...
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