2662-2664 North HWY 79 Elsberry, MO 63343 $10,000,000
The History of this Beautiful Land & Historic White Farmhouses Located in Elsberry.
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he first forty acres of the farm Fielding Wigginton purchased on October 30, 1857. The rest of the acreage the Wigginton family purchased over a 50-year period. Clarence Cannon married Fielding Wigginton’s daughter Ida. During their marriage, they lived on the farm when they were not staying in Washington DC. While living on the farm, Mr. Cannon wrote about the Wigginton family, and their day-today life on the farm. In Mr. Cannon’s writings, he talked about the house the Wigginton family lived in was a “very crude structure, built of logs as was every other farmhouse of the day, consisting of two rooms with half a story above and was in poor repair.” This log home is still intact and is now the kitchen of the white farm home. Fielding Wigginton, Ida’s grandfather was married to Teresa Elizabeth Smith, Ida’s grandmother. Together they had five children. Their son Reuben Thomas Wigginton, Ida’s father, married Lucy Dawson. Ida’s mother and family lived in the home where they also had two children, one of those was Ida Dawson Wigginton who was born in the log home. In time, Ida Wigginton married Clarence Cannon who served as a Democratic Congressman in Washington DC. Clarence represented Missouri from 1923 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1964. He was a notable parliamentarian and chaired the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations.
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This is from a biography of Mr. Cannon who was known to be outspoken, sometimes irascible, Cannon earned a reputation for pugnacity. He once lampooned a fellow House member, “Of all the ‘piddling’ politicians that ever piddled ‘piddling’ politics on this floor, my esteemed friend, the gentleman from Wisconsin, is the greatest peddler that ever piddled.” During an argument in 1945 Cannon punched in the face Representative John Taber of New York, the ranking Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee. Cannon noted gleefully that Taber ran out of the room with a bleeding lip.” Over the years Ida Wigginton and Clarence Cannon remodeled the white home, keeping the log cabin and adding two additions to create the home as it stands today. The current owner’s family purchased the home from Ida Cannon in 1972. After Ms. Wigginton passed away, the current family who owns the property began to remodel the home. The owners have lived in the historic white farmhouse themselves until they built the stunning home, they currently live in on another area of the property in 2007. They love the property and hope that another family will have it in their family for years to come as well.
