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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Moniteau County, Missouri.
The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for the Moniteau Creek. 'Moniteau' is a French spelling of Manitou, Algonquian for the Great Spirit.
Adjacent Counties
Cities, Towns & Communities
- Bacon
- California (County Seat)
- Cedron
- Clarksburg
- Corticelli
- Enon
- Fortuna
- High Point
- Jamestown
- Kliever
- Latham
- Lupus
- McGirk
- Renfro
- Sandy Hook
- Tipton
Early pioneers: "The Kentucky Settlement"
When did the first settlers arrive to this area?
"...1816 saw the beginning of what was called The Kentucky Settlement. A band of colonists led by Jeremiah Clay established homes in the territory adjacent to the present site of Lupus. Clay with his wife Nancy, and family, and Isaiah Vivion and his family then living in the settlement at St. Charles, Missouri, loaded their household effects into covered wagons and driving their livestock before them came west to establish homes in the freeland of the wilderness....with the Clay and Vivion households came young Matthew Pettigrew whose sweetheart was Cynthia Vivion. Their wedding in 1818 was the first in Moniteau County." -- A history of Moniteau County, Missouri, M.H. Crawford, 1936.
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