BOONVILLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Cooper county, Missouri, U.S.A., on the right bank of the Missouri river, about 210 M . W. by N..of St Louis . Pop . (189o) 4141; (1900) 4377, including rift negroes; (1910) 4252 . It is served by the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railways . The city lies along a bluff about too ft. above the river . It is the seat of the Missouri training school for boys (1889), and of the Kemper military school (1844) . Among its manufactures are earthen-ware, tobacco, vinegar, flour, farm-gates (iron), sash and doors, marble and granite monuments, carriages and bricks . Iron, zinc and lead are found in the vicinity, and some coal is mined . Boonville, named in honour of Daniel Boone, was settled in 181o, was laid out in 1817, incorporated as a village in 1839, and chartered as a city of the third class in 1896 . Here on the 17th of June 1861, Captain (Major-General) Nathaniel Lyon, commanding about 2000 Union troops, defeated a slightly larger, but undisciplined Confederate force under Brigadier-General John S . Marmaduke .

David Barton (d . 1837), one of the first two United States senators from Missouri, was buried here .