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 Citp Puilbtrg 
 
 J^epresentatibe jUiggouriang 
 
St. Louisans with Records 
 
 City Builders 
 
 Representative Missourians 
 
 Respectfully Dedicated to those Self-made men in all 
 Professions and Industries who have achieved 
 success as a result of Self-application and Persever- 
 ance in daily life. 
 
 — The Author. 
 
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 PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME 
 
 Not compiled as a biographical history, but intended merely to give to the 
 country at large, an insight into the lives and accomplishments of residents of 
 St. Louis, who have helped to ' make" the great fourth city. — For private 
 distribution. 
 
 Compiled and Edited 
 By 
 
 HARRY J. BOSWELL 
 
 ST. LOUIS, MO. 
 1911 
 
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION. 
 
 
 In the following pages, which I 
 have spent several months preparing, 
 will be found not only absolutely ac- 
 curate statistical matter pertaining to 
 St. Louis, a practical resume, I might 
 say, of the city's marvelous progress 
 within the past ten years, but reviews 
 of the records of a limited number of 
 the foremost business and professional 
 men. 
 
 I do not wish to convey the meaning 
 that in St. Louis are to be found only 
 the number of representative men 
 whose records I have prepared. There 
 are, in fact, perhaps many times as 
 many more, and had I not determined 
 upon publishing only a small volume, 
 a "booklet" would be a better term 
 to use, I would have included them 
 all, but there had to be a limit some- 
 where, and to avoid confusion, I estab- 
 lished that limit before writing a line 
 in preparation of the work. 
 
 I do not wish to convey the impres- 
 sion that, in my own opinion, the lim- 
 ited number of men to whom I have 
 made personal reference in this work 
 
 are the only representative ones in 
 the "fourth city," or are superior to 
 all others. Such is far from being 
 true. I do say, however, that they 
 are highly representative, and may 
 be readily accepted as an indication 
 of the character of those who have 
 made St. Louis the great commercial 
 metropolis that she is today. 
 
 I know from my own observations 
 and investigations that every record 
 in this volume stands upon its own 
 merits, whether it applies to physician, 
 lawyer, banker, merchant or other- 
 wise, and I feel that I can with due 
 modesty say that I am proud of my 
 efforts in the issuance of this interest- 
 ing little volume. 
 
 Sincerely and respectfully, 
 
 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI (The Fourth City), 
 HER MARVELOUS PROGRESS. 
 
 Founded in 1764 as fur trading post. 
 
 Became part of United States in 
 1803. 
 
 Incorporated as a city in 1809. 
 
 Population in 1910, United States 
 census, 761,000. 
 
 Area, 62.5 square miles. 
 
 Climatic conditions, temperatures, 
 winter, 31.4; summer, 79.1. 
 
 Mortality, official record, 13.56 per 
 1000. 
 
 Largest horse and mule market in 
 the world, 140,000 head annually. 
 
 Second largest live stock market in 
 the world, 1,700,000 head annually. 
 
 Third largest grain center in the 
 world, 65,000,000 bushels annually. 
 
 Stands fourth in manufactures, 3000 
 factories, and having output of $350,- 
 000,000 annually. 
 
 Thirty railroads entering city, and 
 many large river steamers. 
 
 Cheapest fuel in the world. 
 
 Largest shoe market in the world, 
 $20,000,000 production annually. 
 
 Largest breweries in the world, 
 3,500,000 barrels annually. 
 
 Large tobacco market, $30,000,000 
 products annually. 
 
 Drygoods sales, $80,000,000 annually. 
 
 Hardware sales, $55,000,000 annu- 
 ally. 
 
 New buildings erected during past 
 four (4) years, with combined valu- 
 ation of $100,000,000. 
 
 St. Louis bank stock, 392,000 shares, 
 held by 7,751 people, valued at $101,- 
 891,000. 
 
 Street railw-ay system, 455 miles; 
 1,262 cars, carried enormous number 
 of 211,459,570 passengers; large in- 
 terurban line, with trackage of 500 
 miles, enters city. 
 
 Bank clearings, $3,727,949,379 in 
 1910. 
 
 Freight tonnage, 51,918,100 in 1910. 
 
 Factory products, $327,676,000 in 
 1910. 
 
 Assessed valuation, real and per- 
 sonal, $565,725,320 in 1910. 
 
 In the foregoing I submit statistical 
 matter that will stand on a par with 
 that given in connection with all other 
 large cities of this country ,and which 
 will, in many instances, be found far 
 in advance of others. It speaks for 
 itself, and figures given I will be glad 
 to substantiate at any time. 
 
JOSEPH WINGATE FOLK. 
 
 Wliilst ".hroiigh ".r.;.- . .:, -r are to 
 be found comments I- s.:.r.^ upon ilie 
 life-records of many ci lic i^ore repre- 
 seniaiive citizens, business and pro- 
 fessional men of Si. Louis, each of 
 which I hare endeavored to prepare 
 with absolute accuracy, and on which 
 I hare expended considerable time 
 in my invesiigations. there is not one 
 that has given the author more 
 genuine pleasure in its writing than 
 that of Hon. Joseph Wingaie Folk, 
 whose career as circuit attorney, fol- 
 lowed by four years as the state's 
 chief executive, is still fresh in the 
 minds of the public. 
 
 He is a native of Tennessee, hav- 
 ing been bom in the old Folk mansion 
 at Brownsville in 1869. After attend- 
 ing the ordinary schools of his home 
 town he entered Vanderbilt University 
 at Nashville, Tenn., from which he 
 graduated, after taking the full course 
 in law, in 1890. Immediately follow- 
 ing his graduation he returned to 
 Brownsville, where he began the prac- 
 tice of his profession. He was desirous, 
 however ,of entering larger territory 
 and accordingly he removed to St. 
 Louis. 
 
 Being an able lawyer and a man 
 of forceful delivery in argument be- 
 fore court and jury, he was not long 
 in building up a splendid practice. In 
 the course of this he was retained as 
 the counsel of some advocates of 
 organized or unionized labor. The 
 litigation in which his clients were 
 involved was of such character as to 
 attract much attention throughout the 
 city, the manner in which the young 
 attorney handled it creating much 
 favorable comment. 
 
 Shortly afterwards, due to the 
 straightforward tactics of the lawyer. 
 Governor Folk was made the nominee 
 for circuit attorney on the Democratic 
 ticket. The campaign of that year is 
 still well remembered by voters of St. 
 Louis. Folk was elected and then 
 begun one of the greatest legal battles 
 ever fought. He served in that ca- 
 pacity four years and during that 
 period he unearthed more rascality 
 and thievery, boodling and graft in St. 
 Louis than has ever been exposed in 
 a given time in any other part of the 
 world. 
 
 But he went after it with a vim 
 and a determination, notwithstanding 
 he was importuned by political friends 
 and others to drop it, while anony- 
 mous letters, threatening assassina- 
 tion and annihilation poured in upon 
 
 him by the bucketful. To all these 
 the young circuit attorney paid no 
 heed. 
 
 The result of Folk's activity resulted 
 in his causing a large number of 
 arrests, of which twenty-one were con- 
 victed. While on technicalities, I find 
 that the records show a number of 
 these were released by the highest 
 state tribunal, the Missouri Supreme 
 court, the rest went to state prison at 
 Jefferson City for their crimes. 
 
 Fcik scon realized, that there was 
 but one way in which he c-ould remove 
 many of the strong obstacles that 
 marred his pathway, and that was 
 through the office of governor. Hence 
 he made up his mind to appeal to the 
 people, and before them he laid his 
 case. Joseph Wingate Folk walked 
 into the governor's office with a ma- 
 jority back of him of thirty odd thou- 
 sand. Roosevelt, that same year, 
 carried the state with about twenty- 
 five thousand majority. His majority 
 in St. Louis alone, where he had been 
 fought every inch of the way, was 
 more than ten thousand votes. 
 
 When Governor Folk assumed 
 charge as the state's chief executive 
 he began in the same quiet, unostenta- 
 tious manner as characterized his 
 entry into the office of circuit attorney 
 of St. Louis. He laid his plans deep 
 and well and before launching his 
 campaign for civic improvement he 
 mastered the situation, keeping a gnp 
 on every line he had out. 
 
 Laws pertaining to railroad legisla- 
 tion were framed and passed and are 
 on the statute books today and are 
 being readily obeyed, though it has 
 been many months since Folk left the 
 governor's office. On freight trains 
 railroads are positively forbidden to 
 work any man to exceed sixteen hours 
 at any one time, the great black-list, 
 the nightmare of railroad employes 
 throtighout the country, was prohibited 
 in this state, and instead when a man 
 was discharged from service, the law 
 required that he be given a letter 
 showing why he was let out. 
 
 Then came the beneficial demurrage 
 charge law and trains forced to stop 
 at all stations ordered by the com- 
 missioners. The damage act law, 
 limited to five thousand dollars was 
 increased to double that amount re- 
 coverable. Another great act was the 
 compulsory educational law. Railway 
 lobbyists were ordered to stay away 
 from Jefferson City during legislative 
 sessions, and the result of it all was 
 
that today no state in the entire Union 
 of commonwealths can boast of a bet- 
 ter set of laws than can Missouri. 
 
 He secured the initative and refer- 
 endum and a state wide primary law. 
 Elections were made fair. Race 
 track gambling in St. Louis and St. 
 Louis county was put an end to, and 
 the saloons readily regulated. All of 
 this was done under the administra- 
 tion of Governor Folk. Business 
 greatly increased throughout the state, 
 bank deposits, especially on Mondays, 
 showed a most perceptible gain, and 
 
 Sunday arrests were not near so 
 numerous. 
 
 Since Governor Folk retired from 
 the governor's office he has taken up 
 his private practice of law again. His 
 offices are situated in the Pierce build- 
 ing, on Fourth street. 
 
 During the past two years scarcely 
 anyone has appeared more in the pub- 
 lic eye. On hundreds of lecture plat- 
 forms throughout the country Gov- 
 ernor Folk has appeared. His earnest- 
 ness, his flow of language, as well as 
 the convincing manner in which he 
 expresses his thought, is a gift 
 possessed by few. 
 
 JUDGE HENRY SAMUEL PRIEST. 
 
 A Missourian by birth, a legal prac- 
 titioner in this city since 1881, and a 
 man who has met with unprecedented 
 success. I know of no man in St. Louis 
 who stands higher in the esteem of his 
 fellow men than Judge Henry Samuel 
 Priest. 
 
 Judge Priest was born in Ralls 
 County February 7, 1853, his parents 
 coming from Virginia and Kentucky, 
 both great states of the old Southland. 
 In his early life young Priest attended 
 ordinary schools and afterwards en- 
 tered Westminster College, located at 
 Fulton, this state. From that well 
 known institution he graduated, being 
 a member of the class of 1872. 
 
 Following this, with Major M, E, 
 Houston, of Taylorsville, Ky., as his 
 preceptor, young Priest entered upon 
 the study of law, later continuing his 
 reading in the office of one of the best 
 known railroad lawyers in the country, 
 Judge James Carr, of Hannibal, Mo. 
 
 Judge Priest was admitted to the bar 
 for the general practice of law in 1873, 
 after which he went to Moberly, Mo., 
 and there opened his first office. He 
 had been there but a comparatively 
 brief period when he appeared in a 
 number of cases in which were in- 
 volved many of the most difficult and 
 intricate points of law, but Judge 
 Priest was not to be outdone and he 
 "won out," to use a slang expression. 
 His ability as an orator, his keen con- 
 ception of the law, as well as the mag- 
 nificent manner in which the interests 
 of his clients were protected, soon 
 gained for the young attorney a repu- 
 tation that many men far more expe- 
 rienced in court practice did not pos- 
 sess, and from then on may be dated 
 his success. 
 
 In a short while he was selected by 
 election for the City Attorneyship, and 
 
 for about two years served in that 
 capacity. When Judge Priest assumed 
 charge of that public position many 
 things were to be looked after, and al- 
 though the duties were such as to tax 
 the strength of the strongest the in- 
 cumbent succeeded in discharging its 
 functions and made hundreds of 
 friends as a result of his efforts. 
 
 After leaving that position and while 
 serving the Missouri Pacific Railway 
 as assistant atorney, he represented the 
 company in certain litigation in which 
 were involved many thousands of dol- 
 lars, invariably meeting with marked 
 success. It was during the year of 
 1883 that the Wabash Railroad secured 
 his services as its general attorney, 
 which office he held for several years, 
 appearing in most of the important 
 cases in which the corporation was 
 interested. Seven years following his 
 appointment by the Wabash Judge 
 Priest, whose success as a lawyer had 
 preceded him and whose reputation 
 was attracting the attention of the 
 heads of many of the largest railway 
 systems of the country, was selected as 
 general attorney for the Missouri Pa- 
 cifis road, which he held until his 
 appointment by President Grover Cleve- 
 land in 1894 to the judgeship of the 
 United States District Court. Judge 
 Priest only remained on the bench, 
 however, a short time, when he again 
 decided to return to the private prac- 
 tice of his chosen profession, forming 
 the firm of Boyle, Priest and Lehmann, 
 which arrangement continued until the 
 present legal partnership of Boyle ana 
 Priest was formed, one or tne most 
 noted law firms in the United States 
 today, with a clientele that is tremen- 
 dous, representing many of the largest 
 institutions in the country. In all cases 
 in which the subject of the author's 
 
review has appeared, whether as coun- 
 sel for plaintiff or defendant, in all the 
 many victories he has won, and in 
 every act of his in all courtrooms in 
 which he has argued with juries, he 
 has never, one time, endeavored to 
 take advantage over his opponent. This 
 in itself has won for him the highest 
 respect the har could bestow upon one 
 of its members and has proven the 
 foundation of his remarkable success. 
 
 Judge Priest in 1876 was wedded to 
 
 Miss Henrietta K. Parsell, a most 
 charming woman of Webster Groves, 
 Mo., a social favorite at the time of 
 her marriage. The couple have four 
 children, two sons and two daughters. 
 Judge Priest holds membership in 
 many of the leading social and busi- 
 ness organizations of the city, among 
 which are the Mercantile, St. Louis, 
 Noonday, Country, Log Cabin, Racquet 
 and others. Several times he has been 
 elected to the presidency of the Mis- 
 souri State Bar Association. 
 
 JAMES PARRISH DA¥/SON. 
 
 I am satisfied from my own investi- 
 gations that there is no member of the 
 Missouri Bar who stands higher in the 
 profession than the subject of my re- 
 view — James Parrish Dawson, of the 
 firm of Dawson and Garvin, with of- 
 fices situated in the Wainwright build- 
 in, and recognized as one of the strong- 
 est legal combinations in the south- 
 west, with a large and.- steady practice, 
 many of their clients being among the 
 largest concerns in the state. 
 
 James Parrish Dawson is a Kentuck- 
 ian by birth, his natal day being July 
 17, 1851, he being the youngest of a 
 family of five, of whom but two are 
 living today. His early youth was 
 spent in his native state, after which 
 with his parents he moved to Missouri. 
 That was in 1858. John D. Dawson, 
 father of my subject, was associated 
 with a well known college at Columbia 
 for young men. 
 
 About 1862 young Dawson moved to 
 Louisiana, Mo. It was in that city 
 that the elder Dawson passed away. 
 It was also in this locality that the 
 son attended school and secured his 
 earlier education. Not only did he 
 pursue his studies in the public insti- 
 tutions, but under private tutors as 
 v/ell. This he continued until about 
 1874, when he decided to come to St. 
 Louis. Mr. Dawson at that time was 
 about 23 years of age. He had taught 
 school prior to locating in the "fourth 
 city," and on his arrival here entered 
 the law department of Washington 
 University, an institution that has 
 turned out manw of the most brilliant 
 lawyers of the country. 
 
 Two years later the young man ob- 
 tained his diploma and had conferred 
 upon him the degree of Bachelor of 
 Law. In 1876 he was admitted to the 
 
 bar as a regular practicing attorney. 
 Mr. Dawson was posessed of the same 
 stamina exhibited by so many young 
 men of that generation, and during the 
 time he attended law school carried a 
 large route on one of the newspapers 
 of St. Louis. 
 
 I believe is was back in 1892 that 
 Mr. Dawson formed partnership ar- 
 rangements with W. E. Garvin, one 
 of the best known lawyers of the local 
 bar, and that combination is still in 
 existence, the firm today being one of 
 the best known in St. Louis and enjoys 
 an immense practice. No lawyer in 
 the state has met with a greater degree 
 of success than the subject of my re- 
 view. He is regarded as one of the 
 best read men in the city and has an 
 extensive library. In addition to his 
 splendid practice Mr. Dawson is finan- 
 cially interested in a number of profit- 
 able enterprises and owns considerable 
 realty in the city as well as in the 
 county. 
 
 He is one of the original organizers 
 of the Algonquin Club and holds mem- 
 bership in the Mercantile and other 
 well known organizations. His country 
 home at Webster Groves is one of the 
 most beautiful in St. Louis County. 
 Nothing pleases its owner better than 
 to wander about and under the mag- 
 nificent and stately trees thatl sur- 
 round it and cultivate the fiowers. 
 
 It was in 1881 that Mr. Dawson was 
 married to Miss Dell Mead, a native 
 of St. Louis, whose father prior to his 
 death was a naval officer. The couple 
 have had two children a son and 
 daughter. The son, James C. Dawson, 
 is now engaged in the manufacturing 
 business in St. Louis, one of the most 
 enterprising and progressive young 
 business men of the city. 
 
DOCTOR WASHINGTON E. FISCHEL. 
 
 The subject of my review is a native 
 Missourian. He was born in this city 
 in 1S50, and during his early days 
 attended the public schools of the city, 
 graduating from the high school in 
 1S68. Following this he went abroad 
 and took up the study of natural 
 sciences. Having decided upon the 
 practice of medicine as his life work 
 Dr. Fischel returned to St. Louis and 
 attended the St. Louis Medical College, 
 now a department of Washington Uni- 
 versity. In this magnificent institution 
 he won his M. D. degree in 1871. After 
 this he again pursued medical courses 
 in the great universities of Vienna, 
 Sprague, Berlin and other foreign cap- 
 itals, attending and receiving benefit 
 of lectures by the the most eminent 
 medical educators in the world, de- 
 voting about thre years to study 
 abroad. In 1874. returning to St. 
 Louis, Dr. Fischel immediately took 
 up the practice of his chosen profes- 
 sion. 
 
 Not only has Dr. Fischel distin- 
 guished himself as a practicing physi- 
 cian, but as a medical educator. To- 
 day he is chief of staff of the Barnard 
 Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, the 
 best equipped institution of its kind 
 in the United States, and presided over 
 by some of the most distinguished 
 men. 
 
 Dr. Fischel has served as an edu- 
 cator in the medical department in 
 Washington L'niversity and is still 
 Professor of Clinical Medicine in that 
 institution. In 1909 Dr. Fischel was 
 elected to the International Congress 
 as a delegate from the American Medi- 
 cal Association. . The meetings were 
 
 held in Budapest. He is a member of 
 the Advisory Committee of the Na- 
 tional Association for the Relief and 
 Controj of Tuberculosis and a member 
 of the council of the American School 
 of Hygiene Association. 
 
 Dr. Fischel, in addition to his large 
 private practice, hospital and sani- 
 tarium work and duties as an edu- 
 cator, has found time to write many 
 important articles for the medical 
 press. Several of his papers read be- 
 fore medical conventions have attracted 
 great attention. 
 
 In 1876 Dr. Fischel was united in 
 marriage with Miss Martha Ellis, and 
 the couple have four children. Two of 
 the sons are rapidly following in the 
 father's .footsteps and are graduates of 
 Washington University in the medical 
 department. Dr. Walter Fischel prac- 
 tices in conjunction with his distin- 
 guished father, and is an instructor in 
 the medical department of his alma 
 mater. 
 
 Politically Dr. Fischel is a Republi- 
 can. His research work has extended 
 over many years, and whilst like any 
 other man he enjoys recreation at 
 times his profession is invariably first 
 in his mind. He likes scientific re- 
 search and has engaged in much of it 
 with great success. No man in all Mis- 
 souri stands higher in the medical 
 profession than Dr. Fischel. Many 
 years ago he attained that high posi- 
 tion of success and prominence for 
 which all strive and controls a practice 
 that is said to be one of the largest 
 and most highly representative in St. 
 Louis. 
 
 JOEN HOGAN BOOGHER. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, John 
 Hogan Boogher, is descended from one 
 of the oldest families in America on 
 the paternal side, of Holland ancestry 
 on the maternal side from the dis- 
 tinguished settlers in Maryland and 
 Virginia. The full history of the 
 family is contained in the records of 
 the Society of Colonial Wars and Sons 
 of the Revolution, of which societies 
 Mr. Boogher is an active member. 
 
 Mr. Boogher is a native Missourian. 
 He was born in St. Louis in 1867, 
 soH of S. L. Boogher, a prominent 
 merchant of St. Louis, and grandson 
 of Hon. .John Hogan. who at the close 
 of the Civil War, for many years rep- 
 resented St. Louis in congress. His 
 
 early education was obtained in the 
 public schools of St. Louis, graduating 
 from the high school at the age of 
 seventeen. He then attended the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, returning after 
 three years with the bachelors degree. 
 He then entered the law department of 
 Washington University, which perhaps 
 has turned out more able lawyers than 
 any similar college in the country. 
 Some of the greatest legal lights of the 
 United States studied law in St. Louis, 
 and they are proud they can point to 
 Washington University as their alma 
 mater. 
 
 After the usual course there the 
 degree of Bachelor of Laws was con- 
 ferred upon him and he immediately 
 
began the practice of law in his native 
 city. Ever since that time Mr. Boogher 
 has been devoted to the practice of 
 law. 
 
 I do not believe there is a better 
 posted or more widely read lawyer in 
 the state of Missouri. Even in his 
 youth, ilr. Boogher was of a great 
 literary mind, and was referred to by 
 acquaintances and members of his 
 family as a '"book worm," so consantly 
 did he pore over volumes, one after 
 another. Today his library is re- 
 puted to be one of the best in the 
 country, comprising an unusually 
 large collection of works by the most 
 eminent authors. 
 
 He has appeared as counsel in many 
 of the most important cases brought 
 before the courts of the city, county 
 and state, and not only has he prac- 
 tised in the courts of Missouri, but has 
 been sent by his clients into most of 
 the states of the Union on important 
 matters which he has handled with 
 uniform success. Some of the litiga- 
 tion in which he has appeared has 
 involved many of the intricacies and 
 
 difiBcult problems of law, but so well 
 equipped was he for handling them 
 he preserved the interests of his 
 clients throughout. 
 
 In 1907 Mr. Boogher married Mrs. 
 Elizabeth S. White, the daughter of 
 a distinguished captain in the cause of 
 the Confederacy, and the mother of 
 two sons, one of whom. Franklin Mad- 
 ison White, is associated with Mr. 
 Boogher in. the practice of law, the 
 orher is Commander William Russell 
 White of the United States navy. Mr. 
 Bocgher is one of the staunchest advo- 
 cates of Democracy in the southwest. 
 Since early youth he has been an active 
 worker in the interests of his party, 
 and his services are known to be at 
 the disposition of party leaders in any 
 campaign. Several campaigns were 
 suecessfTilIy managed by him. Mr. 
 Boogher is a member of the St. Louis 
 club, the Bar Association, the Civic_ 
 League, and many other organizations 
 of St. Louis. 
 
 In legal and social circles no man 
 stands higher than doe? '■'n- -nbject 
 of my review. 
 
 ANNA SNEED CAIENS. 
 
 Of the real educators of Missouri 
 f can call to mind none whom I take 
 more pleasure in speaking of than 
 Anna Sneed Cairns, president of For- 
 est Park University, an institution. 
 which for thoroughness has never been 
 excelled, and equalled by only a few. 
 President Cairns was bom in 1S41. 
 and her whole life has been devoted 
 to the uplift and education of young 
 women. 
 
 When less than twenty years of age 
 Mrs. Cairns graduated from Monti- 
 cello Seminary, and entered the class- 
 room as a teacher in 1S5S. Notwith- 
 standing there were no institutions of 
 learning of her school-girl days as is 
 now the case. Mrs. Cairns mastered 
 many languages, such as German, 
 Latin. Greek and French, as well as 
 of history, literature, geology and psy- 
 chology. 
 
 The opportunity to teach in the 
 public schools when she graduated 
 was open to Mrs. Cairns, but when 
 she learned that the Holy Bible was 
 practically barred in those institu- 
 tion she declined to teach in them. 
 During the early part of the civil war 
 (1S61). without a dollar capital, she 
 established the Kirkwood Seminary. 
 At that time schools all over the state 
 were closed. She began with seven 
 students, notwithstanding she had no 
 
 school fumirure or any sort of equip- 
 ment. It was finally, in 1S63, that she 
 erected in the woods a small frame 
 building of one room. In IS 64 this 
 was enlarged, whereupon her oldest 
 sister, Mary, joined her, the lauer 
 teaching on the piano and having 
 charge of the primary deparcm.ent. In 
 1S65. at the close of the war. another 
 sister. Harriet, joined her. In 1S66. a 
 structure large enough te accommo- 
 date about 100 pupils was put up, the 
 money being borrowed for the pur- 
 pose. 
 
 Kirkwood Seminary was chartered 
 in lST-3. whilst in 1SS3 a neat three- 
 story building was erected. Three 
 years later the young woman who had 
 striven with might and main to give 
 education to girls, was wedded to 
 John G. Cairns, at that time one of 
 the foremost architects of St. Louis. 
 In 1SS7 a large addition was made to 
 the institution, which Mrs. Cairns 
 continued even after marrying, and 
 shortly afterwards such a fight was 
 made on the noble institution by the 
 Kirkwood town board that Mrs. Cairns 
 moved her school to St. Louis, since 
 which time it has been in this city. 
 
 Forest Park University, which with 
 its spacious grounds, occupies twelve 
 or fifteen acres on the south side of 
 Forest Park, presents one of the most 
 
imposing educational institutions any- 
 where, the main building, erected in 
 1890, from designs prepared by Mr. 
 Cairns' distinguished husband-archi- 
 tect, being considered the most com- 
 plete school structure in the south- 
 west today. The school exercises, 
 commencement day, were conducted 
 in the new buildings in 1891, Mrs. 
 Cairns having disposed of her Kirk- 
 wood holdings for more than thirty- 
 five thousand dollars. 
 
 It was about this time that the 
 financial troubles of Mrs. Cairns be- 
 gun. The first was when default was 
 made in payment on notes given by 
 the corporation, secured by liens on 
 the Kirkwood property, approximating 
 fifty thousand dollars. In order to ar- 
 range matters so she could pay out, 
 so to speak, she was forced to pay 
 eight per cent interest on deferred 
 payments. During that time this good 
 •woman declined to accept salary for 
 her work, refused to even so much as 
 spend a few cents for a light lunch 
 when down town, but kept every 
 penny for her school, even wearing 
 her garments much longer than she 
 would have otherwise done, even the 
 cook drawing more cash for her serv- 
 ices than the head of the university. 
 At ■ one time several creditors took 
 offense at something and united to 
 throw her into bankruptcy. Just at 
 that crisis two friends came to her 
 rescue, and with a loan of five thous- 
 and dollars, she paid the claims. She 
 was so overjoyed and felt so relieved 
 from the burden that she sang the 
 one hundred and twenty-fourth psalm. 
 Since the construction of the main 
 building, the I\IcKee Gymnasium has 
 been added, Miss Ellen J. McKee con- 
 tributing liberally to the expense of 
 erection. Then she built Cairn's Hall, 
 another imposing structure, each 
 building being paid for, and in full, 
 as put up. When the winter of 1904 
 rolled around, the last vestige of in- 
 debtedness was cleared away, and to- 
 day the institution is free from debt. 
 
 I do not believe there is a better 
 known woman in the country today 
 than Mrs. Cairns. To Mrs. Cairns is 
 due much credit for reviving prohibi- 
 tion agitation in Missouri. No woman 
 worked harder to have submitted to 
 public vote the adoption of the con- 
 stitutional amendment voted down in 
 1910, and which thousands claim was 
 the result of the grossest character of 
 fraud. In their endeavors to get the 
 matter properly before the people of 
 the state, it necessarily had to come 
 through the state legislature. Mrs. 
 
 Cairns, in company with a large body 
 of ladies, the most prominent in the 
 city, journeyed to Jefferson City, and 
 before the legislative solons in a hall 
 crowded to almost suffiocating capa- 
 city, Mrs. Cairns pleaded for recog- 
 nition of the cause she espoused. 
 For several years she held the legis- 
 lative superintendency of the Mis- 
 souri State Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union. To get through the 
 project of having the amendment sub- 
 mitted to the general public, she 
 gathered petition after petition, and 
 in every instance her purposes were 
 defeated. She was untiring, however, 
 and would not give up. 
 
 Not content with securing signa- 
 tures to petitions, Mrs. Cairns realiz- 
 ing that something more forceful 
 would have to be undertaken, stumped 
 Missouri, speaking in many different 
 localities. As soon as her school 
 closed each week she would take the 
 train Friday nights and between then 
 and the opening of school the follow- 
 ing Monday morning, she would ad- 
 dress audience after audience. 
 
 Mrs. Cairns was an organizer of 
 the National Woman's Temperance 
 Union for a number of years, and 
 for two or three years National Su- 
 perintendent of the Department of 
 Capital and Labor. IMrs. Cairns did 
 more than any other woman in St. 
 Louis to induce the placing of a ma- 
 tron at the four courts. She even 
 spent a night in a calaboose to be 
 in position to clearly outline the need 
 for improvement. 
 
 As a public orator Mrs. Cairns in- 
 deed has few equals. As a member 
 of the Prohibition Club of St. Louis, 
 Mrs. Cairns was dispatched to the 
 State of Texas. For one solid month 
 she spoke. At several places when 
 being introduced she was hooted and 
 jeered. 
 
 But again returning to Forest Park 
 University. The College of Music of 
 the famed institution, under the lead- 
 ership of Ernest R. Kroeger, an edu- 
 cator whose reputation extends to 
 all parts of the country. Then the 
 College of Liberal Arts was chartered 
 by the institution. 
 
 Before bringing to a conclusion my 
 review of this interesting and remark- 
 able woman. I must not overlook 
 reference to the daily study of the 
 Holy Bible in Forest Park Univer- 
 sity. It was a long time after the 
 establishing of Forest Park Univer- 
 sity that the pupils had to be carried 
 in wagonettes to the institutions, the 
 cars not reaching out that far. Finally 
 
Mrs. Cairns got down to real active 
 work on that proposition, with the re- 
 sult that today a person may take a 
 
 Market street car and alight at the 
 main gate of the now country-famed 
 institution of educational learning. 
 
 JOSEPH P. GRAHAM. 
 
 Beginning in the retail lumber busi- 
 ness about twenty-five years ago, on a 
 capital of about $125, at Doe Run, Ale, 
 .Joseph P. Graham bas risen rapidly 
 to prominence, until today he stands 
 at the head of the Graham Lumber 
 Company, one of the best known firms 
 engaged in this line of trade, with an 
 annual volume of business that means 
 many thousands of dollars. 
 
 The suUject of the author's review 
 was born March 24, 1863. He had a 
 common school education, supplement- 
 ed witb a business- course at Quincj% 
 111. In his youthful days young Gra- 
 ham remained more or less closely to 
 the farm. In the fields he ploughed, 
 furrowed and planted, and made him- 
 self generally useful. At night he ap- 
 plied himself to study and thought, 
 and considered a more rapid advance 
 to fame and fortune. It was about 
 that time that the young man put 
 aside farm labors and entered the 
 business world, having as his sole cap- 
 ital the small amount mentioned in 
 the foregoing paragraph. 
 
 Mr. Graham's early life was not 
 strewn with rosy pathways. His whole 
 record is one of self-reliance. He is 
 a thorough self-made man. The first 
 few months he was in business he felt 
 that every dollar earned should be 
 immediately put back into his retail 
 lumber business, and to save room 
 rent, he actually slept in his lumber 
 shed, his only mattress being a sewed 
 up sheet, filled with wheat straw. His 
 business grew, and finally in 1895, he 
 accepted a position as road salesman 
 for the Huttig Sash and Door Com- 
 pany, one of the largest establishments 
 of its kind in the world. For ten 
 years Mr. Graham traveled for the 
 company, establishing a magnificent 
 record. In 1904 he severed his con- 
 nection with his employers and organ- 
 ized the Graham Lumber Company, 
 capitalized at $100,000, but which after 
 about twelve' months' operation, so 
 great had been the increasing volume 
 of business, had to be increased by 
 an additional $50,000, making a total 
 capitalization of $150,000. The busi- 
 ness continued to grow, not in leaps 
 and bounds, but a steady, safe growth, 
 that was secure and permanent, and 
 finally a little more than three years 
 
 ago the capital stock was again in- 
 creased, this time to $300,000. 
 
 The company is regarded in local 
 financial circles as one of the strong- 
 est and most conservative in the 
 Southwest, its returns annually being 
 all- that any man could possibly de- 
 sire. During all this time the active, 
 actual operation of the business has 
 been under the. personal supervision 
 of Mr. Graham," as president of the 
 company, and according to information 
 at hand, so rapidly is its volume of 
 trade increasing, month after month, 
 that it cannot be very much longer be- 
 fore the capital may have to be again 
 increased, probably to half a million 
 of dollars, a wholesale business being 
 done exclusively in yellow pine lum- 
 ber, doors, sash, cypress and red cedar 
 shingles. 
 
 Mr. Graham and Miss Cora Tidwell 
 in 1888, were joined in wedlock in the 
 Lone Star State (Texas). Their palat- 
 ial home at 4019 Washington boule- 
 vard, in one of the exclusive residence 
 sections of St. Louis, is one of the 
 neatest and most attractive in the 
 city, and here at the close of each 
 day's many business cares, the sub- 
 ject of my review may be found, sur- 
 rounded by his family. Mr. Graham 
 has three children: Miss Ethel Gra- 
 ham, in her twenty-second year; Ed- 
 gar Graham, aged twenty, and Miss 
 Edna Graham, eighteen years of age, 
 each of whom is enjoying the advant- 
 ages of a collegiate education, hav- 
 ing attended the best known institu- 
 tions in the country. 
 
 Notwithstanding his business occu- 
 pies the greater part of his attention 
 with various matters of importance to 
 be looked after daily, Mr. Graham 
 finds time frequently for a little di- 
 version, and is a member of several 
 of the leading organizations of St. 
 Louis. 
 
 In addition to this he is a great 
 advocate of fraternal associations of 
 the standard character, and enjoys the 
 distinction of holding the thirty-second 
 degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, as 
 well as membershp in th^e Mystic 
 Shrine. His religious affiliations are 
 with the Baptist Church, for which he 
 has done a great deal, always con- 
 tributing with much liberality. Mr. 
 
Graham is a great believer in civic 
 development. He has never delved 
 into matters of a political character, 
 beyond exercising his right as an 
 American citizen at the polls on dates 
 of election. But he believes in ad- 
 vancing the interests of the city. He 
 is a strong advocate of anything that 
 will bring this about, and in any ana 
 all things, with that object in vlevv, 
 his name is among those at the head 
 of the list. He is one of the sterling 
 business men of the Southwest, and 
 
 stands high in the coTnmercial, social 
 and financial circles of the country. 
 
 Mr. Graham was one of the original 
 organizers of the Fredericktown Trust 
 Company, of Fredericktown, Mo., now 
 known as Bankers' Trust Company, of 
 St. Louis, an institution that has a 
 fully paid in capital and surplus of 
 $2,000,000, and generally regarded as 
 one of the strongest financial establish- 
 ments in Missouri, and ]\Ir. Graham is 
 one of its directors at the present time. 
 The president of the company is J. E. 
 Franklin. 
 
 JUDGE CHESTER H. KRUM. 
 
 An Illinoisan by birth, Missourian 
 by adoption. Judge Chester H, Krum 
 stands today as one of the leading 
 members of the legal profession and is 
 regarded as one of the ablest practi- 
 tioners in the state. 
 
 Judge Krum was born in Alton, 111., 
 September 13, 1840, the son of one of 
 the best known lawyers in his time 
 and a man who won distinction as a 
 jurist. In his early life young Krum 
 attended Washington University, where 
 he took classical courses, and from 
 which institution he was graduated. 
 He was awarded his diploma in 1863, 
 gaining the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 In his school work Judge Krum stood 
 invariably at the head of his classes 
 and won the strong commendation of 
 his instructors. 
 
 After leaving school young Krum 
 began to think of what his avocation 
 in life should be. His father before 
 him being a learned follower of Black- 
 stone no doubt had much to do with 
 deciding the son, and so it was that he 
 made up his mind to take up the pro- 
 fession. In Harvard University (law 
 department) the young man entered. 
 
 In 1864 Judge Krum was admitted 
 to the bar. He shortly after entered 
 upon the practice of his profession in 
 St. Louis. Being a young man just 
 out of college and minus the expe- 
 rience which came to him in after 
 years business was rather slow for 
 a while. Finally the legal firm of 
 Krum, Decker and Krum was organ- 
 ized. This arrangement proved highly 
 satisfactory and the manner in which 
 young Krum handled his cases before 
 courts and juries soon won attention 
 from other sources. 
 
 In 1869 Judge Krum was appointed 
 United States District- Attorney. This 
 he continued until 1872. During his 
 tenure of office some of the most diffi- 
 cult litigation with which the govern- 
 
 ment has had to contend came up. 
 Judge Krum in each instance then, as 
 now, had in advance of going to trial 
 well prepared and fortified himself 
 with the result that his success was 
 of such moment as to warrant especial 
 commendation from his superior offi- 
 cers. 
 
 After tendering his resignation as 
 United States legal representative, he 
 was elected to the St. Louis Circuit 
 Court bench. For three or four years 
 he continued in that position. While 
 serving in that capacity Judge Krum'i 
 decisions were fair and all times in 
 harmony with the law, and on not a 
 few occasions lawyers have been heard 
 to express preference for trying their 
 cases before him. 
 
 It was while on the Circuit Court 
 bench that the magnificent legal learn- 
 ing of the distinguished jurist was re- 
 vealed. It has been said, and I believe 
 it is literally true, that no lawyer in 
 the city has a more keen conception of 
 the laws of the country than Judge 
 Krum. 
 
 When he retired from the bench he 
 immediately resumed his private prac- 
 tice, which has steadily grown in vol- 
 ume. Judge Krum has at all times re- 
 frained from specializing. His view is 
 that a man to become a lawyer must 
 be a specialist in all departments of 
 the law, and has therefore applied his 
 knowledge in accordance with his 
 views. 
 
 Not only has he met with unvarying 
 success in practice, but as an educator 
 as well. For nearly ten years he was 
 affiliated with the faculty of the St. 
 Louis Law School. 
 
 Judge Krum, in 1866, was wedded 
 to Miss Elizabeth Cutter. The couple 
 have six children, four daughters and 
 two sons. The family attends the 
 Unitarian Church. Judge Krum, from 
 
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1864 to 1887, was a strong advocate of 
 the Republican party. He is a man 
 of broad giiaged views, and came to a 
 realization that it was best for the in- 
 terests of the people to join the ranks 
 of Democracy, hence he did so. He 
 has never believed in the free coinage 
 of silver, and when William Jennings 
 Bryan attempted to foster it on the 
 people he joined the "gold money 
 
 wing" of the party and fought the 
 campaign through. 
 
 As an orator Judge Krum has few 
 equals. As a debater he has set the 
 best of them down. Everywhere he 
 has appeared in litigation, whether as 
 counsel for defense or plaintiff, he has 
 been regarded as a man of unusual 
 learning and a man of great brilliance 
 in expounding the doctrine of Black- 
 sone. 
 
 MILLARD F. WATTS. 
 
 If there is a better or more favorably 
 known lawyer in Missouri than Millard 
 F. Watts, the subject of my review, I 
 am at a loss to whom to turn. His 
 record, clean throughout, makes one 
 of the most interesting in my volume, 
 and I know there is not a more able 
 lawyer practicing in St. Louis today. 
 Mr. Watts was admitted to the bar 
 in 1879, since which time he has stead- 
 ily practiced his chosen profession, his 
 method of handling and preparing 
 cases having won well merited atten- 
 tion from many sources. 
 
 Confining his attention primarily to 
 corporation law, Mr. Watts has natu- 
 rally been associated closely with much 
 of the most difficult litigation before 
 the courts. Litigation in which the 
 most intricate technicalities and prob- 
 lems of law were involved have been 
 presented, with Mr. Watts acting either 
 as counsel for plaintiff or defendant, 
 and the success with which he has 
 almost universally met is marked in- 
 deed. 
 
 In Central College at Payette, Mo., 
 Mr. Watts as a youth pursued his 
 studies. Completing his studies there 
 he next attended Cornell as well as 
 Washington Universities. Until the 
 demise of the lamented Judge S. M. 
 Breckinridge in 1892 Mr. Watts was 
 
 associated with him in practice. Sev- 
 eral years following he formed a part- 
 nership with^ Judges Barclay and Mc- 
 Keighan, which continued until 1901, 
 and during the following two years 
 Mr. Watts and Judge McKeighan re- 
 mained as partners. 
 
 In 1903 Judge Horatio D. Wood was 
 admitted to the firm, and this com- 
 bination continued for the next two 
 years, being considered one of the 
 strongest law firms in the entire south- 
 west. Judge Woods died in 1905, fol- 
 lowing which the two former partners, 
 Mr. Watts and Judge McKeighan, re- 
 mained together. This partenrship re- 
 mained intact until the death of Judge 
 McKeighan about three years ago, after 
 which the firm of Watts, Williams and 
 Dinesi was formed. 
 
 As in the beginning, this firm made 
 a special feature of corporation law, 
 in which Mr. Watts' is said to be one 
 of the most skilled atorneys in the 
 United States, possessing an unusually 
 keen conception of the law and carry- 
 ing conviction with his able arguments 
 before courts and juries. The firm 
 today is Watts, Gentry and Lee. 
 
 In political views Mr. Watts is a 
 Republican, and whilst he has never 
 sought public office he' has always 
 worked constantly for the advancement 
 of party interests. 
 
 HENRY W. PETERS. 
 
 Shipping clerk at the age of sixteen; 
 traveling salesman at eighteen; led 
 sales force at twenty-one; vice-presi- 
 dent at twenty-nine, and president at 
 thirty-five — this, in a few words, is the 
 business history of Henry W. Peters, 
 president of the Peters Shoe Company, 
 St. Louis. 
 
 Mr. Peters was born in St. Louis 
 February 14th, 1856, and while still 
 an infant his parents removed to the 
 Gasconade hills of Missouri, where 
 
 educational facilities were few, and for 
 this reason his early training was en- 
 trusted for five years to the tutelage of 
 Miss Carroll, a cultured southern wo- 
 man. Later he attended the public 
 schools of St. Louis, working during 
 vacations in his father's country store 
 at Bay. At sixteen he secured a po- 
 sition as shipping clerk with Claflin, 
 Allen & Company, shoe jobbers of this 
 city. Two years later he was sent out 
 on the road as salesman, where, in 
 
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spite of his youth he made a remark- 
 able success, for before he attained 
 the age of twenty-one his sales increas- 
 ed to over $100,000 per year, and before 
 he reached his twenty-second year he 
 headed the list of salesmen for the 
 house, which at that time was one of 
 the foremost shoe houses in the west. 
 When the house was reorganized as the 
 Claflin- Allen Shoe Company Mr. Peters 
 was elected vice-president, he being 
 twenty-nine years of age at that time. 
 At the age of thirty-five Mr. Peters 
 organized the Peters Shoe Company, of 
 which he has been president from its 
 beginning. The company was organ- 
 ized with a capital stock of two hun- 
 dred thousand ($200,000) dollars, 
 which has since then (in 1909) been 
 increased to two million ($2,000,0000) 
 dollars, all paid up from the' earnings 
 of the company. At the time the com- 
 pany was organized it sent only eight 
 salesmen out, but is now represented 
 by 120 and employs in the neighbor- 
 hood of 4,000 in its eight factories, the 
 output of which is shipped to almost 
 every state in the Union, Mexico and 
 Europe. The company enjoys the dis- 
 tinction of manufacturing more fine 
 shoes than any other house in the 
 west. 
 
 The phenomenal growth of the busi- 
 ness of the Peters Shoe Company is 
 due to the fact that Mr. Peters has 
 always been an indefatigable worker 
 and regards no detail too unimportant 
 to receive his personal attention. He 
 is always at his desk before 7:30 
 in the morning and seldom leaves his 
 place of business before 6 o'clock in 
 the evening. He is an ardent advocate 
 of the principle that whatever is worth 
 doing at all is worth doing well, and 
 his example of energy and industry is 
 one which may well be followed by his 
 employes and others who desire to 
 work their way upward. He believes 
 that advice not fortified by example 
 is of little weight, and therefore fol- 
 lowed a course which he desires shall 
 serve as a course of inspiration to 
 those in his service. 
 
 He is not an active club man, yet 
 he is a member of several clubs, is 
 also interested in the banking institu- 
 tions, organizations and associations 
 enumerated below: 
 
 Ex-president Missouri Manufactur- 
 ers' Association; e^x-president St. Louis 
 Manufacturers' and Jobbers' Associa- 
 tion; ex-member Republican State 
 Committee; director Mississippi Valley 
 Trust Company; director Boatmen's 
 
 Bank; director St. Louis Coliseum 
 Company; member Executive Commit- 
 tee Business Men's League, Executive 
 Committee Million Population Club, 
 Board of Governors Amphion Club, 
 Commercial Club, St. Louis Club, Mer- 
 cantile Club, Symphony Society, Aero 
 Club, Kennel Club, Automobile Club, 
 Civic League, City Plan Association, 
 National Boot and Shoe Manufactur- 
 ers' Association, National Association 
 of Manufacturers, Western Association 
 of Shoe Wholesalers, Interstate Mer- 
 chants' Association, Foreign Trades As- 
 sociation, Citizens' Industrial Associa- 
 tion, Northwestern Business Men's As- 
 sociation, XIN League, Parkview Trus- 
 tees, Mississippi Valley Trust Estates 
 Committee, Washington University As- 
 sociation, American National Red 
 Cross Association. 
 
 In politics Mr. Peters is a staunch 
 Republican. The following comment 
 from a St. Louis newspaper is a fair 
 specimen of the sentiment of his busi- 
 ness colleagues. -The article read: 
 "This paper suggested the name of Mr. 
 Peters even before his name was dis- 
 cussed in the Republican City Com- 
 mittee, and it also pointed out his fit- 
 ness for the mayorality of St. Louis. 
 Mr. Peters is an ideal man, the spirit 
 of intensified honesty, with a large fol- 
 lowing among business men and labor- 
 ing people." 
 
 In St. Louis, September 25, 1879, 
 ]\Ir. Peters was married to Miss Anna 
 E. Stoenner, of Gasconade County, Mo. 
 They have three children: Ella C, at 
 home; Edwin H., who is with the 
 Peters Shoe Company, and who mar- 
 ried Stella Maud Porter, of Plattsburg, 
 Ohio; and Oliver P., a graduate of the 
 Washington University Law Depart- 
 ment. He resides at No. 6245 West- 
 minster Place, in one of the handsom- 
 est houses in the west end. The home 
 atmosphere is a most attractive one 
 and the hospitality of the Peters house- 
 hold is greatly enjoyed by their many 
 friends. While a man of wealth there 
 is nothing of hautier in Mr. Peters; he 
 does not stand aloof from his fellow 
 men with any feeling of superiority, 
 but meets all on the common plane of 
 universal brotherhood and finds his 
 friends among the young and old, rich 
 and poor. His employes entertain for 
 him the warmest regard and recognize 
 the fact that he is not only just, but 
 that he regards them as individuals 
 and not as parts of a complex business 
 machine. 
 
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JUDGE ALBERT DEXTER NORTONI. 
 
 Various vocations respectively re- 
 quire men of different dispositions 
 and talents. To find that for which 
 one's natural faculties best fit him is 
 an essential point in life. The study 
 of the lives of men who have ren- 
 dered admirable service in the pro- 
 fessional or commercial fields goes a 
 long way in enabling one to arrive at 
 a successful conclusion. As associate 
 justice of the St. Louis Court of Ap- 
 peals, Judge Albert D. Norton! has 
 demonstrated in such manner as to 
 convince one of the truth that he is 
 serving in a capacity for which he is 
 naturally, in disposition and ability, 
 well fitted. 
 
 Judge Nortoni is a native of Mis- 
 souri and was born in 1867, at New 
 Cambria. His early educational train- 
 ing was had in public and private 
 schools. After completing his studies, 
 the young man decided to enter upon 
 a professional career and immediately 
 begun his legal training, and in 1888 
 was admitted to the bar, being at the 
 time about 21 years of age, with a 
 promising future before him. In Char- 
 iton, Macon and Linn Counties he 
 practiced, and established a splendid 
 clientage. He sought broader fields of 
 activity, however, and realized that 
 opportunity for greater achievement 
 was offered in the larger cities, hence 
 he came to St. Louis and located, hav- 
 ing been appointed Assistant United 
 States Attorney January 1, 1903. 
 
 Here he practiced until called to the 
 judiciary. No man, in my opinion, 
 has ever served the city of St. Louis 
 with greater dignity, with more 
 marked success, nor with more force 
 of character than the subject of my 
 review. For two full terms he served 
 New Cambria as city attorney. It was 
 while thus engaged that he begun to 
 build, step by step, the magnificent 
 reputation which he today enjoys. In 
 1903 and 1904, when the naturalization 
 cases came up, he took an active part, 
 and working unceasingly and burning 
 much "midnight oil" preparing cases 
 for presentation to court, his efforts 
 were crowned with the success of con- 
 viction of several prominent poli- 
 ticians. 
 
 During the initial trial of United 
 States Senator Burton, of Kansas, it 
 was Judge Nortoni and Judge Dyer 
 who prosecuted him, and I am told by 
 lawyers who heard his address in that 
 case that a more masterly effort was 
 never made in a courtroom. He is a 
 forceful speaker, an orator with but 
 few equals, and handled his cases with 
 that keen conception of the law that 
 has brought him the great distinction 
 that is now his. 
 
 The Republicans nominated him for 
 Probate Judge of Macon County in 
 1894, but he refused to make the cam- 
 paign. After coming to St. Louis he 
 was named First Assistant United 
 States District Attorney, under Federal. 
 Judge D. P. Dyer, at that time Dis- 
 trict Attorney. His conduct of this 
 important federal position was such 
 as to attract the attention of the bar 
 of the southwest more than ever be- 
 fore and he was the unanimous choice 
 for the judgeship of the St. Louis 
 Court of Appeals, and in January, 
 1905, he ascended the bench of that 
 high tribunal for a twelve years' term 
 of office. 
 
 His decisions are noted among the 
 profession for fairness and clearness. 
 There is nothing blurred in his con- 
 clusions, but distinctly outlined in 
 every particular, the details of many 
 cases brought before the court, in- 
 volving some of the most intricate 
 problems, which only a man possessed 
 of high knowledge of law could un- 
 ravel. 
 
 His reported opinions have been re- 
 ferred to in many states of the Union, 
 many important cases having been de- 
 cided, based upon the conclusions ar- 
 rived at by Judge Nortoni. 
 
 It was in 1892 that Judge Nortoni 
 was united in marriage with Miss 
 Maggie L. Francis, a native of Macon 
 County, this state, a highly accom- 
 plished and talented woman. She 
 passed away in 1894. Judge Nortoni 
 in 190G, again was wedded, this time 
 to Miss Emma J. Belcher, of Columbia 
 (Mo.), a woman known for her charm- 
 ing qualities and force of character. 
 
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FRANK LAYNG TALBOT. 
 
 Since the advent of the moving pic- 
 ture industry great achievements have 
 been accomplished, not in any one 
 part of the country, but almost every- 
 where, until today many of the actors 
 and actresses who in years gone by 
 have appeared before audiences in 
 America and foreign climes at fabu- 
 lous salaries, have deserted what is 
 termed the "legitimate" for the cam- 
 era. And so it goes. The views pre- 
 sented by all moving picture houses 
 cannot be classed as ideal, for there 
 are not a few blurred or otherwise 
 marred in some unaccountable man- 
 ner, but when the film is clear and 
 perfectly distinct it entertains even 
 more so than the living performers. 
 The silent players, as depicted on 
 canvas, have made marked headway. 
 One of the great pioneers in this line 
 of amusement is none other than the 
 subject of my review- — Frank Layng 
 Talbot, the most prominent theatrical 
 man in St. Louis connected in this 
 manner, and one who has achieved 
 fame and distinction throughout the 
 country. Mr. Talbot was born in Salt 
 Lake City in 1S71, and comes from 
 one of the first families of gentiles 
 settling in Utah, his brother being the 
 first white child born in Denver, Colo- 
 rado. 
 
 He was a,t one time with "Paine's 
 Last Days of Pompeii" as manager. 
 That was, I think, in 1892, at Denver, 
 and continued with the company for 
 more than five years. In the latter 
 part of 189-7, Mr. Talbot spent that 
 winter with a road company. Whilst 
 connected with the Paine Fireworks 
 Display Company, however, he had 
 charge of pyrotechnical displays at the 
 World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, after 
 which he was with Fanny Davenport a 
 while. After the World's Fair he built 
 the summer resort just below Toledo, 
 Ohio, on the Maumee River, known as 
 "Presque Isle," and in 1892 was one 
 of the owners of the "Peoples Thea- 
 tre" in Denver. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Talbot was with the 
 "Carnival of Madrid," and appeared 
 at Salt Air Beach at Salt Lake City 
 and again at Portland, Oregon, after 
 which he went to Vancouver. Leaving 
 the last place he went to Seattle. The 
 great pyrotechnical display of the 
 "Battle of Manila" was given at vari- 
 ous places under the direction of Mr. 
 Talbot, with marked success. 
 
 It was, I believe, about 1900, that 
 Mr. Talbot launched out into the gen- 
 
 eral advertising business, with offices 
 in Omaha and Minneapolis. He made 
 considerable headway in those years 
 and built up a business .that proved 
 most remunerative. Finally, in 1902, 
 he decided to come to St. Louis. Here 
 he supervised and published what was 
 known as the "St. Louis Police Book," 
 a work, the character of which has 
 never been attempted or equalled in 
 this city since. When the great Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition — World's 
 Fair, opened in St. Louis it was the 
 subject of my review — Frank Layng 
 Talbot, who loomed up as having se- 
 cured many of the "niost valuable con- 
 cessions, among which were "Paris on 
 the Pike," "Golden Chariots," "Elec- 
 tiical Gondolas on the Lagoons," etc., 
 etc. 
 
 In 190.J, he again went with a road 
 show and put out one of the best that 
 had played the boards iii many years. 
 Returning to St. Louis again the fol- 
 lowing year (1906), Mr. Talbot opened 
 the Lyceum, the moving picture thea- 
 tre on Sixth street, which has since 
 been torn down to make way for the 
 handsome "Talbot's New Hippodrome," 
 now almost ready for occupancy. The 
 Lyceum proved to be the first of its 
 kind in the world, and the patronage 
 accorded it was something tremendous. 
 Two years later, he opened the "Gem," 
 just across the way, and on the second 
 floor of which he now has his general 
 offices. The class of pictures, singing 
 and general vaudeville put on by Mr. 
 Talbot has never been surpassed in 
 St. Louis. True, many others here 
 have striven hard to imitate him, but 
 they have met one failure after an- 
 other. Mr. Talbot had won the con- 
 fidence of the public and he gave, and 
 still gives, many times full value for 
 the small price of admission charged. 
 
 Mr. Talbot wedded Miss Marie 
 Flood, a native of Montreal, who is 
 associated in the theatrical business 
 with her husband, and through years 
 of unprecedented success she has 
 proven herself \ most efficient and 
 capable assistant. 
 
 Talbot's New Hippodrome, which 
 opened in October (1911), is the hand- 
 somest and most costly moving picture 
 and vaudeville theatre in the country. 
 No expense was spared to make it the 
 ideal amusement place of St. Louis, 
 and thousands of dollars were ex- 
 pended to construct a building that," 
 from the ground up, is as near fire- 
 proof as the most skilled engineering 
 can possibly make it. 
 
 14 
 
The handsome structure was de- 
 signed by Uuggan & Huff, of St. Louis, 
 in accordance with the personal ideas 
 of Mr. Talbot, and architecturally 
 speaking, is one of the "show" places 
 of the "fourth city." In my opinion, 
 shared in by many others, it is the 
 prettiest structure in St. Louis, and is 
 of re-inforced concrete, erected imder 
 the most stiingent and rigid building 
 ordinances in the world; laws that 
 are almost impossible to comply with. 
 The ventilation and heating arrange- 
 ments are absolutely perfect, the most 
 modern and highly improved systems 
 being installed, the air of the entire 
 theatre being constantly changed ev- 
 ery fourteen seconds. It is remark- 
 able, indeed. 
 
 Not only is it the handsomest thea- 
 tre in the country, but the largest, 
 having a seating capacity of three 
 
 thousand, there being actually more 
 seats in the parquet of the New Hippo- 
 drome than on the entire three floors 
 of any theatre in St. Louis, which in 
 itself constitutes a most remarkable 
 architectural achievement. 
 
 He is one of the founders of the 
 Order of Eagles. He is also a Mason, 
 and holds membership in the Friars, 
 Knights of Pythias, Actors' Club, 
 Actors' Fund, Foresters and many 
 others. 
 
 Altogether, Mr. Talbot employs 
 about two hundred people, to each of 
 whom he pays a neat salary. Every 
 Christmas, instead of giving presents 
 to his employes, he goes it several bet- 
 ter, and sits down to a sumptuous ban- 
 quet with them, in one of the leading 
 hotels of the city, where over a mag- 
 nificent spread, they toast and ex- 
 change experiences. 
 
 WILLIAM FRANCIS CARTER. 
 
 Mr. Carter is a native Missourian, be- 
 ing born in Farmington, in 1867, of 
 parents coming from one of the oldest 
 families of Virginia, the father, Will- 
 iam Carter, being a distinguished law- 
 yer. It was but natural that the son 
 should follow in the footsteps of the 
 parent, who for a long number of 
 years presided on the bench, and at- 
 tained for himself a reputation that 
 few men can hope to reach. 
 
 W. F. Carter, my subject, was edu- 
 cated in Washington University, after 
 which he entered the law department 
 of the University of Michigan, one 
 w^hich has turned out graduates, many 
 whom in after years have become the 
 greatest lawyers of the country, not 
 a few appearing in positions of the 
 greatest responsibility and eminence. 
 
 When the class of 1890 was gradvi- 
 ated, Mr. Carter was a member of it, 
 and during the same year was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in his home state. 
 . For about two years following, Mr. 
 Carter practiced his chosen profession 
 at Farmington (Mo.). Being a young 
 man, he was anxious to build up a 
 large practice. He sought loftier 
 ideals and soon realized that he could 
 not hope to accomplish what he de- 
 sired were he to continue his resi- 
 dence in the small town. It was this 
 decision, seeking broader fields of la- 
 bor, that decided Mr. Carter to locate 
 in St. Louis, and this he did. 
 
 Since tlien he has succeeded in es- 
 tablishing one of the most representa- 
 tive clientages that a lawyer could 
 hope for. He has appeared as counsel, 
 either for plaintiff or defendant, in 
 
 many of the most important cases 
 before the courts, and with signal suc- 
 cess. 
 
 In 1907 (on account of his splendid 
 financial ability and his keen con- 
 ception of banking and corporation 
 law), he was chosen for the presidency 
 of the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Com- 
 pany, then in liquidation. 
 
 Mr. Carter is now vice-president of 
 the Mercantile Trust Company, one of 
 our largest financial institutions, the 
 scope of business of which extends out 
 and covers practically every state of 
 the Union. 
 
 Aside from these interests, Mr. Car- 
 ter is a stockholder, director and offi- 
 cer in other enterprises, all of whicli 
 are highly successful. He cares abso- 
 lutely nothing for public office, having 
 never sought political honors. He affil- 
 iates, as a rule, with the Independent 
 movement, believing in supporting the 
 best qualified man, irrespective of poli- 
 tics. 
 
 It was in 1893 that Mr. Carter was 
 united in marriage with Miss Grace 
 Thoroughman, and the couple have 
 two children, a son and daughter. 
 Beginning life with self-determination 
 to achieve distinction in the battle of 
 life, he has truly gained headway that 
 has all along been marked. No one 
 in the state stands higher in his pro- 
 fession or in banking circles, he being 
 a conservative, broad guaged, deep 
 thinking man. He is interested deeply 
 in civic improvements and strongly ad- 
 vocates anything calculated to advance 
 his city's interests. 
 
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DR. ARMANT HENRI OHMANN-DUMESNIL. 
 
 Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil is a native of 
 Iowa, and was born in Dubuque, Sep- 
 tember 30, 1857, his parents being 
 French people, descending from one of 
 the oldest families of France, and 
 highly connected. .The doctor had ev- 
 ery advantage of a high-grade classical 
 and professional education, of all of 
 which he took full advantage. 
 
 He is a graduate of the Christian 
 Brothers' College, of this city, a^id had 
 conferred upon him in 1873 the degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts. Three years fol- 
 lowing, he completed a full course in 
 the Missouri University and had the 
 "M. E," and U. S. degrees conferred 
 upon him. The young man had, in his 
 younger days, expressed the desire to 
 some day become a great physician, and 
 in this idea he received every possible 
 encouragement. In the medical depart- 
 ment of Washington University he 
 matriculated, and received his diploma 
 in 1880. 
 
 Seven years following, the degrees 
 of Doctor of Philosophy and of Phys- 
 ics were conferred upon the young man. 
 He immediately entered upon the prac- 
 tice of his profession, engaging in a 
 vast amount of research work and de- 
 voting every energy to diseases of the 
 skin and syphilis. Today he is con- 
 sidered one of the most eminent der- 
 matologists in the United States. 
 
 The magnificent reputation attained 
 by Doctor Ohmann-Dumesnil, even in 
 his early days of practice, won for 
 him the chair of Dermatology and 
 Syphilology in' the St. Louis College 
 for Medical Practitioners. In the fol- 
 lowing two years, he was selected for 
 the same chair in the St. Louis Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
 in 1894 in the Marion-Sims College of 
 Medicine, while in 1907, he was se- 
 lected for the same professorship in 
 the Hippocratean College of Medicine, 
 
 in 1910 to the same chair in the medi- 
 cal department of Barnes University, 
 being today the Emeritus Professor of 
 Dermatology. 
 
 In the St. Louis City Hospital, as 
 well as the Female Hospital, the Poor 
 House and other -well known institu- 
 tions, he has served as consulting Der- 
 matologist, and this, in addition to 
 serving in a similar capacity to the 
 St. Louis Health Department from 
 1881 to 1911. 
 
 Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil is regarded 
 as an authority on his specialty and 
 ranks among the leading dermatolo- 
 gists of the entire country. He is the 
 author of a number of books on the 
 subjects which have attracted world- 
 wide attention, and much demand is 
 made upon his time to read and dis- 
 cuss the subject before many of the 
 largest gatherings of medical men. 
 
 In addition to this, he has served 
 as chief editorial writer of a number 
 of the best known and largest circu- 
 lated medical periodicals in the Union, 
 among which are the St. Louis Medi- 
 cal and Surgical .lournal. Quarterly 
 Atlas of Dermatology, "Weekly Medical 
 Review, American Journal of Derma- 
 tology, and others. His handbook on 
 "Dermatology" is said by members of 
 the profession to be one of the most 
 accurate and complete ever issued 
 from the press and denotes the closest 
 study of the subject. The "History 
 of Syphilis," in several volumes, is 
 another work of his that has had the 
 most phenomenal sale among the pro- 
 fession and gained for its author ex- 
 tended repute. Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil 
 has been twice wedded. His first wife 
 was Miss Lillian P. Baldwin and the 
 second ]\Iiss Agnes Loring. No man 
 stands higher in the profession and 
 enjoys a greater degree of universal 
 respect. 
 
 DR. JULES BARON. 
 
 Since 1884, the subject of my review, 
 Dr. .Tules Baron, has steadily prac- 
 ticed his profession in this city, and 
 with success that does not ordinarily 
 fall to the lot of every man. 
 
 Dr. Baron is a native of Missouri 
 and was born in St. Louis, in 1859. 
 At the tender age of six years he was 
 left an orphan and was adopted by 
 Henry Zoellner and wife. In early life 
 he attended the public institutions of 
 the city and closely applied himself, 
 
 being always regarded as a studious 
 young man. 
 
 After completing his course of 
 studies, literary and classical, he be- 
 gan the study of medicine in the Medi- 
 cal College of St. Louis and became a 
 graduate there in 1881. Notwithstand- 
 ing he had taken the full course, he 
 did not feel as content as he preferred, 
 and the result was that he went 
 abroad and studied and attended lec- 
 tures, pursuing a special course of 
 
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studies in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Lon- 
 don and other great centers, and qual- 
 itying himself for the practice of his 
 profession under the most eminent 
 men of the world. 
 
 Dr. Baron holds active membership 
 in several of the large medical organi- 
 zations of the country, and has been 
 quite active in their councils. To re- 
 search work, the doctor has devoted 
 no small amount of time, attention 
 and money, with the result that his 
 great knov.-ledge of medicine and sur- 
 gery has been materially broadened. 
 
 In a political way, Dr. Baron is a 
 staunch Republican. He believes in 
 the principles of that party and has at 
 all times strongly advocated them. For 
 two terms he has been honored with 
 the office of Coroner of St. Louis, since 
 which time there has never been a 
 complaint of any character filed. Not- 
 withstanding Dr. Baron holds a splen- 
 did public office, it may be added that 
 it was not of his choosing. The people 
 knew his skill and his capacity and 
 they demonstrated their confidence in 
 
 his ability by electing him to the sam'e 
 position thrice, and should the physi- 
 cian care to continue in office, his 
 election for a fourth term is but a 
 matter of holding the election. Dr. 
 Baron is the only man who has ever 
 held the office for three consecutive 
 terms, something never before known 
 in the history of St. Louis. 
 
 Dr. Baron stands high in the fra- 
 ternal orders of Missouri, and is a 
 Mason, belongs to the Knights of 
 Pythias, and has proven himself an 
 indefatigable worker in the cause of 
 fraternalism. 
 
 He is a man of unusually great civic 
 pride. He believes in the rapid ad- 
 vancement of his city, and has never 
 left a stone unturned to do what he 
 could to further such improvements. 
 As a public official his duties, and 
 they are many, have always been dis- 
 charged with proper regard for the 
 rights of others and I know of no man 
 serving the great public who enjoys 
 the esteem and confidence of the peo- 
 ple more so than Dr. Baron. 
 
 J. CARTER CARSTENS. 
 
 A native lowan, a Missourian by 
 choice, J. Carter Carstens has made 
 phenomenal headway in the practice of 
 law since his location in this city. 
 He was born in 1872, and went to 
 Chicago in 1890, where he entered 
 Lake Forest University. 
 
 Mr. Carstens closely applied him- 
 self, taking full advantage of the high 
 literary training afforded by the insti- 
 tution which he attended, and com- 
 pleted his course of studies in due 
 course of time. 
 
 Following this, he was offered and 
 accepted, the position of financial 
 manager for one of the largest con- 
 cerns in Illinois, engaged in the manu- 
 facture and distribution of high-grade 
 gas and electrical equipment, the trade 
 of which extended throughout almost 
 every state in the country. The posi- 
 tion held by Mr. Carstens was one of 
 the greatest responsibility, but the 
 young man was equal to the occasion 
 and held it satisfactorily to his firm 
 and with credit to himself. 
 
 Notwithstanding the young man at 
 that time had not reached the age of 
 twenty-one years, still he was receiving 
 an annual salary of more than $3,000. 
 In his early years Mr. Carstens had 
 oftentimes expressed the desire to some 
 day become one of the great lawyers 
 of the country. Hence, after serving 
 his house for some time he voluntarily 
 
 severed his relations with it in order 
 to take up the study of law. He en- 
 tered Ruskin University, where he had 
 conferred upon him the degree of Doc- 
 tor of Laws. 
 
 In 1897 he was admitted to the bar 
 and immediately took up the general 
 practice of his profession, afterwards 
 becoming general counsel for the Uni- 
 versal Correspondence College. In this 
 capacity he served the institution for 
 about two years, resigning the office 
 to devote more time to his private 
 practice, which was steadily increas- 
 ing. 
 
 In beginning the practice of law, 
 Mr. Carstens was compelled to make 
 the start in life's battle similar to 
 hundreds of others. It was a hard up- 
 hill fight, but through perseverance he 
 has made good, where many others 
 have met nothing beyond failure. 
 When he was awarded his diploma, 
 and walked out of Ruskin University, 
 fully equipped to take up his profes- 
 sion, the young man had but fifteen 
 dollars to his name. This he used 
 with the greatest care and his first 
 offices were very small and as poorly 
 equipped. His present suite is in 
 striking contrast with the first one, 
 and demonstrates clearly, to my mind, 
 the unprecedented headway he has 
 made. 
 
 His law library is one of the most 
 
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extensive in the state, embracing sev- 
 eral thousand volumes, not a few of 
 which are very costly. It was in 1894 
 that he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Rose Edith Kuhn, of Frederick 
 City, Md., a highly accomplished and 
 talented young woman. Mr. Carstens 
 has at all times taken a prominent 
 part in Masonry and stands high in 
 the councils of that fraternity, he 
 holding membership in Rose Hill 
 Lodge, No. 550, A. F. and A. M.; St. 
 Louis Lodge of Perfection, No. 1; St. 
 Louis Chapter, Rose Croix, No. 1; Mis- 
 
 souri Council, No. 1; Missouri Con- 
 sistory, No. 1, S. P. R. S.; Moolah 
 Temple, of the Mystic Shrine and 
 others. In addition to these, he holds 
 membership in various bar associa- 
 tions and leading social and civic 
 organizations of the city. 
 
 Mr. Carstens practice is not alone 
 confined to St. Louis, but a large part 
 of it comes from adjacent states. In 
 the legal profession he is generally 
 regarded as one of its ablest members 
 and a strong advocate of ethics. 
 
 PAUL BAKEWELL. 
 
 I doubt if there is another lawyer 
 in St. Louis, or the southwest for that 
 matter, with larger experience in pat- 
 ent law than the subject of my review 
 — Paul Bakewell. 
 
 Mr. Bakewell is a native Missourian, 
 and was born in St. Louis in 1858, the 
 sou of one of the most distinguished 
 members of the state bar, Judge R. A. 
 Bakewell, not a few of whose charac- 
 teristics are inherited by the son. Mr. 
 Bakewell was educated in bis home 
 city and attended St. Louis University 
 until 1876, after which he entered the 
 law department of "Washington Uni- 
 versity, an institution that has turned 
 out many graduates, who in after life 
 have become the greatest lawyers of 
 the country. 
 
 It was in 1879 that the subject of 
 my review graduated, and had con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of Bache- 
 lor of Laws. He immediately took up 
 the practice of his profession, much 
 of which was confined to the higher 
 courts. For many years, Mr. Bakewell 
 has devoted almost his entire time and 
 attention to patents, and is today rec- 
 ognized as one of the highest authori- 
 ties on patent law, not only in Mis- 
 souri, but throughout the United 
 States, his counsel and advice being 
 constantly sought from distant points. 
 
 In many instances, to secure a pat- 
 ent, involves the most intricate and 
 difficult problems of law, necessitating 
 a vast amount of research work, which 
 taxes the most brilliant legal minds. 
 It has been no uncommon occurrence 
 for the best known patent attorneys of 
 the country to journey to St. Louis in 
 order to enter conference with Mr. 
 Bakewell, an indication, in my opin- 
 ion, of his splendid judgment in such 
 matters. 
 
 Many briefs prepared by Mr. Bake- 
 well have been such as to attract 
 world-wide attention. The practice of 
 
 patent law is considered the most diffi- 
 cut department of the legal profession. 
 Not ■ only does the attorney have to 
 possess thorough knowledge of all the 
 fundamental principles of law, but 
 aLo must have comprehensive knowl- 
 edge of mechanical and scientific 
 equipment in order to protect best the 
 interests of his client. Without this, 
 he would be at sea, so to speak, in not 
 a fev/ cases that arise from time to 
 time. Mr. Bakewell has been a close 
 student throughout life and has paid 
 particular attention to such details, 
 even to the minutest, with the result 
 that his services as counsel in thou- 
 sands of patent rights cases, has been 
 marked by phenomenal success. 
 
 In addition to his large practice he 
 has lectured in different universities, 
 and in 1904 the St. Louis University 
 conferred upon him the honor of de- 
 gree of Doctor of Laws. His practice 
 has reached enormous proportions, not- 
 withstanding he continues to handle 
 each case in every detail in connection 
 therewith. I doubt whether any law- 
 yer practicing in patent law has en- 
 Joyed a greater degree of universal 
 success than Paul Bakewell. It has 
 really been phenomenal. 
 
 It was in 1884 that Mr. Bakewell 
 was united in marriage with Miss 
 Eugenia McNair, granddaughter of 
 former Governor Alexander McNair. 
 The union resulted in eight children. 
 In his home, as well as in his offices, 
 Mr. Bakewell maintains a large and 
 costly library and nothing suits him 
 better than to enjoy several hours each 
 day, whenever his practice will allow 
 him, among his books. 
 
 Mr. Bakewell is a close student, a 
 widely read man, and one who has 
 traveled a great deal, hence is excep- 
 tionally well posted. He holds active 
 membership in many of the leading 
 
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organizations and clubs, among wliich 
 are the Lawyers' Club of New York 
 City, the Noonday and St. Louis Clubs. 
 In politics, he is a Cleveland Demo- 
 
 crat and believes in the principles of 
 that great party. He also holds mem- 
 bership in various bar asociations. Mr. 
 Bakewell is a Roman Catholic. 
 
 DOCTOR HORATIO N. SPENCER. 
 
 Dr. Spencer is a native of Missis- 
 sippi, and was born in 1845. He re- 
 ceived his earlier education under the 
 direction of private tutors, afterwards 
 graduating from Oakland College. 
 This was in 1861, just about the open- 
 ing of hostilities between the South 
 and the North. The young man was 
 popular in his classes and was vale- 
 dictorian. 
 
 After completing his literary educa- 
 tion, Dr. Spencer matriculated in the 
 University of Alabama, where he com- 
 pleted his course in 1862, being 
 awarded the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. It was shortly after this that, 
 hearing the call of his country, he 
 joined forces -with the great Confeder- 
 acy and fought throughout the entire 
 campaign. 
 
 AVhen the war closed, the young man 
 immediately entered upon his profes- 
 sional career by preparing himself for 
 practice. This he did by entering the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
 New York City, from which institution 
 he graduated with the class of 1869. 
 The young physician was still not 
 satisfied with his education along med- 
 ical lines and went abroad to pursue 
 his studies further and have advantage 
 of the lectures of some of the most 
 distinguished medical educators in the 
 world. He attended the University of 
 Berlin and took full advantage of ev- 
 ery opportunity offered him. 
 
 It was about 1871 that Dr. Spencer 
 located in St. Louis and entered the 
 active practice of his chosen profes- 
 sion, specializing in diseases of the 
 ear and nose, in the treatment of 
 which he has met with marked success 
 and for many years has been regarded 
 as an authority in this branch of the 
 profession, his practice including not 
 only Missouri, but many of the states 
 of the Union. Dr. Spencer's reputa- 
 tion is not by any means confined to 
 the southwest, but extends throughout 
 the Union. 
 
 Dr. Spencer has served as a member 
 of the faculty of the Missouri Medical 
 College, an , institution, that numbers 
 among its graduates many of the most 
 eminent physicians and surgeons in 
 the world. The doctor has done a 
 vast amount of research work and has 
 devoted no small portion of his spare 
 
 time, when he has it, to writing, he 
 being one of the founders of the Amer- 
 ican Journal of Otology, as well as the 
 St. Louis Courier of Medicine. 
 
 The St. Louis Post-Graduate School 
 of Medicine was another of the well 
 known institutions that this eminent 
 physician assisted in establishing, and 
 which was afterwards merged with 
 the Missouri Medical College. In 1899, 
 when the Missouri Medical College 
 was consolidated with the St. Louis 
 Medical College and the latter became 
 the medical department of Washington 
 University, Dr. Spencer was made Pro- 
 fessor of Diseases of the Ear. Among 
 the organizations with which he is 
 affiliated are the American Otological 
 Society, American Medical Association, 
 and others. 
 
 He is also numbered as a member 
 of such institutions as the Society of 
 Sons of the Revolution, American Geo- 
 graphical Society, Society of Foreign 
 Wars, Society of Colonial Wars in the 
 State of Missouri, as well as a niem- 
 ber of several college societies. 
 
 Dr. Spencer is one of the most char- 
 itable men in Missouri and has given 
 his services to many who were unable 
 to pay, but whose conditions were such 
 that the great skill of such a physician 
 as Dr. Spencer was badly needed. He 
 is a great humanitarian, and many 
 acts of his plainly bear me out in my 
 statement. To the Bethesda Found- 
 ling Home, to the Home for the Aged 
 and Incurables, Dr. Spencer has 
 granted liberal assistance. 
 
 It was in 1868 that Dr. Spencer was 
 united in marriage with Miss Annie 
 Kirtland, a native of New York. She 
 passed away in 1885. In 1887 the doc- 
 tor married Miss Elizabeth Dwight. 
 The physician has five children, one, 
 Selden Spencer, being associated with 
 his father in the practice of medicine. 
 
 For a period of practically forty 
 years. Dr. Spencer has served the peo- 
 ple of St. Louis and the southwest. 
 As an educator he has demonstrated 
 time and again the great ability which 
 he exhibits in his practice, and today 
 nowhere in any part of the country 
 does a member of the medical profes- 
 sion stand higher than Dr. Horatio N. 
 Spencer. 
 
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DR. HARVEY GILMER MUDD. 
 
 One of the most distinguished prac- 
 titioners in the country, pursuing his 
 calling in this city, is Dr. Harvey Gil- 
 mer ]\Iudrl, a native of St. Louis, a 
 man who has reached the highest pin- 
 nacle of success and eminence in his 
 chosen profession. Dr. Mudd was born 
 in 18,57. His parents were native 
 Kentuckians, his father being actively 
 engaged in the realty business until 
 about eight or nine years ago, when 
 he passed awaw. 
 
 When a youth, the subject of my 
 review attended the public institutions 
 of Kirkwood, a suburban city near St. 
 Louis. Finishing his course of studies 
 there, the young man came to St. 
 Louis, where he entered the Hight 
 School. When the class of 1876 gradu- 
 ated from that institution, young 
 Mudd was one of its members. Even 
 in early life, while not much more 
 than a boy, he had thought of the 
 future to come, and after due consid- 
 eration finally decided to take up the 
 study of medicine, hence I find him a 
 student in the St. Louis Medical Col- 
 lege, a deoartment of Washington Uni- 
 versity, after completing his classical 
 and literary education, and in 1881 he 
 graduated. Dr. Mudd was regarded 
 as a close student by the factulty 
 under whom he pursued his studies, 
 the young man diligently applying 
 himself. 
 
 Notwithstanding the law and medi- 
 cal departments of Washington Uni- 
 versity have turned out men, who in 
 after life have won fame and fortune 
 in their chosen professions, and whose 
 reputations in not a few instances, 
 have become international in scope and 
 character, Dr. Mudd was of the opin- 
 ion, when he graduated, that he should 
 add to his store of knowledge of medi- 
 cine. He so informed his professors 
 and decided upon further activity 
 along those lines. 
 
 He went to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, 
 Edinburgh, London and other well 
 known centers, where he attended lec- 
 
 tures by men who stand high in the 
 medical world as educators. He pur- 
 sued his studies in these cities from 
 1885 to 1887, and returned to the 
 United States well qualified to practice 
 his piofession. 
 
 He has served the American Asso- 
 ciation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons as 
 president and has prepared a number 
 of papers, the import of which is read- 
 ily understood from his own marked 
 success. Dr. Mudd holds active mem- 
 bership in the American Surgical As- 
 sociation, as w'ell as the St. Louis 
 Medical, and St. Louis Surgical So- 
 cieties, in the councils and delibera- 
 tions of its members of which he has 
 at all times stood high and held in the 
 loftiest esteem. 
 
 Dr. Mudd has served the National 
 Guard of Missouri as Major and Sur- 
 geon. From my investigation I can 
 say conscientiously that as man, physi- 
 cian and surgeon, none enjoys the con- 
 fidence of the public to a greater ex- 
 tent than does the subject of my re- 
 view. He is a strong advocate of the 
 ethics of his profession and adheres 
 closely to them. He believes in allow- 
 ing merit alone to win. and it has 
 been upon such principles that Dr. 
 Mudd has achieved his magnificent 
 reputation. 
 
 In 1892 he was wedded to Miss Mar- 
 garet de la Plaux Clark, a highly ac- 
 complished and talented young woman, 
 and the couple have one son, Stuart 
 Mudd. 
 
 The staff of physicians and surgeons 
 of the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer 
 Hospital, which threw open its doors 
 in a spacious and imusually well 
 equipped structure several months ago, 
 is considered one of the best and most 
 carefully selected in the state. Dr. 
 Mudd is a member of its surgical 
 staff. Being the only institution of 
 its kind in the southwest the cases 
 that go there are oftentimes of the 
 most difficult character upon which to 
 operate. 
 
 DOCTOR ISAAC H. CADV/ALLADER. 
 
 An Ohioan by birth, Missourian by 
 choice, born in 1850, no member of 
 the St. Louis medical profession has 
 achieved greater distinction than the 
 subject of my review. Dr. I. H. Cad- 
 wallader, who during the past ten or 
 twelve years has served as medical 
 
 director of the Missouri Baptist Sani- 
 tarium, at the corner of Bell and Tay- 
 lor avenues, St. Louis. , 
 
 After passing through the various 
 stages of literary training and equip- 
 ping himself so far as he could, the 
 son, who, even during his early days 
 
 20 
 
had expressed a desire to some day be- 
 come a great physician and surgeon, 
 entered Rush Medical College. Prior 
 to that time, however, the young man 
 had completed a course in pharmacy, 
 his idea being to familiarize himself 
 as thoroughly with the compounding 
 of drugs as to qualify himself for the 
 prescribing thereof. It was in 1875 
 that Dr. Cadwallader graduated in 
 medicine. The doctor has often said 
 that the day he received his medical 
 diploma was one of the happiest of 
 his life. 
 
 In 1900 he was called to the head 
 of the great sanitarium over which he 
 presides at the present time. 
 
 The Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, 
 the staff of which is composed of 
 many of the most distinguished 
 physicians and surgeons in the south- 
 west, is regarded throughout the 
 country as one of the most modern 
 institutions of its kind in operation. 
 When Dr. Cadwallader was selected to 
 assume charge, his good wife was 
 named for the superintendency, since 
 which time husband and wife, work- 
 ing in conjunction, hand in hand, have 
 succeeded in adding greatly to its 
 laurels. I might add here, while com- 
 menting- on the institution, that many 
 of the most difficult surgical opera- 
 tions performed in St. Louis have been 
 done at this sanitarium. 
 
 Dr. Cadwallader is considered one 
 of the best known authorities on Gyne- 
 cology in the state, having for years 
 made a specialty of that and obstet- 
 rics, and has read before large medical 
 gatherings important papers discus- 
 sing the subjects. He has contributed 
 
 to the medical press on various occa- 
 sions. 
 
 It was, I believe, in 1896 that Dr. 
 Cadwallader was wedded to Miss Ella 
 Brown, a highly accomplished and tal- 
 ented young woman of St. Louis, who 
 has proven his greatest assistance, and 
 has many times demonstrated her 
 splendid capacity for the work which 
 she and her distinguished husband 
 have undertaken, and are carrying to 
 such successful conclusions. 
 
 Dr. Cadwallader is a member of sev- 
 eral of the leading professional and 
 civic bodies of the city, county and 
 state, among which are the St. Louis 
 Medical Society, Missouri State Medi- 
 cal Association, American Medical As- 
 sociation, and others. 
 
 Fraternally, the physician and sur- 
 geon affiliates with the great Masonic 
 Order, being a thirty-second degree Ma- 
 son, and stands high in the affairs 
 and councils of the order. His life- 
 work has been open as a book at all 
 times, whilst his headway has, as I 
 have already stated, attracted great 
 attention here and elsewhere. He has 
 taken every degree in Masonry. 
 
 Dr. Cadwallader has, perhaps, done 
 more charity work than any other 
 medical practitioner in St. Louis. 
 Many, a cold, bitter winter night he 
 has gotten out of his warm bed and 
 made a professional call, knowing at 
 the time there would be absolutely 
 nothing in it, so far as compensation 
 was concerned. But he went ahead 
 just the same. He stands high in the 
 ranks of his profession and is gener- 
 ally regarded as one of the most com- 
 petent of men. 
 
 DR. JOHN B. SHAPLEIGH. 
 
 No aurist in the southwest enjoys 
 greater confidence and higher regard 
 in the medical profession than Dr. J. 
 B. Shapleigh, who, since he entered 
 upon the' active practice of his pro- 
 fession in this city, has achieved the 
 most phenomenal success. 
 
 Dr. Shapleigh is a native St. Louisan 
 and was born in 18.57, being of En- 
 glish descent. For two years or more 
 Dr. Shapleigh attended private institu- 
 tions of learning in this city, after 
 which he entered Washington Univer- 
 sity and took the full academic course 
 of instruction. Following this, the 
 young man entered the collegiate de- 
 partment of this well known institu- 
 tion, from which he graduated with the 
 class of 1878, and had conferred upon 
 him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 Whilst attending school he often ex- 
 pressed the desire to become a great 
 practitioner some day, and how well 
 his wish has been realized, is known 
 to the people of this state. He first 
 entered the St. Louis Medical College. 
 Here he diligently applied himself, 
 taking full advantage of every oppor- 
 tunity for knowledge that was offered, 
 and in 1881 graduated with the M. D. 
 degree. He immediately entered the 
 St. Louis City Hospital and served as 
 an interne until 1882, after which he 
 served in a similar capacity in the St. 
 Louis Female Hospital, in both insti- 
 tutions gaining practical knowledge 
 and experience, which in after years 
 proved most beneficial. 
 
 Not content with his training, he 
 left St. Louis and studied abroad, 
 
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making a specialty of ear diseases 
 under tlie most eminent specialists in 
 Vienna. He was absent two or three 
 years and in that time equipped him- 
 self well for the practice of his pro- 
 fession on his return to his native city 
 — St. Louis. 
 
 Dr. Shapleigh has gained a magnifi- 
 cent reputation, not only as a practi- 
 tioner and ear specialist, but . as an 
 educator, lecturing in the St. Louis 
 Medical College, now a department of 
 Washington University, and in the 
 same institution has served as clinical 
 professor of ear diseases, as well as 
 professor of otology. From 1901 to 
 1902 he served as dean of the faculty 
 of the medical department of Wash- 
 ington University, and is a member of 
 the medical staff of St. Luke's Hos- 
 pital and of the staff of the George D. 
 Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hos- 
 pital. Dr. Shapleigh is a member of 
 several medical societies, a number of 
 which he has served as president and 
 in other official capacities. In the St. 
 Louis Medical Society, the physician 
 served as chairman of the section of 
 oto-laryngology in 1907 and 1908, with 
 great credit and distinction. 
 
 It was in 1886 that Dr. Shapleigh 
 was wedded to Miss Anna T. Merritt, 
 a native of St. Louis, a highly accom- 
 plished and talented young woman. 
 The couple have two children. 
 
 Politically, Dr. Shapleigh affiliates 
 with the Republican party, and while 
 he has never sought public office, has 
 at all times done what he could to 
 advance the principles of Republican- 
 ism. He is a man of considerable civic 
 pride and believes in putting his home 
 city in the front rank wherever it is 
 feasible and possible to do so. No 
 man in St. Louis stands higher in the 
 medical profession, and throughout the 
 state he is regarded as one of the most 
 eminent aurists in practice. The fam- 
 ily are communicants of the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 A coincident n^ost remarkable in 
 connection with Dr. Shapleigh, and of 
 which perhaps it would be found diffi- 
 cut to find a parallel, is that in the 
 same institution in which he was edu- 
 cated he has served, step by step as an 
 educator, through the various branches 
 of study until he reached the position 
 of dean. This is, I consider, one of 
 the most remarkable occurrences. 
 
 DR. WILLIAM ENGELBACH. 
 
 Of the younger generation. Dr. 
 William Engelbach has made marked 
 progress in the practice of internal 
 medicine in St. Louis, and has reached 
 a position of eminence in his chosen 
 profession. 
 
 Dr. Engelbach is a native of Illinois 
 and was born in Arenzville in 1876, 
 and comes from a family of ministers 
 and physicians. In his early days the 
 physician attended the public institu- 
 tions of his native city, after whick he 
 became a high school student. Later 
 he entered Whipple Academy, located 
 a-t .Jacksonville (111.), as well as the 
 Illinois College at the same place. 
 
 The latter institution conferred 
 upon him the degree of Bachelor of 
 Science in 1899 and that of Master of 
 Science in 1907. It was in the famous 
 Northwestern Medical College, of Chi- 
 cago, that the young man won his pro- 
 fessional degree, after completing the 
 fully prescribed course of studies and 
 graduating. That was in 1902. During 
 the same year and the one following 
 Dr. Engelbach served in the Cook 
 County Hospital, where the experience 
 he gained in practical training has 
 proven of great benefit to him in after 
 years. After leaving the hospital the 
 
 doctor pursued post-graduate courses 
 in Vienna. Paris and Berlin, and fully 
 qualified himself for his life's work. 
 
 During his early life, even while 
 attending the public schools, the young 
 man often expressed the desire to some 
 day become known as a great physi- 
 cian, and how well he has succeeded 
 is known by the people of his adopted 
 state — Missouri. 
 
 I believe it was about 1905, on his 
 return from the old countries, that 
 Dr. Engelbach located in St. Louis. 
 The field he realized as a splendid one 
 for young men of ability and perse- 
 verance. He has engaged in a vast 
 amount of research work and kept in 
 close touch with alll subjects of im- 
 portance to his profession. Dr. Engel- 
 bach has on various occasions demon- 
 strated his capacity as a medical prac- 
 titioner, and no man stands higher in 
 the profession than he. 
 
 Of the several leading medical or- 
 ganizations of the city, county and 
 state, Dr. Engelbach is a member, 
 among which are the St. Louis Medi- 
 cal Society, of which he served as 
 chairman of the executive committee; 
 Misoui;i State Medical Society, South- 
 
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western Medical Association, American 
 Medical Association and others. 
 
 Dr. Engelbacli has served as Ex- 
 aminer of the Sanitarium for Incip- 
 ient Tuberculosis of Missouri; also as 
 a member of the medical staff of St. 
 John's Hospital; and a member of the 
 consulting staff of the St. Louis City 
 
 Hospital. He has served the St. Louis 
 University Medical College as Profes- 
 sor of Medicine, and in a number of 
 other ways has rendered signal service. 
 In 1905. Dr. Engelbach was wedded 
 to Miss Foura Reynolds, a native of 
 Illinois, and the couple have one child, 
 a daughter. 
 
 S. M. BRECKINEIBGE LONG. 
 
 "In all this world," once remarked 
 former President Theodore Roosevelt, 
 "the thing supremely worth having is 
 the great opportunity coupled with 
 actual capacity to do well and worthily 
 a piece of work, the execution of which 
 shall be of vital significance to man- 
 kind." To S. M. Breckinridge Long 
 has come this opportunity, and the 
 fact that today he enjoys one of the 
 largest clientages in the private prac- 
 tice of law, is but demonstrative of 
 his having grasped that opportunity. 
 
 Mr. Long is a native of this city and 
 was born in 1S81, a descendant from a 
 family, the male members of which 
 have furnished the most celebrated 
 lawyers, ministers and medical prac- 
 titioners. The father of Breckinridge 
 Long was William S. Long, a noted 
 Confederate major, serving with the 
 Forty-fourth North Carolina regiment, 
 and seeing much actual service upon 
 the fields of battle. Members of the 
 Long and Breckinridge families have 
 served in positions of the highest 
 trust, one, John Breckinridge, being 
 Attorney General under President 
 Thomas Jefferson; another, Cabell 
 Breckinridge, was Secretary of the 
 Commonwealth of Kentucky; another, 
 J. C. Breckinridge, was Vice-President 
 of the United States, Vice-President of 
 the Confederate States of America and 
 United States Senator from Kentucky, 
 while Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge 
 was a Congressman from the blue 
 grass state. The mother of Breckin- 
 ridge Long (the subject of my re- 
 view) was Miss Margaret Breckin- 
 ridge. 
 
 Still further down the line of de- 
 scendancy I find another member of 
 
 the family, Clifton Breckinridge, 
 United States Minister to Russia. I 
 have in this little volume prepared 
 fifty or more records of some of the 
 greatest men in the southwest, but in 
 no other instance have I found one 
 possessing a more distinguished an- 
 cestry than Mr. Long. 
 
 In early life, S. M. Breckinridge 
 Long had the many advantages of a 
 high-class educational training, gradu- 
 ating in the academic course at 
 Princeton University, w'ith the class 
 of 1904. Two years following tuis, the 
 young man received his diploma in 
 law from Washington University. That 
 was, I believe, in 1906. After com- 
 pleting his legal education, Mr. Long 
 was not yet content. He desired to 
 see the world, the larger cities- of the 
 universe, and wished to attend lec- 
 tures by educators in several of the 
 world's greatest law colleges; hence 
 he made a trip around the world last- 
 ing nearly a year and visiting most 
 of the centers of learning in the world. 
 
 Immediately upon his return to St. 
 Louis he opened his law offices in the 
 Commonwealth Trust Building, and 
 here today he controls a . large and 
 growing practice. Naturally, Mr. 
 Long is a staunch Democrat. He be- 
 lieves in the great principles of that 
 party, aad about three years ago was 
 its candidate for the State Legislature. 
 
 Aside from holding membership in 
 a number of professional societies, he 
 is active socially, and a member in 
 several of the leading clubs. No 
 young man in the city enjoys greater 
 respect or stands higher in the legal 
 profession than he, and I am glad to 
 prepare my review of one possessing 
 su.ch sterling qualities. 
 
 DR HERMAN TUHOLSKE. 
 
 As a physician, surgeon, educator, 
 and citizen, few men have reached the 
 high plane of success of the subject of 
 my review. Dr. Tuholske was born in 
 Prussia in 1848. His educational ad- 
 
 vantages were varied and of eacJi he 
 took due account, completing his clas- 
 sical studies in the Berlin Gyninasiuri, 
 after which he matriculated i'ov a pro- 
 fessional career in Humboldt Medical 
 
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College, whilst in 1S70 he was 
 awarded his diploma by the Missouri 
 Medical College. 
 
 Following this, the young physician 
 went abroad and pursued post-gradu- 
 ate courses and lectures in Paris, Lon- 
 don, Berlin and Vienna, receiving the 
 benefit of training under the most 
 skilled medical men of the world, 
 (lualifying himself for an after life 
 that has been marked by the most 
 unprecedented success. 
 
 After finishing his studies, the 
 young physician and surgeon returned 
 to St. Louis, since which time he has 
 achieved distinction far beyond the usu- 
 al practitioner, and stands today, and 
 is so recognized by the great profession 
 of which he is a member, as one of the 
 most eminent surgeons and educators 
 in the United States. Dr. Tuholske 
 has devoted much of his time and 
 attention to research work, and has 
 delivered lectures, in and out of the 
 class room, that have attracted world- 
 wide attention and the most favorable 
 comment from acknowledged critics. 
 
 I believe it was in 1870 that the doc- 
 tor was selected as physician at the 
 St. Louis Dispensary. I believe, fur- 
 ther, that I can truthfully say that 
 the present high standard of efficiency 
 of that all important city department 
 had its inception from the many im- 
 provements undertaken during the 
 administration of Dr. Tuholske. He 
 made many changes after asisuming 
 charge, adding a day and night am- 
 bulance service, which the dispensary 
 did not have at that time. In addition 
 he secured assistant physicians and 
 today there is scarcely a better organ- 
 ized system anywhere. Prior to re- 
 signing in 1876 he was also placed in 
 charge of quarantine. During the out- 
 break of smallpox in St. Louis in 1872 
 Dr. Tuholske was in the thickest of 
 the fight to eradicate the dreadful 
 scouige and made great headway in 
 that connection. 
 
 After Dr. Tuholske resigned public 
 office he devoted his entire time to his 
 private practice, which was growing 
 steadily and had reached the point 
 where he was compelled to let other 
 matters rest, in order to look after his 
 patients in all parts of the city. In 
 1874 the Missouri Medical College 
 elected the doctor as professor of anat- 
 omy, which chair he held for ten years 
 or more. In this connection. Dr. Tu- 
 holske did some of his best work, his 
 demonstrations being ideal in every 
 respect and of such character as to 
 impress his own thoughts and mean- 
 ings upon the minds of hundreds of 
 young medical students in his classes. 
 
 Leaving the Missouri Medical Col- 
 lege, he accepted the chair of professor 
 of surgery in Washington University, 
 and here again the distinguished sur- 
 geon demonstrated great skill. Dr. 
 Tuholske is also chief surgeon of the 
 St. Louis Jewish Hospital, as chair- 
 man of the surgical section of the St. 
 Louis Medical Society, and has been 
 honored with the presidency of the 
 same organization. In 1899 Dr. TU' 
 holske was selected as surgeon of 
 Washington University Hospital, an 
 office much sought after by members 
 of the profession. When the Missouri 
 Medical College was merged as the 
 medical department of Washington 
 University, Dr. Tuholske was called 
 to the chair of surgery, a position he 
 holds with great credit to himself and 
 students. 
 
 The distinguished physician has de- 
 voted the best years of his life to sur- 
 gery, and is recognized by profession 
 and public as one of the most skilled 
 in the country. He is a man of great 
 sympathy, and in operating exercises 
 the tenderest care. His work, both in 
 and out of college work, has been 
 marked by the most phenomenal suc- 
 cess and no man stands higher in the 
 field of surgery and medicine than Dr. 
 Tuholske. 
 
 Dr. Tuholske was also one of the 
 original founders of the St. Louis 
 Post-Graduate School of Medicine, 
 which afterwards erected the Post- 
 Graduate School Building and Hos- 
 pital, the first structure of its kind 
 ever constructed in the United States, 
 and which became an integral factor 
 in the medical education of St. Louis 
 and the great Southwest. 
 
 When the agitation for a higher 
 standard for a medical education came 
 up in this city some years ago, one of 
 its strongest advocates was Dr. Tuhol- 
 ske. He believed, and so pointed out, 
 that in order to be qualified to enter 
 the medical profession, a person 
 should . be properly equipped and 
 urged and forcibly demonstrated that 
 his views were correct. The result 
 is a three years' attendance at medical 
 lectures as one of the impro\'ed re- 
 quirements. 
 
 Dr. Tuholske has also served the 
 Missouri Medical College, now a de- 
 partment of Washington University as 
 professor of pathology and clinical 
 surgery, as well as surgeon at the 
 Martha Parsons Free Hospital for 
 Children. In this character of work 
 the most delicate surgery was called 
 for and the fact of Dr. Tuholske's se- 
 lection is but an indication of the 
 great confidence reposed in him. 
 
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He was also siirgeon-in-charsje of the 
 St. Louis Surgical and Gynecological 
 Hospital, as well as surgeon of the 
 First Regiment of Missouri, with the 
 rank of major. The St. Louis Surgical 
 and Gynecological Hospital was estab- 
 lished by Dr .Tuholske. It adjoined 
 his residence, inasmuch as the doctor 
 wished to be near his patients at all 
 times. In this work he again met with 
 marked success, the institution itself 
 being constructed along lines modern 
 in every detail. 
 
 Even the wards, rooms and every 
 part of the building, was especially 
 constructed under personal ideas of 
 the well known surgeon and physician, 
 only gynecological and surgical cases 
 being received, and all the operating 
 done by Dr. Tuholske in person, as- 
 sisted by one of the most skilled corps 
 of assistant surgeons in the Southwest. 
 
 Many of the best known surgeons in 
 the United States, at different times, 
 visited this institution and went over 
 every part of it. The general con- 
 census of opinion formed and ex- 
 pressed was that no other hospital of 
 its character in the- United States 
 could equal it, so modern in every de- 
 
 tail and outline was it established and 
 maintained. 
 
 Dr. Tuholske is one of the most 
 ethical men of the profession. He 
 holds active membership in several 
 medical societies and associations and 
 established the International Congress 
 of Gynecology, and is a member of the 
 Deutsche Gesellshaft fur chirurgie. 
 The American Medical Association, the 
 Southern Surgical and Gynecological 
 Society, the Southwest Missouri Medi- 
 cal Association, the American Medical 
 Association for the Advancement, of 
 Science and others all have his name 
 enrolled as a member. As an acknowl- 
 edgement of the great work which he 
 has accomplished, of his success as a 
 medical and surgical educator, of his 
 great headway in hospital work, he 
 had conferred upon him by Westmin- 
 ster College the degree of Bachelor of 
 Laws. 
 
 It was in 1S74 that Dr. Tuholske 
 was wedded to Miss Sophie Epstein, a 
 native of St. Louis. Medical and sur- 
 gical colleges need the services of such 
 men as the subject of my review, 
 capable, skilled and distinguished sur- 
 geons, who work with conscientious 
 care. 
 
 DOCTOR HARRY STURGEON CROSSEN. 
 
 There are many men whose miustry 
 has won them success, men who 
 through perseverance and diligence, 
 execute well defined plans which oth- 
 ers have made, while those who take 
 the initiative are comparatively few 
 The vast majority do not realize the 
 opportunities for co-ordination of 
 forces, and development of new ideas. 
 
 Dr. Harry Sturgeon Crossen belongs 
 to what might be termed the "initia- 
 tive" class of men, both in and out 
 of his chosen profession. He was 
 born in Iowa in 18.59, and is still a 
 young man. Notwithstanding this, he 
 has made such progress in his profes- 
 sion that today he is recognized as an 
 authority on Gynecology, one of the 
 foremost of the country. 
 
 At a very tender age Dr. Crossen 
 was left an orphan, losing both par- 
 ents, and was reared by an aunt. In 
 1889 he matriculated in the medical 
 department of Washington University, 
 and in 1892 graduated from that in- 
 stitution, an institution whose gradu- 
 ates are among the foremost men of 
 the world, in practically all profes- 
 sions and industries. 
 
 Leaving college, he entered the St. 
 Louis City Hospital as junior assist- 
 
 ant, through competitive examination, 
 and in 1893 was appointed senior as- 
 sistant. In the latter part of 1893, 
 as a reward for his skill and ability, 
 he was named assistant superintend- 
 ent of the City Hospital. In 1895 he 
 was appointed by Mayor Cyrus P. 
 Walbridge as superintendent of the St. 
 Louis Female Hospital, serving four 
 years. 
 
 When the young physician's term of 
 office expired, he was offered reap- 
 pointment, but declined, preferring to 
 enter private practice, which today 
 is one of the largest and most repre- 
 sentative in St. Louis. Gynecology is 
 claimed by the most successful physi- 
 cians to be one of the most difficult 
 branches of the medical profession. 
 In this, Jiowever, Dr. Crossen has spe- 
 cialized with such remarkable progress 
 that his reputation is known through- 
 out this country and in foreign fields 
 of endeavor. He is an acknowledged 
 authority, and has read many papers 
 before the leading medical societies. 
 
 Not only has he met with signal 
 success in private practice, but is 
 equally as well known as a medical 
 educator, having served as professor 
 of Clinical Gynecology in Washington 
 
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University, as well as Gynecologist to 
 Washington University, Mullanphy 
 Hospital, Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, 
 Betliesda Hospital and others. 
 
 Dr. Crossen holds membership in 
 several of the largest professional or- 
 ganizations in the country, among 
 which are the American Gynecological 
 Association, American Association of 
 Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 
 Western Surgical and Gynecological 
 Association, American i\Iedical Asso- 
 ciation, St. Louis Medical Society, 
 Medical Society of Cuj Hospital 
 Alumni and others. 
 
 Dr. Crossen's writings periaining to 
 the profession, and particularly to the 
 subjects of Gynecology and Abdominal 
 Surgery in W^omen, have attracted 
 wide attention, and papers by him are 
 in great demand at medical meetings. 
 He is the author of a text book on 
 "Diagnosis and Treatment of the Dis- 
 eases of Women," which is today used 
 in a number of the principal medical 
 colleges of the United States. The 
 text book referred to is declared by 
 medical educators and physicians to 
 be one of the best arranged and most 
 
 thorough in existence, and is prepared 
 in a style of simplicity that enables 
 the student to follow the author close- 
 ly throughout. On this work Dr. Cros- 
 sen has been the recipient of numerous 
 complimentary letters from leading 
 medical teachers, and the book has 
 attracted attention and comment in all 
 parts of this country and abroad. 
 
 In 1895 Dr. Crossen was united in 
 marriage with Miss Mary Frances 
 Wright, a highly accomplisnb.'' and tal- 
 ented young woman oi Ohio. They 
 have five children. Theodore, Ruth, 
 Robert, Virginia and David. 
 
 Dr. Crossen is a Republican. His 
 view of political matters, however, is 
 that any party name is of much less 
 importance than the character and 
 principles of the candidate and of the 
 platform upon which he stands, and 
 the eminent gynecologist and medical 
 educator votes in strict accordance 
 with such views. 
 
 No man in the country holds a high- 
 er place in the work of the medical 
 profession than he, while his success 
 is equalled by few. 
 
 GERRIT H. TEN BROEK. 
 
 Representing The Netherlands in 
 a jurisdiction covering ten states, and 
 having personal supervision of all mat- 
 ters pertaining to the government 
 which he represents in this territory, 
 and in addition to his official duties 
 having personal interests in a number 
 of these states, Mr. Ten Broek is al- 
 most as well known in the prominent 
 centers in the states tributary to St. 
 Louis as he is in this, his native city, 
 where he was born in 1859. Mr. Ten 
 Broek is of Holland ancestry. He 
 speaks the Holland language fluently, 
 and was of particular service to his 
 government during the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, being one of the 
 Royal Commissioners accredited to the 
 Exposition; for special services ren- 
 dered The Netherlands government he 
 was created by H. M. Queen Wilhel- 
 mina a Knight of the Order of Orange 
 and Nassau. 
 
 In early life Mr. Ten Broek attended 
 the public institutions of learning in 
 this city, after which he decided to 
 become a lawyer and chose that voca- 
 tion. He began to prepare himself 
 for the study of law by matriculation 
 in the St. Louis Law School. Before 
 graduating in the law he had organ- 
 ized the Ten Broek Agency, which con- 
 
 ducted successfully for a number of 
 years the business of adjusting mer- 
 cantile settlements for St. Louis busi- 
 ness houses with delinquent customers 
 at a distance. Subsequently Mr. Ten 
 Broek organized the present powerful 
 organization known as the Associated 
 Law Offices, the ramifications of which 
 extend not only to every corner of 
 this country, but to prominent cities 
 all over the world, including in its 
 membership over five thousand law- 
 yers and law firms in all the civilized 
 countries, Mr. Ten Broek remains 
 the directing head of the organiza- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Ten Brock's legal work for the 
 past fifteen years has been confined 
 to the organization of large corpora- 
 tions, among them the American Steel 
 & Wire Company, the American Bridge 
 Compan.v, the Cullman Coal and Coke 
 Company, and others. 
 
 Mr. Ten Broek is a member of the 
 Merchants' Exchange and the Mer- 
 cantile Club. While his business in- 
 terests keep him actively employed, it 
 is his theory that every citizen of a 
 community owes to the community a 
 certain share of his time to be devoted 
 to matters of public interest. He was 
 
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one of the founders of the St. Louis 
 Protestant Hospital, and the Hospital 
 Saturday and Sunday Association; is 
 one of the vice-presidents of the Amer- 
 ican Sunday School Union, and is the 
 superintendent of the Niedringhaus 
 
 Memorial Sunday School. He is a 
 member of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 In matters political, he belongs to 
 the Republican party. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Ten Broek was wedded 
 to Mrs. Frances L. Colby of this city. 
 They have no children. 
 
 DR. JOHN M. GRANT. 
 
 In reviewing the splendid record of 
 Dr. John M. Grant as one of the sev- 
 eral prominent physicians and sur- 
 geons that appear within the pages 
 of this volume, I believe I can con- 
 scientiously say I have found no man 
 in St. Louis whose progress has been 
 more rapid, or who has met with a 
 larger percentage of success. 
 
 Dr. Grant is a native of Missouri 
 and was born in 1864, a descendant of 
 Scotch ancestry. On a farm in Callo- 
 way County, the physician was reared 
 and attended school, diligently apply- 
 ing himself to his studies. After going 
 as far as he could in the institutions 
 of his native heath, he next went to 
 Fulton (Mo.), and entered Westmin- 
 ster College, one of the most widely 
 known educational institutions in the 
 State of i\Iissouri, and one whose grad- 
 uates are engaged in all the leading 
 professions of the world. 
 
 Dr. Grant was a member of the 
 class of Westminster College that 
 graduated in 1886, at which time he 
 had conferred upon him the degree of 
 Bachelor of Science. 
 
 Following his graduation, Dr. Grant 
 decided to enter the medical profes- 
 sion after thoroughly equipping him- 
 self for the practice, and entered upon 
 his course of studies in the Missouri 
 Medical College in this city (St. 
 Louis). From this college he was 
 graduated, being a member of the 
 class of 1889, being one of the highest 
 in the class, having attained the great- 
 est percentages in way of examina- 
 tion. 
 
 The young physician was given es- 
 pecial mention and for two years fol- 
 lowing he served as an interne at the 
 St. Louis City Hospital, first as junior; 
 then as senior interne. It was in 1891 
 that Dr. Grant entered upon the active 
 practice of his chosen profession and 
 made a marked success of it. Dr. 
 Grant engages in the general practice 
 of medicine, although he has devoted 
 much time to surgery. In this con- 
 nection he has performed many oper- 
 ations that necessitated the most 
 skilled knowledge and ability and 
 stands high in the councils of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 Dr. Grant holds active membership 
 in several of the leading and more 
 prominent medical societies and or- 
 ganizations of St. Louis, and before 
 their gatherings has contributed many 
 important papers, entering freely into 
 discussions of the same. 
 
 He is a strong advocate of profes- 
 sional ethics, and a close adherent of 
 them. He belongs to the Masonic fra- 
 ternity and, with his family, communes 
 at the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 It was in 1893 that Dr. Grant was 
 united in marriage with Mrs. Ida C. 
 Strieff, a native of St. Louis. To the 
 couple have been "born four children, 
 one daughter and three sons. 
 
 Dr. Grant enjoys not only the con- 
 fidence and respect of the members of 
 the medical profession, but also the 
 highest regard for his efficiency as 
 man and practitioner. 
 
 DR. WILLIAM E. WILSON. 
 
 Dr. Wilson is a native of Michigan 
 and was born in 1882, and attended 
 the public institutions of his home 
 city. After graduating from the b'gh 
 school, the young man decided to lake 
 the dental course at the University 
 of Michigan and immediately entered. 
 He closely applied himself and studied 
 diligently, with the result that he was 
 
 several times BTighly commended by 
 members of the faculty. 
 
 Dr. Wilson, shortly after leaving the 
 University of Michigan, came to this 
 city (St. Louis), where he entered Dr. 
 Angle's School of Orthodontia, and 
 was personally trained by Dr. E. H. 
 Angle. 
 
 It is a well established fact that 
 
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manj' otherwise well formed faces are 
 almost ruined as the result of defec- 
 tive and mal-posed teeth, and while 
 under instruction in this splendid in- 
 stitution, Dr. Wilson made a close 
 study of face deformities. 
 
 About three or lour years ago Dr. 
 Angle decided to give up his exten- 
 sive private practice here, and moved 
 to New York City. At the time he 
 stated that he knew of no one better 
 fitted to take up his practice where 
 he had left off than Dr. Wilson, and 
 the young man succeeded him, confin- 
 ing his work entirely to Orthodontia, 
 pronounced by experts the most diffi- 
 cult branch of the profession, and one 
 requiring unusual skill and ability. 
 
 When Dr. Angle established his col- 
 lege in St. Louis, the scientific treat- 
 ment of Orthodontia was practically 
 unknown. Prior to that time dentists 
 simply had to do the best they could 
 under the circum.stances. Today the 
 school of Dr. Angle, in New London, 
 Conn., is the most widely known pro- 
 fessional institution in the world, its 
 founder having greatly enhanced the 
 value of his text book bearing upon 
 the subject and printed in many diff- 
 erent languages, and the Angle Alumni 
 Society has been established as a re- 
 sult of the great work of Dr. Angle, 
 who also is the inventor of not a few 
 of the most delicate and important 
 instruments and appliances used in 
 the practice of Orthodontia. 
 
 In the practice of his profession in 
 St. Louis, Dr. Wilson, as the result 
 of the magnificent special and per- 
 sonal training he received under Dr. 
 Angle, has experienced the greatest 
 success, and is recognized as one of 
 the foremost and most progressive 
 dentists in the city today. 
 
 In not a few instances, cases of 
 facial deformity have reached Dr. Wil- 
 son that were apparently beyond re- 
 
 demption. Dentists not versed in the 
 professional secrets of Orthodontia 
 would have plainly informed the pa- 
 tients that they were beyond their 
 skill, except in so far as the iactual 
 treatment of the teeth or gums was 
 concerned. Notwithstanding this, how- 
 ever, I find, in my investigations, that 
 these delormities have actually been 
 remedied and the parties relieved from 
 the awful appearances presented when- 
 first calling on Dr. Wilson. 
 
 There are many, though, residing 
 here, as well as many who traveled 
 long distances to be treated by this 
 eminent young dentist, who are strong 
 in praise of this work, and I am only 
 too glad to be in position to review 
 the truly splendid record which Dr. 
 Wilson has attained along tffese lines. 
 
 Before concluding this review I be- 
 lieve it a good idea to give the fac- 
 ulty of this great Angle School of 
 Orthodontia. It is as follows. Ed- 
 ward H. Angle, M. D., D. D. S., pres- 
 ident; Dr. Jos. Grunberg, of Berlin, 
 Germany, superintendent; F. B. 
 Noyes, B. A., D. D. S., of Chicago, 
 Embryology and Histology; Dr. Albin 
 Oppenheim, of Vienna, Austria, Lec- 
 turer on Anatomy and Assistant In- 
 structor in Rhinology and Applied 
 Orthodontia; Raymond C. Osburn, 
 Ph. D., of Columbia University, Com- 
 parative Anatomy; Antonie P. Vois- 
 lawsky, B. S., M. D., Rhinology and 
 . Edmund H. Wuerpel, of St. Louis, Di- 
 rector School of Fine Arts. Other 
 members of the faculty are Dr. George 
 :\I. McKee, of New York City; E. B. 
 Core, of New York City; Dr. Milo 
 Hellman, of New York City; Dr. A. 
 W. Crosby, of New London, Conn.; Dr. 
 G. P. Mendell, of Minneapolis, I\Iinn.; 
 Dr. F. A. Gouch, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 and Dr. R. B. Stanley, of New York 
 City. 
 
 OTTO FERDINAND KARBE. 
 
 Mr. Karbe was born in 1875 at Neo- 
 sho, Newton County, Missouri, and 
 during his early days attended the 
 public schools in his home town. 
 When he had reached the age of six- 
 teen, the young man laid aside his 
 studies, the result of financial reverses 
 in his family, but afterwards took 
 them up again on his own account, 
 without assistance, and while engaged 
 at work during the daylight hours. 
 
 It was about 1901 that he decided 
 to take up the study of law, and not- 
 withstanding he had to do so under 
 
 many difficulties and obstacles that 
 probably would have discouraged 
 many young men, he stuck to his de- 
 termination, with the result that he 
 won out. He worked every day, all 
 day long, while his knowledge of law 
 was secured by lamplight. Whilst 
 many young men were enjoying them- 
 selves at the theatres or elsewhere, 
 young Karbe was poring over law 
 volumes. 
 
 Finally he passed the rigid examina- 
 tion before the St. Louis' Court of Ap- 
 peals, and in 1905 was admitted to the 
 
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Missouri bar. Mr. Karbe has frequent- 
 ly said that this was one of the hap- 
 piest moments of his lile, and his pro- 
 fession, he has successfully pursued 
 from that date to t his, beginning 
 active general practice in ]\larch ol 
 1905. 
 
 In 1901 he was selected as a member 
 of the House of Delegates from the 
 Tenth Ward, and served two years 
 with distinction and credit to him- 
 self. 
 
 While a member of that body many 
 measures of importance to public wel- 
 fare came up, among which were bills 
 regulating the street railway system 
 in St. Louis; the mill tax bill that 
 created such a furore; street paving 
 galore, and many ward improvements. 
 In them all Delegate Karbe was in the 
 front ranks, fighting and contesting 
 every inch of the way, and striving 
 by force and main, as well as by vir- 
 ture of his great popularity, in de- 
 fending the interests of the public, 
 and particularly his constituency. 
 
 The Million Population Club, of 
 which Mr. Karbe is secretary, was 
 formed on the closing day of the great 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The 
 following year Otto F. Karbe was 
 named for the secretaryship, and so 
 admirably has he conducted the many 
 affairs of that office he has been re- 
 peatedly elected. 
 
 During his incumbency of that posi- 
 tion he has introduced many novel re- 
 forms and placed the name of St. 
 Louis before all nations of the civil- 
 ized world. His great work in con- 
 nection with the organization is one 
 reason why no man in Missouri stands 
 more conspicuously in the limelight 
 of public opinion as a "booster" for 
 St. Louis. Otto F. Karbe drew the 
 ordinance making possible the great 
 municipal bond issue and has fathered 
 several other city ordinances as im- 
 portant in character. 
 
 He is also a member and ofHcer ot 
 the Mullanphy Emigrant Relief Fund 
 
 Board, to which is intrusted a large 
 amount of money originally left in 
 trust by Bryan Mullanphy, the scope 
 and purposes of which were luily out- 
 lined in his will, by which he left to 
 the city of St. Louis one-third undi- 
 vided interests in all of his property, 
 real, personal and mixed, to furnish 
 relief to poor emigrants coming to this 
 locality. The lund has now reached 
 enormous proportions, being estimated 
 today at a million or more dollars. 
 The men composing this magnificent 
 charitable board receive not one 
 penny's compensation, and are elected 
 to membership on the board by the 
 St. Louis City Council. Mr. Karbe 
 is its president today. 
 
 I believe it was in 1895 that Mr. 
 Karbe was married. Mr. Karbe is also 
 owner of what is known as the Model 
 Baby Shoe Company, of which concern 
 there are only two of its kind in the 
 state. The grade oi shoes manufac- 
 tured are of the soft sole variety, in- 
 tended for the little tots shortly after 
 learning to toddle. In this line ol busi- 
 ness he has been equally as success- 
 ful, and turns out between six hundred 
 and one thousand complete pairs. 
 
 He was secretary of the Taft Recep- 
 tion Committee, and one of the num- 
 ber who journeyed to Washington to 
 personally invite the nation's chief ex- 
 ecutive to St. Louis. 
 
 Still another great public benefit and 
 movement in which he is interested is 
 the "City Beautiful" plan, to which 
 he .has devoted many hours of valuable 
 time. He is in for anything and every- 
 thing that will give his home city 
 added prestige and more powerful com- 
 mercial influence, and has won thc-i 
 plaudits of the people as a result. The 
 municipally owned bridge approach is 
 still another subject in which he has 
 taken much interest and devoted con- 
 siderable time, too. He is still en- 
 gaged in that particular work and 
 making the usual magnificent head- 
 way that usually crowns his efforts. 
 
 ALPHONSO CHASE STEWART. 
 
 A Tennessean by birth, a Missourian 
 by choice, no one of the legal profes- 
 sion has achieved more well-earned 
 distinction than the subject it the 
 author's review^ — Alphonso Chase 
 Stewart, member of the law firm of 
 Stewart, Bryan and Williams, the prac- 
 tice of which is very large, and reaches 
 out into many states of the Union. 
 
 Mr. Stewart was born in Lebanon, 
 Tenn., in 1848, a descendant of Scott- 
 
 ish nobility. In his early days the 
 young man begun his educational 
 training in his home town under pri- 
 vate tutors, aiterwards matriculating 
 in Cumberland University. The dec- 
 laration of war in 1861 interrupted his 
 studies in that famous old institution, 
 and he afterwards attended school in 
 Memphis, Tenn., as well as the Uni- 
 versity of Alabama at Tu' saloosa. 
 When a mere lad of but fifteen years 
 
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of age, young Stewart responded to 
 the call of his country to arms and 
 joined forces with the army of the 
 Confederacy, seeing considerable ac- 
 tive service in a number of hot skirm- 
 ishes. Young Stewart was twice com- 
 mended for bravery on the field of 
 battle by superior officers. When the 
 war closed the young man, like the 
 great majority of Southerners, found 
 his family's fortune wrecked. 
 
 He wanted to enter some good pro- 
 fession, and after working about the 
 farm for awhile, decided upon law, en- 
 tering Cumberland University again, 
 at Lebanon. In 1857 the young man 
 secured his diploma, though but nine- 
 teen years of age, graduating with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Law, and the 
 County Court actually had to be called 
 upon "to remove his legal disability in 
 order to permit of his admittance to 
 the bar. 
 
 Shortly afterward the young attor- 
 ney selected Winchester, Tenn., to 
 begin practice of his chosen profes- 
 sion, after which he went to Missis- 
 sippi. In 1873 he decided to make his 
 residence in St. Louis, and begun the 
 active practice of law here, afterwards 
 becoming a member of the legal firm 
 of King, Phillips & Stewart. The firm 
 was dissolved several years following, 
 and the new firm of Phillips & Stewart 
 formed. This arrangement continued 
 for many years, during which time 
 Mr. Stewart established for himself, 
 as well as for the firm, a magnificent 
 reputation, second to none in the en- 
 tire state. The legal firm of Phillips, 
 Stewart, Cunningham & Elliott was 
 then formed during 1896, which was 
 followed by Stewart, Cunningham & 
 Elliott. With the demise of Mr. Cun- 
 ningham, the firm became Stewart, 
 Elliott & Williams, and when Judge 
 Williams ascended the bench, again 
 the firm was changed to Stewart, El- 
 liott, Chaplin & Blayney. That was 
 in 1905, since which the firm has been 
 changed to that of Stewart, Bryan, 
 Christie & Williams. 
 
 It was in 1889 that Mr. Stewart or- 
 ganized the St. Louis Union Trust 
 Company, one of the largest and most 
 substantial financial institutions in the 
 southwest today. He was its chief 
 counsel when first established and 
 holds the same position today. Mr. 
 Stewart is regarded as one of the most 
 
 brilliant attorneys of the state, and in 
 many cases in which he has appeared 
 as counsel, representing either plaint- 
 iff or defendant, he has demonstrated 
 a keen conception of law and admir- 
 ably handled litigation in which were 
 involved many of the most intricate 
 problems of law. Not only in legal 
 channels, but in matters purely com- 
 mercial is he well connected, having 
 held many positions of prominence. 
 He has served as director of the St. 
 Louis Cotton Compress Company, of 
 the Schultz Belting Company, Tower 
 Realty Company, and other similar 
 large interests. 
 
 He is a thirty-third degree Mason. 
 In Masonry he has held some of the 
 highest offices within the gift of this 
 great order and is recognized today as 
 one of the foremost Masons of the 
 United States, having made addresses 
 at not a few of the most auspicious 
 gatherings of its members. He is af- 
 filiated with many of the leading so- 
 cial organizations of St. Louis, among 
 which are the Noonday Club, Racquet 
 Club and others. 
 
 For three years Mr. Stewart served 
 as head of the Board of Police Com- 
 missioners. In politics Mr. Stewart is 
 a staunch advocate of the principles 
 of Democracy. Since 1889 he has been 
 one of the trustees of the Missouri 
 Valley College, in Marshall, Mo. To 
 its advancem'ent he has devoted much 
 of his time and never permits the op- 
 portunity to pass w^hen he can add to 
 that already great labor of love he has 
 performed for this splendid institution. 
 "Stewart Chapel," named in his honor, 
 stands as a monument to his many 
 efforts. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Stewart was w-edded to 
 Miss Elizabeth Smith, a native of Win- 
 chester, Franklin County, Tennessee. 
 The couple have one son. Dr. S. S. 
 Stewart, who controls a large practice 
 in the capital city of Arkansas, in 
 addition to being one of the chief sur- 
 geons for the Iron Mountain railroad. 
 The other child, a daugnter, Miss Har- 
 riet, was wedded to Judge G. H. Wil- 
 liams. 
 
 As chief counsel for the St. Louis 
 Union Trust Company, which he or- 
 ganized, he has met with marked suc- 
 cess and has always striven for the 
 civic advancement of St. Louis, con- 
 tributing liberally to projects perfected 
 with that object in view. 
 
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WILLIAM BUTTS ITTNER. 
 
 Enjoying national reputation as an 
 architect of educational buildings, Wil- 
 liam B. Ittner, official architect for 
 the St. Louis Board ol Education, and 
 designer of many of the most beauti- 
 ful structure in the country, has ad- 
 vanced to the front rank of architec- 
 ture with a rapidity that is Remark- 
 able, to say the least. 
 
 ]Mr. Ittner was born in 1864. After 
 attending the public schools, young 
 Ittner pursued his studies further in 
 the manual training department of 
 Washington University, he enjoying 
 the distinction of having been a mem- 
 ber of the first class to graduate from 
 that famed institution. In 1884 he 
 entered Cornell University, at Utica, 
 N. Y., as a special student in architec- 
 ture, and in 1904, after having been 
 educated under the direct spervision 
 of the most skilled architects in the 
 world, opened his first oflice. The 
 many magnificent structures in vari- 
 ous parts of St. Louis bear testimony 
 to his keen knowledge of the prin- 
 ciples of his profession. 
 
 As an architect of school buildings 
 no man stands higher in that espe- 
 cial character of work. The School- 
 house Commission in filing its report 
 at Washington, unhesitatingly declared 
 St. Louis had the best buildings for 
 school purposes in the United States. 
 It was under the personal direction of 
 W. B. Ittner that these buildings were 
 erected. It was in 1897 that he was 
 selected as Commissioner of School 
 Buildings for the Board of Education, 
 since which time he has continued in 
 that capacity. The school buildings of 
 this city possess certain individuality 
 in appearance and general construc- 
 tion, the personal ideas of Architect 
 Ittner, that have attracted almost 
 world-wide attention. 
 
 Not a few committees representing 
 other large cities have journeyed to 
 
 St. Louis for the sole purpose of study- 
 ing the arcuitecture, in itself, a high 
 compliment to Mr. Ittner. The ar- 
 rangements for beautification, light, 
 ventilation and sanitary conditions 
 found in all St. Louis public school 
 buildings, are ideal in every respect, 
 and clearly indicate the deep study 
 Mr. Ittner has made of the subject, 
 and the excellence with which he has 
 had his ideas carried out in erection. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Ittner was joined in 
 marriage with Miss Lottie Allen, and 
 the couple have three children. Mr. 
 Ittner holds active membership In a 
 number of leading St. Louis business 
 and social organizations and takes a 
 prominent part in all matters for the 
 advancement of the city. He is also 
 a member of the American Institute 
 of Architects, and of the instittuion's 
 local chapter, which he has served as 
 president. Others are the St. Louis 
 Architectural Cflub, Architectural 
 League of America, Civic Improvement 
 League and the Cornell Club, each of 
 which, at one time or another, he has 
 served as an official, and with univer- 
 sal satisfaction. 
 
 Notwithstanding the marked success 
 with which the subject of my review 
 has met, as a general architect, his 
 main forte is designing public school 
 buildings. 
 
 I have been through many school 
 buildings during my career as a news- 
 paper writer, of more than twenty 
 years, and I believe I can, absolutely 
 without fear of contradiction, say that 
 in St. Louis the buildings used for 
 school purposes are far superior to 
 those found in other parts of the Un- 
 ion. As I have already outlined, about 
 each is a certain individuality, while 
 the perfection of light, ventilation and 
 sanitary arrangements are as near per- 
 fect as money and skill can possibly 
 make them. 
 
 THEODOBE F. W. ZIMMERMANN. 
 
 A Prussian by birth, a Missourian 
 by choice, no member of tne great 
 Teutonic race has advanced with 
 greater rapidity than the subject of 
 my review — Theodore F. W. Zimmer- 
 mann. one of the many who since emi- 
 grating to tliis country, has speedily 
 climbed the ladder of success. 
 
 Mr. Zimmeimann was born in Prus- 
 sia in 1843, and when but five years 
 pf age was brought to the United 
 
 States by his parents, locating in the 
 then Territory of Wisconsin, where his 
 father settled on a large farm, which as 
 the lad grew oldei", he assisted in cul- 
 tivating during his school vacation. 
 Until about eighteen years of age, 
 young Zimmermann attended the public 
 institutions and was regarded as an ex- 
 cellent student, and later on he com- 
 pleted the regular high school course. 
 That was, I believe, about 1858 or 1859. 
 
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I think it was in 1859 that Mr. Zim- 
 mermann came to St. Louis. Here he 
 attended Concordia College, where he 
 continued his studies lor nearly three 
 years. The civil war broke out about 
 that time, interiering with his studies 
 and the young man lent his assistance 
 in recruiting a company of infantry. 
 Following this he went to Wisconsin 
 to visit his parents, and in the early 
 part of 1862 went to Fort Wayne, Ind., 
 where he entered Concordia College. 
 This institution was a branch of the 
 one located at St. Louis. In the latter 
 part of 1862 he again returned to St. 
 Louis and completed his studies in the 
 same splendid institution, from which 
 he graduated. 
 
 Until 1863 Mr. Zimmermann engaged 
 in teaching in Indiana, after which 
 he once more came back to St. Louis, 
 and was placed in .charge as overseer 
 of the House of Refuge, which posi- 
 tion he held for a number of years. 
 He received the appointment of as- 
 sistant superintendent of the city work 
 house in 1870. Here he continued for 
 nine or ten years. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Zimmermann was ap- 
 pointed justice of the peace. This 
 
 was during the administration, I be- 
 lieve, of RIayor Ewing, and he re- 
 mained in that office fully 21 years, 
 his decisions winning many favorable 
 comments, twelve years of which he 
 also filled office of police justice for 
 South St. Louis in addition. 
 
 In 1902 ]Mr. Zimmerman took up the 
 practice of law, locating his office at 
 2626 South Broadway, where it has 
 ever since remained, and where he en- 
 joys a lucrative practice. In political 
 affairs he is a strong Republican. 
 
 Mr. Zimmermann is a Mason and 
 very active in fraternal work, in ad- 
 dition to holding membership in the 
 Red Men. He was wedded in Indian- 
 apolis to Miss Elizabeth Ameiss, whose 
 father settled in St. Louis in 1836. Of 
 this union six children were born, one 
 son being named for his distinguished 
 father. It was in 1896 that Mr. Zim- 
 mermann was offered the nomination 
 for the St. Louis Probate judgeship. 
 His response to the appeal made to him 
 on that occasion is entirely character- 
 istic of the man. He asked that the 
 honor be conferred upon someone else 
 and that he be allowed to work for the 
 Interests of the party. 
 
 HUGH KIERNAN WAGNER. 
 
 Notwithstanding in the nation's cap- 
 itol at Washington are to be found 
 many lawyers whose main practice is 
 devoted to patent matters, St. Louis 
 can easily lay claim to at least ore, 
 who is versed in all of the intricate 
 and tedious details of such matters; 
 in fact, one who through many years 
 of practical experience has gained a 
 national reputation. I have reference 
 to Hugh Kiernan Wagner. 
 
 Mr. Wagner is a native IMissourian, 
 having been born in St. Louis forty- 
 one years ago. At an early age, while 
 attending high school in St. Louis, Mr. 
 Wagner left off his studies and sought 
 employment, entering into railroad 
 work. That was in 1886. While thus 
 engaged he decided the time to cease 
 w^orking for others as employers had 
 arrived, and in 1892 took up the study 
 of law. Mr. Wagner's trend was to- 
 ward patents and he started in to make 
 a specialty of it. In 1897 he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. He immediately 
 opened his own office, since which time 
 his practice in patent, copyright and 
 trademark law has been most exten- 
 sive. It is one of the greatest in the 
 Southwest. In patented devices of 
 every character, this attorney always 
 took the keenest interest, and this, to- 
 
 gether with the enthusiasm which re- 
 sulted has, in my opinion, done much 
 towards advancing him so rapidly in 
 his chosen profesiiun. 
 
 By members of the legal fraternity 
 he is held in high regard. From 1901 
 to 1911 he has been an instructor in 
 Benton College of Law, lecturing on 
 Domestic Relations, Equity Pleading, 
 Pleadings in General, as well as on 
 Patent, Trademark and Copyright 
 law, Legal Ethics, Argumentation and 
 other important subjects. In addition 
 to this he is a member of vaiious bars 
 throughout the country, among which 
 are the Supreme Court of the United 
 States, Court of Appeals of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, all courts in the 
 State of Missouri, and the United 
 States District and Circuit Courts, at 
 Portland, Ore., Cleveland, Chicago, San 
 Francisco, Mobile, and other localities. 
 Also of the American, St. Louis and 
 INIissouri Bar Associations. He is a 
 member of the Local Council for Mis- 
 souri of the American Bar Association, 
 and in 1911 read an important paper, 
 entitled "Mechanical Equivalents," be- 
 fore the patent section of that organi- 
 zation at its annual meeting held at 
 Chattanooga, Tenn. He holds mem- 
 bership, as a foreign member, in the 
 
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Institute of Patent Engineers, a great 
 organization of France, as well as be- 
 ing a non-resident member of the Pat- 
 ent Law Association, of Washington, 
 D. C, and the Chicago Patent Law 
 Association. 
 
 It will be remembered that in the 
 early part of this review I mentioned 
 that Mr. Wagner left off his studies 
 at the high school at the early age of 
 fifteen. Since then, however, while 
 working for the railroad company, he 
 applied himself diligently at night, and 
 the result is he educated himself 
 to a magnificent advantage. A num- 
 ber of addresses delivered by Mr. Wag- 
 ner have been of widespread import- 
 ance and have been reproduced in 
 many languages. 
 
 On theological and biblical subjects 
 Mr. Wagner has prepared not a few 
 extensive articles, splendid tributes in 
 this connection having been paid him 
 by many of the best known theolo- 
 gians in the country, here and else- 
 where. His writings are numerous 
 and relate to a wide variety of sub- 
 jects, one book alone containing nearly 
 nine hundred pages. 
 
 He is a member of the Associated 
 Advertising Clubs of America, and as 
 such has performed labor for the or- 
 ganization that has proven of great 
 value. Many laws, the object of which 
 is to prevent the publication of false 
 advertising matter, have been drafted 
 by Mr. Wagner, in his capacity as 
 chairman of th6 Legislative Commit- 
 tee of the Association. Some of these 
 have already been enacted into law, 
 and others are pending, the purpose 
 being to incorporate them into national 
 
 law, thereby making their power and 
 influence many fold. In politics, the 
 subject of the author's comment is a 
 staunch Republican, but still of that 
 broad-gauged mind that affords him 
 every opoprtunity to see and fully di- 
 gest both sides of the question. 
 
 Mr. Wagner, in addition to the num- 
 erous legal organizations to which he 
 belongs, is also afflliated with many 
 other orders, in many of which he has 
 taken a leading part. Among these 
 are the St. Louis Club, Glen Echo 
 Country Club, Union Club, Normandie 
 Golf Club, Mercantile Club, Missouri 
 Athletic Club, Century Boat Club, 
 Liederkranz Club, Contemporary Club, 
 Public Question Club, Apollo Club, 
 Amphion Club, St. Louis Amateur Ath- 
 letic Association, Civic League, City 
 Club, St. Louis Symphony Society, St. 
 Louis Symphony Society, St. Louis 
 Advertising Men's League, Tuscan 
 Lodge, No. 360, A. F. & A. M., Kilwin- 
 ning R. A. Chapter, No. 50, Ascalon 
 Commandery Knights Templar, No, 16, 
 Molah Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., Mer- 
 cantile Library Association, Washing- 
 ton University Association, National 
 Geographic Society, to say nothing of 
 various others in which he holds 
 steady membership. 
 
 In June, 1893, Mr. Wagner was 
 wedded to Miss Annette E. Hill. The 
 couple have two children, both sons, 
 Elliott G. Wagner and Paul B. Wag- 
 ner. 
 
 In financial, business, social and pro- 
 fessional circles, in fact, wherever he 
 is known, no man stands higher in 
 the esteem of his fellowmen. 
 
 ROBERT E. COLLINS. 
 
 An Illinoisan by birth, a Missourian 
 by choice, born in 1851, no man stands 
 higher in the legal profession in this 
 State than Robert E. Collins. His ad- 
 vancement, since admission to the bar, 
 has been rapid, indicating his knowl- 
 edge of law. 
 
 In his early days young Collins at- 
 tended the public institutions of St. 
 Louis, and afterwards entered Wash- 
 ington University. Here the lad close- 
 ly applied himself, taking preparatory 
 and academic courses. Leaving this 
 institution, I next find the subject of 
 my review a student in Washington 
 and Lee University, at Lexington, Va., 
 this being the institution of which 
 General Robert E. Lee, the great Con- 
 federate chieftain, was head. It was 
 here, in 1871, that the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Arts was conferred upon the 
 
 young man. Following this Mr. Collins 
 returned to St. Louis and took up the 
 study of law in the St. Louis Law 
 School, and two years afterwards was 
 admitted to the bar as a general prac- 
 titioner. He formed partnership with 
 J. L. Carlisle, under the firm name of 
 Collins and Carlisle, and engaged in 
 his chosen profession. This firm after 
 several years was dissolved, and that 
 of Hill and Collins formed. Later on 
 Mr. Collins and D. A. Jamison joined 
 forces and the law firm became known 
 as Collins and Jamison. For many 
 years this arrangement continued, be- 
 ing generally regarded as one of the 
 strongest legal firms in the Southwest. 
 Afterwards Mr. Collins and E. R. Chap- 
 pell entered in a partnership arid to- 
 day the style is Collins and Chappell. 
 Since his admission to the bar Mr. 
 
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Collins has appeared in many import- 
 ant cases, either as counsel for the 
 plaintiff or defendant. In much of the 
 litigation in which he was interested 
 many intricate technicalities and dif- 
 ficult problems of law have arisen. 
 Mr. Collins, however, in every in- 
 stance, has clearly indicated the splen- 
 did conception he has of law and prac- 
 tice and his success has been marked. 
 
 Although his practice is one of the 
 largest and must exclusive in the 
 State, Mr. Collins finds time to deal 
 in other matters and is interested in 
 other enterprises, both real estate and 
 financial. The vast interests of the 
 Collins family have always been 
 looked after by Mr. Collins, and in 
 such manner as to have greatly en- 
 hanced the value of the property sev- 
 eral fold. 
 
 It was in 1873 that Mr. Collins mar- 
 ried Miss Ida Bishop, a native of JMary- 
 land. The couple have had two chil- 
 dren, one ot whom is dead. His beau- 
 
 tiful residence in St. Louis County 
 (Kirkvvood) is one of the most attrac- 
 tive in that section, whilst genuine 
 hospitality is the ideal function within. 
 The famly also has a magnificent sum- 
 mer home in Massachusetts. In his 
 home, as well as at his office, Mr. 
 Collins maintains a complete library 
 of legal, literary and other splendid 
 volumes by the most eminent authors. 
 Nothing pleases him better than to 
 spend several hours with his books. 
 He is one of the best read men in the 
 State, and his advice is often sought 
 on subjects aside from the law. 
 
 Mr. Collins is a Mason and active 
 in that fraternity. He is a communi- 
 cant of the Methodist Church. A man 
 of much civic pride, he has at all 
 times made especial effort to do all 
 in his power to advance the material 
 interests of his home city, and his 
 friends throughout the country are 
 legion. 
 
 EDWIN W. LEE. 
 
 In the legal profession there are 
 probably more young men than in any 
 other locality in the country, popu- 
 lation considered, and it might be 
 added, there are few but what are 
 meeting with success an indication, 
 I take it, of superior methods of train- 
 ing and the marked confidence placed 
 in the younger generation by the gen- 
 eral public. Of these who have gained 
 such headway in their practice none 
 cames more readily to my mind than 
 the subject of my review — Edwin W. 
 Lee. 
 
 Mr. Lee is a native of Wisconsin 
 by birth, though he comes of an old 
 Missoui'i family. He was born in 1875 
 at Beloit. In early life the young man 
 obtained his educational training in 
 Smith's Acadefny, afterwards going to 
 Massachusetts, where he entered Wil- 
 liams College, I believe, at Williams- 
 town. He graduated from that well- 
 known institution in 1897. From early 
 boyhood Mr. Lee expressed a wish to 
 become a great lawyer some day, and 
 was determined in his efforts to equip 
 himself for the general practice of his 
 profession. 
 
 Returning to St. Louis he entered 
 the St. Louis Law School and closely 
 applied himself, taking the full two 
 years' course, after which he was grad- 
 uated in 1899. Soon afterwards the 
 young lawyer was admitted to the bar, 
 since which time he has practiced 
 steadily, appearing in not a few cases 
 involving many of the most intricate 
 
 problems of law, and in which he 
 handled the litigation satisfactorily 
 and with much success. 
 
 Mr. Lee first associated himself with 
 the legal firm of McKeighan and 
 Watts. It was but natural that he 
 should have gone with this firm, it 
 being the successor of Lee and Mc- 
 Keighan, his father's firm, Bradley B. 
 Lee, one of the best known and prom- 
 inent of St. Louis' attorneys. Mr. 
 Lee's father passed away in 1897, the 
 same year in which the son graduated 
 from Williams College in Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 After the demise of Judge Mc- 
 Keighan, the style of the firm was 
 again changed to that of Watts, Gen- 
 try and Lee, as it exists today, and 
 of which Mr. Lee is a member. 
 The offices are situated in the Com- 
 monwealth Trust Building. 
 
 It was only a short time ago that 
 Mr. Lee was appointed Excise Com- 
 missioner of St. Louis. This office is 
 one of the most important within the 
 gift of the state s chief executive. 
 
 I have only the highest words of 
 commendation for others who have 
 held the position. They did their work 
 well and brought about many badly- 
 needed reforms, but at the same time 
 I cannot pass without expressing the 
 opinion that the most capable man to 
 fill the position is Edwin W. Lee. I 
 say this frankly, fully realizing the 
 broadness of such an assertion, but 
 the facts are here to sustain me in my 
 
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contention, and I have nothing to fear 
 by way of contradiction. 
 
 Every saloon in the city of St. Louis 
 is under the direct supervision of Mr. 
 Lee. In a great measure, as Excise 
 Commissioner, he is responsible to the 
 people for their proper conduct. Com- 
 missioner Lee is slow to act in any 
 matter of importance. He does not 
 believe in taking a man's license away 
 from him due to public clamor, but 
 once the proof of law violation is set 
 before him, he acts instantly, after 
 first investigating, in order to verify. 
 It is such a man that is required to 
 
 fill this all-important public position 
 and in the selection of Mr. Lee a wise 
 one was made. 
 
 Notwithstanding his public duties 
 are many, in addition to looking after 
 a large private law practice, Mr. Lee 
 finds time frequently to take part in 
 a little recreation, and hold active 
 membership in several of the leading 
 business and social organizations and 
 clubs of the city. He is also closely 
 identified with the Masonic frater- 
 nity, whilst in matters political he is 
 a staunch Republican. 
 
 THOMAS BARTLETT HARLAN. 
 
 A New Yorker by birth, Missourian 
 by choice, few men have made strides 
 to such successful conclusion as has 
 the subject of the author's review, 
 Thomas Bartlett Harlan, member of 
 the legal firm of Reynolds & Harlan. 
 
 Mr. Harlan was born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., April 18, 1858. The mother and 
 father both dying whilst Mr. Harlan 
 and his only sister were quite young, 
 the two were reared at Louisiana, Mo., 
 by an aunt. During early life, young 
 Harlan attended the public schools of 
 that vicinity, and later on entered a 
 college of the same city, where he 
 remained for about a year. In 1886 
 and the early part of 1887 I find the 
 young man matriculating in tlie Mis- 
 souri State University at Columbia, 
 where he was taking a course of civil 
 engineering. 
 
 Mr. Harlan was in his twentieth year 
 when he first came to St. Louis. He 
 was desirous of studying law, and 
 while mapping out his course engaged 
 in the business of insurance. He 
 bought a volume of Blackstone in com- 
 pany with a friend (W. I. Carroll) 
 employed at the same office, and every 
 morning the two young men would go 
 to their work an hour or two prior to 
 opening of the day's business and read 
 law. Mr. Harlan was determined to 
 master the book, and eventually suc- 
 ceeded. Afterwards they were taught 
 Latin and English by Conde B. Fallen. 
 
 Following this young Carroll decided 
 to forsake the study of law and en- 
 tered the ministry. But not so with 
 the subject of my review. Mr. Harlan 
 had set his heart and soul on law, and 
 in 1890, two years after reaching this 
 city, entered the St. Louis Law School. 
 In another two years he was admitted 
 to the bar. A pecnliar incident in this 
 relation was that the first jury case 
 Mr. Harlan tried was before Judge 
 
 Valiant, the distinguished jurist who 
 was one of the examiners of the young 
 attorney when he applied for admis- 
 sion to the bar. 
 
 After graduating Mr. Harlan formed 
 a partnership" with Matthew Given 
 Reynolds, one of the most brilliant 
 attorneys of the Missouri bar, and a 
 man who stands unusually high in the 
 profession. This arrangement contin- 
 ued until the time of Judge Reynolds 
 was taken up almost entirely by virtue 
 of his duties as attorney of the United 
 States Court of private land claims. 
 
 Following the termination of the 
 partnership Mr. Harlan practiced alone 
 for several years and then became a 
 member of the legal firm of Taylor & 
 Harlan. After Judge Reynolds had 
 completed his work a new firm, under 
 the title of Reynolds, Koehler, Reiss & 
 Harlan was organized. Afterwards, 
 when Judge Reynolds was elected to 
 the circuit court judgeship, the firm 
 was -dissolved. That was in 1905. Fol- 
 lowing this the firm of Harlan, Jeffries 
 & Wagner was formed. This firm con- 
 tinued until Mr. Harlan and Judge 
 Reynolds again joined forces under the 
 present style of the firm of Reynolds 
 & Harlan. Mr. Harlan has appeared 
 either as counsel representing plaintiff 
 or defendant, and his success has been 
 something remarkable. 
 
 Whilst the major portion of Mr. 
 Harlan's work has been devoted to. the 
 practice of law he was one of the 
 principal organizers of the St. Louis 
 and Rocky Mountain Pacific Company, 
 a company having a total capitaliza- 
 tion of $11,000,000 and owning tens of 
 thousands of acres of the finest bitu- 
 minous coking coal land in the north- 
 ern section of New Mexico. This com- 
 pany operates more than a hundred 
 miles of standard guage railway, 
 through a subsidiary company known 
 
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as the St. Louis Rocky Mountain and 
 Pacific Railroad Company. 
 
 Mr. Harlan wed Miss Lena Carroll, 
 a native Misourian, and the couple 
 
 have two children, one son and one 
 daughter. He holds membership in a 
 number of the leading business and 
 social organizations of the city. 
 
 JOSEPH SAMUEL CARR. 
 
 Although a comparatively young 
 man, none has made movi rapid prog- 
 ress in the financial world than the 
 subject of the author's review and suc- 
 ceeded in attaining a position of 
 greater eminence in the few years 
 that has fallen to the lot of Joseph 
 Samuel Carr. 
 
 Mr. Carr is a Missourian by birth, 
 having firsL seen the light of lay in 
 Howard County, November 12, 1877. 
 His father was Dr. Washington M. 
 Carr, one of the best known physicians 
 in Howard County raid a mau who, due 
 to his great skill in hiedical practice, 
 enjoyed a clientele that was very large, 
 notwithstanding there were many 
 other practitioners in that section of 
 the state. 
 
 In his early years Mr. Carr attended 
 the common schools afforded in the 
 locality of his birth, and soon stood at 
 the head of his classes. Throughout 
 the courses of classes young Carr dili- 
 gently applied himself, a trait that has 
 followed him in after life, and no 
 doubt has much to do with the un- 
 precedented success with which he has 
 steadily met, particularly in banking 
 circles. After completing his common 
 schooling the young man next entered 
 the state normal at Kirksville, where 
 he established an enviable record, and 
 later on attended school at Stanberrv. 
 Mo. 
 
 When Mr. Carr finished his educa- 
 tional work he considered several vo- 
 cations for his life work. Each he 
 thought over long and fully, and finally 
 determined upon banking. Hence, at 
 the early age of sixteen, I find him 
 entering upon his commercial career. 
 One year later the young man, just 
 turning his seventeenth year, was se- 
 lected for the assistant cashiership of 
 the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. 
 This institution is at Center, Mo., one 
 of the most progressive localities in 
 that part of the commonwealth. His 
 record in that capacity soon attracted 
 the attention of the president and sev- 
 eral of the directors. 
 
 The manner in which he adapted 
 himself to the work, although just out 
 of school, I might say, would have 
 
 been even creditable to more expe- 
 rienced men, and so, in 1S96, while in 
 his nineteenth year, he was made cash- 
 ier of the bank in question, in my 
 opinion the youngest man to hold such 
 an important executive and financial 
 position in the entire west. I have 
 made quite a number of inquiries in 
 connection with this, and have found 
 no instance where there is record of 
 any one younger than Mr. Carr having 
 been similarly employed. 
 
 Mr. Carr remained with the bank 
 until 1905, when he came to St. Louis, 
 where, at the age of twenty-eight, he 
 organized the Chippewa Bank, located 
 on South Broadway, this city, the year 
 following (1906), and today is one of 
 the most substantial institutions in St. 
 Louis. True there are much larger 
 banks, but for conservative manage- 
 ment, safe conduct of affairs and exec- 
 utive efficiency there is no institution 
 similar In character that suprasses the 
 Chippewa Bank. 
 
 I\Ir. Carr today holds the position of 
 cashier, besides being one of i'ts direc- 
 tors, an institution, in my opinion, 
 that, long after he has gone to his re- 
 ward, will stand as a monument to the 
 perseverance and progressiveness of 
 American young manhood. I find, from 
 carefully preserved statistics, that the 
 Chippewa Bank is one of the fastest 
 growing enterprises in the southwest, 
 its deposits having increased steadily 
 from the date of its opening. 
 
 The subject of the author's review 
 has made banking a life study. Many 
 hours buring midnight oil have been 
 expended by him, and even now, with 
 the magnificent insight he has into the 
 vast financial problems of the day, he' 
 devotes a great part of his spare hours 
 to the reading and studying of the 
 question. 
 
 Mr. Carr holds membership in the 
 Mercantile and other well known clubs 
 and business organizations of St. Louis 
 and the state. He advocates the prin- 
 ciples of the Democratic party, al- 
 though he takes no active part in mat- 
 ters of a political nature. He is a 
 communicant of the Christian Church, 
 which he has attended for many years. 
 
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LOUIS THEODORE NOLKER. 
 
 Although a comparatively young 
 man none stands higher in the busi- 
 ness life of St. Louis than the subject 
 of the author's review, Louis T. Nol- 
 ker, since 1S99 an officer of the Com- 
 mercial Electrical Supply Company 
 and one of the active men in his line 
 of trade in the southwest. The elec- 
 tilcal business, perhaps more than any 
 other, has enjoyed a remarkable 
 growth in Missouri during the past 
 ten or fifteen years, and Mr. Nolker's 
 company has contributed much to its 
 advancement. Today he is considered 
 one of the best posted men on elec- 
 trical affairs in the state. 
 
 Louis Theodore Nolker is a native 
 Missourian, having been born in St. 
 Louis in 1877, since which time he has 
 steadily resided in the city. In his 
 early life he secured his educational 
 training in the public schools, after 
 which he entered the Christian 
 Brothers' College, and in 1898 was a 
 member of the graduating class from 
 Smith's Acadmey, one of the best 
 known educational institutions, I be- 
 lieve, in the country, many of its grad- 
 uates being numbered among the busi- 
 ness men of St. Louis. Mr. Nolker 
 had scarcely been out of school a year 
 before he entered the electrical busi- 
 ness, and has since made a close study 
 of all of its principles. 
 
 His first work in that connection 
 was as an employe of the Kinloch 
 Telephone Company. Here he closely 
 applied himself and took advantage of 
 every opportunity that presented itself. 
 It was in March, 1899, that he asso- 
 ciated himself with the Commercial 
 Electrical Supply Company as its vice- 
 president and treasurer, being one of 
 the company's organizers. 
 
 In this dual capacity he served for a 
 number of years, and in 1906 was se- 
 lected for the presidency of the cor- 
 poration. Having made electricity al- 
 most a life-study, Mr. Nolker was in 
 position to cope in contests for work, 
 let on bids, with the keenest men in 
 the trade. Many instances could be 
 related where he has outgeneralled 
 combinations made against him in sub- 
 mitting bids for business. So satisfac- 
 tory has his administration of the 
 affairs of his company been that today 
 it is recognized as one of the leaders 
 in St. Louis, and in financial circles 
 considered one of the strongest and 
 the management of the most conserva- 
 tive character. 
 
 Mr. Nolker has held other important 
 positions of trust, among which were 
 the secretaryship and treasurership of 
 the St. Louis Tin & Sheet Metal Com- 
 pany, the vice-presidency of the Guar- 
 antee Electrical Company, and others. 
 He holds membership in the National 
 Irrigation Association and is one of its 
 officials, in addition to the St. Louis 
 Credit Men's Association. 
 
 He has also served as president of 
 the Smith Academy Alumni Associa- 
 tion and on the board of directors of 
 the Latin-American Club and Foreign 
 Trades Association. Mr. Nolker is a 
 Mason and a man of great civic pride, 
 and has always interested himself in 
 everything pertaining to the advance- 
 ment of the city, county and state. 
 
 He holds active membership in the 
 Glen Echo Country Club, as well as 
 in the Missouri Athletic, Union, Valley 
 Park Canoe and other clubs as well as 
 several other - business organizations. 
 
 RICHARD A. JONES. 
 
 Another St. Louis lawyer who has 
 achieved wonderful success in his prac- 
 tice is Richard A. Jones, a New Yorker 
 by birth, Missourian by choice, and 
 one of the most able attorneys in the 
 state. He was born in 1869 at Bing- 
 hampton, N. Y. 
 
 In Pittston, Penna., Richard A. Jones 
 attended the public schools, and later, 
 at Binghamton. Following the com- 
 pletion of his ordinary schooling he, 
 decided to enter the practice of law 
 and began its study, with the result 
 that in 1893 he was admitted to the 
 bar in Omaha, Neb., and became a 
 
 member of the legal firm of Brome 
 and Jones. 
 
 Like hundreds of other ambitious 
 young men when he heard the call of 
 the great west he journeyed to St. 
 Louis and in 1896 was admitted to the 
 Missouri bar, since which time his 
 success has been little short of phenom- 
 enal, he appearing in many cases in 
 which were involved some of the most 
 difficult legal problems, but in each 
 instance he was fully equal to the 
 occasion and handled his cases with 
 wonderful success. 
 
 Shortly after Mr. Jones' admission 
 to the bar in Misouri he joined forces 
 
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with Charles R. Crouch, and the firm 
 of Jones and Crouch was formed. This 
 arrangement continued until 1898, 
 when both young men threw up their 
 practice, rapidly becoming lucrative, 
 and enlisted with Battery A of this 
 city and saw active service in the 
 Spanish-American war, being stationed 
 principally at Porto Rico. 
 
 It was in 1898 that they returned to 
 the United States and Mr. Jones again 
 took up the active practice of his pro- 
 fession, foiming a partnership with 
 M. M. Herold under the firm title of 
 Jones and Herold. Mr. Herold passed 
 away about eleven years ago, since 
 which time the surviving partner, Mr. 
 Jones, has continued practice alone. 
 Mr. Jones is a forceful orator and 
 makes a splendid impression on both 
 judge and jury. As counsel, represent- 
 
 ing either plaintiff or defendant, he has 
 appeared in some of the most inter- 
 esting litigation before the courts, and 
 with signal success. He is regarded as 
 one of the hardest workers in the pro- 
 fession in behalf of his clients and his 
 following is of a most representative 
 character. 
 
 About seven or eight years ago Mr. 
 Jones was united in marriage with 
 Miss Alice Pollard, daughter of former 
 Congressman H. M. Follard, who in his 
 time was one of the most brilliant law- 
 yers of the St. Louis bar. Mr. Jones 
 holds active membership in several of 
 the leading clubs of the city and is a 
 communicant of the Methodist Church. 
 
 His rise in life, and more particu- 
 larly, in his profession, has been rapid, 
 and no man enjoys the esteem of asso- 
 ciates to a greater extent than Richard 
 A. Jones. 
 
 JUDGE C. ORRICK BISHOP. 
 
 An able lawyer, a splendid orator, a 
 distinguished jurist, a magnificent 
 reader of human nature, aptly de- 
 scribes the subject of my review, Judge 
 Campbell Orrick Bishop. 
 
 Judge Bishop is a native Missourian, 
 and^was born in Union in 1842. He 
 was* scarcely five years of age when he 
 was brought to this city, and until he 
 was about ten or twelve years old was 
 educated in private institutions. He 
 afterwards entered the high school, 
 from which he graduated with highest 
 honors with the class of 1858. Follow- 
 ing this young Bishop entered West- 
 minister College at Fulton, Mo., where 
 he also graduated, being awarded the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts. That was, 
 I believe, about 1862. Twenty-nine 
 years later the degree of Master of 
 Arts, and, in 1903, that of Doctor of 
 Laws, were conferred upon him by the 
 institution. 
 
 Following the leaving off of his 
 studies Judge Bishop did railway cleri- 
 cal work for four years, after which he 
 entered the law department of Louis- 
 ville University and graduated in 1868, 
 with degree of Bachelor of Laws. Im- 
 mediately afterwards Judge Bishop 
 came back to St. Louis and took up 
 the general practice of his chosen pro- 
 fession. Almost from the start the 
 young attorney made considerable 
 headway and finally, in 1883, he was 
 appointed assistant circuit attorney, 
 in which capacity he served faithfully 
 for nearly fifteen years, after which 
 he once more took up the private 
 practice of law; however, though, for 
 but a short time, as Govenor Joseph 
 Wingate Folk appointed him again 
 
 to the office and he again served for 
 four years. 
 
 In the great boodling cases the suc- 
 cessful prosecution of which made 
 Folk famous throughout the entire 
 civilized world. Judge Bishop mate- 
 rially assisted, preparing case after 
 case. In 190.5 Judge Bishop was ap- 
 pointed to the St. Louis Circuit Court 
 bench and he served there until about 
 four years ago. His decisions were 
 fair and just and won the highest re- 
 spect from bar and client alike, and he 
 was almost invariably sustained by the 
 higher tribunals on appeal. After leav- 
 ing the circuit bench the able jurist 
 again returned to private practice, 
 since which time he has continued in 
 such. In the preparation of cases no 
 attorney bears a better reputation for 
 care, whilst as an orator he has no 
 superior in the courts of Missouri. In 
 delivery he is forceful and impressive 
 and has never allowed himself to take 
 the slightest advantage over a weaker 
 opponent. 
 
 From 1894 to 1910 Judge Bishop was 
 professor of criminal law in Washing- 
 ton University and holds the same 
 chair in St. Louis University, and 
 through frequent contributions from 
 his pen to literary and legal periodi- 
 cals he has become one of the best 
 known attorneys in the southwest. 
 
 Judge Bishop holds active member- 
 ship in a number of the leading clubs 
 and organizations of St. Louis, and in 
 no civic movement of any consequence 
 has he been absent. He is a strong 
 advocate for all that is good and clean, 
 and abhors machine politics. 
 
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JOHN MARTIN HOLMES. 
 
 A practical, self-made man, attorney 
 of considerable note, with reputation 
 known far and wide, forms about as 
 accurate a description as I believe can 
 be had of John Martin Holmes, senior 
 member of the legal firm of Holmes, 
 Blair and Koener. 
 
 Mr. 'Holmes is a native Missourian, 
 having been born in St. Louis in 1848. 
 In early life young Holmes was sent 
 to private institutions in this city, 
 where, under the most competent 
 teachers money could procure he was 
 prepared for the after battles of life. 
 
 Later on Mr. Holmes entered Hills- 
 boro Academy and then attended Hli- 
 nois College, situated at Jacksonville, 
 from which he graduated with highest 
 class honors, having conferred upon 
 him the degree of B. A. That was in 
 1867, I believe. 
 
 The following year, having com- 
 pleted his legal studies, the young man 
 was admitted to the bar, since which 
 he has steadily practiced his profession 
 in this city. For quite a while he 
 practiced alone, his clientele growing 
 gradually. In 1874 he joined forces 
 with T. T. Player. His practice has 
 never suffered a decline, and today is 
 much larger than at any time during 
 the career of this able counselor. 
 
 His partnership arrangement with 
 Mr. Player continued until about 1881, 
 when he entered partnership with 
 Ralph Talbot, who afterwards left St. 
 Louis, going to Colorado to make his 
 home. The present firm was organized 
 
 about seven years ago and is consid- 
 ered one of the strongest in the state, 
 its members appearing in many cases 
 of importance. 
 
 Mr. Holmes is one of the best read 
 men in the southwest, not only on sub- 
 jects pertaining to law, but various 
 others equally as interesting and intel- 
 lectual. He is a member of several 
 bar associations and highly esteemed 
 in legal and business circles, represent- 
 ing some ot the largest concerns in the 
 city. Mr. Holmes is considered one of 
 the best orators of the local bar and 
 presents his cases in a masterly man- 
 ner. In matters political he is a 
 staunch advocate of Democracy and 
 has worked unceasingly for the ad- 
 vancement of Democratic principles 
 throughout the city, county and state. 
 
 Whilst he has never sought public 
 office he has never wavered in devo- 
 tion to his political creed and has 
 made numerous speeches in behalf of 
 Democratic candidates. He is one of 
 that small army of well thinking men 
 who prefer to do what they can for the 
 other man, so long as the latter is the 
 right man and will make the best 
 public servant. 
 
 It was in March, 1888, that he was 
 married to Miss Ina Meston, a native 
 of Scotland and a most estimable young 
 woman. Unfortunately he lost his wife 
 about thirteen years ago in Colorado 
 Springs, Colo. The couple had three 
 children, two daughters and one son. 
 
 JUDGE HENEY STEWART CAULFIELD. 
 
 I have often made the assertion in 
 general conversation that the judges 
 of the St. Louis Court of Appeals were 
 nearer my views of an ideal judiciary 
 than any I know of, being members 
 of the bar who stand high in the con- 
 fidence of the profession, each learned 
 in every branch of the law and well 
 qualified for the high position of trust. 
 
 One of the associate judges of this 
 court is Henry Stewart Caulfield, who, 
 although of the younger generation, 
 has distinguished himself, not alone as 
 a member of the court, but while serv- 
 ing his state in Congress. He is a 
 native St. Louisan and was born in 
 1874. 
 
 In early life he attended the public 
 schools, afterward entering St. Charles 
 University at St. Charles, Mo. 
 
 In 1895 he was graduated from 
 Washington University and later on 
 
 admitted to the bar. Mr. Caulfield im- 
 mediately entered practice. Being a 
 man of marked ability he was not long 
 in establishing a remunerative client- 
 age, becoming general counsel for one 
 of the large trust companies about two 
 years after graduating, which he held 
 until 1904. He was also a director of 
 the financial institution. 
 
 In the trial of cases before the 
 various courts Judge Caulfield long 
 ago demonstrated that he was equally 
 at home in the various branches of 
 jurisprudence, winning a large per- 
 centage of cases entrusted to his care. 
 Politically he wields much influence, 
 being regarded generally as one of the 
 leaders of Republicanism in St. Louis. 
 It was in 1906 that he was elected to 
 Congress and whilst seiwing the people 
 in the national legislative halls he 
 
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again and again gave evidence of tiis 
 great capacity as lawyer, statesman 
 and orator. 
 
 As one of the associate justices of 
 tiie St. Louis Court of Appeals lie has 
 more than ever shown the splendid 
 knowledge of law he possesses, his 
 opinions being models of judicial intel- 
 ligence, not a few of which have been 
 used in other states by prominent 
 
 jurists in the decision of important 
 litigation. 
 
 It was in 1902 that Judge Caulfield 
 was united in marriage with Miss 
 Fannie Delanno, a native of Missouri 
 and a resident of Cuba, Mo. Judge 
 Caulfield holds membership in the Mer- 
 cantile Club of this city, as well as 
 other leading organizations, and is also 
 an Odd Felllow. 
 
 DR. WALTER C. G. KIRCHNER. 
 
 Dr. W. C. G. Kirchner stands in the 
 front rank of St. Louis surgeons. 
 
 He is a native Missourian, having 
 been born in St. Charles in 1875, his 
 father also being a prominent physi- 
 cian. 
 
 As a lad he attended the public 
 institutions of learning in his home 
 city, after which when he moved to 
 St. Louis about 1882 he attended the 
 local public schools. He is a graduate 
 of the under public schools of St. Louis 
 as well as the St. Louis High School. 
 His diploma from the latter bears the 
 date of 1894. Immediately thereafter 
 the young man entered Washington 
 University, from which he also gradu- 
 ated in 1897, being awarded the degree 
 of A. B. Shortly afterwards he en- 
 tered the medical department of the 
 same institution and graduated in med- 
 icine and surgery in 1901. after which 
 he took up the active practice of his 
 profession, with marked success from 
 almost the start, beginning as "junior 
 physician" at the St. Louis City Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Here he served for about a year 
 when he w^as advanced to the position 
 of "senior physician," and after the 
 same length of time was selected as 
 assistant superintendent, and in 1907 
 was made superintendent. Throughout 
 his entire connection with this large 
 city institution the young medico ad- 
 vanced from position to position purely 
 upon merit. 
 
 Since his return to private practice 
 he has built up a very lucrative one, 
 and to catch him in his offices aside 
 from his regular office hours is rather 
 difficult. Dr. Kirchner is highly re- 
 garded by the profession and holds ac- 
 
 tive membership in several of the best 
 known organizations affiliated with 
 physicians. Among these are the St. 
 Louis Medical Society, Missouri State 
 Medical Society, American Medical 
 Association, St. Louis Surgical Club, 
 Southern Surgical and Gynecological 
 Association, American Association of 
 Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and 
 others. The membership of the last 
 named associations is limited. 
 
 Dr. Kirchner is also vice-president 
 of the local organization of the ^Medical 
 Reserve Corps, U. S. A., a member of 
 the St. Louis Academy of Science, a 
 member of the honorary society of 
 Sigma XI, ex-president of the Medical 
 Society of the City Hospital Alumni 
 and other well known societies. The 
 physician has written quite a number 
 of interesting articles, usually review- 
 ing some case that passed under his 
 observation. Not a few of the papers 
 prepared by Dr. Kirchner have at- 
 tracted much attneion, among w'hich 
 are those bearing the titles of "Sur- 
 gery of the Spleen," "Treatment of 
 Sliding Hernia," "Conclusions Based 
 on Observations of Five Hundred Cases 
 of Fractured Skull." "Treatment of 
 Wounds of the Heart." Several of the 
 operations performed by Dr. Kirchner 
 during his incumbency as superintend- 
 ent of the St. Louis City Hospital have 
 attracted much attention. In one 
 instance he actually took twelve 
 stitches in a man's heart, which had 
 been wounded, and the man is living 
 today. This operation I merely men- 
 tion to demonstrate the great progress 
 that surgery has made and the further 
 fact of this work having been done by 
 a St. Louis surgeon. 
 
 DR. PRANK J. LUTZ. 
 
 Were I requested to name several of 
 the most eminent surgeons in St. Louis 
 one of the first that would appear in 
 my mind would be that of Dr. Frank 
 J. Lutz, subject of my review and sur- 
 
 geon-in-charge of Josephine Hospital 
 on South Grand Avenue. 
 
 Dr. Lutz is a native Missourian and 
 was born in St. Louis in 1855. He is 
 of Goiman descent, his father having 
 
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emigrated to the United States about 
 1827. 
 
 As a lad the doc;tor attended the 
 public schools of this city. In addition, 
 he finished off in a European gym- 
 nasium, as well as becoming a student, 
 in St. Louis University. From the last 
 named institution he graduated with 
 the class of 1874, after which he en- 
 tered the St. Louis Medical College, 
 from which he received his medical 
 diploma in 1876. 
 
 Following this Dr. Lutz again went 
 abroad, where he continued his studies 
 in France, Germany and England, at- 
 tending lectures in many of the larger 
 European cities by the most eminent 
 medical authorities in the world and 
 thoroughly qualifying himself for the 
 practice of the profession on his return 
 to the United States. Dr. Lutz has 
 many times demonstrated his ability as 
 physician and surgeon. He has served 
 as a member of the state health board, 
 and it was while acting in that ca- 
 pacity that he strongly advocated 
 measures that meant much to all local- 
 ities of the commonwealth. He holds 
 membership in a number of the lead- 
 ing profesional organizations, and has 
 read many important papers before 
 their conventions, at all times being 
 accorded the closest attention. I be- 
 lieve it was in 1890 that he served as 
 president of the St. Louis Medical So- 
 ciety, while a year or two previous to 
 that he held a similar position with 
 
 the state body. He was also president 
 of the International Association of 
 Railway Surgeons in 1896. Dr. Lutz 
 is one of the original organizers of the 
 St. Louis Surgical Society and has 
 served as its secretary. 
 
 Other large organizations in which 
 this distinguished surgeon holds mem- 
 bership are the Societe Internationale 
 de Chirurgie, St. Louis Medical Li- 
 brary Association, American Medical 
 Associaiton, American Surgical Asso- 
 ciation, and others. In the summer of 
 1911 he attended the sessions of the 
 first named in Europe. 
 
 He has served with great credit as 
 Professor of Surgery in Beaumont Hos- 
 pital Medical College and the St. Louis 
 University. He was chief surgeon of 
 Alexian Brothers' Hospital for twenty- 
 five years, and is now surgeon-in- 
 charge of Josephine Hospital, as well 
 as one of the surgeons of the Barnard 
 Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hos- 
 pital. Dr. Lutz is just home from sev- 
 eral months' journey through Europe 
 (1911), and whilst on his trip took 
 occasion to study the methods in 
 vogue in that country, particularly as 
 to surgical work in hospitals. • 
 
 It was in 1884 that Dr. Lutz was 
 united in marriage with Miss May 
 Silver, of Maryland. Dr. Lutz, since 
 his connection with hospital surgery, 
 has performed some of the most diffi- 
 cult operations, the character of which 
 attracted wide attention. 
 
 GEORGE D. BARNARD. 
 
 I dare say there is not a man, 
 woman or child in this great thriving 
 community of ours but who knows 
 who this man is, what he does and 
 where his business is situated. There 
 is one modest structure in St. Louis, 
 designed after the latest models and 
 equipped as no other similar institu- 
 tion in this country, that will stand 
 for many years to come a monument 
 to the ideas of George D. tsarnard, 
 through whose lavish lioerality it was 
 made possible — the Barnard Free Skin 
 and Cancer Hospital. 
 
 George D. Barnard stands today at 
 the head of one of the largest printing 
 establishments in the United States, 
 whose business is not alone confined 
 to St. Louis, Missouri, or the south- 
 west, but which reaches out into the 
 many states of the Union aijd takes in 
 an area that is enormous, and it has 
 come, day after day, month after 
 month and year after year, due to a 
 system of absolute straightforwardness 
 and systematic business dealings. Mr. 
 Barnard is one of the strongest advo- 
 
 cates of the Rooseveltian theory of a 
 "square deal." 
 
 No man has been more closely identi- 
 fied with the commercial and social 
 development of St. Louis than has the 
 subject of the author's'review. He is a 
 progressive citizen. My contention 
 could not be better illustrated than 
 found in the plant over which Mr. 
 Barnard rules. Under one roof, occu- 
 pying a great many thousand of square 
 feet, has this large printing outfit 
 been assembled, until today everything 
 known to the business is executed 
 there. There is a distinct department 
 necessary to the completion of every 
 contract, with each department under 
 the immediate supervision of a skilled 
 head, and all this, in turn, under the 
 personal direction of Mr. Barnard, as- 
 sisted by his associates, all men tried 
 and found fully capable. There is still 
 another feature to which I wish to 
 refer before passing to another para- 
 graph. I am told by various employes 
 of the Barnard Company, the men who 
 belong in the ranks — not oflacials — that 
 
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perhaps fewer men are discharged at 
 this plant than is the case in any other 
 place in St. Louis, as evidenced by the 
 large number of employes who have 
 been many years in the employ of this 
 company, that good discipline is main- 
 tained, the men are loyal, as much 
 work is accomplished. 
 
 Men have violated rules which in 
 many plants would have meant in- 
 stant dismissal, but not here. Men 
 are talked to, not abused; they are 
 reasoned with, not ridiculed; they 
 have explained to them the disad- 
 vantage it works to them and to the 
 firm for them to violate instructions, 
 and before a discharge is issued, every- 
 thing possible is done in an effort to 
 allow the man to retrieve himself. 
 
 Now, to return again to the great 
 humanitarian institution of St. Louis 
 that bears the name of Mr. Barnard. 
 When the small band of St. Louis 
 ladies inaugurated a plan to secure 
 relief for many suffering from cancer 
 and other skin, tissue and flesh af- 
 flictions, they called on many. Their 
 purpose was to create a fund with 
 which to erect an institution to be 
 used accordingly. Many times they 
 called on monied men and laid their 
 plans before them, meeting with var- 
 ied success. The matter was finally 
 taken up with George D. Barnard. He 
 was quick to act. He gave his per- 
 sonal assurance that he would do what 
 he could in their behalf. The result 
 was that his money was among the 
 first to be used in the undertaking, 
 which as a sort of experiment, was 
 carried on for several years in an old 
 building, partially equipped as best 
 they could. Finally, after having sat- 
 isfied themselves that such an insti- 
 tution was needed in the city, they 
 made another appeal to Mr. Barnard, 
 notwithstanding he was already con- 
 tributing right alongr and told him of 
 their plans; that a hospital building 
 was what was needed, and that to 
 equip it would necessitate the expen- 
 diture of thousands of dollars. 
 
 ]\Ir. Barnard did not hesitate, and 
 today this structure stands as a monu- 
 ment to his magnificent philanthropy. 
 The amount paid for the ground upon 
 which the hospital stands was $27,000, 
 whilst the building and its equipment 
 cost $135,697.69. This entire amount 
 was paid by Mr. Barnard, in addition 
 to $r),000 additional to the maintenance 
 fund. 
 
 The opening exercises were held on 
 the afternoon of December 20, 1910, 
 in the presence of a large number of 
 people. Many addresses were made. 
 One of the most beautiful features of 
 
 the affair was when President Charles 
 H. Huttig, of the Hospital, called on 
 P. F. Pettibone, of Chicago, a life- 
 long friend of Mr. Barnard, who had 
 attended the event in honor of the 
 occasion. Mr. Pettibone is engaged in 
 a 'business similar to that of his school- 
 day chum and had absolutely no idea 
 of being called on to say anything. 
 He was equal to the occasion, how- 
 ever. When he arose, INIr. Barnard, 
 who was seated on the rostrum, pre- 
 sented the appearance of a school lad, 
 with his first pair of red-top boots. 
 His face was flushed and his happy 
 countenance wreathed in smiles. Ad- 
 vancing to the front of the crowded 
 lecture room of the hospital, where 
 the exercises were being held, Mr. 
 Pettibone, smiling, said he could not 
 understand why he had been called 
 upon. "1 am no speaker, ladies and 
 gentlemen, but I will do my very best, 
 anyhow," said the publisher. It could 
 be plainly seen that Mr. Pettibone was 
 deeply effected, indicated by constant 
 clearing of his throat. Then he re- 
 lated how he had watched the progress 
 made since the day his close friend 
 had confided to him his project. He 
 paid a high tribute to Mr. Barnard, 
 when he said that afternoon, while 
 showing much emotion, "my friends, 
 let me say that whilst you may know 
 his sterling character and qualifica- 
 tions as well as I do, still I want to 
 add that you may accept this mag- 
 nificent gilt from him with every feel- 
 ing of freedom from the thought that 
 every dollar that has gone into it, is 
 absolutely untainted, and has been 
 honestly made." Continuing, after a 
 moment's hesitating to regain his com- 
 posure. Mr. Pettibone, through smiles 
 said, "And today, dear friends, I am 
 here to witness the marriage of munifi- 
 cence and mercy, as a friend of the 
 bridegroom, and as he rejoices, so 
 do I." 
 
 The institution is in the hands of 
 one of the most skilled faculties in 
 the United States, Dr. Washington E. 
 Fischel, one of the foremost medical 
 practitioners of the entire Southwest, 
 being at the head of the medical staff, 
 while over each and every department 
 are men of their profession, skilled 
 and learned in the daily battle against 
 the ravages of disease. The Board of 
 Directors of the hospital isi headed by 
 Mr. C. H. Huttig, who is president, and 
 gives a great deal of his time to its 
 financial affairs. 
 
 Mr. Barnard owns a beautiful home 
 in St. Louis, in addition to Oak Lodge, 
 located at Lake Geneva, Wis., one of 
 the most delightful summer retreats in 
 the country. 
 
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MATTHEW GIVEN REYNOLDS. 
 
 Since 1878, Matthew G. Reynolds, a 
 native Missourian, tias practiced his 
 chosen prol'ession, his career as a rep- 
 resentative of the legal fraterity ol' 
 St Louis dating from 1886. In 1870 
 young Reynolds became a naval cadet 
 through official appointment, and four 
 years later graduated from Annapolis 
 with highest honors, winning the dis- 
 tinction of being the most proficient 
 executive official of the entire class. 
 
 The year 1875 found the young 
 officer aboard the frigate "Plymouth," 
 from which he was later assigned to 
 the "Tennessee" as midshipman. The 
 year following he was made an ensign. 
 Later, and until 1877, -Ensign Reynolds 
 saw service aboard the frigate 
 "Wyoming." After this he tendered 
 his resignation and returned to private 
 life. At hs home town. Bowling 
 Green, tlie former young naval officer 
 began the study of his profession in 
 the law office of an old established 
 firm, of attorneys, concluding his 
 studies in the St. Louis Law School, 
 and gaining admission to the bar in 
 1878. 
 
 Returning to Bowling Green, Judge 
 Reynolds took up the active practice 
 of his profession, remaining there 
 about twelve months, after which he 
 located in Louisiana, Mo., forming a 
 partnership with the firm styled Fagg, 
 Reynolds and Fagg. 
 
 When this firm was dissolved, about 
 a year after Judge Fagg left Louisiana 
 for St. Louis, Judge Reynolds asso- 
 ciated himself with Judge W^ H. 
 Biggs, and, in 1886, located in St. 
 Louis. 
 
 After becoming a resident of St. 
 Louis, Judge Reynolds was honored 
 with appointment by President Harri- 
 son as United States Attorney, serv- 
 ing in the court of private land claims. 
 
 Serving in this capacity. Judge Rey- 
 nolds freed many thousands. of acres 
 from individual claims and restored it 
 to its rightful owner, the public. The 
 litigation was among the most peculiar, 
 perhaps, that has ever been presented 
 for adjudication, but was carried 
 through to a successful termination. 
 He was retained under the administra- 
 tions of Grover Cleveland, Benjamin 
 Harrison, William McKinley and Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt. When a number of 
 these cases went up to the United 
 States Supreme Court, Judge Reynolds 
 was called on to assist in handling 
 them, receiving special appointments 
 under Attorneys General Knox, Olney, 
 Harmon, Miller, Griggs, McKenna and 
 Moody. 
 
 In a number of receivership cases 
 in St. Louis Judge Reynolds has acted 
 with wise precision, tlie latest being 
 one of the companies promoted by 
 Gardner, and which has attracted 
 almost national attention, so intricate 
 are its affairs and so far reaching. In 
 1911 Judge Reynolds was appointed 
 receiver by the Federal Court for the 
 Lewis properties, involving millions of 
 dollars. To administer this trust 
 necessitated the giving of an 
 enormous bond, but Judge Reynolds 
 did that within a short while after 
 being notified of the appointment. He 
 entered upon the great volume of 
 work connected with this case, and 
 will carry it through as successfully 
 as he has everything else with which 
 he has had anything to do. 
 
 Judge Reynolds, in 1880, was mar- 
 ried to ]\Iiss ]\Iamie Fagg, whose dis- 
 tinguished father, at one time, occu- 
 pied the supreme bench of the State of 
 Missouri. Of the union there are eight 
 children. Misses Florence, Lucy, Alice, 
 Mary and Stephen A., M. G. Jr., Rob- 
 ert P., and John. 
 
 CHARLES PHILIP JOHNSON. 
 
 An Illinoisan by birth, a Missourian 
 by choice, Hon Charles Philip John- 
 son was born at Lebanon (111.) Janu- 
 ary 18, 1836, since which time he has 
 risen to national eminence, and today 
 he is known, as he has been for some 
 years, as one of the most successful 
 lawyers in the United States. 
 
 Governor Johnson, during his early 
 age, attended the common schools of 
 his native state, and after, for a time, 
 McKendree College, which institution 
 conferred upon him the degree of 
 Doctor of Laws. In his youthful days 
 
 Mr. Johnson decided to equip himself 
 with the knowledge of some trade, 
 and the result was he learned the 
 printers' art, afterward becoming 
 editor of a weekly publication, there- 
 by getting his first insight into mat- 
 ters political. 
 
 When the young man reached the 
 •age of nineteen he came to St. Louis 
 and begun the reading of law and pre- 
 paring for admittance to the bar, and 
 it was about 1857 that he entered the 
 general practice. The love for jour- 
 nalism, however, was soon rekindled 
 
 43 
 
in the heart of the attorney, and a 
 couple of years after his admittance 
 to the bar he established, in connec- 
 tion with James Peckham, of this 
 city, the "Evening Bulletin." Fol- 
 lowing this up, during the year of 1864 
 he associated himself with the then 
 "Daily Press," having in the meantime 
 disposed of his interests in the 
 Bulletin. It may be of interest to 
 many to know that the Press after- 
 wards became the "St. Louis Daily 
 Times." 
 
 It was, I believe, in 18G5, after the 
 close of the civil war, that Governor 
 Johnson secured possession of a pub- 
 lication known as the "St. Louis 
 Daily Evening Union." This title the 
 young man did not like, and changed 
 it to the "St. Louis Dispatch," which 
 proved the foundation for the "St. 
 Louis Post-Dispatch." 
 
 In 1859, while editor of the "Even- 
 ing Bulletin," Governor Johnson was 
 elected City Attorney of St. Louis. The 
 question of slavery was being agitated 
 in all parts of the country, and, in 
 company with Frank P. Blair, Gov- 
 ernor Johnson lined up his forces and 
 made heroic resistance to a continua- 
 tion of slavery and urged its cessa- 
 tion. Shortly the civil war came on, 
 and he naturally took sides against 
 the North. With the Missouri In- 
 fantry, Third regiment, as a lieuten- 
 ant, Johnson went to the front. It 
 was during this period that Governor 
 Johnson exhibited unusual activity, 
 with the result that he assisted to 
 a very great extent in the complete 
 organization of what was known as 
 the Eighth Missouri Volunteer In- 
 fantry, one of the most conspicuous 
 in the war, and one that won fame. 
 It was the sub.iect of the author's re- 
 view who paid a personal visit to 
 President Abraham Lincoln and ten- 
 dered him the services of this right- 
 ing aggregation of men. He was sub- 
 sequently appointed major of the regi- 
 ment. 
 
 During the progress of the war, tue 
 Republican party, for sorr.o reason, ue- 
 clined' to support General Frank P. 
 Blair for Congress, and the honor was 
 tendered Governor Johnson. Blair 
 was a great friend of Johnson's, and 
 the latter declined to accept the 
 proffer. In the election which fol- 
 lowed, Governor Johnson was elected 
 to the Missouri Legislature, and he 
 had been in the house but a short 
 time before he was recognized as the 
 leader. 
 
 I believe it was about 186C that Gov- 
 ernor Johnson was appointed Circuit 
 Attorney for not only the city, but also 
 
 St. Louis county, the offices being 
 filled tlirough selection by Governor 
 Fletcher. The year following, so effi- 
 ciently had he served, that he was 
 elected to the office, and for the re- 
 maining six years served with the 
 greatest distinction held by any man 
 who has since occupied the position. 
 
 It must be said to the credit of Gov- 
 ernor Johnson that he was directly in- 
 strumental in the selection of Horace 
 Greeley as the choice of the first lib- 
 eral Republican movement for the 
 presidency. A number of speeches 
 were made by Governor Johnson. That 
 was in 1872, and the year in which 
 Silas Woodson was a candidate for 
 chief executive of Missouri, with Gov- 
 ernor Johnson as his running mate. 
 The united ticket easily carried the 
 state. It was while serving as presi- 
 dent of the Missouri state senate that 
 he deliverd that memorable address, 
 the like of which has never since been 
 hoLrd in the legislative halls of any 
 commonwealth, in the course of which 
 he urged with all the forceful oratory 
 at his command, backed by statistics 
 at his fingers' tips, the repeal of what 
 was known as the charter grant, 
 under which had been passed in his 
 home city the social evil law. 
 
 Coming down to present day happen- 
 ings, although retired from public 
 office, tlie former lieutenant-govenor 
 of Missouri is still quite active in 
 politics, whilst his opinions carry as 
 much weght as ever along these lines. 
 Even after leaving the lieutenant-gov- 
 ernorship, the people would not con- 
 sent to allow him to remain in private 
 life, and in 1880 I again find him 
 back in the legislature. Governor 
 Johnson, when his friends called on 
 him to gain his permission to run him 
 for the office was urged to accept 
 under but one condition — the break- 
 ing up of one of the most powerful 
 rings of professional gamblers in St. 
 Louis that the city has ever known. 
 Governor Johnson announced in ad- 
 vance of his election that the gamblers 
 and he could not remain in St. Louis; 
 that either they or he would have to 
 fold tent and decamp, and the result 
 was he was fought all the way through 
 the campaign, while tens of thousands 
 of dollars was used to encompass his 
 defeat. He secured the passage of 
 what is today known as the "John- 
 son Gambling Law." 
 
 It is my conscientious opinion, given 
 only after having made close compari- 
 sons of the many strong men of Mis- 
 souri, those who have attained fame 
 and wealth, that Charles Philip John- 
 son is to be truly recognized as one 
 
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of the most illustrious sons of the 
 great commonwealth. Governor John- 
 son has been thrice wedded. His first 
 wife was Miss Estelle Parker, whom 
 he married just at the outbreak of the 
 civil war in 1861. There were four 
 children of this union, one of whom, 
 together with the mother, is dead. 
 
 He was afterwards wedded to Miss 
 Louise Stevens, and they had three 
 children, two of w^om are living. 
 About three years ago the governor 
 was married to Mrs. Annie Andre of 
 St. Genevieve, a woman of much cul- 
 ture and learning. 
 
 JOHN H. GUNDLACH. 
 
 Another prominent business man 
 who has devoted a great deal of bis 
 time to the advancement of St. Louis, 
 is John H. Gundlach, one of the best 
 known realty men in the southwest. 
 
 Mr. Gundlach is a native Missourian 
 and was born in 1861. He attended 
 the public schools, as well as several 
 private institutions, graduating with 
 high class honors. When quite a young 
 man, after completing his studies, he 
 struck out in the world for himself, 
 securing employment with a firm of 
 photographers, with whom he re- 
 mained for about three years. After-, 
 wards young Gundlach secured a po- 
 sition with the Mechanics Planing 
 Mill company. He continued in the 
 service of that corporation for a little 
 more than a year, after which he con- 
 nected himself with the Hunzinger 
 Tobacco company, remaining with 
 that conapany until 1883. From the 
 latter year until the latter part of 
 the year following, Mr. Gundlach was 
 a bookkeeper for A. B. Ewing, then 
 commissioner of supplies. In 1885 
 young Gundlach secured employment 
 with the Wabash Railroad company. 
 In 1892 the John H. Gundlach com- 
 pany was established and real estate 
 dealings begun. 
 
 Mr. Gundlach for a number of years 
 had his eyes on the development of 
 north end residence property. At that 
 time very little attention was being 
 given property in that section of the 
 city by any one, and he realized that 
 if it was opened up, properly improved 
 and the attention of the buying public 
 called to it in the proper manner, the 
 returns would be remunerative. Hence 
 it was the John H. Gundlach company 
 that set about to take hold of this 
 large proposition, with the result that 
 today the unprecedented growth of 
 
 north St. Louis is to the credit of Mr. 
 Gundlach. 
 
 In addition to this, i\Ir. Gundlach 
 took up other realty propositions, and 
 was greatly interested in the splendid 
 results secured by the Plymouth In- 
 vestment company, the Union Realty 
 and Investment company, O'Fallon 
 Park Realty and Investment company. 
 Of all these he has served as secretary 
 and treasurer. He has also held the 
 vice presidency of the St. Louis Real 
 Estate Exchange, with credit to him- 
 self and associates. He has served 
 the North St. Louis Business Men's 
 Association, as well as the North St. 
 Louis Citizens' Association, as presi- 
 dent. ' 
 
 No man in the city is a stronger 
 advocate of civic advancement than 
 he, and in all movements of a civic 
 character, is always at the front, at 
 one time being vice president of the 
 Civic League. 
 
 In the Republican party Mr. Gund- 
 lach is recognized as a leader. He 
 places the greater part of his stress 
 upon the man — much more so than 
 the party, and believes the independ- 
 ent movement has a future in store 
 for it. 
 
 John H. Gundlach's father, Peter 
 Gundlach, was one of the best known 
 shoe merchants in Missouri, and was 
 for many years a member of the St. 
 Louis city council. It was, there- 
 fore, but natural that the son follow 
 in the paternal footsteps. Frequently 
 Mayor Kriesmann has been absent 
 from the city, and Mr. Gundlach has 
 always served, by virtue of his office 
 as president of the council. He has 
 many times demonstrated keen exe- 
 cutive ability and discharged the 
 duties of the office with much' credit 
 to himself. 
 
 ANDREW J. O'REILLY. 
 
 A Missourian by birth, it is my 
 conscientious belief that no man in 
 the various professions has made 
 greater headway than the subject of 
 the author's review, Andrew J. 
 
 O'Reilly, who for many years was 
 closely associated with the municipal 
 government of St. Louis, and who to- 
 day is looked upon as one of the 
 West's greatest consulting engineers. 
 
 45 
 
INIr. O'Reilly was born in Montgom- 
 ery County, Mo., in 1863, and acquired 
 his early education in the public insti- 
 tutions of this city and the Christian 
 Brothers College. Alter completing 
 his studies in St. Louis, Mr. O'Reilly, 
 desirous of still further adding to his 
 knowledge, went to Cambridge and 
 West Newton, Mass., where he pursued 
 his studies further. 
 
 On his return to St. Louis, and still 
 not quite satisfied, he entered Smith's 
 Academy, from which he graduated 
 with honors in 1881. Following this, 
 young O'Reilly entered Washington 
 University. 
 
 In 1882 he decided to put away his 
 studies until he could prepare himself 
 for a continuation of study of the 
 engineering profession, and secured 
 employment with one of the telephone 
 companies, afterwards going with the 
 fire and police telegraph department as 
 an electrician. Here he remained un- 
 til 1SS4, when he once more returned 
 to Washington University, having earn- 
 ed ample money with which to pay in 
 part his schooling. It was about three 
 years later that he graduated and had 
 conferred upon him the degree of 
 Bachelor of Engineering. His studies 
 covered not electrical engineering 
 alone, but mechanical as well, hence 
 when he engaged in the work, after 
 leaving his classes he was as well 
 equipped as a young man could be. 
 
 Shortly after leaving school he se- 
 cured ready employment and there 
 has never been a time when he was 
 without steady and lucrative employ- 
 ment, serving principally the large 
 corporations in an expert capacity. In 
 1889, Engineer O'Reilly was offered 
 and accepted a position with the Muni- 
 cipal Electric Light and Power com- 
 pany. The immense plant of that 
 company was installed by Mr. O'Reilly 
 and all details mapped out for light- 
 ing St. Louis' highways and byways. 
 Shortly afterwards he was selected 
 as supervisor of city lighting, and re- 
 mained in that office for more than 
 thirteen years. In 1903 l\Ir. O'Reilly 
 was appointed engineer in charge of 
 the St. Louis Fire Prevention bureau. 
 
 The principal undertaking of this bu- 
 reau was the protection of the Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition from fire, 
 and this work came directly under the 
 supervision of Mr. O'Reilly, who, two 
 years following, was named as head of 
 the Board of Public Improvements. 
 Many of the public buildings were 
 erected under his supervision. His 
 magnificient qualifications as an en- 
 gineer stood him in excellent stead, 
 and I am satisfied that during his ad- 
 ministration as the president of this 
 important board he saved taxpayers 
 thousands of dollars. 
 
 In engineering circles no man stands 
 higher. He is considered an advanced 
 authority, and his advice is almost 
 constantly sought by various corpora- 
 tions and municipalities. He holds 
 active membership in many of the 
 large professional organizations pe- 
 culiar to his profession, in addition to 
 a number of the leading business and 
 social organizations of St. Louis. 
 
 Among these are the American In- 
 • stitute of Electrical Engineers, St. 
 Louis Engineers' Club, St. Louis Acad- 
 emy of Science, American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, and 
 others equally as prominent. He be- 
 longs to the Business Men's League, 
 Missouri Athletic Club, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Masons and the Elks. 
 
 Mr. O'Reilly's home is one of the 
 most attractive in St. Louis, hTs li- 
 brary being considered the most com- 
 plete of its kind in the United States, 
 having been so pronounced time and 
 time again by the most skilled men in 
 his profession. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. O'Reilly was united in 
 matrimony with Miss Mary Howard, 
 a native of Massachusetts. The couple 
 have had seven children. Mr. O'Reilly 
 is a most approachable man, and not- 
 withstanding the peculiar character- 
 istics of most men who have gained 
 great reputations, ]\Ir. O'Reilly is 
 always ready and willing to assist the 
 man lower down. In this way he has 
 endeared many struggling young en- 
 gineers to him, and no man in the 
 southwest today has a more loyal fol- 
 lowing. I 
 
 COLIN M. SELPH. 
 
 Colin M. Selph, known as a valued 
 member of the St. Louis bar, is also 
 recognized as a forceful factor in 
 Democratic circles. The superb man- 
 agement of Senator Reed's campaign, 
 proves his capability for organization 
 and evidences his loyalty to his 
 
 friends. He is suave, clever, and re- 
 sourceful; always aggressive, ever 
 fighting, striving, never giving up, and 
 as Senator Collins said in describing 
 Selph,' "the harder he falls, the higher 
 he bounces, and he lands on his feet 
 every time." 
 
 46 
 
Mr. Selph's work as a citizen has 
 displayed efforts and energy tliat liave 
 accomplished far reaching and bene- 
 ficial results lor the civic and public 
 welfare of St. Louis. Tangible evi- 
 dence of his great interest in the cty 
 was manifested in his efforts to secure 
 legislation lor the passage of a bill 
 for a free bridge across the Mississippi 
 river. 
 
 Mr. Selph was born in Richmond, 
 Va., July 16, 1864, is a son of Major 
 C. M. Rae Selph, U. C. V., and Eliza-, 
 beth (Dimitryj Selph. Major Selph, 
 his father, well known as a lawyer, 
 is a Confederate veteran and was a 
 member of the staff of General Tay- 
 lor. His mother was a daughter of 
 Alexander Dimitry, who was professor 
 of languages and a member of the 
 faculty of Georgetown College, 1858 
 to 1860, and thereafter U. S. minister 
 to Guatemala and Nicaraugua. Later 
 Professor Dimitry established the first 
 public school system in Louisiana, his 
 native state. Mr. Selph of this review 
 is a lienal descendant in the seventh 
 generation of Gen. John Smith of 
 Virginia, and a great-grandson of 
 Robert Mills of the Treasury Depart- 
 ment and design.er of the famous 
 Washington monument. 
 
 ]\Ir. Selph left school at the age of 
 sixteen. He graduated from Lusher's 
 Academy and got the fundamentals of 
 law in his father's office and at Tulane 
 University, but in the meantime Selph 
 was earning his own way, first in a 
 foundry, then in a commercial es- 
 tablishment. His residency, in St. 
 Louis dates from 1886, in which year 
 he accepted a position as clerk in the 
 employ of Philip Roeder, the book- 
 seller. Afterwards he entered the em- 
 ploy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
 and was there for many years. For 
 one year he was manager of the 
 Kansas City Times. He finished his 
 experiences in journalism as editor 
 and publisher of the World's Fair 
 Bulletin, the official publication of the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In 
 1903 Selph was elected to the legisla- 
 ture, and served until 1905. While 
 there he became an aggressive factor 
 and at once commanded attention and 
 respect from his colleagues. He was 
 bitterly opposed because of his advo- 
 cacy of former Governor Wm. J. Stone 
 for U. S. senator, but fearlessly placed 
 Stone in nomination and assisted in 
 electing him. 
 
 Returning to St. Louis from 
 Jefferson City, where he was admitted 
 to the practice of law, he became a 
 member of the Joint Free Bridge 
 Committee, and, with Otto F. Karbe 
 and Benjamin Westhus, prepared the 
 
 ordinances that afterwards were 
 passed by the municipal assembly, 
 giving St. Louis a free bridge, a new 
 municipal court building and the right 
 to build beautiful boulevards and 
 parks. 
 
 Selph has given no better proof of 
 his ardo rand enthusiastic devotion to 
 the welfare of his city and her people 
 than in his very successful conduct of 
 the negotiations of the Olive Street 
 Bank failure, whereby his great execu- 
 tive ability and his knowledge of the 
 law was dmonstrated by virtue of the . 
 payment finally to every depositor of 
 the Olive Street bank their deposits in 
 full, through a merger with the Grand 
 Avenue bank. John E. Swanger, at 
 that time secretary of state of Mis- 
 souri, said: "Had not Mr. Selph, as 
 president of the Olive Street Bank De- 
 positers' Association, aggressively pur- 
 sued his policy and fixed demand of 
 'Dollar for dollar for Depositors at 
 all costs, no matter what happens,' 
 a receiver would necessarily have 
 been appointed by the courts and the 
 depositors would have lost great sums 
 of money. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Selph was nominated 
 by the Democracy of the Twelfth dis- 
 trict for congress, but was defeated by 
 a small plurality, while the balance of 
 of the ticket was defeated by thou- 
 sands of votes. He gives unfaltering 
 allegiance to the Democracy, believ- 
 ing that^its principles will best con- 
 serve the public welfare, and he is 
 prominent in its ranks, though often 
 at war with the committees and the 
 "bosses;" he has been the leading 
 factor in the St. Louis Democratic 
 club, an aggressive organization for 
 several years. 
 
 He is also a member of the Million 
 Population club, one of the foremost 
 of the civic associations of St. Louis. 
 He has served on its executive com- 
 mittee and accomplished much for the 
 public welfare as the chairman of the 
 parks and public improvements com- 
 mittee. Laterly he was appointed by 
 Mayor Kreismann a member of the 
 City Plan Commission, which is 
 charged with the responsibility of 
 making St. Louis "a city beautiful." 
 
 In 1910 Mr. Selph astonished the 
 Democracy of St. Louis by announcing 
 that he would manage the senatorial 
 campaign of his friend, James B. 
 Reed, of Kansas City. Once having 
 determined on this course, the many 
 influences brought to bear upon Selph 
 could not swerve him. Both he and 
 Senator Reed were at once ostracised 
 by the "committee," but Selph, un- 
 daunted and undismayed, hired halls 
 and had Reed speaking at five or six 
 
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different places every night during the 
 closing days of the campaign in St. 
 Louis to crowded nouses. Many of 
 those who thought they knew, said 
 that Selph's political sagacity was at 
 fault, but the tremendous vote that 
 Senator Reed received in St. Louis and 
 adjoining counties on election day was 
 proof positive that this unusual man 
 
 who dared antagonize "the powers'' 
 was wiser than his critics. 
 
 Mr. Selph is married and has one 
 son, Colin III. Mrs. Selph was former- 
 ly Miss Nancy Helen Witback, daught- 
 er of Col. John Witback, of St. Louis 
 County. Mr. Selph is very proud of 
 his wife and his family, and take.s 
 great pride in his home. 
 
 SENATOR JAMES A. REED. 
 
 James A. Reed, junior United States 
 senator, representing Missouri, is an 
 American first, his other attributes 
 follow in sequence, gentleman, states- 
 man and Democrat. His is that mili- 
 tant yet patriotic spirit that has been 
 the fundamental inspiration of the 
 American nation. He is a man of 
 marked ability and high integrity. He 
 is a dominant factor for trur reform 
 in public affairs. His ceaseless 
 activity has produced profitable re- 
 sults for the people; his public acts 
 testify to their wisdom and justifica- 
 tion. Of an inherent fearless nature, 
 he never hesitates to cross lances with 
 a foe. He possesses a wonderful 
 power of oratory surcharged with 
 magnetic vitality. 
 
 Senator Reed is a progressive Demo- 
 ci-at in every sense. He believes that 
 progress must be followed with more 
 progress, and yet he is religiously con- 
 secrated to the time-honored principles 
 of Jeffersonian Democracy, which he 
 declares is the underlying stone of 
 stable and equal government. This 
 great state has in times past been 
 represented in the United States sen- 
 ate by many superior minds, great 
 statesmen and favorie sons. Mr. Reed 
 has the experience, knowledge, capa- 
 city, integrity and ability, all of which 
 attributes, with an unsullied reputa- 
 tion for party loyalty, justifies the con- 
 fidence Missouri's legion has in Reed, 
 gives this commonwealth another mili- 
 tant captain to achieve and accom- 
 plish much for the people of this state. 
 
 Senator Reed is a typical Missourian. 
 All Missourians love a fighter and a 
 gentleman. The record of achieve- 
 ment during the past fifteen years of 
 his life is one filled with battles against 
 vice and dishonesty, warfare against 
 thievery in office and corruption in 
 high places by public corporations and 
 replete with victories — ^strenuous vic- 
 tories that entitle him to his place in 
 the fore of Missouri public men. Mr. 
 Reed came to Missouri twenty-two 
 years ago. He said he "wanted to live 
 in a state where a Democratic vote 
 counted." In every campaign since 
 
 that time, be it municipal, state or 
 national, his voice has been heard. 
 
 In 1896 he made more than 100 
 speeches for Bryan and Democracy, 
 and in 1900 did the same thing over 
 again. In 1904 he took the stump 
 for Parker, albeit he had personally 
 preferred another Democrat for the 
 presidential nominee. From the tap 
 of the drum to the counting of the 
 votes he is always in the field. 
 
 At three we find the infant Reed 
 a resident of Lynn county, Iowa. The 
 call of the soil, inherent in the Reed 
 blood, caused the transition from Ohio 
 to Iowa. Five years later came the 
 death of the father.- On account of his 
 prolonged illness, and a strange dis- 
 ease that carried away nearly all his 
 sheep, the elder Reed left his widow 
 and children an incumbered estate. 
 It became a question of a hard, grind- 
 ing labor to save t>.e property. The 
 boy of eight did his part. In tbe 
 fields, driving a drag, reaper, sowing 
 seed, he ably assisted his mother in 
 her struggle. Three months of school 
 in the winter and studious application 
 at night laid the basis for future edu- 
 cation. At nineteen years of age, 
 while yet a high school student, he 
 borrowed money to engage in cattle 
 buying. The returns netted a sum 
 sufficient to cause the last existing 
 debt against the Reed estate to be re- 
 moved. Upon the old homestead, a 
 part of which has been swallowed by 
 the city of Cedar Rapids, lives the 
 aged mother with a son and daughter. 
 Reed is a frequent visitor to his 
 former home and old mother. 
 
 Reed first won his title of a true 
 reformer back in 1888. New to Kansas 
 City, he protested against mob 
 caucuses for the* nomination of candi- 
 dates for office, for the reason that 
 such meetings were dominated by the 
 committee and resulted in the nomina- 
 tion of a "slate." His name became a 
 word with which to conjure. So 
 strong were the words of Reed that 
 public clamor forced the unwilling 
 leaders to give him an opportunity to 
 be heard. The close of that campaign 
 
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found him the most sought-after public 
 speaker in Kansas City. Prom that 
 day to this he has been in demand 
 whenever and wherever strong, honest 
 convincing language is needed. Be- 
 ginning locally, his demand has spread 
 to state, and from state to nation. 
 
 A newspaper man asked Reed, soon 
 after his election to the Senate: "Sen- 
 ator, what policies will you advocate?" 
 Quick as a flash came the reply: 
 "Read the Democratic platform and 
 you will have the answer." 
 
 I have heard him declare that "if 
 each man w'ere to insist upon a po- 
 litical platform exactly conformitory 
 to his personal belief, there would be 
 as many political parties as there are 
 men. That the question every man 
 must answer is not, is my parcy right 
 in all things, but is it-s main line of 
 advance in the direction most 'bene- 
 ficial to the country?" 
 
 Accordingly, Reed has never pro- 
 claimed himself wiser than his party. 
 When the Democracy of the nation has 
 written a platform he has been its 
 advocate and champion. He has never 
 bolted, has never been a disrupter, 
 has never scratched a Democratic 
 ticket. Party platforms have been to 
 him political creeds, and he has ever 
 fought with bouyant enthusiasm for 
 th principles in which he believed the 
 welfare of the common people were 
 embraced. It is not, therefore, strange 
 that we find him, before he had at- 
 tained his majority, making Demo- 
 cratic speeches in rock-ribbed Re- 
 publican Iowa, without the hope or 
 prospect of party victory. Nor is it 
 surprising that the year he was 
 twenty-one he was made chairman of 
 the Democratic committee of Lynn 
 county, Iowa, and that, by shrewd 
 management and tireless labor the 
 wholly unexpected feat of a Demo- 
 cratic victory was achieved. 
 
 In Kansas City and Jackson county 
 he is the leader of his party. Popular 
 with the masses, he draws tremendous 
 crowds and wins their votes by superb 
 logic and matchless oratory. I have 
 known him to make as many as six 
 speeches in a single night in Kansas 
 City, each in a different part of the 
 city, and he was met by crowded 
 houses at them all. In St. Louis he 
 did the same thing and won the 
 masses. 
 
 Senator Reed is an able and eminent 
 lawyer and is the senior member of 
 the law firm of Reed, Atwood, Masten, 
 Yates and Harvey, of Kansas City. 
 
 In 1904 he was a candidate for 
 governor. After some weeks of cam- 
 paigning he saw the trend was to- 
 ward his opponent, Joseph W. Folk, 
 and immediately announced his with- 
 drawal from the race. Before publicly 
 doing so he privately released all dele- 
 gations instructed for him. That race 
 marks the one and only defeat Reed 
 has ever experienced. His official 
 record includes one term as county 
 counselor of Jackson county, of which 
 Kansas City is the principal city; two 
 terms as prosecuting attorney, and 
 two terms as mayor of Kansas City, 
 and he is now entering upon his first 
 term as United tSates senator. 
 
 When Democracy is at stake Reed 
 is never in the shade. There is nothing 
 half-hearted about his allegiance. He 
 is ready, always ready. Such a man, 
 ever fighting, and fighting hard for 
 the cause he loves, may safely be 
 entrusted with the welfare of his state 
 in national office. 
 
 There is an old saying that the 
 man who bears the brunt of the battle 
 in the heat of the day should not be 
 set aside, and the Missouri Democracy 
 sent him to the senate by an over- 
 whelming majority over his opponents. 
 James A. Reed is a true soldier of 
 Democracy. He is a veteran of count- 
 less battles and many victories. He 
 achieved his reward at the hands of 
 Missouri's unterrified and progressive 
 Democracy because they believed in 
 him and they trust him. The people 
 of this great state gave him the grati- 
 tude he is entitled to by his acts. 
 None can say that he will not fulfil 
 the expectations of his constiuency. 
 Already he has commanded attention 
 upon the floor of the senate, his col- 
 leagues respect him, his opponents 
 fear him. The whole nation knows 
 now that Missouri's junior United 
 States Senator is a man of brains, 
 fearless, honest and capable, and as 
 time progresses James A. Reed will 
 take his place among the great states- 
 men of these United tSates, he cannot 
 fail, because fundamentally he has for 
 his doctrine, equal rights for all, 
 special privileges to none. 
 
 SAMUEL BROADDUS JEFFEIES. 
 
 A Missourian by birth, a man who 
 stands high in his profession, skilled 
 in the handling of cases, and an able 
 
 orator, aptly describes the subject of 
 my review, Samuel B. Jeffries, one of 
 the best known lawyers in the state. 
 
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Mr. Jeffries was born in Lewis 
 county (Mo.) in 1869 and obtained 
 his early education in the schools of 
 his community, after which he entered 
 and graduated from La Grange Col- 
 lege. This was in 1890, and at the 
 same time he had conferred upon 
 him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 In October, 1890, Mr. Jeffries came 
 to St. Louis and entered the law de- 
 partment of Washington University. 
 He remained there about a year, after 
 which he continued the study and 
 reading of law under Judge Anderson, 
 of Canton, Mo., one of the most bril- 
 liant jurists the state has ever pro- 
 duced. 
 
 Young Jeffries was a very close 
 student. He was anxious to gain ad- 
 mission to the bar, but he realized 
 there was only one way open to him, 
 aud that was to undergo a very rigid 
 examination, and the only manner in 
 which he could equip himself was by 
 close study and reading. 
 
 In 1892 he passed this examination 
 with a magnificent percentage to his 
 credit and was readily admitted. He 
 immediately took up the practice of 
 his profession at La Grange and at 
 Canton, and continued there for four 
 years, lirst as a member of the law 
 firm of Anderson and Jeffries and 
 later alone. Elected prosecuting at- 
 torney of Lewis County in 1904, re- 
 elected 1906, served eleven days of 
 second term and resigned to accept 
 the position of assistant attorney gen- 
 eral of Missouri, where he served eight 
 years, after which he came to St. Louis. 
 
 Prior to this, however, he served 
 Lewis County as prosecuting attorney 
 for one full term and was re-elected 
 for a second term, but before its ex- 
 piration he voluntarily resigned, pre- 
 ferring to confine his time to private 
 
 practice. As prosecuting attorney of 
 Lewis County he appeared in certain 
 litigation that required the most skill- 
 ed care. Having splendid conception 
 of the law, the young prosecutor ap- 
 plied himself and came out victorious. 
 
 After locating here Mr. Jeffries be- 
 came associated, as a member of the 
 well known legal firm of Harlan, 
 Jeffries and Wagner, which, after 
 several months, was dissolved. Mr. 
 Jeffries is today senior partner in the 
 firm of Jeffries and Corum. 
 
 During his general practice in St. 
 Louis, Mr. Jeffries has appeared either 
 as counsel for plaintiff or defendant, 
 in a number of cases that have at- 
 tracted wide attention, and has repre- 
 sented many of the largest corpora- 
 tions in the southwest with marked 
 success. 
 
 In argument before court and jury 
 he invariably leaves an impression 
 of the merits of his client's contention. 
 He is a forceful speaker, and deals 
 intelligently and graphically with the 
 intricacies and technicalities of law 
 wherever and whenever involved, in- 
 dicative of unusual skill and excep- 
 tional ability. 
 
 In addition to his immense practice, 
 Mr. Jeffries retains interests in a 
 number of other enterprises in St. 
 Louis and is a director in several 
 large and well known institutions. 
 
 It was in 1897 that Mr. Jeffries 
 was wedded to Miss Lutie Ball, a 
 native of Lewis county (Mo.), a 
 highly accomplished and talented 
 young woman. He holds active mem- 
 bership in a number of the leading 
 social, business and professional or- 
 ganizations of the city, county and 
 state, and in the legal profession, no 
 man stands higher. 
 
 CHARLES PORTER JOHNSON. 
 
 C. Porter Johnson was born near 
 Danville, 111., on a farm, August 15, 
 1866. After the ordinary schooling 
 the young man entered Lee's Prepara- 
 tory Academy, where he remained 
 until June, 1884, when he left to take 
 up the study of law in the law depart- 
 ment of the Northwestern University. 
 He completed his studies there in 
 1888, after which he went to Chicago 
 and be'came junior member of the 
 legal firm of Willett and Johnson. 
 For ten years this connection con- 
 tinued, during which time the subject 
 of the author's review attained a repu- 
 tation that many older men, more ex- 
 
 perienced in the practice of law, 
 envied. 
 
 Finally, in 1891, l\Ir. Johnson was 
 sent to the Illinois state senate from 
 the second senatorial district. In 
 1898 he was a candidate against 
 United States Senator Lorimer for 
 congress, but was defeated after one 
 of the hardest fought political cam- 
 paigns Illinois has ever witnessed, 
 Johnson holding his own throughout, 
 and was only defeated by chicanery, 
 according to many of the best known 
 residents of Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Johnson again resumed his law 
 practice in Chicago, and continued 
 
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until his health failed in 1901. The 
 several strenuous campaigns through 
 which he had gone, the hundreds of 
 speeches made, in addition to his 
 private law practice, large in itself, 
 proved more than his constitution 
 could stand, and he immediately hied 
 to a ranch in southern Oklahoma, 
 where he remained until 1906, after- 
 wards going to Oklahoma City to re- 
 side. He remained there until about 
 five years ago, when he decided to 
 move to St. Louis, and upon his ar- 
 rival again took up the practice of 
 his profession. The extent of the 
 large practice which he has- secured 
 during the period of his residence in 
 this city is clearly indicative of his 
 ability as a lawyer. 
 
 As an orator he has few equals in 
 the southwest, a reputation meritor- 
 iously gained in Illinois, and which 
 has closely followed him wherever he 
 has gone. At the great banquet 
 tendered President William McKinley 
 in Buffalo in 1898 by the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, the response to the 
 toast proposed was made by Mr. John- 
 son. It was, at the time, freely con- 
 ceded to be one of the most masterly 
 addresses ever delivered before a 
 similar gathering — in fact of such 
 moment as to occasion especial com- 
 ment from the president. In the year 
 of the death of Robert G. Ingersoll, 
 Mr. Johnson was requested by the 
 committee that conducted the 
 memorial services to deliver the prin- 
 cipal address of the occasion, which 
 he did. That was in Chicago. 
 
 Again, at the especial request of 
 the Illinois state senate, Mr. Johnsoii 
 appeared before that body and * de- 
 livered an oration on the life of James 
 G. Blaine. This address w^as much 
 commented upon and attracted world- 
 wide attention. 
 
 During the campaign of Mayor 
 Frederick H. Kriesmann, one of the 
 leaders was Mr. Johnson. During the 
 
 hottest part of the fight, when ad- 
 dresses were being made by candi- 
 dates and their supporters in various 
 parts of the city, Mr. Johnson hit back, 
 right and left. As many as ten and 
 filteen speeches he made in a day or 
 night, and much oi the success of the 
 present mayor, in being elected to 
 office is attributed to Mr. Johnson by 
 members of both parties. 
 
 On the occasion of the memorial ex- 
 ercises of the Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order , of Elks, held at St. 
 Joseph, Mo., the principal address was 
 delivered by Mr. Johnson. The ora- 
 tion was reproduced by almost every 
 newspaper in tbat county, several of 
 which referred to it editorially as an 
 effort ranking with the best, a 
 magnificent compliment, indeed, to Mr. 
 Johnson. 
 
 One of the most beautiful tributes 
 paid by one brother to another, I 
 find in the pathetic prose poem, de- 
 livered by Mr. Johnson over his 
 brother's grave in 1888, near Danville. 
 This, I believe, appears in Mr. John- 
 son's own book, a volume containing 
 many of his best addresses, and pub- 
 lished by the Regan Publishing com- 
 pany, of Chicago, 111. 
 
 In August, 1898, Mr. Johnson was 
 wedded to Miss Derelle West, 
 daughter of Captain Pleasant W^est, 
 of Georgetown, 111., one of the most 
 talented, beautiful and accomplished 
 young women of that section of the 
 state. The couple have one child, a 
 son, West, now in his ninth year. Mrs. 
 Johnson is a sister of Hon. Roy O. 
 West, chairman of the State Central 
 Republican Committee of Illinois, and 
 a leading attorney of that section. 
 
 Few men, especially at the age of 
 Charles Porter Johnson, have met with 
 such progress, have achieved such 
 success and attained such a reputa- 
 tion, and I nave taken pleasure in 
 preparing my review of the splendid 
 record he has made. 
 
 GEORGE EDWARD MIX 
 
 Though a comparatively young man, 
 the subject of the author's review, 
 George E. Mix, has made rapid head- 
 way in the practice of law, and today 
 enjoys a practice that is remunerative 
 to a greater degree than that of some 
 who have had more years of actual 
 practical experience. 
 
 George E. Mix, whose law^ offices 
 are situated in the Third National 
 Bank building, is a graduate of Yale, 
 he acquitting himself with highest hon- 
 ors, since which time, as I have al- 
 
 ready stated, he has met with signal 
 success. He was born in Waterville, 
 Oneida County, New York, in 1876, 
 and possessed his legal diploma in 
 1904. During the time Mr. Mix was 
 in college he w^as repeatedly selected 
 for the presidency of the Yale-Kent 
 Debating Club, and held the record 
 for championship Indian club swinging 
 )f that great institution, proving him- 
 oelf winner in three different intercol- 
 legiate meets. He was also chairman 
 of the Executive Committee of the 
 
Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association. 
 In debates, entered into with the best 
 students of Yale, Mr. Mix invariably 
 held his own, and soon established 
 for himself the reputation of being the 
 premier debater of the college. It was 
 no doubt due to his magnicent ability 
 along these lines that he was kept at 
 the head of the debating society. 
 
 After completing his course of stud- 
 ies in law Mr. Mix went to New York 
 City and there opened his first oflice 
 for the pursuance of his chosen pro- 
 fession. That was in July of that 
 year. " Apparently Mr. ]\Iix was not 
 destined to reside in New York for 
 any great period of time, for in Feb- 
 ruary of the following year (1905), he 
 came to St. Louis, as the legal repre- 
 sentative of the Chicago House Wreck- 
 ing Company. This was the large cor- 
 poration that purchased all that was 
 left of the liOuisiana Purchase Expo- 
 sition, St. Louis World's Fair, and 
 while its employes were engaged in 
 tearing down the various buildings and 
 concessions, many were injured, the 
 total running between twenty-five hun- 
 dred and three thousand men. The 
 result of the work of wrecking the 
 fair was many heavy law-suits for 
 these injuries, and it was to look after 
 the interests of the Chicago company 
 that Mr. Mix was detailed to defend 
 his client's interests as each case was 
 called. 
 
 Arriving in St. Louis, Mr. Mix "wad- 
 ed right in," so to speak, and suc- 
 ceeded in settling many of the cases 
 without even being tried, while in 
 numerous others so able did he protect 
 in cross-examination and argument, 
 the company's interests, that only 
 small judgments were obtained, while 
 as many more he won outright. He 
 was engaged in this work until Janu- 
 ary, of 1907, when it was practically 
 all cleaned up. During the two years 
 he had charge of this matter his argu- 
 ments won for him many favorable 
 comments, and so impressed had Mr. 
 Mix become with the city that he de- 
 clined to return to New York City 
 
 and entered the general practice of 
 law in St. Louis, since which time he 
 has continued his profession here. 
 
 According to the official records of 
 the local courts, Mr. Mix has ap- 
 peared as counsel in about fifteen 
 criminal cases, winning twelve of 
 them. His civil practice, however, is 
 very large, and steadily increasing, 
 year after year. 
 
 Mr. Mix, during the past twelve 
 months, nas appeared in a number of 
 the most intricate proceedings that 
 have come before the bar for some 
 time, and his success in behalf of 
 plaintiff or defendant, as the case 
 might have been, is regarded as re- 
 markable. In line of argument, or 
 as termed in legal parlance, when 
 ".Mix gets into action," he gets right 
 up on the jury and after making a 
 point of law, he drives it home, so to 
 speak; aien hesitates to determine, 
 whether in his opinion, he made the 
 impression on the jurymen sought. 
 
 Mr. Mix is a member of Polar Star 
 Lodge, No. 79, A. F. and A. M. He 
 also holds membership in St. Louis 
 Chapter, No. 8, of Royal Arch Masons, 
 as well as of the Yale Club of New 
 York, the American Bar Association 
 and other organiations. 
 
 On February 29,1908, he was wedded 
 to Miss Irene Zent, a most estimable 
 and charming young woman of Belle- 
 ville, 111., and their home at 5830 West- 
 minster place, is one of the neatest in 
 St. Louis. 
 
 To illustrate the great confideilce 
 reposed in the young attorney by the 
 courts, it might be mentioned here, by 
 way of concluding this review, that 
 he was appointed in 1909 by the St. 
 Louis Circuit Court as special com- 
 missioner to take depositions in the 
 widely knowa litigation of Johnson vs. 
 the Unted Railways Company, where- 
 in the plaintiff is endeavoring to hold 
 the defendants liable for obligations 
 of the old St. Louis Transit Company. 
 The litigation involves from $3,000,000 
 to $10,000,000. In taking these depo- 
 sitions nearly all the millionaires of 
 the city appeared before him. 
 
 JAMES ARTHUR ANDERSON. 
 
 James Arthur Anderson was, I be- 
 lieve, the first to adopt, and I am re- 
 liably informed, is the only one at 
 present who insists on carrying out 
 every detail in proper sanitary meas- 
 ures in the conduct of the immense 
 establishment of which he is the offi- 
 cial head. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is a Canadian by 
 
 birth, he having first seen the light 
 of day in Goderich, Canada, forty-two 
 years ago. His father, Thomas Ander- 
 son, was also a Canadian, one of those 
 sturdy, straight-forward type who have 
 won for Canada the great reputation 
 it maintains and for many years, in 
 addition to his farming interests, did 
 a large business in the raising of 
 
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stock.- He passed away about five 
 years ago, and was a very actve man 
 up to his death. 
 
 The mother of J. Arthur Anderson, 
 who, prior to her marriage was Miss 
 MaiT McQuoid, was an English 
 woman. 
 
 The early education of young An- 
 derson was received in the district or 
 common schools of the Dominion, 
 where he diligently applied himself to 
 his studies, preparatory to entering 
 Clinton College, at Clinton, Ontario. 
 From this well known institution of 
 learning Mr. Anderson was graduated, 
 being a member of the large class of 
 1889. 
 
 Shortly after completing his studies 
 and being accorded his diploma, Mr. 
 Anderson decided to locate in St. 
 Louis, and at the age of twenty-three 
 we find him a resident of this city. 
 He called at the office of the Munger 
 laundry and asked for a position and 
 was taken into the service of the com- 
 pany as a wagon driver. 
 
 The young man soon realized the 
 great advantages that were open to 
 one in St. Louis who were capable of 
 taking hold. As a result, in order to 
 thoroughly equip himself in a business 
 way, after each day's hard work driv- 
 ing his wagon, collecting and deliver- 
 ing ■ laundry for his employers, he 
 would attend night school, taking a 
 course of business with Jones Com- 
 mercial College, and graduated. The 
 Munger Laundry Company lost no time 
 in placing him in charge as manager 
 of their business at Kansas City, Mo. 
 For nine or ten years Mr. Anderson 
 continued in that capacity and suc- 
 ceeded in building up the largest laun- 
 dry trade for his company of any other 
 house in that city. He placed his 
 whole energy into the business and 
 went after it in every legitimate man- 
 ner possible. 
 
 While thus engaged Mr. Anderson 
 came to a realization that although 
 under existing conditions in laundries 
 in all parts of the United States and 
 Canada they were doing the best theV 
 could, not a small amount of ingred- 
 ients used by laundries, were injuring 
 linens. Having no knowledge of chem- 
 icals beyond that possessed by ordin- 
 ary laundrymen, he was not in posi- 
 tion to detect the real trouble. 
 
 Forthwith, I find Manager Ander- 
 son taking a full course in pharmacy, 
 for the purpose of giving him an in- 
 
 sight into various chemicals, thereby 
 equipping himself for detecting the 
 chemical compounds used, to the great 
 detriment and injury of different kinds 
 of fabrics. After completing his 
 course of study in the College of Phar- 
 macy, he resigned his position with 
 the JMunger people in Kansas City, 
 and immediately returned to St. Louis, 
 where in company with D. L. Parrish, 
 he succeeded in organizing what was 
 known as the Parrish Laundry Com- 
 pany, of which he was made vice-presi- 
 dent and geiieral manager. About five 
 years ago Mr. Anderson disposed of 
 his interests in the company and or- 
 ganized the J. Arthur Anderson Laun- 
 dry Company, at 3968 to 3970 Olive 
 street. 
 
 He begun business in a comparative- 
 ly small way, but the growth of the 
 business during the past three years 
 has been little short of marvelous, un- 
 til today it is one of the largest in St. 
 Louis, and undoubtedly the most san- 
 itary, while the many young women 
 who find steady employment there are 
 treated in a, far more humane manner 
 than ordinarily found. 
 
 Mr. Anderson's personal magnetism 
 has won for him hundreds of patrons, 
 and he has made a rapid climb to the 
 top rung of the ladder. In the social 
 plane of life Mr. Anderson is just as 
 well known and as popular as in the 
 business world. In 1892 he was mar- 
 ried to Miss Kathryn M. White, the 
 charming and accomplished daughter 
 of Colonel W. P. White, of Kansas 
 City, and whose family is of the old 
 f'Jjputh, her father had served as a 
 ccL'Onel in the Confederate army dur- 
 ing the civil war of half a century 
 ago, and descends from an old Vir- 
 ginia family. One son, Arthur Don- 
 ald Anderson, is the child of this un- 
 ion, and is now nine years of age. 
 
 Mr. Anderson, in addition to his busi- 
 ness and home life, finds time fre- 
 quently for taking part in many im- 
 portant matters that come before dif- 
 ferent important bodies of which he is 
 a member. Among these are the Mer- 
 cantile Club, Masonic Club, Business 
 Men's League, Horticultural Society, 
 Amphion Club, Credit Men's Associa- 
 tion and Advertising Men's League, 
 and others. He is also a member of 
 the Executive Board of the Manufac- 
 turers' Association, and attends the 
 Methodist Church. 
 
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HENRY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 
 
 In the subject of the author's re- 
 view, Henry Alexander HamiRon, St. 
 Louis can point to another young coun- 
 selor who has already attained for 
 himself a reputation that many older 
 members of the legal profession would 
 give worlds to possess. But it has 
 taken ability to achieve these ends and 
 this Mr. Hamilton has. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton is a native of St. 
 Louis, and was born in 1877, his fath- 
 er, Alexander Hamilton, being one of 
 the leading coal merchants of the city 
 for many years, and widely known 
 throughout the entire Southwest. 
 
 Young Hamilton attended the public 
 institutions of St. Louis, and in 1895 
 graduated with high honors from Cen- 
 tral High School. After completing 
 his common day schooling he decided 
 to become a lawyer, and confided his 
 idea to his parents. 
 
 The result was that the young man 
 entered the law department of Wash- 
 ington University, and closely applied 
 himself to his studies. In 1898 he 
 graduated with high class honors, re- 
 ceiving the prize for the best thesis 
 submitted during the senior year. This 
 is an honor all students strive for 
 earnestly. 
 
 Shortly after leaving school he 
 opened his law office and entered upon 
 the active practice of his chosen pro- 
 fession. In the different courts, from 
 the lowest to the highest tribunals, 
 he has appeared, either as counsel 
 for plaintiff or defendant, and with a 
 success that has been marked, ''r^ 
 the preparation of cases he has ex- 
 hibited wonderful conception of the 
 law, and has successfully carried to 
 
 conclusion, litigation in which were 
 involved many of the most intricate 
 problems. 
 
 In argument Mr. Hamilton has a 
 forceful delivery, leaving an impres- 
 sion on both judge and jury. 
 
 In matters political Mr. Hamilton 
 is a staunch Republican and with the 
 exception of serving in the House of 
 Delegates, has never sought public 
 office. 
 
 • He holds active membership in the 
 Odd Fellows and is prominent through- 
 out tlie state in the gatherings of 
 that fraternity. He belongs to the 
 Mercantile and other leading clubs of 
 the city and takes an active and earn- 
 est part in all matters, with a tendency 
 toward advancement of the city's in- 
 terests. 
 
 In St. Louis are to be found many 
 young men engaged in the practice of 
 law, men who apparently have made 
 splendid starts, young men who have 
 enjoyed the highest possible advant- 
 ages, but I do not know of one who 
 has gained greater headway than the 
 subject of my review. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton's clientele is one of 
 the most representative in the city, 
 comprising the better class, almost 
 exclusively. I have found in my in- 
 vestigations that to control such a 
 clientele, the lawyer, whether young 
 or old, must be a man of marked abil- 
 ity. Clients possessed of sufficient 
 funds to warrant employment of the 
 best talent intend to have the best 
 obtainable, hence the rest may be left 
 to the conclusion of my readers. It 
 speaks for itself. 
 
 ADOLPH ROBERT GRUND. 
 
 I do not believe any young coun- 
 selor in St. Louis has met with more 
 marked success than the subject of 
 my review — Adolph Robert Grund. He 
 is a native St. Louisan, having been 
 born in 1882. During his early days 
 young Grund attended Peabody school, 
 also night high school. From the lat- 
 ter institution he graduated, being a 
 member of the class of 1901. 
 
 Even in his boyhood days Mr. Grund 
 dreamed of big achievements he 
 craved would be his. He wanted to 
 become a great lawyer and set his 
 mind upon becoming such, and right 
 here I might say I believe was laid 
 the solid foundation upon which Mr. 
 Grund is today building his unprece- 
 dented success. 
 
 Having made up his mind to take 
 up the legal profession, I find the 
 young manastude ntinl903,matric -q 
 young man a student in 1903, matricu- 
 lating in the Missouri College of Law, 
 by which he was honored with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Law. Mr. Grund 
 did not enjoy the luxurious advantages 
 many of the great and able men of 
 today had in their youthful days. Dur- 
 ing the period between his school 
 course and law studies he was engaged 
 with one of the large printing estab- 
 lishments of the city and put in many 
 long hours of hard work. 
 
 Following the completion of his legal 
 studies young Grund was admitted to 
 the bar, having just attained his ma- 
 jority. That was in 1903. Since that 
 
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time he has closely applied himself, 
 makihg a specialty of civil law almost 
 exclusively, and today is recognized as 
 one of the most able young counselors 
 of the state. 
 
 About a year following his admis- 
 sion to the bar he was made general 
 attorney for the Missouri, Arkansas 
 and Southwestern road, which office 
 he voluntarily resigned in 1905, pre- 
 ferring to give his time and attention 
 to the private practice of his chosen 
 profession. His clientele had grown 
 to such an extent as to demand more 
 attention, hence his action. 
 
 "Grund on the Laws of Private Cor- 
 porations," a work on which Mr. Grund 
 spent several years of the hardest 
 character of work, is recognized as an 
 authority, dealing with practically ev- 
 ery problem involved in corporation 
 litigation, and has won the highest 
 commendation for its author. It com- 
 prises several volumes and comment 
 has been made upon it by some of 
 the most distinguished lawyers in the 
 
 United States. The work is of con- 
 siderable volume in extent and char- 
 acter, and has never been surpassed 
 by even older lawyers of the bar. 
 
 In matters political Mr. Grund is 
 a staunch Republican. 
 
 It was in 11306 that Mr. Grund was 
 united in matrimony with Miss Mar- 
 guerite Forkel, a native of New York, 
 a charming and talented young wom- 
 an, daughter of one of the most prom- 
 inent business men of that section of 
 the country. Mrs. Grund, I might add, 
 in passing, is also a niece of the cele- 
 brated painter-artist, Christopher W. 
 Forkel, author of "The Wagon Black- 
 smith," a handsome painting, the value 
 of which is placed at more than fifty 
 thousand dollars. She is a widely 
 traveled woman, and has attended 
 many notable gatherings in different 
 parts of the world. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Grund are extremely fond of rare 
 paintings, Jaaving many lin their 
 pretty home. 
 
 DR. C. HAMILTON HUGHES. , 
 
 A native St. Louisan, Dr. Charles 
 Hamilton Hughes, is one of the fore- 
 most physicians and surgeons of the 
 Southwest, besides one of the best 
 known medical educators in the coun- 
 try, having held a high position in that 
 training for years. 
 
 Following the conclusion of his scho- 
 lastic studies, young Hughes in 1858, 
 entered Iowa College, at Davenport, 
 and pursued his studies. In 1859 he 
 was awarded his diploma by the St. 
 Louis Medical College. For a while 
 the young physician practiced his pro- 
 fession in Warren County, Mo., but 
 prior to going there he served as act- 
 ing assistant physician in the United 
 States Marine Hospital at St. Louis. 
 During the civil war Dr. Hughes was 
 assigned to the Missouri Volunteer 
 Infantry as assistant surgeon, and then 
 as surgeon. Several hospitals at dif- 
 ferent periods were under his super- 
 vision as chief surgeon, among them 
 being McDowell's prison hospital. 
 Hickory Hospital Post, St. Louis, and 
 others, at all of which he was highly 
 successful. When General Price made 
 his last stand in Missouri, it was this 
 young surgeon and physician who was 
 placed directly in charge of freedmen 
 and refugees. In 1865 Dr. Hughes re- 
 ceived his discharge and immediately 
 thereafter was appointed medical 
 superintendent of the Missouri State 
 Hospital for the Insane at Fulton, in 
 which capacity he served five or six 
 years. 
 
 Since then he has been a lecturer 
 and practitioner of nervous and men- 
 tal diseases in St. Louis, where he 
 has been highly successful, and has 
 gained well-earned fame, not only as 
 an active practitioner, but for many 
 timely and valuable articles contribu- 
 ted by his learned mind to medical 
 journals and other periodicals, as well 
 as his unprecedented success as an 
 educator. 
 
 ''\He is today a member of the fac- 
 ulty of medical institutions, the thor- 
 oughness and reputations of which ex- 
 tend to the farthermost corners of 
 the universe, was dean of the faculty 
 and professor of diseases of the nerves 
 and dietrotherapy at the Medical Col- 
 lege of Barnes University. He found- 
 ed, in 1880, a publication "devoted to 
 nervous and kindred diseases, under 
 the title of "Alienist and Neurologist." 
 In 1893 Dr. Hughes delivered an ad- 
 dress before the first Pan-American 
 Medical Congress, urging the estab- 
 lishment of a national medicinal bu- 
 reau, with a physician in charge, 
 clothed with rank of a cabinet officer. 
 At the time Dr. Hughes was presi- 
 dent of the American Medical Editors' 
 Association and his address attracted 
 widespread attention and comment, 
 not alone in the LTnited States of 
 America, but throughout the wiiole 
 civilized world. 
 
 No member of the medical fraternity 
 stands higher than the subject of the 
 author's sketch, he having held the 
 
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presidency of the Mississippi Valley 
 Medical Association in 1891, and 
 served for a long period as member 
 of the Judicial Council of the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, one of the 
 greatst organizations of its kind in 
 the world. In 1898 Dr. Hughes was 
 chairman of the section on nervous and 
 mental diseases of that body, and at its 
 convention in San Francisco, delivered 
 an address on "Medicine." 
 
 He is a member of many of the fore- 
 most medical societies of the United 
 States, among wiiich are the Ameri- 
 can Psychological Associaion and the 
 American Neurological Society, while 
 he has also served with gi-eat distinc- 
 tion as president of the neurological 
 section of the Pan-American Congress, 
 as well as secretary. Of thefietaoinlu 
 as well as secretary of the Medico- 
 Legal Congress. Dr. Hughes has 
 served as vice-president and held a 
 similar position of two sections of the 
 International IMedical Congress which 
 was held in 1893. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing Dr. 
 Hughes holds actiye membership in 
 the St. Louis Medical Society, the 
 Missouri State Medical Society, New 
 York Medico-Legal Society, honorary 
 membership in the British Medico-Psy- 
 chological Society, Chicago Academy 
 of Medicine, and is a foreign member 
 of the Russian Society of Neurology 
 and Psychiarty. 
 
 In addition to the large number of 
 medical and professional organizations 
 of which Dr. Hughes is a member, 
 he also holds membership in organiza- 
 tions of a different character. Amo'^/'^ 
 these are the Loyal Legion and tne 
 Missouri Society of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution. Of the last 
 named association, he is a member of 
 the Board of Trustees. He is also a 
 Scottish Rite Mason. 
 
 Forty-nine years ago he was joined 
 in wedlock'to Miss Mattie D. Lawther, 
 a native of Fulton, Mo., and a most 
 charming woman. Six children result- 
 ed from the union, of which one, ]\Iiss 
 Bessie Hughes, passed away while in 
 the flower of beautiful young woman- 
 hood. The others are Ray M., Charles 
 C, Henry L., Clarence H. and Frank 
 S. Hughes. 
 
 Throughout the width and breadth 
 of the civilized world are to be found 
 thousands of medical practitioners, but 
 I dare say no one is to be found whose 
 record shines brighter than that of 
 Dr. Charles Hamilton Hughes. His 
 professional skill has easily gained for 
 him rank with the most learned men 
 in the country, eminent for years, in 
 the daily practice of his profession. 
 
 A native of Ireland by birth, a Mis- 
 
 sourian by choice, no man has* ever 
 emigrated to the United States and 
 made greater headway in the commer- 
 cial world than the subject of the 
 author's review, William J. Kinsella, 
 Sr., head of the Hanley and Kinsella 
 Coffee and Spice Company of this city. 
 Mr. Kinsella was born in 1846 in 
 Ireland, his father being one of the 
 most prominent architects in the 
 country at that time. Young Kin- 
 sella was afforded every educational 
 advantage and was carefully trained. 
 His first employment w^as with the 
 largest wholesale house in Dublin. 
 The young man had been told, and 
 had read so much of America and 
 the great fortunes being made in the 
 States by young men that he was 
 restless to get there, so when nine- 
 teen years of age he packed his be- 
 longings, and bidding family and 
 friends farewell, boarded a ship for 
 this country, arriving in New York 
 City. 
 
 The great civil war between the 
 States of the Union w'as just about 
 coming to a close at that time and 
 chances of securing employment 
 such as he most desired, were not 
 many. However he made a try and 
 called on the management of a large 
 retail house in New York City, and 
 sought employment. He was told 
 that no such position was open at 
 the time and that the only thing the 
 house had to offer him was as wrap- 
 per of bundles. Young Kinsella had 
 ample grit about him and accepted 
 the position. Afterwards he went 
 with a large Baltimore firm, with 
 which he continued until about 1870, 
 when he decided to remove to Cleve- 
 land, and it was in that city that he 
 first entered business on his own re- 
 sponsibility as a retail grocer, in com- 
 pany with a brother. 
 
 This business, I understand, was not 
 as much of a success as young Kin- 
 sella thought it ought to have been, 
 hence he disposed of his interests, 
 afterwai-ds coming to St. Louis where 
 he immediately secured employment 
 with Porter, Worthington and Com- 
 pany. He later became manager of 
 the Kingford-Oswego Starch Com- 
 pany. 
 
 So marked was his success with the 
 starch company and so greatly was 
 the company's business increased his 
 managerial ability soon attracted the 
 attention of other large concerns, and 
 after leaving the starch company I 
 next find him in charge as manager of 
 the Thompson-Taylor Spice Company, 
 of Chicago, 111. With this last named 
 firm he remained as manager for 
 about two or three years, and then 
 
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bought the business, establishing the 
 firm of W. J. Kinsella and Company. 
 Later on the business was incorpo- 
 rated as the Hanley and Kinsella 
 Coffee and Spice Company, and today 
 it is the largest establishment of its 
 kind in the entire southwest. 
 
 He is a director in the Mercantile 
 Tru^t Company, Mercantile National 
 Bank, United Railways Company of 
 St. Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion, Jefferson Hotel Company, Jef- 
 ferson Hotel Realty Company, Boy 
 Scouts of America, Father Dunn's 
 Newsboy's Home, Hospital Saturday 
 and Sunday Association; vice-presi- 
 dent Calvary Cemetery Association; 
 
 member of Business Men's League, 
 City Club, Civic League, Manufactur- 
 er's Association, Latin American Club, 
 Noonday Club, Mercantile Club and 
 the St. Louis Club. 
 
 Mr. Kinsella is a man of much civic 
 pride. Such acts are entirely charac- 
 teristic of him. 
 
 It was in 1880 that Mr. Kinsella was 
 wedded to Miss Nellie Hanley, of New 
 York. The couple have three chil- 
 dren, two sons and one daughter. 
 The above is but a brief resume, I 
 might say, of the life record of Wil- 
 liam J. Kinsella, Sr. St. Louis needs 
 more men of his type for it is such 
 who make large cities. 
 
 EDWARD DEVOY. 
 
 If there is a man in the city of St. 
 Louis entitled to credit as a genuine 
 booster that man is Edward Devoy. 
 
 Edward Devoy was born in 1846 in 
 a house located on ground now occu- 
 pied by St. Patrick's parochial school, 
 which insitutiion he attended as a boy, 
 afterwards entering Benton school. 
 Mr. Devoy is one of the self-made men 
 of the city. 
 
 It was in 1860 that the young man 
 took up the trade of a printer and re- 
 mained with a job printing house for 
 about two years. He then associated 
 himself with the tobacco trade and 
 was thus engaged when he secured a 
 position in the St. Louis postoffice as 
 clerk. 
 
 In 1873 he entered the coal trade 
 arid in 1886 formed partnership rela- 
 tions with E. R. Fenerborn. This ar- 
 rangement continued until 1910, when 
 the Devoy & Kuhn Coal and Coke 
 Company was launched, and of which 
 Mr. Devoy is president. 
 
 Mr. Devoy throughout has proven 
 one of the most active residents of the 
 "fourth city." In 1911 his work in 
 connection with the voting of the bond 
 issue for funds to complete the city's 
 
 free bridge across the Mississippi 
 River aroused much attention. He is 
 a quiet, unassuming man and has al- 
 ways worked with the object in view 
 for municipal improvement and not for 
 personal gain or fame. 
 
 From 1884 until 1888 he was a mem- 
 ber of the St. Louis City Council, and 
 as such demonstrated his capacity for 
 the office, insisting on many badly 
 needed improvements. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Merchants' Exchange, Busi- 
 ness Men's League and other large and 
 highly influential bodies of St. Louis. 
 Of the Merchants' Exchange he has 
 served officially. 
 
 For many years he served as a 
 memher of the Board of Charity Com- 
 missioners. He holds membership in 
 the Legion of Honor, Knights of Co- 
 ■j^'Ci-uiUbus, St. Vincent de Paul's Society, 
 '^anrl others. He is a devout communi- 
 cant of the Catholic Church and has 
 give-'i_ with a lavish hand to its sup- 
 port. 
 
 Mr. Bevoy in 1867 was united in 
 marriage to Miss Maria Fallon, the 
 beautiful ceremony taking place in 
 St. Patrick's Church. The couple 
 have had eight children. 
 
 CHARLES PARSONS SENTER. 
 
 One of the well known business men 
 of St. Louis, who has achieved success 
 through just dealings, is Charles Par- 
 sons Seuter, president and treasurer 
 of the Seuter Commission Company. 
 
 He was born February 14th, 1870, at 
 the home of his grandmother in Tren- 
 ton, Tenn. His parents were resi- 
 dents of St. Louis, his father, William 
 M. Senter, being a prominent cotton 
 factor and the original vice-president 
 of the St. Louis Cotton Exchange, the 
 next year becoming its chief executive 
 
 official, serving a number of terms 
 thereafter. In addition to this he was 
 largely interested in establishing the 
 St. Louis Cotton Compress Company, 
 and the building of the St. Louis, Iron 
 Mountain & Southern Railway and St. 
 Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton 
 Belt), which had so much to do with 
 making St. Louis the great commercial 
 center of the Southwest, where he was 
 regarded as a captain of industry. The 
 Senter Commission Company is the 
 direct outgrowth of the interests estab- 
 
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lished by him and his brother-in-law, 
 William T. Wilkins, in 1864, as Senter 
 & Company. 
 
 Charles Parsons Senter was named 
 for Charles Parsons, one of St. Louis' 
 most honored and distinguished bank- 
 ers. In his early days he attended the 
 Stoddard School, one of St. Louis' pub- 
 lic schools, afterwards entering Smith 
 Academy, a department of Washington 
 University, graduating in 1S88, then 
 attending the University of Virginia. 
 After completing his studies Mr. Sen- 
 ter was connected with one of St. 
 Louis' banks, then was in the real es- 
 tate business, then connecting himself 
 with his father's business In 1893, in 
 which he continued until his faher's 
 demise in 1901, when the business was 
 incorporated as the Senter Commission 
 Company to take over these great in- 
 terests, the subject of this sketch being 
 its treasurer, and succeeded to the pres- 
 idency upon the death of his brother, 
 John Asa Senter, in the following year 
 (1903), which he at present retains. 
 Under his executive administration' of 
 affairs the business of the house has 
 continued steadily until today I doubt 
 if there is another company in the 
 entire State that does a larger commis- 
 sion business, in which, the very foun- 
 dation stone must of necessity be hon- 
 esty and efficiency. 
 
 In addition to this business Mr. Sen- 
 ter controls other large interests in 
 Missouri and elsewhere, being stock- 
 holder and director as well as officer 
 in a number of the financial institu- 
 tions in the country. In 1908 and 
 1909 he was president of the St. Louis 
 Cotton Exchange, is a member of theV 
 St. Louis Business Men's League and a/' 
 strong advocate of the principles of 
 Democrary, being a constituent mem- 
 ber of the Jefferson Club, which was 
 organized in 1889, and served several 
 years as its secretary and is now treas- 
 
 urer of the Democratic State Execu- 
 tive Committee. Notwithstanding his 
 close affiliation with the party of his 
 distinguished father before him, Mr. 
 Senter has never sought public recog- 
 nition. He prefers to do what he can 
 and looks for no reward except the 
 good he can do. 
 
 lie is an ex-president of the Tennes- 
 see Society of St. Louis, a member of 
 the St. Louis Club, Glen Echo Country 
 Club and Missouri Athletic Club. He 
 also served as grand marshal of the 
 Olympic games held in connection with 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 
 1904, was chairman of the Inter- 
 Scholastic and Marathon Committee of 
 those games. 
 
 Whilst the subject of the author's 
 review does not pose as a public man, 
 and has no wish to be so construed, he 
 has worked unceasingly for the mate- 
 rial advancement of St. Louis and has 
 always been among those at the head 
 of great movements that mean the 
 promotion of interests of his home city. 
 Every undertaking in which he has 
 become interested has enjoyed marked 
 progress, and he stands in the highest 
 esteem of all who are acquainted with 
 him. I sincerely wish there were more 
 fueh men as Charles Parsons Senter in 
 the Southwest. Were such the case 
 much greater progress would have 
 been easily recorded years ago. Mr. 
 Senter's father was one of the leaders 
 in the Baptist Church of the city and 
 State, and was superintendent of the 
 Sunday School of the Third Baptist 
 Church of St. Louis for about seven- 
 teen years. He v;as also one of its 
 deacons and trustees, and for several 
 years served as president of its City 
 Mission Board. The son, Charles P. 
 Senter, is one of the trustees of the 
 same church, and in addition is presi- 
 dent of both the City and the State 
 Mission Boards. 
 
 DR. W. H. MAYFIELD. 
 
 An instance of where perseverance 
 and self-application count is found in 
 the magnificent record that has been 
 made by the subject of my review, Dr. 
 William Henderson Mayfield, in charge 
 of one of the largest and most modern 
 sanitariums in St. Louis and a man 
 who has met with the most signal 
 success. 
 
 Dr. Mayfield is a native Missourian 
 and was born at Patton, in 1852. His 
 early educational training was had in 
 Carleton Institute and Fruitland Nor- 
 mal Institute, and at tne early age of 
 eighteen began to teach. Later, under 
 the preceptorship of Dr. J. H. Smith, 
 
 at Sedgewickville, Mo., he began the 
 study of medicine. That was in 1874, 
 after which he matriculated in St. 
 Louis Medical College, from which he 
 graduated in 1883. From the begin- 
 ning young Mayfield decided to make 
 a specialty of surgery, and to this no 
 doubt is attributed his great success 
 as an operator. 
 
 After a short period of practice in 
 Mayfield, Mo., he came to St. Louis 
 and located, where he was tendered 
 and accepted the chair of Materia 
 Medica, Therapeutics and Children's 
 Diseases in the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons. In 1894 he founded the 
 
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Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, the first 
 denominational institution of its li;ind 
 in tlie world. Under his administra- 
 tion it progressed, and surrounded by 
 able assistants he accomplished a mar- 
 velous work indeed. He severed his 
 connection with it in 1896, his private 
 practice becoming such as to con- 
 stantly demand his time and attention. 
 An idea of what I mean may be had 
 when it is known that during the 
 years of practice of Dr. Mayfield he 
 has officiated in about 10,000 opera- 
 tions. 
 
 For years he has made a specialty 
 of abdominal and gynecological sur- 
 gery, performing many of the most 
 difficult operations. It was in 1874 
 that the distinguished surgeon was 
 wedded to Miss Ellen C. Sitzes, and 
 hand in hand they have progressed 
 through life, relieving worlds of suffer- 
 ing and untold misery and establish- 
 ing havens of refuge, the very charac- 
 ter of which has stamped both as 
 Christian people. The great Mayfield 
 Sanitarium w'as erected under the per- 
 sonal supervision of the devoted wife, 
 even to looking after the financial end 
 of it, and her heart and soul are 
 wrapped up in its success. Their 
 three children are all dead, the last 
 one, named after his distinguished 
 father, passing away at the age of 
 twenty-one, when just budding into 
 young manhood, a victim of the 
 dreaded white reaper, tuberculosis. His 
 death proved a hard blow to the par- 
 ents and it was many months before 
 they recovered to such an extent as to 
 
 continue in the even tenor of their 
 way. 
 
 William H. Mayfield, Jr., was a typi- 
 cal young Missourian, a boy of broad 
 intellectual views, a devoted and obe- 
 dient son. He contracted the awful 
 disease while at college, and as soon 
 as it made itself manifest his father, 
 Dr. Mayfield, worked as man never 
 worked before. It was the life of his 
 son at stake, and the loving parent and 
 country-famed surgeon resorted to 
 everything known to medical science, 
 but without avail. God claimed his 
 own in due course of time. 
 
 Following the demise of this young 
 man Dr. and Mrs. Mayfield, both of 
 large means, decided to expend their 
 all in an effort to discover some chan- 
 nel through which consumption could 
 be cured, or at least arrested. The 
 Will Mayfield College, Marble Hill, Mo., 
 and the Mayfield Sanitarium stand to- 
 day as great monuments to that lost 
 son. In foreign fields the money of the 
 :\Iayfields has erected hospitals and the 
 great endowment fund is working here 
 and there and everywhere, and nothing 
 is being left undone. 
 
 Members of the Baptist faith, the 
 father and mother have thousands 
 directly interested in their brave and 
 heroic fight for freedom from the great 
 white plague. The Mayfield Sanitarium 
 is one of the most thoroughly and mod- 
 ernly equipped in the Southwest, and 
 is but an indication of what may be 
 expected from two such people as Dr. 
 W. H. Mayfield and his noble com- 
 panion through life — his wife. 
 
 FREDERICK ARTRCJ.R MAYHALL. 
 
 A native Missourian, having been 
 born in St. Louis, Frederick Arthur 
 Mayhall. in the practice of law and as 
 a minister of God's Gospel, has ad- 
 vanced with marked rapidity, until 
 today he stands in the front rank. Mr. 
 Mayhall comes of a family of four 
 children, all of whom have gone to 
 their reward with his lone exception. 
 His mother died when he was a mere 
 babe and he was reared by his grand- 
 mother, Louisa B. Mayhall. In the 
 common schools of New London young 
 Mayhall began his education. He then 
 went to Canton, Mo., where he entered 
 the Christian University and prepared 
 for the ministry. After completing his 
 ministerial studies Mr. Mayhall took 
 charge of churches in Louisiana, Van- 
 dalia and St. Louis. 
 
 Before entering the ministry the sub- 
 ject of my review did considerable 
 newspaper work. At this time he had 
 
 assumed charge of a church at Louisi- 
 ana, Mo., and on deciding to study 
 law resigned his pastorate and en- 
 tered the law school of Washington 
 University. This in 1903. In 1905 
 he was admitted to the bar as a prac- 
 ticing attorney. 
 
 Notwithstanding Mr. Mayhall re- 
 signed his church pastorate to take up 
 law, that fact did not in the least 
 deter him from the great interest he 
 had in religious matters and he has 
 devoted much time to such, and w'hile 
 studying law he preached in a church 
 at Maplewood. a suburb of St. Louis. 
 Since graduation in law he has filled 
 various pulpits and so forceful, so 
 pleasing is his oratory that he has 
 at all times drawn large congrega- 
 tions to his services. 
 
 If Mr. Mayhall, in taking up the 
 general practice of the legal profes- 
 sion, has severed his relations in a 
 
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practical capacity with the church I 
 would not hesitate to say that God's 
 work had lost one of its most devoted 
 advocates, but now that he stiU main- 
 tains that same work I can but add 
 that both professions have fared well 
 indeed. 
 
 Mr. I\Iayhall was wedded about nine- 
 teen years ago to Miss Frances R. 
 Briscoe, of New London, Mo. One 
 child, a boy, born in 1897, is the result 
 of the union. 
 
 The father of F. A. Mayhall was a 
 native of the old blue grass State 
 (Kentucky). In politics he M-as con- 
 sidered a prominent man and highly 
 influential in the ranks of the Republi- 
 can party. Not only did he serve with 
 distinction as high sheriff of Ralls 
 County, Mo., but edited newspapers at 
 various times and with much success, 
 and v/as a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic. 
 
 Mr. Mayhall's idea of a large 
 central or uptown church is such as to 
 merit the warm approval of all classes. 
 He contends that if some large build- 
 
 ing in the uptown section of St. Louis 
 was secured (one of the theaters 
 would answer the purpose nicely) and 
 the best speakers of the country se- 
 cured, it would be found that the 
 house each Sunday would be literally 
 packed. Hundreds of people passing 
 through this city on Sundays visit 
 moving picture amusement, due to 
 their inability to attend a church on 
 account of. its being at least half an 
 hour's ride from the leading hostelries. 
 The pastors of St. Louis are complain- 
 ing of this, still it is the church that 
 has run away from this class of com- 
 municants and not the latter from the 
 church. In Chicago the plan Is car- 
 ried out ideally in every respect. Great 
 preachers, world-famed orators and 
 men of international reputation oc- 
 cupy the rostrum and hundreds of 
 people are turned away at each service, 
 which is absolutely interdenomina- 
 tional. The Coliseum building is too 
 far out to answer the purpose, but one 
 of the uptown theaters could be had 
 for a nominal sum, or if necessary, a 
 structure could be erected. 
 
 PAUL BAKEWELL, JR. 
 
 Another younger member of the S't. 
 Louis legal fraternity who has made 
 remarkable headway since his admis- 
 sion to the bar is Paul Bakewell, Jr., 
 son of one of the most noted patent 
 lawyers in the United States, whose 
 practice in the courts of many com- 
 monwealths of the Union has won foe 
 him a magnificent reputation, r t 
 
 Paul Bakewell, .Tr., is a nativfe Mis- 
 sourian. He was born in St. Louis in 
 1889. During his early days the young 
 man attended St. Louis University, 
 where he diligently applied himself, 
 and in 1908 was graduated therefrom. 
 
 He afterwards attended Washington 
 University. Mr. Bakewell read law 
 under his distinguished father for a 
 long time, and in this manner pos- 
 sessed a great advantage over many 
 other young men, who were compelled 
 to depend upon theoretical study. In 
 his father's office he took a keen inter- 
 est in all legal matters, and when 
 finally admitted to the bar as a 
 practicing attorney was regarded as 
 one of the best equipped young men 
 to undergo the rigid examination that 
 is invariably required. Mr. Bakewell's 
 percentages were all that could be re- 
 quired and he passed without the 
 slightest difficulty. 
 
 While Paul Bakewell, Sr., specializes 
 in patent, trademark and copyright 
 
 law the subject of my review — the son 
 — is a general practitioner. Since en- 
 tering upon the active practice of his 
 profession Mr. Bakewell has met with 
 signal success. He is associated with 
 his father in practice, another great 
 advantage that means a good deal. 
 
 Politically Mr. Bakewell affiliates 
 with the Democratic party, and whilst 
 he has never sought public recognition 
 as to office he has always exerted his 
 efforts in behalf of the party's inter- 
 ests. The family are communicants of 
 the Roman Catholic Church and have 
 ahvays contributed liberally towards 
 its support. 
 
 In June, 1909, Mr. Bakewell was 
 joined in marriage with Miss Mary 
 Fullerton, one of the wealthiest young 
 women of the Southwest, she owning 
 a large amount of the most valuable 
 property in the city and State. The 
 couple have two children, both boys, 
 Joseph Scott and Paul Bakewell III. 
 
 Mr. Bakewell holds active member- 
 ship in several of the leading organi- 
 zations in the city, among which are 
 the Noonday, Normandie Golf, City, 
 and Racquet Clubs. In the profession 
 he is generally regarded as having an 
 unusually bright future before him 
 and is highly esteemed by all with 
 whom he has become acquainted, so- 
 cially or professionally. 
 
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ADOLPHUS BUSCH. 
 
 A native German, a United States 
 resident by claoice, no man in ttie 
 Southwest enjoys a higher standing 
 than Adolphus Busch, head of one of 
 the largest brewing enterprises in the 
 world. 
 
 Reaching tliis city from Mainz, Ger- 
 many, in 1857, tlie young man clerked 
 on river steamers, after which he en- 
 tered the malting business two years 
 later. In 1861 Mr. Busch wedded the 
 daughter of the late Eberhard An- 
 heuser, proprietor at that time of what 
 was known as the "Bavarian Brew- 
 ery." This plant, which had an annual 
 capacity of about 8,000 barrels, was 
 bought by Mr. Busch in 1865 and in- 
 creased, until in 1873 it had an annual 
 output of nearly 20,000 barrels. About 
 this time Mr. Busch discovered a 
 method of bottling beer by which it 
 could be kept in all climes, the result 
 of which has made him an immense 
 fortune. 
 
 The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso- 
 ciation was incorporated in ISSO. The 
 annual output of this tremendous plant 
 at present is more than 2,000,000 of 
 barrels. The business today is freely 
 conceded to exceed that of any other 
 plant of its character in the country. 
 
 In addition to his large interests in 
 St. Louis Mr. Busch is personally 
 interested in several other large brew- 
 ing plants, besides serving officially in 
 large financial institutions. 
 
 He is largely interested in bonds 
 and stocks of many corporations and 
 director in many institutions. August 
 A. Busch, a son, is associated with 
 his distinguished father in the con- 
 duct of this vast business enterprise 
 and closely following in his footsteps. 
 Mr. Busch maintains a magnificent 
 winter home in California, to which he 
 travels annually in his palatial private 
 car "Adolphus." A special structure 
 was erected some years ago adjoining 
 the brewing plant for the exclusive 
 housing of this modern palace on 
 wheels. 
 
 Mr. Busch is a very philanthropic 
 man. He believes in doing all he can 
 for charity and during the awful earth- 
 quake and fire in San Francisco was 
 among the first to render aid, sending 
 his check for $100,000. To Washington 
 University he gave $100,000, while to 
 others he has donated $50,000, and still 
 to others many other donations en- 
 tirely too numerous to mention. 
 
 Dr. W. G. MOORE. 
 
 A Kentuckian by birth, Missourian 
 by choice, no man in the Southwest^> 
 has advanced more rapidly in the pro- \ 
 fession of medicine than Dr. William - 
 Grant Moore. Dr. Moore was born in 
 Fayette County, Ky., in 1853. He at- 
 State and afterwards the Kentucky 
 University. After finishing his prep- 
 aratory education. The young man 
 next entered Washington and Lee Uni- 
 versity, one of the greatest colleges of 
 Virginia. 
 
 Having decided to make the practice 
 of medicine his life-work, the young 
 man entered the medical department of 
 the University of Louisville, remaining 
 one season. He then went to Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., where he continued medi- 
 cal studies in Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege and graduated in 1876. During 
 the, latter part of the same year Dr. 
 Moore came to St. Louis and began to 
 lay the foundation for the great career 
 that has marked his progress since 
 that time. The young practitioner was 
 well qualified and readily overcame 
 obstacles experienced by all young 
 men starting out in life and soon con- 
 vinced older members of the profes- 
 
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 sion, as well as the public, of his 
 •iuj^iirior knowledge of medicine. 
 
 Dr. Moore had been in practice but a 
 few years v/hen called to the chair of 
 Histology, Therapeutics and Materia 
 Meclica in the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons. In 1887 he assisted in 
 establishing Beaumont Medical College 
 and was appointed to the professor- 
 ship of Clinical Medicine. The year 
 following he was selected for the pro- 
 fessorship of the Principles and Prac- 
 tice of Medicine. Dr. Moore bears the 
 reputation of being a most successful 
 instructor and demonstrator and pos- 
 sesses the ability of imparting to 
 others his ov/n great knowledge. 
 
 Dr. Moore controls a large private 
 practice. He holds membership in a 
 number of the leading medical organi- 
 zations of the country and has several 
 times been honored with offices in 
 them. Among these are the St. Louis 
 Medical Society, Missouri State Medi- 
 cal Society, St. Louis Obstetrical and 
 Gynecological Society, American Medi- 
 cal Association, Medico-Chirurgical So- 
 ciety, and others. 
 
 Dr. Moore has served as medical 
 
referee for the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company, of New York, National Life 
 Insurance Company, of Vermont, Le- 
 gion of Honor, and others. 
 
 In 1879 he was united in marriage 
 with Miss Etolia North, daughter of 
 one of the oldest merchants of the 
 Southwest, who for years was actively 
 engaged in business in St. Louis. The 
 
 couple have three children, two daugh- 
 ters and one son. 
 
 Dr. Mcore has served as president 
 of the St. Louis Medical Society, Mis- 
 souri State Medical Society, and the 
 St. Louis Obstetrical and Gynecological 
 Society, as well as vice-president of 
 the great American Medical Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 HARRY BARTOW HAWES. 
 
 Distinguished lawyer of ^Missouri 
 and a recognized leader of Democracy 
 aptly describes the subject of my re- 
 view — Harry Bartow Hawes. Mr. 
 Hawes is a native of the blue grass 
 commonwealth — Kentucky, where ia 
 1869 he was born in Covington, the son 
 of S. N. and Susan E. Hawes. 
 
 During early life young Hawes at- 
 tended the schools of his home com- 
 munity and made rapid headway. Dur- 
 ing his classical studies he.begun prep- 
 arations for the legal profession and 
 after attending the St.' Louis Law 
 school graduated in 1896. This in- 
 stitution has the record of turning out 
 many graduates, who in after years 
 have become the greatest lawyers in 
 the country, and Mr. Hawes has well 
 maintained that distinction. 
 
 Shortly after Mr. Hawes' admittance 
 to the bar he took up regular practice 
 in this city, since which time his rise 
 has been rapid, and his work marked 
 with success. 
 
 Mr. Hawes, either as counsel for 
 plaintiff or defense, has appeared in 
 considerable litigation, much of whi'Cfi 
 involved many of the most intricate 
 and difficult problems of law. In argu- 
 ment before court and jury Mr. Hawes 
 is forceful in delivery, carefully build- 
 ing un his case as he proceeds and 
 unfolding it in such vivid reality as to 
 leave the desired impression. 
 
 Mr. Hawes is a member of the well- 
 known le'gal firm of Johnson, Houts, 
 Marlott and Hawes, the practice of 
 
 which is not confined to this state 
 alone, but includes practically all 
 states of the Union. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Hawes, a staunch 
 Democrat, believes strongly in the 
 principles of that great party and was 
 once its nominee for the governor- 
 ship. No man in Missouri has worked 
 harder for Democracy than he, and in 
 all great Democratic gatherings he 
 may be counted upon, his counsel and 
 advice being almost constantly sought, 
 while throughout the Southwest he is 
 recognized as a Democratic leader. 
 
 During the administrations of Gov- 
 ernor Lon V. Stephens and Governor 
 Alexander M. Dockery, Mr. Haw'es was 
 president of the St. Louis Police 
 Board, and the magnificent work he 
 accomplished while serving in that 
 capacity is well remembered. Mr. 
 Hawes was married, in 1899, to Miss 
 E. E. O. Robinson, and the couple 
 have two children, Peyton and Eppes. 
 Mr. Hawes during the hot months of 
 the year usually spends the season on 
 his pretty little farm near Kirkwood, 
 Mo., where he enjoys much needed 
 rest and relaxation from the business 
 cares of the world. 
 
 He holds active membership in a 
 number of the leading clubs and or- 
 ganizations of the city, county and 
 state, am'ong which are the bar asso- 
 ciations, the Athletic, St. Louis, Jef- 
 ferson and other clubs. He and his 
 family are communicants of the Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
 CHARLES H. HUTTIG. 
 
 There is not a better known man 
 in Missouri than Charles H. Huttig, 
 president of the Third National Bank, 
 of St. Louis. After graduating from 
 the high school in his native Iowa, he 
 entered the service of a large firm in 
 IMuscatine, that state, in capacity of 
 accountant, being but sixteen years of 
 age, .and when nineteen was a stock- 
 holder in the firm of Huttig Brothers' 
 ^lanufacturing Company, as well as as- 
 sistant manager. 
 
 He came to St. Louis in 1885, after 
 which he organized the Huttig Sash 
 and Door Company, with paid-in capi- 
 tal of forty thous'and dollars, and be- 
 came its executive officer. In a short 
 tiri:e the capital was increased to 
 $100,000. 
 
 In 1897 was elected to presidency of 
 Third National Bank, the deposits 
 jumping from about $4,000,000 at time 
 he assumed charge up to more than 
 $35,000,000 at present. Was member 
 
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of St. Louis School Board from 1891 
 to 1896. Recognized gold wing of 
 Democratic party in 1896, the tremen- 
 dous vote accorded, clearly proving 
 his magnificent judgment. 
 
 Throughout his residence in this city 
 Mr. Huttig has closely associated him- 
 self with any and everything that had 
 the slightest tendency along purely 
 
 legitimate lines for the material ad- 
 vancement of St. Louis. 
 
 He holds active membership in not 
 a few of the leading business, bank- 
 ing, professional and social organiza- 
 tions of the city, and is generally re- 
 garded as one of the ablest and most 
 conservative financiers in the United 
 States. .'1 
 
 HARRY JAMES BOSWELL. 
 
 Harry James Boswell, author of this 
 interesting little volmue, is a typical 
 Southerner. He was born In Memphis, 
 Tenn., October 19, 1S74, and during 
 his early days attended the public 
 schools of his native city, after which 
 he finished his education in two well 
 known colleges In Memphis. 
 
 Coming from a literary family it was 
 natural his tendency should be in the 
 same direction. At the age of fifteen 
 his father, Capt. James R. Boswell, 
 purchased him a small printing outfit 
 and the younger Boswell began publi- 
 cation of a small weekly paper de- 
 voted to the interests of traveling men, 
 his father having followed that voca- 
 tion for many years. This periodical 
 suspended after several months. 
 
 Mr. Boswell then entered the book 
 field and sold the biography of the late 
 Jefferson Davis, the great Confederate 
 Chieftain. Following this he worked 
 on several country newspapers and in 
 1896 associated himself with the old 
 Memphis Daily Herald. He remained 
 in that capacity for several months. 
 In May, 1898, Mr. Boswell and Mis?; 
 Marion Thomas Stephens were weddbd, 
 the result of a telephone romance. 
 There have been six children, the re- 
 sult of this union, four of whom are 
 living: Marion Raymond, aged 11; 
 Harry J., Jr., aged 9; Adelaide Flor- 
 ence, aged 6, and Margaret Eleanora, 
 aged 4. 
 
 Mr. Boswell in 1897, in company 
 with Joseph K. Almon, established 
 the Memphis Beacon, which was pub- 
 lished for several months before he 
 severed his connection with it, due to 
 failing health, being confined to his 
 home for several months. After recov- 
 ering Mr. Boswell established the Mem- 
 phis Times, a political newspaper is- 
 sued Sunday morning, and success- 
 fully edited it for about ten years. 
 
 In 1910 the oldest daughter of Mr. 
 Boswell began to decline in health. 
 The family physician, Dr. Frank S. 
 Raymond (since dead), advised change 
 of climate. Accordingly Mr, Boswell 
 and his family immediately left for 
 Minneapolis. There he became a mem- 
 ber of the reportorial department of 
 the Minneapolis Tribune. He remained 
 in that position for some time, after 
 which he went with the Daily News, of 
 the same city. 
 
 Finally he established the Minne- 
 apolis Criterion, a weekly publication, 
 ^>>nt due to lack of proper support, was 
 ( compelled to give it up. Shortly after- 
 \wards he went to St. Louis and be- 
 cSb'r a member of the editorial staff 
 of the Globe-Democrat, with which he 
 remained for nearly a year, resigning 
 his position in order to complete the 
 work on this volume. He is still a 
 resident of St. Louis, and engaged in 
 literary work. 
 
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St. Louisans with Records 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Jf« Page 
 
 Joseph Wingate Folk 3 
 
 Judge Henry Samuel Priest 4 
 
 James Parrish Dawson 5 
 
 Dr. Washington E. Fischel 6 
 
 John Hogan Boogher 6 
 
 Anna Sueed Cairns 7 
 
 Joseph P. Graham 9 
 
 Judge Chester H. Krum 10 
 
 Millard F. Watts 11 
 
 Henry W. Peters 11 
 
 Judge Albert Dexter Nortoni 13 
 
 Frank Layng Talbot 14 
 
 William Francis Carter 15 
 
 Dr. Armant H. Ohmann-Dumesnil. .16 
 
 Dr. Jules Baron 16 
 
 J. Carter Carstens 17 
 
 Paul Bakewell 18 
 
 Dr. Horatio N. Spencer ..19 
 
 Dr. Harvey Gilmer Mudd 20 
 
 Dr. Isaac H. Cadwallader 20 , 
 
 Dr. John B. Shapleigh '•"■^i 
 
 Dr. William Engelbach i. .22/ 
 
 S. M. Breckinridge Long ^^^23 
 
 Dr. Herman Tuholske 23 
 
 Dr. Harry Sturgeon Crossen 25 
 
 Gerrit H. Ten Broek 26 
 
 Dr. John M. Grant 27 
 
 Dr. William E. Wilson 27 
 
 Otto Ferdinand Karbe 28 
 
 Alphonso Chase Stewart 29 
 
 William Butts Ittner 31 
 
 Theodore F. W. Zimmermann 31 
 
 Hugh Kiernan Wagner 32 
 
 Robert E. Collins 33 
 
 Page 
 
 Edwin W. Lee 34 
 
 Thomas Bartlett Harlan 35 
 
 Joseph Samuel Carr 36 
 
 Louis Theodore Nolker , 37 
 
 Richard A. Jones 37 
 
 Judge C. Orrick Bishop 38 
 
 John .Martin Holmes 39, 
 
 Judge Henry Stewart Caulfield 39 
 
 Dr. Walter C. G. Kirchner 40 
 
 Dr. Frank J. Lutz 40 
 
 George D. Barnard 41 
 
 Matthew Given Reynolds 43 
 
 Charles Philip Jolmson. 43 
 
 John H. Gundlach 45 
 
 Andrew J. O'Reilly 45 
 
 Colin M. Selph 46 
 
 Senator James A. Reed 48 
 
 Samuel Broaddus Jeffries 49 
 
 Charles Porter Johnson 50 
 
 George Edward Mix 51 
 
 James Arthur Anderson 52 
 
 Henry Alexander Hamilton .54 
 
 Adolph Robert Grund 54 
 
 Dr. C. Hamilton Hughes 55 
 
 Edward Devoy 57 
 
 Charles Parsons Senter 57 
 
 Dr. W. H. Mayfield 58 
 
 Frederick Arthur Mayhall 59 
 
 Paul Bakewell, Jr 60 
 
 Adolphus Busch 61 
 
 Dr. W. G. Moore • 61 
 
 Harry Bartow Hawes 62 
 
 Charles H. Huttig 62 
 
 Harry James Boswell 63 
 
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