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PORTRAIT GALLERY

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MISSOURI VOLUME.

NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ST. LOIIIS ALID KANSAS CITY:
UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. .

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PREFACE.

IOGRAPHY, in all ages of the world, has formed a most interesting and profitable part of
history, both national and local. Aware of this important _L1uth, ' and desiring to contribute

something to the history of the great commonwealth of Missouri, the publishers of this volume have

spared no pains to make it as complete as possible. They have endeavored to select men from, all
parts of the State, representative of the various leading professions and callings in life, and have
labored assiduously for one year in collecting the material and preparing therefrom reliable, life-like
sketchesof those who have done so much for the prosperity and true glory of the State. That the
volume is perfect, the publishers do not flatter themselves. That all are not represented in this volume,

is not simply for want of space, but also because our efforts have failed to reach them, or because _

the parties themselves not being familiar with the importance of the work, have omitted to furnish the
necessary information. The extreme modesty of some, and the peculiar pride -of others, have also
been serious obstacles in -the way of obtaining valuable data for sketches of many worthy citizens.
Yet this volume, containing about six hundred double-column pages of letterspress, interspersed with
numerous fine steel portraits, durably and elegantly bound, will be deeply interesting to thousands of
the best families of this. great and growing State; and, as each year passes by, it will become still
more valuable and highly prized, especially by the friends and relatives of those enrolled upon its pages.

This work, as its name implies, contains concise accounts of citizens of Missouri, who by character
and position, social, commercial, political or professional, are entitled to a record upon its pages.

It has not been designed to invade the sanctity of private life; and the several biographies, in

order to render the book an entertaining companion for a" leisure hour as well as an historical authority,

deals only with that portion of each 'man’s career which properly belongs to the world. Not only is

mere laudation rigidly proscribed, but whatever should be legitimately used as an ascertained
and publicly acknowledged fact, has been impartially recorded. -Neither the admission nor the omission
of any name, nor the character of any article, has been influenced bypecuniary or any other motives
than those above stated. '

The value of such works, when free from the glaring defect of mercenary eulogy that too often
lowers them beneath criticism, consists in their character as -family heir-looms; in their instructiveness
and usefulness as incentives to youth; in the facilities they offer as works of reference for students,
public men, journalists and mercantile agencies; above all in their accuracy as contemporary history,
the enduring popularity of which, under whatever" title, is too well known among scholarly men to
require the citation of particular instances. .

To those necessarily represented in their pages.such books are also valuable. The desire to be
remembered is a natural instinct of all enlightened men, the stronger in proportion to the degree of
their enlightenment. As such records must -‘bear the scrutiny of contemporaries, they have been
accurately and justly written, and the men of the future will from these volumes learn of the men of
the past-——know them individually—and from their portraits recognize them. i

J. W. HODGE, MANAGING EDITOR.

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

MISSOURI VOLUME.

HON. THOMAS HART BENTON.

HOMAS HART BENTON was born near

'Hi1lsborough, Orange county, North Caro-
lina, March 14, I782. The father died when
Thomas was eight years old. He attended for a
short time a grammar school, acquitting himself with
credit, and entered the University of North Caro-
lina, at Chapel Hill, but quitted that institution with-
out receiving a degree, and commenced the study of
law in William and Mary’s College, Virginia, under
Mr. St. George Tucker. His mother removed to
Tennessee, and settled on a tract of land belonging
to her late husband’s estate. But young Benton had
no taste for agricultural pursuits. He was fond of
books, and devoted his time to reading, the better
to prepare himself for his profession, and in 1811
commenced the practice of law in Nashville,
Tennessee, and soon rose ‘to eminence. He was
elected to the legislature, but served only one term,
during which time he secured the passage of a law
reforming the judicial system, and one giving to
slaves thebenefit of a trial by jury. Andrew
Jackson, at that time a Judge of the Supreme Court
of Tennessee and afterward a Major-General of
Militia, was Benton’s personal friend and patron.
He served as aide-de-camp on Jackson’s staff, and
during the war of 1812 commanded a regiment of
volunteers, whence the title of Colonel, which he

‘always retained. Jackson and Benton continued

their intimacyuntil a sudden quarrel separated
them. Jackson attempted to strike Benton with a
horsewhip, and was severely wounded by a pistol-

shot fired by Mr. Benton. For a long time they
were bitter enemies, and though a partial reconcili-
ation afterward took place, they were never again
intimate. ' C

When the volunteer militia was disbanded, in
1813, President Madison appointed him a Lieu-
tenant-Colonel in the 39th Infantry; but while
en route to join his command in Canada, peace was
declared, and he resigned in 1815. He removed
to St. Louis and resumed his profession, and was
soon in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice.

A man of decided opinions and aggressive dis-
position, his activity could not be restrained. He
entered the field of politics, and established the
.Mz°ss0urz' Inquirer. Fierce and outspoken in his
denunciations, he was the principal in many dis-
putes, altercations and personal encounters. The
“code” was in vogue, and in a duel with Mr.
Lucas he killed his opponent, an act he sincerely
regretted to the day of his death. ,

The [nqu.z'rer strongly urged the admission of
Missouri with a slave constitution, and in 1820
Mr. Benton was elected‘ one of the Senators from the
new State. His colleague was David Barton, a man
of ability, who was president of the convention
which formed the State Constitution.

Colonel Benton at once took front rank in the
national councils. In the prime of life, of vigorous
intellect, large and liberal culture, studious, tem-
perate, and resolute, he rapidly rose to distinction,
and was -soon an acknowledged leader in a body

‘relations.

6 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

which contained some of the foremost men of the
nation. He presented a bill granting“ the right of
preemption to actual settlers, a periodic reduction
in the price of public land in proportion to the time
it had been in market, and a donation of home-
steads topcertain persons. He urged it in the
Senate with tireless energy. .His speeches in this
behalf attracted the attention of the country, but
failed of their effect on Congress, which favored a
distribution of the public lands among the States.
His steadfast support of the administrationof General
Jackson gave him great influence with the Demo_c—
racy, and he succeeded in inducing the President
to embody the substance of the bill in one of his
messages, which secured its final adoption. To
Colonel Benton also is due the credit of causing to be
thrown open to occupancy the saline and mineral
lands’ of Missouri. During the session of 1829-33
he was instrumental in . securing the repeal of the
salt tax.

Colonel Benton early favored a railroad to the
Pacific, and advocated the opening of trade with
New Mexico, the establishment of military sta-
tions in Missouri and throughout the .interior, and
warmly advocated the policy of cultivating friendly
relations with the Indians, and fostering our inland
sea commerce, the importance of which he fully
comprehended. He secured an appropriation for
marking out and‘ maintaining post-roads, the benefit
from which is everywhere acknowledged.

In the currency disputes which followed the
expiration of the charter of the United States bank,
its re-charter and veto by Jackson, he urged a gold
and silver currency as the only remedy for the
financial difficulties which embarrassed the country,
and the only true medium which the Government
had a right to use, and made many elaborate
speeches in its support, which attracted the atten-

tion of Europe, as well as his own country, and

added to his already well-earned fame as a states-
man. His attitude on the financial problem obtained
for him the so[2rz'gue2‘ of “Old Bullion,” which he
retained to his dying day.

He supported the financial policy inaugurated
during Van Buren’s administration. During the terms
of Tyler, Polk and Taylor, Colonel Benton took
an active and leading part on the questionsrelating
to the annexation of Texas, the boundary of Oregon
and various other matters growing out of our foreign
He differed from Mr. Polk in regard to
the proposed line of 54° 40’, and succeeded in

securing that of 49° as the northern boundary of

Oregon. He urged a vigorous prosecution of the
Mexican war, and aidedby his counsel the admin-
istration in maturing a plan for compelling a peace.
Such was the confidence reposed in Mr. Benton
that President Polk proposed to confer upon him
the rank of Lieutenant-General, with full power to
carry out his conceptions. Itiwas never done. The
House passed a bill creating the rank of lieutenant-
general, but the Senate refused to concur; thus the
measure was defeated.

Colonel Benton opposed the compromise 1neas—
ures offered by Mr. Clay, in 1850, for a settlement
of the ‘disputes in Congress on the slavery question,
growing out of the acquisition of Mexican territory.
He stigmatized the legislation as vicious and fraud-
ulent in regard to Texas, and defective as to the
fugitive slave law. Although the acts failed as a
whole, they passed separately. He espoused the
cause of President Jackson in his controversy with
Mr. Calhoun in regard to nullification, and became
the leading Democratic opponent of Calhoun in the
Senate on this question. A bitter personal enmity
was the result, which lasted throughout their lives.

In February, 1847, Mr. Calhoun introduced a
series of resolutions expressive of his views in regard
to the admission of States, the territorial powers of
Congress, and the use of common property, all bear-
ing upon the slavery question ; and the issues raised
by the “Wilmot proviso,” which proposed to exclude
slavery from all new territory to be acquired by the
United States. Colonel Benton denounced themas
“firebrand resolutions.” They never came to a
vote in the Senate, but were sentto the Legislatures
of the slave States, and were adopted by some.
Manipulated by the enemies of Mr. Benton, these
resolutions were passed by both branches of the Mis-
souri Legislature, and made the basis of instructions
to her Senators. Colonel Benton denounced them
as not expressing the views of the people, as counte-

nancing the doctrines of secession and nullifica.tion; -

refused to obey them, and made a direct appeal to
the people. He made a thorough canvass of the

I State, and his speeches in that campaign added new
J lustre to his already brilliant fame as an __ orator.

But public sentiment was against ‘him, and Mr.
Benton received his first defeat at the hands of the
pro-slavery Democracy. At first he received encour-
agement from the Whigs, but hoping to secure their
own success by reason of a divided Democracy,
they coalesced with the opponents Of Mr. Benton.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL _DlCTIONARY. 7

As a consequence, the Legislature of 1849-50 was
largely Democratic, but of opposite factions, the
Benton men having a small plurality. A spirited
but unsuccessful contest for the Senatorship ensued.
Finally a bargain was made between the Whigs and
anti-B.enton men, which resulted in the electionof
Henry S. Geyer, a Whig, who had previously "com-
mitted himself to the opponents of Mr. ' Benton.
The close of his term ended thirty years of service
in the national councils, and he withdrew from the
Senate, of which he had been an active and promi-
nent member

In 1852 he was elected to Congress over all
opposition, and exerted himself to destroy the influ-
ence acquired by the'nullification party, and gave
his support to the administration of President Pierce;
but, thinking it had fallen under the influence of the
followers of Calhoun, he withdrew it; in return for
which the administration displaced all of his appoint-
ments in Missouri.

He opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and denounced -the Kansas-Nebraskabill in a
remarkable speech in the House, which aroused the
country against the measure, but failed to defeat its
passage.

At the election in 1854 he was defeated by Mr.
Kennett, and retired to devote himself -to literature.

His friends prevailed upon him to accept the nomi-

nation for Governor in 1856. But the new Ameri-
can party had a ticket in the field, and although
many of them sympathized with Mr. Benton, those
who did not voted for his opponent in preference
to their own candidate, and T rusten Polk was
elected.

In the Presidential contest of 1856, Colonel Ben-
ton supported Mr. Buchanan in preference to Col-
onel Fremont, his own son-in-law, having confidence
in Mr. Buchanan’s ability to restore the principles
of the Jacksonian Democracy, and fearing that the
election of Colonel Fremont would endanger the
safety of ,the Union. He subsequently changed
from this opinion. '

After his defeat for Governor, he resumed his

literary labors, and completed his “ Thirty Years’
View,” a. comprehensive narrative of the times from
his entry to the close of his official life. At the age of
seventy-six he began the laborious task of condensing
the debates of Congress, from the‘ foundation of the
Government to the close of the compromise debates

in 1850, in which he had taken a prominent part, -

- American contour.

concluding the work upon his death-bed, dictating
in whispers when solow as to be unable to speak
aloud. Previous to this he hadiwritten a review of
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott
case which attracted universal attention.

Colonel Benton was a man of positive character,
strong intellect, capable of great labor, ambitious,
and exerted all his energies to accomplish the suc-
cesswhicli he ultimately achieved. He had the fac-
ulty of appreciating men. and was thereby enabled
to exercise a controlling influence in the councils of
both Nation and State, and for years his power in
Missouri was almost unlimited. During ‘the later
years of his life he was actuated by a desire to rise
above mere partisanship, and seek only the general
welfare. His unfaltering devotion to the Union will
ever be remembered,_and gratefully acknowledged
by the_ friends of Liberty and Progress. In offi-
cial intercourse Colonel Benton was austere and
reserved, but in the home circle pleasant and com-
panionable.

Sarah Mytton Maury, in her book entitled “The
Statesmen of America in 1846,” says‘ of him :

“ In his public deportment, and especially when

S speaking, he has much senatorial dignity—is rarely

excited; his action and gestures are expressive ;. is
of robust and muscular frame, slightly inclined to
corpulency. His features have, also, more of the
English than of the American character; the nose

_ is broader, the nostrils more expanded, the lips more

full, and the mouth less wide, than is usual in the
The habitual expression of his
countenance is calm and elevated. * * * He
has that gentle self-possession of manner which
is so usual in those who are conscious of superior
strength.” .

Colonel Benton was married, after becoming Sen-

ator, to Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel James Mc-

Dowell, of Rockbridge county, Virginia, by whom
he had four children: Mrs. William Carey Jones,
Mrs. Jessie Ann Fremont, Mrs. Sarah Benton Jacob,
and Madam Susan Benton Boileau.

Mrs. Benton died in 1854 from the effect of a
stroke of paralysis received in 1844, and from the

time of that calamity her husband was never known .

to go to any place of festivity or amusement.
Mr. Benton died in Washington, April 10, 1858,
and was mourned by a nation. His remains were

A taken to St. Louis and buried by the side of his wife

in the family lot in Bellefontaine cemetery. A
colossal statue, by Harriet Hosmer, has been erected
to his memory in Lafayette Park.

8 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

GENERAL THOMAS LAWSON PRICE.

]‘EFFERSO./V CITY. ,

. ,/ I ‘HIS distinguished citizen of Missouri was born

near Danville, Virginia, January I9, 1809.
His ancestors were English and settled in Vir-
ginia in the sixteenth century, and ‘being possessed
of means, engaged in tobacco culture and general
traffic, and were esteemed among the most influen-
tial families of the Colonial epoch. His grandfather,
William Price, was born in Henrico county, Vir-
ginia, in 1730 and served with distinction during the
Revolutionary War. His father, Major Price, was a
tobacco planter, and not foreseeing the eminence

' of his son and his adaptation to public life, as well

as his early developed qualifications for ordinary
business, did not see the importance of giving him
educational advantages other than such as were furn-
ished in the old field schools, of that day. Like
many of the sons of neighboring planters, his minor-
ity was consequently passed in pursuits which
neither cultivated a taste nor afforded leisure for
books. ‘ '

When he was about twenty years of age, his
father died, leaving him and a sister considerable
property, consisting chiefly of land and negroes.

At the early age of twenty-one he was united in
marriage to Miss Lydia Botton, of Casewell county,
North Carolina. ,

A short period thereafter he was seized with the
desire which then prevailed in his section of his na-
tive State, to seek a location in the West In 1831
he visited Missouri, and was so much delighted with

* the country thathe at once determined to make it

his future home. Upon his ‘return to Virginia he
disposed of his land, and in 1832, in company with
his wife, sister and several of his wife’s relatives, he
set out upon the long, and at that period, tedious

and fatiguing journey to the land of his choice. .

When he arrived at St. Louis he concluded to make
that city his permanent abiding place, but the Asiatic
cholera soon after appearing therein with alarming
violence, his concern for the safety‘ of his family and

negroes (some of the latter having fallen victims to 
the fearful malady) induced him to change his pur- ;

pose and remove to Jefferson City, in the vicinity of

which several of his Virginia friends and relatives of ;

his wife had already settled. In this location his
active spirit prompted him to embark ‘in mercantile‘
pursuits, in which, by his untiring energy and close

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rapid as to enable him to make extensive and profit-
able investments in real estate in St. Louis and Jef-
ferson City, and in farm lands in the vicinity of the
latter place. ; ., '

In 1838 he obtained the contract for carrying the
mail between -St. Louis and Jefferson City, and
started the first stage line between those points for
the accommodation of the traveling public. At a
subsequent period he became the operator of all the
important stage routes in the State, and also one -of
the lessees of the State Penitentiary, and so contin-
ued for nine or ten years. Employments thus multi-
farious would certainly have been an overtask for
any ordinary intellect, as their successful prosecution
necessarily demanded indefatigable energy and close
personal attention to minute and innumerable de-
tails. ~ The qualities,‘ however which characterized
General Price not only fitted him, in a preeminent
degree, for work thus varied, but made him one of the
first and most prosperous business men of the State.
Being prompt and punctual to the hour in meeting
all his liabilities and engagements, he enjoyed an
unlimited credit, which, being utilized to the fullest

extent, greatly aided him in securing an ample for-.

tune, accompanied with the satisfactory reflection

i that it was honorably earned and well merited.

A mind so active as that of General Price, and
alive to every thing having a bearing upon the pub-
lic interest, could not be indifferent to the political
issues which agitate the minds of a free people;
hence, he invariably took an active part in the elec-
tions of his State and county, either as a candidate
himself or as.the earnest supporter of other parties.
As in such contests merit, however superior, cannot
be always successful, his aspirations were subjected,
as usual, to occasional defeats. In the canvass for
State Treasurer in 1838-9 he was defeated by Judge
McCle1land, on whose side was enlisted the patron-
age and influence of his brother-in-law, L. W.
Boggs, then Governor of the State. In 1839 Jeffer-
son City was incorporated and he was elected its
first mayor, and re-elected the succeeding year. In
1845 he was. defeated for the State Senate. In 1847
he was appointed Brevet Major-General of the sixth
division Missouri militia, ‘from which time he bore
the title of General. In 1849 he was elected Lieu-

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tenant-Governor, having been nominated for that
office on the Democratic ticket, which was elected
by a largely increased majority. It was during this
canvass that he became widely known as a public
speaker and able political debater. .

His early education being limited, it might
have been supposed that his position before the
public would have subjected him to considerable
embarrassment, but his long and frequent intercourse
with gentlemen ‘of culture and enlarged and compre-
hensive views, his familiarity with the current poli-
tics of the day, as reflected by the public press, and
his own practical knowledge of the wants and re-
sources of his State, made him, in all respects, fully
equal to the requirements of the occasion. He in-

‘deed proved himself a clear, forcible and logical

speaker ; ready at repartee, abounding in useful in-
formation, and fully imbued with the spirit and prin-
ciples of the great party which he represented. In
his installation address as president of the Senate,
he urged upon that body the importance of such leg‘-
islation as would be calculated to develop the latent
and hitherto neglected resources of the State, and
was directly instrumental in causing the Legislature
to lend the aid of the State to the construction of
the Iron Mountain and Hannibal _&‘St. Joseph rail-
roads.

In 1850 a United States Senator was to be elected.
Colonel Benton, who was then serving his fifth term
in the Senate, was again before the Legislature as a
candidate for re-election. Hitherto that eminent
statesman had commanded the undivided support of
the Democratic party of Missouri, of which he had
always stood as the acknowledged head. i Unfortu-
nately, however, for the unity of the party, the polit-
ical views of the great South Carolina Senator (Cal-
houn) had been imbibed by many of its prominent
and influential leaders, and had found expression in
the adoption, by the Missouri Legislature, of the
famousjackson Resolutions. These had been adopted
in view of the known sentiments of Colonel Benton,
as uncompromisingly opposed to the principles em-
bodied therein, and were intended ‘to force him from
the position which he had so long and creditably_oc-
Cupied in the councils of the nation. Not being a man
to shrink from a contest thus forced upon him, he
had assailed with unparalleled bitterness, and equally
unparalleled power, the reputed author and support-
‘E1? Of the resolutions, and thus incurred their hos-
‘filly t0 an,’ extent which impelled them to resort to

‘WY expedient calculated to secure-his defeat. A
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coalition between them ‘and a number of Whig mem-
bers, haturally hostile to the great Democratic leader,
resulted in the election of Henry S. Geyer, an able
Whig leader and prominent lawyer of St. Louis. In
this contest, memorable for the rancor and excite-
ment which it produced, General Price remained a
firm and steadfast supporter of Colonel Benton. He
looked upon the Jackson resolutions as embodying

iheresies fraught with danger to the‘Federal Union,

and consequently adhered to the great statesman,
who could not contemplate any contingency under
which it should be abandoned.

During this exciting contest it was with great
difficulty that order was preserved in the Legislature;
yet General Price, as presiding officer of the joint
convention of the two houses, managed, by his firm-
ness and never-failing "presence of imind, to remain
complete master of the situation. Particularly did
he deserve credit for the impartiality of his rulings,
in view of his impulsive disposition and his warm
personal and political attachment to Colonel Benton.

~ When, however, it became his duty to announce the

final result of the ballot in the election of Mr. Geyer,
it could not be otherwise than with a faltering voice.

Having been for years alike the political and per-
sonal friend of Colonel Benton, and one of his most
zealous supporters and confidential advisers, it was
but natural that the defeat of the justly renowned
statesman should ‘fall heavily upon him. ’When
Colonel Benton subsequently became a candidate
for Governor, in 1856, General Price advocated his
views, and supported him with undiminished zeal.
In the same year the Democratic party being divided
upon the issues growing out of the Jackson resolu-
tions into the Benton and anti-Benton factions,each
of the hostile factions sent delegates to the National
Democratic Convention, held in Cincinnati. As a
matter of course, General Price headed the Benton
delegation. The great struggle in the convention
for the Presidential nomination was between Doug-
las and Buchanan. The former had sympathized
with the war made upon Benton’ in Missouri, and
was consequently very obnoxious to the Benton dele-
gation. General Price, as its head and spokesman,
was in close consultation with Benton himself, who
attended the convention as the advisor of his friends.
It became evident that the contest would be a very
close one, which made the preliminary organization
of the convention a matter of great importance.

' The national committee who had’ charge of the. sub-

ject, either sympathizing with Douglas, or fearing to

_andwould abide its decision.
"explained, was again refused. They then stated, in

countenance a delegation from.a slave State charged
with free-soil proclivities, as was Benton himself,
determined, through its sub-committee, to grant
tickets of admission to the hall of ' the convention to
the anti-Benton delegation, and refuse them to the
Benton delegation. The announcementof this decis-
ion‘ precipitated a crisis which was but little expected.
General Price at once communicated with_ Colonel

Benton on the subject,‘ called his delegation together V

for consultation, and inspiring them with his own
indomitable "pluck, -urged ‘a resolution which was
unanimously passed; in pursuance of which they
were to meet ‘the next morning at III o’clock, proceed
in__a. body, demand admittance to the hall, and, ‘if

refused, force their way in, regardless of conse-v ‘

quences. Yet, with a ‘chivalry characteristic of his
nature, he announced that he would take it upon

himself to. go and notify the chairman of the national .3
committee of what they had "determined to do, so,

that no man could say that an unfair advantage had
been taken in the premises. He did so notify him,

and orders were consequently given to doubly guard;

the ‘_doors of the hall inside and out, and refuse
admission to the Benton delegation; H

A In the morning, punctual to the hour designated,
the delegates, fourteen in number, mustered at the
Burnett House and marched two abreast to Smith
& Nixon’s Hall, where the convention was ‘assem-
bling. Waiting until the members were nearly all
in, they proceeded to the west entrance, which was

' a long, narrow passage-way, barred by three doors,

the last opening outward and locked.

General Price and Jacob Hall, of Independence,
led the column, and making up to the posse of door-
keepers demanded admittance. It was refused.
They then asserted that they only desired to go in
and lay‘ their ' claims before the convention itself,
Their request, thus

a manner so emphatic as to be clearly understood,

that go in they would, dead or aim’. [The door-keepers.
-replied that they could not enter without passes.
At this, General Price, firingup, replied, that where‘

he came from passes were only required from slaves;
and with that, calling out, “come on, ‘boys, we’ll

see about this,” the whole delegation went atthe’

entrance with a rush which quickly threw aside the
door-keepers. ~ Proceeding rapidly along the hall,
they soon came to the second door, where another
posse and another committee awaitedithem. Their‘

advance,‘ however-, was only checked for a moment ; .

I I0 ' THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAZ DlCTl0NAR"Y.

the guard was unceremoniously tumbled overpand
the door forced open, and they then proceeded to
the third and last door, which opened outward.

I Here was a pause, but preparation was immediately
a made to‘ break it down, when, the _ disturbance‘ hav-
ing communicated itself to the interior, some of the

officers opened the door slightly in order to ascertain
the progress of the fray,‘ whereupon it was . immedi-
ately seized, thrown open, and the delegation in a
body rushed into the hall. It was at this -last, en-
trance that one of the guard gave General Price a
blow on the head, which/ felled him to the floor; but

i immediately recovering, he sprang to his feet, say-

ing, -‘ ‘that wa_s‘v'ery handsomely done, my friend; but

one good turn deserves another,” and paid back the P
- overthrow, with interest.’ No. weapons were used in

the melee, but many were drawn. . The ‘dash was
too impetuous.for_resistance. ~ i
As soon? as they were in the hall they formed,

' marched quickly down. the aisle "and took the firstt

vacant seats which appeared. The scene within was

'a 'most extraordinary one; members from other

Statesleaping the benches, and a confused crowd

;making for the opposite entrance under the cry,
’_ raised by some one, that the “Border Ruffians”

were upon them. After some little time order and
confidence were restored, when Richardson, of Illi-

a nois, arose, and’ saying that he did not like to inter-'
‘ fere in disputes of another State, but the convention

owed itto its own dignity to resent this intrusion
upon itself, was about moving to have them expelled,
when General Price arose and stated that they were
there to ask a’ recognition of their claims at the
hands of the’ convention itself.
dent arose and courteously remarked that he could
not r_ecognize, as members of the convention, the

I gentlemen from Missouri; but if they had claims, as

delegates, theyshould present them to the committee

‘I on credentials, which would be at once announced.

General Price, again arising, said that they willingly
bowed to the decision of the convention as declared
through its president, and that they wouldsnow re-
tire to ‘await the adjudication proposed. Taking
theirihats they marched back in even line’ through

the" hall, every"'one ‘giving them a wide berth, and
‘returned to their" hotel. _
. Brown w’ere'ther1"selected to represent them before

General Price ‘and Gratz

the committee.‘ ' ‘Messrs. Phelps and Green appeared

for the anti-Bentons. ’ T hejcase was ably and ‘earn-

estly argued  both ‘sides, but the ‘antipathy and
apprehension which had dictated their exclusion in

On this the presi-‘

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ties, were too strong to be overborne-,a_nd___t_he commit-
tee reported against the Benton delegates. It is proper
here to say that General Price was never a Free-
Soiler, and although‘ many of the friends of Colonel
Benton, after this event, organized themselves into a
quasi Free-Soil party, General Price took.no part in
such organization. The further action of the con-
vention is a matter of history. Douglas was de-
feated and Buchanan nominated; Benton himself
coming to his support in powerful speeches, hoping
through his election to secure peace to the country.
The part taken in the proceedings of the convention
by General Price is fitly illustrative of the indomitable
nerve which he ever exhibited in the face of opposi-
tion, however imposing or formidable.

In 1860 he was elected to represent Cole county
in the State Legislature, notwithstanding the county
had been represented in three successive sessions by
adherents of the anti-Benton party. When, at
length, in 1861 the long continued dissentions

‘between the North and South, growing out of the

slavery question, culminated in civil war, General
Price, ever true to the Federal Union as existing
under the Constitution, was appointed by General
Fremont Brigadier-General of Militia, then organ-
izing in the State. After the retirement of General
Fremont, he was again commissioned Brigadier-
General by President Lincoln. Early in 1862 he
resigned his military commission, havingbeen elected
to fill a vacancy in Congress. In the November
election of that year, he was defeated by McClurg
(afterward Governor of the State). He was very
confident that his defeat had been effected by gross
frauds in the election, and was impelled to contest
the right of his competitor to the seat thus obtained.
In the contest, however, he was unsuccessful, as
was every Democrat who, during thewar, ventured
to contest the right of a seated Republican. Although
a Union man in the true sense of the term, he could
not recognize the right of the Federal authorities to
interfere with the legal institutions of the States,
deeming such interference not only a palpable vio-
lation of the. Federal Constitution, but an equally
palpable violation of the plighted faith of the nation,
given in thesolemn declaration" by Congress “that
the war was not waged on our part for any purpose
Of conquest or subjugation, or for the purpose of
interfering with the legal institutions of any of the
States, but solely to maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution, with all the rights, equality and dignity

the first instance, on the score of Free-Soil proclivi—  of the several States unimpaired.’.’ "To the policy

announced in this pledge, General Price remained
faithful during the war, and while he gave a. cordial
support to all measures of the Federal administra-
tion looking to the suppression of the rebellion, he

boldly denounced those which were directed against-

institutions legally existing under State authority and
guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. He and
all others thus true to the principles upon which our
government was based, naturally incurred the bitter
hostility of the Radical or Abolition party, whose
power became absolute in Congress during the war,
and was exercised without scruple in the promotion
of their own ends, regardlessof the rights of their
conservative opponents. The same party having
control also of the army, military interference for
the purpose of maintaining their power and prevent-
ing the free exercise of the popular will in the border
slave States which remained true to the Union was
encouraged, and permitted to an extent which made
it dangerous for any citizen to oppose the extreme
Radical measures of the Federal administration.

' General Price, however, was not the man to suc-
cumb in the presence of any peril ; and though often
surrounded with the bayonets of a reckless and
demoralized soldiery, and threatened with personal
violence, he was ever foremost among the few able
men. of the State who possessed the courage to
denounce those policies, the disastrous results of
which have blurred our national history and humili-
ated and burthened with debt the people of the
South, by subjecting them to the infamous rule of
Northern adventurers and an ignorant and debased
population.

Near the close of the war, in 1864, the Demo-
cratic party in Missouri was virtually dead, in con-
sequence of the enforcement of an unjust and tyran-
ical registry law, which deprived a large portion of
the most worthy and intelligent citizens of the State
of the elective franchise.

Notwithstanding this paralyzed condition of the
party, the ‘Union men of the State who were opposed
to this proscriptive Radical dominition, placed a
ticket in the field, headed by General Price for
Governor, although at such a time and under such
circumstances no hope could be entertained of its

success, the purpose being mainly to keep alive an-

organization for future service under more favorable
auspices.
About this period his health began to fail, and he

subsequently" participated but little, except as a voter,

12 is THE Uzvffzvijp S734 CTES 3.-so GRAPHICAL Dzcrzozvmrr.

in political affairs. He was, however, a delegate to
the _Democratic National Convention which nomi-
nated Governor Seymour, of New York, for the
Presidency in 1868; and, as one of the vice presi-
dents of the convention, was presiding when Gov-
ernor Seymour was nominated. . C
Notwithstanding General Price was one of the
firmest and most consistent Union men during the
war, his kindness of heart and sense of justice was
exhibited, on various occasions, by using his influ-
ence with the Federal officers in behalf of non.-bellig-
erent friends who were in sympathy with the Con-
federate cause, and also in behalf of many who had
been his political and personal enemies. -
As relates to the material advancement of the
State, his active and enterprising spirit made him

more largely identified with the railroad interests of ,

Missouri than any other citizen. He participated in
the construction, both of the Missouri Pacific and
Kansas Pacific roads. In the construction of the
former, particularly, he was one of the first and
largest-contractors ; and, with the exception of one
or two years, continued to aid in its construction
from the time the earth was first broken in St. Louis
until its completion. When he undertook his work,
as contractor, such business was entirely new and
untried in Missouri, yet so well did he ’manage the
work undertaken by him, that he not only carried
out his contracts to the perfect satisfaction of the
companies employing him, but also made it very
lucrative to himself.

In addition to his being one of the largest con-
tractors on the‘Kansas Pacific, he was also one of the
fund commissioners and directors of the road ; and,
as a private enterprize, united with other capitalists
in continuing the road from Denver to Cheyenne.
As a contractor he was also interested in several
other roads, the last of which was the road extend-
ing from Cedar City, opposite Jefferson City, to
Mexico, in Audrain county." \

Notwithstanding his great wealth and close atten- .

tion to the business by which it was accumulated, he
was not only just,.generous -and kind-hearted, but
made these qualities doubly attractive by an ex-

tremely social disposition, and many are the citizens ‘

throughout the State who can bear testimony to the
liberal and generous hospitality which characterized
his elegant mansion in Jefferson City. S
Though often impelled, under political excite-
ment, to denounce in, language of the most caustic
bitterness those who opposed him, yet the excite-

ment being ‘over, he was as tender in his’ feelings as
a child, and never permitted political ‘differences be-
tween himself and fellow-citizens to degenerate into
personal animosity. It is true that his forcible and
earnest manner. as a debater was sometimes sub-

.jected to criticism as exhibiting arrogance and a

want of due respect for the opinions of his oppo-
nents, yet it was but the result of his own. positive
convictions of the soundness of the cause which he
advocated and his enthusiastic devotion thereto.

His personal courage, as exhibited in the Demo-
cratic National ‘Convention in -1856, never forsook
him, under circumstances however perilous. ’ When
surrounded with a threatening and ‘reckless soldiery
licensed for outrage, and thus in constant danger of
assassination, there was no faltering or tremor in his
voice. What would have intimidated, to silence and-
submission inferior men, only drew forth his anathe-
mas with greater emphasis and power. On one oc-
casion, having an appointment to speak at Chamoise,
where the inhabitants were almost to a man arrayed
against him, and where as he was duly informed an
arrangement had been made by the most desperate
and unprincipled men of the place to prevent him
from speaking, by hurling eggs at his person, he
very composedly, on taking the stand,‘ drew forth his
pistol, and placing it before him, informed the audi-
ence that he was aware of the purpose thus to insult
him; but gave due warning that the first rascal who
engaged in the disreputable attempt should pay the
penalty of his life, unless powder and ball had lost
their efficacy. It is needless to say that the eggs
were not thrown, and that a wise selfishness on the
part of the enemies of free speech permitted him to
proceed without the slightest interruption. Many

additional instances might be given of his coolness

and, nerve under the ‘most trying circumstances,
placing his _courage beyond doubt, and fully war-

ranting the assertion made, after his death, by a dis-

tinguished politician and member of President Lin-
coln’s Cabinet, “t/zat /ze was 2‘/ze most flarless man he
ever knew. ”

He was a man of magnificent personal appear-

ance, being six feet two or three inches in height,

and faultlessly proportioned. His life ‘was one .of
untiring industry and activity; and although endowed
bynaturé with extraordinary strength and aniron
constitution, his health at length gave way under the

severe tax ,of mind and body, exacted by his varied  

interests, and at his residence; in Jefferson City, on

the 'I6th day -of July, 1870, his active and useful'

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life," after a long and gradual decline, was brought

{(5 a close. ,
- General Price was twice married. HIS first wife

‘died in Jefferson. City in -1849, leaving two children,

a son and a daughter. His daughter, Celeste B.
Price, unfolded into a woman of extraordinary

attractions and superior intellectual culture, and

was married to Captain Celsus Price, son of Gen-
eral Sterling Price, in January, 1867. , She died
in less than a year after her marriage, leaving no
issue. R
Thomas Benton Price, his son, resides on his
splendid estate in Pettis county, devoting his ener-
gies to stock breeding and the management of his
extensive patrimony. . .

General Price, after the death of his first wife, re-

‘mained a widower until April zoth, 1854, when he
'was married to Miss Caroline V. Long, daughter of

Mr. Isaac Long, of Page county, Virginia. Miss
Long, in addition to her many womanly virtues,
sound judgment and unusual business capacity,

brought into the union a fortune equal to that of her
husband, which contributed greatly to his financial
success in after life. In.November, 1873, she was
married to Colonel J. B. Price, cousin of her former
husband. '

General Price, . though not a member of any
church, was a firm believer in the great truths of the
Bible, and a frequent attendant upon divine worship.
He was a strong Protestant of the anti-ritualist school,

having no tolerance forlempty forms or sham pre- ,

tension, and his family and family connections were
nearly all communicants of the Methodist and Pres-
byterian Churches. He left the bulk of his large
estate to his wife and son, his only surviving child;
remembering, however, in his last will many who
had no claims upon him beyond personal attachment.
During his life he contributed liberally to schools,
churches and charities of every kind. As a public
benefactor, consistent politician, faithful friend and
most enterprising citiien, few equal in his State,
and no superiors survive him. "

THOMAS P. OAKES.

KANSAS CITY.

GENERALLY age and experience are essen-
tials to success and promotion. Public men
seldom rise to distinction suddenly. But in the
example before us, we have a man without -any
special fortuitous circumstances rising by his own
force of character, great energy and good judgment
to the head of one of the most important lines of
railroad in the West, and one which but for: unfor-
tunate litigations would have'b_een the great trunk
line from the Missouri river to the Pacific. The

subject of this sketch, at the age of thirty-four, _has*

the general superintendency of a line of more than
one thousand miles of railroad, -the building of which
he largely controlled, and is ‘to-day the youngest
man holding such a position in America, if not in

the world.

Thomas Fletcher Oakes was born in Boston, Mass-
adfusetts, J 111)’ I 5, 1843. His father, Francis
Garaux Oakes, was a Boston shipmaster in early
11f?’ and in later years was a merchant; a man of
hlgh Character and intelligence, universally esteem-

ed, but living a quiet, useful business life. The
grandfather of the subject of this sketch was an

Jofficer in the Revolutionary war, resided at Lex-

ington and was in that engagement, and was believed
to have been at Bunker Hill. He was an active
soldi__er through the entire Revolutionary war. The

.family was originally from England. His mother,

Comfort (Paige) Oakes, was a woman noted for her
personal beauty; a lady of education and acquire-
ments; was "a Congregationalist and of Puritan de-
scent. Her father, Jonathan Paige,—was the founder
of Burlington, Maine, originally called Paige’s Mills,
and was a soldier in the war of 1812. Her grand-

father, also Jonathan Paige, was a’ soldier in the -

Revolutionary war.

The subject of this sketch was educated in the
public. schools of Boston, graduating from the com-
mon schools, and afterward attending the high
schools for several years; adding to his education by
application as a student in all the capacities of
life. i -

14 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Leaving school at the age of about fifteen years,
he went to Burlington, Maine, visiting relations and
for his health, and while there taught school for
several months. From there he went to New York,
and was engaged in the banking business in the
house of Samuel Hallett & Co., which eventually
brought him to Kansas and connected him with the
Kansas Pacific Railway in 1863, coming to this State
with Mr. Hallett.

He remained with Mr. Hallett until this gentle-
man was killed in I864,having charge of the purchase
and transportation of materials for the construction
of the road. Although‘ a young man, he was entrust-
ed with the most responsible business. He purchased
of the celebrated bridge builders, Boomer & Co.,

of Chicago, the original Howe truss bridge which-

spans the Kansas river, saw it shipped to Kansas,
at Chicago, and delivered on the bank of the Kan-
sas river above Wyandott, which at that time, in
the midst of the war, and with the difficult modes
of transportation through almost an enemy’s coun-
try, and with transhipment by boat on the Missouri
river, was a feat of skill and business enterprise
worthy of note. Unfortunately the death of Hal-
lett led to litigation and the suspension of the
construction for upward of a year, and retarded
the work, or the Kansas Pacific road would have
reached the hundredth meridian, and under the
terms of the national charter have become the main
trunk line with its connections across the continent.

On the conclusion of the litigation, Hon. John

' D. Perry took active control of the work, he and

his associates having previously furnished most of
the money to Mr. Hallett. Mr. Perry was a man

of eminent ability and high character as a gentle-

man, but was rather'drawn into the railroad business
as a necessity than as a choice. He at once recog-_
nized in Mr. Oakes the energy and capacity of a first-
class railroad man, and was quick -to avail himself
of his “go-aheadativeness” in important positions
in the work, and appointed him general purchasing
and forwarding agent. This was one of the highest,
most responsible and arduous trusts ever bestowed

7 u on so oun a man involvin the ex enditure of
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not less than eight millions of dollars 3 embracing
all the iron, rails, locomotives, cars and in fact
everything pertaining to the work, except ties and
such other material ‘as were supplied along the line
of the road, on a road over six hundred miles through
a wilderness from the Missouri river to Denver._; It
involved indomitable exertions, requiring organi-

zation, patience, powers of endurance, quick per-
ception, and in every relation the highest -executive
ability. In all this he was ably directed by the
clear mind and good judgment of Mr. Perry, to
whom he always recognized his obligations for his
confidence and friendship. Duringall this time he
was Secretary of the Board of Contractors, Shoe-
maker, Miller & C0,; keeping the construction
accounts during the construction of that part of the
line from Junction. City to Sheridan, and later kept
the accounts of the Denver extension from Sheridan
to Denver, as well as the accounts of Evans &: Carr,
the contractors who built the Denver Pacific road
from Cheyenne to Denver.

The real object of Mr. Perry and his associates
in thus entrusting Mr. Oakes with all these duties,
was evidently to-educate him for future usefulness,
as well as marks of confidence in his ability, and to
prepare him for the higher duties which theyno
doubt looked forward to bestowing upon him as the
great work should progress; - accordingly, as soon as
the work was completed, they transferred him from

St. Louis, the base of his operations, to Kansas.

City, as General Freight Agent. That important
position he held from November, 1870, till June,
1876, when he was elected Director and Vice-Presi-
dent. In this capacity he had the general manage-
ment of all the property of the Company until the
road went into the hands of a Receiver in November,
1876, when he was made General Superintendent,

_ ‘a position whichihe still holds. .

L The success of Mr. Oakes as a railroad man has
secured to him frequent offers of other important
positions at even better salaries than he was paid,

~ but his identification with this work from its begin-

ning led him to prefer remaining at the head of a
road of which he had aided in the construction and
management from the removal of the first shovel
full of dirt to its completion.  

He believes in the principles of the Christian
religion, and with hisfamily attends the Episcopal
Church. I ‘ *

Although distinctively a business man, never
actively meddling in politics, he has always been a
Republican. . '

He was married in New York, by Rev. Dr.
Morgan, of Grace Church, January 27, 1864,‘ to
Miss Abby Haskell, a daughter of Captain Henry
Haskell, of Gloucester, Massachusetts; a retired
manufacturer, now spending the evening of his days
on a small farm, in happiness and _comfort, respect-

THE UNITED STA TES BFOGRAPHICAL DICTIOJVAR 1. 15

L ed as an upright business man and a true Christian,

havingmany years held the position of Deacon in

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the Congregational Church, a-nd being noted for his’ 
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philanthropy, humanity and active charities. .Mrs.*
Oakes is a lady of beauty, cultivation and refine-

ment, having graduatedat one of the best institutions’
in,NeW England. ‘They have had six children, two
of whom died in infancy. The names of the sur-
viving children in the order of their ages are Walter,
Grace, Zillah, and Georgiana.

PHILIP ALEXANDER DENT, M. 

MA YSVILLE.

. HILIP ALEXANDERS DENT was born in
D "Charles county, Maryland, April 11,1835.

His parents, John‘ and Amanda Dent, me _Her-_

bert, were born and reared in the same county and

State, and had three children, Lavinia, Virginia, _

and the youngest, Philip A., the subject of this
sketch. "While yet a very young child, Philip’s
father died, and his mother with her three children,

, movedito «Louisville, Kentucky,'where Philip was

educatedfiin a private classical academy. On com-
pleting, his literary studies. he selected the medical
profession, entered Louisville‘ University, and, in
1858,‘ graduated with the degree of M. D.

About this time, he made a tour of the north-
western portion of the United States, and, in the
same‘ year, settled in Maysville, his present’ home.

In 1~86_o he married Miss Maria Grace Hewitt,
eldest daughter of Judge Eli Hewitt, one of the
earliest settlers, and formerly a prominent merchant

of the county, since dead. By this marriage they
have seven children: Eli, Virginia A., Frederick
Hewitt T.., Albert L., Frank _Covell, and Winifred.
‘Of these children, all except the three last died in

"infancy. , J
Shortly after settling in Maysville Doctor Dent
united with the Christian Church, of which he is_
He was at one time an active Odd.
Fellow,and.is at present a member of the Inde-,_

still a member.

pendent Order of Good Templars in Maysville.
He has been, all his life, an unswerving Democrat,-
but has never manifested any desire for office, being
devoted strictly to his profession, in which he has
achieved great success and an excellent reputation.

Doctor_ Dent is a man of studious. though act-
ive habits, cultivated tastes, and pleasing address.
He is six feet one inch in height, and weighs 162
pounds.. His general appearance conveys the idea

a_of_ a younger man than he really is.

WILLIAM MARION‘ RUSH, JR.

GALLA TIN.

SWILLIANI MARION RUSH, Jr. was born in

I. _ Saint Joseph, Missouri, February 27, 1849,
when that locality was little other than an Indian
tradingifpost. His father, William Rush, D. D.,
is‘ a prominent ministeriof the Methodist, Episcopal

Church South. His‘ mother, Olivia. C.’Birch, is la"

da‘-”iigl:1t'e'rjof ~iHon_. James H. Birch, formerly Judge

of -the't1S.uprerne Court of Missouri. They are both’

1atfvesTofiMisZsouri. .,The’ subject of this sketch ‘is
:he -sec'cl)n.d'of 'a fafIii1y_of eight children.

He was 

educated almost exclusively by his mother, a lady

of great force of character and .of rare.literary attain-'

ments. At the age of twelve years he began life as
a newsboy in St. Joseph. At fourteen he went to

St. Louis and entered a commission house as -mes--

Here he remained three years. In‘
_I86 5 he returned to“St. Joseph, where he studied mk-
in the office of Judg‘e“Henry Vories,-H afterwards‘-of—~ "

the Supreme Bench". ’ In 1868, at the age of nine-

senger boy.

teen, he -was admitted to_the practice of law, by

William Heron,‘ of A the Buchanan Circuit Court.
Fora year after, he filled the position of Assistant
City Attorney of St. Joseph. He then embarked in

commercial business in Maryville, Missouri,’where .

he resided one year. In I869..h€ engaged in sinking
a coal shaft at Utica, Missouri, where he exhausted
a fortune of $16,000. Bankrupt in means, he moved
with his family to his present residence, Gallatin,

' where he was unacquainted, and began the practice

of law, of which he has made a success. , In 1874
he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney
of Davies county, and in 1876 re-elected to the
same office, which he now holds.

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He was never a member of any secret society.
He was reared by his parents in the.teachings of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, of which he is
still a member. a In politics he has always been a
Democrat. I

March 3, 1869, he married in St. Joseph, ‘Mis-
souri, Miss Adah A. Wrinkle, only daughter of the
late Russell A.Wrinkle, aprominent and well known
Western pioneer. They have three children.

William Rush is five feet ten and one-half inches
high, and weighs about i6o pounds. His social
qualities are agreeable. and he is recognized as a
popular citizen.   '

WILLIAM‘ PARSON MOORES. H

KANSAS CITY.

. N these days of money-making, when life is a
I constant struggle between rightandwrong, it is
a pleasure to lay before an intelligent reader the
unsullied record of an honorable man. To the
mature in years, it will be a source of pride; and

to the youthful, a useful , 1esson—a1_1 incentive to _

honest industry. Social and financial success is
not the result of chance; it is the crowning effort
of integrity and untiring industry. \

William Parson Moores, the subject of this
sketch, is the son of Thomas G. ,Moores and Lox-

_anna Parson, and was born in New York City, ,

November 29, 1820. In 1827 he removed with his
parents from the home of his nativity. to Detroit,
Michigan, where he received an excellent educa-
tion. His habits were industrious and moral ‘while
his tastes had a decided tendency toward mechan-
ism. After leaving school, his first enterprise was
to engage in a grocery store, it being the most
favorable employment that presented itself at the
time.

energetic. Having decided upon wood work, he
left Detroit at the early age of sixteen years, and
proceededto the city of Buffalo, in his native State,
wherehe" engaged in the mechanicalylabor of pat-

_ tern making for machinery, which eventually made

him master of the several branches in the brass" and

, iron business. After having worked seven or.eight_

After one year, he became‘ tired of this
sedentary occupation, and desired something more I

years in this occupation,‘ both-as journeyman and
foreman, he launched forth for himself iinthe brass
and bell founding, together with the hose and belt-

ing business, with a ‘partner namedAdam Good,

the new firm being ‘Good 8:‘ Moores. This firm
continued in existence for about seven‘ years,’ em-
ploying in the different branches about thirty men.
At the expiration -of this time, having accumulated
a competency in this world’s goods, Mr. Moores
sold his interest, for the purpose of settling up his

I affairs, and was prevailed upon by Mr. George W.

Tifft to accept the superintendency of the Buffalo
Steam Engine Works, which was then closed. In
1858 itwasmre-opened, with Mr.  P. Moores at the
helm as "superintendent ; commencing with only
twenty-five men, and gradually increasing until there
were one hundred and seventy-five employés in the
several departments. a He was successfully engaged
in this business for some years, when he acceded to
theproposition of his son-in-law, Mr. W. C. White,
and opened a boot and shoe store, under the name
of Moores & White. Here, -indeed, he seems to
have found his forte. His enlistment in the boot

and shoe trade proved a success in every particular.

During this‘time,, in 1861, he was elected alderman
and represented the third ward in the city council

.for t-wo.years ;_at.the conclusion of the first term
he was .re-elected_._ ‘ The prompt and faitlzgful mime:
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matter of enviable record. It was at this time that
he engaged in the manufacture of shoes for the
Western market. At the end of the third year in
the manufacturing business, Mr. White—-the junior
partner—~died, having sold his one-half interest just
previously for $2, 500.00 above cost of goods and
machinery, as a bonus. The. interest of Mr. White
was purchased by Mr.‘ Theodore Smith, and the
firm which had been so well managed and so much
respected, was continued under the name of Moores
& Smith until 1870, when Mr. Moores closed the
business for the purpose of coming West to Kansas
City. The history of Mr. Moores in Buffalo is one
of which any business man might feel proud..
‘During his residence of seven years in Kansas
City,’no man has more fully won the respect and
esteem of his fellow-citizens than Mr. W. P. Moores.
He has been .a judicious dealer in real estate, and
on December 15, 1873, was appointed Water Works
Commissioner by. Mayor Martin, and served in that
capacity during the building of the Water Works.
At the completion of the Works he resigned. In
1876, at the request of his son, and associated with
him, Mr. Moores opened a first-class boot and shoe
store. This beautiful establishment is a model of
order -and skill in arrangement. The‘ store and its
proprietors are an honor to the community and a
credit to this growing young city of the West. Mr.
Moores possesses a business ability rarely surpassed.

He has a most wonderful faculty for building up a
trade, while in all his transactions he is prompt,
mathematical, systematic and exact, and a man
of his word on every occasion. His industry has
given him a handsome competency, and the future
smilingly invites him to rest from his labors.

Mr. Moores is now in his fifty-seventh year——
healthy, courteous, and dignified in appearance. He
has a military bearing, and those who have seen him
in the Knight Templar uniform dress of his Lodge-
he being a worthy member of the Masonicifrater-

nity—pronounce him an ornament to the parade.‘ I
_ When a child he attended the Methodist church

and Sabbath school, but is now a Universalist. In
politics he was formerly an old-line Whig, but now
is a Democrat. He was married in 1842 to Miss
Helen M. Pierce, and has two children—Ellen
Stuart and ‘Thomas Frederick. Mrs. Moores is a
lady of fine, majestic appearance, and though in
the meridian of life, with “silver threads among
the gold,” she is still beautiful to look upon. To
her admirable virtues and refining influence, no

doubt, is the community indebted for much of her

husband’s steadfast worth, and her son’s extraordi-
nary excellence. Thomas Frederick Moores, the
junior member of the firm of W. P. Moores- &
Son, is a remarkably prepossessing young man-
gifted in mind and person, and an honor to his
parents.

CAPTAIN GEORGE W. FORD.

ST. L0 (115.

CAPTAIN GEORGE VV. FORD was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, » November 17, 1822 3 his
father, Joseph Ford, then being an active boatman.
The boy was sent to school at an early age, having
for his first teacher the wife of “ Drift-Wood John-
son,” at that day a celebrated character in Cincinnati.
In the fall of 1831, when only nine years of age, our

young boatman made his first trip to New Orleans, .

going with his father in the steamboat Andrew Jack-
son. They went first to Memphis—then a small vil-
lage, with more Indians than white inhabitants——
and thence’ to New Orleans on a flat-boat, or, as

often styled, a “broad—horn,” loaded with flour,

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whisky, bacon, etc. This.flat—boat had been loaded
at Cincinnati and brought to Memphis by Captain
Warwick, better known as “ Three-Fingered ” War-
wick. After spending the winter. South, the boy re-
turned to Cincinnati, and in the fall of 1832 the
family moved to Newport, Kentucky, opposite Cin-

cinnati, where he was sent to school in the ,“old C

academy” under William Crutchfield, and was kept
there several years, but always making a trip to New
Orleans each year,_ only missing the season of 1838.
Next he was sent to the Atheneum, a Catholic college

of Cincinnati, then under charge of Bishop Purcell.’

From there he was sent to the Cincinnati College,

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then under the Presidency of Prof. W. H. McGuffy,
author of the Eclectic Series of School Readers.
Here I he had as classmates George H. Pendleton,
George E. Pugh, Samuel Schooley and many others
who in after years became eminent statesmen.

August 30, 1839, he started on a trip to New
Orleans. This proved to be one of the sickliest
seasons ever known, the mortality being simply ter-
rible among rivermen

In 1840 he located in Bayou Sara, Louisiana, and
for four or five years-did a successful business there.
In r844—the great high-water yea.r—-he had the
yellow fever, and, failing to recover his health as
rapidly as desired, went home to Kentucky. Dur-
ing all these ‘years, although having a ‘business on
shore, he was almost constantly on the water. In
1845 he bought an interest in the single-engine
steamer Neptune, and took charge of the office.
On this steamer, in August, 1845, he made his first
appearance at St. Louis. In the fall of 1845 the
Neptune sunk, and he went on the steamer Art, and
in her navigated the Red, Ouichita, Black Mason,
Texas and Bouef rivers. While absent in New Or-
leans, the Art sunk at the mouth of Little river.

Returning to Cincinnati, on the 3oth day of
April, 1846, he married his present wife, Rebecca
J. Jones, by whom he has had thirteen children.

In 1846 he shipped on the steamer Alhambra,
and remained on her for six consecutive years—first
as second clerk, then first clerk, and at times cap-
tain. In 1852 he bought the steamer United States,
and commanded her for two seasons, and then built
the steamer Glendale of the Star Line of packets.
In the middle of the third season he sold her to the
Memphis Packet Company, and went to St. Louis to
take charge of the Nebraska, then running in the St.

Louis and New Orleans trade; run her a season and .

sold her to the New Orleans and Memphis Packet
Company, after which he went on the ]. E. Woodruff
and stayed on her two seasons, when he was trans-
ferred to the Great Imperial as chief clerk and, half
of the time, commander.

In 1858 Captain Ford took up his permanent res-
idence in St. Louis, having left the Great Imperial,

and become General Western Passenger Agent of the 

Ohio and Mississipi Railroad. He afterward went
on the steamer J. C. Swon and remained on her one

 says, “Gad, sir, he honored each.”
 tached to and interested in the following steamers :'

year, when he was elected Secretary of the Stea1n- 

boat Captains’ Association at St. Louis, which office
he held until the breaking out of the war.
Captain Ford took a deep interest in the events

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of the day throughout the war, and went into the

United States service as chief clerk in the Quarter—.

master’s Department under General William Myer,
but was soon appointed Captain and Acting Quarter-
master by President Lincoln, having charge of the

Department of Land Transportation at St. Louis.‘

In this capacity he served three years, buying and
having the care of thousands of heads of horses
and mules for the Government. . He handled in
that time over $36,ooo,ooo of United States funds.
He resigned to go back to the river in command
of the steamer Mollie Able, but before taking charge
was appointed by Major-General Rosecrans, De-
partment Commander, Military Harbor Master for
the port of St. Louis, with almost regal powers.
After seven months he resigned this position,
and accepted an Iron Agency for $12,000 per an-
num.

Having with others leased the since celebrated
Southern Hotel at St. Louis, on September 6, 1865,
he opened that establishment and continued therein
eleven years. (Since burned.)

Whether as steamboatman or citizen, Captain
Ford has ever been enterprising far beyond his com-
peers, stretching forward to the unattained in his
professions, and seeking to elevate and ennoble his
calling. There has always been a literary vein of no
mean order in his nature, which has cropped out
from time to time in his different vocations. While
at college in Cincinnatihe published a daily paper,
for which he did all the type-setting, engraving and
presswork.
he printed and published a daily journal, known as
the W0od7'z/1?’BuZ[elz'2z—a spicy sheet, devoted to river
interests. This was the first paper ever printed
afloat. .

As an instance of progress by personal‘deter-
mined effort, the career of Captain Ford is full of’en-
couragement to young men. In the thirty years of
his calling he has filled every position from deck-
hand to captain and owner, and one who knows him
He was at-

Neptune, Art, Alhambra, Nebraska, Yorktown, Eu-
ropa, Memphis, Brooklyn, United States, Pike
No. 9, North River, ]. E. Woodruff, Imperial, ].
C. Swon, Lady Franklin and others.

Nor was steamboating his beginning. In the
early days of flat-boating he began as cook, became
a pilot, and finally supercargo of the fleet that an-

nually started from Cincinnati for New Orleans.—— :

While on the steamer ]. E. Woodruff.

the Bench as Judge in Kings county, and at Yar-

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which trips consumed from five to seven months of 
ewvW“~. . . . .é
Although still interested in river matters, Captain '

Ford remains on shore, and in his office on the levee ,

GEORGE].

IKA./VS/IS

0 her noble, pushing, hard-working business
T‘ men is due the great prosperity, wealth and
advancement of the Great New West in commercial
importance. To their zeal, energy and integrity
will its future greatness be indebted, as it has been
in the past, and among those names prominent in
the promotion of solid trade in the vast country
tributary to, as well as in Kansas City itself, none
will stand higher, or occupy the position more justly,
than does that of the subject of this sketch.

George J. Keating was born at Halifax, in
the Province of Nova Scotia, January 7, 1840, of
English lineage—a line of ancestry readily traceable
to the Twelfth century, his ancestors in fact, having
existed in Britain before the advent of the Norman.

His father, William H. Keating, is a_ lawyer
by profession, and during his legal career occupied

mouth, in Nova Scotia, That he was an able man,
with his ability and integrity recognized, may be
inferred from the fact that he to—day, in his advanced
years, holds a prominent official position in the
Provincial government.

The maternal parent of George J. Keating was
Eliza Walford Forbes, a daughter of Captain Forbes,
of the 64th Regiment British regulars, who married
William H. Keating in 1838, a union from which
resulted a family of eighteen children, of which
George J. was the second, the eldest also being a
son.

The subject of this sketch received his early
education at Halifax, eventually becoming a student
Of Dalhousie College, where he completed his
studies; seeking, however, a more practical knowl-
edge in commercial pursuits at the age of seventeen
years.

Leaving home in August, 1857, he sailed for
the West Indies, where, from some social or family

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at St. Louis is as active as any clerk in the establish-
ment. No steamboatman of merit comes to him in
vain for help, and no enterprise of river interest fails
to find in him a champion and a friend.

KEATING.

CITY.

relations, he was for a considerable period guest of
the great Spanish house of De Castro & Lindregen.

Leaving the Indies, toward the close of 1857,
Mr. Keating sailed from Porto Rico for New York,
arriving at that port some time in November. Here
he was seized with a desire to see the great “West”
of “the States,” then not so far removed from the
Atlantic coast as now, and without returning to
Nova Scotia, with his characteristic determination
he pushed out westward, making Springfield, Illi-
nois, his objective point. There he remained for a
short time, going thence to Peoria, in the same
State, where he began to experience some of the
realities of “a new settler” in a strange land, and
his aspirations were soon lowered to the level of an
empty pocket. But he was not discouraged while
there was labor to be had. So without loss of time
he sought and obtained it as a farm laborer at ten
dollars per month and “found.” This vocation he
followed during the summer months, going into
that temple of relief for poor young aspirants—the
country school house—-during the winter season,
improving his mind and his finances as well, by the
more responsible but not less irksome employment
of teaching a country school.

By keeping “an eye to the main chance,” Mr.
Keating steadily bettered both his position and
prospects, and finally, among his other good fortune,
married in November, 1862, Elizabeth Hill Smith,
only daughter of James Perry Smith, of Rockland
county, New York, one of the most respected citizens
of that State. Mr. Keating’s home circle is gladdened
by the presence of one child, a bright, beautiful
little girl——Edith Frances Keating——born June 7,
1875.

After his marriage, Mr. Keating took a position
with the Furst & Bradley Manufacturing Company,
of Chicago, Illinois, in the capacity of General

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Traveling Agent for the concern, a connection‘

which he maintained for‘ two years with mutual

advantage to himself and the Company.

In 1866, he became one of the founders of

the great agricultural implement firm of Smith &
Keating, in Kansas City, one of the largest and

undoubtedly one of the most‘ popular concerns of Z

the kind west of the Mississippi. From a small
frame building on their present site, an immense
brick block has arisen, and from the supply of a
local trade in the vicinity of Kansas City, their‘ trade
has grown, advanced, spread all over Kansas, into

Nebraska, through Colorado, into New Mexico, the’

Indian Territory and Texas, an immense field—to
supply which. branch houses at Fort Scott and
Wichita, Kansas, were necessitated and established,
the main concern and branches giving employ-
ment to a large force of clerks, traveling men and
assistants. - -

The financial standing of the house of Smith &
Keating may be safely inferred when it is stated
that it is one of the very few agricultural implement
houses which are prepared to make advanced cash
contracts with manufacturersg Smith & Keating
have made contracts for as many as fifteen hundred
farm wagons at one time, and offered cash in
advance, with the proposition to receive interest

countenance.

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thereon during the fulfilment of the pending con-
tract, making the manufacturers virtually borrowers
of the concern instead of creditors of the house,
and securing the most advantageous contracts in
consequence. .

Although not the leading name in the firm title,
Mr. Keatingiis acknowledged by his partner and
recognized by the public as the “wheel—horse” of
the concern; strong, always ready, lifting at the
right time, making things move with ‘magnificent
success. I

In personal appearance, Mr. Keating is of me-
dium height, compactly and strongly built, dark
complexioned, has a keen eye and decided cast of
His manner in business is always
brief, to the point and determined, leaving no doubt
of his intentions or decision. Socially he is very
genial, always frank, and exhibiting to his friends a
summery warmth of humor scarcely dreamed of by
those who only encounter him in ‘strictly business
affairs.

No man more loyal in his citizenship, more
earnest in his business affairs, more faithful in
friendship or devoted in home life, none worthier
the regard of his personal friends, or more deserv-
ing the high esteem of his fellow-citizens at large,
than George J. Keating.

COLONEL ROBERT H. HUNT.

KANSAS CITY.

has been dandled into manhood on the lap of
prosperity, that carries away the world’s honors, or
wields the mightiest influence; but it is rather the

IT is not the nurslingof wealth or fortune, who -

‘ man whose earlier years were cheered by scarcely a

single proffer of aid or smile of approbation, and
has drawn from adversity the elements of greatness.
Everywhere in human experience, hardship is the
vestibule of the highest success. Such has been
the experience of the subject of this sketch.

Robert H. Hunt was born near the river
Shannon, county Kerry, Ireland, in 1839. His
father was a well-to-do farmer, who was ever ready
to strike a blow for Ireland’s freedom ; and becom-
ing disgusted with the corrupting influence of Eng-


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lish gold and oppression, immigrated to America in
1847, there to enjoy the blessings of liberty.

Robert.was then but eight years old, but soon
began to earn his own living. He .first engaged as
water-boy on the railroad; he not only desired, but
he deserved promotion, and from this date we
see our hero constantly advancing, and “each
to-morrow finds him farther than today.”

At the age of seventeen, he entered the cele-
brated academy at Canandaigua, New York, and
during his entire course. supported himself. He
was self-reliant, discreet, and modest; kept his
own counsel, and the counsel of his friends, per-L
severed, and the time soon came when he could;
venture to let the world catch glimpses, few and fafi

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Off; but glimpses, nevertheless, of the sustaining
ower within him——that unquenchable and magnifi-

cent self-reliance which to the great man is another

soul. _
In 1859 he came to Kansas City, but inheriting

his'father’s hatred for slavery, he removed to West-
ern Kansas, and engaged in farming and stock-
raising. In the same year he married Miss Hoyne,
sister to Thomas, Philip and M. A. Hoyne, well-
known citizens of Chicago.

At the first call to arms in the spring of 1861,

he entered the army as private, and served four,»

years and eight months. He had no political influ-
ence, and his promotions were secured in conse-
quence of his conspicuous energy and executive
3_bi1ity_ He served with Rosecrans, Thomas and

Grant, while at Corinth, also with Ewing. Chief of 

Artillery and Ordnance on Curtis’s staff 3 took a
very active part in the campaign of the Border, the
history of which especially mentions him.

He directed the charge of lVline Creek, when
General Marmaduke was captured and Price
defeated with a loss of all his artillery. His con

duct on that occasion was so conspicuous that
the candidate for Governor, Colonel Crawford,
rode up to him and said, with enthusiasm, “If I
am elected Governor of Kansas, I will make you
Colonel.”

In 1873 Colonel Hunt, being a resident of Kan-
sas City,‘was elected its Mayor, and during his
administration did much to build up and beautify
the city, and thereby assisted in gaining for it the
reputation it enjoys of being one of the most
attractive cities of the Missouri Valley.

He was the father of the Midland Road, which
made Kansas City the terminus of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. He has been active
in inaugurating the new Exchange building, and in
every enterprise tending to build up the city. He
was, without his solicitation or knowledge, appointed
Superintendent of the Arkansas Valley Elevator,
which position he still holds.

Colonel Hunt was a gallant soldier, and served
his country well. He is an honored citizen,
esteemed for his many admirable characteristics
and upright’ life.

MEREDITH MARTIN, M. D.

ST. LOUIS.

MEREDI'I‘H MARTIN was born in Madison
county, Kentucky, December 13, 1805.
His father, Tyree Martin, was born in Albemarle
county, Virginia, and his mother, Mourning Jones,
was born in Greenbrier county,‘ in the same State.
Their parents immigrated to Kentucky in 1787 or
thereabouts, and located in Madison county, where
Tyree Martin and Miss Mourning Jones were mar-
ried, and where they remained until 1816, when
they removed to Missouri‘ and settled in‘Bo'one
County. The father was a farmer, to which occupa-
tlOI1 our subject was brought up until nearly grown,
when, after receiving a common school education,
such as was to be obtained at that early day in a
backwoods school, he entered for a short time the
office of a country physician, Dr. David Doyle,
if Boone, Missouri, as a student of medicine.
abfcfncarne to St. Louis in 1828 and remained for

it three years in the office of Dr. B. G. Farrar.

In the latter part of 1830, he went to Philadelphia
and entered the University of Pennsylvania, where
he graduated in 1832. Immediately after gradu-
ating he was appointed by the Hon. Lewis‘Cass,
then Secretary of War, to vaccinate the Indians, and
was ordered to the Sioux country, in the neighbor-
hood of what was then called Fort Pierre, a trading
post of the American Fur Company. He spent the
summer and fall among the Sioux Indians, and
returned to St. Louis in November, 1832. Soon

' after his return to St. Louis, he was taken into part-

nership by his former preceptor, Dr. B. G. Farrar,
and remained with him until he retired from active
practice. 4

Dr. Meredith Martin married Elizabeth M.
Gay, daughter of John H. and Sophia M. Gay, of
St. Louis, in the year 1838. They had seven
children—four sons and three daughters—of whom
three sons and two daughters are now living. ‘ His

. which Society was organized in 1833.
its president three different terms, and is still a

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wife died in 1862, and in 1864 Dr. Martin married
Mrs. Ellen M. Tracey, daughter of the late George
Morton—an early resident of St. Louis. Their
home life is very pleasant, with this worthy lady to
preside over its interests.-

Dr. Meredith Martin is now the oldest living
physician in St. Louis, and only a few ‘years ago
he retired from practice. He was one of the orig-
inal members of the St. Louis Medical Society,
He was

member, though he does not attend its.meetings'.i

regularly. r .
In politics, Dr." Martin has always been an “Old

Line Whig,” but since the dissolution of ..that party i

has voted with the Democrats. Personally, he is a
man of rare qualities; courteous and affable in
manners, generous and benevolent in disposition,
he is yet prompt and decided. in all his dealings,
and by an upright, honorable life, has not failed to
leave‘ upon all with whom he has had to do the
impress of his own manhood. ~

JOI-IN I-IENDERSOSN GAY,

ST. LOUIS.

‘THIS Dictionary proposes to give a sketch of

the oldest citizens, as well as those of later
years, who are self-made men and successes in any
of "the callings or walks of life. Such characters in
St. Louis could not be more appropriately headed
than with the name at the beginning of this article,"
for he is now about the oldest one living; was

one of the early merchants of the city, and is_

respected, beloved, revered by all. ,
John Henderson Gay, son of Henry and Jane

i(née Henderson) Gay, was born in Augusta county, -
’ portion of. Central Virginia, and, as men of intelli-

Virginia, near Staunton,on the 7th of October, 1787
—hence, is now in his ninety—first year. (The writer
conversed with him November, 1877, and was sur-
prised at the undimmed lustre of his intellect, and
the remarkable clearness of his» memory.)

His father and mother died when he was very

A young, leaving him in the care of .a grandmother and
' an uncle, in Augusta county, Virginia, with whom

he remained until he was about sixteen years of age,
when he started out to make his own way in the

world. , His education had been all that the schools .

of that State and day afforded, but that was compar-
atively meagre. He had become familiar with hard
work in his farm-life,-acquiring those habits of indus-
try, economy and integrity which were the foundation
of his after success, and they have clung to him
through his long life, in which" he ;/was ever abstemi-
ous, temperate, frugal and moral. .

. In 1809 he left Staunton with $13 in his pocket,

the entire amount of his worldly possessions. He

went to work as a tanner and currier (a trade
which he had already learned), in Amsterdam, Bot-

etourt county, and by perseverance and industry ~

soon had a good business and a thriving store in
that town. i

V In 1813 he married Miss Sophia Mitchell, daugh-
ter of Rev. Edward Mitchell, of Botetourt county.
[History like this work would be incomplete without
a passing notice of this noted divine. The brothers,
Edward and Samuel Mitchell, were noted local
preachers of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in that

gence, strict integrity and unswerving patriotism,
were recognized as among the leading men of the
day and section. Edward was the older, residing in
Botetourt county, ‘and Samuel near Salem, Wythe
county. In early life they had become Methodists,
both possessing unusual mental endowments, and
exercised them as local preachers in that Church.
They -served in the Revolutionary army as American
Minute Men; and, although they remained in service
throughout the entire struggle, neitherwould ever
accept any office or emolument. Having inherited
a fortune, they had no need of help from their
struggling country. Both married and had large
families, all of whom they reared, and who afterward
occupied Thigh positions in society—the males as
professional men and merchants, the daughters

marrying prominent merchants, agriculturists and A

physicians—whose descendants still occupy high
positions. After the war the brothersreturned to



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their farms, and, having numerous “ servants,” culti-
vated their lands extensively, but occupying most of
their time as local preachers, in which capacity they
3 unusually successful and prominent. At the
Zjirse of the war of 1812, having conscientiously
embraced Rev. Mr. Wesley’s general ideas on the
Subject of domestic slavery, the two brothers,with the
families of their children, determined to remove to
a free State. They accordingly, about 1818, sold
their possessions inVirginia and emigrated to Illinois,
settling in the neighborhood of Belleville, St. Clair
county——a settlement then known as Turkey Hill—
whither, also, a number of Methodists from Virginia
and Georgia had removed and settled. The Mitchell
brothers, however, had manumitted all such of their
slaves as could be settled in Virginia, and, at their
own expense, brought the rest to Illinois, where they
furnished most of them with homes. In their new
home they soon became prominent for the same
qualities which had ever distinguished them; and
their superior abilities as preachers were so recog-
nized that their clerical services were in constant
demand in St. Clair and contiguous counties. Their
wives, too, were of the true old Virginia stock,
celebrated as house—wives in all that constitutes that
term, and all lived to ripe old age, having seen their
children all settled in life, most of them highly pros-
perous, and all beloved by their neighbors. Among
the members of this family who removed to Illinois,

came john H. Gay and his wife Sophia, in 1819.]
To return to our subject: In the spring of 1815
he removed to Bedford county, Virginia, where he
returned to his old trade, and also carried on a store,
besides trading profitably in cattle. In 1819 he
followed his wife’s people to St. Clair county, Illinois,
where he purchased a farm and engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits A brother in the South having died
in 1823, it became necessary for Mr. Gay to go down
and settle up the estate. In doing so, he received a
large amount of sugar, coffee, etc.; to realize on
which he concluded to open a grocery house in St.
Louis. He returned to that city the same year, and
In 1824, in partnership with his brother-in—law, Mr.
Estes, with the firm name of Gay & Estes, opened a
grocer)’ and dry goods establishment on Main, near
Market street. The city then (1823-24) contained
four or five thousand inhabitants, and extended but
three or four squares back from the river, with some
few scattering houses on Fourth street. The Market
0u‘;‘}11Sf:r:'as then the eastern end of the main thor-
going West, and from which the street

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took its name. Their custom was principally from
Illinois, as far back as one hundred miles\{hen the
populated portion of that State. As a business
man he had few equals at that day—not in the store,
with its minutiae, so much as general solicitor and
trader. He had a superior judgment, kept his eye
and mind constantly on his business, and with his
suavity, kindness and attention brought in an exten-
sive and profitable custom. His partner, a perfect
merchant, meanwhile attending to the indoor con-
cerns of the house. The combination proved a
fortunate one, and enabled them to build up a very
extensive business. The business continued in that
manner until the death of Mr. Estes; but, the busi-
ness having grown large, and Mr. Gay not being
used to close confinement, as such a business de-
manded, found his health giving way to the pressure,
and in 1833 sold out his entire business to two young
men who were engaged in the store. Mr. Gay, fur-
nished them with capital and credit, and enabled
them to continue the business on the original plan.

Mr. Gay’s Sagacity and judgment induced him to
invest his profits in real estate in Illinois and St.
Louis, which he purchased at a low figure. So
judicious were his investments here, that the growth
of the city made him very wealthy. He estab-
lished his sons in mercantile pursuits, and materially
assisted them in building up commercial. names and
houses as honorable as his own.

Mr. Gay continued to reside in the business por-
tion of the city until 1866, when he moved to his
present residence on Union avenue, where he has
every comfort surrounding him.

In all the enterprises calculated to build up and
bring permanent prosperity to St. Louis, Mr. Gay
has always taken an active interest. He has been a
heavy stock owner in the various railroad lines, in
the “ Wiggins Ferry” (where the bridge now crosses)
and in the St. Louis Gas Company. He was also a
stock-holder in the earlier insurance companies, and
was director in the United States Bank, which so
favorably wound up its business when those old
financial land—marks sank in the money sea. He
was one of the original company that formed the
Centenary Church of St. Louis, then located on
Fifth and Pine, and was one of its first Stewards
and Trustees. He was" regular in his attendance
there at all public and private meetings, and was one
of the largest pecuniary contributors to both its
inception and progress, being always ready, when
necessity required, to give his money, and when

. front of the altar and pulpit.

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negotiation was resorted to, his name was always on A

its paper, and, in reality, gave it its credit.

For sixty—three years he has been an active, pious,
zealous member of the Methodist-Episcopal Church,
South, and,until old age prevented, a faithful Steward.

He is now a member of St. John’s Methodist—Epis- 2
copal Church, South, corner Ewing and Locust 
streets, where, even yet, he is a regular attendant at .

the day service, if the weather will at all permit,
the familiar sound of his crutches (which a painful
affliction in his hips for years rendered necessary)
being almost as regular as the Sabbath bell , his fine
white head is always looked for, and seen, with his
reverenced form, in his own chair, immediately in
He has served his
Master well nigh a hundred years, is still full of faith
and piety; and now, like a ripe sheaf full of fruit,
is ready for the harvest—waiting.

In politics Mr. Gay is what is generally termed
“an old-line Whig,” having been raised such , but,
since that party has ceased to exist, he has generally
voted (and he makes it a point to vote) with the
Democrats, reserving the right of an honest citizen
to select a good man, without regard to party.

For the past eight years the old pilgrim has trod
the upward path alone.
home before him. She died October 14, 1869,
leaving sisters——lVIrs. Susan Dennis, - of
Belleville, Illinois, and Mrs. Sarah Glasgow (widow

two

of the late Wm. Glasgow), of St. Louis county——‘

and two brothers—Dr. William H. Mitchell, of
Decatur, Illinois, and Samuel Mitchell, Esquire,

Normal, Illinois—surviving her. She was a rare

Mrs. Sophia Gay went 

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her church, her husband, her children and-her house-
hold, reverencing the memory of her parents, whom
she loved with an unusually ardent affection, a sister
as well as “a mother in Israel.” Her house was ever
open to the Ministers of the Gospel, their special
rooms being always ready, and it was her delight to
make them feel it was home.

Mr. and Mrs. Gay have reared six children, only I

two of whom are now. living: Edward J. Gay,
their eldest son, was born February 3, 1816, and
married Miss Lavinia Hynes, daughter of Colonel
Andrew Hynes, of Nashville, Tennessee. He is
now living on his large plantation, in Iberville Parish,
Louisiana, and has accumulated a vast fortune by the
same qualities of head and heart which made his
father a success. Mr. William T. Gay was born

October 15, 18.28, and married Miss Sallie Bass,

daughter of Mr. Eli E. Bass, of Boone County, Mis-.

souri. Their eldest daughter, Eliza M., married Dr.
Meredith Martin, of St. Louis (until lately a practic-
ing physician there), and died August I, 1862,
leaving five children, John G., Meredith, Foster T.,
Sophia G. (now Mrs. A. C. Stockton) and Eliza-
beth L., all now living in St. Louis.

In his long and not uneventful career, John H.

Gay has left not a line,- a speech, a word or an act.

recorded against his integrity as a merchant, or
against his character as a man.
leave their century with as few sullied days as he will
leave his.
self and family an honored name, has made for his
children a handsome fortune, and will leave the
world to say, when he departs, “it was good for us

woman; literally, a “keeper at home,” devoted to , he was here.”

WILLIAM CRAIG MCFARLAND.

TROY.

ILLIAM C. MCFARLAND was born Janu-

I i\/ ary 29, 1846, in Lowinville, Lincoln county,
Missouri. His father, Marcus H. McFarland, M.
D , was a native of Tennessee, and immigrated to
Missouri, locating in Lincoln county, in 1819. He
was a man of great ability, and represented his
county for two-terms in the Legislature, and his
State one term in the Senate. His mother, whose

maiden name was Lucilla C. Bell, was a native of _

Stanford, Kentucky, and daughter of John T. Bell,
who moved to Missouri in 1820, settling in Pike
county, where he was engaged for many years in
farming, and where he died in 1848.

The subject of this sketch was educated at the
University of Michigan. In the fall of 1866 he

entered the Law School of this institution, and grad-

Few centenarians _

Relying upon himself, he has made him-.

died when John was quite young.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOZVARY.

uated in two years. After leaving school he chose as
his home Clarkville, Pike county, Missouri, where
he began the practice of his profession. Success
was his, and the young lawyer won for himself a
place among the leading men of the State. In 1872
he removed to Troy, Lincoln county, where he still

resides, enjoying the fruits of his knowledge for

which he labored so earnestly While at school.
Politically, he is a Democrat, having cast his first
presidential ballot for George B. McClellan.

I

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Mr, McFarland is a member of the Church of
England. In 1873 he married Miss Lucretia E.
Hutt, daughter of Colonel T. S. Hutt, who was a
native of Virginia, but settled in Missouri while it
was yet an infant State. Mrs. McFarland is a lady
of culture,and their family relations are of the most
pleasant kind. Mr. McFarland’s personal appear-
ance is very pleasing, and he has many friends and
well-wishers in the community where he was born
and raised.

HoN. JOHN HOGAN.

ST. LOUIS.

T. LOUISIANS delight to call him “Honest
John,” and few ever more merited the appella-
tion. Now past his three-score and ten, the greater
part of his life has been spent in securing the com-
mercial prosperity of ‘St. Louis, enriching others,
but only a meagre share of the wealth he has drawn
to the city fell to him. '

]ohn Hogan was born in the town of Mallow,
County of Cork, Ireland, on the 2nd of January,
1805, where his father, Thomas Hogan, was exten-
sively engaged in the bakery business—supplying
that and the surrounding towns, as also the British

troops, with bread. His mother’s maiden name was

She was a native of Ireland, and
The father emi-
grated to America and settled in Baltimore in 1817,
where he died soon after. But he had made pro-
visions for his son by binding him an apprentice at
the boot and shoe business,under Mr. James Hance.
Being poor, he had been unable to give his son any
education-——indeed, when the boy entered the shoe
shop he did not know the alphabet. With rare pre-

Mary Burke.

cocit he reco nized the need of an education and I
Y ;

set to work zealously to acquire it. The daily news-
paper was his primer and a workman in the shop
taught him the letters after work-hours at night.
John soon could make out to read by “spelling out”
the words; but by perseverance, and under diffi-
culties that would have discouraged almost any
other boy, he soon became a good reaer. Every
spare momentwas devoted to his book; at night

after work was done, with his piece of candle, or
4 .

lying upon his back on the roof utilizing the moon-
shine, he read while others were asleep or at play.
He bought what books he could, but he had, also,
access to the Apprentices’ Library in Baltimore;
besides this he attended regularly a course of lec-
tures delivered for the benefit of apprentice boys in
the city. A young comrade induced him to attend
the Calvert Street Asbury Sunday School, and there
twice each Sabbath he received great help in his en-
deavors to learn. Mr. Hogan looks upon that step
as fixing his destiny,ifor it turned his attention to
the more sober realities of life, improved and set-
tled his habits and finally led him to become a
christian. He became a teacher himself, and event-
ually superintendent of one of the country Sunday
schools of the organization. ‘

Mr. Hogan united with the Methodist Churchin
1821, and in Baltimore was licensed to preach, July
5, 1826. In August, of the same year, he came
West, in company with Bishop Soule and others,
and joined the “Illinois Conference” at Blooming-

ton, Indiana. He was appointed to the “Salem”

-circuit in Washington and parts of the contiguous

counties in Indiana. He continued in the Itiner-
acy four years, traveling in Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri, when he located in St. Louis, August,

-I83o—having been in the Missouri conference and
on the St. Louis circuit during the previous year. .

In the fall of 1830 he married Miss Mary West,
near Belleville, Illinois. This lady was the daugh-
ter of Tilghman and Mary West, and the last named
was the daughter of Rev. Edward Mitchell, of St.

26 THE Ii]./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY.

Clair county, Illinois. By this marriage he has two .

children, Sophia E. and Mary A. ; Sophia married
Mr. Simon L. Boogher,of the house of Bradford, Bro.
& Co., of St. Louis. This gentleman, besides being
one of the best men of St. Louis, and a very prom-
ising young merchant, comes of an old English and
Holland family. He was born in Frederick county,
Maryland, 1836. His father, Nicholas Boogher, and
his grandfather, Jacob Boogher, were also natives of
that county. His great-grandfather, of a noble
Holland family, came to America about 1650. His
mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Davis Combs,
born in Montgomery county, Maryland, in 1805.
Her mother was a grand—daughter of William Rich-
ardson, the son of an English nobleman of that
name in England, whose family record appears in
“Sharpe’s Peerage of England.” The last named
was the son of John Richardson, a Quaker preacher
who died in England in 1753. A history of his life,
written and printed in the quaint old style of a
hundred years ago, has been shown the author of
this sketch. After coming to America, the last
mentioned William Richardson was a Commissioner
with William Penn in the Colonial Government of
Pennsylvania, and assisted in the location of all the
roads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, and
in the survey of lands. He died leaving an
immense estate in what is now the heart of Balti-

more city, which was leased for ninety-nine years.’

It is now worth many millions of dollars, and for
the recovery of which the Boogher family, as lineal
heirs, have instituted suit, with a legal appearance
of success. Mr. Boogher has six children living—
Frank, John Hogan, Hillory Hayes, Olive Carleton,
Lawrence, and Clinton—all bright, intelligent chil-
dren, with countenances promising honor to their
grandfather’s name in their maturity.

In I830 Mr. Hogan commenced a general mer-

L chandizing in Edwardsville, Madison county, Illi-

nois. In 1833 he removed to Alton, ‘Illinois, and
greatly enlarged his mercantile business, which
became extensive and profitable. . .

During this and the subsequent. period, he con-
tinued local preaching, and was, also, prominent in
the politics of the country as an advocate of the
principles of the ‘Whig party. ‘

1836 he was elected to the Illinois Legislature
from Madison county, although the county was
strongly Democratic and both of his colleagues
were of that party. But Mr. Hogan was univer-
sally beloved by the people among whom he had

labored as a minister, traded as a merchant and
ever acted as an honest political citizen.

That session of the Legislature was one of the
most important ever held in Illinois, and Mr. Hogan
was especially active in its important measures. It
devised, perfected and inaugurated the State System
of Public Works, embracing the turnpikes, railroads
and the Illinois &: Michigan Canal, which connects
Lake Michigan, at Chicago, with the Illinois River.
Mr. l-logan being the champion of the bill was put
forward as its leader, and was zealous in its behalf.
In his speeches, some of his suggestions were then
characterized as utopian and impracticable, but have
since been adopted and carried out by the State.

Many gentlemen, who have since filled eminent
positions in the nation, were members with Mr.
Hogan of that session of the Illinois Legislature,
among whom were Lincoln, Douglas, Shields,
Edward D. Baker, James Sample, Robert Smith and
others, and nearly all of them for the first time——
Mr. Lincoln had served one term before.

In 1837-8 the Legislature elected Mr. Hogan a
member of the Board of Public Works. All the‘
other members elected on the Board of that Legisla-
ture were Democrats and the Legislature was largely
of the same political complexion. But recognizing
in him one of the founders of the system, and his
fitness for the work, theyiwisely agreed to ignore
party politics and place him where he could be
of most service to the State. I 1338 the same
body elected him President of the Board of Public
Works.

In the financial crash of 1837 Mr. Hogan, by

reason of the failure of others-, went down with the_

many who failed in that year. Everything he had

went to pay his own and security debts, and he

consequently closed his commercial business.

In 1838 his party made him their standard-
bearer as their nominee for Congress from the First
Illinois District. The Whigs were greatly in the
minority, having been beaten in the preceding con-
test 8,ooo or .ro,ooo; yet Mr. Hogan was only
beaten 1,200 or 1,500 votes, in the district com
posed of the seventeen southern counties, and tha
too by one of the most popular men in the State
Governor John ‘Reynolds. Mr. Hogan carrie(
counties in which there had never before been:
Whig vote cast. a J _

In 1840, being regarded as one of the most
prominent of the Illinois Whigs, he was put to work
in the State and National party organizations and

_welfare of St. Louis.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO/VARY.

labored zealously and efficientlyiin Illinois, Mis-
souri, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and
was regarded as having contributed greatly to the
Success of the party that year.

By appointment of President Harrison, Mr;
Hogan served as Register of the Land Office at
Dixon, Illinois, from I84I to 1844, and during his

-term all the public lands in Northwest Illinois were

brought by him into market and sold.

He was repeatedly pressed by his friends to be
their candidate for Congress, but the state of his
wife’s health forbade, and in 1845 he removed to
her father’s house in Belleville, where she died.

In the same year he moved to St. Louis and en-

‘ aged in the wholesale grocery business in the firm

of Edward ]. Gay & Co.

In 1847 Mr. Hogan married Miss Harriet Gar-
nier, a native of St. Louis, but whose father, Joseph
V. Garnier, was a native of France and emigrated
to St. Louis in 1803. This gentleman’s wife was a

daughter of Charles Sanguinette, whose wife was a‘

daughter of Dr. August Conde'—one of the earliest
settlers of St. Louis and surgeon of the Post settled
by Laclede. He has four sons in business in St.
Louis.

In 1851 he abandoned active business on account
of failing health, but continued his concern for the
_ In I853-4-5 he wrote a series
of letters for the St. Louis Repztblzkzm. and in 1854
published them in pamphlet form entitled “Thoughts
about St. Louis.” The work met a large demand
from-the merchants of the city for gratuitous distri-
bution, the first edition of Io,ooo being taken at

"once. These letters were the first publication direct-

ing attention to St. Louis as a» great commercial
center and manufacturing point. The book was
translated into German and reprinted in Germany.

He also wrote for the St. Louis C/m'sz‘z'cz/2 Ad72'/0-
5016 a seriesof papers, being a succinct history of
Methodisin in the West. And also another series
on the “Resources of Missouri.” He also pub-
llshed a series of papers being a review of “Helper’s
Impending Crisis.” Also another review on the
“Agricultural and Commercial Resources of the
Southern States.”

In 1855, Mr. Hogan preferring Democracy to
Knownothingism, and his old party being dead,
began his connection with the Democratic party,
and has been an active member of it ever since. In
1857 he was appointed Post Master of St. Louis by
President Buchanan, but was removed on the acces-

Cable means.

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sion of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency, on account
of his political views. Notwithstanding the old and
strong friendship which had existed between Mr.
Lincolnand Mr. Hogan, party demands could not
allow him to retain his position.

In 1864 he was elected to Congress from the
First Congressional District of Missouri. In the
Thirty—ninth Congress he served on the Committee
of Ways and Means, on the Committee of Investi-
gation of Gen. Rosseau, besides several others.

In 1866 he was again the nominee of the Demo-
crats for Congress, but, as was claimed, was fraudu-
lently defeated, and his party demanded he should
contest the seat in Congress. But the Republicans
were largely in the majority that session, and their
decision was against his claim. He has since seen
no public service.

The financial crisis of 1873 found Mr. Hogan
actively engaged in developing valuable coal and
iron lands, in which he had invested all of his avail-
The enterprise was of the most prom-
ising character——it having been demonstrated that
the coal was inexhaustible in quantity, and of a
quality peculiarly adapted to the manufacture of
iron——but before the anticipated profits could be re-
alized, the storm came, sweeping out of existence
the fortunes of thousands of our best business men,
Mr. Hogan among them, wresting from him the
fruits of many years of toil and economy.

Notwithstanding this reverse of fortune he re-
tains at the ripe age of seventy-two, the hopeful-
ness, the energy, activity and industry which have
characterized all his life.‘ His mental powers are as
vigorous, his memory as perfect, and his command
of language as remarkable, as in the days when he
was regarded "as fully competent to enter the lists as a
public speaker with the ablest of Illinois and Missouri
statesmen. His oratorical efforts, we are informed
by those who have known him intimately for many
years, have been at all times powerful and convinc-
ing, and frequently brilliant and eloquent, yet, like
his whole life and character, remarkably unpreten-
tious. Having a full, strong and melodious voice,
and a pleasing manner, he never fails to command
the attention of his audience at the commence-
ment of his remarks, and hold them as willing, if
not sympathetic, listeners to the conclusion even of
a three-hours’ speech. His manner is entirely un-
studied. No effort is ever made to introduce any of
the artificial graces of orat_ory—whatever may be
exhibited in that way are nature’s own. No strain-

28 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

ing for effect is ever apparent. ‘His language,
always choice, is manifestly chosen at the moment
of utterance. His memory is stored to overflowing
with statistics, with interesting historical facts, with
an inexhaustible fund of anecdote, and, without any
apparent effort, he advances his ideas, supports them
by facts and figures, illustrates them by happily told
incidents—sometimes of a humorous character—~and
even when he fails to convince, always pleases his
hearers.

He possesses, to an eminent degree, that rare
faculty of maintaining his own. convictions, even to
the discomfiture of his opponents, without exciting

their personal animosity.
that, although firm in his opinions, fearless, open
and able in his advocacy of them, he has made in
the course of his long service in political life but
few, if any personal enemies, and has surrounded
himself with “troops of friends.”

Approaching toward the close of a long, active,
industrious and useful life, he has the satisfac-
tion of knowing that, although not blessed with
a fortune in the way of earthly possessions, he
is enviably rich_in the esteem of a host of fel-
low citizens and a character for unimpeachable
integrity.

ENOCI-I M. MARVIN, "D. D., LL. D.

ST. LOUIS.

“ ISHOP MARVIN IS DEAD!” So the St.

B Louis journals and the telegrams to the
four quarters of the globe stated, November 26,
1877. Bishop Enoch M. Marvin, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, died at 4:15 a. m.,
November 26, 1877, at St. Louis. , He was sick but
a few days; a week before, he preached two ser-
mons, the first in the forenoon at the Centenary
Church, corner of Sixteenth and Pine streets, and
the second in the afternoon at Kirkwood, dedicating
a new church there. He appeared to be in the best
of health that day and also the next, but on the
Tuesday following be had a chill. The chill was

‘followed by an attack of pleurisy, and this gradually

changed to pleuro-pneumonia, of which he ‘died.

Enoch Mather Marvin was born June I2, 1823,
in Warren county (then Montgomery), Missouri,
and, as his clerical record shows, was an old resi-
dent of St. Louis and a pioneer preacher of the
State. His father, Wells Ely Marvin, of Lyme,
Connecticut, was a farmer in the New England
States. He married Polly Davis, of l\/lassachusetts, a
lady of Welsh" descent. Bishop Marvin’s old friends
often claimed that he inherited from his excel-lent
mother his talent for speaking and also a poetic
turn of mind. In his public ministrations he some-
times alluded with deep pathos to the early teach-
ings of that mother, and the inspiration which he
caught from her pious and exalted mind.

[The Marvins intermarried with the Davises early
in the colonial history of this country. Marvin

I Davis, born April 3, 1804, was descended from the

Guilford Davises. James Marvin Davis was a de-
scendant of the same family. They were related, it
is said upon high authority, to John Davis, LL. D.,
a judge of the United States District Court of Mass-
achusetts for more than forty years, and among
other things author of a celebrated eulogy on
George Washington.
Davis, was a member of the United States Senate,
and twice Governor of the State of Massachusetts.
It is an opinion of very considerable prevalence,
both in this and other countries, that great men are
generally indebted to their mothers for such mental
endowments as distinguish them in after life. Bishop
Marvin possessed physical and moral courage of a
very high character. ‘ Such courage is an essential
quality of a great mind, and is as befitting a church
dignitary as a hero in any other walk of life, and
when tempered and modified by a due sense of

dependence upon God, and that love whichabove ‘

all things distinguishes a truly christian man, is one
of the brightest traits of christian character.]

Wells Ely and Polly Marvin removed to Mis-
souri and settled first in St. Charles county, in I8r7.
They had four children—Elisha, Nathaniel Davis,

Enoch Mather and Marcia—a daughter and the .

youngest child. Elisha and Marcia died soon after
maturity; Elisha wasimarried and had one child—
Helen. Within the space of a few months, him-
self, wife, child and sister Marcia died. Wells Ely
Marvin was not a member of any church. He died

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December 30, 1856. His wife was a devout woman
and a member of the Baptist Church. She instructed
her children in the principles of Christianity from
the earliest moment that they could comprehend
her words. She taught school in a small house that
was built for the purpose in the yard, and there she
imparted to her own children, and the youth of the
neighborhood, the elements of an English educa-
tion. She died January 1, I858.

The family of Marvin is an ancient and respect- ’

“afble one, as is shown by an old English record,
dated April I5, 1635, showing that “the Marvin
family were registered to imbarque in the ship
Increase,” for America. Matthew and,Reinold
Marvin, two brothers, were among the original set-
tlers of Hartford, Connecticut. Reinold moved to
Saybrook, and his will is recorded amongthe Colony
Records. They held good position as intelligent
and useful .citizens. The great grandson of this
Reinold, Elisha Marvin, was born in Lyme, Con-
necticut, in I717, and died in 1801. He married
Catharine Mather daughter of Timothy, who was a
member of the celebrated Cotton Mather family.
Cotton Mather, D.D.,wrote a great deal for the press
——his publications amount to three hundred eighty-
two, some of them voluminous. He died in 1828, with
the reputation of having been the greatest scholar
and author America had then produced. Enoch,
son of Elisha Marvin, wasborn in 1747. He married
Ruth Ely, and removed to Berkshire, Massachusetts,
where his son Wells Ely was born. In 1817 he came
to Missouri with his son, and died in 1841.

Enoch Mather Marvin at an early age was sub-
ject to deep religious convictions, and in August,
1839, he joined the church at Bethlehem Camp
Ground, in St. Charles county and in December,
1840, he dates his conversion in Warren county.
He was ordained in Palmyra, Missouri, and his
first preaching was done in the Grand River
country. A couple of years afterwards he was
transferred to St. Louis county, but at the division
of the State into two conferences, the Missouri and
the St. Louis Conference, separated from each other
by the Missouri River, he was assigned to the Mis-
souri Conference, north of the Missouri River.
The same" year that he left St. Louis he was
appointed financial agent of the St. Charles Col-
lege, at St. Charles. .He succeeded in raising an
endowment fund for the College in one year, and
in 1855 he was transferred to the St. Louis Confer-
ence and returned to the city of St. Louis. He

took charge of the Centenary church, at that time
on the corner of Fifth and Pine street...

When the unhappy war of the Rebellion broke
out, Bishop Marvin was a sympathizer with the
Southern cause, and in 1861 went South from
St. Louis to join the General Conference which
was to assemble in Ma)’, 1862; but the General
Conference never assembled. For nearly two years
he served in Texas, as Chaplain, with General
Pric'e’s army. Some of the time
Arkansas.

he spent in

On disconnecting himself from his army chaplain
duties, he took charge of the church at Marshall.
At the General Conference in New Orleans in 1866,
he was elected to the Episcopacy, with Drs. VV. M.
Wightman, D. S. Doggett and H. N. McTyiere.
Both he and Dr. Wightman were elected on the first
ballot, he receiving seventy-three votes and Doctor
Wightman seventy-five, the whole number cast being
one hundred and forty—four. Since then, or during
a little more than eleven years, he exercised the
functions of the Episcopacy in the “various Confer-
ences of the Church. He was the youngest but
one of the most earnest and successful Bishops of
the connection.

In May, 1876, he was delegated by the Bench
of Bishops of the Church to make a visit to China
for the special purpose of ordaining a number of
ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
in that country. He was also to visit japan, Cey-
lon, India, Turkey and other Asiatic countries
to look after the missionary interests. Bishop
Marvin started on his trip around the world in
August, 1876, visiting the several established mis-
sions of the church in China and japan, and ordain-
ing a number of native preachers, stopping on the
Island of Ceylon and also at several points in India.
In Turkey a number of halts were made and the
Holy Land was visited. Egypt was the next. object-
ive point of the Bishop, and after spending a few
weeks there he proceeded to Greece, then to Italy
and Switzerland, stopping a short time in each
country. He also got a glimpse of France and Ger-
many, and crossed the British Channel in the month
of June, 1877, just in time to attend the British
Conference of the Wesleyan Church, held at Bris-
tol, England. Bishop Marvin delivered an address
before the Conference on the progress of Methodism
in America and Asia. His book of these travels—‘—
“ To the East by way of the West,”—has just been
published, and already the second edition has been

30 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

sold and another called for, showing the popularity
of the man as’ a scholar and observer.

Bishop Marvin was a tireless worker and dur-
ing the thirty-six years of his life as a Methodist
preacher he had only two weeks’ recreation. He
was a regular contributor to several magazines, and
was also the author of two or three religious works,

I the principal one being, “ The Work of Christ.”

«He. was also a great debater. In the autumn of
18 59, a priestof the Roman Church commenced in
St. Louis a course of lectures on questions at issue
between Romanism and Protestantism. These lec-
tures were widely circulated._ The propriety of

«meeting the attack was felt,. and the pastorof the

Centenary Church began a series of replies, which
ran into twenty-three lectures. Protestants wel-
comed, with increasing applause to. the last lecture,
his able defense of the faith, and the public verdict
would have been flattering to an older polemic.
Thus came his first book, Marvin’s “Lectures, a
121110. of three hundred eighty-three pages.

His book, “The Work of Christ,” issued a few
years ago, deals in the highest reaches of christian
thought. A biographical tribute to a true yoke-
fellow and co—laborer—-The Life of Caples—gave
occasion for the utterance of some of his best
thoughts, unconsciously revealing himself to us, as
well as the friend who was the theme of the book.

The Church has lately given hearty welcome to
a volume of his Sermons—the more prized because
we shall hear him no more. His Addresses and
Sermons before Annual Conferences, and on other
occasions, have more than once been called for in
print, and a few have appeared.

In speaking and writing he was exceptionably
fluent and perspicuous, often rising into elegance
and eloquence.

Enoch M. Marvin married, September 23, 1845,
Miss Harriet. Brotherton Clark, of St. Louis county,

Missouri, and daughter of John Clark and Annie
Clark. She was reared, as an orphan, in the
family of her uncle, Llewelyn Brown, an old
settler of St. Louis county. By this marriage the
Bishop leaves four grown daughters and one
son. I

. Bishop Marvin stood high in the Masonic order,
and was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of
Missouri during the years 1857 to 1861, inclusive.
But whether as Mason, friend, citizen, christian, or
pastor, it was a blessed privilege to counsel with
him. His mental uprightness, his candor and char-
ity, gave meaning to these words: “ We took sweet
counsel together.” He was not given to judging

his fellow-men, but he judged himself severely.-

He dealt closely with his own conscience.

To those who knew Bishop Marvin, and saw him
daily, it was wond.erful the amount of mental and
physical labor he underwent. ‘He was tall, slender,
of feeble physique, black hair and whiskers, an eye
(between hazel and gray) that looked at and divined
you; thin, white, slender hands; not in any way
rugged—hardly hearty. Yet there was elasticity in
that mental and physical man, and recuperative
powers wonderful in their results. No labor wearied,
no fatigue wore, no task daunted hi1n—he was
always ready for duty, and performed all incumbent
upon him even to the last Sabbath before his death,
upon which day he preached two sermons, traveled
some, superintended Sabbath school, besides his
study labors and home duties. The autopsy showed
the heart and lungs to have been diseased some time
before death, and that, aside from these, dissolution
was probable at no distant day.

As men think, Bishop Marvin could not be
spared from earth’s labors. But he was the servant
of THE MASTER. We cannot look upon the tasks
before him in the Great Beyond; but with abiding
faith can say, “ Thy will, not ours, be done !”

EDWIN

ST.

T the very foundation of the greatness and
A growth of cities, lie the facilities for the trans-
portation and exchange of products and the move-
ment of money. It is, therefore, in accordance
with a principle as old as civilization itself, that

HAYDEN.

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those who have created new lines of traffic, or who
have built up and perfected the means of I intercom-
munication between different communities, should
be assigned a prominent rank in dignity and useful-
ness among their fellows.

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 31

Edwin Hayden has now for a considerable period
represented in St. Louis, as resident director, one of
the most extensive and successful of the great asso-
ciations of our country—the American Express
Company. In looking now at the ramifications and
the magnitude of the business conducted by the var-
ious express companies of the United States, and
considering how important their use, alike to the
metropolitan merchant and the dweller at some
obscure country station, we find it difficult to realize
that ‘everything has been organized and. perfected
within a period spanned by the life-time of men
now living.

The wonderful growth and the present enviable
position which the leading companies hold, prove
that there was an underlying necessity for just such
a service as the companies perform, and that they
have been managed by,men who planned and
worked with the highest skill and fidelity.

It would be unjust to the subject of this sketch
to withhold from him the credit of performing a
high service for the commercial and social growth of

St. Louis, in managing with so much care and so-

much ability the important concerns of the company
which he so fitly and so fully represents.
A fact having a strong bearing, too, in a true

consideration of the duties imposed upon him and A

the manner in which he met them, is that within the
time , he_ has managed in the Mississippi Valley,
methods of business have been almost wholly re-or-
ganized an-d the map representing our railroad lines
has been subject to constant and striking changes.
In the changes that have gone forward he has kept
his company at the front in doing effective and ‘sat-
isfactory wo-rk for the many people it had to “serve,
and has held for it.’ a front place in kindly regard
and absolute and unwavering confidence.

Edwin Hayden was born in Western, Oneida
county, New York, October 21, 1822. His descent,
as the name would indicate, ‘is German, and although
the date of the arrival of the family in'this country
is alittle obscure, events point to its having been
some time prior. to the Revolutionary War. His
father was a ‘miller, and although a man of moder-
ate means, gave his children good early advantages
in the public schools. The boy was educated in
the public schools and in academies not distant
from his birth-place. As he reached manhood he
assisted hisfather in the mill, and later he and a
brother conducted the milling business on their own
account.

In 18g6 he went to the city of Utica, New York,

entering the law office of Hon. Chester Hayden, at I

that time Chief Judge of the county and Master in
Chancery- Here he spent about three years, per-
forming clerical duties and reading law, at the end
of which time he was obliged to abandon his studies
on account of ill health. But though he turned his
back upon a professional career, the time thus spent
in the association of so eminent a jurist had
grounded him in the great principles of law and

introduced into his education an element destined to ,

have a strong bearing upon his future success in the
business with which he has been so long identified.

In 1851 he went to Brooklyn, New York, where
for about a year he held‘ the position of agent for a
gentleman of large property named Anson Blake,
and was employed chiefly in renting housesfand col-
lecting rents. In 1853, he became an employé of
the American Express Company, then in its infancy,
and has, since.that time, given his undivided ener-
gies to the interests of that gigantic organization,
receiving promotion from time to time, and now, as
one of its oldest laborers, filling one of the most
important posts in the great machinery which it has
put in motion.
pany, he was for some months a messenger between

New" York and Elmira, then clerk in the Elmira '
office, and in August, 1854, was transferred from the ‘

latter post- to the Chicago office, where he rose to the
position of chief clerk, with general charge of the
inside office business. ‘From Chicago, in June, 185 5,
he was ordered to Dubuque, Iowa, and there made
his first record as an independent agent of the com-
pany. In the fall of 1857, a general extension of
thegbusiness of the whole Northwest led to his being
ordered to Prairie du Chien, wh ere he inaugurated the
office and fixedits system. His withdrawal from the
latter place was owing to his being sent to Milwaukee
to settle the affairs of the local agent, who died
there.

While at Dubuque, an incident occurred which
eventually raised him higher in the estimation of the
company. The land officer at that point was then
making frequent shipments of gold to the United
States Treasury, in New York City. The boxes uni-
formly contained $25,000 each. In September,
1856, the contents of I two boxes ($50,000) were

stolen, and they were refilled with lead and bullets. ,

The first impression of those engaged in ferreting out
the robbery, was that this substitution had taken
placein the office at Dubuque, and Mr. Hayden was

At his first connection with the com-.

32 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

in a very uncomfortable position until the bottom of
the matter was reached. The clearing up of the
robbery strengthened Mr. Hayden’s hold upon the
confidence of the officers of the company_, and led
to more substantial proofs of their esteem.

Returning to Chicago again, he became private
secretary of the general manager of the Northwest
territory, and soon thereafter was given full power
and authority over all the local business, and acted
as local agent. It 1859, he was appointed superin-
tendent of the Illinois division, and held the position
until 1863, .when he was sent to St. Louis as local
agent. He remained in St. Louis,transacting the
affairs of the company, until 1871:, when he went to
Buffalo, New York, and assumed the duties of assis-
tant general superintendent of the Southwestern
division. In January, I876, he was appointed inan-
aging director for the Southwest, with residence at
St. Louis, and still holds that position.

Mr. Hayden was married in 1859 to Mrs. Jen-
nie Smith née Potter, of Buffalo, New York, a refined
and cultivated lady, celebrated for musical talents
and culture of a high order. From this union there
are two children now living.

Among those of our citizens who have developed
a high order of abilityin connection with the mate-
rial interests of St. Louis, and whose rare personal
and social qualities have given them- a deserved and
added prominence, Mr. Hayden is conspicuous.
With steady purpose, energy, and a full comprehen-

sion of the many bearings of the business he has

managed for the common benefit of the company he
represents, and of the people who are to be served,
he has seen the American Express Company grow
up from a somewhat unpretentious beginning to an
organization that ramifies over the whole North
American continent, giving employment to many

thousands of men, and transacting an aggregate of ‘

business that it would be difficult to estimate.
Through this career that is so full of change to our
country, and to this association a period of extraor-
dinary development, the company has shown its esti-
mate of Mr. Hayden’s integrity, by never making
mention of a bond in connection with his ser.vice.
Nor is it simply by prudence and trustworthiness that
he has held his position, for his executive ability and
correct estimate of affairs combine to make his ser-
vices invaluable.

DR. ALEXANDER M. DAVISON.

_/EFFERSO./V CITY.

LEXANDER M. DAVISON
Frederick
December 13, 1813. His father, William Davison,
was a prominent merchant in Winchester, and for
some years was Collector of Internal Revenue for
the United States Government, also Postmaster.
His grandfather was a banker in Ireland, but taking
part in the political troubles with England, and a
reward of five hundred pounds sterling being placed
upon his head, he escaped to America, and landed
in Philadelphia under an assumed name. He
learned the saddlery trade. After five years he
resumed his name. His mother, whose maiden
name was Miss Maria Smith, was a daughter of
General John Smith, of Frederick county, Virginia,

was born in

Winchester, county, Virginia,

who represented his district in Congress for sixteen

years, and served as general of militia in the valley
of Virginia, under General Washington. The father
and mother of Alexander M. Davison were married

in 1799, and had five children, he being« the
youngest. He was educated at the Winchester
Academy, and then commenced the study of medi-
cine under his brother, Dr. William A. Davison, late
of Cole county. After three years study, he

entered the medical department of the University J

of Pennsylvania, and graduated in March, 1835.

In the fall of that year he removed to Jefferson

City, Missouri, where he now resides, and com-
menced the practice of his profession. When the
State Prison was located at Jefferson City, he was its
first physician, holding that position for eight years.
In 1851 he removed to Saline county, Missouri, and
engaged in farming, dealing largely in live stock,
which he generally found a market for at his farm 3
although, in later years, he was extensively engaged
in shipping to New Orleans. He remained on his
farm during the civil war, and, like many others,
lost largely by military excursions, and the emanci-

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pation of the negroes. In 1868 he sold his property
in Saline county, and again took up his residence
in Jefferson City, engaging in banking. I In 1871 the
First National Bank was established, he being one
of its first directors. In 187 5 he was elected its
president, and continues to hold that important

4 position.

‘ Dr. Davison has never been a speculator, but by
legitimate transactions and strict integrity has not
only acquired a competency, but the respect and
confidence of the community in which he resides.
He is a Democrat of the old school, and. while not
considered an active politician, feels a deep interest
in the success of the country. He is of an Episcopal
family, but not connected with any church. He is,

~ however, a liberal supporter of the churches of

Jefferson City.

It was his intention in early life to have entered
the United States navy as a surgeon, and for this
purpose he visited Washington, bearing testimonials
as to his fitness and characterfrom Dr. Chapman
Bell, and other eminent professors of the University
of Pennsylvania, also letters from several eminent
judges of the Virginia courts; but while his appoint-
ment was pending, he was attracted by one of
Virginia’s fairest daughters, and came to the Wise

33

conclusion that a domestic life was preferable to
sailing the ocean as surgeon in the United States

' navy.‘ In 1838 he was married to Miss Matilda

Madison Hite, whose fatl1er’s first wife was a sister
to President Madison. By this marriage he had six
children, four sons and two daughters.
son died in 1853, greatly respected and beloved.
In 185 5 he married Miss Mary C., daughter of Dr.
Thomas Powell, of Kentucky. They have had six
children, four daughters and two sons.

Dr. Davison was one of the foundersof the
Medical Society of Missouri, butsince retiring from
active practice has taken no part in-its deliberations.
Although his hair and full beard are whitened with
the frosts of age, he is as active‘ as many younger
men, and daily attends to his. official duties as
president of one of the staunchest banking houses
of Missouri. I

Of his ancestry, he dates back to the time of
Queen Elizabeth, -Thomas Davison being her private
secretary, and custodian of the paper condemning
Mary, Queen of Scotts, to be beheaded 3 and on
his mother’s side to John Smith, who was condemned
to death by Powhattan, and saved by Pocahontas,
whose history is so well known by every Amer-
ican reader.

CHARLES T. A. LOHMAN.‘

ST.

HARLES T. A. LOHMAN is one of the
C early and respected merchants of St. Louis, to
which city he came from Germany, and began busi-
ness as a book-binder and fancy paper box manufac-
turer, in 1846. In 1851, he began a large picture
frame establishment on Walnut street, opposite to
where Barnum’s Hotel now stands. Here he did a
very extensive business. His was the first house in
this trade opened in St. Louis, and for twenty-four
years he has conducted it in an unostentatious way,
safely weathering the successive financial storms that
have swept over the city and Union since then.

Mr. Lohman was the first to introduce into the
West the German silver molding. for picture and
looking’-glass frames.
imported the molding first from Germany, from

which, and the city of Berlin, the world is indebted
.5 ‘

When Mr. Lohman began he

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for the best article; then its manufacture began in
New York and other cities in the . Union, from
whence Mr. Lohman shipped it for fifteen years,
until a factory was started in Cincinnati, which sup-

plied the western trade until 1877, when one was

started in St. Louis, and has drawn the trade to-that
city. ' _,
In 1874, Mr. Lohman took his oldest son into

partnership, and the firm of Lohman & .Son still‘

exists, but since 1862 the place of business has been
on South Fourth street, opposite the Southern hotel,
lately destroyed by fire.

I Desirous of perpetuating his business after he
should retire, he apprenticed his youngest son,
Charles, to the trade in the St. Louis molding fac-
tory, where he has spent six years. P Thus by" fitting
one for the store-room, under his own supervision,

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34 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

and the other for the mechanical department, he is
now ready to leave it in their hands, when he lays it
aside to rest in old age.

The subject of this sketch was born in Hanover,
Germany, in the city of Goslar—am-Harz, March 27,
1816, so that he is now in his sixty-second year 3 but
is still a vigorous and industrious business man.
His parents, Christopher and Charlotta Lohman,
were natives of the same city and died there.

In 1845 Mr. Lohman married Miss Dorathea
Landgraf, daughter of Frederick and Josephine
Landgraf, and a native of the same city with him-
self. By this marriage he has had six children, only

three of whom are now living, William, Charles, and ,

Alvina. Immediately after his marriage, he, with
his young wife, emigrated to America, landing in
New Orleans, and in November, 1845, reached St.
Louis. He was well fitted for business in the west-

ern world; as, besides his trade, he had graduated in-

the German higher schools, and was a proficient in
the languages. He has ever held a respectable posi-

tion with all thedifferent elements of the St. Louis
population. Although never taking any active part
in politics, he has been a consistent defender of the
Government he came to as a home, and is a staunch
Republican.

The writer of this sketch asked an old and
wealthy citizen of St; Louis, one wholhas known Mr.
Lohman since he first came to the city, ‘for his per-
sonal characteristics and social qualities. The
answer was, “A No. 1, sir, in every walk. As a
man,he is all that could be asked, as a merchant,
prudent to afault, and of strict integrity 3 as a friend,
true in the needed emergency, as an associate,
full of , life and fond of society, enjoying a good
story or a pointed joke with keenest zest. And
yet, in all and everywhere, quiet, unobtrusive and
retiring. Notwithstanding some severe storms he
has passed through, he has preserved his sound
name as a business man of unimpeached honor,
and amassed for his familyia competency. He is
A No. I, sir.”

COLONEL JAMES BARRY PRICE.

jEFFEA’S0./V CITY.

HE subject of this sketch was born in Pittsyl-
T Vania county, Virginia, January 19, 1830.
His paternal ancestorsiwere among the early Eng-
lish colonists, and were prominent for their enter-
prise, thrift and outspoken declaration for American
independence. On his mother’s side, he is directly
descended from a family rich in heroes and scholars.
Among his not distant collateral relations were the
late Admiral Barry, of the English Navy, and Sir
Edward and Sir David Barry, of London, ‘brother
and uncle of'his scholarly grandfather, Dr. James
Barry, who died soon after locating in America.

Mr. Price, at an early age, emigrated with his
parents to Middle Tennessee. His maternal grand-
father, James Sanders, Esq., in 1790 emigrated to
Tennessee from Virginia, carrying with him a large
fortune, consisting of over roo slaves and other prop-
erty, and, with the foresight of a truly wise man,
selected and located large tracts of rich land through-
out the Cumberland valley, much of which is held

- by his offspring to this day. His palatial homestead

was located on the north bank of the Cumberland,

opposite the Hermitage, the home of Jackson. Few
men, during the past forty years, have figured more
prominently in the business industries of his State
than his remarkable father, Colonel A. M. Price, of
Lebanon, Tennessee. Mr. Price has, from his youth
upwa-rd, enjoyed all the advantages that wealth, edu-
cation and high social position could give. As the
cozrzpag/20/1 de voyage of the distinguished scholar and
lawyer, Hon. Edwin H. Ewing, he visited all the
countries and courts of Europe, traveling through
Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, Palestine and the remote

, East; and his travels in America are probably more

extended than any man in the States. In April,

1833, he married Miss Mary Murphy, a lady of rare ‘

beauty and grace—daughter of John Barrett Mur-
phy, (and Lucy C. Bashear), a wealthy sugar planter,
of St. Marys Parish, Louisiana—since which time,
Mr. Price has been engaged in sugar culture and
general business. In. the transportation of the

United States mails by steamboat and stage-coach he

has been more extensively engaged, for the past
twenty-five years, than any man in the South.

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Mr. Price has not confined himself to any special-
ty, but has taken a leading part in many enterprises,
with a large measure of success. His bold, enter-
prising spirit, stimulated by a large brain and a vigor-
ous body, is constantly projecting new enterprises.

Notwithstanding Mr. Price supported Bell and
Everett for the presidency, in 1860, and opposed the
separation of the States, regarding secession a great
heresy, yet when Louisiana seceded, he seceded with
her, cheerfully and liberally aiding the Southern
cause till the war closed. Mr. Price was more than
once offered high military rank, but by reason of
greater usefulness in the civil service, was prevailed
upon to serve his country where he could serve her
best. He enjoyed the most confidential relations

with the Confederate rulers, and has evidence of the.

high esteem in which he was held. lVIr. Price is
accredited, by those-familiar with his record, as hav-
ing contributed as much material aid to the Confed-
eracy as any other man in the land. He was largely
interested in the introduction of munitions of war
from foreign ports. He sent out the first blockade
runner from New Orleans, in 1861, and was largely
interested in the steamer, Arcadia, the last blockader
which attempted to enter a Confederate port. She
was beachedon the foot of Galveston Island and
was shelled by the Federal fleet in May, 1865.

At the close of the war he accepted the situa-
tion, and at once went to work to aid in restoring the
prostrate interests of Louisiana, particularly his own
section, as the local papers published at that time
abundantly testify.

Like every citizen of the South, his fortune was
greatly impaired by the war; his large slave property
was freed, his steamboats burned and his sugar prop-
erty sadly out of repair. Being a practical man of
business, noted for intellectual activity and general
knowledge of men and things, he rose, phoenix-like,
from the effects of the war. Not given to repining,
never looking back, immediately after the surrender
he went to VVashington, and was speedily restored to
the rights of citizenship by the old friend of his
father, President Johnson, and soon became a leader
in the most important enterprises of the State.

In 1867 he associated himself with General Her-
sey, of Maine, and capitalists of New Orleans and
other cities, and organized the “Louisiana Petroleum
and Mining Company of Calcasion Point,” of which
organization he was chosen President. In 1868, he
was connected with his kinsman, General Thomas L.
Price, and Charles P. Chouteau, in operating and

marketing the Avery Salt Mine. In 1867 he was
appointed, by Governor Wells, Special Commissioner
to the Paris Exposition, and he doubtless deserves a
considerable share of credit for the distinction which
Louisiana there enjoyed.

In 1872 he was chosen President of the Louisi-
ana Homestead Company, supported by General
Beauregard as Vice President, and did much to
enlighten the outside world of the attractions and
inducements offered to those seeking homes in her
genial climate.

In June, 1872, the delegates-of the Democratic
and Reform Conventions of the Third Congressional
district met in New Orleans, and paid him the com-
pliment of inviting him to run as an independent
candidate, stating in their communication “that his
character for intelligence and integrity, was all the
declaration of principle required.” His letter of
acceptance elicited the most complimentary notice
from the Press of the State, one of which, the New
Orleans Tz'me.v, stated: “The friends of Mr. J. B.
Price, of St. Marys Parish, have requested that gen-
tleman to announce himself as the candidate to rep-
resent the Third Congressional district. We have no
hesitation in saying, that we regard the announce-
ment as favorable to the public welfare. The per-
sonal record of Mr. Price is above reproach. He is
a man of high moral character, his hands are
unstained with any participation in the ring and rob-
beries which have dishonored the State. A man of
wealth, and culture, and energy, identified with all
the varied interests of his district, whether he be
elected or defeated, the announcement of a candi-
date having such qualifications, must have a favor-
able effect upon politics.”

Another newspaper says: “Noiman is better
acquainted with the wants and necessities of Louisi-

. ana, or more capable of relieving the same and pro-

moting her welfare. He is much loved by his old

servants, and is highly esteemed by his employés.

He is a good citizen, a thorough gentleman, a kind
neighbor and a true friend.” .

The wisdom of the delegates in their nomination
of Mr. Price, was fully vindicated at the polls. Not-
withstanding the fact that two-thirds of the votes of
the district were negroes and radicals, he received
almost the entire white vote of the district, defeating
his radical opponent at his own precinct by a large
majority; but under the then corrupt carpet-bag
regime, no democrat could have obtained his cer-
tificate, howsoever great his majority.

36 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Colonel Price (as he is familiarly known) has five
children, four sons and one daughter, upon whom he
is lavishing all the advantages of American and
European culture, believing that education of youth
is of paramount importance to a country, especially
to one like this, that should be governed by the
intelligence of its citizens, for upon knowledge is
based the beautiful temple of liberty. His first wife
died in 1870, and in 1873 he married the estimable
widow of his kinsman, General Thomas L. Price, a
lady possessed of all those sterling traits of mind and
heart, which have ever characterized Virginia wives
as the most queenly of matrons and devoted of
mothers.

Colonel Price has adopted Missouri as his future
home, and already is a recognized leader in many of
the largest enterprises in the State.

Reference to his business connections are simply
made to indicate that the subject of this sketch is
one of that bold, active, enterprising and intelligent
class of men, whose life sparkles with the vitalized
thought of executive genius.

From parental influence, liberal education, a
large—hearted and broad-minded nature, with much

travel and mixing with men, both in the Old and
New World, he is expanded in his feeling, liberal in
his views, and thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes.
He is truly an example of temperance, never hav-
ing tasted a drop of wine, beer. nor spirituous liquor
of any kind, nor tobacco in any form.

In religious views he is a Methodist, his sainted
mother having been an exemplary member of that
church for nearly forty years, and in commemoration
of her many virtues, a beautifully tinted memorial
window fills an opening in the church building in
which she worshipped the greater part of her life,
and in the family Bible can be read the day and date
when each of her grand—children were christened,
by bishops of the M. E. Church, with water brought
from the River Jordan by their father.

In social life he is genial and companionable,
illustrating the contentment and happiness which
springs from a grateful heart, in the faithful discharge
of manly duty.

[NoTE.—We are chiefly indebted to Jewell’s Illus-
trated Crescent City, for the foregoing sketch of
Colonel Price.—-ED1ToR.]

ISIDOR BUSH.

ST. LOUIS.

SIDOR BUSH was born in 1822, in Prague,
1 Austria, the only son of an estimable rich
cotton merchant, Jacob I. Bush and Frederica,
his wife, me Edle Von Honigsberg, her grandfather
having been raised to nobility (the first Jew ever thus
honored in Austria) and made Privy Counselor (geh
hofrath) by Emperor Joseph I. Isidor B., who
showed inclination for literary attainments, received
a careful home education by the best private teachers
money could procure, studied ancient and modern
languages, music, painting, mathematics, etc., until
1837, when the great crisis (the failure of the Ameri-
can banks and consequent decline in cotton) induced
his father to withdraw from the cotton trade, and to
purchase the large Oriental publishing house and
printing establishment of Von Schmidt, in Vienna.
This suited the literary tastes of young Isidor, there
he came in contact with scholars and poets, especi-
ally those of his co-religionists, Israelites. When

but eighteen years old he became publisher, and four
years later editor of valuable works and periodicals.
Enjoying special privileges and almost entire exemp-
tion from the oppressive laws under which the Jews
of Austria then yet suffered, he devoted himself with
zeal and youthful fervor to the cause of their eman-
cipation, and when the great revolution of 1848
broke out, he was among the Liberals. Besides the
“Jahrbiicher fur Israeliten” and the “Central Organ
ftir Glaubensfreiheit,” which he edited himself, the
“ Radical,” the "‘ Gegenwart,” Ludwig A. Fran'kel’s
“ Sontagsblatter,” etc., were published from his
Vienna office, the “Hirnok,” “Szasadunc,” and
“ Pressburger Zeitung” from his Hungarian branch
house. It was natural, ‘therefore, that when on
November I, 1848, Windishgratz entered Vienna,
and the Reactionists were victorious for a time, when
Robert Blum and Messenhouser were shot, Isidor
Bush, like many others, had to seek his safety by

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 37

flying to America.
in 1844 a Miss Taussig, of Prague, his native city,
and with one child, a boy four years old, and with
but ten dollars in his pocket, he arrived on January
8, 1849, at New York.

Aided and encouraged by some of his co-relig-
ionists, he opened a small book and stationery store
on Grand street, and commenced to publish a Ger-
man weekly, “Israel’s Herald,” devoted to Judaism;
its reform movement, its benevolent institutions,
especially the new benevolent order, “Bnai Brith,”
(sons of the covenant), of which he became a zeal-
ous member. Drs. Marzbacher, Wise, Liebnthal,
Gutheim, now celebrated as leading American Israel-
ites, were among its contributors, under the editor-
ship of young Bush. But he felt, after struggling
and finishing its first quarter, that his want of means
and insufficient knowledge of the language and affairs
of the country, were too great obstacles for such an
enterprise in the great city of New York. Attracted
by better prospects and the invitations of his wife’s
parents and brothers, (the family Taussig), he moved,
in October, 1849, to St. Louis, Missouri.

In vain he looked for a situation insome good
Americanibook store, and finally, though regretfully,
resolved to turn to a different business. In partner-
ship with his brother-in-law, Charles Taussig, senior,
he opened the first grocery store on the then new
Lucas Market 5 but unable to get a lease from Mr.
Lucas, who advanced the rent every year, and fore-
seeing that Carondelet would become the great man-
ufacturing suburb of St. Louis, they removed, in
1851, to “Vide Poche,” (Carondelet), and opened
there a general store, under the firm name of Bush
& Taussig, In 1852 old Mr. Bush came from
Europe, to spend the evening of his life with his
only beloved son, bringing with him several thousand

VVith his wife, having married

dollars, saved from his former wealth; then, with

increased capital, they established, beside the Caron-
delet business, a hardware store in St. Louis, and
in 1856, after the death of their brother-in-law, Mr.
Adolph Abeles, (killed at the greatrailroad disaster
on (iasconade bridge, November I," 185 5), became
the successors of the old grocery business, Abeles &
Taussig, (established in 1842 in St. Louis). Bush’s
enterprising spirit and faith in the future greatness of
St. Louis, induced him to become, about the same
time (1857), the founder of the "‘People’s Savings
Bank,” and under his -Presidency it became one of
the most popular and flourishing savings institutions
of the city. But his successful career as a merchant

had also its reverses. With the rapid, wonderful
growth of St. Louis, competition also increased,
profits were declining and the credit system, carried
to excess, caused serious losses already in the fall of
1857, and when the political troubles, the civil War,
(1861) commenced, Bush & Taussig, after struggling
for a long time, after paying off every dollar of their
accommodation paper discounted in banks and reduc-
ing their business indebtedness, had to withdraw
from business. Bush. had previously resigned as
President of the “People’s Bank,” and handed it
over, in sound, excellent condition, to his successor.
In February, 1861, Bush had been elected one of the
Representatives of St. Louis to the great Constitutional
State Convention which kept Missouri in and with the
Union, deposed Governor Jackson and the Legisla-
ture, and which formed the provisional government
of Missouri. In 1864 he was again elected a mem-
ber of the State Convention, which passed the
Emancipation Ordinance and the “Drake” Consti-
tution. The latter he opposed, and predicted that it
would not last long, but would first kill the Republi-
can party, to which Bush belonged, instead of keep-
ing it in power, as it intended.

The large majority which Bush received in the

election to the first convention, and the increased

popularity which he gained during its sessions, made
his name sought; but he firmly and consistently
refused all appointments or nominations for public
offices, except one for Alderman of his ward in the
City Council, where he served during the years 1866
and 1867 and which was then an unpaid office.

In 1862 when Major-General Fremont took com-
mand of the Western District, Bush accepted a posi-
tion on his staff as aid-de-camp, with the rank of
captain, doing only office work, however; and when
General Halleck succeeded Fremont, he resigned
and went to Washington to submit a financial plan to
the Secretary of the Treasury. His plan could not
be adopted under the circumstances, but it gave
Governor Chase so favorable opinion of its author,
that he gave him, unsolicited, a position in his
department. Bush had to return, however, to Mis-
souri to attend a special session of the Convention,
called by Governor Gamble; and being offered at
the same time the position of General Agent of the
St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad, preferred to
remain in the State of his adoption. This latter
position he filled up to 1866, when the Iron Moun-
tain Railroad was sold by the State and surrendered
to Mr. Thomas Allen.

38 THE UNITED ‘STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

While holding this position he gained the true
friendship of Mr. S. D. Barlow, the President of the
road, and the esteem of the distinguished members
of that Board, prominent among whom were the
Hon. Henry T. Blow, Jules and Amede Valle, C. S.
Greeley, and George -Partridge, and these years
were among the happiest of his life. His income
was more than sufficient for his modest and unosten-

tatious ‘mode of living; his savings and some means

which his old father yet" received from Europe, he
invested with such Sagacity that, under the favorable
circumstances of that period, he soon acquired a
competency. His official duties left him sufficient
leisure time to devote to literature. Well versed in
political economy and finance, he urged the‘ State
Government, from the end of the war, to re-estab-
lish the State credit ; and though his pet measure, a

Premium Loan, was not adopted, the Legislature-

accorded him a vote of thanks for the valuable aid
he had given the Committee on Finance. ,
At the same time he prepared and laid the foun-
dation to his present great wine business. Desirous
that his only son, Raphael, should not experience the
cares and vicissitudes of commercial life, he tried to
educate him as an agriculturist; and, believing that
grape culture offered a new, pleasant and profitable
field, he sent him to his friend Husmann, at Her-
man, and afterwards (after having served as volun-
teer in the army, but discharged on account of
sickness) to old Mottier, near Cincinnati, both pio-
neers of American grape culture, to work and learn
under them; nor did Isidor Bush think himself too

old to learn all he could about this, to him, new but ,

very interesting branch of horticulture. In Febru-
ary, I86 5, he bought a large tract of forest land, on

the line of his railroad and bordering the Mississippi,

specially adapted to grape growing, which is now
famed even beyond the limits of this country, as

  “ Bushberg,” the largest grape nursery in the United

States, and one of the best vineyards in Missouri.
Mr. Husmann, who about the same time tried‘ to
establish a grand wine company, also obtained the
co—operation of Bush in forming the Bluffton Wine
Company, with a capital stock of $100,000.
enterprise proved a failure, the lands were finally
sold under mortgage, and the stock of their wines
was purchased by Mr. Bush, in January, 1870, who
henceforth carried on a wholesale native wine busi-
ness at St. ‘Louis, in partnership with his son, un-
der the firm name of Isidor Bush & Co., while the
vineyard and nurseries at Bushberg, were success-

This -

fully carried on under the firm name of Bush &
Son & Meissner.

Their depot and wine cellars in St. Louis, in the

central part of the city, corner Fourth and Elm
streets, are among the largest and finest of the kind,
(cellars and sub-cellars each 50 by 150 feet).
Neither foreign wines nor whiskies are there kept
for sale. The wine producers of Missouri, Illinois,
the islands of Lake Erie and even of California,
send there a large portion of their productions, from
where they are sold and distributed all over the
states of the Mississippi Valley, from Minnesota to
Texas, amounting to over one hundred thousand
dollars per annum. Prom_pt attention to every
detail of the business, careful handling of the wines
by intelligent and competent hands, and the lowest
prices that the market and competition demand,
combined with’ the promptest fulfillment of all obli-

. gations, have gained to his house the comparatively
~ large trade and high reputation which it possesses.

But Bush’s favorite enterprises are the Bushberg

Vineyards and Grape Nurseries, comprising 240‘

acres, in which a capital of $40,000 is invested, and
as many as twenty hands are employed. Every
variety of grapes adapted to this climate are grown
there and pr0pagated,.if of any value. It is there,

therefore, that Prof. Riley made his valuable studies ,

and observations on the insects of the vine, and

especially on the Phylloxera, which makes such ter--' .

rible havoc in the vineyards of Europe. The dis-
covery that some American grape roots resist it, or
are at least unharmed by this insect, led, Bush to
send a lot of young plants and cuttings of these
kinds to France, gratis, to be tested there, and their
success was such as to induce a considerable export

r of them to that country. It is by making one thing

a specialty, persevering at it under all difficulties,
undeterred by unfavorable seasons, and thus enabled

to produce that one article in the best and cheapest.

manner 3 understanding every detail and giving it
the most careful attention; securing both the satis-
faction and confidence of customers,—that Bush’s

= grape nurseries succeeded whilst most others gave

the same business up as unprofitable. Bush’s
Manual of Grape Culture and Descriptive Catalogue
is now recognized as the standard work on American

Grape Vines, and has been also translated and pub-_

lished in the German and French languages.

But whilst Bush is now specially known in the
business world as a grape-grower and wine dealer of
first rank, his name and fame is far greater as a

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 39

philanthropist and a leading Israelite. The benevo-
lent order, “ Bnai Brith,” already mentioned, elected
him, in 1872, Grand Nasi or "President of District
No. 2, (then comprising all the Western States,
from the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains), and
in 1874, as one of the Executive Committee of the
Constitution Grand Lodge of the United States.
He is one of the founders and first trustees of the
Jewish Orphan Asylum at Cleveland, Ohio, and
the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cov-
enant Widow’s Fund, and all this, although he is

known to_ be rather a free-thinker, believing more
in evolution than in theological doctrines. Nor
are his humanitarian labors restricted to his co—re-

ligionists. As President of the German Emigrant

"Aid Society, which office he held for over ten

years, he was appointed a member of the State
Board of Immigration, and its Secretary, and was
retained in this position to this day by every
succeeding Governor of this State, since 1865,
irrespective of party; nay, whilst most of them were
Democrats. I

HON. DAVID PATTERSON DYER.

ST. LOUIS.

AVID PATTERSON DYER was born in
D Henry county, Virginia, February 12, 1838.
His ancestors were originally from Great Britain,
but for many generations lived in Virginia. His
father, Hon. David Dyer, was a planter, but, like
Cincinnatus, was called from the plow, and for
eighteen years represented his district in the
Legislature and Senate of Virginia. His mother’s
maiden name was Miss Nancy Salmon. They were
unitedin marriage in 1809, and had twelve children,
the subject of this sketch being the youngest. In
1841 his father removed to Lincoln county,
Missouri, and engaged in farming. He attended
the public schools in his neighborhood until the age
of sixteen, when he entered St. Charles College.
After remaining there two years he -engaged in
teaching, first in Lincoln, and afterwards in Warren
county. At the age of nineteen he determined
to adopt the law as a profession, and entered the
office of Hon. JamesiO. Broadhead, at Bowling
Green, Missouri. In 1859, at the age of twenty—one,
he was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Bowling Green. In 1860 he was
elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Third Judicial
Circuit, composed of the counties of Pike, Lincoln,
Warren, Montgomery and Calloway, which position
he held for four years. In 1862 he removed to
Louisiana, Missouri, and formed a copartnership
with Hon. John B. Henderson, which continued
until 1870, when Mr. Henderson removed to Saint
Louis. He then entered into a copartnership with
Judge Thomas J. C. Fagg, formerly Judge of the

Supreme Court of Missouri, which continued until
1875, when Mr. Dyer removed to Saint Louis.
In 1863 he was appointed Colonel of the 49th
Missouri Volunteer Infantry, doing duty in the
State until 1864, when his regiment was ordered to
New Orleans, Louisiana, and attached to the 16th
Army Corps, General A. J. Smith commanding;
and was on duty in General Canby’s department
until the close of the war, participating in the
fourteen days’ engagement at Spanish Fort, in
Mobile Bay—his regiment being attached to
General Carr’s division, which led the advance
on the first day of the investment. After the
surrender of Mobile, his regiment was ordered to
Montgomery, Alabama, where it remained until
July, 1865. Peace being declared, he was ordered
to Benton Barracks, via Vicksburg. On the 4th
of August, 1865, his regiment was mustered out
of service, when he returned to the practice of his
profession. No commander was more beloved by
his officers and men than Colonel David P. Dyer.
As an evidence of this, before their separation, he
was presented with a valuable gold-watch and
chain, appropriately inscribed. This interesting
event took place at the old Lindell Hotel, in Saint
l.ouis, the presentation address being made by
Captain William Colbert, commanding Company A.
In 1862 he was elected from Pike county, to the
State Legislature, sustaining President l.incoln’s
proclamation of emancipation. J In this body he
took an active part, being chairman of the judiciary
committee, and also serving on other important

40 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

committees. In 1864 he was re-elected, advocating
the immediate emancipation of slavery in the

«United States, and filling the same position upon

the judiciary committee. In 1866 he was a

candidate for re-election, but was defeated, owing"
to the division of the district, but the samewinter ,

was elected Secretary of the Senate, in which
capacity he served from 1866 to 1868. In the fall
of 1868 he was nominated by the Republican party
of the Ninth Congressional District (March 13) for
Congress, and became a candidate against Colonel
William F. Switzler. He was granted the certificate
of election by the Hon. Francis Rodman, Secretary
of State. Colonel Switzler contested his right to a
seat in Congress, on the ground that he had received
more votes. than Colonel ~ Dyer, but Congress
sustained Colonel Dyer’s claims by a large majority.
This gave rise to bitter feeling upon both sides-
the question being as to whether the State had a
right, by its constitution, to prohibit from voting
those who were engaged in the rebellion against the
United States Government. The provision of the
constitution upon this subject was upheld by the
Supreme Court of Missouri, and afterwards affirmed
(pending the contest,_before referred to) by the
Supreme Court of°*the'United States, by an equal
division of the judges. He held his seat in
Congress for two years. In May, 1875, he was
appointed United States District Attorney for the
Eastern District of Missouri, which office he held
until August, 1876. During his term of office he
became widely known as the prosecutor of the
great whisky ring-‘of the Eastern District of
Missouri. In 1876 he was nominated by the
Republican party for Presidential Elector forthe
State at large. i ‘

Colonel Dyer has been a member of the Masonic

fraternity since 1859. He is a member of the

‘Protestant Episcopal Church in’ St. Louis; his

father’s family were Baptists. As before indicated,
he is a Republican in politics, and, like his father,
has been much in public life, without soliciting

office. In 1876 he formed a law partnership with
judge David Wagner, formerly Judge of the
Supreme Court of Missouri, and Benjamin

Emmons, Esq., which still continues. They have»
a large practice in the Circuit Court, Court of
Appeals, Supreme and Federal courts.

On the 15th of November, 1860, he was married I

to Miss Lizzie Chambers Hunt, second daughter of
Judge Ezra Hunt, of Bowling Green, Pike co unty,-
Missouri. By this marriage they have five children,
three sons and two daughters, whose names are,
Ezra I-Iunt Dyer, Emma Grace Dyer, David Dyer,
jr., Lizzie Dyer, and Horace Dyer—David and
Lizzie being twins. ' . -

David P. Dyer is a fair type of the energetic
men of the State. In stature he is six feet and a
half inch high, and in avoirdupois about one hundred
and seventy-five pounds He has a full, prominent
forehead, a keen, honest-looking eye, and a large
brain, well supplied with activity, that gives "it
vigorous and fruitful life. The-‘entire organization
of his brain, and the discipline of his mind, place
him in a leading position in society. As a speaker,
he has not a superior in the State, and few, if any,
equals in the United States. Gifted and accom-
plished, shrewd and ~sagacious, he is undoubtedly
destined to further prominence and distinction in
the political arena.
life, he has made his mark as‘ a lawyer and states-
man, and in many important cases displayed legal
ability that marks him for the highest" place among
the brilliant minds of the state and nation.

GENERAL STERLING PRICE.

CHARITON.

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8 county, Virginia, September I4, 1809. His
family were as their name indicates, Welch, but
they had spread into various parts of England and
France, as well as into Virginia. They were

evidently old settlers in Prince Edward county, for ,

the father of the subject of this sketch, Pugh W.

Price, was the youngest of a family of twenty-_five .

children, and a posthumous child of the second wife
of his father. Of the General’s paternal uncles,
two were named Pugh, two John, and two Daniel.
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who had preceded him into the world, had been
duly appointed and settled in life, inherited as his
share in the landed patrimony fourteen hundred
acres of land in Prince Edward county, and some
slaves. General Price was the third of four sons
and a daughter, who lived to maturity. The eldest
brother was Dr. Edwin Price, who died in Bruns-
wick, Missouri, in 1858. The next eldest was Major
Robert Hugh Price, who died in Galveston, Texas,
in 1873. The only sister is Mrs. Pamelia Royal,

widow of Captain john Royal, formerly of Virginia,

and mother of Colonel William Royal, of the United
States army. Mrs. Royal resides in Columbia, Mis-
souri. john R. Price, Esq., late of California, but
now of Texas, is the only surviving brother of the
family.

At a suitable age Sterling was sent to Hampden-
Sydney College, where, after completing his educa-
tion, he at the age of twenty years entered the
clerk’s office at Prince Edward Courthouse, with a
view of being bred to the bar. Here, however, he
did not remain long, for in the fall of the year 1831
his father moved to Missouri, taking with him his
sons, Sterling and john. They spent the winter in
Fayette, in Howard county, and in the spring
following settled in Chariton county, near Keytes—

ville‘, in which neighborhood the subject of this ‘

sketch remained for a number of years, engaged in

keeping a hotel,.in merchandizing, and in agricul— -

tural pursuits, after which he removed some five or
six miles south, and settled on a farm in Bowling
Green Prairie, on which he remained till the break-
ing out of the war in 1861.

In 1840 General Price was first elected to the

lower house of the Missouri Legislature, at which

session he was elected speaker of the same. In‘

1842 he was re—elected to both positions. In 1846
he was elected to a seat in the Congress of the
United States, from the State of Missouri, on the
general ticket system. The war with Mexico having
broken out soon after he took his seat in Congress,
he resigned, and was commissioned by President
Polk to raise a regiment of Missouri volunteers.
Upon this service he returned to Missouri, and in
due time organized his command, of which he was
elected and commissioned Colonel,_and with which
he marched into northern Mexico and the state of
Chihuahua. In 1847 he was promoted for gallant
and meritorious conduct to the rank of Brigadier-
General, and assigned to command in New Mexico,

where he remained till the close’ of the war, He
6

fought the battle of Santa Cruz, which, like the
battle of New Orleans, occurred after a treaty of
peace had been made. In that battle the Americans
captured General Angel Trias, the Mexican com-
mander and Governor of Chihuahua, and several
thousand of his troops and twenty—four pieces of
artillery, although the Mexican forces nearly quad-
rupled that of the Americans. The artillery and
arms were promptly returned to the Mexicans as
soon as knowledge of the treaty of peace reached
the general commanding. Yet it was ever with him
a matter of regret that he could not bring to Missouri
the artillery as trophies of the war.

After the Mexican war, General _Price returned
to his farm in Chariton county, which during his
absence had been managed with great prudence and
skill by his excellent wife. Here he devoted himself
to agriculture and the genial and elegant hospitalities
of that time———a conspicuous trait of all the people of
that section, or wherever Virginians had immigrated.
He was surrounded by a large colony of farmers,
many of them of his own name and kindred, and
by neighbors, who held him in great respect, not
only for his civic. and military services, butwho
esteemed and admired him as a good neighbor and
honest gentleman. From this beautiful retreat at
Bowling Green Prairie he was called again, in 18 52,
into public life. He was nominated by the Demo-
cratic party, and elected by«~a large majority, as
Governor of the State. He entered upon the duties
of the office at a time when the great corporations

_of the State, especially the railroad companies, were

beginning to be_come formidable. Sufficient encour-
agement had been given them during the administra-
tion of Governor King, his immediate predecessor,
to embolden them in the most extravagant demands,

and so plausible did the eloquence of their supporters

in the legislature make these demands appear, that-

large, extravagant appropriations were voted them
by the assistance of the “lobby” and "omnibus ”
bills, and when opposed by the veto of the Governor,
accompanied by the strong logic of his master—mind,
and the prophetic warnings that have since been so
fearfully fulfilled, these bills were passed against his
earnest protestations. Finding the salary of the
Governor inadequate to the support of that officer in
a manner suitable to the dignity of the office, in a
message to the legislature he called their _attention to
the fact, recommending an increase for the benefit
of his successor.
of his term, a law was passed in accordance with the

Two years before the expiration,

42 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

recommendation, but to take effect from and after
its passage ; and notwithstanding the opinion of the
Attorney—General and several members of the
Supreme Court in favor of the constitutionality
of its application to the incumbent, yet he per-
sistently refused to receive a dollar more salary than
he took under the law in force at the time of his
inauguration 3 consequently, there is a large balance
still due him from the State. In 18 56 General Price
returned to his farm, devoting himself to agriculture
and breeding of fine stock, where he remained with
his family till the nomination of Claiborne F. jackson
for Governor, when, upon his resignation of the office
of Bank Commissioner, General Price was induced to
accept the office. In 1857 he interested himself in
the canvass for a county subscription of $250,000 to
secure a railroad through his county, which is now a
part of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Rail-
road, and by his efforts mainly the project was carried
by a vote of three hundred forty-one majority.

In the triangular contest for the Presidency, in
1860, General Price espoused the cause of Stephen
A. Douglass, as a conservative between the extreme

views represented by Abraham Lincoln of the North,‘

and john C. Breckenridge of the South. When the
result of the election was known, and the tremendous
excitement consequent thereupon caused the State
Legislature, upon its assembling in january following,
to call a convention of ninety-nine members, or of
three from each of the thirty-three senatorial districts,
to consider the relations of Missouri to the Federal
Government, Governor Price. with Thomas Shackel-
ford, of Howard, and William A. Hall, of Randolph,
were elected by a large majority, as Union members,
to represent their district; and, upon the assembling
of the convention in February, Governor Price was
elected president of the body.

It was the design of the people of Missouri, if

possible, to avoid the war that ensued, and for that

purpose determined to occupy a position of “ armed
neutrality.” For this they were denounced as
traitors, and as such treated by the federal authorities
and their armies. Governor jackson tendered to
General Price the command of the State forces, with
the rank of Major—General, which he accepted, and
henceforth, after all hopes of averting a conflict
were crushed by the capture of “ Camp Jackson,”
—where General Price’s eldest son was, with the
company which he had raised under the laws of the
State,and of which he had been elected Captain——his
energies were expended in the interests of the South.

This is not the time or place to enter into a
detailed history of his military career while the
sanguinary confiict lasted, for to do so would extend
this sketch beyond our limits, and involve a history
of the war, which is not designed.
say, that either from ignorance of his merits (which
is the most charitable, if not the most coiiipliinentary
reason), or from jealousy of his great popularity
(which is the more probable), by the Richmond
authorities, he was subordinated to those who were
greatly his inferiors, and denied the prominence and
position to which his talents and abilities entitled
him, so that the cause for which he suffered so much
was greatly the loser by the manner in which he was
treated by those who had the authority over him,"
and who ought to have known better. Notwith-
standing all this, the patience with which he
endured, and the brilliant qualities exhibited wher-
ever the occasion presented itself, so endeared him
to the people of the South, that, with the exception
of Lee, and possibly of jackson, no name among
their cherished heroes is remembered with a more
ardent and sincere affection, and in Missouri,
especially, will the memory of his name and deeds
be fresh and fragrant long after those of his
maligners have faded and perished from the earth.

After the surrender, with a number of Missouri
exiles, General Price made his way to the City of
the Montezumas, with a view to the formation of a
colony at Cordova, where a large grant of land had
been made them by the Emperor Maximilian. The
unsettled condition of the country, the waning
fortunes of the Empire, and, more than all, the
unfavorable action of the climate upon his shattered
constitution, notwithstanding Mrs. Price and his
children, with the exception of his eldest son, had
joined him in Mexico, seemed to render his return
to Missouri a necessity. In the winter of 1866 they
returned to St. Louis, the General suffering with a
chronic disease of the bowels, first contracted in
Mexico, some twenty years previous. Here he
engaged in business as a commission merchant, and
established a prosperous house. His health con-
tinued to decline, and all efforts to restore it were
unavailing, and on the 29th of September, 1867, he
died, at peace with all mankind. After the body
had lain in state in the church at the corner of
Eighth street and Washington avenue for several
days, where thousands took their farewell look at
their beloved and honored chieftain, he was buried
in Bellefountaine Cemetery, on the 3d of October-

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the anniversary of one of his greatest battles—fol-
lowed by one of the largest funeral processions that
had ever been known in St. Louis. Endowed with
rare graces of person, and presence full of dignity
and benignity, General Price was a natural soldier.
Capable of holding troops under fire, and of
inspiring them with his own high courage, he had
also the faculty of filling them with a love of his per-
son, amounting’ almost to adoration. His were the
great qualities which befitted him'for battle, and the
dizzy fascinations of danger seemed to exalt him with

_, “The big thoughts that make ambition virtue,”
and he could diffuse his great soul into an army.
He was not so much the general, as the chieftain.
He was the chivalrous leader of a gallant and
adoring people. The magistrate and ruler, the
statesman and citizen. Frugal, without avarice, he
was generous without prodigality, and always just.
At the battle of Lexington, Mo., he captured from
Colonel Mulligan, the federal commander of the
post, a million dollars belonging to the Farmers’
Bank, every dollar of which he returned to its
rightful owners. It was an act of heroic justice,
but “it was not war.”

On the‘ 14th of May, 1833, General Price was
married to Martha, daughter of Captain John Head,
of Randolph county, Missouri, who had emigrated
to Missouri from Orange county, Virginia, about
the same time the Prices did from Prince Ed-
ward, and who settled in the corner of Randolph,
near the lines of Howard and Chariton. Mrs.
Price, as before intimated, was a most excellent
lady, possessed of many amiable traits of character,
which endeared her to all with whom she was asso-
ciated. She survived her husband a little less than
three years.

Only four of their children are living. General
Edwin W. Price, as before stated, was a Captain in
the State Guard. He soon rose to the position of
Colonel, and when General John B. Clark was

, daughters and three sons.

elected as a Senator of Missouri in the Confederate
Congress, Colonel Price was elected Brigadier-
General of his brigade. He remained in the army,
serving with honor and distinction till 1862, in the
spring of which year he was taken prisoner, and was
permitted to return home on his parole of honor.
In early autumn, he was exchanged for General
Prentiss, and returned to the army. Finding his
old command scattered throughout several different
brigades, and the command that was offered him
being composed entirely of strangers, and many of
his subordinates graduates from West Point, he
feared that there would be a lack of sympathy, and
that he might feel like Daniel with Saul’s armor on,
he resigned, and returned. to his home in Missouri,
and devoted his energies to the pacification of his
neighbors and friends during the remainder of the
contest, in which he was remarkably successful.
Here he still lives on an elegant farm of about one
thousand acres (including the old homestead of his
father), of as rich and productive land as is to be

found on the continent, largely engaged in agricul- l

tural pursuits and raising of fine stock, and inthe
winter months dealing largely in tobacco, having
recently completed one of the largest and most com-
plete factories in the State, at a cost of fifteen
thousand dollars, and has just housed, without the
touch of frost, a crop of over a hundred acres of
the “dirty weed.” _ He has six children—three
Colonel Celsus Price, of
St. Louis, recently a prominent Senator in the Mis-
souri Legislature from that city, and who was
spoken of very prominently as a suitable candidate
for Governor at the late Democratic nominating
convention. Martha. Sterling, abbreviated into
“Stella,” a lady of culture and refinement, added to
natural grace and personal beauty, married Peter J.
Willis, a prominent merchant of Galveston, Texas,
where they reside, and Quintus, a young man of
promise, who is stilllsingle, and resides in St. Louis.

MATTHEW W. ANDERSON.

INDEPENDENCE.

ATTHEW W. ANDERSON was born De-
cember 20, 1836, in Jackson county, Mis-

souri. His father, George W. Anderson, was born

in Montgomery county, Kentucky, September I0,
1810, and his father was born in Virginia.

George W. Anderson was raised on a farm and

4.4
received a common school education. \Vhen eigh-
teen years of age he married Miss Sarah Stewart,
January 27, 1829. Miss Stewart was born in Mont-
gomery county, Kentucky, September IO, r8o9, a_nd
was the daughter of Jacob Stewart, who was a native
Virginian, and whose father was born in New ]er—
sey. The mother of Sarah Stewart was Anna Nich~
ols, of Virginia. The parents of Matthew W.
Anderson came to Jackson county, Missouri, in
1836, and located in Blue township, four and one-
half miles east of Independence. January 18, 1859,
his father died, the wife still survives him and lives
upon the old farm. George Anderson left at his
death eight children, four son.s and four daughters,
as follows: Eliza Ann, Matthew W., James R., Mary
F., Jacob S., George W., Rachel and Elizabeth.

The subject of our sketch was the eldest son,
and was raised and educated in his native county,
and lived on a farm until December, 1872, since
which time he has resided in Independence, Mis-
From 1858 to 1860 he was deputy sheriff
under Burrus, he was then elected constable of Blue
township, having eight opponents, and receiving
more votes than all of them combined. This office
he held for only one year, when he resigned.

In 1862 he went to New Mexico as assistant
wagon master, returning to Jackson county in 1863.
In the same year he moved to Platte county, where
he remained but a short time, engaging while there
in trading and farming. In the fall of 1865 he
again returned to Jackson county and went on a
farm, where he remained until 1868, when he was
appointed deputy sheriff under Charles Dougherty,
which position he held two years.

In 1872 he was elected collector of Jackson
county, and was re-elected again in 1874. Mr.
Anderson was a county officer for eighteen years.
Quotations from county papers will show how much

souri.

' he was appreciated by the people.

In the collector’s office Mr. M. W. Anderson
has kept a perfect set of books, easily investigated
and showing at a glance the exact account of the
collector with the county. As his settlements are
made every month, and his balance sheets struck at
each settlement, any one who is curious to know the
state of the accounts between him and the treasurer,
can do so without consulting the collector, as his
books are so accurately and exactly kept that any
man of ordinary business intelligence can under-
stand them upon a slight inspection.

To give some idea of the labor required to do

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this, we will state that there are no less than fifteen
separate funds in this county, viz.: State, county,
special interest, poor house, bridge, road, Van Buren
township, \/Vestport horse railroad, Kaw township,
Kansas City, Independence, Westport and Lee’s
Summit school funds (they being incorporated
schools), and the district school funds. Of the latter,

§ there are one hundred and five districts, with each

i one of which the collector keeps a separate account.

So that in reality the financial transactions of one
hundred and nineteen different funds are to be accu~
rately kept by the collector ; requiring an amount of
labor, care and attention, particularly at certain sea-
sons of the year, which no one can fully appreciate
who has not had some experience in such business.
But such isthe order with which the books are kept,
that not only can the general business of the office
be seen. at a glance, but also the special business of
each fund. If any school director wants to know
the financial condition of his district, he has bL1t to
turn to the number of his district, and the debits and
credits will show at once whether anything has been
placed in the treasurer’s hands, or how much’ re-
mains uncollected.

In the book in which the charges for settlements
are made, seventy-six pages, of forty lines" each,
have been written since the .r7th of May 1875-
showing over three thousand in less than a year.
Not only are the books in good order, but the col-
lections for the past year, considering the financial
depression, the distressed condition of the country
and the large municipal, township and county debts,
have been unusually large. About eighty per cent.
of the tax of 1875 has been collected.
per cent. remains unpaid for that year, but ten per
cent. for the year 1874, and five per cent. for the
year 1873 - all these subject to corrections for
improper assessments, receipts held and not returned,
etc. We may say, without fear of contradiction,
that no collector in the State can show a better set
of books or a more conscientious discharge of duty
than Mr. Anderson, and we think so much is due
to an officer, at the close of his official term, who
has proven himself honest, faithful and capable.

In 1877 Mr. Anderson became one of the lead-
ing members of the banking firm of Brown, Hughes
& Co., of Independence. In a few months the firm
was changed to Anderson, Hughes & Co. Although
this is the youngest bank in the city, being about
two years old, and having two rival banks, still it is
the leading bank in the city.

Only twenty I

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May 7, 1861, Mr. Anderson married Miss Julia

A. Daniel, who was born in Jackson county, Mis-
souri, March 24, 1842, and received her education
in her native county. Her father, Robert Daniel,
was born in Middlesex county, Virginia, April Io,
1798. His father, Robert Daniel, died in October
of the same year, and in 1812, when Robert was
about fourteen years old, his mother moved from
Virginia to Montgomery county, Kentucky. Sep-
tember 5, 1820, Robert Daniel married Catherine
Hanline, who was born in November, 1798, in Mont-
gomery county, Kentucky. Her father was a native
of North Carolina and one of the early pioneers of

_Kentucky, immigrating with Daniel Boone.

In 1836 Mrs. Anderson’s father moved to Mis-

45

souri. Her parents had eight children, as follows:
Overton, Robert and Albert, who died in Kentucky,
Susan, now the wife of William Allen; Robert, resid-
ing in Texas, Catherine, the wife of Rodney Mire,
Jessie, and Julia, the wife of M. W. Anderson. Mr.
and Mrs. Anderson have one child, a daughter,
Catherine B., born February 24, 1862.

Mr. Anderson is a Royal Arch Mason, and
Chancellor Commander in the Knights of Pythias.
In politics he is a Democrat. He is not a professor
of religion, but gives his influence always on the
side of right. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church. His domestic relations
are very happy, and his home a bright and beautiful
place.

JUDGE SWILLIAM HOLMES.

ZKA./VSA5 CITY.

ILLIAM HOLMES was born in ‘Harrison

county, Kentucky, March 2, 1814. His
parents, Thomas and Jane Holmes, whose maiden
name was Vance, were natives of Virginia, his father
being a lineal descendant of Lord Holmes,of Ireland.
His paternal grandfather, John Holmes, was born on
the passage from the North of Ireland to America,
and located in Virginia. He was the father of nine
sons and six daughters William Holmes received his
early education in a log school house, in the State of
Kentucky. The course of the institution embraced
“reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic, as far as
the single rule of three.” In’ spelling William
excelled, and was considered a prodigy of learning,
having completed the full course. His Alma Mater
knew nothing of the mysteries of a+-b and X—y.
A man would have been called insane and sentenced
to the mad-house had he mentioned such nonsense.
Mr. Holmes was an apprentice to education early in
life, and believing ‘that the best and most important
part of every man’s education is that which he gains
himself, sought to be true to himself. He has always
been a thoughtful, careful reader, and we find our
hero to-day a well informed man, acquainted with
the literature of the past and present, a minister and
lawyer of eminence, and a citizen of position. The
controlling desire of his boyhood was to have the
advantages of a good school, but not being finan-

cially able to avail himself of this coveted luxury, he
was compelled to abandon it, and accept a position
as clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Augusta,
Kentucky, which position he held for one year, when
he resigned and returned to the farm, upon which
he may be said to have been raised.

January 22, 1836, he married Laura, daughter
of Barton and Elizabeth Ingrahm, natives of Ver-
mont, having emigrated to Harrison county, Ken-
tucky, while Laura was but a child. Mrs. Holmes
has ever been a good wife, and surely that is
Heaven’s best gift to man. The charities of her
life are scattered everywhere within the circle in
which she has moved. They are not the fruit of
study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural
instinct.

Mr. and Mrs. Holmes have had seven children,
only two of whom are living, a son and a daughter.
Two years succeeding his marriage Mr. Holmes
engaged in farming in his native state. In March,
1838, he emigrated to Missouri, and settled on a
farm near Palmyra, but a year of work there satisfied

 him that he had mistaken his calling, and determined

to read law. He was assisted in his new work by
Hon. Samuel L. Glover, then a prominent lawyer
of Northeast Missouri. He removed to St. Louis
in about 1857, and now stands at the head of his

profession in the State. Mr. Holmes was admitted

46 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

to the bar in 183 9, receiving his license from Supreme
Judges McGirk, Tompkins and Napton, and began
the practice of his profession in Shelbyville, Mis-
souri.

In 1840 he was converted and united with the
Methodist Church, after which he felt that he was
called to the ministry. At the Annual Conference,
in 1842, he was admitted on trial, and for eleven
years discharged the arduous and responsible duties
of a Methodist minister. In 1853 his health failed,
and after an extended tour North and South, in
hopes of recovery, he took a superanuated position,
which he still holds. He removed to Fayette,
Missouri, for the purpose of educating his chil-
dren. In 1857 he located in Johnson county,
Kansas, where he practiced law for five years with
great success. While he was in Kansas he was
urgently solicited to become a candidate for various
offices of honor, which he always declined. Gov-
ernor Robinson appointed him Judge of the Probate
Court, which office he filledfor a short time; but

which he resigned that he might give his entire time I
, to his profession.

He was the originator and one of the incorpo-
rators of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Rail-
road. He wrote the original act of incorporation,
and never relaxed his efforts until the road was com-
pleted. In 1862 he moved to Kansas City, where

behalf of its varied interests.

he has been identified with all the interests of the
city. Judge. Holmes was connected withF. M.
Black in the practice of law under the firm name of
Holmes & Black, for four years. His health failing,
he retired from business for a time_, but soon
resumed again, associating with himself Oliver H.
Dean, a young man of education and refinement
from Pennsylvania. This union still exists under
the name of Holmes & Dean. The junior member
of the firm very early taking a leading position at
the bar, and theirs is considered as among the lead-
ing firms of the city. - .

In 1868 Judge Holmes was elected Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, of Kansas City ; but under
the Drake Constitution was Rodmonized out of it.
He has for several years been one of the most
efficient members of the City Council. When his
health will permit he preaches, and is listened to
with great interest. He has been associated with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since the
great separation in 1844. He always contributes
liberally to all its demands, and works with zeal in
In politics he is
a Democrat, though formerly a Whig. ]udge
Holmes is possessed of a comfortable fortune, which
he makes a blessing to himself and suffering
humanity. He is a wise counsellor, a firm friend,
a true christian and an honest and honored man.

COLONEL KERSEY COATES.

KANSAS CITY.

ERHAPS no sketch which this work contains
P will be read with greater interest than that
of Colonel Kersey Coates. His name is so well
known, and his Western_life so closely identified
with the growth and prosperity of Kansas City, that
they-have become part and parcel of her history.
His enterprise and liberality have made him a lead-
ing spirit in the “ New West,” and the Queen City
of the Missouri Valley owes much of her present
commercial prosperity to his industry and foresight.

Kersey Coates was born in Sadsbury, Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1824. His
parents, who were life—long members of the Society
of Friends, were named respectively Lindley and

Deborah S. Coates. The maiden name of the mother
was Simmons. His father was a farmer, but, deem-
ing his son’s talents adapted to a more intellectual
life, Kersey was given the advantages of a liberal
education. He attended school first, near home,
afterward at Whitestown Seminary, in New York,
completing his course at Phillippi’s Academy, in
Andover, Massachusetts. In these institutions he
received a first-rate and thorough training in all the
English studies, at the‘ same time becoming quite
proficient in several of the ‘modern languages.
After having finished his studies, he was appointed
to the Department of English Literature in the High
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theyouth of his native county for several years,
until qualified to begin the study of law. When
about twenty-five years of age he entered the office
of the late distinguished lawyer, politician and states-
man, Thaddeus Stevens, an associate and personal
friend of his father, with whom he remained until
1853, at which time he was admitted to the bar.
About this time the “irrepressible conflict” between
the pro-slavery and anti-slavery parties of the country
was approaching its culmination, and the Kansas-
Nebraska Act was agitating the entire community.
Colonies both from the North and the South were be-
ing formed, and sent into these territories, especially
the latter, to possess and hold it in the interest of one
or the other party. Armed forces traversed the beau-
tiful prairies of Kansas, murders were frequent, and
finally the United States Government sent its troops
to interfere between the belligerent factions. Kersey
Coates, imbued with the principles of liberty and
freedom of speech which characterized his ancestors,
was not slow in taking position with the anti-slavery
party. Leaving his home in Pennsylvania in 1854,
for the purpose of attending to real estate inter-
ests in the West, he soon found himself among
a desperate set of men from Missouri, Kentucky,
Virginia and Georgia, who were determined to make
Kansas a slave state. For about two years Mr.
Coates remained in Kansas and on the border in
Missouri, and was constantly an object of hatred
with the pro-slavery faction. To the free-state party
his great personal fearlessness, his devotion to the
cause of human rights, and his clear, cool head,
with his legal skill and attainments, were a tower of
strength. He was looked up to by all of them as
an unusually strong and safe man, and was employed
as one of the counsel for the defense of Governor
Charles Robinson, when on trial for treason His
experiences were of the most daring and startling
character, and their relation here would be of intense
interest, if space permitted. Having seen Kansas
virtually through her troubles, he returned to Mis-
souri, where important business interests of his own

‘ and other persons demanded his attention. He
-located in Kansas City, where he has resided with

his family ever since. In 18 55 he was married to a
most estimable lady, Miss Sarah W. Chandler, also
of the Society of Friends and a native of Pennsyl-
vania. .Mrs. Coates is a lady who holds a warm
place in the esteem of those who have the pleasure
of knowing her, and she has always been her hus-
band’s most faithful co-laborer. Amiable, cultivated,

and charitable, her life has been full of good deeds.
She has always been a prominent member of the
“Women’s Christian Association,” and her benevo-
lence is familiar to many a hearth-stone. Colonel
Coates and his wife have been blessed with an
interesting family of four children, three of whom
survive: Laura, Lindley, and Arthur. Laura,
the only daughter, is a most accomplished, sensible
and charming young lady; the boys, Lindley, or
“ Linnie,” as he is familiarly called, and Arthur,
are conspicuous for a manliness far beyond their
years, and bid fair to become an honor to their
parents.

In 1856-7, Kansas City began to show some
signs of business life and activity, and Col. Coates
was one of those far—seeing and intelligent citizens
whose constant study was to bring every influence to
bear in developing the resources of the country and
building up the home of his adoption. Uniting his
efforts with those of other enterprising citizens,
newspapers were established, railroads projected,
favorable legislation secured, and grand commercial
enterprises inaugurated. Important municipal im-
provements were started, and a system of corres-
pondence with prominent Eastern papers perfected,
the result of which was a stream of immigration
that speedily filled up Kansas City and poured into
the counties of Missouri and Kansas. Before the war
Col. Coates was engaged in various enterprises, such
as banking, dealing in real estate, merchandizing
and building. iHe was also prominent in securing
legislative and municipal aid for the Missouri Pacific

-and Cameron railroads, being at one time President

of the latter road, then known as the Kansas City,
Lake Superior and Galveston Railroad.

In politics Col. Coates has been at all times a
firm and unflinching Republican. During the polit-
ical contest of 1860 he was bold and out-spoken in
his views, and was President of the only Republican
club in Western Missouri, if not the only one west
of St. Louis; and, on the day of the Presidential
election, he was one of only seventy or eighty citi-
zens who were willing to put themselves on the
record as “Black Republicans.” During the war
of the rebellion he fully maintained his character for
consistency and courage by coming to the defense of
the Union, and before the war closed was made
Colonel of the 77th Regiment of E. M. M. This
regiment rendered valuable and effective service at
various times during 1863-4-53, and was especially
serviceable during the “Price Raid” of 1864.

lost nearly half of its population.

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At the close of the war Col. Coates, in cominon

with the older citizens of the place, devoted his time
and attention to building up again the city of his
choice, which had during the previous four years
At that time not
a railroad reached. the limits of Kansas City, nor
was there one finished nearer than thirty miles.
Leavenworth, her former rival, had prospered by
the war, and was assuming metropolitan airs, and
claimed a population of 15,000 people. .Nothing
daunted, Col. Coates and his associates commenced
where they had left off in‘ 1860, aroused anewthe

interest of the Eastern capitalists in the various rail-

road lines projected before the war, and almost
before the people of Leavenworth were aware of it
had renewed the contract with the Hannibal & St.
Joseph Railroad Company for building the Cameron
branch of that road; had procured the charter for a
bridge over the Missouri river at Kansas City, and
got a wealthy corporation to undertake the construc-
tion of it; had incorporated the Missouri River,
Fort Scott &: Gulf Railroad, obtained for it a splen-
did endowment of land from the State of Kansas,
and effected a treaty between the Government and
various tribes of the Indian Nation, giving the com-
pany great advantages. In short, he and his co-
laborers had so concentrated commercial facilities of
every kind, and so bound the wealth and moneyed

influence of New York and Boston to Kansas City,
that, within five years after the war, the population
had increased over 600 per cent., and the import-
ance of its trade and commerce were felt and recog-
nized all over the country. ‘In all these enterprises
Col. Coates was prominent, and in many of them the
leader. He was especially instrumental in securing
the legislation in Congress and in the Kansas Legis-
lature which resulted in the construction of the Mis-
souri River and Fort Scott Railroad, of which he
was President for several years. Besides his labors
for the public, he has kept his own individual affairs

well in hand, and has "prospered accordingly. He

has, besides his own handsome residence, erected a
very large and commodious hotel, known as the
“Coates House,” and one of the finest opera houses
in the West.

In religion Col. Coates, though being brought
up a Quaker, is, Unitarian in sentiment, though
liberal and charitable in his religious views and
practice. In personal appearance he is tall and
sparsely built, dark complexion, black eyes, ‘black
hair and whiskers streaked with grey; very ac-
tive and vigorous in habit. He is very cautious

and logical in mental action, quick in speech,_

and firm in his decisions, but, withal, very courteous
in manner, agreeable in conversation and equable
in temper.

DR. JOHNSTON LYKINS.

KANSAS CITY.

  R. JOHNSTON LYKINS was born in Frank-
D lin county, Virginia, on the 15th day of April,‘
1800. During his boyhood his parents emigrated to
Kentucky and settled near Berksville, Cumberland
county. From this section, in that great flood of emi-
gration which poured into the Wabash Valley, they
found their way about the year 1816 to the neigh-
borhood of Vincennes, Indiana, and subsequently
settled permanently near the city of Vincennes. In
this vicinity Dr. Lykins purchased land and entered
upon the business of farming and stock raising , but
soon becoming dissatisfied with the prospects of the
country and deeming it‘ a very unhealthy region, he
abandoned the business and Went to the town of
Fort Wayne, where he engaged ‘in teaching school

and reading medicine. In June, 1822, he united
with the Baptist Church, and was baptized by the
Rev. Isaac McCoy in the Maumee river. ‘Soon
thereafter he was appointed by the Baptist Board of
Foreign Missions, located at Boston, Massachusetts,
as a laborer in the India.n field. During the winter
of 1822 and 1823 he repaired with others to the site
of what was subsequently known as the Carey Mis-
sion, near Niles, Michigan, where he remained busily
employed until he received an appointment from the
Secretary of war as a teacher at the rapids of Grand
river among the Ottawas, where he remained for
several years.

‘On the 27th of February, 1828, he was united
inimarriage to Miss Delilah McCoy, oldest daugh-

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ter of Rev.'Isaac McCoy, superintendent of these
missions. They had four children, and the older
ones, a daughter and son, are living in Kansas
City. The son, W. H. R. Lykins, is at present em-
ployed in the Post Office at Kansas City, and is an
upright, honorable citizen. The oldest daughter,
Mrs. S. L. Russell, whom partial friends l1ave been
pleased to credit with some natural ability and gift
for writing, is the mother of a loving and dutiful
family of children. ]ulia, the second daughter, was
the first wife of Colonel Theodore S. Case, well and
favorably known as a man of sterling worth in all
the relations of life. Mrs. Case was possessed of
all those charms which adorn society. She made
beautiful all the daily walks of life with good deeds
and loving actions, the memory of her gentleness
and loving character will long remain a fragrant
remembrance in the hearts of those who knew and
loved her. The second son, Charles Rice, died at
the age of four years. The mother of these child-
ren, a woman of a singularly modest and retiring,
yet 1nost lovely and intellectual character, was taken
from her husband and little ones when they most
needed her tender care. Yet never, perhaps, was
a father better fitted to supply the place of both
parents. Between himself and his children there
existed the tenderest bond of perfect sympathy and
affection, seldom equalled an_d never excelled——a
bond that never knew a break or a weakening.
His consoling words of wisdom, his calmness and
resignation in the dark hours of earthly loss or sore
bereavement, his implicit faith in the over-ruling
providence of God in the smallest events of daily
life, his tender, loving heart which ever trembled
and quivered with their own in every disappointment
or grief which touched their lives, endeared him to
his children to whom his character seemed a fitting
type and exposition of the great fatherhood of God.
Frank and leal to friend and companion, fighting
the battle of life, ever in the first rank, truthful
above all things, generous to enemies, strong in the
indomitable hardihood of his nature, Dr. Lykins
has left his mark upon the age in which he lived.
Repairing shortly afterwards to Lexington, Ken-
tucky, he spent the winter of 1828-9 in attending
medical lectures in Transylvania University at that
city, where he concluded his medical education. In
the spring of. 1829 he left Louisville for the Indian
Territory west of the Missouri, crossing the Mis-
souri river at St. Louis on a horseboat. At this

time St. Louis had a population of only five or six
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thousand inhabitants. After spending two years in
winding up the schools and stations in Missouri,
quartering his family in the meantime at Fayette,
Howard county, Missouri, he reached the Indian
Agency near Westport in July, 1831. While in
this place he was appointed Postmaster by Amos
Kendall, then Postmaster-General, and was the first
Postmaster appointed west of Independence, Mis-
souri. At that time it required a ride of twelve or
fourteen miles to either mail or receive a letter. In
this capacity he served until the office was removed
to Westport.

Having been commissioned by the Secretary of
War and by the Board of Missions to visit and nego-
tiate with the various Indian tribes for the introduc-
tion among them of Normal Labor Schools and Mis-
sions under the joint auspices of the Government
and Board of Missions, he immediately entered
upon his work. He also procured a printing press
and commenced the publication of the first books,

‘ hymns, and translations from the Bible in various

Indian dialects. While thus engaged he was
appointed by the Government physician to the
Pottowatomie tribe and remained so employed until
I851, when, his wife having died and left him with
three small children to look after, he gave up his
connection with the Indian Mission, after almost
thirty years’ continuous service with them, and
removed to Kansas City where he had in 1836 pur-
chased an interest.

In October, 1851, he was re-married to Miss
Martha A. Livingston, of Lexington, Missouri, a
lineal descendant of Phillip Livingston, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence and
also a second cousin to Stonewall Jackson, of Vir-
ginia. After his location in Kansas City he devoted
his time to the practice of medicine for ten or twelve
years, and subsequently to taking care of his prop-
erty of which he had accumulated a large amount.

He lived to see St. Louis advance from a place
of 5,000 inhabitants to a city of almost 6oo,ooo,
and Kansas City from one of the finest forests in
the West to a city of 4o,ooo inhabitants, and it may
be said in passing that to the rapid growth of the
latter he, as much as any one man, contributed.

Dr. Lykins was one of thirteen children born to
his parents. His father was disinherited by the
depreciation of the Continental currency in this
wise: His grandfather being killed about the close
of the Revolutionary War, his estate, an ample one,
having under the laws of Virginia been converted

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into Continental money was entirely swept away.
Shortly after his removal to Kansas City the

place took a sudden start and for a number of years

i. e. until the winter of 1860-1 grew with great rap-

ment of its interests, Dr. Lykins was always one of
the foremost in liberality and activity. He was its
firstiMayor, one of the most active in securing the
establishment of a newspaper within its limits, then
called the Em‘erprz'se now the _/oumczl of C077zmerce,'
he called together and presided over the first rail-
road meeting ever held here, was a frequent corres-
pondent of Eastern and Southern papers in the in-
terest of immigration, spent large sums of money in
building, was the first President of the Mechanic’s
Bank, was Councilman at several different periods,
a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce
in its early organization, one of the founders of the

In all enterprises looking to the advance-

First Baptist Church, and in short bore his full share
in every enterprise of a public or private character
looking to the building up of his loved city.

Dr. Lykins was often heard to say that he had
never knowingly wronged a human being or caused
one loss. Tender as a woman in sympathizing with
suffering, he was strong in his convictions of duty,
and faithful in its discharge. To those who knew
him best and loved him most the recollection of his
words and actions are a perpetual benediction. He
died at the Orphans’ Home, near Kansas City, of
which his wife was Superintendent, on the 15th
day of August, 1876, in the 77th year of his age.
His faculties were undimmed, his mind as clear
and strong as in the early days of his manhood.
He died, as he had lived, at peace with all the
world and honored and respected by all who knew
him.

JOHN SHORE, M. 1).

ST. LOUIS.

OHN SHORE was born July II, 1819, in Peters-

burg, Virginia. His father, Thomas Shore, was

a native of Petersburg,’ Dinwiddie county, Vir-
ginia, and was Postmaster of that city for thirty
years. In 1842 he located in St. Louis and for six
years was actively engaged as a co.nmission mer-
chant. Thomas Shore was the son of Dr. John
Shore, Sr., a native of Yorkshire, who, after graduat-
ing at Edinburg, moved to the United States and
settled in Petersburg, Virginia. Thomas Shore was
a cousin of the distinguished Florence Nightingale.
He died in St. Louis in 1848, deeply lamented by a
large circle of friends. The mother of John Shore,
]r., was Mary Harriet Bolling, a native of Dinwid-
die county, Virginia, a direct descendant of John
Randolph, and daughter of Alexander Bolling, who
was a descendant of Pocahontas, and by occupation
a planter.

The subject of our sketch was raised in his native
place, and obtained his education at Hampden Sid-
;1ey College, Prince Edward county, Virginia, and
at the University of Virginia In 1838, he began to
read medicine in Petersburg with Dr. Benjamin May,
one of the most prominent physicians in Virginia.

In 1841 he graduated in medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ‘He located in
Nottaway county, Virginia, and practiced his profes-
sion there until November, 1842, when he removed
to St. Louis, Where he has since resided, and has an
extensive and lucrative practice. He has served as
member of the city council for several years, also as
President of the Board of Health. In May, 1842,
he married Miss Martha Peyton Branch, of Dinwid-
die county, Virginia, a daughter of Edward O.
Branch, and granddaughter of Governor Giles of
Virginia. She died in 1856, leaving six children.

- In December, 1857, Dr. Shore married Miss Theo-

dosia Powell, of Kentucky, a granddaughter of Gov-
ernor Tompkins, of that State. To them have been
born five children. ,

In politics the Doctor is a Democrat. He was a
Kentucky Whig until the dissolution of that- party,
and cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison,

I and at the election preceding the civil war he voted

for Bell and Everett. Dr. Shore is a consistent
member of the Roman Catholic Church. He is one
of the most prominent physicians in St. Louis, and
is highly esteemed as a citizen.

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THEODORE s. CASE, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

HEODORE S. CASE, the present Postmaster
Tof Kansas City, was born in jackson, Butts
county, Georgia, january 26, 1832. His parents
were Ermine Case, still living and residing in Kan-
sas City, honored and respected, and Mary A.
(Cowles) Case, who died in I846. They both were
natives of Connecticut but removed to Georgia soon
after their marriage.

Soon after the birth of Theodore they returned
to the North, taking up their abode in Columbus,
Ohio, where they raised a family of four sons, includ-
ing Oliver, George, and Ermine, all of whom are or
have i been prominent citizens of Kansas City.

Theodore received a collegiate education at Mari-
etta, Ohio, graduating in 18 51, after which he
devoted several years to teaching, having been for
a term Professor of Mathematics in Esther Institute
at Columbus, Ohio. He then studied medicine in
the office of Prof. S. M. Smith, M. D., and at the
end of his course received the degree of M. D., from
Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. Hav-
ing practiced his profession two years at Columbus,

, during which he was Assistant Physician at the Ohio

Penitentiary, he determined to move West, and
accordingly in the spring of I85 7 he came to Kansas
City, at that time a rough unsightly town of some
two thousand people or less. Being, however, the
headquarters of a vast transportation and immigra-
tion business it was bustling and active, which
accorded well with his nature and he soon adapted

himself to the ways of the people and became one .

of them. He soon built up a good practice, at the
same time identifying himself with the various
means which were adopted to build up the town.
He was in r860 elected an alderman and also served
the public as Secretary of the Board of Trade about
the same time. He has always been an ardent and
outspoken Republican, having become a member of
that party just after its organization and cast his
first vote for Salmon P. Chase for Governor of Ohio,
and ]ohnC. Fremont for President ‘a year or two
later. ‘

In the Presidential campaign of 1860 he assisted
in editing two Republican papers in Kansas City,
The P051 (German) and T /ze Free Stafe Republzkaiz
(English), being the only papers of that political

faith west of St. Louis in the State of Missouri,
and was one of only about seventy Republicans
who carried out their principles by voting for Abra-
ham Lincoln for President. In the spring of 1861
upon ‘the call of the President for volunteers he
enlisted as a private in Company C, of Colonel R.
T. Van Horn’s Battalion of the I_3th, afterwards the
25th, Missouri Volunteers 3 two weeks later he was
elected Lieutenant, in which capacity he served
just one year, when he was appointed by the Presi-
dent Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of Vol-
unteers. This position he held in different portions
of Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas as District Quar-
termaster of the “District of the Border,” “The

. District of Central Missouri,” etc., under such

officers as Generals Thomas Ewing, E. B.‘ Brown,
Alfred. Pleasanton, Rosecrans and Schofield, until the

' close of the war, when he resigned his position and’

commission, and was appointed by Governor Thomas
C. Fletcher, of Missouri, Colonel and Quartermaster-
General of the State with headquarters at St. Louis,
where he remained until he wound up the multifari-
ous and miscellaneous business of the office, when
he again resigned and returned to Kansas City and
entered with redoubled zeal and energy upon the
work of building up his adopted town. The labors
connected with this ever remarkable and successful
undertaking were too numerous and extensive to
recapitulate here 3 but, suffice it to say, that he was
ever found ready to aid with work, advice or money
so far as he possessed it, those other pioneers of the
history of Kansas City, Colonels Van Horn and
Coates, Dr. Lykins, Ranson, Bouton, Balis, Kear-
ney, Reid and Payne, as well as those who came later
and joined in the work so earnestly and efficiently.

Aside from his interest in public matters, he

became interested in real estate and turned his
attention to improving it by building. More than
twenty-five buildings in this city were either wholly
or in part erected‘ by him between 1867 and- 1872,
costing an average of $5,000 each. In 1869 he
and his brother, Oliver Case, purchased a large
manufacturing establishment and opened a store in
connection therewith. This venture being entered
upon just’ at the time when drouth and grasshoppers
were devastating Kansas and breaking up its people,

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and the contraction policy was decreasing values of
all kinds, proved disastrous; and after about four
years they failed, having lost very heavily,but having
maintained their character for honesty, and integrity
unspotted. That this was the case is shown by the
fact that the people of Kansas City almost unani-
mously joined in an application to President Grant
in 1873 for the appointment of Colonel Case as Post-
master. The appointment was made in the spring
of 1873, and for four years so perfect satisfaction
was given that again he was almost unanimously
supported for re-appointment, and was accordingly
re-appointed by President Hayes, in May, 1877, and
is now holding the office.

Having always had a taste for scientific and liter-
ary pursuits,Colonel Case has at various times written
for the daily papers, the Medical journals and the
magazines of the day, and has at other times pub-
lished such works as the “Quartermaster’s Guide,”
which he published in 1864, and which received the
commendation of the Quartermaster General of the
United States Army and other officers of the Regu-
lar Army and many others 3 a pamphlet on the “Pre-
vention and Extinguishment of Conflagrations,”
which has also been highly spoken of by scientific
editors ; also together with Professor G. M. B‘.
Maughs, now of St. Louis, a Bi-Monthly Medical
journal in 1860, called the “Kansas City Medical
and Surgical Review,” and he is at present publish-
ing a monthly scientific periodical under the title of

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“The Western Review of Science and Industry,”
which is devoted to popular science of all kinds and
is meeting with universal success.

In 18 58 Dr. Case was married to Miss Julia Mc-
Coy Lykins, youngest daughter of Dr. Johnston
Lykins, whose life is sketched elsewhere, and,’ with
her he lived most happily until 1872 when she died,
leaving him with three small children,named respec-
tively Lilah M., aged five years; Johnston L., aged
three years , and Ermine C., aged one year. Three
other children had been born to them, each of whom
died at about the age of four years. Fortunately his
children found loving and faithful friends in their own
father’s family. and that of his late wife, which was a
great comfort and stay to him in his affliction, but feel-
ing the want of a home where they could all live
united again,and being of a domestic habit, two years
later he found a suitable and worthy helpmate in
Miss Fidelia 0. Wright, of Kansas City, to whom
he was married in 1874 and with whom he now lives
most happily. ’

Colonel Case’s height is nearly or quite six feet,
weight one hundred and ninety-five to two hundred
pounds, complexion light and fair, eyes blue, hair
and beard light brown. His temperament is san-
guine, habit active and energetic, disposition even
and amiable except when falsely dealt with, forgiv-
ing readily in most instances ; amember of the Bap-
tist Church and a citizen who is highly esteemed by
all who know him.

HENRY J. LATSHAW.

I(A./VSAS CITY.

ENERALLY, an eventful life has need to be
G’ strong, brave, persevering, and full of affec-
tion. It is not enough for the just analysis of a
final summing up that a man should have been for-
tunate, or born to the possession of many provident

things, or kept from the bitterness of early poverty’

through the safeguard of a just inheritance, or
exempted from fierce competition because of the
ability of his friends or the pride of his family, but
to be stalwart, independent, and just, in despite of
all these auxiliaries, is to present the true man, fit
for any battle fate forces him to fight.

Henry ]. Latshaw, the grandson of a Virginia
cavalier, and the son of a Canadian revolutionist,
succeeded naturally to honest self-assertion and
unyielding strength of character. Two of the
noblest attributes of human nature— sincerity and
courage—also were a portion of his birthright. The
stormy surroundings of his father’s political career
swept away their substance, and left the son no other
resource than the energy of indomitable manhood.
The world was before him, unknown and unex-
plored. The future, to be made propitious, had first
to be encountered. Destiny, that secret ally of

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deserving men, had as yet declared neither for nor
against him. In his two hands he held his own for-
tune.

Henry J. Latshaw was born at Paris, Canada
West, January 9, 1835. He was the only son of
Peter J. and Mary Latshaw, and the grandson of a
sturdy Virginia cavalier, who removed to Canada
when Hen'ry’s father was but eighteen years old,
where he engaged at once in milling and agriculture.
Arrived at the age of manhood, Peter J. Latshaw
married an elegant English woman, whose parents
had also immigrated to Canada during the girlhood of
the daughter. The Patriot Revolution of 1837 came,
was fought out, was unsuccessful in its immediate
issues, and was succeeded by the inevitable results
of unsuccessful revolution, confiscation and proscrip-
tion. Later on, however, the patriotic efforts of
Peter J. Latshaw and his associates bore‘ fruit in this,
that the mother—country gave them a more liberal
constitution and a more tolerant government. The
dead who had died for the right were mourned sin-
cerely—that last tender consolation patriotism has
sometimes permitted to it——while the living had to
make their peace as best they could, and save from
the .wrecks of the strife whatever was capable of
being saved. Peter J. Latshaw saved nothing.
Everything he owned was confiscated to the British
crown. Such had been the man’s courage, activity
and devotion that proscription followed confiscation.
A price was put upon his head. On his track were
heard the baying of the official ban-dogs. He fled
to Buffalo, New York, with his family, and turned
about a ruined man, but an undaunted one. Attracted
by his disinterestedness and his courage, a few more
fortunate friends came to his relief in Buffalo, and
enabled him to engage in the mercantile business.
Fate, however—not yet done with one who, at the
desperate game of revolution, had played the stakes
of heroism and conscience--assailed him where there
could be no defense, and struck him where he could
only suffer and bleed. His beloved wife died, and
he turned in sheer heart-sickness from his Buffalo
home, and, by a change of scene and a change of
business, sought to make lighter the load which was
so heavy to bear. He first built the large flouring
mills at Black Rock, near the Niagara Falls, and
then, later, removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he
engaged energetically in agriculture and the raising
of fine stock.

Henry J. Latshaw began at this Toledo farm the
study of civil engineering, and graduated finally

with high honor. Offered employment at once by a
railroad company of Central Illinois, he removed to
Canton, and spent some time injibuilding the Jack-
son &: Savannah road, a portion of which was finally
ironed and operated by the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad Company.

In the memorable campaign between Douglas
and Lincoln, Latshaw took an active part for the
former, making many able speeches, and editing,
for a short time, and with marked ability, the Fulton
County Ledger’. Although working in a doubtful dis-
trict, and in one in which the Democrats had hith-
erto been unsuccessful, it was handsomely carried at
this election, and Latshaw was made Deputy Circuit
Clerk. In October, 1861, he was married to Miss
Arminda Steele, eldest daughter of Ambrose S.
Steele, Esq., a lady of greatamiability and sterling
force of character, and she was the mother of four
sons, Ross W., Henry J., jr., Ralph S. and Donald
A. Latshaw.

The war began, and Henry J. Latshaw became
an active participant in it on the side of the Union.
In conjunction with Colonel R. G. Ingersoll, that
brilliant campaigner of the Tilden and Hayes con-
test, as a friend of Hayes, he labored hard to recruit
the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, and succeeded to the
extent of presenting to the government a splendid
regiment—every company full to its largest legal
extent. Colonel Ingersoll was made the Colonel—a
vigilant Democrat at that time, and a candidate for
Congress on the Democratic ticket.
fur, ea‘ nos vzzutamur in 27/23‘.

After this regiment was formed, Latshaw ‘went
immediately to work to form another, and was finally
made Quartermaster of Major D. J. Wagoner’s bat-
talion, which he served in with great credit until,
under the general orders for reorganizing and con-
solidating cavalry regiments, this battalion was reor-
ganized and consolidated. In June, 1862, he was
appointed, by the President, Assistant Quartermas-
ter, with the rank of Captain, serving at Pittsburg
Landing and Hamburg, with his old energy and
ability, until transferred to the Department of
Ohio. Next he served as Division Quartermaster
with General A. Baird, until ordered to relieve Colo-
nel Ransom, Chief Quartermaster of the army of
Kentucky. The same high sense of honor and the
same untiring devotion toduty marked his career in
his new field of operations, and he occupied this
field as Chief Quartermaster during the most suc-
cessful efforts of its armies. He was thanked in

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special orders for his boldness, his address, his sol-
dierly behavior, his capacity to obtain supplies, his
honorable .treatment of the citizens, and his cori-
scientious dealing with every one. Ill health coming
naturally as a reward for so much labor and zeal,
Latshaw was forced to ask for a sick-leave, being
finally relieved by Colonel Hall, Burnside’s Chief

Quartermaster, and abandoning the army on account j

ill-health.
Latshaw, while casting about for something to do,

returned to Paris, Canada West, and began civil life i

again as an oil speculator, much of this sort of busi-
ness going on at Inniskillen and Bothwell. He suc-
ceeded finely financially, but he was not satisfied.
The New West came up ever before his ardent vision
as some wonderful picture he had but just caught a
glimpse of, and he returned to it eagerly in the fall
of I86 5. E12 route originally to Omaha, Kansas City
detained him, through the influences of some sort or
kind of occult spell that no Wayfarer has ever yet

‘successfully analyzed, and he formed a co-partner-

ship at once with Mr. R. W. Quade, and began a
new life, in .a new town, and in the midst of new
faces, requirements and surroundings, as a lumber
merchant.
among the most reliable and the most successful in
the West. Its ramifications were everywhere. Its
agents penetrated Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and
the Indian Territory. Latshaw was the organizer of
this immense trade, its head, front, and vitalizing
influence. He prospered, and he did his full share
in causing his city to prosper. Liberal to every pub-
lic enterprise, among the first to volunteer in every
public effort at development, in the front always
where there were to be given hard blows in behalf
of railroad interests absolutely necessary to be
secured, active, vigilant, open-hearted and handed,
the guide of the emigrant and the counsellor of the
unacquainted—he was soon regarded as one of the
pillars of the young metropolis, and one of the calm,
strong men of the new era succeeding the war.

Just in the full tide, however, of his popularity
and his success, a shadow fell‘ upon his household.

Death entered there in the spring of 1870, and took .
away suddenly his beloved wife——the comp. wion of ‘

his youth and his earlier struggles—the om sure,
steadfast guide of his earlier m.anhood——the cultured,
gentle, kindly, christian woman—the love of his
whole heart and the idol of his being. He received
the blow as became a true man——with the agony of
silence and the unostentation of tears. He buried

Instantly the firm took rank as one:

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her and he adored her. He turned his face fair to
the duties of life, and he kept his faithfulness——all
the more tender because so perfectly outspoken—
until only those could see it who knew how true and
sure it was——-the night and the infinite.

His friends had need of Latshaw, nevertheless,
no matter how he suffered and endured, and they
demanded that he should become a political leader.
Registration had been especially virulent in Missouri.
The registration law should have been entitled an
edict of proscription. None who were not Republi-
cans could succeed under it. Devotion to the Union,
service in the Federal army, opposition to secession,
intelligence, real worth,._ honorable manhood, actual
possession of property, or vital interest in all local or
national legislation went for nothing, unless a voter
foreswore the Democratic party and stultified himself
in order that he might be temporarily successful. A
revolt was in process of organization. The time had
come to shake off the yoke of the registrar and the
Provost Marshal. Leaders were looked for who had
high courage, undaunted energy, and true Democ-
racy, and Latshaw was called upon unmistakably to
become a candidate for the lower branch of the Mis-
souri Legislature. It was in this lower and popular
branch-——the House of Representatives—-that the
great battle of State sovereignty was to be fought,
and as a candidate for this house, Latshaw was asked
to make the race. Actuated both by a patriotic and
a high party duty, he consented with grave alacrity.
The battle was hot. The contending forces fought
as political parties fight who understand that for either
side defeat means annihilation. The end, came,
and Latshaw, leading his ticket, was triumphantly
elected.

Proceeding to the State capital in advance of the
meeting of the Legislature—the twenty-sixth General
Assembly——he took at once an active and influential
part in the organization of the House, and was made
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, by
far the most important committee at any time, and
doubly so at this time of political revolution and
transition. General Frank P. Blair, at this first ses-
sion of the twenty-sixth General Assembly, was a
candidate for the United States Senate. Latshaw
was his pronounced friend, even in the race which
ushered. in his election, and at the culmination of
the immediate contest which secured it, no man did
better, more intelligent, or more effective work. The
triumph of Blair was the triumph of free Missouri
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none had reflected upon them, through such triumph,
a more brilliant and enduring light.

As a legislator, Latshaw was attentive, laborious
and successful. As chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means, he never had a bill beaten, or an
endorsed report laid aside. His colleagues all liked
him. Cool and clear—headed, largely liberal, free
from cant or hypocrisy, patient with all, of immense
vitality, going straight to the heart of a subject when
others went obliquely, and full of the charity of con-
cession——because he believed that in order to reach

’ the true plane of toleration it was necessary that all

modes and manners of worship should be considered
true by the people, false by the philosophers, and
useful by the magistrates——he could neither be a par-
tizan legislator nor a party maker of laws. In devo-
tion proper to his party, however, none went fur-
ther—that is to say, in that legitimate devotion which
demanded rigid discipline and an unfaltering obe-
dience to the rules and requirements of organization.
Never deceiving himself, he did not permit others to
deceive him. Excellent understanding is often
deceived by the unsuspecting goodness of the heart.
Artful men, who study the passions of politicians
and conceal their own, are injurious to the extent
with which they grasp power while affecting to despise
it. Latshaw was no man’s cat’s—paw. During his
whole political life he fought his own battles, advo-
catedihis own measures, abided—standing or falling
—by his own acts. The House of Representatives
became at last to_ have so much respect for his abil-
ity, so much confidence in his integrity, so much
trust in his statementsof facts and figures, that his
advocacy of a measure universally secured its suc-
cess, and his championship of a bill invariably
secured its adoption.
tor came to" an end, none stood higher in the State,
nor one anywhere who had won greener or more
attractive laurels.

In 1870, the firm of Latshaw & Quade aban-
doned the lumber business, while Latshaw turned
his attention at once to the grain trade and gave to
it the same energy and ability that had characterized
his career as a politician. He saw things as with
the prescience of a prophet. He saw the immense
tide of emigration spreading itself over Kansas and
Western Missouri. He saw the immense additional
acreage yearly brought into cultivation. He saw
how Kansas City stood, and how she might be made
a great reservoir of all this development, and he
strove, from the beginning, to make her a great

When his career as a legislaé I

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grain centre. Therefore, in 1871, he built the first
elevator ever erected in the Missouri Valley, and
gave the first start to Kansas City which was quickly
seized upon and quickly made to expand into an
immense business. Fire destroyed this first elevator,
however—just as the problem of its erection had
been thoroughly and most satisfactorily solved-—and
with it the accumulation of years of toil and energy.
Indomitable and undeterred, either by calamity or
misfortune, Latshaw began again at the beginning
and wrought for the city of his pride and his love
and to rebuild his own fortunes, as a giant in the
ranks of enterprise. Elected President of the Kansas
City Board of Trade in 1871, and declining a
reelection the following year, he was yet prevailed
upon to become one of the Vice Presidents of the
National Board of Trade, and to attend its sessions,
which hedid, and represented the great interests of .
his people and section with distinguished ability.

In the spring of 1874, Mr. Latshaw was married

the second time, and to Miss Ophelia Scott, daugh-i

ter of the late Chief Justice Scott, of Missouri, and
a very elegant and accomplished woman, who is
the mother of Mary C. and Scott Duncan Latshaw.

His efforts to make Kansas City a great grain
centre never relaxed. Early in 1875 he built a fine
elevator at Abilene, Kansas, and in the summer of
the same year he organized in Kansas City the Union
Elevator Company, for the purpose of constructing
a public elevator which should meet the demands
resulting from the very rapid increase in the grain
trade. Ample means were provided, and after
thoroughly investigating the different kinds of
elevators, and examining all the late improvements,
he prepared a plan, and built the Union Elevator
upon it——which is one of the largest and most coin-
plete structures of the kind anywhere.

_ Now that everything is a success—now that
Kansas City has secured an immense, and yet con-
stantly growing grain‘trade—now that elevator has
followed elevator, and investment investment—now
that complete success is accepted as truth by all, and
the true ideas of concentration and control accepted
by all—it is time to look. correctly upon the whole
struggle, and give to the man who had most to do
in the colossal work the credit that should be given
to him. ‘ That man is Henry ]. Latshaw. From the
first he saw the future. Liberal with his ow11 means;
capable of giving sensible reasons to sensible men,
practical about everything; trusting nothing to
chance ; pursuing a proposition until logically it either

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became a false or a true one; abiding steadfastly by
all contracts , upright in all of his dealings , extend-
ing his acquaintance on the one hand by enterprise,
and on the other by suavity , feeling to grow within
him the faith that a great commercial destiny
belonged to Kansas City, by the inalienable rights
of her position and surroundings——Latshaw was the
master-mind of the movement which has lined the
banks of the Missouri river with elevators, and
poured into and through the famed city a tide of
prosperity that can only go on increasing and bene-
fitting largely, though indirectly, every citize11 of the
place. _

In the full vigor of a stalwart manhood, and in
the full enjoyment of eminent business success,
Latshaw can aspire to much and succeed to much.
He is a man uponwhom all can rely. As a politi-
cian, he is open, frank, vigilant and aggressive.
He loves legitimate combat. He courts those situa-
tions where blows are to be given and received.
Courteous in debate, in all the amenities of political
intercourse, in every position or situation where gen-
tlemen meet to talk or to act, there is yet no more
unyielding or unbending man alive when the time
has come to draw the political line or put up the
political fence. In debate Latshaw is cool, deliber-
ate and thoroughly self-poised. He depends in no
thing upon the adornments of rhetoric. He never
begins to speak until he has thoroughly mastered
his subject, and until he has made himself thor-
oughly familiar with every point connected with it.
Then he is fluent, rapid, convincing, logical. His
arguments are presented in quick succession, and
are as clear cut as the cutting of a knife. Never

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boisterous, his easy manner is all the more irresisti-
ble because so naturally colloquial. Interruptions
fall away from the symmetry of his discourse as
hail stones from a slate roof. Strong in self-posses-
sion and in the confidence that comes from accurate
study, agile antagonists do not harm him by the
tricks of their trade, nor wary debators make him
forego a strong point through sudden assault.
Above everything else, he is always safe, equable,
ready for duty, and true to the death.

As a man of business, Latshaw’s name and fame
is co-extensive with the Missouri Valley.
neer, as it were, among a race of pioneers, he has
illustrated every step of his financial and commer-
cial career by acts of liberality and great practical
advantage. With every vital interest of his people
and his section he has been closely identified, and
in every step taken through his energy toward a
higher development Kansas City has never had a
safer counsellor or a more devoted friend. Of
course he onlyidid his duty in this, and only acted
as a sensible business man would, but it is much to
do one’s duty thesedays, and it is a great deal to
do_it unfalteringly and ungrudgingly. Latshaw is
content so only his city and his section prosper.
In no way ambitions to succeed through the selfish

2 grasping and pushing of individual greed,_ there is,

however, no time when he would not sacrifice
much for his party and more for his personal or
political friends. A bold, liberal, independent man
——a true comrade and a generous foe—he is a fitting
representative of that hardy and vigorous West
which has produced so many heroes in every walk
and condition of life.

NEI-IEMIAH HOLMES.

KANSAS CIT Y.

EHEMIAH HOLMES was born in New York
N His father 3
name was Nehemiah Holmes, and his mother’s Clara
Dan. They had eight children, three sons and five
daughters, he being the seventh of the family. His
father had been a merchant in New York City , but
in later life he retired to a large farm in Winchester
county, New York.

. on the 2d day of February, 1825.

Mr. Holmes received a good business education,
studying, among other things, engineering. In 1843,
when eighteen years of age, he left school and
emigrated to Aberdeen, Mississippi, where his brother
Hezekiah, in partnership with Mr. Kendall, of Balti-
more, was doing a large general merchandise busi-
ness. Here he displayed so much business ability,
that he soon got sole charge of the concern, and,

A pio— '

the 26th day of April, 1873.

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when only twenty-one years of age, he was admitted
as partner. Here he remained until 18 56, when he
closed out the business and came to Kansas City,
where he remained up to the time of his death, on
He brought consider-
able money with him, which he invested in real
estate, and he was the first who started street railroads
in this city. He had plans laid out for a public park
on the W estport road, and the ground is still known

. as “ Holmes’ Park 5” but his sudden and unexpected

death prevented him from carrying it out, as well as
many other improvements which he had in view, all
tending to the permanent improvement of the city
which he had made his home. He was Grand
Worthy Master of the Aberdeen, Mississippi, Lodge
of Odd. Fellows, and in 1858, after his removal to
Kansas City, ‘he received from the Aberdeen Lodge
a solid gold jewel, of large size, together with regalia,
for his devotion to the interests of Odd Fellowship,
and at his funeral they paid him every tribute of
honor and respect. '

In religion he had no decided views. His parents
were Methodists, and though he always leaned to
that body more than to any other, he was not a
member of any church. In later years he was a
Democrat, but in youth he had been one of the old
line Whigs. He was married August 10, 1858, to

Mary Floweree, second daughter of Colonel Daniel
Floweree and Nancy Floweree, née Rector of Tan-
kier county, Virginia. Four children were the off-
spring of this union, three of whom are still alive,
and are attending school. Mr. Holmes death was
quite unexpected and very sudden. He had been
in active business up to the day before he was taken
sick, and he succumbed to an attack of cerebro-
spinal meningitis, after an illness of thirty-six hours
duration. He was one of the earliest settlers‘ in
Kansas City after the opening of Kansas Territory,
and was from the first a man of large business
interests, and far-sightedias to the policy of the city.
At the time of his death he was President of the
Mechanics’ bank and the chief capitalist and mana-
ger, as well as originator of the city railroads. His
loss was a most serious one to the city, as he was not
only a man of large means, but he employed‘ them
largely in building up permanent improvements for
the benefit of the city. He was_not a man to win

‘what is called, popularity, being one who held decided

opinions and rarely cared whether they were shared
or opposed by others, but he was also a man who
never forgot a kindness or his friends, and, as a
business man, he enjoyed the unlimitedconfidence
of the public and of the financial men of the city.
His property is valued at $275,000.

JAMES HAMPTON ROADS CUNDIFF.

ST. ]0SEPH.

AMES H. R. CUNDIFF was born in Hamp-
shire county, Virginia, November 20, 1832.
His parents, Layton S. and Hannah Cundiff, emi-
grated West for the purpose of advancing with the
country, and ' settled in Buchanan county in
1840. When James was but fourteen years old his
father returned to his old home in the East on bus-
iness, and died in the house in which he was born.
His grandfathers on both sides served in the
Revolutionary army. His paternal grandfather was

a descendent of the French Huguenots.
In the early days in which his father came to

7)

“Platte Purchase, as a part of Western Missouri.

was then called, there were few facilities for edu-
cation. Up to the age of fifteen, having never

attended school, he partookof the trials and hard-
8 .

ships of pioneer life, together with its rude pleas-
ures, such as hunting, fishing and horse-back riding.
At this age he apprenticed himself to_the printing
business, and went through every phase and office,
from devil to foreman, in both news and job offices,
and traveling compositor, in which life he visited

, almost every metropolis in the United States.

At the age of twenty-one he made his first ven-
ture as a publisher, in the publication of a country
newspaper at Parkville, Missouri. He succeeded
moderately in his new enterprise, and sold out in
1854. The same year, in connection with Mr. P.
S. Pfouts, he bought out the St. Joseph Gazelle,
which was then a weekly paper. In 1857, the
necessity of a daily paper manifesting itself, they
commenced a daily issue, the first in St. Joseph and

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the first in Northwestern Missouri, making it a
decided success.

In June of ’6I Mr. Cundiff joined the Confeder-
ate army under General Sterling Price, serving from
the beginning to the end of the war, first as a private,
and from that to a Colonel. He was in many of the
battles of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkan-
sas and Missouri.

In 1865 he went to Mexico and engaged in
agriculture in the State of San Luis de Potosi, but
did not find it profitable. He traveled over much
of the then empire of Mexico, and in 1866
engaged in the service of the Imperial Railway
Company, operating a road from the city of Mexico
to Vera Cruz, which was then unfinished. He had
charge of the business on the western end of the
road until August, 1867, when the disorders of the
country made it undesirable to remain there.

In June he returned to St. Joseph and revived
the St. Joseph Gazeiie, commencing where it was
left in 1861. This enterprise was undertaken with-
out capital, and was so entirely successful as to
make the paper worth twenty-five thousand dollars,
for which sum it was sold in 1873.

V of the people.
A forwardness and integrity, he has the friendship of

Mr. Cundiff is now Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Buchanan county, to which office he was elected in
November, 1874. He has served many years on
the Democratic State Central Committee, and has
also served on county and city central committees.

__On the western continent Mr. Cundiff’s travels
have been extensive, having embraced thirty—seven
of the States, Mexico and Cuba.

In the various views of religion he has adopted
none as his own, and therefore is not a communi-
cant of any church. His family are adherents of
the Episcopal Church.

He is in his political opinions a Democrat,
believing in unobstructed commerce, in coin cur-
rency, and the greatest liberty of local government
consistent with order.

_ ‘ On the 11th of October, 1855, Mr. Cundiff mar-
ried’Miss Cecilia E. Keedy, daughter of Dr. Daniel
G. Keedy.

Mr. Cundiff is a gentleman of Wide experience
and high culture, deservedly holding the confidence
For his genial bearing, his straight-

many and the enmity of few.

THOMAS B. BULLENE.

KANSAS CITY.

His
father, John Bullene, was a successful" farmer and
merchant in Oswego county, New York, and after-
wards identified himself with the lumber and
forwarding business in Albany, New York, being
also owner of a vessel plying between that city and
the West Indies. He was a man of great business
ability and extraordinary energy.

HE subject of this sketch was born in Oswego
county, New York, August Io, 1828.

Mr. Thomas B. Bullene is the youngest son in a .

family of sixteen children, and at the age of seven
went with his parents to Albany, where he lived
until ten years of age, when his parents removedto
Southport, (now Kenosha), Wisconsin, where l..-
was reared and educated. He received an academic
course only, his early inclinations being more to
practical pursuits than study, although he supple-
mented that course with a discriminative course of
study in ancient and modern literature and history,

to which he yet finds opportunity, amid his arduous
business duties, to devote a regularly allotted portion
of his leisure. A

The removal of the parents and younger mem-
bers of the family, as above indicated, to Wisconsin,
transpired in the spring of 1837, the two elder
brothers, ]ohn, now living in Minnesota, and recently
member of the Legislature of that State; and
William. (some years deceased), afterward member
of the Legislature of Wisconsin, had preceded
them some two years and were the pioneer settlers
of the city of Kenosha. His only own brother,
Lathrop, is a resident of Lawrence, Kansas, and one
of its pioneers, having settled in that historical
vicinity in 1846, and now is one of the leading
merchants of that State; he was for several years
identified with his brother (T. B.) in the great dry
goods house at Kansas City.

His two youngest sisters are residents of Kansas

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City, Susan E. being the wife of Colonel A. G.
Newgent,- an old and prominent citizen of that city,
and Sophia F ., the wife of Major V\7illiam Warner,
recently mayor of Kansas City, and one of the most
distinguished attorneys of the State of Missouri.
Another sister, Caroline, still resides at Kenosha,
Wisconsin, the widow of the late Colonel _l. V.
Quarles.

At the age of twenty—one, the subject of this
sketch entered actively into the mercantile business
at Lyons, Wisconsin, in partnership with his brother
Lathrop, two years his senior, remaining at that
place until 1856, prospering and laying the founda-
tion of his future enlarged operations in business.

In 1851, he married Miss Amarett Hickock,
daughter of Harris Hickock, Esq., of Bridgeport,
New York. By this union they have a family of
five children, four sons and a daughter, whose
names and ages are as follows : , Thomas Campbell,
born in Lyons, now aged . twenty—two, and at
present employed in traveling in the interest of
the house of which his father is the senior partner.
The second son, Lathrop Brockway, was born at
Independence, Iowa, and is now twenty years of
age, and also engaged in the retail department of the
above house. The younger children are Harris Hic-
kock, born at Independence, Iowa, 1861, now attend-
ing Shattuckischool at Fariboult, Minnesota, Fred
Spencer, born in Kansas ‘City, 1864, and Lora

Amarett, also born in Kansas City, November,

1870. ,

In 1856 he removed to Iowa, where he engaged
in business and remained until 1863, when he re-
moved to Kansas City, where he purchased prop-
erty, buying, at that time, the land upon which now
stands the great mercantile house of Bullene, Moores
& Emery, it being then far «removed from the busi-
ness portion of the city. ,

On arriving in Kansas City he found it under
martial law, some of theimost prominent mercantile
establishments being closed by order of the Provost
Marshal—among them the house of Gilliss & Coates,
on account of the alleged disloyalty of Mr. Gilliss.
Mr. Bullenebought the interest of Mr. Gilliss in the
firm, and in connection with his brother, L. Bullene,
Esq., of Lawrence, Kansas, and K. Coates, Esq.,
organized the dry goods house of Coates & Bullene,
at thecorner of Sixth and Main streets. Mr. Coates
only remained in the firm about one year, which
continued business as Bullene & Brother until 1867,
when Mr. W. E. Emery, of New York, was admitted,

constituting the firm of Bullene Brothers & Emery.

Early in 1870 Mr. L. T. Moore, of Kentucky,
joined in the business, and the firm then became
Bulle_ne, Moore & Emery. In the same year Mr.
Bullene erected with his own means the splendid
building now occupied by the firm, which is the
largest business house in Kansas City. In January,
1871, the firm took possession of the premises.
The firm now uses, also, the lower part of the post
office block. In 1871 Mr. L. R. Moore, of Mont-
gomery, Alabama, an extensive planter, etc., and a
brother of Mr. L. T. Moore, took an equal interest
in the business, and the firm became Bullene,
Moores & Emery, its present title.

Since the occupation of their new building, the
business, both wholesale and retail, has very rap-
idly increased, its growth being one of the wonders
of the Western trade. The business occupies five
large floors ; with steam elevators, as well as stairs;
all heated by steam and lighted by gas ; employs
more than two hundred people; and sales are more
than $1, 500,000 per annum. The firm has ever
been in first-class standing, and more widely and fav-
orably known than any other in the Missouri Valley.
Its advertising now amounts to more than $6,000
per year, and its business, both wholesale and retail,
extends over Western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, its sales on
orders being very large.

The firm has always been prominent in public
enterprises Mr. Bullene was one of the founders
of the Kansas City Agricultural and Mechanical
Association, and has always been one of its directors;
and is also a director in the Merchants’ Exchange.
He has also taken great interest in public educa-
tion and all other matters for the good of his fellow-
citizens. .

In division of duties of the members of the firm,
Mr. Bullene has charge of the wholesale depart-
ment, Mr. L. R. Moore the financial department,
Mr. L. T. Moore the retail department, and Mr.
W. E. Emery is a resident of New York and east-
ern purchaser. The rapid and continued increase
of business in the retail department is largely due to
Mr. L. T. Moore, whose energy in its general con-
duct, and discretion in the conduct of its advertising
department, have contributed prominently to its
wonderful success.

Mr. Bullene has a fine literary taste, contributing _
to public journals in the unobtrusive manner charac-

teristic of the man.

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In politics Mr. Bullene has always been identi-
fied with the Republican party, voting his first Pres-
idential vote for Van Buren in ’48 in the old “ Free
Soil ”_ party,‘ with which he continued until. the
Republican party was inaugurated, since which time
he has steadily stood by it; but in no wise may he
be considered, nor does he desire to be regarded, a
politician in its active sense.

Mr. Bullene’s personal manner is one of extreme
frankness and approachability, and inspires confi-
dence in those he meets and holds converse with.
His pleasant countenance and fund of humor,

remarkable considering the demand upon his atten-
tion from business, always makes his presence desir-
able and sought after, and he is probably on this
account better known and more generally esteemed,
by all classes of people, high and low, rich and
poor, than any man in his business in the entire
State. Military renown or dignities of State could
never have won for Thomas B. Bullene a more hon-
ored name, or a more endeared memory than is
now awarded him bythe thousands who know him,
call him friend,—a noble, kind and courteous gen-
tleman.

EDWARD REYNOLDS ,TI-IRELKELD.

IKAIVSAS CITY.

N the following sketch is strikingly illustrated the
I force of well directed energy, steadfast purpose
and never-ceasing effort for the accomplishment of
noble ends, and the successful overthrow of those
obstacles which beset the progress of every young
man who, unaided and alone, starts out to combat
with life’s stern realities and hew his way to distinc-
tion or fortune.

To ambitious, struggling youths, with only the
broad, perhaps cheerless highway of the Future
before them, ‘this narrative of a self—made man-—-a
successful life—presents an example worthy consid-
eration and earnest emulation; and might even fill
a faltering heart with stronger zeal, or a youthful
mind with greater determination and a fuller recog-
nition of those attributes which constitute true man-
hood——Nature’s patent _of nobility—industry, integ-
rity, temperance and consistent christianity.

Edward Reynolds Threlke_ld was born at Mor-
ganfield, Union county, Kentucky, January II-,
1827. His grandfather, John Threlkeld, was a
native of King George county, Virginia, where he
attained manhood and was united in wedlock with
Mary Bruce, with whom he emigrated to Kentucky,
when their first child, the father of the‘ subject of
this biography, was only one month old. The fame
of Kentucky was then widespread, and held in such
high favor with Virginians that they soon formed a

large proportion of the early settlers of the State '

famous as the home of Daniel Boone, the intrepid
Indian fighter and hardy pioneer.

Benjamin, the father of E. R. Threlkeld, was
a native of the “ Old Dominion,” born ‘October 8,
1793,,‘ but as above indicated, was taken in his
infancy to Kentucky by his parents, where he was
reared amidst the experiences of pioneer-life, until
at the age of sixteen years he was apprenticed to
the hatter trade, which he eventually acquired, and
finally conducting the manufacturing. business on
his own account. I

The maternal parent of the subject of this
sketch, Julia Ann (Kercheval) Threlkeld, was a
native of Kentucky, born at Washington, Mason
county, January 19, 1805, and like her husband,
doubtless, the offspring of the early pioneers from
Virginia.

The marriage of the parents was consummated

.at Flemmingsburg, Kentucy, May IO, 182i, they

remaining at that place four years, after which they
went to Morganfield, the birth—place of the subject
of this sketch, settling there in the year 1825, and
continuing at that point until 1834, when the fam-
ily emigrated to Boone county, Missouri. Here
the father abandoned the business of practical. hat-

- ter, entering at once upon the duties of a farmer in

his new home.

Young Threlkeld encountered difficulties in
acquiring an education from almost the outset. At
the age of six years he was sent to the common
school in his native village, where his love for
study and a markedly retentive memory advanced
him rapidly for a few weeks, when a singular calam-

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ity befel him. He was suddenly stricken with scar-
let fever and confined to his bed with that dreadful
plague for about ten weeks, when the lad recovered

” and re-entered school,‘ to discover that all he had

learned at school or at home about books was lost
to him, he not even being able to remember a
single letter of the alphabet, although at the time
he was taken sick he readily spelled words of three
syllables. Fortunately his mental faculties regained
their full vigor, and his lost knowledge was again
speedily acquired, so much so that at the end of
three months the earnest scholar gloried in the mas-
tery of the old English reader -—the standard text
book in all common schools at that time.

The removal of the family to Missouri and their
location on afarm greatly limited the boy’s oppor-
tunities for a liberal education, and while he had
not been to school an aggregate of six months, all
told, he was now required to labor on the farm in
summer, only attending school in winter, or when
there chanced to be a teacher employed for the dis-
trict, which could not have been always, for from
the age of seven to fifteen years, Edward did not
exceed a total of six months’ attendance at school,
notwithstanding which, with his energy, love of
study and determination to advance, he managed in
theinterim to acquire a fair knowledge of spelling,
reading, writing, arithmetic and English grammar.

At the age of eighteen years, young Threlkeld had»
so far advanced himself in study as to be induced

to enter the State University at Columbia, Missouri,
for a partial course, during which he rode to and
from college daily a distance of six miles. At the
end of five months the limited exchequer which
his industry and frugality had amassed became
exhausted, and the college student was compelled
to seek employment to recuperate his finances;
accordingly he engaged to teach a country school
a.t $8.00 p'er month and“ board around ” among the
patrons of the school, a work he continued six
months, when, thinking his finances sufficient, he
again entered the Uni_versity at Columbia, spent
another half session in hard study, exhausted his
funds and again had to go to work to secure means,
engaging again in teaching, appearing in the role of
a full-fledged “ country school—master” at the age
of nineteen, in charge of sixty or seventy pupils,
and these not of the choicest.

He abandoned this pursuit at the close of the
year 1847, immediately engaging with a firm as
solicitor for a book “sold only by subscription,” a

vocation he pursued for about a year, when he
returned home to find his family preparing to
remove to the town of Kansas, ffackson county,
Missouri, more commonly called Westport -Landing,
now Kansas City, where his father and mother
arrived in February, 1849. Tarrying at the farm
home for a time to look after and close up all mat-
ters of business for his father, whose health had
become enfeebled, young Threlkeld, in charge of
.a younger brother and two sisters, arrived" a month
after his parents, at the new residence place, the
point wherein has been developed his manhood
and business experience.

During his last engagement he had developed
a faculty, and acquired a taste for commercial pur-

suits", and accordingly upon his advent into Kansas »

City he at once secured a situation as clerk in a
small store kept by Silas Armstrong, a half—breed
Wyandott, of whom it is said few better men ever
lived. T

In September, 1849, he returned to his old
home in Boone county, where he married, on the
13th of that month, Maria Helen Sexton, his pres-
ent wife, eldest daughter of James M. and Ann B.
Sexton, then of Boone county. On the day follow-
ing his matrimonial alliance Mr. Threlkeld returned
with his wife to Kansas City, where they resided
until the spring of 1850, at which time the consoli-
dation of his employer’s business with that of H.
M. Northrup and Joel Walker caused a reduction
of their working force, and Mr. Thr-elkeld, as one
of the latest employe's, was thrown out of business.

Going to St. Joseph, Missouri, with his wife on
a visit at this time, he was there offered and accepted
a situation in the store of Powell & Levy. Remain-
ing with that firm about eighteen months. Again
returning to Kansas City,he entered the business
house of Walker, Boyd & Chick, which position he
held until the spring or summer of 1852, that year
going into the dry goods business with W. H. Chick
at Providence, Missouri, continuing there until the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill" in 1854, when
he sold out his interest to embark with others in a
town building enterprise near Fort Leavenworth,
near the -present city of Leavenworth. While erz
mule he again stopped at Kansas City,iand was
offered a miscellaneous position -in the house of
Northrup & Chick, which he accepted and held for
three years or over, when the title of the firm was
changed to ]. S. Chick & Co., and Threlkeld taken
in as partner.

62 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

During this connection, Mr. Threlkeld was
closely allied with the establishment, if not actually
the inauguration of the banking business in Kan-

sas City, he having received, while connected with

Northrup & Chick, the first deposits and filled up
and probably signed, in his capacity as book-keeper,
the first bills of exchange ever offered the commer-
cial community, then but a nucleus for the present
prosperous city of Kansas. This banking business
increased so rapidly that greater accommodation
was demanded by the business interests which were
rapidly increasing, and to provide for the require-
ments the mercantile business of the above firm was
conducted under its title as before, while the bank-
ing and exchange business was regularly conducted
and fostered by H. M. Northrup and Joseph S.
Chick, under the firm name of Northrup & Co., Mr.
J. Q. Watkins, now of the Watkins Bank, being
cashier and book-keeper of the banking house.

Mr. Threlkeld remained with J. S. Chick & Co.
until November, 1862, when the ravages of the
civil war,—and especially sundry malicious and
incendiary incursions from Kansas, from whose
borders emanated much ill—will toward Kansas City
in consequence of its being a Missouri town,———had
well nigh destroyed the business and development
of the place. From Kansas City he with his family
went to St. Louis, in the same State, remaining there
until the spring of 1867, when he again went to
Kansas City, and embarked in the wholesale gro-
cery business, continuing the same until December
31, 1875, when he retired and. engaged in the grain
commission business, in which, at this writing (Nov-
ember, 1877 ), he is still engaged, with a son (Claude),
under the title of Threlkeld, Son & Co., well known
as among the most active members of the Board of
Trade of Kansas City. _ ‘

Mr. T hrelkeld has five children, all living, the
eldest a daughter and the next a son, and so on, the
sex alternating, the youngest being a daughter.
The eldest daughter, l)ora, born October I0, 1850,
was married to Andrew R. French, a native of
Cooper county, Missouri, who has resided in Kan-
sas City since 1868 or 1869, and at one time was
connected with the Dazly T2"/7265 of Kansas City,
afterwards with the Ezrmz'z7g' N672/5, but at this time
engaged in the grain commission business and senior
member of the firm of French Brothers.

Claude L., the eldest son, was born June I0,
1853, and married Miss Jennie Gregory, December
29, 1873, and they have one child, a promising boy

of about two and one—half years. Claude L. is a
junior member of the grain commission firm of
Threlkeld, Son & Co., and is an active, enterpris-
ing, steady and reliable business man, with consid-
erable experience for one of his age. _

The second son, James Benjamin, born May 19,
1862, is a boy of great promise, having a philosoph-
ical turn of mind, good memory, and more than a
usual store of information for one of his years. His
taste for investigation into all subjects of a scientific
or mechanical nature bids fair to make him a
ripe scholar and a devoted searcher after scien-
tific and historical facts. He ranks high as a stu-
dent at the high or central school of Kansas City,
and evinces much of the earnest character of his
father. .

The second daughter, Maude, born January 27, -

I857,ilS of delicate constitution, but active, and
possesses musical taste and culture, with a delight
in “ the mazy dance,” an art in which her grace of
manner and movement has won her homage.

Julia Kercheval, the youngest, born March 1,
1868, is of very delicate organism, but an active,
brilliant mind, with a thirst for knowledge which
will advance her to the foremost rank, should her
physical system not give way before the stronger
mental energies. Although but a child, she suroasses
in elocution and is advanced beyond her years.

Politically, Mr. Threlkeld has never made him-
self conspicuous, was never an office-seeker, and
while strong in his own convictions as to party
affairs, always accorded to every man the right to
his own opinion and action at the ballot box.
Originally he was an old line Whig and maintained
as such until that party was swallowed up in the
political revolution that placed Abraham Lincoln
in the Presidential chair. During the rebellion and
before, his political sympathies were with the peo-
ple of the South, but never with their policy of
secession. His views latterly and at present are in
harmony with the Democratic party, and he is usu-
ally regarded as a Democrat without being specially
identified with that party. He was Treasurer of
Kansas City during the administration-M.  Payne,
Mayor. i

Mr. Threlkeld has been identified with various
enterprises and held various trusts outside of his
regular business affairs. In 1871 he was Vice Pres-
ident C1 the Mechanics Branch Bank, Kansas City.
He was President of the first Merchants’ Exchange
organized in that city, and which was afterward

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merged into the present Board of Trade. He was
one of the originators, and afterward Secretary, of
the Jackson County Horse Railroad Company, and
with the late Nehemiah Holmes and Major A. C.
Dyas, built and put in successful operation over
four miles of street railway in Kansas City.

Mr. T hrelkeld is an Odd Fellow of many years’
membership. He became a member of Wyandott
Lodge No. 35, I. O. O.-F., in August, 1849. Since

1856 he has been a member of the Grand Lodge‘

of Missouri. In 1875 he held the office of Grand
Marshaldof the Grand Lodge of Missouri, and from
that position was elected Most Worthy Grand
Master of the State in March, 1877, and also Grand
Representative to the Grand Lodge of the United
States in 1871, but which, from conflicting circum-
stances, he was compelled to resign before the com-
munication of that Grand Body in September of the
same year. He prepared the charter and obtained
the passage of an act by the Missouri legislature, cre-
ating the Wyandott Hall ]oint Stock Company,
which built the Odd Fellows’ Hall, corner of Mis-
souri Avenue and Main Street, Kansas City.

In his religious views, Mr. Threlkeld is some-
What Calvanistic, he believing firmly in the fore-
knowledge and fore—ordination of the Almighty God,

whom he recognizes as the “Supreme Creator, Pre-
server and Savior of man.” Without any cant
about his professions, Mr. T hrelkeld does not hesi-
tate to say that he lacks respect for a man who is
profane, and that he himself never uttered an oath
in profanity in his life. As to his personal charac-
teristics in general, he is liberal in his Views, frank
in his expression of them, enjoys his own opinion of
men and things without any marked desire to
force them on others or to make converts to his
faith. A glance at his intelligent physiognorny,
however, indicates that when he thinks he is right
he stoutly maintains his position. As to social
qualities he entertains peculiar views, and says he
admires a generous man and generous acts, but
never at the expense of what is just, and also
regards an honest man “the noblest work of God.”

His’ fine physical appearance and extremely
healthful vigor indicate the temperance of Mr.
Threlkeld’s habits of life. He says he believes his
only intemperance has been, perchance, in contend-
ing for what he regarded just right. He has never
chewed tobacco, but has been an habitual smoker
since his maturity 3 the hope of his friends is that
he may long live to enjoy the fragrant weed and
the fruits of his enterprise and industry. I

J. v. C. KARNES.

IKAIVSAS CITY.

county, Missouri, on February II, 1841. His
parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Payne) Karnes
and they came from Virginia, as pioneers, to Boone
county in 183 5. Here they followed the honorable
vocation of a farmer’s life, and had four children,
sons, all now living, the youngest of whom is the
subject of our sketch. The Karnes family in Vir-
ginia were an old and well established family in the
State, and were very highly respected. They were
all characterized by a vigorous manhood.

Mr. ]. V. C. Karnes, who is a lawyer of
extensive practice and fine standing in Kansas City,
graduated from the University in Missouri in 1862,
with the first and highest honors of his class. He
commenced his legal studies with Hon. Boyle Gor-
don, now law professor in the University of Missouri.

’ I ‘HE subject of this sketch was born in Boone

In‘ the autumn of 1862 he entered the law
school of Harvard College, and while there he was
called to a tutorship of Greek and Latin in the Mis-
souri University. In this position he remained
until 1865, when he resigned, and in company with
Henry N. Ess, who was a tutor of mathematics in
the University, he commenced practicing law in
Kansas City. The firm continues, as originally,
under the well known name of Karnes & Ess.
Their commencement was modest and unassuming,
but real, “true merit will win,” and the popularity
of this firm has steadily increased, until its worthy
proprietors have as much to do as they can possibly
accomplish.

Mr. Karnes, being a scholar himself, is a great
patron of learning and education, and has dis-

played a zeal and devotion in these matters which

64 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

attracts universal admiration, and is, indeed, most
exemplary. In 1869 he was appointed a member
of the Board of Education, to fill a vacancy and
since then he has been re-elected twice, which con-
clusively proves that he is the “right man in the
right place.” For three years he was treasurer of
the Board, afterwards secretary for one year, and
he is at present, and has been for two years, Presi-
dent of the Board of Education.

As a member of the educational Board the
action and achievements of Mr. Karnes have been
truly admirable and triumphantly successful. He
has endeavored to lift the schools to. the highest pos-
sible efficiency and excellence. He has accom-
plished this desirable end by a most perfect organi-
zation, and by securing only the most experienced
and competent teachers. In 1876 he originated the
very laudable enterprise of establishing a public

school library, and has already accumulated about

1,300 volumes. To make it a credit to the city, is
his most earnest ambition, and most undoubtedly he
will succeed. He is also a member of the Board of

Trade, and the firm of Karnes & Ess are the attor-

neys for that corporation. Politically, he has from
boyhood differed from the residue of his family,
who are of the Southern Democracy——‘while he has
always been a most enthusiastic Republican. In

religion, he inclines toward Presbyterianism, although ,

he has never been a member of any church. On
December 3, 1863, he was married, in Columbia,

’Missouri, to Miss Mary A. Crumbaugh, grand-daugh-

ter of Colonel Richard Gentry, of Florida war fame.
She had just graduated from Christian College, and
she is a most estimable, cultured, and prepossessing

and deserving lady, and presides over a happy house—.

hold. Mr. and Mrs. Karnes have been blessed with
domestic graces, for three lovely and beautiful chil-

dren spread sunshine o’er life’s darkest hour, and,
with their sunny angel—smiles, give earth a tinge of

heaven. .

In personal appearance Mr. Karnes is above the
medium stature, heavily built, and the embodiment
of manliness and health. He is a useful and highly
esteemed citizen, a brilliant and popular lawyer, a
good and zealous friend to Kansas City and her edu-
cational interests. . ,

I

HON. ROBERT T. VAN. HORN.

I1’A./VSAS CITY.

OBERT T. VAN HORN is a native of Penn-
R sylvania, having been born in East Mahon-
ing, Indiana county, in that State, on the rgth of
May, 1824. His ancestors were from Holland, and
emigrated to this country more than two hundred
years ago.
paw, in New ]ersey, near New York. His great
grandfather, Henry Van Horn, was a Captain in the
“Pennsylvania Line” of the Revolutionary war, and
died in the service. His grandfather, Isaiah Van
Horn, was a member of his company, and continued
in the service until the close of that struggle. His
father, Henry Van Horn, enlistedvas a soldier in the
war of 1812, and died, September, 1877,, at the
advanced age of ninety years. His mother, Eliza-

‘ beth Thompson, was born in the parish of Bannaher,

county of Londonderry, Ireland, but, while she was
yet a child, her father, Robert Thompson, emigrated
to America, and settled in the wilderness of Western
Pennsylvania.

At that time they settled at Communi-

T he earlier years of Colonel Van Horn’s life were 4

spent on his father’s farm, in such light employment
as can be entrusted to small boys. He generally
attended school three months in the year, studying
reading, writing and arithmetic. He did not, how-
ever, advance to grammar, as that branch had not,

_ at that time, been introduced into the schools of that

region.

At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the
printing business, in the office of the Indiana (Pa.)
Regzkler, where he remained four years. From 1843
to 18 55 he worked as a journeyman printer in Penn-
sylvania, New York, Ohio and Indiana. occasionally

‘varying his occupation by teaching school in the win-
. ter, and publishing and editing newspapers. He

also boated on the Erie canal a part of one season,
and employed two seasons in steamboating on the
Ohio, Mississippi, Wabash, and other Western rivers.
In addition to all the other pursuits of those twelve

years, he studied law and was admitted to the bar,

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but he practiced only a short time. In 1848 he was
married to Miss Adela H. Cooley, at Pomeroy, Ohio.
In 1855 he located at Kansas City, Missouri, then
a small village, where he founded the fozmzal 0f
Co/727726/‘re, now the leading daily newspaper of that
part of Missouri, and of which, with a few interrup-
tions by other pursuits, he has continued to be editor.
The local policy of ‘Kansas City exhibited the impress
of his ideas very soon after he became a resident
there, and it is probably as much due to the clear
perceptions of her natural situation, expressed in his
paper, and its forcible advocacy of her claims and
advantages, during the five years preceding 1860, as
to those advantages themselves, that Kansas City has
attained her present prominent position in the Mis-
souri Valley. It was during this time that her pres-
ent railroad system was outlined through its columns,
and the charters of most of the lines secured. One
of these charters, then known as the Kansas City,
Galveston & Lake Superior Railroad, was drawn by
Colonel Van Horn, and was the charter upon which
was afterward built the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail-
road, from Cameron, Missouri, to Kansas City, and
the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, from
Kansas City to Baxter Springs, Kansas, and upon
which a company, of which he was president, after-
ward undertook, and partly constructed, a road to
Memphis, Tennessee. It was during these five years,
1855 to 1860, that his paper so persistently advocated
the advantages of the river landing at Kansas City—
steamboats then being the principal means of trans-
portation in the West—that shippers and freighters
engaged in the overland traffic of the plains were
induced to make that the point of transfer from boat
to wagon and wagon to boat, which early secured to
the city pree'minence in what was then the only com-
merce of the West. At a subsequent period, while a
senator in the Missouri Legislature, he secured legis-
lation that fastened the construction of the railroads
of the state, and prevented the diversion of those in
which Kansas City was interested to other places.
At a later period, while a member of Congress from
Missouri, he _secured a charter for the present railroad
bridge across the Missouri river at Kansas City. In
186 5 he attended, with others, the general Indian coun-
cil, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and got incorporated into
the treaty there made, a provision granting right of
way and bond subsidy for a railroad through the
Indian Territory. This was followed with a bill,
passed by Congress, chartering a road from Kansas

, City, and securing to it the right of way and land

grant. The following year, 1866, in a treaty with
the Cherokee Indians, he aided in securing for the
same road what was known as the Cherokee neutral
lands, and embracing the counties of Cherokee and
Crawford in Kansas. Owing to some subsequent
legislation, and a technical decision by the Secretary
of the Interior, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
road afterward secured the benefits of this charter,
and was built through the Indian Territory on its
authority. He was also the author of the first bill for
the organization of the Indian Territory as Oklahoma,
and providing for its better government, a proposi-
tion which has since been steadily gaining friends.
Within a few years after his settlement in Kansas
City, he was elected alderman, and was postmaster
by appointment of President Buchanan. In 1860
he supported Stephen A. Douglas for president. In
the agitation that followed the election, he took afirm
stand for the Union, and in the canvass for members
of the convention to decide whether Missouri should
secede, he took an active part. In April, 1861, he
was selected as the Union candidate for mayor in a
contest wherein that issue was sharply made, and,
after the most exciting canvass ever known in the
city, was elected to that office. This was the only
municipal election in Missouri that year in which
the Union issue was openly and fairly made.
Claiborne F. Jackson, Governor of Missouri,
having espoused the cause of secession, thus leaving
no state authority to enlist troops or commission offi-
cers for the national army, Colonel Van Horn, in
May, 1861, applied to General Nathaniel Lyon,
commanding at St. Louis Arsenal, and obtained
authority to enlist three hundred men. The troops
raised under this authority were the first mustered
into the service in Missouri, outside of St. Louis.
On the 18th of July, 1861, while major, com-
manding this battalion, he fought an engagement
with Colonel Duncan, with superior numbers, near
Harrisonville, Missouri, and defeated him. This
was the first engagement fought in Western Missouri.
In the September following he went to the aid of
Colonel Mulligan, at Lexington, where he coin-
manded a force under him in the siege of that place,

. and was severely wounded on the last day of the

fight. After the exchange of prisoners—Mulligan’s
command for those taken at Camp ]ackson—his
command was consolidated with the memorable 2 5th
Missouri infantry, and he was appointed lieutenant-
colonel. The regiment was then ordered to Tennes-
see, and was under command of Colonel Van Horn,

at Shiloh,where he had a horse killed under him on the
first day of the battle. In the advance upon Corinth,
immediately afterward, he, for a short time, command-
ed a brigade. His command remained at Corinth until
September, when he was ordered to Southeast Missouri
and Arkansas, and joined General Davidson in his
movement upon Little Rock. He remained in the ser-
vice about three years, when his regiment was consoli-
dated with the rst Missouri engineers, and he retired.
While with his regiment in Mississippi, he was
elected to the Missouri Senate, and was one of the
members of that body who early organized the oppo-
sition to the administration of Governor Gamble, a
movement which afterward led to the organization of
the Radical party of Missouri. At the close of his
service in the senate, he was again elected mayor of
Kansas City, without opposition, and as such had
charge of the organization of the Volunteer militia
and the construction of the defensive works around

66 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAI€Y.

the city, in anticipation of General Sterling Price’s
last great raid into Missouri in 1864.

In 1864 he was a delegate to the Baltimore con-
vention, which nominated Mr. Lincoln for reelection,
and he has been a member of every national and
state Republican convention since that time. He
was a member of the national Republican committee
from 1872 to 1876, and chairman of the state Repub-
lican committee from.r874 to 1876. He was elected
to Congress from the 6th Judicial district of Missouri
in 1864, and reelected in 1866 and 1868. In Septem-
ber, 1875, he was appointed collector of internal rev-
enue for the 6th district of Missouri, which office he
still holds. In the organization of President Hayes’
cabinet, in March, 1877, he was strongly urged bythe
states of Missouri and Kansas for Secretary of the Inte-
rior, the latter state recommending him by a joint reso-
lution of its legislature—a compliment rarely, if ever,
before given by a state to the citizen of another.

I.

REV. ADDISON DASHIELL MADEIRA. "“’

KANSAS CITY.

D. MADEIRA, the only son of Jacob and

. Mary Y. (Dashiell) Madeira, was born April
2r, 1828, in. Cincinnati, Ohio. His grandfather,
Rev. George Dashiell, was the first rector of St.
Peter’s church, in Baltimore, for leading the reform
movement in the Episcopal church in 1816.

When Addison was but a year old his father
died, and when in his sixth year his mother married
again.
father to Alton, Illinois.

His educational advantages were excellent, and
when but nineteen years old, he graduated from Shurt—
leff College, at that time under the presidency of Dr.
Sherwood. In 1847 he entered upon the study oflaw,
and, when twenty-one years of age, was admitted to
the bar. He located at St. Joseph, Missouri, and
began the practice of law. He was the first city attor-
ney elected after the incorporation'_‘of St. Joseph as a
city. Soonlafterward, he removed to}:Covi11gto11,
Kentucky, where he engaged in his professional duties.

When about thirty-two years of age, he embraced
religion, and surely the flower of manhood never
bends more beautifully than When it bends towards

He then came with his mother and step-.

the Sun of Righteousness. He felt that it was his
duty to preach the gospel, and retiring from the law,
he studied theology under J. W. Worrall, D. D., of
Kentucky, and in 1860 entered upon his ministry in
Westminster church, Keokuk, Iowa. His church
was in ecclesiastical connection with the Old School
Presbyterian assembly. The following year he was
called to the Park Avenuechurch, St. Louis, where
he remained seven years. In 1869 he was called to
the Central Presbyterian church, of Kansas City, to
which he responded and where he still ministers
acceptably. Since he became the pastor of this
church it has had a steady, rapid growth.

The prominent feature of his ministry is the sim-
ple preaching of Christ, altogether dissociated with
any thing secular. He is a serious preacher and
speaks for the good of his hearers. He uses speech
for the sole purpose of clothing his thoughts, and
his thoughts _to promote truth and virtue.

His ministerial labors have been very successful,
because he complies with the conditions of success,
to attain thr greatest possible good.

In his devotion to his life work, Mr. Madeira has

"To them have been born two children.

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withdrawn entirely from politics, and has not voted
since 1860. .

In October, 1849, when twenty-one years old, he
married Miss Louise Isett, a daughter of the late John
Washington Isett, of Woodford county, Kentucky.
She died in 1871:, having borne him nine children. In
the fall of 1872 Mr. Madeira married Miss Heiskell,
a daughter of General William Heiskell, of Kansas.
His eldest
daughter is the wife of Mr. Talbott, City Auditor of
Kansas City."

' manners.

67

Mr. Madeira is somewhat under the medium size,
and of rather spare habit. He has a frank expres-
sion of countenance and is very courteous in his
His style is popular and he draws large
audiences. As a pastor he does not visit much,
believing that his time is better employed preparing
for his sermons and lectures.

Mr. Madeira’s style is peculiar and striking, and
his delivery forcible. He is a fluent speaker, a
close reasoner, and an eloquent and persuasive

preacher.

FRANCIS MARION BLACK.

KANSAS CITY.

RANCIS M. BLACK was born July 24, 1836,
F in Champaign county, Ohio. He was the
fifth of a family of seven children, three of whom
are living.» His parents were Peter and Maria
(Hillard) Black. ‘His father was born in Pennsylva-
nia, and removed to Ohio at an early day. He was
by occupation a farmer, but directed his attention
chiefly to stock-raising. He died. in 187 5.

Francis was educated in the common schools of
his native county. When sixteen years old he was
obliged to leave school that he might assist his father
in the farm work during the summer months. He
taught "school or studied diligently during the winter
months. When twenty-two years of age he entered
the “ Farmers’ College,” near Cincinnati, where he
remained three years, taking the scientific and math-
ematical course. After his graduation he studied
law two years in Urbana, Ohio, and was admitted
to the bar at Columbus, Ohio.

In the spring of 1864 hecame West, locating in
Kansas City, where he has since practiced his pro-
fession. Success has crowned his efforts, and he
stands to-day foremost among_the leading lawyers of
the city. I

Mr. Black was a member of the constitutional
convention held in Jefferson City in 1875.

He is very liberal" in his religious views. His
parents were Methodists and he received his educa-
tion in a Presbyterian institution, but he has never
joined any Church.

E and is a valued and

l

Politically, he is a strong Democrat.

He was married May 22, 1867, to Miss Susie B.
Geiger, second daughter of Dr; Geiger, a promi-
nent physician of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Black have two children.

Mr. Black is about the medium size, well built,
of a quiet, reserved demeanor, and decidedly
a self—made man. By industry he obtained his edu-
cation, and the habits formed then have served
to make his life a success. He came to Kansas
City poor and friendless, and had more than the
ordinary hardships of a young lawyer to contend
against. Soon after coming here he revised the city
ordinances, and displayed such marked ability as a
lawyer that he soon rose to eminence in his profes-
sion.

He is a man of unquestioned integrity, .a close
reasoner, and a profound thinker. To a thorough
knowledge of the legal science he joins the general
culture derived from a varied and extended course

‘ of reading. Skillful in the presentation of the most

involved or intricate facts, forcible in his manner
of dealing with difficult and entangling subjects,
accurate in his perceptions of the true bearings
of a case, he takes an enviable position among
the more prominent practitioners of Kansas City,
influential member of the
legal fraternity, and also of the large community
amid which he is honored as an upright and useful

citizen.

68 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPTIICAZLDICTIOZVARY.

MAJOR B. s. I-IENNING.

KANSAS CITY.

MONG the eminently successful business men
who have, through all the vicissitudes of busi-
ness depression and financial panic, sustained a rep-
utation for purity and capacity worthy of emulation
and imitation, may be properly placed Major B. S.
Henning, now at the head of two important rail-
roads in Kansas. , He is a thoroughly upright, ener-
getic, live Western man; and he avoids. all failure by
the good judgment which foresees and the efficient
work that averts it. His energy and labor have
brought final success to many desperate enterprises,
regarded, before his intervention, as beyond the
limits of possible resuscitation.

His father, George Hen11i11g, was of Saxon de-
scent, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania,
but removed to New York in 1825, where he was a
leading and influential citizen, being several times
the candidate of his party for the Assembly.

Before his removal to New York, George Hen’-
ning married Miss Isabella Boggs,. a lady of high
culture, eminent piety, and great force of character,
who was the daughter of Judge Boggs, a leading
citizen of Centre county, in the Valley of the Bald
Eagle. -
Major Henning was born at Ithaca, New York,
June 23, I827, graduated at the academy of his

- native place, removed thence to Oshkosh, Wiscon-

sin, where he studied medicine, entered on the
practice and continued it about a year, when he
became immersed in real estate speculations that
absorbed his whole time and gradually withdrew him
from the practice. '

While still a boy he was an active politician, and
at the age of seventeen made speeches in his native
State in favor of the election of James K. Polk. In
1848, by special invitation, he returned to New
York to participate in the political canvass, and
made very effective speeches, although then but
twenty-one years of age. In 1852, he was the Wis-
consin member of the Democratic National Com-
mittee, and managed the work of the entire Presi-
dential contest in that State. Having become a
warm personal friend of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson
at a very early age, he secured in his favor, after the
election of 1852, the endorsement of the State offi-
cers and both branches of the Legislature of Wiscon-

sin for the position of Secretary of State under
President Pierce. 4 ‘

He was twice elected Register of the Land Office
and Secretary of the Board of Public Works, by the
Legislature of Wisconsin, and in this position, with
the Chief Engineer, had principal management of
the Fox River Improvement, a work of the greatest
importance. At both of these elections, his party
was in a minority in the Legislature, but his eminent
ability and fitness for the positionsecured his elec-
tion. In 1860, he was elected Mayor of Oshkosh,
which office he held at the outbreak of the war.

In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 3rd
Wisconsin Cavalry, commanded by Colonel VVilliam
A. Barstow,‘ formerly Governor of the State. He
was, at once, commissioned as Major of the Regi-
ment, and in May, 1862, reported, with his Regi-
ment, at Leavenworth, Kansas. ‘ In June of the same
year-his battalion was detached, under his command,
and ordered to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he was
placed in command of the Post, ‘and the District,
embracing all the territory south of the Kansas
river. Fort Scott lies immediately upon the State
line of Kansas and Missouri, and border warfare
existed in its worst form." The neighboring counties
of Missouri were depopulated, in Kansas the courts

were powerless, disorder reigned everywhere, and‘

the will of the military commander was the only law

respected, and that only when backed by sufficient.
' force to compel respect and obedience.

In a short
time, ‘Major Henning succeeded in restoring order,
making life and property respected, and gradually
re-established the authority of the civil tribunals.\_
He secured the establishment of a Commissary
and Quartermaster’s Depot at this post 3 and it is
due to his energy and efficiency that the army of
General Blunt was so amply sustained in its vigorous
campaign into Arkansas and -the Indian Territory.
In May, 1863, he was appointed Provost-Marshal
for the entire Department of Kansas, on the staff
of Major-General Blunt, and in October of the
same year started with him to Fort Smith, Arkan-
sas, and was with him in the memorable disaster of
BaXter’s' Springs, where his body-guard and staff
were Eltt8.Cl{F.1 by Quantrell, and but twenty-five,
out of one hundred and eleven men, escaped.

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A Federal post was established at Baxter’s
Springs, of two companies of cavalry and one of
infantry, and Quantrell had attacked this post with
eight hundred desperate men. As he fell back from
the attack, on being repulsed, he saw over the crest
of the hill the approach of Blunt with his staff, body-
guard, clerks and musicians, and made an impetu-
ous onset at once upon them, carrying everything
before him.

As the Federal force was falling back as rapidly
as possible, -Major Henning conceived the idea of
cutting through the enemy to get to the camp in
their rear, in order to procure assistance from the
cavalry encamped there, and with the rapidity and
promptness of the true cavalry soldier, proceeded to
put it into execution. Seating himself firmly in the
saddle, he charged square to the front, and by dint
of audacity, dexterity, gallantry, and good luck,
managed to get through the lines and galloped into
the friendly camp, where he would certainly have
been shot, because of his fierce approach and their
alarm from the ferocious attack and surrounding
tumult, if it had not happened that some of his own
men were on the works, and recognized him just in
time to stay the order to fire.

Finding that the cavalry was all absent on forage
duty, and knowing that the infantry was utterly inef-
fective for the desired purpose, he turned back, to
be with his chief to the last, and again made his
Way through the fierce guerrillas, somewhat scattered
in the pursuit, but rendered still more furious by the
blood they had shed, and rejoined General Blunt
and the few that remained with him. But few men
would have left safety for such peril, and how he
ever got twice through that merciless force, must for-
It is not supposed that
even the chief actor could explain it. '

In March, 1864, he was appointed Chief of Cav-
alry for the Department, on the staff of Major Gen-
eral Curtis, and the boys used to say he could detect
a missing buckle-tongue on parade, in the remotest
corner of the Department.
was made Special Inspector of Cavalry for the De-
partment, by order of the Secretary of War, it being
the only instance on record where such a distinc-
tion was conferred on a volunteer officer.

In October, 1864, he was assigned to the command

ever remain a mystery.

In the same year he

of the District _of the Upper Arkansas, the District

previously commanded by General Blunt, where he
remained till mustered out of service in january, 1865.
On the 5th of May, 1864, he married Miss Alice,

daughter of Colonel W. T. Campbell, of the 6th
Kansas Cavalry, and has two daughters, Kate, aged
twelve, and Belle, aged five years. I —

Too active and energetic to remain idle, he deter-
mined to make himself a career in Kansas, and at
once devoted his attention to the railroad interests
of the State. In February, 1865, he became Assist-
ant to the General Superintendent of the Kansas
Pacific Railway, which position he held till August,
when he was made Superintendent of Construction
of the line between Leavenworth and Lawrence.
On its completion, he was made Paymaster of the
whole line, in which position he remained until
june, 1866, when he was made Vice-President and
General Manager of the Leavenworth, Lawrence &
-Galveston Railroad.

In this position he conceived the idea of build-
ing, both from Leavenworth and Kansas City to the
Gulf, the two roads uniting south of the State of
Kansas, with a branch extending westward to Santa
Fe, and ultimately to the Pacific, making the whole
country from the Missouri River southward to the
Gulf of Mexico, and westward to the Sierra Nevada,
tributary to one grand railroad enterprise, and drain-
ing all the gold and silver, corn and cattle, of the
richest agricultural and mineral region of the coun-
try, for the benefit of the markets of the world. It
was a grand idea, and the roads are all built, but
they are four enterprises instead of one. '

The Leavenworth, Lawrence 8: Galveston Rail-
road Co. had nothing but empty franchises when he
took charge of it, and a grant of land contingent on
its completion within a given time. With charac-
teristic energy, he proceeded forthwith to Chicago,
Detroit, New York and Boston, and with consum-
mate capacity and persuasiveness, laid the advan-
tages and possibilities of his enterprise before the
capitalists of the country, and in less than six months
had secured the pledge of the necessary capital.
He was soon made President of the Company, and
given the leading charge of its construction. While
this road was in process of construction, the Fort
Scott road was also being built, and in a short time
he was placed in charge of this enterprise as General
Superintendent.

In an almost inconceivably brief space of time,
he became a thoroughly capable railroad man, com-
prehending the minutest details, as well as the broad-
est aspects of the business; and he made of this
road a financial success from the first. ‘Meantime,

the L., L. & G. had fallen into financial difficulties

70 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

since he left it, became involved, was harassed with
debts, could not pay its taxes, and had to be again
placed in his charge. He soon extricated it from its

troubles, placed it upon a secure business footing,-

and made it a profitable investment to the owners.

He now has charge of both roads, as General
Superintendent, and is the most successful railroad
man of his time. Capacity, uprightness and energy
are the secrets of his success,together with an industry
that never tires and a watchfulness that knows no rest.

Although a Democrat at the commencement of
the war, and a supporter of the administration of
Mr. Lincoln during its continuance, he now utterly
eschews politics, and devotes all his time, attention
and capability to the great enterprises with which he
is connected.

He is a forcible speaker, as well as a vigorous

thinker, and goes to the very marrow of his subject

with a concentrated earnestness and force eminently
characteristic of the man. He is also a man of con-
siderable culture, and much more extensive reading
than would be supposed from the engrossing nature
of his duties, but his business force and energy, and
his apitude and capacity for mastering the most intri-
cate and complicated details, are the most salient
points of his character, and have contributed most
largely to his unexampled success.

This sketch was contributed to this work as a
tribute to Major Henning by a personal friend, who
was for several years associated with him as a
Director of the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston
Railroad Company.

THOMAS K. HANNA.

IKAJVSAS CITY.

I HOMAS KING HANNA was born in Shelby
T county, Kentucky, February 8, I829.
father, John S. Hanna, was a native of Kentucky,
and deseended from the old Covenanters of Scot-
land. His mother, jane (King) Hanna, was born in
Kentucky, on the same farm on which she now
resides at the advanced age of seventy—three years.
Her parents were natives of Virginia and among the
earliest pioneers of Kentucky. Thomas received
an academic education at a high school in Shelby-
ville, Kentucky. His earlier years were spent on a
farm. When about eighteen years of age his par-
ents, fearing his constitution was not sufficiently
robust for the labor required of him on the farm,
sent him to Louisville, the commercial metropolis of
his native State, where he engaged for a year as
clerk in a dry goods store, at the end of which his
employer told him that as he had another young
man in the store, he did not need his services
longer, and volunteered the opinion that he was not
intended for a merchant, and advised him to return
to the farm. Young Hanna replied that he himself
thought differently, but that if he did not desire his
services there were others that did, and asked if he
would give him a letter of recommendation. The
letter was cheerfully given. Soon afterwards the
subject of this sketch was on his way to Lexington,
Missouri, where he spent some four years in the
same business, and then removed to St. Louis, Mis-

His I

souri, and for a year in the capacity of “ ye.’ drum-
mer” -he traversed the State and States and Terri-
tories adjacent, for a prominent wholesale dry goods
house of that city. In 1854 he removed to De
Kalb county, Missouri, for the purpose of settling a
younger brother on a farm. The brother, however,
remained but a short time, and he was left alone.
After spending three yearsthere he removed to
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and in connection with
Thomas E. Tootle, of St. joseph, Missouri, just
twenty years ago, opened a large dry goods store,
selling both at wholesale and retail, and for eleven

years transacted a large and profitable business.

During his residence in Nebraska he was also con-
nected in business with Richard Leach, having a
store at each of the towns of Helena and Virginia
City, Montana.

In 1868 Mr. Hanna came to Kansas City, Mis-
souri, and in connection with his former partners
opened an extensive wholesale dry goods store on
Delaware street, under the firm name of Tootle,
Hanna & Leach. Soon after theideath of Mr.
Leach, which occurred in 1873, Mr. William Peak,
who had been for years an employé in the house,
was admitted ‘as a partner, and the firm name
changed to that of T ootle, Hanna & Co.
now occupy five floors of a double house on the
corner of Third and Delaware streets, 50 feet front
by 140 feet in depth, give employment to sixteen

They '

_ Sarah Saylor.

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hands; and their annual sales amount to between
seven and eight hundred thousand dollars. Mr.
Hanna is also largely interested in the lead mines
and business of Southwest Missouri, and owns one-
fourth of the Miners’ Bank of Joplin, Missouri.

He has never sought political honors, but per-
mitted himself to be elected a senator in the first
legislature of the State of Nebraska, the duties of
which he discharged with fidelity to the interests of
his constituents and with honor to himself. He was
also selected as the first President of the Board
of Trade of Kansas City, and is Secretary and Trea-
surer of the West Joplin Lead and Zinc Company.
Has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity
for more than twenty—five years. As may be
inferred from his parentage, he was raised a Presby-
terian of the “strictest sect,” and has never
departed from the faith of his fathers. Being a
native Kentuckian he was almost necessarily an old
line Henry Clay Whig, with but little of Democracy
in his composition; but, in the present aspect of
political parties, affiliates with the -Democrats.

On the 27th day of September, 1855, in St.
Joseph, Missouri, he was married to Judith J. Vena-
ble, daughter of Dr. Joseph Venable of Shelbyville,

one admirably qualified for the government of a
large and interesting family of children, of which
they have seven living, four daughters and three
sons, having had the misfortune to lose one, a
daughter, in infancy.

The special feature to which Mr. Hanna attri-
butes his success in life may be compressed into
one word, work——faithful, constant andiunremitting
labor. He once remarked to the writer that if,
from any cause, he at any time (which is very rare)
is late in getting to his place of business in the
morning, he fancies he can hear the voice of his
venerated father upbraiding him for his delin-
quency. I

Mr. Hanna is still in the prime of life, in the
enjoyment of health, surrounded by all the endear-
ments of a happy and comfortable home 3 and while
acknowledged to be one of the most industrious
and indefatigable business men in the country, he is
none the less so in the varied interests of the church
of which he is a worthy member, and of the Sab-
bath School of which he is the faithful superintend-
ent. Take him all in all, he is such a man and pos-
sesses just such a character as is worthy of emula-
tion by the aspiring youth of this and succeeding

Kentucky, a lady of education and refinement, and generations.
JOHN w. CHERRY.
TREIVTO./V.

OHN W. CHERRY was born in Columbus,
Franklin county, Ohio, April 6, 1848. His
father, M. Cherry, for many years a well-known

dry goods merchant of Columbus, was a native of
Ireland and came to the United States when four-
teen years of age. His mother’s maiden name was
When but eight years of age, John
entered his father’s store as clerk and took an
unusual interest, early developing a tact which has
since rendered him one of the most successful busi-
ness men, for his opportunity, in the West. His
education was obtained in the common schools of
Columbus. At the age of sixteen, with an unusual
capacity and experience for a youth of his years, he
went to Bloomington, Illinois, where he secured a
position in the dry goods house of W. H. Johnson
& Co. In 1865 this firm establishing business in

Quincy, Illinois, he moved there and continued with
them in his position as clerk. In 1870, with his
ample knowledge of business, he went to Chicago
and engaged as salesman in the retail house of
Simpson & Norwell, in which position he remained
six months. In 1871 he moved to Maryville, Mis-
souri, and entered‘ into partnership in the dry goods
business with Mr. Hurlbut, under the firm name of
Hurlbut & Cherry. Most of the capital in this
concern was furnished by his partner, Mr. Cherry’s
experience and knowledge of the business being
recognized in lieu of pecuniary wealth. The success
of this enterprise was complete, and, after a period
of prosperity in Marysville, Mr. Cherry removed to
Trenton, his present location, where he soon suc-
ceeded in building up an immense trade in dry

goods. On the frst of October, 1877, he moved to a

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new building remodeled for the accommodation of
his business, where he carries on the heaviest retail
dry goods business of any mercantile house in
Northwest Missouri.’ As a business man he is a
success. '

He has never united with any religious organiza-
tion. In politics he has always been a Democrat.
August 13, 1874, he married, in Quincy, Illinois,
Miss Anna M. Holmes, daughter of Samuel Holmes,

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a well-known railroad contractor of that place. He
has by this marriage one child, a son born Novem-
ber 1, 1875. In person he is five feet eight and a

. half inches high, and weighs one hundred and forty-

five pounds. His habits of life are unusually active.
His address is prepossessing and his social qualities
excellent. Mr. Cherry is the eldest of a family
of three children, the two younger of whom are
daughters.

HON. THOMAS P. AKERS.

LEXI./VG TON.

F the many examples of self-made men which
0 this Western country has produced, none
are more worthy of record than the life of the late
Hon. Thomas P. Akers, nor shows more clearly
what may be accomplished by industry, persever-
ance and self-reliance. Poor and friendless, with
no aid but his own untiring_ energy and indomitable
will, he secured. for himself the advantages of a
liberal education and won for himself a name that
was known and honored.

He was born in Knox county, Ohio, October 4,
1828, and was the youngest of ten children. His
parents were VVil1iam and Nancy Akersme Holmes.
They belonged originally to Virginia, from which
they moved to Kentucky and afterwards to Knox
county, Ohio, where they settled. His father died
when he was only six years of age, leaving his
mother with a large family in poor circumstances,
and thus early in life he had to rely entirely upon
his own resources. Determined to obtain a good
education, he worked in a brick-yard in Cleveland
during the summer, to obtain money to enable him
to attend school during the winter, and in this way
he fitted himself for entering college. He after-
wards removed to Augusta, Bracken county, Ken-
tucky, where he taught school, and from there to
Greensburg, Green county, at which place he was
offered and accepted the presidency of a female col-
lege. About this time he became alicensed minister
of the Methodist Church, and for many years acted as
local preacher for that ‘denomination, drawing large
congregations by his ability and eloquence. Here
he was married to his first wife, who died in Lexing-
ton in 18 56. While acting as president of the college

at Greensburg he published, for the benefit and in
aid of the institution over which he presided, a vol-
ume of sermons preached by the most distinguished
divines of the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian‘ and
Cumberland Presbyterian Churches, assembled at
Greensburg on the 26th of July, 1850. Among
them were Bishops Soule and Doggett, Drs. Hum-
phrey, Grundy, Rice, Breckenridge, Baird, Alexan-
der Campbell, and many others of equal distinction.
At the close of theivolume is a supplementary essay
by himself, entitled “Religious Corruption a Pre-
lude to Nationa.l Decay,” indicating an accurate
and familiar knowledge both of ancient and modern
history, and enlarged and philosophic views upon
science and general literature. For one so young,
it was a remarkable production and would have done
credit to riper and maturer years. _ His health giving
way under confinement and study, he removed in
18 5 3 to Lexington, Missouri, where he accepted the
Professorship of Mathematics in the Masonic Col-
lege, a chair which he filledwvith acknowledged
ability until called upon by the almost unanimous
voice of the people of the District to become a can-
didate for Congress, to fill the unexpired term of the
lamented John G. Miller, who died in 18 54. During
his brief service in Congress, he took a high'posi-
tio11 and was regarded as a young man of extraordi-
nary promise. He never sought any public position,
although he was tendered the Democratic nomina-

tion for Governor when a nomination was equivalent _

to an election. In 1859, he ‘married Miss Kate
Anderson, daughter of the late Colonel O. Ander-
son, of Lexington, who, with three children, survive

him. On the breaking out of the war, he moved

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with his family to New York, where his sound a11d
practical views of finance at once attracted such
favorable recognition as to procure his election to
the Vice Presidency of the Gold Board. He was
exceedingly popular with the members of that body.
His health failing, he was compelled to resign, and
he removed to Utah, but failing to receive the benefit
he had anticipated, he returned to St. Louis and
in 1876 came back to Lexington, where he died
on the 3d of April, 1877.

One of the brightest and most polished orators
in the State of ‘Missouri, he made a brilliant cam-
paign in behalf of Tilden and Hendricks in the fall

of 1876, and his services in their behalf in Illinois “

and Indiana were’ considered almost invaluable.
He was a zealous and exemplary member of the
Masonic order, and in his life he conscientiously
practiced the sublime precepts and moral principles
of Masonry. Mr. Akers was a man of majestic
appearance, six feet four inches high, broad shoul-
dered, strongly built and possessing almost incredible
muscular power—the very last man to be expected
to succumb to that fell disease, consumption. He
was a man of more than ordinary force of character,
excellent intellectual powers, great scholarly attain-
ments, and rich and rare culture. As a writer, he
possessed in an extreme degree a command of the
purest and most forcible language, as well as those
graceful a11d ornamental figures of speech which
clothe the conceits of gt vivid imagination and add

so much to fancy and passion. As an orator, he
possessed that rare though exquisite something
which captivates the hearer, and holds the willing
ear of public assemblages, while the thought of the
speaker is received and appropriated with pleasure
and thankfulness. In this regard he had not many
peers and very few superiors, being knownas one of
the first orators’ in the Union, whether in the pulpit
or on the stump. '

Long aware of the _i1npossibility of recovery, he
spoke of death with composure, even desiring its
more rapid approach, and met it with cheerful resig-
nation, relying upon the promises of the gospel.
All who came in contact with him will remember
him as a-polished and courteous gentleman, while
those who attained close friendly relations with him
well remember his noble, high-minded, generous
nature, his splendid abilities and his warm, manly
heart. Great, however, as were his abilities and
acquirements, and prominent as were his public
services, his greatest worth, his real goodness and
greatness, were best exhibited and appreciated in his
private social and domestic relations, where his amia-
ble disposition and warm, generous heart endeared
him to all. His was one of those noble natures to
whom with confidence the burdened heart could
pour out its sorrows, to whom distress can proffer its

suit; whose hand was guided -by justice and whose _

heart was expanded by benevolence. His departure

left an aching void in many hearts.

HON. MILTON JAMISON PAYNE.

KANSAS CITY. I

HE subject of this sketch is one of the pio-
T neers of the West, and one of the most prom-
inent citizens of the young metropolis of the Mis-
souri Valley. He is one of those liberal, public-
spirited, enterprising and executive men who have
done.so much to develop the resources of a new
country, and build up the trade of his adopted
home.

M. ]. Payne was born in Christian county, Ken-
tucky, October 29, 1829, and was the second child
in a family of seven, the name of his parents being
Edward Payne and Mary Ann Calloway. He

received a good common school education, and at
10

an early age developed that intelligence and shrewd-
When

only eleven years of age, his father died, leaving‘ a

ness that have marked his riper years.

limited estate, and he and his elder brother culti-_

vated the farm for the following two years, attend-
ing school during the winter terms. In the autumn
of 1842 he became an apprentice in the printing
office of the Hopkinsville Gazelte, in Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, and during that time acquired a valuable
and practical education. In the of fall 1844 he
resigned his position in the printing office and entered

the store of Messrs. Gant & Sons, who were very '

extensive merchants in Hopkinsville. In 1849, dur-

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ing the California gold excitement, he left his situa-
tion and joined a company that was about to start
for California. He started for St. Louis in advance
of the others, for the purpose of seeing his mother
who had some years previously moved to Illinois.

Upon reaching St. Louis he was prevailed upon
by T. Barnum, Esq., to accept a position in one of
the leading dry goods houses there, where he con-
tinued until theiautumn of 1850; he thencame to
Kansas City and formed a co-partnership with Mr.

H. L. Weil, of St. Louis, doing a general mercan- :

tile business. In 1852 he severed his connection
with him and engaged with Messrs. Walker, Boyd
& Chick, afterwards Northrup & Chick, who were
proprietors of a large merchandising establishment in
Kansas City and had various trading houses in the

Kansas City, Mr. Payne retired from the house and

In 1855, when elected Mayor of

has not been engaged in any mercantile pursuit 1

since that time. He commenced operating in real
estate, at first investing small amounts, but by judi-
cious investments and sales he was soon enabled to
increase his capital. In addition to his elegant
homestead of eight acres, which lies one-half mile
south of the city limits, he is proprietor of Payne’s

Addition, and was one of the owners of Lucas 3
L burg, Clinton county, but the energy of ‘the young

Place Addition of twenty acres.

In 185,3-4 he was elected member of the City
Council and afterward Mayor of the city for five
consecutive terms. In 1862 he was elected member
of the State Legislature from Jackson county, and
was’re-elected in 1864. In 1866 he received the
Democratic nomination for Senator from this Sena-
torial District and received a majority of votes,
but was defeated by the action of the “returning
board,” who threw out all the votes of Osage town-
ship, where Mr. Payne had received a majority of
one hundred and six, thus giving the election to the
Republican candidate by a majority of nineteen.

Mr. Payne has been closely identified with all
the public enterprises that have made Kansas City
so prosperous. He was one of the incorporators
and directors in the Kansas City and Cameron
branch of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad; he
was also a stockholder and director of the Missouri
River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, besides being
largely interested in-many other public undertakings.
While in the House of Representatives he was
the recognized leader in obtaining the passage of the
bill for the construction of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road to Kansas City. He has been President of

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the Kansas City Gas-Light and Coke Company
since its organization in 1868. During the ses-
sion of Legislature in 1864-5 Mr. Payne received
the Democratic nomination for Speaker of the
House, but as the opposition were in the majority
he was not electedf In 1865 he was delegated
by the city, in common with Colonel Van Horn
and Colonel McGee, to represent, its interests,
railroad and otherwise, at the grand council held by
the Government with the several tribes of Indians at
Fort Smith. At this council the ground work was
laid by which the Cherokee Neutral Lands were
secured to the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf
Railroad, thus guaranteeing the construction of that
road.

He was also instrumental, with others, in secur-
ing the charter for the railroad bridge at Kansas
City, and was one of the incorporators. This charter
was held by its framers in trust for the railroad that
should first connect Kansas City with the East or
North. Mr. Payne was a conspicuous worker in the
Committee on Internal Improvements, and to his
zealous industry is Kansas City indebted for its early
connection with the St. Louis, Kansas City & North-
ern Railroad. The objective point of this line was
St. Joseph via Richmond, Ray county, and Platts—

and talented legislator from Jackson county, forced
the directors to build the line towards his adopted
home. .Mr. Payne was always a faithful public
servant, and has been a teacher as well as a repre-
sentative of men. In 1854 he was one of the pub-
lishers of the Kansas City Em‘e7¢rz'se; and in 1862
had charge of the editorial columns of the journal;
while in 186 5 he was editor and part owner of the
Aziveflzlcer, the first Democratic paper published in
that place after the close of the war.

The parents of Mr. Payne were Baptists, his
grandfather being a Baptist preacher, and he was
reared under that influence. On hismarriage to a

‘Catholic, being very liberal in his religious views,

his children have all been baptized in the -Catholic
faith, though he is not a member of any church.
In politics he is and always has been a strong,

‘firm Democrat, and is regarded by his party as a

gallant standard bearer, “tried and true.” J
On the 22d day of February, 1852, Mr. Payne
was married to Miss Mary Adeline Prudhomme,

I youngest daughter of Gabriel Prudhomme, a trap-

per, who was the first settler in Kansas City, and
who entered the old town site for a farm, and

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owned it at his death.
has four children living, Franklin, William, Mary
Josephine and Thomas Gabriel. His wife died
November 10, 1867, and he is still a widower. His
eldest son, Edward M., a most promising young
man, died February 15, I874. '

Mr. Payne is somewhat under the medium size,
has a frank and open countenance and is one of the
most pleasant and agreeable of gentlemen. There
is a, genial air about him which puts one quite at
ease, and both in public and private life he is

By his marriage Mr. Payne g

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exceedingly popular. He is an excellent business
man, prompt, energetic and strictly upright. _ When
he first came to Kansas City he was poor, but
by his industry, energy and shrewd foresight he
secured an ample fortune. He has always been
one of the most public spirited men in Kansas
City, and has fought with her most faithfully in
all her struggles for growth and material advance-

ment. He is a warm friend, an agreeable compan-

ion; ever ready to help when help is needed, and .

beloved and respected by all who know him.

JOHN CAMPBELL.

I('A./VSAS CITY.

three sons, was born in the County Tyrone,
Ireland, August 8, 1820. His parents were
Joseph and Margaret (Glass) Campbell. His father
was a farmer. John received a good common school
education. In his youth he was industrious, and
very fond of hunting and fishing, and these traits
have remained conspicuous through his whole life.
At the age of eighteen, in 1838, he left school,
and, like so many other enterprising sons of Ireland,
started at once for the United States. He landed in
St. (Johns, New Brunswick, and from there went on
to Philadelphia, where he expected to join his brother,
but on his arrival in that city, he found that his brother
had gone to St. Louis, to enter the employ of their
uncle, Colonel Robert Campbell, an importer and
outfitter for Western traders. He at once followed
him and remained there several months. He then
removed to Weston, Platte county, Missouri, where
he traded and clerked for some time. While there,
he was notified by his uncle’s house in St. Louis to
purchase horses and mules for the surveying party of
Colonel J. C. Fremont, which started across the
plains in May, 1844. After securing the animals, he
joined the party and went with them to Fort Hall, at
the head of Columbia river, British Territory. From

JOHN CAMPBELL, the second of a family of

‘there he returned with express to Council Bluffs

late in the winter of the same year, and went on

to St. Louis, where he remained about two years. .

In the Spring of 1847, during the progress of
the Mexican war, he started out with the Laclede
Rangers, a body of volunteers who furnished and

equipped themselves. Their uniform so closely
resembled that of the First Dragoons, that, as soon
as they reached Leavenworth, they were attached to
that body of troops, in Colonel Doniphan’s regi-
ment, and marched under General Kearney until
they reached Santa Fe’, New ‘Mexico. They then
went South under Colonel Doniphan, taking part in
several engagements, and at Monterey they shipped
across the Gulf to New Orleans, and thence to St.
Louis, having been absent one year and a half, dur-
ing which time he acted as Quartermaster’s Sergeant.
While in St. Louis, he was engaged in business with
his uncle, Colonel Robert Campbell.

In June, 1848, he started on a trading expedition
up the Missouri river to Montana, taking the steamer
to the mouth of the Yellowstone, and bringing the
merchandise on fiatboats as far as the Three Falls,
where Fort Campbell was situated. Here he re-
mained until the middle of November, 1850, when
he again returned to St. Louis. In July, 1851, he
took charge of his uncle’s wagons, and went to Fort
Laramie with the Commission that made the first
Indian treaty, Thomas Fitzpatrick being Indian
Agent. In August, I8 51, he left Fort Laramie and
went to the South Fork of the Platte, where he went
into partnership with W. W. Bent, trading in furs,
buffalo robes, etc. Their trading extended all over
that section of country and through New Mexico.

In 185 5, during one of his visits East for sup-
plies, he purchased, for $50,000, two-fourteenths of
the interest of Colonel Robert Campbell in Kansas
City’s site—he holding four-fourteenths of the original‘

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fourteen shares into which it had been divided—and
ever after made Kansas City his headquarters for
supplies. The breaking out of the war injured their
trade, and in 1862 he retired from business and
settled permanently in Kansas City. In 1861-2, in
addition to his own business, he did considerable
Paso. Since his settlement here, he has devoted
his attention to the management of his extensive
property, speculating in lands, building houses, etc.,
adding considerably to his already handsome for-
tune. In 1860, he was elected Alderman of the
First Ward, and with the exception of one year,
1864, he has remained uninterruptedly in office ever
since up to April 15, 1877, when he retired. He
put up the first large brick warehouse ever built in
Kansas City, at a cost of $32,000. It is situated on
the Levee, and was used for storing his Western
goods

During his Indian trading, he traveled over a
vast extent of what was then an almost unknown
country, his range extending from the Arkansas Val-

ley on the South to Fort Benton in the North. In

_ freighting for Government to New Mexico and El A

1854, he went to Europe, but confined his travels J;

entirely to Ireland and England.
‘H e was brought up in the Presbyterian church,
and has remained within its fold all through life,

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a good, old-fashioned, thorough Presbyterian. In
politics, he is a strong Democrat, but, like all sensi-
ble Democrats, he votes for the best man, irrespect-
ive of party. ‘

On the 14th of February, 1854, while on a visit to
liisparents in Ireland, he was married to Charlotte,
daughter of Andrew Campbell,
County Tyrone, Ireland, and niece of Colonel Robert
Campbell, of St. Louis.
four of whom are living. His oldest son is engaged
on a morning paper, and the second is in the
insurance business; the daughters are still at school.

Mr. Campbell is rather above the medium height,
of spare habit, and with that shrewd expression of
countenance which is so generally found among
those of Scotch-Irish descent ; associated with a
somewhat reserved and cautious manner. Although
he must have taken part in many thrilling adventures
during the long years he spent among the Indians,
he is reticent on the subject. As a public man and
member of the Council for so many years, he is
highly respected and esteemed, and he has always
lent his aid to advance the interests and welfare of
the city. Though one of the wealthiest citizens in
Kansas City, he is a plain, quiet, unassuming gen-
tleman; warm-hearted and true to his friends, and
pleasant and agreeable to everybody.

HOWARD M. HOLDEN.

KANSAS CIT Y.

‘HE remarkable growth of Kansas City, com-
T mercially, from a hamlet in 1865 to a city of
forty thousand people to—day, was largely influenced
by the far-seeing and intelligent policy of its leading
And in no department outside its rail-
ways has it been more marked than in its cattle
trade, pork packing, and its grain market. I

These owe their incipiency, their early progress
and present extent, as much to the liberal policy of
her banking institutions as anything else 3 in fact
banking in this portion of the west had, as a rule,
avoided commercial paper before that period.

To Howard M. Holden is due the credit of
the new order of things, and to him is due also the
initiation of the present system, which makes the

citizens.

banks of Kansas City distinct and exceptional in
their character in this portion of the West.

Previous, to the establishment of the First Na-
tional Bank by Mr. - Holden, banks were simply
loan and collection offices, and commercial loans.
were between business men—one helping another
on maturity of paper, or where money was needed
for transactions out of the ordinary routine of trade.

But everything changed at this time."
commenced discounting commercial paper, and men
dealing in the staples of the country were encour-
aged to extend their operations, and funds were to
be had at all times. Packing houses were located
by assurances of financial aid, stock yards were es-
tablished, and the Texas cattle dealers, driven away

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from other points by local prejudice, found at the
First National a helping hand, and that their herds
on the prairies of Kansas were good collaterals for
money needed to put them on the market. Much
has been said and written on this cattle trade, but
Kansas City owes its control to-day more to the far-
seeing sagacity and financial forecast and liberality
of the First National Bank of Kansas City than to
any other one agency. As this was the beginning
of the present commercial prosperity of the city,
the importance of this early policy is the more seen
and felt by the public. And what was true of that
has been so of every enterprise of a legitimate
character since. In fact Mr. Holden is a banker in
the widest and most comprehensive meaning of the
word, and the institution which has done so much
for the city of its location, has been equally benefi-
cial to the entire country west~—its business extend-
ing over Nebraska, Kansas, Western Texas, New
Mexico and Colorado—making it the leading bank-
ing house between St. Louis and San Francisco. It
is a standing example of what an institution of the
kind, managed with financial skill, comprehensive
policy, ability and liberality can do.

Mr. Holden was born in Malden, Massachusetts,
August 28, 1837, being now, 1877, only forty years
old. His father was Eli Holden, and his mother
Phoebe Shute. His education was obtained in the
High school of his native village, and from private
tutors.

When between seventeen and eighteen years of
age he emigrated alone to Muscatine, Iowa, and
beganlife for himself in the bank of Green & Stone
at Muscatine. At twenty-one he started a bank of
his own, being a branch of the State Bank of Iowa,
one of the soundest financial institutions of its day.
During his residence in Iowa, he was elected to the
legislature, and served in the sessions of 1865 and
1866. Leaving Iowa, immediately thereafter, he
came to Kansas City, and purchased the First
National Bank, whichhad but recently been estab-
lished, and for the past eleven years has been its
manager and head.

On the 30th of May 1867, he married Miss Mary
F. Oburn, daughter of Rev. Wm. Oburn, of Hano-
ver, Indiana.

Mr. Holden comes from good old revolutionary
stock on both sides of his family, his grandfathers
‘being soldiers in that war, and all his family, save
himself, being still residents of the old Bay state. ‘

As a business man he is chiefly known to the

public, and the First National Bank is so intimately
associated with his name, that with the people of
the entire West he was the bank itself. And in this
they are to a very large degree justified, for it has
been from the implicit confidence of the public in
his management, his sagacity, enterprise and intelli-
gent liberality, that it owed its large capital and its
wide spread business. _

During the panic this fact was most markedly
manifest. Not only was the credit of the institu-
tion itself unimpaired, but with a unanimity very
rare in business of the kind, the banks throughout
the country West made it their agent, and through it
the wide—spread disaster that fell upon many other
sections of the country was averted. The same far-
seeing policy governed it then that had always char-
acterized its dealings with the commercial public,
and tended very greatly to making it what it was,
the clearing house for the interior banks.

Mr. Holden during these years had not only
made the institution itself prosperous, and added
largely to its gains as well as its usefulness, but he
has been equally fortunate in his private or personal
business, "being to-day one of the wealthiest citizens
of the city, and in all respects independent in
fortune. '

He is also one of the most popular of citizens—-
generous, liberal and enterprising——no worthy ob-
ject is presented that his name does not head the
list with a sum that is not exceeded by any other,
and his views and judgment upon public affairs is
sought on all occasions. There is not to-day a pub-
lic enterprise that does not bear the impress of his
energy, his enterprise, or his money—oftener all of
them than otherwise. I

And when Kansas City with her elevators, her
packing houses, her stock yards, and the large ca-
pacities she possesses to handle the immense busi-
ness of the rich country west of her is considered,
and that it is all the work of less than ten years, and
since the establishment of the First National Bank,
it is very high compliment to be by common con-
sent the main financial. promoter of such an exten-
sive commerce as has grown up in this young
city.

Mr. Holden may be said to have but commenced
his career of usefulness and fortune, and ten years
more will no doubt far surpass the results of the
decade that has passed. For he has had almost to
create, foster and build up all that has been accom-
plished. He stood at the head of the largest and

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strongest financial institution of the Missouri Valley,
with the immense trade in full and successful
operation, and yearly growing greater and greater,
the future can but be an enlarged copy of the past;
and his success greater than ever.

The facts connected with Mr. Holden’s opera-
tions and their results, only show what one man
with courage and enlightened financial views can
do for a city and country, and demonstrate that
banking is not the soulless business that some men
make it——that a banker need not be a usurer, but
on the contrary has a field for the widest and most
beneficent exercise of a wise and liberal public
policy. But no prouder monument to his enterprise
and far-seeing public spirit exists in the city than
the Merchants Exchange building—the largest,
most costly and elegant structure in Kansas City——
and emphatically the work of Mr. Holden. The
utility of such an institution is known to the large
cities of the country, but a building devoted to the

exclusive use of merchants, in a city of forty thou-

sand inhabitants on almost the western frontier, is
something new even in this modern age. But Mr.
Holden contended that a city that had systematized
and consolidated the live stock trade, the grain
trade, the packing business, and the other great
interests which the city controls, could not handle
it with the requisite efficiency, without organization
and co-operation. And the Merchants Exchange
building is the result of his determination and
effort. Now all the heavy business of the city is
daily done under one roof, and every leading inter-

est has its office in the building. Thus are brought
together daily, the merchants, the railroads, t-he
banks, the clearing-house, the insurance offices, the
telegraph lines to all parts of the city and country,
and what required the full business hours of the day
to accomplish heretofore, is done at once and all
together. There is no city in the country where
business is more thoroughly systematized than in
Kansas City. And it is but doing justice where it
is due to give the larger measure of credit to the
energy, business capacity and far-seeing Sagacity of
its leadinggbanker. At the last election held by the
Board of Trade, Mr. Holden was elected President
by a unanimous vote. A

In social life, Mr. Holden is genial, plain in
his manner, and one of the most unassuming of
men. Although eschewing active politics, he takes
much interest in local affairs, without troubling
himself much about parties——he is a republican and
acts with that party as to national affairs. He is
very fortunate and happy in his family and home
surroundings, having three children——Bertha Lynde
Holden, Hale Holden and Willard M. Holden—to
whom when free from business his care is devoted.

The writer of this cannot give his ‘religious prefer--

ences, or whether he is in active connection with
any sect, but his many benefactions, and his gener-
ous contributions to all denominations, is evidence
of his liberal views in this as in all other matters
pertaining to the community in which he lives, and
which has been so largely benefited by his enter-
prise and capital.

JAMES LUCKEY DAVIS.

GALLA TIN.

AMES L. DAVIS, the fifth of a family of seven
children, was born in Alexandria, De Kalb
county, Tennessee, September 18, 1831. His
father John H. Davis, M. D., was born in North
Carolina. His mother, Permelia Risen, was a
native of Virginia. His early education
obtained in the common schools of Nashville, Ten-
nessee, and he has all his life been a hard student.

VVELS

In 1844 he began to study the art of printing in 4

the office of the Ora‘/zopolfiarz, a daily newspaper pub-
lished by VV. Tannahill in Nashville. He was, after-

wards, connected with the Gazetfe, and subsequently
with the Ifepuélzkazz Bcm/zer, both published in that
city. In 1854 he moved to Springfield, Tennessee,
‘where he edited and published the Springfield /7216!-
Zzgencer, a weekly Whig newspaper. He continued
this enterprise till 1858.

In 1859 he entered the Law Department of
Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee,
from which institution he graduated in 1860, when
he moved to Missouri, and settled in Gallatin, where
he has ever since resided in the practice of his pro-

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fession, and where he now ranks among the leading
attorneys of Northwest Missouri. In 1873 he was
elected Mayor of the city of Gallatin, holding the
office one year.

He was made a Master Mason in Lebanon, Ten-
nessee, in 1859, and was there afterwards made a
Royal Arch Mason, and subsequently a member of
the Council of R. ‘& S. M. He is now (1877) a
member of Daviess Lodge, No. 116, A. F. 8: A.
M., in Gallatin, and of Gallatin Royal Arch Chap-
ter, No. III. He was made an Odd Fellow in Gal-
latin in 1871, and is still a member in goodstanding

I of that order.

In 1855 he united with the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, of which he has ever since
been an active member. Since the admission of
the laity, in 1867, he has been a constant member
of the Missouri Conference. At the Annual Con-

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1873, he was elected a lay delegate to the General
Conference of ' the Church, which met at Louisville,
Kentucky, in May, 1874. At the Missouri Con-
ference held at Fulton in September, 1877, he was
again elected a delegate to the General Conference
which holds its next session at Atlanta, Georgia, in
May, 1878.

In politics he was an Old Line Whig. On the
reorganization of the Democratic party in 1864, he
united with the same, and has since been identified
with its interests.

November 26, 1854, he married Miss Letitia M.
Thomas, daughter of Archibald Thomas, M. I)., a
physician of Springfield, Tennessee.

He takes a lively interest in politics, is a close

‘and logical reasoner, and is recognized as one of the

ablest debaters and orators in North Missouri.
In person he is five feet and six inches high, and

ference held in Carrollton, Missouri, in September,  weighs one hundred and twenty-five pounds.

JAMES HUGHES.

RICHMOND.

AMES HUGHES, of Richmond, Ray county,
Missouri, was born on the 30th day of March,
1814, in the county of Jessamine, in the State of
Kentucky He was the fifth son and sixth child of
john Hughes and Elizabeth (Berry) Hughes. His
father was born in the old Redstone Fort, now
Brownsville, in Pennsylvania, in the year 1777, from
whence he was taken with the family to Kentucky,
where they lived for some years in Bryant’s Station.
Afterwards, his father resided for many years in ]es-
samine county, Kentucky. In the year 1822, his
father, when James Hughes was eight years old,
removed with his family to Missouri, and located in
Boone county, and was one of the pioneer farmers
of that county. ]ames Hughes’ father, as well as
his mother’s father, Samuel Berry, were soldiers in
the war of 1812, and served under General Harri-
son. His grandfather, ]oseph Hughes, Wasa soldier
in the Revolutionary war.

James Hughes spent his boyhood days in work-
ing with his father on the farm, and received his
education at a country school, which afterwards
became known as Boone Femme Academy. In the
year 1830, when he was sixteen years old, he came to

Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, and engaged as a
clerk and salesman in a dry goods store, and he
continued to act as clerk and salesman for different
leading mercantile firms in Richmond until the year
1837, when he went into merchandising on his own
account, "in partnership with his brother, Willis
Hughes, and the firm continued to do a profitable
business until the year 1845, when he closed his
career as a merchant, and removed into the country,
and engaged in farming and dealing in stock, which
be followed steadily, energetically and successfully
for more than thirty years. During that period he
occupied the front rank among the best farmers of
the State. He was even moresuccessful as afarmer
than he was as a merchant. In January, 1877, he
removed to Richmond and entered into the business
of banking in partnership with his brother, Joseph
S. Hughes, and his son, Burnett Hughes, and his
two sons, Berry Hughes and Allen Hughes, are
farming and dealing in stock on the old homestead
in the country-. This is a model farm, containing
eight hundred and eighty—two acres, and is improved
on the most modern plan and well stocked with fine
improved stock of all kinds——~as good as any in the

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county. Mr. Hughes is also largely interested in
other real estate in different parts of the cou_nty.

James Hughes was married in the year 1842 to
Elvira A. Smith, of Ray county, formerly of Pytt-
sylvania county, Virginia. His wife died on the
16th day of January, 1877. They raised a family
of eight children, six sons and two daughters.
Their oldest child, a daughter, Elizabeth V. (Hughes)
Mansur, is the wife of William H. Mansur, cashier
of the Bank of Salisbury. Their son, Newton
Hughes, is clerk in the same Bank. Henry Clay
Hughes, their oldest son, is a successful farmer in
Carroll county. Ami Hughes, their youngest son,
has just graduated at Richmond College. Their
youngestchild, a daughter, Louisa R. Hughes, is
living with her father in Richmond.

In politics James Hughes was a Henry Clay
Whig, but since the death of the great Kentucky
statesman and the dissolution of the Whig party, he
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Democrat. He feels, as he has always felt, a deep
interest in the welfare, prosperity and future great-
ness of his State and country. Such men are always
the bulwarks ‘of free government. _

James Hughes, in all the avocations of life in
which he has been engaged, has displayed energy,
integrity and a just regard for the rights of his fellow
men, and he therefore enjoys the confidence of his
large circle of friends and acquaintances. He is
spending the evening of his days in active business
as a banker, and in promoting the welfare of his

children. Estimating him by the good he has done

in the world, he deserves to be more highly prized ’

than many whose deeds have been emblazoned in
history. Besides, the same honorable career is open
to thousands of young men everywhere. Such a
name as that of James Hughes will be a rich heritage
for his children when he shall have ceased from his
earthly labors, and his good deeds
embalmed in their memories.

COLONEL ALEXANDER WILLIAM DONIPHAN.

RICHMOND.

OLONEL ALEXANDER WILLIAM DONI-
C PHAN, Richmond, Ray county, Missouri,
was born near Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky,
July 9, 1808. He is of English extraction, though
his paternal English ancestors immigrated to Amer-
ica in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and
settled on the Potomac river, below Fredericksburg,
Virginia, where the family name is still preserved
by other descendants.

His father, Joseph Doniphan, was the second
son of Alexander Doniphan, in honor of whom

Colonel Doniphan was named. By the law of pri-

mogeniture, which then prevailed in Virginia, Joseph .
’ removed with his family to Mason county, Ken-

Doniphan. inherited no real estate, and what he sub-
sequently acquired was the result of his own indus-
try and frugality. When the war for independence
began he was about seventeen years of age, and as
King George county, where his father resided, was
one of the first sections of that State to be overrun

by the British army, both he and his brother George 
enlisted in the Colonial army. lGeorge was killed 
by his brother’s side, but Joseph served with honor 1

till the close of the struggle. The activity and

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excitement of the war had aroused in young Doni-
phan a spirit of adventure, and as he had to carve
out his own fortune, he was attracted to the “far
West” by the stories of its wonderful beauty, its
fabulous fertility and its climatic salubrity. Soon
after the declaration of peace and the cessation of
hostilities, he accompanied that grim old pioneer,

Daniel Boone, to the wilds of Kentucky, encounter- -

ing hardships and perils for which the life he had
previously led had given him a relish. After a
short stay in Kentucky he returned to Virginia, and
there married Miss Ann Smith, a daughter of Cap-
tain William Smith, of Faquier county. He
tucky, in 1790, and died there in March, 1813,
after a residence of twenty-three years, leaving his
wife and seven children—t_hree sons and four
daughters———of whom only two, Mrs. Susan Frazee,
widow of Dr. E. S. Frazee, of May’s Lick, Ken-
tucky, at present (1878) residing with her youngest
son, near Rushville, west of Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Colonel Doniphan, are now alive. The oldest

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John Doniphan, of St. Joseph, Missouri, served as
a surgeon in the war of 1812, and died near the old
homestead in Kentucky.

Upon the Widow now devolved the responsibility
of providing for and educating her seven children,
and right nobly did shedischarge her trust. Alex-
ander being the youngest child, the solicitude of his
mother centered in him, and unti’l his ninth year she
carefully supervised his advancement. At that time,
he was sent to his older brother, George, then living
at Augusta, Kentucky, Where he received the best
educational training the village could supply. When
he was fourteen years old, the Methodists established
a college at Augusta, and from this institution he
graduated in 1827, with distinguished honors, being
then in the nineteenth year of his age. At this

college he received instruction from such excellent

scholars as Dr. Ruter, the President, Bishop
Bascom, and others of equal reputation in the
republic of letters. Orville H. Browning, Secretary
of the Interior under President Lincoln; Charles

fClark, late governor of Mississippi, Alex. M. Spen-

cer, late mayor of Cincinnati, and others who after-
wards became more or less distinguished, were
schoolmates of young Doniphan. After graduating
he devoted himself for six months to the study of
ancient and modern history, and began the study of
law in 1828, under the learned and able jurist,
Martin Marshall, of Augusta, through whom he
received a thorough training in common and statute
law, obtaining a license to practice in the states of
Ohio and Kentucky in the fall of 1829, at the age
of twenty—one. During the winter of the latter
year he traveled extensively in the Southern and
Western States, and located at Lexington, Missouri,
injthe spring of 1830. He had spent his patrimony
and more in acquiring an education and fitting him-
self for his profession, and when he reached Mis-
souri, without either money to maintain himself or
friends and acquaintances to assist him, he was en-
tirely dependent upon those qualities that have never
betrayed him——his pluck, perseverance and intellec-
tual endowments. They proved equal to the emer-
gency, and he succeeded well in Lexington, but he
determined, for reasons satisfactory to himself, to
change his residence to Liberty, Missouri, which he
did in 1833. Here he remained for thirty years,
devoting the vigor of his younger manhood, and the
experience of his maturer years, to the practice of
the law, in which he rapidly rose to eminence.

With an ambition modified and restrained by sound
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judgment, an intellect capable of grasping and mas-
tering the most intricate and abstruse propositions of
the law, a mind trained to reason correctly and

"reflect coolly, an impulsive and impressive oratory

that challenged the criticism of his opponents, a
resistless eloquence of diction and gesture that pen-
etrated like a polished javelin the mailed arguments
of his opponents, a commanding and magisterial
presence that attracted and charmed his auditors,
and an address at once engaging and popular, it is
not strange that he won his way to ‘distinction at the
bar without the use of those artifices to which the
weak resort. He grew in popular favor by the gen-
erous impulses of his own nature and the superiority
of his talents, and it is a singular fact that, though
he was at times opposed in sentiment to the great
body of his old associates and constituents, he never
forfeited the affection of his friends or the respect of
his enemies.

In 1836 he was elected to represent Clay county
in the IX General Assembly of Missouri, and,
though young, he made a creditable record in that
body. Twice afterwards, in 1840 and in 1854, he
was chosen to fill the same position, which he
always did with honor to himself and to the satisfac-
tion of his constituents.

In December, 1837, he was united in marriage
with Elizabeth Jane Thornton, daughter of Hon.
John Thornton, a well known and highly respected
pioneer of Clay county. This union proved a fortu-
nate one. Mrs. Doniphan was a lady of refined
sentiment, cultivated taste and great strength of
of character, exercising a salutary influence upon
the impulsive but not less noble and generous
nature of her distinguished husband.

In the same year in which he was married, Gov-
ernor Boggs called out a strong militia force to quell
the insurrectionary disturbances of the Mormons at
a place they called Far West. The irregularities and
defiant attitude of these people threatened to involve
the State in a sanguinary confiict.
commanded a brigade under Major General Lucas,
and by his address and soldierly bearing succeeded
in bringing them into ‘subjection without the effusion
of blood.

About the middle of May, 1846, Governor
Edwards, of Missouri, made a requisition for volun-
teers to join General Kearney in his expedition to
New Mexico. Mounted volunteers were rapidly
organized, and by the 5th of June began to arrive
at Fort Leavenworth, the place of rendezvous'and

Gen. Doniphan .

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departure. General Doniphan had joined Captain
O. P. Moss’s company from Clay county as a pri-
vate. On the r8th of June, eight companies that
were to compose the rst Regiment having arrived,

an election of officers was had, which resulted in ,

the choice of A. W. Doniphan as Colonel by an
almost unanimous vote. In taking charge of the

regiment, Colonel Doniphan temporarily abandoned

a lucrative practice and a young family to whom he

was tenderly attached, to lend his influence and tal-
ents to the patriotic purpose of subduing the ene- ‘

mies of his country.

-The expedition was commanded by General
Kearney until Santa Fe’ was reached, when that gal-
lant officer took a portion of the command and went
to California, leaving with Colonel l)oniphan the 1st
Regiment and all. other forces in New Mexico. It
was the design of Colonel Doniphan to march upon
Chihuahua as soon as Colonel Price, who was known
to be bringing reinforcements, should ‘arrive to take
command of Santa Fe 3 but on the 11th of October
he received instructions from General Kearney to
proceed to the country of the Navajos, a brave, war-
like and semi—civilized tribe of Indians whose terri-
tory lay on the western slope of the Cordileras, and
chastise and subdue them.
ing,-the mountain summitswere almost inaccessible,
the dangers and diffi-culties were formidable, but the
courage and intrepidity of Colonel Doniphan did
not allow him to count the cost.
about the execution of his orders with all possible
dispatch, and after a wearisome and exhausting
march he reached the Navajos’ country, and secured
a treaty of amity. Then he turned his face toward
the Del Norte again, to prepare for his expedition
against Chihuahua, reaching Valverde about the roth
of December. No time was lost, but the expedi-
tion was immediately begun. Doniphan was to
press on to Saltillo to join the forces of Gen. Wool.
The enterprise was fraught with danger, but this fact
operated as a stimulus to excite rather than a diffi-
culty to daunt the young warrior. He therefore set
forward with eleven hundred and fifty men, including
the 1st Missouri, one hundred men from the 2d Mis-
souri, and two companies of the Missouri Artillery
Batallion. On Christmas day a part of his com-

mand was attacked by twelve hundred Mexicans at.
_ Brazito.

The. engagement was short, sharp and
decisive. In half an hour the Mexicans were forced
from the field, leaving their dead and wounded
where they fell.

Winter was approach-

He therefore set ,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

On the 28th of February, 1847, near the city of
Chihuahua, was_ fought the battle of Sacramento.
Having traversed an unknown territory with a hand-

ful of troops, surroundedby enemies and liable at "

any time to be attacked by a superior force, Colonel
Doniphan was not now to be intimidated or daunted
by a prospect of immediate peril. "lhe American
force numbered nine hundred and twenty-four effect-
ive men of all arms; the Mexican troops, under
Major-General Jose A. Hiredia, numbered four
thousand, two hundred and twenty. Notwithstand-
ing the superior force of the enemy, the fact that he

had chosen his own position and fortified it well,’

such was the consummate tact and soldierly skill of
Colonel Doniphan that, after an engagement of three
and a half hours, the Mexicans were utterly routed
and driven from the field, with a loss of three hun-
dred -and twenty killed, five hundred and sixty
wounded, and seventy-two prisoners, together with
a large quantity of specie, stores, stock, guns,
ammunition, equipments, etc., etc.’
loss was two killed and eleven wounded, three of the
latter mortally. ,

The city of Chihuahua was entered next day.
Here Colonel Doniphan had expected to join Gen-
eral Wool, but learned that this officer was at Saltillo,
beseiged by Santa Anna. This, however, proved
to be untrue, and in a few days he heard of the
victory at Beuna Vista, and not long afterward of
the battle of Cerro Gordo. The war was now
virtually closed, and the troops slowly made their
way to New Orleans, where they were mustered out
of service 011 the 28th of June, 1847. Returning
to Missouri, the citizens of St. Louis gave the
soldiers a grand reception, and they were welcomed
by Senator Benton in a speech, to which Colonel
Doniphan responded. Everywhere the commander
and his gallant army were received with demonstra-
tions of honor, showing that the people appreciated
the dangers they had encountered and the results
they had achieved.

Colonel Doniphan returned to his home in
Liberty, and resumed the practice of law. Here he
remained until 1863, when he removed to St. Louis,
where he remained until 1869. In 1861 he was
one of five delegates appointed torepresent the
State of Missouri in the celebrated “ Peace Confer-
ence,” and was one of the five from the Border
States, who, by special invitation, held an interview
with President Lincoln to counsel and advise con-
cerning the best method of preserving peace, main-

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taining the Union and settling the difficulties that

then environed the nation, and the only one now
living. It was during his absence on this mission
that he was chosen to represent his senatorial dis-
trict in the State Convention. This body was
entrusted with a most delicate duty—that of virtually
deciding the course of Missouri during the civil war
that then threatened and subsequently followed.
The duties of a delegate to this convention required
that he possess the high qualifications of prudence,
coolness, courage, Sagacity, intelligence, experience,
and moral stamina 3 and it is 11ot too much to say
that no legislative body on this continent was ever
composed of purer,_more able and more patriotic
men. Colonel Doniphan was eminently suited to
the position. A wise counselor,a judicious legisla-
tor and a-patriotic citizen, his voice and influence
were ever exerted for the good of the commonwealth.
By his marriage with _Miss Thornton, Colonel
Doniphan had two sons, to whose training he devoted
much time and labor. But both died in youth. To
his .wife he was most tenderly attached, and her
death, which occurred July 19, 1873, left him de-
pressed and stricken. Before her death, both he
and she had united with the Christian Church and
lived exemplary lives. In 1869 Colonel Doniphan
returned to Western Missouri and located in Rich-
mond, Ray county, where he still (I878) resides.
Colonel Doniphan was a man of great physical
strength, as his erect carriage, firm, elastic step and

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graceful, easy movement at the age of seventy
evince. He is six feet three inches in height, coin-
pactly built, with a large frame and well developed
muscles. Of an impulsive nature, which is restrained
by reason and an overmastering will power, bold,
fearless, true to his convictions of right and duty, a
sincere friend, a frank and open foe, he has gath-

ered about him a host of friends, whose confidence A

and esteem are his highest eulogium. Among these
are to be found the names of some of America’s
most distinguished statesmen, scientists, poets and
artists, besides thousands in the walks of private life
who are proud to recognize in this honest and incor-
ruptible citizen the sun of their social system.

As an orator, Colonel Doniphan is the peer of
Missouri’s most gifted speakers. As a lawyer, he
stood in the fore front of his profession. As a citi-
zen, he is upright, benevolent and eminently useful.
There is in him a personal magnetism that attracts
all who come within his influence. Generous to a
fault, he has been for many years the patron and
friend of enterprising and struggling young men,
and many now look back with gratitude and pleasure’
upon the sage counsel and material aid he gave them
in their hours of despondency and poverty. If he
has failed to attain distinction in political life, it is
not because his friends do not appreciate his pre-
eminent merits, but because he is not ambitious of
political preferment, and has never courted popular
applause.

COLONEL JAMES WITHERSPOON BLACK.

RICHMOND.

AMES WITHERSPOON BLACK was born in
Jefferson county, Virginia, about seven miles
from Harper’s Ferry, January 8, 1828. His
parents were Rev. James Black and Nancy Black.
His father, Rev. James Black, was a native of
Adams county, Pennsylvania, born in the year
1777, during the Revolutionary war. He received
his education principally in the State of Tennes-
see, graduating at Washington College, Washington
county, Tennessee. He is well known inithe annals
of the Presbyterian Church, having been a devoted,
faithful minister in the church for more than fifty
His labors extended over a wide field,

embracing in their limits the States of Tennessee,
Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He
married Miss Nancy McMurran, of Shepherdstown,
Jefferson county, Virginia, in the year 1820. After
a long and active life, he died at his home in Shep-
herdstown, Virginia, in the 84th year of his age. ‘
His mother, Mrs. Nancy Black, was born in
Shepherdstown, Jefferson county, Virginia, in the
year 1792. She was the daughter of Mr. Joseph
McMurran, a native of the County Down, Ireland,

who emigrated to Jefferson county, Virginia, at an

early day. He ,married Miss Lowrie, of Virginia,

who survived him many years’.

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Mr. Black’s mother, after the death of his father,
continued to live in Shepherdstown until the year
1863, when she removed to Richmond, Ray county,
Missouri, and lived with her son, Joseph E. Black,
until her death, March 16, 1869. She was a witness
of some of the stirring scenes of the late civil war.
After the battle of Antietam, Maryland, September
17, 1862, a number of the wounded soldiers and offi-
cers of a Mississippi regiment were quartered at her
house in Shepherdstown for some days, and received
kind attention. She was a survivor of the last cen-
tury, and distinctly remembered having seen George
Washington, the “Father of his Country,” General
Pinckney, of South Carolina, Colonel Aaron Burr,
and other notable men of their time, some of whom
were passing off the stage of action as she was enter-
ing upon it.

He received a portion of his early education in
Jefferson county, Virginia. On his parents removing
from Virginia to Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio,
in the spring of 1837, he was entered a student at
Cambridge Academy, and made some progress in
the studies pertaining to an English education. He
afterward attended for a short time a select school in
Belmont county, Ohio.

In 1844 his parents removed from Ohio to Wash-
ington county, Pennsylvania, thence, in 1845, to
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and in 1847 to
Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and finally returned
to Jefferson county, Virginia. In the fall of 1846,
he was entered a student at Washington College,
Washington county, Pennsylvania, and commenced
the prosecution of his classical studies. The literary
society to which he gave preference while at Wash-
ington College was the Washington Literary Society.
Hon. James G. Blaine, now United States Senator
from Maine, a11d Hon. James H. Hopkins, Demo-
cratic Member of Congress from the 22d District of
Pennsylvania in 1876, were students of Washington
College at the same time he was, in 1846 and 1847.
Hopkins was a member of the same society, for
which he took three honors in the annual contests of
the Washington and Union Literary Societies. ‘On
leaving Washington College, in 1847, he prosecuted
his classical studies under Prof. Joseph J. Stutzman,
of Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, who
had been a teacher for some time in the family of
Judge Jeremiah S. Black. His course of classical
studies with Prof. Stutzman embraced Latin, Greek
and German.

In 1848 he commenced the study of law in the

office of Messrs. Cox & Stutzman, of Somerset, and
was admitted to the bar as an attorney and counselor
at law, on motion of Colonel J. R. Edie, February
5, 1851, after a rigid examination by a sworn com-
mittee appointed by Judge Jeremiah S. Black, who
was then on the bench of the Somerset Court of
Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions. He presided
over the committee on examination, and took an
active part in propounding questions to the disciples
of Blackstone on this occasion. At the same term
of the Court at which he was admitted as an attor-
ney, Alexander H. Coffroth, afterward Democratic
Member of Congress from that District, and Thomas
Brooks, were admitted. Hon. Cyrus Pershing, now
Judge Pershing, (Democratic candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania in 1874,) was admitted to the bar
in Somerset county the term before.

On receiving his license as an attorney, he
returned to his home in Virginia, visiting first, how-
ever, a number of the Eastern cities, and spending
some days in Washington ‘City. Congress was then
in session, and he had the pleasure for the first time
of seeing the garnered talent of the nation in Gen-
eral Assembly met. It was his fortunate lot to
see and hear in debate, Senators whose names had
become historic, such illustrious men as Clay, Cass,
Corwin, Benton, Douglas, Chase, Butler, Jefferson
Davis, Hale, Houston, Foote, Soule and Seward.

He remained at home but a short time, bade his
parents adieu, and with a light purse left his native
place for the Great West. His point of destination
was St. Paul, Minnesota. After a long trip, princi-
pally by steamboat, he reached there about the Ioth
of April, 1851, and was cordially received by Hon.
Alexander Ramsay, Governor of the Territory of
Minnesota, and warmly pressed to become a citizen
of the Territory. St. Paul at that time was a small
place, and for a great portion of the year cut off
from the pleasures of the more civilized country
below on the Mississippi. The greater portion of the
Territory was sparsely inhabited, and traversed by
roving bands of Indians.

Feeling somewhat discouraged at the prospect of
rushing into a lucrative practice, he concluded to
return to St. Louis, Missouri, and decide there upon
some other point of the compass for seeking his
fortune. He left St. Paul with a young lawyer by
the name of George S. Hupp, from Shenandoah
county, Virginia, who is now a prominent lawyer in
Nevada City, California. After remaining in St. Louis
a short time, they concluded to go to Western Mis-

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souri, and took passage on the steamboat “Isabel”
for Independence, Missouri, but meeting on the
boat Dr. Thomas King, a Member of the Legisla-
ture from Ray county, and brother of Governor
Austin A. King, were induced by him to Visit Rich-
mond, Ray county, Missouri. They arrived at
Richmond, May 7, 1851, and being pleased with
the country concluded to remain, and formed a
co-partnership for the practice of law. Mr. Hupp
being summoned home in August, 1851, Mr. Black
continued the practice by himself until October of
that year, when he engaged in teaching in the Rich-
mond Academy. The spring following, he estab-
lished the “Ric/mzo7za’ Ifzzm/d,” the first newspaper
ever published in the county of Ray 3 there being at
that time no newspaper published in Carroll, Cald-
well, Daviess, and many other counties of Missouri.
In 1852,
again engaged in the practice of law until the spring
of 1853, when he established a school at Liberty
school district, in Ray county, and followed the pro-
fession of teaching at Liberty, Wacondah and Cam-
den, until the commencement of the late civil war.
The fall of the year 1855 was, however, spent in
traveling through the Eastern part of the United
States.

On the organization of the militia in Ray county,
July, 1862, he was appointed Enrolling Officer of
Ray county, and upon enrolling the militia of the
county was appointed, by General Benjamin Loan,
Mustering Officer, and organized and mustered into
the service ten companies of militia that formed the
51st Regiment of Missouri Enrolled Militia. In
October, 1862, he was commissioned, by Governor
Hamilton R. Gamble, Lieutenant-Colonel of the
51st Enrolled Missouri Militia. In December, 1862,
he was appointed, by General Richard C. Vaughan,
Commander of the military post of Richmond, Mis-
souri, with full command of all the military forces in
the county, which position he held until the spring
of 1863. While in command of the 51st Regiment,
he frequently performed active service in Ray, La
Fayette, Jackson, and other counties of Western
Missouri. In I863, he enrolled the county,”under
the conscription act, as Provost Marshal of Ray

county.

In 1864 he was elected a Member of the Legis-
lature of Missouri, on the Democratic ticket, receiv-
ing a majority of over four hundred votes. He
served in the Legislature from 1864 to 1866.

In the summer of 1866, he was one of the dele-

he sold the “ Ric/zmmza’ I.I2:m/ti,” and I

gates from the 6th Congressional District of Mis-
souri to the Democratic National Convention at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was one of the
delegation from the Convention that called on Pres-
ident Andrew Johnson, after the adjournment of the
Convention, Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland,
being Chairman of the Delegation and delivering
the address of the delegation to President Johnson
at the White House.

In 1866 he received the appointment of United
States Revenue Collector for the 6th District of
Missouri, from President Andrew Johnson. This
District embraced the 6th and 7th Congressional
Districts—t venty-three counties in VVestern and
North-western Missouri——with headquarters at St.
Joseph.

In January, 1867, he made a‘ tour of inspection
of the entire 6th Revenue District, by order of the
Revenue Department, and made a full and com-
plete report of the condition of all the distilleries
in the District, as well as all other matters pertain-
ing to the collection of the revenue. On making
such report, he received from the Commissioner
of Interna.l Revenue, Hon. E. A. Rollins, a very
complimentary letter for service done the Revenue
Department, and was strongly recommended by him
to the United States Senate for confirmation". On
February 26, 1867, he was confirmed by the United
States Senate, Collector of the 6th District, without
a dissenting vote, on motion of Senator B. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri.

In 1868 he again resumed the practice of law
in Richmond, -Missouri, entering into co-partnership
with his brother, J. E. Black, Esq. In 1870, he was
elected on the Democratic ticket, Mayor of the city
of Richmond.

He strongly opposed secession, and was a firm
advocate of the Union cause. While in the Legis-
lature, he forcibly opposed the extreme measures of
the Republican party. In the spring of 1866, a few
days before-the adjournment of the Legislature, he
receivedra strong recommendation to the State Dem-
ocratic Central Committee, by all the Democratic
members of the 23rd General Assembly, for his
appointment to a prominent position ‘by the Presi-
dent of the United States. This was done without
his knowledge and in his absence. While in the
Legislature, during the winter of 1865 and 1866, a
bill was introduced by the member from Caldwell
county, for the purpose of changing the northern
boundary of Ray county, and depriving it of all the

86 THE UNITED STA TES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VA1€Y.

territory in township 54, familiarly known as the
“Six-mile strip.” This was defeated through the
exertions of himself and colleague, Hon. John
Grimes. In 1872 he was Secretary of the Demo-
cratic Central Committee of Ray county, Missouri,
andin the fall of that year received the support of
the Ray county delegates for Congress.

He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He has been married three times. His first marriage
was with Miss Joey‘ H. Nisbet, of Ray county,
Missouri, a native of Armagh county, Ireland,
May 28, 1857, who died October 3, 1860. June 15,
1863, he married Miss Florence E. Menefee, of
Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri, who died Janu-
ary 29, 1866. October 15, 1874, he married, at

Richmond, Missouri, Miss Sue T. Child, of Phila- A

delphia, who was formerly of Richmond, Virginia,
having been there the greater portion of the time it
was besieged by the Federal forces. In 1864 she
succeeded in getting through the lines, and passing
up the Valley of Virginia by way of Winchester and
Martinsbuirg, reached Philadelphia in March, 1864.
She is a sister of Hon. Jacob T. Child, Editor of
the Rzkfimomz’ C0/zservalor.

He has two children living, issue of the first
marriage: James Black, living with his grandfather,
Major Alexander Oliphant, Ray county, Missouri,
and Mary G. O. Black, living with her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Maitland, of Ray
county, Missouri. The issue of the second marriage
Henry Menefee Black, died in October, 1866, at his
aunt’s, Mrs. L. H. Warriner’s, Kansas City, Missouri.

HON. CHARLES HENRY HARDIN.

' MEXICO.

HARLES H. HARDIN is a native of Ken-
C tucky, having been born in that State in 1820.
His father was a native Virginian, but removed to
Kentucky at an early day, and lived there many
years. While Charlie, or, as he was «generally

‘called in the family, Henry, was still an infant, Mr.

Hardin removed to Missouri and settled in Colum-

bia, Boone county, where young Hardin was reared ‘
to the estate of manhood. His mother was Han-’

nah Jewell, a sister of Dr. Wm. Jewell, a dis-
tinguished physician of Columbia, and the founder
of William Jewell College, in Liberty, ‘Missouri.
Governor Hardin is the oldest of a family of five
children, namely, Charles H., the subject of this
brief biography , Mary, wife of T. R. H. Smith, at
present superintendent of State Lunatic Asylum No.
I, at Fulton , Arethusa, who married John H. Stone,
a distinguished lawyer of Central Missouri (both
dead); Dr. Thomas J., who died a few years since;
and Walter, the youngest, who died when about four-
teen years of age. His father was nearly related to
the Hardins of Kentucky, an old and well known
family in that State.

Charles had the benefit of a liberal education.
The best schools of Missouri, during his minority,
were to be found in Columbia, and these he had
easy access to.

Studious in his habits and having,

little to interfere with the prosecution of his literary
studies, he availed himself of these advantages, and
fully prepared himself for his subsequent course
at Miami University, where he graduated and
received the degree of A. B., and subsequently
that of A. M. '
Having completed his literary course, he returned
to Columbia, and began the study of law With the
late Judge James M. Gordon. In due time he was
admitted to the bar, and in 1843 began the prac-
tice at Fulton, Callaway county. The first office
whose duties he was called upon to discharge was
that of a justice of the peace in Fulton, and his
court was remarkable for the correctness of its
decisions and the facility with which justice was dis-
pensed. In 1844 Mr. Hardin married Miss. Mary
Barr, ‘daughter of Theodrick Jenkins, Esq., a noted
farmer and fine stock raiser, of Boone county.
Mr. Hardin’s legal business accumulated rapidly,
and he soon came to be recognized as one of the
soundest lawyers and most laborious attorneys in
Central Missouri. He spared no pains in the pre-
paration of his cases, and allowed none to go to
final adjudication until he had thoroughly sifted the

. points in dispute, the law bearing upon them,. the

decisions of the courts and the testimony to be
adduced. His pleadings were carefully and stud-

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iedly written, and were models of conciseness and
legal accuracy.‘ He depended less on the argument
of the case than upon the plain, practical, common
sense manner in which it was presented to the jury,

by drawing out every favorable strong point in the

affidavits of his witnesses, and then summing up the
whole briefly and succinctly, so as to make it tangi-
ble to the comprehension of the jury. His eminent
success as a lawyer is in great part attributable to
the ceaseless labor he bestowed on the matters
entrusted to his management.

In 1848 he was elected State’s Attorney for the
3d Judicial District, the term of office being at that

time four years. Such was the care with which his

'in'dictments were written, and such the arrangement

and presentation of facts, that few guilty offenders
escaped punishment, and none through any blun-
der on the part of the prosecuting attorney. During
the entire term no indictment was ruled against by
the court.

In 1859 he was appointed one of the managers
of the'State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton, and for
twelve years acted as one of the managers and as
secretary. of the Board. During his connection with
the Asylum, the financial affairs of the institution
were managed with consummate ability. J

' Mr. Hardin was first elected to the legislature
from Callaway county in 1852, and served his con-
stituency with great acceptability. In the legisla-
ture, as in his private office and his domestic affairs,
economy, industry and promptitude marked his

course. That his services were appreciated is

- attested by the fact that he was returned to the

House of Representatives in 1854, and at the close
of the session in 1855 was chosen by .;he legisla-
ture, in connection with Hon. John W. Reid, of

‘Kansas City, and Hon. Thomas C. Richardson, of

Scotland county, to revise and compile the statutes
of the State. His long study and thorough acquain-
tance with the State laws enabled him to codify
them and make a unique and systematized volume
out of a confused and complicated mass. Having
revised the statutes and submitted his work, Mr.
Hardin was selected to superintend their printing
and publication, a duty which he discharged with
credit to himself. “

For the third time he was elected to represent‘

Callaway county in the Lower House of the Gen—
eral Assembly in 18 58. Although these public ser-
vices occupied much of his time and necessarily took
him from his private practice and business, yet his

county felt that she had large interests at stake
which no one could so well subserve as he. She
demanded his time and labor, and they were con-
tributed freely, although detrimental to his personal
interests.

In 1860 the senatorial district composed of
Boone and Callaway counties sent Mr. Hardin to
the State Senate, feeling that his eminent and faith-
ful services as a representative entitled him to this
mark of consideration. In the formation of senate
committees he was given the post of honor, the
chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. The ses-.
sion of the Legislature that followed, was a stormy
one and one requiring of each member coolness,
courage and discretion. Particularly did the posi-
tion Mr. Hardin occupied call for an exercise of
these virtues, and the manner in which he conducted
the affairs of the committee, showed that he was
eminently suited to the place.

In 1861 Mr. Hardin removed from Fulton to
Mexico, where he has ever since resided. Quitting
the field of politics for a time, he devoted himself to
the practice of law and the discharge of his duties
as a private citizen. In these he was successful, as
he had been elsewhere, and business crowded upon
him and engaged his time. Although his legal prac-
tice was large and public life employed much of his
time, yet for many years he has had a vast amount
of other people’s business in his hands, and as
administrator, executor, trustee, or guardian he has
wound up many large estates with profit to the inter-
ested parties and honor to himself. In all these
varied transactions, no accusation of infidelity to his
trusts and no taint of dishonor stains his reputation.

In 1871 Mr. Hardin retired fromithe practice
of law, having for many years maintained a leading
position at the bar. In 1872 he was again returned
to the State Senate from the district composed of
Audrain, Boone and Callaway counties. A Again was
the position of chairman of the Judiciary Committee
tendered him, and in addition,_that of chairman of
the Asylum Committee. Onerous duties were im-
posed by these appointments, but they were per-
formed promptly and faithfully during his stay in the
Senate.

In 1874 and before the close of his Senatorial
term, he was called upon to become the standard-
bearer of the Democracy as a candidate foriGov-
ernor of Missouri. Mr. Hardin was about to With-
draw altogether from public life when this nomina-
tion was tendered. But this flattering testimonial to

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his executive abilities and a laudable ambition to
preside over the destinies of a State in which he
had lived from his earliest infancy, impelled him
to forego the pleasures and recreation of domestic
peace and engage once more in the public service.
He canvassed the State with great energy and was
elected by a majority of nearly forty thousand. His
administration marks the inauguration of an era in
which by economy, retrenchment and reform, the
credit of the State, impaired by previous reckless-
ness and mismanagement, was entirely restored, and
her bonds, from being hawked in the market at
ninety-five cents on the dollar, rose to seven per
cent. above par, and are to-day among the best
securities known in commercial circles. It is con-
ceded by all parties that his administration was
rigidly and exactly honest, a credit to the Governor
and to the party which elected him.

Since his retirement, Mr. Hardin has been living
at his home near Mexico, surrounded by the com-
forts of life, respected and honored by all classes
of society. He is about five feet ten and a half

inches in height, slenderly built, not at all muscular, .

but still capable of close and long-continued mental
exertion. He has always been a hard worker. As
a business man, he has few superiors in the West.
Economy and unswerving honesty have been two

of his prominent characteristics; yet his economy
has never been permitted to run into niggardliness.
Modest, unassuming and unostentatious, the gratifi-
cation of his simple tastes has not drawn heavily
upon his income, while his large accumulations have
been reserved for noble charities and the founding
of permanent institutions. The cause of education
has ever found in him an ardent advocate, and his
views in this respect have taken practical form in
the founding and endowing of Hardin College, at
Mexico, to which he contributed thirty-seven thou-
sand dollars in money and lands.

No children have been born to Mr. Hardin.
His wife is a lady of great refinement and intelli-
gence, /having a large circle of friends who have
been attracted to her by her many traits of excel-
lence.

Although in his fifty—eighth year of age, Mr.
Hardin is, perhaps, more vigorous physically than
at any previous period of his life. His mental fac-
ulties, strengthened by study and experience, are
stronger than ever, having been preserved, even
under the most protracted tension, by his frugal
and temperate habits. Probably other and higher
fields of usefulness will be opened to him in the
future, but there are none that he would not adorn
by his talents and attainments.

JOHN FISK BARNARD.

57. /0551311.

OHN FISK BARNARD was born at Worces-
April
parents, John and Sarah R. Barnard, me Bigelow,
were descendants of English ancestry, his father
being a descendant of John and Sarah Barnard,
who landed from Ipswich in England at Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1643, and settled in Watertown,
adjoining Boston. .
Until seventeen years of age his labors were dil-
igent upon his father’s farm, and his educational
advantages those of a winter school in a rural dis-
trict. In 1846 he attended the Normal School at
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and while there was per-
suaded by his tutors to enter the Rensselaer Poly-
technic School, where he took a course in civil

ter, Massachusetts, 23, 1829. His

engineering, and graduated in 1850. In the same
year of his graduation he was engaged by the
Chief Engineer of the St. Lawrence & Atlantic
Railroad—now a part of the Grand Trunk Railway
of Canada—to go to Canada, where he remained
in the service of the St. L. & A. R. R. until 1857,
when the practical completion of the road resulted
in a large reduction of the engineering staff. In the
spring of 1857-8 he, with others, made and shipped
large quantities of railway ties from Canada to Cuba.

In the summer of 1858 he took charge of a
short road on the banks of the Ottawa River in Can-
ada. This was a part of the proposed, and par-
tially built, Montreal & Bytown Railroad. The
part built was along the rapids, and was intended

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during the construction of the balance of the road

to connect two stretches of navigable water on 
 took charge of the St. Joseph &; Denver City Rail-
? road as Chief Engineer and Superintendent.

which plied steamers. The company and contrac-
tors failing, no more road was built for many years,
and the short portion built was used only during
the season of navigation.

He remained in charge of this road until Janu-.

ary, 1863, when he was chosen and appointed
Superintendent of the Montreal 82: Champlain Rail-
road, which extended from Montreal via St. Johns
to Rouse’s -Point, and also from Montreal via Lachine
to Moore’s Junction, on the’Ogdensburg & Lake
Champlain road. In August, 1864, his road was

merged into the Grand Trunk, and his charge was
divided between the superintendency of the Grand I

Trunk east and west of Montreal.‘ ‘ He was then
removed to Brantford, in upper Canada—now On-

tario———as Superintendent of the road before that .

time known as the Buffalo & Lake Huron, but which
had, August I, been consolidated with the Grand
Trunk_road. He remained in this position until
March, 1866," when he was recalled to Montreal to
take charge as Chief Engineer of -that portion of
the Grand Trunk road lying east and south of Mon-
treal and the St. Lawrence River, between six and
seven hundred miles. I

G In 1869 he left this position and took charge of
the Missouri Valley road as Chief Engineer and
Superintendent. -The Missouri Valley & Council
Bluffs and St. Joseph roads were consolidated in
1870, and he remained with the consolidated com-
pany as Chief Engineer until the road was com-
pleted and some other work accomplished. In

1871 he left the service of the Kansas City, St.

Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, and

This
road was extended fifty miles under his super-
vision. He left this road in 1872, and the Super-
intendent of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council
Bluffs road having resigned, by request he accepted
the position, and has since been the General Super-

intendent. _
Mr. Barnard was in Canada West eleven years

prior to the late war, and having the care of an

invalid wife and growing family did not take part.

in the troubles between the North and South. He
has never had any military aspirations, being con-

structive rather than destructive, both by profession"

and preference. ~
April 21, 1853, he married Miss Gertrude Agnes
Harvey, of Bath, England, who died March 25,
1865, leaving four children. April 28, 1868, he
married Miss Julia Boswell Keefer, of Galt, Onta-
rio, by “whom he has five children. .
In personal appearance Mr. Barnard is very pre-

‘ possessing, being five feet ten inches in height, and

weighing one hundred and sixty—seven pounds. He
has fair complexion, brown hair and blue eyes. He is
not ‘demonstrative, but in his quiet way enjoys the
society of his friends, especially in his own home.

He is a devoted father and husband, and his
domestic relations are the most pleasant ; and when
the duties of the day are over you can always find
Mr. Barnard surrounded by his happy family in his
pleasant home, unless called away by business duties.

GENERAL JAMES CRAIG.

ST. ]0SEPH.  

THE subject of this sketch is one whose biogra-
' phy will be of interest to all who for the past
twenty or thirty years have noted the progress of
Western Missouri, and the rapid inroads of cultiva-
tion and enlightenment upon the rough and almost
savage state of its frontier life of but a quarter of a
century ago.

James Craig was born in Washington county,
Penn5Y1V«'-Ulia, February 28, 1817. His father,

James Craig, was married in 1813 to Miss Margaret
12 J .

Slater, and in 1819, when our subject was but. two
years old, moved to Richland county, Ohio, where
he engaged in his trade, that of a tailor, until he
was thirty years of age, when he moved to Holmes
county, and therecommenced the study and after-
wards the practice of law;

, The subject of our sketch was obliged to work
hard, never attending school more than ten or twelve
months inlhis life, and at the age of twenty-two
entered the office of Harris & Brown, now of

.Judge Russell being his opponent.

90

Omaha, to study law, in Canton, Ohio. After leav-
ing Canton he settled in Tuscarawas county at New
Philadelphia, where he continued the practice of the
law, and in 1844 moved to Oregon, Missouri.

In the summer of 1846 he was elected to the
Legislature as Representative from Holt county,
At about the
close of his term the Mexican war broke out, and
by order of the Governor he organized a company
which was to have been sent to Mexico, but troubles
afising with the Indians it was ordered to the West,
to protect trains on the way to New Mexico and
emigration to the Pacific coast. There were several
tribes of Indians, the Ottoes, Pawnees, Sioux,
Arrappahoes and Cheyennes, with whom they had
numerous encounters and many exciting engagements
during the year and a half before being called in.

In the spring of ’49 Mr. Craig crossed the plains
with the many pilgrims who were immigrating to Cal-
ifornia. After making several thousand dollars in
the rich gold mines of that State he returned to St.
Joseph in the summer of 1850. Here in company
with Mr. Lawrence Archer, now in San Jose, Cali-
fornia, he practiced law.

On the first year of his return the office of Dis-
trict Attorney was "contested for by two Whigs and
two Democrats, Mr. Craig, then, as now, a Demo-
crat, being duly elected. He held the position with
credit to himself and the hearty approval of the
people.

In 1856 he was elected to Congress, and at the
expiration of his first term was re—elected, and declined
a. third term. I

Soon after the breaking out of the war he was
given a commission of Brigadier General by Presi-
dent Lincoln. General Halleck was then Com-
mander-in-chief, and ordered him once more among
the Indians, who were causing the United States so
much trouble, burning and devastating stations and
settlements, and committing many other depreda—
tions. He took charge of the troops at Fort Kear-
ney, Fort Laramie and all the district lying between

‘the Missouri River and Utah, including that Terri-

tory. In a few weeks the telegraph wires were
adjusted and in operation, and the stage lines again
in running order. In the summer of 1863, he
resigned his commission in the United States Army,
and was appointed Brigadier-General by the Gov-
ernor of Missouri, which appointment he accepted,
and was placed in command of the troops in North-
west Missouri, and took an active part in the

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expulsion of guerrillas from the State, his head-
quarters being at St. Joseph. Late in 1864 General
Craig again resigned, thus ending his military
career, which, although confined to the far West,

was fraught with much interest, and of incalculablei

value to his country.

Since the termination of his second Congres-
sional term in 1861, General Craig has been engaged
extensively in building and operating railroads. He
has been connected for fifteen years with the Hanni-
bal & St. Joseph Railroad, and was for a- large por-
tion of that time President. He has assisted in the
organizing of many new roads and of upholding
older ones, frequently acting as mediator between
companies and Congress, when difficulties arose or
assistance was required, and he seldom if ever failed
in gaining his object.

The life of General Craig has been one of con-
tinuous travel, extending from ocean to ocean and
Lakes to Gulf. Much of his time is employed
in Washington, where he is universally known,
esteemed and courted alike by all.

Although an affectionate husband and father, and
possessing a most attractive home, he is much away
from it, either on business or pleasure. His con-
stant desire for change was at first the outgrowth of

a migratory disposition, which has now become a ,

habit, and his greatest source of enjoyment is found
in travel.
family at the sea-side or on the mountains, and has
this year (1877) been on a pleasant tour through
California, where twenty—seven years ago he spent a
year roughing it.

In August, 1843, he was married at Mount
Eaton, Wayne county, Ohio, to Miss Helen M.
Pfouts.
of whom, a daughter, married Captain Wilcox, of
the 4th Cavalry. His oldest son is a Lieutenant in
the United States Army, now stationed in Arizona,
and his eldest daughter is the wife of Major Samuel
A. Garth, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

In stature he possesses a well proportioned,
sturdy form of about medium height. On the ros-
trum he is a fine orator, and in the drawing-room a
fluent and interesting conversationalist. His society
is much sought for by young and old, and is indis-
pensable at all public gatherings, where many an
appropriate and true word is said by him in jest,
which to the American people is the most effective,
as well as the most acceptable, way of distilling
truths. He possesses a vigorous intellect, great

He usually spends the summer with his _

They have five children living, the second I

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 91

natural shrewdness, and a genial, attractive, social
disposition. His keen perceptions instantly explore
the secret springs and hidden motives which inspire
the acts of men. An extensive and intuitive know-
ledge of human nature, large worldly experience,
and long contact with the people of all stations and
positions of life, give him a wide field over which
he exerts a powerful, albeit an almost imperceptible
control.

In Congress he labored faithfully for the inter-
ests of the West, and those whom he immediately
represented, making every effort to have St. ‘Joseph
named as the initial point of the Pacific Railroad.
The rebellion threw the location of that road north
of the Slave States, but in the earlier debates on
the floor of the House of Representatives, General
Craig greeted all comers with that incessant fire of
sparkling repartee, incisive rejoinder, and solid
argument, which have rendered him so popular and
effective in Western ‘political campaigns. ‘

He has not been an active politician since 1861,
although nominated for Congress by the Democratic
and Liberal Convention of his District in I872,

which honor he declined 3 but in all political combi-
nations in North—west Missouri he has been an
effective, though generally quiescent factor. Dur-
ing the last quarter of a century he has regularly
attended the sessions of Congress and the meetings
of the General Assembly of Missouri, where his
intimacy with business men of all sections of the
nation, and his thorough acquaintance with legisla-
tive routine and parliamentary tactics, rendered his
services invaluable i_n matters of legislation. His
constituents, even the humblest among them, credit
him with giving their affairs the closest possible
attention. His industrious and methodical habits and
personal attention to details enable him to secure
desired results where others fail. He is emphati-
cally a strong man—strong in mental resources,
strong in a background of experience from which he
draws freely and opportunely, and strong in his
influence over men among whom he chances to be
thrown. In brief, it may be said that there are few
men of so extended an acquaintance and so deter-
mined a character who are the recipients of so
much regard and so little enmity.

R. S. CAMPBELL, D. D.

ST. f0SEPH.

IRST in numerical strength, influence and
F wealth among the many churches of St. Joseph
is the First, or Seventh Street, Presbyterian Church,
at present, 1877, under the pastoral care of the
eminent divine whose name heads this sketch.

Richard S. Campbell was the eldest child of
Abraham and Annie Marshall Campbell, of Arm-
agh, Ireland, where he was born, June 24, 1844.
He received a classical education at Monaghan Acad-
emy, and graduated after four years’ study in the
University of Dublin, having take11 a theological
course, and in due time he was licensed to preach
the gospel.

May 24, 1869, he married Miss Maggie H.
Cooke, of Londonderry, Ireland, and in 1870 they
immigrated to America, stopping in New York, but
soon after moving to St. Louis. Dr. Campbell has
five children, all born in America. Their names
are George Cooke, Annie Marshall, Richard Craw-
ford, Sallie McMunn, Marshall Lavens Campbell.

He was called soon after to take charge of the
Presbyterian Church, of Columbia, Missouri, where
he labored with great acceptance and success for
five years. The First Presbyterian Church of St.
Joseph being without a pastor, in 187 5, invited him
to fill their pulpit, and after a a short visit with
them, by a unanimous vote of the congregation. was
called to be their pastor, and early in 1876 he was
installed as such. Soon after the State University,
situated at Columbia, conferred upon him the Well
merited degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Dr. Campbell has a breadth of culture and a
strength of mind that would enable him to rank
among the first controversialists of the age, and his
highest ambition is to preach with success the
unsearchable riches of Christ. He preaches iii the
expository style, and. it is peculiarly his own, pos-
sessing all the warmth and ardor that characterizes
his race. He who has a desire to hear the gospel

in its purity and power, the sinner who wants to»

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find a savior, the Christian who wants the sincere
milk of the word that he may grow thereby, is
always charmed and profited by Dr. Campbell’s
words.‘ His praise is in all churches, and he stands
deservedly high in the ranks of his profession. He
is a ready speaker, seldom using notes or memo-
randa, but having from a child been taught the
description and plan of salvation, he enjoys a

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freedom in speaking and a familiarity with the 1nys--

tery of redemption that never can be obtained
but by faithful training in_childhood and youth
Dr. Campbell is now, in 1877, but thirty—three years
of age, is possessed of a fine, large frame, seems per-
fectly at home in the pulpit, and loves his calling.
He is destined soon to be acknowledged one of the
most prominent divines of the age.

ISAAC COOK.

ST. LOUIS.

F it be true that “a monument is due to him
I who causes two spears of grass to grow where
only one grew before,” what shall be said of the
man who has made the sterile bluffs of Missouri
and the West to blossom like the rose and laugh
with the sunny burden of the grape? For years it
was thought those bleak hills would never be utilized
by the agriculturist. But an original thinker and
observer came to the State, saw them, and deter-
mined them for use. “ Vem, 7/z'a’z', vz'cz',” wvas
with him, if not a motto, yet a fact, so far as
regarded those barren cliffs that had so long baffled
the plow, the factory and the engineer. Of that
man we propose to give a sketch.

Isaac Cook was born near Long Branch, New
Jersey. His facilities of education were limited by
the paucity of the father’s means ; only a county
school was his Alma Mater, and his youthful ambi-
tion was his capital. At the age of eleven years he
went to New York and engaged as clerk in a grocery
store, where in five years, by active industry and
observation, l1€ acquired a mercantile knowledge
and habit that enabled him to begin life with capital,
credit and an acumen that was the first fruits of his
after precocious success. Settling up his business
in the East, he determined to try the West, and in
1834 settled in Chicago, when that city was. in its
infancy. There he acquired a notable political
reputation, and in 1838 became acquainted withthe
Hon. Stephen;A. Douglas, then aspirant for Con-
gressional honors in the Springfield district, which,
at that time, included Chicago. This acquaintance
soon ripened into intimacy, and for a period ranging
over some twenty years Mr. Cook was the personal
friend of Mr. Douglas. During this acquaintance-

ship, in I844, when Illinois had become a Demo-
cratic State, Governor Ford appointed Mr. Cook
State Agent for the Canal Lands, which office he held
for four years. He was afterwards elected Sheriff
and Treasurer of Cook county, which he held four
years.

In 1852 he was appointed, by President Pierce,
Postmaster of Chicago. He was reappointed by
President Buchanan, and continued to hold the
office during Mr. Bucha'nan’s term. Mr. Cook
retired from political life at the outbreak of the war,
and remained a quiet citizen during the struggle.

In 1862, he removed to St. Louis, and shortly
after purchased the Missouri Wine Company’s estab-
lishment. This company was organized in 1855,
and had made but little progress, but when Mr.
Cook took charge of it he made it really “The
American Wine Company.”

“Now,” says a contemporary, “that original
courage and restless energy that had made him a
master in the political field, began to play in a new
direction. Ambitionis Mr. Cook’s genius. When
he took charge of this company it was not his pur-
pose to build it up to a paying basis, he simply
resolved to make it the greatest Wine Manufactory
in the world—-just as in politics, nothing short of
President-making interested him. 1862 to
1865 the world heard very little of him, he was
buried—in his wine vaults. About that time fre-
quenters of fashionable restaurants and hotels began
to notice a new brand of Champagne. Epicures took
kindly to it, and said flattering things about it. The
average citizen noticed its low price and its defiant
‘Imperial,’ ordered a bottle, tested it, and straight-
way made it a standard article in his household,

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Then came the Paris Exposition, with the heavy old
chaps from the Rhine country, Chalons, Epernay,
and Rheims, all learned in wine lore, with palates
educated to almost impossible nicety. They looked
suspiciously upon this new Champagne with its
haughty title. They braced their nerves and reluct-
antly tasted it, then smiled and drank, honored
‘Imperial’ with an award, and finally told the
wine—makers of their own land to look sharp to
their work if they wanted to sell any more goods
in America. This was Cook’s resurrection and

transfiguration. He came up out of the cellar,
he was world renowned and a millionaire. The
disgusted President—maker had become a king

among manufacturers and the idol of all patriotic
epicures. ”

And to-day the American I/Vine Company ranks
with the leading champagne inanufactories of the
world, and Cook’s “Imperial” rivals, in the quality
of the product and its superior manufacture, the
brands of the Heidsicks, Cliquots, Mumms and
others of world—wide celebrity. Mr. Cook is still
President of the Company, and his enterprise,
genius, and industry has successfully carried out his
ambition, for to-day it ranks with the first—class wine
establishments of America. He has given an impe-
tus to wine-growing in the West, and especially in
Missouri, which probably under no other man would
it ever have acquired. His establishment has not
only made a grape market for the peculiar products

. of our Western hills, but has forced improvement in

their culture of the grape by bringing in, through

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his wine manufacture, competition of other grape-
growing countries.

When Mr. Cook took charge of the American
Wine Company’s establishment the vintage of Mis-
souri was very small, to-day it has increased to
enormous proportions. The company then 1nanu-
factured only about 5,ooo to 8,000 gallons annually,
now it manufactures about ten times that amount.
The company now exports their wines to London,
Edinburgh, Dublin, Yokohama (Japan), Canton
(China), Honolulu, Havana, and other points, and
the foreign demand for Cook’s “Imperial” is con-
stantly increasing. Their champagne cellars are
now the most extensive in the United States.

In 1873 Mr. Cook was appointed, by President
Grant, United States Commissioner to the Vienna
Exposition. Taking his wife with him, he fulfilled
hismission and afterwards travelled through Europe,
visiting all the places of historic or modern interest.
In this jaunt Mr. Cook gathered a fund of instruc-
tion, useful and interesting information, which he
has and still is utilizing in his intercourse with the
agricultural, commercial, political and social circles
of his own country. ,

Mr. Cook holds his age Well, and from his expe-
rience, travels, observant mind and retentive mem-
ory, he is not only entertaining but instructive in
every circle; while his liberal views, commercial
acumen, his political antecedents, his intimacy with
the leading men of the day, and his congeniality of
temperament make him a welcome guest on ’Change,
in the business mart or in the social circle.

T. R. H. SMITH, M. D.

FUL TON.

' R. H. SMITH descended from an old and
T highly respected Virginia ‘family. His father,
Thomas Smith, at an early day removed to Ken-
tucky, where he spent a long and useful life (over
fifty years) in the ministry of -the Christian church.
He was one of the pioneer and able ministers of the
church, whose labors were characterized by great
zeal, sincerity and earnestness. He died in 1861,
at the advanced age of seventy-seven.

The subject of this sketch was born in Kentucky,

February 21, 1820. His early opportunities for
obtaining an education were very good and well
improved. After a thorough course of study he
entered Morrison College, but subsequently went
to Georgetown College, where he graduated when
about eighteen years old. In 1838 he began the
study of medicine with Dr. W. H. Richardson, who
was, at that time, one of the Professors in the Tran-
sylvania Medical School, Lexington, Kentucky, and
who continued his preceptor until his graduation in

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this school in 1840, which proved most creditable to
himself. It is said that, in a large graduating class,
he had no superior.

After finishing his medical course, Dr. Smith
immigrated to Columbia, Missouri, where he prac-

ticed the different branches of his profession for

- eleven years, and attained enviable distinction.

In 1851 he was elected Superintendent and
Physician of the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton,
Missouri. He accepted the position, and entered- at

once upon its responsible duties, where, for nearly

fifteen years, he gave the most. untiring labor, sac-
rificing ‘ ease, comfort and social enjoyment, to
advance the great interests of the institution and its
unfortunate inmates.

In 1865 Dr. Smith’s health began to fail, and
he was compelled to resign. He then engaged in
agricultural pursuits for seven years in the F loussant
Valley, St. Louis county, Missouri.

In 1872, by the unanimous vote of the St. Louis '

County Court, he was elected Superintendent and
Physician of the St. Louis County Insane Asylum,
and after filling the position most acceptably for six
months, by the unanimous voice of the Board of
Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, he was
re—called to his former position, and urgently solic-
ited to accept it. He resumed his duties there jan-

uary 23, 1873, and still occupies the position at this
date, December, 1877.

Dr. Smith has thus been identified with this
noble work for almost twenty years, a11d has ever
been faithful and untiring in his efforts to promote
its truest interests. His administration has uniformly
been marked by great kindness and humanity,- and
the large number throughout the State who, through
his instrumentality, have been rescued from a _“living
death,” and restored to “the light of reason,” will,
with their friends, cheerfully and gratefully bear tes-
timony to the high degree of success which has
attended his labors. There is, perhaps, no hospital
for the insane that stands higher in public esteem
than the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton.

Dr. Smith embraced religion when a young man,
and has ever shown an interest" in every good word
and work. He is a member of the Christian church.

In 1841 he married Mary E. Hardin, daughter
of Charles Hardin, and sister of C. H. Hardin,
Ex-Governor of Missouri. Her father was one of
the earliest, worthiest and most valuable citizens of
Columbia. She is a lady of great strength of mind
and character, enjoyed excellent educational advan-
tages, and is a devout Christian. Dr. Smith has a
host of personal friends, and as a physician is justly
entitled to rank among the first in his profession.

JAMES B. EADS, C. E., LL. D.

ST, LOUIS.

S the Old World may boast "of having given
A birth to M. Lesseps, whose genius opened the
way for the commerce of the world to float between
twin continents, so the New may justly claim honor
in having produced James B. Eads, the greatest of
living civil engineers, whose genius has triumphed
over Nature’s most formidable obstacles, and united
regions segregated by an eternal flood. And as the
one accomplished the apparently impossible by pour-
ing the waters of one great sea into those of another,
so the other, dealing with obstructions not less, if not
more difficult to overcome, has given to a great river
the commercial importance of an inland ocean, and
introduced maritime commerce into the heart of a
mighty continent. Monsieur Lesseps and Captain
Eads’s genius, courage and perseverance have
Crowned their lives with immortal honors,

James B. Eads is a native of Lawrenceburg,
Indiana, and was born May 23, 1820.‘ His early
education was only such as the rudimentaryschools
of that day could supply, and even this was cut short
by an accident which robbed his parents of all their
earthly possessions and required young Eads to con-
tribute to the maintenance of the family. His genius
began to develop itself at a very tender age, for we
find machinery engaging his attention when he was
only eight years old. When james was nine years
of age his father removed to Louisville, going down
the Ohio river on a steamboat. The engineer of the
boat, seeing the child was deeply interested in the
action of the engine, explained to him all its princi-
pal parts, showing him how the expansive power of
steam was employed to drive the ponderous craft
through the water. The lesson was not lost. The

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information here’ gained had opened a field of thought
and reflection which his mind traversed through
many a day and night.

His mind seemed to search intuitively for hid-
den principles, and whatever was intricate or myste-
rious to him he explored with untiring energy.
Before he was twelve years old, he amused himself
by taking to pieces and readjusting, with the aid only
of an ordinary pocket knife, the family clock and a
patent-lever watch. So much was the mind of the
lad occupied about machinery, that his father pro-
videdfor him a small» workshop and a set of tools.
In this shop he spent a great part of his time invent-
ing, constructing, fitting, moulding, readjusting and
adapting pieces of mechanism to his various wants.
Out of these labors came steam engines, fire engines,
electrifying machines, and a host of similar prod-
ucts, the mechanism evincing the inventive genius
of the boy, which only lacked the skill gained by
experience to evolve practical results.

When James was about thirteen years of age
his father determined to remove to St. Louis, and on
his way thither the steamer in which he had
embarked his family and his entire estate was
burned. The family escaping with only the wearing
apparelon their persons,‘ and leaving Mr. Eads
penniless, it became necessary that each member
of the family should contribute to the general sup-
port. The part that James took was probably the
best that a boy of his age, without money or influ-
He became a vender
of fruits, peddling his merchandise from a basket in
the streets. But even during these hours of gloom
he did not neglect the culture of his genius and the
gratification of his practical, though unchildlike
His leisure hours were spent, as before, in
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tastes.
evolving new ideas from his busy brain.
winter of 1833 he built a locomotive, which was
simply an ingenious toy, having as a motive power
a concealed rat tied by the tail on a tread—wheel,
with a hole in front, through which the motor was
vainly endeavoring to escape. To the uninitiated,
it had the appearance of an automatic locomotive.
His miniature mercantile operations were of
short duration. Obtaining a situation with Messrs.
Williams & Duhring, then one of the first dry-goods
establishments of the, West, he accepted the kind-
ness extended by Mr. Williams, and availed himself
of the use of that gentleman’s extensive and care-
fully selected library. Here was laid the foundation
of that vast store of knowledge he has since acquired,

and which has enabled him, later in life, to achieve
the, first rank among the civil engineers of the nine-
teenth century.

At the age of nineteen, failing health admon-
ished him that life within the confines of a mercan-
tile establishment was unsuited to him, and that he
must seek more active occupation. He had stored
his mind with useful facts in regard to civil engineer-
ing, mechanics and machinery, and was, therefore,
well fitted for the life he was subsequently to lead.
He became a clerk on a Mississippi river steamer,
and during ‘nearly all of the following eighteen years
he was on the river in some capacity, studying the
eccentricities, obstacles and intricacies of that mighty
stream. In I842 he forme-d a connection with
Case & Nelson, boat builders, and was for a number
of years employed with a working vesselato recover
cargoes from sunken boats. His first effort was
made near Keokuk, where a boat had gone down
in eighteen feet of water. A diving armor with an

air-pump attachment was first tried, but found inad-_

equate, from the great depth of the water and the
swiftness of the current Mr. Eads then devised a
diving-bell of very primitive construction, to—wit: A
whisky barrel with one head knocked out and the
open end so loaded with lead as to sink it regularly.
The diver having refused to risk his life in this frail
contrivance, Mr. Eads himself descended to the
wreck and brought up a portion of the cargo. Upon
this success, a rapid improvement was made in
diving-bells, and the work was soon reduced to a
system which was made effective along the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries. Steam was introduced to
facilitate operations, and new machinery, the pro-
duct of Mr. Eads’s inventive genius, was added from
time to time. The business became extensive and
very profitable. I

In 1843 Mr. Eads disposed of his interest and
began the experiment of making glassware in St.
Louis——the first glass factory established West of the
Mississippi. But difficulties interposed, which neither
industry nor ingenuity could remove, and he aban-
doned the effort in 1847. Returning to the river,
he took charge of the first boat built by the coin-
pany, “Submarine No. I.” The company, coin-
posed of Eads & Nelson, began with a Very small
capital, about $1,500. Within ten years, such was
the successful management of the business, the capi-
tal had increased to the value of nearly half a mil-
lion dollars, and.the operations of the firm extended
from Galena to the Balize. Machinery for raising

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sunken boats and making old hulls available for future
use had been introduced, and a complete revolution

in the system of wrecking had taken place.

In 1854 Mr. Eads went to Europe for the bene-
fit of his health, and on his return, a proposition was
made by the company to the United States Govern-
ment to rid the rivers of the Mississppi Valley of the
snags that had proven so disastrous to navigation.
The proposition was favorably considered by the
House of Representatives, but the bill was defeated
in the Senate. _

In 1857, owing to Mr. Eads’s continuedill health,
the firm of Eads & Nelson was dissolved, and Mr.
Eads retired from business with a well-earned com-
petence.

But his genius was destined ere long to be called
into more‘ vigorous exercise than any previous
demand had taxed it. When the rebellion began, it
became of the highest importance that the Missis-
sippi river should be controlled by the Union forces.

.When Mr. Lincoln became President, Hon. Edward

Bates was appointed Attorney General. He knew,
and appreciated the eminent ability of Mr. Eads,
and recommended him to the cabinet as a suitable
person to be consulted in any matters pertaining to
the occupancy of that stream.
1861, Attorney General Bates wrote to Mr. Eads as
follows: “Be not surprised if you are called here
suddenly by telegram. If called, come instantly.
In a certain contingency it will be necessary to have
the aid of the most thorough knowledge of our West-
ern rivers, and the use of steam on them; and in

that event, I have advised that you should be con-_

sulted.” _

The telegram was not long delayed, and on his
arrival at Washington, he was consulted by the cab-
inet as to the best plan of operations on the Western
waters. Mr.Welles, Secretary of the Navy, requested

Mr. Eads to prepare a paper setting forth his views..

This he did April 29, the paper also containing
proposals to place gunboats on the rivers, suggestions
as to the character of boats adapted to the service,
and the batteries to be established along the shores.
In the following month, Secretary Welles detailed
Captain John Rogers to go West with Mr. Eads and
contract for suitable vessels. But the Secretary
of War, Mr. Cameron, was averse to the plan, and
would lend no aid in perfecting it. At the next
meeting of the cabinet he claimed it was a matter
pertaining wholly to the V\7ar Department, and much

delay ensued. In a short time, however, Mr. Cain-

On the 17th of April, -

eron yielded his assent, and ordered Captain Rogers
and Mr. Eads to proceed with the purchase of the
vessels, and after meeting with the approval of Gen-
eral McClellan the project was properly inaugurated.
Some boats were purchased and hastily and rudely
fittedup, but they soon proved unsuitable for the
work.

In July, 1861, the Quartermaster General issued
proposals for building an iron-clad fleet for the Mis-
sissippi. On the 5th of August, when the proposi-
tions were examined, Mr. Eads was found to be the
lowest and best bidder. Seven boats were to be
built, to be of six hundredtons burden, to draw six
feet, carry thirteen heavy guns, to be plated with
iron two and one-half inches thick, and to steam nine
knots an hour. Only sixty-five days were allowed
in which to complete them. The contract was signed
August 7. The work was performed according to
contract, and within a period of little over three
months the energy and skill of one man had ‘xrilt
and equipped a powerful squadron of eight gunboats,
(one having been added to the number by altering a
snag boat,) and successfutly launched’ them on the
Mississippi, carrying one hundred and seven large
guns, capable of resisting powerful batteries and
of clearing the river of all piratical and contraband
crafts. The Government was far less prompt in
refunding to Mr. Eads the sums he had expended
in the construction of the vessels and which had
exhausted his means, and -it was only by the assist-
ance of friends he was enabled to complete the work.
Forts Henry and Donnelson were captured by the

‘assistance of gunboats, which, at the time, were

really the property of Mr. Eads 3 and, although -the
“ Pittsburgh” and “ Carondelet” had been furnished
to the Government four or five months before, they
had not been paid for at the time they run the bat-
teries of Island No. IO.

In 1862 the Navy Department called upon Mr.
Eads for designs of light draught iron-clad vessels to
be used on the Western waters. Three separate‘
drafts were made and submitted—the first for vessels
drawing five and a half," feet; the second. for vessels
with rotating turrets, drawing four and a half feet 3
the third for vessels similar to the second, drawing
only three and a half feet—the vessels, turrets and
appliances being of Mr. Eads’s own invention. The
plan of the vesselswas accepted, but owing to a
want of time to testithem, and the fact that Erics-
son’s had been, and with success, Mr. Eads’s turrets
were not adopted. Six of these vessels were built,

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all of them being superior to those called for by the
contract. He also converted a number of transports
into musket-proof vessels, and built four heavy mor-
tar boats. The efficient aid Mr. Eads lent the Gov-
ernment, in its warfare on the Western rivers, cannot
be over estimated. Without the assistance of these,
or similar gunboats, the Mississippi could not have
been opened to navigation. ’

During the progress of the war, Mr. Eads again
visited Europe for rest and the recovery of his
strength, being brain-weary and almost prostrated
physically from tedious, long-continued and exhaust-
ing labors. He returned in 186 5. .

St. Louis had long felt the need of a bridge
across the Mississippi river, that she might not be
dependent on the eccentricities of the flood and the
caprices of the weather for her commerce with the
East, Companies had been formed looking to this
consummation, but had fa.i1€d Or abandonéd the
project after a few ineffectual experiments. At
length, in 1867, the St. Louis _and Illinois Bridge
Company was formed, with James B. Eads as Chief
Engineer. What to most engineers was a vague
chimera, was to him a tangible reality. Already in
the busy Workshop of his brain, pier after pier, arch
after arch, had been constructed, until he saw the
Father of Waters spanned by an invaluable and
imperishable structure, that should be through all
time a monument to his creative genius. Work was
fairly begun on the bridge in 1868, and it was com-

pleted and opened for use in July, 1874. One
great peculiarity in the construction of this bridge
is the principle involved in the employment of cais-
sons; the wonderful ingenuity that suggested their
use, and the skill with which they were made to
perform their part, mark a new era in civil engineer-
ing. Nor was there less skill and ingenuity brought
into exercise in planning and completing the super-
structure. Everything was carefully and accurately
calculated. Every arch, every beam, every cable,
the strength of each component part, the relations
of parts to the whole, distances, curves, angles—all

were so minutely and accurately calculated that there ’

was no variation, no misstep, no giving way, no
need for false works, comparatively little manual
labor, and steam was given intelligence to direct its
limitless power. There are three spans—the two
side spans being four hundred and ninety-seven feet
each in length, and the middle span five hundred
and fifteen feet long and sixty feet above high-water

mark. The superstructure is of steel, in upright
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arches. The bridge is a model of grace, beauty
and strength, a very c/zef a”'wm/re of engineering
skill, and is so regarded by the best engineers of the
world. The piers rest upon bed—rock, the eastern
pier at the depth of one hundred and ten feet from
the surface, the western at a depth of ninety-eight
feet.

Great as were these achievements, and valuable
as they were to the country and its contributions to
art and science, his fame rests not alone upon the
improvement of offensive and defensive river warfare,
nor upon the construction of the grandest bridge
in the world, nor upon the honors paid by foreign
potentates and the acknowledgments of scientific asso-
ciations. His work and skill have been employed
in another direction, and his labor has redounded to
his honor. What he had accomplished up to 1874
was comparatively local in its application and influ-
ence. It was reserved for him to grasp and control
the mightiest river of the world, to direct its currents
and to force it to remove the obstructions to navi-
gation it had itself formed: thus opening  ship
channel to the sea and diverting the commerce of a
mighty empire from an unnatural to a natural and
normal course.

In 1874 he proposed to Congress the creation,
at his own and associates’ expense, of a wide and
deep channel to the Gulf of Mexico through the
Southeast pass of the Mississippi. This work was
to be paid for by the Government only as certain
widths and depths were attained. His plan contem-
plated a system of jetties, by which the great body
of water should be confined within certain limits,
and the increased volume and velocity of the stream
should wash out and carry away the deposits of

' centuries, and thus keep‘ its mouth free from the
impediments that have so long kept out heavy ocean .

vessels. As usual, this bold design was attacked
with much -virulence by the press and by brother
engineers, who regarded the proposition as prepos-
terous and the plan as wholly impracticable. ‘But
Mr. Eads’s demonstrationsiwere stronger than the
cavils of the soothsayers. ' After long discussion
Congress passed an act, which was approved March
3, I875, authorizing him to open the South pass,
(a more difficult one than the one he had selected),
by jetties; to receive $500,000 when he secured a
channel twenty feet deep and two hundred feet wide,
and other payments when still greater width and
depth had been secured. Mr. Eads at once began
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its opponents came to see the feasibility of the project
and the absolute certainty of ultimate success.’ Mr.
Eads has already (February, 1878,) drawn his sec-
ond installment of half a million dollars, and the
completion of the work and the making of a channel
three hundred and fifty feet wide and thirty feet
deep are only a question of time.

As this last project is an assumed success, Mr.
Eads contemplates still further improvements in the
channel of that stream, so as to give free passage,
at all seasons, to boats of heavy draught from Cairo
to New Orleans. In a recent speech at Cincinnati,
he developed facts and figures going to show that
the Mississippi river is capable of being so confined
and restrained as to become a perpetual and safe
highway for the commerce of the Great Basin.
Coming from almost any other man, the project
might be regarded as the dream of an enthusiast;
but coming from a gentleman so eminently practical
and skillful as Mr. Eads, none of his friends and few
of his enemies doubt that he will be able to consum-

mate all he proposes. . Should Congress give him
the authority to open the Mississippi from the Falls
of St. Anthony to the Gulf, there is every reason to
believe that the river, in a comparatively brief
period, would afford safe, speedy and cheap trans-
portation for the products of the Great West to the
seaboard, and thence to foreign marts.

In recognition of his preeminent merits, foreign
scientific associates have done themselves the honor
to enroll his name as an honorary member of their
bodies; kings and potentates have done honor to his
overmastering genius, and the University of Missouri
has voluntarily conferred on him the degree of Doc-
tor of Laws. He is now in the fifty-eighth year of
his age, and, though never robust, his strong will
and indomitable purpose keep him in active sérvice,
and promise yet many years of usefulness. i As a
citizen, Mr. Eads is possessed of the loftiest virtues——
liberality, charity, unwavering probity and incor-
ruptible purity. He adorns every station he endeav-
ors to fill, as well as the age in which he lives.

JUDGEJOHN F. LONG,

S T. L0 (/15.

Haven, Gravois, St. Louis county, Missouri,

August 29, 1816. His father, William L. Long,
was born in Port Royal, Carolina county, Virginia,
February 20, I789 VVilliam L.’ Long moved with
his father’s family in 1794 to Kentucky, and in the
spring of 1796 to St. Louis county, Missouri, where
he was married, July 14, I808, to Elizabeth Sap-
pington, who was born in Madison county, Ke11—
tucky, January 2, 1789, and with her father’s family
came to St. Louisin 1806. Both John Sappington
and John Long had seen service in the Revolution-
ary war——the former under General Greene, and the
latter under General La Fayette——and‘both engaged
in the battle of Brandywine. _

John F. Long, the subject of this sketch, Was
reared on his father’s farm, attending private schools
in the neighborhood until the age of sixteen,'when
he was sent to St. Charles College, where he studied
mathemathics and the higher branches of an English
education, closing his course May 30, 1836. On
the first of October of that year he‘opened a private

YUDGE JOHN  LONG was born at White

_1nember of the Public School Board.

school, and continued teaching at intervals for‘ sev-
eral years. He was also engaged in land surveying,
which he followed at various times for thirty-seven
years. In 1838-9 he sold goods near Valle’s Mines;
in 1840-1 he was in the Il1%'ssnm'z' Argus news-
paper office with Mr. A. R. Corbin and Governor
Gilpin; in 1841-2 he was a Deputy Marshal under
Captain George H. Kennerly, in I842-3 he was
Chief of Police under Mayor George Maguire; in
1844-7, selling goods, Postmaster, and teaching
school at Sappington; in 1848-50 he was County
Marshal; in 1851 took Gonsalve De Montesque to
New York a11d put him on board the steamer
“Europa” for France, he being insane.-

In 1864 Mr. Lo11g was appointed Superintendent
of County Roads and Bridges of St. Louis county,
serving eight years. The same year he was  mem-
ber of the City Council from the Fifth ward; also a
From 1865
to 1871 he was a member of the St. Louis County
Court. From 1860 to 1863 he was a member of the
State Convention known as the War Convention.

 

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He was a.ppointed by President Grant, July, 1874,
United States Surveyor and Collector of Customs
and Disbursing Agent for the port of St. Louis,
which offices he still holds.

Judge Long became a member of Travelers’
Rest Lodge, I. O. O. F., in 1848, and of the order
of A. F. & A. M. in 1854, has passed through the
Blue Lodge chairs, and is now a member of the
Royal Arch Chapter. He has been a member of
Dr. Brooke’s Walnut-street Presbyterian Church
since 1864. A decided Democrat until Mr. Gree-
ley’s nomination for the Presidency, since then he
has been a Republican, and a full indorser of the
Hayes administration.

Judge Long has been married three times: first
on the 29th September, 1836, to Fannie E. Pipkin,
(born May 17, 1820, and died January 17, I863),
daughter of Colonel Philip Pipkin, of Nashville,
Tennessee, and who served as Colonel under Gen-
eral Jackson in the Creek and Seminole wars. She
was also a sister of Judge P. Pipkin, of Jefferson
county, Missouri. By her he had six children, all
of whom are living except the eldest, Mrs. Egbert,
who died October 21, 1874. He was again married
July 24, 1864, to Pamela L., daughter of the late
Judge Stephen Lanham, of Bonhommie township,

  

St. Louis county, Missouri, she dying Aprii
1868. Mr. Long married, December 16, 1869, his
present wife, Mary Nelson, daughter of the late
Hon. John Sappington, of St. Louis county, who
was twice elected a member of the General Assem-
bly. Both John Sappington and William L. Long
were officers under General, afterwards Governor,
McNair, in 1814-15, fighting the Indians in St.
Charles, Lincoln, Howard ‘and other counties of
Missouri, from Fort Madison to Capaugris and
Loutre Island.

Judge Long’s travels have been confined to the
United States—from St. Paul to Norfolk, from
Boston to New Orleans—embracing twenty-four
States.

Judge Long is six feet in height, broad shoul-
ders, rather coarse features, blue eyes, sandy hair,
when young , -weighs about one hundred and eighty-
five pounds, is now in fair health, and has the con-
fidence of all who know him. Having lived a life
of sobriety and activity, with a cool head and warm
heart, he is a genial companion, with wonderful
recollection of events a half century old. His
tenacious memory makes him a very agreeable com-
panion to all who take an interest in the past history
of St. Louis.

WILLIAM NEWTON MORRISON, D. D. S.

ST. LOUIS.

‘ N l ILLIAM NEWTON MORRISON was born

in East Springfield, Jefferson county, Ohio,
on the 25th of May, 1842. His father, John R.
Morrison, is a man of considerable inventive genius,
which appears to be inherited by most of his chil-
dren. Mrs. John R. Morrison was a Miss Sarah
Hammond, of a prominent family in Ohio. Her
uncle, Charles Hammond, was a prominent lawyer
and editor in Cincinnati during the time of Henry
Clay, with whom he had several earnest debates. In
the Galaxy, of a few years ago, we find an account
of a case in which he and Clay were the opposing
counsel, and great praise is given Hammond for so
well sustaining his case against so powerful an oppo-

nent
Our subject comes from a family of dentists, hav-

ing had two brothers, one uncle and several cousins

in the profession. He is one of thirteen children,
eight of whom are living. His eldest brother, James
B. Morrison, has an enviable notoriety as the inven-
tor of various dental appliances—being the origina-
tor of the Furring Engine and of the “Morrison
Dental Chair.”

Our subject claims no classical education, further
than he has secured by his own studious habits. His
schooling was limited to the country facilities of his
youthful day and State. At the early age of eighteen
he commenced work in mechanical dentistry in St.
Louis, with his brother. At the conclusion of the

 third year he attended the College of Dental Surgery

in Cincinnati, where he graduated.

In or about 1862 he began the regular practice
of dentistry in St. Louis. In his case, especial and
hard work with application was required, and he set

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himself to work assiduously in his calling. By dili-
gence and close’ study, he attained a prominence in
his profession, before he had reached the age of
thirty, seldom acquired in a life-time service.
So successful was he that, in 1872, he had acquired

. not only a name but sufficient funds to build and

furnish him a home. It was built after his own plan
and in accordance with his own studied style of
architecture, combining office and residence in the
same building. It was a complete dentistry and at
the same time a complete residence, and was the first
building of the kind in the United States. From
his first success until now, Dr. Morrison has sus-
tained the reputation so dearly bought, and now St.
Louis claims him as one of her professional men.
The Doctor has invented and improved many dental
instruments and appliances now generally used in the
profession.

The Doctorhas been a Mason since 1865, but
has never accepted office in the order. In his reli-
gious tendencies, we cannot call him a churchman,
although he has been and is yet a regular attendant,
with his family, upon Sabbath service. And so, too,
in his politics; while claiming to be a Republican,
he has never allowed himself to be governed by
party rules in his ballot.

He has been a close observer in all his travels,

and probably in this way has gathered the major

part of his vast practical information. Having trav-
eled extensively in the West Indies and throughout
the United States, he has had the happy faculty of
seeing, looking at, remembering and utilizing every-
thing that came under_his observation worthy of note
in his"professi’i“on or in political economy. And, in
the latter respect—while he has never sought office
or political preferment—the education thus acquired
has rendered his political opinions of consequence
among his fellow-citizens.

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO/VAIBY.

In 1868 Dr. Morrison married Miss Cornelia
Holme, of Hannibal, Missouri, of which union three
children were born, the two older of whom are still
living. For one who has acquired so great a repu-
tation in his profession, among so many gray-headed
compeers, curiosity will ask for something of his
characteristics. As near as we can learn he is
undemonstrative and peculiarly reticent about his
personal affairs ; he has a fine appreciation for the
beautiful in art and nature, as his tastefully orna-
mented house plainly indicates. His moral charac-
ter is blameless—even tobacco being almost entirely
tabooed. He has an irresistible penchant for the
comic. He is cheerful without excess of cordiality,
friendly toward all, yet with no intimates 3 forming
neither violent antipathies nor confidential friend-
ships, he stands apparently alone, and yet leans
towards the masses of his fellow beings, and gives
the worthy ones of them ‘a lodgment in his philan-
thropy. If we were called upon to give his marked
characteristic, from what we can learn of him, two
words would embrace it——indefatigable industry, and
that carried on with the motto, “ whatever is worth
doing at all, is worth doing well,” and the scriptural
injuction, “ what thy hands find to do, do it with
all thy might.”

In his later years, Dr. Morrisonhas shown such
a particular aptitude for surgery that it is a question
with himself and friends (only relieved by his suc-
cess in dentistry) if he did not mistake his calling in
leaving that and choosing his present profession.

For the encouragement of young men following
in his footsteps, we wish to state that whatever
prominence the Doctor has acquired, has been the
result of his unaided efforts, of study, observation
and toil. He is, indeed, a self—made man. His Alma
Mater was his- midnight studies; his diploma is his
success.

DR. TENNESSEE MATHEWS.

7EFFE1€S0./V CIT Y.

HERE is no power greater or more effective
T than the silent influence of a noble life; This
truth is fully illustrated in the life of every good
man. . In this sketch we present a man well worthy
of imitation by the young and rising generation.

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society called “The United Irishmen.” He left his

native country on account of political troubles, was

a member of the Mecklenburgh Convention, in.

North Carolina, and served with General Washing-

ton through the Revolutionary war. His father,
also named William Mathews, was born in Augusta
county, Virginia, in 1767. He was an intimate
friend of General Andrew Jackson, and served with
him as Captain of a company through the Indian
war, and also took a prominent part in the battle of

iNew Orleans. . In 1794 he married Miss Elizabeth

Hunter, of Henry county, Virginia, and removed
to Rutherford county, _Tennessee, settling on a
revolutionary claim of six hundred and forty acres
of land, given to his father by the United States
government for gallant service in the war.

When the subject of this sketch was twelve
years old his father died, leaving a large estate, but,
having acted as security for his friends to a large
amount, his property was sacrificed, leaving his
widow and seven children without fortune. He
then, assisted by his elder brother, aged fourteen,

and a younger aged ten, rented land, raised cotton,
and in a'few years bought his mother a home, sur-
rounding her with all the comforts and necessities
of life. When seventeen years of age his grand-
mother died, leaving his mother about $15,000 in
money and negroes. He then "called a meeting of
his brothers, and they determined to carve out their
own fortunes without encumbering their mother’s
estate. Then he hired to a neighboring planter for
$6.00 per month, for - a period of six months.
Saving every dollar, he returned home and attended
school until his money was exhausted for tuition and
clothing; then, making an engagement for five
months at $8.00 per month, he pursued the same
course until that sum was exhausted, and again
resumed labor at $10.00 per month for five months,
earning fifty dollars more, which he expended in the
same way at Rock Spring Seminary, receiving at the
close of the term the highest honors of his class.
He was then applied to to take charge of a school
in DaVidS0T1 County, near Colonel Hope’s. After
teaching one term he was re-engaged for a term of
twelve months, giving entire satisfaction to both
parents and pupils. He then returned to the Semi-
nary, remained five months and graduated with dis-
He was invited to take the Bethlehem
school, in Williamson county, which he taught with
success, improving his leisure hours in the study of
the law, at his mother’s solicitation, and was admit-

ted to the bar in 1831. Preferring the medical pro-
fession, he read the usual course and then entered
the College at Lexington, Kentucky, and in 1842
was graduated at the Louisville Medical College and
practiced in Randolph county for about three years,
when he moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, where
he has ever since resided," carrying on an extensive
drug business and enjoying a large practice for
thirty-three years in Cole, Osage, Miller and Calla-
way counties. In 1865 his foot was injured while
alighting from his carriage, and since that time he
has given up riding, but has continued to treat vari-
ous diseases at his office.

In 1836, he married Miss Priscilla Ward Mor-
ton, of Rutherford county, Tennessee. They have
had three children, two sons and one daughter.
His youngest son, Emmet, died at the age of _three
years, his eldest, Tennessee Mathews, Jr., is the
Editor of the fefersozz Cz'z‘y Trilnme and one of the
most brilliant writers in the State. He was the
official Reporter of the XXIXth General Assembly.
His daughter, now deceased, was the wife of J. E.
Carter, Esq., proprietor of the Trzl/Jame and the
present Mayor of Jefferson City. In politics, Dr.
Mathews has always been a Democrat. One of his
earliest recollections was a visit of Andrew Jackson
at his father’s house in Tennessee.

He has held several offices of importance, but
without his solicitation.
souri he held the position of County Judge in
Rutherford county, Tennessee. In Jefferson City
he has held the positions of Alderman and Mayor,

and is now acting magistrate of Jefferson City.

During the late civil war, while temporarily absent
from home, he was appointed magistrate by those
opposed to him politically, in order to suppress the
petty and public thieving so prevalent. He declined
to act, but at the earnest request of his fellow-
citizens finally accepted the position, determined to
enforce the civil laws, this frequently brought him
in collision with the military, but his decisions were
always sustained by the higher courts. During the
war he dispensed in charities nearly $2,000, without
regard to the sentiments of the sufferers, whether
Union or disunion, and was on bonds to the amount
of $750,000 for the good behavior of parties and foi
the preservation of the peace.

Many of the most eminent medical men of Mis-
souri have been students of ‘Dr. Mathews and per-
haps owe more to him for their rise in life than to

any other source. Among the number are Dr.

Before removing to Mis- .

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Nicholas Melton, who was with General Robert E.

Lee during the war, Dr. G. VV. Riggins, of C0lum- ‘

bia, who was with General Sterling Price; and Dr.
]. P. H. Gray, of California, Missouri.- Hon. Sam.
H. Owens, of California, Missouri, learned the
drug business of him. He takes great pride in the
success of these gentlemen , and he also provided
means for educating a number’ who never knew from
whose hand the means came for their intellectual
advancement, not forgetting to provide liberally for
the children of his deceased brothers, William and
Peter Mathews. His religious sentiments in early

TIIE U./VITED STATES B106‘/i’.~1P[![CA[. IJICVYI/0/l‘Tr1]l).I7.

life were in favor of the Baptist denomination. At

the breaking out of the war, the great disruption of P

the different organizations of religious bodies caused
him to reexamine the religious tenets of all the dif-
ferent sects, and his honest convictions induced him
to adopt the doctrines of the Holy Roman Catholic
Church, and he was confirmed by the Very Rev.
Father Kenrick, Arch-Bishop of St. Louis, Mis-
souri, and he feels greatly indebted for the kind
ministrations of Fathers Walsh, Miller, Muer and
Hoog, the Priests of ]'efferson City, and also Father
Ryan, the present Bishop of St. Louis.

WILLIAM H. ROBB, M. D.

5T.1,0U]S.

burgh, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1840.

WILLIAM H. ROBB was born at Pitts-
His father, Josiah Robb, was the eldest in a family
of thirteen children of John Robb, who was one of
the pioneers and early settlers of Western Pennsyl-
vania. The mother of our subject was Rachel M.
Robb (nee McMillan), who was born and raised in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania".

In this sketch of a successful man, yet on the
incline of .life’s hill, will be found another demon-
stration that it is. wise,_ generally, in parents to let
their children follow the bent of their business incli-
nations. The father, Josiah Robb, was a farmer
near Pittsburgh, but determined to move West—to
Iowa—in I8 54. Our subject was then but fourteen,
but had been looking to the horizon of success for
himself. He asked permission of his parents to
remain and work out for himself a name and a
fortune. Having confidence in the boy they con-
sented and, moving to the West, left him onhis

' own resources.

William was poor, but rich in integrity,‘ industry
and resolution. He saw that education was the
open sesame to the storehouse of riches and success.
Hence he lost no opportunity of gathering practical
knowledge. For four years he worked on a farm
during the summer months and attended public
School in winter. _

In early boyhood he exhibited a strong desire for
the study of medicine, and a precocious ability for
the practice of that profession. In order to fit him-

self therefor he removed to Pittsburgh, residing
with his married sister, Mrs. Ewart, and worked for
a time at the paper-hanging trade—-still following his
old course of attending public school in winter, and
added thereto nightly attendance at the medical
lectures in one of the institutes of that city. His
head and heart were fully bent upon an education
for a proud position in the profession of medicine.
And he was promisingly approximating perfection
when the war of the Rebellion called him, like all
other patriotic young ,men, to leave school and
ambitions for country, in ‘the grave or glorious
return. i

In September, 1861, he enlisted at Pittsburgh,
in the Ioznd Regiment, Co._ M., PennsylvaniaVolun—
teers, and served three years, doing service for the
Union on the battle-fields of Virginia. He received
severe wounds in the battle of Fair Oaks, near
Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1862, but recovered
and went‘ again to the front. In 1863 he was taken
prisoner by_the Confederates and confined for a
short time with the Union prisoners on Belle Island,
at Richmond. Being parolled, and finally exchanged,
he hastened to camp and served at the front the
remainder of his enlistment. He was in the battles
of Fair Oaks, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and
the Wilderness, besides many skirmishes.

In 1864 he returned home and resumed his stu-
dies in the office of Dr. G. A. Sprecher, an eminent
and able electro—therapeutist of Pittsburgh. The

‘ young soldier had not forgotten the ambition of his

TIIE UJVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIEY.

life, and whether in prison, in hospital or on battle-
field, he had been gathering rich stores of profes-
sional knowledge which practically and fully repaid
the loss of academic instruction——a loss gladly
yielded for country’s sake. Under Dr. Sprecher he
pursued his studies industriously and favorably, and
advanced rapidly. Besides the causes and cures of
disease, he began (under his favorable auspices) a
philosophical line of studies “in -treatment. The
vegetable and mineral kingdoms had furnished their
wealth for the healing of the sick, and yet so many
failures. With the longing eye of the student, he
was looking out upon Creation for a remedy for
those cases that medicine not surgery would reach.
Daily watching convinced him finally of the efficacy
of electricity, in its different modifications, in the
treatment of nervous and chronic maladies that are
so rarely cured by drugs alone. By night he pon-
dered his books——ancient and modern; by day he
watched the demonstrations in his adopted science,
until by the time he had completed his medical
studies he was ready to enter, heart and soul, into
the as yet new field of electro-therapeutics. He
entered into partnership with Dr. Sprecher in 1869,
and battled manfully and successfully in Pittsburgh
and throughout Pennsylvania in behalf of the new
idea against the old ruts in medical lore.

In 1870 Dr. Robb removed to St. Louis and
opened his office for the practice of medicine upon
the electric system. But he met a perfect storm of
prejudice on all sides, and especially from physi-
cians. Unflinchingly he followed the line of practice
his own scientific explorations had demonstrated—

treating his patients successfully and his enemies 

103

gentlemanly. His faith in electricity as a remedial
agent never was shaken; on the contrary was daily
strengthened by observation and his own successes.
Days of dark discouragement were frequent, but he
fought on with the determination of conscious recti-
tude—fought on “through evil and good report,”
and has already the satisfaction of seeing the science

of electro-therapeutics rapidly growing into ‘ favor

with people of intelligence and the remedial prop-
erties of electricity recognized and used by the pro-
fession. Dr. Robb feels a justifiable pride in being
one of the pioneers of the science VVest of the Mis-
sissippi, and confidently looks forward to the electric
flash that will dart athwart the murky sky of old
prejudice and light the world of suffering.

Dr. Robb has all his life been wedded to his
profession, and, although a Republican in politics
and with liberal views, he has never stepped down
into the pool of politics. Nor has he ever become
a church member, although baptized and raised in
the strictest sect of Presbyterianism. His religion
partakes of the practical, believing that it should
consist not so much in creed or dogma as in active
good to his fellow-men, using every endeavor to
make man better, physically, morally and mentally,
and to ennoble the race.

Dr. William H. Robb was married in 1867 to
Miss Margaret McMullen, of Pittsburgh. They have
one daughter, now eight years of age. He is still a
young man, in physical appearance, giving promise
of a long life of usefulness to his fellows. In his

practice he has been satisfactorily successful, and -

among his professional compeers is honored and
respected.

LOGAN DOUGLAS DAMERON.

ST. LOUIS.

I OGAN D. DAMERON was born in Caswell 

county, North Carolina, October 31, 1827.
His father, George B. Dameron, a native of Vir-
ginia, was a tobacco planter", and married Miss Mary
VV. Moore, of Virginia.
their married life they removed to North Carolina,
where he purchased land and for many years was
engaged in planting upon an extensive scale.’
The subject of this sketch, the youngest of a fam-

During the first year of 

ily of thirteen children, when six years old removed

with his father to Missouri. He settled in Randolph

county, where he engaged in farming, in which he

took great pride. His eight sons, as they grew to
manhood, studied various professions and followed
commercial pursuits. Logan D. attended the schools
of the country until the age of fourteen, when he
entered his older brother’s store at Huntsville as
clerk, here he remained two years. Being naturally

104 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DJCTZO./VAIBY.

studious, he improved his mind during leisure hours
in reading history and pursuing other branches of
education. and at the age of sixteen went to Glas-
gow and commenced merchandising for himself,
building up a prosperous trade.

In 1859 he removed to St. Louis and opened a
produce commission house, associating himself with
Captain J. S. Nanson, under the firm name of
Nanson, Dameron & Co., doing probably the most
extensive business in their line during the war. In
1865 Mr. Dameron retired from business, having
amassed a fortune which required most of his time
for the next four years. In 1869 he was prevailed
upon to take the presidency and general manage-
ment of the publishing interests of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South at St. Louis. With the
exception of a limited period he has retained that
position to the present time, and he has the satis-
faction of knowing that the Saim‘ L02/2'5 C/zrz'sz’z'a71
Adworale of which he is manager, is steadily
increasing in influence, and occupies a high posi-
tion among the Christian and literary periodicals of

the day. It now numbers about 9,000 subscribers.

In 1852 he married Miss Chappell, a grand-
daughter of Colonel M. Horner, of Randolph, by
whom he had two sons, one dying in infancy; the
other, Edward C. Dameron, is a young man of
superior ability. Mrs. Dameron died in 1862.

In 1865 Mr. Dameron married Miss McCombs,
of St. Louis, who died'in January, 1874, leaving
one daughter, (four having died'in infancy), Mary,
an attractive and talented child now aged ten years.
In 1876 he married Mrs. Cornelia Turner, of Glas-
gow, amuch esteemed lady, who now graces his
home and is an excellent mother to his children.

Mr. Dameron joined the M. E. Church South in‘
In poli—_

1842, while residing in Randolph county.
tics he is a conservative Democrat, never seeking
office. In 1854 he was elected Mayor of Glasgow.

He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and
also of the Odd Fellows. He is now in the prime of
life, of fine personal appearance, as his portrait indi-
cates, weighing over two hundred pounds, nearly
six feet in height, and of fine business qualifications.
He possesses great social qualities, and is devotedly
attached to his friends and family.

HON. CHARLES EDVVARD PEERS.

WA]€/BENTON.

MONG the men whose lives are worthy of
record, we find the name of Charles Edward
Peers, who is a native Missourian, and was born
May 2, 1844, in Lincoln county.
His father, Major E. J. Peers, was a native
of Virginia, he graduated at West Point Military

_Academy and served for a number of years as officer

in the Regular Army, and emigrating to Missouri, in
1831, settled in Troy, Lincoln county. His mother,
Cytha Peers (me Stone,) was a native of Bowling
Green, Kentucky, and daughter of John Stone, who
was a farmer and early settler of St. Charles county,
Missouri. He was one of the heroes of the Black
Hawk war, serving his time as Captain.

Young Peers was raised in his native county, and
had the advantages of the common schools of Troy.
In 1858 he entered the office of the L2’/250/72
Cozmzjy Iferala’, published at Troy. In this busi-
ness he continued for two years, thus acquiring a

thorough knowledge of the printing business. In
1860 he went to work on a farm in St. Charles
county, as a laborer, and during the two years of his
labor there he spent all of his leisure time reading
law, a study for which he had early evinced marked
aptitude and taste. In 1866 he was admitted to the
bar at Warrenton, Missouri, where, after a term of
one year’s service in the civil war, he located, and

established the Warrenton /?czmze7', a Democratic

paper, which he managed and edited for three years
with marked ability. In 1868 he was elected, on
the Democratic ticket, Circuit Attorney of the Third
Judicial District, and held the office for four years.
He served the people so well that in 1872.he was
elected by his party as Representative from Warren
county to the State Legislature. In 1876 he was
Elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket for the
Thirteenth Congressional District, and was also
President of the Democratic State Convention during

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIFY. 105

the same year. Mr. Peers is a firm Democrat,
always acting conscientiously and for the good of
his party.
Humphreys, of Rockingham county, New York,
a lady of education and refinement.

In 1866 he married Miss Mary C. ;'

Mr. Peers has so long been identified with the
interests of the public that they have come to regard
him as their special property, and all will be glad to
have him receive the commendation which he so
richly deserves.

’ HON. DAVID HARTLEY ARMSTRONG.

ST. LOUIS.

DAVID HARTLEY ARMSTRONG was born

in'Nova Scotia, October 21, 1812. In I830
he entered the Wesleyan Seminary at Readfield,
Kennebec county, Maine, where he obtained an
academical education. In 1837 he visited St. Louis,
and settled there permanently in 1838. For many.
years he was a Principal in one of the St. Louis pub-
lic schools. Since early manhood he has taken a deep
interest in the politics of the country,and has always
been an active and ardent worker in the ranks of
the Democratic party. He held the office of City

Comptroller of St. Louis from 1847 to 1850.

In 1854 President Pierce appointed him Post-
master of St. Louis, filling the office during that
administration, and also a portion of Buchanan’s.

In 1873 he was appointed Police Commissioner,
and served as such until 1875. In 1876 he was
elected a member of the Board of Freeholders,
whichframed the present city charter. He was
again appointed Police Commissioner in 1877. On
the 29th of September,’ 1877, Governor Phelps
appointed him to fill the vacancy in the United
States Senate occasioned by the death of the
lamented Lewis Vital Bogy.

HON. EDWARD BATES.

ST. LOUIS.

O nobler dust rests beneath the sod of Missouri
N than thatof this eminent son of an old Eng-
lish and American ancestry. Although of a Quaker
family, his father, Thomas F. Bates, was an Ameri-
can soldier in the Revolutionary war, but by the
inexorable law of that society he was for it excom-
municated, nor have any of the descendants returned
to its embrace.

Themother of our subject was, before her mar-
riage with Thomas F. Bates, Caroline Matilda Wood-
son. She was of a highly respectable’ family and
nearly related to the Pleasants of Virginia, one of
whom—]ames Pleasants—represented his State in
both branches of Congress, and was ~Governor of
Virginia. The Pleasants and the Woodsons inter-
married with the Randolphs, and were kinsmen of

President Jefferson, whose mother was Jane Ran-
14

dolph, one of the daughters of Isham Randolph,
Esq. '

]udge Bates, the ‘subject of our ‘sketch, was
justly proud of his descent from the family of Wood-
son, and was more than once heard to -speak in
admiration of one of the females of that noble stock,
as a heroic defender of her home and children, and
the vanquisher (assisted by some negro servants) of
a party of Indians who attacked and besieged her
house. With such blood in his veins, we do not
wonder at thedignified greatness of the man we
now write of.

Edward Bates was born at Belmont, Goochland

-county, Virginia, September 4, 1793, and was the

seventh son in a family of twelve children. The
father died when Edward was very young, and,
except a short term at Charlotte Hall Academy, the

' nal Improvement Congress at Chicago.

106 THE UNITED STATES 510 G16/IPHICAZ, DICTZO/VA1i’Yi.

boy received his education at home and at the house
of a relative, under an accomplished private
teacher.. ' '

At his mother’s earnest request, but contrary to
his wishes and plans, he declined a midshipman’s
appointment in the United States Navy, and in the
year 1813 enlisted in a militia regiment and served
six months at Norfolk, in the last war with Eng-
land.

Immediately after his honorable discharge from
the army, late in 1813, at the age of twenty, he
removed to St. Louis. His bI‘Otl1€I‘,/El‘€Cl€I‘lCl{
Bates, was living in St. Louis then, and was United
States Recorder of land titles for Upper Louisi-
ana, and afterward became Governor of Missouri.
Edward, in 1814, entered the office of Colonel
Rufus Easton, and under that eminent and able
jurist studied law. He was admitted to practice in
1816, and speedily rose to distinction in the profes-
sion—so rapidly that in two years Governor William
Clark, then Governor of the Territory, appointed
him District Attorney for the Territorial Govern-
ment. '

In 1820, when the State Government was to be
formed, Mr. Bates was elected to the Convention
which framed the State Constitution. The same
year he was appointed Attorney General for the new
State, but resigned after two years’ service. He
was then elected to the State Legislature. In 182 5,
President Monroe appointed him United States
District Attorney for the District_of Missouri, which
office he filled until 1826, when he was elected to
Congress over his competitor, Hon. John Scott, of
St. Genevieve. After this term he was renomina-
ted, but defeated by Hon. Spencer Pettis. C

After practicing law a few years in St. Louis,
l\/Ir. Bates moved to his farm in St. Charles county,
but still continued to practice law in that and in
several contiguous counties. I

In 1834 Mr. Bates was elected to the State
Senate of Missouri from the county of St. Charles,
where, as usual, his admired abilities forced him
into leadership on all important questions.

In 1842 he returned to St. Louis and resumed
his practice in that city, but which he had again to
abandon in 1853 on being elected by the popular
vote Judge of the St. Louis Land Court.

In 1847 he was chosen president of the Inter-

speech there on the power of the ‘General Govern-
ment in public improvements gave him a national

His great

reputation as a statesman equal to Webster, and as
an orator almost equal to Clay. '

In 1850 President Fillmore nominated him
Secretary of War, and the United States Senate
unanimously confirmed it. But, to the great aston-
ishment of the whole country, Mr. Bates respect-
fully resigned the honor, and suggested Henry S.
Geyer as his successor, who also declined it.

In 1854 Mr. Bates acted with the Emancipation
party in Missouri, was opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and to the admission of
Kansas into the Union with the Lecompton Con-
stitution.

In 1852 Mr. Bates was a delegate to the Whig
National Convention at Baltimore, and was elected
president of that body. His name was favorably
before that convention for President of the United
States. But he declined every appeal, and after-
wards retired almost entirely from partisan politics 3
and as the Whig party ceased to exist, he voted
afterwards with the Republicans. At their National
Convention at Chicago, which nominated Mr.
Lincoln, his name was brought forward for the
Presidency and received a very complimentary
vote. , .

President Lincoln, in .1861, offered him the
position of Attorney General in his Cabinet, which

tMr. Bates accepted, and by his fine legal abilities

fulfilled its duties in a highly creditable manner.
He resigned the position in the latter part of 1864,
on account of failing health.

Throughout the Rebellion he was a staunch
Union man, and by his sympathy with Mr. Lincoln
in his war policy greatly aided that good man in his
measures, and secured his lasting friendship.

On resigning the Attorney Generalship Mr.
Bates returned to St. Louis, where he remained
until his death, avoiding public life and as much as
possible professional duties.

Edward Bates died at his home inSt. Louis,
March 25, 1869, with his family and most intimate
friends at his bedside. In his death, they and the
State—nay, the nation——-sustained a loss almost irre-
parable. ’

May 29, 1823, he married Miss Julia D. Coalter,
daughter of Mr. David Coalter, a native of Augusta
county, Virginia. She was born in South Carolina.
Mr. Coalter moved to Missouri in 1818. There
were seven children. General John D. Coalter, for
many years a member of the Missouri Legislature,
was a brother of Mrs. Bates. Dr. Beverly Tucker

THE I/QVZTED STATES BJOGIRAPHZCAL Z)]CT[0./VARY. 107

Coalter, a distinguished physician in this State
before his death, was another brother. Mrs. Gov-
ernor Hamilton R. Gamble was a sister.

He left her with several sons and daughters to
cheer her widowhood: Barton Bates, lately a Judge
of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Nancy C.
Bates, since dead; ]ulian Bates, M. D., now for
several years past a successful practitioner in St.
Louis; Fleming Bates, since dead, Richard Bates,
now in Southeast Missouri , Matilda Bates, married,
(a few months before her father’s death, the wed-
ding being solemnized at his sick bedside), Major
Edward B. Eno, John Coalter Bates, now Captain
in the United States Army; C. Woodson Bates, St.
Louis, Mechanics’ Bank.

Judge Bates,‘the late ex—Governor Hamilton R.
Gamble, and that splendid orator, William Camp-
bell Prefton, Chancellor William Harper, and the

celebrated Dr. Means, of South Carolina, married

sisters, and their descendants all over the Union are
of the most respected and useful citizens, and all
eminent in their professions. But we cannot give
them the space we would desire, in this volume.
Our pleasing task in this sketch has been to speak
of this distinguished adopted son of Missouri, who
honored both it and his native State.

“Edward Bates was no ordinary man.” His
extraordinary qualities made him great, and as those
same qualities may be cultivated in families, giving
the same grandeur to the mental and moral charac-
ters of their youths, we desire to speak briefly of
them. While Mr. Bates could have climbed easily
upon the ladder of family prestige, he never used
it. But demanding in himself, as in others, inde-
pendent integrity, he aspired to nothing beyond an
honest name. With this as his early guiding star,
he “acted well his part” in every position occupied
from youth up. And when the plaudits of a world
would have called him to the forefront, he retired
from observation, in his humble appreciation of his
powers. We were about to write——-and will not
unsay it—his abilities had been cultivated by rigid
scrutiny, close observation and study, until they
were a power within, which, whether he would or
not, burst out in such bright flashes as drew the
world around him. But this was the crop of long
and laborious study and rigid self-integrity.

Mr. Bates was a gentleman, in the true and
fullest sense of that term. He was born so, it is
true, but he cultivated hisbirthright, and was
through life studiously kind, refined and gentle to

all with whom he came in contact. His suavity of
manner disarmed his bitterest enemy and converted
many an opponent into a friend. But this acquire-
ment he never used from motive, nature had so
gifted him, and he had improved the goodly herit-
age, until it seemed the spontaneous action of his
nature to be gentle.

By inheritance from his ancestors he was bold
and courageous, without that‘ defiant boldness that
leads to aggressiveness. He neither insulted, nor
brooked insult. With all his gentleness, there lay
underneath it a keen sense of honor and jealousy
of character, which on fitting occasions threw him

into the breach of personal warfare. His popularity

once provoked bitter animosities among his political
enemies-—or so they pretended——and on the rostrum

he was threatened with personal violence; half a‘

dozen pistols were drawn and cocked upon him,
when with a smile he continued his address, but
there was that in his eye which caused his enemies
to determine upon the “better part of valor.”
While his whole nature rose up in arms against
the “code duello,” yet on more than one occa-
sion, when his honor was assailed or his motives
impugned, he manifested so decided a disposition

C to resent the insult by an appeal to the then manner

of settling difficulties, that his maligners were glad
to retract. Mr. McDuffie, ex-Congressman of South
Carolina, can fully attest this statement, and ./V2765’.
Regzlv/er, then the Congressional reporter, will amply
corroborate it.

In person, Mr. Bates was not much above the
medium height, but he had a manly form and a
commanding, imposing appearance. His dignity

‘was never lost, nor his self-possession overcome.

Abuse he knew nothing of towards an opponent;
but his rebukes were the severer because gold-lined
with the politeness of .his nature. His complexion
was dark, and his eyes black and full of expression
——blazing with the fires of his soul when in contest,
or soft as an infant’s when in repose.

Taken altogether, he was of that illustrious line
of gentlemen-—now, alas! gone——who dignified _the
bar, the legislative hall, and the executive chamber,‘

who made the street brighter, home happier and ,

mankind better by their presence.

But the good man has passed from earth-—his
dust mingles with that of the beautiful “Florisant
Valley.” If manly virtues were-vegetable seed,
more beautiful blossoms would now adorn that
“Vale of Flowers.” The monument which an

108 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

admiring State and city erected to his memory, is
grand and beautiful, but it will perish with

“ Time’s effacing finger.”

He has a monument in the hearts and minds of his

fellows, as imperishable as human existence, which
our children’s children will delight to gaze upon 3
and on “the other shore” it will rear its magnifi-
cence and grandeur tall amid the tallest of the good,
the beautiful and true.

HON. W. H. H. RUSSELL.

ST. LOUIS.

‘ N IILLIAM H. H. RUSSELL, the subject of
this biography, from “ Russells of England,”
somewhat resembles the English parliamentarian in
physical appearance; so much so, that his friends
frequently. dub him “Lord John.” iHis ancestry
were of Irish and Welsh descent, and emigrated to
America from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, in
1681, with the William Penn Colony, and settled in
Delaware. Joseph Russell, a large silkweaver and
dealer in Bidminster, England, died some years ago,
leaving a large estate, in which his descendants in
America are interested. From the original settlers
in Delaware, the family branched off and settled in
Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, New York and
Ohio. The father of Russell was born in Riga,
Monroe county, New York, and when a young man‘
came West and settled upon a farm in Green Oak,
Livingston county, State of Michigan, then known as
the beautiful peninsula or Wolverine State. He was
among the early settlers of that State, and became
well known in Livingston and surrounding counties.
As the agricultural interests of the State developed
he was recognized as one of its most industrious and
honorable farmers. There he raised his family of
five children, and died beloved, honored and
respected by all who knew him.

The maternal ancestry of 'Mr. Russell comes from
the Perry blood. His mother’s maiden name was
Miss Jane A. Knox, of Bennington, Vermont, a
niece of Commodore Perry, of Lake Erie fame. Mr.
Russell was the fourth child, and being born in the
exciting days of President Harrison’s time of log
cabin and hard cider scenes, was named by his
father, an old line Whig, after William Henry Har-
rison. The older brother, Frank G. Russell, Esq.,
isgin professional life—a prominent lawyer of.Detroit_,.
Michigan. Young Russell received his early educa-
tion at the common schools in his native county, and

afterwards attended the Union School under Pro-

fessor Estabrook, at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and subse-
quently the University of -Michigan, where he gradu-

I ated in the Law Department of that noted Institution

in 1864, then under the management of that distin-
guished scholar and philanthropist, Dr. Tappen (now
in Berlin). '

"Before graduating, Russell determined to locate in
the West or Southwest, and with a view to selecting
a good locality, corresponded with the Hon. Wm. K.
Poston, of Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Poston, one
of the most noble hearted and exemplary gentlemen
that ever practiced before the courts of Tennessee,
wrote a lengthy letter setting forth the advantages of
his cherished city, and invited the hopeful student to
that section. While at College Mr. Russell was
ambitious and studious, frequently engaging in the
debates of the Webster Society, of which he was an
active member. In the winter of 1863-4 he, with
several classmates, paid a visit to Hon. Clement L.
Vallandigham, at Windsor, Canada. They were
kindly received and entertained by that distinguished
gentleman. Mr. Russell, after graduating with a
class -of seventy, spent a few days on his father’s
farm, and then went South to Memphis, where he
met Judge Poston. It being the summer season, he
returned to Springfield, Illinois, and for several
weeks rode on horse back over the prairies of Illi-
nois, with a friend who was engaged in stock raising.
In the fall he received a letter from his courteous and
hospitable friend, Judge Poston, inviting him to
return to Memphis, and enter his office, which he
did, and began to practice in that city in the fall
and winter of 1864. Mr. Poston was debarred from
practice on account of his sympathies with the South
in the War. He gave Mr. Russell his counsel and
advice, and frequently turned cases over to him,
thus securing for him a steady and lucrative ‘prac-

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tice in the City and Federal Courts. Mr. Russell
soon became acquainted with the prominent citizens
of Memphis, and took a lively interest in the public
He, in connection with several others,
organized and founded the Memphis Library Associ-
ation and Debating Society, in which there was an
active interest, and frequently publicdebates. Mr.
Russell, by invitation, delivered an address upon the
question of Public Libraries, which was said to have
been one of the finest efforts of the kind in that city,
and upon which occasion he received a vote of
thanks from theiSociety, and the congratulations of
many strangers and the press. .

By his energy, application and perseverence, he
acquired an extensive practice and was engaged in
some noted cases, two of which were of peculiar
interest. One of a beautiful young lady, who, wish-
ing to make a New Year’s present to her betrothed—
a captain in the Confederate Army, attempted ‘to

wear the cloth for a suit of grey as a balmoral under ’
She was >

her dress, through the Federal picket lines.
detected and imprisoned with several ladies in the
“ Irving Prison.” General Washburn, who was then
in command, refused to allow any one to see her, a.nd
bail was denied unless she would disclose where she
had procured the cloth. The young lady had given
her word of honor that if arrested she would not in-
form on the house. The friends and relatives of the
young lady secured the services of Mr. Russell, who

demanded the right to see his client, which was refused

at first, -but finally granted, with the condition that it
should be in the presence of an officr. An interview
was held, and the young lady’s affidavit taken, with
which her-counsel went to the commanding officer,
and satisfied him that as a matter of honor he could
not exact from the lady information she had given
her word of honor not to reveal. The young lady
was released under a bond of $10,000 to report
every morning at headquarters until trial. The case
was tried before a military commission composed of
young officers, and when it came on for a hearing,
Mr. Russell concluded that it would be good policy
to plead guilty to the charge, which was “attempt-
ing to smuggle through the lines a suit of grey cloth,”
and rely upon the gallantry of the officers for a light
punishment. After an argument and appeal to the

commission, upon the theory that it was no offense

against the laws of war or of nations" for a young
lady to present her affianced with a suit of grey, as
a token of respect and affection and not for gain or
profit, the court acquiesced in the chivalric views

and allowed the lady to depart in peace, with a
nominal fine, which her counsel paid.

The most noted case was that of Dr. Captain
John H. Morgan, a cousin of the brave Kentucky
General. General Slack, who was in charge of the
Federal forces on the White river in Arkansas, was
somewhat celebrated for the good liquors he always
kept on hand at his headquarters. Captain’ Morgan,
who was in command of an independent company
of Confederate soldiers, gave Slack considerable
annoyance and frequently sent him word that if he
did not send out some of his fine brandies, he would
dash in some time, seize his liquors and throw him
(Slack) tinto White‘ river. Slack swore he would
catch and hang Morgan, and afterwards succeeded
in capturing the Doctor after a long chase over the
prairies near St. Charles. Morgan was taken to
Memphis in irons and placed in prison, and Slack
didphis best to get him hung. ~ Captain Morgan sent
for Mr. Russell and requested an interview. He
stated allthe facts and said that he had no money
but would give a deed to a plantation on the White
river, of one section of land, if he would undertake
his defense. Morgan was a brave, handsome fellow,
and well known in Arkansas. The defense was
undertaken. The trial lasted some three weeks,
Morgan going to court in irons under a guard of
soldiers. Slack did not succeed in getting his man
hung , but the court found him guilty of two of the
charges and sentenced him for life, ten days of each
month to wear a ball and chain to the right leg..

Mr. Russell prepared the papers and appealed
the case to Washington. On the trip to that point
he went up the Mississippi river to St. Paul, crossed
through the pines of Minnesota to Lake Superior,

and was in the ill—fated Penabic that collided with i

the Meteor on Lake Huron, August 9, 1865, on
which occasion there were between seventy-five
and one hundred lives lost. Unfortunately for Mr.
Russell, his trunks with all the papers in the case
went down with the boat, and he was obliged to
return to Memphis and Arkansas and get up new
papers. In going through Arkansas he had to ride
a mustang pony, and his system took up the malaria
of the bottom lands. He went to Washington and
presented the case to President Johnson, and while
in Washington was told he had better keep shady—
they would take him for J. Wilkes Booth. The case
was referred to Judge Advocate General Holt, who
had approved of the finding of the court less than
six weeks before. Mr. Russell succeeded in getting

. Russell’s first case_in St. Louis.

110 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

]udge Holt to formally endorse the papers, which
was quite equivalent to a pardon. Upon presenting
the papers again to President Johnson, Mr. Russell
was informed that the papers would be put in the list
and come up in their order. Mr. Russell thought,
with the endorsement, that they ought to be acted
upon at once, replied to the President “that he had
been in the city for some time, and was anxious to
get the case disposed of,” to which Mr. Johnson
looked up and remarked, “ Well, sir, I have known
persons to sometimes prejudice their case by over-
zeal—there have been parties here for six months
and their cases have not been reached yet. You
cannot expect to get cases through this department
as soon as in some others. Your case must come up
in its order.” At which exclamation Mr. Russell
replied, “Good morning, Mr. President,” and left.
A few days after he returned to Memphis he received
a telegram that Captain Morgan had been pardoned.

A malarial fever was brought on by the trip to
Arkansas, which so prostrated him that his physi-
cians advised travel for a year or more.

Mr. Russell had acquired a reputation and prac-
tice that was among the most promising in West
Tennessee, and did not give up his practice in that
State until a change of climate was necessary for the
restoration of his health. After spending some
months in the Eastern and Southern cities, he
selected St. Louis as the most congenial to health

and tastes and settled permanently in that city, at”

the suggestion and writt.en request of the late Uriel
Wright. In the fall of 1868, soon after his arrival
in St. Louis, Mr. Wright associated him with himself
and R. S. MacDonald, Esq}, in the case of l)r.
Headington, charged with murder. This was Mr.
His appeal to the
jury and the picture drawn of the Doctor in his boy-
hood days in Kentucky, was so pathetic that it
moved the court, jury, Mr. MacDonald and even
the prisoner to tears. His speech was published in
full in the “ $7725 four/ml,” from which we clip the
following passage 2

“Dr. W. P. C. Headington was born of high.
and respectable parentage, on the banks of the Ohio
in the good old State of Kentuck, in 1832. He is
now, as you see, in the prime and vigor of man-
hood, the most enviable era of man’s existence.
His boyhood, however, was not one of sunshine and
happiness. He was not reared in the lap of luxury,
indolence and ease. His was, indeed, a noble birth-
right, he was left to carve out and mark his destiny

in the rugged paths of life.” The prisoner was
acquitted of murder and found guilty of manslaugh-
ter in the fourth degree. Mr. Russell was congrat-
ulated bythe court and lawyers on his able effort.

A few weeks after, the city was startled one
morning with the news that a fearful murder had
been committed on Chouteau Avenue. The perpe-
trator of the deed was arrested on the western bound
train of the Pacific, a hundred miles away, and
brought back to the city. When arraigned in court,
it was apparent he was a mere boy. He could not
speak a word of English, and was without money or
friends. The humane provisions of the law provided
that under such cases the judge should assign coun-
sel. judge Prim appointed Mr. Russell as his
counsel, and sent word by the marshal to know if he
would accept. Mr. Russell regarded the action of
the judge as a compliment, and felt in honor bound
to respect the confidence of the court. He at once,
with an interpreter, interviewed his client and
learned the story of his life. He undertook the
defense upon the theory of insanity, arising from
epilepsy, produced by a fall when a school-boy. For
four years and a half the case was pending in the
courts of St. Louis, there were three jury trials,
twice the case was taken to the Supreme Court of
the State, and as a final resort to the Supreme Court

= of the United States, upon the constitutional ques-

tion of the celebrated “test oath as applicable to
jurors.” Judge Bradley delivered the opinion of the
court and evaded the constitutional question upon
theory that the juror had expressed disloyal senti-
ments in his reasons for not taking the oath, and for
that cause he was disqualified. I

This is the first and only case in the history’ of
American jurisprudence where a murder case has
gone from the courts of M52’ prz'sz's of a State, to the
Supreme Court of the United States 3 and the first
instance in the history of the country where a foreign
subject has received the full protection of the law
from the lowest to the highest court in the land.

The case excited considerable comment in Wash-
ington, because of the novel and important features,
and afforded an opportunity for Mr. Russell to be
enrolled as one of the youngest lawyers ever
admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States. His effort before that great
tribunal (Chief Justice Chase presiding) was spoken
of by the Washington papers “as an able and
eloquent argument.” He was congratulated by
Attorney-General Bristow, and was afterward com-

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plimented by Justice Clifford and Briton A. Hill,
Esq., of St. Louis. Klingler was commuted by
Governor Brown to ten years in the penitentiary ;
upon Mr. Russell’s return from Washington he found
the Governor’s commutation with his mail matter.
He was thus afforded a technical advantage in the
case, which might have resulted in the prisoner’s
liberation 3 but his sense of honor to the state and
community, induced him to plead the commutation.
Russell fought the case from first to last without a
fee, he having been assigned, and the law making
no provisions for the payment of counsel in such

cases. (The case will be published in book form).

The case of the United States against the steam-
boat, Bright Star, in the United States District and
Circuit Courts, in which General John W. Noble
appeared for the Government, and Mr. Russell for
the defendant, was one of great importance to the
internal commerce of the State, as the question of
the right of Congress to regulate the internal com-
merce of a State was involved, and to a great extent
determined.
ernment, from the District to the Circuit Court, and
in both courts decided in Mr. Russell’s favor, upon
constitutional grounds.

The celebrated case of Dr. Fisher before the
late Judge Knight, created considerable comment,
and the humorous argument of Mr. Russell was
printed, at the request of the members of the bar,
and read with much interest by members of the pro-
fession in this and other States.

The Shyster libel case against the [€e,z>u&Zz'ca7z,
in which Mr. Russell appeared as the senior counsel
for that well known paper, afforded an opportunity
for his ability as an advocate before a jury. His
arguments were listened to by a crowded court
room, in which there were many lawyers and one
well known minister of the city. It was published
in full in the Refiuélzkan.

Mr. Russell, since the Klinger case, has directed
his attention more especially to the civil practice,
and has been engaged in cases in Illinois, before the
Supreme Court at Springfield, Circuit courts at
Alton, Edwardsville and Belleville. In the c_ase of
Joseph Voltz versus the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road, now pending before the Supreme Court at Mt.
Vernon, was a good illustration of the power of an
advocate before a jury, as in the last trial the jury
found a verdict of $7,750. .

The celebrated case of Madam Newman, in the
Circuit Court of Warren county, against a church

The case was appealed by the Gov- '

-committee, was one of peculiar interest ; and so

great was the feeling in the matter, that a change of
venue was taken to the'Circuit Court of St. Charles
county. There, upon the trial, ex-United States
District Attorney Dyer was pitted against Mr. Rus-
sell’, and, notwithstanding there were twelve defend-
ants, all of whom testified against the plaintiff, Mr.
Russell obtained a verdict from the jury for his
client.

The laws and canons of the Catholic Church
were more or less discussed during the trial, and nice
questions raised as to the power of the priest to bind
the congregation in a contract with a teacher. Mr.
Russell’s familiarity with church law, enabled him to
meet every point in argument.

In the case of St. James Church against Rev.
Dr. Eglington Barr, the trial of which lasted over
twenty-one consecutive days, Mr. Russell displayed
great familiarity with the laws and canons of the
Episcopal Church, and so faithfully conducted the
case that he was enabled to save his client from the
degredation of an alleged heinous offense. His final
appeal to the court, composed of some of the most
learned men in the Diocese of Missouri, is said to
have been very able, eloquent and pathetic. The
accused and members of the court being frequently
moved to tears. ‘Mr. Russell, it is said, is one of
ablest jury advocates and orators at the bar of St.
Louis. His eulogies on Miss Barkaloo, the prom-
ising young lady who came to Missouri from New
York to study and be admitted into the profession,
and died of over-mental exertion, also on Jabez L.
North, Esq., James I. Maury, and the late James
K. Knight, of the Circuit Court, were all published
in full and are said to have been among the most
eloquent ever delivered at the bar of the State. As
a speaker Mr. Russell is ready, fluent and eloquent;

and the numerous invitations he receives from socie-

ties and organizations enables him to speak on almost
every popular subject of public interest. He is
known to-day throughout the West as one of the
most eloquent extemporaneous speakers.

In 1871 he visited Europe and traveled through
Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Germany and
Belgium; his observations were especially upon the
national characteristics of those countries from which
America receives her greatest immigration. He vis-
ited all places of interest, from Blarney Castle, near
Cork, to Baden Baden on the Rhine. He wrote
descriptive and narrative letters for several papers,
which were read with great interest. His description

112

of a sunset scene at the old Castle near Baden Baden ,
affords a slight touch of his imaginative powers: “I
stood upon the moss covered walls -of the old Castle
at Baden Baden, which from its lofty seat overlooks
the Black Forest, the Valley of the Oss, and the
beautiful Rhine, listening to the sweet dulcet tones
of an /Eolian harp, which hung in one of the ivy
covered windows, and now and then seemed to play
a melancholy cadence to the memories of the past,
while the soft summer breeze whispered throughthe
branches. of the tall, stately pines, and the golden
sunbeams lingered upon the vine clad hills as if loath
to part with the grandeur of the,scene.”

Mr. Russell is a great admirer of nature and fond
of travel and recreation. His letters from different
sections of the country, when traveling, are very
interesting, and his essays before the Historical
Society are often humorous and spicy. He is an
active member of the Historical Society, Academy
of Science, the American Association for the
advancement of Science, the Mercantile Library
Association, Law Library and Bar. Association, and
two or three secret and charitable societies. As an
Odd Fellow, from the time of his initiation in Mem-

-phis, Tennessee, in 1866, he has been one of its

most brilliant speakers, and has been honored with
the office of Past Grand Marshal of Missouri, and has
been invited to speak in many of the States. We
observe from the S2‘. C/zarles Cosmos, that when
he spoke at that place, a short time since, with the
Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, his effort was

so enthusing and eloquent that upon his concluding,

Mr. Colfax arose and proposed three cheers for the
bachelor speaker for his eloquent advocacy of
woman’s influence. An Ex-Vice President of the
United States and Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives for ten years, proposing three cheers for
an effort, was quite a compliment. Mr. Russell’s

‘effort so pleased his hearers, that the farmers present

invited him to deliver an address under the auspices
of the Grange. We have read a copy of the
address in full in the S2‘. C/zczrles Cosmos, and
quote the following as an illustration of his views
upon farming: “The farmer’s home should be
the abode of peace, contentment and joy; the
golden rays of the bright morning sun, as they kiss
the sparkling dew drops hanging like diamonds
from the flowers in your gardens and wide spread-
ing yards, from the blushing clover in your fragrant
meadows, from the waving tassels of the ripening
corn‘ fields on your broad prairies, should inspire

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you with the sweet praise of that familiar song,—
‘ Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.’

God speed the day when every home may be
cultured, refined and happy, and that every neigh-
borhood may become industrious, educated and
prosperous. In the language of the poet,-

‘ Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,

When wealth accumulates and men decay;

Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ;

A breath can make them, as a breath has made,

But a bold peasantry, their country ’s pride,

When once destroyed, can never be supplied.’ ”

In politics Mr. Russell is a Democrat, and has
stumped for his friends in several of the national
campaigns in this State and Illinois. Last year in
Illinois, Michigan, Vermont and Missouri. His
speeches in Vermont caused considerable comment.
on the occasion of the public meeting at Benning-
ton, the "Republicans tried to break up the assembly.
This did not disturb the equilibrium of the speaker,
who finished his logical and able effort amid great
enthusiasm and applause, as appeared from the
reports in the M20 I/or/e Sun.

In making up the State ticket in Missouri, Mr.
Russell was urged to accept the nomination upon

’ the Democratic ticket as Representative from the

Second District, the Sixth Ward of the city of St.
Louis, to the Legislature. He had never sought
public office, and believed in the old doctrine of the
office seeking the man. The session of the Legisla-
ture was considered an important one, as it was the
first under the new Constitution.
with some of his friends, Hon.- James O. Broadhead
and Samuel T. Glover, he accepted the nomination,
believing it would be an honor to serve his country
from the same ward and district the brave, gallant
soldier and statesman, Frank P. Blair, had previously
honored. Mr. Russell did not canvass his district,
but engaged in the canvass in Illinois, where his
services were needed. He was honored by receiv-
ing the largest popular vote upon the ~Democratic
ticket in his district, some 2,000 majority. After
the election his friends urged him to run for the
Speakership of the House, and at the organization
of that body was nominated and was one of the
most formidable candidates in the field.
first appearance in politics as a candidate 3 he would
not form any combinations nor make any promises;
but stood squarely in the race upon merit. The
election of the presiding officer was given to one of
the candidates from the country districts; the mem-

After consultation‘

It was his ~

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bers sometimes favoring sections instead of the best
men. In the forming of the committees the Speaker
recognized the ability and fitness of Mr. Russell for
the chairmanship of one of the most important coin-
mittees, and assigned him to the honorable position
of chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations;
the committee presided over by such men as Blair,
Henderson -and Reynolds ; he was also appointed on
the-committee of Education and Criminal Jurispru-
dence. His reports as Chairman of Committee on
Federal Relations were all published in the St. Louis
papers, and were considered as very able and dis-
creet. He favored all public enterprises and urged
them with earnestness and ability; as the following
report upon the question of the improvement of the
Mississippi will illustrate’:

“Mr. Speaker, your Committee on Federal Rela-
tions to whom was referred House concurrent reso-
lution No. 17, memorializing Congress to make
appropriations for the- improvement of the channel
of the Mississippi river, beg leave to report that they
have considered the same, and recommend that it
do pass. The Committee desire _to call the attention
of the House to the importance of the project
referred to in this resolution. The necessity of
having a deep water channel, connecting the waters
of the Mississippi with those of the Gulf of Mexico,
and the establishment of the permanent water course
from St. Paul to New Orleans, have long been felt
by the people of the West. The success of the
Eads’ jetty system has demonstrated the possibility
of rendering the Mississippi navigable for boats of
the largest class, during nine months of the year;
and placing the waters of the great stream at the
disposal of the farmers and merchants of the West
and Northwest; and your Committee urge upon
Congress the necessity of giving this matter their
earnest consideration; that the farming interests of
this section of the country may receive a new impe-
tus by the consummation of this great enterprise."
When we consider that this would eventually lead to
direct communication with Brazil, and in fact all
the countries of the civilized world ; giving us, as it
were, a common avenue of, transportation through
which we might conduct a constant interchange of
commercial traffic; we can see at a glance howit
would be likely to affect the merchants, grain pro-
ducers and people generally of the Mississippi
Valley. The rich and inexhaustible products of the
Mississippi Valley can always find a ready sale in
the markets of other countries, and your Committee
renew the hope that Congress will take such steps as
will insure the early commencement of this project.”

Upon the question of the construction of the
Southern Trans—Continental Railroad, Mr. Russell
submitted the following report upon the resolutions,

which were adopted :
15

]oINT RESOLUTIONS of the Senate and House of
Representatives of the 29th General Assembly
of the State of Missouri, relating to the con-
struction and completion of the Southern Trans-
Continental Railway on the line of the 32d
and 3 5th parallel of latitude.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State
of Missouri: ,

Ist. That the speedy construction of a trans-
continental railway on the line of the 32d or 3 5th
parallel of latitude, from the Mississippi Valley to
the Pacific Ocean, is a national work, demanded

alike as a measure of sound statesmanship, of prac- -

tical economy and as a commercial necessity.

2nd. That the State of Missouri, owing to her
close commercial relations with the people of the
South and Southwest, upon whom she depends in a
large measure for a market for the product of her
industry, is peculiarly interested in the opening up
and completion of this great highway of commerce,
which must contribute so largely to the ,rapid devel-
opment of the agricultural and mineral resources of
that vast territory.

3rd. That in our opinion the construction of this
road will provide employment for thousands of unem-
ployed laborers; will develop the agricultural and
mineral wealth of the richest portion of the conti-
nent; will give renewed energy to our manufactories ;
will build up the cities of the South and Southwest,
and by adding millions to the resources of the coun-
try, will tend in a great measure to relieve the busi-
ness necessities and wants of the whole country.

4th. That, as a work of military necessity, as
a cheap means of national defense, and as an act
of justice to the people of the Southern and South-
western States, it is the duty of the General Govern-
ment to give such aid and assistance to this work as
will insure its speedy completion.

5th. That the bill now before Congress, propos-
ing that the United States shall guarantee six per
cent. interest upon the construction bonds for a cer-
tain portion of the route of said road, is so guarded
in its_ provisions as to entirely secure the government
against any possible liability therefor, and will, in
our opinion, if adopted, secure the speedy comple-

tion of that great work, and meets with our cordial '

approval.

6th. That our senators are hereby instructed,
and our representatives requested, to use their best
exertions to secure the passage of said bill.

7th. That the Secretary of State is hereby
directed to forward immediately, under the seal of
the State, to each Senator and Representative from
the State of Missouri in Congress assembled, certi-
fied copies of these resolutions.

MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee on Federal Rela-
tions, to whom was referred House ]oint Resolutions
No. II, beg leave to report that they have carefully
considered the same, and most respectfully recom-
mend the adoption of the resolutions by the unani-
mous voice of this body, for the reasons that we are

114 THE U./VZTELD STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

of the opinion that the speedy construction and
completion of a Southern trans-continental railway
from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean will
be a blessing, not only to the immediate sections,
but to the nation at large, and to the civilized world.

That in the completion of this route the traveling

community and the commercial interests of the West,
South and East will be relieved of monopoly features,
and the drifting snows of the cold, mountainous
regions of the Northwest. That for many years
the people of the South and -Southwest have felt
the necessity _of an open route to the golden shores
of the Pacific. Thata vast area of territory along
the line of the 32d and 35th parallels of latitude,
of wonderful resources, rich fertility and beautiful
scenery, of grand and magnificent landscapes, where
civilization may find a home, and art and science a
temple unsurpassed by any quarter of the globe, is
now occupied and peopled only by the rude, untu-
tored children of the forest and the plain. That, as
a highway of progress and civilization, of commerce
and of industry, it will develop into one of the
grandest enterprises of ’ the age. That .it will aid in
the speedy development of many millions of acres
of good farming lands in Texas, the Indian Terri-
tory, New Mexico and Arizona, and in the opening
up and working of the rich gold, silver andcopper
mines of New Mexico, Arizona and the northern
States of old Mexico. That it will bring into those
regions a multitude of industrious emigrants from
the older States and from Europe, who will build up
the towns, will transform a wild waste into product-
ive farms and neat country homes. That it will
save to the Government of the United States, and
the people of every section, many millions of dollars
in the transporting of the mails, of military and
Indian supplies, and the products of the country to
and from China and Japan. That it will bring the
industries and enterprise of the United States into
close relations with the northern States of Mexico,
and introduce among her ten millions of people the
progressive elements of civilization. That it will
secure a highway from the Mississippi to the Pacific
Ocean on the shortest, best and most economical
route, free from the obstructions of high mountains,
deep snows and annual floods, which now beset the
northern route. That it will afford to the people
of Missouri, the fifth State in the Union, and the
citizens of St. Louis, the great inland city of the
continent, and the third in point of population in
the United States, a medium for the interchange of
commerce and the genial hospitalities of her people
with those of the South and Southwest and the noble
hearted people of California. That it will bring
increased revenues to the government by substituting
industrious and productive communities in place of
savage hordes, now a source of enormous expense
and perpetual annoyance. That it will resurrect
and rehabitate the South, by pouring through her
fertile, but distracted regions, a perpetual tide of the
world’s commerce, vitalizing her railroad system,
reviving her paralyzed industries, and strengthening

that bond of fraternal feeling which has characterized
the sections in- the former and better days of the
Republic. That the one million of square miles
heretofore practically ignored in the legislation of
Congress‘, will become populous, wealthy, prosperous
and productive. That the people of the North and
Northwest have, for the past fifteen years, enjoyed
the advantages of the Union and Central Pacific
roads, to the great disadvantage of the South and
Southwest. We concede to them an advanced spirit
of enterprise, and ask and demand from the general
legislation of the country a recognition of the rights
and necessities of ‘the people of the_,South and South-
west,_ in the forwarding and completion of this great
national enterprise. That as Missouri has advanced
the interests of the world’s commerce by the great
skill and energy of one of her gifted sons, Captain
James B. Eads, in the opening of the mouth of the

Mississippi, by the jetty system, so that the majestic ,

steamers from all quarters of the globe may safely
enter our interior regions, shewclaims the right of
appealing to the members of the Forty-fourth Con-
gress to forward by wise legislation the speedy con-
struction of the Southern Trans-Continental Railway,
and we believe that by so doing they will advance
the interests of civilization, and greatly add to the
wealth and glory of the whole country.
W. H. H. RUSSELL,

Chairman of Committee on Federal Relations.

As a debater Mr. Russell was considered one of P

the best in the House, and was called the “Cicero”
of that body. The Jefferson City T riézme, in com-
menting on his speech upon the University bill, says :'
“Hon. James S. Rollins sat by Mr. Russell when
the latter delivered his speech on yesterday, and
it is said that many thought they were listening to
the famous orator of Boone, as Russell’s eloquence
burst upon them.” During the session of the Legis-
lature, Mr. Russell was invited by the ladies of the
M E. Church to deliver a lecture for the benefit of-
that organization, which he did upon the subject,
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ;
they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say
unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.” The papers, in speaking
of it the next day, said that “it was one of the most
chaste, elegant and eloquent lectures ever listened
to.” Mr. Russell had the honor of representing the
Governor in the debates upon the floor of the House,
and was one of the. managers at the receptions.
After the Legislature had adjourned, and the mem
bers had returned to their homes, the Jefferson City
T ribzmr, in the issue of May 9, 1877, had this neat
editorial:

“The citizens of Jefferson City will always

remember the Hon. W. H. H. Russell, of St. Louis,

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with kindness, for the interest he manifested during
the recent session of the Legislature in their local
interests, and the ability with which he advocated
them on all proper occasions. Mr. Russell was one
of the most accomplished orators belonging to the
Twenty-ninth General Assembly, and by his energy
and industry kept himself well posted on all matters
that came before the House, and was. as hard work-
ing a member as belonged to that body. He is one
of the rising young men of the State, and a proper
application of his natural gifts will give him rank
before a great while among the firststatesmen of the
West.” '
He is a great student and has one of the best
selected libraries in the State, possessing some
twenty-five scrap-books of his own selection and
work. He is awake to all enterprises that go to
build up a State; was appointed by Governor Hardin

a delegate- to the Southern Immigration Convention

that met in New Orleans 3 in 1876 was appointed a’

Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition, and at the
earnest request of the executive committee of the
Merchants’ Exchange, went as a delegate to the
River Convention that met at St. Paul in October
last, where he prominently figured as one of the
ableist debaters, as is evidenced by the following
from the [V620 Orleans Democrat :

“A young man of remarkable powers and elo-
quent diction, informed on the case in hand, under-
took the defense of the resolution with as much
enthusiasm as if he himself was a son of Louisiana.
Mr. Russell was the braver in taking thisgenerous
position, inthat it was antagonistic to his whole
delegation, and eloquently and nobly did he main-
tain it. But in the far-West, and fighting against
such odds as were arrayed against us, it caused our
hearts to beat with high impulse to see such a brave
champion showing his fearless brow and wielding his
eloquent tongue in behalf of his hitherto unknown
friends of the South.”

Mr. Russell’s familiarity with medical jurispru-

dence and the various phases of insanity, from his

115

careful study and research in the Klingler case,
induced the Faculty of the Missouri Medical College
—the oldest medical college west of the Mississippi
river, located on Twenty-third and Locust streets,
in the city of St. Louis—to select him as one of their
professors, which position he accepted and has
lectured to the large class of two hundred and. fifty

students at that institution, once a week every Thurs- '

day evening of this term of 1877-8. His lectures
were upon medical jurisprudence and forensic inedi-
cine. The class were so pleased with his efforts. that
they unanimously voted to publish his opening
lecture which appeared in full . in the Eepuélzkan.
That he was popular with the class, was evidenced
by the fact that on New Year’s Eve the class with
Herwig’s Band gave him a serenade at the Lindell
Hotel."

In the late remarkable case in the probate court
of St. Louis,‘ when proceedings were instituted to
get Shennit declared insane, Mr. Russell. displayed
to great advantage his familiarity with the subject of
insanity in all its branches and phases, and handled
the case with such marked ability that the prosecu-
tion was dismissed, and Dr. Budnay, the medical
expert, and the press complimented him in the high-
est terms, Budnay testifying upon the witness stand
that Russell knew as much about the subject of
insanity as any man in the State of Missouri. We
read with pleasure his Lecture upon the Drama as it
appeared in the Repub/z'az7z of April 6, I878. .

From the articles that now and then appear in
print from his pen, we infer that he is a constant
reader and well up with the literature of the day,
and as that master mind of American literature—
Ralph Waldo 'Emer'son—used to say in his lecture to
young men, “Young man, hitch your wagon to -a
star,” we may safely predict for Mr. Russell a bright
future.

JOHN R. CHRISTIAN.

HUNTSVILLE.

OHN R. CHRISTIAN was born june 23, r844,
in Randolph county, Missouri. His father,
Napoleon B. Christian, was a native of Scott

county, Kentucky. In 1830 he came to Missouri
and settled upon a farm in Randolph county, where

hespent the remainder of his days, dying in 1868.
His mother’s maiden name was Martha Swetnam.
She was a native of Scott county, Kentucky, and
daughter of George Swetnam, an extensive farmer
of Scott county. I I

116 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

The subject of this memoir was born and raised
on the old family farm in Randolph county. He
was educated at Mt. Pleasant College, graduating in
1862. In the same year he began the study of law,
and in November, 1863, was admitted to the bar.
He at once began the practice of his profession, at
Huntsville, where he has since resided.

John R. Christian holds a prominent place among
the attorneys of the State, and has been chosen by
the people of his county and city to hold many offices
of trust. A He was County Attorney of Randolph
county, during 186 5-6-7, and in 1866 was appointed
City Attorney of Huntsville, and re-appointed in

1876-7. In 1868 he was a member of the State
Convention. S

In politics he is a firm, consistent Democrat. In
1868 he founded and edited, in partnership with J.
S. Hunter, the £Im2z‘sw'Z/e I17ém/a’, and continued
its editorial management for two years, but sincehas
devoted his entire time and energies to his profession,
by which he has accumulated considerable of this
world’s goods. He has never sought or held a
political office. I

He was married, October 29, 1865, to Miss
Eliza P. Maughas, daughter of the late Dr. M. M.
Maughas, of Calloway county, Missouri.

COLONEL A. W. SLAYBACKI‘/{J .

ST. LOUIS.

LONZO W. SLAYBACK was born July 4, j tioniwas completed. She literally gave up her life

A 1838, at Plum Grove, Marion county, Mis-
souri. His maternal grand—parents were Jeremiah
A. Minter and Sallie Minter, (née McDowell) of
Kentucky. On his mother’s side he descends from
Revolutionary stock, Sallie McDowell’s father being
the son of Colonel Joseph McDowell, an American
officer in that war. His paternal great-grandfather,
Solomon Slayback, was a soldier under Washington;
one of the Jersey recruits. Solomon Slayback’s son
was Dr. Abel Slayback, of Cincinnati, and his son,
Alexander Lambdin Slayback, was the father of the
subject of our sketch. So that on both sides his

ancestry helped to achieve the liberties of their

country.

His father, who was a lawyer, died at the early
age of thirty years, at Lexington, Missouri, in
1848,. leaving four children, of whom Alonzo was
the eldest. Two other brothers survive, Charles
Edwin and Preston T. Slayback, who are now suc-
cessful merchants in St. Louis, and a sister, now
Mrs. Minnie,'wife of Dr. Y. H. Bond, of the same
city, a lady respected and loved by all who revere
true womanhood.

The estate, which was thought to be considerable,
was found to be, contrary to expectation, valueless.

A small debt, the mother, by her own exertions and '

economy, liquidated, besides supporting her family
and keeping her children at school until their educa-

Joseph, Missouri.

for their maintenance and proper rearing. Her
patient, sincere, and faithful trust in the God of the
widow and the fatherless was her stay, and He never
deserted her. In the sacred dust of her husband’s
grave, she had buried every other love, and beyond
the meeting him “ on the other shore,” had no other
desire; every dream of joy was chased away, and
every fear dispelled, by that one hope of a re—united
family. To educate her children, and to make them
good and great, was the sole aim of her existence.
Alonzo, being her eldest, soon became her chief
helper, and to a great degree, her adviser.

He entered the preparatory department of the
Masonic College, at Lexington, Missouri (then the
most thorough institution of learning in the State), in
1849, being already well advanced, for his years, by
home instruction. He entered the Freshman class
in 1852, and graduated in 1856 with the highest
honors of his class. He afterwards taught school
(andjstudied law during his leisure hours) at St.
There he enjoyed the friendship
of Rev. A. V. C. Schenck and General Bela M.
Hughes, two men of widely different characteristics,
but equally marked in their extraordinary talents,
who had much to do in shaping the moral and men"-
tal nature of the boy.

In 1857 Mr. Slayback was admitted to the prac-
tice of the law, at St. Joseph, by Judge Norton, then

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THE U./VITED STATES BIOCGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 117

of that Circuit Court, but now of the Supreme
bench. By faithfully advocating his client’s interests,
by severe study and close attention to his office
duties, he soon made a professional’ reputation very
flattering to a young lawyer. His first law partner
was Joseph P. Grubbs, now judge of the Circuit
Court, Buchanan county circuit. He afterwards
formed a law partnership with Mr. Samuel Ensworth,
but it was of brief duration, the war breaking out
and disturbing the regular channels of business.

In 1861 Mr. Slayback enlisted in the Confederate
service under General Price, in the Missouri State
Guard. Immediately after the battle of Lexington,
in September, 1861, he was elected Colonel of a
cavalry regiment, and served during the term of
enlistment. He then reenlisted as a private in the
regular Confederate volunteers, “for three years or
Soon afterward General Martin
E. Green appointed him on his staff with the rank
of Captain of Ordnance. After the skirmish at
Farmington, he was recommended for promotion,
and for duty in the line. General Price ordered him
to proceed west of the Mississippi with Colonel
Waldo P. Johnson and other officers, to prepare for
the coming of General Price himself into the trans-
Mississippi country. Reporting to General Hind-
man, he was sent to the cavalry front under General
john S. Marmaduke, with whom he remained about
a year after the Confederate forces were driven into
Arkansas, and participated with him in many battles
and skirmishes. In the spring of 1864, General

E. Kirby Smith sent him asbearer of special dis- I

patches to Richmond. From the records and testimo-

nials, Mr. Seddon (Confederate Secretary of War),

ordered General Smith to assign Captain Slayback
to duty in the line. By order of General Smith, he
recruited a regiment in Southeast Missouri, of which
he was elected Colonel. This regiment was attached
to Shelby’s old brigade and so remained to the close
of the war. _

On the surrender of General Lee to the United
States forces, forty-eight of this regiment, mostly
officers, organized a company and went with General
Shelby to Mexico.
by them as their Captain. They reached Monterey
together, but were disbanded at that city through
the influence of the general commanding that de-
partment, who was jealous of all American military
organizations, especially Shelby’s men. Colonel
Slayback went to the city of Mexico, shortly’ after-
Wards, and for several months he was the guest of

Colonel Slayback was elected‘

El Sefior General Don Tomas O’Horan, Prefect of
Tlalpam, at his headquarters, where Colonel Slay-
back spent the time studying the Spanish language
and making himself acquainted with Mexican 1nili-
tary tactics. ,

A devoted parent longed to behold the absent
son, and Colonel Slayback’s mother proceeded as
far as Havana after him, and with all a mother’s
love had "determined to not return without her boy.
Sea—sickness prevented her going farther 3 but send-
ing means and message, dispatched for him to join
her. Leaving Mexican friends and American com-
rades, he arrived at Havana just in time to prevent
his anxious mother from risking the tempestuous
voyage to go after him. She wanted her son. Five
years of battle, and danger, and sickness, and exile,
was enough. With her nature stirred for her child,
with a home still left to which she could retire with
him, no wonder the noble woman was willing to
make still more sacrifices of comfort, and dare” even
death itself to recall. her boy. No less wonder that the
boy, with such proof of maternal love, was willing to
lay aside every prejudice, everything, to reward her.

Returning to the United States in August, 1866,
he settled in St. Louis in the practice of the law.
Shortly afterward he formed a copartnership with
Mr. R. H. Spencer, which expiring in 1870, Mr.
H. A. Haeussler became his law partner. This:'part-
nership continued until December, 1876, when Mr.
Slayback resumed practice by himself, enjoying the
rare good 'fortune of preserving the friendship of all
his former partners.

During his twelve years at the St. Louis bar, Mr.
Slayback’s practice has been chiefly in the civil
courts, and has become very extensive. Zeal and
industry have made his efforts so successful that,
to-day, he stands in the foremost ranks of the pro-
fession. He is very rarely defeated in a jury trial,
while his elaborate briefs before the appellate courts,
evince much patient research and thorough acquain-
tance with his cases. He is what may be called a
growing man, adding day by day to his store of
knowledge, and improving in the method and
arrangement of his work as time and experience
discover his errors. As an orator before a jury, he
stands in the front ranks, and the years ahead have
already the first fruits of an honorable harvest, if
his life is spared.

A contemporary says: “The style of his elo-
quence is peculiar and strikingly characteristic; with
earnest force and persuasion he speaks to the heart

118 , TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

and feelings, as well as to the sober reason of his
hearers. When kindling with his subject he becomes
animated and rapid, his illustrations are most felici-
tous, and his logic thus embellished rarely fails to
please and convince. By intense application to his
studies in his profession, and a varied, miscellaneous
reading, he has not lost his fondness for the classics,
but evinces in his daily work the advantage which is
ever to be derived from the discipline which their
study gives.” - .

In politics Colonel Slayback has ever been a
Democrat, having cast his first vote for Stephen A.
Douglass, his next for Greeley, and last for Tilden.
He was a delegate to the Democratic Presidential
Convention of 1876, from the Second Congressional
District of Missouri. In the same year he was the
Democratic nominee of that‘District for Congress;
but owing to an unhappy division in his party, was
defeated, and a Republican elected over the Demo-
cratic candidates. His party still look forward to
usefulness to his state and nation,_and although some
of his political acts were for a while severely criti-

cised by his party associates, time has already vindi-
cated him, and shown the wisdom of his course.

Colonel Slayback is now First Vice President of
the Bar Association of St. Louis; a member of the
University Club, the Merchant’s Exchange, the Law
Library Association, an honorary member of the
Knights of St. Patrick, and of the National Guards
and other St. Louis associations.

We have said that “men are only great from the
stand—point of our observation.”
orphan boy, with no fortunebut his integrity, with
no friend save his noble, self—sacrificing mother, and
the wide world before him 3 then turning to see him
the trusted counsellor, the successful lawyer, the
entertaining author, the growing statesman; to see
his party leaning on him; his state asking for him,
and the nation waiting for him; fellow citizens hon-
oring him, foes fearing and friends loving him, and
all this before he has attained his fortieth year,
is a record and a promise entitling him to mention
as a manamong men of the great State of his
nativity.

JAMES MCDONOUGH.

ST. LOUIS.

AMES MCDONOUGH was born in Baltimore,
Maryland, March 16, 1816. His father, John
McDonough, was a stock dealer in that city,

and a native of county Derry, Ireland. The mother
of the subject of this sketch, whose maiden name
was Elizabeth Barton, was a native of Hartford
county, Maryland. ‘

James McDonough was educated in the private
schools of his "native city, and completed his course
at Loyola College. He then served five years at
the carpenter’s trade in Baltimore. After complet-
ing his apprenticeship he started for the West, and
walked all the way to Wheeling—a distance of three
hundred and seventy miles. There he worked at
his trade until 1836, when he loaded a flatboat with
house-frames and took them to Grand Gulf, Missis-
sippi, where he erected them, and afterwards-spent a
short time in New Orleans. Thence he went to

Natchez and worked until 1838, saving from his
wages about $2,000 in Mississippi money, with
which he returned to Baltimore, but went back to
Natches, the following fall and remained until the

summer of .1839, when he went to Little Rock, '

Arkansas, to see the country, and thence to Mem-
phis, Tennessee. '

On the 1st of January, 1840, Mr. McDonough
came to St. Louis, where his first occupation was as
carpenter on the Planters’ Hotel, then building. At

‘that time there was a precipitous bluff directly in

front of the Planters’ House, and most of the city was
then between it and the river. Second and Third
streets being the localities of residences 3 there were
scarcely any houses west of it. He was afterwards
employed by Gaty, McCune & Glasby, to build an
addition to the foundry. He continued to Work as
a master carpenter until 1843, when Mayor John M.

Looking at the '

T/{E U./VZTED STATES Z>’IOG1€AP[1UCAL DICTZOI/VARY. 119

Wimer appointed him Chief of Police, which office
he filled four years at a salary of $600 per annum.
In 1846 he was elected constable of" St. Louis, and
in connection therewith he opened a detective office.
Most of the business of a,criminal nature from the
merchants and bankers of the city and elsewhere
was confided to him. In 1850, he was, by appoint-
ment of President Fillmore, United States Western
Postoffice Detective between St. Louis and Chicago,
and in the adjoining States, which office he held
four years. Afterwards he was appointed Notary
Public for the Bank of the State of Missouri—then
the only bank in the city—which trust he served two
years. In 185 5 he was appointed by the county
court Treasurer of St. Louis county for one year.
By the same body he was appointed Collector
of the State and County Revenue for the years

1857-8-9.

One of the most perfect systems of police in_

America is the Metropolitan of St. Louis. Previous
to 1861 the police force ofthe city was under the
immediate control of the municipal corporation, and
the city paid the entire expenses of the organization,
as it directed all its movements. In 1861 the Gen-
eral Assembly passed an act providing for the pres-
ent system of Metropolitan Police. It was made
perfectly independent of the municipal authorities,
and the entire force is under the guidance of a
Board of Police Commissioners appointed by the
Governor. The act was approved March 27, 1861 5
the first Board organized the roth day of the follow-
ing April, and elected James McDonough chief, he
having been waited upon by Mayor Taylor, and by
Messrs. Paschall and Knapp of the kepub/zka/2, and
solicited to accept the office.

The entire city is divided into six districts for
police purposes. Each district is under the immediate
charge of a captain, to whom the sergeants report,
who in turn receive the reports of the patrolmen.
Each captain makes his report to the chief, who is
held responsible for the entire Department by the
Board. The regulations established for the admis-
Sion of new members to the force are very strict,
and well calculated to develop the highest standard
attainable for a police force. It usually takes the
applicant a week to pass the preliminary exa1nina-
tions, which are strict and rigid, before being
assigned to the school of instructions. The men are
regularly drilled in the school of the soldier as well
as of the policeman. I

The fund'for the support of sick and disabled

 members of the force forms a peculiar feature of this

admirable organization. This fund, which is sup-
plied by a monthly tax upon the pay of each man,
is placed in the hands of officers elected by the mem-
bers of the force, whose duty it is to disburse the
same to unfortunate or disabled members. Thus
the patrolman, who in the execution of his duty is
stricken down by sickness or accident, is amply pro-
vided for, and his family taken care of during his
illness ; a most praiseworthy and admirable branch
of the Police Department. I

In the fall of 1861 he was relieved from duty on
account of politics. From then until thefall of I86 5
he spent his time mostly in his library with his books.
For years the chief had been carefully selecting and
studying such works as would be of practical ser-
vice to him, and had accumulated a very fine
collection. I

In 1865 he disposed of his property in St. Louis
and went South, with the intention of engaging in
cotton planting. At New Orleans he met with Dr.
W. D. Smith, of Point Coupee, near the mouth of
Red river, Louisiana, and engaged with him to stock
his plantation and plant cotton. He remained there
for three years, during which time he lost the bulk
of his fortune by bad seasons, poor markets, etc.
Returning to St. Louis, he opened a livery stable on
Chestnut street. But his ill-luck followed, and he
lost all in this enterprise, and had to go to work
again.

He received an appointment from the T ontine
Insurance Company of New York, which position
he held till appointed Chief of Police. On the 30th
of September, 1870, he was appointed by the Board
of Commissioners to his old position as Chief of
Police. This was an appointment, coming as it did
from the political party to which he was opposed,
highly honoring to the chief, and was offered to him

on the ground of his efficiency and eminent fitness ’

for the office. He held the position until March 9,
1874, when he resigned; But in a few months he
was sent for, and solicited to again take charge. He
consented, wasre-appointed December 1,1875, and
has been Chief of Police continuously since. No
more popular and efficient officer ever held a similar
position ; the chief has thoroughly mastered his pro-
fession,‘ he has instituted drills and discipline which
renders his force one of the most if not the most
effective in the world; his detective system is per-
fect; once" getting Chief McDonough after a rogue is
enough—he never loses his clue till in the prison cell,

120 THE UNITED STATES BIOG/BAPHZCAL DICTIO./VARY.

Chief McDonough, in his religious views, is a
Catholic. In politics, he has acted with the Demo-
cratic party since the disorganization of the Whig
party. While not violent in his opinions, he is a
bold and active party man, respecting the opinions
of other men, but firmly arguing for his own, he has
made hosts of friends in all parties by his strict

adherence to his official duties and unbiased action.
As an administrative officer in his peculiar calling he
has few equals; as a chief he is popular with his
men—quite a little army by the way, and under per-
fect discipline; all the machinery of his detective
and police offices works like a clock, not a jar of dis-
cord, nothing wrong, everything done systematically.

JAMES MCCORD.

ST. _/OSEPH.

Virginia, January 7, 1826. He was the son of

William and Sallie M. (Field) McCord, who were
natives of Albemarle county, Virginia, and moved
to Missouri with their family, then consisting of six
children, in 1836, first settling at Cape Girardeau, and
afterwards moving to Versailles, Morgan county,
Missouri, where William McCord died in 1839. His
wife died in Savannah, Missouri, in 1850. James
was sent to school until he reached the age of four-
teen. After the death of his father, he left Versailles
and obtained a position as store boy with William H.

JAMES MCCORD was born in Randolph county,

Field &' Co., of Calhoun, Henry county, Missouri. -

His finances not admitting of any other mode of
travel, he walked to Calhoun from Versailles, a dis-
tance of sixty miles.

He remained two years with William H. Field &
Co. and one with Field & Atkisson. From here
he went to Warsaw, in 1843, in the employ of James
Atkisson 82: Co. He was thus employed until 1846,
except about two months (June and July, 1844,)
which were spent visiting Northwest Missouri, in-.
cluding St. Joseph and Savannah. A

In the spring of 1846 Mr. McCord made a trip
to New Orleans in the interest of his employers, and
upon his return to Warsaw, in June of the same year,

closed" his engagement and came directly to North-—

west Missouri. He stopped in Savannah until Octo-
ber, when he moved to Oregon, Holt county, Mis-
souri, and there, in company with Abraham Nave,
opened ai'store under the firm name of Nave &
McCord. A ‘

This business continued for three years, at the

expiration’ of which time Mr. McCord withdrew and
went to New Orleans, where he spent the winter of
1849 and 1850, when he‘ crossed the plains, reaching
California about the last of July. The following
month he went to Nevada City, and opened a pro-
vision store. While here he was taken sick, and,
when partially recovered, sold out his interest and
returned to Sacramento City, where he met D. M.
Steel, who had just arrived from Missouri.
immediately formed a partnership for the purpose
of buying emigrant cattle and feeding them until fat.
They bought to the extent of their capital, which, not
being large, did not take long. Mr. McCord’s
health not improving, and the opportunities for cure
not being the best, he decided to return to Missouri,
sold his interest to Mr. Steel and returned to Savan-
nah in January, 18 51.

In February a partnership between himself and

, Abraham Nave was formed under the old firm name

of Nave & McCord, which connection has been main-
tained in some form ever since.

In January, 1852, in company with Mr. Nave,
he bought a drove of cattle for the California mar-
ket. Mr. Steel had returned from California and a
copartnership between D. M. Steel, Charles L.
Clarke, Abraham Nave and James McCord was
formed for the purpose of dealing in cattle. In this
Mr. Nave was mainly a silent partner, he being in
Savannah attending to the mercantile interests of
Nave & McCord. The cattle business, under the
firm name of Steel, McCord & Co., was continued
for nearly eight years.

In 1857, in company with Mr. Nave, Mr.

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McCord moved to St. Joseph and opened a whole-
sale and retail grocery house, D. M. Steel and
C. L. Clarke being partners, although still in Cali-
fornia. " -

In 1860 they were burned out, their stock being
a total loss, but not being discouraged by this
misfortune, they reestablished the business." The
following year they opened a house in Omaha,
under the management of Mr. Clarke, which was
carried on successfully until his death in March,
1865.

Mr. McCord is at present interested in the fol-
lowing extensive business houses : I

Nave, McCord & C0,, of St. Joseph, commenced
in 1857, also, C. D. Smith, of the same city, com-
McCord, Nave & Co.,
of Kansas City, commenced in 1867, and Nave,
Goddard & C0,, of St. Louis, organized in 1872.
The name of McCord being one connected with so
many of the first business houses, and with the com-
mercial growth of the west, a biography of him can
not but be of interest to the business men of our
country and to the general reader, although the
sketch be short and gives but a mere outline of the
progression of his business life.

In October of I854, he was married to Mary E.
Hallack, step-daughter, of Dr. Hamilton Smith and

daughter of Hampden and Susan M. (Steel) Hal-
lack, of Jessamine county, Kentucky. They have
nine children, six sons and three daughters. Mr.
McCord, although not a member of any church,
attends with his family the Presbyterian, of which
his parents were members. Since the death of the
Whig party, he has been an advocate of no particu-
lar platform, always voting for those whom his judg-
ment pointed to as the mostdeserving and the best
quahfied.

As a youth he adopted those sterling principles
of truth, diligence and persevering application which
then constituted his only capital. His success, and
the present prosperous condition of his business,
may be attributed to the following of these princi-
ples, and to the tenacity with which he holds to his
work until complete, never leaving anything half
done. Doing business more for the pleasure of
doing his work well, and in a strictly legitimate man-
ner, than for large profits, his greatestipleasure is
found in his counting room where, although a loving
and generous husband and father, most of his days
as well as evenings are spent.

Mr. James McCord is a man of rare business
qualifications, and to the coming generation and
those already embarked in business life his example
is most worthy of imitation.

JOSEPH G. LODGE.

ST. LOUIS.

N the banks of the Delaware river, fourteen E
miles below Philadelphia, and seven miles 
 whom are still living, and most of whom have been

above the city of Chester, near the historic Red
Bank, on the

ent century the Lodge family, originally of English
parentage. The family records. contain the names
Of Lodges celebrated as authors and poets in Eng-
land, and whose works now are highly valued in
some of the choicest libraries of the world. For

' two centuries this branch has been classed among

the most intelligent, influential and respected of the
NEW Jersey families. The grand-parents of the

subject of this sketch, whose names were Joseph
16

New Jersey shore, in Gloucester 
county, New Jersey, lived during the past and pres- 
l and the doors were ever open wide in hospitality to

and Anna Lodge, were natives of Gloucester county,
N. J., and there reared their children, several of

men of distinguished ability. The old homestead
was long the head-quarters for the Methodist clergy,

the brethren. Their son, James M. Lodge, father
of our subject, was born April 5, 1813, married Miss
Mary Derickson, also a descendant of an old Glou-
cester county family, and by her had four children,
two of whom died. young; Isaac D., second son,
and very promising, was killed in the terrible charge
at Fort Wagner, on the memorable 18th of July,
1863, when his regiment, the 48th New York, -was

122 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VA/CY.

so terribly slaughtered. The mother died when our
subjectwas only seventeen years of age, and the father
died in 1863, the year his son Isaac was sacrificed to
his country’s necessity. Thus was left but a single rep-
resentative of the family, in the person of joseph G.
Lodge, who was born January 27, 1840, at Billings-
port, in Gloucester county, New jersey. He was
educated mainly in Gloucester county, but spent two
years at the seminary in Chester. When nineteen
years of age he taught school for the Quakers in
Camden county, and continued it eighteen months.
In the fall of 1860 he entered the law school of the
Michigan University at Ann Arbor,‘ and in addition
availed himself of the privilege of a partial course
in the senior class of the literary department. He
graduated in the law school in 1862 with the honors
of his class, having by them been chosen orator. G

After leaving college, Mr. Lodge went to Detroit
and entered the office of Robert R. Toms, Esq., as
clerk, where he enjoyed unusual advantages. In
November, 1863, he located at Battle Creek, Cal-
houn county, Michigan, poor, friendless and un-
known to a single person in the city, and opened a
law office. He rapidly made friends, however, and
by strict attention to business, soon built up a
respectable practice.

In 1864 he was nominated by the Republicans
for the office of Circuit Court Commissioner, a very
responsible position, and was elected by a very
decided majority. In 1865 he was elected by the
Republican party, of Battle Creek, City Treasurer.
Considering the importance and responsibility of the
office, and remembering that only two years before
he entered the cityia stranger, this election was
decidedly complimentary to his integrity in the
esteem of his fellow citizens. He refused the ten-
dered nomination to the same office the following
year, and formed a law partnership with Philip
Emerson, Esq. (now United States Judge in Utah),
under the firm name of Lodge & Emerson, which
continued two years.

In the fall of'1866 he was elected Prosecuting
Attorney for Calhoun county, which position he held
four years, having been reelected thereto the second
term. In the four years he served as County Pros-
ecutor (during which time he managed some noted
and intricate cases), he had to meet some of the
ablest lawyers of Michigan and other States , yet he
never employed an assistant, and was generally very
successful in his cases. Indeed, since his removal
from that State, he has been recalled to assist in the

prosecution of intricate cases, and on every such
occasion succeeded in fastening conviction upon the
parties prosecuted. On the 1st of October, 1871,
Mr. Lodge brought his family and settled in the city
of St. Louis, where he opened an office for the
practice of law. Here again, as at Battle Creek, he
began an entire stranger, and has again succe_eded
in building up a respectable and lucrative practice.
Of his legal standing an eminent judge of St. Louis
thus speaks:

“The career of Mr. Lodge at the bar has been
remarkable. He came to St. Louis young in years,
but with considerable experience as a lawyer 3 poor in
this world’s goods, but with a mind well stored with
literary and legal knowledge, and a heart filled with a
noble ambition to achieve success in his profession.
He at once sought and obtained business in the
criminal courts, and in a few weeks secured a prac-
tice such as others were years in acquiring. From
the day of his~arrival in St. Louis he has supported
himself and an interesting family by his professional-
labors. While his business has been mostly in the
criminal courts, he has also had many important civil
cases, and in this broader field has shown himself an
able opponent of many older and more experienced
attorneys. With the profession he ranks deservedly
high. Industrious, faithful, attentive, well versed
in legal principles, and with broad and compre-
hensive views, all legal propositions are thoroughly

comprehended and used for the benefit of those

who entrust him with their business. As an advo-
cate he is ea"rnest and forcible. His analytical mind
and habits of logical reasoning make him, however,
fitter for the argument of legal propositions before
the court than for the discussion of questions of fact
before a jury; and, whenever he rises to discuss
any question of law, the courts give him an atten-
tive hearing. Mr. Lodge is always genial and pleas-
ant,_ enjoys a good story, and enters heartily into
all pleasures and amusements, he looks on the
bright side of life’s picture, and lives to be happy
himself and to make others happy also. Quick to
resent an insult and denounce a wrong, and equally
quick to atone for any wrong done by himself, he is
a good, earnest and generous man, liked by the
good, feared by the bad, and respected by all.”
When the war of the Rebellion broke out Mr.
Lodge was at the University at Ann Arbor, prose-
cuting his studies. While" his sympathies were
entirely with the Government, and his patriotism
fully aroused, still he d€€II1€d it his first duty, at his

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age, to be the completion of his studies 3 promising
himself, if ever absolutely needed, to drop every-
thing for the perpetuity of the Union. Fortunately
the sacrifice was not required of him. Although
raised by Methodist parents, Mr. Lodge has never
been a member of any church, but is a regular
attendant at a, Unitarian Church of the most
advanced views.

On the 24th of October, 1866, Joseph G. Lodge
married Miss Mary S. Sailer, daughter of Samuel
and Mary Ann Sailer, of Gloucester county, New
Jersey. She is a lady of far more than ordinary

intelligence, whose people on both the maternal and
paternal sides were remarkably intelligent. While
at school she was ever in the lead of all of her class-
mates; and even now, amid family duties, so
arranges her affairs as to devote much of her time
to literary pursuits. While of a strong mind, natur-
ally and by cultivation, there is nothing masculine
in her mental constitution , but with decided literary
tastes, she is a true woman in the home and "social
circle. They have had six children, four of whom
are still living, Lizzie D., Henry F., Rosalind and
Beatrice.

HON. JOEL F. ASPER.

CHILLICO THE.

OEL F. ASPER was born in Adams county,
Pennsylvania, April 20, 1822, and died at Chil-
licothe, Missouri, October 1, 1872. Having

completed his literary education and read law, he
was admitted to practice in 1844. In 1847 he was
elected Prosecuting Attorney for Trumbull county,
Ohio. The year previous he married Miss Elizabeth
F. Brown, a native of the same county. Mr. Asper
early began writing for the local political press. He
afterwards became editor of the Western Reserve
C/zrem-'eZe, and subsequently conducted the C/zezm’o7z
Demeemz‘.

In politics he was an ardent Whig, and was a
delegate to the Buffalo National Convention that
nominated Mr. Van Buren for the Presidency.

When the Rebellion war broke out in 1861, Mr.

Asper gallantly offered his services in behalf of the
Union, and he enlisted in the Federal service as lieu-
tenant. He was severely wounded at the battle of
Winchester, Virginia, and was honorably discharged
“ by reason of wounds received in action.”

In December, 1864, he located at Chillicothe,
Missouri, where he opened a law office. He soon
after established there a weekly Republican news-
paper called the Speetczter. He was a delegate to
the Chicago National Convention which nominated
General Grant for the Presidency. In 1868 he was
elected to Congress from the 7th District of Missouri,
and as a member of the 41st Congressserved as
Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. At
the close of the session hevreturned to Chillicothe,
where he remained until his death.

JOSEPH N. MCDOWELL, M. D.

ST. LOUIS.

S the founder of the now celebrated Missouri
Medical College, the subject of this sketch
deserves most honorable mention among the men
.who have made the Great West. It was the pioneer
institution of the kind West of the Mississippi, but
has become a first-class college, with its graduates
scattered all over the "Union, and many of them emi-
nent in the profession. With pride and pleasure
they will read this sketch of their old tutor.

’ the son of John and Lucy McDowell.

]oseph Nash McDowell was born April 1, 1805,
near Lexington, Fayette county, Kentucky, and was
The family
is an old and highly honorable one, with a consecu-
tive genealogy running back to the Cromwellian
period of English history. Ephraim McDowell was
the progenitor of the family who were afterwards
residents in Virginia and Kentucky. His father’s
family moved from Scotland to Ireland in the reign

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124 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

of the Protector. He married there and afterwards
emigrated to America, settling first in Pennsylvania,
and then finally located in Virginia, where he died at
the age of one hundred. His descendants became
leading men and women of America, one of them
was the mother of Governor Floyd, of Virginia ;
another became himself Governer of Virginia,
another married Governor Thomas, of Maryland,
otherswere in Congress and high positions through-
out the United States. The father of our subject
married Elizabeth McDowell, his cousin, who died
leaving eight children. He afterwards married Lucy
LeGrand, a native of Kentucky. ' They reared a
family of four children, of whom Joseph was the
eldest. He was educated at Transylvania Univer-
sity, Lexington, -Kentucky, where he graduated in
During
the intervals of his schooling, he worked on the
farm with his father, where he acquired those solid
habits which characterized him through life.

After graduating, Dr. McDowell began the prac-
tice of medicine in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he
remained two years and thenremoved to Cincinnati
and opened his office in that city. In 1829 he
became Adjunct Professor in the Miami Medical
College, but after his first course of lectures the
Institution suspended. Dr. McDowell then engaged
in private teaching in his own amphitheatre in that
city, which he built on his own property. Here he
continued to be employed until 183 5, when he was
elected Professor of Anatomy in the Cincinnati Med-
ical» College. He remained in that Institution until
1839, when he resigned. In the latter part of that
year, he made a lecturing tour through the Southern
States, after which he returned to Cincinnati.

In March, 1840, Dr. McDowell removed to St.
Louis, and that year conceived the plan of founding
a medical college in that city, to meet the growing
necessities of the West. He wrote to Dr. John S.
Moore—his former pupil—inviting him to remove
to St. Louis and engage with him in the undertaking.
Dr. Moore accepted the proposition, and soon was
in the field working with his old tutor. A charter
was secured, and in November, 1840, they organ-
ized the “Medical Department of Kemper College.”
Dr. McDowell was elected Professor of Anatomy
and Surgery and Dean of the Faculty. The first
session was opened November I, 1840, with a class
of thirty-seven matriculates.

Under all the disadvantages of a comparatively
new country, sparsely populated, and with but little

financial help outside of the Faculty and their
friends, Dr. McDowell persevered in his undertaking,
until he placed it on a basis ensuring success. In
I847 it was selected and made the Medical Depart-
ment of the University of Missouri. The number
of students increased yearly, and the fame of the
institution soon became national. In 1849 the trus-
tees and Faculty completed one of the finest medical
college buildings in the United States, at the corner
of Eighth and Gratiot streets. '

In 18 57 they obtained a new charter and changed.

the name to the Missouri Institute of Science, the
medical department being the Missouri Medical Col-
lege. The new charter guaranteed almost unlimited
privileges, and the institution became one of the
most prosperous and favored colleges in America.
Dr. McDowell continued to be its principal Professor
and Dean until the breaking out of the civil war in
1861, when the Faculty separated, the college closed,
and he went South to join his fortunes" with the
seceding States. The college building was seques-
trated by the United States authorities and converted
into a military prison.

Arriving in the Confederacy, Professor McDowell
was appointed Medical Director of the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department of the Confederate army.
the war he went to Europe in the medical interests
of the Confederacy, running the blockade at Mobile,
and, on his return, that at Galveston. At the con-
clusion of peace, he spent a few months in Cairo,
but returned to St. Louis in the latter part of I86 5.
He found his college building almost a heap of
ruins, its museum collections and school apparatus
destroyed, the Faculty irreclaimably scattered, and
some dead. Under. such untoward circumstances,
Professor McDowell with Professor Moore, began
with renewed energy the work of its reorganization.
In the Faculty he was Professor of Surgery, which he
continued to be until his death. All the energies of
his nature were devoted to the grand scheme of his
life, and he made it a success. It has sent hundreds
of graduates out to the world, who in turn have
become professors in it and other colleges, and so
the work of Professor McDowell continues, who,
“though dead, yet speaketh.” His memory is
revered by eminent medical gentlemen on both con-
tinents, while this great Western World will long
hold his memory in grateful remembrance.

Those who knew Dr. McDowell best, claim for
him that he was the most distinguished Professor of
Surgery in the West, and an expert in surgical diag-

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nosis. On three different occasions he performed
successfully the almost impossible operation of extur-
pation of the parotid gland, and other capital surgi-
cal operations. He was the inventor of an instru-
ment for that most difficult of surgical operations,
lithotomy, and used it successfully for years in one
hundred and three cases without a death.

While arduously engagedin his profession, Dr.
McDowell was also an enthusiastic politician, but
while never an office-seeker, was very effective in
political canvasses, and as a stump orator had few
superiors. He was originally a Whig ; when that
party died, he became a Native American, and finally
a Democrat with strong State rights proclivities.

As a citizen of St. Louis, he was deeply inter-
ested in every enterprise tending to the growth
of that city or the development of the West.
But his mind and means were concentrated on
the great work of his life—the Missouri Medical

--College—in which work he expended $250,000-

a costly but, imperishable monument. He was
a Mason, and in religion was liberal in his views,
but was raised a Presbyterian. He had traveled

"etery.

extensively in the United States and Europe.

Dr. McDowell was twice married. On the 27th
of March, 1827, he married Miss Amanda Virginia
Drake, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Drake, of
Mason county, Kentucky. Her brother, Dr. Daniel
Drake, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the author of a
celebrated work entitled “Diseases of the Missis-
sippi Valley.” (Dr. Drake was the father of Charles‘
D. Drake, author of the notorious “Drake Consti-
tution” of Missouri.) Another brother was Benja-
min Drake, a lawyer, and a poet. By his first
wife Dr. McDowell had ten children, only two of
whom are now living——Isaac Drake McDowell, M.
D., now in Arkansas, and John J. McDowell, M.
D., of St. Louis, Professor of Anatomy in the St.
Louis Medical College. His second wife was Miss
Sarah S. Mack, a native of Otsego county, New
York. She is still living.

Joseph Nash McDowell died September 18, 1868,
in St. Louis, and his dust rests in Bellefontaine Cem-
But his name and memory are almost immor-
tal in the minds and hearts of the people of that
section of the Union he did so much to build up.

JOHN J. McDOWELL, M. D.

ST. L 0 UZS.

HE name of McDowell will not be new to the
T To those
professional gentlemen, as to a Vast number who
have been benefitted by the father and the son, this
book is wholly unnecessary to record the services of
the elder or the present Dr. McDowell. Still the
work would be incomplete without reference to them.

John J.'McDowell, M. D., Professor of Anat-
omy in St. Louis Medical College, and for some
years a practicing physician in St. Louis, was born
in Lexington, Kentucky, on February 6, 1834. His
father, Joseph N. McDowell, has a faithful sketch
in another page of this work, to which we with pride
refer the reader. The mother of the subject of this

medical fraternity of St. Louis.

-sketch, was, before her marriage, Miss Amanda V.

Drake, a native of Kentucky, and the daughter of
Isaac Drake, to whom the father was married March
27; I827. She was a sister of Dr. Daniel Drake of
Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was brought by his father to St. Louis at the

early age of six years; it is unnecessary to say he
enjoyed the usual school facilities. After leaving
school, he entered the Missouri State University as
a medical student, and graduated there in the year
1856. Being directly thereafter tendered the posi-
tion of Demonstrator of Anatomy in that institution,
he accepted it for the year 1856, and faithfully per-
formed the duties connected with it for six years.

In 1864 he -was elected Demonstrator of St.
Louis Medical College, and in 1873 was made Pro-
fessorof Anatomy in the same institution, which -he
still holds.

Dr. John McDowell, while continuously a State
rights Democrat, has, with a pertinacity worthy of
emulation in the younger scions of the profession,
held .hims_elf aloof from political ambition, and has
never allowed himself to be lured from his first love.
Wedded to the profession of medicine, he has never
been lured aside by the syren song of political_pre-
ferment. What he might have become in that line

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is left to the conjecture of those who best know his
mental calibre.

In society he is ever welcome, though he has
never allied himself with any secret association nor
church. Nor has he ever entangled himself in matri-
monial alliance. VVere it not for his well-known
bethrothal to his profession, he might have had, thus
, some difficulty in escaping the snares of the
beauties with whom he, professionally and socially,

comes in daily contact. But he never lets an occa-
sion pass to state who is his mistress. Hence the
the profession of medicine feel secure in the life-long
service of this lover of the science.
the more peculiar when we record that he is physi-
cally of strong constitution, lithe figure, fond of
manly sports, such as fishing, hunting, etc., is of
lively mental temperament, pleasing in address and
not of unpleasant exterior.

WALLACE PRATT.

KANSAS CITY.

mont, October 16, 183i, the birthplace of his

father, Nathan Pratt, and his mother,Charlotte HOtCl1-

kiss Pratt. ,

His mother’s father was born in England, but at

an early age came with his parents to this country

and settled in Connecticut, Where many of the fain-
ily still reside.

His father was a direct descendant of Colonel

‘ ‘ l ALLACE PRATT was born in Georgia, Ver-

A Ralph Hoyt, an officer in the Federal Army during

the Revolution, and who, when a boy of nine years,
was captured by the Indians at the burning of Deer-
field, Connecticut, and taken to Caughnawaga, where
he was held a captive until he had reached the age
of fourteen, when he succeeded in effecting his
escape.

In 1839 Mr. Pratt removed with his parents to
Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York, a village
made historical by being for years the home of the
able and gifted statesman, Silas Wright, and where
he died and is buried.

At Canton Mr. Pratt was fitted for Union Col-
lege, from which he graduated when but little over

seventeen years of age. His college career was a

remarkable one,'for, although the youngest in acl-ass,

of one hundred and ten, he for two years maintained
a position at its head and graduated with the highest
honors. _ . ,

At the end of his collegiate course, being too
young to enter upon the study of a profession, he
was employed for about a year and a half as an
assistant in the office of the Clerk of the County of

St. Lawrence. « At the end of that time he entered
the office of Hon. Henry L.. Knowles, of Potsdam,
and applied himself to the study of the law. For
eighteen months he prosecuted his legal studies with
the energy that has ever been a distinguishing mark
of his character, but the close confinement and
severe mental labor proved too great a strain upon a
constitution, then not over strong, and it gave way.
He had frequent hemorrhages from the lungs, and it
was feared by his friends that he was about to fall a
victim to the fell destroyer, consumption.

His father, who had always been engaged in large
commercial enterprises, was at that time extensively
interested in the manufacture of pine timber on the
Racquette river, and was the owner of large forests
of pine on that river and its tributaries, in the region
that is now known as the“ Adirondacks.” ‘

Young Pratt conceived the idea that his health
could be restored by the adoption, for a time, of the
life of the hunter in the then almost unexplored
region of the head-waters of the Racquette and the
Hudson ; hence, in company with a skilled hunter
and trapper, he started for the “Wilderness,” carry-
ing a pack and a rifle and, so far as his strength
would permit, performing his share of the labors of
camp-life. After spending a month in the woods
killing deer, catching trout and sleeping upon beds
made of the healing and aromatic hemlock and bal-
sam boughs with which those woods are filled, he
found that his strength was restored and his lungs

cured.
During the next three years, and until 185 5, Mr.

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Pratt spent the larger portion of his time in the
woods accompanied by a hunter and trapper, hunt-
ing, fishing and exploring for pine timber, and to the
years passed in those vast forests, inhaling that bal-
sam laden and life-giving atmosphere, and engaged
in healthful out door exercise, he is indebted, in the
judgment of the writer, a life-long friend, to the
vigorous constitution and superb health he now
possesses and enjoys. .

In the spring of 18 56 Mr. Pratt, with health and
strength fully restored and renewed, came West,
located in Chicago, and again applied himself to the
study of his chosen profession. In 1857, having
completed his studies and been admitted to the bar,
he removed to Milwaukee. At that time the bar of
that city was second to none, and numbered among
its members some of the brightest legal minds in this
country. Mr. Pratt at once zealously entered upon
the work before him, and it was not long before his
indomitable energy and masterly ability as a lawyer
rewarded him with a large and lucrative practice,
and secured for him a conspicuous place in the front
rank of his brethren. He was engaged in behalf of
various railroad companies in some of the most
important railway litigations in the State, which he
managed skillfully and successfully.

The bleak winds and rigorous climate of the lake
shore proving too severe for his wife’s health, a
change of climate became necessary to preserve her
life from consumption, and Mr. Pratt threw up his
business in Milwaukee and began to look about for
a new field in a milder climate. After traveling all

over the Southwest, he become satisfied that the
then young and rapidly growing City of Kansas was
the place, both to restore the health of his wife and
build up a new business, accordingly, in the spring
of 1869, he removed here with his family, where he
still resides in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice,
the senior member of the firm of Pratt, Brumback
& Ferrey. -

On the 27th of November, 1855, Mr. Pratt was
married, at Canton, New York, to Adaline A. Rus-
sell, eldest daughter of Hon. John Leslie Russell,
one of the ablest lawyers of that State, a politician
of noted repute, and a warm and attached political
and personal friend of Silas Wright. Mrs. Pratt
was a woman of great personal beauty, rare social
qualities, high literary and aesthetic culture, and a
loving and devoted wife and mother. She died in
March, 1874, of consumption, a disease inherited
from her father, leaving six children, Alice M.,
Charlotte E., Adaline R., ]ohn Leslie Russell,
Wallace and Charles E.

Mr. Pratt has never engaged in, and has no taste
for, political life. He is devoted to his profession,
for which he has a rare and peculiar aptitude. He
is an accomplished lawyer, a ready, pleasing and
forcible speaker, and possesses that rare and happy
faculty of rapidly turning his mind from one subject
to another in the dispatch of business. He is the
General Attorney of the Missouri River, Port Scott
& Gulf Railway Company, the counsel of various
other railroads and corporations, and is one of the
ablest corporation lawyers in the State.

REV. EDWIN T. BROWN.

SEDALZA. E

PROMINENT among the names of those who
have done much to add to the social and finan-
cial interests of the State of Missouri, stands the
name of Edwin T. Brown, who was born in 1818 in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was the son of
Daniel and Emma Brown, nee Vaughan. His mater-
nal grandfather, Rev. Joshua Vaughan, was a pio-
neer Baptist clergyman of great eminence.

The subject of our sketch had but poor common

school advantages, but took a two years’ course at
Fayette College, in Pennsylvania, and subsequently
two years at Rector College in Virginia. He labored
assiduously in his school duties, and his health
became much impaired by his efforts. At the age of
twelve he had embracedireligion, and joined the
Church at Greensburg, Pennsylvania; from this place
he moved with his parents to Virginia, locating at
the forks of Cheet and Monongahela rivers. '

‘commanded by Colonel Kauts.

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128

When but twenty years of age, and while attend-
ing school, a license was forwarded to him to preach,

with an earnest appeal for him to use it, to which he ;

consented, feeling that the Lord would give him wis-
dom. He preached his first sermon July 4, 1841,
from thetext “ Ye cannot serve God and Mammon,”
and to illustrate the instability of earthly objects, he
referred to the death of President Harrison ; some

/rabid politicians present took offense, and lay in wait 
to kill him, but the brethren protected and encour— 
aged him, and he consented to meet and fill the 

appointments which had been made for him.
earnest and zealous was this school-boy preacher,
that the people insisted upon his leaving school to
become their permanent minister.
sented, and labored successfully in the mountains of
Pennsylvania and Virginia until May 3, 1842, when
he was ordained and installed pastor of the Baptist
Church at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. A
after his ordination he married Eliza J. Bryson, a
lady of talent and education, and a daughter of
William Bryson, a respected citizen and deacon in
the Baptist Church at Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Brown served the church at Connellsville
acceptably for two years, when he resigned to accept a
call to a wider sphere of usefulness. It was with great
reluctance that his people gave him up, and he was
warmly commended to the hearts of his new hearers.
He was successively pastor of the Baptist churches
in Mt. Vernon, Wooster and Warren, being among
the largest churches in Northeastern Ohio.

He finally con- i

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His 

churches were blest with large revivals, and many’;

were added to the Redeemer’s Kingdom. While in
charge of his church at Warren in 1863, he accepted
the position of Chaplain in the 2nd Ohio Cavalry,
This brave and
noble regiment became famous in the annals of the
war, and during all its hardships incident upon the

lives of warriors. Chaplain Brown, with becoming

spirit and Christian faith, accompanied his regiment, A

thus securing the respect and confidence of the offi-
cers-and men, and was honorably discharged April
21, 1864, and resumed his pastoral duties at Warren,
which had been kept for him during his service in
the army. While in the discharge of his duties there
he was called by the Baptist “Home Mission Soci-
” to go to Mi_ssouri. He had been in charge of
the church at Warren nine years and three months,
and during that time the membership had been
doubled and greatly strengthened, and with deep
regret they accepted his resignation, and unani-

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mously bore testimony to_ his unblemished character,
and his ability to feed the flock of Christ.

He came’ to Missouri in 1865, and bought a farm
of forty acres, paying $63 per acre, and built upon
it a frame dwelling, near the Eastern limit of the city
of Sedalia, which-was at that time but a very small
place. East Sedalia mostly lies upon his original
farm. In this city he established a Baptist Church,
and proceeded to build a house of worship. Lumber
and labor were high, which added much to the pov-
erty of the little community, but securing help from
abroad, and small subscriptions from those in Seda-
lia he succeeded in erecting a church costing, when
completed, $6,000. They were in debt for it $1,000
to the Baptist“ Home Mission Society. It is to be
doubted if any religious enterprise in Sedalia was
ever better financiered. V\7hen thus a flourishing
Baptist society was established on a solid basis, and
Mr. Brown resigned his charge, his talents and fidel-
ity were indorsed, and he was warmly commended
to the confidence of the public.

From Sedalia Mr. Brown went to Clinton, Henry
county, Missouri, which then promised tobecome a
large city. There he’ found but a few Baptists,
whose whole wealth would not exceed $1,000.
These he organized into a society, and by great
labo , faith, sacrifice and the help of the Lord, he
completed a church costing $2o,coo. He introduced
his successor to one hundred members, and a salary
of $1,500, and upon his resignation, they passed
resolutions highly complimentary to the labors he
had bestowed upon them.

, He left Clinton to accept the agency of the Bap-
tist Education Society, and in this, his services for
two years were crowned with success, through his
agency alone, fifty students for the Universty were
supported Much of his time since has been spent
in ministering to poor churches, and assisting in the
promotion of education and religion.

In I874 he built with his own means a comfort-
able church in East Sedalia, and with only eleven
members organized a society. Of this church he is
now (1877) pastor, having a membership of eighty,
and a large Sabbath school, with the prospect of
great and lasting good. He has baptized into the
Baptist Churches over one thousand six ‘hundred
persons, and with his own means built churches and
endowed schools , his works will live after him, and
his name be ‘known and honored by generations to
come.

As a business man and financier, few are his

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equals. He has ever been active and energetic in
the every interest of Sedalia, and has.himself erected
in that city thirty-six dwellings. He was elected in
I87 5 to represent the Third Ward of Sed,alia in the
Board of tAldermen, and proved a faithful offieer.
He has served well on the important Committee of

Ways and Means, and is now President of the
Board. With. abundant labors accomplished, and
many honors already won, he still looks forward to
many happy days. Few men have done more for
the good of humanity, and none are more loved or

respected than Mr. Brown.

BASIL DUKE.

ST. LOUIS.

HE subject of this sketch comes from two dis-
T tinguished families known throughout the
United States, but especially and popularly reputable
in ‘Kentucky, Maryland and throughout the South.
His father’s name was James K. Duke, who married
Miss Mary Buford.

James K. Duke was the son-of Dr. Basil Duke,
of Mason county, Kentucky, but a native of Calvert
county, Maryland, and Charlotte Duke, me Mar-
shall, a sister of the late Chief Justice, John Mar-
shall.

Mary (Buford) Duke, mother of our subject, was
the only daughter of Abram Buford, a colonel in the
American army during the Revolutionary war, and
Martha (McDowell) Buford—a member of the Vir-
ginia family of McDowells, and a sister of the
eminent Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the distinguished
surgeon, who was the originator of the operation of
“ovariotomy,” and to whom was lately erected, in
London, a monument, fifty years after his death.
James K. Duke graduated at Yale College with high
honors in the class of 1818. He studied law, but
never entered upon the practice of the profession;
became a farmer in Scott county, Kentucky, in the
famous “Blue Grass region,” Where he resided until
his death in 1863, and was one of the most success-
ful farmers and breeders of fine stock in the State.

On that farm was born, on the 28th of February,
1824, the subject of our sketch, Basil Duke. ,He
‘was a student of Transylvania University, at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, while his Grand-uncle, Dr.,Louis
Marshall, was President of that institution. Basil
afterwards entered Yale College, and graduated in
the class of 1845. He then entered the Law School
at Lexington, Kentucky, where he received a law

diploma in 1847. He removed to St. Louis early
17

in 1848, and became a law student in the office of
Geyer & Dayton—at that time one of the most suc-
cessful law firms in the State. (Henry S. Geyer was
afterwards the successor to Thomas H. Benton in
the United States Senate, and Mr. Dayton was one
of the prominent citizens of St. Louis killed at the
terrible “ Gasconade Railroad Disaster,” caused by
the giving way of a trestle bridge over the Gasconade
river, November 2, 1855.) J

In the fall of 1849 Mr. Duke began the practice
of law in St. Louis, where he has since continued
with fair success.

, He was .Land Attorney for the St. Louis & Iron
Mountain Railroad Company-in 1854-5, during which
time he secured the right of way for that line of rail-
way from St. Louis to Pilot Knob, in Iron county,
Missouri, the then terminus of the contemplated road.

Basil Duke has no military record—his cousin,
General Basil W. Duke, of the Confederate service,
(who was a student in the office of our subject at the
breaking out of the Rebellion) seeming to have
monopolized all the military talent of the family.
Nor has he ever sought or held any political office.
He was Metropolitan Police Commissioner in St.
Louis, by appointment of General Claiborne F. Jack-
son, from May to September, 1861, when he was
removed by acting Governor H. R. Gamble, after

‘Governor Jackson had been compelled to flee the

State. He was again appointed Police Commis-
sioner in St Louis by Governor Phelps, in 1877, for
four years—which position he still holds. He has
neverbelonged to any secret society since leaving
Yale, nor has he ever been amember of any_church.

In politics Mr. Duke was an “old line Whig”

'- until the disorganization of that party, since which

time he has been a Democrat. But having been

130 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

born and reared within a few miles of Ashland, he
knew and loved Henry Clay from early youth, and
that admiration has never ceased. V

On the Ioth of April, 1851, Basil Duke married
Miss Adelaide Anderson, of Louisville, Kentucky,
by whom he had two sons——Henry Buford and James
Clay—both of whom are now grown and doing busi-
ness in St. Louis. ,

Like all Kentuckians, Mr. Duke has always been
passionately fond of manly field sports, and is also an
ardent disciple of Isaac Walton. His gun, dog and

fishing tackle demand and receive all his recreation
hours, to the utter exclusion of other amusements.
And he now shows a hearty robustness, as the reward
of his outdoor sports, being fully six feet tall and
weighing one hundred and ninety-eight pounds.

The writer of this sketch has never heard a Whis-
per against the professional or social character of Mr.
Duke. Indeed, he seems to be most enviably and
peculiarly free from enen1ies—a:['fact due to his
open and honorable manner of treating subjects and
men.

GENERAL GEORGE RAPPEEN SMITH.

‘SEDALIA.

the city of Sedalia and all central Missouri is
the name of General George R. Smith. Sedalia, once
the fair child of his own prophetic vision, is now the
magnificent monument of his indomitable will and
perseverance; and the whole of our great State

INSEPARABLY connected with the history of

~ recognizes in him a man whose life has been a bless-

ing to his fellow men and an honor to our State.

He was born in Powhatan county, Virginia
August 17, 1804. His father, Rev. George Smith,
a Baptist divine, moved soon after the birth of this
son and settled in Franklin county, Kentucky, where
he died in 1820. After his father’s death, George

went to reside in Scott county, where he finished his '

education under Elder Barton W. Stone, of George-
town. When twenty-one years of age he was
appointed deputy sheriff of Scott county, Kentucky,
a position he held for two years under’ David Flour-
noy. In 1827 he was married to _Mileta Ann,
daughter of General David Thompson, of Kentucky,
and sister of Colonel Manlius V. Thompson, com-
mander of the celebrated 3d Regiment of Kentucky
Volunteers in the Mexican war. In 1833 General
Smith with his family moved to Missouri and settled
in Pettis county, where he has ever since resided.
Having studied law, he engaged in the practice of
his profession for a few years; but finding the prac-
tice too laborious, owing to the sparsely settled con-
dition of the country, he abandoned the profession
and engaged in his favorite pursuit——speculation.
In 1842 he was awarded two mail contracts —from
Jefferson City to Warsaw, and from Warsaw to

Springfield — and commenced to carry the mails in
stages, which service he continued to perform until
June 30, 1846, when the contracts expired.

In 1843 he was appointed receiver of public
monies for the land office at Springfield, Missouri, a
position he held until the commencement of Polk’s
administration, when he was removed and ordered
to turn over the office to his successor, and to deposit
the funds on hand in the State Bank of Missouri at
St. Louis. This he promptly did, and on a full
examination of his accounts, he was notified that he
owed the government the sum of $12.00, which he
at once remitted, and thereby squared accounts with
the land office. In 1848 be procured a contract
from the government for the transportation of stores
from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. This contract
required an outlay of more than a million dollars,
and it was, at his request, transferred to Jabez Smith
& Co., by the Quartermaster. For the first year the
transportation was carried forward by this company,
but, not satisfied with the management, General
Smith then proposed a division among the partners,

and in 1849 each party took his share of the con- I

tract and freighted upon his own responsibility.
He_ continued freighting until 1852, when he sold
out his stock and abandoned the business.

In 1849 the Pacific Railway was chartered by the
Legislature, and in 1850 and ’5r a preliminary sur-
vey was run through Pettis county, at short distance
south of its present location. General Smith became
at once deeply interested in the building of the road.
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any portion of the State through which it might pass,
and he determined to use every energy in urging the
people of Central Missouri to encourage the enter-
prise. Two routes were in contemplation, one
passing through the State along the Valley of the
Missouri River, and the other, known as the inland
route, leaving the river at Jefferson City, and passing
directly through the counties of Cole, Moniteau,
Cooper, Pettis, Johnson, Cass and Jackson. The
river counties were the richest and best able to make
liberal subscriptions, but the enterprise of one man
was worth more than the riches of half a dozen
populous counties. In January, 1852, General
Smith called a meeting‘ of the citizens of Pettis
county to take into consideration the question of
subscribing stock to the road, which was largely
attended. A proposition was made by an ardent
railroad man that the county should subscribe $75,-
000 dollars stock to the road, which was at. once
voted down by an overwhelming majority. Various
propositions were made, all of which were promptly
voted down, until at last a proposition for $10,000
was rejected by a decided vote. General Smith,
who had remained perfectly silent, was then ap-
proached by several of his frinds and urged to speak
to the people. He finally came forward and
addressed the meeting for two hours in one of the
most masterly efforts of his life, and proposed that
the county should subscribe $1oo,ooo, provided the
road was built through Pettis county, closing his

speech with a promise to canvass every township in -

the county. Never was such a change produced
upon the minds of hearers as upon that occasion,
for many of those who had voted down a subscrip-
tion of $10,000, subsequently voted for $100,000.
He canvassed the county as he promised, and was
the only man who spoke publicly for the proposition,
and at the election in August he received a majority
of nearly five to one in favor of a subscription of
$100, ooo, no mean triumph, when it is considered
that the whole assessed value of the county was only
about $5 oo,ooo. The other counties along the inland
route raised the total subscriptions to about $400, ooo.
On the 25th of December, 1852, the Legislature

passed an act selecting the “inland route” provided

the counties along the line would subscribe an addi-
tional $400, ooo, making an aggregate of $800,000,
all of which had to beqsubscribed by the end of
December, 1853. As soon as the action of the
Legislature was known to General Smith, he at once
appealed to a few of the citizens of Georgetown, and

by repeated solicitations he finally succeeded in
getting some half a dozen citizens into the court

house, and organizedthem by the appointment of a _

President and Secretary. He then explained his
object in calling them together, which was to call a
Railroad Convention, to meet at Georgetown in the
month of March, 1853, and the appointment of a
committee to prepare an address to the people inter
ested in the location of the road on the inland route.
General Smith and Judge H. P. Gray were appointed
to prepare the address, which was soon prepared,
and a large number printed and circulated in every
neighborhood in the counties through which the pre-
liminary survey had been made. , On the day named
for the assembling of the Railroad-Convention, about
thirty gentlemen, earnest" railroad workers, met.
The meeting was organized by the appointment of a
President and Secretary, and General Smith was
called upon to state the object for which the call had
been made. . This he did by reading the act of the
Legislature, locating the road on the inland route,
provided the sum of $400, ooo should be subscribed,
in good faith, on or before the 25th day of Decem-
ber, 1853. At the close of his explanation, he
moved for the appointment of a committee of two
gentlemen from each county, to assess the counties,
towns and individuals for the amount. The law
then required, that before the counties or towns
could subscribe stock to a railroad, the proposition
had to be submitted to .a vote of the people by the
county court. The Committee retired, and soon
reported to the Convention that they had assessed
the counties, corporations and individuals $400, ooo;
being governed in their assessments according to the
taxable wealth of the assessed. The report was
received with demonstrations of applause, and a

‘resolution passed unanimously by the Convention,

that each delegate would use his utmost efforts to
secure the vote of the people of their respective
counties, for the amount they. had been assessed.
On the first Monday_in August, 1853, the elections
were held, and in every county one emphatic ./V0!
to the propositions submitted to them was the result,
except the county of Pettis, that had been assessed
by the Convention for $70,000. ‘So incensed were
some of the opponents to the large subscriptions of
Pettis, that they said that if the people would burn
General Smith, they would pack the wood to town
six miles on their shoulders for the funeral pile; that
he had come from Kentucky with all of his reckless
notions of extravagance, and that he would bank-

132 THE UNITED STA TES B10 GIBAPHICAZ 2>1cT102V.41e Y.

rupt the whole country, as well as Pettis county,
unless a stop were put to his chimerical schemes. As

, soon as the failure of the assessments by the Con-

vention was known, General Smith determined to
enter upon the canvass of the counties in person,
and make a thorough and decisive canvass of all the
country interested in the inland route.
after the disastrous news reached him, he began in
earnest the canvass. He sent out appointments for

the whole district of country, beginning at Versailles._

The convention that met in March had, at his request,
adjourned to meet again at the call of the President.
Upon his return home from his first canvass, he con-
stituted. himself President, and published a call for
the Convention. Upon the reassembling of that
body, he reported his success; stated that he had
commenced his canvass by drawing up powers of

attorney, authorizing him to subscribe, in the name i

of the signers to the powers of attorney, the amount
of stock each one had subscribed, and that at nearly
every place where he had addressed the people, he
had succeeded in getting from $10,000 to $15,000
subscribed. 1 ’ I

This ‘information gave new life to the drooping
spirits of the Convention, and each man Went home
with a zeal and determination to work for the cause
with an energy equal to General Smith’s. . Again
he sent o.ut his appointments, and in his second
canvass his audiences were largely increased as
were the signers to the powers of attorney, and
again he called the Convention. Upon his report
to that body that his efforts and the subscriptions
had been nearly doubled, it awakened new life and
new energy in them, and they in turn became
enthusiastic workers‘ in an enterprise that they began
now to believe would succeed. The river counties
that had felt so secure in the utter inability of the
inland counties to raise the "$400,000 in order to
secure’ the road, and had said their staple and
wealth was hoop—pol.es, now began to show signs of
panic. The papers. began to.attack General Smith,
charging him with using invections and denuncia-
tions against them in order to increase the preju-
dices of the inland friends against them. To these
charges he paid no heed, but, as true as the needle
to the pole, for three months he devoted his whole

I time to the one great effort to securethe location of

this great thoroughfare upon the inland route.
Special elections were held, or petitions presented
to county courts. In all the counties that had voted
down the proposition, in August, by large majori-

Fifteen days‘

ties, now resulted in large majorities for the sub-
scriptions. . '

In November ‘General Smith called the conven-
tion to meet for the last time, and notified all who
had powers of attorney to send them to him at
Georgetown. This was largely attended. Upon the
assembling of the Convention, a committee‘ was
appointed to audit and" report the total amount of

subscriptions, when it was shown that $412,000 was

subscribed. ' Thus, by the almost superhuman exer-

tions of one man who planned, and others who,

assisted, a triumph was gained over a defeat, that if
it had not been reversed would have resulted in a
gloom and a pall upon the inland counties of Mis-
souri, that to-day would have made them hewers of
wood and drawers of water, instead of placing them
in the front ranks of the State.

He was for many years a director of the Missouri
Pacific Railway, and aided materially in hastening
its completion.

In 1854 he was elected a member of the Missouri
Legislature. At the previous session a bill asking
the State to make over its lien on the road was
defeated in the‘Senate. At the meeting of the
adjourned session, a bill was introduced loaning the
credit of the State, to the amount of $7,000,000, to
the various‘ railroads, the Pacific Railway receiving
$3,000, 000. This bill was finally passed, after vio-
lent opposition, by a very close vote. When sub-
mitted to the Governor, he returned it to the House
of Representatives with his veto, but it was finally
passed over the veto by one or two votes. In the
progress of this bill to its final passage, General
Smith took an active interest and was one of its
most ardent supporters.

At this time (1855) the most violent efforts were
made throughout the State, and especially in the
Legislature, to drive conservative men in the ranks
of the plotters of treason to the Government, so
that it required a moralcourage that few public
men possessed to stem the avalanche of public sen-
timent that threatened any one who stood out against
it. Among the few to do so, General Smith was
the most conspicuous in all the western part of Mis-
souri. In 185 5 he bitterly opposed the effort that
was made in Missouri and elsewhere to colonize
Kansas in the interests of slavery, although a large
slaveholder himself. On his return from the first
session of the Legislature, in March of that year,
he found that the plotters of treason had stirred up
the people of his own county, and that a meeting

THE UNITED STATES ‘BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 133

was already called to assemble at Georgetown,
within two or three days after his return, for the
purpose of sending as large a number of persons
from Pettis county as could be induced to go to
Kansas to vote slavery upon that territory. His
friends waited uponhim and informed of the
change of sentiment which had taken place in the
county during his absence at the Legislature, and
that all were now in favor of sendingvoters to
Kansas. Finding him unalterably opposed to any
such step, they urged him not to attend the meeting
as he would certainly be called upon for an expres-
sion of his opinions, and to state them would destroy
all chances of his election to Congress, of which he
was then certain. To all their persuasions he
replied that he was the Representative of the
county, and‘ the people had a right to know his
political opinions on all questions affecting their
interests, and that whether the expression of his
opinions would defeat or elect him to,Congress was
a matter of supreme indifference to him, compared
to the sacrifice of his self-respect. He knew as well
as they did that it would destroy his political "pros-

pects, yet he would go down with the consciousness

that he had stood firmly by his duty. He assured
them that he would attend the meeting, and, if
called upon, would state emphatically, unequivocally,
his opposition to the objects and purposes of the
getters up of the meeting. On the day of the meet-
ing,- an attack was made upon him over a speech

‘advocating the exclusion of slavery in Kansas,

delivered by General F. P." Blair in the Legislature,
numerous copies of which General Smith had sent
to his own constituents in Pettis ‘county. To this
attack General Smith replied in one of his happiest
efforts, and exposed the hypocrisy and treachery of
the plotters of treason. So systematical, however,
and so cunningly.planned were their efforts to pre-
cipitate a war for the dissolution of the Government,
that the cry of “Free Soiler,” “Black Republican,”
and‘“Abolitionist,” had done its work in driving
men of all parties into the net so cunningly set, so
that not a single man in that meeting, or in the
county, would dare take sides with General Smith.

In all the political contests in which he had pre--

viously been engaged, there were always those of
his own party, (the iWhigs)_, few as they were, who
stood by and encouraged him, but now he was for-
saken, for not one man there had the moral courage
to sustain him.

All joined in opposition against »
him; but so gallantly and forcibly did he defend the

right, that, after a speech of more than one hour’s
length, none of those who had previously spoken so

‘glibly of “Free Soilers,” “Black Republicans,”

“Abolitionists” and “Negro Equalizers” pretended
to reply. One of their leading .men, it is true, in
calling the meeting to order, asked if the" extraordi-
nary speech they had just heard was to go unan-
swered; and that was the only reply made to the
masterly exposure of the treason and outrage so
vividly exposed by General Smith. Shortly after-
ward, when visiting a neighboring town, he was
invited to spend the evening withian old political
and personal friend. After tea he was informed
that. there was a-secret organization that met that
evening in the court house, and that they wished

him to join it, as it was for the protection of all, T

and that he would be greatly pleased with it. He
consented, and accompanied by five or six others,
wentover to the court house. His friend, who was
a Colonel and the leader of the party, gave the
cabalistic signal at the door, and after a short col-
loquy, all were admitted to the society, which con-
sisted of a. President, Secretary and some forty
members. Being informed that each candidate
must take a solemn oath before being admitted to
the secrets of the order, the Bible was produced and
they proceeded to .swear General Smith with the

, others that they would do all in their power to make

Kansas a slave state. He at once declined to take
any such oath, and told them no power on earth
would induce him to do so. They attempted to
argue with him, but, bowing to those present, he
replied, “I am not a ‘fit subject for your organiza-
tion, and by your leave I will retire,” and quietly
withdrew. His unswerving action in this matter,
and the bold and determined stand he took against
the pro-slavery partisans, ruined him politically and
lost him his election to Congress, as he knew well it
would. As a consequence of his uncompromising
opposition to the then prevalent sentiments of the
community, he was generally denounced as an abol-
itionist, but he had such tenacity of purpose that
he could not be shaken. Alone in his vicinity he

stemmed the tide of opposition until the excitement.

so far gave way to reason that he had the pleasure
to be warmly congratulated by many who before had
furiously denounced him.

Comprehending the capabilities of the central
portion of Missouri, and foreseeing the rapid Strides

which would soon be made in their develop--

ment, i11_ March, i856, while the railroad was still

134 THE UNITED STA TES B10 013.14 PHICAL DICTZO./VAR Y.

upwards of one hundred miles away, he purchased
1,145 acres of land, at $13 per acre, where the city
of Sedalia now stands. In 1860, while some of the
people were thinking that a guardian ought to be
appointed over him to keep him from wasting his

A property, he was quietly laying out his beautiful

domain into lots and offering them for sale. Build-
ings soon began to spring up as if by magic, and a
fewmonths served to quiet all apprehensions as to
the soundness of his calculations, and that he was
fully qualified to take care of both himself and his
property. .

In 18 58 he was the Whig candidate for Congress,
but, being brought out only three weeks before the
election, he had no time to canvass his district, and
was defeated by his Democratic competitor by a
small majority. - _

In 1861 he was appointed, by Governor Gamble,
Adjutant General of the State, a position he retained
until some time in 1862, when he resigned his com-
mission and was immediately appointed by the Gov-
ernor to be Paymaster General of Missouri. This
position he also soon resigned, not being in accord
with the Governor’s policy, and returned to his
home.

In 1863, in the first Radical Convention held, as
Vice-President he made a speech while in the chair
proposing that one delegate from every county in
the State should be sent to Washington to induce
President Lincoln to change his policy, sothat, by
their number at least, he would not denounce it as
the wish of a faction, as he had done a previous one.
His motion was carried unanimously, and a delega-
tion of one hundred strong Union men from different
counties of Missouri and Kansas, where his propo-
sition was also adopted, waited upon the President
and urged him to adopt a more stringent policy
toward the South. '

In the same year he wrote a call‘ for a proper
celebration of the Fourth of July, for which he was
charged as trying to stir up a counter revolution,
and Colonel George Hall, Commandant of the Post,
was notified to look after him.

To show the strength of his convictions and his
fearlessness in expressing them, in February, 1861,
he made a speech at Georgetown, then the county
seat of Pettis county, at a Union neeting, after sev-
eral quasi—Union men had spoken,. in which he
announced himself as unqualifiedly a Union man.
For this sentiment he was hissed. Instantly he
replied, with the whole force of his burning words

and with unmistakable evidence of his sincerity, that
he was not only “ unqualifiedly” a Union man, but
that he was in heart and soul, now and forever,
“unconditionally” for the Union as our fathers had
bequeathed it to us, and added: “The South have
needed a whipping, to my certain knowledge, for
thirty years, and I pray God for her treason she may
get a good one.” A

In 1864 he was one of the electors on the Lincoln
ticket, and canvassed for the party. -His name was
also before the convention for nomination for Gov-
ernor, along with Drake and Fletcher, when Fletcher
received the nomination, but General Smith had
made no effort to receive it. In 1864 he was chosen
State Senator, and was elected President pro tem. of
the Senate during the absence of the ‘Lieutenant-
Governor, and ably discharged the duties of the
office. He took an active part in the vexed ques-
tions of the session, but resigned in 1865, for per-
sonal reasons. Immediately after, he was appointed
by President ]ohnson,'unsolicited, Assessor of the
Fourth and Fifth Districts of the State. He soon
saw reason to oppose ]ohnson’s policy, and was one
of the first in the State to denounce it in words that
“savored more of strength than meekness,” upon
which he promptly received leave of absence, and
once more retired to private life.

In 1870 he was again a candidate for Congress,
running as a Liberal Republican, but, having been
put on about two weeks before the election, to fill a
vacancy, he was defeated by S. S. Burdett. Since
that time he has not taken an active part in politics,
although his name appeared, in 1876 on the State
ticket for State Auditor. Although out of active
politics, he still takes a deep interest in all public
questions and is well versed in all the leading topics
of the day, spending his leisure time in looking after
his extensive property in Sedalia and Pettis county.
It was recently written of him: “The impress of his
genius and enterprise is visible all around us, and
our beautiful ‘ Queen City’ (Sedalia) is his proudest
monument.” .

In political principles General Smith was an old
line Whig, but, on the dissolution of that party, he
became identified with the Republicans.

He has been a devoted member of , the Christian
Church for the last twenty years. His religion is
not of the ostentatious kind, but manifests itself
rather by integrity of purpose and in acts of charity
to the needy.

He was married, as already stated, in 1827, to

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Mileta Ann, daughter of General David Thompson,
of Kentucky, by whom he had three children, one
son and two daughters. The son, David Thompson,
died in infancy, but his two daughters—Martha
Elizabeth and Sarah Elvira——charmin_g and accom-
plished ladies, still survive and reside with their
father in Sedalia. The city of Sedalia is named
after Sarah, who is familiarly known among her
friends as “Sed.” General Smith’s wife died in
April, 1861.

General Smith is of tall and majestic appearance,
befitting the character of the man and the proud
eminence he has justly attained among his fellow-
citizens. He is frank and affable in his manners, a
fluent and entertaining conversationalist, and is hos-
pitable to an extreme degree. Though past the
three-score years and ten, he is still strong and vig-
orous. The patriarch of his community, he is ever
ready to help the poor and assist the needy, and to
do what he can for the good of his fellow-men.
Being a man of strong personal characteristics, of
decided opinions and of great native intellect, he
never fails to impress himself on all who come in
contact with him. An enthusiastic Union man, pos-
itive in his convictions and frank in announcing his
opinions, even though to do so frequently jeopardized
his personal safety, he made enemies, but his kindly
disposition, friendly sympathy and high integrity
have made “ even his enemies to be at peace with
him.” More than once he had to fly to save his life
from the insensate fury of his opponents. whose sel-
fish motives he so powerfully and ruthlessly exposed,
during the intense excitement of the pro-slavery and
war times, but he never abated one jot in his denun-
ciation of what he considered wrong, and he has
since been upheld in many of his political views that
were once thought radical and impracticable.

During his long and useful life, he has always
occupied a high and enviable position in the affec-
tion and esteem of his fellow-citizens, and even his
enemies were forced to admire his purity and upright-
ness, for his career has been a highly honorable
and exemplary one. No personal motives or self-
aggrandizement were ever allowed to warp his judg-
ment or turn him from the right; and having decided
what was right, he advocated it by word and action,
without fear or favor. Having given a promise, he
fulfills it at any cost, and, during the many years of
his busy life, no man can say that he has ever broken
his word. His last days are his best days, and
are a fitting close to so great a life. Honored and

esteemed in the city which he has founded and
built, and venerated by all, he will ever be regarded
as one of the noblest citizens who ever lived in a
noble State.

As an orator, his abilities were of a rare order,
and he had no superior throughout the State. While
in the State Senate, in advocating a resolution intro-
duced by himself requesting the Constitutional Con-
vention, then—February, 1865—-in session at St.
Louis, to pass an ordinance vacating all the civil
offices of Missouri, the incumbents of which were
elected or appointed previous to November 8, 1864,
and also requesting the Government to have dis-

i missed from the military service all persons who

sympathized with the South in 1861, General Smith
used this language: "

“In the spring of 1861, just previous to the. out-
break of this rebellion, our State was never in so
prosperous a condition. Her wealth was_founded
upon the most productive agriculture, her commerce
was daily enlarging its dominions; her manufactures
were advancing to place and influence, her moun-
tains of ore, her beds of coal and other minerals,
enough to supply the demands of the whole world,
were being rapidly developed; her railroads pro-
gressing rapidly to completion ; her universities, col-
leges, seminaries and schools were filled with the
youth of the country 3 her churches, for the worship
of the only true and living God, were increasing in
numbers and influence, every branch of industry
met a profitable and rich reward. But in an evil
hour an ambitious and unscrupulous Governor issued
his proclamation for fifty thousand troops to make
war against the General Government. No grievance
was complained of—none could be specified. The
citizens of Missouri had received from that Govern-
ment nothing but kindness; they had abundant cause
to be grateful—none whatever for enmity. But, 0
ingratitude! stronger than_traitors’ arms. I need
not hesitate to tell the truth; the world knows our
dishonor. With pain and mortification we must
confess that thousands of our citizens responded to
the call of the arch-traitor, and locked bayonets in
deadly strife with those who for their country “dared
to do and die.” From thence dates the work of
death and devastation. Union men were tortured
and shot in the presence of their wives and children.
Many of us were compelled to ' leave ou-r homes and
seek safety among strangers for our lives, our
only crime being devotion to that Union our fathers
had bequeathed “as a rich legacy unto their issue.”
I will not attempt to depict, if I could, the horrors
that ensued and are still perpetrated upon Union
men. You all know them. Did every wrong have
a. tongue, the melancholy story of violence and
blood, and “bitter, burning wrongs we have in our
heart—cells shut up,” must still go unrelated. Now,
as the bloody tragedy seems drawing to a close,

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what is the condition of our State, so prosperous
when first her peace was broken by the clangor of
arms? Our people have been wantonly murdered,
robbed and "driven from the State; our agricultural,
mechanical, commercial and mineral interests lie
prostrate; our railroads torn up, bridges burned,
and we unable to rebuild them; our universities,
colleges and schools abandoned and ruined; our
children uneducated and ignorant; our asylums for
the unfortunate of our race despoiled and robbed,
and the unfortunate multiplied; our churches are
become hospitals for the sick and wounded of this
war, and we have no more Sabbaths; our people
are ruined by taxation and the cry for bread is

‘ heard in our land; the farmer is still shot down at his

plow and armies are still eating out our substance.

Mr. President, this is but a glimpse of the long train

of evils entailed upon our people by this most foul

and unnatural rebellion of an unprincipled set of
slave holders and their minions to extend the area of
human slavery. They have dishonored the hitherto
unsullied name of America; they have crushed the
prosperity of the Commonwealth; they have plunged
millions of honest people into the depths of earthly
miseries and cast upon our people, for generations
to come, the burden of oppressive taxation. And
why, sir, have they done these things? Only that
the strong might oppress the weak; only that one
race of a common humanity might break in pieces
the image of God in another, and crush out

-the virtue in the hearts of millions of their fellow-

creatures.”

HON. LEWIS VITAL BOGY.

ST. LOUIS.

EWIS VITAL BOGY was a descendant of one
J of the old French families which many years
ago settled around St. Louis before that city had an
existence. His grandfather came from Canada and
settled in Kaskaskia, where he married Miss Placy.
About 1786 or 1787 he went to what is now Arkan-
sas and carried on a lucrative trade with the Indians.
There being no schools in that wild country, he sent
his son Joseph, afterwards father of Senator Bogy,
to New Orleans, where he was educated.

Joseph Bogy, father of Senator Bogy, was born
at Kaskaskia, Illinois, but removed to Missouri, then
a Territory, in 1805, and settled in Ste. Genevieve,
then an important town, being the center of the lead
mining interests. He was a member of both branches
of the Territorial and State Legislatures and filled
many other positions of trust. In the year 1805 he
married Marie Beauvais, the daughter of Vital Beau-
vais and mother of Lewis V. Bogy, who was born
on the 9th of April, 1813, at Ste. Genevieve, in this
State. The ‘French was the language spoken by all
the inhabitants of the town, and there was no school
of any kind established there until about 1822, when
a teacher named John D. . Grafton arrived frr‘ ,1]. Con-
necticut and opened a school for boys and girls.
Young Lewis Bogy was sent to this school for one
year, after which, with his brother Charles, he was
sent to a Catholic school" at Perryville, kept by a
Swiss named Joseph Herlich. He remained at this

school until attacked by a white swelling, which
prevented him from pursuing his studies for two or
three years. The Catholic school at Perryville was
the last’ he attended, but during his long confinement
to his bed he read a great deal, and thus improved

his mind.

His next step was to engage as clerk in a store
at a salary of two hundred dollars a year, and he
invested all of his savings in books, which he studied
during the evening hours after his business was over.
Whileclerking he decided to study law, and arrange-
ments were made by which he was admitted to the
office of Judge Pope, of Kaskaskia, Illinois. On
the 16th of January, 1832, he left home for Kaskas-
kia to begin his studies, and crossed the Mississippi
river-on the ice. Close attention to hisstudies, and
earnest efforts to fit himself to take front rank in his
chosen profession, caused Judge Pope to take a deep
interest in him and aid him in his efforts; the Judge
advised him to acquire a knowledge of Latin, and
young Bogy made an arrangement with Rev. Father
Condamine, the Catholic priest of the town, by
which the latter was to teach him Latin in return for
services as altar assistant. .

In 183.2 the Black Hawk war i_ broke out, an
when Governor Reynolds, of Illinois, called for vol-
unteers to put down the savages, Mr. Bogy, though
still lame from the white swelling, promptly responded
and served until the end of the war, winning for

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himself distinction as a brave soldier. Returning
from the ‘war he resumed his study of law, and in
December, 1833, entered the Transylvania Univer-
sity, at Lexington, Kentucky, to complete his educa-
tion. He remained in College until 1834, and was
associated during his studies there with many who,
like himself, afterwards became distinguished in the
history of the country. From Lexington he went to
Monticello, Kentucky, and taught school for one
term, after which he returned to the University at
Lexington and graduated.

In March, 1835, Lewis Bogy returned to his
home in Ste. Genevieve, and remained there a short
time, when he left for St. Louis, where he located
and opened a law office on the first day of April
following, after obtaining a license from the Supreme
Court. He devoted himself to business and stuck
closely to his profession until 1840, when he was
elected to the Legislature. He was only twenty-
seven years of age, and said to have been the young-
est member of that body. In 1849 Mr. Bogy
determined to engage actively in politics. He had
already acquired a fortune by his profession. He
believed it time to begin work to secure the object
of his life, and thinking a better field opened for him
in his native county, he removed there and bought
a farm near Ste. Genevieve, then in the St. Louis
congressional district, which extended to the Arkan-
sas line. The Democratic party of Missouri was
then divided on the slavery question. The Benton
and Anti-Benton factions of the party soon followed,
and Mr. Bogy attached himself to the latter. He
became a candidate for the Legislature in Ste. Gene-
vieve county, but was defeated by the combined
forces of the Benton and Whig parties.

The Legislature defeated Colonel Benton for re-
election to the United States Senate, and at the next
election for members of Congress, Benton announced
himself as a candidate. The regular Democratic
party nominated Lewis V. Bogy against him, and
a warm canvass ensued. Bogy carried the lower
counties of the district, but Benton carried the upper
and more populous counties,‘ and was elected. Sen-
ator Bogy used to often entertain his friends with
humorous reminiscences of his campaign against
Benton, and especially enjoyed telling how he irri-
tated the latter by treating him with the greatest
courtesy and respect. Benton resented Bogy’s oppo-
sition as coming from a “youngster.”

Two years later Mr. Bogy was elected to the

Legislature over the combined Benton and Whig
18 I

parties. That was the Legislature which was so split
up that it failed to elect a United States Senator.

In 1848 Mr. Bogy purchased the famous Iron
Mountain or “Pilot Knob,” and for ten years devo-
ted himself to an attempt to develop this interest.
After relinquishing that enterprise he resumed the
practice of law and continued it until the war broke
out, when he refused to take the Radical path and
was compelled to relinquish his practice.

In 1863 he was nominated for Congress in St.
Louis against Frank Blair and Samuel Knox, but as
there was no possible show for a Democrat, he was
of course defeated. From that time he remained in
private life until appointed Commissioner of Indian
Affairs by President Johnson in 1867. He took
charge of the office and administered it with signal
ability and fidelity for about six months, but the Sen-
ate, being Republican, refused to confirm him and
he retired.

In January, 1873, he was elected United States
Senator, and took his seat on the 3d of March fol-
lowing, at the called session of the Senate. His
career as Senator is well known. He occupied the
position of a conservative Democrat, and was a
respected and influential Senator.

He had been in the Senate but a short time before

his courteous and considerate bearing and fair treat-

ment of public questions conciliated the leaders of
the opposite party, and gave him powers of useful-
ness which he employed with discretion and effect.
The Southern question and the question of finance
were the leading subjects before Congress during the
time he held a seat in the Senate, and his speeches
on these were marked by a moderation andiability
that won him no little praise from his constituents.

Hon. Lewis Vital Bogy died at his residence, No.
1828 Wash street, St. Louis, September 20, 1877.
He was in his sixty-fifth year, and on his mother’s
side at least came of a long-lived family. He had
been suffering for several months from a malarial fever
contracted in Washington, and this, it appears,
resulted in or developed an abscess of the liver,
which was the immediate cause of his death.

A few lines taken from the daily papers of that
city will show that his death was accounted a com-
mon sorrow: “The death of Senator Bogy removes
from among us a conspicuous citizen, as eminently
fitted to adorn and enrich private life as he was for
that public station to which he aspired so persistently.
His personal and family relations showed him to be
aman of unusual strength of affection, and he won

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the love of a wide circle who will mourn the loss of a
friend and benefactor. I

His loss at the present time is a national calam-
ity. He was needed in the Senate ‘to stand up
stoutly for the right, to rebuke fraud, to prevent
defiling association with successful charlatans. Above
all estimation, however, is the loss which his family
will experience. A reverent son—-his mother died
last year at a greatly advanced age-—a loving hus-
band and an indulgent father has been torn from the
embrace of those who had learned to honor and
revere him; a staff has been broken, upon which
they had come to lean with an unquestioning trust
and confidence.”

Colonel Bogy was connected by marriage with
the Pratte family, his wife, who survives him, being
a sister of General Bernard Pratte, a former mayor

of this city, and at present residing in St. Charles

county. He has two children living, Mr. joseph
Bogy and Mrs. T. S. Noonan. Colonel Bogy was a
firm and consistent Roman Catholic in his religious
views, but always liberal and tolerant toward others
professing a different creed. For many years past
he was a regular daily attendant upon the services of
his Church, and died in the full conviction of_ the

- correctness of his views.

The deceased during a long period, that is from

early manhood, occupied a very conspicuous position
among the public men of the State. He was of all
men one of the most grateful, the most devoted and
the most steadfast to his friends. He threw nobody
away upon another’s estimate of his shortcomings.
He not only judged for himself, but courageously
adhered to his opinions of his friends. He was
neither fatuous or frivolous in his attachments, but
careful, steady and immovable. His friends were not
numerous, but always to be relied on and relying.
Beneath a somewhat brusque exterior there beat
a most generous heart. He was charitable at all
times—but of late years the habit outran his means.
He gave not ostentatiously, but cheerfully, content
with the satisfaction it brought and unmindful of
what others might think of it. So ‘glad was he to
help those whom he had known in earlier and more
prosperous years, that at times it was difficult to pro-
tect him from imposture. A more devoted husband,
a tenderer parent, a more devoted friend, a firmer
champion, it would be difficult to find. It is almost
superfluous to add to such an enumeration that he
was everywhere recognized as a man of positive
integrity. Deviation from the strict line of rectitude,
out of the abundant charity of his heart, he might

pardon in others, but he permitted nothing of the

kind to himself.

WILLIAM TURNER RUTHERFORD.

HUNTSVILLE.

born in jessamine county, Kentucky, Octo-
ber 2, 1813. His father, Shelton Rutherford, was
anative of Fayette county, Kentucky, and a prom-
inent farmer and stock trader in the vicinity where
he lived. His grandfather, Joseph Rutherford, was
a Virginian by birth, an early settler of Kentucky-,
and a soldier of the War of 1812, serving his coun-
try faithfully in the capacity of paymaster. He
emigrated to Missouri with his son, Shelton, and
died in Randolph county.

Jesse Rutherford, a great-uncle o- the subject of
this sketch, also served in the war of 1812. He was
taken captive by the Indians and held by them for a
considerable length of time. He finally made his
escape by slaying the Indian who guarded him, while

‘ A lILLIAM TURNER RUTHERFORD was

washing hominysome distance from their wigwams.
He was without food and unarmed, and after four-
teen days of wandering and starving, was finally
picked up in an almost dying condition by a white
scout and carried to the settlements. He lived many
years to recount his hairbreadth escapes and the
horrors of that perilous journey.

Shelton Rutherford’s wife, the mother of Wil-
liam T., was Hannah Roman, a daughter of Isaac
Roman, a Virginian, subsequently a resident of
Fayette county, Kentucky, where his daughter was
born.
on his father’s farm. He was an industrious, steady
youth of exceptionally good habits. He loved the
farmer’s life he led, and did a great deal of hard
work during his youth and early manhood.

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educational advantages were poor. He learned to
read and write, and studied arithmetic and grammar
at a neighboring country school during the winter
months. An uncle detecting in him that quickness
and ambition that inevitably leads to success, gener-
ously offered to give him a liberal education; but his
father, believing his help on the farm necessary,
declined the offer, thereby closing to him the avenue
to collegiate honors and ultimate distinction in the
arena of letters or the learned professions. William
accompanied his father to Missouri, in 1831, stop-
ping in Randolph county that year. The next year

he went with his father’s famil ‘ to Howard county, '
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Missouri, and remained one year. In 1833 he
returned to Randolph county, where he permanently
made his home. In 1835 his mother died, and
William remained with his father to assist in taking
care of his younger brothers and sisters until his
marriage, which occurred July 19, I838.

The lady whom he thus selected to share his
fortunes was Miss Phoebe]. Dameron, daughter of
Joseph C. Dameron, a merchant of the town of
Huntsville, and an early settler of Randolph county,
whence he came from North Carolina, his native
state. Mr. Rutherford was, at the time of his mar-
riage, twenty-four years old, and his bride fifteen.

Before his marriage he purchased from the gov-
ernment a quarter section of land in the edge of
what is known as Dark’s prairie, about ten miles
northwest of Huntsville. There beingno house on
the newly purchased land, he took his wife into a
hovel near by in the woods, a pen of unhewed logs
covered with rough boards. The door was made of
slabs, the floor was laid with puncheons smoothed
with the adze, the chimney from the arch was car-
ried up with sticks and clay, the crevices on all sides
let in the light, and the wind, rain and snow came
in without hindrance, but a huge fire-place took up
one end of the cabin, and a roaring fire from huge
heaps of logs piled on, tempered the weather within.
Shelves resting on wooden pins driven into the logs
answered for a cupboard, and on these were
arranged the nicely scoured pans and. tableware.
Also one bedstead was made by boring two holes in
a forest pole and two holes in the logs of the house,
in one corner, and using poles for railing—then
called a Missouri teester-bedstead. He frequently
remarks that it was here, in this mean abode, that
he spent some of the happiest moments of his life.

Immediately on removing to this cabin, which
was in August, Mr. Rutherford commenced the

work of building a house on his own land. He cut
and hewed the logs and made the shingles with his
own hands. His house was of two rooms, a story
and a half high, with a passage between, only one
half of which he completed that year.

On the 13th day of November, 1838, he bore
his young wife to this humble home, around the
very door of which the wild deer grazed, and began
the struggle of life in earnest. He was at this time
a splendid specimen of the early settlers, broad
shouldered, strong of limb, stout of heart and brim-
ful of that stalwart manhood that made the pioneers
of the far West the marvel of the world; he_ stood
the perfect type of that peerless race. He worked
on his farm early and late, with a zeal and energy
that never flagged. Such effort is sure of success.
The earth responded to his tireless appeals, and Mr.
Rutherford prospered. ‘ r

In 1839 he connected himself with the Christian
Church, and has since been a consistent and worthy
member of that body. He has at all times labored
assiduously to advance the cause of religion and his
liberality in church matters is proverbial. '

In 1843 he sold his farm and removed to Hunts-
ville and entered into the employ of Mr. Dameron,
his father-in-law, to put up leaf tobacco. He was
thus engaged for about two years, when he entered

into the mercantile business in partnership with Mr. _

Dameron. They sold out their store of goods about
a year later, with a view of entering into the busi-
ness of handling leaf tobacco 3 but this arrangement
was thwarted by the death of Mr. Dameron, which
occurred at this time.

Mr. Rutherford, being now out of business, pur-
chased four hundred acres of unimproved land, on
the Grand prairie, in the northeast part of Randolph
county, fifteen miles distant from Huntsville, and
undertook for the second time the improvement of a
farm. He reared a small hewed log house, and
moved to it in February, 1846. During the spring
he made the rails, fenced and broke about thirty
acres of land and planted it in corn. In those days
it required four yoke of oxen to break prairie. The
hoofs of trampling herds had not subdued the wild
grass, and it grew in primitive strength often as high
as a horse’s back. During the next year he reso-
lutely continued to bring this large tract into culti-
vation and to make substantial improvements.

He disposed of this tract of land in 1848, and
removed to a farm near Huntsville. He now
engaged to put up tobacco for D. C. Garth and B.

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Wisdom, they paying him a salary. The firm put
up about 350,000 pounds, and on this purchase,
bought and handled under Mr. Rutherford’s super-
vision, they realized a profit of about twelve thou-
sand dollars. In 1849 Mr. Rutherford bought Mr.
Wisdom’s interest and entered into partnership with
Mr. Garth. Mr. Garth was a veteran tobacco
dealer, Widely known throughout North Missouri,
and this arrangement was a fortunate one for Mr.
Rutherford, for it was during this partnership, which
was successful throughout, that he laid the founda-
tion of the fortune he afterward acquired. Garth
& Rutherford put up, in 1849, about 300,000 pounds
of tobacco, Mr. Garth furnishing all the money and
Mr. Rutherford paid him six per cent. interest upon
one-half the capital. The year’s profits were $9,000.

Mr. Rutherford next bought the farm of one
hundred and seventy acres formerly owned by Mr‘.
Dameron, his father—in-law. It was finely improved
and adjoined the town of Huntsville, and was
secured by him for the very inadequate consideration
of $3,000. Upon this farm he still continues to
reside, but by subsequent purchase it has grown to
a thousand acres in extent.

In 1850 Messrs. Garth & Rutherford put up no
tobacco. Their superior judgments led them to
believe it an off year, and so it proved to be, for
speculators lost heavily. During this year Mr.
Rutherford erected a large tobacco factory on his
farm, just outside the town limits, and prepared for
future operations. In 1851-2-3-4 the firm of Garth
& Rutherford handled tobacco, realizing each year
handsome profits. Mr. Rutherford had accumulated
money enough during these years to enter into busi-
ness alone, and the firm of Garth & Rutherford
ceased to exist. Mr. Rutherford continued in the
business until the present time. He owns two large
factories in Huntsville, and has often put up half a
million pounds per annum. He is a bold, sagacious
and successful speculator, and seldom makes a pur-
chase that does not realize him money.

In 1870 he commenced his mining operations in
and near Huntsville, Missouri. In that year the
Huntsville Coal and Mining Company was organ-
ized, with him as President and general business
manager, which position he still retair . The com-
pany is operating two mines, using steam power for
hoisting purposes, and employing about one hundred
hands. The company own several large tracts of
coal lands and do an immense business.

Mrs. Rutherford died in 1859. She was a noble

' energy that is absolutely marvelous.

christian, a devoted Wife and mother, universally
loved for her kindness and many charitable acts.

In 1860 Mr. Rutherford contracted a second
marriage with Mrs. Rebecca Rutherford, me john-
son, a native of Edgar county, Illinois, with whom
he still lives.

Mr. Rutherford had ten children by his first
marriage, six of whom are dead, all dying under the
age of eight years. ‘Three of his children died in
1852 within the space of three months, of scarlet
fever. Of the four now living, three are daughters.
All are graduates of first-class schools, three of
Mount Pleasant College, at Huntsville, and one of
Christian College, at Columbia, Missouri. All of
his children are married and well established in life,
except his youngest daughter.

Mr. Rutherford has traveled extensively in his
own country, but has never been abroad. While
sojourning in the South, in 1860, accompanied by
his eldest daughter, he witnessed the ceremonies at
the unveiling of the Clay statue in New Orleans, and
all the attending pageantries. His travels, however,
though extensive, are devoid of special interest, hav-
ing generally been made in the interest of business.

In politics he Was.originally an old line Whig.
He cast his first vote for President in 1836, for the
Whig candidate. Since the final dissolution of that
party, he has identified himself with the Democratic
party, casting his first Democratic ballot for General
McClellan in 1864. He never sought nor held a
political office. His friends, in his absence, placed
him before the people as a candidate for the Missouri
Legislature, in opposition to the nominee of the
Democratic party, in 1870, but he was not elected.

Such are the leading events in the life of one
who, relying solely on his native powers, has accom-
plished Vast undertakings, and wielded at all times
a great influence. He is a man of vigorous intellect
and sound judgment, and is endowed with an
His strong
constitution and robust health have enabled him to
give full scope to his ambitious and enterprising
disposition. In ‘business matters he is persistent,
thorough-going and indomitable. Scoffing at repose,
he goes straight on to the accomplishment of his
purpose. He is one of the few men that would
succeed in any undertaking. His wonderful energy
and tenacity of purpose would render a failure
impossible. His friendships are strong and devoted,
counting no cost a sacrifice 3 his dislikes are equally
marked and unmistakable.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 141

His habits are and have always been regular.
He uses neither tobacco or alcoholic stimulants of
any kind. His farm, of about I,ooo acres, adjoins
the city of Huntsville, his residence being within
the corporate limits. It is highly improved and in
marked contrast with his humble home. Mr.
Rutherford has done more to develop the resources
of his county, stimulate enterprise and build up the
interests of ' his town and community than any other
man. In the accumulation of wealth, he has
always so used his means as to benefit others as
well as himself To the working man he has ever
been a benefactor, giving to many employment
and bread. In person he is not above the
medium height, but large of frame, stocky and well
knit, his head and face are massive and indicative

of strength. His hair is light, turned to gray ; his
eyes are blue and complexion florid. His features
are well cut and clearly defined 3 about the mouth
and chin there is an air of stern repose, clearly
denoting that firmness and decision so characteristic
of the man. His conversation is never slow and
hesitating, but straight-forward and to the point.
His thoughts are expressed in brief, sententious sen-
tences, strikingly practical and forcible. His move-
ments are rapid and nervous, and there is about him
the restless air of the active business man In man-
ner he is affable and courteous. In hospitality he
is open handed and of the old southern style. Now,
at the age of sixty-four, Mr. Rutherford is well pre-
served and in perfect health, and bids fair to attain
a ripe old age.

JUDGE LEMUEL DUNN.

KINGSTON.

EMUEL DUNN, a descendant of an old
L Virginia family, was born in Mercer county,
Kentucky, January 2, 1820. His father, Lemuel
Dunn, was a native of the western part of Virginia,
a fuller and farmer by occupation. ‘His mother’s
maiden name was Sarah Campbell.

About the year 1806 they emigrated to Kentucky,
where the subject of this me1noir—the fifth of seven
children—was born. He received his early educa-
tion in the private schools of the neighborhood,
completing the same at Cane Run Academy, in
Mercer county, which institution he attended about
three years.

November 14, 1839, he married Miss Sarah Mc-
Coy, a daughter of Rev. Rice McCoy, a Baptist
minister and farmer, of Washington county, Indiana,
where he temporarily resided.

In the‘ spring of 1841 he emigrated to Ray
county, Missouri, where he remained about one

year. He then moved to Grundy county, where he
resided over three years. Thence he moved to
Caldwell county, in the spring of 1866. On first

settling in Missouri, he engaged in farming. On
moving to Grundy county, in consequence of failing
health, which obliged him to give up farming, he
engaged in the study of medicine. On his removal
to Caldwell county, in 1846, he engaged in the prac-

tice of medicine, and continued until 1852, located
during that period in Kingston, the county seat.

In 1850 he was elected, on the Whig ticket, rep-
resentative in the State Legislature from Caldwell
county, serving during the memorable session in
which Colonel Benton was defeated for United
States Senator by H. S. Geyer, the Whig candidate.
In this move Dr. Dunn took an earnest and active
part. During the same session, the State endorsed
the bonds of the Hannibal & St. Joseph, and of the
Pacific Railroad Companies, to the amount of one
and a half million dollars each. At the same session
an act was passed apportioning to the several coun-
ties the swamp and overflowed lands of the State.
In this, as in the first mentioned move, Dr. Dunn
also was prominently active. The first petition to
the Congress of the United States, for a grant of the
public lands to aid in the construction of the Han-

‘ nibal & St. Joseph Railroad, was drafted by the

Hon. George Smith, then a resident of Caldwell
county, and Mr. (Dunn. They circulated petitions,
called public meetings in Caldwell and other coun-
ties along the line of the road, and inaugurated the
movement that afterwards resulted in the act of
Congress granting alternate sections of land along
the line of the road, to aid in the construction, which
with the aid granted by the State of Missouri,

142 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIBI’.

_secured the completion of the road. At that time

(1847), there was not a railroad west of the Missis-
sippi river, and the people felt the necessity of hav-
ing a railroad to convey their surplus products to
market; and the active interest that Mr. Dunn took
in this matter pointed to him as a proper person to
assist in carrying out the wishes of the people in
this matter, and as a consequence he was elected to
the Legislature in 1850, mainly upon this issue.

In 1852i he was elected Clerk of the County
Court of Caldwell county, which office he held until
1860. In 1854 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit
Court,- holding both offices. With an interval of
two years, he held the circuit clerkship till 1866.

From 1862 to 1864 he filled with ability the office
of Probate ]udge. During the war, he was elected

one of the Curators of the‘State University, serving

part of a term, when he resigned.

While serving as clerk of the court he improved
his leisure time in the study of law,.and so assid-
uously did he prosecute his studies that in 1866
he was admitted to the practice of law by Judge
Walter King, of the Circuit Court, and has been

successfully engaged in the same ever since.

He became a Master Mason about 1857, in Mir-
able, Caldwell county. 'He is at present an active
member and Past Master of Kingston Lodge, No.
I18, A. F. & A. M.

In politics he was always a \Vhig until the dis-
banding of that party, when he united with the
Republicans, with whom he has since acted.

His parents were Presbyterians, and he was raised
in the teachings of that Church but never united
with it. About the year 1859 he united with the
Christian Church, of which he is still a member.

His first wife died in 1858, leaving eight chil-
dren——four boys and four girls; of these, two sons
and four daughters are now living. January 31,
I860, he married Miss Emma Amelia Dodge, daugh-
ter of Rev. Dwight‘ Dodge, of Caldwell county, and
a minister of the Christian Church. The issue of
this marriage is two sons and one daughter.

]udge Dunn is of commanding presence, six feet
in height, " and weighs two hundred pounds. His
manners are pleasing and his professional and pri-
vate character above reproach.

CHRISTOPHER WATERMAN SPALDING, M. D., D. D. S.

ST. LOUIS.

HRISTOPHER W. SPALDING, "son of Love-
C well and Susannah (Greene) Spalding, was
born March I 5, 1814, at Centreville, Town of VVar-
wick, State of Rhode Island. He is a descendant
of Edward Spalding, who emigrated from Scotland
at an early day. His maternal great—grandfather,
Colonel Christopher Greene, commanded a Rhode
Island regiment in the Revolution, and in 1777 was
in command of Fort Mercer, at Red Bank on the
Delaware river, having a force of between three and
four hundred men. Here he was attacked by a force
of four thousand Hessians under Colonel Donop.
The Hessians were defeated, one thousand killed
and three thousand taken prisoners. For this service
asword was voted to Colonel Greene by Congress,
and a monument commemorative of the battle
was erected near Fort Mercer in 1829.

Young Spalding received a good common school
education, and at the age of fifteen left home to

learn the manufacture of cotton cloth, and at twenty
years of age engaged in manufacturing.

In 1840 he began his professional studies, and
received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in
1851, and that of Doctor of Medicine in 1869. In
1840 he moved from his native State to New York
State. In 1847-8 Dr. Spalding spent a year at Savan-
nah, Georgia, and in 1849 removed from Ithaca,
New York, to St. Louis, where he has since resided.
He took a leading part in the organization of the
“Western Dental Society” in 1851, and has since
been actively engaged in every good work which
would tend to elevate the profession of his choice.

In 1867 Dr. Spalding retired from the practice
of dentistry to engage in fruit culture, chiefly in
the cultivation of the grape, and in its conversion
into wine. While interested in horticulture he was
chosen president of the “State Horticultural Society
of Missouri,” and president of the “Mississippi

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Valley Grape Growers’ Association.” He was hor-

ticultural editor of the fozmml of Ag/tzkzzlzure, and

one of the editors and publishers of the Grape Cul-
2‘zm'5z‘, both published in St. Louis, and also contrib-
uted many valuable articles on fruit culture to the
agricultural press.

In 1876 he resumed the practice of his profes-
sion. ,During his professional career he has been
president of the Western Dental Society, the St.
Louis Dental Society, the Mississippi Valley Dental
Association, the American Dental Association, and
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri. The
latter position he still holds, and also occupies the
Chair. of Physiology and Histology in the same insti-
tution. He occupies the Chair of Physiology and
Pathology in the Western College of Dental Sur-
geons, and is Dean of the Faculty of the latter
college.

Dr. Spalding was for a short time a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of
the Sons of Temperance, but not having much taste
for secret organizations he has allowed his 1ne1nber-
ship in both bodies to expire.

He was educated a Methodist, but when twenty-

three years old became acquainted with the writings
of Emanuel Swedenborg and read them with intense
interest. Since that time he has been a full believer
in the doctrines taught in Swedenborg’s theological
works. In early life he was a Whig, subsequently
a member of the American party, and during the
Rebellion and thereafter a moderate Democrat.

November II, 1838, Dr. Spalding married Cor-
nelia Anna Herb, at Providence, Rhode Island. She
is a descendant, on the maternal side, of Roger Wil-
liams, and is a lady of rare culture and sterling worth.

In personal appearance Dr. Spalding is Iery
commanding, being tall, and of good physical devel-
opment and dignified deportment. In him, that
manipulative ability so necessary to the successful
dentist, is united'in an exceptional degree, with high
scholarship and general scientific and literary attain-
ment. He has always been a devout student without
acquiring the exclusive characteristics of a recluse.
He is affable personally, and has the genial charac-
teristics and literary remembrance of a good conver-
sationalist, enjoying the peculiar esteem and confi-
dence only accorded to a faithful and conscientious
practitioner and trusted teacher.

JAMES SHERMAN BOTSFORD.

]EFFERSO./V CITY.

a few miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His
parents were born in Oneida county, New York,
and were among the pioneers who first settled the
former State. His paternal ancestors were from
New England, and his ancestors on the side of his
mother were from New York. The family belong
to a hardy race, and are long lived. As an instance,
Mr. Botsford’s grandmother, Mrs. Phebe Botsford,
diedin 1874, at the advanced age of ninety-five years.
The subject of our sketch was educated in the
public schools of Wisconsin and Illinois, in the course
of which he attended the Academy at Wauwatoosa,
near Milwaukee, and a high school in Illinois. His
father died when he was but seven years of age, and
his mother having remarried when he arrived at the
age of fourteen, he, although a mere youth, left his
home, determined to shape his own course. During
his summers he worked wherever he could find em-

TAMES S. BOTSFORD Was born June Io, 1844,

. ployment, and with the proceeds of his labor attended

school during each winter. He displayed great
fondness for his studies, particularly for mathematics.

The war of the Rebellion coming on, he,
although but seventeen years of age, entered the
army with the 5th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers,
and served with his regiment, in the Army of the
Potomac, in the campaigns under McClellan, Burn-
side, Hooker, -Meade and Grant to the battle of the
Wilderness, where he was severely wounded through
the right shoulder. He left the service in Septe1n—
ber, 1864, and shortly afterward commenced the
study of law at Morris, Illinois. In 1866 he was

. admitted to the bar, after an examination in open

session of the Supreme Court of that State, sitting
at Ottawa, and immediately removed to Sedalia,
Missouri, where he commenced practice. Here he

‘remained until July, 1872, when he removed to ]ef—

ferson City, where he has since resided.

144 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAZL DICTIOJVARY.

In 1870 Mr. Botsford was elected City Attorney,
of Sedalia, and during his term performed the task
of making a complete revision of the laws of that
city. In 1871 he was appointed United States Dis-
trict Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,
and on the expiration of his term, in 187 5, he was
reappointed. This office he held until March, 1877,
and although he Was only twenty-six years of age
when he received the appointment, yet he discharged
the duties pertaining to his position with entire satis-
faction to the department at Washington, under
whose supervision he acted, and with great credit to
himself. While he held this office he was called
upon. to prosecute a large number of important cases,
among which was the case against the probate judge
and two lawyers of Vernon county, for obstructing
process in the release of a prisoner of the United
States; the case against the Gunn City mob for
obstructing the passage of the mail, and many other
important cases that excited the attention of the
public at the time. The Western District of Mis-
souri is very large, comprising over seventy counties
—about two-thirds of the State—and the cases to
which it gave rise presented a fine field for the pow-
ers which Mr. Botsford possesses. In the prosecu-
tion of the great “ Whisky Ring,” Mr. Botsford was
not found wanting. Of this class he secured the first
convictions in the United States, and was equal to
every emergency that arose during those important
trials. The history of those cases doubtless is still
fresh in the minds of our readers, and to show how
well he performed his duty it is only necessary to

refer to the testimony ‘of one of the most prominent
and oldest citizens of the State, who says : “In his
prosecution of cases properly called to his attention,
he emphatically obeyed the injunction to ‘let no
guilty man escape.’ The late whisky ring was
especially strong, and was controlled by men of
unusual wealth, ability and resolution,——men who
would not hesitate to resort to means the most reck-
less and desperate to accomplish their purposes.
Mr. Botsford in the discharge of his duties grappled
with this formidable combination of criminals, and
with intelligence, tact and shrewdness that baffied
the skill of some of the ablest attorneys of the State,
who were employed against him; with courage that
defied the threats that were pronounced against him
by the accused, and with an integrity that could not
be corrupted, he brought with very rare exceptions,
this strong band of criminals to justice, vindicated
the law in a way that challenged the admiration of
all honest men, and practically broke the power of
the ring.”

Mr. Botsford was married in November, 1871,
to Mrs. Sallie W. Nutter, a grand—daughter of the
venerable General Leslie Combs, of Lexington,
Kentucky, who will be remembered as the boy-cap-
tain in the war of 1812, and afterwards as the per-
sonal and political friend of Henry Clay. _

Mr. Botsford is now engaged in the practice of
law in the courts, State and Federal, at the State
capital, and we predict for him a future in his profes-
sion as promising and bright as the past has been
brilliant and successful.

.coLoNEL EDWARD LYNDE.

I(A./VSAS CITY.

HE subject of this sketch was born in the town
T of Saybrook, county of Middlesex, Connecti-
cut, October 16, 1820. His parents were Henry and
Elizabeth (Ford) Lynde, both natives of that state.
He traces his ancestry through the paternal branch,
to the families of Nathaniel Lynde and the Harts of
Lyme and Saybrook. The former was the founder
of the family in America, and was a grand-son of the
Earl of Digby, and with him rests the honor of having
donated the lot of ground and a building which was

the seat of the first Yale College, originally located

at Saybrook. The Lyndes and Harts were then the
great landholders of the province, and from these
have descended many whose names have graced the
pages of state and national history, while the scenes
of their activities have become classic ground.

By the maternal line he is descended from the
family of Captain Ford, of New Haven, Connec-
ticut, who, as one of the Merchant Princes of New
England, in the Colonial days, followed the cus-
tom of his time, owning the ships which sailed
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merchandise from and to the ports of other countries.

The parents of young Edward removed to Stark
county, Ohio, with their family of nine children, of
whom he was the youngest, when he was but seven
years old, settling in what was then the “far west,”
near the site of the town of Massillon.

The State was but entering upon the magnificent
career which has placed it almost at the head of the
list of States in intelligence, wealth and population.
Educational provisions had scarce been thought of
for her youth, and each neighborhood provided, as
best it might, for its own. Within the precincts of the
log school house, Edward obtained his education,
except such as was supplied by the care and teaching
of an accomplished and intelligent mother.

At seventeen years of age, he was apprenticed to
his elder brother at the carpenter’s trade. This he
soon mastered, early evincing that faculty, which is a
prominent one in his character, of perseveringly over-
coming all obstacles, when once his mind is made
up that a thing has to be done. I

He was married October 19, 1843, at Marlboro,
Stark county, Ohio, to Miss Margaretta Shaw, his
present amiable wife, and in this happy union laid
the foundation of a successful and useful life.

Becoming tired of his trade, he, for a short pe-
riod, located upon a farm near Marlboro, varying and
supplementing his farming with stock driving from
Indiana and Illinois to the Philadelphia and New
York markets, but the contagion of the Western
Emigration fever was destined to overtake him.

The opening of new territories beyond the Mis-
souri and the all-absorbing question of Freedom
versus Slavery seemed to blot out everything else.
The infection caught the more ardent natures first—
every element of heroism in his character was appealed
to. The daily conversation, the nightly debate, the
current topic of the newspaper columns, could all be
thus formulated: “ Shall Kansas be a free or slave
State?” The fair prospects of the new territory were
dilated upon and pledged, if the question were settled
affirmatively, or darkly depicted if the reverse.

Impelled by that spirit of adventure which makes
one seek the arena of a conflict, Mr. Lynde, in the
fall of 18 5 5, started for Kansas, coming by steamboat
up the Missouri river to Glasgow, thence, on account
of low water, by private conveyance to Westport,
Missouri.

His experiences on his arrival at the confines of

‘Kansas were about such as, in the then excited state

of bordegr public feeling, were likely to overtake the

Northern man who sought to enter Kansas. He was
an object of suspicion, his every act and intent mis-
construed, his expressions misinterpreted and 1nisrep-
resented; while the assassin spirit of the mob ruled
and controlled everything. From this spirit’s judg-
ment there was no appeal——in the interests of slavery
all were dumb and bowed to its decrees—the rights
of person and property fell before its behests. The
border was an Infe7’770 at this period, worse than
Dante ever conceived.

After visiting Lawrence, Osawatomie, Topeka,
Lecompton and a few other places oflesser note, and
prospecting throughout the territory some time, get-
ting “the lay of the land,” Mr. Lynde returned, in
January, 1856, to Ohio and prepared to at once re-
move with his wife and three children to Kansas.
They arrived by boa.t at Leavenworth, May 2 I, 1856,
and soon after located at Grasshopper Falls, Jefferson
county, upon the Delaware reserve lands, which were
then, under treaty, about to come into market. He
began, after the fashion of new settlers, to erect him
ahome upon his claim, some two miles from the
village.

From this period we find him fulfilling all the
requirements of a public-spirited citizen, taking a
leading part in all that concerned the public weal.
Recognized at once as a natural leader and repre-
sentative man, he was chosen a member of the Leav-
enworth Constitutional Convention, whose work,
though well done, came to naught, except as a count-
erpoise to the ill-fated Lecompton Measure, which
bore the name of its birth-place.

In the fall of 1858 and again in 1859, Mr. Lynde
was elected, over strong opposition to the territorial
House of Representatives, in which body he served
two years with distinction, showing all the elements
of good leadership. The following personal sketch
of him at that period was published in the State Record,
Topeka, Kansas, February 25, I860.

“ That pleasant, gentlemanly looking person who
occupies the first seat to the right of the Speaker, is
Edward Lynde, the able representative of Jefferson
county. He isa native of Connecticut, but at the
early age of seven years emigrated to the wilderness
of Ohio, where he resided until May, 18 56, when he
took up his abode upon a farm near the village of
Grasshopper Falls, in Kansas, and from that time to
this has made himself one of our most useful citizens.

“ Mr. Lynde is about 39 years of age, nearly six
feet high, rather slender in form, with a stern but
pleasing countenance, a small, merry, twinkling

146 THE UNITED STATES B10 013.4 PHZCAZ. DZCTIONAR Y.

black eye, and rather a florid complexion. He is
very composed, not easily flustrated, seldom occupies
the time of the House, but when he does he expresses
himself in a clear, graphic and comprehensive man-
ner, and is listened to with that attention which he
so richly deserves. As a debater, he does not possess
the easy flow of words that comes naturally to the few,
but his remarks are always logical and to the point.”

The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention having
completed anew State constitution and submitted its
work for adoption to the people, and as a full com-
plement of state and legislative officers were to be
selected at the same vote, Mr. Lynde stood for the
place of Senator in his district. To this he was
elected, and, as the State was admitted early in 1861,
he took his seat in the Senate of the first and most
important Legislature ever convened in Kansas.

The guardian hand of the General Government,
which had been freely chastising for six bloody years,
was stayed, a new era of hope and confidence was
dawning, yet a new ship of state had to be launched
under the pilotage of a new and untried constitution.
The means to preserve peace and the means to provide
for fast-approaching war, all devolved on this body.
A retrospective glance will show their labors were
fraught with eventful consequences—the results show
how wisely they builded. Mr. Lynde was elected

President pro fem. of this Senate and much of the ,

labor of presiding fell upon him. The Legislature
made such provisions as carried them safely through,
and shrank not from the responsibilities.

After adjournment, Mr. Lynde commenced a
military career both serviceable and honorable. As a

Lieutenant he served on the staff of General S. D. C

Sturgis, in 1861-2, including his Springfield campaign,
under direction of General David Hunter, remaining
constantly with General Sturgis until the meeting of
the Legislature at its second session, in 1862.

This session he attended, pressing upon the 1ne1n-
bers of the body many matters of vital importance to
the young State, whose condition and welfare had his
every sympathy. At the close of this session, as
new regiments were to be raised and fragments of
old ones consolidated, Governor Robinson, impressed
with his service to the State, first tendered him the
Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 5th Regiment Cavalry,
without solicitation, but before his commission issued
he tendered him the more exalted position of Colo-
nel of the 9th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. This
regiment was formed of two or three organizations,
the principal of which was the Iola Battalion.

In the spring of 1862 he took command, bring-
ing the companies together at Fort Leavenworth in
May. From causes which had operated badly upon
parts of the command, they were in poor condition
at this time for the field. Some companies had seen
service ; but mostwere recruits, under only partial
organization, deficient in drill and badly mounted,
besides several months pay were due part of the
men. A better mom/e was soon infused, and by
July the regiment was part of the force sent to the
Indian Territory. It became one of the best regi-
ments in the service from that State. Their field of

action, however, was not such as to give a commen- —

surate amount of glory for the hardships and dangers
encountered. Policing the borders of the two
States, Missouri and Kansas, scattered and operating
as companies and fragments, rather than a regiment,
its duties were, until 1864, the hardest, morally
speaking, which a regiment could be subjected to.
After much experience in this kind of warfare,

wholly guerrilla in its methods, the regiment was

further enlarged, at the beginning of 1864, by the
addition of two companies, “L” and “M,” and the
whole organization rendezvoused at Lawrence, pre-
paratory to leaving the military department of Mis-
souri and Kansas for that of Arkansas, then under
General F. Steele, headquarters at Little Rock.
Colonel Lynde remained in command of the regi-
ment in their new field, doing such service as was
required until 1865. By this time the period of
enlistment’ of many of the men expired, reducing
the command below the minimum for full regimental
organization, and orders were received to muster
out the field officers, and reduce. the organization to
a battalion. This was effected about the close of
January, 1865.

Colonel Lynde then returned to his home in
Kansas, broken in health and for a long time pros-
trated. He remained in Kansas until the summer
of 1868, when he removed to Kansas City, Missouri,
accepting an appointment in the Internal Revenue
Service of the United States, which office he
resigned in 1869 to accept a prominent position with
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. With this
great enterprise he was connected during the period
required to build over four hundred miles of road,
and until it had developed new channels of trade,
revolutionizing commercial matters in the Southwest.

For the past two years he has been a member of
the Board of Trade, taking an active interest in
business matters of the city. He has been a mem-

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ber of the City Council for aboutthe same length of
time, holding the responsible ‘position of President

from the date of first taking his seat in that body. ‘

He is now principally identified with the grain inter-
ests of the city, being the owner and manager of the
Advance Elevator.

Colonel Lynde has a family of three children.
His only daughter, Eliza C. Lynde, is the wife of
James A. Mann, Esq., now Secretary of the foumal
of Commerce, of Kansas City. T. J. Lynde, his

older son, is one of the firm of Powers, Lynde &
Co., grain dealers and commission merchants of
Kansas City. His younger son, A. R. Lynde, is

 postal clerk on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

His has been an active, useful life. He has left
his impress for good with each community with which
he has been connected. Enlarged by contact with
men of liberal ideas and from all sections of country,
he represents a true western energy engrafted upon
a New England pertinacity of purpose.

REV. W. BENTON FARR.

ST. LOUIS.

BENTON FARR was born September 12,
 iv . 1834, in Feliciana, Kentucky. His father,
James King Farr, was born in Wilson county, Ten-
nessee, and was the son of Rev. James Farr, a
licentiate of the Old School Presbyterian Church,
and afterwards one of the first ministers in the Cu1n—
berland Presbyterian Church. The family were
Scotch.-Irish, and originally came from Scotland.
James King Farr moved with his family to Missouri
in 1844, and settled in Johnson county, in sight of
where the town of Chilhowie now stands, where he
bought and cultivated a farm. He was an Elder in
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church a long time,
and was also Judge and President of the Johnson
County Court for fifteen years. He was also Judge
of the Probate Court for several years after the war.
He still lives in Warrensburg, Missouri, respected
and beloved by the entire community. His wife
was Miss Rhoda N. Craig, daughter of Samuel and
Anna Craig, of South Carolina, who afterwards
moved to Montgomery county, Alabrma, where J.
K. Farr met and married her. Mrs. Farr (Aunt
Rhoda as she is now lovingly called) was from
childhood a consistent and worthy member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a devotedly earn-
est and pious woman, of naturally strong mental
characteristics. She raised seven children, and by
her Christian example led them all to become mem-
bers of the same church. A
These two eminent Christians gave to the world
and to the church, W. Benton Farr, and endeavored
to fit him for usefulness to both, giving him the
usual advantages of common and high schools up to

the commencement of the war of the Rebellion.
That completely closed against the young man every
avenue to education for the time being, and by the
time peace came, he was too much engrossed with
other duties to attend school. But he never felt
satisfied with his meagre attainments, and in mature
manhood, after he married and had a family, he
entered McGee College (a Cumberland Presbyte-
rian institution), at College Mound, Macon county,
Missouri.

Mr. Farr has been extremely fond of books and
a devoted student from early childhood, but during
the first years of boyhood was sickly and a greater
portion of the time confined to bed. Even then, he
would manage to get books and pore over them
until they were taken from him. His early predi-
lections were for the profession of law. At the age
of fifteen he made a public profession of religion at
a camp meeting in Johnson county, Missouri, con-
ducted by Revs. R. D. Morrow, D. D., Robert D.
King, J. B. Morrow and other eminent divines, and
shortly afterwards joined the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian Church at “ Old Smyrna,” in the same county.
He soon felt solemnly and deeply impressed with
the idea that his duty was in the ministerial calling,
and consequently placed himself under the care of
the Lexington Presbytery, convened at Chapel Hill,
Lafayette ~. county, Missouri, in 1857. He was
licensed at the ‘fall Presbytery of 1859, at Welling-
ton, Lafayette county, Missouri, Rev. Robert Ren-
ick, Moderator, and was ordained to the full work
of the ministry at the spring Presbytery at Butler,
Bates county, Missouri, in 1861. By order of that

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Presbytery, he organized Bear Creek congregation,
in Johnson county, and there performedhis first
work as an ordained minister.

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force, which required as a pre-requisite to preach-

” ing the gospel, that the minister should make oath

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He preached in 

that and adjoining counties until the war policy of _’

the United States Government forced him, with all
ministers holding Southern sentiments, to leave.
Mr. "Farr went to St. Louis and lived there about a
year, preaching irregularly, when he accepted a call
and moved to Salem, Illinois, and took charge of
the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation. In the
fall of 1866 he returned to Missouri, reorganized
and took charge of the Harrisonville (Cass county)
congregation. In the spring of I867 he was called
to Independence and Westport and moved to Inde-
pendence, but soon gave up Independence and
moved to Westport, (Jackson county), devoting
three—fourths of his time to that congregation and

giving the other fourth to High Blue (Cass county) ‘

congregation, which church he left in a prosperous
condition. He remained at Westport three and one-
half years, but in the fall of 1870 gave up all work
to fulfil his cherished plan of completing a collegiate
education and enter upon a classical course. He
remained there two years, when he was called to the
pastorate of Macon City congregation; he accepted
and removed to that city in 1872, where he has
remained ever since as pastor.

In 1874 the Board of Publication of his church
secured .from the General Assembly its consent for
the establishment of a church organ, to be published
at Nashville, Tennessee, and upon this as a basis of
authority said Board purchased all the weekly papers
then being published in the interests of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church, leaving only the paper
published at Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Farr then
established the “ St. Louis Observer,” in St. Louis,
and issued the first number April 12, 1877. He
was urged to undertake this work by many leading
ministers and members of the church. He much
preferred to continue in his pastoral duties, but the
wants of the church seemed to demand the sacrifice.
The enterprise began with one thousand subscribers,
and is already rapidly increasing, with promise of
extended usefulness and profit to the church and the
proprietor. I

On the return of Mr. Farr to Missouri, at the
close of the war, he visited Warrensburg. In the
court house in that city Rev. J. B. Morrow preached
on the first Sabbath. after Mr. Farr’s return, and
invited him to preach at night, which he did. At
this time, in Missouri, the “ iron-clad oath ” was in

that he had had no sympathy with the Southern
Confederacy duringthe War. This oath Mr. Farr
declined taking, on the ground, among other reasons,
that every Christian entertained sympathy with his
fellow-men in suffering everywhere. An old acquaint-
ance of the family, a Judge of the County Court,
“loyal” exceedingly, heard Mr. Farr preach Sun-
day night at the court house, and on the following
morning approached him with the query, “Have
you taken the oath?” The answer was prompt:
“ No, sir 3 for two reasons: I could not, if I would,
and would not, if I could.” The Judge left him.

The events of the war had so separated the
church officers that it was impossible for its old
Boards to meet for the transaction of business. The
General Assembly of 1863 appointed a “Committee
on Missions,” to transact business ad z'm‘erz'm, and
under the supervision of the General Assembly Mr.
Farr was appointed a member thereof, and continued
on said Committee two years, when the General

Assembly at Evansville, Indiana (1865), appointed"

a new Board, constituted of most of the Committee,
among whom was Mr. Farr. This Board was loca-
ted at Alton, Illinois, and it and the original Board
were afterwards consolidated by the General Assem-
bly and located at St. Louis. Mr. Farr was Presi-
dent of the Board for a year or two, but resigned
his membership thereon in 1875. I

The subject of this sketch has ever been a Dem-
ocrat in politics, receiving at his father’s hands the
name of the old gentleman’s éeazt ideal of Democ-
racy. He has been a Mason for twenty years, and
has taken the Chapter and Commandery degrees,
filling several important offices. He has also been
connected with the Good Templars.

On the 25th of August, 1854, Rev. W. Benton
Farr married Miss Elizabeth Hogan, daughter of
Wilkinson and Mary Hogan, of Johnson county,
Missouri. In the following April she was killed
by lightning, While sitting in the house with her
husband. ‘ -

On the 13th of February, 1857, he married Miss
Louvenia A. Holloway, daughter of Thomas and
Martha S. Holloway, of Cass county, Missouri.
The family were Cumberland Presbyterians. Two
of her brothers——Barnes and William Holloway—
were killed while serving in the Confederate army.
She is a lady of unusually well-balanced mind ; cool,
calm and courageous; an excellent judge of human

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faces, and has been of very great help to her hus-
band during the exciting times of the war, when
even a Christian minister’s life was held on a very
uncertain tenure. . Speaking of this lady, Mr. Farr
acknowledges her good qualities in the remark: “ I
owe most of my success to her prayerful and wifely
counsels and. assistance.” ’

Mr. and Mrs. Farr have been blessed with four
children, only two of whom are now living. Their
daughter, Cora H.—now in her eighteenth year—

is a graduate of the South Missouri State Normal
School‘ at Warrensburg. She was also a pupil at
McGee College, at the same time her father was a
student there. It is said of her that she is one of
the best female mathematicians in the State. Their
youngest child, Finis King, is named after one of
the fathers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
The family residence is now at Macon, Mr. Farr
dividing his time between his pastorate there and
his paper at St. Louis.

JOSEPH M. KNOTT.

LANCASTER.

Sarah Knott, me Gates, was born October 3,
1852, in Hardin county, Kentucky.

His father was a native of Marion county, Ken-
tucky, and emigrated to Missouri in 1851, where
he remained two years. He had, up to this time,
farmed all his life, but in 1853 he removed with his
family to California, and was for six years actively
engaged in mining. His mother was a native of
Georgia, and possessed the warm, loving heart for
which the Southerners are noted.

Joseph obtained his education from the common
schools, and being an earnest student made the
most of his advantages.

In 1866 he began the study of law in Scotland
county, Missouri, and in 1871 was admitted to the bar.

IOSEPH M. KNOTT, son of Samuel c. and

In the same year he located at Memphis, in the same
county, and practiced his profession for two years.

In 1873 he removed to Lancaster, his present
home, where he has been actively engaged as a
leading attorney. L

In 1875 he was appointed Attorney for the town
of Lancaster, and was reappointed in 1876 and ’77.

In March, 1877, he was appointed Prosecuting
Attorney of Schuyler county, and in November of
the same year was elected to that position.

Mr. Knott is a firm Democrat. In May, 1873,
he married Miss Marietta Cochran, of Schuyler
county, Missouri. She is a lady of culture and
refinement, and a devoted wife. Mr. Knott is a
man who has by his honorable dealings won the
confidence and respect of all.

JAMES. E. CADLE.

CHILLICO THE.

AMES E. CADLE was born in Jackson county,
Missouri, March 20, 1830. His father, David

L. Cadle, was a native of Claiborne county,
Tennessee. He came to Missouri in 1829, settling
in Jackson county, where he _spent the greater part
of his life farming. He died in 1842. His mother,
whose maiden name was Esther Lynch, was a native
of Buncombe county, North Carolina, and daughter
of Solomon Lynch, a farmer and early settler of

Jackson county, Missouri. James was raised upon
a farm and educated in the country schools near his
home. At the age of nineteen he went to Grant
City, Worth county, where he engaged for twelve
years in merchandising. During all of these years
he employed his leisure time reading medicine, and
in 1854 began the practice of his profession in Grant
City. In 1856 he a.ttended medical lectures at the
McDowell Medical College, St. Louis. He con-

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tinued his practice in Grant City until 1861, when
he located at Spring Hill, Livingston county, where
he practiced medicine three years. ‘

In 1865 he removed to Nebraska City, where
he remained but a short time, when he returned to
Missouri and permanently located at Chillicothe,
where he practiced medicine until 1873, when he
gave up, as nearly as his many friends would allow
him to do, his extensive practice. He was then

elected to the Missouri Legislature and served one

term. In 1874 he was appointed Deputy County

Clerk of Livingston county. Politically Mr. Cadle
is a Democrat. He is a member of the Southern
Methodist Church. _ In 1848 he married Miss
Lutitia P. Thornton, a native of Daviess county,
Missouri, and daughter of John W. Thornton, an
early settler of that county, but a native of Tennes-
see Mr. Cadle aims to understand the relations he
sustains to society, and be true to those relations.
I11 1875 he was elected Grand Master of Masons,
and finds great satisfaction in the study and practice
of the principles of the Order. I

HON. ERASTUS WELLS.

ST. 20015.

LL the great men of the West are self-made
A From poverty and obscurity they
fought their way in life’s battle to prominence and
honor. Not only this ; they have stamped upon the
institutions and industries of the section their own
characteristics, and have thus given permanency to
every enterprise. In their lives and success is found
demonstrated

111611.

“ The gowd is but the guinea’s stamp——-
The man’s the man for a’ that.”

A volume of the biographies of eminent self-made
men of Missouri would be incomplete without a
sketch of our present subject. He needs no eulogy,
nor any mention. His acts are his monument, endu-
rable as marble. Butrthe book is the necessitous
party.

Erastus Wells, son of Otis and Mary Wells, was
born in Jefferson county, New York, December 23,
1823. By the death of his father, he was left at an
early agea penniless orphan. The financial circum-
stances of his mother made it necessary for him to
work during the summer months on a farm, until he
was sixteen, and hence he could only utilize the dis-
trict schools of his neighborhood in winter. After
leaving the farm he went to Watertown, New York,
where he clerked in a grocery store for eight dollars
per month. In 1839 he engaged as clerk in the busi-
ness firm of Stoughton, Pettibone & Co., of which
Ex-Governor Hunt was a partner, in Lockport, New
York, at a ‘salary of eight dollars, and afterwards
twelve dollars per month.

By the most rigid economy, in four years he had

saved from his hardand meagre earnings one hun-
dred and forty dollars, with which he started West,
reaching St. Louis in September, 1843. In company
with Calvin Case he established an omnibus line in St.
Louis, in November of that year—the first line west
of the Mississippi river—and during the first year
ran but one ’bus, and of this Mr. Wells was driver.
Their route was from the corner of Third and
Market streets, along Third and Broadway to North
Market. During the first year they hardly made
expenses. In 1844 they put on another ’bus; and in
1849 business had so increased that they had fifteen
omnibusses running regularly on the line. Mr.
Wells himself drove one of them for over two years,
and only dropped the lines to do more efficient work
in the management. He finally sold out his interest

_and purchased a lead factory.‘ Ill health necessita-

ting a change, he sold, and then erected a saw mill
in the northern part of St. Louis, but subsequently
leased it to other parties.

In 1850 Mr. Wells, Calvin Case and others, under
the firm name of Case & Co , purchased all the
Omnibus lines in St. Louis, and also established a
line from the city to Belleville, ‘Illinois. The busi-
ness grew rapidly and was very profitable 3 but the
firm was dissolved in 18 56 by the death of Mr. "Case,
in the memorable Gasconade bridge disaster. Mr.
Wells continued as owner of the Market street and
the Olive street lines until 18 59 —or until street cars
superceded omnibusses on said lines.

In the spring of— 1859 four street railway compa-
nies_were organized. One of them, the Missouri,

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THE U/VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL 1)./C7Y01VAA’Y. 151

having two lines, one on Olive street, and one on
Market and Chestnut streets, these being the first
street cars in St. Louis. The daily transportation on
these lines to-day—numbering from eighty-five to one
hundred thousand persons—is in striking contrast to
that of omnibus lines in 1843 and part of 1844,
when the passengers numbered fifty per day. Mr.
Wells was its first President, with which position he
is still honored- In the enterprise of street railways,
or street traveling accommodations, Erastus Wells
must certainly be termed the pioneer, west of the
Mississippi.

Mr. VVells became so interested in St. Louis, and
so identified with its interests, that his appreciative
fellow citizens demanded from him a share of his
time and talent in municipal management. He was
elected to the St. Louis City Council in 1848, and
again in 1854, from which time he was annually
re-elected, and remained one of its most influential
and practical members until his resignation was offered
March, 1869. During his membership he inaugu-
rated, advocated and adopted measures which cul-
minated in the erection of the present magnificent
water works of St. Louis. On behalf of the city he
visited the principal cities of the Union, closely scru-
tinized their water works, and on his return report-
ed elaborately, and finally succeeded in getting the
necessary legislation authorizing an appropriation by
the city government of $3,000,000 in city bonds for
the construction of the works and for the establish-
ment of the St. Louis Board of Water Commis-
sioners, on which he was tendered by Governor
Fletcher a position, but declined serving.

He also secured the enactment of the bill estab-
lishing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police system,
for which the city has increasing pride and constant
cause of thankfulness to the man who made it a law.
March I, 1869, Mr. Wells resigned his position in
the City Council of St. Louis, having been elected
from his district to Congress. He took his seat
March 4, 1869, and was continuously re-elected a
Representative from the same district four times, his
That he
has been true to the interests of the West, and a
useful man to his constituency, it is only necessary
to mention a few‘ of the results of his congressional
labors.

He secured the appropriation of $4,250,000 for

the new Custom House and Post Office of St. Louis,

now in process of erection and giving promise of
being one of the most imposing edifices on the Con-

tinent. He secured the first appropriation ever
made for the improvement of the Mississippi river
between the Missouri and Ohio rivers, a district of
river navigation vitally important to the commercial
-interests of St. Louis. For this he secured an
appropriation from Congress of $200,000, and the
further sum of $1,300, 000, making a total of $1,500,-
000 for channel improvements in the Mississippi
river from the mouth of the Missouri river to Cairo.
Appropriations had been frequently made for the
removal of snags, but not for the water ways. These
two items are sufficient for his monument. But the
records of Congress show many more, and evidence,
also, that he had national pride and interest, with
broad and enlarged views of statesmanship added to
his practical sagacity as a business man.

Probably no man, from New Orleans to the
Rocky Mountains, living or dead, is entitled to more
credit for the now glorious achievement of Eads’
jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi, than Erastus
Wells. His practical mind years ago grasped the
magnitude of the interests at stake. In 1873 he
projected the Congressional Convention at St. Louis
and trip of the members to the Indian Territory,
Texas, and thence. to the mouth of the Mississippi,
during which he so plainly showed the immense
resources of the Mississippi Valley and the Gulf
States, and so plainly demonstrated their necessitous
condition because of the obstructions to navigation
in the Mississippi river’s mouth, that Eastern 1nem-
bers went back satisfied, and the “ Eads Jetty Bill”
was passed. To-day the hordes of agriculturists
along the waters which empty into the Mississippi,
have an European market, and merchants and ships,
almost at their very doors.

Mr. Wells has been connected with almost every
enterprise calculated to enhance the interests of St.
Louis ; interested in all, and in many filling honor-
able and important positions. Besides being a large
share—holder in Street Railways, and President of
one of them, he has also held the position of Direc-
tor in the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company,
President of the West End Narrow Gauge Railway,
President of the Accommodation Bank, and Director

of the Commercial and Third‘ National Bank. In.

1864 he was elected a member to the Convention
which framed the new City Charter of St. Louis,
which was afterward adopted by the Legislature.

V Mr. Wells is still active, vigorous and practical
as ever. He has succeeded. » From poverty and
obscurity he has risen to affluence and renown ,_ from

152 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

the penniless orphan he has become the pride of a
State and a Nation’s Legislator. His name is indel-
ibly impressed on the banks of the Mississippi, on
every granary in that vast valley and in the hearts
of half a million grateful merchants, manufacturers
and agriculturists. H

Erastus Wells married, in 1850, Miss Isabella

' B. Henry, daughter of Hon. John F. Henry, of St.

Louis, and formerly of Jacksonville, Illinois. They
have had five children. Those living are Henry,
Rolla and Isabella C. Mr. Wells lost his wife on
the 18th day of August, 1877, a loving and most
affectionate lady, and beloved by all who knew
her.

HON. THOMAS" HOLLADAY.

fEFFEI€S0./V CITY.

HOMAS HOLLADAY was born in Madison
T county, Missouri, in 1834. He was educated
at Arcadia High School, situated on ground now
belonging to Iron county. After leaving school he
entered the law office of S- C. Collier, Esq., and
began the study of law. He was elected Probate
Judge of Madison county in 1860, and discharged
the duties of the office with honesty and ability, and
to the entire satisfaction of the public. He was
admitted to the bar in 1863 and appointed County
Attorney in 1864. As county counselor he dis-
played that energy, integrity and business intelli-
gence which have marked the whole course of his
public life.

In 1867 he was appointed Receiver in the United
States Land Office at Ironton, Missouri, and proved,
as in his former public positions, admirably adapted
to the faithful discharge of the trusts reposed in him.
He retained the position during Johnson’s adminis-
tration, but was removed for political reasons by
President Grant. In 1869 he resumed the practice of
law and rapidly built up a large and remunerative
practice, which he would have retained and extended
had not failing health compelled him to abandon it

‘altogether.

Judge Holladay has ever taken a deep interest
in political affairs, and as an organizer of party vic-
tories he stands second to no man in Southeast Mis-
souri. To his forecast and discretion the Demo-

- cratic party of that section of the State is indebted

for its most brilliant triumphs. In 1870 he was
elected Circuit Clerk of Madison county,’ and ful-
filled the expectation of his friends by discharging
the onerous duties imposed upon him with skill and
ability. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Demo-
cratic State Convention, held at Jefferson City.

Here he had an opportunity for displaying his excel-
lent judgment in determining the proper basis
of representation. Judge Holladay was one of
a special committee appointed for that purpose.
But he felt compelled to dissent from the report
adopted by the majority, and made a minority
report.
such bodies, was adopted, and its justice and fairness
are established in the fact that the basis suggested

by him has been, since that time, employed by both.

political parties in the State.

I It was agreed by the Democrats assembled in
Convention in 1874, that Southeast Missouri was
entitled to name one of the State officers.

united on Judge Holladay for Auditor of State,
showed that his ability, sagacity and previous efforts
in the cause of his party were appreciated. Hewas
nominated and elected, and such were the zeal,
experience and sound judgment he brought to the
performance of his tasks, that he was renominated
by acclamation in 1876, without a dissenting voice.
He has shown himself one of the most skillful and
efficient officers that ever filled that position in Mis-
souri. During his term of office, he has devoted
his entire time to the improvement of the financial
condition of the State, endeavoring to be liberal
without extravagance and economical without par-
simony. In his recommendations to the Legislature
for biennial appropriations, he has eliminated from

the list of expenditures every item not deemed '

necessary to the promotion of the State’s interest
and necessary to its successful welfare. His former
experience in business, his liberal law education,

his familiarity with public affairs and his knowledge,
‘of the wants of the Sta-te, had thoroughly fitted him

His report, contrary to the usual custom in '

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for the responsible position of Auditor, and the uni-
versal approbation which his official career has
received shows the wisdom of the party in select-
ing him as one of its leading men, and reflects credit
upon the office itself. He has lived to see the credit
of the State largely and rapidly appreciate under his
administration, and bonds which were a drug in the
money market at a heavy discount, on his accession
to the office, are now ready sale at a large premium.

Judge Holladay is a member of the Episcopal
Church, an ardent, zealous, active and practical
advocate of the Christian religion. He was severely
afflicted in early life with rheumatism, and the attack
of this insidious enemy left him a hopeless cripple,

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so much so, that he for over twenty years required

the useof crutches to assist him to walk. But this
has not impaired his usefulness. In all his business
affairs, he is prompt, energetic and exact. Affable

in his manners, courteous in his address, firm in
his convictions, faithful in his attachments and true
to his principles, it is not strange that his friends in
various quarters of the State are urging him as a
suitable person to adorn still higher positions.

In 1864 Judge Holladay was united in marriage“

with Miss Anna Allen, daughter of N. B. Allen,
Esq., of Fredericktown, Missouri, who aided him
in his early struggles, and now shares the pleasure
of his subsequent successes.

REV. BERNARD DONNELLY.

KANSAS CITY.

XPERIENCE has convinced the careful ob-
E server that there is a thousand times more
goodness, wisdom and love in this world than men
imagine. Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is
largeness of mind and sweetness of temper—balsam
in the blood and justice sublimated to a richer
spirit. The greatest man is he who chooses right
with the most invincible resolution; who resists the
sorest temptation from within and without; who
bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calm-
est in storms and most fearless under menaces and
frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue and on
God is most unfaltering. Biography, especially the
biography of the good and great, who have risen
by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness,
is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct

‘tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

In the life of the Rev. Bernard Donnelly we
find that which should inspire the youths of this and
coming generations to lives of usefulness and great-
ness, and it is with pleasure that we note a few‘ of
the many important events of his career. Were his
good deeds faithfully recorded, they of themselves
would furnish material for a volume.

He was born in the townland of Kilnarcreeva,
parish of Lara, county of Cavan, Ireland, June 29,
1810. His parents were John and Rose Donnelly.
He studied Greek and Latin under John Smith and
Edward Tully, both thoroughly acquainted with the

ancient classics, but whose mode of teaching was of
the Hedge-sc_hool system.

Through the influence of a pious mother he was
induced to embrace the priesthood, and began to
prepare himself for the sacred calling to which he
was to consecrate his being. In -compliance with
his mother’s wishes and his own inclination, he left
his native country for America, arriving in New York
in July, 1839. In a few days he left for the West.
Remaining in Ohio nearly a year, he set out for St.
Mary’s College of The Barrens, Perry county, Mis-
souri. Here he studied theology until 1843, when
the theological students were removed by Archbishop
Kenrick to St. Louis. .

Having received the minor orders in due course,
he was ordained to the priesthood by the Most Rev.
Archbishop P. R. Kenrick, during Pentecost, 1845.
He was sent to the then wild and distant Mission,
near the mouth of the Kansas river, where with
immovable tenacity he has remained ever since, a
period of thirty-two years. During twenty years of
this time he was almost daily on horseback, visiting
the Catholics dispersed over some twelve counties
on both sides of the Missouri river.

His mission embraced Independence and West-
port landing, now Kansas City. In the latter place
he found a log cabin church, with a membership of
two hundred, organized by the Jesuit missionaries.
In I856,'amid all the confusion incident upon the

' street.

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border ruffian war, he built St. Mary’s Immaculate
Conception Church, corner of Eleventh and Broad-
way, Kansas City. To-day there are four parishes
in the city, the smallest having a membership of
two thousand. I

As the Church increased it became necessary to
provide a place for the education of the “ Lambs”
of the “Flock.” Father Donnelly then built the
Convent of St.«]oseph, which stands on Washington
This is one of the most complete buildings
in the city and is beautifully adapted to the use for
which it was designed. A The school is_ in a prosper-
ing condition and is ably managed. Among other
relics of pioneer life which Father Donnelly has
preserved, is the first church bell which ever ‘called
the people to the house of worship in this city.
It is used by the Sisters in the Convent as a class
bell. I

When Father Donnelly came to Kansas City
there was no suitable burying ground. He foresaw
the approach of a large population and the necessity
of providing for this want. He accordingly pur-
chased forty acres of land and single-handed began
He has since added seven
acres to the original forty, and after expending

~$I2,ooo upon it and making it one of the most

beautiful “ cities of the dead” in the State, he has
given it over to the hands of an association of thir-
teen members, of whom he is one.
pated the every wa.nt of his people, and like a kind,
indulgent father, has provided for them. A

He has antici-- -

Father Donnelly has_ever been an efficient and
ardent laborer in this important and ever-increasing
field. He has aided directly or indirectly in founding
churches and collecting congregations in Indepen-

dence, Kansas City, Liberty, Lexington, Marshall, .

Weston, Wyandotte City, Westport, Pleasant Hill,
and numerous other places. During his pastoral
career he has witnessed many exciting events, both
local and national, such as the Mexican war, the
Border Ruffian war and the Rebellion.

Having noticed that there were no implements
with which to quarry rock, on his return from his
first visit to St. Louis he brought with him a large
crowbar, two drills,'a sledge, a mason’s hammer and
a trowel—quite unusual pieces of baggage for a
clergyman to carry. He is the first known white
man who quarried rock in Kansas City.

Father Donnelly has become a part of Kansas
City, having come here before it actually existed,
and witnessing its foundation, growth and astound-
ing progress. He is pastor of St. Mary’s Immacu-
late Conception Church, and as such he has ever
been faithful and earnest.

He is a man of scholarly attainments and pro-
found learning, and an able -linguist. He hears
confessions_in four different languages. Father Don-

nelly is very unassuming in manner, of a retiring‘

disposition and pleasing address; on all with whom
he comes in contact is left the impression of his
being an earnest, efficient and faithful laborer in his
Master’s service. ‘

HON. JOHN A. I-IOCKADAY.

FULTON.

OHN A. HOCKADAY was born in Fulton,
I Callaway county, Missouri, in 1836. ' His
~ parents were native Kentuckians, and emigrated
to Missouri in 1820.
Westminster College, concluding his course in 18 56.
After leaving college he wrote in the office of Judge
Bartley, Circuit Clerk, for two years, when he
entered the office of Thomas Ansell and pursued the
study of law. '

In 1859 he was admitted to the bar, and began
the practice of his profession in his native town._ In

' the same year he was elected City Attorney of Ful-

He received his education at

ton, and as such, drew its first code of ordinances.
In 1864 he was appointed to the position of Attorney
for Callaway county, a very responsible position, and
conferring great honor upon one so young, andhad
he not possessed unusual ability he could not have
succeeded. This position he held for two years,
when he was elected to the State Senate. ' His oppo-

_nents at the polls,chagrined at their defeat by one so
I young, determined to deprive him of his seat in the

Senate, and alleging that he had not reached the con-
stitutional age, they ousted the young statesman after
a term of service of ten days. In 1866 he was

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appointed one of the delegates from Missouri to the
National Peace Convention held at Philadelphia.

In 1868 he was the candidate of the Democratic
party for Attorney General of the State, but with the
rest of the ticket was defeated. In the Presidential
canvass of 1871 he became an elector on the Greeley
and Brown ticket from the Thirteenth Congressional
District, making a vigorous canvass of his district,
and the following yearwas appointed on the Board
of Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, located

at Fulton. In 1874 he was again the nominee of his
party for Attorney General of the State, and was
elected, receiving the largest vote of any candidate
on the ticket.

Hon. John A. Hockaday is amiable,
and friendly, entertaining in conversation, and a
favorite with many friends. His career has been
a most wonderful one, having been from early boy-
His reputation is unsullied, and

sociable

hood in public life.
his name honored.

CHARLES ESMONDE KEARNEY.

KANSAS CITY.

MONGST the early settlers of Kansas City,
while it was yet a village, and prominent
among the men to whose indomitable energy and
foresight its wonderful growth and prosperity are due,
stands the name of Charles E. Kearney, for many
years one of its leading business men, and a most
energetic, enterprising and public spirited citizen.
He was born in the county Galway, Ireland, on the
8th of March, 1820, and is one of a family of four
who still survive.

Charles E. Kearney was educated in Galway,
but, in 18 36, when sixteen years of age, he ‘leftschool
and emigrated to America. He arrived in New York,
and having remained there a few years, went South to
Mobile, Alabama, where he was employed as clerk
in a mercantile house. After 'a few years stay in
Mobile, he removed to New Orleans, where he
remained until the commencement of the Mexican
war. He then joined the volunteer forces, becom-
ing a member of Walker’s celebrated company of
Texas Rangers, and served under General Taylor
durin.g his famous campaign, until after the battle of
Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palina, Monterey and of
Saltillo. He then remained for some time on the
Rio Grande engaged in commercial pursuits, but
afterwards returned to New Orleans and St. Louis.
Here, in. connection with H. -J. Cunniffe, he pur-
chased goods and went to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He joined the Santa Fe’ traders in 1847, and contin-
ued in that business until 1852, buying goods in New
York and transporting them overland to Santa Fe,
where he disposed of them to the Mexican dealers,
making annual trips with immense trains.

In 1852 he located in Westport, near Kansas
City, and entered into partnership with W. R Bar-
nard, soon concentrating 'all the Santa Fe outfitting
trade at that point. At the end of three years the
copartnership ceased, and he sold out to Mr.'Bar—
nard who continued the business. In 18 56 he went
to Europe, and after an absence of six months
returned to Kansas City, where he opened a whole-
sale grocery house, and his trade soon became the
largest in the State outside of St. Louis, as well as
the most successful. His entire trade was with New
Mexico, and at the beginning of the late war he
was transacting a business of more than a million
per annum. He was largely engaged in the wool
trade at that time, but owing to the very unsettled
conditions of affairs which the war introduced, he
sold out and went to New York, where he remained
until 1865, during which time he dealt extensively
in gold, stocks and bonds. On leaving New York
he returned to Kansas City, and resumed his busi-
ness, but at theend of the year, at the request
of many friends, he abandoned it and became inter-
ested in railroad matters. Kansas City was then.
suffering from the blighting effects of the war;
her population had dwindled down to a fraction of
what it had been, her streets were deserted, her
stores were closed; her hopes were prostrated, her
citizens were poor and dispirited, whileher rival
cities were rolling in wealth and prosperity, grow-
ing rapidly at her expense. Something had to be
done, and done speedily, if Kansas City was to
regain its former prestige and hold its own in the

race of civilization. As yet no railroad passed

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through the city limits, nor brought wealth and com-
merce to her doors. At this important juncture,
Mr. Kearney was elected President of the Kansas
City and Cameron Railroad, and he proved himself
to be “the right man in the right place.” By untir—
ing energy and invincible will he succeeded, in the
face of many difficulties, and in spite of rival fac-
tions, in building this road, and erecting the fine
By his
agency in completing this railroad, he was the means
of giving that impetus to Kansas City which has
enabled her to far out-distance all her former rivals,
and hold an indisputable passport to a still more
brilliant future.

Mr. Kearney may justly feel proud of the grand
result of his efforts, which, While they far surpass
his expectations, are but the harbingers of a greater
growth and more rapid expansion in the bright
days to come. He remained President of the Kan-
sas City and Cameron Railroad for five years, when
it was consolidated with the Hannibal and St. Joseph
Railroad, and since that time he has been attending
to his real estate. In 1876 he embarked in the grain
trade, in the firm of Kearney & Piper, and in con-
nection with others organized the Call Board for

bridge which now spans the Missouri river.

the concentration of the grain business,’ which is .

now quite an important organization.

Kansas City is growing with wonderful rapidity,
and its grain trade, a few years ago insignificant, is
assuming immense proportions. His house has been

doing and encouraging business, and during April
and part of March, 1877, shipped two thousand
car loads of corn, while three years ago the sale of
one car load was quite an event. Mr. Kearney is
Vice-President of the Board of Trade of Kansas
City, and also holds the position of President of the
Kansas City Mining and Stock -Board, both of which

positions give evidence of the popular regard for his

high commercial attainments.

He was married on the 7th of October, 1852, to
Miss Josephine Harris, daughter of John Harris, an
old resident of Jackson county. She is an estimable
lady, and the domestic fireside is adorned by four
beautiful and loving children—three daughters, and a
son to inherit his father’s virtues and name. Mr.
Kearney is about the medium size, rather stoutly
built, and looks every inch a gentleman. He is
rather retiring in disposition, but is affable and cour-
teous in- manner, a pleasant and agreeable com-
panion and well informed on all the leading topics
of the day. He is a man of high principle and he
is greatly esteemed for his uprightness and unsullied
integrity. He has been largely engaged in the trade
and commerce of the country, and by the interest
and assistance which he has given to every public
enterprise and improvement, has proven himself to be
one of the most public spirited, progressive and ener-
getic men in the community. No man commands
more universal respect ; no name calls forth more
ardent enthusiasm than that of Charles E. Kearney.

JOHN HIRAM LATHROP.

COLUMBIA.

OHN HIRAM LATHROP, ‘son of John and
Prue Lathrop, was born in Sherburne, Che-
nango county, New York, January 22, 1799.

He was of Puritan ancestry and the line of his descent
is remarkable for men of strong mind and sterling
character. In early boyhood studious and thought-
ful beyond his years, his parents felt the necessity
of giving him a thorough education, that he might
attain to that distinction and usefulness of which he
seemed to give promise. He was fitted for college,
after the manner of the day, by a neighboring cler-
gyman, and entered Hamilton College, New York,
in the fall of 1815, taking high rank in all depart-

ments of study. After the second year, deciding to
avail himself of the larger opportunities of Yale, he
joined the Junior Class, and received his degree
from that venerable Alma Maier in I8I9—the salu-
tatorian in standing of his class. Determining to
study law, he accepted a proffered tutorship at Yale,
thus affording him the means of pursuing his studies
in the law department of that institution. Most
flattering testimony was given by Judge Daggett,
head of the Law Faculty, and his assistants, to the
accurate learning and marked ability of young
Lathrop in pursuing the subtleties of the “great
profession,” and it was considered that he might

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early achieve unusual eminence. But a short trial
convinced him that the practice of the law was
uncongenial—however he might be devoted to the
study. He decided to give his energies to the cause
of education, in which he had become deeply inter-
ested. He taught at various points in New England,
presided over a military academy at Norwich, Ver-
mont, and subsequently over the Gardiner Lyceum,
at Gardiner, Maine. From there, in 1829, he was
called to Hamilton College, as Professor of Mathe-
matics and Natural Philosophy.

In 1833 he married Miss Frances E. Lothrop,
of Utica, New York, a niece of President Kirkland,
of Harvard College. In 183 5 Mr. Lathrop was
advanced to the Maynard professorship of Law,
Civil Polity and Political Economy. In 1840 he
was elected First President of the University of the
State of Missouri, at Columbia. He felt this to be
a critical juncture in his life—work. Should he con-
tinue his labors in the East among older, richer and
more cultured communities, where the track was
beaten and clear, where the efforts to maintain the
highest standards of scholarship and mental develop-
ment for the youth of the country were appreciated
and encouraged? Or, should he, with what ability
and skill he possessed, penetrate to the then far west,
a pioneer in the cause of liberal education, taking
upon himself the hard work and scant rewards of
one who was building for the future; pushing on the
cause in the face of every embarrassment incident
to a new and unsettled community? With a char-
acteristic devotion to what he considered the higher
duty, Mr. Lathrop decided to accept the new trust,
and, after six weeks journey, reached his remote
destination. Staging across Western New York,
taking boat at Buffalo around the great lake; sta-

ging again across Illinois, down the Mississippi to St. »

Louis, and up the Missouri to a landing place ten
miles from Columbia. The University existed only
in the appropriation of land made by Congress for
its establishment, and upon Mr. Lathrop devolved
the task of calling it into real life, superintending
the erection of buildings, overseeing the sale of
lands, and maturing plans for -a complete and thor-
ough course of study. Political interference mili-
tated somewhat against its early success, and the
effort to enlighten the legislatures of that time as
to the needs and scope of a university, Mr. Lathrop
found, perhaps, a more serious undertaking than
the instruction of crude youth. But during his
eight years’ residence in Missouri at this time,

by arduous labor and unremitting effort, he suc-
ceeded in organizing a permanent and promising
institution, with buildings unusually substantial and
commodious for the period, an able corps of instruct-
ors, and a curriculum comparing favorably with
that of leading Eastern colleges. One holding the
broad and liberal views of Mr. Lathrop upon all
subjects of importance to the race could not but
be an unswerving friend of human freedom, and
when the slavery agitation began to reach the public
interests-—.even that of education—President Lathrop
deemed it due to himself to resign the charge he
had so successfully conducted in Missouri. In the
autumn of 1849 he accepted the Chancellorship of
Wisconsin State University, at Madison, to which
he had been elected the previous spring. Here his
skill and experience as an organizer of a State edu-
cational system were brought to bear upon much the
same condition of things as he had found in Mis-
souri eight or nine years before. His untiring zeal
and devotion to the cause soon brought order out of
chaos, and there arose on a commanding elevation,
overlooking that most beautiful of little cities—Wis-
consin’s Capital—fair temples of learning, that are
to-day a pride and blessing to the State. The spirit
of a broad and noble culture was invoked to ani-
mate these shrines, and seed-thoughts, looking to an
extended usefulness and steady development, keep-
ing pace with the march of science and philosophy,
were sown broadcast through pamphlets, lectures
and addresses, and cannot cease to vivify, though
the source may be lost sight of in the dimness of the
past.

After ten years’ residence in Madison, amid the
pleasantest social relations, Mr. Lathrop was induced
to accept the twice offered Presidency of Indiana
State University—a well-established institution—
though under temporary embarrassments, which his
administration hoped to relieve. After a year
devoted to this end, he felt strongly inclined to lay
aside the cares of administration, with which he had
been burdened so many years, -and accept a profes-
sorship in the Missouri University, a retreat in the
growing shade of the tree planted and watered by
his own hand in time gone by. He returned in 1860
to Columbia, his first Western home, to which he
had remained supremely attached, and was received
with the most gratifying expressions of loyal affection
and esteem by his old friends throughout the State.
The complications of the civil war bringing his
administrative power again into requisition, as act-

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ing President, he preserved the continuity of the
University during the four years of terrible convul-
sion of which Missouri, as a border State, felt the
most disastrous effects 3 and in 1865 was officially
confirmed President forthe second time. .

Under the new and promising conditions of peace
in Missouri, Dr. Lathrop matured plans in accord-
ance with his cherished idea for making the Univer-
sity such in the fullest sense, by the establishment
of schools for the various professions and arts in
connection with the academic department. He put
on foot efforts for securing the agricultural college fund
to the University, and everything seemed to point to a
great step forward in the history of the institution.
Suddenly Dr. Lathrop was stricken down by an
acute attack of typhoid fever, and died in the midst
of his labors, on the 2nd of August, 1866. He rests
in the cemetery at Columbia, and a spire of Massa-
chusetts granite records the leading events of his
useful and beneficent life.

Dr. Lathrop possessed a clear, logical mind,
capable of broad generalization and disciplined by
years of critical study. His grasp of any subject
thathe handled was thoroughly comprehensive and
exhaustive. His humor was refined and graceful;
his sarcasm keen and delicate, and his diction fin-
ished and elegant. He was an extensive writer,
communicating with the public in lectures, pain-
phlets, addresses and the daily press, upon a variety
of subjects, for which his varied learning and sound
philosophy especially fitted him. Education, finance,
free trade, internal improvements, agriculture,
besides the philosophies of his class lecture-room,
were some of the matters of general importance
that engaged his able pen from time to time. He
carried on a large literary and social correspondence,
and his letters might be taken as models of their
kind. During Dr. Lathrop’s long and varied pro-
fessional life, he filled every chair of instruction
common to the universities of modern times, show-
ing a rare extent and versatility of learning His

favorite department was the philosophy of morals. .

His lectures on ethics were an original and forcible
development of the subject, combining and harmon-
izing the advanced views of modern thinkers with
the fundamental truths and faith of Christianity. It
is to be regretted that, in the busy routine of his
life, he failed to carry out his intention of editing,
in book form, his system of ethics, and other va.lua-
ble matter to which he had given much thought and
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which are already sanctioned by the logic of events.
Early in life he took the then startling position that
there was no necessary connection between the pro-
fessions of teaching and theology, that either the
one or the other should absorb the entire energies of
the man, as in law or medicine. And the growing
distinctness of the profession of the “educator,”
proves this view of the case to have come into gen-
eral recognition-. He was of opinion that no restric-
tion should be put upon the education or vocation
of woman, and his belief that the higher institutions.
of learning would be thrown open to all who could
pass the necessary examinations acceptably is sus-
tained by present facts. Socially, it is perhaps not
too much to say of Dr. Lathrop that he was “facile
pm’/zceps.” Universally affable and approachable to
all classes of society, with fine conversational powers
united to a dignified and courtly address, he left an
uneffaceable impress upon all communities with
which he was associated. Though naturally of a
delicate constitution, by the same conscientious
observance of the laws of health which he gave to
all law, human and divine, in his perfectly regulated
life, he rarely lost a day from illness, and at sixty-
seven years of age no symptom of old age had

‘diminished his power of endurance, or limited his

usefulness. Only a few days before his sudden pros-
tration by the acute disease that so soon proved
fatal, he writes playfully to his old friend Gerrit
Smith: “Age is ripening you and me; decay we
don’t admit; we will continue to sow seed-thoughts
while we may ; the harvest is by and by.” The
character of one so modest in asserting his own
claims, and so unselfish in his labors for the general
good as Dr. Lathrop, usually meets its fullest and
most thorough appreciation among those who knew
it best, and to those who enjoyed personal friendship
with him, and to his “noble army of students,”
scattered all over this and into other countries, who
held him, almost without exception, in respect and

love amounting to veneration, he was “the noblest _

Roman of them all,” and in the tender relations of
family, he was the beloved husband and father, the
guide, philosopher and friend. Dr. Lathrop’s reli-
gion was that of humanity, of charity, with a faith
in the benevolent government of the universe by a
Supreme Power, and a hope of immortality of pro-
gression and development beyond the grave. He had
no sectarian bias, though an unfailing attendant upon
church service——contributing to all churches alike.

Late in life he was confirmed in the Episcopal

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Church, having long had a preference for its mode
of worship.
which had regulated his life sustained him in the
hour of death. In an address delivered upon his
installation as Chancellor of Wisconsin University,
Dr. Lathrop gives his conception of the ideal pro-
fessor—a description that might well be applied to
his own character——and in that we find a fitting
answer to what was once said by some baffled inqui-
rer, that it was impossible to find out Dr. Lathrop’s
politics or religion. He was, to use his own words
in closing his tribute to the ideal educator, “too

The exalted Christian philosophy‘

intensely American to be partisan, too profoundly
Christian to be sectarian.” "

Dr. Lathrop had seven children; the youngest
three—a son and two daughters—survive him. His
eldest daughter, Carrie, is married to William M.
Smith, Esq., ex-United States Marshal for the VVest-
ern District of Missouri, and now a member of the
Kansas City bar. Tessie, the second daughter, is the
wife of Charles C. Ripley, Esq., late assistant Cash-
ier of the Commercial National Bank, Kansas City.
The son, Gardiner Lathrop, Esq., is an attorney—at-
law, practicing his profession at Kansas City.

S. S. TODD, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

IMEON SEYMOUR TODD, M‘. D., Professor
of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, in the

Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons, is V

the third son of David A. Todd, grandson of Owen
Todd, and great grandson of John Todd, who emi-
grated from Scotland to Virginia about the year
1740, and from thence to what is now Lexington,
Kentucky, in the year 1780. With this hardy,
Scotch, Virginia pioneer, c-ame his family, consist-
ing, beside himself, of four sons, John, Robert,
Levi, Owen, and one daughter," Hannah. John,
the eldest son, was a Colonel in the United States
service, and fell in the well-known battle with the
Indians at the Blue Licks. He left one child only,
a daughter. The other brothers each left large
families, whose descendants, now numbered almost
by thousands, are widely dispersed over the Middle,
Western and Southwestern States. John Todd, the
pioneer, claimed a noble mid-Lothian ancestry, in
whose veins flowed even royal blood. His name,
and those of his children, are most intimately asso-
ciated with the history of the primitive settlement of
Kentucky, and that State, in naming her counties,
has most gratefully and graciously memorialized the
young husband and father, who was among the first
to fall on the fatal field at the Blue Licks.

Simeon Seymour Todd was born near Vevay, in
Indiana, at the home of his maternal grandfather,
Hiram Ogle, March Io, 1826. His first teacher was
a. quaint old English gentleman named Baker, father

of the orator, statesman and soldier, General E..D.
21

Baker, who fell at the battle of Ball’s Bluff during
the late civil war. Possessing brilliant and extraor-
dinary talent, and having acquired a good English
education in the schools of hisnative locality, at
the age of nineteen he entered the office and became
the pupil of Dr. William Davidson, a Scotch physi-
cian of much local repute, at Madison, Indiana.
Under his preceptorship, in addition to a most rig-
orous and thorough schooling in the fundamental
branches of medicine, he gained a tolerable knowl-
edge also of the Greek, Latin and French languages.
After four years of pupilage, and a few months of
hospital service with the army in Mexico, whither he
had gone during the war with that country, he found
himself a member of the Senior Class in the Indiana
Medical College, then located at Laporte. In Feb-
ruary, I849, with eighteen others, he received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine, and was otherwise
awarded the highest and most meritorious honors of
his class. Soon after this he began the practice of
his profession at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, and in
October of the subsequent year was married to
Miss Judith Ann Ridgeway, daughter of Jeremiah
Ridgeway, of LaPorte, Indiana. This marriage was
blessed with two sons. His health failing, however,
after a few years, he moved with his family to Cali-
fornia in 1854, by the overland route, and reached
Sacramento in September of that year. Then suc-
ceeded a period of two years in the gold mines of

Plumas county, where he practiced his profession

and conducted mining operations at the same time.

160 THE UNITED STATES EIOGIBAPIIICAI, DICTIO./VARY.‘

with a pecuniary experience which though not
resulting in riches, was more than rich in its results,
since it furnished the material to both mind and

body that made future successes in life no barren _

possibility; it was indeed strictly in keeping with
the rugged, physical features of the‘ locality, full of
Alpine heights of success and abysmal failures.
During the next five years he lived a comparatively
quiet and uneventful life in the beautiful little city
of Santa Rosa, county -seat of Sonoma county,
where he met with an old friend and class—mate, Dr.
J. F. Boyce, with whom .he entered into an agreea-
ble professional co-partnership,_ which lasted for five
years. At Santa‘ Rosa his two children were born.
At the breaking out of the late civil war in 1861,
Dr. Todd was still pursuing his studies and practic-
ing his profession in San Francisco, which he had
determined to make his permanent home, but when
an urgent call for troops was made he offered his
services to the government, was appointed Surgeon
of the 2d and afterwards of the 4th Regiment of
California Volunteers, and served in this capacity till
the close of the war. He then, at the earnest solic-
itation of friends, settled up his affairs in California,
and took a final leave of the Pacific coast.

In September of the same" year he became a
resident of Kansas City. Having lost his wife dur-
ing his residence in California, he was married again

J in January, 1867, to Mrs. Thirza F. Dean, daughter

of Thomas Scott, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
widow of Dr. Wm. "H. Dean, of Minnesota. In
September of 1869, he, with several others, founded
the Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons,
and he has filled the Chair as Professor of Obstetrics
and Diseases of Women, and has been Dean of the

Faculty ever since its organization. . In 1872 he was
elected Vice-President of the Medical Association
of the State of Missouri, and in 1873 he was elected
President of the same. -

Dr. Todd has been an intelligent and liberal
contributor to the medical literature of the day, and
an ardent, earnest and successful worker in the
cause of medical education. As a writer and a lec-
turer he is brilliant, clear, original, concise and
forcible. For some years past his studies have
been mainly directed in the channel of gynecic
medicine and surgery, in which he is ‘gaining
prominence, especially as an ovariotomist. He is
a member of the Kansas City District Medical
Society; ‘honorary member of the Kansas State
Medical Society; honorary member of the Medical
Association of the State of Missouri, Correspond-

ing member of the Boston Gynecological Society,‘

and member of the American Medical Association.

Personally, Dr. Todd is of slender,
figure, five feet ten inches in stature, of dark coin-
plexion, dark hair and eyes, attractive and pleasing,
and though apparently not of robust organization,
the prospects are fair that he will live many years to
practice his profession and reap the reward of his

sinewy

useful life. ,Dr. Todd is very systematic, decided-

and industrious, taking great pride in his profes-
sion and endeavors to ennoble it. That which he
does is well done; and it is said by his associates
that he has performed successfully some of the most
difficult. and important operations in his special
branch of the profession. He is a man who delves
deeply in pursuit of scientific knowledge; an honor
to his professional contemporaries, and an intelligent,
useful and highly esteemed citizen of Kansas City.

A JUDGE ELDRIDGE BURDEN.

LEXING TON.

UDGE ELDRIDGEIBUIRDEN was born in
J Nicholas county, Kentucky, December 27,
1802, being the youngest child of James and
Mary (Brain) Burden, of Virginia. His father was
a soldier of the Revolution and served, in company
with his brother, Joel Burden, under Gen. Wash-
ington. After the war Joel Burden settled at Phila-
delphia, where his descendants now reside.

The parents of Eldridge settled in Nicholas
county, Kentucky, where they died, leaving him,
at the age of seven, a penniless orphan. Governor
Thomas Metcalf, of Kentucky, assumed his guar-
dianship, and he was adopted as a member of the
Governor’s family, receiving from the teaching and
example of his noble benefactor those principles of
probity and ambition for usefulness which distin-

THE UZVITED STATES B100]?/JPIJICAZAL DICTZO./VA]€Y.

guished his after life. He qualified himself to coin-
mence the study of law by laboring in his youth

for the means withwhich to defray his expenses at .

schooL

A He was educated at Transylvania University,
Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated with
honors in the year 183 3, and the same year removed
to Lexington, Missouri, where he has since resided,
in active practice of the law, his chosen profession.

He was married on the 26th day of October,
1837, to Patsey Triplett Waddell, daughter of John
T. .Waddell, one of the founders of Lexington, Mis-
souri.

Mr. Burden was an old line Whig and found when
he settled in Lexington only fifty members of his
party to oppose an overwhelming Democratic major-
ity in Lafayette county. In 1838 he entered the
political arena as champion of the Whig cause in his
section, and in a few years enjoyed the satisfac-
tion of seeing his party largely in the ascendancy.
During the war, and since, he has affiliated with the
Democratic party. ‘He served eight years in the
Missouri Legislature, from the session of 1842 at
intervals until 1860, during which time he was
thrice elected President of the State Bank at Lex-
ington, on joint ballot of that Democratic body,
over prominent candidates of the dominant party.
For twelve years he was Judge of the Probate Court
of his county——a court at that time of extensive
jurisdiction-——and served with marked ability, having
but one appeal from his decisions. During thelate
war an earnest Unionist, he declined the tendered
appointment as judge of the sixth judicial circuit,
made by Governor Gamble, because at the time he
was junder fparole of honor from the Confederate

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161

government. He -was one of the originators and
champions of the bill abolishing imprisonment for
debt, and the success of that measure in Missouri
was mainly attributable to his able efforts in its advo-
cacy. In the halls of legislation and in the Federal
and State courts, he was the compeer of Doniphan,
Ryland, King, Rollins, Leonard and other eminent
men of the State.

He is a Mason, and a member of the Christian
Church. He was vice-president of the first horticult-
ural society of Missouri and the first mayor of Lex-
ington, and has served in many official capacities of
a public nature 3 in fact, since his location in Lafay-
ette his history may be said to be that of the county,
for he has been identified with every event of a
political and municipal ‘character.

Judge Burden, although past the meridian of life,
is possessed of a vigorous constitution and great
physical strength, remarkably well preserved by his
temperate life and moral habits, eschewing the use
of tobacco and ardent spirits, His judicial qualifi-

cations are of the first order, enabling him_with J

comparative ease to follow the thread of law through
all the subtleties of complicated legal questions.
His life presents an example of more frequent occur-
rence in our own country than any other, where
men without the extraneous influences of wealth and
high connections, by their unaided efforts raise them-
selves to the highest positions of honor, and acquire
the esteem and confidence of their countrymen in
consideration alone of their own intrinsic merits.

In all the walks of public life Judge Burden

served his country with zealous fidelity, and expects

to pass his remaining days with those among whom
he has grown gray in honorable usefulness.

CLARKE IRVINE.

OREGO./V.

LARKE IRVINE was born in Mount Vernon,
O11iO, October Io, 1830.
C. Irvine, was born in the same place in 1804. His

mother, Martha N. Bartlett, was a native of Salem,
New York.

family of Irvinestown, Ireland, who emigrated to
the United States and settled in Pennsylvania about
the Year 1785. His parents are yet surviving.

His father, James

He is a descendant of a well known '

The subject of this sketch received all the advan-
tages of a liberal, classical and scientific education,
in Kenyon College, Ohio. He afterwards spent two
years at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. He so
well improved his opportunities that he is now justly
regarded as one of the best educated men in the
State. He was designed from his earliest life for
the profession of law, which he studied in the office

162 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIGY.

of H. B. Curtis, Esq., in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

In 1851 he moved to Cincinnati, where he
remained in the practice of his profession till 18 5 3,
when he moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, Wherehe
resided until 1855. He then returned to his old
home in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and after remaining
a year he moved to Washington county, Nebraska.
There he resided two years, actively engaged profes-
sionally, and there he assisted in raising the timbers
of the first court house erected within the limits of
the territory.

In January, 18 58, he settled in his present home.
in Oregon, Missouri, where he has since resided
engaged in the practice of his profession, in the real
estate and in the claim agency business. In his
religious views Mr. Irvine has always been extremely
liberal. Unitarian in principle he has never affiliated
with any religious organization. Originally a Dem-
ocrat, his first presidential vote‘ was cast for Franklin
Pierce. He was one of the first to join the Repub-
lican party at its organization in 1855, at the Cleve-
land (Ohio) Convention, and afterwardsat its fuller
organization in Columbus. He voted for Abraham
Lincoln.
in the Territory of Nebraska, and of course could

When Fremont was a candidate, he was_

not vote. He acted uniformly with the Republican
party till Grant’s race for the second term, when he
voted for Greeley.i He had, however, previously
voted for B. Gratz Brown when he ran for the office
of Governor of Missouri. He was impelled to this
step by the liberal views he entertained in regard to
the enfranchising of the rebels. He has taken ‘a
lively interest in the great financial questions of his
time.’ -

In the spring of 1877 he began the publication of
the A701! Cozmzy Press, a weekly journal established
in Oregon, Missouri, and which he now edits with
recognized ability, in the interests of the Greenback
and Free Trade Democracy.

He married, December 1', 1859, in Omaha,
Nebraska, Miss Anne K. Johnson, adaughter of
Hadley D. Johnson, Esq., a prominent politician
of Council Bluffs, Iowa. They have three sons:
Leigh, aged eighteen; Louis, aged sixteen, and
Clare, aged eleven.

In person Mr. Irvineis five feet eleven and one-
fourth inches high, and weighs two hundred and
ten pounds. He is a man of popular address, fine
social qualities and marked originality of thought
and expression.

SAMUEL ARC-1‘lER.

I(AIVSAS CITY.

AMUEL ARCHER was born September 26,
S 1838, on a farm in Brooke county, Virginia,
—now West Virginia—opposite the city of Steuben-
ville, Ohio. He was the youngestof a family of
six children, _five of whom were boys. I

His great-grandfather Archer left Scotland about
1762, and sojourned in Ireland ten years, after which
he came to America and settled near Carlisle, Pa.
VVhile in the wilderness, making an improvement on
a “ claim,” he was caught in a storm and had his feet
so badly frozen that they had to be amputated, after
which he walked on his knees. He removed to
Washington county, Pennsylvania, near the present
site of Canonsburg, about 1:788, and subsequently to
Brooke county, Virginia, where he died in 1810.

His grandfather, Ebenezer Archer, was born in
Pennsylvania about 1772, and was married at Can-
onsburg in 1794. In 18oo he removed to Brooke

county, Virginia, and cleared up a farm, which is yet
He died in 1814.

Samuel Archer, Esq., the father of the subject of
our sketch, was born near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania,
July 4, 1795, and removed to Brooke county, Vir-
ginia, with his parents in 1800. He was married in-
1819, and purchased a large farm on-the Virginia
side of the Ohio river and overlooking Steuben-
ville. This has been his home, with the exception
of a few years, ever since, and this old homestead
now belongs to his son, James Archer. Although
he is now eighty—two years old, he is active in mind
and body and is acknowledged as a man of good
judgment and clear conception. He was one of the
Justices which composed the Brooke County Court,

owned by his daughter’s family.

in the State of Virginia, for many years, and his.

opinion was highly esteemed. He studied the prin-
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and in his official business had a great faculty of
persuading disputants to settle difficulties amicably.
His wife, Mary Lee, was born in 1800, and was of
the old Lee family of Scotch origin, of which some
of the descendants were prominent actors in the late
civil “ War for the Union.” She was a woman noted
for great energy, perseverance, stability of character
and strength of mind, and in her personal appear-
ance was commanding and noble. She died in
May, 1853. Thus we find that Samuel Archer,
the subject of this sketch, traces his ancestry back
to Scotland, where they were of the Scotch Presby-
terian faith, most of the descendants in America
being Presbyterians.

Samuel obtained his early education in a log
school-house of his native county. He subsequently
attended a few sessions at an academy and_at Wash-
ington College, Pennsylvania, finishing with a com-
mercial course at Duff’s College, Pittsburgh, Pa.
When but a small boy, he delighted to handle stock,
and particularly cared for lambs. On leaving school
he, from choice, returned to the farm, having in View
especially the care and improvement of sheep, of
which his father gave him seventy-five head from
the old stock. With these, in 1860, he com-
menced business for himself on the old homestead,
where he remained three years.

In 1864 he purchased a farm near Holliday Cove,
Hancock county, West Virginia, and began the im-
provement of his stock. He made several trips to
the New England States to purchase thoroughbred
Spanish Merino sheep. Upon his first visit to Ver-
mont, in 1864, he purchased of Mr. Edwin Ham-
mond ten ewes, paying for them $4,000 ; one ewe,
Flora second, from Henry Hammond, paying him
$400, and from Mr. S. G. Holyoke, of St. Albans,
six first choice of his yearling ewes and one two-year
old ewe for $2, IOO. Mr. Archer’s sheep are descend-
ants of Mr. Humphrey’s importation, who obtained
the permit from the Queen of Spain, and most likely
selected from the cabana belonging to the Duke of
Infantado. These investments, made at a day before
the question of good blood in stock had been so much

agitated in the West, brought him to the notice and ‘

acquaintance of the best sheep-breeders in the coun-
try, among whom was Hon. H. S. Randall, of New
York, author of standard works on Sheep Hus-
bandry, and whose friendship and esteem Mr. Archer
enjoyed until the former’s, death. His friendly

‘intercourse with these leading thinkers, writers and
workers in the sheep and wool growing business, ’

together with his own experience, has been a thor-
ough schooling to him, and Dr. Randall’s prediction
that “he is a rising man in the business,” has already
been fulfilled. Every faculty in his power is brought
to bear in this life work of his own selecting. In
his own words, “I regard the keeping and improve-
ment of sheep which may be made to produce food
and clothing for mankind, the most ancient as well
as one of the most honorable employments of man.
In the business I acknowledge no perfection and see
no limit to improvement.” Mr. Archer has traveled
extensively East and West, North and South, in the
interests of his business. He is well known to
many leading journals, and has written many valua-
ble articles on the subject of sheep and wool, which
have received the highest approvals from eminent
men engaged in the business. A

In the spring of 1872, having sold his farm in
West Virginia, he moved with his family to Jackson
county, Missouri, near Kansas City, where he now
resides, bringing with him his fine flock, in which he
has produced some noted animals. In the spring of
I87 5 he sold to his oldest brother, Wm. L. Archer,
of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, one-half interest in
the two-year old ram “Denver” for $500. In 1876
they took this ram and several ewes to the Cen-
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia, and were there
awarded a medal and diploma on them. While
there he sold a one-tenth interest in “ Denver” to
W. A. Herriott, Esq., of Oakdale, Pennsylvania,
for $400. The estimated value of this animal at
Philadelphia was $6,000—but these actual sales are
unmistakable evidence of ability and progress in his
business.

Mr. Archer has for many years been connected
with agricultural societies, and has for several years
been Vice-President of the National Wool Growers’
Association.

Politically he is a Republican, having cast his
first vote for Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860.
He says, “ My political creed is: Political and civil
government assuring free and equal liberty of con-
science, speech and action for all men, in that which
is right and in the pursuit of happiness, at the same
time scrupulously guarding the citizens by law from
infringement upon the rights of others.” His reli-
gious views a.re grounded upon his early teachings
from the Bible. His parents’ greatest concern in life
with their family was to teach that there is a living
God who is the creator and ruler of the universe,
and that we, “His creatures, have lost communion

164 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIOZVAZBY.

with him and are under the fealty of God’s first cov-
enant with 1nan—death, temporal, spiritual and eter-
nal—and unless we are redeemed by the plan set

forth in the Word, we shall be lost to eternal punish— .

ment.” Mr. Archer’s own investigations have given
him no reason to change from his early teachings.
His belief in point of doctrine is in accordance with
the United‘Presbyterian Church, to which he belongs
and in which he is a Ruling Elder. He believes that
God’s mercy is infinite and his justice unchangeable.

January I 3, 1864, Samuel Archer married‘Mary
Wylie, daughter of Andrew and Amanda (Tarr)
Wylie, of Hancock county, West Virginia. Her
father still lives, at the age of seventy—one, on the
old homestead, which was mostly cleared up by his
parents, who emigrated from Scotland. Her grand-
father, Peter Tarr, was a descendant of one of the
old Virginia families who have held so many promi-
nent positions in that State.

Mrs. Archer’s early education was obtained at
the country schools of her native place, she gradu-
ated in the scientific course at VVestminster College,
New Wilmington, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, in
the class of 1859. They have five bright, interesting
children, who are the joy of their hearts and the
light of their home: Minnie Lee, born November 25,
1864; Samuel, born May 31, 1868; Andrew Wylie,
born February I2, 1870, Amanda Tarr, born Decem-
ber 24, 1871, and Alice Cary, born February 22,
1876.

Mr. Archer has been financially successful. He
is quiet in his manner, temperate in his habits, and
makes no boastful pretensions to notoriety. He is a
man of great motive temperament and remarkable
force of character. He is yet young, in the vigor
of his manhood, and, much as he has already
achieved, his history if he lives lies largely in the
future.

JOHN SIDNEY MOORE, A. M., M.D.

ST. LOUIS.

county, North Carolina, October 5, 1807. He

is from an old Irish and English family, whose
characteristics of industry and studiousness this son
seems to have inherited. By long study and careful
research he has made himself a proficient in the sci-
ence of medicine, and finally became one of the
fathers of medicine in St. Louis and the West. After
receiving a liberal education at the common schools
of his State, he entered Cumberland College, Prince-
ton, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1828. His
last course of lectures was at the Medical College, at
Cincinnati,where he graduated in the Spring of 1836,
after which he located in Pulaski, Tennessee, and

JOHN SIDNEY MOORE was born in Orange

there engaged in the profession of medicine for five

years. _

In 1840 Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell conceived
the idea of establishing a medical college in St.
Louis. The subject of this sketch had been a former
pupil of his, and he at once wrote to him, requesting
him to move to'St. Louis and enter upon the under-
taking with him. Dr. Moore accepted, and in Sep-
tember of that year came to the city. Within six
months they had secured a charter, organized a

. faculty, and Kemper College was regularly inaugu-

rated. The faculty consisted of Joseph N. Mc-
Dowell, M. D.,_Dean of the Faculty and Professor
of Anatomy and Surgery, John S. Moore, A. M.,
M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of

Women and Children; J. DeWolff, A. M., M. D., _

Professor of Chemistry, Josephus W. Hall, M. D.,
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine;
H. A. Prout, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica
and Therapeutics. The first session opened in
November, 1840. In 1847 the Medical ‘Department’
of Kemper College became the Medical Department
of the State University of Missouri. The faculty,
after ten years, secured a new charter and organized
the Missouri Institute of Science, the medical depart-
ment being styled the Missouri Medical College.
Dr. Moore was transferred in 1841 to the Chair
of Principles and Practice of Medicine, which he
occupied till 1877. He now ‘fills the Chair of Prin-
ciples of Medicine and lectures bi-weekly. The
friends of the institution, unwilling to forego the
benefits of his talents, continue to force him into
duty notwithstanding his age. _
The college has become a grand success, and to

THE ‘U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO/VAIEY. 165

no one man is attributable its honor and prestige in
a greater degree than to the subject of this sketch.
For nearly forty years he has been a faithful, devo-
ted, untiring friend and officer or professor of the
college; his pupils have become prominent men in
the science of medicine and are scattered all over
the Union. A distinguished professor of Missouri
says of Dr. Moore: “He was always the favorite
of the class.”

The Missouri Medical College is the pioneer
institution of the kind West of the Mississippi. Dr.
Joseph N. McDowell is entitled to the honor of being
its originator; but Dr. John Sidney Moore is its
recognized father. The maturer years of his life
have been devoted to its success, and under his
guardian care it has grown to its present greatness.
He is now President of the Board of Trustees, in
addition to his duties as professor.

In September, 1869, Dr. Moore was elected Vice
President of the American Medical Association, at
its session held in the city of New Orleans. He is
also an honorary member of the Medical Society of
California——an honor conferred upon him as a recog-
nition of the high esteem in which the medical men
of that State hold him. He has been a member of
the St. Louis Medical Society for the past thirty
years, and was for a term its president.

Dr. Moore has been a member of the Odd Fel-
lows since 1843, and has passed through all the
offices of the order. In politics, he was formerly_an

Old Line Whig,‘although his first vote was cast for
Andrew Jackson for President. Since the demise of
his old party, he has Voted with the Democrats, but
has never taken any active part in political life.

In 1829 Dr. John Sidney Moore was married to
Miss Susan A. Morrison, a native of Kentucky, and

daughter of Professor D. L. Morrison, of Cumberland‘

Col1ege—originally from New Jersey. She still lives
and lightens the home of her husband. One son and
three daughters have been born to them, all living.
His son, Colonel John C. Moore, of Kansas City, is
well known throughout Missouri as a talented and
sprightly newspaper writer. '

The writer of this sketch cannot close without a
tribute to this venerable Father of Medicine—his
own personal meed of praise to a man who has, prob-
ably, done more to honor his profession than almost
any physician in the West. For nearly half a cen-
tury he has been identified with his school of science
and has made a name among his fellows at once
venerated and honored. The medical fraternity
will sanction the assertion, that John  Moore is
deservedly the Leader in Medicine in the West.
At the same time, his private character is above
reproach. In business transactions, while he has
succeeded in making a handsome competence, no
one can charge him with ever handling a dishonest
penny. Altogether, his life is a fine study for all
men, and his laborious endeavors a fit example for
younger students who may read this sketch.

GEORGE POIGNAND PLANT.

ST. 1. OUIS.

'ERY' few men, in the common walks of life,
V have died upon whom has been lavished more
praise than upon the subject of this sketch, and
coming from such high eulogists—bishops, ministers,
merchants, journals and associations—we feel assured
it was smerited. Nor from these alone came testi-

monials to his worthy name; his employés, men of‘

labor, strong nerves and stout hearts, “unused to
the melting mood,” dropped their tools to mingle
their tears with the city’s mourners at the good man’s
grave. .

George Poignand Plant was born in Clinton,

iMassachusetts, March 23, I814, and was the eldest

son of Samuel Plant and Mary Delicia Plant. Like
all New England boys, he was early trained to
thrift and labor in his boyhood home, laying the
foundation of those solid habits which‘ afterward
made him so successful and so highly honored. In
his early education his mind was trained by a gifted
sister, and directed to those studies and pursuits to
which he owes the eminence he attained. Hisfather
was the proprietor of cotton mills in Massachusetts,
and was a gentleman of cultivated literary tastes.
His own library furnished his children with choice
reading, chiefly mechanical and scientific. The

cotton mill afforded a practical school for ithe_appli- '

J P. Plant & Co.

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cation of the knowledge gained. But our subject
was almost entirely self-instructed, he was industri-
ously studious, and with the little assistance obtain-
able, mastered his early studies with ease. He also
enjoyed the advantages of some scientific instruction
from a graduate of Williams and two graduates of
Yale College. Before he had completed his studies
the boy had chosen civil engineering as a profession,
and in order to acquire the practical education
necessary thereto, he engaged himself to Major
Whistler, and was by him employed on the railroad
between Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts.
The then rapidly developing West attracted his
attention, as offering a field for his talents. Having
acquired a practical knowledge of his profession, he

-determined to go to the Mississippi Valley, where

were then being projected various lines of railroads
and canals.

In 183 5 he went to Taylorsville, Kentucky, but
after spending a short time with his uncle, David
Poignand, he went to Jacksonville, Illinois, and
located. He was soon employed as chief engineer
in building the first railroad west of the Alleghany
Mountains. The first rail was laid at Meredosia,
Illinois, May 9, 1838, and the first locomotive was
put on the track (which was completed eight‘ miles),
November 8th, of the same year, so that Mr. Plant
is entitled to the credit of bringing the first locomo-
tive into the Mississippi Valley. In less than an
average life-time the Union has become iron-ribbed
with nearly seventy thousand miles of railway.

In 1839 Mr. Plant removed to St. Louis, and in
1840 built a planing mill with a small grist mill
attached; but soon afterward changed it into the
Franklin fiouring mills. The firm name was George
He afterwards associated with him-
self his brother, Samuel Plant, but that gentleman
dying in 1866, George P. Plant received into part-
nership his son, G. J. Plant; and afterward George
H. Plant, son of Samuel Plant. The original capi-
tal invested by Mr. Plant was very small, the earnings
of a few years in civil engineering and surveying.
The building was then a frame structure (still stand-
ing), and was quite outside of the main town. The
establishment has enjoyed a gradual increase of
prosperity, and its proprietors have improved and
increased their buildings until now they cover 7 5 feet,
fronting on Franklin avenue, and running back to a
depth of 124 feet. The firm have also established a
large barrel factory, which, together with the mill,
gives employment to from one hundred to one hun-

dred and fifty men. The business, since the death
of its originator, has been carried on by G.  Plant,
son of our subject, and G. H. Plant, son of Samuel
Plant, retaining the firm name of George P. Plant
&: Co.

Mr. Plant, during his business career in St. Louis,
enjoyed in a very large degree the confidence and
esteem of commercial men, as a manufacturer of the
strictest business principles, and as a man of honor
and integrity. Among the positions he so creditably
filled were the following: President of the Mer-
chants’ Exchange, President of the American Cen-
tral Insurance Company, President of the Millers’
National Convention, President of St. Luke’s Hos-
pital, Director of the Bank of Commerce, Director
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, Director of
the Plant Seed Company, Chairman of the Meteoro-
logical Committee of the Merchants’ Exchange, etc.

Mr. Plant’s first wife was Matilda W. January, a

sister of D. A. and Thomas T. January, then of .

Jacksonville, Illinois, but afterward worthy citizens
of St. Louis. She died l1’1'I8 59, having had but two
children, George Janvier and Louis Poignand Plant.
He afterwards (in 1863) married Miss Martha C.

Douthitt, a daughter of the late Robert H. Douthitt,"

of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by whom he left one
son, Clinton Locke Plant.

George P. Plant died of typhoid-pneumonia, at
his home in St. Louis, February 24, I875. The
Christian faith had been a comfort to him through a
long life, and was his stay when death beckoned him
across the mystic river. Meetings of regret were
immediately held and eulogies pronounced upon him
by the following associations: The St. Louis Mer-
chants’ Exchange, the Vestry of Christ’s Church,
the Trustees of St. Luke’s Hospital, the American
Central Insurance Company, the Millers’ State Asso-
ciation, the Millers’ National Association, the St.
Louis Chamber of Commerce, the Directors of the
Bank of Commerce, and the Directors of the Provi-
dent Savings Association. Letters and telegraph
messages of regret and condolence were received by
the family from e'minent gentlemen and ladies in
different parts of the Union, all expressing the
highest praise of this honorable man. The funeral
was largely attended by the officers of the different
organizations in St. Louis, municipal and other high
officials, and many other distinguished gentlemen,
all meeting as common mourners over a common
bereavement.

In closing this brief sketch of a truly interesting

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history, We would desire to give a few of the senti-
ments expressed by some of the most distinguished
among his admirers, but want of space forbids. As
descriptive of the man, we cannot refrain, however,
from a short quotation. from the funeral address at
his burial:

“He was unsparing of himself when it was in
his power to advance the interest of any trust com-
mitted to him, and not a breath of suspicion ever
attached to his unsullied name. ‘ An honest man is
the noblest work of God,’ and his family and chil-
dren may claim the proud heritage of such a nobility.
* * * His views were broad and comprehen-
sive. * * * At no time a politician, and
therefore not a public servant under such circum-
stances, yet. there were few, if any, men in the

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community who had more cares in behalf of others.

>!< >l< >l< He was sought for as an adviser,
not merely by a large circle of friends and relations,
but many who knew him only byreputation craved
the privilege of intercourse with him , and yet there
was no bustle in his manner, nor any outward indi-
cation of unusual occupation. * * >l< The
uniformly sweet expression of his face was the index
of his disposition. * * * 111. h1S ChT1St13—fl
character he was a like exemplar. Natur.all-y.unob-
trusive, he was by no means demonstrative in the
manifestation of his spiritual emotions , * * *
but his daily life was a daily witness to the earnest-
ness and sincerity of his convictions.”

So has passed away from earth a good man.
Characters of his stamp are so rare that the painful
vacancy will long be felt.

PROF. T. B. LESTER, M. D.

KANSAS‘ CITY.

in
Charlotte county, Virginia, June 24, 1824,
and of all the early citizens of Kansas City none is
more highly esteemed and respected than he, both
for'his private worth and professional skill. His
parents’ names were Bryan W. and Elizabeth
(Friend) Lester. Their family emigrated from Vir-
ginia to Illinois in 1835, and in September of 1837,
at Salem, Illinois, his father and mother died, leav-
ing him an orphan at the age of thirteen. He
received his early education at a common school,
and afterwards attended Mount Vernon Academy
and Shurtliff College, in Upper Alton, Illinois.
In the autumn of 1841 he commenced the study
of medicine with Dr. M. W. Hall, of Salem, Illi-
nois—but now of Saline county, Missouri——and
attended his first course of medical lectures in the
medical department of Missouri University——now

‘ the Missouri Medical College—St. Louis, Missouri,

during the sessions of 1845-46. iHe took a second
course in the same institution in 1849 and ’5o, grad-
uating in March of the latter year. After having
attended the first course of lectures, he formed a
partnership with Dr. A. F. Haynie and began the
practice of medicine at Salem, Illinois.

In the spring of 1847, when the second call for
volunteers to the Mexican war from Illinois was

made, he enlisted and was mustered into service at

22

Alton, in Company C, 1st Regiment Illinois Volun-
teer Infantry, Colonel E. W. B. N_ewley command-
ing. He was immediately detached and assigned
duty in the medical department as acting assistant-
surgeon, and ordered toaccompany the battalion,
under command of Lieutenant—Colonel H. P. Boya-
kin, to Fort Leavenworth and thence to Santa Fe,
New Mexico. He retained his position as acting
assistant-surgeon until the close of the war. Upon
the arrival of Brigadier General Sterling Price at
Santa Fe, to assume command of the ninth military
department, Assistant Surgeon B. F. Simpson, U. S.
A., who was in charge of the general hospital at
Santa Fe, was made medical director on General
Price’s staff, and Dr. Lester was ordered in"‘charge
of the general hospital, remaining until February,
1848, when he was directed to accompany Lieuten-
ant Colonel Boyakin to Albuquerque. There he
continued until mustered out of service. On his
return to Illinois he resumed his practice in Salem.
In 18 54 he came to Kansas City, which at that
time contained only four hundred inhabitants, and
presented the appearance of a little, wild Western
village. Here he has practiced his profession to the
present time, and is the oldest practitioner in the
city with the solitary exception of Dr. I. M. ‘Ridge.
At the organization of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in 1870, Dr. Lester was elected to the

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chair of “The Principles and Practice of Medicine,”
which position he still holds. He was made Presi-
dent of the Faculty in 1877. He was President of
the Medical Association of the State of -Missouri in
1870, and was appointed delegate to the American
Medical Association in 1872-73 and ’77.

He was a member of the Common Council in
Kansas City during 1857-58, and in the latter year
was President. He was also a member of the Board
of Education at the beginning of the war,- and filled
a second term, from 1867 to 1870, declining are-

election. He was initiated into the A. F. & A. M.

in Military Lodge, U. D., at Santa Fe, New Mexico,‘

in 1848, and was Worthy Master of Heroine Lodge,
No. IO4, Kansas City, from 1855 to 1856. In reli-
gion he is a Presbyterian and is a ruling elder in
the Central Presbyterian Church.

In his younger days he was an old-line Whig and
took a. lively interest in politics. . He was an ardent
admirer of Henry Clay, and was intensely chagrined
because he was not six months older so that he might
vote for him for President in 1844. He became a Dem-

ocrat in 18 56, and still remains of that political faith.

On the 4th of June, 1850, he was married to
Miss Julia Ellen Horner, ‘daughter of John Horner,
Esq., of Lebanon, Illinois. She is a most estimable
and worthy lady and they have had three children,
one son, Charles H., now a student of medicine,
and two daughters, one of whom is married and
resides in Kansas City.

In person Dr. Lester is tall, slender and of com-
manding stature; affable in manner, and eminently
agreeable and conciliatory in his social relations.
As a writer he is full, precise and methodical, and
as a lecturer, ready in speech, clear and convincing.
The positions of trust and responsibility which he
has been called upon to fill are just tributes to his
ability and high professional standing, while his
spotless reputation and exalted moral character make
him respected and beloved by the entire community.
He is modest and retiring in‘ his disposition, and as
a medical practitioner has a good reputation among

his professional brethren in Kansas City and the sur- ‘

rounding country.

‘HON. A. c. BRIANT.

BEL T0./V.

ANY minds labor under the misapprehension
M that real patriotism is peculiar to men of high
genius, or the favorites of fortune. The true patriot
is one who from love of his country does, or tries
to do, in his proper sphere all that is necessary to
promote her honor, prosperity and peace. The
substantial elements of this precious virtue which
underlies the welfare of every nation, and especially
of one professing to be free, like our own, are fur-
nished by men in every rank of life who step out of
the realm of mere self-love, and seek to further and
augment the common weal. Among those who fill
the highest seats, and prove themselves most deserv-
ing of public gratitude, many have been the farmers
of the land, who have redeemed this great country
from the wilderness, and made even the rocks drip
with fatness and blessing.

Prominent among these characters who stand as
the _Atlantean pillars of the commonwealth of Mis-
souri, is the name of Alexander Chapman Briant,
born in Cooper county, Missouri, on the 16th of

December, 1827. His father, William Briant, was
born in Virginia‘, February 7, 1793, and at an early
age removed with his parents to Logan county,
Kentucky, where they settled. William Briant was

married twice. His first wife was a Miss Barnett,

of Kentucky, who bore to him three children—tWo_

daughters, Elizabeth and Judith, and a son, Davis.
Mrs. Briant died in 1824. He afterwards married
Miss Elizabeth Sloan, sister of Rev. Robert Sloan,
an eminent divine of the Cumberland Presbyterian

. Church, by whom he was the father of ten children
His daughters‘

—seven daughters and three sons.
were: Nancy K., Angeline, Phoebe Caroline, Marga-
ret ]., Sarah Ellen and Martha Rebecca. . The sons
were Alexander C., George W. and Robert S.

When Alexander Chapman was eleven years old '
his parents grew restive, bade adieu to friendsand

scenes long loved, and pitched the household tent
in Lafayette county,‘ Missouri. It was there the

subject of this sketch received the principal part of ‘

his education. In 1846 it was deemed expedientto

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make another move, and Jackson county, Missouri,
was chosen fora home. Soon after settling there
Alexander began to hew his way, almost entirely

.unaided, to a position of honor and usefulness.

Although his movements were quickened by the
strong impulsiveness of youthful ambition, he never
turned aside to court fortune’s fickle muses, but
unswervingly. trod the old path of perseverance and

. industry to earn his bread and do his part. i

Mr. Briant, at the age of twenty-five years, was

‘joined in wedlock to Miss Susan G. Moore, July

27, 1852. His wife was the daughter of Travis G.
Moore, a native of Kentucky, who sought and gained
a home in Jackson county at an early day.‘ To the
day of his death he enjoyed the confidence of all
who prized the presence and help of a good man.
Mrs. Briant is a lady of rare social and domestic
virtues, manifesting in every relation of life the refin-
ing and elevating’ graces of the true woman’s heart.
From 1859 to 1867 Mr. Briant was engaged in
the exceedingly difficult and dangerous enterprise of
transporting goods across the “ Great Plains ” to
Mexico. At that day the bold, wily, unrelenting,

V revengeful savage -rode the prairies, to swoop, vul-

ture-like, upon the pale-face, or else lurked in hellish
ambush, and proved no’ mean adversary. The
keen-edged knife and the death-dealing rifle were

-the accompaniments of every member of the freight-

ing caravan, while terrible necessity often rendered
them the only conclusive arguments possible. Often
a party to immense contracts with the United States
government, for the transfer of stores, Mr. Briant
was laid under, staggering responsibilities which
proved a test of no ordinary degree. That indomi-
table ingredient in his composition, an iron will,
coupled with courage and wise sagacity, crowned
his endeavors with success, and brought a fair return
of ‘pecuniary benefit.

In 1870 he was elected to the office of Sheriff,
and also Collector of Cass county, Missouri. The

' genius of his patriotism was readily discovered in

his zeal to bestow, in his official labors, real, univer-
sal, permanent benefit to his county. This was
anticipated by the people, therefore his call to the
place, by himself unsought. In the discharge of his

duties there was no hardship he would not cheer-

fully meet, no danger he would not dare to incur. He
held the office of Sheriff four years, the limit prescribed
by law, to the entire satisfaction of his constituency.

It was during his term of office that the “ Gunn
City tragedy” was enacted. In that dire emer-

gency Mr. Briant proved to be, of allmen, the most
needed. The County Court had become grossly
corrupt and strangely bold in crime. With the
assistance of the county attorney they fraudulently
issued, for their own personal gain, some $229,000
in railroad bonds, and so secretly and skillfully did
they conduct the affair, that the citizens knew noth-
ing of it until the guilty parties had well nigh escaped
with their plunder. Sheriff Briant was at that time
absent from the county seat, engaged _in his official
duties at Pleasant Hill. So soon, however, as he
learned of the deed, he took, upon his own responsi-
bility, immediate and urgent steps to save the county

and arrest the perpetrators. The exigency was great. ‘

He could not wait on the slow channels of formal
procedure; but ascertaining the direction of their
flight, he telegraphed the St. Louis officials to be
on the alert, offering $1600 for their capture.’ His
prompt action proved the salvation of Cass county’s
interests, for the “ wires ” soon told of the arrest of
two of the offenders, and of the deposit of $174,000
of the bonds in that city. On reaching St. Louis
he found the bonds in the express office. That
shrewd attempt to put the fraudulent paper out of
reach of legal process, was but a pebble in the path
of Mr. Briant. ~Suit for their recovery was instituted
at once. The bond demanded by law was $400,-
000. Nothing daunted, the honest official proved
equal to the demand, and giving his own individual
pledge to indemnifyagainst loss, he secured the
bonds and received, a few days after, the endorse-
ment of the representative men of his county, and
also their surety therefor. The chief parties to the
“steal” were finally all arrested and gave bonds to
answer a criminal charge. Before the time for trial,
however, they became so boldly boastful of their
‘malfeasance, by which they had laidian awful incu-
bus'of debt upon an already impoverished county,
that stern men covertly met at Gunn City, barri-
caded the road at that point, stopped -the train on
which they were traveling, and dealt out to them a
terrible death.

The vigilance of Mr. Briant also saved the county
from being liable for the balance of the bonds-
$55,000——which had been sold in Kansas City by
County Attorney Cline. The Governor of the State
sent quite a force of militia to keep down the excite-
ment. Before the milltia arrived within the borders
of Cass county, Mr. Briant in his correspondence
with the Chief Executive, so assured him of the
ability and purpose of the home officials to prevent

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' further trouble, that the militia were at once recalled

and the county spared the humiliation. -
In 1874 Mr. Briant was elected to the Legisla-
ture from Cass county. He took his seat in the
28th General Assembly, one of the most important
sessions ever held. Although that was his first leg-
islative experience, he proved an able defender of
the rights and principles of his section of the State.

. He has been for years a member of the State Exec-

utive and Congressional Committees, and has held
positions of trust, without intermission, through a
long course of inflexible uprightness.

Alexander C. Briant is a man of striking pres-
ence, commanding stature, has blue eyes, auburn
hair, and a face full of manly kindness. His politi-
cal principles are Democratic of the old school. He
and his wife are members of the Cumberland Pres-
byterian Church. Like most VVestern men, he has
had his changes of fortune, nevertheless he has suc-
ceeded in gaining a fair competence.

Mr. Briant has no children, yet he enjoys the
compensative happiness of many true and lasting
friendships, that will follow not only to life’s close
here, but to the life that bides eternally. '

GENERAL DAVID RICE ATCHISON.

G0 WER.

AVID RICE ATCHISON was born near
D Lexington, Fayette county, Kentucky, August
Ii, I807. The son of a wealthy farmer of that
county, he received all the advantages of a liberal
education, which developed those powerful intellect-
ual faculties that rendered his name, in after life,
conspicuous in the history of the country. His
father was William Atchison, the son of a farmer of
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and who moved
with his parents, when six years old, to that garden
spot of the West which now constitutes the rich and
magnificently improved county of Fayette, in the
State of Kentucky. His mother’s maiden name was
Catherine Allen. She was a native of the State of
Georgia, and a lady of rare natural and acquired
endowments. "

David R. Atchison was the eldest of six children,
four sons and two «daughters. His brothers were B.
A. Atchison, generally known as Allen Atchison.
who died in 1:857, leaving one child, John C., who
With Mary, a daughter of William Atchison, at pres-
ent resides with the General, Alexander Atchison,
who died insane, since the war 3 and William Atchi-
son, the father of Dr. J. B. Atchison, a Well-known
physician of St. Joseph. One sister, Mary, was
married to Madison Allen, a farmer of Buchanan
county. Miss Rebecca Atchison, the other sister of
the General, died at her residence in Clinton county
last August. The brothers were all large farmers,
and recognized as men of more than ordinary natu-
ral and acquired endowments of mind. Largely

blessed with the gifts of fortune, intellectual Worth
seems to have been no less the heritage of this dis-
tinguished family.

Blessed with ample means and a proper appre-
ciation of the advantages of mental culture, the
parents of the subject of this sketch spared no
efforts in developing those dawning powers of mind
which were, in after life, to render his name promi-
nent "in the history of the government. In 1825
he graduated with high honor in Transylvania
University, then the leading institution of learning
in the,State', and since incorporated in the New
University of Kentucky.

Upon receiving his degree in the Arts, Mr.
Atchison, with characteristic energy, immediately
applied himself to the study of law., Among his
preceptors in this Faculty were the eminent Judge
Bledsoe, Charles Humphrey and VVilliam T. Barry,
afterwards Postmaster-General of the United States
during the administration of Van Buren. _

In 1829 Mr. Atchison was admitted to the prac-
tice of law in his native State. Notwithstanding the
most flattering encouragement and persuasion to
remain, from those who knew and appreciated his
talents, he determined to try his fortune in the West,
and a few months after, in 1830, removed to the
comparatively wild district of Clay county, Missouri.
In April of that year he received in St. Louis his
license to practice in the Supreme Court of the
State, and immediately settled in the village of Lib-
erty, now the flourishing county seat of Clay county.

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The only lawyer settled in that place at the time of

his arrival, was Judge William T. Wood, now a res-.

ident of Lexington, and a man highly respected for
his personal and professional worth. About this

.period Mr. ‘Atchison was appointed Major-General

of the northern division of Missouri State militia.
General Atchison soon commanded a lucrative
practice in his new home, where he continued to

_ reside, in the discharge of the duties of his profes-

sion, until February, 184I, when his superior legal
attainments, which were known and recognized
throughout the State, won for him the appointment,
by Governor Thomas Reynolds, of Judge of the
Circuit Court of Platte county, on its organization in
February of that year, when he moved his residence
to Platte City. It appears that in that day judges
were appointed to this position by the Governor,
with the advice and consent of the Senate. The
office was not made elective till several years after.

General Atchison, though endowed with an
inflexible will and unyielding firmness of character,
was ever a man of unassuming bearing, large benev-
olence, and convivial and social habits. These,
together w_ith his recognized professional ability,
rendered him highly popular with all classes among
the early settlers of that region, and in August,
1834, and again in 1838, he was elected to the
Legislature from Clay county. , A

Upon the death of Dr. Linn, United States Sen-
ator,-in the autumn of that year, Judge Atchison
was appointed by Governor Reynolds to the vacancy
in the Senate. It was by many considered that this
appointment was merited, and had been recommen-
ded by Colonel Benton and other authorities of the
Democratic party; by others it was said that the
Governor himself was ambitious of the Senatorship,
and had selected Judge Atchison as a person who
could easily be beaten at the next election. The
death of Governor Reynolds, however, occurred
before the meeting of the next Legislature, and

' Judge Atchison was elected with but slight opposi-

tion. He was reelected for two full terms, the last
of which expired March 4, I85 5, during the admin-
istration of Franklin Pierce.

Two years after this he moved his residence
from Platte to his present home in Clinton county.

He was elected" President of the Senate to suc-
ceed Judge Mangum, a Whig Senator from North
Carolina, who is mentioned by Judge Atchison as a
man of considerable ability and uncompromising
integrity.

Two or three years after Judge Atchison was
again elected to that distinguished position, which
he continued to hold for some time, till he was
relieved, during a temporary absence on private
business, by Jesse D. Bright, whose election to fill
the vacancy was the result of a suggestion to that
effect from his distinguished predecessor.

The 4th of March, 1849, occurring on Sunday,

General Zachary Taylor was not inaugurated till the .

following Monday. Judge Atchison thus, as presid-
ing officer of the Senate, becam-e virtually President
of the United States during the term of twenty-four
hours. In referring to this accidental dignity, on
being interrogated as to how he enjoyed his exalted
position, the venerable Senator good—humoredly
replied that he could tell but little about it, as, over-
come with fatigue consequent on several consecutive
days and nights of official labor, he had slept through
nearly his whole term of service.

Judge Atchison became especially prominent in
the legislation for the organization of the Territories
of Kansas and Nebraska, and claims to have origi-
nated the repeal of the Missouri Compromise bill.
On his retirement from the Senate, of which he was
an honored member for the space of twelve years,
during the greater portion of which time he was its
presiding officer, he continued to take a lively inter-
est in the politics of the country, and was regarded
as a leader and chief adviser of the pro-slavery party‘
in Kansas during the troubles. which. preceded the
admission of that State. In 1856 we find him in
command of I, 150 men at a point called Santa 
On the 29th of August of the same year, a detach-
ment from General Atchison’s army attacked Ossa-
watomie, which was defended by about fifny_,men,
who made a vigorous resistance, but were defeated
with the loss of five wounded and sevenzprisoners.
Five of the assailants were killed and thirty build-
ings were burned. The next day a body of free
State men marched from Lawrence to attack Atchi-
son’s army. On their approach, the latter retired
and withdrew his forces into Missouri. The admis-
sion of Kansas as a. free State soon‘ after this occur-
rence, put an end to this much vexed question and
restored tranquility to the country.

General Atchison ‘lived in retirement on his mag-
nificent estate in Clinton county till the breaking out
of the Rebellion, when he left for the South, and
was present at the battle of Lexington. Governor
Jackson sent him a commission as Brigadier-General
at the commencement of the war. This General

172 THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

Atchison declined accepting, as his residence was in
Clinton county, outside of the limits of the division.
He, however, remained with the army and assisted
at its organization. He joined temporarily for the
purpose of making up the company Eph. Kelley’s

command from St. Joseph, and remained with the

army till after the battle of Elkhorn.

At the close of the war General Atchison returned
tohis home in Clinton county, where he has since
continued to reside _-in almost unbroken retirement
on his seventeen-hundred acre farm, in a neat cottage
erected on the site of his spacious brick mansion,
which was accidentally destroyed by fire, February
2, I870. The General’s greatest loss in this fire was
his large and carefully selected library, and records
of his opinions and observations during his long
term in the Senate.

He has never been married. He has been a

. Mason for over thirty years, and favors the Christian

religion, though not a professor. As a private citi-
zen, no man was more highly esteemed by all who
knew and know him than David R. Atchison. The
deserving in misfortune was never known to go
unrelieved by his generous hand, and the princely

hospitality with which he entertained those who were

honored with his friendship will long be remembered ,

by his contemporaries and associates of other days, by
whom he was ever recognized as one who reflected
credit on the exalted positions which he occupied in
the service of his country, (positions which, we must
observe, were unsolicited and unexpectedly thrust
upon him), a true type of that nobility of nature
which no heraldic blazonry can enhance and which
no hereditary rank or possessions can purchase.

GOV. HAMILTON R. GAMBLE.

ST. LOUIS.

the shade.
Rapheal or Titian demand unintercepted rays to
reveal their glories. Daubs look as well in shadow
as in light. So, too, men’s actions. The ordinary
man, never stepping beyond the common paths, can
be adjudged to—day in storm as well as next year in
the cal1n—because there is so little to judge. But
the extraordinary man—leaping from the common
level to the pinnacles of excite1nent—who performs
desperate feats in perilous extremes—-who in the
tempest strikes the trembling pilot from the tiller, and
with daring hand holds the rudder till the reef is

HE merits of a painting cannot be criticised in
The most glorious works of

passed—that man must be tried and his acts adjudged,
after the haven_is reached, not out in the stormy ,

tumult of the crisis. The Union has passed its dan-
ger, and arrived at the haven of peace, the clouds

of hate and fitful flashes of anger have given place,

to the clear light of reason and of right. And by
that sunshine, deeds of the past, which were then
ill—judged, are now encircled with the halo which
men call glory. ‘

The history of the subject of this sketch, and his
appreciation to-day, calls for these reflections. In
the dark days of rebellion, when the passions of men
blinded their judgment, his name, with some, was

the synonym of all that was odious and inglorious.
T o-day, all praise him, and with grateful eyes gaze
upon the beauties of his consistency, the brilliance
of his valor, and the endurable good of his actions ,
shudderingly they look back upon the Charybdis

through which they have passed, and gratefully honor '

the strong man who brought them to security. No
name is moreenshrined in the hearts of Missourians
now than that which we have written at the head

of this sketch, no memory is more embalmed; no‘

martyr with a more enduring 1nonu1nent—for he
lives immortal in the hearts of all his fellow—citizens.
But our duty is to give his life, not to moralize upon
his course.

Hamilton Rowan Gamble was born in Winches-.

ter, Virginia, November 29, 1798. His father,
Joseph Gamble, was born in Ireland, and there mar-
ried Annie Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton
of the Strath. Joseph Gamble emigrated to Amer-
ica and settled in Virginia in 1784, where as a ruling
Elder in the Presbyterian Church he religiously
raised seven children. The grandfather of our sub-
ject emigrated with his family from Ireland to the
Colony of Pennsylvania in 1753, but after a few
years returned to his native country. His oldest
son returned to America previous to the Revolution-

THE 'U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIOJVARY. 173

ary war, served as an Engineer during the struggle,
and afterward was chosen Professor of Latin and
Greek in the University of Pennsylvania, at Phila-

, delphia.

Hamilton, our subject, was the youngest son of
Joseph and Annie Gamble, and received his educa-
tion principally at Hampton-Sidney College, Prince
Edward county, Virginia. In early life, his means
and opportunities for acquiring a thorough classical
education were limited; and many difficulties and
embarrassments surrounded him inithe study of his
But his indomitable
will, close observation and unwearied perseverance
overcame every obstacle, and he was admitted to
the practice before he was eighteen, and was licensed
as a lawyer in three States before he had attained his
majority. He first engaged in his profession in Vir-
ginia, afterward for several months in Tennessee,
and finally came to Missouri in 1818, settling in St.
Louis. Here for a short time he was Deputy Clerk
for his brother, Archibald——then Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court. Subsequently he removed to Howard
county, where he was shortly afterwards chosen
Prosecuting Attorney.

In 1824 Governor Bates appointed him Secretary
of State 5 but that Executive having died shortly
after entering upon his office, Mr. Gamble removed
to St. Louis, where he opened a law office. He met
in -the St. Louis bar such worthies as Benton, Geyer,
the Bartons, Wash, Edward Bates, the McGirks, and
many others whose talents and attainments were so
conspicuous. But they found in the young barrister a
“ foeman worthy of their steel,” for he soon became
one of the leaders in the profession in St. Louis, and
continued to be the recognized head of that bar.

The popular vote called him to the Supreme
Bench of Missouri, and his associates conferred upon
him the honor of Presiding Judge. After four years’
service, in 1855 he resigned on account of failing
health, after which, in 1858, he removed with his
family to Philadelphia, where he remained until the
beginning of the year 1:861, when he was recalled to
Missouri by being elected a member of the State
Convention, which had been called to determine the
relations of the State of Missouri to the Federal Gov-
ernment. Mr. Gamble was appointed by that Con-
vention Chairman of the Committee on Federal
Relations. Whether in the committee room or in
the debates before that body, he took high grounds
for the perpetuity of the Union, and his voicewas
eloquent against -every scheme of disunion.

chosen profession, the law.

When Governor Claiborne F. Jackson and his
staff fled from Missouri, the State was left without an
Executive. The Convention reassembled again to
provide a government favorable to the interests of the
Union. Mr. Gamble was the choice of that body,
and he was appointed Provisional Governor. With
great reluctance he accepted the position; but only
with the expressed understanding that he should be
relieved of the duties at the coming popularlelection.
He filled the office two years and six months, when
he was suddenly relieved by death. Governor
Hamilton R. Gamble died at his residence in St.

Louis, January 31, 1864.

It is not our purpose, in this brief sketch, to
speak of his administrative acts in the trying position
he occupied as Governor of Missouri in the dark
days of Rebellion. Suffice it to say he found the
State in a condition of anarchy , madness seemed to
rule the hour ; all kinds of business had ceased, the
civil law was inoperative; panic pervaded the entire
community. Armed bodies of men were in different
localities endeavoring to force Missouri into seces-
sion, while those who were loyal to the Union were
afraid to act in resistance. The militia was totally
inadequate to the emergency.

In a twelvemonth he had restored order, put the
State on a firm and loyal basis, re-opened the facto-
ries and workshops, and turned the attention of citi-
zens to their usual business pursuits. The crisis was
passed, and Missouri saved to the Union. It required
nerve on the part of the Executive to act ; but Gov-
ernor Gamble was equal to the occasion. With
supreme indifference to the opinions of enemies, and
with the sole ambition to save his State, he moved
on in his selected line of duty—and conquered.
Among the last things he said, just before his death,
was that “it had been his rule in office to do right
himself and keep others from doing wrong.”

As a man, Hamilton R. Gamble was noble and
generous in all his impulses, kind and courteous in
manners, strictly just in all his actions, never stoop-
ing to intrigue himself nor permitting it in others.
He possessed a fine and cultivated mind, endowed
with rare powers of intellect. '

As a lawyer he was preeminently a success, well
and deeply read, with a clear and logical mind which
had been disciplined and strengthened by laborious

study. The many eulogies pronounced upon him

by prominent members of the St. Louis Bar,»evince_

the high estimation in which he was held by his legal
brethren.

year course of military instruction.

174 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

As a citizen and Christian gentleman, his charac-
ter was above reproach, and in all his associations
he was characterized by a very affectionate disposi-
tion. One resolution adopted by the Bar Associa-
tion of St. Louis, tells the whole story of the man:
“ He was indeed a wise, faithful, just and good man ;
his memory is worthy of all honor, and his services
to the Commonwealth and the country should be
held in lasting remembrance.”

In November, 1827, Mr. Gamble married at

Columbia, South Carolina, Miss Caroline Coalter, a
native of Charleston, and daughter of David Coalter.
She was a sister to Mrs. Edward Bates, Mrs. Harper
wife of Hon. William Harper, Senator from South
Carolina, judge of the Supreme Court, and Chan-
cellor of the State, Mrs. Means, wife of Robert
Means, a wealthy planter of South Carolina, and
Mrs. W. C. Preston, wife of Senator Preston of
South Carolina. Ry this marriage he had nine chil-
dren, two of whom are living.

JOHN C. VOGEL.

ST. LOUIS.

INCE the tide of immigration first set toward
8 America, perhaps no class of people who have
found homes upon her shores has done more to build
up her interests or contribute more to her commercial
importance and national prosperity than the sturdy,
honest-hearted and industrious Ger1nans,_who have
come here to enjoy the freedom of thought and inde-
pendence of action denied them in the Fatherland 3
and to no class is St. Louis more indebted for the
present proud position and future promise than to
that of which the subject of our sketch is a worthy
and honorable representative. "

john C. Vogel was born at Kleinlangheim, near
Kitzingen, Bavaria, Germany, October 9, 1816.
His parents, Johann and Maria Magdaline Vogel,
nee Mueller, were natives of Germany, educated and
well-to-do people. According to the laws of that
country every child must attend school a certain
length of time, and the males are subjected to a six-
John received a
good common—school education, and was apprenticed
to learn the trade of a baker. Studious and atten-
tive, he graduated with the title of “first—class work-
man,” and an ambition to do something on his own
account. Viewing with disfavor the already crowded
field at home, and having heard much of “the land
of the free,” in April, 1835, at the age of nineteen,
he left home for America, where he intended to re-
main three years and then return to Germany to ren-
der the military service required by his country, the
refusal to do which would be rapidly followed by con-
fiscation of property. After being in America two

years he decided to make this country his future

home, and hired a substitute to do his military,duty,.

for which he paid 4oo florins. _
He came to St. Louis in 1836, and worked two
years at his trade, during which time, by his economy

, and steady habits, he accumulated sufficient means to

go into business on his own account.

In 1841 he became a citizen of the United States,
having taken out his naturalization papers in St.
Louis.

In 1843 he was appointed City W eigher, which
office he held for three years; after which he served
as Clerk in the Post-office for one year, with credit
to himself and to the satisfaction of the department.

, In 1847 he established the first omnibus line on
Franklin avenue, which proved highly successful.
From 1851 to 1858 he was a justice of the Peace,
and served as a member of the City Council from
1855 to 1861. At the expiration of his term of office
he served three months in the 4th Regiment Missouri
Volunteer Infantry (Home Guards). I

In 1851 he became connected with the St. Louis
Fire and Marine Insurance Company, an institution
that takes high rank in the insurance world, and has
been its President for the past twenty years, an honor
creditable alike to himself and the corporation.

Engaging in politics, he was elected Sheriff of St.
Louis county in 1862, and held that office for two
terms. In 1844 he joined Wildey Lodge No. 2, I.
O. O. F., of which he has since been an active and
prominent member, having passed all the chairs of
the lodge. L

In politics Mr. Vogel was originally a Benton
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join the Republican party, of which he has been a
prominent member since its organization.

His parents were members of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, in which faith he was reared and
to which he still adheres.

On December 27, 1840, he was married by Rev.
Dr. Wall to Miss Sophia Wilhelmina Franke, an
intelligent and accomplished lady, daughter of Chris-
tian Henry Franke, of St. Louis, a native of Prussia,
and Maria Louisa Franke, formerly Kohring. The
fruits of this marriage were four children—two boys
and two girls—all of whom are dead.

Mr. Vogel has traveled extensively both in this
country and in Europe. He has made three trips to

his native land; once in 1848, once in 1869, and
again in 1873.

Of Mr. Vogel it can be truly said, he is a self-
made man. Commencing the battle of life without
capital or influence, he has fought his way to an hon-
orable position and acquired a handsome competency.
Success has attended him in every branch of business
in which he has engaged, the result of his untiring
energy, diligent application and strict integrity,
coupled with his affable manner and his courteous
treatment of all with whom he comes in contact.
We may appropriately close this sketch by saying he
is an honest man, a good citizen, and an honor to his
native country as well as to the land of his adoption.

HON. T. G. C. DAVIS.

ST. L0 UIS.

GWYN COSBY DAVIS was born’

‘HOMAS
l in the county of Hanover, Virginia, February
4, 1814. His father, Thomas Davis, shortly after-
ward removed from Hanover, and finally Went to
Alabama, whither some of his kinsfolk had gone
while that State was Mississippi Territory. He was
a brave, honest and gifted man. His death occurred
in Madison county, Alabama, November 23, 1840,
just before he had completed his sixty-fourth year.

The subject of this sketch is descended as fol-
lows: The first of the family of Herbert, his ancestor
through the Raglands, came over to England with
the Conqueror, he married Emma, the daughter of
Stephen, Earl of Blois, by Adela, the daughter
of the First William. Evan Herbert, a descendant of
this marriage,‘was the ancestor of the Gwyns and
Raglands of Glamorganshire, South VVales. Sir
John Ragland, one of the descendants of the said
Evan, married Eleanor Courtenay, a daughter of Sir
William Courtenay of the family of the Earls of
Devon. This Sir John Ragland lived in Gla1norgan-
shire in I 540, and was the ancestor of John Ragland,
Esq., who married Anne Beaufort, and was the pro-
genitor of the Raglands of Virginia; his son, John
Ragland, married Anne Dudley in the ‘Colony of
Virginia about the year 1725, she was descended
from the celebrated Major Robert Beverley, on
her mother’s side. Major Beverley was greatly

persecuted in the ancient Colony of Virginia, as is
23

-colonel’s grandfather’s mother.

clearly attested by the annals of that commonwealth.

John Shelton married Rose Ussher, and was
Mayor of Dublin in the early part of the seventeenth
century. Colonel Davis’ great-grandfather, William
Davis, Esq., married Elizabeth Shelton, who was the
His grandfather,
Gentleman John Davis, married the grand-daughter
of the last-named John Ragland, His father wa.s
William Davis, Esq., and a son of John Davis of the
Principality of Wales. Colonel Davis’ father mar-
ried Polly Mitchell, the daughter of David Mitchell
and Elizabeth Cosby,'his wife, who was a descend-
ant of Alexander Cosby by Dorcas Sydney, by
whom he had a numerous progeny. The first of the
Cosbys who removed from England and settled in
Queen’s county, Ireland, in the reign of Queen
Mary, was the celebrated Francis Cosby, General of
the Kerne 3 he fell in the battle of Glendalough, at
the head of his command, in the seventieth year of
his age. Stradbally Hall, Queen’s county, Ireland,
is the seat of the Cosbys. Charles Davis, Esq.,
married Anne Cosby, the daughter of Major
Thomas Cosby, in Queen’s county, Ireland, about
the year 1700. Sir Henry Sydney was, in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 3

his son, Sir Philip Sydney, by Mary Dudley, fell in I

battle at Sutphen, in the low countries, under the

command of his kinsman, the Earl of Leicester, and -

was buried at old St. Paul’s, with honors never

I 5,000 votes. _
to be elected 3 but after three weeks the later returns.

176

before accorded to a subject of the English Crown.
Algernon Sydney, the patriot, who died a martyr to
the cause of liberty and republican government, as
well as the said Sir Henry and Sir Philip Sydney,
were of the same family as Dorcas Sydney, the wife
of the said Alexander Cosby.

Colonel Davis was married to Miss Sarah Anne
Thornborough, a native of Virginia, and admitted
to the practice of law about forty years ago, and has
practiced in four of the United States; he removed
to Illinois in 1843, and was elected to the Illinois
State Senate in 1846-7, and in 1847 was elected to
the State Constitutional Convention. While in that
body he was Chairman of the Committee on the
Right of Suffrage, and his report, which was adopted
by the Convention without alteration, is now embod-
ied in the law of that State, except that the word
70/zz'z‘e has been stricken out. He was the author of
that provision of the Illinois State Constitution which
divided the State into three Grand Divisions and
gave to each a term of the Supreme Court every
year. ‘

In 1850 Mr. Davis ran for Congress in the
Wabash district, composed of fifteen counties. His
opponent was the nominee of a combination of Dem-
ocrats and Whigs—which nomination alone insured
Mr. Davis was for a time conceded

were claimed to elect his competitor. He has never
since allowed his name to be used as a candidate
for political office, remaining simply an observer
and student of public events, a speaker and a voter.
The Democrats of the Illinois Legislature, in 1857,
recommended him to President Buchanan “for any
office at home or abroad that he chose to ask ; ” but

the honoring paper was never presented, and was ‘

only known to one person outside of the donors.

In 1854 Mr. Davis removed from Kentucky
(where he resided after his defeat for Congress) to
St. Louis, and opened a law office in partnership
with I-Ion. R. F. Wingate, where he practiced with
success until he refused to take the oath required
under the Drake Constitution. ' 5

Few men, not in public life, have a more perfect
knowledge of the political and legal history of their
own and other governments than has Mr. Davis.
He has been a life—long student, with a remarkably
tenacious memory. As a classical scholar he is
acknowledged to be among “the Lukes” of his pro-
fession in St. Louis. As a public speaker he was
popular in his active political days. Some of his efforts

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

on the stump were brilliant and highly practical.
We have only room for extracts from one delivered
in Belleville, Illinois, at a very excited Democratic
gathering, February 5, 1863. It was at a time when
all the fiercer passions of men were aroused, and
when political opposition took the character of bit-
ter, bloody antagonism. Warnings had been sent to
Colonel Davis, at St. Louis, not to attempt going to
Belleville that day ; but he went. On arriving in
the town, a friend hurried to him with the word that
if he tried to speak there that day he would be
killed. With that cool intrepidity born of true moral
and physical courage, Mr. Davis did go to the meet-
ing and for two hours‘ and a half held that excited,
angry multitude as silent listeners. Mr. ‘Davis
closed his address with the following language:

“Is that a just war which is prosecuted for the
degredation of a superior race of men to the level of
an inferior ? '

“Our fathers complained of the British Govern-

ment for sending hireling soldiers—aliens to British
blood—to rob them in the war of the Revolution.

_And Lord Chatham said, in his place in the British

Parliament, ‘-If I were an American, as I am an
Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my
country, I never would lay down my a-rms—never
—never—never!’ The negro men in the doomed
States are to be set free and armed as soldiers, to
fight side by side with the white 1nen—those men
who have left their ho1nes— their wives-— their chil-
dren— in the Free States, to fight, as they supposed
for the restoration of the Union ; but, in fact, for
the liberation of the negro. ‘

“The white soldier is to be degraded by being
associated with the negro, and the dignity of the
profession of arms to be sunk to the lowest point;
indeed, the profession of the proud and honorable
warrior is gone.

--“But, gentlemen, the South cannot be con-
quered. The people of the South are brave and
united. The descendants of the Washingtons,
Henrys, Jeffersons, Lees, Sumpters, Calhouns, Jack-
sons, Clays, Randolphs, Polks, and Taylors never
can be conquered. They will preserve their liber-
ties. The wrath of man shall not destroy them with-
out the concurrent wrath of God. Their brave
women are equal to the best soldiers— not in strength
of . body —but in the noble inspiration which
they feel and will convey to their fathers, sons, hus-
bands, and brothers. Besides, gentlemen, the battle
is not always to the strong. A handful of Greeks
met, and for days repelled myriads of Persians at
Thermopylee, and slew twenty thousand of them in
defence of the liberties of Greece. Ten thousand
Athenians beatone hundred and twenty thousand
Persians on the plains of Marathon, and so preserved
the independence of their city and state. I. repeat,

the people of the South cannot be conquered. They ‘

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are fighting for their independence —and their
descendants will answer the Great Judge, at the last
day, in the language in which their own Jefferson
wrote the Declaration of Independence.

“ Is there anything in the history of the war thus
far to warrant the conclusion that the South will yet
lay down its arms and return to the union and
brotherhood which for so many years blessed the
whole country— and might have been continued for
ages yet to come, but for the madness and folly of
New England. What great victories have the gov-
ernment forces achieved in the course of the war?
Who will name them? Will it be said that Donelson,
Corinth and Antietam testify to the courage and con-
duct of the Federal arms? Let it be so. But what
will be said of the battle of Bull Run— the series of

battles before Richmond—the battle of Fredericks- I

burg—and still more recent battle of Vicksburg?

“I am for peace, gentlemen. There is nothing
on earth which I so much desire. I pray for peace.
The Savior of mankind was the Prince of Peace.
His mission among men was to establish peace and
good will upon earth. The spirit of peace is the
foundation of all true happiness and greatness among
men. It mangles no bodies—it desolates no fields
— it burns no towns —it sends up no wail from the
field of carnage. Disease, famine and pestilence
are not the attendants of peace.

“The war may be continued for months and for
years; but peace must ultimately come. "Will you
have an honorable peace now, while it may be
obtained, or wait till the spirit of desolation itself
cries for peace 3 and the ghost of a once great and
prosperous nation, pale and emaciated with the loss
of blood, shall remain the scorn and contempt only
of all wise and magnanimous people?

“Your government may pass, without right, acts
of confiscation, and execute them by the sword ; but
such acts will neither restore the Union nor conquer
the free spirit of the South. The British Parliament
between the reign of Edward the First and the thirty-
eighth year of the reign of Henry the Eighth, passed
no less than fifteen acts of confiscation against the
little Principality of Wales,.without producing the
slightest change in the minds of the Welsh people.
The first named king caused the Bards——the poets
of the ancient Cymry—to be murdered, more from
policy than from any particular animosity toward
them, because the Bards, by the songs andhymns
of liberty which they composed and sang, were
more potent than even a free and patriotic public
press has ever been, in keeping the fire of public
liberty burning in the hearts of the people. And it
was hoped that when the voice of freedom was hushed
by the destruction of the Bards, the Welsh would
yield their necks to the yoke which the king wished
to impose, renounce their ancient Celtic tongue and
blend with the English. But neither force nor fraud
could conquer and enslave the Welsh. ‘ N 0! spite
of the massacres of Bards and.the burning of records
—sp1te of political extinction-—there are a million
of these Cymry in Wales and its marches; and nine

' ancient glory.

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out of ten of these speak their old tongue—follow
their old customs —-sing the songs which the sleepers
upon Snowden made ——have their religious rights in
Cymric and hate the Logrian as much as ever their
fathers did.’

“ What better result attended confiscation in Ire-
land—the ruin of the ancient houses and principal-
ities of O’Neill and O’Donnel? Did it break the
spirit of the Irish people? How many rebellions
have been prevented by such a policy? Not one.
So late as 1848, John Mitchell (who has, I am told
two sons in the Confederate armies), and Thomas
Francis Meagher (who now commands a brigade on
the side of the government), were in actual rebellion
against the English government in Ireland—not
with a view to*the overthrow of the British monarchy
—but in the hope that they might dissolve the Union
between England and Ireland, and again have a
local Parliament of their own.

“What were the fruits of the thirty years"war in
Germany but desolation—nine millions of people
in one kingdom reduced to three. War utterly
destroyed ancient Carthage—a state which disputed
with Rome for the empire of the world for more
than one hundred years, and finally disappeared
from among the nations of the earth—not a record
remaining in the Punic to bear witness to her
A single play by Plautus, containing
two or three passages in Punic, and a few votive
tablets recently exhumed from her ruins, are all that
remain of thelanguage in which Hannibal incited
his countrymen to war. And Athens—the seat of
ancient greatness, in which Pericles and De1nos—
thenes spoke, and Socrates and Plato taught —— what
remains of her ?

‘ Ancient of days! August Athena! where,

Where are thy men of might? Thy grand in soul ?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.
First in the race that led to glory’s goal; '

They Won, and pass’d away — is this the whole ?

A school boy’s tale, the wonder of an hour!

The Warrior’s Weapon and the sop’hist’s stole

Are sought in vain, and o’er each mouldering tower

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.’ ”

In his professional, career Colonel Davis has
been peculiarly successful. Taking and maintaining
the high“; U “Wis of legal integrity, he has by his
dignified course honored himself and the bar wher-
ever he has practiced. No less his eloquence than
his legal lore and knowledge of governmental law,
and the principles upon which are based all the stat-
utes, has made his appeals unanswerable, while his
thorough handling of the subtler propositions involved
in’ his profession, have given him renown. The late
International" Medical Congress accepted his theory
of insanity, in the explanation of killing and exten-
uation of the charge of murder. Colonel Davis was
the defendant’s principal attorney in the celebrated
case of the State of Illinois against Robert C. Sloo,

178 TIJE U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO/VAZPY.

charged with the murder _of John E. Hall, former
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Gallatin county, Illi-
nois. In his closing argument, occupying about
twelve hours, he delivered one of the most masterly
defenses ever submitted to an American jury. It
has become a part of the medico-legal jurisprudence
of the world and is quoted as standard authority, as
this author sees by the authorized publication of the
transactions of the recent meeting of the above
mentioned body. The verbatim report of his speech
occupies about fifty-three pages of the book in which
is published the account of that celebrated trial, and
its peroration is commended as one of the grandest
displays of American oratory extant.

Colonel Davis was the first lawyer at the St. Louis
bar or in Missouri to argue against the “Test Oath.”
In the S2‘. ZLouz's R€puZ2Zz'ca7z in August, 186 5, he pub-
lished a four—colu1nn open letter to Attorney General
Wingate, as to the invalidity of the law requiring
that oath of professional gentlemen. The Attorney
General’s answer being unsatisfactory, the Colonel
published another letter in reply, and there was
nothing more heard from his opponent. His letters

were extensively published and commended. Colonel
Davis was appointed by the St. Louis bar to argue
the question before the Criminal Court, asking
that the order of the Court requiring that oath be

rescinded on account of the unconstitutionality of '

the act imposing it. He complied with their request.
It is just to say that the Supreme Court of the United
States afterward nullified the act on the identical
principles laid down by Colonel Davis in his Win-
gate letters and in his argument before the Criminal
Court.

His literary efforts in the legal field have been no
less highly commended. The I/zlami 1110772‘/zly of
June, 1874, contains a review by Colonel P. E.
Bland of an article from the pen of Colonel Davis
on “Treason” in a preceding number, in which
that gentleman thus speaks of him: “As a kind
friend, a genial gentleman, a man of large and varied
learning, a lawyer of great ability, of ripe expe-
rience and of upright character—he commands, as
he is entitled to receive, esteem and admiration.”
Coming from such a source, this tribute is more than
a passing compliment.

CHARLES McC. scorr.

ST. LOUIS.

HARLES MCCLINTOCK SCOTT was born
C in Donegal, Ireland, April 9, 1815, and is
of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather, Charles
Scott, with five brothers, came to America previous

to the Revolution, and settled near Philadelphia. In

1787 he married and removed to Fort Pitt.

When St. Clair made his campaign against the
Indians, Mr. Scott was one of his company, and after
the attack was reported killed. The settlers gathered
into the forts for protection, and Mrs. Scott, with her
two children went on to New York, where she found
a vessel commanded by her cousin, about to sail for
Belfast, Ireland, she took passage and left iNew
York the same day that her husband arrived in search
of her. As soon as he learned of her departure, he
engaged passage and followed her to Donegal,
where he remained a short time intending to return
to America, but was unfortunately drowned, in the
bay. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Scott

determined to remain in Ireland and devote her
whole energies to the care of her children.

When the father of the subject of our sketch
arrived at manhood, he married and came to Amer-
ica to look after his father’s estate. He arrived in
Baltimore in 1818, and in the same year went to
Pittsburgh. He soon found that it would be impos~
sible to recover his land without an expensive law—.
suit, for which he was unprepared. He died in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1824.

Charles M. Scott was thus left, at the age of nine
years, without a father’s care and protection. He
would not go to school, and constantly sought some
employment that would bring him on the river.
September 15, 1828, he left Pittsburgh in a canoe,
floating and paddling all night in a drenching rain,
and made Wheeling the next morning. The next
day he shipped as cabin boy on the Mohican, Cap-
tain Hugh Findron, master. This was the largest

‘first pens pieces of charcoal.

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steamer then afloat, being one hundred and eighty
feet long, twenty feet beam and twelve feet hold.
Her timbers were ten inches square, and for the first
forty. feet were as close as it was possible to put

' them, after that they gradually widened out to ten

inches apart, until near the stern they were close
together again. She had eight double-flue boilers,
which filled the whole main deck, so that the wood
piled alongside had to be crowded close against
them; this was the cause of the many fires which
occurred in those days.

His time on this steamer wasshort, owing to
some trouble he had with a passenger on board. The
Captain gave him $10.00 and sent him ashore about
twelve o’clock at night, nine miles above New
Orleans. He soon after shipped as cook on a keel
boat at $10.00 per month, and for nine years
was assiduously engaged in keel boating, rising to
fishing hand and warp layer. It was while thus
engaged that he learned to read and write, his first
book being the marks on dry goods boxes, and his
The only exception
to this kind of work was one year which he spent in
the Texas army and the Mexican prison of Mata-
moras. ,

In 1835' he, and a comrade named Johnson,
undertook to navigate a keel boat from Florence,
Alabama, to Paducah, Kentucky, loaded with Doc
Shackelford’s Company of Alabama Volunteers. On
arriving at Houston, they ‘met Captain Furguson,
with whom they had been acquainted» in the United
States, and enlisted in his company of scouts, and
after ten months’ service were captured with five
others on the banks of the Colorado river, and
marched to Matamoras to prison, where they were
confined nearly two months. They escaped and
took passage on a schooner lying off the mouth of
the Rio Grande, and in her visited nearly every
port on the Caribbean sea. They left the vessel at
Darien, and shipped on another to Havana, from
whence they were taken by a fisherman to Pensacola,
Florida. They proceeded to Blakely, and from
there worked their passage over to Mobile, where
they landed penniless and almost naked.

They soon engaged on a keel boat going up the
Tombigby river to Cotton Gin Port, and there
walked across to Waterloo, on the Tennessee river,
to ship on cotton flats to New Orleans. They had
been engaged in keel boating on the Big Black
1‘1V€1‘ for some time, when they took passage on
board the Ben. Sherrod at Grand Gulf on her down"-

ward voyage. During this trip the boat burned,
and two hundred and fifty lives were lost. The fire
broke out about one o’clock A. M. Mr. Scott and
his Texas friend Johnson were sleeping on the after
guard, and awoke to find the boat in flames. The
lower guards were crowded with deck passengers,
who were jumping into the river. While waiting
for an opportunity to make the shore, a gentleman
from the ladies’ cabin above reached down a little
girl five years old, and a little boy about three, and
begged some one to take them until he could go
after his wife and baby ; Johnson. took them, and as
the father went back into the cabin, the walls fell in,
and he was seen no more. They determined to
save the children or die in the attempt, and after
floating six miles on a fender, they succeeded in
reaching the shore. Mr. Scott several times after
had the satisfaction of saving the lives of those who
would have drowned but for his assistance.

In 1838 he was employed as mate on the Knox-
ville, the first steamer that ever navigated the Ten-
nessee river.‘ It was engaged in removing the
Cherokee Indians from Northern Georgia to Arkan-
sas. In 1842, while second mate upon the Osceola,
he invented the signal system. This was not at
first appreciated, but is now conceded to be of inval-
uable service. In 1847 he was engaged as Pilot
between Louisville and New Orleans, and the fol-
lowing year piloted from St. Louis to Memphis.

[At the breaking out of the Rebellion, he was an
uncompromising Union man, and among the first to
offer his services to the Government. He was pilot
on General Grant’s boat at Belmont. In 1861 he
furnished the Government with a complete descrip-
tion of the Tennessee river, and his plans for its use
as the key of the West. His suggestions were
adopted by the Government, and a copy of them
submitted to General Grant. The Congressional
records will show that this enabled Grant to procure
command _of the expedition.

His next invention" was the “shields,” for the
protection of the Lincoln Pilots against the long
range rifles of the Confederates, who lay along the
shore of the Tennessee river trying to stop naviga-
tion. These shields were invaluable, and saved the
life of many a brave man. Mr. Scott never received
any remuneration for any of the many useful inven-
tions which he gave to the world. He was with
Grant at Shiloh, and after the fall of Vicksburg
joined the navy, was assigned to the gunboat Choc-
taw, and stationed at the mouth of Red river.

180 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Mr. Scott has never sought nor held political
offices. He was educated an Episcopalian, but
since about 1838 has been what is termed an Infidel.
He has always been strictly temperate, and to—day,
at the age of sixty—three, is younger and more active

than most men at forty years of age. Forty-nine
per cent. of Mr. Scott’s life has been spent on the

1 river, and although he has now retired from active
; service, few men living in St. Louis have more

thrilling or more historical recollections of the water.

JUDGE SAMUEL LOCKE SAWYER.

INDEPENDENCE.

\AMUEL LOCKE SAWYER is the son of
5 Aaron F. Sawyer and Hannah Locke. He was
born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire/, November
27, 1813. His father was a lawyer of distinction in
his native State, a graduate of Dartmouth and a
man of great probity and influence. His mother
was a descendant of Samuel Locke, so well and
favorably known in the literary world as the Presi-
dent of Harvard College, and was a lady of refine-
ment and excellent judgment.

The subject of this sketch received his early
educational training at Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, New Hampshire, after which, in the year
1833, he graduated at Dartmouth.
became enamored of his father’s profession and
resolved to study law. He applied himself with
great assiduity, and had the satisfaction of being
admitted to the bar in 1836, at Amherst, in his native
State. But the profession was full and business
being dull, he determined to go west and seek his
fortune in newer and more promising fields of labor.
He therefore left New Hampshire and located in
Cleveland, Ohio. Here, being pressed for means,
he taught school for a year, but applied himself
closely to the study of the profession in which, one
day, he was to-rise to eminence. He did not offer
to practice law in Cleveland ; but carefully husband-
ing his income, and having saved some money from
his salary, he pushed still farther west, and selected
as the arena of his future legal tournaments one of
the most prosperous young cities of Missouri, and
made Lexington his permanent home. His means
were limited, he was surrounded by some of the best
legal talent in the West, men who had already
acquired an enviable national reputation, with whom
he was to come into _active and daily competition,
and he saw the necessity of feeling his way cau-
tiously and of planting his feet firmly at every stride.

Young Sawyer I

To maintain himself, and to secure a thorough
knowledge of the‘ statutory laws of his adopted
State before entering into the combat, he took a
clerkship in the land office for eighteen, months,

devoting his leisure time to the prosecution-of his_

studies. At the close of his clerkship, he formed a
partnership with Hon. Charles French, who had
noted his application and recognized his ability.
From that time on his progress was steadily upward.
Soon after he began practice, he became acquainted

with Miss Mary M. Callaway, youngest daughter of

Thomas and Lucinda Callaway, of Campbell county,
Virginia, to whom he was married December 23,
I841. "

In 1848 he was elected to the office of Circuit
Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, embracing the
counties of Lafayette, Jackson, Cass, Pettis, Bates,
Johnson and Saline. This district was strongly Dem-
ocratic, and young Sawyer was a Whig; but such
was his personal popularity and the public apprecia-
tion of his merits, that he easily defeated his Demo-
cratic opponent. To this office he was reelected
in 1852, without opposition. His partner, Mr.
French, retired from business in 1855, and Mr.
Sawyer formed an alliance with Hon. F. C. Sharp,
a gentleman who subsequently stood at the head of
the St. Louis bar. This partnership lasted until
1857, when Mr. Sharp removed to St. Louis, and
his brother, Lee J. Sharp, was taken into the firm, a
connection which continued till 1862.

In 1861, when the troubles of the Rebellion
began, Mr. Sawyer became a candidate for the posi-
tion of delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Con-
vention, which was “to take into consideration the
then existing relations of the State to the general
government.” The district, from which three dele-
gates were to be chosen, was composed of Lafayette,
Pettis and Saline counties. He was elected by a

THE‘UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VA[€Y. 181

handsome majority, and during the session of that
body he exercised ,a healthful inflience over its
deliberations.

In 1863 he became associated with Hon. William
Chrisman in the practice of law, and three years
afterward, in 1866, the firm removed to Indepen-
dence, Missouri. Wearied by thirty years of constant
and arduous labor, Mr. Sawyer retired from practice
in 1869, as did also Mr. Chrisman. Soon after he
abandoned the profession, Mr. Sawyer took super-
visory control of the banking house of Chrisman,
Sawyer & Co.

In 1871 Jackson county was made‘ a separate
judicial circuit, and Mr. Sawyer was called from his
privacy and placed on the bench of the circuit court.
Such was the ability he displayed, the impartial
justice he administered, his profound knowledge of
the law, and his eminent fitness for the position that,
in 1874, he received the nomination for judge from
both political parties, and was reelected without
opposition. Under a protracted application to his
duties, his health began to fail, and it soon became
apparent that he must divest himself of all public
cares. He therefore resigned his office, February
I 5, 1876, to take effect in the following March. His
resignation was received by the legal profession with
derfionstrations of sincere sorrow, and at a meeting
of the bar, held in the law library, in Kansas City,
resolutions of the most highly complimentary char-
acter were adopted, and were subsequently ordered
to be spread upon the records of the circuit court.
These resolutions, adopted with perfect unanimity,
evince the universal respect in which he was held by
the members of the profession; endorse his honesty,
impartiality and legal acumen, eulogize the energy

with which he prosecuted the business of the court 3 '

commend his zeal, activity and fidelity in the cause

of justice, and express a heart-felt sorrow that the
day would so soon arrive when the official relations
of the judge and the bar should be severed. All
the papers of the county, the Kansas City Tz'mes,
Mazl and journal of Commerce, and the Independence
Sem‘z'/251 spoke in terms of highest eulogy of his
distinguished services and -eminent ability, and
expressed the sentiment of the great body of the
people, who were pained toknow that he was no
longer to preside over the deliberations of the court.
In the summer of 1876 Judge Sawyer’s name was
freely mentioned as a suitable one to place before
the Democratic State Convention for judge of the
Supreme Court 3 but his ill health and long continued
absence forbade his friends pressing his claims.
judge Sawyer is about five feet nine inches in
height, fleshy without corpulence, of nervous-bilious
temperament with considerable power of endurance,
dignified, sedate and thoughtful, though genial and
entertaining in conversation. He has had a family
of five children, three of whom are living. Catha-
rine, who died in infancy; Mary, who married
Henry M. Stonestreet, of Lee’s Summit, in May,
1868, and who was a maiden, a wife, a widow, a

mother and a corpse within a twelve’-month, leaving ,

a daughter, Henrietta Warriner Stonestreet, who

' now resides with her grandparents, Aaron Flint

Sawyer, now (1878) cashier of the banking house of
Chrisman, Sawyer & Co. ; Fannie, who married
William L. McCoy ; and Thomas Callaway Sawyer,
now a merchant of Marysville, Missouri, a partner
of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. L. McCoy.

]udge Sawyer, his wife and grand-daughter reside
at their elegant suburban residence in Independence,

‘respected by their neighbors, loved by their friends,

and enjoying the well earned competence secured by
forty years’ patient and exhausting toil._

LIEUT.-GOV. HENRY C. BROCKMEYER.

is T. Z; 0 U15.

S another evidence of the intelligence a.nd use-
A fulness of the German class of western citizens,
we are glad of the opportunity of presenting this
sketch. Its subject needs no eulogy, and we give a
“plain, unvarnished” sketch of his life, believing
there is in it matter of pride to his own Fatherland

people, and certainly enough to instruct and encour-
age young men beginning life under difficulties. In
writing the sketches of the “ self—made men of

Missouri,” this latter is our chief object, and, when-.

ever we can present such a subject, we are happy to
make every exertion to secure a history of that life.

182 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Henry C. Brockmeyer was born August I2, 1828,
near Minden (Prussia) in Germany. His parents
were Frederick William and Sophia Brockmeyer.
His father was a native of the same vicinity, a busi-
ness man who accumulated a competence for his
family. His mother was a lineal descendant of one
of the most distinguished families in the kingdom.
In the common schools of Germany the boy received
his elementary education and with it a religious
training. Those who are acquainted with the Ger-
man system of education know that it is thorough,
and their scholars perfect in the course. It is prob-
ably there Mr. Brockmeyer laid the good founda-
tion upon which he afterwards built so successfully.
At the age of sixteen he came to New York, with
only twenty-five cents in money -and unable to speak
a word of English. Without ‘money or friends, in
a strange land with foreign tongue, he was not in a
situation to afford time for hunting choice employ-
ment. Our subject at once went to work blacking
boots on the Bowery. He finally succeeded in get-
ting a situation to learn the currier’s trade, and
received as wages three dollars per month and board.
So assiduously did he perform his duties that in six
months he obtained employment as a journeyman at
one dollar per day.

Meanwhile he had used every spare moment -in
the study of the English language. He soon learned
to read, and then continued his studies in such books
as he could obtain. In addition to the currier trade
he learned the’ business of tanning and of shoe
making. Having determined to go west as soon as
he was able, he began economizing to save the
necessary amount of money; his labors W61
increased and every possible expense avoided.

Having become proficient in every branch of his
trade, and with barely money enough to make the
trip, he started for the West. At Fort Wayne,
Indiana, he secured employment in a tannery at one
dollar and fifty cents per day. Here he remained

until he had saved two hundred dollars, which he '

laid by as a fund only to be used in case of extrem-
ity. He then went to Dayton, Ohio, but failing to
get employment went on to Cincinnati, on foot the
greater part of the way. Meeting with no better
success there, he embarked on a steamboat and
landed in St. Louis, in August, 1848. He worked
in the tannery of Mr. Howe two months, when in
company with an old classmate,‘ he went to Memphis,
Tennessee, from thence to central Mississippi, and
obtained work at his trade in Columbus. VVhile in

j and had developed good business qualities.

this establishment he introduced a number of
improvements, for which he was paid liberally.

Mr. Brockmeyer had now accumulated enough
money to start in business for himself. He went to
Oktibbeha county, Mississippi, and established a
tannery, combining with that and currying the
making of boots and shoes. He made considerable
money , but the climate was not favorable to his
health 5 this, together with his incessant application
and labor for two years, began seriously to affect
him-, and he sold out.

Mr. Brockmeyer had always a thirst for knowl-

edge, and had determined to fit himself for one of

the professions. He was a master workman now at
two trades, had a thorough knowledge of machinery
But he
early concluded that to accomplish anything out of
the ordinary line more knowledge was a necessity.
In the fall of 18 50 he entered the preparatory depart-
ment of Georgetown College, Kentucky, where he
remained two years. He then went to Brown Uni-
versity, at Providence, Rhode Island, and took an
eclective course, having for one of his classmates
Hon. Thomas L. Ewing, of Ohio. He remained
there under Dr. Wayland about two years. He had
become interested in religious subjects, and during
these four years had gathered a fund of biblical
knowledge and become quite proficient in theological
discussions. '

"Mr. Brockmeyer, in 1854, had made up his
mind, on account of family affairs, to return to Ger-
many, and went to New York to take passage.
While standing on the wharf in thought, reflections
came of what he had accomplished by his own unas-
sistedefforts since he first stood on that dock, poor
and friendless , and fairly weighing the matter in his
mind, he determined to remain in America. I
ing about, he came immediately to St. Louis.

Still with the burning desire for more knowledge,
he determined to devote his whole time and atten-
tion to its acquirement.

Turn-

and gun, with a few necessary articles of furniture,
he went into the woods of Warren county, of this
State, moved into a cabin which had been aban-
doned, where he remained nearly three years, his
gun supplying his table, and himself his own tailor
and cobbler. Here his time was all devoted to
study. At the end of three years, he again returned
to St. Louis and found employment as a molder in
the foundry of Giles F. Filley, for six weeks; he
next was engaged in the foundry of Bridge, Beach

Taking his books, a dog ,

i and favorite dog.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTI01/VAI\’Y. 183

& Co., on piece work at fifteen dollars per week.
During these days he was still a student, devoting all
leisure time to books. ,

William T. Harris, now superintendent of public
schools in St. Louis, had originated a class consist-
ing of himself, Franklin Childs, Dr. Walters and a
few others, to study German Philosophy, and Mr.
Brockmeyer was solicited to become their instructor.
He offered them his evenings and Sundays. The
class was continued for some months to mutual
advantage. 8 .

Having earned sufficient money, Mr. Brock-
meyer returned to Warren county and purchased
some land. Before leaving St. Louis the members
of his German Philosophy class, as a mark of their
esteem, presented him with a case of very valuable
books. Having built a cabin he again began his
recluse—student life with no companion but his books
In the fall of 1858 he was dan-
gerously ill with bilious fever. Accidentally a
neighbor discovered his condition, and communi-
cated at once with Mr. William T. Harris, who
immediately proceeded to the cabin and brought ‘the
patient to the city, where with proper care and treat-
ment he recovered.

Remaining in St. Louis after convalescence, his
class resumed their studies in German Philosophy.
Mr. Brockmeyer in the meantime made a literal
translation of the “Logic of Hegel,” in three vol-
umes, completing the vast work in one year. His
publishers failed, while in a contract to publish it as
a part of Bohn’s classical library, and the MSS. are
still in the author’s possession. He was still astu-
dent when the war broke out in 1861, which put a
stop to his literary pursuits.

He enrolled in the militia was elected cap-
tain of the first company organized, and was com-
missioned, but was soon after promoted to provis-
ional lieutenant—colonel, with authority to raise a
regiment. Within three weeks the full muster roll
of his regiment was presented to the Governor,
accompanied by a petition signed by every officer
and private in the regiment, for his appointment as
colonel. But meanwhile the mind of the Governor
had been poisoned against Colonel Brockmeyer, and
the muster roll was declined, the petition neglected,
and two days afterward he was arrested and locked
up in the Gratiot street military prison. Colonel
Louis Merril, of Louisiana fame, had instigated the
proceedings. On proper representations by his

friends he was soon released 5 but was dismissed as
24

lieutenant—colonel, only retaining his captain’s com-
mission. In six. weeks afterward-his vindication
came from the people of Warren county, who, by
an overwhelming majority, elected him to the Lower
House of the Missouri Legislature. He was in _the
Legislature in the sessions of 1861-2 and 1863-4.

In 1866 he was a member of the City Council
of St. Louis, having removed to thatcity in 1864,
but was legislated out in the spring of 1867. In
1870 he was elected to the State Senate from the
Thirty-Fourth District and took a prominent part
in the important measures of the sessions of 1871-2
and 1873-4. During the latter session he defeated
what was known as “Heard’s Revenue Bill,” for
which on his return home he was proffered a public
banquet, but declined on the ground that he had
simply done his duty. It was also due mainly to
his efforts that a bill was passed by the Senate limit-
ing the power of taxation by the State, cities and
counties. He also drew up the bill providing that
every citizen of this State, whether plaintiff or
defendant, involved in litigation against wealthy
corporations, should’ receive from such corporations
money enough to defray the expenses of the litiga-
tion. The bill passed the Senate but failed in the
House. He was two years Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and as such devised a
measure for the better protection of the credit of
the State. For two years he was Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee in the Senate. At the close of
the term he declined a reelection. In 1874' he was
elected a member of the Constitutional Convention,
which met in 187 5 at Jefferson City and gave to the
State its present Constitution.

In this body he was appointed to the important
position of Chairman of the Committee on Legisla-
tive Department, and the report of this committee,
adopted by the Convention without material amend-
ment, gives to their work its distinctive character
among the constitutions of the different States. It
was submitted to the people and ratified by a vote of
seven to one. .

In 1876 Mr. Brockmeyer was nominated by the
Democratic Convention for the position of lieuten-
ant-governor, without his solicitation or presence.
When informed by telegraph of the action of the
party, he accepted the nomination and was elected
without a canvass.

In politics he has acted with the Democratic
party. During the war, he was a Union Democrat,
sustaining Lincoln during his first administration,

184 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

and advocated his reelection in 1864. In 1865 he
opposed disfranchisement, and when defeated in
this, he labored assiduously until every citizen of
his adopted State was restored to a full citizenship
of the republic. In this labor he stood firmly by
the side of his friend Hon. F. P. Blair.

In 1861 Mr. Brockmeyer married Miss Elizabeth
Robinson, of St. Louis, and moved to his farm in
Warren county. She died in 1864, leaving two
children. In 1867 he married his second wife, Miss
julia Keinlen, of St. Louis. Mr. Brockmeyer is
considerably above the medium height, with an
aquiline nose, piercing black eyes, prominent cheek
bones, firmly knit frame and elastic step. His
mental characteristics are: wonderful power of analy-
sis and generalization, a poetic sense of the fitness
of things ; remarkable gifts for exact definition com-
bined with an equal ability to express himself in
language that appeals to the imagination of his hear-
ers. His acquaintance with systems of philosophy, or
rather with philosophic thought, is comprehensive

_ and profound.

The unusual combination of metaphysician and
poet is found in Mr. Brockmeyer; his drama “A
Foggy Night at Newport,” shows a command over

the musical resources of the English language equal
to that of Edgar A. Poe, while his capacity for
invective, for burlesque, for pure inventions of the
fancy, reminds one of old English dramatists. Social-
ly, Mr. Brockmeyer shines in power of conversa-
tion. In fact, his power of conversation dwarfs his
other powers. Conversation amounts to a passion
with him, and thoughts which, if pent up and com-
municated to paper, would make him an enduring
reputation, are uttered and left unrecorded. The
habit of talking one’s best ideas is fatal to collecting
them in a more permanent form.

Mr. Brockmeyer is domestic in his habits and
loves to receive his friends by his own fireside. As
a public officer, or as a legislator, he has far—seeing
Sagacity and takes in at a ‘glance the remote effects
of a law. He has probably done more effective
thinking than any other man on the subject of
constitutional" checks and balances for the prevention
of financial corruption, on the subject of the limits
of political interference with productive industry,
and the circulating medium of exchange, and on
the subject. of the American form of government
as_ related to the European and Asiatic forms of
government.

JUDGE HENRY P. ‘NHITE.

IKAIVSAS CITY.

ENRY P. WHITE was born at Pottsdam, St.
H Lawrence. county, New York, January 13,
1841. His father, Peter White, was born in county
Meathe, Ireland, October 14, 1807, and came to
America in 1821 with his father’s family. His
mother was of Scotch descent, but born in county
Antrim, Ireland, October 2, 1810. She was an
orphan and came to America with friends in 1824.
Her maiden name was Ann Gowdey, and she mar-
ried Peter White at Canton, St. Lawrence county,
New York, December 25, 1837. They then settled
upon the farm where our subject was born and which
had been owned by his father for several years,
and where his father died, July 27, 1867. Henry P;
was the oldest of four children, the rest of the family
being Charles A.," born September 29, 1842, now
living in Virginia City, Nevada—a railroad man and
a miner; Catharine W., born May 22, I844, mar-

r1ed in 1872 to Thomas Y. McGuire, of Toledo,
Ohio; «Sarah A., born April 15, 1846, married April
26, 1866, to Harry C. West, of Madrid, New York.
judge White’s paternal grandfather was Patrick
White, who married Alice Gogan. He remained in
New York a few years and then removed to Chicago
and settled there when all there was of the place
was the United States fort and five log houses. His
maternal grandfather, Alexander Gowdey, married
Sarah Carson.

Henry P. took an academic course at the St.
Lawrence Academy, Pottsdam, and as a boy was
studious and temperate, free from the vices and
dissipations to which so many are addicted. After
leaving the Academy he read law in the office of
E. & N. Crary, afterward Crary & Vance, of Potts-
dam, New York. In October, 1865, he left home
and went to St. Louis, remaining there until the fol-

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lowing spring, and then, in February, 1866, removed
to Kansas City, Missouri, where he now (1878) re-
sides. Here he immediately commenced the practice
of law, and secured a large and lucrative business.

In 1868 he was elected City Attorney and served
in that capacity two years, and in October, 1874,
was appointed Judge of the Criminal Court. In
November, 1874, he was elected to the same posi-
tion, and holds it to this time, 1878. On the bench
he wins the admiration of all by his correct. adminis-
tration of justice, and he is every inch a Judge.

In 1869 he joined the Masons in Kansas City,
and for four years was Master of a Lodge. He has
held various positions in Chapters and is at present
Eminent Commander-of Commandery No. IO. On
the 27th of October, 187 5, he married Euphemia
DeLuce, and has one child by the marriage, Mary,
born on the Ioth day of August, 1876. I

Judge White is a Democrat, and since his resi-
dence in Kansas City has taken a prominent part in
politics, although his course has been so liberal that

he numbers among his strongest friends some of the ’

most. ardent supporters of the Republican party.
There is no man in the State who has more or

warmer friends, and no one who better deserves
them. Withal, he is a modest man as to his merits.
The Democratic convention of Kansas City honored

' him with the nomination for Mayor in 1872.

Henry P. White stands five feet eleveninches;
is square shouldered, somewhat corpulent, brown
eyes, quite baldion top, prematurely gray, with
clear complexion and massive head and brow, and
weighs two hundred and fifty pounds. He has a
commanding appearance, great dignity of presence,
and there are but few finer looking men. Quick of
thought and temper, thoroughly disciplined in that
greatest of all schools——the school of experience—and
assisted by an almost wonderful memory of details,
he readily grasps the strong points of men or 1neas-
ures, and facts once stored away are never forgotten.

Socially, he is a genial gentleman and pleasant
companion, courteous in his manners, full of manly
sympathy and kindness, and ever ready to lend a
willing ear and helping hand to the unfortunate or
distressed. Generous to a fault, he has but little
appreciation of the value of money. Plain, unas-
suming and firm, Nature has stamped him in body,
mind and character, a true man.

CHARLES DOUGHERTY.

IN DE PEIVDEIV CE.

HARLES DOUGHERTY is a native of county
C Donegal, Ireland, and was born in November,
1844. His grandfather was a landed proprietor‘ and
the principal owner of the town of Kerrykeel, where
he had two flax mills and a corn mill. His father,
Hugh Dougherty, married Miss Mary Montague, of
county Donegal, near Letter Kenney. They had thir-
teen children, Charles being the eleventh. He
attended the private schools of county Donegal until
he was eighteen years old, when he came to Amer-
ica, arriving in New York on the 5th of November,
18 51, and spending the winter with Michael Dough-
erty, the proprietor of the iron works in Newark,
New Jersey, where he learned the trade.

In the spring of 18 52 he came to Independence,
Missouri, and stayed with Smallwood & Noland,
who kept the well-known Noland House. In August
of that year he joined Noland and others in gold-
hunting in the Smoky Hill country. It seems that

an Indian visited Independence and exhibited spec-
imens of gold and silver, and promised to take the
party to a place where they could load a mule with
the precious metals, but after weeks of toil, fording
rivers, and narrowly escaping slaughter by the Paw-
nees and other tribes, they returned home without
accomplishing their object.

Mr. Dougherty then engaged in_purchasing cattle
for the California market, with John Montgomery.

In the fall of 1853 he went to New Mexico with a

wagon train. In 1854 he entered into the employ-
ment of Haller & McGill, druggists, of Independ-
ence, and shortly afterwards became a partner in
dry goods and groceries. Both of his partners died
of cholera, in 1854; he, however, continued the
business for two years.

In 1856 he formed a co-partnership with Michael
Mullen and Jones Flournoy in general 1nerchandiz-
ing, in Wayne City and Independence. In the fall

186

of that year he withdrew from the firm and continued
business on his own account till 18 59.

In 1862 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff for
Independence. In 1863 all legal business was sus-

pended on account of the war, and he removed‘

to Kansas City, taking a position in the dry goods
house of J. & P. Shannon, where he remained until

the issue of Order No. 11. He then went to St.

Louis, and was employed in the dry goods store of

J. G. Dunnigan, on Market street. In 1864 he
was employed by the clothing house of Sunniburn,
Selegman & Marks, at a salary of eighty dollars per
month, but during the year it was raised to twenty-
five hundred and afterwards to thirty—five hundred
dollars per annum. _

In 1866 he returned to Independence and was
nominated by the Democratic party for Sheriff of
Jackson county, to which office he was elected. This
office then embraced that of Collector and Marshal.
In 1868 he was reelected, filling this position for two
successive terms.

In 1870 he joined with John C. Moore, Esq., and
John N. Edwards, in the purchase of the Ifcmsas

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

City Times. In 1871 he sold his interest to the
present proprietors, and since that time has devoted
himself to his private interests.

Mr. Dougherty has lost large amounts of money
by security debts , he has, however, a large amount
of real estate in Kansas City and Independence,
and owns four farms in Jackson county. He is an
active. Democrat in political faith, and a disciple of
the late Thomas H. Benton. In religion he is a
Catholic. .

In 1858 he married Miss Isabel Poole, a native
of Pennsylvania. They have four children living:
Hugh Henry, aged nineteen, is a clerk in the office
of Hon. Michael McGrath, Secretary of State, and
is a young man of more than ordinary ability. The
other sons, George, Daniel and Charles Andrew, are
promising children. .

Thus we have briefly sketched the life of one
of America’s adopted sons from the Emerald Isle,
who has well represented his native country. Mr.
Dougherty is well known and highly respected in
Jackson county. He is liberal in his views, kind to
the poor, and a useful member of society.

JOSEPH M. HAMMETT.

HUNTSVILLE.

MAN’S life-work is the measure of his suc-

cess, and he is truly the most successful man
who, turning his powers into the channel of an
honorable purpose, accomplishes the object of his
endeavor. He who weds himself to a great princi-
ple, lays the foundation of a successful life. In the
study of every man’s life we find some mainspring
of action—-something that he _lives for. In Joseph
M. Hammett it seems to have been an ambition to
make the best use of his native and acquired powers,
and to develop in himself a true manhood.

A native of Warren county, Kentucky, he was
born December 25, 1809, and is the son of Elijah
and Mary (Snodgrass) Hammett. His father was a
native of South Carolina and a farmerby occupa-
tion. At an early day he settled in Warren county,
Kentucky, and in 1827 emigrated to Randolph
county, Missouri. His mother was a native of Warren‘
county, Kentucky, and daughter of David Snodgrass,
a farmer, and prominent military. man and politician

K

Young Hammett was reared to agricultural pur-
suits, and has followed farming much of his life.
He believes that a farmer is the fulcrum upon which
rests the lever to raise and sustain the world, and he
has always pursued this noble calling, by putting his
brain into the palm of his hand, and educating it, so
that it should become more potential.

He obtained a meagre education at one of the
log school houses on the frontier, but his desire for
knowledge has made him an earnest student and
careful observer, and he has derived from thoughtful
reading what many men have to take a college course
to get. His only military record is a short term of
service in the “ Black Hawk war.”

In 1836 he married Miss Mary Millsapp of Ran-
dolph county, Missouri.

Mr. Hammett has always been so engrossed with
his business interests that he has declined public
offices, and confined himself entirely to his private
affairs. In 187 5 he was elected President of the

THE UNITED STATES BIOiG1i’A.Pl11C/11. DICTIO./VARY. 187

Huntsville Savings Bank, and to him is due its good

name. _
Politically he is a Democrat, and cast l11S first

vote for Andrew Jackson. ' In religious views he is
a Methodist.

In 18 5 5 Mr. Hammett married Mrs. Amanda La -

Fon of Randolph county, Missouri, a lady well
calculated to be the help-meet of a progressive man.

Mr. Hammett is sociable, amiable and friendly,
entertaining in conversation and unassuming in man-
ners. He is ever gentlemanly and courteous in all
his dealings, and his keen foresight and sound finan-
cial views have given him an enviable reputation as
a financier. By his kindness and sterling integrity,
he.has won the esteem of the community and inspired
the confidence of all with whom he comes in contact.

JUDGE JOHN FRANKLIN DOHERTY.

‘STE WAR TSVILLE.

born in Claiborne county, East Tennessee,

March 31, 1807. He isia descendant of an
ancient family of the O’Doughertys in the north of
Ireland. His paternal grandfather was born in Vir-
ginia and emigrated to Claiborne county, Tennessee,
where he died, leaving three sons and a daughter.
He was a staunch Whig and was with Seveir in the
battle’ of King’s Mountain. William Doherty, his
son, was a lieutenant in the United States Cavalry
in the war of 1812, and was with General Jackson
at Pensacola and New Orleans; he was the father
of the subject of this sketch, and brother of James
Doherty, a major in the United States Army, who
served in the war of I812—a man remarkable for his
stature and weight (three hundred and fiftyipounds) ;
Joseph Doherty was another brother, who settled in
Cumberland county, Kentucky, where he died.

William Doherty, the father of our subject, was
born in Greenbrier county, Virginia. He emigrated
to Claiborne county, Tennessee, in early life, and
in 1811 moved to Bedford county, Tennessee. He
married Ellen Bradford, a daughter of Bennett Ben-
jamin Bradford, a descendant of William Bradford,
second Colonial Governor of Massachusetts. She
died in Tennessee in 1816. In 1821 he moved with
his daughter, Margaret Gilmore, to Clay county,

JUDGE JOHN FRANKLIN DOHERTY was

Missouri, where he died in 1823. He was the father

of six children: Joseph B. Doherty, now living in
Clinton county, Missouri, aged seventy-eight years;

’Margaret Gilmore, wife of Samuel Gilmore, who

died three or four years ago; Jane Walker, now
living in DeKalb county, Missouri, the widow of
Robert Walker, who died in Galveston, Texas, dur-
ing the Mexican War, and the mother of Tipton

Walker, a distinguished officer of the Texan navy,
who also died there ; William T. Doherty, a farmer
living near Stewartsville, DeKalb county, Missouri ;
Hannah Gibson, wife of William Gibson, who died
in Alabama four years ago ; John Franklin Doherty,
the subject of this sketch, who received a practical
business education in Dixon’s Academy, Shelbyville,
Tennessee.

After leaving school he learned the art of print-
ing, andlalso devoted his attention to the study of
law. In 1827 he was elected captain of a militia
company in Shelbyville, Tennessee. In 1828 he
emigrated to Clay county, Missouri, where his
father died five years before. Here he engaged in
the profession of teaching for two or three years.
May I, 1831, he married Miss Phoebe Hawkins, a
step-daughter of Abraham Lincoln, a farmer of Clay
county, Missouri, and a cousin of the late President
Lincoln, to whom he bore a striking personal resem-
blance. The issue of the marriage was six children,
three of whom are now living, two residing with
their parents’. Their names are H. B.’Doherty,
present surveyor of DeKalb_ county, Eliza Jane and
William Taylor Doherty, the two latter unmarried.

In 1836 he published in Liberty, the present seat
of Clay county, a weekly Democratic journal entitled
the Far Wlesz‘. In 1840 he moved to what is now
DeKalb county, then attached to Clinton county.
Thesubsequent organization of this territory into
the county of DeKalb was due mainly to his efforts.
On the 24th of September, 1846, he was admitted
to the practice of law by Austin A. King, then judge
of the Fifth Judicial District, and afterwards Gov-
ernor of the State of Missouri, and engaged in the
practice of the same. i

188 TIJE U./VITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAZ. DICTIO./VARY.

May 5, I845, DeKalb county was organized,
and john Franklin Doherty was appointed clerk of
the first county and circuit courts of the same. In
18 50 he was elected on the Democratic ticket mem-
ber of the Legislature from said county, served two
years and distinguished himself by his active support
of the principles of his party, during the stormy
debates of that memorable session. He was ever
an ultra State Rights Democrat. In 185 5 he was
appointed first county school commissioner, and the
following year elected to the same office for two
years. During this period he organized the county
into school districts. ,

In 1847 he was made a Master Mason in Savan-
nah Lodge No. 71, Andrew county 3 and the follow-
ing year a Royal Arch Mason in Savannah R. A.
Chapter, at that time the nearest of these bodies to
DeKalb county. He has ever since taken a lively
interest in the success of the order ; has been active
in the organization of several lodges and chapters in
different counties. He is now Past Master of the
Stewartsville Lodge, and Past High Priest of Russel
R. A. Chapter in the same town. He filled several
offices of minor importance (in early life) before
leaving Clay county. In 1838 he was elected clerk
of the county court of DeKalb county for the term
of six years. ,

On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellior
in 1861, declining to take the required oath of allegi-
ance, he was declared a rebel and banished from the
State. He first went to Kentucky, where he remained
two years 5 at the end of which period, in obedience
to the proclamation of General Burbridge, ordering
all refugees out of the State, he went to Putnam
county, Indiana, where he remained over two years.

After the proclamation of peace by President
Johnson, he returned to his farm, one and one-half
miles northeast of Stewartsville, Missouri, which he
located when he first settled in and organized the
county. On the enfranchisement of the rebels in
Missouri, john Franklin Doherty was elected school
director and taught a public school in his district
four months. April 16, 1873, he was commissioned
by Governor Woodson, a notary public, within and
for‘ the county of DeKalb. In the same year he
was, under the township organization, elected one
of the five judges of the county court of said county.
In April, 1874, he was reelected to the same office
for six years. In 187 5 he was legislated out of this
office by.the act abolishing the five—judge court. In
1876 he was elected justice of the peace for the
term of two years, and was recommissioned notary
public, in 1877. Both of these offices he now
holds. He is also at present chairman of the
board of directors of his school district, and “has
been especially active in organizing and directing
the interests of the colored schools of his dis-
trict , he is also president of the township board of
directors.

When a child he was christened in the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, but never united in after
life with any religious denomination. Politically, he
was ever, as he is to—day, a State Rights Democrat
of the most pronounced type. For a man of his years
he presents an unusually erect carriage, though of
slender build , he appears to enjoy excellent health.
His hair and long full beard are nearly ‘white and his
general appearance rather striking. As a private
citizen no man in the county is more generally
respected than Judge Doherty.

COLONEL WILLIAM A. SHELTON.

UNION VILLE.

ILLIAM ANDERSON SHELTON, son of
Ezekiel H. Shelton, was born April 15, 1832,

,in Clinton county, Kentucky, which was also his
, father’s native place.

His mother-, Elizabeth Mason
Shelton, was a native of Fauquier county, Virginia,
and daughter of William Mason, an early settler of
Kentucky from Virginia. ‘

William, when thirteen years of age, emigrated

with his parents to ‘Putnam county, Missouri, in
1845. His father settled on a farm and gave his son
the advantages of a common school education.

In 1854 young Shelton began to teach school,
which profession he followed until 1856, when he
entered the office of the Circuit Clerk of Putnam
county, and discharged the duties of that office as
deputy for about three years when he was elected

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGIEAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY. 189

circuit clerk of the county and held the office until
1867. .

In 1862 he entered the Union army as captain
of Co. D, 1st Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, in
which company his father served as a private sol-
dier. He was in the service about eight months,
doing duty only in Missouri. Upon his_ return he
was appointed colonel of the 45th Enrolled Militia.

During his term of office as circuit clerk he
had devoted his leisure hours tothe reading of law,
and in 1867 was admitted tothe bar and began the
practice of his profession in Unionville, where he
has since been one of the leading lawyers.

In 1866 he was elected to the State Senate, rep-
resenting the counties of Putnam, Sullivan, Linn
and Chariton.

Religiously he is a Universalist; Mr. Shelton
was a Whig until the dissolution of that party, since
which time he has acted With the Republican party.
His first presidential ballot was cast for Millard
Fillmore, and at the beginning of the civil war he
voted for Stephen A. Douglass.

May, 1859, he married Miss Nancy F. Brasfield,
a native of Madison county, Kentucky, from which
place her father, James K. Brasfield, emigrated to
Missouri at an early day.

He is regarded by the community in which he
resides as a man of great legal ability and a most
estimable citizen. His family is composed of his
wife and three sons: Ora A., William A. and Claud,
of the ages respectively of thirteen, ten and seven
years. ’

JOHN HARRISON.

GLASGO I/V.

“ Honor and shame from no condition rise,

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.”

MONG the self-made men of “Old Howard,”
the “mother of statesmen, soldiers, orators
and jurists,” by whose labor_ and skill her rugged
hills and fertile plains have been transformed into a
“garden of delight,” none occupied, while living, a
higher place in the estimation of his friends and
acquaintances, or whose memory is perfumed with
more pleasing recollections than John‘ Harrison, a
man whose life and character literally verified the
truth enunciated in the trite old couplet at the head
of this sketch. .
The paternal ancestors of Mr. Harrison emi-
grated from Ireland while this country was yet under
British dominion, locating in Pennsylvania, near
Philadelphia, where his grandfather married a Miss
Carlyle, an English lady of varied educational
accomplishments. John Harrison, the father of our
subject, soon after attaining his majority, emigrated
to Kentucky, where he married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of William and Elizabeth (Newman) McClanahan-,
who had removed thither from their native State,
Virginia. Here for a number of years he was
engaged in various departments of manual labor,

by which he accumulated some means, and then
for a while engaged in distilling.

In 1819 he came with his family to Missouri and
settled in Howard county, some three miles northeast
of where the city of Glasgow now stands, on w-hat
has since been known as the Harrison farm, and
which is still in the possession of the family. Here
he engaged in farming, milling and distilling—in the
two latter branches of business, however, but to a
limited extent—till his death, which occurred in 182 5,
leaving a small estate and a widow with eight chil-
dren, four sons and four daughters. John, the sub-
ject of this sketch, being the ‘third, was born in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, January 29, 1808. His
educational advantages were very limited, never
having attended school but three months. Soon
after the settlement of his father’s family in Missouri,
while yet a mere boy, he left the maternal roof
determined upon a life of independence. Being
possessed of a strong, active, practical mind and a
robust constitution, combined with industry and
energy, he started forth determined on success.

Painfully conscious of his incompetency to trans-

192 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

has taken the lead, and has demonstrated to Ameri-
can and English surgeons that it is not only safe but
is the only effective method of treating those trouble-
some cases. In the community he is respected and
esteemed, and by the profession is regarded as the

leading surgeon in the West, and one who promises
honor to the city in which he lives and the college
with which he is connected. His family relations
are most agreeable, and he is a pleasant companion,
a kind friend and a good citizen.

MILTON TOOTLE.

5 T. _/OSEPII.

ILTON TOOTLE was born, February 26,
M 1823, in Ross county, Ohio. While he was
an infant, his father, John Tootle, moved to Marion
county, Ohio, where young Tootle received in the
common schools the rudiments of an English educa-
tion. This was subsequently improved upon by
reading, by reflection, and by contact with the busi-
ness world, and became thoroughly practical in its
details. About the year 1836 his father removed to
Jersey county, Illinois, where Milton, though only
thirteen years old and low in stature, being scarcely
able to see the top of the counter, entered a mer-
cantile house and began that course of training in
business which afterwards proved so successful.
Soon after his introduction to mercantile affairs, he
entered the store of his uncle, who dealt in gen-
eral merchandise, where he remained till his uncle
moved to another part of the country. He was then
employed as a clerk by Mr. George Smith.

In 1842 Mr. Smith moved to Savannah, Andrew
county, Missouri,‘ accompanied by young Tootle,
who had so won upon the confidence and esteem of
his employer as to make his services absolutely
indispensable. In 1844 Mr. Smith divided his stock
and sent a part of it to Atchison county, giving Mr.
Tootle exclusive charge of the new house. Here
he remained only one year, having been called to
take the management of the Savannah house on the
removal of Mr. Smith to St. Joseph.

In 1848 he embarked in business for himself in
Oregon, Holt county. During his short business
career here, he evinced" that tact, ingenuity, integ-
rity and industry which have been marked features
of his commercial life. He gathered about him a
host of friends and laid the foundation for future
success , but the country was new and sparsely pop-
ulated, and the field was not large enough for the
full display of his abilities. In 1849, at the request

of his old patron, Mr. Smith, he went to St. Joseph,
where he was given an interest in the house subse-
quently known as that of Smith, Bedford & Tootle.

Mr. Smith died in the spring of 1849, and Mr.
Tootle, his two brothers and William Fairleigh pur-

chased the stock and began business under the firm ~

name of Tootles & Fairleigh. It was not long until
Milton Tootle established a dry goods house in
Omaha, one in Sioux City and one in Council
Bluffs, the former two of which were the first busi-
ness houses of any importance in either place. They
are yet among the most extensive and flourishing
houses of the Northwest. Mr. T ootle always regard-
ed the St. Joseph enterprise as the most stable and
promising of his ventures, and to his rapidly increas-
ing interests there he devoted most of his personal
attention. The steady growth of the city and its
commercial importance, the substantial credit it
enjoys, and the extensive trade secured by his house,
have vindicated his judgment and established his
business sagacity.

In 1860 one of his brothers, Joseph Tootle,
died, and soon after the firm sustained the loss of
another member by the withdrawal of Thomas
Tootle. The business continued to be conducted by
Messrs. Milton Tootle and William Fairleigh under
the firm style of Tootle & Fairleigh, until 1873, when
Mr. -Fairleigh, having amassed a large fortune, with-
drew his interest. Other partners were admitted,
and the firm style became Tootle, Craig & Co.,
under which title it continued until 1877, when
another change was made, and the firm of Tootle,
Hosea & Co. was formed, and is still conducting a
heavy trade in St. Joseph.

Mr. Tootle is a man of great enterprise, and has
done much to enlarge, improve and beautify the city
of his residence. To all public enterprises he has
been a free and liberal contributor, and has under-

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taken some of great importance where he has borne
the "sole expense. In 1872 he erected a costly and
magnificent temple of amusement, known as Tootle’s
Opera House.

mented. The auditorium is sixty—six feet by one
hundred and twenty, with a seating capacity of one
thousand five hundred. It is richly frescoed, and
brilliantly lighted by chandeliers and jets. The
house is built in excellent taste, is the pride of St.
Joseph, and would do credit to the first cities of the
East.

Mr. Tootle was married in January, 1866, to the
daughter of James L. O’Neill, Cashier of the West-
ern Bank of Missouri. They have three living chil-
dren: Fannie, a bright little girl of seven years, and
two boys, Milton, aged five years, and Johnnie,
aged three years. Engrossed as he is in business,
the pure pleasures of the domestic hearthstone afford
him relief from the harassing cares of the commer-
cial word. In the bosom of his little family, sur-
rounded by the luxuries that his own energy and
care have provided, with simple and refined tastes,
and the means of gratifying them to the fullest
extent, he casts off the burden of business care and
finds a world of unalloyed enjoyment. In Febru-
ary, I87 5, he united with the First Presbyterian
Church of St. Joseph.

The building is four stories high, '
‘surmounted by a Mansard roof tastefully orna-

‘ ‘ and enterprising.

Physically, Mr. Tootle is rather below the medium
height, with a well-rounded, compactly knit frame,
and a commanding and prepossessing presence.
Without being muscular, he is capable of enduring
long-continued mental and physical exertion. His
success in life is due to the care with which he has
superintended and directed the minutest details of
business, and the constant and close attention he
has given to everything connected with his numer-
ous enterprises. He’ has been especially fortunate
in attracting and retaining faithful and capable
employés, whom he has inspired with his own
indomitable courage and perseverance, and that
deep interest in his affairs which manifests itself by
warm attachment to his person, and unremitting
anxiety and concern for the welfare and prosperity
of his business. He is financially interested in many
business houses in St. Joseph and elsewhere, and his
connection with any enterprise is a sureiguarantee
of success. He is liberal, public spirited, energetic
The needy never turn away
unsatisfied from his door, and the unfortunate find
in him a willing and generous friend. His history,
is intimately connected with that of St. Joseph, and
so long as that city sta ‘ds he will be remembered as
the pure Christian citizen, the model business man
and public benefactor. The name of Milton Tootle
and that of St. Joseph are inseparable,

HON. GEORGE SMITH.

CAMER ON.

EORGE SMITH, ex-Lieutenant—Governor of
Missouri, was born February 2, 1809, in
Columbiana county, Ohio. His father’s name was
John Smith and his mother’s Mary Fisher. They
were both natives of Pennsylvania. Both his grand-
fathers served in the Revolutionary war and were
natives of Pennsylvania. _His father served in the
war of 1812.

George Smith received a practical business edu-
cation in the county of his birth, afterwards attended
college at Oxford (Ohio) Miami University, but did
not remain to graduate, leaving at the age of twenty
years to engage in business. His father was a farmer
—energetic and thrifty 3 the son was accordingly
early imbued with rigid habits of industry. His

first commercial ventures were in the transportation A i

of flour to New Orleans by flat—boat in the winter,
and the driving of cattle from Ohio to Eastern Penn-
sylvania and Maryland in the summer. These
pursuits occupied three years of his life.

In January, 1833, he marriedin Brooke county,
Virginia, where she was born, Sarah A. Chapman,
by whom he had two children, a son and daughter.
His Wife died in 1836. -

He was married again in November, 1839, to Mary
A. Kerrins—a native of the neighborhood of Liver-
pool, England—his present wife. By this marriage
he has had three sons and two daughters, all living.
Both wives were educated women, of strong charac-
ter, and the last is widely known and appreciated.

Cameron, Clinton county.

194 TI-IE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

The first three years of his married life he was
engaged in farming and for the next seven years
in mercantile pursuits, forwarding and commission
business at East Liverpool, Ohio. During this
period, at the age of twenty-seven years, he was
elected on the Democratic ticket a member of the
Legislature from his native county, which at that
time ranked second in wealth and population in the
State, reelected the next year and served till the
close of 1839. As a member he ranked high and
his marked ability gave him the Chairmanship of the
Committee on Banks and Corporations, this being
one of the most important committees. '

In 1844 he emigrated from Ohio and located in
Caldwell county, Missouri, where he resided for
twenty-four years. He brought with him to Mis-
souri aboutjeleven hundred ‘fine sheep, being the
first large flock of sheep which crossed the Missis-
sippi into the State of Missouri. He therefore is
regarded as the pioneer wool grower of the State, of
which fact the venerable ex-Governor feels no small
degree of pride.

In 1868 he moved to his present residence near
This residence is near
a splendid farm which he still owns and superintends
in Caldwell county. Though holding active official

- positions continuously for the past sixteen years, ‘he

has always kept the management of his farms and
relied on them for the greater part of the income
to defray family expenses. Indeed, the Governor
would not be comfortable without one or two farms
to manage.

In March, 1832, twelve years before he immi-
grated to the ‘State, on one of his trading expedi-
tions, returning from New Orleans he stopped at
St. Louis, then a town of seven thousand inhabitants,
where he purchased a horse and rode’ over_a large
portion of the then sparsely settled State of Missouri.
The favorable impressions he received of the fertility
and vast natural resources of the country determined
him to make Missouri his home. The details of his
experience on the pioneer overland trip, and for
many years after his arrival, would fill an interesting
volume. In the course of his life he visited nearly
every State between the Rocky Mountains and the
Atlantic, justly concluding that travel was an essen-
tial feature of practical education.

Under the act of the Legislature of February,
1847, authorizing the construction of the Hannibal
& St. Joseph Railroad, George Smith was one of the
five or six commissioners, out of thirteen appointed,

who acted at the sacrifice of time and money neces-
sary to "secure the preliminary organization of the
company. He was indefatigable in his exertions
till the success of the enterprise was assured.

In 1852 he was elected by avote of both political
parties_ a member of the Legislature from Caldwell
county, and served in the special session called in
the fall of said year for the purpose of applying by
enactment the land grant of Congress to the Han-
nibal & St. Joseph and Pacific Railroads.

During this special session he was appointed and
acted on the joint committee of the Legislature that
reported bills in reference to said grant; also bills for
the incorporation of the North Missouri and the
Iron Mountain Railroads and the Southwest Pacific,
now the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. The
results of the action of this committee as favorably
affecting the material and permanent interests of the

country, are recognized as among the most important F

that have been attained in the State. He served in

the regular session following, which closed in 1853. I

In the summer of 1853 he was a candidate for
reelection, but in consequence of his opposition to
the doctrine of secession and ‘nullification, he was
opposed by the majority of Democrats and defeated
by a few votes. I

From this period tillthe breaking out of the war
he remained on his farm, still taking an intensely
active interest in public affairs, constantly maintain-
ing the position of an unconditional Union man and
manifesting especial antagonism to the pro-slavery

,movement in the Kansas issues.

In 1862 he was elected to the Legislature from
Caldwell county as an unconditional Union man.
At the adjourned session of 1863 he publicly declared
himself an emancipationist. He was appointed by
the Republican caucus a member of the committee
whose duty it was to draft the bill authorizing the
calling of a convention the object of which was to
confine the elective franchise to the loyal men of the
State, to abolish slavery, and to affect such other
modifications as the public interests and safety might
demand. The bill as reported by the committee,
with a few unimportant changes, was enacted by the
Legislature. He remained in the Legislature until
the spring of 1864.

In the summer of 1864 he presided over the
Republican convention which assembled at Jefferson
City to nominate a State ticket. This convention
by an almost unanimous vote nominated him for
lieutenant- governor and he was elected by a

THE U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAR Y. ' 195

majority of over forty thousand._ As ‘Lieutenant-
Governor he presided over the State Senate for four
years. Itiwas during this time that Judge Walter
King was tried by impeachment.

Governor Smith was also President of the State
Board of Equalization, when it was first organized
in this State in 186 5, and his experience as a legis-
lator both in Ohio and this State enabled him to
shape many of the important features of the law.
His term of office as Lieutenant-Governor expired
in I869, and although the presiding officer of a
strongly partisan senate, he‘ held the esteem and
affection of both political parties.

On the zoth of March, 1869, he was appointed
United States Marshal for the Western District of
Missouri, to which position he was re-appointed in
1873, and held it until March 20, 1877, when, his
second term expiring, he asked for relief from its
cares. ' T

At the National Convention of United States
Marshals, held at the city of Cleveland in August,
1873, the object of which was to consider the
propriety of suggesting to Congress amendments
governing Marshals’ duties, Governor Smith was
unanimously elected president of the body.

Though in sympathy with all charitable move-
ments and organizations, he never identified himself
with any secret society. He was raised in the
teachings of the Presbyterian Church, with which
he united about twenty-three years ago, and_ for
the past twenty yearshas been ruling elder in the
same. ,

When a very young man he was captain of the
first rifle company in the first rifle regiment of mili-
tia in Ohio, and at the commencement of the late
war he assisted in organizing the second company

' controlled the dominant party.
_rity and clear, broad views stamped him as a safe
leader, and in all matters other than political, his .

of troops armed by the Government, outside of the
city of St. Louis, in the State.

Governor Smith is a well preserved man for his
years, of active habits of life, with all his faculties
alert. ' -

From the beginning of the war till the year 1868
he, perhaps, more than any other man in the State,
His sterling integ-

political opponents as well as political friends recog-
nized the large experience and clear insight that
made his opinion so valuable ; and recognizing it, he
was consulted on every important matter affecting
the interests of the State and people.

His children are as follows: Adelaide, his eldest
child, the wife of John Q. A. Kemper, died in 1874.
Abraham Chapman, born in 1837, is a farmer in
Clinton county, Missouri; he was in the army five
years and resigned his commission in 1865'; he is
married. Thomas Kerrins, born in 1843, is a mer-
chant at Cameron, Missouri; studied medicine and
graduated at the New York College of Physicians
and Surgeons, and practiced for several years; he is
married. William Medill, born in 1848, is a lawyer
at Kansas City, Missouri 3 for two years he was a
clerk in the State Auditor’s office; eight years a
Deputy United States Marshal, five years of which
time he was chief in chargeof the office ; in March,
1877, was appointed United States Marshal ad
z’m‘e7*z'77z, which position he held until December 8,
1877; he is married. Sarah Eleanor, wife of Clifford
J. Stevens, lives at Cameron, ‘Missouri. George
Anthony, born in 18 5, 5, is unmarried, living at home,
engaged as a farmer and stock dealer. Mary Eliza-
beth, wife of A. R. Creigh, lives at Cameron, Missouri.

JOHN HARRIS DUNCAN, M. D.

COL UMBIA.

bia, Boone county, Missouri, August 16, 1852.
He is a son of -Dr. William Henley Duncan,
who is a native of Amherst county, Virginia, and
was born April 22, 1803. His grandfather, Rev.

IOHN HARRIS DUNCAN was born in Colum-

William Duncan, was also born in Amherst county,

February 22, 1776, and was of Scotch descent.

The latter was a Baptist minister. He died in How-
ard county, Missouri, having moved to that state in
1830. Dr. William H. Duncan, father of Dr. J. H.
Duncan, was reared in Amherst county, Virginia,
and was educated at New Glasgow Academy. He
graduated at the Pennsylvania Medical University
of Philadelphia, in the spring of 1824, and began

' souri, in 1872.

196 THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

the practice the same year in Virginia. He subse-
quently removed to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where
he remained three years. In the year 1830 he emi-
grated to Missouri and established himself at Millers-
burg, Callaway county, practicing his profession.
In 1835 he removed to Columbia, where he has
ever since resided and practiced medicine. From
the establishment of the Missouri University in

1843 to the year 1860, he was the treasurer of that

institution. He was married in 1831 to Miss Susan
Woods Harris, who was born in 1808, in Madison
county, Kentucky, where she was reared and edu-
cated. Her father was John Harris, who moved from
Virginia to Madison county, Kentucky, at an early
day. By the marriage of Dr. VV. H. Duncan and
Miss Harris there were born nine children, four of
whom died young. Margaret F., who married Trigg
T. Allen, of Clay county; Mattie W., who married
George W. Trimble, of Columbia , James'S. Dun-
can, William O. Duncan and John H. Duncan are
the living children.

Dr. John H. Duncan attended the Missouri
University for four years, and completed his literary
course in William Jewell College, at Liberty, Mis-
He then returned to Columbia and
began the study of medicine with Drs. McAlester
and Arnold. From February to June, 1873, he
attended the medical lectures at the Missouri Uni-
versity, remaining in Columbia during the summer.

In October, 1873, he went to Bellevue Hospital

Medical College, in the city of New York, and
attended the lectures there till March, 1874, at which
time he renewed his attendance upon the University
lectures at Columbia and continued it until June of
that year, when he graduated as the Valedictorian of
his class. He spent the remainder of the summer
in Columbia and returned to Bellevue Hospital

College, graduating there in March, 187 5, taking ,

the first honors in a class of one hundred and ninety-
six students. He then returned to Columbia and
began the practice of his profession in partnership
with his father.

In the fall of 187 5, he was appointed lecturer

upon physiology and physiological anatomy in the
University of Missouri, a position which he accepted
and has continued to occupy, practicing medicine
when the duties of his professorship did not require
his attention. He is a member of the Baptist Church,
secretary of the Linton District Medical Society, and
assistant editor of the Lz'/21022 Dzlclrzkt MedzkaZf0u7'naZ.

He is also a member of the State Medical Society and 4

delegate this year (1878) to the American Medical
Association, which is to meet at Buffalo, New York.
In politics he is a Democrat. A

The progress of Dr. Duncan has been rapidly
onward and upward, and at the early age of twenty-
six it may be said that his destiny is in his own
hands.

REV. MICHAEL MONTGOMERY FISHER, D. D.

COL UMBIA. ‘

ICHAEL MONTGOMERY FISHER was
M born, October 8, 1834, in Parke county,
Indiana. His paternal grandfather, John Fisher,
was a native of Pennsylvania, born about the year
1779, and was of German stock. John Fisher and
his brothers were men of excellent business talents
and acquired large estates. His maternal grand-
father, Michael Montgomery, was born in Alabama
in 1778, and was, as was also his «wife, Elizabeth
Counts, of Scotch-Irish parentage. She was a native
of Alabama. His father, Judge James M. Fisher,
was born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1810. He
received a common school education, and with his
father emigrated to Parke county, Indiana, in 1839,

He was a judge
In 1833

engaging in agricultural pursuits.
of the county court for seventeen years.

‘James M. Fisher was married to Miss Elizabeth

Montgomery, born in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1813.
Seven children were the fruit of this marriage:
Michael M., John Alexander, Elam, Sylvester,

James, Mattie E. (married to W. G. McCormick,

of New Orleans), and Louisa.

Michael M. Fisher was reared on his father’s
farm, receiving such an education as the common
schools afforded when he was not engaged in duties
on the farm. Here he remained until he was sixteen
years‘ old. In 1850 he was sent to Waveland Acad-
emy, in Montgdmery county, Indiana, where he

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. ‘ 197

remained two years. Leaving the academy, he
entered Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, and
graduated in 1855, receiving the degree of Bachelor
of Arts and the highest honors of his class. His
father had designed him for the legal profession, and
he would, doubtless, have pursued the course marked
out for- him, but for a fortuitous circumstance that
diverted his talents in a different channel and influ-
enced the balance of his life. '

Soon after he graduated, he was called to a
professorship in Westminster College, at Fulton,
Missouri, which position he accepted, removing to
Fulton in September, 1855. It was evident from
the beginning of his career as a teacher that the
selection was a judicious one. In the class he gave
eminent satisfaction, and both with the faculty and
the students he was always a favorite. The board
of trustees for Westminster recognized his ability and
adaptability for the position, and, in 1856, assigned
him the professorship of Latin and Greek, a situa-
tion for which he was well prepared by long and
close application, and in which he developed those
qualifications that have since made his name familiar
to the scholars of America.

During his residence in Fulton he filled every
position in the college. While engaged in teaching,
he pursued a theological course under Rev. S. S.
Laws, D. D., LL. D., then president of Westminster,
at present president of the University. He was
licensed to preach in 1859, and was ordained in
1860. The war of 1861, which broke up nearly all
the literary institutions of the slaveholding states,
had a depressing effect upon Westminster. Dr.
Laws, the president, was banished, and Professor
Fisher, with others, maintained the school during the
civil strife. The endowment fund of the college
was not, or only partially available, and thetrustees
did not feel justified in continuing the salaries pre-
viously paid.
perity of the College, that Professor Fisher worked
on a meager salary of five hundred dollars per annum,
testifying his devotion to the interests of the institu-
tion and the great body of the Presbyterian Church,
of which Westminster was a foster child, by devoting
his time, talents and energies to prevent even a tem-
porary suspension. He was chairman of the faculty
and acting president from 1866 to 1870.

In 1868 the honorary degree of Doctor of Divin-
ity was conferred by the board of trustees of West-
minster College, a distinction he had fairly earned
by his high attainments in theological science.

But such was his zeal for the pros-'

Dr. Fisher is a member of the Masonic order.
His political views corresponded with the principles
of the Whig party during its active existence. He
has never taken any part in political matters except
to vote, and of late years he has voted with the
Democrats.

He was first married, in 1856, to Miss Anna E.
Atwood, of St. Louis. She was a daughter of Dr.
N. B. Atwood, who was a native of Connecticut and
of English descent. The mother of Mrs. Fisher
was Miss E. F. Le Grand, a native of Tennessee and
descended from French stock. Dr. Atwood and
wife had five children: Charles H., Le Grand,
Anna E. (who interinarried with Dr. Fisher), Maria
Louisa and William. By the marriage of Dr. Fisher
and Miss Atwood there were four children: Eliza-
beth Le Grand, Hamilton M., Ernest and Nathaniel
B., the latter of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Fisher
was a pure, devoted Christian woman and a member
of the Presbyterian Church. She died in 1864.

In December, 1866, Dr. Fisher was joined in
marriage with Mrs. Bettie B. Coleman, formerly
Miss Spear, who was a niece of Francis P. Blair,
senior, and a cousin of General Frank P. Blair. Two
children were born of this union, Frank and Samuel
Blair, the former of whom died in infancy. Mrs.
Fisher died in February, 1872.

In December, 1874, he married Miss Eliza Gam-
ble, daughter of Judge John W. Gamble, of Audrain
county, Missouri. The mother of Miss Gamble was
Mary Rogers, sister of Dr. Rogers, of Louisville,
Kentucky, and a member of an old and highly
respected family of that state. They were of Scotch-
Irish descent. By this last marriage two. children
have been born, Gamble and James Montgomery,
the former of whom is dead. ,

While engaged in his professional duties, Dr.
Fisher found time to prepare copious notes on the
elements, composition and structure of the Latin
language. These notes he had nearly woven into
manuscript, which he intended to publish in the
form of text books. Some years ago his house was
consumed by fire, and these notes and manuscripts
were burned with the dwelling. Since then he has
labored industriously to restore his work, and now
has in process of completion a work on “Latin Pro-
nunciation,” an “Introductory Latin Book,” and a
“Latin Grammar and Reader.” He will pursue his
work until the text books of the Latin. course have
been carefully reviewed and annotated, offering a
complete set of Latin works for the collegiate course.

198 T TIJE U./VITED STATES .6’]0G1i’APl1UCAZ. DICTIO./VARY.

He has also prepared a history of Westminster Col-
lege, with which he was so ‘long connected as tutor,
professor and acting president, covering a period
from its opening in 1849 to 1870. Dr. Fisher is now
(1878) in charge of the Latin Department in the
University of Missouri.

In person, Dr. Fisher is over six feet high, of
slender form, yet possessed of great vitality. He is
a laborious student and investigates very thoroughly
every subject that falls within the range of his duties.
As a speaker, he is earnest and impressive, reaching
the public heart through the medium of the judg-
ment, rather than winning by appeals to the pas-
His diction is pure and strong, and he deals
His manner of

sions.
but little in the flowers of rhetoric.
thinking is regular and systematic; his arrangement

of his subjects is methodic, without seeming labored,
and his presentation of what he has prepared is
natural, easy and forcible. There are few pulpit ora-
tors that more deeply impress an audience with the
sincerity and strength of their convictions than does
Dr. Fisher. His manners are agreeable and even
fascinating. In the social circle he is affable and enter-

taining. In the recitation—room he attaches young,

men to him by a magnetic influence, and is almost
always the most popular professor in the -college.

Dr. Fisher has scarcely attained middle life, yet
by that laborious and pains-taking process which
makes an accurate scholar, writer and speaker, he
has already accomplished much, and will, if his life
is spared a few years, accomplish still more in the
Republic of Letters.

JOEL H. HADEN.

COL UMBIA.

OEL HARRIS HADEN affords in his life and
its success another evidence that industry, econ-
omy and integrity constitute the keynote to

honorable competency. He was the son of Turner
and Rebecca (Cave) Haden, and was born in
Scott county, Kentucky, September 12, 1811. His
paternal grandfather was a gallant and distinguished
captain in the American army during the Revolution.

Joel was favored with but few educational advan-

tages—’—having attended school but nine ‘months in
his youth, three of which were under the tuition of
Manlius Thomson, who afterwards became lieuten-
ant-governor of Kentucky. His early years were
spent on a farm where he acquired those habits of
industry and economy which were the foundation of
his subsequent success. And there, too, he added to
his meagre stock of knowledge, especially arithmetic,
by utilizing every leisure minute. Keenly appreciating
his necessitous condition, he determined to obey the
injunction, “ with all thy gettings, get knowledge,”
and through life, as well as in his youthful days, he
has been a student and a close observer.

In 1828, when only seventeen years of age, he

emigrated to Missouri, bringing with him his widowed

mother, and settled in Boone coun.ty, near Columbia.
Their entire property consisted of three beds and
two small ponies. The following year he leased a

small farm, paying -its rent by making rails at thirty-
seven and a half cents per hundred. He labored
as only the pioneers of those days labored, and was
self-denying as only they could appreciate. The
same- levers would pry up fortunes yet, but few
use them as those old horny-fisted men can tell us
how. Mr. Haden’s first- purchase of land was in
1836, an unimproved tract at $5 per acre 3 the year
following he added to it one hundred and sixty acres
more, partially improved, at $13 per acre. As his

means increased, he added stock-raising on a large ‘

scale to his regular business of farming, and subse-

quently engaged in land speculations in different .

parts of the state with gratifying success. He still
owns some three thousand acres of land, nine hun-
dred of which comprise his home farm near Colum-
bia. In addition to this, he has been a stockholder
and director in the Exchange National Bank at Col-
umbia since its’ organization in 186 5.

Mr. Haden has nt 0761' been an aspirant for office.
He was a Whig during the existence of that party,
and since a Democrat. But throughout his man-
hood he has simply been a thinking voter and an
observer of passing political events.

He has married three times. His first wife was
Miss Sarah Talbot, daughter of Richard Talbot, of
Boone county, Missouri, their marriage took place

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VA1€Y. 199

August 19, 1832. But after only three years had
sped away, death called her from his side, May 15,
1835. She left one child, a daughter named Mar-
garet. July 14, 1838, he was married to Miss
‘Zerelda Kirtly, daughter of James Kirtly, of Boone
county. But again the arrow of the insatiate archer
flew, and again his peace was slain. Mrs. Haden
died without issue, November 3, 1870.

September 28, 1872, Mr. Haden was married to
Miss Sarah Kirtly, sister of his last wife, who is still
He has only the one child, Margaret, who
They are

living.
married John W. Carter, of Virginia.

living near Mr. Haden, and have a family of seven
children, four sons and three daughters.

In person Mr. Haden is below the medium size,
and evidently has an iron constitution. He is strong
in his attachments and unselfish in his friendships; a
man of sound judgment, ripe experience, ' a safe
counselor, an indulgent parent, a good neighbor
and an honored man. He has ceased to labor for
an increase of his already handsome fortune ; his
chief care is to teach his child and grandchildren
the same industry and economy that will enable them
to be as successful as he has been.

CLINTON ROWELL.

ST. [.0 U15.

T was once remarked by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I “that the State of New Hampshire had, with
true New England enterprise, hung its sign out to
show what it had to give to the rest of mankind.”

rEvery tradesman of enterprise displayed his wares

for sale; and New Hampshire, in the profile of the
“ Old Man of the Mountain,” hadimade known to
the world that she was “ engaged in making men.”
Its rugged mountains and unproductive fields have
given little to the country by way of increasing its
wealth , but it has done more than its share in filling
almost every State in the Union with brave and suc-
cessful men, and true, earnest—hearted women.
They are found in every field of enterprise, winning
honors and striving for high attainment.

The subject of this sketch was born in Concord,
Vermont, in 1838. Soon after, his parents removed
to Littleton, New Hampshire, where, in sight of the

_VVhite Mountains, his boyhood days were passed.

Nature around him was clothed in forms of lofty
grandeur and rare beauty. From her his young
heart received deep and lasting impressions, and no
doubt his surroundings gave color and tone to the
purposes that have animated his subsequent career.
On his father’s side, Mr. Rowell is descended from a

. family originally from Wales, and one of the first to

settle among the inhospitable hills of New Hamp-
shire. His father, Guy C. Rowell, is still living, a
type of the strong—hearted, clear—headed New Eng-

land citizen. From the first settler, the Rowells
26 .

have been distinguished for intelligence and charac-
ter, and the name is conspicuous in the records of
the early history of the country. On the side of his
mother, Clarissa Daniels Rankin, Mr.'Rowell traces

his origin to General David Rankin, of Scotch-

descent. General Rankin was one of the leading
men of New England, and took a prominent position
in the early struggles of America, and, later, was no
less prominent in political and industrial fields. A
genealogical history of the Rankin family was-
published in Boston in 1867, in which appears
many names illustrious and honored in public affairs.
The celebrated missionary, Melinda Rankin, author
of a history of Mexico and Texas, and numerous
missionary works, is one of General Rankin’s
descendants.

With some of the best New England blood in
his veins, and of an impressible and ambitious nature,
the subject of this narrative in boyhood was pos-
sessed of a longing for a broader andhigher field of
action than was possible to him simply as the son of
a New England farmer. He saw that education was
the golden key with which to unlock the hidden
treasures of the future, and with characteristic energy
he set about to gain it. After a careful preparation
in the academy, he entered .Dartmouth College—
illustrious as the Alma ./Vlater of such men as Web-
ster and Choate. He finished his education there
in 1862, ranking high in a brilliant class. After
leaving college, used to toil and self—denial, with a

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well disciplined mind, splendid 15/zysigue, and ani-
mated throughout by a lofty ambition, he turned his
steps westward.

We next find him in Bloomington, Illinois, teach-
ing school and reading law, where soon after he was
admitted to the bar. Thinking the field still too nar-
row, he removed to St. Louis, where he has since
lived, rising rapidly in his profession, and has
obtained a position, both as a lawyer and citizen,
filled by those only who achieve success because
they deserve it.

Soon after coming to St. Louis, Mr. Rowell was
married to Caroline M. Ferris, a beautiful and accom-
plished lady from one of the best families in North-
ern New York—-a family distinguished for several
authors and artists of high repute. A home was
thus established, adorned by the presence of love,
culture and womanly grace.

As a lawyer, Mr. Rowell ranks among the first
in the largest and most learned Bar of the West.
Possessing thorough learning, sound judgment, a
talent for patient research, depth of thought and
keen penetration, he is eminently fitted for the posi-
tion of counsel ; but in no less degree is he success-
ful as an advocate and practitioner. ‘His thorough
knowledge of human nature and keenness of intel-
lect, coupled with perfect self-control, give him great
skill in the examination of witnesses and manage-
ment of cases. Before the jury he is perfectly at
home—of commanding presence, massive features,

a sonorous, ringing voice, eyes keen and piercing,
flashing in scorn or melting in pity as his feelings
prompt, his fervid and persuasive eloquence charms
the ear and inthralls the judgment.

In his personal appearance, Mr. Rowell presents
an air of quiet dignity and massive force. In pri-
vate life he is generous, considerate and affectionate.
He was reared in the Congregational Church, and
still holds to the fundamental doctrines of the,Chris-
tian religion. Of liberal political views, Mr. Rowell
is a Democrat, willing to subordinate love of party
to desire for public welfare. He, however, has no
political record, having confined himself strictly to
his profession, refusing to comply with the wishes
of his friends to place him in office. It is through
the influence of such men-—though they are but chil-
dren by adoption—men of brains and character,
that Missouri is to be elevated among her. sister
States. . I .

Mr. Rowell is a member of the lawifirm of Fisher
& Rowell. They have been for twelve years in part-
nership and actively engaged in the practice of law
in the courts of St. Louis and Missouri. They have
a large practice in all the civil courts and are
engaged in many of the important cases. If men
deserve credit for success attained by individual
effort, and if self-made men are an honor to the
pages of history, this book will lose none of its pres-
tige by recounting the trials, the ambitious endeavors
and the success of Clinton Rowell.

‘HON. B. GRATZ BROWN.

ST. LOUIS.

VERY nation has its epoch, and every epoch
E its leaders. In the history of the United
States, future generations will dwell with intense
interest upon the pages of thrilling incidents, and

marvelous strides made between the years 1860 and ,

1870. In the momentous events of that reforma-
tory period, many men floated to the surface as the
political cauldron boiled, they had their day, too,
and their honor ; but like bubbles they sparkled,
bursted, and in a few years will hav_e been forgotten.
But these were not the men who projected the
advanced thought of the century which culminated
in establishing’ the United States’ real theory of

government. A century of experiment demonstra-
ted that the theory was only yet a problem, and the
time had come for its solution. For half a century
the peculiar circumstances of the Northern States
had favored the slow growth of a party ‘devoted to
the _work of that solution The development of
thought and the precipitation of events in the South
afforded the test, and someleaders of the move-
ment were to be found there. Especially did the
border slave states furnish a quota of men to the
Union cause, who performed illustrious service both
in the tents and halls of the nation. Born leaders,
they took position at once, and the masses intuitively

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acknowledged and acquiesced in their leadership.
This was especially true of the subject of this sketch.
Coming to St Louis at the age of twenty-three, he
at once entered upon the practice of law, and took a
prominent position in the ranks of Benton’s Free
Soil party, at that time struggling intoifixed exist-
ence. His speeches and articles favoring free labor
fired the popular heart, and he at once became one
of the most gallant champions of the then novel
theory that the grand principle of the Declaration
must be put into practice. The man who assumed
the championship of such a theory in Missouri at
that day had to have in an eminent degree the
elements of leadership. -But Mr. Brown was equal
to the emergency. His firm will, calm courage,
and independent expression of well-defined opinions,
more than atoned for his youthfulness. Step by
step the new party had to fight its way upward
against prejudice and power. The great Benton
had no more unflinching supporter among his subal-
terns than B. Gratz Brown, and none whom the
people more delighted to honor. ‘

In 1852 Mr. Brown was elected to the Missouri
Legislature from St. Louis, and there attained imme-
diately a prominent position among his political
associates. Hereduring his first session Mr. Brown,
by his bold avowal and manly support of the great
principles of his party, shook the old political struct-
ures of the state to their foundations. There was a
startling freshness in his enunciations that jostled
many a listener out of the old ruts T

In 1854 Mr. Brown became editor of the Mis-
souri Democmz‘, a strong Benton paper, and his
favorite views thus gained wider circulation, and

. soon the paper became the well-known Free Soil

journal of the state. In his paper, and in the leg-
islature—to which he was reelected in 1856—he
continued his fierce onslaught upon the slave power,
and the seeds of freedom were taking deep root.
St Louis now indorsed Mr. Brown’s party politics,
and throughout the state numerous adherents were
rapidly enlisting. L

In 1861 the war of the Rebellion burst upon the
country, and Mr. Brown immediately and fervently
espoused the Union cause, and was among the first
to organize a regiment for the three months’ service
and -entered the field with them. General Lyon
consulted with him regarding the_ capture of Camp
Jackson, in May, I86I. To the prompt action on

-that occasion of. the United States troops is due in

a great measure Missouri’s remaining in the Union.

' Colonel Brown, after his term of service expired,

served with General Curtis and also rendered valu-
able assistance in organizing the state militia.

The Senatorial contest in the Missouri Legislature
of 1862-3-4, was an exceedingly bitter one. In the
caucus of the first session held by the Emancipation

-party, they fully recognized Colonel Brown as their

chosen champion by nominating him for the United
States Senate. The election took place in‘ the winter

. of 1863-4, when B. Gratz -Brown and Hon. John

B. Henderson were elected. In the Senate, Mr.

Brown was Chairman of the Committee on Public ‘

Buildings and Grounds also of Contingent Expenses,
and served on the Committees on Pacific Railroad,
Indian ‘Affairs, Military Affairs, and Printing. On
the floor of the Senate, his ability was as fully
acknowledged as in the committee rooms. «Failing
health forced him to decline a reelection, which

would have been freely conceded to him, and Colo— .

nel Brown returned to private life in St. Louis.

In 1870 the Republican party of Missouri divi-
ded on the‘ question of restoring to citizenship those
in the State who had been disfranchised for partic-
ipating in the Rebellion. Colonel Brown took
ground with the Liberals, and by a combination of
their strength with the Democrats, he was elected
over Governor McClurg—the Radical Republican
candidate—by a majority of 41,917.

In May, 1872, the Liberal Republican. party of
the United States, in convention at Cincinnati, no1n—
inated Governor Brown for Vice-President of the
United States, with Horace Greeley for President.
Although the ticket was defeated, the vote given
was a national recognition of his tabilitiesand ser-
vices, as well as a complimentary foreshadowing of
future honors. ’

Nor has it been alone at the bar and in politics

that Governor Brown has borne so conspicuous and .

honorable a part. To all the public enterprises cal-
culated to advance the interests of his city, he has
given the benefit of his voice and means. A heavy
owner in the street railroads, his wise counsels and
energy have, in company with those of other gen-
tlemen, given St. Louis the best lines of street
railways probably in the Union. He has been a
judicious purchaser. in real estate, and his invest-
ments have proved remunerative. L .

B. Gratz Brown was born in Lexington, Ken-
tucky, May 28, 1826, _and is consequently yet in
the prime of -a vigorous manhood, and is to-day as
enterprising, energetic and as alive to the issues of

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the time as ever. His boyhood days were spent in
the private schools of his native state, with a classi-
cal course in Transylvania University, Lexington.
He entered Yale College in 1845 and graduated in
1847. He then studied law with his father and
afterwards attended the Louisville Law School,
where he graduated in 1848. After being licensed
to practice, he emigrated to St. Louis in 1849. His
grandfather was the Hon. John Brown, a member of
Congress from Virginia, and afterwards a II_.“°d
States Senator from Kentucky. His father, ]udge
Mason Brown, was an eminent lawyer of Kentucky,
and his mother was a Miss Bledsoe, daughter of
Hon. ]esse Bledsoe, a United States Senator from
Kentucky from 1813 to 1815. Governor Brown is
connected by blood relationship with the Prestons,
the Blairs, the Breckinridges, the Hamptons, and
most of the leading families of the South and West.

As a leader in politics, Gov. Brown ranks high.
He entered the arena at a time when sectionalism
was fast ripening into war, and the aroused passions
of the nation had called into prominence men of the
highest mental power. The history of the contests
of that period is a history of moral and intellectual
warfare rarely if ever equaled. All the elements
of humanity were aroused to the highest degree of
commotion. No passion, high or low, exalted or
base, but played with the intensest vigor. It was an
era for greatness and for baseness. The heroic and
the servile confronted on all sides. The humane

‘and the generous jostled and struggled with the

heartless and the brutal. It was a war ever to be
renowned for its fierceness between enemies,fro1n the
world’s bi_rth—a war between right and wrong. Amid
such surroundings, leadership required something
more than popular manners, insinuating address and
knowledge of political intrigue. It not only required
honesty of purpose, combined with determination
and courage, but it required that devotion to the
cause combated for which springs from a convic-
tion of its supreme and unquestioned righteousness.
There was something Cromwellian in the spirit of
the free-soiler, especially notable in the slave states.
Men thought nothing or little of party name or
party allegiance, they marshaled and were led" for
principle. Principle was their guiding star3 and its
then enshrinement afforded an altar worthy of a
martyr’s devotion. No like issue will again occur in
this country, unless it be an issue between liberty
and despotism. Again, leadership required mental
calmness and a discreet precision in directing the

forces to be moved. The condition of affairs, and
local surroundings, reflected many different types.
The varying characteristics are notable——Governor
Brown’s peculiarly so. His mind is logical 3 his
processes of thought cautious andicareful, his deduc-
tions accurate, mathematical. Intense reflection is
notably conspicuous in all his public papers. The
attendant of such mind-construction is prophetic
power. Power to foreshadow coming effects from
developed and developing causes. To possess this
power, is to be able to guide the searchers after the
coming and desired effect to the surest and speediest
course to it 3 it is to be able to unite, organize and
project the swelling force in its most concentrated
and direct power, for the attainment of required
ends. That this is the marked characteristic of
Governor Brown’s power as a leader, no one will
question who is familiar with his career in Missouri.
It is specifically illustrated in his advanced position
on the free—soil question as a legislator 3 again in
his declaration of adherence to the Republican party
as an editor 3 "train in his contest for the Senator-
ship, in ’62-3-4, where he declared for emancipation
—irrevocable—without compensation 3 again when
he raised the standard of universal amnesty in 1870
in Missouri 3 and, still again, when he organized the
Missouri movement into national proportion and
crystallized it into a political formula at Cincinnati.
And though that movement was not then successful,
Governor Brown has the satisfaction of seeing he
present national administration carrying with decic ad
approbation into practical operation‘, principles lc -.g
since enunciated and advocated by him.

As to Governor Brown’s executive ability, it
is unnecessary to speak. His success whenever

intrusted with public position has been unques-’

tioned. His state papers are models of strength
and vigor in expression, healthiness in tone, and
originality and aptness in suggestion. The qualities
of mind noted in Governor Brown as a political
leader, as a matter of course when directed to his
profession, make him a successful lawyer, counselor
and advocate. At present he devotes his entire
attention to his practice, and stands at the’ bar
among the foremost. His style of address is easy
and graceful, at the same time forcible. He depends
more upon carrying conviction by severe processes
of reasoning, than by appeals to passion 3 but he is
by no means devoid of rhetoric, and at times when
aroused in debate he gives vent to his opinions and
feelings in a peculiarly fervid and intense eloquence.

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United with this, he possesses in an eminent degree
that most dangerous weapon in controversy+sar-
casm, which to his credit be it said he rarely uses.
Governor Brown is of slight build, and possesses a
constitution not strong but elastic. He is courteous,
social, generous. He makes a good friend and a
bad enemy.

Few men stand higher in the West to-day, as
lawyer, legislator or executive. His calm dignity,

strict integrity, practical sense, high culture, and
legal ability, give him high position in the esteem
of professional men, while his efforts and successes
for the advancement of his fellow-men give him an
enviable hold upon the affections of the masses.

Governor Brown married at Jefferson City, Mis-
souri, a Miss Gunn, daughter of the distinguished
editor of that place, and has seven children living—
two sons and five daughters.

WILLIAM ANDREW CAUTHORN, A. M.

COLUMBIA.

ILLIAM A. CAUTHORN was born January
 i\/ 13, 1834, in Culpepper county, Virginia. His
father, Carter Cauthorn, was born in 1802, in Essex
county, Virginia, and was reared and educated in
that county. He learned the trade of bricklayer
and plasterer, and followed that occupation in early
life. At a later period, he began farming in Cul-
pepper county, an occupation which he followed till
his emigration to .Missouri. ‘ _
He was twice married, first to Eliza Hudson, of
Essex county, who died about twelve months after
their marriage. About the year 1831, he was mar-
ried to Miss Eliza Ann Colvin, of Culpepper county,
who was born in 1812. She was a daughter of
James Colvin, who married Miss Hill, a relative of
Captain, afterward General A. P. Hill. Of this
marriage thirteen children were born to Mr. Cau-
thorn, .two of whom died in infancy. The others,
in the order of their birth, are: Carter, James, Wil-
liam Andrew, Edward R., John A., Martha L.,
Columbus H., Albert R., Robert H., Daniel A.,
Theodore and Frances  In 1837 Mr. Cauthorn
emigrated to Missouri and located in St. Louis
county, where he resided one year, following his
occupation as bricklayer and plasterer. In 1838 he
removed to Audrain county, Missouri, where he still
resides engaged extensively in farming.’ He has
resisted all efforts to induce him to accept office, is a
quiet and respected citizen, a member of the Chris-
tian Church, and in politics a Democrat.
The subject of this biographical sketch received

’ the principal part of his school training in the com-

mon schools of Audrain county, completing his
course in the State University, though not taking a

regular course. About the first of March, 1861, he
left college and enrolled in the Confederate service,
but withdrew from the army in March, 1862.

For the next eighteen months, up to September,
1863, he applied himself closely to studies at home,
at the expiration of which time he began teaching a
school in Audrain county, and completed a term of
eight months. He then moved to Mexico, Missouri,
where he renewed his studies. In the fall of 186 5,
he began to teach another school ; but failing to
comply with the law in taking the “ iron-clad ” oath,
was indicted, arrested and held to bail. The trial
was postponed until reason and justice had re-asserted

_ their sway, when the indictment was quashed. He

then began to teach in Mexico and continued there
until in the summer of 1870, he was elected super-
intendent of the public schools in Columbia, Mis-
souri. In June, 1871, he was elected to take charge
of the high school department of the Carrollton
public schools, which position he accepted and held
until June, 1873. .

In July, of the latter year, he was chosen Assist-
ant Professor of Mathematics in the Missouri Uni-
versity, a Chair which he still holds. In June, 1872,
the university conferred on him the honorary degree
of Master of Arts.

Professor Cauthorn is a member of the Christian
Church. In politics, following the example of his
ancestors for several generations, he votes and acts
with the Democracy. In 1869, he was married to
Miss Mary Howard Lynch, daughter of the late
John Hall Lynch, Esq., anative of Maryland, but for
many years a resident of Columbia. They have had
four children, William Broadus, Howard Allen,(who

204 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

died in infancy), Edward Buford and Louisa Leah.

Professor Cauthorn is a man of great physical
power and endurance, five feet eight inches in height,
stoutly built, a constant worker in his department,
and much respected by the students who come under

his care. He is a noble example of those “self-

made” men who have wrought out such practical I

results in the fields of science. His mathematical

I education has been secured by long, arduous and

almost unassisted labor.

JUDGE WILLIAM o. FORRIOST.

MEXICO. .

ILLIAM O. FORRIST comes of old and
 iv distinguished Eastern families.
born in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 21, 1826.
His father, Ira Forrist, was a native of Vermont.
He was a soldier in the Vermont Line in the war of
1812. In 1868-he emigrated to Missouri, and set-
tled in Adrian county. He was a farmer through
life, and in 1871 died in Mexico, Missouri. His
mother, Polly (Thomas) Forrist, was a native of
Massachusetts, and daughter of John Thomas, who
was a Captain in the Revolution.
Young Forrist was educated at the Farmington

Seminary, of Ohio, concluding his studies in 1843.

He took the first honors of his class, being its vale-
dictorian. In 1843 he began to read law at Warren,
Ohio, and in . 1847 was admitted by the Supreme
Court of that State to the bar. In that same year

He was‘

.he located at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio, and

began the practice of his profession.

In 1860 he removed to Warren, in his native
county, where he practiced law until 1868, when
he came to Missouri and located at Mexico, where
he has since been one of the leading attorneys.
Judge Forrist has avoided all public offices because
of his devotion to his profession. I I

He was a Whig while that party existed, but is
now a Republican, and is said to be the first of that

party in Missouri who wrote and published articles‘
favoring the reénfranchisement of the ex—Confeder-

ates. In 1852 he married Miss Rosmond L. Pease,
of Geauga county, Ohio.

Judge William O. Forrist is a man who has risen
to distinctionby his own untiring efforts; he is a

close reasoner, a deep thinker and an excellent lawyer. _

JOSEPH LAFAYETTE STEPHENS.

B 0 ON VILLE.

N the records of the world’s history there are
I eras that produce remarkable men 3 sometimes
great poets, at others great warriors, then again
great writers, preachers, statesmen or inventors—or
they may be great in some other way that makes
them remarkable. Perhaps among all the deviations
from the common course, none are more remarkable
than J. L. Stephens, the lawyer, banker and financier
of Boonville, Missouri.

Joseph Lafayette Stephens was born in Cooper
county, Missouri, January 15, 1826. His father,
Hon. Lawrence C. Stephens, was a native of Vir-

ginia. His mother, Miss Margaret P. Moore, was -

born in North Carolina.
Cooper county, Missouri, and were engaged in farm-
ing when the subject of our sketch was born. We
learn from public history that his father was a man
of superior ability, representing his district in the
legislature, and filled various offices of responsibility
in the county and state of his adoption, and in every

place gave entire satisfaction to his constituents.

He died in 1873, aged seventy—five, universally
beloved by the community in which he resided and

, deeply mourned by all who knew him.

The education of the subject of our sketch was
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During the vacations he assisted his father on the
farm, and even then employed his leisure hours in
study. When sufficiently advanced he entered the
high school at Boonville, from which he graduated
with honor at the age of eighteen.

In 1844 he commenced the study of law in the
office of Hon. John G. Miller, a man well known
throughout the country for his legal attainments, and
who represented his district for two terms in the
United States Congress. During the next two years
he applied himself closely to his legal studies, spend-
ing a few months of each year in teaching public
schools.

In the month of May, 1846, a call was made for
one company from Cooper county to join the troops
in Mexico. J. L. Stephens responded to that call,
and was unanimously elected captain. Although
but twenty years of age, upon that occasion he made
an eloquent and spirited address. He assembled his
company in Boonville on the following Wednesday,
when they were exercised in military duty by their
accomplished and gallant young captain. They
embarked on Thursday on the steamer L. F. Linn,
for St. Louis. B

During the trip the “ Linn” grounded on a sand-
bar about two miles above Herman. By the delay
the provisions of the company were greatly dimin-
ished, and it became necessary for Captain Stephens
to visit Herman for supplies. Captain Eaton, com-
manding the “Linn,” assisted him upon the sand—bar,
when proceeding a short distance he found deep water
between the bar and the town. Without hesitation
he denuded himself, and tying his clothing in a
handkerchief, plunged into the “Big Muddy”, and
swam over, landing at the town in awet and muddy
condition. Stating to the merchants that he was
Captain J. L. Stephens, commanding the Boonville
company, and that he wanted provisions and clothing

for his men, his statement was first received with a .

grain of doubt, but soon convincing them of his
position, a boat was loaded with supplies and cloth-
ing and‘he escorted back to the steamer. This
incident fully illustrates his indomitable spirit at the
early age of twenty.

General Taylor having gained an important
victory in Mexico, it was thought no more troops
would be needed 5 they were therefore ordered back
to Boonville and finally disbanded, much to their
regret. .

In 1847 he completed his legal studies and imme-
diately commenced practice with great success. At

this time the Boonville bar ranked with the ablest in
the state, numbering among its members Washington
Adams, afterwards elevated to the Supreme bench,
Peyton R. Hayden, John G. Miller, Hon. Benjamin
Tompkins, Emmet R. Hayden and others of equal

celebrity.
In 1857 he became associated with George G.

A Vest, now of Sedalia, Missouri, with whom he con-
tinued to practice until the breaking out of the late

war. He was also connected with the firm of W.
H. Trigg &:”Co. in the banking business, taking,
however, no part in the details of the business, but
acting as advisor and attorney for this extensive com-
pany. He afterwards practiced in the Court of
Claims in Washington City and in the Supreme

Court of the United States, until the year 1864, '

when a painful disease of the throat caused him to
seek medical advice and abandon a profession he
had honored and in which he had become distin-
guished. , '
His health improving, he opened a private bank-
ing house in Boonville, and in 1865 organized the
Central National Bank. The bank has continued

‘under his management ever since, and is classed

among the most solid institutions of the country.

In politics Mr. Stephens is a Democrat. He is
a man of profound and accurate judgment, and
inspires the greatest confidence. He is noble-
hearted, pure-minded and generous, giving largely
to charitable purposes, and many have grateful
memories of his bounty. . I

In 1866, at the earnest solicitation of his party,
he accepted a nomination for the State Senate. At
the election he ran ahead of his ticket, but was
defeated, owing to the proscriptive system of regis-
tration that then prevailed.

In 1872 he was a prominent candidate for Gov-
ernor before the Democratic State Convention, which
after a close contest nominated Mr. Woodson.

In 1876 the Missouri Pacific ‘Railroad became
bankrupt, and Mr. Stephens was appointed one of

the receivers by the United States Circuit Court. I

Upon its purchase by a new company he became
one of the directors and still holds that responsible
position. Besides this, he is director in the follow-
ing Banks: St. Louis National, Valley National of
St. Louis, Moniteau National of California, Mis-
souri, Bank of Tipton, Pleasant Hill National Bank,
First NatiOI1al at Fort Scott, Kansas, President of
the Jefferson City Gas Company, and President of
the Missouri River Transportation Company. He

also owns the Osage Valley and Southern Kansas
Railroad, running from Boonville to Tipton and
there connecting with the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
which company leases and operates it.

Captain Stephens’ residence is a three-story brick
building in the heart of the city, elegantly furnished
but without glitter. He has three acres of park, with
great variety of fruit and flowers. A His library con-
tains about three thousand volumes and the walls are
hung with valuable paintings and engravings. It
contains many rare and ancient volumes, besides
autograph letters from Washington, Clay, and many
other celebrities. A

On the Ioth of May, 1853, he was married to
Miss Martha Gibson, a lady of fine culture and
great social qualities. By this union they have had
eight children: William Speed,‘ William Gibson,

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i Lawrence Vest, Mittie Nelson, Alexander Hamilton,

Rhoda Earle, Maggie Belle and Mattie Gibson.
William Gibson died August 26, 1870, aged twenty
years. He graduated at the Kemper Family School
and then entered Washington Lee University, and
was within one year of graduating when he died of
typhoid fever. Mattie‘ Gibson died in infancy. The
mother of this interesting family, Mrs. Martha Gibson
Stephens, wife of]. L. Stephens, died January 20, 187 7.
Mr. Stephens is now in his fiftieth year, tall and
commanding in appearance, is hale, fresh and looks
youthful , he is of sanguine temperament, very quiet
and unassuming in manner, is affable, social and
warm—hearted, and in all business transactions is
high-minded. None have exceeded him in the
various departments of life in which he has been
engaged, and he stands before us a remarkable man.

PROF. ERASTUS LATHROP RIPLEY, A. B. LL. B.

COL ll/ZWBIA.

RASTUS LATHROP RIPLEY was born
E February 14, 1822, in Weybridge, Vermont.
He is the son ‘of Nathaniel Ripley, born in Wind-
ham, Connecticut, in 1767, and Fanny’White, born
in Weybridge,‘ Vermont. Nathaniel Ripley was
three times married. By his first wife he had six
children. His second wife died without issue. His
third wife, Fanny White, bore him three children——
two sons and one daughter—and died when -the
the subject of this sketch, who was her second child,
was but two years old. Little is known of her fam-
ily. The father of Nathaniel Ripley was Joshua
Ripley, and was a descendant of one of two brothers
who came from Hingham, England, and settled in
Hingham, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, soon
after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

Erastus L. Ripley was reared in Vermont "until
thirteen years of age, when his father placed him in
a dry goods house in Buffalo, New York. Here he
remained three years, after which he spent one year
as book-keeper in a forwarding and commission,
house. He then ‘returned to Vermont on account of
impaired health and remained one winter, teaching
school during his stay. In the summer of 1840, he
became a clerk in a jobbing house in New York
city, where he remained twelve months. During

his residence there, he became deeply interested in
religious matters, and united with the congregation

worshipping in the Broadway Tabernacle (Congre-
gational),then under the charge of Rev. Dr. Andrews.
This changed all his purposes in life.

During the next year, he applied himself to
study under the instructions of Rev. Nelson Bar-
bour, of Vermont, teaching meanwhile in an adjoin-
ing town In 1843 he attended Kimball Union
Academy, located at Meriden, New Hampshire,
teaching school in the winter and prosecuting his
studies at the academy in the summer. In 1845 he
attended college one term, took charge of Newing-
ton Academy in Connecticut, and reéntered college

in the fall, graduating and receiving the degree of -

Bachelor of Arts in 1850. ‘After leaving college he
engaged in mercantile pursuits, opening a hardware
store in the State of New York, the firm style being
Boyd & Ripley, and continued in that business for
the space of nearly two years. He then entered the
law department of ' Yale College, and graduated with
the degree of LL. B. in 1854. He was admitted
to practice in the courts of ./Vz'sz' Prius, at New
Haven, Connecticut, but in a few months received
a call to the charge of the public schools of ]ack-
son, Michigan, which he accepted in the fall of 18 54.

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He remained in charge of the Jackson schools
until January, 1861, when he was elected to the chair
of Mathematics in Michigan State Normal School,
where he remained for seven years. In 1867 he
accepted the chair of Pedagogics in the Missouri
University, and Dean of the Normal Faculty, posi-
tions which he still @878) fills. Professor Ripley is
a member of the Presbyterian Church.

He is the author of several text books, which
have been favorably received by the superintendents
of the public schools. Among them are a “System
of Map Drawing,” “Manual of English Grammar
for Teachers,” “Students’ Chart of History,” and
“ Manual of Arithmetic for Teachers.”

He has been married three times. His first wife

was Emily J. Isbell, of Meriden, Connecticut, by .

whom he had three children: James White Ripley,
present postmaster at Columbia, Missouri, Charles
Clark Ripley, assistant Cashier of the Commercial

Bank in Kansas City 3 Julia Fisk Ripley, now the
wife of Dr. Robert W. Oliphant, of St. Louis. His
second wife was Helen Divoe, of the State of New

‘York, who bore him one child, Helen Elizabeth, now

attending school at the Missouri University. Mrs.
Ripley died when her daughter was an infant. His
third wife was Mrs. Caroline Amelia Aldrich, of
Penfield, Ohio, who was for nine years preceptress
of the Michigan Normal School, and for six years an
instructor in the Missouri University. She is a grad-
uate.of Oberlin College, Ohio. Her daughter, Miss
Ida D. Aldrich, is a teacher in the Kansas City high
school. She was the Valedictorian of her class in
1876. Mrs. Dr. Oliphant was the valedictorian of
the class of 1874, took the prize for two successive
years as the best Greekvscholar, also the Constitu-
tional Law prize, and the Barnes prize of twenty-
five volumes as the best graduate of the Normal
department. ‘

MAJOR WILSON LEE OVERALL.

ST. CHARLES.

ILSON LEE OVERALL, one of the earliest

  and most respected citizens of Missouri,
died at his home in St. Charles City, December 31,
1850. He was born near Nashville, Tennessee, in
1791, and settled in St. Charles county as a farmer
in 1809. He came from an old and honored Vir-
ginia family. His father moved to Tennessee when
that state was a wilderness under control of the
Indians, and was finally killed there in battle with
the red men. After the death of his father Wilson
Lee came to Missouri, then being only eighteen
years of age. He married Miss Mary Griffith,
daughter of Captain Samuel Griffith, an officer who
served gallantly in the Missouri Indian war. By her
he'had the following children: Ezra Overall, now
living in St. Charles, Daniel G. Overall, William
Overall, Samuel Overall, now a practicing physician
In St. Charles 3 Wilson Lee Overall, Asa Nathaniel
OV€ra11,—City Recorder of St. Charles in 1854,
a member of the City Council 1859 and 1860, and
Mayor of the city in 1861, he died "July 30, 1870,
and his memory is cherished still by the citizens as
one of the best men that St. Charles has lost, and

Richard H. Overall, now living in Texas.

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‘son named Oscar.

of the better qualities of these children are attribu-
table to their mother, who was a member of the
Methodist Church and an examplary Christian. She
died in 1833. Major Lee afterwards married Mrs.
Mary Gould, but she died, leaving but one child, a
August 16, 1840, he married
his third wife, Mrs. Eliza A. Patton, relict of
Nathaniel Patton, Esq., the publisher of the first
newspaper established west of St. Louis, the 1112's-
s0zm' fmellzgenccr, at old Franklin, Howard county,
Missouri, 1829. This lady’s maiden name was
Williams; she was born near Harper’s Ferry, Vir-
ginia, July 14, 1807, but emigrated with her father’s
family to Chariton county, Missouri, in 1817. She
died in St. Joseph, Missouri, January 24, 1878,
leaving the following children: ‘Mrs. John F.
Williams, of Macon, Missouri; John H. Overall,
Esq., of St. Louis,_ and Mrs. L. E. Carter, of St.
Joseph.

During Major Overall’s residence in St. Charles
county, he secured to an unusual degree the confi-
dence and affection of its citizens.
terms they elected him to represent them in the State
Legislature, and for years as the Judge of their

For several .

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County Court. Those who knew him best pronounce
his eulogy in these words: “ He lived an upright
life.” He was naturally strong in all his predilections
——ardent in his friendships, uncompromising. but
open in his enmity, he scorned deceit and was

never known to stoop to Wrong. In appearance he
must have been a handsome man, for he is described
as being six feet high, straight as an arrow, with light
auburn hair, blue eyes, weighing two hundred
pounds and athletic as an Indian

PROF. JOSEPH FICKLIN, A. M., D. P.

COL UMBIA.

in Winchester, Clark county, Kentucky. He
v is of the fifth generation of Benjamin Ficklin,
who emigrated from England about the year 1720,
and settled in King George county, Virginia. Wil-
liam of the first, John of the second, and'Jared of
the thirdjgeneration, were born in Kentucky, the lat-
ter about the year 1786. Joseph Ficklin, son of

IOSEPH FICKLIN was born September 9, 1833,

I Jared and father of Professor Ficklin, was born in

Mercer county, Kentucky, about the year 181:1.
The name, by some of the Virginia family, was
spelled with one i, but subsequently it was conceded
that the name of Ficklin should be spelled with two
i’s. Joseph Ficklin, Sr., was reared on Cane Run,
in Mercer county, and received such an education as
was afforded by the country schools. When a young
man he went to Lexington,Kentucky,and there learn-
ed the business of wagon and carriage making 3 and,
on the completion of his apprenticeship, returned to
Mercer county and settled on a farm near Salvisa, and
engaged in conducting both a farm and shop. His
stay on the farm was short, and he moved to Salvisa
and worked at his trade for several years. He then
moved to a farm near Shaker Town and carried on
the shop and farm. In the fall of 18 51 he emigrated
to Missouri and settled in Grundy county, where he
resided for several years. He then moved to Chilli-

cothe, Livingston county, remaining there four or

five years. His next move was to Linn county,
where he engaged in farming. He died December
8, 1871, in Columbia, while visiting his son.

On the breaking out of thecivil war in 1861, he
joined the forces of General Price, and was in the
hospital department during a part of the war. He
was a Whig in politics until 1861, when he united
with the Democratic party. In religion he was a
Methodist, until a short time prior to his death,
when he attached himself to the Christian Church.

of Mercer county, Kentucky.

He was married in 1832 to Miss Eleanor C. Brown,
She was born Octo-
ber 6, I815, and died January 26, 1849. Her father,
William Brown, was born July 22, 1786, in Ken-
tucky, and died April 9, 1855, in Mercer county.
His wife was Nancy Cecil, born February 4, 1791,
in Maryland, and died June II, 1868. William and
Nancy Brown had six children: Christopher G.,
Isabella (married to Robert Armstrong), Eleanor C.
(married to Joseph Ficklin, Sr.), Margaret (married
to Robert Armstrong), James W., and John C. Wil-
liam Brown was a farmer and blacksmith. He was
the son of William and Isabella Brown, and his wife,

Nancy, was" the daughter of ‘James and Eleanor»

Cecil. Joseph Ficklin and Eleanor had eight chil-
dren: Joseph, Mary Ellen (married to David R.
Benson, of Grundy county, Missouri), Sarah A.
(married to R- White, of Adair county, Kentucky),
Nancy, James W. and John C.; Nancy and John C.
died when young ; Taylor, and Kitty (married to C.
C. Newman), of Columbia, Missouri.

Joseph Ficklin, the subject of this sketch, was
taken when an infant to Mercer county, where he
was reared. He attended school in the country
when quite young, and at six years of age began to
go to school in Salvisa, Kentucky, where he learned
reading and writing. When he was eight years old,

his father moved to a farm between Harrodsburg and

Pleasant Hill, where Joseph lived until eighteen
years of age. In 1851, when his father moved to
Grundy county, Missouri, Joseph accompanied him
as far as St. Louis. Here he separated from the
family and went to New Madrid, and in that county
taught his first school, remaining there until Febru-
ary, I852. He then returned to Kentucky and lived
with his grandfather Brown, where he had an oppor-
tunity of attending a good school until September,
1853. During that time he studied algebra, geome-

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try, trigonometry and surveying, read Caesar, Virgil
and Horace, and made some progress in Greek.
Leaving Kentucky at the close of the term, after
a ten days’ trip, he reached Trenton, Missouri, Sep-
tember I8, 1853, where he borrowed money and
attended Masonic College at Lexington, Missouri,
entering the sophomore class in allthe departments.
At the end of the sophomore year, his money was
exhausted, and the efforts he made to procure more
means, with which to complete his collegiate course,
failed. He was thus reluctantly compelled to aban-
don the project of returning to college, but applied
himself with redoubled assiduity to his private stud-
dies. In 1858 the College conferred upon him the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the fall of 18 54 he
secured a school on trial for four" months, the com-
pensation being $40 per month. At the close of this
term he was employed to continue the school five
months at $50 per month. He continued in this sit-
uation for a year or two, and then took the school on
his own responsibility, employing his own assistants,

5 and did better in a financial sense.

In the Winter of 1855-6» he united with the
Christian Church. His school increased in numbers
and popularity until the close of the summer term
in 1859 when he accepted the Professorship of
Mathematics in Bloomington (Illinois) Female Col-
lege. ‘ He did not remain long, leaving that institu-
tion in March, 1860, and returned to Missouri. In
the fall of 1860 he took charge of the public schools
in Linneus, Missouri, and at the close of the public
school term he opened a select school. The excite-
ment and troubles of the war that ensued greatly
diminished the number of pupils, but he continued to
teach in that ‘place until September, 1864, when he
accepted the chair of mathematics in Christian
Female College at Columbia, Missouri. About that

honorary degree of Master of Arts.

time, also, the professorship of mathematics in Emi-
nence College, Kentucky, was tendered him, which
he declined. In 1865 he was elected professor of
mathematics and astronomy in the University of the
State of -Missouri, and he still holds his position‘ in
that Institution. .

In 1866 the university conferred upon him the
In 1874 the
University of Wisconsin conferred the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. In 1869 he was employed
by Professor Snell, of Amherst College, to assist in
a revision of the college edition of Professor Olm-
sted’s Natural Philosophy.

His mathematical works have been favorably
received by the mathematicians of the country. His
complete algebra was published in 1874, and also a
book of algebraic problems, with complete keys to
both. He also assisted in the preparation of Fish’s
Complete Arithmetic. Professor Ficklin is a mem-
ber of the Masonic order. He takes no active part
in politics, but generally votes for Democratic prin-
ciples when he goes to the polls.

He was married March 3, I856, to Miss Penelope
Terrill, of Grundy county, Missouri, who was born
October I0, 1837, in Randolph county, Missouri.
She is a daughter of ‘James Terrill, born July I, 1796,
near Charlottesville,Virginia. Her grandfather, John
Terrill, was also a native of Virginia, and was
descended from English stock. The wife of James
Terrill was Susan Cave, born in Boone county,
Kentucky, in 1802.

Six children have been born to Professor Ficklin:
Octavia,.born September 15, 1862; Nellie, born
June 16, 1865 3 - John Bowman, born March 26, 1868;

Thomas Allen, born December 8, 1870, Walter

H., born April 9, 1873, Mary, born August 22,
1875.

EZRA OVERALL.

5.7‘. ‘CHARLES.

EZRA OVERALL, eldest son of Major Wilson
Lee and Mary Overall, was born in St. Charles
county, Missouri, January 5, 1812. He was edu-
cated in the common schools of the county, getting
his education during the intervals of his farm labor.
He remained with his father until the age of eigh-

teen, devoted to agricultural pursuits, since which
time he has relied upon his own energies. In 18 57
he moved into the city of St. Charles, and in ’1858
went on a trading expedition up the Missouri river
to the Rocky Mountains. — _

If to begin life with limited education and no

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means, and thereon to build a solid commercial_

name and a high respectability, may be called suc-
cess, surely Ezra Overall deserves a place in this
book of “eminent self—made' men.” Endowed by
nature with quick perceptive qualities, he has
by studying the laws of commerce and the causes
of shrinkage or increase in values, become one
of the most successful financiers in the west,
and has accumulated a very handsome fortune.
Acting on the motto, “He who can take care of
his own can take care of our property,” Mr. Overall
has been frequently called by different associations
to serve them in an official capacity. He was one
of the first directors in the St. Charles branch of the
old Southern Bank, and also for many years of the
First National Bank of St. Charles. On the 15th of
February, 1870, he was elected president of the
Union Savings Bank of St. Charles, which position
he has filled ever since. He has also been president
of the Building Association since 1874. Besides
these, he has occupied similar offices in other insti-
tutions, such as director in the Woolen Mill com-
pany and a stockholder in the St. Charles Railroad
Car Company, etc. Much of the success which has
attended the Union Savings Bank is attributed to
his financial ability.

beneath.

Ezra Overall has the name. of a man of strict
commercial honor and personal probity, and his suc-
cess would seem to indicate that he has indeed those
solid foundations beneath him. In religion he is a
Methodist, and in politics now a Democrat , but, in
both, liberal and conservative in his views. He is
about-five feet ten inches in height,,heavy in build,
weighing about two hundred pounds, and a life of
temperate habits leaves him now in robust health
with the promise of many years of usefulness. In
disposition he is kind, charitable, but rigidly exact-
ing in business transactions ; honest himself, he de-
mands it from others, slow to give offense but quick
to resent. A physiognomist would be delighted in
the study of this man’s face after a knowledge of
his characteristics.‘ It is not often the human face

is so unmistakably an index to the heart and mind

Here we see plainly prominent, ‘caution,
system, tact, application and energy——all the ele-
ments of a commercial 1nan—clearly defined ; at
the same time we see benevolence, trust and honor.

Studying his history, inquiring of his dealings, and.

through them reading the inner individual, we find
these apparently opposing forces constituting the
mental and moral system, all blending in harmonious
action.

FREDERICK THOMAS KEMPER, A. M.

B00./V VILLE.

V N I HILE the life of an educator in the sphere

of a private school is barren of incidents
for popular biography, it is still true that the work
of a protracted life in this sphere must have many
points of interest to practical thinkers, to philosoph-
ical speculators on education, and to the great work
of educational progress. Forty years industriously
employed in any department of human labor cannot
be without its fruits and its lessons.

Frederick Thomas Kemper was born at Madison
Court House, Virginia, October I4, 1816. If the
name of his birthplace should strike any as peculiar,
it_ should be remarked that the seat of justice in
the counties of Virginia is often designated by
the name of the county prefixed to the phrase
court house, as Orange Court House, Louisa Court
House, etc. I

His father, William Kemper, about the time of
his son Frederick’s birth, invested a part of his
means, accumulated as a merchant, in a landed
estate in Madison county. At this place, called
Mountain Prospect, the subject of this sketch was
brought up. If his life has been marked by sturdy
persistence in his work, hemay owe this character-
istic in part to the rugged and beautiful mountain
scenery that won the contemplation of his boyhood.
In the rear of the family mansion rose the Thorough-
fare Mountain, a spur of the Blue Ridge, and from
the mountainous part of the farm there must be
visible in front of the dwelling a hundred miles of
the Blue Ridge. The dwellers on the western
prairies know little of the gorgeous sunsets that go
down behind the Alleghany Mountains, or of the
sublimity of the mountain storm. ii I

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“ Here‘ would I run, a visionary boy,

While the hoarse thunders shook the vaulted sky,
And, fancy led, behold the Almighty’s form
Sternly careering in the eddying storm.”

Mr. Kemper has two brothers and two sisters still
living: Ex—Governor James L. Kemper, ‘of Orange
county, Virginia, John S. Kemper, still living at the
old homestead in Madison county, Mrs. S. M.
Bowck, of Lexington, Virginia, and Mrs. Mary A.
Freeman, of Fort Gaines, Georgia.

The Christian culture of his mother, who was
Miss Maria Elizabeth Allison, of Stafford county,
Virginia, he prizes above all the wisdom of the phi-
losophers, and “the inflexible, Roman-like character
of his father, is the best part of the family inheri-
tance.” Among Christian denominations he adheres
to the Presbyterian, in which he was educated and
in which he has long been an officer, as was his
father. His early years were employed at the coun-
try school and in the amusements and labors of the
farm. He had also a few years experience as a
store boy at Madison Court House and in the city of
Baltimore.

When about eighteen years of age his attention
was first turned practically to the business of teach-
ing. _ His father having built a school house a few
yards from the family residence, Frederick, as the
oldest son, was duly installed as the teacher of his
younger brothers and sisters. In committing this
responsible charge to his unpracticed hands, his
father assembled the children, teacher and pupils, in
the school house, and gave them an affectionate and
solemn charge, accompanied by reading the third
chapter of Proverbs and an earnest prayer.

When about twenty years of age he was attracted
to Marion College, near Palmyra, Missouri, by the
fame of such men as David Nelson, the author of
the “Cause and Cure of Infidelity,” James Galla-
her, the sweet toned and powerful pulpit orator, and
Ezra Styles Ely, D. D., who as editor, author and
theologian, at that time exerted an influence in the
Presbyterian Church that- was almost without a
parallel. Dr. William S. Potts was President of the
College. The subject of this sketch was so inter-
ested in the possibilities of this gigantic young
college, that heedlessi of the historic fact that “the
wise men came from the East,” he sought learning
at the feet of the giants on the western border of
civilization.

Marion College was the most magnificent failure
of all the mushroom institutions that have attracted

the wondering gaze of Young America. On its five
thousand acres of land, the students were by manual
labor to support themselves. Young Kemper saw
on his arrival thatthe manual labor branch of the
college was a failure. His work in this department
was limitedito assisting gratuitously a fellow student
for half a day in gathering his potatoes. But he
devoted himself industriously to his studies, and
graduated with the degree of A. B., getting his A.
M. from Washington College, Virginia, after his
Alma Mater died. True to the early bent of his

mind, the theme of his graduating speech was i

“ Schools of the West.” He had supported himself
in part, while an undergraduate, by teaching in pri-
vate families, and before graduating was appointed
by the trustees Principal of the Preparatory Depart-
ment, an office which made him a member of the
college faculty, and gave him a more laborious part
of the instruction and government than was held by
any other teacher. Besides ' this labor, he went
through two years of the college course in one year’s
private study, and graduated honorably. But the
strain of this labor and its necessary imperfection are
matters of regret rather than example for youth in
like circumstances, Among his schoolmates were
some of the Glovers and the Lacklands of Missouri,
and the Singletons of Louisiana. The Hon. John
M. Glover, M. C., Judge J. R. Lackland and
Charles B. Singleton, Esq., of New Orleans, have
been the most distinguished.

He next taught for a year or two a private school at
the village of Philadelphia, near the college. Remov-
ing to Boonville in the spring of 1844, he founded
the Kemper Family School, which is still (1878) the
scene of his labors in his sixty-second year 3 though for
five years just preceding the civil war he held a profes-
sorship in Westminster College. This outline shows
a life most remarkably identified with education as a
profession, and prepares the reader for a few reflec-
tions suggested by a life mostly employed in the
work of the independent private school.

First——Most of the work of teaching, outside of
the colleges, is done by those who are unmarried,
and while maternity terminates the connection ‘of
most ladies with this work, the prospect of marriage
drives most young men into other business. In the
family school, on the contrary, the domestic part is
the essential part. Whatever Mr. Kemper has
achieved he_ is happy to ascribe in large measure to
the wisdom and goodness of his wife, who not only
looks after the general interests of the household,

212 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

but is capable in his absence of taking his place in
teaching Latin, Greek, Mathematics or Logic, with
as much success as "her specialties, Botany and
Vocal Music. Mrs. Kemper was Miss Susan H.
Taylor, of New Hampshire. She is the mother of
eleven children, of whom only four young daughters
survive. ‘

’ Second—The family school is strikingly different
from the college and the public school. The daily
session may be said to cover the twenty-four hours of
the day and night. For the hours of sleep, amuse-
ment and athletic exercise, a.re all matters of syste-
matic supervision. Without habits previously formed
in some such mold, college life to many a youth
becomes a school- of vice. Indeed, the best gradu-
ates are often conscious of special deficiencies in
early training, which the colleges do not supply.
Notably is this true in the common ignorance of
learned men of the phenomena_of the visible heavens.
If a comet is announced as Visible in a certain con-
stellation, many do not know where to look; whereas

this knowledge is a part of the nightly recreation of

a family school. The same thing is substantially
true in many other departments of youthful study
and moral training. -
Third——The family school is free fromthe offi-
cious tinkering and perpetual changes enacted by
school boards. Since this school was begun, in 1844,
it has steadily held on its way for a third of a cen-
tury. Not a clergyman or physician who witnessed
its inception is here to see its maturity. The Boon-
ville bar has almost entirely changed, one of its
most distinguished firms having received their scho-
lastic preparation in this school. The past at least is
secure in the matter of persistent life. The teacher’s
profession should partake of the stability of agricul-
ture. This has here been realized. A farm of four
hundred acres a few miles in the country is tributary
to the table, and thirty acres in the limits of Boon-

villei give ample scope for the amusement of the‘

scholars. It is pleasing to reflect that a permanent
private school can grow in value of efficiency while
educating the children of two generations, and can
raise up efficient. teachers to succeed to its property
andgood will. I ~

Fourth——The specialty of a good private school
is to educate men, but in the prosecution" of this
work there is a course of study which any man of
learning can relish, and it is really wider than the
specialty of a college professor. To fit boys for
college, to unfold the book of nature to the youthful

observer, to traverse the range of history with oral
vivacity, to stimulate and answer inquiries involving

the quintessence of morals and metaphysics — these ,

demand in practice a truly learned profession. And
it is nowhere realized, outside of the colleges, so

‘practically as in the private school.

Fifth—A life spent in practical education is the
best means of exploding the foolish theories and
vain philosophy which make the staple of many a
treatise that assumes to tell the teacher how to teach.
The teacl1er’s Work is so practical that when he does
it best he can hardly himself tell how he does it.
How could he succeed by following the dreams of
some philosophical speculator or false philanthropist?
A single specimen from the history of the subject of
this sketch will suffice for illustration While he
delivered his graduating speech on “ Schools of the
West,” he sincerely believed that, having ~ some
facility in illustration, he could make learning so
entertaining that pupils could be educated as an
amusement. .In this opinion he was fortified by _the
speculations of Rousseau, John Locke, and others.
He has since learned that such an education, if it
were possible, would be a most miserable preparation
for the bleak and sober realities of life.

“ Life is‘ struggle, combat, victory;
Wherefore should youth slumber on,
With their forces all unmarshaled,
With their Weapons all undrawn? ”
While the teacher should win the attention and
interest the imagination by vivid illustration, amuse-
ment, in education holds about the same ratio to toil
that a lady’s jewelry does to her substantialdress.

Lastly—A successful school government in the
sphere of the family school must encounter opposi-
tion both from bad boys and ignorant parents. The
strength of such a school is in the work “turned
out.” Its recommendations are “ the living epistles,”
the men who from the‘ actualities of busy life, feel
their obli-gations for a discipline that may once have
seemed to them peculiar or too rigid. How could
such a discipline suit the lazy, the self-indulgent, the
untruthful, and the insubordinate? Every successful
educator’s life has been marked by some of its most
violent opposition for doing whatwas most essential
to his success. For example, the expulsion of a
scholar who so wantonly persists in his disobedience
as to demonstrate that he must leave, or school gov-
ernment is a nullity. Such characters may believe
that a well ordered family school is a prison, and
that because a government is invincible by them

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 213

“it breaks a boy’s spirit.” But this opposition is a
tax that must be paid for success with those who
become men of power and the teacher’s fastest
friends through life. Such men from this school are
found in every department of the government, in
all the professions and leading walks of business.
Let their testimony offset the opposition of the scur-
rilous.

Mr. L. M. Lawson, banker of New York, resi-
dent in London, writes, “ I would not exchange my
drill in the Kemper school for anything I have seen
at Eaton, Harrow, Rugby and Winchester, the four
greatest schools of England.” Hon. William Brown,

- Jacksonville, Illinois, says, “I was more benefited

here than by my course at the University.” Judge

Hill, of Sedalia, says, “ Every day my official duties
reveal my obligations for my three year’s course.”
Rev. James A. Quarles, a pupil of seven years, and
now ‘President of Elizabeth Aull Seminary, Lexin-
ton, Missouri, has recommended the school as “Un-
surpassed in the world.”

Private schools that expect to achieve success by
accommodating the views of all, in nearly all cases
fail very soon, and may be said to die of their popu-
larity. While the phenomenon of ‘spiteful opposi-
tion on the part of the unworthy, is like that which
even confronted Christianity itself when first intro-
duced into Rome: “As concerning this sect, we
know that everywhere it is ‘spoken against.”—Acts
xxvfii 22.

SAMUEL OVERALL, M. D.

ST. CHARLES.

AMUEL OVERALL, fourth son of Major Wil-
8 son Lee and Mary Overall, was born in St.
Charles county, Missouri, December 10, 1821. His
early education was procured in the rude log school
houses incident to advanced civilization, with slab
bench-es, cut—log windows, and under the ancient
pedagogic system. Besides this, and to his future
usefulness fortunate, he studied hard at home.
He had the advantage of one year’s culture in the
St. Charles College. But all was interspersed with
labor on his father’s farm. After leaving college he
studied medicine in St. Charles with Dr. William C.
Thompson, now of Indianapolis, Indiana, and after-
ward attended the medical college of Ohio, where
he graduated in the spring of 1846. He began the
practice of medicine in St. Charles the Ist day of
May of that year, and has continued it without inter-
mission ever since. He stands high in the county
as a physician of first-class ability.

On the 8th day of October, 1851, Dr. Overall
married Miss Mary A.. Robinson, daughter of Wil-
liam Robinson, of Callaway county, Missouri, but
formerly _ of Lynchburg, Virginia. Her brother,
James H. Robinson, now deceased, was President
of the Female College at St. Joseph, Missouri, and
another brother, Rev. John Robinson, is an eminent
minister in the Methodist Church. Her father was
a prominent citizen of Callaway county, and was

-of St. Charles.

- office holder.

- several times judge of the county court. Four

children now living were the fruits of this marriage,
viz: Hattie Lee, Thomas Wilso,n, Mary and Flor-
ence Woodson Overall.- ' I

The Doctor has been interested inall the different
enterprises having for their object the advancement
He has never been a partisan poli-
tician. He was a Whig until that party ceased to
be an organization; since then he has held him-
self independent, always selecting the best men for
office. , Only once has he been lured into office 3 in
1854 he was elected Mayor of St. Charles on the
temperance ticket. During that term he discovered
that he was too kind and too frank to beia political
One incident will illustrate: A
woman in the city came to him complaining that a
neighbor woman persisted in throwing slop in her
yard, and asked what she must do. He answered,
“Tell her to quit, and if she don’t, make her.” The
woman went her way. In a day or so she. was
arrested and fined for whipping her female neighbor,
but her only plea was that his honor had told her to
do it. Thelmayor had to pay the fine.‘ Since that
he has avoided public office. He votes generally

with the Democrats, because, as he says, he “cannot

do any better.” ~
Dr. Overall has been for over twenty-five years a
Mason, is a strict temperance man, and has been a

214 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

member of the Methodist Church for twenty years;
is now and has long been one of the stewards of his
congregation.

He has traveled all over the Rocky Mountains

seeking health and recreation. In personal appear-
rance he is medium height, weighing about one
hundred and eighty pounds, ruddy complexion and
robust in health.

His characteristics are very marked. An old

and intimate acquaintance of his remarked to the

writer of this sketch : “ He is very decided in his
opinions and candid in their expression; plain
spoken, almost to bluntness in his native honesty,
his thoughts are no quicker than his words, and
never hid; he is a natural physician, devoted to his
profession and endowed with rare discernment in
the pathology of his cases; he is genial and kind to
all, generous in all his impulses, and, any way you
take him, a good man.” He is a zealous advocate of

Temperance and Religion.

ALONZO HULING.

KANSAS CITY.

HE influence of a great and good man will be
T ever expanding with the lapse of time, and
his deeds of charity and acts of love will live to
commemorate his name and perpetuate his memory.

Alonzo Huling was born near Bennington, Ver-
mont, October 8, 1831, and was the seventh son of
Daniel Huling, whose father, Alexander Huling, was
one of the earliest settlers of Rhode Island. The
genealogy of the family is most interesting, dating
back to the colonial days, and connected with the
history of the “ Mother Country.”

The Hulings in America are descendants in part
of Oliver Cromwell and of the two Hulings who
were beheaded for conspiracy with Monmouth against
King James and the Catholics; they are also con-
nected with General Huling, who was Governor of
Paris under Napoleon I., and William Kiffin, the
leading Baptist of London. In 1680 Alexander
Huling came to America, and settled in Kingston,
Rhode Island. He held various offices of trust, and
died at a ripe old age, leaving two sons and four
daughters.

One of his sons, Alexander, the grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was captain of a privateer
that was taken by the British in 1776. After losing
his ship he moved to Shaftsbury, Vermont. His
son Daniel was the father of Alonzo, whose biogra-
phy is here recorded, and six other sons and one
daughter, all of whom lived to mature years in
emulation of his virtues and worthy efforts to sustain
his honored name. _

In 1856 Mr. Alonzo Huling married Lucy E.

Lamfear, daughter of one of the pioneers of Illinois,
and a hero of the Black Hawk war. He ’died in
1836, but her mother still lives at the ripe age of
seventy—seven, and recounts with great interest many
thrilling episodes of her pioneer life.

The early life of Mr. Huling was characterized
by industrious habits and good morals. He worked

on his father’s farm in the summer and attended”

school in the winter. When twenty-one years of age
he joined two older brothers in Illinois, where he first
entered upon mercantile pursuits. During the war,
failing health induced him to seek a milder climate,
and _at its close he removed to Jacksonville, Florida,
taking with him his wife and son. His energy and
shrewdness soon won for him an enviable reputation
in the “Land of Flowers,” and here he made the
most of his fortune.

He at one time was a large stockholder in the
Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railway, and held
the office of director and vice-president. _

In 1875, being restored to health, Mr. Huling
left Florida and chose as his future place of resi-
dence, Kansas City. Here he invested heavily in
real estate, and made many plans for the improve-
ment of his property and the beautifying of his home;
but a “home not made with hands” was prepared
for him above, and he was called to leave earth for
the better land. He died November 23, I876,
lamented by a large circle of relatives and friends.

Mr. Huling’s personal appearance was remarka-
bly prepossessing ; of medium height, thick set, dark
brown hair and beard, blue eyes, clear and rosy

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 215

complexion, and a courtesy of manner that gave
grace to all his movements. He was a gentleman
who commanded respect and admiration from all; a
great talker, enjoyed company, and was never more

happy than in entertaining his friends at his own‘

house, where his genial happy spirit fully expanded
in the sunlight of home. He was singularly unos-
tentatious, liberal with his wealth, but desired that

the objects of his charities should be worthy ones 3

temperate in his habits, believing that temperance in
all things should be a law. In his family he was
kind and indulgent, and loved them with a love that
knew no change.

In politics Mr. Huling was a Democrat, as are
all the family. He was very popular with his party,
but declined to receive its proffered honors. He
was a Democrat from principle, not policy, and
never represented his party but once, and that was
as a delegate from Florida to the Seymour and Blair
Convention in New York in 1868.

It can be truly said that a great -and good man
has been gathered to his fathers, ‘but his virtues live
after him, and his reputation, sustained under the

conflicts of a long career of extraordinary activity,
bears no" blemish 5 and his name is everywhere men-
tioned with respect and honor.

George D. Huling, the surviving son, was born
in Kankakee, Illinois, April 22, 1857. At the age

of seven years he accompanied his parents to Flor- I

ida; when fourteen years old entered Rutgers board-
ing school, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and in two
years graduated. When sixteen years old he entered
Rutgers College, but his father thinking him too
young to take collegiate studies, sent him to Wesleyan
Institute, VVilberham, Massachusetts, where he remain-
ed one year, after which he entered Williams College.

In 1876 he left college, intending to take a tour
west, and then return to finish his course, but the
death of his father changed his plans, and .he con-
cluded to enter upon a business career andendeavor
to carry out his father’s ideas and enterprises. ' ,

He is a young man of great promise, having good
principles and habits. His business ability is excel-
lent in one-so "young, and with the large fortune
left him by his father, and a kind heart to guide him,
he should be known and blessed by thousands.

JOSEPH S. CHICK.

KANSAS CITY.

IFE is a complex fabric, each shuttle of the
L moving thousands drops a thousand threads,
every one of which represents an element of power
in the world. Some of these parts are high, some
low in the scale of progress. Probably the most
potential of these is man’s ability to help himself.
History shows it to be the parent ingredient in’all
forward movement. "It is the Phoenix that holds
within itself the germs of all individual growth and
development. The eventsandqphenomen a of civil-
ized existence reach back with it to reverence.

All the agencies that give man control over
nature, and over his own destiny, are emanations of
this ingredient which crowns humanity with divine
possibilities. To consider historically or philosoph-

' ically this characteristic of man, is to trace the pro- I

gress of the race. By this power wayward youth
has reached the kingship of rational manhood, and
barbarism crept toilsomely up the ages into the
broad largsof civilization, and by this men how

I Missouri, in I828.

‘p‘ Pluck bright glory fromthe pale faced morn,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground
And drag up drowned honor by the locks.”

Biography should be written for the sake of its
lessons 3 that men everywhere may place themselves
in Contact with facts and affairs, and build themselves
up to and into a life of excellence, not in any sphere
but in their own rightful place, where they may
keep and augment their individuality. To record
in some respects the details of such a life is pur-
posed in the following history.

Joseph S. Chick was born in Howard county,
He was son of William M. and
Ann Eliza (Smith) Chick. His paternal ancestry
were of Welsh and English descent. The subject
of this biography received his primary training in
the common schools of Missouri, although his con-
tacts and associations were such as to afford his
mind a wide variety of nourishment and growth,

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which he was as glad to appropriate by the wayside,
as if spread formally within college walls. His
youth was spent principally in the store of his father,
who was a prominent merchant of Western Missouri.

Hislimited scholarship was no measure of his
power; he had within his boyish breast a self—hood
that could not be crushed; a capacity for self-adjust-
ment to shifting circumstance and progressive detail,
that forearmed him for the fray. It would appear
that he understood, even at that early period, some-
thing of the office his individual organization was
best adapted to fulfill. In the task hitherto men-
tioned, he gained in that discipline that fitted him
for broader undertakings and heavier responsibilities.

At the age of seventeen he was left without a,

father, who died in Kansas City, leaving to the
world an honored name and to his so11 the care of a
widowed mother. The habits of industry and econ-
omy, together with the example of pureness and
integrity taught by a Christian father, began to bear
fruit of inestimable worth. '

The half-orphaned youth at once entered the
store of H. M. Northrup, where, amid the weighty
embargoes and sharp competitions of modern trade,
he served a new apprenticeship, as it were, in com-
mercial concerns. On reaching his majority, Mr.
Chick engaged in the mercantile business for himself
in connection with Mr. Northrup. This step was not
taken because of any bigoted assumption of gifts he
had never received, but from a due respect to his
own judgment, in preference to an undue depend-
ence upon that of others, which removed him at
once from pride and dependence. A happy mean
between the two extremes has always been charac-
teristic of that gentleman, hence it is that he has
never become the dupe of other men’s opinions nor
the slave of circumstances.

Using no napkin to hide his talent, his youthful
spirit put on the garb of manhood and mingled at
once in the busy throng of workers. The establish-
ment of Northrup & Chick was a pioneer affair, they
sold wholesale and retail) outfitting goods for emi-
grants, tourists, miners, and the different Indian

. tribes who came to Kansas City to trade, and to the

merchants of New Mexico.

-Kansas City at that time was but a" handful of
houses. The first settlers were the French traders,
among whom were the Grandlouises, the Chouteaus,

the Sublettes, and. then the Chicks, the Campbells, ~

Ransoms, Smarts, Scarrett, McGee, Gillis, Mulkey,
and a lengthened chain of others. The trade of the

Mexicos had for years been going to St. Louis. For
a brief while the trade was ‘held at a place called
Franklin, long ago a victim to the turbulent wash

S of the Missouri.

Soon after a rivalry sprang up ‘between Westport
and Independence, during which Kansas City gained
a permanent foothold under the hills, and soon won
favor as a landing place. I

To the store of Mr. Chick came the princely
traders of Mexico, such as Col. St.Vrain, Bent and
others, bringing rich cargoes of silver and furs, for
exchange. _

During this frontier life Mr. Chick was building
not merely a fortune, but, on sure foundations, was
extending his business relations.

The spirit of system, attention to, and subordina-
tion of details, constituted his dispatch of business
and mercantile power, The doors of opportunity
need only be opened to his talent and virtue in
order to be honored. Mr. Chick never blockaded

his way with self abuses nor vitiated his time with j

dereliction.

In 1863 Mr. Chick relinquished his extensive
trade in Western Missouri, and in connection with his
old partner,’ Northrup, going to New York City, he
chose a prominent locality and engaged in the banking
business, and as the result of his persistence and integ-
rity gained a competence sufficient to elevate him
above any ordinary necessity. In his new and wide
sphere of effort, which soon became so diversified as
to tax heavily all his time, he became one of the
most honored representatives of his profession, and
his sound judgment and commercial acumen were
always in merited demand in banking circles.

For eleven years Mr. Chick was a resident of
Brooklyn, New York, where he was beloved by a
large circle of friends who knew and appreciated his
sterling qualities of head. and heart,which render him
welcome in every department of society.

At this date (1878) Mr. Chick isthe efficient
President of the Bank of Kansas City, doing a valu-
able work in that institution. '

Politically, Mr.’ Chick is a staunch Democrat,
carefully avoiding extremes, and abhors the spirit of
contention.

A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church-
’ South, he has striven in many praiseworthy ways to

add to its strength and purity as a means for the bet-

terment of his fellows, as well as a refuge for himself

and family. '
Intertwined in many ways is his history with- the

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growth of Kansas City. Although he has made endeav-
ors in other fields, Kansas City has been helped with
the best of his work and counsel. Few men would re-
fuse a golden opinion with regard to his public and
private worth. His life has been active, and in the main
well directed, and many have shared his success.

217

Mr. Chick has been twice married 5 his present
wife is the daughter of J. M. Sexton, of Kansas
City. - I

Actuated only by good motives, his addressis
kind and courteous to the world, and tender and
helpful at home.

ASA PARKER MCCANNE.

MONTGOMERY CITY.

MONG the names of Missouri’s own children,
we find that of Asa P. McCanne, who was
born in Randolph county, October 31, 1844.

His parents, Thomas and Polly Ann (Jones)
McCanne, were natives of Lincoln county, Ken-
tucky, and emigrated to Missouri in 1830. His
father was an educator, and during a portion of his
life followed agricultural pursuits.

While Asa was yet a boy, his father removed to
Louisiana, and from there to Texas, giving his son
the advantages of the common schools in these sev-
eral States. Young McCanne early showed signs of a
talent for the legal profession, and in 1866 began to
read law in New York city. In 1867 he graduated

from the Columbia Law College of New York city

"In 1868 he began to teach school in Lincoln
county, Kentuckyfand remained there two years,
when he accepted the position of principal of Home
College, in Marion county, Kentucky, which he
filled for two years.

In 1873 he located in Audrain county, Missouri,
and practiced law successfully for one year, when
he removed to his present home in Montgomery
City, where he is one of the leading lawyers.

In politics Mr. M cCanne is a Democrat ,- he is a
man who commands the respect of all with whom
he comes in contact, and makes himself felt in the
community in which he lives.

JOHN w. WARD.

PLEASANT HILL.

in Green county, Kentucky. He is the son of

Richard Ward, born March 4, 1799, in Culpep-
per county, Virginia, and Lotta Belcher, born F eb-
ruary I2, 1801, in Green county, Kentucky. Richard
Ward was a farmer, and received only a common
school education, marrying at the age of twenty.
His father, William Ward, was born in I757,_ and
his grandfather, also named William Ward, was a
native of Ireland and came to America early in the
eighteenth century. The wife of Richard Ward was
the daughter of Berry Belcher, who was born in
Maryland in 1764, his father being a native of Ger-
many. Her mother was Tempe Vaughan, born in’
Green county, Kentucky, in 1766. The ~mother of

JOHN W. WARD was born February II, 1822,

Richard Ward was Memory Larimore, born in Vir-
ginia in 17 56, her parents having emigrated to this
country from Ireland.

John W. Ward, the subject of this sketch, was
educated in Green county, where he was .born, and
at the age of sixteen began an apprenticeship at the
business of cabinet making with James Nailer, of
Greensburg, Kentucky. Mr. Nailer only remained in
the place one year after this, and young Ward complet-
ed his knowledge of the business with Henry Cooper,
in Campbellsville (now in Taylor county), Kentucky,
finishing his apprenticeship in 1841. Soon after he
had mastered his trade, he left Campbellsville and
located in Lafayette county, Missouri, following his
occupation ‘there for nearly two years. - He then

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returned to his old home in Green. county and
worked there seven years.

In 1849 he removed to Chillicothe, Missouri, and
followed his occupation there until 1854, when he
left that place and settled in Wabaunsee county,
Kansas, and engaged in farming and trading in
stock. In May, 1860, he left Kansasand settled
near what is now known as Pleasant Hill, Cass
county, Missouri, engaging again in farming and
trading. In 1864 he was elected and commissioned
captain of Company A, 77th. Regiment Enrolled

Missouri Militia, commanded by Colonel Coates,A

and held that position until January, 186 5, when the
regiment was disbanded at Pleasant ‘Hill. At the
close of the war he engaged in the livery business
for one year, when he sold his livery stock and
began working at his trade. He was township con-
stable for ‘about eighteen months. In 1869 he
removed to the farm on which he still resides.

He was married October 16, 1845, in Green
(now Taylor) county, Kentucky, to Miss Margaret
A. Bowles, born July 19, 1826, in Amherst county,
Virginia, Her parents removed to Kentucky and
settled near Campbellsville, the county seat of Tay-
lor county, when she was but seven years of age.
Her father, John Bowles, was born June 25, 1787, in
Amherst county, Virginia. Her grandfather, Charles
Bowles, was bornabout the year 1762, his parents
being natives of Ireland. Her mother, Emily Lively,
was born March I0, 1795. Her maternal grand-
father, Mark Lively, was born in Virginia in 1765,
his parents‘ being natives of Scotland. The wife
of Mark Lively, Mary Hill, was born in Virginia
in 1777, she being of Irish descent.‘

John W. Ward and wife have had five children:
Anna Eliza, born September 29, 1847, in Camp-
bellsvi-lle, Kentucky; Hila J., born May 26, 1850,
near Utica, Livingston county, Missouri 3 John
R., born October r4, 1852, at Bedford, Livingston
county, Missouri, George‘ M., born March 5, 1857,
near Burlingame, Osage county, Kansas, died April
22, I859; VVilliam C., born January I, 1862, in
Pleasant Hill, Missouri, and died January, I 5, 1863.
Ann Eliza was married November 28, 1866, to Gil-
ford M. Elliott, of Pleasant Hill. They have two
children: Joseph W., born July 29, 1871, in Cass
county; Margaret E., born September 5, I874.
Hila J. ‘Ward was married Dr cember 26, 1871, to
Richard Sloan. They have tv 0 children: Newton
W., born October II, 1872; Richard W., born
March 14, 1876. Mr, and Mrs. Elliot lost two
children, John R. and Lydia A., aged respectively
two and eighteen months. .

John W. Ward and wife are both members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr.
Ward was originally a Whig, voted for Bell and

_ Everett in the presidential election of 1860, because

they were for “the Union, the Constitution and the
Enforcement of the Laws.” When the rebellion
began he wished to remain a silent looker on, not
desiring to take part in the unnatural struggle. As
the war progressed he became more interested, and
fought for his principles under the old flag of his
fathers. He is called a Republican in politics, and
so votes in federal elections, but in local affairs he
votes for the man whom he regards best suited to
the position.- He is conservative in his political
action. ‘

HON. PHILEMON BLISS, LL. D.

COL UMBIA.

HILEMON BLISS, second son of Asahel and
Lydia (Griswold) Bliss, was born in North Can-

I ton, Hartford county, Connecticut, July 28, I813.

The family consisted of seven children, of whom
only three are living: Hon. Albert A. Bliss, of Jack-
son, Michigan; Horace G. Bliss, Esq., of Madison,
Wisconsin, and our subject. The father, a teacher
and farmer, was a descendant of the original Puri-
tans from ‘England, who brought to the rock—bound

coasts of “ New England” the seed of those immor-
2‘eZ/er in morals that have perpetuated the purity of
this continent. He was the son of Thomas and
Margaret Bliss, who, with their co religionists,
sought freedom of conscience and shelter from
tyranny in the then wild America, about the year
1640; he settled in‘Springfield, Massachusetts. The

.'mother of our vsubject,"was the eldest daughter of

Elijah Griswold, of Wintonbury (New Bloomfield),

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Connecticut, whose ancestors were among the first
English settlers of W insor and Simsbury, of which

'Wintonbury Parish formed a part, so that our sub-

ject can fairly claim a strict Puritan descent, although
in the Colonial period several families of the Win-
sor and Simsbury Griswolds—of whom his great
grandfather was one—-left the established Church
of Connecticut and joined the dissenting body of
English Episcopalians. I ,

In 1831, ‘Asahel Bliss, with his family, moved
from Connecticut to settle in Whitestown, New York.
The distance was only about one hundred and eighty
miles, but required a week in the journey, and Mr.
Bliss conveyed his family in his own.Vehicle, for
then there was no other choice. The trip furnished
strange scenes and wonderful experiences which
formed the theme of many an after evening story.
Crossing the “ Great Hudson,” a visit to the museum
and other wonders of Albany; the dreary sixteen

vmiles across the barrens and cobble stones from

Albany to Schenectady 3 the boisterous Dutch tav-
erns in the Valley of the Mohawk ; the black slaves
which were then common on the farms of the H01-
landers; these, and many other new and strange
sights, met the emigrants as they slowly traveled to
their new home. Oneidacounty, New York, was
much richer and more fertile than any part of Con-
necticut, and to-day ranks second to no part of the
United States. Here the family settled, and on the
father’s farm, during the summer months, the chil-
dren learned to labor. Farming then was vastly
different from farming now ; then everything was
done by hand and hoe ,- and when harvested brought
scanty returns.

Asahel Bliss and his wife were intelligent and’

ambitious for their childen’s mental as well as moral
culture. Their tables were bountifully supplied with
books and newspapers, and encouragement to every
good and noble aspiration was . not wanting, and
never forgotten to be offered. What the home
library lacked was supplied by the town library, and
it was all good solid reading, such as Rollins, Plu-
tarch, Robertson and Goldsmith, to which must be
added the religious works of Baxter and Doddridge,
for then no library was complete without them.

The subject of this sketch, besides facilities men-
tioned, enjoyed what facilities were afforded by the

  common schools of that day—which, of course, fell

far short of the present time, although thoroughness
was demanded in the few branches taught. It was

deemed disgraceful to be faulty in orthography, so ,

that every word in “Webster’s American Spelling
Book,” was conned to mastery by every boy and
girl. Reading with fluency was aimed at more than
accent or tone 5 every boy learned “to cypher” by
rote; most of the pupils studied geography and a
few of them grammar, with Murray as the standard.

Mr. Bliss received his more advanced education

at Oneida Institute and at Hamilton College——both'

in Oneida county. He did not graduate at Hamil-
ton, ‘but returned to Oneida Institute, and under the

.tuition of Mr. Peletiah Ranson——(one of the most

successful educators of his day and neighborhood)-
took for his last year a selection from the ordinary
college course. In 1832 the cholera broke out in

the country, and the panic prevented the usual fall

exhibition exercises. Mr. Bliss, as one of the ora-
tors of the occasion, had prepared for his subject a
defense of the administrations of Presidents Wash-
ington and Adams against the assaults of the Demo-
crats. ~ I

In the spring of 1833 Mr. Bliss entered the law
office of Theodore Sill, Esq. (late of the firm of
Gold & Sill), of Whitesboro, to prepare himself for
the legal profession. But he was menaced with the
bronchial affection which has ever since afflicted him,
and greatly diminished his working powers. After
one year’s study, he was directed by his physician
to seek some more favorable climate than that of
New York, and he spenta few years traveling, but
irregularly continuing his studies. During this period
he occasionally taught school, and for a while was
engaged in a land office in Elyria, Ohio, and in 1841
he had so far recovered as to enter upon the practice
of law, and .continued to practice with fair success
for several years.

In the winter of 1848-9, he was elected by the
Legislature of Ohio Judge of the Fourteenth judicial
Circuit of the State, the Circuit extending along the
lake shore east and west of Cleveland; this office
he filled until elected to Congress in 1854, from the
Fourteenth Congressional District of Ohio, to which
position ‘he was again elected in 1856. In speaking
of these events in his political life, Judge Bliss says:
“Those elections gratified me at the time, although
I am now satisfied I should not have accepted the
honon
the law, resolutely resisting every temptation in other
directions, notwithstanding the depressing influence
of ill-health, I might have acquired that assurance in
myself and love for the profession which I have
always lacked.” He does not seem to have been

Had I confined myself to the practice of I

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much better pleased with political life, as it was then
in Congress. During his terms of office in the
National Legislature the main political fight was over
the admission of Kansas into the Union with slavery.
The doctrine of Mr. Calhoun, that the Constitution
per 55 carried slavery into all the territories, slaves
being by it recognized as property, and therefore
could not be excluded, was so repugnant to his ideas
of right in a republican government where “all men
are and of right should be free and equal,” that he
opposed it with all his mental ability and physical
power. I Not so much, however, as an orator, for his
bronchial affection had rendered his voice too weak
to command the attention of the vast hall; his labors
were confined to the more silent, and probably
more potent means of fighting the wrong. The
Democratic followers of Mr. Calhoun——their minds
illumined by the brilliant genius of their illustrious
leader—seemed almost the only reasoners on the
floor, and they based every claim upon some philo-
sophical theory. The Republicans then present in
the body while zealously combating the practical
measures of their opponents, said but little upon
this subject until the Dred Scott decision waked up
the country to its importance. But Judge Bliss fore-
saw the obnoxious character of the Calhoun sophis-
try, and made several arguments directed specially
to this point. Subsequent events show he did not
labor in vain 3 and, although the congressional records
do not show that he participated in general debate,
the voice of four millions enfranchised men lifted
from servitude to-day reward his efforts, and the blot
of human servitude cleansed from the nation’s laws
may be part of his honored labors. _

For the purpose of seeking a dryer climate, in
1861 he accepted the position of Chief Justice of
Dacotah Territory, and left his home at Elyria for
the plains. His health gradually improved, but
being dissatisfied with his new home, because of the
apparent incapacity of the territory for settlement,
and being wearied of a position with so little to do,
he determined to seek a more lively field. “In 1863
he went to St. Joseph, Missouri, and the following
year removed his family there and purchased a
home.

In 1868 Judge Bliss was elected to the bench of
the Supreme Court of Missouri, and under the con-
stitutional arrangement for drawing terms, he drew
the four year term. Shortly before its termination,
the curators of the State University established a
department of law in that institution and elected him

its professor and dean of the law faculty, which posi-
tion he has ever since filled.

November 16, 1843, Judge Bliss married in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, Miss Martha W. Tharp, who was
born in Wayne county‘ Indiana, November 29, 1820.
Her father was born in Delaware March 25, 1781,
and was of English parentage. Her mother,
Rebecca, was the daughter of Colonel Samuel Haw-
kins, an emigrant from Virginia to Ohio at an early
day. He was also of English descent, settled and
reared his family in Preble county, Ohio, where he
died in 1814, from the effects of a wound received
the previous year in the military service of the United
States VT he judge’s wife is still living. They have
three children: William H., born October 27, 1844,
and now United States District Attorney for the
Eastern District of Missouri 3 Edwin W., born April
2, 1847, and now a practicing physician in Hiawa-
tha, Kansas; Florence, born December 22, 1849,
now the wife of Judson Lyon, of St. Joseph, Mis-
souri.

In his religious views, Judge Bliss adheres to the
polity of the English rather than of the Scotch Puri-
tans, and has always associated himself with Congre-
gationalists; where that body has no organization he
usually worships with Presbyterians. He would
have preferred the form of worship used by the Eng-
lish Episcopalians but for their ecclesiastical preten-
sions. He is not a communicant, which is owing
rather to a dissent from the speculative theology of
the church of his choice than to a want of sympathy.

The political history of his ancestors shows that
both his grandfathers were Federalists, who had
been American soldiers in the Revolutionary war,
and like most of this class adhered to Washington
and his associates, greatly fearing the radicalism of
the opposite party. The judge’s father, deeming the
course of the Federalists during the war of 1812
unpatriotic, left them and supported Mr. Madison’s
administration. He was a friend of John Quincy
Adams, and a Whig until his death in 1847. Judge
Bliss originally was a Whig. He was active in the
canvass of 1840, and especially so in 1844. The
defeat of Mr. Clay in 1844 caused him great grief.
We can do no better than finish this sketch in the
judge’s own language, as being of historical interest,
and breathing a patriotism and candid political oppo-
sition without animosity peculiarly refreshing in those
days of sectional jealousies and bitter antagonisms:

“That election (1844) was a turning point in our
political history. The annexation of Texas was

‘Henry and David,

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demandedby the Secretary of State for the purpose
of preventing emancipation in Texas, and the erec-
tiOI1 Of 21 fr€€ S'Eat€ upon our southwestern border,
and it was effected in the avowed interest of slavery.
From that time the question of slavery became a
national one, and most of the northern Whigs felt
that they were driven from the position they had
always taken, that it was a local question with which
politically they had nothing to do. Many of them,
therefore——of whom I was one—felt at liberty at the
next election to unite with the Van Buren Democrats
in a political movement to prevent the extension of
slavery over the territories just conquered from
Mexico. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise
in 1854 broke up the Whig party, and I gave my
earnest support to the Republican organization,

whose only political object was the preservation of

freedom in territories already,as we believed, legally.

free. I can hardly realize that I am now a citizen
of the old Missouri, and that I daily mingle and
with feelings of personal attachment with those who,
during the bitter struggle of the last thirty years,
regarded such as me, as I regarded them, as propa-
gators of the most dangerous political heresies. My
only political prayer now is, that from every section
we may be united in a true brotherhood, that we

may remember the past only to avoid its errors, that-

our future rivalries may be in efforts for the good of
all; our common aim being to secure to the lowest
and the highest the equal protection of the law, and
opportunities for industrial and educational develop-
ment.” A '

REV. JEREMIAH FARMER-

PLEASANT HILL.

EREMIAH FARMER was born March 26,
1810, in Anderson county, Tennessee. His
great grandfather, Henry Farmer, was married

to Aggie‘ Burton, and removed from Lunenberg
county,Virginia, to Halifax county, when the latter
was a wilderness. He had three sons: Archibald,
and one daughter, jennie.
Henry, the second son, was married to Sarah Echols,
and both were born between I745 and 1750. They
remained in Halifax county till 1796, when they
emigrated to Anderson county, Tennessee. They
had by their marriage eleven children, three sons
and eight daughters, all of whom reared families.
After his removal to Tennessee, he became a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church. His wife was a member
of the Society of Friends. She died in 1825, and
he in 183 5. john Farmer, their son, was the father
of the subject of this sketch, and was born in Hali-
fax county, Virginia, july 4, 1784. He emigrated
with his parents to Tennessee when but twelve years
of age. About the year 1805 he-became connected
with the Baptist Church, and in 1809, at the age of
twenty-five, married Abigail Read, who was born
in Rowan county, North Carolina, November 29,
I791. Her parents died when she was very young,
and she was taken to Knox county, Tennessee, by
her two uncles, VVi1liam and Thomas Read, with
‘whom she lived alternately. She was a woman of
rare beauty of person, and excellence of mind and
character. Her husband, owing to the Want of facil-

ities, received but little education, and she none.
Yet both were possessed of strong mental endow-
ments. She became a member of the Baptist Church
soon after her marriage. He was a licensed preacher
quite early in life, and was regularly ordained to the
ministry in 1819. He usually supplied four churches,
preaching once a month at each. By his force of
character and his intellectual power, he rose to con-
siderable eminence in his church, and was highly
esteemed by that influential body of Christians.
When the division occurred in the Baptist Church,
on the subject of foreign missions, in 1836, he iden-
tified himself with the missionary Baptists. In 1839
he emigrated to Cass county, Missouri, and was
Moderator of the Blue River Association at the time
of his death, which occurred May 2, 1845. His
wife had died several years before, July 28, 1840.
Their remains are interred in the cemetery two miles
west of Pleasant Hill, Missouri.

When the subject of this sketch was five years
old, his father left Anderson county, Tennessee, and
built mills and iron works in Knox county. Here
he remained three years, when he removed to -Roar.
county, and then to Meigs county, engaging in the
same business. During this time Jeremiah Farmer
was receiving such an education as the common
schools supplied, and was well advanced in the Eng-

lish branches considering his age and the advantages

he enjoyed. At eighteen he quit going to school
and began to superintend his father’s business, at

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which he ‘continued for two years. In 1830 his
father gave him an interest in the business, and he
pursued it for four years January I, 1833, he was
married to Eliza Bailey, who was born January 6,
1813. She was the ‘daughter of James Bailey ; grand-
daughter of David Bailey. Her mother was Mary
Rector, daughter of Cumberland Rector; grand-

‘ daughter of Charles Rector; great grand-daughter

of John Rector. ‘They were married by Rev. Daniel
Briggs, by whom also the husband was baptized in
the following month, she having been a member of
the church for several years previous.

In June,-I837, Rev. Jeremiah Farmer removed
to Cass county, Missouri, where he has ever since
resided. He has reared eleven children, two sons
and nine daughters, to manhood and womanhood,
all of whom were married, and ten of whom, two
sons and eight daughters,- are still living. They are
as follows: Mary, married to William Jones, Abigail,
married to John King 3 Coleman, married Elizabeth
A. Harris ; Rebecca, (now dead) married James H.
Callaway; Thomas, married Mattie Peyton ; Louisa,
married Greenberry Johnson, (the latter dead);
Emma, married Nathan B, George 3 Elizabeth, mar-
ried John T. Boswell; Nannie, married D. G. Angus;
Susie, married Charles W. Sills ; and Fannie, who
married J. S. Hayden.
grand children, and two great grand-children now
living.

Soon after coming to Missouri, Mr. Farmer began

Mr. Farmer has thirty-five .

preaching as a Baptist minister. For thirty years he
supplied four churches, each once per month. The
distances between the churches was often thirty to
forty miles. The countrywas new, the congrega-
tions poor, and most of the labor was performed
without compensation. And although he was com-
pelled to cultivate other resources for the mainte-
nance of his family, yet those obstructions did not
deter this faithful follower of the Cross from preach-
ing the unsearchable riches of the blood of the
Redeemer. His labors have been blest and his
efforts crowned with eminent success. He has bap-
tized about two thousand persons during a ministerial
course of about forty years. 2

In 187 5 Rev. Mr. Farmer returned to the place
of his nativity, Anderson county, and found in the
possession of a relative, William S. Farmer, a num-
ber of papers belonging to his grandfather and great
grandfather.. These papers are receipts for church
tithings, and other interesting business papers, dating
back to 1773, I781, 1788, etc.
preserved in the family with remarkable fidelity, and
show that his ancestors were prompt in meeting their
obligations. The characteristic has descended to
him. Mr. Farmer is now well" advanced in years,
but still carries the good tidings to his fellow-men
with that same patient, self-sacrificing devotion that
characterized his younger days.
congregations and respected by all—a worthy exem-
plar of the truths he so faithfully teaches.

HON. STILSON HUTCHINS.

ST. LOUIS.

’ l ‘HE field of journalism is filled with steeps and

precipices. Many have died therein; a few
live there, but they were _“to the manor born.” Men
have become lawyers, preachers", merchants, manu-
facturers; but journalists, like “poets, are born,
not made.” Western journalism is especially mi
gezzerzlé, and its meagre facilities for success mark the
man who does succeed as not an ordinary individ-
ual. It is not necessary to a western reader to say.
that one of the successes in our field is the subject
of this sketch. .

Stilson Hutchins was born at Whitefield, Coos
county, New Hampshire, November I4, 1838. He

was the only son of Stilson Hutchins, a Democratic

politician of no little prominence in his section dur- ‘

ing the day of Franklin Pierce, and was honored
with the personal friendship of that eminent gentle-
man. He also was a native of Whitefield, and died
there while yet a young man, in 1838——too soon by
a few months, to see his son. The grandfather of
our subject was a Revolutionary soldier, and the
great-grandfather served with General Allen at Ticon-

deroga. .

Stilson Hutchins, Sr., married Miss Clara Eaton,

daughter of Nathaniel and Rebekah Eaton, the for- _

mer a native of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and

They have been

He is loved by his ,

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she of Haverhill, New Hampshire. She was a
woman of strong and marked mental characteristics,
a splendid housewife, good manager,'and in all the

Walks of life just such a woman as was calculated to.

be the mother of a marked man. And we find her
mental and physical temperament reproduced in her
son.

Some time after the death of her husband, she
married Mr. Hiram Somerby, of N ewburyport, Mass-
achusetts, who, soon afterwards, in 185 5, removed
his family to Osage, Iowa.

Up to this time, Stilson had his eye and heart
upon a diploma. He had received his primary edu-
cation in the public schools of Boston, and after
passing through the high school, entered Dane Prepar-
atory School—a branch of Harvard—at Cambridge,
Massachusetts. In the midst of honorable ambition,
the westward move of his step-father appeared cal-
culated to crush the budding promise of distinction
in Stilson’s career, but doubtless it was the turn of
fortune’s wheel that gave to the .West one of her
ablest champions.

“ There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we may.”

Thus compelled to abandon his collegiate course,
his after life gives evidence that his books, aims and
high ambitions were not thrown aside, but opportu-
nities were forced from the rare intervals of practical
Western life to press onward towards the goal of his
literary desires.

‘Viewing this comparatively young man in his
exalted position—already crowned with a success
usually the harvest only of a life-time of struggles--
there will arise an uncontrollable curiosity to know
more of his antecedents, his boyhood and those
significant events and childish prognostications that
foreshadow the man ; men will crave to see the
straws in his life’s current that turned his bark to
early greatness and renown.

' The fact of his never knowing a father’s guidance
and support, probably more than anything else
formed within him the spirit of self-dependence that
has characterized Mr. Hutchins through life. From
his mother he acquired the strength of purpose, will,
dogged perseverance and management that have
overcome the many obstacles in his pathway. His
self-dependence and self-will were the marked char-
acteristics of his youth, and as may well be supposed
rendered it difficult to control the youngster. Hence
from his self-sought associations he became, at the
early age29of fifteen, as much a cosmopolitan in tastes

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and habits as men at maturity generally reach. At
school he was studious and apt, always in advance
of his class, and at college it was the same.

Stilson Hutchins was a marked man in the Book

of Fate, he was to enter the great field of journal— '
"ism to sow and reap and garner.

At sixteen, his
spare hours were devoted to preparing acceptable
contributions to the leading periodicals of Boston.
At eighteen we find him publishing the A/'orz‘fi Iowcm
—a Democratic paper—at Osage, Iowa, and so suc-

cessful was his management of it, that the paper

became widely and favorably known, and the boy
editor soon secured the high esteem of his profes-
sional brethren. After two years, he yielded to
strong solicitations and took charge of the Demo-
cratic organ of the State of Iowa, the Slate journal,
published at Des Moines. But the War opened, and
with it came uppermost the bitterest feelings of par-
tisan hate. Mr. Hutchins could sell his property,
but not his principles. He did so, at considerable
pecuniary sacrifice. "Still his party in the State made
such demands for his services, that in 1862 he took
under his management the Dubuque Herald, and
under his lead it lost none of its prestige as‘ the old-
est and best Democratic paper in the State. In those
memorable days it required nerve to be a bold out-
spoken State Rights Democrat. But the creed
never found a more ardent supporter or more fear-
less champion than young Hutchins. He most hap-
pily struck the golden mean in political opinion
between loyalty to the National Government and to
his State; and his paper during those trying days
maintained the grand equipose between man’s liberty
and loyalty.

His arduous duties had impaired his health, and
in 186 5 he gave up the management of the Hérald,
selling the entire establishment for $40,000. E1nbark—
ing in unsuccessful enterprises, he soon found him-
self necessitated to look for an opening in his chosen
profession, and he paid a visit to St. Louis to look
out the chance for business. He determined to settle
there, and on the 22d day of June, 1866, in company
with John Hodnett, D. A. Mahoney, and with a
cash capital of $3,000, began the publication of the
St. Louis Daily Tz'mes—a Democratic paper. Where
these three gentlemen gathered encouragement with
such meagre finances, and in the cause of a proscribed
disfranchised party, has ever been, ever will be, a
wonder to the initiated few who know something of
running a daily political newspaper. But Stilson
Hutchins was young, industrious, energetic, practi-

L department of the office, were herculean.

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cal. For the first six months his labors, in every
The first
year was lived through, and the paper became a suc-
cess, recognized throughout the State and the whole
Mississippi Valley as a live, responsible news dissem-
inator. But the six laborious years had greatly im-
paired his health, and Mr. Hutchins sold his interest
to his partners for $130,000". The establishment, at
this time, was in a very prosperous condition, and
only for the reasons stated would he have removed
his interest. ' _

He was, however, permitted but a short rest.
Fierce attacks were made upon his public and pri-
vate character by an opposing St. Louis newspaper.
To place himself evenly upon the defensive, Mr.
Hutchins bought a controlling interest in the St.
Louis Evening Dispalc/7. He had in the meantime
studied and been admitted to practice law, but tem-
porarily resigning that profession, he devoted him-
self so assiduously to his new enterprise, that his
p_aper sprang at once from obscurity to the foremost
ranks of the Missouri Democratic journals.

Meantime the Tz'mes had lost caste to some
extent and become burdened with heavy debts. To
relieve its embarrassments, at the solicitation of its
proprietors—Messrs Mantz & Hodnett—on the 1st
of January, 1875, he assumed the management of
that establishment. For nearly a year he conducted
both papers, and ma.de each a success. Few are
aware of the crippling environments of the Times
establishment atthis later, darker period of its his-
tory, but Mr. Hutchins brought order out of the
confusion, reestablished its credit, and has made his
paper one of the leading, ruling journals of the Great
Mississippi Valley, in politics, in commerce, and in
the quick dissemination of reliable news.

As a journalist, Mr. Hutchins is not simply an
editor—although by his trenchant pen he has indeli-
bly carved his name high as a paragraphist or leader
writer (as the case may require),—but he is preemi-
nently a publisher, having executive abilities of a
very high order, as is evidenced in his successful

a conduct of his several offices, and the attachment of

his employés. Still in the prime and vigor of man-
hood, it is difficult to determine the possibilities
of this man. Were it not for the vast strides towards
perfection of the pressmen of this century—strides
with’ which this young man has kept even pace—we
might say he has reached his pinnacle. But men
fear now to limit" the possibilities of brain or the
achievements of determined will.

Claiming him as the model man of western jour—_
_ nalism, we have neglected to notice his political

record. Of course, such a man must have such a
record. And we might ‘briefly say, it hasbeen as
successful as the line in which we have delighted to
portray him. - ~ .

Stilson Hutchins has ever been, of the straitest
sect, a Democrat of the States Rights school, and
all his political editorials and speeches have been in
the advocacy of that economy. He has been an
unwearied worker and fearless soldier in the party——
often called to its defense and never called in vain.
In 1872 he was elected to the Missouri Legislature
from the sixth district of St. Louis. Many of the mem-
bers of that body, echoing voices all over the State,
made Mr. Hutchins their candidate for Speaker.
Unfortunately the United States Senatorial contest,
then going on, interfered to prevent his election to
that honorable position.
F. B. Blair demanded, as the sine qua 72972 of their
support, that the Speaker should wield the influence
of his high office to General Blair’s advantage.
Mr. Hutchins declined making such a bargain, the
result was, he was defeated for Speaker by two
votes. General Blair (who, it was supposed, had
hardly any serious opposition) was superseded by
Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, who, up to that time, had not
been considered a probable candidate, and who
entered the lists with but sixteen Votes. General
Blair lived to regret the hasty and intemperate action
of his friends, but always had the generosity to
acknowledge his defeat as a fair ‘blow in a fair
encounter.

In 1874 Mr. Hutchins was again elected by the
same constituency to the Legislature. Hiselection

was a peculiar victory. Rarely has there been a

_more heated contest, nor one where a legislative

district fight so deeply interested the entire State.
The'opposition to Mr. Hutchins began in his own
ranks, when his nomination was first demanded by
very many gentlemen of high standing and°influence.
And we are sorry to say this opposition assumed an
unusual violence and malignity. But Mr. Hutch-
ins defeated all the machinations against him and
received the nomination. And nowbegan as severe
if not a severer contest for the like successat the gen-
eral election. Besides his heavy editorial duties,
Mr. Hutchins——in answer to pressing invitations
from fifty counties and urged thereto by the Mis-
souri Democratic Executive Committee-—undertook
an‘ individual canvass of the entire State, thus entail-

The friends of General,

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_ ing upon himself the doubly arduous work of a des-

perate fight for himself at home and for his party
throughout the S_tate. But in the latter his home
contest became the contest of the whole Common-
wealth; everywhere a deep and thrilling interest
centered in his cause, and friendly words encouraged
him from every point. His enemies followed him
to the very heels of the election, stopping at nothing
to defeat him—or at least (and which was probably
the real object) to contest his election and have it
thrown before the House. There was a double
purpose in this: It might altogether defeat him; or,
failing in this, it would assuredly silence the myriads
of voices all over the State then calling for Stilson
Hutchins as the next Speaker. The electionwas so
manipulated that the vote was close enough for a
contest; it was carriedto the Legislature, and did
prevent the use of his name for Speaker. But Mr.
Hutchins was fully vindicated——first by the judiciary
Committee, next by the Committee on Elections,
and finally by the unanimous (save one) vote of the
House. His victory was recognized throughout
Missouri as the victory of the whole-party in the
State over its political foes and internal, envious
“ friends.” '

During this session Mr. Hutchins placed himself
securely on the list of Missouri’s statesmen, and his
brilliant record assured him future promotion by his
fellow-citizens. He soon became the leading spirit
in the momentous debates of that session, and by
his talents, energy and eloquence he led to success-
ful adoption of the present financial policy of the
State.

In 1876 he was elected as a member of the Mis-
souri State Democratic Convention at Jefferson City,
and by that body was elected a delegate-at-large to
the National Democratic Convention. in company
with Governor Hardin, ex-Governor Woodson and
Hon. H. J. Spannhorst. In the latter body he
favored the nomination of Mr. Tilden for the Presi-
dency’; and to a very great extent is due, through
his influence with his fellow-delegates, the casting
of‘ the vote of the State for that gentleman.

It has been said of Mr. Hutchins that his char-
acter is difficult of analysis; but we infer this diffi-
culty has arisen from attempting to weigh him in
the scales usually employed to analyze a legally
constituted mind. This Mr. Hutchins’ is not-if
by that term is meant one who at once dives to the
bottom of the constitutional depths of law and makes
application of_ its principle. Nor would we be mis-

understood on this point.
resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, and emi-
nent gentlemen, well qualified to judge, say he is
bound to succeed. He will; but it will be with the
same mental powers that have carried him. so far
elsewhere. His powers of assimilation will assist
him in drifting with the bench, while his sympathetic
eloquence, his rapid conception of a case, his tena-
cious defense of a point, and a quick apprehension
of thatwpoint, will secure him the jury.

Mr. Hutchins will bring into the practice of the
law the same qualities that have made him eminent
as a journalist and politician, viz: a thorough knowl-
edge of the subject, an aggressiveness in favor of
his client, and when he addresses a jury, “ a tongue
that would wheedle with the devil,” a pertinacity
that will not acknowledge defeat, ‘a mobile face that
can express any emotion he pleases, and withal that
szzaw'z‘er in modo that disarms even hisienemies. As
a post pramizkzl speaker he is exceedingly happy.
He is quick and brilliant at repartee, submitting to
any amount of interruptions and answering. each in
such manner that the questioner as well as the audi-
ence are satisfied, and generally manifest it by a
roar of laughter. With all this, there is no malice in
his wit on these occasions, however bitter he may
be when writing for his own journal. He has been
a fierce fighter as a journalist, but not vindictive,

and has never, even when most men would consider ,

it humiliating, hesitated, when convinced by facts,
to acknowledge that he was wrong, and does it in
manly words that force the esteem of his worst ene-
mies. ‘ '
Socially Mr. Hutchins, in the intervals of time
when he can escape from the railroad speed which
he devotes to business, is a most agreeable compan-
ion. He can hinge a laughable story on a text of
Scripture with all the unction of Daniel S. Dickin-
son. While he indulges in the pleasures of the table
with only moderate gusto, he is always its autocrat,
and gives a sauce to the viands that but few other
men can give. With all the reputation he has
achieved in Missouri as a public man, he is a
thorough democrat in his behavior, as friendly with the
least influential in the community, as with those who
hold in their hands the fate of conventions. If he
has a fault it is that he does not appreciate at their
propervalue the abilities and energies which Provi-
dence has given him. Were he to do so, he would
be the first man in the State of Missouri.
His wonderful power of concentration has made

Mr. Hutchins has lately I

226 THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIEY.

him a successful journalist, and it is the operation of
that faculty elsewhere that enables him to see the outer
circumference of a proposition while all within seems
to be confusion. He reads as he runs, and rarely
stumbles. In utilizing his powers, he may truthfully
be called a self—made man, but the Maker of men

formed him just what he is; warped into other chan-
nels he might have been a failure.

Stilson Hutchins, on the 18th day of October,
1858, married Miss T. E. Martin, of Halifax, Nova
Scotia. They have had three children: Walter,
aged seventeen 3 Lee, fifteen , Clara, twelve.

EDWIN W. STEPHENS.

COLUMBIA.

DWIN VV. STEPHENS was born in Columbia,
Missouri, January 21, 1849. He is the son of
James L. and Amelia Stephens. His paternal grand-
father, Elijah Stephens, came from Kentucky to
Missouri in the fall of 1819, and was a native of
North Carolina. His maternal grandfather, I. O.
Hockaday, was born in Kentucky, from which State
he emigrated to Missouri about the year 1823. He
settled in Callaway county, and was for many years
circuit and county clerk, and among its most prom-
inent and distinguished citizens.

Edwin W. Stephens was educated at the Mis-
souri University, where he graduated in 1867. In
July, 1868, he became assistant editor of the Colum-
bia (Missouri) Sta/esmam, and held that position
until April, 1870. At-that time he purchased an

interest in and became editor of the /fomze Coum’y
fozmzal, published at Columbia. In 1871 the name
of the paper was changed to that of Colzmzlmz
Ifemla’. In 1872 he purchased the remaining inter-
est, and has had full charge of the paper as editor
and publisher ever since. The paper, under Mr.
Stephens’ management, has attained a wide circula-
tion and extensive influence among the Democrats
of central Missouri. He has been an active assist-
ant in the party ranks, and holds a high position in
public esteem. .

In religion, Mr. Stephens is a Baptist, and for
the past seven years has been Secretary of the Mis-
souri Baptist General Association. At present,
(1878), he is one of the trustees of the ‘Stephens
Female College.

HON. HENRY C. WALLACE.

LEX1./VG TON.

ENRY C. WALLACE'was born, August 18,
H 1823, in Woodford county, Kentucky. He
is the son of Henry and Elizabeth Wallace, the latter
a daughter of George Carlyle, a soldier of the Revo-
lution, of Woodford county, Kentucky. He is a
descendant of the oldest and most honored families
of the “ Dark and Bloody Ground.” His ancestors
are traced back to Scotland, but in this country they
settled first in Virginia. His grandfather, Caleb
Wallace, was among the first settlers in that portion
of Virginia which was afterwards formed into the
State of Kentucky, and was a member of the Legis-

lature of the Old Dominion from Lincoln county
(now a part of Kentucky) in the year 1:783; and
also a member of four successive conventions at
Danville, preparatory to the separation of Kentucky
from Virginia, two in 1785, one in 1787 and one in
1788; also a member of the constitutional conven-
tion which formed the first constitution of Kentucky,
at Danville, in 1792, as well as a member of the
constitutional convention that framed the second
constitution of Kentucky,‘ at Frankfort, in 1797 ;
also a presidential elector from Kentucky, in 1797,
when John Adams was elected President, and was

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY. 227

' one of the first judges of the court of appeals of

Kentucky, appointed in 1792, soon after that State
was admitted into the Union, and served for twenty
years in that capacity with the most distinguished
jurists of Kentucky’s early history, residing suc-
cessively in Lincoln, Fayette and Woodford coun-
ties.

The father of _Henry C. Wallace, Captain Henry
Wallace, was born in Kentucky, in lVIa1‘Ch,(I792,
soon after the admission of the State, and is sup-
posed to have been the first white male child born in
the State after its admission into the Union He was
a soldier of the war with England in 1812, under
-General William H. Harrison, and served with that
officer in the North, then known as the Northwest-
ern Territory, against the hostile Indians who were
incited to deeds of violence by British emissaries.
He participated in the battle of Mississinway,
December 18, 1812. He was a farmer and a prom-
inent and influential citizen of Woodford county,
Kentucky, until he removed to Missouri and settled
in Lexington, in the spring of 1844, where, and in
the vicinity, he resided until his death in" 1875. He
was a man of high moral character and unspotted
integrity, a useful member of society and of the
Baptist church. He lived to the advanced age of
eighty-three years, honored and respected by his
fellow- citizens and revered by his numerous children
and grand-children. ,

Hon. Caleb B. Wallace, eldest brother of the sub-
ject of this sketch, was a member of the Senate of
Kentucky, in 1850-51, from Boyle county.

Henry C. Wallace enjoyed the advantages of
Sinking Spring Academy in his native county, and
was attending Center College, at Danville, Ken-
tucky, when his father emigrated to Missouri, but
was forced by impaired health, resulting from a long
and severe attack of typhoid fever, to leave college
in 1844. Though his health gradually improved after
removing to Missouri, it did not permit of his resum-
ing his collegiate course, and he continued to prose-
cute his studies during several years with such assist-
ance as he could then secure at Lexington. He then
taught school in that town for a year and a half,
when he commenced the study of law with F. C.
Sharp, Esq., his brother-in-law, afterward a promi-
nent lawyer of the St. Louis bar, recently deceased.
He was admitted to practice in 1849, and after‘prac-
ticing for eighteen months, with good success, he
attended the law school at Louisville, Kentucky,
and graduated in 1851. He then returned to Lex-

ington and has ever since been assiduously engaged
in the study and practice of the law.

Although often solicited by his fellow-citizens to
become a candidate for representative and senator
in the general assembly, and by the bar" to suffer his
name to be used as a candidate for judge of the
circuit court, he has always declined, preferring the
practice of his profession to the emoluments of office.
Besides holding the office of justice of the peace and
that of city attorney, each from 1849 to 1853, he
has never, till his election to the constitutional con-
vention which met in 187 5, held or desired to hold
official position. The large vote he received when
elected to the constitutional convention, in the three
counties composing the 17th Senatorial district-
Lafayette, Pettis and Saline—evince the estimation
in which he is held by his fellow-citizens. The
proceedings of that convention will best attest the
extent of his labors and the influence he exercised
in forming the organic law of the State.

In religion he is a Baptist and member of the
First Baptist church, Lexington. He is also a Mason
and a Knight Templar. Politically he was an old line
Whig, but since the dissolution of that party he has
affiliated with and is a warm supporter of the De1n—
ocratic party.

He was married, June 4, 1863, to Miss Lizzie
Sharp, sister of F. C. Sharp above mentioned, and
daughter of Absalom M. Sharp, of Christian county,
Kentucky. By her he has five children surviving,
three boys and two girls, the oldest being in his
twelfth year.

In stature Mr. Wallace is somewhat below the
medium height, but isof compact build and athletic
form. His face corresponds with his 15/’zysz'gue, and
indicates strength and earnestness of character. In
his social intercourse he is genial, polite and enter-
taining, and at all times affable and gentlemanly in
his demeanor. But whilst giving due attention to
the amenities of life and to his duties as an earnest
Christian, he may be said to have devoted himself
mainly to his profession. Selecting the law as his
working sphere early in life, he has devoted all his
energies and ignored all other aspirations to make
himself what he is to-day, a thorough master of legal
science in all its ramifications. The common law,
the statutes of Missouri, the history, progress and

growth of jurisprudence, as well as the higher and ‘

more abstruse principles of equity, are all completely
at his command, constituting him, what is readily
conceded to him by his associates, the leader of the

and agricultural wealth.

228 TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAZPY.

~ bar. As a practitioner he is cautious, vigilant and
indefatigable, contesting every point with unyielding ,

tenacity and employing his vast store of legal knowl-
edge in sustaining his positions and attacking those
of his adversary. In argument he is clear, forci-

ble, logical and convincing; his irreproachable per- _

sonal character and untarnished honor giving him
great weight with juries, and his known ability and
learning equally impressing the bench. In the
supreme court of Missouri, where he enjoys a large

practice, no one has achieved greater successes than

he, his years of study and faithful toil fitting him
preéminently for this branch of practice. His briefs
are models of logic, learning and research.

Mr. W allace’s devotion to his profession and his
native modesty have heretofore kept him mainly in
the private walks of life and caused him to shun
office rather than to court it 3 but we know he is
eminently fitted for the bench, which he would adorn
by his presence and dignify by his learning.

HON. THOMAS ALLEN, A. M., LL. D.

ST. LOUIS.‘

EW men have seen more of public life, and
F very few have been more useful. It cannot be
denied that, up to’ 1850, the apathetic condition of
Missouri was a reproach to the state and a wonder
to all who knew its promising resources of mineral
To the comprehensive
views, ‘broad and liberal policy, and moral courage
of Mr. ‘Allen, in a very great measure, St. Louis, as
well as the state and the .West, are indebted for their
many lines of railways and the consequent develop-
ment of such immense resources.

It is of these men of strongly marked characters
the world loves to read, men whose lives and actions
make biography so interesting and so useful. Such
lessons as their career affords cannot be kept too
much before the youth who are coming on to act in
the same great theater of business life.
gladof the opportunity of presenting the life of
Thomas Allen in our Missouri volume.

Thomas Allen was born August 29, 1813, at
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His father, Jonathan
Allen, was a ‘prominent citizen of Massachusetts,
was frequently a representative -or senator in the
legislature of that state, was also a quartermaster
for the United States army during the war of 1812,
afterwards an importer and breeder of fine-wool
sheep, and was postmaster at Pittsfield. He was
married twice—-thesecond time to Miss Eunice Wil-
liams Larned, daughter of Darius Larned, of Pitts-
field. Our subject was their_third child. The Allen

‘family is one of the oldest in Massachusetts, and

honorable records of them are found in church and
state back to the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.

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home farm, and having a courageous will, was not .

Through Elizabeth Lee, his grandmother, Mr. Allen S

is a descendant in the eighth generation, of William
Bradford, second Governor of Plymouth Colony.
After attending the village school of Pittsfield,
Thomas was sent to the Berkshire Gymnasium, in
the same town, to finish his preparatory studies
under the (afterwards) celebrated" naturalist, Profes-
sor_Chester Dewey. In 1829 he entered Union
College and graduated in 1832, delivering the fare-
well address for his class. The same year he began
the study of law in Albany, New York, but finan-
cial misfortunes in his father’s business prevented
him from completing the course as a student. His
father had suffered heavy pecuniary loss, and on
Thomas determining to try in New York city for an
opportunity to complete his law course, could only
give his son a blessing and twenty-five dollars in
But the boy had learned industry on the

afraid of his future. In October, 1832, he entered
the law office of Hatch & Cambreleng, in Wall
street, New York, as a clerk, employing his leisure
time in reading in the excellent library of his employ-
ers, securing money enough for his frugal expenses
by copying for lawyers.  
to the bar by the New York Supreme Court, having
a short time previously earned his nucleus for a law
library by employing odd hours as an assistant in
compiling a digest of the decisions of the ew York
courts. During his practice, he was engaged in
some of the most important suits of "the country;
but of late years has devoted his attention to public
enterprises.

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Mr. Allen has been a very extensive literary
man. In 1833 he was a newspaper writer; in 1834
was editor of the ‘Family Illagazzm, an illustrated
monthly, and continued upon it one year and six
months. About the same time he assisted in editing
a Digest of the Decisions of the New York Courts.
In 1835 he received the degree of Master of Arts
from Union College. The same year he was elected
an honorary member of the Phi—Beta—Kappa of New
York. In August, 1836, at the earnest solicitation
of leading political gentlemen, he began in Wash-
ington City the publication of The I1/adz's0m'cm, one
of the ablest of the old Democratic journals. April
II, 1840, his office with its entire material was
burned down, but the paper re-appeared on the 2nd
of the following month. He continued its publica-
tion until 1841. His’ literary efforts in behalf of
public enterprises arenclassed among the ablest in
the country.

Mr. Allen moved to St. Louis in the spring of
1842. He opened a law office, but devoted his
attention almost exclusively to public enterprises,
and has so continued. In 1844 he was made Presi-

‘ dent of the St. Louis Horticultural Society.

Recognizing the great commercial ‘necessity of
the West to be a system of railroads, in 1848 he
earnestly began agitating the subject. In 1848 a
public meeting of the citizens called on him for an
address to the voters, favoring a subscription to the
St. Louis 82: Cincinnati Railroad.

The first organized national movement for a rail-
road to the Pacific was made in St. Louis in 1849.
In June of that year, at the request of the railroad
meeting composed of citizens of St. Louis, Mr.
Allen issued a call to the people of the United States
for a national railroad convention. The immense
advantages which have accrued to the Mississippi
Valley, and indeed to the entire nation, from this
gigantic enterprise were clearly foreseen and fore-
told by Mr. Allen, as the following extract from his
call testifies : ' I

“Let us recount briefly the consequences of
erecting this road. *  >l< * Were it
completed, the first car that should rumble over the
Stony Mountains in its fiery course across the Conti-
nent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, would send
a new sensation through the world. “Britannia,
Empress of the Sea,” basing much of her pretensions
upon her great marine employed in the India trade,
would feel that the foundations of that supremacy
were about to crumble, while from the Icy Cape to

the far islands of the South Pacific, and along the
eastern shores of Asia. and Australasia, and through-

out all the terra firma of the Pacific Seas, would be
awakened a new spirit, ideas» of a new destiny, and
feelings of a new attraction. The eyes of those
nations would be drawn to the new lights which will
illuminate the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, nor would
their gaze be turned until their regenerated merchant
vessels, moored in Americanharbors, should have
exchanged their costly burdens for the substantial
products of the United States. Attracted to the
great western station of the Continental Road, as

. steel to the magnet, a freight would roll down upon

the states of the Union, such as the India ‘Compa-
nies never saw, embracing the furs of the north, the
drugs and spices of the south, the teas, silks and
crapes of China, the cashmeres of Thibet, the dia-
monds of India and Borneo, the various products of

the Japan Islands, Manchooria, Australasia, and’

Polynesia, the results of the whale fishery, the gold,
silver, quicksilver, jewels and precious. stones of
California, and the innumerable and unimaginable
elements of commerce which would be brought into
life from the depths of the sea, and from_new and
unexplored regions, by the enterprise and ingenuity
of our countrymen. These elements would be dis-
tributed throughout the Union, giving a new impulse
to population, to trade, to industry, to art, and to all
the employments of our people. Our surplus meat
and bread, cotton goods, hemp and cordage, lard,
leather and hardware, and other products, would
find a new, a large and increasing market in return;
while the Bible, the printing press, _the ballot-box
and the steam engine would receive a welcome pas-
sage into vast and unregenerated fields, where their
magic powers and blessed influences are greatly
needed.”

At the railroad meeting in February, 1849, he
drafted and reported the resolutions in behalf of this
project, which paper was afterward approved by the
Legislature of Missouri. The national railroad con-
vention was held in St. Louis in the October follow-
ing, and appointed Mr. Allen to prepare an address
to the people of the United States and a memorial
to Congress in behalf of the enterprise. The char-
ter was granted, and he realized his wish in the
beginning of work on the Pacific Railroad on july
4, I851. ' ' »

In 1850 he was chairman of the committee on
internal improvements in the Missouri Senate, and
through his instrumentality a state loan of $2,000,000
was secured to the road. In 1852 he prepared and
submitted a plan, afterwards acted upon, securing
loans of state credit to the following railroad enter-
prises: to the orginal Pacific, $3,000,000 and 1,250,-
ooo acres of the United States government land
grant; to the Southwestern branch, $r,o:o,oco, to
the Iron Mountain, $750,000, to the Hannibal &
St. Joseph, $1,500,000 and 6oo,ooo acres of the

230 TIYE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY.

government land grant, to the North Missouri,
$2,ooo,ooo. Thus did this “ De Witt Clinton of the
New West” secure the success of these enterprises
which have brought new life to the state and peopled
and enriched the West. I -

In 1851 Mr. Allen was elected president of the
Pacific Railroad Company, and served four years.
In 18 57 he was elected president of the Terre Haute,

Alton & St. Louis Railroad Company, but declined

serving more than one year.
In 1867 the Iron Mountain Railroad was surren-

dered to the state for its indebtedness, and Mr.
Allen became its purchaser. He found only eighty-

-six miles completed, but in 1869 he completed it to

Belmont, one hundred and twenty miles more. In
1872 he finished the branch from Pilot Knob to
Arkansas; the same year he formed a company and
purchased the Cairo & Fulton Railroad, and by 1873
completed that road to Texarkana, Arkansas, a dis-
tance of four hundred and ninety miles from St.
Louis. '

He was president of the St. Louis & Iron Moun-
tain, the Cairo, Arkansas & Texas and the Cairo &
Fulton Railroad companies, which were consolidated
in May, 1874, as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railroad. He projected, organized and
built one hundred miles of railroad per annum for
six years, by his own efforts and without a dollar of
state or municipal aid. In’ 1872 he was elected
president of the Railway Association of America,
and served three years.
been president of the Pilot‘Knob Iron Company.
It is no misnomer to call Thomas Allen the “ Clinton
of the West,” though he has accomplished more than
Clinton ever did.

It appears impossible that in so busy a life, time
could be afforded to other enterprises. But in 18 58
he established and furnished the money for the bank-
ing house of Allen, Copp & Nisbet, of St. Louis,
he negotiated successfully the sale of $900,000 Mis-
souri guaranteed bonds for the benefit of the South-
west branch of the Pacific Railroad, in 1866 he
prepared a plan for the payment of the national
debt, which is spoken of as a very able financial
paper, he assisted in organizing the National Board

of Trade at Philadelphia and Cincinnati——of which

body he was a member, he has an extensive cattle
and sheep farm in his native county ; is president of
two literary societies and a member of several others,
as also of agricultural and other useful societies.
He is also president of the University Club of St.

For several years he has

Louis," having lately been elected for his seventh
term; he is president of the Berkshire Athenaeum,
of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which he founded in
1871, he is an honorary member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, also of the Massa-
chusetts State Horticultural Society, of the American
Geographical Society of New York, of the Historical
Society of Wisconsin and of the Mercantile Library
Association of St. Louis. He is vice-president of
the American Emigration Society and a director of
the Western Railroad Association. He received the
degree of Doctor of Laws from Union College,
New York.

Of course, Mr. Allen has acquired wealth in his
life of labor. But he has put it to practical use.
In 1871 he endowed a professorship in Washington
University, St. Louis, known» as the Allen Professor-
ship of Mining and Metallurgy; he established a
Free Library in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and built
for it a house costing $5o,ooo. His private chari-
ties are never published, but his warm heart was
never turned against suffering. necessity—his only
demand being to know the case is a meritorious one.
Appointed to represent Missouri at the Centennial
Exposition, he erected a building in the grounds for
the use of the people of Missouri, at his own
expense, and delivered there and printed and circu-
lated, by the same means, thousands of copiesof his
address upon the history and resources of the
State.

In politics Mr. Allen claims always to have been
a Democrat, as was his father and grandfather.
Elected by the Whigs and Independents for special
purposes, he served in the Missouri Senate four
years from 1850. He declined the offered re-nomi-
nation. He was the candidate for Congress of the
unconditional Union party of the 2nd Missouri Dis-
trict, but was defeated by a sort of short—lived Fre-
mont furor which falsified his views and led to gross
perversion of the ballot by the military. At the
breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Allen had taken
strong grounds for the preservation of the Union at
all hazards. He has never been an active politician
in Missouri, but has ever watched with deep solici-
tude, and furthered by all the strength of his mind,
all legislation tending to advance public improve-
ments, especially transportation facilities and indus-
trial and commercial development.

In 1842 Thomas. Allen married Miss Ann C.
Russell, daughter of William Russell, Esq., of St.

Louis. They have had born to them nine children,

THE U./VZTED STATES BZOGZBAPTIICAZ, ZJZCTIO./VA./BY. 231

seven of whom are living, namely: Elizabeth Lar-
ned, William Russell, Thomas, jr., George Wash-
ington, Bradford, Annie Lee and Alice Maud.

Twice has he made a trip to Europe: in I865,
taking with him his eldest son and daughter, and in
1874, in company with his youngest son. Each
trip was with the double view of pleasure and busi-
ness—-—and few men needed recreation more.

We have never read nor written a life fuller of
business duties and industrious engagements than
this. Not many heads could have managed the
multitudinous and varied interests with which he has
been connected 3 not many constitutions could have
borne the physical and mental labors he has under-
gone. His executive ability must be beyond esti-
mation , in some years he was chief executive officer,
manager and owner of various enterprises at once,

with thousands of men in his employ. His success
has been wonderful, and no less wonderful his con-
tinuous robust health.

Thomas Allen is known over both continents,
and in each has many friends and few ene1nies—
fewer enemies than perhaps any other man of his
decided mental nature, strong will and public worth,
but even these cannot say aught against his honor.
Strictly moral, just and upright, he is as excellent in
his private character as he has been useful in his
public achievements. His family love him, his
friends confide in him, the nation admires him—a
triple monument of which any man might be justly
proud. There is not a man in Missouri, if in the
I/Vest, who has done so much toadvance the inter-
ests of his State and the Great West as Hon. Thomas
Allen, of St. Louis.

THOMAS BATES WALLACE.

LEXI./VG T 0./V.

HOMAS BATES WALLACE was born March
T 31, 1813, near Richmond, Kentucky. He is
the son of John Wallace and Elizabeth Walker. His
father was a native of Albemarle county, Virginia,
born February 17, 1783, his grandfather, Josiah
Wallace, was born in the same county, in 1739 ; his
great grandfather was born in the same county, in
1700. The father of the latter was from Scotland.
Elizabeth Walker was born in Buckingham county,
Virginia, in 1784. Her father, Asaph Walker, was
born in the same county, in 1735, her grandfather
was born in the same county, in 1695.‘ The father
of the -latter was from England. The mother of
Elizabeth Walker was Judith Watkins, born in 1738 5
her grandmother was a Dupuy, and a descendant of
the Huguenots. ‘

Thomas B. Wallace came with his parents to
Missouri in 1819, and his father settled in Lafayette
county, five miles southeast of where Lexington
now stands, when Missouri was only a territory.
The educational advantages of young Wallace were
such as might be expected in Missouri at that
early day—crude" teachers, rude school houses and
wretched equipments. He remained on the farm

with his father until seventeen years of age, when he
30 -

began to learn the trade of joiner and carpenter.
This avocation he followed -five years. During that
time he built the first house erected in Clinton, Henry
county, Missouri, and in 1836, in company with his
brother, B. F. Wallace, there began the mercantile
business, which he successfully prosecuted for twelve
years. In 1848 the firm moved to Lexington and
continued the business of general merchandising.
They continued in partnership until 1856, when he
purchased the interest of B. F. Wallace, and con-
tinued to sell goods till November, 1860, when he
disposed of his stock. In 1861, soon after the war
began, during the battle of Lexington, he lost prop-
erty to the value of $50,000, consisting of buildings,
goods, notes and other effects. In 1862 he was
appointed United States Marshal for the Western

District of Missouri, an office which he held for three

years. In June, 1865, he opened a house in St.
Louis for the transaction of a general commission
business, but in July, 1866, having been appointed

by President Johnson Marshal of the Western Dis- J

trict of Missouri, he returned to Lexington and’dis-
charged the duties of his office until 1869. Since 1871
he has been engaged in the insurance business.

In 1861, at the battle of Lexington, Colonel Mul-

Virginia.

232

ligan, commanding the Federal forces, ordered the
house of Mr. Wallace burned, as a military necessity.
By this destruction he lost nearly all his effects. In
1872 Congress passed an act to reimburse him for
his loss, but on some account, it met the ‘disappro-
bation of President’ Grant, and the bill was vetoed.
During his residence in Henry county, he was dep-
uty county clerk for two years and _ county treasurer
for eight years. . He is a licensed lawyer and author-
ized to practice in any court of Missouri.

Mr. VVallace has been twice married. His first
wife was Miss Rose Ann_Elliott, a-native of Howard
county, Missouri, born January 4, I82 5, and daugh-
ter of John Elliott, a native of Virginia. The mother

"of Miss Elliott was Mary Glasgow, of Virginia.

Mr. Elliott and she were married in 1809, in Madi-
son county, Kentucky, and soon after emigrated to
Missouri, locating near Old Franklin, nearly oppo-
site the present site of Boonville, on the Missouri
river. By this marriage with Miss Elliott, Mr. Wal-
lace had five children, three of whom died in
infancy. John Wallace was drowned in the Missouri
river at thirteen years of age, and William, the other

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THE UA/'[TEiD STATES _B[0G]\)APH[CAL 1)[C.7Y0]VA]L’Y.

son, died at the age of twenty-two. Their mother
died February 25, 1853.

His second marriage was with Mrs. Lucy B.
Gaines, formerly Miss Briscoe, born November 14,
1825, a daughter of James Briscoe.

born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1770. Her

, grandfather, Ralph Briscoe, was born in the same

county about 1758. The family were originally from
France. Her mother was Mary Bruner, born in
Frederick county, Maryland, in 1781. Her grand-
mother was Susan Delaughter, born in the same
county about 1756. Thomas B. Williams and Mrs.
Lucy B. Gaines were married March 28, 1854. By
this marriage there were three children: Nettie Bris-
coe, born October 17, 1855, Thomas Bates, born
November 25, 1858; Hugh Campbell, born February
I0, 1863. In religious belief, Mr. Wallace is a
Cumberland Presbyterian. Mrs. VVallace is a 1nem—
ber of the Christian Church. Politically, he held to
the doctrines of the Whig party, and voted with that
party while it existed. Since its demise, he has
acted with the Democrats, but has always been a

. liberal and conservative man.

JUDGE WILLIAM ’T. WOOD.

ZLEXZ./VG T0./V.

ILLIAM T. WOOD was born on the farm

 IV of his father at Gordon Station, Mercer
county, Kentucky, March 25, 1809. He is the son
of William Wood and Sallie Thomas, the former a
native of Albemarle, the latter of Culpepper county,

from two brothers who, early in the-history of Amer-
ican‘ settlement, emigrated from England and located
in Albemarle county. No member of the original
English family survives, the last having died about
forty years since, leaving an estate estimated at from
twelve to twenty millions of pounds sterling. No
part of this vast sum was realized by any of the
American family, owing to the mismanagementand
blunders of the agents employed. Sallie Thomas
was also of an English family. They emigrated to
Kentucky at an early day. I
William T. Wood was licensed as a lawyer in
December, 1828, at nineteen years of age, and about
the first of January, 1829, left Kentucky on horse-

William Wood’s family was descended_

back for Missouri, reaching the home of his brother,
General Jesse T. Wood, in Columbia, Boone county,
on the fifteenth of the same month, after a fatiguing
journey. Here he remained until the month of July,
when he made a business trip to Liberty, Clay county,
arriving there on the 29th. Clay‘ county was then

_ on the western border of the -State, had an important

trade and was at that time a good business point.
Here he determined to locate. i

In 1830, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. Wood
was appointed clerk of the county court_ of Clay. The
duties of his office were not incompatible with the
practice of his profession, and it was to follow this
occupation that he had come to Missouri. After

~ holding the office four or five years, he resigned, but

was soon appointed, by Governor Lilburn W. Boggs,
circuit attorney of that judicial district. This office
he filled with great acceptability for several years.
In 1837 the “ Platte Purchase ” was annexed to the
State of Missouri by act of Congress. The act of

Her father was '

T}/{E U./VZTED STATES-B[0G]i’.4.P[:/[CAL DZCTIO./VA[€Y. 233

the annexation of this territory was passed on the
petition of the people of Clay county. At the meet-
ing of the citizens, General D. R. Atchison, Colonel
A. W. Doniphan, Peter H. Burnett and William T.
Wood were appointed a committee to draft a petition
to Congress. Mr. Wood was afterward elected by
the committee to prepare the document, which he
did.

This territory was afterward divided by the Leg-
islature of Missouri, and of it the counties of
Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway and
Platte were constituted. This country is noted for
its wonderful fertility, and was a valuable acquisition
to Missouri. But as emigration began to seek it and
settle on its productive lands, as towns and trading
posts were established, Liberty lost much of its for-

' mer trade and became of less importance as a busi-

ness point.

Mr. Wood still continued to reside there, practic-
ing in the courts of all adjacent counties until 184 5,
when he moved to Lexington, Missouri, where he
lived until 1856. A few years previous to his removal
from Clay county, he, Colonel Doniphan and Major
Dougherty, were elected to the legislature, gaining
the first V\7hig victory, and beating General Atchison,
Colonel Thornton and Captain Wallace, the Demo-
cratic nominees. Such was Mr. Wood’s popularity,
that he stood first on the list of candidates.

After locating at Lexington, he continued the
practice of the law, retaining most of his old clients
and gaining many new ones. His practice and pop-
ularity increased as the yearsprogressed, and he was
everywhere regarded as a sterling citizen, able law-
yer and honest man. In 1854 he was elected judge
of the circuit court. In this position he displayed
eminent wisdom, prudence and legal ability. His

decisions were clear and forcible, based upon the

highest principles of law and equity. In 1856 he
resigned his position as judge and removed to St.
Louis and reéntered the practice. Here, as else-
where, he maintained his high character at the bar.
In 1861 there were two tickets in the field for dele-
gates to the State Convention. judge Wood came
within a few votes of being placed on both tickets.
The vote as between the two tickets was close, but
the ticket on which his name was placed was unsuc-
cessful; ‘he was, however, of those who received
the highest vote on the defeated ticket.

In the early part of january, 1861, just preced-

_ing the commencement of the civil war, there was

in St. Louis fearful excitement, seriously threatening

the peace of the city and producing general appre-
hension and alarm. Many citizens carried arms,
and there was danger of a general street fight which
was liable to commence any hour. Opinionsmwere
not fixed and purposes were not settled. It was
felt that to preserve peace some public action was
necessary, and yet there was good ground to fear

that a public meeting would be attended with dan- '

ger. The occasion demanded prudence and wisdom.
The measure adopted was the appointment of a
committee to prepare action for a general and public
meeting. judge Wood was selected as one of this
committee, and rendered efficient help in its delicate
and difficult labors. The committee having suc-
ceeded in agreeing on a preamble and resolutions,
called the meeting for the 12th of january, in front
of the court house. Nearly. the whole male popula-
tion of the city was out on that day——thousands
armed with pistols under the highest excitement and
ready for emergencies. The result was most.fortu-
nate; the preamble and resolutions ‘reported by the
committee were adopted with acclamation, and the
vast crowd retired in peace.

In 186 5 he determined to return to Lexington.
He immediately took his old position, standing fore-
most in his profession. He has twice since his return
been elected judge of the sixth judicial circuit, and
at this time (1878), holds that position.

judge Wood has been three times married. His
first wife was Miss Eliza Ann Hughes, by whom he
had one son, General Carrol H. Wood, Adjutant-
General of Arkansas under Governor Garland. His
second wife was Miss Maria H. Payne, who bore
him two sons—Payne Wood, now residing in Iowa,
and T. C. ,Wood, of the law firm of Graves &
Wood, Lexington, Missouri. His third wife was

, Miss Mary E. Broadwell. The issue of this marriage

was a son M. L. Wood, an Ensign in the United
States navy, now detached for service on torpedoes
at Newport, Rhode Island, and Miss Maria Wood,
at present residing with her aunt, Mrs. Laws, wife
of Rev. Dr. Laws, President of the Missouri Uni-
versity at Columbia, Missouri.

judge Wood is in politics a Democrat, is Master
of a Grange, a Royal Arch Mason, and has been for
many years in the Old School Presbyterian church.
When -the civil warcommenced, and during the
continuance of that war, he was a member of Pine
street church, St. Louis, holding the position of an
elder in that church. _ No church perhapsin the
whole country had such trials to encounter as had

234 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

the Pine street church. Its minister was by the
military expelled from his pulpit and banished from
the State, and its church put in charge of a coin-
mittee—a fragment of the Presbytery, claiming to
be the Presbytery, joined the military in its perse-
cutions. The church, in the interests of religious
liberty and the rights of the church, had to contend
with the military and church courts combined.

Judge Wood was, -during the whole contest, stead-
fast _for the right. He attended the general assem-
blies of the church at Peoria, in 1863, and" at
Newark, in 1864, and openly and fearlessly before

the whole country asserted the rights of the minis-J

ter and the church, and exposed and denounced
the wrongs and persecutions under which they suf-
fered.

FRANKLIN COOLEY, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

RANKLIN COOLEY was born in Howard
F county, Missouri, in July, 1823, and was the
youngest but one of seven children. His parents
were Joseph and Keziah (Casey) Cooley. His
maternal ancestors were natives of South Carolina,
but many of them moved to Illinois, where two of
them, cousins of his mother, were Methodist minis-

ters, one of them, Zadoc Casey, being at one time a.

representative in Congress from Illinois. His grand-
father Casey served in the Revolutionary war.
Joseph Cooley removed with his family from
South Carolina to Christian county, Kentucky, and
from thence to Howard county, Missouri, where
they settled, contending against the hardships inci-
dent to western life and fighting the Indians who
were then very troublesome and numerous in that
part of the country. Shortly after Franklin was
born his parents removed from Howard to Clay
county, Missouri, and when only three years of age
his father died, leaving his large family in straitened
He was early thrown upon his own
received was

circumstances.
resources, and the education he
obtained by alternately working and going to school.
He continued to struggle on in this arduous manner
until about eighteen years of age, when a maternal
uncle took him into the dry goods business, where
he remained for several years, studying during leisure
hours and taking instruction in the higher branches
under private preceptors. While thus engaged he
lost his mother, and was left to fight the battle of
life without the sympathy and comfort he so much
needed.

In 1844 he commenced the study of medicine I

under the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph M. Wood,
then of Liberty and now of Kansas City, Missouri,

going at once into the dissecting room, studying

and dissecting day and night. Here he remained
until the fall of 1846, when he entered the Louisville
(Kentucky) University. In the summer of 1847 he
was appointed by the faculty assistant demonstrator
over a class of four hundred and fifty students. He
graduated in March, 1848, and was highly co1npli-
mented by the faculty for the able manner in which
he had discharged his duties. He began the prac-
tice of his profession in Lexington, Missouri, with
his father-in-law, Dr. Chinn, and continued with
him until I85r, when he was appointed assistant
demonstrator of anatomy in his A/ma ./lfcz/er. While
acting as demonstrator he also attended a course of
lectu_res. At the close of the session he returned
to Lexington and resumed his practice, securing
at once a large and remunerative business, mainly
surgical, pursuing at the same time with unremitting
energy the study and practice of surgery, which has
always been his favorite branch, and performing
nearly all the important surgical operations in that
section of country.

In 1860 he went to Europe to prosecute his

, studies, visiting Edinburgh, London and Paris, and

becoming personally acquainted with the most cele-
brated medical men of the day, learning all he could
from them and profiting by their experience. After
a year spent thus he returned home and resumed

his practice, finding many important surgical cases '

awaiting him.

On the breaking out of the war he was appointed
surgeon of the Ioth Regiment Missouri Volunteers,
under Colonel White, serving in that capacity until
after the long siege at Lexington, Missouri, in the
fall of 1861, when the crippled regiment was consol-

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idated with other commands. I111)’ 14; 1852; h€
was appointed posesurgeon. by Colonel. John D.
Stevenson, who was commanding the United States
fnrees at Lexington, and subsequently. appointed
examining surgeon of the M1SSOL1r1- Militia Volun-
teerS_ Early in 1863 he was appointed and com-
missioned by President Lincoln surgeon of the 6th
Congressional District of Missouri, under the enroll-
ment aec, and served in that capacity until the close

of the war.

In 1863 he was elected by the Legislature of '

Missouri curator of the State University, and com-
missioned by Governor Gamble for two years In
January, 1865, he was commissioned by Governor
Fletcher brigadier-general of Missouri Militia Vol-
unteers. In 1866, and again in 1867, he was
commissioned by Governor Fletcher supervisor of
registration,’ and also in 1866, by Surgeon-General
Richardson, enrolling surgeon for the Missouri militia.

After the war he returned to Lexington, but
removed to Kansas City, now the Metropolis of the
West, in the winter of 1867, where he at once
entered into a large practice. In 1869 he was
appointed United States pension surgeon, a position
he still holds, so that he has almost constantly held
public offices since the outbreak of the war.

He was the originator of the medical school in
Kansas City, and for three years held the chair of
surgery. Imitating the example of some of the
most eminent European surgeons, where the custom
is quite prevalent and sanctioned by the profession,
in 1874 he established a private hospital for the
reception of patients from a distance, where special
attention is given to the treatment of deformities
and the surgical diseases of women.

Dr. Cooley has been a member of the Odd Fel-
lows society for many years. In 1859, when acting
as a representative to the Grand Lodge, he was

elected Grand Marshal and immediately after com-
missioned District Deputy Grand Master for District

No. 7. His parents were Baptists, but he is a mem-
ber of the Christian church. In politics he is a
Republican. I

On the 16th of May, 1848, he was married to
Miss Ellen P. Chinn, daughter of Dr. Joseph G.
Chinn, of Lexington, Missouri, now of Lexington,
Kentucky, his native State. Her mother was one
of the celebrated G_I;2LV,es family of Kentucky; They
had three children, two daughters and one son.
The eldest daughter is married to Dr. J. F. Wil-
liams, now of Winfield, Kansas. Mrs. Cooley died
in January, 1863. In August, 1864, Dr. Cooley
married Mary F. Wernwag, daughter of Judge
Thomas D. Wernwag, formerly of Kentucky. His
wife’s family, on her mother’s side, are descended
from the Custis and Williams families of Virginia
To them has been born one daughter, now ten
years of age.

Dr. Cooley is tall and dignified in appearance,
somewhat reserved, but courteous and gentlemanly
in manners. He is a renowned surgeon, and has
performed successfully’ many of the most important
operations known in that profession. His clearness
of perception, accuracy of diagnosis and boldness
of operation have won for him many admirers. In
1869 he removed the entire clavicle for a malignant
growth, and the patient is to-day in good health and
able to perform the arduous duties of his calling.
This was the first time the operation was performed
in the state and the seventh on record in the United
States. He has also performed many difficult and
important operations in ovariotomy, which entitle
him to rank among our best surgeons. In his social
relations he is very pleasant and agreeable, an enter-
taining companion, a warm friend and always ready
to aid in every good project.

WILLIAM MADISON WALKER.

MARSHALL.

‘ N IILLIAM MADISON WALKER is the son

of Samuel Walker and Agnes Bradford, and
was born October 22, 1833, in Smith county, Ten-
nessee. His father was born in North Carolinain
1798. His grandfather, Edward Walker, was a

native of Virginia, born about 1745, was an orderly
sergeant during the war of the Revolution, was in
Greene’s command at the battle of the Cowpens,
and of English descent. Samuel Walker emigrated
when a young man to Tennessee with his father.

236 . THE"UN[TED STATES BIOGRAPIJICAL DZCTIO./VA/€Y.

Agnes Bradford, the mother of William, was a
daughter of Booker Bradford, and was born in Ten-
nessee September 6, 1793. Her father was born
about 1750, in Virginia, was a soldier of the Revo-
lution, and of English stock. By the marriage of
Samuel Walker and "Miss Bradford there were born
nine children, one of whom died in infancy, and
eight grew to manhood and womanhood. Samuel

S Walker and ‘wife emigrated to Moniteau county,

Missouri, in 1836, where they died, he, June 16,
1865, and she, Octoberrr, 1857.

William Walker, the subject of this sketch, came
to Missouri with his father when but three years old,
and was reared in Moniteau county on a farm. I-n
December 20, 185 5, at the age of twenty-two, he
was married to .Miss May Isabel Garret, daughter of
Colonel Laban Garret, of Saline county, Missouri.
Her father was a native of Virginia, born July 28,
1797, and his father, Abel Garret, was a Revolution-
ary soldier, and of Scotch origin.
born in Saline county, Missouri, February 5,1834.

In 1859 Mr. Walker removed to a farm in Mon-

Mrs. Walker was ‘

iteau county, where he lived for sixyears. In 1865
he moved with his family to Saline county, to con-
tinue farming. Here he rented land for four years,
and then moved to the vicinity of Orearville, Mar-
shall township. By economy and frugality, his estate
steadily .increased, and his influence in the commu-
nity extended. He was elected county collector in
1876, and removed to Marshall, the county seat, in
1877, where he now resides. He is a member of
the Royal Arch Chapter of Free Masons, of the

Patrons of Husbandry and of the Baptist Church._

Before removing to Saline he was a district collector
of Moniteau county.‘

Mr. and Mrs. Walker have seven children living,
viz: Narcissa, born November 1, 1857, Mary Helen,
born February 16,1861, Samuel Lee, born August
19, 1862, William Madison, born September 26,
1866; Viola Belle, born April 16, 1869; Thomas
Booker, born August 15, I870, Nannie S., born
February 22, 1873. Mrs. VValkeriand her two elder
daughters are, with the husband and father, mem-
bers of the Baptist Church. I

REV. HENRY TALBIRD, D. D.

LEXI./VG T0./V.

_ l IIENRY TALBIRD was born, November 7,

1811, on Hilton Head Island, Beaufort, South
Carolina. He is the son of Henry Talbird and
Sarah Blakewood. His family were among the
earliest settlers and most prominent citizens of South
Carolina. His grandfather, John Talbird, was an
officer in the war of the Revolution.

Henry Talbird was educated at Madison Univer-
sity, New York, and his studies embraced a full
collegiate and theological course.‘ After graduating
in the theological department, in 1841, he removed
to the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where for one
year he performed the duties of a pastor. He then
removed to the city of Montgomery, in the same
state, where he remained ‘nine years. In these two
pastorates, his ministrations were greatly blessed,
the churches were built up in faith and zeal and
strengthened in numbers, and he obtained a deep
hold on the affections of the people among whom he
labored. Whilst residing in Montgomery, he was
elected to the professorship of ‘theology in Howard

College, Marion, Alabama, and entered upon the
duties of his -profession January, 1852. He was zeal-
ous and earnest in his work, and desired only that he
might know the will of Him whose cause he .had
espoused. The duties before him were arduous and
involved the gravest responsibilities, but going forth
in the name and by the authority of the Eternal, the
Supreme,‘ the Absolute, he was J‘.-fiengthened in the
belief that ‘he could exercise a m  healthful influ-
ence on society by accepting than by rejecting the
proffered chair. He therefore assumed the duties
of the professorship, and the success which attended
his labors proved the sagacity and penetration of the
trustees who invited him to accept the place. At the
close of the first year he was elected president of the
college, and maintained that relation until the com-
mencement of the civil war, in 1861, when the

.excited passions of the people caused them to aban-

don all educational enterprises,and the school became
practically empty. During his administration, How-
ard College was prosperous as it never had been

TEIE UNITED ST/1TiES BIOGIBAP./YZCAZ. DICTZO./V/l1r’Y. 237

before. Not only was the number of students largely
increased,ibut the members of the Baptist denomi-
nation throughout the state were aroused and came
readily and promptly to its_ assistance. So that in
less that six years the endowment fund was increased
from $45,000 to $125,000, besides adding to its
possessions property to the value of $79,000. At
the opening of the war, it was one of the most flour-
ishing institutions of the South. In 1854 the honor-
ary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on
him by the University of Alabama.

_ Dr. Talbird is, by birth and education, a South-
erner, embracing that peculiar political doctrine of
State Rights which has, of late years, come to be
almost universally conceded He believed that the

demands of the South were just and reasonable, and

when its institutions were about to be overthrown,
true to his principles and .his manhood, he was will-
ing to repel force by force. Among no denomina-
tion of Christians is the practice of democracy more
universal than in the government and discipline of
the Baptist church. Each separate organization is
a republic in miniature, and the members become
thoroughly imbued with the great principle of dem-
ocratic rule. While sustaining a position of quasi

inferiority to the state and general associations each .

church contains within itself the lower and higher
courts that determine the law and administer the
government. It is not strange, therefore, that Dr.
Talbird "embraced the cause of the Confederate
States and lent all his influence and energies to con-
vert its battle into a victory. In I86r_he entered
the Confederate army, with the rank of captain, in
the 11th Alabama regiment. For his courage and
intrepidity, he was promoted to the rank of colonel,
and organized the 41st Alabama regiment. While
in the army_he was engaged in a number of battles
and skirmishes, and enjoyed the confidence of both
officers and men. His military career, though not
brilliant, was verylcreditable. At the close of two
years’ service he was compelled, in September,
1863, to resign his commission on account of ill
health. At the close of the war, his health being
unrestored, he accepted a country pastorate, Where
the labor would not be so great as the charges he
had before. He spent two and a half years in Car-
lowville, making an able, faithful and successful
minister and pastor. During his ministerial life in
Alabama he filled every official position in the gift
of the Baptist church. .

He was now to operate in a different field.

-ington, Missouri.

Having received a call to Henderson, Kentucky, he
determined to accept it. The field was an inviting
one for a clergyman of ability and learning, and he
did not feel at liberty to decline the labor. His
ministry here was, as it had elsewhere been, marked
by that deep devotion to the interests of Christianity
and the spread of religion that endears the pastor to
his people and gives him so much influence over
those who make no profession of religious sentiment.
In the three and a half years he spent in Henderson
he did much to elevate the standard of religious
excellence and won from all classes of society respect
and esteem.

In April, 1872, he was invited to assume the
position of pastor in the First Baptist Church of Lex-
Nearly six years have elapsed
(March, 1868), since he took charge of the church,
and the affectionate regard of those to whom he dis-
penses the truth, is the best evidence that his labors
have not been in vain. He ispossessed of much of
that personal magnetism that attracts men to him and
makes him the center of their affections.‘ Dr. Tal-
bird is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also
of the order of Odd Fellows. He has taken all the
degrees of Masonry conferred in this country. He
has traveled extensively in the United States, visit-
ing most of the northern and Western states, but has
never gone abroad.

His early training was under Episcopalian influ-
ences, but he was never a member of that denon1i_
nation. He united with the Baptist denomination
in his twenty—first year. Politically, he has always
been a Democrat, without being a partisan, or parti-
cipating actively in party work. "On the I 5th of
January, 1845, he was married to Miss Mary C. Tar-
rant, daughter of Thomas Tarrant, of Alabama, a
member of one of the most respectable families in
the state.

Since his removal to Missouri, he has been elected
president of the board of ministerial education of Wil-
liam jewell College, at Liberty, and is held in high
esteem by the faculty of that institution, his opinions
being sought for on subjects connected with the
interests and welfare of the college.
characteristics are very marked. He is over medium
size, of compact and well rounded form, possessing
sufficient physical power to enable him to perform a
great amount of brain work, of prepossessing appear-
ance and benevolent expression of face. He is pol-

His personal

ished and graceful in manners, courtly in address,

affable in conversation, dignified in deportment, and

238 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARYL

lovely and lovable in disposition. While he does
not shun society, he is devoted to study, and spends
a large portion of his time in his well-selected and
methodically arranged library, cominuning with the
master spirits who have left their imprint on the ages
in which they lived. Except by direct invitation, or
when visiting the sick of his congregation, he rarely
allows himself the pleasure of social entertainment,
but when in the society of friends few can be more
agreeable or entertaining. He preaches from copi-
ous notes, and though the greater portion of his dis-

course is extempore, so closely does he View his
notes that a stranger would suppose he spoke
entirely from manuscript. His preaching is sound
and practical; his logic clear and convincing, his
sermons exhibit laborious study and research, and

he always secures the attention of his auditors from .'

the beginning to the close of his discourse. Though
far past middle life, with his sun declining toward
the western horizon, there is no evidence of mental
decay or weakness. His sun only shines with a inel-
lower, but more vivifying and penetrating ray.

DR. WILLIAM HENLEY DUNCAN.

COLUMBIA.

cities in the state, and its inhabitants are in a
high degree cultivated and intellectual It is the
seat of justice of Boone county, and in it are located
the State University and numerous other educational
institutions. Indeed, it may be said to be the edu-
cational center of the state, and of its inhabitants
no one has done more to give tone and character to
its society, or to foster and build up the institutions
that are its pride and boast, than the subject of this
sketch, Dr. William Henley Duncan.

He was born in Amherst county, Virginia, April
22, 1803, and was the third child of William and
Sarah (Henley) Duncan. William Duncan was_a
minister of the Baptist Church, and raised a family
of seven children, five of whom were daughters and
two sons, William H. Duncan and Samuel ]. Dun-
can, of Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, who was
for many years a prominent merchant of that place.

He was educated at New Glasgow Academy,
in Amherst county, Virginia, and studied inedi-
cine at the
and in 1847 was honored with a diploma from the
medical department of the State University of Mis-
souri, at that time located in St. Louis. He prac-
ticed his profession two or three years in his native
county, and then moved to Murfreesboro, Tennes-
see, which at that time was the seat of government
of the state, though shortly afterwards Nashville was
made the capital. After practicing several years in
Tennessee, he returned to Amherst county, Vir-
ginia, where he practiced until 1830, when, with his

COLUMBIA is one of the most beautiful little

University of Pennsylvania in 1824,-

father”s family, he moved to Missouri and settled in
Millersburg, Calloway county, where he practiced
four years, at the end of which time he moved to
Columbia, in Boone county, where he has been
engaged in the practice of his profession ever
since.

Upon the organization of the Fayette branch of
the Bank of the State of Missouri, in 1836, Dr.
Duncan was made a director by the State Legisla-
ture, as well as an agent to obtain the subscription
of stock to the bank, and after performing the duties
of agent successfully and assisting in the organization
of the bank, on account of the inconvenience of per-
forming the duties of the position, because of the
distance between Columbia and Fayette, he resigned
the office of director. He has been a director
and stockholder in the Exchange National Bank of
Columbia since its organization in 1865. He was
also appointed by Governor Reynolds Surgeon-
general of the State, a position he held for several
years.

When the question of locating the State Univer-

sity was presented to the counties of the central part
of the State in 1839, Dr. Duncan was selected as
one of the citizens of Boone to solicit subscriptions
to secure the location in that count-y. The result of
his labors, in connection with those of other citizens
of Boone, is a matter of history. It is sufficient to
say that the munificence of the citizens of the county
secured the location of the University at Columbia.
Upon its organization Dr. Duncan was appointed a
curator, as well as the treasurer of the board, posi-

THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 239

tions he held and the duties of which he discharged
with honor to himself and to the satisfaction of the
board, as well as all the friends of the University,
until he found himself unable to subscribe to the
proscriptive oath of office required by the conven-
tion of 1861. Because of his refusal to take this
oath, his offices‘ of director and treasurer were
declared vacant, and some one of less’ sensitive
moral susceptibilities was appointed in his place.

Dr. Duncan joined_the Ancient Order of Free
and Accepted Masons, at New Glasgow, Virginia,
more than half a century ago, and still reveres and
practices the principles of the Order, though the
Lodge with which he was connected was suspended
from operation, by military order, during the late
civil war. He has traveled largely in his own coun-
try, and has been an intelligent and appreciative
observer. He is, as he says, “in ‘religion an old
iron-side Baptist and in politics a Democrat of the
strictest sect,” and has been firm in both his religious
and political faith from his youth up.

On the 16th of October, 1831, he was happily
united in marriage, in Boone county, Missouri, to

Miss Susan Woods Harris, daughter of John and
Margaret Maupin Harris, of Madison county, Ken-
tucky, who had emigrated hence from Virginia in
early life. Dr. Duncan has five children living,
three sons and two daughters, all grown and pleas-
antly settled in life. James S. Duncan and William
O. Duncan are engaged, in mercantile pursuits in
Columbia, and Dr. John H. Duncan is engaged in
the practice of his profession and is a professor and
lecturer on physiology in the 1nedical_ department of
the State University. Margaret T. Duncan married
T. T. Allen, Esq., a prominent banker and mer-
chant at Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, and Mattie
VV. Duncan married George VV. Trimble, a leading
dry goods merchant of Columbia.

In person, Dr. Duncan is tall, straight and spare,‘

five feet and eleven inches in height, and weighs
one hundred and forty pounds. He has a_ pleasant
face, keen, sparkling eyes, full of_ intelligence,
eagerness and vivacity, an agreeable address and
the courteous, dignified manners of the old school.
He is warm in his attachments and friendships, and
is a wise counselor and a true friend.

FRANCIS MARION THOMPSON.

PHELPS CITY.

' I ‘RANCIS MARION THOMPSON was born

August 26, 1832, in Callaway county, Missouri.
He_ is the son of David Hamilton Thompson, a
native of Tennessee, and Anne Williams, who was
born in St. Louis county, Missouri. They had nine
children of whom the subject of this sketch is the

third. The parents emigrated to Missouri before its .

admission as a state, and located in Callaway county,
Where Francis was born. . A

Francis M. Thompson in 1840 removed with his
brother to Buchanan county, Missouri, and received

‘a common school education near DeKalb (then

Bloomington) in that county. He engaged in farm-
ing until he was seventeen years old. In 1849 he
moved to Holt county, and engaged for two years
as a clerk in the business house of Hawk, Dillon &
Co., at Him1ni’s Landing. At the expiration of that
period he engaged in the mercantile business with
W. E. Dillon, in the same place, and remained there

for ten years.
-31

. he opened a stock of goods.

In 1861 he removed to Rockport, Atchison
county, where he sold goods for seven years. In
1868 he moved to the site of the present town of
Phelps City, and erected the first building in the
place, thus forming a nucleus for the town; and here
He was very successful
in business, proving that he had acted with judgment
and discretion. In 1871 he sold his stock of mer-
chandise to Judge Sanders, of Atchison county, now
of Troy, Kansas. In February, 1873, he bought
back the stock of goods and returned to the town
his business enterprise had developed, and has ever
since been engaged in business there, in partnership
with his brother, Colonel P. A. Thompson. By
untiring application to his business, by prudent man-
agement and far-seeing Sagacity, he hasacquired a
large and valuable estate in lands and personal
property. Besides his individual estate, he owns,
in partnership with his brother, Colonel Thompson,
about 2,500 acres of the most fertile section of

240 Tf[E UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAZ, DICTZOZVAIBY.

Atchison county. He and his brother are also
engaged in the live stock trade, in general merchan-
dising and in banking, occupying the front rank
among the representative business men of Northwest
Missouri.

Mr. Thompson is not a member of any religious
organization, yet he has contributed liberally to the
building of churches for different denominations,
and enjoys the reputation of a liberal minded and
public spirited citizen. .

He was made a Master Mason in 1863, in Rock-
port, Missouri, and is now a member of Phelps
Lodge, No. 357; also of Adoniram Council R. &
S. M., and of Zerubbabel Royal Arch Chapter, in
Phelps City. At one time he was an active and
lea.ding member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, having taken five degrees and acting as
Noble Grand of the Lodge in Lockport.

Until the commencement of the late civil war,
he had acted with the Democratic party, but his
intense devotion and attachment to the cause of the

Union induced him, at that time, to unite with the
Republican party. When the war closed he reunited
with the Democracy, and has since uniformly acted
with them. '

He was married February 20, 1857, in Holt
county, Missouri, to Miss Margaret A. Dillon, daugh-
ter of a prominent farmer of Callaway county, Mis-
souri. Her father died when she was a mere child.
They have had four children, all of whom are still
still living: May, aged eighteen, Ada, aged six-
teen , Anna, aged fourteen, and Philip, aged twelve.

In person Mr. Thompson is stout and robust,
five feet ten and one-half inches in height, weighing
two hundred and five pounds. Few men in the
West have begun life under such disadvantageous
circumstances and achieved so much. His success
has been marked, not only in the accumulation of
property, but in gainingthe confidence and esteem
of his fellow citizens. As a liberal capitalist, suc-
cessful business man and upright citizen, he stands
as high as any man in the state.

STEPHEN PRINCE TWISS.

KANSAS CITY.

TEPHEN PRINCE TWISS was born in Charl-
8 ton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, May 2,
1830. He is the son of James J. Twiss and Elsey
Prince, the former born in Charlton in 1799, and the
latter in Oxford, Worcester county, in 1802. His
paternal grandfather, James Twiss, was born in
Charlton in 1771. His great-grandfather, Moses
Twiss, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and was
of English stock. His maternal grandfather, Ste-
phen Prince, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
in 1771. His paternal grandmother was Miss Lucy
Pratt, born in Worcester county, Massachusetts, in
1777. His maternal grandmother was Lucy Jenni-
son, born in Worcester county about the year 1773.
Her father died when she was young. Her grand-
father, Amos Singletary, was a leading member of
the colonial and state legislature for twenty-six con-
secutive years. His birthplace and residence was
Sutton, Worcester county, where he also died,
bequeathing to the town by his will a grist mill
and water privileges to be used by the public free

of cost. The father of the subject of this sketch

received a common school education, was married
in August, 1826, was a farmer in moderate circum-

_stances, and died at Ashton, Illinois, January 7,

1878.

Stephen P. Twiss received his early instruction
in the common schools of his county, working dur-
ing the spring, summer and fall on the farm and
attending school only in the winter. At the age of
seventeen he left home to learn the trade of carpen-
ter and joiner 3 but at the end of a few months, hav-
ing met with an accident that temporarily deprived
him of the use of one hand, he quit the trade
and entered Leicester Academy. This school he
attended irregularly for fifteen months, being forced
to teach school a part of the time to maintain him-
self.

In May, 1848, he entered the commission house
of his uncle, Stephen Prince, in Boston, and spent
one season in this business. Quitting commercial
life, he began the study of law in Dane Law School,
Harvard College, Cambridge, graduating in 1852.
On leaving the school, he went into the office of

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Hon. Isaac Davis, where he closely applied himself
to the study of his profession and was admitted to
the bar at the March term of the Common Pleas
court in 1853.

In November, 1856, at the general election, he
was chosen a member of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature, and served one term, voting to return Hon.
Charles Sumner to the United States Senate.
Although a Republican in sentiment, he was
conservative in his views, and sometimes voted in
antagonism with his party on prominent points. In
1863, after a sharp contest, he was elected solicitor
for the city of Worcester, and in his official capacity
tried several important cases in which the city was
interested, gaining all of them. Having fully and
faithfully discharged his duty, he was reelected the
following year without opposition and discharged
the duties of the office during the year 1864.

While attending the National Republican Con-I

vention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in Chi-
cago, in 1860, he was attracted to the west by the
grandeur of the prospect spread before him. He
returned to Massachusetts with a full determination
to emigrate to the west in the fall. The excitement
which preceded and the greater excitement which
followed the election, presaging the near approach
of civil strife, induced him to remain in the east
until the fury of the storm should be spent. He
therefore continued his practice in Worcester until
the fall of 1865. V I

On the 21st of November, 1865, he started for
St. Louis, Missouri, having letters of introduction to
numerous prominent citizens of that place. At that
time Kansas City was beginning to be recognized as
a center for business, and he was advised by his St.
Louis friends to take up his residence there, as it
promised not only speedy returns, but a desirable
permanence in business. He therefore started to go
still farther west, and stopped for a short time at
Jefferson City. Here he was introduced to Senator
McGee and others from the western part of the
state. They readily gave him letters of introduc-
tion to prominent members of the bar and the Clerk
of the Common Pleas Court in Kansas City, and he
continued his journey. He arrived in Kansas City
December I, 1865, and immediately entered the
office of Douglass & Gage, where he remained six
months, and then took a separate office.

By steady devotion to his business, he soon
became known as a lawyer of ability and a man in
Whom confidence could be placed, and he found

little difficulty in "building up a remunerative prac-
tice, which he has retained and increased by subse-
quent labor and extended acquaintance.

In 1872 the district in which he resided was
composed of the First, Second and Third wards of
Kansas City, with the territory reaching south and
east to the Blue, containing a popular Democratic
vote, yet he was elected to the lower house of the
Missouri General Assembly, and has been regularly
returned at each successive biennial election, to the
same position. Although the -Third Representative
District, in which he now resides, is Republican,
yet such is the popular confidence in the man that
he generally polls a larger vote than the strength of
his party would indicate. In the legislature, though
operating with the minority, such is his popularity that
he has no difficulty in securing the passage of any
measure pertaining to the welfare of his constituents,
and always occupies a prominent position in impor-
tant committees.

In 187 5, while he was representing a Democratic
district, the bill creating the new city charter for
Kansas City came up in the legislature. A bill had
been carefully drafted by interested parties, which
was‘ intended to be passed by "whip and spur through
that body, without giving the people of the city an
opportunity to know its nature and contents. It
was given to Mr. Twiss to present, in order to secure
the Republican vote. Suspecting that it might con-
tain provisions inimical to the interests of his con-
stituents, « he delayed action for a time, and this
delay the parties feared would prove fatal to the bill.
It was, therefore, given to another member, who
offered it. The committee on local bills was pressed
to make an immediate report, and would have done

. so, but for the interference of Mr. Twiss, who
I requested the chairman to withhold action until the
This he_

people of the city could be heard from.
did. In the meantime the bill was published in the
local papers of Kansas City, and immediately there
was a storm of indignation raised by the people.
Petitions and telegrams poured in from all quarters
of the city, condemning its provisions and demand-
ing its defeat. It was, however, reported upon
favorably and came up for action. Mr. Twiss
opposed the bill, but it was passed to engrossment
and there died. The people of the city, in the
meantime, had held a mass meeting and appointed
a committee of thirteen to report a charter such as
the interests of the place demanded. It was drawn,
adopted and sent to Mr. Twiss for presentation.

242 THE UNITED STATES EJOGIBAPEIZCAZ, DZCT./0./VARY.

It met the violent opposition of certain. parties,
who succeeded in tacking on amendments virtually
destroying the provisions of the charter. Against
these amendments Mr. Twiss voted, but made no
further opposition until the motion to engross came
up. He then made a speech of great power, appeal-
ing to the Democrats not to impose such a charter
upon the people against their wishes. The debate
was a stormy one and lasted long into the night
hours, and when the vote was taken at two o’clock
in the morning, the. bill was declared passed to
engrossment but was virtually defeated. To the
energy, watchfulness and influence of the represent-
ative of the Third district this result is mainly
attributable. Further along in the session, a com-
promise bill, containing substantially the provisions
of the present excellent charter of that city, was
agreed upon and the bill passed. At the last session
of the legislature, he was chairman of the Committee

on Insurance and a member of the Committees on,

Judiciary, Banks and Corporations, and Constitu-
tional Amendments. 'He was, also,‘at that session,
the Republican candidate for Speaker of the House.
At the organization of the Democratic city gov-
ernment of Kansas City, he was appointed ‘city
counselor.

Mr. Twiss was married February 16, 1870, to

Miss Louisa ‘W. Clark, a native of Charlton, D1
then residing in Summerset, Massachusetts. Sh:
was a daughter of Rev. Nelson Clark, of the Con-
gregational Church. This union Was of short dura-
tion, Mrs. Twiss having died July 23, I870, five
months after their .marriage.i She was buried in
Summerset Cemetery, Massachusetts. August 5,
1873, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Emeline
Bidwell, daughter of Samuel G. Conkling, and a
native of Orange county, New York.

Mr. Twiss is a member of the Congregational
Churchand in accord ‘with its teachings. In politics
he is a conservative and consistent Republican.

Few men have ever lived in Kansas City who
were more highly esteemed for their eminent virtues
that Stephen P. Twiss. His honor and integrity are
never called into question by friend or foe, and his
personal friendships extend to the true men "of all
political parties and all religious denominations.
He has the manliness to assert his principles, but is
neither offensively intrusive, nor shrinkingly non-
combative. At the proper time and in the proper
Way he proclaims his Views and sustains them With
courage and ability. His spotless private character,

his high-souled independence, and his practical com- -

mon sense have made him many friends in the home
of his adoption.

THOMAS BENTON TAYLOR.

LEXIIVG TON.

His
grandfather, Jesse Taylor, was a native of the north
of Ireland. He was a man of great wealth. He
left Ireland, toward the close of the seventeenth
century, on account of political troubles, and settled
in Alexandria, Virginia. His father, Hon. William
Taylor, was born in Alexandria in 1788. He served
one term in Congress from the old “Tenth Legion”
of Virginia, and died in 1846, while serving his
second term. His wife was Sarah Preston McDowell,
born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1793. Her
father, Colonel James McDowell, was a native of
the same county, and married Miss Sarah Preston,
of Smithfield, Virginia, a sister of Governor James
P. Preston, of that state, an aunt of William C.

CIWHOMAS BENTON TAYLOR was born in.

Lexington, Rockbridge county, Virginia.

Preston, of South Carolina, also, the mother of
Governor James McDowell, of Virginia, and of
Mrs. Elizabeth Benton, wife of Colonel Thomas
Hart Benton, who was a United States senator from
Missouri for a period of thirty years. The mother
and grandmother of Mr. Taylor were related by ties
of consanguinity to the Prestons, Blairs, Breckin-
ridges, Marshals and Henrys, members of which
families Were prominent in the state and federal
government for eighty years of our national history.

Thomas B. Taylor was educated at Washington
and Lee University, taking the degree of Bachelor
of Arts at graduation, and that of Master of Arts in
course. He studied law in the office of John W.
Brockenbrough, who was a distinguished jurist and
judge of a federal court.

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO/VARY. 243

In 1857 he left Virginia and located in Chicago,
Illinois. Here he formed a partnership with Hon.
John G. Rogers, and began the practice of law.
The firm soon acquired a high standing at the bar,
and their practice became extensive and remunera_
tive. Each member was known as a sound lawyer
and successful practitioner, and they also gained
considerable celebrity as political speakers. «Mr.
Rogers is now (1878) judge of the circuit court .of
Chicago. In 1861 Mr. Taylor left Chicago for
Virginia, determined to unite his fortunes with those
of the Southern Confederacy. He experienced so
much difficulty in getting through the federal lines

with his family and effects, that he abandoned the_

project and went to the city of New York to practice
his profession. Here, as in Chicago, he soon
acquired a good practice, in which he continued
until 1868. In consequence of the ill health‘ of
some members of his family, he returned to Virginia,
where he remained until 1873. In 1874 he removed
to Lexington, Missouri, forming a partnership in the
practice of law with Judge John A. S. Tutt, which
lasted until 1877. Since then he has been practic-
ing alone. '

Mr. Taylor was married in 1859 to Miss Ellen
M. Rice, daughter of Rev. Nathan L. Rice, D. D.

Miss Rice was born in Kentucky in 1840. Rev.
Dr. Rice was born in 1807, and died June II, 1877.

‘The mother of Mrs. Taylor was Catharine Burch,

daughter of Rev. Kerr Burch, who was born in
Albemarle county, Virginia, on the present site of the
University of Virginia. Rev. N. L. Burch preached
for a number of years in Philadelphia, afterwards
emigrating to Kentucky, and thence to Washington,
Franklin county, Missouri, where his wife died.
He then moved to Chicago, where his son-in-law,
Rev. Dr. Rice, was living, and remained there till
his death, in the summer of 1858. Mr. Taylor
drafted his will.

Mr. Taylor has neversought political office, but
has held some offices in the line of his profession.
He has been United States commissioner, co1nmis—
sioner in chancery and prosecuting attorney. . He
and his wife are both members of the Old School
Presbyterian church. They have four children:
Katie McDowell, William R., Nathan L. Rice, and
Ellen M. Taylor. Politically Mr. Taylor endorses
the principles of the Democratic party, and has~ren—
dered efficient aid to that organization in public
discussions of current political questions. As a cit-
izen, Christiaii, and gentleman of the old school,
no man ranks higher than he.

WHJJAMIK

MT.

ROMINENT among the members of the bar of
P St. Louis county and the State of Missouri
stands the name of Broadhead—a prominence aris-
ing from personal worth as well as from distinguished
family connection and honorable ancestry.

Achilles Broadhead was a native of Albermarle
county, Virginia, and emigrated to St. Charles
county, Missouri, in September, 1836, where he
lived until his death in 18 5 3. He was a farmer, but
also served his county many years as surveyor and
county judge; he was an iOfl:lC€I' in the American
army throughout the war of 1812. He married
Miss Mary Winston Carr, also a native of Albemarle
county, Virginia, and daughter of Colonel Carr, a
prominent planter of that state.

its pioneers_, and received a large grant of land from

The Carr family is .
one of the oldest in the Old Dominion, was among ‘

BROADHEAD.

OLIVE.

King James. They afterward took an active part in
the Revolutionary. struggle for the freedom of the
Colonies.

Their son, William Ferrell Broadhead, was born
in St. Charles county, Missouri, November 15, 1836.
He received a liberal education at St. Charles Col-
lege and at Fulton (now Westminster) College. In
1857 he began the study of law at Bowling Green,
Pike county, and afterward attended law lectures at
the University of Virginia.
practice of his ‘profession at St. Charles, and con—
tinued there until 1863, when he went to Montana
and engaged in mining and agriculture three years.
In 1866 he returned to St. Charles and recommenced
the practice of law. In 1875 Mr. Broadhead located
in St. Louis where he formed a law partnership with
his brother, Hon. James O. Broadhead.

In 1860 he began the

In 1878,

244 TI-IE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIPY.

when the new county seat of St. Louis county was
fixed at Mt. Olive, he located there.

The high esteem in which Mr. Broadhead is held
by the profession as a lawyer is evidenced by a single
incident: When the present constitution of the state
was ratified, it established a “St. Louis Court of
Appeals” with jurisdiction extending over the city
and county of ‘St. Louis and the 19th judicial Cir-
cuit, then composed of the counties of St. Charles,
Lincoln and Warren. The_bench of that court was
to be filled by appointment from the Governor. A
petition was signed by every lawyer in the 19th Cir-
cuit (except one to whom it failed to be presented)
and sent to the Governor asking that Mr. Broadhead
be appointed one of the judges of the new court.
Before any appointments were made, however, the
petition was withdrawn when the opportunity pre-

sented itself for the law partnership with his brother
already referred to. The incident is mentioned to
show the standing of ‘Mr. Broadhead as a lawyer in
that circuit; and we are sure that it was peculiarly
grateful to his feelings that, besides the others, the
bar of his native county should have reposed so
much confidence in him.

Mr. Broadhead was clerk of the Probate Court
of. Pike county during his residence there. He was
also at one time public administrator of St. Charles
county.

june 11, 1873, William F. Broadhead married
Miss Mary R. Weber, of St. Louis county, Mis-
souri, daughter of Charles H. Weber.

In politics he has consistently acted with the
Democratic party, and in his religious views is a
Presbyterian.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR JAMES YOUNG,

LEXIIVG TON.

AMES YOUNG was born May II, 1800, in
Hawkins county, East Tennessee, and was the
second of twelve children. He was the son of

William and Betsey (Leeper) Young, and was of
Scotch-Irish descent. His father served as captain of
a company in the war of I812, and was also in the
Florida war. _ He received but an ordinary common
school training, owing to the fact that, though his
father had been a man of large means, his fortune
was spent during twenty years of service in the
Legislature of Tennessee, as in that day the honor
cost far more than the emoluments were worth.

I James Young left school when fifteen years of
age and began to work on his father’s farm. In
1821 he was married and began farming on his own
account. In 1823 he received an appointment in
the land office of the Cherokee Nation, retaining the
position but six months, because he did not think
there was sufficient work to employ two agents. He,
therefore, began work on a farm he had purchased.
In 1831 he was elected to the legislature of Tennes-
see, and served through one regular and one called
session. At the close of the term, in 1832, he
moved to Missouri, Whither his wife had preceded
him, and located in Pettis county, then just organ-
ized.

In the fall of 1833 Mr. Young moved to Lafay-
ette county, settling on a farm six miles" south of
Lexington, where he resided until his death, in 1878.
In 1836 he was elected to the lower house of the
Missouri General Assembly, a.nd served until 1838.
From 1840 to 1844 he was in the Missouri Senate,
and was‘ the contemporary in public life of such men
as David R. Atchison, Dr. L. F. Lynn, Colonel
Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Ashley, James S. Green,
Trusten Polk, John S. Phelps, Colonel Marmaduke,
Thomas Hudson, Thornton P. Grimsley and Hamil-
ton P. Gamble. In 1844 he was elected lieutenant-
governor of Missouri, and served until 1848. He
was acting governor when Missouri’s quota of troops
was equipped and commissioned for the Mexican
war. Since that time he has held no public offices,
although he retained until his death a deep interest
in political affairs. His name was presented to the
Democratic convention which met in St. Louis in
1876, but he did not receive the nomination, much
to the disappointment of his friends, who regarded

him as one of the best men in the state for such a.

position.

Governor Young united with the Masonic frater-
nity when only twenty-one years of age, but he did
not renew his connection with that order on his

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removal to Missouri. He also joined the Patrons of_
Husbandry, but was too old to take an active part
in the proceedings of the Grange, though interested
in its operations to the day of his death.

He was reared in the Presbyterian faith, and he
and hiswhole family were members of that denom-
ination. Upon his farm stands a commodious brick
church, erected at a cost of about $4,000, which he
was mainly instrumental in having built. It is one of
the first Presbyterian churches in the state erected
on the south side of the river. He was a firm
Democrat in politics, his first vote having been cast
for General“ jackson for president.

Governor Young was married in 1821 to his
cousin, Miss Betsey Young, a sister of Major A. G.
Young. She died on the 12th day of july, 1876, in
the eightieth year of her age, deeply lamented by
the entire community. Besides being a true and
faithful wife, she was a woman of strong mind and
good common sense, and to her excellent judgment
he always attributed his success in life. When
elected to the legislature of Tennessee, he was suc-
cessful in opposition to the wishes of his wife, who
thought that he could not afford to serve in that
capacity,_as he was in only moderate circumstances.
When the first session of the legislature closed, she
insisted on moving to Missouri, whither his mother
and brother ‘had already gone. He thought it
incumbent on him to complete the time _for which he
was elected, and she, accompanied by her children
and Henderson Young, his brother, a recent law
graduate, started for Missouri in wagons, taking with
her all their personal effects. At the close of the
session Governor Young followed, and to that step
and her subsequent sound counsels, he believed he
was indebted for his worldly accumulations. She

united with the New Providence Presbyterian church
in Tennessee in 182 2, and lived the life of an exem-
plary Christian woman. She was unostentatious in
the performance of her duties and liberal in her
charities. She always earned whatever she.gave
away, esteeming it no gift of hers unless she had
gained it by her own efforts.

Governor Young was tall and of commanding
presence, uniting with dignity, firmness and decision,
that affability of manner and ease of address that
made him a welcome and charming guest at every
board and by every fireside. He was possessed of
a vigorous, practical intellect, and a mind well stored
with useful facts. He was accustomed to examine
critically every subject demanding his investigation,
and his judgment and power of discrimination was
sufficient to set him right where a la.rge majority of
men would have erred, or, if he found he had made
a mistake, he took the first opportunity to correct the
error. Up to a very short time before his death, he
was hale and vigorous, enjoying the evening of life
among his friends, of whom there were many. For
more than forty years he resided in Lafayette county,
and witnessed its development from a wilderness
to a garden of beauty, from a sparsely settled terri-
tory to a land dotted with farms, ornamented with
villages, towns and cities, and adorned with hospi-
tality and intelligence. Governor Young’s high moral
principles constituted his brightest characteristic.
No danger: could awe, no temptation allure, no
power compel him to the advocacy or endorsement
of that which he deemed morally wrong. He lived
the life of a Christian gentleman, and died amidst
the tears and lamentations of all who knew and
could appreciate his worth. His death occurred in
February, 1878.

JOHN P. BUTLER.

MILAN.

OHN POLLOCK BUTLER, one of the promi-
nent young lawyers of Milan, Sullivan county,
Missouri, was born in Allegheny county, Penn-

sylvania, October I3, 1846. His father, George
Butler, was a native of Washington county, of the
same state, and his principal avocation was farming 5
he moved west and settled in Sullivan county, Mis-

souri, in 1865. George Butler married Miss Mary
Ann McCullough, a native of Allegheny county,

Pennsylvania. Her father, William McCullough, was’

a farmer in that county but a native of Ireland.
Their son john, the subject of this sketch, was
educated at the best common schools in his section

of Pennsylvania. Being of a studious disposition

' bar in Terre Haute,

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and apt, he has continued his studies until he has
built a very handsome and solid structure upon the
meager foundation thus obtained. His school privi-
leges were fatally interfered with by the war of the
Rebellion, which began when he -was only fifteen
years of age. The schools of the country were
greatly disturbed, as well as other kinds of business
by the excitement of the times.

In June, 1864, he volunteered in the Union
army as a private in company D, 197th regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After active ser-
vice four months, he enlisted in company I, 67th
regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. With
this regiment he was in active service in Virginia
and Maryland until the close of the war.

When the war was over he emigrated to Missouri
and settled in Milan, buying a farm in Sullivan
county. In November, 1866, he began to read
law at Milan and continued it one year so assidu-

ously that in 1867 he was examined and admitted
to the bar, opened an office at Milan and immedi-
ately began the active practice of~his profession.
He has continued there until the present time, and
has gained a very flattering prominence as a lawyer
for so young a man. But perseverance, hard‘ study
and diligence in business have only reaped a fair
reward.

Politically Mr. Butler is a Democrat, although
he has never permitted himself to be drawn away
from his legitimate business by political temptations 3
he has never sought nor held any public office, his
entire time being devoted to his profession. I

November 4, 1866, Mr. Butler married his first
wife, Miss Maggie Morrison, of Milan, daughter of
Hon. R. D. Morrison. She ‘died in 1873.

November 7, 1874, he was married the second
time. His second wife was Miss Delia Payne, of
Milan.

REV. HERMAN COPE DUNCAN.

KANSAS CITY.

EV. HERMAN COPE DUNCAN is a native
of Louisiana.

On the paternal side he is the
descendant of a long line of distinguished Scotch-
men. His father’s grandsire was an eminent pro-
moter of the scheme to place Charles Edward, the
last of the Stuarts, on the united throne of England
and Scotland, and because of his prominence, after
the disastrous battle of Culloden, he was banished

and his estates confiscated. Reaching this country ~

he settled in Massachusetts, and while residing there
took part in the “Boston Tea Party.” Subsequently
he removed to Central Pennsylvania and afterward
to Washington, Mason county, Kentucky. Several
of his sons were distinguished in the Black Hawk
war. His son David Duncan at one time resided
near New Madrid, MissouriiTerritory. Here Greer
Brown Duncan, the father of the subject of this
sketch, was born. His birthplace was annexed to
the State of Kentucky by the violent earthquake of
1811, which changed the course of the Mississippi
Greer Brown Duncan was admitted to the
Indiana.
removed to New Orleans, and won high rank in the
social and political world. His universally success-

river.

Subsequently he"

ful defense of the property owners against the
claims of the celebrated Myra Clark Gaines, and his
advocacy of the rights of the cities of New Orleans
and Baltimore in the matter of the McDonough
estates, greatly distinguished him. Daniel Webster
said, in addressing the Supreme Court of the United
States in the latter suit, that Mr. Duncan’s argument

_was so exhaustive that he could add nothing to it.

Mr. Duncan was a zealous member of the Vestry of
Christ’s Church, New Orleans, a prominent organi-
zer in the diocesan councils, and a representative
of the diocese in the General (national) Convention.
October I, 1845, he married Mary Jane Cope, a
native of Baltimore and daughter of- Herman Cope,
who was for many years treasurer of the General
(national) Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.   Their only child, Herman Cope Duncan,
the subject of this sketch, was born August 12, 1846.

At an early age he was left an orphan, his mother_

dying January I0, 1856, and his father, June 25,
1858. He prepared for college at the Episcopal
Academy, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was
graduated with honors at the Pennsylvania Univer-
sity in 1867. Having given up the study of the law,

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for which profession he had begun to fit himself, he
determined early in his junior year at ‘college to
seek holy orders; he deferred his application to be
received as a candidate, however, until the latter
part of 1866,. He entered the Philadelphia Divinity
School in September, 1867, but soon after found
that he could make greater progress in his studies
by pursuing them in private. He accordingly
applied for and received an honorable discharge
from the seminary, and was enabled by due diligence
to pass his examinations nearly two years ahead of
his class. He received ordination as a deacon from

- the Bishop of Louisiana, J. P. B. Wilmer, D. D., in

the Church of the Transfiguration, New York city,
October 2 5, -1868. In the same year the Rev.
H. C. Duncan was placed in charge of Emmanuel
Church, New Orleans, where he officiated for fifteen
months. He succeeded in paying off a large indebt-
edness on the parish and greatly increased the con-
gregation. At the Diocesan Council of 1870 Mr.
Duncan was made secretary of the diocese, to which
office he was constantly reelected until he left the
Several times muz‘az’z's muz‘amz’z's the council
adopted resolutions declaring

“That the thanks of this council are eminently
due and are hereby tendered to the Rev Herman
C. Duncan, for the faithful and able manner in
which he has discharged his arduous duties.”

In December, 1870, he took charge of Calvary
Church, New Orleans. Here he had to face another
indebtedness, which was largely reduced during his
ministration. In this parish, January 22, 1871, he
was ordained priest by the Bishop of Louisiana, J.
P. B. Wilmer, D. D. In April of the same year he
was elected registrar and historian of the diocese.
As to his administration, while in this office, the fol-
lowing resolutions adopted by the Diocesan Council
in 1876, after he had left the diocese, will speak for
themselves: ' .

“WHEREAS, The Rev. Herman Cope Duncan,
late registrar and historian, obtained and arranged
a most complete and valuable collection of histori-
cal documents to be placed among the archives of
this diocese; therefore be it P

Rrsolvm’, That this council tender to its late
registrar and historian its sincere thanks for his long,
efficient and untiring service in that capacity.”

In 1872 he resigned the charge of Calvary Church
and entered upon a missionary life in the Florida
parishes of Louisiana. He spent twenty months in
this work, filling eleven appointments each month.
During tgis time he was instrumental in causing to

be built three churches in Tangipahoa parish. The
erection of Grace Church, Hammond, one of the
most ornate rural churches in the state, was the
result of a stimulus of five hundred dollars procured
by him from an unknown lady friend of New York
city. Previous to this the people had felt unable to
accomplish anything, but with this help they suc-
ceeded in raising a sufficient sum to build a church
valued at $3,500. His mission work, at this and
other places in the field, was successful in laying
the foundation for that permanent growth of the
Church which is now being largely realized.

In 1873 Mr. Duncan was elected a director of
the Protestant Episcopal Association and also one
of the diocesan board of trustees of endowment
funds. He was at once elected secretary of the
board, and while holding this office succeeded in
inspiring a renewed zeal in the conduct of the board
where before there had been so great a want of it
that a meeting had not been held for several years.
In 1874 he returned to his old field of labor in the
Sixth District of New Orleans. In the meantime
a new parish called St. Mark’s Church, had been
developed from Emmanuel Church, and of this he
took charge. The parish was overwhelmingly in
debt, but he succeeded in reuniting the two parishes
under the name of St. George’s Church, and left it
at the time of his resignation, October, 187 5, unen-
cumbered. In April, 187 5, Mr. Duncan was elected
trustee of the Church Education Society of Louisi-
ana and in the same year a member of the Board of
Missions of the General (National) Church.

In November, 187 5, he removed to Illinois and
became rector of the Bishop Whitehouse Memorial
Church, Chicago, which position he held for some
nine months, when he returned to New Orleans and
took temporary charge of Christ Church, the parent
parish of the Southwest. Here he remained during
the summer. While in this charge he was called to
the rectorship of Grace Church, Kansas City. He
was personally unknown to any of the parishioners
of this charge, and was elected entirely on the
ground of his reputation. He accepted the invita-
tion and entered upon his duties, October, 1876.
He was almost immediately thereafter appointed by

I the bishop of the diocese, dean of the missionary

district of Kansas City, embracing the counties of
Jackson, Platte, Clay, Lafayette, Cass and Johnson.
He organized the convocation in January, 1877.

Grace Church is enjoying a great degree of prosper-
ity under his administration.

248 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAI€'Y.

In 1870 Mr. Duncan was elected a fellow of the
New Orleans Academy of Sciences, and subse-
quently was made chairman of the scientific section
of philology, in which position he filled the usual
lecture requirements. He is Past Master of Jeffer-

son Lodge, No. 191, A. F. & A. M. of New Orleans, _
. and Past M. E. High Priest of Kansas City Royal

Arch Chapter. He has organized and is Thrice
Illustrious Master of Palace Council, No. 21, Royal
and Select Masters, Kansas City, Prelate of Kansas
City Commandery No. 10, and is Past Grand Prelate
of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of
Louisiana. He has held the office of Grand Chap-
lain of the Grand Council of the State of Louisiana,
and has recently been elected to the same position
in Missouri. During the existence of the McEnery
government, from 1872 to 1876, Mr. Duncan was
Chaplain of the Senate of Louisiana. During the
winter of 1878 Mr. Duncan was elected Chaplain of
Co. A. Jackson County National Guards.

In character, Mr. Duncan displays great indi-
viduality. It is evident that he copies from no one,
but hews out his own path. The legal acumen
necessary in abstruse investigation he has evidently
inherited from his" distinguished father. Tenacity
of purpose and boldness of enterprise he possesses
in an eminent degree, and his record shows that he
has remarkable executive ability. The chosen pur-
pose of his life seized hold of his brain with the
grip of doom. His power to achieve great things lay
in his intense resoluteness, which made him proof
against all confusing and diverting influences. He
formed at the outset of his career ‘a solemn purpose
to make the most and best of the powers whichiGod
had given him, and to turn to the best possible
account every outward advantage within his reach.
This purpose has carried with it the assent of the
reason, the approval of the conscience and the sober
judgment of the. intellect, and to—day we see few
men of his age his equal and none his superior.

COLONEL WELLS H. BLODGETT.

ST. LOUIS.

ELLS HOWARD BLODGETT was born
January 29, 1839, at Downer’s Grove, Du-
page county, Illinois. His father, Israel P Blodgett,
was born in Massachusetts, as was also his mother,
at Amherst. She was, before her marriage, Miss
Avis Dodge, and was of the universally known
Thayer stock of Massachusetts. Seven boys and
one girl were the fruits" of this union, of whom Wells
was the sixth son. Israel P. Blodgett moved with
his family, in 1831," to Dupage county, Illinois, on
Dupage river, twenty—four miles west of Chicago.
He was a blacksmith and machinist by trade, and
achieved considerable distinction as the inventor and
maker of the first plow with a steel 1nold—board. He
afterwards engaged in farming and stock-raising, and
reared all his boys on the farm. He died in the
winter of 1862. The mother is still living (1877) on
the old homestead.

Wells enjoyed all the advantages of the New
England school system, after which he spent three
years at college in Wheaton and in Mount Morris,
Illinois. He had laid out for himself a course of
study, which having completed in 1858, he went to

Chicago and entered upon the study of law in the

‘office of his brother, Henry W. Blodgett, then

Solicitor General of the Chicago & ‘Northwestern
Railway, and of the Michigan Central, also a mem-
ber of both branches of the Illinois Legislature, and
now judge of the United States District Court at
Chicago, and recognized as one of the most learned
railroad lawyers in the west.

Wells remained with him and in the office of
Hon. N. B. Judd till the fall of 1860, when he was
admitted to the bar, and just as he was entering
upon a promising practice, the war of the Rebellion
aroused his patriotism, and in April, 1861, he
enlisted as a private soldier for the defense of the
Union in a company raised and organized by Captain
C. C. Marsh, but the company was not called into
service. In ]uly of that year, he enlisted as a ‘pri-
vate in the 37th Illinois Infantry, and so served until
in August, when he was commissioned as first lieu-
tenant of the same company.

Lieutenant Blodgett served in all the campaigns
of the Western Department under Generals Fremont,
Pope and Curtis, and was in every fight in the south-

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west up to the raid of General Marmaduke on Cape
Girardeau, where he performed efficient service
under General McNeil. For meritorious conduct on
the field at Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, Arkansas,
he was promoted to captain. At the risk of violat-
ing the known modesty of our subject, the editor of
this sketch cannot refrain from copying two extracts
from letters on record. Brigadier General White,
whose eye was upon Lieutenant Blodgett in that
fierce onslaught at Pea Ridge, in a letter to Gov-
ernor Yates, thus speaks of him: “As a disciplin-
arian he has no superior of his rank within the circle
of my acquaintance. For cool courage and efficiency
on the field he has no superior anywhere. I know
whereof I speak, when I tell you that this young
man was possessed, in a remarkable degree, of that
kind of courage which, while reckless of personal
consequences, is distinguished by sound judgment,
evincing the power to reflect even under the most

exciting circumstances.” In a letter dated July 24,

i863, General Brown says of Captain Blodgett: “At

Newtonia and Springfield his gallantry elicited the
admiration of the whole army.”

On the Ioth of March, 1863, when General

Schofield assumed command of the Army of the
Frontier, President Lincoln commissioned Captain
Blodgett judge Advocate of that army, with the
rank of Major, which office he filled until the disor_
ganization of the Army of the Frontier and the office
of judge Advocate was discontinued. Major Blod-
gett then located at Warrensburg to resume the prac-
tice of his profession.

On the 28th of July, 1864, by General Order
No. 143, General Rosencrans called for the organi-
zation of twelve regiments of infantry in Missouri to
meet the exigencies of that time. Major Blodgett
at once went to work, and in a short time, at Rolla,
completed the organization of the 48th Missouri
regiment, of which he was commissioned lieutenant
colonel, Septemberrzz, 1864; but in just one month
(October 22, 1864) was commissioned colonel‘ thereof.
He served with his regiment in Southeast Missouri
until December I0," 1864, when it with the 45th and
47th Missouri Regiments were ordered to report to
Genera.l Meredith at Paducah, Kentucky. Being the
ranking officer, Colonel Blodgett took command of the
brigade and arrived successfully. He was then or-
dered to report his brigade for duty to General Thom-
as, at Nashville, Tennessee, who assigned him with
his brigade to duty under General Rosseau, who was
in command of the 4th Division, 20th Army Corps.

The brigade opened the Cumberland river—at
that time blockaded by the Rebels under General
Lyon—and arrived at Nashville two days after the
defeat of the Rebels under General Hood by General
Thomas; but in time to participate in the pursuit of
that army, till it was driven across the Tennessee
river, after which he returned with his regiment to
Columbia and garrisoned that post, Colonel Blodgett
was in command during the winter of 1864-5, also
having charge of the railroad defenses from Franklin
to Pulaski, where he remained with his troops
until the closing days of the rebellion, when his
regiment was ordered to Camp Douglas, ‘near Chi-
cago, where he was engaged until the following June
in escorting rebel prisoners to City Point, Virginia,
and to New Orleans for exchange. On the 21st of
June, the regiment was ordered to Benton Barracks,
St. Louis, and on the 22d of the same month was
there mustered out of service, by order of the War
Department reducing the volunteer force.

Colonel Blodgett carries the scars of two wounds
received in defense of his country, one received at
N eosho, Missouri, and the other at Springfield from
a buck-and—ball cartridge. The latter might ha.ve
finished his service, but passed through his pocket-
book and demolished his knife—a part of the blade
of which was carried on the ball into his hip, and
both afterwards taken out by the surgeon— the shot
still help to increase his weight.

After the close of the war, Colonel Blodgett
returned to Warrensburg, Johnson county, Missouri,
and resumed the practice of the law. In the fall of
1866 the Republicans of that county elected himto
the Legislature, and he served the session of 1866-7,
and its adjourned session of 1867-8. In the fall of
1868 he was elected to the State Senate from. the
district composed of johnson, Henry, Benton and
St. -Clair. His time expired in 1872, and in the fall
of that year he resumed the unanimous nomination
of his party convention for the same office 3 but was
defeated by Joshua LaDue, of Henry, by a remark-
ably small majority. We say “remarkably small
majority,” because those counties, as is known to the
writer, who was at that time a resident of the dis-
trict, had become Democratic, and it was thought
LaDue would sweep everything before him. What
helped, more than anything else to reduce the

expected majority, was the fact, well known to his:

constituents, that'Colonel Blodgett was about the
first Republicansoldier to openly and persistently
favor the reénfranchisement of those who had taken

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part in the rebel cause. As early as the winter of
1866, as amember of the Legislature, he strongly
and squarely favored the restoration of their political
rights to the disfranchised people of Missouri, and
he strenuously endeavored to get his party to adopt
it as a Republican movement. So zealously and
fairly did he battle for their cause, that he gained
man-y friends among the disfranchised..

Colonel Blodgett continued to practice law in
Warrensburg until the fall of 1873, when, in Novem-
ber, he moved to St. Louis and formed a law part-
nership with Joseph Dickson, Esq., under the firm
name of Blodgett & Dickson. He shortly afterwards
was offered and accepted the position of Attorney
for the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad
Company, having charge of cases outside of St. Louis.

J In June following he was by the Board of Directors

elected General Solicitor for the company, which
office he has held ever since.

As a lawyer, as a man, and in the social circle,
the writer of this sketch prefers to give the verdict
of a distinguished gentleman of St. Louis, who has
known our subject long and intimately:

During the six consecutive sessions that he served
as a member of the Missouri Legislature, not any

one took amore active or prominent part, in all that
pertained to the growth and prosperity of the state,

than he did.
served on the Committees of Ways and Means,
Education, and Militia. In the 25th General Assem-
bly he served on the Committees of Judiciary, Con-
stitutional Amendments, Banks and Corporations,
Penitentiary, and County Boundaries, and in the

27th General Assembly he served on several as
' important committees as in the previous sessions. '

January 25, 1869, he introduced into the Senate
the first act for the establishment of normal schools

in the State. . .
February I0, 1872, he introduced a proposed

amendment to the Constitution, restricting the sub-
scriptions" of counties, cities, towns, or townships, to
corporations, to five per cent. of their taxable wealth.

Those who served with him in the 24th General
Assembly will remember the part he took in the act
to. restore the State credit; they will also recollect
him as champion of the act to sell the lien of the
State upon the Pacific Railroad to the stockholders,
which act enabled his county to dispose of its stock
at more than its former value.

Colonel Blodgett is a Republican in politics, but
of liberal views and has always labored to make his
party liberal as well as progressive.

He was married in August, 1865, to Miss Emma
Dickerson, of Dixon, Illinois, and they have two
children, a son and a daughter.

JUDGE JOHN A. s. TUTT.

LEXI./VG TON.

OHN ALEXANDER SANFORD TUTT was
born June I 3, 1819, in Culpepper county, Vir-
ginia. He is the son of John Miner and Cath-

arine (Sanford) Tutt. Their family consisted of two
sons, the elder a clergyman in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, the other the subject of this
sketch. John M. Tutt was reared on what is now
known as ‘the Pratt farm, below Fredericksburg.
On attaining his -majority he removed to Culpepper
county, where he was married. Both the grand-
fathers of J. A. S. Tutt served with distinction dur-
ing the Revolutionary war and filled high positions
in the army and navy. His maternal grandfather
had been an officer in the British navy, but on the
commencement of hostilities joined the American
navy. He was a man of marked ability and culture,

and left behind him one of the most valuable charts
in existence. One great—uncle was killed at Brandy-
wine, and another great—uncle served as quarter_
master in Sumter’s command. The family is one

‘of the oldest and most honored in the history of

the country. All of its members have been distin-
guished for integrity and ability, and have filled
public offices of trust and responsibility, or been
prominent members of the learned professions.

John A. S. Tutt received most of his education
in private schools in Culpepper county, or at home
under the supervision of his mother, who was an
accomplished and highly educated ‘lady. In addi-
tion to the ordinary branches, his studies embraced
Latin, higher mathematics and the natural sciences.
He completed his school course at Baltimore Acad-

In the 24th General Assembly he

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emy, and, when eighteen years of age, began teach-
ing school in Virginia, which he continued for two

years.
In the fall of 1841 he emigrated to Missouri and

"located at Boonville, Cooper county, and on the

1st of January, 1842, began the study of law with
Messrs. Miller & Stuart of that place. He had
previously pursued the study in Virginia. His edu-
cation had been directed with a View to his entering
the medical profession; but being advised that his
health would be insufficient to sustain him in the
labors and exposures incident to the practice of
medicine, be abandoned the idea and began the
study of law. In choosing one of the learned pro-
fessions, he was actuated by a noble desire to place
himself among the leading men of the country, and
to occupy a high position in social and literary
circles, to the accomplishment of which he has
devoted the energies of his life.

He was licensed to practice law in January, 1845,
by Judge William Scott, of the Missouri Supreme
Court, and was admitted to the bar immediately
after. He’ remained at Boonville four years, prac-
ticing his profession, but in July, 1849, removed to
Morgan county on account of his health. In his
new home he rapidly gathered aroundhim a large
number of friends who recognized the personal
attractions, superior intelligence and fine abilities of
the man. He was soon made county attorney, in
which capacity he served several years. He was
commissioner of common schools and served as
judge of the probate court for eight years.

His. family were growing up around him, and
the educational facilities of Morgan county, at that
time, were not just what he desired for his children.
He resolved, therefore, on removing to a point
where he could educate them at less expense than
he could send them abroad, and at the same time
have them under his personal supervision. ‘He
resigned his office in the fall of 1858, and removed
to Lexington, where he resumed the practice of law.
In February, 1862, he was appointed judge of the
circuit court of the Sixth Judicial District, composed
of Jackson, Johnson, Cass, Bates, Saline, Pettis and
Lafayette counties, and in the following year was

— elected by the people, for a term of six years, to the

same position. _

When the Constitutional Convention met, in 186 5,
that body reduced the length of the term, and at
the same time, by ordinance, removed the circuit
judges throughout the state. » Judge Tutt was then

appointed to fill the unexpired portion of his own
term, which he did with credit to himself and the

state. At the close of this service he declined, on

account of failing health, to become a candidate for

reelection, and resumed the practice, February 1,.
1869, and is still engaged at the bar.

Judge Tutt has always been an advocate of inter-
nal improvements, and has lent his influence and
material aid to the building of railroads, although
opposed to granting assistance to corporations by
the government—believing that the exemptions and
privileges of charter are all that corporate bodies
should demand.

In religious faith and practice Judge Tutt is a
Baptist, a professor without hypocrisy, a Christian
without bigotry. In early life he was a member of
the old line Whig party, but for a number of years
has been acting with the Democracy.

Judge Tutt was married December 16, 1851, to
Miss Ann Taylor Thornton, daughter of Colonel
John T. Thornton, of Cooper county, Missouri, and
formerly of Virginia. By the marriage six children,
three sons and three daughters, were born, all of
whom are now grown. Franklin K. Tutt, his oldest
son, was born December 4, 1852, at Versailles,
Morgan county, Missouri ; educated at the Masonic
College, Lexington, and graduated in 1871.‘ He
acted in the capacity of civil engineer on the Lex-
ington & St. Louis railroad six years, and continued
civil engineering three years longer. After studying
law with his father, he was admitted to practice, and
at once went into the law firm then composed of
Judge J. A. S. Tutt and a Mr. Taylor. Because of
the enfeebled condition of his father, the greater
part of theibusiness is conducted by F. K. Tutt.
He is a Knight of Pythias and K. of R. & S. in
Gooley Lodge, No. 45, at Lexington. He is a
Democrat, active, zealous and influential. Mr.
F. K. Tutt was married to Miss Sophia L. Irvine,
daughter of Thomas H. Irvine, of Lexington,
Kentucky. They have two boys, Frank A. and
Irvine T.

Judge Tutt is six feet two inches in height, of
commanding presence, weighing two hundred and
twenty pounds, of attractive person, pleasant expres-
sion of countenance and most agreeable and gentle-
manly manners. He is noted for his strict integrity
and unwavering moral courage. Duty, right, are the
principles that have actuated him through life,~and
these he adheresto without recking the consequences
to himself. He is liberal, hospitable and charitable.

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The appeal of suffering meets with a prompt response
from him, and the destitute never leave his door
unaided. Ill health prevents him from applying
himself very closely to his profession, but he is
known as a sound and safe lawyer and counselor.

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI, DICTIONAIBY.

His impartiality in the trial of cases was fully tested
during the war, when party spirit and partisan preju-
dice too frequently over-rode justice. He held the
scales at even balance, and administered justice to
all.

CHARLES ELLIOTT VROOMAN.

LANCASTER.

HARLES E. VROOMAN was born April 15,
C 1848, in Lucas county, Ohio. He is the son
of Rhiel B. Vrooman and Laura A. Chaplin, both
natives of Montgomery county, New York, and who
moved to the State of Ohio in 1838.

Charles‘ E. Vrooman was reared in Lucas county,
and received a liberal education, having attended the
Michigan State Normal. After completing his literary
course, he entered the law department of Michigan
University in 1868, and graduated in 1870. In the
latter year he entered upon the practice of his profes-
sion in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained nearly
two years. In the great fire_of October, 1871, he was
a severe sufferer, and soon after left Chicago and lo-
cated in Macon City, Missouri, to resume the practice
of his profession. He only remained, however, a few
months, when he re—1ocated in Lancaster, Schuyler
county, Missouri. Here he soon became popular as
a citizen and lawyer, and has ever since enjoyed a
prominent position at the bar and in social circles.

Mr. Vr'ooman was elected prosecuting attorney
of Schuyler county in 1872. In 1875 he was elected
mayor of Lancaster, reelected in 1876, and again in
1877. He was town attorney of Glenwood for one
year, and secretary of the Schuyler County Agricul-
tural and Stock Company for the same length of
time.

Politically, Mr. Vrooman is a firm and consistent
Democrat, and is secretary of the Twelfth District
Congressional Central Committee. In his religious
faith he is a Methodist.

He was married in 1873 to Miss Julia K.
French. Her parents, Edwin and Esther French,
were pioneers of Schuyler county, having located
there in 1837. .

Mr. Vrooman is a man of ability, great energy,
extensive reading and popular address. Although
now (1878) but thirty years of age, he has won the
esteem of the bar and the confidence of the people,
and has a bright future before him.

ED. H. WEBSTER.

KANSAS CITY.

MONG the young men of the New West-
those. who have carved out their own fortune,

and left the impress of their industry and energy
upon the prosperous young city of their adoption—
none are better known than the subject of this
sketch. Edward Hannegan Webster was born Feb-
ruary zr, 1843, in Benton, Elkhart county, Indiana,
and was the oldest son of Sylvester and Melinda
Proctor Boyd)Webster,who were married December
I 5, I839. The paternal ancestry of the Webster name

were descended from the family of Colonel ]ohn
Webster, an early settler and the fifth Colonial Gov-
ernor of Connecticut. Noah Webster, the celebra-
ted lexicographer, descended from the same family.
The maiden name of his grandmother on the pater-
nal side was ]ane Garrison, who was a descendant
of the Garrisons and Coburns, both prominent
families" in Boston, Massachusetts, at the time of
the Revolutionary war. The paternal ancestry was
almost entirely of pure Anglo—SaXon blood, there



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THE U./VITED STATES BZOGIEAPHICAL DZCTZOZVARY. 253

being only a small admixture of Scotch blood by an
inter—marriage with a family named Kincaid on the
side of the paternal grandmother.

His maternal grandfather was Matthew Boyd,
Whose father emigrated from Ireland to America
about the year 1783 and settled near Carlisle, Penn-

sylvania. The Boyds were originally descended

from Scotch Presbyterians, who are supposed to have

settled in Ireland long anterior to the American
Revolution.

Mr. Webster’s early education was confined to
such branches as are taught in primary schools, his
studiousness making him a marked pupil. In later
years he devoted much of his leisure time to books,
and made up by hard study for those educational
advantages denied him in his youth. His first busi-
ness experience was in a post—office which his father
held for many years. There he manifested an apt-
itude for business unusual with boys of that age, and
earned a reputation for commercial ability which he
has ever since maintained.

When a mere lad he manifested a predilection
for the printing business, and when about sixteen
years of age began what was intended to be a regular
apprenticeship to that trade in the office of the
[W71/zer7z ]7m’z'a72z'a7z, at Warsaw. He was rapidly
acquiring proficiency as a practical printer, when
the civil war began in 1861. This changed his
entire programme, and the press-room was aban-
doned for the camp.

April I9, 1861, Mr. Webster enlisted asa private
in Co. E, 12th regiment Indiana Volunteer Infa.ntry,
for a year’s service. After six months’ service he
was made sergeant. The regiment was re-organized
at the end of the year and he was commissioned
second lieutenant of Co. F. Subsequently he was
detailed to duty as inspector-general on the staff of
General John Mason Loomis, commanding the 1st
brigade, Ist division 15th army corps, Army of the
Tennessee. In the spring of 1864 he was promoted
to captain of company A of the same regiment,
which position he held until the close of the war and
was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Indiana,
in June, 1865. While he was in service he was
a number of times judge-advocate of courts-martial
and recorder of military commissions in his division.
He participated in several of the most important
battles, and passed through the whole without
receiving a wound.

In his army experience, Captain Webster was
associated with his former patron, Reuben Williams,

editor and publisher of the ]V07’l‘}l€7’7Z ]mz’z'am'cm, who
enlisted as a private in the same company at the
beginning of the war, reached the rank of brigadier—
general, and on the declaration of peace resumed
his editorial duties on his old journal, where he still
remains. Upon the‘ occasion of a visit by Captain
Webster to his old home, General Williams thus
kindly alluded to him in his newspaper:

“Captain Edward H. Webster, of Kansas City,
Missouri," has been on a brief visit to his old home
in this city during the past week. We never see
Ed. but we are reminded of old times. In 1858,
when we were publishing this paper, young Ed.,
then a mere lad, came to this place from Laporte,
and “set in” with us to learn the “ art preservative,”
and with an industry unusual to one of his age,
labored night and day for the meager sum paid to
apprentices generally, in those days, up till the
breaking out of the war. The call for troops came
on the 15th day of April, 1861, and on that night
the names of ourself, Ed. Webster, Marsh. Parks
and Captain Sam. Boughter were enrolled as the
nucleus of the first company that went from this
county to aid in crushing the rebellion. During the
four years and a half of war that followed, we knew
him intimately and well 3 we have seen him—young
as he was—conduct himself in such a manner as to
win the praise of all his comrades and the approval
of his conduct by every superior officer in authority
over him. We watched his course with pride during
the war, and have kept an eye on him since its close,
with something akin to that of a father over his son
——were'such a thing possible 3 and it always afforded
us the utmost gratification to know that he always
proved himself worthy the high hopes we entertained
of him, and that in the peaceful walks of life he has
shown himself to be all that his friends ever claimed
—an honest, upright, patriotic citizen—true. to his
friends of former years and a worthy young man in
every particular. He will, doubtless, pardon any-
thing in this mention of him, coming from one who
has ever found him to be a faithful employé ; a
gallant and meritorious soldier; a true and steadfast
friend; and who rejoices in his prosperity.”

In the summer of 1865 Captain Webster began

C reading law in the office of Edgar Haymond, Esq.,

in Warsaw, Indiana, with a view of preparing him-
self for the legal profession. But the life of a law-
student there not suiting him, in the fall of 1865
he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, in company
of Major Henry A. White, a practicing attorney,
opened a law office and a general business agency
for the sale of real estate, collection of claims,
conveyancing and insurance-—all comprehended
under the title of real estate brokerage. In 1867
Captain Webster was regularly admitted to the prac-
tice of law.

A tinued in the profession for several years.

254 THE U./VITED STATES BIOG[\’.4P]2’[C/11, DICT/0./VAIBY.

He has always been a consistent," moderate
Republican—-one of those known in Missouri as a
“Gratz Brown Republican”—and voted for the
repeal of the Constitution of 1865. Since his resi-
dence in Kansas City he has been city assessor
and alderman. He is not exactly satisfied with
the religious faith of any denomination, hence is
not a church member, but has generally attended the
Presbyterian church. He has been a Mason since
1864. Ed. H. Webster and Miss Medora Richardson
Ferguson were married September 21, 1875. She
was the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Rodney
and Corrilla Ferguson. Her father descended, on
the paternal side, from Caesar Rodney, a signer of
the Declaration of Independence, and, on his
maternal side, from the same ancestry that produced

Nathaniel P. Willis and his sister Sarah Parker
Willis (Fanny Fern), and other eminent literati,
being a full cousin of the first named- The Cap-
tain’s union with Miss Ferguson promises quite as
much _connubial happiness as mortals are usually
permitted to enjoy. They have one child, a son,
named Edward Ferguson Webster, representing in
his Christian names his father and maternal grand-
father.

Captain Webster is a fine specimen of physical
manhood being of erect carriage, five feet eight
inches in height, robust and with a ruddy complex-
ion. Being a genial gentleman with warm impulses
he has many friends in social circles, while in busi-
ness communities he deserves the high character
which he holds. ”

COLONEL WINSLOW TURNER.

PL/1 TTSB Z/IRG.

December 12, I8o2, in Pembroke, Plymouth
county, Massachusetts. . His parents were Thomas
Turner, born August 24, 1778, a man of good edu-
cation and held in high esteem by all who knew
him, and Mercy Parris, a lady of good attainments.
Both were of Puritan stock.

Winslow Turner received aliberal education from
the private schools of his day, and extended his
knowledge by judicious reading and study. At
eighteen years of age he began teaching and con-
In 1833
he emigrated to Missouri and settled in Clay county,
where he taught school for several years and studied
law with a view to practicing. In 1840 he received
the appointment of clerk of county and circuit
courts "of Clinton county, and removed to Platts-
burg. Those offices he continued to hold for seven-
teen years, resigning in 18 57. .

During the administration of President Buchanan
he received the appointment of register of the land
office at Plattsburg, and retained his position for
about two years. In 1854 he was appointed by
President Pierce one of the examiners of West Point
cadets, having been at one time in the United States
service and holding a commission as colonel of

COLONEL WINSLOW TURNER was born

militia; About that time, also, he was elected a
representative to the Grand Division of the Sons of
Temperance, holding its session at St. Johns, New
Brunswick, of which order he was an ardent and
exemplary member. In 1858 he was selected to
represent Clinton county in the Legislature and
served’ one term with credit, being honored with
the position of Speaker pro tem. of the House- At
the close of this service, he returned to Plattsburg
and devoted himself to the practice of law during
the remainder of his life.

Politically, Colonel Turner was a Calhoun Dem-
ocrat. As a stump speaker, he was able and impres-

sive, and from his sterling worth and his active

participation in political" affairs, he came to be
exceedingly popular with the Democrats. of his sec-
tion.

Colonel Turner was twice married. His first
wife was Mrs. ' Sarah Palmer, a widow, whose
maiden name was Sarah Thatcher. She died Octo-
ber 3, 1840, without issue. On the 4th of Novem-
ber, r84I, he married Miss Emily Pollard, daughter
of Thomas Pollard, of Independence. By the last
marriage four children were born, two of whom
died in infancy, and two, Edward W. Turner, pres-
ent clerk of the Clinton Circuit Court, and Florence

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 255

May, who married Virgil R. Porter, a merchant of
Plattsburg, still survive. Colonel Turner died March
5, 1874, and his widow lived but one month longer.

The most prominent characteristic of Colonel
Turner was his rigid and unbending integrity. No
consideration of profit or emolument could tempt
him to forsake a principle or betray a trust. Scrupu—
lously honest, he was a man in whom the community
could place implicit confidence. Frank and out-
spoken, it was not difficult to tell what cause he
espoused, and although in the exercise of this trait
he sometimes made enemies, yet even his opponents
could not but admire the manly frankness and the
devotion to principle that marked his course. Atten-

tive to his business, exact in his work and methodic
in his movements, he made few mistakes, and left
every position he ever held with credit to himself
and to his family. Through a long public life he
preserved his character for honesty, consistency and
fidelity, and his fellow citizens felt at his death that
the world was better by his having lived. He was
buried with Masonic honors, of which benevolent
order he had long been a member, adorning the
principles of the order by his generosity, his liber-
ality and his unswerving uprightness. Though a
member of no religious society, he was a patron to
the church and to the schools, giving freely of his
meansito establish the one and maintain the other.

JOHN B. GORDON.

C01, UMBIA.

Madison county, Kentucky. His father, David
Gordon, was a shrewd, energetic young pioneer
from North Carolina, who came to Kentucky at an
early day and laid the basis of a considerable fortune,
which he accumulated in after life. Settling in
Madison county, he married Miss Jane Boyle, sister

TOHN BOYLE GORDON was born in Milford,

of John Boyle, Chief Justice of Kentucky, and the-

man for whom Boyle county was afterward named.
Mrs. Adams, mother of Washington Adams, late of
the Supreme Court of Missouri, is also another sister.‘

Young Gordon evinced early in life an ardent
desire for an education, but his father frowned upon
these efforts in his son, as an education in those days
was considered unimportant by the masses. In
accordance with this View of the matter, he was
placed in the fields side by side with his father’s
negroes,to aid in guiding the plow and gathering the
crops. There was a standing joke told of him as he
grew older, by his younger brothers and playfellows,
which was that “]ack’s plow-horse was usually
belled so as to let his father know when he was
legitimately employed or whether he was lying prone
under a favorite elm at the end of the turning-row
indulging in ideal dreams of future distinction and
watching the ‘swallows homeward fly.”’ There

was but little congenialty in these pursuits for the ~

youth, who longedfor a different theater in life.

He plodded along for a time, availing himself of the
33

advantages of going to the neighboring schools dur-
ing the winter months and laboring through the busy
seasons. Finally, as a means of resource, he sought
employment in teaching, and after a length of time,
procured sufficient means to place himself at Tran-
sylvania University. This institution was located at
Lexington, Kentucky, and was twenty-five miles.
from his father’s home. In Visiting his parents, he
invariably walked the distance to save expense.
He was under the charge of the famous Horace

‘Holly, who was at this time president of the insti-

tute.

He was one of the most brilliant men of that
age, and a few ‘years later this eminent man left
Kentucky and went to New Orleans, and soon after
died near the Keys of Florida, on his passage to
Europe. He was succeeded in the presidency sub-
sequently, if notimmediately, by Henry B. Bascum,
who might be styled the Cicero of American elo-
quence, who corruscated through the moral firm-
ament of that age with meteoric splendor.

Mr. Gordon spent two years at the institute,
being limited to that period by Want of means. He

I then turned to the haunts of his boyhood, unsatis-

fied and at a loss to know what to do, feeling that it
would be useless to apply to his father for assistance.
In this sore dilemma, he boldly approached W. H.
Caperton, an eminent lawyer of the Richmond bar,
and made known his desire to study the law and his

256 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

straitened condition. Mr. Caperton generously
responded to his appeal, giving him all the aid
and instruction in his power, allowing him the privi-
lege of reimbursing’ the funds at such time as he
should feel able. Completing the course, he was
admitted to the bar. He was so fortunate as to
secure an association in the practice with Colonel

John Speed Smith, one of Kentucky’s ablest lawyers ~

and- brother—in-law of Cassius M. Clay, at one time
Minister to Russia. Success from this on seemed to
guide the young man’s progress in life.

After a few years of successful practice, he mar-
ried‘ Miss Sophia Hawkins, daughter of Nicholas
Hawkins, a well-to—do farmer who had emigrated
from Virginia at an early day.

In the fall of 1826, David Gordon, the father of
our subject, who now had a large family of sons and
daughters growing up around him, concluded, like
the patriarchs of old, to take up his tent and seek
new homes for his children and enlarged possessions
for himself, being still in the vigor of his manhood.
John concluded to join the traveling vans of his
father’s family, stock and negroes, and also seek a
newer country with which to identify his interests.
Missouri was the promised land, and Columbia,
which at this time contained but a few huts and
some two or three habitable buildings, was selected
as a location for a home. The choice portions of

‘the State at this time were rapidly filling up with a

heavy emigration of the best people from the States
of Kentucky and Virginia, Boone especially getting
a large qmia from Kentucky. Like all new coun-
tries, the absorbing topic with the people was politics.-
T here were in those days but the two parties, Whig
and Democrat, each struggling for the ascendancy.
Mr. Gordon, appearing upon the scene at this junc-
ture, being of strong Whig proclivities, with preemi-
nent abilities as a public speaker, threw himself into
the political breach. It was a close contest whether‘
Boone should be Whig or Democrat. Finally, John
B. Gordon carried the county into the Whig ranks,
and became a popular leader of that party, being
elected‘ to the state legislature five successive terms,
from 1830 extending to 1840, and never beaten.

About this period, he was 8.SSOCl3.li‘:’d in the practice _

of his profession with Austin A. King, who was
strongly Democratic in his tendencies, the partners
being at one time both candidates for the same office
and representing opposite parties and principles, Mr.
Gordon obtaining the victory. King subsequently.
received the appointment of circuit judge -of the

Ray district from a_ Democratic administration, and
removed thither, and was afterward-nominated by
his party and elected Governor of the State.

At that early day it was as much of an honor to
be elected to the state legislature as it would be now
to be a representative in the‘Federal House of Con-
gress. Consequently there were many hard fought
battles and labored political campaigns. Mr. Gor-
don was contemporary in the Missouri Legislature

with such men as Edward Bates, Henry S. Geyer,

Hamilton R. Gamble, Judge Leonard, Jo. Davis,
and in his later years with Jas. S. Rollins. In con-
junction with these men, he aided in creating some

of the most beneficial statutes of the state, among _

which stands out conspicuously Woman’s‘ Dower Law.
In 1839 and 1840 the great contest for the loca-
tion of the State University between the counties of
Cole, Cooper, Callaway, Boone and Howard, came
off, which, by legislative enactment, had been offered
to the county among those named which would make
the largest private subscription for buildings, etc.
The finest speakers were prevailed upon to canvass
the counties for this purpose. “Jack” Gordon, as

he was familiarly called by his friends, was selected ’

to canvass the county of Boone, and he proved to
be a tower of strength in the accomplishment of the
desired object.
convinced that it was with no sordid purpose or
selfish motive he pleaded for money. Drawing
immense crowds everywhere to listen to his plead-
ings, he was assisted somewhat in this work by
others, but more especially by his talented young
friend, Jas. S. Rollins, who was then a rising young
lawyer just growing into the notice of the people.
They went hand in hand in the noble work, and
through. their combined efforts there resulted aisub-‘
scription by Boone county unprecedented in any age
or country for any purpose. '

Boone came off the.victor,receiving the location.

To-day the final result stands proudly in our midst, V

and while we still have among us a few of the aiders
of this noble work, the silver—toned eloquence of
him to whom we are more largely indebted than any
other for these grand results has long been hushed in
the silence of the tomb. It was about this time that
Mr. Gordon was fitting his younger brother, James
M. Gordon, for the bar, who became in after years
a very prominent man, and whose long and faithful
services will be gratefully remembered by all Central
Missouri. ,

In the year 1840 Mr. Gordon, who had now

The people knew the man, and felt -

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been in the political harness for ten or twelve years
successively, concluded to make an extended visit to
the state of his nativity, and after reaching ~Ken-
tucky,he was induced by his friends to remain there.
Whilst in that state, he resumed the practice of his
profession, but was principally engaged in instruct-
ing young men in the law, who flocked to him from
different portions of the state, some of whom have
since attained to eminence, one of whom we will
mention——Samuel.Miller, a native of Kentucky, but
now one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Remaining but two or three years
in Kentucky, Mr. Gordon returned to his adopted
state, resuming only partially the practice of law.
Now and then, as a matter of friendship, he was pre-
vailed upon to engage in some important case. He
retired still quite young from public life, seeking
quietude among his books and children, whom it
was his delight to lecture and instruct, and here, as
well as in Kentucky, young men sought him out and
would be instructed in the law—a vocation which
was altogether congenial with his tastes.

Mr. Gordon had six children, four of whom were
sons and two daughters. Martha, the eldest of the
daughters, married judge Robert H. Clinkscales,
formerly a prominent business man of Carrollton,
Missouri, but now of Columbia, who served for a
short time as judge of the Boone County Court,
which, from "press of private business, he was forced
to resign 3 and it is to the kindness of Mrs. Clink-
scales that we are indebted for the material of this
sketch. Ida, the second daughter, married Profes-
sor Oren Root, jr., an eminent educator in Central
Missouri, who formerly occupied a chair in the State
University in the fie//es-/ez‘z‘7’es department. Boyle

Gordon, the eldest son, has been an ableipractitioner
at the bar in Columbia for the last twenty years, but
is now a professor of law in the State University.
Emmett, the second son, was a young man of most
brilliant promise,and had been admitted to the prac-
tice under the brightest auspices. At this juncture,
he was swept away with the mad excitement of the
California gold frenzy 3 falling ill on the route, away
from home and medical aid, fever, like a pall, settled
on a brain that would have made its impression on
this age, but strange are the ways of an overruling
Providence. This extraordinary intellect has since
remained paralyzed in the thralldom of lunacy. Well-
lington and Carey Gordon, the younger sons, are
practitioners of the Columbia bar, and of fine ability.

Mr. Gordon had never made a profession of
religious faith, but around his family hearthstone he
frequently and freely expressed his utmost reverence
and belief in the Christian religion. He was actively
benevolent, responding to all public demands, and
privately and unostentatiously he was the friend

and advocate of the poor and friendless.
After this brief summary of facts in the history of

john Boyle Gordon, we will close by adding a com-

pliment passed upon him by his companion and
friend, judge Abiel Leonard, on hearing of Mr.
Gordon’s death, which took place on his farm near
Columbia on the 13th of February, 1853, at the age
of fifty-five years: “ In my professional intercourse
with ‘]ack,”’ said Mr. Leonard, “for the last
twenty years, he was one of the strongest men in a
close argument I ever met. He was most powerful
and overwhelming before a jury. In a word, sir,
he was one of the finest orators I ever heard in this

' or any country.”

JOHN WRIGHT WILSON.

LEBANON.

OHN W. WILSON was born Februrary 3, 1852,

in Sheffield, England. He is the son of Wright

and Theresa Wilson, of Sheffield. His father is a

physician of prominence and skill, being a member

of the Royal College of Surgeons. The subject of
this sketch is the second son.

John W. Wilson attended the common schools of

Sheffield until he was thirteen years of age, when he i

was placed under the instruction of private tutors,
studying medicine, chemistry and collateral branches.
When eighteen years of age he entered the estab-
lishment of Joseph Haywood & Co., Glamorgan
Works,‘ Sheffield, cutlery and hardware manufac-
turers, where he remained until he was twenty-two,
acquiring a complete knowledge of the business.
Leaving this house, he secured a position as manager

258 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

of the table-knife department in the Tiga works of
Messrs. Deakin, Reuss & Co., and held the place
for one year.

Love of adventure and a desire to try his fortune
in the New World, induced him to leave England,
and he arrived in America in October, 1875. He
and his brother purchased over three hundred acres
of land in Laclede county, and located there with
the intention of farming. The monotony of farm
life was unsuited to his active and enterprising tem-
perament, and he determined to embark in some
other pursuit. Accordingly, he sold out his interest
inthe farm, and immediately began the erection of

a grain elevator in Lebanon. He thus brought him-

self in direct contact with the farmers of the county,
and became popular by the affability of his manners
and the correctness of his deportment. In addition
to his operations in grain, he is also engaged in the
agricultural implement business, carrying the heavi-
est stock between St. Louis and Springfield. Though
but twenty—siX years old, he has already established
a business reputation of which more experienced

_ operators might well feel proud.

Politically, Mr. Wilson is a Democrat, though he
takes no active part in politics. He is a member of
the Episcopal church. Mr. VVilson is of medium
height, ruddy complexion, genial disposition, and
prepossessing appearance. He is unmarried.

GENERAL JAMES KERR PROUDFIT.

KANSAS CITY.

AMES KERR PROU DFIT was born at Argyle,
Washington county, New York, July 24, 1831.
His father’s name was James Proudfit, and his

mother’s maiden name was Maria Amelia Jane Kerr.
His paternal grandfather was Andrew Proudfit, a
physician and son of James Proudfit a Presbyterian
minister, who came to Argyle, New York, from
Argyleshire, in the Highlands of Scotland, in 1752.
The parents of James K. were honest and respecta-
ble people , his father was an honorable and esteemed
merchant, who suffered severe and irreparable losses
during the great financial panic of 1837. His father
died February 21, 1839, and his ‘mother died Janu-
ary 28, I85o, at Delafield, Wisconsin.

He was educated in a country school and in the
Argyle Academy, until his twelfth year, when his
widowed mother removed to W isconsin, here he
learned the trade of a miller, but did not pursue it
long on account of a tendency to weak lungs. When
he and his mother removed from New York state
and reached Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 17,
1843, it was but a small hamlet. They first settled
in Brookfield, Milwaukee county, now Waukesha
county, where they remained until the spring of 1846,
when they removed to Delafield, W aukesha county.
After leaving school, he worked on a farm in Wis-
consin, attending chiefly to the live stock. In Feb-
ruary, I855, he removed to Madison, Wisconsin,
where he resided until September, 1872. He has one

brother, Hon. Andrew Proudfit, vice-president of
the First National Bank of Madison, Wisconsin.

He was married on September 20, 1855, to Miss
Emilie Theresa Kreuz, who was born near Prague,
the capital of Bohemia, Austria, March 16, 1835.
Mr. and Mrs. Proudfit have had ten children, six of
whom survive, two sons and four daughters. The

sons are named James Delamark, who was born July

I2, 1858, now teller of the Second National Bank,
Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Herbert Kerr, born
November r9, 1860, now at school. The children
were all born in Madison, Wisconsin. The younger
daughters, Isabel, Grace and Julia, are attending
school. The oldest daughter, Maria Theresa, born
August I, 1856, was married to Mr. James T. New-
hall, on May I, 1876, at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In r872_ he was appointed surveyor-general for

I New Mexico, and removed to Santa Fe in Septem-

ber of that year. In 1876 he removed to Emporia,
Kansas, and in 1877 to Kansas City, where he is
engaged in the live stock business.

Mr. Proudfit moved to Madison in 1855, ‘where
he became half owner and joint editor with E. A.
Calkins, Esq., of the Argus and Demormz‘, daily,-
tri-weekly and weekly, a Democratic newspaper of
influence and importance. They were also state
printers. In 18 57 he sold his interest to his partner.
In the spring of 1858 he was elected city treasurer of
Madison, Wisconsin, and served creditablv. From

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this time until 1861 he interested himself in various
speculations. Previous to going to Madison he was
at different times employed in stores at Milwaukee,
Manitowoc, W aupun and Appleton, in the last place
with William McNaughton & Co, who built the
Grand Chute dam, bulkhead and locks for the
Improvement Company, and at Waupun he assisted
his brother and Mr. Hobkirk in building the north
wing of the state prison.

He entered the army as a private soldier at the
beginning of the war, in Company K., Governor’s
Guard, Madison, Wisconsin. He was elected by his
comrades ensign, equivalent to second lieutenant,
commissioned as such by Governor A. W .. Randall,
and served four months. On the 27th of Septem-
ber, I86I, Governor Randall appointed and com-
missioned him as lieutenant and adjutant of the 12th
Wisconsin Infantry, for three years’ service. He
served with the regiment with distinction, always at
the front and with the men. After the fall of Vicks-
burg, July 4, 1863, he was appointed and co1nmis—
sioned lieutenant—colonel by Governor Solomon, and
in the autumn of 1864 was appointed colonel by
Governor James T. Lewis and received his com1nis-
sion when General Sherman took Savannah, “all of
which he saw and a part of which he was.” After
the march through the Carolinas, and the surrender
of General J. E. Johnston at Chapel Hill, he went
to Washington with Sherman’s army, and, with his
regiment, took part in the great review in May,
1865. In March of that year he was commissioned
a brigadier-general of volunteers, by brevet, “for
gallantry, long and faithful service during the war.”

After remaining some time at VVashington, his
command was ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and

MAJOR B. L.

placed in camp, afterwards to Madison, Wisconsin,
mustered out of service and honorably discharged.
His final discharge is dated August 9, I865. The
regiment veteranized at Natchez, Mississippi, in
1864, and numbered 538 enlisted men. The record
shows that it was the largest regiment of veteran
infantry in the army, east or west.

In the autumn of I86 5 he was elected state sen-
ator from the capital district of Wisconsin, and
served as such for two years, with the warm and
general approbation of his constituents. He suc-
ceeded General Augustus Gaylord, as adjutant-gene-
ral of Wisconsin, May I, 1866, by appointment from
Governor Lucius Fairchild. After closing the mili-
tary records of the state connected with the war, he
resigned this office and in 1867 accepted the general
agency of the Madison Mutual Insurance Company,
which he held until appointed surveyor-general for
New Mexico by President Grant in 1872.

He has been a Mason and Knight Templar since
I856—has been repeatedly W. M. of his mother
Lodge, Hiram No. 50, of Madison, Wisconsin, also
Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commandery of
Wisconsin. He is a Knight of Pythias, made in
1877, in Sicilian Lodge, No. 39, in Kansas City.
He was a Democrat before the war of the rebellion;
during the war he was known as a War Democrat,
and has since been a strict Republican. He is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal church. He
has traveled extensively over the United States and
territories east of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

General Proudfit is a good accountant and busi-
ness man, and has given faithful attention to the
education of his children, so far as his means would
admit.

WOODSON.

KANSAS‘ CITY.

BLAKE L. WOODSON was born in that part of
Virginia which is now Roanoke /county, on the
25th of May, 1835. His father, William Woodson,
was a native of the same state, a descendant of the
original Virginia family of Woodson. William
Woodson was connected with the Jeffersons and
Dandridges of the Old Dominion, and was also a
blood relative of Thomas Jefferson. The first of

his name who came to America, emigrated from
England many years prior to the Revolutionary war
as proprietaries of King James, and settled in the
latter part of his reign on a grant from the king in
what afterwards became Cumberland county, Vir-
ginia. The mother of Major Woodson, Martha
Gilbert Haythe, was the daughter of William H.
and Mary (Moorman) Haythe, of Campbell county,

260 _ THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

Virginia. The family was an extensive one and
connected with the most prominent personages and
officials of the state.

Blake L. VVoodson, their son, received a prepar-
atory education near home and then entered Lynch-
burg College, whence he graduated with the degree
of A. B. in 1859. ' He then a.ttended the law school
in the University of Virginia one year, where he
graduated in the junior class, not offering for the
senior. Afterward he enjoyed theadvantage of a
course of legal lectures by Judge John C. Brocken-
brough, at Lexington, Virginia. He was admitted
to practice by judges Marshal, Daniel and Wingfield
and returned to Lynchburg, where he began the
practice of his profession.

In 1862 when Virginia passed the ordinance of
secession and war was declared against her by the
United States, Mr. Woodson recruited the first mili-
tary company organized in that city for the Confed-
erate States. On reaching Norfolk the company
was assigned to light artillery service. He served
for one year around and at Norfolk, Virginia, and
afterward in Western Virginia under General]. B.
Floyd. He was subsequently under Generals Breck-
enridge, VVilliam E. Jones and jubal A. Early. In
the meantime he had been promoted to the rank
of Major and brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel.. The
Major was wounded at the battle of Piedmont,
Virginia, in July, 1864, and taken prisoner, but
paroled on account of his wound and subsequently
exchanged, and rejoined his command under Gen-
eral Early, where he served until disbanded in May,
1865. .

At the close of the war Major Woodson reviewed
his legal studies at Fincastle, in his native state, and
regularly began the practice at Botetoust Court House
and surrounding counties, where he continued dur-
ing the years 1865-6. He then moved to the
adjoining county of Craig and practiced there a
short time.

In 1868 he was elected to the Virginia House of
Delega-tes from Allegheny and Craig counties by the
Conservative party against the Radical candidate.
Virginia was at this time under United States mili-
tary authority and Major-General Canby, command-
ing, decided that the members elect could not
convene for legislation without taking the “iron-clad
oath”——which of course he with many others could
not do, having participated in the war of the Rebel-
lion in the Confederate army. They were, however,
permitted to meet and adopt certain “reconstruc-

tion ” measures which they did by ratifying the 14th
and 15th amendments to the National Constitution,
and then adjourned. ' The matter of the oath to be
taken was referred to the Secretary of War at Wash-
ington who instructed General Canby to permit the
regular meeting of the Legislature upon the members
taking what was known as the “modified oath”
After nearly a year wasted, the body met and the
state legislature began in 1869.

In that body Major Woodson was chairman of
one of the important standing committees of the
house. He was a strong opponent of any settle-
ment of the state debt unless it was first adjusted
with West Virginia on an equitable basis. That
session of the legislature was the first after the war,
and continued until 1871.

.Major Woodson, to carry out a long cherished
plan, in july, 1871, came west.
Louis and then Kansas City. The latter place suit-
ing him best, he located there, and his family joined
him the following October. Soon after settling in
Kansas City, the Major formed a law partnership
with R. E. Cowan, Esq., (afterward and now judge
of the Law and Equity Court,) which partnership
continued until the election of Mr. Cowan to the
bench. In April, 1873, he associated with himself
Milton Moore, Esq., which association was dissolved
in February, 1877.

A leading member of the bench of Kansas City,
long and intimately acquainted with him, has favored
us with the following short but true pen-picture of
Major Woodson:

“Socially, he is kind, gentle and genial. Pas-
sionately fond of little children, he is never so happy
as when surrounded by them, and contributing to
their pleasure and enjoyment,'always entering into
their sports with zest. Of such a_ character it is
hardly necessary to say that he is devoted to his
friends. ~

“ As a lawyer, "and especially as a criminal law-
yer, he stands in the front rank of his profession in
Western Missouri, and is distinguished for the untir-
ing energy and zeal with which he devotes himself
to his clients. He has of late years become promi-
nently connected with nearly all of the important
state trialsin jackson and adjoining counties, and in
all has been distinguished for his legal acumen, his
skill in defence, his great resources and calm, cool
judgment. As a speaker——both at the bar and on
the hustings——he has few equals and fewer superiors
in Western Missouri. .

“ While he is a Democrat of the old Jacksonian
school and devoted to his party, he has rarely taken
any active part in politics since he settled in Mis-
souri; but whenever he has done so he has displayed

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THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DZCTIOZVAZBY. 261

ability in that direction of a very high order. He
has frequently been urged for various official posi-
tions, but has invariably declined to yield to the
solicitations of his friends.” "

Major B. L. Woodson was married to Miss Leila
W. Word, of Fincastle, VVirginia, in October, 1869.

She was the second daughter of Colonel -W. E. M.

Word, who was a member of the Virginia Senate

and of the Legislature for many years, and was also
one of the trustees of the University of Virginia.
Mrs. Woodson died in Kansas City August 19,.
1871, and her only child, then about one year old,
died a few days after. Mr. W'oodson is a member
of the Academy of Science of Kansas City, and is
also a Knight of Pythias. He_ was raised in the
Episcopalian faith and still inclines thereto.

EDWARD WINSLOW TURNER.

PLATTSBURG.

DWARD WINSLOW TURNER, son of Wins-
E low Turner, was born November 26, 1845, in
Plattsburg. After receiving_such instruction as the
schools of his section afforded, he attended West-
minister College, Fulton, Missouri, but the war
coming on during his studentship, the school was
temporarily suspended, and he then began the print-
ing business, at which he worked in St. Louis,
Leavenworth and Plattsburg for three and a half
years. He afterward went to Louisville, Kentucky,
where he worked at his trade and acted as clerk of
the St. Cloud Hotel for over two years. Returning
home at the end of that time, he read law with his
father and Thomas ]. Porter. He was admitted to
the bar by Judge Philander Lucas, in October, 1867,

and afterward associated himself with his father and
Mr. Porter in the law firm of Turner, Porter & Tur-i
ner.

In this firm he continued for about fivejyears,‘

doing a large and lucrative practice. In the fall of
1870 he was elected to represent Clinton county in
the legislature, when just twenty-four years old.

Notwithstanding some five hundred Democrats of

the county were disfranchised and the fight was
very bitter, he was chosen by a handsome majority.
He made an active, ‘attentive and valuable member
of that body. Having served out the term for which
he was elected, he returned home and in the fall was
chosen clerk of the Clinton Circuit Court. His
time expires January I, 1879.

BURWELL GOODE WILKERSON, A. M.

SEDALZA.

URWELL GOODE WILKERSON was born
B in Warren county, Ohio, May II, 1836, and
was the oldest of eight children. He is the son of
Charles N. Wilkerson and Martha A. Goode, both
natives of Warren county. Their parents were from
Virginia,and were of W elsh-English extraction. They
settled in Warren county when Ohio was admitted
into the Union in 1802. Both of Mr. Wilkerson’s
grandfathers held local offices and were highly
respected citizens. His maternal grandfather, Goode,
was county commissioner and justice of the peace
for many years. A ’

Burwell G. Wilkerson was educated at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1860, and the degree of Master
of Arts in 1864. In 1860 he began the study of
law, and in March, i862, was admitted to the bar
at Columbus Ohio, by the supreme court. He
commenced the practice of his profession in Clinton
county, Ohio, where he remained for several years.
In February, 1867, he moved to Sedalia, in which

city he has been pursuing his professional calling to ’

the present time (1878).
In January, 1868, he was appointed county

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attorney for Pettis county, and held that position
until January, 1873, when the office was abolished
by the legislature. He was also city attorney for
two terms.

In 1866 he was admitted to Clarksville (Ohio)
Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He is now a charter
member of the Granite Lodge, organized in Sedalia
in February, 1868, and was Master of the Lodge in
1872. He was High Priest of Sedalia Royal Arch
Chapter in 1870. In 1871-2 he was Eminent Com-
mander of St. Omar Commandery. He is now
Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Commandery
of the state. -In politics Mr. Wilkerson is a pro-
nounced Republican.’ He was reared under Meth-
odist influences, but has never united with a church,
believing that Christianity does not consist. in out-
ward forms and ceremonies.

He was married August 17, 1870, to Miss Sarah

TATE U./VITED ‘STA TES B[0G[€.4PH]C.4L DICTIO./VARY.

E. Doolittle, daughter of the late John T. Doolittle,
a lawyer of Painesville, Ohio. Her grandfather,
Joel Doolittle, was for many years, from 1817 to
1830, one of the judges of the supreme court of
Vermont. By his marriage with Miss Doolittle three
children have been born, two of whom, boys, survive.

He is of medium height, with a refined and
intelligent expression of countenance. He is frank,
honest, candid and upright, even his enemies being
judges. He is a man of decided opinions, which
he expresses on proper occasions boldly and fear-
lessly. As a lawyer he stands high with the profes-
sion, and is admitted to be a man of ability. He is
not a fluent speaker, but is well read in law and is
possessed of clear, sound judgment. Socially he is
affable and a welcome companion. He is full of
humor and desires to see all about him happy. He
is kind and liberal, resolute and persevering.

ANDREW WALKER MCALESTER, A. M., M. D.

C01. UMBIA.

NDREW W. MCALESTER was born, Janu-
A ary I, 1841, in Rocheport, Boone county,
Missouri. He is the son of Brightberry McAlester,
who was born, October 26, 1809, in Simpson county,
Kentucky. His grandfather, James G. McAlester,
was a native of Virginia, of English stock, and
moved to Kentucky when quite a young man 3 mar-
ried the daughter of Congreve and Martha Jackson,
of Clark county, Kentucky. He died in Simpson
county, Kentucky, in 1818, having followed the
occupation of a farmer during life. His widow
subsequently moved to Howard county, Missouri,
and died in 1834, being then fifty years old. James
G. McAlester had five children: Nathaniel, who died
in Johnson county, Missouri, at the age of thirty-
three, Fannie, who married Robert Rudolph, of
Johnson county, Missouri; William, who died in
Sebastian county, Arkansas; "Tempy, married and
died without heirs; Brightberry, who still resides in
Columbia, Missouri The latter removed with his
mother to Howard county. After her death he
changed his residence to Rocheport, Boone county,
and engaged in milling. He pursued this calling
until his mill was destroyed by fire, when he was

' employed as a carpenter and joiner, building a large

number of the churches in Boone county. 111 1845
he moved to Columbia and is now (1878) engaged
in the lumber business. Brightberry McAlester was
married, in 1833, to Miss Mary Ann Walker, who
was born near Wheeling, Virginia, in 1811. She is
the daughter of Andrew Walker and Martha Brown,
both of Irish descent, and the only surviving mem-

ber of a family of nine children. The other members‘

of her family are Martha, who married John Brown,
of Virginia, Isabella, who married Gabriel Hicks,
of Boone county, Missouri, Sallie, who married
John Hood, of Saline county, Fannie, who married
D. D. Buie, of Saline county; Samuel, George,
Andrew and ‘James. By the marriage of Bright-
berry McAlester and Mary Ann Walker, there were
born five children: James N., born July 28, 1834,
who was killed by a boiler explosion on board the
steamer “Saluda,” near Lexington, Missouri; Mary
F. and Sarah, twins, born March 1, 1836, the former
marrying James R. Hukill, of Boone county, and
the latter dying in 18 52 3 Martha T., who married
James D. Bowling, of Boone county, and Andrew
W., the youngest of the family.

Andrew W. McAlester, the subject of this sketch,
was reared in Boone county, and had all the advan-

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tages of excellent educational training. He attended
the connnon schools until prepared for a collegiate
course, when he entered the State University at
Columbia and graduated with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts in the summer of 1864. In the fall of the
same year, having chosen his profession and given
some attention to the study of medical works, he
attended the lectures at Rush Medical College, in
Chicago, returning to Columbia in the following
spring to resume his studies. 4 In the fall of 1865 he
attended the lectures at St. Louis Medical College,

graduating from that institution with the degree of

Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1866, and
returned to Columbia to begin the practice of his
profession. He spent six months of the year 1867
in the hospitals of New York city, which brought
him in contactiwith almost every character of dis-
ease and every variety of surgical operation. I11 the

"summer of the same year the "University conferred

on him the degree of Master of Arts. Returning
from New York, he resumed practice in Columbia.
It was not long before the people of that section
recognized his great merit as a physician and _sur-
geon, and a lucrative practice was at once within his
grasp.

In 1872, on the establishment of the medical
department of the University, he was elected to the
chair of Obstetrics and Surgery, a position which he
has ever since filled with credit to himself and honor

to the University. When the duties of his professor-
ship permit, he continues the practice of his profes-
sion, and has earned a high reputation as a successful
practitioner and skillful surgeon.

Dr. McAlester is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and also of the Masonic
fraternity. In politics he was a Whig until the
extinction of that party, and has since acted with
the Democracy.

Dr. McAlester has been twice married. His first
wife was Miss Mary E. Berry, daughter of Major D.
D. Berry, of Springfield, Missouri, whom he mar-
ried December 2r, 1869. She died in 1870, less
than a year after marriage. In May, 1873, he was
married to Miss Sallie McConathy, a daughter of
the late James McConathy, of Columbia. She was
born in Kentucky_in 1841. Her mother’s maiden
name was Peniston, who was also a native of Ken-
tucky. By the last marriage Dr. McAlester has one
child, Andrew Walker McAlester, jr., who was born
February 19, 1876, in Columbia.

In the spring of 1873 Dr. McAlester visited
Europe to improve his knowledge of the medical
science in the best schools of that country. He
visited London, England, Heidelberg, Germany,
and Paris, France, gathering useful information in
those centers of intelligence. No man in the pro-
fession in Missouri ranks higher as a physician, an
instructor and a Christian citizen than h_e.

COLONEL THEODORE BRACE.

PARIS.

HEODORE BRACE, one of the prominent
T attorneys of the bar at Paris, Monroe county,
Missouri‘, is another of the self—made men peculiar
to the United States, we say so, because no other
country on the globe offers such advantages to deter-
mined young men, and because it seems no other
people have that determined ambition to “do or
die.” And we call Mr. Brace a self-made man
because since fifteen years of age, when he began
clerking in a wholesale house, he has been the carver
of his own destiny, and has made it an honorable one.

He was born in June, 1835, in Allegheny county,
Maryland, and was educated at Cumberland, in that
state; bugtl left school at the age of fifteen to enter

the clerkship already referred to. After clerking for
some time, he accepted the position of deputy in the
circuit clerk’s office of ‘ his native state, where he
remained about six months. It would appear he
had an excellent reputation, not only as a clerk, but
as a trustworthy young man, for he was offered the
position of bankclerk, which he accepted and per-
formed its duties so acceptably that he was retained
three years.

. During all this time, since he left school, he
improved every opportunity for gaining knowledge
and storing his mind with such material as would
enable him, after while, to be of some use to society
and an honor to his family. Having prepared him-

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self therefor, as thoroughly as his situation and cir-
cumstances would allow, he utilized every spare hour
in the zealous reading of law, and having studied
successfully, in 1856 he was admitted to practice in
his native town. Almost immediately afterwards he
went to Bloomfield, Iowa, where, however, he
remained only a few months, and in January, 1857,
settled in Paris, where he has since resided.
Immediately on arriving in Paris, he opened a
law office and vigorously pursued his practice. So
zealous was he in his professional duties, and so
zealous of the interests of his clients, that he soon
won his way to the front rank of that bar, .and built
up quite a lucrative practice. '
But in 1861 the tocsin of war called him from
his office to defend his principles upon the field of
His was no mercenary motive , for he was
quitting an honorable profession and a handsome
competence, with all the comforts of peace, for the
tented field, the bivouac, the wearisome march, the
danger of battle and a‘ southern soldier’s pay. He
had ever been an advocate and ardent supporter of
the principle of States Rights —so dear to southern
hearts 3 besides he felt a strong and manly sympathy
for the section of the Union that was now about to
baptize that time-honored principle with their best
blood—a people among whom he had been born
and spent his happy youth. Laying aside everything
else, he actively engaged in raising a regiment for

the Confederate service, which was soon accom-
plished, owing to his personal popularity, and the 3d
Missouri Cavalry was soon marching to the front
with him as its colonel. After several skirmishes in
Northeast Missouri he crossed the Missouri river
and was assigned to duty with Harris’ brigade, and
at Lexington, Missouri, in September, 1861, his
regiment was in the line that made the final assault
upon the enemies works, to which the flag of,‘ truce
came, that resulted in the capitulation of Mulligan
with all his forces. After the battle of Lexington the
3d- Missouri figured conspicuously in the southwest
campaign, including the memorable battle of Pea
Ridge, in Arkansas. Shortly after this battle, while
lying sick, he was captured by the United States

forces and taken to Myrtle-street prison, St. Louis, _

where he remained sick about a month before "being
paroled. Returning to Paris, he resumed the prac~
tice of law, as his shattered health forbade him
going back into service. ’

In 1874 Colonel Brace was elected to the Mis—-
souri state senate by about two thousand majority.
He is a Democrat of the old school, and one of the
best orators in the state and a skillful debater; a
sterling gentleman, of elegant address, of unusual
firmness and decision of character, but withal manly,
brave and true to the nobler promptings of his
nature, and whether on the rostrum or field, ever
ready to battle for the right.

I-ION. DANIEL s. TWITCHELL.

KANSAS CITY.

ANIEL S. TWITCHELL was born in the
D town of Scio, Washtenaw county, Michigan,
and was the youngest son of Jonas and Sarah W.
Twitchell; his paternal grandfather served in the
Revolutionary war, on the maternal side he is a
descendant of an orthodox Quaker family, distin-
guished for energy and intellectual vigor, claiming
among its members an author and a preacher of
ability. At the tender age of fourteen, whilst yet a
feeble convalescent from a most dangerous illness,
that greatest of all calamities that can befall a young
person of either sex visited the family and changed
the happiness and prospects of a once united and
prosperous home circle" to sorrow and gloom———the

death of an estimable Christian mother; Bordering
on despair, household idols shattered, interests
divided, children separated and too often estranged,
at such a time the World opens hard and drear to
the vision of a young man or woman.‘ Thus We find
the youthful Daniel in a few short months removed
from all the tender and endearing home influences,
and commencing the battle.of life as a day laborer to
a thrifty farmer at twelve dollars per month. How
carefully he hoarded his little earnings, and when the
magnificent sum of sixty-five dollars was accumulated
he started to Oberlin, Ohio, where he entered col-
lege, working nights and at odd times for wages to
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as a student the next. Next we find the bright,
energetic boy reading law at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
entering the law department of the college and grad-
uating With high honors. He located in the town
of Ann Arbor, practicing law there for five years,
during which time he was elected to the offices of
city recorder and circuit court commissioner, and
also prosecuting attorney.

At the breaking out of the rebellion he received
a captain’s commission, raised a company of men
and promptly reported his readiness to the Governor
—but a severe mental malady and illness, threaten-
ing the life and reason of his beloved wife, forced
him to forego a soldier’s fortunes; he resigned his
commission, but did service in the provost marshal’s
department, at Jackson, Michigan, until the close of
the war.

In May, 1865, he removed to Kansas City, Mis-
souri, where he is now residing. In politics he is a’
staunch and determined Republican, so unflinching
and honest in his convictions and principles as to
challenge the admiration and sincere respect of his
political opponents, among whom he possesses many
He is a disciple of the sub-
lime and mysterious craft of Free Masonry, and
wears the sword and waving "plume of a Red Cross
Knight, and is also a member in good standing of
the gallant order of Knights of Pythias.

In 1869 he was elected city attorney and coun-
selor, and in the year 1872 was the Republican
nominee for Congress, again in 1874 he received
the nomination for the attorney—generalship, and in
1876 was the congressional nominee for the Kansas

City district. Notwithstanding the district is hope-
lessly Democratic, he led the forlorn hope through
these battles, maintaining the dignity and organiza-
tion of his party with that valor and energy which
marked his strong arm and steady brain in the days
of his college career.

In matters of religion, though brought up amid
the strictest sect of Quaker Methodists, he is deci-
dedly liberal, believing and maintaining that every
man should worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience. He is, however, a regular
attendant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in
which his children have been baptized and reared.

In early life he married Miss Delia S/C_Ott, who
died July I2, 1867, a lady of most estimable Quaker
parentage. The union was made happy by the

. birth of three children, Ralph W. E., Wirt B. and

Luella, the last a lovely daughter who died in
infancy. His second marriage has been equally
happy with a lady of well known sprightliness and
intelligence. _

In personal appearance, physique and character,
Mr. Twitchell may emphatically be called a repre-
sentative man. Six feet in height, broad shoulders,
a finely formed head, quick to perceive and under-
stand—one of those men who speak out boldly from
conviction—he commands the respect of the court
and carries convincing weight in his arguments;
having largely the gift of oratory combined with a
voice of surpassing richness and fullness; in a word,
one of those men whom it is pleasant to know,
whom we can trust, and who in his life, both moral
and political, is pure, honest, and above reproach.

COLONEL ISAAC SANDERSVWARMOTI-I.

KOLLA.

OLONEL ISAAC S. VVARMOTH is a native
C of Bedford county, Tennessee, where he was
born October II, 1816. He is the fifth child of a
family of seven children born to Henry and Mar-
garet Warmoth.
birth, but removed first to Kentucky and afterward
to Tennessee, settling finally in Edwards county, Illi-
nois, in the year 1827. Here he engaged in farming
until his death in the fall of 1850. He was-a man
of finernaturalsense, very retentive memory, and

His father was a Virginian by"

excellent judgment. His mother was a devoutly
pious woman, a member of the Baptist church.
Isaac  Warmoth was from childhood a person
of active, industrious and studious habits. His early
life was spent on the farm with his father, working
during the summer, and attending the country
schools during the winter months. At the age of
fourteen heiwas bound to the trade of a saddler,
serving his apprenticeship and working as a journey-
man until twenty-three years of age. He then began

266 THE UNITED STATES EIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

the manufacture of saddlery in Fairfield, Wayne
county, Illinois, and found his trade profitable. He
remained in Fairfield fourteen years. During his
residence there, in 1846, Illinois was called on for
volunteers for the Mexican war, and Mr. Warmoth
volunteered in the 3d Illinois Regiment, and was
stationed at Camargo and Matamoras until the regi-
ment, in February, 1847, was mustered out of ser-
vice. He then returned to Fairfield and continued
his business until 1851. He disposed of his stock in
trade, and also a hotel business in which he had
been engaged for ten years, to assume charge of
more important business that demanded his attention.

In 1848 he had been elected a justice of the
peace and at the same time he began the study of
law. Two years afterward, in 1850, he was exa1n-
ined by Lyman Trumbull and J. D. Caton and was
admitted to the bar. As a lawyer and justice of the
peace, he continued in business until, in 1856, Post-
master-General King appointed him route agent
between St. Louis and Terre Haute. He continued
as such agent for thirteen months and resigned to
accept the appointment of Deputy United States
Marshal for Clay county, Illinois, and assisted in
taking the census of that county in 1860. While

i thus engaged, he was practicing law until his removal

to Rolla, Missouri, in 1862. In the fall of that year
his son Henry having resigned the position of cir-
cuit attorney for the 18th Judicial District, he was
appointed by Governor Gamble to fill the vacancy,
and filled the position for three years. During his
incurnbency, he was commissioned colonel of the

63rd Enrolled Missouri Militia. By special order
he was called into active service and participated in
the campaign against General Price, and remained
in the service till the close of the war.

Resuming the practice of law he was elected
mayor of Rolla in 1868, a position he held till 1870.
In the latteryear, he went to New Orleans and
thence to Cuba. On his return, he again began the
practice, and for three ‘successive terms was chosen
mayor of Rolla, ‘and is at the present time (1.878)
mayor and city recorder.

Colonel Warmoth was married, December 22,
1840, to Miss Eleanor Lane, daughter of Colonel
Levin and Mrs. Lucretia Lane, of McLeansboro,
Illinois, having seven children as the issue of this
marriage, four of whom are still living. She died
March 23, 1854. On August 30, 1856, he married
Miss Louisa Cruise, daughter of William Cruise, of
Fairfield, Illinois, by whom he has had eleven child-
ren, seven of whom are living.

Colonel Warmoth has ever taken an active part
in politics,‘ and up to the beginning of the civil war
was a Jackson Democrat. Since that event he has
voted and acted with the Republicans. In his
religious views he is liberal, and practices toleration.
He is a member of the Masonic order in good stand-
ing. Physically, he is not robust, being of low
stature, but has an attractive and prepossessing per-
son. Of great business energy and tact, strict integ-
rity, practical judgment and deep penetration, he
has won the esteem of his fellow citizens in Rolla
and Phelps county.

HENRY C. WARMOTH.

ROLLA.

ENRY C. WARMOTH, eldest son of Isaac
H S. Warmoth, has had a remarkable career. At
the age of seventeen he began the practice of law
in Lebanon, Missouri, serving one year as ‘county
attorney. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he
removed to Rolla and was appointed circuit attor-
ney of the 18th Judicial District, but resigned the
office to assist in the organization of the 32d Mis-
souri Volunteer Infantry, of which regiment he was
commissioned lieutenant colonel. He also received
the appointment of brigadier-general of Missouri

Militia. After holding this position for thirty days,

he resigned the office and went south with his regi- _

ment. He was appointed an aid on General Mc-
Clernand’s staff, and participated, at Arkansas Post,
in the capture of five thousand Confederate soldiers.
He afterward went to Vicksburg and assisted in the
campaign before that stronghold until wounded in
May, 1863, during a charge on the rebel works.

Returning to his regiment at the expiration of two A

months, he participated in the battle of Lookout
Mountain, and was afterward sent to New Orleans,

YHE UNITED STATES B10018/1P.H,1CA[. DICTIOZVARY. 267

where his regiment was mustered out. In 1864
he was appointed by General Banks judge of the
Provost Court, a post he held at the close of the

W31’.

. He then formed a partnership with Joseph Tatuin

and began the practice of law and entered actively

into politics. At the age of twenty-five he was
elected and inaugurated Governor of Louisiana, in
January, 1868, and held the position four years.
He again resumed the .practice on the expiration of
his term of office, and in 1877 was elected a mem-
ber of the Louisiana Legislature.

LEANDER J. JONES, M. D.

KANSAS

among the pioneers of North Carolina, and
lived in that grand old state for several generations.
The first of the family who came to America emi-
grated from Manchester, England. Thomas Jones
was the name of the first one born on American
soil, he was raised in North Carolina, was a soldier
in the Revolutionary war, received a wound at the
battle of Guilford Court House, lived there after the
war closed and there died. He had a son, Solomon,
who was born in Guilford county, North Carolina,
and raised a family there, one of whom, Thomas,
born in 1798, was the f.Lther of our subject. He
was a farmer in Wilkes county, of the same state,
where he died in 1876. His wife was Sarah Wil-

/ I ‘HE ancestors of the subject of this sketch were

' liams, of Surry county, North Carolina, and was

born in 18oo, married in 1817, and died in 1872.
Her father, John Williams, died when she was an
infant, leaving her to be raised by her grandfather,
William Millstead, who was an early settler in
North Carolina, of Irish descent, and a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. A

Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) Jones _had
eleven children :——John W. was a missionary Baptist
preacher and died in Taylorsville, North Carolina,
in 1853; Thomas M. is a farmer in Carroll county,
Missouri, Allen B. is a physician in White county,
Indiana, where he settled in 1860, Edmund T. was
a soldier in the Confederate. army, was wounded
in Maryland, September 19, I864, fell into the
hands of the United States forces, was exchanged
the following_December as a disabled soldier, and
now lives in North Carolina, where he is engaged as
commercial traveler for a tobacco house, William H.
died in 1859, aged 19; Elizabeth married VVi1lia1n
.1\/I. Spencer, of North Carolina, who is now a farmer
In Rush county, Indiana, Nancy married James

, tember, 1855.

CITY.

Attell of North Carolina , Irene and Martha are both
single and are employed teaching school, Leander
J. Jones, their son and the subject of this sketch, was
born in Wilksborough, Wilks county, North Carolina,
May 23, 1828, where he received his primary educa-
tion in the common schools of that county, remaining
there until 1849, when he went to Habbersham
county, Georgia, in the mining district, and engaged
in mining with Asbury Littlejohn, having charge of
twenty hands. He remained there twelve months
and in I850. went to Monroe county, Tennessee,

was a student in Hissawassa College twelve months,

and in 1851 returned to ‘his home. There he began
the study -of medicine in the office of Drs. A. A.

Scroggs and R. F. Hackett. He remained there
until November, 1852, when he went to Cincinnati,
Ohio, and attended medical lectures at Ohio College.

The following spring he settled in Scott county,

Kentucky. ln the fall of 1853 he attended lectures
at the Miami, Ohio, Medical College, but the sick-
ness of his wife compelled him to return before the
session ended, hence he was not a candidate for the
degree of M. D. Returning to Scott county he
resumed his practice and there continued until Sep-
In September of that year he started
for the West, and on the ‘I 5th of the following Decem-
ber located at Camden, Ray county, Mi_ssouri,where
he remained until 1859, engaged in the practice of
his profession. Dr. Jones came to Kansas City in
1859, and formed a partnership with Dr. Ridge,
which continued until the fall of 1860, when he
went to Clay county, Missouri, thus dissolving it.
When the war broke out, in 1861, the Doctor went
to Liberty, Missouri, and there practiced until 1870,
when he returned to Kansas City, re-opened his
office and has continued his practice there until the
present time. I

268 A THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

Dr. Jones is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
has been High Priest of the Royal Arch Chapter
and Master of Blue Lodge under dispensation. In
his politics he is a Democrat by inheritance and
practice, and in religious sentiment an Episcopalian.

He married, on the 3rd day of August, 1853,
Miss Caroline Fish, of Scott county, Kentucky, who
was born September 15, 1830. She was raised and
received her education in the county of her nativity.
Her father, Francis Fish, moved to Kentucky from
Vlaryland before he was grown. He was a soldier
in the war of 1812, and was a descendant of the first
settler of Maryland. His wife was Miss Naomi
Decker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was of German
descent and reared and educated in that city. She
died in 186 5, just twenty years after the death of her
husband. ' They had the following children: Benja-
min, who died in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1876 ;

William, now living on a farm in Scott county, Ken-
tucky, James, who died in 1860 ; Francis, now living
in Owen county, Kentucky, Robert, now living on a
farm in Lafayette county, Missouri; Eveline Maria,

‘who married Simeon Stone, both of whom died;

Elizabeth, who married Mulford Truett, a merchant

of Scott county, Kentucky; and Caroline, who is

wife of the subject of this sketch. She is a member
of the Christian Church.

The family of Dr. Jones consists of six chil-
dren: Virginia, born April 2r, 1856; John G., July
13, I858, Calhoun and Vivianni, twins, August 25,
I861, Horatio and Gertrude, twins, August 26, 1867.
How many families in the Missouri volume will

show another such record P‘ Not one, we opine.

\On the 2nd day of March, 1876, the cm’ ezmdem *

degree was conferred on Dr. Jones by the Missouri
Medical College.

1.M. ABRAHAM, M. D. I

HARRISON VILLE.

SAAC M. ABRAHAM was born June 28, 1827,
I near Smithfield, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
His father, William Abraham, was born on the same
farm March 5, 1789, had an ordinary education, and
was a farmer and for many years a justice of the
peace. He married, in 1812, Miss Nancy Patton,
who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsyl-
vania. She-was the daughter of Rev. John Patton,
who was sent out by the Philadelphia Association
and was among the first missionaries who crossed
the Allegheny mountains; he settled in what was
then known as the Kedstone country, established a
church at Smithfield, Fayette county, and remained
its pastor for nearly forty years, when he left it with
a membership of six hundred ; he died at the age of
seventy-two. Rev. Patton’s wife’s maiden name was
Lockwood.

Isaac received an academic education in Penn-
sylvania and Ohio 3 he was raised on a farm—eXcept
the period of his schooling—and taught school in
the ‘winter. In 1854 he began the study of medicine
under Dr. S. B. Chalfant, at Upper Middletown,
Pennsylvania, and graduated at the Starling Medical
College of Columbus, Ohio, in 1857. The same
year he commenced practicing in New Holland,

Ohio, where he remained until the summer of 1862. _

Dr. Abraham entered the United States service
in the second year of the Rebellion war, as a cap-
tain in the 114th regiment Ohio Infantry, and was
with his commandat the siege of Vicksburg.
that memorable campaign he resigned and went into
the medical department, of the service. He’ was
eighteen months in charge of the prison hospital of
Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio. In the spring of
186 5 he was transferred to the Tripler (United States

army) general hospital, near Columbus, where he '

remained until October, 1865.

Immediately after quitting military service Dr.
Abraham went to Harrisonville, Cass county, Mis-
souri, and opened an office, he has continued the
practice of his profession in that county to the pres-
ent time. . ,

On the 1st day of January, 1857, he was married
to Miss Elizabeth J. Thompson, who was born Feb-
ruary 22, 1837. Her father was Thomas Thompson,
born in 1807, in Delaware, and his father was Rev.
Thomas Thompson, a Methodist minister. Her
mother’s maiden name was Haukins, born in 1813,,
daughter of David Haukins. By his first wife Dr.
Abraham had two children—Anna, born November

After.

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8, 1857, at New Holland, Ohio, and Frank Hamil-
ton, born in the same place February I4, 1860.
Mrs. Abraham died October 4, 1866. I

‘May 5, 1868, Dr. Abraham married Miss Dora
Jack, of Pleasant Hill, Cass county, Missouri, who
was born September I, 1845. She had receiveda
fair common school education. Her father, Colonel
William A. Jack, is a prominent business man, well
Lnd favorably known throughout southwest Missouri.
f-Ier mother was a daughter of Major Richard W.
Cummings, of Cass county, an old resident, having
been Indian agent there under the government for
many years.‘ He was a man of unusually fine ability.

By ‘his second wife the doctor had but one child,
Willie, who only lived three months

Once more the somber shadow ‘of death darkened.

his door and robbed his household. His wife died
April 1, 1870. She was a lady ofiwinning disposi-
tion, and had many loving friends throughout Cass
county and that section of the state.

In religious sentiment Dr. Abraham is a Mission-
ary ‘Baptist. Politically his views were in accord
with the Republicans until the inauguration of the
reconstruction policy of President Grant’s admin-
istration. The doctor opposed that policy on the
ground that greater leniency toward the South
would subserve the interests of the Southern people

and the whole country better than the plans pro- V

posed by that administration. Hence, since that
time he has ceased to act with the Republican party.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM D. BUSH.

MARSHALL.

OME of the very oldest families in Virginia and
S Kentucky are represented in this sketch, and
their blood mingles in the veins of the children of
its subject. The most ancient of his family, of whom
we have any record, was Colonel Freeman Bush, an
old Revolutionary soldier of Virginia, who when
quite young was captured with others by Indians
and taken across the Ohio river to their village,
where they were all sentenced to die by “running
the gauntlet.” Colonel Bush’s appearance captivated
an old Frenchman among the Indians, who bought
him for one gallon of whisky. After a time he suc-
ceeded in getting back to his own people, joined
the American army, and was promoted to the rank of
colonel, and held that office when the Colonies were
recognized as free by Great Britain. He was of
Welsh, English and Irish descent.

His son, Caleb Bush, was the father of our sub-
ject. He was born in 1806 and raised in Virginia, but
emigrated to Missouri at an early day and settled in
Clark county. He was a Baptist preacher of some
renown, and organized many churches in Northeast
Missouri, Southern Iowa and Illinois. About 1826
he was married to a Miss Elizabeth Lockwood,
Who was born about 1808. Her father, Samuel
Lockwood, was of English descent; and her mother,
Tabitha Carey, was the daughter of Captain Carey
of the Revolutionary army. Caleb and Elizabeth

Bush had the following children: Stephen E.,
William D., Daniel E., Laurette, who married

. Andrew Johnson, Mary E., who married Madison

Force, and Albert G.

Captain William D. Bush’s first wife was Miss
Ann E. Payne, whom he married July 3, 1867.
She was born in 1847, and died childless, February
I7, 1875. Her father, Benjamin Payne, was a
native of Virginia and ‘a son of one of the oldest
families of the Old Dominion, whose ancestors emi-
grated from England 3 his wife was of the celebrated
and ancient Smith family of the same state.

The second wife of Captain Bush—who1n he
married February 2, 18'/6—was Miss Ruth V.
Thomson, who was born near Lexington, Ken-
tucky, in 1852, and came when quite young with

her parents to Saline county, Missouri, where she-

was raised and educated. She was -the daughter of
Colonel Pike M. Thomson, of Kentucky, by his
wife Elizabeth E. Goodwin, daughter of Loyd K.
Goodwin, a very wealthy gentleman near Lexington,
Kentucky. The'Colonel’s father was Captain John
Thomson, who served in the war of 1812 and was
in the battle of New Orleans. He married Miss
Nancy Ellis, whose mother and a_sister (then the
Misses Shipps) were the first American girls married
in Kentucky, and whose parents settled near Bry-
ant’s station, in that state, close to Boonesborough.

270 THE UNITED STATES E[0Gl€.4PH[CAL DICT/'0./VAIBY.

Captain Thomson’s father Was Asa Thomson, a
native of Virginia who settled near Lexington, Ken-
tucky, and married a sister of Colonel Quarles, a
Revolutionary soldier.

Captain William D. Bush, the subject of this
sketch, was the second son of Caleb and Elizabeth
(Lockwood) Bush, and was born in Clark county,
Missouri, January 16, 1836. He received his lit-
erary education in that county. In 1853 he began
the study of law with Judge N. F. Givens at Waterloo.
In 1855 he was admitted to practice, and was elected
county attorney for Clark county in 1856, which
office he held for several. years. ,In 1860 he was
nominated by the Whig party for attorney for the
circuit composed of the counties of Clark, Lewis,
Schuyler, Adair, Knox and Scotland, but was
defeated by a small majority, running, however,
seventeen hundred votes ahead of his party ticket.

When the war broke out in 1861, Mr. Bush was
opposed to both secession and abolition. The cir-
cumstances and events of the times, however, forced
him to take sides with one or the other of the con-

JOHN c.

WEBB

Tennessee, March '12, 1826.‘ His father, Elijah
C. Webb, and his mother, Martha Johnson,
were natives of North Carolina. The Webb family
is one of the oldest of that state. The grandfather
of Elijah Webb was a soldier in the War for Inde-
pendence. ’
John C. Webb was the son of a farmer and was
reared in that occupation. He was next to the
eldest of a large family of children, and of course
was one of the important members who assisted
in the family maintenance. His services were
demanded at home, on the farm, whenever the
means of subsistence were to be provided. His
opportunities forobtaining information were confined
within very narrow limits, both in regard to time
and facilities. The common schools of Tennessee
half a century ago were of a very low grade and the
teachers were generally of that class who taught
school when there was nothing else to do. To such
sources young Webb was confined for his stock of

TOHN C. WEBB was born in Overton county,

tending sections, and his sympathies led him into
the ranks of his Southern friends. He served in
various positions in the Confederate army, and before
the close of the war was commissioned Captain.
During the campaign in lower Mississippi he was
taken sick, was captured by the United States troops,
taken to St. Louis and paroled in December, 1864,
and the close of the war in the following year found
him still under that parole. '

Peace being declared, Captain Bush returned to
Clark county and in the fall of I86 5 moved to Saline
county and settled near Marshall, where he has ever
since been engaged in the practice of law.

The war destroyed the old Whig organization,
and since then the Captain has been a Demo.crat.
He began to edit the Mars/zall Gaze/229 in 1877 as a
Democratic journal.

Captain Bush is a Royal Arch Mason and a
member of the Baptist church, of which body his
wife is also a member. They have but one child, a
son named Pike Caleb- Bush, born November 13,
I876.

WEBB.
CITY.

knowledge, and even this opportunity of attending
these schools was only a few weeks or months of
winter.

Young Webb remained on his father’s farm until
January, 1849. At that time he began to farm
alone, and carried on the business in Tennessee
until 18 56. A desire for a more extended field
prompted him to emigrate, and be selected Missouri
as the theater of his future operations, and moved
to the southwest part of the state. Here he invested
his little means in two hundred acres of land, and
began his agricultural pursuits on a somewhat limited
scale.

In June, 1873, while plowing in one of his fields
he became weary and sat down to rest on the bank
of a ravine. While resting, he discovered evidences
of mineral on the ground, and a closer inspection
proved it to be lead. ‘Pursuing his investigations,
he became convinced that he was plowing over an
immense lead deposit, and he at once determined to
test the accuracy of his convictions.

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His method of prospecting was very primitive,
the only tools used being such farm implements as
he could employ to dig holes, here and there. He
could only penetrate the earth to a short distance,
as the water would rise and obstruct further work.
He resolved to employ machinery, but his means
were very scant, and what he did procure must be
very cheap and necessarily not very effective. He,
however, purchased a small engine and a pump,
and with them began operations. The deposits
were so rich that even with this rude machinery he
was enabled to raise considerable quantities of lead
ore. In November, 1854, he began shafting, and
his hopes were soon fully realized. Deposits were
found everywhere, and one lump thus raised Weighed
over a thousand pounds. With improved machinery,
the mines proved to be very rich, and enormous
quantities of the mineral have been raised from
them. Population began to flow in, the lands became

extremely valuable, Webb City was laid out and the
lots were sold at good prices, houses sprang up like
magic, and soon the sparsely peopled section of a
few years ago had a city of 2,000 inhabitants.

l\/Ir. Webb found himself suddenly wealthy, and
able to retire from manual labor and enjoy a large
income. He has been twice married. His first
Wife, Ruth Davis, he married January 9, 1849. She
bore him four children: Elijah T., Martha E., John
B. and Mary S. He married his second wife, Sarah
M. Couchman, March 4, 1877.

Mr. Webb is a leading and influential member

of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His-

contributions to the church and its various evan-
gelical enterprises are in liberal proportion to his
income.

His first vote was cast for Lewis Cass, and he
has steadily adhered since to the Democratic faith in
political matters.

GROVE YOUNG.

A UZLZL VZLLE.

Lafayette county,
Missouri, near the town of Aullville. His -father,
Joseph L. Young, was born in New Jersey in 1803.
His paternal grandfather, Grove Young, a native
of the same state, was born -in 1779 and died
in 1815. He was a major in the United States army
in the war of 1812, and of Scotch descent. While
a boy, Joseph Young removed with his parents to
Virginia, and completed his education at Richmond
in that state, at which place he engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits until 1838, when he removed to St.
Louis and engaged in manufacturing. Here he
built the first railroad car ever manufactured in the
Western States. In 1842 he removed to Lafayette
county, Missouri, and settled upon the farm where
he now lives. He has carried on agricultural pur-
suits, with the exception of the few years spent in
travel.

In” 1849 he went to California and remained
there two years, engaged in transportation from San
Francisco to the mining regions. In 1855 he again
started to California, taking with him a drove of

in Freedom township,

( §ROVE YOUNG was born August 26, I843,

Cattle, but in consequence of Indian troubles he

35

stopped at Topeka, Kansas, disposed of his cattle,
and entered a large tract of land which he still owns.

In 1829 he married Miss Lydia Rogers, of
Newark, New Jersey. She was born in I803, and
educated in her native place. Her father, Jabez
Rogers, was of English descent. The family has
resided in Newark since 1697, their land having
beena grant from King William III. Joseph L.
and Lydia Young had ten children, four of whom
died in infancy. Those living are Edgar, Joseph L.,
Isabel B. (now the wife of Charles Hager, of Car-
roll county, Missouri), Grove, Delia (married to
Charles Cramer and living near Topeka, Kansas,)
and David.

Mrs. Young died in 1861. She was a devout
Christian, having been a member of the Episcopal
Church for many years. Her life was a living
example of devotion to ‘her God, her husband and
her children, and she was deeply lamented‘ by a”
large circle of friends.

Grove Young received his early education in his
native county, and subsequently attended school at
Sweet Spring, in Saline county, and at Richmond,
Ray county.

272 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAI€Y.

In 1861 he entered the United States Army at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a private soldier. He
was successively promoted to be a sergeant, 2nd lieu-
tenant, and 1st lieutenant. He was actively engaged
in the service for three years, being discharged at
Fort Leavenworth in 1864.. At the expiration of his
term of service he was urged to accept a major’s
commission in General Steel’s army, and was offered
the same after the war in an expedition against the
Indians, but declined each time. _

In 1865 Mr. Young went to England, and
soon after his return to America made a tour to
Brazil, South America and Mexico.. In 1866 he
settled upon a farm and engaged in its duties until
1875, when he began merchandising in Aullville,

Missouri, in which business he still continues, being
the leading merchant in the place. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and is also a Granger.

In June, 1871, Mr. Young married Miss Ella
Greer, a native of Johnson county, Missouri.
She was born in 1854, and is the daughter of Alex-
ander and Louisa (Clary) Greer, natives of Mary-
land ; the former born about 1817, and the latter in
1822.. Mr. and Mrs. Young have one child, Alex-
ander, who was born March 20, 1872.

Mr. Young is a Democrat in politics, and is of
decided purpose. He is a gentleman of influence
and stands deservedly high among his acquaint-
ances.

ROBERT A. BROWN.

HARRISONVILLE.

OBERT ALLISON BROWN was born in
R Roane county, East Tennessee, February 8,
18o8, near the_town of Kingston. He was the son
of General John Brown and Mary M. Brown, whose
maiden name was Allison.

General Brown was born in Greene county,
North Carolina, September 15, 1779. When only
seven years of age, his widowed mother with him-
self, three brothers and two sisters, removed to
Roane county, East Tennessee. He was married
January 13, 1805, to Miss Mary Moore Allison, by
Rev. John Winton. On the organization of Roane
county he was a farmer, but was elected sheriff,
which position he filled twenty-four successive
years, and then resigned. He was a colonel in the

Creek war under General Andrew Jackson 3 at the-

close of the war he returned home and was elected
brigadier—general of the State Militia of East Tennes-
see. He died in Roane county, September 10,
1846. His wife was born February 1, 1774. She
was the daughter of Robert Allison, and died Octo-

ber 13, 1827, in Roane county, having beena 1ne1n—

ber of the Methodist Episcopal church from early
childhood.  
General John Brown and wife had the following

children: Sarah Tarver Brown, born September 14,

1806; Robert Allison Brown, (the subject of this
sketch,) February 8, 1808, Thomas Albert Brown,

February 10, 1810, John W. Brown, Jr., September
18, 1813; Mary Brown, November 27, 1815; Wil-
liam L. Brown, November 29,1818 3. SusanHoward
Brown, May 4, 1820.

Sarah Tarver Brown married Rev. Nathaniel R.
Jarratt, of Wilson county, Tennessee, a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church. They removed to
Mississippi, near Holly Springs, where, after raising
a large family, both died. Thomas Albert Brown
married Miss Edna F. A. Trower, only daughter of
Rev. Thomas Trower, of Sullivan county, East

Tennessee, and they now reside in Chattanooga, .

in that state. John Brown Jr., married Miss Mat-
lock, who died within a year; John Brown died
March 16, 1878. Mary Brown married Dr. John
W. Westen, of Kingston, East Tennessee, where
they both died. William Brown married a daughter
of General James Gamble, of Monroe county, East
Tennessee, and died when quite young, leaving an
only son, also named William. Susan Howard
Brown married Dr. Davis, of South Carolina, and
both died about the year 1861, leaving two children,
John B. Davis, and Jennie M. Davis, since married
to A. G. Deacon, of Harrisonville, Missouri. ’

L General John Brown, after the death of his first
wife, married Nancy C. Allison, November 21,
1830, and they had the following children: Benja-
min Tarver Brown, born August 21, 1831; Rachel

‘William,

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGEAPIJICAL DICTIO./VARY. 273

Jackson Brown, August I, 18343 Jane Eliza Brown,
October II, 18363 George Brown, June 20, 1839."

General John Brown was the son of John Brown,
Sr., who died in Dobbs county, North Carolina 3 he
had four brothers—Henry, William, Benjamin and
Samuel. John Brown, Sr., was the son of William
Brown, who was married in Culpepper county, Vir-
ginia, to Sarah Long3 his brothers. were Samuel,
John, Henry, Benjamin, Beverly and
Robert3 he married Mary Little Tarver, daughter
of Thomas Tarver, of North Hampton county, Vir-
ginia. The father of William Brown was the son of
Edwin Brown, who emigrated from Wales to Eng-
land, where he was raised and whence he emigrated
to Virginia.

The great—great-grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, on the Tarver side, was Benjamin Tarver,
who emigrated from Wales to England and thence
to Virginia, and who was poisoned by the Nodaway
Indians on the river of that name. He left seven
sons—Thomas, Samuel, Andrew, William, James,
Robert and Benjamin. The last named died in Wil-
son county, Tennessee, Robert was killed at the
battle of Guilford, North Carolina. They had one
sister, who married John Oakes.
vers emigrated to Georgia. Samuel and Jacob T arver
.were brothers to the grandmother, named Brown, of
R. A. Brown. _

General John Brown had three brothers and two

sisters: Robert T. Brown, Thomas Brown and Wil-

liam Brown, Rebecca and Mary Brown. Robert T.
Brown emigrated in 1806 to Southeast Missouri—
probably to Ste. Genevieve county—and afterwards
married Miss Valle‘, a French lady. They raised
about ten sons and two daughters3 their eldest son,
John, was deaf _and dumb 3 the other sons, so far as
remembered, were named William, Robert, Valle,
Walter and Zeno. Robert T. Brown was one of the
first members of the convention which framed the
first Constitution of Missouri3 he died many years
ago. Thomas Brown had two sons and one daugh-
ter—William Franklin, John’ Smith T. and Mary Car-
oline. William F. Brown married Miss Renfrow,
raised a large family and died in Roane county,
East Tennessee. John Smith Brown married Miss
Elizabeth Tarver, of Alabama, and died leaving a
son named Thomas and one daughter. Mary Caro-
line Brown married Elbridge G. Sevier 3 they raised
a large family, and he died in Roane county, East
Tennessee. William Brown married Sarah Kim-
brough, but both died without issue. Rebecca

-in Roane county about fifty years ago.

Most of the Tar-

Brown married Robert Taylor, raised a large family,
and emigrated South from Roane county. Mary
Brown, youngest sister of John Brown, married
Zaccheus Ayer, and there were born to them the
following children: Alexander Outlaw Ayer, who
married Hester A. Johnson, of Blunt county, Ten-
nessee, and moved to Red Banks, Kentucky 3 Alpha
K. Ayer, who removed to the State of Georgia,
married and died there3 William and Zaccheus
Ayer never married so far as known 3 Sophia E.
Ayer, was married to Rev. Samuel Harwell, of
Roane county, Tennessee, both of whom died leav-
ing a large family. _ . -

Robert Allison, father of Mary M. Allison,
mother of our subject, was raised in North Caro-
lina, near Kings Mountain. He was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war, fought at King’s Mountain,
Guilford,Cowpens, Charleston and many other of tne
battles of that struggle. He and his wife both died
His Wife,
grandmother of R. A. Brown, was Jane Moore,
daughter of William or Alexander Moore. She had
a sister Peggy who married William Black, another
who married Mr. McFarland, another named Amy
who married Matthew Leeper, removed to Ken-
tucky and there died. John Adair, of Kentucky,
was a cousin of Jane (Moore) Allison.

Mary Moore Allison had two brothers: Colonel
Uriah Allison, who was an officer throughout the
Canada war, married Nancy Cox, of East Tennes-
see, and raised three daughters——Maria, married
George Nicholdson3 Katharine, who married Dr.

.John W. Westen3 and Mary, who married Mr.

Doss. Colonel Allison died in Roane county. The
other brother, Robert Allison, Jr., married Nancy
Bird, by whom he raised a large family before she
died, and still lives in Kingston, East Tennessee.
Jane (Moore) Allison had other daughters,
namely: Amy, who married James Craig, moved
to middle Tennessee or Alabama, Jane, who mar-
ried James Preston, and Margaret, who married
Moses Preston—both of whom raised large families,
moved to St. Clair county, Missouri, and died there 3
Susan, who-married Isaac Council, raised a large
family and died in Knox county, East Tennessee.
R. A. Brown, the subject of this sketch, was
educated at Kingston, East Tennessee, at Ritten-
house Academy, under Rev. VVilliam Eagleton, a
Presbyterian divine.
near Kingston, and in the fall of 1842 removed to
Van Buren, now Cass county, Missouri, locating on

He was brought up on a farm 4

274 THE UNITED STA TES B10 GRA PHZCAL DZCTZO./VAR Y.

a farm near Harrisonville, where he still resides.
He became an extensive land owner and farmer,
owning twenty—five hundred acres of land near his
county seat, and, prior to the latewar, owned a
large number of slaves——and to those slaves he was
known to be ever indulgent and kind. t

Mr. Brown was a Whig in politics until the dis-
organization of that party, since which he has been
a strict adherent and supporter of Democracy.
While taking a lively interest in political affairs,
his own extensive business demanded his whole
time, and farming and retirement were more to his
tastes and inclinations. Hence, although repeatedly
solicited to become a candidate for both state and
county offices, he invariably refused, until in the
fall of 1861 he was prevailed upon to become a can-
didate for a seat in the convention called to consider
the relations of Missouri to the Federal Union. He
was elected by a large majority as delegate from the
district comprising the counties of Cass, Jackson
and Bates." He served in two sessions of that con-
vention, discharging his duties satisfactorily to his
constituents. At the time of his election, he was a
supporter of the “Crittenden Compromise Mea-
sures ”——-being neither a Secessionist nor a Coercion-
ist; but when the great question came up in the
convention, Mr. Brown voted that Missouri should
not dissolve her connection with the Federal Union.
About May 21, 1863, he resigned his seat; being
induced thereto by the clamors of his constituents
who were in favor of the adoption of an emancipa-
tion ordinance. Feeling that he was not elected for
such a purpose, and rather than violate his consci-
entious convictions of right, he preferred to resign

and allow the people of his district to elect a new

member in his place. Throughout the war he was
opposed to the policy of coercion. i

None but the denizens of that section of Mis-
souri will ever fully know the dangers which sur-
rounded them in 1863. No one felt safe away from
military posts. Mr.‘ Brown resided three miles from
Harrisonville—the nearest military post——and Cap-
tain Blake, the commandant, had authorized him to
arm himself for protection against the thieves and
plunderers who infested that region. One night,
about twelve o’clock, a band of -these marauders
sought to gain admittance to his house, and, failing
in this, commenced firing into the buildings and
making fiendish threats. Mr. Brown, single—handed,
killed three of the assassins, when they retired. He
surrendered himself to the military authorities, ask-

ing the fullest investigation. Captain Blake made a
searching investigation of the facts in the case and
acquitted him of all blame, justifying him in all his
acts. The case was afterward taken before General
Thomas Ewing, at Kansas City—-then commanding
that military district—who not only justified Mr.
Brown but applauded his course in the whole affair.

This was not the only time in those dark days
when Mr. Brown was forced to defend himself and
family against midnight robbers and assassins.

He has been a communicant in the Methodist
church since 1837, and isstill an official member.
He has contributed liberally toward the enterprises
of his church, in one instance himself mostly paying
for a church building, Ministers have ever found
his hospitable mansion an asylum and a home. He

is a practical giver to the poor, a friend to the widow '

and orphan and to struggling young men starting in
business.

Although now in his seventieth year, Mr. Brown
is erect, hale and strong. But few persons so old
are so well preserved and bear better evidence of a
life of sobriety and strict temperance. It may be
truthfully said of him what very few can claim: he
was never known to be intoxicated, to use profane
language, take a chew of tobacco or smoke a pipe

or cigar; he never bet on any game of hazard,.

never danced, and never left a promise unfulfilled
if there was any earthly power to comply.

R. A. Brown was married October 27-, 1836, to
Mary]. R. Gillenwaters, in Rheacounty, East
Tennessee, by Rev. John Hennegar. She was the
daughter of VVil1iam T. and Elizabeth Gillenwaters,
and was born in Rhea county, East Tennessee,
December 30, 1819. She was educated in her
native state at the Academies of Knoxville and
Athens, receiving a thorough classical training, and
is a lady of far more than ordinary intelligence and
of wonderful energy. Her father, William T. Gil-
lenwaters, was born April 30, 1795, in Sparklinburg
district, South Carolina, and was partly raised in
Hawkins county, East Tennessee, near Rodgersville.
He went to Florida as a soldier in the war of 1812,
when but seventeen years old, returned to Rodgers-
ville and began business with John Rodgers, from
whom the place was named. He married and settled
in Rhea county, where he remained doing business
as a merchant and farmer. He held the office of
postmaster for twenty—five successive years, when he
resigned. He acquired considerable property and
removed to Cass county, Missouri, in the fall of

THE UNITED STATES B10013/IPTZICAL DICTZO./VARY. 270

1842, and died June 18, 1865. He was the son of
Thomas Gillenwaters who lived and died near Rod-
gersville, East Tennessee.

Elizabeth, Wife of William T. Gillenwaters, was
born in Jefferson county, East Tennessee, October
18, 1778, and died January 27, 1851, in Cass county,
Missouri. She was the eldest child of Jesse Rod-
dye, who was born January 18, 1775, and settled in
Rhea county in 1806, where he raised ten children,
all of whom married into good families. He died
February 16, 1862, on the farm where he first.settled.
He has but one son living, David M. Roddye, now
living within a mile of his father’s old homestead.
The Wife of Jesse Roddye was Jane Mahaffa, Who
was born in 1774. Her father was killed by Tories
during the Revolution, and she was raised by an
aunt named Horner, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jesse Roddye was the son of Colonel James
Roddye, who emigrated from England to America
long prior to the Revolution. His first wife was
said to have been a sister of Daniel Boone, by whom
he had ten children; his second wife was a Russell,
from Virginia. Most of his children moved South ,
one son and two daughters settled in New Orleans;
both daughters married ‘Lees, _of Virginia. Colonel
James Roddye was a Whig and received his title as
an officer in the Revolutionary war; he was also a

member of

F’

the state constitutional convention of

Virginia, and died in 1824. _

There have been born to Robert A. and Mary J.
R. Brown the following children: William Gillen-
waters, born in Rhea county, East Tennessee, April
II, 1838, who married Mary, only daughter of Judge
H. G. Glean, of Cass county, Missouri, and he is
now residing in that county, John Brown, born in
Rhea county, March 29, 1840, and died ‘in Dallas
county, Texas, March 4, 1864, of heart disease;
Thomas, born in Rhea county, March 24, 1842, and
died April 18, 1862, having been taken prisoner at
the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and taken to
Alton, Illinois, where he died, Robert A., born in
Cass county, Missouri, December 3, 1844, who
resides there, having married Mary Agnes, a daugh-
ter of Judge Benjamin Stephens, former representa-
tive in the Missouri legislature from Cass county,
Elizabeth G., born in the same county, October 25,
1867, and married to H. C. Daniel, Esq., an attorney
at law, of Mexico, Missouri; Samuel Eskridge, born
in the same county, February 1, 1850, and married
Zada Robinson, the daughter of Mrs. Samantha
Robinson, a native of Canada, and a widow, whose
husband, a native of Maryland, died near Hannibal,
Missouri, many years ago; Walter R., born in Cass
county July 18, 1853, resides in Cass, and unmarried.

HON; ROBERT D. MORRISON.

MILAN

has swiftly passed away, as he reads the his-
tories of prominent men of to—day, to see so many
of them grandsons of the heroes of the Revolution
—alas! how few of those noble men are left. One
hundred years ago. What mighty changes have been
Wrought by the descendants of those gallant spirits,
who won for us a continent, christened it Freedom’s
home and baptized it with their blood.

Among the patriots who followed’Washington in
the Continental army, were two men who might not
have known each other, may never have met, but
here in this brief history their common descendant
delights to honor their memory by perpetuating their
fame as soldiers. Those two men were Andrew
Morrison and Joseph Haynes—two names that have

ONE is more than usually reminded that time

become renowned in the annals of American history.
Andrew Morrison’s son, William H. Morrison, mar-
ried Joseph Haynes’ daughter Mary, after their
fathers had suffered and bled for their country.
Their son, Robert Donnell Morrison, is the sub-
ject of this sketch, and now lives amidst the hum and
bustle of busy civilization in a country which his
forefathers never dreamed of other than as the hunt-
ing grounds of the savage and the home of the
buffalo. Robert was born in Bedford county, T en-
nessee, July I4, 1813, at the three forks of Duck
river, but was raised in Franklin county of that
state. His father and mother were natives of North
Carolina. Raised as farmers’ boys were in those
early days, his education was necessarily limited,
although he enjoyed all that their best schools

276 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

afforded. In 1832 he began teaching school in the
county of Franklin, Tennessee, where he was raised,
and for seven years taught in that locality and in
Alabama, during which time he pursued his own
course of advanced studies to fit him for the profes-
sion he had chosen for his life’s business.

On the 11th of june, 1834, he was married to
Miss Sarah Sawyers, a native of Lincoln county,
Tennessee, and daughter of Bailey Sawyers, a farmer.

He read law regularly in 1841 and the follow-
ing year was admitted to practice at Winchester,
Tennessee.

In 1842 Mr. Morrison came to Missouri and

located in Carroll county, where he taught a large _

school for nearly four months. In 1844 he engaged
infarming in Ray, the adjoining county. - In the fall
of 1845 he went to Sullivan county, the same state,
and located in the vicinity of Milan, and has resided
in that county ever since.

In 1846 he commenced actively the practice of
his profession in Milan, and by strict attention to
business gained a reputation step by step, until now
he is one of the prominent lawyers at that bar. The
same year he was also elected magistrate of his

township, and in 1850 was appointed attorney for the
eleventh judicial circuit, to fill the office resigned by
Hon. Wesley Halliburton. In 1852 he was elected

to the same office and discharged its duties about

four years. In 1856 he was elected to represent
Sullivan in the state‘ legislature. In 1857 he was
appointed by President Buchanan register of the
land office at Milan. In 1872. he was elected prose-
cuting attorney for Sullivan county, and was reelected
in 1874.

Politically Mr. Morrison has always been a Dem-

ocrat, and cast his first ballot for Hugh L. White, of ‘

Tennessee. At the presidential election preceding
the civil war, he voted for John C. Breckenridge.
During that war he was a Southern man in principle
and sympathy. ‘He is‘ a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South.

A man of the people, practical, sagacious,
upright——a man of indomitable _ will, abiding by
his political as by his religious faith, regardless of
opinion ; honoring the offices to which he has been
elected—Mr. Morrison enjoys not only the confi-
dence of his friends, but commands the respect of
his enemies.

MERCILEUS PLINY BROWN.

LEXI./VG TON.

ERCILEUS‘ P. BROWN was born in Mason
(now Putnam) county, Virginia, February
25, 182 5. His grandfather, Elliott Brown, was born
in England; immigrating to America he located in
Botetourt county, Virginia, where Matthew .D.,
the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in
1783. Matthew D. Brown was educated in the
common schools of his native county, and early
displayed a great inventive genius, which in later
years proved of great value to him. He was raised
on a farm and served as lieutenant in the war of
1812. He invented the Novel ferry boat and the
folding bucket wheel for propelling machinery by
water, beside many other useful inventions. I
He married Miss Elizabeth Townsley, of his
native county, who was also of English descent.
She died in 1816, leaving one child, Colita Egbert
Brown. In 1823 he married Miss Adaline Harris,
who was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in

1798, and was the daughter of james Harris, a
native of the same county. Her mother was a
McCulloch, and was of Scotch-Irish descent.

Matthew D. Brown held many offices of trust in
Virginia, and was one of the first settlers in the
Kanawha Valley. He came to Missouri in 1856.
He died in 1859, in the seventy-first year of his age,
and was deeply mourned by all who knew him.
His wife Adaline, the mother of the subject of this
sketch, died in 1861; both are buried in Lafay-
ette county, Missouri. '

Mercileus P. Brown was raised and educated in
his native county, and followed farming until 1847,
when he engaged with his father in merchandising,
at Buffalo, a town on the Kanawha river over which
his father owned the ferry. They were thus engaged
for seven years. ,

In the fall of 1854 he came to Cooper county,
Missouri, and on December 5 of the same year

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married Elizabeth Ann Atkeson, who was born in
Putnam county, Virginia, in 1834, and immigrated
with her parents, Dr. Andrew C. Atkeson and Mary
Hayward, natives.of Ohio, to Missouri in _I840.
After his marriage Mr. Brown purchased a farm
near Warrensburg, Missouri, and went to farming.
His constant labors injured his health, and in 1872-
he rented his farm and removed to Fayetteville,
Johnson county. '

Mr. Brown inherited his father’s inventive genius
and it proved to him a source of wealth. . While
living in Johnson county he patented the convertible
stand and secretary, and made sale of $6,000 worth
of rights. In 1873 he located in Lexington and
began the manufacture of the article patented. In
consequence of the panic of 1873 he lost some
money and sold goods on credit which have never
been paid for. In 1874 he invented and patented
an improvement in washstands. May 8, 1877, he
patented a machine for taking the ears of corn from
the standing stalk. In this last patent he has taken
two partners, Colonel Thomas F. Houston, of Pettis
county, Missouri, nephew of General Houston, of
Texas notoriety, and John Spears, of Lexington,

Missouri. This has proved to be a decided success
and Mr. Brown has realized his fondest expectations.
He is now (February, 1878,) busily engaged upon a
self—working, check corn-dropper, for which he hopes
to take out a patent soon. This promises to be as
great a success as his past inventions.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown have three sons and two
daughters, whose names and births are as follows:
Mary A., born October 26, I855—she has just grad-v
uated from the Baptist. College, Lexington, from
which she won a gold medal as a prize for the best
original essay, William P., born March 1, 1857,
whose tastes and inclinations are for farming 5 Mat-
thew A., born May 24, 1859, who inherits his

father’s inventive genius and is a natural mechanic; .

Andrew C., born October 29, 1860, and Carrie
Lee, born June 18, 1866. Mrs. Brown and eldest
daughter are members of the Missionary Baptist
church. I .

Mr. Brown is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian
order. He possesses fine socialpqualities and is con-
scientious in all his business transactions. These
traits have secured for him the confidence and
respect of the entire community.

I-ION. SILAS WOODSON.

57*. :/OSEPH.

ILAS WOODSON, ex—Governor of the state of
8 Missouri, was born in Knox county, Kentucky,
May 18, 1819. His father, Wade N. Woodson, and
his mother’s father were in the Revolutionary war,
the former being among the patriots under the com-
mand of Washington at the time of the surrender of
Cornwallis. Of the many accomplishments, and it
may be said arts, chirography is one of the most
admirable and useful, and of this Wade N. Woodson
was a perfect master, and for which, among his many
other excellent traits, he was noted. An incident
occurring in the first part of the present century
illustrates the extent of his notoriety in this respect.
Two gentlemen of some eminence, one from Vir-
ginia and the other from Kentucky, were dining
with others in Charleston, South Carolina, and dur-
ing the conversation the subject of hand-writing was
broached, each of the gentlemen wagered that he
Possessed a. specimen of the finest writing. Upon

. producing the documents, what was the surprise of

the company to find that both were productions of
the same hand—that of Mr. W oodson.

Governor Woodson’s parents had not the means
to secure for him the advantages of a scholastic
training. Universities and colleges Were, at that

day, very distant from the place of his birth, and ' ‘

home and school facilities were meager and poor.
He had only the advantages which were afforded in
the “log-cabin” school houses in the mountainous
regions of Kentucky. Nevertheless he has attained,
and without other aids than his own stout heart and

resolute will, the exalted position of a self-made

man , embodying in himself all the high qualities of
a thorough statesman, pure patriot, intrepid leader,
just ruler and honest man.

From the time he reached that period of life
when his physical strength was sufficient to enable
hi_m to wield the implements of husbandry and guide

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the plow, he began to contribute to the earning of
his own bread. From this period until he reached
the age of eighteen, he was an industrious farmer
boy, acquiring in addition to what he learned at
school, by his fondness for books and general knowl-
edge, a store of useful information, to serve him in
the transition from dependent boyhood to independ-
ent manhood. Leaving the farm at this age, he
engaged in the business of selling goods for a few
months. But this occupation was uncongenial to
him, and he commenced reading law. In 1839, at
the age of twenty, he was licensed to practice, and
began his life-work.. His energy‘, application to
business, and talent, secured success. But there
was in his character another element which contrib-
uted in no small degree to this result—-a happy
faculty of making himself popular.

The value of these qualities was soon to be
severely tested, for in 1842, when only twenty-three
years of age, he made a canvass of his district, as a
candidate for the legislature, with, under the cir-
cumstances, most remarkable success. His opponent
who had represented the district in the General As-
sembly for several successive terms, was deemed the
strongest man in it, and, it was currently believed, was
invincible. But young Woodson never shrank from
a work because it was difficult, nor surrendered
before a battle was begun or thoroughly waged; and
while his friends and acquaintances recognized his
ability and eminent fitness for the position sought,
they gravely told him it was folly to undertake to
defeat such a rival with any hope of success.

With characteristic zeal and energy, and exhibit-
ing that tact and shrewd judgment which had so far
sustained him, Mr. Woodson mounted his horse and
it is firmly believed visited every farm and house-
hold in his district, electioneering. He made many
friends and thus advanced in public favor until the
day of the election, when the people proved their
faith by their votes, and honored him with a hand-
some majority.

In the Legislature he proved himself something
more than the mere occupant of a seat assigned to
his county, and showed by his activity and zeal that

‘ he realized that his constituents had reposed in him

a responsible trust, which he intended to keep faith-
fully. His labors were approved by his constituents;
his conduct and bearing secured the attention and
respect of his compeers, and his native ability com-
pelled a recognition by them of his talent and worth.
Soon after the‘ expiration of his legislative term,

'778 TIIE U./VITED STATES B10016/IPZJZCAZ, DZCTIO/VARY.

judge Owsley recognized his ability, and appointed
him circuit attorney for the 12th judicial District.
At the expiration of four years, the time for which
he was appointed, he received the appointment for
another term, but in less than one year found that
his public duties conflicted with his personal inter-

ests, and resigned. He had made a fine reputation,

and soon realized the fruits of his faithfulness in a
large and lucrative" practice.

‘ In 1849 the people. of his district gave him
another substantial evidence of their confidence and
esteem by electing him a member of the Constitu-
tional Convention of Kentucky, one of the most
important deliberative bodies that ever met in that
commonwealth. He was one of its most active
members, and the result of his labors is still written
upon her statutes, and will probably remain there
for all time, a proud and imperishable monument of
duty well performed. In 18 5 3 he was again elected
to the legislature, and with the expiration of his
term closed his official career in Kentucky.

In April of the succeeding year he moved to
Missouri and settled in St. joseph, his present home.
Here he resumed the practice of his profession, and
pursued it with uninterrupted success, till in 1860
he was elected judge of the 12th judicial District of
Missouri. In the discharge of his official duties, he
gave universal satisfaction and gained a reputation
such as no circuit judge ever surpassed, His term
expiring, he once more resumed the practice of law.
I11 1868 his friends forced him to become a candi-
date for the legislature, believing him to be the
only man with sufficient popularity and strength to
overcome the registration system, then existing. He

was defeated solely by disfranchisement, but had the .

satisfaction of knowing that, while his opponent was
given the seat to which he was entitled, the voice
of the people awarded it to him by a very large
majority. i

The crown of all his past success was the nomi-
nation and election in the Gubernatorial contest of
1872. He was not a candidate for the office, but
his nomination was spontaneous, enthusiastic and
unanimous by the choice of the convention which
submitted his name to the people. While Governor
of Missouri, his friends persistently urged him to
become a candidate in the Senatorial contest, and it
was almost universally conceded that his consent
would secure him a seat in the United States Senate‘,
but he expressly refused to let them use his name,
holding that the people had chosen him to serve

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 279

them, and that he would be unfaithful to them to
accept an honor at the hands of the legislature,
which would compel him to resign his trust.
Governor Woodson was married, December 27,
1866, to Jennie Lord, of Kentucky. They have
three children. No blemish mars the purity of his
private life, and no breath of suspicion clouds his

public career.’ He is one of the few men trusted
through a period of thirty_ years, ‘without betraying
or neglecting that trust in a single instance. The
motto to which he has rigidly adhered, is to do
that which his sense of justice and right demands,
leaving the consequences to take care of them-
selves.

E. W. BISHOP.

ROLLA.

DMUND WARD BISHOP is of English de-
E scent, his ancestors having come to America
at a very early date in colonial history and settled
in Connecticut. But little definitely is known of
them, however, beyond his grandfather, who moved
from Connecticut to New York prior to the Revolu-

tion (in which he participated), and lived in Duch- '

ess county until his death. His son, Morris Bishop,
married Miss Merab Botsford, of New York, and to
them were born ten children, of whom the subject
of this sketch was the eighth, born July 9, 1820,
in the town of North East, Duchess county, New
York.’ Morris Bishop was teacher of music and
penmanship, was a soldier during the war of 1812,
and died about the year 1825, aged 51 years.
Edmund was only five years old when his father
died, and was sent to live with his uncle, Winchell,
with whom he remained two years, receiving in the
meantime only a few days’ schooling. His uncle
dying, he went to labor for a farmer named Jeduthan
Roe, and was to receive board, clothing and three
months’ schooling each year for his work. . At the
end of eight years’ service, having received but
fifty-three days’ schooling, he demanded the fulfill-
ment of the contract, which was refused. Then, in
his sixteenth year, alone and penniless, with his few
clothes tied in a handkerchief, he started for Cou-
dersport, Potter county, Pennsylvania, where his
brother and mother were living, arriving just in
time to be present at his mother’s death. Here he
remained three years working at the trade of a car-
penter, and during the fall and winter months went
to school at Coudersport Academy. He then taught
school in the same county three months at ten dol-
lars per month, “boarding round” with the pupils’
parents. 6At the expiration of the term he returned
3

to Coudersport and attended the Academy two years,
working at night and morning to pay his board.
He then taught the village school three months at
forty-five dollars per month, and at the expiration of
the engagement attended the high school of Batavia,
New York, one term. Returning to Coudersport,
he engaged as ax-man in the engineer corps making
the preliminary survey of the Philadelphia & Erie
railroad, at which he worked during the summer.
He was then employed by Ives & Dykes to super-
intend the rafting and selling of lumber, taking their
rafts down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Cin-
cinnati.

After six months in this employment, Mr. Ives

(having a large contract in the construction of the.

New York & Erie railroad) hired him as clerk and
supply agent. In two years Mr. Ives failed, and
Mr. Bishop lost his entire wages. In the year 1848
he received a contract on the‘ Canisteo division of
the New York & "Erie railroad, which he completed
under great difficulties, owing to the limited condi-
tion of his finances, but realizing fairly on his con-
tract. He continued to contract in the construction
of railroads sixteen years, having assisted in build-
ing the Buffalo & Niagara, the Hamilton & Toronto,
the Catawissa and the Williamsport & Elmira rail-
roads. , .

In 1855 he went to St. Louis and engaged in the
construction of the St. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road. At the expiration of four years he disposed
of his interest in the contract and located at Rolla,
Missouri, where he at once entered upon the devel-
opment of the town, buying land and improving it.
He speculated considerably in real estate, donated
land for the county seat and superintended the erec-
tion of the court-house and jail, after which he

280 THE UNITED-STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

engaged in farming on land near Rolla, which he
had entered.

No man has done more for the development
and prosperity of Rolla than Mr. Bishop. He was
instrumental in the organization of the Rolla flour-
ing mill, and superintended the erection of the
building. He was also one of the originators of the
Rolla National Bank, and was one of its directors.
He is also a stockholder in the Rolla woolen mills,
a member of the school board and one of the city
councilmen. He was president of the agricultural
and horticultural society during its existence, and
was also instrumental in the establishment of the
School of Mines at Rolla, donating one hundred
and sixty acres of land and his time for that pur-
pose.

In 1861 and 1862 Mr. Bishop was major of the
enrolled militia, stationed at Rolla. During the war
he was a heavy loser by the soldiers destroying his
timber.

Previous to the war he was a Democrat, but since
then has been identified with the Republicans, tak-
ing an active part in politics. He was a delegate to
the National Convention at Philadelphia in 1868
which nominated Grant for President, and has been
a delegate to every state convention in Missouri

since the organization of the Republican party. In
1876 the Republicans nominated him for the legis-
lature and he made a vigorous canvass, running far
ahead of his party ticket; there was no hope of ‘his
election—the county being largely Democratic—but
he accepted the nomination to preserve his party

organization. He is a firm believer in the doctrines

H of Christ, though connected with no church.

On the 21st of October, 1858, Mr. E. W. Bishop
was married to Miss Jane Sellard, daughter of James
and Judith Sellard, of Bradford county, Pennsylva-
nia, by whom’ he has had four children, three of
whom are girls. His youngest child, E. W. Bishop,
jr., is a very attractive boy and is a member of the
Murphy temperance club and the first to take upon
himself the anti—tobacco pledge.

Mr. Bishop is a man of prepossessing appear-
ance, of large business energy and perseverance, and
strict integrity. Besides his real estate in Rolla and
vicinity, he owns several large farms in Phelps
county, Missouri, and several tracts of land in
Kansas. But as fortune has been liberal to him, so
is he liberal as her almoner, he is benevolent to a
fault, having given largely, in land and money, to
every enterprise that has sprung up in Rolla, and no
man has done more to build up southern Missouri.

DUDLEY M. STEELE.

571 _/OSEPH. I

UDLEY M. STEELE was born in Jessamine
D county, Kentucky, and was the son of Samuel
Campbell Steele and Elizabeth Mitchum, who were
married October 8, 1812, from which union sprang
a family of nine children, four of whom are dead.

Dudley M. Steele, the subject of this sketch,
was their fifth child, and was born February 18,
1821. His grandparents were born in Ireland, and
removed at an early day to America. Settling first
in Virginia, from thence they moved to Kentucky.
They were rigid members of the old Associate
Reform Presbyterian Church, and the children were
all early trained to the doctrine of that church.
Although losing their mother early (when the subject
of this sketch was but seven years of age\, their
father was Very careful in the training of his chil-
dren, and up to the time of his death, which

occurred when Dudley was in his sixteenth year,
was careful that his children should have the benefit
of Sabbath school and church privileges. Soon
after his death, the care of the family devolving on
the older brother, Dudley left school with a good
English education and a fair knowledge of some of
the classical studies. Determined on doing some-
thing for himself, he went to Lexington, Kentucky,
and found employment with his relative, Dudley M.
Craig, who was then one among the largest and
most prominent merchants of that city. After
remaining there for several years, until his health
could no longer stand the close confinement neces-
sary for such a business, and having read the glow-
ing accounts in the newspapers of the rich soil. of
Missouri, andespecially of that part then known as
the Platte Purchase, conceived the idea of going

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west, and so informed his friends, all of whom
opposed it, and urged him to remain. But having
made up his mindto go, he bade adieu to home and
friends and in the spring of 1842, mounted his horse
and started alone for the great west.

At Louisville he placed his horse on a steamer,
and took passage to St. Louis, Missouri; here he
formed the acquaintance of two gentlemen, a Bap-
tist minister and an elder of the church then known
as the Campbellites. Together they proceeded on
their journey to Columbia, Missouri. Arriving there,
Mr. Steele spent several days with his relative,
David Lamb, then a prominent citizen of that place.
From thence he continued his journey alone, pass-
ing through Boonville, Lexington, Independence,
Liberty, and the place then known as Robideaux,
where St. Joseph now stands, and on to Savannah, a
small village in Andrew county, arriving there in
June, 1842. The land in this county was not entered,
and only subject to preemption by the settlers. The
land on which St. Joseph now stands was only held
as a claim by Mr. Robideaux. While in Savannah
the rich land around that place was so attractive that
he was induced to try farming, and in a short time
purchased a tract of land five miles east of Savannah
and three and one-half miles east of Rochester, in
that county. While on the farm he was appointed
justice of the peace in that township by the county
court, and was afterwards elected to the same office
and served a term.

In 1847 he was married to Mary E. Mitchum,
daughter of John Mitchum, of Woodford county,
Kentucky. One child, a daughter, blessed this
union, and the mother survived the birth of this
child but a few short months, dying ‘June 17, 1849.
About this time the labor and energy displayed in
his farming operations began to tell on his health,
and he was consequently compelled to leave his
farm. He came to St. Joseph in the fall of 1849,
and engaged with the firm of Tootle & Farleigh, in
whose employ he remained until the spring of 1850,
when, his health still continuing bad, he was advised
to cross the plains for California, for which place
he started in the month of May, taking with him a
small stock of cattle. The Indians in many places
being very troublesome to the emigrants, they had
to travel in a ‘company sufficiently strong for self-
preservation, and hence a company of twenty men,
mostly from Andrew county, Missouri, with ten
wagons combined to travel together. They held
a meeting after crossing the river, and elected

Mr. Steele as the captain of said company.

An incident occurred in the early part of this trip
which gave him some little insight into the character
of the Indian. He and two of his party observed
“Court House Rock”—a great stone standing
alone in the valley of the Platte, a few miles south
of the great emigrant road across the continent--
and the atmosphere being so clear and transpa-
rent in that region, they were led to believe that
the rock was but a few miles distant, but after trav-
eling from early morn until nearly noon without
reaching it, his two companions, becoming wearied,
returned to the road and left him to pursue his course
alone. After traveling about four miles farther, he
reached the great stone, that stands alone on the
level plain of the “Platte Valley.” After seeing it,
he determined to ascend to the top. For that pur-
pose he fastened his horse and, placing his gun
close to the base, commenced the ascent. Within
about ten or twelve feet of the top is a perpendicu-
lar crest of magnesian limestone, so soft that notches

. had been cut in it for the purpose of obtaining foot-

hold sufficient to reach the top. At this point he
drew off his boots, laid aside his coat and again
began his perilous ascent, finally reaching the top,
from which the view was truly magnificent. So
clear was the atmosphere that emigrant trains, with
their white covered wagons, a few miles distant,
looked like great white moving spectres, and the
stillness of the place was almost painful. On the
crest of the stone was written the names of many
persons who had passed that way, and he, too, con-
cluded to write his there, which consumed some
little time. When he arose and looked around, he
discovered himself surrounded by about one hun-
dred and fifty Indians, who had approached unper-
ceived by him from the low hills that skirt the rock
on the southwest. Never before having seen so
large a number together, he was naturally somewhat
alarmed at their sudden appearance. He immedi-
ately descended, and after reaching his gun felt
somewhat relieved, but the Indians at once crowded
around ‘him, taking hold of different articles of his
clothing, each wanting something, but he firmly
refused all, save the old chief, to whom he gave a
pencil, which was accepted, the Indian making signs
that a great many “pale faces” in passing that rock
stopped and wrote their names, and he would write
his. Having in the meantime mounted his horse,
Mr. Steele quietly rode away in the direction of his
train, which was not reached until late in the even-

282 THE UNITED STA TES 810 (MA PHICAL DICTIO./VAR Y.

ing. After crossing the “South Pass,” it was con-
cluded by the company that the wagons should go
by what was called the old “ Fort Hall” route, leav-
ing Salt Lake to the south. Mr. Steele, however,
with a l\/Ir. McLanes, wishing to visit Salt Lake,
separated from them, having first arranged a system
of signals by which they could re-unite after passing
the Mormon city. The two mounted men, with one
pack-horse between them, started alone on their
journey through that wild Indian country, stopping
in the evening early enough to build a camp fire and
prepare supper, then remounting and traveling for a
few miles after dark, halting again for the night,
would picket their horses and lie down to rest with-
out pillows and with no covering but their blankets
and the starry canopy above them.

In this way the two men traveled about five hun-
dred miles before the trains were reached. They
spent nearly two weeks in the great “Salt Lake Val-
ley,” gathering much information in regard to that
people, with their peculiar institutions. Mr. Steele
with his company arrived finally in California in the
month of October——having occupied just four months
in their tedious journey across the plains. After
reaching California, he soon discovered that the
stock business was one of vast importance in that
country, and immediately entered into partnership
with Mr. James McCord, one of the present firm of
Nave, McCord & Co., and the two continued in the
stock business until Mr. McCord’s health failed,when
Mr. Steele purchased his interest and still continued
the business until the fall of 1851, when he sold out
and left for his home in Missouri—-via Isthmus of
Panama and New York. In the spring of 1852 he
again purchased stock for the California market, and
again formed a partnership with Mr. McCord, Abra-
ham Nave and Charles Clark, under the firm name
of Steele, McCord & Co., which firm afterward
became the most prominent dealers and raisers of
American stock in upper California, and for a num-
ber of years continued not only to raise stock, but
also drove it from the States, Mr. Steele in the mean-
time crossing the plains some three times with the
trains, always returning by water.

In the year 18 56 he was elected to the Legisla-
ture from the counties of Colusa and Tehama by the
largest majority ever given in that district, he run-

‘ning as a Democrat against Dr. Hunter, a resident

physician, who run on the “Know Nothing ticket,”
defeating the Doctor in 'Tehama county, although

i that county gave a majority for that ticket outside of

Mr. Steele. He introduced a bill in the Legislature
reducing the fees of county officials in his county,
and before it was passed more than two-thirds of the
counties in the State were embraced in the bill, with
the consent of the members from the respective
counties, thereby saving thousands of dollars annu-
ally to the people of the State, as fees had been so
high that it prevented the poor seeking justice in the
courts.

In 1857 Mr. Steele returned to the States, and the
members of the firm of “Steele, McCord & Co.”
entered into an agreement to carry on the wholesale
grocery business in St. Joseph, Missouri, under the
firm name of Nave, McCord & Co.

In 1858 Mr. Steele was united in marriage to
Eliza Smith "May, of Washington county, Kentucky.
To them were born two children. She was a beauti-
ful and accomplished lady, a devoted Christian and
a loving wife and mother. The eldest of her chil-
dren, John M. Steele, is now attending school at
the Virginia Military Institute, the other died when
quite young. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Steele had
the misfortune to lose his noble wife, who died after
a lingering illness of more than twelve months.

In the fall of that same year the firm of which

Mr. Steele was a member, having on hand a large
stock of goods which seemed to be in constant dan-
ger of confiscation by one or the other of the forces
then waging war in this State, it was thought advisa-
ble to ship a part of said stock to Omaha, then a
small village in Nebraska. Mr. Steele then took
charge of that stock, and after the close of naviga-
tion had the goods taken in wagons from St. Joseph

as their necessities required through the winter. He

was so pleased with the future business prospect of
the place that heinduced the firm to establish a
branch house,opening with a large stock in the spring
of 1,862. The firm of Steele, McCord & Co. still
having large unsettled business in California, it was
found necessary for one of the members to go there
and look after their interests. It was decided that
Mr. Steele should go, and Mr. Clark take his place
at Omaha, and in May, 1862, he departed, via New
York and the Isthmus of Panama, for California,
where he arrived in due time, but finding greater dif-
ficulties than he anticipated in settling up such large
interests, he -was compelled to remain until August,
1863, before he completed his business, when he left
California for the last time, after having crossed the
Isthmus via Panama five times and the Nicaragua
route four times, arriving at St. Joseph in Septem-

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ber, 1863, where he again took an active part in the
grocery business. -

In March, 1864, he had a severe attack of
typhoid fever, after which a relapse which seemed
to undermine his health to such an extent that his
physicians advised him to travel. He left home,
stopped a short time in Kentucky with friends, and
went from there to Cape May to try the effects of
sea bathing. After remaining there some time he
visited the Bedford Springs in Pennsylvania to try
the virtue of their waters, and after a short stay,
thinking a higher altitude would be more bracing to
his system, visited Cressen, a, beautiful summer resort
on the summit of the Alleghany mountains, over
which crosses the Pennsylvania Railroad, from which
he derived great benefit and returned home much
improved in health. In 1867, again finding that
close attention to business was too great a strain on
his health, he retired from the firm and the following
year disposed of his interest in the Omaha house,
thereby closing out all of his mercantile interest.

In March, 1868, he was united in marriage to
Miss Minnie Withers, eldest daughter of Abijah
Withers,‘ formerly of Woodford county, Kentucky,
but now airesident of Clay county, Missouri, by
whom he had three children, two of whom are still
living.

In June, 1868, Mr. Steele was elected president
of the Fire and Marine Insurance Company, which
was organized in January of that year. He was
reelected in January, 1869, and again in 41870.
During that time he was also vice—president of the
Merchants’ Insurance Company, managing both

companies in the same office, and the dividends‘

declared by those companies during his term of
office is the best evidence of their excellent and
skillful management. In the fall of 1868 he also
formed a copartnership with Samuel R. Johnson, of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, for doing a wholesale grocery
business, under the firm name of Steele & Johnson.

In August, 1868, the St. Joseph & Denver City
Railroad, in which the city had large interests,
became so embarrassed that work could not proceed
for want of funds. Its land grant by the State of
Kansas (about 125,000 acres) was about to be lost
to the road by a claim of the School Commissioners
of the State for the benefit of the. school fund. The
company employed General James Craig and lVIr.
Steele to go to Topeka, Kansas, and if possible secure
the lands for the benefit of the road, which they did
by having the entire lot of lands patented, to Mr.

Steele from the Governor. In r87o the road becom-
ing again embarrassed, the company sold their entire
lot of lands obtained from the State of Kansas to
Mr. Steele, General Craig, Milton and Thomas

' Tootle, Abram Nave, James McCord, A. Beattie,

Ensworth, Saxton and McLaughlin, they paying the
cash for it. In September of the same year it was
found that the road could not be continued under its
present management; hence a number of gentlemen,
among whom were Governor Woodson, Milton and
Thomas Tootle, Abram Nave, A. Beattie, Saxton

and Mr. Steele, with a few other gentlemen, took‘

control of the road and assumed its liabilities. A
board of directors was organized and Mr. Steele
elected president of the company. The duties being
too great a tax on him, he resigned the presidency
of the St. Joseph Fire and Marine Insurance Com-
pany on the 13th of December of that year.
company prosecuted the work with great vigor.
Mr. Steele went East, spent some three months, and
finally negotiated the sale of five and a half millions
of the company’s- bonds at a price that was entirely
satisfactory to the board. He remained president
of the road and prosecuted its construction with
great energy, extending it two hundred and twenty-
seven miles west from St. Joseph. In. November,
1871, the financial agent of the company in New
Yorkbecoming much embarrassed, Mr. Steele ten-
dered his resignation as president of the company.

In 1872 he was elected president of the Mer-
chants’ Insurance Company, which office he still
holds, having annually been reelected to the same,
and is the only member who ‘has been retained in
the directory of -both of the insurance companies
since their organization.

In 1873 he again entered the wholesale grocery
business, in company with W’. -B. Kemper, W. B.
Craig and G. W. Barr, under the firm name of D.
M. Steele & Co., and their business has grown so
rapidly that they had to largely increase their capital
as well as their buildings. They now occupy one
among the largest and most complete business houses
in the city, it having been constructed especially for
them. In the meantime the business of Steele &.
Johnson at Council Bluffs had grown so large that
they were compelled to move to Omaha in order to
get a building sufficient to accommodate their
increased business.

In 1876 Mr. Steele was elected president of the
Board of Trade of St. Joseph, which office he still
holds at this Writing (1877). The same year he was

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also elected a director of the bridge company, and
reelected again in 1877.

Few men have had the esteem and confidence of
so large a circle of intelligent and successful business
men as Mr. Steele, as evinced by the many positions
of trust with which they have honored him. Always
courteous and kind, but never swerving from the
path of rectitude and honor. He never sought
political preference, as his brief experience in poli-

tics while in California satisfied him it did not accord

with his tastes. ‘In politics he has always been a .

very conservative Democrat, preferring men of hon-
esty, integrity and ability to a party nomination
without qualifications for the position. Mr. Steele
united with the Presbyterian church some three
years since, and has always been a liberal contrib-
utor to the cause of religious and charitable institu-
tions.

JAMES L. STEPHENS.

COLUMBIA. _

AMES L. STEPHENS was born November 17,
1815, in Garrard county, Kentucky. He is the
second son of Elijah Stephens, a North Caroli-

nian of English extraction, a well to do farmer, a
man of great reading, extensive information and
eminent piety, who read books for the knowledge’
they furnished, whose library was filled with choice
works in all departments of literature and science,
and who was so delighted with the philosophy of
John Locke, as to name one son in honor of him.
Mr. Stephens was also a thorough biblical scholar,

and the distinguished Alexander Campbellonce.

complimented him by saying that he had met no
man in Missouri so well informed in the Scriptures.
Elijah Stephens removed with his family from Ken-
tucky to Missouri, and settled in Boone county in
the fall of 1819, and gave his children such an
English education as the schools in the country at
that day afforded. The mother of the subject of
this sketch was a Virginian by birth and of Scotch
descent. .
After remaining on the farm with his father until
the spring of 1836, James L. Stephens entered the
dry goods store of Parker & Barr, of Columbia, as
clerk, and has continuously resided in Columbia
ever since, except one year he spent in New York
city, two in Greensburg, Indiana, and one year each
in Mexico and Fulton, Missouri. In 1843 he was
engaged in a large business on his own account,
owning and conducting three dry goods stores in
three different county seats, one in Mexico, one in
Fulton and one in Columbia. He inaugurated, and

perhaps established, the first thoroughly successful ,

effort of transacting business on the cash system in
Central Missouri. At the same time, and while he
was in the mercantile business, he was engaged in
improving and cultivating a model farm, on which
he employed many laborers, and bought and sold
annually, for many years, from three hundred to
to five hundred mules. Few if any individuals have
ever transacted more business in Boone county than

be. In 1857 he retired from the mercantile business. .

In 1866 Mr. Stephens laid off his entire farm of

one hundred and eighty acres into town lots, nearly‘

every one of which is now adorned with a good
residence, with a mission school house in the center
which cost him several thousand dollars. No indi-

. vidual in his section has more generously contributed

in labor or means to build up and establish public
improvements. Scarcely a public enterprise of his
town or county, for the past forty years, has failed
to receive his cordial and hearty cooperation. A
communication to the St. Louis Repzrélzkan, in
expressing admiration for the liberality of citizens of
Columbia, says: “The institutions of learning and

the general beauty of the town, pay a merited-

tribute to one of the most public spirited, far-seeing
and useful citizens that Columbia can boast. The
gentleman alluded to is James L. Stephens, to whose
untiring energy, almost unerring judgment and gen-
erosity, Columbia owes much of her reputation in
holding a commanding position among the refined
communities of the state.” The writer alludes in
flattering terms to the donation of $500 to the
University, and the $20,000 endowment fund of
Stephens Female college.

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The Missouri Sz‘czz‘esma7z in 1870, whose editor,
Colonel W. F. Switzer, has known Mr. Stephens

intimately most of his life, —made the following_

respectful notice in its columns: “Three citizens
of Boone county, two of whom years ago were con-
signed to honored graves, deserve to be especially
remembered in connection with munificent contribu-
tions to ‘education, namely, Anthony W. Rollins,
William Jewell and James Stephens. The latter
is the survivor, and in Eonnection with Dr. Jewell,
is referred to in the following extract, which we clip
from the Boston Wafcfi77za/2 cma’ Reflec‘/or: “At a
meeting of the General Association of the Baptists
of Missouri, in St. Louis, in 1870, the name
“Stephens” was conferred on the State Female
College of the Baptists of Missouri, located at Col-
umbia, as a token of the regard t—hat body placed on
his labor and contributions in building up and estab-
lishing the institution.”

In 1860 Mr. Stephens was the Democratic no1n—

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inee for state senator in the district composed of the
counties of Boone and Callaway, and sustained the
canvass to the entire satisfaction of his party against
ex-Governor Hardin, receiving the full vote of the
party, which at that time was in a decided minority
in the district. He was elected the first president of
the Columbia branch of the North Missouri railroad.

In 1844 he married Amelia, daughter of the late
Judge Irvine O. Hac_k_a_way, of Fulton, Missouri,
and has two children : Edwin \/V., editor of the
Columbia Iiérmla’, Annie H., who married Sidney
K. Smith, Esq., of St. Louis.

He now resides at his elegant residence “ Edge-
wood,” in Stephens’ addition to Columbia, a delight-

ful abode situated in a beautiful lawn of ten acres,’

covered with a luxuriant growth of forest trees
interspersed with evergreens —- an attractive and
appropriate retreat for the evening of a life so
actively spent. Mr- Stephens and his family are
members of the Baptist church.

CAPTAIN AI EDGAR ASBURY.

DOVER.

HE mercantile demands along the bank of the

Missouri river have developed a talent and
business integrity among the young men of those
counties through which the “Big Muddy” flows,
that is at once honoring to them and the state.
Nowhere has this been more the case than in Lafay-
ette and Saline counties, the wealthiest of the up
river counties and the finest soil in the world. For
years the people have been the largest hemp-produc-
ing farmers in the West, and until the war changed
their system of labor, Dover landing, Lexington,
Miami and Waverly freighted immense quantities
of that product down the Missouri. A class of
merchants have grown up at those points whose
business qualities are unsurpassed, and they have
accumulated handsome fortunes in their dealings.
Among them, none stand more deservedly high
than the subject of this sketch.

Ai Edgar Asbury was born in Pruntytown, Vir-
ginia, August 16, 1836, and was the son of John
Asbury, who was born in the same state in 1804,
and raised in Harrison, the adjoining county to
where Edgar was born-. He was ordinarily educated,

' sylvania.

but was a man of more than average ability. He
was apprenticed to the hatter’s trade, and at man-
hood married Miss Leah Bagley Rogers, in 1826.
She was born in 1808, and was the daughter of
William A. Rogers, a native of Farquier county,
Virginia, and Susan (Bayley) Rogers, who was
also born in F arquier county, in 1760. Both names
are prominent in the oldest families of their state.
John Asbury, father of John Asbury,'was also a
native of the colony of Virginia, and was a descen-
dant of the brother of Bishop Asbury, who came to
colonial Virginia from England as the representative
of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Ai Edgar Asbury learned mercantile business

under his father, who was an extensive merchant."

He was partly educated at Rector College, Virginia,
and finished at Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn-
In 1857 he followed his parents to Rich-
mond, Missouri, whither they had moved in 1856.
Here he entered the law office of C. T. Garner, and
remained for two years, when he was licensed,
in 1859, by Judge George W. Dunn. Mr. As-
bury then removed to Houston, Texas county,

286 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIBY.

Missouri, where he practised law eighteen months.

In 1861, when the war between the Northern
and Southern states began, he entered the service of
the State of Missouri, and was commissioned on the
staff of General J. H. McBride with rank of lieu-.
tenant-colonel. He afterwards joined the Confed-
erate service, with rank of captain, and served
through the entire wa.r, during which he was captured
in Southeast Missouri and was held as a prisoner of
war thirteen months at Johnson’s island and other
points.
and was assigned to duty under General Kirby
Smith. The war closed and many of the Confed-
erate officers took refuge in Mexico—among them
General Smith, whom Captain Asbury escorted as
far as Houston, Texas, where he tendered his resig-
nation, which was accepted, and he then surrendered
to the United States’ forces at Galveston. He
then returned to Missouri, and went to Dover, July,
1865, where he entered as clerk in the store of his
brother, William P. Asbury, who was afterwards a
prominent lawyer at Warrensburg, Missouri, and
died there recently. Captain Asbury became a part-
ner with his brother in the -store, and the firm built
up a very large and lucrative trade. The writer of
this sketch knew both brothers during the darkest
days of Lafayette county, when, although peace

had been declared, the greatest animosity existed.

between the two parties, and blood was shed in as
bitter skirmishes and personal quarrels as ever in the
war. In company with other returned rebels, Cap-
tain Asbury suffered some inconveniences; but
through all those trying days he was respected by

On being exchanged he returned to service.

men of both parties. The captain is still one of
the leading merchants of that section.

On the 9th of November, 1865, Captain Asbury
married Miss Ellen Knox Ga-w, of Lafayette county,
Missouri, where she was born May 15, 1842. Her
father, Philip M. Gaw, was born in Woodstock,
Shenandoah county, Virginia, November 1, 1811,
and was the son of John Gaw, who was born in
Ireland in 1754 and moved to Virginia at an early
day. This John Gaw married a Miss Mary Miller.
They both died in Virginia at about one hundred
years of age. Philip M. Gaw married in Boone
county, Missouri, Miss Mary Barnett, who was born
in Kentucky, August," 1812. She had removed
with her parents to Howard county, Missouri, in
1817; they removed to Rocheport, Boone county,
and in 1839 to Dover. Five children were born to
Philip M. Gaw, three of whom died in infancy, leav-
ing Eliza Gaw, now Mrs. Garnett, who was born in
1839, and Ellen Knox Gaw, the captain’s wife.

Ai Edgar and Ellen Knox Asbury have had six
children, two of whom died in infancy. The sur-
viving ones are Eva Garnett, born August 29, 1866;
Hugh Gaw, born November 26, 1869, Leah Bar-
nett, born March 14, 1:872, Ai Edgar, Jr., born
January 23, I876. The parents are both members
of the Baptist church, of which both their parents
are members.

Captain Asbury has always been a Democrat,
casting his first vote for John C. Breckenridge for
president in 1860. He was school commissioner in
Texas county, Missouri, in 1860. The captain is
also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

COLONEL ADAM JOHNSTON BARR.

I RICHMOND.

S DAM JOHNSTON BARR was born July 4, '

1828, in Bethlehem, Northampton county,
Pennsylvania. His father, James Barr, came from
near Glasgow, Scotland, to this country in 1801,
settled in New York city, and lived there with his
father for some time; then moved to the state of
Pennsylvania, where the subject of this sketch was
born. Colonel Barr in person is about six feet in

' height; he is of sanguine-lymphatic temperament,

and a descendant of Scottish parents, of which he is
a genuine type.

When he was about nine years old, his father
with his family moved to Steuben county, New
York, where they resided for two years, and then
came back to the state of Pennsylvania, where he
lived with his parents upon a farm for many years.
When quite young Adam left home to mark out his
own destiny. He had no education, except such as
he had obtained during the winter terms of a coun-
try school, after leaving home he attended the
Academy of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and when
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try school and then return to his studies. After
educating himself for some time in this way, he left
school and obtained a position as receiving clerk at
the Cambria Iron Works, then just in process of

construction. Having accumulated some means,

he concluded to study medicine, and accordingly,

entered the office of Dr. Henry Yeagly at Johns-
town, in the fall of the year 1849, and attended
medical lectures in Cincinnati, where he graduated
in 1852, and then went to Waverly, Pike county,
Ohio,_ to commence the practice of his profession.
When he arrived at Waverly he had one dollar left
to begin business upon. He soon, however, worked
himself into a good practice, and before the year
closed, found that he had a practice that was paying
him about three thousand dollars per year. His
success in his profession was remarkable, seldom
failing to relieve those who employed him in their
affliction. However, becoming dissatisfied with the
place, and desiring to seek a home in the West, he
left Waverly in the fall of 1858, and came to Ray
county, Missouri, where he settled and practiced
his profession. H

In 1859 he married Miss Nannie Jacobs, daugh-

ter of Clayton Jacobs, a merchant and an old and
respected citizen of Ray county. To them were
born two children: Leo James and Lizzie Theodo-
sia.‘ Here he practiced medicine until the breaking
out of the Rebellion. Being a strong Union man,
and coming as he did from Ohio, he was regarded
by the pro-slavery people as a “northern man.”
During the presidential canvass of'186o he took
decided grounds with the Douglas party, and strongly
advocated the election of Stephen A. Douglas to the
presidency, and became somewhat prominent in the
canvass as a Douglas Democrat. I

The excitement growing out of this election
continued, and the discussion of its issues engen-
dered strife and deepened the prejudice then existing
between the citizens of the North and South. So
when the battle of Lexington, Missouri, commenced,
just across the river from where he lived, the people
of the place were at once almost unanimously pre-
cipitated into the vortex of the rebellion, and their
subsequent triumph over Mulligan and his little
band of heroes, penned up in that miserable fort,
drove all but a few to believe at the time that the
Rebellion was a success. The whole country was
ablaze with excitement, and every man was called

upon to define his position, as to whether he was

“North or South,” “ Union or Secession.” To all

37

these questions he had but one answer and that was,
“The union of the states must be preserved, the
government maintained, and the rights of all her
citizens protected.” ‘

His strong outspoken advocacy of the cause of
the government and the Union, rendered his posi-
tion perilous in the extreme. His letters were inter-
cepted and opened, anonymous letters were sent to
him threatening his life, and others warning him of
his danger. While in his office one evening com-
pounding some medicine, he was shot at through
the window, the bullet passing close to his face and
breaking the glass on the shelf before which he was
standing. That same night his office door and sign
were riddled with bullets shot through them. He
was at this time corresponding with the Hon. James
H. Burch, Sr., who was at Jefferson City attending
the state convention. The object of these" commu-
nications being to devise some plan for military relief,
and to keep the representatives in the state conven-
tion properly advised as to the condition-of this part
of the state, all of which rendered his condition
very dangerous. Plots were formed for his assassin-
ation, and being warned of this he was compelled
to escape to the Woods, where he remained for
several days without food or shelter, eluding the
pursuit of his enemies until worn outwith fatigue
and hunger. He resolved one night to venture into
a lonely cabin surrounded by a dense forest of tim-
ber, and obtain some nourishment ; and, if possible,
learn something of the roaming military bands in
search of him. On approaching the cabin, every-
thing was quiet ; the danger of exposing himself to
some one Who might be one of his pursuing enemies
was prominent in his thoughts 3 but he had deter-
mined to test the matter. The door of the cabin was
soon opened to his raps, and he found the inmate to
be a strong Union man 3 from him he learned the
names of the Union men in the neighborhood, and
Wrote out a call to them to meet him in the woods
near by at 10 o’clock the following night, and bring
with them such arms and munitions of war as they

could get, also to bring good horses, blankets, etc._

To this call twenty-five men, well armed, came, and
he was at once chosen their leader. After some

consultation he concluded to lead them out to Cam- ,

eron, but to get there they must pass the pickets of
the enemy about the village Elkhorn. They, how-
ever, started, and with but little opposition marched
thirty miles and reached Cameron at daylight Here
they met Major James with a small organization of

288 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

State Militia. From here they went to Plattsburg
where they united with the militia there, and accom-
panied Colonel Kimball’s command through Platte
county via.Weston to St. Joseph, participating in the
fights and skirmishes on the march. While here,
Colonel Barr with two others was sent to see Captain
Prince, at Leavenworth, Kansas, to obtain reinforce-
ments if possible. They were told that there were
not sufficient men to take care of the arsenal, and
that he could not spareia single man. A That evening
Colonel'Kimball started for St. ]oseph.- After the
column had been formed, and as Colonel Barr sup-
posed, the advance guard started, he rode out alone
in advance of the command.
miles from Weston he saw a well armed man gallop-
ing toward him, which proved to be one of Ci
Gordon’s bushwhakers. There was no escape, he
must capture or be captured. He dashed up to the

side of thebushxvhacker, and, presenting his pistol to ’

his breast, demanded his surrender. The man sur-
rendered and delivered his arms, when Colonel Barr
marched him back toward Weston to meet his com-
pany.
ball, who took him to St. Joseph and lodged him in
prison.

and placed in charge of the hospital. In the follow-
ing spring he accompanied a detachment of soldiers
under Major A. Allen to Richmond, Ray county,
where he remained. during the summer, recruiting
and re—organiz_ing the militia of Ray county,'and was
commissioned by Governor Gamble colonel of the
Ray County (Missouri) Militia, which were at once
armed, equipped and put into active service. Under
his military control the peace of the county was
soon restored, and citizens of both parties returned
to their usual vocations of life.

During the fall of 1862 the state election was
held, and he was chosen as one of the representa-

tives of the state legislature from Ray county, where
he served two sessions, anditook an active part in
the re-organization of the State government, ‘support-
ing ‘all of the important measures looking toward the
restoration of law and quiet. _ During the hot con-
test in the l-egislature between the “charcoals”
and “snowflakes,” and the “copperheads” and
“ conservatives,” he took neutral -‘ground 3 and in the
senatorial contest, voted for john S. Phelps for
United States senator until he was withdrawn, then
as his next choice, for Judge Breckenridge,‘ of St.

When about two A’

The prisoner was delivered to Colonel Kim- '

From St.‘ jioseph our hero went to Chillicothe,
Missouri, where he was appointed assistant surgeon,

Louis 3 but the legislature adjourned, failing to elect
a senator at this session, and the contest in the house
thoroughly convinced him that the majority of the
then loyal people of the state desired the election of
B. Gratz Brown and John B. Henderson. Upon

.his return home he canvassed the county, and'advo-

cated in his public speeches the emancipation policy
of the general government. His political enemies
denounced him as an "open abolitionist, yet his
speeches had such an influence over the people of
Ray county, that he returned to the legislature fully
endorsed, and voted for B. Gratz Brown and John
B. Henderson for the United States senate,‘ and his
influence in their behalf__contributed much to their
success. In this ‘senatorial contest and his support
of the Republican candidate, he was greatly encour-

aged by the counseland friendship of Lieutenant- .

Governor George Smith, and other prominent union

men of the state upon whom he could confidently

rely. ' . F .
In .1864, under the new call of President Lincoln

for additional troops, he, in connection with Colonel

Bradshaw, of St. joseph, Missouri,_recruited the
44th Regiment Infantry Volunteers.’ Colonel Brad-
shaw was commissioned colonel, and he lieutenant-

colonel of the regiment, and they were mustered.

into service and at once ordered to Paducah, Ken-
tucky. Upon arriving there they found orders and
transfers waiting to take them to Tennessee to rein-
force General Schofield, who was suffering from
General Hood"s_ army, which had invaded the.state
and were an mule to Nashville. They met Schofield’ s
retreating army at Columbia, when they were imme-
diately thrown into battle, and from Columbia to

Franklin they were continually underfire of the‘

enemy. At Spring Hill they gallantly led a charge

and turned the flanking enemy, at’ Franklin they .

were in the hottest of the fight, and here, during a
charge upon the outer works held. by the enemy,
a large number of the regiment were killed and
wounded. Here Colonel Bradshaw, early in. the fight,
was wounded and fell into the hands of the enemy.
Colonel Barr was now left alone in command. They
were severely pressed by the enemy, but while the
army ‘gave way on the right, leaving the enemy
to break our right center, Colonel Barr by his pres-
ence, "coolness and courage -induced his soldiers to
stubbornly hold their position, and beat back the
enemy with terribleslaughter. This was a terrible
night, and many brave and good men went down
on that gory field who had followed Colonel Barr

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through many_trying scenes before, and amongthem
were some of the noble heroes who met him" near
the lone cabin in the woods, in the fall of 1861, and
formed part of the first Union military organization
in Ray county. They sleep, mingled with the fallen
foe, upon the hillside-in the sunny South, and ‘may

God hallow the spot, for many a brave man who.

still lives, remembers that terrible night of Novem-
ber 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tennessee. They retreated
to Nashville, where the regiment-was attached to the
16th Army Corps, General A.-' J. Smith command-
ing. On the morning of the 15th_ of December,
1874, Colonel Barr, sick and worn with excessive
duty and camp life, moved out at the head of his
regiment and participated in the three days"fight at
Nashville, and then in the memorable pursuit of
Hood’s demoralized army, across the mountainous
country of Tennessee.

They were next taken by transports to Eastport,
Mississippi, where Colonel Barr received the news
of his election, by the people of Ray, Clinton, Cald-
well and Carroll counties, as delegate to the state
constitutional convention. His opposing candidates
for the office were James H. Birch, ]r., and Colonel
John B. Hale, who were at home canvassing the
counties and pressing their claims upon the people,
while he was in the field fighting for his country.

He laid the communication before General Smith
who gave him leave of absence and ordered a gun-
boat to take him to Cairo, where he took the cars to
St. Louis. Upon his arrival there he took his seat
in the convention, which had been in session for
some time, and the ordinance ‘abolishing slavery had
been passed; but, by resolution, he was allowed to
record his vote in favor‘ of emancipation ‘of ‘slavery
in Missouri. ~He was atonce placed upon some of
the most important committees, and took a promi-
nent part in the delibrations of the convention, and
during its sitting was frequently called to the chair
to preside over that body. While in this convention’
the news of the surrender of Lee was received 5 also
the solemn news of the tragic death of President
Lincoln‘. The close of the war found him in the

legislative halls of his state, making fundamental -

laws for the government of the people, for whom he
had suffered so much, and to whom he was so largely
indebted for the honors conferred upon him. He
had proven not only a faithful, but a competent
leader for them, in peace or war, and they were
willing to trust him. ‘ ~

At the assembling of the legislature,’ after the

adoption of the new constitution, he was elected by
that body one of the curators of the State Univer-
sity. He was also elected, the same year, circuit
clerk of the circuit court o.f Ray county, and was
appointed assistant United States assessorof the 6th
District of Missouri. Many other higher offices of
honor and trust were urged upon him, but he refused

' them. When solicited in 1867 to become a candi-

date for congress he told his friends No! That he
had no desire for other office, and that his personal
friend, Van Horn, was ‘entitled to it, and he would
not be in his way. . .
Subsequently he became a delegate to the con-
gressional convention which assembled at Liberty,
and by his influence and management succeeded in

securing the nomination of his friend,'Van Horn. '

He was then selected by his friends as a candidate
forlieutenant-governor of the state, but he would not
allow his name to be used. Learning, however, that
some of his friends, notwithstanding " ‘his refusal,

would present his name for nomination, he wrote a .

strong letter to the chairman of the state -committee,
stating that he would not, under any circumstances,
allow his name to be used‘ for nomination for any
state office whatever, and not to allow it to be used.
Still he. received a large number of votes for lieuten-
ant-governor. Having studied law, he abandoned
medicine, and since the war has been arduously
engaged in the practice of the legal profession. He
has "since, and during ‘the war, advocated and sup-

ported the policy of the Republican party; but in

consequence of some fixed and settled principle of
thenational parties, and on account of the wide
spread corruption in all circles, he has studiously
avoided all public party participation with either,
preferring the quiet retreat of his happy home and
the peaceful association of his little family, to the
strife and turmoil of party. _ ‘

In religion, as in politics, he is liberal in all his
views. He believes in the divinity of the Bible, but
thinks that the popular theology of the day is liable
to miscontrue’ and misapply many of its most essen-

tial truths , that true religion and christianity is like i

truth, analytical, and courts investigation, becoming
brighter thereby; but that human creeds
theologyare synthetic, once torn to pieces and
thoroughly dissected by a scientist, it can never be
reunited, and therefore engenders strife and discord;
that true christianity unites the human family in
bonds of love and respect, and elevates and ennobles
the race, the seeds of all whichllie deep down in

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the human soul, linked to the God—principle, which
grows and develops in man as his mental powers

enlarge and expand, and as this takes place he’

becomes more God-like in his nature ; he loves more,
and hates less; he deals less in things of earth and
feasts more on heavenly things, until the soul

becomes wearied with its earthly house, takes its
flight‘ and rejoins the Parent Soul in the land of the

leal, where the feeling of weariness is unknown, and ,

the sickening thought of sorrow, disappointment
and regret never come to disturb the eternal rest of
a redeemed and disenthralled "soul.

THOMAS KENNARD, M. D. '

ST. LOUIS.

EN do not choose professions under accidental
M circumstances, or if they do, their names
almost invariably ‘become enrolled on the list of
lamentable failures. The Great Creative Power—
called by whatsoever name you may choose—that
made no two spears of grass alike—that glories in
diversity—that Power glories as well in adaptation
as in system. If all the senses have their uses, and
if there. be no conflict, there must be design. If
there be design in “the grass, which to-day is, and
to-morrow is cast into the oven 3” if the sparkling
bubble, the pearly dew—drop, the. floating atom, the
animalcule, the horse, have their uses, and always
tend to the aim of their existence, shall we expect

less of the great master-piece of creation? Is there no

law which, to a great degree’, shapes the destiny of
man? Where men follow out these silent monitors—
traveling the orbit created for them, and for which
they were created-—they are successes 3 otherwise,
the cause of eighty per- cent. of the “failures” is
explained. In writing the biographies of the “suc-
cesses” in the different avocations, we write for
future as well as present readers; and they will
ask “why successful, and how?” We will be par-
doned, then, if we occasionally moralize, or theorize,
upon the lives" of those of our subjects who stand
prominent before their fellows as “eminent men.”

Thomas Kennard, M. D., has been a practicing
physician for twenty years in St. Louis, and—like
his father before hi1n—has ever been an ardent lover
of the science of medicine. ‘He was born at the old
family residence, Elmwood, Kent county, Maryland,
June 1, 1834, and is the eldest son of Dr. Thomas
C. Kennard and Jane E. (Hanson) Kennard. The
family is descended from some of the most distin-
guished of the early families of Maryland. The
father of our subject was a successful practitioner

until his retirement from the profession, when he
applied his well-trained" mind to the scientific and
practical cultivation and management of his farms.
He is a man of rare endowments, physically and
mentally, and whether as physician or farmer, ranks
as a superior. The mother, too, was a fit mate for
her husband in all those traits of character which go
to make up true womanhood. Together they reared
their children with loving care and surrounded them
with happy influences which rendered their rural
home indeed ‘‘the clearest spot on earth.” By
precept and example they built well upon the moral
natures they had bequeathed to their offspring, until
they had the satisfaction of seeing them launch out
into full grown life remarkably free from those vices
so common to youth.

Thomas attended an excellent school near home
(which was mainly supported by his father), until he
was sixteen years of age. At that time he had
acquired a thorough elementary English education,
become’ quite proficient in the classics, and was well
advanced in Latin and Greek. In 1850 he entered
St. Timothy’s Hall, a military college near Baltimore,
where he graduated in two years. At the age of
eighteen he entered the University of Virginia, and
in two years graduated in _five of the departments.
He devoted the third year in that institution to the
study of medicine. Entering with fervent zest upon
his professional studies, he rapidly and firmly laid"
the foundation of a thorough education in the theory
of medicine.

In the fall of 185 5 he matriculated at the Uni-
versity Medical College, New York city, and gradu-
ated in less than a year. In order to gain a practical
knowledge of his profession, in the’ spring of 1856
he accepted the position of house surgeon and
physician to the Jews’ Hospital in New York City,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPI-IICAL DICTIO./VARY. 291

where he remained several months and resigned to
accept a similar position in the venereal hospital‘ on
Blackwell’s Island. Theservice proving too great a
tax upon his health, in January, 1857, he was coin-
pelled to abandon hospitals altogether, after ‘which
he practiced at home one year.

In 1858 Dr. Kennard came west and began prac-
tice in St. Louis in January of that year. Shortly
afterwards, however, he accepted the appointment
of surgeon to one of the American Fur Company’s
steamers, which went higher up the Missouri river
than any boat had yet reached.

In 1859, in conjunction with two other medical
gentlemen, he established the St. Louis Dispensary,
but at the outbreak of the war, in 1861, circum-
stances connected with that event compelled him to
close it. ’ He became convinced that so many
unworthy applicants for relief were treated in such
institutions, that it was an injury rather than an
advantage to other practitioners —and hence he
never re-opened the Dispensary. A similar institu-
tion was afterwards established and conducted by
the city, which became an imposition upon the tax-
payers, and the profession, and confirmed the Doc-
tor’s views, that promiscuous alms-giving was not
true charity. He made a scathing report upon that
institution in 1871: to the St. ‘Louis Medical Society,
which was ‘adopted and which did much to check
the evil. While Dr. Kennard is not opposed to pro-
perly conducted charities, he is not willing to encour-
age the imposition of those who are notreally worthy
objects of the charity intended to be bestowed.

For nearly twenty years he has practiced medi-
cine in St. Louis, and the writer of this sketch knew
from authentic sources, before making his acquain-
tance, that he had become one of the leading physi-
cians of the city. Hence we class him a success.
A glance at his life, as here so briefly written, will
show the secret. He is naturally and by cultivation
a lover of science, and loves the profession of inedi-
cine because it is scientific, it has not been his trade,
nor so much a matter of business with him , it is his
most admired study. The contrary to this might be
inferred from the fact that he. has been known at
times to oppose the opening of medical schools, and
has frequently declined proffered Professorships.
But it was because he was jealous of the high char-
acter of the profession. He reasoned that a great
multiplicity of medical schools would, by competi-
tion, cheapen medical education, and, to meet the
deficiency in entrance fees, a cheap kind of medical

education must necessarily soon throw upon the coin-
munity a race of ignorant men who, with their easily
earned degrees, would go into society killing instead
of curing, degrading instead of elevating the profes-
sion. He is an advocate of medical colleges, because,
being a highly intellectual man himself, and a thor-
oughly taught physician, he appreciates the require-
ments of the legitimate profession and demands the
very highest attainments of the practitioner. Nor
has he ever stopped to count the cost of his opposi-
tion to inferiority or demands for superiority.

The nameiof Dr. Thomas Kennard is as favor-
ably known in the literary line of his profession as
in any other. - Many of his scientific articles have
appeared in the leading medical periodicals of the
day 3 the records of the St. Louis Medical Society
contain many of his publications carefully preserved ,
he has written scholarly.essays upon epidemic chol-
era, diphtheria, variola and vaccination, molar preg-
nancy (false conception), medical experts, sunstroke,
the mutual relations between druggists and physi-
cians, several dissertations upon venereal disease,
and many other subjectsof interest and importance
to the profession. His trip in the Fur Company’s
boat gave him subject-matter for some well-received
articles published after his return in the ./I/z's50m'z'
Repuélzkavz and in the Democmz‘. One of his contri-
butions which is- highly spoken of is entitled “ Med-
icine among the North American Indians: Their
Superstitious Ideas Regarding it 3 Their Horrible
Mode of Making Doctors, Their Practice of Necro-
mancy; Together with an Account of the Diseases
Prevalent among Them, and their Treatment.”
Many of his articles have been extensively repub-
lished in the medical journals of the country.

In the discussion which took place in St. Louis,
a year or so ago, Dr. Kennard took strong grounds
in opposition to the repeal of the social evil law,
and although it somewhat affected his private prac-
tice and subjected him to great animosity at the
time, he continued to advocate its enforcement until
it was finally repealed. He is still the best known
advocate for the enforcement of a proper prophylaxis
against the spread of -syphilis in-the United States.

In January, 1877, Dr. Kennard called the atten-
tion of the St. Louis Medical Society to the necessity
for establishing a Commission in Lunacy for the
State of Missouri, and having been appointed‘ chair-
man of a committee to report upon this subject to
the Society, he explained fully the reasons why such
an office should be created, in order to secure proper

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treatment and management of the insane, to avoid
the imprisonment of the harmless lunatics, and to
prevent" criminals escaping just punishment under
the specious plea of insanity, which is now so often
accomplished through ignorant, incompetent and
mercenary medical men, whose opinions are for sale
at every trial where the plea of insanity is entered
is an excuse for murder. He afterwards framed an
act to create the office of Commissioner in Lunacy,
and to define the duties thereof, _which was so per-
fect in every particular that the committee of the
legislature to whom it was referred accepted it with
very slight alteration, reported favorably upon it,
and it will no doubt become a law at the next
session.

As indicating the Doctor’s high standing among
his professional brethren, it may be mentioned that
he has been elected or appointed to every office in
the St. Louis Medical Society; has filled almost
every office in the State Medical Association ; he has
also been for many years a member of the St. Louis

Academy of Science and of the American Medical L

Association. He. has been one of the consulting

physicians to the City Hospital, to the Female Hos-

_ pital and to the City Dispensary.
Dr. Kennard is a man of great mental and phys—'

ical vigor, and, asalready stated, of a highorder of

intellect; his natural talents have been cultivated by .

a rigid course of select study. In society he is
urbane and pleasant 3 in polemics, studied and deter-
mined; in opinion independent and fearless in its
expression, honesthimself, he has a thorough hatred
of dissimulation or. double-dealing, and is intolerant
of pretense not based upon true merit.

In 1860 he married Miss Edmonia Cates, daugh-
ter of Judge Owen G. Cates, a distinguished jurist
and public man of Kentucky, who was for many
years Attorney—General of that State. The Doctor
has two children:—Thomas Cates Kennard and
Katie Kennard. . '

In concluding this ‘sketch, we have only to say
that with education, zeal, determination and culture,
he has won for himself in,St. Louis and throughout
the West an enviable reputation, and is known
favorably as a thoughtful, safe and learned medical
writer.

ANTHONY L. MASON.

KANSAS

T is theimen of broad and comprehensive views
I who give life to communities and build cities—-
men who in the darkness of adverse circumstances,
as well as in more favorable periods, look beyond
the clouds and have the pluck and energy and fore-
sight to push forward their enterprises, extend spec-
ulation and fairly wrest success from calamity. Just

such a man is Anthony Laws Mason, one of the.

most enterprising men of Kansas City, one _of its
largest property-holders and one who has erected
more buildings than any other man in the Western
Metropolis.’ By his father’s nativity and rearing he
represents Connecticut, and that of his mother, Mass-
achusetts, combining in himself the practical judg-
ment of the first with the speculative readiness of
the latter—a happy combination that creates a suc-
cessful business man.

His father, Anthony Mason, who was born in
Connecticut, moved to Orleans county, New York,
in r820, when that section was a wilderness, cleared

CITY.

and improved the farm on which he lived over forty
years, and where he .died in 1867. The wife of

,Anthony'Mason, whose maiden name was Sophia

Davenport, was a native of Franklin county, Massa-
chusetts, and daughter of Oliver Davenport, an old
resident of that state. She died in 1865. Both
were held in high esteem during their lives, by their
families and neighbors. The subject of this sketch,
their son, was born on the home place in Orleans
county, New York, December 7, 1827, and was

reared on his father’s farm, with only the meager»

facilities for obtaining an education afforded by the
common schools of that day. But by close obser-
vation, reading and practical thought he has more
than made up the deficiencies of his schooling. .
The Erie canal passed close to their home, and
in the‘ days before railroads the travel on it_was very
considerable. Anthony, although foreshadowing
the future man, began early in life to make his

money by peddling apples to the passengers on the

' fested a taste and talent for mercantileipursuits.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZOZVARY.

canal, and any other trafficking he could engage in,
so that he had accumulated about $700 by the time
he reached his majority. While engaged with his
father on the farm he early and continuously mani-
In
his twenty-first year he went- to Galesburg, Kalama-
zoo county, Michigan, where his mother’s brother
had a store, in which his uncle employed him six
months on trial.
taken into partnership for the specified tern; of four
years; but at _the expiration of the third year, the
store’ with its entire stock was consumed by fire.
Mr. Davenport kindly made good the young man’s
share in the loss. He then’ purchased his uncle’s
interest and good will in what remained-of the
establishment, and conducted the’ business on his
own account through an uninterrupted period of
fourteen years—without losing one day from his store-
affairs! He built his own store-house in which’ he
conducted his busines twelve years. From a small
beginning he gradually increased his stock until he
carried $20,000 worth of goods annually, with sat-
isfactory profits.

After the first eight years at Galesburg, Mr.

Mason bought an interest in two mills, and stocked,

other mills, his milling operations ranging from
$150,000 to $200,000 annually. He. also dealt
largely in grain and wool. The last five years he
was extensively _interested in farming operations.

.In all these varied pursuits he was successful; but

as a rule never entered upon any business experi-
ment until his judgment approved it. In 1865 he
sold his mercantile interests, but remained in Gales-
burg five years longer, speculating and disposing of

' his real estate.

Having finally wound up all his different business
affairs, he with his family, in 1870, moved. to Kan-
sas City. His first venture was to invest largely in
city lots, he also purchased the steam cracker fac-
tory_-on the levee, which burned down in 1871; he
immediately built another on his Main street prop-
erty, ran it six months and sold the establishment,
still retaining the ground and building. He then
began to improve his city property—having in the
first three years bought $100,000 worth, he also
continued buying, improving and selling real estate.
Since 1871 Mr. Mason has been very extensively
engaged in the stock business—feeding and grazing
cattle and hogs. He has now (1878) forty-five hundred
head of cattle, one thousand of which he is corn-
feeding in Missouri; theibalance are out on the plains.

After his term of probation he was-

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’ There is a‘ very remarkable continuation of suc-
cess in the career of this. man—in Michigan and
Missouri——whether dealing in goods or cattle, land
or tenements. While he has on rare occasions ‘lost,
yet each annual footing showed he was gainer.
And during the seven years spent in buying hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of town lots,

he has never made but one unprofitable purchase!

His judgment as to location has beengood-. Acting
on the principle that he who is so successful in his

own interests can safely be intrusted with those of.

the public, his fellow citizens have frequently,
against his wishes, forced him into official positions.
When only twenty-four years of age he was elected
for one term supervisor of the township— the highest
office in the town of Galesburg, and he was the
youngest official in the county. He was also super-
intendent of the county poor for the same people a
periodof‘ terms, and only resigned it when leaving
the county. He was elected to the Michigan legis-
lature for the years I868-9 from the district com-
posed of the towns of Kalamazoo and Galesburg——
the only two important places in the county. Dur-
ing that session he served‘ on the State’s Prison
Committee and others equally as important. '
At the organization of the Bank of Kansas City
in 187 5, he was elected one of the directors, with
which office he is still intrusted. The second year

of that institution he was elected its vice-president.’

He is a‘ member and one of the directors of the
Board of Trade of Kansas City, and was a member
of the building committee for the erection of the
splendid Merchants’ Exchange—toward which he
subscribed -$500. Before the edifice was completed
the wisdom of appointing him on the building com-
mittee was clearly manifested. The money was all
expended, $10,000 additional debt incurred and the
work unfinished. Mr. Mason effected the loan of

$25,000 for ten years at the then low rate of eight

per cent. interest, which enabled the enterprise to
proceed to successful completion.
In the spring of 1878 the Republican party (of

which he had been a member since its organization)

settled upon Mr. Mason as their candidate for the
mayoraltyof Kansas City. His business interests,

’ his own inclinations and other considerations made

him at first. refuse the honor. He was repeatedly
approached by leaders and people, remonstrating
against his decision,_ and demanding that he give the
party the prestige of his business reputation and the
city the benefit of his well known administrative

294 I/‘IVE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICT/0/VARY.

abilities. He finally gave his consent on the under-
standing that his nomination should be unanimous.
When the convention met he was not present, and
was nominated by acclamation, with—as he after-
wards learned-—a few dissatisfied leaders. The can-
vass opened especially heated, and on the part of
some,’with an unusual degree of vindictiveness. The
first day a canard was started that he was opposed
to the working class I——a man who had all his life
been one among the laborers!——and that he favored
the policy of only paying forty-five to ninety cents as
the day’s wages of a laborer !——when he had employed
more hands than any one man in Kansas City, not
one of whom could be found to corroberate the
ridiculously false assertion. Never before nor since
in his career had aught of slander or detraction been

‘uttered against him ; and this attack onlyhad an

ephemeral existence——'recoiling upon its originators
with the hurt intended for Mr. Mason. But the gen-
tleman declined the nomination three or four days
after it was made; and as other reasons for such
action than the true ones have been published, it is
but simple justice in this brief history to make the
record clear and correct. The Executive Committee
of the Republican organization of Kansas City—of
which Mr. Mason was not a member nor present at
the meeting—-assessed him $2,500 as his share of
the expense of the party in the pending contest. All
the members of the committee were not at the meet-
ing when this assessment was made, nor did all who
were present Vote for it; but a majority did, and it
thus became the party’s act, although afterwards
repudiated by the voters at the election. A friend
informed ’Mr. Mason near midnight of the same

evening, that an assessment for necesssary expenses ‘

had been made and asked him how much he was
willing to pay. Trusting in the fairness of the party’s
servants, he promptly responded—_“ all the commit-
tee assess as my share.” The reply was-—“I am

afraid to tell you how much they have placed on

you.” On being pressed, his friendinformed him of
the amount. The sum was so far beyond his rea-

sonable portion that, under the circumstances, it .

appeared to Mr. Mason as an attempt at blackmail-
ing. Besides, he knew the people would naturally
be suspicious of the honor of a public official who
would thus loan himself to corruption and. become
the purchaser of an office; for all over a reasonable
share of the burden of running the party machinery
wouldbe no more .nor less than an offer on his part
of a price for the position. Hence he refused to

accept the action of the Executive Committee as the
voice of the whole party, whose candidate he was.
After his resignation, the Executive Committee sup-
plied the vacancy, with the name of Dr. F. B. Nof-
singer, but at the election he and his party ticket
sustained a defeat—not because ofhis personal
unpopularity, but because the voters of the Repub-
lican party repudiated the action of the committee.
A proposition was made to Mr. Mason, before the
election and after the difficulty, to head a call for a
mass meeting of the party to give an_ expression of
their views and wishes in the matter; but this he of
course, declined; for it made him appear as desiring
the office, which he didinot.

While Mr. Mason has accumulated a very hand-
some fortune by "industry, promptness and the use

' of his excellent judgment, as he has freely received

so he has freely given. His benefactions are well
known to a few, for he avoids publicity in these mat-
ters. But in one or two cases, where the donors’
names were necessarily made public, we find him a
liberal donator to the sufferers by the Chicago fire,
and_ to the destitute in the grasshopper cursed sec-
tion. During the last named scourge, when all
kinds of business was prostrated throughout the sec-
tion, and when thousands of people were thrown out
of employment, Mr. Mason was the only man in
Kansas City that kept right on with his improve-
ments; and he built more houses that year than all
the other property holders in the city combined, thus
giving employment to a great many hands, paying
for their work as fast as it progressed, and expending
among them from $25,000 to $30,000.  During the

late civil war, at that period when the financial con-

dition of the United‘ States was sadly embarrassed
and the Government most needed help from capital-
ists, Mr; Mason stepped forward and loaned it
$75,000 in money, taking United States bonds for
his payment.

Mr. Mason became a member of the Masonic
fraternity in 1851, and was treasurer a number of
years. He was raised a Methodist, but is very lib-
eral in his present religious views. He married his
first wife in June, 1850. She was Miss Jeanette
Beckwith, daughter of Charles Beckwith, of Kala-
mazoo county, Michigan, but a native of Connecti-
cut. Three daughters were born of this union, one
of whom died. Fannie, his eldest, married Mr.
Oliver Dean, one of the most prominent young law-
yers at the western bar, and a partner of Judge
William Holmes. Maude, his youngest child, is a

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sprightly girl, and is living with her father. Mrs.
Mason died in Kansas City, February 22, 1875.

‘On the 15th of June, 1876, Mr. Mason was 1nar-
ried to Miss Anna M. Askew, daughter of Isaac and
Elizabeth (McElroy) Askew, of Belmont county,
Ohio. His second wife is a most excellent lady, in
every way qualified to adorn his home, bless his
household and impart her own graces to his young-
est daughter, deprived of her own mother at so tender
an age.

A. L. Mason is emphatically a business man.
The leading points of his character are energy, quick
conception, having an excellent judgment of‘men
and their motives, his rule is to act on first impres-
sions ; straight forward in conversation with few ques-
tions from him, but his answers always to the point
and decisive. His business as well as his architect-
ural genius is natural and his fortune self-made He
never served an apprenticeship nor spent an hour
learning any branch of business, nor has he ever
employed a man to superintend for him. In the
planning of his many buildings, except a small amount

of detail work, not costing over one hundred dollars,
he has been his own architect. He never had a
dollar given to him. His father was a wealthy man,
but of the present magnificent fortune of Mr. Mason,
not one cent of it was inherited. Promptness in
commercial transactions, and strict integrity are his
life rules

In personal appearance he is what is known as a
solidly built man 3 five feet eight inches in height,
square and well knit frame, muscular development,
and weighs two hundred and eight pounds. His
eye is blue, hair light and sprinkled with gray. He
is actively industrious, an early riser, regular and
temperate in habits. In the social circle he is wel-
come for his genial disposition, but is a better listener
than talker because of a slight embarrassment which
has ever attended him in society—an embarrassment
arising from the fact that his mind is more constantly
on business than on those subjects generally the
theme of parlor conversations. He is generally pop-
ular, most loved where best known, makes few ene-
mies, is a warm friend, loving and beloved by his family.

CHARLES A. CHACE.

KANSAS CIT Y.

HARLES A. CHACE, general agent of the
C Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, is conceded
to be one of .the best business men among the rail-
road officials of the West—he having been educated
especially for business pursuits and having all his
life been in the railway service. He was born in
the town of Austerlitz, Columbia county, New
York, and was the son of George and Sarah A.
Chace. His father was a farmer in that county and
educated Charles in the common schools of Monroe
county, and also in the Rochester Collegiate Insti-
tute under Professor Chester P. Dewey—who, by
the way, afterwards officiated at the marriage cere-
mony of his former pupil. The education of young
Chace was in the commercial branches more espe-
cially, as that was to be his future avocation.

In boyhood he was one of the liveliest among
his mates, with a great flow of spirits and ever ready
for fun. But, be it said to his credit, he was never
guilty of any kind of dissipation. While on the
play-ground he was foremost in all manly sports;

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but in study hours his mirth and jollity were left with
his bat and ball. To do with all his might whatever
he undertook, seems to have been the characteristic
of his life.

Having completed his education at Rochester,
he went to Brighton, Monroe county, in the same
state, and made that his residence. He was elected
superintendent of schools in that town, and held the
position two years. He then came west and located
in Rockford, Illinois, where he became connected
with the Chicago & Galena Union Railroad, under
John B. Turner. He was first made ticket agent at
that station; but after about six weeks’ service he
was sent to the end of the road at Warren, and was
placed in charge of all the stations from Freeport to
Warren. From this time he held the position of
pioneer agent, having charge of all the new stations
as the road progressed. After the road opened to
Galena, he was ordered to move to the Dixon Air
Line, at Dixon, Illinois, holding the same position.
He opened all the stations from that point to Fulton,

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on the Mississippi river, and appointed all the agents
between the two places, leaving one of his own
selection at each point.

In 1859 Mr. Chace resigned his position and in
the spring of 1861 removed to Missouri. He was
appointed station agent at Iatan, for the Hannibal
& St.']oseph Railroad, which position he held two
years; the road advancing, he was removed to
Weston, where he remained four years. On the
completion of the road to Kansas City, in 1867, he
went there and was appointed general agent of the
company at that place, and holds the same position
still. V

So many years continuous employment as a rail-
road official, with such regular promotion, indicates
a confidence in his business ability and integrity
that must be very grateful to Mr. Chace, especially
when it is remembered that of all employers, rail-
road managers are the most exacting and rigid in
the line of duty. General fulfillment will do in
other kinds of business, but with them there must
never be a failure.

Mr. Chace has developed a high order of admin-
istrative ability in municipal as well as in railroad
matters. More particularly in the school interests,
which he has made a special study for some years,
having always felt a deep concern on the subject of
education. In 1873 he. was elected a member of
the Board of Education in Kansas City by an over-
whelming majority-—some of the most eminent pro-
fessional and business men of the city running in
opposition to him. At the expiration of his first
term——which was for three years—he was reelected

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for another three years’ term, which he is now filling.
He has devoted much of his time to this matter,
and the schools of Kansas City to—day are as much
indebted to him as to any other man for their effi-
ciency and perfection. His decisions in the meet-
ings of the board, his selections and _his counsel
have ever commanded the respect of the members,
with whom his opinions have great weight. I

Mr. Chace is a Knight Templar in the Masonic
order, having been made a Mason in Dixon, Illinois,
in 1855. He was Master of the Lodge in Fulton,
Illinois, three years. He was raised in the Presby-
terian faith, but has no preference for any sect or
denomination; he has his own theological views, but
is extremely liberal towards those of others—deem-
ing the matter of a man’s ‘religion as peculiarly
belonging and sacred to his own conscience. He is
a Democrat of the most rigid school—voted for
Tilden, and thinks he is, or ought to be, President.

Charles A. Chace was married, in 1852, to Miss
Martha E. Dryer, of Brighton, Monroe county,
New York. '

In closing this sketch of one of the favorite rail-
road men of the VVest, it is hardly necessary to give
a physical description of him, for he is well known
throughout that section, his tall, commanding form
has been seen upon nearly every station platform,
where his imposing appearance pointed him out as
a man who meant business every minute. He is
noted for his urbanity to all with whom he comes in
contact, and he is universally beloved by those in
his employ, not only'on account of his kindness of
heart but for his strict integrity and justice.

MARCUS A. WOLFF.

ST. LOUIS.

ANY of the greatest men of America have
M risen to their distinguished position from the
lower ranks of journalism. The Knapps, of Saint
Louis, and a host of other such successes, would be
enough to attest this; but we now give the sketch of
yet another——one of St. Louis’ most successful busi-
ness men——-who, from the humble calling of a news-

boy, haswrisen to the honorable and affluent position
he now holds. And this is still another case to show
that influence and honorable renown come not from
wealth or note of family, but- from the individual’s
own exertions, from his habits and from the princi-
ples governing his course in life.

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Kentucky, May 14, 1831. His father, Abram B.
Wolff, was born in London, England, of Polish
parents, and emigrated to the United States when
only nineteen. He afterwards married Miss Susan
F ranklin——a descendant of Dr. Benjamin Franklin—
in Versailles, Kentucky, in 1825. (And it would

seem that all the peculiar traits of the celebrated _

Dr. Franklin descended, through the mother, to the
son, our subject. Certain it is that his success in
life is owing to the practical enforcement of the
Doctor’s economical maxims). Abram B. Wolff—
father of the subject of this sketch—was a mechanic,
and though not wealthy was a man of unusual com-
mon sense, and had a judgment in practical matters
that should have brought him a far greater financial
reward. As far as he was able, he educated his son
in the public schools. But when his boy was only
ten years old, necessity compelled him to quit
school. Probably it was most beneficial for the son,
for it early impressed upon his mind such lessons
as self-reliance, business success, and securing the
future. which, probably, have been the most brilliant
guiding stars of his life.

Marcus A. Wolff came to St. Louis in 1844, when
he was only thirteen years of age, and almost imme-
diately went to work as a newsboy and in various
employments in the newspaper offices. This was in
the early days of St. Louis journalism, when the
I/l[z'5sourz'm, the E2/c7zz'72g Gaza‘/e, the Re?/62715 and the
1lIz°ssozm' Repzzé/zkazz were the papers of the city. In
this eminently practical school Mr. Wolff finished
his education. Naturally industrious, prompt and
economical, like his maternal progenitor, he gradu-
ally built himself up.

His habits of strict economy enabled him to lay
by money enough, and by judicious investments to
so increase the sum, that in early manhood he was
enabled to go into the banking business in St. Louis,
which he conducted for a number of years. But
the business in which he is more eminently known
is the real estate and general financial agency, in
which, for the past eighteen years, he has been
actively engaged, and has established what is con-
sidered the largest correspondence in that line in the
city, if not in all the West. Some idea of its mag-
nitude may be formed when we state, on authority,
that his tenant-roll embraces more than three thou-
sand names and his tax-list is the largest in the
entire State of Missouri, the amount paid by him
annually amounting to $150,000. And we can say,
on the evidence of business men of St. Louis, that

no establishment of the kind stands higher on Real
Estate Exchange or among the commercial men of
St. Louis. This case affords a peculiarly encour-
aging example to young men starting out in life, and
is a fresh demonstration that fortune, fame and
honor are in a boy’s own hands.

Mr. Wolff is preéminently a business man, and
has never permitted any side issues to distract his
attention. Hence he has no military history to
record, nor has he ever held political office, though
always a staunch Democrat. Yet, in the midst of
his own personal engagements, he has ever recog-
nized the fact that St. Louis’ success was his own
prosperity, and his fellow business men, recognizing
his needed qualities, have from time to time forced
him into official position in the various enterprises
connected with the city and state. He is now a
director in the Second National Bank, in the East
St. Louis Elevator Company, in the Hope Mutual
Insurance Company, in the St. Louis Real Estate

_ Exchange, andiis president of the St. Louis Distil-

lery Company. In short, no legitimate business
enterprise, promising the advancement of the city
and state, has yet been inaugurated in which he has
not manifested a deep interest. But his shrewd
business. tact demands (and he almost intuitively
demands) legitimate, practical benefit before he
engages. In this way, too, he has governed his
charities: while not a member of any church, he
has been very liberal in his religious bequests, but
always seeking a practical object on which to bestow
them. But neither worthy church nor charitable
institutions have ever called upon him in vain.

Mr. Wolff is a Mason-—a Knight T emplar—-of
which order he has been a member since 1853.

December 26, 1852, he married Miss Eliza ].
Curtis, in St. Louis, a daughter of William H. and
Maria J. Curtis. Three boys have blessed the
union, and they still are left to cheer the parents,
and be their stay and support in age. Recently
Mr. Wolff celebrated his silver wedding at his mag-
nificent residence, Cote Brilliant, Papin avenue,
St. Louis. His friends in great numbers gathered
round the couple to cheer them on their second half
of life’s journey “hand in hand thegither.”

Mr. Wolff is now in the prime of life, with vig-
orous constitution, and with all the business energy
and vim that have characterized his life. Indeed,
neither business cares nor age have made their
marks upon him, nor has Time’s ploughshare made
a furrow on his face, he looks like a groom in his

"Genevieve county.

-rare old stock.’

298 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Wedding garments, more than like a man of fifty
years. This, too, may be ascribed to his possessing
other traits of his grand-progenitor, Dr. Franklin 3
for by temperance he has preserved his health,

while by integrity and industry he has increased his
fortune and credit. Taken altogether, as a self-
made man, his life is a profitable study for young
beginners.

DR. CHARLES S. HERTICH.

STE. GENEVIEVE.

HARLES S. HERTICH is a native of Saint
C Genevieve county, where he was born March
21, 1821. His father, Joseph Hertich, emigrated
to America from Switzerland about the year 1786,
being then only twelve years of age. He was accom-
panied by a brother and sister, and they settled
in Danville, Kentucky, and there Joseph Hertich

remained until early manhood, when, in 1810, he

removed to Ste. Genevieve, and engaged in merchan-.

dising until 181 5. He then retired from mercantile
pursuits and opened a school called “ Asylum,” ten
miles from the county seat. It became a prosperous
and popular institution, and graduated some of Mis-
souri’s most prominent men, among whom we might
mention Hon. Lewis Vital Bogy, United States
Senator from Missouri (since dead); Hon. Augustus
C. Dodge, a United States Senator from Iowa, and
afterward Minister to Spain, General George W.
Jones, of the same state, and many others of the
greater lights of the different states were pupils
under Mr. Hertich. The. school -was celebrated for
its high moral and mental culture. It was conducted
for twenty—five years.

In 1815 Joseph Hertich married Miss Mercelite
de Villars, daughter of the then French Governor
of Louisiana, a.t New Orleans, who bore him six
children. He died in 1852 at his school site in Ste.
He was highly esteemed as a
ripe scholar, a fine educator and a gentleman of the
While living he was for many years
an intimate friend and companion of Henry Clay.
His children enjoyed the benefit of his tutorship,

and were all well educated.

Charles‘S. Hertich, the subject of this sketch,
after finishing his education under his father, went
to Wisconsin and engaged in merchandising with
Hon. H. C. Dodge, of Iowa, but returned in one
year and assisted his father in teaching at the

Asylum school. He was then only nineteen years
of age, but was already well advanced as a scholar;
from early youth he had manifested decidedly stu-
dious habits and a taste for literary pursuits——and
that taste and studious application has clung to him
through life.

Having decided upon fitting himself for the pro-
fession of medicine, after teaching three years he
went to Burlington, Iowa, and studied under Drs.
Lowe & Hickok for some time. He then went to
St. Louis and entered the office of Dr. M. L.

Pallen, during which time he attended lectures at

the St. Louis Medical School. He graduated in
1847. His classmates were J. T. Hodgen, E.
Gregory, E. F. Smith, J. B. Allayne, Charles Bois-
lieure and many other eminent physicians of the
present day. After graduating, Dr. Hertich went
to Burlington, Iowa, and commenced the practice
of his profession. But in one year his health
became so enfeebled as to compel him to give up
the practice, for a time at least. In 1848 he accepted
the appointment from the United States government
of surgeon for the Winnebago Indians in Minnesota,
on Long Prairie, at which post he remained two
years. Having recover-ed his health, he removed to
Ste. Genevieve in 1851, opened his office and soon
built up a lucrative practice, he still continues to
practice there and is popular as the first physician
of the county. His oldest son, Dr. C. J. Hertich,
is now in partnership with him in the office.

In November, 1846, Dr. Charles S. Hertich
married Miss Mary L. Rozier, daughter of Ferdi-
nand and Constance Rozier——one of the oldest and
most respected families of Missouri. Her father
was a native of France and her mother of Prairie
du Roche. The Doctor has four sons and two
daughters. His youngest son, Aug. C. Hertich, is
now preparing himself for the profession of law

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

in the office of C. C. Rozier, Esq., of Ste. Gene-
vieve.

During the war of the rebellion, Dr. Hertich
was appointed by the United States government
post-surgeon of Ste. Genevieve, and served through-
out the troubles.

The Doctor is quiet and unobtrusive in his man-

299

ners, bluntly honest in speech and action, but withal
warm hearted and genial in the social circle. As a
citizen or physician no man in his county has a
better record or more popular name. He has
never, however, allowed himself to be a politician,
having acted as an observant voter with the Demo-
cratic party.

REV. GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH.

DOVER.

EV. GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH was born
R April 28, 1837, in Marion county, Missouri.
His father, John J. S. Smith, was born in Jessamine
county, Kentucky, in September, ’I798, and died
April 27, 1852. His grandfather, Rev. George S.
Smith, was a native of Virginia, and was of English
stock. His mother was Mary S. Lockett, of Jessa-
mine county, Kentucky, and was born in 1799. She
died in September, 1844. Her father, James Lock-
ett, was a native of Virginia. He was of English
parentage. The mother of Miss Lockett was of the
Jennings family, and of an English family.   S.
Smith and wife had fifteen children, two of whom
died in infancy.

George W. Smith was educated at the Philadel-
phia Seminary in Marion county, and Bethel College,
Palmyra, Missouri, and completed his studies after
leaving college. In 1855 he began to teach school
in Clark county, and continued to teach at various
places, until the breaking out of the civil war.

In 1861 he entered the Confederate army in
Colonel Martin E. Green’s regiment, and was taken
prisoner in Marion county in the following Septem-
ber, and paroled for six months. He consulted with
Colonel Martin E. Green and was advised, notwith-
standing the habit of others to violate it, to observe
his parole, which he did, but was, nevertheless,
imprisoned for six months at Palmyra, St. Louis and
Alton. He was exchanged at Vicksburg in Septem-
ber, 1862, and joined General Parson’s division of
Missouri troops. He served in Company A, Tenth
Regiment, until June, 1864, when by request of Pin-
dall’s Battalion, he was ordained a minister and
elected chaplain to that command. In this capacity
he served until the close of the war, surrendering at
Shreveport, Louisiana.

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When the war closed, Mr. Smith returned to Mis-
souri, but finding the “test oath” in operation, he
went over to Illinois, where he taught school for nine
months.’ At the close of his term he went to North
Liberty Association in Missouri, composed of the
counties of Clay, Ray, Platte, Buchanan and Clinton,
and was employed as a missionary in the Baptist
Church. In a few months after beginning his mis-
sionary labors, he was called to the charge of a
church, and abandoned the missionary work. He
served for a short time in each of the following
churches: Camden, Pleasant Valley, Union, in Ray
county, and Richfield, in Clay county. In March,
1868 he was called to the care of Greenton church,
Lafayette county, Missouri, at which church he has
preached ever since.
and took charge of the Dover Baptist church, just
prior to which he had charge of the Pittsville church,
in Johnson county, all the time maintaining his con-
nection with the Greenton church. Since he began
preaching at Greenton, a beautiful church .edifice has
been erected at a cost of four thousand dollars, and
also one at Dover, costing five thousand dollars.
His ministrations have been blessed and numbers
have been added to the various churches.

While imprisoned at St. Louis, Mr. Smith effected
his escape, and struck southward for the Confederate
lines. He was recaptured near the Arkansas lines
and taken to Rolla. Here he went through some
form of trial and was taken out to be shot. Through
the intervention of Captain Smith, of Illinois, the
execution was prevented. Lieutenant—Colonel Gantt
was commanding the post at the time.

Mr. Smith was married May 16, 1867, to Miss
Mary Judson Ballew, in Ray county‘, Missouri—her
native place. She was the daughter of Joseph Bal-

In 1875 he moved to Dover‘

300

lew, and was born June 7, 1845. Her father emi-
grated from Goochland county, Virginia, where his
father was a Baptist clergyman.
French origin. Her mother was a Miss Wilson, of
Powhattan county, Virginia.

Rev. Mr. Smith is a Royal Arch Mason, and a
member of the order of Odd Fellows. He united
with the Baptist church in May, 1848, at the age of

The family are "of 

THE UNITED STATES I>’IOGIi’APIIICAZ, IJICTIO./VAIBY.

eleven years. His wife united with the church in

 January, 1867, and was baptized by her husband.

During his Chaplaincy in the army Mr. Smith bap-
tized over fifty persons, immersing fifteen on a pro-

 fession of faith, the day after his ordination.

Prior to the war he was a Whig in politics, but

 has been acting with the Democracy since its close.

He is, however, a conservative in feeling.

‘CHARLES GIBSON.

ST. LOUIS.

X/TIRGINIA has given many gifted sons to the
Union, and the subject of this sketch is one of
them. We take advantage of his modest silence to
write this of him ourselves. Unobtrusive and reti-
cent regarding himself, it has been no light task to
get data sufficient for a history of the man. From
various sources, however, we have been enabled to
gather the following :

Charles Gibson was born in Montgomery county,
Virginia, in 1825. His father was Captain Hugh
Gibson, and his mother, before marriage, was Miss
Elizabeth B. Rutledge. The father moved to West-
ern Missouri in 1836, and was possessed of means
sufficient to enable him to live as a quiet country
gentleman. The family was one of the oldest in
Southwestern Virginia and the Carolinas, being
descendants of the Rutledges of South Carolina.

Charles had only the meager advantages afforded
by the common schools of that day, but he was
then, as he has been ever since, a laborious student.
When at school he was noted for his precocity and
application, and at the age of eleven was advanced
in his education as far as most boys are at
eighteen. His examination at the University of
Missouri showed that he had, with comparatively
little assistance, mastered the rudiments of the Eng-
lish course.. When his father moved to Western
Missouri there were neither schools -nor churches in
the neighborhood, but amidst the wild life of the

‘frontier, for five years, the boy schooled himself,

studiously reading such books as he could get.
After a brief period at the University of Missouri,
he returned home and continued his exertions for
an education unaided and alone, but successfully, as
is demonstrated by his after career. -

In 1843 Mr. Gibson came to St. Louis—poor,
friendless and unknown,‘ but with courage and char-
acter. He had a general letter of introduction from
influential friends, and nothing more. His first
acquaintance made in the city was Hon. Edward
Bates, in whose office he spent much of his time in
the study of law. A friendship grew up between
these two men which lasted twenty—five years. For
three years he read law under Josiah Spaulding,

Esq., one of the most learned and upright of the

early lawyers of St. Louis, during which time he
acquired the French and German languages with
sufficient proficiency to transact business in either.

In 1844 Mr. Gibson began to take part in politi-
cal matters, during that year making speeches in
behalf of Mr. Clay. His first efforts gave promise
of future usefulness and honor, which has been
amply verified. Although never an office—seeker
nor office—holder, Mr. Gibson has taken a very active
interest in the political affairs of the country, always
evincing a decided preference for the honorable
maintenance of the government, rather than party
supremacy. '

In 1848 he was a Taylor advocate; in 1852 ‘was
state elector at large for Scott, and in 18 56 was regu-
larly enlisted in the Whig party. Strong efforts were
made by prominent gentlemen to engage him in the
Know Nothing cause, that year, but he steadfastly
refused to listen to their arguments or to accede to
their requests. After the campaign of 1856, the
Whig party ceased to maintain a national organiza-
tion, but many still clung to its great memories, and
were known as “old line Whigs,” of whom Mr.
Gibson was one. He was the originator of the
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Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley and the Blairs,
introducing the name of Hon. Edward Bates for
President of the United States, that failing, he
advocated the claims of Mr. Bell. ,

At the first indications of rebellion, Mr. Gibson
took a decided and active ground in favor of the
national government. Willing to accord to the
Southern States every honor and all their right of
property in slaves, yet he considered as of para-
mount importance the unity of the nation. Hence
his action, as a citizen and orator, during the excite-
ment of 1860-1. His address to the people of
Missouri does honor to the man, his mind and his
heart. His views, as embodied in that address,
were acted upon, Claib. Jackson and his disunion
officials were ousted, and Hamilton R. Gamblewas
elected Governor. Missouri was kept in the Union
and the government preserved intact. Broadhead,
Blair, Brown and such men were his coadjutors in
the movement, and to them is due, in a measure,
more than to any other gentlemen, the finale of that
deplorable struggle.

In 1861 Hon. Edward Bates, attorney-general
under President Lincoln, appointed Mr. Gibson
assistant attorney-general, which appointment he
declined. Afterwards, as the perils of the nation
augmented, he accepted the position of solicitor of
the United States Court of Claims in Washington.
For the next four terrible years he was constantly
engaged in regulating the relations of Missouri with
the Federal government. He resigned the office in
1864, when he found the administration pledged to
radical policy, and united with the Democratic party,
and was among the early and decided friends of An-
drew Johnson after the death of President Lincoln.

Always conservative in politics, he had no sec-
tional animosities to hamper him 3 and so in 1870 he
advised and counseled the coalition of the Liberal
Republicans with the Democrats, which resulted in
the election of B. Gratz Brown as Governor of Mis-
souri. This action was on principles inborn. He
hated not the South nor Southern men; but was
bitterly opposed to their attemptto destroy the
Union. That attempt failed, they defeated and
disarmed, he had no more cause of war; and with
all the zealousness of his nature he undertook the
task of their reenfranchisement. And as the speedi-
est way to that end, he assisted the coalition of the
more liberal members of the Republican party with
the Democrats. The wisdom of his action is manifest
to-day.

In 1872 he was a member of the ‘Democratic
State Convention of Missouri. That body appointed
him delegate at large to the National Democratic
Convention at Baltimore. The nomination of Mr.
Greeley by that body, he argued against as impol-
itic, and the result of the election showed that he
wasright.

As a lawyer, Charles Gibson stood among the
foremost of the St. Louis bar in the years of his
practice, and he was employed in some of the most
important causes ever before the tribunals of this
country. Notably among them we cite the cele-
brated case in which the King of Prussia was the

' plaintiff, in which, for his services, he received a

handsome and honoring testimonial from his royal
client, with the thanks of the Royal Council. He
was also, in 1876, selected by the Democratic
National Committee to visit Louisiana in the con-
tested election case. After being in New Orleans a

a few days, the visiting Democrats were requested to
“ send a sound lawyer and a discreet and able man '

to Florida,” and Mr. Gibson was selected and
appointed by them to go there. He spent nearly a
month in Tallahassee, taking a most important part
in the initiation and perfection of those series of

judicial and legislative proceedings since known to -

the country as the Florida electoral case. Of this
case, we copy the following notice from the C_z'7m'2z-
72a2’z' Ez2quz're7*, one of whose editors was in Talla-
hassee at the time and knew whereof he wrote.
The limits of our sketch forbid the extensive
notice of this celebrated politico-legal case which it
deserves:

“The most modest and one of the most learned
gentlemen who went to Florida at the request of
the Democratic National Committee, was the Hon.
Charles Gibson, of St. Louis, a law partner of the
late Edward Bates. Mr. Gibson advised the pro-
ceedings and prepared the papers in the case just
decided by the Supreme Court there which gives
freedom once more to Florida. Floridians should
erect a monument to him at Tallahassee.”

During his legal practice in St. Louis, he orig-
inated the act, and obtained its passage, creating
the land court of St. Louis, and was one of the
principal practitioners before it.

Mr. Gibson has been an active and efficient pro-
moter of many of the enterprises which have made
the commercial prosperity of St. Louis. He was
the originator of the Southern Hotel (since burned),
and it was his efforts which gave that enterprise its
success. He drew up the act establishing Forest

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Park, and finally succeeded in getting it passed by
the s_tate legislature. He was also a commissioner
for, and one of the most efficient friends of Lafayette
Park. He superintended the erection of the Benton
statue, and secured the erection of Hondon’s statue,
in Lafayette Park; and was one of the leading gen-
tlemen who procured the erection of the colossal
statue of Hon. Edward Bates—his old friend—in
Forest Park. The Park Board ordered its granite
pedestal to be adorned with four bronze medallions,
namely: H. S. Geyer, United States Senator, Gov-
ernor H. R. Gamble, J. B. Eads and Charles Gibson.

No man stands higher in St. Louis today, as
jurist, citizen or neighbor, than Charles Gibson. As

editors we have Written sketches of few men who
are more deserving the name of self-made. Thrown
on his own resources in early life, without money or
friends, he has made for himself an honorable name,
a fortune, and has done much toward making the
great city of St. Louis.

In 1851 he married Miss Virginia Gamble,
daughter of Archibald Gamble, Esq., one of the
oldest and most respected citizens of St. Louis.
Eight children have been born of this marriage—all
of them now living, and all brought up in the old-
fashioned. way of energy, economy and honesty.
Although living in the midst of a great city, the
habits of the family are domestic and retired.

AUGUSTUS ST. GEM.

STE. GENEVIEVE.

HE St. Gem family originally emigrated to the
T New World from the old city of Beauvais, in
Picardy, France, and settled in Montreal, Canada.
At the outset of our narrative it is proper to mention
that it was often the custom with those who had
preceded the immigrants, constantly arriving in the
French Colony of Canada, to designate the “new-
comers” by attaching to their names the name of
their native city or village in France. Hence, as
the St. Gems came from Beauvais, they were called
St. Gem de (of) Beauvais. In after years the prefix
“ de” was dropped, and they were called St. Gem,
Beauvais. This name of Beauvais was finally
adopted by some members of the family, and this
branch, in course of time, became known entirely
under the name of Beauvais. At a still later period
some who still held to the original name of St. Gem
wrote it St. Gemme, and in one instance it was writ-
ten St. James. But the true name is St. Gem, as
shown by reference to the records at Montreal, Can-
ada, and doubtless would be so found in the old city
of Beauvais in France.

The spirit of enterprise and discovery caused
the St. Gems to follow the other adventurers who
penetrated the wilderness and extended the French
Colonies in “The Great West.” Augustin and
Raphael St. Gem dye Beauvais directed their course
to the settlements or military posts being established

on the Ohio river, “La Belle I€z'zIz'ere,” at Fort
Duquesne (near Pittsburg), when Braddock under-
took to capture that French post, and they held
commands in the French and Indian forces which
so disastrously defeated the English Expedition,
known so conspicuously in history as Braddock’s
defeat, in which the English commander lost his
life.

John Baptist St. Gem de Beauvais wended his
way to the settlements farther west, and came to
Kaskaskia, Illinois, quite a young man, and although
this post had grown to some importance, as also the
post at St. Phillip, afterward known as Fort Chartres
about twelve miles north of Kaskaskia, on the Mis-
sissippi river, he may be considered as one of the
early settlers of that part of the country. White
women being at this period scarce in the colony
“£1765 IZ/z'2mz's,” many of the settlers took wives
among the Indian tribes; but John B. St. Gem was

determined not to follow the example set by his

countrymen, and while he was on the point of pro-
ceeding back to Montreal to get a wife, Mr. La Croix
arrived from Canada with his estimable family of
seven daughters. John B. St. Gem immediately
sought the acquaintance of this family, who arrived
so providentially, and paid attentions to Miss Mary
Louise La Croix, to whom he was united in marriage
at Fort St. Phillip, or Fort Chartres, in 172 5. After

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his marriage, he settled in the town of Kaskaskia,
des Z[Zz'72oz's. The issue from this union was five
sons, Raphael, Charles, Antoine, Vital and John B.
St. Gem, and two daughters, Marie Jeanne, who
married Mr. Despin, and Marie Louise, who mar-
ried Mr. Bellecourt, dz? Du Ruisseau, and who was
the mother of Mrs. J. B. Lucas, of St. Louis, Mis-
souri. At that period the town of Kaskaskia, which
was founded about the year 1663, had grown to
contain not less than six thousand inhabitants, and
was the metropolis of the West, having a large trade
with New Orleans, the other French settlements and
the various Indian tribes.

John B. St. Gem, Jr., and Vital St. Gem, two
of the mentioned sons of John B. St. Gem de Beau-
vais, both grew up into manhood, were married in
Kaskaskia, and were living there when General
George Rogers Clark captured the place from the
English on the night of July 4, 1778.

John B. St. Gem, Jr., was born March 21, 1746,
and was married January 29, 1770, to Marie Therese
Boucher de Montbrun, daughter of Captain Pierre
Boucher de Montbrun, who was rewarded by Louis
XIV with titles of nobility for patriotic and valuable
services rendered to the Crown of France in the
French Colonies, and who held the responsible and
honorable position of governor of the territory of
Three Rivers in Canada. The old papers bearing
evidences of the titles granted to Captain de Mont-
brun are held at the present day as valuable relics
by Mrs. Augustine Menard, a surviving member of
that branch of the family.

John B. St. Gem. Jr., and Vital St. Gem, who also
married in Kaskaskia, crossed over to the post of Ste.
Genevieve a short time after the capture of Kaskaskia
by General Clark, thus at an early period uniting their
destinies with the pioneer settlers west of the Missis-
sippi river. John B. St. Gem, Jr., perpetuated, the
original family name and signed John B. St. Gem 3 but
Vital St. Gem,who was the grandfather of Hon. Lewis
V. Bogy, late United States Senator from Missouri,
adopted and went by the name of Vital Beauvais,
from the circumstances previously mentioned.

It is, indeed, necessary, before proceeding to
sketch any of the prominent characters of the town
of Ste. Genevieve, to mention that this place was
the first settlement where the white man planted
“ civilization and the cross ” on the west bank of the
Mississippi. The settlers started from Kaskaskia,
Illinois, crossed the great river in their frail canoes

and laid the foundation of the old town or post of
39 '

Ste. Genevieve (named after the patron saint of the
city of Paris), about the year 1735. The location
was made in the river bottom, three miles south of
the present site of the town, where the young set-
tlement was in a thriving condition for a half cen-
tury. But in 178.5, called “Z’am2e’e des grandes
max,” it was entirely inundated by a great flood of
the river, when the inhabitants, driven for safety to
the elevations, founded the present town which now
contains a population of two thousand. I

The country or territory was at that time (178 5)
known as Upper Louisiana, so called as a colony of
France, but had passed under Spanish rule, the
whole of the French possessions known as Upper
and Lower Louisiana having been ceded to Spain.

After the inundation had subsided, several of the
settlers returned to their homes in the old town, but
to remain only a short time, until they could fix
themselves in the new locality. Among those who
so returned was John Baptist St. Gem, the father of
Augustus, the subject of this sketch, who was, there-
fore, born in the old town on the 22d day of April,
1791. So Augustus St. Gem was born under Spanish
allegiance 5 but he soon came under French rule, for
the country was again acquired by France, from
which government it was purchased by the United
States in 18o3—making Augustus St. Gem, and all
citizens of Upper and Lower Louisiana, citizens of
the “Great Republic” with equal rights to those
enjoyed by the native born. He was, therefore,
one of the few who could say that he lived in
America under three different and distinct govern-
ments without changing his residence. John B. St.
Gem was a sound Republican, ardently supporting
the French Revolution in 1785, and subsequent
Republic under the leadership of Robespierre, of
whom he was an earnest admirer. Hence, it‘ was
natural for him to become a citizen of the United
States, under which he held a judicial office, having
received his appointment from President Jefferson.
He was a man of mark in his day, despite the slen-
der chances then existing for educational acquire-
ments. His good judgment and self-stored mind,
indeed his acknowledged integrity, caused him to be
sought after invariably as umpire to decide differ-
ences, not only among his fellow citizens, but
among the Indians who looked upon him as a
father. Under such training, was it not natural that
his six sons : Raphael, Joseph M. B., Bartholomew,
Vital, John B. and Augustus should have developed
as men of character, highly esteemed through life?

304

Augustus St. Gem, whose biography is the par-
ticular subject of this sketch, was the youngest son
of John B. St. Gem, and he had barely reached the
age of twenty—one when the war of I8I2 was declared
between the young Republic and England, the
mother country; but full of vigor, intrepidity and
courage he volunteered as a soldier and served two
campaigns under General Henry Dodge, in defence
of the western frontier, then a wilderness, against

the Indians who had been incited against the Amer-

icans by British influences. In those two campaigns
he proved himself a brave and true soldier, and
won the admiration of the commanding general and
other officers, among whom was Colonel Nathan
Boone, son of the old pioneer Daniel Boone, who
attested_to his bravery, daring and powers of endur-
ence, as he was ever in the front ranks, and ready
to take a leading place in every movement where
danger and risk of life were to be incurred.

Augustus St. Gem was proud of being an A1ner-
ican citizen, and never ceased to manifest his ardent
patriotism. Consequently, when the banner of
secession was raised by the South against the Union,
he was very outspoken as a Union man, and in favor
of defending the government at any cost.

February 21, I821, Augustus St. Gem married
Miss Felicity Desile LeClere, daughter of Francis
LeClere and of Felicity St. Gem Beauvais, and
grand daughter of Vital Beauvais, being, therefore,
his cousin, who bore him ten children, six of whom
died quite young. The four who survived him at
his death, which occurred March 22, I862, consisted
of one daughter, Augustine, and three sons, Gus-
tavus, Joseph Felix, and Augustus E. Augustine
married Louis C. Menard, son of Colonel Peter
Menard, ex-Lieutenat-Governor of Illinois.

Augustus St. Gem was proud of his children,
took a great interest in them, and bestowed on them
a liberal education, Gustavus and J. Felix having
received collegiate advantages at St. Vincent Uni-
versity, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Gustavus St. Gem adopted commercial pursuits,
and opened a mercantile house with his brother—in-
law, L. C. Menard, at Ste Genevieve, in which he
continued until 1854, when he removed to Washing-
ton county, Missouri, and engaged in the lead min-
ing and smelting business with William Skewes,
Esq., whose daughter Elizabeth,’a young lady of
rare accomplishments, he had previously married. ii
His mining enterprise proved lucrative and he
followed the same until the spring of 1861, when the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIPY.

secession of several of the ‘Southern States ignited
the first sparks of the Rebellion. His brother,
Joseph Felix, had chosen the profession of law,
and had already become noted as a brilliant young
barrister, while his youngest brother, Augustus E.,
was a clerk on the Mississippi river on one of the
steamers of the Memphis and St. Louis Packet
Company, by whom he was highly esteemed.

All the three brothers espoused patriotically the
cause of the Union, and when President Lincoln
made his first call for volunteers, Joseph Felix, who
had from the time he left college taken to writing
his name Joseph Felix St. James, with a View to
anglicize the family name, immediately set to work
to recruit the 13th Regiment, Missouri Infantry Vol-
unteers, United States army, of which he was com-
missioned lieutenant-colonel, and with which he took
the field.

Colonel St. James soon developed great military
talents and heroism, promising to make his mark in
the history of the war. He distinguished himself in
the battle of Fort Donaldson, the first great Union
victory of the war, under the command of General
Ulysses S. Grant, but his brilliant career and pros-
pects were cut short, he fell in the hotly contested
and bloody battle of “Shiloh,” otherwise called
Pittsburgh Landing, having received a mortal wound
on the first day of the Rebel attack, April 6, 1862,
while bravely leading his regiment, of which he had
full command on that sad and memorable day. His
remains were brought home and now rest by the

L side of those of his father in the old Catholic ceme-

tery of Ste. Genevieve, mourned by his widow and
orphaned daughter, and respected by his country-
men.

Gustavus St. Gem, after his father’s death, first
entered the Missouri Militia service in defence of the
Union, but in 1864, having recruited a company of
volunteers, he also embarked in active service in the
United States army, and was commissioned captain
of Company K in the 49th Regiment, Missouri
Infantry Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Thos.
C. Fletcher, who was afterward elected governor of
Missouri. i

Captain St. Gem and his command was kept
engaged in Southeast Missouri, suppressing Rebel
guerrilla and predatory bands which infested that
part of the state,‘and did effective service in pro-
tecting the lives and property of peaceable and law
abiding citizens. He remained in the United States
army until honorably mustered out of service at the

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close of the war in 1865. Captain St. Gem has
besides filled honorable civil positions. He was
elected one of the Republican delegates to the con-
vention which passed the memorable ordinance
abolishing slavery in Missouri on the 11th day of
January, 1865, and which framed a new -constitu-
tion for the state adapted to the new order of things

resulting from the war of the Rebellion, and slavery

emancipation. He took an active part in the debates
and deliberations of the convention, creditably to
himself as one of the prominent members. He is
now honorably discharging the duties of surveyor of
customs for the city and port of St. Louis, Missouri,
a position deservedly conferred upon him by Presi-
dent Hayes. I

Augustus E. St. Gem died December, 1864,
leaving, like his brother, Colonel St. James, a widow
and a daughter to mourn his loss.

Mrs. Felicite Desile St. Gem, relict of Augustus ,

St. Gem, died at Ste. Genevieve, her native city,
July 13, 1876. She was a devoted wife and mother,
a most exemplary Christian, was highly esteemed

“for her intelligence, her benevolence and other

priceless virtues, and her loss was deeply regretted
by the large community of which she was a worthy
ornament. Mrs. Augustine Menard and Captain
Gustavus St. Gem are now the only surviving chil-
dren of Augustus St. Gem, and they certainly have
good reasons to refer with just pride to the record
of their ancestors.

Augustine (St. Gem) Menard, daughter of
Augustus St. Gem, furnished us much of the
information of the early days of the Mississippi val-
ley. She has inherited the mental sprightliness and
wonderful memory of her father and mother and is
a complete store-house of accurate information on
such topics; for, besides retaining correctly all the
details as seen by or recited to her of that old his-
tory, she has in her possession, sacredly preserved,
old papers and parchments, family records, marriage
contracts, wills, titles, etc., in Spanish and French,
running back to the year 1500. The St. Louis His-
torical Society have found her out, and have gathered
largely from the data in her possession, and already
is she quoted in modern books as authority. She,
with her wonderfully tenacious memory, is perhaps
the last link between this and the first civilized
inhabitants of this section of the Mississippi“ valley.
Born April 23, 1822, she is now fifty-six years of
age, but still a wonderfully active business wo1na11,
and a highly intelligent lady. October I 5, 1845,

she was married to Louis C. Menard, Esq., who
deserves a historic place in this volume.

Louis Cyprien Menard was the fourth son of
Colonel Pierre Menard, who came from Canada to
Kaskaskia, Illinois, about the year 1795, and after-
ward became a leading and influential citizen under
both the territorial and state governments of Illinois,
and was lieutenant-governor of that state. Louis C.
was born in Kaskaskia March 2, 1819. He was a
graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitts-
burg, Maryland, read law in the office of Beverly
Allen, of St. Louis, where he was admitted to the
He was a man of a high order of

bar in 1843. A
But hav-

talent with a perfect classical education.
ing no taste for the profession of law, did not prac-
tice. He was a careful, consistent, devout Christian.
Had Louis Menard adopted the law, or sought honor
as a statesman, cotemporaries of his say he would
doubtless have made his mark as one of the leading
men of this nation. But he preferred the humbler
and quiet walks of life. And yet he achieved dis-
tinction even there, without being aware of it him-
self. A writer in a St. Louis paper, several years
ago, said of him, after his death: “ Devoted to let-
ters and religion probably from his earliest youth,
his learning was extensive, critical and profound ,
and, while probably unconscious himself of the fact,
his piety was conspicuous. His genius and his vir-
tues, like those of the great and good .Matignon,
were understood 3 the wise recognized and bowed
to his superior knowledge, while the humble caught
the spirit of his devotions. His love for mankind
flowed in the purest current, while his fellow—1nen
gave to him their hearts, their love, their confidence
and esteem. He was a life—long member of the
Roman Catholic church, and a Christian-. He had
no enemy in the world. * * * Thus was he
distinguished.” With such a record he needs no
political conquests or bloody trophies to make him
great, no commercial achievements to make him
renowned. He who lives in the hearts of good peo-
ple is immortal as eternity.

Louis C. Menard died at Ste. Genevieve June 2,
1870, leaving his widow with six children, viz:
Marie, now Mrs. Robert Campbell, Fort Smith,
Arkansas, August, Lillie, Augustine and Jessie, at
home, and Edmund Saucier, his third child, who is
now deputy clerk of the county court in Chester
City, Illinois. I

To the future historian of Missouri and of the
Mississippi valley, the records in the possession of

306 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Madam Menard will be invaluable; while it is
impossible to estimate their vast utility in determin-
ing heirship—contested because of the habit of
changing names. But to understand and appre-
ciate them, she, as their only living expounder, is a

necessity. Until such a history can be prepared,
it is to be devoutly hoped she may be left to her
people. We only regret the. limits of biography
prevent us from giving some of her treasures in this
volume.

JULES ROZIER.

ST. IL/ARY’S.

Constance Rozier, was born in Ste. Genevieve,

November 7, 1826, and received his education
near St. Mary, at “The Barrens,” taking a full com-
mercial course. In 1843 he entered the mercantile
establishment of Firman Deslodge, in Potosi, Mis-
souri, where he served as clerk and salesman for six
years, in order to fit himself for commercial life.

In 1849, when the gold fever drew so many
thousands of the young men of the states to Califor-
nia, he determined to go there and dig out for him-
self a capital sufficient to begin business. With the
same enterprise and spirit of adventure that had
brought his father to the wilds of America, he fitted
himself for a trip across the plains——an undertaking
in those days fully as hazardous as was that of his
father, in company with Audubon, in penetrating
the wilderness fringing the Mississippi. He selected
six trusty men, proceeded to St. Joseph (then the
outfitting point for trains), bought oxen and wagons,
provisions, implements and other necessaries, and
“struck out” for the gold regions. We need not
repeat the old story of crossing the plains, as experi-
enced by the “ forty-niners,” for it has been woven
in a thousand webs of thrilling stories told by bril-
liant pens 5 they were all the same tedious voyaging
across the oceans of grass and seas of sand and
mountains of snow, the same privations, sacrifices,
alarms, attacks by savage hords, sometimes plunder
and murder. The American people will never
fully appreciate the achievements of these pioneers
westward, whose weary feet plowed highways across
the trackless Great American Desert, through the
defiles and canons and over the cliffs and crags
and summits of the frowning Rockies. The same
spirit of adventure, daring and enterprise which led
Columbus to discover the -continent, impelled Ferdi-
nand Rozier and men like him to penetrate it ; and

IULES ROZIER, sixth son of Ferdinand and

the same incentive led the son and his compeers to
cross that continent. The grand results of those
dangerous and laborious crossings of the plains are
now, just dimly, beginning to be seen in rising cities,
prairie homes and railroads. Four long months were
consumed in the trip by Mr. Rozier and his teams.

After spending about two years in the mines, he '

went to San Francisco and took passage on a sailing
vessel to return home. The destination was Chagres,
but adverse winds and other untoward circumstances
kept them so long at sea that provisions gave out,
and the grim choice of death by starvation or
drowning was offered the passengers and crew. A
passing vessel happily‘ came near enough, and that
distress was relieved, and the vessel ran into Aca-
pulco, where the passengers went ashore. In com-
pany with several others, Mr. Rozier hired horses
and proceeded overland to the city of Mexico—a dis-
tance of three hundred miles. Here they remained
a week, viewing the halls of the Montezumas, trac-
ing the tracks of the victorious American troops,
delving among the relics of a by-gone sage and
observing the habits of the Mexicans. From here
he went by stage to Vera Cruz, another three hun-
dred miles, and thence by steamer to New Orleans.
This latter voyage was a fearfullyi dangerous one, for
the steamer was unseaworthy, and Mr. Rozier and
his companions were so notified by the Mexican
government ; she was going to New Orleans for
repairs, but home was the dazzling goal, and they
took passage, coasted along, and in about one month
safely cast anchor in New Orleans harbor.

Mr. Rozier had $1,000 capital with which to
begin business, when he got home, and he immedi-
ately opened a general dry goods store at Farming-
ton, Missouri, where he continued two years. Then
he moved his stock to Rozier’s Landing—a point
about one mile below St. Mary’s, on the Mississippi

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.‘ 307

river, in Perry county. Here he added to his
general mercantile business a wood-yard, and also
entered largely into the shipping and commission
business, besides dealing in steamboat supplies, and
continued for twenty years with very fair success.
He then removed to St. Mary’s, and in company
with C. F. Lawrence, under the firm name of Rozier
& Lawrence, began a general merchandising busi-
ness, which is still continued. The firm carry a
large stock for a country store, but as St. Mary’s is
an important shipping point, they have been and
continue to be very successful.

Mr. Rozier, from his $I,ooo capital—the .hard-
earned results of his California trip—has built up a
very extensive and lucrative trade, has erected a
fine tw0—story brick business house, on a lot pur-
chased by him since coming to St. Mary’s, embrac-
ing a first class store room, sales room, clerks’ room
and private office. He has also purchased twenty-
five city lots, on one of which he has built him a
comfortable residence, from which a beautiful view
of the Mississippi river and the opposite state of
Illinois is afforded.

Mr. Rozier has devoted his life to mercantile
pursuits, and his success may be attributable to his
strict attention to business. He has never permitted
himself to be drawn into political contests—con-
tenting himself with voting the Democratic ticket
since the demise of the old Whig party. The citi-
zens of St. Mary’s, however, elected him trustee of
the town board in 1877.

from his store to enter into speculations. His patri-

any attempt to cross the plains.

He has never been led-

otism did once lead him to step aside from his
chosen avocation. In 1846 he volunteered in the
South Missouri Guards, and with the company——of
which he was orderly sergeant—started to join Fre-
mont in his California expedition during the Mexican
war. The company was mustered into service, but
on reaching Fort Leavenworth the season had so far
advanced and the winter was so severe as to forbid
The company was
finally disbanded and he returned.

He joined the Odd Fellows in 1853, andwas a
member of Ste. Genevieve Lodge, No. 97, until
the breaking out of the war, since which he has not
been an active member.

]ules Rozier was married August 23, 1853, to
Miss Emily ]. Pratte, daughter of Rosamond and
Louise (De Lassurs) Pratte, of F armington, Missouri.
On her father’s and mother’s side his wife represents
two of the oldest and most respected families of
Southeast Missouri and of the old “ Upper Louisiana

country”——the Pratte family have been among the '

foremost in developing the resources of that section
of the state, while the De Lassurs were among the
pioneers, and their descendants have been_always
highly honored. Eight children have blessed their
union, seven of whom are still living.

Jules Rozier is now in the prime of manhood, a
strict business man, and is a fair type of his adven-
turous, but cautious, father. Not a member of this
family that does not exhibit,.in some avocation or
other, the excellent business qualities of their worthy
pregenitor.

CHARLES C. ROZIER.

STE. GENEVIEVE.

HARLES C. ROZIER, seventh son of Ferdi-
C nand and Constance Rozier, was born in Ste.
Genevieve, September I, 1830. He was educated
at St. Vincent’s (Catholic) College at Cape Girar-
deau, which he entered in 1843 and graduated in
August, 1849, having taken the regular course. He
immediately began the study of law with General
Firman A. Rozier, at Ste. Genevieve 3 but in 1850
he bought the Democrat printing office in Ste. Gene-
vieve, from P. G. Ferguson, and published a Benton-
Democrat newspaper called T /ze Creole in that town.

After one year he removed his press and material to
St. Louis and began the publication of a French and
English journal called /I/0m'z‘or of 2726 West, but it
proving unprofitable, he returned to Ste. Genevieve
with his printing office and there published a Demo-
cratic paper called the I’Zaz'/m’ea/er until 18 5 3.

In 18 5 3 Mr. Rozier was elected clerk of the cir-
cuit and county court of Ste. Genevieve county, for
six years, was reelected a second time; but in the
spring of 1865 resigned and moved to St. Louis,
where he engaged in the commission and provision

308 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAI€Y.

business, with Mr. Joseph J. Gross as partner, under I

the firm name of Gross & Rozier. In the fall of
1868 he closed business in St. Louis, and removed
to Ste. Genevieve, where he resumed the practice
of law’ and has continued in the profession to this
time. His practice, which has become important
and lucrative, is confined to his home county. '

Mr. Rozier wasone of the justices of Ste. Gene-
vieve county in I85r—2, in 1869 he was agent of the
Life Association of America, having under his
charge the whole business for Southeast Missouri,
but was compelled to abandon it when his profes-

sional duties became so numerous as to require all.

of his attention. He was mayor of Ste. Genevieve
during the years I874-5-6. He was appointed by
Governor Woodson one of the regents of the South-
east Missouri Normal school board, for the Cape
Girardeau Normal, and still holds that position, he
was also president of the Genevieve Agricultural
and Mechanical Society two years, but resigned in
1877.

Mr. Rozier has always been a Democrat, and
was the nominee of that party in 1864 for state

auditor of Missouri, on the General Price ticket, he
was again their nominee for the same office in 1868,
on the Phelps ticket 3 but, owing to the vast number
of voters disfranchised by the registration law then
in force in Missouri, the ticket was defeated. In
his religious views he adheres to the old Catholic
faith of his family. _ g

On the 14th of November, 1859, Charles C.
Rozier was married to Miss Emily LaGrave, daugh-
ter of Anthony LaGrave, Esq., then of Ste. Gene-
vieve, now of St. Louis. By this marriage have
been born eight children, -four boys and four girls,
all living. A

In this younger son of an honored line, we still
trace the business tact and energy of his forefathers,
with their peculiar talents fitting him for diversified
callings, with vim to rebound from misfortunes, and
perseverance that ever leads to success. Like them
he has been intrusted with the important offices of
his city and county, and has kept intact the fidelity
and integrity of his progenitors. . Though the

_ youngest son, he has already acquired considerable

reputation, both at the bar and as a public officer.

 

JAMES WILLIS BRAHAM, D. D. s.

STE. GENE VIE VE.

HE annals and rolls of the different professions
T in the West probably give more self-made and
successful men, in proportion to the number of
inhabitants, than any other quarter of the globe.
With very meager facilities for improvement, in
comparison with other sections, and under almost
every conceivable untoward circumstance, the young
professional men of the West have nevertheless
kept progress with the advance of science, many
among them attained prominence and still many of
the present younger practitioners give promise of
eminence in the near future. This latter class are,
as a rule, self-made men—men who started in very
disadvantageous boyhood, poor, unknown, but am-
bitious and industrious. They have literally carved
out an honorable distinction if not a fortune in their
chosen line, but it has been done by arduous ser-
vice, by patient plodding and by strict attention to
business.

James Willis Braham was born in the city of

Toronto, Canada West, November 23, 1845. His
father, Alfred Braham, was a prominent dry goods
merchant in Toronto, to which city he came from
London, England, in 1842. The maiden name of
the mother was Catherine Moss, a native of Eng-
land, who died at Toronto in 1851. After the
death of his wife, Mr. Braham returned to Eng-
land, where he has resided since 1868. James was
thrown upon his own resources at an early age,-
from the age of eight for seven years he was under
home guidance, and secured his education in the
private schools and in Upper Canada College. At
the age of sixteen, in September, 1860, he began
the study of dentistry under Dr. ‘George L. Elliot, of
Toronto, and remained with him about two years,
when he went to Dr. J. W. Elliott, of the same
place, and a brother of his former preceptor, to con-
tinue his studies for his chosen profession. Here he
remained a little more than one year. In the spring
of 1864 he went to New York City and entered the

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGIBAPHZCAL DICTIOZVA./BY. 309

office of Samuel Hassel, D. D. S._, & Son, where he
remained two years. After the close of the rebellion
he went to St. Louis and was an assistant in the
surgeon-dentist’s office of Dr. A. D. Sloan & Son for
one year.

In 1867 he was competent to practice for himself,
and in the spring of that year began the practice in
St. Francois county, Missouri. Early in the year
1868 he settled in St. Genevieve, Missouri, where
he has built up a lucrative practice and has attained
the eminence of leading dentist in his county.
Those who know him best, and are professionally
qualified to speak, are very sanguine of his future,
and say more of him than the modest scope of a
biographical sketch will permit. But his success has
been achieved by himself, his own efforts have edu-
cated and subsisted him, until now he stands on the

flood-tide wave of popularity. His is but one more
sketch of Missouri’s self-made men, and another
incentive _to ambitious young men struggling against
the fortuitous disadvantages of impoverished boy-
hood. As such we gladly give the sketch a place in
our pages.

November 25, 1868, Dr. james W. Braham
married Miss Janie M. Tyler, second daughter of
John Van Tyler, Esq., a prominent merchant and
miller of Big River Mills, St. Francois county, Mis-
souri. Mr. Tyler is one of the early settlers of the
state, having come with his parents from Virginia to
St. Francois county in 1820. The Doctor has two inter-
esting children——]ohn Van, a sprightly boy of nine
years, and Katie, aged four. His wife blesses his
home with her presence and is no little encourage-
ment to her h usband in his arduous professional duties.

ALFRED HERBERT O’DONOGHUE.

CA PE GIRARDEA U.

LFRED, H. O’DONOGHUE was born in
A county Kerry, Ireland, October 12, 1836.
His father, james O’Donoghue, was a private gen-
tleman, a native of the same county, but for some
years past has been residing at Cannes, in the south
of France. The ‘mother of our subject died in 1855.

Alfred was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,
taking the full course of that celebrated institution,
and graduated in 1857. Shortly afterward he went
to -Brittanny, France, where he remained four years
as correspondent of the Daélzbz Daily Express and
an occasional writer to the E0//do/2 Times. While
there he also wrote articles for C/zamlmfs’ foamal.
Leaving France, he spent some months in a visit to
London, and then returned to’ Ireland, where he
resided until 1863, when he immigrated to America,
landingat New York, where he remained twelve
months, and was employed as a writer on the Uvzitea’
States E50720;/zzsl, a commercial journal then pub-
lished in that city.

In 1865 Mr. O’Donoghue started westward. He
spent three years in Chicago studying law, and was
also engaged writing for newspapers and for leading
magazines, among which we mention the Galaxy,
falamz’ ./I/0722‘/zly and 1’/1’/a7’/s 11/072//zly. He then
resumed his western travels and went first to Omaha

and thence to Sioux City. In the last named place
he remained eight months as editor of the Szbzzx City
Times. He continued his western travels until 1872,
when he returned to St. Louis, where for some time
he was employed as a writer on the Globe-Democraz‘.

In july, 1873, he settled in ‘Cape Girardeau, and
for four years edited the Mara/e City A/2222/s, pub-
lished by A. M. Casebolt. Here, in March, 1874,
he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice.
Shortly afterward he was appointed city attorney to
fill the unexpired term of the former incumbent,
and at the expiration thereof was elected to the
same office for the full term. He also received the
appointment of United States Commissioner for the
Eastern district of Missouri. In the meantime he
continued in his profession and built up a lucrative
practice.

For twenty years past Mr. O’Donoghue has been
an anxious student of theology. Indeed, as a stu-
dent for the Divinity School of Dublin University,
his mind was awakened to an unusual interest in
that subject. The result of his observations, read-
ings and thoughts were finally given to the World in
a work on that subject, written at Cape Girardeau.
It is a book of two hundred pages, entitled “ The-

ology and Mythology—An Enquiry into the Evi-

310 THE UNITED STATES BZOGIBAPIIICAL DICTZO./VARY.

dences of the Miraculous in Christianity and the
Supernatural Element in Religion.”
this title would seem to question the authority of

« “ Orthodoxy”——and as such a challenge is apt to

bring upon the offender the am;//zcma marmzal/za of
the church (Roman and Protestant.) we give this
record of the fact, the author’s own reason for the
publication,as extracted from the preface of his book :

“ This little work is written in no spirit hostile to
the religious sentiments of mankind. It seeks
merely to eliminate what is purely false, without
foundation in fact, and fictitions in Christianity as
now taught. The doctrines that Jesus taught—the
brotherhood of man and the condemnation of priest-
craft——entitle him forever to the admiration and
gratitude of his race; for he must be regarded, to do
him justice, not only as a Jew, but emphatically, as
he claimed for himself, as the Son of Man.

“The author claims, at least, sincerity of con-
victions in his sentiments. Born, as it is expressed,
in the Episcopal church, and carefully educated in
her doctrines, it was only after entering the Dublin
University, at the age of eighteen years, with the
intention, at the proper time—whicl1 in that institu-
tion is the last year of the curriculum——of entering
the Divinity School, that his mind underwent a great
change both as to the so-called truths of revelation
and- the sincerity of belief . held in those assumed
truths by over three-fourths of the ordained and
educated preachers with whom he came in contact.
The subsequent reading, for twenty years, of books
written on both sides of the question convinced the
writer that he would preserve mental independence
and a-void the moral crime of hypocrisy, he must

"abandon the theory of miraculous interventions and

violations of the well known laws of nature.

* * * * * In View of the ecclesiastical
influence now warring against our free schools, as a
protest against the clericaldomination of all churches
which bring their influence to bear perniciously both
upon public affairs and domestic relations, I submit
this essay to the lovers of free thought and free
speech throughout the United States.”

[The writer of this sketch has been permitted to

Inasmuch as J

read the proof sheets of Mr. O’Donoghue’s little
work, and, without at all entering into the contro-
versy, or taking position pro or can in the questions
involved, must say the pamphlet gives ample evi-
dence of labored and careful research, deep but
independent thought, logical reasoning and honesty
of purpose. Whether it will or will not tend to the
elucidation, demonstration and settlement of the
“ Great Controversy,” it at least stamps its author
as a writer of no mean ability.~—Ed.J

Mr. O’Donoghue was married July 22, 1875, to
Mrs. Ruth Greene, widow of the late State Senator
George H. Greene, and daughter of Benjamin Tem-
pleton, of Iowa. They have one child, a daughter.

Referring to the professional qualities of Mr.
O’Donoghue, his success in the practice and the
estimate in which he is held by those who have met
him in social and business circles, a worthy ‘gentle-
man of Cape Girardeau and a fellow lawyer gives
us _the following paragraph :

“ Alfred H. O’Donoghue both at the bar and in
the social circle greets you with constant surprises.
At the bar he is held in high esteem by reason of his
legal acumen, profound learning and pleasing ‘oratory
which is the more grateful to his auditors by reason
of his apt and classical allusions, and he can at will
touch every cord of the human heart. ‘At one
moment he possesses you in a spell of tender melan-
choly, and again by delineations of wrong and
oppression in burning words, arouses you to indig-
nation. In the social circle he carries you to every
extreme of emotion. By his abounding humor you_
are now convulsed with laughter, then electrified by
his sparkling wit or entranced by his charming fancies
or delighted with his felicitous repartees. But great
as are his mental gifts, still greater are the endow-
ments of his heart. It is utterly devoid of selfish-
ness, and whenever the helpless or unfortunate come
under his observation the contents of his purse is
bestowed upon them, and sooner than see others
suffer from privation he will assume it himself if by
so doing he can relieve others.”

JAMES HENRY RIDER, M. D.

CAPE G116/IRDEA U.

AMES HENRY RIDER was born October 12,
1841, in Shelby county, Missouri. His father,
James Madison Rider, was a native of Mary-

land, but moved to Missouri in 1830, engaged in
farming and‘ was also a merchant at various times in

the counties of Shelby, Howard and Bollinger, of i

the state of Missouri, and’ also in Pine Bluffs,
Arkansas. He died in Bollinger county in 1871.
The mother of our subject whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Moore—was a native of Delaware, and
died in 1871

James Henry Rider was educated at Howard

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAl€Y. 311

high school (now Central College) in Fayette, How-
ard county, Missouri. He afterward taught school
awhile in Macon county, Missouri, whither his father
and family moved. Here he studied medicine two
years under Dr. J. B. Winn, and in the fall and

winter of 1860-1, attended lectures at the St. Louis"

Medical College. During the following summer and
fall he practiced medicine at Callao, Macon county,
Missouri, with the intention of returning to St. Louis
in the winter for another course of lectures. The
war, however, had commenced, and, like all other
young men of patriotic impulses, he sacrificed his
professional ambition to patriotism.

In September, 1861, he volunteered in the

Southern army, under General Price, and was

assigned to duty as assistant surgeon in the 5th Reg-
iment, Clark’s Brigade of Missouri State Guards,
where he continued to serve four months, when he
enlisted in the regular service of the Confederate
States. On examination by the medical board, he
was commissioned as assistant surgeon and assigned
to duty in the hospital department. He was in the
battles of Lexington, Missouri, and Pea Ridge,
besides several other lesser engagements. During
the summer of 1862 he served professionally in the
hospitals of Columbus, Lauderdale Springs and
at Iuca, Mississippi, after that battle he was left
there with the wounded, where also the Confederate
wounded were taken after the battle of Corinth. In
January, 1863, he was ordered to duty with the
40th Mississippi, then at Vicksburg, and had charge
of the medical department of that regiment until
May of that year. Then, by application to the
Secretary of War, C. S. A., he was transferred to
the trans-Mississippi department under General
Price, and assigned to Wood’s cavalry regiment in
General Marmaduke’s command. The doctor was
in all the principal battles fought in that department,
and in Price’s celebrated raid. He remained as
commissioned assistant surgeon during the war, but
served all the time as surgeon with charge of regi-
mental medical departments.

After the close of the war, he surrendered at
Shreveport, Louisiana, in June, 1865, and returned
to Macon county, Missouri, where he recommenced
his regular practice. In May, 1866, with his father,
he moved to Pine Bluffs, Arkansas, where he prac-
ticed until April, 1868, when he returned to Missouri
and settled at Marble Hill, Bollinger county. In the
fall of 1869, Dr. Rider entered the Missouri Medical
College, at St. Louis, and graduated in the following

40

spring, he then returned to Bollinger county,
resumed his practice and continued it there until
September, 1875, when he removed to Cape Girar-
deau and formed a medical partnership with Dr.].H.
Traylor. In this connection he stepped at once into
a very extensive practice, and which, by the death
of his partner in six months, principally fell to him.
Since then he has continued in the practice alone in
that city.

We can only judge of a physician’s proficiency
by his patronage and success. Dr. Rider has a very
extensive practice, in his own and contiguous coun-
ties, and is represented as a leading medical practi-
tioner. His experience in the army and hospital
service gave him an excellent practical schooling
in his -profession, which results greatly to his advan-
tage in his practice.

Dr. Rider is a Democrat in politics, but has
never willingly occupied a prominent position in the
working of the party, preferring to devote his time
and talent to his profession. But while a citizen of
Bollinger county, the circumstances surrounding his
party and the importunities of friends forced him
into the position of a partisan leader. And, as the
most available man for election from the 26th Sena-
torial District, comprising the counties of Cape
Girardeau, Perry and Bollinger, he was nominated
as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of
Missouri, which met at Jefferson City, May 5, 187 5,
and which gave to the state its present constitution.
He was elected by a handsome majority, and in that
body served acceptably on several standing commit-
tees, among which might be mentioned those of
County and Municipal Officers, Election and Elec-
tors 3 he also served on the committee on Accounts
and on Counties and County Boundaries. He was
chairman of the committee on Additional Officers
of the Convention others than those fixed by the act
calling the body.

He was president of the school board of Lutes-
ville, Bollinger county, during the years I872-3-4-5,
and also a member of the board of health of Cape
Girardeau in 1877, being appointed by the city
council. He has been a Mason since 1867, was
Worshipful Master of Marble Hill Lodge, No. 298,
two years, and was afterward the first Worshipful
Master of Trowel Lodge, No. 440, at Lutesville,
which post he held three years. He is now a
member of Wilson R. A. Chapter in Cape Girar-
deau, of which he was Secretary one year and
is now Scribe, also of the Council of R. & S.

312 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

M., at Cape Girardeau, of whichhe is Recorder.

The doctor was raised by zealous Methodist
parents, and strict, practical morality was taught
him by both precept and example. Although not a
member of any religious denomination, and inde-
pendent in his religious views, he has never forgot-
ten the instructions of his pious parents.

November 26, 1873, Dr. J. H. Rider was mar-
ried to Miss Mattie Leech, daughter of Amzi D.
and Elizabeth (Haydock) Leech. The father is
dead. He was for many years the leading merchant
of Cape Girardeau. One child—a _daughter—
now gladdens the home of Dr. and Mrs. Rider.

, In regard to the doctor’s social qualities and the
estimate placed upon him as a man and citizen, we
have the following from a well known gentleman of
Cape Girardeau: “Dr. Rider, since his residence
in this city, dating from the fall of 1875, has gained
the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens, by his
upright conduct, his gentlemanly demeanor, and his
manly advocacy of the principles that he deemed

right. Earnest, faithful and eminently successful in

. the discharge of his professional duties, he has suc-

ceeded in building up a constantly increasing prac-
tice. Lettered and cultured, he takes a lively
interest in every movement having for its object the
social and moral elevation of the people with whom
he has cast his lot. Possessing rare social qualities,
affable manners, and a courtesy that springs from a
kind disposition, he has endeared himself to all with
whom he has been brought in contact, whether
professionally or as a valued member of society.

No gentleman who has ever located in this city, has, _

in so short a time, so well established himself in the
estimation of all classes Should his life be spared,
we predict for Dr. Rider a career of honor and
eminent usefulness. Among his brethren he has

already stepped to the front rank, and judging '

the future by the past, it is safe to predict for
him that success and that honorable reputation
that attend the conscientious discharge of all the
duties of life.

COLONEL SHUBAEL ALLEN.

ZLIEEA‘ TY.

OLONEL SHUBAEL ALLEN was born near
C Goshen, Orange county, New York, in 1793.
He was the son of Thomas and Bathsheba Allen,
who had immigrated to New York from Massachu-
setts. His mother’s maiden name was Stoddard.
His family was of English extraction, and had long
been settled in America. "

Colonel Allen was educated for the profession
of a civil engineer. In 1816 be constructed a bridge
over the Susquehanna river at Columbia, Penn-
sylvania. Removing thence to Frankfort, Ken-
tucky, he there constructed one over the Kentucky
river in 1817. This latter structure was of wood,
with one span. At that day, west of the Alleghany
mountains, and with the mechanical appliances at
hand, it was considered a work which demanded
more than ordinary engineering skill.

In the latter part of 1817, he removed to St.
Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1818 and

, then settled in Old Franklin, Howard county, Mis-.

souri. With the tide ofmigration moving up the Mis-
souri river to the rich lands adjoining the Indian coun-

try, in 1820, in company with the late Colonel John
Thornton (whose wife’s sister .he married two years
subsequently,) he left Old Franklin, and fixed his
permanent home in the country now embraced
within the area of Clay county, Missouri. He died

- in Clay county, January 18, 1841.

On the 19th of September, 1822, he was married
in Howard county, Missouri, to Miss Dinah Ayres
Trigg, daughter of the late General Stephen Trigg,
of Howard county, but who was originally from
Bedford county, Virginia. Miss Trigg was born in
Estill county, Kentucky, in 1803. Her paternal
grandfather was Major ]ohn Trigg, of Virginia,
who was an officer of artillery under Washington,
served at the siege of Yorktown, and was subse-
quently representative from Virginia in the 5th, 6th,
7th and 8th Congresses of the United States. Major
Trigg was, in and out of Congress, a strong opponent
of the famous “Alien and Sedition Laws.” The
Trigg family was of much distinction in Virginia in
colonial times. It immigrated thither, as is sup-
posed, about the year 1700. Although it came from

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Wales to Virginia, yet it is most likely that the family
originated in Cornwall, England. One of the hun-
dreds of that shire, (or as we in America would say,
township,) is named Trigg.

From the marriage of Colonel Allen to Miss
Trigg there sprang the following children, namely:
Elizabeth Beersheba Allen, Trigg T. Allen, Eugene
B. Allen, Shubael Allen, ]r., Robert E. Allen,
Augustus Evans Allen, John M. Allen and DeWitt
C. Allen. Augustus E. Allen died when five years

‘old, and Shubael Allen, Jr., in early manhood at

the beginning of a career in the legal profession
which gave promise of a future of great brilliance.
Elizabeth Beersheba Allen was married in 1840 to
the late General Alexander B. Dyer, of the United
States army. Mrs. Allen is still living.
young she was a very handsome lady, and remark-
able for the sprightliness and wit of her conversation.

Upon settling in Clay county, Colonel.Allen
devoted himself during the remainder of his life to
farming and the business of a commission merchant.
His farm chiefly lay in the Missouri bottom at the
western base of the bluffs at Liberty Landing, but
embracing a portion of the bluffs and the hills
extending along from the bluffs on the northern side
of the bottom. After his improvements on his farm,
(and before the Missouri river made its ravages,)
it was noted as one ‘of the most beautiful and
romantic plantations in the state. He began to
improve it in 1825. His warehouses were located at
the western extremity of the bluffs, and the locality
was known as Allen’s Landing. Steamboat naviga-
tion began to be regular and systematic on the Mis-
souri river, as high up as Allen’s Landing, about the
year 1828 or 1829. From that period until Colonel
Allen’s death, Allen’s Landing was the main point
of exit and entrance of nearly all the business and
travel of Northwest Missouri, in its communication
with the outer world by the river, and hence there
were visible at that point a degree of activity and a
multitude of commercial transactions utterly un-
known in these days of the degeneracy of the river
traffic in Missouri. It was, also‘, for many years the
starting point of a large number of the employe’s of
the American Fur Company in their expeditions to
the plains and mountains of the Northwest. The
scene presented annually on the assemblage of these
e1nployés—embracing, as it did, swarthy French
Voyageurs, same-ing as they managed their curveting
horses ; tall, half—breed Indians, straight as an arrow,
dressed in their wild garbs, the display of arms of

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all kinds, the tents scattered over the lawn, the
picketed animals, the -many-colored garments——was
unique, semi-barbarous, but animated and highly
picturesque. e .

The union of Colonel Allen’s ordinary avoca-
tions to his business engagements with the employés
of the Fur Company, added to the discharge of his
duties in several public positions of trust and honor,
which he held during the period of his residence in
Clay county, made that portion of his life one of
great physical and mental activity.

He was for a number of years colonel of the
regiment of militiaorganized in Clay county, and
in 1832 in the “ Black Hawk” war, and again in
1836 in the “ Heatherly” war, was in command of
the companies ordered into service from his county.
In the latter war one of the companies under his
command was the “ Liberty Blues ”-—famous in its
day for its discipline, the rspriz‘ and high social stand-
ing of its men, and the elegance of its equipments—
and it was commanded by Captain David R. Atchi-
son, afterward United States senator from Missouri.

Colonel Allen, from 1826 to 1830 was sheriff, and
from 1831 to 1834 one of the justices of the county
court, of Clay county. His duties in these positions
were discharged by him with signal integrity and
ability. At that time the impressions of men in the
West as to the dignity and importance attached to
those offices, derived from their fathers under the
old colonial rule of England, were much deeper
than now, and they had associated with them an
idea of honor and consequence but little felt at this
day.

In height and size Colonel Allen was some-
what beyond the medium. His forehead was high,
broad and symmetrical 5 his complexion fresh, his
hair black 3 his features regular, his nose aqui-
line, his lipsnot thin, and inclining to turn out,
displaying much color, his eyes a deep bluish-
gray , and his limbs harmonious and shapely. In
all his movements he was quick and energetic.
His mental characteristics corresponded with his
physical. His action instantly followed his decision
—there was no halting between two opinions. He
was a man of great decision of character, a born
leader of men, who arrived quickly, as if by intui-
tion, at his conclusions, and rarely departed from a
determination once made. His judgment was accu-
rate, his taste severe, and he seldom erred in his
estimate of men or things. His personal appear-
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314 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

chiefly the gifts of his mother, who was a lady
of great beauty, mental excellence, and moral
force-

He was a thorough-paced man of business. It
was conceded that no one in the state could, in the
same time, dispatch more business, or with greater
precision, or with less discomfort to the parties
engaged with him, than he. His firmness of pur-
pose and absorption in business gave to his counte-
nance a certain austerity, but this instantly gave way
in social life, and in society his conversation had a
fluency, a grace, an aptness, an inexpressible charm
not often met. His manners were dignified, easy

and courtly, without the excess of the Frenchman
or the unyielding uniformity of the old type of the
Virginian. His hospitality was open-handed, and
no man of decent speech and manners was denied
access to his table. In public enterprises, charities,
in the adjustments of business, in private life, he
was liberal without ostentation.

Colonel Allen was not a politician in any sense,
though he took great interest in the movements and
success of his party. He was the first Clay-and-
Webster Whig in Northwest Missouri, and in his
part of. the state exercised a great influence in that
political organization.

DR. JOHN M. ALLEN.

LIBERTY.

OHN M. ALLEN was born at Upper Liberty
' Landing in Clay county, Missouri, July 2 3, 1833.
He was a son of the late Colonel Shubael Allen,
of that county. He was reared on a farm, and,
until his seventeenth year, was employed in the
labors customary with boys of his age in the families
of farmers. His father died in January, 1841,
leaving his family above want, but not in affluent
circumstances, and hence Dr. Allen and the other
members of it, were early habituated to the toil and
denial which are the best preparation for after con-
tact with the world. His early education was such
only as could be had in the country schools in Clay
county at that time. The school teachers of the
county at that day were good, certainly not inferior
to those of the present in painstaking and accuracy,
but the terms of school were irregular, and the peo-
ple were not so much impressed with the necessity
of uniformity and continuity in mental training.

He was entered a student of William. Jewell
College at its first opening, in January, 1850, and
continued his studiesthere until 1852. He com-
pleted the course in mathematics at that institution,
as there taught, and Latin as far as the Sophomore
class. His taste in study was decidedly mathemat-
ical. He was, also, fond of history, natural phi-
losophy and astronomy. His inclination to fie/[es
Zeifres was less decided. . I

In the beginning of 1852 he began the study of
medicine underthe tutelage of that eminent physician

and surgeon, Dr. Joseph M. Wood, now of Kansas
City, but during his professional years prior to 1857,
of Liberty, Missouri. The careful training, sound
advice, and invaluable suggestions of Dr. Wood
have been of infinite service to Dr. Allen, nor does
he hesitate to attribute his position in the med-
ical profession to them. Upon Dr. Allen’s first
entrance into Dr. Wood’s office, the latter gave him
a candid and instructive lecture, in which he was
told that the only road to professional excellence was
through hard study, and, in order to resolutely per-
severe in it, he must, above all things, abstain from
the use of intoxicating drinks and the influences of
evil, reckless, and dissolute society. ,During the
sessions of 1852-3 and 1853-4, he attended the
medical lectures at the St. Louis Medical College,
and graduated thereat in March, 1854, with the first
honors, and received his degree of M. D. While
there that distinguished man, Dr. Charles A. Pope,
was dean of the faculty. During Dr. Allen’s atten-
dance upon medical lectures .he was a severe and
unremitting student, and allowed himself but little
time for recreation and amusement. At graduation
he was solicited by Dr. Pope to apply for the posi-
tion of assistant surgeon to the city hospital in St.
Louis, which he declined to do. This action of Dr.
Pope was a delicate but firm expression of his con-
fidence in Dr. Allen’s professional attainments, and
his fixed belief in his adherence to duty.

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study prescribed by Dr. Wood, he settled perma-
nently at Claysville,,a village in the northeastern
portion of Clay county, and there devoted himself
to the assiduous practice of his profession until the
spring of 1861. The day of his settlement at Clays-
ville, March 27, 1854, was cold, overcast and
gloomy—not a ray of sunlight gleamed through the
somber sky—and it gave but an unpleasant augury
of the future.

During the seven years of his life at Claysville,
he was a boarder with the late Captain William
'Cum1nons, a man of the purest integrity, sincere
feelings, long settled in Missouri, and retaining a
strong veneration for North Carolina, the state of
his nativity. On the day of his arrival at Claysville
Dr. Allen had but six dollars in the world, a small
medical library, Russell’s Modern Europe, a few
miscellaneous books, and was indebted in the sum
of four hundred dollars. He candidly told Captain
Cummons his financial status, so that the latter might
appreciate the chances of realizing payment from
the applicant for board. Captain Cummons promptly
answered that he was perfectly willing to trust him
for his board, and would loan him such reasonable
sum of money as he might need. Dr. Allen retains
a permanent feeling of deep gratitude, not only to
Captain Cummons, but to his entire family, for their
trust in, and uniform kindness to him. He enter-
tains the same feeling toward his friends, the late
Edward M. Samuel, of St. Louis, formerly of Lib-
erty, Missouri, and Colonel Alex. W. Doniphan, now
of Richmond, then of Liberty, Missouri, and to
several others, who offered him every assistance in
the way of money. He, however, declined all
offers of loans. Their offers were of great utility,
in that they inspired him with a feeling of confi-
dence. His anticipations of the future, before trial
of life,'had not been bright.

During the first year of his professional life, the
earnings of his practice amounted to only $500. Of
this sum he never collected over $100. Much of it
was on persons who were too poor to pay their med-
ical bills. The second year, his earnings amounted
to $800, and thenceforward, until he left Claysville,
in the spring of 1861, his practice grew in amount
and increased in profit. It extended over a wide
area. His patients were frequently eighteen or
twenty miles from his residence. His inflexible rule
was to go at once when called upon to attend a
patient, regardless of the hour or weather, and
never to retire to rest at night, until every person

under his treatment and demanding daily attention
had first been visited.

At an early period in his professional career, he
formed his theory as to the most successful mode of
management of the claims due him for services ren-
dered. In conversation with sundry physicians, he
discovered that they did not annually close up the
year’s work by taking the notes of parties, even
where they were pecuniarily responsible. In this
there was no growth on work. He, therefore,
adopted the uniform system of closing up all
accounts due him at the end of each year, by taking
the notes of his debtors,. bearing interest. Some
notes may never be good; others may become so;
on all there is the silent and steady growth of inter-
est. This system he has adhered to, nor does he
regard encouraging pecuniary results as certain to
professional men under any other rule.

Dr. Allen has not mingled in politics——his ambi-
tion has been wholly in his profession. Since the
conclusion of the civil war he has been a firm Dem-
ocrat, and, as an individual, labored for the success
of the Democratic party. In 1860 he supported
Bell and Everett, along with much the larger portion
of the old Whig element of Missouri. He did this
on principle, and because he thought that sectional
asperities could be much better softened under Mr.
Bell’s administration, if elected, than under Douglas
or Breckenridge. The election of Mr. Lincoln he
considered the tocsin of war. His election was the
revolution, and secession was simply the counter-
revolution. He was not a secessionist per se —- did
not believe in the abstract ‘right of a state to secede
——but, by habits of life and political thought, was
in all else an ardent Southern man.

He was in St. Louis, attending medical lectures
at his Alma Mater there, for purposes of refresh-
ment and review, as well as of increase of medical
science, when Mr. l.incoln’s first proclamation was
issued. Believing that war between the states was
certain, and his purpose to espouse the cause of the
South being fixed, he instantly returned to Claysville
and thence removed to Richmond, Missouri, in
order, at the latter place, the better to settle his
business affairs and prepare himself for impending
emergencies.

In April, 1861, at the latter place, he assisted in
raising a company of infantry for enrollment in the
Missouri State Guard, and was elected its captain.
At the same time and place the lamented Colonel
Benjamin A. Rives (subsequently killed at the battle

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of Elkhorn) raised a company of cavalry. Under
the call of Governor Claiborne F. Jackson for troops '

to defend the state, these companies rendezvoused
at Blue Mills in Jackson county, Missouri, and were
there consolidated and reorganized into a company
of cavalry, of which Colonel Rives was elected
captain. Shortly ,after—'in May, I861—this com-
pany and eight others were-, at Lexington, Missouri,
formed into a regiment of cavalry, and constituted
a portion of the 4th Division Missouri State Guard,
commanded by General William Y. Slack. Rives
was elected colonel of the regiment, and Dr. Allen
appointed its ‘surgeon.
for a service of six months. He was in the summer
and fall campaign which ensued, and was at the con-
test at Carthage, the terrible battle of Springfield, the
skirmishing near Ft. Scott and the siege of Lexington.

At the expiration of the period of service of this
regiment, Dr. Allen, Colonel Rives, Major Finley
L. Hubbell, Colonel J. K. McDowell, Colonel
James A. Pritchard, Dr. J. D. Wallace, and some
other members of it enlisted in the Confederate
States’ army for four years, or during the war. This
was in December, 1861'. These gentlemen formed
the nucleus for the organization of the 3d Regiment
of the 1st Missouri Brigade of Infantry, C. S. A.
The orgfiiizatiori of the regiment was soon com-
pleted, and Dr. Allen was appointed its surgeon.
He occupied that position until September, 1863,
shared in all its marches and privations, and dis-
charged his duties as its surgeon at the battles of
Elkhorn (sometimes called Pea Ridge), the opera-
tions at Corinth, Iuka, the bombardments of Grand
Gulf, Port Gibson, and many other minor engage-
ments. After the battle of Port Gibson, he was left
in charge of the wounded in that action, and
remainedthere until August, 1863, when he returned
to his regiment at Demopolis, Alabama. From the
organization of the first brigade until the battle of
Iuka, General W. H. Little was its commander.
He was killed at Iuka. General Little had been in
theregular army of the United States, and was an
admirable disciplinarian and consummate soldier.
He was intimately acquainted with army organiza-
tion, and thoroughly versed in the duties of officers
Dr. Allen, in common with all the sur-
vivors of the brigade, remembers him with the highest
respect and affection. It is true that the men of the
first ‘brigade were of the very flower of the Southern
army 5 but to General Little more than to any other
man, living or dead, does it owe its unfading glory,

The regiment was enrolled

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and the proud distinction of being the first in the
charge and the last in the retreat.

In October, 1863, he was, by order of General
Joseph E. Johnston, relieved from duty as surgeon
of the 3d Regiment, and appointed chief surgeon
of the District of Mississippi and East Louisiana,
and attached to the staff of General Wirt Adams.
He was with General Adams during the residue of
the war, and in all engagements where that gallant
officer commanded or participated. This was a
period of great activity and responsibility to Dr.
Allen. General Adams, an elegant gentleman and
chivalric and brilliant soldier, maintained a sleepless
vigilance throughout his district, and kept his forces
in the highest state of efficiency. Dr. Allen was
frequently detailed by him to secure medical supplies
through the Federal lines for the use of the Confed-
erate army. He effected this with great ingenuity
‘and ability. Thesupplies were secured by the sales
of cotton to parties within the Federal lines. The
stratagems and. devices resorted to in effecting the
exchange were many and various, and usually suc-
cessful. r
Dr. Allen surrendered along with General Adams’
command, in.May, I86 5, and was paroled at Gains-
ville, Alabama. He took the oath of allegiance to
the United States in July, and returned to Clay
county in August, 1865. Upon his return to Clay
county, he settled at Liberty, where he hassince
remained. At Liberty he has actively continued the
practice of his profession. It is large and demands
the full extent of his strong physical endurance.
On the 15th of November, 1866, he was married to
Miss-Agnes McAlpine, at Port Gibson, Mississippi,
daughter of the late-William R. McAlpine, Esq., of
that place. He has two sons. ' I

He became a member of the Masonic fraternity
in 1856. In 185 5 he assisted at the organization of
the Clay County Medical Society, and has several
times been its president. He is, also, a member of
the Missouri State Medical Association. In May,
1858, he joined the National Medical Association,
and has since continued a member of it. He assisted
in the organization of the Kansas City Medical
Society, and was its first president. He -has for
many years been an active member of the Liberty
Literary Club, a society, of gentlemen in Liberty

. organized some twenty-five years ago, for the promo-

tion of literature and social culture, and which con-
tains among its members the professional men and
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He is ‘a strong advocate of temperance, and
has been connected with the various movements
and organizations in aid of it which have existed
in Clay county since 1848. He never signed a
petition to license a dram-shop, and by individ-
ual effort and public addresses has contributed in
no small degree to the present advanced position

of the people of Clay county on the subject of tem-

perance.
Though full in flesh, he is very active; his move-

ments are quick and energetic. His bearing is easy,

address cordial, and manners popular.

As a physi-
cian and surgeon his rank  among the first in the
state. His diagnosis of disease is comprehensive,
accurate and quick, his application of remedies
speedy and bold. As a citizen he is public-spirited,
early appreciates those crises when the union of the
intellect of the community in action for a common
purpose becomes necessary" to secure results benefi-
cial to all, and is at all times willing to bear his pro-
portion of the burdens of expenditure and labor
which become needed in attaining them.

ALLEN B. M. MCGEE.

KANSAS CITY.

MONG those who have achieved eminence
solely by excellence of character, without any

of the modern appliances by which unworthy per-
sons seek to gain undeserved and transient popular-
ity, the subject of this sketch occupies a conspicuous
place. Allen B. H. McGee, eldest son of James
H. McGee, was born May 21, 1815, two and one-
half miles from Beardstown, Nelson county, Ken-
tucky. Soon after his birth his father moved to
Shelby, seven miles east of Shelbyville, a few miles
from Beardstown, where Allen, after arriving at the
proper age, was sent to school. When twelve years
old, his father removed from Shelbyto Clay county
Missouri, near the town of Liberty, where after liv-
ing oneyear, he removed to Jackson county, Mis-
souri, then known as the ‘_‘ Great Blue Country.”

.Allen’s education was necessarily limited, he having
‘to help his father, who had taken a Government con-

tract for feeding the Delaware and Shawnee Indians,
who had emigrated to Jackson county on the Mis-
souri, where Kansas City now lies. During his

youthful career farming seemed to be his special

choice,‘ although he engaged in different occupations
duringhis life. When twenty-one years of age he
engaged in the saw mill business, and afterward sur-
veyed “Indian Grants” under John C. McCoy,
Surveyor. He was taken prisoner by the Osages,
but was released after the necessary promises were
obtained from the President. When twenty—three
years of age he married Melinda Frey, daughter of
Henry Frey, of Shelby, Kentucky. To them were
born three children. In 1838 he bought a farm near

Westport, where he still lives. His wife died Sep-
tember 19, I846. In the same year Mr. McGee
became engaged in government contracts for build-
ing the Sac and Fox Indian Agency, near the head
of the Osage river 5 trading with the Indians until
the spring of 1847, when he went into the mercan-
tile business at Westport, in connection with the
Sac and Fox Agency, with a stock of goods aggre-
gating $20,000. In this year Mr. McGee married a
sister of his first wife. ‘

After three years of successful trading with the
Indians, he sold his branch house at the Agency to
Albert G. McGee and Ingram Baker, and the year
following sold his store in Westport to Hamilton &
Boone, Mr. Boone being a grandson of Daniel
Boone, of Kentucky. From 1848 to 1852 he fur-
nished outfits for emigrants to California, and while
thus engaged equipped Colonel John C. Fremont for
both of his expeditions across the continent, buying
his goods of R. & W. Campbell, of St. Louis. He
also was engaged in buying and selling mules and
other stock. . _

Mr. McGee was one of the fourteen men who
bought the original “Kansas City.” The la11d
belonging to the heirs of Gabriel Prudhomme was put
up at auction and _sold by his father, James H. Mc-
Gee, who was the guardian of the heirs. The price
ranged from $5,000 to $7,000.

Mr. McGee’s second wife died March 19, A1867,
leaving one child, who died when five years old.
January II, 1869, he married Susan B. Gill, daughter
of Marcus Gill. She was born in 1849 in Owensville,

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318

Bath county, Kentucky. Her father was a miller
and owned what is called the Gill’s Mills. They
have two children, a boy two years of age and a girl
six years. In religious and political belief Mr. Mc-
Gee is very liberal. He has traveled throughout
the United States, and by earnest endeavor and
untiring perseverance acquired a vast amount of
knowledge. Mr. McGee has taken great interest in
the welfare of Kansas City. He has lived here for
fifty-one years, and has watched the rapid growth
of a wilderness into the developed “ City” of “The

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New West.” His father died in May, 1840, and
predicted that there would be the largest city in
Missouri, where Kansas City now stands, and his
son Allen seems to have the same intuitions as his
father, and has been active in all enterprises tending
to the future welfare of the city. Personally Mr. Mc-
Gee is a genial companion, has a pleasing and unas-
suming countenance, is benevolent and energetic, a
good neighbor and citizen, and is just and honorable
in all his dealings. He acts out his best convictions,
without either hope of reward or fear of punishment.

HON. DEWITT C. ALLEN.

LIBER T Y.

EWITT C. ALLEN was born November II, J
D 183 5, in Clay county, Missouri, and with the
exception of a few brief intervals has passed his
life in that county. His family is of English-Welsh
extraction, and has been settled in America more
than a century and a half, and his parents were per-
sons of education and refinement. His father, Col-
onel Shubael Allen, was a native of Orange county,
New York, whence he emigrated to Kentucky in
1816, and thence to Missouri in I8I7, and finally
settled in Clay county in 1820. His mother, Miss
Dinah Ayres Trigg, was a daughter of General
Stephen Trigg, of Bedford county, Virginia, who
emigrated to Kentucky near the close of the last
century, and thence to Howard county, Missouri, in
1818. She was born in Estill county, Kentucky.

When Mr. Allen was five years old his father
died, and he passed entirely under the influence and
training of his mother—a woman of excellent judg-
ment, fine literary taste, cheerful disposition, the
most delicate sentiments of honor and integrity, and
in every way fitted for the discharge of the duties
devolved upon her. In temperament he is more
like his father, but his character was molded by his
mother. To her encouragement and advice he
attributes mainly‘ his achievements in life.

By mental constitution he was a student and
lover of books, anl his taste for study was strength-

reading began at eleven years of age, and has been
pursued with system and regularity. Before the

completion of his thirteenth year, among other
works, he had read all of Scott’s novels.

In 1850, having previously received the benefit
of excellent private schools, held, however, at irreg-
ular intervals, he entered William ]ewell College,
and was there graduated in 1855 with the first honors
in the classics and 551165 Zelfres. His grade in mathe-
matics was somewhat lower. His taste originally at
college was foi the mathematics, but as his acquaint-
ance with the classics increased his fondness for
mathematics became less strong.

Having completed his collegiate course he ac-
cepted the position of principal of the preparatory
department in the Masonic College, at "Lexington,
Missouri, which he filled for a year to the entire sat-
isfaction of the curators and patrons of that institu-
tion. He accounts the reminiscences of his stay at
Lexington as among the most agreeable in his life.
Society there was at the height of its brilliance and
charm. The people, as ever, were hospitable and
courteous, and he bears with him only memories of
kindness and encouragement received from them.
His previous life had been one of study and -seclu-
sion, and his experiences of society and the world
were slight. . Of the many persons there to whom
he feels indebted for kind offices, he especially
remembers his friends, Charles R. Morehead, Sr.,
(now of Leavenworth, Kansas,) and Mrs. William
H. Russell.

During the year succeeding his connection with
the Masonic College he devoted himself to those his-

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torical and special studies (suggested to him by his
friend Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan), which are
considered by legal gentlemen as a proper intro-
duction to the comprehensive study of the law,
which he had chosen while at college as the profes-
sion of his life. From the summer of 1858 to May,
1860, he pursued his legal studies in the office of the
late Richard R. Rees, Esq., in Leavenworth, Kan-
sas. Occasionally during that period he assisted
Mr. Rees in the trial of cases in order to acquire
familiarity with the procedure in the courts. He
recognizes his obligations to the advice and sugges-
tions of Mr. Rees as being very great, particularly
in the specialties of pleading, conveyancing and the
drafting of orders, judgments and decrees.

In May, 1860, he returned to his home in Lib-
erty, Missouri, and began the practice of law.
Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to the
work of his profession.

In November, 1860, he was elected circuit attor-
ney of the 5th judicial Circuit of Missouri, com-
posed of the counties of Clay, Clinton, Caldwell,
Ray and Carroll. He discharged the duties of that
office with fidelity and promptness until December
17, 1861, when, under the operation of an ordi-
nance of the Missouri convention of that year, pre-
scribing an oath testing the loyalty of officers, it
became vacant in consequence of his refusal to take
the oath.

He was married May 18, 1864, to Miss Emily
E. Settle, of Ray county, Missouri, daughter of
Hiram P. Settle, Esq., of that county. She was
born in Culpepper county, Virginia. They have
three children.

During the years I866-7 he was general attorney
of the Kansas City & Cameron railroad company-
now known as the Kansas City branch of the Han-
nibal & St. Joseph railroad——and in that position
labored assiduously with others to secure its early
completion. c

I-Ieuwas elected, without opposition, in January,
1875, to represent—in connection with Hon. E. H.
Norton—the 3rd Senatorial District of Missouri,
composed of the counties of Clay, Clinton and
Platte, in the constitutional convention, called to
meet May 5, I87 5, and assisted in the framing of
the present organic law of the state. In that body,
composed of many of the ablest and most. learned
men in the state, he bore himself with ability and
Won the respect and confidence of its members.
At 1tS organization he was appointed a member of

the committees on education and the legislative
department, and was esteemed in them as an intelli-
gent and indefatigable worker.

Mr. Allen has attained a high and honorable
position at the bar. He deals with the law as a
science, and sees the logical connection of its prin-
ciples. He surveys the fields of legal lore with the
clear, calm vision of a jurist. He is devoted to our
system of jurisprudence because it contains the
crystallized thoughts of the best fninds of all ages
and countries. He is noted for the power of his
faculty for analysis, the quickness of his perception
of the most remote analogies, the fineness and deli-
cacy of his distinctions, and the rapidity of his
detection of inconsistencies in argument. In
forensic confiicts he brings into requisition the best
materials of law and fact. His positions are always
clear, logical and concise. His voice, though not
strong, is distinct and penetrating, and his rhetoric
faultless. When the occasion demands it, he ascends
by easy gradations from the smooth, graceful, con-
versationalstyle, suited to the courts, to a higher
plane of oratory. Fired by the inspiration of the

‘theme, he irradiates the case with flashes of elo-

quence that electrify the audience. His manner is
earnest, and his ideas form in quick, unbroken suc-

cession. But his great power as a speaker is in the

elevation of his sentiments, and his rich and spark-

ling thoughts. Ringing tones, electric fire and aptly
chosen words merely form their drapery. He is a
cultured, scholarly man. His style, both in speak-
ing and writing, is peculiarly his own. He is an
independent thinker and derives his information,
when practicable, from original sources. He is sys-
tematic and exact in all things, and counts as worth-
less all knowledge that is not accurate. During the
vacations of the courts he does not remain idle, but
continues in his office engaged in work or investiga-
tion. He deals with his clients with the utmost
candor. And one of his distinguishing characteris-
tics is fidelity to his friends. He possesses a high
sense of honor, and is bold and unyielding in
defense of right.

Mr. Allen devotes his periods of leisure to lit-
erary reading—historical, philosophical, critical and

poetical—but never allows it to infringe upon his-

professional study or work. He fully recognizes the
truth so often urged by the sages of the law, that,
of all men, the reading and thought of a lawyer
should be the most extended. Systematic and care-
ful reading in the higher works of literature——his—

320 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

torical, philosophical, critical and poetical—gives
freshness, breadth and comprehensive grasp to the
mind, variety and richness to thought, and a clearer
perception of the motives of men and the principles
of things, indeed of the very spirit of laws. Nature
has given us both reason and fancy, and they were
meant for use. Hence, he argues that the mind
should both reason and bloom. Besides, a cultured
fancy, guided by severe taste, is a source of inven-
tion in argument. He occasionally writes, but only
as a matter of amusement or for the gratification
of friends. His style in writing is clear, logical,
chaste’ and impassioned. His thoughts are ex-
pressed with force and sententiousness. His fancy
is delicate and subtle, and usually pervades his
writings.

Mr. Allen is a charming conversationalist. His
wide range of reading, habits of analysis and obser-
vation, intuitive knowledge of the motives of men
and women, his fine fancy, rapid play of thought,
and quick apprehension, combine, with his genial
good humor and innate charity, to make him a bril-
liant and most agreeable member of society, and to

render his triumphs in the salo/2 equal to those at
the bar. He is, as the result both of thought and
observation‘, a staunch and enthusiastic friend of
popular education, and is keenly alive to the advan-
tages to be derived from an increase of facilities for
university and scientific training for the young.
During the past six or seven years he has been one
of the trustees of William Jewell -' College, and has
earnestly cooperated with his associates in the pro-
motion of the interests of that institution. Probably
to no one in the state is it more indebted for its
present high state of efficiency.

Mr. Allen is nota member of any church, but
he entertains a high respect for religion, and he con-
ceives that reverence for it among the people is the
life and soul of healthful, well-ordered society. He
is highly public spirited, and ready at all times to
aid and encourage those movements which tend to
increase the material happiness and promote the
culture of his community. His highest conception
of the due execution of a mar2’s life-work, is the
faithful performance of duty. In politics he is a
firm, consistent jeffersonian Democrat.

REV. WILLIAM RENFRO ROTI-IWELL, D. D.

LIBER TY.

ILLIAM R. ROTHWELL was born in Gar-
W rard county, Kentucky, September 2, 1831.
His parents, ]ohn Rothwell, M. D., and China
Renfro, daughter of Dr. William Renfro, of Garrard
county, Kentucky, were of Virginian birth and Eng-
lish descent. They had six children, three sons and
three daughters. ’

-‘ In r83"r, soon after the birth of the subject of
this sketch, they emigrated to Callaway county, Mis-
souri William, from early childhood, was studious
and gave great promise of becoming an eminent
scholar. He attended the common schools in the

county in which his father resided, and with the .

help of two short terms at academies, was prepared
in 1851 to enter the Missouri University, from which
he graduated with the degree of A. M'., July 4,
I8 54, taking the first honors in a class of ten.

At the time of his graduation he was decided
upon a medical profession, but his plans were
changed by being, in the same year, elected princi-

pal of Elm Ridge Academy, Howard county, Mis-
souri, where he received a very encouraging salary,
and being stimulated by success he remained for two
and one—half years, when he was elected the first
president of the Baptist Female College, at Colum-
bia, Missouri, (now known as Stephens College.)
After one year of service there he was elected to
succeed Rev. William Thompson,_ LL. D., as
president of Mt. Pleasant College, Huntsville, Mis-
souri, which position he held with great success for
twelve years. .
In 1860 he was ordained to the ministry, havin

been converted in 185 3 under the preaching of Rev.
Tyre. C. Harris, Columbia, Missouri, and was suc-

I cessively pastor of the Baptist churches of Hunts-

ville and Keytesville, Missouri.

During the years 1871-2 he was corresponding
secretary of the Baptist general association of Mis-
souri, in which position he acquitted himself with
marked ability. iHis letters and communications

THE U./\/[TED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 321

while corresponding secretary are noted as being
among the most graceful and forcible that have
emanated in the interest of that body.

In 1872 Mr. Rothwell was unanimously elected
professor of Theology and Moral Philosophy in Wil-
liam Jewell College, which position he still holds
(I877). _

In 1874 his Alma Mater, in honorable recogni-
tion of his distinction as a man of letters, conferred
upon him the dignity of .Dz7w'm'/az‘z's Docfor. Every
moment of Dr. Rothwell’s time since his graduation
has been one of intellectual activity and useful-
ness.

In 1855 he married Miss Louisa Hughes, daugh-
ter of Allen Hughes, of Howard county, Missouri.
In 1860 Mrs. Rothwell died, leaving one son, John
Hughes Rothwell, now eighteen years old, and a
student of great promise in'William Jewell College.

In 1863 Dr. Rothwell married Miss ‘Fannie A.
Pitts, daughter of Rev. Y. R. Pitts, near Glasgow,
Missouri, and to them has been born one bright boy
who is now eleven years old.’

Perhaps in no home in the state could be found
a more complete library than in Dr. Rothwell’s. He
has spared neither time nor‘ expense in adding to it
all the standard works on theology and moral phi-
losophy, besides valuable encyclopmdias.
for literature and his desire for improvement has
drawn about him friends of high social standing.
He is in perfect sympathy with the Baptist workers
throughout the state, and they enjoy the hospitalities
of Dr. and Mrs. Rothwell’s beautiful home

Politically he is a Democrat, always voting, but
not otherwise taking any great interest in politics.

Dr. Rothwell has a very commanding appear-
ance, being six feet high and very erect. He is in
the prime of life and mental vigor, is mild mannered,
possesses easy dignity, and is very modest and
His sense of duty impels him to the
He is a

unassuming.
front whenever principle or honor calls.
“ripe scholar,” of elegant culture, and a man of
liberal and_ expansive views. Perhaps no man in
the state stands higher in the love and confidence of
his denomination of Christians than he.

ROBERT HUGH MILLER.

LZBER TY.

OBERT HUGH MILLER was born in Rich-
R mond, Virginia, November 27, 1826. His
parents were John E. and Mary A. (Rogers) Miller.
His father’s family was of Scotch extraction. About
the year 1842 his parents immigrated to Barren
county, Kentucky, and, after residing thcre nearly

» six years, removed to Missouri and settled in Mon-

roe county. Soon after he was sent-to Columbia,
Missouri, to learn the printing business, and there

entered the office of the Colzmzlzia P¢zm'oz‘, published J

by F. A. Hamilton, W. T. B. Sanford, Thomas
Miller and James S. Rollins, all of whom are now
dead except the latter. Before the expiration of his
apprenticeship, the Pa/rzbz‘ ceased to exist, and enter-
ing the office of the ]l[z'ssourz' Sz‘ates7mm, also pub-
lished in Columbia, he remained there some months.
The Statesfiztzrz was then and is now edited by Hon.
William F. Switzler, so well and so honorably known
in Missouri in editorial circles.

In April, 1846, in connection with John B. Wil-
liams, now of the Fulton Telegmp/2, he established

the L256/'1} T riézme, in Liberty, Clay county, Mis-
souri, whither he immediately removed and there
he has ever since made his home. The connection
between himself and Mr. Williams in the publication
of the T riézme was terminated within a year after the
first issue, and he became and has. since remained
the sole proprietor of that paper. The T riézme, in
its history, has had no suspension, and but one fail-
ure of issue, which occurred in September, 1861.

He was married, June 28, 1848, to Miss Enna
F. Peters, daughter of the late John R. Peters, of
Clay county, Missouri. She died December 3,
1867, leaving four children. May 3, 1871, Mr.
Miller married Miss Lulu Wilson, daughter of the
late Hon. John Wilson, of Platte county, Missouri.
They have three children.

His educational advantages" were such as could
be obtained in his youth in the common schools of
the country, and this he supplemented by research
and observation. From his earliest acquaintance
with politics to. the dissolution of the Whig party,

His taste '

322 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

he was an enthusiastic member of it. Since then
he has been a member of the Democratic party and
earnestly cooperated in the advocacy of its principles.
He was reared and educated under the influences
of the old school Presbyterian church, and though
not a communicant of any church, he retains a
great respect and reverence for that grand and ven-
erable body of Christians. '
He has ever been an earnest advocate of all
public enterprises inaugurated in Clay county—its

railways, schools, college, agricultural society, etc.—
indeed, of all measures and conceptions whose pur-
pose and tendency were to increase the wealth and
social and moral well—being of the people among
whom he has so long lived.

Mr. Miller’s characteristics are untiring indus-
try, great tenacity of purpose, close adherence to
approved forms, customs and usages, conscientious
attachment to truth and right, and steady, unflinch-
ing devotion to friends.

JOHN GEORGE JULIUS I-IAFFNER.

CAPE GIRARDEA U.

OHN G. ]. HAFFNER was born in the city of
Weisensteir, Wtirtemberg, Germany, April 22,
1838. His father, Matthias Haffner, was a cel-

ebrated doctor of medicine and was consulting phy-
sician" to the Duke of Turn-and-Taxis. He died in
1863, aged sixty-three years. The mother of our
subject, whose maiden name was Julia V. Bibra
Schwebheim, was a native of Bavaria and a daugh-
ter of an ancient Catholic aristocratic family, whose
record runs back to and includes the Cardinal Duke
of Schwaben, and the Marshals of the Austrian and
Italian armies. Her brother was Governor of Niirn—
berg, Bavaria, in 1848. She is still living, in her
sixtieth year, and gives evidence of having been a
beautiful woman, with the well known marks of high
blood plainly discernible in her regular features, high
forehead, determined yet feminine lips and chin, and
that dignified carriage which betokens a true appre-
ciation of lineage. She is now living with her son-
in-law, Dr. Theodore Herman, in Perryville. The
paternal grandfather of our subject was a Hungarian
and surgeon in the army of the King of Wiirtem-
berg. -

John George Jullu" Haffner, the subject of this
sketch, received his elementary education in the
common schools of his native town and afterward,
in 1848, was sent to his uncle, then governor of
Niirnberg, to attend the gymnasium of that city.
From there he went to Ehingen Gymnasium four
years, then three years to the Latin school of Ulm
Gymnasium, after which he spent two years in the
University of Tiibingen and two years in the Uni-
versity of Wiirtzburg.

In 1859 he was called to the army, and accepted
as 2d lieutenant in a cavalry regiment. He was sta-
tioned on the frontier line of his Kingdom during
the war between Austria and France, where he
remained on duty two years and six months. He
then returned to Freiburg, where he graduated, in
1863, in the regular course, including medicine,
surgery and midwifery. He immediately began the
private practice of his profession in the Kingdom of
Wiirtemberg, which he continued until 1866, when
he was again called to the army in'the war between
Austria and Prussia and served as physician of his
regiment with the rank of lieutenant, until peace
was declared. On the field of Koniggratz a bomb-
shell struck his stirrup, ripped off his shoe sole, but
did not injure him. At the second fire a shell
struck the station house—a stone building—and a
piece of the shattered rock killed his horse from
under him, still leaving him unhurt. He was after-
wards in the engagement between the Bavarian and
Prussian troops at Kissingen, and then at Tauberbis-

, chofsheim, the memorable battle that closed the war.

In the fall of 1866 he spent two months at Cann-
stadt baths, recruiting his health. From here on a
pressing invitation of a comrade, he went to Zaisers—
weiher, Kingdom of Wtirtenburg, to spend a few
days in recreating sports. But his stay was pro-
longed six months through the fascinations of his
host’s daughter—Miss Marie Schelling, daughter of
Adolph and Julie (Hornung) Schellin g. The intimacy
resulted in their marriage, which took place May 23,
1867.

On the 27th of that month—four days after his

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAZL DZCTZONARK 323

marriage——he and his bride emigrated to America—
sailing on the steamship Cinibria for New York.
On board, while under way, the engineer took them
below to show them the machinery of the vessel,
and here, in the person of the second engineer, his
wife accidentally discovered her brother. Of course
the voyage was pleasant, and calm seas added to its
enjoyment. They cast anchor in New York harbor
at midnight of June 12, and remained in that city
until 1873, the doctor practicing profitably there and
in the suburban cities.

Desirous of finding a less crowded community,
in 1873 Dr. Haffner started for the West, with Texas
as his objective point. He stopped at the different
cities on his route, and finally arrived at St. Louis.
Here he received letters from his friend, Baron von
Bechtolsheim, (then in the office of the secretary of
state, but now Austrian Consul at St. Louis) press-
ingly inviting him to visit Jefferson City. He did
so, and was finally induced to settle there, opened
an office and in a short time became the leading
physician of the city. His practice became very
large and lucrative. But the elections of 1874
removed his friends and threw into the state capital
strangers ; so, finding that he would be without his
countrymen for. companions, he determined to
remove. On making known his arrangements, he
received, unsolicited, the following complimentary
letter from the Secretary of State:

“CITY OF JEFFERSON, Mo., Sept., 11, 1874.

“From an intimate acquaintance with Dr. Julius
Haffner, of this city, I take pleasure in testifying to

his high standing in this community both as a gen-
tleman of culture and refinement as well as a phy-
sician and medical practitioner of first rank.
Respectfully,
EUGENE F. WEIGEL,
Signed: Secretary of State.”
“ CHARLES A. BUCK, Secretary, and with the seal of
the State.”

In June, 1875, he removed to Cape Girardeau
and at once entered upon the practice of medicine,
and rapidly acquired the friendship and patronage
of the people of the city and county.

Dr. Haffner was raised a Catholic and his wife a
Lutheran. But, happily, they are liberal in their
religious sentiments and exceedingly tolerant of the
opinions of others. So, too, in politics, the doctor
is independent, free from party thraldom and devot-
ing his time exclusively to his profession.

They have had four children, two of whom are
living: Marie, born February 24, 1868, and Ernest,
born April 18, I862. The writer spent a day in
their family circle, and gladly testifies to the affec-
tion and close friendship existing between parents
and children. Refinement and culture mark the

' parents,while intimacy and confidence between them

and their children evidence a more than ordinary
proper training and family government.

Dr. Haffner is one of the busiest physicians in
the county, rapid in all his movements, attentive
and hence successful as a practitioner, popular with
his patients and the people. Highly cultivated, his
surroundings are such as are calculated to brighten
his home and render his household happy.

DANIEL W. B. TEVIS.

LEXI./VG T0./V.

DANIEL WEBSTER BERKLEY TEVIS was
born, October 21, 1834, in Boonville, Cooper
county, Missouri. He is the son of Simeon Perry
and Emily (Berkeley) T evis. His father is a car-
penter by trade and was reared and educated in
Madison county, Kentucky. He removed to Boon-
ville in 1833, where for several years he followed
his profession, but abandoned it and engaged in
farniing—an occupation which he still pursues, being
hale and active at the age of seventy-two. The father
of Simeon Tevis came from England, located in

Baltimore and was a soldier in the war of 1812.

D. W. B. Tevis received a fair English educa-
tion, having attended Masonic College in Lexington
during i85I—2—3 and a part of 1854. Returning to
Boonville, for the next three years he taught and
attended school alternately, the latter part of the
time teaching half the day and attending Boonville
high school the other half.

On July 14, 1857, he left Boonville and entered
as clerk in a drug store in Lexington. Here he
remained for seven years, closely applying himself

324

to the study of his business and acquiring a knowl-
edge of chemistry, the art of compounding medicines
and collateral subjects. In 1864 he began in business
as a druggist, having purchased a stock of drugs,
medicines, etc. In this business he is still engaged.

During the war he served two years in the home
guard militia, having the rank of sergeant. In 1863
he was appointed by the court, assessor of Lafayette
county, and was re-appointed in 1865, holding the
office four years.

His early feligious instruction was under Meth-
odist influences, but he is now a member of the ‘Bap-
tist congregation. Politically he affiliates with the
Democratic party, but is not an ardent admirer of all
Democratic measures and policy. He was a mem-
ber of the Whig party before its death, and during
the war was a strong Union man

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

Mr. Tevis was married, November 23, 1863, to
Miss Sarah Julia Waddell, youngest daughter of
William B. Waddell, one of the oldest and best
known merchants in the State. From this marriage
four children have been born, two of whom, a son
and a daughter, survive.

Mr. Tevis is one of the best and most highly

respected business men in Lexington, and has Won.

for himself an enviable reputation as an honest,
upright, honorable man. He allows nothing to dis-
tract his attention from his business, is most courte-
ous and affable in his dealings with all, and by his
industry, frugality and ability has accumulated a
handsome property-. Socially, he is pleasant and
agreeable, his manners are frank and captivating,
and he is highly esteemed by the entire community
in which he resides.

JUDGE JAS. TURNER VANCE THOMPSON.

LIBEIB TY.

in Lincoln county, North Carolina, May 26,
~ 1797, and was the son of Gideon Thompson, of
that county. Gideon’ Thompson was not old enough
during the progress of the Revolutionary war for
service in the Continental army, but several of his
brothers, who were older, did serve therein. After
his immigration to Kentucky, however, he served
under General Andrew Jackson against the Indians.
The Thompson family is of Scotch—Irish descent,
and has been a great whilesettled in America. It
is related to the Vance family of North Carolina,
and Judge Thompson was a cousin of Governor Z.
D. Vance, of that state. In 1798 Gideon Thomp-
son removed with his family to Logan county, Ken-
tucky, where the subject of this sketch grew to man-
hood.

In 1817 he was married in Kentucky to Miss
Ruth Roberts, daughter of James Roberts, who
subsequently removed to Clay county, Missouri and
there died. She was a sister of the late David
Roberts, of Clay county. She bore him two chil-
dren, both of whom died when young. She died
about the year 1820.

In the year 1822 he married in Kentucky Miss
Margaret Mayburn, who died in 1849. She bore

TUDGE JAMES T. V. THOMPSON was born

him nine children, all of whom are dead except
Mrs. Sarah Baxter Lincoln, widow of the late Robert
T. Lincoln, of Clay county, and Mrs. Minerva
Gant, wife of Henry C. Gant, now of Hopkinsville,
Kentucky. One of his daughters by that marriage,
Eliza, married Stephen R. Shrader, now of Jefferson
City, Missouri, and died, leaving five children, and
another, Mary Jane, married the late T. W. W. De
Courcy, (at his death a resident of Kentucky,) and

-died leaving a daughter.

On the 23d of April, 1850, he was married to
Miss Emily W. Drew, of Clay county, by whom he
had two children—John D. Thompson and Anna R.
Thompson——who survive him. Miss Drew was a
native of Todd county, Kentucky, and was a daugh-
ter of the late Francis Whiting Drew, who died in
1843, shortly after his immigration to Clay county,
Missouri. He was a native of Berkley county, Vir-
ginia, and of English descent. Miss Drew’s mother’s
maidenname was Mary Hogan, and she was a native
of Fauquier county, Virginia. Mrs. Mary Drew
died in Clay county, Missouri, in 1864. Mary Ho-
gan’s mother was a Mauzy of the Mauzys of Virginia.

In 1826 Judge Thompson removed from Ken-
tucky to Missouri, and settled on the farm in Clay
county adjoining the town of Liberty, where he

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died February 15, 1872. At the time of his arrival
in Clay county the town of Liberty contained but
few over seventy-five inhabitants, and the county
was sparsely settled. Within two years thereafter
he knew every man in Clay county.

In 1830 he was elected a justice of the county
court of Clay county, and served in that capacity
four years.

In 1834 he was elected a member of the Mis-
souri Senate and served in that body until 1838. In
1838 he was reelected to the senate and served until
1842. In 1858 he was again elected to the senate
and served until in the fall of 1861. The last time
that he served in that body was in November, 1861,
when the general assembly was convened at Neosho,
Newton county, by proclamation of Governor Clai-
borne F. Jackson. The members composing the
two houses of the general assembly who convened
there are frequently denominated Jackson’s Legisla-
ture. Among his associates in the senate he always
retained a particular affection for Miles Vernon,
Nathaniel W. Watkins, Colonel Marmaduke, Col-
onel Bogy, Colonel Rozier, Benjamin Rives, A. B.
Chambers, Benjamin J. Brown and James Chiles.
Specially was this true of Colonel Marmaduke.

During life Judge Thompson was a Democrat,
and he always called himself “an old-fashioned,
states’—rights, Jackson Democrat.”

He was a delegate to every Democratic state
convention from 1826 to 1861. He was a member
of every county convention held by the Democracy
of Clay county during the same period. He was
also a delegate to‘every Democratic congressional
convention held in the districts of which Clay county
formed a part during the same time—particularly the
famous “ Gallatin Convention” in 1852, when Hon.
James H. Birch and Governor Austin A. King were
rival candidates for the nomination. He was a
Democratic presidential elector in 1844, 1848 and
1860. He approved the “Jackson Resolutions”
passed by the general assembly of Missouri in 1849.
He opposed Colonel Benton from 1848 until his,
the latter’s death. In 1860 he supported Stephen
A. Douglas for the. presidency. After the election
of Mr. Lincoln and the secession of South Carolina
he deemed that a war between the states was inevi-
table, and thought that Missouri should espouse the
cause of the South. He therefore supported in the
Senate every measure of preparation and defense

passed by the 21st General Assembly of the state.’

By conviction and the associations of his life he was

an ardent Southern man. After the commencement
of hostilities in Missouri in May, 1861, he left his
home and followed the fortunes of General Sterling
Price in the campaign in Southwest Missouri, which
ensued in that year. He was, of course, too old
for service as a soldier, but his strong sympathy
with the Southern cause carried him to the army.
This was also a necessity to him because his activity
in promoting the cause of the South as well as his
great personalinfluence in Northwest Missouri had
made him very obnoxious to the Federal authorities.

In the spring of 1862 he was captured at the
battle of Pea Ridge, (frequently called Elkhorn,)
taken to St. Louis and incarcerated in Gratiot street
prison. After some weeks of imprisonment there
he was released on parole by the Federal authorities
and permitted to return home. On his arrival at
home, in April of that year, he was required by
Colonel Penick, commandant of the Federal post at
Liberty, to address the people and counsel them to
submission. The situation to him was not only try-
ing but dangerous. The court house, where the
address was delivered, was crowded with citizens
and soldiers. He was loth to say anything that
would offend his secession friends, or damp their
ardor, but it was certain death to drop a word that
might arouse the ire of the soldiers. His speech
was a masterpiece of ingenuity, evasion and wit.
Without in point of fact recanting any of his seces-
sion principles, he yet made it seem that he did, and
frequently stirred the soldiers to loud expressions of
merriment. After recounting in the most amusing
and drollest manner the story of his adventures in
Price’s army, his capture by the Dutch (a detach-
ment of soldiers who were Germans captured him,)
alluding to his confinement in Gratiot street prison
and meditations consequent thereon, he said: “Well,
gentlemen, I found myself in Gratiot street prison,
safe under lock and key, with a sentinel always fumb-
ling with his bayonet at the door. I thought every-
thing over. I considered my life and what I had done
for the South. I had been honest in it. I thought
the South had received many wrongs. May be the
Northhad also received wrongs. There had been
much talk and much complaint on both sides. The
North might be right. The South might be right.
But whether the South was right or the South was
wrong, old Thompson in Gratiot street prison wasn’t
doing the South any good. A great light then broke
on me, and——I played for out.” '

The summer of 1862 was a period of great dan-

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ger as well as annoyance and unquiet to him. His
social and political associations for forty years were
in the throes of dissolution. The finger of death
was upon slavery and he was rich in slaves. The
fabric of his fortune—the accumulations of a life—
was tottering. Although he was the owner of a vast
estate, comprising six thousand acres of land, or
more, the larger portion of it lying in Clay county,
as well as large amounts of personal property, yet
he was also greatly indebted. At the April term of
the Clay circuit court, 1862, as well as at the two
preceding terms, judgments of magnitude had been
rendered against him. Yet, there he was at Liberty,
as if chained to a rock, chafing in impotent anger,
threatened alike by the sheriff and the bayonet. It
was dangerous to leave and dangerous to stay. The
circumstances surrounding precluded him from free
and judicious action so that he might marshal his
resources, satisfy his creditors, and yet save some-
thing for old age. The lion was in the toils, and
the hunters were inexorable. Moreover, as inti-
mated, he was at no time safe from the soldiers.
Some of the men at Liberty that summer in garrison
were the roughest and most sanguinary ever seen
there or in the state. They were not known for any
terror they inspired the armed enemy in the field,

but they brought fear and dismay to the unarmed "

citizens. Judge Thompson was threatened by indi-
viduals of them and curses and denunciations hurled
at him. The pressure and strain were too great.
He succumbed. He was severely stricken by par-
alysis. His physical and mental powers were
weakened. And though he lingered nearly ten years
after, yet it was delay, with the coffin perpetually in
sight.

judge Thompson’s chief occupation during life
was farming, but in the period of thirty years pre-
ceding the Civil vx ar, he frequently entered into con-
tracts with the United States government to furnish

supplies of horses, mules and provisions, and to

transport government stores, whence he derived
great gains.

He was an active advocate of every important
enterprise in his county, calculated to increase its
general prosperity, such as the founding of William
]ewell College and its location at Liberty 3 the crea-
tion of other schools in the county 3 the building of
the Kansas City & Cameron railroad 3 the organiza-
tion of the Clay County Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Association 3 the erection of the Presbyterian

church at Liberty, &c.

In 1848 he and his friend, Colonel Alexander
W. Doniphan, went to Boonville, Missouri, to attend
the meeting of the Baptist General’ Association of
Missouri, to use their influence in securing the loca-
tion of William ]ewell College at Liberty. He gave
to the college corporation the beautiful grounds on
which its college building is erected.

In 1848 he erected in Liberty the Thompson
House—the largest hotel building at that time in
the state outside of St. Louis. He was a great
encourager of the youth, and whenever he saw a
young man who gave evidence of possessing a
special aptitude for business, or indicated that he
had strong mental powers, he always stimulated him
to application and_ encouraged his ambition.

He was large in person and of powerful p/zysz'qu€;
his features were regular and handsome 3 his com-
plexion dark3 his gait in walking slow, meditative
and firm 3 his hair and eyebrows very dark, and the
latter heavy 3 his eyes very black and piercing 3 and
his whole expression one of intensity, wariness, and
thought. To portray his characteristics of mind-—to
make a picture which can be readily seized by the
mental eyes of any who never knew him——is, con-
fessedly, a work of extreme difficulty. True, they
were marked and decided, but their_union was so
eccentric and peculiar—they gave forth such a suc-
cession of flashes and surprises——that the combined
effect will escape delineation by the pen, no matter
how fine its point, or rapid and airy its movements,
and mental photography has not been invented.
Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan on the 5th of June,
1872, at the semi-centennial celebration, in Liberty,
of the people of Clay county, in his address on that
occasion, in speaking of Judge Thompson, after
exhausting his own unrivalled powers of analysis,
illustration and delineation in picturing him, was at
last—to convey his idea-——driven to the use of these
sentences: “ Judge Thompson was one of the most
remarkable men I ever met. His hind-sight was as
near on a level with his fore-sight as that of any man
I have known. He could come as near distinguish-
ing between the beginning and the end as anybody.
There never was but one Thompson, and he was the
first and last one.”

He was unlettered—only knew how to read and
write—but nature had been lavish in "her favors to
him. Few men were gifted with a more powerful
intellect or a keener perception. At a glance he
grasped any situation. His wit was sharp and hi_s
sarcasm as biting as aqua for/2'5. He was to b6;

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dreaded under all circumstances of opposition. His
sententiousness and brevity of expression were pro-
verbial By innuendo he could convey thought
with as much certainty and precision as could most
men by their utmost endeavors at directness. Many
years acro a young man settled in Liberty. He was
0 - .

only known previously to judge Thompson as being
the son of an old acquaintance of his. Shortly
after the young man’s arrival judge Thompson met
one of his own intimate friends when he introduced
the subject of the new aspirant to the favors of the
people of Liberty, and the following colloquy
ensued: “Well, do you know ———?” “Not
personally much, but of him I do in a general way,
what of him?” “Well, he just beats all of ’em——
he knows how and he’s willing.”

Though, with very slight education, he would
solve the most intricate matters of calculation in

business with amazing quickness, his arithmetic _

was not based on any acquaintance with the princi-
ples of Daboll, Ray, Pike or Davies, but evolved,
literally, out of his own inner consciousness. He

estimated men with great precision. He divined
their true characters as if by intuition. If he erred
it was in not duly weighing moral forces. Probably

he failed somewhat in poising those fine influences
which act above lucre. He looked through men to
the motive actuating them as if somewhere hidden
in their bosoms was the desire of gain. He did not
see that ethereal efflorescence of the soul—the deli-
cate down upon the plum—which is the outgrowth
of man’s relationship to God This may have been
for want of that early training—mental and moral
cu1ture—which widens the vision and allows us to
look beyond the areas of business in judgments on
human motives. All his qualities were strong and
decided—none negative. Time, nor political rivalries
could estrange him from his friends. Nor could the

lapse of a generation remove prejudices which he
once entertained against men. He was, therefore,
extreme in affection as well as in hate.

During thirty years preceding the civil war his
influence in the Democratic party throughout the
state was extensive and in his own county very
great.’ Probably in politics-—the management" of
party and the manipulation of its forces——his genius
shone preeminent. He loved the turmoil, the
intrigue, the uncertainties of political conflict. It
was his joy to lay the deep stratagem—weave the
tangled web of policy -and slowly, cautiously unite
the rivulets of influence into the irresistible tide
He was a profound believer in the maxim that “to
the victors belong the spoils” His strategy in
political management was essentially his own. In
this as in all else he was a man without a model.
In it he had no predecessor, and certainly has no
successor in Nortliyvest Missouri. The central idea
of it was secrecy deep as the grave. He gave no
intimations of his plans. It was sapping, mining,
and skirmishing rather than charging. He dispersed
his workers far and wide over the field. Every-
where arose the smoke of action, but no untimely
flames shot out. The electricity was incessantly
flowing, but it was not followed by lurid flashes, or
peals of thunder. The noisy manifestations, the
cries, the shouts were reserved for the decisive
moment. All was involved in mystery. There
were uncertain sounds, but none could tell whence
they came nor whither they went. The movement
was progressing, the toils were being laid, and the
adversary being lulled by the hidden thought and
Suddenly the ‘consummation came——the ob-
ject was accomplished—and Hercules was known
by his track. Still it was mystery. You saw that
the blow had been delivered but could not tell how.
Prestidigitation in politics.

will.

HON. JAMES E. LINCOLN.

LIBER TY.

’ I ‘HERE is no more honored and venerated

name in American history than that of Lincoln,
and certainly none that is so intimately connected
with the grandest and noblest accomplishment in our
nat104r;’s records. Any man can well afford to feel

honored by bearing the name and any book be much
the more valuable by publishing it.

James Edwin Lincoln was born near Liberty,
Clay county, Missouri, September 27, 1840. _His
father, George Lincoln, a son of Thomas Lincoln,

328 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, April I 5,
1792. Thomas Lincoln was a native of Rocking-
ham county, Virginia, and was a brother of Abra-
ham Lincoln, the grandfather of the late lamented
President of the United States. George Lincoln
was a blacksmith by trade, but moved with his fam-
ily from Kentucky to Missouri, in~1:82 2, and entered
a tract of land near Liberty, on which his widow
still resides. He had previously been a volunteer
soldier in the war of 1812, participated in the battle
of River Raisin and many other battles, was taken
prisoner twice, besides suffering the hardships of
the memorable Canada campaign. He erected one
of the first grist-mills in Clay county, was an indus-
trious business man in all his different undertakings,
and hence was successful. His health having failed,
in the spring of 1847 he made a trip to the Rocky
mountains, hoping to be benefited thereby; but on
his attempting to return could get no further than
Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he died April 28, 1848,
leaving his widow with thirteen children——eight sons
and five daughters. His sons were John, Robert,
Gatewood, William, Samuel, George, Charles, and
James Edwin; his daughters were Ann, Fannie,
Cordelia, Lucy and Julia.

Mrs, George Lincoln’s maiden name was Julia
Ann Gatewood. She was a daughter of Peter Gate-
wood, of Fayette‘ county, Kentucky, who was a
farmer and engaged in breeding and raising thor-
oughbred horses—many of which became celebrated
on the turf. On the death of her husband, Mrs.
Lincoln remained on the homestead and managed
the affairs of the estate with rare business judgment.
She reared and educated her large family with a
solicitude and devotion that insured success and
gave to the cowntry some of its best citizens——-all
but one of her so-\.s are married and are farmers in
Clay and Clinton counties; her daughters are also
all married: Anna T. to John A. Beaucham, a
merchant, she died in Clay county in 1853; Fan-
nie to Isaac N. Hockiday, a merchant and trader,
of Liberty, who died at Plattsburg in April, 1874,
where his widow and family now reside, Cordelia
became the wife of Colonel John Lee Howard, of
Clay county, formerly of Mason county,‘ Kentucky,
and died in" 1858, Lucy Gatewood Lincoln married
Thomas K. Bradley, a merchant, formerly of Lib-
erty, but with his family now residing in Nebraska
City. Julia is now the wife of Hon. John M.
McMichaels, editor of the Plattsburg Lever.

James Edwin Lincoln, of whom wewrite this

brief history, was educated in the private schools of
Liberty, most of the time under his favorite. tutor——
Dr. Thomas S. Dabney—and subsequently gradu-
ated at William Jewell College, in Liberty, in 1860.
He graduated in 1862 at the Law University at
Louisville, Kentucky, and immediately returned to
Liberty, where he began the practice of law.

Owing to the bitter feelings engendered by the
civil war then in progress, civil proceedings were
superseded by military authority, consequently all
legal employment ceased, and Mr. Lincoln went to
Colorado and Montana, where~he engaged in trad-
ing. In 1864 he returned to his home and in 1865
resumed his practice, by entering into partnership
with Colonel H. L. Routt. (To this gentleman Mr.
Lincoln expresses himself as greatly indebted for
valuable aid in obtaining a knowledge of the prac-
tice of the law, adding “for no man is more grate-
fully, remembered than he who lends a helping hand
to a young lawyer struggling for recognition at the
bar; and to Colonel Routt most of the members of
Liberty bar are under lasting obligations for his
kindness and assistance at a time "when they most
needed it.”) The partnership continued until the
fall of 1867, when he became the}?-partner of Colonel
W. H. Woodson and practiced with him until 1872.
Since that year Mr. Lincoln has been conducting

his business alone, which has grown and become .

lucrative to a flatte;ing degree.

The Lincoln family were. Whigs until the demise
of that party. Since then James E. has acted with
the Democracy. In 1871 he was elected city attor-
ney of Liberty, and in the fall of 1872 prosecuting
attorney for Clay county,‘ serving two years, after
which he declined reelection. In the fall of 1876
he was elected to represent his county in the 29th
General Assembly of the Missouri Legislature. This
being the first session under the new constitution,
was one of the most important held for many years,
as it involved a general change in the existing laws
of the state and the enactment of H many new ones.
Mr. Lincoln took an active part in all its proceed-
ings, serving on several committees, and was chair-
man of the special committee appointed to amend
and conform the laws to the new constitution. The
Journal of the House furnishes ample testimony that
he was one of the most untiring workers of that
body. '

He has always been deeply interested in educa-
tional enterprises, doing all in his power to build up
and foster schools and colleges; he is also an unfal-

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-children: Hannah—married Hugh Roane, John;

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI. DICTIO./VARY. 329

tering friend of the temperance movement, and a
member of the Christian church, having joined it
while at college in his eighteenth year. He has
been since 1862 a member of Liberty Lodge, No.
31, A. F. & A. M., and subsequently of Chapter No.
, and since 1876 of the Liberty Commandery, No. 6

cial positions. He is strongly identified with Clay
county and is one of its most popular and promi-
nent citizens.

James E. Lincoln was married to Miss Margaret
Pixleiy Bird, of Liberty, December 7, 1865. She is

the daughter of Greenup Bird, Sr., now a leading
merchant of Kansas City, but formerly and for
many years residing at Liberty—engaged in mer-
chandising and banking-—a gentleman widely known
and highly esteemed. Mrs. Lincoln’s mother was
Catherine Bird, formerly Pixley, daughter of Wil-
liam Pixley, one of the pioneers of Clay county, a
man of strong character and high standing in the
community. Three children, now living, are the
result of this marriage: An infant son, Katherine
Bird, born in 1873, and a son named Gatewood
Saunders, born in 1875.

COLONEL ALEXANDER J. CALHOUN.

LIBER TY.

LEXANDER J. CALHOUN was born in
Wilson. county, Tennessee, November Io,
1814, and is a descendant of one of the old families
of the Carolinas, and the son of a deeply revered
and eminently pious gentleman. The first of the
name emigrated from Ireland to America early in
the history of the colonial settlement, and settled in
South Carolina, where he reared a family.

One of his sons, Samuel, was the grandfather of
our subject. He was born in that state about I740,
in manhood was a soldier of the Revolution, after
the war he moved to North Carolina, thence to Ten-
nessee in 1798, and settled in Wilson county, near
the Big Springs, in 1801, where he died in 1823.
His wife was Nancy Neely, she was born in Penn-
sylvania in 17 55, was of Scotch descent, and died
They had the following

Pol1y—married Flavel Garrison, Thomas ; Jane——
married John Provine , Nancy——married Montgom-
ery McCorkle; Samuel and James.

Thomas Calhoun, father of the subject of this
sketch, was born in North Carolina, May 31, 1782.
He was educated in that state, and moved with his
parents to Wilson county, Tennessee. He prepared
himself for the ministry in the Cumberland Presby-
terian church, of which religious body he was one
of the first members and was intimately connected
with its founding and organization, in 1810, under
Revs. F 1n1s Ewing, Samuel King and Samuel
He was ordained and preached for that

church a full half century. In 1808 he was married
to Miss Mary ‘Robertson Johnston, who was born in
1787 in North Carolina. Her father, Alexander
Johnston, was born in the same state about 1760,
was of Welsh descent, and died in 18oo. Her
mother, whose maiden name was Nellie Robertson,
was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, about
1756, and died in 1839. The children of Alexander
and Nellie Johnston were: John; Mary R.—married

Thomas Calhoun, Robertson, William, Daniel and I

Jane—married Colonel Gabriel Barton.

There were born to Thomas Calhoun and his
wife, Mary (Robertson) Calhoun, the following chil-
dren: Ewing F., Nancy E., who married Blythe
Mc.V[urray,'and, after his death, John Forster, and
died in Mississippi in 1844; Alexander J., Persis B.,
Jane—died in youth, Thomas P., Samuel L. and

Mary R.'———died in infancy.

Alexander J. Calhoun, their second son, was
raised and educated in his native county. In 1.837
ie moved to Columbus, Lowndes county, Missis-

sippi, where he engaged in merchandising. In 1845 V

he moved to Clay county, Missouri, where he farmed
and taught school until 1853, when he was elected
circuit clerk -and held the position until 1865. He
then returned to the farm and remained until 1874,
when he was elected to his former clerkship in Clay
county, which position he now holds.

Colonel Calhoun received his title, in 1840, by
commission from the governor of Mississippi as
colonel of the state militia. He is a member of the

330 THE UNITED STATES B10 GRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Masonic fraternity, in which order he has been
Master, High Priest and District Deputy Grand
Master. The Colonel is also a member of the
Patrons of Husbandry and of the Good Templars.

He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church. In politics he was a Henry Clay Whig,
and since the death of that party has been acting
with the Democracy.

Colonel Calhoun’s first wife was Miss Susan E.
Huddleston, who was born in Washington, Alabama,
in 1819, and died in Clay county, Missouri, in
1874. Her father, John Huddleston, was born in
Georgia about 1793, of Scotch—Irish parents, and
died at Pass Christian, Mississippi, in 1863.

His second wife was Miss Bettie Alder, of Clay
county, Missouri, a native of Virginia, born in 184r.
Her father, David P. Alder, was born in Virginia,

September 11, 1803, but moved to Clay county,
Missouri, in 1850, and died there June 8, 1857.
He had been county surveyor of Rockingham
county, Virginia, and was deputy surveyor of Clay
county after moving west. He was of English
descent. He married Lydia A. \Vall, of Kentucky,
who was born in 1813 and died in Clay county
in 1864. Their children were: Gardner, Bettie-—
married A. ]. Calhoun; Maria——married James
Grooms, Lurena—married Moses McCoy and, after
his death, W. P. Lucas, Madison; Lydia——married
David Thorp; Worthington, not dead, and ]ohn——
died in_1874.

Colonel Calhoun had no children by his first
wife. By his second wife he has one child, a son
named Thomas Alexander, born May 4, 1876. His
wife is a member of the Baptist church.

JUDGE DAVID L. HAWKINS.

CAPE GIRARDEA U

AVID L. HAWKINS was born in Springfield,
D VVindsor county, Vermont, March 20, 1828.
His father, Horatio Gates Hawkins, was a farmer,
and also carried on house carpentering. He moved
to Manchester, Vermont, in 1837, where his wife,
(whose maiden name was Mary Bates) died, after
which he returned to Springfield and died there
about 1861. The grandparents of Judge Hawkins
on both sides were English, who came to America
with their families before the Revolutionary war.
His paternal grandfather served as a captain in the
Colonial ar1.?_v throughout that struggle. He named
his four sons after the American generals under
whom he served, viz.: Lewis, George Washington,
Horatio Gates and Sullivan. The maternal grand-
parent had been a merchant sailor for many years,
and served under the American flag during the
Revolution as a privateersman.

David L. Hawkins received his primary educa-
tion at the Manchester common schools, after which,

A at the age of twelve, he commenced a regular

mathematical and classical course at Burr Seminary
in that town. He afterwards spent one year at the
Townshend Classical Academy in Windham county,
Vermont, under Professor W. B. Burnell, a graduate
from Union College, New York, and a fine educa-

tor. The professor went to Ludlow, Windsor county,
Vermont, to teach, and his Windham class (which
had been organized for the regular collegiate course)
followed him. In four years Mr. Hawkins gradu-
ated, and then went to Dartmouth College to pass
the regular examination of that institution. He
then returned to Ludlow and under his old profes-
sor pursued the studies as followed in the Freshman
and Sophomore classes in Dartmouth College. He
graduated in July 1846. During his fifteenth, six-
teenth and seventeenth years he taught school
through the winter months and pursued his studies
in summer.

Having determined on the law as his profession,
he made up his mind to seek a wider field in the
great West. His brother, Horatio B. Hawkins, was
then living in St. Louis, and in May, 1847, David
started to join him, having only $50, borrowed
money, of which he had one silver quarter left when
he arrived in St. Louis. He first engaged in the

office of the telegraph company, whose line was

then just being constructed between St. Louis and
Louisville, and worked as an operator, at $50 per
month and expenses. He soon fully acquired the
art and followed it in the former city until 1849,
when he was elected superintendent of the St. Louis

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& New Orleans telegraph, his branch extending to
Nashville. He held this position until 1854, when
he resigned and resumed his studies for the legal
profession in the office of General Thomas B. Eng-
lish, at Cape Girardeau, and read under him until
admitted to the practice in 1857, in the Ioth Judicial
Circuit of Missouri. He practiced in that circuit
about four years, when in 1861 the courts were
practically suspended by the events incident to the
war of the Rebellion. In 1863 he retired to his
farm in Scott county, where he remained until the
spring of I865. In company with most of the
members of that bar, he declined practicing until

the excitement and bitter prejudices growing out of

the war should wear away.
In the spring of 1865 he went to St. Louis and

engaged in the wholesale grocery business with Mr.
Sebastian Albert under the firm name of Hawkins,
Albert & Co. In 1868, while thus engaged, the
lawyers of the Ioth Judicial District determined
upon him as their choice for that judgeship, and the
Democratic convention at Cape Girardeau nomi-
nated him. The Republicans nominated _Hon.
Albert Jackson for the same office 3 but Mr. Haw-
kins was elected for the term of six years. He then
closed out his business in St. Louis and returned to
his farm in Scott county. In 1874 Judge Hawkins
was reelected for another term and is now serving in
that office. He has been a Mason since 1875, but
has constantly declined holding any office in the
lodge. The judge is a Protestant in his religious
views, but not a member of any church. He has
been a Democrat all his life.

On the 15th of April, 1869, Judge Hawkins
married Miss Tippie S. Knott, a native of Cape
Girardeau. Her father came originally from Mary-
land, and married a lady of an old Virginia family
who settled in Cape Girardeau when Missouri was a
The judge has five living children: three
In 1873 he moved his family

territory.
girls and two boys.

into Cape Girardeau in order that his children might .

enjoy "better school facilities. His fine plantation of
r,ooo acres, in Scott county, he has rented out to
tenants.

Regarding his career on the bench, a worthy
gentleman, long and intimately acquainted with
Judge Hawkins, furnishes us the following; “In
assuming the duties of the office he was confronted
with a condition of affairs such ashas no parallel in
American jurisprudence. Although some time had
elapsed since the war, society was yet a wreck in
some of the counties of the district. Terrorism
reigned triumphant3 juries could not be found to
perform their functions 3 the court was not safe, and
it was the duty of the judge to meet the trouble and
bring order out of chaos. He was equal to the task.
His superior mind, positive manner, and high sense
of moral duty, soon gave assurance to honorable
people that they had the right man in the right place.

“In his domestic relations he is a kind husband
and indulgent father 3 socially he is liberal and char-
itable, capable of a faithful and honorable friendship 3
being self-made and having undergone all the priva-
tions and reverses of isolation among strangers, he
has learned to respect the honorable poor as well as
the more wealthy.”

HON. JOHN T. CHANDLER.

LIBERTY.

Louisa county, Virginia, October 13, 1832. His

father, Leroy Chandler, was born in Caroline
county, Virginia, October 31, 1795, and was raised
and educated there. Leroy wiasthe son of Timothy
and grandson of Richard Woolfolk Chandler, of the
same county, who were of English descent. Leroy’s
mother was Miss Lucy Temple," daughter of Colonel
Samuel Temple, of Caroline county, Virginia, and
grand-daughter of Joseph Temple, of England,

JOHN TEMPLE CHANDLER was born in

whose brothers——John and Peter Temple—were
of the court which tried and condemned Charles I.,
and who signed the warrant that sent him to the
scaffold. Though quite young at the time, he was
a soldier of the war of 1812. He was a man of
strong and unimpeachable integrity of character,
and though inheriting an ample patrimony was very
thriftless and improvident in the management of his
business.

Sarah Ann Chandler, the mother of the subject

332 THE UNITED STA TES BIOGRAPHICAL D1CT101v.41e Y.

of this sketch, intermarried with Leroy Chandler
April 21, 1825. She was the daughter of Charles
and Ann Quarles, of Louisa county, Virginia, was
bornthere April 2o,_ I804, and raised and educated
there. Her mother, Ann Quarles, was a Miss Mills,
whose mother was a Miss Swift, and were of English
descent. She was a woman of fine natural endow-
ments, of excellent education and a devoted mother.

In 1836 Leroy Chandler moved with his family
to Missouri, and purchased and settled on a farm
about twelve miles southeast of Boonville, Cooper
county. Here the subject of this sketch was raised.
He receivedhis primary education from his mother,
who educated her own children in the branches of
study ordinarily taught in a grammar school. After
this he was sent for a short time to the public schools
of the neighborhood, which were just being estab-
lished in that county, and next to Charles W. Todd’s
school for boys, -in Boonville. After this he was
educated by his own exertion, first teaching and then
going to school. In 185 I-2 he attended William
jewell College, at Liberty, Missouri, and then Kem-
per’s Male Collegiate Institute, at Boonville. In
18 55 he finished his education,‘ and in the spring of
1856 opened a school in New Franklin, Howard
county, Missouri, where he taught for three and a
half years with eminent success.

In 1859 upon an examination before the Board
of Trustees of William Jewell College, he was elected
by it to a professorship in the faculty of the college,
and taught a part of the course of Ancient Languages
and part of the Mathematics. At the ‘close of the
first session of his teaching in the college the board
conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.

During his connection with the college as a
teacher he occupied his spare time in the study of
law with Frederick Gwinner, and afterwards with
Captain Thomas McCurty, both of the Liberty bar,

and was licensed in April. 1861, upon an examina--

tion by judge George W. Dunn, of the 5th judicial
Circuit. F

The war between the states breaking out in. the
spring of 1861 the college closed in May‘ of that
year, and he returned to his old home in Cooper
county. He deeply deprecated the war, and
believed that the Union, as established by the found-
ers of the government, ought to be perpetuated.
But being a Southern man by birth, and believing
that the coercion of the South was without warrant
of authority under the Constitution, late in the fall

. of 1861 he accepted the inevitable and went with

his brother, Major Timothy S. Chandler-——then an
officer of the Southern army—through the Federal
lines and Home Guards and joined the army in
Southern Missouri. He joined company “A,” 2nd
Missouri Cavalry, Missouri State Guards, as a pri-
vate, where were his brother james H. Chandler,
and many of his old neighbors and friends.

In February, 1862', at Springfield, Missouri,
upon a call therefor, he and his brother james joined
the regular Provisional army of the Confederate
States for the war. He served on the west side of
the Mississippi river till after the battle of Pea Ridge
or Elkhorn, in March, 1862, and was shortly after-

wards transferred with his command, under General A

Sterling Price, to Beauregard’s army at Corinth,
Mississippi. '

In September, 1862, he was in the battle of
Iuka, Mississippi, between the armies of General
Sterling Price and General Rosecranz, and in Octo-
ber, 1862, was in the battle of Corinth, Mississippi,
so disastrous to the Missouri troops.

In November of this year he was appointed
Inspector on the staff of Colonel Robert McCulloch,
commanding a brigade of Missouri, Texas and Missis-
sippi cavalry. In the latter part of December, 1862,
he was with his brigade, which led the expedition
under General Van Dorn to the rear of General
Grant’s army, and which captured Holly Springs,
Mississippi, and destroyed all the supplies of General
Grant’s large army, necessitating his retreat back to
Memphis.

Upon the death of Captain Lucius Gaines~—
adjutant of McC_ullock’s brigade—in the attack upon
the Federal post ‘at Moscow, Tennessee, in the
spring of 1863, he succeeded Captain G. as Adjutant
of the brigade. This position he held till june,
1864, when he was transferred to the staff of Colonel
E. W. Rucker, commanding a brigade of West Ten-

nessee Cavalry, Forrest’s division, as the Adjutant.

thereof.
the war. . _

After his transfer to this brigade, he was charged
with all the details of the business belonging to his
office, during its continued and very active service
at the front, and, except when wounded, took an
active part in every battle in which his command
was engaged—the chief of which were fought during
the very eventful year of 1864. These were the
capture of Fort Pillow, April 15, 1864, and (to the
Confederate troops) the disastrous battle of T upelo,
or Old Harrisburg, Mississippi, july I4, 1864, and

In this position he served till the close of

THE UNITED STATES BIOGEAPIIICAZ. DICTIOIVARK 333

the; capture of the fort at Athens, Alabama, Sep-
tember 24, I864, in which he was severely wounded.
Of this wound he recovered in time to rejoin his
command in General Hood’s campaign to Nashville,
in the latter part of November.
one of the advance columns of this expedition, and

'with it, he was in the continuous cavalry fighting

along the line of march—'—the fight at Columbia,
Tennessee, the bloody battle of Franklin, Tennessee,
November 29,‘ 1864, the battle of Nashville, Ten-
nessee, December 14, 1864, and in the continual
and obstinate fighting between Wilson’s Federal
cavalry and Forrest’s Confederate cavalry, which
covered Hood’s retreat to the south bank of the
Tennessee river during the closing days of that
eventful year. This closed his active service in the
army. In May, 186 5, he surrendered with his coin-
mand, at Columbus, Mississippi, to General E. R.
Dennis, of the Federal army.

After the close of the war he returned with his
brother, James H. Chandler, from the South to
his father’s farm in Cooper county, Missouri, and
engaged in farming during the enforcement of the
Missouri test oath. '

In June, 1867, at the solicitation of Captain
Thomas McCarty, he returned to Liberty and com-
menced the practice of law in partnership with him.
In .1868 this partnership was dissolved, and he con-
tinued at the law on his own account. In 1871,
after the removal of the Missouri test oath disabili-
ties, he was elected city attorney of the city of Lib-
erty, and administered the office for one year. _

In 1872 he made the canvass of.his county for

His brigade led V

the 27th General Assembly, and was elected thereto
by a very large majority. In this body he was a
member of several general and special committees,
was the Chairman of the committee on Education,
and besides his efforts in behalf of a good school
law, his labors were mainly conspicuous in the
direction of retrenchment and reform, the repres-
sion of the too profiigate expenditure of the public
money, and securing the passage of the constitu-
tional convention bill, under which the present state
constitution was framed.

At the close of his term of office in the legisla-
ture, without his seeking, his name was put forward

-in 1874 as the candidate from Clay‘ county before

the Congressional convention for the 8th District,and
he came within one—sixth of one vote of securing the
nomination. He is now a member of the Board of
Trustees of Williamjewell College, andits Treasurer.
In politics he is a Democrat, though descended from
a family of old line Whigs.

In November, 1867, in Liberty, Missouri, he was
married to Miss Maggie Berry, a young lady of high
accomplishments and rare natural endowments. She
was born in Kentucky, March 21, 1845. Her father,
John Berry, was a native of Virginia, and her mother,
a Miss Collier, of Kentucky. They have one child,
a girl, named Susie, born February 16, 1870.

In personal description he is about five feet and
seven inches high, weighs about one hundred and
seventy pounds, with dark hair, blue eyes and fair
complexion. He has a vigorous mind and body, of
ardent temperament, and enjoys the unlimited con-
fidence of the community in which he lives.

WILL. C. RANNEY.

CAPE G/RARDEA U.

V ' ILLIAM CATON RANNEY was born at

White Hall, New York, on the 20th day of
February, 1815,; at that time that place was occupied
by the United States forces, of which his father was
an officer. The father, Colonel Stephen Ranney,
was a native of Litchfield, Connecticut, who at the
age of sixteen years ran away from home and joined
the Revolutionary army as a volunteer; and in due
time, for meritorious service, was promoted lieuten-
ant and subsequently captain 3 remaining with the

army until the close of the French troubles; and in
1812, as major, was in active command of the fort
at Marble Head 3 and for bravery in action was
promoted to lieutenant—colonel by President Madison,
and placed in command of the 4th Infantry, who
made the celebrated charge on the bridge, carrying
every point, under the eyes of General Miller, who
told his superior, when asked if he could take that
bridge, “ I’ll try, sir,” and then sent Colonel Ran-
ney and the 4th to execute the undertaking. At

334 TIIE U./VITED STATES BIOGIEAPIJZCAZ. DICTIO./VAIBY.

the close of the war of 1812, Lieutenant-Colonel
Ranney moved to the state of Indiana, where he was
appointed adjutant-general of that state. Remaining
there but a short time, he removed to near Jackson,
Missouri. Colonel Ranney’s wife’s maiden name
was Elizabeth Hawthorne, daughter of Colonel John
Hawthorne of Salem Neck, Massachusetts. She was
first cousin to Nathaniel Hawthorne, who has acquired
a wide reputation as author of the “Scarlet Letter”
and other works of fiction. She was a highly edu-
cated lady.

Their son, our subject, received his early educa-
tion at her hands, and afterward attended the old
fashioned log- school house of our fathers, where he
showed such a love for study that his brother, who
was his guardian, sent him to St. Mary’s College.
After leaving college he made his home principally
with his oldest brother, Johnson Ranney, who was
one of the most distinguished lawyers of Mis-
souri. Having imbibed a desire to learn something
of the law, he was appointed deputy clerk of the
circuit court of Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, at
the age of fifteen years, by Henry Sanford, Esq.,
which place he filled creditably for two years, when
he returned to the East on a visit to his grandparents,
then residing in Massachusetts, with whom he
remained nearly one year. Returning to Jackson,
the county seat of Cape Girardeau county, he again
entered the circuit clerk’s office as deputy, where he
remained until he was twenty-one years of age,
except a short time that he was clerk for Colonel
Frank J. Allen, register of land. On becoming of
age he formed a partnership with Daniel Sanford, at
Bloomfield, Missouri, in a general mercantile store,
but that business being uncongenial to his feelings,
after two years he gave it up, and returned to Jack-
son and entered the law office of his brother, with
whom he studied for that profession, and in 1840
was admitted to the bar by Judges McGirk, Wash,
and Thompkins, of the Supreme court of Missouri.
He located at New Madrid, where he made many
valued friends, among whom were Dr. Dawson,
Colonel Waters, S. A. Allen, and Captain DeLaro-
derie. After a few years he removed to Benton,
Scott county, then a flourishing and promising place.

After a few years his brother, with whom he
studied for the bar, offered him a lucrative partner-
ship, which he accepted and returned to Jackson,

where he became acquainted with and, December

TO, 1846, married Miss Elizabeth Giboney, daughter

of Robert Giboney, Esq., one of the pioneers of "

Missouri, who settled in the county when it was
under the Spanish government 3 Mr. Giboney was a
gentleman of wealth and intelligence, and highly
esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. Ranney a.nd
his wife live happily and peacefully together, and
have established a home worthy of imitation by their
children, and all who partake of its generous hospi-
tality; of this marriage were born four sons:
Stephen, the oldest, on whom was lavished the
affections of his doting parents, died as he reached
the ‘age of maturity, Robert G., the second son, is
now a promising lawyer, and a member of the law
firm of Houck & Ranney, the other two, William
A. and Herbert H., both graduates of the Southeast
Missouri Normal school, are (1877) at home with
their parents.

Mr. Ranney, shortly after his marriage, moved
on a farm, where he has remained to the present
time, attending to his practice up to within the
past few years, but has now wholly retired. Mr.
Ranney held the commission of captain during the
Black Hawk war; and has held the commissions
of lieutenant—colonel and colonel in the State
militia. In 1851 he was appointed judge of the
Cape Girardeau court of common pleas, until the
ensuing election, when he was elected to the same
office for four years, and again reelected for a second
four years, but did not serve the term out, having
been prevented because of his refusing to take what
was then known as the Gamble oath.

In 1872 he was elected state senator to fill the
unexpired term caused by the death of Judge G. H.
Greene. In 1874 he was elected representative in
the legislature from Cape Girardeau county, where
he served with honor and credit to the county.

Mr. Ranney is a man of quiet, retiring habits,
never entering the arena of political turmoil to seek
for office; and those he has filled has been" forced
on him by the people, unsolicited by him. He has
been a strong advocate of gravel and macadamized
roads 3 filling the office of president of the Cape
Girardeau and Whitewater gravel road, also of the
Cape Girardeau and Scott county gravel road. He
also filled the office of president of the Cape Girar-
deau, Pilot Knob & Belmont railroad.

In religion he isliberal and tolerant, leaning
toward Unitarianism. Politically he was an ardent
Henry Clay Whig; and in 1860 voted for Bell and
Everett. Conservative in his views, he deprecated
the secession movement, and took no part in the
civil war on either side, and is now, and_since the

home, an

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 335

close of the war, a prominent Democrat. The
Judge is an upright, honest, conscientious man,
domestic and very temperate in his habits, loves
d is a true patron of husbandry; having
taken an active part in organizing that body in this
county.

On the 28th day of October, 1847, he was made
a Mason, and became and is now a member of St.

Mark’s Lodge, No. 93, A. F. & A. M., at Cape
Girardeau, and is loved and highly respected by the
members of the fraternity. I

The Judge has many warm friends and some
enemies, but on the whole, he is a true friend, a
kind and obliging neighbor 5 in fact one of our most
substantial citizens, and one that would be greatly
missed from the community in which he resides.

NAT. G. BARTER.

NE I/ADA.

OAH BARTER was a soldier in the British
N army eleven years, immigrated to this country
in the early part of this century, settled in Harrison
county, Ohio, in 1837, removing in 1842 to Steuben-
ville, where he died September 22, 1850. His wife’s
name was Nancy Woods. She was the mother of his
five children, of whom Nathaniel G. was the young-
est but one. Nathaniel was born at Cadiz, Harrison
county, Ohio, May 5, 1839, and at the age of three
years removed from Cadiz to Steubenville, Jefferson
county, Ohio, where, with the exception of one year
spent in the family of a minister in Cannonsburg,
Pennsy1vania,_he attended the public school, until
much against his inclinations he was apprenticed to
the tailor’s trade when yet but a mere boy. A Being
determined not to learn the uncongenial trade to
which he was apprenticed, he took no interest in the
work and was taken from the business. He was now
placed in the office of the Stezzéezzvzlle D42’/y Umbzz to
learn the tradeof a printer. Here he remained eleven

..months until the abuse of the foreman drove him

from the office and he ran away to Wheeling, Vir-
ginia, where he found employment in a candy fac-
tory for one year. Returning to Steubenville he
entered the job printing office of P. B. Conn, with
whom he worked a year, at the expiration of which
time he'entered ‘the. office of the True Armrzkan as an
apprentice, continuing with that paper until the year
1857. In this year he took service on one of the
Ohio river steamboats, which employment he left in
June, 1857, and traveled into Illinois, locating at
Grlggsville, Pike county, where he found work in
the 0fi'-ICC Of the {"2"/ee Cozmfy U/2z'mz. He soon after
iccepted the P0S1t10I1 Of foreman on the G'7’zgg572z'ZZe

ndepende2:;‘,- removed with the office to Pittsfield, the

. Infantry.

same county,and continued with the paper until 18 58.

"In 1859, at the age of twenty years, he removed
to Bourboncounty, Kansas. His stay in Kansas
was brief. During his residence he took a case for
a short time in the office of the Paola C/zzlef, at
Paola; then early in 1860 returned to Griggsville.
In the fall of that year he came back to Kansas,
and July 22, I861, enlisted in Company D, 3rd Regi-
ment Kansas Infantry, United States Volunteers, serv-
ing under General James Lane, against Price, Coffey
and Jackson, in Missouri. In the spring of 1862 the
3rd and 4th Kansas regiments were consolidated and
private Barter became a member of Company E,
and the regiment was numbered the roth Kansas
Until May, 1862, the regiment was in
service along the Kansas and Missouri borders, was
then ordered to Humboldt, Kansas, and went into
the Indian Nation with General Blunt; returning to
Missouri took part in the campaign against Hind-
man, was at the battles of Newtonia, Lone Jack,
Maysville, Cane Hill and Prairie Grove, was then
ordered into Kansas; from Kansas to Rolla and
St. Louis, Missouri—doing provost duty in these
places. Returned to Kansas when Quantrell raided
the state, from thence to Alton, Illinois, to St. Louis,
and Leavenworth, where in August 21 the regiment
was mustered out of ‘service.

Returning to his old business he was in the print-
ing office of the Fan‘ Scott Moizzkor eleven months,
foreman of the B07’ll76’7" Sem‘z'77eZ, Mound City, Linn
county, Kansas, two years and a half, after which he
purchased the paper and continued its publication
until 1874, when he removed it to Ft. Scott, publish-
ing a weekly and tri-weekly for two months, when

_ he sold out his interest and entered the office of the

336 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

state printer at Topeka. He soon returned, how-
ever, and resumed control of his old paper, which
he managed until September, 1875, when he formed
a partnership in the job printing line under the name
of Barter & Scott. His interest in this firm he sold
out in May, 1876, and took charge as superintendent
of the Earl‘ Sm/2‘ III0m'z‘o7* for three months. August,
1876, he purchased the IVé7/adcz Ledger and com-
menced its publication. He has now a large cir-
culation in Vernon and adjoining counties.

Politically he is a Liberal Republican, taking an
active part in political matters, has -no connection
with any religious denomination, is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the
Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Barter was married September 8, 1864, near
Mound City, Kansas, to Miss Mary T., daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth Harrington. Mrs. Harring-
ton was a member of the Harding family from Prov-
idence, Rhode Island. Nathaniel and Mary T.
Barter ha.ve had three children, of whom two sur-
vive.

As seen from this biography Mr. Barter has
given his life time to the business in which he is now
engaged, and has so mastered all the practical details
of his profession as to be justly recorded an efficient
and competent editor. He is a man of integrity in
his business, of fine social qualities, and enjoys the
confidenceand esteem of a large circle of acquaint-
ances in the western part of the state.

ROBERT H. DRENNON.

KANSAS

ROM the biography of every man there may be
P gleaned some lessons of genuine worth, for it
is here that we discover the secret of his success or
failure. In the history of Robert H. Drennon, one
of Kansas City’s active business men, we find much
to commend. He was born near Georgetown, Scott
county, Kentucky, August 27, I840, andwas the
son of George W. and Sarah (Williams) Drennon, of
Kentucky.

When Robert was nine years old his mother died,
and his father from grief at his loss gave up the farm
and lived a wandering life for many years. This left
Robert without a home and without parents at the
age he most needed the influence of both. This
desolate condition was in a measure relieved by a
friend of his father, VVilliam C. Duval, who kindly
offered young Drennon a home and all the advan-
tages enjoyed by his own family, quite large already.
From the day of his entrance into this new relation
there was a growing love and confidence between
Mr. and Mrs. Duval and the poor homeless child,
until he found a place in their hearts as warm as that
of their own children. Robert attended the com-
mon schools and made good use of his time.

When fifteen years old his benefactor sent him to
take charge of some land belonging to him, near Hunts-
ville, Randolph county, Missouri. He proved faithful
to this trust, as he always had been to every confi-

CITY.

dence reposed in him. One year from the time of
his leaving home, he was notified of the death of

Mr. Duval, and hastened home to sympathize with-

his bereaved friends. He now felt that it was his
duty as well as his pleasure to do for himself, accord-
ingly he took a contract for carrying the United
States mail from Georgetown to Frankfort at a salary
of $ro’per month. While making his trip he traded
in country produce, by which he made more money
than by his contract. He was thus engaged for two
years, and had amassed quite a little fortune. He
determined to educate himself, and entered a Roman
Catholic school at White Sulphur, Kentucky, where
he remained one year taking the ordinary English
course of study. Upon leaving school he renewed his
contract for carrying the mail between the same points
at $20 per month. At the end of one year he was
worth seven hundred dollars, and wishing to engage
in a more lucrative business, he invested his earnings
in partnership with M. A. Dehoney (his present part-
nerin the Metropolitan Hotel, Kansas City) in mules

and horses and took them south. In this speculation

he lost his entire capital 3 but, with his usual stock of
perseverance, tried another speculation of the same
kind and recovered what they had lost and added to
their original capital.

In 1861 Mr. Drennon made shipments of lard
and bacon from Louisville, Kentucky, to Atlanta,

        
            

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Georgia. This promised to be a profitable business,
but the derangement of business occasioned by the
rebellion caused him to abandon his project. Upon
his return to Kentucky, he joined the Confederate
ranks, and after a year’s service was pronounced by
the surgeon unfit for field duty, and was transferred

"to the quartermaster’s department, where he was

employed in buying horses and feed in the southwest.

In the spring of 1863 he returned to Kentucky,
and led to the altar Miss Marcia Duval, daughter of
William C. and Eveline Duval, his old friends who
were so kind to him in his boyhood. Mrs. Drennon
was born May 16, 1842, and raised in Kentucky, as
was also her father, her‘ mother was a native of Vir-
ginia, and daughter of James and Rebecca (Thomason)
Perry. This union has been a most happy one, and
they have been blest with five interesting children,
three of whom are living, viz: William Mullins, born
October I, 1866; Mary Foster, July 26, 1868, and
Laura Belle, November 6, 1873.

In 186 5 Mr. Drennon removed to Fayette county,
Kentucky, and in a short time located in Covington,
engaging in the stock trade and commission business,
in connection with which he opened a grocery store.
In the latter business he continued but a short time.
He then opened a hotel, and purchased an interest
in the stock yards, and had large profits from his
While in Covington he
In 1869 he

many sources of income.
served one term in the city council.

337

visited a sister in Missouri, whom he had not seen
since he was a child. He was very much pleased
with Kansas City, and determined to make it his
future home, and in June of the same year he sold
his interests in Covington and removed to Kansas
City. Mr. Drennon has speculated largely in real
estate and owns property in different parts of Kansas
and Kansas City. He is also largely interested in
the lead mines of Joplin, Missouri, and is a wholesale
dealer in liquors, under the firm name of R. H.
Drennon & Werk, they having become the sole pro-
prietors in May, 1878, by purchasing the interest of
G. W. Jones, a former partner.

In 1868 Mr. Drennon was made a Mason in
Lodge No. 159, Covington, Kentucky. His parents
were Baptists and he was reared in that faith. He
is a member of the Presbyterian church, but is quite
liberal in his views, and accords to all the right of
private opinion which he enjoys. Politically he is a
Democrat, and was elected by that party, in 1877,
alderman of the second ward of Kansas City. Mr.
Drennon is very energetic, and has excellent business
qualifications. He -has a genial disposition, and con-
sequently many friends. He is kind hearted and
generous to a fault, and has won the respect and con-
fidence of the community by his unflinching integrity 3
and through his own abilities and tireless energy has
plodded his way up from a poor, friendless boy, to a
man of wealth and position.

HON. GEORGE w. DUNN.

RICTIIWOIVD.

EORGE WASHINGTON DUNN, the present
G judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit of Missouri,
was born near Harrodsburg, Mercer county, Ken-
tucky, October 15, 1815 His father, Major Lem-
uel Dunn, a pioneer farmer of Kentucky, was the
son of Michael Dunn, of Irish parentage, but a
native of Virginia, and a noble defender of his
country in the war for the freedom of the American
Colonies. The mother of the subject of this sketch,
whose maiden name was Sarah Read Campbell, was
Her
father, John Campbell, was also a soldier in the
Revolutionary war. ’

Major Dunn died in 1828, leaving his family in

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limited circumstances, on a farm, when George was
only thirteen years old. Young as he was, he
worked diligently during summer, and attended
school through the winter. He finished what school-
ing the family’s finances would permit at Cane Run
Academy, Mercer county, excelling in mathematics.
Although unable to take the full course at one of
the regular colleges, his unquenchable thirst for
knowledge led him to eschew the usual pastimes of
youth, and to devote every spare hour to study, so
his ardor made up for what his poverty disallowed.
His mental tastes were beyond the ordinary of young
men, leading him into the higher classics, law, and
also into the flowery fields of poetry.

338 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

At nineteen he engaged as clerk in a dry goods
store in Nicholasville, Jessamine county, Kentucky 3
but he carried with him and used his books At
twenty he began the regular study of law and con-
tinued it industriously three’ years, only interrupted
by regular intervals of school teaching, which he
was compelled to follow for a" support. In that
time he attended the law department of Transyl-
vania University, and was a member of the class of
1836 and I837. Among his classmates were Beriah
McGoffin, afterward governor of Kentucky 3 Rich-
ard Yates, afterward governor of Illinois 3 the present
Hon. Otho R. Singleton, of Mississipp_i3 Rev. Jona-
than E. Spillman, of Kentucky, and the present
Hon. Samuel H. Woodson, of Missouri. At the
close of the term he was licensed to practice law by
Judges Robertson and Marshall.

In the spring of 1839 Mr. Dunn settled in Rich-

mond, Ray county, Missouri, and there opening an _

office, practiced in all the counties of the 5th Judi-
cial Circuit. In the spring of 1841 he was appointed
circuit attorney of the circuit to fill a vacancy, and
in 1844 was elected to that office without opposition,
and filled it until 1848. During those seven years,
besides prosecuting the criminals in the circuit,.he
gave satisfactory attention to a large practice in civil
cases. Ashis contemporaries at the bar, were Colonel
A. W. Doniphan, Hon. David R. Atchison, Hon.
William T. Wood, Governor Peter H. Burnett, Hon.
James H. Birch, Governor Williard P. Hall, Hon.
Robert D. Ray, General B. F. Stringfellow, and
others of the most distinguished lawyers of the state.
In 1848 Mr. Dunn was appointed judge of the 5th
Judicial Circuit as successor of Hon. Austin A.
King, who was that year elected governor of the
state. He was elected to the same position in 1851
and again in 1857.

In 1861 Judge Dunn retired from office, declin-
ing to take the test oath required of officers by the

state convention‘ of that year, and resumed the"

practice of law. In 1863 he was again elected judge
of his old circuit by a large majority, and remained
on the bench until 1865, when he with others, was
thrown out of office by the “ Vacating ordinance”
of the state convention. He again returned to the
practice of his profession and followed it until 1874,

' when he was elected without opposition to his old

position as judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit, which
he now holds.

Whether as lawyer or judge, few jurists of this
country hold higher rank than does Judge Dunn.

The prime of -his life has been spent at the bar and
on the bench, his contests have been with the legal
giants of the VVest3 his success is attested by his
long continuance in office, in the affection of his
fellow—attorneys, and in the universal confidence
reposed in him by the people of his district. A late
writer said of him: “He only sought the honors
of the law 3” the compliment is only half true3
while no true lawyer is insensible to the “honors of
the law,” Judge Dunn has striven to honor the law
more than to seek its honors. As a judge, he com-
prehends at once the law and facts of the case 3 and
his analytical powers enable him to develop the
points with such clearness and force, that his decis-
ions commend themselves alike to the bar and to the
people, being always fortified by the law and the

facts. Juries are seldom called for when he is on

. the bench.

Judge Dunn has always been a Democrat in
politics3 but never a candidate for any political
office. He was a member of the state convention
of 1861, called to consider the Federal relations of
Missouri. In that body he voted against secession
and all radical measures. He has ever exhibited a
deep interest in the cause of Education, and has
been a warm friend of all educational institutions.
He took an_ active part in establishing Richmond
College, which has become a flourishing institution.
When a young lawyer he became a member of
Richmond Lodge, No. 57, A F. & A. M., and at
different times has held various important offices in
that body.‘ He’ is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.

On the 19th of May, 1841, at Nicholasville,
Kentucky, George W. Dunn was married to Miss
Susan Martha Henderson, daughter of Bennet Hen-
derson and grand-daughter of Colonel Joseph
Crockett, an officer in the Revolutionary war. They
have had five children, only one of whom, John
Henderson Dunn, is now living.

Judge Dunn has always evinced a taste for liter-
ature, which he has cultivated to a high degree.
He has divided his affections between the goddess
of justice and the fair nymph of poesy, and .without
slighting either, shows that he has worshipped both.
He has given to the public many poetical effusions,
gems of rare beauty and acknowledged merit. He
is the only poet who has found in the prosy proceed-

_ings of a court of justice themes for poetical song.

“The Temple of Justice,” written by him a few
years ago and dedicated to the bench and bar, has

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIJZCAL DICTIO./VARY. 339

been widely published and admired. VVe close his

sketch with one of his gems, showing that the robe
of ermine fits him no more gracefully than does .the

chaplet of poesy.

THE ERMINE AND THE HARP.

The Ermine’s hue of spotless white
Invokes the wearer’s earnest ken,
As law and equity unite
To shield and bless the sons of men ;
For heaven-born Truth by right prevails
And baffles every crafty scheme,
. When Justice holds the impartial scales
And Mercy’s tears bedew the beam.

Fraud writhes beneath the Jurist’s feet,
And Falsehood from his presence flies,
Twin sisters these that dare not meet
The piercing glances of his eyes ;
And fetters that the strong apply
To feeble limbs are snapped in twain,
And wrong’s foul emblems scattered lie
Around the bondman’s broken chain.

O bring my Harp! Its chords shall send
Exultant notes to greet all ears,
Notes whose harmonies will blend
With music sounding from the spheres;
For right has triumphed over wrong,
And Justice holds unbroken sway;
The victory demands a song,
A sweet song that will live for aye.

COLONEL GEORGE H. ENGLISH.

KANSAS CITY.

HE paternal ancestors of Colonel English, as
T far back as his great-grandfather’s time, were
native Virginians——members of the Society of
Friends, warmly attached to their ‘country and
patriotically devoted to her interests. His father,
Joseph English, and his uncle, Samuel English, both
served in the army during the war of I812—14—his
uncle as an officer. His father removed from Vir-
ginia to Ohio at an early day. His mother,_ Mary,
descended from an old Dutch family by the name
of Hupp on the paternal side, was of Scotch extrac-
tion in the maternal line. Her father, Samuel
Hupp, a man of recognized ability, was at one time
a distinguished member of the Ohio Senate. Her
parents were both members of the Baptist church.
Their son, George H. English, was born near New-
ark, Ohio, January 21, 1836; graduated from Illi-
nois College, at Jacksonville, Illinois, in the year
1857; entered the law office of Hon. Cyrus Epler
and was admitted to the bar two years later, 1859.
In 1860 he opened a law o-ffice in Greenfield,
Greene county, Illinois 3 but the old blood was
strong in his young life, and the memory of his
patriotic father, at nineteen years of age a volunteer
in the ranks of the old army, was not without its
influence. Leaving his law office in August, 1861,
he enlisted a company of volunteers for the three
years’ service, was elected its captain, and with

his company entered the 32d Regiment of Illinois
Infantry. He acted as commander of his company,
“D,” until just after the battle of Pittsburg Land-
ing, when he was promoted to the majority of the
regiment, for “gallantry in action.” Continuing to
serve with distinction, after the fall of Vicksburg,
he was again promoted and commissioned as lieu-
tenant-colonel, and in February, 1865, was once
more promoted and became colonel. He never left
his old command, but served faithfully with his reg-
iment from its organization until it was mustered out
of service in October, 1865, rising, steadily, step by
step, till he stood at the head of the gallant 32d.

Colonel English participated in the battles of
Pittsburg Landing, Hatchie, the great Mississippi
raid, the siege of Vicksburg, and in all the battles
connected with and in which the 4th Division of the
17th Army Corps had a part; was in the Meridian
raid, in Sherman’s army when it “marched to the
Sea,” and in many other engagements of minor note;
was three times wounded—once very severely-and
has fairly earned his honors as veteran colonel of his
old regiment. I

Honorably mustered out of service, the war at
an end, Colonel English resumed the practice of his
profession, and in 1866 opened a law office in Leav-
enworth, Kansas. Here he remained actively
engaged in his professional duties for eight years,

340 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAI€Y.

when he removed to Wichita, Kansas, in 1874.
After four years spent in the practice of law at
Wichita, during which time he was nominated as a
candidate for presidential elector by the Democratic
state convention, and made a canvass for his party.
He removed to Kansas City, Missouri, in April of
this year (1878), where he now resides, engaged in
his usual professional duties. He has always been
a Democrat, and is an honorable and influential
member of the party. He was made a master of
the order of A. F. & A. M., at Greenfield, Illinois,
and as such is cordially accepted in the fraternity.

"Colonel English was married in Kansas City,
November 13, 1873, to Miss Maggie M. Stonestreet,
an accomplished and highhly esteemed young lady,

daughter of Jacob Stonestreet, of Kentucky, a rep--

resentative of one of the most distinguished families

of that state, her mother being a daughter of Major
McClanahon, of Richmond, Ky. One son, George
Harrison English, heirs their honors and their hopes.

If there is anything in blood, Colonel English

has a rare combination of the life of the best nation-
alities flowing through his veins. His Quaker line-
age, tempering the aristocratic pride of the old Vir-
ginian; the canny Scotch cautiousness, married to
the solid Holland heartiness, all annealed in the
white heat of the most notable decade of American
history, must have given a self-pure, a fervor, a
sense of reliance, a consciousness of power, a grasp
of the great world’s movement that ‘tides out from
the shallows of littleness into the great deeps of
noble thoughts and things. Much as Colonel Eng-
lish’s experiences have enriched and helped others,
they have enriched his own nature infinitely more.

BENJAMIN DOUGLASS RAGLAND, M. D.

WELL]./VG’ T0./V.

HE Ragland family emigrated from Wales to
T Hanover county, Virginia, about the middle
of the last century. Dr. Ragland’s great—grand—
father, Samuel, was the first of the name that came
to America. Three generations of his descendants
were born in Hanover county: his son Evan Owen,

May, 1753, his grandson Evan Owen, August 17, '

1779, and his great-grandson, Benjamin Douglass,
November 3,, 1825. Benjamin’s father, Evan O.,
was educated, grew up to manhood and was married
in the place of his nativity. Benjamin’s mother was
also a native of Hanover county, born January 9,
1809. Her grandfather, Thomas ‘Hope, emigrated
to America from Edinburg, Scotland, settled in
Hanover county, Virginia, where his son Benjamin
Burton was born, and married Elizabeth Anderson, a
lady of Scotch descent, a native of Louisa county,
Virginia. From this marriage was born a daughter,
Calvary, who became, as before said, the wife of
Evan O. Ragland, and to them was born Benjamin
Douglass, November 3, I825. Benjamin’s parents
removed to Wilson county, Tennessee, in 1833.
His literary course was taken at Irving College,
Warren county, Tennessee. In April, 1845, he com-
menced to study medicine with Dr. C. W. Hazzard,
at Saulsburg, Warren county, Tennessee, graduated

in his profession from Jefferson Medical College,
Louisville, Kentucky, in the spring of 1847, and
located at Cairo, Tennessee, on the Cumberland
river. He continued his medical practice in Cairo
until November, 1851, when he removed to Lafay-
ette county, Missouri, where he remained eight years,
and thence to his present home, Wellington, Mis-
souri, November 5, 1860.

Dr. Ragland was married in Sumner county,
Tennessee, November 17, 1847, to Miss Laura Ann
Beeler, who was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky,
November 9, 1829. Of their ten children, five
only reached their majority. These are: Horace
Evan, born November I 5, 1848 3 Charles Dryden,
October 30, 1850, John Edwin, October 13, 1856,
Beauregard Davis, June 25, I861, Cora, June 26,
1867. Mrs. Laura Ann Ragland died April 29, 1869.
She was the daughter of Charles C. Beeler, who was
born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, in 1808; her
paternal grandfather, John C. Beeler, was a native of
Virginia. Mrs. Ragland’s mother, Mary R. Bledsoe,
was born in Summit county, Tennessee, in 1807;
her maternal grandfather was a wealthy farmer whose
ancestors were from North Carolina.

Miss White Embree, Dr. Ra.gland’s second wife,
to whom he was married March 14, 1871, was born

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY. 341

in Cooper county, Missouri, May 20, 1857. ._ She
was the daughter of George W. and Elizabeth
Embree ; her mother’s maiden name was Littsworth.
Dr. Ragland and wife have only one child, Georgia
Hope, born July 8, 1876. The Raglands are 1ne1n-
bers of the Christian Church.

In April, 1861, Dr. Ragland was commissioned‘

as surgeon and attached to General Sterling Price’s
command , was left as hospital surgeon at Lexington,

Missouri, in September, 1861. As soon as his sick
became convalescent, Surgeon Ragland returned
home and resumed the practice of his profession.
His political faith is that of a Democrat, and he
sacredly cherishes it as an inheritance from his father.

The leading physician of his neighborhood, Dr.
Ragland has a large and lucrative practice, is deeply
interested in all questions of county, state and
national politics, and is a leading man in his locality.

EDWARD D. ENGELMANN.

CAPE GZRARDEA U.

T has been said “Germans never get tired.”
1 Certain it is they can perform incredibly long
tasks and appear to be tireless in their mental
activity. But as a race they are proverbially
thinkers, and this native talent is so early applied
as to inure them to almost ceaseless brain work.
Take, for instance, the subject of this sketch: He
has hardly had an hour’s respite since he started to
school in Germany over thirty years ago, and his
busy brain is still at work. In the short limits of a
biographical sketch we can only mention his employ-
ments, and the bare recital will. corroborate what we
have said above.

Edward D. Engelmann was born in the town of
Northeim, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, August
1, 1830. His parents, August D. and Frederika
Engelmann,immigrated to this country from Northeim
in 1845. In the Faderland he had been a success-
ful merchant tailor and taught his son the trade.
He was also engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ed-

ward was educated at the high school of his native .

town, receiving a full classical course. When his
father arrived in this country, he bought a farm in
that part of Cape Girardeau county which is now
Bolinger county, on which he lived until his death,
which occurred in September following (1846.) He
left his widow ‘with seven children, of whom our
subject was the eldest, and on him devolved their
whole support. He followed _farming and carried
on tailoring in the country village. He also taught
school in the neighborhood for some months. He
afterward conducted a tailoring establishment in
Jackson, the county seat of Gape Girardeau, until
failing health compelled him to abandon it. He

I business.

then clerked in that town for eighteen months in a
mercantile house, to familiarize himself with that
Then he and his brother-in-law in co-part-
nership opened astore in Arensburg which they con-
tinued two years. Mr. Engelmann then formed a
partnership with Henry Kurre and engaged in gen-
eral merchandising about eleven miles from Jackson.
They did a successful business until 1862, when a
marauding squad of soldiers robbed their store.
During his residence at this point he was also road
overseer and justice of the peace, and was the only
one in Applecreek township for about six months,
so that all the official duties fell upon him, but after
three years he resigned.

In the spring of 1863 Mr. Engelmann was elected.

clerk of the court of common pleas of Cape Girar-
deau county to fill a vacancy. In addition to the
la.bors of this office he was elected in 1863 city
clerk, the duties of which office he performed for
nine years. In 1866 he was reelected clerk of the
court of common pleas, and again reelected in 1870
and again in 1874, and still holds the office—making
fifteen consecutive years in service, during nine of
which he performed the additional duties of city
clerk already referred to.

Nor was this all: In 1873 he was elected coun-
cilman from one of the wards of the city 3 but after
serving a short time, was elected mayor for two
years; was reelected mayor in 1875, and refused to
serve again in 1877. One would suppose this was
enough for one man to attend to, but in 1866 Gov-
ernor Fletcher appointed him anotary public. In

addition to this, he was agent for two German lines

of ocean steamers, and was general adviser of his

342 THE U./VITED STATES BZOGZBAPJYZCAL DICTIO./VARY.

countrymen in their correspondence with friends on
the other side, receiving and remitting their money
for them; At the same time he was his people’s
counselor in their settlements with the United States

government, and negotiated their pensions for them‘

arising out of the late war with the Confederate
States. Amidst all these varied and pressing employ-
ments he found time to perform the functions of
trustee and secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran
church for a number of years.

And in every office he has held, perfect system,
care and thorough performance have characterized
hisiwork, and general satisfaction been his reward,
as we are informed by old citizens of the city. Nine
years consecutively in office under different men and
parties and amidst the shifting opinions and friend-
ships of that stormy period, is evidence enough that
he could not be spared. Fifteen years as clerk of
the court of common pleas, under the supremacy of

- different parties, attest the universal satisfaction he

had given. The two last terms to which he has
been elected, the county gave overwhelming Dem-
ocratic majorities, while Mr. Engelmann has been a
life long Republican——showing that he was a general
favorite.

The secret of his popularity lies in two facts: He
never permitted his party allegiance to interfere in
the least with his official duties. Secondly, he
inaugurated and maintained in every office he took
hold of a thorough system of performance. In
some, where everything was in confusion and papers
and records in chaotic labyrinths, hesoon reduced
to order and indexed, labelled and boxed his papers so
that the minutest record could be found in a moment.

In the spring of 1877 Mr. Engelmann opened a
store in Cape Girardeau for the transaction of a
general mercantile business. While the duties of

his office prevent his attendance in this establishment,
all its operations are under his personal supervision,
although directly under the superintendence of his
son—in-law, Mr. William H. Willer. The venture so
far is a success. _ A
On the 24th of july, 1851, Mr. Engelmann mar-

ried Miss Adeline B. M. Weiss, daughter ofjohn

and Augusta Weiss, of Cape Girardeau county. They
have eight living children—one boy, Edward H.,
and seven girls. The son is now nearly at majority
and is deputy clerk under his father, besides assist-
ing in the store. The oldest daughter, Helene, mar-
ried Mr. Willer, above referred to, another, Sarah,
married Mr. Charles Allers, of Cape Girardeau.
The rest are minors and are at home.

Most men would mentally fail under this accu-
mulation of clerical and other duties: but Mr. En-
gelmann has had the happy faculty of systematizing
all his work 3 and what would generally confuse and
entangle other men, is to him the simple routine of
service in a given hour at a certain business. His
office may be, and often is, crowded with men,
champing with impatience to have their business
attended to. But cool, pleasant and ready, he waits
upon all, rich and poor, high and low alike, and
then resumes his customary duties as though he had
all time to perform his many responsibilities. It is
that German habit of precise thought, systematic
arrangement, division of time and attention to busi-
ness that enables him to get through with these mul-
titudinous calls upon him, and, as we were informed
by a gentleman who knows, “ does all well.” He
deserves a place in our book of eminent self—1nade
men, as one who has wrought out honor and credit
and competence by his own exertions, and because
his sketch will be an encouragement and a lesson to
young men hereafter.

COLONEL GEORGE C. THILENIUS.

CAPE G/IEARDEA U.

EORGE C. THILENIUS was born August
G Io, 1829, in the Kingdom of_ Hanover, Ger-
many. His father, who was also named George C.,
gave his son all the advantagesthat the common and
private schools of his native country afforded.
Under the pastor of the church of which his parents

were members, he received that careful and thorough
intellectual culture for which the German system of
education is so celebrated. After this he
apprenticed in the city of Gottingen, Hanover, for
four years to learn merchandising. In Germany,
this does not mean simply to learn the art of judg-

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ing and selling goods, but everything is taughtthat is
enwrapped in commercial economy and in the laws
of trade.

His mother’s maiden name was Charlotte Stuhl-
drehen, who, with her husband and family, immi-
grated to America in 1848. In the following year,
George C., ]r., with his father, commenc_ed the
mercantile business in the , city of St. Louis, Mis-
souri, at which they continued until the year 1843,
when he wasengaged by VV. H. Belcher, sugar
refiner of St. Louis,_ to go to Matanza, Cuba, as
clerk of the branch refinery at that city, at which
station he remained for three years.
St. Louis, he engaged in wholesale business until
1857, when he removed to Cape Girardeau, his

present home, and entered into partnership with

William Bierwirth in a general mercantile business,
which they carried on until 1858, when he bought
out the interest of his partner, increased his stock,
and continued a prosperous merchant until 1863.

At the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Thilenius
was a staunch Republican and an unconditional
Union man, he took an active part in organizing
the first troops that were raised at Cape Girardeau
for the defense of the nation. I

In 1862 he was commissioned captain by Gov-
ernor Gamble; in the fall of the same year he was
promoted and commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the
Militia and placed in command of the 4th Military
sub-district of Missouri by Governor Fletcher, who
gave him a colonel’s commission.

In 1865 he was elected by the counties of Bollin-
ger, Cape Girardeau and Perry, to the constitutional

convention which abolished slavery in the State of

Missouri.

Having acquired a thorough knowledge of the
milling business, and being satisfied that the quality
of the wheat raised in the vicinity of Cape Girardeau
would make a superior quality of flour, he in 1865
commenced the erection of the far-famed Cape City
Mills, which of late years has done so much to bring
honor to our nation and state. His success in the
new venture was apparent from the first; the fame
of the flour made by him spread, orders poured in
on him so fast that he had to increase the productive
capacity of the mill from time to time to meet the
demand, and his agents at the cities of St. Louis,

Memphis New Orleans, Mobile and Galveston.

placed his flour on competition at the several state

fairs, in each case carrying off.the first premium;

and in 1873, at the earnest request_of his numerous
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Returning to"

friends in Cape Girardeau, he was induced to send.

some flour to the World’s Exposition at Vienna,
Austria. There, in competition with the finest
brands from all parts of the world, he was awarded
the medal of merit, and diploma, “for the best
flour.” And again in 1876, at the Exposition held
at Philadelphia, he was awarded the medal a.nd
diploma “for the best flour 3 thus showing clearly that
his system of milling is the best that has been
adopted up to the present time for soft winter wheat,
such as is raised in his section of Missouri. But

not content with his unequaled success, he has

remodeled his mill in the past year and imported
some of the finest machinery that can be found in
Europe. Among others are three sets of porcelain
rolling mills from Zurich, Switzerland, which are
now in constant use in his mill.

In the year 1857 he was married to Miss Mar-
garet Frommann, of St. Louis, Missouri, a native of
Coburg, Germany.‘ They have a family of three
daughters and one son living. His estimable lady,
like her husband, is practical 3 domestic in her habits,
a dear lover of all that beautifies and refines a home,
a true helpmate to her husband, and a kind, indul-
gent mother, teaching her children by precept and
practice the active, temperate habits of their father,
and thus she has built up a home that for peace and
contentment is almost unrivaled.

In the year 1867 Colonel Thilenius was elected
mayor of the city of Cape Girardeau for a term of
two years and reelected to the same office in 1869,
also in 1871:, serving six years, and nothing but his
moving without the city limits prevented his reelec-
tion in 1873‘.

As a friend of education, he is uncompromising
in. his devotion to our present system of public edu-
cation, and .would favor any plan that would compel
all parents to send their children to school. At the
time of the establishment of public education in
Cape Girardeau a bitter contest arose on the sub-
ject, and the measure would have been defeated
but for the determined course followed by its friends,
among whom was the subject of this sketch.

In addition to his qualifications as a first-class
miller, Colonel Thilenius is one of our most success-
ful wine growers. On his farm of sixty acres in the
suburbs of the city he has extensive vineyards of the
choicest cuttings, and large orchards of the most
select varieties of fruit, covering in all forty acres
of ground, in the center of which stands a three
story brick building, containing mills, presses, casks,

- tinued to reside.

344 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

steamers and other utensils necessary for the 1nanu-
facture of ‘wines and cider, and storing the same
in the vault underneath.

On the top of a beautiful eminence in the midst
of his orchard, stands his residence, one of the
finest in Southeast Missouri‘, surrounded and fur-
nished with all the comforts and conveniences that
modern science has invented—the doors of which
are always open to his numerous friends, who
often partake of the choice vintage stored in his
cellar.

The Colonel, being a practical, laboring man,
thoroughly acquainted with every detail of his vast
business, maintains perfect system in operations,
both at his mill and on the farm, and instills into his

employés his own vim and order, and they on their
part love, honor and respect him.

In personal appearance Colonel Thilenius is of
medium height, straight, wiry and active, quick and
nervous in speech and action, has large dark brown

-eyes, dark hair slightly silvered with gray, straight-
forward in conversation, social and agreeable in"

manners, polite, affable and kind to all, generous to
a fault, always ready to help a friend or foe if in real

I need, ready and quick to move in his enterprises,

doing with all his might whatever he undertakes.
Altogether he is just such a man as is calculated to
succeed, and he has by his own unaided exertions
entitled himself to a place among the self-made and
successful men of Missouri.

FREDERICK ROWLAND.

MACON CITY.

REDERICK, son of Young W. and Rachael
F Rowland, was born March 2, 1805, in Chatham
county, North Carolina 3 and, like his father, has
made farming the business of his life. Mr. Rowland,
Sen., was a native of Virginia, and settled in Chari-
ton county, Missouri, in 1823; died at Kirksville,
Adair county, in 1848. His wife was a native of
Chatham county, North Carolina, a daughter of
Benjamin Hindsley farmer, who lived and died in
that state. Their son Frederick was brought up on
the farm in Chatham county until he was ten years of
age, when he removed with his parents to Dixon
county, Tennessee, where he remained four years.
He then in 1823 removed with his parents to Chari-
ton county, Missouri. .

In 1824 he married Annie Kirby, a native of
Warren county, Kentucky, and a daughter of Solo-
mon Kirby, a prominent agriculturist, who lived and
died in the blue grass state. Mr. Rowland, the same
year of his marriage, settled in Randolph county,
Missouri, and lived there until 1833, when he entered‘
a farm in Macon county, where he has since con-
He has taken a very active part in
the legislation of this state. His first office was that
of justice of the peace, to which he was elected in
1837 ; which office he filled so acceptably that in
1838 he was elected county judgeof Macon county,
but resigned the office before the expiration of his

term. In 1850 he was elected to the state legislature,
where he so discharged his duties to the satisfaction
of his constituency that he was reelected in 1852.
His second term having expired as member of the
lower house, he was returned in 1854 to the state
senate, representing the distict composed of Macon,
Chariton and Linn counties.

The duties devolving upon him during these years
of continuous service at the state capital were faith-
fully discharged, and when the rebellion of 1861
threw all Missouri into a perfect tempest of strife, his
acknowledged fitness for the responsible duties of a
state counselor was openly conceded; and he was

elected to that memorable convention in whose hands.

were placed the destinies of the state. Mr. Rowland
took a most decided and patriotic stand in that con-
vention, and the entire weight of his personal and
politcal influence was thrown on the scale against the
secession movement. During the war Mr. Rowland
was a firm and consistent Unionist, although he took
no part as a soldier in that confiict. _

JHis firstiwife died in I829, during his residence
in Randolph county, and the following year he mar-
ried Miss Elizabeth P. Holley, native of Clark
county, Kentucky, with whom he lived forty~three
years, until her death in 1873. She was a“ daughter

. of Henry Holley, a Kentucky farmer, who settled in

Macon county, Missouri. He was married in I874.

TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DZCTZO./VARY. 345

to Mrs. Fannie Lowen, of Kirksville, Adair county,
daughter of Thomas Bounda, of Shelby county.
Mr. Rowland united with the Christian Church in
1833, and remains a "member of her communion.

In politics Mr. Rowland is and always has been a
Democrat, and it is safe to say that he will never
change, his first votewas cast for Andrew Jackson,

and in 1860 his vote was cast for Stephen A. Doug-
las. Mr. Rowland’s distinguishing characteristic is
his manly public spirit; strictly temperate in his
habits, a man of thorough integrity of character,
he is a worthy representative of a large constitu-
ency—the independent, intelligent agriculturists of
the West. ’

JOEL THOMAS.

KANSAS CITY.

tha Thomas, was.born at Shelbyville, Kentucky,
~ May 22, 1831. He wa.s named Joel after his
maternal grandfather, Joel Roundtree, a major in the
war of 1776, who participated in many of the impor-
tant battles of that conflict. Joel’s father was a fife-
major attached to General Jackson’s headquarters
The date of his marriage

TOEL THOMAS, third son of Nathan and Mar-

during the war of 1812.

with Martha Roundtree is not recorded. They were

both active and influential members of the Baptist
church. Nathan Thomas was a breeder of thorough-
bred horses. In company with Messrs. Davenport,
Pendleton and other Kentucky gentlemen, he impor-
ted the first “blooded” horses from England that
were brought into the blue grass region. ‘
Nathan Thomas removed from Kentucky and
settled in Indiana, near Centerville, Wayne‘ county,
in 1835, when Joel was four years old. Joel was
brought up on his father’s stock farm, his education
being limited to such knowledge as he could acquire
in the common schools of that day. But book
knowledge is not always education, and in the schools
of experience one may acquire a very liberal educa-
tion, while comparatively unacquainted with books.
It has been largely so with Mr. Joel Thomas. In his
intercourse with the great world of business and
politics, he has acquired a large fund of information,
on matters oftrade and public affairs, which has been
very materially increased by his reading,‘ so that he

is not only thoroughly fitted for business, but quite

creditably prepared to pass an intelligent criticism
upon the conduct of public men, and take his place
in all the associations of an active business life. On
leaving home, a young man, he went to work as a
farm hand for wages, and after the first year his
experience and capacity secured him the manage-

ment of a large farm, which he conducted for a one-
fifth interest for five years, marrying the daughter of
his employer at the expiration of his contract. After
farming one year in Indiana on his own occount, he
removed to Lawrence, Kansas, in 18 56, where he
opened a livery stable and engaged in freighting.
He soon purchased a claim of one hundred and sixty

acres near Lawrence, which he preempted and
_farmed from 1857 to 1859, when he resumed the

livery business and opened an extensive trade in
horses and mules, in which he is now actively
engaged. There have been few men in Kansas,
perhaps no one man, who has bought and sold as
many horses and mules as Joel Thomas. During the
war of 1861-5 he was a large contractor in furnishing
stock for the United States army, selling Uncle Sam
as many as one thousand head in a single year.
Within the last fifteen years his sa.les have amounted
to many thousands.

In January, 1878, he removed to ‘Kansas City,
Missouri, and purchased the old Planters’ sale stables,
changing the name to Great Western, where he now
carries on a very extensive trade in horses and mules,
buying principally in the St. Louis market, and ship-
ping to Pueblo, Denver, San Francisco, and to all
the principal points in the great wheat region of
Kansas, along the line of the Santa Fe and Kansas
Pacific Railroads._ In the six weeks ending April 5,
1878, he shipped two hundred and fifty-one head.
His heaviest trade was during the seasons of 1871-2,
in which time he sold over five thousand head. Con-
trast this immense trade, the growth of sixteen years,
with that small beginning in Lawrence, in the old
sod stables of the St. Nicholas Free State Hotel.
Mr. Thomas’ outfit at that time consisted of two
hacks, running between Lawrence and Leavenworth,

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one open side—spring buggy, eight saddle horses, two
two—horse teams and some ox teams employed in
freighting. During Quantrell’s raid his stables,
accommodating one hundred and fifty head of stock,
were burned, but without loss to him of stock as the
stables wer_e rented.

Mr. Thomas is a man of remarkable decision;
quick as thought in his business judgments, he buys
a car—load of stock almost on sight——completes the
business and is gone while other dealers are begin-
ning to get ready to commence.
thing for him to leave“ Kansas City on the evening
express for St. Louis, arriving there in the morning ;
buy three car—loads of stock and ship them that day,
leave St. Louis the same night and reach home next
morning.

Mr. Thomas has never been an aspirant for pub-
lic office, though taking quite an active interest in
political movements. In Kansas, before the war, he
was an outspoken, energetic Free Soiler 3 since then,
a staunch Republican, participating freely in cam-

It is no unusual

paign struggles, frequently representing his party in

the conventions, and exercising no inconsiderable
influence upon the elections. He is a member of the
I. O. of O. F. 3 belongs to no denomination, but is a
believer in a religion of the liberalitype. He was
married in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, December
II, 18 54, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Baker Guest,
afterward a prominent pioneer free soil man in Kan-
sas, now deceased. Mrs. Thomas is a lady of good
address, well educated and much esteemed. They
have one daughter—Emma Gertrude——a very agree-
able young lady who is giving especial attention to
the cultivation of music.

Mr. Thomas is a man of fine personal appear-
ance; tall, erect, active in his movements, industri-
ous, persevering, full of grit and knows no such
word as “fail.” Social, generous, genial in his
companionships, liberal in his charities, yet in the
prime of life, he has a promising future of useful-
ness to himself, his family and community yet before
him.

MATTHEW G. ROSEBERRY.

MAR YVILLE.

I ATTHEW G. ROSEBERRY is an extensive
M real estate dealer and land agent residing at
Maryville, Nodaway county, Missouri. He was
formerly a. prominent attorney of that place, but
relinquished the practice of his profession some years
since, in order to devote his time exclusively to real
estate business. William Roseberry, father of Mat-
thew G., was born in Washington county, Pennsyl-
vania, removed to Kentucky and engaged in_farming,
a pursuit he followed successfully through life.
W hileliving in Kentucky he made the acquaintance
of Esther, daughter of Matthew Reaugh, a well—to-do
agriculturist of Jefferson county, whom he married,
and with whom he removed to Adams county, Illi-
nois, in 1832, where he continued to live until his
death in 1872.

Theyear following the removal to Illinois, Mat-
thew G. was born—]anuary II, 1833. He was the
second of a family of nine children. His early life
was spent on the home farm, where he received such

instructions as the locality afforded until he was of an
age to leave home and enjoy the advantages of the
liberal culture that his parents bestowed upon
him. His education was acquired at Illinois Col-
lege, Jacksonville, Illinois. Leaving college in 1855,
he entered upon his legal studies in the office of C.
A. Warren, a prominent attorney of Quincy, Illinois.
His winters were spent in teaching, his spare hours
were devoted to his law books, and in 1857 he was
admitted to the bar, receiving his parchments from
the hands of Judge Skinner, of the Supreme Court
of Illinois. In the fall of the same year he came to
Nodaway county, Missouri, located at Maryville and
entered at once upon the practice of law. He fol-
lowed his profession assiduously for twelve years,
and built up an extensive practice at the bar of the
county and state courts. This practice he relin-
quished in 1869, and has since that time devoted
himself exclusively to land‘ office business.

Mr. Roseberry was elected attorney of Nodaway

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAL DICTIOZVARY. 347

county, which office he held for two years, was
school commissioner for his county for a like term,
was appointed provost marshal of Nodaway county
in 1863 and served for eight months, was again
appointed assistant provost marshal in 1864-5 under
the provisions of thelaw providing for and regula-
ting the army draft during the last years of the civil
war. He was elected State senator and served in
that capacity for four years——I868—72.

Politically Mr. Roseberry was bred a Democrat,
and remained one until the breaking out of the
Rebellion in 1861, since which time he has acted
and voted with the Republican party, and has
accepted office at their hands. His last vote for a

Democratic President was cast for Stephen A. Doug-
las. He holds his membership with the Christian
church. In 1858 he was married to Miss Phoebe E.
Beal, of Clay county, Missouri, daughter of Charles
Beal, Esq., one of the pioneers of Clay county,
formerly of Marion county, Kentucky.

A man of liberal culture, and of fair minded hon-
orable judgment; shrewd and careful in his business
arrangements, and above suspicion in his dealings 3 a
patron of education and deeply interested in all that
concerns the intellectual and moral life of his fellow
townsmen; such is Mr. Roseberry’s record during
the twenty-one years of his residence in Nodaway
county.

HAMLINE E. ROBINSON.

MAR YVILLE.

T is peculiarly refreshing to find, in the very
1 center of this continent, two and a half centu-
ries after that heroic landing on Plymouth Rock,
some descendant of that Pilgrim band, preserving
not only the name that meets us at the threshold of
American civilization, but typical in some more
generic and individual form the mental or moral
characteristics of that immortal Mayflower crew.
Such a man we find in Hamline E. Robinson, son of
Rev. Elijah Robinson, formerly of Vermont, now
of the West, and a lineal descendant of the original
Rev. John Robinson, of Pilgrim celebrity.
Elijah Robinson left Vermont when Hamline E. was

a lad ten years old, settling first in Illinois and after- i

wards in Wisconsin. Young Robinson’s education
was quite liberal. He was born in Brattleboro,
Vermont, April 22, 1845, the rudiments of his edu-
cation were acquired in the stimulating atmosphere
of his Green Mountain home. He entered the
Evansville Seminary, Rock county, Wisconsin, at
an early age, and graduated from that institution in
I863, when only eighteen years of age. Upon leav-
ing college‘ he enlisted as a private in company F,
16th Wisconsin Volunteers, and served with the
atlny about nineteen months, in Tennessee, Missis-
SlDpi and Georgia, was with Sherman’s army on it—s
march to the sea, receiving a slight shell wound at

Rev. _

the battle of Jonesboro, and returned to Wisconsin
in 186 5. He taught school during the winter sessions
of 1865-6, devoting the summer of 1866 to surveying
along the line of the northwest branch of the Pacific
Railroad in Iowa In the spring of 1867 he went to
Boston and commenced the study of dentistry, occu-
pying his leisure hours with newspaper correspond-
ence. In the spring of 1870 Mr. Robinson returned
to the West, and selecting Maryville, Nodaway
county, as his home, entered upon the practice of
his profession as a dentist. In 1872 he became
editor and proprietor of the “ Noa’cz7e/ay Cozmly
Repz¢Z2[z'c-‘an, which he conducted with great ability
for three years, when he sold his paper in the spring
of I87 5, in order to devote himself more exclusively
to some special literary publications which he con-
templates issuing.

Mr. Robinson is a gentleman of liberal culture,
of extensive literary acquirements, with a broad and
comprehensive knowledge of general literature. He
possesses a very valuable, well selected and exceed-
ingly rare collection of works on the history of his
own State and the West. He will soon publish his
history of Nodaway county, in one octavo volume
of four hundred pages. His collection of works on
metaphysics alone numbers five hundred ; his whole
library catalogues thirty-five hundred volumes,

348 . THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

many of them exceedingly rare. United in mar-
riage to Miss Florence A. Donaldson, of Schoharie
county, New York, in 1872, a life of literary activity
and-domestic felicity seems happily begun.

Thought bridges the two hundred and fifty-eight
years since Mr. Robinson’s Pilgrim ancestor landed
on the bleak shores of New England, where civili-

zation had as yet no foothold, and traces no real
connection between that wintry desolation and the
literary leisure enjoyed so many hundred leagues
westward in the depths of that then impenetrable
forest, save such bond as is found in that love of
culture and that thirst for education which was a
distinguishing characteristic of the Puritan mind.

CAPTAIN JOI-IN COWDON.

CAPE GJIEARDEAU.

APTAIN JOHN COWDON——who will be
C known in history as the originator and pro-
jector of the"‘Barataria Ship Canal” of Louisiana
—was born February 24, 1824, on Little Red river,
in White county, Arkansas territory, and is the son
of John Cowdon and grandson of James Cowdon——a
native of Londonderry, Ireland, who in the year
1777, in company with a brother, James Cow-
don, emigrated to America and settled, the former
in Richmond, Virginia, and the latter in New York.
John Cowdon, the father of our subject, removed in
the year 1816' to French Broad river, North Caro-
lina, and afterwards to Muscle Shoals, Tennessee,
where he remained several years. In 1820, with
his family, he descended the Tennessee and Missis-
sippi rivers to the mouth of the Arkansas river,
which he ascended as far as Arkansas Post—then the
capital of the territory—the voyage being made in
two pirogues lashed together. This place was then
a wilderness, with but a few scattered inhabitants.
Here he remained a short time, examining the
country with a view to a permanent settlement; but
becoming dissatisfied, he returned and ascended
the White river, to what was then known as the
Magness settlement, Where our subject was born.‘
In 1825 he removed to Mississippi and settled upon
the bank of the river opposite Milliken’s Bend,
which at that time contained but four families——the
nearest settlement being about twenty-five miles dis-
tant and the next fifty miles. At this period there
were but six settlements between the mouth of the
Arkansas and Vicksburg, which then had but two
stores, nor were there over a dozen steamboats on
the entire Mississippi river.

The mother of our subject was Miss Elizabeth

Peeler, a native of North Carolina, in which state
she married Mr. Cowdon in 1812. She was aunt to
Mr. Richmond Peeler, whom she adopted, raised
and educated. (He was afterwards well known
throughout the South in connection with his improved
varieties of cotton seed.) She was a woman of supe-
rior mental endowments, an earnest Christian——a
member of the Methodist Church—.of great force of
character and of indomitable perseverance. She
was left a Widow, by the death of her husband in
1832, with a family of six children, three sons and_
three daughters, to raise and educate in this wild,
unsettled country. By great economy and self—denial
she placed two of her sons—our subject and his
brother James—in Professor Freeman G. Carey’s
celebrated academy, now known as “ Farmer’s Col-
lege,” near Cincinnati, Ohio. (Professor Carey is a
brother to the Hon. Samuel Carey, of Greenback
notoriety.-) Here he received a fair English and

mathematical education, but his excellent mother

dying in 1844, he was thrown upon his own re-
sources and commenced his career in life as a river
steamboat clerk, holding besides other positions of
trust and responsibility, upon the old “ Sultana,”
“Concordia,” “ Sam Dale,” and several other boats
engaged in the lower Mississippi trade. He con-
tinued in this occupation for ten years, being fre-
quently in command as captain.

In 1853 he married Miss Sarah Shastid, of Pike
county, Illinois, by whom he has had three children,
two of whom survive——Ja1nes and Emma—'—the latter
being the first graduate of the State Normal School
at Cape Girardeau, and a young lady of great
promise.

While Captain Cowdon was engaged in steam

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boating, he made his home in New Orleans",'Louis-
iana, where he became quite popular, making many
warm friends, whose esteem and confidence he still
retains. Being of an inventive turn of mind, he
devoted five years of his life, together with the sum
of fifteen thousand dollars, to the perfecting of a
steam earth-moving machine, for building levees
and excavating canals. With this machine he has
cut a ditch four feet wide and three feet deep,
advancing at the rate of six feet per minute, with an
eight-horse power engine, doing the work of two
hundred and fifty men. It was also tested as a
dredger, and proved that with an engine of twenty-
horse power it would raise from a depth of forty
feet under water, at the rate of one thousand cubic
yards per hour.
patent, and would have brought it extensively into
use, but at this time the war between the North and
South commenced and for the time being, completely
paralyzed all peaceful industries, and his machine,
which was lying on the plantation’ of Dr. F. H.
Knapp, ten miles south of New Orleans, became a
total wreck. Being financially ruined by the civil
war, he has never been able to rebuild his machine.
Captain Cowdon was also the original inventor of the
plan for building the celebrated iron-clad “rams,”
which did such effective service on the Confederate
side during the war. L

After the cessation of hostilities, he removed-

with his family to Memphis, Tennessee, and engaged
with the Little Rock Packet“ Company, of which
john D. Adams was president, in what is known as
the “ wrecking” business, on the Mississippi, Arkan-
sas and White rivers, in which they recovered a vast
amount of cotton, steamboat machinery, railroad
iron and other property, besides raising from the
bed of the Arkansas river the locomotive “ Pulaski”
and tender and seventeen cars, which had been sunk
on a barge while in transit to Little Rock. This
great work was accomplished in fifteen days with
rude appliances and an undisciplined crew—an illus-
tration of the vast executive ability of the man.

'As above intimated, however, the great work of I

his life is the “ Barataria canal,” affording an outlet
for river and ocean steamships from New Orleans
to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the Barataria
bay. During the fifteen or sixteen years while
he had been engaged in navigating the Mississippi
river, the subject of this great internal improve-
ment had occupied his mind, and he conceived the
plan, not only of providing a permanent outlet

On this invention he obtained a

ships of twenty feet draft to other countries.

for the “Father of Waters” to the Gulf, but the recla-

mation of the low lands of the whole valley from,

overflow, by a system of outlets —not levees—
which should effectively drain the whole section.
His writings on this subject, although cogent and
fraught with wisdom, were not at first generally
accepted by those interested, but during the past
few years they have been gradually making their
way to the public confidence, and are now generally
accepted and endorsed. On June 18, 1878, through
Senator Harris of Tennessee, he introduced a bill in the
United States Senate for that purpose. In 1867 his first
article upon the subject appeared in the Memphis
Bu!/ez‘z'71, under the caption of “The Great Valley,”
and attracted considerable attention from those inter-
ested in the carrying trade of this great highway.
We submit the following extract from the article
alluded to, not only because it tends to illustrate the
character of the writer, but on account of its impor-
tant statistical information : _
“Let us contemplate this vast inland sea, stretch-

L ing forth from its mouth 4,000 miles into the interior,

with tributaries of 10,000 miles more, passing through,
watering and draining, in whole or in part, fourteen
magnificent states with an area of 859,000 square
miles (overdone-fourth of the whole United States,
including territories), and containing a population

.in 1850 of I2,000,000——as large as France, Spain,

Italy, Austria and the British Islands, which have a
population of 150,000,000.

“Here there are states not named and territo-
ries yet unoccupied sufficient to make as 1nany.more
such states, which in all will besufficient to maintain
a population of 300,000,000 when these vast regions
are settled up by an energetic people, the face of
the earth checkered and striated with a net-work of
railroads and canals, and the iron horse comes from
the East and from the mighty West too, and feeds the
majestic river, drawing its "numerous trains -filled
with the valuable products of these vast regions, and
its millions of human beings. I ask, where is all
this vast wealth and commerce to find a direct, deep,
permanent and unfettered road to the markets of the
world? Not over protected and monopolized rail-
roads and frozen canals to the East.
great river, to cross over a mud dam eighty feet in
height at its ever-changing mouth, to pass on in
But
this vast-coinmerce must pass on the bosom of this
great river down to New Orleans, in great barge
lines and steam floating granaries, and from there
on in bulk, in Vessels such as the Great Eastern 3
and to aid this we must flank the river’s mud—lumpy
month by completing Nature’s bayou, the Barataria

, canal.”

Believing that all attempts, whether made by the
government or by private corporations, to open the

Not down this A

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Mississippi at the mouth must prove abortive, as all
previous attempts had done, he applied to a ‘few of
the leading citizens of Memphis and New Orleans,
who furnished the necessary means with which to
make the preliminary surveys, maps, &c., of his
proposed canal route, These reports—“The Gate-
way to the Sea” and other papers—have been pub-
lished in pamphlet form, and contain many historical,
scientific and statistical facts, upon the subject of
internal navigation and upon the rates and routes of
transportation generally. In the language of Pro-
fessor Forshay, the celebrated engineer, “These
works should render immortal the name of their
author.” Although Captain Cowdon does not claim
to be a professional engineer, yet his report, maps
and surveys, verified by two of the most distin-
guished engineers of the country, viz: Professor C.
]. Forshay a11d ]. ]. Williams—the latter being the
surveyor of the Tehuantepec canal——demonstrate
him to be a man of the very highest scientific attain-
ments, and most thoroughly practical in all his plans
and projects. Since the above named surveys were
made, Captain Cowdon has organized a company
consisting of some of the most substantial and suc-
cessful business men of Memphis, New Orleans, and
other large cities of the Mississippi Valley, and
secured a charter from the state of Louisiana and
also from the 45th Congress of the United States,
and the work of constructing the canal will be carried
to completion with the promptness and energy which
characterize all the enterprises with which Captain
Cowdon has any connection.

We shall conclude our sketch of this very
remarkable man———whose more complete history will
be written generations hence, when the fuller fruits
of his great achievements shall be realized by a
grateful people——by a quotation from his pamphlet
on the subject of “The Barataria Canal” :

“Build this canal, and the construction of the
Florida and Tehuantepec ship canals will as surely
follow as does water seek its level or light give forth
heat. The first will not only cut off all that danger-
ous part of the Florida coast, but shorten the round
trip fully 7oo miles over the present route from
New Orleans to eastern and European ports, while
the other will shorten the distance from the same

ports fully 8,000 miles more over the Panama route I

to the Pacific ports, China and India, and back,
thus placing New Orleans only one hundred and fifty
miles north from the direct line of this, the world’s
future road of commerce. This will bring the trade
of Central and South America, the East and West
Indies, China and Europe, to your doors, and at

the same time make New Orleans the commercial
world’s great supply, watering and coaling depot.
It will also be the only port accessible for the great
naval ships of the world, which, when not in actual
service, can rest from the rust, worms and barna-
cles of the sea. The building of this canal will so
cheapen freights that the agricultural products of this
valley will soon be more than doubled, giving con-
stant and remunerative employment to millions now
unemployed.
barges and barge‘ lines without number, furnishing
employment to the 5oo,ooo skilled mechanics now
unemployed throughout the cities of this country.
This will start operations in the coal and iron mines
——the lighting of Ioo,ooo furnace fires, and the
humming of a million spindles in this valley, that
without this canal never will be seen or heard of.
’l‘here will be no more strikes in the coal mines or
riots along the lines of our great railways, for all
will have plenty to do. Tramps will be of the past,
destitution and crime will be diminished in propor-
tion as people can find employment. The railroads,
in becoming the feeders of the great water lines,
will have more than they can do. Local rates will
consequently be cheapened; they will_ make more
money than ever before. Thus giving new life to
every branch of our industry, we will prosper as
never did any people. The population of each city
in this valley will double every few years, for it
will be seen that what enriches a part enriches the
whole. The effects from the opening of the Bara-
taria canal on the commerce of the valley of the
Mississippi will be like the breaking of a dam that
obstructed the outflow of the waters of the great
river, or like the opening of the safety-valve to
prevent the explosion of the steam boiler. It will
prevent another bloody revolution. It is the solu-
tion to the great problem of cheap transportation
and labor. It will not only give us free and direct
trade, but will soon fill the South and Southwest
with a most industrious and thrifty people from
France, England, Germany and other European
countries. This will give us strength; only with
strength comes respect, then follows commercial and
political freedom. It will stretch the sinews of coin-
merce from north to south across this continent,
which will be more potent than bayonets and more
binding than bands of treble steel. Any other
remedy for our troubles is a mere hallucination.
The remedy is with ourselves. The electrical voice
of M. du Girardin awakes the Old World with:
‘The new policy, the great policy, the policyof

maritime expansion, the policy of reciprocity, t-he -

policy of peace, the policy of Christopher Columbus
and of Ferdinand de Lesseps, is summed up in
these words—The Sea.’ Let us respond with not
only the Barataria, but the Florida and Tehuan-
tepec ship canals. The wings of commerce, the
voice of Christianity and the march of civilization
demand it. Can we longer stupidly afford to sit
still and see ourselves and children made vassals to
a more sagacious people ?”

This will give us ships, steamboats,_

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VA-RY. 351

Of this great work, that distinguished ai1idVen-
erable engineer, C. ]. Forshay, said:

“The summing up of the cost of this public
work looks like the accomplishment of a prodigious
enterprise, adequate to the movement of a realm of
fertility, such as are the dependencies of the Missis-
sippi Valley. With a depth of twenty-four feet of a
channel and a harbor and roadstead of fo_rty feet,
an expenditure of $6,000,000 and an additional
expenditure of $4, 000,000. more for a thirty—six foot
channel, it will cost only four-tenths of the New
York line of canals. The Erie canal alone cost
$43,000,000, with a width of only seventy feet and
a depth of seven feet, and three hundred and sixty-
three miles in length, or over six times the length of
the Barataria canal, which at the same time will
have fully six times the ‘capacity of the Erie canal.
Its locks will connect the river with the tide level at
a mean of the year of only seven and four-tenths
feet lift, while the Erie canal has a lift or descent of
five hundred and sixty—five feet, requiring forty-eight
locks of twelve feet to pass its commerce in boats
of only two hundred and fifty tons capacity, whilst
our canal would pass vessels of ten thousand tons
capacity, and when we add to these considerations
the closure of the Erie canal from the 1st of Sep-
tember to the 15th of April, or one hundred and
thirty-five days, it is obvious that the balance is
largely in favor of the Barataria ship canal. The
Erie canal has yielded a handsome revenue during
its whole history, before and since its enlargement.
In 187 5 it produced one million above its earnings,
though intended to be utilized for the people of the
state, and run at a minimum cost.

“What, then, shall we say of a canal having
1,300,000 square miles of territory against an area
of 500,000 square miles? It may divide the ton-
nage equally with other outlets, and still it will be a
profitable enterprise, for in a few years it will have a
greater amount of tonnage than there is now in all
the ports of the United States. But a comparison

with the Suez canal is more rational and appro-

priate.”
We quote from Captain Cowdon’s “ Gateway to
the Sea” : - _

Ferdinand de Lesseps had the difficulties of
thirty centuries before him. The sand—drifts of the
desert from thirty to one hundred feet in height, and

lakes to dredge out and wall up, and he still had.

what seemed unsurmountable difficulties to over-
come. The colossal features of the whole plan con-

sisted of artificial harbors to be constructed at both »

ends of the canal. ,
Whereas, the Barataria ship canal has the Mis-
sissippi river at one end, with one hundred and fifty
feet depth, and at the other the Gulf and Bay, of
seventy feet depth, which is the deepest and best
locked harbor on the Gulf or -Atlantic coasts.
In order to reach twenty-three feet at Port
Said, the guard walls had to be extended 8,100 feet
45 .

out to sea, on account of the enormous quantity of
sand and mud—30,000,000 cubic yards—brought
down annually by the Nile, which the prevalent
winds drove along the coast toward Palestine.

The dimensions of these walls are as follows:
seventy—eight feet wide at base, eighteen feet wide at
top, thirty—six feet high, and consuming from two to
three-millions of cubic yards of stone, which were
manufactured out of sand and cement on the spot.

The distance between the respective ends of
these walls was 1,300 feet, forming an artificial basin
of five acres for harbor purposes.

The Engineer continues: These stupendous diffi-
culties are chiefly avoided in the Barataria canal. The
dredging, which is the chief cost in our project,
amounts to but I 9, 600, 000 cubic yards for twenty—four
feet depth of water, nearly all of which is beneath the
surface and without a rock or obstacle to dredging
the whole distance, and once dredged we shall never
have to resume the operation. The tides will keep
the canal free, and rather deepen it in all time to
come, for there is a daily inflow and outflow of gulf
water of over 8,000,000,000 cubic feet.

The Suez canal, which is nearly double the length
of the Barataria canal, had to move nearly 46,000,000
cubic yards, chiefly above the water, at a distance
from supplies, in a desert country, without fresh
water even to drink, or harbor at either end, and
the endless dredging which the sands of the desert,
drifted by the winds, render necessary, these are
formidable difficulties indeed. * * *

The Suez canal cost $60,000,000 and ten years
of struggle for completion. The stupendous work
was accomplished by the single efforts of one enthu-
siastic man, and marks an epoch in, modern civiliza-
tion. It links the Occident with the Orient, flanks
a continent, abridges 12,000 miles of navigation and
sixty—five days of time, into 3,000 miles and twelve
days of transit.

We expect not such a revolution in the saving of
distance traveled, or in time of transit. But we do
expect for -the sum of about $6,000,000, or one—tenth
the cost of the Suez canal, in three years, or one-
third of the time required for that work, to cut the
pent-up barriers that hoard and rot the corn of an
empire of fertility, and to disgorge it upon the starv-
ing millions and crowded populations of the earth.

We expect to render needless, for the purposes
of traffic, the further cutting across a continent for
railroads through mountains of rock and ice, from
west to east, and to turn the drift of commerce in
the direction that God designed, where he made the
greatest water course on earth to converge an hun-
dred other seas to flow across the latitude south.

We expect to people this garden of the world in
fifty years with 100,000,000 population, and to fur-

nish breadstuffs for half the earth, and reciprocate '

the commerce we shall beget, and set in motion
through an easy outlet to the seas, and by a depth
for vessels of the largest class, we expect to attract
the commerce of civilization.

352 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

This is what the Suez canal will never do, which
never has been done by man, and because there
never yet has been opened to man such an area for
population and for unlimited production. The way,
we believe, is before us for such an era; and the
route for its accomplishment is through the Missis-
sippi river, the Barataria canal and the Gulf of
Mexico.

We have before said that New Orleans would
prove the Byzantium and the Gulf of Mexico the
Mediterranean—of the Western World. '

The Barataria canal is now to become the Bos-
phorus and the Hellespont, to link the new civiliza-
tion of the Western Hemisphere with the South
Seas, across the tropics, and with the Oriental
World.

GENERAL FIRMAN A. ROZIER.

STE. GENEVIEVE.

" IRMAN A. ROZIER, son of Ferdinand and
F Constance Rozier, was born in Ste. Genevieve
July 31, 1820. He was educated at St. Mary’s Col-
lege, Perry_ county, Missouri, since removed to Cape
Girardeau; at that time it was the oldest and then
the leading college in the West, having large dele-
gations of students from Louisiana and other South-
ern States. At the age of seventeen he gave himself
a few months’ recreation by clerking on the steam-
boat Vandalia, Captain Small—a St. Louis and New
Orleans packet; after which he returned to school
to complete his course.

In 1841 he engaged in commercial business in
St. Louis, but ‘the financial crisis coming on, he
abandoned it and entered the law office of Bogy &
Hunter, where he remained one year.
went to Bardstown, Kentucky, to finish his classical
course, and from there to Transylvania Law School
at Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated in
1848, under the professorship of Chief Justice
Robertson, ]udge Marshall, ]udge Wooley and other
distinguished jurists. Mr. Rozier was admitted to
the practice of law in 1848 and opened an office in
Ste. Genevieve.

His military career may be summed up in this:
In 1846, through the efforts of Thomas H. Benton,
he was appointed captain of the South Missouri
Guards, numbering one hundred and fifteen picked
men, and with his company started to join Fremont
in his California expedition. They got as far as
Fort Leavenworth, where they were detained by
the severe winter weather and were finally compelled
to abandon the attempt to cross the plains. Subse-
quently Captain Rozier was appointed major-general
of the Southeast Missouri Militia and served four

He then

years. By his title of General he is best known
throughout the state.

His political record dates back to 1845, when he
he was an active member of the Democratic party.
In that year he was elected a delegate to the South-
west Convention, at Memphis, of which John C.
Calhoun was president. In that body General
Rozier made a report accompanied by a topograph-
ical map of the submerged lands of South Missouri,
which paper was approved by the convention and
attracted considerable attention. Those were the
days of Clay, Benton, Hardin, Breckenridge and
other giants—whose places are now occupied by
pigmies, mice playing in elephants’ beds. The
General is proud of his intimacy with those great
statesmen, with some of whom he was on terms of
warm personal friendship. In 1850 he was the
warm advocate of Mr. Benton in his celebrated
appeal to the people of Missouri, during which
period the thirty-years-senator was frequently a visitor
at the general’s office and home. It is probable that
the troubles of the Democratic party at that time,
and General Rozier’s warm espousal of and gallant
fight for Mr. Benton——taken together with the fact
that there were three candidates (John F. Darby,
Judge Bowlin and himself ) in the field——defeated
him for Congress.

In 1851 he was elected mayor of Ste. Gene-
vieve, which city at that time controlled the vast
mineral trade of that section of the state. In 1856
he was elected from Ste. Genevieve to the lower
house of the Missouri Legislature and served two
years. In I872 he was elected without opposition
to the state senate from the 23d District—in which
body he was chairman of the committee on Mines

_ July 20, 1819.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIi’APHICAL DICTIO./VAIi’Y. 353

and Mining. During the service of Hon. Lewis V.
Bogy in the United States Senate, General Rozier’s
name was prominently spoken of as his successor.
By the way, the honor of United States Senator has
already been conferred upon no less than five dis-
tinguished gentlemen, citizens by birth or adoption
to this same city: Lewis F.rLinn——called the Ches-
terfield of the senate—and Lewis V. Bogy, from
Missouri, Augustus Dodge and George W. Jones,
from Iowa, and Henry Dodge, (father of Augustus)
from Wisconsin.

In 18 58 Senator Rozier was elected president of
the Ste. Genevieve branch of the Merchants" Bank
of St. Louis. Besides this he has filled many official
positions of less importance in the county and in
Various enterprises. He was engaged for many
years in mining operations in Jefferson, St. Francois
and other counties in his section of the state——now
an owner of the Valle and other mines.

One of the noblest enterprises in which the Gen--

eral has ever taken part was his establishment, near
his residence in Ste. Genevieve, of an academy for
the education of boys. His money,‘his time and
his talents were fully given to this institution, and he
continued his interest in it until the breaking out of
the war of the Rebellion closed it. 1
On the 22d of January, 1850, Firman A. Rozier

was married to Miss Mary Valle, daughter of Jean
Bapt.Vallé, Jr., and Pelagie (Jannis) Valle, of whom
a sketch will be found in this volume. Six children
are the result of this union.

Senator Rozier is six feet two inches and straight
as an Indian, weighs one hundred and sixty-five
pounds, with keen sparkling eyes peering from
beneath heavy brows looking through you, but with
a merry twinkle occasionally revealing a fondness
for mirth. His manners are affable and easy, his
conversation straight and to the point—in business
nearly bluntly so. His popularityis attested by the
confidence reposed in him by his constituency, and
his ability by the frequent repetitions of trust. As a
professional gentleman he stands high in the esteem
of the bar and the people, as a speaker he is cool,
clear, calculating and exhaustive. His speech
before the senate of Missouri, March 2, 1875, was
applauded in a manner not thenfrequent in that
dignified body. It was on the occasion of the ques-
tion to abolish the geological survey of the state—for
which the senator offered a substitue providing, among
other things, for the appropriation of $10,000 to sup-
port the institution and encourage science in Missouri.
In that effort he showed himself perfectly master of
the mining and mineraliinterests of Missouri, and his

speech is spoken of as elaborate and conclusive.

CAPTAIN THOMAS B. REED.

HUNTSVILLE.

APTAIN REED may justly claim his honors
C as aison of one of America’s patriotic families,
his grandfather, Henry Reed, serving in the Revolu-
tionary war, his father, John D., serving in the War
of ,1812—14, and himself in the War of 1861-65.

Henry Reed was a native of Ireland, who emigrated

to this country at an early day and settled in South .

Carolina, but removed to Guilford county, North Caro-
lina, where his son John D. was born, grew into
manhood and was married. His wife was Elizabeth
Jenkins, also of Guilford county, daughter of a
prominent Methodist clergyman of that locality.
Their son, Thomas B., was born in Guilford county,
In the fall of that year his parents
removed to Missouri, settling first in Howard county,

where they lived till 1822, when they located in
Randolph county, where the father died in 1869.
Thomas Reed was brought up on the farm in Ran-
dolph county. He received the rudiments of aliberal
education in the common schools of hisisection,

which was completed at the State University, from.

which institution he graduated with the highest hon-
ors of his class, in 1847, delivering the valedictory.
On leaving college he went to Huntsville, and
entered upon his duties as teacher, which he followed
for two years, reading law in his leisure hours. He
was admitted to the bar in 18 51, and immediately
entered upon the practice of law in Huntsville,
where he has resided until the present time.

In April, 1862, he entered the Union army with the

354 ' THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIBY.

rank of captain, commanding company G, 9th Mis-
souri Cavalry, United States Volunteers. He was in
the army three years, seeing service only in his
own state. As_provost marshal of the Rolla district,
and also at Macon, Missouri ,4 then as judge—advocate
of a military commission held at Macon City, he
was constantly on detached service ‘during 1863-4.
Retiring from the army at the close of the war,
Captain Reed resumed the practice of his profession
at Huntsville. In 1866 he was elected to the Mis-

souri Senate for the two years’ term, and in 1868 was

reelected for the four years’ term. The senatorial

district at that time comprised the counties of Ran-
dolph, Howard and Monroe. In politics Captain
Reed is a Conservative ; was a Whig prior to the
dissolution of that party; voted for Bell and Everett
in 1860 and for George B. McClellan in 1864. He
is a member of the Christian denomination. Novem-
ber 28, 185 5, he was married to Miss Rachel E.
Denny, of Howard county, Missouri. He is in
good repute as an old and well known resident of
Randolph county, an able attorney, conservative in
his cast of thought and cautious in the expression of
his judgment.

HENRY SEYMOUR CHASE, M. D., D. D. S.

ST. LOUIS.

ENRY SEYMOUR CHASE was born March
H 6, 1820, at Bellows Falls, Vermont. His
father was a physician of note, and of English
descent. His mother was a Campbell, and of Scotch
descent. They were persons of good education and
high culture.

His boyhood was passed in his native state, among .

whose green hills he acquired a taste for the beautiful
in poetry and art. He had a studious and romantic
turn of mind as some attempts at versification show
about his twentieth year. His school studies never
amounted to much, but he was an inveterate reader,
and at twenty years of age had become well versed
in history, geography, and the English classics gen-
erally. Scientific works gradually became of great
interest to him, and at the age of twenty-two he had
determined to study medicine. _ This his father
opposed, telling his son that a physician’s life was a
“dog’s life,” and that he would not take him as a
pupil. This did not deter young Chase from his pur-
pose. He therefore took instruction under another

physician and paid his tuition from his own earnings.

At the end of six months the father took his son into
his own office where he finished his studies, during
which time he attended medical lectures in Boston
and finally in Woodstock, Vermont, at which place
he took his degree of M. D. ,

While studying in this beautiful village he became
acquainted with Sarah Haskell, a highly cultivated,
amiable and beautiful young lady whom he married
in 1844.

Dr. Chase had formerly studied dentistry in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, and on graduating at the
Vermont Medical College commenced the practice
of both medicine and dentistry at Woodstock. At
this time there were only about five resident dentists
in the whole state. The demands upon his time as a
dentist soon induced him to give up the general prac-
tice of medicine. He had, when married, no inten-
tion of remaining in Woodstock more than a few
months, yet his dental practice increased so rapidly
that he was induced to prolong his stay to the extent
of fourteen years.

Dr. Chase had a passion for both agriculture and
horticulture. He had no particular knowledge of the
former, but the latter served to employ many hours
snatched from professional cares. In the fall of 18 57
he resolved to remove to the state of Iowa to engage
in farming. He thought it would be a good place in
which to raise his five sons. These with one daugh-
ter had been born in Woodstock. The daughter died
when two years old. He settled beside a lovely
grove on an undulating prairie in Iowa in 18 57.
Here he satisfied his passion for a farmer’s life in five
years of hard toil for himself, his wife and his sons.
But he was so good an agriculturist that he was made
president of the county agricultural society several
times.

near which growing town his farm was located.
Wishing to give his children the advantages of the
State University, he removed, in 186 5, to Iowa City.

At the end of five "years he resumed the
practice of his profession at Independence, Iowa,-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 355

While in Iowa he was instrumental in forming the
Iowa State Dental Society, and was elected its first
president. While here his writings in the dental
journalsof the country attracted attention, and he
was in consequence invited to remove to St. Louis,
Missouri, and take a professorship in the Missouri
Dental College. To this city he removed in I867,
and the following year entered upon the duties of his
position. About this time the ./llz'ssourz' Dem‘aZ]0zzr-
ml! was established, of which he beca.me one of the
editors. With this journal he has been connected as
sole or associate editor most of the time to the pres-
ent (November, 1877). I

The Western College of Dental Surgeons was
established in‘St. Louis in October, 1877, in which
Dr. Chase holds the position of professor of His-
tology, Microscopy and Dental Physiology. In
November of the same year the St‘. Louis De/vial

-Quarierly was established with Dr. Chase as one of

the two editors. He is or has been connected with
several dental societies to which he has contributed
many important and interesting papers. Among
these are the American Dental Association, the Iowa
State Dental Society, the Northern Ohio Dental
Society, the Illinois State Dental Society, the Mis-
souri State Dental Society, the Southern Dental Asso-
ciation, the New York Odontological Society, the
Boston Academy of Dental Science, the Vermont

Dental Society, and the St. Louis Dental Society. '

He is also a member of some other scientific societies.
During his whole professional career he has written
at times for magazines and newspapers on the subject
of Dental Hygiene. A few years since he published
a small work called “Familiar Lectures About the
Teeth,” which, passed through two editions and was
highly extolled by the press.

He hasan inquiring mind, which has led him to
spend much time in original experiments in physi-
ology. When quite a young man (fifteen years old),
he tried the experiment of living without drink.
This was successful. He took no drink or fluid of
any kind for three weeks in the month of July, 183 5.
His diet was vegetables, without salt, pepper or other
condiments, and ripe fruit. No inconvenience at all
was felt during the time, and he thinks it could have
been prolonged to any length of time under the
same diet. '

He has a methodical mind. While a farmer he
knew the exact cost of raising each crop.’ In his
profession he has kept records of cases and made
tables of statistics in order to show results with exact-
ness. When he has doubted authorities he has made
original investigations himself to determine the truth.
His love of truth in all serious matters is proverbial ;
but his love of fun and jokes sometimes causes his
friends to say that they don’t know when he is tell-
ing the truth. , g

In his religious views Dr. Chase is hopeful and
liberal. He believes in a continued conscious exist-
ence after death, and thinks that each individual is
responsible for his own actions and must stiffer the
consequences of his own sins. Also that after death
there is an opportunity for improvement in character,
even for the most degraded and sinful.

He has a family of six sons and three daughters.
Two daughters and one son have died. Harry Chase,
the well known and talented marine painter is a son
of the subject of this sketch.

Dr. Chase is still a resident of St. Louis, and
in respectable practice. He enjoys a high degree of
health, and although fifty-seven years of age looks as
though he might live for twenty years to come.

EDWARD BULER.

LAMAR.

DWARD BULER was born September 25,
E 1842, at Coburg, in the Province of Ontario,
Dominion of Canada. The family record is too mea-
ger to afford us more than a bare outline of his ances-
try. His father, Charles G. Buler, was born in
England early in the present century, emigrated to
America, and settled in Ontario, then Upper Canada,

in 183 5, where he married Elizabeth Boucher, a lady
of French extraction, and the mother of his eight
children, of whom Edward was the fourth. In 18 56
Mr. Buler removed to Iowa, but not liking -his new
home, returned to Ontario at the close of the war
and settled at Campbellford where he now resides.

Edward, the subject of this sketch, was fourteen

356 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

years of age at the time his father came to Iowa.
These early years were spent upon the home farm,
where his only opportunities for education were such
as the simple instructions of his parents afforded him.
These, with a term of three months at the Fayette
Academy, Fayette county, Iowa, filled up the meas-
ure of his educational advantages, until his father
returned to Canada. In the fall of -this year (1865),
young Buler, being then twenty—three years of "age,
entered the law department of Michigan University,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which institution he
graduated in the spring of 1867, and soon afterward
commenced the practice of his profession at Dover,
Arkansas. The climate proving detrimental to his
health, and his business prospects not being suffi—
ciently encouraging, he removed the following year
to his present home in Lamar, Barton county, Mis-
souri. His first law partnership was formed with
Hon. Charles H. Morgan, present member of Con-
gress for the 6th congressional district.

In 1876 Mr. Morgan being in Congress, and
Mr. Buler in the State Legislature, Lee Chiswell
was admitted as a third partner 5 the firm name now
standing as Morgan, Buler & Chiswell. Though
comparatively a young man, Mr. Buler is a prominent
member of the Democratic party, and an influential
director of its movements. He was chosen a delegate
to the state conventions of 1:872 and 1876, as also to
the Congressional convention of 1874. Elected a

member of the 29th General Assembly, he was made
a member of its judiciary committee, and took an
active part in shaping the legislation of that session.
A bold and independent thinker, he has held himself
aloof from all denominational organizations, and is a
pronounced liberal in his religious sentiments. As
master of Lamar lodge, No. 292, A. F. and A. M.,
Mr. Buler enjoys the confidence and respect of the
fraternity. He is also a member of Greenfield Chap-
ter Royal Arch Masons. .

Still several years on the sunny side of forty,
almost without any early literary advantages, without
scholastic training, by perseverance, pluck and indom-
itable energy he has made a place for himself not
only at the bar of the several state courts, but before

the bar of the state legislature, where his ability,

his calm discriminating judgment, and his knowledge
of political movements, have won for him the confi-
dence of his associates, the respect of his opponents,
and an honorable place upon the legislative commit-
tee. Chairman of the committee on congressional
districts, member of the committee on federal rela-
tions, no member of Barton county bar has a more
enviable record in the past, or a brighter prospect of
accumulating honors in the future. Endeared to his
hosts of friends by his many social qualities, the com-
ing days dawn most auspiciously upon him, and
added years give hopeful promise of added responsi-
bilities and increasing usefulness.

HIRAM MILTON NORTHRUP.

WYAIVDOTTE, KANSAS.

HE Northrups were an English family who
T settled in Connecticut, removing to New York
state early in the last century. Andruss Bishop
Northrup, Hiram’s father, was born in Sherburne
Falls, Chenango county, that state, in 1793‘. He
came to Olean, Cattaraugus county, when quite a
young man, and was one of the first who settled in
that place, where he followed the mercantile and
lumber business for several years. In 1822 he
moved to Coosada, Autaugua county, Alabama,
where he opened a general merchandising establish-
ment. Remaining there a few years, he removed to
Wetumpka, in the same county, where he purchased

a large real estate property, and continued his gener- ,

al merchandising business. At one time he owned

,a valuable property, but becoming security for very

considerable sums of money, which he was obliged
to pay, his property was sacrificed andhis business
entirely broken up. He was a very upright man, of
generous disposition and fine business qualifications,
characterized by unusual enterprise and great force
of character. He died in 1846. His wife, Martha
McHenry, was the daughter of “ Widow Perry,” the
first settler in Chautauqua county, New York. Mrs.
Perry had been twice. married. She owned a farm
in the county where she settled, and for many years
kept a hotel between Jamestown and Westfield.
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Hiram’s mother, was a lady of good education,
possessed of much more than an ordinary share of
intelligence and strength of character. The date
of her marriage with Andruss B. Northrup is not
recorded. _ . .

Their only son, Hiram Milton, was born at
Olean, Cattaraugus county, June 4, 1818. His
mother dying when he was two years old, he was
adopted by his aunt Sarah Lockwood, his mother’s
sister, whose’ home was in Olean. For her he formed
a strong attachment, and still tenderly cherishes her
memory. _ Mrs. Lockwood was a lady of generous
disposition, intelligent and cultivated , a member of
the Episcopal church, and foremost in every char-
itable work. She took unusual pains with her

nephew’s early training until he was fourteen years '

of age, at which time she died. Hiram had now
obtained a good common school education. Just
before his aunt’s death he had secured a’ clerkship
in the store of Rumsey & Day, at Olean, which he
retained one year. At the age of fifteen he went
into Pennsylvania and taught a district school in
McKean county, for which he received eight dollars
per month, taking his pay in shingles—-—the people
were very poor, and no money in the country.
Young as he was, he gave excellent satisfaction and
had an attendance of sixty pupils.

Before he was quite seventeen years of age, in

r835,phe rafted down the Ohio river to Cincinnati,”

where he was employed in the ship—yard of Archie
Gordon, a well—known boat-builder, with whom he
remained until fall, when he joined his father in
We.tumpka,'Alabama. In 1839 he was given the
managementlof his father’s store, and soon after-
wards a share in the business, the firm becoming
Northrup & Son. When his father became involved,
Hiram lost all he had accumulated.

In 1844 he came to that little group of huts and
shanties called Westport landing, now Kansas City,
and formed a partnership with four others for the
purpose of trading with the Comanche Indians in
Texas and Mexico. They went as far as the Verdi-
gris river, where one of the company died, others
were taken sick, and the Osages robbed them of
nearly all their goods and stock. Mr. Northrup
had a very narrow escape for his life, and returned
to Westport, where he entered into partnership
with E. P. Hart in the Indian trade at that place.
Proceeding to St. Louis, an entire stranger without
capital, he made the acquaintance of several heavy
dealers, from whom he purchased, uponcredit,

goods to the amount of three thousand five hundred
dollars, which were immediately shipped to his
order. Mr. Hart sold out the following year. Mr.
P. M. Chouteau purchased an interest in the busi-
ness, which he held twelve months and sold to Mr.
Northrup, who continued the establishment alone
for many years. His trade continually increased,
until it included the Wyandotte, Shawnee, Delaware,

‘Peoria, Pian-ke-shaw, Pottawotomie, Osage, Kansas,

Seneca, Sac and Fox and Cherokee tribes, from
whom he bought furs, robes, peltries, wool, horses
and cattle, which were shipped to eastern markets.
After a few seasons he united his interests with
Silas Armstrong and Joel Walker, half-breeds of the
W yandotte tribe. On the dissolution of this partner-
ship he formed another with ]. S. .Chick—-under the
name of Northrup & Chick—which soon controlled
a large share of the Santa Fe’ trade. . '
The first bill of goods sold wholesale in Kansas
City was ‘sold by Hiram M. Northrup. ‘His firm
sold the ‘first goods that went to Lawrence, Topeka,
Manhattan, Emporia, Humboldt and Osage Mission.
Their trading posts were established all over the
Indian Territory, their trade extending to New
Mexico, Arizona and the immense tract now inclu-
ded in Colorado, Utah, Kansas, Western Missouri
and the Cherokee nation—their sales at the various
posts amounting to upward of $300,000 annually.
Mr. Northrup was for many years a member of
the Wya.ndotte tribe by adoption, and was elected
one of the legislative committee of that nation. He
always took a deep personal interest in their affairs,
defended their rights, labored to correct the abuses
practiced upon them and other tribes, and his coun-
sels were usually followed. In his dealings with
them he proved himself their friend 5 his whole fron-
tier life. was characterized by integrity, honesty and
generosity, by virtue of whichvhe obtained their

‘absolute confidence and was able to exert a salutary

influence over all their councils. A few years before
the war he was sent by the “Nation” to Washing-
ton as their agent to collect about $53,000 due them
from the government, no bond being required. The
amount was collected and paid over, to the entire
satisfaction of the “Nation,” the agent making no
charge for his services.

In 1857 the firm of Northrup & Chick estab-
lished in Kansas City the first bank west of Lexing-
ton, south of the Missouri river, and at one time
their business houses were the headquarters of trade
for the western country. Kansas City was fast

358 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAL DICTZO./VARY.

becoming a center of trade. Mr. Northrup was
one of its earliest settlers, has always been confident
of her future, and advocated her advantages in sev-
eral able articles in the St. Louis and other promi-
nent journals. He has been foremost in devising
for her interests; took an active part in securing her
first railway communication ; in establishing a steam
ferry across the Missouri; and, in connection with
MI‘. W. H. Chick, mutually established the first
postoffice, by becoming responsible to the govern-
ment for all deficiencies in the rece_ipts to meet the
expenses of the mail service. At a time when
Kansas City credit was worth almost nothing,
Northrup & Chick, then in New York city, loaned
the corporation $60,000, which was expended in
public improvements.

Mr. Northrup built the first house on Main
street erected after the town was laid out—it stood
opposite the present court house. In 1847 he built
a log house on the corner of Main and Fourth
streets, paying one hundred and fifteen dollars for
two lots, and here he resided for a number of years 3
a lot on Delaware street,‘ between Fourth and Fifth,
now the very center of the hardware trade of the
city, he bought for fifteen dollars. He was part
owner of the steamer Lizzie, which attempted the
navigation of the Kansas river.‘ _

When the Union Bank of Missouri at St. Louis
established a branch at Kansas City, Mr. Northrup
was made its president—a position which he was
obliged to resign in 1860, when the Missouri Legis-
lature passed a law prohibiting any private banker
from holding office in any state bank. Just after
the breaking out of the war a party of fifteen ]ay-
hawkers entered and robbed the bank of Northrup
& Co. while Mr. Northrup was at his dinner.

Owing to the insecurity of life and property at
this time, they determined to remove their banking-
house to New York city. Arrangements to this
effect were soon completed, their mercantile inter-
ests in Kansas City disposed of, and the bank estab-
lished at No. 33 Nassau street, New York. After
conducting business on Nassau street for some years
they removed their bank to Wall street. Here their
usual prosperity attended them and their business
rapidly increased, until the panic of 1873, when
they met with heavy losses. They had been dealing
largely in Western securities, particularly in Kansas
bonds, and handled at that time nearly three-fourths
of all the securities from the state.
compelled to suspend business, but in four months’

They were now ,

time settled with their creditors and liquidated every
claim against them. The losses they had sustained
were not only immense, but their failure was very
humiliating to men either of whose names had alone
been good for $1,000,000. While in New York
Mr. Northrup was a director of the Hanover National
Bank, a member of the New York Stock Exchange
and of the Gold Exchange, and favorably known to
all the leading. merchants and bankers of the city.
He was justly regarded as a safe and able finan-
cier, who had had much experience and possessed
unusual business Sagacity.

But their business was practically closed. The
failure, though only partial and temporary, pre-
vented their resuming the extensive operations in
which they had been engaged so many years, and
they resolved to return to the West. Mr. Northrup
came to Wyandotte, Kansas, where his real estate
interests were considerable and in which state he
owned numerous tracts of land. Here he estab-
lished the banking-house of Northrup & Son, where
he still continues business, having built up a success-
ful banking institution ranking at this date (I878)
with the most reliable houses of the West.

Mr. Northrup is a Democrat ; was a very strong
Unionist during the war; belongs to no church, is
quite benevolent, toler~;;t' of others’ opinions, liberal
in his sentiments, holding character and conduct the
essential things in matters of religion.

He was married in Wyandotte, at the Methodist
Mission, November 27, 1845, to Margaret, daughter
of Thomas Clark, one of the chiefs of the Canada
branchof the Wyandotte nation, who died in W yan-
dotte in 1843. Margaret was born on Wyandotte
Reserve, near Lower Sandusky, Ohio, August 28,
1828. At the time of her marriage she was a most
beautiful and attractive girl, and has always been a
favorite in any society in which she has moved. In
New York," where she lived in splendid style, she
dispensed an elegant hospitality, and was noted for
her self-possession and the quiet, unassuming dignity
of her manner. For thirty-five years she has been
a member of the iMethodist Episcopal church—a
devout Christian, earnest in all good works. She is
an affectionate wife and mother, a woman of much
natural grace and refinement of manner, remarked
for her exquisite taste, at the same time a capable
housekeeper, thoroughly domestic in all her tastes.
She is the idol of her husband and children, of
whom she has had four, two only of whom are liv-
ing: Milton C., born October 5, 1846, now in St.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICI'IOIVAI€Y. 359

Louis; Andruss B., born April 27, 1849, ‘now in
the bank with his father at Wyandotte; Thomas P.,
born December 27, I851, and died October 8, 1876,
who at his death was a partner in the bank at W yan-
dotte; and McHenry, born November 5, 18 54, died
December I, 1857.

In such a career, of which we have given the
meager outline, how much _ there must have been of
stirring incident and thrilling adventure which we
leave the imagination to supply. The influences
and lessons of such a life cannot be summed up in

a paragraph. The strength of character, firmness
of will, unfaltering courage, rare presence of mind,
consummate knowledge of men and keen insight
into motives, which were indispensable to success in
such vast operations among the aborigines and half-
breeds of the frontier, and also in the commercial
metropolis of the New World, testify as words can-
not, to the innate greatness, the real nobleness
of mind, and all those qualities of square man-
hood which make up the character of H. M.
Northrup.

GARLAND HURT, M. D.

S T. 1; 0 (US.

ARLAND HURT was _born, December 27,
1819, in Russell county, Virginia. ‘His father,
William D. Hurt, was born in Pittsylvania county,

Virginia, was a farmer and for some years a minis- '

ter of the Methodist church. He was an officer in
the War of 1812. His wife, Elizabeth Crabtree, was
a native of Kentucky.

Garland Hurt was reared in the county of his
nativity. He was educated at Emory and‘Henry
College, near Abingdon, Washington county, Vir-
ginia. In 1842 he began teaching school in Russell
county, Virginia, and continued teaching there and
in Tazewell county for three years. His leisure

hours were devoted to the study of medicine. In ‘

1845 he began the practice as a physician in John-
son county, Kentucky, afterward removing to Floyd

county, in the same state, Where he remained till
1855. In the autumn of 1851 he was elected to the
General Assembly of Kentucky. In 1854 he was
commissioned by President Pierce, Indian agent for
the Territory of Utah, and discharged the duties of
that position for about five years. He removed to
St. Louis and resumed the practice of his profession
in 1861, and in 1863 graduated at the St. Louis
Medical College. In 1868 he was elected to the
Missouri General Assembly, to represent St. Louis
county He was physician in charge of the city
hospital in 1875 and 1876. In 1874 he was elected
president of the St. Louis Medical Society.

Dr. Hurt is a member of the Democratic party.
He has been for many years associated with the
Methodist Episcopal Church (South).

WILLIAM H. WALKER.

WINDSOR.

OTHING is known of Mr. Walker’s ancestors
N any farther back than the next generation.
His father, Wyat Walker, was born in North Caro-
lina, where he resided until 18 56, in which year he
moved to Pittsylvania county, Virginia, where he
remained until 1870, working at his trade of wagon-
making. In 1870 he settled in Henry county, Mis-

souri, where he still resides, carrying on his old busi-
46

ness. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church (South), and a local minister of that denomi-
nation.

William H., youngest of the eight children of
Wyatt and Pamelia Walker, was born in Yanceyville,
North Carolina, March 25, 185 5. His mother Was
a Gilchrist of North Carolina, a name quite common
in that section of the state._ William received his

_ of the Revolution.

360 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

education in the common schools of Virginia and
Missouri until his sixteenth year, when he entered a
hardware store in Windsor, Missouri, as clerk, and
remained there two years. His tastes inclining him
to journalism, he entered the office of the Wz'7m’s0r
Ifelmez‘ as an apprentice. When that paper moved
to Tuscumbia, Miller county, young Walker followed
the fortunes of the paper, remaining in the office
altogetherabout eighteen months. Leaving the office
he was employed on the various papers in South-
western Missouri until 1876, when he returned to
Windsor and established the Wz)za’so1' Eevzkw, a fain-
ily paper devoted to building up the material indus-
tries of that section of Henry county, and advancing
its educational interests, rather than to any party
aggrandizement.

With this object in view he has carefully avoided
committing his paper to the support of any political
organization. Owing to his ability as a writer and
his practical sagacity as a business man, he has suc-
ceeded in building up a successful newspaper busi-
ness where older and more experienced journalists
have failed; his paper at the present time, 1878,

having one of the largest circulations of any paper in
the Southwestern part of the state. [Though holding
aloof from party politics, Editor Walker is outspoken
and decided on all questions of general interest ;
gives free expression to his judgment of public men

and measures, and proves the independence of his .

journal. Politically, his personal affiliations are with
the Democrats; but in his editorial capacity he
knows no party, advocating such measures and sup-
porting such candidates as in his honest judg-
ment will advance the interests of the community
at large.

Though but a young man, only twenty-three years
of age, Mr. Walker has made an enviable reputation
for himself at home, and is becoming favorably known
abroad. His word is sacredly regarded as his bond,
his sterling honesty and business integrity .fully con-
ceded wherever he is known, giving bright promise of
a useful and honorable life. A man of good pres-
ence, large perceptive faculties, sound judgment, a
ready writer and a practical printer, William H.
Walker bids fair to obtain distinction for himself in
the editorial chair.

COLONEL WARNER LEWIS.

MT. OLIVE.

in St. Louis county, Missouri. The Lewis
family is of English origin and immigrated to Vir-
ginia in the early history of the colonial settlements.
The members of thefamily then living were identified
with the Rebels in their ‘struggle for independence
and took an active part in the military transactions
Warner Lewis, grandfather of
Colonel Lewis, emigrated from Goochland county,
Virginia, in 1819, and settled in St. Ferdinand town-
ship, St. Louis county, Missouri, bringing his family
with him. The father of Colonel Lewis, Robert
Lewis, was born in Goochland county, Virginia, and
came to Missouri with his father. He married Miss
Lucy B. Bacon, a native of St. Louis county, daugh-
ter of Ludwell Bacon, who moved to Missouri in
1808, and grand-daughter of Lawrence Long, who
settled in that county in 1797. The Bacon family
is of English descent, and settled in Virginia at
an" early day in its history, inhabiting the country

‘ A I ARNER LEWIS was born January 5, 1834,

now known as Albemarle county. They, too,
were participators in the war of 1776, the war
of 1812, and the Indian wars preceding and follow-
ing the Revolution. A '

Warner Lewis was reared on the farm ceded by

‘the Spanish government to his grandfather, Lawrence

Long, in 1797. It lies in Bonhomme township and
has been tilled for over eighty years. His education
was obtained in the country schools, and in the Mis-
souri State University, where he graduated in 1854.
For several years before the rebellion he resided in
Cass county, Missouri, and pursued the avocation of
an agriculturist and ‘stock-breeder.

In 1861 he entered the Confederate service on
General Raines’ staff, as paymaster of the 8th Mis-
souri Division, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
In 1862 he was commissioned by President ‘Davis a
colonel in the Ranger service. He was in the ser-
vice during the entire war, in Missouri, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. He

TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGZEAPZJZCAZ. DICTZO./VA1t’Y.

was severely wounded in the shoulder in 186:2, dur-
ing a battle in the Indian Territory between the
Rangers, and the Indians belonging to the Federal
army. He is the only survivor of twenty Confed-
erate soldiers, engaged in this conflict against three
hundred Indians. At the close of the late war he
went with General Shelby into Mexico, and after the
fall of the Maximilian Government, returned to the
United States of America.

In 1866 he became a farmer in Montgomery
county, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar as a
practicing attorney _in 1868. He practiced in the
courts of Hermann, Gasconade county, and Danville,
Montgomery county.

361

In 1873 he removed to Fulton, Callaway county,
and practiced his profession until 1878, when he
located at Mt. Olive, the county seat of the new
county of St. Louis. Colonel Lewis is in politics
a Democrat, and in religious sentiment he embraces
the doctrines of the Presbyterian church and is a
member of i that denomination. ‘

He was married, in 18 5 5, to Miss Sarah Griffith,
a native of Alleghany county, Virginia, and daugh-
ter of Robert Griffith, a pioneer who settled in Cass
county, Missouri, in 1840. C

Colonel Lewis is a gentleman of cultivated tastes,
nice discernment, sound judgment, and unquestioned
probity.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ELIAS PAR ROTT.

OSB OR./V.

East Tennessee, November I5, 1805. All the
schooling that he received was in that county, and
did not aggregate more than six months. His real
education was gained in the great university of
experience, where ‘he acquired a varied and practi-
cal knowledge of men and things. He was brought
up a farmer and teamster, in which latter occupa-
tion he took great delight. He followed these
occupations in Tennessee for nearly twenty-five years.

In 1824 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John
McSpadden, a Tennessee farmer. Three of their
children, Sarah, William F., and Susan B., were
born in Tennessee; two others, John M.,and Herber
T., were born in Indiana , to which state the family
removed in 1830. Leaving Indiana in 1836 they
came to Polk county, now Dallas, Missouri, where
Margaret G. and Nancy J. were born. All the
children are now living except William, who was
murdered during the war. At the age of twenty-
two Elias Parrott was elected captain of a militia
company in Tennessee, and served as such for five
years. In 1832, while living in Indiana, he served
in the same capacity for four years. During his resi-
dence in Polk county, some four years, he served as
constable two years, and was sergeant-major of a
Company of State militia. ,

In the fall of 1840 he moved into Ray county;
then, January, 1841, into Buchanan county, where

I ‘LIAS PARROTT was born in Campbell county,
J

his son, Elias, was born, who was killed in the
Federal service in Missouri, at the age of twenty-one.
Here his wife died August 1, 1842. August I0,
1843, he married Louisa, daughter of Stewart Mc-
Cord,_ a farmer of Clinton county. Of their four
children, three are now living, all in DeKalb county:
James K. Polk, Austin A. and Joseph H.

In March, 1845, he moved to.DeKalb county,
and settled three miles northwest of Maysville, the
county seat, which he assisted in laying out. The
same month, March, 1845, he was elected judge of
the county court of DeKalb county; was reelected
in 1847, for four years, and served out his full
term. He was again elected for the two years’ term
in 1859. From. 185x to 1855 he was deputy sheriff
under Simeon Dalton. In October, I86I, he was
elected lieutenant-colonel of the 6th Regiment “six
month’s ” State militia, and served out his time. In
August, 1862, he was elected captain of the “En-

rolled militia,” but being elected member of the state"

legislature, from DeKalb county, November, 1862, he
was temporarily relieved from military duty. On the
adjournment of the legislature, in the spring of 1863,
he resumed command of his company, then stationed
at Maysville, Missouri. He was almost immediately
promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 81st
Regiment State militia,popularly known as the ‘ ‘Paw-
paw ” militia, John Scott, of St. Joseph, colonel
commanding, and did efficient service with his regi-

362 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

ment in quelling the disturbances of that period.
His last military service was as inspector-general upon
the staff of General Craig, of St. Joseph, with the
pay of his original rank as lieutenant-colonel.
war closing, he was permanently relieved from duty.
About this time he was attacked with inflammatory
rhuematism, from which he has suffered more or less
ever since, and which finally caused his death-
March 4, I878. .
Elias Parrott was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, with which he united in his
youth. On the division of the denomination in 1844
into Methodist Episcopal Church (North), and Meth-
odist Episcopal Church (South), he adhered to the
Southern branch, of which he was," at the time of
his- death, an honored and consistent member. A
loyal Democrat, by all the ‘teachings and associa-
tions of his youth, he was strongly attached to the
party, and was one of its warmest supporters. In I846
he was initiated, passed and raised in the Masonic
lodge at Savannah, Andrew county, the nearest
Masonic body at that time, was active in the work
of the order, and assisting in the institution of several

The

lodges indifferent counties in the state, and was a
deputy district grand master for several years, hold-
ing that office in various districts ; exalted in Savan-
nah Chapter -Royal Arch Masons in 1847, and was,
at the time of his death, a member of Cameron
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, in Clinton county.
Of late years he has resided in Osborn, though own-
ing one of the finest farms in the county.

After a two months’ illness, Colonel Parrott
died, March 4, 1878, of inflammatory rheumatism,
at his residence in Osborn. He was buried with
Masonic honors, and accompanied to his last resting
place by an immense concourse of frends and neigh-
bors, in DeKalb county, of which he had been a
constant resident for a little over thirty-three years. In
all the relations of life, as husband, father, citizen, sol-
dier, judge, in the church, in the state, in business
and in social life, as well as in ;he ancient and hon-
orable fraternity who bore him to his silent rest, in
whose memories his virtues are engraven as upon a
new white stone, in all, he has proved himself a man,
and no more highly respected citizen has ever passed
away from DeKalb county than Colonel Elias Parrott.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH TRUEX.

OSB ORIV.

family, eight sons and four daughters, born to

Benjamin Truex and his wife Eleanor (Cramer)
Truex, of whom ten are now living. His father
was born in Pennsylvania in 1800; his mother was
also a native of that state. They were married
there, their first children were born there, and from
there they removed to Vermillion county, Illinois, a
little while before the birth of their son Joseph, May
20, 1832. Benjamin Truex afterward came to Mis-
souri, removed from there to 'Kansas, where he died
in 1872. His wife still resides in that state. S Joseph
Truex received in Knox county, Illinois, the advan-
tages of a good English and commercial education,
attending school until he was twenty years old. At
the age of twenty-one he came to Davis county, Mis-
souri, and the following year to De Kalb county,
where he learned the carpenter’s trade which he fol-
lowed for about ten years, during three years of which
his winters were given to teaching school. He bought

JOSEPH TRUEX was the fifth child of a large

one hundred and twenty acres of land in De Kalb
county, improved it into a good, well cultivated farm,
which he sold in 1868.

February 22, 1853, he married Nancy J., daugh-
ter of Elias Parrott, a prominent citizen of De Kalb
county, Missouri, a sketch of whose life also appears
in this volume. Of their nine children, five sons
and two daughters are-living.

In 1862 Joseph Truex joined the De Kalb bat-
talion, composed of three companies of militia,
commanded by Lieut-Col. Parrott, his father-in—law.
The following year he was elected captain of his

company, a position which he held till the battalion

was mustered out of service in 1865. His military

career was confined principally to Northwest Missouri.

On being mustered out of service in 186 5, he sold
his farm and entered into a mercantile partnership at
Maysville, county seat of De Kalb county.‘ The
firm was Pritchard & Truex, their capital three thou-
sand dollars.

They continued in business one year, _

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAJRHICAL DZCTZO./VARY. 363

when they removed to Osborn, on the Hannibal &
St. Joseph Railroad, and bought out the firm of Hitt
& Duncan. In 1867 he bought out his partner’s inter-
est and Levi Pritchard retired from the firm. Since
then Mr. Truex has conducted his business alone.
In 1872, at an expense of seven thousand dollars, he
erected the best building in Osborn, a spacious
block three stories high, thegreater portion of which
he occupies with his own large stock of goods in the
general trade. As a business man he has been
remarkably successful. In twelve years, from a cap-
ital of fifteen hundred dollars he has accumulated a
property worth considerably over fifty thousand dol-
lars. His investments in real estate have been exten-
sive. He owns some of the finest farms in Clinton
and De Kalb counties, and is largely engaged in the
purchase and shipment of grain. Though he never
allows politics to interfere with his business, ‘he is
deeply interested in political matters and is a staunch
Democrat, which political faith he received from his
father. Himself and wife and two eldest children
are members of the Missionary Baptist church
of Osborn, of which he is a deacon. In 1866 he
was made a Master in Stewartsville lodge A. F. & A.

M. ,in 1.868 a Royal Arch Mason in Cameron Chapter,
a member of St. Joseph’s Council of Royal Select
Masters in 187 2, and in the same year was dubbed

and created Knight Templar in Kandesh Comman-r

dery, Hamilton, Missouri, and is now a member of
St. Joseph_Commandery, No. 4. In 1870, at the
organization of Osborn Lodge, No. 317, A. F. & A.
M., he became its first W. M., an office which he
continues to hold to this date—r878. In 1869 he

joined the I. O. of G. T., of which he was a promi- I

nent member and District Deputy until the lodge be-
came disorganized in 1872. '

Mr. Truex stands exactly six feet high, weighs
238 pounds, of florid complexion, and is emphatic-
ally one of the solid men of his county. His suc-
cesses are the result of his own personal exertions.
The position he occupies in the church, in the busi-
ness community, and in the various benevolent orders
of which he it so prominent a member, all testify to
the universal respect in which he is held. While his
increasing business demonstrates how closely the
laws of honesty, integrity, correct judgment and
square dealing run parallel with the lines of commer-
cial prosperity.

JOI-IN GILMORE COWAN.

HOLT COUNTY.

HE Cowan family are of Scotch-Irish extraction

—a race combining industry, energy and grit,
with”honesty, hatred of oppression and a genuine
passion for learning. John G. Cowan’s ancestors
settled in Virginia before the American Revolution,
in which some of them were actively engaged. His
father, William G. Cowan, was married some time
early in this century, and with his wife removed from
Virginia to Tennessee, settling on Ducks river. The

climate of their new home was so malarial that after a .

residence of a few months they left the state for
Pulaski county, Kentucky, where Mrs. Cowan died,
leaving her husband with six children. His second
wife was Miss Sarah Gilmore, and John Gilmore
Cowan, born July 21, 1820, was the eldest of her
seven children. ’

When John was fourteen years old his father died.
For the next six- years he remained with his mother
on the farm, improving such meager educational

advantages as the winter terms of the country schools
at that time afforded. Leaving Kentucky at twenty-
two years of age, he came to Andrew county, Mis-
souri, and entered a farm ten miles north of Savannah,
upon which he located in 1843, when the territory
was opened for settlement. Here he married Mary
E. daughter of William and Elizabeth Gersham, the
mother of his large family of eleven children, of whom
seven still survive.

He lived upon his Andrew county farm until 18 58,
when he sold it and bought another in Nodaway
county. This he made his home until March, 1866,
when he moved to Holt county and purchased his
present property of six hundred and twenty acres,
which he has improved into one of the most desirable
homesteads in the West.

Mr. Cowan has been remarkably successful all
through life. His business enterprises have been
managed with that practical sagacity so characteristic

S painting and ornamenting.

364 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY.

of the man.
until he now owns eighteen hundred acres of as valu-
able farming land as can be found in Holt county.

He has made the raising of thoroughbred cattle a
specialty, and is recognized throughout Northern Mis-
souri, Kansas and Nebraska, as the pioneer breeder
of short horns in this region. In 1868 he brought
from Paris and Lexington, Kentucky, the first herd
of pure thoroughbred cattle that ever set foot within
the boundaries of the Platte purchase. Since that
time he has been very successfully engaged in breed-
ing. this class of stock, and is owner of one of the
finest and largest herds in the State. I His cattle have
been frequently exhibited at the Missouri, -Kansas and
Nebraska state fairs, and have been always regarded
by competent judges as genuine, gilt-edged stock, infe-
rior to none.

Charles, the eldest son, is a farmer ; Bryant 0., now
a young man of twenty—six, a graduate of Prince-
ton College, New ]ersey, had partially completed his
law course when he turned his footsteps in his fath-
er’s tracks and engaged in the breeding of fine cattle,
for which his thorough collegiate training will addi-
tionally qualify him.

Presbyterianism runs in the Scotch—Irish blood.
Mr. Cowanis no exception. For twenty-five years,
like his parents before him, he has been a member of
that denomination. In politics, originally an old-line
Whig, when that party became extinct he cast in his
lot with the Democracy; but his friends say that for
ten years he has voted the ‘ ‘ short horn ticket.” During
the late war he was a staunch Union man. He takes

He has already accumulated property V

new world development.

a hearty and intelligent interest in all educational
matters.
advanced educators, he recognizes the necessity of
raising the standard of instruction in the state schools,
and has been wisely provident in affording his own
family every facility for a thorough and liberal culture.

In personal appearance, tall, ilender, standing one
inch over six feet in height, weghing about one hun-
dred and sixty pounds, strong, wiry and keen, incisive
in his perceptions, decisive in his judgments and
actions, John G. Cowan is without question one of
the representative men of Northwestern Missouri.

Endowed with the characteristics of his race, the
indomitable will, perseverence and courage of gener-
ations of ancestors are behind him, their sterling qual-
ities are to be added to the very best results of the
Such are the influences
that have determined the character, given direction to
the energies, and stamped themselves into the.very
grain of John G. Cowan and his household.

The lessons of such lives are just such lessons as
this age of paint, putty, varnish and veneer must have ;
lessons teaching the value of a life preéminently suc-
cessful because it is solid clear through. To withhold
these lessons through modesty, reticence or aught
else, is to refuse to teach. The influence of such a
man, with his enlarged conceptions of the dignity of
labor, his intelligent recognition of the educational
demands of to—day, his moral" sensibility, together with
the stimulus of his personal and family example, are

. invaluable to any community, a perpetual inspiration

to better things in themselves and others.

CAPTAIN E. W. GOULD.

ST. LOUIS.

W. GOULD was born in Massachusetts, in

. the eleventh year of the present century. A
district school of two months in summer and the
same in winter was the only opportunity children at
that time and place had of receiving an education.
At the age of fifteen years he was placed as an
apprentice in a carriage manufactory, and worked
in various departments, but principally in that of
Having become master
of that branch of the business, in 183 5 he emigrated
to St. Louis and resumed the occupation of carriage

painting. At that time the city contained only

,about 8,000 inhabitants, and of course had but few .

manufactories, among which there were three carriage
shops only, and they principally engaged in repair-
ing. So little demand was there for carriage painting
that one hand was suffijcient to do all the work
required at the three shops, and then not be kept
employed all the time.

Emigration to the West soon set in, and thousands
of emigrants from the i Eastern States and from
Europe created an unprecedented demand for river

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transportation. Many abandoned their more legiti-
mate business and embarked on the river. The
unwholesome effect of confinement in a paint shop
rendered a change imperatively necessary, and the
subject of this sketch, in co1n1no11 with many others,
embarked in steamboating on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries. Steamboats at that early date
were comparatively of small dimensions and equally
small pretentions. The first boat he became inter-
ested in was the Friendship, valuedat $8,000, then
running from St. Louis to the Illinois river. She
was what was then known as a “lower cabin boat,”
single engine, and side wheels. Up to that time
(1836) there had been but few upper cabin boats
built, and no double engines, although there were
some stern wheel boats with two engines similar to
those now in use.

Steamboating then being in its infancy, of course
many changes were being made and new inventions
introduced. In nothing, perhaps,_ has there been
more improvement, both in appearance and comfort,‘
than in the cabin. The old fashioned lower cabin boat
was built with the ladies cabin in the hold, near the
stern 5 while the gentleman’s cabin was on the main
deck, immediately over the ladies—there being but
little boiler deck, or hurricane deck then built. With
the increase of business and competition, the size
and capacity of boats have been increased. While
but little improvement has been made in the steam
engine ‘or in the speed of boats since 1835.

After an experience of several years, with varied
success in several different boats, Captain Gould, in
1840, removed from St. Louis to Warsaw, Illinois,
and embarked in mercantile pursuits and the 1nanu—
facturing of flour. After a residence of some five
years at \Varsaw—not having satisfactory success
in business—he resolved to reémbark on the river
and in the spring of 1847 built the St. Louis and
upper Mississippi river steamer “Time and Tide.”-

As forming an important event in the history of

every man’s life the following notice taken from the
Warsaw Szg/ml, a journal published at Warsaw at
that time, should not be omitted in this connection:
“Married in Warsaw, December 2, 1846, by the
Rev. Jonathan Grout, at the residence of the bride’s
father, Dr. Wm. B. Chipley, Captain E. W. Gould
to Miss E. A. Chipley.”

Resuming his residence at St. Louis in 1847,
Captain Gould has continued his citizenship thereto
the present time, 1878. During the last thirty years
he has been intimately connected with the steam com’-

merce of western rivers. Having built and navigated
some of the largest and finest boats on the waters;
among which may be mentioned the Cataract, Impe-
rial, James E. Woodruff, Belle Gould, City of Pekin,
Schuyler, Nellie Rogers, Post Boy, 1st and 2d, Clara,
Belle of Pike, Capital City, Wm. J. Lewis, Fannie
Keener, Fannie Lewis, Belle St. Louis, Lilly, Cal-
houn, Gold Dust, and some others. To no one,
perhaps, is the public more ‘indebted for the many
improvements in steamboat building than to him.
Seeing the great neglect of the government in
making the necessary appropriations for the improve-
ment of western waters, he" has taken a lively inter-
est in awakening the representatives in Congress from

' the West to a sense of their duty in this respect,

and also to the great necessity for the amendment of
what is known as the “inspection” or “steamboat
law.” He has spent gratuitously much time and
money in Washington, to accomplish these objects,
besides contributing many articles for publication, to
show the injustice done by neglecting to foster this
great commercial interest. In politics,'an Old Line
Whig, always conservative, voting for Bell and
Everett in 1860, and opposing the radicals both
North and South, but siding with the South when
the final issues were’ made, he is also conservative
in religion, accepting the Unitarian theory from
childhood, although raised by orthordox parents,
with orthodox surroundings. After the development
of the spiritual philosophy, he-accepted the evidence
of spirit communion, and is still an ardent supporter
of that theory.

Among his many communications published in
the newspapers of the day upon subjects connected
with the great marine interests of the Mississippi

.Valley, Captain Gould published a series of letters in

the New York A/7m/z'caZ Gazelle, in 1874 and‘ 187 5,
which would prove interesting in this connection,
had we the space to reproduce them, as they give
a desultory sketch of the introduction, progress and
decline of steamboating of the western waters. 1 He
has for many years been a close observer and faith-
ful guardian of the river interests of the entire Mis-
sissippi Valley. His articles on “River Improve-
ments, “Congressional Appropriations for Western
Rivers,” and his suggestions for appropriations and
navigation laws suited to different localities, and on
other subjects, evidence a literary ability of fine
order. In the long-talked of barge line for the Mis-
souri and Mississippi rivers, Captain Gould has ever
taken a deep interest, having furnished many valua-

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ble articles for publication on the subject. He has
constantly maintained that barges were impractichble
on the Missouri River at the present time ; but that
liberal river improvements, and properly constructed
steamers, could and would afford constant and as
cheap transportation as the proposed barge line.
He projected a new freight steamer which he
intended should supersede barges. The boat is
calculated to carry bulk grain or any kind of freight
at rates lower than has ever been approximated
on the Mississippi. Its capacity is 3,500 tons, on
nine feet of water, and can be manipulated by a
very small crew at comparatively light expense, as
her fuel bill will be very small. The dimensions of
the proposed steamer are as follows : Length, 275 feet,
beam, 50 feet 3 hold, IO feet 3 cylinders, 8 feet stroke
by 2 feet in diameter, 4 boilers, 30 feet long by 40
inches in diameter, wheels, 29 feet in diameter, with
16 feet length of bucket. The recommendations of

this steamer are: First, she carries the cargo of
an average tow without the barge encumbrance;
second, she costs no more than a tow boat, and
therefore saves the cost of the barges, third, she
saves the expense of towing the barges back against
the current, which is the most serious objections
to the barge system. The new boat will cost $60,-
ooo.

As indicative of the esteem in which the Captain
is held in St. Louis, we quote from one of the daily
papers of that city: “ Next to J. B. Eads we have
no gentleman connected with the river interests of
more experience or greater ability, than E. W.
Gould.” Although sixty-six years of age, he is still
(1878) in vigorous health, and actively engaged in
the position of commander of the steamboat Gold
Dust, navigating the Mississippi and Missouri rivers,
and is acting president of the Missouri River Packet
Company of St. Louis.

COLONEL CHARLES GORE-IAM COMSTOCK.

ALBA./VY.

HERE are few older family names in this
T country than that of Comstock. Thirty-four
years after the landing on Plymouth Rock, one
Christopher Comstock left England. and, following in
the wake of that May Flower crew whose coming to
these shores has marked an era in human liberty, cast
in his fortunes with the colonists of Connecticut.
Colonel Comstock is a lineal descendant of that early
pioneer. His father, William Comstock, a native of
Connecticut, married Maria Falconer, by whom he
had two children.

The older, and only son, Charles G. was born in
Putnam county, New York, October 8, 1836. He was
educated at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York,
where he pursued a general course of English litera-
ture, and secured a special training in the mercantile
and business departments. On leaving this institu-
tion, he entered‘ Fowler’s Law School, in the same

. city, from which, having completed his regular course,

he graduated in 1857, a little before he attained his
majority ; and immediately removing to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, entered upon the practice of his.profession.
After a residence of nearly two years in Milwaukee,
he left that city, located in Albany, his present resi-

dence, and resumed his legal practice. Absorbed
in his profession, laying the foundations for future
wealth and an increasing practice by strict attention
to business, two years passed rapidly away.

On the breaking out of the late war 1861, he
organized a company of State militia, was chosen cap-
tain, and tendered the services of his company to the
Governor.
mand until the spring of 1865, was enrolled in the
31st Regiment of infantry, Colonel Cranor com-
manding, and served in Northwest Missouri. Early
in 186 5 Captain Comstock was commissioned colonel
of the 34th Regiment State militia. Discharging at
the same time the duties of a soldier and acivilian,
in 1862, as nominee of the Republican party for Pro-
bate ‘judge of Gentry county, he was elected to that
office. In the fall of 1864 he was elected clerk of
the Circuit Court, which office he filled most accepta-
bly for two years. Chosen a delegate to the National
Republican Convention in 1876, he represented the
9th Congressional District of this state in that con-
vention, in which, after a hard fight, Rutherford B.
Hayes received his nomination to the Presidency of
the United States.

This company, of which he retained com-‘

_ Parmelia S. Mason.

TIIE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL I)ICTIO./VARY. 367

As might be inferred from his ancestry, Colonel
Comstock has always been a Republican in his politi-
cal creed and affiliations, and shows no disposition to
form any new party alliances. Though reared in the
faith of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he has never
become a member of her communion nor united him-
self with any religious denomination.

By prudence, judicious investments and diligent
attention to his business, he has amassed a handsome
fortune, and is one of the leading citizens of his sec-
tion. Heis a large stockholder in the Gentry County
Bank, and at present (1878) is vice president of that
corporation. _ '

A Mason of twenty years standing, having taken
his Master’s degree in Milwaukee, he affiliates with

Athens Lodge A. F. & A. M., Albany, Missouri.
He is also an active member of the I. O. O. F. lodge
of the same place.

Just before the close of the war, ,December 5,
1864, he married Miss Lizzie Miller, daughter of Finis
Miller, of Breckenridge, Caldwell county, Missouri.
Two children have blessed this union. Claude, the
older, is a fine, bright boy of ten years; Lizzie, the
household pet, is two years younger.

Colonel Comstock is a man of medium height,
without any superfluous flesh—all nerve and muscle 3
his height, about five feet ten inches; his weight, one
hundred and fifty pounds. He is a man of standing
and character, best appreciated by those to whom he
is best known. I

CAPTAIN ISAAC M. MASON

ST. LOUIS.

SAAC M. MASON was born in Brownsville,
I Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on the 4th day of
His parents’ names were Morgan and
They were both natives of
His mother died at the age of forty-

March, I 83 I.

Pennsylvania.

.six 5 his father is still living and is now in his seven-

tieth year. His grandfather emigrated from near
Winchester, Virginia, in 1794, and settled in VVash—
ington county, Pennsylvania, while that country was
inhabited by Indians, and lived there and in Fayette
county until his death, which occurred at Morgan
Mason.’s, in his seventy-sixth year, with four genera-
tions of his progeny around his death—bed.

Isaac M. Mason enjoyed all the facilities afforded
by the public schools in Brownsville, Pennsylvania,
and received a fair English education. From early
life he exhibited a particular fondness for machinery
and spent most of his leisure" time in his father’s flour-
ing mill; but his great and growing desire was a life
on the river. After leaving school he clerked in a
dry goods store_for more than a year; but the life
proved too monotonous and slow for his active spirit.
Accordingly, having gained his father’s. consent, he
went on the river, serving first on the steamboat
Consul, then running from Brownsville to Pittsburg.
This life suited him, and by close application to his
business and fidelity to the trusts reposed in him, he

rapidly gained favor and speedy promotion. At the
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early age of nineteen he was made captain of the

steamboat Summit, and remained in that position
He continued on the river, and in‘

fourteen years.
the spring of 1851 first came to St. Louis. Being
pleased with the city and the West, and feeling
assured of the brilliant future for that city, he deter-
mined to make it his home; but he did not bring his
family to S_t. Louis until the spring of 1862.

Captain Mason has served on the following steam-
ers: Consul, Atlantic, Summit, Editor, Australia,
Honduras, ,Alma, Belle Golden, Vixen, Denmark,
Fred Lorentz, Savannah, Hawkeye State. ‘During
the War of the rebellion, his boats, Fred Lorentz and
the Savannah, were employed in transporting sup-
plies to the United States army at Nashville, Tennes-
see, "and at Young"s Point, above Vicksburg.

In 186 5 he retired from active steamboat service,
although still connected with river business, being
agent for the Northern line packet company for
eleven years, and has always taken an active part in
every feasible enterprise for increasing the commerce
of St. Louis by improving the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi and other rivers, and building railroads to the
future great railway center. I -

Captain Mason was made president of the Board
of Trade of St.‘ Louis and served as such during the
years 1874-5. He has been a member of the Mer-
chants’ Exchange, of St. Louis, for many years, and

368 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

has ever taken an active part in its deliberations.
He joined the Masons in 18 54, the Odd Fellows in
1853 and the Knights of Honor in 1877, and is now
treasurer of three Masonic bodies. -

He was a Whig in politics until that party ceased
to exist, and, since then, has been a Republican.
By that party he was elected county marshal of St.
Louis county, November 7, 1876, and on the 2nd of
April, 1877, was elected city marshal, for a term of
four years, for the city of St. Louis.

In the time of his river profession, Captain Mason
has traveled over fourteen states in the Union—
mostly those along the rivers, and his careful obser-
vations have given him a fund of information
extremly valuable in the various counsels held and to
be held for the improvement of the navigable streams
of the West.

His parents were Baptists and reared him in that
church, but after marriage, his wife being an Episco-
palian, he joined that church and has since been a
member thereof, being now vestryman in St. George’s
church, of St. Louis ‘ _

On the 16th of November, 1852, Captain Isaac
M. Mason was married to Miss Mary Ann Tiernan,
who was born in Brownsville, February 22, 1832.
Six children have blessed the union, five of whom
are still living. The oldest son, Charles P., was first
clerk on the steamer Lake Superior, and is now first
clerk on steamer Alex. Mitchell, of ‘the Northern line
packet company’s steamers. Willie is collector of

Northern line packet company. The rest are at
home and attending school.

He is still in the prime and vigor of manhood,
and regularly fulfills the onerous duties of his office
to the satisfaction of all who come in contact with
him. Indeed, it has been the rule of his life to treat
every person kindly and politely, as he says, “deem—
ing it theibest capital for a business man to treat
every one politely under all circumstances.” The
writer has, on‘ several occasions, seen the Captain
fairly tested on this question in his office as city mar-
shal, and whether it was officer or prisoner, lawyer,
or citizen, gentleman or rascal, each one met with
polite treatment and never any unnecessary hauteur or
incivility. It is probably due to this characteristic
in all his intercourse that has made Captain Mason
so universally popular. And that its practice requires
an unusually well balanced mind, as well as a com-
pletely governed temper, any visitor to the marshal’s
office, in the Four Courts at St. Louis, will readily
discover.

Those who know Captain Mason best, speak of
him most highly, and men of all parties in St. Louis,
in speaking of him to the writer of this sketch, accord
to him a meed of praise that is highly complimentary.
One of the quietest and most unassuming of gentle-
men, his constant successes from youth to now con-
stitute one more argument for earnest self—endeavor
and faithful discharge of duties as a sure means to
exalted and honorable position.

REV. MONTGOMERY SCI-IUYLER, D. D.

ST. LOUIS.

ONTGOMERY SCHUYLER was born in the
M city of New York on the 9th of January,
1814. His father, Anthony D. Schuyler, was born
in Burlington, New Jersey. For many years "he was
engaged in business in New York City as an importer
of dry goods and broadcloths. He afterward moved
to Western New York, and settled in the town of
Ovid, Seneca county, where he was extensively
employed in farming. He married Miss Sarah A.
Ridg, of Philadelphia. They had twelve children,
ten of whom lived to adult age-four sons and six
daughters. The original Schuyler family settled in
Albany, New York, and were connected by marriage

with the Van Rensselaers and the Livingstons. Gen-
eral Philip Schuyler was a relative, though the branch
from which Anthony D. Schuyler sprung was settled
in New Jersey.

Montgomery Schuyler was educated in his pri-
mary studies at the academy in Ovid. In 1830 he
was admitted as a Freshman in Geneva College,
where he remained for three years. -A He then entered
Union College and graduated in 1834. He was nat-
urally fond of study and his father designed him for a
profession. During his college course his father died
and he returned home, where he remained a year,

while his elder brother was completing his education -

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at the Rensselaer Institute, Troy, New York. This
year was spent in active farm work, and he then
acquired a taste for the ‘garden and farm which he
has never lost. After leaving college, he assisted his
old preceptor for one year in the academy at Ithaca,
New York, and entered his name at the same time as
a law student in the office of Ben Johnson, Esq.

In the autumn of 183 5, in company with a col-
lege friend, now the Hon. James C. Smith, of Canari-
daigua, he started for the West, then a very
indefinite term. They had no particular state in
view, but were led by providential circumstances to
Michigan, and at last settled in Marshall, Calhoun
county. A law office was opened here by the two
young men though neither of them had been in the
practice. In process of time, they became interested
as proprietors in the new town.

In the fall of 1836 Mr. Schuyler was married to
Miss Sarah Sandford, daughter of Dr. Jared Sand-
ford, of Ovid, New York. Having been led by the
fever of speculation to abandon his profession, he at
one time was engaged in the hardware business, and
also in the management of two saw mills, in company
with James Gordon, Esq.,who was afterward a prom-
inent lawyer and lieutenant—governor of the state.
He was at the same time employed in the editorship
of the weekly Whig paper of the town of Marshall.
He continued in business for some four years, when

he determined to give up secular pursuits and com-

mence preparation for the ministry in the Episcopal
church. He left Marshall with his family and was
absent for the space of about fourteen months, when
he returned to Michigan and was ordained deacon in
St. Andrew’s church at Ann Arbor, May 17, 1841,
by Right Rev. Bishop McCoskry, D. D. It was
rather remarkable that, though receiving calls to
other places, he determined, at the earnest solicita-
tion of the congregation, to begin his ministry where
he.had been known as a business man and where he
had been one of the first wardens of the church, and
one of its earliest supporters as a layman. Here his
ministry was blessed. The congregation greatly in-
creased andthe church building was enlarged. On the
19th of February, I842, he was ordained to the priest-
hood by Bishop McCoskry in St..Paul’s church, Detroit.
During his ministry in Marshall he was called to pass
through the deep waters of affliction. His wife died
September 18, 1841, and three children preceded her
to the tomb. Her memory is dearly cherished and
she sleeps by the side of her children in the lovely
cemetery of the city. He remained in charge of the

"day School Union.

church for more than two years after this. On the
roth of October, 1843, he married Miss Lydia E.
Roosevelt, daughter of Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt, of
Skeneateles, New York. In the summer of 1844 he
was called to the rectorship of Grace church at
Lyons, New York. Here he had a short but most
pleasant ministry, meeting with many congenial
friends. Among them was the greatest of American
jurists, Hon. Ambrose Spencer, judge of the supreme
court of the state of New York. This friendship
was continued in a delightful correspondence until
the day of his death. When Judge Spencer died, he
left Dr. Schuyler, as a memorial of his friendship,
his walking cane, which was conveyed to him with a
very pleasant letter from Hon. John C. Spencer, Sec-
retary of the Navy.

In 1845 he was called as the first rector of the
newly organized congregation of St. John’s church,
Buffalo, New York. During his ministry there the
magnificent stone church was built. At this
time he wrote a story founded upon incidents in the
the life of ‘a little child in his congregation, entitled
“Cameron Masten; or the Testament in the Little
Coffin,” which was published by the Episcopal Sun-
He also preached a series of
sermons which were published, at the request of his
brethren of the clergy in the city, under the title of
‘_‘The Church—its Ministry and Worship,” making
a duodecimo volume of over two hundred pages.

On the roth of October, 1852, Mrs. Schuyler
died, a little son having preceded her, and leaving
two sons, one of them five years old and the other
ten months. A mural monument in St. John’s
church, erected by the ladies of the church, bears
witness to their love and esteem for her many virtues.
His ministry continued in St. John’s church for a
little over nine years. The church was consecrated
by Right Rev. William H. Delaney, D. D., in the
month of February, 1848. On the 29th of May,
1854, he was married in St. John’s church to
Miss Sophia E. Norton, daughter of Captain_W alter
Norton, of Buffalo. He resigned the rectorship of
St. John’s church September I, 1854. During his
ministry there four hundred and seventy were bap-

_ tized, one hundred and sixty-two confirmed, one

hundred and eighty-five married and two hundred
and two buried. He entered upon his duties as
rector of Christ’s church, St. Louis, October 1, 18 54,
and has continued in this relation for nearly twenty-
four years. He has been for several successive years
president of the standing committee of the diocese

370

and delegate to the general convention. He pre-
sided at the Diocesan Convention at Kirkwood, in
May, 1868, when Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, D.
D., of Montana, was elected Bishop of Missouri,
and also upon his declining to accept, at the conven-
tion of the same year in St. Louis, when the present
Bishop, Right Rev. C. F. Robertson, was elected.

In 1867 he published a duodecimo volume of
over two hundred pages, entitled “The Pioneer
Church,” which has passed through two editions and
a third is immediately contemplated. ,

On All Saint’s day, 1869, Dr. Schuyler delivered
an historical discourse ‘at the semi-centennial celebra-
tion of Christ’s church, St. Louis. A notice had
been given on the Sunday previous mall the Episco-
pal churches. A large number of the various con-
gregations were present and many of the oldest
citizens of the different denominations ; of the clergy,
the Right Rev. C. F. Robertson, Drs. Hutchinson
and Berkley, and the Rev. Messrs. Spencer, Ingra-
ham, Githens, Robert and Woodruff. This eloquent
discourse was published, and with it biographical
sketches of the former rectors, together with much

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIBY.

valuable information in regard to the early history of
the church. In 1870 he wrote a sequel to the “Pioneer
Church,” entitled the “Young Deacon,” which was
published in the C/zurc/z Regzkfer, a monthly journal
printed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a series of num-
bers running over a year. It has not as yet appeared
in a separate volume. During his rectorship in St.
Louis there have been one thousand four hundred and
seven baptized, seven hundred. and sixty-one con-
firmed, four hundred and thirty married, seven hun-
dred and thirty-one buried, and about one thousand
have been added to holy communion.

Dr. Schuyler has two children living, the fruits of
the second marriage. The older son, Montgomery
Schuyler, is married and living in New York City.
The younger ‘son, Louis S. Schuyler, is a clergyman
in the church and is at present in- charge of Holy
Innocents Parish, St. Louis. There are eight chil-
dren by the present wife. The eldest is a graduate of
Washington University, and expects to devote him-
self to literary pursuits. Three sons and four daugh-
ters are at home with their parents, one son being
away at school.

EDWARD MONTGOMERY, M. D.

ST. LOUIS.

DWARD MONTGOMERY was born in Bally-
E mena, near Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland,
December 20, 1816. His parents were Robert and
Mary (Cathcart) Montgomery—both natives of that

county, as were several generations of their ancestors

A before them.

His parents were very pious and early designed
Edward for the church; but he, being fully aware of
his natural diffidence and retiring disposition, and
being sparingly gifted with the qualities so essential
to the public speaker, finally prevailed on them ‘to
allow him to prepare himself for the medical profes-

sion, for which he had from early boyhood evinced the .

greatest predilection.

His elementary education was obtained at the
grammar school of his native town; his classical and
collegiate course at the Belfast Academical Institute,
since merged into one of the Queen’s Colleges of Ire-
land. From 1836 to 1838 he studied medicine at the

Royal College of Edinburgh, where he obtained his
degree in August, 1838.’ He immediately com-
menced the practice of medicine and surgery in the

same premises where his grandfather had practiced‘

many years before, and where he continued to practice
until the fall of 1842, with a success belying the
scriptural saying, "‘A prophet is not without hon_or,
save in his own country.” His professional career in
his native place was eminently popular and success-
ful. But at the time above stated, symptoms of pul-
monary consumption (hereditary in the family) made
their appearance in his physical system and he con-
cluded, to leave the dark, damp, ‘raw and chilly at-
mosphere of his native land and seek a more con-
genial clime. Accordingly he emigrated to the United
States and landed in New Orleans after a tedious
voyage of sixty-three days.

For nearly seven years he pursued a lucrative
and laborious practice in New Orleans, Jackson and

THE U./VZTED STATES B[0G[i’.4Pf[./CAI, DICTZO./VARY. 371

in the Big Black and Yazoo counties in Mississippi.
But the long night rides, and the fatiguing duties of
the plantation practice, became both irksome and
wearing upon his physical health to such an extent
as to alarm him, and he determined to move again.

In January, I849, he removed to St. Louis and
began practice. The fearful cholera epidemic of that
year afforded him a prolific field for the exercise of
his energy, ambition and medical research. During
its prevalence, he was indefatigable in his attentions
to the sick and dying, to rich and poor alike, under
city regulations and upon private calls. For two
long, weary months, the trial upon physicians and
nurses was a sore one, but by their watchful care
and the sanitary measures of the Board of Health,
the dread scourge was finally overpowered, and the
city assumed its wonted healthful status. A

From the commencement of his professional
career in 1838 to the present time (1 877), Dr. Mont-
gomery has devoted all his energies, with untiring
industry and persevering research, to the require-
ments and duties of his calling. Only excepting
about six months spent in recuperating his health,
he has been constantly engaged in an extensive prac-
tice—eschewing all other business and devoting all
his mental and physical powers to the chief work
of his life, studying the cause, nature and treatment
of diseases. That it has not been without avail is
testified by his extremely large and remunerative
practice. Not alone among relieved sufferers has Dr.
Montgomery been appreciated and highly esteemed,

but his professional brethren have honored him with ’

every token of respect and esteem which was in their

power to confer. The St. Louis Medical College and
the Medical College of Missouri, each conferred upon
him an honorary degree. He has been vice-president
and president of the St. Louis Medical Society, and
also president of the State Medical Association of
Missouri, is a member of the Academy of Science
and of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of St. Louis,
also of the American Medical Association, by whom
he was honored as one of their delegates to the
British Medical Association, convened in London
in 1873. Governor Woodson appointed him one of
the commissioners from Missouri to the Vienna Expo-
sition of 1873, which he attended in July of that year.

Dr. Montgomery has also contributed many valu-
able papers on different branches of medicine "to the
professional journals of the country—among which
may be mentioned his articles on Typhoid Fever,
Cholera, Puerperal Fever, Diphtheria, Croup, Post-
partum Inflammations, Chorea, Cerebro—Spinal Men-
ingitis, Ileo-Collites, Infantile Convulsions, Intestinal
Obstructions, Uterine Hemorrhage, The Antephlo-.
gistic Treatment of Diseases, etc., etc.

In July, 183,0, he married Miss Hannah French,
of French—park, near Belfast, by whom he had eight
children—five sons and three daughters—six of whom
are now living, and have arrived at the age of their
majority. The life of the subject of this sketch has
been so very practical, his labors so well known
throughout the State, and his literary efforts so uni-
versally been read in the medical world, that he needs
no eulogy in these pages. His life is his history, writ-
ten in living lines in the hearts and minds of his
patients and professional brethren.

THOMAS TI-IRUSTON JANUARY.

MT. OLIVE.

HOMAS THRUSTON JANUARY was born
May 31, I809, in Fayette county, Kentucky.

His father, Thomas January, was a native of Vir-
ginia, descended from a French refugee, who took up
his residence in Virginia at an early period. He
was engaged in mercantile pursuits through life and
located at Lexington when young. He died there
in 1825, at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife,
mother of Thomas T. January, Mary B’. Thruston,
was a Virginian by birth, the ‘daughter of a prominent

planter of that state, who emigrated to Louisville,

Kentucky, in the infancy of that city. The Thrus-

tons were prominently engaged on the side of the '

patriots in the war for independence.

Thomas T. January was reared in Fayette county.
His education was l‘iberal,being an alumnus of Tran-
sylvania University. In 1828 he began a mercantile
career as clerk ‘ina store of general merchandise in
Cynthiana, Kentucky. In 1832 he removed to
Jacksonville, Illinois, and began the sale of dry

372 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBYC

goods, residing there as a merchant for six years. In
183 7-8 he built the Meredosia & Springfield railroad
-—the first railroad built in the state of Illinois. In
1840 he removed to St. Louis and entered upon a
wholesale grocery business, which he conducted
about two years. In 1844 he located on a fine farm
in St. Ferdinand township, St. Louis county, where
he has since resided, engaged in agriculture and the
breeding of blooded stock. His stables have pro-
duced some of the most celebrated turf horses of the
West, and his cattle are of the highest and purest
strains.

He was elected treasurer of St. Louis county in
1877, and is thus the first treasurer of that county
under the separate organization. In politics he is,

and has been from his early manhood, a Democrat.
At the presidential election in 1860, he vot.ed for Ste-
phen A. Douglas. During the civil war he took no
active part, but was a Southern sympathiser and
warm friend of the Southern Confederacy. He is a
member of no religious order, and, while ' respecting
religious duties and principles, is liberal in his views.

He was married, in 1834, to Miss Maria Machir,
a native of Mason county, Kentucky, and a daugh-

_ter of Henry Machir, of Maysville.

No man in St. Louis county occupies a higher

position for energy, enterprise, public spirit, integ-

rity and business rectitude than Thomas T. January.
His home is the abode of hospitality, and all the com-
forts, if not the luxuries, of life are found at his house.

MANNING S. COWLES.

BUTLER.

ANNING S. COWLES was born December
M 22, 1837, in North Newbury, Geauga county,
Ohio, and is the second of four children born to his
parents. His fami-.;  "Welch extraction, a paternal
ancester having emigrated to and settled in Connec-
ticut early in the history of that colony. His grand-
father, Asa Cowles, Sr., was born in Connecticut,
whence he emigrated to Geauga county, Ohio, trav-
eling by means of ox teams along the lake shore,
when the country between Buffalo, New York, and
Cleveland, Ohio, was an unbroken forest. He set-
tled on a large tract of land and built a commodious
log house, which became a noted stopping place for
emigrants seeking homes in the West. He became
afterward a judge of the county court of Geauga
county, and was a leading farmer and citizen until
his death. His father, Asa Cowles, ]r., moved to
Ohio with his parents when but three years old. He
remained with his father till manhood, and engaged
in mercantile pursuits in Geauga county until 1841,
when he embarked in the business of hotel keeping.
In 1850 he emigrated to Wisconsin, where he pursued
the business of farming and lumbering. In 1866 he
removed to Butler, Bates county, Missouri, where he
resided till his death, October 12, 1872. His mother,
Sophia Kellogg, a daughter of Cotton Kellogg, for-
merly of Connecticut, was a lady of high religious

principles, which she sought to instill into her chil-
dren. She died in 1845, aged thirty-two years.

M. S. Cowles was educated in the common
schools of Ohio and Wisconsin, with an occasional
session in the academy of Geauga county. In T859,
in Wisconsin, he entered a house of general merchan-
dise as clerk, reserving for himself the right to ship
apples and cheese to the pineries in Wisconsin. In

1861 he enlisted in the 3rd Wisconsin Battery as a .

private, and joined the Army of the Cumberland.
He took part in the different campaigns of that army,
and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone
River, Chickamauga and other minor engagements.
In 1864 he was detailed as acting quartermaster, a
position he held until the expiration of his term of
enlistment. After being mustered out of service, he
attended the commercial college of H. G. Eastman,
at Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated in the fall
of 1865. Soon after he removed to Kansas City,
Missouri, and became one of the firm of Fisk, Slater
& Cowles, wholesale and retail boot and shoe dealers.
At the end of four months he severed his connection
with the firm and removed to Butler, Bates county,
where he engaged, with a capital of $1,000, in general
mercantile business. In the following year his father
became associated with him, forming the firm of M.
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by the death of his father in 1872, since which time
he has conducted the business alone. His success
in Butler has been very gratifying, his stock steadily
increasing from $1,000 of capital, till he now caries
more goods than any other house in the 22d Judicial
He has no specialties, but deals in general
merchandise, embracing all departments.

In 1876 he established a branch store at Hart-
ford, Kansas, which is transacting a large and pay-
ing business. He is also a dealer in real estate, and
has acquired considerable property in Butler, a town
which he has contributed largely to build up and
improve. He was one of the original stockholders
and directors, and for one year cashier of the Bates
County Savings Bank, which built up a fine banking

house, and after a few years sold out to the Bates

County National Bank. He was instrumental in
building the Butler Woolen Mills, and also the

Butler Academy. He is a man of great liberal-
ity, and has contributed largely to every public
enterprise for the improvement of Butler and Bates
county.

In politics he is a Republican, but looks more
to the fitness of the candidate than to his party pre-
tentions. In religion he is a member of the Presbyte-
rian Church. He is also associated with the Odd
Fellows fraternity. He was married April 6, 1869,
to Miss Maggie Louisa McKibben, daughter of John
C. and Eliza ]. (McCune) McKibben, of Butler,
formerly of Pittsfield, Illinois. He has had by this
marriage three children, two of whom are living.
Mrs. Cowles died February 17, 1878. Mr. Cowles
is a man highly esteemed in business circles; of
large benevolence, strict honor and great industry,
with public spirit and enterprise 5 he is one of But-
ler’s most honored citizens.

CAPTAIN JAMES WARD.

ST. LOUIS.

AMES WARD was born at Southerly, Norfolk
county, England, on the 22d of December,
1814. His father, Henry Ward, was a boatman

in the native place of the subject of this sketch. His
mother’s maiden name was Hannah Porter. The
early life of James presented but few advantages,
and to his own exertions, his habits of industry,
economy and strict integrity may be attributed his
success in life. T 0-day one of the prosperous mer-
chants of St. Louis, honored and respected by his
acquaintances, he stands deservedly high as a self-
made man. He had but a small share of school
advantages, and at the age of twelve was put to
work in the ship yard in Southerly to learn boat-
building_ with his elder brother. Here he remained
nine years, when he immigrated to America, landing
in New York May I, 183,6. He went to Browns-

ville, Pennsylvania, and worked in the ship yard.

until September, 1837, when he shipped on the
steamboat Fayette as first carpenter, and continued
on her in the Pittsburg and Louisville trade until the
middle of the next summer, when he went to Wheel-
ing, Virginia. Viewing the lower trade as better
suited to his business and as offering better facilities
for rising in the world, Mr.Ward moved to St. Louis

in November, 1838, and settled there. He first
worked in the ship yard at his trade and afterward
shipped on the steamer Ione as carpenter. He sub-
sequently worked in the same capacity on the
steamer Amaranth until the fall of 1843.

In the spring of 1844, in company with Hiram
Birzia, William Cupp and James Meagen, he built
the steamer St. Croix, and ran her in the Galena
trade until 1847, serving all the time as mate. He
then ‘sold his interest in her, and with two others
built the steamer St. Peters and ran her in the Galena
and Dubuque trade. After the first yearhe served
on her as captain, and built up considerable reputa-
tion as an officer of first-class administrative abilities.
This steamer was burned at the levee in St. Louis in
the memorable steamboat conflagration of the 19th
of May, 1849. That fall he filled the place of his
burned steamer by purchasing the Financier, and
that winter bought and commanded the steamer
Excelsior in the St. Louis and St. Paul trade until
the fall of 1855. Selling her, he was captain on the

' York State the same season '3 but traded her for the

steamer Coneriago for the same trade in 1857. The
same summer he built two steamers, the Canada and
Pembina, at Pittsburg, himself filling the captain’s

374 TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPAUCAZ, DICTZO./VARY.

place on the Canada. These steamers he put in the
same trade, in 1858, and thus made the beginning of
the Northern Line Packet Company, whose boats ran
from St. Louis to St. Paul. For the immense trade
that has sprung up from this beginning and which has
so materially added to the commercial prosperity of
St. Louis, that city is indebted to Captain Ward.

Being now one of the most important lines of steamers
on the Mississippi, its history, with that of-competing
lines, will be interesting. The first company consisted
of Captain James Ward as 1st president, with himself,

Thomas H. Griffith, Davius Hunkins, R. C. Gray,

John B. Rhodes, Thomas Gordon and ‘Joshua W.

Parker as directors—all being owners in the line of
packets, they now owned the steamers Denmark,

Henry Clay, Metropolitan, Minnesota Belle, William
L. Ewing, Hawkeye State and Sucker State—all
entirely new—and ran but three boats a week. The
company adopted articles of association on the 14th
day of February, 1860, and organized under the
name of the Northern Line Packet Company, with
a capital stock of $300,000, with its principal office
at Illinoistown, St. Clair county, Illinois. Thus
legally chartered and with printed by-laws and regu-
lations, the first company in this well known trade
began operations. In 1860 the company purchased
and added to their lines enough steamers to make
daily trips. Captain Ward was chosen president of
the company for the first three years, and was after-
ward superintendent of the line. In 1868-9 he was
again president and then sold out his entire interest.

The Northern Line Packet Company still lives, but .

has had a checkered career——its history comprising
a long period of years and comprehending much of

the commercial history of St. Louis river traffic.
There have at times arisen competing lines, and
severe has been the struggle for supremacy, but the
original plans and sagacious counsels of Captain
Ward laid broad and deep the basis upon which the
company has built so great a success.

Upon selling out his interest in the line of pack-
ets, Captain Ward retired from active riverilife and
went ashore to spend his remaining days withhis
family. Heengaged in the ship chandlery business

‘in St. Louis, and in company with his son and

another gentleman still carries on an extensive estab-
lishment in that line. He can say, what very few

can say, that in his long career as administrative offi—.

cer on board, there was never lost a life entrusted to
his care, nor did he ever lose a steamer, save the
one burned in the terrible steamboat fire at St. Louis

in 1849. For twenty-five years Captain Ward has

been a Mason, and for the last twenty years a Knight

Templar. He is a member of the Episcopal church,
having been raised therein.

S In politics he .is no partisan, leaving himself
untrammeled to vote for the best man offering for
public position. He has never asked for nor served
in public office, and has of late years acted with the
Democratic party.

On the 6th of July, 1847, James Ward married
Miss Annie Johnson, daughter of Thomas and Han-
nah Johnson, of St. Louis——whose family were from
Ireland. Five children have been born to the1n—
all now living: Hannah, now Mrs. William H.
Owens, Thomas H., now engaged in business with
his father; Mary E., Lilla H., and Ella S., now liv-
ing with their parents in St. Louis.

JUDGE JAMES C. EDWARDS.

ST. LOUIS COU./VTY.

25, 1824, in Henry county, Virginia. His

father, Chiles Edwards, was a native of Albe-
inarle county, Virginia, a11d followed the avocation of
a planter. He emigrated to Missouri in 1834, mov-
ing by wagons, and bringing with him his negroes,
fox hounds and blooded horses. He located in
Howard county, where he resided until his death in
1855, his wife, Nancy D. Hewlett, having died

JAMES CHILES EDWARDSiwas born August

before he left Virginia. He was an officer in the
Virginia line in the war of 1812. His father, Ambrose
Edwards, grandfather of James C. Edwards, was a
native of Louisa county, Virginia, a planter by pro-
fession and a soldier in the war of the Revolution.
The wife of Ambrose Edwards was Olive Martin, a
native of Orange county, Virginia, and daughter of
a tobacco planter. She died in Virginia. ‘The
mother of James C. Edwards was Nancy D. Hew-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 375

lett. The Hewlett family were early settlers in the
territory of Alabama, intimately connected with the
war of the Rebellion took an active part in the war
of 1812, and were cotton planters.

James C. Edwards emigrated with his father to
Missouri when eight years old, and was reared in
Howard county. His early literary education was
obtained in the best schools and academies the coun-
try afforded. In 1842 he engaged in mercantile
pursuits and began as a clerk in a general store in
St. Louis. He did not, however, long follow this
calling. In 1843 he began to clerk on a Mississippi
river steamer, and as clerk and commander was con-
nected with the commerce of the Mississippi and other
western rivers for three years, but soon after located
on his farm in St. Ferdinand township, St. Louis coun-
ty, and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, in
which he has been mainly engaged since that time.
He was director and president of the North Missouri
Railroad from April, 1848, to April, 1861. He rep-

resented the 34th Senatorial district in the state
constitutional convention of I87 5. In 1877 he was
appointed by Governor Phelps associate justice of
the county court of the new county of St. Louis,
and has thus associated his name with the earliest
history of the new organization. I

In politics J_udge Edwards has always been a firm
but conservative Democrat. In his religious views
he is liberal, but a member of no religious organiza-
tion. He was married, February I 5, 1846, to Miss
Ann E. Massey, a native of Fauquier county, Vir-
ginia, and a daughter of’ John M. Massey, Esq.,
who emigrated from Virginia to Missouri and located
in St. Louis‘ county in 1831, and was a member of
the legislature in 1846.

Judge Edwards is a man of untiring business
energy, remarkable for his hospitality, liberality and
integrity. Among the clear intellects and sound
judgments of St. Louis county, he is recognized as
taking a front rank.

JOHN C. BROWN.

RICHMOND.

OHN C. BROWN, was born near Richmond, in
Ray county, Missouri, January 29, A. D. 1835.

' His father, William, was born in Rutherford
county, Tennessee, October 6, 1809, and was raised

and educated in the county of his nativity, and emi- _
grated to Missouri with his parents in 1829, living on '

a farm during his life. He was a Baptist of the old
school type, never desired office at the hands of the
people 3 but has been content to live the life of a far-
mer and a Christian" gentleman. He was married to
Miss Sarah J. Ralph in 1832. She was born in Guil-
ford county, North Carolina, January’ 6, 18:3, and
came with her parents to Ray county in a.n early day.
By the marriage of William Brown to Miss Ralph,
there were born seven children, one of whom died in
infancy, James H. went to Oregon and died there in
1873, leaving five children; Mary F. died at sixteen
years of age 3 Isaac R. resides in Carrollton Missouri,
and is clerk of the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial
district; Charles W., salesman with‘ McVVilliams,
Crooke & Co., Kansas City, Missouri, wholesale hats
and caps, Jennie, married to Samuel V. Endsley, of
Ray county.
48

John C., the subject of this sketch, was raised on
a farm and finished his course of study at Carrollton,
Missouri, in 1856, acquiring a good English educa-
tion and some knowledge of the Latin language, left
school and followed teaching in Carroll, Saline and
Ray counties, always giving satisfaction as a teacher.
In April, I 8 57,he was employed as salesman in the store
of Messrs Hill & Ely of Carrollton, Missouri, and left
in the spring of 1861, with the confidence and approv-
al of his employers, went to farming and dealing in
stock till 1872, ; was in November, 1872', elected
sheriff of Ray county, and having filled the office to
the satisfaction of his people, was in November, 1874,
reelected by an increased majority——receiving the
largest vote cast for any candidate at that election.
At the end of his second term, December, 1876, he
retired from the office of sheriff and commenced the
practice of law in partnership with Judge W. A.
Donaldson, being admitted to the bar in February,
I877. ”

He was married September 27, 1860, to Miss
Hattie A. George, of Caldwell county, Missouri, who
was born in Anderson county, Kentucky, November

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22, 1842, and emigrated to Caldwell county with her
father, David George, in 1855, and died August 24,
1872. There were born to them six children, one of
whom died in infancy. Of the others, William D. was
born July 27, I861, Eugenie, August 5, 1864, Anna
Bell, March 4, 1866, Jolm Dudley, January 23, 1868,
Charles Oscar, April 29, 1871.

On May 6, 1874, Mr. Brown was married to his
second wife, Miss Olive E.,daughter of Felix G. Mil-
ler, of Ray county, Missouri, born November 2,
I8 51. Miller Brown, their only child, was born June
26, I87 5. _

With_his father’s consent Mr. Brown left home
when seventeen years of age, and without means, he
principallyeducated himself, as his parents were not
able to give much pecuniary aid. He is truly the
architect of his own fortune, for by perseverance,
integrity, industry and strict attention to business he
has made himself what he is, and now stands forth
as a man who has fought his way up, and yet moves
onward, an example worthy to be imitated by the
young men of the country. He attributes his success
to the prompt manner in which he always met each
and every engagement. Through life he has made it
his positive aim to come promptly to time, thus prov-
ing the truth of the adage “punctuality is the soul of
business success.”

Mr. Brown is a member of the Masonic fraternity,

 his early manhood.

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being a Royal Arch Mason. In politics he is a Dem-
ocrat of the unswerving kind, and has been so from
He is a member of the Mission-
ary Baptist Church, and has always contributed liber-
ally of his means to the building of churches and the
support of the ministry. He resides at Richmond,
but has a large farm in Ray county, and also one in
Caldwell county. He attends to his law office and at
the same time carries on farming and feeding stock on
a large scale. '

Mr. Brown has always been a very careful observ-
er, and being of quite a reflective turn of mind, has
made his conclusions in one department of knowl-
edge the basis of a series of generalizations in others.
He has given his attention to the breeding of cattle,
and noting how certain tendencies to form, disposi-
tion to take on flesh, etc., are transmitted from
generation to generation, and can be produced almost
at will by the intelligent stockman through a careful
system of breeding, he concludes that the successions
of ‘cause and effect observed in his special depart-
ment of life can be traced in all others. This
belief in the constant operation of law is his marked
characteristic. All his business operations evince it,
and are the result of a Wise forethought, a careful

calculation on which nothing is left to the uncertain-

ties of chance, his marked success approving the
soundness of his judgment.

JUDGE JAMES ALEXANDER HENDERSON.

MT. OLIVE.

AMES ALEXANDER HENDERSON was born
on March 13, 1839, in Manchester, St. Louis,
Missouri. His father, George Henderson, was

born in Virginia, but reared in Kentucky. The fam-
ily participated in the revolutionary struggle, also
in the war of 1812. George Henderson followed
through life mechanical, trading and mercantile pur-
suits. His wife, Mary E. Williams, was a native of
Fairfax county, Virginia, the daughter of a planter
of that state who served in the war of 1812, and died
in Virginia. A

James A. ~Henderson was reared on a farm in St.
Louis county. He was educated at the Missouri
University at Columbia. In 1860 he began farming
near Bridgeton, St. Louis county, and continued in

this occupation for five years. During this period he
read law under the instructions of Peter A. Bland, a
distinguished member of the St. Louis bar, and at-
tended the law school at Louisville, Kentucky. In
1865 he took up his residence at Columbia, and was
frequently entrusted with official positions. He was
for several years county superintendent of public
schools, was county assessor for four years and judge
of the probate court.‘ In 1873 he returned to St.
Louis county and again began the duties of a farmer,

coupling with it the practice of law. In 1876, when _

the proposition to separate St. Louis city from the
county was before the people, he was the only man
in the county who advocated that measure upon the

hustings. He labored for the separation with great

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earnestness and zeal. In 1877 he was appointed
judge of the probate court of the new county which
was organized in 1876. ' That position he still
holds.

Judge Henderson was originally a Whig, jtnd his
first ballot for president was cast for Bell and Everett
in 1860. Since the disintegration of that party, he
has consistently voted for the men and measures of
the Democratic party. During the civil war he re-
mained inactive and took no part with either side.

He has been a member of the Presbyterian church
from his youth, and his pure and upright life attests
the sincerity of his convictions.

He was married April 20, 18 59, to Miss Virginia

L. Royall, of Columbia. Her father, Captain John
B. Royall, was a native of Virginia, a captain in the
war of 1812, a lawyer and a planter, who emigrated

to Missouri and settled in Columbia about the year .

1840. Her mother, Mrs. Pamelia Royall, was a
sister of General Sterling Price, a woman of great
force of character, intelligent, sagacious and prudent.

Judge Henderson was not endowed by nature
with a vigorous constitution, but his temperate life
and prudent habits have maintained him through the
arduous labors he has been called upon to perform.
Socially, he is modest, affable, intelligent and enter-
taining, gifted with a quiet humor which he employs
to great advantage in the social circle.

WILLIAM A. DONALDSON.

RICHMOND.

ILLIAM A. DONALDSON was born, Feb-
W ruary 24, 1826, in Carroll county, Ohio.
His grandfather, William Donaldson, was born in
Scotland, in 1764, and emigrated to America with
his family in 182 5, settling in Carroll county, Ohio,
where he died in 1830. The wife of William Don-
aldson was Miss Jane Wills, a native of Scotland,

‘born about the year 1765, who died in Carroll

county, Ohio, in 1846. By their marriage five
children were born : John, born in Scotland in I786,
educated for a Presbyterian minister, was the author
of several theological works and died in 1869, in
Carroll county, William, born in Scotland in 1788,
was a mechanic and died in Ohio in 1861 , James,
born in Scotland in 1790; Jane, born in Scot-
land in 1793, married Thomas Wills, professor of
languages at Pittsburgh and Alleghany City for
many_years, died in 1857, ‘David, born in Scot-
land in 1795, was a farmer and mechanic, died in
Ohio in 1864. James, the father of William A.
Donaldson, was a mechanic and learned his trade in
Scotland, but after coming to America he engaged
in farming. He was married in Scotland, in 1814,
to Miss Hannah Andrew, a native of Scotland, born
in 1794. Her father, Thomas Andrew, was born
about the year 1760, was a prominent merchant near
Dundee, and died about 1843. Her mother, Ann
Diserd, was born in 1764 and died in 1798. By the

marriage of James Donaldson and Hannah Andrew
there were bornfourteen children, four of whom
died in infancy. Those who arrived at maturity
were: Elizabeth, born.in Scotland in 1815, married
William Tatters, of Carroll county, Ohio ; Jane,
born in Scotland in 1819, married Henry Lyda, of
Carroll county; Ann, born in Scotland in 1823,
married Daniel Sheckler, of Carroll county—both
dead, Thomas G., born in Carroll county, Ohio, in
1828, died in Carroll county, Missouri, in 1872;
Mary, born in Ohio in 1830, married William Rob-
inson of Carroll county, Ohio, and died in that
county in 1849, about two weeks after her marriage ;
James H., born in Ohioin 1833, now resides in Ray
county, Missouri; Mildred and Isabel, twins, born
in 1835, in Ohio—the former married James Lyda
and lives in Ray county, Missouri, the latter married
William Monteith and lives near Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania ; Hannah, born in Ohio in 1831, and resides
with her mother in Carroll county, Ohio, and William
A., the subject of this sketch. Mr. Donaldson com-
pleted his collegiate course at Alleghany College,
Pennsylvania,leaving school in 1846. He taught school
in Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri for a number of years,
and in 1854 began the study of law at Richmond,
Missouri, in the office of_ Governor Austin A. King.
He was admitted to the bar in 18 56, and has prac-
ticed in Ray and adjoining counties since that time.

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He was elected circuit attorney of the 5th Judicial cir-
cuit in 1 864, and has held several minor official positions.

He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a
Royal Arch Mason, has filled the position of Wor-
shipful Master in the Blue Lodge and most of the
offices in the Chapter. He votes the Democratic
ticket, but is liberal and conservative in his views.
He was first married, in 1860, to Miss Jane Taylor,
a native of Ray county, born in 1830. Her parents
were Virginians and her mother’s name was Shackel-
ford. She died in 1864, in Kingston, Caldwell
county, and was buried in Richmond. She left one
child, Vennie, born August 4, 1862. In 1865 he
married his second wife, Miss Sallie L. Morrison, of
New York city, born in 1844, in Virginia. Her
father, W'illiam Morrison, and her mother, a Miss
Hart, were Virginians by birth. His second wife
died in September, 1866, leaving a son, James S.,
about two months old, born July 20, 1866. He
was a third time married, May 29, 1872, to Mrs.
Baker, formerly Miss Eliza A. Linville, of Ray
county, Missouri. She was born December, 1836.
Her father, Thomas Linville, and her mother, Mar-
tha Stone, were natives of Tennessee. Mr. Donald-
son’s first two wives were members of the Methodist
Church. He has acquired a good practice in the
courts of Ray and surrounding counties, and in the
supreme court of Missouri and the Federal courts.
He is highly esteemed for his many virtues and
manly bearing.

Since writing the above sketch we have received
the melancholy intelligence of the death of Mr. Don-
aldson. Stricken down in the prime and vigor of
manhood, June 1, 1878. He was in his law office
with his partner, John C. Brown, and on seeing the
approach of the appalling tornado, made an effort
to reach his home, to give protection to his family,
but was struck upon the head‘ with flying timbers,
fracturing his skull, when within twenty paces of his
own door. His friends carried him into his house,
the roof of which had been swept away, where he
breathed his last at eight o’clock P. M., having lived
only four hours after receiving his injuries, being
unconscious all ‘the while. He was buried June 2,
1878, with Masonic honors, by Lexington Lodge,
No. 32, A. F. & A. M., upon request of Richmond
Lodge, No. 57, of which he was a prominent and
honored member, the members of Richmond Lodge
participating in the funeral services, their Masonic
hall having been demolished and its charter and fur-
niture swept away by the cyclone. His burial and
funeral services were attended by a large concourse of
his friends and relatives, in addition to the Masonic
fraternity.

At a meeting of the Richmond bar, called upon

the occasion of his death, appropriate resolutions
were adopted and eulogies pronounced upon his life
and character by the members of his profession.
His remains now repose in the new cemetery in
Richmond.

HON. WM. CUTHBERT JONES.

ST. LOUIS.

HE subject of this sketch comes from a long
T and honorable line of ancestry. His father,
Cuthbert T. Jones, M. D., an eminent physician,
now of Chester, Illinois—-a sketch of whose life
appears in the Illinois volume of this work—was
born at Culpepper Court House, Virginia, July 4,
1802, was married on the 31st of March, 1825, to
Miss Eliza R. Treat, of English ancestry and daugh-
ter of Hon. Samuel Treat, United States Indian
Agent at the Arkansas post, and by her had eleven

children, of whom our subject was third. He.

removed to Chester in 1834, and is still an honored
citizen of that place. Judge Jones’ grandfather,

Francis Slaughter Jones, a lineal descendant of Vir-
ginia’s best families, married Miss Hester Coons,
and was an extensive planter in Virginia. His

great—grandfather, Gabriel Jones, a Welshman, im-

migrated to Virginia prior to the revolutionary war,
and was a captain in the colonial armies during that
struggle,

William Cuthbert Jones was born in Bowling
Green, Kentucky, July 16, 1831. His father
removed to Chester, Illinois, where-he gave William
a full scholastic preparation and entered him at
McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, from which
he graduated in 18 52. He immediately returned to

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Bowling Green, and entered the law office of Judge
William -V. Loving, with whom he read_ law until
admitted to the practice in 1853. The next year
Mr. Jones removed to St. Louis and formed a law
partnership with William L. Sloss, Esq., which con-
tinued one year, when he filled the office of city
attorney for St. Louis during the absence of the
regular incumbent. _In 1860 he enteredinto part-
nership with Judge Cady (at present judge of the
court of criminal correction in St. Louis).

On the breaking out of hostilities between the.

North and South, Mr. Jones enlisted’ in the Union
army as captain of company I, United States reserve
corps, under B. Gratz Brown,‘ and served in that
command throughout the memorable campaign of
Southwest Missouri, until the expiration of his term
of enlistment. In October, 1862, President Lincoln
commissioned him paymaster in the United States
army, which office he filled three years, being mus-
tered out of service and honorably discharged No-
vember, 1865.

Up to the breaking out of the war, Mr. Jones
was an active voter and campaigner in the Free
Soil Democratic party, under the then leadership of
Hon.~ Francis P. Blair, although never permitting
himself to be a candidate, for any office ; and this
connection he continued up to the close of the war,
when, in the common honesty of his purpose through
that unhappy struggle, he immediately operated
with the Liberal party in favoring the reénfranchise-
ment of the rebel element in the South. In 1866
he was nominated the regular Democratic candidate
for clerk of the circuit court for St. Louis county,
but the ticket was defeated. In 1868 he was the
Democratic presidential elector for the 2nd Congres-
sional District of Missouri, and during the campaign
canvassed the entire district (composed of eight coun-
ties and part of St. Louis county) thoroughly three
times. He had a large criminal practice at breaking
out of the war, but beingiheart-sick with it, he deter-
mined to stay out when his enlistment should expire.
Hence, in December, 1865, he formed a partnership
with Wyatt C. Hoffman, in the sign and steamboat
painting business,in which he was successful , but was
finally compelled to abandon it, on account of dis-
ease incident to the business. In 1868, having fully

A recovered his health, he resumed the practice of his

legal profession, in partnership with Charles G.
Mauro, Esq., and afterwards with John D. Johnson,
Esq. In November, 1874, recognizing his legal
abilities, the people of St. Louis elected him judge

of the criminal court for that city, which office he
has since continued to fill.
ance of the delicate and important trusts of his pres-
ent position for so long a period, is sufficient com-
mendation of Judge Jones, while the high esteem of
his fellow lawyers is his highest encomium as a law-
yer. In active business life, or filling important
national and local offices, ever since his majority,
Judge Jones’ record to-day is a monument sufficient
to his worth and abilities, without the fulsome flattery
of words.

On the 2oth day of November, 185 6, William C.
Jones was married to Miss Mary A. Chester, daugh-
ter of Joseph Chester, Esq., of Chester, England.
They have had seven children, only four of whom
are now living: Fannie S., James C., Julia M.,

and Giles Filley.

In his religious proclivities, Judge Jones is an
Episcopalian; his wife is an humble and consistent
member of the Catholic church.

In the social circle he is ever a welcome guest,
and, whether with his family or friends, no man in
St. Louis holds a warmer heart-place. Such was the
answer made to a question of the writer of this
sketch. _One of the frankest legal gentlemen of St.
Louis—long and intimately associated with Judge
Jones—-thus speaks of him :

“As a judge, he is characterized by promptness,
diligence, fidelity, learning, fearlessness and integ-
rity, great skill and efficiency in the dispatch of bus-
iness, patience, attention and dignified good humor
while presiding in court, which has made him a great
favorite with the bar. Judge Jones is always punctual
in the discharge of his official duties. Lawyers, jurors,
suitors nor witnesses ever have to wait for him; a mo-
ment of time is never wasted in court on his account.

“ He was recognized as a good lawyer by the bar
and the people when he was advanced to the bench.
He fully recognized the fact that the St. Louis crim-
inal court was the most important criminal court in
the state. It takes cognizance only of high crimes,
such as felony. With characteristic promptness, he
devoted himself to mastering the department of law,
which he has since so ably administered as judge.
He at once proceeded to make, and has long since
completed, a full and complete digest of every crimi-
nal case reported’ in the sixty-four volumes of the
Missouri Supreme Court Reports.

“ His decisions have been characterized from the
beginning by good sense and ability, some of them
have been very able. His decisions have seldom
been reversed on appeal. He makes it a point to
listen attentively to the argument of counsel, who-
ever they may be, thoroughly to investigate the sub-
ject presented for determination, and then fearlessly
to decide the matter as he believes the law to be 5

His satisfactory perform-'

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never hesitating for a moment to consider whether
such a decision will be popul-ar or not.

“The large amount of business constantly com-
ing before the court is dispatched with remarkable
quickness, and yet none ever complain that they do
not have granted them a fair opportunity to present
all the defense they may have. While judge ]ones

is affable on the bench, he is also firm , it will not do
for any one to presume upon his complaisance to
the extent of infringing any rule of decorum; he.«.is
swift and determined with rebuke in any such
instance. His finepersonal appearance, joined with
his excellent executive abilities, make him a superior
presiding judge.”

WINFIELD SCOTT THOMPSON.

MARSHEIELD.

INFIELD SCOTT THOMPSON was born
W June 23, 1842, at Penn’s Grove, Salem
county, New Jersey. He is the oldest of eight chil-
dren born to Samuel S. Thompson and Mary H.
Flanagan. On the paternal side he traces his
ancestry back to the latter part of the sixteenth cen-
tury. The genealogy of the family has been very
accurately preserved in the annals of the Fenwick
colony. About the middle of the seventeenth cen-
tury Fenwick purchased of William Penn a large
territory, embracing what is now Salem and Cumber-
land counties, New jersey. He was a Quaker, and
he induced a large colony of Friends to settle upon
and improve his purchase. Among the families who
immigrated to America and located on this land, was

that of Andrew Thompson, a paternal ancestor‘ of

the subject of this sketch. In the records of the
colony the following minutes have been preserved:

Thomas Thompson, born in Yorkshire, England,
in 1598. Andrew Thompson, son of Thomas, born
in Yorkshire in 1637. In 16 58 Thomas and his son
Andrew moved to Dublin, Ireland. William Thomp-
son, eldest son of Andrew, was born in Dublin,
Ireland, August 9, 1669. On the 16th of September,
1677, Andrew Thompson with his family sailed from
Dublin in the ship Mary, and landed at Elsinborough
Point, in West jersey, December 22, 1677, and were
of the colony of john F enwick. Benjamin Thomp-
son, Sr., son of William Thomson, was born August
II, 1719. Benjamin Thompson, ]r., son of the
older Benjamin, was born near Salem, New jersey,
in 1745. james Thompson, son of Benjamin, jr.,
was born near Salem, New jersey, November 23,
1776. Samuel S. Thompson, son of james, was
born near Salem, August 2, I815.

Winfield S. Thompson was the son of a farmer,

and contracted early in life habits of industry,
sobriety and morality. His education, however, was
not neglected, and until he became a youth of
eighteen he attended the common schools of his sur-
rounding neighborhood. At that time he entered the
Methodist Seminary, at Pennington, New jersey,
and pursued a regular classical and scientific course,
giving the greatest care and attention to mathematical
studies. He remained there three years, teaching
during vacations to assist in defraying his expenses.
Immediately upon leaving the school, he began the
study of law, which he prosecuted for one year before
attending a law school. In September, 1864, he
matriculated in the Albany, ‘New York, Law School,
from which institution he graduated in May, 1865.
Having been licensed to practice, his next object was
to choose a suitable location to begin his life—work,
and in the search he spent severalmonths. He at
last adopted the suggestion of his friend, Hon. Henry
T. Blow, of St. Louis, and in November, 1865, set-

tled in Marshfield, Webster county, ‘Missouri, and

entered upon the practice of his profession.

It was but a short time until his talents and
ability were recognized, and in 1866 he was appointed
county attorney, a position he held until 1870. In
the latter year he was appointed attorney and general
agent of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, having the
previous year been made its agent for the sale of
land in Webster, Wright and Dallas counties. These
positions required sagacity and sound judgment, as
well as a knowledge of the law. ,The Atlantic &
Pacific railroad had received an extensive land grant
from the government, and during the twenty years

that intervened between the grant of the land and ’

and the building of the road, “squatters” to the
number of two thousand had settled upon the land

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and made considerable improvements. They had
certain indefeasible rights of preemption, under the
laws of the United States and of the state of Mis-
souri, which he was called upon as agent and attorney
to adjust, and the settlement involved many delicate
questions of law and equity. They were all settled
by Mr. Thompson to the satisfaction of both the
claimants and the railroad company.

In 1875 he assisted in the organization of the
Webster County Bank, at Marshfield, with a nominal
capital stock of $50,000, and $35,000 paid up. Of
this organization he was elected cashier, and has held
the position ever since, -owning a large portion of its
stock. The bank under its excellent management
has been regularly paying a semi-annual dividend of
six per cent.

In politics~Mr. Thompson is a Republican, but
takes no part in the manipulation of party conven-
tions or the management of party machinery. He
is a member of the order of Odd Fellows and has
filled every station in the subordinate lodge, besides
being several times a representative to the "Grand
Lodge. He is a regular attendant upon the minis-
trations of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has
been so from childhood.

Mr. Thompson was married September 16, 1866,
to Miss Susannah Ward Nichols, daughter of Lazarus
and Elizabeth Nichols, well known citizens of Wright
county, formerly of Kentucky. Four children are
the issue of this marriage: ]essie E., born Septem-
ber 23, 1867, Mary V., born September 23, I869;
Edgar, born June 10, 1871, and one died in infancy.

WM. M. RUSH, D. D.

B00./VVILZLE.

‘ N I ILLIAM MARION RUSH, born in Marion

county, Missouri, December 21, 1823, was
the son of David and Susannah Rush, who came in
1818 from Kentucky, the land of beautiful women
and generous men,. to Missouri when it was still a
territory, and were among the very earliest settlers in
what is now Marion county. By the death of his
father, when he was in his fourth year, William was
left to the care and training of his mother, and to her
loving and faithful watchfulness, so intelligently
bestowed, he gratefully refers the deeply religious
impressions of his early youth, and the distinctively
intellectual character of the matured reflections of his
manhood. The foundations of his after successes he
recognizes as laid in those years of early home life.
At fourteen years of age he made a public profession

of his faith in Christ and united with the Methodist '

church. Such were the arduous habits of his child-
hood, and so diligently had he improved the meager
educational opportunities then within reach, that, at
the age of sixteen, he commenced teaching. After
teaching one year, he was licensed to preach, and in
October, 1841, before he was eighteen years old, he
was admitted into the Missouri conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, as a preacher on trial.
His first charge was the Adair circuit, upon the Iowa
border. There were thirty-one preaching appoint-

ments upon the circuit, each of "these he must visit
every four weeks, preach at every appointment, hold
class, if there was one organized, and give a faithful
report of his work to his presiding elder every quarter.
His studies were pursued on horseback, while resting
under the shade of trees, at night by the light of tallow
dips in the settlers’ cabins, and by the flickering light
of the old fire—place. At the very early age of nineteen
he was stationed at St. Louis——quite a change from his
backwoods circuit of two years before-—and since
then he has occupied the principal stations in the
conference and been presiding elder of several dis-
tricts. The appointments he has held under confer-
ence and the various offices of trust he has held
speak their own language of his popularity, efficiency
and recognized ability. In 1865 he was elected a
delegate to the general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church (South), to meet in New Orleans
April I, 1866, and has been-elected to every subse-
quent session of that body. The unanimity with
which he was elected to the general conference of
1878 Was, in the highest degree, complimentary.

' In 1865 he was one of a joint committee
appointed by the Missouri and St. Louis conferences,
for the reéstablishment of the 52‘. Low’: C/2rz'sz‘z'mz
Aa’z*0caz‘e, a journal suppressed during the civil war.
In 1867 he was one of a joint committee, same con-

382 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGIEAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

ferences, to organize the Southwestern Book and
Publishing Company, of which he was constituted
director on behalf of the Missouri conference, which
position he still holds.
joint committeeman, of the same conferences, to
organize Central College, demoralized during the late
civil war. The work was successfully accomplished 3
he was elected curator of the college and has held
the secretaryship of the board of curators ever since.
In 1869 he was appointed agent to increase the en-
dowment fund of the college, which position he
held for five years. In 1870 he was appointed one
of a joint committee of the Missouri and St. Louis
conference to establish and locate a “ Central Female
College.” The location was made at Lexington,
and the institution is a success. In 1870 he was
elected by the general conference, one of the general
missionary board of the Methodist Episcopal church
(South),—-a position he retains. Trinity College,
North Carolina, in 1871, conferred on him the hon-
orary title of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Rush has been
thirty-seven years an active Methodist itinerant, is
now, and for several years has been, the senior mem-
ber of the conference upon the effective list.

Dr. Rush has been twice married: First to Olivia
C., eldest daughter of the late Hon. James H. Birch,
by whom he had eight children, six of whom are

The same session he was

still living. Mrs. Rush died in 1868, and in 1873
he was again married to Mrs. Pauline E. Nelson,
widow of the late Dr. G. W. Nelson, and daughter
of the late jacob Wyan. Mrs. Rush is still living.
Both ladies were of superior culture and distinguished
social position. _ Doctor Rush is universally con-

. ceded to be one of the ablest preachers in the West;

not the most brilliant, but preeminent for clearness
and force 3 emphatically, a strong man. Few men
excel him in the accuracy of his mental habits and in
his ability to state his theological positions clearly and
define them logically. He has, in fact, become the
champion of the church in Missouri wherever her
doctrines have been so assailed that public debates
have followed. He has made his mark upon his
generation—it will remain long after he has passed
away. His present position is presiding elder of
Fayette district, Missouri conference, Methodist
Episcopal church (South), which includes tne coun-
ties of Boone, Howard and part of Randolph—-
embracing within its limits eight colleges of good
repute, including the State University. The Doctor
resides at Boonville. Still on the sunny side of
sixty, the years lie lightly upon him. That he may be
long spared to enjoy his well—earned reputation and
sow seed for harvest, of coming good, is the wish of
thousands.

GEORGE FREDERICK DITTMANN.

ST. LOUIS.

EORGE FREDERICK DITTMANN was born
G’ February 27, 1818, at Hessen-Oberamstadt,
Germany. His father was George Ditt_mann, and his
mother’s Christian name was Elizabeth N. The boy
attended the parish school in his native town from
his sixth to his thirteenth year—enjoying all the facil-
ities of the grammar school. But the parents being
comparatively poor, he became, necessarily, very
frugal in his habits—a frugality that has been the
secret of his success through life. His lack of help
from them threw him upon his own resources, at
school and afterwards in the world 3 so that Mr. Ditt-
mann may peculiarly be termed the architect of his
own good name and credit. .

His mother died. when he was but six years old 3

and when only thirteen, the father took his son
with him to America, landing in Baltimore, 18313
settling in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,_ in the
spring of that year. George was
to learn shoemaking, and worked at the trade four
years. In 1835 his father and relatives all left
Chambersburg and moved to St. Louis. The boy
was left an apprentice, and, from that time, may be
said to have shifted for himself. A year afterwards,
he, too, concluded to try the West 3 and on foot with
slender purse, but rich in resolution to carve for him-
self a name and fortune, he trudged through the
Alleghany mountains to Pittsburg, where he took
passage on a steamboat and arrived in St. Louis in
the summer of 1836. He secured a clerkship in the

apprenticed '

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retail establishment of James F. Comstock at a salary
of three hundred dollars a year, where he remained
three years. A better opening offering, he resigned,
and accepted a position in William Goodyear’s estab-
lishment, where he remained only one year, resign-
ing to fill a position in the retail boot and shoe store
of William Downing.

Having, by his economical habits, saved money
enough, and by strict attention to business made a
name in the city——very reputable in so young a man
%Mr. Dittmann, at the age of twenty-three, opened
a house in his own name, as a retail boot and shoe
dealer, besides doing custom work. His store was
under the old “Paul House” (present site of Bar-
num’s hotel).
building was torn down, shortly after the great fire
of 1849, in which conflagration his was the only one
of all the surrounding business houses that escaped
injury. He moved his stock to more commodious
quarters in the building on Market, between Main
and Second streets, where he prospered until 18663

meanwhile, by hard work and close watching, his

business increasing until that time, he had as large a
retail trade as any house of the kind in the city. In
1866 Mr. Dittmann opened out as wholesale boot
and shoe merchant in a jobbing line, and in 1867
associated with him, as partner, Mr. Louis Opel,
and subsequently taking into partnership his two
sons, George W. and William H. Dittmann. In the
manufacture of shoes, boots, etc., the business of the
firm increased until now they turn out five hundred

Here he continued business until the

pairs of shoes daily. George W. Dittmann superin-
tends the large factory, while Mr. Opel and William
H. Dittmann attend the salesroom, and the elder
Dittmann exercises general supervision. Until lat-
terly, their custom has principally been city trade,
but it is now extending elsewhere. To-day the firm
of George F. Dittmann & Co. enjoys an enviable and
well-merited reputation, AiNo. I gilt-edged , which, to
a very great extent, is due to the strict business principles
and management of the senior member of the firm.

Every life has its moral. In this one it is that
an unknown boy, springing from an impoverished
obscurity, may, by habits of industry, frugality and
temperance, make to himself a name and a credit
anywhere in America in any trade. From youth,
accustomed to rely upon his own exertions, and pain-
fully, practically experienced in the school of adver-
sity, he saw the necessity of rigid economy and
business habits. George F. Dittmann learned the
lesson well, and by putting it into ‘daily practice has
secured for himself an ‘eminent and favorable posi-
tion in St. Louis.

Mr. Dittmann, September I7, 1846, married Miss
Caroline Almstedt, daughter of Henry and Julia
Almstedt, of St. Louis. They have had four chil-
dren born to them, all of whom are living. He
meant business on entering the great race of life 3
and, on the theory business cared for, self is safe,
he has been among the closest and most watchful
merchants of the city. His reward is being reaped
in prosperity and honor.

COLONEL NATHANIEL C. CLAIBORNE.

ST. LOUIS.

borne family to be one of the oldest and m.ost
respectable of the Old Dominion. And in modern
years its public records testify that for worthily filling
public positions in the people’s'gift, the sons were
not a whit behind their fathers. Among the early
archives we find that William Claiborne was secre-
tary of the plantations of Virginia under Charles I,
King of England—being the first of the name on
this continent.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne, father of the subject of

this sketch, was born in Sussex county, Virginia.
49

' I ‘HE annals of Colonial Virginia show the Clai-

He was fifty .years in public life—the last fourteen
years of which (182 5 to 1838) he served in congress.
In speaking of his death, an eminent gentleman of
Virginia wrote the following, which we find in an old
publication :

“ At his plantation, Claybrook, Franklin county,
Virginia, on the 15th of August, 1858, in the eighty-
third year of his age, died Hon. Nathaniel H. Clai-
borne, son of William Claiborne and Mary Leigh,
lineally descended from the celebrated William
Claiborne, secretary of the “Ancient Dominion”—
who is styled by Chief Justice Marshall, in his life of
Washington, ‘the’ evil genius of Maryland,’ he hav-

384 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL D7CTI0IVAI€Y.

ing seized Annapolis and driven Lord-Proprietor
Calvert from the Province. He was the champion
of Virginia and was sustained against all his enemies
by Charles 1, Cromwell, and Charles II, under all of
whom he held high positions in Virginia.

“Nathaniel H. Claiborne commenced his public
career as member of the house of delegates from
Franklin county. He immediately distinguished
himself as an eloquent debater, and reformer of the
extravagances and abuses of government. He was
soon called to the executive council and resided in
Richmond during the last war with England. He
served a number of years as delegate and eight years
as senator from the district of Franklin, Henry, Pat-
rick, and Pittsylvania. He was elected to congress
during the administration of John Quincy Adams,
and continued to represent his district therein until
1838, when he retired with undiminished popularity.

“He belonged to a family that has furnished
numerous members of congress, viz: first, Colonel
Thomas Claiborne, of Brunswick, Virginia, over
twenty years a member ; second, William C. C. Clai-
borne (brother of the deceased) first a representative
from Tennessee, then governor of Mississippi, gov-
ernor-general of the Province of Louisiana, governor
of the Territory of Orleans, governor of the state of
Louisiana, and first United States senator from that
state, third, Dr. John Claiborne, successor to his
father, Colonel Thomas Claiborne, fourth, Thomas
Claiborne, of Nashville, Tennessee; fifth, Nathaniel
H. Claiborne, of Virginia; sixth, John F. H. Clai-
borne, of Mississippi.

“ Of the same family on the maternal side .may
be noted Benjamin Watkins Leigh, the great lawyer
and senator of Virginia; Willie P. Mangum, for so
many years a distinguished senator from North Caro-
lina, Clement C. Clay, Sen., governor of Alabama,
senator from that state—now represented in the sen-
ate by his gifted and eloquent son, Hon. Clement C.
Clay, Jr., \/Villiam Leigh, a distinguished jurist of
Halifax county, Virginia, and numerous other
eminent men.

“The deceased was for many years a leading

‘member of the bar, an eloquent pleader and a power-

ful speaker on the hustings. He maintained through
life the title of “the poor man’s friend.” Though
so long in public service, his habits and tastes were
essentially domestic. He lived happily on his plan-
tation in the bosom of his family, and maintained
through life a character for honor and integrity
unstained and unimpeachable.”

William C. C. Claiborne (spoken of in the fore-
going) was an uncle to our subject. He commenced
the practice of law in Tennessee and soon attained
in the courts of that state and Virginia the first rank
as criminal lawyer. Few juries could withstand the
melting persuasion of his eloquence, whose torrent
often carried bench, bar and audience. He began
his political career in the convention of Tennessee,
which framed the constitution of that state for its

admittance into the Union—and in the formation of
that paper he had a principal agency. He was judge
of the supreme court of the new state and afterward
its representative in congress. He was the youngest
man who had ever occupied a seat in congress. And
it was a memorable session. The celebrated contest
between Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr was before the
body, and in counting the votes of the two parties,
the decision in the case rested upon the vote of Mr.
Claiborne. Critical situation for a poor young man
aspiring to honor and wealth! But withstanding
every tempting offer, he resolutely continued to cast
the solitary vote of Tennessee for Thomas Jefferson,
and on the thirty-seventh ballot that gentleman was
elected. J

The maiden name of the mother of our subject
was Elizabeth Archer Binford, a very estimable lady
of the rare old Virginia stock, and a native of Gooch-
land county, of that state. She still lives in Bote-
tourt county, Virginia, in the eightieth year of her
age. Some of the finer traits in the children are
plainly traceable to this excellent matron. It is not
surprising that the son of such a couple should find
himself in this volume of “eminent and self-made
men.”

Nathaniel Charles Claiborne was born in Frank-
lin county, Virginia, February 15, ‘I822. At the
age of fourteen he left the preparatory school of
Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, but with
enough of the elements and scientific rudiments,
aided by his own ambition, to form a foundation for
his own advancement in his literary and scholastic
pursuits. And in all his varied experience, he never
lost that ambition, no matter what his avocation or
surroundings, by close observation and study of men
and books he has made for himself a personal repu-
tation of which many a graduate would feel proud.
Hence, we are quite correct in classing him with our
self-made men.

For several years preceding his majority he trav-
eled through the West, principally as a steamboat-
man, and in that very practical school learned much
of men and their motives which has been very advan-
tageous to him in the practice of his profession. He
returned to Virginia in 1845, and immediately began
to take an active and influential part in the political
events of the state. In 1847 he was elected to the
legislature of Virginia by the Democratic party, and
was reelected to the succeeding sessions for a period
of four years.

In 1850 he was elected a member of the consti-

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tutional convention of his native state. That body
framed and adopted the constitution under which
Virginia was governed until the breaking out of the
war of the Rebellion. In that body his compeers
were Hon. Henry A. Wise, Hon. John Minor Botts,
Hon. Robert Scott, Judge G. W. Summers and
others of the state’s most illustrious sons. Men of
ordinary intellect could not contend with such giants.

In 1852 he was elected prosecuting attorney of
Franklin county, under the new constitution which
he had helped to frame. In 1:855 he was an Inde-
pendent candidate, endorsed by the American party,
for Congress; but was defeated by Hon. Thomas S.
Babcock in the wane of the Know Nothing organi-
zation.

-In 1857 Mr. Claiborne removed to Missouri and
settled in Kansas City. But in his new home his
reputation had preceded him and his services were
demanded by the citizens. He was at once thrown
into active political lifeand in 1860 was elected to
the Missouri Legislature from Jackson county. His
talents were so conspicuous at the capital that in
1861 he was elected secretary of the senate.

Seeking a more extensive field for the practice of
his profession, Mr. Claiborne moved to St. Louis in
1861, at the close of his legislative duties. And it
would seem that the historic popularity of his family
followed him to the metropolis of the West, for he
was twice elected‘ to the ‘legislature from the Sixth
(“ Central”) ward of the city. He had represented
his party of the state of Virginia in the Democratic

National Conventions of 1848 and 1852. Ten years
after the Democrats of his district in Missouri called
him to perform similar service for them, and in 1860
he was sent a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Charleston, South Carolina. In that
memorable body he consistently and continuously
voted for Mr. Douglas _as the best candidate for the
presidency. Afterward, in the Baltimore conven-
tion, he continued to vote for the same gentle-
man. I

Since the breaking out of the unhappy sectional
war between the Northern and Southern states, Mr.
Claiborne has eschewed active politics and devoted
himself to his profession——in which, if he has a
specialty, it is in the criminal practice. From his
success therein we infer the talent of his ancestry for
criminal jurisprudence has descended in full to this
scion. Certain it is the oratorical mantle of his uncle
has fallen upon his shoulders, for it is said of him,
“few men are more effective on the rostrum, the
stump or at the bar than Nat. Claiborne.”

It is a little remarkable to look back through the
histories of our nation and see how constantly the
Claiborne family have been kept in public service.
Every era finds them in the councils of the state or
nation, and for over two hundred years of our
colonial and national history members of the family
have taken part in the legislation of our country.
They spent busy lives for the welfare of their fellow
citizens, and that of Nat. C. Claiborne has been no
exception to the rule.

COLONEL THOMAS TASKER GANTT.

ST. LOUIS.

HOMAS TASKER GANTT was born July
T 22, 1:814, in Georgetown, D. C. His father,
Thomas Tasker Gantt, was formerly of Prince George
county, Maryland. His mother’s maiden name was
Ann Stoddert, third daughter of Benjamin Stod-
dert, a major in the Maryland Line during the Rev-
olutionary war, and Secretary of the Navy under
President John Adams, 1797 to 1801.

The subject of this sketch was educated partly at
Georgetown (D. C.) College, and partly at ,West
Point Military Academy, at which latter institution
he was admitted as a cadet in 1831, where he

remained two years, being among the first five of his
class at the examination in June, 1832, and also in
June, 1833. Unfortunately, he sustained an injury
which prevented his return to the academy at the
end of his furlough, and which rendered him very
lame for many years afterward, being thus unable to
resume his place in his class, soon after the accident
he resigned.

He then resolved to fit himself for the profession
of law, and for sometime devoted himself to the
preparatory studies in the necessary text-books.
Early in 1837 he entered the law office of Thomas

386 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIONARY.

G. Pratt, Esq., (afterward governor of Maryland
and United States‘ senator), at Upper Marlboro,
Maryland. In April, 1837, he was admitted to the
bar of Prince George county, Maryland, and to that
of the high court of chancery and the court of
appeals of Maryland in the spring of 1838. In the
fall of 1838 he made a tour of the western and
southern states with the view of selecting a perma-
nent location. Deciding upon St. Louis, he settled
in that city in May, 1839, and was admitted to
practice in all the courts of the state, where he has
since continued to practice in his profession, except
from August, I86I, to july, 1862, when he was
judge advocate, with the rank of colonel, on General
McClellan’s staff ; and a further interruption as judge
of the court of appeals in 1876. He was also
United States attorney for the District of Missouri,
from June, 1845, to May, 1849. _

The year 1849 will long be remembered as the
year of death in St. Louis, when that fearful scourge,
the cholera, swept the city as with a besom of
destruction. Citizens left the city in crowds, and
even some of its officials gathered their families
together and hurried away. It was a thrilling emer-
gency, one calling for prompt action, death was
stalking the streets and staring in at windows, pesti-
lence breathed from the alleys, and a day’s delay
might give the demon ‘opportunity to enter every
domicile. The citizens held an indignation meeting,
and demanded the return of the city officials (with-
out whom no measures of safety could be inaugu-
rated), or, in case of failure, to resign their offices
and give way to men that would do their duty. In
answer to the request of the citizens, the council
(its absent members having returned) convened, and
passed an ordinance (June 27, 1849, No. 2215)
establishing “The Committee of Public Health,” to
consist of Thomas T. Gantt, Richard S. Blenner—
hassett, Adam B. Chambers, Isaac A. Hedges, james
Clemens, ]r., joseph M. Field, George Collier,
Luther M. Kennett, Trusten Polk, Louis Bach,
Thomas Gray and William G. Clark, the same as
designated as a committee by the citizens’ meeting,
with full powers in the premises. At the first meet-
ing of the committee Thomas T. Gantt was elected
chairman, J. M. Field, secretary, pro fem, who was
succeeded by the election of Samuel Treat, Esq.,
(since judge) as permanent secretary. It is unnec-
essary here to refer to the prevalence of that
epidemic, or to the particular measures acted upon
and adopted by the committee. Suffice it to say,

52'/re die.

every man of them dared death for duty, and for
one terrible month fought the destroyer, until their
vigilance and the careful attendance of their doctors
and nurses drove the foe from the city and repeopled
the desolated streets. The writer of this sketch has
been permitted to examine the well kept records of

‘the committee, which testify to the conscientious

performance of their duties and the no less consci-
entious account of their transactions. The writer,
without consulting judge Gantt, takes the liberty to
copy the closing resolution of the body:

“On motion of Mr. Clark, Resolved, That the
thanks of the committee are due, both in their own
behalf and in that of the citizens of St. Louis gen-
erally, to Thomas T. Gantt, Esq., for the zealous,
able, efficient and impartial manner in which he has
discharged the many and arduous duties devolved
upon him-as president of the committee of public
health, during the existence of said committee as a
board of health, under the city ordinance ‘to pre-
vent the spread of cholera/” After faithfully per-
forming their duties daily during the scourge, as
matter of history we may state that on the 1st day
of August, 1849, the board of health declared the
city free of cholera, and adjourned sizze a’z'e.

‘Mr. Gantt was city counselor for the city of St.
Louis for two years from June, 1853, and for
another year, beginning June, 1856. He was also
a member of the state convention, called by the
General Assembly of Missouri in 1861. This con-

vention was called by the general assembly to pass,

an ordinance of secession. It consisted, however,
of a two-thirds majority of unconditional "Union
men. Its first session was held in March, 1861, and
then resolved not to secede. The next session was
held in July and August, 1861. During this sitting,
the convention deposed, unconditionally, and for
open misconduct, the governor, lieutenant—governor
and the legislative officers 3 also, conditionally, all
state officers who neglected, within a given time, to
give in their adhesionto the government set up by
the convention, which was entirely in the interests
of the Union cause. Another session was held in
October, 1861, when measures were taken for addi-
tional efforts for the Union. The convention met
again in June, 1862, convened for the purpose of
abolishing slavery in Missouri, but failed to pass any
ordinance to that effect. In June, 1863, it met
again and passed an ordinance for the abolition of
slavery in seven years thereafter, and then adjourned
Another convention, elected under the

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military government, in November, 1864, met, and
on january II, 1875, passed the ordinance for
immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery in
the state. Judge Gantt was not a member of this
last convention. He was, also, a member of the
convention which framed the present constitution of
the state, which body began its session May 5," and
ended Angust 2, 1865. He was chairman of the
committee on the bill of rights and a member of the
committee on the legislative department, he was,
also, the author of Sections 19, 2o, 21, 22, 23 and

24 of Article IX of that Constitution, which sepa- '

rated St. Louis from the county and made it a free
city.
American jurisprudence, and its success so far has
provedthe wisdom of the departure. A .

In his political career, while he has never been a
seeker of office nor asked for the applauseof his
fellow citizens, judge Gantt has consistently and
persistently followed a straight course as a strict
constructionist, during the Warhe was an uncondi-
tional Unionist and a war Democrat ; was an oppo-
nent of the‘Drake constitution and all radical or
reconstructive measures; a supporter of President
]ohnson’s policy, and being opposed to the Demo-

cratic party in the nomination of Mr. Greeley in t

1872, Voted for Charles O’Connor for president 3 but
voted for Mr. Tilden in 1876. He claims that his
political career, antecedent to the war, was consis-
tent, having Voted for Seymour in 1868, for McClel-
lan in 1864, for Douglas in 1860, for Buchanan in
1856, for Pierce in 1852, for,Cass in 1848 and for
Polk in 1844.
pledge to reform the civil service 3 but when the
Whig party repudiated that pledge, he returned to
the.Democratic party, to which he has since con-
stantly adhered. But in his political views, while

It was the first attempt of that nature in

In 1840 he voted for Harrison on his.

tenaciously clinging to his opinions, he has ever been
liberal toward others, and only asking the same
liberty for himself. He never asked for an office.
Mr. Gantt has never been a member of any church,
but has, since early manhood, inclined toward Uni-
tarianism. in his religious belief.

He was married in 1845 to Miss Mary Carroll
Tabbs, ‘a grand-daughter of Charles Carroll, of
Belleview, Maryland. In regard to his professional,
social and other characteristics, an eminent gentle-
man of St. Louis, who has known him long and
intimately, says: “He is a man of genial disposi-
tion, honorable in his dealings with this fellow men;
being possessed of a stern sense of justice, and

endowed with a keen and discriminating intellect,"

which enables him to separate the true from the false
and the ideal, being gifted in an eminent degree
with the qualities which have distinguished him as a
lawyer and a judge. There is no man who, by
precept and example, has done more than he to
preserve the honor of the legal profession in the
courts Where he has practiced and in the community
where he has resided; and whilst it must be admitted
that among his contemporaries he is one of the most
learned men in the profession, it may be said that he
has not considered a professional knowledge of juris-
prudence at all incompatible with general culture
and literary accomplishment; for in spite of the
arduous duties of his profession, he has not only
kept himself well informed in the political history of
his country, but his literary attainments are of a high
order. Industrious, energetic and orderly in his
habits, the knowledge which he has acquired on all
subjects to which he has directed his attention, is
peculiarly accurate and reliable, and this may be
attributed not less to his industry and close attention
than to his natural love of truth and justice.”

BENJAMIN BARNES KINGSBURY.

ST. LOUIS.

HE Kingsburys were an old English family,
T who immigrated to America before the Revo-
lutionary war. Nathaniel Kingsbury, father of the
subject of this sketch, was an eminent physician of

Temple, New Hampshire, and was a member of the A

house of representatives of that state in 1841-2, and
of the senate in 1846. He married Miss Lydia

Patten, of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, who died
in August, 1839, leaving two children, a son and
daughter. - .

' Benjamin Barnes Ki-ngsbury, their only son, was
born in Temple, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire,
May 15, I837. - He received hispreparatory educa-

tion in New Ipswich, under E. T. Quimby, now’

388 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

professor in Dartmouth College, and was then sent
to Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, where he
graduated, in 18 57, with high honors, ranking among
the first "twelve in a class of fifty.

In August, 1857, Mr. Kingsbury moved to St.
Charles, Missouri, and was tutor of Latin and Greek
in St. Charles College for one year. He was profes-
sor of Latin and Greek in St. Paul’s College, in
Palmyra, Missouri, from 1858 to 1861. He then
entered the law school of Harvard University.
Aftergraduating with the degree of Bachelor of
Law, was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1862.
He at once entered the office of John W. Bacon, of
Boston; In 1863 he removed to California and
practiced law in San Jose two years, when he
returned to St. Charles, where he formed a law part-
nership with Charles E. Hess, Esq., and succeeded
to the practice of Hon. Arnold Krekel, who had
been appointed Judge of the United States District
Court for the Western District of Missouri. Mr.
Hess was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the

Western District in 1871, which dissolved the part-
nership. c

In 1866 Governor Fletcher appointed Mr. Kings-
bury Circuit Attorney for the 19th Judicial Circuit,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Hon. John C. Orrick. He was elected to the same
office at the expiration of his term, and filled the
position six years. In 1872 he was appointed United
States Commissioner of the Circuit Court for the
Eastern District of Missouri; in 1876 he removed
to St. Louis, where he has since practiced his profes-
sion, having an office at 710 Olive street.

B. B. Kingsbury was married June 2o, 1862, to
Miss Sarah R. Freeman, daughter of Rev. Frederick
Freeman, of Sandwich, Massachusetts, an Episco-
palian clergyman and author of a history of Cape
Cod and also several family genealogies. Three
children, one boy and two girls, have been born to
them. Mr. Kingsbury is Republican in politics, but
of rather conservative views.
liberal.

In religion he is

GALEN E. BISHOP, M. D.

5 T. ]0SEPH.

OCTOR BISHOP, one of the most distin-
guished physicians in the West, is descended

from an old English family who settled in New »

Hampshire while the thirteen colonies were yet sub-
ject to Great Britain. During the revolutionary war
they took an active part with the colonists in'the
struggle for independence, and at its close, settled
in Virginia. Solomon Bishop, Galen’s grandfather,
moved from Virginia into Kentucky in 1800 and set-
tled in Nelson county. His son Jacob, Galen’s
father, was born in Virginia in (792, and came into
Kentucky when eight years old. He married Eliza-
beth Elliott, whose brother, Galen, was one of the
earliest and "most celebrated physicians of Sornmer-
set, Kentucky,-their father, Benjamin, came from
Maryland. . Galen E., son of Jacob and Elizabeth
Bishop was born in Sommerset, Pulaski county, Ken-
tucky, removed with the family to Platte county,
Missouri, in 1843, where his father died in 1851.
Galen, being early associated with his uncle, evinced
a very strong inclination for the study of medicine
when but a mere child, and resolved to commence

his studies as soon as he had an opportunity. His
father was a blacksmith, and he was brought up at
the forge——but from the time he was twelve years old
any spare moment was devoted to his favorite study.

Nights, Sundays, holidays, at odd times, under every A_

disadvantage, never losing a moment from his books,
spending every dollar and dime he could get hold of
to procure them, he made such progress that he was
ready for the practice of his profession before he
had attained his full growth, or become of age.
During all these years of hard work and harder
study, he never had a preceptor, never read an hour
under any one’s instructions, and justly claims the
high honor of being a self-made physician. He first
established himself in practice in New Market,
Platte county, Missouri, in 1846. Nature seems to
have adapted him especially for his profession—his
nerve and genius for surgical operations soon gained
him an enviable reputation. He was eminently suc-
cessful in his treatment of disease ; during the nine-
teeen years that he practiced in Platte county his
reputation continually increased. "On account of

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threatened lung disease, induced by the exposures
incident to a rough country practice, and desirous of
securing a more eligible location, centrally situated,
that his numerous patients from a distance might
reach him more conveniently, -he determined to
remove to St. Joseph. He located in the city in
the spring of 1865, and at once established himself
in office practice, making surgery and chronic dis-
eases his specialties. The medical institution which
he has established on Third street is a credit and an
ornament to ‘the city; his extensive buildings are
beautiful in architectural design and arranged with
every modern convenience for the comfort of his
patients. Dr. Bishop has performed some of the
most difficult operations known to science ; his suc-
cess has been very marked both in surgery and the
treatment of disease, and only the incurable diseases
are beyond the reach of his scientific skill. He has
been a thorough student of medicine from his youth,
has become married to his profession, and his leisure
Orig-
inally belonging to the allopathic school, he has

,_thoroughly acquainted himself with the merits of all

the medical schools and systems, and does not hesi-
tate to adopt what he a.pproves as rational, regard-
less of the school or the physicians who advocate it.
His views are without that narrowness and prejudice
so characteristic of those who zealously advocate
particular dogmas. His mind is singularly free from
prejudgments. The best works of the ablest writers
of all schools are found upon the shelves of his large
and elegant library, which contains one of the finest
collections of medical works in the western country.
His extensive reading is not confined to his own

profession, bu_t embraces as well the best authorities
on law, theology, physical science and general liter-

ature. His beautiful library room——22 X 30 feet-

tcontains, beside his extensive collection of standard

works, which have been selected and arranged with
studied care, many fine engravings and paintings,
while’ upon his cases stand numerous busts of
ancient and modern scientists, orators and poets.
His buildings have been specially arranged with ref-
erence to his practice, and in the infirmary patients
can be treated with as much comfort as in their own
homes. His reputation is ever widening, and his
practice already extends to the adjoining states and
territories. Dr. Bishop claims originality in medical
science, being self-taught, he is untrammeled by
any system, but has founded his knowledge in exten-
sive reading, in an unusually varied practice and in
experience.

In 1853 he published a monthly journal of thirty-
two pages, the “Popular Journal of Medicine and
Collateral Sciences,” but finding that it took too
much time from his practice it was discontinued
after some months. A very close student, and
attending faithfully to his patients, he has not lost a
single day from business in the last twelve years,
nor more than two or three months in a practice of
thirty—two years. Dr.,Bishop is fully abreast of the
latest discoveries in medical science and in -surgery,
and is a regular subscriber for twenty different medi-
cal journals and periodicals, both home and foreign.
Modest and unassuming in his manners, cosmopoli-
tan in his tastes, thoroughly absorbed in his profes-
sion, Dr. Bishop is a living demonstration of the
value of application and the worth of time improved.

HON. JOSHUA LADUE.

ST. £0U[S.

OSHUA LADUE was born in Westfield, Chau-
tauqua county, New York, on the 17th of April,
1833. His father, Joshua LaDue, was a native

of Duchess county, New York, and was a private
and afterward promoted in the war of 1812. He
was a farmer, and enjoyed the confidence and
respect of his fellow-citizens. He was supervisor
of the county, a justice of the peace, and also held

other offices. He was of French origin, and died

in Westfield, New York, September I, 1865. His
mother was Miss Julia Ann Cowles, a native of
Farmington, Connecticut, and of a more than usual
strength of mind. After the death of her husband,
she continued to study the political history of her
country, and in her arm-chair regularly read the
Democratic journals of her state. She was of the
old Connecticut Puritan stock, and retains her reli-
gious principles and political views up to to-day.

390 TIIE U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPIIZCAZ, DZCTZOZVARY.

She still lives, a well-preserved woman eighty years
of age, active physically and mentally.

The subject of our sketch was educated in the
common schools and academy of Chautauqua county,
and at the expiration of his scholastic career, he
learned the printer’s trade in his brother’s office, the
Fro/zizlér Express, at Fredonia, New York. In 1849
he removed to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and, in corn-
pany with his brother, became one of the proprietors
of the Sheboygan Democmz’. When LaCrosse county
was first surveyed and laid out, he started the first
paper published in the now city of La Crosse. This
paper was Democratic in its politics, and we may
as well say here, Mr. LaDue was born and bred a
Democrat, and has never been other than a con-
sistent member of that party. Even when to be
such was political ostracism, he maintained his

political principles, unawed by threats and intimi-

dations. In the fall of 1852 he removed to Mil-
waukee and read law in the office of Jason Downer,
Esq., since judge of the supreme court of that state.
He was admitted to the practice of law in 1856, in
Milwaukee, and immediately sprang into large" and
lucrative practice 3 having, by the sickness of Judge
Downer, succeeded him in his practice. This was
an immense stride to the ‘young practitioner, as
Judge Downer was then in the enjoyment of a
$1o,ooo-practice.

In the spring of 1860 Mr. LaDue was elected
city attorney of Milwaukee, over the then partner
of United States Senator Carl Shurz, Halbert E.
Payne, Esq. He was reelected’ to the same position
for three consecutive years thereafter, .and the last
time by a unanimous vote, the opposing (Republican)
party offering no candidate. In 1863 he was nom-
inated by acclamation, in the state Democratic
convention, for attorney—general of Wisconsin, but
declined the nomination. In the fall of 1865 he
removed to St. Louis,’ and there entered into the
practice of law, in which he continued until the fall
of 1868, when he removed to Clinton, Henry county,
Missouri,‘ as attorney for the Tebo &: Neosho railroad
company (now Missouri, Kansas & Texas), which
was then in process of construction.

In the fall of 1872 he was elected by the Demo-
crats to the state senate, from the 15th Senatorial
District, composed of the counties of Henry, John-
son, St. Clair and Benton,.over the then senator
from that district, Hon. Wells H. Blodgett, by the
following flattering majorities: Henry county, 420 3
Johnson, 263; St. Clair, 2123 Benton gave Mr.

Blodgett 93 majority. The election was one of the
most hotly contested ever held in the state, and
resulted in the resurrection of the Democratic party
throughout the state. As an evidence of his powers

of endurance, energy and talent, it is but justice to

state th-at Mr. LaDue spoke in ‘every township of
the counties in which he received majorities. The
extent of his personal influence is shown by these
‘majorities where he spoke and by his being beaten
in Benton county ninety-three votes, in which county,
by reason of want of time, he made only a partial
canvass. But it may be said that he received the full
Democratic vote of the district, and beat his oppo-
nent in his own county. He served out his full
term in the Missouri Senate, having been on some
of the most important committees of the sessions.
While in the senate Mr. LaDue felt it his duty to
take sides with the school boards and people of
Cote Brilliant, in St. Louis county, against the
school board of the city of St. Louis, involving the
control of the school funds. arising from the sale of
the 16th section in that county, in which contest he
antagonized the St. Louis delegation in the senate.
Mr. LaDue was successful, and shortly afterward he
receive the following grateful letter, which he prizes
very highly :
ST. LOUIS, April I0, 1875.
To JOSHUA LADUE,
Missouri State Senator, Henry County.

DEAR SIR : Your noble and disinterested endeav-
ors in the cause ofjustice, as exemplified by your
action on the 16th Section School Bill , the indefati-
gable energy and persistency display ed, your mastery
of the details and comprehension of the whole sub-
ject, and your fearless, forcible and brilliant advo-
cacy of the truth on the floor of the senate, mark
you as possessing those high attributes of heart and
mind, that indicate high-toned, true statesmanship.

In view of the inestimable service rendered us by
you, we desire to express our high appreciation of you
as a man and legislator 3 to declare, with pride and
pleasure, that in our memories your name stands in
the foremost ranks in the line of championsof our
cause, to acknowledge our weighty indebtedness,
and to thank you cordially and sincerely in our name
and in the name of our community for your promi-
nent and highly distinguished services in our behalf.
With much regard, Senator, we remain yours truly,

‘JOHN L. GANZHORN, 1
WM. MICHEL,

A. R. NEWCOMB, Boards of Education
HERMAN GANSMAN, of

W. L. HAWKINS, iDistricts No. I, 2, 3,
SAMUEL CUPPLES, 4, 5 and 6.

W. H. CHICK,

E. P. GRAY. J

THE UNITED STATES BIOG./x’./JPEUCAL DICTIO./VAIBY. 391

Senator LaDue, after his term of office expired,
resumed the practice of law in Clinton, and con-
tinued it to the time of his removal to St. Louis, in
October, 1877. In 1873 he was appointed by Gov-
ernor Woodson a member of the board of curators
of the State University of Missouri, and was re—ap—
pointed to the same position by Governor Hardin.
Upon his removal to St Louis, the following notice
appeared in the St. Louis. T 277235 .-

“ Hon. Joshua LaDue, after an absence from
St. Louis of about nine years, has returned to this
city and opened a law office, with the intention
of remaining here permanently. During his resi-
dence in Henry county he attained high professional
distinction, besides serving his district four years in
the state senate, and few men possess a wider or
more valuable acquaintance throughout the state.
A gentleman of such well established re—putation and
personal popularity can hardly fail of building up a
lucrative practice at the St. Louis bar.

JOSEPH WISBY.

MARSHEJELD.

OSEPH WISBY was born December 29, 1847,
in Schuyler county, Illinois, and is the second
son of Thomas Wisby and Sophia Davis, who were
married in 1839. His father was a farmer and moved
to Webster county, Missouri, in 1857, locating in
what is now known as Marshfield, when there was
but a sparse population in that section. He was
one of the original founders of Marshfield, and a
part of the town is known as Wisby’s Addition. In
1870 Thomas Wisby _moved to Barry county, and
there died, December 28, 1872, aged fifty-seven
years. His wife, Sophia Wisby, haddied twelve
years before, in October, 1860, in the forty-fifth year
of her age. The Wisbys are of Welch descent,
though the family name is traceable in America for
several generations. William Wisby, father of
Thomas and grandfather of Joseph, moved to
Schuyler county, Illinois, at an early date, having
emigrated from Ohio. He was engaged in farming
till his death, which occurred in 1864, when he was
in his seventy—ninth year. _

Joseph Wisby, of whom we write, attended the
winter sessions of the common schools, assisting his
father on the farm during the cropping seasons, until
nearly sixteen years old. At that age, against the
wishes of his parents, he enlisted in Company H,
8th Regiment, Missouri State Militia, and served in
the army for six months.‘ In January, 1864, he
joined the 12th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, under
Colonel Wells, in whose command he remained until
the close of the war. During the first six months of
his service he was stationed in Missouri, but with the
12th Regiment he was acting with the Army of the

Tennessee, and participated in the battles near Nash-
50

ville and Franklin, and the series of engagements
with Hood’s army. Afterward, under General Wil-
son, he assisted in the capture of Selma and Mont-
gomery, Alabama. April I5, 1865, he was captured
and held as a prisoner of war. In May, he was
paroled at Jackson, Mississippi, and not having
been exchanged, he was discharged July '9, 1865,
and permitted to return home.

Returning to Marshfield, he attended the high
school in that place and then for five months the
Steelville. (Crawford county) Academy.
married, June 19, 1866, to Miss Nancy Lee Huff,
daughter of Alpheus and Sarah Huff, who were
among the earliest settlers of Green county, Missouri.

Leaving the Academy, he taught school until in
the latter part of 1869, when he purchased the Marsh-
field Yeomcm, a Republican newspaper, and changed
its name to that of the Marshfield De7720c7’af, and
published the paper for over a year, when he dis-
posed of his interest in February, 1871, remaining,
however, as editor till the latter part of that year.

While conducting the paper, he had applied him-
self to the study of law under the instruction of
Messrs. F yan & Rush, two of the most distinguished
lawyers in southwest Missouri. He was admitted to
the bar in September, 1871, and has steadily pur-
sued his avocation since, growing rapidly in popular
favor and building up an enviable reputation as a
faithful attorney and conscientious counselor.

Mr. Wisby takes a deep interest in political affairs
and is known as a leading Democrat in his section of
the State. He hasbeen chosen a delegate to every
congressional and senatorial convention in his dis-
tricts since he attained his majority in 1868, and to

He was

392 .TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

every Democratic State convention since 1870. In
1876 he was a delegate in the Democratic National
Convention, which met in St. Louis, and voted for
the nomination of Samuel ]. Tilden for the presi-
dency. He has held the office of prosecuting attor-
ney for two terms, discharging the obligations of the
position with zeal and fidelity.

Mr. Wisby is liberal in his religious views, buta
member of no religious organization. He is in full
membership and fellowship with the Masonic order,

the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, -hold- '

ing prominent positions in these various societies,
and in 1874 was elected a member of the Odd Fel-
lows’ Grand Encampment of the State.

Five children have blessed his union with Miss

Huff. His domestic and business relations are most‘

happy. His temperament is genial and social ; his
spirits elastic ; his conversation spirited and enter-
taining, his address pleasant and attractive. Still
quite young, he has already achieved a large measure
of success, and is destined, if spared to the future,
to stand second to none in his influence on the
society in which he moves.

[We publish the above against Mr. Wisby’s ear-
nest request for its omission. We know this to be
but the beginning of an interesting and valuable
life record, which he will honorably and successfully
complete]

CHARLES C. LOGAN.

ST. LOUIS.

HERE is a sure anchorage in the Christian
T faith that is stronger than all the philosophies
which have blessed or cursed mankind. Ten dollars
to begin life with, and a family to support, is not a
very promising outlook, and yet from such begin-
nings, with Christian integrity, men, trusting on the
Christian’s God, have climbed step by step to com-
petency and renown. There is something in such
lives, some indefinable and unanswerable argument,
that staggers infidelity and puts philosophy to flight.
There is a peculiar rest to biographical writers, cull-
ing from the busy, practical world, to stop from the
rush of politics, the whir of commerce and the mazy
paths of speculations to tell the story of an humble,
trusting, successful Christian. I

Charles C. Logan, now a successful and prosper-
ous real estate and financial agent of St. Louis, was
born ‘March 23, I829,‘in McMinn county, Tennes-
see. His parents, John and Margaret P. Logan,
were humble, honest Christians. The father served
in the Indian war and was in the celebrated Tillicoe
Blockhouse, Monroe county, Tennessee. He moved
to East Tennessee about the year 1824, moved again
to Missouri in 1842, and died in a log cabin which
the neighbors had erected for his family, in Law-
rence county, Southwest Missouri, August 2 3d of
the same year. Thus in a strange land, among
strangers, was the family left to battle with life with-
out their leader and in comparative poverty. He
left just ten dollars in money, two oxen and a small

wagon to his heirs. That was all? No! He left
them a God-over-all and the avenue of faith. There
were the widow and three children: J. B. Logan
(since become a celebrated divine and editor in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church), aged then about
twenty-one; Margaret M. Logan and the subject of
this sketch. ]. B. Logan taught school in a private
family and’ rented a small farm, on which he put
Charles and the family. This boy worked it, sowing
all the wheat, oats, flax, etc., while only in his thir-
teenth year. Shortly after the father’s death, the
family attended a camp meeting. at Greenfield, Dade
county, Missouri, where Charles made a profession
of religion, thus fulfilling a promise to his father to

. try to meet him in heaven.

About the year 1844 the neighbors built his
brother a large school house in Lawrence county
(afterward known as Spring River Academy), where

‘Charles received but a limited education in the

intervals he could spare from the farm labors, which
required his constant supervision and a greatpart of
the time his individual labor.

In April, 1852, ]. B. Logan—in obedience to a
call from the entire Cumberland Presbyterian church
—started and took editorial management of a church

. paper, and made Lexington, Missouri, the point of

publication. He sold the little farm he had purchased,
and the family removed with him to Lexington.
The church, after one year, decided upon St. Louis
as a better point for the publication of the paper,

A land, May 17, I828.

TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAL DICTIO./VARY. 393

and in April, 18 5 3, the entire family, with the office
material, shipped on the steamer Isabella for that city.

In St. Louis, Charles entered the commercial
school of Jonathan Jones, to fit himself for city
business. In a few months he obtained a situation
as clerk in a wholesale house at twenty-five dollars
per month, and remained there one year. He then
became collector for several business houses, and in
a short time accumulated enough money to warrant
his marriage. Accordingly, on September 17, 1855,
he married Miss Elizabeth J. Finagin, of St. Louis.
This was a very fortunate move, for to the good
counsel, cheerful help and Christian influence of that
lady may be largely attributed the business success
and commercial credit of Mr. Logan.

On the 1st of November, 1855, Mrs. Logan’s
father was taken from his family in the sad calamity,
that is still fresh in the memory of many, of the
falling of the Gasconade bridge. This sad bereave-
ment forced upon the shoulders of the young hus-
band the care of Mr. Finagin’s family. But trust-
ing in God, he manfully accepted the responsibility
and succeeded.

On April I, 1861, C. C. Logan began the busi-
ness in which he has since continued so successfully
in St. Louis. He formed a real estate partnership
with ‘Mr. Henry Morrison. It was a small beginning,
as the firm only had desk room in the building on
the corner of Third and Pine streets, then occupied
by Dr. J. H. McLean, for which they paid $15 per
month. But from that small beginning has grown
the mammoth business conducted by Mr. Logan in
the past few years. Their office was continued
there until July 4, I877, growing gradually, annu-
ally extending in variety and importance, taking in
rents, sales, loans, and a very extensive financial
business. The heavy business called for enlarged
facilities, and the present firm of Logan & Berkley,
211 North Sixth street, have a fine office and are
conducting a heavy trade, having the confidence of
St. Louis to a very high degree.

Mr. Logan has had his reverses as well as suc-
cesses, sorrows as well as joys, family enjoyments
and bereavements, but he has never forgotten to
lean upon the arm of Jehovah, and it has proved
the greatest fortune his father could have left him.

JOHN FINN.

ST. LOUIS.

the most popular officials in the state. Certain

it is, among the truly self—made men of the
West, he is the most deserving, because what he has
accomplished is the result of his own endeavors.
Thrown upon his own resources at seventeen, with
a fair education, principally of a practical busi-
ness character, and with scarcely any means, he has
climbed almost to the top round on the ladder of
success, and built up a popularity as a man and as
an official, of which he may well feel proud. The
editor of this sketch simply records what prominent
citizens of St. Louis have told him, without encoun-
tering the modesty of the subject of this sketch.
Justice could not be done were he allowed to tell
his own story, for there are few more unassuming
men than John Finn. I '

He was born in,Somerset, county Galway, Ire-
His father, James Finn, was
a farmer and stock trader of very extensive dealings
in the west of Ireland, who died in his forty-second

JOHN FINN has the reputation of being one of S

year, when John was only seventeen. The family
is one of the oldest and most respectable, as is evi-
denced by the ancient records of Galway and Ros-

. common. The mother of our subject, whose maiden

name was Catherine Bohannan, was also of an old
Irish family, and a native of the same county. At

- her husband’s death she was left with nine children,

whose cultivation for future usefulness and honor
was her chief care. She immigrated with her chil-
dren to America in 1847 and settled in the city of
New York.

John was about eighteen years of age when he
arrived in this country. He had received the
rudiments of an English education at the common
schools of Ireland; but afterward attended high
school in New York The support of his mother
and family devolved upon John as the oldest son,
and that task prevented him from acquiring an early
education. Shortly after arriving at New York he
accepted the position of foreman in the Brooklyn
navy yard, where he remained about two years,

394 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

after which he engaged in the wholesale stock trade
in New York, and at the same time conducted a
retail butcher establishment. He continued this
business in the city and state of New York until
1853, with handsome success. The father’s busi-
ness tact and pluck, as well as his energy and
judgment, appear to have descended to the son, for
in whatever avocation he has engaged john Finn has
been a success.

In 1853 he removed to St. Louis and there
entered largely into the stock business. His opera-
tions were very extensive in all the Western Missouri
counties and adjoining states, as far west as the
Rocky Mountains, and no one man has done more
to bring the immense cattle trade of the West to St.
Louis, as the mercantile records of the city abun-
dantly prove.

As an instance of his enterprise and daring
character, we may relate the following incidents,
which very few men would have the great hardihood
and pertinacity of purpose to attempt. He left
New Orleans, alone, in 1856, crossed the Gulf of
Mexico, and journeyed to Brownsville on the Rio
Grande 3 entered Mexico and bought a large number
of horses at eleven dollars and a half per head.
recrossed into Texas and sold them at San Patricio
to a party from Illinois at thirty-five dollars each.
He met then a party of men from Missouri and

Illinois and asked them to make the same trip with

him. They declined on account of the dangers that
beset the route, it being infested with Mexican rob-
bers and hostile Indians, the chances of ever return-
ing being to their minds very small. After they had
refused, john Finn announced his intention of going
alone, which he did. In their presence he mounted
his horse, crossed the river at eight o’clock that
night, reached Brownsville after a ride of two days
and nights, a distance of about two hundred and
fifty miles, bought another lot of horses and returned
with his interpreter, who was his only escort, and
sold them inside of fifteen days. This trip he
repeated for the third time, and was the first man to
bring Mexican horses to St. Louis. Singular to say,
that though these adventures took place some twenty-
two years ago, some of the horses are still living.
The many escapes and hairbreadth adventures
which ‘john Finn met with at this portion of his
career would furnish a very interesting chapter of
romance in the history of the wilds of the Great
West. Shortly after this Mr. Finn took the govern-
ment contract to furnish thirty-two of the United

States forts and army posts with cattle and horses,
and also to supply the Sioux, Pawnees, Crows,
Grosventres and other tribes of Indians. The dis-
trict in which he fulfilled this engagement extended
from Omaha to Fort Bridger and as far as the mouth
of the Yellowstone. It was frequently his habit to
ride alone through the hostile countries for hundreds
of miles. That he escaped continually was a
miracle. Generals Harney, Sherman, Colonel Myers
and other army officers with whom he came in con-
tact, expressed their admiration for his boldness and
courage in risking his life, and the promptitude and
fidelity with which he executed his obligations under
his contract. During the war of the Rebellion he
sold to the United States government over 3oo,ooo
head of horses and mules, besides large numbers of
cattle, and his receipts from the authorities show
entire satisfaction. While in the stock business Mr.
Finn was the largest buyer in the Mississippi Valley,
and built for himself a very enviable character for
commercial promptness and integrity.

In New York city he had made considerable
military fame as a member of the Jackson Horse
Guards, and afterward as first lieutenant of that
company. In 1850 he organized the Finn Guards,
numbering three hundred and fifty men. This was
an infantry company, and one of the most respect-
able and popular military companies in New York
at that day. When the Rebellion broke out, Gov-
ernor Gamble offered Mr. Finn a commission to
raise a regiment for the United States service; but
his business interests were of such a ‘nature as to
compel his non-acceptance of that honor.

In his official career, as in his financial. success,
this man has grown step by step to his present
responsible position as sheriff of St. Louis. He was
first elected alderman from the old Fifth ward in
1865 and served two years; he was elected presi-
dent of the board of health and discharged the
duties of that office during the awful cholera scourge
in the year 1866. Nor did he do it by proxy 3 in
person he visited and relieved families, nursed the
sufferers, dressed and coffined their bodies after
death, and interred their remains on Arsenal Island
and elsewhere. From hovel to palace, in all the
wretchedness of poverty as well as in the gilded
sorrow of wealth, john Finn was seen, night and
day, regardless of his own danger, administering to
the sufferings of his fellow citizens. Much of his
present popularity had its origin in his self-sacrificing
labors of that dark period in St. Louis’ history; for

THE UNITED STATES BIOGPIE/JPIJICAZL DICTIOZVARY. 395

his labors are remembered and appreciated in the
hearts of rich and poor. When the dark demon
ceased to hover over the city, and the fatal scourge
had stopped its desolation, his services were suitably
recognized by a public meeting of citizens in a pre-
sentation of a costly silver service plate, more val-
uable for the memories it recalled than for its intrinsic
worth. Peter L. Foy, in the most brilliant speech
of his life, made the presentation.

In 1867 he was the Democratic candidate for
mayor, and ran ahead of the party ticket 3 but was
defeated by a small majority——the city being then
hopelessly Republican.

Mr. Finn was elected sheriff of the city of St.
Louis in April, 1877, by a majority of about three
thousand. His election was contested by Mr. Emile
Thomas, the retiring sheriff, on questions of law aris-
ing under the new charter of the city. He had
received his commission from the mayor, but it was
declared null on the ground that the sheriffalty of St.
Louis was a state office. Mr. Finn then received his
commission from the governor of the state. Per-
fectly willing for the matter to be settled legally, he
appeared in court in the contesting suit. The court
of appeals decided in his favor, establishing his com-
mission as valid and settling" the point that the office
was entirely independent of the city authorities.
During his continuance in this office he has made
hosts of friends by his promptness, impartiality and
systematic prosecution of the duties devolving upon
him. He has happily succeeded in filling his office
with zealous and able assistants and has strengthened
himself by the eminent services of a wise legal coun-
selor.

Nor has Mr. Finn been behind in public enter-
prises: He was the first man to move, and continued
to move, in the establishing of the Butchers’ and
Drovers’ Bank of St. Louis. It organized with a
capital stock of $100, ooo. After it had been fairly
placed on its feet he retired from its directory. He
has also been connected with other banking and

. insurance companies of St. Louis——a director in all.

He has been a director in the Calvary Cemetery
Company, and also of other cemetery companies.
One of the happiest successes of Mr. Finn is the
final and complete success of the organization known
as the Knights of St. Patrick—an organization of
gentlemen of Irish birth and extraction composed of
the elite of that race in the city. He was one of its
originators and was its president, and his administra-
tion is generally conceded to be the most brilliant

part of its history. While he was its presiding offi-
cer, the association entertained, at a grand banquet
at the Southern Hotel, the celebrated Dominican
preacher, Father Tom Burke, who had come to St.
Louis on the invitation of Mr. Finn. Previous to
the banquet the reverend father delivered a brilliant
lecture to over fifteen thousand people in the Sanger-
fest hall, to which he was escorted by the Knights
of St. Patrick, the Emmett Guards and a procession
of fully five thousand citizens with torch-lights. A He
was attended by Bishop Ryan and Judge Finney.
It was one of the greatest displays of that nature
ever witnessed in St. Louis, and at once established
the respectability and power of the "order.

It was also in his administration that a public
reception was given to Dion Boucicault—the eminent
actor—at De Bar’s opera house, as an expression from
the Knights of St. Patrick of their full appreciation
of his talents as an Irish dramatist. The perform-
ance was followed by an elegant banquet at the
Southern Hotel, wher.e Mr. Boucicault was given the
head of the table, supported by Mr. Finn.

While this gentleman was president of that society
it also entertained the celebrated ]ohn Mitchel, well
known leader of the Ireland Revolution movement
of 1848. Mr. Mitchel, in his own eloquent man-
ner, expressed his gratification of the reception, the
glorious aims and results of the order, and closed by
asking to be enrolled as an honorary member of the
society, which request was granted and his name now
honors the roll.

In religion Mr. Finn has always been a Catholic,
but never at any time rigid toward others in their
creed. In politics the same: he has always been a
Democrat—-during the war a Union De1nocrat—but
ever recognizing the right of a different opinion in
others and respecting that difference.

It is a little remarkable the continuance of Mr.
Finn’s popularity in all his varied business relations.
As a cattle merchant he was a favorite, as a govern-
ment contractor always trusted, as an extensive pork
packer holding the confidence of his customers and
an honorable name on ’change, and as the servant of
the public in different offices the favorite for efficiency
and trust. In private life we can say no less, for
every inquiry has been answered the writer of this
sketch by the same praise. Jovial, humorous, char-
itable, kind-hearted, honorable in all his impulses,
envious of none, liberal to all, John Finn has prob-
ably more personal friends, among all parties and
all creeds, than any one man in St. Louis. To-day

396

his smile greets every one, and after twenty—five
years of unusual labor he is as robust and hearty as
in his youth.

Mr. Finn’s wife, who was Miss Josephine Whyte,
of New York, is as much a favorite in St. Louis as
himself, for kindness and benevolence. They have
five children living: Frank, Katie, Teresa, Willie and
Louis. Frank has become a member of the Jesuit
order, and the two daughters attend the Convent of
Visitation. It is a happy conclusion to this sketch

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TIIE UIVITIED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

that its subject is as much beloved around his own
hearthstone as he is popular with the public. It is
one mark of a strong mind and a good heart that
a man leaves the cares of office on his desk and
carries the sunlight of a genial countenance to his
family circle after the day’s work is done. ‘There
are few happier firesides, no more social family cir-
cles, and nowhere brighter the
“Sacred glow of well-placed love,”

than is found in the home of John Finn.

MORRISON MUNFORD.

KANSAS CITY.

ORRISON MUNFORD was born June 25,
M 1.842, in Covington, Tipton county, Tennes-
see. His grandfather was an early settler of Ken-
tucky and located the town of Munfordsville, on
Green river. His father, Richard Munford, resides
in Covington, Tennessee, and is a prominent and
highly respected citizen; has held county offices,
almost continuously, for thirty years, was county
clerk for sixteen years, has acted guardian, adminis-
trator and executor of more estates than any other
man in T ipton county; although not a professor of
religion, has lived a strictly moral and exemplary
life, using no profane language, eschewing liquor
and tobacco, and is regarded as one of the main
supports of the Presbyterian church, which he was
principally instrumental in building. His mother,
who was a Miss Morrison, died August 14, 1873.

Morrison Munford attended the Academy of
James Byers, in Covington, and pursued an English
and classical course. He then entered Lagrange
Synodical College, beginning in the Junior year, and
was attending that institute when the war began.
The school was discontinued and he did not com-
plete his collegiate course. Returning home, he
enlisted in Captain Wood’s company, which was
afterward Company C, 9th Tennessee Infantry, and
was stationed at Union City, Tennessee, Columbus,
Kentucky, and New Madrid, Missouri.
also in Manney’s brigade of General Cheatham’s
celebrated Tennessee division. He was absent and
sick during the battle of Shiloh, only reaching his
command the second day of the fight. He was
with Bragg through his entire Kentucky campaign.

He was

At the battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro, he
was severely wounded by a minnie ball, which struck
him in the side and lodged against the spinal column.
He was prostrated and taken prisoner, suffering
intensely from the pain occasioned by the wound
and the rough treatment every wounded soldier
experiences. When exchanged, in June, one of his
sides was completely paralyzed. On this account,
he was put on detailed service in the office of the
medical purveyor, at Atlanta, Georgia, and served
there until the war closed. When he attended his
first course of lectures at the Missouri Medical
College, the ball, which had caused him great pain
and trouble, was extracted by Dr. McDowell, and
he has since experienced no inconvenience from its
effects.

After the war, finding his father in reduced cir-
cumstances, he started out to achieve his own
fortune, having in his possession but a trifling amount
of money. He opened a school in Belmont, in the
adjoining county of Fayette, and boarded with Dr.
L. P. Yandell, now of Louisville. This gentleman
was a man of culture and devoted to literature, and
did more to arouse young Munford’s ambition than
any one else. He had free access to the Doctor’s
select library, and was advised by his patron to
study medicine. He availed himself of _this excel-
lent opportunity, and read medical works under Dr.
Yandell’s instruction, for about one year. During
this time he had rented a farm and raised a crop, the
proceeds of which, with his income from the school,
enabled him to attend medical lectures. In Septem-
ber, 1866, he went to St. Louis and matriculated in

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPHICAL DICTIOIVAEY. 397

the Missouri Medical College, then presided over by
that eminent surgeon, Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell.

In the following spring, 1867, at the close of the '

term, he returned to Tennessee and conducted the
operations of his farm. In August of that year, in
connection with William Sanford, he purchased
material and ‘began the publication of the Tzptmz
VVee/e/y Record, which is still in existence, and the
only paper ever published in the county. He was
ignorant of the business, but his venture proved a
success, and soon after the paper was started he
bought Mr. Sanford’s interest. In the following fall
he placed the paper in the’ hands of a friend and
again attended medical lectures. He attended sev-
eral courses of lectures, and spent his leisure hours
in soliciting business for the paper in St. Louis and in
writing letters. He graduated in the class of 1868,
receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His
tastes lay in another direction, and he never offered
to practice.

His uncle, James E. Munford, of St. Louis, a
man of large means, owned a tract of lan.d, embrac-
ing about forty thousand acres, in Kansas. Much
of it was in litigation and burdened with taxes. He

offered Dr. Munford a one-third interest in the land

if he would perfect the titles and clear it of burdens.
He sold his paper in Tennessee without returning
home, and in March, 1868, set out for Kansas,
establishing himself in N emaha, the county in which
the great body of the land was located, where he
remained about one year.
he took up his residence in Kansas City, Missouri,
and opened a real estate office in connection with
S. C. Fancher, at the same time publishing a monthly
real estate paper called the I/m’e.x. They also laid
out Munford & F ancher’s Addition to Kansas City.

In the spring of 1869'

In August, 1871, he was one of the company
that purchased the Ifamas Cily Times, and was gen-
eral manager of the paper, a position he has ever
since held. He and his uncle, James E. Munford,
have, from time to time, acquired the stock, and he
now owns one-half the paper. He has had sole and
entire control of the Times for seven years, and has
devoted his entire energies to build it up and make
it a first-class metropolitan journal. K

As may be inferred from his connection with the
Times, he is a Democrat, familiar with the principles,
the history and the management of the party. He
has never asked for office, his highest ambition being
to conduct a paper worthy of the great state and
growing city in which it is published. He was a del-
egate from the 8th Congressional District to the
National Democratic convention that met in St.
Louis in 1876. He voted against Mr. Tilden through-
out the balloting.

He was married July 27, 1870, by Rev. Dr.
Madeira, of Kansas City, to Miss Agnes E. Williams,
at Irving, Kansas. She was born in New York, but
was left an orphan when quite young, and was reared
by an uncle and aunt, who afterward moved to
Kansas. On her return to Irving from Monticello
Seminary (Illinois), where she was educated, Dr.
Munford first met her. She is a lady of intelligence
and possessed of all the graces of womanhood.

Dr. Morrison Munford is tall of stature, of erect
and easy carriage, fair complexion, and delicate and
youthful appearance. Although of slight build, his
frame is of that withy character which is capable of
long strain and continuous labor. His apprehension is
quick, his mind elastic and his judgment good. His
decision and firmness are prominent characteristics,
and his friendships and aversions are strong and lasting.

WILLIAM BELL MORRIS.

LIBERTY.

‘ N IILLIAM B. MORRIS was born at Marys-
lick, Mason county, Kentucky, December

12, 1822. James Morris, his father, was a native of
New Jersey, who came to Kentucky in the early settle-
ment of that state. He was a farmer, possessing an
unusual share of intelligence and public spirit, in a

day when good, hard sense was a characteristic of .

his class. His ability was recognized again and
again in the prominent positions to which he was
elected. He was for many years a magistrate , judge
of the Mason county court, sheriff of that county,
and also represented his district inthe Kentucky
Legislature for two terms. His sons and daugh-
ters being settled in Clay county, Missouri, he

398 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAL DICTIO./VAIEY.

removed to that state in his old age and died there in
1861. His wife, Nancy, was a daughter of Daniel
Bell, a Revolutionary soldier and a native of Vir-
ginia. Their son, William Bell, received a thorough
English education, taking one year’s course of study
at Bacon College, Kentucky, after which he engaged
as clerk in the store of Holman, Mason & Son,
where he remained one year. In 1843, at twenty-
one years of age, he came to Missouri and settled in
Clay county, where he still resides. When he arrived
at his destination, young Morris found himself pos-
sessed of just twenty-one dollars and ten cents. By
industry and economy, qualities which have always
characterized him, he soon succeeded in accumulating

‘ enough cash to buy a horse, and with this made his

beginning as a Missouri agriculturist. From this
small beginning, by energy, industry and a sound
practical judgment, he has succeeded in accu1nulat—
ing one of the finest properties in Clay county, and
is considered a representative -farmer. He has made
the raising of thoroughbred cattle a specialty for a
few years, and one could travel a long way before
finding finer cattle than the herd of short horns which
roam over his beautiful farm of four hundred acres,
seven miles north of Liberty.

He has always taken an active part in political
movements and in the public affairs of the county.
A Whig of the Henry Clay school, he always voted

that ticket until there was none to vote. Being him-
self a slaveholder, his sympathies were naturally with
the South in the late unpleasantness, though he took
no active part in the strife. He has cast in his lot
with the Democracy since the war. VVhen_the Grange
movement was inaugurated, he at once identified
himself with it, believing it to be to the interests of
the agriculturalists to have a more direct and per-
sonal representation in the halls of legislation, but
never entertained the extreme views of some mem-
bers of the order. Being a man of decided opinions,
he has always been ready to declare his principles
and maintain his opinions, either in private or social
conversation or on the stump, for he is a clear and
forcible public speaker, and his words have weight
with thinking men. He has always been an ardent
advocate of the temperance cause, a man of tireless
activity, of unimpeachable integrity, and quite influ-
ential in his county. He has never aspired to office,
was once nominated to the legislature, but declined the
nomination. He is a general reader, his mind is thor-
oughly stored with information, and he is fully informed
on all the leading topics of the day. He has been a
member of the Christian Church since he was eigh-
teen years old, showing his faith by his works. Mr.
Morris has never married——wedded only to the coun-
ty interests, his books and his short horns—he seems
supremely content to be left “ alone in his glory.”

DR. JAMES H. MCLEAN.

ST. LOUIS.

13, 1829. His father, Allen McLean, as well as

his mother (whose maiden name was Grace Rich-
mond), was of true Scotch descent. The father was
a geologist and was employed by the Albion Mining
Company, of Nova Scotia, to superintend their
immense mining operations, when James was but an
infant, but the subject of our sketch chose, at an
early age, to devote his attention to medical pursuits,
and, with his father’s consent, at the age of thirteen,
went to Philadelphia and there engaged as assistant
in a drug store. While there he attended one course
of lectures in the medical college, but before coin-
pleting his studies emigrated west, arriving in St.

TAMES H. MCLEAN was born in Scotland, August

Louis in 1849, where he again engaged in the drug
business.

In 1850, when the Lopez expedition to Cuba was
inaugurated, he went to New Orleans to take charge
of the financial operations of the expedition, and
took quite an active part in its fitting out. Co1nplet—
ing his work for the expedition, he returned to St.
Louis andresunied business in 1851, and with a
capital not exceeding $500 began the manufacture of
family medicines. His first preparation was “ Dr.
]. H. McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment,” this was
followed by his “White Crystal-coated Universal
Pills,” and soon after by his “ Strengthening Cordial
and Blood Purifier.”

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In 186 I-2 Dr. McLean, in order to complete his
medical and surgical education, attended the St.
Louis Medical College, where he graduated and
received his diploma. His business now began to
assume large proportions. In the first eight years he
only employed from one to three hands, but now
found it necessary largely to increase his force.
Besides nearly one hundred employés constantly at
work in the laboratory, the Doctor has on the road
thirty traveling agents,with wagons, distributing al1na—
nacs and other advertising matter, and establishing
agencies for the sale of medicines. He has recently
introduced “Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cough and Lung
Healing Globules,” “-(‘atarrh Snuff,” “Wonderful
Healing Plaster,”,“Liquid Chills and Fever Cure
and Powder Substitute for Quinine,” a sure cure for
chills. -

Probably the leading feature in the Doctor’s busi-
ness and his crowning success, is in his advertising
capacity in bringing his business and remedies before
the people. His “Family Almanac” he published
during the first eight years in only the English and

German languages; but during the past ten years he

has published it in eight different languages, viz.:
English, German, French, Danish, Norwegian, Swed-
ish, Bohemian and Spanish. He has, also, for the
past eight years, edited and published in the English
and German languages a monthly paper having an
edition of 6oo,ooo copies, called The Spirzk‘ of 1/16
Age, devoted not only to his medicines, but also to
free public schools. In addition to this, the doctor is
now preparing for the press an extensive medical
work, entitled “A Treatise on Diseases of the
Human Body, and the Way to Cure Them.” He
has been induced to give the world the benefit of his
discoveries and research, in response to letters
received from all parts of the world, from parties
who have been benefited by his investigations, ask-
ing that in the form of a medical book for the ben-
efit of the sick and suffering he would perpetuate to
the world his discoveries. ‘

In the years 1873-4 Dr. McLean laid the founda-
tions of his “Grand Tower Block,” one of the
grandest buildings in St. Louis, on the corner of
Market and Fourth streets, and completed the struc-
ture in 1876. In the same year he built, on a
remodeled plan, his medical laboratory, at 314
Chestnut street, where his entire immense business
is carried on under an admirably systematic arrange-
ment. The two buildings surely cost $400,000, exclu-

sive of the ground. From a comparatively obscure
51

beginning, and with so meager a capital, these build-
ings are a monument to the enterprise of Dr.
McLean, as well as to the success of his medicines
as remedies for most of the “ills that flesh is heir to.”

On January I, 1877, the doctor’s agencies
throughout the world had increased from a scatter-
ing few to fully forty-five thousand, necessitating a
floating capital of over $1,200,000 in merchandise,
scattered over the Union in the hands of agents.
And by the coming January his books will show a
still further increase of fully one—third over the past
year, while his agents will number not less than 65,-
000. He now employs eleven clerks in his office,
one hundred boys, girls and men in the laboratory
and printing departments, and twenty-eight men on
the road with teams‘ and wagons advertising his
medicines and establishing new agencies.

Dr. McLean has ever taken an active interest in
the commercial and financial interests of St. Louis,
having occupied honorable positions as bank presi-
dent and president of -the Masonic Hall Association,
having been a member of the latter fraternity since
1850. He has been frequently solicited by his
fellow citizens of St. Louis to allow the use of his
name for mayor, member of congress and other
responsible trusts. But his large business demanding
his entire attention, he has invariably declined. His
political bias has -inclined him to be what in latter
day politics is called a conservative. I -

In 1869 he traveled through Cuba with a view of
establishing his business there, and in 1873 in
Europe on the same errand. Indeed he has been
well nigh all over the two continents, traveling in
the behalf of the welfare of his race. Nor has it
been with simply mercenary motives. Dr. McLean
has become——what all medical men must become
from the habitual association with human suffering —
a philanthropist. For years he has been a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, practicing the
gospel doctrine of “going about doing good.” Nor
has he been wild or extravaga.nt in his assistance to
his fellowmen. Like the Astors, Stewarts, Vanderbilts
and men of that class, whose business qualities have
reared for them immense fortunes, yet whose sympa-
thetic natures have made them generous, Dr. Mc-
Lean’s Sagacity has made for him a splendid fortune,
but his heart has ever made him mankind’s active
helper. His relationship to the late Judge Mulan—
phey was intimate, and his influence with that noted
philanthropist went a great way toward shaping and
making efficient the large emigrant fund for the assis-

4OO THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

tance of friendless emigrants arriving in St. Louis.

James Henry McLean, on the 24th of April,
1861, married Miss Sallie L. Hart, daughter of John
W. Hart, Esq., an old and prominent citizen of
Alton, Illinois. To her Wifely assistance, as all that
a true “help meet” should be, is attributable in no
small degree her husband’s success in life. Wearied
with the daily strife in the world, he was always
sure of a warm heart and a cosy retreat at home,
where love and happiness would chase away the
clouds of care with the sunlight of a wife’s glad

smile. .
We claim this as a biographical dictionary of

representative men, who have carved for themselves
an honorable name and success. No one can doubt
the propriety of inserting the present sketch. Begin-
ning as a poor boy, almost alone, with no assistance
save his own, industry and studiousness, with no
mercantile name of friendly backers, Dr. McLean’s
name and his remedies are familiar household words
throughout the world , he has built up an honored
name and business credit, and has endeared himself
to the hearts of thousands of his suffering race.
Not as warrior or statesman is he thus entitled to a
niche in our historic" temple , but as a man, a great
physician and surgeon, a merchant and philanthropist.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRAIG.

PLATTSBURG.

: OLIVER CRAIG, the first of the Craig family
T in America, was born in Virginia of Italian
and Scotch parents—the father coming from the
land of sunny skies, the mother from the “land 0’
cakes.” Toliver had three sons—Benjamin, Lewis
and Elijah. The last two, Baptist preachers in Vir-
ginia, were imprisoned in Culpepper jail for preach-
ing contrary to the “uniformity act.” While in
prison they addressed immense crowds who thronged
around the outside to hear them through the grating
of their cells. Elijah afterward moved to Kentucky.
He laid out the town of Georgetown, in Scott
county , he also built the first rope walk and the first
paper mill that was erected west of the Alleghany

Mountains. Benjamin, his brother, removed to

. Kentucky soon after the war of the revolution, had

a son Benjamin born in that state in 1778 or ’79,
who served in the war of 1812, under General Har-
rison.. He was drowned while attempting to cross
the Ohio river in a storm with his son Silas, a young
man of nineteen, and a party of four others.

His son, Benjamin Franklin Craig, was born in
Kentucky, December 26, I814; spent his early life
at home working on the far_m, attending the schools

in the log school houses of that day, too full of mis_,

chief to apply himself very closely, but mastered the
rudiments of a very fair English education, and at
seventeen went down the river on a flatboat to Man-

chester, Mississippi, with produce for his brother.

Here he remained six months to dispose of his cargo;

and for the next five years followed the river as a
flatboatman.

In December, 1837, at twenty-three years of
age, he married Caroline D., daughter of Antoine
Gex, a native of Switzerland, who came to America
at sixteen years of age with his father, a French refu-
gee, of the revolution. Miss Gex was an accom-
plished and highly educated young lady, a student
under Robert Dale Owen, at New Harmony, Indi-
ana. Her grandfather, Louis Gex, was the founder
of Switzerland county, Indiana.

After his marriage, Benjamin F. Craig settled on
a farm in Carroll county, where he remained‘ nearly
twenty years. About this time he began to read his-
tory, improving his spare time in the cultivation of
his mind. After spending about five years in a care-
ful study of ancient and modern history he turned
his attention to the study of medicine and qualifying
himself for practice, followed it as a profession for
two years, when he became dissatisfied with_it and
left it, continuing his studious habits and reading the
best current literature that he could gain access to.
In 1855 he removed to Missouri and settled in
Plattsburg,‘ Clinton county, where he opened a land
agency. After four years, he bought a well—improved
farm and farmed for sixteenyears, training his boys

I to work, when he returned to town and directed his
' attention to literary pursuits

In 1863 he published
a pamphlet of two hundred and thirty—four pages,
entitled, “The Border Ruffian; or, Kansas and Mis-

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 401

souri,” a western tale of that day, with imaginary
conversations between “Jeff” and “Abe” on the
subject of slavery. The question of slavery was set-
tled by the war, and the war settled his book, for it
was a financial failure.

In politics, he was a Whig while the party existed;
since then has been identified with the Democracy—.—
taking the stump occasionally in the interests of that
party. He takes a warm interest in the temperance
cause and frequently. addresses the public in the
interests of that reform. He has a lot of manuscripts
on mental and moral philosophy not yet (1878) pub-
lished; is also professor of phrenology and coun-
selor—at—law. ~

His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church; he belongs to no denomination but believes
in God and immortality. They have living three
sons and one daughter—one daughter having died.
Antonie Gex Craig, his oldest son, was born in Car-
roll county, Kentucky, January 25, 1848, and came
to Missouri with his parents in 1855. He received
his early education from his mother, a thoroughly
competent and educated woman, finishing his studies
at Plattsburg Methodist College. When seventeen
years of age he met with a serious accident while
cutting corn, which lamed him for life, after disabling
him for nearly two years, during which time he read

history and general literature quite extensively. As
soon as he was able to move around comfortably,
he engaged as clerk in thedrug store of J. N. .Forsee,
remaining eight months. January 1, 1870, he began
the study of law in the office of Colonel James M.
Riley; was admitted to practice in December, 1871,
by Judge Lucas; was with Colonel Riley until May,
1874, when he opened an office and commenced
practice on his own acount. In August, 1874, he was
appointed by Governor Woodson, recorder of deeds
—a new office created in Clinton county—-and in
November following was elected his own successor,
which office hestill holds. He practices in all the
courts of the 5th Judicial District. His father meet-
ing with financial loss, he was obliged to depend upon
his own resources when disabled by accident. He has
compiled a set of abstracts for the county, which are

‘well executed, and has associated with himself his
Their notary .

younger brother, Joshua M. Craig.
public and abstract business is carried on under the
name of A. G. Craig & Bro. Antoine G. was mar-
ried October 3, 1876, to Elma, daughter of George
Funkhouser, ex-sheriff of Clinton county, and a wealthy
farmer. Such, in brief, is a sketch of a family whose
history covers a period of about one hundred and
fifty years, and collects in its veins the blood of
Southern and Central Europe and the British Islands

G. F. ROTHWELL.

MOBERZL Y.

N 1831 Dr. John Rothwell, a native of Albe-
1 marle county, settled in Garrard
county, Kentucky, where he married Miss China
Renfro, a native of that county and daughter of
William Renfro, M. D., who removed from Ken-
tucky into Missouri at an early day. Dr. Rothwell
located in Callaway county, Missouri, where he
practiced his profession. Here his son, G. F., was
born, April 24, 1836 ; his early life was spent at
school in his own neighborhood, until he entered
the University of the state of Missouri, from which
institution he graduated in 1857. He was chosen
Valedictorian of his class, and passed out from his
old college life with all her honors fresh upon him.
The same year he was elected to the chair of ancient
languages in Mount Pleasant College, Huntsville,

Virginia,

Randolph county, of which institution his brother,
William R. Rothwell, was at that time president;
this position he held for two years.

In 1862 he_began the studies necessary to qualify
himself ‘for the practice of the profession of law, to
which he determined to devote his energies. He
was admitted to the bar in 1864, at one of the terms
of court held in Randolph county, and opened a
law office in Huntsville, where he remained nine
years actively engaged in building up a substantial
and lucrative practice. In 1873 he removed to
Moberly where he now resides,‘ applying himself
with his usual diligence to theduties of his profes-
sion.

In 1866 Mr. Rothwell was elected county super-
intendent of Public Instruction for Randolph county,

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and was reelected in 1868. He was mayor of
Huntsville for several years, and has repeatedly
served as member of the Moberly city council. His
political affiliations are with the Democratic party,
of which he is a firm and hearty supporter. He is
an earnest, consistent member of the Old School Bap-
tist Church. He was married in 18 59 to Miss Betty
M. Ragland, of Monroe county. Mr. Rothwell" is a

man of more than average abilities 3 he is character-
ized by practical sagacity, unswerving integrity, and
a careful attention to his own business affairs. Taking
an intelligent and appreciative interest in all that
concerns the welfare of the state, and an influential
member of the church with which he has so long
been honorably connected, he takes position as one
of the solid men of Randolph county.

GEORGE BABCOCK.

ST. LOUIS.

EORGE BABCOCK was born November 30,
G 1830, at Penn Yan, New York. His parents
were Burghardt and Hannah Babcock. The former
was of Welsh descent, and was a master mechanic,
architect and builder in Gorham and Canandaigua,

New York. He was somewhat celebrated as a math-
ematician. The mother’s maiden name was Hannah
Lyon. She was of Irish descent. Her father emi-

grated to America in 1762, landing at Amsterdam
(since New York city), but soon removed to Central
New York. In a few years the family divided-
one portion settling in Rhode Island, the remainder
scattering among the other colonies.

His father died at Detroit, Michigan, of cholera,
in 1832. Quarantine regulations being very strict,
in order to prevent the scourge from. spreading in
the country, his body was sunk in the Detroit river.
Unfortunately he had about his person $4,ooo——all
the resources of the family—which was thus lost to
them. The widow was left with seven children to
support by her own exertions, except the slight
assistance rendered by her little children. But she
had the satisfaction of seeing her endeavors succeed
in rearing her family respectably. She was a thrifty
business woman, of a practical nature, and implanted
in her children an independent spirit.

Having recovered his health, George engaged in
every laudable pursuit opened to him, to acquire the
means of an education. His ambition led him to
great exertions for the accomplishment of that object.
By his own exertions and what terms he could he
attended the common schools, where he fitted him-
self for entrance at Genesee College. There he
graduated under the distinguished Dr. Tefft, author
of “Hungary and Kossuth.” Remembering his

meager facilities and the hampered condition of his
youth, it was no slight compliment when they said,
on his entrance to college, that “he was the best
prepared boy there.” Especially was he admitted
to be remarkably precocious as a boy mathema-
tician.

After his graduation at Genesee College, in 1853,
he went to the city of Geneseo, New York, where he
took charge of the public schools ——Professor Robin-
son being principal of the academy. In this posi-
tion Mr. Babcock remained two years.

This period of his life found our subject “Chief”
of the lodge of Know Nothings at Geneseo,/ from
which he was delegate to the Uhlman C01’-‘S-4=e11tio11.
But he subsequently withdrew from the order on
account of its religious intolerance——as he deemed
their anti-Catholic policy. He was as zealous in
opposing it as he had been as a member, and did
effective service in its demolishment. Mr. Babcock
has never since abandoned the principles which
actuated him in his course with that party, believing
that church and state should be kept completely sep-
arated.

In 1855 Dr. Campbell, of the Genesee Model
School, requested Mr. Babcock to take charge of the
mathematical department of that institution, which
he did and remained there one year. Then, in coin-
pliance with an agreement he had made with George
B. Goodwin—now of Milwaukee, in company with
him he entered the Albany Law School. Here these
two companions passed through the regular law
course under circumstances which would have
daunted many ayoung man.
of money, after purchasing the necessary books, and
at times both had to subsist on crackers and cheese

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But they had determined to succeed—and deter-
mination is success.

Mr. Babcock was admitted to practice law in
1865, at Albany, after a searching examination by,
and upon the recommendation of, Judges Dean,
Parker and Harris; his commission was signed by
]udges_Ira Harris, Malborne Watson and George
Gould, of the supreme court of New York. But
not being in circumstances to please him, he put away
his parchment temporarily, and accepted the charge
of the Batavia (New York) Union School, with six
hundred students. Victor M. Rice, then superin-
tendent of public instruction in that state, directed
the teachers of public schools in Western New York
to attend and visit Mr. Babcock’s school as the
banner school of the state—a compliment accorded
to few men. At the same time he was president of
the Teachers’ Association and also of the Teachers’
Institute of New York. But at the end of the third
year he resigned his educational positions and began
the practice of law in Batavia in New York. In the
course of two years he had laid the foundation of a
lucrative practice. While a resident of Batavia,
and during one of his trips away from the city, he
was elected a justice of the peace by a movement
of the attorneys at that bar for the purpose of filling
the office with one acquainted with the principles
and practice of law. He served about one year.
But the storm—cloud of War burst upon the country,
and with other true patriots he laid aside every-
thing for the sake of his government.

He was selected by leading gentlemen of the
state of New York to help in the enlistment of
recruits for the Union army, and for three months
Worked night and day as orator, as organizer and as
superintendent of volenteering.

In 1861 he organized a company in Batavia, and
as their captain the company was mustered in the
United States service and ordered to duty with the
That his company saw terribly
active service is proved by the fact that when mus-
tered out there were no desertions to report and
only fourteen men left to answer at roll call. After
the battle of Antietam, Captain Babcock went to
Washington city to hunt up his scattered men.
There he was stricken down with paralysis and was
picked up in the Metropolitan Hotel insensible, and
remained so for two weeks. Then being perma-
nently disabled he was honorably discharged from
service by Surgeon—General J. K. Barnes, United
States Army, and returned to Batavia, carrying with

him papers of recommendation from the government.
Failing to get the relief hoped for, his physicians
recommended him to go South as far as he could.

In 1863 he came to St. Louis and opened a law
office with David W. Hill. This partnership con-
tinued one year. He continued the practice alone
from then until now. His success has been very flat-
tering. During the war he had many (and some very
important) cases before the military tribunals, and
established his reputation as an expounder of the
laws governing courts martial. His experience in
field—service as judge—advocate had amply fitted him
for such practice. Naturally he became weaned
from his formercivil practice and was drawn into
criminal suits. In such cases he has earned the
fame of a first-class advocate. The judges of the
criminal courts of St. Louis, the chief of police and
other criminal dignitaries of the city speak in high
praise of him—in language which in deference to his
modesty we suppress.

Mr. Babcock has never been an office—seeker——
his entire time being devoted to his profession. But
in the years I867—8—9 he was induced to become a
candidate for the Republican party for city council-
man, and served through those years, but afterward
declined a reelection. While in the council he was
conceded to be one of its most efficient members,
and was recognized as a leader in all important
measures.

He was with the celebrated Dr. Koch (eminent
in European and American scientific circles) in the

‘explorations of Overton, Fentriss, Scott and Camp-

bell counties, Tennessee, for iron, lead, coal, salt,
petroleum and other minerals—taking leases for
ninety-eight thousand acres of land for ninety—nine
years. On this property as a basis for business, and
on the recommendation of the explorers, the Knox-
ville Oil & Mining Company was organized with
Hon. Horace Maywood as president. Subsequently
in company with Dr. Koch, he explored Madison
county, Missouri, for tin, and a company was after-
ward formed to work tin in that county. During
these years he was also connected with the St. Clair
Nurseries as legal adviser and a silent partner. It

was one of the largest nurseries ever conducted in_

the West, having 177 acres of ground all cultivated
like a garden. ‘

In 1871 he was general southern traveling agent
for the Pacific railroad company, having in his charge
the passenger interests of all territory south of the
Ohio river to the Gulf of Mexico.

Colonel Babcock has had some experience as a
traveler, and has utilized his observations. In 1849,
having broken down his health in teaching school,
by advice of his physicians he took a trip to the
Azore Islands, on the coast of Africa, and after
returning traveled all over the United States.

He is a liberal Republican, fearless and bold in
his political enunciations. He it was who made the
first public speech (at the 7th Ward Democratic
meeting in "St. Louis) for the reenfranchisement of
returning Rebels who had taken the amnesty oath-—-
on the broad ground that having done so they were
assuredly entitled to all the rights and privileges of
citizens. For his action and speeches in such cases
he was severely read out of the Republican party by
its St. Louis organ; but had the satisfaction after-

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ward of seeing it compelled to advocate his own
doctrine. Since those troubles he has not actively
engaged in politics.

Mr. Babcock was married in 1855 to Miss Olive
E. Pettit, daughter of Hon. William R. Pettit, of
Gorham, New York——a prominent member of the
state legislature, a citizen of great enterprise and a
wealthy farmer. Mrs. Babcock is a lady of fine
education and high culture , besides being a proficient
in the English, French and Latin, she is also a
natural and cultivated mathematician. They have
two children : Clarence C., now twenty-one years of
age, and Lillian May, now fourteen. Their son is
employed by the Iron Mountain railroad company,
and their daughter is at the Cassopolis (Michigan)
Female Seminary.

JOHN CORBY.

57". ]0SEPH.

’ I ‘HE subject of this sketch, for many years one.

of the eminently representative men of North-
west Missouri, was born in Limerick, Ireland, June
He was the second child and eldest son
His father, John
His mother’s

24, 1808.
of a family of eight children.
Corby, Sr., was a farmer by occupation.
maiden name was Bridget Sheehan.

At the age of twelve years John Corby left his
paternal home and came to the shores of America,
residing first in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. His
education he derived principally in Ireland and by
his own exertion on his arrival in the United States.
His first experiences in active life were in the capacity
of railroad contractor. In this pursuit he assisted in
the construction ‘of many of the great lines in differ-
ent states of the East, South and West. His early
and life-long characteristics were indomitable energy,
self—reliance and unswerving integrity. Obstacles
were only met by him to be overcome, and his efforts
were almost invariably crowned with success. A

In 1843 Mr. Corby emigrated to the Platte Pur-
chase and settled on the site of the present flourish-
ing city of St. Joseph, then a lone Indian trading
point. It was not until the following year that the
town of St Joseph was laid out. With a foresight
peculiar to himself, he perceived the inevitable future
of the place, and determined to make it his perma-

nent home. He lived to see his most sanguine antic-
ipations realized, and, at the period of his death,
enjoyed the satisfaction of knowing that the village
in which, at an early day, he had embarked his
fortunes, and whose prosperity was so largely indebted
to his efforts, included a population of thirty thousand
souls. His first venture in St. Joseph was in general
merchandising, and, with an abiding faith in the
growth and ultimate prosperity of the place, he made
large investments in real estate which eventually
fructified into richly paying results. He subsequently
engaged in the banking’ business, in which'he con-
tinued with his uniform success up to the period of
his death, which occurred May 9, 1870.

Perhaps no one citizen has contributed so largely
by his personal efforts to the building up and general
improvement of the city. Several elegant and costly
blocks, as well as many detached buildings,were erect-
ed by him at different times within its limits, and are
now the property of his widow. A

Absorbed in the pursuits of his personal affairs,
he took but little active interest in the politics of the
day, and was never a seeker of office.- His recog-
nized executive ability forced him into public favor,
and, in 18 56, he was elected mayor of St. joseph, a
position which he filled for the period of two years to
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was also, for many years before and after this event,
an active and leading member of the city council.
In politics Mr. Corby was a Democrat, but always
liberal and tolerant in his opinions. Reared a Roman
Catholic, he adhered devoutly through life to the
faith of his fathers.

He was married May 30, 1852, to Miss Amanda
Musick, daughterof Joel L. Musick, a merchant of
St. Louis county, Missouri. On the 9th of May,
1870, Mr. Corby died in St. Joseph, having been in
ill health for several years previous. At the period
of his death he was, perhaps, the wealthiest citizen
of St. Joseph. His vast landed and personal estates

he left to his widow, who has erected on his burial
place, about two miles from the city, a mortuary
chapel known as the Church of St. John the Baptist.
The dimensions of the edifice, a stately gothic struc-
ture of stone, are 8 5X 50 feet. This is undoubtedly the
most substantial and elaborately elegant ecclesiastical
structure in the state, or, indeed, in the entire
West. Its cost was about forty thousand dollars.
On the northwest corner of the edifice, below a
niche in the outer wall, on a plain stone tablet
flanked by two columns in bass-relief, appears the
inscription, “Sacred to the Memory of John Corby,
1871/’

MAJOR JAMES LAWRENCE RUSH.

MARSHEIELD.

AMES LAWRENCE RUSH, born in West-
moreland county, Pennsylvania, November 9,
1832, is the oldest of a family of eight children,

born to John H. Rush and his wife Margaret, in
Westmoreland and Bedford counties, Pennsylvania.
Jolm H. Rush was a native of Cambria county,
Pennsylvania, made his home for a season in West-
moreland county, and finally settled in Bedford county,
where he resided until his death, in 1876. Mr. Rush
was a carriage maker by trade, but relinquished that
craft after removing to Bedford county, and engaged
in business as a manufacturer of marble, which occu-
pation he followed until his decease in the seventieth
year of his age. This is the only death that has
occurred as yet in the family. Mother and children
were all living at the time this sketch was taken.
James Lawrence Rush attended the common
schools in Bedford until his seventeenth year, when
he went to Baltimore and apprenticed himself to a
carriage maker of that city. His term of service expi-
ring when he became of age, he returned to his home
for a short visit, after which he went to Washington,
Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade for one year.
At this time he determined to fit himself for the prac-
tice of law. He accordingly left Washington, and
entered the law office of Judge William McClay Hall,
in Bedford. Having some knowledge of surveying,
he applied himself to such work in that line as was
offered him, and thereby maintained himself during

the course of his legal preparation. After three years

-of the enemy.

application he was admitted to the bar in his old
home, Bedford, 1857. The following year, in com-
pany with Robert W. Fyan, now Judge, he came to
Marshfield, Webster county, Missouri, where they
established the law firm of Fyan & Rush, in which
practice they continued until the breaking out of the
war. Public sentiment in Missouri was very much
divided upon those. great questions of public policy
which agitated the nation. The entire state was in a
ferment, the opposing factions were soon arrayed
against each other, and companies of home guards
were formed for service within the state. Mr. Rush
joined the Webster County Home Guards, was elected
adj utant of the regiment, and called into active service
for three months with General Lyon. After the bat-
tle of W ilson’s Creek, where General Lyon was killed,
the Home Guards were disbanded. Adjutant Rush
acted as a Union scout during the retreat on Rolla.
It was at this juncture of affairs that, deeming the
important papers in his office—deeds, mortgages, etc.
—too insecure in the unsettled condition of the state,
he removed these papers from Missouri and took them
to Pennsylvania for safe keeping.

Hearing of Fremont’s advance, he returned and
organized a systematic method of conveying informa-
tion to the Union General Curtis of the movements
The Rebels being in possession of
Marshfield, he was obliged to make himself conspic-
uouslyabsent from the town. But meeting Lieuten-
ant (since General), Montgomery, with a company of

406 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

twenty men, he returned to Marshfield and captured
a quantity of flour belonging to the Rebels. When
General Curtis’ command occupied Lebanon, he
returned to Marshfield and entered into a mercantile
partnership with his father-in—law. This business he
followed until his store was destroyed during Marma-
duke’s raid. He now entered the 6th Provisional
Regiment as adjutant, detached from the enrolled
State militia, and was engaged in active service until
the organization of the 16th Regiment, which he then
entered as major, taking part in the campaign against
Price in 1864. During the last four months of the
war he was upon detached service at Springfield, Mis-
souri with General Sanborn, as acting judge advocate.
The war closing, he returned to Marshfield and
resumed his law practice.

Major Rush is a Democrat and takes a prominent
part in politics. He was made county attorney in
1867. Nominated for state senator, he accepted the
nomination out of respect for the party organization,
as the district was too overwhelmingly Republican to
give any hope of an election. In the year 1874 he

was defeated in the congressional convention of the
6th district by the consolidated votes of the western
counties, which had the largest representation. He
was nominated for state senator in 1876.

In religious matters Major Rush does his own
thinking. It is safe to count him in the ranks of the
liberals. He affiliates with the A. F. & A. M., is a
member of the Odd Fellows Lodge and belongs to the
Knights of Pythias. He has filled responsible posi-
tions in all these societies.

He was married july 1, 1860, to Frances E.,
daughter of Lazarus and Elizabeth Nichols. Their
eight children are all living. The mother is from an
old Kentucky family.

Major Rush is a man of warm social feelings, pop-
ular among his associates. He is considered one of
the finest criminal lawyers in Southern Missouri and
may be taken as a good illustration of the fact that
success is simply the creature of perseverance, and
that the great rough and tumble world is after all the
great university from which the highest students grad-
uate.

LOUIS I-IAMMERSLOUGI-I.

KANSAS CITY.

OUIS HAMMERSLOUGH was born August
L 25, 1835, in Hanover, Germany. His father
is a man of strong native intellect, and now, at
the age of seventy-eight, his memory is clear and
unclouded. His other mental faculties are unim-
paired, and he is in prime physical health. His
mother was devoted to the welfare of her family,
and by precept and example sought to instill into the
minds of her children a love of truth, honor and
sobriety. To her teachings he is indebted for much
of his success in life. He has three brothers, who are
wholesale manufacturers and dealers in clothing at
numbers 478, 480 and 482 Broadway, New York,
and by each and all the parents are held in the high-
est veneration and affection, who take unwearying
pleasure in smoothing their declining years and mak-
ing a green old age joyful with their affectionate and
grateful contributions.

At the age of nineteen, Louis Hammerslough left
his cherished home to begin the battle of life and
the struggle for success. He emigrated to America

in 18 54, and began business as a dry goods merchant
in Baltimore, Maryland. At the end of two years
he removed to Springfield, Illinois, where he spent
two years in the same business. In February, 18 58,
he located in Kansas City, Missouri, where for more
than twenty years he has led the life of a successful
merchant and clothier. When he arrived in Kansas
City the town was in its infancy, but his business
sagacity foresaw the prospective growth and business

importance of the future city, and amply has his

judgment been rewarded. His business has grown
steadily with the growing city. Prompt, courteous,
enthusiastically devoted to hisivocation, the years as
they came brought an increase of business and an
accumulation of riches. In the face of sharp and
constant competition, he has maintained his position
as a leading clothier and enjoys a wide-spread repu-
tation for honesty, business integrity and fair dealing.

In every worthy enterprise he has taken a prom-
inent part, and his enthusiastic spirit and practical
common sense have served to infuse life and vigor

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 407

into some of the most substantial successes of Kan-
sas City. He was one of theioriginal committee
that organized the first grand exposition, that has
developed into an annual fair and exposition second
in the West only to that of St. Louis. Hisvzeal,
energy and magnetic influence over others were con-
spicuously shown in the formation of this associa-
tion. Feeling that a grand triumph was in store for
the city, if once the exposition were organized, he
labored with more than his proverbial ardor and was
repaid in seeing the association placed upon a firm
basis and working with such advantageous results for
the good of the city. He was also conspicuously
active in organizing the first Board of Trade in that
city, which has developed into the present powerful
and influential organization of business men known
as the Chamber of Commerce. He has ever shown
himself a firm friend of Kansas City, and his labors
in her behalf are appreciated by her citizens.

Vivacity of thought and conversation, energy,
and almost.tirelessactivity, are some of his most
striking characteristics. He is emphatically a busy
man, and will wear out rather than rust out. He
delights in humorous sallies, and always seems to be
in high good humor with himself and the balance of
the world. He is entertaining, affable and full of
good will, and these qualities have contributed to his
personal and business popularity.

He is_ a member in good standing of both the
Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. In politics he is
no partisan, but sustains those men and measures

which, in his judgment, will best promote the public
welfare. He is a consistent member and prominent
officer of the Jewish church of B’nai B’raith, and
lives his religion from day to day; just to his fellow-
men, liberal to the needy, benevolent, charitable and
kind to all, acknowledging with reverence the claims
of the Supreme Being to the worship and obedience
of mankind.

He was married in 1861, and is the father of
nine children. His love for those of his own house-
hold, like his filial affection, is strong and unwaver-
ing, and his home is the dwelling—place of peace,
pleasure and contentment.

He attributes his success in life, first, to the
teachings and example of his parents. From them
he learned to be prompt and energetic in business,
fair and honorable in every transaction. .He also
employs the public press extensively to advertise his
business, and is constantly presenting it to the public
in new and attractive phases. He inaugurated in
Kansas City the plan of distributing prizes among
his patrons, and all his drawings have been fair,
honorable and satisfactory to those interested.

Still young, in perfect health and in the vigor of
robust manhood, having a large and valuable expe-
rience and sound, practical judgment, his future
promises to be as useful as his past has been active
and successful. Without inherited wealth and with-

out influential friends, he has attained his present‘

position by personal energy, business ability and
strict business habits.

WILLIAM A. HALL.

SPRINGFIELD.

beth Hall, wasborn in Tennessee, November,
1834. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania,
who emigrated to Tennessee in 1828, and in 1838
removedto Missouri and settled in St. Louis, where
the father died in 1862. The mother, with her
youngest child, a daughter, was lost in a steamboat
disaster on the Alabama river in 1848.

William had the advantages of a common" school
education while living in St. Louis, an_d after the
death of his mother went to live with his sister
Emily 5;ane, wife of Mordecai Oliver, who then

‘ N IILLIAM A. HALL, son of John and Eliza-

resided in Richmond, ‘Ray county, Missouri, but is
now (1878) a resident of St. Joseph. While in
Richmond he attended the academy, then under the
supervision of A. C. Redman. A

V In 1856 he opened a drug store in Liberty, Clay
county, in which_ he continued fourteen years. He
then accepted the position of cashier of the Com-
mercial Savings Bank of Liberty.

In 1872 he removed to Mexico, Missouri,.and
engaged in the drug business, and the following
year went to Springfield, where he formed a part-
nership with John R. Furgerson and opened a drug

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store. In March, 1876, he bought his partner’s
interest in the store and has built up an extensive
wholesale and retail trade.

In 1876 he was elected mayor of the city of
Springfield. Mr. Hall is a prominent Mason, -being
Worshipful Master of United Lodge, No. 5. He is

also Eminent Commander of St. ]ohn’s Comman-

dery, N o. 20, Knights Templar. Politically he is a
Democrat, having cast his first vote with that party
and is still supporting its principles.

In 18 56 he married Florence Ringo, daughter of
Samuel Ringo, of Liberty, Missouri, to which place
he emigrated from Kentucky at an early day. He

has been extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits
in Liberty, Richmond and Gallatin.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall have six children, four boys
and two girls: VVilliam, now in the drug store with
his father, Samuel, Richard, Oliver Lapsley, Lizzie,
who recently graduated from Mrs. Brown’s institute
for young ladies, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and
Florence. Surrounded by this charming family,
Mr. Hall’s home is one of happiness. ’He and his
wife have been active members in the Christian
church for over twenty years. Mr. Hall is a man of
fine personal appearance, genial and sociable, and
highly esteemed as a business man and citizen.

VVILLIAM I. HEDDENS, M. D.

S T. ]05EPfI.

ILLIAM IRVING HEDDENS, son of
\/R/']ames and Martha Heddens, was born in
Preble county, Ohio, February 14, 1828. His father
was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of South
Carolina. He received his literary education in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, after which he prepared himself for the
profession of medicine at Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia.

Immediately after receiving his diploma Dr. Hed-
dens began the practice of medicine and surgery,
locating first in Barboursville, Kentucky, where he
remained three years; but desirous of securing a
wider field of usefulness he removed to St. Joseph,
Missouri, where he has ever since continued to prac-
tice with satisfactory success, both professionally and
financially. He is a member of the Royal Arch
Masons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, also a member of the International Medical
Congress, a permanent member of the American
Medical Association, also a member of the Medical
Association of the State of Missouri, of which he was
vice—president for the year 1876, of the Medical
Association of Northwest Missouri, of which he was
president in 1875 and in 1877; and of the St. Joseph
Medical Society, of which he was president in 1877.

In religion, the doctor is Protestant in his views,
and is a member of the Christian Church. In poli-
tics, he has been a Democrat si-nce the demise of
the old Whig party, although never an active par-
ticipant in public affairs, farther than to vote as an

independent, conscientious citizen. His whole time
and attention has been devoted to his professional
studies and practice. In this connection we are
pleased to give the following tribute to the Doctor
from one of Missouri’s distinguished citizens: “Pro-
fessional success with high scholarship and general
scientific and literary attainments, are united to an
exceptional degree in Dr. Heddens. He has always
been a devout student, ever searching for more light
in his profession. He is of a genial disposition and
fine social characteristics, receiving the deepest
respect of his friends and acquaintances, and the
love and affection of his wife and children.” Com-
ing from such a source—one of Missouri’s governors,
and a learned gentleman—such language is no
unmeaning compliment, and as a specimen of con-
cise truth it is itself a gem. To be successful, con-
tinuous study is necessary, and the student must be
devout, that love of the study may insure success;
and not alone in the line of his scientific researches,
but the sparkling diamonds‘ of literature must be
added, especially in a medical practitioner, to give lus-
ter ‘to the dull truths of science and vivacity to profes-
sional expressions—the patient is as often cured with
mirth as with medicine.
ful medical practice, there must be the softness of a
genial ‘disposition, Which, while never yielding, is
always loving——the hand that necessarily causes it,
must soothe the suffering. To sum up in the medical
doctor there must be blended that dignity of charac-

Added to this, in success-i

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ter and suavity of manner which, while demanding
respect, insures affection. The governor says truly
that these characteristics are happily harmonious in
Dr. Heddens; hence his success, and the respect,
admiration and love of his friends and family.

-In March, 1855, Dr. William I. Heddenswas
married to Miss Katherine Adams, of Bourbonville,
Kentucky, by whom he has had six children, one of
whom is studying medicine much against the incli-

nation of his father, who fully appreciates the trials
and self-sacrifices to be met in that profession. She
was a most estimable woman, true in all the relations
of wife and mother, and died June 6, 1874, loved
by a large circle of friends. The Doctor was mar-
ried the second time, October 17, 1877, to Miss
Mattie D. Offutt, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, a hand-
some, educated and popular young lady, who
presides with dignity over the establishment.

NATHAN BRAY.

SPRINGFIELD.

ATHAN BRAY was born in Gallia county,
N Ohio, March 30,1827, and was the youngest
son of William and Elizabeth Bray, natives of
North Carolina. His parents emigrated to Ohio in
1808, and located near the French trading post of
Gallipolis, on the Ohio river,'when the nearest white
settlements were Marietta, Circleville and Chilli-
cothe. William Bray was a farmer, and Nathan’s
opportunities for education were very limited, there
being no good schools in that neighborhood, and
such as there were only kept term during three
months of‘ the year. Leaving home at twenty years
of age, he attended school one term in Gallipolis,
and four years afterward, removing to Indianapolis,
he attended one term at Lang’s Seminary in that
city. His early tastes were decidedly in favor of
medical studies, which he commenced soon after
leaving school and continued for nearly a year,
principally without any instructor. . He soon lost all
interest in medical science and commenced teaching
school, occupying his spare time with general studies
until 18 51, when he engaged in mercantile business,
which he followed two or three years. In 1853 he
commenced the study of law, borrowing books from
the Hon. Joseph Buckels, of Muncie, Indiana. He
was admitted to the bar in 1854, at Muncie, and
practiced there until 1857, in which year he removed
to Barton county, Missouri. At that time the west-
ern part of the state was very thinly settled, there
being only thirty-six voters in Barton county prior
to Mr. Bray’s coming. It was a good place to
obtain land cheap, but a poor place for fat fees.
The litigation incident to the settling up of the
swamp lands in that part of the state, soon created

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a demand for legal knowledge. Mr. Bray made
himself thoroughly acquainted with the merits of
the question, and as a consequence controlled the
most important cases.

He had been married ten years before the break-
ing out of the rebellion, to Martha Cory, of Madi-
son county, Indiana. When the trouble in Missouri
began, he removed his family to Kansas, remaining
in this state himself most of the time in the employ
of the government. During the progress of the war
an election was held to fill the office of circuit judge
for the I 3th Judicial District of Missouri. Mr. Bray
was nominated without his consent, voted for while
in Kansas, and defeated, Hon. John C. Price being
elected by a majority of fifteen votes. In 1865 he
allowed his name to be again presented for the same
office, as he was the only Democratic lawyer in the
district not disqualified for office. The district was
largely radical, and Mr. Bray was again defeated,
running far in advance of his ticket.

In 1871: he removed to Springfield, where he
now resides. He has the most extensive law prac-
tice of any man in Southwest Missouri, and his pro-
fessional labors are immense. He became a member
of Madison Lodge, No. 44, A. F. & A. M. at Pen-
dleton, Indiana, in 1851. He is an elder of the
So broad and
catholic are his views that many call him a Liberal.
In politics a Democrat, he was one of the first
members of that party allowed to make a political
speech in Southwestern Missouri after the war. He
opened the campaign of 1866, at Springfield, for
the party, making its first speech. His friends
attempted to dissuade him from taking the platform,

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410 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIOIVARY.

fearful of a disturbance, and some prophesying per-
sonal violence to himself or others 3 but the speech
was made, was well received, and Mr. Bray earned
the applause his grit deserved. He devotes little of
his time to politics 3 the exhaustive labors of a large
practice and the interests of his clients alike demand
all his time and attention. His distinguished success
as a lawyer is largely the result of his profound
He will not undertake a case unless he
knows he has one. He is simply exhaustive in
preparation, and when he comes into court does so
with the confidence born of knowledge. He makes

I his client’s case his own, and puts himself into his

case as well as his'legal acumen and professional
skill. Such work is always in demand, and will
always command its price. Mr. Bray is reaping the

_ reward of his labors in the success which is the

result of deserts.
Mrs. Bray’s family are from North Carolina.
Her father, Abner Cory, settled in Madison county,

Indiana, from the old North State, and is one of the
most enterprising and wealthy farmers in that county,
still living (1878) in his seventy-seventh year. His
wife died three years since. Mr. and Mrs. Bray
have had eight children, only one is now living—
Vinton N. Bray—a bright, promising boy of eleven,
a fine scholar for his age, with an inclination ‘to fol-
low his father’s profession.

Mr. Bray owns one of the finest residences in
Springfield, planned and arranged from designs by
Mrs. Bray, who is a woman of superior taste, with a
fine artistic talent, which she has been at considera-
ble pains to cultivate. Many of the oil paintings
which adorn the walls of their dwelling, and those
little articles of 7/ertu which go so far in the embel-
lishment of home, are her handiwork. Mr. Bray is
a man of much nervous force, great vitality and
determination of character, of fine social instincts,

-popular among his legal brethren, and an honor to

the_bar of Southwestern Missouri.

HON. MICHAEL K. MCGRATH.

ST. LOUIS.

‘HERE are fewmen of the present day whom
,1 the world acknowledges as successful, more
worthy of honorable mention, or whose history affords
a better example of what may be accomplished by per-
severence and strict integrity than the subject of this
sketch.

Michael K. McGrath was born at Ballymartle, coun-
ty Cork, Ireland, September 29, 1833. He was raised on
a farm and received such an elementary education as
could be obtained in the parochial school. After ob-
taining what may be considered a good education, hav-
ing attended an advanced school at the town of Kin-
sale, near which he lived, he determined to emigrate
to America 3 and at the age of seventeen, having
obtained the consent of his parents, he embarked
with some of his youthful companions and landed at
St. Johns, New Brunswick, in 1851. He remained
there as clerk in a brewery only long enough to
obtain funds to come to the United States, first to
Bangor, Maine, and then to New York City, where
he was employed by the celebrated clothiers, Messrs.
Devlin & Co., with whom he remained until 1856.
Having formed a taste for reading and study, he devo-

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ted his leisure hours to the improvement of his mind
in the public libraries of the city, thus laying the
foundation for future usefulness.

One day while reading a glowing account of the
West, he determined to seek that Eldorado, and
shortly afterwards started for St. Louis, Missouri,
where he arrived without money or friends.
second day after his arrival he obtained "a situation
as clerk in the County RecOrder’s office. Being a
fine penman and studiously attentive to the business
of the office, he remained until 1861, when he
received the appointment of deputy clerk of the
In 1866 he was nominated by the
Democratic party for clerk of the criminal court ; but
was defeated, as the radical party controlled the
election. In 1869 he was elected clerk of the city
council, and in 1870, clerk of the St. Louis criminal
court, a position he held; until nominated by the
Democratic State convention in 1874, to the office
of Secretary of State, and is now filling his second
term, which expires in 1880. A

During the war Mr. McGrath’s sympathies were
with the South. On the 14th day of May, 1869, he

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was married to Miss Kate, the daughter of Colonel
Joseph Kelley, of St. Louis. By
they have had four children —— Mary E., Joseph
13., Vincent A. and an infant daughter who died in
1870.

In religion Mr. McGrath is a Catholic; in poli-
tics, always a Democrat. Mr. McGrath is a lawyer
by profession, but his many public positions have
debarred himifrom active practice. It can be truly
said of him’ that he is the architect of his own fortune.

this marriage ‘

As Secretary of State he is chairman of the co1nmis—
sion of public printing, member of the state board of
immigration, member of the state board of equaliza-
tion, member of the board of regents of state normal
school, member and secretary of the state board of
education, and exercises a control over the savings
banks of the state, like that of bank examiner in other
states. He is a man of dignified appearance, social
and affable, and bids fair to lead a long life of use-
fulness. '

HON. JAMES H. BIRCH.

PZLATTSBURG.

AMES H. BIRCH was born in Montgomery
county, Virginia, March 27, .1804. His father,
Rev. Thomas E. Birch, emigrated from that

state to Kentucky, and settled near Cynthiana at an
early day, where he died Whilst the subject of this
sketch was yet a youth. His mother’s maiden name
was ‘Mary Miller, of whom it has been written,
“She was a model christian, wife, and mother.”

Soon after the death of his father, which occurred
in 1821, James left school, and for a time pursued
the study of medicine, but finally abandoned that,
and entered the law office of Hon. John Trimble,
then a judge of the supreme court, and in due time
was admitted to the bar. In 1825 Mr. Birch mar-
ried Sarah Catharine, daughter of Daniel Halstead,
of Lexington, Kentucky, and for one year resided
near Louisville.

In thelatter part of 1826 he removed to St.
Louis, Missouri, to take part in the editorial conduct
of T/ze St. Louis Evzguirer, a paper which had been
founded and edited by Colonel Benton. In July,
1827, he removed with the material of his paper to
Fayette, Missouri, where he established the Wesler/2
Moizzkor, which at that time was the most western
paper published in the United States. In its columns
he supported Jackson and Calhoun in 1828; -and as
condensing all that can be said of his political con-
sistency or inconsistency, it may be stated that he
has subsequently supported the national nominations
of his party in every contest, save those which gave
the leadership to Van Buren, against whom he voted
in 1836, and for Harrison in 1840.

Mr. Birch was elected clerk of the house of

representatives at the session of 1828-9, and secre-
tary of the senate the session following, and as soon

. as he was eligible to the office, he was chosen sena-

tor from the district comprised of the counties of
Howard and Randolph. As he had been previously
connected with the senate in another capacity, he
entered upon his duties with superior advantages,
and at once took a commanding position. Although
the junior of all his brother senators, he was made
chairman of the joint committee to revise the laws,
and was thus honored, to preside where such men
as Barton and Bates had been charged with the
revision of the statutes of the state. After serving
one session, however, he resigned this office and
resumed the publication of his newspaper and the
practice of law.

"During the early part of the administration of
President Tyler, he was selected for the office of
register of the new land office, and subsequently
accepted the position, removed to Plattsburg, and
established the office there in the spring of 1843.
In 1849 he received the appointment of judge of the
supreme court, and held that office until the election
of 1852, at which he declined to be a candidate.
Shortly after this he was appointed register of the
land office, and subsequently re-appointed. He was
a member of the constitutional convention of 1861,
and as such was so thorough a Union conservator,
as to bring him into annoying complications with
the extremists of each party, by whose soldiery he
was at different times arrested and detained; but by
each set at liberty without either final accusation or

trial. In all matters of public improvement, and in

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the development of the resources of the state, he
was among the foremost to suggestisuch meas-
ures as were calculated to further those designs.
He was one of the earliest advocates of a railroad
to the Pacific, became a stockholder to the extent
of his means in the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad,
and’ advocated county subscriptions to other roads
through his county, but openly opposed all extrava-
gance and jobbery in their construction.

Mr. Birch was twice married, his wife who sur-
vives him being a daughter of Fitzhugh Carter, of
Fairfax county, Virginia. He reared afamily of four

children, two of Whom are married and settled in
life. His homestead, for the last thirty years, was
at Prairie Park, near Plattsburg, where he owned
a large body of fertile land, well watered, Well
improved and well cultivated. With this ample and
beautiful estate, a large and well chosen library and
a household of the most elevated culture and affec-
tion, of which he was at once the patriarch and pride,
this venerable citizen quietly and peacefully enjoyed
the evening of an honored and useful life. ]udge
Birch died January 10, I878, mourned by a large
circle of friends. His good deeds live after him.

GEORGE WARREN SAMUEL.

ST. JOSEPH.

EORGE WARREN SAMUEL was born,
J June 4, 1810, at New Castle, Henry county,
Kentucky. He was the son of Reuben Samuel, of
Caroline county, Virginia, and grandson of Colonel
Edmond Bartlett, of Spottsylvania county, Vir-
ginia, and Judge William Samuel, of Virginia, the
former being in the warof 1812. Among his fa-
ther’s connections are the Vaughans, Pembertons,
Baldwins, Toombs, Brannins and Craigs, all emi-
grants from Virginia to Kentucky.
At the age of seventeen George left school without
a liberal education, not being able for want of means
to master the languages and obtain a thorough colle-
giate course, his father having met with reverses and
lost his once ample fortune. In feeble and delicate
health, he started out to seek his fortune in the West,
and reached Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, in
November, 1828, with only fifty cents, a mother’s
parting blessing and a clear conscience, and with
these he was wealthy.

He entered the mercantile house of Harrison,
Glasgow & Ross, then the largest dealers in mer-
chandise and trade in the West above St. Louis.
After remaining with them two years, his employers’
implicit confidence was ‘gained, and with their aid
and commendation he embarked in the mercantile
business in Chariton, Missouri, but on account of the
unhealthiness of the locality he removed to Hunts-
ville, Randolph county. The few settlers of this
section not affording sufficient trade for his energy,
he formed a partnership with the Lammes of Colum-

bia, which being entered into by correspondence,
caused the unfrequent incident of an introduction to
his own partners, upon his removal to Columbia, in
in 1834. In 183 5 they erected the first paper mill
west of the state of Ohio, at Rockbridge, Boone
county, which was profitably managed by the late
John Keiser, who was a part owner. The deprecia-
tion of state banks at this time produced a panic,
which, added to the burning of the paper mill,
brought the firm into depressed circumstances.

Mr. Samuel’s declining health required a change
of climate, and a sea voyage was recommended.
The vessel was wrecked near the Bemici island, on
Moselle rock. He managed to get back to Mis-
souri, although a mere skeleton and penniless. A
friend, the wealthy Thomas Smith, of Kentucky, with
his means assisted Mr. Samuel to embark in the pack-
ing business, but the experiment was unfavorable and
the investment proved a bad one to himself and the
friend who furnished the money, as in those days
pork was mostly fattened by the mast of the woods,
and when shipped to foreign markets usually lost by
shrinkage or became spoiled. Another venture seem-
ing necessary, and steamboating promising to be
remunerative, his next venture was on the river, a
steamboat was built, but the speculation proved dis-
astrous and his fortune was again diminished.

‘In 1838 Mr. Samuel married Miss Rebecca T.
Todd, daughter of the late Judge Todd, early in life
a captain under General Harrison in the war of 1 812.
In passing resolutions of condolence and regard in

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reference to the death of Hon. David Todd, his
constituents presented the following preamble, with
resolutions :

“WHEREAS, In the order of an all—wise Provi-
dence, death has removed from our midst, and from

i the places long familiar to us as the scenes of his use-

fulness, our professional brother and highly esteemed
fellow citizen, the Hon. David Todd, the pioneer of
our profession in Central Missouri, himself the
immediate descendant of one of the pioneer settlers
of Kentucky; the oldest lawyer, with a single e)Ecep-
tion, in the state; judge of the circuit court of How-
ard county from the year 1819 to 1836; subsequently
and until a few years preceding his death a leading
member of our bar, we, his associates, some ‘of us of
forty years standing, assemble here in order to give
a public and lasting manifestation of the high esteem
in which we held the deceased in his lifetime, and of
our great respect for his memory now that he is
removed from us forever.”

He was the son of General Levi Todd, of Fay-
ette county, Kentucky, who settled in that state as
early as 1776, and was the first clerk of the county,
which position he held until his death in 1:807. In
that year Judge Todd was one of the guard that
conducted Blannerhassett (who was supposed to be
implicated in the treasonable objects of Aaron Burr)
to Richmond, Virginia. After this time he was a
student at law under the instructions of the late
Chief Justice Ger. M. Bibb and Henry Clay. While
in the office of the former, the Hon. John J. Crit-
tenden was his fellow-student, with whom he formed
a lasting friendship.

Mrs. Samuel was a niece of the heirs of James
Barr, of Boston, whose large fortune, had justice
been done him, by the United States government,
would have fallen partly to her. She was also rela-
ted to the Warfields, Bullocks, Stewarts, Rhodes,
Carrs, Burks, Clays, Hunts and Todds. Mrs.
Samuel and Mrs. Lincoln were cousins.

Mr. Samuel’s many reverses emboldened him to
try other fields with new hope, and when the Platte
country was ceded to the States, in 1838, he removed
to Platte City. In Martinsville he erected a neat,
plain cottage—the first house upon which a saw,
hammer and plane were used in the Platte country—
which afterward fell into the possession of Hon.
David R. Atchison, for one day President of the
United States. '

Prior to his moving to Platte City, he saw the
great future of the site upon which the city of St.
Joseph now stands. He was eager to possess it, and
a company was formed to buy it, a bargain for the
preemption right for $1,600 made between them and

the proprietor, and but for a trivial offense given by
one of the company to the owner of the land, it
would have been the property of Moss, Samuel,
Hughes and Thompson.

_ Notwithstanding continual disappointments, his
courage and hope did not succumb. He again
embarked in mercantile business in Savannah, Mis-
souri, where he remained until 1860, at which time
he found his fortune again restored. Being driven
out by the war and again crippled financially, he
removed to St. Joseph in 1868 and organized “ The
St. Joseph Fire and Marine Insurance Company,”

of which he was for a length of time president and is‘

now a director. It is considered the largest and
strongest institution of its kind in the West. He
was interested in stores in the counties of Howard,
Boone, Clay, Chariton, Randolph, Ray, Lafayette,
Clinton, Caldwell and Andrew, and is well known
and respected for his indomitable energy and integ-
rity, passing through all the panics from 1830 to
1877, making no compromise with his creditors, but
paying always one hundred cents on the dollar ; and
it is a Well known fact that he owes no man a/just
debt, and that to his knowledge he never wronged a
fellow-creature.

On the 26th of July, 1865, Mr. Samuel was
bereft of his wife, a lady who had brought from her
home of refinement to her then wild Missouri home,
those qualities of mind and heart which eminently
fitted her for the position to which she was introduced
by the social and official standing of her honored
husband. A month later, on the 26th of August,
1863, his only son, Colonel David Todd Samuel,
was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountainand
was interred with the honors of war in the city cem-
etery of Atlanta. His father brought his remains to
Columbia, Missouri, for final sepulcher.

Mr. Samuel has three daughters: the oldest, Eliza
Barr, is the wife of Henry W. Yates, cashier of the
1st National Bank, Omaha, Nebraska, Annie Imley
is the wife of John S. Lemon, a retired and wealthy
merchantof St. Joseph, and Florence Tilton is the
wife of T. Johnson, of St. Joseph.

Notwithstanding his varied and eventful life, his
many disappointments and bereavements, he is still
cheerful and bears well his age, spending no idle
days nor ever letting the sun set on one unfinished
duty. He has never desired nor held public office,

but has always taken an active part in politics, being.

from his earliest recollection of parties a firm Whig,
and has almost worshiped Henry Clay as a statesman

414 THE UNITED STATES B]0G1€.4PH[CAL DICTIO./VARY.

to be loved. The unbounded and lasting friendship
of that honored statesmanwas bestowed upon any
of the family of his former law student, Judge Todd 3
he sent a lock of his own hair to the ]udge’s young-
est daughter just before his death, which tribute. of
affection is still in possession of a member of the
family. .
Since the extinction of the Whig party, he has
been a Democrat, for whom and for public enter-
prises in general, he has always given a helping
hand.

Moral principles being instilled into his mind by
a pious and loving mother, he has always been reli-
giously inclined, although somewhat sceptical as to
some of the doctrines held by the church. He has
no well defined belief upon religious subjects, adopt-
ing the principles so beautifully expressed in Don
Carlos :

“ In my creed is blended

All creeds that seem to come from God,
Or end in God and Heaven;

All creeds which do inculcate

Love of man unto his fellow,

And creature to Creator,

All that tends to purer life on Earth

Or holier life in Heaven.”

Although he has always held himself in readiness

to serve his country in defending his state or sec-

tion, yet he has never desired military fame and has

no military record.

Mr. Samuel is greatly respected by all who know.

him, as one of nature’s noblemen—a friend in need,
a counselor in trouble and a sympathiser in sorrow’s
dark hour.» That part of his native characteristics

which are necessarily exposed to the public——his I

business ta.ct and commercial integrity—are too well
known to need mention.

HENRY VON PHUL.

ST. LOUIS.

ENRY VON PHUL died in St. Louis, Septem-
H ber 8, 1874.
will recall to the older citizens of St. Louis an
eminent man in his line and a good man in the world.
“ He yetspeaketh” in the result of his life’s labors,
and probably'to-day (1877) the state of Missouri owes
as much to him as to any other, for her prosperity
as the commercial center of the Empire of the West.
Simple and uinostentatious in his manners, retiring in
his disposition, he never sought office or notoriety.
Indeed, either was to him in his lifetime exceedingly
distasteful , but, in the line of his duty, he inaugur-
ated and carried out a line of commercial policy
that to-day is stamped indelibly on St.iLouis’ pros-
perity. The city owes him a debt, and her present
leading citizens willingly pay this tribute to the man
who helped to lay the foundation of her greatness.

But that simple announcement

Henry.Von Phul was the son of William Von

Phul, a native of West Hafen, in Central Pfalz,
Germany, who came to America in I76 5, being then
twenty-five years of age. He (the father) was mar-
ried in I77 5, at Lancaster, .Pennsylvania, where he
had settled, to Catherine Graff, from which marriage
eight children were born, five of whom weresons,
Henry being the third.

Henry was born August I4, I 784, in Philadelphia,
wherein 1792 his parents and all his brothers died
from the yellow fever that was so fatally epidemic
there during that year. In 18oo, at which time he
was the only support of his two sisters, he removed

to Lexington, Ky., where he resided ten years, in

the employ of Thomas Hart, ]r., brother-in—law of
Henry Clay, and after whose father the late Thomas
H. Benton was named. In the interest of Mr. Hart,
young Von Phul made numerous trips to the South,
having in charge keel boats loaded with flour, lead,
bagging and rope. He navigated the rivers in a keel
boat, and during the trip visited Natchez and went
up Red River, trading with both the Indians and
planters. Aaron Burr, while in Louisiana, made
Mr. Von Phul a flattering offer in connection with
his secession movement. Then a young man, he
respectfully declined the treason.

In 1811 Mr. Von Phul determined on coming to
St. Louis. At the time of his arrival, St. Louis con-
tained a population of about I,400, and the northern
boundary of the town was formed by a stone bluff,
rising from seventy-five to one hundred feet in height,
in the neighborhood of what is now Washington

avenue. This was a sort of public observatory and

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 415

resort, and the people of the town would assemble
on and about this prominence of evenings to discuss
the doings of the past day. The old trading post
was on the site now occupied by the Merchants’
Exchange. The houses were built of logs, and the
inhabitants, all of whom were French, devoted them-
selves to the trade of lead and peltries. All the
country west of St. Louis, an_d across the river on
the Illinois side, was in a wild and unsettled state,
the red man the monarch thereof. These marauding
Indians roamed in a savage state, murdering many a
bold adventurer, who had wandered beyond the
reach of assistance.

Shortly after Mr. Von Phul’s arrival in St. Louis,
when he was about twenty-eight years of age, word
came that the settlers on the Missouri had been
attacked by Indians, and were in extreme danger of
being massacred. It required but a short time to
raise a large body of volunteers, the command of
which was given to Nathaniel Boone, a son of the
old Kentucky pioneer, Daniel Boone. Henry Von
Phul was a person of indomitable pluck—afraid of
nothing when he knew he was in the right—and he
was accepted by that great warrior as his aid-de—camp,
and served on his staff with rank of major.
the war of 1:812, when the Indians were unusually
troublesome, he made several trips from St. Louis to
Louisville on horseback, though, strange to say,
during none of these journeys was he ever molested,
nor did he ever meet with Indians manifesting hostile
intent.

Mr. Von Phul, in 1817, witnessed the arrival
at the St. Louis wharf of the steamer General Pike,
which was the first steamer to land there. Subse-
quently Mr. Von Phul became largely interested in
steamboats, and was at one time part owner of some
of the finest boats on the Mississippi, and together
with Mr. Edward Walsh and Captain John Daggett,
was the first to run boats to New Orleans and up the
Illinois river.

On the Ioth of June, 1816, Henry Von Phul
married Miss Rosalie Saugrain, daughter of Dr.
Antoine‘ Saugrain, who was a graduate of one of
the largest scientific institutes of France, and an
advanced thinker of more than ordinary weight and
capacity. Dr. Saugrain was a nephew of the cele-
brated Dr. Guillotine, the inventor of the beheading
machine which took his name, and played such a
prominent part in the French Revolution of 1793,
and since, and is still known throughout the world

as the “guillotine.” From this marriage fifteen
53

During

children have been born, ten of whom are still living,
six sons and four daughters.

Henry Von Phul was thesenior partner in St.
Louis of the firm of Von Phul & McGill, subse-
quently Von Phul, Walters & Co., the oldest mer-
cantile firm of the city. Commencing in the year
I811, when St. Louis was a village, conducting his
business on principles of strict integrity, by degrees
Mr. Von Phul built, not only a trade, but a credit-
able commercial standing, which lasted with his life
and descended to his sons in their commercial inter-
course. Henry Von Phul had done much to build
up the mercantile interest of St. Louis, and on the
credit of his name alone had brought more commerce
to the city and more credit to her firms than any one
man of his generation. As an instance of his stern
business integrity, we state, as historians, that in
1872, while in his eighty—eighth year, after a success-
ful business career in St. Louis of almost half a
century, Mr. Von Phul was overtaken by misfortune.
It was then that the grand qualities of the man, his
unfailing integrity and his deep sense of justice, made
themselves manifest. He determined on turning
over all the property that remained to him for the
benefit of his creditors, and this he did, even to his
wife's dower. So rigid was his sense of right that he
was unwilling to retain anything so long as his cred-
itors were unpaid. This view was shared by his wife,
and everything was given up to their creditors.

In his favorite city he was frequently chosen to
places of trust in the municipal government, and no
word of just reproach was ever heard against him.
He acted as one of the board of city commissioners
for a number of years, and was also a member of the
school board. He was president of the Union Insurance
company, a director of the Iron Mountain railroad, a
prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce and
a director in the Bank of the State of Missouri. In mer-
cantile circles he was regarded as the patriarch of St.
Louis trade, being the oldest merchant of the city.

Nature does not generally allow her favorites a
long stay on earth ; yet in this instance she left for
the instruction and emulation of her sons, this sire
beyond the “three score and ten” allotted to man-
kind. With his lessons fully learned and his mission
fully fulfilled, he was ready for his summons. On
the Ioth of June he celebrated the fifty—eighth anni-
versary of his wedding, which was about the last time
he was able to go about home. He was then attacked
violently with an inherited asthmatic complaint, from
which he suffered acutely until, on the 7th of Sep-

- pursuits.

416 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

tember, 1874, he “went to sleep” in the cradle of
the eternal ages. He died in the Roman Catholic
faith, and Bishop Ryan administered the holy sacra-
ment. Archbishop Kenrick also called to lend com-
fort to the dying man and to cheer him with the
hope of a brighter world. A

During the latter part of his illness, his mental
faculties were singularly unclouded, and he recalled
with wonderful distinctness facts which had come
under his knowledge half a century before and had
since been forgotten. ,He was perfectly reconciled
to the inevitable, saying that whatever was God’s
will was his. He had tried to lead a sinless life, and
was prepared for death. Nine of his ten living chil-
dren, with his faithful and loving helpmeet, were at
hand, and, when death came, it found a soul ready
for a better and a brighter world. ‘ '

An orator of the day thus spoke of him after his
death:

“ With all his business cares to occupy his
mind, the overflowings of a" generous nature were
being felt by all around him. Ever a true friend to
those who merited his friendship, the circle that will
feel the void which death has made, has age and
youth, the past and present. During his illness
many of these, among the poor who had been the
recipients of his benefactions, called to tender. their
sympathy to the afflicted family. From the house
of Mr. .Von Phul the poor never were sent away

empty-handed, but were provided according to their
needs. ~

“A more fit eulogy could not be pronounced
upon the deceased than is found in the words of the
president of the new Chamber of Commerce Asso-
ciation, who said, at the laying of the corner stone
of the new building, June 6th, when referring to
those whose energy and enterprise had raised St.
Louis to her proud position of commercial prosperity:
‘But there is one of these who has come down from
a former generation, a last link connecting the pres-

ent with the distant past, who still remains with us, '

to whom it will not be unbecoming in me to make
special allusion. He first settled in St. Louis in
1811, when its population was only 1,400, and since
then has been continuouslyengaged in mercantile
Through all these long years he has lived
a blameless life, and has borne a spotless character,
his enterprise and his integrity never faltering in the
most trying, nor flagging in the most prosperous
times. What citizen does not honor the name of
Henry Von Phul?”’

As an exhibit of the estimation in which he was
held, by his compeers in the mercantile world of St.
Louis, we copy the following from the records of the
Merchants’ Exchange:

The Union Merchants’ Exchange of St. Louis,

believing that it is not only eminently just, but also
a solemn duty, that appropriate tribute of respect
should be at all times paid to those who perform their
allotted duties in life, and realizing that an imperious
obligation rests on those who survive to bear full
testimony to the virtues of the departed, whose
examples are worthy of all imitation and praise, so
that the bright memories of these virtues may speak
with an ever—living force and influence to the com-
munity which deplores and mourns for the lives of
those who are dead 3

Therefore, in View of the great loss under which
our city is now suffering by the death of Henry Von
Phul, whose sixty-three years of business life were
spent in this city of his adoption, and whose entire
social, domestic and commercial career was marked
by the highest order of integrity, untiring industry,
and a general kindness and purity of character which
seemed to shed a benign and happy influence on all
around him, it is

Resolved, That in the death of Henry Von Phul,
the oldest merchant of our city, whose integrity,
enterprise, purity and single-heartedness constitute a
memorial consecrated by the hearts and judgments
of those who knew him best, we, while bowing
reverentially to the rule of Providence in this depri-
vation, yet may be permitted to mourn the loss of
one so near and dear to us.

Resolved, That We tender our heartfelt sympathies
and condolence to the bereaved family of our
departed friend, with an assurance that the example
he furnished in his domestic, social and commercial
life has been highly appreciated by his fellowmen,
and will be treasured in their memories forever.

Resolved, That as a token of respect to the mem-
ory of the dead, the hall of this Exchange be draped
in mourning for the next thirty days.

[Signed] GERARD B. ALLEN,

R. J. LACKLAND,

N. RANNEY,

JOHN W. LUKE,
ROBERT CAMPBELL,
]As. E. YEATMAN,

T. M. EDGELL,

GEO. G. WAGGAMANN.

iHis portrait was presented to the Merchants’
Exchange in St. Louis after his interment, and we

"can do no better to the credit of this self—made, good

man than to copy from the proceedings as published
in the city papers soon after: ‘

Yesterday noon Mr. Web. M. Samuel, president
of the Merchants’ Exchange, called the members to
order and announced that a number of the old friends
of t-he late Henry Von Phul desired to present to the
association a" full length portrait of him, painted by
Mr. Conant. Mr. Samuel introduced Hon. Lewis
V. Bogy to the meeting who made the following
address in behalf of the gentlemen presenting the por-
trait:

but little new can be said to them.

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOG1€.4PH[CAL DICTZO./VARY. 417

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN or THE UNION
MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF ST.
LOUIS: -

No duty has ever before been imposed on me in
which more heartfelt satisfaction was experienced
than the one I am now called upon to fulfill. If it is
a duty to speak with charity of the dead, and as far
as is consistent with truth tO,1hrOW a Vail over acts
which at the time of their occurrence were liable to be
construed differently, it is yet a higher and nobler
duty to give to the dead the just commendation which
their acts and deeds during their lives justly entitle
them to; for this at last is the only reward which this
world can give. Viewing the long life of great use-
fulness of our departed friend, Henry Von Phul, from
this stand—point,. it would not be difficult if the occa-
sion made it proper to say much in merely enumera-
ting the incidents of his long, laborious and eventful

life, as a citizen of great public usefulness, and always-

ready and willing to discharge any duty devolving
upon him in that capacity, as a merchant of remark-
ably long duration, and during all the time enjoying
the highest standing among his associates, as a hus-
band of most exemplary conduct, and as a father
whose love and devotion to his children was without
bounds. In speaking of so good a man as Mr. Von
Phul was known to be by all his contemporaries, I

_am afraid to be drawn into language which might

appear like undeserved praise. Yet, speaking to the
merchants of this city, with whom he has been inti-
mately associated for upwards of three score years,
no language could sound like fulsome praise ; and yet
he was so well known and so highly appreciated by
the body of merchants of this, his adopted city, that
Although this
was his adopted city, yet but very few of its native
citizens can boast of a longer residence here than he,
for he came here as early as the year 1811, when
this present great state was then under the first rule
of territorial government, and when this present
large and flourishing great city was the home of a
small number of French inhabitants, who had been
American citizens only about eight years. It was in
the midst of these primitive people that he cast his
lot for life, and from that early period, through all
the vicissitudes and changes, both political and social,
which have transpired, he retained the high regard
and esteem of the three generations with whom he
associated socially and as a business man; never
during this long period of time giving occasion for

T any oneto entertain a doubt as to his truth, honesty,

sincerity, fidelity, charity, and indeed, I may say,
generosity.
business matters as well as in all the relations of life,
and able without the slightest sycophancy, firm with-
out ‘being dictatorial, pursuing the even tenor of his
way and fulfilling all the obligations devolving upon
him with a scrupulous devotion, an unswerving fidel-
ity and the most delicate integrity. A sense of duty
to the ‘memory of this singularly good man, compels
me to relate an incident of his life, which of itself
will be a key to the whole of it. When a few years

Yet he was firm and decided in all

ago he found himself most unexpectedly over-
whelmed by pecuniary embarrassments, and he saw
the honest accumulations of a long and laborious
life, amounting to perhaps one million of dollars,
swept away from him, he honored me with his confi-
dence—for I feel it to be an honor to‘ be thought fit
to give counsel to one of his experience and intelli-
gence. After telling me the probable amount of his
liabilities, he said he had property enough to pay
everything and everybody and desired his large
estate so to be placed legally as to effect this object,
desiring to pay all and everything although it might
leave him at his advanced age, being then upwards
of four score and ten, without a cent. I requested
time for refiection as to the mode of effecting his
object. Knowing that the bankrupt law might inter-
fere with his well meant intentions, I called the next
day and a plan was adopted. I then stated to him
that, knowing his high standing and the peculiar
hardship attending his embarrassments, application
should be made to his creditors to abandon the inter-
est on the deferred payments which he proposed to
make. With dignity, but showing a good deal of
feeling, and with the blood coloring his generally
mild face, he sternly and positively said, that under
no circumstances would he ask his creditors to give
up one cent of principal or interest if there was prop-
erty enough to pay 3 he was determined to do it
regardless of the fact that he might be left without
one cent; and then and there he particularly directed
me to make no such application to the creditors, and
to my surprise, at the meeting of the creditors he
presented himself so that this proposition should not
be made as it was my intention to have done. The
question of interest would have made a difference of
upward of fifty thousand dollars in his favor. This
determination to pay principal and interest was not
from mere empty pride or love of appearance, or to
gain the esteem of the world, for it was up to this

time a secret between us, but was from a high sense

of moral obligation. This one act, gentlemen of the
Exchange, is enough to give you a correct insight
into the character of your departed brother. Of him
you have a just right to be proud, for he was an
ornament to your honorable body, and his memory
should be cherished by you and your successors as a
jewel of great value. This beautiful and correct por-
trait of our departed friend, the work of our esteemed
fellow-citizen, Mr. Conant, I am directed, Mr. Pres-
ident, to present to the Merchants’ Exchange of St.
Louis, as a gift of a few of the old friends and asso-
ciates of your departed brother and fellow member,
Henry Von Phul, who after a long life of great use-
fulness in this city as a merchant, departed this life
on the eighth day of September of this year at the
advanced age of ninety years, surrounded in his last
moments by the worthy Woman who had been his
companion for upward of half a century, by his sons
and daughters, and grandsons and granddaughters
and great grandchildren. It is the wish of the friends
who make this present to your association that this
good likeness of their late associate should remain

418 THE UNITED STATES EIOGRAPIIICAI. DICTIOIVARY.

suspended in this hall as an object of love and venera-
tion, not only by his contemporaries, but by those who
will in aftertimes visit this place of trade and commerce.

In conclusion, Mr. President and gentlemen of
the Exchange, permit me to say that the last years of
the life of this good man were yet more worthy of
admiration than those of the period of his more active
and busy life. Calmly and with a most perfect com-
posure he looked back on his long life and saw noth-
ing to regret, and with a humility sublime in its
simplicity, he thanked God for the favors he had
received during his long stay in this world, and with-
a high religious hope he pressed to his bosom the
cross which had been sent to him late in life, and thus
he prepared himself to leave the world and its troubles,
its cares and its anxieties, and begin the journey of
eternity. Fully prepared and fully conscious of his
duties and his responsibilities to his Maker he died
full of religious hope and with all the sweet consola-
tion of the Catholic religion.

Mr. Web. M. Samuel, president of the Exchange, '

responded as follows :

CoLoNEL Boov AND GENTLEMEN:

It affords me great pleasure in behalf of the mem-
bers of the Union Merchants’ Exchange, to accept
from you this portrait of the late Henry Von Phul,
an old and honored merchant of our city, and to
return to you their sincere thanks for the gift of this
beautiful work of art. I can assure you that it will
be prized by our members, not only as an ornament
to this chamber and to the more magnificent one

which we expect soon to enter, but as a faithful
image of one whose character is worthy of their emu-
lation and ambition. The universal expression of
sympathy and sorrow at the death of Mr. Von Phul,
which is still fresh in our memory, the more than
customary honor paid by this Exchange and by our
citizens generally at his funeral services, attest more
eloquently than any words which it is in my power
to command, how highly they appreciate the life of
a man who, although not distinguished for any bril-
liant deeds, yet achieved that which is worthy of the
highest renown, a ch racter founded upon public and
private virtue. The feeling of admiration for such a
life and character springs from the highest and purest
impulse of the heart. We trust that this speaking
likeness of this good man will keep bright in the mem-
ory of all those who frequent this busy mart of trade
the principles of integrity and rectitude in all the
walks of life, which have commanded the admiration
and love of those who knew him through a long and
eventful life.

That portrait still hangs in the Merchants’ Ex-
change of St. Louis, and the honest face of their dead
brother is to-day an incentive to the crowd of mer-
chants there assembled to deeds of daring for their
city, and to vigorous, honest endeavors to build up a
reputation for commercial integrity that will sooner
give to this great city (what Mr. Von Phul intended
it should become) the proud name of The Great City
of the West.

GEORGE WASHINGTON ROSE.

MA YSVILLE.

MON G the gallant soldiers of the war of 1812-14
was Captain James Ellis Rose, of Prince Wil-
liam county, Virginia, at which place he was born,
and from which he removed to Kentucky in the year
1820, just after his marriage with Miss Kitty Robin-
son, a daughter of one of the oldest and most respect-
able families of Fauquier county, Virginia. Mr. Rose
was by trade a blacksmith, but his time was princi-
pally occupied with the cultivation of his large plan-
tation. A
Fourteen years after his removal to Kentucky, his
son George Washington was born, in Flemingsburg,
April 22, 1834. George received a liberal education
in the place of his nativity, and having completed the
regular course of study, applied himself to the profes-
sion of teaching—a calling which he followed with

marked success both in his native State and in Mis-
souri, and for which he seems to have had a special
aptitude, being from a boy deeply interested in his
studies, and as a man taking an active part in all edu-
cational matters.

While teaching in Flemingsburg he gave his
spare time to legal studies, and finally entered him-
self as a student under the instruction of Messrs. Cox
& Cavin, attorneys of high professionalstanding. L.
M. Cox of this firm, represented one of the Kentucky
districts in the National Congress and was a promi-
nent member of the bar of his State. Young Rose
was a natural student and devoted himself assiduously
to master his new profession. He was admitted to
its practice by Judge Reed, of the 13th Judicial district
of Kentucky.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAZ, D./CTZO./VARY. 419

He came to Missouri and settled in Weston,
Platte county, in 1856. Here he engaged in his old
profession——teaching, which he followed until 1862,
when he moved to Stewartsville, De Kalb county and
commenced his law practice. During his residence
in Weston, 1857, he was married to Miss Mary Celeste
Hudson, formerly of Richmond, Kentucky. Their
present family consists of four children, two sons and
two daughters. Ollie, the oldest, is a charming and
accomplished young man of eighteen. The names of
the others are Willie, Lillie Moss and May.

After practicing ‘one year in Stewartsville, De
Kalb county, Mr. Rose was elected prosecuting attor-
ney for the county, and removed to Maysville, the
county seat, his present residence. He was returned
to the office for which he was then elected for five
successive terms. In 186 5 he was elected county
superintendent of public instruction, which office he
held for two years. The same year in which he was
married he united with the Christian church of Platte
county. He is still a member of that denomination.
In politics, always an active democrat, he has served

repeatedly as delegate to the different party conven-
tions, and represented his district in the national con-
vention held in St." Louis, 1864, which nominated
George B. McClellan for President.

He was before the Democratic convention of his
section in I870, as a candidate for nomination to the
office of Circuit Judge, in opposition to Joseph P.
Grubb who was afterwards nominated and elected. The
first ballot between himself and Grubb was a tie.

Mr. Rose is a member of the I. O. of O. F., and
a Master Mason in affiliation with Parrott Lodge, A.
F. & A. M., at Marysville.

In personal appearance George W. Rose is a fine
looking man, standing about five feet ten inches, and
turning the scales somewhere in the neighborhood of
one hundred and seventy pounds. In addition to his
extensive law practice he is largely interested in real
estate. His partner in this business is H. E. Glazier,
of Maysville—a solid scholarly man. Mr. Rose
impresses one with a sense of his real manhood, and
in all his relations, domestic, social, civil and profes-
sional, is esteemed as a man of mind and character.

JUDGE WESLEY HALLIBURTON.

MILAN.

‘ N I ESLEY HALLIBURTON was born January
4, 1812, in Humphreys county, Tennessee.
His father, Ambrose Halliburton, was a native of
North Carolina, by occupation a farmer. In 1823
heiemigrated to Charton, now Randolph county,
Missouri. He took an active part in the Black
Hawk war, and was a son of David Halliburton, of
Revolutionary fame, a native of North Carolina, but
subsequently a resident of Tennessee, where he died.
His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Free-
man, was born in North Carolina; she was the
daughter of Howell Freeman, who participated in
the Revolution, and died in Tennessee. Wesley
Halliburton was brought up on the family farm in
Randolph county, Missouri, and availed himself of
the educational advantages offered in the log school
house of the frontier. In 1832, by his earnest appli-
cation, he had obtained sufficient education to teach
school, and alternated this with farming for four

years. ,
In 1837 he opened a grocery store in Shelbyville,

Shelby county, Missouri, and was very successful in
business. In 1839 he was the assessor of Shelby
county, and the same year located at Woodville,
Macon county, and engaged in the dry goods busi-
ness. Mr. Halliburton had been spending all his
leisure hours in reading law, and in 1841 was admit-
ted to the bar, at Bloomington, then the county seat
of Macon county. .

He practiced his profession assiduously in the
same county, until 1845, when he located in Linneus,
Linn county, where, as a successful lawyer, he re1nain—
ed until 1853, when he removed to Milan, Sullivan
county, and practiced law for seven years. In 1860
he returned to Linneus, where he lived for two years,
when he located at Brunswick.

In 1864 he went to St. Louis county and settled
on a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits until
1873, when he returned to Milan and resumed the
practice of law. In 1840 he was elected judge of
Macon county, and in 1844 circuit attorney of
the 11th Judicial Circuit, which then comprised the

, reputation and great piety.

420 THE UNITED STATES EIOGICAPIJICAZ. DICTIO./VAIBY.

counties of Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Grundy,
Macon and Adair. He was reelected to this office

in 1848, and served with great credit to himself and‘

to the satisfaction of the people.

In 1852 he was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives from Linn county, and as a member of that
body took a prominent part in the support of the
railroads and the common schools In 18 5 3 he was
appointed receiver of public money for the Chariton
land district of Missouri. He faithfully discharged
the duties of his office for four years.

In 1857 he was elected from Sullivan county to
the House of Representatives, and in the following
year was elected state senator from the district
composed of Putnam, Sullivan, Linn and Livingston
counties. He was a member of the famous consti-
tutional convention of Missouri in 1866. Judge
Halliburton was one of the corporators or charter
members of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and
assistedin its organization at Bloomington, Missouri.

In 1847 a convention was called which met at
Chillicothe, for the purpose of devising ways and
means for the ultimate building of the road, a com-
mittee was appointed to memoralize Congress for the

grant of land, and Judge Halliburton was made
chairman. Heprepared and forwarded the memorial
to Washington.

As Senator in 18 59, he introduced the homestead
bill, which ultimately bcame a law. Judge Hallibur-
ton has always been a firm, consistent Democrat, and
cast his first vote for Van Buren in 1836. At the
election preceding the war, .he voted for John C.
Breckenridge,-and was one of the state electors on
that ticket. During the war he was strictly neutral.

In religious belief, he is a Baptist. March 9,
183,4, he married Miss Sophia Holman, a native of
Madison county, Kentucky, a daughter of Joseph
Holman, a farmer and early settler of Randolph
and Marioncounties, Missouri. August, 1841, Mrs.
Halliburton died, leaving two children.
ber, 1842, he married Armilda E. Collins, of Ran-
dolph county, Missouri, daughter of Joseph Collins,
of the same county, having emigrated from Kentucky.
In June, 1866, Judge Halliburton lost his wife. To
them had been born eleven children. By his kind-

ness and sterling integrity, he has won the esteem of

the community, and inspired the respect of all with
whom he comes in contact.

GEORGE W. BRIANT.

WESTPORT.

EORGE W. BRIANT was born in Cooper
His father, Wil-
liam Briant, was a native Virginian, who at an early
age removed with his parents to Logan county,
Kentucky, and was twice married; first to a Miss
Barnett, of Kentucky, and afterward to Miss Elisa-
beth Sloan, a sister of Rev. Robert Sloan, a minister
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, of excellent
Two daughters, Elisa-
beth and Judith, and one son, were born of his first
wife. Seven daughters and three sons were the chil-
dren of the second. His daughters were, Nancy K.,
Angeline, Phoebe Caroline, Margaret J., Sarah Ellen
and Martha ‘Rebecca. The sons were, Alexander
C., Robert S. and George W., whose history is here
given.

J" county, Missouri, in 1830.

When George was eight years of age his parents
moved to Lafayette county, Missouri, and finally to
Jackson county. George W. was sent to the schools

of Lafayette county, and afterwards attended High-
land Academy in Jackson county, which at that time
had a good reputation. As soon as he was permitted
to leave the farm of his father, he began to trade in
a small way, manifesting a growing fondness for that
kind of business. The necessities of his occupation
soon called him into notice so publicly that he became
familiarly known throughout the counties adjacent to
Jackson. By this time he was a mere youth, yet
possessed firmness, perseverance and honesty, three
sterling traits that are found in every manifestation
of his character. The boy started right, all the
influences of his home life were calculated to foster
in him veracity and solidity. Men around him early
marked his type, but it remained for other years to
show his caliber. c

In 18 51 he was employed in the Santa Fe’ freight-
ing train of Hon. F. Y. Ewing, a son of the cele-
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Cumberland Presbyterian church. Young Briant
was employed before the train was made up, to pur-
chase the stock for the wagons. Mr. Ewing handed
him a sack of gold containing five thousand dollars,
remarking that he “would hold him responsible for
the proper expenditure thereof.” The amount given
him was, in that da.y at least, a considerable fortune,
and the fact that he was given the management of it
while scarcely of age, was a decisive proof of the
high estimation in which he was held by those who
were in positions to form an opinion of his character.
His work was performed promptly and thoroughly.
Going into Howard county he purchased several

‘ hundred head of cattle -for draft purposes , collected

them at Arrow Rock, swam them across the Missouri
riverin safety, and in a few days had them yoked
up at Westport. The train of twenty-two wagons
was soon loaded with dry goods and groceries and
the trip to Santa Fe completed.

In the following year he purchased for himself
two wagons which he loaded with goods for Santa
Fe, obtaining twelve yoke of draught cattle on credit,
but before starting he was hired to take charge of a
large freighting train owned by James B. Yager, now
one of the most honored judges of Jackson county.
To this train he attached his own outfit, and proceded
at once to Mexico. His management of the business
proved satisfactory to his employer and profitable to
himself, and to this day he holds in grateful remem-
brance the kindly aid that he then received. While
at Santa Fe on this second trip he was offered a con-
tract for furnishing Colonel McFerron, a government
contractor, with corn, but lacked the money to carry
on operations. Meeting George Estes, an old friend
of his father, he very hesitatingly expressed a wish
to borrow the requisite amount. “ George, did you
stay with your father until you were old enough to
appreciate his example in life?” asked Mr. Estes.
“ I tried to,” was the satisfactory reply. He received
the money on sixty days’ time, filled his contract,
paid Mr. Estes in twenty days, and cleared a net

» profit of fifteen hundred dollars.

In a few years, by industry and frugality, he had
acquired sufficient capital to purchase an outfit for
himself. For seventeen years he led his teams across
the western wilderness, often fighting the bands of

-savages that prowled over the plains, and always

with but one alternative, to conquer or to die“. Dur-
ing these years in which Mr. Briant carried his life
in his hand, he was never defeated, and nothing
deterred him from following his usual business of

freighting. He had the most perfect control over his
employés. His practical ability to advise in any
doubtful or difficult enterprise, his masterly foresight
and shrewdness, as well as clearness in attending to
details, secured him the willing confidence of his
men. Of a retired manner and modest deportment,
that won the love of his fellows, he was the very last
man with whom to trifle, and the roughest characters
left him unmolested. ‘ .

Mr. Briant’s frontier life was singularly successful.
He made no less than sixty-six trips from Jackson
county, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mil-
lions of dollars worth of gold and silver were trans-
ferred by his trains from Mexico, and large stores of
every description taken thither. During these years
he bent his energies to one point 5 many things were
left, unknown and undone, but they had no relation
to his business. Much self-sacrifice is necessary to
leave the inviting things that are met daily, and pour
the whole energy of the hand, brain, and heart into
some great specialty. He certainly realized that
“the one prudence in life is concentration, the one
evil is dissipation.” Fortune came to him and with
it the opportunities for a broader field of effort and
usefulness.

October 6, 1858, Mr. Briant was married to
Elisabeth A., daughter of Jacquilline and Mary E.
Lobb, a lady of English and German ancestry. Mrs.
Briant is an amiable, christian lady, her qualities of
mind and heart preéminently fitting her to render
home happy. Having no children they received into
their family two lovely girls, daughters of  
Watkins, one of whom they have adopted.

In 1864 Mr. Briant sustained a most serious loss.
His entire train of wagons, loaded with government
stores, destined for Fort Union, New Mexico, was in
camp at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. .The Indians
upon the plains were committing daily depredations,
but General Curtis, commanding the Post, ordered
the train to proceed. Mr. Braint’s long experience
satisfied him that the undertaking was dangerous,
unless well supported by troops. He accordingly
asked of Curtis an escort, but was refused and
ordered on, with the assurance that “Uncle Sam”
should foot the losses. While encamped near the
Arkansas a large band of Kiowas, under cover of the
darkness, attacked the train, stampeded the mules and
drove them off. The mules were valued at twenty
thousand dollars. Although out on the Arkansas
and crippled by "hostile savages, the government
stores were defended and the Indians kept at bay.

422 TEIE U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOZVARY.

In a few days, rather than forfeit his contract, Mr.
Briant paid five thousand dollars to Stewart, Slemman
& Co. to haul the wagons to their destination. In
due time Mr. Briant presented his claim for damages
to the United States government for adjustment.
After long delay the payment of the claim was made
to one William Craig, who held a nominal partner-
ship in the business at the time of the loss. In
attempting to collect the money due himself on the
claim, Mr. Briant was summarily arrested and held
to heavy bail, on the charge of having presented a
fraudulent claim. It was but a wicked plot to ruin
him, artfully and deeply laid. Compromises were
suggested, but nothing short of a hearing would
satisfy Mr. Briant. Strong in the consciousness of
his own honesty, and believing that justice would

finally be done, he waited twenty-two months for a A

hearing. When the day appointed came on, a move-
ment was made, as usual, to “stave off” the trial.
Mr. Briant arose and stated to the honorable judge
that he had waited patiently for his hearing, and
could wait no longer; that his vindication was dearer
than his life; if he was found guilty, he wanted to
be serving out his sentence; if not guilty, he wanted
the world to know it and his course justified. The
court assured him that he should have a hearing at
once. It was had, and Mr. Briant was acquitted;
the jury bringing in a verdict of not‘ guilty before
leaving the box. The case was tried before Hon.
]udge McArthur, of the United States criminal
court, a man in every way fitted for the responsible
position. The array of evidence presented by Mr.
Briant, to prove that he had sustained the loss set
forth in the claim, was overwhelming. His witnesses
were senators from the upper and lower houses,
prominent officers in the United States army, and bus-
iness men of unimpeachable standing from different
states. The number and character of the witnesses
in his favor, not only left no room for doubt as to
his innocence, but showed conclusively that he was
also held in the highest esteem by the representative
men of the West.

Mr. Briant was defended by William A. Cook, a
prominent lawyer of Washington, D. C. It is worthy
of remark, that among the witnesses who testified
as to Mr. Briant’s loss, was an aged Methodist min-
ister, Rev. Moses U. Paine. Mr. Paine had in his
possession ‘a complete diary of the entire trip, so
full and definite were all the details of his testimony,
that it, of itself, would have been sufficiently con-
clusive in Mr. Briant’s favor. The incontrovertible

nature of the testimony for the defendant may be
inferred from the remarks of Judge McArthur to
defendant’s counsel, on his motion to dismiss the
case, because the prosecution had failed to sustain
the allegations. He said he “was clearly of the
opinion that the trial, on the evidence, could have
but one result, and if a verdict should be given
against the accused, the court ought to set it aside.”
His honor then recited the principal points on which
the indictment was based. He said “ it was utterly

impossible for any person to now doubt that the

mules were owned by Mr. Briant, or incredible that
they were captured by the Indians. Whether an

escort was or was not demanded, had no particular I

bearing just now on the question, and if it stood
alone, he would not think it sufficient for the con-
templated action. If he were instructing the jury,
he would say, that if Mr. Briant was honest in
making the demand of General Curtis, then it was
done in compliance with the contract, and there was
no ground for false claims. The only question was,

whether or not the demand was made, and on that C

point the defense was so overwhelming, that no
honest juryman could doubt its verity. The impos-
sibility of doubting that point, destroyed the charge
of presenting a fraudulent claim, knowing it to be
such. The worst feature in the case was the oldness
of the claim, and the delay in presenting it to the
government. That could only be considered, if at
all, as an extreme collateral of the offense charged,
and should not be considered.” His honor then
said “he did not propose to interfere with the prov-
ince of the jury, but where the defense was so fully
and completely made out, he thought it his duty to
say, and should instruct the jury, to return a verdict
of not guilty.” This was done and the defendant
discharged. Mr. Briant’s fair name was left unsullied
and he emerged from the persecution of malice to
find on every hand the congratulations of honorable
men awaiting him. He has never attempted to
make his detractors pay the penalty of his outraged
loyalty to right, but leaves them to the judgment
and condemnation of posterity. To a great extent
his hard earned fortune has been swept away, as the
loss of the claim and the expenses of the suit
amounted to over thirty thousand dollars. In the
results Mr. Briant has nothing to rejoice over, for
his honor was always unsullied, he mourns over
nothing, for he esteems his manhood as priceless
compared with material fortune.

Mr. Briant became a member of thebanking

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' firm of Watkins & Co., Kansas City, in 1865, and

retained his relation thereto until December, 1877,
when the bank closed. His well-known reputation
for integrity, coupled with his Wonderful sagacity in
commercial matters, constituted no small factor in
the success of the institution.

Mr. Briant is connected with the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, for the prosperity and peace of
which he has always been actively zealous, contrib-
uting liberally to all its enterprises at home and
abroad. His charity is without limit 3 he has assisted
many to a start in life that has proved the founda-
tion of their prosperity. At this time Mr. Briant is
largely engaged in the cattle trade of Colorado. For
several years he has been identified with the Free

Masons and Odd Fellows, holding the office of
treasurer in those societies. In politics he is con-
servative, without being indifferent. His home in
Westport is elegant without, tasteful Within, and
always open for the entertainment of friends and
the help of the needy. Mr. Briant is large and
imposing in his stature, possessing a well rounded

figure, indicative of great physical strength. His
face is of the Roman cast. His forehead is high
and full, eyes blue and complexion fair. His

general appearance is such as to inspire respect
and secure confidence at a single glance. A man
among men, his character without stain, his life
above reproach, he has conferred dignity upon his
generation.

U. S. HALL.

MOBERL Y.

ROMINENT among the rising young lawyers
P of the state of Missouri, stands the man Whose
name heads this sketch. U. S. Hall was born April
12, 1852, in Randolph county, Missouri. His par-
ents were William A. and Octavia (Sebree) Hall,
His father was born at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and
was an able attorney and politician. He located in
Randolph county in 1835, and was a member of
Congress two terms, and judge of the second judicial
circuit for about nineteen years. His mother was a
native of Pensacola, Florida. He is a nephew of
Governor W. P. Hall and General George H. Hall,
of St. Joseph.

Young Hall was educated at Mount Pleasant Col-

lege, Missouri, graduating from that institution in
1872, taking the highest honors of his class.

In the same year he began to read law, and in
187 5 was admitted to the bar, entering into the prac-
tice of his profession at MF-berly, where he has since
resided as a leading attorney. In April,‘ 1877, he
was elected city attorney, and filled the office with
credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the people.
In politics he is a Democrat.

Mr. Hall’s most marked characteristics are ster-
ling integrity, persistent perseverance, a cheerful
benevolence, with a strength of will and purpose
which acknowledge no obstacles to be insurmount-
able.

CFRANK G. PORTER, M. D.

ST. LOUIS.

FRANK GIBSON PORTER is the descendant

of an old covenanter family from among the
Scotch Highlands——a race who furnished seed for
the church in the blood of the martyrs, who rather
died than yield opinion. His paternal grand and

great grandfather came to America from Scotland,
54

and reared their children in the Old School Presby-
terian faith. His father was the first white male
child born in Washington county, Pennsylvania.
His mother Was, before her marriage, Miss Esther
Gibson, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsyl-

vania. The subject of this sketch was their second

‘family blood and prevented the act.

424 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

son, and third child, and was born in New Castle,
Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, July 24, 182 9. Up
to his twelfth year his mother taught him, and so
thoroughly, that onhis first entrance in school, he

was ready for Latin and the higher mathematics. '

He was afterward a private pupil under Rev. Arthur
B. Bradford, of Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, and at
the same time attended “Old Stone Academy,” at
Darlington, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. While
under Mr. Bradford’s tuition, he studied church his-
tory and otherwise entered upon theological investi-
gations—for his parents had determined him for the
ministry from his birth.

But from childhood, his own earnest desire was
to be a physician. Neither parent nor tutor instilled
the youthful ambition. Natureimplanted it ; nature
bade him, when a ten year old child, to beg for an
amputated limb, to keep it and examine it in his
closet, and finally, at the age of sixteen, impelled
him to inform his father that he had yielded to his
life’s desire, and determined to study medicine. The
old Scotch family government ideas of his father
could not brook opposition to his prayerfully ascer-
tained disposition of his son; he had offered him to

the church, and dared not see the altar robbed of its

sacrifice. I Like the patriarch of old, and with all his
affection for this second Isaac, the knife was lifted,
the son was about to be immolated upon a religious
altar, when a circumstance came from the bush of
Frank was as
Scottish and firm as the father; neither would yield,
each was devoutly ‘honest in determination. The
boy was disinherited, and with a ‘single dollar began
life’s battle. To obtain means, he taught school in a
Northern state, and afterwards taught an academy in
Belmont, Mississippi, and again in Florence, Ala-
bama. All this before he was nineteen years old.
Then he returned to Pennsylvania and studied med-
icine with Dr. D. B. Packard and Dr. John T.
Ray, in West Greenville, Pennsylvania. Here, also
he furnished himself with necessary means by teach-
ing school. The kind offer-of an appreciative gen-
tleman enabled him to complete his medical studies
at a regular institution. He went to Cleveland,
Ohio, where he became the pupil of Dr. Horace A.
Ackley, one of the most celebrated surgeons of his
day. Entering-the Cleveland Medical College, he
graduated in the spring of 1851. He settled and
began practice in Conneautville, Pennsylvania,
where, for six months, his prospects looked gloomy
enough. But on some special calls, as a dernier

resort, having successfully treated a stubborn case
in surgery and some abandoned cases of typhoid
fever, his reputation became established in that
country.

Determined to settle permanently in the West
or South, he finally chose St. Louis, and settled there
in May, r854—poor, friendless and unknown. But
patiently and assiduously applying himself to his
books and profession, in the course of a few years
he built up a respectable practice, which finally
reached a highly remunerative point, and gave him
welcome entrance into the first circles of St. Louis
society. His professional brethren soon recognized

' his merits, and he became a member of the St. Louis

Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Society
and of the American Medical Association. He has
held the position of vice-president of the St. Louis
Medical Society, and is now a life member of the
American Association. I

At the breaking out of the Rebellion, early in
1861, he was appointed brigade surgeon in the Union
army, and was in active service throughout the war,
participating in thirteen regular engagements, besides
many minor affairs. He planned and constructed

the most extensive field-hospital of that war, at

Hamburg, Tennessee, which was pictured and highly
praised by the leading Eastern journals. He was
mustered out of service and honorably discharged,
while his headquarters were at Fort Leavenworth, Kan-
sas-—having been commissioned as assistant surgeon,
afterwards full surgeon, and left the service with the
rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. His position was
that of a general staff surgeon of United States vol.-
unteers. He had been for nine monthsin chargeof
the United States‘ Marine Hospital in St. Louis.
The government, as a recognition of his professional
merits, since appointed him examiner of pensions,
which position he still holds as president of the Gov-
ernment Board of Examiners in‘St. Louis. In 1868
he was appointed medical examiner for the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York,and-its medi-
cal referee for six states, which position he still holds.
He also is now medical examiner for the Traveler’s
Life and Accident Insurance Company of Hartford.
He has been a member of the St. Louis Board of
Health, and helped to inaugurate some of the most
important sanitary measures in the city government.
In 1877 he was appointed surgeon in the St. Louis
National Guards, and recently was commissioned by
the governor of Missouri to fill the position.

That he has made himself eminently successful

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARK 425

in his profession, twenty-five years of successful
practice in St. Louis abundantly testifies—which'is
amply corroborated by his professional brethren and
by his splendid income. That he has no one to
than_k for it_ but his own indomitable will and energy
is shown by his history. Had he followed the warped
path blazed for him by his parents, it is doubtful if
we could have written him a success among the self-
made’ men of Missouri.

With all his success and consequent Wealth, he
still remainsthe same modest, unassuming gentle-
man ; courteous to all,‘ beneficent in every true cause

of charity. His life has been an eventful one—he
has supped at the frugal board of a slave and dined
with the heir-apparent (Prince of Wales). But he
recognizes man, whether clothed in rags or purple,
and has ever been ready to assist and encourage
worth. Dr. Porter was married in 1851 to Miss
Mattie M. Townsend, of Troy, New York, a grad-
uate of one of the finest literary institutions of that
state. She died on Christmas day, 1872, leaving two
sons—F-rank Willard and William Townsend Porter.

_ The younger, William T., is fitting himself for the

pursuit of his father’s profession.

JOSEPH F. HARWOOD.

CAMERON.

Susan (Whipple) Harwood, was born November
24, 1843, in Cattaraugus county, New York, of
which place his parents were natives.

His father was a clergyman, and reared his son
to work on the farm, giving him the best educational
advantages the high schools of the country afforded.

In 1861 young Harwood entered the Union army,
as private in Company G, 25th Illinois infantry, in
which he served two years. He saw service in Missouri,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, and
upon his return from the army devoted his attention
to farming, improving his leisure time in reading law.

In 1868 he was admitted to the bar at Liberty,
Missouri, by Judge Philander Lucas, and located in

JOSEPH F. HARWOOD, son of Nelson and

his present home, where he has since been active in
the practice of his profession. In 1868 he was made
United States Revenue Assessor for the counties of
Clinton, Caldwell, Davis and DeKalb, and. held the
office until 1871.

,Mr. Harwood has avoided all offices of a political
character, .and has devoted his entire attention to his
profession. Politically he is a pronounced Republi-
can. In 1864 Joseph F. Harwood married Miss
Mary E. Caldwell, of Warren county, Indiana.

Personally, Mr. Harwood is a man of rare attain-
ments. Prompt and decisive, he is yet kind and
generous , social and cordial, he lives amid the com-
forts of a happy home, surrounded by a host of warm
and admiring friends.

JUDGE VANDEVER B. HILL,

WA Y./VESVIZLZLE.

Virginia, to Kentucky at a very early day, and
resided there until his death. He" was a promi-
nent minister of the Baptist Church. His son, Reuben
Hill, was born in Virginia, moved to Kentucky
and lived there until 1832, and then moved to
Indiana, where he lived until his death, in 1857, in

JAMES HILL moved from Buckingham county,

his seventy-seventh year. His son, George Hill,was
born in Virginia, moved to Kentucky and afterward
settled in Putnam county, Indiana. He married
Miss Melinda Christison and raised three children,
the second of whom is the subject of this sketch.
Vandever Berry Hill was born December 27,
1827, in Adair county, Kentucky. His mother died

426

when he was not quite three years old. He was then
sent to live in the same county, in the family of
her brother, Josiah Christian, who reared him.
His uncle moved to Pulaski county, Missouri, in
1835, and settled near Waynesville, bringing the boy
with him. He worked on his uncle’s farm during
the summer and attended the country schools in
winter until 1848, when he went to school at Spring-
field, Missouri, for five months. Subsequently he
attended the high school at Ebenezer, Greene county,
Missouri, thirteen months. Returning to Pulaski
county, he was appointed deputy in the circuit court
clerk’s office, which position he held eighteen months,
when he was elected sheriff of the county for the
term of two years.

Mr. Hill was elected to the Missouri legislature
from Pulaski county in 1854, and again in 1856.
For several years back he had been assiduously
engaged in the study of law, preparing himself to
enter upon that profession. He was admitted to
practice in 1857, and opened an office at Waynesville.
He continued, however, his farming operations until
1861:, when he was elected a member of the state
convention, and kept his seat as such until that body
adjourned from St. Louis, when he returned home
and was elected captain of company F, Ist Regiment,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Missouri State Guards, McBride’s division in the
Confederate army. He was in the battles of Wil-
son Creek, Drywood and Lexington. In 1862 he
resigned, returned to his home and engaged in farin-
ing until 1864. In the latter year he went to Wyan-
dotte, Kansas, where he remained about one year in
a dry goods store as clerk. He then went to Put-
nam county, Indiana, where he remained until May,
1867, when he returned to Waynesville and resumed
the practice of law, and also engaged infarming.

In November, 1875, he was elected judge of the
circuit court for 18th Judicial‘ Circuit of Missouri,
which position he now holds. The Judge, it is hardly
necessary to say, is a Democrat, and for many years
has taken an active part in political affairs. He is a
member of the Baptist church, and is also a Mason.
He was married January 8, 1856, to Miss Nancy
McDonald, daughter of James A. McDonald, of St.
Louis county, Missouri, by whom he has had six
children, onlytwo of whom are living. Judge Hill
is a man of prepossessing appearance and of popular
address. As a lawyer, he bears the reputation of
being at the head of his profession in his section of
the state, and as a judge is dignified on the bench,
accurate and unbiased in his decisions, and univer-
sally respected.”

I-ION. GEORGE N. NOLAN.

KANSAS CITY.

Nolan to make the highest use of native and
acquired powers, ‘and to develop in himself a true
manhood. Hardship is the native soil- of self-reliance,
and in this soil he grew to strength and usefulness.
It may be said that he advanced in the world on tip-
toe, so quiet was he in his ambitious progress.

He was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, on the
16th of August, 1843. His parents, William Mc-
Mahon and Mildred (King) Nolan, were natives of
Kentucky,‘ and were respectively of Irish and Scotch

IT seems to have been the ambition of George N.

parentage.

George attended the country schools in his native
county until fifteen years of age, when he entered
Dodd’s High School in Shelbyville, Kentucky. He
remained in this institution for two and one-half
years, when he joined the Confederate army. He

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was engaged until 1862 principally in recruiting vol-
unteers, after which he was in active service as a
soldier. He was first attached to the squadron of
Captain George Jesse, which belonged to General
Humphrey Marshall’s cavalry force. His squadron
was captured at Pine Mountain, in East Tennessee,
in the fall of 1862, whence they were taken to Cum-

berland Gap, as prisoners, under General George

Morgan. In a short time the prisoners were paroled
and exchanged, and immediately made their way
back to'Knoxville, Tennessee, where they joined the
Confederate forces under General Bragg and marched
to Frankfort, Kentucky, reachingithere the day of the
inauguration of Hawes as the Confederate Governor.

Mr. Nolan was attacked with typhoid pneumonia
and prostrated so that he was prevented re-joining the

army for several months. Upon his recovery he

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joined General Pegram’s force at Danville. After
many adventurous escapes from capture by the
Federal forces, in whose lines he was, he joined
Company C, Colonel Cluke’s Regiment of the 8th
Kentucky Cavalry, under General John H. Morgan,
the great Confederate cavalry chieftain 3 under this
leadership he fought in the most exciting and eventful
campaign of the war, accompanying him into Ohio
on the great raid. He, with others, was captured at
Tupper’s Plains, by a detachment of the zoth Ohio
Cavalry, after the fight at Buffington Island, where
about one-third of the force under the immediate
command of Brigadier-General Basil Duke was cap~
tured. Mr. Nolan and his fellow prisoners were
taken to Marietta, Ohio, and kept a few days, when
they were removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and placed
in Kemper Barracks, then in McLean Barracks under
charge of Captain Means. After a few weeks they
were taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, near Columbus.
Before leaving McLean Barracks, he with several
others had made arrangements to effect an escape by
tunneling from the. cellar, but were thwarted, unwit-
tingly, by being moved away a few hours too soon.
Upon reaching Camp Chase they set to Work to
escape, a.nd finally after three weeks, on the night of
September 19, 1863, he, with sixteen others, escaped
by a tunnel dug with a case knife, going out at the
south end of prison three. He made his way to Ken
tucky and joined a small squad of Morgan’s cavalry
that had been cut off from the main force in the pas-
sage through the state to Ohio. Many a lively. and
daring skirmish with the Kentucky home-guards and
Federal scouts marked the career of this little squad
through the fall, and into the winter, of 1863-4,
when the principal part of them were captured by a
superior force. Nolan escaped across the Ohio river
into Indiana, by a perilous skiff ride through slush
ice, whence he made his way to Jacksonville, Illinois,
where, in February, 1864, he entered Illinois College,
and remained until the summer vacation, which he
passed in Louisiana, Mo., with his “chum,” after-
wards Hon. N. C. Hardin. From there he went to
Pawnee City, Nebraska, and entered the Nehama
Valley Seminary, where he pursued his studies and
taught enough to pay his board and tuition.

In the summer of 1865 he made a short visit to
his Kentucky home, and in September of the same
year he located in Jackson, county, Mo. He taught
in Professor Huffaker’s high school for a few months
and then accepted the principalship of Lone Jack
Seminary.

In 1867 Mr. Nolan was admitted to the practice
of law by the circuit court of Jackson county, but
a combination of circumstances, over which he had
no control, prevented him from remaining in the legal

profession longer than fourteen months.

He served as chief deputy for several years in the
office of the circuit clerk of Jackson county. In
1875 he was elected secretary of the Constitutional
Convention of Missouri, by a vote of 37 to 26, over
the Hon. R. A. Campbell, of St. Louis. Returning
home after the convention, he resumed his duties in
the circuit clerk’s office, where he remained until
nominated by acclamation, in the primary conven-
tion of his party, as their candidate for the legislature,
over two honorable opponents, and was elected by
an increased majority over his predecessor.

At the organization of the 29th General Assem-
bly',"”in the caucus of his party he was nominated
by acclamation for Speaker, pro fem, which position
he still holds (I878.) In politics he is, and has ever
been, a Democrat. ,

In November 3, 1870, Mr. Nolan married Miss
Nellie C. Price, of Westport, Mo., daughter of
Edmund. and Emeline A. Price, a Virginia family,
Who emigrated to Missouri in 1840. Mr. and Mrs.
Nolan have three children: Whitfield" Price, born
March 31, 1872; George McMahon, born April I2,
1874 3 and a baby daughter, Nellie, born January 12,
1877.

On the 1st day of May, 1877, Mr. Nolan resumed
the profession of law in Kansas City, and by strict
attention to business’ and a jealous regard for the
rights of his clients and the zealous exercise of his
talents, has secured a large and liberal practice. At
the same time he has placed himself high in the esti-
mation of his professional brethren as a gentleman of
fine culture and elevated taste, forcible in argument
and a deep thinker. He is very popular, not alone
for his public spirit and rank as a statesman, but for
his many high social qualities. His personal acquain-
tance is very extensive and he has won for himself
many devoted friends, not only in professional and
social, but also among state legislators with whom he
has labored. At the adjournment of the 29th Gen-
eral Assembly of the state of Missouri, April 30,
1877, his fellow—1ne1nbers presented him, as Speaker,
pro /em., with an elegant and costly cane, appropri-
ately engraved. The presentation speech was made
by Hon. L. F. Cottey, of Knox county, in the fol-
lowing beautiful remarks:

Mr. Speaker, having obtained the floor, I may be

428 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIBY.

excused if on this occasion I depart a little from the
established parliamentary usages and address my
remarks for a few moments to your -worthy associate,
the Hon. Speaker, pm 23772., and, in doing so, I trust
I will not be regarded as indulging in any undue or
irregular personalities when I say to the Hon. George
N.- Nolan, of Jackson county, that his friends have
directed and instructed me to give him a nice little
cane(ing) on this occasion.

Mr. Speaker, pro z‘em., permit me, sir, in behalf
of your friends, to present you with this cane as a
slight token of the friendship and high personal regard
they bea.r toward you as a gentleman, and also as a,
faint testimonial of their very high appreciation of the
manner in which you have discharged the duties of
the office of Speaker pro mm. of this House. Called as
you were from among the youngest members of the
House to this high and important position—you* have
discharged your duties as such officer in a manner
highly creditable to yourself, and I may say with
entire satisfaction to every member of this body.
Sir: It is a source of infinite satisfaction and pleasure
to your friends here, and now in the closing hours of
our deliberations to be able to give you this recogni-
tion of merit. This cane is not a thing of much
val1iE——nor would we have you prize it for any nomi-
nal value there is in it—but rather on account of the
pleasant memories and happy associations connected
with this, the Twenty-ninth General Assembly.

Intended, as it is, as a support for the body—
while in this respect it may be of some service to you
—yet may the thought that has promoted the donors
ever prove a source of satisfaction, encouragement
and support to you in your walk through life.

Impelled by this simple token of past duty well per‘-
formed, may you be enabled to Walk still higher in
your political life, until your proudest ambition shall
have been fully realized.

Again, for your friends, congratulating you on.

your past success as a public officer, and wishing you
much success in your future life, I now, in behalf ‘of
your friends, present you with this testimonial of
their highest regard.

This pleasing testimonial was totally unexpected
by Mr. Nolan, which rendered it all the more agree-
able. He received the gift in the following words: 

Gentlemen of the House of _Representatives of
the ‘Twenty—ninth General Assembly,‘ I accept this
testimonial of esteem at your hands with feelings of
pride. It is a ‘proud satisfaction to know, as I ‘am
informed, that in this offering I have the symbol of
of your friendship, that strong support which we
dependent mortals need to lean upon through life.
I entertain for you, gentlemen, one and all, senti4
ments of the highest regard and friendship. Our
association here has been of the most pleasant char-
acter, and when I have presided over your delibera-
tions, I have tried to preside with the strictest impar-
tiality and fairness, and if there" have been errors
committed they have been errors of the head and not
of the heart. If there has been a word spoken by
myself upon this floor or elsewhere that marred the
feelings of any gentleman, it was not spoken in
malice, and is now forever hushed in the bond of
good fellowship. I shall cherish and preserve this
souvenir throughout life as an earnest of the friend-
ship here formed. Gentlemen, I thank you

HON. GEORGE HOWELL SHIELDS.

ST. LOUIS.

HERE is in the development of every success-
T ful life a principle which is a lesson to every
man following in its footsteps——a lesson leading to
higher and more honorable position than the ordi-
nary. What stamps that principle as a beacon is the
patent fact that success is not always in the propor-
tion of capacity, nor failure always caused by a nat-
ural paucity of intellect or advantages. But in the
pertinacious following of a path or policy, in the
steady and determined plodding toward honorable
renown, in industrial zeal and patient waiting-in
these, as often if not oftener than otherwise, is found
the cause of success. Let a man be industriously
ambitious and honorable in his ambitions, and he
will rise, whether having the prestige of family or

the obscurity of poverty. Butwhere fair average
ability is found in the boy, industrious application,
generous impulses and honorable aims in the man’s
growing life—that man will win, not by the favora-
ble turn of fortune’s wheel, but by the vigorous grasp
of determined manhood which takes bold hold of
that wheel and turns it to his purpose. We are led
to these refiections by a study of the life of the sub-
ject of this sketch.

George Howell Shields was born in Bardstown,
Nelson county, Kentucky, June 19, 1842, and was
the son of George W. and Martha (Howell) Shields.
His mother was the eldest daughter of Major D. S.
Howell, one of the pioneers of Kentucky and for
many years a prominent citizen of Nelson county.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 429

Major Howell’s wife was a Miss Shipp, whose fam-
ily name figures conspicuously and honorably on the
American rolls in the Revolutionary war. George
W. Shields was a civil engineer by profession, who,
after constructing many of the leading turnpike
roads in Kentucky, surveyed the first railroad in
Louisiana and Mississippi. After his removal to
Missouri, in 1844, he engaged in the beef and pork
packing business in Hannibal until 1861, during
which time he was elected mayor of that city for
seven terms.

George Howell enjoyed all the facilities of such
common schools as that early day afforded in Mis-
souri, and in I854 entered the freshman class in
Westminster College, at Fulton, Missouri——then the
best college in the state——under President S. S.’ Laws.
When at school his ambition was not satisfied with
anything short of excellence, and he generally stood
at the head of his classes, especially in the higher
mathematics and languages. But, unfortunately, in
February, 1861, ‘owing to his father’s failure, he was
compelled to leav_e college at the middle of the
sophomore year.

Determined on an independent course, George
at once entered upon the study of law. In July,
1861, he became connected with the Daily Jfamzilral
Press ; in a few months he was made chief editor of
the paper. This was a staunch Union journal and
largely instrumental in molding public opinion favor-
ably toward the administration of President Lincoln
in the government’s policy in the conduct of the war.
After the sale of the paper, Mr. Shields entered the
law office of Hon. William P. Harrison, at Hanni-
baleone of the best lawyers in North Missouri—
and studied with him until the fall of 1864, except
while both gentlemen were engaged in the United
States service in one of the provisional regiments of
Missouri troops, of which Mr. Harrison was lieuten-
ant—colonel and Mr. Shields a private.

In the fall of 1864 he entered the Louisville Law
School and graduated with honors in March, 1865.

_He began the practice of law in Hannibal in the

same year; was elected_city attorney by the Repub-
lican party, and was reelected three successive years,
the last two without opposition.

In 1866 his preceptor, who had a large practice,
was appointed and afterward elected judge of the 16th
judicial Circuit of Missouri, and gave into_ the hands
of his young successor his large docket. Although
a mere tyro in the profession, the young man car-
ried all the business through, never losing a client

' won the case.

and rarely a case. On this beginning his practice.
grew and prospered, till in 1870 he had the largest
practice in Northeast Missouri Mr. Shields was
first prominently brought into notice in 1866 as

lawyer in contested election cases for all the county .

officers in Marion county. As the election had been
held under the new constitution of 186 5, and very
bitterly contested, the interest of the public in the
cases was intense. Nine of the most prominent
lawyers in Northeast Missouri had been engaged by
the contestants. The Republicans "employed Mr.
Shields. This extreme mark of confidence in one so
young could have been no less than gratifying ; but
his inexperience caused Mr. Shields to employ assist-
ant counsel——evidencing that the usual effects of such
causes on young men of meagre abilities found no
place of imprint on this young man’s brain ; he had
theiidiscernment, so rare in youthful professionals, to
discover he could yet learn. At his suggestion, Mr.
james Carr, attorney for the Hannibal & St. Joseph
Railroad Company, was employed. On the day. set
for hearing, the court house was crowded with the
prominent men of both parties in the county. Mr.
Shields made aimotion to dismiss the cases, as
improperly brought, and argued his points alone.
After a long and bitter discussion the motion was
sustained. Mr. Carr at once accorded to his young
colleague all the credit of the motion, and publicly
commended his legal genius. From that hour Mr.
Shields commanded a large business. It was the
case that made him, professionally, and stamped him
permanently as one of Missouri’s good lawyers.

In 1868 he was employed by the Republicans
to contest the election of county officers in Ralls
county. After a long and earnest contest, going
three times to the ‘supreme court of the state, he
In this suit he was opposed by Judge
Redd, judge Dryden and the law firm of Sharp &
Broadhead.

If Mr. Shields has any special taste and forte in
his profession, it has been in criminal practice, equity
cases and for corporation law, especially railroad and
insurance law.

In 1870 Mr. Shields was elected to the 26th
General Assembly of Missouri, from Marion county,
being the only “straight” Republican elected in the
county. He was unknown among the legislators of
his state, and himself . as little acquainted with legis-
lative proceedings. But keeping a quiet watch on
every act, he directly familiarized himself perfectly
with the regular business, and soon took high rank

was defeated.

430 TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGIEAPIJZCAL DICTZO./VARY.

in parliamentary debate. His compeers say of him
that his record that session gave great promise of
future usefulness to his state. He was a member of
the judiciary committee, and was also made chair-
man of the committee on constitutional amendments.
During the session of 1872, so high was the place he
held in the esteem of his fellow-members that he
was, although a Republican, elected by the Demo-
cratic House one of the managers of the impeach-
ment of judge Lucas.

In the fall of 1872 Mr. Shields was nominated
by the Republicans of Missouri for judge of the
supreme court of the state, on the ticket with Gen-
eral John B. Henderson for governor, but the ticket
In 1873 he moved to St. Louis and
formed a law partnership with General john B.
Henderson, which firm still continues.

In 187 5, not having resided in the city two years,
he was elected a member of the constitutional con-
vention, being one of the seven Republicans in that
body. He served on the judiciary committee, on
the committee on education, and was chairman of
the committee on railroad taxation. In this conven-
tion, composed of some of the oldest and ablest
lawyers of the State, Mr. Shields stood high as a
debater and as a constitutional lawyer.

In 1876 he was elected by his fellow-citizens one
of the board of commissioners to frame the new
charter for the city, under the legislative enactment
separating the city from the county. This was a
Democratic body, but they elected Mr. Shields their
president. While there was bitter hostility in both
parties of the county and city to this “ scheme and
charter movement,” all now agree as to its wisdom
and utility, and to the genius and labors of the pres-
ident of the board both parties to-day attribute in a
great measure the excellent municipal government
under which St. Louis is now prospering. He is at
present (1877) chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee.

As a politician, Hon. George H. Shields stands
high and very promising throughout the state. Being
yet a young man, a broad and inviting field of use-
fulness opens out before him, while as a lawyer, and
one of the youngest at the bar, he has already
achieved a success and honorable name rarely
acquired after a life-service in that arduous profes-
sion. A gentleman of high standing in the profes-
sion in St. Louis makes the following honorable
mention of the subject of this sketch:

“ He has by rare ability and an invincible indus-

try pushed his way into the foremost rank of the
profession. He is of a practical cast of mind,.1ntu1-
tively just, sagacious in method and profound in the
knowledge of the law. The rectitude of his ambi-
tion protects him against acts of doubtful propriety
and has placed his name among the brightest of the
lawyers of the state. He is cool and deliberate in
practice and possesses a well defined theory of the
case under his management.” '

Speaking of him socially, it has been said of him:

“ Of Mr. Shields’ social qualities his friends can
speak with enthusiasm. He possesses a fine sense
of honor and all his acts are inspired by liberal and
generous principles. Tenacious of his own convic-
tions, he extends the broadest indulgence to the
views of others. He is urbane in demeanor, of ripe
culture and fills the full measure of an honorable
gentleman.”

Another eminent professional brother, in St.
Louis, speaking of his legal qualities and attain-
ments, says:

“Notwithstanding the prominence and success
which have marked Mr. Shields’ career in public and
political places, yet he appears best at the bar, and
his qualification for other positions has been the
result of training gained in a successful practice of
the law. Associated in business with ex-Senator
john B. Henderson, whom the bar generally recog-
nize as the most accomplished lawyer in the state,
he has had ample scope and opportunity for the
developmentof his powers as well as the benefit 0:
contact with a disciplined and cultured mind.

“Mr. Shields in the investigation of legal ques-
tions seems to proceed with great caution; he is sens-
ible enough to say he ‘don’t know,’ and to ask
time to investigate, so when he gives an opinion it
commands the confidence of his clients and generally
receives the sanction of the courts. In his presenta-
tion of cases, he has something better than oratory—
which only excites admiration——he has candor and
perspicuity of statement, with great earnestness of
manner; he strives to show how convinced he is
himself of the truth of his facts and of the justice of
his conclusions, and in this way rarely fails to impart
his own conviction to his hearers. '

“Mr. Shields is filled with an ambition to do
honor to his profession, and expects honor in return.
He is what might fairly be called a devoted lawyer.
It is no praise to say of him that he is earning and
will soon enjoy a proud position in the front rank of
the great lawyers of the West.”

These are high encomiums, but the early success
of George H. Shields, as politician, as lawyer and in
the social circle,‘ surely indicate their justness. And
as the sure means to an honorable name and distinc-
tion, we recommend the qualities to others.

While,Mr. Shields, in Hannibal and in St. Louis,
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many of the promising public enterprises, he has
confined his energies and talents to the legitimate
practice of his profession. He is of an old and
strict Presbyterian family, himself strictly moral and
through life unusually free from the vices so common
in society. In politics he is sometimes termed “the
black sheep of the flock,” being the only Republican
in an old and influential Democratic family. He is
conservative but pronounced in his views, never
bigoted, bitter nor extreme. There has been no
change in his politics, though his views are often
modifiediby investigation, and he never allows his
party fealty to lead to favoring wrongs. Believing
that patriotism and intelligence go hand in hand, he

favors general education at public expense; is in
favor of a liberal and judicious system of public
improvement by the national government 3 his finan-
cial views tend to the preserving of the public credit
intact, to funding the national debt at a lower rate
of interest in long bonds, and to the restoration to our
legal currency of the old silver dollar of “our fathers.”

In February, 1866, George H. Shields was mar-
ried to Mary H., eldest daughter of Rev. John
Leighton, a Presbyterian minister of unusual ability,
who preached for thirty years in Palmyra and Han-
nibal, Missouri. They have two children living—a
boy and girl—having lost their oldest son by death
in 1868.

PLANKINTON & ARMOURS.

IYAIVSAS CITY.

UST below the mouth of the Kaw, on the outer
rim of the great bend of the Missouri river, as it
takes its abrupt turn to the east across the state

of Missouri, for its junction with the Mississippi,
stand the principal packing houses of the “New
West.” Geographically their location is perfect,
being situated just where the great railway lines con-
verge,along which the cattle and hogs from 1 21,000,-
ooo acres of the most prolific corn and grass lands
of this continent must find their way to market.
Upon these millions of acres tributary to Kansas
City, according to the most careful estimates, there
were,‘ January I, 1878, more than 6,000,000 cattle
and nearly 5,ooo,ooo hogs. Kansas City, by reason
of her proximity to these grazing grounds and her
superior facilities for shipments, has become the
greatest cattle market of the continent; as a hog
market_ she is rapidly coming to the front, and her
immense stock yards necessarily afford unrivaled
advantages as a purchasing market for packers.
The Kansas City packing houses, lying contiguous
to these stock yards, in the same river bottom with
them, have at all times the benefit of a first class
supply market at their own doors, an advantage quite
apparent in the superior quality of their beef and
pork products. Among the packing houses at this
point, Plankinton & Armours’ takes the decided
lead, having a capacity nearly if not quite equal to
all the others combined. Few larger pork packing
55

houses are to be found east or west ; it has the larg-
est beef packing capacity. of any establishment in
the world, and with their immense houses at Mil-
waukee and Chicago, and their New York com-
mission house, entitles them to rank as the largest
packing house in Europe or America. The Kansas
City house was established in 1870 3 the firm renting
for the season of 1870-71, the new stone house of
Nofsinger & Co. In the spring of 1871 they broke
ground upon their present location, near the Kansas
and Missouri state. line, a short distance above Nof-
singer’s, and erected their first building, I6oXI8o
two stories and a basement. Here they conducted
operations during the season of 1871-72, slaughter-
ing 25,800 cattle and 3o,ooo hogs. In 1873 they

"doubled their capacity for business, erecting a build-

ing 144x192 feet, same height as the first, having an
ice-house with a capacity of five hundred hogs a day,
and also doubled their business, the season 1872-73
being most prosperous, though the proportion of
cattle to hogs was not so great as in the previous
one. The panic of 1873-74 embarrassed the pack-
ing business very greatly; in addition to this the
grasshopper ravages of 1874-75 destroyed large areas
of the corn and grass product of those years, and
decreased the number of live stock put upon the
Kansas City market by at least 75,000 head per
annum. Despite hard times, general panic and
grasshoppers, the packing house of Plankinton .&

432 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAR-Y.

Armours continued to do a fair amount of business,
and in 1875 disposed of 21,500 head of cattle and
8o,ooo hogs. The number of cattle slaughtered by
them from 1871 to 1875, inclusive, was Ioo,ooo
head, valued at $2,500,000, the pork product was
nearly twice as great, the whole aggregating $6,476,-
030, for the first five years of their operations at this
point. _

They had now felt the pulse of the western
country, and found it regular, full and strong. The
cessation of the grasshopper plague gave promise of

i a speedy increase in the number of live stock that

would be offered in market ; the tide of immigration
setting into Kansas and the adjacent territory would
necessarily be followed by a great increase in the
hog product of that region, and the big packing
house felt that it must again enlarge its borders.
In 1876 the firm decided upon an improvement
by which the packing season could be continued
throughout the year, as well as from November to
March, and built an ice—house 102x185 feet, three
stories high, tearing down the old ice—house erected
in 1873. The walls of this building are three feet
thick, chambered for the free circulation of air; the
upper story, twenty—five feet deep, has a capacity of
Io,ooo tons of ice. Downward _through this young
iceberg the cool air is forced into the rooms below

by a process known as Fisher’s patent, and a low

temperature sustained in the very. hottest weather,
which renders summer packing as safe an operation
as winter work, the only question being that of ice.
This same year, 1876, an addition 7ox1oo feet, two
stories and a basement, was made to the building of
1873, several smoke houses were erected and vari-
ous improvements of a minor character effected, not
necessary to catalogue. In 1877 ice house No. 2
was built, same ground size as No. 1, but one story
higher, giving an additional story below the ice-
room, with no increased difficulty in the way of
refrigeration. The storing of these 2o,ooo tons of
solid coolness can be accomplished with two endless
chains and two gigs in about seven days of ten hours
each, or at the rate of three thousand tons per day.
The ice is carefully dressed with an adz, so that the
blocks lie evenly and compactly together, no spaces
between them, and thus layer after layer is built up
until the tier is completed, the hatches closed, and

.the little slice of the North Pole left to refrigerate

the packing operations of a summer. In addition
to the 20,000 tons of ice thus provided for, the out-
side houses, built at various times, have room for as

much more, the whole affording stowage for 4o,ooo
tons of crystallized refrigerant. In 1878 an addition
7ox12o feet was made to one of theearlier buildings,
and. is to be used as a rendering room. The solid
buildings of this establishment—heavy stone founda-
tions and brick walls—cover an area of a little over
two and a half acres; the offices, smoke-houses,
wooden ice-houses, saw—mills and docks as much
more, the entire ground occupied being fifteen acres.
VVhen working up to its full capacity, this immense
packing house requires the labor of six hundred
men, engines of one ‘hundred. and sixty-five horse
power, and takes care of 1,000 head of cattle and
4,000 hogs a day. In slack times this force is greatly
reduced, half the power and two hundred men suf-
ficing for a business ‘of one thousand hogs daily.
The engines are four in number, the largest of eighty
horse-power, is used in handling beef and running
the large saws, the others, of forty, thirty and fifteen
horse-power, respectively, are utilized in handling
pork. Hogs are put through in one, two, three
order. From the killing room, through the scalding
vats, down the scraping table under the hand of
the ripper, past slippery Sam with his hose-pipe into
the hanging—roo1n, is but the work of amoment.
Two or three hours for the animal heat to pass of is

_ the extent in warm weather, and the doors of the

cooling room open to receive the carcass. The per-
fect cleanliness of the whole establishment is one of
its marked features 3 no offensive odor is perceptible,
and the utmost order, regularity and system prevails.
One walks for hours through these vast cellars, as
through the galleries and chambers of some silent
mine 3 door after door opens noiselessly as he

approaches and closes as silently when he passes ;

around him he masses of pork in layers of dry salt ;
occasionally in some gallery he. meets a solitary
barrow—man or stumbles on a group at work, until

the eye, gradually accustomed to the darkness,
‘eXpan‘d/s“-and sees everywhere the same order, the

same system, the same cleanliness; all so quietly
managed that when at last he emerges into day and

recalls his subterranean journey he finds it imp_ossi— I

ble to realize that through those doors a ceaseless
procession of pork has been passing at the rate of
one hog a minute for every hour of the working day
during the past twelve months. The amount has
been even greater than this, from November, 1877,
to date—]une I5, 1878——one hundred and seventy
thousand hogs and eighteen thousand cattle were
packed in this establishment. The hams and break-

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGI€API{ICAI. DICTIO./VARY. 433

fast bacon are pickled in pork casks, in making
pickle they use only the best Liverpool salt, the
finest quality of granulated sugar, and all other ma-
terials number one. In the double smoke house, of
which there are eleven, they can smoke, in clear dry

weather, a million pounds of meat per week. Their .

rendering room has a capacity for fifteen million
pounds of lard per annum, and were there sufficient
demand for beef tallow, enough to grease creation.
Bacon is put upon the market in dry salt or smoked,
packed in boxes; these boxes are manufactured by
the firm, and in this work they run their buzz saw
through“ two million feet of lumber every twelve
months. Their coop.erage costs them $60,000 ‘per
annum, and in makingpickle they use three thou-
sand tons of salt, six thousand pounds of saltpeter,
and a thousand barrels of sugar every year. They
also offer liberal inducements to some tin house to
undertake the manufacturing, in Kansas City, of the
necessary cans for packing lard, thus tending to

increase home consumption by building up home

industries that shall give employment_to home labor.
The value of their real estate, buildings and improve-
ments at this point is not less than $300,000 ; while
their pay rolls show $110,000 as their annual dis-
bursements for labor. Being thoroughly equipped
for summer packing they command the home market
during warm weather, their sales to the local trade
for the year aggregating thirty million pounds of
meat. Their products are very largely consumed at
home, only a small» portion of their meat being
offered in the foreign market. Beef is ‘packed in
barrels and tierces ;- of this the tiercie beef is shipped
abroad, the barrel beef is disposed of at home.
The great bulk of the pork and lard is shipped south
and west, and their brands are found in -every mar-
ket from San Francisco to New Orleans, or between
Mexico and the fortieth parallel of latitude. The
value of such an establishment to the carrying trade
of Kansas City and the stock growers of the West it
is impossible justly to estimate. Nearly eight hun-
dred and ten car loads of material for curing and
boxing meat were unloaded at their docks last year,
and at least four thousand car loads of live stock
were killed and packed during the same period.
This is simply freight received in which we have not
included cooperage, lard cans, or fuel.

It was said of the packing house at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, that within two years of its creation it had
added one-half a cent to the value of every pound
of pork in Central Iowa. It is doubtless true that

the large packing houses, by producing E1 market
nearer home for the'live stock that must otherwise
be shipped long distances to market, have not only
greatly increased the demand for cattle and hogs,but
have actually added an appreciable sum to the value
of every pound of weight. The addition of one-
fourth of a cent per pound to the value of the cattle
and hogs of the New West would enhance the aggre-
gate $Io,ooo,ooo. The buyers who give the stock
grower the best market at the least distance from his
farm or ranch, has multiplied his chances for profit,
and, by so much, increased his facilities for accumu-
lating wealth, and this is just the benefit conferred
upon the stock men of the New West by just such
establishments as this of Plankinton & Armours.

The firm of Plankinton & Armours was not
born, like Topsy it only “growed,” so gradual, yet
constant has been its increase in business and cap-
ital.

Thirty-five or forty years ago the senior member
of the firm, john Plankinton, the pioneer packer
of Milwaukee, came to that city from Pennsylvania,
and opened asmall butcher shop. This was several
years before Milwaukee was incorporated, and the
now beautiful and populous city was only a strag-
gling village. Here by honesty, economy, diligent
attention to business and good hard sense, Mr.
Plankinton’s trade increased, slowly at first, then
more rapidly, and the butcher shop gradually
developed into the packing house. I

In the meantime the Armour boys were growing
into manhood on the old farm in ' Madison county,
New York, where they were born. Their parents
were from Connecticut, where Mr. and Mrs. Armour
taught school previous to their marriage. Mrs.
Armour was a woman of exceptional intelligence,
rare judgment and caution, with great force of char-
acter. The father was a man of indomitable energy,
quite firm in his disposition, and of sterling integrity.
They were of Scotch-Irish descent, and admirably
blended those qualities of mind and heart which insure
success in life. The great prosperity which has attend-
ed their sons thus far is directly attributed to those
traits inherited by birth, and the training and discipline
of their early home. There were six boys, five of whom
are living. Though Mr. Armour’s farm was a large
one, his boys as they arrived at manhood one by one
left home, with the exception of the two eldest, to
seek their own fortune in the world. P. D. was the
first to leave the old homestead, which he did at
nineteen years of age, spending some time in Cali-

434 THE U./VITEDSTATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY.

fornia, when he returned east and entered into busi-
ness in Milwa.ukee. Here in 1864-5 he formed a
partnership with john Plankinton, which soon
greatly enlarged the capacity and capital of the old
pioneer packing house, now known as Plankinton
& Armour. Both Plankinton and Armour possess
inexhaustible business resources, and a courage for
immense operations which would border on temerity
were they otherwise than uniformly successful.

Their business increased so rapidly that it was
soon determined to establish a receiving house in
Chicago, and H. O. Armour, a brother of P. D.,
came west as a partner in the new house, of which
he assumed charge, conducting business about one
year, when the receiving house made way for the
large packing house which was then established
under the name of Armours & Co.—another
brother, J. F. Armour, being now received into the
Chicago firm’. The extensive operations of these
large packing. houses rendered a commission house
a necessity, and H. O. Armour went to New York
City,. where he established the general commission
house of the firm, of which he is the efficient head.
The Chicago packing house has an immense capacity
for pork, can handle four thousand five hundred
hogs in a day, a year’s work being eight hundred
thousand head. . i

There were more Armours left, and the grand
opening for a packing house in the metropolis of the
Missouri Valley was not to be overlooked. Accord-

ingly in 1870 Mr. S. B. Armour, who was engaged
in business in Central New York, closed out his
operations there and came to Kansas City in Sep-
tember of that year. The establishment of which
we give a description above was addedto the list of
the Plankinton & Armours’ houses, entitling them
to rank as the first packing firm in the World.

The members of this firm are all married. S.
B. Armour, of Kansas City, was married in Oneida
county, New York, June 21, 1837, to Miss Margaret
Klock. They have no children, but one of Mr. Ar-
mour’s nephews is taking the place of a son in his
family and in his business. Mrs. Armour isa mem-
ber of the Second Presbyterian church of Kansas
City, and with her husband was warmly attached to
her old pastor, Dr. Cheever, who died during his
pastorate of this church," greatly lamented by his
parish. She is one of the most active members of
the Womens’ Christian Association, very generous
in her contributions,.giving much of her time and
energies to the work of the association. Mr. Armour
has a fine residence on Broadway, is a man in the
prime of life, of genial temperament and affable
manners, yet strongly marked with the native caution
of his race. ‘I,

The firm has always been most liberal in dona-
ting to public charities , they are deeply interested in

the welfare of Kansas City, giving efficient aid to

all enterprises tending to increase the prosperity or
promote the interests of the municipality.

HON. ]AMES 0. BROADHEAD.

ST. LOUIS.

OHN BROADHEAD, the paternal grandfather
of the subject of this sketch, emigrated
from Yorkshire, England, to America, during
the Revolutionary war, and settled in Albemarle
county, Virginia. He had three sons—Thomas,
William and Achilles. Achilles grew to manhood
in Albemarle county and held many important pub-
lic offices there. He married Miss Mary Winston
Carr, the descendant of an old and highly respect-
able Scotch family, who settled in Virginia at an
early period. Our subject was their oldest child;
afterwards was born Mary Ann (now Mrs. Newby,
of Wutherford, Texas); William; Elizabeth, now

Mrs. Logan, of Neosho, Missouri ; and Garland Carr
—afterwards state geologist of Missouri.

Achilles Broadhead moved to St. Charles county,
Missouri, in 1836, leaving our subject in Virginia.
The elder Mr. Broadhead died in I856_—his wife
died in 1852. The distinguishing traits of both par-
ents and their families were piety, public usefulness,
strict integrity, with other high mental and moral
characteristics. The children all exhibit the same
traits, and, in their practice, have made themselves
as honored as their parents,

James Overton Broadhead was born in',Char-
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1819. He was educated by his uncle, Dr. Frank
Carr, until the age of sixteen, receivingat the hands
of that accomplished and scholarly gentleman, a
thorough, classic training. In 183 5 he entered the
University of Virginia, an institution renowned for
the number and high character of its graduates, and
during his course there supported himself wholly by
his own exertions, he afterward taught a school
near Baltimore, Maryland. In 1837 he permanently
located in Missouri, and for several years studied
law under Hon. Edward Bates. In .1842 he was
licensed to practice law, by Judge Ezra Hurt, and
opened his office in Bowling Green, Missouri. The
circuit in which he practiced comprised the counties
of St. Charles, Lincoln, Pike, Ralls, Montgomery
and Warren. The eminent practitioners he had to
contend with in that bar demanded not only extra-
ordinary exertions, but extraordinary abilities, in a
young man entering upon a contest with such able
and popular lawyers ; but his success shows that he
was equal to the demand.

Mr. Broadhead was elected to the Constitution-
al Convention in 1845 from the 2nd Senato-
rial district of Missouri. In 1847 the Whig party
elected him to represent Pike county in the Mis-
souri legislature, in which canvass he defeated N.
P. Minor, Esq., over a strong Democratic majority.
In 1850 he was elected to the state senate from the
2nd district, and represented the counties of Pike
and Ralls. In his legislative career, Mr. Broadhead
indelibly recorded his name among the first of the
parliamentary debaters of Missouri, and established
an enviable popularity.

In 1859 he removed to St. Louis, where he
formed a law partnership with F. C. Sharpe, Esq.,
and rapidly secured a large and remunerative prac-
tice. At the St. Louis bar, Mr. Broadhead soon
gained prominence as a first-class lawyer.

When the unhappy differences between the North-
ern and Southern states culminated in war, Mr.
Broadhead unhesitatingly placed himself on the side
of the Union and its preservation, at all hazards.
In January, 1861, a critical crisis was upon Missouri,

and depending upon her action was indeed the entire I

Union. With the broad, comprehensive views natu-
ral to him, he readily took in the situation, and rec-
ognized the necessity of, first, saving the Union from
dismemberment; next, and necessary thereto, that
the border states should not secede , and, finally, to
prevent the latter, Missouri must be kept loyal.
Prompted no less by loyalty to the national govern

ment than to his own state and all the people of both
sections, Mr. Broadhead at once took strong -grounds
for securing Missouri against anychance of dragging
her into the meshes of secession. The legislature had
provided for the calling of a state convention in
April, 1861, and at the Verandah Hall meeting in
St. Louis, in February of that year, Mr. Broadhead,
with fourteen other Union men, was nominated a
delegate. They were elected by a large majority.
In that convention he boldly proclaimed the only
hope of saving the state and the Union to be prompt
and decisive measures. He was chairman of the
committee which, on the 30th of July, 1861, reported
in favor of vacating the offices of Governor, Lieuten-
ant-Governor and Secretary of State, and members
of the General Assembly. The next day the con-
vention supplied the place of the executive by the
electidn of Hamilton R. Gamble as Governor of the
provisional government.

Previous to this, had taken place (May I0,‘ 1861)
the celebrated capture of “Camp Jackson.” C. F.
Jackson was then Governor, and Brigadier-General
D. M. Frost in command of the Missouri volunteer
militia at the Camp, where, according to the state
law, they were in their annual encampment , but it
was presumed, on good grounds, that a major part
of the command were secessionists, and that General
Frost and Governor Jackson were conspiring to take
the state out of the Union, seize the government and
state munitions of war, take the arsenal and pro-
claim the state in the Confederacy. A letter from
General Frost to Governor Jackson, containing such
sentiments, was captured, and that letter confirmed
the fears of the loyalists.

In February, 1861, in accordance with the advice
of Hon. F. P. Blair, Mr. Broadhead and others, a
committee of safety was appointed, consisting of
leading citizens of St. Louis, for the purpose of rais-
ing volunteers and otherwise prepare for the support
of law, order and loyalty. The committee appointed
was: Oliver D. Filley, John How, James O. Broad-
head, Samuel T. Glover, J. J. Witzig and F. P.
Blair, Jr. In their entire’ work Mr. Broadhead was
conspicuous for his activity. Fortunately, the com-
mittee was composed of practical men who recog-
nized the necessity of prompt action and decisive
measures to maintain the honor and supremacy _of
the Union.
be strengthened and its enemies confounded—and
that at once. Mr. Broadhead "brought to this work
all the zeal of his nature, and in a short time there

The cause of the government had to_

436 THE ‘UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIBY.

were organized six full regiments. By special orders
of the President of the United States, the committee
of safety was recognized as legal and its acts declared
loyal and needful. The military commanders were
ordered to consult with its members and be guided
in matters of public safety, as the following will

show: I

ADJUTANT GENERAL’s OFFICE, i
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30, 1861.

SIR :—The President of the United States directs
that you enroll in the military service of the United
States the loyal citizens of St. Louis and vicinity, not
exceeding, with those heretofore enlisted, ten thou-
sand in number, for the purpose of maintaining the
authority of the United States, and for the protection
of the peaceable inhabitants of Missouri. And you
will, if deemed necessary by yourself and by Messrs.
Oliver D. Filley, John How, James O. Broadhead,
Samuel T. "Glover, J. J: Witzig and Francis P. Blair,
Jr., proclaim martial law in St. Louis. The addi-
tional force hereby authorized shall be discharged in
part or in whole, if enlisted, as soon as it appears to
you and the gentlemen above named that there is no
danger of an attempt on the part of the enemies of
the government-to take military -possession of the
city of St. Louis, or put the city in the control of a
combination against the government of the United
States, and whilst such additional force remains in
the service, the same shall be governed by the rules
and articles of war, and such special regulations as
you may prescribe, and shall, like the force hereto-
fore directed to be enrolled, be under your com-
mand. I am, sir, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,
L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

Captain NATHANIEL LYON, 2nd Infantry, Command-
ing St. Louis.

The military authorities then in command of the
United States troops at St. Louis refused to muster
into service these new recruits, on the plea that
there was no need of them. Captain Lyon was, at
the time, in command of the St. Louis arsenal
(under the orders of Brigadier-General Harney), and
was in sympathy with the committee of safety, who
kept constantly in communication with him. Early
on the morning of April 21, Captain’ Lyon sent to
Hon. Francis P. Blair the following:

ST. LOUIS ARSENAL, April 21, 1861.

DEAR SIR :—I have no authority for mustering
in troops for the government. This is very impor-

tant now, and before we are so. hemmed in that we.

cannot help ‘ourselves, which is doubtless the policy
ofour adversaries. * * * * N. LYON.
‘ [L A T E R . J ‘
ST. LOUIS ARSENAL, April 21, 1861.
Hon. FRANcIs P. BLAIR, JR.—
Dear Sir.-—I forgot, in writing you by Captain

Collamer, to mention that I have -authentic informa-
tion that Lieutenant John M. Schofield, Ist artillery,
who has for some time past been on leave of absence
in St. Louis, has received orders from Washington
to muster. volunteers into the United States service.
It would be well for some of your people to see and
consult with him at once. Something should be
done, if possible, to-day. LYON.

Immediately upon receipt of this latter note,
Messrs. Blair, Broadhead and others of the commit-
tee, started in search of Lieutenant Schofield, whom
they found at church, and himself being impressed
with the necessity of prompt action, went immedi-
ately with them to the arsenal to comply with his
instructions to muster in the volunteers. They were
mustered into the United States service ; but General
Harney refused to permit them to remain in the arse-
nal or to be armed. In consequence of this action,
the committee secured the removal of General Har-
ney, and on the evening of April 23 he left for
Washington. Lyon was now in command, and the
new troops were armed and equipped, Upon the
advice of Mr. Broadhead and others of the commit-
tee, Lyon determined upon immediate action -to
secure the state from its enemies and their machina-
tions to wrest it from the Union.

The capture of Camp Jackson was the first fruits
of this coup a”z’z‘a2‘ of the committee. The Union
men were jubilant 3 law and order prevailed; Mis-
souri was saved to the Union, and her example fol-
lowed by the border states. These facts constitute
part of the unwritten history of the war; but they
are well authenticated. Looking back at the critical
condition of the government in the early part of
1861, the importance of these prompt proceedings
assume immense proportions. What Mr. Broadhead
accomplished in the preservation of the Union in
this movement may now be understood and appreci-
ated, but it can never be fully estimated.

During the first year of the war, Mr. Broadhead
was appointed Provost—Marshal General of the De-
partment comprising Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas,
the Indian Territory and the lower portion of Iowa.
In the same year he was appointed United States
District Attorney for the eastern district of Missouri,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Asa Jones,
Esq. Other duties, however, compelled him to
resign in six months.

In 1875 he was elected a member of the Consti-
tutional Convention which framed the present organic
law of the state. He took a leading part in its delib-
erations, at its close he resumed his professional

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

practice in St. Louis, and has since given that his
entire attention. But as lawyer, legislator or sol-
dier, he has certainly gained right to a place among
“ the eminent men of Missouri,” and of the Union.
A well-known gentleman of high standing adds this
tribute to the subject of this sketch:

“As a lawyer, it is no disparagement to the
other eminent leaders who adorn the bar of Mis-
souri, to say that Colonel Broadhead stands second
His genial nature’ has won for him the
personal good-will of his professional brethren, and
their confidence in his integrity, ability and fairness
is attested by the frequency with which he is called
on, by other lawyers, as adviser and counselor in
important cases. Theclearness and force of his
opinions, fortified, as they nearly always are, by a

- careful reference to authority, give him a great influ-

ence with the courts, and the most important con-
troversies are often "settled upon the strength of his
judgment as an advocate.

“His treatment of younger attorneys is marked
by a spirit of kindness and forbearance, and the
manly dignity of his presence, the unassuming sim-

4.37

plicity of his manners, and the inflexible devotion to
fair play, which characterizes his entire conduct,
constituteihim one of those great men who do not
lose their prestige by contact and personal acquaint-
ance. A _

“He was the choice of the Missouri delegation
for president in the convention of 1876, and his
eminent fitness for this proudest office in the gift of
the people will be more widely recognized whenever
the Democratic party has occasion to put forward
the man best fitted for President, rather than the
man who may be regarded as the most available
candidate. That he will yet be President of the
United States is the belief and the wish of those
who know him best.” -

«r In 18— Mr. Broadhead was married to Miss
Mary E. ‘Dorsey, a native of Maryland, and an
accomplished and [estimable lady, daughter of Ed-
ward W. Dorsey, who was a brother of Thomas B.
Dorsey, one of the judges of the court of appeals of
Maryland. The family consists of three children:
Chas. S. Broadhead, Mary W. and =Nannie‘ D.
Broadhead. '

JUDGE JAMES HARRIS.

COLUMBIA.

AMES HARRIS, a younger brother of the Hon.
John W. Harris and son_ of Overton Harris,
some notice of whom is found in the biography

of J. W. Harris, was ‘born in Boone county, Missouri,
.May I7, I818. He was the second of a family of
seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of
whom lived to attain their majority, and in the fol-
lowing order of seniority: John W., James, Mar-
tha Ryland, who married John M. Maupin, of Boone

county, William Anderson, of Cedar county, Sarah-

Elizabeth, who married George Hunt, of Callaway
county, and who died in 1843, Mary Francis, who

married Thomas B. Harris, of Calloway county, and -

Overton M., of Pettes county, all of them useful and
respectable citizens in their various callings and posi-
tions in life.

James, the subject of this sketch, received such
an education as was afforded by the common schools
in Missouri at that day.’ He studied the art of sur-
veying, and was at one time Deputy United States
Surveyor, and surveyed many of the public lands in
Missouri preparatory to bringing them into market.
He was elected several times to the responsible office

of county surveyor of Boone county, the duties of
which position he discharged with great credit to him-
self and satisfaction to the people. Soon after attain-
ing twenty-one years of age, and prompted by that
spirit of adventure common to the young men of the
West, he visited Texas, with a view, if pleased, of mak-
ing it his permanent home. The country was new, and
generally settled at that early day, by an adventur-
ous and improvident people, and finding the state of
public morals far below the standard which he antic-

, ipated, he had the manhood to return to his native

county where the surroundings were more_favorable
to the development of elevated moral character, and
where he determined to settle and seek that position
among men, and that personal contentment which
honest industry, energy and enterprise seldom fails to
bring. As a general rule Judge Harris entertains the
opinion that it is best for young men to settle down
in'business where they were raised, and “fight the

battle of life there,” than to risk the uncertain chan— '

ces of success in a new country and amongst stran-
gers. Judge Harris has therefore been all his life a
resident and citizen of Boone county, and we do not

438 TIIE. U./VITED STATES BIOGIEAPIIICAL DICTIOIVARY.

exaggerate when we say that no man is more highly
respected by his neighbors and fellow citizens, or who
has exerted through life a wider and more beneficent
influence for good than he has done. Judge Harris
throughout life has been the warm and efficient friend
of education, and when a Very young man was an
active advocate for the location of the State Univer-
sity in the county of his nativity. Although at that
time possessing very slender means, he subscribed
liberally toward the attainment of this noble object,
and was prompt in paying what he had subscribed.
But he has not confined himself to the promotion of
any single good cause. He has been a reliable
friend and leader in all those enterprises which were
calculated to develop the country, and add to the
social and moral progress of society. At an early
period of life he became a member of the Baptist
church, thus adopting the religion of his fathers, and
has ever been a leading and useful member of that
large denomination of Christians in Missouri, and has
honored himself by his liberal pecuniary contribu-
tions in building up a number of the prosperous
denominational institutions in Missouri.

Although not a seeker after office, nor in any
sense a professional politician, he has not neglected
his duties to his country. He was born aWhig. We
may say that he belonged to an extensive Whig fam-
ily, and whilst that great party had an existence and
was led and controlled by such statesmen and patri-
ots as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, he was an
earnest and efficient co-laborer in the ranks. He has
repeatedly served the people of Boone county in the
legislature of the state, and always giving the utmost

satisfaction to all his constituents. He was also for
eight years a member of the county court of Boone
county, a most important office, and whilst he was
upon the bench the business interests of the county
were watched with care, and most admirably man-

aged. To Judge Harris, asmuch and perhaps more

than to any other man, we are indebted for the
excellent credit and fair name of Boone county
among the various counties of the state. I
Judge Harris has devoted himself to farming and
stock raising and has been successful in-both pursuits
as any intelligent person visiting his hospitable and

splendid home eight miles southeast of Columbia, will

soon discover. -

On the 5th day of December, 1848, Judge Harris
was united in marriage with Miss Sabra B. Jackson,
daughter of Judge Wade M. Jackson, of Howard
county, and niece of Claiborne F. Jackson, at one
time Governor of Missouri. To this marriage there

have been born thirteen children, seven girls and six.

boys, all of whom are living, and the last two being
twins.

Although enjoying reasonably good general health
for several years Judge Harris has had a rheumatic
affection in one of his legs, which has compelled him

to give up in some degree his large business enter-'

prises. He spends most of his time at his pleasant
and delightful home, in the bosom of his interesting
family, surrounded by every comfort, enjoying the
confidence and respect of his neighbors and friends,
and imparting to his promising children that knowl-
edge and wisdom gathered from a large practical ex-
perience and an extensive intercourse with mankind.

GENERAL COLLEY B. HOLLAND.

SPRINGFIELD.

OLLEY B. HOLLAND was born in Robertson
C county, Tennessee, August 24, 1816. His
father, Lawson Holland, and his mother, whose
maiden name was Sarah Brooke, were born and
raised in Virginia, and removed to Tennessee in
about the year 1800. His grandfather, Dudley
Brooke, distinguished himself in the war of the
Revolution, serving seven years, and‘ lived to the
age of ninety two, and delighted to relate to his
grand-children the reminiscences of those eventful

times. He was also one of the most expert horse-
back riders in Tennessee, and even after arriving at
the age of eighty, often rode fifty miles a day, from
his residence in Robertson county to Nashville and
back to draw his pension. He had no enemies, and
was universally beloved. _

Colley B. Holland had no early educational train-
ing, never having attended school but a few months,
and when married could scarcely write his name.
At the age of ten he began to learn the trade of a

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tailor in Columbia, Tennessee, and at sixteen, in
Nashville, where he worked at his trade, received
journeyman’s wages. After leaving Nashville he
removed to the village of Cross Plains, Tennessee,
where he continued the business of tailoring, and
before arriving at the age of nineteen, married Miss
Emeline H. Bigbee, March 23, 1835. His health
failing from overwork, he was compelled to abandon
his trade.

In May, 1836, Governor Cannon, of Tennessee,
called for two regiments of volunteers for the purpose
of compelling the Creek and Cherokee Indians to
submit to the treaty and to their removal to the far
West, to which call Mr. Holland responded as a vol-
unteer, and was mustered in as a non—commissioned
officer of Captain L. ]. Henry’s Company 2d Regi-
ment of Tennessee Volunteers. The enrollment of
these regiments had the effect desired, and the Indians
were removed to the reservation without a fight.

While encamped at Montgomery, Alabama, Gov-
ernor Cawl, of Florida, requested the assistance of
those regiments in the suppression of the Seminole
outbreak.
the citizens gave them a cordial welcome. They
soon came in contact with the hostile Seminole
Indians, and participated in every important engage-
ment of the Seminole war during their term of enlist-
ment. The company was now reduced to less than
twenty men, some having been killed and wounded,
others sick and unable for duty. The suffering and
hardships endured in that campaign, are yet unwrit-
ten. F or twenty—eight days not a single ration was
issued or to be had, the meat having been rendered
unpalatable for want of salt, and the men were com-
pelled to subsist upon the cattle they killed. These
regiments, after serving out their term of enlistment,
were discharged at New Orleans on the 8th of ]anu-
ary, 1836. I

Colley B. Holland then returned to his home with

health much improved and began farming, which occu-
pation he pursued until I84I. He removed with his
family to Springfield, Missouri, working a short time
a.t his trade, after which he began merchandising and
farming, which he followed until 1861. Early in the
zpring of 1861 he raised the first company of home
guards, and tendering his services to the lamented
Ceneral Lyon, was accepted and placed on duty.
Iltportant trusts were committed to him, all of which
htfaithfully performed-, and enjoyed the entire con-
fidnce of the commanding general.

\fter the battle of Wilson Creek, September,
56

On arrival at Tallabasse, August I, 1836,‘ V

1861, he retreated with his command, then under
General Sigel, to Rolla, Missouri, where, having
served out his term of enlistment, he was mustered
out of service.
company for the United States service, and in con-
nection with Governor Phelps, raised a regiment of
six months’ volunteers, and was commissioned a
lieutenant-colonel on the 19th of December, 1861.
This regiment was stationed at Rolla, Missouri,
and for a time had charge of the fort and did guard
duty. In February, T862, this regiment composed
a part of General Curtis’ army, and advanced
on Springfield where it was expected to encoun-
ter General Price, but the Confederate commander
retreated south into Arkansas. General Curtis
stationed a part of his forces at Cassville, Missouri,
and assigned Lieutenant-Colonel Holland to its com-
manid. The post was one of great importance to the
army, as all supplies had to be hauled from Spring-
field to furnish the army south of that point 3 and of
the manner in which he performed the trust and
confidence imposed on him, General Curtis makes
favorable mention in his report to the war depart-
ment, commending, in the highest terms, his prompt-
ness and valuable services. '

After the battle of Pea Ridge the wounded were

"sent to Cassville, and by his kind attention to their

wants, made himself a great favorite with the soldiers.
In May, 1862, he was mustered out, his term of enlist-
ment having expired. In September‘ following, he
was commissioned colonel of the Greene county mili-
tia, and in October, I862, he was promoted brigadier
general of the 4th military district of the enrolled
Missouri militia, which position he held until near the
close of the war. His command comprised five reg-
iments, and was actively engaged in the suppression
of the Rebellion. A portion of these troops met
and defeated General Marmaduke in his attack on
Springfield, January 8, 1863, being led by General
Holland in person, who was constantly exposed dur-
ing the engagement.

After the war was over he was extensively engaged
in building business houses, and also in building
the cotton factory, and occupied the position of pres-
ident of that enterprise for two years. He has served
as director in both of the national banks of Spring-
field, and is now engaged in a private bank known
as “ C. B. Holland & Sons,” having associated with
him in business his two sons, T. B. and W. C. Hol-
land. .

He and his wife are members of the Cumberland

The same day he recruited another’

440 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

Presbyterian Church, and have been for over forty
years. He also takes an active interest in the Sab-
bath school, having served as its superintendent for
thepast seven years. Politically, he is a Democrat,
but was formerly an Old Line Whig, Henry Clay
being his polar star in the political firmament. ' This

brief history would be incomplete without adding that
in all his successes in life, much is due to the wise
counsel of his estimable wife, whose energy, economy
and many Christian virtues have contributed in a
large degree to whatever ofmerit he possesses in
the estimation of those who have known him best.

JOSEPH E. ALEXANDER.

MAR YVILLE.

eight children of Alexander T. and Mary (Mc-

Cormick) Alexander, Was born in Washington
county, Missouri, September 1, 1815. His parents
were natives of "Lincoln county, North Carolina.
His fatherwas a soldier of the war of 1812, and son
of John Alexander, a native of Delaware and
soldier of the Revolution. They came to Missouri
in 1809, settling in Washington county upon a farm,
where they lived until the death of the father in
1848.

JOSEPH E. ALEXANDER, the third of the

Mr. Alexander spent the early part of his life,

upon a farm. He was a farmer who read and
thought, studied a11d applied, and nature opened to
him her storehouse of secrets and pointed to a life-
field of dignity and beauty. “When intellect per-
colates the soil it will yield its hidden hoards.” His
opportunity for acquiring an education was very
limited, being simply What the common schools of a
frontier settlement afforded. He inherited from his
gifted parents great vitality and a commanding

force of purpose, and with calmness and delibera-
tion to guide the judgment, and courage and intre-
pidity to command the action, he pressed forward to
gain the prize. In the winter of 1842 he went to
Jackson county, where he remained but a short
time, and in April, 1843, he settled on a farm in

Nodaway county, about four and one-half miles from"

Maryville.

In 1849 he was appointed a deputy sheriff of
Nodaway county, and in 1862 was appointed county
judge. He was elected sheriff in 1864, and served
two years. He was a member of the first banking-
house in Maryville. In politics he was a Kentucky
Whig till the dissolution of that party. At the
presidential election preceding the civil war,.he voted
for Bell and Everett, and now votes the Democratic
ticket. .

October 30, 1837, he married Miss Mary Ann
Currier, of Orleans county, Vermont, daughter of
Jacob Currier, of Vermont, who moved to Andrew
county, Missouri, and died there in 1845.

MAJOR GEORGE MARTIN HOUSTON.

HARRISON VILLE.

EORGE MARTIN HOUSTON was born
G’ December 16, 1836, in Columbia, Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. His father, John W. Hous-
ton, was born in I807, in Columbia, and_was, by
occupation, a civil engineer. His mother was Mary
B. Martin, born in 1809, at Jersey Shore,_Pennsyl-
vania, receiving a common English education. John
W. Houston and wife had twelve children: Anna R.,

James, George M., Eliza B., Emily W., ‘Susan M.,
William M., James W ., Sarah W., Mary B., Rachel
M. and Nellie. The name of James occurs twice i1
the family record one having died before the othtr
was born. His great grandfather, Dr. John Houstcfl,
was educated at Edinburg, and was a surgeon in he
army of the Revolution. His maternal grandfatler,
William A. Martin, was born at Jersey Shore and

TIYE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAL DICTIO./VAIEY. 441

had eleven children: George B., Mary B., Elizabeth,
Sarah, Rachel, Thomas, Courtland Y., Robert,
Edward Y., William and Franklin.

H George M. Houston received a thorough Eng-
lish education in his native town. He chose the

profession of civil engineering, in which he was-

employed for one year in Lebanon county, Pennsyl-
vania and two years in Huntington and Bedford
counties. In 1855 he went to Philadelphia as a
clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, where he
remained till 1861. He enlisted in the United States
army, September 1, 1861, as first lieutenant and adju-
tant of regiment Merrill’s Horse, which was organized
in St. Louis, Missouri, under special orders from Gen-
eral Fremont. In August, 1862, he was com1nis—
sioned captain of Company A, and served in that
capacity until 1864, when he was made major of the
regiment. The regiment was disbanded in Septem-
ber, I86 5, at ‘Nashville, Tennessee. He then
removed to Harrisonville, Cass county, Missouri,
and began the drug business, in which. he is still
engaged. He has been secretaryiof the board of edu-

' Pike county, April 27, 1825.

cation of Harrisonville since its organization in 1870.

He was married September 27, 1866, to Miss
Mary F. May, who was born in Pike county, Ken-
tucky, March 24, 1847, and educated in Ironton,
Ohio. Her father, Harvey G._ May, was born in
Her grandfather
Thomas May, was born in Maryland, in February,
1787. Her great grandfather, John May was born in
Germany, in 176 5, served seven years in the revolu-
tionary war and died at the age of siXty—two. Her
great grandmother, Sarah Phillips, was born in Mary-
land, and died at the age of eighty-eight. Her grand-
mother, Dorcas Patten, was born on James river,
Virginia, in 1788, and died in her eighty-third year.
Her father, James Patten, died in his sixtieth year 3
his wife dying at the age of ninety-six.

C Major Houston and wife have had six children:
John" H., born September II, 1867 3 William M.,
born November 30, 1868 5 Charles W., born October
1, 1870; Anna May, born November 15, 1872; Nel-
lie B., born January 16, 1875 3 Harry Howard, born
April 16, 1877. John H. died March 18, I873.

HOMER JUDD, M. D., D. D. S.

ST. LOUIS.

OMER JUDD was born in Otis, Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, March 29, 1820, and
was the son of Asa and Ada Judd. The Judd fain-

‘ily emigrated from England and settled in Massachu-

setts a few years after the landing of the Pilgrims.
A genealogical record of the family has been pub-
lished embracing over one thousand eight hundred
names, and reaching down to the year 1845. Such
a record, running through the Pilgrim stock and into
the ancient families of Great Britain, cannot fail to
present a long array of honor and integrity, of which
any family of to-day might justly feel proud. But,

while not ignoring his honored ancestry, Dr. Judd‘

relies more upon his own honest endeavors to be a
“man for a’ that 3” and he is right——better be the
beginning of an illustrious line than the end of it.
His present high professional and social standing
evidences that he is not dishonoring the ancient
name. His father, Asa Judd, was a respectable
farmer, and represented his town several years in the
Massachusetts General Assembly.

Homer attended the common schools of his
native state, afterward enjoying the higher advan-
tages of Lee and Worthingtonacademies—two of
Massachusetts better class of educational institutions.

He graduated in 1847-in the Berkshire Medical Col—'

lege, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He has always
been a student, and, in addition to his Greek and
Latin acquired during his acadernical course, he has
possessed himself of a very good knowledge of

French, Spanish, German and Italian languages,

besides some proficiency in Hebrew and Sanscrit.

Some slight assistance from private tutors was all the

help he had; but with all the ardor of a devotee,
and with the pleasure of a natural linguist, he has
pursued his studies and investigations alone. Indeed,

from early life to now, his tastes and inclinations.

have led him into the literary and scientific re-
search.

Dr. Judd began the practice of ‘medicine and
dentistry in Ravenna, Ohio. But after two years,
he went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he filled

442 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARI/.

the first tooth ever professionally touched in that
territory. He remained there one summer and then
returned to Ohio. From there he removed to War-
saw, Illinois, where he practiced in his double pro-
fession about twelve years. Here he was a member
of the school board for several years, and one year
superintendent of the public schools. He joined the
I. O. O. F. in Ohio, in 1847, at Ravenna, passed
through the chairs of his lodge in Warsaw, and was
its representative to the grand lodge which met in
Chicagoin 1859. He then removed to St. Louis
where (with the exception of the time spent in the
army) he has constantly been engaged,’ confining
himself, however, to dentistry. That his profes-
sional brethren have duly appreciated Dr. Judd, is
found in the fact that he has been president of the
American Dental Association, of the Missouri State
Association, of the St. Louis Dental Society, Dean
of the Missouri Dental College seven years, and
editor of the Missouri Dental fozmml five years.
He was acting assistant surgeon, United States army,
on the hospital steamers running to Vicksburg.
After the battle of Shiloh, Dr. Judd volunteered
and served in attending to the wounded of that place.
He was one of the four surgeons having charge of
five hundred wounded soldiers on board the hospital
steamer, the usual assistants being difficult to pro-
cure, each doctor had to dress, nurse and attend in
person to all the varied and exhausting wants to his
one hundred and twenty-five patients. Of course,
the physical. and mental labor was very great. So
severely did it tax Dr. Judd, that he was compelled
to make a two months’ trip to Minnesota to recuper-
ate his health. He was afterwards appointed surgeon
of the 40th Regiment Missouri Volunteers, and
served with them at the battles of Franklin, Nash-

ville and Spanish Fort. He remained in the service
some months after the surrender of General Lee to
the United States forces closed the war, being sta-
tioned at Montgomery, Alabama. He was mustered
out of the service of the United States, in August,
1865, and with an honorable discharge returned to
St. Louis, where he resumed the practice of dentistry,
in which he has been ever since engaged.

Dr. Homer Judd is now a member of the Amer-
ican Medical Association, of the St. Louis Medical
Society, of the St. Louis Academy of Science, of
the American Dental Association, of the Missouri
State Dental Society, of the St. Louis Dental Society
and several other scientific associations, State and
local. He is also an honorary member of the Cali-
fornia, Illinois, Iowa, Sixth District, New York, and
other state and local dental societies.

In his religious proclivities, Dr. Judd leans more
to the Catholic charities of Christianity than to its
creeds, recognizing poor man’s faulty nature here,
pitying his foibles, but confidently looking to the
final and eternal happiness and holiness of all man-
kind. In politics, he was a Democrat until the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, since that time he has
been a Republican.

Homer Judd was married in Pittsfield, Illinois,
in March, 1853, to Miss Emily F. Hodgen, of that
place. They have had three children—one son who
died at the age of six years, and two daughters, now
aged respectively seven and thirteen years.

Professionally, Dr. ‘Judd stands deservedly high
in Missouri and through the United States, his name
and efforts in the scientific departments being high
in the estimation of his fellows. Socially no family
stands higher in St. Louis, and no warmer hearted
man walks among the sons of the earth.

. HON. WILLIAM Cl-IRISMAN.

INDEPENDENCE.

EW men have lived more quietly and unosten—
F tatiously than William Chrisman, and yet few
have exerted a more salutary influence upon the
immediate society in which they move, or impressed
a community with a more profound reliance on their
honor, ability and sterling worth. His life has not
been illustrious with startling incidents or striking

contrasts 3 but it has shown how a laudable ambition
may be gratified when accompanied by pure motives,
persevering industry and steadfastness of -purpose.
William Chrisman was born in the vicinity of Lex-
ington, Fayette county, Kentucky, November 2 3,
1822. He is a son of Joseph and Eleanor H. Chris-
man, the latter of whom is still living, the former

having died in October, 1875.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAIL DICTIOIVARY. 443

Joseph Chrisman
was born in the month of October, in the year 18oo,
in Rockingham county, Virginia, but removed with
his father to Kentucky when a small boy, and was
reared in Fayette county. He became a farmer and
was in moderate though comfortable circumstances
when William, his oldest son, was born. He had
four children, three sons and one daughter, to all of
whom he afforded the means of a thorough educa-
tion.

William, the oldest child, when not attending
school, was employed on the farm. He was in part
educated at a select private school taught by Rev.
Lyman W. Seeley, a thorough scholar and excellent
teacher. When afterward Mr. Seeley became a pro-
fessor in Georgetown (Kentucky) College, young
Chrisman became a student in that institution. He
graduated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky,
with the degree of A. B., and afterward received the
degree of A. M. in course. In addition to the reg-
ular classic course, he studied and learned to read
with facility several of the modern languages. In
that period of life, when the habits of life are formed,
he chose sobriety, industry and close application to
study—habits that have followed him through his sub-
sequent career. Even at the present time, when the
cares and anxieties of success in his profession are
no longer felt, he is a regular and laborious student.
It was this persistent effort that enabled him when in
academy or college always to stand at the head of his
classes. '

After leaving college, Mr. Chrisman taught school
-for a short term and then studied law. He was
admitted to the practice in Kentucky in I847. On
the roth of May, 1848, he was married to Miss Lucie
A. Lee, youngest daughter of George Lee, Esq.,
who resided near Danville, in Boyle county. Mr.
Lee was a native of Virginia, but was brought to
Kentucky, when quite young, where he still resides
at the advanced age of eighty—six. He is of the dis-
tinguished Lee family of Virginia. Mrs. Chrisman
is still living and is a lady of culture and fine taste,
and to her encouragement, her management, and her
excellent judgment Mr. Chrisman attributes much of
his success in life. To Mr. and Mrs. Chrisman three
children were born. Two of these, a son and a
daughter, are still living—George Lee Chrisman, who
married Miss Lottie Duke, and Maggie, who mar-
ried Mr. Logan 0. Swope, at this time (I878) man-
aging director of the Kansas City & Eastern railroad.
Both children reside in Independence. The second

son, James, a bright youth of great promise, died at
the age of nineteen, while attending Westminster
College at Fulton, Missouri. _

Immediately after his marriage, Mr. Chrisman
formed a partnership with Abram Comingo, Esq., of
Kentucky, and both removed to Missouri, locating
in Independence, Jackson county, where Mr. Chris-
man has ever since resided. He at once entered
upon the practice of his profession, and such was the
laborious attention he gave to his business and the
tireless interest he manifested in the cause of his
clients that, although he came to Missouri a total
stranger, he soon had a respectable business, which
continued to grow up to the time he withdrew from
the practice, in 1869. His partnership with Mr.
Comingo continued until early in the late war, when it
was dissolved by mutual consent. Soon afterward, he
united "with Hon. Samuel L. Sawyer, then of Lex-
ington, Missouri,‘ in the practice of law, a partner-
ship that continued until 1869, when, though their
business was large and lucrative, and they stood at
the head of the bar in that section of the state, both
withdrew from the practice, intending to devote their
attention to private business, and especially to the
interests of the banking house in which they were
largely interested. Since then, Mr. Chrisman has
been engaged in the prosecution of private affairs,
giving considerable time to the improvement of large
landed estates which he had purchased.

Although widely known as a lawyer, and neces-
sarily thrown much into. near relationship with polit-
ical affairs, Mr. Chrisman has not only never sought
but has studiously avoided office. In 1874, without
solicitation on his part, he was elected a delegate to
the constitutional convention of 1875, which framed
the present fundamental law of Missouri. In that
convention, his judgment was much sought for and
his counsels were listened to with profound respect.
There was no man in that body who inspired more
confidence, in his integrity, his ability and his knowl-
edge of constitutional law. Politically he was a
Whig as long as that party existed. Since its demise
he has acted with the Democratic party, but he has
ever been conservative and not a partisan. He has
never permitted the ties of party so to warp his judg_
ment as to induce him to support unworthy men for
position. ‘

In his business affairs Mr. Chrisman has ever been
recognized as strictly honest and honorable. In
April, 18 57, he, with a few others, organized a bank-
ing house in Independence, first known as the Inde-

444 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

pendence Savings Institution, which has continued,
under different names, until the present time. It is
now known as the banking house of Chrisman, Saw-
yer & Co. In all the changes the bank has under-
gone, Mr. Chrisman has been one of its directors,
and to his financial skill and management is to be
attributed much of its present high character. Besides
this house he was instrumental‘ in building up the
First National Bank of Independence, organized July
I0, I86 5, having been one of the original incorpora-
tors. From its organization to the present time, he
has been one of its directors and largest stockholders.

His contributions to public enterpriseshave been
frequent and liberal. He took an active part in
founding and establishing Independence Female Col-
lege, and furnished most of the money with which
its costly and handsome buildings were erected.

He took a leading part in the organization of the
Independence Library, and gave freely and liberally
to put it into successful operation, making it a credit
and benefaction to the town and community.

Scarcely a public enterprise calculated to advance
the interests, religious, social, or commercial, of the
community, for the last quarter of a century, has
failed to secure his active sympathy and support. He
has always been found among the foremost in aiding
worthy causes with his influence and means.

Religiously Mr. Chrisman endorses the doctrines
of the Old School Presbyterian church, and has been
a member of that denomination for over twenty
years, much of the time a ruling elder. His parents
were connected with the Baptist church.‘

Still in the vigor of life, yet with ample means
and sufficient business to keep him moderately
employed, he is living quietly at his beautiful home
in the suburbs of Independence. His house is a
handsome cottage, well and tastefully furnished, sur-
rounded by ample grounds, with evergreens, orna-
mental and fruit trees, shrubbery and flowers. His

A highest ambiton is to enjoy the society of his family

in quiet and to be useful in the community in which

he lives. A truly noble ambition.

REV. WALTER SCHENCK.

WESTPOR T.

' TO person, with any comprehension of what he
N is doing, would attempt, in a brief biography,
to present other than bare approximations and out-
lines 3 this sketch pretends to be no more ; therefore,
conforming to that intention, we notice but few of
the, principles and resorts of the following life, asso-
ciated with Christian stability and honor.

Walter Schenck was born October 22, 1844, at
Columbus, ‘Ohio. His father, Charles F. Schenck,
was a native of Baden Baden, Germany, and a
graduate of Heidelberg, one of the best educational
institutions of Europe. At the age of twenty-four
he immigrated to America , is now an eminent
physician, practicing his profession at Reading, Ohio.
Dr. Schenck is a man of fine presence, and a won-
derfully strong physical constitution. All his life
long he has been a faithful student. He married
Elizabeth Jane Grey, of Washington, Pennsylvania,
who died in 1854. The issue of said marriage was
five sons and three daughters: Margaret Louisa,
Julius Charles, Alexander Grey, Anson Penniman,
Walter and Mary (twins), Herman Frank and Eliza-

beth Jane. Margaret died in 1872, after nobly
filling the place of mother to her orphaned brothers
and sisters. Julius C. served two years in the
Federal army, was badly wounded at the battle of
Stone River, Tennessee, and was finally discharged ;
but was afterwards commissioned first lieutenant and
served until the close of the war. Alexander Grey
served one year in the Federal ranks, and when
wasted with disease was discharged from the service,
he died from confluent small-pox. Anson Penniman
also served in the 3d Ohio Infantry, was wounded
in the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga, but
recovered and served three years and three months.
He reénlisted in the veteran corps, where he
remained throughout the war. He was an accom-
plished soldier, of rare physique and unusual mag-
netism in his associations. Mary graduated at the
convent of Notre Dame, near Cincinnati, and subse-
quently went to Paris, France, where she_studied

. music under the efficient tuition of the artists of the

old world’s metropolis. i She was married in 1870 to
Mr. McAVoy, the editor of ‘the Boston E72mz'/7g Posz‘,

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the leading organ of the Roman Catholic church in
America. Herman Frank served four years in the
United States Cavalry, was badly wounded in an
encounter in Tennessee with the forces of Pegram;
on recovering he -went with Sherman to the sea.
Elisabeth Jane, the youngest of the family, was at
the age of twoyears adopted by her Uncle James
Henderson, of Washington, Pennsylvania, a promi-
nent attorney of the state, and by him liberally edu-
cated.

Walter Schenck, of Whom We pen this brief
biography, received his primary education at Read-
ing, Ohio. He united with the Cumberland Presby-
terian church at Sharonville, Ohio, under the
ministration of Rev. ‘S. K. Holtsinger, and was
received as a candidate for the ministry by the Miami
Presbytery. He subsequently completed his school
life at Lincoln University. In a short time after
quitting the university Mr. Schenck Was married to
Miss Mattie Wyatt, daughter of John and Sarah
(Wyatt) Wyatt, of Lincoln, Illinois. Her father’s
paternal ancestors were from England, and among
the earlier settlers in the colony of Virginia, his
maternal descent is Welsh, the grandmother (who
married a Castilian from Spain) coming from Wales.
Mrs. Schenck’s great-grandfather, John Wyatt, and
three of his brothers, were soldiers in the Revolu-
tionary War; her grandfather, William Wyatt, served
in the War of 1812. Mrs. William Wyatt, her gra_nd-
mother, Whose maiden name was Rachel Kitchen,
daughter of Don Lou Kitchen, of Missouri, was
noted for her beauty of face and form. John Wyatt,

father of Mrs. Schenck, was a lieutenant in the Uni— '

ted States army in the war with Mexico, and after-
Ward an attorney at law. He was foremost in build-
ing up the city of Lincoln, and himself donated the
land on which the university stands.

Mr. and Mrs. Schenck have three children:
Walter Bowdon, Eugene Alexander and Anson
Wood. Immediately following his marriage Mr.
Schenck removed to Spencer county, Indiana, taking
temporary charge of a small congregation, although
then but a candidate for the ministry. While there
heiapplied for a letter of dismission from his Pres-
bytery, which was refused upon the groundiof insub-
ordination, in failing to return to that body at the
close of school. He then, nothing daunted, pre-
sented himself anew as a candidate before Morgan
Presbytery, at Bloomfield, Indiana, and was received,
licensed and ordained within six months after appli-
cation. The same year he was called to the pastorate

,bility of succeeding with the enterprise.

place is surely in the pulpit.

~ many true friendships.

of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Peters-
burgh, Pike county, Indiana, for the term of one year.

His health, never robust, was now so much
impaired as to necessitate rest and recuperation 3 he
consequently spent several months a.t the home of
his father-in-law, at Lincoln. Returning to labor, he
was called to the charge at Auburn and Sugar Creek
congregations, in Sangamon county, Illinois. Failing
strength caused his removal at the year’s end, toward
the more healthful atmosphere of the West. Here,
under careful medical treatment, and the kind
nursing and care of Christian friends, he so far
recovered, in a short time, as to justify his resuming

labor.
In 1871 Mr. Schenck was chosen to fill the pulpit

at Westport, Missouri, remaining their pastor for
several years. Subsequently he was sent by his
Presbytery to Mission church, of Kansas City, where
he labored until he was fully satisfied of the impossi-
He has
now (1878), accepted the pastorate of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church at Macon City, Missouri.
Mr. Schenck has been a Mason since 1870. He is
independent in his political opinions and likewise in
his religious convictions.

Mr. Schenck bears the reputation of being a
young man of great promise in his profession. He
is keenly sagacious in reading character, bold and
outspoken in his views, Without being offensive; he
is quick to avail himself of opportunity, full of zeal
and determination, and unwearied in his movements
for the cause of good. Being of a very studious
habit, and an impressively eloquent speaker, his
His sermons evince a
a wide and worthy range of thought, a deep and
pure sympathy with God’s honor and man’s need.
Mr. Schenck is yet a student in the school of severe
application. His voice is clear and musical, his
diction strong and impressive. His manner is life-
like and attractive, and his life is brightened with
His theology is of the inde-
pendent type. A synopsis of his views is herewith
subjoined, as copied from one of his sermons :

“ God is our Father, and his. government over us
is paternal. The church is a divinely ordained insti-
tution, for the help and not the mastery of the soul.
Every man is free to adopt his own form of govern-
ment therein, the bible commanding none. The
bible is the only rule of faith and practice, its suffi-
ciency or insufficiency depending very much upon
the man that reads it. _ It_ is God’s gift to man, in
matters transcending human reason, but it is not a
substitute for reason, nor yet a fetter with which to

446 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

bind it, as some men do. No church is endowed
with authority to interpret the word; every one is
left free to study for himself the Master’s recorded
love.

Man is born affected in his constitutional charac-
teristics, by the good or evil of his ancestors, born
with a capacity for good, but possessing no character.
All men sin, all men need regeneration, which is
accomplished by the divine Spirit. Church sacra-
ments are good as helps to the soul, but they have
no inherent power to bless. The Christian church is
composed of faithful and love—answering hearts,
and not of theologians. Through Jesus Christ for-
giveness of sin and answer to prayer are vonchsafed,

and by faith in him rendered efficacious to everlast-
ing life. Christian fellowship does not consist in
agreement on matters of doctrine, church govern-
ment or ritual, but in the existence and operancy of
the everlasting Spirit in the affections of men. Out
of the helpful instincts of a Christly soul, and not
from a dogmatic head, men are to seek and find
their brethren. Christian duty does not consist in
prayers and spiritual songs alone ; they are needful
and expressive attitudes of the soul, but duty, in its
more genuine form, is battling with temptation and
sin, and overcoming evil by the power of a moral
inspiration, incorporated in the nature, by the truth
and spirit of God.”

JOHN DOGGETT.

KANSAS CITY.

7 O publish a history of the leading business

P houses of Kansas City, without giving promi-
nence to the name of John Doggett, would be to
confess the imperfection of the work; to attempt it
would be unjust; to accomplish it, impossible. For
the past ten years he has been so intimately asso-
ciated with the mercantile industries of the city; so
thoroughly alive to the necessity of building up a
house, complete in all its departments, to meet the
growing wants of the Metropolis of the Missouri
Valley, so active in the development of her dry-
goods trade, so completely identified with the inter-
ests of that trade that he has become an integral
part of the mercantile life of the city. Mr. Doggett
is preéminently a man of business, and that business
is dry—goods. That he understands it thoroughly,
no man questions. It is demonstrated in the
immense stock of staples he has provided for the
throngs who crowd his “Dry Goods Palace,” it is
illustrated in the variety and "elegance of the dress
and fancy goods with which he ministers to the taste
of wealth and fashion 3 it is acknowledged in the
universal consent by which his name is identified
with the leading_ dry—goods merchants of the South
and West.

The name Doggett is an old one, met with in
English history as far back as the time of George
I. John Doggett was born in Newnham, about
forty miles north of London, England, December
14, 1834; received a classical education at Enfield
and Norwood, the latter a southern suburb of Lon-

don, noted for its schools. In his eighteenth year
he emigraped to America, landing in New York, and
obtained a position as salesman in the dry—goods
house of Ubsdell, Peirson & Co.

Leaving New York in 1857, Mr. Doggett, then
a young man twenty-three years of age, crossed the
Mississippi river and located in Iowa City, where he
formed a partnership for carrying on a general dry-
goods and grocery business, under the firm name of
Clapp & Doggett, capital about six thousand dollars,
of which Mr. Doggett furnished three thousand.
The partnership lasted two years, when the stock

.was divided by mutual consent and Mr. Doggett

conducted’ a business alone until 1864, when he
removed to Brooklyn, New York. Here in 1865
he met D. S. Orrison, a dry—goods man of Leaven-
worth, Kansas, whose acquaintance he had made in
Iowa City, with whom he made an arrangement to
open a wholesale dry—goods house in St. Louis the fol-
lowing season. The partners in this enterprise were
Millington, Ferguson, Doggett and Orrison. They
opened in St. Louis in the spring‘ of 1866 under the
firm name of Millington, Ferguson & Co., Mr. Dog-
gett remaining in Brooklyn as resident buyer. After
continuing business two years, the partnership was
dissolved by mutual consent, the stock divided, and
the younger members of the firm shipped their share
to Kansas City, where they opened the dry—goods
house of Doggett & Orrison, at No. 539 Main street,
February 22, 1868. In June, 1870, they removed
their business to Nos. 712 and 714 Main street,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 447

occupying their new store, having the finest, most
commodious and best arranged csales—room of any
dry-goods house in the city, or excepting St. Louis,
in the state. Fronting on Main street fifty feet,
extending one hundred and twenty-five feet in the
rear to Delaware street, with an equal frontage on
that-, three stories in height above the basement, the
opening of this immense house for a retail trade
marked an era in the dry-goods business of Kansas
City, In 1872 Mr. Orrison retired from the firm
and Mr. Doggett conducted the house alone until
January I, 1877, when the firm became John Dog-
gett & Co., and so continued one year, when Mr.
Bacon’s place was taken by George Y. Smith, the
most extensive dry-goods dealer in Kansas, and the
firm is now (1878) Doggett & Smith.

The English blood courses too strongly in the
veins of Mr. Doggett for him to be much of a politi-
cian. He is not without opinions, however, and
when local interests demand, his action throws the
weight of his entire influence in the scale for good
government and sagacious municipal action. He is
a staunch Presbyterian, an influential member of the
2d Presbyterian Church, an enthusiastic worker in
the Sabbath school, and the leading spirit in the
Young Men’s Christian Association in his city, hav-
ing been its president ever since the organization.
It would be difficult to say whether Mr. Doggett is
most an Englishman, a dry-goods man or a Presby-
terian, as he is all three most decidedly. This much
is certain: in the work of the Church he is indefati-
gable; very liberal in his contributions to all her
benevolences, at home and abroad, and thoroughly
bound up in her success. In all of this he is ably

seconded by his wife, Mary D., daughter of Rev.
James Lillie, D. D., a graduate of Edinburg Uni-
versity and a pupil of Dugald Stewart, Dr. Chalmers
and Dr.‘ Dick. Mrs. Doggett is a very zealous and
efficient member of the Woman’s Christian Associa-
tion, active, charitable, of fine culture, and ready
for every good word and work. They have a family
of three children : two sons and one daughter.

Mr. Doggett is a man of very fine presence,
clean cut features, piercing eye, erect carriage,
prompt, courteous, full of nervous energy, every
movement reveals the innate business quality of the
man. He carries his nativity in his face and is a
good specimen of the young British merchant with
an American veneer upon him. The incorruptibility
of the old race of English merchants runs in his
blood. We make no attempt to analyze the reasons

for Mr. Doggett’s business success, to extol his abili-

ties or eulogize his character. Such success is the
result of a rare combination of qualities which can
only be known through an intimate personal acquaint-
ance, to make inquest into these is hardly our prov-
ince. His Dry Goods Palace is the monument upon
which his transcendent mercantile ability is inscribed.
The place he has made for himself in the confidence
of his business associates, the_position he holds in
the church, the interest he takes in the religious
instruction of young men , his hearty support of all
moral movements, these testify to his character. So
much achieved while yet a comparatively young

»man, the successes of the past are merely hostages

for the greater successes to come in the business
career of John Doggett, merchant prince of Kansas
City. S

JUDGE JOHN I-IINTON.

COLUMBIA.

N tracing the biography of John Hinton, the mind
I lingeringly dwells upon the fair record of his life.
Around his name and reputation cluster all the manly
virtues, truth, candor, magnanimity and benevolence.
Brave noble, and generous, he is a man whom to
know is a privilege, whom to honor is a pleasure.

Judge John Hinton, judge of probate of the county
of Boone, was born at Folly Castle, in the city of
Petersbuigg, in the state of Virginia, on the 1st day

of July, A. D., ‘I818. He was the third son of Cap-
tain John Hinton and Martha N. Gill, only daughter

of Major Erasmus Gill, of the Virginia Cavalry of

the Revolution, and Sarah N. Gill, all of whom were
natives of Virginia. Nobility of character and a
brave and generous spirit was a portion of Judge
Hinton’s heritage.

A recent traveler in speaking of distinguishedi

names and epitaphs in the old Blandford church cem-

448 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

etery at Petersburg, ‘says on the tomb of Major

Erasmus Gill was the following inscription :

“Major Erasmus Gill. Born July 15, 1752. Died
- March 16, I807. ‘ '

‘ ‘ Who during the Revolutionary war bravely faced
the enemy.

“ Soldier; approach this tomb and drop a tear,

The relics of a brave man moulder here;

If kind, sincere, if honor fills thy breast,

Kneel here, a brother’s ashes lie at rest.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere.

Want never knocked unaided at his door.”

Mrs. Gill was a niece of Peter Jones, the founder
of Petersburg, and li-neally descended from Major
General Abram Wood, the commandant of the post
of Fort Henry. And the original grantee, when the
post was abandoned, was occupying the site of the
present city of Petersburg, on the Appomatox river.

Mrs. Martha N. Hinton died in Folly Castle at
the advanced age of eighty-five years. She lived
from the cradle to the grave in the same house, which
was not only the birthplace of herself, but of all her
children, six in number, as well as numbers of her
grand-children and great-grand-children. The old
home still stands in the one hundred and fifteenth
year of its age, in good repair, having survived the
revolutions, in both of which the city was furiously
cannonaded.

Judge Hinton was educated at Jonathan Smith’s
Academy in the city of Petersburg, in the various
branches of an English education, till his fifteenth

year. Then, desiring a practical business training,

' he entered the counting house of James S. Brander

& Co., in Petersburg, a large commission and ship-
owning house extensively engaged in foreign trade,
especially in cotton and tobacco. With this house
he remained until his twentieth year, 1838, when he
went to St. Louis, Missouri. There he engaged in
land speculations, being at one time interested in the
copper mines on Curren river. ,

i‘f'In 1841 he went to Boone county, Missouri, and

engaged in the tobacco business at Rocheport, on the

Missouri river, in which he continued until the flood
of II 844, which overflowed the lower part of the town,
where all the factories were, doing great damage, and
involving him in heavy losses, causing him" to seek
other employment. He engaged as first clerk of the
steamer Iatan, a boat then engaged in the Missouri
river trade. In January, 184 5, he resumed the
tobacco trade at Rocheport, and continued in it till
the spring of 1846. When, on the breaking out of
the war with Mexico, he raised -a "company of volun-

teers in Boone county and reported it for service at
Jefferson City, but it was not accepted at the time.
He resigned his position and going to Fayette, in
Howard county, Missouri, volunteered as a private
in Captain Congrave Jackson’s company, and with it
marched to Fort Leavenworth, where, upon the

organization of the 1st regiment of Missouri Mounted ~'

Volunteers, with Colonel A. W. Doniphan, the com-
pany was letterediG., and Mr. Hinton was appointed
by Colonel Doniphan sergeant-major. In this capacity
he served till December, 1846, when he was elected
Ist lieutenant of company G. He was soon detached
and served in the same capacity in Reid’s Cavalry
till the close of his time of service, always with
bravery and distinction. Returning to Rocheport in
1847 he was appointed by Governor A. A. King
aide with the rank of colonel.

After peace he engaged in general business in
Rocheport, and was elected by the joint convention of
the state legislature a director of the Fayette branch of
the State Bank of Missouri at that place, and at the
expiration of the time was unanimously reelected,
but resigned before the expiration of the second
term. In 18 57 he went back on the river as first clerk
of the steamer Daniel Tatum, and subsequently of
the Meteor. Two years later he formed a copartner-

‘ship in St. Louis, where he engaged in general com-

mission business. The style of the firm was Goddin,
Hopkins & Hinton.
engaged in desultory speculations. At the fall of
Richmond, however, he applied for a position in the
line of Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship company,
and was appointed by Captain John J. Roe first clerk
of the steamer Ben Stickney, continuing in the
employ of the company for three. years in the same
position on the “Atlantic,” “Olive Branch,” “Ida
Handy” and “ Ruth,” being on the latter when the
ovation to President Johnson was given by the city of
St. Louis. In July, 1868, he resigned and once
more returned to Rocheport and went into business
with R. W. Hubbard, but in a year sold out to his
partner and moved to Omaha, Nebraska. From
there he removed, in 1871, to Boone. county, and in
November of the following year he was elected
judge of probate for the county. He gave such sat-
isfaction and filled the position with such fidelity that
in rfilg he was reelected for four years. His great
excellence and distinguishing characteristic is the
sharpness and clearness of his perceptions and judg-
ment, thus rendering him accurate and correct as a bus-
iness man, acute, logical and even profound as a judge.

During the war he was only

.THE UNITED STATES BIOGZBAPIJICAL DICTZOZVARY. 449

judge Hinton was married on the 29th day of
August, 1844, to Eliza Wilcox. Her father Dr.
George Boone Wilcox, was a grand-son of ’Squire
Boone, and a grand-nephew of Daniel Boone, and one
of the earliest settlers of Boone county. They have
only one child living, a son, in whom is centered the
fondest hopes of a devoted parent. A

He has always been a Democrat of the strictest
constructive school. He is, too, a Christian, has

been a member of the church for twenty years. He
is a kind, found husband and father, a man of the
warmest attachments, and a devoted and generous
friend. Without exaggeration it may be truthfully
said of him that he is one of Boone county’s most
esteemed and honored citizens. In him is to be
found that rare combination of strength and gentle-
ness, kindness and courtesy, bravery and modesty
which constitute the elements of perfect manhood.

ISAAC N. JONES.

CL]./VTO./V.

ISAAC N. JONES was born July 4, 1841, in '

Of his ancestors little is
known. His father, Thomas W. Jones, born in
1820, was reared in Tennessee and was for twenty-
five years a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He moved to Illinois about the year 1846,
and afterward connected himself with the Baptist
denomination, of which he is still a minister, preach-
ing to the congregation at Alexis, Peoria county,
Illinois. His wife Was Miss Susan VanVVey, who
bore him four children, of whom the subject of this
sketch is the eldest.

Isaac N. Jones received his education from the
common schools of Illinois, wherever his father, in
his capacity of minister, was called to reside. At
the age of sixteen he entered the printing office of
the A772erz'ca2z Cozmier, published in Greenville, Bond
county, Illinois, and remained ‘there till he had mas-
tered his profession. In 1859 he went to Collins-
ville, Madison county, where he attended the public
schools until the spring of 1860. He then went to
Cass county and worked on a farm.till the breaking
out of the rebellion. In the summer of 1861 he
joined Monroe Hubbard’s company at Collinsville,
with the expectation of being attached to the cavalry
service. The Illinois cavalry regiments being full,
Hubbard’s company marched to St. Louis and was
mustered into service, August Io, 18.61, in the rst
Missouri Cavalry, and participated in the campaigns
of Missouri and Arkansas. He took part in the
following engagements: Zagonyi’s charge at Spring-

Scott county, Illinois.

field and the battles of Pea Ridge (Where he was A

slightly wounded) and Chalk Bluffs. After the battle
of Pea Ridge he was detailed on recruiting service,

and Was mainly instrumental in organizing company
F, 8th Missouri Cavalry, of which he was commis-
sioned second lieutenant. In this regiment he was
opposed to General Hindman in the battles of Cane
Hill and Prairie Grove, in the latter of which he was
so severely injured by the fall of his horse that he
was compelled to resign his position on the return of
the regiment to Missouri. "He returned to Litchfield,
Illinois, where he remained four months and was
completely restored to heal-th. He then enlisted as
at veteran volunteer in Hubbard’s company, and
rejoined his regiment at Duvall’s Bluffs, Arkansas.
In the summer of 1864 he Was wounded in an
engagement at Hickory Station, Arkansas, and,
being unable to participate in further active duty,
was detailed as first clerk in the ordnance depart-
ment at Little Rock, a position he held till the close
of the war. On being discharged from the army he
returned to Litchfield, Illinois, and engaged in the
real estate business with his father._ June I, 1866,
he received a contract to carry the mails between
Litchfield and Greenville, the contract running for
one year. He afterward ‘worked in the Mo/zzior
office for seven months and then engaged in farming
in Bond county, returning in the fall to Litchfield to
work in the /110122707’ office. Here he remained until
his removal to Virden, Macoupin county, Illinois,
where he remained till June, 1872. At that time
he took the position of foreman in the /Ia’72ocaz‘e office
in Clinton, Henry county, Missouri. This position
he held one year, and then leased thepaper. At
the expiration of one year he surrendered the paper
to the former proprietor, and, in partnership with
H. K. Davis, in November, 1874, began the publi-

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cation of the Brown County (Illinois) Democmz‘, at
Mt. Sterling. In February, 1875, he disposed of
his interest in that paper and formed a connection

with the Hannibal (Missouri) Clzjfiper, having charge

of the job department. In September, 1876, he
returned to Clinton, Missouri, and became editor
and publisher of the Clinton Advocaze, and soon
after, in company with S. B. Orem, purchased the
establishment. At the end of a year hiswife bought
Mr. Orem’s interest, and the paper has since been
published by them, obtaining a largeand influential
circulation in Henry and adjacent counties.

On the 8th of February, 1878, he was commis-
sioned postmaster of Clinton. In politics he is a
Republican, participating actively in political affairs.
He was a delegate to the last two state conventions
and also to the congressional convention of the 7th

district in 1875, of which latter body he was chosen
secretary. In religious affairs he is liberal. He is a
member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Knights
of Pythias.

He was married, October 18, 1865, to Miss Kate
M. Buchanan, daughter of Othniel and Eveline
(Sellers) Buchanan, of Greenville, Illinois. By this
marriage two children have been born, only one of
which survives.

Mr. Jones is of Welsh descent, his grandfather,
with three brothers, having emigrated from Wales to
America prior to the Revolution, in which they par-
ticipated. They settled in West Virginia, but the
grandfather subsequently moved to Illinois and died,
at an advanced age, in Knox county. He is an
active and energetic business man, a popular officer
and a pleasant companion.

COLONEL WELLS H. BLODGETT.

ST. LOUIS.

‘ N ZELLS HOWARD BLODGETT was born
at Downer’s Grove, DuPage county, Illinois,
January 29,1839. His father, Israel P. Blodgett,
was born in Massachusetts, as was also his mother,
at Amherst. She was, before her marriage, Miss
Avis Dodge. Seven boys and one girl were the
fruit of this union, of whom Wells was the sixth son.
Israel P. Blodgett moved with his family, in 1831,
to Dupage county, Illinois, on Dupage river, twenty-
four miles west of Chicago. He was a blacksmith
and machinist by trade, but afterward engaged in
farming and stock—raising, and reared all his boys
on the farm. He died in the winter of 1862. The
mother is still living (1877) on the old homestead.
Wells enjoyed all the advantages of the New
England school system, after which he spent three
years at College in Wheaton and in Mount Morris,
Illinois. He had laid out for himself acourse of
studies, which having completed in 1858, he went
to‘Chicago_ and entered upon the study of law in
the office of his brother, Henry W. Blodgett, then
solicitor-general of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway, and of the Michigan Central; also a 1nem—
ber of both branches of the Illinois Legislature; now
judge of the United States district court at Chicago,

and recognized as one of the most learned railroad
lawyers in the West. He remained with him and in
the office of Hon. N. B. Judd till the fall of 1860,
when he was admitted to the bar. In April, 1861,
he enlisted as a private soldier in the Union army,
but the company was not called into service. In
July of that year he enlisted as a private in the 37th
Illinois Infantry, and so served until August, when
he was commissioned as first lieutenant of his com-
pany.

Lieutenant Blodgett served in all the campaigns
of the western department under Generals Fremont,
Pope and Curtis, and was in every fight in the south-
west up to the raid of General Marmaduke on Cape
Girardeau, where he performed efficient service under
General McNeil. For meritorious conduct on the
field at Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, Arkansas, he
was promoted to captain. At the risk of violating
the known modesty of our subject, the editor of this
sketch cannot refrain from copying two extracts from
letters on record. Brigadier-general White, whose
eye was upon Lieutenant Blodgett in that fierce
onslaught at Pea Ridge, in a letter to Governor
Yates, thus speaks of him: “As a disciplinarian he
has no superior of his rank within the circle of my

THE UNITED STATES BZOGRAPIIZCAZ. DZCTZOZVARY. 451

acquaintance. For cool courage and efficiency on
the field he has no superior anywhere. I know
whereof I speak, when I tell you that this young
man is possessed, in a remarkable degree, of that
kind of courage which, while reckless of personal
consequences, is distinguished by sound judgment,
evincing the power to reflect even under the most
exciting circumstances.” In a letter dated July 24,
1863, General Brown says of Captain Blodgett:
“ AtNewtonia and Springfield his gallantry elicited
the admiration of the whole army.”

On the 1oth of March, 1863, when General
Schofield assumed command of the Army of the
Frontier, President Lincoln commissioned Captain
Blodgett judge advocate of that army, with the rank
of major, which office he filled until the disorganiza-
tion of the Army of the Frontier and the office of
judge advocate was discontinued. Major Blodgett
then located at Warrensburg to begin the practice. of
his profession, but on the 28th of July, 1864, by
General Order No. 143, General Rosencrans called

for the organization of twelve regiments of infantry '

in Missouri to meet the exigencies of that time.
Major Blodgett at once went to work, and in a short
time, at Rolla, completed the organization of the
48th Missouri regiment, of which he was commis-
sioned lieutenant-colonel, on September 22, 1864;
but in just one month (October 22, 1864) he was
commissioned colonel thereof. He served with his
regiment in Southwest Missouri until December 10,
1864, when it, with the 45th and 47th Missouri
Regiments were ordered to report to General Mere-
dith at Paducah, Kentucky. Being the ranking
officer, Colonel Blodgett took command of the
brigade. He was afterward ordered to report for
duty to General Thomas, at Nashville, Tennessee,
who assigned his brigade to duty under General
Rosseau, then in command of the 4th Division, 20th
Army Corps.

The brigade opened the Cumberland river—at
that time blockaded by the rebels under General
Lyon—and arrivedat Nashville two days after the
defeat of General Hood by General Thomas, but in
time to participate in the pursuit of the army, until
it was driven across the Tennessee river, after which
he returned with his regiment to Columbia and gar-
risoned the post, during the winter of 1864-5, he
also having charge of the railroad defenses from
Franklin to Pulaski. Here he remained with his
command until the closing days of the rebellion,
when his regiment was ordered to Camp Douglas,

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near Chicago. On the 27th of June the regiment
was ordered to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, and on
the 22d of the same month was there .mustered out
of service by order of the War Department reducing
the volunteer force.

Colonel Blodgett carries the scars of two wounds
received in defense of his country, one received in
Neosho, Missouri, and the other at Springfield from
a buck-and—ball cartridge. I

After the close of the war, Colonel Blodgett
returned to Warrensburg, Johnson county, Missouri,
and resumed the practice of the law. In the fall of
1866, the Republicans of that county elected him
to the legislature and he served the session of 1866-7,
and its adjourned session of 1867-8. In the fall of
1868 he was elected to the state senate from the
district composed of Joshua, Henry, Benton and
St. ’Clair. His time expired in 1872, and in the fall
of that year he received the unanimous nomination
of his party convention for the same office, but he
was defeated by Joshua LaDue, of Henry, by a
small majority. .

Colonel Blodgett was about the first Republican
soldier openly and persistently to favor the re'enfran-
chisement of those who had taken part in the rebel
cause. As early as the winter of 1866, as a mem-
ber of the legislature, he strongly and squarely
favored the restoration of their political rights to the
disfranchised people of Missouri, and he strenu-
ously endeavored to get his party to adopt it as a
So zealously and fairly did
he battle for their cause that he gained many friends
among the disfranchised.

Colonel Blodgett continued to practice law in

. Warrensburg until the fall of 1873, when, in Novem-

ber, he moved to St. Louis and formed a partner-
ship with Joseph Dickerson, Esq., under the firm
name of Blodgett & Dickerson. He shortly afterward
was offered and accepted the position of assistant
attorney for the St. Louis, Kansas & Northern rail-

road company_. In June following he was by the

-board of directors elected general solicitor for the

company, which office he has held ever since.

“ During the six consecutive sessions that he
served as a member of the Missouri Legislature, no
one took a more active or prominent part, in all that
pertained to the prosperity and growth of the state,
than he did. In the 24th General Assemby he served.
on the committees of ways and means, education,
and militia. In the 2 5th General Assembly he served

on the committees of judiciary, constitutional amend-

452 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

ments, banks and corporations, penitentiary, and
county boundaries, and in the 27th General Assem-
bly he served-on several as important committees as
in the previous sessions.

“ Colonel Blodgett is a Republican in politics, but

of liberal views and has always labored to make his-
party liberal as well as progressive.”

He was married in August, 186 5, to Miss Emma
Dickerson, of Dixon, Illinois, and they have two

i children, a son and daughter.

TALTON TURNER.

GLASGO W.

ALTON TURNER was born November 2,
T 1791, in Madison county, Kentucky. He was
the son of Philip and Abigail Turner. His father
was a farmer in good circumstances, and gave him
the advantage of the best schools the country
afforded. He directed his studies principally to
the subject of surveying. Soon after quitting school
Talton Turner went to live with General Green Clay,
of Kentucky,-by whom he was raised and under
whom he became a practical surveyor.

In I8r8'he emigrated to Missouri and settled
near Old Franklin, Howard county. The trip up
the Missouri river was made in a keel-boat which
contained several families, and was a tedious and
laborious voyage. Soon after his arrival in Missouri
he obtained the position of deputy under the Sur-
veyor-General of Illinois and Missouri for the sur-
vey and location of New Madrid grants, and entered
at once upon his duties. This was his principal
occupation for several years. He subsequently
became largely interested in government contracts
for supplies of beef and pork at Council Bluffs, St.
Anthony, St. Peters, Prairie du Chem and Rock
Island. At a later day he contracted to furnish
flour and beef to the Indians stationed on the
Arkansas river. On many of these drives he had
to travel hundreds of miles without the sight of a
human habitation or a civilized man. While engaged
in his business as a surveyor, he had the best oppor-
tunity to select the finest lands in the country and to
enter them at government prices, an advantage of
which he readily availed himself. At the time of
his death, he was the owner, probably, of more and
better land than any man in the-state. It was dur-
ing the period of his surveyorship that he entered
sixteen hundred acres near the mouth of Chariton
river, in Howard and Chariton counties, as well as
large tracts in other counties. On part of this tract

he located and improved a farm one mile south of
the site of Glasgow, on which he spent the remain-
der of his life. ’ .

The exposure incident to his business, both as a
surveyor and contractor, finally undermined a natur-
ally vigorous constitution, and in 1842 he experi-
enced a partial paralysis, from which he never

_afterward wholly recovered. He continued, how-

ever, although an invalid, to trade extensively in
real estate, in furnishing supplies to government
posts, and in various other departments of business,
and did an amount of work sufficient to tax the ener-
gies and weary the brain of a man of more physical
vigor. He personally supervised his vast business

-almost up to the day of his decease.

Mr. Turner was a volunteer" in the war of 1812.
Serving out the term of his enlistment, and return-
ing home during the prosecution of the war, he
became the substitute of another.

He was appointed commissioner to locate county
seats for various counties in central Missouri, and
under a government contract surveyed immense
tracts of. wild lands in western Missouri.

He was a large stockholder and a director of the
Glasgow branch of the Exchange Bank of Missouri,
and had $10,000 of stock in that institutionat the
time of his death.

He was one of the original company who laid
off the town of Glasgow in 1836, and he and his
father-in—law, Judge Earickson, sold to the company
the land on which it was built. He took a great
deal of stock" in the Glasgow and Huntsville plank
road, which, though a dead loss to the stockholders,
was a great convenience and of much benefit to the
counties through whichit passed.

He highly respected‘ Christianity and those who
practiced its precepts, and though he was never con-
nected with any religious organization, he endeav-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 453

ored to square his life by the “ golden rule.” For a

' number of years before his death, he was accus-

tomed to read the Bible through annually. '

Politically, Mr. Turner was a Whig of the Henry
Clay school.

He was married February I, 1820, to Miss- Sarah
Small, daughter of Judge James'Earickson,.in what
was then a part of Howard, but now of Chariton
county, a lady who for nearly forty years fulfilled
the various duties of wife, mother and friend to him,
to his children and to society, during his life, and
since his death, in her bereavement and widowhood,
for nearly twenty years she has done all that it was
possible to do in directing the footsteps of the child-
ren in the path the husband, and father so long trod.

Mr. and Mrs. Turner had sixteen children born
to them, one-half of whom preceded the father to
the spirit land, and since his death two others have
died. Of all this large family but six remain alive :
Eliza J., wife of John D. Perry, Esq., and Rebecca
E., wife of Willian J. Lewis, Esq., both residing in
St. Louis, Mary, wife of Robert Estell, Eleanor,

wife of B. ,W. Lewis, and William and John reside
in Howard county.

Mr. Turner died October I4, 1858, leaving his
family an estate valued at $400,000, including over
twenty thousand acres of land, amongst the richest
and most_productive in the state. Valuable as was
his estate, the character for honor, integrity and
uprightness was a richer legacy to his children than
the accumulations of his industry.

In some respects he was a peculiar as well as a
remarkable man. In society, and to strangers, he
was reticent, if not austere, but in the bosom of his
family and among his intimate friends, he was
delightfully entertaining. It was a pleasure to hear
him recount the various incidents of his remarkable
life, and so tenacious was his memory that the slight-
est cirgumstances were not forgotten, and he told
them in a style that instructed and enchained the
listener. He was a man of thought and action, a
wise counselor, a true and faithful friend, and an
honest man; not perfect, as no man is, but possessed
of a character worthy of emulation. '

JOHN HORNBACK.

CARTIIA GE.

county, Ohio, August 24, 1827. His parents
~ were James Hornback, a native of Kentucky,
and Mary McIntire, who was born and reared near
F redericksburg, Virginia. The subject of this sketch
spent his boyhood days in the woods of Southwest
Missouri, near the site of the present city of Car-
thage, whither his parents moved with the family
when he was about eleven years old, and where his
father died, July 28, 1877, at the age of eighty-one.
His mother departed this life February 28, 1868.

Mr. Hornback’s opportunities for early education
were the common schools, which at that day bore
no comparison to what they are now. The first
business he engaged in, on his own_ responsibility,
was teaching school. When about twenty—one years
old he taught a school in the vicinity of Carthage for
the term of three months, for which he received a
salary of ten dollars per month. He then taught a
subscription school, known as High Hill school.‘

After the expiration of his school term he con-

TOHN HORNBACK was born in Champaign

cluded to learn the mercantile business, and went to
Carthage and engaged as a clerk for White & Zach-
ary, for five months. While there he became enam-
ored of a lady, which made a material change in his
former plans, and instead of becoming a merchant,
he married Miss Eleanor Walker, January 24, 1850.
He then went out into the country and settled on a
farm five miles southwest of Carthage. His wife died

_May 2, I877, leaving a family of eight. children_—-

five boys and three girls——who are all living at
present. A

In November, 1860, he was elected county asses-
sor of Jasper county, and acted as such until April
7, 1862. Then, owing to the unsettled condition of
the county, it being controlled part of the time by
the bushwhackers, he took his family over to Doug-
las_ county, Kansas. He then joined the Douglas
county militia, and was elected 1st lieutenant of
company E, and remained in the service for over
three years. During that time, the various adven-
tures and hardships he had to undergo were too many

to mention in a short sketch like the present.

April 9, 1866, he with his family returned to
their farm in Jasper county, and found none of the
improvements left on it except an old log cabin.
While that would seem very discouraging to us at
present, he felt very grateful that he and all of his
family were spared to return to their home, as there
were but a very few families who escaped losing
some of their members in the war. He was elected
a member of the county court of Jasper county in
November, 1866, and served two years, that being
the length of the term for which he was elected.

He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a
member of Carthage Lodge, No. 197. He is also
an active and zealous member of the Patrons of

‘Husbandry.
believer in the doctrine of Christianity and in the

i 454 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Judge Hornback, although a firm
Christian form of faith, is not a member of any
church. He believes in churches and bears a strong
testimony to their influence for good, in the whole-
some restraint which he exercises over the members
of his household. In politics he is independent,
supporting always the man of his choice, regardless
of party distinction.

He is a gentleman of the olden school, of firm
and muscular build, possessing a clear and vigorous
mind, decided in his opinions and emphatic in his
statements. Strong, hearty and robust in body, he
seems destined to live and enjoy life many years to
come.

JOSEPH H. ALEXANDER.

ST. CHARLES.

IOGRAPHY will be read, by young and old,
B when other books are thrown aside ; because
there is an intuitive curiosity, as well as a common
business instinct, to know the true and inner history
of men with whom we daily or incidentally come in
contact. Very often commercial and banking cor-
respondence render it almost imperatively necessary
to know something authentic of some prominent man’s
antecedents and family traits. This is why it is bet-
ter to have biography than pas! m07'2‘em histories of
men’s lives—it is more authentic from living lips than
from a dead man’s friend or enemy.

Again, to make that which will be read profitable
reading, the ruling characteristics of successful men
should be carefully noted, and briefly commented on
—that young readers may be guided and older ones
encouraged. For instance, a fact was needed to
establish the argument that “Christianity lived up to
insures success and honor,” how easy to find it,
under the immutable law of cause and effect, in the
truly religious life and self-acquired honor and for-
tune of a Christian man If This sketch (unwittingly
to his subject but demonstrated to the writer on
learning his history and standing) furnishes a case in
point. '

Joseph Hugh Alexander, youngest son of Isaac
and Mary M. (Miller) Alexander, was born in East
Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, February 29, 1828.

The fatherwas a Scotchman and the mother from a
Pennsylvania family. She was three times married
and had six children, all of whom are dead except
our subject and his youngest sister, Mrs. Mary E.
Cowgill, now of St. Charles county, Missouri.
Both the parents died when Joseph was quite young
and he was taken in charge by an uncle and half-
sister.. ’

At the age of ten the boy did not know a letter
of the alphabet; but at about that age he was taught
them by a young comrade, and then started to a
very ordinary country school. He next attended
Mont—Pelier Academy, in St. Helena Parish, of his
native state. There be attracted the attention of
Rev. W. H. Parks and Hon. Robert H. Parks,
(both now residents of St. Charles) who became so
interested in the boy that they proposed to educate
him. He went to school to them in Louisiana until
1842, then went with them to Ohio where he stayed
a year, and then with them removed to St. Charles
in 1843, where he has since remained. Up to that
year he had studied the ordinary English courses
and begun on Latin and Greek.

In 1845 he taught school in St. Charles, but a
few months experience showed that it was too con-
fining for his weak constitution. He dismissed his
school one Friday evening and on the following
morning went into the cornfield, he continued farm

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 455

work until in the spring of 1846, when he entered
St. Charles College—then under the presidency of
Rev. lsaac Ebbert. By laborious study and some
indulgence fromqthe faculty he received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in August, 1847. While at this

‘institution, he taught in the preparatory department

enough to pay within fifteen dollars of his tuition
and text books; his friend Parks still gave him a
home, but notwithstanding the liberal offer to edu-
cate Joseph, the young man showed his willingness
to earn at least some of the necessary funds as a
teacher by his own exertions, even if it should greatly
add to his labors and increase the tax on his health.

Immediately after, graduating, Mr. Alexander
entered the law office of Hon. Robert H. Parks and
studied for the profession. In 1850, having been
admitted to practice, he entered into partnership
with him. On his first coming to St. Charles our
subject wrote for awhile in the circuit clerk’s office,
and while pursuing his law studies was deputy clerk,
in which positions he gained much practical informa-

tion of benefit to a lawyer. The partnership was.

dissolved in 1853, upon the election of Mr. Parks
to the state senate and his then announced intention
of abandoning the profession. Mr. Alexander con-
tinued in the practice alone until 1855, when he
formed a partnership with Edward A. Lewis, Esq. ,
now presiding justice of the St. Louis Court of
Appeals.

In regard to the gentleman of whom we write,
he had no special predilection that led him to adopt
For some parts of it he had a
taste and aptitude, for -others none. Circumstances
as much as anything impelled him. He developed
more as the counselor than the attorney 3 office work
is his delight—court house efforts he never had any
inclination for.

In the winter of 1863-4 Mr. Alexander suffered
from an attack of acute rheumatism and neuralgia3
his recovery was slow, and he was disabled from
active mental and physical exertion. He sought and
obtained the position of cashier in the First National
Bank of St. Charles (then recently established),
Where he continued until February, 1870, when on
the organization of the Union Savings Bank of St.
Charles, he was elected its cashier, which position he
has ever since held. As a bank officer he has been
assuredly a success, so much as to indicate that
finance is more his forte than law. ,Neverthe1ess,
his time spent in studying for and practicing in the
latter has furnished him with a knowledge of the law

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law as a profession.

as adapted to trade, its risks, responsibilities, etc.,
that has been and still is of incalculable benefit to
him in his banking operations.

For many years’ Mr. Alexander has held a com-
mission as notary public 3 besides this he served
one term as public administrator of the county 3 was

' also secretary of the citizens association during its

existence, and is now a member of the St. Charles
Starch Company. In 1850 he became a Mason at
St. Charles, and has filled various offices in his lodge

—for several years master. When the Royal Arch

3 Chapter was organized in that city a few years ago

he was elected its first and only High Priest. He
was always an advocate of temperance, first uniting
with a'cold—water organization at the age of fourteen.
He was member, officer and Chief Templar of a
lodge of Good Templars for many years, and in 18 57
served one year as Grand Worthy Chief Templar of
that order in the State of Missouri. In ‘politics he
was a Whig during the existence of that .party—-
although opposed to the election of General Zachary
Taylor, because his judgment disapproved the mak-
ing of president any man on purely military prestige.
Since the disorganization of the Whig party he has
acted with the conservatives and with the Democratic
party.

December 9, 1851, Joseph H. Alexander was
married to Miss Jane Cornforth, a native of England.
They have seven children, one married.

Moral youth and Christian manhood in this case
brought it sown reward. Starting in childhood, an
orphan bereft of paternal influences and training,
under difficulties,learning the alphabet at ten,studious
at school and strictly moral as a boy——gaining friends 3
without swerving from the path of rectitude, yet with
the true sense of generosity in his independence,
laboring and studying together that his wages might
pay for his books and college tuition 3 ever moral,
upright and temperate as a boy, he found friends at
manhood plentiful. At fourteen he became a -mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church in Louisiana, and has
been such ever since 3 at twenty—six he was ordained
elder in his church, which office he has faithfully
filled till now—-—in church, in parish and as an exem-
plar. Unostentatious by nature, he could never be a
Pharisee3 his religion and his rebukes ha.ve never
been thrust into men’s faces 3 but he has simply
striven to carry the grand principles of Christ’s relig-
ion into his every day life, endeavoring to teach love
and reverence to God in the marts of trade as well
as in the portals of the synagogue. He has eschewed

456 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

evil—strictly temperate through ‘life, he can say
he never used the social glass to enhance business
or to secure friendship, having never drunk a pint of
alcoholic stimulants in his life, and is at the same
time of a social turn, of genial disposition and has
many friends in society and in trade; he abandoned
the use of tobacco after being its slave twenty years,
and from a spare thin-visaged youth, became a stal-
wart man of one hundred and seventy-five pounds.
He has enjoyed and does yet enjoy mirth without

being boisterous; can entertain and still does not
know euchre, nor whist, nor the name nor power of
a card in the deck. In short, he has made it his duty
through life to “ serve God acceptably,” and by
example teach men so. And he has made and held
friends, gained credit, earned a livelihood, preserved
his health, and at the same time been happy. What
sage can show more? What more can any philoso-
phy propose? What philosophy other than Chris-
tianity ever secured as much?

COLONEL PHILIP AUSTIN THOMPSON.

PHELPS CITY.

I-IILIP A. THOMPSON was born in Callaway
P county, Missouri, July 31, 1830. Nearly iden-
tified with the interests of his native state for many
years, he deserves more than a mere passing notice.
His father, David Hamilton Thompson, was a native
of Tennessee, and his mother, whose maiden name
was Anne Williams, of St. Louis county, Missouri.
His parents emigrated to Missouri before it was
admitted into the Union and settled in Callaway
county, where Philip, the second of nine children,
was born. His education was only such as the pub-
lic schools afforded, and at the age of eighteen he
quitted his father’s farm, where he had previously
labored, and took a situation as salesman and book-
keeper in a store in De Kalb, Buchanan county.
He had fixed his mind on the study of law and had
procured some books, the nucleus of his future
library. But he found little leisure in which to
prosecute his studies, and eventually sold his books
and abandoned all idea of the bar. He remained
in De Kalb until 1851, at which time he removed to
Holt county and spent one year in teaching. Cali-
fornia was then attracting the attention of young
men, and thither Mr. Thompson went in 1852.
Here he remained three years engaged in farming,
and returned to Missouri in 1855, settling in Holt
county.

In 1856 he began merchandising in Rockport,
Atchison county, in connection with Messrs. Dillon
and Ruland, the firm style being Dillon, Thompson
& Co. In this firm he continued until 1859. In
the latter year he entered into partnership with Dr.
Buckham, whose daughter, Susan, he married on

the 31st of December, 1859. When the civil war
began, he closed his store and joined the Federal
Missouri State militia, enlisting for six months. He
was elected major of the 4th battalion, a position he
held till his time expired. At the expiration of his
term of service, he reénlisted for three years in
the 5th Cavalry, and was commissioned lieutenant-
colonel of the regiment, Colonel Pennick being his
superior in command. The regiment was mustered
out of service in 1863, and Colonel Thompson
returned to his mercantile pursuits in Rockport,
having his brother, F. M. Thompson, as his partner.

In April, 1867, having invested largely in real
estate, he began to pay more attention to the
improvement of his property and less to his mercan-
tile interests, though still maintaining a partnership
with his brother who conducted the affairs of the
store. In 1868 the business house was removed to
Phelps City. In March, 187 5, Colonel Thompson
began a general banking business, purchasing and
selling exchange, discounting paper, etc., a business
which he still continues.

In politics, Colonel Thompson was a Whig until
that party ceased to exist, when he allied himself
with the Republican organization and has voted
with that party ever since. In 1860 he was elected
treasurer of Atchison county as a Whig, though the
county at that time gave a Democratic majority.
In 1863 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the State
Senate from the district composed of Holt, Atchison
and Nodaway counties, and at the end of two years
declined a reelection. He was nominated by the
Republicans for representative from the 9th Congres-

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sional district in 1876, and ran five hundred votes
ahead of his ticket in his own county. In this race
he was defeated by his Democratic opponent.

Colonel Thompson was made a Master Mason
in North Star Lodge, Rockport, Missouri, in 1865,
and is now a member and Past High Priest of the
Royal Arch Chapter in Phelps City. He was also
at one time actively identified with the order of Odd
Fellows. He is not a professor of religion, though
reared under the teachings and probably endorsing
the doctrines of the Christian church.

He has acquired a very handsome estate, owning
some two thousand acres of arable land in Atchison
county, divided into. various farms. On one of
these, a tract of seven hundred acres, he has built a

very elegant and attractive residence, the most styl-
ish and costly dwelling house in the county. It is
situated near Phelps City. Here he lives, surrounded
by his family of nine children, enjoying the confi-
dence and respect of his fellow-citizens, and project-
ing and carrying on enterprises which, while they
continue to add to his ample fortune, are of great
benefit to his section of the state. He annually
feeds and ships a large quantity of live stock and is
known as a liberal and honorable trader.

. In person, Colonel Thompson is five feet ten
and three-quarters inches in height and weighs two
hundred and twenty-five pounds. He is one of the
most enterprising and influential citizens of his
county.

CAPTAIN LEVI E. WHYBARK.

ST. LOUIS.

ROBABLY one of the very oldest white fami-
P lies of Missouri is that of which the subject of
this sketch is the descendant. As early as 1786,
john C. Whybark, a German Reformed missionary,
settled in the then territory of Missouri and for a
number of years preached to the Indians. He was
a Revolutionary soldier. His wife was Harriet Clay
—a half-sister of Henry Clay, of Kentucky. Their
son, Samuel P. Whybark, was a native of Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer. He
came west and settled in Cape Girardeau, in 1802,
long before Missouri was a state. He subsequently
returned to Pennsylvania ; not however to remain,
for he came back to Missouri and settled in Perry
county, where he yet resides. He married Sophia
Bollinger, a granddaughter of Major Daniel Bol-
linger, the pioneer of the county which afterwards
received his name, he having settled there in 1815,
coming from North Carolina. He was ‘a miller by
occupation, but a prominent public man, he was the
first representative in the Missouri Legislature from
Bollinger county, and was a member of that body
for eighteen years. He had been a major in the
Revolutionary army. The Major had a son also
named Daniel. The family have been among the
most enterprising men of the State.

Levi E. Whybark, our subject, was the son of

Samuel P. and Sophia (Bollinger) Whybark, and
was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September 30,
1832. He was raised in Perry county, Missouri, on
the family farm, and in the common schools of his
neighborhood received his education. Choosing
mercantile pursuits for his business, he began therein
in 1850, in Bollinger county.

When the war began in 1861, he enlisted as a
private in company F, 4th Missouri Infantry, under
Colonel john W. Noel, and served throughout the
war in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, participat-
ing in the battles of Frederickston, Belmont, Pilot
Knob, Lexington, Wilson’s Creek, Independence
and Big Blue, besides numerous engagements and
skirmishes. In 1861 he was promoted to second
lieutenant and in 1:862 to captain. The 4th Mis-
souri was a six-months’ regiment, and on the expira-
tion of its term of service he joined the 12th Missouri
Cavalry as captain of company F. In about a year
this regiment was consolidated with the 5th Missouri
Cavalry and as captain of company M. of this regi-
ment he served three years. In 1865 he enlisted as
a “ veteran captain” in the 13th Missouri Cavalry,
and served with that regiment during the remainder
of the war.

Captain. Whybark resumed business as a mer-
chant in 1866, at Salem, Dent county, Missouri.

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He remained there, however, only three months,
when he returned to Bollinger county and there
engaged in merchandising until 1871, when he went
into the lumber business in Wayne county of the
same state, and continued two years. In 1873 he
located in St. Louis and has ‘since remained there in
the provision commission business.

Captain Whybark was married, September 24,
1857, to Miss Mary C. Edinger, of Cape Girardeau

county, Missouri. She was the daughter of George
Edinger, Esq., one of the pioneers of that county,
but a native of North Carolina.

The captain is a Presbyterian in religion. He
takes no active part in political matters, devoting
his time exclusively to his business at No. 119 Mar-
ket street, where he may be found from morning
until night busily attending to his fast increasing
trade, and giving everything his personal supervision.

HON. JOSEPH VVAYNE MERCER.

INDEPENDENCE.

City, Missouri, February 2 5, 1845. Thomas
~ W. Mercer, his father, was a native of Wash-
ington county, Tennessee, and was by profession a
contractor and builder. He removed with his fam-
ily to Missouri in 1838 and settled near Lee’s Sum-

IOSEPH W. MERCER was born in Platte

imit, where he engaged in farming and building.

Before leaving Tennessee he was united in marriage
with Miss Henrietta Dukes, a native of Washington
county, Virginia. The issue of this marriage was
sixteen children, eight of whom are now (1878) liv-
ing. Thomas VV. Mercer died at his home in Indepen-
dence in 1876. His widow is still living.

The subject of this sketch attended the schools
of Prairie township in his boyhood and received
such instruction as the common schools afford. In
1858 he entered the college at Chapel Hill, Lafay-
ette county, Missouri, and pursued a regular course
until the breaking out of the rebellion. At the
beginning of the war he joined Colonel Elliot’s
battalion of the State Guard, and participated in the
battle of Lexington, when Colonel Mulligan, of the
United States forces, surrendered to Major—General
Price. In this fight he received a wound in the leg
which for several months incapacitated him for active
service. .

Having recovered from the effects of his wound,
Mr. Mercer rejoined his battalion and was made Ist
sergeant of his company. The battalion went to
Arkansas, and thence to Memphis, Tennessee. Here
Mr. Mercer was violently ill and was detained for a
considerable time. Recovering his health, he entered
as a private in company G, Ioth Missouri Volunteer

Cavalry. In the battle that occurred at Pine Bluff,

October 25, 1863, Mr. Mercer was placed in the

front as a sharp-shooter, and while gallantly engaging
the enemy was severely wounded. From the effects
of this wound he is still suffering, having been com-
pelled to submit to the amputation of his right arm.
A vigorous constitution and a resolute will soon
restored him to health and strength, but he was
physically disabled from serving in the ranks. His
gallantry was recognized by the government, and he
was placed in the commissary department with the
rank of captain, which position he held until the
close of the war. ‘

He returned to Independence in 186 5, and being
then but twenty years of age, he reviewed his studies
under Professor George S. Bryant. He afterward
taught a public school near Independence, and at
the same time instructed an evening class in book-
keeping and commercial law, having previously grad-
uated at Jones’ Commercial College in St. Louis.
During his short experience as a teacher, he ‘acquired
an excellent reputation in his profession and also
made it a financial success, having amassed the sum
of six hundred dollars within a year. This sum was
was the foundation of his subsequent ventures and
successes.

Abandoning the school-room, he engaged in the
real estate and insurance business and dealt in Mis-
souri Pacific Railroad stocks. In these enterprises
he was unusually successful. Operating with pru-
dence and sagacity, he found his income larger than
his most sanguine expectations, and his little capital
was daily augmented by the profits of his invest-
ments. In a very few years he became the fortunate
possessor of twenty-five thousand dollars, and then

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qnit the business in which he had been so eminently
successful, the circumstances having become so
changed as to render ventures extremely hazardous.

In the summer of 1872 he was chosen a member
of the Independence city ‘council, and in November
of the same year he I was elected county treasurer.
In his race for the latter position, his popularity was
put to the severest test, as his opponent before the
Democratic convention, Joseph B. Glover, Esq.,
was one of the best known and most popular men in
the county. When the nomination was made, Mr.
Mercer received forty-seven of the seventy—one votes
cast, or within a fraction of a two-thirds vote.

In 1874 Mr. Mercer became a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the office of state treas-
urer. He made a very thorough canvass of the
state and against members of the party who had
been recognized as leaders in the Democratic party
for years. The disadvantages under which he labored
would have deterred most men from entering upon
the campaign. He was living on the western border
of Missouri, he had been little known as a political
aspirant in the state; he was not yet thirty years of
age; he had held no position of prominence save’
that of treasurer of his county ; he had not attended
state political conventions, and not being a public
speaker, he was forced to make a personal canvass
requiring ceaseless activity. Yet, with all these diffi—
culties, he successfully contended and was nomina-
ted and elected by the Democratic party to the office
of state treasurer, being the youngest man who ever
held that office, and discharged its duties with fidelity

and success during two years. During his adminis-
tration the bonds of the state advanced from ninety-
five to one hundred and seven.

At the expiration of his term of office he returned
to Independence and began the banking business,
the firm style being Anderson, Hughes & Co., but
in January, 1878, he sold his interest in the bank to
Mr. C. C. Chiles. -

Politically Mr. Mercer has always been an active
Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Episco-
pal church (South), a consistent Christian gentleman,
an acceptable citizen and one who contributes to
public and private charities liberally and without
ostentation. — ,

On the 18th of May, 1870, Mr. Mercer was
joined in marriage with Miss Laura Greene, daughter
of Beal Greene, Esq. Four children have been the
offspiring of this union, namely: Misses Annie L.,
Ettie V., Mary Hardin and Alice R. Mercer.

In all the relations of life Mr. Mercer has proved
himself faithful to the trusts committed to him.
Whether in his private or official capacity, no taint
of dishonor can be found. He has been the founder
and builder of his own fortune, receiving but little
assistance in his life-struggle. In fact, his success is
attributable only to his own energy and perseverance.

He now resides on his beautiful suburban estate, on '

the southwest border of Independence, surrounded
by an interesting family and the refinements of an
elegant home, enjoying the confidence of his fellow-
citizens, with a prospect of usefulness before him
which few men attain so early in life.

WILLIAM C. WHITE.

DOVER.

ILLIAM C. WHITE was born June 9, 1827,
in Richmond, Virginia. His father, Thomas

]. White, was born in Hanover county, Virginia, in
I8o5, and was a merchant of Richmond, where he
acquired an extensive trade. His grandfather, Wil-
liam White, was also a native of Hanover county,
and was of English parentage. His mother, Eliza
Ann Carter, was born in 1809, in Henrico county,
Virginia. Her father, Curtis Carter, was also a
native of Henrico county, and of English descent.
Her mother, Elizabeth Baker, was of Welsh descent.

William C. White was educated near Richmond,
Virginia, completing his course of study in 1842.
In the same year, he emigrated to Missouri with his
parents, locating in Dover, Lafayette county. In
the spring of 1843 his parents purchased and moved
to a farm seven miles southeast of Dover, and he
lived with them, tilling the ground until 1849. In
the latter year, June 28, he was married to Miss
Elizabeth Starke, born in 1831, in Henrico county,
Virginia. Her father, Burwell Starke, was a native
of Hanover county and was born in 1805. His

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father was of an English family. The mother of
Miss Starke was Amanda Trueheart, born in Han-
over county, Virginia, in 1808, and of English stock.

After his marriage, Mr. White settled on a farm
given by his father and adjoining the paternal estate.
In 1859 he sold his farm and took up his residence
in Dover, where he conducted a high school until
1861. He then purchased a farm two and a half
miles southeast of Dover, where he has ever since
resided, being occupied in farming and teaching.
In 1876 he was elected assessor of Lafayette county,
for two years.

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In politics, he was a Whig during the existence
of that party, but has since acted with the Democ-
racy. He is a member of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and is chaplain of a Grange near Dover.

Mr. White has been a member of the Christian
church for thirty-four years.
of the Baptist church.

Mr. and Mrs. White have four children, all of
whom are living, to-wit: Edwin F., born July 31,
1853; Fanny B.,_born May 28, 1859, Virginia P.,
born July 2o, 1863, Elizabeth T., born May 18,
1875.

His wife is a member

HON. ALBERT O. ALLEN.

_/EFEERSOIV CITY.

LBERT O. ALLEN was born December 12,
A 1842, in Madison county, Missouri, and was
When
about sixteen years old he was appointed deputy clerk
of New Madrid county, and remained in that position
about two years, until 1861, when he went to Mem-
phis, Tennessee, and enlisted in Colonel Bowen’s regi-
ment of 1st Missouri Confederate Infantry. He served
through the entire war, participating in many of the
severest engagements. At the close he returned to
New Madrid and started a newspaper called the

educated at Arcadia College, near Ironton.

New Madrid Record’, of which he is still proprietor.

In 1872 he was elected to the Twenty-Seventh
General Assembly, and distinguished himself in an
able speech in opposition to the passage of the Han-
nibal & St Joseph Railroad renewal bond bill.

Upon the election of Judge Holladay to the office
of State Auditor, in 1874, Mr. Allen was appointed
chief clerk, and discharged the duties of his office
with such efficiency and marked satisfaction to the peo-
ple of the state that he was retained in the same posi-
tion on the reelection of Judge Holladay in 1876.

DR. FRANCIS B. NOFSINGER.

IKAIVSAS CITY.

7‘ HE first white child born in Ladoga, Mont-

P gomery county, Indiana, was Francis B. Nof-
singer, November 6, 1837. His father, William R.
Nofsinger, was married in 1835 to Mary, daughter
of John Myers, a Virginian who settled in Indiana
about 1833. Five years after Francis’ birth, his
father moved into Parke county where he resided
until 18 54, at which time he was elected state treas-
urer and removed to Indianapolis. Francis B.
received a thorough collegiate education, including
modern languages , began his medical studies in 1,861,

in the course of which he attended lectures at Ohio
Medical College, Cincinnati, and at Tennessee Med-
ical College, Nashville, at which institution he grad-
uated in 1864. In the same year he was employed
as contract surgeon in the United States army and
served in Tennessee until the war closed.

October 5, 186 5, he was married to Julia, daugh-
ter of Colonel A. Baldwin, of Edgar county, Illinois.

 Of their three children, one,William B., born Septem-

I
i

ber 11, 1867, is dead, the others are Frank B., born

I March 7, 1870, and Gertrude, born August 25, 1872.

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June 5, 1869, attracted by the promising future
of the chief city of the Missouri Valley, Dr. Nof-
singer settled in Kansas City and established the
first beef and pork packing house at that place. He
purchased the building, two stories high, 7ox16o feet,
corner of Ninth and Liberty streets, West Kansas
City, and the same summer built a stone addition
8ox1o2 feet. Here in the season of 1869-70 he
slaughtered 1o,ooo hogs and 4,200 beeves, which
were shipped to the eastern markets. In 1870-71
he leased his buildings to Plankinton & Armours,
but resumed operations the following season and has
conducted the business ever since.

Notwithstanding the years of panic, the business
has steadily increased. In 1877 the house gave
employment to from thirty to fifty hands, and for

the season ending May, 1, 1878, shipped 21,6oo,ooo,

pounds of beef. His cooling room has a capacity of
two hundred and fifty dressed beeves. Dr. N ofsinger
is the only Kansas City packer who has made a suc-
cess of shipping dressed beef in refrigerator cars to the
eastern markets. When he proposed it, the idea was
considered chimerical ; but in 187 5 he was making reg-
ular shipments in this way of 4o,ooo pounds of dressed
beef daily. The experiment is a perfect success;
for the last ‘season the shipments have sometimes
amounted to 1oo,ooo pounds daily, and have aver-
aged 6o,ooo. The regular shipping season-is from
September to May, and for the season of 1877-78
his shipments of dressed beef to Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Boston and New York aggregated I6,2oo,ooo
pounds. The business has become one of the per-
manent interests of the city, and the time is not far
distant when the scientific appliances for refrigera-
tion will be so perfected that shipments of fresh beef
will be profitably made the year round from Kansas
City to the markets of England and the Continent,
as well asto our own Atlantic seaboard.

In 1874 Dr. Nofsinger was elected president of
the Kansas City Board of Trade, which position he
held until January, 1878. As an officer of the Board
he zealously advocated the erection of a suitable
building for the transactions of ’Change, in which he
was ably seconded by other public-spirited citizens;
in 1876 the foundations were laid, and in 1877 the
magnificent Merchants’ Exchange. corner of Fifth
and Delaware streets, was completed. He was a
member of the City Council in 187 3-74, and its
president during his first term of office.

While Dr. Nofsinger is not a politician, in the
usual sense of that word, he takes a deep interest in

all national, state and local affairs, supporting the
principles of the Republican party. His public
spirit and generosity were peculiarly tried in the
municipal election of April, 1878. Previous to the
nomination, by the Republican party, of their candi-
date for mayor, the Doctor was urged to allow his
name to be put in nomination, but refused, being
fully occupied with business and believing that there
were more available men. Another nomination was
made. Very unexpectedly the Republicans were
left without any candidate on the eve of election;
the vacancy must be filled,'and an immense pressure
was brought to bear upon Dr. Nofsinger to induce
him to accept a nomination which, under the circum-
stances, was considered equivalent to a defeat. He
accepted, and the Democratic candidateiwas elected
by a minority vote, there being three candidates in
the field.””"The votes polled for the successful candi-
date were several hundred less than a majority. Of
course it was a party defeat, but it demonstrated the
Doctor’s popularity, and an unselfishness few would
have manifested.

His success as a business man is the result of a
Wise forethought in arranging his plans, a clear con-
ception of the means to be employed, and a steady
persistence of purpose. This ability to plan, com-
bine and concentrate his forces for attack or defense
is one of his mental characteristics, and is evidenced
by hisproficiency in the game of “ chess,” at which
he is an expert. He was president of the Indianap-
olis Chess Club during the Paul Murphy furore, and
it is said has never met his superior in the “ royal
game,” but of _late years has devoted but little atten-
tion to it.

Affable in his manners, sociable in his disposition,
courteous to strangers, well informed on all subjects
of general interest, he moves easily among men and
makes friends readily where solid qualities are in
demand, and those who know him most intimately
are those who hold him in the highest esteem.
Largely endowed with strength of mind and force of
character, he is well fitted to inaugurate and carry
on large business enterprises. Upright in his deal-
ings, true to his promises, he inspires confidence in
the success of all he undertakes. He is enterprising,
public-spirited, interested in all that concerns the
welfare of community, and no man in Kansas City
enjoys a larger share of the public esteem or is more
deserving of it. 8

Dr. Nofsinger and wife aremembers of the 1st
Presbyterian church, and most happy in all their

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domestic and social relations. Their son, Frank
B., is a manly little fellow, and at the Bazaar for the
benefit of the Woman’s Christian Association, held
last winter, was voted the “ Bazaar pony,” as the
most popular little boy in Kansas City. Gertrude is
a sweet child, loving and affectionate in her disposi-

tion, and the Doctor may well indulge the pride he
takes in his children. His home is quiet, pleasantly
furnished, showing the refined social character of its
inmates, and one will hardly find a more natural
welcome or more genial companionship than is met
with in his family.

MAJOR R. H. MELTON.

WARSA W.

AJOR MELTON’S great grandfather, the first
M of this family who settled in America, e1ni-
grated from England to Virginia about the middle of
the last century. His son, John Melton, born in Vir-
ginia, lived and died in that state, leaving five chil-
dren, one of whom, Elisha Melton, Major Melton’s
father, was born in the year 1800. Elisha Melton
was early apprenticed to the carpenter’s trade, and
later in life became an extensive builder and con-
tractor. Losinglargely by his contracts upon the
construction of the Louisa Railroad, now Ohio &
Baltimore, he gave up business as a contractor, and
moved to his farm near Louisa Court House, Vir-
ginia, where he died in 185 5, regretted by a very
numerous circle of acquaintances. He was a man of
liberal and progressive ideas, and was deeply inter-
ested in the educational. work of Louisa county,
doing much to introduce the latest and most approved
methods of instruction there.

His wife, Ann T. Chiles, was a descendant of an
old English family who emigrated to Virginia before
the present century. Richard H., sixth child of
Elisha and Ann T. Melton, was born December 17,
I834’, in Louisa county, Virginia, where he attended
school until 1852. Being now eighteen years of age
he accepted a position as deputy in the office of the
circuit and county clerk of Louisa county, which
position he held for three years, reading law in the
intervals of business. He was appointed deputy
sheriff in 18 5 5, which office he held until his removal
to Missouri in the following year, when he settled at
Palmyra where he engaged as clerk in a general
merchandising establishment.

In 1857 he settled in Warsaw, Benton county,
engaging in real estate and land warrant business
between Fort Scott and Warsaw, which he followed
until the breaking out of the war in 1861. "In this

year he was commissioned by Governor Gamble as
mustering officer with the rank of major. Having
enlisted four companies for the 8th Regiment Mis-
souri State Militia, Major Melton was entitled to the
lieutenant-colonelcy, but his health rendering him
unfit for active service, he recommended Colonel
McClurg (since governor) for the position, and was
himself appointed Brigade Commissary of South-
west Division of Missouri, with headquarters at
Springfield.

In August, 1862, Major Melton was elected to
represent Benton county in the lower house of the Mis-
souri General Assembly, and in December, the same
year, resigned his appointment at Springfield to enter
upon his legislative duties. He was quite active in
the business of the session, serving as chairman of
the committee on claims, and as a member of the
committee on elections and railroads. When the
assembly adjourned in 1863, he returned to Warsaw
and was engaged during the summer in trade, deal-
ing in horses, mules and cattle, returning to the State
Capital in the winter, and remained during the ses-
sion of 1863-4. In the spring of 1864 the major
was commissioned Commissary, with headquarters at
Cairo and New Orleans. His health was ill—suited
to the climate, and being reelected to the assembly
he returned to Jefferson City, where he resided until
early in the spring of 1865, when he was commis-
sioned by Governor Fletcher colonel of the Benton
county militia, in whose organization he had been
acfive.

At the close of the war, he resumed his real
estate business in Warsaw. In 1869 he went to
Clinton, Henry county, Missouri, accepting the
secretaryship of the railroad now known as the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas, of which corporation he
was also a director. This office he held one year,

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after which he returned to Warsaw and engaged in
his old business as a land agent. Here he has con-
tinued to reside, being quite extensively engaged in
mining enterprises, and has accumulated ten thou-
sand acres of farming and mining land in Benton
and Hickory counties, upon which there are exten-
sive deposits of iron, zinc and lead. Several veins
have been opened, but owing to lack of transporta-
tion facilities have not been energetically worked.
The deposits are of the blue specular, red and brown
hematite and pipe. No one has been more active
than Major Melton in developing the resources of
Benton county. For the past four years a director
of the Osage Valley & Southern Kansas Railroad, he
has made every endeavor to secure its completion.
He is also director of the Jefferson City & Southwest-

ern Railroad, both of which bid fair to be completed.
In politics he still adheres to his old Whig principles,
confines himself to no party and votes independ-
ently. In religious matters he is decidedly liberal.
He was married, January 18, 1860, to Miss
Almira, daughter of Hon. Samuel Parks. Her
mother, Christiania, was a member of the Clark
family that settled in Benton county from Hanover
county, Virginia. Of the Major’s six children, five
are now living. Mrs. Melton’s father was for many
years judge of county and probate courts of Benton
county, and one of her leading citizens. He repre-
sented his county in the general assembly of 1858—9
and was reelected in 1872. He died during the
session of the assembly, January, 1873, while in
Jefferson City attending to his legislative duties.

HENRY RICE PAYNE, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

ENRY RICE PAYNE, the eldest of seven
H children of John W. Payne and Elizabeth
Rice, was born June 21, 1828, in Corydon,
Indiana. His father was a lawyer of distinction in
both Indiana and Kentucky. Confining himself to the
duties of his profession, he was an acknowledged
jurist and graceful orator. He was a Whig and,
though not a politician, his eminent ability made him
a favorite with his party and sometimes forced him to
the front. He was a prominent candidate of his
party, at one time, for the United States Senate,
served in both branches of the Indiana Legislature,
and was speaker of the house; was a Whig elector in
1840, when General Harrison was elected president,
was a candidate for congress against Robert Dale
Owen, in a strongly Democratic district, and made a
vigorous canvass with that accomplished orator,
being defeated by a small majority. His wife,
Elizabeth Rice, was a lady of fascinating manners
and high accomplishments, uniting with her other
qualities and governing them, the purest of Christian
principles. They had seven children: Henry Rice,
the subject of this sketch, Alexander, who died in
infancy; Jonathan, who married Margaret Vance, of
Corydon, Indiana, is a prominent lawyer at Goliad,
Texas, John W., who married Josephine Simpson,

daughter of Arthur  Simpson, of Paola, Indiana, is a
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lawyer at that place, Emily,‘married Hon. H. P. H.
Bromwell, of Charleston, Illinois, who for four years
represented his district in congress 3 William A., a
young man of promise, who died in 1873 3 Robert L.,
who married Mary E. Van Deren, of Coles county,
Illinois. He took a thorough course in one of the
best Medical Colleges of this country, and has been
prominently before the American public in the capac-
ity of a Medical Practitioner and Lecturer since the
year 1871, and is now connected with his brother
H. _R. Payne in the Kansas City Medical and Surgi-
cal Institute.

Henry R. Payne was educated in the common
schools of his native state. He studied medicine
under the instruction of Dr. Andrew Jones, a suc-
cessful practitioner of Indiana, and graduated in
March, 1852, in the Medical University of Louis-
ville. He soon after removed to Marshall, Clark
county, Illinois, Where he successfully pursued the
practice of his profession until 1861. In September
of that year he was commissioned by Governor
Yates as surgeon of the ioth Illinois Infantry. After
serving with his regiment for one year, he was
appointed by order of Major—General Rosecrans a
brigade-surgeon of the Pioneer Corps, an organiza-
tion made up of detachments from each regiment in
the Army. He was an attending surgeon in the

464 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

battles before Corinth and Stone River. Afterwards
his regiment was attached to the 2d Division 14th
Army Corps. and by virtue of his rank as senior sur-
geon he became medical director of the division,
and continued in charge of the Division Hospital for
some time after the fall of Atlanta, or until the expi-
ration of his term of service November 3, 1864. He
won distinction as a skillful surgeon and successful
operator; his experience was large,‘ as he was present
and took a prominent part in all of the great battles
from Nashville down to the fall of Atlanta. After
the battle of Jonesborough he moved over three hun-
dred of the wounded and sick of his division to
Atlanta, and by order of the general commanding,
took charge of the Atlanta Medical College as a Hos-
pital. Some of his reports, and many of his most
difficult and successful operations are recorded in the
“Medical and Surgical History of the War of the
Rebellion,” a record containing four large volumes,
possessing great value, and preserved for the benefit
of the Science of Surgery. .

He soon after removed to Kansas City, where he
resumed the regular practice and established a fine

reputation as a physician and surgeon. He was
elected president of the Kansas City Medical Asso-
ciation, and was sent as a delegate to the State Med-
ical Association of St. Louis. In—]uly, 1874, he
opened the first Medical Institute at Kansas City,
called the Kansas City Medical and Surgical Insti-
tute. It is located on the corner of Main and
Seventh streets, and is fitted up with all the modern

appliances and conveniences to be found in the best

institutions of that character. It is visited by large
numbers of the afflicted from Missouri and the adja-
cent states and territories. '

He was married in April, 1852, at Corydon,
Indiana, to Miss ]ane Anna McGrain. They have
three daughters: Mattie M., the Wife of Norton
Thayer, business manager of the extensive dry goods
house of Bullene, Moores & Emery, Kansas City 3
Lizzie E., and Anna, who reside with their parents.

Dr. Payne is a man of prepossessing appearance,
attractive manners, large intelligence and great
energy. His long experience as a practitioner and
surgeon has made him well known to a large portion
of his professional brethren.

WILLIAM PROVINES, M. D.

COLU./LIBIA.

‘ N IILLIAM PROVINES was born April 25,
1796, in County Derry, near Londonderry,

Ireland. His family is of French origin, and heis
descended from one of those Huguenot families who
were driven out of France during the Catholic per-
secutions, and who settled, some of them in the
North of Ireland, some in England and some in the
wilds of America. Robert de Province (of which,
doubtless, the name Provines is a corruption) was a
noted leader of the Huguenots. William was born
in the same house in which his father, Joseph Pro-
vines, was born and reared. The latter was the
youngest of twelve sons and inherited the homestead
which he occupied till his death,having been afarmer
in comfortable circumstances. His mother, Margaret
Long, died when he was but twelve years old, and
his father lived a widower for more than forty years.
His grandmother, on his mother’s side, Jane Hamil-
ton, was a woman of extraordinary mental vigor and
was nearly related to the lamented Alexander Hamil-

ton, and also to the family of Hamilton R. Gamble,
of Missouri. .

Being an only son, his father determined to give
him a thorough education and fit him for the _position
of surgeon in the British navy. To this end, the
very best tutors were employed and he attended the
best schools of his native country. Paddy Lingley,
an ex-priest, a ripe scholar and thorough disciplin-
arian, was his preceptor in the languages a11d
sciences. Having completed his literary course, and
the war between England and France being at its
height, he was promised an appointment" to the posi-

_ tion he desired as soon as he was qualified to fill it.

He accordingly Went to London, where he was under
the tuition of the celebrated Dr. Carpu, then regarded
as the most skillful surgeon in Europe,. where he
remained two years. By the rules of the college the
degree of Doctor of Medicine could not be conferred
on him, he being under twentyone years of age , but
after a most rigid and searching examination he was

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY. 465

granted a certificate that would h ve enabled him to
take the position of surgeon’s mate. Just about that
time the battle of Waterloo was fought and the war
between England and France was ended. He wit-
nessed all the pomp, and parade and pageantry in
London at the celebration of the great victory,
though with an aching heart, as the close of the war
postponed the hour of his preferment. So dense
was the crowd in the streets of London, at this cele-
bration, that he raised his feet from the ground and
and was carried a long distance by the surging
crowd. He returned to his father’s house and
remained several months, awaiting an anticipated
appointment in the East, India service. Becoming
impatient of the delay, and anxious to fill that station
in society for which he was so well fitted, he
embarked, September 16, 1816, for America, and
the day he landed in New York his father received
the coveted but tardy commission. Several uncles
had preceded him to the United States, one of whom
then resided at Huntingdon and another at Harris-
burg, Pennsylvania, whither he went. He was
advised by his friends to attend some of the best
schools in America and learn something of the
diseases he would come in contact with in this coun-
try. He attended the medical colleges of New York

and Philadelphia, graduating with distinction in the

latter city in the spring of 1818. He entered upon
the practice in Huntingdon county and continued
there for a short time. He then went to Pittsburg
and practiced with a Dr. Holmes for a few months,
but a desire to see the far West and build up a home
there urged him on. This was before the days of
steamboats and he descended the Ohio river in a flat
boat with some families journeying to Shawneetown,
Illinois. ' His friends were anxious that he should

locate in Louisville, Kentucky, and had given him
numerous letters of introduction and recommenda-

tion; but the first letter he presented meeting with
an indifferent reception, he thrust the remaining ones
into his pocket and passed on. He was desirous of
making his way to Huntsville, Alabama, but on the
way down the Ohio he met a lady whom he had
known in Philadelphia, the wife of a physician in
Carlisle, Illinois, who strongly urged him to go to
Carlisle and assist her husband in his extensive prac-
tice. Meeting her husband at Shawneetown he also
insisted on the arrangement and Dr. Provines became
a resident of Carlisle. He worked laboriously and
industriously for some time, but was finally stricken
down by a malarial fever that came near terminating

his life. His uncle, Andrew Provines, then resided
in Madison county, Kentucky, and thither he went
to recruit his health and strength. While visiting
some old school friends in Shelbyville, Kentucky, he
met Miss Mary Brookie, and between the two a
strong attachment sprang up, resulting in their mar-
riage, January 17, 1822. Her friends then prevailed
upon him to remain in that state. He at first located
in Woodford county, but in 'a short time removed to
Versailles, where he practiced for nearly nine years
with great success and profit. While there he and
his wife united with the Presbyterian church, of
which he was ever after a consistent member and in
which he was an elder for more than forty years.
In December, 1830, he emigrated with his family to
Missouri, and chose Columbia as his future home,
because there was an organized Presbyterian church
in that place.

Here he remained until the fall of 1860. Dur-
ing this time he secured a very large and lucra-
tive practice, and though at- one time he had accu-
mulated a valuable property, yet his habitual
indulgence of those who owed him, the rapid increase
in the members and expense of his family, the fre-
quent monetary panics in which he was always a
heavy loser, and his kindness and generosity of heart
which forbade his distressing a debtor, left him in old
age without anything but a large and well educated
family and a spotless reputation. He was deeply
imbued with religious fervor. Neither a bigot nor a
zealot, his religion controlled his life and influenced
every action He despised littleness in every form,
and his large hearted benevolence extended to every
object worthy of its attention. ‘His house was the
home of the stranger and sojourner, and the asylum
of the poor and friendless. He contributed largely
to every public enterprise, and especially to the Uni-
versity and other schools, and to churches. What-
ever tended to promote intelligence and teach
morality, met with his cordial endorsement and his
ready and cheerful assistance. In the fall of 1860 he

removed to Fulton, Missouri, where he resided and Q

But
the annoyances of the war, he being with his entire
family a strong sympathiser with the South, induced
him to move, to St. Charles, Missouri, which was not
subject to such annoyances. Here he resided until
1870, when he moved to Mexico, and thence to Ful-
ton where he spent one year, returning to Columbia
in the fall of 1873. He died in Columbia, April 16,
1877, aged nearly eighty-one years.

practiced his profession for three or four years.

466 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

In early life he had been a member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity, but for many years had not associ-
ated himself with any lodge, and except on funeral
occasions never marched with them.

He especially eschewed politics, and although
nominally a Whig during the existence of that party
and a Democrat afterward, he voted independent of
his party and endeavored to secure the best men,
regardless of party ties. I

He was married January 17, I822,’ to Miss Mary
Brookie, with whom he lived fifty-five years, celebra-
ting his golden wedding in Mexico in 1872, and who
still survives him. She is a woman of remarkable
vivacity, of large and varied reading, with a wonder-
fully retentive memory and a happy faculty of impart-
ing information without apparent pedantry or
ostentation. They had fifteen children,’ twelve of
whom grew to manhood and womanhood, and eleven

of whom are now living: Margaret died in infancy ; I

Frances A., married John H. Field and -is now a
widow residing in Columbia ; Joseph died in infancy,-
Robert Rqis a lawyer of San Francisco, California;
Lizzie V. married Dr. I. Drake McDowell, of St.
Louis, and died June Io, 1857; John G. is a well
known editorial writer residing at Independence,
Missouri, William G. is a civil engineer at Cheyenne,
VVyoming Territory, Mary B. is a teacher of large
reputation in Eastern Missouri ; Alexander B., living
in St. Louis, is a wine merchant; Sarah M. married

Dr. W. F. Humphreys, Concord, Missouri ; Jose-
phine resides with her mother in St. Louis; Ellena is
a teacher in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Fulton;
James A. and Henry Grattan are in business in St.
Louis, and Field died in infancy. All these children
received a collegiate education except James and
Henry, the war serving to prevent their taking a reg-
ular course.

The following extract from the 52‘. Louis P7'esé}‘-
2‘e7'z'cm is a fitting sequel to this brief and imperfect
sketch of a useful and honored life:

“After three score and ten hadbeen reached,
Dr. Provines was overtaken by a disease, not uncom-
mon among over-worked professional men, viz:
softening of the brain. But even when reason had
been impaired, there still shone out the same warmth
of heart—the life-long amiability and affection for
family and old friends. And when all else had well
nigh faded from the mental vision,there still remained
the vivid appreciation of "the doctrine of Christ.
Whenever the name of Jesus was called the doctor’s
eye kindled, and he kept up family worship to the
very end. It was beautiful to witness, how a brain
that dropped, in the last days, even the most familiar
objects from its hold, still preserved, in completeness
the knowledge of a redeeming Savior. The exceed-
ing great and precious promises, he could quote and
apply as readily as in former years. To the very
close he knew in whom he believed.

“ Such a man is a blessing to his generation, and
in good name, leaves a‘ legacy to his family, more
precious than silver and gold.” *

SETH EDMUND WARD.

WESTPORT.

ETH E., son of Seth Ward, was born in Camp-
S bell county, Virginia, March 4, 1820, the same
county in which his father was born in 1786, who
traces his ancestry to the Wards of England, among
the time-honored bishops of the established church
who ranked as peers of the realm. Seth Ward mar-
ried, in 1818, Ann Hendrick. Their family consisted
of three daughters and one son, Seth Edmund, who
by the death of his father in 1830 was left almost
entirely to l own resources. Seth E. received but
little edu« ion, the common schools in that day and
section were not regularly taught, and such as they
were he had but little opportunity of attending them .3

for at the age of fourteen he was placed by his grand-
father with a Mr. Jacob Hass, in Indiana, for the
express purpose of having him trained to labor.
After a short trial Seth returned to the home of his
widowed mother, from whom he received the sum
of $25, and started out to make his own way in
the world. For nearly three years he wandered
through Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois without set-
tling himself to any specific business.

In 1837, being then in his eighteenth year, he de-
termined to seek his fortune in the West, and traveled
as far as Lexington, Missouri, when, his money being
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lars with him, and Seth continued his journey to Inde-
pendence. Four dollars and a half were paid for his
stage fare, the other four and a half dollars for his
first week’s board in Independence, and he was
again without money. Mr. Wilson Roberts, a
stranger whom he met in the city, kindly interested
himself in the young man, becoming surety for his
board until he could find employment. In a few
days he received a subordinate position in the employ
of Captain Lancaster P. Lupton, a fur trader, for-
merly of the United States army, and arranged to
leave Independence July 12, 1838. Mr. Roberts
generously offered him an outfit before leaving town,
but Mr. Ward as generously refused, appreciating the
kindness, yet unwilling to accept more tnan was
absolutely necessary 3 he took only a butcher knife,
belt and scabbard, a checked shirt and a hat.
Tramping along behind the train, keeping up the
loose stock that followed the wagons, he wore out
the weary day and spent the first night, without any
covering, in the tall grass. The second evening
he purchased a pair of blankets from Captain
Lupton, for which he would pay thirty dollars in
work, the offer was accepted, and that night he slept
comfortably, just within the Kansas border, only a
few miles from where his present luxurious home now
stands.

The trip was successfully made, but the dangers
were greatly increased for young Ward by his fre-
quently performing the guard duties allotted to others
as well as his own. The train regulations required
two hours guard duty for each hand, and Ward was
often employed to take the place of another, for
which, as the service was one of great responsibility
and danger, he was paid the sum of five dollars per

guard. Shortly after the arrival of the train at Ft.

Lancaster, on the south fork of the Platte, near
where Denver now stands, Mr. Ward took service
with the fur company of Thompson & Craig, and
with them crossed the Rocky Mountains on a trad-
ing expedition. The trip was characterized by many
thrilling incidents which tried the boldness and cau-
tion of the oldest guides of the party. Being con-
sidered a green-horn, the horse he rode was so
equipped that the animal’s back became sore, when
he was compelled to dismount and carry his heavy
saddle and rifle as a punishment for his so called
carelessness. This was merely a sample of the les-
sons by which he was trained to courage,self-reliance
and caution, and it was doubtless during these early
years that he laid broad and deep that foundation

tion of the great fur companies.

upon which he afterward built so successfully the
enterprises of his manhood.

Among his first associates on this trip was Kit
Carson, the “Nestor of the Rocky Mountains,” and
a type of the simon pure trapper——before the extinc-
The acquaintance
between Carson and Ward soon ripened into a strong
friendship, each recognizing the traits of manhood in
the other. Mr. Ward’s first horse was a present to
him from Carson—who had won it upon a wager with
Phillip Thompson, an old mountaineer, who main-
tained that no green—horn, referring to Ward, could
bring down a buffalo at first dash. Ward accom-
plished the feat, but his horse coming in co ision with
the wounded buffalo he was thrown he: ilrily to the
ground and carried to camp in an unconsc ous condi-
tion.

>:Without any attempt to follow in deta so event-
ful and checkered a career as this, affording material
not for a page, but a volume, suffice it to say that
Mr.Ward lost no opportunity of becoming acquainted
with the Indian races on both sides of the Rockies,
and that he found able and willing teachers among
those hardy pioneers, who saw in his frank counte-
nance those manly qualities which commanded their
confidence, and opened the pages of their wonderful
experiences for his benefit. A vacancy occurring, he
was made clerk in the trading house of Thompson &
Co., at Brown’s Hole, on Green, now Colorado river,
at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month.

In the spring of 1839 he went with a trapping
expedition into the Nabajo and Digger Indian coun-
try as camp keeper, but the enterprise was not suc-
cessful. Many of their horses were shot by the
Indians, and one of the trappers, Dick Owens, was
badly wounded in the knee. On foot, in an almost
starved condition, carrying their comrade on a rude
litter, they started for the settlements. Overtaking a
poor donkey that had been left by a Spaniard, the
animal was killed and his flesh eaten with a relish;
finally, after many privations, they reached Taos, in
New Mexico -

Passing over an interval of seven years, during
which, step by step, Mr. Ward became able to exe-
cute his cherished purpose of engaging in business
for himself, we find him, in 1845, with the savings
of his well—earned salary, amounting to $1,000,
ready for his first adventure upon his own account.
In the previous year he had become intimately asso-
ciated with Francis Preston Blair, afterward United
States Senator from Missouri, and many are the

468 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI. DICTIOIVARY.

kindly remembrances of his noble characteristics that
Mr. Ward still cherishes and of which he loves rev-
erently to speak. He had been absent from Missouri
seven years, when, in 1845, he visited St. Louis in

company with Colonel St. Vrain, a former employer, ,

engaged in the fur trade, who there paid him his first
$1,000. Colonel St. Vrain had come to St. Louis
for the purpose of purchasing goods to load a train
which he was about to start from Westport Landing
for the southwest. Mr. Ward was employed by the
Colonel to accompany the train, with the privilege of
shipping as many goods as his capital would pur-
chase. With one wagon loaded with‘ goods, drawn
by two yoke of cattle, he took his first place ‘in the
train, and committed his venture to the fortunes of
trade. His goods arrived in safety and were profit-
ably exchanged for horses and mules, which he sold
to the United States government, then (1846) at war
with Mexico. One of the animals was purchased by
his old school mate, John W. Reed.

In 1847 he made a trip into the Indian country,
purchasing his goods of Boone & Hamilton, VVest-
port, which were loaded in one large wagon drawn
by five yoke of cattle, and were all sold at the Arkan-
sas river to good advantage. Returning to Westport
in 1848 he formed a partnership with William Le
Guerrier in the Indian trade, each of them ‘ having
about $1. 500 in cash. From purchases made of
Boone & Hamilton on ten months credit, they loaded
five large wagons and made a very successful expedi-
tion, securing six thousand buffalo robes, with which
they returned to Westport, May, 1849. From this
point the robes were shipped to New York, Mr.
Ward going East to attend to their sale in person,
disposing of them at a very good profit, but at lower
figures than had been offered in St. Louis. He next
purchased from Grant & Barton goods to the amount
of ‘$r\o,000, which he shipped to Westport; Boone
& Bernard furnished the outfit, and the results were
once more highly satisfactory. In 1850 he began
purchasing goods of Robert Campbell, St. Louis, for
cash and on credit, with whom he continued to trade
until Mr. Campbell retired from business. He
remained in the Indian trade until (85 5, doing a suc-
cessful and profitable business. I  1854, on account
of the Gratton massacre by Sioux I ,dians six miles be-
low Fort Laramie, he was orderer with his train into
the Fort, and in 1856 was app nted sutler there,
which profitable post he retainer intil 1871. During
all these years his business was immense; honesty
and promptness in meeting all his paper at maturity

had given him almost unlimited credit, and his
increasing trade necessitated the building of large
warehouses for its accommodation.

In 1873 Mr. Ward was elected president of the
Mastin Bank, Kansas City, a position which he still
retains. The institution is managed by a careful
directory, all of whom are experienced in banking
business. As evidence of the prudent management
and financial ability of the corporation, notwithstand-
ing the great depression in all monetary circles during
the past semi decade, it has steadily accumulated a
reserve fund of $75,000. Much of this success is
to be attributed to Mr. Ward’s judicious counsel and
unsullied credit.

February 9, 1860, he was married to Mrs. Mary
F. McCarty, daughter of Mr. John Harris, of West-
port, Missouri. They have had three children: John
Edmund, born June 21, I861 ; Hugh Campbell, born
March I0, 1863, and Mary F., who died in infancy.
Mrs. Ward is one of a family of seven daughters, all
of whom are married and hold an enviable position
among the first families of Jackson county. The
sons are entered as students at William Jewell Col-
lege, one of the finest educational institutions in the
state, and of which their father has been one of the
trustees for some years. They are young men of rare
promise, studious at college and affectionate at home.

For thirty years Mr. Ward has been affiliated with
the Odd Fellow and Masonic orders,and is a practical
Christian, a communicant of the Baptist church with
which he united under the ministry of Rev. Randall
and Rev. Machett of this state.

Mr. Ward is of medium height, strongly formed,
erect bearing, with but few traces of his early hardships 3
he has light blue eyes, and his once dark hairis now

‘turned to gray 5 his complexion is fair, features large

and of shapely outline, in his manners dignified,
unobtrusive and always welcomed among those Who
appreciate an earnest, upright and self-reliant nature.
He has traveled quite extensively, visiting the princi-
pal points of interest in the United States and enjoy-
ing social intercourse with gentlemen of position and
culture, which has been most gratifying to a person
of his natural refine_men.t of feeling. Much of his

time is now spent at his delightful home near West-

port, surrounded by every comfort and in the enjoy-
ment of every pleasure that wealth can procure or
taste desire. His home is truly a home. There is
abundant meaning in its surroundings and architect-
ure; the appointments are not only beautiful but
helpful—pictures and library are chosen with intelli-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 469

gent care. His fireside is the place where all
domestic affections and qualities find happy expres-
sions. His grounds embrace about four hundred and
fifty acres, and remind one of the rich blue grass
region of Kentucky—the green sward dotted with
trees and groves. He has one of the finest herd of short

horns in Western Missouri, and deserves commenda-

tion for his efforts to introduce these valuable cattle
into the country. Here he is spending his best days,
surrounded with every luxury, blessed with an affec-
tionate family, enjoying the confidence, the unqalified
respect and the steadfast friendship of the many to
whom his virtues, his integrity, and his high minded
honorable manliness have commended him.

WILLIAM STURMAN HUTT, M. D.

TROY.

‘N IILLIAM STURMAN HUTT was born
in Troy, Lincoln county, Missouri. Hi;
parents, Thomas Griffin and judith Armstead Syd-
nor Hutt were natives of Virginia and emigrated
to Lincoln county, Missouri, in 1835. His father
was a farmer and merchant, but owing to his ability
for public service, was persuaded several times to fill
public offices. He was clerk of the circuit court of
Lincoln county for several years, and represented
the county in the state legislature one term. _
William assisted his father on their farm in his
native county, and obtained his education at the
Troy Academy. In 1861 he entered the Confede-
rate army under General Price. He was examining
surgeon of Lincoln county for six months ; his health

WILLIAM I.

IKAIVSAS

‘ N IILLIAM IVEY NICHOLS was born May
I0, 1816, in the town of Port Isaac, county of
Cornwall, England, where his father, grandfather
and great-grandfather were born before him, as well
as his mother and her parents. The family are cele-
brated for longevity. Thomas Nichols, the father of
our subject, was a farmer, but engaged in merchan-
dising after his marriage to Miss Mary Ivey. She was
the daughter of John Ivey, and with her brother
owned and conducted the business of a store in Port
Isaac at the time of her marriage. Her husband,
Thomas Nichols, was at one time a local Methodist

would not admit of the severe strain of a.soldier’s
life, and he was compelled to leave the service.

In 1862 he began to read medicine, and in two
years graduated at the Medical University, of Penn-
sylvania. He also attended clinical lectures at the
St. Louis Medical College. In 1864 he located at
Troy, his present home, and engaged in the practice
of his profession. He has been very successful and
has an enviable reputation as a physician.

In 1866 he married Miss Virginia Mason Cor-
nick, daughter of the late Tully R. Cornick, of St.
Louis, a prominent attorney and statesman. Dr.
Hutt is a member of the Christian church. He is a
man of marked ability and unwavering purpose, and
a highly respected citizen.

NICHOLS.
CITY.

preacher, but left that denomination and-spent the
remainder of his life in the Church of England. john
Nichols, the grandfather of our subject, died at the
age of ninety—one, and William Nichols, his great
grandfather, lived to a good old age. Thomas
Nichols with his family immigrated to America in
1832 and settled in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He
was in comfortable circumstances.——not rich—and
gave his son only a limited education.

William spent four years in Honesdale learning
the saddle and harness business. At the age of
twenty-one he removed to the West, settled in Ver-

. again to go to the West.
I Kansas City and immediately began the livery busi-

470 TIJE UNITED STATES B10616/IPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

million county, Indiana, where he remained seven-
teen years engaged at his trade. There he met, and,
March 21, 1840, married Miss Marion E. Crane, a
daughter of Benjamin Crane, a native of Caledonia
county, Vermont. By this marriage there were born
eight children, three of whom died. The living ones
are: Mary Ivey, married R. W. Quade, of Kansas

City; Thomas S., now (1878) at Emporia, Kansas, A

in the livery business, Arabella Stuart, ]ames and
Patty. -
In 1854 Mr. Nichols removed to Portsmouth,
Ohio, where he was employed on the Sciota & Hock-
ing Valley Railroad—afterward known as the Ports-
mouth branch of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railway.
He remained there until 1869, when he determined
That year he removed to

ness on Main street opposite the end of Tenth. He
moved into his present stables in December, 1870-
located on Delaware street near the Junction.

During the war Mr. Nichols owned an interest in
several steamboats running _on the Ohio river. He
has been a Mason for many years and was for a long
time secretary of his lodge. He was raised a Whig
but has acted principally with the Democrats since
the Whig party disbanded ; but he is no partisan, vot-
ing conscientiously and intelligently as an indepen-
dent citizen.

Mr. Nichols although now sixty-two years of age,
would readily pass for a score less; he is five feet ten
and one-half inches tall, erect in carriage, weighing
one hundred and seventy—four pounds and has a very
remarkably youthful appearance for a man of his age.
His freshness and vigor give promise that he will live
to as great an age as any of his long—lived progeni-
tors. In his characteristics perhaps the most promi-
nent are his extreme kind—heartedness and strict
commercial integrity—two qualities rarely found
combined in one person who is successful in busi-
ness.

HORATIO SAMUEL HERBERT.

ROLLA.

ORATIO SAMUEL HERBERT, editor and
H proprietor of the Rolla Hferala’, is one of the
most prominent journalists of Southern Missouri.
His ancestors emigrated from England to America
prior to the Revolution, and settled in Pennsylvania.
His father was Rev. James Herbert, who married
Harriet Weston, they lived in Erie, Pennsylvania,
where their son, our subject, was born, December
25, 1837'. The family removed to Lawrenceburg,
Indiana, and afterwards, in 1847, settled in Indian-
apolis, where they remained until 1855, when they
removed to Schuyler county, Illinois 3 but in 1870
they again moved and settled in Livingston, Mis-
souri, where they now reside.

Horatio received a common and graded school
education in Indianapolis, studying through the
winter and working in the printing office during the
summer months,until at the age of 17 when he worked
regularly in the printing office one year. In 1855
he entered the high school at Rushville, Schuyler
county, Illinois, remained two years and then
removed to Milan, Su.-- tan county, Missouri, where
he worked in a printing “\"fice until ‘I859, when he

removed to Lebanon, Laclede county. He was
employed as editor of the Laclede four/ml; but at
the expiration of one year purchased the paper and
material and published it as editor and proprietor
until 1861.

The war between the North and South called
every man of decided principles to take his place in
one army or the other. It was both difficult and
dangerous for men who had been prominent in the
events immediately preceding it, to stay out. Mr.
Herbert cast his fortunes with his sentiments, enrolled
himself for the Confederate States, and became a
member of what was then known-as the State Guard
of Missouri. He afterward joined Wickersham’s
company in McBride’s division of Price’s army,
participated in the campaign during the retreat into
Arkansas, and was afterward in the battle of Pea
Ridge, Arkansas. His command was then ordered
to join Beauregard at Corinth, and under him they
participated in the series of engagements which
culminated in the evacuation of that point. Mr.
Herbert then went to North Mississippi, remained
during the summer, and in the following fall was a

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 471

participant in the engagement at Iuka Spring, after-
ward was with Price .and Van Dorn in the march on
Corinth. His command being ordered to Vicksburg,
he took part in the engagements and seige which
resulted in the surrender of that city to the enemy.
Here he was wounded and made prisoner; but was
paroled and exchanged, when he joined the com-
mand of General J. E. Johnson at Atlanta, Georgia.
On the approach of Sherman, they evacuated that
point and in Hood’s command marched on Nash-
ville; but in the fight at Altoona, Mr. Herbert was
again wounded. In three months he rejoined his
command in time to retreat with the army. He
was then engaged at Mobile, Alabama, in .1865,
where he was captured in the surrender of Fort
Blakely, and was sent to Ship Island military prison,
kept until June and paroled.

The war being now closed, Mr. Herbert then
went to Central Mississippi where he remained until
1868, clerking in a store a portion of the time and
working in a printing office. He then went to Rolla,
Phelps county, Missouri, where he was employed in

the office of the Ifem/a’. In 1869 he purchased the
office and paper and has since continued to be its
publisher and editor. His enterprise and skill has
improved both the appearance and patronage of his
journal, until it has secured a large circulation and
wields an important influence.

It is almost needless to say Mr. Herbert is a
Democrat and has been one always. He has been
prominent in politics since -he was old enough to
understand party polity and tactics, and is now a
member of the Democratic state central committee.
Religiously he is liberal in his views.

Horatio S. Herbert was married to Miss Tinnie
A. Hooker, daughter of Benjamin and Martha
Hooker, of Lebanon, Laclede county, Missouri,
September 15, 1860. They have had two children,
both living. Mr.» Herbert is a man of good
business habits and strict integrity. He has been
made a member of the Rolla board of education.
Naturally of a social disposition, it is not to be
wondered at that he has many friends and a happy
home.

CAPTAIN THOMAS H. GRIFFITH.

ST. LOUIS.

- HOMAS H. GRIFFITH is an Englishman.
T He was born in London, England, September
18, 1816. His father, William R. Griffith, was born
in London also, but his mother was a Scotchwoman,
born in Edinburgh. In the year 1827 the family
immigrated to this country, and landed in Philadel-
phia in the month of October. They remained there
until the following spring, and then removed to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they lived a year
and then settled in Cincinnati.

Thomas went to the common schools of that
time until he was fourteen years old, and at that
age was apprenticed to the engine building business
of United States machinists. After serving his time,
he, in 1834, removed to Louisville, where after
working two years for his brother Charles, who was
interested in a foundry and engine shop in that city,
he accepted the situation of clerk on the steamer
Pavilion, then running between Louisville and St.

Louis. On making one trip, this Vessel was sold to
60

parties in St. Louis, to be delivered upon her arrival
at that point on her second trip.
remained on her as clerk and after that time made
St. Louis‘ his home. From that time until the
present he has been engaged in steamboating, serving
as clerk and captain, buying and selling interests in
different boats, building steamers, and owningstock
in steamboat lines.

In the summer of 183-7 the Pavilion under the
command of Captain Phelps, left St. Louis for Fort
Snelling, loaded with goods for the American Fur
company, and private parties at other points, and
some commissary stores for I Fort Snelling, At
Oquawka, Illinois, the families of Sumner and Alexis
Phelps, brothers of the captain and the principal
owners of the boat, came on board. The river was
in a good stage of navigation. At Prairie du Chien
they left all white settlements behind them. The
whole of Western Wisconsin, above that point, North-
ern Iowa, and the whole of Minnesota was Indian

Thomas, however,

472 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

country, inhabited by Winnebagos, Chippewas and ,

Sioux, where elegant cities now stand, there was
then only a few Indian trading posts along the river.
On the Minnesota side and opposite the Chippewa
river, there was a small Indian trading post, called
Hudson’s Landing, now called Reed’s Landing, St.
Paul was then an unbroken wilderness, and Minne-
apolis was part of the Fort Snelling Military Reser-
vation, where there was only a government saw mill
with a sergeant’s guard. The commander of the
fort kindly offered post wagons to the passengers to
visit the falls, which of course the party greatly
enjoyed. The trip was successful, and the Pavilion
returned safe and resumed the regular business
between St. Louis, Galena, Dubuque and Prairie du
Chien. '

In the winter of 1838 Thomas Griffith purchased
an interest in the Pavilion and took charge of her as
captain, and in the summer of 1840 he sold out and
went as clerk in the Chippewa, with Captain William
Gorman, who died that winter, and Captain Griffith
succeeded him, and remained on this vessel until the
fall of 1843, when he, with Captain Robert A. Reily
built the Mendota, but in the course of a year he
sold his interest and invested in the steamer Lynx,
which he ran between Galena, St. Paul and Fort
Snelling until 1845, when he sold out again and
bought an interest this time in the Uncle Toby and
two barges, the Widow Wadman and the Corporal
Trim.

In 1848 he built the steamboat Wisconsin and
continued on her as captain until 18 55. During the
next five years he made repeated changes, always in
the same line of business. In 1860 a party of steam-
boat owners formed a company under the name of
the Northern Line Packet company, of which Cap-
tain Griffith was secretary and treasurer, and con-
tinued as such until the consolidation of that com-
pany with the Keokuk Packet company and the
Northwestern Union Packet company under the
name of the Keokuk Northern Line Packet company.
Of this new company he was elected secretary and
treasurer in 1873, and held the position until 187 5.

Thomas H. Griffith was married January 18,
1843, to Elizabeth Wilson, of New York City, and
they have three daughters and three sons, none of
whom are married, and all are living in St. Louis.

The Northern Line, as it was first called, com-
menced by an agreement between Captain James
Ward of the Canada, Captain R. C. Gray of the
Denmark, Captain Thomas B. Rhodes of the Metro-

politan, Captain Thomas B. Hill of the Minnesota
Belle, Captain T. H. Griffith of the steamer Pembina
and Captain M. Green of the steamer W. L. Ewing,
on the opening of navigation in 18 58, agreeing with

' these six boats to run a tri—weekly line from St. Louis

to St. Paul, which gave great satisfaction and was
very successful. During the summer of that year,
Captain Ward was induced to act for the rest as
president, and remained in St. Louis and continued
to act as such until the close of navigation of 18 5 9.
The following year of 1859, six more boats were
admitted to the line, Viz.: Lucie Mary, Dew
Drop, Chippewa, Aunt Letty, Northerner and Henry
Clay, making a daily line, which continued that year.
During the winter following, Captains Ward, R. C.
Gray,T. B Rhodes, J. B. Rhodes, Charles L. Stephen-
son, J. VV Parker, T. H. Griffith, Thomas B. Hill,
 Hunkins, Thomas Gordon and others, formed a
joint stock company, under the general laws of the
state of Illinois, with chief office in Illinoistown,
now East St. Louis, under the name of the Northern
Line Packet company, a name then already well
and favorably known. The incorporators who acted
as directors for the first year, were R. C. Gray, of
Pittsburgh, Darius Hunkins and Thomas Gordon, of
Galena, Illinois, John B. Rhodes, of Savanna, Illi-
nois, J. W. Parker, of Dubuque, Iowa, and James
Ward and Thomas H. Griffith, of St. Louis. Captain
James Ward was elected President, and Thomas H.
Griffith, Secretary and Treasurer. The various steam-
boats owned by the stockholders were put in on an
agreed valuation. They were the Canada, Pembina,
Denmark, W. L. Ewing, Minnesota Belle, Henry Clay,
Metropolitan, Fred. Lorenz, the new steamboats
Hawkeye State, Sucker State and Northerner, besides
a large number of barges.

Just after the formation of the company, the

‘president, secretary and two of the directors of the

Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith & Minnesota Packet
Company called on them and threatened, if some of
their boats were not admitted to run with the boats
of the new company, they would run in opposition.
To avoid this, after reflection, the new company
admitted five of their boats into the line, they to
retain their receipts and to pay their own expenses
and a stated sum each trip for their pro mm of the
general expenses. The boats they put in were the
Gray Eagle, Northern Light, Key City, War Eagle
and Itasca. The line was run harmoniously during
the year 1860; the following year (1861) being the
first one of the civil war, business" was extremely

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJZCAL DICTIO./VARY. 473

dull, and the line was reduced to a tri-weekly line-
the Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith & Minnesota Packet
Company withdrew two of their boats and before the
close of the season withdrew the remainder, never
to put them in again. . This season was not profita-
ble, yet the company that year built their first new
steamer, the Bill Henderson This vessel was
intended to inaugurate a new system——that of towing
freights over the Des Moines Rapids by tow—boats
kept especially for that purpose. Formerly in low
water the freight was towed on the shore in flat-
boats up stream by horses, in what was known as
the shore channel, and freight down stream was
floated in flats, with sweeps, down the steamboat
channel. This boat answered very well, but the boat
drawing too much water, another one was built of
lighter draft. Afterward the company built a num-
ber of steamboats and many barges, and continued
growing in favor with the public generally, by their
endeavors to serve them faithfully and always con-
ducting business in fairness and equity, and people
traveling from great distances were quite satisfied on
finding themselves on a Northern Line packet, so
universal was their reputation.

The affairs of the company prospered and they
increased their facilities until 1868, previous to which
they built the Des Moines Rapids’ tow-boat Dan Hine
(named after a noted lighterman in the old time), and
the new passenger steamers Burlington, Davenport,
Muscatine, Minnesota, Dubuque and Minneapolis,
the company naming their boats after prominent cities
on the river. This year there was an opposition
started by the Northwestern Union Packet Company,
thesuccessors of the Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith &
Minnesota Packet Company. As usual, it proved
detrimental to both lines, and the following winter
(I868—9) it was agreed to run the line with about an
equal number of boats of each company, and the
Northern Line to share with them their trade above.
This year was a very successful one and large profits
were made, but the Northwestern Union Packet
Company were not satisfied, and insisted on partak-
ing of the management. This the Northern Line
Packet Company would not admit, and the conse-
quences were that the business was so much cut up
that neither could do much, and the season ended
unsatisfactorily for all parties. In the following year
(1871) the strife continued, and rates were reduced
to prices that could not possibly pay. It should
have been stated that in the winter of 1869-70 the
Northern Line Packet Company built three fine

steamers: the Lake Superior, Redwing and Rock
Island, and in the spring of 1872 built the splendid
steamer Clinton, built entirely at St. Louis.

The season of 1872 proving a poor one, and the
prospects of an opposition for I873 seeming to be of
a like character, the Northern Line Packet Company,
the St. Louis & Keokuk Packet Company and the
Northwestern Union Packet Company agreed to
combine their several stocks of steamboats and form
a new line, under the title of the Keokuk Northern
Line Packet Company, under the general incorpora-
tion laws of Missouri, and John S. McCune, late
president of the Keokuk Packet Company, was
chosen President; W. F. Davidson, late president
of the Northwestern Union Packet Company, gene-
ral superintendent 3 and T. H. Griffith, late of the
Northern Line Packet Company, secretary and treas-
urer." During the season of 1873 the new company
was quite successful, in spite of the panic in the fall,
and closed with fair and satisfactory success. At
the meeting of the stockholders, the same directors
were chosen, and the same president, secretary and
treasurer, but P. S. Davidson was elected general
superintendent. In February the president was
taken very sick and died after a short illness. A
meeting of the directors was called shortly after, and
D. Hunkins was chosen to fill the vacancy. It
was then discovered by the Northern Line Packet
Company, for the first time, that they had allied
themselves with two insolvent companies, and
that they were the only solvent one, although in
debt. The stock in the new company was still
owned 3 their portion by the Keokuk Packet Com-
pany and the Northern Line, the Northwestern
Union Packet Company’s portion was divided to suit
themselves. I 4

The Keokuk Packet Company, in May of that
year, made a secret sale of their stock, for an inade-
quate price and on long time, to W. F. Davidson,
which, with what he owned, gave him a small major-
ity of the stock, on which he tried to assume the
management, but was prevented until the next elec-
tion of directors. The year 1874 was moderately
successful and a fair profit was realized. The elec-
tion of 1875 made a general change in the officers of
the company, and out of nine directors the Northern
Line, although owning within a trifle of half the
stock, were only allowed two directors and no prom-
inent officers in the line. The business fell off this
year very much and ended with little profit. In
1876 the minority representation act came into force,

474 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

and the parties representing the Northern Line
regained their four directors, but no officer of their’s
was appointed or elected, and the season closed with
small profits and largely reduced receipts. The
present year, although promising well in the spring,
shows a very large reduction of receipts, which will,
it is estimated, fall short of the receipts of 1876,
$300,000, or fully forty per cent. This is remarka-

I ble, as the receipts for the year for freight and pas-

sengers used to reach $1,500,000, and now it is
hardly $800,000. This immense falling off is due
to various causes: competition of railroads, bad man-
agement and want of a liberal economy. But the
pride and glory of the Northern Line has departed
and been succeeded by a line now nearly worn out

 and of doubtful’ reputation.

GEORGE H. NETTLETON.

KANSAS CITY.

EORGE H. NETTLETON was born in the
G’ village of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts,
November 13, 1831. His father was General Alpheus
Nettleton, whose parents came from Scotland about
the close of the Revolutionary ‘war, and settled in
Vermont where their son Alpheus was born in 1798.
At the age of fourteen years he was apprenticed to
a house carpenter and joiner, and having attained
his majority, received from his employer a certificate
that he had faithfully discharged his duties, and was
a young man of correct habits and excellent charac-
ter. In 1819 he removed to the town of Springfield,
Massachusetts, and a few years later to the village
of Chicopee Falls, then a part of the town of Spring-
field, which place was his home until the close of
his life. General N ettleton was well known in his
own vicinity as a man of generous nature and pub-
lic spirit. He held several civil offices of trust;
represented Springfield in the legislature in 1837-8 ,
Chicopee in 1850 and 1858, commanded the “Old
Hampden Guards” for several years, and in the state
militia held every rank from private to 1najor—general,
being elected to the latter office when Marcus Mor-
ton was governor. Prevented by age from taking an
active part in defense of the flag during the Rebel-

' lion, he devoted his fine abilities as a public speaker

to the service of the government, and was especially
popular at war meetings. He was an active and
consistent member of the Congregational church—a
true Christian, and a great lover of Sabbath school
work. He died in 1868 at Chicopee, aged seventy
years.

Mr. Nettleton’s mother, Deborah Williams Bel-
cher, daughter of Benjamin Belcher, was born in
Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1800. Her parents

removed to Springfield, where’ her father purchased
a large tract of land, lying on the Chicopee river,
which was then an unbroken forest. Upon this
tract the village of Chicopee Falls was laid out. The
purchase included a valuable water power which Mr.
Belcher improved, establishing a blast furnace" and
foundry there.’ Mrs.

Christian. She died in 1860

George H. attended the public schools until he
was in his eighteenth year, then studied in the Rens—
selaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York. His
purpose was to have completed the course of civil
engineering there, but on his return home, at the
end of the first year, thinking that his father could
not afford the expense, he determined to work his
‘way in the world and applied by letter to Josiah
Hunt, Esq., a well known civil engineer, then chief
engineer of the New Haven & New London Rail-
road, for a situation as rodman with an engineering
party. Mr. Hunt replied that there were no vacan-
cies for rodmen, offering him, however, a situation
as axe-man. Fearing that the labors of an axe—man
would be more severe than he could well endure, he
inquired what duties an axe-man would have to per-

form, and how long he might expect to stop on that’

“round of the ladder,” to which Mr. Hunt replied:
“I did not intend to discourage you by talking of
the axe, the term axe—man is used technically on a
railroad, and might perhaps be more properly called
second rodman. How long you wouldihave to wait
for a better place is uncertain 3 we have neither
Mexican battles nor swamp fevers to scatter death
and promotion in our ranks. Your ability to make
yourself useful, and the occasions there may befor

Nettleton was a woman of
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your services will alone determine that. The com-
pensation of an axe-man is $1 per day.”
The situation was accepted. Mr. Nettleton

remained on the road until its completion, August, I,

1852, and was successively advanced to rodman,

draughtsman and leveler. From August first to
October first, he was employed in making final esti-
mates of work on the Amherst & Belchertown Rail-
road. In September of this year, Mr. Hunt was
appointed chief engineer of the Terre Haute &: Alton
Railroad, and immediately appointed Mr. Nettleton
one of the division engineers, and he left for the scene
of his future labors in October. There was at that
time no railroad completed from the Atlantic sea-
board to the Mississippi. The journey west was by
the Erie Railroad to Dunkirk; thence to Cleveland
by lake steamer, thence by rail to Cincinnati; thence
by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Alton , the
entire journey occupying eleven days. He remained
011 this line until the division, of which he was
engineer, was completed, January I, 1854. From
January first to April first he was employed in mak-
ing preliminary surveys and estimates for a new road
from Alton to Jacksonville, which was completed
some years afterward, and is now owned and opera-
ted by the Chicago & Alton Railroad. Company.
April first he was appointed resident engineer on the
Great Western Railway (of Illinois)—now Wabash——
and assigned to the division which extended from
Tolono to the Indiana state line, a distance of forty-
three miles, making his headquarters at Danville_,
where he resided until the completion of the work,
January I, I8 57. His services were eminently satis-
factory to the company, which voluntarily increased
his wages during the last six months of this period,
adding liberally tohis former salary, and inviting
him to remain in its service, but he had already

accepted an appointment as resident engineer on the ‘

Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.

Proceeding to Hannibal he was placed in charge
of the third and fourth divisions—fifty-six miles——
extending from St. Catharine to Hamilton, with his
headquarters at Chillicothe, Missouri. This work
was completed in February, 185 9, and Mr. Nettleton
remained in Chillicothe a short time in charge of the
track, when being appointed auditor and purchasing
agent of the road, he removed to Hannibal. During
the war the entire working force of the road was
organized andiarmedas militia, Mr. Nettleton being
elected to the command of one of the companies sta-
tioned in Hannibal. They were frequently called

into service, and were perhaps as efficient as many
companies that were regularly enlisted. In 1860 he
was detailed to make the preliminary survey of a
road from Kansas City to Cameron, and in 1865, in
addition to his other duties, was appointed assistant
superintendent of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail-
road. In 1868 he was detailed to take charge of
the completion of the Cameron & Kansas City
road and the construction of the St. Joseph & Coun-
cil Bluffs Railroad. In 1869 he was appointed chief
engineer and general superintendent of the Hannibal
& St. Joseph Railroad, which position he occupied
until July I, 1872. He was also engineer in charge
of the bridge over the Mississippi river at Quincy,
after the same had been turned over to the bridge
company by the constructing engineer, On leaving
the service of this company the directors adopted the

. folrlowing resolution :

RESOLVED, That the president and directors of
the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company, as a
slight testimonial and evidence of their high appreci-
ation of the faithful services rendered the company,
and the ability with which the services have been
performed as superintendent, chief engineer and
auditor of this company, hereby order that an appro-

- priation of five thousand dollars be made and paid

to George H. N ettleton, upon his retiring from the
service of the company.

, July 1, 1872, he became general superintendent
of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and
removed to Topeka, Kansas. During that year over
three hundred miles of road were added to the prop-
erty, and the line completed to the west line of the
state of Kansas. In July, 1874, he was elected gen-
eral manager of the fol1owing_roads, viz : Kansas
City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs; Missouri River,
Fort Scott & Gulf ; Atchison & Nebraska ; and
Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston, and Nove1n—
ber I, following, came to Kansas City, his present
residence, and entered upon his new duties. He is
also general manager of the Kansas City Stock Yard
Company, president of the Arkansas Valley Elevator
Company, 1877, and of the Union Depot Company,
1877-1878. He is now (1878) the representative in
the West of a large number of the wealthiest capital-
ists of New England, who have constructed -and are
now the owners of many of our principal lines of
railroad, and has their entire confidence in his ability
and integrity. The number of miles under Mr. Net-
tleton’s management are seven hundred and seventy-
six, the construction and equipment of which cost
nearly $2 5,000,000, and give employment to about
two thousand men.

476 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

Mr. Nettleton was marrried in October, 1858, to
Sarah J. daughter of Sylvester Taylor, of Chicopee,
Massachusetts, who died March 6, 1860.

In October, 1862, he was married to J. Augusta,
daughter of William L. Hearne, of Wheeling, West
Virginia. Of their ‘three children, William A., now
a boy of fourteen, is the only one living.

In his political principles and associations, Mr.
Nettleton is a Republican. His facility in the trans-
action of business is universally remarked. He
grasps details almost intuitively 5 gives minute
directions concerning complicated matters with a

conciseness and point that leaves no room for mis-

conception , attends in the same hour to the con-
flicting interests of half a dozen corporations, each

involved with the other, and issues his orders on
sight; his mind knowing no such thing as confusion,
or his judgment indecision. His personal character-
istics are as marked as his mental. Squarely built,
of medium height and erect carriage, form and move-
ment both reveal the man of vital temperament, of
great physical and mental endurance. The face
would attract attention anywhere. The features are
clearly defined, regular, and bear the impress of
great power. It is a quiet, strong face, and its expres-
sion evinces a clean man inside. Of fine social quali-
ties,.kind and courteous in manner to all, and sensitive
in his feeling, he is happily constituted for all home
enjoyments, and with persons of culture and refine-
ment is a most genial and delightful companion.

Ii VV} LJEVVIS.

GLASGOMZ

ENJAMIN WHITEHEAD LEWIS was born
B on the Ioth day of January, 1812, in Bucking-
ham county, Virginia. His parents, Thomas and
Jedidah Lewis, had six children, four of whom were
boys, Benjamin being the eldest. Thomas Lewis was
a Virginia farmer in comfortable circumstances, and
at his death, which occurred in 182 6, left a handsome
property, of which, however, his family were deprived
on account of his having in his lifetime become
“surety for his friends.” The family being thus left
destitute, and the subject of this sketch being the
eldest, though a boy under fifteen years of age, the
cares and responsibilities of the family were thrust
upon him at that early age. Manfully, however, did
he address himself to the task, and faithfully and
cheerfully did he labor to its accomplishment, and
well indeed did he sustain himself in the arduous
undertaking.

In 1831, the mother having obtained some knowl-
edge of Missouri through some relatives of her hus-
band who were then living here, she determined to
emigrate, and in October of that year she with her
family arrived in Howard county, where she settled
Some two years subsequently
Benjamin,

and rented a farm.
she was married to William L. Banks.
feeling to some extent relieved of the family by this
event, during that year removed to Linn county,
taking with him a younger brother———James——where

of some twenty-five thousand dollars.

, at St. Louis that of Lewis & Bros.

they engaged in farm pursuits, James, quite a lad,
doing the cooking and milking while his elder brother
attended to out door matters. This business, how-
ever, was of but short duration, for in less than two
years we find themback again in Howard county.
Here Benjamin procured employment in a tobacco
factory and soon thereafter formed a co-partnership
with John F. Nichols, William J. Moore and Richard
P. Hanenkamp, for the manufacture of tobacco. At
the end of the year Mr. Lewis sold out his interest
and formed a co-partnership with William D. Swin-
ney, in the same line of business, which continued
successfully and with increasing business until 1849,
when the factory, which was the property of Mr.
Lewis, was destroyed by fire, involving him in a loss
The factory
was immediately rebuilt, but on a more extensive
scale, and completed in January, 1850, when upon
the withdrawal of Mr. Swinney the co-partnership
was dissolved.

Mr. Lewis’ younger brothers, James W., and
William J.. Lewis, having for some three years been
engaged in the manufacture of tobacco in St. Louis
under the firm name of J. W. & W. J. Lewis, it was
determined by the three brothers to unite their
interests, which was done, the house at Glasgow tak-
ing the name of B. W. Lewis & Bros., and theone
The business

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was thus carried on with great success till 1855,when
Thomas J. Bartholow was admitted into the firm at
Glasgow and John D. Perry into the one at St. Louis,
the name and style of which was changed to that of
Lewis, Perry & Co., the one at Glasgow undergoing
no change in name. ’ Through the material aid and
business qualifications brought into these firms by
these gentlemen they were enabled greatly to extend
their operations. . Their brands of tobacco were
rapidly increasing in favor throughout the United

States and Territories, and were eagerly sought for"

throughout the continent. They were now working
into plug and fine cut tobacco nearly four million
pounds annually, besides exporting large quantities
to England and the continent of Europe—their trade
extending to Australia.

At the commencement of the war they were
working some five hundred hands. Those at Glas-
gow were principally slaves, about one hundred and
twenty-five of whom were owned by the Lewis’ who,
on the breaking out of the Rebellion, took strong
grounds in favor of the government, and believing
that slavery was the life of the Rebellion, emanci-
pated their negroes about a year previous" to the
issuance of the emancipation proclamation, after
which they.gave profitable employment to such of
them as voluntarily remained with them, which com-
prised a large majority of the most useful and trusty
of the entire number, and their subsequent success
in life, as compared with those who failed to remain,
gives ample evidence of the superior wisdom of their
choice.

In 1862 the Glasgow factory was again burned,
involving a loss of nearly $200,000. On account of
the threatened invasion of Missouri by the Confed-
erate forces under General Sterling Price and the
disturbed condition of the country at the time it was
not rebuilt. In 1863 Messrs. Bartholow and Perry
retired from the firm andithe remaining partners

‘rebuilt and prosecuted the business with great suc-

cess till the death of the subject of this sketch,which
occurred in 1866, and from that time by Major
James W. Lewis under the same firm/name till
1870.

In 1862 B. W. Lewis was appointed aid to Gov-
ernor Fletcher with the title of colonel. For many
years he was prominently connected with every
public enterprise in which the community in which
he lived had an interest. He was one of the largest
stockholders and a director in the Glasgow branch
of the Exchange Bank of Missouri, and at his death

_ a few months after their marriage.

left as a legacy to the community the magnificent
sum of $10,000 to found a public library for the
benefit of the rising generation to be under the man-
agement of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
after his death, in order that his bequest might be
made available by the liberality of his widow,brother
James, and his eldest son, a suitable building was
erected at a cost of about $26,000. A short time
before his death, in connection with his brother
James, he purchased and fitted up a neat church
edifice and donated it to the Methodist Episcopal
church. ~
Previous to the late war Mr. Lewis had always
acted with the Democratic party, and in 1861 voted
for Stephen A. ‘Douglas. Since then he acted with
the Republicans and was considered a leader in the
party. In his religious views he was decidedly a
Methodist, having been for many years a member of
theiichurch and always one of its most liberal sup-

porters. In 1845 he adhered to the Church South,

as did the entire congregation of which he was a"

member. When the incidents of the war seemed to
place him in antagonism to the great majority of his
brethren he united with the Methodist Episcopal
church and was chiefly instrumental in reorganizing
a society in Glasgow, and while living was one of its
chief supporters, as he had been of the Church
South during his connection with it.

Mr. Lewis was thrice married. His first wife
was Amanda, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
(Rector) Barton. His second a Widow Bowman,
whose maiden name was McPherson. His third,
who survives him, was Eleanor, daughter of Talton
and Sarah (Earickson) Turner. An interesting
sketch of Mr. Turner’s life will be found in this vol-
ume. By his first wife Mr. Lewis left two children,
both sons. The eldest, Benjamin W. Lewis, jr., of
St. Louis, inherits his father’s name and many of his
noble traits of character as well as business qualifica-
tions, is now, though a young man, one of the lead-
ing business men of that great city and connected
with most of the great enterprises connected with its
interests; and James Barton is living on a beautiful
farm near Glasgow, devoting himself to agricultural
pursuits.’ His second wife died childless, only living
By his last wife,
whorsurvives him, he left three children: Richard
E., Rebecca E. and Annie E., all in their minority
and actively engaged in completing their education,
living with their widowed mother in the magnificent
residence completed by their father but a short time-

478 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAL DICTIONARY.

before his death, just north of the corporate line of
the city of Glasgow, a fit emblem of Eden where the
numerous relatives of the family annually during the
summer months are the charmed and delighted recip-
ients of its elegant hospitality.

October 21, 1864, at eleven o’clock at night, a
band of guerrillas under the notorious Bill Anderson,
went to the residence of Mr. Lewis and demanded
of him $10,000 or his life. Having but a small
amount of money about his person or in the house,
he was taken from his home (after being subjected to
a course of brutal outrages and atrocities we forbear
to record) down to the bank of Thomson & Dunnica
for the purpose of being forced to raise the balance

of the amount claimed—failing to get the amount
needed. Mr. Thomson being notified of the peril
in which his friend and relative, Mr. Lewis, was,
proceeded at once with some $7,ooo principally in
gold, and secured his release. From the effects of
of these outrages Mr. Lewis’ friends think he never
entirely recovered.

On the _rst day of February, 1866, in the pres-
ence of his family and devoted friends, he died,
leaving behind him a name and a character for
honor, truth, benevolence and virtue that is a greater
heritage to his family than the magnificent fortune
he bequeathed them, which amounted to something
near $8oo,ooo. ‘

GOVERNOR JOHN S. PHELPS.

SPRINGFIELD.

1814, in Simsbury, Hartford county, Connecti-
~ cut. His ancestors were of English stock and
settled in Massachusetts some time before the year
1630. They migrated to Connecticut, and founded
Windsor in that state in 1635. The family is
known in the history of that colony and common-
wealth, many of its members having occupied
positions of prominence. His father, Elisha Phelps,
was a distinguished lawyer who for_ many years
held a front rank at the bar of Hartford. He
was frequently honored with public trusts, having
been at different times a member of the upper and
lower house of the Connecticut Legislature, and was
twice speaker of the house. He was also comp-
troller of the state and a commissioner to revise the
statutes of the commonwealth. He was three times
elected to represent his district in Congress, and
served with distinction in the national legislature.
He died in 1847.. The grandfather of Governor
Phelps, Noah Phelps, was a captain in the revolution-
ary army, and his oldest son was also a soldier in that

IOHN S. PHELPS was born, December 22,

patriotic band. Noah Phelps was a member of the V

committee of safety that planned the capture of
Ticonderoga. As a successful scout and spy he did
great service to his country and proved himself an
active, intrepid and efficient soldier. He was for
many years a member of the probate court, and at

various times served his county in the legislature of
the state.

John S. Phelps was reared in Simsbury, receiving
there his early training in the fundamental principles
and completing his education in Trinity (then Wash-
ington) College, Hartford, in 1832. Having selected
the law as his profession, for three years he prose-
cuted his studies with unremitting diligence, under
the instructions of his father. He was admitted to
the bar December 22, 183 5, the twenty—first anni-
versary of his birth. He remained in Hartford,
where he had been admitted, and practiced law nearly
two years; but a desire to view the wonders of the
great West, and to strike out upon a field which not
only promised a wider scope for the exercise of his
talents, but also a speedier attainment of high posi-
tion, induced him to leave his native state and emi-
grate to Missouri.

He located in Springfield in 1837, at that time an
insignificant village in point of population, but
the trade center of that vast empire known
as Southwest Missouri. The wisdom of his choice
was soon apparent. At once he secured apaying
practice, and, though but twenty—three years of age,
his store of legal knowledge enabled him to cope
successfully with the most experienced members of
the bar. But inviting as was the legal profession, his
tastes and talents seemed to have fitted him best for

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 479

public life, and his public career began so soon as he
was constitutionally eligible. In 1840 he was elected
to represent Greene county in the Missouri Legisla-

ture, and he has been almost continuously in public

life ever since. In 1844 he was elected to Congress
on the general ticket, the last election under that
system, and for eighteen consecutive years he repre-
sented his district in that body, his career as a con-
gressman closing in 1863. ' ‘

The history of his congressional life shows the
high esteem in which he was held. In the XXXth
Congress, from 1847 to 1849, he was a member of
the committee on post-offices and post-roads, and
while occupying that position was a strenuous advo-
cate for the reduction of postage to three cents, and
aided much in passing a bill to that effect. In 1850
he espoused the cause ‘of California, and ably advo-
cated the establishment of a territorial, and afterward
a state government in the new El Dorado, desiring
the latter to decide for itself the propriety of intro-
ducing or rejecting slaves as property. For a period
_of twelve years, from 1851 to 1863, he was a mem-
ber of the committee on ways and means, and a part
of the time its chairman. This committee at that
time performed the duties now devolving on the
committee on ways and means and the committee on
appropriations. In all discussions on finance he
advocated economy without parsimony.

Such was the estimate placed upon his ability and
sound judgment that he was placed, at the close
of each congressional session during his service, upon
conference committees to settle the disagreeing votes
of the two houses on the appropriation bills, not
unfrequently the disagreements involving millions of
dollars, and it is a fact worthy of record that he never
agreed to a report that was not adopted. During
the excitement that the measure occasioned, he was
a member of the committee on the Pacific Railroad,
and contributed largely, by his voice, vote and
influence, to the success of that enterprise. At the

‘called session of Congress, in July, 1861, he was
appointed by the "speaker a member of the committee

on ways and means, though he had not then arrived
at the capital, and did not reach it till near the close
of the session. He was also chosen one of the commit-
tee of thirty-three in 1860 to devise some plan to adjust
the difficulties between the North and South, and did
all in his power to bring about reconciliation and
peace. He was ever a friend of a tariff for revenue
and an opponent of the protective tariff system.

On account of services rendered the territories, in
61

procuring surveys and other liberal appropriations,
he was, in 1859, invited to become the guest of the
territory of New Mexico, an invitation which he
accepted and traveled extensively through that region.
A strong Union man, he voted at all times to supply

. money and men for the prosecution of the late war,

though he steadfastly opposed all measures not in
accordance with the Constitution. Especially did he
oppose the confiscation act, and made an able speech
against its adoption. At the close of his congres-
sional service, in 1863, he returned to his home in
Springfield. L

Before the close of his public career as a con-
gressman, in 1861, he raised a Regiment of Union
soldiers, known as the Phelps regiment, which served
for six months with distinction. It was engaged in the
memorable battle of Pea Ridge, being commanded
by-*'~.Colonel Phelps in person, in which it acted gal-
lantly and suffered severely.

In July, 1862, Colonel Phelps was appointed,
without solicitation on his part, Military Governor of
the State of Arkansas. ‘ Being urged by friends to
accept the position, he reluctantly yielded and went
to Helena, then the only post of importance occupied

by the Union forces. ' Here his health failed, and

after a few months of service he was compelled to
return to Missouri. He was not again able to return
to active duty, though he retained the place for sev-
eral months.

In 1864 Governor Phelps resumed the practice
of law at Springfield." During the same year Gen-
eral Price led a Confederate force through Missouri,
and Union men everywhere armed for defense.
Governor Phelps raised a militia regiment for the
protection of Springfield and its vicinity. The regi-
ment, however, saw but little active service and was
disbanded on the disappearance of the threatened
danger.

He was appointed by President Johnson one of
the commissioners to adjudicate on the war claims of
the State of Indiana against the Government of the
United States. His appointment was confirmed by

the senate, and that, too, at a time when but few‘

Democrats were confirmed by that body. He

declined to accept the appointment.
In 1868 the eminent ability and peculiar position ,

of Governor Phelps made him the first choice of the
Democratic party for the office of Governor of Mis-
souri. Though not desiring the distinction, he
cheerfully undertook the sacrifice and made a manly
and vigorous canvass, denouncing with great vehe-

480 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARYZ

mence the disfranchising provisions of the “Drake
Constitution,” and demanding that the citizens of
Missouri should be restored to the right of suffrage.
A large proportion of the Missouri Democrats were
at that time disfranchised, and Governor Phelps was
defeated , but the canvass hadia salutary ‘effect and
greatly strengthened his party. 7L’

Eight years afterward, in July, 1876, he was
again nominated for Governor by the Democrats.
The country was then at peace, the pursuits of civil
life were fully resumed, and Governor Phelps was
elected by a larger majority than any preceding
Governor of Missouri. His administration has
been marked by ability, conservatism and economy.
Though a positive man and one who adheres with

great steadfastness to opinions based upon intelligent
judgment and high principles, he has never been an
extremist. Fealty to justice, loyalty to principle and
faithfulness to duty are his watchwords. Always a
Democrat, he has felt it incumbent upon him at
times to differ from the majority of his party, yet
always with a courtesy that redeemed the act from
any appearance of factious fault-finding or insensate
obstinacy. At his home, political friends and enemies
recognize the man of unapproachable honor and
incorruptible virtue, He has received honors from
his section and in turn has conferred honor upon it.
Whether as an official or a citizen, a statesman or a
lawyer, a friend or an enemy, his manly bearing,
lofty integrity and brilliant virtues are apparent.

WILLIAM JONES.

PLEASANT HILL.

V‘ J ILLIAM JONES Was born August 20, 1823,

in Scott county, Kentucky, on Elkhorn,

five miles from Georgetown and ten miles from Lex-
ington. His father, Lewis P. Jones, was born in
Culpepper county, Virginia, in 1794, and was
brought by his parents to Kentucky in 1808, settling
in Scott county. The schools of that day were very
ordinary and Lewis Jones had only such advantages
as they afforded. His wife was Sarah Graves, of
Franklin county, Kentucky, to whom he was mar-
ried in 1817. Eleven children were born of that
marriage, eight sons and three daughters: John
Granville, born August I2, 1819, Ann Adaline,
born January 10, 1821, William, born August 20,
I823, Lycurgus, born April 5, 1826; James, born
December 2, 1828; Lewis Franklin, born March
5, 1831, died August 4, 1837; Sarah A., born May
30, 1833; Marcellus, born December 9, 1835, died
March 28, I849, Asa Payne, born November I2,
1837; Thomas Jefferson, born January i8, I840,
Eliza A., born July 31, 1844. John G. and Thomas
J. moved to California in 1853, the balance of the
family are married and reside in Missouri.. The
family moved to Missouri in 1833 and located in
Jackson county, ten miles south of Independence,
on the Little Blue river. '
William Jones attended the country schools of
Jackson" county when a boy, but was forced to work

most of the time on the farm. The greater portion
of his education was acquired after he had attained
his majority, when he worked as a hired hand at ten
dollars per month to obtain the means. - He removed
to Cass county in 1846, and taught school in Cass
and Jackson counties for about twelve years, teach-
ing in Kansas City, Westport and Pleasant Hill. In
1851 he took up his permanent residencein Harri-
sonville. Before the‘ civil war began, he was mer-
chandising in that place in connection with his
father-in—law, Jeremiah Farmer. To avoid the incur-
sions of marauders, after having been robbed of a
large proportion of his property, he left Harrisonville
during the war and settled near Lone Jack, Jackson
county, taking with him the remnant of his stock of
goods. But this move did not make him safe 3 the
plunderers came and took the balance of his stock,
leaving him almost penniless. He then moved to
Grand Pass, Saline county. Here he began cooper-
ing and farming, by which he accumulated some
money, and, in 1865, moved to Lafayette county,
two miles south of Dover. At this place he engaged
in the culture of black mustard, which proved to be
a very profitable crop—Mr. Farmer being connected
with him and raising other crops. In 1866 he and

his father-in-law moved to Pleasant Hill, and, with

what they saved from the wreck of their former
property and what they accumulated, opened a lum-

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ber yard, Mr. Farmer attending to the sale of lumber
while Mr. Jones continued the culture of mustard on
a farm near the town. In 1867 he quit farming,
bought and improved the place on which he now
resides, and gave his principal attention to the lum-
ber business. Being a lover of bees, he also estab-
lished an apiary, in which he now has eighty—two
colonies, mostly of the Italian variety. ‘

Both Mr. Jones and his wife are members of
the Missionary Baptist church——she since she was

a girl, and he since he was nineteen. He is in
politics a Democrat and has never voted any other
ticket.

He was married March 28, 1850, to Miss Mary
Melinda Farmer, daughter of Jeremiah Farmer, who
was born October I, 1833. Four children have
been born of this marriage: Sarah Eliza, born April
27, 1852, John Coleman, born January I0, 1855;
Louisa Ann, born July 26, 1859; Edward, born
May I, 1864.

WILLIAM HAYDEN COE, M. D.

KANSAS cfry.

‘ ‘ JILLIAM HAYDEN, the only son of Hay-
den and Selita Coe, both of English descent,
was born in DeKalb county, Georgia, July 17, 1849.
His grandfather, Anson Coe, was a respectable
Connecticut farmer in moderate circumstances,whose
second son, Hayden, born in 1811, became one of
the most distinguished physicians in the South.
Young Hayden, by his own energy and application,
acquired a thorough education both classical and
professional, receiving his parchments from the Med-
ical University of New York City.

In 1835 he settled in De Kalb county, Georgia,
where his professional skill soon commanded an
extensive practice and he became widely known.
In 1.850 he removed to Atlanta, Georgia, and died
there in 1862 while in charge of the Confederate
hospitals. He was not only a man of extensive
medical knowledge and great professional ability, but
was distinguished for his eminent literary acquire-
ments. He was afrequent contributor to the various
medical journals of the day, wrote numerous treatises
on special pathology, and was accepted by the pro-
fession as one of the most skillful and successful
practitioners in the South. In 1839 he married
Selita, daughter of Jennings Hulsey, a prominent
farmer and planter of Georgia, the family being one
of the oldest in the state. Miss Hulsey was a lady
of culture and fine literary and aesthetic tastes. She
had receiveda finished education and was possessed
of much more than ordinary intelligence and refine-
ment of manner. She died in 18 58, nineteen years
after her marriage with Dr. Coe and nine years after

her son, William Hayden, was born. William
received a good English and classical education at
the schools and academy at Atlanta, and at Conyers
Institute near that city.

He seems to have inherited a love for his father’s
profession, for at a very early age he evinced a
decided preference for medical service, and at eigh-
teen entered upon a regular course of study under
the instructions of Dr. J. F. Alexander, a physician
of fine professional attainments and much practical
skill. Graduating from Atlanta Medical College in
1871, he formed a partnership with Dr. Alexander
which continued for three years.

In 1872 Dr. Coe was elected city physician of
Atlanta, and a member of the board of health. Dur-
ing the same year he was also elected adjunct profes-
sor to the chair of diseases of the eye and ear and
clinical surgery in Atlanta Medical College, which
position he held for two years. In 1874 he was
elected secretary of the board of ‘health; two years
later he was made its president, and became the
chief health officer of the city. He was a member
of the State Medical Association of Georgia, and
also a member of the Atlanta Academy of Medicine.
For a man of his years Dr. Coe has had a large
experience. Not yet thirty, for the past seven years
he has been intimately associated with the ablest phy-
sicians of Georgia, and thoroughly identified with
all sanitary measurers in the city of Atlanta. He
attended Hon. Alexander H. Stephens during his
severe illness in 1876 at Liberty Hall, Crawfords—

ville, Georgia. Since coming to Kansas City the

482 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

doctor received from that distinguished statesman a
most flattering testimonial of personal respect and
professional appreciation.

He is a man of pleasing address, liberal mind and
progressive ideas 3 his temperament and organization
are highly favorable to success in his chosen profes-
sion. He is a devoted student of medical science
and a close observer of human nature, genial in his

disposition, and irreproachable in his life. Like
many others, he has been watching the growth and
prospects of Kansas City, and having formed very

‘favorable impressions of its life and business energy

he resolved to identify himself with the future great
city of the New West, and located there in
March, 1878, intending to make it his permanent
home.

REV. E. S. DULIN, D. D., LL. D.

5 T. ]0SEPH.

S. DULIN wasborn near the banks of the
E. Potomac, about five miles from Mount Ver-
non, Fairfax county, Virginia, January 18, 1821.
His paternal ancestors descended from the Huguenot
family of Dulon, who, in the latter part of the
seventeenth century, settled in Maryland. His
mother belonged to the English Quaker family Shel-
ton, that settled in Loudon county, Virginia. His
father, in 1823, moved to Washington, D. C., where
he died whenthe subject of our sketch was nine
years old, leaving his family entirely without support
or income, as his property was all swept away
through his indorsement for others. Thus early the
battle of life began. Hard work during the day,
and diligent study far into the night and at all leisure
hours, was the rule and practice of his early days.
Through the influence of a Christian mother he was
brought to Christ, and in 1839 united with the Cal-
vert street Baptist church, Baltimore, and soon after
determined to go as a missionary to Burmah.

He entered Richmond College in the spring of
1841 and remained there four years, seeing his
mother but once during the time, and earning each
vacation the money to pay his expenses the follow-
ing term. Upon his graduation, he was recom-
mended by Dr. Ryland and elected principal of St.
'Bride’s Academy. Here, from overwork amid the
malaria from the adjacent Dismal Swamp, his health
gave way and he accepted the professorship of
Ancient Languages in Hollins Institute. A year in
this beautiful mountain region greatly improved his
health, but the hope of strength enough to go as
missionary to Burmah was abandoned. He spent
the next year perfecting himself as a teacher, by
taking a special course in the University of Virginia.

He was ordained as a minister at Baltimore in
August, 1848, and came to Missouri the following
October, settling as pastor of the Baptist church at
Lexington in March, 1849.

August 28, 1849, Rev. E. S. Dulin married Miss
Sarah R. Gilkey, his present most estimable wife."
Mr. Dulin was a member of the convention at Boon-
ville which, in 1849, located William Jewell College
at Liberty. He was elected its president in the fol-
lowing October, and organized the college January
I, 1850.

In the spring of 18 56 he was recalled to the pas-
torate of the Lexington church. Two months later
the Baptists of Lexington bought the Female Col-
lege property, and in the following September he
became its president The previous session had
closed with about thirty pupils; at the expiration of
Dr. Dulin’s second year the number was two hun-
dred and sixty—eight, but the labor of securing this
result had broken him ‘down and he resigned the
position. He became pastor of the Baptist church
in Kansas City in 18 58, and thence was called to the

pastorate of the Ist Baptist church in St. Joseph, in

1859, where he remained about six years, when his
services were again sought, and he was induced in
1865 to accept the management of the Female Col-
lege at Lexington. The college buildings had been
destroyed during the war and the school closed.
His energy and untiring industry soon restored the
college to its former prosperity. During all this
time Dr. Dulin’s sympathies were with William
Jewell College, of which he was the first president
and constant friend, and while at Lexington he con-
ceived, developed and submitted to the General
Association the plan, now on record on their minutes,

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which brought into existence the board of ministerial
education connected with that institution. A wider
field of usefulness now seemed open, and in 1870
he organized Stephens College, at Columbia, which
flourished with increasing patronage during his six
years’ management. '

Dr. Dulin removed to St. Joseph in the summer of
1876 and became the founder of St. Joseph Female
College, intending to make this the crowning effort
his life-work in the mental and moral training of
western young women. .

Dr. Dulin possesses rare talent and fitness for his
great work. Sound in judgment and scholarship,
elevated and large-minded in his plans and concep-
tions, with intense enthusiasm, energy and persever-
ance, he makes the best provision for the culture of
his pupils and inspires them with a higher apprecia-
tion of life and its uses and with a laudable ambition
to excel.
coupled with uniform kindness and cordiality, give
him an almost unbounded influence in forming the

His administrative firmness and authority, ‘

habits and controlling the conduct of his pupils.
Dr. Dulin ranks among the ablest preachers in the
state. His sermons are carefully prepared, with
sufficient rhetorical ornament to interest and please,
and delivered with impassioned earnestness; he
makes everything subserve in enforcing the sweet
truths of the gospel, as they affect the hearts and
lives of men. These truths he enforces with keenest
logic and a fervid and fearless eloquence that makes
no compromise with error. His literary and theo-
logical abilities have been fittingly acknowledged by
the proper scholastic institutions conferring upon
him the degrees of A. M., D. D., LL. D.

Dr. Dulin is a social, cordial, honest, outspoken
gentleman. With a strong spice of the facetious in
his nature and conversation, and a good, true heart,
he makes many friends and retains them. He is, in
thébest sense of the word, a self-made man; having,
by his own ability, energy, perseverance, integrity
and usefulness, earned his present enviable position
and good name.

JAMES MCCORD NAVE.

KANSAS CITY.

HERE is no class of men who contribute
T more largely to the building up of prosperous
cities, or to the development of the material wealth
and prosperity of a country, than its enterprising and
honorable merchants 3 and men in no professionrank
higher or are more justly entitled to the admiration
of their fellow—men than they who, by their enter-
prise, hard work, energy and honorable dealing have
won for themselves, and merited, the title of “ lead-
ing commercial men of the country.” As one of
these, a marked example of extraordinary success
and capabilities in business affairs, backed by years
but little beyond man’s estate, foremost may stand
among the leading commercial men of the great
“ New West,” and none more justly so, the name
of the subject of this sketch.

James M. Nave was born in Savannah, Andrew
county, Missouri, November 22, 1844. His family
is one of the oldest in the state of Missouri, his
grandfather, Henry Nave, having come from Ten-
nessee as early as 1815, and settled in Saline county,
Missouri, where he still resides, a hale, hearty and

esteemed citizen, of the ripe old age of ninety years,
and a worthy specimen of the rare material which
constituted the 1nen—“in mind and matter ”——of
those earlier days.

His father, Abram Nave, may be justly desig-
nated’ one of the oldest merchants of Missouri, "a
very. pioneer indeed, in the mercantile line, having
commenced business at Savannah, Missouri, in 1840,
and has been actively engaged in business ever since.
Associated with James McCord (uncle of the subject
of this biography) during a period of over thirty
years in continuous trade, they have become almost
as well known to the people of the West as the
West itself. V ,

From the facts just cited, it may be seen that
Mr. Nave came fairly by those capabilities which.
have been so thoroughly exhibited and developed
in his business career. His energy and executive
ability also may be said to have been -in-born, but
the grand success of his business life lies in the fact,
apparent to all who know him, that he always pushes
his business and never allows it to push him.

484 I THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

The education of Mr. Nave, as a matter of
course, was begun in his native village, and in the
schools there afforded he developed till the age of
twelve years, when he was entered at the Masonic
College, Lexington, Missouri, and had been in that
institution but a year when he was compelled to
abandon study in consequence of an affliction to his
eyes, necessitating his retirement from school for
two years, much to his regret and disadvantage.

In 1859 he entered an academic institution in
Northwestern Missouri and eventually matriculated
at the University of Missouri, Columbia, continuing
there until the occupancy of the college ‘buildings
by Federal troops, and the close of the institution
in consequence of the excitement incident to the
first year of the civil war.

In 1862, in consequence of the disturbed condi-
tion of affairs in his own state, and possibly from a
desire on the part of his parents to check an ardent
desire to enter the army, which he» had indicated
after leaving Columbia, in recruiting and drilling a
company of eighty members, he was sent to Bethany
College, West Virginia, then under the presidency
of its founder, Alexander Campbell, and where the
young Missourian received a classical course, at the
completion of which he returned to his home, then
at St. Joseph, Missouri, with the intention of enter-
ing Harvard University for a law course, immediately
after his summer vacation.

While at Bethany Mr. Nave developed those lite-
rary tastes which he has exhibited in later years, and
as a member of his society in college (the Neotro-
phian) he was foremost in the usual lyceum discus-
sions and literary exercises, and acquired such rank

' and popularity among his fellows as to be elected to

the highest honors of the society,_ that of orator at
the annual commencement, a success which Won the
compliments of the public, the admiration of his
fellow—students and commendation of the faculty.

A few weeks of inactivity at home impelled him
to seek relief from the ezz/2m’ with which the warm
summer weather oppressed him, and with that innate

love for trade which has ever since possessed him, .

he took a position as a clerk in a dry—goods store at
a salary of thirty dollars per month, an action which
undoubtedly shaped the future of his life. In this
vocation the embryo merchant continued for two
years, with gradually increasing usefulness to his

employer and a correspondingly increasing benefit I

to himself in the way of improvement in salary.
After his resignation of this position he turned his

attention to the grocery trade, entering the house of
his father and uncle, doing business under the firm
name of Nave, McCord & Co.

After a year in this house he was sent to Omaha,
Nebraska, where his father and uncle had an inter-
est in another wholesale grocery house, that of Will
R. King 82: Co. Here he remained another ‘year,
and then went to Kansas City, where was inaugura-
ted, in September, 1867, a new enterprise—the
Kansas City house of McCord, Nave & Co., of
which he was made the executive head and active
partner. This house is one of the system of whole-
sale houses of which his father and uncle are princi-
pal owners, under the titles of Nave, McCord &
Co., St. Joseph; Nave, Goddard & Co., St. Louis;
and McCord, Nave & Co., Kansas City. This latter
house, admitted to be one of the most extensive in
the United States, is remarkable for its great popu-
larity and extensive business, a result directly due
to the able management of the concern by James M.
Nave, who has always been found “ at the front”
in all its affairs.

It is here and in this connection that he has
become distinguished more than in all else ; and we
know of no man more justly entitled to distinction
than he who at the early age of twenty-two years
finds himself at the head of a large commercial house,
with an unlimited new country its field, and realizes the
responsibility, while his sound judgment, quick fore-
sight and never failing energy and industry push it up
to an annual business of a million and a quarter of
dollars in less than ten years from its establishment,
extending its trade over Missouri, Kansas, Ne-
braska, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming,
Dakota and Utah—a success that would make proud
the heart of many a merchant of do_uble the years
and the experience of James M. Nave.

The magnitude of his business and the constant
demand on his time and personal attention, has pre-
cluded Mr. Nave from an active engagement in pol-
itics, and he has never consented to be advanced to
public position, and has never accepted anomination
to office although often urged by his friends to do so.

He has always been an ardent Democrat without
being virulent ; has always been with his party on all
important issues of the country at large, while in
local affairs and in those instances where his party
had presented a candidate whom he considered infe-
rior to the position and its duties, he cast, without
hesitation, his vote for the better man and the public
interests.

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While never mingling in the turmoil of politics, his
short, rhetorical and strongly argumentative speeches
have made him well known in political circles.
in speech-making his happiest efforts have been those
occasions of reception or festivity wherein new and
great enterprises were invited or welcomed; and in
this respect he has been prominent in the Board of
Trade of Kansas City, where his addresses are always
happily received.

Mr. Nave was chairman of the celebrated com-
mittee of thirteen, which in 1874, revised the charter
of the City of Kansas——probably one of the most
important events in the history of the city’s govern-
Bankruptcy of the city treasury seemed immi-
nent. The credit of the corporation was terribly
impaired. Local laws being imperfect were without
force, city taxes could not be collected, and wealthy
real estate owners knowing this, actually speculated
by their non-payment. In’ this dire necessity a com-
mittee of thirteen was formed to revise the city char-
ter and thereby enable the city to collect its revenue.
How well that work was performed has already been
shown in the improved credit of the city, in the

merit.

But .

movement of its business, and the increased and rapid
strides toward greatness and permanent wealth. As
chairman of this committee, with his keen discrimi-
nation and knowledge of finances, his prompt rulings
and able suggestions, no doubt Mr. Nave stands
entitled to a liberal share of the grand results wrought
by that committee of thirteen. .

Success commands success, and Mr. Nave may
well feel proud of the result ‘of his ten years of labor.
James Nave is a man well calculated by nature to
win in the battle of life. He is frank and courteous
in his manners, reliable in his word, honest in his
dealing, and has that firmness and courage necessary
to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. His relig-
ious views are liberal, allowing every one his own
ideas of Christianity. As a citizen of the young
metropolis, Kansas City may well feel proud of him;
l1is"*success is a part of hers, and the golden future
looks promising for both.

Mr. Nave was married November 7, 1867, to
Miss Annie M. English, at St. Paul’s Church, Alton,
Illinois, and two children are the fruit of the union :
a girl, Ada May Nave, and aboy, James Revel Nave.

CHAUNCEY WILMOT FAIRMAN.

KANSAS CITY.

HAUNCEY WILMOT FAIRMAN, merchant,
C was born in Hastings county, Canada, May II,
1832. His parents names were Hugh and Anna
Fairman, natives of New York state, who left no
rich gifts to their children beyond correct habits,
industry, uprightness of character, and well devel-
oped energy——inherent qualities notably exhibited in
the business career of the subject of this sketch;
whose honorable dealing and sterling integrity has
marked the ysteadfastness, growth and continued
prosperity of his business from the outset, and amidst
all circumstances. I

Mr. Fairman received the name of Chauncey
Wilmot, from the eccentricities of an aunt, a Con-
necticut woman, then residing in Canada, who at his
birth called him after the American Commodore
Chauncey, also a native of Connecticut, who dis-
tinguished himself in the defeat of the English fleet
on Lake Ontario in 1813, and an English naval
commander Wilmot.

The educational advantages enjoyed by young
Fairman were exceedingly limited, and were con-
fined to what knowledge he might obtain during the
winter months at a district school two miles distant
from his home, to reach which and return, cost
a daily tramp of four miles through deep snows and
the bitter inclemencies of a Canadian winter.

' At the age of fifteen he left home andifound
employment among his father’s neighbors for his own
support. A year later he went to Milwaukee, Wis-
consin, where he remained three months, going
thence to Quincy, Illinois, where resided a married
sister whom he had never seen. At Quincy he
learned the tinner’s trade under much difficulty and
amidst much discouragement from his associates and
even employer, from the fact that Fairman was left-
handed and the handling of tools was awkward and
oftentimes difficult; but with great persistence he
overcame all obstacles and mastered the trade which
eventually led him into the business in which he has

486 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

long been and is now (1878) engaged, that of stoves
and tinware.

After fully acquiring his trade young Fairman
returned to Canada, where he remained until 1854.
While at Kingston he joined the Sons of Temper-
ance, and for some time held the position of Worthy
Patriarch of that organization. From Kingston he

returned to Quincy and to his old stand, remaining

two years when, in 18 56, he went to Independence,
Missouri, thence to Kansas City, in the same county,
in the ‘year 1858, the beginning of a successful,
unbroken business career of nearly twenty years in
the same line of trade. ' p '
Mr. Fairman has -identified himself very little
with political matters, and his record, military and
political, is confined to his being a member of the
Home Guards during the late war, and his election
to the city council during 1862. In politics, as in
religion, ‘Mr. Fairman is liberal in his views; in the

former looking more to the fitness of the candidate‘

than the claims of party. His views generally
accorded more especially with the principles of the
Republican party on national affairs, with a disposi-
tion to stronger conservatism in local matters.

As to religious tendencies, he was early educated
in the forms and beliefs of the Baptist church, and as
to moral attributes, he says he believes in doing right
simply because it is right and for the good that
will result from right doing, irrespective of public
opinion or mere appearance sake. Mr. Fairman
attributes his success as a business man to strict atten-
tion to business and honest endeavors to deal squarely
in trade matters with all parties, and those who know
the man concede that he has firmly held to his prin-
ciples in that respect.

Personally, Mr. Fairman is medium in stature,
but robust and with a ‘firmness about his look and
manner that indicates that he means what he says in
business matters, though a lover of genial society and
possessed of a good fund of humor when occasion
demands; a man “once a friend always a friend,”
unless at the expense of personal honor.

He married August 12, I8 58, at Quincy, Illinois,
Miss Jane A. Parmley, who died in April, I875,
after remaining his faithful companion and noble wife
a period of nearly seventeen years, leaving her
husband two promising boys in token of their happy
wedded life.

HON. G- F. BALLINGALL.

KANSAS CITY.

EORGE FIELDER BALLINGALL_ was born
G in Central Kentucky, June 8, 1844, When
quite a small boy he was taken by his uncle to Louis-
ville, Kentucky, where he resided until 1867. He
entered the University of Ohio in 18 58, studied there‘
for two years, then entered Asbury University, Indi-
ana, from which he graduated in 1863, and three
years later (1866) took his parchments from the law
department of the University of Louisville, Ken-
tucky, having obtained a thorough literary and legal
education. . ‘ ,

In the latter part of 1861, John C. Breckenridge,
Humphrey Marshall and Daniel Ballingall organized
thefirst Confederate military force in Kentucky, and
George F. Ballingall participated in this organization,
but soon retired from the service on account of ill
health. He took an active part in the presidential
campaign of 1864, stumping several districts in

Kentucky for General George B. McClellan. After
graduating in law from the Louisville University, he
remained in that city one year, and then removed
to Missouri, intending to enter upon the practice of
his profession there, but owing to the restrictions of
the then existing constitution, he remained but a
short time; when he returned to Kentucky, and
soon afterward made the tour of the Southern states.
In 1868 he revisited the state of Missouri andlocated
in Kansas City, where he has since been actively
engaged in the practice of law._ Though participat-
ing freely in local and general politics, he has allowed
nothing to interfere with his professional duties; as
a consequence his practice has become quite exten-
sive, extending to all the various courts, and into
more than one-half the counties of the State.

Mr. Ba.llingall has always been a Democrat. In
1872 he was. a candidate on the Democratic ticket

’7’HE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 487

for the 27th General Assembly, but was defeated, the
district being Republican. In 1876 he was elected
from Kansas City to the state senate for four years,
and during the session of 1877 served as chairman of
committee on Federal relations, and a member of the
committees on education, judiciary, enrolled and
engrossed bills. _ ’
He became a member of the Masonic fraternity,
of Rural Lodge, Kansas City, Missouri, in 1871. He

is a member of the Episcopal church in Christian faith.

Senator Ballingall has never married, and may be
considered quite an eligible bachelor. His practice
having been pecuniarily successful, he has made con-
siderable investments in real estate in Kansas City,
and is regarded as one of the brightest and most
promising of the rising young men of Missouri.
His political record is honorable, and his reputation
as a man of integrity and moral worth unsullied.

JAMES C. HALE.

SHELB YVILLE.

AMES C. HALE was born August 7, 1837, in
I Sullivan county, East Tennessee. His father,
~ mother and maternal grandfather were all natives
of that county. Lilburn Hale, his father, was a far-
mer and emigrated from Tennessee to Missouri in
1845, locating in Shelby county, where he died in
1862. His mother, was Sarah Clark, a daughter of
James Clark, a soldier of the war of 1812, who was a
farmer, and died in -Sullivan county, Tennessee. His
paternal grandfather, Lewis Hale, was a native of
Virginia, and a soldier in the last war with Eng-
land. ‘

James C. Hale accompanied his parents to Mis-
souri when but eight years of age and was raised on
his father’s farm. He was educated in the common
schools of Shelby county, and in the Shelby High
School. He began school teaching in 18 59, and con-
tinued in this occupation until 1862, reading also
such books on law as leisure from his duties permit-

ted: In the latter year he began merchandising in
Shelbina, and continued to be so engaged until 1865,
but was admitted to the bar in 1863. In 1865 he
began the regular practice of law at Shelbyville, and
has maintained himself there ever since, having
secured a remunerative practice and acquired a repu-
tation as a sound lawyer, clear advocate and practi-
cal business man. I

He has never had a political office——never sought
one, but has devoted himself with untiring energy to
the advancement of his professional interests.

Politically he affiliates with the Democrats, his
first ballot for president having been cast for Stephen
A. Douglas at the election of 1860.

He was married in December, 1861, to Miss
Dazzarine T. Smith, a native of Fauquier county,
Virginia, daughter of Chauncy Smith, who emigrated
from Virginia to Missouri, and settled in Pike county
in 1840.

CAPTAIN EDWIN ALFRED HICKMAN.

INDEPENDENCE.

FDWIN ALFRED HICKMAN was born Octo-
J ber I0, 1819, near the banks of the Elkhorn,
Franklin county, Kentucky. His grandfather,
Thomas Hickman, a native of King-and-Queen
county, Virginia, born in the early part of the eight-
eenth century, was an only son and died in his

native county, leaving two children—William, the
62

father of E. A. Hickman, and Elizabeth, who first
married a Mr. Mitchell, and after his death Mr.

Broaddus, of Carolina, subsequently returning to the ,

southern part of Kentucky. His grandmother’s
maiden name was Sarah Sanderson. His father,
William Hickman, was also an only son, born in
King-and-Queen county, Virginia, February 4, 1747.

488 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

Left an orphan at a tender age, William and his sis-
ter were taken to be reared by their grandmother.-
His education was very‘ limited. At the age of
fourteen he was bound out to learn a trade and
remained with his instructor seven years. In April,
1773, he united with the Baptist church, of which he
was an active preacher nearly sixty years. On the
23d of February, 1776, he and five others left Vir-
ginia to visit the new territory of Kentucky, then
almost an unbroken wilderness. He reached Har-
rodstown, now called Harrodsburg, on the first of

April, after-a fatiguing and dangerous journey. The -

town, at that time, consisted of a row or two of
smoky cabins filled with dirty women and men in
breech-clouts, greasy hunting shirts, leggings and
moccasins. Soon after his arrival, he preached the
first Baptist sermon ever delivered in Kentucky. He
returned to Virginia resolved to remove his family to
the new territory, and reached home, after encoun-
tering almost incredible hardships and innumerable
dangers, about the 24th of June, having made the
trip on horseback and been absent four months.
Eight years afterward, August 16, 1784, he emigra-
ted from Virginia to Kentucky, reaching his destina-
tion November 9, of that year. In the following
April _he settled on a tract of land near Lexington,
Fayette county. In the -winter of 1787 he removed
to a farm situated near the forks of the Elkhorn, in
Franklin county, one hundred acres having been
contributed to him by the members of the Elkhorn
church, on which he resided nearly half a century.

‘ About this time five hostile Indians were prowling in

the neighborhood and threatened the safety of the
inhabitants and their property. Elder Hickman
took four of his sons, all armed, and went in pursuit.
They soon came in sight of the savages and a run-
ning fight ensued which lasted some time, the result
of which was the killing of the five Indians. These
were the last hostile savages seen in that part of the
country. In 1788 he assisted in organizing the
church at the Forks of Elkhorn, to which he had
been preaching several months, and became the pas-

tor, in which capacity he labored until his death, ‘

January 24, 1834, at the age of eighty-seven. He
was twice married; his first wife was a Miss Shackel-
ford, daughter of John Shackelford, of King-and-
Queen county, Virginia, _by whom he had thirteen
children—six sons and seven daughters. One of the
sons, Captain Pascal Hickman was wounded and
taken prisoner at the battle of the river Raisin; he
was subsequently tomahawked and his body burned

by the Indians. Mrs. Hickman died June 9, 1812,
shortly after that horrible butchery. He was married
to his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott, widow of
Benjamin Abbott and daughter of Benjamin Dicken,
December 25, 1814. She was born in Mercer
county, Kentucky, January 7, 1783, and died.Sep-
tember 25, I826.i By her first husband she had
three children: Francis M., married Thompson K.
Neal 3 William Henry and Charlotte, the latter of
whom died young. By her second husband, Elder
Hickman, she had five sons: Simeon D. ; John
Gano, who died young; Edwin A., James R. and
Ezra R., the last three of whom are still living.
Edwin A. Hickman remained on his father’s
farm until he ,was twelve years old, when he went to
Frankfort, Kentucky, to learn the business of saddle
and harness making with James Shannon. Previous
to going there he had attended such schools as were
convenient, and during his apprenticeship he was
sent to school three terms, of five months each, one
of his teachers being Keene O’Hara, an Irishman
noted for his skill and success as a teacher. After
completing his apprenticeship and leaving school he
was employed by Mr. Shannon to superintend a
shop where, under a contract with the government, a
large number of United States mail bags were being
manufactured. He left Kentucky September I,
1840, for Missouri, arriving at Independence on the
9th of the following October. I On the 1st of Febru-
ary, 1841, he began teaching a public school and
made that his principal business for ‘six years. Dur-
ing that time he pursued a general English course of
study. In the spring of 1847 he bought a tract of
land, northwest of Independence, on which was
located a steam saw and grist mill. I About that time
the town of Independence began a very active and
vigorous growth. The Santa Fe trade received a

new impetus by reason of the conquest of New Mex-

ico by the United States. Emigration to California,
Oregon, and the Westgenerally, began to pour
through Western Missouri, and Independence be-
came the principal outfitting point for the Western
border. Houses were in process of erection in every
quarter of the town, new enterprises were springing
up in the country, and this rapid growth createda

- demand for all the lumber the local mills could sup-

ply, there being at that day but little importation of
foreign lumber. The tide of emigration consumed
all the meal and flour that could be supplied by the
limited number of grist mills, and both trades were
very prosperous. As other towns sprang up, Inde-

‘charge of the fortifying forces at that point.

 UNITED STATES ,B[0G./€.4P[{[CAL DICTZO./VARY. 489

pendence lost much of its former custom, and busi-
ness became less active.
became scarce on his land and the demand for lu1n-
ber less in town, Mr. Hickman removed to the
southern part of Jackson county and built a large
flouring mill at a point still known as Hickman’s
Mills.-
meal he could manufacture and his ‘business affairs
for several years prospered beyond expectation. It
was during his milling experience that he turned his
attention especially to the study of mathematics as
applied to the operations of machinery. This edu-
cation was highly serviceable to him in his subse-
quent career.

The panic of 18 57 and the "shrinkage of values in
every species of property, consequent upon that
financial crisis, found him a heavy indorser for
friends. Suits were multiplied and the courts began
slowly to grind the unfortunate debtors to powder.
This process affected not only the debtors themselves,
but their indorsers also, and in 1858 Mr. Hickman
became unable to meet his accumulated liabilities;
he spent the year 1859 in settling up the affairs of
his extensive business and paying the creditors of
himself and the friends for whom he had become
surety. In 1860-61 he engaged in mining in Colo-
rado, having left his family in Independence. He
returned from Colorado in November, 1861, and
remained in Independence until about the middle of
January, 1862, when he went to the South alone.

After the battle of Pea Ridge, he enlisted as a pri- ‘

vate in company B, Rosser’s regiment, Missouri
State Guard. His regiment soon after crossed the
Mississippi river and, under a new organization,
joined the regular Confederate service 3 Eugene
Erwin became colonel of the regiment and Mr.
Hickman was chosen orderly-sergeant of his com-
pany. The battle of Corinth, Mississippi, followed
soon after, in which his captain, Taylor, first-lieuten-
ant, Samuel Gibbs, and third—lieutenant Blewitt were
killed. The second-lieutenant became captain, and
sergeant Hickman became first-lieutenant. In this
battle, however, he received a shot that destroyed his
right arm, which was amputated below the shoulder-
joint, and was also taken prisoner, he was thus dis-
abled for active service until February, 1863‘, when
he rejoined his command at Jackson, Mississippi.
When his regiment moved to Grand Gulf, Lieuten-
ant Hickman ? was, by General Bowen, placed in
After
the battle of Port Gibson, in which he participated,

In a few years, as timber '

He found ready sale for all the flour and «

he was ordered to evacuate Grand Gulf, and took
part in the battle of Champion Hill 3 General Bow-
en’s forces then fell back to the city of Vicksburg,
where, on the second day, he was again wounded
and disabled during the balance of the siege. On
recovering, he went to Louisiana and thence to
Texas, where he was assigned as post-quartermaster
at Clarksville, with the rank of captain—a position
he held till the close of the war.

Captain Hickman returned to Independence
July 5, 1865, and in partnership with Wash Haller,
engaged for one year in the manufacture and sale of
brick In the summer of 1866 Robert Ball was
elected assessor of Jackson county, and Captain
Hickman was appointed deputy ; the assessor dying,
Judge J. K. Sheley was appointed to fill the vacancy,
angl continued the work through deputy Hickman.
In *1 868, his son, William Z. Hickman, was elected
to the office of assessor. The books had, partly
through a defect in the law and partly through care-
less handling, came into a wretched condition.
Captain Hickman took them in charge, revised, cor-
rected and systematized them, and brought them out
of their chaotic condition. During the time of his
employment as deputy assessor, he compiled a
property map of the county, defining the school dis-
trict lines, which he had photographed and sold to the
school officers of the county. In 1870 he completed
another and fuller map, and in 1871 he was employed
to survey and mark all the county roads, and in per-
forming this work he perfected and finished a’ prop-
erty map, which embraced the farms of the county
with the names of the owners, the roads, school
houses, churches, etc., forming an invaluable fund
of information in regard to Jackson county.

In 1872 he invented and constructed a trigono-
metrical chart, which is a perfect system of trigono1n_

etry and by means of which the most difficult

trigonometrical problem may be almost instantly
solved. In 1873 he engaged in mining in Morgan
county. From 1868 to the present time, in the
capacityiof a county commissioner or private sur-
veyor, he has surveyed nearly all the land in Jackson
county. In I876'he completed and published a
work entitled “Arithmetical Geometry,” by means
of .which he teaches the solution of all geometrical
questions by the common rules of arithmetic. The
work was published by Messrs. Ramsey, Millett &
Hudson, of Kansas City, and has met with a hearty

commendation from some of the most learned and

skillful educators of the West. He has in contem-

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plation the enlargement of this work and carrying
the same principles into the measurement of solids.
In 1877 he purchased the extensive harness and
saddle manufactory of ]ohn W. Modie, of Indepen-
dence, and is still engaged in that business.

He was a Whig in politics until the dissolution of
that party, but since then has cooperated with the
Democrats. He has never held a public office,
except that of mayor of Independence, to which
position he was elected in 1877 and held the office
one year. .. He has been a worthy and consistent
member of the Christian chuch since I845.-

He was married June 20, 1843, to Miss Catharine
M. Oldham, daughter of Zere Oldham and Amelia
Collins, of Jackson county, Missouri. Her father
was a farmer during his life. Her mother was a

daughter of Joel Collins and was born in Montgom-
ery county, Kentucky, October 9, 1798. Mrs.
Hickman was born September I, 1823. They have
had five children, three of whom died in infancy.
Those living are: William Zere Hickman, born
August 13, 1845 3 elected assessor of Jackson county
in 1868, and clerk of the county court in I874;
married Miss Fannie M. Lipscomb, of Jackson county,
and has three children; and Annie E., born April
7, 1848, married to James E. Payne, editor of the
Courzkr, Harrisonville, Cass county, Missouri, and
has three children. Captain Hickman is a man of
great energy, possessed of an inquiring mind and
inventive genius, an accurate and original thinker,
a citizen of unquestioned probity and large influence
in the society in which he moves.

COLONEL A. D. JAYNES.

SEDALIA.

 D. JAYNES was born November 26, 1829,

O in Lawrence." county, Ohio. His parents
were from Virginia and his ancestors participated in
the stirring scenes of 1776 and I812. His father
was largely interested in the iron business and early
introduced him into an industrious life. Young
Jaynes had but limited opportunities for education,
but improved well those he had, and in youth» became
an expert in penmanship, arithmetic and accounts.
From the age of fifteen to that of twenty—one he was
assiduously engaged in business with his father.
When of age he went to merchandising with the
excellent firm of C. & W. H. Kelley, with whom
after the first year he was partner. In 18 52 he was
interested with Means, Clark & Co., in building
Vinton furnace in Vinton county, Ohio, and Was
connected with the management of that large institu-
tion until 18 59.

In 1858 he made a most excellent choice of a
partner for life and was married to Miss Mary ].
Brown, daughter of John Brown, Esq., of Athens
county, Ohio. In 1859 he became connected with
his father-in—law in merchandising and banking, and
was one of the firm of Brown & Jaynes until 186 5.
Meanwhile he was an active participant in the great
war of the rebellion. In 1861 the governor of

Ohio organized the 36th Ohio Volunteer Militia, and
mustered it into state service for five years. Of this,
A. D. Jaynes was commissioned lieutenant—colonel.
This regiment armed and equipped itself and was a
fine body of men. It was called out during the
Lightburne raid, and again during the Morgan raid,
and aided much in the defense of the state. It was
ordered to report at Camp Putnam, near Marietta,
Ohio, whither it proceeded with great promptness.
Colonel Jaynes was made commander of the post
and had charge of supplying, transporting and dis-
tributing sixteen thousand troops. In command of
twelve hundred men and two pieces of artillery, he
rendered important service in the battle at Buffington

‘Island, and aided in the capture of one hundred of

Morgan’s men. He returned with his regiment to
Marietta and proceeded thence to Newport to cut off
Morgan’s retreat, which was accomplished under
General Burnside. With becoming spirit and pa.triot—
ism in the eventful war of 1862 the 36th Ohio Vol-
unteer Militia volunteered to enter the military
service of the United States. Five hundred and
fifty men of this regiment reported as a battalion of
five companies at Galliopolis and were consolidated
with five companies under Lieutenant-Colonel Hamp-
ton, the whole being organized as the 141st Ohio

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Volunteer Infantry. This was one of the best regi-
ments from the state of Ohio during the war. The
field and staff officers were as follows : A. D. Jaynes,
Colonel; T. W. Hampton, Lieutenant-Colonel; A.
D. Brown, Major; Dr. C. L. Wilson, Surgeon; Rev.
C. C. Baker, Chaplain. It was ordered to report to
General Heintzleman, at Cincinnati, Ohio. There it
was ordered to press into service all the steam-
boats which were needed and report to Gen-
eral George Crook, at Lewisburg. Having ar-
rived at Charleston, Colonel Jaynes was order-
ed by General Crook to take command of the
post, to forward troops to take the place of dis-
charged veterans, and to assume the management of
the whole department of West Virginia. He had
exclusive charge of more than one hundred miles of
country, extending over a part of West Virginia and
North Carolina. On this line he remained until
August, 1864. In this difficult and responsible posi-
tion he acquitted himself with characteristic energy
and tact. His camp at Cable Court House was
artistically arranged and beautified and kept well
policed. His duties were performed to the entire
satisfaction of both civil and military authorities.
His regiment was noted for being well disciplined
and drilled and was much praised by inspecting and
mustering officers. The regiment was mustered out
of service, by reason of expiration of term of enlist-
ment, in 1864. He spent about four months of the
same year in Philadelphia, and sold over $1,000,000
worth of property, winding up the extensive busi-
ness of Means, Clark & Co.

To find a wider field of enterprise and operation,
he came west and settled, in 1865, in Sedalia, Mis-
souri, then a place of only fivehundred inhabitants.
In March, 1866, he established with others the First
National Bank of Sedalia, of which he became
cashier. I Thenceforth he was identified with all the
important enterprises of Sedalia and Pettis county.
He was efficient, in 1867-8, in building the Tebo &
Neosho Railroad, of which he was much of the time
general agent. In 1869 he sold. it to the Land
Grant Railway and Trust Company of New York.
He was elected a director and made bond agent
and depositary of the funds of that company. He
was its disbursing agent when the old Tebo & Neosho
Railroad was completed andextended from Hanni-
bal, Missouri, to Denison, Texas, and continuedin
that capacity until December I, 1874. So much of
the credit is due him for the planning and comple-
tion of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad.

. sively in Sedalia.

When William Bond, of New York, December 31,
1874, became receiver, Colonel Jaynes became treas-
urer and agent of receiver. When the Union Trust
Company resumed command of the road, June 30,
1876, he continued in essentially the same relation
to it, being treasurer and agent of William Bond, the
manager. In 1874, when he became treasurer of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, to accom-
modate their business he changed places with Mr.
Cyrus Newkirk, the president of the First National
Bank of Sedalia, ,he becoming president and Mr.
Newkirk cashier.

While a citizen of Sedalia, he began and com-
pleted other important enterprises. In 1867 he
recommended the issue of $30,000 in school bonds
for which he paid the cash, and provided for build-
in the Sedalia Broadway school building, one of the
finest in the state. In the same way he provided
for building another fine school building known as
the Franklin. He organized the Sedalia Library
Association, the Sedalia Board of Trade, and was
one of the founders’ of the Central Missouri Fair
Association. To him, especially, Sedalia is indebted
for securing the Holly Water—works, by which the
city is bountifully supplied from the Lamine river,
and consequently for ‘securing so many of the
machine shops of the Missouri Pacific and of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad.

He was also the agent of Pettis county to repre-
sent its interest in the location of the Lexington &
St. Louis Railroad, now a branch of the Missouri
Pacific. He was one of the original directors of the
Life Association of America. In 1876 he was
active in the organization of the Missouri Stock and
Bond Company of St. Louis. And in the same
year he established the First National Bank at Fort
Scott, Kansas, and became one of its directors. In
1870 he organized the First National Bank at Par-
sons, Kansas, of which he was the largest stock-
holder, and president. In 1872 he became presi-
dent of the First National Bank at Dennison, Texas,
and also director and vice-president of the Valley
National Bank of St. Louis.

He has built largely and improved real estate exten-
Ohio street, a very active business
center, besides the First National Bank, has many
monuments of his enterprise and public spirit. He
has a palatial and well furnished residence on Broad-
way, Sedalia, a street he has done much to beautify
and adorn, and which is certainly one of the finest in the
state. He is a friend and benefactor of schools and

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churches, and deeply interested in the prosperity of
the country and general well" being of mankind.

In the midst of a crowded life and a multitude
of cares and responsibilities, he finds considerable
time for society and for general reading and culture.

His biography now might well be made to fill a
volume. But in the vigor‘ of life and at the noon-
tide of prosperity and usefulness, his’ past should
only be considered the index and promise of a
grander and better future.

COLONEL AMOS T. BISSELL.

ST. LOUIS.

MOS T. BISSELL was born March 20, 1840,.
in Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania.
His father, Felix Bissell, and his mother, Eliza Seitz-

' inger, -were also natives of the same county and state.

The father of Miss Seitzinger, Colonel George W.
Seitzinger, was a colonel in the War of the revolu-
tion, a pioneer and first commissioner of Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, a man of ability and promi-
nence Who held various public offices of trust. His
paternal grandfather, Captain George Bissell, was
an officer in the war for independence. ,
Amos T. Bissell was reared in Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania, and in Floyd county, Georgia, to
which latter county, he went to live with relations in
1856. In 1860, he began merchandising, but, on the
breaking out of the war, joined the Union army in
1861, as a private in company D, 7th Pennsylvania
reserves, General George G. Meade’s brigade. He
remained in the service four years, having seen ser-
vice in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana, and taking an
active part in the battles of Drainsville, Island No.
Io, Fort Pillow, Memphis, Vicksburg, Arkansas

Post, Red river expedition and Mobile. In 1862 he
entered the naval service in the gunboats of the
Wester-n waters. In July of that year he was pro-
moted to midshipman in front of Vicksburg. When
that city fell in July, 1863, he was made a lieutenant
in the navy, and commanded the monitor Oneta for
about eighteen months at Mobile and Fort De Russa.
He resigned his commissionin the navy in 1865,
and was promoted to a colonelcy in the army in
1873. He, however, declined the latter commission.
In 1867 he located in Moberly, Randolph county,
and dealt in coal till 1874, when he settled in St.
Louis in the real estate and brokerage business,
where he has since lived. He has never sought nor

- held a political office. ,

Politically, he affiliates with the Liberal Republi-
cans, He is a member of the Episcopalian church.

He was married, in :863,_to Miss Agnes Fox, a
native of Fairfax county, Virginia. She died the
same year, and he was again married in I874, his
second wife being Mrs. Mary L. Flore, daughter
of W. R. Samuel, Esq., of ‘ Randolph county, Mis-
souri.

GEORGE D. MILES.

ST. LO UIS.

EORGE DANIEL MILES, a prominent artist
G of the city of St. Louis, was born in Medina
county, Ohio, December 28, 1826. His father was
Archibald Miles, a native of Amsterdam, on the
Mohawk river, in New York, he followed the pro-
fession of, medicine all his life and attained eminent
distinction therein. He was of English extraction.

In I851‘ Dr. Miles delivered a series of lectures to
the ladies of St. Louis, and so pleased were they
with the instruction given them that they honored
him with the beautiful and costly gift of a walking
cane tipped with gold and ornamented with precious
stones—the whole costing about $500.

The mother of the subject of this sketch, whose

THE UNITED STATES BIOGEAPIIICAI, DICTIO./VARY. 493

maiden name was Mary Freesse, was a native of
Kinderhook, on the same romantic stream whose
waters laved her sweetheart’s home. She was a
daughter of Judge Freesse, of New York, who in
early days had for his pupil Martin Van Buren.
The family was of German descent. .

"George, their son, was reared in Medina county
and in Cincinnati. He was liberally educated at
the Cincinnati ‘College and at the Woodward Col-
lege in the same city. A

Mr. Miles early evinced decided talent and apti-
tude for portrait painting and the delineation of fine
scenes. (Is it true that grand or gloomy impres-
sions upon the minds of parents are reproduced in
the children ? The weird scenery of the Hudson—
its romantic lakes and towering cliffs, its picturesque
shores and the silent, solemn beauty of its midnight
glimmer, as a thousand moons dance upon its waves,

all these, and more that has made that grand old
river classic, were constantly before Archy Miles
and his Mary from childhood to the bright day they
left the Hudson hand in hand for life. Were their
natures not affected? Was George’s not moulded
and the art-love in him born in the scenes amid
which his parents lived and loved?) _

Mr. ‘Miles studied his profession under Thomas
Buchanan Reid, the distinguished poet and artist,
during the years of 1849 and 1850. He located his
studio in St. Louis in 187 5,where he has since resided.
In 1864 he traveled in South America, accepting a
call of General Falcon, the President of Venezuela.

In 1870 Mr. Miles painted a portrait "of the
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, by his majesty-’s
order. The portrait is a remarkable one in its per-
fect likeness and artistic execution, and is now dis-
played in the royal gallery of Russia.

ALEXANDER MONROE DOCKERY, M. D.

GALLA T IIV.

ALEXANDER M. DOCKERY was born in
Livingston county, Missouri, February 11,
1845. His father is a distinguished minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church (South); his mother, Sarah
E. McHaney, was a native of Kentucky. Of their fam-
ily of three children, Dr. Dockery is the only survivor.

He received a thorough classical education in__the
Macon Academy, Macon, Missouri 3 in 1863 entered
St. Louis Medical College, from which he graduated
in March, 1865, and received his parchments. Dr.
Dockery then located for practice in Linneus, Mis-
souri, where he remained three years, after which, in
1867, he removed to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he
practiced successfully for six years, filling with
acceptance from 1870 to 1874 the office of county
physician.

In March, 1874, he abandoned his practice in
Chillicothe, removed to Gallatin, and in company
with Thomas B. Yates established the Farmers’
Exchange Bank, now recognized as one of the solid
financial institutions of Missouri. Dr. Dockery has
always been deeply interested in the cause of popu-

-lar education, and during his residence in Chillicothe

was president of the board of education for three
years. From 1873 to 1874 he was oneof the cura-

tor’s of the State University, and in 1877 was again
appointed to the position, his present term to expire
April, 1883.
’ He was made a Master Mason in 1866, being
raised in Jackson Lodge, No. 82, Linneus, Missouri,
was exalted in Lone Star Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, ‘Chillicothe,’ in 1868, and was at one time High
Priest of that body. He served as W orshipful
Master of Jackson Lodge, afterward filled the same
position in Friendship Lodge, No. 89,_Chillicothe,
and in 1877 was Worshipful Master of Jamesport
Lodge, No. 2OI. For the past ten years he has filled
the position of Deputy District Grand Master, and at
present has jurisdiction over the 12th Masonic Dis-
trict of the state. In 1870 he was Junior Grand
Warden of the Grand Lodge of the state, and in the
following year Senior Grand Warden of the same
body. In 1870 he was also Grand Scribe of the
Grand Royal Chapter of Missouri. These are
honors rarely conferred on so young a man as Dr.
Dockery then was, and he may well be congratulated
upon the dignity so early conferred by so honorable
a body as the A. F. & A. M.

From his youth up he has been a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church (South), of which his

494 TIYE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

father is so distinguished a minister. In politics a
Democrat, for the past ten years he has taken an
active part in the councils and direction of the party,
and has earned for himself the reputation of a forci-
ble and effective public speaker.

April 14, 1869, he was married to Mary E.,
daughter of Greenup Bird, Esq., formerly a banker
of Kansas City, Missouri. Their children are:
Lena, aged four, and a little boy three years younger

who bears his father’s name—Alexander Monroe.

Dr. Dockery is a man of fine appearance, stand-
ing five feet eleven inches in height, weighing one
hundred and sixty-eight pounds 5 of popular address
and pleasing manners, taking his place easily and
naturally in the church or the lodge, in business or
the social circle, young in years, but more firmly
established in the confidence of his associates than
many who are double his age.

WILLIAM  REED.

KANSAS CITY.

V N I ILLIAM H., only son of John C. and Fran-

ces Reed, Was born in Canfield, Mahoning

county, Ohio, June 28, 1837; his only sister, Mary,

is the wife of Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, United States

representative from the 14th Congressional District
of Illinois. »

When William was 12 years old his father died,
leaving his mother in comparatively poor circumstan-
ces, and the usual facilities for acquiring an education
were not afforded him. Beyond a short time at the
public school and a brief term at Mt. Union Seminary,
Ohio, he did not attend school after his father’s death.
He early beganwork, first in a machine shop and
then in a store, and was engaged as clerk in a mercan-
tile house in Jacksonville, Illinois, for several years.

.In 1862 he went to Chicago as clerk in the whole-
sale grocery house of Day, Allen, & Co., and after-
wards was with the firm of King, Stewart & Aldrich.
In 1870 he came to Kansas City as the General West-
ern Agent of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, which
position he still (1878) holds. ‘

Mr. Reed is generally known in railroad circles as
an active and energetic business man—one of the live
men of the West. From his youth Mr.‘ Reed has
been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of
which denomination both of his parents were mem-
bers, and he attributes to his early training, particu-
larly to his mother’s example and influence his deep
interest in all that concerns the moral welfare of his
fellows. V

Notwithstanding his early educational disadvanta-
ges, Mr. Reed has not only an intimate acquaintance
with all biblical knowledge, and much of the current
theology, but is also well abreast of the times in all

matters of general literature, and as a specialist in
some departments of Natural Science, particularly
geology, has quite a reputation. It is as a Sabbath
School man, however, a lover. and promoter of all
Sunday School work—a regular Sunday School
genius, in short—that Mr. Reed is best and most pop-
ularly known. A zealous worker for his own denom-
ination, he is largely evangelical in his Sunday School
work, and While his theory favors denominational
teaching, he practices the broadest catholicity, being
ever ready to lend a helping hand in all Sunday School
enterprises, choosing his helpers from all denom-
inations and being an enthusiast in all mission work.
When Mr. Reed first came so prominently into notice
as one of the leading Sunday School men of the V\7est,
it would be difficult to say. He probably secured his
place by virtue of his recognized fitness for the posi-
tion; and now no Sunday School convention in West-
ern Missouri is a success unless W. H. Reed is present
to infuse life and energy into all its spirit and give
practical, intelligent direction to its efforts. Most of
Mr. Reed’s manhood has been given to Sunday
School work. Since coming into Missouri eight years
ago, he has been a delegate to every state conven-
tion, and in them one of the most active and efficient
of workmen. He has made incessant war upon the
old effete methods of Sunday School labor, and with
his cheerful smile, contagious laugh, ringing com-
mands and gleeful songs has rejuvenated every school
with which he has come into contact. In one of the
interior towns of the state he sang life into one of the
sleepiest Sunday School conventions ever assembled,
and made so enthusiastic agathering of it that it is
still remembered as one of the most successful meet-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAI. DICTIO./VARY. 495

ings ever held in that district. He is preéminently
modern in his methods, utilizes everything for his
purposes, and considers nothing profane that can be
pressed into Sunday School service. He has again
and again outraged the feelings of pious cant and the
sanctified dullness by his methods; but it concerns
him nothing, his one question being—how prospers
the school. When he brought his fiddle‘ and brass
band into School one of the pious old brethren
thought it too much, and murmured that “Brother
Reed was bringing the devil into the house of God.”
Reed’s answer came prompt and conclusive: “Let
him come in and we’ll conquer him.”

His great success, however, has been the Grand
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Sunday School in Kan-
sas City. Here in 1872, Mr. Reed commenced put-
ting his ideas into practice. The school was at that
time neither better nor worse than the average.
Gathering about him a few kindred spirits who could
and did enter into his plans, he engaged some of the
best instrumental music to be found in the city, thor-
oughly organized the song department, procured the
best collection of Sunday School music extant, and
made the song service the feature of his work. Eve-
rywhere throughout the city where business or pleas-
ure called him, he talked about his school and worked
for it. The children began to come, its fame
increased and the older ones dropped in, the young
men and women filled the seats, parents were enrolled
in the classes, and so the interest increased, until
Grand Avenue Sunday School is one of the Sunday
afternoon attractions of the city. The average attend-
ance for the past five years has been from seven hun-
dred to twelve hundred. Everybody sings, and the
grand music of so many voices is most inspiring. His
orchestra consists of three violins, viola, double bass,
two clarionets, flute, trombone and cornet. His
other departments are thoroughly managed, his teach-

ers’ meeting is well attended, and the lessons critically
prepared, and so the interest of the classes is intelli-
gently sustained. The school is talked of throughout
the city and the state, visitors spending the Sabbath
in Kansas city make a point of attending the services,
and it is quite the thing to go and see Reed’s school
on Sabbathafternoon.

In his mission work Mr. Reed has been equally
successful, gathering in from all classes of community,
and in a very short time bringing order out of confu-
sion and a real creation out of chaos. The most bois-
terous and unruly hoodlums yield readily to themagic
of his art, and his good nature which never fails, tri-
umphs over every obstacle. He is a recognized
power in all the Sunday School work of the state, the
life and soul of many of her conventions, has been
called to preside over many of her gatherings, and
wa§‘president of the State Sunday School Convention‘
in 1875-76. He is also a member of the state exec-
utive committee of the Young Men’s Christian Associ-
ation, as of the State Sunday.School Convention. He
is a Good Templar _and a Knight of Pythias, in both
of which societies he has held important positions.

August 16, 1859, Mr. Reed was marriedto Ella
S., daughter of Edward and Harriet March, of ]ack-
sonville, Illinois. They have three children living-
Harry C., Walter M. and Harriet M. F. Mrs. Reed

is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. .

Mr. Reed is about five feet eleven inches high;
quick in his movements; has a rapid walk, leaning
forward as he moves, as if impatient to get on. His
complexion is light, eyes blue, hair and beard auburn.
He is an easy, fluent speaker and his words are
always to the point, many of his public addresses
being quite happy efforts. Socially he is pleasant
and entertaining, and whenever you meet him he
seems to have a genial word or a kindly smile—just
the sort of man the children love.

HON. CHARLES J. LEWIS.

f0PL[./V.

HARLES J. LEWIS was born at Bethel, Ver-
mont, September zr, 1840, and removed with

his parents, in 1845, to Petersburg, Illinois, and in

1851 returned to Vermont. His father was Reuben

T. Lewis, an enterprising boot and shoe merchant.
63

His mother’s maiden name was Jane C. Sanders;
she descended from a ‘distinguished New England
family, many of whom participated in the war of the
Revolution.

Charles J. Lewis entered the People’s Academy,

496 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

in Lamoille county, Vermont, in 1856, and gradu-
ated from that institution in the fall of 1860, and
entered Middlebury College, at Middlebury, Ver-
mont. In August, 1:862, he left college and joined
the Union army, and upon the organization of his
regiment, the rst Vermont Heavy Artillery, was
commissioned 2d lieutenant of battery D, and was
honorably mustered out of the service May I 5, 186 5,
then holding the position of captain. He participated
in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold
Harbor, Petersburg, Charleston, Winchester, Cedar
Creek, Bald Hill, Opequan Creek, Five Forks, Sail-
ors’ Run, Appomattox, and other engagements, and
was present at Lee’s surrender.

On returning from the army at the close of the
war, he resumed the study of law, and at the Decem-
ber term, I865, of the Lamoille county (Vermont)
court he was admitted to the practice of the law in
the courts of that state, and opened an office in the
town of Morristown. . .

He was married at Morristown, Vermont, Feb-
ruary I, 1866, to Miss Maria L. Slocum, a woman
of culture, a graduate of the People’s Academy, and
a relative of General Slocum, distinguished in the
Union army, and who lost his life at the battle of

‘office for two years.

Bal1’s Bluff, Virginia. They have had but one
child, a son, who died at Lawrence, Kansas, when
about one year old.

Mr. Lewis was elected prosecuting attorney of
Lamoille county, Vermont, in 1866, and held the
He was superintendent of
public instruction of the same county for one year.
In the fall of 1868 he removed to Lawrence, Kansas,
and engaged in the grain trade. In the spring of
1870 he was elected police judge of the city of Law-
rence, and held the office one year.

In the month of April, 1875, he connected him-
self with the Sherman (Texas) Gas Company as busi-
ness manager. and constructive engineer. He super-
intended the construction of the works in that city,
and remained in charge until October, 1876, when
he removed to Joplin, Missouri, to assume a similar
position with the Joplin Gas Company, which he still
occupies. He is also the engineer and superintend-
ent of the Carthage (Missouri) Gas Campany, whose
Works are now under process of construction.

He is a Master Mason and a fifth degree member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In
religion he is a Free Thinker; in politics, Inde-
pendent.

ABERNATI-IY, NORTH & ORRISON.

KANSAS CITY.

/ I ‘HERE is no one thing which so correctly

indexes the substantial growth and prosperity
of a city as the increasing business of its mercantile
and manufacturing establishments. Judged by this
standard Kansas City compares favorably with any
city upon the North American continent for the
decade ending June I, 1878. Among the leading
industries by which we judge of her growth and
gauge her prosperity, the furniture establishment of
Abernathy, North & Orrison takes front rank. '
Since the house was established under the name
of Woods and Abernathy, ten years ago, its business
has increased until it now occupies five times the
amount of room and gives employment to fifteen
times the number of hands that it did when first
opened in the flush times of 1868.
In March, 1868, Mr. S. D. Woods, who had been

I in live stock business, and Colonel J. L. Abernathy,

a heavy furniture dealer of Leavenworth, Kansas,

formed a partnership for the purpose of carrying on
the furniture business in Kansas City. They opened
under the name of Woods & Abernathy, corner of
Fourth and Walnut streets, occupying a building
twenty-five feet front, ninety feet rear, two stories
and a basement. Mr. Woods had charge of the busi-
ness; Mr. Abernathy continuing to reside in Leav-
enworth and take care of his large furniture interests
there, as he does at present. They started with a
fair amount of capital, confined their business chiefly
to the city, and employed three hands, Mr. North of
the present firm, being one of the clerks. Kansas
City was at that time in the full tide of prosperity.
The city had been going up like a rocket since the
close of the war in 1865, buildings were being erected
in all parts of the city, and the streets were literally
choked with bricks and mortar. The sales of the
firm the first year amounted to $60,000. In Febru-
ary fol-lowing, 1869, they rented No. 551 Main street,

THE U./VITED STATES B]0G[i’.4PH[CAL DICTZO./VARY. 497

and soon afterward the adjoining No. 549, at which
numbers the business is still conducted. Trade
steadily increased until the panic of 1873.. The
years 1873-6 were years of financial disaster to thou-
sands of first class houses, and the sales of the firm
were greatly diminished.

In 1873 D. S. Orrison, late of the firm of Dogget
& Orrison, dry goods, was employed as a clerk. In
187 5 Mr. Woods retired from the firm 3 Messrs. North
and Orrison became partners of Mr. Abernathy, and

formed the firm of Abernathy, North & Orrison.

I876-7 were more prosperous seasons. The young
blood in the management of the firm began to tell.
Their trade has kept steadily increasing until to—day
there is no more prosperous house in the West. The
first floor of their sales room covers seven thousand five
hundred square feet with a basement of equal extent,
the floors above twenty-two thousand feet, making a
total of thirty-seven thousand square feet of floor
room occupied by their business. The basement and
first floor are one hundred and fifty feet deep by fifty
feet front. Above this they occupy one hundred feet
front by one hundred and ten feet rear. The num-
ber of hands kept constantly employed is forty—five.
The bulk of their stock is received in the “white”
and finished here. They keep eleven hands employed
in the varnish rooms, and six men attend to their
upholstering which is almost exclusively done in their
own establishment. They buy their furniture from
various manufacturers. A Mr. Abernathy’s furniture
manufactory at Leavenworth supplies a large amount.
Their bed room sets come from Grand Rapids, Mich-

igan, their carpets from Lowell and Roxbury, Mass-
achusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Their mirrors,
shades, etc., etc., are from New York and Philadel-
phia.

Their present capital amounts to $90,000 3 sales
$200,000 per annum, and constantly increasing. The
variety and extent of their immense stock would well
repay an inspection of its various departments in corn-
pany with one of the gentlemanly partners. One would
see elegant chamber sets ranging in price from forty
to six hundred dollars per set; mirrors from four hun-
dred dollars to_t\venty—five cents; parlor suits sump-
tuously upholstered, from four hundred dollars down
as low as forty dollars, and so on ad z'nfim'fzmz.

In carpets they are immense. Their carpet room
—a recent addition, forty by fifty feet—is stocked
with everything from Axministers and velvets at four
and‘a half dollars per yard, down to hernps at fifteen
cents. Enter their establishment when you will,
everything is neat, orderly, and in first class style of
arrangement. Enter it how you will, you will be met
politely, treated courteously, and be favorably
impressed with the business manners of the house.
Mr. North’s placid, unruffled face is turned to you
from the railings of the office, as unvexed in its
expression as though financial cares were unknown,
and Mr. Orrison’s genial, smiling countenance beams
a welcome from among the piles of furniture or rolls
of carpet, just as it happens, but always ready for
trade. No more popular, successful and promising
firm is found in this city thanthe one doing business
at 549 and 551 Main street.

JOHN HENRY NORTH.

[KANSAS CITY.

OHN HENRY NORTH was born in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, ]uly I,-1845, in which city his
father had transacted business twenty years at

the time of his removal to Clark county, Indiana,
in 1854. After leaving school, John Henry was
employed in the boot and shoe store of his brother
Edwin in New Albany, Indiana. Mr. North having
returned to business in Louisville, ]ohn followed him
in 1864 and entered his store, where he remained
two years and then returned to Indiana and went to

Work upon his father’s farm. Two years later he

started west, arriving in Leavenworth Kansas,
in March, 1868, Where he remained two weeks, but
finding no employment came to Kansas City, where
he was engaged by the furniture firm of Woods &
Abernathy to drive team. He soon took charge of
the books of the establishment, posting them at
night and doing his work as a teamster by day.
After six months of this double duty he was given a
situation as clerk in the house, and on the retirement
of Mr. Woods, in 187 5, became one of the partners
in the present firm.

498 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

April 9, 1872, he was married to Callie A.,
daughter of Benjamin L. Riggins, at that time a
prominent real estate dealer of Kansas City. Miss
Riggins is a native of Missouri. They have three
children: Percie R., Nellie and Charlie.

Mr. North is a Democrat, as he always has been,

but gives little attention to political matters, being
distinctively a business man. At twenty-one years
of age he united with the M. E. church (South), and
is an active member of that religious society, deeply
interested in all its work and having charge of its Sun-
day school, in which he is both efficient and popular.

DAVID S. ORRISON.

KANSAS CITY.

AVID, son of Ananias Amarias Orrison, was
D His
father, a Virginian by birth, moved into Ohio when
‘a boy, became a prosperous farmer, resided in the
state about forty years, then located in Rockville,
Indiana, where he died in 1868.

David received a good common school education,
and at the age of eighteen left home for New Brigh-
ton, Pennsylvania. Here he remained four years,
clerking one year in the house of W. Kennedy, and
three years in the house of Samuel Osborn. Leav-
ing‘ Pennsylvania for the West he was employed as
salesman in the dry goods house _of W. B. Daniels &:
Co., Iowa City, now doing business in Denver, Col-
orado. At the expiration of five years he was given
an interest in the business which he held for three
years, then removed to Leavenworth, Kansas, where
for one year (1865) he was a partner in the firm of
D. A. Millington & Co. In 1866 he went to St.
Louis and for two years was a member of the whole-
sale dry goods firm of Millington, Ferguson & Co.
He came to-Kansas City in 1868, with one of his St.
Louis partners, ]ohn Doggett, and opened the dry
goods house of Doggett & Orrison, which they con-
ducted for five years. In 1873 the firm was dis-

born in Columbiana county, Ohio.

solved, and in 187 5 Mr. Orrison became a member
of the furniture house of Abernathy, North & Orri-
son, as mentioned in the business sketch of that firm.

October I4, 1863, Mr. Orrison was married to
Emma, daughter of Edmund K. and Helena Rugg,
at Iowa City. Her father, a prominent citizen and
banker of Iowa City, was born in Leominster, Mass-
achusetts, April 9, 1811 ; married June 3, I 840 Hel-
ena Williams, born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
October 29, 1817. He removed to Iowa City in
18 54, thence to Kansas City in 1869, where he died.
Mrs. Orrison was born in Massachusetts in 1841.
They have one child, Louis D., born in St. Louis
January 13, 1868.

Mr. Orrison is quite liberal in his religious and
political sentiments; is one of the trustees of the
Unitarian society, cares nothing for political Office,
and while interested in all matters of municipal inter-
est, allows nothing to interfere with the conduct of
his business. Mrs. Orrison is a woman of refinement
and culture, domestic in her tastes, attached to her
home, and devoted to her widowed mother and sister.
Their son is a well grown, sunny faced boy. In his
family as in his business D. S. Orrison certainly
enjoys the smiles of fortune.

JUDGE WILLIAM HENRY.

CAMERON

ILLIAM HENRY, son of William and Sarah

 iv A. (Jones) Henry, was born in Harrison

county, Kentucky, April 6, 1842. His parents were

also natives of Harrison county, and emigrated to

Missouri in 1849, locating in DeKalb county, where
the father died in 1872,

William assisted his father on the farm in his early
boyhood, and enjoyed the advantages of a liberal
education. In 1865 he began to read law, and the
following year was admitted to the bar. In 1867 he
opened an office in Cameron, where he has since
been assiduously engaged as a leading lawyer.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 499

In 1871 he was appointed judge of the Cameron
court of common‘ pleas. This office he filled for one
year when he resigned, that he might give his entire
attention to his increasing practice.

Politically, Judge Henry is a democrat. He is a
member of the Presbyterian church. In October,
1871, he married Miss Willie Frazier, of. Randolph

county, Missouri, and daughter of Thomas Frazier,
an early settlerof Missouri.’
The reputation Judge Henry has attained, and the

‘success he has reached is wholly the result of his

own personal effort, and though still a young man,
he is widely known and has every prospect for a
bright and honorable career.

HON. WARWICK HOUGH.

_/EFFERSOIV CITY.

‘O young man in the state has risen more rap-
N idly and steadily in public estimation than
Warwick Hough. Nor is his increase in honors and
popularity the result of fortunate circumstances or
of any of those brilliant accidents that sometimes
elevate comparatively young men, without reference
to their character or qualifications, to places of high
honor and great influence. On the contrary, his
surroundings have -been of a decidedly adverse char-
acter. Scarcely more than ten years ago he was
one of the wandering soldiers of the fallen Confed-
eracy, without a home, -and under the ban of the
law of the state of his adoption and in which he
had been raised and educated, and deprived of the
means of earning a support for himself and his fam-
ily. T 0-day he occupies a seat on the bench of the
highest judicial tribunal of that state, and was raised
to that‘ honorable and dignified position at the solic-
itation of all the members of the bar, regardless of
party feelings or affiliation, of the section in which
he lives. This is a reverse of conditions, and a
victory and triumph of which any man might boast
himself.

Warwick Hough was born in Loudoun county,
Virginia, on the 26th day of January, 1836. In the
fall of that year his parents removed to St. Louis
county, _Missouri, and thence, in 1838, to Jefferson
City, where they resided until the beginning of the
civil war in 1861. ‘His father, Mr. George W.
Hough, was a man of character and influence, and
took a prominent part in the politics of Missouri,
from 1842 until the disruption of the social and
industrial interests of the state, as a consequence of
the commencement of hostilities between the sec-
tions. He continued to reside in Jefferson City
until his death in February, 187 8.

Warwick Hough graduated with honor at the
State University of Missouri, in 1854, and three
years thereafter received the degree of A. M. As
a student at college he was noted for his correct
deportment, his studious habits, his social accom-
plishments, and the attention he gave to general
literature and the graces of oratory and rhetoric.

In 1854, the year of his graduation, he was
selected from the graduating class, by W. W. Hud-
son, professor of mathematics in the institution, to
make some barometrical observations and calcula-
tions for Professor George C.,Swallow, at that time
at the head of the geological survey of Missouri,
and was afterward, and in the same year, commis-
sioned by Governor Sterling Price as assistant state
geologist. ‘His work in this field of labor is em-
braced in the reports of B. F. Shumard and A. B.
Meek, and printed in the geological reports of the
state.

Having at the time of his graduation determined
. to adopt the law as his profession, he devoted all the

time to its study that was not occupied with the field
labors and office work of the survey. During
1857-8 he devoted himself exclusively and labo-
riously to the study of the law with General E. L.
Edwards,,of Jefferson City, and was admitted to
the bar in January, 1859. During the winters.of

. 1858-59, ’6o and ’6I, he served as secretary of the

state senate.

In 1860 he formed a law partnership with Hon.
J. Proctor Knott-—then attorney-general of Missouri
and now a member of Congress from Kentucky—
which continued until the spring of f86I. He was
then appointed adjutant—general of Missouri by
Governor C. F. Jackson, and went south with him
and served until the Governor’s death, after which

500 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

he was appointed secretary of state by Governor
Thomas C. Reynolds, who as lieutenant-governor
succeeded Governor Jackson. In December, 1863,
he resigned the position of secretary of state, and in
February, 1864, was assigned to duty on the staff
of Lieutenant~General Polk. After General Polk’s
death he served with General Stephen D. Lee, and
afterwards on the staff of General Dick Taylor, with
whom he surrendered, in May, 1865. ,
Being unable to return to the practice of his pro-
fession in Missouri after the close of the war, on
account of the proscriptive provisionsof the Drake
Constitution, he opened a law office in Memphis,
Tennessee, in 186 5, where he resided until the aboli-
tion of the test—oath for attorneys in 1867, and in the
fall of that year returned to Missouri and located at
Kansas City, in Jackson county, where he_ practiced
his profession until 1874, when he was recommended
for the position of supreme judge by the entire bar,
without distinction of party, in Jackson and the adja-
cent counties, and in the general election in the fall

of that year was elected judge of the supreme court
for the period of ten years, to succeed Hon. Wash-
ington Adams. _

In May, 1861, Judge Hough was married to Miss
Nina E. Massey, daughter of Benjamin F. Massey,
then secretary of state, and has five children.

Since his advancement to the supreme bench
of the state, Judge Hough’s decisions and judicial
papers have gained for him great reputation. He
has evidently lost none of his studious habits, and
his papers show not only profound legal learning but
have the scholarly and classical finish that results
only from a wide range of reading and an intimate
acquaintance with the great masters of English com-
position. But, aside from his acquired accomplish-
ments, he is a man of force and originality of charac-
ter. In person he is slightly above the medium
height, well proportioned, and with a presence and
manner of mingled suavity and dignity that bespeak
always and under all circumstances the natural and

-accomplished gentleman.

JOI-IN CREIGI-ITON BEEDY.

WINDSOR.

R. BEEDY is of English extraction, the fam-
D/I ilies of both his parents emigrating to America
from that country and settling in New Hampshire
before the Revolutionary war. Jeremiah Beedy,
grandfather of John Creighton, was born in New
Hampshire, was a soldier during the Revolution of
1776-82, and after that event continued his avoca-
tion until his death. His son John was born in
Gilmantown, New-Hampshire, in the year 15300, Set-
tled in Bolton, Vermont, while a young man, where
he pursued the labors of an agriculturist until 18 51,
during which time he took an active part in local and
state politics, filling various official positions, serving

two years in the lower house of the state assembly. v

He then moved to Montpelier, Vermont, where,
after a useful and honorable life he died in 1873.

He married Betsey L. Fifield, daughter of Samuel
Fifield, who came from England and settled upon a
farm’ in New Hampshire. They had six children, all
of whom are now living. Their son John C. was

born in Bolton, Chittenden county, Vermont, July 21, A

1834, and until his seventeenth year attended the

- age.

public schools in Bolton, when his parents removing
to Montpelier, he was placed in the academy in that
city, where he remained until he was twenty years of
After working a year at home upon his father’s
farm, he turned his steps toward the “ Great West,”
and came to Janesville, Wisconsin, where he taught
school one year. For the next two and a half years
he was engaged in the lumber business, first for his
uncle and afterward for a Milwaukee firm. At the
expiration of that time he went to St. Louis and was

employed as traveling salesman for his" uncle in the

lumber trade, and removing to Syracuse, Missouri,
continued in the same business two years. He then
located in Sedalia, Missouri, where after two years
he sold out his lumber interests and engaged in gen-
eral trading and supplying government stores. In
company with McKay, Hood & McAllister, of St.
Louis, he contracted to supply the hospitals at
Vicksburg and interior points with provisions and
stores. In 1863, in company with Thomas McAllis-
ter, he established the wholesale grocery house of J.
C. Beedy & Co., at New .Orleans, engaging also in

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cotton and sugar growing and in general speculation.
He was with General Banks in 1864, on his memor-

- able Red River expedition, buying and shipping

cotton. In the spring of 1866 the grocery firm of
J. C. Beedy & Co. disposed of their stock in trade
and he devoted himself exclusively to cotton plant-
ing for two seasons. Returning to Missouri, he
engaged quite extensively in farming operations in
Johnson county, which he conducted until 1869,
when returning to his old business he opened a lu1n-
ber yard in Knobnoster, which he closed out after
one year’s trade and established yards in Windsor
and Clinton ; soon disposing of the latter but contin-
uing the former "until 1874, when he accepted the
general management and agency of the Eau Claire
Lumber Co., St. Louis. Remaining in charge only
one year, he returned to Windsor, where he is now
engaged in the lumber trade. Since his return he
has taken large contracts for the United States mail
service, in company with Morse & Hines, of Wind-
sor. In 1877 he also organized, in company with
Mr. C. C. Morse and others, the Windsor Savings
bank, with a capital of $5o,ooo, since whichitime he
has been president of the bank corporation.

Mr. Beedy is a Democrat, takes quite an active
part in local politics and i-n all municipal and educa-

tional affairs as well , has been a member of the city
council, member of the school board——which has in
process of erection a fine school building—and is
mayor of the city.

October 23, 1867, he was married to Ellen Vic-
toria, daughter of Joel and Charlotte (Colyer) Golds-
bury, of Barre, Vermont. Mr. Beedy has three
children, all l‘iving—-one son and two daughters.
He is not a member of any religious denomination,
but has contributed generously to the building and

support of the various churches erected in Windsor ,

and in 1876 he visited the Centennial and took a11
extended tour through the Eastern states, visiting the
principal cities and places of interest. _

Mr. Beedy is a good financier, a man of progres-
sive ideas, and liberal in devising for the interests of
the community in which he lives. He has the con-
fidence and respect of those with whom he comes
into business relations 5 has seen much of the world;
is wide—awake to all matters of public concern, and
has done much to develop the trade of his town and
county. He is a man of fine physical appearance,
social and pleasant in his address, is just in the prime
of manhood, full of life and business energy, and
has acquired a handsome property, with a good
prospect of increasing wealth before him.

SAMUEL H. HUSTON.

BRO W./VS VILLE.

AMUEL H. HUSTON was born in 1832, in
 Saline county, Missouri. His father, Judge
Joseph Huston, and his mother, Elizabeth Brownlee,
were natives of Augusta county, Virginia, and, with
their family, emigrated to Missouri in 1819 and
opened a farm near Arrow Rock, Saline county.
Judge Huston afterward moved to town and opened
a hotel and grocery store, in which two occupations
he was employed till his death. He had five chil-
dren by his first wife, of whom three, Mrs. McGiffing
Nicholas and Mrs. McJilton, are still living. His
first wife dying, he married Mrs. Lawless, Widow of
Bradford Lawless, by Whom he had four children,
Joseph, John, Samuel and Erasmus, of whom John
and Erasmus are dead. He was an upright man,
highly respected by his neighbors, and held the
office of justice of the peace in the early settlement of

the country, but never afterward aspired to office. He
died in April, 1863, both wives having preceded him.

Samuel H. Huston was -educated in Arrow Rock,
and at the age of twenty began the business of mill-
ing and continued in that employment for about
fifteen years. In 1867 he moved to Boonville,
where he spent ten months. He then began farming
near Malta Bend, Saline county, and was so engaged
for three years. At the end of that time, his health
having failed, he removed to a farm near Browns-
ville, in the same county, to receive the benefit of
the Sweet Springs’ water, and has since continued to
reside there. He.is the owner of several farms in
the county, and deals largely in stock.

Mr.iHuston is a Democrat in politics, and has
been so since he attained his majority. He never
united with any church , but Mrs. Huston is a con-

502 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

sistent member of the Old ' School Presbyterian
Church.

He was married, July 23, 1857, to Miss Martha
McCutchen, daughter of Dr. James E. McCutchen
and Elizabeth Olivia Boggs, of Boonville. She was
born in Callaway county, Missouri, January 13,
1838, and was reared and educated in Boonville.
Her father was born in Paris, Bourbon county, Ken-
tucky, February I6, 1807, and completed his medi-
cal course at Transylvania Medical College. In
1829 he moved to Missouri and took up his resi-
dence at_ Boonville, where he still resides. He is of
Scotch extraction. Her mother was a sister of Gov-
ernor Lilburn W. Boggs. There were, by the mar-
riage of I Dr. McCutchen and Miss Boggs, nine
children born. One died in infancy and three died

single, viz: Huston, Anna, Maria and William.- By
the marriage of Mr. Huston and Miss McCutchen
eight children were born, two of whom died in
infancy. The others: James Thomas, born July
25, 1858; Eliza A., born September 1, 1862, Fred-
erick Kemper, born February 2, I867 ; Joseph, born
May 19, 1870; Benjamin, born June 30, I873,
Birdie, born August 12, 1875, are still living. Those
who died were Mary Elizabeth, born March 9, 1860,
died May 6, 1865, and John, born January 1, 1864,
died July 31, I865. "

The mother of Mr. Huston had, by her first hus-
band, three children: Dr. Benjamin Lawless, died
in 1875, William Lawless, died at twenty-one years
of age ; Mary Ann Wilhelm, died in 1849, leaving
two children, William and John Wilhelm.

JOHN CROMWELL ORRICK.

ST. LOUIS.

Charles county, Missouri, October 25, 1840.
~ His father, John Orrick, who was of the old
Virginia Pendleton stock on the maternal side, was
born in Berkley county, Virginia, in January, 1804.
He was a successful merchant 3 he moved to Missouri
in 1834 and represented St. Charles county in the
Missouri Legislature in 1844, having been elected
thereto on the Whig ticket, although the cou-nty was
Democratic in politics ; he is still living, but has
retired from all active pursuits. The mother of the
subject of our sketch, whose maiden name was Urilla
Stonetraker, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland,
was from an ancient and highly respectable German
family, conspicuous in the very earliest history of
Pennsylvania, from whence her people removed into
Maryland. Her father, an extensive operator, moved
to St. Charles county, Missouri, in 1843, and became

IOHN C. ORRICK was born in St. Charles, St.

the largest farmer in that section, and finally died

there. His daughter, John C.’s mother, is still living.

The subject of this sketch began his educational
struggles at the Avondale Academy, and afterward,
in 1859, graduated from St. Charles College——a
Methodist institution. His attendance at school,
however, was somewhat irregular, owing to the lim-
ited means of his father. He spent one year in his
father’s store, and afterward clerked nearly two

years in a railroad office. The salary was insignifi-
cant, but by dint of perseverance, economy, studi-
ous habits and an unconquerable love of books, John
managed to progress to graduation. He entered
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
August, 1859, graduated in 1861 and returned home,
where he entered the law office of Thomas W.
Cunningham, Esq., to familiarize himself with the
statutes of Missouri, in the meantime doing a small
practice of his own.

In the spring of 1861 Missouri was in the hands
of Governor Jackson, who with his party were in
active sympathy with the Rebellion. Mr. Orrick
early espoused the cause of the Union, and freely
expressed’ his convictions and views of duty as an
American citizen. Realizing the danger of the times
and the full extent of the impending crisis, Mr.
Orrick put his house in order for troublous times.
He lent efficient assistance in the formation of a
military organization, which was armed and equipped
by the United States authorities and placed under
the command of Colonel Arnold Krekel——now judge
of the United States District Court at Jefferson City.
For two years he faithfully performed the unpleasant
duties of his position, as captain under General Lewis
Merrill, and was frequently in active service with the
United States troops.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 503

In 1862 Mr. Qrrick was appointed counselor for
the North Missouri Railroad Co. (now St. Louis,
Kansas City & Northern), which trust he held nine
years. In the spring of 1862 the office of district
attorney for the- 19th Judicial District became vacant
by the resignation of W. W. Edwards, Esq., and
Governor Gamble appointed Mr. Orrick to fill the
unexpired term. In 1864 he was elected to the
same office for four years, but resigned in 1866,
being a candidate of the Republican party to repre-
sent St. Charles countyin the legislature. He and
Mr. Conrad Weinrich were elected from the two
districts of the county. Mr. Orrick was reelected
to serve the same district of his county in the popu-
lar branch of the Missouri Legislature in 1868, and
by that body was elected speaker, being the young-
est man ever elected speaker in that body.

The unhappy war of the Rebellion had" now
been ended for three years, but its effects upon the
social and ‘political relations of Missouri were still
felt, and probably to a greater extent than in any
section of the Union. Party feeling consequently
ran very high, and the least favor shown to any of
the participants or sympathisers of the Rebellion
occasioned severe comment, and caused the person
appearing thus to favor the “lost cause” to be at
once “read out” of the Republican party of the
state. The Democratic party at that time in Mis-
souri was for the most part composed of those who
had opposed the United States government in its
policy toward the seceding states and toward their
people after their conquest. There was, however,
in 186.7-68-69 and ’7o a growing element in the
Republican party favorably disposed to removing
the political disabilities imposed since the war upon
the adherents of the Confederacy. The 15th Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
granting the right of suffrage to the negroes, was
recommended by the Congress of the United States
in 1869 and adopted by most of the states immedi-
ately thereafter ; and the new element in the Repub-
lican party of Missouri deemed it but just and right
that all the whites of the state should enjoy the same
inestimable privilege. But nerve was required to
take the initiative in offering the sentiment as a
plank in the party’s platform. No matter that it
appeared just and proper 3 no matter that the trai-
torous arm was lowered,the rebellious sword sheathed
and already rusting in its scabbard, no matter that
the men lately in arms against the government were

now mostly arrayed among its staunch supporters.
64

The heretofore leading Republicans thought that
thus early to repose the trust of full citizenship in
the seceders, was an experiment that might cause
more bloodshed and sorrow. At least this was their
reasoning. Whether party supremacy may have been
the inner argument leading to their course, had been
frequently suggested. On the other hand, some of
the leading men in the Republican ranks deemed it
eminently fit that magnanimity could appropriately
follow conquest, and in this case especially so; that
the same party who in the hour of patent danger
had placed the restrictions upon a large class of oth-
erwise good citizens, should, now that the danger
was removed, take away those restrictions. Still,/it
required unusual nerve to initiate the movement.
It was political ‘suicide, in all probability, and almost
sure ostracism at the I hands of the Republican lead-
ers. Yet there were a few bold men, instigated by
conscientious views of right, and justice, and mag-
nanimity, who dared to raise their voice and use
influence toward the enfranchisement of these dis-
franchised people, and who claimed that with the

advent of negro suffrage, as an experiment, the

further experiment of granting the sacred right of
freemen to every male citizen of the commonwealth
should also be tried, Nor did these conservative
gentlemen feel inclined to be enrolled among the
Democratic party, for they could not see the neces-
sity of the death of the Republican party, now that
the Union was safely resting upon a perpetual basis,
the curse of slavery removed, and all men practically
living free and equal. They recognized the propri-
ety of the party who had wrought these reforma-
tions guarding, controlling and perpetuating them.

The Missouri Legislature of 1869-70 achieved
an honorable distinction, that will be as enduring
as the history of the state, in the proposing of six

important. amendments to the State Constitution—

amendments which when adopted caused the state
at once to leap a hundred years forward in the grand
march of progress. The 4th of these amendments
is the one with which we have to deal in this sketch.
It was as follows :

Be it Resolved by the Senate, 2‘/ze House of Represmtatzzes
concurzing z‘/zerein .'

THAT, at the general election to be holden on the
next Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
in the year 1870, the following amendment to the
Constitution. of the State of Missouri, concerning
the right of suffrage, shall be ‘ submitted to the legal
voters of said state, in the manner already provided
by law, to-wit:

504: THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

SEC. I. Every male citizen of the United States
and every person of foreign birth,.who may have
declared his intention to become a citizen of the
United States, according to law, not less than ‘one
year nor more than five years before he offers to
vote, who is over the age of twenty-one years, who
has resided in this state one «year next preceding his
registration as a voter, and during the last sixty days
of that period shall have resided in‘ thecounty, city
or town where he seeks registration as a voter, who
is not convicted of bribery, perjury or other infamous
crime, nor directly or indirectly interested in any bet
or wager, depending upon the result of the election
for which said registration is made, nor serving at the
time of such registration in the regular army orlnavy

of the United States, shall be entitled to vote at i

such election for all officers, state, county or munic-
ipal, made elective by the people, or any other elec-
tion, held in pursuance of the _laws of this state; but
he shall not vote elsewhere than in the election dis-

trict where his name is registered, except ‘as provided

in the 21st section of the 2nd article of the Constitu-
tion.-A Any person who shall, after the adoption of
this amendment, engage in any rebellion against this
state or the United States, shall forever be disquali-
fied from voting at any election.

SEC. 2. Hereafter it shall not be required of any

‘ person, before he is registered as a voter or offers _to .

vote, to take the oath of loyalty prescribed in the
6th section of the 2d article of the Constitution; but
every person, before he is registered as a qualified
voter, shall take an oath to support the Constitution
of the United States and of the State of Missouri.
SEC. 3. All acts and laws inconsistent with this
act are hereby repealed.—Laze/5 of Mzksou7'z', 18,0,

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Mr. Orrick being speaker, of course did not offer
the resolution in the house; but it was the emana-
tion of his heart and mind. In the Republican
caucus, a short time previous to the passage of the
act, Mr. Orrick had offered the same resolution, and
after a heated and exhaustive discussion had the
honor of securing its adoption by his party there
represented in as full a caucus as has probably ever
been secured at Jefferson City, there being seventy-
three members present, fifty-one of whom voted ay.
And the papers of the day recognized and spoke of
it, when discussed in the house, as “Mr. Orrick’s
resolution.” As speaker, having the appointing of
the persons on the different ‘committees, he took
care to appoint such on the committee on constitu-

tional amendments known to be favorable to the

enfranchisement programme, and they reported the
resolution above quoted; and to the instrumentality
of Mr. Orrick, to a very great extent, is due its
passageby both houses. Full -well he knew the
likely results of his course, but in that exciting con-

test he threw himself into the breach, preferring if
necessary, to suffer political martyrdom for the sake
of peace in his commonwealth and justice to his
fellow-citizens. He also favored and aided «in the
election of Carl Schurz to the United States Senate
on the same grounds, and in the convention of 1870,
as amember of that body, he battled nobly for the
same cause. The contest resulted in the Twin Con-
ventions,.one nominating Hon. B. Gratz Brown for
Governor on the enfranchisement policy, the other,
Hon. Joseph McClurg, leaving it an open question

in their platform; the Brown faction committed the

party in their platform to the removal of the disabili-
ties. The amendment was overwhelmingly carried
at the state election, but it resulted in defeat’ to the
radical Republican party in Missouri.

As Speaker of the Missouri House of ‘Delegates,
Mr. Orrick won _for himself an honorable record.
Of him, we find this mention in the St. Louis Daily
-Democrat of March 26,; I870:

“ Mr. Orrick has made a fine record as a presid-
ing officer. ' * * * * He has before hima
promising future and a life of honor.” In the same
article we find this proof of the appreciation of his
compeers in the House: “Mr. Speaker Orrick-was
presented with an elegant walking-stick of ebony,

_ with a solid gold grasp in the form of a horse’s head.

Mr. Hays made the presentation, and both his
remarks and the Speaker’s response were graceful,

appropriate and feeling.”

In 1870, Mr. Orrick was again called to be the
standard-bearer of his party for reelection from his
district of St. Charles county to the legislature, but
there being a German independent candidate in addi-
tion to the regular nominee, a split in the Republican
ranks occasioned the defeat of Mr.’ Orrick and the
election of A. H. Edwards, Democrat, by a very
small majority, and this, too, in a Democratic dis-
trict, with his own party divided! The vote, though
insufficient to elect, was an endorsement of which
Mr. Orrick caniwell be proud.

If he hadiany mission in the political field, that
-mission was in his mind fully accomplished in the

removal of the political restrictions from the dis-

_ franchised citizens and the unrestricted right of suf-

frage to every male citizen of his state, and every
voter of Missouri, as he exercises his sacred right of
citizenship, is a living stone in the enduring monu-
ment to John C. Orrick—a monument as imperish-
able as the idea of free government. Mr. Orrick
retired from active political life, and concentrated
his energies upon the rebuilding of his practice,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPAUCAL DICTZO./VARY. 505

which had suffered somewhat from this political
interruption.

In 1863 he formed a law partnership with W. W.
Edwards, Esq., which continued three years, when
the election of Mr. Edwards to the judgeship dis-
solved it. He then formed a partnership with Benja-
min Emmons, Esq., which continued until 1874. In
I871 the firm opened an office in St. Louis, with
Mr. Orrick in the city and Mr. Emmons at St.
Charles. In january, 1874, Mr. Orrick became

associated with General john W. Noble, at St. Louis,

in the practice of thelaw, and the firm of Noble &
Orrick still continues.

Although giving his undivided attention to his
profession, Mr. Orrick has not been wanting in

"interest to the enterprises conducive to the prosper-

ity of his state. He was made president of the'St.
Charles & Alton Railroad Company which had for
its object the building of a railroad connecting the
two cities. He gave largely of his own means to its
success, but -the enterprise failed in securing suffi-
cient subscriptions to be carried out.

John C. Orrick is a Master Mason, and in his

religious views favors the Episcopal church, in which
he was reared.
. June 16, 1869, he was married to Miss Penelope
Allen, daughter of Beverly and Penelope Allen, of
St. Louis. Her father was a prominent lawyer of
Louis, and died there some years since.

From a prominent gentleman, familiar with his
boyhood and manhood, we have been fortunate in
securing the following additional matter to the per-
sonal characteristics of ‘the subject of this sketch:

At the age of eighteen Mr. Orrick entered Har-
vard Law School , a tall, lithe figure, soft blue eyes,
fair complexion and genial manners, went hand in
hand with traits of character so strong and talents so
assiduously cultivated that he soon won the friend-
ship of all connected with the college. The same
combination of gentle elegance of manners and deci-
sion of character has marked his entire career.
battle of life has not left many cares upon him; on
the other hand, his form has rounded out to the
point of an athlete. The severe exactions of his
large professional duties have left some of their marks
upon him, but owing to his natural strength of char-
acter he preserves, even refined, all those warm,
genial features of his early youth. In social life he
is unusually tolerant of the opinions of others, while
holding firmly to his own convictions. To others’
weaknesses he is charitable and forgiving. Malice
isaverse to his nature, but wrong and injustice are
sure to secure his active scorn. He thinks much,
has clearly defined opinions of things, and for this
reason is always ready when occasion requires expres-
sion in public of his views. He is a fine speaker,
often eloquent, always logical, and at the bar is
without ,a superior in the management of a case upon
a sudden call or where unexpected developments
require a change at once of the theory of the cause.
Among his friends and relatives he is beloved, for he
is faithful and true ; as a leader he is accepted, as a
guide and adviser, with perfect confidence.

JOHN EDWARDS.

MARYVILLE.

OHN EDWARDS was born December 8, 1836,

at Valley Forge, Chester, county, Pennsylvania.

He was the son of Robert Edwards and Eliza-
beth Conard, both of whom were natives of Chester
county, Pennsylvania, the father of Welsh and the
mother of German extraction. Robert Edwards
followed the business of a farmer and emigrated to
Lexington Station, Highland county, Ohio, in 1837.
john Edwards was reared on the farm. His
literary training was excellent, being" received at
South Salem Academy and Miami University, Ohio,
graduating at the latter institution in 1862, taking
the highest honors of his class. After graduating he
was elected superintendent of the public schools

of Hillsborough, Ohio, and labored faithfully in that
capacity for two years.
perintendent of the public schools of Hamilton, Ohio,
and continued as such officer until 1867. While there
he received the degree of Master of Arts from
Miami University. During_ the latter years of his

_ service in Hamilton, he devoted his leisure to the

study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1867.
He soon after connected himself with the firm of
Sloane & Steele, the new firm being Sloane, Steele &
Edwards.

In 1868 he located in Maryville, Nodaway
county, Missouri, and was for one year engaged as
superintendent of the Maryville high school. In

The .

In 1864 he was elected su-

506 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARK

July, 1869, he formed a partnership with Lafayette
Dawson, Esq., and began the practice of law. In
the fall of 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney
of Nodaway county, and occupies that position at
this time. Mr. Edwards adopts the principles of the

Democratic party. In religious matters he was reared
under Quaker influences, but is not now connected
with any religious order. He was married in Febru-

' ary, 1864, to Miss Elizabeth A. Diggs, daughter of

Colonel James B. Diggs, of New Orleans.

HON. CHAS. P. JOHNSON.

ST. LOUIS.

HARLES P. JOHNSON was born in Lebanon,
C St. Clair county, Illinois, January 18, 1836.
His father, Henry Johnson, was a native of Penn-
sylvania, and his mother, whose maiden name was
Elvira F-ouke, was a native of Kaskaskia, Illinois.
His maternal ancestry were among the early pio-
neers of Illinois, many of them filling high and
honorable positions. He received all the advantages
offered in the public schools of Belleville, but to the
culture of an intelligent mother is due, to a very
great extent, the excellencies in his mental as well
as moral character.

His father died at St. Louis in 1870. His mother

- still lives, and adds to the charms of the goVernor’s

family circle. Mr. Johnson, while quite a youth,
spent his leisure time in his uncle’s printing office,
where he acquired almost a complete knowledge of
the printing business. In 18 5 3, when only seventeen
years of age, he opened a printing office of his own,
at Sparta, Illinois and began the publication of a
weekly newspaper, doing the greaterpart of the
mechanical Work himself. His ambition, however,
would not permit him to remain in this unpromising
position. Having ' aspirations for usefulness in
another profession, and feeling the necessity of a
more thorough education, he converted his printing
office into cash, and went to McKendree College at
Lebanon, Illinois, marking out a course of study as
best suited to the views he entertained of his future.
He diligently applied himself thereto, and having
mastered it, removed to St. Louis and began the
study of law under the direction of Hon. George P.
Strong, Attorney-General Wingate, and .Judge W-il-
liam C. Jones. In 1857 he was admitted to the bar.

His political bias threw him into the ranks of the

Republican party, in whose clubs he soon became a

recognized leader. In 18 59 he zealously advocated
the free soil movement in St. Louis, and so popular

had he become, that he was that year nominated for
city attorney, and duly elected.

In 1861, on the breaking out of the war between
the North and South, he promptly took sides for the
Union, and by his eloquence and influence 1nateri—
ally helped the cause in his city. He enlisted as a
private soldier for the three months’ service in the
3d Regiment Missouri Volunteers, but was directly
elected lieutenant in one of its companies, and served
throughout the campaign. After his term of enlist-
ment had expired, he assisted in recruiting and organ-
izing the 8th Missouri Infantry, of which he was
offered the office of major‘, but declined. He was
sent on to Washington for the purpose, and in person
tendered the regiment to President Lincoln ; but
for himself persistently declined any office in the
regiment, other than one he felt himself capacitated
to fill. '

In 1862 his party had become divided into what
were known as the Radical and Conservative wings,
the former favoring prompt and vigorous measures
for the suppression of the rebellion and the immedi-
ate emancipation of slaves, the other favoring a
moderate policy in the treatment of the Southern
question. Mr. Johnson placed himself firmly
and squarely on the platform of the Radical wing,
and soon became a recognized leader in the advanced
emancipation ranks. On this platform he was
nominated for Congress in opposition to General F.
P. Blair. Being only twenty-six years of age, and
recognizing the ‘exigencies of the day as requiring
the oldest and steadiest heads for the management
of public affairs, he declined in favor of Hon. Samuel
Knox.

Not willing to do without his services, his party
nominated him for the legislature, and elected him
by a handsome majority, over the combined forces
of the Conservative Republicans and Democrats.

‘speedily tojterminate the unhappy war.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPTIICAL DICTIONARY. 507

That winter, (1862-3) in the party caucus at Jefferson
City, Mr. Johnson had occasion to oppose some of
the old leaders who had become somewhat conser-
vative and favored a moderate policy in the conduct
of the war. He strenuously urged an early state
convention to secure immediate emancipation, and
the election to the United States Senate of such
men as would carry forward such a policy. History
shows that his opposition was effective, and it also
shows that his views were sound, and most calculated
In the
house he was made chairman of the committee on
emancipation, and rendered valuable service in the
framing of the bill under which the convention was
called, which gave the state the constitution that
planted Missouri on a free soil platform. He also,
during that session, favored the election of B. Gratz
Brown to the United States Senate, and rendered
telling assistance to his success.

In 1864 Mr. Johnson was again put in nomina-
tion ,by his party for congressman from the First
District. But an element had grown up in the
Republican ranks unfavorable to the views of him
and his adherents on the war question, and these
disaffected ones put in nomination Hon. Samuel
Knox, thus creating a fatal split in the party, and
John Hogan was elected. He was again elected to
the legislature in 1865', but resigned to accept the
position of circuit attorney of St. Louis county,
offered him by Governor Fletcher. The satisfaction
he gave in the fulfillment of those duties is attested
by his election to the same position at the expiration
of his term for four more years.

There was no malice nor personal dislike to the
people of the South on the part of Mr. Johnson.
He earnestly and honorably desired the perpetuity
of the Union, and the war at once developed the
only real danger to that perpetuity as existing in
slavery, hence he was in favor of immediate eman-
cipation. The war closed, and its cause forever put
out of the way. Mr. Johnson at once offered his
hand of friendship to every man living in peace
with the government ; consequently we find him, in
1870, acting with the Liberal Republicans, and
favoring the reénfranchisement of those, who, by
rebellion, had lost their citizenship. In the conven-
tion of his party at Jefferson City, in that year, he
was one of the most ardent supporters of B. Gratz
Brown for governor on that issue.

During this year (1870) he was once more nomi-
nated for Congress, but was again defeated, and again

defeated by disaffection in his own party 3 this time
the Radical or “ straight ” Republicans voted against
him (or refused to vote at all) on account of his lib-
eral sentiments. In 1872 the Liberal Republican
party and the Democratic party nominated a joint
ticket. Mr. Johnson was the nominee for lieutenant-
governor and was elected. Those who knew Gov-
ernor Johnson intimately during his term of office,
say that the state has rarely had a better servant, nor
the senate a more efficient parliamentarian as a presid-
ing officer. He was one of the few presidents from
whose decisions no appeal was ever taken.

This is the last public office, so far, filled by Gov-
ernor Johnson. At the close of his term he resumed
his practice in St. Louis, and has ever since assidu-
ously applied himself thereto. As a lawyer he has
devoted his attention largely to criminal practice,
and stands unquestionably at the head of the bar of
the state in that branch of the profession. This,
however, must not be understood to derogate from
his standing in other professional capacities, for
twenty years of study and experience has made him
a complete master of the principles and authorities
upon which American jurisprudence rests. His
mental attributes, moreover, especially qualify him
to be a lawyer of eminence, and those who know
his capacities regret most the time wrested from his
profession and given to politics. His memory is
remarkable, his judgment strong, sagacious and
vigilant, his cast of thought logical, analytic, inci-
sive, and his style of oratory calm and clear, but
singularly fascinating.

Governor Johnson not only keeps abreast with
his profession in all the latest decisions, but adds
thereto extended and continued culture in every
department of literature and philosophy. It is this
that gives such breadth to his expression before the
jury in criminal causes involving the causation which
lies behind the passions or destroys the mental equi-
librium. A strikingly original lecture from his pen
on this subject has met with warm commendation by
the bar and bench, and is regarded by those who have
perused it as a most valuable contribution to such
psychological studies. Social, genial, studious,learned,
cautious, yet full of decision and copious in illustration,
it may be said of him that he combines in himself as
much promise as that of any man of his age in the
West, whether he remain in the profession to which
he is committed or whether he enter the broader
arena of national controversy and statesmanship.

An eminent judge in the city of St. Louis, long

508 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

and intimately acquainted with Governor Johnson,
says of him:

“In the practice of his profession, Governor
Johnson is industrious, attentive and thoroughly
honest. His statement of any fact or his agreement
in any case is ever relied upon by his opponents,
and it is only in rare instances that he is required to
enter into written stipulations to file affidavits in a
case. His success in the practice of criminal law is
greatly owing to the fact that he is an excellent judge
of human nature. In the selection of a jury he has
but few equals. A few simple questions to a juror
enables him to determine whether such juror’s mind
is of the kind that his opinions can be moulded or
controlled in that case.” I -

“All who come in contact with Governor John-

. son are charmed with his pleasant and affable man-

ner, and honor him for his manly qualities, yet to
see and know him best, he should be met in the
family circle. In domestic life his better nature and
nobler qualities shine most brightly. His affection
for his wife and "children is apparent in every act
and word, and a kindlier light glistens in his mild,
blue eyes as he looks upon the loved ones. He is
fond of the society of his friends and -enjoys it best
under his own roof. No engagements, either busi-
ness or social, are allowed to interfere with his
attention to the cares and troubles of his little ones,
with whom under all trials he is patient, even-tem-
pered and kind.”

WILLIAM C. JAMISON.

ST. LOUIS.

‘ R 7 HAT is usually ‘termed genius has little to

do with the success of men in general.
Keen perception, sound judgment, and a deter-
mined will, backed by persevering and continuous
effort, are essential elements to success in any calling,
and their possessor is sure to accomplish the aims
hoped for in the days of his youth. In the domain

of statesmanship, science, theology and war, many

achieve eminence. Bu.t of all the factors which
compose the commonwealth, the most necessary to
its growth and permanence, is its jurisprudence. It
is the one which conserves the other elements of
civilization, and harmonizes apparently conflicting
powers. Without a thorough knowledge and admin-
istration of the law no form of popular government
could long exist. The subject of this sketch is one
who by his ability as a jurist and his victories at the
bar, is eminently worthy of a place in our record of
successful men.

William Caldwell Jamison was .born at Murfrees-
boro, Rutherford county, Tennessee, September 25,
182 2. His father, a well-to-do farmer, belonged to
an old and highly respected family, whose ancestors
early settled in Tennessee, and were noted for their
excellence of character, strict integrity, and the
ability with which they conducted their private
affairs, as well as those of the state, which they
were often called upon to serve.

He received careful training in the common
schools of his native village, where he laid the solid

foundation for an education, and at the age of
seventeen entered Union University, of Murfrees-
boro, an institution of national reputation, where he
received a thorough classical education, and gradu-
ated in 1843 with high honors.

In the same year he went to St. Louis _on a visit
to some relatives, and was so pleased with the young
but growing city, that he was easily induced to locate
there with a view to studying the profession he had
chosen for his life occupation. He first entered the
office "of Hon. John F. Darby, where he remained
about one year, and made rapid progress. He then
studied with Messrs. Todd & Krum, gentlemen of
acknowledged eminence in the legal profession, and
so faithfully did he prosecute his studies, that at the
end of two years he was admitted to the bar. He
remained for a short time in the office of Judge
Krum, and then began for himself. The bar of St.
Louis at that time comprised many eminent lawyers,
and the young barrister was compelled to combat
with men skilled in legal contests, and soon suc-
ceeded in establishing. himself as an able and rising
advocate.

In 1848 ‘he became associated with Franklin A.
Dick, Esq., but the connection was of short dura-
tion. In 1849 he_ formed a partnership with James
R. Lackland, which for three years was eminently
successful, when Mr. Lackland withdrew to accept
the position of judge of the criminal court of St.

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of law by himself for about one year, when Mr.
Cline became associated with him, and for four years
they did a prosperous business. Judge Lackland’s
term having expired, he rejoined his former partner,

. ‘under the firm name of Lackland, Cline & Jamison. I

Six years later Judge Lackland retired to recuperate
his failing health, and Messrs. Cline and Jamison
continued the business until I866,’ when Mr. M. C.
Day joined the firm, and it is now Cline, Jamison &
Day. They have an extensive practice, and are
held in high esteem by their professional brethren,
as well as by the community in which they live.

In politics, Mr. Jamison was originally an Old
Line Whig, but was never an office seeker. He

acted with the Whigs until the abolitionists began to .

gain some strength, when he joined the Democratic
party, with which he has since acted. He took no
part in the civil war. Thoroughly convinced of the
importance of maintaining the Union inviolate, yet
he sympathized with the section of his nativity.
Naturally modest and retiring in disposition, Mr

Jamison has taken no part in public affairs beyond
his duty as a voter, but has been connected with
many important private enterprises. He was a
director in the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany. He was for six years the attorney for the
St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was
a stockholder in that corporation. He is also a
stockholder in the Mechanics’ Bank and the N a-tional
Bank of the State of Missouri. He is administrator
of several of the largest estates in the city of St.
Louis,‘ among which may be mentioned those of

William H. Bell, Hon. Olly Williams, James Cle1n—
ens, jr. and Henry T. Blow, in which latter estate he
gave bonds in the sum of one million dollars. "I he
settlement of these estates involved grave responsi-
bilities, and it is but just praise to say that Mr. Jam-
ison has acquitted his charge with fidelity to his
clients, and added new luster to his already well-
established reputation. I

Mr. Jamison is and has been for a period of
twenty—five years a member of the Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which body he has
served as steward and treasurer, and been faithful
to all his trusts. In July, 1865, he married Miss
Mary Noe, daughter of Croel Noe, of Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, a lady of rare wifely accomplishments, by
whom he has had three children 3 one boy only sur-
vives. Personally, Mr. Jamison is modest and unas-
suming, genial and pleasant in his intercourse with
his fellowmen, he has the good fortune to make
many friends and few enemies. He possesses a
mind naturally clear and comprehensive, capable of
grasping ideas and truths as they arepresented, with
great exactness, is a firm friend, a safe counselor,
and has achieved success by energy, fidelity and
perseverance. In the enjoyment of an ample for-
tune, possessing the esteem of the community in
which he has so long lived, Mr. Jamison may justly
feel proud of the success which has attended upon
his personal efforts. Temperate and correct in his
habits, he gives promise of many years of usefulness,
which is the hope and Wish of those who know and
esteem him.

ALBERT M. DRAKE.

CAR THA GE.

S  LBERT M. DRAKE was .born in Mount Ver-

non, Ohio, September 5, 1841. His father,

Charles Drake, born in 1799, was a native of N ew.

Jersey, and removed to Mount Vernon,'Ohio, and
died there in 1852. Mary Boyle, his wife, sur-
vived him twenty-three years, dying in 187 5, aged
sixty—eight. ‘

Albert M. was educated at the high school of his
native town. In 1862, at twenty-one years of age,
he left Ohio and came to Fort Scott, Kansas, where
he learned the tins1nith’s trade in the shop of his

brother, Charles F. Drake, at present (1878) cashier
of the First National Bank of Fort Scott. Having
completed his term of apprenticeship, he returned to
Mount Vernon and worked at his trade until 1865,
when he again came west and engaged as a journey-
man tinsmith with his brother, with whom he
remained until October, 1866.

In the fall of this year, having purchased a small
stock of stoves, tin and hardware, in value about six
hundred and fifty dollars, he removed with them to
Carthage, Jasper county, to engage in trade. Find-

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mg no room in which to even store his goods, much
less do business, he was obliged to camp out on a
vacant lot, on the north side of the public square,
where he managed to shelter his goods from the
weather with some loose boards and canvas. After
paying the freight charges on his goods, young Drake
found himself possessed of the magnificent sum of
fifty cents, and this was his reserve capital with which
to begin business. It was in this way that the first
hardware establishment in Jasper county, since the
close of the war, was put upon its feet, and from this
small beginning, and under the most‘ discouraging
circumstances, in less than twelve years" Mr. Drake
has buit up one of the most flourishing hardware
establishments in Southwest Missouri.

lrreighting his goods from Sedalia, a distance of
one hundred and fifty miles, by wagon, and opening
his goods underthe blue sky, bounded only by the

horizon, he had the advantage of plenty of fresh air
and elbow room in his new location. His ‘native
energy and indomitable pluck have had their reward.
In addition to his large retail business, he does an
extensive jobbing trade with the surrounding country,
and contemplates at no distant day to make the whole-
sale department the leading feature of his business.

In November, I 868, two years after removing to Car-
thage, Mr. Drake was married to Miss Sarah G.
Caffe. A Democrat, he takes‘ no active part in polit-
ical. movements, confining himself closely to the
management of his increasing trade. His business
qualifications are excellent; prompt, he meets all his
engagements ; square in his dealings, courteous as an
acquaintance, obliging as a neighbor, faithful as a
friend, an unpright, intelligent citizen, he is a first-
class sample of a man who honoring his work, has at
last been honored by it.

OMAR DEXTER AUSTIN.

BUTLER.

MAR DEXTER AUSTIN was born Octo-
0 ber 7, 1841, in Shelby, Richland county,
Ohio. His ancestors were of [French origin, and
emigrated to America early in the history of colonial
settlements, locating in Massachusetts. His grand-
father, Timothy Austin, a native of that state,
was a farmer and stock—raiser, emigrated to Huron
county, Ohio, in 1820, and died there in 1857, aged
eighty years. His father, Horace Austin, was born
July 16, 1804, in Massachusetts, and removed from
there to Ohio in 1820. He afterward took up his
residence in Pennsylvania, where he engaged in
teaching school and studying medicine. Having
completed his course of reading, he attended a med-
ical college in Philadelphia, graduated with credit
and returned to Shelby, Ohio, where he began the
practice of his profession. Here he remained until
1844, when he located at Plymouth, in the same
county, and continued practice until the beginning
of the civil war. He then entered the Union army
as a surgeon, but fell a victim to the hardships and
exposures of a vigorous campaign, became an invalid,
returned home and died in the fall of 1863, in the
fifty-ninth year of his age. His wife was Flavia A.

H Conger, sister of Hon.‘ O. D. Conger, of Michigan.

O. D. Austin, the subject of this sketch, was the
eldest of six children, and until sixteen years of age
attended the public schools of Plymouth, the home
of his father. He then attended school for one
year in Illinois, and returning to Ohio entered the
Hém/a’ newspaper office in Mansfield. Here he
remained until 1862, when, through the influence of
Hon. John Sherman, present Secretary of the Treas-
ury, he received the appointment of a clerkship in
the United States Treasury department, and imme-
diately repaired to Washington city. He was a

spectator in Ford’s Theater on the night of the mem- »

orable 14th of April, 1865, when President Lincoln
was assassinated. ‘

In April, 1866, he accepted the position of fore-
man in the office of the Kansas City Ag’?/erzzlcer, the
first daily Democratic paper established in that place.
In this position he remained for about six months,
and in October of the same year became general
manager of the Bates County Record, at Butler,
Missouri. In the spring of 1867 he returned to
Kansas City and acted as_ local editor on the 146272767’-
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when he returned to Butler, purchased the Record
office, and has continued the publication of that
paper to the present time.

Politically he is a Republican, taking an active
part in political affairs and rendering essential ser-
vice to his party. He has been a delegate to every
Republican state and congressional convention since
1867, and for the last two years a member of the
Republican State Executive Committee. I

In religious affairs he is liberal in sentiment. He
is a member of the Masonic order and a Knight

Templar. He was married May 3, 1871, to Miss
Florence M ay‘ Stobie, daughter of George and Maria
L. Stobie, of Butler, formerly of Pittsfield, Illinois.
They have one child.

As a journalist Mr. Austin is liberal, courteous
and sincere, denouncing the iniquities of all parties
with an unsparing hand, and advocating such meas-
ures as he believes to be for the public good. Not-
withstanding the large Democratic majority in Bates
county, the Record has a creditable circulation, and
exercises great influence in that and adjoining counties.

HON. JOHN FERGUSON RYLAND.

LEXIIVG T0./V.

and Queen county, Virginia, Novemberz, 1797,
was the oldest son of Joseph and Rosanna
Ryland. His mother’s family name was Motley—a
name well known in the early history of Virginia.
About the ‘year 1811 Joseph Ryland came with
his family into Kentucky and settled in Jessamine
county, where he shortly afterward died leaving
a widow and seven children, of whom John F.,
then not more than -fi_fteen'years of age, was the
oldest son. Left fatherless at so early an age to
contend with adverse fortune, John’s opportunities
for acquiring an education were exceedingly limited.
But difficulties only served to strengthen his determi-
nation to secure the benefits of a finished classical
education, which he succeeded in obtaining at Forest
Hill Academy, under the instructions of Samuel

8»

Wilson, one of the best classical scholars of his day. '

Among his fellow pupils were the Breckenridges, the
Harrisons, the Todds and others, many of whom
were afterward distinguished for their scholarship
and positions in church and state. Young Ryland
taught school and pursued his law studies at the same
time, and in 1820, having finished his law course
with the late Judge Hardin of Kentucky, he removed
to Missouri and located in Old Franklin, Howard
county, and entered upon the practice of his profes-
sion. Missouri being then but a territory, he was
licensed by the Supreme Court of Illinois and began

his legal career, before the State, whose bar he so.

adorned, was admitted into the Union.

Old Franklin wasat that time the most important
65

TOHN FERGUSON RYLAND, born in King~

town in the territory (St. Louis being a small French
village); butscarcely a Vestige remains of the town at
present.

Here John F. Ryland commenced the practice of
law in 1820, at twenty-three years of age, as the com-
peer of such men as Tompkins, McGirk, Gamble, Todd,
Leonard, Hayden, French, and others of equal note
and eminence in the profession; rising rapidly to the
front rank in that company of noble and talented
men, all of whom he survived.

In 1831 the state legislature organized a new
judicial district, called the Fifth.
large territory lying on both sides of the Missouri
river, including Lafayette county. Of this judicial

"district John F. Ryland was appointed judge, by

Governor John Miller, and in the spring of that year,
1831, he removed to Lexington, and entered upon
his duties as judge of the circuit court, which posi-
tion he held for eighteen consecutive years. He pre-
sided at the ‘first court held in several of the counties
of Western Missouri. Among the number were
Carroll, Van Buren, (now Cass,) Johnson and Henry.
In some of these counties there were not residents
enough at the time to make a grand jury panel.

In 1849 Judge Ryland was appointed by Gover-
nor King to the ‘Supreme Bench of Missouri, which
position he filled for eight years to the satisfaction of
the people and the bar of the state, adorning the
position by his unremitting devotion to his duties, his
profound learning, great research and impartiality ;
contributing by his able and lucid opinions, embodied
in the Twelfth and Twenty-fifth volumes, inclusive,

It embraced a I

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of the Missouri Reports, to the elevation of the judi-
cial standing of the state to that eminence which
commands the respect of courts" and juries in her sis-
ter states.

In 1819 Judge Ryland was married in Madison
county, Kentucky, to Martha, daughter of Joseph
Barnett of said county. Of their six children three
are still living—Juliet Virginia, widow of James Find-
lay, of Lexington, Missouri, to whom she was mar-
ried in 1839 and who died in 1862; C. T. Ryland, a
prominent banker and lawyer of San Jose, California,
who married Martha L. daughter of Ex-Governor
Peter Burnett of California; and Major John E.
Ryland, who married N. P., daughter of Isaac Pal-
mer, of Lafayette county, Missouri.  

Judge Ryland’s wife dying September 30, 1832,
on September 29, 1835 he was married to Elizabeth
Gabriella, daughter of Major Simeon Buford, who
removed from Kentucky and settled in Lafayette
county. His wife’s name was’Elizabeth Twyman,
and the marriage of their daughter to Judge Ryland
was the first that took place in Middleton township,
Lafayette county. The Buford family were formerly
from Tennessee and are quite noted in Kentucky,
furnishing two generals for the United States army
and one for the confederates during the late war.
By his second. wife Judge Ryland had twelve chil-
dren nine of whom survive, and save one daughter,
are all married and living in this state. His daughter
Elizabeth T. married James T. McKean ; Rozanna
M. married George W. McKean; Gabriella married
James W. Miller; Caroline G. married Corydon F.
Craig; Margaret Ryland remains unmarried. His
son, Simeon B., married Margaret Buford; Xeno-
phon married Caroline Ford; M. Cass married Jen-
nie Bealle; Joseph Addison married Rebecca Bealle.

Judge Ryland died at his home in Lexington,
Septempber Io, 1873. September 12, at a meeting

_ of the bar of Lafayette county, held in Lexington,

the following preamble and resolutions were adopted:

“ He filled well his position in life, died the death
of the Christian and has gone to his reward in the
upper courts of the judge of all the earth. -

Resolved, That we will cherish his memory, and
imitate the virtues of our deceased brother and strive
as he did to preserve untarnished the character and
standing of our profession.

Resolved, That the widow, children, and grand
children of our deceased brother have our sincere
sympathy and condolence in this their sad bereave-
ment. 4

Resolved, That as commemorative of the virtues
and high character of the deceased, and of our appre-
ciation and esteem for the same, copies of the fore-
going preamble and of these resolutions, signed by
the chairman and attested by the secretary of this
meeting be presented to the courts of record of this
county, and to the Supreme Court of the State in
this district at the next meeting thereof, by such
attorney or attorneys as may be appointed by the
chairman for that purpose with the request that they
be spread upon the minutes of said courts respectively.

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing preamble
and these resolutions signed by the chairman, and
attested by the secretary of this meeting be presented
to the widow and family of our deceased brother.

Resolved’, That the city papers of this city be
requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting,
and the papers 4 in St. Louis and other cities and
towns in the State be requested to copy the same.

A The judge’s funeral was attended by the members
of the bar and officers of the court in a body, and all
business houses were closed during the funeral ser-
vices out of respect for his memory. Words can add
nothing to a character which for a quarter of a cen-
tury conferred dignity upon one of the most, honor-
able and responsible positions in the state. Judge
Ryland has gone, but his memory lives, and his
epitaph is nobly expressed in the opening sentence
of the preamble adopted by his legal brethren, “ He
filled well his position in Life.”

MAJOR JOHN E. RYLAND.

LEXI./VG T0./V.

wife, was born near Fayette, Howard county,

JOHN E., fifth child of Judge Ryland by his first

Missouri, July 8, 1830. A full account of his
parentage will be found in the sketch of his father,
Judge John F. Ryland, published in this volume.
John E. received his education in the old Masonic

College, Lexington, an institution of deservedly high
reputation, from which he graduated July 2, 1852,
taking the usual classical and mathematical course,
of which latter study he was particularly fond. In
1852 he commenced teaching school in Kansas City,
continuing his work there during 1853, after which

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he returned to Lexington and taught as first assistant
in the primary department of Masonic College, until
October, 18 55, when he became principal of that
department, a position he held for two and a half
years. In the meantime he had been studying law,
and was admitted to the bar in 18 58, when he imme-
diately entered upon the practice of his profession in
Lexington, being a partner with his father until the
death of the judge in 1873, when he associated his
brother Xenophonwith himself, under the firm name
of Ryland & Ryland. In 1862 he was enrolled
with the Missouri militia and served a little over a
year in the 72nd regiment, with the rank of major.
The same year he was appointed circuit attorney for
the district, to fill a vacancy, and in 1864 was elected
to that office for four years. In May, 1865, all
officers of the state were required to vacate their
offices, in accordance with the constitutional amend-
ment adopted at that time, and for political reasons
Major Ryland was not appointed to fill his old office.
In i876 he was Democratic elector for the 11th dis-
trict of the state, casting the ballot of his district for
Samuel ]. Tilden.

In 1852 he was made a Mason in Heroine Lodge,
No. 104, Kansas City, and has been junior grand
warden and deputy grand master of the state. He
has always been deeply interested in educational mat-
ters and intimately associated with the scholastic

institutions of Missouri. In 1874 he was appointed
by the Southwestern Missouri Conference of the M.
E. Church (South), curator of the Central College at
Fayette, and of Central Female College, Lexing-
ton. In 1863 he was elected a member of the board
of education for his own city, and served as such ten
years. In 1868 he was elected mayor of the city,
and declined a reelection. He served as a member
of the city council in 1866. In state and national
politics he acts‘ with the Democratic party, but in all
local matters he is independent, supporting the best
men, irrespective of party. He was brought up a
Presbyterian, but since 1850 has been a communicant
of the Methodist Episcopal church (South).

Major Ryland was married, December I0, 1860,
to N. P., daughter of Isaac Palmer, of Lexington,
and has a family of six children—four sons and two
daughters, healthy and active. He enjoys a high
professional reputation and has a large and increas-
ing practice in the courts. He has inherited not
only the legal talents, but the courteous manners of
his late father, who for moreithan fifty years held an
honored place among the first lawyers and judges of
the state, and was esteemed by all who knew him
for the kindness and benevolence of his character.
Major Ryland is following in the footsteps of the
deceased judge, and promises fair to leave behind
him a record worthy of his name.

XENOPHON RYLAND.

LEXING T0./V.

ENOPHON RYLAND, fourth surviving son of
X the late judge Ryland, whose sketch appears
in this volume, was born near Lexington, June I,
1844. His early education was received in the com-
mon and private schools of his neighborhood, until
he entered Masonic College, Lexington. His studies

— in this institution were interrupted by the war break-

ing out when he was only seventeen years of age,
and his collegiate course was never completed. Be-
ing incidentally present at the battle of Lexington
he was taken prisoner but was soon released. Subse-
quently he entered Company A, 71st Regiment enroll-

ed Missouri militia, was elected 1st Lieutenant and -

served four months until the regiment was disbanded.
He was next detailed as 1st Lieutenant of a Saline

county company and served two months when the
company was mustered out of service. In 186 3 Mr.
Ryland entered upon the practice of law, having
studied in the office of his father, and has continued
its practice until the present, having been associated
with his brother, Major Ryland, since 1873.

He was made a master mason in Lafayette lodge
No. 32, at Lexington, in 1866, has passed through
nearly every office in the lodge and is now W. M. of
that body. He was D. D. G. M. of the 39th
Masonic district from 1870 to 1874. Was made Grand
Master October, 1876, and, on retiring from that
office was presented with the accompanying memor-
ial: “We recognize in Grand Master Ryland a rep-
resentative of those laws, and his administration as

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vigorous, conservative and healthy, we give our
hearty endorsement of the sound and earnest views
enunciated.” He has also been exalted to the degree
of a R. A. M., and October 9, 1873, at thirty years
of age, was made Grand High Priest of the Grand
Chapter of Missouri. He is one of the brightest
members of the fraternity in the state.

Mr. Ryland is a member of the Old School Pres-
byterian church, is an elder in that denomination,
and has represented his church in every judicatory
of the body from the session to thegeneral assembly.

Mr. Ryland has been a Democrat since he was

of age to take any political action, and has been a
delegate to county, district and state conventions at
different times.

January 31,1866, he was married to Carolina F.,
daughter of Colonel John R. and Carolina A. (Fos-
ter) Ford, of Lafayette county. Their children are
John F., Richard Foster, Caroline, Leonard .G.,
Stella, and Elizabeth B., of whom all, save the eld-
est, are living. Mr. Ryland is a man of strong
intellectual and physical constitution, and isjustly
considered one of the ablest and most promising
young members of the Missouri bar.

HON. JOHN 1. MARTIN.

ST. L0 UIS.

OHN IRWIN MARTIN, son of William and
Frances Elizabeth (Irwin) Martin——both natives
of North Ireland—was born in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, May 24, 1846, where he received _a common
school education. The impoverished circumstances
of his father compelled him to do something forhis
subsistence, and at the age of fifteen he drove a dray

in St. Louis, and in this business continued three ,

years. In 1:866 he secured a position in the com-
mercial house of T. A. Anderson & Co., cotton
factors and commission merchants in.St. Louis, as

I clerk, where he was shortly made a salesman. He

then went with George Bain & Co., as salesman,
and remained till 1872, when he began business on

his own account, at No. 16 South Main street, with V

Mr. John Needham as partner, in the sale of agri-
cultural implements- He soon afterward bought
out his partner, and individually conducted one of
the largest establishments of the kind in the West.
At the St. Louis Fair, in «I874, he carried off the
(2nd) premium for the best display of agricultural
implements made in the United States, and during
his continuance in this business he made hosts of
friends throughout the West for his fair trading and
commercial integrity. His name was for years a
favorite one with the Granges throughout the West,
and his influence in that respectable party brought
a large and lucrative trade to St. Louis.

In 1875 Mr. Martin closed his agricultural imple-
ment business on account of reverses. His Irish
heart made him too liberal in the use of his name

by friends, and security debts, together with the
ravages of the grasshoppers upon his rural debtors,
left him bankrupt in money but not in energy or
credit. Without a dollar of his hard earned com-
petency, but nothing daunted, he began anew the
battle of life. All his life a laborious student, he
had read law, among other studies, more, however,

from a natural literary inclination than with any '

view to adopting the profession. Now he deter-
mined upon a change in his life’s business, and
entered upon the regular study of law in the office
of Colonel Robert S. McDonald, one of the leading
jurists of the West, of St. Louis. _

In March, 1877, he was admitted to the practice
and opened his office in St. Louis.’ In his new
avocation Mr. Martin-’s success has been simply
remarkable. As a lawyer in the criminal practice
he has suddenly stepped to the front ranks of the
St. Louis bar. With’ some of the most difficult and
intricate cases on theicriminal docket, he has suc-
ceeded in his clients’ behalf, and made an enviable
reputation as an advocate and counsel. His profes-
sional characteristics, as learned from his associates,
are intense study, labored investigation, restless
industry, superb management; these, added to his
extraordinary oratorical talent, insure him success.
His style of speaking is the impassioned, overwhelm-
ing, but at the same time lucid oratory peculiar to
his race , and few juries can withstand the torrent of
his eloquence, for his whole soul is in his case, and
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VVith all the vehemence of a Burke, he pours forth
his eloquence, while with the impressiveness of a
Grattan he clinches to the jury the arguments and
logical conclusions of his carefully" prepared address.
Sympathetic himself to .a very high degree, and nat-
urally an orator, it is no wonder that juries and
judges yield him so many verdicts. A distinguished
jurist of St. Louis furnished the writer with the
above professional information, adding as proof cor-
roborative, “ he gained fifteen out of eighteen of the

‘most difficult cases at the January term, and nine

out of ten of the May term.” For so short a career,
Mr. Martin has certainly made an enviable reputa-
tion as a criminal lawyer.

In 1868, when onlyverging upon manhood, his
talents as a speaker and his eminent administrative
abilities secured for him the election of president of
the largest Democratic organization in Missouri, and
afterward made him the choice of his constituency
as member of the Central Democratic Committee,
of which body he was a member for several years.

In 1870 Mr. Martin was elected to the Missouri
Legislature from the 9th (St. Louis) district, and
served two years. During the session he was chair-
man of one of the most important committees, and
for his services received a unanimous vote of thanks,
irrespective of party, for his prompt and satisfactory
work. He was also a member of other committees,
and in all their labors was an industrious and valued
assistant.

In 1874 he was appointed to represent the St.
Louis Merchants’ Exchange in the National Board
of Trade in'Baltimore, in which body he served with
distinguished ability. In 1870 he was elected to the
Missouri Legislature from St. Louis. In the same year
he was also unanimously elected by the St. Louis
county as one of the park commissioners of St. Louis,
for the term of one year, and at theexpiration of his
term was reelected for five years. During the same
year Mr. Martin was elected by the 3d Congressional
district, unanimously, as their representative in the
State Democratic Committee. In November of the
same year he was reelected to the Missouri Legisla-
ture, 28th session, by a handsome majority. By that
body he was elected Speaker pro z‘e77z., although the
youngest member in the house. Of his service in
this latter capacity the Kama: Ci/y Times said :
“ Mr. Martin made a fin-e reputation as a presiding
officer.” The fleflersojz City Triézme said: Mr. “Mar-
tin evinced a thorough knowledge of parliamentary

law. Prompt and decisive in his rulings, he has the

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faculty of pushing business with rapidity, and is
certainly a competent man to hold the gavel.” The
S2‘. Louis Dzspaic/72 said: “He filled the position
with honor to himself and credit to the state. His
thorough knowledge of parliamentary law, his stento—
rian voice, his courteous manner, his prompt, impar-
tial and positive rulings, won for him a reputation
to be envied by theibest.” Other complimentary
attestations of his satisfactory performance of the
delicate duties of that office might be inserted here,
did our space allow. But we desire, at least, to
mention the handsome testimonial to his services as
Speaker pm 16772. (in which office, by the way, he
performed a large proportion of the duty as Speaker),
from the members of the legislature. It consisted
of a handsome, massive gold hunting-case watch,
having engraved on the inner side of one of the
cases: “Presented to Hon. john I. iMartin, Speaker
pro tem. of the 28th General Assembly, by the 1nem—
bers and other friends. Jefferson City, March 29,
Attached is a heavy gold link chain, with
gold gavel and medal pendant, and on the latter
inscribed: “By the‘members, as a token of their
esteem, March 29, I875 ”, on the reverse side are
the words: “Presented to Hon. john I. Martin,
Speaker of House of Reps., 28th Gen’l Assembly.”
The presentation speech was made by Hon. james
Shields, in his usual happy manner. The occasion
and the gift took Mr. Martin completely by surprise,‘
but he accepted the gift——its value increased a hun-
dred fold by the sentiment it eXpressed——and in one
of his usually felicitous, extempore speeches thanked
the donors for their confidence, esteem and approval
of his efforts. .

In 1876 he was again elected to represent his
district in the 29th Session of the Missouri legisla-
ture. In this body his popularity caused him to be
one of the most prominently named members for
Speaker, but he withdrew in favor of Colonel Wil-
liams, the member from Macon county, who was
then elected. - I

Mr. Martin’s legislative career has assuredly been
a remarkably brilliant and successful one for so
young a man. The marks of approval received
bespeaka confidence rarely bestowed upon the
junior members of the House, and gives promise of
future prominence in political and official life.

In the fall of 1876 he was also a prominent can-
didate for State Senator from the 33d Congressional
district of Missouri, before the nominating conven-
tion. In the balloting he. tied his competitor upon

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the first ballot and continued on every ballot. No
compromise could be made, and the convention
being about to break up, for the sake of party unity
he withdrew from the canvass. This year he'was
also reelected by the State Democratic Convention
as representative from the 3d Congressional district
in the Democratic State Committee, for the present
term ending in 1880. * During that year he made
the first speech in favor of Samuel J. Tilden as the
party’s candidate for President. In the campaign
following, Mr. Martin was specially invited and
made campaigns in his own-state and through Illi-
nois, Indiana and Kansas. I

Among his most successful efforts in behalf of
St. Louis and Missouri may be classed his rousing
speech before the National Transportatian and Com-
mercial Convention which met in Chicago in Decem-
ber, 1876. Governor Hardin appointed him as a
state delegate thereto, and by that body he was
elected one of its vice presidents, and was also
appointed a member of the committee on Terminal
Facilities. In the evening, at the regular banquet
given the members of the convention, Mr. Martin
made one of the happiest hits of his oratorical career
in a telling speech in behalf of the interests of St.
Louis, which was spoken of by the newspapers as
one of the most brilliant efforts of the occasion.

Mr. Martin has been aimember of the Odd Fel-
lows since 1867, having filled all the chairs of his
Lodge. In his religious views he is exceedingly
liberal and tolerant. So, too, in his politics, though
a life—long and unflinching Democrat, he has always
respected the opinions of all fair-speaking opponents.

On the 11th of June, 1872, John I. Martin mar-
ried Miss Clara E. La Barge, daughter of Captain

, to young men ambitious to excel.

Charles La Barge, who was blown up on the steam-
er Saluda in 1856. Her mother’s maiden name was
Octavia Floundrey. Since the death of Captain
La Barge she has become the wife of Mr. Peter G.
Garhardt, awholesale merchant of St Louis. Mr.
and Mrs. Martin have two living children, George
and McDonald Martin.

Few men have made more prosperous use of
meager facilities than the subject of this sketch, and
if any man in the State of Missouri deserves honor-
able mention as a, self—made success it is John I.
Martin. Beginning life poor, he was honest, and
ascended from the rank of dray-driver to one of the
state’s trusted counselors 3 popular as a politician,
efficient as a public officer, his record is one of which
he may well be proud, and serves as encouragement
He owes his suc-
cess to his own tireless energy, indomitable will,
perseverance and individual integrity.

Mr. Martin is no less perfect in his physical than
in his mental build. Standing firm at five feet eight
and a half inches, weighing about two hundred
pounds, squarely and compactly built, with muscles
of iron, he is as handsome physically as he is bril-
liant mentally. His impetuous Irish nature leads
to dare anything where courage and prompt action
are required; but fortunately with it he governs him-
self with a cool precision that averts danger. Every
year the newspapers of St. Louis have recited his
daring exploits in dangerous feats for the rescue of
different parties. In many instances he has risked
his own life to rescue his unfortunate fellow-beings,
and in them all he has exhibited that physical cour-
age and calmness of action that indicate the well-
balanced mind of a man.

CYRUS A. ANTHONY.

MAR YVILLE.

YRUS A. ANTHONY was born April 29,
C His
father, Francis Anthony, was a native of Tyrone,
Ireland, and immigrated to America about 1818, set-
tling in New Jersey. In 1852 he came west, select-
ing as his home a beautiful farm in Stark county,
Illinois, where he died in 1876, after ahappy, useful
life. His mother, Elizabeth Hager, daughter of

1839, in Hackettstown, New Jersey.

Jacob Hager, a German farmer, was a native of War-
ren county, New Jersey.

The subject of this memoir was raised on the
family farm in Stark county, Illinois. He attended
a course of literary reading at Lombard University,
Galesburg, Illinois. In 1861 he entered as a private
soldier company K, 51st Illinois Infantry, and
remained in active service until peace again reigned,

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being mustered out in 1865. Mr. Anthony possesses
firmness and self reliance, combining the two quali-
ties indispensable to great action. Add to these
daring and you will readily perceive why his promo-
tions followed so rapidly. He was first promoted
to quartermaster sergeant, then to first lieutenant of
company G, from that to adj utant (regimental). His
last advance was to captain of company G.

He was engaged in service in Missouri, Tennes-
see, Alabama and Georgia. VVas mainly connected
with the army of the Cumberland, and marched with
Sherman tothe Atlantic. When mustered out Mr.
Anthony returned to his farm where he remained
until 1867, when he began the reading of law at

Galesburg, Illinois and was thus assiduously engaged
for nearly three. years, when in April, 1869, he was
admitted to the bar. In 1870 he located at Mary-
ville; Nodaway county, where he still resides, actively
engaged in his profession. He was county attorney
of Nodaway during 187 5-6, and city attorney of
Maryville during 1874-5-6.

The secret of Mr. Anthony’s success in his pro-
fessional career, lies in his noble devotion to the work
itself, not looking to the rewards. No one can pursue
a worthy object with all the powers of his mind, and
ye‘. make his life a failure. Politically he is a Demo-
crat , religiously a Presbyterian. In 1864 he was mar-
ried to Miss. Charlotte thaw, of Stark county, Illinois.

HON. WALTER D. HUBBARD.

SPRINGFIELD.

‘ ‘ IALTER D. HUBBARD, son of John

Harrison and Sarah A. Hubbard, was born

in Madison county, Kentucky, October 3, 1840,
and is of Welsh and English stock. His ancestors
of the paternal line came over from England long
prior to the war of the Revolution, and settled in
Maryland. ‘His great—grandfather, Harrison Hub-
bard, settled in Maryland about the year 1750 , was
a farmer by occupation, and prior to the Revolution
had acquired a considerable property, all of which
he sacrificed in aid of the struggle of the colonies for
independence. He afterward moved to Patrick
county, Virginia, where his son Daniel Hubbard,
the grandfather of Walter, was born about the year
1781. Daniel having married Elizabeth Manear, in
Virginia, removed to Kentucky in 1816 and settled
in Madison county, where he resided till 1846,
establishing a high character there as a man of broad
and liberal views and as a Christian gentleman. He
owned one slave, Robert, whom he brought up from
a boy, and whom he set free when he arrived at
the age of twenty-one years. Daniel was strongly
opposed to the institution of slavery, declaring that
it had no justification in the divine law, and was
contrary to the fundamental principles of humanity
and justice. Daniel moved to Missouri in 1846 and
settled in Clay county, wherehe died in 1859,
beloved and respected by all who knew him, as a
just man and as ‘a Christian, having been a leading

and faithful member of the Missionary Baptist church
for nearly fifty years.

Daniel’s only son, John Harrison Hubbard, the
father of Walter, was born in Madison county, Ken-
tucky, in 1817. Harrison (for he was known by his
middle name) was brought up as a farmer’s son and

acquired the simplest rudiments of an education in.

the common schools of his time. In 1837 he mar-
ried Sarah A. Brooks, daughter of John Brooks, of
Garrard county, Kentucky, and settled a new farm
in Madison county. He became a member and
elder in the Christian church before he was twenty-
five years of age, removed to Missouri in 1845 and
in 1849 settled in Clinton county, and resided there
and in Clay county until the war of the rebellion.
His avocation was farming, though he was twice
engaged in the mercantile business, each time losing
large accumulations earned and saved on the farm.
After the War he removed to Jasper county, Mis-
souri, where he died in April, 1877. Harrison was
a man of strong and clear mind, and throughout his
life was a very diligent reader and close student of
the Bible, mental and moral philosophy, politics and
history. Prior to his contracting chronic bronchitis,
about 1860, he was accustomed to speaking on pub-
lic occasions, and was a forcible and entertaining
orator. He was a man of good business qualifica-
tions and great energy, though his very liberal and
charitable disposition ruined him as a merchant—the

518 TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

business then being conducted on the old twelve
months credit system. His charity was always
bestowed to the utmost extent of his means. He
often said to his family and friends, “turn not the
stranger away from your door, for you may be called
upon tc entertain an angel unawares.” He made
a.nd spent ‘luring his life a very large amount of
money ; he died poor in purse but rich in noble and
humane deeds. He was aiWhig in politics and a
great admirer of Henry Clay, was always strongly
opposed to slavery, and so expressed himself on all
proper occasions. From and after 1860 he was a
Republican of the Horace Greeley type, though
he never liked the appellation of “Radical.” He
entered the Union army in 1862, and was severely
wounded at Liberty, Missouri in March, 1862, thus
rendering him totally disabled for the performance
of military duty ; he was consequently discharged.
There were born to him seventeen children, twelve
of whom are still living. He was married twice, his
first wife, Sarah, having died in 18 59.

Walter D. Hubbard, the subject of this sketch,
received a good English education in the common
schools and academies of Clay and Clinton counties,
Missouri, stood high in all of his classes and studies,
and had a great taste for mathematics—a talent not
only common to all his brothers and sisters but to
many of his ancestors. Before he was fifteen years
of age he had mastered arithmetic, algebra and
geometry, and in the place of the teachers often con-
ducted the recitations of the classes in those studies.
He commenced reading the law in 1859, during that
year also reading Hume’s and Smollett’s Histories of
England, under the tutorship of Rev. Howell, who
was living in the family of his father, Harrison.

In 1860, and until the fall of 1861, he taught
school and continued reading law and history, being
then in charge of the principal common school of
his county, at Plattsburg, Missouri. The taking of
Lexington, Missouri, in September, 1861, by the
Confederate forces, he considered as a call to all
Union men to enlist in the service of their country,
so he dismissed his school and enlisted in Captain
W. B. Edgar’s company of Missouri militia, where
he served till February, 1862, when he reénlisted for
three years in the 6th regiment Missouri state militia
cavalry.

March 14, 1862, while he and his father were
recruiting volunteers at Liberty, Clay county, with a
squad of ten men as a recruiting party, they were
attacked by a company, sixty strong, of Quantrell’s

A Union forces.

rebels. Harrison was seriously wounded, and the
fight was carried on by Walter and his ten men for
half a day, and until every load of their ammunition
was exhausted, when they were compelled to sur-
render and were taken across the Missouri river into
Jackson county, where the rebels decided to shoot
Walter and one of his men named Thomas Long,
because they were stirring up a Union sentiment at
and around Liberty, and because they thought Wal-
ter had falsely represented himself to be an enlisted
man only, and not a. commissioned officer in the
The entire squad was, however,
afterward released on account of hostages being
arrested and held by the colonel of Hubbard’s regi-
ment, for the safe return of the prisoners to camp at
Liberty.

In this fight Hubbard earned his first promotion, .

for “gallant conduct in battle,” being made ser-
geant-major of his regiment. December 1, 1862, he
was promoted to be adjutant of his regiment, on
account of efficiency for that position and for “gal-
lant conduct in battle” at Lone Jack, August 16,
I862——the most bloody battle that was ‘fought on
Missouri soil during the war. Out of seven hundred
Union soldiers in that fight, about two hundred and
fifty were wounded and ninety—six to one hundred
killed.

He held the position of adjutant until August
29, 1864, during the last year of which time he

, served on the staff of Brigadier—General John B.

Sanborn, as Assistant Adjutant-General of the Dis-
trict of Southwest Missouri, and being then discharged
from the service to enable him to accept the position
of Adjutant of the 13th Missouri Veteran Cavalry,
was highly complimented in orders by General San-
born for the faithful and efficient discharge of his
duties as assistant adjutant-general.

He attended to all the details of organizing the
13th Missouri Cavalry, a regiment made up of twelve
hundred of Missouri’s very best veteran and trained
soldiers. He was, with his regiment, in October
1864, in the Missouri campaign against the invading
forces of the Confederate, General Sterling Price;
was with his colonel at the head of the regiment in
the famous charge made by the regiment at Inde-
pendence, Missouri, upon a. Confederate battery,
which was at full play upon the Union forces with
its guns, the charge resulting in running over two of
the rebel guns, and. in their being then and there the
prize of the 13th Missouri Veterans.

In February, 1865, in further recognition of his

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY. 519

services, he was again promoted, commissioned and
mustered in as captain of his regiment. In March,
186 5, was attached to the staff of Major-General G.
M. Dodge, commanding department of the Missouri,
and assigned to the charge and duty of mustering
out the volunteers whose terms" of service had
expired, and who were then beginning to gather at
Benton Barracks for discharge from the service. He
continued in charge of the mustering office at Benton
Barracks as the principal assistant of General B. L.
E. Bonneville, and mustered out troops till August,
1865, when he was placed in charge of the muster-
ing office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to which
place he repaired and continued there mustering "out
the troops comingin from the plains. He mustered out
his own company and regiment in May, 1866, and
then being without a company, was by special direc-
tion of the President of the United States to the
War Department, retained in the service as a captain
of cavalry to muster out the remainder of the vol-
unteers on the plains. He finished that duty and
was ordered to Springfield, Missouri, where in Octo-
ber, 1866, he received his final and honorable
discharge from the service, and for gallant and
meritorious services was by President Johnson by
proper commission, brevetted as Lieutenant—Colonel
of Volunteers. . Captain Hubbard mustered out and
signed the discharge papers of 3o,ooo volunteers,
from the states of New York, Massachusetts, Ohio,
W_isconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Tennessee,
Missouri, California, Illinois, and Indiana.

He at once entered the law and claim office of
Colonel John M. Richardson, formerly Secretary of
State, of Missouri, and prosecuted claims and read
law until 1871, when he was enrolled as an attorney
and counselor at law in the circuit court of Green
county, and has since that time been an active mem-
ber of the Springfield bar.

He was United States circuit court commissioner
from 1873 to 1876, and was a member of the com-
mon council of Springfield. in 1869 and ’7o. In the
fall of 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney of
Green county, and now holds and performs the duties
of that position. His. first vote was _cast for Abra-
ham Lincoln in 1864, and he has been a straight
Republican ever since that time. x

Before his discharge from the army he was mar-
ried to Emily Faithful Powell, at Springfield,Missouri,
June 28, 1866. His wife is the youngest daughter

' of Major-General Joseph Powell, who died in Green

county in 1847, and is an accomplished lady of high
Christian character, and an affectionate wife and
mother- Her father, General Powell, was a native
of Tennessee, and was one of the first settlers of
Greene county, a farmer and trader by avocation,
a very prominent citizen, and General of the Mis-
souri militia during the Indian troubles in 1837.
Walter and Emily Hubbard have two children:
Charles A. and Walter P., both of whom are bright
and promising boys.

Mr. Hubbard is still young in his profession, but
meeting with splendid success as prosecuting attor-
ney of Green county, and fast rising in the esteem
and confidence of the people. His career has been
one of earnest, honest and continuous effort. He
has most indomitable energy and perseverance 5 con-
fidence in himself and hope in the future, stimulate
his ambition, and whatever presents itself as an
obstacle is speedily removed. He has the ability to
organize, plan and carry forward whatever he under-
takes with much force and vigor. He may lack in
policy sometimes, but the purity of his motives
inspire confidence. He is courteous and affable,
intense -and enthusiastic in disposition. He is in_
every respect a self-made man, and a very worthy
example of what pluck and energy can accomplish.

JUDGE WASHINGTON F. GEIGER.

SPRIIV GFIEZL 1).

  ASHINGTON F. GEIGER was born in
Columbiana county, Ohio, in June, 1836.

He is one of a family of twelve children, consisting _

of eleven sons and one daughter, of whom eight
sons and the daughter are now living. Albertus
Geiger, physician, lives in Dayton, Ohio, Henry D.

Geiger, farmer, lives near Silver Lake, Indiana ,
Hezekiah R. Geiger, Professor of Natural Sciences,
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio 5 A Jeremiah
Geiger, physician, lives near Millville, Ohio; Levi
Geiger, lawyer,_ lives in Urbana, Ohio, Andrew M.
Geiger, Lutheran minister, lives in Van Wert, Ohio,

Urilla M. Geiger, lives in Springfield, Ohio 3 Francis
M. Geiger, lawyer, lives in Houston, Missouri.
The family ancestors came from Germany and settled
in Pennsylvania at an early date. His grandfather
served in the Revolutionary war, and his father,
Henry Geiger, ‘was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and was afterward a thrifty farmer, living in his
native state until 1834, when he removed to the
State of Ohio, where he died in 1860. He was
married in 1816 to Julian Ruebush, whose family
were natives of Virginia. She was a lady of supe-
rior mind and indomitable energy, and full of chris-
tian kindness toward all with whom ‘she came in
contact. She died in 1854.

Washington F. Geiger received an English and
classical education in Urbana, Ohio. He began the
study of law in 1853, teaching school at the same
time. He afterward entered the law office of his
brother in Urbana, Ohio, and continued his studies.
He was admitted to the bar in 18 58, in Springfield,
Ohio, practiced in Urbana one year, and removed
to Steelville, Crawford county, Missouri, in 1859,
where he practiced his profession until the outbreak
of the war.

He then organized a company of infantry, and
was captain of Company C, Phelps Regiment, United
States Volunteers. As soon as the ‘organization was
complete, he was commissioned Major, and at the
hard fought battle of Pea Ridge he was in command
of this regiment, showing great bravery and efficiency
as an officer. In 1862 he organized, without any
expense to the government, the 8th Missouri Regi-
ment of Cavalry, United States Volunteers, was its
colonel and with it in the battles of Prairie Grove
and Bayou Metre. He then commanded the brigade
at the taking of Little Rock, at Clarendon, Browns-
ville, and Prairie Long. ,

After this, and until the war closed, he had com-
mand of the 2d Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th
Army Corps, and was recognized as the best cavalry
officer in the division. He entered the army with-
out previous military training or experience. He
was young and without influential personal or politi-
cal friends to press his claims to preferment, and his
success was due entirely to his own merits. Among
those who knew him he was accorded the place of
leadership, without question. Uniting himself with
the cause of the Union men of that section of Mis-
souri, which.he had but a short time previously
chosen as his home, his ability and earnestness at
once gave him prominence among them ; and when

520 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOZVARY.

the time for military organization arrived, he was
chosen to command. Throughout the war he exhib-
ited in a marked degree the qualities of a skillful
commander. He never blundered, and in the rough
cavalry service, in which he principally participated,
he performed many brilliant exploits, and was never
defeated in any engagement. His men had un-
bounded confidence in his courage and ability, and
his command was recognized as one of the most
effective in the Southwest. He retired from the
army at the close of the war, having given four
years of honorable service to his country, and leav-
ing behind him a record without a stain.

Immediately after the war, Colonel Geiger located
at Springfield, Missouri, and resumed the practice of
his profession. He at once took rank among the
best lawyers of the Southwest, and attended the
courts of several counties, in all of which he had a
large business. In 1868 he was elected prosecuting
attorney for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, and
discharged the duties of that position with great
credit and success. In 1869 he was elected judge
of the 21st Judicial Circuit. In 1874 he was
reelected, and still occupies that position.

As a practitioner, Judge Geiger was regarded as
one of the safest and most skillful in the management
of his causes; but his greatest success as a lawyer
has been upon the bench. Here his clear judgment,
acute discrimination, and legal knowledge have been
specially marked, and have added greatly to his rep-
utation. He separates the material from the imma-
terial with unusual readiness, and through the most
intricate complications his mind goes straight to the
vital points of a case, and detects with a certainty
that seldom errs, the right and the wrong involved.
Added to his legal attainments, he possesses broad
common sense and an integrity above suspicion. He
is singularly impartial, and every lawyer who prac-
tices before him feels that whatever his relations may
be to the man, he appears before the judge without
prejudice. Few judges have a greater hold upon
the confidence of the bar, or a more general and
deserved popularity-. Although a determined and
even bitter effort was made by politicians to force a

‘strict party vote in the judicial election of 1874,

Judge Geiger received the support of a large num-
ber of the ablest and best of the Democratic lawyers
of the circuit.

Politically, Judge Geiger is a consistent and earnest

‘Republican ; and previous to his election as judge,

he was an active and zealous partisan. Since then

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI, DICTIONARY. 521

he has not participated actively in campaign work,
but his advice and counsel have been freely sought
and given, and his sagacious and prudent counsels
have been largely instrumental in shaping the action
of the party and in contributing to its success in
Southwest Missouri. '
Judge Geiger has inherited the light complexion
of his German ancestors, possesses a vigorous physi-
cal constitution and an active nervous temperament,
and has qualities which attach to him many warm
and devoted friends. He was educated in the
Lutheran faith and has a deep reverence for the
sacred teachings of the Bible, firmly believing in the
truth and divine origin of the Christian religion.
He was married in 1865 to Henrietta C. Bodge,
an only daughter of Almaren Bodge, who was an
honorable and respected citizen of Portland, Maine,

for many years connected with important enterprises
in his native state and in California from 1850
to 1853. He died in 1858. The maiden name of
Mrs. Geiger’s mother was Elizabeth Lord, a native
of Maine, and a lady of rare culture and attain-
ments. Her death followed that of her husband in
the fall of 18 58. ’

Mrs. Geiger’s family ancestors were pioneer set-
tlers of New England. They took an active and
honorable part in the early history of the Colonies,
and later, in the war of Independence. She received
a liberal education in one of the best schools of her
native state, and is an accomplished and cultivated
lady, possessing a highly refined and intellectual mind
united with good practical sense and energy. Her
home is a pleasant and attractive place to her family
and friends.

HON. G. G. VEST.

I{A./VS/IS CITY.

N the very front rank of the brilliant young men
I who, a quarter of a century since, sought their
fortunes in this state, and have stamped their impress
upon its history and legislation, by universal consent
stands G. G. Vest. He was born in Frankfort, Ken-
tucky, December 6, I83o; graduated at Center Col-
lege, Danville, in 1848, before he was eighteen years

.of age, and took his parchments as a graduate of

the law department of Transylvania University four
years later—delivering the valedictory of his class,
composed of such men as General John M. Harlan,
of Louisville, Kentucky, his brother, Vice-Chancellor
James Harlan, and Hon. Isaac_Simpson, of San
Antonio, Texas. It was no ordinary distinction to
win the honors from such competitors—a brilliant
future was confidently predicted for him—-and that
early promise of his youth has been abundantly ful-
filled. ‘ -
In 1852, the same year in which he took his law
degree, Mr. Vest came into Missouri and opened an
office in Georgetown, Pettis county, for the practice
of his profession. One of his old friends gives the
following pen sketch of young Vest, whom he saw
for the first time at the session of the court in War-
rensburg the year following his removal to Pettis
county :

“I remember well his boyish appearance, con-
trasting strongly and forcibly with his quiet self-pos-
session, brilliant conversational powers, and easy
unconsciousness of manner even in the presence of
such great legal lights as Judge Napton, Charles
French, and Russell Hicks.”

At the time Mr. Vest settled in Missouri he was
a stranger, without friends and without money. The
bar of his section of the state was noted for its
brilliancy. Men, whose names notable then are
illustrious now, were in full practice there. It was
to such a bar as this that Mr. Vest brought his
youth andinexperience, and here in an incredibly
short time he Won his way to prominence and bore
away the honors in many a hard won legal contest.

In 1856 Mr. Vest -moved to Cooper county, and
settled in Boonville. His practice had now become
lucrative, his position as a first-class lawyer assured,
and his rank as one of the ablest and most eloquent
pleaders in the state acknowledged. He was very
prominent in his opposition to the Know Nothing
party. His withering sarcasm and witty rejoinders,
his magnetic eloquence and masterly expositions of
the fallacy and short-sightedness of its policy, did
more to drive the party out of the state than the
efforts of any one man. His talents and his popu-
larity alike necessarily tided him into the sea of

ness of a farmer.

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political agitation. A Kentuckian by birth and edu-
cation his sympathies were distinctively Southern.

In 1860 he was appointed by the Douglas con-
vention one of the Democratic electors for the state of
Missouri, and canvassed upper Missouri for Douglas.
In this same year he was elected to represent Cooper
county in -the state legislature, in which body he
served as chairman of the committee on Federal rela-
tions during the exciting session of 1860-61 3 was
author of the bill calling a constitutional convention;
of the “Vest Resolutions” denouncing coercion of
the Southern states by the general government; and
finally ‘of the “Ordinance of Secession” passed by
the Southern wing of the Missouri Legislature at
Neosho, November 22,1861. Before the adjourn-
ment of this body he was elected a member of the
Confederate Provisional Congress at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, and in 1864 was appointed to a seat in its sen-
ate. He did not return to Missouri until 1867, when
he settled in Sedalia. I

In 1872 he was a delegate at large from the Dem-
ocratic party of the state to Baltimore, and took an
active part in the convention that nominated Horace
Greeley for president of the United States. Was

defeated by Phelps in 1876 for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor——as many affirm only on account
of outside pressure—the Northern Democracy insist-
ing on a candidate with a loyal record in order to
help carry the northern states for Tilden. Colonel
Vest was undoubtedly the choice of his party in the
state, and had he received the nomination would have
been elected by a large majority.

Colonel Vest is a man of medium height, a finely
shaped head, well pinned on broad square shoulders,
and altogether just the build toendure great mental
and physical labor. His distinctive quality is his
great magnetic force, possessing in this particular
much of the fascination which so marked his dis-

I tinguished fellow Kentuckian “ Silver-voiced Harry.”

He has a wonderful power of oratory, exercising
command over his audiences without any apparent
effort, and moving men to laughter or tears at will.

He is fertile in resources, creates out of his teeming
brain such illustrations as throw light upon his subject
with the care of one narrating well known incidents 3‘ is
affable in his manners, courteous to all, genial and
pleasant, and justly entitled to his position as one of
the most brilliant legal lights of the North Missouri bar.

COLONEL ELIJAH GATES.

]EFFERSO./V CITY.

LIJAH GATES was born, December 17, 1827,
E His father,
John Gates, and his mother, a daughter of Thomas
Maupin, were both natives of Kentucky. His
father was a farmer. By the marriage of john Gates
and Miss Maupin, three children were born: Elijah,
Elizabeth and John. John was killed at the battle
of Elkhorn in 1862, and was a" brave Confederate
soldier. His sister Elizabeth F. is the wife of James
Buford, Esq., of Lexington, Kentucky.

Elijah Gates was educated in Lincoln county,
Kentucky. He removed at the age of nineteen to
Platte county, Missouri. He, however, remained
there but a short time, when he removed to Living-
ston county, in the same state, and began the busi-
On the 14th of May, 1861, shortly
afterithe civil war began, he was elected captain of a
company in the State militia, and held the position
about three months. He then assisted in the'organ-

in Garrard county, Kentucky.

ization of Cornell’s regiment of State militia, of
which,he was elected lieutenant-colonel. After three
months’ service he resigned and enteredthe Confed-

, erate army, having organized a regiment under Major-

General Sterling Price, of which he was chosen
colonel. He with his regiment participated in the
battles of Wilson’s Creek and Lexington, Missouri,
Elkhorn, Arkansas , Iuka, Corinth, Champion Hills
and Big Black, Mississippi. He was captured in the
last named engagement and held a prisonerof war
for three days, when he made his escape, passed
through the Federal lines and, after great privations
and many narrow escapes, joined General ]oe John-
ston at Canton, Mississippi. He remained at Can-
ton until the fall of Vicksburg and then rejoined his
regiment near Raymond. He was then appointed to
the command of Bowen’s division, and marched his
men to Demopolis, Alabama, where they went into
parole camp. Two months after, a general exchange

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAI, DICTIOIVARY. 523

took place and the troops again entered the field.
He commanded his regiment at the battles of Al-
toona and Franklin, Tennessee, where he lost his

-left arm while at the head of his regiment, and was

again made a prisoner of war. On his recovery he
was pla.ced on the cars, January 20, 1864, to be con-
veyed to a northern prison, but succeeded in making
his escape before the train left the depot at Franklin,
and with great difficulty and danger rejoined his
regiment at Mobile, Alabama. He‘ then assumed
command of Cockrell’s brigade, and took part in
the siege of Blakeley, near Mobile. Here his whole
command was captured and sent to Ship Island.
They were detained but a short time and then sent
to Jackson, Mississippi, for exchange. On the route
they heard of _the surrender of General Dick Taylor
and his entire command, which virtually ended the war.

Colonel Gates was wounded in five different
engagements during the war. No man in either
army has a better record for cool courage, clear
judgment and soldierly accomplishments. His men
placed implicit confidence in his courage, daring and
intrepidity. Returning to his farm in Buchanan
county, ‘whither he had moved before the war, he

for a short time engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Subsequently he removed to St. Joseph and began
the livery business, in which he was engaged for five
years. In 1872 he was elected sheriff of Buchanan
county and served two terms, having been reelected
in 1874." In 1876 hewas elected state treasurer by
the largest ‘majority ever given by the Democratic
party in Missouri. A

He is not a member of any religious organization.
His family are connected with the Christian denomi-
nation. In political affairs he has always been an
active Democrat, but is greatly respected ‘by men of
both parties.

He was married, April I, 1852, to Miss Maria
Stamper, a native of Missouri. By this marriage he
has nine children, all living, I five sons and four
daughters: Susan E., John L., Joel E., Mary Luella,
Elijah, jr., Charles ,G., Benjamin D., Maggie C. and
twins, Travis and Georgia. [Susan E., his eldest
daughter, is the wife of H. K. Lyon,of Jefferson City.

Colonel Gates is a man of great personal magnet-
ism and of many sterling virtues. His high sense of
honor, personal independence and unflinching integ-
rity render him a favorite, wherever he is known.

W. S. GREGORY.

KANSAS CITY.

first of the well and favorably known busi-
ness men of Kansas City. He is one of the most
highly respected, reliable citizens of that growing
metropolis 3 a man of sound judgment, fine sense,
attentive to business and strictly honorable, quiet and
unobtrusive, yet his worth and merit are fully
appreciated by his fellow citizens.

Mr. Gregory is one of the founders of Kansas
City, and was her first mayor, elected in April, 18 5 3,
the duties of which office he discharged with ability,
giving the new municipal government a start from
which it has constantly grown and expanded until it
is the second city within the bounds of the state.
He has since served as alderman, aiding the city
council with his sound advice and clear judgment in
matters of vital importance to the welfare of the
community. In 1860-61, he acted as secretary of the

\NfIL.L1AM s. GREGORY stands amongithe

‘Kansas City and New Mexico‘ Insurance company,

and was a director in, and has been vice—president of,
the Kansas City National Bank since 1877. He
is a public—spirited citizen, and in all that pertains
to the advancement and interests of the city, he is
deeply interested and takes an active part.

"He was born’ in Shelby county, Kentucky,
August 4, 1825, and was left an orphan in his infancy.
His father was Robert Gregory and his mother
Elizabeth (Ballard)_ Gregory; his maternal grand-
father, James Ballard, and a brother, Bland Ballard,
were among the early pioneers of Kentucky. In an
old book entitled “Banks’ History of Kentucky”
(not read much now) honorable mention is made of
these ancestors, and their deeds of heroism during
the dark and bloody days of the early history of
Kentucky are therein recorded.

Mr. Gregory was educated at South Hanover
College, ‘Indiana, receiving a collegiate course. On
leaving college, his tastes leading him in the direction

524 ' THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTI0./VAIL’Y.

of agricultural pursuits, he turned his face westward,
and on the 25th day of August, 1844, landed on the
spot where Kansas City now stands. He purchased
a farm about two miles east from this point in Jack-
son county, and commenced active operations in
farming, which business he continued about seven

’ years.

In 1852 he embarked in mercantile business in
Kansas City with his brother, James A., now of the
firm of Gregory, Stagg & Co., wholesale commission
and liquor dealers, St. Louis. They carried a gen-
eral stock and conducted heavy operations, until the
commencement of the late civil war, when, appre-

‘hending the dangers that others sadly realized, he

removed to St. Louis, where in connection with E.
R. Threlkeld and L. C. Alexander, under the firm
name of W. S. Gregory & Co., he opened a whole-
sale grocery house. At the close of the first year,
Mr. Gregory sold out and removed to Chicago;
where, October I,- 1863, he formed a co-partnership
with John R. Staley, of Warsaw, Benton county,
Missouri, and Samuel C. Bennett, of Calloway
county, Missouri, in the wholesale grocery business.
In 1865 Mr. Staley retired, and the firm of Bennett
& Gregory continued in Chicago until 1867. In that
year they opened their house at 420 Delaware street,
Kansas City, Missouri, where they continued with an
increasing trade until 1872, when Mr. Gregory
bought the interest of his partner and consolidated
with L. H. Warriner and A. C. Dyas, at No. 51
and 53 West Third street, under the firm name of
Warriner, Gregory & Dyas. They have transacted

a very heavy business. In 1874 Mr. Dyas was
succeeded by James H. Beckham, the firm name
being changed to Warinner, Gregory & Co. The
firm was dissolved August 15, 1877,. by the death of
Lee H. Warinner, James H. Beckham retiring. Mr.
William Ryley then became a partner and the busi-
ness has since been conducted by them under the
firm name of Gregory & Co. Mr. Gregory is one of
the most successful, because one of the most untir-
ing, wholesale grocers in the ‘West. The establish-
ment began September I, 1867, with a capital of
$30,000 and employing six men. They now employ
sixteen men, have $80,000 cash capital, with last
year’s sales amounting to $1,000,000. Their present
buildings—5r and 53 Third street——are fifty by one
hundred feet in dimension and four stories high.

Mr. Gregory has been married -twice. January
, 1846, he married Eliza A. Wade, daughter of
Samuel and Mary (Long) Wade, of Jackson county,
Missouri. She died April 1851, and her two chil-
dren also died. On the 6th of May, 1852, he mar-
ried his wife’s sister, Mary C., who has borne him
five children, four of .whom are living—two sons and
two daughters—a pleasant family circle, where he,
being a man of domestic tastes, finds unalloyed
happiness.

He is a staunch Democrat, and is also a member
of the order of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons,
and has served several times as Master of the Lodge.
He is not a member of any church, but adheres to
the doctrines of the Old School Presbyterians, in
which church he was brought up.

2

HENRY C. HARPER.

WESTPOR T.

UMAN toil in all its attitudes, from the smooth-
ing of a rock to the construction of a city, is

one comprehensive illustration of the absolute truth»

that everything has its price. Men may offer some-
thing else; they may print a currency of their own,
and vainly conceive its value sufficient for the barter 3
but the cheat will be transparent, and they must rest
content with what the balanced scales tip out with
mathematical justness. A

The more fully men come to believe in nature’s
guarantee of the fulfillment of every contract, that

honest labor cannot come to loss, the stronger and
calmer will be their strokes, the less indifferent their
lives. The expectancy of good they do not earn,
can but interlard the life with miseries. Resting,
not advancing, resisting, not cooperating, constitutes,
too often, the outward biography of many, hence
the mountainous inequalities of those who occupy
the same zone of opportunity. There may be, how-
ever, a safe contraction of the limits of possible
mischief 5 a melting away of the difficulties like ice-
bergs in the sea before a tropic sun.- Under the

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 525

shallow running streams of human circumstances,
with their abortive ebb and flow, lies the abysmal
deep of man’s power, from which come the influx of
elements that serve in true ways all worthy ends.
The world in which man lives is mediate 3 its office
is to serve. It submits to the dominion of man
more meekly than the slow-plodding ox to the yoke 3
yet. by some strange miscarriage men have abdicated
the realm of supremacy, and it remains for them to
wrest back, inch by inch, the bonded territory, and
come again to the resumption of power in its utter-
most meaning.

Looking merely at the throne discovers man’s inabili-
ty to reach it at a vault, yet men are making,evermore,
perceptible progress in that divine direction in all
the departments of duty which will ultimately con-
stitute the finished whole. It is, therefore, the work
of the biographer to single out from an aggregated
humanity, not only those who realize a delegated
prominence, but those, also, who fulfill the functions
parceled out less obtrusively. This obligation is
partially met in sketching briefly the following
history:

Henry C. Harper is the son of George and
Lucinda Harper, natives of Virginia. He was born
to them November 24, 1834, in Bath county, Ken-
tucky. His father cultivated a plantation of mod-
erate area, assigning to young Henry the proud task
of helping in its labors. With unremitting attention
he served his sire in that capacity, thereby gaining
no meager knowledge of that necessary and lucrative
industry. His literary training was not ample,
although by rightly improving his opportunities, he
acquired a stock of learning and considerable disci-
pline and range of thought. At the age of fourteen
he came with his father to Independence, Missouri,
leaving far behind, amid the old home memories,
the grave of his mother.

Henry soon began to cast about, asking of him-
self, not others, the all important question, “ How
shall I get on in the world?” No one could have
told him had he inquired, never so beseechingly, for
no one ever traverses exactly the same ground
passed over by another, “but arches his sail to an
untriedbreeze.” Out of the unfoldings of his own
personal experiences, the answer was finally spelled
out. Alertness, activity, persistence, and decision
were found to be the necessary and component parts
of every day’s successes, and luckily for him the
habits of his sturdy youth were the scaffolding to
such qualities. Life to him became earnest, so with-

out pausing to brush his hair over the appropriate
bumps, or tarrying to tie his shoes, he pursued his
purpose with ardor so fervent as to leave the impres-
sion that he regarded his occupation as simply a
grave species of amusement.

Sedulously Henry C. toiled in diversified spheres
of usefulness and profit; when at length his business
qualifications becoming so well known and respected
as to inspire a ready confidence, he commenced the
responsible work of moving stores to Mexico. He
concentrated all his efforts upon that work, refusing
to fritter away his resources in a variety of pursuits,
and consequently, to use his own language, “ coined
money.” The power of patient labor was the
essence of his genius, and his continuity and con-
centration were in harmonious proportion. No rival
powers divided his efforts, alive to every advantage,
rigidly honest, he did his best, which, after all, con-
stitutes the truest success after which one can aspire.
At the end of several years spent in unremitting
business cares, Mr. Harper purchased a home near
Kansas City, a lovely site on the Independence road.
The ample grounds possessed natural beauties unsur-
passed in that section. Notwithstanding the place
was purchased for an abiding home, Mr. Harper
was finally led, by the persistency of others who
sought a similar location, to sub-divide his splendid
farm and sell, after which he moved to Westport
where he now resides, surrounded by much that
renders home pleasant and makes sacred the name.

Mr. Harper is one of the stockholders of the
Bank of Kansas City, which has always had exten-
sive patronage and the unqualified confidence of the
country. He is a worthy member of the Masonic
fraternity, has held responsible trusts in that con-
nection, and to-day has a warm place in the affec-
tions of his brethren. His politics are Democratic ;
during the war his sympathies were wholly with the
South, yet he was not in any way engaged in the
contest.

He was married to Miss Mary R. Yager, Novem-
ber 22, 1863, in whom he has found a true wife,
and a companion in every way fitted to be the part-
ner of his faith and the tender comforter of his
years. Mrs. Harper is the daughter of the Hon. J.
B. Yager, of Independence, a man of high public
merit and unsoiled integrity. Mr. Harper and wife
are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
but do not confine within its pale their religious
work and interest. Their home has always been
open to ministers of Christ of every order, and

526 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGIBAPZJICAL DICTIO./VARY.

many will gratefully remember how they received
help from his "liberal purse, as well as the hospitalities
of his welcome hearth. Surely to them shall come
from the enthroned Lamb -a voice, saying: “ I was
a stranger and ye took me in , an hungered and ye
fed me ; athirst and ye gave me drink 5 sick and in
prison and ye visited me 3” and within the everlast-
ing doors they shall find rest.

The high social standing of Mr. Harper strength-
ens the idea that he was formed for friendship.
Chaste, benevolent and pure minded, his presence

proves a cordial exhilaration. Well known in West-
ern Missouri, he is environed with lasting and worthy
friendships, and few men know better how to appre-
ciate such relationships and honor their laws. Mr.
Harper is of medium stature and weighty build, he
carries with him a look of freshness and youth,

which clearly proves how completely he has mas--

tered and held aloof the annoyances that bring pre-

mature age. Social himself, he has always respected

and fostered everything which tends to unite men in '

a lasting and helpful brotherhood.

HON. SE-MPRONIUS H. BOYD.

SPRINGFIELD.

‘ N IILLIAM G. BOYD immigrated to America
and settled in Virginia while yet a colony of
Great Britain. From the Old Dominion the family
spread into Kentucky and Tennessee. William G.
had a brother who settled in Kentucky, one of
whose sons became a prominent statesman and for
several years was senator from that state. William’s
son, Marcus, who waslborn in Virginia in 1805,
removed from Mecklenburgh county, in that state, to
Tennessee, where, in Williamson county, he mar--
ried Eliza Hamilton, a native of Tennessee, descended
from a,North Carolina family." Marcus Boyd was
a man of enterprise, and while living in Tennessee
interested himself in public improvements. He
came to Missouri in 1840, was a warm supporter of
the Whig party, represented Greene county at differ-
ent times in the state legislature, was receiver of the
land office at Springfield by presidential appoint-
ment, warmly supported the Union during the
Rebellion, was a colonelof a. regiment of militia,
and died in 1866. His wife was a great-grand-
daughter of James Swansey, the founder of the
Swansey colony in South Carolina.

Their son, S. H. Boyd, born in Williamson
county, Tennessee, May 28, 1828, received a liberal
education, English and classical, at Springfield,
Missouri. As a boy, he was reckless, full of animal
spirits and fond of adventure. After leaving the
academy he took a trip into Texas, having charge
of a train loaded with bacon; sold his bacon, wagons
and cattle, but refused to sell the negroes for whom
he was offered a good price, and returned with them

and the silver proceeds of his sales in safety to Spring-
field. He then took a position as clerk in the store of
D. Johnson & Co. In 1847 the firm established a
branch store at Forsyth, Missouri, and Mr. Boyd
was placed in charge, though only nineteen years of
age. After spending two years in Forsyth, young Boyd
crossed the plains, arriving in California in August,
1849, mined in the placers of the Yuba, Feather and
Moquelnes rivers, taught school at Volcano, Amador
county, returning to Springfield in 18 55, via Nica-
ragua and New Orleans.

He then studied law under Judge ‘Price; was
mayor of Springfield in 18 56-7 3 was the first clerk of
the probate and common pleas court of 'Greene
county; was twice city attorney. In 1861 he was
major of General Phelps’ Home Guards; then
colonel of a regiment of United States volunteers,
and was in several engagements. He was elected
to congress over General Phelps, the opposition

T candidate, and took his seat in December, 1863,

was active in reorganizing the postal service in
Southwestern Missouri; was a member of the com-
mittee on postoffices and post roads; was chairman
of the committee on Revolutionary claims and pen-
sions, and was a member of the committee that

A reported the measures for establishing the Freedmen’s

Bureau. He was circuit judge of the 14th Judicial
District in I865——66, which office he resigned to
interest himself in the completion of the Southwest-
ern Pacific railroad. T

He was again elected to Congress in 1868, as
the regular Republican nominee, he ran largely

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ahead of his ticket. While in the 41st Congress he
opposed General Grant’s scheme for the purchase
of San Domingo, taking the same stand in the house
that Schurz and Sumner did in the senate. For this,
and for supporting B. Gratz Brown and favoring
Rebel enfranchisement, he was ostracised by his
party; he was. not a mere partisan, and with him
principles were never prostituted to position. He
also worked a strong interest in favor of removing

the national capital to the Mississippi Valley, and_

framed a resolution favoring the independence of
Cuba. From 1864 to 1868 he was the Missouri
member of the Republican national executive corn-
mittee. Always active in promoting home interests,
in 1872' he founded the Springfield wagon factory.
He resumed the practice of law in 1874.

Since 1861 Colonel Boyd has been an active par-
ticipant in state and national politics, and he has
done much to shape the‘ legislation of the past six-
teen years, at home and in Washington. By birth,

I West have been hewers of wood

education and temperament he is an outspoken
Southerner 3 by interest and association he is a pro-
gressive Northerner, he says that “the South and
and drawers of
like to see the
they are more

water long enough, and I would
national legislation baulked until
favorably dealt with.”

He is a hard money man, out and out; thinks
the legislation on the silver question, 1878, a grand
humbug; a red flag that those who are interested
keep shaking to scare the people, and no matter
what the legislation may be, the country will derive
no benefit from it Colonel Boyd is a warm hearted,
generous man; impulsive in his feelings, and natur-
ally takes radical ground no matter which side of a
question he advocates. With the interests of the
city and country in which he resides, he is thoroughly
identified, a progressive, live man, whose record is
his best eulogy, and whose.successes are the best
comments upon his ability. I

FREDOLIN EGGER.

APPLETON CITY.

REDOLIN EGGER was born June 5, 1827,
F in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland. He is
the oldest of five children born to John B. Egger and
his wife, Anna Elmer. During the persecution of
the followers of Martin Luther in 1530, the Egger
family emigrated from Austria to Switzerland, where
for many years they occupied a prominent position
in the ‘history of that country. Fredolin Egger,
grandfather of Fredolin, was a leadingcitizen of the
canton of Glarus, one of the first manufacturers of
Switzerland and very prominent in the state, until his
accidental- death in 1817, in the fifty-sixth year of his
age. His son, John Balthasar Egger, was born June
5, 1794, in the canton of Glarus, where he was
engaged until his death in the manufacture of paper.

Confining himself to business, he took no part in-

politics. He died in 1870, aged ‘seventy-six years.
The’ maternal great grandfather of Fredolin Egger was
John Henry Elmer, a prominent politician of Switzer-
land, at one time ambassador to Sardinia, and represen-
tative of his canton in the Swiss Congress. His son,
Jacob Elmer, also represented_the canton of Glarus in

Counsel until his accidental death about the year 1818.
.67

Fredolin Egger attended the high school of his
canton until sixteen years old, when he was sent to
the University of Lausanne,_ Switzerland. On leav-
ing college he traveled for one year through France,
Returning home, he became salesman and traveling
agent for his father, and was thus engaged until
1850. In that year he came to. America, traveled
through the Mississippi Valley and located in the
Swiss colony of New Glarus, Wisconsin. At that
place he was engaged in merchandising until 1853,
when he returned to Switzerland. The colony in
Wisconsin was founded by the Emigration Society
of the canton whose name it bears.

In the spring of I854, having been appointed
agent for the colony, he returned to Wisconsin and
for two years performed acceptable work as such
agent, collecting debts, settling accounts and dis-
charging other duties. He received high commen-
dation from his employers in the form of a written
certificate as follows:

“ The undersigned, Emigrant Committee, certify

by these presents that Messrs. Fredolin Egger and
Fred Streiff, of New Glarus, Wisconsin, appointed by

528 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

power of attorney dated 1854, as our representatives,
have as such, effected a complete liquidation of the
interests of our society in the colony of New Glarus,
to our entire satisfaction, and that we have found
their accounts with us in perfect conformity, as well
as duly received the ultimate balance in favor of this
society. _

“The undersigned regard it further as their duty to
testify their sincere thanks to said Messrs. Egger and
Streiff, for the intelligent and energetic manner in
which they have conducted our affairs in the colony,
relieving them herewith of all and every responsibility
in this matter. ,

“ At the same time, and in conclusion, the under-
signed cannot help expressing their deep regret at the
ungrateful behavior of part of our former country-
men who have enjoyed our protection, have blamed
themselves by the continual vexation of ourselves
and of our said representatives.

“Done in Schwanden, canton of Glarus, Switz-
erland.

“The President of the Emigration Committee.
[SEAL] PETER JENNY,

Counselor and Member of Government.”

He acted as agent for the colony for two years,
and at the end of that time engaged in mercantile
and private banking business. He also served as

postmaster and justice of the peace until 1874,.when,
not liking the condition of the country and wishing
to change his business, he settled in Appleton City,
St. Clair county, Missouri, engaging in the banking
business with a capital of $5,000. He increased his
capital to $15,000, and by judicious investments
acquired considerable property in St. Clair county as
well as in the State of Wisconsin. He dealt exten-
sively in real estate also.

In politics he is independent, affiliating with the
Republican party. He took an active part in Wiscon-
sin politics. He is a member of the Swiss Reformed
Church. Also a member of the Knights of Pythias.

He was married April 22, 1854, to Miss Anna
Streiff, daughter of Thomas Streiff and Anna Elmer,
of the canton of Glarus, Switzerland, by whom he
has had eleven children, only six of whom are living.
She died December 21, 186 5. He was marriedjune
10, 1866, to his second wife, Mrs. Catharine (Zweifel)
Walcher. She has borne no children.

Mr. Egger is a business man who commands the
respect of the community, and is known for his activ-
ity, honesty ‘and fair dealing.

HON. WILLIAM GAULT WEAR.

WA./PSAW’.

 BOUT the year 1765 five brothers by the

name of Wear immigrated from the north of
Ireland and settled in America, making their home in
Virginia and South Carolina. Ten years later when
the war of ‘the Revolutionbroke out they took part
with the colonists, and at the battle of King’s Mount-
ain, North Carolina, jonathan Wear the grandfather
of William G., was severely wounded. He died on
his farm in Tennessee, in 1829, aged eighty years. He
had six children, one of whom, James H., was born
in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 178 5 ; emigrated
from Virginia to Tennessee where he was engaged in
farming until his removal to Howard county, Mis-
souri, in 1817. Remaining there two years, he
moved into Cooper county, and continued his labors
as an agriculturist until his death in 1831. His son,
William Gault Wear, was born near Knoxville, Ten-
nessee, December II, 1816, the year before his father
settled in Missouri. ‘
William’s mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of

William Gault, who was born in the North of Ire-
land in I742, and who emigrated to America and
settled on a farm near Knoxville, Tennessee, where
he died in 1828. During the war of 1812 he was
wounded by a Seminole Indian while on guard duty.

William, the second in a family of eight children,
received but a limited education in the common
schools of Cooper county, his father dying when he
was fifteen years old, after which time he was obliged
to superintend the plantation, remaining in charge
for four years.

At nineteen years of age he commenced business
in Otterville, Cooper county, where he remained
twenty-seven years, dealing in general merchandise,
stock and real estate. In 1864 he engaged in mer-
cantile business in Memphis, Tennessee, where his
operations were quite extensive, his annual sales
amounting to $2 50,000, until he met with financial
reverses in 1870, and returned to Missouri, and for
two years represented the house of james H. Wear

THE UNITED STATES B10 G1e.4PH1c.4L D107"/ONAR Y. 529

& Co- in the South and Southwest, the senior mem-
ber of that firm being his son.

In 1873 he settled in Warsaw, Benton county,
and resumed his old business, dealing in general
merchandise and stock, at which he is now engaged.

- During the war of 1861-5, he was an advocate of the

Union cause, and being elected by the Democratic
party in 1862 to represent Cooper county in the lower
branch of the Missouri Assembly, gave his hearty
support to those measures tending to restore the
supremacy of the National Government. Politically,

now as then he is a Jeffersonian Democrat. He leans
toward the Presbyterian church in his denominational
preferences.

Mr. Wear was married November 3, 1837, to
Sarah A., daughter of David and Mildred (Field)
Yancey, of Charlottesville, Virginia. They have three
children—James H. Wear, senior member of the
firm of Wear, Bougher & Co., St. Louis; Colonel
David Walker Wear, a leading lawyer in St. Louis 3
and Mildred Wear, wife of Charles S. Bryan, of
Raleigh, North Carolina.

CAPTAIN JARVIS STOKES ROGERS.

CAMERON.

ASA AND REBECCA ROGERS emigrated to
Ohio from New Jersey in 1816, permanently
locating upon their farm in Miami county in 1826 ,
where their son, Jarvis Stokes, was born February’
9, 1827, the fifth of their family of eleven children.
Reared in habits of industry, he remained at home
until he was fifteen years of age, attending the
district schools of his neighborhood when he could
be spared from the farm work. Diligent and apt in
his studies, in his sixteenth year of age he was engaged
to teach school at a salary of $15 per month Without
board. From this period, his parents. consenting,
he became master of his own time, and relying
solely upon his own exertions commenced to carve
out his future.

The next five years he taught _school, attending
in the intervals of teaching, such select school as he
could profitably, and for a portion of the time,
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. Before three
years, such was his reputation as a teacher, that he
was able to command a salary of $50 per month.
Eager to attend a full five months session of college,
he took a contract to cut cordwood at thirty—seven
and one-half cents per cord, cutting fifty cords, by
this meansearning money to help defray his expenses.
His studies were specially selected with reference to
the medical profession, and when about twenty-one
years of age he commenced reading for the regular
practice with J. S. Meeks, M. D. In the winter of
1849-50 he attended a full course of lectures in
Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. In the
spring of 1850, prompted equally by a spirit of

adventure and a desire for wealth, he decided upon
making the overland trip to California, and since
then has kept a careful diary of his whereabouts,
character of the people, geography and productions
of the countries visited, date of noted events, lines
of ' travel, distances and methods of travel, etc.

In company with a few of his acquaintances, he
left his father’s home in Miami county for Cincinnati,
where they took passage for St. Joseph, Missouri,
arriving there April 1, 1850. Here they went into
camp for twenty days, on April zoth, having com-
pleted their outfit, they crossed the Missouri river.
They were all young men without experience in
western travel, with no knowledge of camp life, and
with slender financial resources; but possessed of
great energy and resolution. With four yoke of
cattle and a wagon loaded with supplies, on the 2 3d
of April they rolled away from the banks of the big
Muddy for the golden shores of California. Their
journey was a success. In just four months, August
23, 185o, they reached “Hangtown” (Placerville),
California, in excellent health, having walked the
entire distance, young Rogers gaining twelve pounds
in weight on the trip. He mined for gold until fall,
when he went to San Francisco. From San Fran-
cisco he went via the Pacific ocean to Oregon, visit-
ing Portland, Astoria, Salem, Oregon City, and
many other localities in Oregon and what is now
Washington Territory.

In February, 1851', he returned to San Francisco
via the Columbia river and the -ocean, and the last
of the same month found himself in Sacramento

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without money, having spent his last dollar on the
trip from San Francisco to that city. He found work
immediately at one dollar per hour, which he fol-
lowed until he had money enough to pay expenses to
the mines on the Yuba river. He mined from the
Yuba river to Sonora in the south until February,
18 5 3, meeting with excellentsuccess. He now adopt-
ed the plan of sending his money home to his father
and thus avoided any temptation to squander it.
Notwithstanding his flattering‘ success as a miner,
February, 1853, found him again in San Francisco,
from which port he sailed on the 17th of that month
for Australia, visiting on the voyage Honolulu, in
the Sandwich Islands, Port—Apia, Upolu, one of
the Navigator Islands, and Ton gataboo, in the Feejee
Islands. May 1 he landed in Sidney, Australia, pro-
ceeded directly to Melbourne, in Victoria, by steamer ,
thence to the gold mines, and continued mining
until April, 1854. On May following he left Mel-
bourne for Panama on the American steamer, Golden
Age 3 passed numerous islands on the voyage, stopped
for six days at Tahiti, on the Society Islands, arriv-
ing in Panama justin time to miss the semi-monthly
steamer from Aspinwall to New York. July I he
sailed for New York via Havana, arrived ‘at that
port after a voyage of ten days, took his Australia
gold to the Philadelphia mint and waited for an
assay.

After an absence of four years, four months and
three days, July 21, 1854, he arrived at his parents’
home in Miami county, Ohio. He had been very
successful financially, had developed unusual phys-
ical strength, and was in robust health. In the fall
of 1854 and summer of 185.5 he visited Illinois and
Iowa and made considerable investments in land.
In March, 1856, he left Cincinnati for Southwest
Texas 7222; the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans, thence across the Gulf of Mexico to Port
Lavacca, Texas. Between the Guadeloupe and San
Antoine rivers he purchased a lot of neat cattle,
which he drove to Illinois and sold the same fall.
He followed the business of driving Texas stock to
Illinois for three years, being one of the pioneers in a
business now developed to great magnitude.

In the spring of 1859 he went to Leavenworth,
Kansas, and fitted out a train for Denver, Colorado,
having contracted to take a company of Ohio young
men across the plains 3 they reached the foot of the
mountains in June and camped at Clear Creek, on
the present site of Golden City. He remained here,
trading and looking after a ranch which he had loca-

ted, -until October, when he returned 722%: St. Joseph
to Ohio, where he spent the winter. In the spring
of 1860 he returned to St. Joseph, and on the 3d of
April witnessed the departure of the *‘ pioneer pony”
of the celebrated Pony Express, then established
between St. Joseph and California. As a memento
of this event, which constitutes an era in the history
of St. Joseph, Captain Rogers has preserved a lock
of hair from the tail of the “pioneer pony.”

This year (1860) he disposed of all his interests
in Colorado and returned to Ohio. The civil war
(1 861-5) giving a new direction to the current of his
stirring and eventful life, April 18, 1861, he enlisted
at Troy, Ohio, for three months, under the Presi-
dent’s call for 75,000 men, in company D, 11th
regiment Ohio infantry, United States volunteers,
served one month over his term of enlistment, and
was honorably discharged in August. In Septem-
ber he again enlisted, this time in company E,i44th
regiment ; was successively promoted to 2nd lieuten-
ant, Ist lieutenant and captain, serving in Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee; was with
General Burnside at the siege of Knoxville by Gen-
eral Longstreet, November, 1863, and distinguished
himself there. In 1864, most of his regiment hav-
ing reenlisted as veterans, Captain Rogers resigned
his commission and retired from the service.

May 25, 1864, he was married to Miss Louisa

' M. Paxton, of Clermont county, Ohio, and is now

the father of three children, one ‘son and two daugh-
ters. The same fall, in company with some others,
he established a machine shop and foundry in Eaton,
Ohio, to which place he had removed, and continued
that business ‘until 1866, when they sold -out to the
Niles Works of Cincinnati.

Strongly attached. to the ‘West, he removed to
Missouri in October, 1867, and locating in Cameron,
his present residence, devoted himself to agriculture.
March I, 1871, he establishedithe Park Bank, now
recognized as one of the established institutions of
the county, and with which he is still connected.

. Captain Rogers is a member of the Masonic
order, having been made a Master in Franklin
Lodge, Ohio, in the winter of 1860-1 5 is now identi-

, fied with Cameron Lodge, A; F. and A. M. A

Protestant, not a sectarian, in his religious opinions,
he is remarkably tolerant. In politics he is a Liberal
Republican.

In addition to the wanderings above traced, Cap-
tain Rogers has, in the course of his adventurous
life, visited most of the states and all the territories

“Oneida county, New York, January 24, 1820. A
father, Thomas Gaylord, a Quaker in religious belief, '

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAL DICTIONARY. 531

except Arizona, the British possessions, Canada,-

Mexico, and Peru in South America. Everywhere
—in themines, at agriculture, at stock driving, at
ranching, at banking-—he has been uniformly suc-
cessful. He has always enjoyed robust health, is in
the possession of an ample fortune, and commands
the unqualified respect of all who know him. Uni‘-
formly temperate in his habits, he was never intoxi-
cated in his life, nor addicted to the use of tobacco.

His sterling business qualities and his great personal -

popularity would long ago have placed him in office
had he consented, but though frequently solicited,
he has positively declined to become a candidate for
any office.

Captain Rogers stands one—half inch under six
feet high and weighs one hundred and eighty pounds.
His social qualities are preeminent, and the immense
fund of information acquired by him, with his thrill-
ing personal adventures, constitute him one of the
most instructive and delightful of associates.

FREDERICK GRAHAM GAYLORD.

PILATTE CITY.

REDERICK GRAHAM GAYLORD, the sec-
ond of a family of five children, was born in
His

was a farmer by occupation. His mother’s maiden
name was Caroline _Loo1nis. Both families are of
English origin. His grandfather, Thomas Gaylord,
was a soldier under Washington, and was present on
the occasion of his defeat on Long Island. His
maternal grandfather, Roswell Loomis, was also a
soldier of the Revolution, and served in the patriot
army. ‘ I

He was educated at Clinton, in Oneida county,
New York. Always of a studious and investigating
character of mind, he, early in life, reaped the advan-
tages of sound literary and scientific training, acquir-
ing by his own exertions much of the knowledge
which rendered him, in after life, distinguished in
several states, and especially in Missouri, as an
educator of youth. Before completing his studies
he from time to time engaged in teaching, to secure
the. means necessary for his further advancement,
and thus developed a faculty and a taste which
prompted him to make the profession of teaching the
business of his life.

In 1842 he went to Augusta county, Virginia,
where for the period of a year he taught a private
school near Staunton. He then moved to Bur-
ketsville, Frederick county, Maryland, where he
remained in charge of a high school till the summer
of 1849, when he returned to the state of New York

:with the View of visiting California, and on April

I 5, I850, sailed from New York city in the steamer

Empire City to Chagres,’ crossed the Isthmus, and
sailed to San Francisco in the French barque Gus-
tave, arriving in June, 1850. Heimmediately went
to the Southern mines, where he worked on the
banks of the Mokalumne river, being moderately
successful. He was present in San Francisco at the

‘ "celebration of the admission of the state into the

Union, in October, 1850. p

In the spring of 1851 he returned via Panama,
and arrived in New York on the steamer Prometheus,
the first built of the Vanderbilt line. He then vis-
ited Ohio with the view of going to Kentucky, and
stopping in Champaign county taught school there
till February, 1852, when he went to Irvine, Estill
county, Kentucky, and took charge of a seminary,
opening his first session April 4, 1852. He rem_ained
in charge of this institution till the summer of 18 57.
In the meantime, November I0, 1855, he was mar-
ried to Mrs. Mary Park, widow of Elihu Park, and
proprietress of the Park Hotel in Irvine.

In the fall of 1857 he moved with his family,
composed of his wife and two step-sons, Thomas and
Clay Park, to Platte City, Missouri, having been
invited-to take charge of the male academy in that
town. He brought with him several slaves.

November 2, 1857, he opened his first session of
that institution, which continued to flourish under

his able management till the breaking out of the war

of the Rebellion, when, in consequence of the dis-
turbed condition of the city incident to the war, he
moved to Camden. Point, eight miles north of Platte
City, and there remained two years in charge of its
academy. About two years after, in consequence of

532 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

his sympathy with the Confederate cause, he was
forced to leave the state, and going to Kansas he
located in Atchison, where he remained till the close
of the war, in the following year, when, at the earn-
est solicitation of those who had long appreciated
his distinguished ability as a teacher, he returned to
Platte City, and assumed charge of the institution,
then known as Platte City Female Academy, but
now as Daughters’ College, over which he has ever
since presided and where he now (1877) continues to
maintain his well—earned reputation. I

Though raised by Quaker parents, he never
identified himself with that “people.” In the fall
of 18 58 he united with the Christian church in. Platte
City, of which he has ever since been an active mem-
ber, and of which he is now an elder. In early life
he was a Whig in politics, but since 1856 has uni-
formly acted with the Democratic party.

He was a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows in Kentucky. He joined the Masonic
fraternity in Missouri, was initiated, passed and raised

in 1867 in Zerubbabel Lodge, No. 1:91, in which he, at
different times, held official positions. He was, one
year, High Priest of . Melody Royal Arch Chapter,
and is also a member of Alpha Council of Royal and
Select Masters. He was created a Knight Templar
in Saint Bernard Commandery, in Platte City, soon
after his exaltation in the Chapter.

Professor Gaylord is justly regarded as the
pioneer in the cause of classical education in North-
west Missouri, and his success in elevating the stand-
ard of literary and scientific culture in that country
is an acknowledged fact. Many of his students have
achieved distinction in after life, as professional
men, and filled with credit public positions of honor
and trust.

In person he is six feet two inches high, of pow-
erful frame, and weighs two hundred and ten pounds.
His social qualities are excellent, and his benevo-
lence and hospitality proverbial, facts which some in
different states, educated by his liberality, are proud
to attest.

WILLIAM A. GORDON, M. D.

LEXINGTON.

1821, in Canton, Trigg county,
Kentucky. His father, George Haynes Gordon, was
born in Hawkins county, East Te_nnessee, May 27,
1796. His mother, ‘Martha Boyd, only daughter of
Abraham Boyd, and sister of john, Linn, Alfred and
Rufus Boyd, was born February 25, 1799.

The father and mother of our subject were mar-
ried in November, 18x6, in Canton, Trigg county,

IILLIAM ABRAHAM GORDON was born
‘ May Io,

,Kentucky, in which town and its vicinity they lived

until the fall of 1832 The father was engaged in the
mercantile business and in farming while he lived in
Kentucky. On the Ist day of October, 1832, he
started for Missouri, and arrived in Lafayette county,
October 28, I83 2. They had thirteen children:
Nancy H., john B., William A., Caroline, Emerine
S., Linn B., Leander F., Mary M., George H.,
Martha A., an infant unnamed, Lucy B. and another
infant unnamed. Eight lived to be grown, seven
are now (1878) living. George Haynes Gordon was
elected county surveyor of Lafayette in 1840, for the

term of four years. He surveyed and laid off the

city of Lexington, that part that is now known as
new town. He died June 21:, 1847, being fifty-one
years and a few days old at the time of his death.
His wife died August 16, 1858, being at the time of
her death nearly fifty nine years and six months old.

His maternal grandfather, Abraham Boyd, and
his wife Nancy, had five children that lived to be
grown: John, Linn, Martha, Alfred and Rufus.
Rufus died when about twenty-two years of age. The

others all lived to be from fifty—nine to seventy-five

years of age. john Boyd was several times elected
to the lower house of Congress in the Republic of
Texas before it was annexed to the United States.
Linn Boyd served sixteen consecutive years in the‘
lower ‘House of Congress from the 1st Congressional
District in Kentucky, the last four of which he was
speaker of the house. Alfred Boyd served in the
legislature of Kentucky one or two terms, and also
was a member of the state convention to amend or
frame a new constitution. ,

A His paternal grandfather, john Gordon, and his
wife Nancy, had ten children, six boys and four

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIOIVARY. 533

girls:
liam, Polly, Joseph, George H. and Elizabeth. I Nancy
married a Mr. Harrison, Lucy married a Mr. Smith,
Polly a Mr. Ford, Elizabeth 21 Mr. Allen and after
his death a Mr. Raplee.

William A. Gordon was educated at the common
schools in the country in Lafayette county. The
branches taught were spelling, reading, writing,
arithmetic, geography and English grammar. He
attended two winter sessions of about three months
each, at Dover in the same county, assisted in teach-
ing and studied geometry and trigonometry. At the
age of twenty-two he attended a high school about
two months in Cadiz, Trigg county, Kentucky, at
which he studied latin and algebra.

In his childhood he was very much attached to
home and to the different members of the family, but
especially to his mother. In youth he began to have
a desire for hunting and fishing, and to visit different
places as opportunity. offered. To use his own lan-
guage, “the more I have been from home since my
youthful days the more I am convinced of the truth
of the sentiment contained in that good old song-
‘ Home, sweet home, be it ever so humble, there is
no place like home.’ ”

His first step after leaving school was to teach,
that he might thereby be enabled to educate himself.
He taught his first school, six months, in the spring
and summer of 1839, before entering upon his nine-
teenth year. The following winter he boarded and
went to school in Dover to John A. Tutt. The next
spring and summer he taught again at the same place

‘ where he had been engaged the year before, and the

winter following again went to school in Dov er to the
same teacher. He was employed the next two years
in teaching, surveying, (being deputy under his
father), and in farming. A

In the spring of 1844 he commenced the study
of medicine, having for his preceptor Wm. P. Boul-
ware, M. D., of Lexington, and attended his first
course of lectures in the city of ‘Louisville, Kentucky,
at the Louisville Medical Institute at the session of
1845-6. Upon returning home he commenced the
practice of his profession in connection with his
cousin, William L. Gordon, near Oak Grove, in
Jackson county, Missouri. They practiced together
till the following fall, when he again went to
Louisville to attend a second course of lectures at the
University of Kentucky, and graduated ‘March I,
1847. He returned home and resumed the practice
of medicine, locating at James Walton’s, in the south-

John, Nancy, James, Thomas, Lucy, Wil-'

west part of Lafayette county, better known as Texas
Prairie. The doctor continued to practice there till
the fall of 1849, when he removed to Dover, in the
same county, where he remained until the following
spring, when he determined to go to the gold mines
of California.

May I, 1850, he entered the then territory of
Kansas, occupied by Indians only at that time. After
one hundred and twenty days of journeying the expe-
dition reached Placerville, or Hangtown as it was
better known at that. time—three gamblers having
been hung by a vigilance committee to a limb of a
tree in that town, thus giving origin to the name.
There he saw the first native gold and the process by
which it was taken from the earth. Remaining here
but a few days he went to Georgetown, situated
between the south and middle forks of the American
river and commenced diggingfor gold; but being a
novice at the business, and commencing where it had
been worked before, he did not make enough to buy
food, so he quit mining and commenced practicing
medicine, at which he succeeded very well. He
remained about two monthsand then went to Dia-
mond Springs and spent the winter. In March, 185 1,
he went to the middle fork of the American river and
took a claim with thirteen others. Here he remained
till about the Ioth day of October engaged in making
preparations, and in working out his claim. The
claim paid about $550 to the share after paying
expenses.

He left San Francisco for home November 1,
I851, on‘ the steamship Tennessee, and arrived on
the 26th day of the following December.

In March, 1852, Dr. Gordon located in Welling-
ton, Lafayette county, where he practiced his pro-
fession until April I, 1858, when he moved to a farm
about three and a half miles from Mayview, in
Washington township of the same county, and resided
there till February I, 1873. He then moved to Lex-
ington, having been elected to the office of county
collector, and is now (1878) living in the suburbs of
that city. ‘

The doctor’s first military record was, made when
he was only seventeen years of age, in the fall of
1838, in a campaign against the Mormons, then
living in Caldwell county, Missouri. The brigade
commander was General James H. Graham, ‘of Lex-
He went as a substitute for his brother,

ington.
John B.

, In July, 1861, he enlisted as private in the Mis-
souri State Guards, General Sterling Price, at Cow-

‘practical and ‘efficient instructor.

534 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIJICAL DICTIONARY.

skin Prairie, Missouri, and January I, 1862, entered
company A, Rives’ regiment Confederate States
Army, at Springfield, Missouri, and was appointed
regimental surgeon at Corinth, Mississippi, in May or
June, 1862, serving in that capacity till the close of
the war——most of the‘ time with the 1st Missouri
Cavalry, Colonel E. Gates. He was captured at the
fall of Mobile, April 9, 1865, the same day that
General R. E. Lee surrendered the Confederate forces
to General Grant, and got back to his home June
19, 1865. p 4

In August, 1860, Dr. Gordon was elected as one
of the representatives to the legislature from Lafay-
ette county, for the term of two years. He served
one regular session" in that body and also at the

i called session in May, and in the extraordinary ses-

sion held at Neosho in Newton county and in Cass-
ville, in Barry county. At the November election in
1872, he was elected collector of Lafayette county
for the term of two years. At the November elec-
tion in 1874 he was reelected to the same office, and
in 1876 declined to be a candidate for a third term.

In his youth he was not taught any particular-

tenets in regard to religion. His parents were moral
but not religious people at the time he joined the
church. He was the first member of the family that
publicly avowed Christianity. He connected himself
with the Christian Church.in Lexington in the sum-
mer of 1841, and has continued in that faith. His
mother joined the church in about a year after he
did and continued in the faith until her death. His

father became deeply concerned on the subject of
religion, and spoke to a minister to baptize him, but

‘took sick and died before an opportunity was afforded.

Dr. Gordon has been acting with the Democrats
since the close of the civil war in 1865. His first
vote for president was cast for the illustrious Henry
Clay in 1844, and he acted with the old whig party
as long as it had an existence. ‘

Dr. William A. Gordon was married to Margaret
V. Green, May I0, 1849, that being his 29th birth-
day. His wife was the seventh child of the late
Colonel Lewis Green, an old settler and a very highly
respected citizen of Lafayette county. She was born
October 27, 1826, in Sumner county, Tennessee.
They have had born to them ten chlldren—all girls:
Martha Elizabeth, Sophia Mildred, Emma Franklin,
Mary Walker, Lucy Ewing, Catharine Green, Flor-
ence Edwards, Jane Lee, Nancy Shelby and Minnie
Carson. Sophia and Emma died in infancy, the
former when about ten months and the latter about
sixteen months old. Lucy died in her twenty-first year.

The doctor is six feet three inches tall. -In early
manhood his hair was dark brown ;i but is now sil-
Vered over with gray. His eyes are brown or hazel,
beard formerly red or sandy, but now considerably
gray and very heavy, which with his tall commanding
figure, dignified bearing and pleasant countenance,
gives him quite a patriarchal appearance. Few men
have more warm friends, none less enemies. In
society he is welcome, respected everywhere, and in
his family the central figure of aloving circle.

JUDGE ROBERT L. DODGE.

GALZLA TIA’.

OBERT L. DODGE was born in Dutchess
R His
father, Dr. John Dodge, was a physician of that
county. His mother’s maiden name was Sophia
Cheesman. Robert received the advantages of a
liberal education; he received his preparation for
college in Fairfield, Herkimer county, New York.
Here he distinguished himself by his progress in clas-
sical scholarship and before he left the same he acted
in the institution as assistant teacher of ancient lan-
guages, early securing to himself the reputation of a
He then entered

county,- New York, November 16, 1823.

Union college, in Schenectady, New York, and was
there a pupil of the celebrated Dr. Nott. In 1850
he graduated from this institution with the degree of
A. B., acquitting himself withdistinguished, honor.
While a student in the college he discharged, with
marked ability, the duties of classical instructor in its
preparatory departments.
he was invited to take charge of Spencertown Acad-
emy, Columbia county, New York. This position
he accepted and filled, with his usual success, one
year. In 1852 he began the study of law, still, how-
ever, giving instruction, occasionally, in the Latin

On leaving this institution '

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language, in the teaching of which he was especially
successful. In the spring of 1853 he moved to Mis-
souri and settled in Savannah, Andrew county,
where he was soon after admitted to the practice of
During the years 1853-4 he distinguished him-
self as a teacher in the Savannah high school.
Many of the now prominent and successful citizens
of Northwest Missouri were students in this school.

November 16, 1853, he married in Savannah,

law.

Missouri, Miss Mary E. Barnett, daughter of A. F. .

Barnett, now (1877) treasurer of Daviess county.
They had two children, both of whom are dead. In
1858 his wife died. January 16, 186I,,he married
Miss Laura Kantz, daughter of Jacob Kantz, a far-
mer of Caldwell county, Missouri. He has, by this

marriage, four children——two sons and two daugh-

ters. Robert K., the eldest, was born in 1864.

In 1856 he moved to Gallatin, Missouri, his pres-
ent residence, and resumed the practice of law, from
which he withdrew about the close of 1858, having
been elected, in the fall of that year, judge of the
court of common pleas. From January 1, 1869,
till January I, 1873, he discharged the duties of this

‘School Baptist church.

office with distinguished ability, zeal and integrity,
retiring, at the close of his four years’ term, with a
spotless official character. Since then he has given
very little attention to the practice of law ; for the
past three years he has been largely engaged in mer-
chandising at Gallatin. '

His religious faith has always been that of the Old
He was made a Master
Mason in Daviess lodge, No. 116, Gallatin, in I856,
is member of Gallatin Royal Arch Chapter, No.
II. He is a member of Saint Louis Council, No.
I, R. & S. M. He was knighted in Coeur de Lion
Commandery, Brookfield, Missouri, and is a char-
tered member of Kadesh Commandery, K. T. & K.
M., in Hamilton, Missouri. He was at one time an
Odd Fellow, having united with that order in New
York in 1850. In politics he was a Democrat till
the breaking out of the war of the Republic, since
which period he has acted with the Republican party.

In person he is five feet, eleven inches high, and
weighs about one hundred and fifty-five pounds. A
man of unusual scholastic and legal attainments, he
is unassuming in demeanor and generally popular.

DR. HOLLAND B. EVANS, S. D.

ST. CHARLES. V

county, Ohio, January 23, 1834. His father
was John Evans and his mother’s maiden name was
Mary E. Kendrick; the father was of Quaker parent-
age and the mother a rigid and consistent Christian
woman; both were of old Pennsylvania families.
Their strict family discipline made of Holland B.
one of the most moral men 3 a distinguished brother
physician said of him to the writer, “He is one of
the best men you ever met.”

He received his literary education at Urbana,
Ohio, and completed his professional studies at
Columbus, in the same state. He was always
studious, and on his father's farm——where he spent
the first fifteen years of his life—his leisure hours
were devoted to his books and the acquirement of
such solid information as would attain his earliest
ambition, to be of use in the world. In 1850 his
father was engaged in merchandising in Kingston,
Ohio, afgd, in order to fit himself for that line of

’ I ‘HE subject of this sketch was born in Belmont

business, the son became a salesman in the dry goods
store in Kingston, Ohio. Here he remained two
years, when he with two other young men became
owners -of the store. In 1853. they removed the
stock of goods to Westminster, Ohio, and there
continued two years. Our subject then sold his
interest, and for a few months engaged as traveling
salesman. r

« Having now become a man in years, and being
satisfied that merchandising was not his forte, he
duly and carefully considered the question of his life
calling, finally adopting dentistry. He at once
devoted himself assiduously to study in that profes-
sion, and has from that time to the present spared
neither time nor labor to make himself a proficient.
That he has succeeded is evinced by the leading
position he has attained as a dentist in his county --
a fact attested to the writer of this sketch by resident
physicians of the city.

tThe Doctor was raised a Whig, was a Know-

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nothing while that party was an organization," but is
now a Democrat. In 1853 he became a Son of
Temperance, in 1858 ‘a Good Templar, and in 1859
joined the Masonic order, being now secretary of
his lodge. In his religious faith he is a Methodist,
and has been a member of that denomination from
early manhood. ’

In the spring of 1857 he located in St. Charles,
where he has continued to practice his profession
until the present time, having made for himself there
a first-class business name, a high rank as a dentist,
and an enviable reputation as a man and moralist.
August 7, 1860, Dr. Evans married Miss Harriet C.
Fouchee, daughter of Edwin and Amanda Fouchee,
formerly of Virginia. Of this union have been born
the following children now living: John A., Edwin
17., Benjamin S., Gracie O., and Annie C.

Apart from his profession, Dr. Evans is a practi-
cal genius, and in his reading and observation has
been as much prompted by his ingenuity as his pro-
fessional pride. He has looked and thought while"
passing through life, and ‘his talents have enabled
him to remedy defects and supply wants. It did not
need very great knowledge to discern that the old
Egyptian plan of making brick had never been
greatly improved; but it did require thought and
study and genius to remedy its defects. The Doctor
accomplished that in 1876, by an improvement in
brick kilns, the successful working of which estab-
lishes his reputation in that line of business. The
Missouri Brick-kiln Company was organized at St.
Charles in 1876, and Dr. Evans has been its presi-
dent since. ,

In 1876, with an associate, he invented “The
Missouri Ironer,” an ironing machine which shortens
the time and greatly reduces the labor of the old

i of expense.

style method of ironing. Besides cutting down its
expense, it makes the old time ironing table a luxury
rather than a drudge. The “ Ironer ” we have seen
and can attest to its utility fromits appearance. In
a simple muscle-saving machine the Doctor has dis-
played his ingenuity, and doubtless endeared him-
self to our wives and mothers by lightening that
hitherto burdensome item of domestic economy.

More particularly do we wish to call attention to
his improved brick-kiln, which he patented in 1875,
and which has been used successfully in the leading
cities of the union. Its merits are: First——saving
It can burn the samekiln with the old
style walls at a saving of twenty-five per cent. in
fuel. Second—Saving of heat. In the old style of
burning, the heat concentrated at the center and
escaped without service. In this the heat is, under
the burner’s control, driven to every corner of every
wall by the aid of the flues, the top being covered,
and twenty per cent. more hard brick made. Third
—absence of expense. The improvement can be
utilized on the old style of walls without addi-
tional expense, and fourth—by 30,000 to 50,000
additional brick on top, which are burnt sound and
hard.

As a writer of representative men of Missouri,

‘we are happy in the task. of truthfully saying, here

is a “ self-made man ” who is a man indeed ; he has
never muddied the morals of a community in which
he has lived, his influence has always been for good,
he has helped mankind and made a good name.
We do not mention the fortune he has accumulated,
as the result of his labor, because that has very
little to do in encouraging young men to upright
lives. But that he has succeeded so well is one
more attestation that “honesty is the best policy.”

pl-ION. AMBROSE CLAY EUBANKS.

MILAN.

MBROSE CLAY EUBANKS, a native of

Ohio, was born in Pike county, June 16, 183 2.
His father, David Eubanks, was born in Eastern
Maryland, and emigrated to Pike county, Ohio;
thence to Missouri in 1837; he was a farmer and
served in. the war of 1812. His mother Anna
(Wyatt) Eubanks, was a native of Fleming county,.

Kentucky, and daughter of Macajah Wyatt, who
spent his days in that state.

The subject of this sketch was trained from his
childhood in agricultural pursuits and given all the
educational advantages, both in the common and
high schools, that the country afforded. In 185 5 he
began to teach school and followed this profession

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for seven years, occasionally alternating it with other
employment. In 1859 he began the study of law,
devoting to it his leisure time while teaching.

In 1863 he married Miss Kammie Pickle, of Audri-
an county, Missouri, and daughter of Solomon Pickle,
an early settler from Kentucky. iMrs. Eubanks only
lived two years after her marriage.

In 1863 Mr. Eubanks entered the Union army,
going out as 2d lieutenant of company M, 2d Missouri
cavalry. He was in the army one year and engaged
in several battles and skirmishes in Arkansas and
Missouri.

In 1864 he located at Milan and the following
year engaged in the practice of the law. In 1866
he was appointed prosecuting attorney of Sulli-

van county, and in the same year was elected from

that county as representative to the Missouri Legis-
lature. It seemed to be the unanimous wish of the
people that he should be their representative, and in
1870 and 1872 he was reelected to that office. In
1876 he was again ‘elected prosecuting attorney of
Sullivan county. In politics Mr. Eubanks is a
Republican, and one in whom his party has implicit
confidence.

In October, 1868, he married Miss Flora M.
Cochrane, of Indiana, daughter of S. H. B.Cochrane,
an early settler in Indiana, having emigrated to that
state from Virginia. Mr. Eubanks is a kind-hearted,
affable gentleman and stands high in the estimation
of all. In his profession, he has few superiors.

COLONEL WILLIAM WALLACE S. SNODDY.

SEDALIA.

‘A IILLIAM WALLACE SCHOOLEY SNOD—

DY was born in Lycoming county, Pennsyl-
vania, January 25, 1838. He was a son of James
and Christina Schooley Snoddy, both natives of
Pennsylvania. He is of Scotch-Irish descent, and
comes of a long—lived family. His maternal grand-
father came from Scotland and was a man of educa-
tion and refinement, great energy and force of
character. His father’s parents were born near
Carrickfergas, county of Antrim, on Belfast Lough,
Ireland.

On account of family opposition, his paternal
grandfather eloped with his wife, and on the day of
his marriage sailed for America, arriving in Lyco-
ming county, Pennsylvania, in 1783, where they pur-
chased a small piece of ground and lived to be very
aged people. His grand-parents on his father’s side
sympathized with the colonists in the Revolutionary
w_ar, and also took great interest in the success of the
Union cause in the late Civil war, for they lived a
century.

Like many others of poor parentage, when a boy
Colonel Snoddy’s school advantages were few. But
he was from a child studious, and availed himself of
every opportunity afforded him to acquire knowledge.
So earnest was he in his efforts in this direction that
he labored on a farm industriously during the day,
and studied hard at night. Inspired by the examples

of many illustrious men, he struggled on with the

.thought ever inihis mind that he could accomplish

what they had. He early evinced a decided taste
for the legal profession.
opposed him, and urged him to remain upon the
farm. Yet he was not to be turned from his course,
and was fully determined to battle with opposition
and surmount every opposition which barred the way.
Natural ability and boundless energy enabled him to
stick to his purpose.

. At the age of seventeen he commenced teaching
and was successful both in public and private schools.
At the same time he devoted his spare time to his
studies, and advanced as rapidly as most college stu-
dents. In this way he completed the mathematical
course, the higher English branches, the elements of
Latin, and began the study of law, using the books
of T. T. Abrams, a leading lawyer of Lock Haven,
Pennsylvania. He still continued teaching, and read
law when not thus engaged—reciting on Saturdays
to Mr. Abrams. ‘

When ready to be admitted to the bar the war
broke out and he responded to the first call of the
governor for troops. He volunteered and enlisted in
the 137th Pennsylvania Volunteers, served in the
ranks eight months, and then, for meritorious con-
duct, he was commissioned second lieutenant. He
received the most flattering testimonials from General

But his friends and advisers '

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Kiddoo Cox and other general officers under whom
he served.

In June, .1863, at the expiration of his term of
enlistment, he returned to Lock Haven, Pennsyl-
vania, and was appointed by Governor Curtin super-
intendent of the schools in Clinton county. He gave
entire satisfaction in this office, the duties of which
were onerous. He had under his supervision two
hundred and ten schools which he had to visit as well
as pass judgement on the teachers. I

The pressure of events and his military reputa-
tion and experience forced him into the army again,
and at Harrisburg, in 1864, he was elected lieuten-
ant-colonel of the 207th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
He was with his regiment in some of the noted
engagements, and amid the last throes of the “Lost
Cause.” On his return home with his regiment he
was received at the capital of the state with an ovation
fit for a patriot and hero.

He was married on the nth of June, 1864, to
Miss Mary M. Long, a lady of culture and good
family, residing at Selenus Grove, Pennsylvania.
In December, 1865, he was admitted to the bar.
During that winter, with $300 in his pocket, he
started to Missouri with his wife and baby. He
paused on his way to visit the Island of Blennerhas-
set, made illustrious by the eloquence of William
Wirt, and linked to immortality with the ill—starred
Aaron Burr, and there his heart was saddened by the
death of his only child. The remains of the little

one were brought to St. Louis and laid in the Cal-’

vary Cemetery. He arrived in Sedalia on the 8th of
April, 1866, with only $60 left from the expenses of
his journey. Without money, without books, with-
out friends, and without experience as a lawyer, he

resolved to cast in his fortunes with the young
“Queen of the Plains.” He rented an office and
entered upon the practice of law. It was a month
before he had his first case, but he gained it, and
since that time has had a good and increasing prac-
tice. A few months after he formed a partnership
with R. G. Durham, a well read lawyer of twenty
years experience. In 1868 his partner was appointed
judge of the common pleas court. Then for eight
years he was one of the popular and well established
firm of Snoddy & Bridges. In 1876 he formed a

_ partnership with Mr_. W. F.‘ Short, who is recognized

as one of the magnates of the Pettis county bar.

. Colonel Snoddy is a large, handsome man; he is
six feet two inches in height and weighs two hundred
and twelve pounds, but is very symmetrical in form.
He has regular features, wears no beard except a

mustache, dresses well, and is a good specimen of ‘

manly beauty and perfection. The first books he
ever owned were six volumes of Rollins History,
which he paid for with the hard earnings of his daily
labor, when a poor boy struggling with adverse. fate
to carve for himself a name upon the scroll of fame.
He has now one of the best libraries in the West.
He is fond of his books, is very studious, reads
extensively and is devoted to his profession.

As a lawyer he has already achieved a reputation.

that reachesbeyond his own state. He is an able
debater, has an abundance of ready wit, concise and
forcible eloquence, which, added to his great energy,
sound sense, profound knowledge of the law, and
thorough preparation of his cases, render him a for-
midable antagonist at the bar, and when the history
of the bar of Missouri is written, he will rank with
the giants of the profession.

ALBERT PARKER.

I SEDALIA.

HERE are many eminent and self-made men,
T in whose lives there are but few interesting
incidents or remarkable events. Men whose suc-
cess has been a steady and constant growth, and
who, possessed of excellent judgment, strong com-
mon sense, ‘indomitable energy, together with a
happy combination of moral qualities, have made
their mark in the world, and evinced in their lives

and character great symmetry, completeness and
moral beauty. To this class belongs Albert Parker,
of Sedalia, Missouri, who has, through his energy,
perseverance and economy, acquired wealth and
risen to positions of honor and trust.

He was born in 1827, in Columbus, Ohio. His
father Cyrus Parker was for many years the leading
educator of that city. At the age of twenty-one he

THE UNITED STATES EIOGIEHPIIICAL DICTIONARY. 539

commenced farming in Tazewell county, Illinois,
and soon became a dealer in cattle and real estate,
in which business he was quite successful.

In 1856 he married Miss julia B. Cullom, the
daughter of Major R. N. Cullom, of Tazewell county,
Illinois, sister of Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, present
Governor of Illinois.

In 1860 Mr. Parker moved to Livingston _county,
Illinois, and during the years 1862-63 was a mem-
ber of the board of supervisors of Livingston county,
and in 1863 was president of that board He was
an active supporter of the administration of Abra-
ham Lincoln. He cast his first vote for General
Taylor and his last for Hayes.

Desiring better opportunities for carrying on the
cattle trade and the real estate business, as well as
for social and educational advantages for his family,
he moved to the young andpromising town of Seda-
lia, Missouri, where he is regarded as one of the
substantial men of the community. He is a plain,
industrious, persevering business man, and at the
same time a public-spirited citizen, doing all that
lies in his power to promote the welfare of Sedalia,

to whose interests he is devoted. In‘ 1869 he served
the city as mayor, and proved a wise and efficient
officer. He favored the extension and completion
of the Missouri River & Indian Territory Railroad,
as well as the Lexington & Sedalia branch of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, and every other measure
which in his judgment would promote the general
good, and he is now, with the general satisfaction of
all parties, postmaster of Sedalia

Mr. Parker has three living children: Alice,
Charles G. and Mary L., who are being well edu-
cated. Albert F., a bright and promising son, died
in childhood. I

His educational advantages in his youth were
limited, but his father was an educated man of intel-
lectual tastes and habits, and left the impress of his
own mind upon that of his son, thereby in a measure
making up the deficiency.

He is six feet tall, well proportioned, in fine
health and full of energy and spirit, an example of
what a man may accomplish through his own unaided
efforts, if he be temperate, honorable and perse-
vering. I

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RUSSELL.

STEELE VILILE.

HIS name, Russell, is a corruption of the Nor-
T man Du Rozel. Hugh Du Rozel came over
with William the Conqueror into England A. D.
1066, and to him the various branches of the dis-
tinguished house of Russell now in England trace
their origin. B. F. Russell’s great, great grandfather
was a descendant of this ancient house through one
of its younger branches. In company with his
brother he emigrated to America at a very early day,
settling in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay within
the territory of the present State of Maine. Here
his son Benjamin, great grandfather of B. F., was
born, married and died prior to the Revolutionary
war, leaving in his turn a son Benjamin, who enlisted
as a soldier in the Continental army in 1776, and
was captured by the Indians. During his captivity
he devised a plan for the establishment of missions
among them, but was not able to carry his schemes
into execution. Benjamin, son of the above, father
of B. F., was born in Massachusetts, January 4,

1803, was married in 1821 to ‘Mahala Wright, of
Andover, Massachusetts, a lady» of Scotch descent,
and of rare intellectual attainments. Their home

was in Greenwood, Oxford county, Maine, where’

their son Benjamin Franklin was born October 26,
1844. From this place, in the autumn of 1871,
they removed to Texas county, Missouri, and died
the following October, and were buried in the same‘
grave, having lived together a little more than fifty
years. They were both consistent members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Benjamin F. Russell inherited his fine literary
taste from his mother, and to her influence is mainly
due the success he has attained as a writer. His
early years were passed in Maine laboring upon his
father’s farm during the summer months, and attend
ing the district school in the winter. At sixteen
years of age he entered the preparatory class in
Gould’s Academy, Bethel, Maine. In the following
spring he enlisted in company. G, roth Maine regi-

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ment United States Voluteers, serving two years
and participating in the campaigns of Banks and
Pope in the Shenandoah Valley, being engaged in
the battles of Winchester, Falling Waters, Front
Royal and Cedar Mountain, at which place he was
wounded and lay on the field all night, but was removed
to the hospital at Washington next day, and recov-
ered in time to join his regiment just after the bat-
tle of Antietam. Histwo years term of enlistment
expiring, he returned home, and wrote and published
a history of his regiment which had a very large sale
in his native state, ‘and received very favorable
notice from the press generally. He returned to
Gould’s Academy and remained until the following
summer, when he enlisted in the 3rd Massachusetts
Cavalry, United States Volunteers. He was in the
Red River expedition with Banks, and was promoted
for meritoriouis conduct and commissioned Ist lieu-

tenant. The regiment being ordered to Virginia, he

saw service under Sheridan in his memorable Shenan- .

doah campaign, and the war being closed, was sent
with his command to the plains, and mustered out
at Fort Riley. Returning home he engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits at Boston, and afterward at Hyde
Park, Massachusetts, where, meetingiwith financial
reverses, he turned his attention to newspaper work,

contributing articles for the leading New York
papers, writing editorials and poems for the Woon-
socket Pa/rioz‘, by which he gained considerable
literary notoriety. With the intention of provid-
ing a home for himself and parents, he came to
Texas county, Missouri, in 1871, and engaged in
farming. His parents dying soon after their
removal to Missouri, he left his farm for a news-
paper office, publishing the Western Success. at
Salem, Missouri, and contributing largely to the gen-
eral press. I I

In 1873 he took the local editorship of the Texas
County Pioneer, held it for one year, then purchased
the Crawford ./l[z'/7'07’, which he removed from Cuba
to Steeleville, the county seat of Crawford county,
where he still continues its publication. Mr. ‘Russell
has always been an active member of the Republican
party, both in Massachusetts and Missouri, serving
on the various executive committees and as delegate
to the different conventions. In his religious senti-
ments he is genuinely liberal. He is highly esteemed
in Southern Missouri as a man of fine literary ability
and genial social quality. Honorable in business
relations, his name is above reproach. He is of fine
physique, features well defined, and-a gentleman of
acknowledged standing.

JUDGE HENRY GRONEFELD.

ST. CHARLES.

ENRY GRONEFELD, one of the present
H judges of St. Charles county court, was born
in Hanover, Germany, July 28, 1829. His father,
Frederick Gronefeld, a noted blacksmith in Assena—
breuck, Germany,'emigrated to America in 1834,
landing at New Orleans in November of that year,
after a voyage of eleven weeks. He married in his
native village Miss Catharine Nermire, daughter of
Henry Nermire. ‘Her father came to this country
with his son-in—law, but died in St. Charles in 1836'.
With his family Mr. Frederick Gronefield settled first
in the city of St. Charles, to which city he came
immediately after arriving at New Orleans—a trip
that was made in seven weeks! After remaining in
the city one year, he bought a farm about‘ five miles
west of St. Charles and removed his family thereon.
This is still the family homestead. Besides farming,

he built and occupied a blacksmith shop on his farm.

Henry Gronefeld workedion thefarm and in the
shop with his father. His education was only such
as could be procured at intervals in winter sessions
of the common country school of his district. But
it would appear that he not only cultivated his little
learning assiduously, but that it was based upon a
strong foundation of practical common sense, for he
has risen to a high plane in the estimation of his
fellow citizens. His educational facilities were mea-
ger, as we have said, but he utilized every avenue
for the attainment of useful knowledge to which
he found entrance. '

In 1843, at the age of fourteen, he went to work
regularly in his father’s shop and served an appren-
ticeship. In 1849 the father quit the shop, and
Henry carried on the business in his own name, and

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very successfully until 1861, when the war’s demands
and excitement precluded the possibility of getting
and keeping regular hands to do the work. The
shop was then closed, and our subject worked on the
farm intermittently until the war closed. He had
meantime taken his gun for service in the Union
ranks, and was four years in the militia raised for the
defense of the county, its railroad bridges, etc.
What time he was not on military duty he devoted
to his farm interests. Since the war he has devoted
himself exclusively to his farm.

In 1874 he was elected by the Independent voters
a judge of the St. Charles county court for six years.
But by a recent change of the law by the legislature,
there is to be the coming fall a new election, when

he will doubtless be recalled to his seat on the bench.._

Judge Gronefield was raised a Protestant, and is now
a member of the. Church of the Evangelist.
Republican in politics, but holds himself indepen-
dent to choose men for office without regard to party
name.

September 3t, 1849, he was married to Miss
Margaret Schmeimeier, daughter of Frederick Sch1nei—
meier, a native of Prussia, who emigrated to America
in 1832, and died in 1875 at his farm in St. Charles
county. They have had ten children, one of whom
died. The living are: Sophia, now Mrs. Henry
Hosstmeyer, of St. Charles; John F., also married ;
Louis, Benjamin, Caroline, Henry, Hildah and

He is

George. These children still gladden their home,
while the family group beautifully represents the
three great divisions of ti1ne—past, present and
future : Grandfather Gronefeld, still alive and active,
is of the receding generation, his son Henry of the
present, and his son’s sons of the coming generation.

In gathering out the prominent men of America,
it is frequently cause of remark how large a propor-
tion of the officials and representative business men
are Germans or are of German descent. Tired of
tyranny, they flocked to free America, natural agri-
culturists, they floated on to the inviting hills and
dales and prairies of the West; ever thrifty, they

prospered, and with prosperity came time from the '

tilling and the toil to rest, to study, to learn, and
read and talk. The German mind philosophizes on
everything 3 but principally, among the masses, civil
government is the theme 3 and it is astonishing how
well balanced their minds are on that intricate sub-
ject. Hence we find them soon called to serve the
people. A ‘ '

Judge Gronefeld, in the short time he has been

on the bench shows an intelligence of no common

order, good perceptive qualities, readily grasping a
truth as it develops, dignified and courteous, kind
but firmly adhering to the law and the testimony——-
he has clearly shown that he is no exception to the
German nature, and if spared we predict for him a
high place in the important trusts of the country.

CAPTAIN DANIEL K. HALL.

IIARIEISO./V VILLE.

Both his
father and mother were born in the state of Maine,
the former, September 22, 1788, the latter, October
I2, 1794. His father’s name was Daniel and his
mother’s Sabra N ocks, and they had eleven chil-
dren: Hezekiah R., John M., James L. and Daniel
K., Sallie, Elmira, Sabrina, Theodosia, Laura,
Lydia and Lavinea. Hezekiah, grandfather of Dan-
iel K. Hall, was born in Ireland about the year 1760,
and his wife, Elizabeth Fox, was born June 25, I765.
The great grandfather of D. K. Hall, Hateévil Hall,
lived and died in Belfast, Ireland.
Daniel K. Hall was self-educated,

DANIEL K, HALL was born September 5,

1833, in Dearborn county, Indiana.

and What

information he has acquired has been by his
unassisted exertions. ' He was engaged in teach-
ing school for about two years in Vermillion county,
Indiana. He read la.w in the office ofJohn T. Mor-
gan and A. G. Kirkpatrick, in Monmouth, Illinois,
during the years 1858 and 1859, and received license

' to practice from the supreme court of that state at

Ottawa, in 1860. He removed to Taylorville and
began the practice. In 1861 he enlisted in Com-
pany G, 41 st Illinois infantry, of which he was elec-
ted first lieutenant, and afterwards captain. He was
in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Pitts-
burg Landing, the siege of Corinth, battle of the
Hatchie, the siege of Vicksburg and Jackson, Missis-

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sippi. In the latter battle he was severely wounded,
July I2, 1863, and wasnever able to resume active
command of his company. He was made a commis-
sary of subsistence. with the rank of captain, and
served in the army of the Ohio on the staff of Gen-
eral J. D. Cox, in the Atlanta campaign, and after-
ward on the staff of General Henderson, and was in
the engagements of Franklin and Nashville. He was
honorably discharged August 5, 1863. He removed
to Missouri soon after his discharge and settled in
Harrisonville. There he resumed the practice of his
profession, in which he is still engaged. Captain Hall
is a member of all the various Masonic bodies. Both
he and his wife were reared under Baptist influences,
and both are members of that denomination.

He was married, March 17, 1867, to Miss Lue J.
Hawley, a native of Ripley county, Indiana, the
daughter of Ebenezer S. and Eliza P. Hawley. She
was born December 11, 1842, and was educated at
Indianapolis Female. Institute, from which she grad-
uated in 1866. Her father was a native of Berk-
shire county, Massachusetts, born October 26, 1803,
and her mother was born in Boone county, Ken-
tucky, October 12, 1810. Her grandfather, Zalmon
Hawley, was of Massachusetts, and her great grand-
father a native of Scotland. Captain Hall and wife
have had three children, all of whom were born in
Harrisonville. Ada, born June I0, 1868, died
November 9, 1873; Eliza, born April 1, 1870; Charles
R., born August 31, I874.

HON. ALBERT HAMILTON EDWARDS.

ST. CHARLES.

ALBERT HAMILTON EDWARDS is the
present state senator from the Tenth District,
composed of the counties of St. Charles and Warren.
His family have a clear record back to and beyond
the revolutionary era of our history. Ambrose
Edwards and Olive Martin married in Albemarle
county, Virginia, in 1778, and had ten children:
Brice, James, John, Childs, Henry, Joseph, Carr,
Susannah and Martha. Brice married Martha
Barksdale, of Virginia, was a major in the war of
1812, and settled in V\7arren county, Missouri ,- John
settled in St. Charles county, after marrying Betsy
Johnson of Virginia 3 Childs married Nancy Hugh-
lett of Virginia, and settled in Howard county, Mis-
souri, Henry, (fifth son and "father of the subject of
this sketch) married Sarah M. Waller, daughter of
Carr and Elizabeth (Martin) Waller of Henry county,
Virginia, and with her emigrated to Missouri, and
settled on a farm in St. Charles county in 1836.
They had ten children. W. W. Edwards, nowjudge
of the St. Charles circuit court, is one of their sons.
The subject of this sketch is their ninth child. His
father, Henry Edwards, died in 1844.

Albert Hamilton Edwards was born in Henry
county, Virginia, September [3, 1835, and when

’ only a year old was brought to Missouri by his father.

Receiving a primary education in the common schools
of his country home, but afterwards at the age of

sixteen he attended the German Lutheran College in
Warren county, and his studies were completed in
the St. Charles College and at Fayette, Missouri. 1

At the age of twenty he went to California, where
he remained five years, most of the time teaching
school. In 1860 he returned to St. Charles and
entered upon a course of law readings in the office of
his brother, Judge W. W. Edwards, and also in the
office of Thomas W. Cunningham. He was then
admitted to the bar and began practice in St. Charles
in 1863. He rapidly won favor as a lawyer of abil-
ity, and zealous for his clients.

. In 1863 Mr. Lincoln appointed him postmaster
of St. Charles. He was continued under President
Johnson and held the office seven years. In 1870 he
was elected as an independent candidate to the lower
house of the State legislature, as one of the repre-
sentatives from St. Charles county under the old
apportionment. The next term the new apportion-
ment gave St. Charles county only one representative.
Mr. Edwards was elected as such. During his first
term his abilities were recognized by appointment on
different important committees. During the second

term he was chairman of the committee on insurance, .

and was also a member of the judiciary committee
and of that on criminal jurisprudence. During the
legislature of 187- he was appointed by the speaker
to serve on a special commission with senators Wag-

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ner and Newland to examine claimsagainst the State
during vacation. In 1874 he was elected to the State
Senate from the Ioth District. During that term Sena-
tor Edwards was made chairman of the committee on
engrossed bills and accounts, and a member of those
on criminal jurisprudence, education, banks, corpo-
rations and deaf and dumb asylums. Almost imme-
diately upon taking his seat he became one of the
leaders in the Missouri state senate by that calm
energy of action which characterizes the man. Early
mastering parliamentary law, already mentally well
prepared, naturally logical in reasoning, clear in
argument and powerful in demonstration, it is no
wonder that he attained and maintains the position

of a leader in that body. He was appointed during
the term of 1874 on the special committee to redis-
trict the state in Congressional Districts.

In 1872 Mr. Edwards purchased a half interest in
the St. Charles ./Vews printing office.

In politics our subject was a conservative Unionist
during the war, an independent Democrat in 1870,
and is still a Democrat. In religious views he is a
believer in the Christian religion. He has been con-
nected with the Masons for ten years, and is now
senior warden of St. Charles lodge. ,

March 6, 1873, A. H. Edwards married Miss
Mattie E. Whitney, daughter of George H. and Eliz-
abeth Whitney, of St. Charles, Missouri.

RUNDOLPH H. G. GOEBEL.

ST. CHARLES.

UNDOLPH H. G. GOEBEL was born in the
R year 1835, in Buer, the former kingdom of
Hanover, Germany. His father, C. H. Goebel,
was a prominent merchant there, and his mother,

whose maiden name was Eversmann, was also a

native of that city. The family has a long and hon-
orable lineage, as is evidenced by the church and
official records of the city. The family numbered
seventeen children, five of whom were merchants,
and all attained distinction in their natal country.

Our subject at the age of fourteen left home,
determined to see the world. He went first to the
city of Hamburg, and there’ entered as an appren-
ticed sailor under Captain Knudsen, an eastern ship-
man. The first voyage was to the East Indies,
during which Rundolph visited Calcutta, Singapore
and other Eastern ports, and on return voyages
visited England twice.

Having a talent for ship architecture, and having
developed unusual seaman abilities, he was employed
by Captain Knudsen to assist him in building a mer-
chant ship, and for that purpose spent a year at the
port of Stralzunt, on the Baltic,’ in building and

rigging a clipper ship for the merchant service. ‘

Having perfected the vessel, he went with it to
Hamburg for a cargo. While in that port loading,
-our subject met with an accident which changed the
current of his life. One day, while engaged in the

» management of the vessel, he fell from the foretopsail
69

yard-arm and sustained a severe fracture of the thigh,
which incapacitated him for sea service, and he left
the ship to recuperate his health on shore.

After a period of two years, he embarked for
America, and in 1853 landed in New Orleans.
Being able to speak and write the English language
freely, he readily found employment. Soon after,
he went to St. Louis, and there was employed for
several years as clerk and salesman.

From early boyhood Mr. Goebel has exhibited
an ingenious mind especially in mechanics and
machinery. During his leisure hours, while in 
Louis, he constructed a model ship of the merchant
sailing service. So perfect was the work, and so
demonstrative of his genius, that it attracted the
attention of eminent gentlemen of St. Louis, who
induced him to apply himself to the art of photog-
raphy. He was further induced to this business
from the fact that his Hamburg accident had left
him, partially at least, a cripple for life. He spent
eighteen months with Mr. August Plitt, the celebra-
ted Daguerreian of St. Louis, after which he traveled
for some time in his artistic calling, making a favor-
able reputation as well as some money.

In December, 1856, he settled in St. Charles
city, where he opened a gallery, on a small scale,
but gradually improved his business and extended
his facilities, until he finally made himself the leading
photograph artist west of St. Louis. His business at

544 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

first was very small and his profits meager ; but with
determination, industry, skill and honest economy he
established himself, and is now recognized as a suc-
cess in his line. His buildings are admirably adapted
to his business—all erected under his own super-
vision——his assistants carefully selected, and his work
stands as first class. Specimens. of his art are found
in every state in the Union, and everywhere are
critically accepted as very good. He is not only the
leading photograph artist in St. Charles county, but
is conceded to be the best one in his line anywhere
west of St. Louis, and with very few equals there or
in the eastern cities. A leading artist in St. Louis
told the writer of this sketch that for mechanical
genius, artistic finish and durability of work Mr.
Goebel had few superiors on this continent.

Mr. Goeble is no politician and no public man,

his mind, time and genius being wholly devoted to

his art. In politics he is a Republican 3 was once
elected a member of the public school board of St.
Charles, but declined nomination for reelection, and
has constantly refused to be drawn into public office.
As a public-spirited citizen he has ever manifested a
deep interest inall enterprises calculated to advance
the welfare of St. Charles city and county.
one of the first stockholders in the car—shop buildings,
an undertaking of the St. Charles’ citizens, besides

He was-

being interested in other improvements in the city.

In 1859 Mr. Goebel returned to his native home,
and there during that trip married Miss Emily Dyes,
a native of Hamburg, Germany. She is spoken of
as an excellent housewife, a managing mother of
remarkably high attainment in the rearing of her
children, and a lady of intelligence. She is highly
educated in the English, French and German, of
fine social qualities and in every way fitted for a
leader in society. They have six children living:
Antoinette, Willie, Juliette, Ellen, Alma and Ber-
tha. They have losttwo promising sons. He made

7 another visit, with his family, to the old country in

I866,'3.I1d spent six months in Europe.

The family is Lutheran in religious belief, the

mother a devoted Christian, rearing her children for
God and for good, while the father’s moral influence
is greatly toher assistance.

The success Mr. Goebel has achieved is not
undeserved. Through life he has been honest and
industrious; his energy has never flagged, his ‘enter-
prise has kept him constantly employed in improving
on yesterday ’s work—neither labor, time, expense nor
study has been spared in his endeavors to do bet-
ter all the time. If “ Excelsior” had been his motto,
he could not have done more than he has. We are glad
to state he is properly appreciated in his city and state.

SAMUEL CHAUNCEY PARSONS, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

HE Parsons family is one of the oldest in
T America. Joseph Parsons emigrated to Mass-
achusetts from England, and settled near the present
site of Springfield, soon after the landing of the Puri-
tans at Plymouth. The exact date of his arrival is not
known, but in the archives of Springfield, Massachu-
setts, is an Indian’s deed, dated 1636, ceding the
lands on which that city is built to Sir William Pyn-
cheon, to which Joseph Parsons’ name is signed
as witness. His son Samuel was born at Springfield,
removed to Northampton in the same state, married
there and brought up a family. One of his sons,
Ithamer, born there in January, 1706, moved to
Durham, Connecticut, there raised a family and died
in 1788. His son Nathan, ‘born in Durham,
removed to Granville, Massachusetts, about 1760,

married Sarah White Bancroft, born in West Spring-
field, May 27, 1774. Nathan had four sons and
four daughters. The second child, Samuel, (the
paternal ancestor of the subject of this sketch),

died in 1841; married Sarah Burritt, August 25,-

1794. She was born in Durham, Connecticut, May
20, 1772. Their children were: Nancy, born August
7, 1795, married William Hall, of Blandford, and
had two children, William Chauncey and Mary
Almira, Betsey, died at the age of fifteen; Marilla,
died unmarried at thirty-three years of age, Luman
B., born September 9, 1799, married Priscilla Miner,
February 17, 1830, her children were: Mary, Henry
S., ‘Sarah, Melissa, Emily and Harriet, Sally, mar-
ried Samuel Hamilton, of Granville, and had six
children: Milo D., Ardelia, Clarinda, Almeda,

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Franklin and Luman; Phoebe, married Amos Hall, J

of Blandford, and died in January, 1876, leaving
five children: Julius P., Amoret, Franklin, Marvin
and Almeda; Louisa, married Lyman Shepard, of
Granville, her children were Frank, Lyman and
Linus, twins, and Joseph; Almira, married Elisha
Miner and died childless; Samuel Chauncey (the
subject of this sketch), Benjamin F., died unmarried
at the age of twenty.

Samuel Chauncey Parsons was born in Gran-
ville, Hampden county, Massachusetts, March 14,
1809, attended school in his native town until in his

eighteenth year when he was placed under the

instruction of Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, D. D., in
his private seminary at East Granville. In this town,
in 1829, he commenced his medical studies under
the supervision of Vincent Holcombe, M. D., with
whom he remained nearly three years, attending, in
the ineantime, one course of lectures, 1830, at Pitts-
field Medical College 3 studying, 1831, anatomy and
surgery at Glenn Falls, New York, and a final term
at Pittsfield, 1831-2. He commenced practice in
New Boston, Massachusetts, in 1832, remained in
the same place forty years, practicing there and in
the adjacent towns of Sandisfield, Otis, Monterey,
Tolland, ' Granville, Blandford, Colebrook and
Harland, until 1872. He was the physician and
confidential adviser of the same families for two
generations.

The arduous duties of a. constant medical prac-
tice in the rigorous climate of New England for
forty years, began to have serious effect upon the
health of Dr. Parsons, and in 1869, while suffering
from the asthma, he determined to seek relief by a
change of climate, and chose to visit his sons, who
were then engaged in business in Kansas City.

After two months’ vacation, finding his health much -

improved, he returned to Massachusetts. In the
winter of that year he was so seriously attacked with
the same complaint that’ for two months he was
unable to lie down and his life was despaired of. In
1871 his physicians notified him that he could not
live through another year in that climate, and in
September of that year he left home with his wife,
intending to pass the winter in Florida. Circum-
cumstances intervened which led him to change his
mind and go to Western Missouri again. He made
the trip by easy stages as far as Kansas City, arriving
there in November, his health gradually improving.
Here he went to house-keeping and in the spring,
finding his health so favorably affected by the cli-

mate, he bought land one mile from the city limits on
the Westport road, gave a contract for the erection

of buildings, and returned to Massachusetts tor

arrange for his removal to the West. Returning, he
moved into his new home November, 1872, where
he has lived ever since in the enjoyment of excellent
health, never having had any return of his old com-
plaint and looking more like a man of fifty than
of sixty-nine. -

September 10, 1833, Dr. Parsons was married to
Miss Catharine, daughter of Judah and Catharine
Fowler Twining, of Tolland, Massachusetts. Their
children were: Hubert Casper, born October, 20,
1834, died unmarried, May 6,1866, Samuel Judah,
born March 28, 1838, married Miss Helen Rugg, of
Kansas City, Missouri, died November 16, 1874,
Burton Twining, born November 27, 1843, now
doing business in Kansas City.
born July 21, 1852, died in infancy. ‘

Dr. Parsons was for twenty-five years a justice of
the peace in Massachusetts 3 for six years: of that
time trial justice for the examination of criminals, an
office to which he was appointed by the governor and
council of the state. He was postmaster for twenty-
five years, 1845-1869. In 1853 was a member of
the Constitutional Convention of the State, having
for his associates, Banks, Butler, Boutwell, Choate,
Briggs, Morton, Sumner and other distinguished cit-
izens of the State. He was chairman of the Sandis-
field board of selectmen for a number of years, and
of the board of education, and held other local
offices, was also a director of the Pittsfield and New
Haven railroad. .

In 1868 Samuel J. Parsons and Burton T. Par-
sons, the only children then ‘living of Dr. Parsons,
began a wholesale notion business in Kansas City,
under the firm name of Parsons & Co. In 1876,
some two years after the death of Samuel J. Parsons,
the business was closed out by Burton T. Parsons,
and for a time he engaged in the grain commission
business, in Kansas City, which was then growing
into considerable proportions, but not being pleased
with the business he embarked in buying and selling
real estate and doing a general insurance business_,
at No. 603 Main street, Kansas City, in which he
exhibited taste and adaptation. Both Sam-uel J. and
Burton T. Parsons were successively directors of the
Commercial National Bank of Kansas City, in which
Dr. Parsons had also been a stockholder.

The Doctor’s parents were both Congregational-
ists, and he was trained in that faith 3 but on coming

Catharine Jane,

546 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

to manhood entered the communion of the Episco-
pal church and was senior warden of St. Andrew’s
church at New Boston for twentyiyears, has been
a member of Grace church since coming to Kansas
City, and was senior warden of that church in
1874—5—6. In politics he is a Democrat.

Dr. Parsons presents the appearance of a substan~ ;

tial New England gentleman,is quite portly, stands five

feet ten inches high, weighs one hundred and eighty-

five pounds, and his hair and beard begin to show
the frosts of many winters. He has an easy dignity,
not such as to interfere with his enjoyment of social
pleasantry. He is a man of generous impulses and
agreeable in his manners; a good citizen, and can
look back upon a long and active life without fear
and above reproach.

HON. SAMUELBOOKSTAVER BELL, D. D.

I('A./VSAS CITY.

the town of Montgomery, Orange county, New
York. He was of Scotch and Huguenot lineage, his
father, Archibald Bell, being descended from a
Scotch ancestor, who emigrated to America from
Scotland, and his mother, Pamela Millspaugh, from
a family of Huguenots who came over from Holland
with Hendrick Hudson. His father died at the
advanced age of eighty, his mother still survives,
aged eighty years.

I Samuel B. Bell was born a student, and from a
child took special interest in natural science, and’ in
the search after religious truth, being naturallyof a
religious cast of mind. His early ambitions were
for political distinction, and when he applied himself
to legal studies it was only as a means to political
advancement. He studied in his native town, in
Brooklyn and in New York City, and was admitted
to practice as an attorney in the Supreme Court of
New York; but conscientious scruples prevented his
engaging in actual law practice, and he voluntarily
surrendered the profession which had cost him so
much time and labor, and upon which as a youth his
heart was set, and engaged in teaching, taking
charge of educational institutes both in his native
state and in Kentucky.

Having always been a close theological student,
and deeply interested in the religious problems of
the time, he at length resolved to become a preacher
of the gospel,’ offered himself to ‘the Presbyterian
church as a candidate for the ministry, and was
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Onondaga,
New York, in 1852. He was then ordained as an
evangelist, and in November of that year was sent
by the American Home Missionary. Society as one

SAMUEL BOOKSTAVER BELL was born in

of their missionaries to the Pacific coast, the com-
pany consisting of eight missionaries and their
families, six, of whom Dr. Bell was.one, destined
for California, the other two for Oregon. He sailed
from New York in the clipper ship, Trade Wind, a
magnificent vessel of 3,400 tons burden, and after
a most eventful voyage of one hundred and five
days landed at San Fra.ncisco. During the passage
the ship was on fire for ten hours; a mutiny broke
out among the sailors so serious that the ring-leaders
were taken to San Francisco in irons 3 a sperm whale
of the very largest kind struck the prow of the ship
head on and set everything aback, they were struck
by a “ white squall” off. the coast of Buenos Ayres,_
which tore the sails to tatters, and snapped the yards
like pipe stems 3 the electric phenomena during the
storm were very striking, bodies of fire playing
around the masts like “ spirits of the storm.” The
voyage was enlivened by the weekly issue of the
T rade Wz'¢zd 0&_se7'7Jer, a manuscript paper of which
Dr. Bell was editor—in-chief; some of the articles
were of superior merit and found an extensive circu-
lation in the Eastern journals.

Upon his arrival in California, Dr. Bell com-
menced his work as a Presbyterian missionary on the
shores of San Francisco Bay, just opposite the city
of San Francisco, where Oakland now stands. Here
in addition to his regular work as a missionary, Dr._
Bell has left his record in various ways. He bought
and rang the first bell that ever called people to
religious services in that locality, it was an old
steamboat bell, and was hung on the corner of the
fence under a live oak tree, which was frequently
his meeting house. He built the first Presbyterian
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now one of the most flourishing Presbyterian
churches in the Union; he was also one of the
founders and procured the charter for the College of
California, now the University of California. He
represented his district in the California Senate and
House of Representatives for three years, doing
efficient service and leaving his imprint upon the
legislation of those years in the Homestead Law, in
the Board of Regents, the bill for creating which‘
being introduced by him, and in his efforts to lighten
the enormous burdens of compounded interests.
He was also president of the first Republican state
convention convened in California, one of its mem-
bers being Colonel, afterward General E. D. Baker,
who was killed at the battle of Ball’s Bluff during
the civil war. Dr. Bell has preserved a lively recol-
lection of the flush times of California, when gold
was so plentiful that men were apprehensive that it
would soon become valueless ; and of those days of
crime and lawlessness which-necessitated the organi-
zation of the Vigilance Committee, a body that was
in session day and night for six months, and of
which Dr. Bell says 2 “It was the only exhibition of
perfectly irresponsible power lever beheld, and yet
it may be said that during all those months, it never
committed a blunder or made a mistake.” ‘
After a residence of nearly ten ‘years in California,
during which time, however, he had visited the
East, Dr. Bell prepared to take up his ministerial
work in the Eastern States, and in 1862 left the Pacific
coast for New York by the overland route. This
was his first trip across the “ Great American Desert,”
and it was upon this occasion that he made the
acquaintance of Brigham Young, and formed his
opinion of Salt Lake and Mormonism from personal
observation. He was treated with the utmost con-
sideration by President Young, saw the “Chief of
the Destroying Angels,” and enough else to convince
him that it was not safe for him even to think while
in Salt Lake or vicinity, lest “Some destroying
angel should cut the thought out of his heart,” and
did not really feel secure until he had left Mormon-
dom miles behind. The telegraph wires had just
been stretched across the continent, and the first
news conveyed to California was the death of Gen-
eral E. D. Baker, Dr. Bell’s old colleague in the
California State Convention. The Doctor was greatly
impressed with the almost omniscience of the little
instruments which he found clicking away on their
dried mud tables at every station where he stopped
to change horses on the overland route; and his

descriptions of these telegraph stations, and the man-
ner in which he used to send messages and receive
replies from. all over the continent, during the ten
minutes spent in changing horses, are highly dramatic.
Onreaching the East Dr. Bell tendered his
services to General Hooker, then in command of
the armies of the Potomac, but was not permitted to
go to the front. The same year, 1862, he became
pastor of the Fiftieth street Presbyterian church,
New York City, and was an eye witness of the
terrible riot which occurred there in the following
year, upon an attempt to enforce the draft ordered
by the United States authorities. Dr. Bell received
intelligence of the fall of Vicksburg and the Union
victory at Gettysburg, while delivering the Fourth
of July oration at Jersey City in 1863; and was at
first disposed to regard the telegram as a -hoax, con-
sidering the news too good to be true; but when
convinced of the truth, he dipped his oratorical
wings in fire, and soared into patriotic flights of
eloquence unequalled since the first immortal Fourth
was born into the annals of historic days.
has been frequently called upon to deliver historic
and patriotic addresses, and is always acceptably
received. He pronounced the eulogy upon General
E D. Baker, before the California House of Repre-
sentatives; the Thanksgiving sermon, on the day
appointed by President Lincoln, before the “Union
of Churches” in New York City; an oration at
Cooper’s Institute, before the Orangemen of New
York, and the address of welcome at Army Hall
upon the return from the war of a regiment from his
native county. He also delivered the annual address
before the California State Agricultural Society;
theiaddress before the State Editorial Convention,
at Ithaca, New York; besides numerous addresses at
the laying of corner stones, before colleges, univer-
sities and other learned bodies; before Masonic orders,
political conventions and mass meetings, and at
commemorative military and festival occasions; many
of which have been printedand widely circulated.
Dr. Bell has been a member of two general
assemblies of the United States; one at Baltimore
and another at Pittsburgh. Before the assembly at
Pittsburgh, he delivered by invitation of that body,
a very fine lecture upon “California,” and another
upon the same theme before the Synod of New York
and New Jersey. From New York City Dr. Bell
was called to the pulpit of the’First Presbyterian
church of Lyons, Wayne county, New York, and
from Lyons to the pastorate of the Presbyterian

Dr. Bell '

548 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

church in Hillsdale, Michigan. From Hillsdale he
removed to California, having accepted a professor-
ship in Washington College, Alameda county, in that
state, which he resigned to become pastor of the First
Congregational church in the city of Mansfield, Ohio.
From Mansfield he moved to Kansas City as pastor of
the First Presbyterian church there, and still holds

. the pastorate of that church, july, 1868‘.
Dr. Bell has been a member of the Masonic’

fraternity for thirty years, has taken all the degrees,
and held various offices of trust in the body; he was
Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of California,
and is an honorary member for life of Live Oak
Lodge, Oakland, California, and of Templar Lodge,
New York City, having been so elected and made
by those bodies for services rendered. _In politics
he was born a Democrat, his father having been a
life long member of that party, but on arriving at
manhood he cast in his fortunes with the Whigs until
the organization of the Republican party, of which
he has since been a zealous supporter. He carried
the first district that ever gave a Republican majority
in California, consisting of Alameda and Santa Clara
counties. This was when he was elected to the senate
in the Fremont campaign, and was the only district
in the state so carried.

Dr. Bell was married in his native town, in 184 5,
to Miss Sophia Brown Walworth, a descendant of
the same family from which Chancellor Walworth,
of New York, is sprung. They have six children
living, four sons and two daughters. The eldest

daughter is married to ]. Parm Martin, president of
the Branch Bank of California, at Virginia City,
Nevada. The youngest daughter is the wife of
Frank Havens, a broker of San Francisco. The
oldest son, Hal Bell, is practicing law in New York
City, and the youngest, Benjamin Pitman Bell, is
engaged in commerce in the same city. Edward
Walworth Bell is a merchant in Liverpool, England,
and the other, Harmon Bell, is practicing law in
Kansas City, Missouri.

Dr. Bell is a man of the most positive convic-
tions, an absolute believer in the divine person and
work of Christ, and as thoroughly assured in his
own mind of the unqualified truth of “orthodoxy”
as it is perhaps possible for a human being to be.
He is the idol of a large and influential congregation,
and is esteemed a man of great catholicity of spirit
and charity of mind. He looks like a born theo-
logical champion in his pulpit, has a powerful physi-
cal constitution, and one of the most genial, sociable
dispositions to be found in the city. His strange
experiences and perilous adventures are themes of
never failing interest to a listener, and when the
Doctor opens his budget of personal‘ reminiscence he
is a most captivating conversationalist. Dr. Bell has
made the journey to California four times: crossing
the Great Desert five times; making the voyage by
Panama twice, and by Cape Horn once.
strong reasoner, a fluent speaker, has an off-hand
manner, and is quite popular in the Metropolis of
the Missouri Valley. ’

JUDGE CHARLES LEE DOBSON.

LIN./VE US.

DHARLES LEE DOBSON was born February
(/ 8, 1848, in Harrison county, Virginia. His
father, Asby P. Dobson, a native. of Virginia,'was a
farmer and stock dealer, of Scottish ancestry. His
mother’s maiden name was Harriet E. Lyons. She
was born in the valley of Virginia, and was of
English ancestry. In 1854 they moved to Linn
county, Missouri, where they now reside.

Charles L. Dobson is the third of five children,
the twoeldest of whom are daughters. He received
his education in the common schools of the county,
and afterward in the University of the State of

Missouri. Immediately on leaving the University,
in 1869, he resumed the study of l-aw, in which he
had for some two years previous at times engaged.
From September, 1869, to February, 1870, he filled
with ability the position of clerk of the Linn county"
court of common pleas. He was then admitted to
the bar in Brookfield, Missouri, and commenced the
practice of law, in which he was crowned with suc-
cess. In the winter of 1874 he was appointed judge‘
of the Linn county court -of common pleas, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of judge
W. H. Brownlee, who at that time engaged in the

He is a“

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banking business. This office he held until January
I, 187 5, when he declined being considered a can-
didate for the office, and took charge of the exten-
sive law practice of judge G. D. Burgess, at that
time elected to the bench of the nth judicial Cir-
cuit, and removed to Linneus, where he has since
resided in the practice of his profession.

It is worthy of remark that, at the period of his
appointment to the common pleas judgeship, he was
but twenty—five years of age. The law of Missouri
requires that the circuit judge should be, at least,
thirty years of age, and the qualifications for com-
mon pleas judge being the same, in View of his

eminent fitness for the position, the state legislature
passed an act authorizing a person of his then age
(twenty—five years) to fill the position.

With the view to improving his suffering health,

he has traveled extensively every summer for the

past five years through the different states of the
Union. He now enjoys one of the largest and most
lucrative law practices of any attorney in the county,
and commands the unqualified respect of the profes-
sion wherever known , no small compliment to his
ability, in a county whose bar ranks in standing

second to none in the state, judge Dobson was

never married.

BENJAMIN R. DYSART.

MA C0./V.

ENJAMIN R. DYSART was born April :3,
B 1834, His
father, john Dysart, was a native of Tennessee, and
came to Missouri before it was a state, in 1820, and
found a temporary home in Randolph county, he
subsequently rerrioved to Howard, and fixed his
residence permanently. Although engaged in farm-
ing, Mr. Dysart gave some attention to the interests
of his county, such was the estimate placed upon
his character for true citizenship and manly integrity,
that he was elected county judge, which position of
trust he held for years, exercising a decisive influ-
ence in the growth and prosperity of his community.
His character was one of original strength and
resource. _

The fact that he was an old line Whig, living « in
a strongly Democratic district, supports the convic-
tion that his personal qualities must have been suffi-

in Howard county, Missouri.

'ciently worthy to enlist the support of even his

political opposers.

All through life the vigor and elasticity of his
health was unusual. His physical frame was won-
derfully strong, and this constitutional power gave
his life a self reliant cast.

Although he had always shown a great respect
for religion, he did not close with the gospel offer
until a few years prior to his death. In his full age
he was stricken with a painful malady which finally
terminated his days. During his illness he was
cheerful and submissive, recognizing the hand of God

in his suffering, and acknowledging spiritual profit in
his severe affliction.

The mother of the subject of this. brief biography
was Matilda Brooks, daughter of William Brooks of
Kentucky, who became one of the first settlers of
Randolph county, Missouri.

Benjamin R. was reared on the homestead farm,
where he learned habits of industry and self-adjust-
ment fitting him for life’s earnest trials in other years.
Under the parental influence his early outlook was
toward an honest and useful career—ever taug_ht to
do well his part, and find the honor there. Attend-
ance at school was early enjoined, ‘and at the age of
seventeen his school life merged in college tuition and
discipline. McGee College, in Macon county, received
him, and he accordingly threw himself into this new
channel of improvement with untiring zeal. Here
he was known as a youth of natural spirit and cour-
age, an element that has always marked his life.
Under the stimulus of its free competition his intel-
lectual faculties received fair training and ample
development. His aim at college was not to carry
away a diploma, but to exercise and mature his own
literary powers. Nobler feelings soon awakened in
his breast, and expanded to fill a wider sphere.

In 18 57 he entered the law class of Cumberland
University in the state of Tennessee. Law was the

. pearl of price, and there he commenced his legal

There he devoted his time between law
The result of his perse-

studies.
lectures and close reading.

550 THE UNITED STATES BIOGI€.4PHICAL DICTIONARY.

verance was his admission to the bar in 1859,
whereupon he began the practice of law at Bloom-

ington, the then county seat of Macon county,‘

Missouri.

In 1861 Mr. Dysart entered the Confederate
army, a member of General Clark’s division of Mis-
souri State Guards. On the tenth day of August of
that year he was severely wounded at the battle of
Wilson’s Creek, several miles south of Springfield,
Missouri. His left thigh was struck by a hurtling
minnie, producing a compound fracture of the femur.
Thus dangerously wounded he lay on the field of
carnage for several hours, beneath a scorching sun
and pittiless sky, wholly unable to move. After
being carried from the field to a rude shelter, his
wound was examined and pronounced fatal. It was
thought that amputation at the hip joint might offer
one chance in a thousand for recovery. The soldier
refused, expressing his conviction that good care and
judicious management would prove omnipotent. At
this critical time the crowded hospital was visited by
a Mrs. Fullbright, a lady of noble womanly sympa-
thies. Foreseeing the lingering character of his
recovery, should nature rally, she requested his remo-
val to her home near the city of Springfield, whither
he was carried by relays of stalwart comrades. This
change from the suffocating hospital with its gangre-
nous atmosphere, to the cheery home and maternal
care of that patriotic lady proved his salvation.

During the convalescence of Mr. Dysart he was

made prisoner by General Fremont’s command.
The wounded of both armies were paroled after
a few months confinement. Incapacitated for further
military duty, Mr. Dysart returned to the practice
of his profession at Macon City, Missouri, his pres-
ent home.

A fertile diligence has fitted him for the promi-
nence which is his professionally. At the bar he is
respected and esteemed, and exhibits the power of
rendering the abstruse facts of law popular, and of
putting them within the reach of ordinary jurors.
His ability and usefulness in the jurisprudential sphere
prove the wisdom of his early choice.

Mr. Dysart was a member of the Missouri State
Constitutional Convention of 1875, and took an

earnest part in the formation of the new constitution .

of the state. His political life has been earnest and

consistent, yet has never proved an encroachment‘

upon his legal duties.

In personal appearance Mr. Dysart is of medium
stature and well formed. His countenance is full of
manly sympathy, and of a thoughtful type. Relig-
iously he is a Cumberland Presbyterian.

He was married in 1867 to Miss Emma V. Tur-
ner. Mrs. Dysart is a lady of prepossessing appear-
ance and fine social qualities. The issue of their
marriage is two Winsome daughters, Maud and Pearl.

We close this hasty sketch and leave the subject
in the midst of a large circle of affectionate and ad1ni—
ring friendships,

JAMES COLEMAN GARDNER.

SPRINGFIELD.

MONG the representative men of Southern
Missouri, who have taken prominent parts in
the affairs of the state, may be mentioned the man
whose name heads this sketch. James Coleman
Gardner was born November 17, 1832, in Maury
county, Tennessee. He is of Scotch German
descent, and the oldest of the six children of Britton
D. and Jane Oakley Gardner.

His paternal grandfather came from Germany at
the close of the Revolution, and settled in North
Carolina, from whence he emigrated to Maury
county, Tennessee, at a time when the people had
to live near the forts for protection from the Indians,

who were located on the .Cu1nberland river, where
Nashville now stands.

His maternal grandfather, James Oakley, came
from Scotland before the Revolution and located in.
Virginia. He served under General Washington in
the struggle for Independence, and was one of the
earliest settlers of Tennessee, where he died in 1850,
aged ninety-six years.

Britton D. Gardner was killed in the engage-
ment at Thompson Station while in the Confederate
service under General Forest. ‘

James assisted his father on his farm in the sum-
mer and attended the country schools in the winter.

T/{E U./VZTED STATES B100/CA/’[i]_CAL DICTZO./VAl€Y., .551

When twenty-one years of age he attended the Santa
Fe Academy, and during the eighteen months of his
course worked in a harness shop, devoting his earn-
ings to pay his expenses. Afterleaving school he
was successively engaged as salesman in a dry goods
store in Santa Fe’, Tennessee, Ash Grove, Green coun-
ty, Missouri, and in Springfield, at which place he was
at the opening of the Rebellion. His sympathies being
with the South, he joined the Confederate army as
private in company H, 61st regiment Tennessee
Infantry 3 but in consideration of his gallantry before
Vicksburg was promoted to 1st lieutenant, with com-
mand of the company. He was taken prisoner and
paroled at Vicksburg, but not being exchanged, he
returned to his home. He accepted a clerkship at
Sedalia, Missouri, and in 1866 returned to Spring-
field, where he was engaged six years as salesman
with the leading firms in the city.

In 1872 he formed a partnership with ]. W. Far-
rier, and opened a dry goods store. In 1876, owing

to the pressure of the hard times, they.discontinued
merchandising and Mr. Gardner retired to his farm
near Springfield, where he still lives and enjoys the
comforts of his quiet, peaceful home.

He is a member of the United Lodge F. and A.
Masons, and was vice president of the Springfield
Board of Trade from 187 3 to 1876. He was treas-
urer of Green County Horticultural Society from 1874
to 1878 5 also treasurer of Springfield Grange Patrons
of Husbandry. Politically he is a Democrat as was
his ancestors. His religious views are quite liberal,
and he is not a member of any church. January 31,
1866, Mr. Gardner married Mrs. Mary Shackelford,
widow of W. A. Shackelford, and daughter of Ham-
ilton Evans, of Tazewell county, Tennessee.

They have three children, a son and two daugh-
ters. Mr. Gardner is in very comfortable circum-
stances, and is a devoted husband, father and friend.
He is a highly respected citizen, and has done much
to advance the interests of Springfield.

JUDGE FREDERICK WM. GATZWEILER.

ST. CHARLES.

near Cologne, Prussia,
August 31, 1809. He was the youngest of twelve
children. His early education was obtained in the
private schools of Frechen, which he attended at
such times as his services were not needed on his
father’s_ farm. - By close attention to his studies he
sufficiently mastered the elementary and higher

in Frechen,

FREDERICK WILLIAM GATZWEILER was
born

branches to enable him to enter college, and at the

age of eighteen he attended Schumaker’s Mercantile
Institute at Cologne, from which he graduated in two
years. Being thrown upon his own resources, he
engaged in various occupations for a livelihood. For
a time he taught a successful school at Cologne and
one at Gleuel.

In 183 5 Mr. Gatzweiler emigrated to the United
States, landing first at New Orleans, and then spent
two years traveling and working in the Western and
Southern States. After looking well at various other
points, he finally settled in St. Charles, in 183 7, and
for a short time engaged in house painting. He had
but little money on arriving in America, the proceeds
of his hard labor 3 but this he took care of, adding to

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it as he could. By that industry and economy which
characterize his countrymen, he gathered sufficient
means to open a coffee house in St. Charles, which he
continued two years with sufficient success to enable
him to engage in general merchandising which he
began in 1840, with A. Meyer as partner.

Naturally of a disposition to gain friends, he soon
became popular as a man. and as a merchant. His
affairs were conducted in a systematic and business-
like manner, and by fair dealing at home and prompt-
ness everywhere he became a leading merchant and
highly respected wherever his name was known. He
could not but succeed, for such qualities insure suc-
cess. In 1867, having accumulated a handsome
competency, he retired from business, with his trade,
good will -and store left in the hands of his son
Charles and W. H. Wenker. The son has since then
conducted the business successfully.

Mr. Gatzweiler early began to take an active part
in the politics of the country, and soon became arec-
ognized leader. In 1845 he was appointed by the
county court one of the justices of the peace, which
office he filled to such satisfaction that at the next

552 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

regular election he was continued by the votes of the
people, and was again reelected. After holding the
office a number of years he resigned. He was
recorder of the city in 1851, mayor in 18 52, member
of the council in 18 5 5 and again in 18 56. In 185 5
he was elected county judge for four years and at the
close of his four years’ term was reelected to the
same position, which he filled in all about seven
years, and was presiding judge most of the time.
He resigned in 1862, having been elected sheriff and
collector of the county, which office he filled with his
usual fidelity, and to which he was reelected a second
term of four years. In 1866 Judge Gatzweiler retired
from political life, having been a Democrat until the
breaking out of the war, then a staunch Union man,
and ever since, a Republican.

No citizen of St. Charles took a.livelier interest in
public enterprises than the Judge. He was one of
the prominent in augurators of the St. Charles Building
and Loan Association, and was chosen its first presi-
dent. He was also one of the originators of the St.
Charles Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in which he
has always been a director, and has been nearly all the
time its treasurer. He was one of the most active in
securing the organization of the St. Charles Savings
Bank; its charter and by-laws were drafted by him 3
he was its first cashier, and served acceptably as such
five years, when failing health compelled him to
resign.

]udge Gatzweiler has always taken a deep interest
in the public schools, having been a member of the

school board (except a short interval) since its organ-

ization, and for a long time he has been its president,
which office he still holds.
From 1868 to I87 5 he was a partner in the firm

JOHN A

[II T.

OHN A. MASSEY was born August 5, 1832,
in Bonhomme township, St. Louis county, on
Governor Bates’ farm. His father, john M.
Massey, a native of Caroline county, Virginia, was
a farmer; emigrated to St. Louis county in 1830;
represented that county in the state legislature for
one term, and died in 18.47. The family is of
Scotch descent and emigrated to Virginia early in

of E. Hilger & Co., wholesale hardware merchants in
St. Louis. His presence in the store was seldom,
he being rather an advisory and financial partner
than one of the business managers.

In 1870 Judge Gatzwei1er’s health became so
impaired by ceaseless and arduous public and private
labor that he had to drop them all and seek recuper-
ation in a European tour. He spent four months
traveling on the continent, and returned completely
restored. He has since then engaged in no regular
business, only attending to his own private matters.

On the 29th day of September, 1840, Judge Gatz-
weiler married Miss Magdalen Boettler, daughter of
David and Maria Boettler, of St. Charles county.
They have reared eight children, named Maria
(Hilger), Charles, Bertha, Emelia, Paulina (Her-
manns), Laura, Arthur and Fritz.

Here is another instance of that thrifty industry
and robust honor that characterizes the German peo-
ple, and another explanation of so many of them
becoming leading officials and prosperous citizens.
The same means always attains the same end——like
causes produce like effects. As a race the Germans
are industrious and thrifty, regular laborers and reg-
ular recreationists, systematic in everything, social,
kind, hospitable and honorable. These traits of
character could not fail in producing. prosperity and
praise. Such men do not float to the top as scum in
the boiling of the political cauldron. They are called
there by the voters in the community who, recogni-
zing their merits, discover they are needed. Their
wealth does not come in the lump of speculation or
peculation ; but by regular" effort, systematic saving,
and careful investment. They may be slow but they
are sure.

. MASSEY.

OLIVE.

the history of that colony. His mother, Emily

-Chunn, was a daughter of Andrew Chunn, a planter

of Caroline county, Virginia, where he was born
and died, and was also of Scotch descent.

John A. Massey was reared in St. Louis county.
His early education-was obtained in the common
schools. When entering upon business life he
engaged in merchandising, which he followed with

THE U./VITED STATES BZOGICAPIIICAL DZCTIO./VARY.

tolerable success for about two years.
ried February 24, I857, to Miss Sarah A. Utz,
daughter of Franklin T. Utz, a farmer of St. Louis
county, who had removed from Kentucky and settled
there at an early period of his life. Mr. Massey
now turned his attention to agricultural affairs, in
which he’ has ever since been engaged. He resides
on his beautiful farm in St. Ferdinand township.
He was appointed, by the county court, road com-
missioner in 1877, and is the first commissioner of
the new county of St. Louis.

In politics he is a firm and consistent Democrat.

He was mar-- 5

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In religion heendorses the truths of the Methodist
Episcopal church (South), of which body he is a use-
ful and active member.

His wife is a granddaughter of Fred Hyatt,
whose life, as a bold and intrepid pioneer, is inter-
woven with the early history of Missouri’s struggles
against the Indians. .

Mr. Massey is a man of modest manners, without
ostentatious display, and of cool and determined de-
meanor. He is a plain, candid, straight-forward man
of business, abounding in benevolence, hospitality
and the kindlier sentiments of enlightened humanity".

JAMES H. IRVINE.

FAIR VILLE.

and respected family of Scotch descent. His

father, P. Y. Irvine, was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, in 1793, and was the son of Andrew
Irvine. _

P. Y. Irvine, father of James Houston, was edu-
cated in Virginia and came to Saline county, Mis-
souri, about the year 1833. He was a farmer and
acted for a time as deputy sheriff of the county, he

IAMES HOUSTON IRVINE comes of an old

a was raised a Presbyterian, lived awhile in the Meth-

odist church, but is now a Cumberland Presbyterian.
He is a Mason, and one of the charter members of
the first lodge organized in Miami. He married, in
1834, Miss Sallie Brown, a native of Virginia, born
in 1803, her father, William S. Brown, sr., was of
English descent. By this marriage ten children were
born, seven sons and three daughters: James H.,
Nancy J., William A., M. B., afterward a minister,
Alfred T., Hugh R., Edward P., S. M. married
William E. Rock, Arthur and. Alma. The family
are all living and members of the church.

James H. Irvine, son of P. Y. and Sallie Irvine,
was born April 16, 1836, in Saline county, ‘Missouri,
where he was raised and educated, working mean-
while on his father’s farm. In 1861, when the civil
war began, he was elected 1st lieutenant of Captain
Brown’s company and responded to Governor Jack-
son’.s first call upon Missouri for troops, but in the
fall ofr-861, on account‘ of sickness, left the service
for a while. Recovering his health he returned to
his command and was captured at Black Water in

1862, was released on parole in 1863, and then
returned home.

In 1864 General Price came into Missouri with
his army. On retiring from the state, Mr. Irvine
again enlisted in the service and remained till the
close of the war, after which he returned to the
occupation of farm life, to restore again -the loss
created by the war. _

At the general election in 1876 he was elected to
the office of assessor of Saline county for the term of
two years, which position he is now filling to the
satisfaction of his people. He is a member of the
Methodist church (South), also a member of the
Masonic fraternity.

On the 7th day" of May, 1857, Mr. Irvine was.
married to Miss Margaret Emma Hudson, daughter
of Captain John M. Hudson, a representative Vir-
ginian, and his wife, formerly Miss Susan Eleanor
Hume, a descendant of a family of literary merit in
Europe and America. The union of Captain Hud-
son and lady was rewarded with thirteen children.
The eldest, Miss Enfield Elizabeth, was drowned in
a spring, through the perfidy of a servant.
Paterson died while in the service of his country, in
the Mexican ‘war ; being in command of some artil-
lery which got into a pond of water, and his men
being slow to get it out, he rushed into the water
himself, in consequence of which he took a severe
cold, fever followed, and caused his death. Joseph
Warren lives in Selma, Alabama , Marcellus George
lives in Mobile , Margaret Emma is the wife of Mr.

Francis _

554 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY’.

Irvine; Mattie Lightfoot married VVill. Add Willis,
who was fatally wounded during the war in a fight
at Boonville, Missouri; Richard Henry, of Seward,
Nebraska; Mildred Fry died in March, 1878, leav-
ing nine living children, one having died previously;
Arabella Little ; Lilburn Fox 3 Fannie Constance and
Sarah James, both dead, and Luellen Hudson.

Miss Margaret Emma Hudson was born January
4, 1836, and was reared by her parents, who were
formerly from Culpepper and Madison counties, Vir-
ginia, the literary culture. and generosity of whose
people are proverbial. She now gracefully presides

at the house of her husband, Mr. Irvine, in a man-
ner creditable to her ancestry. As the issue of her
marriage there are twelve children : Herbert Young,
born June 17, 1858; Emma May, born January 27,
1860; Eugene Hudson, born January 21, 1861 5
Lelia Eleanor, born December 23, I862, dead, Sarah
Lillian, born January 28, I864, Jennie VValker, born
July I0, 1866; James Edward, born November 30,
1867; Bettie Dick, bo_rn September 17, 1869, Susan
Eleanor, born December 17, 1871, John Royal, born
June 7, I872, Alma Talbott, born May I, 1874, and
Carrie Lee Irvine, born September 15, I877.

CAPTAIN BARTON ABLE.

ST. LOUIS.

ARTON ABLE was born in Trinity, Alexan-
B der county, Illinois, July 31, 1824, being the
first-born son of Wilson and Ann Able.
three children—Barton, Daniel and Elizabeth, (now
Mrs. N. S. Green). The father of the subject of
this sketch was of Irish descent, and settled about
the year 1810 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, from
which place he moved to Illinois in 1820. He was
a soldier of the war of 1812, and from 1830 to 1840
served with credit in the Illinois legislature, among
his colleagues being such men as Baker, Lincoln,
Douglas, John Hogan, Jesse K. Dubois, Governor
French, Colonel J. T. Hardin and James Shields;

The mother, whose maiden name was Ann Carn-
eron, was of the ancient Scottish family of Cameron.
In 1841 both of Barton’s parents died, and in
1845, at the age of twenty-one and with very
meager educational advantages, he came to St.
Louis, where he arrived with $100 in money as his
sole capital with which to start in life. He had
been a hard student—his studies being, generally, of
the politics of his country, of which he became unu-
sually conversant, and his opinions on subjects con-
nected therewith afterward attained great weight in
the state and nation. But previous to this, when he
first arrived in St. Louis, and after repeated attempts

There were

to find employment, he shipped on board the Keo- ’

kuk packet Ocean Wave as receiving clerk at a sal-
ary of $30 per month, holding the position two
years, when he was chosen by the owners as captain
at a salary of $100 per month. He continued in

charge of the Ocean Wave two years, when he
assumed command of. the steamers Time and Tide
and Cataract, running them in the Illinois river
trade until 1854, when he was transferred to the
Missouri river trade——taking command of the steam-
ers Cataract a11d Edinburg. He remained in this
business until 1858, when, retiring from the river,
he engaged in commercial enterprises, and con-
ducted until 1864 a large commission house on the
corner of Pine and Commercial streets; but for sev-
eral years thereafter maintaining an interest in the
water transportation——being one of the founders of
the Mississippi Valley Transportation company.

On his retirement from active river life, Capt.
Able took an active part in the political proceedings
of his state and nation. He had been, in early life,
a Democrat, but became identified with the Free-
Soil ticket, upon which he was elected to the legis-
lature in 1856. While in this position he put the
late Thomas H. Benton in nomination for the Uni-
ted States senate, and cast the first vote ever given
for emancipation in the state of Missouri. Accept-
ing Benton _as his model of a statesman, by his inti-
mate association with that illustrious senator, he
formed his political bias. He was a Benton dele-
gate to the Cincinnati convention in 1856, which
nominated Buchanan for president, and a delegate
to the Chicago convention in 1860, which nominated
Lincoln, though the Missouri "delegation was in-
structed for Edward Bates. He also accompanied
Frank Blair and Gratz Brown to the Cincinnati

THE U./VJTED STATES BIOGZBAPTZICAZ, DICTIONARY.

convention, which nominated Greeley in 1872.

on the outbreak of the civil war, Captain Able
sided with the Union, and afforded all the aid in his
power, and his experience at critical times was of
acknowledged advantage to the authorities. "Such
was the confidence of General Lyon, who was in
command at St. Louis, that Captain Able was placed
in charge of the transportation department in the
city, and he had sole charge of the expedition that
conveyed Lyon and Blair to Boonville., He also
had charge of transportation for the troops dis-
patched south, by river, and commanded the fleet
that left St. Louis with Gen. Fremont and the expe-
ditionary forces to Cairo in August, 1861. He
cooperated with the leading Union men in all meas-
ures for the support of the government, and headed
a committee to visit President Lincoln in the inter-
est of western measures.

But when the southern soldiers laid down their
arms, he was among the first to welcome them back
and extend the fraternal hand, and with the olive-
branch of peace ; he was a member of the conserva-
tive delegation to the Baltimore convention in 1864,
and the chairman of the delegation to the Philadel-
phia convention in 1866, to consider the state of the
country, where he was most prominent.

A famous dispatch, showing the warmth of his

_ feelings, was sent home by Captain Able at the time,

in about these words .:

“The delegates from Massachusetts and South
Carolina have just entered the convention arm in
arm. Glory to God.”

In 1865 Captain Able was elected president of
the Merchants Exchange, in which position he
acquitted himself with credit, his experience in com-
mercial matters and skill as a parliamentarian being
of a decided advantage to the mercantile commu-
nity. He was also a member of the National Board
of Trade for some years, and frequently represented
that and the Merchants Exchange at Washington
and in various conventions in the interests of wes-
tern trade and commerce.

In 1867 he was appointed by President Johnson,
Collector of Internal Revenue for the _eastern district
of Missouri, which position he held until the election
of General Grant.

In 1847 Captain Barton Able was married at
Prairie de Rocher, Illinois, to Miss Mary Ann
Hailmon, daughter of Dr. David Hailmon, of Kas-
kaskia, and a niece of James Watson Webb.

Mr. Able was raised a Protestant, but two years

555

before his death united with - the Catholic church.
We can do no better than to copy the following arti-
cle from the .52‘. Louis Repuélzmyz of May 7, 1877,
the day after the death of Captain Able:

“Captain Barton Able died yesterday morning
at a quarter past II o’clock at his residence, 2342
Olive street. The event, though not unexpected,
caused none the less a profound sensation, news of
the sad, occurrence traveling rapidly through the
city. Death was the result of paralysis, with which
he was stricken on the evening of the first of April,
1875, while seated in a carriage in front of the
Rgpublzkan office. Mr. Able subsequently visited
the Hot Springs, where he spent several months,
and returning seemed to have received some benefit
from the medicinal waters and the treatment.
Though still unable to use his limbs in walking, he
resumed business, and for months was brought down
to his office, having to be lifted out of and into his
carriage. Becoming more and more enfeebled phys-
ically by this determined effort to supervise person-
ally his business, although his mind remained unim-
paired, he finally refrained from work altogether.
A week ago Thursday he started to drive to the
residence of his brother, Captain Dan. Able, and
while on the way was stricken with another attack
of the disorder, and was obliged to return home.
From that time he gradually grew weaker, ulti-
mately sinking rapidly, and towards the last he
became unconscious.

“The death of Captain Barton Able will produce
a feeling of general sorrow throughout the commu-
nity. Personally he was the friend or acquaintance
of thousands of people and by reputation was
known not to St. Louisans alone, but throughout
the entire West. So thoroughly identified, up to
the time when his illness robbed him of his physical
power, had Captain Able been with all the great
movements in which St. Louis was interested that to
be familiar with the growth and progress of the city
was to know him well. No man was more prompt
to take the lead in the promotion of new enterprises,
and the genial face and dignified presence of the cit-
izen who died on yesterday have long been familiar

to everybody, from. the frequency with which he

was called up to preside at public meetings, political

or otherwise, and the prominent place he always.

occupied as a matter of course among those giving
weight to any popular movement; Aside from his
sound judgment and broad views, Captain Able was
peculiarly fitted by nature for the prominence he
always acquired on such occasions. Few men
showed such tact as a presiding officer, and few
were readier with an apt address whenever occasion
required. Personally popular, as the regard enter-
tained for him was strengthened by a confidence in
his judgment certain to be justified. In everything
that tended to the commercial advantage of St.
Louis and the city’s material progress, he was
among the first and most energetic movers, and his
advice and good judgment were always sought for

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and heeded, particularly on committees. In the
many railroad, bridge and’ other enterprises he took
part in the incipient stages, and if the object was
successful, he joined heart and hand in celebration
of their completion. And in all philanthropic ob-

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jects, when a sister city was devastated by fire or
stricken down with pestilence, Barton Able was
among the first to enlist sympathy and urge material
assistance. More could not be said of his earnest-
ness of purpose and goodness of heart.”

FRANK J. BOWMAN.

ST. LOUIS.

EW men, if any, outside of political life, have
P of late years been more prominently before the
people of Missouri than Frank J. Bowman, and our
portrait gallery of distinguished men of St. Louis
would be singularly deficient without a sketch of his
life and character. Mr. Bowman, the only son in a
family of eight children, was born in the town of
Barnard, in the county of Windsor, in the state of
Vermont, on the 3d of December, A. D., 1841. His
father was a farmer, owning and cultivating a home-
stead on the easterly slope of the Green Mountains,
of more than the average size, but of less than the
average productiveness of New England farms, from
which only New England industry and thrift could
obtain the means of supporting and educating so
large a household. By the death of his father when
Frank was about thirteen, he was at that early age
compelled to assume the cares and responsibilities of
the head of the family, and thenceforth devoted
himself to the cultivation of the homestead and
became the main support of the family. Of course
under these circumstances, and from the nature of
his occupation, he had but li-ttle time or opportunity
for acquiring an education—long the darling object
of his early aspirations——but “the boy is father to
the man ”—and Frank demonstrated the truth of the
apothegm by boldly meeting and overcoming the
seemingly insurmountable obstacles in his way, with
the self—reliance, perseverance and energy which
have characterized his subsequent career.

The common school of his native town, available
to him during the winter months only, and to attend
which he daily traveled many miles on foot, through
the deep snows and biting blasts of that. mountain-
ous region, afforded him the means of acquiring the
rudiments of the education he courted, and their
acquisition stimulated him to renewed efforts to fit
himself for that contest for fame and fortune to

which his young ambition pointed. By hard labor,
self-denial and the strictest economy he was enabled
in his fifteenth year to incur the expenses of an
academical term, and entered the Royalton Acad-
emy, which he attended-as long as his slender means
held out , these becoming exhausted he returned. to
his agricultural labors to supply his depleted purse.
This objec-t gained, he returned to the school and
completed his academical course, winning the repu-
tation of a diligent scholar, and making rapid pro-
ficiency in all branches taught in the school, excel-
ling especially in mathematics. It is greatly to his
credit, that pursuing his own education under these
difficulties, he generously shared his hard earned
means with his sisters, and at the same time main-
tained them also as pupils in the institution.

In 1861, having finished his academical course,
he determined to devote himself to the study and
practice of law, and as a student entered the office
of Messrs. Washburn & Marsh, prominent lawyers
at Woodstock, Vermont. After three years and a
half of diligent application to study he was admitted
to the bar of his native state. Having resolved _to
commence the practice of his profession in Missouri,
he came to St. Louis in the summer of 1865, and in
that year was admitted to practice in our state
courts by Judge Moody, and to the United States
courts by Judge Treat.

On his arrival in St. Louis Mr. Bowman found
himself commencing hisiprofessional career under
the most discouraging circumstances, having but a
single acquaintance in the city, and being possessed
of means hardly sufficient to purchase the barest
necessities of a law office. The purchase of these
and the payment of the. fees for the use of the law
library about exhausted his pecuniary resources, but
he entered the field on which he has in so short a
time won both fame and fortune, with as full confi-

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dence in ultimate success as if possessed of all the
advantages which wealth and influential connections
could afford. Mr. Bowman’s first law partners were
Lederberger and Colcord, but both of these gentle-
men engaging actively in political life the connection
was dissolved and he soon after became associated in
the practice with George ]. Davis, Esq. This part-
nership continued until Mr. Davis withdrew to join
in practice with a relative. After several years of
steadily increasing practice Mr. Bowman became
associated with Britton A. Hill, Esq., whose high
reputation and distinguished abilities as a jurist, ren-
dered such an association a professional honor.
During the continuance of their partnership Messrs.
Hill & Bowman were retained in some of the most
important real estate and railroad cases-instituted in
this state, in‘ which, Mr. Hill devoting himself to the
land cases, and Mr. Bowman to the railroad litiga-
tion, each distinguished. himself in his specialty and
was successful in almost every case. » Aftera large
and successful practice of about three years the firm
was dissolved and Mr. Bowman has since then prac-
ticed by himself.

It is no disparagement to any one to say that no
member of the bar or law firm has been retained in
more important and difficult cases than Mr. Bow-
man during the last five or six years, and that
none have been more uniformly successful; his retain-
ingjfees and compensation in many of the suits in
which he has been engaged during the last three years,
far exceed, we believe, the fees ever before known
to be paid for legal services in Missouri. Among the
cases carried to a successful issue by Mr. Bowman
involving great public interests and constituting pro-
fessional triumph which have established his reputa-

tion,'and of which any jurist might well be proud, -

we enumerate the following:

“ The Railroad Tax Cases ”-——so called——in which
he succeeded in establishing the liability of the prop-
erty of the railroad corporations of the state, to
equal taxation with that assessed upon all other
species of property, and thus brought under taxation
many millions of property which had before been
unassessed, and largely augmented the revenues of
the state.

“The Grand Opera House Case.” This was a
case of ‘great local interest, not because of the prin-
ciple or amount involved, but from the fact that it
affected the reputation of some of the parties con-
cerned, all of whom may be said to have been public
characters, or made such by the notoriety of the
case. The suit was most hotly contested and in the
conduct of it Mr. Bowman’s courage, adroitness and
perseverance were most signally conspicuous and his

management of it largely extended his professional
reputation.

“ The State Line Case.” This was a proceeding
to establish the lien of the state of Missouri upon
the property and franchises of the Missouri Pacific
railroad for bonds issued by the state in and of its
construction; it was decided in favor of the state,
Mr. Bowman submitting the brief on which the case
was heard. The amount involved in this suit was
$8,000,000.

“The Missouri Lottery Case.” The existence
of an authorized lottery in this state had long been
felt by all good citizens as a public disgrace and an
unmitigated curse to the community ; many attempts
had been made from time to time to suppress it, but
all had failed, and the public at large had settled
down to the conviction that this great sore upon the
body-politic was incurable. Under the advice of
Mr. Bowman proceedings were again instituted by
the board of police commissioners of the city of St.
Louis, and contrary to the general expectation and
against the strongest professional opposition, Mr.
Bowman obtained a decision that the charter under

"which the lottery claimed immunity, was forfeited,

and under it caused all the lottery shops in the city
to be closed.

“The St. Louis county claim,’ against the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad company, afforded Mr. Bow-
man one of the most signal opportunities of his life,
and he availed himself of it with the promptness and
courage equal to the occasion. This claim was for
the sum of $700,000, loaned to the railroad company
by the county of St. Louis in 1865, and had long
been regarded by the public and by many of our
ablest and oldest jurists, who had examined the case,
as hopelessly stale and invalid. On examination of
it, however, Mr. Bowman was satisfied that it con-
stituted a valid and first lien on the property and
franchises of the company, and so advised the
county court. His opinion was scouted at as absurd,
and few, if any, of his professional brethren regarded
it as sound. Such, however, was his confidence in
his own judgment and in his ability to sustain his
position, that he undertook the enforcement of the
claim for fees contingent upon success. After a long
and well contended struggle, to the great surprise
‘and delight of the public, he succeeded in obtaining
from the court of last resort, a decision in favor of
the county, and establishing the claim in full as a
first lien upon the road, saving the whole amount to
the county. For his services in this case the county
paid him the princely sum of $51,000.

“ The National Bank Cases.” There was involved
the question whether the national banks of Missouri
were liable to the payment of state and other local
taxes. In these Mr. Bowman obtained decisions in
favor of the state and thus added immense sums ‘to
its revenues and to those of the municipal authorities
interested.

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In the investigations made by the senate of Mis-
souri, a few years since, into the management of the

558 TATE U./VITED STATES BIOGA’/IPIJZCAL DICTIONARY.

railroad corporations of the state, Mr. Bowman was
employed to assist that body, and by his exposure of
their fraudulent “watering ” of stock, evasions of
payment of taxes and other. irregularities, demon-
strated the necessity of that legislation which soon
afterward brought these companies under stricter state
supervision and control, in the act creating the board
of railroad commissioners. To show the estimation
in which Mr. Bowman’s professional abilities and his
public services were regarded, at the times when the
cases to which we have alluded were tried, we quote
the following articles from the leading dailies of St.
Louis :

The Rejbzzblica/2, alluding to his services in the
case of the claim of St. Louis county, said: “It is
hardly necessary to say that Mr. Bowman has per-
formed the task not only faithfully and well, but with
striking ability 3 the result is a greater tribute to his
diligence and skill than any amount of compliment-
ary words can be; for the community cheerfully
recognize that they owe the safety of this $7oo,ooo
county loan to his efforts.” _

The Daily Times, whose editor had long been a
bitter personal enemy of Mr. Bowman, had ridiculed
the idea of the validity of the claim, and attributed
to Mr. Bowman the meanest motive and the basest
treachery in his management of the matter, in its
issue of September 26, 1876, said: “The confirma-
tion of the county’s assumed lien against the M. P.

for the $700,000 credit extended to it in 1865, as L

established by Judge Dillon’s decision yesterday, is
gratifying in the extreme. It also imposes upon us
the duty of acknowledging, as honest journalists,
that we have in this matter done injustice to the
county court, and to the attorneys. it has employed
to defend its interests. We frankly admit that we
had no confidence in its claim, and no faith in the
ability of its counsel to establish it, and while we
have not hesitated to make the assertion as far as
Mr. Bowman is concerned, we shall be lacking in
fairness if we did not frankly confess the error.
Bowman has been vindicated by judge Dillon’s
decision, and the Times rebuked, and while he may
rejoice over it as a personal and professional triumph,‘
he cannot be more elated. than ourselves at the
saving to the county of so large a sum of money.”
The Repzzélzkavz described Mr. Bowman’s man-
agement of the “opera house” trial in the following
languag_e: "‘ Mr. Bowman is certainly the most
extraordinary lawyer at the bar; the skill and finesse
which he has displayed in the management of this
case, has excited the admiration of the spectators,
and the envy of his professional brethren. * *
* * He gets his enemy upon the witness
stand, and broils him upon the gridiron of cross-exam-
ination, until his very marrow melts, and his bones
crackle and snap on the rack. He puts a question
in such a form that he knows it will be objected to
and bring out an argument, and in his reply he hor-

.men of the city.

rifies the jury with the picture he draws of his
enemy’s iniquity, and, having in this way wreaked
his vengeance, he modifies his question and gets it
allowed, thus doing double damage to the opposi-
tion, and tantalizes and exasperates the opposing
counsel, exciting their spleen, but never for a
moment losing his own temper, and always stabbing
with a smile, that makes the wound more deep and
rankling. ”

The Democrat, speaking of the same occasion,
and referring to the fact that Mr. Bowman was
opposing the gambling ring with more than forty
armed gamblers among his auditors, and with men
who had threatened his life standing within a few
feet of him, said: “The coolness and pluck of
“ Little Bowman” won the admiration of the crowd.
His portly partner, Mr. Hill, was absent, and he
stood alone, with his game leg resting on a chair,
facing three or four angry and excited opponents;
but during. the whole time he did not lose his tem-
per and not a tremor was perceptible in a single
muscle.” '

On the decision of the county court claim, citi-
zens of St. Louis, irrespective of party, united in
tendering and giving him a public banquet in recog-
nition of his extraordinary public service in that
matter, which was largely attended by prominent
This public demonstration over a
professional triumph was as just as it is rare. If
success is to be regarded as the test of ability, and
surely nothing but ability can win it in any profes-
sion, least of all at the bar, Mr. Bowman must rank
among the ablest of his profession.

In p/zysz'gzze Mr. Bowman is of slight frame and
apparently frail, but in fact is possesed of great
bodily strength and activity, and is capable of long
continued exertion, and few men could so well stand
merely the physical wear and tear which his active
temperament and laborious application to business
has of late years subjected him. His mental char-
acteristics correspond with his physical peculiarities,
his perception and reasoning faculties are exceedingly
acute and quick, so rapidly does he come to con-
clusions that they seem intuitions_ rather than the
results of reflection; once decided, his course of
action in all its details is as rapidly deduced. San-
guine in temperament, self-reliant and aggressive,
he seems at times rash and reckless, when in fact he
is as deliberate as men of more sluggish tempera-
ment and slower ratiocination ; his cautiousness is
large, and seldom permits him to be misled by pas-
sion or his aggressive impulses. It may be said of
him as of a greater man, that he seems to have
passed through the three gates of the ancient city,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 559

over the first of which was the inscription, “Be
bold,” over the second, “Be bold, be bold, ever-
more be bold,” and over the third “Be not too
bold,” and adopted these as the maxims of his life.
Rapid in execution as in conception, he is fertile in
resources; as soon as one expedient fails, he has
another ready for use and is rarely without reserves,

' purposely held back from View and only brought into

action in that last “ half hour,” during which Napo-
leon said, “ A battle is always lost or won.”

Mr. Bowman is an eminently practical man; he
studies his law books, not as an amateur or dream-
ing theorist, but as a man of business, for means by
which to accomplish ends, and when he finds them
has the skill to use them. Apropos to this, it is
said, that when it was reported to him that a jeal-
ous brother at the bar, of great learning, but little
skill and less practice, had said, that “Bowman
knows but little law!” he remarked, “I always

have just law enough for the case I have on hand.”

As an advocate, Mr. Bowman is not ornate or
oratorical; he is a rapid speaker, sharp and incisive,
logical and plain of speech-—a practical man in this,
too, and speaks for the effect, not for display; yet,
sometimes rising with the occasion, attains to elo-
quence. Mr. Bowman, though yet a young man,
has acquired distinction in his profession and a com-
petent fortune, and has thus already realized the
dream of his boyhood as he slept in the old home-
stead on the slope of the Green Mountains of his
native state. This result has been attained early
but not easily, and only by constant remembrance
and practice of the lessons taught him by the hard
experience of his boyhood, by which he was taught
that the apparent insurmountable difficulties which
lie between us and the attainment of a reasonable
ambition can be overcome only by self denial, per-
severing industry and determined will.

LOUIS GARNEAU.

ST. CHARLES.

' OUIS GARNEAU, one of the earliest settlers
L of St. Charles, is the subject of this sketch.
When he crossed the Missouri river into the village it
contained one hundred and fifty inhabitants, half-
breeds and French, living in rude log huts; there
was only one brick building, and that had been half

destroyed by the shock of an earthquake a few years

before, in February, 1811; the remaining portion
was occupied as a general grocery. This was in 1818.
The ferry was of the primitive style, consisting of
two canoes,_running parallel, with a plank platform
fastened to them. For many years this was their
only ferry. Mr. Garneau saw the first horse—boat
ferry which announced enterprise as awakening in
St. Charles, then, in 1836 or 1837, he saw the first
steam ferry started there.

Louis Garneau was born at St. Genevieve, Mis-
souri, January 1, 1801. His father, Joseph Gar-
neau, moved from New Orleans to Missouri, and
settled in St. Genevieve, at a very early period of its
history. Joseph Garneau was a native of Detroit,
Michigan, and served as a lieutenant under General
LaFayette in the revolutionary war. He married

Miss Genevieve Coston, a native of ‘Europe and
71

descendant of French and English families. He died
about the beginning of this century, and she in 1834.
They left five children, all still living. Louis, our
subject, was educated in a French school at St. Gen-
evieve, until he was thirteen. At the age of eighteen
he came to St. Charles, where he was a carpenter
nine years, and accumulated enough money to open
a grocery and bakery. After fourteen years success-
ful business, he sold his grocery store and retained
the bakery, which he has conducted ever since.
Being one of the oldest residents and merchants of
the place, and also having a remarkably tenacious
memory, he is able to give very entertaining reminis-
cences of the early Missouri, and especially of St.
Charles. One, in his own experience, is illustrative
of the privations endured by the pioneers of the
West. During the time of the canoe-ferry boats he
had purchased several thousand pounds of flour in
St. Louis county, nine miles from St. Charles, which
was delivered to him opposite St. Charles, loaded in
one of the canoes of the ferry and started across.

On leaving shore one of the keel boats, in swinging,

struck a snag and began to leak. Before reaching
midway of the river, Mr. Garneau notified the fer-

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ryman that one of his boats was sinking, the boat-
man was frightened and confused. Mr. Garneau
had coolness, nerve and practical river experience.
By his directions and assistance the boat was turned
towards and finally grounded on a bar about midway
in the Missouri, and there the cargo was saved until it
could be boated across to St. Charles. On another
occasion a flat—boat loaded with flour wrecked near
the St. Charles landing, and Mr. Garneau bought
two hundred and fifty barrels of the flour at $2.50
per barrel. His business success has been made
through such discouraging experiences and lack of
facilities. But by industry, economy and attention
to business he built up a fine trade, made money and
secured a high standing in St. Charles county.

N 0 man has taken a deeper interest in the growth
and prosperity of St. Charles, than Mr. Garneau did
during the years of his active life. His cool brain,
practical business qualities and zeal made him early
one of the leading citizens of the city, and the people
demanded his services in their behalf. Accordingly,
we find in the authorized history of St. Charles’ ordi-
nances and officers, that he was a member of the
first city council, in 1849, when Ludwell E. Powell
was mayor; he was again a member in 1850, in
1851, in 1852 and again in 1854. Although through
life an unyielding and zealous Democrat, in all these
elections he ran ahead of his ticket, having more
votes cast for him than for the successful mayor.
Here was a strong evidence of long-continued per-
sonal popularity; men of all parties admired and
voted for him. Not an official vote or act of his life

has ever been questioned and his business character
is unimpeachable. He has always been a Democrat,
casting his first vote for Andrew Jackson for Presi-
dent. He was in New Orleans on a visit, when a
mere lad, at the time General Jackson had command
of the American troops, but his pa.rty left on their
return trip before the great battle which decided the
war against Great Britain. On their way they met
all the Kentucky troops hastening to reinforce Jack-
son; their timely arrival made it an American victory.

Mr. Garneau was appointed a lieutenant in the
Missouri state militia during the official term of Gov-
ernor Duncan. He was a member of the Sons of
Temperance many years and has ever been a strict
temperance man. He was raised a Catholic and
continues in that faith. I

May 18, 1819, he married Louise Laravie,
daughter of Joseph Laravie, an old citizen of St.
Charles. They have five children now living.

In closing the sketch of this plain, unassuming
old man, we point with pride to his excellent rec-
ord as a man who has raised himself from poverty
and obscurity to a fair competence and honorable
name. Few men have seen so many and such great
changes as has Mr. Garneau. He has lived to see
the naked wilderness he was a pioneer to, covered
with cities and people, and its silence succeeded by
the ceaseless hum of commerce and manufactures;
steam has relieved muscle, iron rails rib the conti-
nent, lightning annihilates time and distance, has
seen four wars of his nation and now sees her pros-
perity over them all.

JOHN W. BAILEY.

ST. ']0SEPH.

OHN W. BAILEY, of the wholesale dry goods
house of Bailey, Wood & Co., St. Joseph, Mis-
souri,'is a native of Tennessee, born in Dover,
Stewart county of that state, September 17, 1830.
His father, William Bailey, was a native of Virginia,
and emigrated from that state to Chillicothe, Ohio,
where he married Mary Williams, about 1820, and
with her moved to Tennessee. They had six chil-
dren, the youngest of whom is the subject of this
sketch. .

John received an ordinary school education at

home, and at the age of fourteen obtained a situation
in a country store owned by Watson & Hillman, at
Empire Inn Works, in Kentucky. Two years after
he removed to the Tennessee Rolling Works, in

Kentucky, where he sold goods for the large iron I

manufactory of Messrs. Hillman, Vanlear & Co.,
four years. The last year he served this firm, so great
was the confidence they reposed in him that he was
given entire charge of their large store and made
their purchases of goods for the establishment. He
was then in his twentieth year. This position he

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resigned to remove with his brother-in—law, Mr." James
Kay, and his partner, Mr. J. C Ingram, to St.
Joseph, Missouri. .

Mr. Bailey arrived in the city of St. Joseph May
9, I8 51, and immediately accepted a situation in the
dry goods house of Messrs. Ingram & Kay. In the
fall of that year he went to_New York and Philadel-
phia for them to purchase their second stock of
goods. In 1852 he succeeded Mr. Ingram in the
business and has been continuously in the firm from
that time to the present. Twenty-seven years in one
city, in one business and in the same establishment,
is enough to test a man’s capacity both as a citizen
and a merchant. The house of Bailey, Wood &
Co. is one of the most popular and most successful
in the great Southwest, and Mr. Bailey has become
widely and favorably known throughout Western
Missouri and Kansas as a thorough business man, a
reliable merchant and -a gentleman of undoubted
integrity.

Mr. Bailey has been connected with many public
enterprises in St. Joseph since his residence there.
He was one of the promoters and originators of the St.
Joseph Fire and Marine Insurance Company—a very

reliable and prosperous institution, favorably known

from New York to California——of which he has been
a leading director. since its organization in 1868. He
has also been a director in the Buchanan Bank for a
period of twenty years. Besides these, he has been
a director in numerous other public enterprises estab-_
lished in St. Joseph. In all of these positions he
gave conscientiously his attention as much so as in
his own business, and to ‘his counsel-and manage-
ment, -to a very great degree, is attributed whatever
success has attended them.

He is a Democrat, but simply a voter and an
interested reader and observer of political events,
never having solicited or held a public office, though
repeatedly urged by friends to permit the use of his
name in that connection. .

John W. Bailey and Susan E. Wildbahn were
married May 8, 1856. She was the only daughter
of Thomas Wildbahn, Esq. They have three chil-
dren living, two sons and a daughter, and one son
deceased. As a business’ man of strict integrity a11d
industrious habits; as a public-spirited and enterpris-
ing citizen; as a kind and courteous gentleman, a

pleasant companion, a true friend, a kind husband

and father, Mr. Bailey bears an enviable reputation
wherever he is known.

JAMES DUMARS.

SPR]./VJGFZELH D.

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the tenth
~ child of James and I Sophia Dumars, the former
of French Huguenot and the latter of English extrac-
tion. Mrs., Dumars was a sister of Bishop R. R.
Roberts, a pioneer bishop of the Methodist church,
commonly known as the “Log Cabin Bishop.”

Under the tuition of his father, who was a

TAMES DUMARS was born March 4, 1823, in

teacher by profession, James Dumars received a .

thorough common school training until his twelfth
year, when he entered the I office of the Pittsburgh
Daily Gazelle. While learning the mechanical prep-
aration of a paper, he also stored his mind with that

kind of useful knowledge which would fit him for

the duties of a journalist. Here he remained for five
years, completing his apprenticeship in the fall of
1840, and then went to Iowa. For the first three
months of his residence in that state he was employed

in teaching, and then entered the office of the Bur-
lington ffawkeye, where he Worked six months-
Being dissatisfied with the New West, he returned to
Pittsburgh and remained during the fall and winter
of 1841-2, working at his trade in the office of the
Daily Cfirtmicle. In the spring of 1842 he went to
New York, where he remained one year. V Early in
the summer of 1843 he took a trip to Europe, mak-
ing a tour of the most important cities of England
and France, and returned to America the following
fall. He spent another year in New York, and in

December, 1844, returned to Pittsburgh and became _

interested iii the publication of the Daily C/z7'0/zzkle, in
which he sustained a heavy loss by the great fire of
1845. In the spring of 1848 he sold his interest in
that paper and removed to Warren, Trumbull county,
Ohio, where he established the Trimzéull Cozmly
W/zig. This paper, owing to the fusion of the Whig

562 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

and Free Soil parties,.was afterward merged into the
I/Vester/z Reserve C/zrozzzele, with which he remained
connected until the autumn of 185 5. In January,
1856, he established the ./Ila/zomkzg Cozmzy ]€egz'sz‘er,
at Youngstown, Ohio, a paper which he published
until the spring of I86 5. At» that time he accepted
a position in the office of the judge-advocate. general
at Washington, a. bureau of the war department,
where he had charge of the records concerning the
conspirators who were tried for the assassination of
President Lincoln. In the fall he resigned his place
and assisted in establishing the Daily Post, at Mem-
phis, Tennessee, remaining connected with it until
its suspension in the spring of 1868. He then
removed to Missouri and established the Bolivar (Polk
county) Free Press, continuing its publication until
the spring of 1874, when, having been appointed
receiver in the United States land office at Spring-

field, Missouri, he sold his interest in the Free Press

and moved to Springfield. In October, 1875, he
purchased an interest in the ./llz3*s0zerz' Pairzbz‘, which
was consolidated with the Aa’z2erz‘z'ser, October 1,
1876, with which latter paper he is still connected.

He is a member of the Republican party and

has been connected with it from its inception, hav-
ing been a delegate to the Pittsburgh convention
that assembled February 22, 1855. On June 17,
I8 56, he was a delegate to the Philadelphia conven-
tion that nominated John C. Fremont for the Presi-
dency. He was elector for the district embracing
Trumbull, Ashtabula and Mahoning counties, Ohio,
and took a prominent part in the canvass of 1856.
In his religious views he is liberal and confines him-
self to no particular creed.

He was married, October 5, 1845, to Miss Han-
nah Renton, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a true
Christian woman and a worthy member of the Meth-
odist church. Mr. Dumars and wife have reared a
family of five sons, some of whom, after receiving a
liberal education, have, under their father’s instruc-
tion, learned “the art preservative of all arts” in the
printing office.

He is a man of social disposition, genial and
pleasant in conversation, warmly attached to his
friends, attentive and diligent in business, strictly
upright in his conduct, and possessing the highest
qualifications that make up the popular and success-
ful journalist.

JAMES CLEMENS, JR.

ST. LOUIS.

O leave an utterly unsullied record in the com-
T munity after sixty years of commercial dealings,
is not often an honor that can be truthfully bestowed
upon any man. Not that commercial men are
unworthy, or that long experience amid the tempta-
tions of mercantile life necessarily leads men to loose-
ness of habits. But in so long a period almost all
merchants have had to pass through trials which left
shadows upon their good name and fair fame. The
contrary is the absolute truth in the present sketch.

Increasing years and increased responsibilities have

only added to his integrity and honorable name, and
after sixty years dealing the subject of this sketch died,
leaving to his children the priceless legacy of a name
entirely free from stain, and the escutcheons of his
family untarnished by any act of their father.

James Clemens, ]r., was born in Danville, Ken-
tucky, October 29, r79I. He was the son of ]ere-
miah Clemens, a native of Augusta county, Virginia.

The Clemens family is one of the oldest and most
respectable in America. Their lineage is traceable
unmistakably to the honored families of antiquity.

We copy the following genealogical record from
an article written by~one of the purest scholars of the
West, and whose means of information are such as to
give unbounded credit to his assertions :

The name of Clemens is Roman and of historic
interest. It comes from the Latin adjective elemem,

. which means kind, amiable, merciful, pleasant, good-

hearted. Clemens Romanus, was, according to some
historians, the second, and according to others, the
third Pope of Rome.
him from Clemens of Alexandria in Egypt, designa-
ted as Clemens Alexandrinis. Both were early fathers
of the church, and the writings of the latter have
been translated into English. The name was distin-
guished very early. in the history of the church. Fla-
vius Clemens was a cousin to the Emperor Domitian,
and was put to death as the first male martyr in
Rome, and his niece, Domatilla Clemens, was the

He was so called to distinguish -

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first female martyr. Julius Clemens was a lieutenant
under Caesar in his invasion of Great Britain.
Gregory Clemens was a land holder in Hunting-
donshire, in England, a cotemporary of Cromwell, and
as a member of the English Parliament, signed the
death warrant of Charles I. During the protectorate
of Cromwell he was appointed English Minister to
Spain, and, during his term of service, was married
to a Spanish lady in the city of Cordova. After the
death of Cromwell, and on the accession of Charles
II., Gregory Clemens was tried as a regicide; his
estates were confiscated to the Crown and he suffered
the barbarous and ignominious death which English
laws then provided for all such cases; and his head
was exposed on a pole on the top of Westminster
Hall. His widow with her children emigrated with
his two brothers to Augusta county, Virginia, and
they purchased a farm near Staunton. Staunton was
subsequently the place of holding the ‘Federal Court

. for the Western District of Virginia the State claim-

ing jurisdiction to the Youghegheney river, in the
present State of Pennsylvania, including Fort Pitt,
now Pittsburg. It was the Virginia troops under
Washington, and the British regulars under Brad-
dock, which met with such disasters in defense of
this jurisdiction. James Clemens, the elder, the
grandfather of James Clemens, Jr., was the descend-
ant of the regicide, Gregory Clemens, and on the 13th
day of June, 1785, had a survey made of land, on
the waters of Buffalo Creek, on a Virginia certificate
of three hundred and ninety-nine acres and six
perches. On the 2d day of June, 1786, letters pat-
ent from the commonwealth of Virginia issued for
this tract, and it is in possession of the widow of one
of his descendants to this day. In running Mason
and Dixon’s line and fixing the boundary between
Virginia and Pennsylvania, this tract was divided, a
part being in Donegal township, Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and the balance in Virginia.

"James Clemens, the elder, died in December,
1799. His will as probated was dated September 2 I,
1795. His sons were Jeremiah, William, Abraham,
John, James and Ezekiel. Jeremiah moved to
Danville, Kentucky, and was the father of the sub-
ject of this sketch. James moved to Huntsville,
Alabama, and was the father of Jeremiah Clemens,
Senator from Alabama, and the author of several
literary works of no mean ability. Ezekiel removed
to Tennessee and was the progenitor of Samuel L.
Clemens, better known under the 7207/2 de plume of
Mark Twain.

James Clemens, Jr., of St. Louis, the subject of
this sketch, to distinguish himself from the elder of
the same name in Alabama, attached junior to his
name. He enjoyed only the advantages of a com-
mon school education, such as could be had at that
early period in Kentucky, which consisted of only
four counties. At a very early period he became a
clerk in Mr. Bell’s store in Danville, and he there
received his mercantile education. Throughout his

early life he was a great reader. He may be said to
have instructed himself, and the large and well
selected library at his residence bears evidence, not
only of his taste, but his culture. In October, 181 1,
being then about twenty—one years of age, he removed
from Danville to Sparta, Tennessee, where he
remained until April, 1815. He was engaged in the
mercantile business in connection with James Clem-
ens,'the elder, of Huntsville, Alabama, and during
the war of 1812 the firm accumulated vast amounts
of money in making saltpeter and furnishing it to the
government for the manufacture of gunpowder.
With the capital thus acquired our subject came to
Ste. Genevieve, in Missouri, and established him-
self in business, that spot being then the most com-
mercial place in the State. He came to St. Louis,
April, 1816, and opened a store on the corner of
Main and Market streets, dealing in dry goods, gro-
ceries, furs and peltries, and by his careful, prudent
management steadily added to his capital. To keep
up his stock he was compelled to make the journey
on horseback through the wilderness of Illinois, Indi-
ana and Ohio.

Throughout his long life Mr. Clemens was strictly
a business man. Only once did he allow himself to
be drawn into public life, and then to act as alderman
from his ward to the city council. He owned stock
in a number of banks, but was never identified with
the management of any except the State Bank of
Missouri, of which he was at one time a director.
He was president of the Irish Emigrant Society sev-
eral years, and was one of the United States Com-
missioners that selected the site chosen for the
present post office on Third and Olive streets. He
helped form the first gas company in the city.
Although on the retired list for the past forty years,
Mr. Clemens continued his membership in the Mer-
chants Exchange and was a member of that body at
the time of his death.

During the last twelve or fifteen years of his life
he lived in almost absolute seclusion, leaving his
home very rarely and then always in a closed carriage.
This seclusion was occasioned by blindness, for Mr.
Clemens was blind the last ten years of his life, par-
tially blind at first and totally blind the last two years.
Lately he made a trip to New York for the purpose
of having his eyes operated on by a celebrated ocu-
list there. The operation was performed, but without
effecting the result hoped for—the restoration of his
eyesight. ~ ‘

Mr. Clemens was a very popular young man in

564 Tf]E UJVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIEY.

St. Louis fifty years ago. Nearly all the fashionable
balls in those days were given in one or two of the
leading hotels of the town, the accommodations for
dancing being better there than at the town hall or
at any of the private residences. Mr. Clemens was
quite a ladies’ man then, and was always one of the
head managers of all the fashionable balls. He was
a great" favorite among the ladies, but -like a great
many ladies’ men, he became a bachelor before he
became a. husband.

His loveiof social pleasures continued long after

he ceased to_ be an active participant, and he was

always ready to further plans for the enjoyment of
the young. Before he became too old to go out it
was a favorite practice to secure a bunch of seats a.t
the theater or hall upon the occasion of the visit of
some famous actor or singer and then invite such of
his young lady acquaintances, as hethought were not
otherwise provided for to accompany him. He did
this, it is said, when Jenny Lind was in St. Louis,
and paid as much as ten dollars apiece for several
seats.

A story is told of Mr. Clemens once receiving a
challenge. A business man had become seriously
involved and called on Mr. Clemens for a loan.
That gentleman remarked that there were rumors
afloat that the applicant was 011 the point of breaking
up. The business man replied that he was perfectly
solvent, and that all he needed was a little temporary
relief. Mr. Clemens replied that if such was the
case he was willing to help him out. The other
asserted most positively that what he had said was
the truth, and that in a very few days he would pay
back the loan. The money changed hands and in a
few days the borrower failed. Mr. Clemens who
had very strict ideas about business probity anda
very poor opinion of the credit system, expressed his
sentiments freely respecting the character of a man
who would engage in such deceit. _ The words were
carried to the man who had failed, and he promptly
sent a challenge to his outspoken creditor. Mr. Clem-
ens received the message and turning to the bearer,
said: “He wants to fight aduel does he? Let him
pay me that money and P11 fight him. I’d be a fool,
wouldn’t I, to go out and shoot the man who was
owing me five thousand dollars and kill my chance of
ever getting it back.”

In I850 Mr. Clemens retired from active business
and devoted the remainder of his days to the care of
the large real estate which devolvedupon him. To
this his constant and exclusive attention was given.

"own way he was an almoner to many.

He was to be found at all hours of the day, and often
far into the night, i11 his office. As an accountant
and book keeper he had no superior‘, and he often
boasted that the books of the gas company were now
kept -on the same principle which he inaugurated as a
director. He was solitary in his habits and tastes,
and when driven to it had more self—sustaining power
than any man we have ever known.

In matters of religion Mr. Clemens’ views under-
went a change during his long life of four-score years.
When a young man Mr. Clemens was an Episcopalian.
He was one of the founders of the first Episcopal
church in St. Louis, and was a vestryman of the same
church for a number of years afterwards. Later in
life he left the church altogether and for a number of
years seldom attended church service of any kind or
creed. During his last sickness he expressed a desire
to be taken into the Catholic Church, and in accord-
ance with his wishes was baptized by one of the clergy
of that denomination. A

James Clemens, Jr., was eminently but practically
a charitable man. He adhered very closely to the
scriptural injunction respecting charity, and hated
any ostentationabout his benevolence. But in his
There was
always a number of poor people who stood almost in
the relation of pensioners. Mr. Clemens instructions
to his cook were to provide food for many more than
comprised the household, and the poor people who
called were supplied regularly. He gave frequently
and gave liberally, but did it in such a quiet way that
it was never known at the time save to the giver and
the receiver. '

In January, 1833, having then an ample fortune,

. Mr. Clemens married Miss Eliza M. Mullanphy. She

was the mother of seven children, of whom six are
living: James B. Clemens, Bryan M. Clemens, Wil-
liam J. Clemens, Mrs. C. J. Cates, Mrs. Ellen I.
Clemens and Mrs. ‘ Alice B. Von Versen, the latter
of whom resides in Europe, the others here. Mrs.
Eliza M. Clemens died at her country residence
August 2o, 18 5 3, and her husband became tenant by
courtesy of the vast landed property which she inher-
ited from her father, John Mullanphy. She was of
compact build, with large and well developed head,
especially distinct in its perceptive faculties, with
dark complexion, and features expressive of high
intelligence and culture, and. she was the handsomest
of John Mullanphy’s daughters. Her manners were
especially gracious and winning. She was domestic
in her tastes and a model wife and mother. If her

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 565

husband was the “bread winner” she was the “bread
saver” of the family, for while they resided on the

large farm on the Olive street road, she hoarded out

of the marketable products of the place, two thousand
dollars in specie which she one day presented to her
astonished and delighted partner. Something may
be gleaned of the impression she made by an incident
which transpired in the trial of Cutter vs. Wadding-
ham and others in the Circuit Court in 1846, when
the elder Krum presided as judge. The title affected

the Mullanphy heirs, and on the death of Mrs. Clem-

ens the record shows that Judge Crum said:

“The death of Mrs. Clemens rendered necessary
that some legal representative of hers should appear
in the suit, and I cannot allow the occasion to pass,
although out of the usual order, without saying a
word by way of tribute to her memory. She was one
of my most valued friends. She was always in full
accord with every movement that pertained to the
advancement of this city. In all humanitarian or
charitable works she was always among the foremost,
and she was an ornament to society, whose loss can-
not be readily replaced.”

On the 12th day of January, 1878, this octogena—
rian merchant passed from the busy scenes of St_.
Louis mercantile life to . the haven of peace. That
his loss was keenly felt and deplored by the city is
attested by the burial obsequies. The funeral took
place from his residence, and was one of the largest
cortéges ever passing through the streets of St. Louis.
The carriages in the procession carried some of the
most prominent men in the city and State—Governor
John S. Phelps and Lieutenant-Governor H. C.
Brockmeyer being among the number. The pall-
b'earers——all personal friends of Mr. Clemens, were
Gerard B. Allen, Thomas E. Tutt, I. H. Keim,

I Judge Horatio M. Jones, George Knapp, Unit Rai-

sin, Henry Kayser, John Ford, John S. Phelps, G.
W. Clure, F. M. Billion, Richard Dowling, Samuel
Hawkins, George Maguire, John T. Davis and Samuel
T. Glover. I

C. At. St. Bridget’s a solemn requiem mass was cel-
ebrated by Rev. Father D. Fenlon. Father James
Henry, of St. Lawrence O’Toole’s, was deacon, and
Father P. N. McEvoy, master of ceremonies. The
funeral sermon was delivered by Father Keller, pres-
ident of St. Louis University. “A long life,” said
the reverend father, “has come to a close, a life
protracted beyond the scriptural limit. The people
have assembled to pay a last tribute of respect to one
who Walked with them ’many long years, but who is
to walk with them no more. His friends in life are

gathered about his remains to pay a tribute of honor
to his memory and to offer a solemn prayer to the
throne of mercy for his soul.” -

The floral decorations consisted of two white
crosses, a pillow of green, and a large wreath of laurel
and ivy. The pillow bore the inscription, “Our
Father,” in white roses bordered with purple flowers.

Mr. Clemens leaves a sister, Mrs. Eliza Caldwell,
living in Danville, Kentucky, who is now in her sev-
enty-sixth ‘year.

Of the characteristics of James Clemens, Jr., we
copy the following from one of the St. Louis leading
journals:

“No one had, when truthfully touched, a more
open, generous, kind, or a more magnanimous heart.
His benefactions were a thousand fold, while he was
as hard as a rock in what he thought his rights. He

would chaffer on the divide of a hair in a settlement 3
yet that same rock when rightly struck became soft

-as water, as his charities silently and unostentatiously

flowed into poor, needy, or worthy hands: Among
his largest public contributions may be mentioned
that to celebrate the opening of the bridge, and that
for the relief of the sufferers by the Chicago fire.
No appeal was ever made to him in behalf of any
public movement in this city where his means were
withheld. And yet, to many, he appeared hard,
calculating, avaricious, and imperiously cold, Yes,
it may have seemed so, but it was only the harsh,
forbidding outside of an oriental nut covered with
roughness and nettles, but when opened full of rich,
ripe, red, luscious fruit. His temper was impulsive,
imperious and volcanic. It was the motive power
which gave energy, life and grit to the man. He
could be persuaded in the right, by the pull of a
single hair, or the magic of a gentle, soothing word;
he could not be forced or coerced by any possible
power.” a

So having reached a period beyond that allotted
by the Psalmist, full of years, full of honors, full of
earthly possessions and experiences, and full of pre-
cious divine hope and consolation, his soul confronted
eternity. He stood at last upon the very edge of
life, and the infinite future came before him. Who
shall say that his spirit did not see more than any of
us can now see?

And yet he trembled not, but with calm heroism,
like that which he evinced from youth, took the last
fatal step, and with a blessing on those he left behind,
vanished forever. And in the language of St. Au-
gustine——“May the children of thy spirit, placed
each in their own firmament, make their light shine
upon the earth; and mayest thou still crown the years
with thy blessings as thou sendest forth thy laborers
into thy harvest sown by other hands than theirs, as
they in turn send forth new laborers to new seed
times, whereof the harvest shall be perennial.”

So, to those who loved thee, thy appropriate epi-
taph forevermore shall be:

566 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY.

“ As ’mid the ever rolling sea,

The eternal isles established be,

And all the billows of the main

Fret, rage, and break themselves in vain ;
As in the heavens the urns divine

Of golden light forever shine;

Tho’ storms may darken, tempests rage,
They still shine on from age to age.

So, ’mid the ocean tide of years,.

The image of the just appears.

So, from its darkness and its gloom,
The good man’s virtues light his tomb.”

MARCUSOAURELIUS BOGIE, PH. B., M. D.

f(A./VSAS CITY.

out their work and then work outtheir thoughts.”
They “slowly bend the bow of consideration until it
rests in a firm and wise decision, then let the arrow
of execution fly swift and straight to the mark.”

IT has been truly said that all great men “think

What wastrue of the heroes of the past is none the I

less true of the great men of to-day, and enrolled with
the self-made men of the present‘ we find the name
of Marcus Aurelius Bogie, who was born in Madi-
son county, Kentucky, December 20, 1840. His
father, Daniel H. Bogie, was of Scotch descent, his
parents coming to America in 1777, and settling at
Silver Creek, Kentucky, where they built the first
mill and shingle roof house in the county. They
suffered all of the hardships incident to pioneer life,
and one of their sons, Thomas, was killed-and scalped
by the Indians. ' His mother, Emeline (Taylor)
Bogie, was a descendant of one of the old Virginia
families, and came with her parents at an early day
to Madison county, Kentucky. "One of her uncles,
Peter Taylor, moved to Georgia and subsequently
became governor of that state. ,
Marcus received his early education in the schools
of his native county. October 6, 1850, he lost his

-dear mother—the idol of his boyhood. Henceforth

he must live and meet whatever of good or ill life
holds for him without her love and encouragement.

When his father married again his home was so _

changed that he could not stay there, so he went
away and began to teach school, in which profession
he engaged for twenty-three months. In 1861-2 he
attended Kentucky University and graduated in
physics. The following year he read medicine and
attended his first course of lectures at'_[efferson Med-
ical College, Philadelphia.
second course of lectures, and graduated in Long
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn. As an example
of the promptness which has characterized his Whole

In 1864 he took his

life work, it may be said that during his two courses
he never missed a lecture or clinic- He then prac-
ticed his profession for four months in Madison county
Kentucky, after which he returned to New York and
spent sixteen months in attending the hospitals and
schools, and graduated in Bellevue Hospital Medical
College and the medical department of the New York
University. .

During his entire professional education Dr.
Bogie never received any financial aid. His great
progress. was made. step by step. He was notonly
the “architect of his own fortunes,” but his own
carpenter and mason.

The world never made a greater mistake than
when it writes the path of genius a painless one. The
superficial think genius but an express train to suc-
cess, in which the illustrious did but take their seat
with a through ticket in their pocket. But they who
have better read the history of greatness, have learned
that genius is mainly the power of work.

After finishing his education our hero found his
entire capital to be twenty—five cents, consequently
he was very thankful for the practice which was
given him near his Kentucky home. He formed a
partnership of four months duration with two old
physicians, who ‘gave him all the night practice that
he could possibly desire. January 12, I86 5 he sold
out his interest in the books, and went by boat to
New Orleans where, after spending a short time, he
succeeded, despite the strict martial law, in‘ getting
a pass and conveyance to Mexico. He left New
Orleans for Vera Cruz February 9, 186 5, in a small
schooner “ Red Cross,” of sixty-three tons, with
fifty-four passengers and a full cargo. Their craft
flew the Mexican flag ; but they were searched five
times before they left Southwest Pass. The first
day at seathey had a_ terrible storm which came very
near capsizing them, and it was attended by all of

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY. 567

the incidents common to a storm at sea, such as sea-
sickness, vessel leaking, necessaries of life washed
overboard, and much feariand trembling. They
reached Vera Cruz February 23, a tired, thirsty
crew. Dr. Bogie remained in Vera Cruz until March

’ 18, when he went with an exploring party to the

Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to act in the capacity of
physician, surgeon and geologist. After traveling
twelve hundred miles with this party he was finally
prevailed upon by the inhabitants to locate at Mina-
titlan, where he was made health officer of the dis-
trict, composed of eleven towns, containing seventy-
five thousand inhabitants. This gave him practice in
all the diseases incident to humanity. His arduous
duties were relieved of their monotony by an occa-
sional hunt of birds and alligators, or a trip at sea.

June 28, 1870, he left Minatitlan for Vera Cruz,
overland. He had a long, lonely ride, making
almost the entire journey by night because of the
heat of the day. July 3o, 1870, he left Mexico for
New York via Sisal and Havana, going ashore at
both places. He reached New York August I0,
1870, after five and one-half..years absence from his
native land, and with feelings of great joy he hast-
ened to his old home to meet and greet the loved
ones

Although a good Democrat he has taken no very

prominent part in politics, because of his devotion to
his profession. He was the first president of the
Montezuma Club in Mexico, member of the local
Medical Societies, Kansas City District Medical
Society and Medical Association of the State of Mis-
souri. He is a member of the Christian church,
and believes the Bible only, discarding all human
creeds. He is also a member of the Young Men’s
Christian Association in Kansas City.

November 19, 1872, he married Candace E. Park,
who was a highly accomplished lady, being a grad-
uate of Madison Female Seminary, and of much sub-
sequent culture; a devoted wife, a devout Christian,
and a kind friend. She died March 6, 1876; but it
can be truly said that “she lives in hearts she has
left behind,” and that is not to die.

In personal appearance he is very commanding,
being above the average height, and weighing about
two hundred pounds. Dr. Bogie has practiced med-
icine in Kansas City for six years, and has the confi-
dence and respect of all who know him. Socially
few men are his equal and none are his superior. He
is a fine conversationalist, and a deep thinker, and
has that power which so few possess of holding his
listeners in wrapt attention while he talks. He took
life up joyfully, he has borne it off manfully, and he
will lay it down triumphantly.

ALBERT B. LOGAN.

ST. LOUIS.

ALBERT B. LOGAN was born in Poland,
Mahoning county, Ohio, March 29, 1842.
His father, William Logan, a native of Virginia, was
by occupation a builder and contractor, and moved
to Ohio when he was eight years old. He was
married to Miss Ann McNabb, of that state, in
1828. They had seven children, the subject of this
sketch being the fourth.

Albert B. Logan was educated at Poland Female
College, residing with his parents and assisting his
father, iwhen not at school. In june, 1861:, he
joined company E, 23d Ohio, and, with his regi-
ment, went to West Virginia under General Rose-
crans, who, for some time, was colonel of the 28th
Ohio volunteers. Upon his promotion, Colonel E.

P. Scammon assumed COin1I1_cfL.i1d, Hon. Stanley Mat-
72

thews being lieutentant—colonel, R. B. Hayes, (now
President of the United States,) major. Mr. Logan,
as a private soldier, participated in all the engage-
ments in West Virginia. In 1862 his regiment was
sent to the Army of the Potomac, and took part in
the battle of South Mountain and Antietam. In

‘ 1863 he was stationed at Charleston, West Virginia,

guarding the Confederate prisoners 3 in that year he
was promoted to sergeant-major of his regiment, and
afterwards to rst lieutenant. He commanded the
advance guard in Hunter’s raid on Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, and the rear guard in the retreat to the
Kanawha valley, and was thence transferred to the
Shenandoah valley, under General Hunter, and
afterward under General Phil. Sheridan, the com-
mand participating in all the engagements of those

568 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

brave lea.ders. He was afterwards attached to the
8th Army Corps, under General Crook, where he
remained until the close of the war, being mustered
out in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 1st of August, 1865.
He thus served his country over four years with
honor and true manly courage. Before joining the
army he had read law for about one year, and con-
tinued his studies during the war, when opportunity
offered. On his return home, he entered the office
of Hon. Charles E. Gliddon (now judge of the 9th
Judicial District of Ohio), at Poland. In the fall of
1866 he was admitted to the bar and commenced
the practice of his profession in Sharon, Pennsylva-
nia. In 1868 he removed to Warrensburg, Mis-
souri, and soon built up a lucrative and extensive
practice. From 1872 to 1874 he was city attorney
of Warrensburg. In 1876 he was appointed assist-
ant attorney of the St. Louis, Kansas City & North-
ern Railway. This road has five hundred and
fifteen miles of railway, the main line running from
St.‘ Louis, Missouri, to Ottumwa, Iowa, two hundred

and seventy—seven miles, the west branch from
Moberly to Kansas City, one hundred and twenty-
nine miles; the Union depot line to Ferguson, twelve
miles; the Columbia branch from Centralia, seven-
teen miles; Glasgow branch from Salisbury, eleven
miles; St. Joseph branch——from Lexington to St.
Joseph—sixty-nine miles. Mr. Logan had charge
of all the law cases for the entire line, except in St.
Louis. In politics, he is an active Republican
although not an office—seeker.

He was married on the 24th of June, 1865, to
Miss Ella P. Cress, daughter of George Cress, Esq.,
now of Warrensburg. They have three children,
named: Glen Hayes, Minnie La Una and George
William. The family reside in VVarrensburg, he
being a part of the time in St. Louis, and along the
line of the road, attending to his official duties. In
criminal practice he has won a fine reputation, and,
being young in years, of fine personal appearance
and an eloquent and forcible speaker, he will yet be
heard in the councils of the nation.

JOHN ANDERSON LOUGHRIDGE.

KANSAS CITY.

January 6, 1834, in the state of Indiana. His
father, James Loughridge, is a native of Ohio,
and of Irish descent. His mother, Elizabeth Phillips,
was also a native of Ohio. The family moved from
that state to Indiana in 1828, and in I836 again
changed their residence, settling in Maysville,
Mason county, Kentucky. James Loughridge was
a carpenter and pursued his avocation till his death,
September 25, 1843, in the forty-fifth year of his
age. He left a widow and six children in very limited
circumstances. I
John A. Loughridge was the fourth child of this
family. At the time of his father’s death he was
living with his grandfather, in Adams county, Ohio.
In 1847 he went to Maysville and engaged in rope-

IOHN ANDERSON LOUGHRIDGE was born

making, to assist in the support of his mother and

two sisters. His education was wholly neglected, so
far as schools were concerned, and the information
he has acquired is the result of hard study and
assiduous application, after the labors of the day
were over. This was the only means he had of

satisfying a morbid desire to obtain the elements of
an education. In 18 5 3 he gave up rope-making and
became a clerk in a grocery store. In 1856, in con-
nection with H. L. Newell, now (1878) mayor of
Maysville, he opened a grocery store, the necessary
capital having been furnished him by a friend. The
business became prosperous and lucrative. In 1868
he resolved to go west, and acting on the advice of
his friend, Lewis Pearce, formerly of Maysville, then
of the St. Louis banking house of Aull, Pollard &
Co., he removed to Kansas City, where, November
10, 1868, he began the wholesale liquor business.
His business grew rapidly until at present it occupies
the whole of a four story warehouse, and employs a

' capital of $40,000, in addition to the real estate,

which is valued at $30,000.

In 1860-61 he acted as alderman in Maysville,
having been twice elected. ,He has a controlling
interest in all the street railroads in Kansas City, and
is also a stockholder in the Merchants Exchange
building. He has been an Odd Fellow since 1856,
and a Mason since 18 58, and is in good standing in

’ een years of age.

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both orders. In politics he is a Democrat, but not
a partisan, freely exercising his right to criticise
members and measures of his own party, and to vote
for the man whom his judgment may approve.
He was married November 30, 1857, to Miss
Cinderella Elizabeth Bryant, eldest daughter of
Williaiii Bryant, a farmer of Falkland county, Vir-
ginia. The issue of this marriage was three children,
a daughter and two sons, all of whom are living.
The eldest daughter, eighteen years old on May I4,
1878, is attending St. Joseph Female Seminary.
The two sons are attending school in Kansas City.

His wife died January I0, 1874. He was married
to his second wife, Mrs. Nehemiah Holmes, nee
Mary Elizabeth Floury, December 22, I876. Both
marriages were fortunate, and his home has ever
been an asylum of contentment and happiness.

Mr. Loughridge is a genial unpretending gentle-
man. His social qualities are of a high order, and
his business qualifications are best attested by his
success. Close application to business, honest deal-
ing, sound judgment and prudent foresight, have
proven to be his best friends in his long business
career.

GEORGE RANDOLPH BARSE.

KANSAS CITY.

EORGE R. BARSE, the oldest of a family of
G eight children, was born January I, 1839, at
Green Bay, Wisconsin. His parents were William
Hawley and Maria Louisa (Nichols) Barse, the former
a native of New York, the latter of Massachusetts.
The family moved to Green Bay in 1836, and in
1840 removed to Detroit, Michigan. For eighteen
years after locating in the West, his father was
engaged as captain on lake vessels and steamers.
In 1854 he engaged in banking business, purchasing
and collecting ship drafts, etc.

George received a common school education and
finished a course in the Commercial College in
Detroit.» He has always been a great reader, and
has confined himself mainly to practical subjects,
thus acquiring a store of useful information. His
father, from his long service on board ship, was very
stern, and young George being quick of temper,
rebelled against his father’s discipline, and when
only fourteen years old, ran away from home. He
purchased some notions and went on a trading expe-
dition. At the end of three months he returned
home, and went to school until he was sixteen years
of age, when he again left home. He engaged in
merchandising as before, and remained away five
months. Upon his return he was sent to the Commer-
cial College, where he remained until he was eight-
In the spring of 1857 he went
to .Arlington, Bureau county, Illinois, where he
assisted his uncle, who was station agent, by keep-
ing his books. This was quite a grain market, and

with his uncle’s assistance he purchased 1,400 grain
sacks and shipped grain to Chicago. In this way he
soon made enough money to purchase a small ware-
house, and being supplied with capital by J. L.
Hurd & Co., of Chicago, he began business for him-
self. As his capital increased he added to his stock
lumber, cement, etc., and did a general merchan-
dising business. . '

On January 1, 1860, he was married to Susan
Bishop Peironnet of Amboy, Illinois. Shortly after
he received a telegram from Detroitinforming him
of his father’s serious illness, and requesting him to
come home and take charge of his business. He
immediately closed up his interests in Arlington and
went to Detroit. His father recovered and they.
formed a partnership which lasted until 1861, when
he entered the United States service. His military
record was quite eventful. He enlisted April 17th
in Company A, 1st Michigan Infantry, under Colonel
Wilcox. He was in Alexandria when Colonel Ells-
worth, of the New York Fire Zouaves, was killed,
and in the first engagement at Bull Run.

August 4, 1861, he was mustered out of service

- and returned to Detroit, where he purchased a half

interest in a boat on the Detroit river. He continued
in this business one year, when he received a
commission as 2d lieutenant in the 5th Michigan
cavalry, and served in the different engagements of
the regiment, under Generals Custer and Kilpatrick,
through the Gettysburg campaign. October 19,
1863, during a11 engagement at Buckland Mills, near

570 71673 UIVZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIOZVARY.

Warrington, Virginia, he was taken prisoner by Ge11—
eral Gordon, of Stuart’s cavalry, and sent to Libby
Prison. May 7, 1864, he was sent with other pris-
oners to Macon, Georgia, under Longstreet’s Guards.
Mr. Barse jumped from the box car in which the pris-
oners were confined, and made his escape. Many
shots were fired after him, but only one struck him,
grazing his left leg He was reported as killed, and a
notice appeared in the Richmond papers to that effect.
After a week’s wandering, he was recaptured by
Stuart’s cavalry, thirty miles from Lynchburg, where
he was confined in jail at Lynchburg with the prisoners
taken at the battle of the Wilderness. He again
started for Macon, Georgia, but escaped from the
train near Columbia, South Carolina, in company with
Captain Wilson, of Pennsylvania. After ten days’ wan-

dering in a northwesterly‘direction, incurring great

hardships and dangers, he was recaptured at the Sa-
vannah river, near Anderson Court House, and sent
back to Columbia, South Carolina. He again started
in company with twenty—five other prisoners, for
Macon, Georgia, in box cars, under a guard of a
sergeant and six men. Mr. Barse made a saw out
of a common table knife, and by means of thisthey
succeeded in cutting a hole in the floor of the car,
through which he and half a dozen others escaped,
Mr. Barse escaping in company with Captain B. G.C.
Reed of Ohio, while the train halted at Waynesboro,
Georgia. On the third night out they were captured by
hounds and takenback to Louisville, Georgia, and
finally reached Macon. After a few months con-
finement they were sent to Charleston, under fire of
the Union army, but while confined there he had
almost succeeded in tunneling the wall of his cell,

and would have effected his escape if he had not been
forced to take parole. He had not long been con-

fined in Charleston when he was taken with yellow‘

fever, and on recovery was removed to near Colum-
bia, South Carolina, after recruiting for two weeks,
he made his escape, for the fourth time, from Camp
Sorgum, in company with Captain]. E. Clark, 7th
Michigan Cavalry, and after following Sherman three
weeks they reached the lines just previous to the sur-
render of Savannah, December 14, I864, having
had various narrow escapes. His health was much
impaired from the hardships to which he had been
exposed, and on March 23, 1865, he was mustered
out, with the rank of 1st lieutenant. He was offered
a captain’s commission, which he declined on account
of ill health.

He returned to Detroit and went from there to
Arlington, wherein partnership with his brother-in-
law he engaged in business in his old Warehouse.
They established grain agencies in different parts of
the country, and met with fair success.

In 1870 he sold his warehouse and came to Kan-
sas City as the representative of Messrs. W. T. Kee-
nan & Co., of the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
This connection continued until the fall of 1873,
when the firm he represented became involved in the
financial crisis which swept over the whole country
and in which he lost all his capital.

He then formed a partnership under the firm name
of Barse & Snider, in the live stock business. This
union still continues, and their house is the oldest
and most extensive in the Kansas City Stock Ex-
change. Their sales during 1876 amounted to three
million dollars,with a capital of fifty thousand dollars.

JUDGE GEORGE H. BURCKHARTT.

HUNTSVILLE.

M‘  ISSOURI has few sons of whom she has more

cause to be proud than the subject of this
sketch. Born on her soil, educated in her institu-
tions, during her great slavery trouble he stood firm
for the Union, and since then has borne an honorable
and prominent part in her public affairs. George
H. Burckhartt was born, September '11, 1823, six
miles southeast of Huntsville, Randolph county,
Missouri. His parents were George and Ruth

(Dorsey) Burckhartt, and were natives of Frederick
county, Maryland. i

His father emigrated to Missouri in 1816, and
settled in Howard county, where he remained four
years, when he located in Randolph county. He
was a member of the first state legislature, and served
six sessions. He was county court judge several
years, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. His

father, Christopher Frederic Burckhartt, served.in

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIEAPIIICAI, DICTIONARY. 571

the Revolution, and emigrated to Missouri in 1811.
George Burckhartt died in Howard county in
1864.

The subject of this sketch, George H. Burck—
hartt, was reared to agricultural pursuits and had no
great educational advantages. In 1840 he began
to teach school in Munroe county, and was thus
engaged for two years, devoting his leisure time to
the study of law. In 1843 he was admitted to the

bar, and the following year entered upon the practice"

of his profession in Huntsville, where as an eminent
attorney he has since resided. In 1862 he was
elected circuit judge of the 2nd Judicial Circuit, and
reelected in 1864, in 1865 was re-appointed by
Governor Fletcher, and reelected in 1868, 1872 and
1876.

Judge Burckhartt was identified with the VVhig

party until its dissolution, since which time he haS
been a Democrat. In [860 he voted for Bell and
Everett, and during the Rebellion was a Union
man. He cast his first Democratic ballot for George
B. McClellan in 1864.

In 1849 Judge Burckhartt married Miss Amanda
McCampbell, a native of Jessamine county, Ken-
tucky, from which place her father, Wallace Mc-
Campbell, emigrated to Randolph county, Missouri,
where he was extensively engaged in farming.

Throughout his entire career, Judge Burckhartt
has been characterized by prompt and energetic
action and a careful attention to business. Inde-
pendent in thought, social and genial in his manner,
inflexible in integrity, he has attained that success
and lives in the enjoyment of that reward which are
the natural outgrowth of a true life.

DR. JACOB GEIGER.

ST. _/OSEPH.

ACOB GEIGER was born in Wiirtemberg, Ger-
many, July 2 5, 1848. His father, Anton Geiger,
was born in the same place, January 17, 1797,
and received his education at the Tiibingen Univer-
sity, where he graduated in a classical course.
Upon his return to Wiirtemberg he engaged in the
real estate business, speculating and dealing in stocks,
and_ being eminently successful, accumulated a large
amount of property.

In 1832 he was married to Maria G. Eberhardt,
daughter of a prominent citizen of Wiirtemberg.
They had five children: Amelia, who was married
in 1848 to Stanis Kienzle, Clemence, born Nov. 3,
1835, Stephen, born December 25, 1838; Florian,
born May 4, 1842, and Jacob, the youngest, the date
of whose birth has already been given. Clemence
emigrated to America in 1854, married and moved
with his wife and children to Brown county, Kansas,
where he is still engaged in farming. In the year
following that in which his brother emigrated, Ste-
phen, the next in age, came to America. He is now
a merchant in St. Joseph, and owns a considerable
amount of city property. He lives rather a retired
life. Jacob Geiger with his mother, sister, her hus-
band and his youngest brother, emigrated to Amer-
ica after the father’s death, and landed in New York

on the 2d of May, 1857. Anton Geiger died Janu-
ary 14, 1851. Soon after their arrival they settled in
Champaign county, Illinois, where the two older
brothers were farming. During his stay in Illinois
Jacob attended the country schools and soon learned
the English language perfectly. In 18 58 they
removed to Brown county, Kansas, where they pur-
chased a farm. On the Ioth of November, the same
year, Mrs. Gieger died, directly after which Jacob
and his brother Stephen came to St. Joseph.

Upon the call for troops at the opening of the
war, Florian joined the Union army. He was at
that time but nineteen years of age, and was soon
promoted to 2d lieutenant under General Banks. He
was killed during an engagement on Red River.

In 1860, his brother and family having gone back
to Illinois, Jacob returned to them and during the
summer months gave his assistance to his brother, in
order that he might go to the Homer Seminary in
the winter. In 1865 he returned to St. Joseph, where
he took a course of instruction in Bryant’s Business
College. While pursuing his studies here, he made
the acquaintance of Dr. Bishop,. an eminent physi-
cian of St. Joseph. At this time Mr. Geiger had a
very delicate operation performed on his foot by Dr.
Bishop, requiring much time and the greatest skill.

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This obliged him to be away from his studies much
of the time ; after a year’s continuance at the college
he left it altogether and entered his brother’s store.

From his earliest recollections he had always had
a desire to study medicine, and soon commenced the
study under the direction of Dr. Bishop, but being
unable, both physically and financially, to devote his
entire attention to that study, he entered the drug
store of Penick '8: Loving, where he remained some
nine months, his intention being to gain as much
knowledge of medicine and insight into its compound-
ing as possible. During this time he did not cease
his study of medicine, his only opportunity for the
perusal of which was the later part of the evening,
two o’clock in the morning often finding him at his
books. After leaving the drug store he again read
medicine with Dr. Bishop, at the same time getting
considerable practice. During his stay in the drug
store, and his practice while with his preceptor, he
accumulated sufficient means to enable him to attend
lectures at the Medical University at Louisville, Ken-
tucky, where he went in September, 1871. Being
so far advanced, after five months of diligent and
persistent study he passed the examination with the
honor of being the best posted student in his class,
and received a diploma. He then returned to St.
Joseph and opened an office.

In a letter of recent date, written by Captain
Estes, of Iowa, in which he speaks of the delicate
and dangerous operation which was being performed
upon himself, he says: “I don’t think I could have
had better treatment anywhere in the West than I
have had here. I put myself under the care of Dr.
J. Geiger, as operating surgeon, a young man of but
twenty—seven years of age, but comparatively speak—.
ing about sixty years old in experience 3 keen, quick

‘and with steady nerve, at the same time very sympa-

thetic. * >1‘ * After the operation was
performed and I returned to consciousness, the first
thing I thought of was to look at Drs. Geiger and
Richmond (there were several surgeons assisting),
and I saw by their countenances that all was well
and that the tumors were successfully taken out.”
This, with many other striking evidences, show what
a just and extended reputation the Doctor has. Per-
manent success is always regulated by well known
laws, dependent upon natural causes, and no one can
hope to secure any lasting reputation, with a solid
foundation of success, without merit. Dr. Geiger’s
success has been merited by his attainments as a
physician and a surgeon. St. Joseph (Mo.) Hospital
Medical College was organized in June, 1877, to
which he was appointed professor of Anatomy and
Clinical Surgery.

JAMES MADISON BAILEY.

TREIVTO./V.

AMES M. BAILEY was born in Madison county,
Illinois, March 10, 1833. He is the fifth of a
family of eight children. His father, Samuel

B. Bailey, was a native of North Carolina, and a
farmer by occupation. His mother, Elizabeth
(Daughtrey) Bailey, was a native of Georgia. His
parents moved at an early day to Missouri. James
received his limited education in the common schools
which he attended at intervals while working on his
father’s farm. In 1849 his father died, and in the
following year the family moved back to Illinois.
There he worked on a farm till I8 56 when he returned
to Missouri, again settling at Lindley, in Grundy
county, where, in obedience to a taste he had long
entertained, determined to engage in merchandising;
and made his first venture in mercantile life in 1857,

with a cash capital of $145 and some credit. Suc-
cess crowned his efforts, and he remained in Lindley
ten years, building up a prosperous trade, and secur-
ing public confidence by his integrity and business
tact. In 1867 he moved to Trenton, his present
location, where he has since been engaged in general
merchandising, and where he has succceded in build-
ing up a trade nearly equal to that of any similar
establishment in Northwest Missouri.

Personally he is a man of considerable popularity.
He was two years a member of the city council of
Trenton, in which capacity he was recognized as an
upright and efficient official. He has always mani-
fested a lively interest in the cause of popular educa-
tion, and is at present (1877) a member of the school
board. He has been a member of the Christian

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 573

church for the past twenty years. He was made a
Master Mason in Trenton Lodge in 1871; was sub-
sequently exalted in Trenton Royal Arch. Chapter.
He is also a Knight Templar in good standing, and
a member of Godfrey de Bouillion Commandery.
In politics he has always been a Union man and a
conservative Democrat.

He was married May 15, 1858, to Miss Margaret
F. Dobbins, daughter of Thomas Dobbins, a wealthy
farmer of the neighborhood of Lindley, in Grundy
county, Missouri. By this marriage he has a family

of six children, three of whom are boys. His second
child, Stephen A. Bailey, now thirteen years of age,
is about to be graduated from W arrensburg College,
where, for his age, he is considered a prodigy of learn-
ing. Though Mr. Bailey's early opportunities of
mental culture were limited,’ he has all his life been
an r active friend of the cause of education. In
person he is five feet eleven and one-half inches in
height, and weighs about one hundred and fifty-five
His demeanor is unassuming and his social

pounds. ,
He is eminently a self—made man.

qualities good.

WILLIAM N. RUTHERFORD.

ILIOBERL Y.

EW native Missourians have better improved
F the meager advantages offered by the state in
its infancy, than William N. Rutherford. Born in
Randolph county, November, 5, 1843, he spent his
boyhood days in that and Pike county, assisting his
father on the farm. His father, Merriman Ruther-
ford, was a native of Fayette county, Kentucky,
and settled as a pioneer in Howard county, Missouri,
in 1826. His mother, whose maiden name -was
Nancy Orr, was a native of Pike county, Missouri, to
which county her father, Robert Orr, had emigrated

‘from North Carolina in 1819, and carried on farm-

ing to some extent.

William received his education at Watson Semi-
nary in Pike county, and in 1868 began to read law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1871, and in the same

year settled at Moberly and began the practice of

‘ his profession.

In 1872 he was elected superintendent of public
schools in Randolph county, and filled the office
with great credit to himself and benefit to the system
of public schools in that county. In 1874 he was
elected prosecuting attorney of Randolph county, and
was reélectedin 1876. Mr. Rutherford is a Democrat.
In religious views he is a Cumberland Presbyterian.

In 1870 he married Miss ]osie Renolds, of.Ran-
dolph. county, a lady of sterling worth, and one
well fitted to be the wife of a progressive man. Mr.
Rutherford’s keen foresight and sound financial
views have given him an enviable reputation, he is

ever gentlemanly and courteous in all his dealings,

and is an honored and respected citizen.

JOHN DICKINSON DOPF.

ROCI{POI€ T.

OHN D. DOPF is one of the self—made men of

this country, through his own exertions. He
was born in Platteville, Grant county, Wisconsin,
July 18, 1839. His father, Frederick Dopf, a native
of Baden Baden, Germany, was a miner. His
mother’s maiden name was ]ane Mahood. She was
born in Wythe county, Virginia.
The subject of this sketch lost his parents when

he was but seven years old, and he was early thrown
upon his own resources. He secured a limited edu-
cation in the common schools, and when quite young
was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade. He then
moved to Lancaster, Wisconsin, where he served an
apprenticeship to the printing business. At the
expiration of his time, when eighteen years of age,
feeling the necessity of a better education than he

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had obtained in the common schools, he’ attended
the Lancaster Institute one year. He worked for
some time as a traveling printer in different towns
of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.

In 1860 he published for the term of six months
the I7za’epe7m’em‘ I’/Va/cflmzm, a weekly newspaper, in
Mount Morris, Illinois. In the fall of the same
year he moved to Polo, Illinois, where he engaged
in the publication of the Rock I€z'7/er Press, and after-
ward, of the Polo Advertzker. In the spring of 1861,
on the breaking out of the Rebellion, he enlisted in
the Chicago Zouaves and was with the first troops
that left the city. At the end of his three months
term of service he enlisted in the rrth Wisconsin
Regiment, from which he was shortly after discharged
on account of disability. In the spring of 1862' he
removed to Missouri and settled in St. Louis. In
the fall of the same year he took charge of the state
printing office at Jefferson City, and remained in
that capacity till the summer of 1863, when he
returned to St. Louis and worked in the Democraz‘
office several months. He then moved to Rockport
with a view of establishing a Republican newspaper,
and in September, 1863, issued the first number of
the A2‘;/zisoiz Coumj» journal, andhas ever since been
engaged in its publication.

He filled with ability the oflice of surveyor of

Atchison county, from 1864 to 1870. He has, also,

and Paul.

for some years past, been actively engaged in the
real estate business, and he has done much toward
inducing emigration to the county, and otherwise
contributing to its advancement. He was also, till
recently, a member of the well known banking firm
of Durfee, McKillopp & Dopf, now Durfee & Wyatt.

He has been a member of the State Militia ever
since his first arrival in the state, and at one time
held a lieutenant’s commission in the same. He was
among those who enrolled during the war under the
famous “Order No. 24.” In 1870 he united with
the Methodist Episcopal church of which he is still
a member. He has been for the past ten years a
member of North Star Lodge A. F. & A. M., in
Rockport, and is also a member of Zerubbabel Royal
Arch Chapter and of Adoniram Council R. & S. M.,
in Phelps City, Missouri.
St. Joseph, Missouri, at the organization of the first
Grand Lodge of the Union League in the state. In
politics he has always been a conservative Republican.

In January, 1865, heimarried, in Mount Morris,

I Illinois, Miss Mary A. Burnette, daughter of Rod-

He has three children
living——Minta, aged seven and a half years, John R.
His height is five feet seven inches,

ney Burnette, of that place.

weight, one hundred and forty-five pounds.
highly respected in the community where he lives
for-his strict integrity and Christian virtues.

CYRUS H. FROST.

ROLLA.

YRUS H. FROST was born, February 11,
C But
little is known of his ancestry beyond his grandfather,
who emigrated, prior to the Revolution, from the
state of New York to Kentucky and took up his
residence in Jessamine county. In the latter place
his father, Simeon Frost, was born, and lived there
until 1821, when he moved to Missouri and first set-
tled in Washington county,
Crawford county, and inr835 to Steelville, where
he conducted a farm until his death in 1849. He
represented Crawford county in the legislature of
1838, and was elected as a Democrat. A portion
of Steelville, the county seat of Crawford county, is
located on his old farm.

1816, in Jessamine county, Kentucky.

In 1829 he moved to

Cyrus H. Frost, third child of Simeon Frost and
Mary Woods, was reared on the farm, and his early
life did not Vary materially from the ordinary life of
a farmer’s son. He attended the country schools
when the duties of the farm permitted. In the latter
part of his twentieth year he was employed in the
Virginia lead mines. In 1837 he was appointed
assessor of Crawford county and held the office one
year, and was then appointed by Governor Boggs to
fill an unexpired term as sheriff of the county. To
this‘ office he was subsequently reelected three times.
At the expiration of the third term he began the
business of general merchandising on borrowed cap-
ital, but, owing to financial reverses, was compelled
to dispose of his stock of goods. He then turned

In 1864 he assisted, in

He is ’

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 575

his attention to the study of law and was admitted
to the bar in 1843. He practiced his profession for
two years at Steelville, and in 1845 moved to Piny
Mills, Texas county. He was elected sheriff in 1846
and held the office until 1848, when he was chosen
to represent that county in the state legislature, and
was again elected in 1850, 1852 and 1854. In 1854
he resigned as a legislator and accepted the appoint-
ment of circuit clerk, which office he held until 1862.
The disturbed condition of the country at that time
induced him to remove to Rolla. He was elected
to represent the 22nd District in the state senate, and
was an active participator in the exciting legislation
of that period. . At the expiration of his official
term he returned to Rolla, and in 1867 was appointed
clerk of the probate court, a position he held for
three years, engaging in the meantime in the pen-
sion, war claims, real estate and insurance business.
In 1870 he was elected to represent Phelps county,
as a Liberal Republican, in the lower branch of the
state legislature, and during his term was speaker
of the house, pro fem. He returned to Rolla and

resumed his former business at the close of the term,

and has since been employed in that capacity.
He has been president and a director of the Rolla
National Bank since its organization, having been

instrumental in. its establishment. Prior to the
war he was a Democrat, but since then has been
connected with the Republican party, and is a sup-
porter of Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy. He is lib-
eral in his religious views, but is connected with no
denomination of Christians. He is a member of
the Masonic order, and has taken the Royal Arch
degree.

He was married, August 14, 1845, to Miss Han-
nah Leek, daughter of VVilliam Leek and his wife
Sarah Dodd, of Phelps county, by whom he has had
six children, only two of whom are living. Her
parents were originally from Tennessee, but emigra-
ted to Phelps county in 1830.

His eldest brother, H. J. Frost, was. a member
of the legislature, in 1846-7, from Camden county,
elected as a Democrat. His younger brother, E. F.
Frost, served as a representative in the legislature
from Jefferson county, in 1874-7 5, as a Democrat.
His brother, J. M. Frost,‘ was an eminent Baptist
minister in Lexington, Kentucky.

Mr. Frost is well known in Southern Missouri as
a business man of great application and strict integ-
rity. He has had much to do with shaping. the
destiny and developing the resources of his section
of the state.

NATHANIEL GREEN, CLARK.

CUBA.

ATHANIEL GREEN CLARK was born in
VVashington county, Missouri, August 22,

1837. He is the seventh of a family of nine chil-

dren born to William.Clark and his wife, Elizabeth I

J. Campbell. His father emigrated from Pennsyl-
vania about the year I823, and settled in Washing-
ton county, Missouri. He was engaged until 1844
in contracting for and building houses in that county.
In 1844 he moved to St. Louis, and died there four
years after, in the forty-fifth year of his age. His
mother died of cholera during the prevalence of
that scourge in St. Louis in 1849. Beyond his
father and mother nothing is known of his ancestry.

Nathaniel G. Clark’s early education was acquired
in the common schools of St. Louis, until the death
of his mother, and he was left an orphan. After

that event he and his brothers went to live with
73

relatives in Washington and Crawford counties,
working on the farms during the planting and har-
vesting seasons and attending the public schools in
the winter. When seventeen years of age he began
working for himself, laboring on the farms and sav-
ing his means, which were to be spent in attending
the winter schools. This was continued for three
years,.when he began to teach school during sum-
mer and attend the Steelville Academy in the winter.
In this manner and by his own exertions he obtained
a very fair English education.

At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted
in Phelps’ Regiment, Missouri volunteers, for six
months service. He was stationed at Rolla until
the regiment was attached to General Curtis’ com-
mand and took part in the southwest campaign. On
the expiration of his -term of enlistment, he organ-

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ized and was elected captain of Company E, 32d
Missouri Volunteers, under Colonel F. H. Manter.
He participated in the various engagements of the
the Vicksburg campaign and until the surrender of
that important post. On account of ill-health he
then resigned his position and returned to Missouri
in August, 1863. He immediately entered upon the
study of law.

In the fall of 1864 he was elected to represent
Crawford county in the 2 3d General Assembly. In
1865 he was admitted to the bar and located in
Steelville. In 1868 he was elected attorney for the
9th Judicial Circuit and served two years. I In 1872
he was elected to the 27th General Assembly on the
Republican ticket, the balance of the ticket having
been defeated. In that assembly he opposed the
bill to assume the railroad debt by the state, and all
other bills of a similar character. In 1874 he was
a candidate on the People’s Ticket for state senator,
but was defeated. In the following year he left
Steelville and located in Cuba, and continued the

practice of law. Since locating in Cuba he has
become interested in the milling business, owning
two mills in Crawford county. He was, in 1872,
a warm advocate of the construction of the St. Louis,
Salem & Little Rock railroad, and has always been
deeply concerned in the development of Southern
Missouri.

He is a member of the Republican party, but
moderate and liberal in his views. He is a member
of no church and is liberal in his religious sentiments.
He is a member of the Masonic order. He was
married November 29, 1866, to Miss Fannie A.
Jamison, daughter of R. P. Jamison and Mary E.
G. Early, of Crawford county, by whom he has
had three children, two of whom are still living.

In the criminal and civil practice Mr. Clark
occupies an enviable position among the lawyers of
his section of the state. He is sociable in his dispo-
sition, energetic, of -fine judgment and deep pene-
tration. He is much respected for his business
honor and integrity.

COLONEL CASPAR WISTAR BELL.

B UR./VSWICIK.

ASPAR WISTAR BELL was born February
C 2,1820, at Welch Track, Prince Edward county,
Virginia. His paternal ancestry were Irish, his
maternal, pure English. He is a lineal descendant
of Colonel George Bell, of Revolutionary memory,
whose wife was a sister of John Calhoun, the father
of Hon. John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. His
maternal grandmother, whose name was Stokes, was
a sister of Governor Montfort Stokes, of North
Carolina, and of General John Stokes, of the
supreme bench of that state, in whose office General
Andrew Jackson pursued the study of law. His
maternal great-grandmother was a Montfort. His
grandfather Street was also a colonel in the war of
the Revolution, and died in Lunenburgh county,
Virginia, whither his father and mother, Adam and
Sarah Montfort Street Bell, removed shortly after his
birth. ' ,

C. W. Bell attended a private school in his
father’s house until fifteen years of age, taking a
regular course in Latin and Greek. He then
attended William and Mary College, from which he

graduated in 1837, in the same class with John
Tyler, Jr., and many others whose names have been
distinguished in the history of the country. He
subsequently went to Mississippi and became a
student of law in the office of Hon. Henry S. Foote,
who was at that time surveyor-general of the state.
In 1838 he entered the law department of the Uni-
versity of Virginia, and graduated in 1839, in a
class with Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland ; George
W. Randolph, of Virginia; Governor Watts, of
Alabama 3 General Ayers, of South Carolina, and
others who afterward became distinguished in their
different localities. In 1843 he moved to and located
in Brunswick, Chariton county, Missouri. He soon
acquired a commanding position at the bar of that
section, and secured a very large and remunerative
practice in the nth Judicial Circuit, coming into
sharp competition with such distinguished jurists as
Abiel Leonard, John B. Clark, Sr., B. F. Stringfel—
low, Robert T. Prewitt, William Y. Slack and others.
He was especially distinguished as a criminal lawyer,
in which department his greatest Successes were

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 577

achieved. Here he remained, with a constant
increase of business and influence, until 1861.

When the war began, being a Virginian, all his
instincts, interests and sympathies were with the
South and its suffering people. In the spring of
1861 he was commissioned adjutant—general of Gen-
eral Clark’s division of the Missouri State Guards,
which position he held until the fall of that year,
during which time the battles of Boonville, Carthage,
Springfield, Dry VVood and Lexington were fought.
At the meeting of the state legislature in Neosho, in
October, 1861, he was the first man nominated and
was unanimously elected to represent Missouri in
the Confederate Congress, a position he held during
the existence of the government. He at once took
a high position in that body, made a number of
speeches, which were published in the Richmond
Examzher with editorial commendations, especially
one in which he announced the death of Hon. R.
L. Y. Payton, a brother congressman from Missouri,
which was pronounced by William L. Yancey and
others to have been the finest oratorical effort to
which they had ever listened. While in Congress,
he introduced and supported a bill in reference to
guerrillas that infested several of the states, and
Missouri particularly, requiring them to report to
some regular department of the army, or be treated
as outlaws.

Previous to the war Mr. Bell was four times
nominated by the Whig party as a candidate for
Congress, which he as often declined. He was once
a candidate for a seat in the Missouri Legislature
from Chariton county, with a Democratic majority of
nearly one thousand against him, and was defeated
by only some twenty-five votes. While in Richmond

I found him poor and dispirited.

he edited a column in "the E.xa77zz';zer called the Mis-
souri column, in which he advocated the appointment
of General Sterling Price to the position of major-
general in the Confederate army, and wrote so effect-
ively as to secure his purpose. During his absence
from Missouri, his property in Brunswick was
destroyed and his Virginia patrimony was invested
in war bonds. The close of the war, therefore,
In 1866 he went to
Danville, Virginia, and practiced law’ with great
success for one year. He then returned to Bruns-
wick, and has been steadily regaining his old business.

He was baptized in infancy in the Episcopal
church, but was reared under Presbyterian influences.

He is not associated with any Christian body, but is

Calvinistic in faith, leaning somewhat to Universal-
ism. He was a Whig during the life of that party,
and an active and able advocate of its principles.
Since the demise of that party he has been a Demo-
crat.

He was married August 6, 1844, to Miss l\/Iada—
line Leontine Owen, daughter of General Ignatius
P. Owen, of Howard county, Missouri. General
Owen commanded a brigade in the Black Hawk
war, and was present at the surrender of that noted

chief. By their marriage Colonel Bell and wife had

A ten children, five sons and five daughters, of whom

only five, Montfort Wistar, Caspar Wistar, Julia
Franklin, Mary Susan and Fannie Street, are now
living. Colonel Bell is a man of commanding
appearance, six feet in height, weighs one hundred
and seventy pounds, very erect, dark gray eyes,
hair originally black but now nearly white. As a
speaker, he is earnest, fluent and graceful, and at
times truly eloquent.

DANIEL CURRAN KENNEDY.

SPRINGFIEL D.

ROMINENT among the names of the leading
P journalists of Southern Missouri, stands that of
Daniel C. Kennedy. He was born in Queens county
Ireland, February I4, 1841, and is the third child of
Michael and Elizabeth (Condron) Kennedy.

His father was the proprietor of a coal mine in
Ireland, and immigrated with his family to America

in 1843. In 1848 he returned to his native country

to participate in its struggle for freedom. The rev-
olution there being suppressed he returned to America
and made a permanent home forhis family in St.
Louis, and died in 1863, in the sixtieth year of his age.

Daniel received a common school education, and
when fourteen years of age entered the printing
office of Keith & Woods, where he formed a taste
for this kind of work which gave coloring to all his

578 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

after life. He was engaged in different offices until
1861, and during his leisure moments read law.
When war was declared between the North and
the South, he was a member of the St. Louis militia
and was stationed at Camp Jackson. Being looked
upon as rebels his company was captured and held
as prisoners by General Lyon. When exchanged
Mr. Kennedy went to Memphis, Tennessee, and
joined an artillery company, which soon after was
ordered to reinforce Price at Springfield. He par-
ticipated in the famous retreat in 1862 when Curtis
compelled Price to fall back to Boston mountain in
Arkansas.‘ After the battle of Pea Ridge they were
ordered to reinforce Johnston at Shiloh, and took
part in the famous siege of Vicksburg, where he was
taken prisoner July 4, 1863. After being exchanged
he entered active service, and in January, 1864, was
again taken prisoner at Hernando, Mississippi, by
Federal scouts, paroled and sent to St. Louis.

In 1865 he removed to Springfield and entered
the ./l!z'ss0m*z' Pafrzbl office, where he remained a few
months and then took charge of the S02/Z/zwesz‘ Umkm
Press. In 1867 the Press office was destroyed by
fire, and forming a partnership. with Captain 0. S.
Fahnestock, he established T /16 Sprzkzgfiela’ Leader.
The following year he bought his partner’s interest
in the paper, and has since had the entire control.
It has an extensive circulation and is one of the most
popular papers in Southern Missouri. After the

"test oath was declared unconstitutional, in 1867, Mr.

Kennedy was admitted to the bar, but abandoned
the profession that he might give his entire time to
journalism. Politically he is a Democrat, and has
ever sustained the principles of his party through the
columns of his paper. .

November 2o, 1866, he married Miss Lula Boyd,
daughter of Hon. Marcus Boyd. They have three
children, viz., Robert L., Daniel C. and Norman.

HENRY M. POLLARD, M. C.

CHILLICO THE.

ENRY M. POLLARD was born in Plymouth,
H His father, Moses "Pol-
lard, was a farmer, a man of— liberal education,
laborious and successful, renowned for his strict
integrity and his liberal views of religion, and for
fifteen years a member of the Vermont legislature.
His grandfather emigrated from Lexington, Massa-
chusetts, and settled in Vermont in I79o. His
great-grandfather was the first rebel killed at Bunker
Hill. His mother was Abigail Brown, whose grand-
father also came from Massachusetts to Vermont
about the year 1750 and erected, on the spot where
Henry was born, the first house in Plymouth, this
house was torn down about 1780, when he erected
the house where he died, where his son, the father of
Abigail, died, and where Abigail died, which house
to-day stands amid the old elms planted a century
and a quarter ago. His mother died in 1850,
his father in 1870. Noted for her quiet sympa-
thetic nature, loved and esteemed by the whole
community for her many and frequent acts of kind-
ness and charity, and deeply imbued with religious
fervor, she brought up her family of five children to
attend her church, and, though not joining with her

Vermont, in I 836.

husband in his liberal religious sentiments, recognized
his right to his own convictions. J
Henry M. Pollard was the fourth child and eldest

son. He was early taught by the best private

-teachers and- in the public schools, and at the age of

fourteen was sent ‘to the New England Academy to
prepare for college. At the age of seventeen he
entered the scientific department of Dartmouth

‘College, where he graduated in the class of 1857.

During the winter of 1855-6 he taught school in
Plymouth, and in that of 1856-7, in the public
schools of Dunbury Port, Massachusetts. At Dart-
mouth he stood well inhis classes and acquired
command of the modern languages and of mathe-
matics, in the latter of which he took special delight
and was very proficient. After graduating, he trav-
eled extensively in the South and West to learn
something of the geography of the country and the
manners and customs of the people. He finally
settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1859, where he
commenced the study of law with Messrs. Carter &
Whipple. After two years of diligent study he was
admitted to the bar, in 1861, by Judge McArthur,
then judge of the circuit court.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIJICAIL DICTIONARY. 579

Whenthe. civil war began, he returned to Ver-
mont and was commissioned Ist lieutenant in the 8th
Vermont infantry, and joined his regiment, then at
New Orleans. He served with his regiment at Camp
Bisland, Franklin, Port Hudson and in the Red
River expedition. In the spring of 1864, his regi-
ment having reénlisted for the war, he was granted
a furlough for thirty days, and returned to Vermont
and was married. After the expiration of his fur-
lough he returned with his regiment to New Orleans,
and was promoted to a captaincy and ordered to report
to General Dwight, then and until the end of the war
commanding the 1st Division of the .I9th Army
Corps. He served on the staff of General Dwight
until the close of hostilities. In May, 1865, his
command was ordered to report to General Grant at
City Point, but on reaching Old Point Comfort, the
ubiquitous jubal Early was menacing Washington,
and the troops were disembarked at the latter place.
He served in the battles of Monocacy junction,
Harper’s Ferry, Berrysville, Winchester, Fisherville,
Harrisonburg and Cedar Creek, and for gallantry in
these last named battles he was promoted to be major
of his regiment. He was mustered out of the ser-
vice in july, 186 5, and at once went to Albany, New
York. ,

_- Here he reviewed his legal studies and revived
his knowledge of the profession by four months
attendance at the law school. In December, 186 5,
he and his wife moved to Chillicothe, Missouri, where
they have since resided. He devoted himself very
assiduously to his profession, and secured a large

amount of business in Livingston and adjacent
counties, the result of energy, activity and applica-
tion. In the spring of 1876 he was elected mayor
of Chillicothe. In the fall of the same year he
became the Republican candidate for Congress in the
Ioth Missouri District. The contest was one of the
most exciting and memorable in the history of the
state, he having made over seventy speeches during
the campaign, and he was triumphantly elected. In
politics Mr. Pollard is a Republican. _

During his residence in Missouri he has been the
firm friend and active patron of public schools. To
every enterprise calculated to promote the welfare of
his city, county and state, he has given his influence
and support. Internal improvments especially have
met his approbation and received his aid.

He was married in 1864 to Miss Adams, daughter
of Abraham Adams, Esq., for many years a manu-
facturer and merchant of Ludlow, Windsor county,
Vermont. Four children have been the fruits of
this union, the youngest child and only son being
now dead. ‘

Henry M. Pollard is an active, social, genial,
straight-forward man ; earnest and sincere in his con-
victions; bold and courageous in maintaining the
right ; possessing keen perceptions, extensive knowl-
edge and a mind capable of penetrating abstruse
problems, a speaker of great power, capable of
bringing to his’ aid a chaste, exact and vigorous
diction, and of that magnetic influence that attracts
to him all who come within his social circle. His
future gives promise of great ‘usefulness.

REUBEN BARNEY, M. D.

CIIILILICO THE.

EUBEN BARNEY was born, April 20, 1844,
R in Arlington, Bennington county, Vermont.
His parents were Nathan F. and Fanny (Canfield)
Barney, and were natives of Bennington county.
The Barney family were active participants in the
Revolution. H

Reuben was reared on his father’s farm, and
received an academical education, studied medicine
at Saratoga and graduated at the Albany Medica1

College in 1864; entered the medical department of

the United States army as acting assistant-surgeon, .

was stationed at Boston, Massachusetts, and remained
as executive officer of the United States hospital
until after the close of the war.

In 1866 he further extended his medical educa-
tion by a course of lectures at the Long Island Col-
lege, Brooklyn. . In the fall of 1868 he located at
Chillicothe, Missouri, where he has since been
actively engaged in the practice of medicine. Dr.
Barney has written articles on medical topics for
magazines and journals. '

He has never sought or held public office of a

580 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

political responsibility, but has devoted his time and
energies to his profession. He is in politics a
Republican. In religious belief he is an Episco-
palian. ,

In 1866 Dr. Barney married Miss Mattie Prin-

dle, of Arlington, Bennington county, Vermont, a
lady of culture and education. Dr. Barney has ever
been a close student, and his success as a physician
is largely due to his entire devotion to his chosen
life—work.

THOMAS ROSS BRYAN.

CHILZLICO THE.

HOMAS ROSS BRYAN, son of Andrew and
T Isabel (Ross) Bryan, was born November I4,
1806, in Overton county, Tennessee. His parents
were natives of Virginia, and came to Missouri in
1838, settling in Livingston county, where the father
died in 1842.

His maternal grandfather, Thomas Ross, was an
Irishman, who became implicated in Emmet’s Re-
bellion, and making his escape from Ireland came to
America, locating in White county, Tennessee, where
he engaged in farming. Thomas inherited a taste
for agricultural pursuits which has followed him
through life. He was educated in the country
schools of his native state, and in 1835 came to Mis-
souri, locating in Livingston county, where he still
resides as an extensive stock raiser and agricul-
turist.

In 1837 he was elected the first clerk of Livings-
ton county, and held the office for twenty years.
During the Rebellion he was in the Southern army,
and an active participant in the battle of Lexington.
Politically Mr. Bryan was always a firm Democrat
and was sent by his party several times to the state
conventions. He was -a faithful member of the
Southern Methodist church.

September 20, 1842, he married Miss Lydia A.
King, a native of Garrard county, Kentucky, and
daughter of Adrial M. King, a native of the same
county, and early pioneer of Ray county, Missouri.
Mr. Bryan was a man of strong character, genial,
social and affable, and was universally respected by a
large circle of friends and acquaintances. His death
occurred September 29, 1877, an irreparable loss to
the community.

HON. JACOB TRIPLER CHILD.

RI CHM OIVD.

ACOB TRIPLER CHILD was born in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1833. His father,
Ezekiel Child, was a descendant of one of the
Quaker families who came with William Penn to
America. Some of them still live in Philadelphia,
where they first settled. He was a natural mechanic,
and spent much of his time and means in perfecting
locomotive engines. He ‘died of cholera, in 1856, at
Richmond,Virginia. His mother, Susan L. (Triplet)

Child, was of a Danish family of pioneers, early set— ,

tlers of Delaware, but subsequently removing to
Richmond, Virginia. They had six children. The
eldest, John T. Child, resides in Wilmington, North

Carolina ; L. T. Child, Worcester, Massachusetts;
Jesse Child, Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth L.,.now
the wife of W. C. Tripler, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, Susan, wife of Colonel W. Black, attorney-
at-law, Richmond, Missouri, and Jacob T., the
subject of this sketch, who was the fourth son. He
received a common school education, and when fif-
teen years of age engaged in the printing office of
the Ezkfmzomz’ W/zzg, Virginia, where he served an

apprenticeship of five years and was then employed

in the same office for three years, thus becoming an
adept in the profession.
In 18 56 he, with a party of young men, emigra-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI. DICTIOIVAIBY. 581

ted to Kansas, but during the border ruffian trouble
went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he engaged with
the editor of the Cycle. In 1857 he established
the tri-weekly journal, which in a short time he con-
verted into a daily, the first in the Missouri Valley.
In 1861 he sold the four/zal and edited the Gazelte
for a short time, after which he started the E72em'/zg
I\/Ieze/s, a strong Democratic paper. He then removed
to Richmond, Missouri, and purchased the Conser-
zia/or, which he still (1877) edits and which has
never failed to appear when due, not even when, on
July I4, 1869, a tornado blew the roof off of his office.

At the beginning of the late war he received the
appointment of major of Governor Stewart’s regi-
ment, not going into service. He was then appoin-
ted adjutant of the 3 5th Missouri volunteers, and
served on the Lower Mississippi, under General
Grant. He was next promoted to be captain of com-
pany F, which position he resigned on account of
sickness. He then organized a company of Missouri
militia (Papaws), and was chosen 1st lieutenant,
engaging in active service until the close of the war.

In 1874 he represented Ray county in the 27th

General Assembly, and served creditably on several
important committees. At the expiration of his
term he was elected mayor of Richmond. He has
always taken an active part in politics, and has been
a delegate to every Dem Jcratic state convention
since his identification with that party. Like many
of our great men, he is not renowned for his oratory,
but has influence with his party. He has been a
member of the I. O. O. F. for twenty years, and

‘held many important offices. ,

April 23, 1861, he married Elisabeth Rebecca

McRoberts, of Kentucky, whose father, Major An—-

drew McRoberts, one of the pioneers of the moun-
tains, who resided at Cumberland Gap and was
noted for his courage, strength "and endurance.
He and his wife, with whom he has lived for fifty
years, reside with their daughter in Richmond, Mis-
souri. Mr. and Mrs. Child have five children, four
sons and one daughter. He is a member of the
Christian church and deeply interested in everything
which would tend to advance the cause of educa-
tion, and Christianity in the community in which he
lives, and his future is full of promise.

CHRISTOPHER TRIGG GARNER.

RICHMOND.

HRISTOPHER TRIGG GARNER was born
C March 25, 1825, in Fayette, Howard county,
Missouri. He was the son of Coloneljesse W. Gar-
ner and Docia Garner. Colonel Jesse W. Garner
was born in Northumberland county, Virginia, in the
year 1791, and removed to Winchester, Clark county,
Kentucky, when a boy. He was married to Docia
Trigg January 15, 1810. In I8I9 he emigrated to
Missouri, and settled in Old Franklin, Howard
About a year thereafter he removed to
Fayette. From 1820 to 1841 he lived in Fayette
and vicinity. In I84[ he moved to Ray county.
In 1848 he moved near Liberty, Clay county, where
in June, 1850, he died. He was one of the Pioneers
of Missouri, a carpenter by trade, and built the first
court house and college buildings at Fayette. The
last burned down when just completed, by which he
sustained great pecuniary loss.

He was a bright Mason and was at the organiza-
tion of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri. He

county.

was a man of integrity of character, decision, energy
and enterprise, with a vigorous intellect, good judg-
ment and strong practical common sense; highly
esteemed and universally respected; kind and affec-
tionate in his family relations, overflowing with sym-
pathy for all. Docia Garner was the daughter of
General Stephen Trigg, and was born January 21,
1782, in Bedford county, Virginia. She was a
descendant of the family of Trigg who emigrated
from England and settled in Spottsylvania county,
Virginia, the sons of whom distinguished themselves
as soldiers in the war of the Revolution, in the war
of 18:2, and in the Indian wars of a later period.
They were in the siege of Yorktown, the battle of

King Mountain, and the Indian battle at the Blue

Licks, in Kentucky. They were gallant soldiers and
true men.

Colonel John and Abram Trigg were members
of Congress, after the Revolutionary war, from the
state of Virginia. General Stephen Trigg removed

582 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

from Virginia to Kentucky and engaged in the
Indian wars of that period. He was a man of supe-
rior intellect, remarkable for his decision of charac-
ter, firmness and courage. He was a member of
the Missouri Legislature, and filled other positions of
honor and trust. The wife of General Stephen
Trigg was Elizabeth Clark, the daughter of Robert
Clark, who emigrated from Virginia to Clark county,
Kentucky, and was a member of the convention
that framed the first constitution of that state. He
had two sons, Christopher and James, who were
members of Congress, the latter a judge of the
supreme court and governor of Kentucky. ‘Colonel
Jesse W. Garner had a family of twelve children.
Only four brothers and two sisters now survive:
Christopher T. Garner, the subject of this sketch;
Captain John C. Garner, Dr. H. C. Garner, Stephen
T. Garner, Mrs. Docia J. Groves, the wife of David
Groves, a prosperous farmer near Dover, Lafayette
county, Missouri; and Mrs. Susan M. Smith, now
living with Captain ‘John C. Garner, the widow of
Patrick Smith. Stephen T. Garner resides in How-
ard county and Captain John C. Garner in Ray
county, both are farmers. Dr. H. C. Garner resides
at Richmond, and is a physician of standing in his
profession and at present cashier of the Ray county
Savings Bank. All of them are men of character
and influence. '

C. T. Garner, the subject of this sketch, until he
arrived at full age, worked at daily labor for his
father, only attending school irregularly, for short
periods, in the log school houses of that day. His
education was obtained by his own exertion and
study, more than from teachers. He taught school
for about a year, then went into a store as clerk for
a few months. Having a desire for the study of law
he entered the law office of the Hon. George W.
Dunn, in 1845,’at Richmond, Missouri, and read
law continuously for nearly three years. In May,
1848, he applied to Judge Austin A. King, after-
ward governor of Missouri, for license. The judge
when handing him his license advised him to locate
permanently at Richmond, and engage in the practice
of his profession. He yielded to his suggestion
with great reluctance, as the bar of Richmond was
then composed of such eminent lawyers as Philip

L. Edwards, George W. Dunn, E. B. Ewing, Charles

E. Bowman, Mordecai Oliver, and E. A. Lewis.
Without money, library, books, or office furniture,
he obtained the privilege of occupying a table in a
drug store for his office, a copy of the Revised

' when he declined a reelection.

Statutes of Missouri, kindly loaned by a friend was
the extent of his library. The first earnings of his
profession was applied to paying his legal preceptor
for his board and instruction while studying his pro-
fession. Afterward he purchased such books as his
limited means permitted; sympathizing friends gath-
ered around him, and his prospects for business
brightened. He at once went into an active and
remunerative practice, which he has retained at the
same bar for a period of twenty-nine years. ‘He
traveled the circuit and attended the courts in ten
counfies ‘

On the 5th day of November, 1850, he was
married, in Callaway county, Missouri, to Miss
Elizabeth B. Mosby, an estimable and accomplished
daughter of Major James Mosby.

Mr. Garner was a Whig. His judicial circuit
was composed of Ray, Clay, Carroll, Clinton, De-
Kalb, Harrison, Daviess and Caldwell counties,
which was then Democratic in politics by a large
majority. In 1852 he became. a candidate for cir-
cuit attorney, and was ‘elected by a handsome
majority over his opponent, who was a good lawyer,
a popular man, his senior in years and in the pro-
fession, and a Democrat. He discharged the duties
of the office until 1856, with success and ability,
In his prosecutions
he met such distinguished lawyers as Colonel A.
W. Doniphan, Colonel James H. Moss, Governor
Hall, Hon. H. M. Vories and others.

In 1854 the Presbyterian Synod of Missouri
decided to locate an institution of learning at some
point in the state. Richmond competed for the
location of this institution. To this enterprise he
gave a hearty support by his speeches and otherwise.
It resulted in the erection of the splendid edifice
now overlooking the city of Richmond. He was
chosen to draw up the charter for the city of Rich-
mond and secure its incorporation. In 1858 he
advocated, by a thorough and energetic canvass, the
proposition submitted to the people of his county
for voting $200,000 to aid in building a railroad
through the county. To the success of the move-
ment the people of his county are indebted for their
present liberal railroad facilities. In 1848 he coop-
eratedwith others in establishing a branch of the
Union State Bank at Richmond, was elected a
director, and was annually reelected thereafter so
long as the bank existed. In 1861, in the excite-
ment preceding the war, he was strongly and deci-
dedly for the Union and against secession, doing all

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 583

he could to resist the wave of secession which threat-
ened to involve his native state in the vortex of civil
war. With unfaltering firmness he remained loyal
to the government and uncompromisingly for the
Union, until the end of that memorable struggle.
In 1864 he organized a company for the purpose of
defending the town and people against the depreda-
tions of bushwhackers, by whom it was threatened.
In 1862, during the war, he was elected a member

of the legislature from Ray county, and was a wise, ‘

prudent legislator, a prominent leader of the con-
servative element in that body, exerting a favorable
influence over its deliberations.

He assisted, in 1866, in procuring the stock and
organizing the Ray County Savings Bank, was elected
a director and annually reelected to the present time.
Upon the organization of the St. Louis, Kansas City
& Northern railroad‘ company, and the St. Joseph
& St. Louis railroad company, he was retained as
one of their attorneys, and is still so employed. He
was a member of the board of trustees of Richmond
College. There is not a public enterprise in-his
section to which he has not contributed by his
talents and influence 3 a liberal contributor to the
building of churches and institutions of learning,
and to the support of churches, schools and all
movements for the public good. He is kind and
affectionate in his family; in his social relations he

. is ‘courteous, congenial and affable 3 charitable, be-

nevolent and full of sympathy for all. He is a self-
made man, having arisen to his present position by
his own indomitable Will and energy. His self-reli-
ance, tact and talent, combined with his knowledge
of the law, have made him an able lawyer and suc-
cessful practitioner, and a good impromptu speaker.

Though not a member of any church, his life has
been exemplary, temperate and moral, never’ indulg-
ing in any dissipation. The only charitable organi-

zation of which he is a member, is .the Masonic
lodge. His present political identity is with the
Democratic party, although originally a strong Whig.
He has an interesting family of seven children:
James W., Christopher Ti, Jr., Elizabeth‘ B., William
H., Sarah J., Mary V., and Jessie C. His three
eldest children are Well educated, graduates of Rich-
mond College. The others are yet attending college.
His oldest son, James W. Garner, is a promising
young lawyer, a good speaker, and is associated with
his father in the practice. C. T. Garner, Jr., is
studying law in his father’s office, and associated
with him in the insurance business. ‘
Elizabeth B. Garner, the daughter of Major
James Mosby, was born February 6, 1832, in Calla-
way county, Missouri, and is a most excellent Chris-
tian lady, having united with the Christian church
before her marriage. Major James Mosby was a
native of Virginia, a strong Whig, and a great
admirer of Henry Clay. He emigrated from Scott
county, Kentucky, to Callaway county, Missouri, in
the year 1828. He was a man of general, intelli-
gence, strong intellect, highly respected and of
decided influence; he Was a kind man in all the
relations of life, an excellent citizen of pure, unblem-
ished character. In the latter part of his life he
united with the Christian church, of which he
remained a consistent and faithful member -until his
death, January 9, I871. Eliza Mosby, the mother
of Elizabeth B.Garner, was the daughter of Captain
George Robarids, of Mercer county, Kentucky. She
Was a most excellent, pious, Christian woman, and
early united with the reformation. Her example
influenced her husband as Well as children, all of
Whom are members of the ‘Christian church. She
took an active and zealous part in the reformation,
and was a most estimable lady, universally esteemed

_ for her Christian character.

COLONEL JOHN  SHAFER.

SHE1; B]./VA. J

OHN W.’ SHAFER, a native of New York,
was born at Sparta, Livingston county, July 15,
1835 His father, Jacob Shafer, was born in

Monroe county, Pennsylvania. His mother, Ann

(Wilkinson) Shafer, was born in Livingston county,
74;

New York, and was the daughter of Gawen Wilkin-
son, who was a farmer of that county.
Young Shafer was reared on his father’s farm in

his native county. He was educated at the Alfred

l Academy, in Alleghany county, New York, gradu-

584 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

ating in 1854. During the next two years he trav-
eled in the western and southern states, engaging
occasiona.lly in teaching, while thus employed he
spent his every leisure moment in the study of law,
and was admitted to the bar in 18 58, at Rochester,
New York. In 1859 he located in Elkhart, Indiana,
where he practiced his profession for one year.

In 1860 he Went to Colorado, where he engaged
in mining for nine months, when he returned to Elk-
hart and entered the 19th Indiana infantry in 1861
as a private soldier. He was on active duty in the
army of the Potomac until the close of the war, partic-
ipatingin the great battlesof Bull Run, South’ Moun-
tain, Fredericksburg,Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
(in which he was badly Wounded by a minnie ball in
the right arm), and was with Grant in his attack on

Richmond. He was promoted, successively, to
be 1st lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant-
colonel.

In I866 he located at his present home in Shel-
bina. In 1870-1 Colonel Shafer represented Shelby
county in the legislature, and served with great
ability. In politics he is a firm Democrat.

In 1859 he married Miss Helen M. Baldwin, of
Elkhart, Indiana, who died in July, 1865. In
November, 1866, he married Miss Franc M. Smith,
of Shelby county, Missouri.

Colonel Shafer is a man of sound judgment, irre-
proachable integrity, great executive abilities, pos-
sessed of a proud public spirit and good social
qualities, and has attained by his energy a position
in the rank of leading men in the state.

JUDGE JOHN STRODE BRASFIELD.

PLATTE CITY.

Clarke county, Kentucky, April 5, 1825. Both

his parents were natives of that county. He is
the youngest son of a family of_ five children, three
sons and two daughters. Of these, himself and a
sister——Mrs. Fry—are the only survivors. His
mother still lives, at the advanced age of seventy-
nine years, well preserved mentally and physically.
Her maiden name was Jane Lafferty. She is a grand-
daughter of Captain John Strode, originally of Vir-
ginia, and one of the most remarkable men of his
time. Captain Strode was afterward distinguished
among the early settlers of Kentucky, for his active
enterprise and the daring courage he invariably dis-
played in his numerous encounters with the Indians.
The eventful experiences of this pioneer, who died
at an advanced age, would alone fill an interesting
volume.

James Brasfield, the father of the subject of this
sketch, was born September 25, 1790. He served
with credit in the war of 1812, in which he rose to
the rank of major. He lost an eye in this service,
for which wound he drew a pension up to the period
of his death, which occurred in Missouri, September
22, 1839. He was a son of Captain Wiley Roy
Brasfield, also an officer in the army during the war
of 1812 He was of English ancestry, a native of

JOHN STRODE BRASFIELD was born in

Virginia, emigrating to Kentucky among the earliest
settlers of that state 5 where by active industry he
achieved an independent fortune, including forty
slaves. He was a man of splendid physique, meas-
ured full six feet one inch and a half, and weighed
two hundred pounds._ He died June I0, 1839, at
the age of seventy-three years. Thomas Berry, the
father of the wife of this pioneer and a man of great
force of character, died at the age of one hundred
years.

John S. Brasfield’s father was a man of fine men-
tal attainments and of recognized business capacity.
He filled several important public offices in Ken-
tucky, and was sheriff of the county eight years.
He ever took an active interest in the political affairs
of the country.‘ He was also an accomplished sur-
veyor, and was universally beloved for a generosity
of heart and hospitality which rendered him liberal
to a fault.

Mrs. Lafferty, the grandmother of the subject of
our sketch, being a widow, moved to Missouri and
lived with his father there. They settled in 1834 in the
wilds of what is now Clinton county. In 1838 Mrs.
Lafferty concludedto settle a home of her own.
She accordingly moved on a claim which she pur-
chased from the government in Platte county, now
the property of Judge Brasfield. Here, with three

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negroes and her grandson, the subject of this sketch,
she built her cabin, triumphed over the obstacles
and hardships of pioneer life, and in time devel-
oped a valuable farm.

On the death of Major Brasfield in September,
1839, it was discovered that his characteristic gene-
rosity, which could never say “ no” toia friend, had
involved him heavily in security debts. These,
however, by economy, self—denial and careful man-
agement his widow and Mrs. Lafferty succeeded in
paying off and saving their home. The country at
that time abounded in game of every description,
and young John became an expert marksman and
successful hunter. Educational advantages in that
sparsely settled country were necessarily limited, and
what education he at that time obtained he walked
three miles to secure. He was early trained in hab-
its of practical business, and speaks with satisfaction
of his first venture in that direction, when a boy,
raising twelve hundred pounds of pork, which he
sold for twelve silver dollars.

In 1842, having made a little money, he went to
Santa Fe with a train of traders. This trip was not
without peril. He was the cook of his mess, and
his skill as a marksman made him the hunter of his
party. ‘In one of these expeditions he narrowly
escaped capture by the Comanche Indians. Arriving
in Santa Fe the party wholesaled their goods, and
he was left without employment in a strange country.
He soon, however, acquired the language of the
natives sufficiently to make himself understood, and
had the good fortune to gain the confidence of an
Irishman named Scully, who sent him in charge of a
train to St. Magil, forty miles from Santa Fe’, where
he traded successfully till the following spring, when,
after many adventures, he returned safely home, to
the infinite delight of his venerable mother and
grandmother. In the following winter he worked in
a whisky distillery owned by his brother Thomas, in
Clinton county. To this business he took a disgust,
and in the following fall clerked in a store at a salary
of three hundred dollars per annum.

In 1849, allured by the gold excitement, with his
brother William, one John Hayden and a negro
driver, he started with a wagon and six yoke of oxen
for California. I The train included a large company
from Platte and Clinton counties, and, with the
exception of some inconvenience in crossing the
desert, they had a prosperous journey. On reach-
ing Sacramento he was attracted by the ineffectual
attempt of a number of Spaniards to make themselves

understood by an American trader from whom they
desired to purchase goods. Here his early acquired
knowledge of the Spanish language served him. On
interpreting their wants and displaying his knowledge
of business, the trader promptly offered him employ-
ment at three hundred and fifty dollars per month.
This offer he declined, only ‘remaining to assist him
temporarily till ready to start to the mines, whither
he was determined to try his fortune. In company
with his brother he repaired to the gold mines,
where they remained till the following spring, clear-
ing about $1,600 above all expenses. The incessant
rains disgusting them with mining, they determined
to try something else. Live stock of all kinds bearing
an enormous price, in January, 1850, he, with Lewis
J. Wood and James M. Clay, started for Sacramento
City, loaded down with gold dust which their friends
had loaned them. They proceeded to Sacramento,
thence to San Francisco and thence, by sea, to San
Diego, California. Visiting Los Angeles, Santa Bar-
bara, and many places of interest in Southern Cali-
fornia, they bought up alarge lot of mules, horses,
oxen, etc. Returning, they had some terrible expe-
riences in consequence of swollen streams, etc., but
arrived back in Sacramento City in three months,
with the loss of but a single animal. Here they sold
their stock at a good profit.

In Sacramento he heard of the death of his
brother, which occurred January 29, 1850, at the
age of twenty-seven years. Discouraged by this
sad event, and urged by his mother, though highly
prosperous in business and with a splendid prospect
of ultimate success, he yielded to her solicitations
and returned home, leaving in steamer for Panama
June 1, 1850, having left his mining interests in the
hands of black John, at wages of eight dollars per
day. He expresses himself as having left California
with extreme reluctance. He was meeting with
excellent success in business, enjoyed splendid health
and, at the period of his leaving San Francisco,
weighed one hundred and seventy-five pounds.
Arriving in Panama, he crossed the Isthmus to Cha-
gres river on a mule. Proceeding by steamer, he
reached New Orleans July 3, I850, witnessed the
grand celebration of the following day, proceeded up
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, reaching Weston,
in Platter county, July 18, 1850, and once more saw
his old home, the “ Big Bear Rough.” _

Judge Brasfield was married December 11, 1851,
in Clay. county, Missouri, to Miss Kate Brasfield, a
distant relative and daughter of C. L. and Elizabeth

586 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARI’.

Brasfield. She was born in Woodford county, Ken-
tucky, October I5, 1826. Her parents, ‘Virginians
by birth, were among the oldest and best citizens of
Kentucky. Mrs. Brasfield was educated in Danville,
Kentucky. The family is of English and Scotch
origin. '

The only political office held by Mr. Brasfield was
that of judge of the Platte county court, to which
position he was elected in 1870, and served about
two years. Originally he was a Whig, -but since the
dissolution of that party has acted with the Demo-
crats. He is a Protestant in belief, but a member
of no church. I I

When about twenty-one years of age he was made
a Master Mason in Platte Lodge, No. 156. He was

afterwards elected W orshipful Master of Zerubbabel
Lodge, No. I91, Platte City. He was exalted to

the Royal Arch degree in Weston Chapter, in 1850, A

and afterward became a member of Melody R. A.
C. at Platte City, in which body he has at different
times held all the important offices. In 1850 he
was created a Knight Templar in Weston Comman-
dery, Nor 2, and afterwards assisted to organize and
became a member of Belt Commandery, No. 9, at
Platte City. In the latter body, also, he has suc-
cessively filled all the different offices.

Personally he is a man of robust frame, erect in
carriage, and measures six feet. His eminent integ-
rity and benevolent character have rendered him
one of the most popular men in the county.

GEORGE CLINTON SWALLOW, M. D., LL. D.

COIL UMBIA.

EORGE CLINTON SWALLOW was born in
G Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, in 1817.
Among the lists of the Norman conquerors which
history has preserved, appears the name of Sevalliou.
As far as known he was the progenitor of all who
bear the name of Swallow in America. When, or
for what cause the French etymology was changed,
does not appear, nevertheless the history of the
migrations of the numerous branches of his family
have been preserved. From these records we learn
that one branch migrated from France direct to New
Orleans. Another, after a residence in England,
came with the earlier colonists to New England and
settled in New Hampshire. From the latter branch
George Clinton Swallow was descended. I His father
was a farmer of high repute among his neighbors, and
laid them under special obligation by the exercise of
his fine mechanical skill in his blacksmith and gun-
smith shop. ,

Here their agricultural implements were made
and repaired, as well as their fire arms which were in
constant requisition. In these varied occupations,
on the farm and in the workshop of his father, were
laid the foundations of a fine physical structure and
manly development. Inheriting the mechanical
tastes and talents of his father, he felt constantly an
increasing need and longing for that scientific knowl-
edge which his native village could not supply.

Just at this time men were beginning to unfold

the long history of the earth from the stratified rocks. »

He looked at the grand mountain ranges of his native
state and resolved that he would read their secrets.
He must study geology. In his labors and experi-
ments in the gun shop and on the farm, many ques-
tions arose involving principles, particularly in chem-
istry, of which he knew nothing. Chemistry, too, he
must understand. The branches he most desired
could only be reached in the senior year at college.
Between him and that coveted time were five long
years of toil and study upon subjects the value of

_which, at that time he could form no proper estimate.

Nevertheless he resolved to pay the price, hardship
though it seemed to him then. - Those five years of
training and mental discipline gave a breadth and
comprehensive grasp to his intellect which otherwise
it would never have formed.

Putting his purpose at once into execution, he grad-
uated at Bowdoin College with high honors in 1843.
Immediately upon his graduation he was made lectu-
rer upon botany, and delivered the first course on
that subject ever given in his Alma Mater. He was
soon after elected principal of Hampden Academy,
and resolved that there should be at least one school
where the sons of farmers could study chemistry as
applied to agriculture, and such other branches of
practical knowledge as would better fit them for

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPTIICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 587

tillers of the soil. For this purpose he applied to the
state legislature, and in 1848 was successful in pro-
curing a grant of land in ‘aid of his enterprise. By
this timely encouragement he was able to erect and
furnish a laboratory where students were instructed

‘by experiments as well as in theory, in agricultural

chemistry and assaying.

In 1850 a wider field invited his labor andihe was
elected professor of Chemistry and geology in the
University of Missouri. As he looked abroad over
this great territory, with its vast natural resources, he
became profoundly impressed with the great need
among the people, of some better means of inter-
change of ideas and methods of knowledge and prac-
tical experience in agricultural matters. Professor
Swallow was not content with the bare performance
of the routine duties of his chair in the University,
but began to agitate among the people the necessity
of special organization for these purposes. In 1852
he published an exhaustive address to the people of
Missouri, which led to the establishment of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Association of Boone and
St. Louis counties, quickly followed by similar organ-
izations throughout the state. As a result of his per-
sistent labors in this direction, and in response to a
memorial from his pen, the board of curators of the
State University in 18 58 formally established the
agricultural department of this institution.

Owing to the disturbed conditions during the
civil war and the years immediately antecedent, but
little was accomplished in this department. In 185 3

a Professor Swallow was appointed by Governor Ster-

ling Price, State Geologist, which position he held
for eight years, and until he was driven from the
field by the war.

A more -lengthy notice than the limits of this
work will allow would be necessary to do justice to
the extent and value of his long labors in this exten-
sive field. Suffice it to say that upon entering the
work he called around him a corps of assistants of
such signal ability as were rarely or never engaged at
one time in a similar enterprise. Among them the
names of Shumard and Lytton and Norwood stand
prominent. In 18 55 his first report was given to the
world. It immediately took rank with the best books
of the kind in America, giving the author well
deserved fame and a recognized position among the
scientists of the world. So great was the interest
awakened and so important were his contributions to
geological science regarded that he was speedily elec-
ted member of the leading scientific associations of

Europe and America. His announcement of the
discovery of Permian rocks in America, was new and
startling to the geologists of both hemispheres, and
provoked much discussion. In Europe, where this
formation was best understood, his descriptions afford-
ed convincing proof of their existence 3 while at
home, though, the fact is now unquestioned by any,
many were slow to admit that the described for1na—
tion was Permian at all.

Among the many misfortunes which befel the
state of Missouri by means of the civil war, not the
least was the interruption, at such a time, of her geo-
logical survey, by which the results of a vast amount
of labor were lost and its records to some extent
destroyed. In 186 5 Professor Swallow was appointed
state ‘geologist of Kansas, and continued in that
survey for ‘two years, until the appropriation was
exhausted, when he published a detailed report of
the rocks of the eastern portion of that state.

In 1870 the curriculum of the University of Mis-
souri was greatly enlarged, embracing the depart-
ments of law, medicine and agriculture. Professor
Swallow was immediately elected to the chair of
agriculture, and geology. Soon after he was placed
at the head of this department and made dean of the
college of agriculture, which honored position he
still occupies. ,

As a recognition of the value of his labors and
his contributions to knowledge, he has been presen-
ted with rare and costly scientific works by foreign
societies. . He has also received the highest diploma

in inediciiie and the honorary degree of LL. D.

While by means of his reports the vast and rich min-
eral fields of Southwest Missouri and Southeastern
Kansas, and the vast coal fields of Northwest Missouri
and Eastern Kansas have been brought to the notice
of the world thereby hastening the development of
the exhaustless treasures of these regions, still the
greatest and noblest sphere of his usefulness is doubt-
less the one he now so worthily fills.

In the agricultural college, of which he is the dean,
the sons of the farmers of the great Mississippi valley
are educated to become centers of intelligence and
influence for good in their widely separated homes.

Professor Swallow is a teacher of life long experi-
ence. At the age of sixteen, before he entered
Bowdoin College, he was a teacher in the public
schools of Maine. From that time until he came to
Missouri, a period of seventeen years he was engaged
in teaching during a part of each year in schools of
all the various grades in Maine and Massachusetts.

588 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIr’Y.

‘ By both his natural adaptation and by his felicitous

power of imparting ideas, he is preeminently qualified
for a teacher of the young. With all his years of
experience, his tireless industry, his earnestness of

purpose and his breadth of culture, in the full ripe-

ness of his manhood, no prophet is needed to pre-
dict as a sure result of his labors, a perennial influence
for good, not only in the development of the natural
resources of the country, but a shaping of the intel-
lectual character of the people of his empire state.

In the turmoil of trade, and the tumultuous Whirl
of political excitement which ever attend, the aggre-
gation of people of different nationalities in the organ-
ization of governments in youthful states, the leaders
of parties and factions are the men who most absorb
the attention of the masses. The truly great men,
however, are those who are often less conspicuous,
who like Professor Swallow, contribute most of the
solid productions upon which the future state shall
stand perfected.

For the establishment of a well arranged system
of agricultural education, which shall rear and equip
a manhood capable and worthy of the great responsi-
bilities of that higher civilization which We believe is
already dawning, there is needed something of apro-

phetic ken, which is to vision of a broad intelligence, I

a comprehensive grasp of mind, an abiding faith in
the glorious probabilities of the future and an
unswerving purpose. To the early toilers in the wide

field of agricultural education, of which Professor I

Swallow is an honored representative, will belong in
a good degree the eternal honor of devising and
putting in successful operation those means and
influences which are moulding in goodly shape the
progress and civilization of this commonwealth.

But this brief sketch would be sadly incomplete if
no notice was taken of the life of one who in the tru-
est sense has been the life—long helpmeet of her hus-
band in his manifold labors. In 1844 Professor
Swallow was married to Martha A. Hill, daughter of
Rev. David Hillof the Methodist Church of Virginia.
He was a man’ of enlightened views and gave his
children the rich heritage of a good education.
Though raised in her father’s faith, when she joined
her destiny with the man of her choice, she united
with him with the’ Presbyterian Church, of which-for
many years, and until the present time, Professor
Swallow has been an elder. They have but one
child, a charming daughter, who is possessed of rare
gifts and accomplishments, and now the wife of
Colonel A. M. Woolfolk of Montana.

How much Professor Swallow is indebted for his
position and success in life to the unfiagging devo-
tion, tender influence and rare good judgment of his
esteemed wife, no one knows so well as himself. Of
the generous hospitality of that home, in which she
has been the perpetual sunlight, the writer of this
speaks from an experience of many years.

HON. TURNER A. GILL.

KANSAS CITY.

Bath county, Kentucky, December 8, 1841.
His father, Marcus Gill, is a farmer and a man of
intelligence and enterprise, He built and operated
the extensive mills on the Licking river in Kentucky.
which are yet known as Gill’s mills. In 1854 he
left Kentucky and moved to Missouri with his
family, locating on a farm fifteen miles south of
Kansas City, where he has since resided.

Turner Gill passed through the usual routine of
preliminary schooling, and in the fall of 1859 entered
the University of Missouri. He remained at the
University something over a year, until the begin-
ning of the war between the states, devoting himself

TURNER ANDERSON GILL was bcm in

closely to his books and making considerable pro-
gress in his studies. »

At the first signal of actual war, however, with
characteristic promptness of decision, he left college
and joined the State Guard forces being organized
by General Sterling Price, and participated in the
first skirmish in Jackson county, in May, 1861, in
which Colonel Holloway was killed. He afterward
participated in the battles of Carthage, Lexington,
Oak Hills, and Elkhorn, which were fought alto-
gether, or in greater part, by the Missouri state
troops under General Price.

When the State Guard was disbanded, in the
spring of 1862, young Gill, by that time something

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of a Veteran and pretty well enured to the hardships
and vicissitudes of camp life, reénlisted in the Con-
federate service, and crossed the Mississippi river
with General Price, to reénforce General Beauregard
at Corinth, Mississippi. Shortly after entering the
Confederate service he was made second lieutenant
of Company A, 6th Missouri Infantry, commanded
by Colonel Eugene Irwin. He was in Corinth dur-
ing the siege of that place in the spring of 1862,
and took part _in the fiercely contested battles
of Corinth and Iuka in the fall of t-hat year. He
did service, also, at Grand Gulf and Port Gib-
son in Pemberton’s engagements with Grant, at
Champion Hills and Big Black in the battle of
Vicksburg, as well as in the defense of that city
during its siege. He was badly wounded in the
right shoulder at Champion Hills, but went with his
command into Vicksburg, and was surrendered
when that stronghold was given up by Pemberton.
Lieutenant Gill, with the other prisoners of war,
were paroled, and crossed to the west side of the Missis-
sippi river. As soon as he was exchanged he joined
General Shelby’s Missouri cavalry, and was assigned
to duty as adjutant of Shank’s regiment. Shortly
afterward he was promoted, in the words of General
Shelby’s order, “for gallantry and meritorious con-
duct on the field of battle,” to the rank of captain,
and was assigned to the command of Company A,
Shank’s regiment. In this position he served until
the close of the war. As a soldier he was implicitly
trusted by his commanding officer, as well on account
of his intelligence and judgment as of his dash and
unquestioned courage. He was detailed constantly
for reconnoitering and scouting duty, and the infor-
mation he gave of the position and movements of
the enemy was accepted and acted upon by General
Shelby with great confidence. Indeed, it is not too
much to say, that Captain Gill was as highly esteemed
by General Shelby, because of his integrity of char-
acter and his soldierly qualities, as was any officer in
his command. .
At the close of the war Captain Gill hardly more
than reached his majority, and decided to complete
his collegiate education that hadbeen so rudely and
summarily interrupted by the beginning of the war.
In [866 he enteredthe Kentucky University, and
two years -later graduated with the second honors in
a class of seventeen. During his collegiate course
he applied himself laboriously to the study of the
law, and a year after he graduated, began the prac-
tice in Kansas City, Missouri. His advancement in

his profession _has been steady, and he is now in the
enjoyment of a lucrative practice.

He was married on the 9th of March, 1871, to
Miss Lizzie Campbell, daughter of the late john S.»
Campbell, one of the pioneers of Kansas City, and
has three children all of them boys.

Thus settled in life, Captain Gill’s ambitions all
lay in the line of his profession, and his connection
with public affairs has only been an incident in his
career; but at the same a most honorable and bril-
liant incident. Being a man of positive character,
he necessarily felt an interest in the welfare and
prosperity of the community in which he lived, and
was willing to do his part to secure good government.
Kansas City, like most other western municipalities,
owing in part to defects in its organic law, was suf-
fering all the evils of extravagance and irresponsible
government, and was creating year by year a debt
that threatened before many years to drive it into
bankruptcy. During the winter of'1874 the better
class of citizens took the matter of a reform of muni-
cipal abuses into consideration, and as the result of
their labor a new charter was drafted, the marked
features of which was that the city was forbidden to
incur any obligation of any kind, and could only
make appropriations of money actually in the treas-
ury, or in other words the substitution of the cash
principle of doing business for the principle of
unlimited credits and expenditures. The passage of
this new or amended charter by the legislature was
vehemently opposed by both the leading party

organs, with such a following as they could organize‘

to aid them in perpetuating the old loose system of
conducting offices. Captain Gill was one of a com-
mittee of citizens selected to visit the capital and
urge upon the legislature the necessity of- passing
the charter bill. After a prolonged and bitter con-
test, the new charter became a law, but the opposi-
tion did not cease. Those who had opposed it,
determined to nullify it in the execution of p it.
Captain Gill was selected in the ensuing spring to
represent the advocates of the reform proposed in
the new law.
convention and put him at the head of their ticket,
and he was elected mayor by a handsome majority,
though the Times opposed him vigorously. During
his term of office he and his policy of retrenchment
were attacked almost daily by the Times, the leading
Democratic organ, and by the faz/7*/ml, the leading
Republican organ. , But his administration which was
so entirely successful and commendeditself so strongly

The reformers carried the Democratic '

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to the better class of citizens, brought. order out of.

such confusion, so reduced the rate of taxation, and
established the finances of the city on so smooth a
basis, that he was renominated by the Democrats in
the spring of 1876 and again elected, though the
Times refused to support him, and put itself at the
head of a factional ticket which was called Demo-
cratic. During the second termof his administra-
tion the water works question, which had been a
matter of fierce contention between citizens and the
water works company,“ was settled on the basis of

the company agreeing to reduce the guarantee on
the part of the city from $68,000 a year to $34, 000.
At the close of his second term Mayor Gill refused
to be a candidate for the position again, and retired
from the office with the approbation and good wishes
of his fellow citizens, and with the knowledge that

during his two terms, he had settled favorably for
the city all matters of dispute in which it was

engaged; that he had paid off its floating debt, con-
fined its expenditures within the limit of its revenue,
and left a considerable surplus in the treasury.

SAMUEL A. GILBERT.

ST. _/OSEPH.

AMUEL A." GILBERT was born at ]oliet, Illi-
S nois, May 19, 1836. He is the son of Abel and
Hannah Gilbert, who moved to what was then
known as the “Platte Purchase” in the fall of 1838,
and settled at Weston, Missouri.

Samuel waseducated at the Masonic College at
Lexington, Missouri, receiving the regular collegiate
course, and graduating in 1855. During his school
days his health was extremely bad, which caused him
to form rather retiring and taciturn habits which
have clung to him ever since, though his health has
been most robust for twenty years. He has always
been fond of reading, and early evinced a decided
taste for the sciences. Immediately after leaving
college in 1-855, his desire to earn his own living at
once led him to teach school, which he did for some
months, studying law in the meantime. In March,
1859, he was admitted to the bar. in Platte county,
Missouri, and began the practice of the law as a
partner of Judge S. P, McCurdy, meeting with grat-
ifying success pecuniarily, and occupying a good
position as a member of ‘what was at that time one
of the strongest bars in the state.

He remained at Weston until the fall of 187 5,
when he purchased an interest in the S2‘. _/058]}/l
Daily and W'ee/ely Gcpzze/Ze, moved to St. joseph and
assumed control of the paper as its editor. He had
previously been engaged in the newspaper business,
having in October, 1865, established the T /16 Lama’-
mar’/e, a Weekly paper, at Weston, which he owned
and edited until 1870, when he sold it to parties who
now publish it at Platte. City. It was from the first

a decidedly Democratic paper, and exercised a strong
influence on the politics of that section of the state.
He has no military record except brief services as a
prisoner, first of the Confederate, and afterward of
the Federal soldiers during the rebellion.

In April, I862, he was appointed judge of the
probate court of Platte county, which was then a
court of large jurisdiction and considerable‘ impor-
tance. This office he filled throughout the war,
never missing a term of the court, though all the

other courts were entirely suspended during a great '
portion of the time. In May, 1865, he was removed '

from the office by Governor Fletcher under the
“ousting ordinance” passed by the constitutional
convention of that year, but was reelected to the
office in August, 1865, and again in 1869, performing
its duties until 1873 when he declined a reelection.

In November, 1864, he was elected a member of
the state constitutional convention, which, met at St.
Louis in January, 1865, representing the senatorial
district then composed of Platte and Clay counties.
Judge Gilbert was one of only three Democrats in
that body, Colonel Switzer, of «Columbia, and Dr.
W. A. Morton, of Liberty, his colleagues being the
other two. He refused to sign the constitution
adopted by that body, because it disfranchised a large
portion of the people of the state, and he canvassed

his district against it, which gave a large majority
Shortly after his retirement.

against the instrument.
from the probate bench he was chosen judge of the

.Weston court of common pleas, a court of general

civil jurisdiction. This office he held till he removed

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from the county in 187 5 when he resigned. Judge
Gilbert was chairman of the Democratic state central
committee of Missouri in 1876, and has always

taken great interest in the organization and work of E

the party.

In his religious views he is Methodist by educa-
tion and inclination, but is not a member of any
church, being liberal i11 his views. His political views

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are and have always been strongly Democratic.
Judge Gilbert is an Odd Fellow and Mason, and
was Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of
Missouri, from October, 1875, to October, 1876.
He was made a Mason and a Knight Templar in
1867. He was married April 14, 1859, to Miss
Martha McConnell, of Weston. They have been
blest with a son and a daughter.

EMILE JESERICH, M. D.

MACON CITY.

MILE JESERICH, a native of Berlin, Prussia,

J was born September 26, 1836, and is the son
of Christoph Jeserich and Henrietta (Schmidtenhoff)
Jeserich, the former a native of Prussia, and the
owner of large landed estates, the latter a native of
Sweden.

Jeserich passed his early life in agricultural pur-
suits, and imbibed then those habits of industry and
frugality that have marked his entire subsequent
career. He obtained his education at the Royal
University of Prussia, graduating in 1858. He
read medicine during the last six years of his course,
and upon his arrival in New York City in 1860, was

fully prepared to enter upon the duties of his profes-.

sion. He practiced there one year, after which he
located at Winona, Minnesota, and took charge of
the land office of the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, in
which business he continued three years, when he

again resumed his chosen life work. In 1868 he
removed to Boonville, Missouri, where he practiced
medicine for nine years. In 1877 he located ‘ at
Macon City, at which place he still resides, busily
engaged in the duties of his profession.

Dr. Jeserich was married in 18 5 9 to Miss Johanna
T reffehn, a native of Berlin, Prussia. Politically he
is a Democrat, and his religious views are Episcopa-
lian. He has always been a model physician, and
his presence in the sick room seemed. more potent
than the medicine usually relied upon. His kindly,
sympathetic face and cheerful conversation inspired
confidence and faith, which proved a powerful auxil-
iary to his prescriptions. As a husband, he is faith-
ful and devoted ; as a neighbor and citizen, generous
and true. He is a man of decided principles, a
friend to progress, and has ever given to education
and temperance a hearty support.

WILLIAM FRANKLIN DUNNICA.

GLASGO W.

ILLIAM FRANKLIN DUNNICA was born
W in_ Woodford county, Kentucky, September
3, 1807. His paternal ancestors were Irish and his
maternal German. His mother’s maiden name was
Harper, of the family of Harpers so famous in Ken-
tucky for the interest taken by them in fine horses.
His father, William H. Dunnica, participated in and
was wounded at the battle of Tippecanoe, and,
irnmediagely succeeding it, went back to Kentucky

7

. and organized a company of volunteers, of which he

was elected captain. Of that company, Hon. Daniel
Ashby, of Chariton county, and the late Judge A.
Waldon, of Howard, were members.

In the fall of 1817 Mr. Dunnica purchased a
stock of goods and flatboat on the Kentucky river.
Taking his goods and son William he descended the
Kentucky river to the Ohio, and thence to its conflu-
ence with the Mississippi, without material obstruc-

592 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

tion. But here he found it necessary to purchase a
keel~boat, in order to stem the rapid current of the
Father of Waters. This done, by the tedious and
laborious process of polling and cordeling, after
several months’ labor and exposure he, in the spring
of 1818, reached the little French village of Cote Sans
Dessein,Callaway county, Missouri, one hundred and
seventy miles above the mouth of the Missouri river.
Here, inside the little fortifications erected for pro-
tection from the Indians, he opened out his goods
and commenced business. Two years subsequently
he returned to Kentucky and brought his family,
making this his permanent home. He continued in
the mercantile business about a year longer. In
1822 he died, having for several years previously, in
addition to his mercantile pursuits, been engaged in
land speculations and surveying.

Previous to the death of his father, William F.
had attended such schools in the county of Callaway
as a new county afforded, and immediately after his
death returned to Kentucky to complete his educa-
tion, which may be considered a fair_but not liberal
one. Returning to Cote Sans Dessein, in 1824,
he engaged in clerking in the mercantile house of
Anson G. Bennett, in which business he con-
tinued two years.‘ The subject of locating the state
capital at Jefferson City creating some excitement at
this time, young Dunnica removed thither and, in
connection with Calvin Gunn, commenced the pub-
lication of T/ze fqffersorzzkzn, the first paper ever
issued in the new capital. Some eighteen months
afterward he was offered a situation as clerk in the
state auditor’s office, which he accepted and retained
till 1831, the duties of which he discharged to the
entire satisfaction of his employer. While engaged
in this office he transacted considerable business as
land agent, and by this means became acquainted
with many prominent business men of the state,
among whom was George Collier, one of the most
successful business men and capitalists of St. Louis
at that early day, who, being pleased with the fidelity
and care with which ‘he transacted business, as well
as his temperate and industrious habits, and being
himself a director in the Branch Bank of the United
States at St. Louis, informed young Dunnica that
a clerk for the bank was soon to be elected, and
advised him to make application for the position.
Mr. Collier was authorized to present his name,
which he did in such a manner as to secure his elec-

tion by the board of directors, notwithstanding there

were several other applicants from among the young

men of the. city, connected with families of wealth
and influence. This position he held, with entire
satisfaction to the officers of the bank a11d with
credit to himself, till the revocation of its charter by
the veto of General Jackson in 1833. But Mr.
Collier’s friendship did not stop here. In 1834 a
co-partnership was formed between himself and Mr.
Dunnica, and the latter started up the Missouri
river with a stock of goods, in search of a point at
which to commence business. The town of Chari-
ton, at the mouth of Chariton river, was selected,
and there for several years the business was conduc-
ted by Mr. Dunnica with satisfactory results to him-
self and partner. Mr. Dunnica was engaged in
various departments of mercantile life here a11d at
Glasgow for nearly twenty years. A part of the
time he was also engaged in buying and prizing leaf
tobacco for foreign markets, in connection with Wil-
liam D. Swinney.

In 1836 a company of fourteen was formed for
the purpose of laying off the town of Glasgow, near
the northwest corner of Howard county. Mr. Dun-
nica was one of that company, and the only surviv_
ing one. He has been connected with the municipal
government of the city, either as councilman or city
engineer, most of the time since its organization in
1845.

In 1858, at the organization of the Glasgow
branch of the Exchange Bank of St. Louis, Mr.
Dunnica was elected as one of its officers, and sub-
sequently as cashier, which position he held during
its existence. In 1864, in connection with James S.
Thomson, he engaged in private banking under the
firm name of Thomson & Dunnica, having also con-
nections with banks at Marshall, Saline county, and
Boonville, Cooper county. The former has been
discontinued, but the latter is still in existence and
doing a fine business, under the firm name of Achle,
Lee & Dunnica. August 15, 1877, the Howard
County Bank was organized and located in the city
of Glasgow, with a cash capital of $35,000. To
this new organization Messrs. Thomson & Dunnica
transferred all their business. James S. Thomson
was elected president and W. F. Dunnica, cashier.

He held the office of postmaster at Glasgow for
five years, under the appointment of President Tay-
lor. In politics he was a Whig, and acted with that
party during its existence. Since its dissolution he
has affiliated with the Democrats.

In 1833, while in St. Louis, he united with the
Presbyterian church. After his removal to the

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neighborhood of Glasgow, he united with the Meth-
odists, there being no recognized society of Presby-
terians in the place, where he has since held his
membership, having in 1845 adhered to the church
South. '

In 1836 he was married to Martha Jane, daugh-
ter of Judge Shackelford, of Saline county, a lady
possessed of many amiable traits of character and
personal virtues. She died in 1858. i In 1860 he
was married to Leona H., daughter of the late John
Hardeman, of Howard county, the proprietor of
the famous Hardeman Garden, near Old Franklin.

She is also a lady of culture and refinement, and
eminently fitted for the delicate and responsible
duties of her position. Mr. Dunnica has six living
children, three by his first wife, a daughter and two
sons, and three by his present wife, all daughters.

Few men have been in active business life as long
as Mr. Dunnica, and fewer still have retained the
the universal respect and esteem of the community
in which they have so long lived. Though verging
on the period of life allotted to man, he is to-day as
assiduously engaged in active business as when he
started out, more than fifty years ago.

SAMUEL STEINMETZ.

GLASGOW

AMUEL STEINMETZ was born in Gros-yen-
S Engles Kries Fritzler Kur Hessen, Germany,
(now a part of the Prussian Dominion) October Io,
1809. His father, Warnerd Steinmetz, was a farmer.
His m_other’s maiden name was Louisa Seebre.

The subject of this sketch received his education
(which was limited) in his native town, and then
served some three years as an apprentice to the boot
and shoe making business. At an early age he
desired to immigrate to America,but was prevented by
the rigid laws of the Province refusing mechanics or
artisans permission to travel outside of the Province.
After working as a journeyman for about two years,
a party traveling through his native town, with a
permit for six persons, one of whom had declined
the trip, he availed himself of the opportunity, joined
the company and traveled with them to Bre1nen,fro1n
whence, on the 22d of April, 1834, he took ship for
America. After a tedious voyage of great hardship
and some suffering they landed at Baltimore on the
9th of August succeeding, having on the trip run
short of both water and provisions. He landed at
Baltimore with twenty-five francs, a little less than
five dollars. On board the ship he had made the
acquaintance of four other mechanics. Together
they found a hotel suited to the condition of their
finances, his own- being a fair sample. On inquiry
they were informed that a single meal would cost
twenty-five cents, but that if they remained a week
it would be two dollars and a half for that time. At
the tap of the bell they proceeded to the table.

.the table to dispose of it, he failed to return.

-In Baltimore he failed to get work , employment

was offered him, but upon terms that this natural _

kindness of heart would not permit him to accept.
A party finding him to be a superior mechanic told
him that he would give him employment, but would
have to discharge a hand that he had as he could not
afford to keep them both. Steinmetz would not take
the place, said he did not come to the country to
push other men out of their places. This circu1n—
stance shows the character of the man, and many
similar instances in his subsequent career might be
given. At the end of the week he proceeded west-
ward, meeting with great variety of treatment. He
arrived at Columbus, ‘Pennsylvania, with just five
copper cents in his pocket, and this he paid for toll
across the bridge over the Susquehannah river, after
ineffectually attempting to ford the stream. Some
five days after leaving Baltimore he ‘arrived at Harris-
burg, where he obtained work from a Methodist
preacher named Aull, here he remained about a
year, and then went to Pittsburg, remaining there and
at Allegheny City till the fall of 1836, then to

Wheeling, Virginia, and six months afterward to ‘

Maysville, Kentucky, where he obtained work.
When he sat down with his employer to breakfast he
saw corn bread for the first time, and as there was
no other on the table he waited to see how it was
eaten. Imitating the example set before him, he put
it in his mouth, but could get it no farther , leaving
Leav-
ing town he went to Lexington, remained a short time,

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from thence to Versailles, where he obtained work,
and by the time the “ races” at Lexington came on
he had accumulated something over a hundred dol-
lars. He then hired a horse and went to Lexington
where his pockets soon became depleted , on his
return home he was thrown from his horse, one of
his fingers became entangled in the bridle rein and
broken, by which he was disabled for eleven weeks.
In the meantime he went to Louisville, where a
countryman gave him credit for his board until he
was able to work. He went to work as soon as pos-
sible, paid his board bill, and determined no more
money should be fooled away.

To this end he purchased a lady’s work—box, neat
and strong, had a hole made in the top large enough
to admit a silver dollar, locked it securely and threw
the key into the canal. Into this box every Satur_
day, after «paying his board and washing bills, he
carefully slipped the remainder of his week’s earn-
ings. He subsequently went to Vicksburg, Missis-
sippi, where, on opening his box, he found sufficient
funds with which to commence business for himself.
Here and at Jackson, New Orleans, and at several
other prominent places in the South he did a thriv-
ing business for two or three years and accumulated
some $7,000.

His heart yearning for his “fatherland ” he deter-
mined to return, and made an appointment with a

friend to meet him at St. Louis in the spring of 1839

for the purpose of making the return trip in company.
About this time the banks in Mississippi nearly-all
failed, by one of which, the Brandon Bank, of Vicks-
burg, he lost $5,000, so that at the time he expected
to start home he had only a little over $1,000. His
friend failing to meet him according to appointment,
in July of that year he went up to Boonville, on the
Missouri river, where he stopped a while but did
not engage in business. Having a horse he started
across the river for Columbia, in Boone county, a
town that was then attracting some notice on account
of the building of the State University at that place.
Soon after crossing the river he took the wrong road
and traveling about fourteen miles arrived at Fayette,
the county seat of Howard county, no fnearer Co-
lumbia than when he left Boonville. Here he was
informed by a countryman, John Shafroth, that there
was a fine opening for a man of his occupation in
Glasgow. He went there, arriving on the 9th day
of August, 1839, just five years after the date of his
arrival at Baltimore. Putting up at the old McCoy
Hotel he was solicited by Dr. J. P. Vaughn, a prom-

inent young physician from Virginia, and other lead-
ing citizens, to locate and commence business there.
Not being able to secure a shop as soon as desirable,
on the doctor’s invitation he worked several weeks in
his office free of rent until a suitable shop could be
built for him. In this business, with constantly
increasing success,he continued for more than twenty
years.
very soon establisheda character that secured him all
the credit or assistance he desired in his business, a
character which for truth, honesty and uprightness
for nearly forty years has never had a spot or tarnish
upon u. A -

In 1861 he sold out his boot and shoe business
and was out of business for some two or three years.
In 1863 he commenced the grocery business in con-
nection with John W. Mezrick, and having more
means than he desired to use in this branch, he

‘engaged in some speculations in nails, whiskey, etc.,

by which he realized very large profits. In February
1864, the Glasgow House, the only hotel in the
place of any note, was burned. Mr; Steinmetz had
previously kept some boarders, and in the course of
a few months he seemed compelled to open his house
as a hotel. His table soon acquired such a reputa-
tion throughout the county that it was always
crowded, and it was always the aim of “ye drum-
mer” when he could make it convenient to spend
his Sundays with “Uncle Sam.”

In 1866 he purchased from A. W. Roper the
large farm and saw mill in Saline county, just oppo-
site Glasgow, on the Missouri river, the farm con-
taining seven hundred and thirty—three acres of as
fine land as is to be found on the globe. This was
greatly improved, and in a few years it was sold in
lots to suit purchasers at a very large profit. In 1868
he purchased the farm belonging to the estate of
William M. Morrison, deceased, called Hazel Ridge,
five miles east of Glasgow, on the old Huntsville and

Glasgow plank road, containing near four hundred-

acres, for many years regarded one of the most
beautiful farms in the state. It has been greatly
improved since Mr. Steinmetz has lived upon it, and
he is making of it a model stock farm. He has a
choice variety of cattle and hogs in a county noted
for its extensive fancy stock raisers.

In 1849 Mr. Steinmetz made a trip across the
plains to California with a train of three mule wagons
and ten men, the men were to work for him two
years and give him half of their earnings. The trip
involved him in a loss of nearly $1,000.

By his promptness and honorable dealings he I

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He has never held or desired political offices , for
at number of years he was a member of the city
council of Glasgow, and his practical suggestions are
apparent in its municipal legislation.

He has been a member of the order of Free and
Accepted Masons since 1844.

charter member of Morning Star Lodge at Glasgow.

In 1860 he and his adult family united with the
Presbyterian church in Glasgow, in which he subse-
quently served as an elder. '

During the existence of the old Whig party Mr.
Steinmetz was an ardent supporter of its principles,
never was much of a Democrat, but in the present
aspect of political affairs generally votes with that
party.

J December 3, 1840, he was united in marriage
with Lucetta V., daughter of Lewis Coleman, late of
Chariton county, a lady of great personal worth, and
one who in every relation of life has proved herself
a helpmate to her husband, rendering efficient aid in
the accumulation of their comfortable fortune. Her
father, Mr. Coleman, was a soldier under Welling-
ton, and participated in the famous battle of

He is also a member I
I of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a

Waterloo. Mr. Steinmetz has nine living children.
His two eldest sons fill honored graves, having fallen
in the defence of Glasgow on the 15th of October,
1864 ; the eldest, Captain Samuel, fell while gallantly
commanding his company within the entrenchments 3
his brother, Aaron, was mortally wounded while
obeying those orders, and died the third day after-
ward. The two eldest daughters are married and
doing well—the former, Amelia, to John Tillman,
the latter, Mary, to William A. Myer, both prominent
merchants of Glasgow 5 the next eldest son, Edward,
married Annie, daughter of William B. Hays, late
of Howard county ; George and John are clerking in
Glasgow ; Edward and his wife Kate, and Don

‘Palmer William, and one for whom his father says

they could not find a name, ‘having exhausted the
vocabulary before his birth, live at home with their
parents. They call him “ Manie.”

This sketch of one who has reflected credit upon

himself, his fatherland, and his adopted country, by.

an example of honorable and successful industry, we
give as far as practicable in the language so natural
to Mr. Steinmetz in recounting the history of his
early life with its struggles and successes.

NOAH M. GIVAN.

HARRISONVILLE.

OAH M. GIVAN was born December I, 1840,
N His father,
George Givan, was born in Worcester county, Mary-
land, December 1, I816. His grandfather, Joshua
Givan, was a native of the same county, born July
2, 1788. His great—grandfather, George Givan, was
of the same county, born in 1750. John Givan, his
ancestor of . the fourth generation, was a native of
Ireland. His mother, Sabrina J. Hall, was born
in Dearborn county, Indiana, September, 1822, and
was the daughter of ~Daniel and Sabrina Hall, both
natives of Maine. Her grandfather, Hezekiah Hall,
was born in Ireland, but emigrated to America and
settled in Maine. Her great-grandfather, Hate-evil
Hall, lived and died in Belfast, Ireland. George
Givan and Sabrina J. Hall, father and mother of Noah
M. Givan, were married in January, 1840.

Great care was bestowed on the education of
Noah M. Givan. He attended Franklin College,

in Dearborn county, Indiana.

Indiana, for several terms, and graduated at the State
University, Bloomington, Indiana, July 3, 1862,
having pursued a regular collegiate course’. In 1862-
3 he was principal of the Lawrenceburgh graded
schools, Lawrenceburgh. In 1863-4 he studied law
in the office of James T. Brown, of Lawrenceburgh,
Indiana, and was admitted to the bar in the latter
year. He was for three years school examiner of
Dearborn county, and for two years deputy county
treasurer under Treasurer W. F. Crocker. In 1866
he removed to Harrisonville, Cass county, Missouri,
and practiced his "profession until he was elected
judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit in 1877. In 1864-5
he was editor of the Lawrenceburgh Regzk/er, and in
February, 1867, he established the Cass County
.H4—€7’d[d7,‘tl1€ first Democratic paper published in Har-
risonville after the close of the civil war.

Judge Givan is a member of the Democratic

party, and has, since the attainment of his majority, .

596

voted for Democratic measures. He was reared
under Baptist influences, and both he and his wife
are members of that denomination. In 1868 he
was a delegate to the national Democratic conven-

tion in New York, which nominated Seymour and 

Blair for president and vice-president, he voting for 

Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks for president during the
entire session. He is an active Mason, and has
been presiding officer of the lodge, chapter, council,
and commandery at Harrisonville. He is Past
Grand Master of the Grand Council of Missouri,
Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter,
and Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Missouri.

He was married August 7, 1862, to Miss Lizzie
C. Jackson, who was born in Dearborn county,
January 15, I840.
Mabel Jackson, of New Jersey, the former of Eng-
lish and the latter of French extraction. Her
mother’s maiden name was Mabel Garrigus. Mrs.

She is the daughter of John and  

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Givan received a thorough academic education, at
Manchester, Indiana. By this marriage there were
four children: Mabel, born August 9, 1864, at
Lawrenceburgh, Indiana 3 Cora Sabrina, born October
17, 1866, at Harrisonville, died March 3, 1877;
Emmet Jackson, born June 13, I869, died December
26, I872, Lizzie, born May 15, 1877.

Judge Givan is a man of more than ordinary
native intellect, which he has improved by hard
study and judicious culture. Like a large number
of the distinguished men of America, he has been
compelled to fight his way against the opposition of
pinching poverty. His education was provided for
by his own industry. At the age of nineteen he
was principal of the Manchester Academy, at Man-
chester, Indiana, and he has thus, by patient and
persevering industry, worked his way to the front
rank of the leading men of Missouri. He is still
young, enthusiastic and ambitious, and still higher
honors no doubt await him.

REV. ROBERT POLLOK KERR, A. B.

LEXIIVG TON.

Hale county, Alabama, July i9, 1850. His
father was John P. Kerr, a native of Scotland, who
emigrated in his youth to the United States.‘ His
ancestors belonged to the nobility of the country,
but were deprived of their estates during the reli-
gious persecutions, they being Presbyterians. Sir
Robert Kerr, for whom the subject of this sketch
was named, took refuge in Holland, but, afterward,
on his return to Scotland, was put to death for his
religious belief. John P. Kerr was married, after his
arrival in America., to Sarah H. Webb, daughter of
John H. Webb, of North Carolina. They had eight
children, of whom Robert P. Kerr_ is the youngest.
He was educated in the arts and sciences at William
Jewell College,:Liberty, Missouri, from which insti-
tution he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary,
Hampden-Sidney, Virginia, where he graduated in
the spring of 1873. While at college his favorite
studies were the natural sciences, and so great was
his fondness for them that for a time he seriously
contemplated devotinghis life to the pursuit of these

ROBERT P. KERR was born in Greensboro,

branches, but convictions of duty constrained him
to adopt the ministry for his profession. After grad-
uating at Union Seminary, he preached as licentiate
for nine months in Greenville, Alabama, but, on
being ordained, became pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Lexington, Missouri, in 1874, where he
still remains. This church was organized in 1839
and contains two hundred and thirty members. He
has traveled over nearly all the states east of the
Missouri river, in which he has a wide range of
acquaintances. , '

He was married, September 17, 1873, in Nash-
ville, Tennessee, to Miss Ellen T. Webb, daughter
of Colonel William H. Webb, a wholesale merchant
in that city.

Mr. Kerr is a man of great promise and already
takes high rank’ among his professional brethren.
He is active, energetic and resolute, and is a hard
student.‘ As a pastor he has been very successful,
and his people hold him in the highest esteem. He
is ahard worker, and desires above all things the
good of his people. As a preacher, he is much
above the average, and, if spared, will yet become

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 597

successful and popular as a pulpit orator. He is
an eloquent and persuasive speaker 3 his language is
pure and elegant, while his manner of delivery is
earnest and convincing. He uses neither manuscript
nor notes, but his sermons display great care and
thought in their preparation, and evidence his ability
and culture. When he came to his present charge,
he found a heavy debt on the church, but by untir—

ing exertions it is now (1877) all paid and the
church is in a most prosperous condition.
Lexington, Missouri, he removed to Thomasville,
Georgia, where he is (1878) actively and usefully
engaged in the good work. Socially, he is a
most pleasant gentleman, of agreeable and fas-
cinating manners, a warm friend and a good neigh-
bor. A

WILLIAM WALLACE MOSBY, M. D.

RICHMOND.

‘ ‘ 7 ILLIAM WALLACE MOSBY was born near
Georgetown, Scott county, Kentucky, June

1, 1824. His father, James Mosby, was a native of
Virginia. He was afarmer in moderate circumstances
in Kentucky, but emigrated to Mississippi in 1826,
remaining two years, and in 1828 moved to Calla-
way county, Missouri. He was an ardent friend of
Henry Clay and a warm advocate of his political
views, though he never sought preferment at the
hands of his party. His mother, Elizabeth Robards,
was a daughter of Captain George Robards, a Vir-
ginia planter, who emigrated to Mercer county,
Kentucky, where his daughter, Eliza, was born.
She was a devoted Christian and was deeply inter-

‘ested in the reformation introduced by Alexander

Campbell. Her earnest prayers and exemplary
Christian life were the means by which her husband,
though after he had passed the meridian of life, was
was brought into the church, of which he remained
a consistent member until his death, January 9, 1871.
Her motherly devotion had a strong influence in
moulding the character of . her children, all of whom
became members of the church.

William W. Mosby received a sound English
education, together with a pretty thorough knowl-

, edge of Latin and Greek, from private schools. At

the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine
under Dr. Franklin Dillard. He attended the inedi-
cal department of Transylvania University in the
class of 1844-5, and the Louisville Medical College
in the years 1845-6. Up to this time his work had
been very arduous. His father had a large family,
eight children, dependent upon him, and he was
unable to supply his son with the necessary means
to complete his education. Young Mosby, there-

fore, worked during the planting and harvesting sea-
son and attended school in the winter. As soon as
he was sufficiently advanced to teach school, he fol-
lowed that occupation, obtaining a sufficient amount
to enable him to attend one course of lectures. He
borrowed money to complete his medical course, and
found himself without means and in debt when he
graduated. He immediately selected Richmond,
Ray county, as the field of his future labors, not
having at the time sufficient means to pay a week’s
board. He soon after formed a partnership with Dr.
Joseph Chew, now of Kansas City, which lasted
about eighteen months. But he was ambitious to
build up a reputation on his merits, and he withdrew
from the connection to begin what afterward became
a large and lucrative practice. He subsequently
entered into partnership with Dr. Henry C. Garner,
which lasted from 1866 to 1873. Dr. _Garner became
cashier of the Richmond Savings Bank, and the
partnership was dissolved. Although not physically
stout, he has enjoyed remarkable immunity from
sickness, never having been prostrated by any of
the malarial diseases in new countries. He has
always been able to attend promptly to all calls on
his professional services, to which he attributes much
of his success. He has the reputation of being well
read in his profession, has a large and well selected
library and spends much of his leisure time in the
study of the more modern authors on the theory and
practice of medicine and surgery.

In 1847 he took an interest in a drug store with
Marion F. Ball and Mordecai Oliver, the latter now
residing in St. Joseph, under the firm name of Marion
F. Ball & Co. This firm existed for some time,
when he purchased the interest of his partners and

From A

.were born in Maine.

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associated his sons with him, and still continues the

.business in the name of W. W. Mosby & Co.

At the beginning of the civil war he enrolled as
other citizens in the Enrolled Missouri militia, and was
appointed surgeon, in which capacity he served two
years. When Colonel John C. Hale organized the 4th
Provisional regiment, he was appointed regimental
surgeon with the rank of major, and served until
1864, when the regiment was disbanded. In the
fall of 1862 he was elected to represent his district,
embracing the counties of Caldwell, Carroll, Clinton
and Ray, in the state senate, and served four years.
While a senator he opposed the bill calling into exist-
ence the convention that afterward adopted the
Drake constitution, and also the test oaths and regis-
tration which was so obnoxious to the people. In
1876 he was reelected to the same position, receiving
a majority of nine hundred over both his opponents,
and is at present a member of the state senate. In
politics he was a Whig during the existence of that
party and a strong Union man during the war.
Since that time he has cooperated with the Demo-
cratic party. ' .

He has always been an advocate of whatever
would promote the educational interests of the coun-
try. He was for four years president of the board

"studying law.

of education of Richmond College. A warm friend
of the temperance cause, he was a member of the
Sons of Temperance only two or three months 3 but
subsequently withdrew, believing that the temper-
ance cause should be controlled by the church. He
was for four years a director in the Union Bank of
Missouri. He is a member of the Christian church,
and has been an elder in that body for near thirty
years, and superintendent of the Sunday School,
which he assisted in organizing, for twenty-five years.

He was .married September 29, 1847, to Miss
Sarah Catharine Jacobs, daughter of Joel Jacobs,
deceased, a farmer of Ray county, a native of Vir-
ginia, who died before the marriage of his daughter
with Dr. Mosby. They have had six children. The
eldest son died suddenly of malignant diphtheria at
the age of twenty-two, when he had just finished a
thorough study of the science of medicine, and was
prepared to begin the practice. His second son,
Charles Archibald, aged twenty-three, has adopted
his father’s profession, and will be associated with
him in the practice. Charles and John, the latter
aged nineteen, are in charge of the drug store.
William, aged twenty—one, is conducting a farm and
Mary Eliza, aged thirteen, and James
Edward, aged eleven, are at home with their parents.

HON. CHARLES A. WINSLOW.

_[EFFERSO./V CITY.

HARLES A. WINSLOW was born in Ken-
C nebec county, Maine,‘November 28, 1837.
His father, Charles H. Winslow, was engaged in the
manufacture of tomb stones. His mother’s maiden
name was Miss Martha. Noyes. Both of his parents
They had three children,
Charles A. being the eldest.

When Charles was four years of age his parents
removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he
was sent to the public schools, His father being in

humble circumstances, and his mother being dead, .

at the age of eight years he went on a farm, where
he worked for his board and clothes until he was
sixteen, attending the schools a part of each year,

spending one winter in Hallowell, Maine, attending

school in that place. By close attention to his stud-
ies, and improving his leisure hours in reading, he
had at this early age obtained a good education.

In 1853 he followed his father to Missouri and
settled in Brunswick, where he learned the mar-
ble cutting business under his father’s instructions,
attending the Brunswick Academy a part of the
time. At the age of eighteen he learned telegraphy,
spending several months in an office. In 1856 he
entered the office of Bell & Wilkinson and com-
menced the study of law, and was admitted to the
bar two years afterward. He then formed a part-
nership with Colonel Bell and commenced the prac-
tice of his chosen profession in Brunswick. In 1862
he removed to Keytesville, taking the office of dep-

| :DWARD LOWE MARTIN,

the youngest in a family of eight.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 599

uty circuit clerk for the county. In 1863 he was
elected judge of Chariton county, which office he
resigned after being one year upon the bench. In
1864 and 186 5 he held the office of county attorney.

In November, 186 5, in connection with Dr. John
F. Cunningham, he purchased the C€722‘7’(l[ City and
Brzmswz'cker, the oldest newspaper in the county,
then in a serious state of decline, and reduced by
necessity to a diminutive size. Under the new
auspices it was enlarged to an eight-column paper,
greatly improved, the “ Ce/zmzl City” dropped, and
the original na1ne—— I/1'/eek/y En//7swzklw'—restored.
It was run thus as an independent paper for seven
months, realizing extraordinary profits, which was
as long as the excited state of party politics would
permit it to hold the field. A political paper on
each side being desirable, Dr. Cunningham sold his
interest to J. B. Naylor, a Democrat, who, in con-
nection with Judge Winslow, under the name of ].
B. Naylor & Co., published it as a Democratic organ
for nine months, when Judge Winslow sold his
interest to Mr. William H. Balthis, and retired from
journalism.

In 1871 the Chariton county ‘court of common
pleas was established, when Governor B. Gratz
Brown appointed him judge of that court. In 1874
he was elected, filling that office from March, 1871,
to September, 187 5, when the court was abolished.

Charles A. Winslow was born and reared a Whig
and drew his political inspiration from that great
party as represented by Bell and Everett in 1860.

During the existence of the late civil war, judge
Winslow was a Union man, but since that time has
acted with the Democratic party. He is not a mem-
ber of any church. His family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church (South).

December 19, 1860, he was united in marriage
to Miss Susan V. Corby, of Brunswick, Missouri.
They have five children living.

In 187 5, having in View a large practice in the
supreme court, he formed a copartnership with Colo-
nel Louis H. Waters, of Carrollton, Missouri, both
gentlemen removing to Jefferson City, where they
have a large legal practice, but still attend the courts
of Chariton and Carroll. A sketch of Colonel Waters’
life will be found in another part of this volume.

EDWARD LOWE MARTIN.

KANSAS CITY.

ex-mayor of

Kansas City, was born in Maysville, Mason
county, Kentucky, March 12, 1842, being next to
His parents’
names were William and Margaret (Sheridan) Mar-
tin, and they emigrated from Ireland to Maysville in
1830. His father, who was one of the most respected
citizens of his town, was a shoemaker by trade, and
and carried on the boot and shoe business until his
death, which occurred in July, 1863.

Edward L, Martin was educated in the private
academies of Maysville, receiving a good common
school education, until he attained the age of sixteen
years. At this time he left school, and ever since
has had to depend entirely upon his own resources
and exertions. He first entered a boot and shoe
store, where he remained two years. He then
became a clerk in the largest wholesale grocery and
liquor house in_ Maysville, where he continued for
several years. In 1:864 he received the offer of a

76

position as bookkeeper in a wholes-ale grocery house
in Cincinnati, which he accepted, and at the expira-
tion of twelve months an interest in the firm was
tendered him. He accepted, and remained a mem-
ber of the firm until the autumn-of 1868, when he
sold out and came to Kansas City. Here he engaged
in the wholesale liquor trade, and has now the largest
and most extensive business in the trade, he has
also a distillery in successful operation, located at
Independence, Jackson county, for the manufacture
of choice Bourbon whisky.

In 1872 he was elected alderman for the 3d ward
upon the Democratic ticket, and suspecting that
there had been a great deal of corruption and fraud
in some of the departments of previous city govern-
ments, he took an active part in an investigation
which led to the exposure of the crooked doings of
a young “Tammany Ring!” His public-spirited
conduct in this matter won for him the respect and
admiration of the entire community, and, as a fitting

600 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

tribute to his ability, and the faithful and upright
discharge of his official duties, he was elected mayor
of the city in the spring of 1873. He only retained
the office for one term, and though frequently urged
to become a candidate, he has always declined a
renomination. He was one of the originators and a
director in the branch of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad, which runs to Kansas City and is
one of the best lines the city possesses. He is one
of the original members of the Board of Trade, and
is now one of its directory. He was also one of the
creators and a director in the- “Kansas City Expo-
sition Association,” and has assisted largely" in build-
ing it up. He has been treasurer of the association
for the past four years, and is now one of its princi-
pal stockholders. In 1872 he was elected to fill a
vacancy in the board of education, of which he is
still a member. A

Mr. Martin has been an Odd Fellow since 1865,
and is still an active member of that society. In
religious matters his views are very liberal. His
father was a Presbyterian and his mother a Catholic,
and though reared beneath these influences, he him-
self does not belong to any church. In politics he
is and always has been a Democrat, but he is above
party prejudices and votes only for the best man, he
himself having been elected as the “people’s can-
didate,” irrespective of party and regardless of
politics.

On the Ioth of December, 1861, he was married

to Miss Mary E. Ricketts, daughter of the late Ruleff
M. Ricketts, of Maysville, Kentucky, a descendant
of one of the oldest and most respectable families in
the state. By this happy marriage he has two inter-
esting children—a daughter and a son.

In stature Mr. Martin is slightly above the medi-
um height, well, but not stoutly built, with a partic-
ularly pleasant and attractive countenance and very
courteous, gentlemanly manners. He is a man of
the highest integrity, has a spotless reputation,,and
possesses extraordinary business ability. He came
to Kansas City with little means, but, by energy,
foresight and attention to business he has accumu-
lated a considerable fortune He is cool and delib-
erate, never gets out of temper, and succeeds in
everything that he undertakes. By the community
he is held in the highest esteem, but self-seeking
politicians do not relish his independent fearlessness.
During his tenure of office as the “People’s can-
didate,” he succeeded in demolishing a ring of pol-
iticians of both parties, who conducted the city
government for their own profit, and he has always
proven himself to be one of the most useful and
public-spirited citizens of Kansas City. His domes-

‘tic relations are of the most agreeable and pleasant

nature. Socially he is an entertaining and well-
informed companion, a good neighbor and a kind
and steadfast friend. With his amiable and estima_
ble wife, his interesting little daughter and son, he
constitutes a pleasant and happy household.

HORACE MARTIN.

COR./VI./VG.

ORACE MARTIN was born in Ellington,
H Tolland county, Connecticut, December II,
1814. His father, Melatiah Martin, was a native
of Windham county, in the same state, and was born
April 3, 1791. His mother, Marilda Porter, was
born at Ellington, Connecticut, May 21, I790. The
father of the subject of this sketch was of Welsh
ancestry. His grandfather, a Baptist minister, came
to New England about the year 1730. His mother’s
maternal ancestors came over in the Mayflower.
Her paternal ancestors date back to Lieutenant John
Porter, of the British army, who was born in 1658.
He first settled in Salem, Massachusetts, but died in

Ellington, Connecticut, in I753, in his ninety-fifth
year, leaving eleven children, eighty-one grand-
children and one hundred and eighty great-grandchil-
dren. His second son, ]ohn Porter, born July 21,
1683, married Elizabeth Putnam, daughter of Cap-
tain jonathan Putnam, of Salem, Massachusetts.
She was born February 6, I687. The family moved
to Connecticut in 1740 and hired a farm of one
McCray, now owned by one of his great-great—great-
grandsons. In 1747 they moved to the spot where
the mother of the subject of this sketch was after-
ward born.

The old patent of Captain Jonathan Putnam’s

THE UNITED STATES BIOGZEAPIJICAL DICTZO./VARY. 601

A entry of several leagues of land near Salem, was long

in possession of Mr. Martin. After settling in Mis-
souri he presented the relic to the Western Reserve
Historical Society of Ohio. The genealogical records
of both families from which he is descended are
very complete, extending back several generations
and are replete with general interest. The purpose
of this work, however, being only to speak of a
man’s personal career, extended reference to his
ancestry is, of necessity, precluded.

When in his second year, Horace removed with
his parents to Scipio, Cayuga county, New York, at
that period almost a wilderness region, and the now
flourishing city of Auburn an insignificant hamlet.
In the log school-house which he attended, some
four or five months in each year, he was distinguished
by his remarkably retentive memory, and was soon
recognized as the champion speller of the district.
When but eight years old his mother, who wove
cloth for the neighborhood, bought him a copy of
Murray’s English Grammar. In a few weeks he
had committed the entire contents of the work to
memory, excelling as grammarian in a school which
numbered among its pupils young men and ladies.
In the studies of geography and arithmetic he was
equally proficient. Daboll’s Arithmetic, Morse’s
Geography, the grammar and spelling-book consti-
tuted all the books used in the school, and when
eleven years of age he had them all by heart. His
subsequent profound mathematical knowledge he
acquired unaided.

In the spring that he reached his thirteenth year
he was hired out to work on the farm of ‘Elijah
Stevens for six months at three dollars per month.
During this period he was barbarously treated by his
employer and endured cruel hardships. At the expi-
ration of his term of service January 1st, 1829, a few
days over fourteen years of age, he hired out for one
year to Thos. M. Skinner, a printer of Auburn, New
York, at seven dollars per month, to deliver news-
papers. His route was about one hundred and thirty
miles, back and forth, across the southern portion
of Cayuga county. This journey he made on horse-
back. In this duty he was occupied from Thursday
morning to Saturday night of each week, the balance
of his time being employed at work in the printing-
office, book store and family residence, all of which
were in one building. In this laborious calling, with
the duties of which no condition of weather was
allowed to interfere, he remained one year. While
in this position he devoted every leisure moment to

as any officer of the vessel.

the improvement of his mind, eagerly devouring
information from the reading matter at his command,
and thus laying the foundation of that mathematical
and scientific knowledge for which he became, in

after life, eminentlydistinguished. There were three .

papers printed in Auburn at that time, the Cayuga
Repaé/z'ca7z, an anti-Masonic sheet, edited by Thomas
M. Skinner, the Cayaga Pa/rzbt, the Democratic
organ, by Ulysses Doubleday, and the Free Press, an
independent weekly, by Richard Oliphant. In the

-delivery of all these papers he was engaged. After

leaving the employ of Skinner he hired to Elisha
Barnes, to work on a farm at $8 per month. At the
expiration of that engagement he commenced teach-
ing a winter school, opening his school a few days
before his sixteenth birthday. About one-third of the
pupils were older than himself and contrary to the
predictions of his friends, he closed his term of four
months honorably. to his reputation and satisfactorily
to his employers. So diligently did he employ the

. accidental means of self—improvement afforded by his

position, that, from the time he was twenty—one years
of age he engaged in calculating almanacs, a business
which he pursued for fourteen successive years, con-
tinuing in the same several years after his settling in
Ohio.

Among the several varied incidents of his ener-
getic life, it is worthy of mention that, when nine-
teen years of age, he made, in the capacity of stew-
ard, a voyage in the packet ship Sampson from New
York to London. In this experience his inquiring
mind was directed to the investigation of the theory
of navigation, of which he acquired a competent
mastery, and before the termination of the voyage,
could take and work a lunar observation for deter-
mining longitude, also determine the local time by
the altitude of the sun or star, as readily and truly
The whole history of
his earlier life presents a remarkable instance of the
triumphs of laborious industry, genius and undaunted
perseverance over obstacles and difficulties which
would have discouraged any less energetic mind.

He early acquired a taste for the profession of
teaching, for which, mainly through his own exer-
tions, he had eminently qualified himself. When
about thirty-four years of age, in consequence of
becoming afflicted with deafness, an infirmity which
he has never since overcome, he was compelled to
forego this profession, in which he had occasionally
engaged, declining several advantageous offers, inclu-
ding that of a professorship in a college. He expres-

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ses his regret that in consequence of his infirmity he
has, since that time, been compelled in a great 1neas-
ure to confine the application of his mathematical
knowledge to the practice of engineering and survey-
ing, in which pursuits he has been more or less
engaged since the year 1847.

January 7, 1841, he was married, in Cayuga
county, New York, to Miss Eliza Close, daughter of
Harvey Close, a large farmer of that county. By

this marriage they have six children: Emily, born in

January, 1842; Horace, born December II, 1843,
and killed in the Union army in the war of the
Rebellion, Jane, born March 29, 1848, "Homer,
born August II, 1850, and Effie, born in 1860.
One child died in infancy. I
In the spring of 1847 Mr. Martin moved with
his family to Ohio, and settled on a farm in Craw-
ford county. ‘Here he remained till the year 1868,
when he moved to his present residence, Corn-
ing, Missouri, adjoining which he now (1877) owns
a valuable farm of three hundred and sixty acres.
At the time of his arrival there was not a com-
pleted building in this now flourishing village,

to which he subsequently laid out an addition.

He has filled with credit, at different periods of
his life in different states, the positions of justice of
the peace, school examiner and county surveyor.
The latter office he held in Ohio nine consecutive
years. He is at present a notary public.

When twenty-two years of age he united with the
Baptist church in Cayuga county, New York. In
1847 he was made a Master Mason in Ohio. In
politics he was a Democrat all his life till the break-
ing out of the war of the Rebellion. Since that
period, with the exception of voting for Greeley, he.
has uniformly acted with the Republican party.

Mr. Martin’s scientific ability is fully recognized,
and, since the year 1869, he has been an active
collaborator of the Smithsonian Institute of Wash-
ington, D. C. He has been since 1873 a voluntary
observer in the employ of ‘the United States Signal
Service.

In person he is five feet nine inches high, and
weighs about one hundred and thirty—five pounds.
His demeanor is unassuming and his personal popu-
larity great.

COLONEL JOI-IN THORNTON.

LIBER TY.

OLONEL JOHN THORNTON, a distin-
C guished pioneer of Northwest Missouri, was
born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December
24, 1786. His father William Thornton, removed
with his family to Fayette county, Kentucky, in the
spring of 1793, and in 18oo to Clarke county. He
was a Whig in politics, a man of fine intellect, of
great firmness and integrity of character, a stranger

to deceit, affable, generous and hospitable, he was

a model in his day and generation as neighbor, friend I

and citizen. His person was finely proportioned,
his countenance noble, benignant, open and frank,
instinctively you were drawn to and confided in him._
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, as
was his father John Thornton and his mother Mar-
jery McKinley,-who was noted for her beauty and
strong intellect as well asfor her benevolence, sincer-
ity and kindness of heart. Colonel Thornton’s mother
was Miss Jane Ellyson, a lady of refinement, of good
mind, possessed of great gentleness of character and

sweetness of disposition. She acquired large in-
fluence in the community in which she lived by her
superior judgment and active benevolence. She
was possessed of all the graces of a pure and exalted
nature, remarkable for her devotion to and activity in
the cause of Christ. She was a member of the
Baptist Church and died in Clark county, Kentucky,
in 1824, in the triumphs of faith. In 1826 Colonel
Thornton’s father removed to Ray county, Missouri.

He died at the residence of his son, Judge William,

Thornton, in Richmond, Ray county in 183 5 at the
advanced age of eighty-seven. John Thornton, a
brother of William Thornton, emigrated to Virginia
about the same time that William removed to Ken-
tucky. Many of his descendants still reside there.

The subject of this sketch came from Kentucky to
Missouri in 1817, and located in old Franklin, How-
ard county, then the most flourishing town west of St.
Louis. Here he met Miss Elizabeth Trigg, daughter
of General Stephen Trigg, in the ‘winter of 1818, and

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was married to her February IO, 1 82 o. Colonel Thorn-
ton removed to what is now Clay county, in April,
1820, and resided on his farm four miles west of
Liberty, until his death which occurred October 24,
1847.

On the 8th day of December, 1820, he was
appointed by Governor McNair, with the advice and
consent of the senate, judge of the county court of
Ray county, which had been organized from a por-
tion of Howard county. On the 4th day of Janu-
ary, 1822, he was appointed by Governor McNair
judge of the county court of Clay county, which had
been organized from a portion of Ray county. On
the 24th day of August, 1824, he was commissioned
after being duly elected, colonel of the 28th regiment
3d brigade, Ist division of Missouri militia, by Gov-
ernor McNair. On the 7th day of June, 1834, he
was appointed and commissioned aid—de-camp to the
commander-in-chief of Missouri militia, by Governor
Daniel Dunklin.

I As early as August, 1823, General Stephen Trigg
in a private .letter to Colonel Thornton, said: “ I
find we have been in a disagreeable and unpleasant
manner visited at different points by our savage neigh-
bors. The news was Very ungrateful to me. I stand
ready at a moment’s warning (if the government will
be so good as to allow me the privilege, which is all
I ask) to visit their transgressions with the necessary
correction, which I am determined to do, provided I
can proceed with propriety.”

To prevent the repetition of the bloody scenes
enacted in our wars with the Indians at different peri-
ods, now became the absorbing thought of General
Trigg. The organization of the troops for defense
was ordered. Colonel Tliornton’s regiment was
placed on the frontier. On his commandrested the
responsibility of guarding the defenseless inhabitants
along the border. Opposed by a stealthy foe whose
path was marked by cruel torture, death or captivity,
ceaseless vigilance was the price of safety. Colonel
Thornton’s efforts were indefatigable and successful.

For the safety of -thejsettlers he built a block house :

on his farm, into which in times of danger, the women
and children retreated, a guard was left with them,
and the remainder of the troops marched to the
point of attack, These alarms were not unfrequent
from 1824 to 1829, with however, little loss of life.
It wasnot until 1829 that the war cloud darkened
and lowered with fearful momentum. Consternation
filled the hearts of those immediately on the border.
The troops were called out. VVe quote from a brig-

ade order of Brigadier-General Thompson to Colonel

Thornton: “Having received reliable information
that a band of hostile Indians of the Ioway tribe,

after committing various outrages on the citizens of
Randolph county, did kill three and wound others,

the citizens of said county, and in many respects
evince a determined hostility, you are hereby required
to detail from your command two hundred and fifty
men——two hundred of them to hold themselves in
readiness to march instantly, subject to further orders,

and fifty men will be called into service who will pro-
ceed at once and act on the frontier of Clay county
and as an outpost detachment on said frontier.” In
reply Colonel Thornton wrote: “I have received
your order of the 3d of August, requiring a company
of volunteers to proceed with dispatch to the frontier
of Clay county, to act as rangers on said frontier.

Previous to the receipt of said order, I hadordered
the first company of volunteers, consisting of fifty
men, commissioned officers and privates to rendez-
vous on the 4th instant at Smith's Mill on Platte,

believing it to be my duty from information received
from the Indian agent, together with reasons assigned
in my communication of the 1st instant.”

Previous to this Colonel Thornton had’ received
a letter from Lieutenant Francis Lee in command at
Fort Leavenworth, dated July 24, I82 9, in which he
said: “ Having received information from General
Hughes by express this morning, of the difficulty
between the Ioway Indians and the citizens of Ran-
dolph county, I am induced to request, if you pos-
sibly can, that you will-furnish this post with a few
men——say forty—for its defense. I make this request
from a belief that if hostilities commence by those
Indians at the Ioway nation, this will be the first point
at which they will strike. We have a quantity of
public stores and ammunition and many women and
children which we could by no means protect.‘ We
have but twenty men in all, most of whom are sick,
and the buildings are much scattered.”

August 6,Genera1 Andrew Hughes wrote to Colo-
nel Thornton-—“ Your troops are within twelve miles
of Ioway Agency Post——fine looking officers and men
—a host within themselves. Your troops must con-
tinue on the line until times are better, on account of
the safety of the border citizens.” Brigadier-General
Thompson writes to Colonel Thornton : “ Having
an order from Major General Trigg, calling for a
requisition of men to be organized into companies,
battalions, and to constitute one regiment 3 if you
have detailed the detachment required by my order

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of July 22d, organize them into companies of fifty
men each, to be mounted and furnished a rifle and
at least one hundred rounds of ammunition.”

On September 7th Brigadier-General Thompson
writes 2- “ Dear Colonel—I received an order from
Major General Trigg, requiring that the regiment of
mounted infantry, as per requisition of the 22d of
July, be organized into battalions. At the same
time he required that I detail the field officers for
said regiment with an eye to intelligence, qualifica-
tion and fitness, without respect to seniority. I have
therefore, the honor to detail you, and confer upon
you the command of said regiment of mounted
infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Long, of the 22d regi-
ment is detailed as the commandant of the first, and
Major Ashley of the 21st, will assume the command
of the second battalion of said regiment. The four
companies detailed from the 22d and 21st regiments
will constitute the first battalion , and the companies
detailed from the 28th regiment composing (as per
your report) five companies will constitute the sec-
ond battalion of said regiment. You will proceed to
appoint your regimental staff from officers now in
commission, or from the subordinates of the line
without respect to seniority. I. have by this mail
reported to the General of Division, a regimental
return of said regiment, with the field officers detailed
to command the same.” The promptness and energy
with which the hostile incursion of the Indians was
met made them soon willing to lay down the toma-
hawk, and terms of peace were ‘acceded to. The
settlers along the border resumed their accustomed
avocations and all went on happily.

Colonel Thornton was elected a member of the
legislature from Clay ‘county, in 1824, 1826, I828,
1830 and 1832. He was speaker of the house in 1828
and 1830. As a legislator he was a perfect master
of parliamentary law and usage and as speaker of
the house was prompt, accurate, impartial and pop-
ular. His political information was extensive and
peculiarly accurate, so that when he addressed the
house in debate he always commanded undivided
attention. Though not eloquent, (in one sense of
the word) he was terse, vigorous, concise and logical.
If his premises were correct, and they generally were
on political subjects, his deductions from them were
always clear and conclusive. N 0 one has more influ-
ence in debate. In politics a Democrat, he was
eminently popular with his party in the state until
the famous proclamation of President Jackson was
issued against South Carolina nullification. His

openly declared opposition to it diminished his pop-
ularity to such an extent that he failed to be elected
to the legislature in 1834, but was elected by a large
majority in 1836. He was a decided state rights
Democrat of the jeffersonian school, and believing
the proclamation savored too much of the opinions
of Hamilton, he unhesitatingly announced his oppo-
sition to what he deemed political heresy. No man
knew better than Colonel Thornton that opposition
by a Democrat to the popular administration of the
the President was swift and certain political death.
Few indeed, of the boldest advocates of the resolu-
tions of 1798 and 1799 had the firmness to criticise

what they candidly believed essentially latitudinar’1an'

in that elegantly written article. But Colonel Thorn-
ton was affirmative by nature—nothing hesitating or
doubtful about him. Whatever he deemed right he
advocated with boldness and energy. Some" years
after the South Carolina trouble had been smothered
for a time by one of Mr. Clay’s numerous compro-
mises, and President ]ackson’s fury against Calhoun
had so far subsided as to enable him totake a more
moderate view of the subject, the Richmond Eflguzl
rer, then edited by the Venerable Ritchey, published
an explanation of the proclamation, purporting to be
by authority, softening to state rights Democrats
many of its objectionable features. With this Colonel
Thornton was satisfied.

One of the leading traits of Colonel Thornton’s
character, was stern, uncompromising integrity.
Neither the behests of party nor popular clamor
swerved him from what he deemed his duty. He
came to his conclusions after thorough investigation
and much patient labor, and when thus formed he
adhered to them regardless of personal consequences.
He followed no man. If he borrowed an opinion he
did not know it. He was essentially self-reliant,
honest in all things——even politics. He was con-
trolled by the unselfish dictates of conscience, his
sentiments were high—toned, his bearing manly.
Frank by nature he was candor itself. No duplicity,
no equivocation in language or action. Commencing
life with only such education ascould be obtained in
Kentucky in his boyhood, by constant application he
became possessed of varied attainments and liberal
culture. In Ex-Senator Atchison’s speech in Liberty
at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Clay
county, alluding to General A. W. Doniphan, he
paid an eloquent tribute to his wife, and speaking of
her father, Colonel Thornton, said that “ it was
from him he learned his first lessons in politics, and

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declared him to be, next to john C. Calhoun, the
soundest statesman of his time.”

His public spirit was evinced in the uniform
interest which he manifested in education, religion
and morals, and especially all improvements having
in view the prosperity of the community. Such were
his liberal convictions touching the freedom of the
press and the fair discussion of all public measures,
that in two instances he made liberal donations to
establish journals advocating opinions opposed to his
own. Affable, courteous and easily approached, he
was popular as a citizen, neighbor and legislator.
In private life he was eminent for his virtues. He
was essentially a man of feeling, his great heart
embraced humanity to do them good. The sight or
story of grief melted him to tears while it called forth
his characteristic energy to give relief. He was
refined in feeling, cheerful of disposition, genial and
pleasant as a companion. He was the perfection of
manly form, full six feet high, and admirably propor-
tioned. He had a noble face, once seen it was
never forgotten. Mr. Bingham, Missouri’s great
artist, said to his daughter on one occasion—“ it has
been thirty years since I painted Colonel Thornton’s
portrait. His face was so striking I could paint it to-
day from memory.” He had a high broad forehead,
splendid black eye, black hair, fine expressive mouth
and nose—all the features and development of the
head evidenced certainly, that he was a man of great
intellectual vigor and firmness.

No husband could love more devotedly, no father
be more tender, nor contribute more to the happi-
ness of his household. It was his custom every
evening to gather his children around him to witness
and enter into their sports. The children looked for-
ward to this charming finale of the day with unmin-
gled delight, the remembrance of which, even at this
distant day thrills them with gratitude for this added
happiness of childhood.

His wife, Elizabeth Trigg, was a lady of great
beauty and strong intellectual power, alike distin-
guished for her qualities of mind and heart, full of
affection, sympathetic to the afflicted, bountiful to
the poor, kind, courteous and cordial, she captivated
all who knew her and held in unbroken charm the
affection and confidence she had inspired, by a con-
tinuance of that genuine interest in others that led
her to make sacrifices that she might do them good.
As a Christian her anxiety for the salvation of souls
impelled her to ‘active labor and sacrifice that she
might win them to the Cross. She was a member of

the Baptist Church, an indefatigable worker, full of
faith and love. As wife and mother her devotion
was complete. She gave unwearied attention to the
moral and intellectual training of her children. The
ardent attachment and great admiration of her hus-
band for her was fully deserved, as well as of her
children, who so feel the impress of her power upon
them that the guidings of her counsel are still heeded
and obeyed. She loved to read, in which she cop-
ied her husband, and shared with him the pleasures
peculiarly enjoyed by the cultured. Together they
taught their children, by example as well as precept,
the value of knowledge, unfolding to them its delights.
From a well selected library volume after volume was
read, from. which all received pleasure as well as
profit. No day was accounted well spent unless
something valuable was learned from books. The
marriage relation of these two was the happiest pos-
sible for human beings to enjoy.

Mrs. Thornton was quiet in manner, her voice
soft and musical, her features regular, her complex-
ion fair and beautiful, her eyes blue, her hair black,
the expression of her face almost angelic in its sweet-
ness and purity. In stature she was of the middle
height, perfectly well proportioned, modest, graceful
and dignified. She was possessed of great nobility
of soul. Candid, frank, generous, genial and social,
she was an ornament of society, revered and loved
by all who knew her. She died at her residence in
Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, February 17, 1858.
She was the great granddaughter of Abraham Trigg,
who emigrated from England to America in 1710,
settled in Eastern Virginia and married Miss Susan
Johns, and granddaughter of Major John Trigg, who
married Miss Diana Ayers. Major John Trigg was
a gallant officer of the Revolution, he was with
General Washington at the siege of Yorktown and
surrender of Cornwallis. He was elected a member
of_ Congress from Virginia in, 1797, and served in
that body until his death in 1804. Abraham Trigg,
his brother, was also elected to Congress in 1797,
and continued a member of that body until 1809.
Colonel Stephen Trigg, another brother, came to
Kentucky in the fall of 1779, as a member of the
court of land commissioners, and in the spring of
1780, after the dissolution of that body, he decided
to remain in Kentucky. He was killed two years
afterwards in the fatal battle of the Blue Licks, while
bravely leading his men to the charge. His name is
inscribed on the monument Kentucky has erected to
her illustrious dead at Frankfort. The father of Mrs.

606 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Thornton, General Stephen Trigg, was born in Bed-
ford county, Virginia, in 1768, and married Miss
Elizabeth Clarke, of the same county, eldest daughter
of Robert Clarke, in 1790. Robert Clarke, the
grandfather of Mrs. Thornton, married Miss Susan
Henderson. He was a member of the House of Bur-
gesses, Virginia, during the Revolution. He removed
toKentucky and settled in Clarke county. He was
a member of the convention that framed the consti-
tution of Kentucky,’ which assembled at Frankfort,
August 17, 1799. One of his sons, Christopher
Clarke, was an eminent lawyer and member of
Congress from Virginia. Governor James Clarke, of
Kentucky, another son, was elected to Congress in
1812 and served in that body until 1816. In 1825
he was again elected to Congress, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by Mr. Clay’s appointment as Secretary
of State, and continued to represent Fayette district
until 1831. He was elected Governor of Kentucky
in 1836, and died in 1839. '

General Stephen Trigg removed with his family
from Bedford county, Virginia, to Clarke county,
Kentucky, in 1794, and in 1800 to Estill county,
where Elizabeth Trigg was born in 1801. I General
Trigg represented Estill county several times in the
legislature. He was colonel of a regiment of vol-
unteers.during the war of 1812. He emigrated
with his family to Old Franklin, Howard county,
Missouri, in the fall of 1818. In 1822 he was

-elected to the legislature from Howard county.

About this time he was appointed ‘major-general
of the militia of Missouri. He and his wife were
members of the Baptist church, and were devoted
Christians.

General Trigg was a man of large intellect and
great probity of character. He was true, candid, gen-

erous and hospitable; of elegant manners, tall, erect
and commanding in person, his face was remarkably
handsome and intelligent ; in disposition he was
cheerful and social, easily approached, popular and
beloved. In politics he was a firm and consistent
Whig. He died at his residence in Saline county,
Missouri, in 1834. Mrs. Trigg, the mother of Mrs.
Thornton, was a lady of strong intellect, amiable
disposition and stern integrity of character. Genial,
benevolent and kind, she won the esteem and affec-
tion of all who knew her. She died in Howard
county, May 4, 1822..

The lives of both Colonel and Mrs. Thornton
were illustrated by deeds of generosity, benevo-
lence and kindness, memories of which live. in the
hearts of those who felt the genial warmth of their
Their hospitality was as proverbial as it
Having ample

influence.
was generous and open-hearted.
means, they were enabled to indulge their great
fondness for entertaining company. The poor were
not forgotten——they came and were ministered unto.
Their servants were well cared for, in infancy and in
old age ; in sickness they were the subjects of solici-
tude, while they, the recipients, having no anxiety
for their future, were happy and contented, evincing
great affection for their master and mistress.

They raised seven daughters and one son. Eliza-
beth Jane, their eldest child, married General A. W.
Doniphan; Caroline Margery married Colonel O. P.

Moss; Adeliza married Mr. William Morton; Susan,

married Mr. James H. Baldwin—after his death she
married Dr. J. D. McCurdy, Mary married Hon.
R W. Donnell; Fannie married Colonel John Don-
iphan; Theodosia married Hon. L.  Lawson,
Colonel John C. Calhoun Thornton, their only son,
married Miss Louise Archer.

WILLIAM ORRINGTON LUNT JEWETT.

SIIELBI./VA.

ILLIAM O. L. JEWETT was born Decem-

KI  His

father, Samuel Jewett, was born in Ipswich, Massa-

chusetts, and was a clergyman of the Methodist

Episcopal church. His mother, Sophronia Huckins,
was a native of Effingham, New Hampshire.

W. O. L. Jewett was raised on the farm of his

her 27, 1836, in Bowdingham, Maine.

father, in Will county, Illinois, whither his father
had gone when he was a lad. His early education
was liberal, and he entered upon the study of law at
Joliet, Illinois, in 1864. He attended the law depart-
ment of Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, in
r865—6, and was admitted to practice in the latter
year.

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During a portion of 1861, 1862 and I864, he
was a private soldier in the Union army,_first as a
member of the 39th Illinois infantry, and afterward
as a private in Battery C, 1st Illinois artillery. He
was under General Shields at the battle of Winches-
ter and faithfully did his duty on that memorable
field. He located at Shelbina, Shelby county, Mis-
souri, in the spring of 1868, and began the practice
of his profession there. His care and attention to

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business have secured to him a liberal patronage and
his practice is steadily growing in volume and increas-
ing in remuneration.

At the November election of 1876 he was elected

I prosecuting attorney of Shelby county, an office

which he at present holds. He is a member of the
Democratic party. A
He was married, in 1869, to Miss Sarah Ellen

Cox, of Shelby county, Missouri.

HON. THEODORE BRUERE.

ST. CHARLES.

He is of
Huguenot descent. In 1685 the “edict of Nantes”
was revoked, and religious freedom in France was
among the things of the past. By the stroke of a
royal pen the work of the Huguenots was undone,
their freedom destroyed and their families thrown
upon the wide world as eXiles—with the grim privi-
lege of remaining at home as traitors to their God
and their conscience. In this history will be found
many of the foremost statesmen of the colonies of
America and the United States, as children and
grandchildren of those sturdy religionists who yielded
home rather than their faith.

Jean Bruere, one of the old and staunchest
Huguenot families and father of our subject, settled
at Cologne, Prussia, where he became a prominent
architect and builder. At his death he left a widow
with eight children. The mother, whose maiden
name was Minna Jaeger, bravely shouldered the
responsibilities of her lot, and determined to make
her children honor the coming age as her hus-
band had the past. She removed to the city of
Darmstadt, and there she continued the education
of Theodore, her second son, during the years
1843-6, at the Polyiec/miczmz. Having passed an
examination in the languages and civil engineering
departments of that college, he graduated in 1849.
A Democrat by instinct, by training and by parental
influence, he could not remain in the land of his
adoption, nor return to the land of his birth. So,
with nothing but youth, honor, determination and
industry, he emigrated to America, landing in New

York with only a dollar as his cash capital.
77

F HEODORE BRUERE was born in the city
of Cologne, Prussia, July 15, 1831.

He was employed as an assistant civil engineer
for several months and then went west, arriving in
St. Louis in 1850. From there he went to Warren
county, Missouri, where he engaged in any honor-
able employment offering, until Judge Waller, one
of the leading citizens of that county, knowing his
proficiency, engaged him to teach Latin and the
higher branches of English in a private school.
Remaining in this employment a few months, he
resigned and accepted a proffered position on the
S2‘. C/zarles Demacmf, then edited and published by
Arnold Krekel, now judge of the United States dis-
trict court for the western district of Missouri. At
the same time he engaged in the study of law with
Judge Krekel. So assiduously did he prosecute his
studies that in 1854 he entered the Law Department
of the Cincinnati Law School, and there graduated
in 1855. His classmates were General Thomas C.
\Ewing, W. H.,Corwin and other gentlemen who
have since attained distinction throughout the Union.
In 1854 Mr. Bruere was examined by Hon. John F.
Ryland, judge of the supreme court of Missouri,
and W as admitted to practice law in the state, and in
April, 18 55, commenced practicing law in St. Charles
as the law partner of Judge Krekel. In August, 185 6,
he was elected county surveyor of St, Charles county
for the term of four years. During three years of this
time he also filled the office of city engineer of St.
Charles by appointment. In 1863 he was appointed
city attorney for St. Charles, which office he held
seven consecutive years. Since 1863 he has been a
member and secretary of the St. Charles city school
board. In 1867 he was elected president of the St._
Charles Savings Bank, which position he still holds.

608 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Such a man could not be spared from public ser-
vice by the voters of a country demanding active,
conscientious men for office. Consequently we find
that in 1866 Mr. Bruére was elected a member of
the Missouri Senate from the roth senatorial district,
embracing the counties of St. Charles and Warren.
In that body he was chairman of the judiciary
committee, and a member of the committees on
Education, State University, and Deaf and Dumb
Asylum. In 1868 he was one of the Republican
electors of the state on the Grant ticket. In 1870
he was renominated as the Republican candidate for
the State Senate, but defeated by the schism in his
party. In 1872 he was made a delegate to the
national convention of the Republican party at Phil-
adelphia, and was secretary of the state convention
which appointed the delegation.

His political career began with his maiden vote
for James Buchanan for President, but on the organ-
ization of the Republican party in Missouri, he
cooperated with it and has ever since been one of
its most zealous members. His services, his party
fealty and his political rectitude have been such that
Mr. .Bruere’s is to-day a favored name for the com-
ing honors of the voters of Missouri, without regard
to party. In 1876 he was again elected a dele-

gate to the National Presidential Convention which
assembled at Cincinnati.

In his profession Mr. Bruere stands deservedly
high as a laborious and studious attorney. A judge
in St. Louis says of him: “ He is keen, quick, caus-
tic and critical as an opponent, shrewd as a lawyer,
safe as a counselor, and always prompt and syste-
matic in his office-work.” Coming from such a
source, it was a high encomium. .

On the 8th of September, 18 57, Theodore Bruere
married Miss Minna Jaeger, daughter of Theodore
Jaeger, near Heidelberg, Germany. By her he has
five living children: Bertha, Lina, Thekla, Theodore
and Laura. His two eldest daughters, Misses Ber-
tha and Lina, have finished their education in a
female college at Stuttgardt, Germany, and are now
on their return home.

As a traveler, closely observing and treasuring
what he saw, Mr. Bruere, during four tours of the
Continent of Europe and extensive travels through
the United States, has gathered a fund of valuable
practical information, has learned much of men and
motives, of nations and governments, and has at the
same time gained a polish of address that has made
him popular and added no little to his success as a
lawyer and statesman.

GUSTAVE BRUERE.

ST. CHARLES.

’ USTAVE BRUERE, ‘editor and publisher of
G the S2‘. Charles Zezfimg, was born in 1832,
in the city of Cologne, Prussia. His father Jean
Bruere, was a prominent architect and builder in
that city. ‘

The subject of this sketch is the third of five boys.
With his father’s family he removed to Darmstadt,
Hessen, in_ 1840, where he regularly attended a pri-

vate school until 184 5, he then spent three years and.

a half at the Gymnasium, and afterward one year in
the polytechnical school.

At the end of his educational course, he served
as an apprentice five years in a. ‘book publishing
printing house.

During the revolution of 1848 in Germany, his
sympathies were with the Democrats, and in the fall
of 1852 he emigrated to America, for the purpose of

‘ speech were free.

living under a government where pen, press and
On landing at New York he was
about penniless, but immediately found employment
canvassing for the sale of German periodicals, and
remained in the city two months. ' He then came to
St. Charles where his brother Theodore had prece-
ded him. Soon after his arrival he purchased the
printing office of the St. Charles Democmz‘. Arnold
Krekel, Esq., attorney at law then, and now judge
of the United States District Court at Jefferson City,
being editor and his security in the purchase; but by
perseverence and untiring industry the debt was soon
paid. He only had one assistant in the office, and
for a number of years was editor, compositor, and
carrier. _ He published the Democrat thirteen years,
and was boldly prominent as a writer on all the lead-
ing issues of the day, being specially antagonistic to

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the Know-nothing party, and a zealous opposer to the
extension of slavery into the territories. During the
Rebellion his paper was warm in its advocacy of the
Union, and he himself shouldered the musket at
home guard of St. Charles county.

In 1862 Mr. Bruere was appointed city register
of St. Charles by Mayor Hausam, which office he
held for a year and a half, after which it was made
elective.
lature by the Republican party, and on the organiza-
tion of the house of representatives was appointed
chairman of the committee on education.

Mr. Bruere can certainly claim the honor of
drafting (in company with others of his committee),
the original for the bill for common schools in Mis-
souri. As chairman of the committee on education
he presented and insisted upon the principle of put-
ting books in the hands of every child in the state,

and that rich and poor alike should be educated. 4

One of the most ardent and zealous supporters of "the
measure, it was eminently proper to appoint him
chairman of that committee. Mr. Bruere watched
and worked for the bill until it passed, and all the
common school laws of the state have been based
upon the principles enunciated in that original draft.

In May, 1865, he was appointed by Governor
Fletcher to the position of clerk of the county
court of St. Charles, to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the ordinance of the state convention
of that year, vacating offices when the incumbent
refused to take the so-called convention oath. At
the next general election‘(I866) he was elected

In 1864 he was elected to the state legis-_

by the people to the same office for four years.

He was a candidate for secretary of the senate in
the legislature of 1871-2, but was defeated by one
vote. He was then appointed docket clerk of the
lower house. In the spring of 1873 he became busi-
ness manager of the Anzezger ties I’/V2'3z‘ms of St. Louis,
and afterwards filled the same office for the I1/z's50zm'
S/am‘: Zez'/zmg in the same city. Late in the same
year he returned to St. Charles and purchased the
S/. C/zczr/es Z62’/zmg, and has been its publisher and
editor until the year 187 5 when it was sold. Since
than he-has been a partner in the law business with
his brother Theodore.

Mr. Bruere organized with others the Turners’
Society of St. Charles and was president of the Ger-
man reading society for many years. He was Presi-
dent of the St. Charles Building and Loan Association
and secretary of the St. Charles Mutual Life Insu-
rance Company, and besides these has ever taken a
decided interestin all the enterprises connected with
the city. He nowrepresents the citizens of the first
ward of St. Charles in the city council.

As a writer he is bold, thoughtful and peculiarly I

free spoken 3 but evincing in his articles sturdy can-
dor. As a public officer he has made many friends,
and as a man and citizen is popular with all classes.
Gustave Brue‘re married, in St. Charles, on the
23rd of February, 1857, , Miss Clarissa Viant, a
native of the county, and daughter of Francis and
Christine Viant. They have had seven children, of
which four are living. His oldest daughter, Clara,is
now a teacher in the public schools of St. Charles.

NATHANIEL ROLLINS.

CAN TON.

ATHANIEL ROLLINS was born February
N 29,. 1832, in St. Albans, Somerset county,
Maine. His father, Eben N. Rollins, was a native
of Dover, New Hampshire, and followed through life

agricultural pursuits. He was a soldier in the War of _

1812 andvwas the son of Nathaniel Rollins, a soldier
throughoutthe Revolution. His mother, whose
maiden name was Sarah Church, was a native of
Kennebec county, Maine. Nathaniel was reared in
Somerset county, Maine, on the family farm. He
obtained a good literary education at the St. Albans

Academy in his native state. From the age of sev-
enteen to twenty-three he taught school in Maine,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, devoting ‘his leisure
hours to the reading of law.

In the fall of 1855, having finished a course of
law reading in the office of Abbott & Clark, of Mad-
ison, Wisconsin, he passed a satisfactory examina-
tion and was admitted to the bar. In January, 1856,
he began practicing at Madison, where he remained

-until the civil war began.

In May, 1861, he volunteered in the 2d Wiscon-

610

sin infantry as 2d lieutenant of company H, and was
in the United States service till December, 1864,
having been promoted to captain in 1862. He was
an active participant in both the great battles of Bull

Run, and was in those of Chancellorsville, South,

Mountain, Antietam and Gettysburg. He was taken
prisoner at Gettysburg and confined about seventeen
months in Confederate prisons.

In the spring of 1865 Captain Rollins located at
Canton, Missouri, resumed the practice of law, and
has resided there since as an active and leading
attorney. His entire time and talent has been

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assiduously devoted to his profession, never permit-
ting himself to be drawn into political discussions,
office-hunting or speculations ; hence he has acquired
the reputation of an industrious, careful lawyer, and
has secured a Very large and remunerative practice.

In politics he is a Republican, but has never
asked office, content with voting independently and
understandingly. Captain Nathaniel Rollins was
married, in january, 1865, to Miss Mary Gleason,
of Lisbon, New Hampshire. She died in 1871. In
January, 1874, he was married to Miss Mary Sweet,
of Lewis county, Missouri.

TRUEMAN S. POWELL.

LAMAA’.

S the song writers of France mould the senti-
ments of the people, so the journalists of the

United States form public opinion. No body of pro-

fessionals in any country wield as great an inflence

as the editorial corps of America. No people on the
globe are such great newspaper readers as our citi-
zens. Breakfast is incomplete without the morning’s
news, and the evenings are furnished with entertain-
ment by retailing the editor’s comments thereon.
Theology, war, politics or statesmanship, are alike
settled, at least, in the estimate of the masses, by the
daily press.

Trueman Safford Powell is among the most prom-
inent journalists of Southern Missouri. He is of
Welsh and English descent. His grandfather, Wil-
liam Powell, emigrated from Aber Gevinie, Wales, in
1813, and settled in New York City, where he
engaged in the tailoring business until his death.
Rev. Thomas Powell, father of our subject was born
at the Welsh home of his parents in 1800, and came
to America with them. He was educated in New
York City, and in 1827 became a -minister in the
Baptist Church. He went to Putnam county, Illi-
nois, and labored for his denomination twenty years,
being instrumental in founding some of the first relig-
ious organizations in that state. He finally retired
from the regular ministry and located in Davenport,
Iowa, where for six years he was engaged in the work
of the American Baptist Home Mission. In 1861 he
removed to Ottawa, La Salle county, Illinois, where
he still resides (1878) at an advanced age. His wife’s

maiden name was Elizabeth Day. They had nine

children, of whom our subject was the eighth.
Trueman was born in Mt. Palatine, Putnam

county, Illinois, October 25, 1842, and received his

_ earlier education in the public schools of his native

county. In 1857 he removed with his parents to
Davenport, Iowa, where he attended the high school
for three years and then went with the family to
Ottawa, Illinois. He was regularly apprenticed in
the office of the Ottawa Re/bub/z'az7z for three years,
at the expiration of which time he volunteered in the
64th Illinois Volunteer infantry, company A, under
Colonel john Morrill. He participatedin Sherman’s
campaign against Atlanta and “march to the sea.”
He was also at the siege of Savannah, and in the
campaign in the Carolinas, which terminated in the
capture of ]ohnson’s army near Raleigh, North Car-
olina. He took part in the battles of Resaca, Dallas,
Kenneshaw Mountain, Peach Tree, Smyrna Church,
jonesboro and Bentonville—not missing a single
day’s duty during the entire time of his service. At
the battle of Dallas he was ‘wounded, but did not
leave his regiment. At the close of the war he was
brevetted 2nd lieutenant for gallant behavior.

When peace was gained he entered the office of
the Peru Iferala’, La Salle county, Illinois, as foreman
and assistant editor, and remained two years. His
health failing, at the expiration of that time he
engaged in farming, remaining in the county two
years, and then removing to Carthage, jasper county,
Missouri, where he spent two years in merchan-

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dising. He then disposed of his stock in trade
and accepted the position of junior editor of the Car-
thage Adm/zce, remaining one year, and in January,
1874, settled in Lamar, Barton county, Missouri,
where he purchased the Advocate printing establish-
ment and has since continued to publish that paper.
By his fine business ability he has greatly enlarged
its subscription and made it one of the most influen-
tial journals in Southern Missouri. As an editor he
is highly esteemed by his readers throughout the

J has no superior.

state, and as a business man of integrity and honor,
Socially he is a favorite with all
his associates. His political views are Republican
and he takes an active part in the workings of that
party. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

I March 9, 1864, Mr. Powell was married to Miss
Helen R. Hopkins, daughter of Alonzo and Mary
S. (Dodge) Hopkins, of Ellicottsville, Cattaraugus
county, New York. By her he has had five chil-
dren, all of whom are living.

MAJOR JAMES WALKER LEWIS.

GLASGO I/V.

AMES WALKER LEWIS was born in Bucking-
ham county, Virginia, October 23, 1823. He
was the fifth of six children, of Thomas and

Jedidah Lewis, four of whom were boys. His
father was a successful farmer of the Old Dominion,
and at his death, which occurred in 182 6, left a fine

estate. But, unfortunately, during his lifetime, hav-

ing involved himself by endorsements for others, his

estate was absorbed in the payment of these claims
and the tedious processes of law incident thereto,
leaving nothing for his widow or for his children, the
eldest of whom was less than fifteen years of age.
In 183 Iitl1€ widow, having learned something of
Missouri through some relatives of her husband, who
had preceded her there, determined to cast her lot in
the West. In October of that year she arrived in
Howard county with her family, where she rented a
farm. In 1833 she married William L. Banks. Her
eldest son, Benjamin, who, since his father’s death,
though but a mere boy, had felt the care and respon-
sibility of the family resting upon him, feeling to
some extent now relieved by this event, during that
year took the subject of this sketch, then a lad of
ten years, with him to Linn county, Where they
engaged in agricultural pursuits, James doing the
cooking and milking, while Benjamin attended to
outdoor affairs. They did not remain there long,
however, and in less than two years returned to
Howard county, where the elder brother obtained
employment in a tobacco factory, while the subject
of our sketch Worked first for his board and
clothes. From this time until the formation of a
partnership between Benjamin W. Lewis and William

D. Swinney 1n the manufacture of tobacco, James
found employment in various avocations, principally
in hauling freight from the river with an ox team and
delivering it at various points in the county. After
the partnership alluded to, he was employed by them,
and was so engaged during the continuation of the
partnership at a salary. By untiring industry and
energy, and the most rigid economy in these various
employments, he was enabled to accumulate some
means, and not wishing his little capital to remain
idle, and anxious to turn every penny to account, he
invested his small accumulations in a copartnership
with his younger brother, William J. Lewis. In
1847 they engaged in the manufacture of tobacco at
St. Louis under the firm name of J. W. &: W. J.
Lewis. At first they operated on a limited scale, but
by a thorough system of honorable and liberal deal-
ing, the firm very soon assumed high rank among
the business firms of that city, James remaining at
Glasgow on a’ salary with Swinney & Lewis, while
William conducted the business at St. Louis.

In January, 1850, the firm of Swinney & Lewis
was dissolved by the withdrawal of Mr. Swinney.
The three brothers then became equally interested
in the business, under the firm name of B. W. Lewis
& Bros., at Glasgow, and of Lewis & Bros., at St.
Louis. These copartnerships continued with gratify-
ing success for several years, when John D. Perry
was admitted in the house at St. Louis and Thomas
J. Bartholow in the one at Glasgow, the firm name of
the former being changed to that of Lewis, Perry &
Co., while the one at Glasgow remained the same.

The business was thus continued with great suc-

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cess for several years, when Messrs. Bartholow and
Perry withdrew, after which the business was con-
tinued in the name of the Lewis Brothers till 1870,
four years after the death of B. VV. Lewis, which
occurred in 1866. Major Lewis is also largely inter-
ested in the banking house of Bartholow, Lewis &
Co., and has been since its organization. In 1872,
on account of its rapidly increasing business, it was
deemed best to_ make it a chartered institution, which
was done in that year, Major Lewis retaining a large
interest. His farming interests in Howard, Chariton
and Randolph counties are immense. He and his
nephew, james B. Lewis, own a large saw mill at
the mouth of Chariton river, from which are annu-
ally exported vast quantities of lumber by river and
rail.

Major Lewis in early life was connected with the
Democratic party, and voted for Douglas in 1860,

. but has since acted with the Republicans, and is

considered a leader. Though frequently solicited,
he has never permitted his name to be used in con-
nection with political’ office. Previous to the late
war, he and his older brother had gathered about
them a large number of slaves, and employed them
in their factory. But about a year before the eman-
cipation proclamation was issued, they, believing the
interests of the country demanded the abolition of
all slave property,- freed their slaves, retaining in
their employ at liberal wages such as desired to
remain. Others, desiring to set up for themselves, re-
ceived assistance in securing more permanent homes.

Major Lewis united with the Methodist Episcopal

church in 1843, and in 1845 adhered to the church
south, there being at that time scarcely any division

of sentiment in the congregation of which he was a,

member. Upon the reestablisment of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church in Glasgow, in 1862, he
reunited with it, and has since been among its chief
supporters in all its various interests, and in return
has been the recipient of the highest honors to which
a lay member is eligible, that of delegate to the
General Conference. “While Lewis Library and
College probably owe their origin more directly to
the philanthropic spirit of his deceased brother, their
completion, support and success has been largely
dependant upon his generosity,” and in the years to
come will remain as monuments more enduring than
brass to the memory of the Lewis family. In every
enterprise connected with the interestand prosperity
of Glasgow he has always been found ready to lend
his influence or expend his means.

On the 7th day of October, 1852, he was mar-
ried to Virginia V., daughter of Singleton Bartholow,
of Maryland, one of the fairest daughters of the
state, and one of the most amiable of her sex. ' By

her he has three children living, two sons and one

daughter.

Major Lewis is an amiable, genial and social
gentleman, an eminently good citizen, an affectionate
father and husband, akind and generous friend. His
heart and hand are ever open to the poor and unfor-
tunate. He is still in the prime of life, with the pros-
pect of many years of happiness and‘ usefulness
before him.

MAJOR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL LEMMON.

BOLIVAR.

'  LEXANDER CAMPBELL LEMMON was

born June 13, 1838, in Henry county, Ten-
nessee. He is the eldest of three children of Wil-
liam H. Lemmon and Nancy A. Hughes. His
paternal ancestors emigrated from Germany to.
America about the year 1700, and settled in Central
Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather, john Lem-
mon, was born in Pennsylvania3 was ‘a soldier of
the Revolution, shortly after which he moved

5 to Greene county, Kentucky 3 took part in the Indian

wars with the early settlers3 was employed in farm-

ing, and was the father of a numerous family. His
grandfather, Isaac Lemmon, son of john Lemmon,
was born in Kentucky in 1781 3 was a farmer 3
entered the army in 1812 3 participated in the battle
of New Orleans, and died as he was returning home,
leaving four children, the eldestof whom was Wil-
liam Hayter Lemmon. The father of our subject, Wil-
liam  Lemmon, was born, December 27, 1807, in
Greene county, _Kentucky 3 was a cabinet maker by
trade, at which he worked after his removal with his
mother’s family to Henry county, Tennessee, until

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1839 ; in the latter year emigrated to Missouri with
his family and settled in Polk county, engaged in
farming; was a useful citizen, a member of the
county court four years, and died in 1862. His
maternal ancestors were originally Welsh, and when
they emigrated to America settled in Virginia, taking
an active part in the Revolution. His maternal
grandfather, Archelaus Hughes, was a leading citizen
of Tennessee, and at one time represented Williamson
county in the state legislature , his son, A. M.
Hughes, a lawyer of West Tennessee, ran against
John W. Crockett for Congress, but was defeated.

A. C. Lemmon received his early educational
training in the common schools of Polk county. In
18 5 5 he began teaching and followed that occupation
for three years. In 1858 he attended the Male and
Female College at Springfield, Missouri, and remained
there until 1860, when-he returned home and again
engaged in teaching In 1861 he enlisted in the
first company of six months’ men organized in Polk
county, and joined the Missouri State‘ Guard. His
company was attached to the 5th regiment of Gene-
ral Raines’ division, of which he was elected and
commissioned major. He participated in the battles
of Wilson’s Creek, Dry,VVood and Lexington. In the
first named engagement his horse was shot from under
him whilst gallantly leading a charge upon the
enemy. The term of enlistment having expired,
the regiment was mustered out of service at Spring-
field. He then recruited a company, of which he
was elected captain.‘ They were organized as
company D, 5th regiment, Colonel James McCown
commanding. Retiring with General Price in his
retreat to Arkansas, his regiment was engaged in the
battle of Elkhorn and other smaller and less import-
ant fights, until the entire command of General
Price crossed the Mississippi.

Following his com-' _

mander, he was in the battles of Iuka and Corinth.
While his regiment was charging upon the intrench—
ments in the latter engagement, he received a severe
wound in the right arm, which resulted in the amputa-
tion of that limb. - He was captured at the field hospital
with other wounded soldiers, and afterwards exchanged
at Vicksburg in December, 1862, and returned to
the army, but his wounds were too severe to admit
of active service then, and he left the army and went
to Alabama, where he remained until the summer of
1863. He then returned to his regiment and was
placed on court-martial duty for three months, after
which he was made commandant of the post at Monte-
vallo, Shelby county, Alabama. Here he remained
in charge until Wilson’s raid at the close of the war,
when he was again taken prisoner in the fight at
that point, but was soon released, the war being
ended.

He returned to Montevallo and began merchan-
dising, remaining there three years. In 1868 he
returned to Polk county, Missouri, and began farin-
ing and teaching sbhool. In 1872 he removed to
Bolivar and began hotel keeping. January, 1874,
he was appointed clerk of the county court by Gov-
ernor Woodson, and in the fall of the same year was
elected to that office, which he still holds.

In politics he votes and acts with the Democratic
party. He was a delegate to the Democratic state
and congressional conventions of 1876 and 1878.

He was married December 21, 1865, to ‘Miss Lou-
ise J. Nabors, daughter of James Nabors, deceased,
of Montevallo, Alabama. Her father was a promi-
nent politician of his state, serving in the lower
house and senate of Alabama for many years. Major
Lemmon and wife have four children living and one
dead. His only brother, Captain W. H. Lemmon,
is a business man of high standing in Dallas, Texas.

MALCOLM MCKILLOP

ROCKPOR T.

  ALCOLM MCKILLOP was born April 17,

1837, in Inverness, Megantic county, Prov- *

ince of Quebec, Canada. His father, Donald Mc-
Killop, was a native of Scotland, and emigrated to
America about the year 1830, settling in Canada.
He-was by occupation a farmer. His wife, Flora
McEchren, was also a native of Scotland.

Malcolm McKillop was reared on the farm, but
his educational advantages were of the best charac-
ter. His literary course was completed at the
University of Vermont, from which institution he
graduated in 1861. The expense of his collegiate
training was maintained principally by himself, he
earning the means by teaching school at intervals.

. to Weston, Platte county, Missouri.

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After leaving college he took charge of the Academy
at Morrisville, Vermont, and was employed there as
an educator for about two years. In 1863 he went
to Windsor, Canada West, and obtained the govern-
ment appointment of the Sandwich grammar school,
which institution he conducted for about two years.
During these latter years he employed his leisure
hours in the study of law, and in 1865 he was
admitted to the Canada bar, at Windsor. In January
of that year, he took up his residence in Dixon,
Lee county, Illinois, where he continued his legal
studies in the office of Hon. George P. Goodwin.
He applied himself closely to study for one year,
when, in February, 1866, he was admitted to the
bar of Illinois by the supreme court of that state,
sitting at Springfield. In the following April he

located at Rockport, Atchison county, Missouri, and
began the practice of his profession. He was suc-
cessful from the first and soon secured an extensive
and remunerative practice.

In the fall of 1868 he was elected county sur-
veyor, and held the office four years. In 1867 he
was appointed superintendent of common schools,
by Governor Thomas C. Fletcher, and held that office
during 1867-8. In 1875 he was elected to represent
the rst Senatorial District in the state constitutional
convention, and although in a political minority, he
wielded a fine influence in that body. In politics Mr.
McKillop is a Liberal Republican. In religion he ac-
cepts the doctrines taught by the Presbyterian church.
He was married December I9, 1868, to Miss Carrie
L. Thurber, of Como, Whitesides county, Illinois.

GEORGE W. BELT.

57'. ]0SEPf[.

EORGE W. BELT was born at Flemings—
burg, on the
23rd day of July, 1825. His father, Joseph C. Belt,
was born in Maryland, in 1773. He was a captain
in the war of 1812, and was one of the Kentucky
company that fought so bravely at Malden. Those
alone conversant with history can imagine the suffer-
ing and hardship endured by our army at that time.
He was appointed a major in the United States reg-
ular army, and was stationed at Jefferson Barracks,
near St. Louis, but resigned and returned to his fam-
ily at Flemingsburg, Kentucky. He was married
in 1803 to Miss Mary Armstrong, a member of the
distinguished Kentucky family of Armstrongs. He
died in 1836, at the age of sixty-three.

George W. Belt T‘““.€lV€d a common school edu-
cation up to the aor of fourteen, when he removed
Having lost
both parents, he came west with his oldest brother,
Dr. Alfred M. Belt, at that time a prominent physi-
cian, and now a distinguished practitioner -in Salem,
Oregon. There is an incident connected with the
births of the two brothers, Alfred and George, the
oldest and the youngest, both having been born the
same minute, same hour of the same day of the year,
but just twenty—one years apart.

In 1840 George W. Belt was engaged in the

Fleming county, Kentucky,

mercantile house of Owens & Aull, then under the
charge of Theodore F. Warner, at Weston, Platte
county. The house trading extensively with the
Indians, he became conversant with their language,
and in September, 1840, he engaged in business for
General Bela M. Hughes, who removed his stock of
goods from Weston to Black Snake Hills, or Robi-
deux landing, (the present site of St. Joseph). He
soon became tired of being surrounded by nothing
but Indians, and returned to Weston, where, outside
of his business hours, he attended night school.

At the age of nineteen he, in company with
Merritt L. Young, bought out an old stock of goods
and embarked in a general merchandising business,
in which they remained about a year. In 1848, after
the dissolution of his first co—partnership, Mr. Belt
took into the business Mr. W. S. Murphy. In 18 51
W. S. Murphy sold out, and his brother, Joseph
Murphy, filled his place, who subsequently sold his
interest to Mr. Belt’s father-in-law, Henry Colman.
In 1858 they closed out their stock of goods, and
Mr. Belt, in company with Thomas Williams, bought
out A. G. Williams’ large livery stable and contracted
and carried all the mails west as far as Atchison,
Doniphan and St. Joseph. He also became proprietor
of the International Hotel in Weston, at that time
one of the best furnished and kept hotels in the West.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARYZ 615

In 1858 he was elected, contrary to his wishes,
mayor of the city of Weston, at that time one of the
best business towns on the Missouri river above St.
Louis, and was reelected three times, serving in all
four years. Since then he was twice elected circuit
clerk of Platte county, also twice elected sheriff and
collector, and elected once treasurer of Platte county.

He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church (South). Methodism being his mother’s belief,
he has always respected and followed it.

But a few weeks after he attained his majority he
was initiated into all the Masonic orders: Weston
Lodge, No. 53, Weston Royal Arch Chapter, No.
4; Weston Commandery, No. 2, in which lodge,
chapter and commandery, being Worshipful Master,
M. E. High Priest and E. Commander for several
years in each of these bodies.

At the St. Louis convention in May, 1860, of
the representatives of the Commanderies of Knights
Templar of Missouri, subordinate to the General
Grand Encampment of the United States of Amer-
ica, to form a State Grand Commandery, Mr. Belt
had the distinguished honor of being elected its first
R. E. Grand Commander, which position, being
reelected four times, he held until May, 1865. In

September, 1865, the Grand Encampment of the
United States of America held their assembly at
Columbus, Ohio. At that time Mr. Belt had the
honor of being unanimously elected Grand Senior
Warden, and at the next assembly of the Grand
Encampment of the United States, held at St. Louis
in 1868, Mr. Belt had the distinguished honor of
being elected Grand Captain General, the third office
in that body. In I872 Mr. Belt had the honor of
being elected Most Puissant Grand Master of the
Grand Council Royal and Select Masters, Cryptic
Masonry, of the state of Missouri, and up to this
time Mr. Belt is the only one that ever held an office
in the Grand Encampment of the United States from
the State of Missouri. Mr. Belt, as Grand Senior
Warden and Grand Captain—General of the Grand
Encampment of the U. S. A., acting under a War-
rant or authority of the M. E. Grand Master,

instituted the firstCom1nanderies of Knights Tem-

plar in the states of Kansas and Nebraska.

In December, 1874, Judge Belt as he is popu-
larly called, removed to St. Joseph, and in company
with Colonel F. M. Tufts and J. B. Maynard bought
the St. Joseph Gczzette, one of the oldest Democratic
papers in the West, established in I845.‘

REV. JOHN NICHOLSON PIERCE.

SEDALIA.

ty, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1834, on the

old farm, opposite Monongahela City, which
has been in his family for generations, where his
father and grandfather were born and where his
great-grandfather, Andrew Pierce, made the first
English settlement. The old house is still in the
family. His father’s name was Andrew Pierce and
his mother’s Sarah l\'icholson Pierce, and her home,
too, has been in the family for nearly a hundred

JOHN N. PIERCE was born in Allegheny coun-

years.
Elder Pierce was educated at Allegheny College,

and graduated in 1857 with great honor to himself
and his Alma ./Wafer. The same institution in due
time conferred on him the degree of A. M. In his

early life he lived and worked upon a farm, and dur- '

ing his leisure hours employed his time in study, and

he thus was so fully occupied between the two that
78

he had no inclination to form any immoral habit.

After leaving college he spent a short time on
the farm at home, but it was not long before he was
sent for to take charge, as principal, of the union
school in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. After teach-
ing one term he entered upon his life—work——the
ministry in the M. E. church—at Columbiana,
Ohio, where he spent the year 1858. In 1859-60
he preached in Dayton, Pennsylvania, and in 1861
took charge of the church at W aynesburg, Pennsyl-

vania. The war breaking out at this time, he lent

his aid to the government in raising troops, and\in'

the fall of 1861 was commissioned chaplain of the
85th Pennsylvania volunteers, with which he served
under General McClellan on the Peninsula. His
health, however, was almost destroyed by the
miasma, and after one year’s service he was obliged
to resign.

616 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Immediately after the close of the war he came

to Missouri, and was transferred from the Pittsburg

Conference to that of Missouri, and was stationed at
Boonville. He has filled the following important
charges in the Missouri Conference: Independence,
Kansas City, Trinity (St. Louis), Sedalia, Warrens—
burg and Carthage. At the last session of the Mis-
souri Conference he was appointed by Bishop Simp-
son as presiding elder of the Sedalia District.

He wasmarried in 18 57 to Miss Curtis, and lived
happily with her until her death, which occurred
February 19th, 1867, at Independence, Missouri.‘

By this beloved wife he had four children, ‘two sons
and two daughters, all of whom are living. On the
14th of April, 1868, he was again "married, to Lucy
Bennett, at Independence. This wife is living and
they have had three children. Two sons died—one
of brain fever and the other of croup 3 Hallie is liv-
ing and is a beautiful child.

Mr. Pierce is abrunette, has dark complexion,
black hair and beard, but has blue eyes. He weighs

one hundred and thirty pounds, and is five feet nine

and a half inches in height. He is an active, ener-
getic man, who enjoys his life and his work.

ALVIN MARION MILLARD.

ROLLA.

LVIN MARION MILLARD was born March
A 29, 1830, in Sullivan county, Tennessee, and
is the oldest of four children. His family is of Eng-
lish origin. His ancestors emigrated from England
and settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to
the Revolutionary war. His grandfather, Timothy
Millard, emigrated to Sullivan county, Tennessee,
where he was a farmer until his death, in 1850, at
the age of seventy-five years, having reared a large
family. His father, Samuel Millard, was born in
Sullivan county, in 1805. He was engaged as far-
mer, trader and merchant for many years, and now
resides near where he was born, having retired from
active life. His mother’s maiden name was Martha
Bishop. I

The early years of A. M. Millard were passed at
his father’s homestead, with only such educational
facilities as were afforded by the common schools.
At the age of fifteen he entered his father’s store as
clerk, remaining there five years. In 1850 he began
the mercantile business for himself in Sullivan county.
At the end of two years he disposed of his stock,
and began the study of medicine with Dr. John A.
Murphy. In 185 5 he was reluctantly drawn into
politics, having been nominated by the Know-nothing
or American party for the state assembly. The
county was Democratic by 1,000 to 1,200, and he
had no hope of election, but after a vigorous cam-
paign he was defeated by only four hundred votes.
He continued to take an ‘active part in state and
federal politics, cooperating with the opposition to

. into active service.

the Democratic party. He favored Fillmore and
Donaldson in 1856 and Bell and Everett in 1860, as
presidential candidates, opposing in the latter case,
to the utmost of his ability, the extreme views of the
Southern Democrats and the Northern Abolitionists.
In 1861 he received, unsolicited, the nomination of
his party for the state senate ; but, although a consti-
tutional Union man, he was opposed to coercion by
the Federal government, and declined the nomina-
tion. Tennessee soon after seceded from the Union,
and he cast his destinies with hers.

In the summer of 1861 he received the unani-
mous and unasked nomination of the Southern con-
servative element for representative in’ the legislature,
and was triumphantly elected, and was reelected in
1863. In the spring of 1862, after the close of the
legislative session, he organized a company for the
Confederate service, of which he was elected captain.
Soon after he assisted in organizing the 63d Tennes-
see infantry, but was defeated for the office of lieu-
tenant-colonel by seven votes. The regiment was
assigned to garrison duty at Cumberland Gap, Knox-
ville, Chattanooga, and other points in East Tennes-
see, until the summer of 1863, when it was ordered
About that time, he and other
officers of the regiment, publicly through the news-
papers, denounced the brigade commander for drunk-
enness and incompetency, for which they were
arrested under a charge of insubordination. Although
repeatedly demanding a trial, the charges were dis-
missed after a long delay, and in November he was

THE UNITED STATES EIOGIBAPIJICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 617

ordered to rejoin his command, then, as he supposed,
in Northern Georgia. After a circuitous trip through
Virginia and North and South Carolina into Georgia,
he learned that his regiment had been ordered to
East Tennessee, and he was forced to double his
track in order to reach it. This required time and
he did not reach his command until January, 1864.
During his arrest he had been on the staff of General
Williams and actively engaged in East Tennessee
and West Virginia. In May, 1864, his regiment was
ordered to Virginia a.nd entered upon the defense of
Richmond and Petersburg, in which it suffered very
severely. From the first of July until prostrated by
sickness in October, he was in command of the reg—
iment. Owing to protracted sickness he resigned
his commission in March, 1865, and returned to his
home in Tennessee. Soon after the war he was
arrested by United States soldiers on a charge of
treason and taken to Knoxville, Where, after giving
a bond of $20,000 for his appearance at the the next
term of the court, he was released and Went to

Louisville, Kentucky, in destitute circumstances,"

obtaining aposition as salesman in a wholesale dry
goods house. He applied to President Johnson for
a pardon, which was granted, and at the next term
of the court the charge of treason was dismissed on
his paying the costs.

He remained in Louisville until the spring of
1866, when he moved to Missouri, stopping for a
few months at Rolla. He then purchased a stock

of goods in St. Louis on credit, and located in Polk
county. He remained there about eighteen months
and then removed to Houston, Texas county, and
again began merchandising. He met with excellent
success and built up a large trade, remaining there
for five years. He then turned his business over to
his brother and opened a general merchandising
business in Rolla, in partnership with Joseph Tipton.
In April, 1875, he purchased Mr. Tipton’s interest
in the establishment. In May, 1876, he formed a
partnership with his brother, G. F. Millard, at Rolla,
under the firm name of A. M. Millard & Bro., and
at Houston under the firm style of G. F. Millard &
Bro., by which arrangement he was to be released
from active business. On the first of January, 187 8,

.S. M. Smith was admitted as a partner in the Rolla

House, the firm name being changed to Millard,
Smith & Co. Since January I, 1877, he has been a
partner in the wholesale commission house of Faulk-
ner, Millard & Co., St. Louis, where he spends
much of his time.

Politically he has voted with the Democratic
party since the war, but has refused to accept office
or take an active part in political discussions. In
religious matters his views are in accord with those of
the Christian church, of which organization he is a
member. He was married May 31, 1865, to Miss
Bettie E. Smith, daughter of Thomas and Agnes

- Smith, of Granger county, Tennessee, by Whom he

has had three children, only one of whom is living.

WILLIAM REED.

l€EED’S STATIO./V.

wide and honorable reputation, and is classed
among the prominent farmers of Jasper county. He
is a native of West Stockbridge, Berkshire county,
Massachusetts, and was born April 15, 1815. His
father, Elkanah Reed, was also a native of Massa-
His mother’s maiden name was Laura
Crocker. She possessed many of the amiable virtues
which adorn the character of a Christian. Firm in
the maintenance of what she held to be the truth, she
offended no one by uncharitable expressions of her
opinions. She died June I0, 1822, but her Christian
advice is fresh in the memory of her children, who

‘A JILLIAM REED has made for himself a‘

chusetts.

first heard from her lips the glad tidings of salvation.
William’s father was a carpenter by trade, but lived
on a farm and only Worked at his trade part of the
time. He was a man of industrious, temperate and
moral habits, and gave all of his children a good com-
mon school education.

At the age of sixteen William commenced learn-
ing the trade of carriage making, and serving his
apprenticeship, worked at his trade for several years.
In 1837 he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, and
after working at his trade several months engaged in
the real estate business in which he was very success-
ful. October I2, 18 5 3, he married Mrs. Angelica

618

Bond, daughter of J. B. Woltz, of Virginia," In the
spring of 1854 he was elected alderman of the 4th
District of New Orleans, and his character as a local
legislator bore the stamp of his judicious, economical
and yet enterprising business management. I Having
traded for a tract of land in Jasper county, Missouri,
he moved upon it in 18 58, and began its improve-
ment with a view of making his home there. The
Missouri & Western Railroad runs through his farm,
on which he laid out a town called Reed’s station—
now a thriving little village.

His wife died January 21, 1874, leaving a family
of three 'children—Spencer, Anna and Frederick.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

In 1876 he married Mrs. Emeline A. Spenser, daugh-
ter of Samuel Cross, a native of Vermont, and grand-
daughter of General Ebenezer Cross of Revolutionary
fame. Mr. Reed has always been identified with
the Democratic party.

He possesses excellent qualities. Naturallyreserv—
ed in his manner, his friendships, when formed,
have been warm and lasting. He is now sixty-two

years of age, of medium height, and spare in his"

build. His countenance and personal bearing are
strongly indicative of a kind heart and a good char-
acter, and possessing firmness and determination, he
succeeds in whatever he undertakes.

RABBI SIMON GERSTMANN.

ST. _/OSEPH.

IMON GERSTMANN was born January 8,
S 1833, in Kalisch, Poland. His parents are
both dead, and no records have come into his hands
which enable him to trace his genealogy. He was
educated at Kalisch, Poland, and Breslau, Prussia.

A After completing his collegiate course in Jewish lit-

erature and theology, he continued to study under
the parental roof, until his marriage. His early
aspirations were for the ministry, and to prepare
himself for his responsible duties he labored with
unremitting zeal and energy.

Coming to America in 1853, he was for eleven
years president and rabbi of a congregation at Savan-
nah, Georgia, which he founded, where he became
a favorite, not only with his congregation, but with
the intelligent men and women of every creed. His
vast learning and deep piety, the suavity of his man-
ners and the graces of his conversation attracted to
him all who could appreciate the charm of modest
exceflence.

He removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1875,
and during his residence there has achieved a popu-
larity rarely equaled by any man in his profession
in the state. His versatile genius, profound erudi.-
tion and proverbial liberality of thought and expres-
sion, have acquired for him a reputation that exalts
him above the reach of envy. He delivered six
lectures" before the students of St. Joseph Female
College, which rank among the highest evidences of
accomplished scholarship, comprehensive thought

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and liberality of sentiment ever presented from the
lecture stand of the West. The extraordinary appre-
ciation in which he is held as a logician and pulpit
orator by the various Christian denominations in this
country, is evinced by the fact that he has, by
special invitation, on several occasions preached to
crowded congregations in the Baptist and Presbyte-
rian churches of St. Joseph, as well as in Rockport,
Oregon, and Chillicothe.

His lecture in Columbia, Missouri, under the
auspices of the Presbyterians of that city, on the
“ Wandering Jew” was well received, and on the
solicitation of President Laws, of the State Univer-
sity, he again lectured in the college chapel on the
following day to a large and deeply interested audi-
ence of the faculty, students, and leading citizens of
Columbia. His subject, “The Pentateuch and
Immortality,’ was handled in a masterly manner.

His intimate friendship with many of the officers
of the United. States army, particularly Generals
Hancock and Barry, his true friends from the time
they were lieutenants, has given him opportunities
for securing valuable information.

He prizes very highly two relics now in his pos-
possession, one, the sword worn through all the
battles of -the Confederate States of America by
Major-General A. T. Elzey,- commander of Rich-
mond, Virginia. The other the sash, belt and sword
of Major-General W. F. Barry, of the United States
Army, chief of artillery on General Sherman’s'staff,

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andworn by General Barry at the capture of Savan-
nah, Georgia, December I9, 1864.

Although Rabbi Gerstmann takes no part in po-‘

litical affairs in this country, confining himself to
teaching the truths, faith and doctrine of the Mosaic
law and the Scriptures, yet he stands high in the
estimation of the present administration and was
especially influential with ex—Presi_dent Grant during
his last administration, and took deep interest in the
“ Whisky Ring” trials in 1876. Rabbi Gerstmann
made a speech in the United States court room at
Jefferson City on sentence day, April 15, 1876, and
was the only man who was so fortunate as to obtain
pardons from General Grant for J. L. Bittinger,
editor of the Ifemld (Christian), and for Messrs.
Adler & Furst, and a remission of the fine im-

posed upon the Messrs. Hartwigs, of St. Joseph.
Mr. Bittinger was sentenced to a two years term
in the penitentiary, but through the influence of
Rev. Mr. Gerstmann was kept out of prison, and
June 5,1876, his commutation was secured. As
his title indicates, he is a professor of the Hebrew
faith.

He was married March 21, 1852, to Miss Helena
Hurtig. They have no children. In personal appear-
ance he is attractive , in conversation, amiable and
winning, in manners, dignified without austerity and
affable without ostentation, modest, unassuming,
and yet possessed of social qualities that electrify all
who come within their influence. He is just in the

-zenith of his manhood, and scarcely on the thresh-

old of his usefulness.

COLONEL HOMER FRANKLIN FELLOWS.

SPRI./VGFIEIL D.

July 30, 1832, in Wellsborough, Tioga county,

IIOMER FRANKLIN FELLOWS was born

Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Johnathan Fellows,
was the son of one of two brothers who emigrated
from England to America prior to the Revolution,
and from whom have sprung the great family of that
name in the United States. They settled in Con-
necticut. His father, Erastus Fellows, was born
July 30, 1800, in Canaan, Litchfield county, Connec-
ticut, whence he moved with his father to Luzerne
county, Pennsylvania, in 1815. In 1824 Erastus
Fellows settled in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where
he still resides. He was, married to Mrs. Elizabeth
(Cole) Johnston, widow of Moses Johnston. Her
father, Royal Cole, was a soldier of the Revolution

and a man of prominence in the old Federal party_

in Western Pennsylvania. He died at the age of

ninety-five years.
Homer F. Fellows passed the early part of his

/' life in Wellsborough, Where his father was a hotel

keeper and farmer. He worked on the farm during
the season for making crops,and in winter attended
the common school and academy of his native town.
At the age of eighteen he entered a store, dealing in
general merchandise and remained there one year.
He then taught a school _for one term in Osceola,
Pennsylvania, at the conclusion of which he entered

Geneseo College, at Lima, Livingston county, New
York, and remained one year. In 1853, having
attained his majority, he started, against the wish
and advice of his parents, to San Antonio, Texas,
going by way of Chicago, which was at that time a
comparatively insignificant place. Thence he Went
to Rock Island, Illinois, by the only railroad at that
period running to the Mississippi river, and from
there to Muscatine, Iowa, where he parted from his
company bound for Texas, and concluded to remain
in Iowa. He had letters of introduction to several
prominent gentlemen, among whom was Governor
Grimes. He went to Burlington, and remained one
year, during which time he was in the employ of
Geer & Baum. As traveling salesman for this house,
he had to travel with a team through the counties
bordering both sides of the Des Moines river.
When the firm dissolved partnership, he was employed
to settle up the outstanding business. In 1854 he
was sent by Mr. Baum to Chariton, Lucas county,
Iowa, in charge of a stock of goods, where he
remained a year. Mr. Baum in the meantime sold
his interest in the store to Mr. Mitchel, and Mr.
Fellows still remained in control of the business.
Desiring to enter the real estate business, he
resigned his position as salesman and, in connection
with Messrs. Sheller and Baum, opened a real estate

620

office in Plattsburg, Clinton county, Missouri, where
he labored until the spring of 18 57. He then estab-
lished two offices, one in Warsaw, Benton county,
the other in Springfield, Greene county, Missouri,
the firm name being Fellows, Todd & Robinson, he
taking charge of the Springfield office.

November 18, 1859, he was married to Vidie,
daughter of Major R. ]. McElhany. She died at
Springfield, October I0, 1869, leaving three daugh-
ters, Emma, Clara and Adah.

In 1861, on the day of the battle of Wilson’s
Creek, he moved to St. Louis, leaving his family
behind, who followed as soon as they were per-
mitted to pass through the lines, and remained
there until the following December.
removed to Rolla, Phelps county, where he en-
gaged in general merchandizing and commission
business, under the firm name of McElhany, Jaggard
& Co. He remained there until 1864, when he
returned to St. Louis and, in connection with his
father-in-law, opened a wholesale grocery house
under the firm name of McElhany & Fellows. At
theend of a year Mr. McElhany sold his interest in
the store to Mr. Mitchel, and the firm changed its
style to that of Mitchel, Fellows & Co. Eight
months afterward Mr. Mitchel died and the business
of the house was closed up. Mr. Fellows then
opened a wholesale house for the sale of coffee and
sugar, being also interested in the house of Fellows,
McGinty & Co., dealers in general merchandise, at
Arlington, then the terminus of the Southwest
Pacific railroad. In the spring of 1867 he closed
up the business in St. Louis and moved to Arlington,
his family remaining in Springfield, and conducted
his business for two years. When the road was

He then '

THE U./VZTEDSTATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

completed to Springfield, he moved to that point
and continued in the mercantile business for one
year, when he built an elevator and entered exten-
sively into the grain trade, in which he continued
until the burning of the elevator in 1872.

In December, 1872, he became superintendent
of the Springfield Wagon Manufacturing Company.
The company was then heavily involved in debt.
At the expiration of two years he and his brother,
N. W. Fellows, bought the works, assumed all the
liabilities and continued to conduct the manufactory.
They are still engaged in that business, employing
fifty workmen and turning out I,6oo wagons annually.
They have a large trade in Southern Missouri and
Northern Arkansas. A

In 1865 ‘Mr. Fellows was a director of the Mis-
souri Loan Bank and also of the Occidental Insur-
ance Company. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the
63d Missouri militia, called into three months’ ser-
vice on the occasion of General Pric'e’s raid into
Missouri. _ He was appointed register of lands at
Springfield, by President Lincoln in 1861. In poli-
tics Mr. Fellows is an Independent Republican, hav-
ing been connected with the party since 18 56. He
was elected mayor of Springfield in 1877, and
reelected by increased majority in 1878, and at this
writing is candidate for state senator on the National
Greenback ticket. He is-liberal in his religious
views. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a mem-
ber of the Brotherhood of Druids. ,

He was married August 18, 1872, to Miss Minnie
L. Boyden, born July Io, 1850, in Peoria, Illinois, a
daughter of Captain Ezekiel Boyden. She was

educated at the Normal school, Bloomington, Illi-

1'lO1S.

JAMES s. THOMSON.

GLASGO VV.

AVID THOMSON, father of James, was a"
D native of Scotland, born in Glasgow in the
year 1759, and graduated, at Edinburg College.
Soon after his graduation, in company with an older
brother, he emigrated to America and settled in

Virginia, where he married Winfred Eldridge, nearly ;

related to the Roff and Bowling families of that 

state, and shortly afterward removed to Alabama,

i day.

then a territory. He was raised a Presbyterian, but
during his residence in Virginia united with the
Methodist Episcopal church, and soon after became
a local minister, rendering the denomination valua-
ble service during a long and useful life. Of him
the Rev. J. B. McFerrin (one of America’s ablest
divines) says, “he was an extraordinary man in his
” Soon after his arrival in Alabama he engaged

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY 621

in teaching a classical school, in which occupation,
together with his ministerial labors, he continued
to the end of life, leaving an impression for good
upon the more refined and cultivated people of the
state that is still apparent, though for nearly half a
century his voice has been silent. He died in 1831
at the advanced age of seventy-two years.

James Samuel Thomson was born near Hunts-
ville, in Madison county, Alabama, December 16,
1815. During the life of his father he was taught
the rudiments of an English education, and soon
after his death, which occurred when James was fif-
teen, he engaged with a brother-in-law to go to
Marengo county and work on a farm, and was to
receive as his wages, a stipulated number of pounds
of picked cotton. Here he did as good a year’s
work as any boy in Alabama, and when his share of
the cotton was marketed it netted him just fifty-nine
dollars. Returning to North Alabama, he spent the
next two or three’ yearsin completing his education,
and then some two years as clerk in a store. His
first years of" early manhood were spent in this por-
tion of the state in mercantile pursuits, with indiffer-
ent success. A

In 1843 he removed to Missouri and settled at
Glasgow, in Howard county, receiving substantial

' assistance from a brother-in-law, Captain William D.

Swinney, then one of the most prominent and suc-
cessful tobacco dealers in the state, both in shipping
and manufacturing, and a man of ‘noble character.
Here in his new home Mr. Thomson commenced
business with all his native energy and industry, his
labor being rewarded by gratifying success, both in
the tobacco trade and general mercantile pursuits, in
which he continued till 1860, when, retiring from
the regular mercantile business, he opened a private
banking house. In 1864, this branch of his business
having attained such proportions as to require assist-
ance, he associated with himself William F. Dun-
nica, an old and well-known citizen of Glasgow,
under the firm name of Thomson & Dunnica, which
copartnership still exists, having had branch estab-
lishments at Marshall, in Saline county; at Gallatin,
in Davis; and at Boonville, in Cooper: the two former
discontinued, but the latter still in existence and
doing a steadily increasing business. Mr. Thomson
was elected a member of the first city council of the
city of Glasgow after its incorporation in 1845, and
was made president of the board, and in 1860 was
mayor. He was elected a director in the Fayette
branch of the Bank of the State of Missouri in 18 54,

and in 18 58 a director in the Glasgow branch of the
Exchange bank at its organization, in which he con-
tinued during its existence this being the only bank
in the state that did not suspend specie payment.

Mr. Thomson is a decided Methodist, having
united with that church in his fifteenth year.

He has always been an uncompromising Democrat
and considers it party treason to bolt a regular nom-
ination. During the late “unpleasantness” he was
an aroused ‘Southern sympathizer, possessing too
much frankness to attempt any concealment of his
real views for the sake of policy. A knowledge of
this fact by the Federal military authorities caused
his punishment in 1863, upon the express condition
that he should reside north of the Ohio and east of
the Mississippi rivers. He selected New York as
his residence, but after an absence of three months
was permitted to return to his home. I Mr. Thomson
was a member of the National Democratic Conven-
tion at Baltimore that nominated Horace Greeley as
the presidential candidate of the Democratic and
Liberal Republican parties. Since the close of the
war he has confined himself to the banking business
and speculating in tobacco.

In 1840 he was married to Elizabeth Brown,
daughter of James and Catherine Jones, of Northern
Alabama. Her father died in 1830 3 her mother, an
eminently pious and devoted woman, followed her
daughters, Mrs. Captain William D. Swinney and
Mrs. Thomson, to Missouri, where she lived to an
advanced age and died in 1857, leaving to her fam-
ily and friends the heritage of a spotless example.

‘Mrs. Thomson seems to have inherited hermoth-
er’s devotional spirit, and especially since “Aunt
Jones’ ” death, she has been one of the most devoted
and active members of the church, an acknowledged
leader in every religious or benevolent enterprise in
the community. Though great lovers of children,
they have no family. In the summer of 18 54, while
Mrs. Thomson was in Philadelphia for the benefit of
her health, she was offered an opportunity to adopt
such an orphan child as she had long desired: This
was a beautiful little girl of two or three years whose
mother, a lady of refinement and culture but in
indigent circumstances, died during Mrs. Tho'mson’s
visit. The child she brought to her Missouri home
and for eighteen years ‘the childless parents lavished
upon their adopted daughter all that kindness and
affection could bestow or wealth provide. The child,
in return, reciprocated their affection and rendered
their home more pleasant and delightful by her gen-

tle, loving disposition and her quiet, cheerful deport-
ment. In March, 1872, in the church in which she
was baptized, and of which she was a member, she
was married to William H. Armstrong, an enterpris-
ing young merchant of St. Joseph, Missouri, in the
presence of a very large assembly. In less than a
year, from the same church, she was carried to her
silent resting-place", her little motherless daughter,
eight days old, at the same sad hour receiving the
rite of baptism. Jennie Thomson Armstrong, that
infant, now only a little older than was her angel
mother when she entered that Christian house-
hold, is now its light and the idol of its devotion,

692 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

reflecting very perceptibly her mother’s features,
with gratifying evidences of a more robust constitu-
tion.

Mr. Thomson is living just on the eastern corpo-
ration line of the city of Glasgow in an elegant and
commodious mansion, erected in 1875,. with every
comfort and convenience that wealth can purchase,
in the midst of the community where he has achieved
his success and where he is still actively engaged in
business, always ready with a liberal hand, as he has
been for years, to sustain the varied interests and
enterprises of the church and the kindred claims of
benevolence and charity.

HON. EDMOND AUGUSTUS NICKERSON.

WARRENSB U]? G.

DMOND AUGUSTUS NICKERSON was
E born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 31, 1835.
His father, Charles Vashum Nickerson, was a writer
of some literary attainment and the editor of the first
penny paper published in Baltimore prior to the Sun.
He was an engraver and publisher in Baltimore for
many years; he died, March, 1872, having lived his
allotted three score and ten. His grandfather, Louis
Nickerson, was of a large Puritan family of that
name who were the founders of the town of Chat-
ham, Massachusetts. He was a ship captain and
died in the East Indies. His mother was Miss
Pamelia Solomon, daughter of Benjamin Solomon,
a tobacco merchant of Baltimore. The family con-
sisted of three sons and one daughter: the eldest,
Louis, is a prominent engineer (see sketch); Dr.
Charles E. Nickerson was a student and gradu-
ate of Prof. Dunbar, of Baltimore, and commenced
practice in that city. In April, 1861, he went south
and joined General Johnson at Harper’s Ferry, was
at the battle of Manassas and served as surgeon
during the entire war. He married a daughter of
Colonel Croft, of Croft’s North Carolina battery,
and subsequently emigrated to Waco, Texas, where
he is now practicing his profession. The only sister,
Bettie, a beautiful a11d well educated lady, wa.s mar-
ried to.William H. Broghton, of the firm of Brogh-
ton & Brother, of Rodney, Mississippi, where she
resided and became the mother of two children,
Willie and Edmond. She died June 22, 1871, and

the two boys were brought by their uncle Edmond
to Warrensburg to be educated, and are now in his
family.

Edmond A. Nickerson was educated at the Bal-
timore Collegiate Institute, receiving a thorough
classical course; he had a taste for the languages,
read history extensively, and was very studious. At
the age of eighteen he began the study of law with
Charles Z. Lucas, of Baltimore, after three years
study he graduated before Judge William Frick, of
the Superior Court of Baltimore. Being in delicate
health he went to the mountains of Virginia with his
brother Louis, then a promising civil engineer, en-
gaged on the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad to Parkersburg, and soon after became
the junior partner of the firm of Jackson & Nicker-
son, with Benjamin VV. Jackson, a very promising
young lawyer. He remained in Parkersburg about
eighteen months and then returned to Baltimore.
Being still in-bad health he went west and located in
Union, Franklin county, Missouri, and commenced
practice and, though only twenty-one and quite boyish
in appearance, he was fortunate enough to be ap-
pointed by Judge Stone as defendant for Bruff in the
celebrated Gordon murder trial. His success in this
case secured his employment in nearly every murder
trial in that section, some of them historical, such as
Le Grand Hall, Nelso Cross, Rufus Hopkins, etc.
His practice increased very rapidly until the civil war
broke out, when, as his sympathies were with the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 623

South and business being stopped, he retired to his
farm in St. Louis county, and followed agriculture
and practiced at intervals as opportunity presented.

In January, 1866, he moved to Warrensburg,
Johnson county, his present home, and commenced
practice, turning his attention to land litigations, the
result of the convulsions of the war. In this he
succeeded in acquiring a large and lucrative practice.

He purchased a ten-acre piece of land near Warrens- -

burg, and began to beautify and adorn it for a home,
and built thereon the first brick house in the county
after the war. It is now a home in every way
worthy of the name. In his practice he met
many eminent lawyers, among them Hon. John

D. Stephenson, now of St. Louis, and the
late Hon. Charles Jones, at Warrensburg he
met Colonel T. T. Crittenden, General Cock-

erel, resident lawyers, and the brilliant Judges
John F. Ryland, Russel Hicks, Samuel Sawyer,
William Chrisman, John F. Phillips and George G.
Vest, among whom he held his own in some very
important cases. He has saved a competence of
this world’s goods from his lucrative practice.

In 1872 his health failed so as to induce him to
abandon his profession for a time. He then organ-
ized the Warrensburg Savings Bank and was chosen
its first president. As such he built the finest bank-

ing building in Warrensburg, with all the modern '

furnishings, vaults, etc. He was cashier of this
institution when the panic of-1873 came on, and
refused to close its doors when other banks in
town closed; the depositors sustained him, and the

tion that nominated Tilden.

bank went clear through without closing. His theory
was that he was under moral obligations to return
the depositors’ money when they wanted it.

Strict and close application to business injured
his health so that he again retired and went to Cali-
fornia to recuperate. During his absence the people
of the 7th congressional district elected him as the
associate of Judge Waldo P. Johnson, to represent
them in the constitutional convention which assem-
bled at Jefferson City in May, 1866. He served on the
committee on legislation and revenue, he felt with his
constituents the burden of taxation under which they
were groaning, and assisted actively in framing those
prohibitory provisions in the constitution which will
prevent future legislatures from taking the substance
of the people by a system of unjust taxation. At
the close of this convention he returned to his home
and resumed the practice of his profession. He was
chosen by the Democracy to the national conven-
His health being thor-
oughly restored, he is as active as ever in his pro-
fession.

He was raised in the Protestant faith but is lib-
eral in his views, believing that religion consists more
in actions than in loud professions. He is and always
has been a Democrat, and has never swerved from
the faith even in the darkest hours of its history.

He was married, February 22, 1862, to Miss

‘Huldah Ann Tyler (youngest daughter of Henry

Tyler, a wealthy planter of Saint Louis county, Mis-
souri, of an old Virginia family), a refined, educated
and amiable lady. They have four children, all girls.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM K. TRIGG.

LEXIIVG TON.

don, Washington county, Virginia, January
8, 1807. His father, William Trigg, was a native
of Scotland and was the son of Daniel Trigg,
of Virginia. The mother of our subject, Rachel
Findlay, daughter of Connally F. and Bettie Find-
lay, of Virginia, was born in Ireland, reared and
married to Mr. Trigg in Virginia. I
William K. Trigg was educated at Charlottes-
ville, Virginia, and graduated in 1825. In 1843 he

removed with his family and negroes to Louisville,
79

‘ ‘ 7 ILLIAM KING TRIGG was born in Abing-

Kentucky, but only remaining there two years, he
brought hisfamily and fortune to Lafayette county,

, Missouri, in 1845, and bought a large plantation,

where he carried on extensive agricultural operations
for many years, in which he was very successful.
While never being what is generally termed a
public man, preferring rather to attend to his own
family and interests, Captain Trigg never lacked
in public spirit, and has occupied some important
and responsible positions for the state and various
corporations. He received his title by commission

-Pennsylvania.

624 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

as captain of Virginia. infantry in the years 1828 and

1829, and also served as a private in Captain Bow-
man’s company from Lexington, in Bledsoe’s bat-
talion, Confederate States army. He was for several
years a director in the Lexington branch of the old
Bank of the State of Missouri. When Hon. John
B. Floyd was Secretary of War in the United States
Cabinet, he gave Captain Trigg the full contract of
supplying the mules necessary for the United States
troops in the western department—-a contract involv-
ing the handling of immense sums of ‘money, but it
was fulfilled to the entire satisfaction of the govern-
ment. He was an Episcopalian, of which religious
body he had been a member since 1871, and was
a strict Democrat during the whole of his man-
hood. He died March 2, 1877.

On the 11th day of August, 1831, Captain Wil-
liam K. Trigg .was married to Miss Susan Trigg
Hickman, daughter of Captain Paschal and Eliza-
beth Hickman, descendants of one of the oldest and
most highly honored families of Kentucky and Vir-
ginia. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Trigg are:
Daniel, Elizabeth Hall, Frank S., Susan Hickman,
Florence E., Annie S. and William King.

Daniel was killed in 1864, while a soldier in the
Confederate service under General ]oseph Shelby.
Elizabeth married Thomas W. Shields, son of
General William Shields, moved with him to Mar-
shall, Texas, and died there in the spring of 1865.
Her husband is largely interested in several steam-
boats in the lower trade and captain of one of them.

Susan H. is an accomplished teacher in Elizabeth
Aull Seminary, at Lexington. Florence married
Captain A. A. Lesueur, editor of the Lexington
(Missouri) I/zkllzgerzcer, and a native of St. Louis.
Annie married Joseph 0. Lesueur, a brother of the
Captain. William King Trigg is now (1878) travel-
ing for a St. Louis wholesale house.

Frank S. Trigg, third child and oldest living
son, was ‘born near Abingdon, Virginia. He
was educated at the Masonic College, in Lex-
ington, Missouri. After leaving school he took a
large drove of mules to Paris, Kentucky, for his
father, and returned to the home plantation, where
he remained until the breaking out of the war of
1861-5, when he volunteered in Bledsoe’s battery,
was elected lieutenant and served the Confederacy
throughout the struggle, except a short period of
suffering caused by a wound received at the battle
of Pea Ridge, from which he will be lame through life.
When peace was declared he returned to Lafayette
county and engaged in stock trading, shipping cattle
to New Orleans.» In 1867, his father having lost very
heavily by the war, Lieutenant Trigg rented a farm
in Lafayette county, and took upon himself the pleas-
ing duty of caring for his parents and their family. In
1874 he was elected on the Democratic ticket circuit
clerk of Lafayette county, being also ex-ojfczb clerk of
the criminal court, which office he still holds. He is
one of the most promising young men of his county,
courteous in manners, pleasing in his address and
popular with all parties.

WILLIAM D. GRAHAM.

APPLETO./V CITY.

‘ N IILLIAM D. GRAHAM was born May 26,
1841, in North Washington, Butler county,
Pennsylvania. He is the elder of two children born
to Edward Graham and his wife, Nancy Dale. The
family is of Scotch descent. William’s grandfather emi-
grated from Scotland to America in the latter part of
the eighteenth century, and settled in Butler county,
He died in May, 1818. His son, Ed-
ward Graham, was born in ‘June, 1818, being the
youngest of five children. He was admitted to the bar
by Judge Breden, and practiced law in Pennsylvania
until his removal to Iowa, in 1850. He located in

De Witt and continued the practice until his death,
May I4, 1860, in the forty—second year of his age.

Until the thirteenth year of his age, William D.
Graham attended the common schools of De Witt,
and then entered the ‘printing office of the De Witt
CZz'72.z‘071‘z'cm, and served an apprenticeship of three
years. At the expiration of his term of service, he
worked in various printing offices in Iowa until I861,
when he returned to his native state and joined the
Ioth Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry regiment, of
which John S. McCalmont was the commander, and
participated in all the campaigns of the Army of the

TIIE' UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. I 525

Potomac until May 31, 1864. In December, 1862,
he was wounded at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and
for three months was confined in Libby prison. He
was exchanged and rejoined his regiment at Wash-
ington City. At the expiration of his term of enlist-
ment, he was mustered out of the service in June,
1864, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

He immediately returned to Iowa, and received
an appointment in the office of the recorder
and treasurer of Clinton county, at De Witt.
On the 27th of February, 1865, he was com-
missioned as first lieutenant of the 2d United States
Volunteer infantry, and joined his regiment at Fort
Riley, Kansas. The regiment marched to Fort
Larned. On the organization of the 3d District
Upper Arkansas, he was appointed adjutant-general,
serving under Colonel Josiah R. King and Colonel
VV. F. Cloud until November, 1865.

At the close of the service he located in St. Clair
county, Missouri. In July, 1866, with his brother,
R.-S. Graham, he established the Osceola H27”-
ala’, the publication of which he continued for

eight years. In the fall. of 1866 he received

the nomination of the Republican party for the
office of circuit clerk and recorder of St. Clair

-county, and was elected, holding the office for eight

years. In the summer of 1874 he disposed of his
paper and accepted the business management of the
Slate fozmza/, at']efferson City. .At the expiration
of a year and a half, he resigned this position and
took a position on the Bates county Record. In
1877 he settled in Appleton City and assumed the
general management of the Appleton City P2702‘, a
position he still holds. ‘

, Politically he is a Republican. He was a delegate
to the state conventions of 1867 and 1869. He is
not identified with any religious organization. He
is a Knight Templar of the Masonic order and a

member of the Encampment of Odd Fellows, and .

was Deputy Lecturer and District Deputy Grand
Master of the 35th Masonic District, under Grand
Master Rufus E. Anderson. -

He was married July 7, 1869, to Miss Ada
Howell Scobey, daughter of William H. Scobey and
his Wife, Asenath'Osborne, by whom he has had
three children, all of whom are living.

. BRIGADIER—GENERAL ISAAC VINSON PRATT.

LA CLEDE.

ENERAL PRATT is of genuine Puritan ances-
G try. Isaac V., the oldest of a family of ten
children, was born within twenty miles of Plymouth
Rock, at Weymouth, Norfolk county, Massachusetts,
May 29, 1818. He attended Middleborough Four Cor-
ners Academy, where he received his preparatory edu-
cation. In Boston, in 1836, he met Ezra Stiles Ely,
D. D., M. D., a distinguished Presbyterian minister
of Philadelphia, who was afterward one of the found-
ers of Marion College, Missouri, a manual labor
school, and was by that gentleman persuaded to
come west. After securing the reluctant consent of
his parents, and provided with one hundred dollars,
he came to Marion county in 1837, finding Dr. Ely
a man of considerable pecuniary means, as well as a
gentleman of ripe scholarship and culture. His
attempt at manual labor was a failure, but he had so
impressed the Doctor with a sense of his integrity
and business capacity, that he gave him a letter of

" credit and mone for currentex enses with which
Y 7

he proceeded to St. Louis, purchased a stock of
goods, and returning to Marion opened a store.
After four months, with Dr. Ely’s approval, he gave
up business and entered Marion College,_ remaining
four years, and acquiring a good classical and scien-
tific education.

Late ‘in the fall of 1841 he was a student
at the academy of Professor Ed. Wyman, Hills-
boro, Illinois, and then taught a winter school,
near Greenville, Illinois. About this time his father
and paternal grandfather dying, he returned to
Massachusetts to settle the affairs of the estate.
Here, in 1843, he taught school in Abington, and
the two winters following in Taunton. In the
summer of 1845 "he visited Norfolk, Virginia, and
engaged in teaching a private school. A system of
public schools being established in Portsmouth, Vir-
ginia, in 1847, Isaac was elected principal, hav-
ing the highest grade to teach and the six assistants
to oversee. Here he taught four years, many of

626 TIIE UNITED STATES B10616/IPHICAI, DICTIO./VARY.

his old pupils afterward becoming distinguished 1nil—
itary officers during the Rebellion, both in the
Union and Confederate armies.

In 1855, on the breaking out of the yellow fever
in Norfolk, he returned, after an absence of thirteen
years, to look up the value of military lands, of which
his wife had several patents, received from her father.
This opened anew field of enterprise, and by judi-
cious investments in "military land titles he accumu-
lated considerable wealth.

December 31, I859, apprehensive of the coming
rebellion, and fearful of the consequences, from his
intimate ‘knowledge of the men of both sections, he
started West and came to his present home, Laclede,
Linn county, January, 1860, where he took a de-
cided stand for the government, although a slave-
holder and connected by marriage with a strong
southern family. In June, 1861, he raised a coin-
pany of infantry, of which he was elected cap-
tain, and by the close of July had raised a regi-

ment, of which he was made lieutenant-colonel, .

afterward known as the 18th Missouri volunteers,
 J. Morgan, colonel commanding. He was sta-
tioned at Laclede, where he threwup fortifications,
at Brookfield and Platte City, which latter place he
entered just as Lieutenant Gordon, the notorious
bushwhacker, was leaving. His headquarters were
at Weston, Platte county, until February 18, 1862,
when his command was ordered into Tennessee via
St. Louis, at which city he remained in barracks
until March, when he was ordered to Island No. IO.
After one week’s active service against the gunboats,
he served with his command in Tennessee, taking
part in the battle of Shiloh, April 6th, being the only
mounted officer of his regiment and its acting coin-
mander. Here he was taken prisoner, and for seven
months tried" the commissary department of almost

. during the session of 1862-63.

every rebel prison, including “ Old Libby,” at the
end of that time was exchanged at Aiken’s Landing,
James river, Virginia, his wife being still in Virginia
and ignorant of the fact that he was in the service,
until she saw his name in a list of prisoners. In the
fall of 1862 he returned with his wife to Missouri,
found his regiment reorganized and himself without
a command.

He served as secretary of the Missouri Senate
In 1863, he ob-
tained a license to practice law, but preferred
agriculture to law. He was elected to fill the
vacancy in the Senate created by the death of Major
John McCullough, and was also reelected to serve
a second term, which expired in 1866. He was
appointed brigadier-general by Governor Fletcher,
and given command of the military district of North
Missouri, embracing all that portion of the state
lying north of the Missouri river. At the close of
the war he returned to his fine farm near Laclede,
which _he had previously improved and "upon which
he has since resided. As a grower of wheat and

timothy the General has become proverbial for

his success, and is popularly known as the “Linn
county Cincinnatus.”

Originally a Whig, he has always acted with the
Republican party since its organization. He was
never a member of any church, but is broad and tol-
erant in his views and cosmopolitan in his feelings.
He belongs to both the I. O. O. F. and the A. F. &
A. M., and was at one time a Son of Temper-
ance.

As a soldier and a civilian, as \'a merchant a.nd a
teacher, the General has always been marked by
those qualities of mind and manners of life which
not only endear him to his friends but have compelled
the respect of his enemies.

HON. NATHANIEL F. GIVENS.

KEIIOKA.

MONG the many prominent men of Missouri,

who emigrated from Kentucky at an early

day, may be mentioned Nathaniel F. Givens, who
was born October 20, 1808, in Union county. His
father, Samuel Givens, was a native of Virginia and
by occupation a farmer. His mother, whose maiden

name was Ann Harris, was born in Maryland.

Nathaniel was reared in his native county and
educated at Centre College, Kentucky, from which
he graduated with honor in 1828. In the same year
he began to read law in his native county, and in
1830 was admitted to the bar. He entered upon

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAL DICTIONARY. 627

the practice of his profession in Morganville, Union
county, Kentucky, where he resided as a leading
attorney for seven years.

In 1837 he located in St. Louis, Missouri, where
he resided two years after which he removed.to
Waterloo, Clarke county. Mr. Givens was a lead-
ing lawyer in Waterloo for thirty years, in which
time he thoroughly establishedhimself in that part
of the state, and won an enviable reputation as a
lawyer.

In 1869, the county seat of Clarke county being
removed to Kehoka, he located there -and has been
identified with its every interest since. He repre-
sented his county in the state legislature in 1852.

. In 1861 he was a member of the constitutional con-

vention. In 1874 he was again elected to the state
legislature and in 1876 was reelected. He has thus
been interested in the welfare of Clarke county for
several years, and has served with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction of the people. Politically he
is a Democrat.

January 28, 1845, he married Harriet C. Scott,
of Clarke county, Missouri. His domestic relations
are Very pleasant and his home a resting place when
wearied with the duties of the day.

Mr. Givens’ great service to the public and his
agreeable social qualities command for him the last-
ing respect of the entire community.

JOHN ONSTOTT.

CAR TIIA GE.

JHEN we trace tne history of our leading
W men, and search for the secret of their suc-
cess, we find as a rule that they are men who were
early thrown upon their own resources, and whose
first experiences were in the face of adversity and
opposition. Such was the case with John Onstott,
who is a native of Washington county, Indiana, and

was born October 19, 1816. His father was Abra-

ham Onstott ; his mother’s maiden name was Nancy

White. While John was quite an infant his father
and family immigrated to Missouri and settled on a
farm in Pike county, in the spring of 1817, and
resided there till 1833. They then moved to the
present county of Jasper, at that time part of Greene
county, and again settled on a farm.

Owing to the limited means of his father, John
Onstott’s education was but meager, merely a com-
mon school education, such as the sons of farmers
of that day had an opportunity of obtaining in log
school houses.

In 1840 he married and settled about five miles
southwest of Carthage, and commenced with com-
paratively nothing making a farm in the wilderness,
then principally inhabited by the Osage Indians.
He worked very hard until the commencement of
the late war, and was then worth six thousand dol-
lars. When the Confederate‘ soldiers left Carthage,
in 1861, Judge John Chenault ordered the clerk (S.
Ross) to take the records into the Confederate lines

for safe keeping. He first took them down to Pine-
ville, in McDonald county, and afterward brought
them back and put them in the vault of the jail at
Neosho. Mr. Onstott learned that they were at
Neosho, and was apprehensive that they might be
destroyed. He saw Mr. N. C. Hood, an old resi-
dent of Carthage and a man of great energy, and
told him where the records were, that the Confede-
rate soldiers were cutting out the blank pages to print
their “ shinplasters” on, and that he had better get
some Federal soldiers, secure the records and take
care of them. Mr. Hood procured an escort, went
after the records and took them to Fort Scott, Kan-
sas, where they were safely kept during the war.
On the return of peace Mr. Hood took awagon
and brought them back to Carthage. After the bat-
tle of Carthage, while Jackson’s troops occupied the
country, Mr. A. McCoy, the treasurer, informed Mr.
Onstott, who was one of his bondsmen, that the
rebels were threatening to take the deposits from
him, and that the sureties had better get them and
hide them. Mr. Onstott and five others went to the
treasurer, got the money and receipted for it, with
the understanding that as fast as it would be needed
to pay outstanding warrants, it would be refunded.
From August to October the treasurer drew from
Mr. Scott, one of the bondsmen, about two hundred
dollars. Mr. Scott left the country in October and
turned the deposits over to Mr. Onstott, who took

628 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL IJICTIO./VAIEY.

them home with him and buried about one thousand
two hundred dollars of coin, and let his wife have
three hundred dollars of Missouri State Bank money
to take care of. In 1862, while he was absent, a
tribe of Indians known as the “ Pin Indians,” robbed
his house and family, and also took the three hun-
dred dollars of Missouri money from Mrs. Onstott.
In 1864 the militia mistook Mr. Onstott’s family for
Confederates, and burnt their house and barn.
Immediately after the fire his family notified him of
what had happened, when he sent an ox—team for
them and they met him in Dade county. The whole
family proceeded to Pettis county, went on a farm
and raised one crop.

When Mr. Onstott buried the money before
mentioned, he showed his little son where it was,
and when the family were about to leave the farm,
after the improvements were burnt, the little boy
told his mother where_ the money was buried, and
she had it dug up and carried it with her. When
Mr. Onstott returned to Jasper county, in 1865, he
paid over to the county. treasurer the above men-
tioned money, less the amount the Indians took from
his wife. The county court required him to pay
three hundred dollars for the Missouri money that
the Indians had taken, and to meet that demand he
had to sell the only team he owned. Persecution

began to follow him and he was indicted for robbery. '

He was arrested and gave bail, but his case was not
tried until about three years after the indictment was
found. Colonel (now Governor) Phelps defended

him, and the jury gave a verdict of “not guilty,”
without leaving the. jury-boX. ‘

When he returned to his farm, after the close of
the war, he found it a desolate looking place, cov-
ered over with weeds, and without the improvements
he had labored for several years to make, which was
very discouraging. But he knew that he had started
about twenty-five years previously under similar cir-
cumstances, and had been very successful, therefore
he decided to try it again, and now has his farm in
a good state of cultivation and very much improved.

In 1856 he was elected one of the justices of the
county court, and held the office until 1859. He
was elected county treasurer in November, 1874,
and because during his first term he conducted the
business in a prompt and honorable manner, his
constituents called on him to take the office a second
term, and elected him in November, 1876, which
office he holds at the present time.

Judge Onstott was married, April 2, 1840, to
Miss Rachel Coldiron, a native of Kentucky, who
for thirty-five years was spared to bless his home
with her counsel, sympathy and love. She departed
this life September 4, I87 5, leaving a family of six
children, two sons and four daughters, one child,
Nancy E., having preceded her.

Judge Onstott is a member of the United Bap-
tist church. His political views are Democratic,
and he usually acts with that party, but he is not
governed by party ties nor hampered by party lines,
always vot_ing for the best man, irrespective of party.

A. A. MCCUISTION.

RICHMOND.

A A. MCCUISTION was born February 24,
. 1827, in Shelbyville, Bedford county, Ten-
nessee. His father, Thomas, was born in Guilford
county, North Carolina, December 12,1792. His
grandfather, James, was born in the same county
andvstate, May 18, 1758. His great-grandfather,
James, was born in county Derry, Ireland, in May,
1700, and died November 6, 1765. The wife of the
latter, Sarah, was born in 1706, and died April II,
1783. Of the great—grandfather’s family there were
eleven children: Robert, born September 11, 1728,

died September 24, 1768, Thomas, born December‘

17, 1731, died December 9, 1783, Gustavus, born
May 21, 1733, Jane, born March II, 1735, James,
born April 12, 1737; Sarah, born April I2, 1739,
Levina, born May 22, 1742, Mary, born April 28,
I744, Darius, born March 12, 1746. Of the sec-
ond generation, James, born in Guilford’ county,
North Carolina, and died March 27, 1826, and his
wife, Jane, born January, 1767, and died November
18, 1842, in Missouri. They had eight children:
Thomas, born on Wednesday,,December 12, 1792,
Ann, born on Saturday, November 22, 1794, Mar-
gery, born on Tuesday, October I0, 1796; James,

THE U1V]TED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 629

born on Thursday, September 20, 1798, died N ovem—
ber 5, I798,‘ Jane, born on Saturday, March 9,

1800, Anthony, born on Monday, October 20, I802; _

James, born on Saturday, September I 5, I805,‘
Benjamin Franklin, born on Wednesday, January
Of the third generation from James the
elder, in direct line, there were born to James ten
children: Ann, born April 25, 1761, died November
22, 1829, Thomas, born October 30, 1762; Sarah,
born July 29, 1764, died April 13, I766, Alexan-
der, born January, 1768, died October Io, 1790,
Robert, born May I2, 1770, Benjamin F., born
August 8, 1772, John, born July 9, 1774, Joseph,
born June 25, 1776, Samuel born August 18, 1779.

Thomas, the father of the subject of this sketch,
was educated in Bedford county, Tennessee. He
Was a farmer and trader, and was married to Nancy
Jordan February 21, 1816. She was born Decem-
ber 13, 1801, in Bedford county, Tennessee, and
was-educated there. Her father was John Jordan, a
native of Virginia and of English stock. By the
marriage of Thomas McCuistion and Nancy Jordan
there were born five children: Elisha, born April
21, 1818, L. B., born March 22, 1820:‘ William,
born May I0, 1822, died December 513, 1869: John
J., born August 19, 1824; Alexander A., born
February 24, I827. '

The latter, the subject of this sketch, removed

20, 1808.

-to Ray county, Missouri, in 1830, and engaged in

farming. In 1858 he began merchandising at Mill-
ville, Ray county, but sold his stock of goods and
entered the Confederate army in 1861, where, after
one year of service as a soldier, he was employed in
the Commissary department for three years more.
In May, 1865, he surrendered at Grenada, Missis-
sippi, and went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he

remained a short time,‘and then returned to Ray
county, Missouri. Here he again engaged in farm-
ing. In the fall of 1874 he was elected county clerk
of Ray county and removed to Richmond, where
he now resides. He is a member of the Masonic
order. Is identified with the Christian church. In
politics he is a Democrat.

He was married September 16, 1852, to Miss
Susannah S. Berry. She was born June 12, 1829,
in Kentucky, and came to Ray county when small.
She was educated in Ray county. - Her father,
William Berry, was born in Virginia. Her mother
was'Miss Martha T. Herndon, born in Kentucky.
They had six children: Mary A. , married to W.
B. Bullock, Susannah S., married to A. A. McCuis-
tion, Laura, died at sixteen years of age, Augusta
S. and Martha E., the latter of whom died at the
age of thirty. By the marriage of A. A.‘ Mc-
Cuistion to Miss Berry, there have been born
three children: Augustus L., born July 13, 1853,
Edward P., born March 22, 1855, George H.,
born- June 28, 1859. Mrs. McCuistion was a
member of the Christian church, and died Octo-
ber 24, 1870. Mr. McCuistion was married
August 25, 1875, to Miss Mary E. Smith. She was
born July 27, 1841, in Ray county, Missouri. She
is a member of the Methodist church (South). Her
father, James B. Smith, was a native of Pittsylvania
county, Virginia. Her mother was Miss Ann Page,
of Virginia. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith
are as follows: Mary E., married Mr. McCuistion;
Sarah A., married E. Wills, Preston, John, Lucy
M. and Emmet. The grandfather of Mr. McCuis-
tion was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and
his father was in the war of 1812, having the rank
of first lieutenant commanding a company.

FREDERICK D. SNYDER.

MAR Yr/JLLE.

REDERICK D. SNYDER was born August
F 21, 1838, near Greenville, Darke county, Ohio.
He is the youngest of six children. His parents
were George S. Snyder and Elizabeth Diveley. His
father was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsyl-
Vania, moved to Darke county, Ohio, afterward to
Linn county, Iowa, engaged in agricultural pursuits,

and was a private soldier in the 37th Iowa infantry
during the civil war. His mother was a native of

Pennsylvania.

Frederick D. Snyder received his early literary ed-
ucation mainly at the high school at Salem, Indiana.
At the age of eighteen he began teaching school, and
taught five years in Ohio and five years in Iowa. He

630 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

devoted his leisure hours to the study of law, and was
admitted to the bar May 15, 1861, in Linn county,
Iowa. He immediately entered on the practice.
In 1865 he published the Sem‘z'7z€Z newspaper, in

- Jackson county, Iowa, acting as senior editor. In 1866

he moved to Le Claire, Scott county, Iowa, practic-
ing law in that place until 1870, when he located at
Maryville, Nodaway county, Missouri, where he has
pursued the practice of his profession. He has held,

since his residence in Nodaway county, the offices of l

secretary of the board of education, justice of the
peace and public administrator of Nodaway county.
He is a Democrat in politics. In religion he is a
member of the Christian church.

He was married in 1861, to Miss Anna M. Kel-
logg, a native of Clarke county, Indiana, and_ daugh-

’ ter of Dr. Alonzo S. Kellogg, a physician of that

county, more recently of Linn county, Iowa. He is
now (August, 1878) Democratic candidate for judge
of the probate court of Nodaway county, Missouri.

JUDGE ROBERT "WASHINGTON FYAN.

MARSHFIEL D.

OBERT VVASHINGTON FYAN was born
R March II, 1835, in Bedford county, Pennsyl-
vania, and is the second son of Robert" and Alice
Fyan. His father was a merchant in Bedford county
until his death in 1870, in the sixty-seventh year of
his age. His mother still resides there, aged sixty-
eight years.

Robert W. Fyan attended the common schools
until he was seventeen years old, when he became a
clerk in his father’s store and continued in that occu-
pation for three years. In 1855 he entered the law
office of John Cessna and pursued the study of his
profession there until admitted to the bar in the
early part of 1858. In March of the latter year, in
company with James L. Rush, of Bedford, he moved
to Marshfield, Webster county, Missouri, and estab-
lished the law firm of Fyan & Rush. He served
one year, until the commencement of the civil war,
as county attorney. '

In June, 1861, he enlisted in Colonel Ha1npton’s
regiment, Webster county Home Guards, as lieu-
tenant-colonel, and remained at Springfield with the
reserve corps of General Lyons’ command during
the battle of Wilson’s Creek.
General Seigel the Home Guards were disbanded,
and in August, 1861, he enlisted in the 24th Missouri
Volunteers, and was elected captain of Company B.
The regiment was attached to General Smith’s Divis-
ion, and was stationed in Southern Missouri, taking
part in the battles of J Fredericktown and Pea Ridge.
When General Smith’s command was ordered to
Tennessee, Captain Fyan was promoted to the office
of major, and commanded the regiment until it was

After the retreat of .

mustered out of service. In the early part of 1863
his regiment was ordered to Vicksburg, and formed
part of the Sixteenth Army Corps, under General
W. T. Sherman, and was actively employed in the
Mississippi campaign. His regiment accompanied
General Smith’s division to Louisiana and formed
the advance and covered the retreat of General
Banks in the memorable Red River expedition. In
the engagement at Fort Duresse, Major Fyan formed
the storming party, charged the fort, climbed through
the port holes, killed the gunners and captured the fort.
Returning to Tennessee, he was engaged against
Forrest and Wheeler at the battles of Tupelo, Oxford
and Hurricane Creek. He was then ordered to
Missouri, where he was employed in obstructing the
progress of General Price. The regiment entered
the service one thousand strong, and at the expira-
tion of the term service but three hundred were
mustered out. On‘ the organization of the 46th regi-
ment of six month volunteers, Major Fyan was com-
missioned a colonel and stationed at Springfield,
Missouri, being commander of the post until the
expiration of the term of enlistment. Immediately
after this, in connection with J. J. Gravelly, he
organized the 14th Cavalry, but the war having vir-
tually ended he did not enter the service.

He returned to Marshfield and resumed the
practice of law.’ In 1865 he was appointed state
attorney of the 14th Judicial District. In April,
1866, he was commissioned judge of the circuit, a
position he still retains. Politically he is a Liberal
Republican, and has been very prominent in the
political affairs of Missouri and especially of the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 631

Southwest.
in the election of delegates to the state conven-
tion called to take action on the relations of
the state to the Federal government. In 1866 he
refused the nomination for Congress, though the

- Republican majority in his district was about 7,000.

In. 1870 he was a member of the Republican state
convention and supported Brown for Governor.
Since that time he has not been identified with
the Republican party. In the latter year, also,
he refused the Liberal Republican nomination for
Congress. In 1871 he was tendered a supreme court
judgeship of Missouri by Governor Brown, but
refused it. In 1876 he was a member of the state
convention. In religious matters Judge Fyan -is very
liberal.

In 1861 he took a prominent part l

He was married December 25, 1866, to Miss
Elizabeth, daughter of John B. Harrison, Esq., of
Lebanon, Missouri, by whom he had two children,
only one of whom is now living. She died in April,
1874. He was again married June 7, 1876, to Miss
Elizabeth Hyer, daughter of John Hyer, of Dent
county, Missouri. Judge Fyan has accumulated a
large landed estate, being the owner of several large
and valuable farms. As a lawyer he stands second
to no man in Northwest Missouri. He is possessed
of wonderful ability in the analysis of law and the
exposition of delicate points. As a speaker he is
fluent, eloquent, argumentative and convincing. As
a judge he is strict, impartial and rigidly just. His
integrity is unapproachable and his reputation above
suspicion. »

JAMES, w. OSBORNE.

PHELPS CITY.

at Ingersoll, in the county of Oxford, Canada

West. His father, Henry Osborne, M. D., was
a prominent physician of that county and a native
of Ireland. The maiden name of his mother, who
was also a native of the same‘ country, was Bessie
Wall. Dr. Osborne studied his profession under
Dr. Leeson, in Dublin, and graduated from the
Royal College of Surgeons, London, England, June
22, 1833. In 1836 he emigrated to Canada and
settled at Lobo, Canada West, from which place he
shortly afterward movedto Ingersoll, where his high
character as a man and distinguished ability as a
physician and surgeon secured for him the esteem
of all who knew him. In 1840 he died at Ingersoll,
leaving a widow and two children, Sarah Osborne
and James W. Osborne, the subject of this sketch.

The Osborne family and their immediate con-
nections ranked, for generations, among the most
respected of the land. George Osborne, an uncle
of James W. Osborne, graduated with honor from
the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, June 24,
1801, and in April, 1804, regeived a commission as
assistant surgeon in the 27th or Inniskilling regiment
of foot, commanded by General Francis, Earl of
Moira, and which was then the crack regiment of

Ireland.
80

JAMES W. OSBORNE was born April 9, 1840,

Reared by his widowed mother, James received

early the advantages of careful and judicious train-
ing, and when of proper age was sent to Caradoc
Academy, sometimes called the Long_Woods School.
This institution, which was in the countyiof Middle-
sex, near Delaware, Canada West. was justly cele-
brated for the rigid discipline there maintained, and
the high order of its scholastic training. ‘Here he
received a liberal education, under the guidance of
William Livingstone, principal of the institution and
a brother of Doctor Livingstone, the celebrated
African explorer.
, Deprived, so early in life, of the watchful care
of a father, and thus thrown on his own resources,
he soon developed those habits of independence and
self-reliance for which he is peculiarly noted. When
but eight years of age he visit_ed the West with his
uncle, traveling through Michigan, Illinois and por-
tions of the eastern part of Iowa and Missouri. As
this was in i848, they traveled by stage coach, canal
packet and steamboat.‘ Not a single railroad was
then running into Chicago. Visiting St. Louis and
Burlington, Iowa, he returned with his uncle, in the
spring of 1849, to Canada and entered the school
above mentioned, where he remained four years.

In 1853, his uncle’s family being about to visit
Europe, he, with his mother and sister. accompanied

‘Diveley, and

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them, remaining over a year in Ireland and England.
While on this visit he lost his only sister by death.
He then returned to America, landing in New York
May 19, 1855, and soon after began the study of law.
He afterward entered the office of Burdett & Noble,
a shipping house engaged in the Brazilian trade,
where he acquired a thorough knowledge of business.
In 1860 he left New York and went to- Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he remained one winter, engaged in
buying and shipping furs and skins. In 1861 he
returned to New York, from which place he went to
Wisconsin, ‘where he engaged for five years in farm-
ing. In 1865 he became a citizen of theiUnited
States, being naturalized at Madison, Wisconsin.

In the Winter of 1868 he moved to Missouri and
settled in Atchison county, his present residence,
where he soon after engaged in the real estate busi-
ness. In this he is still actively engaged, and has
contributed, by his energetic efforts, in no small
degree to the settlement of his own and adjoining
counties.

In politics Mr. Osborne has always been a con-
servative Democrat. He was christened, when a
child, and reared in the teachings of the Episcopal
church. There being no church of this denomina-

, tion in Phelps City, and no immediate probability of

there being one in the county, he united with the

Presbyterian church on its organization there in
1870.

May 21, 1869, he was commissioned a magis-
trate by the county court of Atchison county, and
was afterward elected to the same office by the peo-
ple, but resigned a year after, in consequence of
pressure of other business. He was commissioned
_a notary public by Governor McClurg, February 2o,
1869; by Governor Woodson, January 25, 1873, and
by Governor Phelps, January 15, 1877.

He became a Master Mason in North Star Lodge,
No. 157, at Rockport, Atchison county, Missouri,

q in 1870. Demitting, he became a member of Phelps

Lodge, No. 357, December 17, 1870. From 1872
to the present time he has been, with the exception
of one year, secretary of this Lodge. .

January 29, 1878, Mr. Osborne married Miss
Julia E., daughter of William E. Sherlock, Esq., of
Dane county, Wisconsin.

In person Mr. Osborne is of medium stature,
quick and active in his motions, of pleasing address,
and though decided in his opinions, courteous and
affable in the tone of their expression. These qual-
ities, added to his well known and sterling integrity
as a man, have commanded for him friends from all
classes in the large circle of his business acquaint-
ance;

MICHAEL DIVELEY.

KANSAS CITY.

ICHAEL DIVELEY was born in Somerset
M county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1828.
He is the ninth of a family of twelve children, eleven
of whom are living, the twelfth having been killed
some ten years since by the savages. The parents
of our subject were Michael and Julia (Schwartz)
were natives of Pennsylvania of
German descent. His father was a volunteer in the
war of 1812, entering as captain, but was soon after
promoted to lieutenant-colonel and subsequently to
brigadier-general. His grandfather, Michael Dively,
emigrated from Stuttgard, in the kingdom of Wirten-
berg, Germany, in 1763, and settled in Baltimore
county, Pennsylvania.

After receiving an academic education, Michael
spent a year at Washington College, Pennsylvania,

where he took a commercial course. "In 1855 he
removed to Iowa ‘City, Iowa, and engaged for a
short time in land speculation, after which he opened
a wholesale grocery store. He continued in this
business until 1858, when he removed to Kansas
City, Missouri.

In 1862-3 Mr. Diveley was a member of the
city council, and filled the office of mayor in the
early part of the latter year, While the mayor, Mr.
M. ]. Payne, was in the state legislature. I

I11 1867 he, in connection with several prominent

men organized the First National Bank of Kan-i

sas City, and Mr. Diveley was chosen its first
president, a position he honored for six years, when
he resigned and became one of its directors. He
was also president of the old Mechanics’ Bank of

I thirty—eight years.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGI€.4I’IIICAI. DICTIO./VARY. (533

Kansas City for three years, and a director in the
same for six years.

In 1872 he was again elected a member of the
city council and appointed chairman of the finance
committee. While in that office he introduced a
resolution providing for the investigation of the finan-
cial affairs of the city, which resulted in the discov-
ery of frauds and defalcations amounting to nearly
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

In 1873 Mr. Diveley was commissioned by Gov-
ernor Silas W oodson as the representative from the
state of Missouri to the Vienna Exposition, and
while on that side of the Atlantic made an extensive
tour through Europe. .

In 1874 he opened a wholesale commission house
in Kansas City, under the firm name of Diveley &
Co., which still (I878) exists, with a constantly
increasing trade which has reached fair proportions.
Among the many extensive establishments in the
city, none stand higher in commercial integrity and
responsibility.

Mr. Diveley is a member of the Board of Trade
in Kansas City, and has been_closely identified with
all the interests of that city for twenty years. He
was one of the first directors of the Cameron branch
of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and was
instrumental, in connection with other enterprising
men, in securing the Kansas City and Santa Fe Rail-

road, now the Ottawa branch of the Leavenworth, ,

Lawrence &_Galveston ‘Railroad, being one of the
original incorporators.

I of her talent.

Mr. Diveley is a member of the Protestant Epis-
copal church. He was originally a Democrat, but
at the‘ commencement of the Rebellion took a deci-
ded stand in favor of the preservation of the Union,
and has since generally acted with the Republican
party. He is very conservative, and seldom votes
a straight ticket, regarding personal integrity and
qualifications for office of more importance than the
shibboleth of party. -

September I 3, 1860, he married Miss Hattie E.
Sherman, of Elmira, New York. She is a distant rela-
tive of General Sherman and a lady of varied
accomplishments and rare personal worth. In early
life she manifested a decided taste for music, and her
parents gave her every advantage for the cultivation
She received flattering proposals from
professionals for the completion of her musical edu-
cation in Europe, which she declined. Many of the
church choirs in Kansas City are indebted to Mrs.
Diveley for assistance. Mr. and Mrs. Diveley have
one child, a son, sixteen years old, now attending
school in Tarrytown, New York. .

Mr. Diveley is still in the vigor of life and the
enjoyment of health. His beautiful home contains
all that wealth can provide, and crowns one of the
most desirable locations in the city. He is a suc-
cessful man——some say.a fortunate man. His labors
are less seen than their results. He has accumulated
in business an ample fortune. In social life he has
a host of warm friends, and in his domestic relations

l is most happy.

CAPTAIN FRILEY WASHINGTON MOORE.

MARSHEIELD.

February 22,1820, in Jamesville, Martin county,
North Carolina. He is the second child of William
B. Moore and Sarah Cooper, and is of Irish descent.
His grandfather, Matthew Moore, was an innkeeper
in North Carolina, where he died in 1824 at an
advanced age. His father, William B. Moore, lived
in Jamesville, was acarpenter by trade and also a
bookkeeper until his death in 1834, at the age of
His mother died in 1836, in the
thirty-eighth year of her age.

His education in the schools was very limited.

FRILEY WASHINGTON MOORE was born

At an early age he was employed in carrying shingles
in the swamps. On one occasion, while serving as
cook on a coasting vessel, the vessel was wrecked;
he clung to a cotton bale all night and was rescued
next. morning. He began clerking in a store and
while thus engaged in the day time, would fish at
night to assist in maintaining his mother’s family,
and to enable him to attend the two months term of
the winter school. He went to board with an uncle
while attending school, but his money becoming
short he was forced to part with a set of carpenter’s
tools to defray his boarding expenses. He thus

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received in all about eight months tuition. When
seventeen years old he was engaged to carry the
mails from Edenton, North Carolina, to Suffolk,
Virginia, a service which he performed for six
months. He was then employed to take charge of
the bar and hotel at Suffolk, the landlord having
died, and was so engaged until the end of the year.
At that time he returned home and attended school
two months, when the teacher resigned and he was

-recommended to and accepted the position of teacher

and taught three months. At the close of the term
he accepted a place as clerk in a store in Jamesville,
where he remained six months.

He received a letter January I, 1841, from Rev.
C. B. Hassell, of Williamston, offering him a situ-
ation in his store at a salary of $125 a year and
board and washing, the salary to be increased, if
mutual satisfaction was given, at the ratio of $50
per annum. He accepted the place and worked as
a clerk for four years. During this year he placed.

his sister, Belinda, at school, completing her educa- ,

tion at the academy at Louisburgh, ‘Franklin county,
North Carolina. In December, 1844, he purchased,
on credit, the stock of goods belonging to "Mr.
Hassell, the latter only requiring that the interest be
paid. Mr. Williams, a banker, kindly loaned him
$800 without security with which to replenish his
stock. During the first year he took a brother in as
partner, but bought his interest at the end of a year.
In 1848 he disposed of his stock to Mr. Hassell at
ten per cent. discount, paying the balance due with
notes on responsible parties, and remained a few
months longer with his old patron. He then ven-
tured into the saw mill and lumber business, shipping
lumber to New York, Boston and Philadelphia. He
employed forty hands and thirty saws, and shipped
large quantities of lumber. At the end of three
years he sold out his business to a Virginia company,
realizing a handsome profit on his investment, and
purchased a plantation where he resided one year.
He then returned to Williamston, of which he was
elected mayor for one year. At the end of his term

as mayor, he was elected a member of the special

court, a position he held two years and then
resigned. .

In 1857 he was endorser on the paper of a Mr.
Burnett for $40,000. When Burnett failedihe was
appointed trustee and was forced to buy in the
property at a loss to himself of $7,000. He then
began speculating in swamp and timber lands and at
the end of a year found he had added largely to his

capital. In 18 58 he became endorser for his brother
to the amount of $90,000, and was again appointed
trustee by the banks, sustaining a loss of $28,000,
which he paid by_selling his slaves and bonds. In

18 59 he became a shareholder in a steamboat stock-

company, of which he was elected president at the
end of the year, and became commander of the
steamer John Stiles. On the»6th of April, 1861, he
sold the Stiles to the state of North Carolina, her
name was changed to Albermarle, he was commission-
ed captain by Governor Ellis, the steamer went into
Confederate service and was engaged in carrying
troops, arms and provisions from Roanoke river and
Newbern to Cape Hatteras. He resigned in the follow-
ing June, and went to Raleigh, made a settlement, and
was commissioned captain of a company he was to
raise, but before completing his enrollment he _was
taken prisoner, and was paroled by Major, after-
ward General, Franklin. He was then appointed
salt commissioner and also collector, under W. K.
Lane, of the 2d District, which position he held at
the close of the war. ,

He then engaged i_n general merchandising with
E. L. Moore, ‘at Sparta, Edgecombe county, North
Carolina 3 but at the end of fourteen months he sold
his interest in the goods to his partner and removed
to Tarborough, where he remained until August 2,
1867. He then took his family to Baltimore and left
them while he made an extended visit to the West,
visiting Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. In October,
1867, he brought his family to St. Louis, where he
remained until February 27, I868, losing heavily in St.
Louis by the treachery of a man to whom he loaned
money. He then removed to Marshfield and for two
years was engaged in the tanning business. Growing
weary of this he sold his tannery and invested his
means in real estate, and, in connection with N. M.
Callaway, built two large store houses. At the expi-
ration of one year he engaged in the grocery trade,
on borrowed capital. i By close financiering he has
cleared himself of all debts and has accumulated
considerable property. At the organization of the
Webster County Bank, he was elected President, a
position he still holds. Politically he was an old line
Whig, but votes with the Democratic party. In
religion he favors the Episcopalian faith and worship,
but gives liberally to all denominations.

He was married February 17, 1846, to Miss
Martha Ann Cloman, of Rainbow Banks, near Fort
Branch, North’Carolina, by whom he had two chil-
dren, a son and a daughter. His daughter, Mozella,

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is buried at Fort Branch, North Carolina, his son,
William]. Moore, a partner of his father, is mar-
ried and has a family of three children. Mrs.
Moore died June 22, 1876. She was an exemplary
Christian woman and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church (South). Captain F.- W. Moore is

well known for his uprightness, benevolence and
business ability. He is liberal to public enter-
prises, and though he has made his way through
difficulties that would appall and dishearten most
young men, he is still active, energetic and enter-
prising.

CAPTAIN HARVEY SMITH BUCK.

STE WAR TSVIILILE.

ARVEY SMITH BUCK was born in Gouv—
H erneur, Saint Lawrence county, New York,
in 1838. His parents, Roger and Patty Maria Buck,
removed from New York to Brown county, Illinois,
in 1846, and thence to Quincy, Illinois, where, in
1851, his father died, leaving a widow, three sons
and four daughters, Harvey, then thirteen years of
age, being the oldest son. C

After his father’s death he was sent to Augusta,
Illinois, to live with John B. Compton, a merchant,
andhusband of his oldest sister, Elizabeth, where
he remained several years acquiring a knowledge of
mercantile business. He was then sent to Gales-
burg, Illinois, and matriculated in Knox College,
remaining there until he had exhausted the means
saved in Augusta. Left to work his own way in
life, Without any means but the knowledge he had
acquired in the store, the partial education obtained
in school, a stout hand and a willing spirit, he, at
the age of eighteen, began the battle which hehas
so successfully fought.

He first sought a subordinate position in a store,
but finding no situation that suited him, he deter-
mined to embark in ‘business for himself, though
absolutely without means. Securing the endorse-
ment of the leading merchants of Augusta as to his
integrity and business habits, he borrowed one dollar
and fifty cents to pay railroad fair, proceeded to
Quincy, Illinois, and bought on credit a small stock
of drugs, books and notions. Assisted by Dr. Ellis,
a physician of Augusta, he soon became a compe-
tent druggist, and by his business habits succeeded
in securing a large patronage. At the breaking out
of the war, his business in the line of general iner-
chandise was recognized as one of the largest and
most prosperous in the place.

In 1861, obeying the call of his country, he

turned his business over to his head clerk, to whom
he gave an interest in the profits, and with fifteen
associates proceeded to Quincy, where he enlisted
under Captain Sterling P. Delano, a prominent law-
yer of that city, who was organizing a company of
dragoons, afterward assigned to the 2d Illinois
cavalry. This company was detailed as an escort to
General B. M. Prentiss and started through South-
east Missouri. General Prentiss was soon relieved
by General U. S.‘ Grant, and the command pro-
ceeded to Cairo, Illinois. Shortly after this he was
promoted to the position of clerk at General Grant’s
headquarters, where he remained until the battle of
Shiloh, and for gallant services rendered to General
Grant as bearer of dispatches, etc., at the battles of
Fort Donaldson and Shiloh, he was recommended
for promotion to Governor Richard Yates. Although
personally a stranger to Colonel Thomas ]. Kinney,
who had just organized the 119th Illinois infantry
regiment, that officer, on the strength of his reputa-
tion for courage and ability, requested Governor
Yates to commission Mr. Buck adjutant of his regi-
ment, which was accordingly done. He was thus
the first clerk at General Grant’s headquarters who
received a commission." He was with this regiment
through all its campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee
and Mississippi, under General A. ]. Smith, who
commanded the 16th Army Corps, and with General
Banks in his Red River expedition. He served in
fourteen engagements, in most of which he com-
manded the left wing of the regiment, the colonel
being frequently in command of the brigade. In
two hot engagements he commanded the regiment,
the superior officers being absent or wounded. Dur-
ing the last battle at Nashville, December 15th and
16th, 1864, he performed some of the most daring
feats of the war. In one instance, at a critical point,

636

when his regiment was wavering before a storm of '

shot and shell from two six gun batteries, he volun-
tarily headed the charge, a11d by his consummate
skill and determined bravery, succeeded in inspiring
his men to ‘renewed effort, which resulted, after a
desperate hand to hand conflict, in the capture of
the guns. For this achievement he was unanimously
elected by both officers and men to be major of the
regiment, and strongly recommended to Generals
A. J. Smith and George H. Thomas for gallant and
meritorious conduct on the battle field. Shortly after
this, his regiment being transferred to New Orleans,
he was detailed on General Canby’s staff. In the
spring of 1865 he was commissioned- by the war
department captain in the subsistence department,
and assigned as above stated. He discharged the
onerous duties of his position with credit until the
fall of 1865, when he went to Washington and was
mustered out of service.

He then spent considerable time in traveling over
the United States, visiting all points of special inter-
est and observing the habits of the people. In the
spring of 1866 he moved to Clinton county, Missouri,
where he improved what is known as the Maple
Avenue farm, a highly adorned tract of six hundred

MATTHEW

KANSAS

ATTHEVV FOSTER was born in Fermanagh
M county, Ireland, May 28, 1832. His father,
a native of the same county and a farmer, immigrated
to America in 1849, and settled first in Erie county,
Ohio, and finally engaged in ‘farming near Lansing,
Michigan, where he died in 1852. The mother of
Matthew Foster, whose maiden namewas Jane Gra-
ham, was also a native of Ireland.

Matthew received a good common school educa-
tion, has been a close observer of men and events,
is a practical thinker, and has by faithful study
of business principles and close attention to its
minute details, secured that discipline which is the
usual result of a full course at college. His first
business inclinations w are to mercantile pursuits; but
he was placed under D. W. Buck, of Lansing, to
learn the cabinet making trade, and remained with

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and forty acres. Completing his work, he moved to
Stewartsville, De Kalb county, five miles distant,
and again engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1875,
in connection with Franklin Finch and William D.
Totten, he established a bank in Stewartsville, which
has added largely to the -business facilities of the
county, and ranks high as a safe and reliable institu-
tion. He has done much good and greatly promoted
the interests of Northwest Missouri, and is held in
universal esteem. On the organization of the militia
of the state in 1867, he was appointed a lieutenant-
colonel.

He united with the Masonic order in Augusta,
Illinois, and is an active member of the Chapter,
Council and Commandery. He has served three
successive terms as High Priest of Russell Royal
Arch Chapter No. 77, of Stewartsville. In politics
he has ever been a staunch Republican.

He was married January 18, 1866, to Miss Louisa
Lewis, daughter of Judge William Lewis, of Brook-
lyn, Schuyler county, Illinois. They have three
children: Frank, ‘eight years old , Dell, five years
old, and George R., two years old. Captain Buck’s
habits have ever been strictly temperate, indulging
in the use of tobacco only.

FOSTER.

CITY.

him three years, after which he worked as a journey-
man two years in the same city._

He removed to Kansas City in March, 1857, and
soon secured a situation as clerk in the furniture
store of James A. Frame, with whomhe continued
He then clerked two years in the post
Having

three years.
office under his brother, Francis Foster.
saved some money from his earnings, he began with
less than five hundred dollars capital, selling books,
newspapers and periodicals, from a small counter in
the post office, then situated between Third and
Fourth streets, on Main. This business he carried on
for four or five years, increasing gradually and mak-
ing the book and stationery department his specialty.
In 1864 he removed to the corner of Main street and
Missouri Avenue, and made extensive additions to
his stock and many improvements in his general busi-

_three feet and four stories in height.

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ness arrangements. Here he remained four years
with a continuation of the success which had attended
him throughout his mercantile career. In 1868 he

erected one of the buildings of the “Foster Block,”-

on Main street. The house has three stories with a
basement twenty-four by one hundred feet in dimen-
sions. In his new quarters be increased his stock to
$40,000, and continued there eight years. In 1872
he erected the large three-story and basement brick
building corner of Seventh and Main stfijeets, which
he rented to the Government for a postoffice, for ten
years, at $3,000 per annum. He owns other valua-
ble real estate, which he is improving to his own and
the advantage of Kansas City. His pleasant home
residence, corner of Eleventh and Central streets,
adds to the good appearance of Kansas City, and
is a home in the true sense of the word. In 1876
he removed to No. 620 Main street, and again
enlarged his capacity to accommodate his rapidly
growing trade by laying in from $50,000 to $60,000
worth of books and stationery. His trade continued
to increase until, in 1877, his ‘sales amounted to
$17 5,000, and his orders came from nearly all parts
of the Northwest, Southwest Missouri, Southwest
Iowa, East Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, New Mex-
ico, Indian Territory and Texas, besides one hun-
dred miles eastward into Missouri. He has from
fifteen to twenty employés kept constantly busy in
the different departments of his establishment. His
building is twenty-four by one hundred and fifty-
The first, third
and fourth stories on Delaware street are for his
wholesale business, and the second story——being the
first on Main——is devoted to the retail trade.
Inaddition to his book and stationery business,
he has become the largest dealer west of St. Louis in
wall paper and windowshades. During the spring

DR. J. B.

MA CO./V

the son of William and Mildred Winn, was
born May 23, 1815, in Madison county, Kentucky.
His father was a native of Virginia, but removed in
early life to Kentucky, where he remained for some
years, during which time he met and married

rPHE subject of this sketch, Dr. James B. Winn,

which she is the natural market.

of 1878 the house received direct from the manufac-
turers, four large invoices, either one of which was a
larger stock than was carried by all the other Kansas
City houses combined. The patterns were of the
very choicest, and the grades ranged from the cheap-
est to the finest found in any market in the world.

The style of the firm from 1866 has been Matt.
Foster & Co. In that year he admitted M. H. Dick-
inson as a partner, and H. H. Shepard was alimited
partner from 1872 to 1876.

Mr. Foster is evidently and eminently a self-
made man. What he is and what he has made is the
result of his individual exertion. He has been
throughout his business career successful—not lucky ;
and by the use of his cultivated judgment, by indus-
try, by proper economy and strict integrity has
furnished indubitable evidence that prosperity is
within the reach of every man.

Mr. Foster has been identified with every enter-

prise calculated to increase the importance of Kansas

City and advance the interests of the great area of
He has been a
stockholder in the First National Bank of Kansas
City from its beginning, and for many years a di-
rector. He helped to organize the Kansas City
National Bank, since known as the Kansas City
Bank——of which he was one of the first directors.
He also helped to organize the first Board of Trade,
at which time he was a director and is still a stock-
holder. Every fair and exposition the city has held
has found in him a willing friend and contributor. 4
He has been a Master Mason since 1862, in
Kansas City Lodge, No. 220; is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in whose faith he was
raised, and is a Republican in politics. September
24, 1873,‘ he was married to Miss Minnie E. Weirick,
daughter of Jesse and Eliza VVeirick, of Tiffin, Ohio.

WINN.

CITY.

Mildred Hurt, of Adair county, Kentucky, the
daughter of Nathan Hurt, a prominent farmer of
that county. He removed to Howard county, Mis-
souri, in 1819, where he lived until his death.
James, like many of the young men of his day,
had to educate himself. His advantages were

638 TIJE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

limited ; after taking a course in the common schools
he attended Monticello Academy, and so Well did
he improve this time that he secured for himself a
thorough education. I A

Being filled with philanthropic views, and desirous
of relieving suffering humanity, as Well as of suc-
ceeding financially, he chose the practice of medi-
cine as his life work. During the first few years of
his medical studies he was also engaged in teaching
school and in lecturing.
excellent practitioners, after which he attended lec-

tures at the medical department of Transylvania.

University, in Lexington, Kentucky, and received a
diploma from the Transylvania Medical Society.

In 1847 he settled in Macon county, Where he
has since resided, controlling an extensive practice.
In 1868 he located in Macon City, and has since
been identified with all its interests. He is an active

,He then studied with two.

_ at a time from his business.
influential citizens of Macon, and by his undeviat-

member of the Macon County Medical Society.
January 29, 1849, Dr. Winn married Miss Hul-
dah Jones, daughter of Wesley Jones, a leading

agriculturist of Howard and Macon counties.

Dr. Winn is a noble specimen of a self—made
He has been so wedded to his profession that
he has kept aloof from all political offices, and
devoted. his entire energies to his chosen life work.
His attention to business has been something remark-
able 3 duri°..-.g the whole time of his professional
practice it is noteworthy that he has never at any
time, or from any cause, lost more than thirty days
He is one of the most

U131].

ing rectitude in all his relations, both public and
private, business and social, has won the esteem and
confidence of all with whom he has been brought in
contact.

MAJOR THOMAS WOODSON PARK.

PLA TTE CITY.

HOMAS WOODSON PARK was born in
Madison county, Kentucky, October 12, 1842.

_He is the eldest son of the late Elihu Park, for many

years a well known hotel keeper at Irvine in Estill
county. His mother’s maiden name was Mary Bal-
lew. The ancestors of the Park family in Kentucky
were originally from North Carolina. The Ballews
were of Virginia ancestry. Both families are num-
bered among the earliest settlers of Kentucky. A

Thomas’ maternal grandfather, Rev. Thomas Bal-
lew, an eminent" divine of Madison county, was
regarded as the founder of the Baptist Church in
that part of the state.
in Irvine, and in I855 his mother married F. G. Gay-
lord, now president of Daughter’s College, Platte
City, Missouri, and one of the ablest educators in the
state. To the careful instruction of his step-father
and his judicious early training, is in a great measure
due the development of those talents which have
rendered his life a success.

October 20, 1857, the family moved to Missouri
and settled in Platte City, where he attended the
Male Academy taught by Professor Gaylord, and
acquired a finished literary and scientific education.
While a student in this institution, he was especially

In 1849 Thomas’ father died

distinguished by his ability as a writer—a talent
amply recognized in after life when he turned his
attention to journalism.

On leaving school he went to Atchison, Kansas,
where he studied law in the office of Hon. John M.
Price, his brother-in-law. He remained there six
months when he returned to Platte City and volun-

teered in the rebel service, joining company A, Colo- '

nel John A. Winston’s -regiment of infantry, included
in Stein’s Brigade in the 5th division Missouri State
Guards under General Sterling Price. He served
with the grade of sergeant at the siege and capture of
Lexington. While in winter quarters at Springfield,
Missouri, he was promoted to the rank of 3d lieu-
tenant. The term of service expired soon after the
battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and in March, 1862
the command was disbanded and he returned to
Platte City. In September of the same year he
engaged as a teacher in Camden Point Academy
in Platte county, then presided over by his step-

father and former instructor, F. G. Gaylord. In .

this capacity he remained till the summer of 1863,
when he returned to "Platte City and engaged in the
study of law. in the office of Merryman & Spratt.
He soon after joined the Papaw militia, with the

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rank of 2d lieutenant and served a few months,
when, being among the number of those who de-
clined to take the oath of loyalty, he was mustered
out with them by a general order of the adjutant gen-
eral of the sit. e. In December following he went to
Louisvillewetlclriitucky, where he entered the law de-
partment 4 gthe University.
vacation’-Q9- iluntsville, Alabama, and upf‘,the,open-
ing of the fall term of the University réi/Ljrned and
graduated with the degree of LL. B., in 7‘mirch, I86 5.
After leaving school he made a short vislr to Hunts-
ville, when he returned to his home in Platte City.

In july, 1866, he founded the Plum CozmtyRr-
7262'!/e,_a weekly Democratic newspaper. This journal
was published under this name until june, 1871,
when T /26 Ecma'77m7’/e, a paper published in Weston,
was moved to Platte City and consolidated with it,
and the name of the latter adopted. This is gener-

ally conceded to be,one of the most ably edited ‘

weekly newspapers in Northwest Missouri.

In the the fall of 187ohe was elected on the Dem-
ocratic ticket clerk of the county court, over a com-
peting Democrat who had held the office twenty-
eight years. -In 1872 he was appointed by Governor
Woodson major on his staff. In the fall of 1874 he
was reelected to another four years’ term as county
clerk by a very large" majority. In March, 1877, for
the purpose of devoting his entire attention to the
publication of his paper, he, to the surprise of all,
resigned this office the duties of which he had dis-
charged with marked ability.

From his first entering the fie-ld of journalism he

has manifested a lively interest in politics, and from

He spent his summer .

639

1868 has generally been a delegate to the Demo-
cratic state and congressional conventions. In the
fall of 1876, in the Democratic congressional conven-
tion for the 8th district of Missouri, held at Kansas

City, he was a candidate for nomination during one

hundred and forty-four ballots, lacking at Various
times, only fifty votes out of nine thousand of receiv-
ing the nomination. His successful competitor wa.s
Hon. B. ]. Franklin.

In 1868 he was made a Master Mason in Zerubba-

bel Lodge in Platte City. Soon after he was exalted

in Melody Royal Arch Chapter, and was in the same

year, created a Knight Templar in Belt Commandery.
He is also a member of Alpha Council R. & S. M.,
also in Platte City. In all these several bodies he
has, at different times, held high official positions,
and at present holds the rank of Deputy Grand Com-
mander of the Grand Commandery of the state. He
is also an Odd Fellow in good standing. _ He is a
Protestant in belief , but has never united with any
religious organization. In 1876-7 he was president
of the Missouri Press Association.

November I 5, 1866, he was married in St. Louis
to Miss Maggie E. Baxter, third daughter of the late
john Baxter of Clay county, Missouri. By this mar-
riage he has three sons and an infant daughter. The
oldest, Frederick Gaylord, is nine years of age. The
younger childrenare Guy, Ralph and Hortense.

Major Park is five feet nine and one-half inches
high and weighs about one hundred and forty-five
pounds. His -social characteristics are excellent,
and few men in the state have, with as little effort,
achieved the popularity he enjoys.

JUDGE JOHN w. HENRY.

MACON CITY.

in Cynthiana, Harrison county, Kentucky. His

father, Jesse Henry, was a native of Kentucky,
held high official position in that state for many
years, ‘and moved to Missouri in 1845, locating at
Independence,.]ackson county, where he lived till
his death in 1852. His mother, was Nancy Porter,
a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and daugh-
ter of Andrew Porter. '

JOHN W. HENRY was born january 29, 1825,

l

and began the study of law in Cynthiana in 1843.
In 1844 he graduated from the Transylvania Law
School, at Lexington, Kentucky, and soon after
began the practice in his native town. In 1845 he
removed to Missouri, and settled at Boonville where
he began the practice of law. In 1847, having been
appointed attorney for the branch of the State Bank
of Missouri, located at Fayette, Howard county, he
removed to that place and resumed his work. Here

J. W. Henry received a liberal English education, l he formed a law partnership with the late Robert T.

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Prewitt, and the firm at once took a high rank at the
bar of Central Missouri. In 1854 he was appointed
by Governor Sterling Price superintendent of public
schools in Missouri. In 1857 he removed to Inde-
pendence, Jackson county, Missouri, and resided
there six years, returning to Fayette in 1863. In
-1865 he removed to Macon City, Macon county,
where he still resides. In 1872 he was elected judge
of the 27th Judicial Circuit, composed of the coun-
ties of Macon, Adair, Schuyler and Putnam, a dis-

trict politically opposed to him, but in which he_
received a majority of one thousand votes.

He was
reelected to the same position in 1875. Inthe fol-
lowing year, he was nominated by the Democrats for
associate justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Politically, he is a Democrat. His first vote for

president and vice-president was cast for Cass and
Butler. At the presidential election of 1860, he
voted for Bell and Everett. During the war his sym-
pathies were with the South, but he rerr-ained quietly
at home throughout the struggle..ofTn‘ religion,
Judge Henry is a member of —the'3r“ Iscopalian
Church. 

He was married August 29, I849, t,”~_  Maria
R. Williams, of Howard county, Missouri, daughter
of Frank rrii.‘Jliarr.s, a prominent agriculturist of that
county, anuisister of Hon. John T. Williams, speaker
of the 29th General Assembly. Judge Henry is a
laborious, pains-taking and careful lawyer and judge.
He is a man of sterling worth and integrity, having
the confidence ‘and esteem of all who have the
pleasure of his acquaintance.

COLONEL ROBERT ALEXANDER HEWITT.

MA YS VIILLE.

1826, in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the
fifth of a family of nine children, whose parents
were Elmer and Grace (McDermot) Hewitt. His
father was born in 1791, in Hartford county, Mary-
land. He was a tanner and currier by trade, and, in
1821," married a daughter of Captain McDermot, a
sea captain of Baltimore. The maternal grandmother
of our subject was a Miss Copeland, and belonged to
a noted family who emigrated from Yorkshire, Eng-
land, to Pennsylvania in 1723. Young Hewitt
took a classical and scientific course in East Balti-
more Institute. On leaving school in May, 1846,
he emigrated to Missouri and located in St. Joseph,
where he engaged as clerk in the business house of
his eldest brother, Eli Hewitt. In August, 1848,
in company with several others, he organized a com-
pany and offered their service in the Mexican war.
The government refused to receive troops from the
Platte purchase, they repaired to Fort Leavenworth
and volunteered in company D, from Boone county,
commanded by Captain McMillan in Price’s regi-
ment of heavy cavalry. They marched to Santa Fe,
New Mexico, with Price’s regiment and a Mormon
battalion of five hundred infantry, arriving there
about September, 1846. In January, 1847, they
marched to Taos Valley, to avenge the murder of

ROBERT A. HEWITT was born January 2,

Governor Bent, of New Mexico, and his associates,
and" served in all the battles of the campaign in
New Mexico, which terminated with the successful
storming of Pueblo Taos. .While carrying the flag
as acting 3rd lieutenant in the storming party, he
received a ball in the right lung. The surgeons

.at first pronounced the wound mortal, but he even-

tually recovered. In September or October, 1847,
suffering from the effects of the wound, he returned
to St. Joseph. On the advice of his physician, he
returned to his home in Baltimore, where he remain-
ed till December, 1849, when he returned to Mis-
souri and settled in Maysville, his present home.
On his arrival he was appointed deputy clerk of the
circuit and county courts, and engaged in the study
of law. In 18 52 he was elected, for the term of six
years, clerk of said circuit and county courts of
DeKalb county. In August, 1858, he was reelected
clerk of circuit court of DeKalb county, Missouri,
for six years. In the same year he was admitted to
the bar in Maysville by Judge McFerron, of the
rzth Judicial Circuit. On the breaking out of the
war of the Rebellion, in 1861, Robert A. Hewitt
raised, in Maysville, a company of mounted riflemen
for service in the Confederate army; of this com-
panyhe was elected captain. With a part of this
command he joined Price and participated in the

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battle of Springfield, Missouri. On his return the
several companies of DeKalb and Gentry counties
encamped at Highley’s Springs, in Buchanan county,

and there OI‘-"13.I]lZ€d themselves into a regiment, of

which jeff.‘T1t- ton, of Gentry county, was elected
colonel, arield fG"=ert A. Hewitt, the subject of this
sketch, l".W€I1ttCt-colonel. They were attacked at
the M_3s.’VVith E. r by Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, of
Iowa, ccT1T1m‘a’ifd111g one thousand five hundred men,
with four pieces of cannon, in thirty minutes the
Iowa troops were routed, and the rebel command
crossed the river. They then advanced to Lexing-
ton and participated in Price’s capture of lVIulligan’s
brigade, there encamped 3 after which he marched to
Arkansas and was engaged, with his command," in
the battle of Pea Ridge, where he was taken sick,
and, his regiment being depleted by disease and loss
in battle was disbanded and absorbed into other
commands. Colonel Hewitt then returned to Balti-
more, where he remained till 1868, when he
returned to his present home in Maysville, Mis-
souri.

In November, 1852, he married, in Maysville,

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Miss Mary E. Talcott, daughter of William Talcott,
of Rochester, New York. They have three children:
Richard_ A., twenty-one years old, now living in
Colorado 3 William Henry, eighteen years old, and
Charles, aged sixteen, both living in DeKalb county.

In 1853 Colonel Hewitt was initiated, passed and
raised in Masonic Lodge, 108 A. F. &: A. M. In
1854 he was elected Master of the lodge and served
two terms in that capacity. In 1868 he organized
Panott Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and served as Master
of the same, three terms.

In 1872 he became a member of the Christian
church. In politics he has always been an uncom-
promising state—rights Democrat.

In_stature he is six feet high, and weighs one
hundred and eighty—five pounds. He is erect and
of a commanding appearance. Colonel Hewitt has
been a man of wealth, but on account of his decided
stand for the Union at the breaking out of the Rebel-
lion was compelled to sacrifice much of his capital.
He is a man of influence in the community in which
he has so long resided, and is universally admired
and respected for his many noble traits of character.

RICHARD THOMAS DARNALL.

PLATTE CITY.

ICHARD THOMAS DARNALL was born
R in Montgomery county, Kentucky, May 14,
1837, he is the third of a family of nine children,
and the eldest surviving son. His father, Milton
Darnall, a farmer by occupation, was also a native
of Montgomery county, Kentucky. His mother’s
maiden name was Mary B. VVilliams, she was a
daughter of john W. Williams, a farmer of Madison
county, Kentucky. The Darnall family were origi-
nally from Virginia. The subject of this sketch
moved with his parents to Missouri, and settled in
Platte county, in the spring of 185 3. Reared on a

farm, with habits of industry, he early manifested .

the restless and enterprising disposition to which
much of the success of his after life was due. When
a boy, he received such educational advantages as
the country schools afforded , he afterwards attended
Pleasant Ridge College, in Platte county, Missouri,
and started in life with a practical business educa-

tion. On leaving the institution, he took charge of

a school which he taught with success five months.
This calling, however, proving uncongenial, he move
to Platte City and engaged as a clerk in a dry goods
store, in which capacity he served two years.

May 2 I, 1860, he married, at Easton, in Buchanan
county, Miss Sue E. Benight, daughter of a Virginia
family. He then engaged in farming, on a limited
scale, with slender means and strong determination
to succeed in life, a resolve which his energetic
nature and native business tact succeeded in amply
accomplishing. ' .

On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion,
he joined, with the rank of lieutenant, Company A,
of Winston’s regiment of mounted infantry, in which
he served in the rebel service two months. In a
skirmish opposite Leavenworth city he was severely
wounded; this was the first Confederate blood shed
in Platte county. He, however, accompanied his
regiment to Springfield, but being disabled by his
wound, he was invalided and returned home, and

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for several years devoted much of his attention to
farming and stock raising.

After the death of his first wife he returned to
Kentucky and married, in May, 1870, Miss Kate

Nutter, daughter of Captain William Nutter, of

Scott county, in that state. By the former marriage
he had three sons and one daughter, all of whom
are living. By his present wife he has two children,
oneof whom is living.

In 1870 he was elected, on the Democratic
ticket, treasurer of Platte county, to which office
he was reelected twice, faithfully discharging the
duties of the position during three full terms. To
his last term of service, which expired in January,
1877, he was elected by the largest majority ever
attained by a candidate in the county.

In 1875, in connection with stock raising, he en-

gaged in the banking business in Platte City. He was

elected president of the “ Farmers’ Savings Associa-
tion,” which existed prosperously till July, 1877, when

the increase of business induced the stockholders to
organize a National Bank. Of this institution Mr.
Darnall is a director and also one of the heaviest stock-
holders in the concern, which ranks 215-,.;.o1ig the sub-
stantial and reliable banking houses of of T1N orthwest.

He has been a Master Mason sine pr---: was twen-
ty-one years of age. He was ex A W Melody
Royal Arch Chapter in Platte City_9, t; I _f”ghted in
Weston Commandery, No- 2, K. ’i_. --5  M. In
all the above branches of the Masc9/‘T1 lmosr he has,
at different periods, held high officielll’-,EI9.-.1B9Jns. He
is also a member in good standing of the I. O. O. F.
in Platte City. He was raised in the teachings of
the Baptist church, with which he united in the
spring of 1876. In politics he has always been a
state-rights Democrat. In person, Mr. Darnall is
five feet, eleven inches in height, of erect carriage,
generally robust health and weighs one hundred and_
ninety pounds. His social qualities are excellent
and his personal popularity great.

R. T. DAVIS.

ST. ]0SEPH.

HE subject of this sketch is one who, for his
T energy and character, merits the approval and
respect of all. R. T. Davis was born December 26,
1837, in Buchanan county, the first white child born
in this section. His father, Ishmael Davis, a native
of Maryland, emigrated when quite young to Ken-
tucky and married Miss Nancy McDaniel, of Louis
county, in 1831. Immediately after this marriage,
desiring a new field of labor, they turned their faces
westward, stcoping at Plattsburg, Missouri, awaiting
the ratification of the Platte Purchase, and finally
securing a claim thereon, where their eldest child
was born. The elder Davis was a man of great
force of character, a feature which his son has inher-
ited in a marked degree.

As soon as he was old enough to study, his
father sent him to the common schools of the county,
at that time being very deficient in educational facili-
ties. When sixteen years old he entered the Western
high school with the idea of fitting himself for a
thorough collegiate course; but he was doomed to
disappointment. After spending three studious years
under esteemed teachers, he found that his school

_,sheriff off Buchanan county.

days were over. His father was one of the unfortu-
nate bondsmen for Leander Ellis, the defaulting
To satisfy the claims
against him, Mr. Davis, Sr., gave up everything,
the old homestead to which they had all become
attached going with the rest. Imbued with the true
American spirit of reproducing values, his son imme-
diately left school to commence the struggle of life,
and if possible, repurchase the old homestead by his
own efforts. This he succeeded in accomplishing,
after various reverses and successes.

Mr. Davis was married in February, 1859, to
Miss C. L. Bordston, of Platte county, with whom
he lived happily until her death in 1861. In 1863
he led Mary J. Bordston to the altar, giving his
little daughter a mother in the person of his wife’s
sister. ,

Up to 1866 he had been engaged in various pur-
suits, but had failed to find one that he was willing
to make a life business, until his attention was called
to the milling interest, then in its‘ infancy in the
West. He saw in it a field for future successes that
was equal to his ambition, and at once embarked in

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an enterprise that was to bring him wealth and laud-
able notoriety. His first venture was in the pur-
chase of the Platte County Union Mills.,/ewhere his
aptness and fitness for his new D1J.SlD§"J were soon
made evident. Finding that country irifiling was too
narrow a field for his ambition, he sold the Union
Mills and went to St. Joseph, entering into a copart-
nership with E. V. Riley in the well known City
Mills. Soon after Mr. A. Beattie, the present mayor
of St. Joseph, purchased Mr. Riley’s interest, and
the mills were run under the firm name of R. T.
Davis 82: Co. until 1876, when Mr. Davis became
sole proprietor. An untiring devotion to business
soon made him master of milling in all its branches,
and the manufacture of fine winter wheat flour
became to him an all important subject. Many
improvements were made until his favorite brand,
St. Joseph No. I, became a by-word in the West for
everything excellent in the flour line. No new
invention of merit comes to the front, but what it
can be found in the‘ City Mills. .
To‘ keep pace with the rapid progression of the
present time requires persistent and energetic labor,
but to take the lead, as the subject of our sketch has

done, requires a combination of industry, pluck and .
genius,oftener wanting than found. One secret of -

Mr. Davis’ success lies in the fact of his always

employing the best skilled labor to be obtained,
regardless of cost, justly feeling that in a business
Where the article manufactured comes before the

general public for its reputation, and where the

merited reputation is not only a matter of dollars and
cents to the producer, but a test of ability, the very
best means should be employed to make it the best
that the market affords. '

In compliment of his successful perseverance and
energy, the citizens of Buchanan county presented
Mr. Davis with a magnificent gold watch upon the
case of which was inscribed: “Presented to R. T.
Davis, April 23, 1877, by the citizens of St. Joseph
and Buchanan county, Missouri, in appreciation of
his fancy brand flour, St. Joe No. I, as being the
best flour ever sold in St. Joseph, Missouri.” It is
a compliment worth many a struggle to have it said
as it is of Mr. Davis, “ he stands at ‘the head of the
milling business in the West.”

A man of strict integrity, a member of the
Methodist church, full of enterprise and public spirit,
a consistent Democrat, and a self-made man, we can
but feel that the sketch of such a life will prove of
interest to the general reader, showing the young
that “there is no royal road to fame and fortune,”
but that it can only be gained by perseverance and
hard work.

WILLIAM FIELDING ELLIOTT.

MOBERL Y.

I ILLIAM FIELDING ELLIOTT was born
May, 4, 1838, in Boone county, Missouri.
His father, Reuben Elliott, was a native of Garrard
county, Kentucky. He was a farmer by profession
and continued in agriculture nearly all his life. He
removed from Kentucky to Missouri and located in
Boone county in 1818. He was an officer in the
war of 1812, and served with credit in that struggle.
The wife of Reuben Elliott was Elizabeth Willhite,
born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, whose parents
removed to Boone county, Missouri, in 1818. The
Willhites in Boone county have long been known
for their integrity and uprightness, and have exer-
cised a healthful influence upon the social circle in
which they moved.
William Fielding Elliott was reared on the farm

of his father, experiencing the life‘ incident to the
duties and employments of a farmer’s boy. His
early education was liberal, and he had the advantage
of excellent instruction at Lathrop Academy. In
the winter of 1858 he removed to Randolph county,
-and the same year began the study of medicine,
which he prosecuted with characteristic assiduity for
two years, but never entered on the practice.

In 1861 he entered the Missouri State Guards as a
private in Colonel Jackson’s regiment of General
Clark’s brigade. His military service was of short
duration. "At the battle of Dry Wood, in the sum-
mer of 1861, he was severely wounded, and for his
gallantry on this occasion and his soldiery bearing,
was promoted to a 1st lieutenancy. The wound,
however, incapacitated him for active service in the

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field, and he returned to his home, resigning his
commission and abandoning military life.

After his return to Randolph county, he engaged
in farming and trading, and continued in these pur-
suits until I87o. In the fall of 1870 he was elected
sheriff and collector of Randolph county, and was
reelected in 1872. The duties of these combined
offices he discharged with acceptability to the people
until June, 1875. During the latter year he was
elected cashier of the Mechanic’s Savings Bank of
Moberly, Missouri, and is still occupied in that
capacity. Politically Mr. Elliott is a Democrat,
consistent but conservative. He is a member of the

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Baptist church, and honors his profession by an
upright and consistent walk.

He was first married in October, 1866, to Mary
F. McQL'i:b;y*, daughter of John W. McQuitty,
of Boone cflunty, Missouri. She died in March,
1869. He was married a second time in October,
1876, to Miss Hattie Smith, daughter of Elkanah
Smith, Esq., of Fulton, Callaway county, Missouri.

Mrs. Elliott is also a member of the Baptist church,-

a lady of fine literary attainments and superior intelli-
gence. Her brother, Rev. James Green Smith, was
one of the most prominent ministers of that denomi-
nation in Missouri.

JUDGE CHARLES JAMES HUGHES.

RICHMOND.

HARLES JAMES HUGHES was born near
C Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, June 27,
1822. His father, William Hughes, a well-to-do
Kentucky farmer, was a native of Culpepper county,

Virginia. He was a soldier under General St. Clair,

I and took part in the battle, near the present site of

Cincinnati, known as St. Clair’s defeat. He moved
to Missouri in 1827, and died on the old homestead
in Columbia, Boone county, in 1840. His mother’s
maiden name was Lucy Neal , she was also a Vir-
ginian from Fauquier county. She died in 1841.
Charles James was one of a family of nine chil-
dren——six sons and three daughters——of whom he and
the elder sister, Catherine, now the wife of Dr. A. M.

‘Robinson, of Clinton county, Laura, widow of the

late Dr. Sickels, of St. Louis, and the youngest broth-
er, Julius Coleman, who now resides in Colorado,
engaged in mining and trading, are the only survivors.

Judge Hughes received a good English educa-
tion, attending college at Columbia, Missouri, up to
the time of the founding of the Missouri State Uni-
versity at that place, when he began the study of law
with the late Hon. John B. Gordon, an eminent
lawyer of Columbia, and afterwards with Hon.
James Green, of Monticello, and in the fall of 1842
moved to Kingston, Caldwell county, and embarked
in his profession, acquiring a large and lucrative
practice, extending through all the courts of the 5th
Judicial Circuit, taking part in almost every case liti-
gated in his county.

The first office he held was that of county seat
commissioner, by appointment. In 1844 he was
elected to represent his county in the lower house,
and in 1846 was reelected, and again in 1848; but as

i the office was one more of service and honor than of

profit, and interfered materially with his practice, he
resigned and devoted himself diligently to his pro-
fession until 18 56, when he was again elected to fill
the same position, and served faithfully for another
two years.

In 1863 he moved to Richmond, Ray county;
declining to take the odious “test oath,” he was
debarred from practice until the supreme court
declared the same unconstitutional, and null and void.
During the intervening two years he was engaged,
part of the time in Kansas City, in the real estate
business. .

In May, 1867, he returned to Richmond and
resumed the practice of his profession. In 1871 he
was elected mayor of Richmond, and at the Novem-
ber election, 1872, was elected judge of the common
pleas court, and in 1874, that court being abolished,
he was elected judge of the county. and probate
courts, which office he now holds. He has held the
office of prosecuting attorney at various times during
his residence in Caldwell county.

He has always taken an active part in all educa-
tional matters, and warmly advocated the appropri-
ating of the proceeds of the government land grant
as a school fund, and was instrumental in passing an

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act to that effect. He is now secretary of the board
of school directors of his city, having in charge the
Richmond College. He has also taken a deep interest
in internal improvements, and used his influence in the
legislature by introducing a memorial on that subject,
believing that (as the sequel has shown) a system of
internal improvements, under prudent management,
would be of lasting benefit in developing the resources
of the state. He recommended the encouragement and
substantial aiding of the then untried project of the rail-
road now known as the H annibal & St. Joseph Railroad.

He is a man of temperate habits and a warm
advocate of the temperance cause. He is a member
in good standing of the Christian church. In poli-
tics he has always been a Democrat of the Jefferson
and Madison school, and, though very firm in his
convictions,. is conservative and liberal in his views
and acts toward others. He began life without
means and dependent upon his own exertions. This,
with liberality (which is one of his characteristics),
made him a valuable friend of the beginner, to
whom he has always been ready to lend a helping
hand. He has been liberal even to a fault, hardly
ever being able to say no to any charitable appeals,
and often went security for others when his own
judgment told him he would have the debt to pay,
and yet, in other matters, he is rather slow to make
up his mind, and when once a conclusion was arrived
at it was very seldom changed.

He was married, June 9, 1850, to Miss Serena
Catherine Pollard, a daughter of Captain William C.
Pollard, a farmer residing near Richmond, and who
was once a member of the Missouri legislature and
also commanded a company in General Richard
Gentry’s regiment in the Florida war; he was also in
the Black Hawk war. He subsequently died at his
home near Richmond. They have been blessed
with three sons and two daughters. The eldest son,
Charles James, jr., is a graduate of Richmond Col-
lege and had studied law, his chosen profession, but
for the purpose of fixing more permanently his lite-
rary acquirements, he accepted a position as professor
of mathematics in the Lexington College, which
position he now holds. He was married, September
I, 1874, to Miss Lucy Menafee, a daughter of the
late La Fayette L. Menafee, a highly respected Rich-
mond merchant. The eldest daughter, Margaret
Catherine, is also a graduate of Richmond College.
with her younger sister Luanna and two younger
brothers, William Pollard and John, all reside under
the parental roof.

The Judge is small of stature, his average we_ight
being only one hundred and eighteen pounds. He
is five feet eight and one-half inches in height, and,
although not strong, enjoys at present tolerably good
health. They live quietly at their beautiful home in
Richmond, surrounded by a happy family and all
the necessary comforts of life.

LUCIUS JUDSON.

SALEILI.

" UCIUS JUDSON was born July 4, 1843, in
L Albany, New York
known beyond his grandfather, John Judson, who
emigrated from Scotland to America, and settled in
Albany He died about the year 1836. His father,
Albert C. Judson, was born in Albany, about the
year 182:, and was a merchant of that city until his
death in 1851. His mother, Mary A. Hotchkiss,
died in 1849, aged about thirty years.

‘ Lucius Judson, until his father’s death, which
occurred when he was in the ninth year of his age,
attended the common schools of Albany. His uncle,
John Hotchkiss, a farmer and dairyman, living ten
miles from Albany, was appointed his guardian.

Of his ancestry little is '

Though he made his uncle’s house his home, he
boarded in the city and attended the normal school
of that place until he was fifteen years old. He
then entered the Albany Academy, which he
attended for three years, at the expiration of which
time he went to Fort Edward Institute until 1862,
graduating with honor.

Returning to Albany, he entered the law school
and remained there two terms, after which he read
law in the office of Hungerford & Hetaling, a well
known law firm of that place, for three years. After
a thorough and searching examination before the
court of appeals he was admitted to the bar. In the
fall of 1868 he emigrated to Missouri and located at

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Potosi, Washington county, and began the practice
of his profession. He, however, only remained there
two years and then transferred his business to. Salem,
Dent county, where he has since continued to pursue
his profession. In 1872 he was elected prosecuting
attorney of Dent county, an office to which he has

been elected twice since, and is now serving his third A

term. His practice has increased until he now coin-
mands an extensive business in Dent and adjoining
counties. His prominent characteristics are energy
and perseverence.
taking an active interest in current political events.
He has been a delegate to every state convention
since his location in Dent county; but has repeatedly
refused the nomination for representative, preferring
the practice of law to political office.

Politically he is a Democrat,

Religiously he inclines to the doctrines of the
Episcopal church, but is a member-of no denomina-
tion and is liberal toward all. He is a member of
the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and has
filled prominent positions in both orders.

He was married June 24, 1873, to Miss Mary A.
Love, daughter of W. R. and Sarah P. Love, of
Salem, by whom he has had two children, both of
whom are living.

Mr.’ Judson is a man of attractive manners and
social habits and has won many friends by his ability
and upright conduct. As a lawyer he is attentive to
his cases, examining the minutest points that may
present themselves in the final trial. This care has
made him successful and given him a fine reputation
at the bar.

HON. OSSAMUS HURT.

MARSHALL.

SSAMUS HURT was born November 15, 1812,
0 in Madison county, Virginia. His grand-pa-
rents, William and Sarah Hurt, were natives of Prince
William county, Virginia. His father was Joel Hurt
and his mother Nancy Smith, daughter of Thomas
and Sarah Smith.

Ossamus Hurt received such an education as is
usually obtained by fariner’s sons in the country
schools. Leaving Madison county he went to Fau-_
quier and engaged in business with John G. Beal,
where he remained six years. In November, 1839,
he emigrated to Missouri and was employed in
overseeing the farm of Dr. John Sappington and_that
of Gov. M. M. Marmaduke, in Saline county, for
about nine years. In I848 he took the farm on
which he now resides, twelve miles nearly south of
Marshall. The farm is a large and valuable one,
over which Mr. Hurt looks with pride, and which he
cultivates with taste, judgment and energy.

He is president of the Saline County Bank, and
a director in the Brownsville Savings and the Pettis
County Loan and Savings Banks, and one of the
original stockholders in the First National Bank of
Sedalia. Dr. John Sappington devised by will a
large fund to the amount of $20,000 to be devoted to
the education of indigent boys and girls in Saline
county. Over this fund, to superintend its manage-

ment and distribution, he appointed the following
trustees: E. D. Sappington, William B. Sappington,
Claiborn F. Jackson, Dr. William Price, ex—Governor
M. M. Marmaduke, John W. Bryant, R. E. Mc-
Daniel, John Tench, William" A. Lacy, William 
Brown and Ossamus Hurt. Of these trustees only
Ossamus Hurt, William B. Sappington, John W. Bry-
ant and William J. Brown survive. The fund has
been so managed as to do a large amount of good
and yet nearly to have doubled itself.

Mr. Hurt is a Free Mason in full fellowship and ‘

good standing.’ He is a Democrat of the Jacksonian

- school, having cast his first vote for Democratic nom-

inees.
He has been twice married, his first wife having
been Miss Sarah Bussy, daughter of Henry Bussy,

_of F auquier county, Virginia, to whom he was mar-

ried April 14, 1837. She was born in 1823, and
died January 26, 1849, in the twenty-seventh year of
her age. Her mother was a Miss Fletcher. By this
marriage Mr. Hurt had six children : Sarah A., born
March 13, 1838, in Virginia, married Richard W.
Nichols, of Glasgow, Missouri; Susan J., born Au-
gust 11, 1840, married Tasso D. Potter, of Saline

county, Mary Ellen, born April 10, 1843, married’

M. G. Brown, of Saline county, Virginia Mildred,
born August 22, 1845, and died in infancy , William

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H., born October 21, 1847; John Sappington, born
January 15, 1849, and died in infancy. His second
wife, whom he married March 24, I851, was Miss
Mary VV. Harris, of Saline county, Missouri. She
was born in Kentucky in 1826., Her father, Captain
Nathan Harris, resided in Saline county and died at
the residence of Mr. Hurt, in 1859 or 1860, and was
buried on his own homestead.

By this second mar- l

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riage three children were born : Eliza M., born Janu-
ary 9, 1852, died while attending Christian College,
at Columbia, Missouri, in the fifteenth year of her
age, Andrew Jackson, born December 18, 1854,
Minnie Lee, born September 15, 1864. The first
Mrs. Hurt lived and died in the faith of the Baptist
church. The present Mrs. Hurt is a member of the
Christian church.

RICHARD P. GILES.

SHELBIN A.

ICHARD P. GILES was born June 20, 1846,
R in Hardin county, Kentucky. His father,
Granville T. Giles, was a native of Wythe county,
Virginia, and followed through life the profession of
medicine. He settled in 1848 in Monroe county,
Missouri, and afterwards located at Palmyra, Marion
county. His mother, whose maiden name was
Rosanna Duncan, was a native of Kentucky, a
daughter of Housen Duncan, farmer.

Richard P. Giles was reared on the family farm
in Monroe county, Missouri. His early literary
education was liberal and obtained at St. Paul’s Col-
lege, Palmyra. He began reading law in 1866 at
Palmyra, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in

February, 1868. He entered the same year on the
practice of his profession at St. Joseph, where as a
practicing attorney he resided until 1871. At that
time he located at Palmyra, and in 1873 he removed
to Shelbina, where as a prominent attorney he has
since resided. He has never sought or held office
of a political character, but has devoted his entire
attention and energies to his profession.

In politics he is remarkable as a firm and consis-
tent Democrat. In religion he is a member of the
Methodist church (South). He was married in 1869
to Miss Annie Logan, a native of Cooke county,
W estVirginia, and daughter of John Logan, merchant,
and an early settler of Marion county, Missouri.

ASHER GOSLIN, M. D.

OREGON.

_SHER GOSLIN was born in Clermont
A county, Ohio, February 24, 1830. His father,
Nathaniel Goslin, was a farmer of Ohio. His moth-
er’s maiden name was Amy Cox. She was a native
of New Jersey.

He received the advantage of a liberal education.
In 18 52 he entered_the high school at Felicity, Cler-
mont county, which he attended until 1854, when he
entered Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio,
then under the presidency of the celebrated Horace
Mann. At the end of two years he left this institu-
tion and began the study of medicine at Felicity,

Ohio. During the winters of 1857, ’58 and ’59 he
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attended medical lectures at Ohio Medical College,
Cincinnati, from which he graduated in the spring of
1859 with the degree of M. D. He then entered
upon the practice of his profession in Felicity, and,
in the same year, moved to Carmi, White county,
Illinois, and was there, in the practice of his profes-
sion, at the breaking out of the Rebellion. In Sep-
tember, 1861, he enlisted in the Union army, and
served as captain of Company H in the 48th Illinois
infantry, till April, 1862. After the battle of Shiloh
he was promoted to the rank of surgeon of the regi-
ment, filling the position till October 30, 1864, the
expiration of the term for which he had enlisted.

648 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

He then secured the appointment of acting staff J

surgeon, and had charge of the I 5th army corps hos-
pital till the close of the war in 1865. From June,
1865, to May, 1869, he practiced medicine at Olney,
Illinois. In June, 1869, he moved to Missouri,
and located in his present home in Oregon, Holt
county, where he is now engaged in the practice of
medicine, and where he enjoys the reputation of an
able surgeon and accomplished physician. During
his army practice he performed successfully some of
the most difficult and complicated surgical opera-
tions on record, and he now ranks confessedly among
the leading practitioners of Northwest Missouri.

In politics he is a Republican. He is a member
of the Masonic Order and Odd Fellows’ society.
He was made a Master Mason, in Felicity, Ohio, in

1857.

never united with any religious organization.

He was married, September 4, 1855, to Miss
Sarah A. Quinn, daughter of Isaiah Quinn, of Felic-
ity, Ohio. By this marriage he has one child, a
daughter.

Dr. Goslin has ever manifested a lively interest
in the educational affairs of the county. The estab-
lishment at Oregon of the Northwest Missouri Nor-
mal School was due, in a great measure, to his
enthusiastic and vigorous efforts in behalf of that
object. A

Physically, he is six feet one inch in height and
weighs one "hundred and seventy pounds. He is a
man of pleasant address, gentlemanly manners and
cultivated taste.

J. WADE GARDNER, M. D.

OSCEOLA.

N the latter part of the last century the‘grand-
I father of our subject emigrated from Scotland to
America, settling in Virginia, where he was a farmer
until his death. His son, Robert F. Gardner, was
born August 7, 1805, in Campbell county, Virginia,
located in Marshall county, Tennessee, in 1838, and
in 1841 settled in St. Clair county, Missouri, where
he engaged in farming and stock raising until he was
fifty—six years old, when he died, October, 1861.

J. Wade Gardner, the eldest of five children
of Robert T. and Susan B. (Beck) Gardner, was born
in Marshall county, Tennessee, May 10, 1839, and
when but two years old was brought by his parents
to St. Clair county, where they gave him his early
education in the schools of Osceola. In his eight-
eenth year he began the study of medicine under
Dr. G. W. Dorrell, with whom he remained three
years. In 1859 be located in Dallas, Texas, but
remaining only a short time, he returned to Mis-
souri and entered upon the practice of medicine and
connected with it the drug business, in Wellsville,
Dade county.

At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he
removed to Neosho and remained in charge of a
hospital under‘ General Rains’ command, until Jan-
uary, 1862, when he went to Arkansas. The fol-
lowing June, on his return to Pineville, McDonald

county, Missouri, he was taken prisoner, but was
released upon taking the oath of allegiance to the
United States government, and in July,
returned to Osceola. He remained on his father’s
farm, practicing medicine in the neighborhood,
until the fall of 1864, when he moved to St. Louis,
but only stayed there one year, when he returned
to Osceola and was appointed a deputy clerk,
which position he held until January I, 1867.
From that time until January 1, 1871, he en-
gaged in the real estate agency and mercantile
business, and also practiced his profession. He was
then reappointed deputy clerk and held the position
six months, when he was obliged to resign, having
on the 1st day of July, 1871, established the Osage
Valley, a Democratic paper, the duties of his new
calling demanding all his time. But in a short time
he disposed of his newspaper office and again turned
his attention to the real estate business in connection
with the practice of medicine, which he has contin-
ued to the present time.
physician.

Dr. Gardner is a Democrat and has always taken
an active part in politics. In 1860 he was appointed
elector on the Bell and Everett presidential ticket,
and in 1864 to the same position on the McClellan
ticket. During Governor Brown’s administration

Protestant in his religious views, he has

1862,

In 1876 he was the county .

THE UNITED STATES BZOGIBAPIJIC/11. DICTIO./VARY. 649

he was elected clerk of the senate committee on
apportionment, or redistricting the state into repre-
sentative, senatorial and congressional districts. He
was a delegate to the Democratic state conventions
of 1862, 1873 and 1874, and has also held various
positions of importance in his county. The Doctor
took a very active part in opposing the payment of
county bonds issued for railroad purposes, in advance
of the completion of the roads 3 he has also taken a
leading part in the endeavor to compromise the

county indebtedness for the encouragement of immi-
gration.

He is liberal in his religious views, and is a mem-
ber of Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. 47, of the
Masonic fraternity.

September 7, 1859, Dr. Gardner was married to
Miss Mary R. Devin, daughter of Judge \/Villiam R.
and Rebecca (Oliver) Devin, of Polk county, Mis-
souri, but originally from Virginia. By her he has
one child, Rosanna, born June 21, 1867.

JOHN M. GORDON.

ZWEXZCO.

born March 27, 1828, in Boone county. His

parents, George W. and Elisabeth Dabney (Mau-
pin) Gordon, emigrated from Madison county, Ken-
tucky, and located in Columbia, Boone county, in
1819, and there the subject of this sketch was reared.
By occupation his father was a blacksmith and car-
riage maker, and was a first class workman. He
was also a soldier in the Black Hawk War. His

JOHN M. GORDON, a native Missourian, was

niaternal grandfather, John Maupin, was also an

early settler of Missouri, coming in 1820, and set-
tling in Boone county. Young Gordon was educated
at the Missouri State University, from which he grad-
uated in 1849, after which he went over the plains to
California and engaged in mining for two years. He
returned to Missouri, and in 1852 began to read law
in his native county, and two years after was admit-
ted to the bar at Columbia.

In 1855 he removed to Mexico, where he has
since been actively engaged in the practice of his
profession. He has been mayor and city attorney
of Mexico several terms, and has done much to add
to its beauty and attractiveness.

He was elected prosecuting attorney of Audrian
county in 1874, and was reelected in 1876. He
served both times with great credit to himself and to
the satisfaction of the people. He acted with the
Kentucky Whigs until the dissolution of that party,
and has since been a firm Democrat.

In 1858 he married Miss Bettie Luckie, of
Audrian county, Missouri, a lady of education and
accomplishments. Mr. Gordon has ever made the
best of his advantages, and left no opportunity for
advancement unimproved. He stands well among
professionals, and has the esteem of all with whom
he comes in contact.

AMBROSE D. CHRISTY.

U./VZOZVVZLLE.

MBROSE D. CHRISTY was born October

20, 1824, in Fleming county, Kentucky. His
father, Joseph K. Christy, was born in Fauquier
county, Virginia, and was the son of James Christy,
a captain in the Revolutionary army, and a Virginia
planter; followed agricultural pursuits and located
in Linn county, Missouri, in 1853, and was a soldier

of the war of 1812. His mother was Ann B. Cros-

-thwait, a daughter of William Crosthwait, merchant

and planter of Albemarle county, Virginia, where
she was born. _

Ambrose D. Christy received the ordinary com-
mon school education common to boys who are
reared on the farm. He had no advantages of col-

650

legiate training, and is substantially self-educated.
He commenced reading law in 1848, in the office of
Colonel Thomas Throop, in Flemingsburg, Ken-i
tucky and was admitted to the bar at Linneus,
Missouri, in 1856, where hehad located. He imme-
diately began the practice in Linneus, which he
pursued there for sixteen years. In 1872 he moved
to Unionville, Putnam county, where he still resides,
actively engaged in the laborious duties of his pro-

fession.

In 1862 he enlisted as a private soldier in Com-
pany K, 1st Cavalry regiment, Missouri State
militia. He was in the service, doing duty only in
Missouri, until 1863. He was promoted" to be 1st
lieutenant shortly after enlistment, and participated

THE UNITED STATES B10013/IPIIICAL IDZCTZO./VARY.

in several memorable engagements and skirmishes.

In politics he was an old line Whig until the
dissolution of that party. His first vote for presi-
dent was cast for Zachary Taylor in 1848, and his
last before the civil war for Bell and Everett in 1860.
He is at present a Republican, and as such was
elected to" represent Putnam county in the Missouri
Legislature in 1876. Hisreligious views accord
with those promulgated by the Christian church of
which he is a member. ,

He was married in 1850 to Miss Ruth A. Wells,
a native of Henry county, Virginia, and daughter
of Edmund P. Wells, a farmer, who emigrated
from Virginia, and located in St. Charles county,
Missouri, in the early settlement of that county.

ARCI-IIBALD VIGO MCKEE.

TROY.

RCHIBALD v. MCKEE was born in Cynthi-
ana, Harrison county, Kentucky, November

6, 1831. His father, Archibald McKee, was a
native of Albermarle county, Virginia. His‘ 1noth—
er’s maiden name was Lillie McClure. She was

born in Albermarle county, Virginia, and was a
daughter of Nathaniel McClure, an early settler of
Boone county, Kentucky.

The subject of this memoir was educated at Han-
over College, Indiana, and graduated in 1852, after
which he entered the law school of the Bloomington
University of Indiana, and graduated in 1853. The

following year he located at Troy, Lincoln county, 

Missouri, and began the practice of his profession.

. which position he held for three years.

Mr. McKee has always been very much devoted to
his chosen life work, and has declined public offices
but has a few times been pressed into service. In
1854 he was appointed by the county court of Lin-
coln county to the office of school commissioner,
He was also
a member of the Constitutional Convention of .87 5.
Politically he is a Democrat, and during the Rebel-
lion was a Southern man in sympathy .and prin-
ciples

In his religious views he is a Presbyterian.

July 18, 1863, he married Miss Clara Wheeler,
of Troy, Missouri, a daughter of Captain Otis

, Wheeler of the regular army.

ANDREW JACKSON HUNTER.

BOLT!’/AR.

est of the six children of Reuben W. Hunter
and Lucinda Gaffe, and was born in Sumner county,
Tennessee, June 19, 1846. His grandfather, Isaac
Hunter, was a Tennessee farmer, and died in the
beginning of the present century. His father, Reu-

A NDREW JACKSON HUNTER isthe young-

ben W. Hunter, also a native of Sumner county, was
born August 3, I800, removed to Polk county, Mis-
souri, in 1852, and resided there until September,
1863, when he was killed by unknown parties during
the war. He was a farmer, and highly respected
for his Christian character.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIi’APIIICAI, DICTIONARY. 651

Until 1863 young Andrew attended the public
schools of Polk county, but in that year he enlisted in
Company H, 18th Regiment Iowa volunteer infantry,
which was stationed at Springfield, Missouri. Shortly
after enlistment he was detailed as order clerk on
the staff of General Sanborn, where he remained
until discharged in July, 186 5. Locating at Spring-
field, he acted as clerk in the postoffice and in dry
goods stores for one year, when he returned to Polk
county and began teaching school. In 1869 he
went to Bolivar and for five months attended the
Bolivar Academy. Quitting the school, he became
first a clerk and afterwards a partner in a dry goods
establishment of that place.

At the November election of 1870 he was elected

recorder of deeds and served a term of four years.
In the fall of 1874 he was elected clerk of the circuit
court, and has faithfully discharged the duties of that
office since January 1, 1875.

He is an active and hard—working politician, and
advocates the principles of the Democratic party.
He was a delegate to the congressional conventions
of 1872 and 1876. He is in religion a Baptist and
a worthy member of that Christian body, and also of
the Masonic fraternity.

He was married, June 5, 1870, to Miss Sallie
Long, daughter of Noah Long and Nancy Sebrel,
of Polk count-y, Missouri, formerly of Mason county,
Virginia, by whom he has had four children, three
of whom are living.

IOSEPH BARR MORRISON, M. D.

MAR YVILLE.

18, 1835, at Coleraine, Lancaster county, Penn-

slyvania. His father, Alexander W. Morrison,
was a farmer and a man of great influence in the
neighborhood. He was a strong man—strong phys-
ically, strong mentally, and strong morally and
religiously. He was an elder in the Presbyterian
church for forty years, and was of Scotch—Irish
descent. His grandfather, Gabriel Morrison, was a
surveyor in Central Pennsylvania. His great—grand—
father, Alexander Morrison, was a farmer in Cole-
raine township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
His great—great-grandfather, Gabriel Morrison, came

JOSEPH BARR MORRISON was born January

to this country from the north of Ireland in or about.

1740. His ancestors were originally from Scotland
—they were of the “Covenantersof Scotland.”
He was of a wealthy family, but his eldest brother at
his father’s death inherited nearly all the property,
by the law of primogeniture. _

His paternal grand—mother was a daughter of
Thomas and Martha (Guthrie) Love, of Chester
county, Pennsylvania. His great-grandmother was
Prudence Gamble, of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
His .mother’s name was Margaret McCalmant——
now written McCommon—daughter of James Mc-
Calmant, son of .Samuel McCalmant, who came to
America from the north of Ireland at an early day.
His ancestors were originally Scotch and in religious

belief Presbyterians. His maternal grandfather,
James McCalmant, was a farmer and a man of influ-
ence, and was universally respected and honored.
His maternal grandmother’s name was Elizabeth
Patterson, daughter of John Patterson and Peggy
McElhenney, who came from the north of -Ireland.
His father was born December 2, 1796, and died
September 8, 1872. His mother was born Novem-
ber 7, 1801, and is still living in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania They were married November 27,
1823, and had eight "children, of which Joseph was
the fifth.

Joseph was educated at public and private
schools and at academies: Unionville Academy,
Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1851-2 ; Newark
Academy, Delaware, in 1854-5, and Coatesville
Academy, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1855-6,
and assisted in teaching at the same time. He stud-
ied the branches usually taught in academies, and in

‘ Latin and Greek was regarded as very apt, as he

was in all his other studies, ‘especially excelling in
Greek, principally because he was very fond of the
study. He always has had a very great fondness
for learning and has not yet lost that fondness. He
indulges still in the pleasures of science and meta-
physics, and occasionally lectures on some such sub-
ject. He has furnished many valuable articles for
medical societies and journals.

652 THE UJVITED STATES BIOGZBAPTZICAL DICTIO./VAZBY.

His experiences in early life were those of a far-
mer’s boy, whose- parents were good, kind, and
withal strict Presbyterians. He was of a meditative
disposition, though he possessed that characteristic
fondness for fun that belongs to the Scotch-Irish.
He had no fondness, however, for vicious fun or
habits. After leaving school he taught several ses-
sions in public schools.

He was at home until he was fourteen, when he
went to live with his brother—in-law, Vincent King,
at Deer Creek Forge, Harford county, Maryland,
where he staid until April, 1851, when he returned
home and that fall attended the Unionville Academy.
He began the study of medicine in April, 1858,
with James P. Andrews, M. D., of Oak Hill, Lan-
caster county, Pennsylvania. He attended Jefferson
Medical College in the fall of 18 59 and again in the
fall of 1860, and graduated March 9, 1861. He
practiced medicine in Martic township, Lancaster
county, during the first year after graduating.

In June, 1862, he was examined by Dr. Gross’
examining board in Philadelphia for the position of
acting assistant surgeon, United States army, and
was recommended to the surgeon-general by the

board for such position, which was given him June

27, 1862. He was stationed at Columbian College
Hospital, on Meridian Hill, at Washington, where
he remained until August 31, 1863. In January,
I86 3 he was examined by the army examining board,
of which Meredith Clymer was president, for the
position of assistant surgeon United States volun-
teers, and was commissioned as such in February,
1863. He was promoted to full surgeon United
States volunteers, by President Lincoln, June 29,
1863, and August 31, 1863, left Washington for
South Carolina, sailing from New York city Septem-

ber rst on board the steamer Arago for Hilton Head,

where he arrived on the 4th. He was sent by the
medical director to Folly Island, near Charleston,
where Gillmore was battering the forts, and was made
surgeon-in-chief of Vogdes’ division of troops. He
went to jacksonville, Florida, in April, after a leave

of absence, where he joined the division again. '

Near the last of April he came up to Virginia with
Vogdes’ division of the Ioth corps, and was in the
“Army of the james” until the close of the war.
He was at Cold Harbor with the 18th (Baldy Smith’s)

-corps, and was in front of Petersburg and at the bat-
tleof Fort Harrison September 29, 1864.

He was
again in front of Petersburg at the time of its cap-
ture, April 2, I865. At that time he was medical

director of the 24th (Gibbon’s) corps. He was
at Appomatox Court House April 9, 1865, and was
medical director of the 24th corps from February
I0, 1865, until the last of july, when the corps was
disbanded. He then went to Lynchburg, Virginia,
as surgeon-in-chief of the District of Southwest Vir-
ginia, where he remained until February 2, 1866.,
when he was honorably discharged. The duty of
receiving the hospital stores of Lee’s army, of dis-
posing of his sick and wounded, ' and of carrying out
the" details of the surrender, so far as they pertained
to the medical department, fell upon him after the
second or third day, because the 24th corps was left
until the 14th of April to carry out the details of the
transaction. His “ Report” of this campaign to
the surgeon-general is published in the Medical and
Surgical History of the War, medical volume, page
222 appendix.

Dr. Morrison never sought nor held public office.
He joined the “Military Order of the Loyal Legion”
of the United States—a society formed at the close
of the war, similar to the old “Society of the Cin-
cinnati,” which was formed after the “War of the
Revolution”—“Commandery of the State of New
York,” November 14, 1866. He joined the order
of Free and Accepted Masons in September, 1867,
and is now a member of Nodaway Lodge of Mary-
Ville. He is a member of the chapter at Savannah,
Andrew county, Missouri.

He was brought up in the Presbyterian church,
and became a member at Newark, Delaware.'—Val-
landigham pastor—-in November or December, 18 54.
He has always been an earnest supporter and defen-
der, to the best of his ability, of the Christian reli-
gion against all opposition, whether it be scientific,
so called, or metaphysical, or of some other form.
He is a lover of science, so far as science is reliable,
but takes no stock in the unsupported assertions of
men who can see nothing but a mass of matter that
has had no beginning, that cannot be either increased
or diminished, and that is indestructible. He holds
to the doctrine of the existence of spirit as well as
matter, and to the doctrine of “revelation,” and
claims that true science, instead of being in opposi-
tion to religion, supports and defends it.

He is now and always has been a Republican,
and cast his first vote for Fremont in 1856. He
has always been an anti-slavery man, though not an
abolitionist, a.nd believed that the North had no right
to interfere with slavery in the Southern states,
because it existed by virtue of local laws, but he

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was opposed to the institution on principle. He
was a Thaddeus Stevens man.

Dr. Morrison was married July 25, 1876, to Miss
Belle Pankey, of Maryville, Missouri, formerly of
Fayette, Howard county. She was the oldest child
of Thomas A. Pankey by his third wife, Belle M.
Farris, of Kentucky. She was educated at Howard
College, Fayette, where she stood first in her classes.

653

Thomas A. Pankey was born near Prince Edward’s
Court House, Virginia, and afterward moved to
Mississippi, where he owned a large plantation
He came to Howard county,
Missouri in 1856 or 1857. He was of English
descent and was a superior man. Dr. and Mrs.
Morrison have one child, a girl, born July 24,

1877.

and many slaves.

HON. JARED EBENEZER SMITH.

SPRINGFIELD.

ARED E. SMITH, a native of Maury county,
Tennessee, was born October 8, 1826. His
paternal grandparents were born in Virginia,

and at an early day of this country’s history removed
to North Carolina, where their son, William Porter
Smith, the father of the subject of this sketch, was
born, in 1806. They died there at a very advanced
age, the grandmother having lived ninety—three
years. His maternal grandparents, Jared and
Jane (Erwin) Patterson, were natives of Virginia,
and in that state their daughter, Christian, the
mother of Jared E. Smith, was born. Her parents
removed to North Carolina, and from thence to
Alabama, and subsequently located in Maury county,
Tennessee, where they lived to a ripe old age. The
mother was a cousin of Alexander Hamilton. Dur-
ing their stay in Alabama Fort Gaines was built
around their house, and General Jackson and officers
made it their headquarters.

» Young Smith received a common school educa-
tion and made the best of his advantages. When
sixteen years of age he engaged as a driver, getting
for his services six dollars per month. He assisted
his father on his farm and in the support of the
family, until his marriage, in 1846, to Miss Sarah
Roberta Mack, when he settled on a small farm a.nd
began business for himself, occasionally working at
the carpenter’s trade. In 1851, with his wife and
two children, he removed to Springfield, Missouri.
He farmed the first year and was for six years
engaged in house building and cabinet making. In
1858 he borrowed capital and constructed a planing
mill, grist mill, foundry and machine shop, in which
he used the first machinery propelled by steam in
the city of Springfield. He was prospering finely

\

in his new enterprise, when the Rebellion put,an
end to all business prosperity in the South.

Mr. Smith helped organize a company of Home
Guards, who were finally changed into United
States volunteers, and participated in the battle of
Wilson’s Creek, August ro, 1861. He was soon
after enrolled with the militia of the state, and made
captain of Company D, 72nd Regiment, and helped
in the defense of Springfield, when it was attacked
by General Marmaduke, January 8, 1863.

In 1862 he was elected representative from Greene
county, and served the people acceptably for a term
of two years. He was elected by the people as an
emancipationist, and did much to sustain that policy,
being among those who signed a declaration of the
principles of “equal rights.” In connection with
the duties of the last named office, he was deputy
United States collector. In 1864 he was elected on
the Republican state ticket as register of lands for
Missouri, which position he held four years. He
was also county treasurer of Greene county "for two
years.

In 1868 he formed a partnership with his son-in-
law, John R. Furgerson, and opened a drug store
in Springfield. This union continued five years,

.-when the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Smith

engaged in the crockery and queensware business,
in which he still continues. In 1876 he was again
called by the people of his county to represent them
in the state legislature, and during his term of office
was appointed by the citizens of Springfield as one
of a committee to organize a company and induce
capitalists to engage in building the Atlantic &
Pacific Railroad, now the St." Louis & California
Railroad. The success of the road was due in a

654 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

great measure to the energy and efficiency of the
committee. He is quite liberal in his religious belief,
and has done much to advance the cause of Chris-
tianity, and has been a member of the Christian
church for upward of thirty years. He was a Whig
until the dissolution of that party, since which time
he has been a staunch Republican.

Mr. Smith has a family of six children, Viz.:
Virginia Christian, Florence. Jane, Laura Jemima,
Narsasia, William Franklin and John Mack, all living

in Greene county, and all married except one.
Mr. Smith is a man of commanding appearance.
His intelligence, enterprise, integrity and many esti-
mable qualities, have acquired for him a popularity
not derived from any factitious circumstances, but a
permanent and sponta.neous tribute to his merit.
He is a gentleman of liberal impulses, public spirited

_ as a citizen, and conscientious as a man, and has

won the lasting respect of the community for his
blameless business and social life.

WELCOME A. BOTKIN.

KANSAS CITY.

MONG the men to whom belongs the merit of
building their own fortune, and who by their
own untiring perseverance have attained a compe-
tence that will allow them to follow such a course in
life as their tastes and inclinations may dictate, we
place the name of Welcome A. Botkin. He was
born April 8, 1839, in Clark county, Ohio, and is
the son of Charles and Dorcas (T uttle) Botkin, who
were natives of Virginia and immigrated to Ohio
when quite young. _

Welcome assisted his father on the farm and
attended the district school. ‘He improved his
meager educational advantages and at the age of
twenty began to teach. VHe was thus employed for
three years, when he went to Wooster, Ohio, and
engaged in merchandising. After a period of eight-
een months he sold his store in Wooster and returned
to his native county to resume school teaching. In
1867 he located in Baxter Springs, Kansas, and in
partnership with his brother opened a grocery store.
They continued in this business until the opening of
the First National Bank in 1871, in which he took a
large interest, and engaged as assistant cashier for a
short time, after which he was elected cashier.

In the meantime Mr. Botkin had become inter-
ested in Joplin, Missouri, and believing it to be a
better location for a bank than Baxter Springs, he
resigned his position as cashier of the First National
Bank of Baxter Springs, June 18, 187 3, and the fol»-
lowing day came to Joplin,-where, in company with
Messrs--E. R. Moffet and J. B. Sergeant, he opened
the Bank of Joplin of which he was cashier. He

held this position until April 24, 1874, when he
resigned

August I, 1874, in company with his partners in
the bank, he organized the Lone Elm Mining and
Smelting Company, each owning a one—third interest.
The company owns a large tract of the most valuable
mineral land in Jasper county. The business increased
so rapidly that it became necessary to have a railroad
to some good market, over which it could send its
minerals and get coal for fuel. Several unsuccessful
attempts had been made to organize a company to
build a road which would intersect some other, by
which Joplin could have the benefit of a good market.
This failing, the Lone Elm Mining company decided
to build a railroad of their own, and as Kansas City
was the most desirable point, they constructed their
road to Girard, Kansas—a distance of thirty-eight
miles—where they met the Missouri River, Ft. Scott
& Gulf railroad, thus affording them direct commu-
nication with Kansas City. _The Joplin railroad was
completed August 29, 1877, without the aid of city
or county, and_is now (1877) one of the most profit-
able roads in the West. The Joplin Coal and Mining
Company owns two thousand acres of land in Craw-
ford county, Kansas, on the Joplin railroad, on
which are extensive coal mines, under the control. of
the Lone Elm Mining and Smelting Company.

In February, I878, Mr. Botkin removed to Kan-
sas City. The Missouri Valley Bank of that city
that month increased its capital stock, and Mr.
Botkin purchased a heavy proportion of the shares.
He was elected cashier of the institution, which

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position’ he fills with ease and honor. Mr. Botkin
has never taken an active part in politics, but is
identified with the Republican party. He has never
permitted the use of his name in connection with
any office.

He was married September 26, 1872, to Miss
Cordelia Browne, of Kansas City, daughter of Richard

and Lumina Browne, an old family of that city,
now in California. Mr. Botkin is _a man of social,
genial disposition, well calculated to make and retain
friends. His life, while it presents few marked
novelties, shows a sturdy industry, a persevering
energy, and a crowning success that may be studied
with pleasure and profit.

COLONEL GEORGE SOLON RATHBUN.

LEXIIV G TOIV.

burgh, Ohio, on the 27th day of February, 182 9.
His parents names were George Steward Ratbbun
and Harriet (Warren) Rathbun. His mother was a
woman of remarkable intelligence and sprightliness.
She died when he was thirteen years of age. His
father, a farmer, still lives near East Cleveland.
After having received a fair academical educa-
tion and graduating at Bacon’s Commercial College
at Cincinnati, he entered upon the study of law. in
the office of Bishop & Baccus, who were at the time
prominent attorneys practicing their profession at
Cleveland, Ohio. Previous to completing his studies,
at the age of nineteen he removed to the state of
Missouri, residing for several years in St. Louis
county, when he removed to the county of Lafayette
and for a time engaged in teaching, having charge
of the Wellington Academy. And, in the meantime,
having thoroughly prepared himself for the practice
of his profession, on the 25th day of May, 1857,
was duly licensed by Judge Russell Hicks, of the
6th Judicial Circuit, as a practicing attorney, and
enrolled as a member of the Lexington bar, and
entered at once into a fair and profitable practice.
At the November election, 1860, as a candidate of
the Whig party‘ upon the Bell and Everett ticket, he
was elected to represent his county in the state legis-
lature, and in the deliberations of that body, which
met on the 2d of January following, he took a
decided and active part. Not being an original
secessionist, he advocated the doctrine that the state
legislature as a body had no power to sever the con-
nection of the state with the general government 3
but that this could only be done by the absolute
right of revolution, or by calling a convention which

should.reflect the will of the people, who alone had
83

’ I ‘HE subject of this sketch was born in New-

the right to modify or abolish the organic law of the
land; that the paramount authority was vested in
the people, that our government was Federal and
not National in its character 3 and that the same

power which brought the states into the Union and
adopted the Federal constitution had the right in con-
vention assembled to dissolve their connection with it,

and when they had seen fit to exercise that right as had
been done by South Carolina and the Gulf States, in

convention, the power of the general government
over them ceased to exist, and the president could

not lawfully call upon Missouri for volunteers to sup-
press the so-called Rebellion; and he therefore voted
and urged that not a single man should be furnished
to subjugate the Southern States. He supported the

measure calling for a border state convention and_
advocated all propositions that tended to avert the
calamities of a civil war. Fort Sumter soon fell, the
legislature re—convened in May, Camp Jackson was
surrounded by and surrendered to the Federal troops
under Lyon and Blair. This news created intense
excitement at Jefferson City; the military bill passed
both houses and the state swung out at once into the
vortex of civil war, and the subject of this sketch
received his commission from Governor Jackson as
Lieutenant-Colonel and Judge—Advocate of the 8th
Military District, including the border counties south
of the Missouri river, and immediately repaired to
Lexington to organize forces for the coming struggle.

In the latter part of June, after the skirmish at Little
Blue, having organized some two regiments of
infantry and cavalry, the command under General
Rains took up its march for the south-western por-

tion of the state to concentrate its forces and for’

drill and discipline. It encountered on its march Gen-
eral Sigel, near Carthage, and fought the first

656 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

important battle west of the Mississippi river, which
resulted in the rout of Sigel and a decisive victory
for the state troops. Halting on Cow Skin Prairie,
the men drilled hard and by rigid discipline prepared
for the coming struggle with General Lyon, whoiwith
Sturgis and Sigel now occupied Springfield. Gen-
eral McCullough, with the Arkansas and Texas
troops and a Louisiana regiment, moved up from the
Cherokee Nation the last of July, and uniting with
the Missourians moved forward, camping on Wil-
son’s Creek, twelve miles from Springfield. The
8th Military District at this time had as many men
organized in the field as all the rest of the state, and
this division was under the command of Brigadier-
General Rains as district commander, and the judge-
advocate in this and all subsequent engagements
of the state troops acted as aid—de-camp. Rains’
forces were camped at the foot of and upon what
was afterward called “ Bloody Hill,” and on the 9th
of August the entire command was supplied with
from twenty to thirty rounds of ‘ ammunition and
orders given to break camp at nine o’clock and
march on Springfield in three columns. A sudden

storm occasioned the recalling of the order, and the

men slept upon their arms. In the meantime the
Federals had adopted a similar course, and having
marched all night, on the morning of the Ioth sur-
rounded the state troops on three sides of their
camp, General Lyon moving directly with the main
force upon Bloody Hill, the possession of which
would give him the key to the entire position.
Rains’ forces were speedily formed in line of battle
along the crest of the hill, and his aide sent to Gen-
eral McCullough informing him of the approach of
the entire Federal army, infantry, cavalry and artil-
lery, and asking that Colonel Weightman and Bled-
soe’s battery should be at once sent to strengthen his
position. , The reply was for Rains to hold his posi-
tion at all hazards, and that support would be sent in
ample time. Sigel’s guns soon opened on the oppo-
site side, throwing shot and shell through the camp,
and in a short time the battle was raging on all sides;
for six hours, with but occasional lulls, there was an
incessant war of musketry, which, after the over-
throw of Sigel, finally culminated upon and around
Bloody Hill. Lyon pressed his troops steadily for-
ward, riding first a gray and then a bay horse, both
of which were shot under him, and he finally fell
upon the crest of the hill pierced through the breast
with a rifle ball, not more than twenty-five steps
from Rains’ headquarter tents that had remained

standing during the entire battle. The Federal
command now broke into rapid retreat, leaving their
dead commander and killed and Wounded upon the
field. A

In this brief sketch it is impossible even to men-
tion the services rendered and the campaigns par-
ticipated in from the beginning to the close of the
War. The first military courts-martial held west of
the Mississippi river was conducted by him as judge-
advocate, and. in this capacity he prepared charges

‘and specifications and conducted the most important

courts—martial held in the district, and in the dis-
charge of these duties the innocent and those who
had been guilty of a technical violation of the rules
of war only, were protected, while the deserter and
they who had openly violated military law were rig-
idly prosecuted. He actively participated in the
siege of and battle at Lexington, and rendered efficient
service in the re—organization of the army at Boston
Mountains, and in its advance to Pea Ridge, and at
Elk Horn Tavern was present upon the field and
participated with the Missouri troops in all the vicis-
situdes of that memorable engagement. He coin-
manded the advance at the battle of Prairie Grove,
was present at Lone Jack and carried out with him
from that expedition one hundred and fifty well
armed and well mounted men, who went into the
command then organizing as Shelby’s Brigade. He
participated in the fight at Granby and Newtonia,
and also upon the expedition to. Cape Girardeau,
commanding the rear from Bloomfield to the cross-
ing of Saint Francis river, repulsing repeated attacks
made upon it, participated in the unfortunate and
ill timed expedition to Helena, was at Bayou Metoe,
and after the fall of Little Rock, while at General
Parson’s headquarters below Shreveport, Louisiana,
had the pleasure of Witnessing General Dick Taylor’s
magnificent charge of cavalry upon the advance of
General Banks’ army, which resulted in the capture
of some three thousand men, two hundred ambu-
lances, three hundred wagons, forty pieces of artil-
lery, a large quantity of arms and munitions of war,
and the complete route and overthrow of an entire
division of his army.

In August, 1864, it having been determined to
invade Missouri, a company of officers and men
numbering about one hundred, were sent into the
state in advance of Price’s command to ‘penetrate to
the western border and concentrate all the irregular
troops and volunt_eers to join the regular forces upon
their arrival. Of this company Colonel Rathbun

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was chosen commander, and starting out upon the
march from Batcsville, Arkansas, entered the state
near West Plains, and passing through Texas county
entered Laclede, and when near Lebanon, while
passing through a skirt of timber, the command was
suddenly attacked upon the rear and flank by a
large force of Federals who poured a galling fire into
their ranks, killing one man, wounding severely
several others, and disabling some six or eight horses.
The company at once formed into line, the attack-
ing force were charged, routed, and driven back into
Lebanon, leaving eleven men_killed and wounded
upon the line of retreat 3 and from this point to the
crossing of the Osage river, near Warsaw, was one
continued surprise to the home guards stationed
through the county, who were captured in squads
and companies, about one hundred of whom were

paroled and turned loose at the crossing of the river. I

Passing on without interruption through Henry and
Johnson counties, Lafayette county was reached,
Lexington menaced, the Federal forces there sta-
tioned crossed the river, and the city formally sur-
rendered and was occupied by the Confederates some
three weeks before Price’s arrival. Then followed
the battles of Westport and the retreat southward,
which, after leaving Missouri, became the march of
a disorganized rabble, without order, without com-
missary stores, and without any fixed purpose, except
to get -through the wild Indian country if possible
into Southern Arkansas and Texas. Horses,mules and
wagons were abandoned and the line of retreat was
marked with desolation, starvation and ruin. Col-
onel Rathbun in this last raid carried out with him
his wife and two boys, aged at the time five and six
years.
journey remarkably well, and upon reaching Boggy

They stood the fatigue and danger of the .

Depot in advance of the army were kindly cared for
by General Cooper, who shared with them his com-
missary stores of sugar, coffee, flour, etc., which was
a most timely supply and fully appreciated by
them. I

Thus ended the campaign. He remained at

. Arkadelphia until the year following the close of the

war, when he returned with his family (bringing with
him an Arkansian) to Lexington, and as soon as per-
mitted by the iron-clad oath resumed his profession
of the law. Enrolled as an attorney of the United
States district and circuit courts, and of the supreme
court of the state, he has successfully defended in
these courts some of the most important bond cases
of his own and adjacentcounties. As attorney and
director of the Lexington & St. Louis Railroad Com-
pany he aided materially to the successful completion
of that road, and secured its first lease to the Mis-
souri Pacific. His general practice at the bar has
been extensive in both civil and criminal cases. He
has defended many men for the highest offenses
known to the law of the-state with almost unvarying
success. He is a thorough ‘student, a fair, logical
and forcible speaker, and as a jury lawyer has but
few superiors. He is an obliging, courteous, and
affable gentleman, true as steel to his friends and
prompt and reliable in all his business relations.

He is an Odd Fellow in good standing and a
member of the Christian church.

He was married July 4, 1858, to Miss Dicie Jen-
nie Dean, daughter of Jesse Dean, Esq., of Lafayette
county, formerly from Carrollton, Kentucky, by’
whom he has had six children, all living, the four
eldest being sons and the two others little girls,
six and nine respectively, all born in Lafayette
except one son, Willie, in Arkansas.

R. E. TURNER.

57: _/OSEPH.

ICHARD EDWARD TURNER was born at
‘ Culpepper Court House, Virginia, August 25,

. 1830. His parents were Zephaniah and Susan (Tutt),

Turner, who were married at Culpepper Court House,
December 19, I816. The father of Zephaniah Turner
was a colonel in the Revolutionary army, and he him-
self was a United States soldier in the war of 1812.

Young Richard quit the public schools of Ohio
and Missouri at the age of thirteen and completed
his education as best he could in the active pursuits‘
of life. At fourteen he was a clerk in the store of
James A. Tutt, at Millersburg, Missouri, and in
1848 he took charge of the mercantile house of T.
P. Bell, in Cooper county, which he conducted with

658 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIEAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

success for some time, then engaged with a whole-
sale and retail dry goods firm at Boonville, Missouri.
In the spring of 1850 Mr. Turner accepted a
situation as book-keeper for Abram Nave, at Savan-
nah, Missouri. I

In 1851 Mr. Turner Went to Salt Lake City with
a stock of goods owned by Mr. Nave and himself,
and spent the winter of 1851-2 at that place. He
then found it necessary to exchange the merchandise
of which he had charge for horses, cattle and mules,
and with these he went to California and disposed of
the live stock profitably, returning to Savannah in
November,- 1852, via the Isthmus of Panama and
New Orleans. ' In 1854 Mr. Nave and partner sent
Mr. Turner to California in charge of a second expe-
dition. The outfit was composed of thirty men, six-
teen wagons, fifty horses and mules and seven hun-
dred steers, which he safely conducted to the ranch
on Sacramento river, and in the fall of 18 54 returned
to Savannah by way of the Isthmus of Nicaragua
and New York.

On the rst day of January, 1855, Mr. Turner
formed a partnership with Mr. Abram Nave and
James McCord to conduc.t, under his management, a
retail store at Oregon, Missouri. The venture
was successful. In 1858 they removed the stock
to Forest City, in the same state, where the busi-
ness was continued until 1860. In that year Mr.
Turner purchased the interest of his partners and
associated with himself Mr. H. L. Williams and
John M. Frazer, under the firm name of "Turner,

Frazer & Co. The new firm conducted the business
at the old stand until 1864, when they removed to
St. Joseph, Missouri, and established a wholesale
grocery house. Mr. Turner is still a partner in that
establishment, and Turner, Frazer & Co. are well and
favorably known throughout the South and West,
and after fourteen years existence rank A No. I in
commercial circles.

Richard E.Turner is preéminently a business man
—business is his life and pleasure. For twenty-two
years he has been driving on without intermission,
save one single week’s vacation. He has made
moderate gains annually, and that satisfied him ,
slowly but surely he has made his way to competency,
with the pleasing retrospection that it has been fairly
acquired. '

Mr. Turner has been a director in the Missouri
Valley Railroad Company, a director in the St.
Joseph & Denver City Railroad Company, vice-
president of the St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad
Company, and president of the Citizens’ Street Rail-
way of St. Joseph from its organization to the present
time. Every practical enterprise calculated to
enhance the interests of his city has found in him a
friend.

He has been a Mason for seventeen years 3 is a
member of the Missionary Baptist church 5 is a con-
servative Democrat and in favor of free trade and
specieipayments He is in good health, active, and
his future life promises much of good to himself and
society.

HON. WILLIAM HENRY CHILES.

LEXIN G T OIV .

M. H. CHILES, the older of the two sons
\/ of Colonel Henry C. and Maria (Wilson)
Chiles, was born November 4, 1841, in Paris, Ken-
tucky. He is a descendant of an old Virginia fam-
ily and his paternal grandfather was an early settler
of Kentucky.

In 1847 his father, who was a merchant in Paris,
Kentucky, removed to Estill Springs, Kentucky,
where he remained for several years as one of the
proprietors of that popular resort. In 1855 he
returned to Paris, and in the summer of 18 58 removed
to Lafayette county, Missouri where he engaged in

farming and where he still (I878) resides. Mrs.
Maria Chiles died in Paris in 1846 beloved‘ and
lamented by a large circle of friends.

Mr. Chiles had excellent educational advantages,
attended the preparatory department of Transylvania
University, Lexington, Kentucky, and took a partial
course at Bethany College, Virginia, in I86o—I, grad-
uating in Latin only. After the breaking out of the war
in the latter year he was obliged to leave school, and
for the succeeding eighteen months taught in Lexing-
ton, Missouri. In 1862 he commenced the study of
law with Hon. Henry C. Wallace——his present partner,

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and in May, I864,- was licensed by the circuit court,
and immediately commenced the practice of his pro-
fession In 1864 he visited St. Louis to look out a
suitable location for practice, but owing to the troub-
lous times, and meeting with no suitable opening, he
returned to Lexington. In February,
moved to Montana. Territory and located in Virginia-
City, where he pursued his profession until June,
1868. While there he was city attorney for some
time. In 1866 he was elected to the upper house of
the Montana legislature by the Democratic party,
and in 1867 was president of that body. On leaving
Montana he returned to Lexington, Missouri, and in
the fall of 1868 became associated with A. F. Alex-
ander, under the firm name of Alexander & Chiles,
continuing in this connection until the 1st of January,
1874, when the old firm was dissolved and he became
a member of the law firm of Wallace & Chiles.

In 1867 he was made a Master Mason in Mon-
tana Lodge No. 2, Virginia City, Montana, and is
now a Royal Arch Mason. His parents were me1n—
bers of the Christian church ; but his own tendencies
are towards the Episcopal doctrines, though he has
never joined any denomination. Mr. Chiles has
always been a Democrat, active, energetic and influ-
ential as a party worker.

At the solicitation of the centennial committee he
prepared a history of Lafayette county, as provided
for by the National Congress of I87 5, and read it at
at the one hundredth anniversary of the Union's
birth, in Lexington, July 4, 1876. The history was
widely published and praised. Printed copies were
deposited among the county and state archives, as
provided for in the Congressional resolution, and cop-
ies sent to different cyclopaedias and state libraries.
We give a synopsis as a brief history of that county:

“November 16, 1820, Lillard county was organ-
ized; but the name was changed to Lafayette in 182 5.
Gilead Rupe was the first settler, locating in 1819.
The first county seat was called Mt. Vernon, situated
on the Missouri bluffs between where now stands the
village of Berlin and the mouth of Tabo creek and
was the council grounds and trading point of the
Blackfeet, Mohawk and Pawnee Indians. The first
county court met there, in the house of Samuel Wat-
son, January 22, 1821, composed of Judges John
Stapp, John,Whitsett and James Lillard, under com-
mission of Governor Alexander McNair. Young
Ewing was clerk, Markham Fristoe was appointed
county collector and constable, and John Dustin was
first county surveyor. The first term of the circuit
court was held February 12, 1821, Judge David

Todd, with Hamilton R. Gamble, circuit attorney,
Young Ewing, clerk, and William R. Cole, sheriff.

1865 ~ he

The first steamboat on the Missouri to that point
arrived in 1820 or 1821. The first crop of hemp was
raised in 1819-20, and sold for seven dollars per
hundred—-a crop which has since been-the staple and
formed the wealth of the county, until the war of
1861-5 so changed the system of labor as to render
it unprofitable. “ Old Town” Lexington was laid
off in April 1822, by George A. Gordon, George
Houx and General James H. Graham, and sold by
James Bounds, John Dustin and James Lillard, coin-
missioners. There was then within two miles of that
point a Baptist log church; the nearest corn mill
was sixty miles, so that most of the meal used was
“ pounded” in exteinporized mills made of hollowed
logs and stones. The county seat was changed and
the first court held in Lexington February 3, 1823,
and the circuit court the following March. The
first church building was erected by the Presbyteri-
ans and Cumberland Presbyterians in 1827 or 1828.
Tennessee and Kentucky furnished the earlier set-
tlers. April 30, 1834, occurred the first and one of
the very few female criminal executions in this state,
that of Mary Andres, alias Mary Trumberg, for the
murder of her infant child. Dover was founded in
1836 and Wellington in 1837. In 1845 Lexington

‘ was incorporated, , the present court house being

built in 1847, and is deserving of great, credit for
her literary institutions.’ The county was in its
greatest prosperity when the war broke out in 1861.
Since the war the county has rapidly filled up and
has now very little open pasture, blue grass is now
the principal dependence of stock men. In 1868
the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad
junction was completed to the river bank opposite;
the Lexington & St. Joseph in 1869, the branch
railroad from Lexington to Sedalia in 1871, the
St. Louis, Kansas City & Wyandotte narrow gauge
railroad in 1876. The coal trade was fairly opened
in 1:87 5, and large shipments have since been regu-
larly made, one company selling $100,000 worth
annuaflyf’

Mr. Chiles was married September 29, 1868, to
Miss Mary D. Graves, daughter of David A. Graves,
of Lafayette county. She was a lady of remarkable
grace and beauty and one whose domestic virtues
cannot be surpassed. They have only one child,
a daughter named Maria W., born August 19,
1869.

In person Mr. Chiles is somewhat above the
medium height, of a slender frame and graceful
carriage. His features are prepossessing, yet lines
of thought upon his cheek and a forehead to some
extent enlarged by a slight inclination to baldness,
indicate the persistent efforts he has made in ren-
dering himself proficient in the profession he has
adopted. While a member of the legislature of
Montana his thorough knowledge of the common
law and of parliamentary usages contributed in no

- Tennessee.
Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri, and continued I

660 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

small degree in transforming the crude customs of a
community of western miners into a wholesome sys-
tem of legislative enactments. In many conven-
tions in which he has represented the people of
Lafayette county as a delegate, his experience,
quickness of perception and remarkable foresight
have been signally effective in the removal of obsta-
cles and in the facilitation of business. A mind well
cultivated and tastes fashioned in early youth by the
models of classical literature, and improved by an

_th_orough conversance with the choicest works of

English literature, have rendered him pleasing in

conversation and an agreeable companion, while his
amiability and natural sprightliness of disposition is
winning to strangers. In his speeches, his argu-

ments are clear and logical, his illustrations in good I

taste and well chosen, his conclusions impressive
and convincing. In his management of legal con-
troversies, his perfect familiarity with the principles
of the law of evidence, his energy and knowledge of
human nature frequently win success in cases involv-
ing serious doubt, and convince the minds of those
who know him that he possesses all the qualifications
of an accomplished and successful lawyer.

DR. WILLIAM H. TRIGG.

BOOIVVILILE.

HERE are few men of the present day whom
T the world acknowledges as successful, more
worthy of honorable» mention or whose life history
affords a better example of what may be accom-
plished by steady perseverance, energy and industry,
than the subject of our sketch.

William H. Trigg was born January 24, 1808, in
Wilson county, Tennessee. His father, Daniel
Trigg, a farmer in good circumstances, and his
mother, whose maiden ‘name was Nancy Hodge,
were of Scotch-Irish descent and of Presbyterian
faith. He received a good education at the schools
of the neighborhood. In those days what book
knowledge boys obtained was a few months schooling
in the winter of each year, spending the remainder
of the time in work upon the farm. After leaving
school he read medicine under the tuition of Dr.
Hodge, of Gallatin, Tennessee. Completing his
studies, he commenced practice, in 1831, in the
neighborhood of the old homestead in Wilson, after-
ward removing to Cainsville, in the same county.
From there he removed to Gallatin, Sumner county,
In February, 1834, he removed to

the practice of’ his profession for one year. ‘The
country was then new and sparsely settled, and find-
ing the arduous duties of a physician too laborious,
he gave up an increasingipractice and engaged in
mercantile pursuits with two gentlemen, the firm
being Boyer, Blythe & Trigg. They continued the
business in Boonville for two years, when the part-

nership was dissolved. He then connected himself

with his father-in—law, Mr. Jacob Wyan, in the same

business, the firm being Wyan & Trigg.

In 1835 he married Miss Sarah Gaines Wyan,
daughter of Jacob & Nancy Wyan, who were among
the first settlers in Boonville. A large portion of
Boonville is the addition made by Jacob Wyan in
the year 1840. Of this marriage were born four
children : three daughters and one son, all of whom
are now living, married and settled‘ in Boonville.
His grandchildren number eleven boys and two
girls. A fond and indulgent parent, it is a great
source of pleasure to the grandfather to have his
children settled around him. The names of his chil-
dren are: Josephine H., wife of John T. Pigott;
Juliet A., wife of William M. Johnson; Annie 
wife of William M. Lionberger, and William W.
Trigg, who, with Messrs. Pigott & Johnson, is asso-
ciated with him in business.

The death of Jacob ‘Wyan, in 1842, necessitated

the closing up of the business of Wyan & Trigg, he ‘

acting as executor of the estate. In 1847 he opened
the first bank in Boonville, and continued a general
banking business in his own name until 1858, when
he formed a banking association under the firm name
-of William H. Trigg &l'Co., composed of some of
the leading capitalists of the county, viz: James M.
Nelson, Joseph L. Stephens, Caleb Jones, John R.
French, A. S." & H. R. Walker, A. J. Read and
others. This association, after a prosperous career
of six years, mutually agreed to wind up its exten-

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sive business, as the storm of civil war was fast
unsettling all business interests.

In 1864 he removed with all his family to New
York state, and located in Cortland, "where he
opened a mercantile house in partnership with his
sons-in-law, John T. Pigott and William M. Johnson,
and his son, William W. Trigg, under the firm name
of William H. Trigg & Co. Their residence there
was for only one year, when they returned to Boon-
ville. He resumed the banking business under the
old firm name, and also associated with his sons-in-
law and son in the mercantile business, under the
name of W. M. Johnson & Co. The mercantile
business was discontinued in 1867, and the banking
business carried on until 187 5, when he closed the
exchange and banking part of his business and
opened a real estate and loan office, with a mercan-
tile establishment, under the old firm name of \V.
H. Trigg & Co., which still continues.

In all his varied business experience and difficul-
ties, through the panics that frequently affected very
seriously the business of the country, he never failed
to meet promptly every obligation. With a high
sense of honor and integrity, his word was as good
as his bond, and his motto: “Owe no man any-
thing.” For many years from its organization he

was one of the directors of the Central National_

Bank of Boonville. With almost every enterprise
tending to build up and improve the city of his
adoption, he has been connected, viz: A ferry across
the Missouri river at Boonville, the Boonville Build-
ing Association, the Central District Agricultural
Society, of which he was treasurer‘ as long as it
existed, and all railroad, manufacturing and school

‘enterprises. The building of the First Presbyterian

and Episcopal churches of Boonville was very mate-
rially and actively encouraged by’ him.

He is not a church member, yet a firm believer
in the gospel of Christ, liberal in support of the
ministry and all benevolent and charitable objects 3
having a high regard and respect for the word of
God; a man whose standard of honesty, morality
and justice is high. He is truly a self-made man,
as, solely relying upon his own industry and natural
resources, he has acquired a sufficiency of this
world’s goods, and has the pleasure of seeing his
family comfortably settled around him.

In politics he was a steadfast Whig so long as
that party existed, and was a great admirer of Henry
Clay. Since the demise of the old Whig party, he
has claimed no connection with any political organi-
zation. During the late war he took a decided
Union stand. Never ‘a Republican, never a Demo-
crat, he has acted with the conservative element in
politics since the war, voting for the best men to
administer the government honestly. Never an
office-seeker, he has sought prudently to administer
his own affairs and honestly discharge those trusts
confided to him. ‘

A life of sixty—nine years of integrity, energy and
temperance finds him still in active business. He
never used tobacco or ardent spirits, bathed regu-
larly winter and summer, and also abstained entirely
from tea, coffee and milk, until within the last few
years of his life. No man, perhaps, ever lived in
Central Missouri who has bought and sold as much
real estate as he. The conveyances, as appear on
the official records of Cooper, Saline, Pettis, Mor-
gan, and other counties of the state, will- attest this
fact.

JUDGE FREDERICK W. SMITH.

ST. ]0SEPH.

FREDERICK W. SMITH was born at Losheim,
Rhein, Prussia, October 3, 1815. But little
is known of his ancestors, he having emigrated to
this country at the age of eighteen, and come west
soon after his arrival in New York.

He received his early education in his native town
at a “canton schulen” (common school), and after-
wards entered a military academy where he was

engaged as civil engineer, and, as was the custom,
received regular wages. I

Landing in New York in the summer of 1833, he
remained there almost a year and removed from there
to New Orleans, where he was employed in a cotton
press. Soon after this owing to the breaking out of
the yellow fever in that city, he embarked on the
Mississippi river and came to St. Louis, where, soon

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after his arrival, he was appointed deputy city sur-
veyor for a term of years. In 1837 he left St. Louis
for Platte Purchase, and settled at Black Snake Hills
—the name by which the site of St. Joseph was for-
merly known. Here he engaged in farming and
surveying, having made the original maps of St.
Joseph and named it after the founder of the city,
Joseph Robideaux. Mr. Smith pre-empted one hun-
dred and sixty acres of the land upon which the city

I now stands, and which has been divided, subdivided

and sold at different times leaving his property scat-
tered, but of great value. ’ ~

In 1843 he was married to Jane Tolin, daughter
of Richard and Rebecca Tolin, of Davis county,
Missouri.
the real estate business in St. Joseph, a gentleman
of fine intellect and superior education, having for
the simple honor, taken a course at a medical col-
lege and graduated with honor, receiving a diploma,
although never intending to practice. His second

They have three children living—-a son in

son, Augustus M., is now attending the University
at St. Louis, a young man of energy and having a
great love of study. His daughter married John A.
Duncan of the firm of Duncan & Wyeth of Kansas
City, engaged in the wholesale hardware business.

Mr. Smith was captain of the militia for a num-
ber of years, and was afterwards made a major of the
state volunteers. He was appointed first postmaster
of the Black Snake Hills, and received at a later date
the first appointment of postmaster of St. Joseph,
which office he held under four different Presidents.
In I86r he was elected mayor of the city and filled
the position with honor to himself and to the satis-
faction of the public. His last office was that of
judge of Buchanan county court—his term ending in
1876. His many public offices of responsibility show
with what respect and trust he is held by the citizens
of St. Joseph. He is an adherent of the Catholic
religion ; in his political opinions an Old Line Whig
and at present a Republican.

WILLIAM J. STONE.

NEVADA.

‘HE Stone family were originally from England,
I emigrating and settling in the ancient colony
of Virginia, at Jamestown, at an early day. Three
generations of them have been born and reared in
the old commonwealth. The great-grandfather of
William J. Stone was born there, and was a soldier
in the Revolutionary army, and after the war a
farmer. The grandfather, John Stone, was born in
Culpepper county, of the same state, and with his
four brothers -emigrated to Madison county, Ken-
tucky, in the early part of the present century. He
was county surveyor for many years, and died in
1863, aged about ninety-four.

William Stone, father of our subject, was born in
Madison county, Kentucky, in 1813, and farmed
there until the breaking out of the war. He then
moved to Washington, Daviess county, Indiana,
remained there until 1871, when he settled in Waco,
Texas, where he still resides. William Stone mar-
ried Miss Mildred Phelps, who was born in Madison
county, Kentucky, and died in 1852 in about her
thirty-fifth year.

Their son, William J. Stone, was born May 7,

1846, in Madison county, Kentucky, and was the
youngest of four children. He worked on his father’s
farm and attended school until 1863, when he went
to live with his sister in Columbia, Boone county,
Missouri. There he enjoyed the advantages of the
State University for three years, and subsequently
received a thorough commercial education in Stew-
art’s Commercial College at St. Louis.

On his return to Columbia he entered the law
office of his brother-in—law, Squire Turner, remaining
there two years, when he was admitted to the bar.
Immediately thereafter he removed to Bedford, Law-
rence county, Indiana, and entered into partnership
with Judge A. B. Carleton. The firm of Carleton
& Stone continued but one year, and in 1870 Mr.
Stone settled in Nevada, Vernon county, Missouri,
and engaged in the practice of his profession. He
was prosecuting attorney for that county in 1872-3.
In the latter year he formed a partnership with C.
R. Scott, and the law firm of Scott & Stone still
exists.

In 1877 Mr. Stone purchased an interest in the
Vemmz Cozmiy Democrat, and has been one of its

_fession in Gloucester county.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 663

editors ever since. The Democratic party elected
him to the state conventions of 1872-74-76. In
1872 he was their delegate to the congressional con-
vention. In 1874 he was before the convention for
nomination as the candidate for congress, but after
the fiftieth ballot was defeated. In 1876 he was
elected presidential elector.

He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of
Pythias, and in religion a liberalist. He was married
April 2, 1874, to Miss Sarah Louise Winston, daugh-
ter of Colonel W. K. and Catharine Winston, of
Cole county, Missouri, which union has been blessed

by one interesting son, born January 15, 1875.
Mr. Stone’s characteristics are embraced in the
words simplicity and earnestness. Plain in dress

and manner, reserved in disposition, he is frank,‘

positive, direct in purpose and unyielding in his
advocacy of the right. As a lawyer he is studious,
as a practitioner careful and prudent, as an advocate
he is concise in statement, terse in argument, vehe-
ment in denunciation and eloquent in periods. He
is held in high esteem by the community in which
he lives, and his influence as a lawyer and a citizen,
already wide, is rapidly enlarging.

GENERAL WM. G. MINOR.

_fEFFERSO./V CITY.

ILLIAM G. MINOR was born in Freder-

 —\/ icksburg, Virginia, February 1, 1806. He
was among the first pupils of the University of Vir-
ginia, and having studied law with his father, Garrit
Minor, Esq., he commenced the practice of his pro-
He removed soon
afterward and continued the practice in Caroline
county, whence, in 1840, he removed to Missouri
and settled in Jefferson City. In 1842 he took an
active part in politics, and represented Cole county
in the house of representatives of that year. In
1849 he was appointed adjutant-general of the state,
and in 185o.he was appointed by the supreme court
United States Commissioner on -the part of Missouri

to run its northern boundary line, which was in dis-
pute with the state of Iowa.

He died in 1851, while in the discharge of his
duties as secretary of the state senate.

In 1839 he married Miss Ann French Rootes, in
Virginia, and had issue living at the time of his
death, two sons and one daughter. E .

General‘ Minor was foremost among the iéelles
Zeftres scholars of the state, and his frequent contri-
butions to the scholastic journals and reviews of the
country attest the depth and liveliness of his matured
and highly cultivated intellect. His pen was equally
admirable and pointed in political strife, and he has
left no enemies.

GENERAL JAMES L. MINOR.

fEFFERSO./V CITY.

Fredericksburg, Virginia, June '9, 1813. His

father was Garrit Minor, a lawyer 'of eminence,
a participant in the war of 1812, for many years a
delegate to the state legislature from Spottsylvania
county, mayor of the city of Fredericksburg, and
one of the presidential electors of the state when
Virginia, in 1824, voted for General Jackson. In

1803 he married Miss. Eliza McWilliams, only daugh-
84

JAMES L. MINOR was born in the town of

fresh from the laurels of Saratoga.

ter of Major William McWilliams, who served
during the war of the Revolution as aid to Lord
Stirling, and was greatly instrumental in detecting
and defeating the conspiracy, headed by Conway, to
supplant General Washington as commander-in-chief,
and to substitute, in his place, General Gates, then
Of this marriage
were born nine children, six sons and three daugh-
ters, all of whom married and had issue. Of these

664 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

children five survive at this date (1877). Their
parents died in 1832, the father in June and the
mother in August.

Young Minor was educated at the classical acad-
emy of his native town, and at the age of fifteen
was selected as the assistant teacher of the classics.
He studied law with his brother, General William G.
Minor, in Caroline county, Virginia, and finished
his law course with Judge John T. Lomax. In
1833-4 he taught school in the family of Captain
Reuben Grigsby, of Rockbridge county, Virginia,
in order to obtain the means to complete his legal
studies and to migrate westward. In 1835 ‘General
Jackson offered him the post of United States dis-

, trict attorney for the Southern district of _Florida,

which he declined.

In May, 1835, he landed in St. Louis, and in
June of that year commenced in Palmyra the prac-
tice of law, which he prosecuted until the fall of
1838, when he was elected secretary of the state
senate. In February, 1839, he was nominated by
Governor Boggs, and confirmed by the senate, as
secretary of state. This position he held continu-
ously until April, 1845. In April,‘ 1839, he became
adjutant-general, and in 1842 superintendent of pub-
lic schools.

In May, 1844, he was married to Miss Sallie C.
Goode, whose father had recently emigrated from
Amelia county, Virginia. She died in July, 1845,

in consequence of the birth of a daughter, named
in her honor, and who afterward, in 1863, married
Colonel Hamilton Gamble, eldest son of the gov-
ernor of the state. From this latter marriage was
an issue of three daughters, all living. Colonel
Gamble died in April, 1877. _

In "1846 General Minor married Mrs. Louisa M.
Smith, of Cole county, ,Missouri, his present wife.
Of this marriage three children were born, all of
whom died in infancy.

In 1845 he took leave of active public life and
devoted himself to the pursuit of agriculture, in the
cultivation of a large farm of the alluvial lands of
the Missouri river, and in the production of hemp
and tobacco he found occupation congenial and prof-
itable. While afarmer, however, he filled several
important trusts. He was twice curator of the State
University, a manager of the first State Lunatic Asy-
lum, and a member of the board of guardians. He
was also corresponding secretary of the agricultural
board, holding the state fairs at Boonville, in which
capacity he labored by speech and pen to elevate
the farmers as a class, to stimulate them to the
necessity of a higher knowledge of the principles of
their occupation, and to impress upon them the dig-
nity and importance of their profession.  He was
secretary of the Lodge of Grangers in Cole county.

General Minor took no part in the late war, and
has uniformly been a state—rights Democrat.

COLONEL WILLIAM PINCKNEY SHAW.

BR 0 W./VS VILLE.

‘ ‘ 7 ILLIAM PINCKNEY SHAVV was born July
26, 1826, near Murfreesborough, Bedford

county, Tennessee. His grandfather on his father’s
side, Christopher C. Shaw, was born in Ireland,
emigrated to America when quite a young man, took
part with the patriots in their struggle for freedom,
was made a captain in the Continental army, settled
in South Carolina at the close of the Revolution and
married Miss Mary M. Butler, a lady of Welsh
descent. His father, T. L. D. W. Shaw, was born
in South Carolina in 1799, moved to Tennessee with
his parents, who settled in Bedford county. His
mother, Elizabeth Cunningham, was the daughter
of Rev. Richard Cunningham, D. D., a Baptist

clergyman of distinction, who emigrated from Ireland
and settled in South Carolina, and married Margaret
Bagby,of South Carolina,who was of Scotch descent.

William P. Shaw emigrated to Missouri with his
parents, who settled in Ray county, in 1836. He
received such an education as the scant facilities of
the times afforded. Leaving his father at the age of
fifteen, he for three years traveled through the
Southern States, trading and dealing in stock. On
his return to Missouri, he settled in Howard county
and took charge of the plantation of David Perkins,
a Virginian, as overseer, where he was employed
three years. At the end of that time he served an
apprenticeship with James McCown, of Richmond,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIEY. 665

Missouri, in the carriage and wagon making business.
He had good taste for mechanical work, and at the
close of his apprenticeship, established himself at a
point in the eastern portion of Ray county, which
was for many years known as Shaw’s shop, but
which, having became a village, is now known as
Morton. Here he labored for several years, but
finally abandoned his shop and moved to a farm in
the same county.

In 1861 he joined the army of General Price,
and was acting quartermaster of Reeves’ regiment,
with the rank of colonel. After the battle of Lex-
ington and the reorganization of the army, he retired
from the service, returned to his farm in Ray county
and engaged in the breeding and sale of fine stock,
Fort Leavenworth being one of his principal points
of sale. In 1867 he laid out the town of Hardin,
Ray county, on the North Missouri Railroad, and
built a hotel, which he kept for five years. In 1872
he sold out his possessions in Hardin and removed
to Sweet Springs, near Brownsville, Saline county,
where he has since resided. He was a contractor
on the Lexington branch of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad. He has been instrumental in developing
Sweet Springs, deals in real estate and is a prominent
auctioneer. He was one of the commissioners to
treat with the Indians of Nebraska for the purchase
of that territory, and accompanied the Indian chiefs
on their visit to Washington to complete the negotia-
tions. ' He is the only surviving member of the com-
mission that made the treaty. Politically Colonel Shaw
was an old line Whig, until the death of his party, and
now acts with the Democrats. In religion he is

a member of the Methodist Episcopal church
(South). .

He was married August 26, 1847, to Miss Julia
A. Waterman, of Ray county, Missouri. Her father
was a member of George Bryant’s colony, that emi-
grated to and settled in Ray county in 1840, but
died soon after his removal to Missouri. She was
born in Buffalo, New York, May 17, 1830. Her
father was of English, and her mother of Scotch
descent. On the death of her father, her mother
moved to Lexington, Missouri, where she was edu-
cated. She died December I4, 1875, and was
buried in Brownsville cemetery. They had six chil-
dren: Robert S., born in December, 1851, now in the
lumber and grain business in Savannah, Missouri,
Sarah Pinckney, born in December, 1850, married
James Field, of Higginsville, Lafayette county,
William Lucian, born February 29, 1853, is agent
and operator at Phelps, Missouri, on the St. Joseph,
Kansas City & Council Bluffs Railroad ; Belle, born
May, 1855, married L. J. McConnell, of Browns-
ville, Reuby Elizabeth, I born in July, 7, 1857,
Columbus P., born in September 15, 1859, is a
telegraph operator on the Saint Joseph, Kansas
City & Council Bluffs Railroad, at Phelps. The
children seem to have inherited the energy and busi-
ness tact of their father, and by their sobriety, indus-
try and prompt attention to business, have secured
situations in youth that other and more experienced
men have failed to attain. Colonel Shaw united
with the Methodist Episcopal church (South) in
September, 1861, and since then has been an active
laborer in the Sunday school cause.

DANIEL PRICE BELCHER.

GREENWOOD.

ANIEL PRICE BELCHER was born July
D 13, 1823, in Lee county, Virginia. His
father, Andrew Belcher, was born in T azewell coun-
ty, Virginia, in 1797, was educated in the common
schools 3 married Miss Nancy Price, who was born in
Russell county in 1797, and was the daughter of Dan-
iel Price, a farmer, born in 176 5, a soldier of the war
of 1812 and his brother a member of Congress
from his district. His grandfather, John Belcher
was a native of Virginia, but of English descent.

When Daniel was nine years old his father immi-
grated to Knox county, Tennessee, where he remain-
ed one year. In 1833 he moved to Jackson county,
Missouri, and settled four miles east of Indepen-
dence, where he resided for three years. He then
moved to the Little Blue river, twelve miles south
of Independence, and remained there five years.
In 1841 he moved to Cass county, near the Jackson
county line, one mile south of Greenwood and six
miles northwest of Pleasant Hill, where he still

666 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

resides. What education Daniel P. Belcher received
was derived from the common schools of Jackson
county. He is, and has been from his youth, a
farmer. His father and mother had ten children:
five sons——Daniel P., John M., George W., Andrew
J., and James Oliver——and five daughters—Jane L.,
Judith, Nancy E., Mary and Sarah. James O. died
in February, 1877, leaving a widow and seven
children. .

Daniel P. Belcher was married February I,
1844, to Miss Eliza Jane Flannery. She was born
in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1826. She was
the daughter of Silas Flannery, who was the son of
a Baptist clergyman in Virginia. Her mother was
Nancy Irwin. Mrs. Belcher died in 1851, leaving
three children: Elizabeth, born September 3, 1846,
married in the fall of 1863, and died April 3, 1865;
William W. Belcher, born July 15, 1848, and Ange-
lina, born April 21, 1850. He was married to his
second wife, Elizabeth Snider, April 2o, 1852.
She was born in Kentucky in 1817 , her father was
a Baptist minister. To them was born a son, Elisha,

who died when six weeks old. Mrs. Belcher died April
17, 1853. He was married to his third wife, Sarah
Dame, December 12, 1854. She was born in Ten-
nessee in 1817 3 was reared by her sister, her mother
having died when she was an infant. She came
with her sister to Missouri, in 1839, from Tennessee.
Her father was David Dame, a native of Germany.
By this last marriage Mr. Belcher has two children:

James Madison, born September 7, 1856, and Mary‘

Jane, born March 29, 1859. Both he and she are
members of the ‘Missionary Baptist church, as are
also all of his children except one.

In politics he follows the example of his ances-

tors and votes with the Democratic party. He is
also a member of the Grange.
I His son, William W. Belcher, married Miss Anna
Poe, in the fall of 1868. His daughter, Angeline,
married Tony Hackler, of Torrent county, Texas,
in the fall of 1870.

Mr. Belcher is a man "highly esteemed-among his
neighbors for his liberality, uprightness and good
citizenship.

JAMES T. FARRIS.

STOCKTON.

I7, 1832, in Cooper county, Missouri. He is

the oldest of "four children born to Isaac D. Far-
ris and Francis 0. Bryan, who were married in
Cooper county, Missouri, in 1831. The Farris’fam-
ily is of Irish origin. Some time previous to the
Revolution, the ancestors of James T. Farris emi-
grated from Ireland and settled on the eastern shore
of Virginia, where his grandfather, James Farris,
was born. The latter removed to New Madrid
county in 1809. He lost most of his property by
the volcanic earthquake of 1811. He settled in
Cooper county, after locating a claim which he
received from Congress, that body having voted to
the sufferers patents to any portion of the public
lands in Missouri. He engaged in farming and
remained on his farm in Cooper county until his
death in 1843, aged about seventy-one years. He
was the father of eleven children, nine of Whom

JAMES THOMAS FARRIS was born February

grew to majority, and one of whom, Isaac D. Farris,’

born in New Madrid, October 23, 1811, was the

father of the subject of this biography. He resided
in Cooper county until 1844, when he settled in Sul-
livan county and engaged in agriculture. In 185 3
he removed to Chariton county, Missouri, where he
died in 18 54, in the forty-third year of his age. He

was a clergyman of the Baptist denomination and

for many years a justice of the peace, noted for his
Christian walk and conversation.

James T. Farris received a limited education in the
subscription schools of Cooper and Sullivan counties,
which he attended for two years, working on the farm
in the summer and occupying his leisure hours in the
improvement of his mind by study and reading by
the light of _a hickory bark fire. When nineteen
years of age, he went to Illinois where he employed
two years traveling, working on farms and gaining a
knowledge of the country and of the different
methods of agriculture. Returning to Missouri, he
taught a subscription school during the winter and
was employed on a farm during the balance of the
year. This he continued until 1855, when he

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI, DICTIONARY. 667

located in Linn county and began merchandising.
The panic of 1857 proved disastrous to him as well
as to thousands of others, and from that time till the
breaking out of the war he was engaged in no regu-
lar business.

On the 14th of August, 1862,. he enlisted as a
private in Company I, 33d Regular Missouri
Infantry. He was afterward promoted to the posi-
tion of sergeant and took part in the campaigns of
Southern Missouri and Arkansas, serving until May
21, I864. Sickness, occasioned by exposure in the

, swamps around Helena, had rendered him unfit for

military duty and he was discharged. He returned
to Missouri and again took up his residence in Linn
county, teaching school until 1867, giving his leisure
hours to the study of law. In 1867 he moved to
Stockton, Cedar county, and opened an abstract and
real estate office. The following year he was elected
superintendent of common schools in Cedar county.
He was admitted to the bar in 1872, since which
time he has been in the practice of law, continuing
his real estate business. In 1877 he entered into
partnership with W. H. Sherman, the firm of Farris
& Sherman having complete abstracts of title to all
lands in Cedar county.

In political sentiment he was originally a Whig, ,

but on the demise of that party he allied himself
with the Republicans. In 1870 he joined the Lib-

eral Republicans, but since then, preferring the

Democratic to the Radical Republican party, he has
voted with the Democrats. In 1869 he was a dele-
gate to the congressional convention where the first
Liberal movement was made. He was a delegate to
the Liberal Republican state convention in 1872, and
in 1876 a delegate to the state convention that
selected delegates to the National convention. Dur-
ing the 26th General Assembly he was sergeant at
arms in the state senate, and was for two years chair-
man of the Cedar county Democratic executive
committee.

,In religious affairs he is liberal.

He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the
Odd Fellows’ fraternity.

He was married October 30, 1852, to Miss Har-
riet W. Bradley, daughter of Thomas Bradley and
Margaret Waggoner, of Macon county, Missouri, by

» whom he had one child, since dead. They sepa-

rated in 1854. On the 8th of March, 1862, he
was married to Miss Nancy C. Moore, daughter of
Squire Moore and Celia Curtis, of Linn county,
Missouri, by whom he has had six children, all of
whom are still living.

CALEB WINFREY, M. D.

PLEASANT IIILL.

ALEB WINFREY was born December 8, 1823,
C in Surry county, North Carolina. His grand-
father, Caleb Winfrey, was born in Virginia in 1742,
and moved to Surry county, North Carolina, and
died there in 1833, aged ninety-one years; he had
four sons, Isaac, Thomas, John, and Caleb, of whom
Isaac and John died young, leaving no families,
Caleb resides in Cherokee county, North Carolina,
and Thomas, the father of the subject of this sketch,
died in Surry county in 1840, aged forty-five years.

Caleb Winfrey received instruction in the com-
mon schools of his native state, and taught school
at the age of sixteen in Surry county. He moved
to Missouri in the summer of 1842, located in How-
ard county and commenced teaching school. In
the spring of 1843 he moved to Lafayette county,
and while teaching near Chapel Hill began the study

of medicine with Dr. Thomas E. Wilcox, of Lexing-

ton. He thus continued teaching and studying dur-

ing the years I843—4—5. In the fall of the latter
year, he attended medical lectures at the St. Louis
University, medical department. He graduated,
with twelve others, in March, 1847, and immediately
moved to the vicinity of Lone Jack, Jackson county,
and began the two-fold business of practicing medi-
cine and farming. He sold goods at Lone Jack,
also, from 1851 till 1861, when the destructive effects
of the war closed his business career as a merchant.
In the latter year he entered the army as surgeon in
the Missouri state guard, and engaged in the
battle of W ilson’s Creek (where he took part as a sol-
dier during the fight), and of Lexington. He
entered the regular Confederate army as a private
soldier in July, 1862, and was elected captain of

668 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAEY.

Company C, 3d Regiment Missouri cavalry, which
Colonel Upton Hays commanded. He led his com-
pany in the battle of Lone Jack, August I 6, I 862, losing
nearly one-fourth of his men in the battle. At one
time the enemy was intrenched in his residence,
which, though repulsed several times, he finally
charged, drove the enemy out and held the position.
After this battle the colonel appointed him surgeon
of the regiment, a position he held during the bal-
ance of the He was present at the second
battle at Springfield, Missouri, fought January, 8,
1862, Generals John S. Marmaduke and Joseph O.
Shelby commanding, at the battles of Newtonia
and Cane Hill, in September, and of Prairie
Grove, in December of that year, at the battles of
Champion Hill a.nd Big Black in the state of Mis-
sissippi, fought May 15 and I6, and of Vicksburg
in July, 1863, when the latter post, was sur-
rendered, and he was sent to the parole camp
of Demopolis, Alabama. In October of that year
he was permitted by General Joseph E. Johnston
to rejoin his command, and he crossed the Mis-
sissippi forty miles below Vicksburg, by the aid
of a servant and skiff, and rejoined General Price
near Camden, Arkansas, in December. In the
spring of 1864 he was assistant surgeon in all the
battles around Camden, and in the fall took part

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in General Price’s Missouri raid, going as far as
Kansas City. At a point seven miles north of that
place, he was detailed to take charge of the wounded
and bury the dead, in October, 1864, and subse-
quently took the wounded into Kansas City. On
the 12th of April, 1865, he left on a steamer for St.
Louis, intending to rejoin his command, but on
reaching that city he learned that General Lee had
surrendered, and gave up the idea, surrendering to
the military authorities at that point. He then went
to Pleasant Hill, Cass county, where he now resides,
although his family remained two years longer in St.
Louis.

He was married June 27, 1847, to Miss E. A.
Shore, of Lafayette county, Missouri, born Septem-
ber 24, 1831. They have had five children: Jose-
phine, born February 27, 1849; Napoleon B., born
December 19, 1852, Ida, born September 21, 1845,
died in St. Louis and was buried in Bellefontaine
Cemetery, Isaac Anna, born August 13, I859;
Caleb H., born January 26, 1862. Isaac Anna died
November 8, 1875, and is buried at Pleasant Hill.
He has supported every Democratic candidate for
the presidency from President Polk down. He
united with the Baptist church in Buchanan county,
Missouri, in 1843, and has ever since been a consis-
tent member.

BENJAMIN MCLEAN.

KANSAS CITY.

ENJAMIN MCLEAN was born January Io,
B 1828, near Ottawa, Canada, of Scotch and
English parentage. His grandfather was a native
born Scotchman, but removed early in life to Ire-
land, where he taught school for several years, and
where his son James, Benjamin’s father, was born in
1790. James immigrated to Canada in 1822 and
for many years was engaged in farming, and in iner-
cantile business at Ottawa and Richmond. He
was a good substantial business man, accumulating
considerableproperty and was well known as a promi-
nent and influential citizen. He died at Richmond
in 1876. His marriage with Miss Mary Pierson
occurred in 1820. She was of English descent and
a lady possessed of much strength and force of

character. They had a family of eight children,
six of whom are still living.

Benjamin received a good common school edu-
cation at the schools in Ottawa and Richmond. His
father then gave him the choice of learning a trade
or taking a collegiate course of study and preparing
himself for the legal profession. He chose the
former, and while in his seventeenth year engaged
to work in a harness and leather store, where he con-
tinued for three years, learning all branches of the
trade, and by doing much extra work was enabled
to accumulate about three hundred dollars in money,
which he almost entirely lost, having left it with his
employer, who failed in business just before the
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another party engaged in the same business for six
months, after which he went, in the spring of 1848,
to Buffalo, New York, where he found employment
in making collars and saddles. Being a rapid work-
man he earned from fifteen to twenty dollars per
week, and after remaining here eighteen months,
working hard and saving his money, he went to
Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New York, where he
opened a harness shop and commenced business for
himself. By his industry, economy and strict atten-
tion to business he secured a good trade, and in
about three years accumulated three thousand dollars.

In November, 1853, he married Miss Ellen Rum-
sey, daughter of Colonel Calvin Rumsey, a highly
esteemed citizen of Randolph, who was widely
known and prominent both in business and politics.
Colonel Rumsey had established a tannery a few
years previous, which received his personal attention
and was a prosperous business. After his death,
which occurred in the spring of 1854, Mr. McLean
took charge of the tannery, his previous experience
and business qualifications making him highly com-
petent to do so. He sold out his harness and sad-
dle trade two years after, but continued in the tan-
ning business until I86I, when the tannery was com-
pletely’ destroyed by fire. Having but little insurance
the loss was great, including nearly all that he had
gained by a successful business during several of the
best years of his life.

From the time he first went to Cattaraugus
county he had taken an active part in politics. He
had assisted in organizing the Republican party of
that county, and was for several years a member of
its board of supervisors. He had been a delegate to
a number of its congressional conventions, and was
intimately acquainted and associated with the leading
politicians of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.

In the fall of 1861 he was nominated and elected .

sheriff of Cattaraugus county, and moving to Ellicotts-
ville, the county seat, held the position three years.
By saving his salary and by some profitable specula-
tions in real estate he again accumulated considerable
means.’

In the spring of 1865 he went to the oil regions
and was engaged with others for about nine months
at Pit Hole, in putting down oil wells. In this ope-
ration he made some money, but seeing many others
meet with heavy loss, concluded it was risky business
and abandoning it returned to Ellicottsville. He
then decided to try his fortunes in the West, his
object being to embark in the hide and leather trade

and to select a town or city that would combine for
shipping both railroad and river facilities. Mrs.
McLean approving and being in hearty sympathy
with her husband in such an undertaking, gave him
much assistance in obtaining information of the
western courtry. They thoroughly studied its geog-
raphy, having access to the original survey of Mis-
souri and Kansas, and from all that they could learn
of climate, soil and natural advantages, were
impressed that Kansas City, Missouri, was the most
favorable locality and would be the future great city
of the West. Mr. McLean went there in January,
1866, for the purpose of seeing and making a per-
sonal examination of the country, and having his
previous opinion completely confirmed, he immedi-
ately returned, and after making the necessary
arrangements removed there with his family the
March following. He first bought for a residence a
house near the corner of Wyandotte and Ninth
streets, and for his place of business rented the store
room on the ‘southeast corner of Thirteenth and
Grand avenue, and two years later he built the brick
building on the opposite corner, which is now but a
branch of the main business house, a large and
commodious brick building on the corner of Tenth
and Hickory streets, West Kansas. He brought
with him ample means and soon built up a large
trade in hides, wool, tallow and furs, sending agents
to the Indian Territory, Colorado, New Mexico,
Kansas, and some parts of Missouri. Having an
extensive acquaintance and many personal friends
among tanners in the Eastern states, and being well
known in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other
large cities, he,foundg ready sale for all he bought,
and frequently had standing orders for nearly all his
goods- He did a business the first year of two
hundred thousand dollars, and some years since it
has aggregated an amount of nearly one million.
He now has branch houses in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, Garland and Pueblo, Colorado.

. Mr. ‘McLean is one of the most thorough, ener-
getic and successful of the business men of Kansas
City, and in every respect the architect of his own
fortune, being a Worker and confining his attention
strictly to business, superintending it almost in detail.

‘He has always been a Republican in political faith,

and although he had taken but little interest in
Kansas City politics, was induced by a large number
of its citizens to allow his name to be used in the
Republican convention for mayor in 1874. He was
unanimously nominated and supported by alarge

67O TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

majority of the business ‘men without regard to
party, receiving at the election the highest number
of votes ever before given to a Republican candi-
date, the city being largely Democratic.

In personal appearance Mr. McLean is strongly
built’, of medium height, and possessed of strong
powers of endurance. He has always been quite
temperate, and enjoys a good degree of health. He
has a clear and observing mind and a large share of
that valuable commodity, “good commonsense.”
He is a prudent, cautious and safe financier, taking
but few risks and making a success in most of his
business operations. He is prompt and decisive in
action and prosecutes with vigor whatever he under-
takes. He has a wide range of general and practi-
cal information, isquite a reader and his travels
have been considerable. He is genial and social in
disposition, devoted to his family and friends, and
quite liberal and charitable toward worthy objects.
He has bought and improved some fine business and
residence property in different parts of the city,
which he still owns. His present beautiful and
attractive place of residence, near the corner of
Tenth and Central streets, he has occupied since I 872.

Mrs. McLean’s parents were natives of Vermont,
as were her grandparents, David and Mary (Benson)
Rumsey. The Rumseys were of English origin.
David served his country through the war of the
Revolution, lived to be ninety-eight years of age,
dying in Chautauqua county,’ New York, and was
one of the last survivors of the Revolutionary soldiers.

His son Calvin was born in 1784. He held a
colonel’s commission in the war of 1812, removed
to Genesee county, New York, when about thirty
years old, and shortly after to Chautauqua county,
same state, Where he became widely known, having
established the first line of stage coaches running
West from Buffalo. He represented that county in
the legislature of the state, and was once elected to
Congress. '

In 1817 he married Miss Mary McWhorter. She was
of Scotch parentage, and is living with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Rumsey, at La Crosse, Wisconsin. She
has been a most_ devoted wife and mother, is now
eighty-four years of age, and possessed of unusual
vigor for one of her years. _

Mrs. McLean was the youngest child of Calvin
and Mary Rumsey, they having had eight children.
She was born November 22, 1829, is an educated
lady of great practical good sense and judgment,
prepossessing in appearance, artistic in taste, amia-
ble in disposition, and highly esteemed by all who
know her. She is an Episcopalian in religious faith,
being a member of Grace church and active in its
Christian and benevolent work.

Mr and Mrs. McLean have been blessed with
two children, now (1878) young ladies, educated
and accomplished. Clara, the eldest, graduated at
Supplee’s Seminary, Philadelphia. She possesses a
decided taste and ability for art, and has already
produced some fine paintings in oil. Jennie P. is a
graduate of Mrs. Reed’s Seminary, New York city.

CAPTAIN DANIEL H. MCINTYRE.

MEXICO.

ANIEL H. MCINTYRE was born May 5,
D 1833,, in Callaway county, Missouri. His
father, Charles Weaver McIntyre, was a native of
Fleming county, Kentucky, and immigrated to Mis-
souri in 1819, locating in Boone county, from Which
he removed to Callaway, and from thence to Audrian,
in which county he died in 187 5.
pation a farmer, and served as a soldier in the
“Black Hawk War.” His grandfather, Daniel Mc-
Intyre, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and
was a soldier of the war‘ of 1812. The mother of
the subject of our sketch was Margaret Harrison, of

He was by occu— I

Montgomery county, Virginia, daughter of Thomas
Harrison, a planter, who immigrated to Missouri in
182 5, locating in Callaway county, where he died.

I Daniel was educated at Westminster College,
graduating in 1861, just in time to catch the “war
fever,” for which there was no cure except a four
years’ term of hard service. He entered the Con-
federate army as Captain of the Callaway Guards,
of Colonel Burbridge’s Regiment, and remained on
duty until the close of the war, serving in several
regiments, and doing duty in Missouri, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Texas. He was an active partici-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 67]

pant in the battle of Wilson’s Creek, in which battle
he waswounded, as he also was in the raid of 1864.
He was taken prisoner in I861 and held for nine
months. At the termination of the war he returned
to Audrain county and gave his attention to farming.

In 1871 he began to read _law in Mexico, Mis-
souri, under the supervision of Governor Hardin,
and being admitted to the bar in the same year,
entered upon the practice of his profession in Mex-
ico, and has since resided there as a practicing
attorney. In 1872 he was elected prosecuting attor-
ney of Audrian county.

In 1874 he was the senator from the district
composed of Audrian, Boone and Callaway counties.

In 1876 he was elected representative from Audrian
As a member of the legislature he acted as
In politics

county.
chairman of the Judiciary committee.
he is a Del ‘.OCI‘3.t. ,

Captain McIntyre married Miss S. F. Simpson,
of Audrian county, in 1866, who has been a most
devoted helpmate. .

His entire career has been one of great activity,
and of benefit to his fellow citizens, who hold him
in high regard. He is a gentleman of cultivated
tastes and engaging mann_ers, and interests himself
in all the movements for intellectual and material
improvement of the people of the community in
which he resides.

RUDOLPH BIRCHER.

ST. [.0 UIS.

UDOLPH BIRCHER, son of Andrew and
Mary Bircher, was born in canton Aargon,
Switzerland, December 2 5, 1809, where his father was
an extensive wine grower. Rudolph attended school
in his native canton until he was sixteen years of age,
working at spare intervals between the age of eleven
and seventeen in the silk, cotton and broad cloth
factory. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the
8th Regiment Swiss Guards, Charles Tenth’s body

guard, which was_ stationed in Paris and Marseilles,

where it remained until after the revolution of 1830,
in which it took an active part, when it was sent
home, and young Bircher discharged. While in mil-
itary service, 1827, he joined the medical staff, grad-
uating in 1829, and serving as a medical officer
during the remainder of his term of enlistment. In
1831 he served three months as a volunteer in
the Switzerland militia, in the campaign against the
Jesuits, paticipating in several skirmishes with so
much credit that he was promoted “sergeant of the
battalion,” for meritorious services. At the close of
this campaign he returned home and engaged in
wine growing until 1832. In the spring of 1833 he
emigrated to the United States,'landin g in New York
City, June 25, and immediately proceeded to Cleve-
land where he took passage on the Ohio canal for
Portsmouth, Ohio. A broken aqueduct laid the boat
up at Circleville, and Mr. Bircher concluded to locate

temporarily in that place. He therefore opened a
85

Swiss barber shop and attended to such medical prac-
tice as he could secure; but his business was limited
owing to his inability to speak English. _
Having made good progress in the knowledge of
the English language, in 1835 he removed to St.
Louis where. he opened three barber shops, giving to
each his personal supervision; but especially occupy-
ing himself with the medical department of his busi-
He was the first
Having

ness—cupping and leeching.
person that imported leeches into St. Louis.
followed his occupation as a Swiss barber for ten
years, in 1845 he abandoned it and purchased a liv-
ery stable on Pine street between Third and Fourth,
which he kept for four years, when he sold the

ground to Mr. Bales of Cincinnati, who built a thea-.

ter upon it, which is still standing. ‘Mr. Bircher then
bought a farm of one hundred and seventy acres six
miles beyond the then city limits, and on which he
still resides. It was only partially cleared at that
time, and had one small log house upon it. Since
then it has been thoroughly improved; he has built
a fine stone residence for himself, a magnificent brick
for his son, besides several farm houses for his tenants.
But the city is fast encroaching upon his grounds and
before long it will be laid out into streets and cov_ered
with dwellings.

In 1871 he bought one hundred and thirty-five
feet on Chestnut street, corner of Sixth, adjoining
the Laclede hotel, upon which he built a large wing

672 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

for that house, making it one of the most imposing
structures in the West. The building was completed
August I, 1873, and opened to the public on the 16th
of the same month as the Laclede—Bircher Hotel.
The structure occupies the whole block on Chestnut
street between Fifth and Sixth, is six stories high,
and contains one hundred and fifty rooms. The main
entrance on Chestnut street is a fine portico with solid
pillars, leading into the rotunda with its tesselated
floor, in the rear of which is the office, bar and bil-
liard rooms of the house and the telegraph office.
The house is fitted up in first class style throughout,
elegantly-furnished and provided with all the modern
conveniences. The reception room has been pro-
nounced one of the most magnificent in the Union.
The dining room, forty by one hundred and ten feet,
is beautifully furnished, and has an orchestral gallery
that will accommodate fifty performers.

Mr. Bircher has now (1878) been successfully oper-
ating the hotel nearly two years. The house has al-
ready gained favor with the public until its reputation
is thoroughly established as one of the few really
good hotels on the continent. He gives his personal
supervision throughout the entire establishment, and
has demonstrated his ability to keep hotel. In other
ways Mr. Bircher has added greatly to the wealth and
commercial value of St. Louis. Besides this enter-
prise he has erected twenty-nine large buildings in
the city at an average cost of $600,000.

‘He has also evinced quite a military taste and
some military ability. Besides his military service in
Switzerland, he organized in 1842 the first regular
military company in the state of Missouri, was ten-
dered its command, but declined on account of busi-
ness, accepting the 1st lieutenantcy. In 1862 he
enlisted a company for the “Central Guard Regi-

ment” and served as its captain until the close of
the war.
Bircher has taken an active interest in her municipal
affairs—always ready to aid such enterprises as tended
to benefit the city, he has taken stock quite liberally
in railroads and plank-roads to connect the city with
other points, and sometimes to his own cost. He is
deeply interested in all matters of popular education
——-from 18 52 to 18 56 serving as school commissioner
from Central and Ferdinand townships, during which
time he built three fine school houses. In 1836 Mr.
Bircher was initiated into the Travelers’ Rest Lodge,
I. O. O. F., at St. Louis, and was the first candidate
initiated after the organization of the lodge.

In his religious sentiments, a liberal Protestant;
in his political views, a Benton Democrat before the
War, he has been a Republican ever since. He has
twice returned to Europe since leaving the hills and
valleys of his native Switzerland—the land so much
beloved. His first visit, of six months, was made in
1859, his second, of nine months, in 1866.

In 1830 he was married to Mary Ann Weile, a
native of his own canton, whose brother was a prom-
inent wine-grower there. The union was a happy one
and Mr. Bircher attributes much of his successto the
wise counsels of his beloved wife, who passed away

from earth on the 17th of April, 1878, after forty—eight

years of most delightful companionship with her now
disconsolate husband, leaving him sore-hearted, his
life empty and alone. Of their seven children, two
only are left. Mr. Bircher is a fine representative of
his race: hardy, determined, persevering, independ-
ent, noted equally for his courage,‘ thrift and econo-
my 3 and he has been perhaps as much indebted to
his affable manners, as to his shrewd business manage-
ment, for his prosperity in the country of his adoption.

E. T. KELLOGG.

KANSAS CITY.

N giving a history of the representative men of
I a place or period, representative ideas should
govern the selection. The so-called Turkish bath is
now one of the prime factors of our civilization.
“Cleanliness is next to godliness,” in more ways
than one. The domain of ignorance is governed by
the demon of dirt. The bath as a curative agent in

many conditions is fast superseding other agents of
the Ilfczlerzkz Medzka. It is called “Turkish,” but it
is more—it is Roman, Greek, Phoenician, Egyptian,
Chaldean, while we find traces of its history among
the legends of the pre-Aryan period and anterior to
the Braminical revolution of the East. Above all,
it is modern and scientific. Its highest develop-

Since making St. Louis his home, Mr.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 673

ment dates to within a period of thirty years, and
embracing Europe as well as America, its crowning
glory as a remedial agent is in Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1872 Dr. E. T. Kellogg started this bath in
Kansas City. The highest purpose then aimed at
was washing the skin, but Dr. Kellogg soon saw that,
while cleansing the circulation of impurities, and
thereby relieving many forms of disease, he had
under his control an agent of higher powers and
wider scope than a mere sudorific. He-made the
study of “high heat” the business of his life, and
we now see that the use of the bath of seven years
ago was but a prophecy of its present condition and
future usefulness. _ Knowing the action of all drugs
to be dynamic, he said “high heat” is dynamic, too 3
can I use it? Seven years ago, and the bath was
regulated to produce the sweating process only,
involving a temperature of from 90 to I 30 degrees
Fahrenheit, if diaphoresis was produced, the bath
had done all it was capable of doing. This is not
the condition now. Hahnemann and Priesznitz
have revolutionized medicine an_d founded systems.
Kellogg has done more, he has given to medicine
not a dogma but a fact! That fact consists in this:
that“ high heat,” from 130 to 250 degrees Fahren-
heit, under proper directions, has a specific curative
power of its own in the cure of disease, independ-
ent of cleansing, rubbing and washing, and depend-
ent solely upon the judicious application of “high
heat,” as indicated by pathological conditions. This

has been to Dr. Kellogg the study of years, and is
now being successfully evolved at his “Bath.”

This principle of the specific power of “high
heat” in the cure of disease was originated by Dr.
Kellogg, and is being introduced into all the baths
of the world as fast as people can understand and
apply it. Dr. Dio Lewis says: “ Dr. Kellogg under-
stands heat better, he uses it bolder and more suc-
cessfully in the cure of disease than any man now

living.” Dr. Kellogg first tried his new discovery

. upon cancer, and the success was so remarkable that

the rush of patients from all parts of the United

, States ruined his other business and prevented fur-

ther investigation. People did not care to be treated
for disease in company with cancer, and such patients
are not now received by him, while such diseases as
diabetes, Bright’s disease, lung difficulties, rheuma-
tism (acute and chronic), with the long list of blood
poisons, seem to yield to “ high heat” as if by magic.

Dr. Kellogg was born in Bethany, Pennsylvania,
in 1822. His maternal grandfather was the celebrated
Judge Woodward, of that state. When seven-
teen years of age he emigrated on foot to Wisconsin,
where he resided till he came to Kansas City, in
1872.

Much of his success is due to his wife, Mrs.
Hettie Kellogg, in charge of the ladies’ department,
who is fully alive to the fact that her husband’s dis-
covery will go down to posterity, and by which only
can his biography be written.

HON. JAMES E. MCHENRY.

_/EFFERSO./V CITY.

AMES E. MCHENRY was born May 18, 1836,

in Jefferson City, Missouri. His father, James

B. McHenry, removed to Jefferson City in 1825,
and engaged in building. In 1838 he was one of the
contractors for the erection of the state house. He
married Miss Sidney R. Edgar, by whom he has ten
children. She is a native of Russellville, Kentucky.
James E. McHenry was educated at the schools

of Jefferson City until fifteen years of age, when he
entered the office of the Méz‘mpoZz'z‘a;z and began to
learn the business of a printer. The paper was at
that time under the editorial control of Hon. Hamp-
ton L. Boone, well known throughout Missouri as-an

able and efficient editor. He remained in the office
two years, after which he was appointed chief clerk in
the office of Hon. Allen P. Richardson, state register
of lands, with whom he remained till the close of his
term of office. In I 854 he was appointed chief clerk in
the office of Hon. John M. Richardson, secretary of
State. In 1856 his health gave way under too close
application to his labors, and he accepted a position
as clerk on a Missouri river steamer. In this capacity
he served two years, and then reéntered the office
of the register of lands and devoted a part of his
time to the study of law. He was admitted to the
bar in 1860, and began the practice in Jefferson

674 THE UNITED STATES B100]?/IPHZCAL DZCTZO./VARY.

City. The civil war coming on, the profession suf-
fered from the stagnation of business, and he asso-
ciated himself with General J. S. Hackney in a land
and tax agency. N on-residents held large tracts of
land in the state, and in the disturbed condition of
the country they found it difficult to get their busi-
ness arranged and their taxes paid. This business
was, therefore, highly lucrative to Messrs. McHenry
& Hackney, as well as a great convenience to absent
land owners. In 1864 he ‘sold his interest in the
land business to his partner and removed to Virginia
City, Montana Territory, and began the practice of
law. The following year he returned to" Missouri,
spent the summer in St. Louis, and ‘located in Kan-
sas City and resumed the practice of his profession.
He was soon after appointed clerk of the .Kansas
City court of common pleas. In 1868 he was nom-
inated by the Democrats for the same’ position and
elected. In 1871 he received the appointment of
deputy clerk of the Jackson countyicircuit court, a
position he held until elected "register of lands in
1876. He was nominated for a second term by the
Democratic Convention, July I0, 1878. His duties

as register includes the care of the records of surveys
made by the surveyor-general, the records of the
United States recorder of land titles, internal im-
provement, school and swamp land titles. _

He was married September 6, 1866, to Miss Kate
Laselle Houck, daughter of Don Solomon Houck,
of Westport, Missouri. Her father resided for many
years in Boonville, Cooper county, and was a pio-
neer in the Santa Fe’ trade, which he began in 182 5,
amassing a large fortune, and died in 1872. Mr.
McHenry has four children born of this marriage,
one son and three daughters: Houck, the son, was
born in June, 1868; Nellie in 1870, Maude, March
15, I872; Kate,,August 23, 1876.

In politics he is a Democrat, and takes a deep
interest in political affairs. In religion he is a Pres-
byterian, having been for a number of years asso-
ciated with that church. He is a man of compact
build, capable of performing a large amount of work.
His individuality is marked, social qualities are
agreeable, and his rank in society is second to none.
In his official relations he is highly respected by all
who have business with him.

JAMES BASCOM PRITCI-IETT.

ST. CHARLES.

AMES B. PRITCHETT was born on his father’s
farm in Warren county, Missouri, October 22,
1845. His father, Joshua Mays Pritchett, was

a Virginian, but moved to Missouri in 1837 and set-
tled within a mile of his present home in St. Charles
county. He married Miss Emily Elizabeth Edwards,
daughter of Henry and Sarah M. Edwards, who
moved to Missouri from Virginia in 1836. The latter is
still living, eighty years of age. Her brother is Hon.
W. W. Edwards, now judge of the circuit court of
St. Charles. They had six children, five of whom
are now living, viz: Sarah Elizabeth, married Dr.
Burch, deceased, of St. Charles,-William Henry,
still living on the old homestead in Warren county 5
Caroline "Virginia, now Mrs. George W. Walker, a
farmer of St. Charles county, James Bascom, sub-

'ject of this sketch, and Olive Waller, now Mrs.

Fred. Griswold, of Warren county, Missouri.
After receiving his primary education at the com-
mon and private schools of his country home, James

Bascom entered Central College at Fayette, Howard
county, Missouri, in 1860, where he remained until
the fall of 1861,, when he returned home and there
remained two years. He removed to St. Charles in
1863 and was there engaged two years as clerk in the
dry goods business. After this he was employed as
clerk in the United States marshal’s office. He
then entered the commercial college at St. Louis and
completed his course in 1865, when he returned to
St. Charles. There he entered into the dry goods
business in company with John N. Miltenberg, under
the firm name of Miltenberg, Pritchett & Co.,.b‘ut
sold his interest in six or eight months. He was
then appointed United States deputy collector, which
office he filled for some time. He opened a cloth-
ing store in St. Charles May 17, 1869, and in this
business continued about six. years, with reasonable
success, when he sold and opened a merchant tailor-
ing establishment in September, 1877. In this he
was accidentally unfortunate, for on the 1st of Decem-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPTZICAL DICTIONARY. 675

ber following his entire premises and goods were
destroyed by fire. Most young men would have
been discouraged, but he was a native of the same
country where Boone once breathed, and it was but
natural for him to “pick his flint and try it again.”

Mr. Pritchett had been elected treasurer of St.
Charles county in November, 1876, and he had so
far doubled his labors in attending to the duties of
that office and those pertaining to his other business.

He now devoted himself assiduously to his county

official trust. He was elected for two years, and
still holds the office. He had been county treasurer,
and until his election to the same office in the city
government, faithfully performed its duties. When
elected as county treasurer, in 1876, he manifested
his personal popularity by being chosen as -an inde-
pendent candidate, when the candidates of both the
regular parties were running as independents for the
same office. Men of all parties.—Democrats and
Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives and strict con-
structionists——alike voted for him, thereby evincing
a confidence in his official capacity and integrity not
often attained by men of his age. _

A few months ago, while filling the office of county
treasurer, a fire destroyed his papers, vouchers and
some of his books. By working night and day, and
having his business so clearly in his mind, he was
enabled at the next meeting of court to have all his
accounts soregistered that his audits were accepted
and approved after a rigid examination.

Mr. Pritchett has been a Mason since 1870, and
has filled the offices of junior and senior warden and

is now master of St. Charles Lodge. For the same
length of time he has been an Odd Fellow and occu-
pied all its official chairs except those of grand and
vice-grand. He has been treasurer of his lodge for
many years. ~ ~ ,

He was raised a Methodist, but in his manhood
has become liberal in his religious views. And so
in his politics, while claiming to have been always a
Democrat, he reserves for himself a freeman’s right
to choose from among the applicants those best suited
to the office, he also grants this right to every other
freeman, and sees no propriety in ostracising a fel_
low-being because he worships or votes contrary to
him.

January 26, 1870, Mr. Pritchett married Miss
Cornelia M. Lyons, a native of St. Louis county
and daughter of ‘Frank and Elizabeth Lyons, the
former a native of Virginia, the latter of Kentucky.

, Two bright, intelligent boys—-James B. and William

H.—have blessed the union.

Here is encouragement for young men. This
man had neither the stepping-stones of family pres-
tige nor the “ open-sesame ” of riches; with only his
individual merits, by moral and commercial recti-
tude, by prompt attention to business and official
duties he has already—at the age of thirty-two years
—attained to no mean distinction as a merchant and
an honorable name in commercial circles, bu.t by
probity of conduct has so won the confidence of the
people that they have made him _the custodian of
their association and county moneys. He has carved
success already on his youthful banner.

HON. MORDECAI OLIVER.

ST. ]OSEPH.

ORDECAI OLIVER was born October 22,
B“ At the
age of eleven he emigrated with his parents from his
native state and settled in Ray county, Missouri. Fa-

r819, in Franklin county, Kentucky.

cilities for education in that portion of Missouri at that "

time were indifferent, indeed poor, and after receiving a
commonschool education he entered upon the study
of law. After three years of close application he
was admitted to the bar with honorable mention at
theage of twenty—three. With his characteristic
energy and resolution he closely followed up his

profession with varied success until 1848, when he
was elected circuit attorney of what was then called
the Ray circuit. He held this position four years,
during which time he discharged the duties of that
office faithfully and with ability. He continued in
the practice of ‘his profession with new and better
encouragements until 1852, when he was nomi-
nated and run for Congress in the 4th Congres-
sional District, as ‘the candidate of the Whig
party, against Hon. James H. Birch, the regular
nominee of the Democratic party. Having to con-

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tend with a large Democratic majority as well as an
able opponent, he immediately opened an ardent and
protracted canvass in his district, which resulted in
Birch’s defeat and his election. For a young man
he ranked high in Congress and commanded the
respect and confidence of its ablest members.

In 18 56 he was re-nominated for Congress by the
Whig party, and was reelected over Hon. Solomon
L. Leonard, the nominee of the Democratic party.
In this ,Congress he rose to prominence; was
appointed and served upon several important com-
mittees, and took an active part in many heated dis-
cussions upon the leading questions at that time.
During this, his second term in Congress, great
troubles and confusion occurred in the then ‘terri-
tory of Kansas, growing out of its organization and
especially in its relation to slavery. A committee of
three was appointed to repair to the territory and
investigate the cause and nature of the troubles.
This committee was composed of Hon. John Sher-
man, of Ohio, Hon. W. A. Howard, of Michigan and
Mr. Oliver. After spending about ninety days in
the territory, their investigation resulted in two
reports——a majority report and a minority report.
The majority report was made by Messrs. Howard
and Sherman and the minority report was made by
Mr. Oliver. Both reports having been presented,
the minority report was sustained by the House of
Representatives of Congress. The duties of this
committee were arduous and exceedingly embarrass-
ing. He was not a candidate the third time for
reelection. He might have been, but in the year
1855-6 “Know Nothingism” made its appearance,
and as one of its effects not only disrupted but well
nigh absorbed the Whig party, and he took strong
grounds against the Know Nothing organization, its
principles and purposes 5 he became obnoxious to the
Whigs, and made no effort to conciliate them, or
to become their candidate for reelection to Congress.
He published a letter to his constituents, giving the
reasons for opposing Know Nothingism, which was
widely circulated and was published in most of the
papers in the West and South and contributed essen-
tially to the defeat of the Know Nothing organiza-
tion. This letter is too lengthy for insertion into
this brief sketch, yet as indicating his earnest oppo-
sition to that organization a few extracts are here
given:

“ I should be wanting in candor if I withheld my
convictions regarding. the peculiar doctrines of the
Know, Nothing party.

These doctrines are qualified

or unqualified hostility to naturalized foreigners and
Catholics, native and foreign, residing in the United
States. Speaking simply as an American citizen, I
deem these doctrines absurd and pernicious, and if
incorporated into our laws (which cannot be, how-
ever), fruitful of great evils. If Catholics be traitors,
the proof of their guilt is not to be found on the
pages of our history; and no vote of mine shall
help to make them traitors by branding them with
that opprobious epithet. I shrink from pronouncing
three millions of men perjurers and traitors, without
being able to allege one overt act in support of the
appalling accusation. In this connection, however,
I beg to remark, that I am as much opposed to the
tenets of the Catholic faith as any man in America ,
but that is with me a theological and not a political
matter 5 and so far as I am concerned, I should
rather turn them over to the tender mercies of the
numerous and learned champions of Protestantism,
than to condemn these tenets and proscribe their
devotees by legislative or political action 5 for I have
yet to learn that persecution or proscription has sup-
pressed error or converted the benighted. >1‘ 
* * Our country has grown powerful and
prosperous with a rapidity that has no example in
the world’s history, under the influence of our free
laws, and no vote of mine shall help to dry up any
of the resources of that prosperity o_r power. Equal
freedom for all creeds, equal facilities to all men of
the great Caucasian race for acquiring and preserv-
ing the sacred right of ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness’ have been the leading characteristics
of our own National .policy—the pillars of our
power 3 and as I am rather conservative than destruc-
tive, I shall not cooperate in pulling down or
unpropping the fabric which our ancestors founded.
Hence, a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of
the constitution of our country, if we would perpet-
uate the blood-bought rights of ‘life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.’ ”

Upon the dissolution of the Whig party he
resumed the practice of his profession and prose-
cuted it assiduously until again in 1861, at which
time the war of the Rebellion occurred, and he took
an active part on the side of the Union and against
the Rebellion, from first to last. Soon after the
inauguration of the Rebellion a convention assem-
bled at the capital of the state and among other
important measures, by ordinance, deposed the then
existing state government, headed by C. F. Jackson,
governor, and established a provisional government
by choosing Hamilton R. Gamble as governor, Wil-
lard P. Hall as lieutenant-governor, Mr. Oliver as
secretary of state, and George C. Bingham as state
treasurer. This was done because the Jackson state
government was known to be in sympathy with the
Rebellion and for establishing a Southern Confed-
eracy. Mr. Oliver held the office of secretary of

THE UNITED STATES BIOGIBAPIIICAI, DICTIONARY. 677

state" during the war and discharged its duties under
the most trying circumstances, acceptably and faith-
fully. He may be justly regarded as having been,
and now is, an uncompromising friend of the union
of the states.

Upon the close of the war he located in Saint
Joseph, Buchanan county, Missouri, and became
associated with Hon. Willard P. Hall in the practice
of law, which continued until recently, they did a
large and lucrative practice. As a lawyer Mr. Oliver
has long occupieda place in the front rank of his
profession, and stands deservedly high. As _an advo-
cate it may be said with truth, that he has but few,
if any, superiors in Missouri. I

In the midst of his professional pursuits he has
managed to find time to take an active part in the
important political contests in the country since the

conclusion of the war. _During the war he was for_

prosecuting it vigorously to a happy" conclusion, and

since peace has been restored and the Union saved,
his voice has ever been heard for order and good
government. He found himself compelled from a
sense of duty to take grounds against the Radical
party in its extreme and proscriptive measures, and
that party has found in him a bold and fearless oppo-
nent up to the last National electiom—-in which he
supported in speeches of acknowledged ability the
election of Samuel J. T ilden.

As has been intimated the subject of this sketch
was thrown upon his own resources at an early day,
and opened his career under circumstances most try-
ing andiinauspicious. To him who is just girding
on his sword and buckler to battle with life, to him
who -is already in the field, this character furnishes
another illustration of the triumph of labor and reso-
lution over the rocks and shoals that often confront
and shipwreck many young mariners upon the high
sea of life.

JUDGE WILLIAM PUGH CHILES.

PLATTE CITY.

‘ ‘ JILLIAM P. CHILES was born in Mount
Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky,
April 21, 1821.
of six children. His father, William Chiles, was a
merchant and farmer of Montgomery county, Ken-
tucky. His mother’s maiden name was Nancy Pugh.
She was of Virginia ancestry. The Chiles family in
Kentucky are descendants of a Huguenot family——-two
brothers of whom ‘had fled from France to America
in the days of the persecution, and settled in South
Carolina. From one of these brothers, who after-
ward settled in Fauquier county, Virginia the sub-
ject of this sketch is descended. Walter Chiles, his
grandfather, wasa lieutenant in aregiment of the Vir-
ginia line, serving in the Revolutionary war, and was
present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He
moved to Kentucky and settled in Shelby county
shortly after the close of the contest.

Judge Chiles received in early life the advantages
of sound scholastic training, and completed his lite-
rary and scientific education in C_enter College, Ken-
tucky. On leaving this institution he selected the
profession of law, which he studied under his elder
brother, Walter Chiles, Esq. In I845-he was admit-

He is the youngest of a family -

ted to the bar, and moved to Estill county, where
he followed his profession till the breaking out of the
Mexican War.

In September 1847, on the second call by Gov-
ernor Owsley, of Kentucky, for troops, he volunteered
to serve during the war, raised a company of infant-
ry in the 3rd Regiment Kentucky volunteers, and
was elected captain. He served with this rank in
the city of Mexico, performing garrison duty until
the close of the war, when he was mustered out at
New Orleansin 1848. He then returned to Estill
county where he engaged in merchandising till 185 2,
when he was elected clerk of the circuit court, serv-
ing four years. In the fall of 1856 he moved west
and settled on a claim in Jefferson county, Kansas.
In 1857 he sold the claim and moved to Atchison.
In 18 58 when the city of Atchison was chartered,
he was elected a member of the first city council,
served as president and assisted in framing the first
city ordinances. Samuel C.’ Pomeroy, afterward
United States Senator, was first mayor of the city.

He engaged in merchandising in Atchison till
1860, when he moved to Platte City, and resided on

I a neighboring farm one year.

678 THE UNITED. STATES BIOGRAPIJICAZ, DICTZOZVARY.

On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion
he raised a company of infantry and joined Winston’s
battalion and served in command of the same ‘during
the siege of Lexington, after the surrender of which
he was elected lieutenant-colonel of a newly organized
regiment. He served with this command upward of
twelve months. In the fall of 1862, he accompanied
the state quartermaster, General R. M. Stith, assist-
ing him in the settlement of the business of the old
state guard, serving in this capacity in Arkansas and
Mississippi. His health becoming impaired, he left
the service in the summer of 1863 and visited Ala-
bama, where he remained one year, at the end of
which period he was commissioned colonel in the Con-
federate service with authority to raise a regiment,
and with that design invaded Missouri with General
Price and his command. The expedition proving a
failure he returned to Texas, and remained there and
in the city of Matamoras till the capture of Jeff.
Davis, when he returned home to find himself robbed
and impoverished by a friend to whom he had con-

fided the guardianship of his property. He then
settled in Leavenworth, engaging in different business
as a means of securing a livelihood.

In October, 1869, he moved to Platte City. In
November, 1872, he was elected on the Democratic
ticket probate judge of Platte county for the term of
four years. November, 1876, he was reelected to the
same office, which he now ([878) holds.

On the eve of his departure to Mexico, in Sep-
tember, I847, he was madea Master Mason in Irvine
Lodge 137, Kentucky. In 1849 he was madea Roya1
Arch Mason on his return to Kentucky. He was also
a member of the I. O. O. F. in Kentucky. Protest-
ant in belief, he has never allied himself to any church.

November 8, 1849, he was married in Estill
county, Kentucky, to Miss Amanda M. Park, daugh-
ter of Solomon B. Park, Estill county, Kentucky,
and afterward a wealthy and prominent citizen of
Platte county, Missouri. He-has four children, the
eldest a daughter, married to Dr. R. P. C. Johnson,
the youngest a son aged seven.

SAMUEL SPAR LAWS, A. B., A. M., M. D., D. D., LL. D.

COL UMBIA.

R. LAWS, the present able president of the
Missouri State University, is_a descendant of

one of two brothers who came over from England in
1672 and settled in Maryland. He is a native of
Virginia, and received the rudiments of an educa-
tion rarely surpassed, in the "old field school.”
Surmounting every difficulty, he entered Miami Uni-
versity and graduated, valedictorian_of his class;
pursued his theological studies for three years in
Princeton Seminary, and on completing this profes-
sional course was again awarded the chief honor.
Dissuaded from entering the India Mission field
by Dr. Potts, he began his ministerial career in St.
Louis, and was soon afterward called to the church
in Lexington, then the second most important charge
in the state. While the acceptance of this “call”
was under advisement, Dr. Laws was elected to the
chair of physical science in Westminster College,

Fulton, which he accepted, discharged its duties i

one year and was then called to the presidency
of the institution. This important position he
filled with distinguished ability, the college being

exceptionably prosperous under his administration.

After the beginning of the late calamitous war he
resigned his post at Fulton and was quietly translat-
ing Aristotle when he was arrested. After being
confined in several prisons and suffering great hard-
ships, he was finally released on parole to the loyal
states, Canada or Europe, which latter country he vis-
ited, remaining some time. On returning to the United
States, Dr. Laws found the war yet in progress,
himself still under arrest, and soon drifted to New
York, where he had relatives in business. The way
to a peaceful pastorate being closed, and the doctor

forced into business to support his family, he became .

vice-president of the Gold Exchange, upon an ade_
quate salary. The institution prospered so remark-
ably under his management that the directory pre-
sented him a handsome testimonial and a certificate
of membership, a compliment never conferred upon
any other. After resigning his office at the Gold
Exchange, Dr. Laws perfected an instrument for
telegraphing the variations in the prices of gold and
stocks, which is now extensively used at home and

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THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 679

abroad. By this invention ten thousand instruments
can be simultaneously operated, and the value‘ of
coin and stock communicated at the same moment
to each business house in the city where used. Dur-
ing the doctor’s long residence in New York he
availed himself of the opportunities there offered for
scientific and literary research, at the same time pur-
suing courses of professional study, graduating in
both law and medicine—his medical thesis display-
ing such research a.nd originality that it has become
widely and favorably known to the profession. He
is at present a member of the New York bar. . It is
the unanimous opinion among those capable of
judging that the various literary and scientific degrees
conferred upon the doctor have been fairly won
through his diversified and splendid attainments.

Dr. Laws is a man of medium height, solidly
built, and is in the prime of a fresh and vigorous
manhood. - Our engraving is from a photograph
taken Ianuary, 1878. In him the nervous-sanguine
temperament predominates, but is well blended with
the bilious and phlegmatic, giving him great vitality
both as a man of action and of thought. This com-
bination of forces has given Dr. Laws a mind thor-
oughly poised, which avoids harshness in judgment
and extremes in action, does its work calmly and
systematically—.is capable of great excitement on
supreme occasions. He has all those qualities that
thoroughly individualize a man and is a most decided
type of himself. While ambitious of distinction and
approval, he is far too manly a man to desire them
at the expense‘ of his own convictions of right and
truth, and is capable of the most heroic self-sacrifice
for an opinion which has the sanction of his own
deliberate judgment. He is one of the best informed
men of the age, has accumulated vast stores of infor-
mation in all departments of knowledge, and is one
of the readiest men in America with facts and dates,
no matter what the subject under consideration, his
memory being simply prodigious.

As a general scholar, President Laws has no
superior in the West, and this is the more notable as
his habit of exhaustive study makes every so-called
general topic, special. Through travel and resi-
dence abroad he has enjoyed the advantage of inter-
course with the ripest scholarship in Europe, and has
always availed himself of every opportunity to verify
his facts and statements by undisputed authority.
As a metaphysician, Dr. Laws stands in the front
rank of American minds, his rare attainments and

exceptional talents. are universally conceded, his
86

features express great executive ability and will, and
as acquaintance ripens the conviction deepens that,
as the head of some mighty corporation, or as chair-
man of a committee on home or foreign affairs, he
would have acquitted himself with no less distinction
than in his present most honorable and responsible
office. His position at the head of our State Uni-
versity is without controversy the most important
position in the commonwealth, and Missouri is to be
congratulated that here, where the largest measures
of ability, scholarship and executive talent are de-
manded, they are so eminently combined. Although
occupying this chair for a short time only, the presi-
dent has already won golden opinions, and given
promise of that same thoroughness in administering
the affairs of the University, which has ever marked
his private studies and researches.

Before the Missouri Legislature last winter (1877),
in bringing forward the “ Historic Memoranda”
concerning the conditions of the “University land
grant,” Dr. Laws pointed out the fact, which was
being lost sight of, that the university is an “integral
part of the public school organization, established by
law and imbedded in the successive constitutions of
the state. It was one of the fundamental conditions
of Missouri’s admission to the Union, that her gen-
eral assembly shall take measures for the improve-
ment of such lands, etc., to support a university.”
For this service to the state, in which he shows that
it is obligatory upon every citizen to sustain the
public schools, with the university at their head,
Dr. Laws merits the thanks of all lovers of a gener-
ous system of state education. From his boldness
in thus asserting the claims of the university, we
argue auspiciously for his care in guarding the same,
by doing which an ample fund will be secured for
the most liberal endowment of all departments of the
institution. In his inaugural address President Laws
enunciated, as the only sound principle of govern-
ment, that “The authority of government in a
school is not derived from the pupils, nor is it
dependent on them in any sense whatever.” “They
come to obey and be governed by the rules which
they find in force.” “The only alternative is to obey
or leave.” “Any other View only tends to breed
anarchy and lawlessness; and that, too, not only in
school days but in the after life of pupils as citizens.”

There is something about these expressions that
savors of severity, but there is nothing in them
against which exception can justly be taken. These

l are not the expression of some blind, unreason-

680

ing ‘will, but the deliberate conclusions of a wise
judgment, self-conscious of its own responsibilities,
and most positive in its convictions that, after all, a
firm government is the most beneficent.

Strength and gentleness are by no means disasso-
ciated in President Laws. He is a thorough gentle-
man in all the relations of life, and one every way
Worthy to be intrusted_ with the formation of man-
ners as well as mind. His personal example and
influence cannot but be beneficial to those who enjoy

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.‘

the benefit of association with him, for by no means
the least of his gifts is the transcendent power of
personal quality. Let the state but meet her» obliga-
tions to the distinguished head of her highest educa-
tionalinstitution as faithfully as President La.ws has
met and will meet the responsibilities of his onerous
position, and it will not be long ere our goodly
commonwealth will have a university in fact as well
as name—one in which all her citizens will take pride
——one to which the nation will delight to do honor.

THOMAS  NORRIS, M. D.

MACON CITY.

T HOMAS J.eNORRIS was born February. I4,
1838, in Johnson county, Indiana. His father,
Josiah ‘M. Norris, a native of Fauquier county, Vir-

ginia, was a farmer and horticulturist. He emigra-

I ted to Clarke county, Missouri, in 1850, and died in

Scotland county, in 1856. His mother, Lucinda
Jones, was a native of Shelby county, Kentucky,
daughter of Linsford Jones, a farmer.

Thomas J. Norris was raised on the farm but had
the advantage of the best schools for his educational
training. At the age of nineteen he began teaching
in Knox county, Missouri, and was thus employed
when the civil war began. In 1861 he enlisted as a
private soldier in Company C, Colonel Martin E.
Greene’s state guard cavalry. He was in the service
during the entire War, serving in Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana,.Mississippi and Tennessee. He partici-
pated in the battles of Corinth, Pea Ridge, Helena,

and the Red River campaign that resulted so disas-
trously to General Banks. At the termination of the
war he began the study of medicine, at Shreveport,
Louisiana, under the instruction of Dr. Joseph L.
Moore. He attended lectures at the College of Phy-
sycians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa, and graduated
in 187 2. He immediately entered upon the practice
of his profession at Macon City, Missouri, where he
has since practiced with eminent and gratifying suc-
cess. _ , I

Dr. Norris is a member of the Christian church.
He was married at Shreveport, Louisiana, i_n 1870 to
Miss Mattie Norris. She died in June, 1874.

A remarkable feature of his family is thenumber
of that name who are engaged in the practice of med-
icine. Dr. Norris has three brothers who are grad-
uates of medical colleges and have become eminent
in their profession.

GIDEON BLACKBURN CARSON.

]0PI.]./V.

IDEON BLACKBURN, CARSON was of
G English descent on the father’s side and of
Scotch-Irish on the mother’s, and was born in Bed-
ford county, Tennessee, July 20, 1828. His father,
Ebenezer Carson, was a wagon maker and a business
man in Tennessee, but emigrated to Ray county,
Missouri, in 1831, and pursued both his trade and
farming. His mother, whose maiden name was

Sarah Patton, wasdescended from a Revolutionary
ancestry, her father having servedin the Revolu-
tionary war. At the battle of White Plains his head
was cut open with a saber, from which Wound, how-

_ ever, he recovered.

Gideon B. Carson had only the limited advan-
tages of a Missouri school, where a neighborhood

I contributed to pay a teacher, before free schools

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were known, to which stock of knowledge he added
by his own application until he acquiredia good busi-
ness education. His first work on his own account
was in teaching school in Missouri, which he pur-
sued for about one year, when he went into a store
as a clerk and continued in that position for two
years. He then entered into a partnership ‘ind began
selling merchandise at Richmond, Ray county, and
pursued that business for about three years. In 18 58
he took a stock of goods and emigrate.d to Kansas,
locating at Oskaloosa, and there opened a store
which he continued until 1860. Atthat time he
was appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of county
treasurer of Jefferson county, and in 1861 elected to
the same position, fulfilling the dutiesof that office
for about three years." On retiring from that officehe
again resumed his mercantile pursuits and continued
in them for about four years, when he removed to
Perry, in the same county. He there continued his
mercantile business and also carried on farming.
In 1873, owing to the financial pressure, he found
it necessary to abandon his business and strike out
for -new fields of enterprise. Undaunted by past
difficulties, he started a little store at Joplin, Mis-
souri, but soon after turned his attention to lead
mining. Without capital, he and his son, Renick
C., and his nephew, Millard F. Taylor, commenced
operations with their own -hands, penetrating the
earth with picks, shovels and other implements for
delving into the rocks. Under the most discourag-
ing circumstances they labored for nearly two years
before they struck a dollar’s worth of paying dirt,
and at times they scarcely knew where the next day’s
bread was to come from. Finally, on the 20th of
December, 1876, at the depth of one hundred feet,
they struck a very rich lode of lead ore. The first
year they took out I,5oo,ooo pounds of lead ore and

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5oo,ooo pounds of zinc ore, of the value of about
$50,000, and since that period they have averaged
about the same amount annually. At first they
commenced on a small scale, digging with their own
hands, and with horse power for elevating, Now
they employ a first class steam engine, and hire
about twenty-two hands in all departments of the
work. They have made immense excavations, of
an average depth of ten feet, securing the ground
by building log pens and filling them with the heavy
waste rock. They have la.id down about one thou-
sand feet of iron railway tracks, which they remove
as they progress and changeithe directions of their
work. The lode seems inexhaustible, and at present
(March, 1878,) they are digging around and preserv-
ing the best ore for labor when the price of the min-
eral advances. The mine is considered among the
very best ever discovered in Southwestern Missouri.

Mr. Carson is a Royal Arch Mason, and has
belonged to the fraternity for ‘about twenty years.
He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church. He was -originally a Whig, but, after the
breaking up of that party, allied himself with the
Democratic party, to which he still adheres.

He was married in Ray county, Missouri, Sep-
tember ro, 1854, to Miss Jane Adeline Cole, a lady
of good education. In all his enterprises she has
been, in the truest sense of the word, a helpmeet,
and to her, in the most discouraging aspects of his
various adventures, he has been greatly indebted for
sympathy, encouragement and true womanly help
and advice. They have six children. His eldest
son, Renick C., is a partner in his business, and is
an energetic business man. His daughter, Fannie
Elizabeth, is married to J. L. Raines, now a teacher
at San Luis Obispo, California. The remaining
children are George B., Ebbie, Mary and Harry.

JUDGE GILCHRIST PORTER.

CLARKSVILLE.

MON G the many who have adopted Missouri

as their home few have done more to advance

her interests than has the man whose name heads
this sketch. Gilchrist Porter was born in Culpeper
county, Virginia, November 1, 1817, and came with
his father, William Porter, who was anative of Fred-
ericksburg, Spottsylvania county, Virginia, to Mis-

souri in 183 5, locating in Lincoln county, where his
father continued his former occupation of farming.
His mother was Mary Macaulay Duncanson, daugh-
ter of Colonel James Duncanson, of Fredericksburg,
Virginia. Young Porter was mainly reared on the
family farm in his native county. Uponhis arri-
val in Missouri he began to read law, andin I837‘

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was admitted to the bar. In the same year he loca-
ted at Bowling Green, Missouri, where, as an active
and prominent attorney, he resided until 1853, when
he removed to Hannibal, Missouri, and practiced his
profession, except a short period of judicial service,
until 1867, in which year he settled in Clarksville,
where he has since resided’.

In 1838 he was elected circuit attorney of the
3d Judicial Circuit, and in 1:840 was reelected‘ to
the same office. In 1844 he represented Pike county
in the Missouri state legislature. In 1850 he was
elected to Congress from the 2nd congressional
district, and was reelected in 18 54. In 1861‘ he was
appointed by Governor Gamble to the circuit judge-
ship of the 16th Judicial Circuit, and in 1863 was
elected to the same office. In 1867 he was appointed
judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit by Governor
Fletcher, and was elected in 1868 without opposition
to the same office, and reelected in 1874.

Judge Porter was a Clay Whig until the dissolu-
tion of the Whig party. In the presidential election
just preceding the civil war he voted for Bell and
Everett, and during the war tooka decided stand
for the Union. His first presidential Democratic
vote was cast for General McClellan in 1864. His
political principles and sympathies at present are lib-
eral. In religion he is an Episcopalian, and has
been a member of that church for several years.

February 25, 1840, he married Miss Comfort
Worthington Dorsey of Pike county, Missouri, to
which county her father, Colonel Edward W. Dorsey,
emigrated at an early day from Carroll county,
Maryland. He was an officer in the war of 1812,
and raised a family of eight children.

Judge P_orter is a man of fine literary culture,
courteous and affable in his demeanor, and is highly
esteemed for his ability as a jurist, and his public
spirit and social qualities as a citizen.

GENERAL JOHN B. VAN PETTEN.

SEDALIA.

1827, in Sterling, Cayuga county, New York,
v and graduated at the Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut, in the class of 1850.
Before the war he was well known as the very suc-
cessful principal of Fairfield Seminary, one of the
oldest and most popular institutions of the state of
New York. Though a literary man and a practical
educator, he was always public spirited and inter-
ested in public affairs. During the administrations
of Presidents Polk and Pierce he belonged to the
Democratic party, but broke from it on account of

JOHN B. VAN PETTEN was born June 19,

its pro—slavery tendencies, and supported John C. ’

Fremont for President. He supported the adminis-
tration of Abraham Lincoln, but participated in the
Liberal movement in which B. Gratz Brown was
elected Governor of Missouri, and since that time
has been identified with the Democrats.

In the spring of 1861 he resigned his position as
principal of Fairfield Seminary, and went to the field
as chaplain of the 34th New York volunteers. In
this capacity he not only gained the reputation of a
faithful chaplain, but evinced a decided military
spirit, and in his brigade and division was known as

the “ fighting parson.” He remained with the 34th
New York until the fall of 1862, and was with it at
Fair Oaks, Allen’s Farm, Savage Station, Frazier’s
Farm and Malvern Hill, and in all the marching and
fighting of Sedgwick’s Division of the 2d Corps on
the Peninsula, until the second Bull Run. He then
accepted the position of lieutenant-colonel of the
160th New York volunteers, and went with his regi-
ment on the “ Banks’ expedition” to the Department
of the Gulf. In three weeks from the time he entered
the department the colonel of the regiment went on
detached service, and he was left the permanent
commander of that brave and distinguished regi-
ment for two years. He participated with it in
every expedition and important battle in the Depart-
ment of the Gulf, and was often ‘noticed in the
public prints and commended in orders for superior
gallantry and merit. He distinguished himself in
the Cotten and Bislaw affairs 3 in the assaults on Port

Hudson of the 27th of May and 14th of June, 1863, _

and again in the “Red River expedition,” in the
engagements of Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Grove,
Mansura and Cane River. In the summer and fall
of 1864 he shared in the perils and achievements O1

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the most brilliant campaign of the war, that of Sher-
idan in the Shenandoah Valley. At the battle of
Winchester, on the 19th of September, he was
severely wounded early in the day, but with charac-
teristic fortitude remained on the field until the battle
was won.
generals and to the admiration of the troops. For
this he received the warmest commendation of
Generals McMillen, Emory and Sheridan, and was
recommended for the commission of brigadier-gen-
eral. In the autumn of 1864, while at home on
account of his wounds, he was appointed com1nis—
sary-general of New York by Governor Fenton, but
did not accept, as he preferred to remain in active
service until the war was over, and took the colonelcy
of the 193d regiment New York volunteers. V\7ith
this regiment he joined the Army of the Shenan-
doah, commanded by Brevet Major—G eneral Torbert.
From this he was transferred to the Department of
West Virginia, commanded by Major-General Emory,
and assigned to the command of the District of the
Cumberland, with headquarters étt Cumberland,
Maryland. Subsequently he was assigned to the
District of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. His ser-
vices were recognized at Washington, and in March,

This he did against the advice of his ‘

1865, he was commissioned brigadier—general by
brevet. He remained in the United States military
service until February I0, 1866, and then returned to
the position-he occupied before the war, as principal
of F airfield Seminary. .

He was elected senator of the zoth district of
New York, and represented that district in 1868-9.
He was chairman of the committees on militia and
on internal affairs of towns and counties, and a mem-
ber of the committees on literature and engrossed
bills.

' Hon. S. E. Herlow says, in Biographical Sketches:
“He is an accomplished scholar and an eloquent
speaker. Though a clergyman and educator by
profession, he early acquired a critical knowledge of
law, and was well qualified for the duties of senator.
His influence was felt in that capacity, and he
received the rare compliment of an engrossed reso-
lution of thanks from the Citizens’ Association of
New York, for important service to the tax-payers.”

In 1869, attracted by the climate, he cast his lot
with the state of Missouri. He is now a resident of
Sedalia, and is the classical professor and associate
principal of the Sedalia Classical Institute, a popular
and flourishing institution of Central Missouri.

DAVID FRANK LONG, M. D.

GALLATLM

AVID FRANK LONG was born in Highland
D county, Ohio, September 12,1847. His father,
James Long, was a farmer of Pennsylvania. His
mother, Jane Wardlow, was also a native of that
state. Dr. Long’s paternal grandparents were born
in Dublin, Ireland.

He received his advanced literary education in
Delaware College, in the state of Delaware, which
institution he left in 1863. In February, 1864, he
enlisted in Colonel Butterfield’s regiment, the 192d
Ohio Infantry. This command was transferred to
Virginia to fill the veteran corps of General Han-
cock. He served with his regiment till the same was
mustered out in September, 1865, near Winchester,
Virginia. .

In 1866 he commenced the study of medicine at

iHillsboro, Ohio, in the office of Dr. D. Noble. He

afterward attended Miami Medical College, in Cin-

cinnati, from which he graduated with the degree of
M. D. in the spring of 1869.

In 1870 he moved to Missouri, and engaged in
the practice of his profession in Livingston county,
where he remained six months, when he moved to
Daviess county, settling about eight miles east of
Gallatin, where he remained in the practice of medi-
cine two years and a half. He then removed to
Gallatin and in 1873 engaged in the boot and shoe
trade, in which business he remained seven months.
In December, 1874, he engaged in the drug business
in Gallatin, commanding a flourishing trade. On
the Ioth of August, 1877, he sold the drug store,
concluding to devote his attention exclusively to the
practice of his profession, in which, during the whole
period of his residence in Missouri, he has been
actively engaged. Dr. Long has made a specialty of
surgery, in which he has been eminently successful,

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and is. also recognized as the leading practitioner of
medicine in the county. ‘
In 1873 he was initiated in Lockspring Lodge A.
F. & A. M. In the following year he was exalted
in the Gallatin Royal Arch Chapter, and in 1875
received the honors of Knighthood in the Kadosh
Commandery, Hamilton, Missouri. He is still an
active member in good standing of these several
bodies. Dr. Long was, at one time, a member of
the Christian church. He is a member at present of

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no religious organization, but expresses himself
inclined to acceptance of the teachings of the Meth-
odist church. In politics he has always been a
Democrat. January 30,1873, he was married to
Miss Lucy Ballinger, youngest daughter of Judge

"Frank Ballinger, of Keokuk, Iowa, formerly a legal

practioner of Barboursville, Kentucky. In person-
Dr. Long is six feet high, weighs one hundred and
sixty—seven pounds, and is a man of culture and
popular address.

JAMES L. BERRY.

[WA CON.

AMES L. BERRY was born October 5, 1838,
in .Morgan county, Ohio. His father, William
Berry, was a native of Loudoun county,Virginia.

His mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Cum-—

mings,was also a native of Loudoun county,Virginia.

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Mr. Berry was admitted to the bar at Zanesville,
Ohio, April 19, I860, practiced his profession in
Ohio, until 1867, when he removed to Macon, Mis-
souri, where he still resides and practices his pro-
fession.

WITTEN MCDONALD.

CARROLL TO./V.

of this sketch whose lives have been so uni-
formly successful, or whose business qualifications
havebeen so generally acknowledged. Born on the
4th of June, 1846, in the county of Wyoming, in
what is now Western Virginia, and commencing
business in life less than twenty years of age, he has
attained a position in business circles, and a standing
among business men for prudence and sagacity,
honor and integrity second to no man in the com-

/ | ‘HERE are few men of the age of the subject

munity.

His ‘parents, Stephen and Susannah (Black) Mc-
Donald, were native Virginians, and his ancestors
on both sides were brave soldiers in the war of the
Revolution and 1812. Stephen McDonald was a
farmer and stock raiser, and lived in fine health till
1852. He died suddenly, leaving a widow with
three daughters and seven sons—Witten, the young-
est, only six years old, the next few years of whose
life was spent on the farm, where he made himself

generally useful during the summer months and
attended a neighboring school in the winter.

In 1857 Mrs. McDonald moved with her family
to Missouri andisettled in Livingston county, four
miles north of Chillicothe. Here Witten remained
five years, working on the farm and attending such
schools as were within his reach. This portion
of his life he considers the most profitable, for he
not only learned the value of time and how to ‘do
hard work, but self-reliance which is the only basis
of permanent success ,

His elder brothers having joined General Price’s'
command and gone South, left him with many things
to look after, which, however only preparedihim for
a profitable term at St. Paul’s College, in Palmyra,
Missouri, where he remained until failing health com-
pelled him to abandon study for a more active life.
While at school he developed a talent for sketching
and painting, but as is often the casewthese studies
were soon forgotten when the battle of life began.

» thoroughly educated and practical physician.

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The great desire of the boy was to become a
This
appeared to him the great field in which he could
make himself the most useful and successful. But,
finding that his health was better when actively
engaged, he abandoned the idea, and after traveling

somewhat extensively in the Northern, Eastern and-

Southern States, and visiting the old homestead in
Virginia, he determined to go to Alabama and
engage in cotton planting. Before doing so, how-
ever, he made a visit to his mother, who during his
absence had moved into the town of Chillicothe.
Here he made the acquaintance of the family of
Greenup Bird, Esq., who was at that time cashier of
the Chillicothe Savings Bank, but now a prominent
wholesale hat and cap merchant in Kansas City,
Missouri. Owing partly to the unsettled condition
of political affairs in the South, and greatly, we could
infer, to the dulcet notes of a charming Bird in
Chillicothe, whose song andperson had greater
attractions for him than all the songsters of the sunny
South, the cotton planting was abandoned. So in

‘ August, 1868, he associated himself with Mr. J. W.

Hearne, of Carrollton, Missouri, for the sale of lum-
ber and building material, and on October 7, 1868,
ere the frosts of winter had seared the autumn leaves,
Miss Clara Bird was making melody in McDonald’s
cosy cottage in Carrollton. And now, in the largest
and most elegant residence in the northern suburbs
of the town, four little songsters, two of either sex,
blend their voices with the chorus:

When peace and love and joy abounds,_

A charming “ concord of sweet sounds”

More grateful far to parents’ ears

Than all “ the music of the spheres.”

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In 1873 Mr. McDonald became sole proprietor
of the lumber business in Carrollton, and connected’
with it the sale of agricultural implements, wagons
and buggies. He has also a branch house in Bruns-
wick, Chariton county. In January, 1878, the
“McDonald Lumber Company” was organized and
incorporated. The subject of this sketch was elected
treasurer of the company and placed in_ charge of
its financial affairs, which responsible position he
now fills. The company is doing an extensive
business with the 3‘ Home office” at Carrollton
and yards located at different points in North Mis-
souri.

In 1870, at his suggestion, the Carroll Exchange
Bank was organized, in which he is a large stock-
holder. He is also largely interested in and vice-
president of the Chariton County Exchange Bank,
organized by him in June, 1877, in Brunswick.

In 1874 he joined the Masonic fraternity, and at
the first election after his admission he was elected
treasurer of the lodge, and soon after principal
sojourner of the chapter. ,

Though a thorough Democrat in politics, he
never sought political preferment, but is decided
in his views, and when principle is at “stake or
occasion demands he is not the man to shrink from
duty. i

Mr. McDonald was raised a Methodist, and hardly
recollects when he was not one. He is an acknowl-
edged leader and liberal supporter in all the manifold
interests of the church, and is one of the most active
and intelligent lay members in the state. He attrib-
‘utes his success in life to hard work and close per-
sonal attention to business. i

ALBERT ROECKER.

OREGOZV.

 LBERT ROECKER was born in Leonberg,

in the kingdom of Wiirtemberg, Germany,-

November 9, 1840. His father, Frederick Roecker,
who is still living in Stuttgart, Germany, is a printer
and was a newspaper publisher for thirty years. His
mother’s maiden name was Katerina Lindenberger.

Albert received his education in the common
schools of Leonberg, which he left in 18 54, and began
to work in his father’s printing office where he

remained two years: He was then apprenticed to a
store keeper and served three years, at the expiration
of which time he came to America, landing in New
York September 18, I8 59, and worked in the English
and German job printing -office of Henry Ludwig
till July 4, 1860. He then moved west and settled
in Forest City, Holt county, Missouri, where he
acted in the capacity of book-keeper in the brewery
of his brother-in-law and uncle.

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February 13, 1862, he enlisted in the 4th Regi-
ment Missouri State militia, Colonel Hall’s regiment,
serving throughout the war, and was mustered out in
June, 1865, with the rank of captain. He then
returned to Forest City, and entered into partnership
with C. Kreuss, in the brewing business, and remained
engaged in the same until November, 1866, when he
was elected on the Republican ticket sheriff of Holt
county. He served in this capacity two years, at the
end of which time he was reelected without opposi-
tion for another term which expired in 1871. In

the fall election of 1870, in view of the near ap-

proach of the close of his term as sheriff, he was
elected county clerk of Holt, which position he filled
faithfully and efficiently, his four year term expiring
January, 1875. It is hardly necessary to state that
Mr. Roecker has always been a Republican. In
February, 1875, he visited his birth place in Ger-
many. After a visit of three months he returned

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to America, arriving in Missouri, May 1, 1875.
January 15, 1877, he began the banking business

in Oregon, Missouri, with Mr. Montgomery, under‘

the style of Montgomery & Roecker, in which he is
now engaged.

He'was raised a Lutheran, but is a member of no

He was “made a Master Mason in Forest
City Lodge No. 246, in 1866, and a Royal Arch
Mason in Keystone Royal Arch Chapter in Oregon,
some time after. He has served as secretary of both
these bodies, and is now treasurer of the Chapter.
I Captain Roecker was married in 1867 to Miss
Elizabeth Weber, of Atchison county, Missouri, by
which marriage he is the father of five children—three
girls (the oldest ten/\y\ears of age) and two boys.

In personal appearance the Captain is a fine spec-
imen of manhood, his height being‘ five feet seven
inches, and his weight one hundred and eighty-five
pounds

JUDGE JAMES FRANKLIN DOWNING.

A ULL VILLE.

MONG those who early came to Missouri,
A and stood by her in her days of adversity and
now enjoy her prosperity, is the man whose name
heads this sketch. James Franklin Downing was
born in Montgomery county, Kentucky, October
21, 1824. His father, Dennis Downing, was a
native of the same state and county, -and was born
in I8or_. His grandfather, James Downing, was
born in Virginia in 1765, and his great-grandfather,
James Downing, was born in New York about 1740,
and was of Welsh descent; he moved to Virginia
and from thereto Kentucky, and was killed by the
Indians. \

Dennis Downing was raised on a" farm in Ken-
tucky, and received a common school education. In
I821 he married Miss Mary McCormick, who was
born in 1:802, and was the daughter of William Mc-
Cormick, a native of Virginia, but of Irish descent.

The subject of this sketch when quite small,
moved with his parents to Indiana and remained there
until 1837, when his father died, and he removed
with his mother to his native state, stopping in Lewis
county for a year, after which they went to -Mont-
gomery county. There he remained for three years,

when he removed to bath county. His education
was received at the common schools.

In 1854 he emigrated to Grundy county, Mis-
souri. In 1865 he removed to Johnson county, of
the same state, and in 1868 located in LaFayette
county, Missouri, where he has since resided. He
has been what his father was through life, a farmer.

In 1846 he married Miss Cinthian McCormick,
of Bath county, Kentucky, who was born October
I0, 1824, and was the daughter of Samuel McCor-
mick, a native of Montgomery county, Kentucky,
born in 18oo. Her grandfather, William McCor-
mick, was a native Virginian and of Irish parentage.
Her mother was a McClellan and of Welsh descent.
Mrs. Downing died in Bath county, in 1849,
leaving three children, two of whom died in infancy.
The surviving son, William W., was born November
26, 1846, in Bath county, Kentucky.

In February, 1852, Mr. James F. Downing mar-
ried Miss Susan Snedgar, who was born March
28, 1828, and was the daughter of Christopher
Snedgar, of Bath county, Kentucky, who was
born in 1803. Her mother was a Conyer, of Vir-
ginian birth and Irish descent.

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By this marriage they have had eight children,
seven of whom are living, whose names and births
are recorded as follows: Josephine, born December
29, 1852, in Bath county, Kentucky, now the wife
of John W. Prince, Statira,' born March 26, 1857;
George W.,‘ born September 20, 1859; Richard B.,
born February 21, 1863; John 13., born August 7,
I865—all four being born in Grundy county, Mis-
souri; Arthur, born February 10, 1868, in Johnson
county, and Barton, born May 7, 1870, in Fayette
county, Missouri. Surrounded by this large and
happy family, Mr. Downing and wife may truly be

contented. They, with their daughters, are mem-
bers of the Christian church. .

Mr. ‘Downing was judge of the county court of
Grundy county from 1859 to 1864. In 1862 he
was commissioned by the Gamble government of
Missouri, captain of the enrolled militia of the state

Judge Downing belongs to the Masonic frater-
nity, and has served for some time as treasurer‘ of
his lodge. In politics he is a consistent Democrat.
Such are the outlines of a useful life. Whatever his
hand found to do he did well, and he now enjoys
fruits of his labors.

HON. ISAAC WINGATE BOULWARE.

FULTOIV.

F the prominent self—made men of Missouri,
0 none present an example of greater energy,
enterprise and prosperity than we find in the life
history of Isaac Wingate Boulware, who was born
May 26, 1830, in Callaway county, Missouri. His
parents were Theodoric and_Susan (Kelly) Boulware,
the former a native of Culpeper county, Virginia,
and the latter of Scott county, Kentucky. His
father was a Baptist clergyman and an educator, and
emigrated from Scott county, Kentucky to Missouri
in 1827, locating in Callaway county.

Young Boulware enjoyed excellent educational
advantages, and when nineteen years old began to
teach school in his native county, and devoted his
spare time to the study of law. He subsequently

attended the Transylvania Law School, at Lexington,
Kentucky, graduating in 1853, when he located at
Fulton and began the practice of his profession. In
1858 Mr. Boulware was elected to represent Calla-
way county in the state legislature. He honored
the position and his party. Politically he is a Dem-
ocrat, and at the presidential election preceding the
Rebellion, he voted for John C. Breckenridge. In
1856 Mr. Boulware married Miss Ann M. Lack, of
Franklin county, Missouri.

As alegal practitioner he stands high in pub-
lic esteem; especially is he successful as a criminal
attorney. Personally and socially he has qualities
that have won for him the deepest regard of a wide
circle of friends.

JUDGE HENDERSON YOUNG.

LEXING TON.

Hawkins county, Tennessee. His parents

HENDERSON YOUNG was born in I806, in
were William and Betsy (Leper) Young. His family
were Scotch-Irish, and of a long and honored lineage.
But all the genealogical records were destroyed by
fire in a conflagration some years since, so that it is
impossible to give names and birth.

The subject of this sketch was educated at Knox-
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ville, Tennessee, studied ‘law under Judge Samuel

‘Powell of the same city, was licensed August 20,

1832, by Judges Powell and Scott of the Supreme
Court of Tennessee, when on his way to Missouri.
He arrived in Lafayette county in 1833, and imme-
diately entered upon his profession. In~a few years
he built up a large and lucrative practice and gained
a wide spread popularity both among the legal frater-

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nity and the people. In 1842 he was circuit attorney
for the 6th Judicial-Circuit of Missouri. January 1,
1844, he was appointed judge of the 12th Judicial Cir-
cuit,by Governor Thomas Reynolds,and re-appointed
by Governor John C. Edwards inI 845. Upon receiving
his appointment in 1844, he had removed to Weston,
Platte county, to make his residence in the district,
and at the expiration of his term of office in 1846 he
returned to Lexington. January I, 1848, he was
appointed by Governor A. A. King judge of the 6th
Judicial Circuit of Missouri for eight years; but in
1849 the state law was changed, making the judiciary
elective, and he was, at the first election under the
new law, elected to the same position and commis-

sioned by Governor King.
his death, which occurred July 2 3, I854.

Death found him well prepared and full of honors,
beloved and respected by all, with his weeping fam-
ily around him, as the good man passed upward to
the Great‘ Judge’s presence. _

Reared by Presbyterian parents, himself a mem-
ber of the Methodist church from early manhood till
life’s close, he was fully prepared for the Great
Assize. . ' ,

Judge Henderson Young was married May 23,
1839, to Miss Doshea Callaway, daughter of Thomas
and Lucinda (Henderson) Callaway, of Bedford
county, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM YOUNG.

LEXIIVG T0./V.

ILLIAM YOUNG, son of Henderson and
  Doshea (Callaway) Young, was born in Haw-
kins county, Tennessee, September‘ 10, 1842. He
received a common school education under the intel-
lectual tutelage of David Herndon Lindsey. Subse-
quently, in 1858, he attended Masonic College, Lex-
ington, and one session at the military college known
as Lafayette Military Institute. He then entered
CentralCollege,at Fayette, Howard county, Missouri,
with the intention of graduating 3 but the excitement
incident to the outbreak of the Rebellion in 1861,
caused him to leave school in February of that year,
and return to his grandfather’s farm in Lafayette
county, four months before he would have completed
his course. _

When Governor Claiborne Jackson of Missouri
called for volunteers in the Southern‘ cause in May,
I86[, Mr. Young was planting corn 3 but his whole
heart being enlisted in honor of his state and the main-
tenance of state rights, he dropped his plow and
offered his services to the Missouri Stateguards, Cap-
tain Hiram M. Bledsoe’s celebrated battery, and went
into the strife. The history of that battery is so well
known as to need very little space here. It is history
that it engaged in more fights than almost any other
company of the service in the South—-having partici-
pated in twenty-seven pitched battles beside many
skirmishes. He had two horses shot from under him
at the battle of Carthage, and at the engagement of

W ilson’s Creek he lost his left arm and three fingers
from his right hand, also receiving a painful wound
in the right breast. He was left at Springfield hospi-
tal, but as soon as he was able he returned home.
He taught school in Fayette county for one year,
when the opportunity offering, he went south with

I General Price’s Confederate command and remained

in Waco, Texas, until September, I86 5. Returning
to Lafayette county, he taught school another year.

Mr. Young has been busily engaged all his leisure
hours, since being so badly disabled by his wounds,
in reading law, and having studied underJudge Sam-
uel L. Sawyer, at Independence, Missouri, one year,
he was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1868, by
Judge Tutt. He opened his office in Lexington in
July, 1868, in partnership with Henry L. Haynes.
In the fall of 1869 he formed a partnership with
Judge Tutt.

While engaged in his law pursuits Mr. Young
took charge of the editorial department of the Lex-
ington I22/6/Zzjge/2537*, a Democratic paper started by a
few gentlemen in_ the financial interests of the county.
Its first issue was in April, 1871, and he continued

with it about sixteen months. In 1872 he was elected

sheriff of Lafayette county for two years. In May,
1874, Governor Hardin, at the earnest request of the
tax—payers, without regard to party, appointed him
judge of Lafayette county court, to fill a vacancy.
The enormous debt of $1,500,000 was at that time

He held the office until"

THE U./VZTED STATES B[0G[i’.4PH]CAL DZCTIO./VARY.

saddled upon the county, and it was evident its finan-
cial affairs needed a thorough reform, and that a legal
mind was necessary upon-the bench. The old court
had been asked to resign, and had yielded to the
pressure. The tax-payers’ convention then asked
Mr. Young to accept the task, insisting he should
serve his county in her hour of need. At considera-
ble pecuniary sacrifice he reluctantly consented and
served on the county court until the fall of 1876.
Then, their finances being settled on a safe basis, he
refused a reelection and resumedhis professional prac-
tice. In the fall of 1876 the Democratic party elec-

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ted him prosecuting attorney of Lafayette county for
two years. Mr. Young was raised a Methodist, but
is not a member of any church. ‘He was born and
raised in the Democratic faith in politics, and has
never forsaken his early teaching.

June 24, 1874, William Young was married to
Miss Adelaide Wilson, daughter of Robert H. and
Mary (Chamberlain) Wilson, of Lafayette county.
Her mother was of a Quaker family from Ohio coun-
ty, West Virginia, but originally of Revolutionary
stock. Two children have blessed this union, only
one of whom is living, named William Wilson Young.

ISAAC PEARSON.

FAYETTE.

dal, county of Westmoreland, England, January
21, 1810. His father, John Pearson, was a dissent-
ing minister, and his paternal grandfather a member
of the Society of Friends. Mary Bland was the
maiden name of his mother, daughter of a distin-
guished botanist of Kendal, a town about seventy-
five miles north of Liverpool.

Isaac Pearson received his elementary education
in his native town, which he completed at Cross-

ISAAC PEARSON was born in the town of Ken-

crake, a noted parochial school some four miles dis- .

tant. On the 27th of December, 1825, in company
with an elder brother, Thomas H. Pearson, he
embarked at Liverpool on board the sailing vessel
Julius Caesar, Captain French, bound for’ Philadel-
phia, where, after a tedious voyage, they arrived on
the 17th of February, 1826, and joined an old friend
of the family, Joseph Simpson, who was engaged in
merchandising at the town of Old Franklin, Howard
county, Missouri, who had, after completing his
purchases in the city, been waiting some days for
them. With him they came to Missouri and by him
Isaac was employed to assist in the store. Mr.
Simpson, in connection with John Nanson, hada
store at Fayette also. Isaac remained in the employ-
ment of Simpson and his widow some four years,
alternating between the two places, keeping the
books at Franklin and assisting in the store at Fay-
ette.

In the spring of 1830 he invested in goods some
five hundred dollars that he had saved, and in com-

pany with a Spaniard started A for Santa Fe, Mexico.
After a tedious trip of about three months he arrived
at his point of destination, having acquired from his
traveling companion sufficient knowledge of the
Spanish language for business purposes. He soon
effected a profitable sale of his goods, and in the
latter part of the summer went down to Chihuahua,
where he engaged in business, making frequent trips
to the principal manufacturing towns of the Repub-
lic, going as far south as the city of Mexico. . Dur-
ing his stay in that country, which was about four
years, he visited several of their annual fairs at some
of the more important towns, which were occasions
of great interest. In October, 1834, he returned to
Fayette, having made some twelve thousand dollars
during his absence.

About three years after Simpson’s death, which
occurred in 1828, Thomas Pearson acquired an inter-
est in the store" at Fayette, where he, in connection
with Nanson, was doing business when Isaac returned
from Mexico. He then purchased Nanson’s interest,
and the Pearson Brothers continued the business for
several years, during which time Isaac purchased a.
fine farm near town, to which much of his attention
was devoted.

In 1845 he retired from the mercantile business,
sold his farm, and made another trip to Chihuahua,
remaining this time a little less than a year. Return-
ing to Fayette in 1846, he was employed as book-

‘keeper for the firm of Boon, Talbot & C0,, in which

business he continued for several years. Afterward

690 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

he formed a co-partnership with William C. Boon
and Benjamin Smith, into which firm Samuel J.
Duncan was subsequently admitted, which firm,
with slight changes, transacted a very large and
profitable business until about the close of the war,
having for several years a very large house in Glas-
gow, under the firm name of Smith, Boon & Co.,
and subsequently of Boon, Bostwick & Co., Mr.
Pearson all the time retaining an interest and himself

keeping the books of their extensive and complicated 1

business. The difficult and important task of closing

‘up this extensive business devolved upon him, as the

other partners, during the excitement caused by the
war, had left the state. Since this time he has not
been personally engaged in mercantile pursuits.
During the existence of the old Whig party, Mr.
Pearson generally acted with it, but since its dissolu-
tion he has affiliated with the Democrats. He has
never, however, sacrificed his judgment to the behests
of party, always regarding personal character for hon-
esty and integrity a better qualification for office
than the ability to pronounce the shibboleth of party.
He has never formally connected himself with
any church, though he has always had great respect
for religion. His hereditary predilections are in
favor of the doctrines and practices of the Society
of Friends. Since his marriagehe has been a regu-
lar attendant upon and a liberal supporter of the
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of
which his wife was a devoted and excellent member.
His marriage with this excellent lady, Julia A. Hun-
tington, daughter of Jonathan Huntington, of St.
Louis, took place in that city May 20, 1836, of
whose character and virtues, if this were the time

and place to speak, too much could not well be said.
She, in connection withiher sisters, Martha and
Harriet Huntington, (the former subsequently Mrs.
Benjamin Smith, of Fayette, and the latter ‘Mrs.
James Campbell, of Springfield, Illinois,) organized
and taught the first female school of high grade ever
established in Howard county, and the refining
influences of the lives and teachings of these excel-
lent ladies are still apparent in the community in
which they lived and labored. Mrs. Pearson died
January 13, 1866. They had but one child, a son,
Isaac Huntington, a young man who during a busi-
ness career of some twelve years has proved himself
a worthy son of an honored sire.

February I0, 1867, he was united in marriage
with Kate, daughter of Rev. R. E. Terry, a minis-
ter of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at that time
rector of a church in Wilmington, North Carolina,
now of one in Hudson, New York. Mrs. Isaac H.
Pearson is a lady of education and refinement, pos_
sessed of varied accomplishments, not the least of
which is that of an excellent housewife. They have
four children living, all sons, and have lost one in
infancy, also a son.

‘The family live together in an elegant and com-
fortable home in the northwestern extremity of the
city of ‘Fayette, surrounded with all that is requisite
to make life desirable. The son is actively engaged
in his large mercantile pursuits.
his time between the supervision of his farm, some

_ two miles south of Fayette, and the enjoyment of

the delights and endearments of a home where each
vies with the other in efforts to promote the happi-
ness of all.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL JACKSON L. SMITH.

_/EFFERSOZV CITY.

ACKSON LEONIDAS SMITH was born Jan-
uary 31, 1838, in Callaway county, Missouri.
His father, Richard Smith, was a native of

Tennessee ,- emigrated to Missouri territory in 1816,
settling in Old Frankli_n, then the most western
military outpost in the United States; engaged in
teaching for a while but afterwards became a far-
mer, was married to Miss Eliza Waggoner, whose
father emigrated from North Carolina in 1834,

and had three children—two daughters and a son.
Jackson L. Smith attended the public schools of
his native county in his boyhood, and, subsequently,
the State University at Columbia. He began the
study of law in the office of General M. M. Par-
sons, of Jefferson City, in May, 1858, and was
admitted to the bar in December, 1860. He imme-
diately formed a partnership with General Parsons
in the practice of law, which continued until tha

The father divides P

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPIJICAZ. DICTIO./VARY. 691

gentleman entered the Confederate army. He then
continued to practice alone until 1864, and during
these three years firmly established his reputation as
a prudent counselor and sagacious and able lawyer.
In 1864 he formed a copartnership with- Hon. H
Clay Ewing,_late attorney-general of Missouri, but
the partnership was dissolved in 1876, when Gen-
eral Smith was elected to the office he now holds.
Since his election, many important questions have
arisen which he has been called upon to study and
decide, and his decisions have uniformly exhibited
clearness of thought, power of analysis and pro-
found knowledge of the law. He is ‘justly regarded
as one of the first lawyers of the state and has
probably had more cases before the Missouri

Supreme Court than any other man of his age.

In politics he is a Democrat, but not an active
politician. He has never held a ‘strictly political
office, that of attorney-general, to which he was
elected and which he now holds, being wholly within
the sphere of his legitimate profession.

He is not a member of any church organization,
but is a liberal contributor to all the denominations.

He was married in 1863 to Miss Fannie W.
Chappell, sister of Philip E. Chappell, president of the
National Exchange Bank, of Jefferson City, whose
biography appears elsewhere in this volume. They
have one son by this marriage, Clay Ewing Smith,
now eleven years of age—a bright, intelligent and
promising lad.

CAPTAIN JOHN W. PATTISON-.

_/EFFERSOJV CITY.

Fairfield county, Connecticut, January 28,

JOHN W. PATTISON was born in Easton,
183o._ His father, Dr. John P. Pattison, a

graduate of the Pennsylvania Medical College, was, ,

through the kindness of English rule, permitted to
migrate to America from the north of Ireland—
county Caven———with five other brothers, immedi-
ately after the rebellion of 1798 3 all youngsters, but
of bad stock to Ireland under English rule. All
the brothers prospered. Dr. Pattison, after gradu-
ating at the Pennsylvania Medical College, married
Sophia Oakley, a lady of one of the old Puritan
stock families of New England, and settled in the
practice of his profession near_the homestead of the
Oakley family in Fairfield county. John W. Patti-
son was intended for a doctor or divine—the former
being the preference of the father, and neither the
preference of the son, who, when at thirteen years
of age, made his first dash for liberty from the Eas-
ton Academy, sold his Virgil, Sallust, Greek gram-
mar, etc., which he was trying to master, and in
New York shipped as cabin boy on a Liverpool
packet, only to be captured by his uncle before the
vessel sailed, and returned to his pleasant home in
Connecticut, and from thence sent to the Wilbra-
ham University, in Massachusetts, where some of
his Wild, Irish pranks, before graduating, are told
to-day by the old faculty.

At eighteen he turns up as editor of the Umbn
Repulz/z'am, a Democratic paper at the county seat
of Monroe county, Virginia 3 and at nineteen, editor
and proprietor of the Saul/zze/esferzz Advocrzte, at
Tazewell Court-house, Virginia, (the home organ of
Governor Floyd). Prior to this he had been elected
delegate to the state Democratic convention held at
Richmond, where came the struggle between the
“old fogy” wing of the party, headed by Buchan-
an’s friends, and the “young Americas,” lead by
the friends of Stephen A. Douglas, Pattison, the
youngest member of the body, cast five Votes for the
latter element during its three days of stormy ses-
sion. Those he esteems as proud days, for his side
won. At twenty years of age he is on the then fron-
tier, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, as partner of Joseph
E. Johnson, a live, wide-awake Mormon, and the
new firm started the first newspaper published in
the beautiful territory of Nebraska. There was no
money in the enterprise. United States Marshal
Doyle, of Nebraska, selected Pattison as deputy,
and, on the death of the chief, he became acting
United States Marshal, in which office he remained
for nearly a year, and was one of the leading colo-
nization spirits of the frontier as well as a member
of the Democratic central committee of that terri-
tory. In the outbreak of the Indian troubles, in
1855, he was commissioned captain of the 1st com-

692 ' THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOZVAIBY.

pany Nebraska volunteers, and for his first “pure
cussedness,” as he terms it, in killing seven Paw-
nees, with a squad of his company, whom he found
plundering a meager settlement on the upper Elk
Horn river, he was promoted to lieutenant—colonel,
and served on the staff of General Thayer during
the brief Indian war. For four or five years he
roughed it, emphatically, and the gilt and ragged
edges of fortune, as well as a joyous Weddingon the
frontier, came to him. The financial crash of 1857
found him rich in lands, town lots, etc., but co1npar-
atively poor. ‘He had married an estimable young
lady, Miss Henrietta Redinour, of Quincy, Illinois,
a.nd when the little fortune he had accumulated
went drifting off in the dark clouds of that panic, he
sold his stock, purchased a printing office, and loca-
ted, as editor and proprietor of the Soul/172/esiem
/owiarz, a live Democratic newspaper published at
Sidney, Fremont county, Iowa. The civil war
came. Under the political code of Iowa then, no
Democrat need apply for commissions, and though
twice elected by men he assisted in enlisting in the
volunteer service, to a captaincy, he was kindly

informed that his politics would be a bar to his,

obtaining a commission. He became a volunteer-
aid in the Army of the Potomac, and then an officer
in the Army of the West, leaving the army at the

close of the war and moving with his fa1nily—a wife
and three daughters——to Quincy, Illinois, where he
became city editor of the Quincy Herald, and after-
wards editor of the Quincy Evezzi/7g fozmzal. Mis-
souri seemed his natural home and, in 1867, he took
editorial charge of the Sawmza/2 (Missouri) U/zzbzz,
from thence to the staff of the S1. Louis Repzzblzka/2,
then to the editorship of the S2‘. fosep/1 Gazelle,
where his earnest advocacy of the recognition of
Irish nationality on the state ticket, materially
assisted in securing the nomination and election of
Hon- M. K. ~ McGrath as Secretary of State, with
whom he is engaged as book-keeper.

Since the above was in type we have, learned of
Mr. Pattison’s death, which occurred in Jefferson
City, Saturday morning, February 23, I878,_aged
forty-eight years and twenty-five days. He had for
some time been confined to his bed with "abdominal
dropsy, the disease finally culminating in internal
hemorrhage of the bowels and stomach and causing
death. He leaves a widow and three daughters,
Misses Norah, Alice and Hettie. At the time of his
death he was a clerk in the office of the Secretary of
State, a position he has held since the present secre-
tary took charge of the office. . He was secretary of
the Jefferson City fire company, and the members
attended his funeral in‘a body.

JUDGE LUCIUS SALISBURY.

SALISB UR Y.

His father
was Belcher Salisbury, who married Nancy Lamson,
a descendant of Miles Standish. The ancestors on
both sides were active participants in the Revolu-
tionary war. Belcher Salisbury’s father, William
Salisbury, died near Boston, when his son Belcher
was a small boy, this son when yet a youth moved
to Brattleborough, Vermont, thence to Derby Line,
on the Canada border," thence to Randolph, Ver-
mont, some sixty years ago, where he died in 1863,
aged seventy-two years. During his life he filled

UCIUS SALISBURY was born at West Ran-
J dolph, Vermont, June II, 1824.

many official and political positions, was a Whig and‘

an ardent admirer of Daniel Webster and Henry
Clay.

Lucius received a common school education in
his native town, working on his father’s farm in the
summer season and attending school in the winter
months, until 1843. In that year he went to St.
Louis to live with an elder brother, Captain Philan-
der Salisbury, then engaged in the boot and shoe
trade in that city. After remaining here about two
years, he was sent by his brothers, Philander and
Thomas Lamson Salisbury, to Keytesville, in Chari-
ton county, Missouri, to assist in clerking and to
take charge of a country store. After two years

I service he and a fellow—clerk named William E. Hill
bought the establishment and continued the business I

some five or six years under the firm name of
Salisbury Hill. In 1853 the partnership was dis-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZOIVARY. 693

solved and Mr. Salisbury carried on the establishment
by himself five years longer.

In January,‘ 1858, he moved to his fine farm in
Chariton county, where the town of Salisbury now
stands and where his residence still is. In 1866
Mr. Salisbury laid off the town which bears his
name. It is situated on what was then called the
West Branch of the North Missouri railroad (now
the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern), one hun-

dred and sixty-seven miles west of St. Louis and’

seven miles east of Keytesville, the county seat of
Chariton county; the location is a fine one, being
on a high and gently undulating "prairie, and is one
of the most beautiful sites for an inland town to be
found in the West. Here, adjoining the town he
founded, the proprietor has ever since been engaged
in farming andstock raising. V

Judge Salisbury has been an earnest advocate of
railroads since 1850, and was the author of perhaps
the first communication from the rural districts in
relation to the construction of the road from St.
Louis westward, via St. Charles, on the north side
of the Missouri river. His able contributions on
this subject were mostly published in the ]llz'.s~sozz7'z'

Repzzlzlzkan, and had great weight in forming the sub- '

sequent legislation of the state in regard to this
important enterprise. He has been a railroad direc-
tor for sixteen years.

_ In August, 1850, he was elected a member of
the county court of Chariton county, which position
he held four years. In T862 the county officers, as
well as most of the state officials, resigned, rather
than take the oath of loyalty prescribed by the con-
vention. Governor Hamilton R. Gamble in that
year appointed our subject a judge of the county
court, which position he held "till elected to represent
his county in the State Legislature, which election
occurred in the autumn of the same year. In this
capacity he served, with honor to himself and to the
interests of his constituents, at intervals for six years.
In 1870 he came within a -few votes of receiving the
Democratic nomination for representative in Con-
gress from the then Ioth congressional district, Hon.
A. Comingo, of Jackson county,.being the success-
ful candidate.

At the meeting of the legislature in January,
I869, Judge Salisbury received the unanimous nomi-
nation of the Democratic caucus for speaker of the
houseiof representatives, as well as the entire Dem-
ocratic vote, and during the last two years of his
legislative career was chairman of the caucus com-

posed of the Democratic members of both houses of

A the State Legislature.

It was during this period that the celebrated
“passive policy” of the Democratic party of Mis-
souri was adopted, which secured the election of B.
Gratz Brown as Governor. Judge Salisbury claims
to have originated that policy, regarding it as the
surest and speediest means of redeeming the state
from Radical rule——a consummation he considered
of vital importance.

Since the close of his last legislative term the
Judge has devoted his attention principally to his
farm and stock interests. Meanwhile he has filled
the chairmanship of the board of trustees for the
town of Salisbury some four or five years, and always
manifests a deep interest in the political questions
and events of his county, state and nation. He is a
regular attendant upon all the political gatherings in
his state, except those of a local character, and
when occasion requires lending his great personal
influence to the principles he has espoused. At the
same time he has kept a watchful eye upon the inter-
ests of the community in the matter of facilities for
travel, being an ardent advocate of_ good county
roads as well as railways.

From his youth until the year Stephen A". Doug-
las was nominated for the Presidency, Judge Salis-
bury was a Whig and active in politics. He was

president of the convention, in 1856, that nomina-

ted Hon. James J. Lindley (now judge of one of the

courts of St. Louis) as a candidate for Congress in_

opposition to Claiborne F. Jackson, the Democratic
candidate. The contest between Lindley and Jack-
son was the most exciting ever known in Missouri,
and resulted in the election of the former. Since
the death of - the Whig party, and in the present
aspect of affairs, he is and has been ardent and deci-
ded in his advocacy of Democracy.

Judge Salisbury served some eight years as post-
master at Keytesville, Missouri, having received his
appointment from Postmaster-General Cave Johnson,
November 15, 1847. I ‘

Judge Salisbury is not a member of any church 3
his faith inclines to Presbyterianism, and he has
great respect for religion, liberally supporting its
interests to the extent of his ability, without refer-
ence to the particular name of its representatives.
He has been a Mason since 1868.

April 13, 1847, he was married to Harriet Newel
Hutchinson, youngest ‘daughter of Nathaniel Hutch-
inson, of Braintree, Vermont. Mr. Hutchinson was

694 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

a leading influential man in his town, county and state,
purely Democratic always. Arthur V. and Hattie
Hutchinson are the surviving children of Lucius and
Harriet N. Salisbury. The former was the first boy
born within the now corporate limits of Salisbury 3 he

is now (1878) seventeen years of age and his sister thir-
teen. In person Judge Salisbury is commanding,
five feet ten and a half inches high, large gray eyes,
light brown hair, fair complexion, and weighs from
one hundred and ninety to two hundred pounds.

HON. J. w. L. SLAVENS.

KANSAS CITY.

county, Indiana, August 3, 1838. His great-
grandfather, John Slavens, a Scotch-Irish Protest-
ant, settled in Virginia in early life, where he raised
a large family. His youngest son, Isaiah Slavens,
the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, served
five years in the Revolutionary war, and soon after
its close, having married a Miss Stewart, of Mary-
land, he removed to Kentucky, and for a time
engaged in surveying. Three of his sons having
enlisted in the war of 1812, he determined to join
them, and immediately volunteered and served out
the term of his enlistment. He died in Putnam
county, Indiana, aged eighty—siX years. Hiram B.
Slavens, the father of James, was born in Mont-
gomery county, Kentucky, in 1:802. He acquireda
good education for the times, and for several years
taught school in his native county. He removed to
Putnam county, Indiana, in 1827, where he entered
land on which he resided the rest of his life engaged
in farming. In 1830 he married Sarah Holland,
daughter of William Holland, who was born and
raised in Bath county, Kentucky. Her ancestors
came from England and Scotland to Virginia. Her
mother’s maiden name was Susannah Grant. Hiram
Slavens was widely known as a good citizen and an
earnest friend of education. He gave active aid in
the foundation of Asbury University, of Indiana.
James worked on his father’s farm until he was
old enough to attend college, when he entered the
Indiana Asbury University, and taking a classical
course he graduated with high honor in 1859.
After his graduation he was married to Miss Mattie
McNutt, a daughter of Collin and Mary McNutt,
of Douglas county, Illinois, and immediately moved
upon a tract of land which he bought in Douglas
county, Illinois, there remained one year, getting

JAMES w. L. sLAvENs‘ was born in Putnam

his land fenced and securing a tenant. In the
meantime he gave considerable attention to the
study of law, which he prosecuted exclusively the
ensuing year, and in the spring of 1861 began the
practice in Tuscola with William McKenzie. He
soon after enlisted in the 73d Illinois Regiment
United States volunteers, and was commissioned
quarter-master of the regiment, but soon after get-
ting into the field was detailed into the subsistence
department where he continued until the close of
the war, serving the last year on the staff of Major-
General George H. Thomas, and was mustered out
of the service in July, 1865.

He removed to Kansas City in the fall of 1865,
living for a short time at Independence, and in the
spring of I866 began the practice of law at Kansas
City with his brother, L. C. Slavens. He was
elected treasurer of Kansas City in the spring of
1867, and in the spring of 1868 formed a copart-
nership with E. W. Pattison and William Epperson
in thebeef and pork packing business. They built
that season the first packing house in Kansas City—-
the stone house now owned by Nofsinger & Co., in
West Kansas City—and in the fall of that year they
packed four thousand five hundred head of cattle,
which was the beginning of the large beef packing
business for which Kansas City has become cele-
brated. The following year he became associated in

the packing business at Kansas City with J. C. Fer-.

guson and others, of Indianapolis, and built the

brick packing house now occupied by Slavens &"

Oburn. During the last nine years this house has
packed annually an average of thirteen thousand
beef cattle‘ and forty thousand hogs. Their goods
are sent to all parts of the world. To this business
Mr. Slavens gives his entire attention.

In political faith Mr. Slavens is a Republican,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

though never taking an active part in politics. He
was elected mayor of Kansas City on the Republican
ticket in 1877. He is a Mason, a Good Templar,
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

695

He was a lay delegate to the general conference
of that church held in Baltimore in 1876. Mr.
Slavens is one of the most enterprising and public-
spirited citizens of Kansas City.

MAJOR A. 1.

MA CON

]. WILLIAMS was born February 8, I829,
. at Honeoye Falls, Monroe county, New
York. His parents were Benajah and jerusha
(Smith) Williams. His father was a Methodist cler-
gyman, a native of Bennington, Vermont, and his
mother was a native of Hartford, Connecticut.

The subject of" this sketch was educated at Mead-
ville College, Pennsylvania, in which institution his
brother, Lorenzo D. Williams, was professor of the
natural sciences for a number of years.

In 1850 he began to read law in Cuyahoga coun-
ty, and completed his legal studies in Lake county,
Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar, April
18, 1854. In the same year he located at Paines—
ville, Ohio, and practiced his profession there until
1861, when he entered the Union army as 2d lieu-
tenant of company D, 7th Ohio volunteer infantry.
He was in active service about six months in West-
ern Virginia, when on account of impaired health
he was compelled to resign his commission. Upon
his return home he was elected journal clerk of the

WILLIAMS.

CITY.

Ohio House of Representatives, and served two
sessions. In 1860 Major Williams was the regular
Democratic candidate for Congress in the Cleveland
(Ohio) district. In june, 1863, he entered the pay
department of the army, serving in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee until. the termination of the war.

In May, 1866, he moved to Missouri and located
in Macon, where he resumed the practice of his pro-
fession. In politics he is a staunch Democrat. He
is a member of the Episcopal church.

In 1849, while attending Meadville College,
Major Williams married Miss Amelia C. French, of
Lake county, Ohio.

His intelligence, enterprise, integrity, and many
estimable qualities, have acquired for him a popular-
ity not derived from any factitious circumstances,
but a permanent and spontaneous tribute to his merit.
He is a gentleman of liberal impulses, public-spirited
as a citizen and conscientious as a churchman, and
has won the lasting respect of the community for his
blameless business and social life.

JUDGE WILLIAM CECIL PRICE.

SPRINGFIELD.

ILLIAM C. PRICE was born in Russell
 iv county, Virginia, April I, 1816. He is the
third child of Crabtree and Linny Cecil Price, and
of English and Welsh ‘descent. His father was a
farmer and emigrated to Greene county, Missouri, in
1836..
William was given the advantages of a common
school education in his early boyhood, and when
twenty years of age was sent to Knoxville College

in Tennessee, where he remained one year. Upon
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reaching Missouri he engaged in teaching school one
year in Greene county, after which he entered a gen-
eral merchandising store as_clerk, and was a faith-
ful and industrious employé. He improved all his
leisure time during the two years of his clerkship
in reading law. In 1840 he was appointed dep-
uty sheriff of Greene county, and at the termination
of his one year of service, was appointed justice of
Greene county court, filling out an unexpired term.
In 1844 he was admitted to the bar and practiced

696 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

his profession until r847,when he was elected pro-
batejudge of Greene county. This position he held
for two years, when he resumed his profession.

In 1854 Judge Price was elected to the state sen-
ate, and filled the position with marked ability. In
1857 he resigned his place in the senate, having been
appointed by Governor Polk to fill an unexpired
term as circuit judge of the 27th Judicial District.
At the expiration of his term he resumed his prac-
tice. In 1859 he was appointed by Governor Stew-
art‘ of Missouri, as agent to represent the state

‘in the General Land office at Washington, on
the subject of swamp and overflowed lands in the"

several states in which they were located. So deci-
ded was Judge Price in the stand he took that he
saved several hundred thousand acres of land for his
state.

In 1860 he was appointed by President Buchanan
to fill the unexpired term of Judge Casey, as United
States Treasurer. He held this position until the
inauguration of President Lincoln. »

Judge Price having been a Buchanan Democrat,
and favoring the states rights doctrine, espoused
the Southern cause and entered the Confederate army
as a private soldier under General Price, in McBride’s
brigade Missouri volunteers. He was captured at
Pea Ridge and taken to Alton, Illinois, and after
remaining in prison eight months was exchanged at
Vicksburg. He was assigned by President Davis to
the Adjutant General’s Department, with the rank of

cavalry major, and given duty in Missouri as organi-
zing officer in the Confederate service.

In the spring of 1863 he resigned his position in
the army and having lost all his property during the
war, for want of attention which he could not give it,
he decided to go to farming, consequently he moved
down into Arkansas near Mount Olive, where he
farmed until 1867, in which year he moved to St.
Louis and practiced his profession. In 1869 Judge
Price located in Springfield where he has since resi-
ded, actively engaged as a leading lawyer.

June, I842, he married Miss Sarah J. Kimbrough,
of Kentucky. This estimable wife and mother died
in August, 18 59, leaving four sons and three daugh-
ters, three of whom are now (1878) living: Benjamin
B., Simon C. and Thomas W. August 27, 1860,
he married Miss Lydia C. Dow, daughter of Ira M.
Dow, of Hardwick, Caledonia county, Vermont.
She was born March 15, 1836, and was educated at
Fairfax, Vermont. They have had three children,
two of whom are living—Al1na D., agediseven, and
Willie C., aged four.

Judge Price takes no interest in politics, being
entirely devoted to his profession. He was formerly
connected with the Methodist Church (South), but
of late years has not joined them in their religious
services. Judge Price is a man" whose educational,
legal and social abilities give him a position in the
front ranks of the men of to—day. He is an honored
citizen and highly esteemed by all who know him.

BENJAMIN F. STONE.

MA C0./V.

ENJAMIN F. STONE was born February 12,
B His father,
Joseph Stone, was a native of Wayne county, Ken-
tucky; a carpenter by trade and a farmer, settled
in Randolph county, Missouri, in 183 7, andlocated in
Macon county in I839._ His mother, Melinda Bur-
ris, was born in Virginia.

Benjamin F. Stone was reared on the farm. His
education was liberal, his collegiate course having
been completed at McGee college, from which insti-
tution he graduated in 18 59. In 1860 he taught
school in Macon county. He enlisted as a private
soldier in Company K, roth Missouri infantry of the

1840, in Macon county, Missouri.

Union army, and was in the service over a year.
He participated in the battles of Iuka and Corinth ,
in the latter battle he received a wound in the right
arm which necessitated its amputation and rendered
him unfit for further military service. He returned
to Macon in 1863 and remained on his father’s farm

during the years 1863, ’64 and ’65, and made the.

study of the law his principal business. He removed
to Macon City in [866 and still further prosecuted
his studies under the direction and instruction of
Benjamin R. Dysart, Esq., of that place, and was
admitted to practice in the latter year He acted as

‘superintendent of public schools of Macon county

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during the year 1866, and in the fall of that year I

was a candidate on the Democratic ticket for the
office of circuit clerk, but was defeated by john M.
London. In the fall of 1868 he was elected county
treasurer, and served two years. He was elected
county recorder in the fall election of I870, and
served out his full term, four years. In January,
187 5, he and Walter Brown purchased the Demo-

cmz‘z'c Tz'77/zes, of Macon City, which he edited for
about eight months. ' \In the following fall he con-
solidated his paper with several others under the
title of the Illczm/2 Exami/267', and conducted the
editorial department of that journal until June,
1877. ,

He was married September 23, 1875, to Miss
Mittie Powell, of Macon county.

DR. HARRIS SOPER GREENO.

KANSAS CITY.

R. HARRIS S. GREENO was born at Mill-
D port, Chemung county, New York, August 7,
1832. His father, Samuel Greeno, was born at
Rutland, Vermont, in 1779. He was amillwright
andcarpenter, pursuing these occupations during his
life, a man of fair common school education and an
expert in his business, an extensive contractor and
builder. He enlisted in the war of 1812 as a pri-
vate soldier, but in consequence of his ability as a
mechanic was detailed and placed in charge of the
construction of boats for government use at Buffalo,
New York, and was in command of one of the boats
that crossed the American troops at Black Rock,
near Buffalo, and captured a British fort. The grand-
father of Dr. Greeno was the first settler in Rutland
county, Vermont, settling on Otter Creek, his near-
est neighbor being at Bennington, twenty-six miles
distant. He was at three different times driven from
his home and his house burned down by Indians,
but finally succeeded in clearing up his land and
making for himself a home in the then wilderness.
Two of the cousins of the subject of this sketch still
occupy the old homestead by inheritance, no deed
ever having been made from its first entry. He was
of French origin, a liberal or free thinker, not con-
necting himself with any church. His son, the
father of Dr. Greeno, in the latter part of his life
became a Christian, uniting with that church.

The mother of Dr. Greeno w-as Matilda (Fisher)
Greeno, born in Orwell, Vermont, in 1793. She
was of Scotch origin, a lady of devout piety, orig-
inally a Baptist, but in the latter part of her life
uniting with the Christian church. One of her
brothers was a soldier during the war of 1812, and
lost a leg by a cannon ball, whilst crossing Niagara

river at Black Rock for the capture of a British fort.

Both of the Doctor’s parents died at johnstown,
Berry county, Michigan, in the fall of 1849, within
two months of each other. One of his brothers,
Isaac, died the same night of his mother’s death,
and both were buried in the same grave. Two weeks
later his youngest brother, Horace, died, leaving
Dr. Greeno the only member of the family living at
home at the time.

At this time, being only seventeen years old, he
removed to Owego, New York, where he had a
brother living, and entered the Owego Academy.
He paid his tuition by doing the work of janitor to
the institution, and paid his board by working nights
and mornings at other occupations. This course he
pursued for over two years, securing a fair education.
He then engaged himself to the Panama Railroad
Company as a hospital steward and bookkeeper for
the medical department, remaining on the Isthmus
six months, saving in the time six hundred dollars—
the first considerable amount of money he ever

‘owned. This enabled him to pursue the study of

medicine, which he had previously determined upon.
After studying medicine one year he engaged in the
dry goods business as Roseville, Tioga county, Penn-
sylvania, but in the winter of 18 5 5 his store was
entirely destroyed by fire. He then determined to

finish his medical education previously commenced, »

visited Philadelphia, entered the medical department
of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in
1857. He then removed to Amboy, Lee county,
Illinois, and entered upon the practice of medicine,
remaining there until August, 18 58, when he removed
to Kansas, settling at Osawotomie and practicing
his profession till the fall of 18 59, when he removed

698 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

to Fort Scott, where he practiced medicine until the
breaking out of the War in 1861. I

There being then great excitement at Fort Scott
and along the border between Kansas and Missouri,
the settlers constantly in fear of raids from Missouri,
there being no military protection at that time, he
organized an independent force of citizens and refu-
gees, Union men from Missouri, of over one hundred
men, and established a camp on Cox’s Creek, twelve
miles south of Fort Scott. In that capacity he
patrolled the border and brought persecuted Union
men and their families out of Missouri, and gave
such protection as was in his power to the people of
the border, thus continuing until General Lane
arrived with Kansas troops in August, 1861, when
he disbanded his men and most of them entered the
regular service. He was tendered an appointment
as surgeon in the 3rd Kansas, but having had some
experience in military tactics, he declined the posi-
tion and entered the service as captain of Company
C, 6th Kansas volunteers. Immediately after, he
participated in the battle of the Drywood. He
remained at Fort Scott during the winter of 1861-2,
having command of the cavalry, under Colonel jud-
son as post-commandant, being actively engaged all
that time in scouting, and having frequent guerrilla
engagements with bushwhackers and other irregular
Confederate troops who infested the border.

In the spring of 1862 he was placed in charge of
four companies of the 6th Kansas cavalry, attached to
the command of Colonel Charles Doubleday, of the
2nd Ohio Cavalry, and started on an expedition to
the Indian Nation. They went into camp at Baxter
Springs, and Captain Greeno was kept busy scouting
the country, and frequently skirmishing with the
various guerrilla bands of the enemy. On the 2d
of July the Captain with his command accompanied
Colonel Weer’s expedition into the Cherokee coun-
try, and on the 4th of the same month succeeded in
overtaking and engaged a rebel force under command
of Colonel Clarkson, which resulted in his capture,
together with the main portion of his command and
all his camp a_nd garrison equipage. On the next
day, Captain Greeno with two companies attacked a
camp of rebels, under command of Colonel Stand
Waitie, at Stand Waitie’s Mills, and after a spirited
engagement succeeded in routing the enemy and cap-
turing a large quantity of sugar and other commis-
sary stores, which were destroyed for want of trans-
portation. On the 6th of july the command joined
the balance of the regiment, and went into camp at

Wolf Creek, where it remained until the roth, when
it moved to Flat Rock Creek, eighteen miles from
Fort Gibson. ’

Whilst the command was in camp at Flat Rock,
about the middle of July, 1862, Colonel Weer, com-
manding the division, sent a detachment of sixty
men of the 6th Kansas, and one hundred Indians,
under command of Captain Greeno, to Tahlequah,
the capital of the Cherokee nation, who succeeded
in capturing john Ross, principal chief, Colonel
William Ross, Major Pegg and eight other officers of
the rebel army. Two hundred Indians, belonging
to Colonel Drew’s regiment, deserted and joined the
Federal command, and returned with the Captain to
camp. General Saloman, of the 9th Wisconsin
Infantry, having superseded Colonel Weer in the
command of the division, the Indian country was
abandoned and the command fell back to Fort Scott,
where, after a thorough reorganization of the forces,
General Blunt assumed command.

August 13, 1862, orders were received to march
for the purpose of intercepting Colonel Cooper’s
command, consisting of some four thousand rebels,
who had passed up through Missouri, east of Fort
Scott, on their way north, and on the 24th of August
Captain Greeno participated in the battle of Coon
Creek, jasper county, Missouri, where he was
severely wounded in both hands, after a desperate
struggle with an enemy numbering more than four
to one. Two of his command were killed anda
large number wounded. The Captain, finding it
impossible to contend with so large a force of the
enemy, ordered his men to fall back, and succeeded
in getting them all off the field, including the
wounded, some of whom died from the effects of
their wounds. The wounds received by Captain
Greeno prevented him from the performance of mili-
tary duty for several weeks, and he returned to Fort
Scott to await their healing.

November 26, Captain Greeno rejoined his reg-
iment and took command of the 2d battalion, par-
ticipated in the battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas, on
the 28th of the same month, and also commanded
his battalion at the battle of Prairie Grove, on the
9th of December, and on the 28th of December,
1862, was with General Blunt at the capture of Van
Buren, Arkansas. On the 31st of December, 1862,
after General Blunt’s command had fallen back and
gone into winter quarters, Captain Greeno, with a
detachment of his regiment, was ordered to Kansas
on recruiting service, with orders to raise a battalion

THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 669

in order to complete the organization of the 6th
Kansas cavalry regiment to the quota of twelve com-
panies. The Captain having received authority
from the Governor of Kansas to recruit his battalion,
established his headquarters at Fort Scott, opened
an office, and in a very short time succeeded in rais-
ing three companies which were mustered into the
6th regiment and one company which was consigned
to the 14th Kansas volunteer cavalry. After assist-
ing in the recruiting of the 14th Kansas cavalry,
Captain Greeno rejoined his regiment, then at Fort
Smith, Arkansas. In October, 1863, he received
authority from the war department at Washington to
recruit the 4th Arkansas infantry, and after raising
three companies they were consolidated with the 4th
Arkansas cavalry, and Captain Greeno promoted
to be major of said regiment, October 14, 1864.
He served under Generals Steel and Reynolds, at
Little Rock and Duvall’s Bluff, until the close of the
war, and was mustered -out at Little Rock, July 3,
1865. He was subsequently breveted colonel by
the President, for meritorious conduct during the
war.

, The subject of this sketch connected himself
with the Masonic fraternity soon after his twenty-
first birthday, and is at present a Royal Arch Mason.
He has at different times filled the chair as Master
of the Blue Lodge. He has also been a member of
the Odd Fellovss. He was a charter member of the
Kansas College of Pharmacy, and its first president.

After the war heiwas one of the organizers of the
Order of Veteran Brotherhood, and its first vice-
commander, which organization was subsequently
merged into the Grand Army of the Republic, and

for several years he was post commander of the G.
A. R. at Topeka, Kansas.

At the close of the war he settled at Topeka,
and resumed the practice of medicine, pursuing this
avocation until his removal to Kansas City, in
March, 1877. if

He was brought up in the Christian church, was
baptized at the age of fifteen, and at the age of
eighteen joined the Baptist church." At the age of
twenty-six he ended his connection with that society
and became a Liberalist. At the present time he is
infidelic on the subject of revealed religion, but
rather inclined to the Spiritualistic View of immor-

tality. He has always been a Democrat, acting
with the Douglas branch of that party—a War
Democrat.

He was married, August 28, 1855, to Miss Sarah
Elizabeth Bodine, at Wellsborough, Tioga county,
Pennsylvania. They have had two children, one of
whom survives, the other dying at the age of two
years. The child surviving, a daughter in her eight-
eenth year, Nettie Greeno, was educated at Mt. St.
Mary’s Convent, Leavenworth, Kansas.

Dr. Greeno is still pursuing the practice of medi-

cine and surgery at Kansas City, Missouri, and is in’

the prime of life, enjoying a prosperous practice.
He is a man of good address, about six feet high,
weighing about one hundred and eighty pounds, of
sanguine—bilious temperament, in possession of robust
health, with a vigorous constitution and a prospect
of a life of usefulness and success. He has written
considerably for the public press,» is a fair public
speaker, but has devoted himself mostly to the dis-
cussion of medical subjects.

CHARLES LEONIDAS CARTER, M. D.

HOLDEN.

HARLES LEONIDAS CARTER was born
C March 1, 1832, at Smith’s Cross Roads, Rhea
county, Tennessee. His father, William Carter, was
born in Virginia, 1806. His father, James Carter,
moved to Rhea county, Tennessee, when William
was quite small, and he there acquired a fair English
education. I

He lived on a farm and was married to Ruth B.
McFarland, who was the daughter of Charles McFar-

land, a native of Scotland, from which country he
emigrated with his Wife, Elizabeth (Williams) McFar-
land, and located in Abbeville, South Carolina,
where their daughter Ruth was born June 5, 1808.
The family subsequently removed to Rhea county,
Tennessee, where Mr. Carter and Miss McFarland
were married. William Carter, during lifetime, dealt
in horses, mules and land, and was sheriff of Bradley
county, Tennessee, when he died, October 4, 1836.

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Charles L. Carter attended common public school
in Tennessee, and moved with his mother to Pleas-
ant Hill, Cass county, Missouri, May 4, 1852. His
uncle, Joseph H. Carter, being assessor of the county
at the time, Charles assisted him in attending to the
duties of that office. He taught school during sum-
mer for three months in the county, then returned to
town and attended school under Hall & Alexander,
studying English and Latin. Having attended one
term under H. M. Bracken, he took charge of the
public schools and taught for four years. He studied
medicine under Drs. Cundiff & Rees for one year-—
having commenced prior to that time, at the age of
fourteen years. Remaining with Cundiff cs: Rees for
one year, he entered the St. Louis Medical College
October I2, 1857. In the spring of 1858 he began
the practice of medicine at Pleasant Hill, and in 18 59
moved with his mother to Holden, Johnson county,
Where he has since resided. Dr. Carter was the first
inhabitant of the place. In 1862 he graduated in St.
Louis Medical College and accepted acommission in

the United States Army as assistant surgeon in Mis- V

souri state militia. He was afterwards appointed
surgeon in the United States army, with the rank of
lieutenant, which position he held until November 10,
1864, when he went to Illinois, and remained in Pike
county, practicing his profession until September 10,

1867, when he returned to his home in Missouri.
During his two years sojourn in Illinois he wrote a
work on “Gencral Pathology and its Relation to the
Practice of Medicine.” This work was received as
a text book in various colleges, including the one in
which he graduated. Since that time he has contin-

ued his practice, having written a good deal for the

scientific press. For several years he has been one
of the editors of the St. Louis CZ!/.2z'caZ Record.

February 24, I87 5, he was married to:Miss Vir-
ginia Haynes, Who was born February 7, 1853, in
Johnson county, Missouri, where she was reared and
educated. Her parents, James and Ann Haynes,
were born, educated and married in Tennessee,
moved to Missouri in 1852, and settled in Johnson
county, where her mother died in 1870.

Dr. Charles L. Carter is a liberal thinker in poli-
tics and religion. His wife is a member of the
Southern Methodist church.

They have two children, Charles Landon Carter,
born May 7, 1876, a sprightly boy and the pride of
his parents’ hearts, and Cora Lea Carter, born Sep-
tember 27, 1877.

Dr. Carter is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the
Knights of Pythias. As a physician he has been a
success, and is highly esteemed as a friend and citi-

. zen in the community.

JOHN E. ORGA1\

SALE/W.

OHN ELBERT ORGAN, born in Champaign
county, Ohio, April 7, 1838, is the son of James
Organ, born in the same state, September 2,

1802, and the grandson of William Organ, who was
a native of Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio the
latter part of the 18th century, Where he carried on
farming until his death in 1845. The great-grand-
father Organ, an Irishman, emigrated to America
prior to the Revolutionary war, in which he partici-
pated until the surrender of Cornwallis, when he
was killed.

James Organ, the father of our subject, was a
farmer in Ohio until 1848, when he moved to
White county, Indiana, where he lived ten years and
then settled in Dent county, Missouri, where he and
his wife still reside. Mrs. James Organ (whose

maiden name was Amanda L. Parry), was herself a
native of Virginia, but her ancestors were from
Wales. She removed with the family to Ohio and
was there married to Mr. Organ in 1835. The
second of their seven children is the
our sketch, whose youthful days were spent upon
his father’s farm and in the winter in the district
schools of Indiana and Ohio. In his nineteenth
year he attended the high school at Monticello,
Indiana, five months in the general studies of that
institution; but having a great desire to perfect him-
self in mathematics, he remained under the tuition of
Dr. IV. S. Haymond until his twentieth year, when
his parents took him with them to Dent county,
Missouri. Here he taught one term of school, and
in 1859 located in Phelps county, in the same

subject of __

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state. After teaching school three months he
was elected county surveyor of Phelps county,
although but fourteen months a resident and only
twenty-one years of age. He fulfilled the duties of
that position until the breaking out of the war of
the Rebellion, when he volunteered as a private in
the Missouri state guards of the Confederate service,
McBride’s division; he was subsequently promoted
to a lieutenancy. At the expiration of his six months
term of service he recruited a company but was cap-
tured before getting them into any engagement 3 on
being exchanged at Vicksburg he entered General
Frost’s brigade in the regular service three years’
infantry, participating in all the campaigns in Mis-
souri, Louisiana and Arkansas, being engaged in the
battles of Prairie Grove, Pleasant Hill and Jenkins’
Ferry and some minor engagements. He entered
the service the last time as a private, but was pro-
moted to orderly sergeant, which position he held
until the close of the war, when he returned to
Missouri. .

‘Shortly afterward he began to travel through the
west and continued his peregrinations until 1870,
when he returned to Dent county, Missouri, and
engaged in farming until 1873. In this latter year
he purchased a one-half interest in the Salem /I/om'z‘or,
and at once entered upon his duties as editor. In

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1874 he became the owner of the entire establish-
ment and has ever since confined his attention to
editing and publishing, and by strict attention to his

journalistic duties has made his paper one of the

leading newspapers in Southwest Missouri, with a
very extensive circulation through that section of the
state.

Mr. Organ is a life-long Democrat and has always
been active i.:‘ the party operations. In 1871 he
took a very conspicuous part in the canvass of the
county for the issuing of bonds for the building of
the St. Louis, Salem & Little Rock Railroad, and to
his efforts is largely due the successful establishing of
that line of railway. In 1874 his party elected him
to the 28th General Assembly of Missouri. He has
been repeatedly a delegate to the Democratic state
conventions. While a staunch advocate of the polit-
ical policy of his party, he is noted for his liberality
to those holding contrary views to his own. And so
in his religious views: while silently entertaining his
own opinions, he makes no war upon the faith or
forms of other men. - I

On the 20th day of August, 1867, John E. Organ
and Mattie L. Burkitt were married. She was the
daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Hyer) Burkitt,
of Phelps county, Missouri. Three living children
are the fruits of the marriage.

GEORGE TOUSEY BROWN.

SEDALIA.

EORGE TOUSEY BROWN was born in Law-
G’ renceburgh, Indiana, May II, 1839. His
father, William Brown, was a native of Ohio, and
in early manhood removed to Lawrenceburgh and
engaged extensively in the manufacture of furniture,
and was the inventor of the round post screw bed-
stead. This business he continued to the time of his
death, a period of forty years. During life he was
a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and for twenty-five years superintendent of
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school. He married
Miss Amanda Kincaid, of Indiana, who still survives.

George Tousey Brown was educated at Moore
Hill. College, Indiana, and at the death of his father,
in 1861, assumed the charge of the extensive manu-
factory, employing over one hundred hands. Dur-

ing that year he administered upon the estate of his
father to the satisfaction of all who were interested
in the settlement. In 1862 he bought the steamer,
Golden Gate, a.nd for two years as captain carried
on a lucrative freighting business between Louisville,
Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1864 he
removed to Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, and
commenced the manufacture of furniture upon an
extensive scale, opening a wholesale store in Cin-
cinnati. In this business he continued for three
years, when, having a good opportunity, he sold his
store and came to St. Louis, where he engaged in
railroading.‘ For several years he was a popular and
highly respected passenger conductor on the North
Missouri railroad. In 1873 he resigned this position
and bought the well known Ives House, at Sedalia,

702

Missouri, in which business he still continues, chang-
ing the name to the Garrison House, in honor of
Daniel R. Garrison, Esq., of railroad celebrity.
The house is located at the Union depot in Sedalia,
and ten passenger trains stop there daily for refresh-
ments. It contains accommodation for two hun-
dred and fifty guests, is an elegant. structure, and is
first—class in every particular.

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In 1866 he was married to Miss Annie B. Frost,
of New York City. They have two children, both
boys, named Oscar William Brown and George War-
der Brown. Mr. Brown is youthful in appearance,
light-haired, erect figure 3 takes no part in politics, but
by careful attention to business and uniform courtesy
to all, is universally respected, not only by the travel-
ing public, but byithe enlightened citizens of Sedalia.

CYRUS SANDERS MCLAUGHLIN.

I(I./VGSTO./V.

in Springfield, Ohio, June 29, 1848, and was
the son of Judge Cyrus D. and Sarah (Wharton)
McLaughlin. Judge McLaughlin was a prominent
member of the Masonic order and held several
important official positions. He was postmaster at
Springfield at the time of his death—which position
he had held for a number of years after the death of
his father.
Cyrus S. McLaughlin was raised by his uncle, Dr.
A. C. McLaughlin, of Tremont, ‘Ohio. He attended
school at Springfield and Lebanon, Ohio. He was
one of seven children, four of whom are now living.

CYRUS SANDERS MCLAUGHLIN was born

_ His eldest brother, Dr. J. W. McLaughlin, left

Clarke county, Ohio, at the outbreak of the war,
when but eighteen years of age, joined the Con-
federate army, and was a commissioned officer under
Stonewall Jackson. After the close of the war he
completed his medical education in New Orleans,
and is now engaged in the practice of his profession
in Austin, Texas. The subject of this sketch
removed to Caldwell county, Missouri, in 1868,

where he taught school and read lav’ alternately
until 1871, when he was admitted to the bar by
Judge Lucas, judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit of
Missouri. The last year prior to his admission to
the bar he spent in the law office of Donaldson &
Ferris at Richmond, Missouri, reading law. After

his admission he removed to Kingston and engaged

in the practice of his profession. He was a candi-
date in 1872, on the Democratic ticket, for prosecu-
ting attorney of Caldwell county, but was defeated
with the remainder of the ticket. He has been sec-
retary of the Democratic central committee for sev-
eral terms, which position he still (I877) holds.

Mr. McLaughlin is a member of the independent
order of Odd Fellows.
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

October I 3, 1875, he married at Kingston, Mis-
souri, Miss Fannie Canon, daughter of D. F. Canon,
a resident of Piqua, Ohio.

Mr. McLaughlin is commanding in appearance,
being five feet, eight inches high and weighing one
hundred and seventy pounds.

WILLIAM JONES TERRELL.

IIARRISOIVVILZLE.

‘ N l ILLIAM JONES TERRELL was born

November II, 1834, in Trumbull county,
Ohio. His paternal great grandfather was of English
parentage and was killed on the American side at

the storming of Quebec. His grandfather,

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Terrell was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut,
in 1776. His father, Sherman Terrell, was a native
of Danbury, Connecticut, born October 5, 1805.
His maternal great-great-grandfather was an Irish-
man. His grandfather, William Jones, was born in

His relatives generally are .

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Genesee county, New York. His mother, Olive
Jones, was born in Hartford, Trumbull county,
Ohio, in I808.  

William ]. Terrell was educated at the academy
at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio. After quit-
ting the academy he attended Michigan Univer-
sity for one year, in the literary department For
several years after he was employed in school teach-
ing to enable him to attend the law school, having
selected the law as his profession During the con-
tinuance of his school he read such works relating to
his future business as his leisure would allow. He
again attended the Michigan University, this time
in the law department, and graduated in 186 5. The
same year, at the April term of the Supreme Court,
at Detroit, he was admitted to the bar. In the fol-
lowing September he removed to and located in
Harrisonville, Missouri, since which he has been
practicing his profession, a part of the time in part-
nership with H. P. Mather.

He takes but little part in political matters, but
acts with the Republican party when he votes. He was

appointed county superintendent of public schools by
the county court, in 1865, and was reelected to the
same position by the people in 1866. He was county
attorney during the years 1867, 1868 and 1872.

Both he and his Wife are connected with the
Methodist Episcopal church.

He was married Decem.ber 26, 1864, at Monroe,
Ashtabula county, Ohio, to Miss Julia A Quigley.
She was born June 18, I83 5, in Chautauqua county,
New York, at the town of Portland. She received a
thorough academic education at i;he Kingsville, Ohio,
Academy. Her father, Captain Quigley, was the
commander of a steamer on Lake Erie, and died in
1836, aged about thirty years. Her mother was
born in Vermont, in ISI I. Her maiden name was
Everts, and she was of French descent. Mr. and
Mrs. Terrell have an adopted daughter, Daisy, born
in Harrisonville, November 28, 1871.

By energy, economy, studious attention to bus-
iness and commendable industry, Mr. Terrell has
acquired an excellent reputation and a handsome
competence.

GEORGE M. SAWYER.

SPRINGFIELD.

EORGE M. SAWYER was born June 10, 1848,
G’ in Gallatin, Tennessee. He is the third child
of Thomas L. and Henrietta Sawyer, His father
was originally from Eastern Pennsylvania, where he
was engaged in teaching, when he was selected by
General Jackson to prepare his two nephews, one
for the Military Academy at West Point, and the
other for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, "and
moved to the Hermitage in Tennessee. He also
founded a female college at Fayetteville, Tennessee,
where he remained until the breaking out of the civil
war, when he moved to Bunker Hill, Illinois, taking
charge of the Bunker Hill Female Academy, and
remained in charge until 1868, when he removed to
Missouri where he now resides, aged sixty-one years.
His mother died in 1859.

Under his father’s tuition young Sawyer received
a common school education. He left school at the
age of fifteen, and in the office of the Spectalor, at
Carlinville, Illinois, began to acquire a knowledge of

the printing husiness. Becoming dissatisfied at the
89

end of a year, he went to St. Louis, and in the job
printing house of W. H. Woodward (now Woodward,
Tiernan & Hale) became a thorough practical printer.
He remained there from 1864 to 1868. In the fall
of the latter year he removed to Springfield, Missouri,
taking charge at first of the mechanical, and after-
ward of the local, department of the .Mz'ss0urz'
Palrzbl, in which office he remained until the spring
of 187 5. At that time, his health being seriously
impaired, he went to San Antonio, Texas, and took
charge of the Ifemla’ newspaper. He remained there
one year, then returned to Springfield and for three
months filled his old position on the Pazrzbl. He
then purchased an interest in the Springfield Times,
a paper which through mismanagement had lost
nearly all its patronage. By his characteristic energy
and perseverance, Mr. Sawyer increased the circula-
tion and advertising business, and made it one of the
most prominent of the papers in Southwest Missouri.
He is an active and enthusiastic Democrat, and takes
a deep interest in the local management of political

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affairs. He was married November 28, 1872, to Vir-
ginia C. Stephens, daughter of Dr. John A. Stephens,
of Springfield, who was a pioneer in the Southwest, a
prominent physician and citizen, and was killed at
his own door-step by one of Zagonyi’s men in the
famous charge of Fremont’s body guard. One year
after his death, by order of a Federal officer, eight

houses belonging to his widow were destroyed, as
they protected the approach of the rebels under
General Marmaduke. Mr. Sawyer and wife have
three children: Carrie, Lewden and Robert. He
is a man of great energy and push, of perseverance
and pluck, and as a journalist ranks among the best
in Southwest Missouri.

CHARLES BROWNELL WILKINSON.

57'. ]OSEPH.

HARLES BROWNELL WILKINSON was
C born October 15, 1827, in Waterville, Oneida
county, New York. He is the ‘son of Thomas
Knight Wilkinson and Lydia Salisbury, the former still
living in Waterville, the latter died May I 5, 1878.
Charles B. Wilkinson is of the eighth generation of
Lawrance Wilkinson, born in Lanchester, Durham
county, England, about the year 1618, who was
the‘ son of William Wilkinson and Mary, sister of Sir
John Conyers, Bart., and grandson of Lawrance Wil-
kinson, of Harpley House, Durham. The house to
which young Lawrance belonged adhered to the tot-
tering fortunes of Charles I., and when the civil strife
arose that culminated in the beheading of Charles and
the elevation of Cromwell to the Protectorate, he en-
tered the royal army with a lieutenant’s commission,
and, at the surrender of New Castle, October 12, 1644,
was taken prisoner by the insurgent and Scotch troops,
and his estates confiscated by order of Parliament.
Obtaining special permission from Lord Fairfax, he
left .England and came with his wife (Susannah
Smith) and son to America, locating at Providence,
Rhode Island, in 1645. He was one of the original
proprietors of Providence, and in the plats of the
original city and in the draughts of its subsequent
divisions, his name constantly appears. He acquired
a large real estate. In .1659, and several times
thereafter, he was elected to the legislature and
filled various important offices in the infant colony.
He participated in the Indian wars, and, with Roger
Williams and Major Hopkins, refused to leave Prov-
idence when the savages threatened destruction.
He died in 1692. I

Joseph Wilkinson, a descendant of Harpley
House, came to Maryland in the latter part of the
seventeenth century. From him descended General

James Wilkinson, born in 17 57, Adjutant-General
on the staff of General Gates, general-in-chief of
the American army in 1796, and the first governor
of Louisiana, with headquarters at St. Louis, May
6, 1806. Associated with him in legislative duties
were John B. C. Lucas and Return J. Meigs, Jr.
Judge Joseph Browne" was secretary. The descend-
ants of these men are to-day prominent "citizens of
St. Louis. Governor Wilkinson’s name is signed to
seven different acts for the government of the terri-
tory, the last dated July 9, 1806. He was then
ordered to leave the territory and watch the move-
ments of Aaron Burr. He died near the city of
Mexico, December 28, 1825.

Stephen Hopkins, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, for nine years gover-
nor of Rhode Island, and for twenty-one years
chancellor of Rhode Island College, born in Scitu-
ate, Rhode Island, March 7, 1707, was the son of
William Hopkins and Ruth Wilkinson, of the third
generation of Lawrance Wilkinson. ‘

Of the fourth generation were Jemima Wilkin-
son and Jeremiah, her brother. Jemima, known as
the “Prophetess,” and generally denounced as a
religious impostor, was born November 29, 1752,
(the date 1753, in the American Cyclopaedia, being
incorrect,) in Cumberland, Rhode Island. At the
age of eighteen, having heard Rev. George White-

field preach, she became religiously excited and,

after a severe illness, claimed to have died, been
reanimated by the spirit of Jesus Christ, and that
thenceforth she would work miracles, and be known
as the “Universal Friend.” Her attractive person
and extraordinary tact and shrewdness induced
many intelligent people to follow her. She had a
very retentive memory, was very eloquent, and her

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knowledge of Scripture astonished all who heard
her. She traveled through Massachusetts; crowds
flocked to hear her and many of the first citizens
were converted to her doctrines. She claimed to
have a vision of the New Jerusalem, which she
located in the western part of New York, and, in
1786, three of the sect went to Yates county, New
York, and fixed upon the site of the new colony in
the present town of Torrey. They purchased four-
teen thousand acres ofland, and soon added to
their possessions a village, which they called.Je1'usa-
lem. In 1789 she went there and exerted a most
powerful influence over her followers. One thou-
sand acres of land were set apart for her special use.
Her meetings were conducted according to the cus-
tom of the Shakers, and, like them, she insisted
upon the practice of celibacy. Up to the hour of
her death, which occurred July II, 1819, she did
not relinquish her pretensions to divinity. After
her death the sect gradually broke up, although
large numbers of people believe to this day that she
was a prophetess, and all speak highly of her benev-
olence and moral worth. .

The “-Transactions of the Rhode Island Society
of Domestic Industry, 1861,” states that Jeremiah
Wilkinson, brother of Jemima, was the first inven-
tor of a machine for “drawing wire,” which was
operated by horse-power, the wire being used in the
manufacture of cards for carding cotton and wool.
He was the first in America to invent a machine for
cutting nails from cold iron. Arnold’s History of
Rhode Island, page sixty-nine, says _: “The first
cold cut nail in the world was made in 1777, by
Jeremiah Wilkinson, of Cumberland, Rhode Island,
who died in 1832 at the age of ninety.” Undoubt-
edly, he is entitled to the credit of being the first
man to start three very important branches of Amer-
ican industry,,viz: Drawing wire, card-making and
nail-cutting, as he invented the original machines by
which such work was done.

The fifth generation was prolific of manufactu-
rers and inventors. Job Wilkinson, born 1774,
erected a woolen factory in Saratoga county, New
York, and manufactured the first broadcloth in that
Governor Daniel D. Tompkins had a suit
made from it. He also imported the first merino
buck into that state. Garner Wilkinson, a brother,
purchased of Job the invention and secured the
patent of a boring and mortising machine. He

state.

also invented the draw-bridge and the rolling axle-

tree, now used under railway cars and locomotives.

_ ciple.

705

Samuel Slater, the first successful manufacturer of
cotton goods in America, married Hannah VVilkin—
son, daughter of Oziel Wilkinson, in 1791. In
1799 Oziel Wilkinson erected the second cotton mill
in New England. John Wilkinson, born in Onondaga
county, New York,September 30, 1798, died Septem-
ber'I9, 1862, was long prominent in every public en-
terprise in Central New York. The little village of
Cossitt’s Corners became his home, and he chris-
tened it Syracuse, which will be recognized as one
of the most prosperous cities of the Empire state.

He was associated with Governor Clinton and others
in the construction of the Erie canal, was one of
the first men to aid in engineering the railroad from
Albany to Syracuse, and was, for many years, presi-
dent of the Syracuse & Utica railroad, previous to
its consolidation with and forming a part of the
present New York Central & Hudson River Railroad.

He built the Globe Hotel, and many other public
buildings, in Syracuse, and traveled extensively in
Europe and on the continent. Jeptha Avery Wil-
kinson, also of the fifth generation, was the inven-
tor of a machine to manufacture weavers’ reeds for
power looms. He established those machines in the
United States, England, Holland, France and Belgium.

While living in Paris he conceived the idea of a repeat-
ing revolver, and exhibited his drawings to an officer
of the French army, at whose residence Mr. Colt saw
them, and, returning to America, patented the prin-

In the End’/es: Regzlv/er, published in New

York, June 6, 1860, the claim is made and appa-
rently well-established that Jeptha invented therotary
cylinder press in 1818, while residing in London.

Indeed, from 1850 to 18 54 there were many disser-
tations upon this subject in the New York journals,

in which the names of Ambrose L. Jordan, John
Harper, R. M. Hoe, Moses Y. Beach and Jeptha A.

Wilkinson conspicuously figure. He claimed to be
the inventor of the endless rotary press, the main
principle of which is patented in the Walter and
Bullock presses.

Hon. Morton S. Wilkinson, ex-United States
senator from Minnesota, is of the sixth generation
of Lawrance.W~ilkinson, and the fourth from John
Wilkinson and Betsy Tower, his wife.

Charles Brownell Wilkinson, the subject of this
sketch, was educated at the Waterville, Academy,
New York, and, at the age of eighteen, was prepared
to enter the junior class of Hamilton College, but
his father decided to place him'at once in a law
office, and in 1846 he began his_ legal studies. In

706 THE UNITED STATES 310 GRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

those days a student could be admitted to the bar

only on proof of seven years of study, either wholly.

of the law, or four of classical and three of law.
He was allowed four years of classics, and com-
pleted his legal course in Utica, New York, being
admitted in February, 1849, at Albany, to practice
as an attorney and counselor. On March 4, 1850,
he formed a partnership with Messrs. Hubbard,
Terry and Tower, for the manufacture of alcohol in
Waterville, New York, and was bookkeeper and
cashier of the firm until it expired by limitation in
185 5. The operations of the firm were very suc-
cessful financially. I ’

In 1849 he was initiated into Waterville Lodge
No. 240, I.'O. O. F., and held the offices of secre-
tary and Noble Grand. In 1850 he was made a
Master Mason by Sanger Lodge, No. 129, Water-
ville, and held the offices of secretary, junior war-
den and senior warden, and for three years repre-
sented that lodge in the sessions of the Grand Lodge
at New York City.

September IO, 18 51, he was married to Cornelia
B. Hubbard, of Waterville, who died in St. Joseph,
Missouri, December 2, 1865. In I854he began the
publication of the Waterville fozzrmzl, a weekly news-
paper, which he sold in 18 5 5, and removed to Toledo,
Ohio. Here he was president of the Toledo Nursery
Association from June 1, 1855, to June I, 1856. In
August, 1856, he went to Deansville, New York,

where he erected a large flouring mill and distillery..

In 18 57 he issued the first number of the Waterville
Times, a successor of the journal, which had died the
previous year. The Times is still a prosperous and
influential newspaper. In 1858 and 1859 he was
elected supervisor of the town of Marshall, Oneida
county, New York, on the Democratic ticket,
although the town was Republican by a large major-
ity. In the fall of 18 59 he was the Democratic no1n—
inee for the legislature in the 2d District of Oneida
county, which usually gave over two thousand Repub-
lican majority. He challenged his competitor to
meet him in joint discussion, but he declined and
Mr. Wilkinson addressed the citizens in every school
district, holding meetings nightly for several weeks.
He was defeated, but he polled a larger vote than
his party in every town.

In January, 1860, he disposed of his interest in
the Times, and removed to St. Joseph, Missouri,
where he resumed the practice of law. He was an
ardent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas for the Pres-
idency, and spoke from the stump at many political

gatherings in North Missouri. When the rebellion
was fully inaugurated, no courts could be held in
that part of the state, and he abandoned the profes-
sion and accepted a clerkship in the office of the
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, regularly correspon-
ding with the ./Vew Yor/a Trzozme and the Democrat
and Regbaolfearz of St. Louis. In August, 1861, the
rebel soldiers took possession of St. Joseph, and, on
the morning of their entrance, the journal published
a radical Union editorial, written by Mr. Wilkinson,
which induced the commander of the forces to take
possession of the office and issue an order. for his
arrest, which order. would probably have promptly
been executed, as well as the party therein mentioned,
had he not crossed the river and fled through Kan-
sas into Nebraska. ‘

In February, 1862, Mr. Wilkinson began the pub-
lication of the St. Joseph ./llormozg fferala’, a daily and
weekly newspaper that unfiinchingly advocated the
Union cause, and supported the administration of
President Lincoln. The first numbers of that paper
announced Wilkinson & McKibben publishers and
proprietors. The latter was a printer, and the two
had been associated in the publication of the Water-
ville T2’/ms. McKibben came to St. Joseph in April,
1862, remained about ten days, became disgusted
with the situation, and withdrew from the partner-
ship and the state. Up to December, 1862, Mr.
Wilkinson wrote all of the editorials and nearly every
local item that appeared in the paper, selected all the
miscellaneous matter for its columns, and acted as
mailing clerk for the concern. The paper was a
financial success from the start, and secured and still

enjoys a large circulation in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas

and Nebraska.

In August, 1862, he was appointed Internal Rev-
enue Collector for the 3d District of Missouri, embra-
cing forty-four counties, or all of that portion-of the
state lying north of the Missouri river. The taxes
collected amounted to about one million dollars per
annum. In April,.. 1865, President Johnson subdi-
vided the district and appointed him Collector of the
6th District, twenty-five counties, which office he
resigned December 1, 1865.

In November, 1866, Mr. Wilkinson was elected
a member of the XXIVth General Assembly of Mis-
souri. On the 6th day of March, 1867, he advoca-
ed before that body an amendment to the constitu-
tion striking out the word “ white” as a qualification
for voters, in a speech which was published in pam-
phlet form, bearing the title “A Democratic Ballot-

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Box,” fifteen thousand copies of which were printed
in English and German.

December 27, 1866, he was married to Elizabeth
Smith who is still (1878) living.

At the organization of the Editors’ and Pub-

lishers’ Association of Missouri, in 1867, he was

elected orator of the first annual meeting, and
delivered the oration before that body at its first con-
vention, held in St. Louis in June, 1868. That year
he actively supported the Republican cause, urging
the election of General Grant in the columns of the
Hérald and on the stump. He delivered the poem
before the fourth annual convention of Missouri edi-
tors and publishers, held at St. Joseph, in June, 1871,
and was elected president of the Association for the
ensuing year. In 1872 he was one of the candidates
for elector at large on the Republican ticket in Mis-
souri, and addressed a series of meetings in each
Congressional District of the state and in many of
the cities of Kansas.

From 1855 to 1875 he spent aportion of each
year in travel, thus visiting Canada and every state
of the Union but Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

February I, 1873, he was again appointed Col-
lector of the 6th District of Missouri, and held the
office until August, 1875. In 1874 he was elected
-a director of the Bank of St. Joseph, also of the St.
Joseph Savings Bank.

In 1875 several parties were suspected of partici-
pation in revenue frauds, and he seized the distillery
and other property of one of them and placed it in
the hands of the United States Marshal. He after-
wards discovered that without his knowledge and
contrary to his express orders, one of his deputies

sold to this distiller on the day before the seizure,

revenue stamps to the value of about five thousand
dollars, for which he never paid, but which were
affixed to the identical barrels of spirits seized by Mr.
Wilkinson for the benefit of and transferred to the
Government. The seizure of the liquor had thus
deprived the distiller of all means of paying for the
stamps, and to avoid arrest on a criminal prosecution
which the Government began against him, the distil-
ler fled. One of Mr. Wilkinson’s deputies left the
-service a defaulter in the sum of over three thousand
dollars. For the aggregate of these two deficiencies
Mr. Wilkinson stood indebted to the Government.
At the request of the deputy who sold the stamps Mr.
Wilkinson paid a large proportion of his salary to
his father, with whom he resided, the payment
being made in the presence of the son, who gave

sworn vouchers therefor. The father died in 1874.

A gauger in the 6th District had been a member
of the legislature since 1870, and had deputized a
competent and qualified gauger to do the work in his
division during his absence. The vouchers for said
work had always been approved by Mr. Wilkinson’s
predecessors. The work was done and well done,
and the government should pay for it. He knew
that the duties of an administrative officer could be
discharged by a deputy without the aid of a statute
empowering the appointment. He knew there was
no statute forbidding the appointment of a deputy
gauger, but a regulation of the Commissioner of In-
ternal Revenue did require gaugers to personally
transact their business. Before approving any of the
vouchers Mr. Wilkinson consulted his chief clerk,
who was expert in revenue matters, and who for
seven years previous to Mr. Wilkinson’s last appoint-
ment had prepared all the reports, returns and papers
of the revenue office of the 6th District, and he stated
that the practice was understood and expressly sanc-
tioned by the Commissioner. Mr. Wilkinson applied
to his superior officer, the Supervisor of the district,
and he gave similar instructions, on which he appro-
ved the vouchers as all his predecessors had done.
The chief clerk died in December, 1874.

While Mr. Wilkinson was in Long Branch in July,
1875, government detectives visited his office and on
his return had him arrested on three grave charges,
viz: embezzlement of $8,000, a sum which it was
admitted was due, but from the sources stated ; retain-
ing a portion of the salary of a_deputy, which, as sta-
ted, was paid to his father ; and approving false
vouchers. He fully and truthfully explained every-
thing, but he saw that he was not believed. His
most innocent acts were construed and tortured into
crime. The United States Attorney evidently believed
he was connected with some of the revenue frauds
over which the people of the state were then in a
furore and for which the Supervisor of Internal Rev-
enue, treasury agents and others in the district were
under arrest. In all subsequent investigations not a
particle of evidence was ever discovered, because
none existed, of Mr. Wilkinson’s connection with
any frauds on the Government. His deputy was
flattered with the belief that he would recover from
the Government the sums paid to his father, and was
induced to subscribe an affidavit charging that they
had not been paid him. On Mr. Wilkinson’s return
the deputy frankly told him all, and expressed great
sorrow for his course.

708 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Mr. Wilkinson’s property was worth four times
the amount named in the charge of embezzlement.
He had, all his life, received and disbursed large
sums of money in a fiduciary capacity. As collector
during the war, with a bond of one hundred thou-
sand dollars, he frequently had possession of a quarter
of a million dollars of Government funds. In the
matter of vouchers he pursued the course of each of
his predecessors—a course sanctioned and approved
by their superior officers, and ordered by his own
superiors. Each of the five collectors of the district,
after his resignation in 1865, although honest and
honorable men, could have been charged with tech-
nical embezzlement for a far greater sum of money
than was involved in his case, had officers and detec-
tives desired to prosecute them. Mr. Wilkinson’s
trial was to take place in four weeks, before a Ger-
man judge, whose most conspicuous gifts, as he
thought, were bitter personal prejudices, dense Teu-
tonic obstinacy, and vacuity of legal lore, in the
depths of whose brain was long since forged the idea,
which cannot be rooted out, that justice and sever-
ity are synonymous terms. The excitement against

every man connected with the revenue service was ’

great and constantly increasing. He had seen a Mis-
souri jury sit and render verdicts under the controll-
ing impulse of popular frenzy. The District Attor-
ney was timid and expected to lose his official head
unless he prosecuted with vigor every suspected per-
son. The political friends of the Secretary of the
Treasury were active in working up cases and secretly
informing against all revenue officers in the West
who were friendly to the administration or the Pres-
ident. Mr. Wilkinson was charged with embezzling
funds that were never in his hands ; but the only wit-
ness to prove the latter fact had absconded. He was
charged with retaining a portion of a deputy’s salary 3
but the only witness who could fully establish his
innocence was dead. He was charged with irregu-
larly approving vouchers; but the chief clerk who
prepared the papers and knew his innocence, was
dead, and the superior officer who directed their
approval was shrouded in a cloud of criminal accusa-
tions, and his every statement doubted, although an
honored friend of the President and a trusted offi-
cial when he gave the order ; while he whose vouch-
ers were approved was also under criminal accusa-
tions. _
Knowing his entire innocence of all criminal
intent, he believed he could not secure a fair trial if
he appeared at that term of the court where were to

be tried a large number of parties accused of revenue
frauds. He felt that he stood helpless and’ defense-
less before an enemy more powerful than the strong-
est individual and capable, at will, of crushing and
blasting men, communities and nations. The Gov-
ernment of the United States, for whose interests he
had devoted all his powers and the best years of his
life, was placed upon his track as an enemy through

the_machinations of its agents—detectives andspies, '

whose only hope of reward, promotion, or even hon-
orable mention lay, not in securing justice to the
individual, but in “ working up a case” against him.
Under these circumstances, determined not to be
tried, unprepared, in a whirlpool of excitement and
misrepresentation, he left the state. He fully real-
ized that most minds deduce nothing from flight but
guilt. Indeed, that is the popular interpretation.
People suspect that he who flies from accusations is
unable to face them or successfully refute them.
Continued absence causes those suspicions to multi-
ply and intensify until they mature into firm belief in
guilt. But he was actuated and impelled by the
idea that it was his duty, knowing his innocence, to
fly from and try to avoid a crushing, overpowering
danger—that if his life, or services, or usefulness were
worth anything to his family or society, he should fly

from the path of so powerful an engine whose move-

ments he could not impede or control.

From Quebec he went by steamer to Glasgow,
after traveling in Scotland and England he sailed
from Liverpool September 18, I87 5, for Australia,
landing in Melbourne December 9. There he met a
man who was an important witness for the Govern-
ment in the revenue trials in the 6th Missouri Dis-
trict. The man was penniless and friendless, and he
informed Mr. Wilkinson that he was under a penal
bond of several thousand dollars to appear and tes-
tify at the March term of court, but becoming fright-
ened at the prospect of a prosecution for crimes of
which his testimony would surely reveal his guilt, he
left his family and sought safety in flight. Mr. Wil-
kinson advised him to return by the first steamer,
save his bondsmen by appearing in court, truthfully
testify to all the facts in his knowledge and leave con-
sequences to take care of themselves. Mr. Wilkin-
son paid his fare to St. joseph, and sailed in the
same steamer to the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San
Francisco. There he informed the man he intended
to remain till the adjournment of the March term,
when the man would be at perfect liberty to proclaim
his whereabouts, for he should then return to Mis-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 709

souri. The man returned, gave important testimony
in the trials and was dismissed scot-free, first having
disclosed Mr. Wilkinson’s place of residence, for
which information he was paid a sum sufficient to
refund the amount advanced to him. Mr. .Wilkinson
returned to Missouri, where in September, 1876,
all cases against him were dismissed, save the one
for embezzlement. The statute defines it to be
embezzlement for a collector to have, from any cause,
a deficit in his accounts. He therefore entered a

’ plea of guilty to the single count in an indictment

that charged that on a certain day such a deficit
existed. The judge, true to his instincts and to Mr.
Wilkinson’s conception of his character, sentenced
him to the penitentiary for two years, but delayed

execution until the case could be presented to Pres-

ident Grant. One of Mr. Wilkinson’s attorneys pre-

sented an application for an immediate commutation
of the excessively harsh sentence, intending to follow
it with a petition for a full pardon. But after a full
and careful examination of the case by the President
and Attorney General, a full pardon was granted and
the district attorney was officially decapitated the
same week, although he had proved himself a most
zealous and vigorous prosecutor of his fellow men in
all cases where even the slightest technical web could
be spread for their entanglement.

Neither Mr. Wilkinson’s political friends nor his
political opponents believe he was guilty of any crim-
inal intent, but that he was the victim of misplaced
confidence and a concatenation of most unfortuitous
circumstances. In June, 1878, Mr. Wilkinson was
given sole charge of the St. Joseph Daily and Weekly
Gazctle, which position he still occupies.

DREWRY MACKEY WOOLDRIDGE.

STOCIKTO./V.

REWRY MACKEY WOOLDRIDGE was
D born November 3, .1818, in Christian county,
Kentucky. The family is of English origin, and
members of it emigrated from England and settled
in North Carolina in the early history of the colony.
His grandfather, Edward Wooldridge, was a native
North Carolinian and emigrated from his native state
about the year 18oo, settling in Trigg county, where
he followed farming until his death, about the year
1833, in the seventy-third year of his age. Edward
Wooldridge, jr., was born in North Carolina about
the year 1779, and emigrated with his parents to
Kentucky, joined General ]ackson’s forces in the
war against the Seminole Indians ; served out his term
of enlistment, nine months 3 returned to Kentucky
and engaged in farming in Christian county until his
death in 1841 at the age of sixty-five years.
ret Brasher was the maiden name of his mother.

D. M. Wooldridge, the second of seven children
born to Edward Wooldridge, jr., and Margaret
Brasher, was employed on the farm, attending the
common schools as opportunity offered, until he was
twenty-two years of age, when he for two years
attended the High School at Pleasant Hill, in his
native county. He then engaged in mercantile busi-
ness and continued in it for two years, at the expira-

Marga- -

tion of which time he engaged in school teaching
and studying law. In 1842 he began farming and
until 1845 was so employed. In the latter year he

.was appointed sheriff of Christian county, holding
In .1853 he was elected.

the position for six years.
to the Kentucky Legislature, and was the author of
the bill appropriating means to build the lunatic
asylum at Hopkinsville, and was mainly instrumental
in its passage. He was admitted to the practice of
law in the year 1854. For fourteen years, from 1856
to 1870, he was a justice of county court in Christian
county, Kentucky. During a part of this time he also
engaged in the practice of law._ From the beginning
to the end of the civil war he was a strong Union
man, advocating the cause of the government against
the Rebels. In 1866 he was tendered the nomina-
tion for state senate on the ‘Republican ticket, but,
preferring a quiet life, he declined. In 1870, having
met with financial reverses, he moved to Missouri

and located in Stockton, Cedar county, and resumed

the practice of law. He has a large practice in the
25th Judicial Circuit. In 1871 he was elected town
justice and chairman of the board of trustees. He
was elected in the following year, on the Republican
ticket, judge of the probate court, a position to
which he has been twice since chosen and still holds.

710 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

He has accumulated a considerable property in
Stockton, besides owning a thousand acres of coal
land in Kentucky. .
Politically he was a Whig, but since the war has
been identified with the Republican party.
In religion he is a Universalist, in the ministry
of which church he labors, having held several

theological discussions, both written and oral".

He was married August 20, 1344, to Miss Sicily
J. Croft, daughter of David Croft and Margaret
(Jackson) Croft, of Christian county, Kentucky, for-
merly of South Carolina, by whom he had five
children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Wooldridge

1 died July 29, 1877, aged fifty-nine years.

SIDNEY MCWILLIAMS.

CHILLICO THE.

MONG the prominent men of Chillicothe, who
A have been foremost in every effort to promote
her interests, the name of Sidney McWil1iams
deserves honorable mention.

He was born in Madison county, Kentucky, April
8, 1829, and is the son of Alexander C. andJane C.

' (Breedlove) McWilliams—the former a native of Mad-

ison county, Kentucky, the latter of Albemarle
county, Virginia. His father was, by occupation, a
farmer, served in the wars of 1812 and the Indian
war, and was a son of John McWilliams, a native of
Virginia and a soldier of the Revolution. V

Sidney was reared on the farm in his native state
and when twenty years of age began merchandising
at Rogersville, Kentucky, and was thus successfully
engaged until 18 57, when he came to Missouri, loca-
ting at Breckenridge, Caldwell county, where he con-
tinued his mercantile pursuits for ten years. In 1867
he removed to Chillicothe and became interested in
the People’s Savings Bank as director, stockholder

and cashier. In 1872 he was elected president ofthe
bank. He has devoted his entire time to banking
and the buying and selling of real estate, by which he
is now in command of a competence which affords
him time and capital to indulge his tastes.

In 1860 he married Miss Ann Rogers, of Madi-
son county, Kentucky. This estimable lady only
lived three years after their marriage. In 1868 he
married Miss Fannie, daughter of John H. Ware, Esq. ,
of Chillicothe.

Politically he is a Democrat, but has never sought
or held public office of a political responsibility.

Mr. McWilliams is a man of public spirit, strict
integrity and great strength of character. To his
indefatigable energy, and his financial ability is due
the prosperous condition of the People’s Savings
Bank of Chillicothe. In November, 1877, he received
the appointment of receiver of the Hannibal & St.
Joseph Railroad, which position he filled with credit
to himself until relieved by the courts.

ADAM KLIPPEL.

OREGON.

DAM KLIPPEL is a native of Germany. He
A was born at the village of Wackernheim, near
the city of Mentz, on the Rhine, November I, 1828.
His father, Philip Klippel, was the owner of a vine-
yard and a small farm. In the year 1838 the family
immigrated to America. There were nine children,
six boys and three girls, of whom Adam was the
fourth. They landed in New York City in Septem-

ber, 1838, and moved directly to West Virginia , but
not receiving a favorable impression of that country
they proceeded down the Ohio river, in the fall of
1839, to Cincinnati, and there Adam grew to man-
hood.

In 1840, at the age of twelve, he began the
printing business in the Methodist Book Concern,
in which he was employed until 1849, princi-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCT./O./VAIBY. 711

pally engaged as a compositor on book work, and
thoroughly learning the printing business. The
printing office was his school-room, and the only
means of education he enjoyed except when, for a
short time, he was a student at Woodward College,
Cincinnati. After his father’s death in -1844 he
assisted in supporting the family. It was his good
fortune to form the acquaintance of Salmon P.
Chase, who in various ways befriended him. In
1849, when the gold fever broke out, he left Cincin-
nati with the intention of going to the Pacific coast.
He reached St. Joseph, Missouri, en route, and there
learning of the immense number of people seeking
the newly discovered gold fields, he with other mem-
bers of the company concluded to stop in the Platte
purchase. He secured employment in the office of
the St. fosep/z Gazelle and for nearly three years was
a compositor and foreman on that paper.

In July, 1852, he married Elizabeth Snider, the
daughter of Philip Snider, now of Oregon.

In the autumn of 1851 he left the printing busi-
ness and engaged in the work of the ministry, in
connection with the German branch of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. He filled appointments at
Jefferson City and Boonville, and had charge of the
circuits embracing Cooper, Moniteau, Osage, Cole,
Miller, and ‘portions of Morgan and Pettis counties.
From the fall of 1854 till 1860 he was engaged in
preaching in Illinois, and was on the Petersburg cir-
cuit in Menard county; the Arenzville circuit in
Cass and Morgan counties , and for two years was
stationed at Springfield. He
acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln, and when that
gentleman became a candidate for president he with
Carl Schurz canvassed the state in behalf of the
Republican cause.

In 1861 Mr. Klippel accepted an appointment as
railway postal clerk on‘ the Chicago & Alton Rail-

here formed the -

way, between Chicago and St Louis, a position
which he retained for eight years. In this interval
he was appointed a delegate by a. convention of rail-
way postal clerks held in Chicago, to visit the Post-
master—General and lay before him the action of that
body. It was on this occasion that Mr. Klippel
received from President Lincolna note of introduc-
tion to Montgomery Blair, then Postmaster-General,
which reads as follows, and which he still warmly

cherishes :
“WASHINGTON, March 18, 1864.
POSTMAS’l‘ER—GENERAL: Please see and hear Rev.
Adam Klippel, who, it seems, is an agent of yours,
and certainly is an old and highly valued friend of
mine. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.”

Early in 1869 he resigned his position in the mail
service, and at the solicitation of friends and relatives
in Holt county, came to Oregon and assumed charge
of the Se/'z!z'72e/. He succeeded in making it a popu--
lar and influential newspaper.

In his political belief he has always been an earn-
est Republican, a member of that organization from
the very birth of the party.’ He took an active part
in the political canvass, and in various ways labored
with voice and pen fo_r the success of Republican
principles. He disposed of the Sm/z'77eZ in Novem-
ber, I876. He is widely known throughout the
county and state, and commands the confidence of
the people.

As a newspaper editor and publisher Mr. Klippel
gained the reputation of an enterprising, faithful and
successful business man. The present status of the
Sem‘z'/761 is mainly due to his untiring efforts in that
direction. As a private citizen no man in the county
is more highly respected. For the past year he has
been engaged in hydraulic placer mining in Southern
Oregon, in which enterprise he has met with marked
success. He returned to his old home in Missouri
in the month of May, 1878.

CHARLES WILLIAM SLOAN.

HARRISONVILLE.

HARLES WILLIAM SLOAN was born De-
C cember 24, 1842, in Lafayette county, Mis-
souri. His grandfather, Alexander Sloan, was of
Scotch-Irish descent, and removed from Tennessee
to Christian county, Kentucky, and thence, in 1819,

to Cooper county, Missouri. His father, Robert
90

Sloan, was born in Tennessee, May 11, 1801, and
moved with ‘his parents to Kentucky 3 was a clergy-
man of the Cumberland Presbyterian church; was
married December 13, 1826, and died in Cass
county, Missouri, May 27, 1868. His mother,
Margaret Davidson Ewing, was born in Logan

712 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

county, Kentucky, in 1806, and was the daughter
of Rev. Finis Ewing, who, with Revs. Mc-
Adow and King, formed what is known as the
Cumberland Presbyterian church about the year
1810. Rev. Finis Ewing was born in Bedford
county, Virginia, July [0, 1773, his father, Robert
Ewing, being an Irishman, who emigrated to Amer-
ica several years prior to the Revolution, and was
the father of twelve children, of whom Finis was the
youngest. He was married to Margaret Davidson, Jan-
uary I5, 1793, in Kentucky, and died at Lexington,
Missouri, July 4, 184:. Margaret Davidson was
born January 2 3, 1774, in North Carolina, and died
December II, 1868. ’ She was the daughter of Gen-
eral William Davidson, who was killed at Go-wan’s

Ford, at the head of a column of North Carolina

troops, while disputing the passage of Lord Corn-
wallis across the Catawba river, and for his gallantry
the Continental Congress passed an order for the
erection of a monument to his memory.

Charles W. Sloan was reared on his father’s
farm in Cass county, Missouri, and was educated in
the common schools of that county, and at the High
school in Jefferson City. In the latter institution he
pursued only an English course. After leaving
school he assisted his brother, who was at that time
clerk of the Kansas City court of common pleas—
remaining there from the fall of 1860 till April,
1863. During this time he had devoted his leisure
to the study of law, and on leaving Kansas City he

continued his studies in the office of Judge E. B.
Ewing, of Jefferson City, continuing this course
until January, 1865, but spending a portion of the
time in the office of the Secretary of State, Hon.
Mordecai Oliver. In January, 1865, he opened a
real estate office in St. Louis, where he continued
about one year. In January, 1866, he removed to
Harrisonville, Cass county, Missouri, where he
began, and has continued to the present time, the
practice of his profession.

In politics he is a Democrat, there having been
but one Whig in the family, and he is now a Dem-
ocrat. He united with the Cumberland Presbyte-

' rian church in 1870. He was married April 8, 1875,

to Miss Alice Patton, daughter of Colonel Robert
Patton, near Charleston, Kanawha county, “Vest
Virginia. She was born in Kentucky, August 24,
1851, was highly educated, and an accomplished and
gifted writer. She died December I0, 1875.

Mr. Sloan has five brothers living: Dr. A. B.
Sloan, of Kansas City; Ewing M. Sloan, of St.
Louis, Alexander T., Robert L. and Ephraim P.
Sloan, farmers of Cass county. One sister, Fannie

W., is the wife of Green J. Jones, Canon City, 

Colorado , Margaret P. Sloan married William Yan-
tis and died without issue in December, 1866; Kate
W. Sloan married Silas P. Keller, and died in
August, 1867, leavingfive children—Mary, Fannie,
Helen, Charles and Robert—-in Cass county, where
she died.

COLONEL ENOCH STEEN.

_/ACIKSOIV COUNTY.

NOCH ST EEN was born near Harrodsburgh,
Mercer county, Kentucky, on the 22d of Feb-
ruary, I8oo. His father, William Steen, was a
native of Pennsylvania and a son of the owner of the
land on which the battle of Brandywine was fought.
Colonel Steen received his education so far as
schools were concerned, and which was limited, prin-
cipally in the state of Illinois. His early life was
spent in the capacity of a deputy United States sur-
veyor under General William Rector, who afterward
became his brother-in-law.
At the commencement of the Blackhawk war in
1832 he entered the United States service as a vol-

unteer, and has never been out of it since, or per-
formed an act unworthy of a soldier or an officer in
the army—-a period of forty-five years. After a
treaty with the Sac and Fox Indians in the fall of
1832, he was marched to Fort Gibson and stationed
at different frontier posts. After the expiration of
the term of enlistment for twelve months, the coin-
mand to which he was attached was transferred to
the 1st United States dragoons—-there being no cav-
alry in the army then. The officers were taken in
equal number and rank from the regular and volun-
teer portions of the army, Henry Dodge, a civilian,
being colonel, and Stephen W. Kearney, a regular

THE UNITED STA TES B10 GZEAPHICAL DZCTZOA/‘AA’ Y. 713

army officer, and one of the best disciplinarians the
army ever had, lieutenant-colonel, and the subject
of this sketch a lieutenant. It would take up too
much time and space to follow him through a life of
nearly half a century of vigorous, active and Valuable
service, but we will simply recite some of the prin-
cipal points in his brilliant career.

During the summer of 1834 he was with an expe-
dition on Red River and up the same to the mount-
ains,one of the hardest and most disastrous campaigns
on record. Starting from ‘General Leavenworth’s
camp under Colonel Henry Dodge, with two hun-

dred and fifty picked men of the first dragoons, they I

had the misfortune to lose their general and all his
staff officers with fever, were frequently without
rations and had to’ subsist on buffalo meat without
bread or salt, and were at times with nothing but
horse meat for ten days. But they had excluded the
word fail from their vocabulary, and accomplished
their object without the thought of turning back. On
this expedition they re—captured a.boy named Martin,
whose father with his son and two trusty negro ser-
vants, was traveling in that country for his health and
was himself and one of the servants murdered by the
Indians and his son captured, the other servant being
fortunate enough to escape. They succeeded in
making satisfactory treaties with six or eight tribes of
hostile Indians, including the Kiowas, Comanches,
W ichitas, Tomaskas, Panneypicks and Wacos.
About June, 1838, he was ordered across to Wis-
consin to remove the Winnebago Indians. From
1838 to 1840 he remained in and around Prairie Du
Chien, and being promoted to the office of captain,
was attached to another company and sent to Fort
Leavenworth again, alternating between Leaven-
worth, Fort Gibson, Fort Tonson, Wichita and Fort
Smith, until the commencement of the Mexican war.
He then marched under Colonel Bonneville from
Fort Smith to San Antonio, Texas, and proceeded
to the Rio Grande on General Santa Anna’s route,
under command of General Wool, with three thou-
sand troops. He was in no important battles in Mex-
ico until that of Buena Vista, where he was wounded
during the second days fight, receiving a shot through
the thigh. He was then brevetted major for gallant
and good conduct in battle. From the close of the
Mexican war he was in constant and active service,
and at almost every military post and fort west of the
Mississippi to the commencement of the late civil
war, including Fort Gibson, San-ta Fe, Don A. A.,
Fillmore, Walla Walla and San Francisco, establish-

ing and building forts, taking possession of territory

and fighting Indians. He is now (1878) in his seventy-
eighth year, and carries between his kidneys and
spine, abullet received in a hand to hand fight on
one of these occasions. At one time, in an expedi-
tion against the Snake Indians, he traveled over
sixteen hundred miles in his meanderings after the
wily foe. At the close of this campaign he was
ordered to Walla Walla, and from thence in the latter
part of 1861 to San Francisco, thence, in 1862, to
report to Commanding-General Halleck, in St. Louis,
Missouri, where by general army order, he was
placed on duty at Benton Barracks as inspecting offi—
cer of troops and supplies. About this time he was
promoted to the rank of colonel. From St. Louis
he was sent to Sandy Hook to watch Sims and
prevent his burning New York City, where he
remained until after Lee’s surrender, after which he
was appointed commanding officer at St. Louis by
General John Pope, and was offered choice of any
western post he might select. His delicate sense of
honor led him to reply in substance that he had been
a soldier too long to permit himself to dictate in
regard to the duties he himself should perform, but
that he was ready to go where his services were most
needed.’ He was appointed commander at Fort
Lyon on the Arkansas river, in Colorado, where he
remained until September, 1869, when, on account
of his long and valuable service to his country and
his advanced age, hewas relieved and retired from
active duty.

Colonel Steen has been a Democrat all his life,
and Mercer county, Kentucky, where he was born,
was never known to give other than a Democratic
vote. In religion he is a devout Catholic.

Colonel Steen has been thrice wedded, each time
to a widow. His first wife was a widow McPherson,
her maiden name being Mary Rector, to whom he was
married in St. Louis, in 1824. She was a lady fitted
for any position an intelligent and polished woman
might occupy, and a member of the noted Rector
family, so well known in the early annals of Illinois
and Missouri. His second wife was a widow Walsh,
her maiden name being Mary Selkirk. Their marriage
occurred in 1849, and she died in 1862. In 1869
he was married to his present wife, Mrs. Amelia
(McGee) Evans, widow of William B. Evans, late of
Kansas City, Missouri, and daughter of the late
James H. McGee, of Jackson county. Mrs. Steen
and her former husband, Mr. Evans, were among the
earliest inhabitants of Kansas City, Mr. Evans hav-

714 - THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

ing bought the first lot that was sold after the town
was laid out, built the first house that was erected in
the town, built the first ferry boat that ever crossed
the river at this point, and his wife, now Mrs. Steen,
was a passenger of the first trip of that boat. The
ferry boat was built in 1830 and the house in
1841.

Colonel Steen has three children living, all daugh-
ters, and has lost one daughter and an only son——
Alexander Early Steen-—who was a captain in the
United States army, and at the commencement of the
late civil war was stationed at Ringold Barracks,
Texas. _ He resigned his commission in the army and
gave his services and life to the South. He was very
soon made a brigadier general in the Southern army,
and served with great bravery and distinction through-
out the war, and was killed at one of the last battles

at Prairie Grove, Arkansas. Colonel Steen also lost
two sons—in-law in the Southern army, one a surgeon
and the other a naval officer ; the latter, husband to
the Colonel’s oldest daughter, who is also dead, and
the former, Dr. Madison, husband to his second
daughter, who still survives.

Colonel Steen isat present living on a beautiful
farm three and a half miles from Greenwood station,
Jackson county, Missouri, on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, and about thirty miles from Kansas City.
He has enjoyed excellent health until within a recent
period, since which time he has sensibly declined.
But when recounting the various incidents of his
eventful life, his eye still kindles with its wonted fire
and his countenance gives evidence of the zeal,earn-
estness and delight with which his valuable services
to his country have been rendered.

MAJOR WILLIAM WARNER.

KANSAS CITY.

‘ ‘ I ILLIAM WARNER, lawyer, was born in

Lafayette county, Wisconsin, June II, 1839,
and is one of the self—made men of the country. He
was the youngest of six children, whose parents died
young, leaving nothing to their little ones but an
honest name and_ that noble spirit of independence
that has made the subject of this sketch one of the
most influential and honored citizens of Kansas.City.
From the tender age of six years‘ he has taken care
of himself, fighting his own battles with poverty, and
Winning Where so many older -and’ more favored ones
have fallen by the wayside. Until he. was ten years
old he worked at anything he could’ get to do, but
at that age entered a country store as clerk, Where
he remained five years. During that time he saved
money enough to pay his expenses for two years at
college, Where his indomitable energy and industry
soon placed him first among his classmates. He

then taught school for two years, at the same time-

reading law and preparing himself by hard study for
his present profession. When the war broke out, he
offered his services to his country, entering the army
in the spring of 1862 as 1st lieutenant, and was
appointed adjutant of the 33d Wisconsin volunteers.
In ’63 he was promoted to a captaincy, and in ’64

was made assistant—adjutant general. In ’65 he.

received the rank of major. Major Warner was in
active service in the Western army during the entire
war, and most of the time was on staff duty, prompt
to obey all orders, and undaunted in action. He
was no carpet knight, but a soldier in heart as well
as uniform.

In October," 1865, Major VVarner came to Mis-
souri and settled in Kansas City, where he immedi-
ately commenced the practice of law. In the spring
of 1867 he was elected city attorney, and in the fol-
lowing year was chosen circuit attorney, a position
he resigned after holding it "two years. In 1871 he
was elected mayor of Kansas City by a majority of
nearly four hundred votes; and the highest compli-

ment was paid to his Worth as a citizen in the fact I

that he was the only successful candidate on the
Republican ticket. He has been offered the position
again and again, but firmly declined, his large pro-
fessional practice preventing him from accepting any
more civic honors.

Major Warner to-day is one of the most popular
men of this young metropolis, and the most influen-
tial member of the Republican party: As a stump
speaker he has few superiors in the West —— his
piercing eye, powerful voice and well-toned sentences
holding the masses in subdued control. His speeches

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are strong in argument, rich in humor, and withering
in sarcasm. He is a politician of the progressive
school, ever ready to sink the partisan in the citizen
whenever the prosperity of his adopted home
demands it. In I87.5—6 he supported a Democrat
for the office of mayor, and elected him in spite of
strong and bitter opposition. To him, as one of the
committee appointed to prepare a new charter, is
due much of the present financial prosperity of Kan-
sas City; his care and legal foresight helping to frame
the laws that now give to this growing city the best
government in the West.

In religious matters Major Warner is liberal in
the extreme, freely conceding to every one the priv-
ilege of worshiping God according to his own ideas.
He is generous to a fault, and respects the honest
opinions of all men , believing that every intelligent
person has the sovereign right to think for himself.

In his profession he has a standing which any
lawyer might covet. There is nothing that so recom-
mends a man as success, and the subject of this
sketch has a history bright with the record of vic-
tories won.
the thoroughness and intelligence with which he
takes up a case inspire a confidence that has steadily
increased the number of his clidnts.

As a pleader he has few superiors, and '

His personal appearance is striking, the quick
eye and rapid movement at ‘once showing that
great energy and resolution for which he has become
distinguished. He is of medium height, dark com-
plexion, and heavily built, his look and action denot-
ing a man of superior mental and physical power.

In 1866 he was married to Mrs. Sophia A.
Bromley, sister of T. B. Bullene, a lady whose many
social virtues have made his home one of the happi-
est in the land. He has three beautiful children,
one boy and two girls: john Bullene, born August
r7, I867, Cora Eva, born April 18, 1869, and Nellie
Merrill, born October I4, 1871. The son is a most
promising branch from the parent tree.

The life of William Warner has been an interest-
ing one, full of trials, a long hand to hand conflict
with poverty; but his dark days of toil were bright-
ened by high hopes of the future, and his weariness
forgotten in the determination to make a name and
fortune for himself. The bold young spirit that at
six years of age went out to build from the founda-

tion, beholds to-day a structure whose solid masonry‘

commands the admiration of all. At thirty-eight
years of age Major Warren is one of the foremost
men in the West—a living evidence of what energy
and industry may accomplish.

 

JOHN WALTON.

WA VERL Y.

OHN WALTON was born February 17, 1815,
in Yorkshire, England. His father, john Walton,
was a native of Hawes, in Yorkshire, was born

in 177 5 and married in 1808, Miss Elizabeth This-

tlethwaite, daughter of John Thistlethwaite, of York-
shire. She was born in 1782 and died in 1840, her
husband following her in 1860. They had seven
children: Isabella, Christopher, Jane, john, Rich-
ard, VVilliam and Elizabeth. Richard died in Canada

in 186 2, and left no issue; Isabella died in 1874, and

the others are still living.

john Walton’s education was received at a night
school and a good Sabbath school. By this means
he acquired the rudiments of the English branches.
He was raised in a cotton factory. In March, 1849,
he started to America in a sailing vessel, the Trenton,
Capt. Smith, of Boston, commanding. He was one

month on the voyage, and landed in New Orleans in
April, 1849. In May he left New Orleans and went
to Baltimore Landing, Missouri, where he engaged
to work on the farm of Simon Harker at ten dollars
per month. When disengaged-, he rented land,
bought a team on credit, and raised a crop. C At this
he continued until 1852, when he removed to Wa-
verly and hired to work in a livery stable at twenty-
five dollars per month, and remained two years. In
18 54 he began baling hemp in the warehouse of W.
S. Thomas, and worked there till 1857. Having
saved some money, he bought out a candy shop and
adding a bakery, began business for himself. He
saved means enough to start a store with three to
four thousand dollars capital in 1861. The war
troubles annoyed him, and leaving the store in charge
of his oldest son, john E. Walton, he took most of

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his family and returned to England in 1863. He
returned to Waverly in 1866, and began business
again in 1867 He has continued in the mercantile
and other outside business ever since. He owns the
ferry privilege at that point, and also the steamer
Alice, several houses in the place and a good stock
of goods, and is worth ten thousand dollars. He was
elected treasurer of the city of Waverly for seven
He and his wife are members
In

years in succession.
of the Methodist Episcopal church (South).
politics he is a Democrat.

 

I

John Walton was married December 24 1840, to I

Miss Esther Ellen, daughter of John and Alice Ellen,

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near Skipton, Yorkshire, England. She was born
February 14, 1816. They have four children, all of
whom, except the youngest, were born in Yorkshire:
Joh11 Ellen, born September 22, 1842 3 Christopher,
born April 29, I845 , Anthony Richard, born March
15, 1847, and William James, born in Lafayette
county, Missouri, July 14, 1850. They are all living
and work together. John E. Walton married Miss
Bettie Ann Tilman, and has three children, John F .,
William Wallace, and Alice Elizabeth, Christopher
married Miss Fannie Richardson, of Macon county,
and has had two children, of whom one died in
infancy, and the other, Minnie Ann, is still living.

WILLIAM WASHINGTON COOK.

HARRISON VILLE.

‘ N IILLIAM W. COOK was born in Morgan

county, Illinois, July 3, 1843, being the
oldest of a family of nine children, eight of whom
are living‘. His father, Thomas H. Cook, was born
in Barren county, Kentucky, May 18, 1814, immi-
grated to Illinois in 1829, and settled at Winchester,
and assisted in clearing what is now the public
square of that city. Moses Cook, the father of
Thomas H. Cook, was born in Culpeper county,
Virginia, in 1780, and was a soldier of the war of
1812. The father of Moses Cook was a native of
Germany, and served eight years in the Revolution.
The mother of Thomas H. Cook was Elizabeth, the
daughter of William Grayson, of Culpeper county,
Virginia, who was a colonel in the Revolutionary

war, and sheriff of that county twelve years. He
lived eighty-nine years on one farm. His parents
were natives of Germany. Malinda Cook, the

mother of William W. Cook, was one of a family of
thirteen children, and the daughter of Edward
Wyatt. She was born in Todd county, Kentucky,
in 1824. When quite young she removed with her
parents- to Morgan county, Illinois, and was married
to Thomas H. Cook September I, 1842. Edward
Wyatt was born in Tennessee, in 1796, and immi-
grated to Todd county, Kentucky, when quite young.
The mother of Malinda Cook was born in North
Carolina in I8oo,afterward removing to Todd county,
Kentucky. Her maiden name was Annie McCrea.
She was married to William Kennedy, on whose

‘death she was married to Edward Wyatt. They
removed to Morgan county, Illinois, in 1828,
where she died in 1866, aged sixty-six years. Ed-

ward Wyatt is still living and is now in his eighty-
first year. Mary L. Simms was the oldest daughter
of William M. Simms, and was born in Triadelphia,
near Wheeling, West Virginia, August 20, 1.844, and
removed with her parents to Scott county, Illinois,
in 1851. Her mother, Sarah A., was the daughter
of David Knox. She was born in Wheeling, West
Virginia, January 20, 1820. His father, David
Knox, was a son of Samuel Knox, who was a Scotch-
man, and a legal descendant of John Knox, the
reformer, and was born and raised in Hartford, Con-
necticut. _ He first married Miss Mary Anderson,
but after her death he married Elizabeth Seaver, and
immigrated to Wheeling, VVest "Virginia, in 1815.
He (David) was the father of ten children. He died
of cholera in 1833. Elizabeth Seaver was a daugh-

ter of Luther Seaver, who married Miss Priscilla’

Dodd. They lived in Brooklyn, New York, where
Elizabeth was born and educated. She’ died in
Madison, Indiana, in January, 1877, aged about
eighty—four years. William M.»Simms was born in
Tuscarora Valley, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1814.
He was the son of John Simms, who was born in
New Jersey, and removed at an early day to Penn-
sylvania. He (John Simms) was married to Miss
Mary Martin, of which marriage thirteen children

were born. He died in Greene county, Pennsyl-

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Vania, in 1866. His wife died in 1872. His father,
William Simms, one of three sons, was born in
England. He received his discharge as an English
soldier in Cuba, and coming to this country settled
in New Jersey. He died in 1822. The father
of Mary Martin was Jonathan Martin, . who was
born in Wales. He came to this country and
engaged in the Revolutionary war, was in the battle
at Egg Harbor, Valley Forge, etc., and died in
Tuscarora Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1818. His wife,
whose maiden name was Sarah Cooper, died at the
age of one hundred and eleven years.

The subject of this sketch in early youth attended
the common schools, such as the country afforded
in those days.
July, 1862, in the roist Illinois infantry volunteers,
Company I, and was afterward transferred to Com-
pany F, of which his uncle, James L. Wyatt, was
captain, and served until the close of the war, being
honorably discharged in Washington in June, _I865.
He was with General Sherman from Mission Ridge

He enlisted in the Federal army in =

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to the close of the war, and participated in his march
to the sea. Returning from the war he attended
Illinois College, at Jacksonville, after which he
taught school in Morgan county, Illinois, two years.

December 20, 1866, he married Miss Mary L.
Simms, of Scott county, Illinois, and in April, 1868,
they removed to Cass county, Missouri, locating in
the town of Austin.

In 1869 he removed to Harrisonville, in the same
county, and became a deputy in the sheriff and col-
lector’s office until the winter of 1870-1. April,
1872, he was appointed a deputy clerk of the com-
mon pleas and probate court of Cass county, which
position he retained until the regular November
election in 1874, when he was elected county clerk
of Cass county, which position he still (I878) holds.

In politics he is a Democrat. Religiously he is a
Methodist. He belongs to the Masonic order and
is a member of Bayard Commandery No. 26,
Knights Templar. He is also a member of Austin
Lodge No. 197, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

CHARLES HARLEY MANSUR.

CHILL [C0 TIIE.

DHARLES HARLEY MANSUR was born in
(J the city of Philadelphia, in the shadow of
Independence Hall, March 6, 1835. His parents
immigrated to St. Louis in 1837 and remained there
until 1845, when his father, Charles Mansur, falling
into ill health gave up mercantile pursuits, in which
he had been engaged during his residence in that
city, and moved to Ray county, Missouri, where he
died in August, 1847. ‘
Young Mansur grew to manhood in Ray county,
attending the free public schools from three to four
months of each year. In the spring of 1850 he was
sent to Lawrence Academy, in Groton, Middlesex
county, Massachusetts, where he remained about
two and a half years. He then returned to Ray
county, and for a short time was employed as a clerk
in a store, subsequently becoming deputy sheriff
of the county. In the spring of 1855 he began the
study of law in the office of Messrs. Oliver & Con-
row. He was admitted to the bar in the fall of
1856 by Hon. George W. Dunn, and moved to
Chillicothe, Livingston county, Missouri, and began

practice November 1, I856, gradually attaining an
extensive and paying practice.

He has held no office except that of prosecuting
attorney of Livingston ‘' county, to which he was
elected in 1874 and reelected in 1876. In 1872 he
was the nominee of both the Democratic and Liberal
Republican parties for representative in Congress
from the Ioth District, receiving his nomination by
a two-thirds vote in each convention. The district
being at that time strongly Republican, he was
defeated, though running far ahead of the state and
national tickets, after one of the most exciting and
interesting campaigns ever made in the state. '

He is one of the best known and most influen-
tial Democrats in Missouri, and is deservedly popu-
lar with his party.
delegate in more congressional, state and national
conventions than any other man of his age in the
state. He has served upon four state platform com-
mittees and one national committee, exerting much
influence in shaping the policy of his party. He
was chairman of the last state committee on resolu-

He has probably served as a _

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tions and the author of the state platform. He was
a member of the state "central committee from 1864.
to 1868. He was a leading supporter of General
Cockrell in his campaign for the United States Sen-
ate in 1875, and in 1876 nominated the present
governor of the state, H011. John S. Phelps, in the
state convention.

As a speaker on the hustings, or in advocacy of
Odd Fellowship and Free Masonry, and upon educa-
tional and literary subjects, he stands in the front
rank of Missouri’s orators. He was strongly urged
in 187.2.by more than thirty papers in the state for
the position of governor, but declined being consid-
ered a candidate for that office.

From “ T/ze C0n52‘z'z’zzlz'0/2,” of August 15, 1878,
we glean that the prospect of C. H. Mansur for
senatorial honors and usefulness is very flattering.
His wonderful strength with the people is shown in
his native county—Livingston—Which is a fair index
to the whole district, and gave him twelve out of
thirteen townships, with at least three to one of the
popular vote. He will go into the convention with

thirty-five delegates, needing only one more to nom-

inate. He made a gallant contest, and unless a bolt

"occurs to demoralize the convention, and he does

not too largely ignore the strength of the whole field
of candidates——ten in number—who are liable to
combine against him, he will be the next senator
from the Ioth District.

In Odd Fellowship he has been Grand Master,
Grand Patriarch and Grand Representative, thus
exhausting the honors that can be conferred in this
state. He is also a Master Mason, and is well known
by the fraternity in Northern and Central Missouri.
He is not a member of any Christian body, but is
liberal in his religious sentiments.

He is a bold and outspoken advocate of every
measure tending to promote the educational interests
of his state and country, and is a warm supporter of
the free public school system. His position as a
leading lawyer and politician enables him to exert a
healthful influence upon society and the state in
which he resides He was married, in September,
1859, to Miss Damaris M. Brosheer, daughter of
Thomas Brosheer, a master mechanic of Palmyra,
Marion county, Missouri.

JOHN SAPPINGTON, M. D.

ARROW ROCK.

OHN SAPPINGTON was one of the most dis-
tinguished and best known physicians of Mis-
souri’s early history. He was born in Maryland

May I, 1776. His father, Dr. Mark Sappington,
was of English descent, lived in Virginia, moved to
Tennessee at an early day, settled where Nashville
is now located, and died at a very advanced age.
His mother was a Miss Boyce, a native of Maryland.
His father and mother had six children: Roger,
Frank, John, Thomas, Rebecca and Eleanor. By
a subsequent marriage Dr. Mark had two daughters,
Fannie, who married James Burke, and Mary, who
died single, May 15, 1877. Roger, John and
Thomas were physicians. Frank was a merchant.

John Sappington was educated at Nashville, and
studied medicine with his father. He also practiced
for a time with his father, but afterward removed to
Franklin, Tennessee. In 1814 and’: 5 he attended
lectures at Philadelphia Medical College and received
the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institu-

tion. He returned to Tennessee and prosecuted the
practice of his profession for a short time, and in
1817 emigrated to Missouri and settled near the
present site of Glasgow, in Howard county. In
I8I9 he crossed the river and settled in Saline
county, near where Arrow Rockinow stands, and
continued the practice of medicine. The country
was sparsely settled and physicians were few, and
his practice extended from Jefferson City on the east
to Lexington on the west, and into all the adjoining
counties. He was especially successful in the treat-
ment of malarial fevers, which at that early day were
Very prevalent. In 1832, after a laborious profes-
sional life, he retired from the practice and exten-
sively manufactured and sold what was known as
Dr. Sappington’s Anti-Fever Pills. In 1844 he pub-
lished a treatise on the “Theory and Treatment of
Fevers.” Before his death he placed in the hands of
Trustees $20,000, the proceeds of which were to be
expended for the education of the indigent children

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of the county. This fund has increased until it is
now about $38,000. He died at his residence in
Saline county, September 7, 1856, in the eighty-first
year of his age, honored and respected by all who
knew him. In religious matters he was liberal, in
politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat.

He was married at Russellville, Logan county,
Kentucky, November 22, 1804, to Miss Jane
Breathitt. She was the eldest of the eight children
born to William and Elizabeth Breathitt. Johnwas
afterward governor of Kentucky, and died while in
office ; Edward was a physician, and studied medi-
cine under Dr. Sappington; James was a lawyer at
Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Cardwell was a farmer and
merchant at Russellville, Kentucky; George was
private secretary to President Jackson and died in
that service. Dr. Sappington and wife had eight
children: Eliza, third wife of Governor Claiborne
F. Jackson; Lavinia, wife of Governor M.,M. Mar-
maduke, Erasmus D. , William B. 3 Jane, first wife

_of Governor C. F. Jackson, Louisa, second wife

of Governor C. F. Jackson, Susan, wife of Captain
L. S. Eddins, Mary Ellen, wife of Dr. William
Price. One of the sons, William B. Sappington,

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residing in the neighborhood of his father’s home,
was born in Franklin, Tennessee, January 4, 1811,
and remained on the farm with his father, receiving
such education as the common schools afforded. At
seventeen years of age he was sent to Princeton
Manual Labor School, where he remained four years.
He studied law, but owing to an affliction of the
eyes was forced to abandon the profession, and
devoted himself to farming. He was married in
1844 to Miss Mary M., daughter of Governor John
Breathitt, of Kentucky. In 1866 he was elected
president of the Bank of Missouri, at Arrow Rock,
in which capacity he continues to act. He had
previously acted as president of the Branch Bank of
Missouri, located at Arrow Rock, until its consolida-
tion with the parent bank at St. Louis. He is
politically a Democrat, and was in sympathy with
the South during the war. He has reared five child-
ren: William B., deceased; John C., Mildred, Jane
E., D. and Stella.

Dr. John Sappington practiced medicine at
Jefferson, Rutherford county, Tennessee, about
1807, and in 1810 moved to Franklin, Williamson
county.

JAMES WILLIAM THOMPSON.

MARSHFZELD.

AMES WILLIAM THOMPSON was born April
30, 1844, in Lawrenceville, Lawrence county,
Illinois. His grandfather, James Thompson,

was originally from Virginia, moved to Tennessee
and subsequently to Lawrence county, Illinois. His
father, William Thompson, was born in Tennessee,
moved with his parents to Illinois , was a physician
and surgeon, a graduate of St. Louis Medical Col-
lege, died in 1848, in the thirty-second year of his
age. His maternal grandfather was a Kentuckian,
but moved to Illinois, where his mother was born.
His mother, Fanny Barnes, died in October, 1855,
aged thirty-three years. I .

V J. W. Thompson was fromchildhood of studious
habits, fond of books, his tastes inclining him to
the legal profession. On the death of his mother he
went to live with his grandfather, a farmer, where
he was employed on the farm. Owing to his being

a cripple he was not sent to school until twelve years
91

of age. At that time he was sent to the winter
schools and worked on the farm the balance of the
year. In 1862, at the age of eighteen, he taught a
school and employed himself on the farm during the
following summer. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted
in the army, in Company A, Irth Missouri infantry,
but met with an accident that preventedhim from
being mustered into service. In 1863 he enlisted in
Company H, 136th Illinois volunteers, for three
months. He, however, remained in the service nine.
months, during which time he was stationed on the
line of the Iron Mountain Railroad, and acted as
division clerk. '

Onthis return from the army he taught school.

until 1871, studying law during leisure hours. In
that year he moved to Marshfield and completed his
studies, being admitted to the bar in 1873, his instruc-

I tion at Marshfield having been received from W. A.

Lows, Esq. He was afterward‘ appointed deputy

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circuit clerk, but resigned in April, 1876, resuming
his profession, and at the same time entering into
the real estate and insurance business. In politics
he is a Republican, and works faithfully for the suc-
cess of his party. He isra member of the Christian
church. He was married September 10,1865, to Miss

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Emily C. Lewis, daughter of Calvin Lewis, of Law-
rence county, Illinois, by whom he has had three

sons. Mr. Thompson is a man of ‘genial temper

' and social habits, upright in his dealings, honorable

in his practice, and enjoys the confidence of those
who know him.

CAPTAIN W. D. SWINNEY.

GLASGO IV.

‘A JILLIAM DANIEL SWINNEY, one of the

early pioneers of Missouri, was born in
Campbell county, Virginia, October, 1797. His
ancestry were Scotch-Irish, among whom were sev-
eral of the colonial settlers of this country. The
father of our subject was a Virginia farmer of mod-
erate means, and served with gallantry and distinc-
tion as a captain in the war of the Revolution. The
only education his children received was such as the
common schools of that early day afforded. The
earlier years of William D. were spent on his father’s
farm, and here was laid the foundation of those hab-
its of industry and self—reliance which characterized
him in after life, and secured him that honor and
distinction that placed him in the front rank of the
business men of the state. About the time of his
majority he became interested in the tobacco busi-
ness in Lynchburg, Virginia, but his success there
was not equal to his aspirations.

In the fall of 1832 he came to Monticello, Mis-
souri, and boarded his family during the winter,
prospecting through .the country with a view to set-
tlement. The farm of about a thousand acres, near
Glasgow, in Howard county, which he afterward
purchased, was offered him at seven dollars per acre.
Considering the price too high, on account of the
absence of schools, churches, and other attractions
of cultivated society, he declined the purchase, and
in the following spring returned to Lynchburg. But
when he compared the barren hills of his native state
with the fertile soil of the country he had visited,
without-unloading his wagon he determined to make
Missouri his home, returned thither, immediately
purchased the farm, and on it spent the remainder
of his life. Here he engaged in farming and in the
purchase, manufacture and shipping of tobacco.
For many years he was the principal dealer in this

great staple of his section of the state. While thus
engaged, his shipments extended to all the markets
of the world. But his energies were not confined to
the mere accumulation of wealth. The kindred
interests of religion and education lay near his
heart, and in his opinion the school—house and the

church were indispensable to social comfort and a _

high degree of civilization. Under the lead of such
a man as Captain Swinney, whatever was under-
taken was soon accomplished, and to him and to his
family the educational interests of Howard county
are more largely indebted than to any others in the
community. The location of Central College in How-
ard county was with him a long cherished idea, and to
his efforts more than to those of any other, are the
citizens of that county indebted for its attainment.
He was the first president of its board of curators (a
position he held during life), and one of its most
liberal supporters.

In all public enterprises connected with the wel-
fare of the community in which he lived, he took a
lively interest. For more than forty years he was a
member of the Methodist church, always a leader in
every department of its varied interests. In politics
he was an earnest and uncompromising Whig while
that party had an existence.

When quite young, Captain Swinney was married
to Miss Brown, sister of Rev. Richard Brown, for-

merly of the Virginia Conference. She lived several

years after her marriage, and died leaving no chil-
dren. In 1826 he was married to Lucy Ann, daugh-
ter of James and Catharine Jones, of Northern
Alabama. She was a widow, and her first husband’s
name was Jones, who lived but a short time and
died leaving no children. Mrs. Swinney’s father was
also a captain in the Revolutionary war, and her
mother, “iAunt Jones ” as she was familiarly called,

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was one of the most devotedly pious and exemplary
Christian women that has ever lived to bless the
church, and Mrs. Swinney herself a lady Qf cultiva-
ted intellect, refined manners, kind and benevolent,
will long live in the remembrance of her friends as
one whose like we seldom look upon. They had
two children, a son and a daughter. The former,
James Oswald, inherits many of his parents’ noble
traits of character and benevolent Christian impulses.
Soon after the close of the civil war he induced Rev.
Carr W. Pritchett, one of the ablest and most thor-
ough educators in the West, to remove to Glasgow
for the purpose of building up, in the community
where his father had lived and achieved his success,
and where himself was raised, a school of high
grade, and subsequently expended forty or fifty
thousand dollars in a building and grounds for the
purpose, and “ Pritchett Institute,” one of the best
institutions of learning in the state, now stands as a
monument to his Christian liberality. The daugh-
ter, Kate, married William M. Morrison, of St. Louis,
a highly esteemed, refined and polished gentleman,
and one of the most successful merchants of that

city. Mrs. Morrison, in all the elements that consti-

tute the modest, refined, intelligent, benevolent
Christian lady, was a worthy representative of her
mother and grandmother. Mrs. Morrison died in
1862, leaving a daughter about six years of age.
This daughter, Miss Berenice Morrison, a few years
since gave to Pritchett Institute the munificent sum
of one hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of
erecting and furnishing an observatory and of increas-
ing the endowment fund of the Institute. This
observatory is now finished and is one of the best
on this continent. ,

In June, 1863, Captain Swinney died, leaving an
estate of some four hundred thousand dollars. His
wife survived him nearly ten years. In person he was
decidedly prepossessing, about five feet ten inches in
height, weighing about one hundred and sixty-five
pounds, dark gray eyes, dark hair sprinkled with gray,
with a broad, high forehead. He was a man that
would attract attention in any crowd. Dignified and
courtly in his manners, he was one of the most enter-
taining men of his day. It seemed as ‘though he could
intuitively read a man at first sight. His mental per-
ceptions were the quickest of almost any man with
whom the writer has ever been acquainted.

DR. BEVERLY A. BARRETT.

SPRINGFIELD.

EVERLY A. BARRETT was born January 8,
B 1826, in Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri.
His father, John S. Barrett, was a physician of
prominence in Southeast Missouri; was born in
Virginia, in 1790; immigrated to Missouri in 1811,
was sheriff of Ste. Genevieve county at one time,
was a member of the first Missouri Legislature, took
part in the early Indian wars, was in the war of I812,
was at one time under General Dodge and swam the
Mississippi river in pursuit of hostile Indians. The
wife of John S. Barrett was Margaret Patterson, whom
he married in 1811. She was the daughter of James
Patterson, a teacher and minister of Maury county,
Tennessee, and was wounded at the battle of Bunker
Hill. The paternal grandfather of Beverly A. Barrett
was killed at the battle of the Cowpens during the
war of the Revolution.

Beverly A. Barrett was the sixth child of a family
of ten, only three of whom are living. James, the

eldest of the family, is a farmer and resides in Web-
ster county, Missouri. Mildred, the sister, is the
wife of Dr. Vanhoos, of Springfield, Missouri.

_ Beverly had the advantages of a common school

education in Ste. Genevieve county, and afterward
of a seminary taught by Fox and Davis at Frederick-
town. In 1845 he began the study of medicine,
and two years after commenced the practice in Dal-
las county, Missouri, where he remained until 185 8,
whenhe removed to Springfield his present home.
In 1864 he removed to St. Louis and resided there
until 1869, when he returned and took up his resi-
dence in Springfield again. He has been practicing
medicine for over thirty years, and has performed as
much labor as any man of the profession in South-
west Missouri.

He has been a member of the Masonic order
since he was twenty-one years old, and has filled
many offices, having been at one time Master of the

722 TfIE UJVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL D/CTIO./VA/BY.

Lodge. He is also a member of the State Medical
Association. He has been connected with the
Methodist Episcopal church (South) for over twenty
years. His political sentiments are in harmony
with the principles advocated by the Democratic
party.

He was married, in I847, to Miss Susan Randle-
man, in Buffalo, Dallas county, Missouri, who bore
him five children. The eldest daughter, Mrs. Moore,
died in 1877. The oldest son, Edward, is a farmer
in Nebraska. Ada, twenty-one years old, was edu-
cated in St. Louis, and is now living in Springfield.
Frederick, aged seventeen, is attending Drury Col-
lege, and Robert L., aged fifteen, is also attending
school. Dr. Barrett lost his first wife in St. Louis,
in 1865, and was married to Miss Mary E. Priest, in
Maury county, Tennessee, in 1871. Her father,
Thomas H. Priest, still resides in Maury county.
Her mother, who was Miss Nancy R. Merritt, died

in 1852. Mrs. Barrett is a very estimable lady,
devoted to acts of benevolence and Christian work.

Dr. Barrett is a man of strong physical and ner-
vous organization, prompt in action, quick in judg-
ment, of fine discernment, honest in his convictions
and decided and firm in avowing what he believes
to be right. Notwithstanding his patient labor in
his profession, he has not sought to accumulate great
wealth, and has received no pecuniary compensation
for a large proportion of his Work. He is by birth
and education a Southerner, and although anxious
to arrest hostilities, in the beginning of the civil war
was a sincere and outspoken friend of the South in
that struggle——a fact he took no pains to conceal.
His views did not drive his friends from him, but on
both sides he numbered true and substantial men
among his supporters and patrons, and to the afflicted
of both armies he gave the benefit of his large and
varied experience.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM QUINN PURCELL.

MAL TA BE./VD.

_ ILLIAM QUINN PURCELL was born
\/ June 9, 1843, in Hardin county, Kentucky.
His grandfather was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-
Irish descent. His father, James Purcell, was born
in Breckinridge county, Kentucky, December 25,
1809; was reared and educated in Elizabethtown,
Hardin county, was a blacksmith by trade, and was
married in 1833. His mother, Matilda Metcalf, was
born, reared and educated in Hardin county; was a
daughter of John Metcalf, born in Nelson county in
1794, and Theresa Dixon, of the same county," born
in 1791, who had eight children: Samuel; Matilda,
married James Purcell, Eliza, died in minority,
Rosa Ann, married Richard VVest, George W.,
Celia, married William Quinn, who died, and she
afterward married Ambrose Thompson, John K.,
and Charles. By the marriage of James Purcell and
Matilda Metcalf there were born twelve children:
John M. 3 James T. 3 Purham B. , Eliza, married to
Diaz Higgins, and after his ‘death to Jeremiah

' Kirley, William Quinn , Harvey S., died in infancy,

Theresa, died in infancy, Charles C., Joseph D.,
died in minority, Rosa A., married to John K.
Walden, George W., and Mary C., the latter of

whom died in infancy. Mrs. Purcell died in 1866
in the Catholic faith, and her husband married
Mrs. Ramsay, formerly Miss Geyer, in January,
1868.

W. Q. Purcell, when twelve years of age, moved
with his parents to Saline county, where he coin-
pleted his education, He joined the Confederate
army under Colonel, afterward General Forest, in
r86r, in the regiment of Colonel A. A. Russell. In
a subsequent organization he was attached to Com-
pany A, Fourth Alabama, and was with that regi-
ment during the war. After the battle of Straw-
berry Plains, he was commissioned as 3d lieutenant
in his command, and was with General Forest in his
different raids and battles. At the battle of Parker’s
Cross Roads, in Tennessee, he was wounded in the
shoulder by a shell and also slightly wounded at the
battle of Eustonola, and granted a furlough for ninety
days. He surrendered to A.  Smith’s command,
at Greenville, Alabama, in April, 1865. He took
charge of a plantation in Wilcox county, Alabama,
raised a crop and returned to Missouri in December
of that year, and attended the Fairville Academy.
In 1868‘ he went to Clinton, Henry county, and was

THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 723

employed in the dry goods and clothing business,
where he remained one year. He went to Baxter
Springs, Kansas, in 1869, and worked twelve months
as tie contractor and inspector on the Fort Scott,
Missouri River & Gulf Railroad. During 1870 he
was in the livery business in Baxter Springs. In the
fall of that year he returned to Miami and was

[engaged as book-keeper for Walden &: Greenabaum.

In the spring of 1873 he moved to Montgomery
county, Kansas, and raised a crop, but the grass-
hoppers destroyed it, and he opened a school in
Causy. In the spring of 1874 he went to Malta
Bend and with his brother, Dr. P. B. Purcell, began
the business of a druggist. He purchased his
brother’s interest September 29, 1876, and has since
continuedin the business in his own name.

He was elected a justice of the peace for Grand

Pass township in November, 1876'. He is a member
of the order of Odd Fellows.

In political sentiment he is a Democrat.

He was married July 18, 1867, to Miss Susan R.
Walden, who was born in Saline county, December
I I, 1851. Her father, John A. Walden, is a native
of Cumberland county, Virginia, and was born in
1812. Her mother, Susan R. Cartwell, was also
born in Cumberland county, her father having been
a soldier in the late war with England and dying in
Saline county in 1867. By his marriage, Lieutenant
Purcell has had four children: Cora Lee, born in
1867, died the same year, Earl R., born in 1870,
died in 1872, Minnie M., born in 1871, died in
1875; Orange T., born in 1877, died same year.
Mrs. Purcell is a member of the Baptist church with
her husband.

COLONEL WILLIAM H. MCCOWN.

CARTIIAGE.

ILLIAM H. MCCOWN was born October

 F\/ 4, 1842, in Kanawha county, Virginia. His
paternal great-grandfather, John McCown, together
with five brothers, George, James, Malcolm, Alex-
ander and Moses, emigrated from county Tyrone,
Ireland, in 1728. John settled at Calf Pasture,
Augusta county, Virginia, James, Moses and Alex-
ander, in Catawba, South Carolina, and George in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The grandfather
of William H. McCown, Matthew McCown, was a
native of Virginia. His father, James McCown,
was born in Virginia, but emigrated to Missouri in
1840, settling in Johnson couny, where he became
one of the leading and most substantial citizens,
holding the office of circuit and county clerk for
sixteen years previous to the civil war.
beginning of the war James McCown was elected
colonel of the 3d Missouri Confederate infantry.
After the battle of Iuka, in 1862, he commanded a
brigade of infantry, taking part in the following
important battles: Franklin, Iuka, Champion Hills,
Atlanta and Vicksburg, beside other engagements
of less notoriety. At the close of the war he
returned to his home in Johnson, where he died
in July, 1867., aged fifty-two years. His wife,
Caroline T. Burgess, was anative of Virginia,

At the i

» Dorn’s command.

and is still living in Johnson county, Missouri.

William H. McCown received a common school
education until sufficiently advanced to enter college,
when he attended Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tennessee, and took both a collegiate and law
course, graduating in law in the spring of 1858.
Returning to Missouri, he began the practice of his
profession at Warrensburg, and was so engaged when
the war began. At Warrensburg and Knob Noster
he enlisted a company of Confederate soldiers, of
which he was chosen captain. He joined General
C. Rains’ division, andwas engaged in the first
battles of importance in Missouri, to—wit: Carthage,
Wilson’s Creek and Lexington, and also the battle
of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, in 1862. Soon after the
latter fight, he went to Waco, Texas, and enlisted
the 13th Texas cavalry, of which he was chosen
colonel. The regiment was taken to Port Gibson,
Mississippi, where it was united with General Van
After following the fortunes of
the Confederacy to the close of the struggle, the
regiment was mustered out _of service at Mobile,
Alabama, in 1865.

He returned to St. Louis, visited some of the
most important cities of the North, and located in
the city of New York, engaging in the practice of

law. Wearied of city life, and anxious to return to
the society of his friends in Missouri, he left New
York in 1869, and located at West Plains, Howell
county, Missouri. He soon became popular and
gained a good practice. He was elected prosecuting
attorney of the 18th Judicial Circuit and served out
the term for which he was elected, giving entire
satisfaction to his constituents. In 1875. to secure
the benefit of good schools for his children, he
removed to Carthage, Jasper county, and again

engaged in practice. His usual success attended

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him, and he was, soon after his removal to that
place, elected city attorney, a position he now (1878)
holds. Colonel McCown is connected with the
Democratic party, and endorses all the leading prin-
ciples of that organization.

He was married in 1870, to Miss G. A. Bridges,
at VV est Plains, by whom he has a family of three
children, two boys and a girl. He is full of vivacity,
fond of society, easy in his manners, courteous in
his address, intelligent and agreeable in conversation,
and reliable as a lawyer and citizen.

JOHN D. SMOOT.

MEMPHIS.

ISSOURI, although younger than many of her
M sister states, has given birth to a vast number
of eminent men, who have done her service, and
whose names‘grace her records. Among them we
find the name of John D. Smoot, who was born in
Scotland county, October 15, 1848. His parents,
Edward and Harriet (Downing) Smoot, were natives
of Fauquier county, Virginia, and emigrated with
his maternal grandfather, H. H. Downing, to Mis-
souri, in 1836, locating in Scotland county, where
his father farmed to some extent.

John was reared to agricultural pursuits, and was
educated in the Memphis Academy. In 1870 he

began to read law, and after attending lectures at
the St. Louis Law College, he was admitted to the
bar in April, 1871. In the same year he located at
Memphis and began the practice of his profession,
in which he has since been successfully engaged.
In 1872 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and in
1874 was reelected. Politically he is a Democrat.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church.

In 1873 he married Miss Annie D. Ewing, of
Pendleton county, Kentucky, a lady possessing rare
Mr. Smoot is a
gentleman who has many friends, and whose char-
acter is unblemished.

qualities, and a very devoted wife.

DAVID HERNDON LINDSAY, A. M.

PLA TTSB URG.

AVID HERNDON LINDSAY was born
D September 9, 1827, in Gallatin, now Carroll
county, Kentucky. His father, RichardC Lindsay,
a farmer of that county and his mother, Julia H.
Bond, daughter of Walker Bond, a native of Virginia,
were both natives of Scott county, Kentucky, and
settled in Clinton county, Missouri, in 1857. His
ancestry on both sides were Virginians.

D. H. Lindsay was reared on the farm, but
obtained a good English education. In 1846 he

entered Franklin College, Indiana, where he remained

! several years pursuing a literary course. In 1851 he
1 removed to Missouri and taught school in Clay and

Lafayette counties. In 18 55 he established the Saline
Female Institute, at Miami, Saline county. This
institution flourished and grew in public favor until
the commencement of the civil war.

In 1861 Professor Lindsay entered the Confede-
rate army as a captain, and was in the service for
four years, doing duty in Missouri, Arkansas, Lou-
isiana and Tennessee; He was mad-e amajor in the
6th Missouri, Parsons’ division. He took part in the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 725

battle of Oak Hills, Lexington, Carthage and Pea
Ridge. After the latter battle his health failed so far
as to unfit him for active duty in the field. He was
therefore given the important post of Washington,
Arkansas, the headquarters of General Magruder’s
department, where he remained until the close of the
war. At the close of the war he returned to Mis-
souri, but was forbidden by the iron clad oath from
following his vocation. In 186 5 he accepted the
presidency of Concord College, Owen county, Ken-
tucky. At the end of two years he was elected pro-
fessorof mathematics and natural sciences, in Ghent
College, Kentucky, which post he filled threeyears.
In 1870 he was elected president of Warsaw, Ken-
tucky, Male and Female College, a position he occu-
pied for five years. In 1873 he was elected state
senator from the 2 3rd Senatorial District of Kentucky

and served four years, retaining meantime the presi-
dency of Warsaw College. In 1876 he returned to
Missouri and obtained the position of superintendent
of the public schools of Plattsburg.

In religious views Major Lindsay is a Baptist,
and has been a member of thatchurch since he was
fifteen years of age. In politics he is a Democrat.

He has been twice married. He was married to
his first wife, Miss Amanda Hubbard, of Clay county,
Missouri, in 1853. She died in 1857. He was mar-
ried to his second wife, Miss Lucy C. Nicholson, of
Boonville, Missouri, daughter of William P. Nichol-
son, Es‘q., July 22, 1863, at the headquarters of
General Frost, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Miss Nichol-
son, with Mrs. General Frost and several other ladies
had been banished into the Confederate lines for
active sympathy with the Southern cause.

JUDGE WILLIAM SMITH THOMAS.

MOBERL Y.

ILLIAM SMITH THOMAS was born

 iv April 18, 1821, in Georgetown, Scottcounty,
Kentucky. His grandfather, Anthony Thomas, was
a native of Maryland, but of Welsh descent. His

father, Benedict Thomas, was born in the District of j
His maternal grandfather was a I

Columbia in 1789.
native of Maryland, and his grandfather from Vir-
ginia. His mother, Ann Smith, was born at Bryant
Station, Kentucky, in 1797. Benedict Thomas and
Ann Smith were married in 1812.

William S. Thomas attended the schools of George-
town until his father’s removal to Missouri. This
occurred in 1830, and the family occupied the land

which is now the site of the city of Waverly, Lafay—' I
In 1831 his father moved to Lexing- I

ette county.

ton, taking his family. He then attended a school

in that place one quarter, but was principally employed 
In 1844 he returned ;
to Waverly and was engaged for two years in selling I
i retained a large amount of business on the south

on a farm adjoining Snelltown.

goods. In 1846 he took a stock of goods to Santa
Fe, Mexico, and was gone five months. Finding the
business profitable, he was for several years a “ San-
ta Fé trader.”
spent three years in that country mining and trading.

In 1853 he returned to Waverly, built a large fire- I

proof warehouse and engaged in the storage and com-

He went to California in I850.8.11Cl i

mission business. He was the first mayor of the
city under its charter in 1858. Until 186I he
employed his means in the saw mill and commission
business. In that year he joined the army and was
elected captain of a company, but owing to some
business engagements was compelled to resign, and
kept out of the war alt-ogether. He was elected a
judge of the county court in 1866,on the Democratic
ticket, and held the position four years. He was
then appointed a special commissioner to settle up the
estate of John D. Thurman, which being very large
required several years for its complete administration.
In 1867 he established a ferry at Waverly and bought
the steamer Little Blue. He then built the Nelly
Thomas and continued the ferry. He also built a
number of houses in the town and dealt largely in
real estate.

He left Lafayette county and removed to Carroll,
where he now resides, May 4, 1875, though he still

side of the river. Since moving to Carroll county he
has been farming on a small scale.
In politics Judge Thomas was an Old Line Whig,
but attached himself to the Democratic party in 1866.
He was married January 15, 1846, to Miss Eliza
J. Hull, of Lafayette county. She was born in Scott

726

county, Kentucky, in 1828, and was the daughter of
Braxton P. Hull. Her father was born in the same
county in 1785, and was of English ancestry. He
moved with his family to Pike county, Missouri, in
1832, afterward to Henry county, and then to Lafay-
ette about the year I84I. The mother of Mrs. Thomas
was Catherine Shroyer, daughter of Jacob Shroyer, a
German, who settled in Scott county at an early day.

Ten children were born of this marriage, of whom

TIYE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTZO./VARY.

two died in infancy. The other children still living
are: Mary S., married W. M. Webb, of Carroll
county, and has three children, John William and
Alice. Mary was born May 22,1847, William
Henry, born June 29, 184g, Braxton H., born
December 1, 1853; Catherine A., born in 1856;
Jeff'L., born in 1863 , Joseph D., born in 1865 ; Nel-
lie, born in 1867; Minnie, born in 1870. Braxton
H. Thomas married Miss Fannie Bellamy.

WILLIAM SACKETTE LEACH, M. D.

ST. f0SEPH.

‘ ‘ J ILLIAM S. LEACH was born in Chenango

county, New York, November 14, 1828.
His father, the Rev. Fowler Leach, was a native of
Connecticut, and a minister of the Baptist church,

I
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distinguished for his eminent piety, strong force of

character and dignified scholarship. He was a mem-
ber of a well known English family who emigrated
to America during the earlier period of its history.
His wife was Miss Malinia Degrass Pardee, a daugh-
ter of the celebrated physician, Dr. Pardee, of Paris,
France.

In the year 1800 the family moved to the state
of New York, where twenty-eight years after William
S. Leach was born. His earlier education he
received at Saint Gabriel’s College, a Jesuit institute
in Vincennes, Indiana, to which he early emigrated
in quest of fortune. Poor in purse, but rich in that
determined energy and unfailing spirit of self-reli-
ance which has ever characterized the course of his
successful life, he overcame obstacles which would
have daunted any young man of ordinary enterprise.
After many a hard struggle with fortune, he was
graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cin-
cinnati in 1847. Immediately upon receiving his
degree Dr. Leach moved to St. Louis, Missouri,
where he engaged in the practice of his profession.

About the close of the year I848, impelled by a
spirit of enterprise and contempt for opposing diffi-
culty, he determined to try his fortune in the wilder
West. Chance" threw him upon the soil of the then
insignificant Village of Robidoux Landing, now St.
Joseph, a flourishing city of twenty—five or thirty
thousand inhabitants. Here he engaged in the prac-

future growth and ultimate importance of the place,
invested his carefully accumulated means, which he
to-day sees fructified into elements of permanent and
substantial wealth.

In the year 1848 Dr. Leach was married to Miss
Lucille A. Massey, a daughter of Captain Massey,
of Franklin county, Missouri, and a lady of rare
mental endowments and elegant culture. Much of

the noble character and eminence of the Doctor are

due to the refining influence of his moral guide and
companion, his wife. The result of this union was
four children, a son, who was drowned in early
childhood, and three daughters, all of whom are
married and settled in St. Joseph.

He is a large real estate owner, and ‘during the
twenty-nine years of his residence in St. Joseph has
erected a considerable number of buildings. In
early life his inclination was to enter the legal pro-
fession, but erroneously believing that its practice
necessitated the resort to questionable, if not dis-
honest devices, he abandoned all thought of it and
‘eventually joined the ranks of fEsculapius. His
studies at a Jesuit college might have tinged his
training with a partiality for the sacred desk, but he
could not conscientiously have entered the min-
istry. We know of no church which accepts the
creed he ultimately proceded to, and his indepen-
dence of mind will not permit him to exchange his
views for those possessed by others, or trim and
cramp them to conform to theirs. Though original
in his modes of arriving at a religious belief, and
independent in expressing and maintaining a posi-
tion, he is neither an infidel nor a misanthrope. His

tice of his profession, and with firm reliance on the l Whole life ShOWS that he Wisely h€€dS the 16880118 Of

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL D./CTIOZVARY. 727

the past, heartily believes in the living realities of
the present, and is hopeful of the future

Thrown upon his own resources in youth, he
learned habits of economy and the value of posses-
sions which are only obtained through severe toil.
Naturally contemplative, reading much, and always
doing his own thinking, his ideas of theology, poli-
tics and social economy are original, and he has the
courage to express them and follow wherever they
logically lead. These peculiarities are noticeably
visible in his selection of a profession, for he received
his diploma from an Eclectic college and continues
to practice in that school.

His education and family traits appear strongly
in the mature man and are marked features of his
character. A ministerial, blended with a medical
strain of ancestry, exhibits itself in the every-day
lines of his character. A hater of cant and shams,
and thoroughly despising the demagogue‘, he has
held aloof from the arena of party politics, though
having decided opinions upon every prominent ques-
tion, and always publicly expressing his views when
called upon. His ideas of public policy are usually
radically different from those promulgated by parties,
but he must be classed a conservative. In 1876 he
espoused the principles of the party which nominated
Peter Cooper for the presidency, and was by that

party nominated for the General Assembly of Mis-
souri, which honor he declined. He has often
lectured upon theology, physiology and other promi-
nent subjects, exhibiting a terse, vigorous and popular
style. In business affairs he is quick to perceive
and prompt to decide, and those qualities render him
uniformly successful.

Though born in New York, Dr. Leach is emphat-
ically a western man, a man whose innate activity
and ambition have pushed him beyond the tighten-
ing bands with which the sedate towns and villages
of the older states are begirt, a man with eyes in
the front of his head and with ears eager to catch
the rush, rattle and roar of active, vigorous life.
Such are the successful men in our new states, and
such are the founders of western cities. Ere St.
joseph had scarcely an existence he cast his fortunes
with the people who decided there to erect a city,
and he has been an industrious, though often a silent
worker for the general welfare, the growth and fame
of St. joseph and Missouri. He owns much valu-
able property in and adjoining the city, and has
erected several houses, some of which are of great
architectural beauty. In the prime of life, blessed
with an excellent physique, conversant with and ever
heedful of the requirements of the laws of health,
a long and prosperous life is probably before him.

9. H. CALDWELL.

/opu./v.

VERY life has a history of its Own, and
E although in appearance it may seem to possess
little to distinguish it from others, yet there are
marks and characteristics which give a distinct indi-
viduality. An earnest activity has marked the life
of S. H. Caldwell, and the fact that he has won his
way to prominence and public esteem is evidence
of his character and worth. He was born June 19,
1843, in Audrian county, Missouri. His grand-
father, Samuel Caldwell, emigrated from Kentucky
when a young man, and settled near St. Louis,
from whence he removed to Boone county, Missouri,
where he still lives at an advanced age. He took
an active part in the war of 1812.

Thomas Caldwell, the father of the subject of

this sketch, is a. native of Missouri, and married
92

I

Miss Lucinda McBride, daughter of an early settler
of Missouri and captain in the Mexican war.

When fourteen years old young Caldwell re-
moved with his parents to jasper county, where he
remained until July, 1863, when he joined the Fed-
eral army, entering the 7th Provisional regiment, in
which he did good service until June, 1865.

Upon his return home he was appointed by Gov-
ernor Fletcher sheriff of jasper county. This posi-
tion at that time, when the country was in a state of
commotion, required a man of coolness and nerve.
Back taxes were to be collected and the laws

enforced, after years of anarchy, during which the

country was given up to lawlessness and plunder.
Mr. Caldwell knew but little of judicial proceedings,
and opened the first court he had ever atténded

728 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

in his life. The first election after the war, No-
vember, 1866, Mr. Caldwell was elected by the
people for a second term, and discharged his duties to
the satisfaction of all. At the expiration of his second
term he engaged in milling at Fidelity, ‘Missouri.
In 1871 he located at Joplin, where he has since
been engaged in mining. He has been very suc-
cessful in this enterprise and has opened several very

profitable lead and zinc mines. March 23, 1865,
Mr. Caldwell married Miss Mollie A. Paxton, of
Lawrence county, Missouri. Politically, he is and
ever has been a Republican.

Mr. Caldwell in his entire career has ever been
uniform and unostentatious, and in the exercise of
public trust has shown skill and ability which has not
failed to secure for him the highest respect.

ALBERT F.FOSTER.

IWACO./V.

LBERT F. FOSTER was born February 13,
A His father,
James M. Foster, was a native of Steuben county,
New York, and through life followed agricultural
pursuits. His mother, whose maiden name was
Betsey Ann Haling, was also a native of Geauga
county, Ohio.

The subject of this memoir was raised on the
family farm. His early literary education was liberal
and obtained at Oberlin College, Ohio, and Hills-
dale College, Michigan. In 1863 he entered the
Union army as a private of Company I, 22nd New
York cavalry. He was in the service till the close
of "the war, doing duty in Virginia, Maryland and
North Carolina. He was an active participant in the
battles of the Wilderness, White Oak Swamp, Win-
chester, and the great battles of Petersburg and

1846, in Geauga county, Ohio".

around Richmond. He was wounded in the left
leg in a skirmish under General Sheridan before the
battle of Cedar Creek. As he was incapacitated
by this wound for future military duty, the balance
of his service was spent in various hospitals.

He began reading law in 1869 in Warsaw, New
York. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar at Buf-
falo, New York. In I87[ he entered on the practice
in Erie county, New York. In March, 1873, he
located at Macon City, Missouri, where as a prac-
ticing attorney he has since resided. In 1876 he
was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the
United States. Politically he is an independent Repub-
lican. In religion he is a Baptist. He was married
October 6, 1875, in Macon Missouri, to Miss Lizzie
E. Winn, a native of Macon county, daughter of Dr.
]. B. Winn, a prominent physician of that place.

ABEL S. CLOUD, M. D.

CIIILLICO THE.

BEL SHUFORD CLOUD was born May 10,
A 1839, in Morgantown, Burke county, North
Carolina. His father, Ranson P. Cloud, was a Bap-
tist clergyman and died in 18 52. His mother, Cath-

arine Hildebrand, was a native of Burke county,

I North Carolina.

Abel S. Cloud was reared on the farm. He
received a liberal education, first in the common
schools and after in Rutherford College, in his native

state. He wanted but a few months of graduation
when the civil war began, and he enlisted in the
Confederate service as a private, in Company E, 16th
North Carolina. He accompanied the regiment
throughout the entire struggle, and participated in
the great battles of Yorktown, Seven Pines, the bat-
tles around Richmond, Second Manassas, Harper’s
Ferry, Antietam, Ball’s Bluff, Fredericksburg, Chan-
cellorsville, Gettysburg, the sixty days fighting around

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Richmond and the closing battles of the war. He
was in Stonewall ]ackson’s command, A. P. Hill’s
division, General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
He was promoted to be first lieutenant after York-
town, captain at Seven Pines or Fair Oaks ; lieuten-

rant-colonel after Gettysburg; and commanded his

regiment the last month of the war and at the sur-
render of Appomattox Court House. At Gettys-
burg, on the second day, he commanded a- brigade.
He was wounded at Mechanicsville by a minnie ball
in the bowels, and was slightly wounded in four
different places at the battle of Chancellorsville. He
was taken prisoner at the Rock V\7all on the third
day of the Gettysburg fight. He was confined first
at Fort McHenry, next at Fort Delaware, and then

729

at ]ohnson’s Island. At the latter place he was
drawn to be shot, in retaliation for the Fort Pillow
massacre, but was reserved and exchanged to be
with. his regiment in Grant’s last advance on Rich-
mond. _

He graduated from the medical department of
Louisville University in the winter of 1867-8. He
located, the same year, in Chillicothe, Livingston
county, Missouri, and entered upon. the practice of
medicine. He graduated, in 1870, from the Mis-
souri Medical College, and has ever since pursued
the practice of his profession at Chillicothe.

He was married, in 187 5, to Miss Bettie S. Rob-
inson, of Howard county, Missouri. Dr. Cloud is
a member of the Baptist church.

SAMUEL B. LASHBROOKE.

BUTLER.

AMUEL B. LASHBROOKE was born April
S 21, 1848, in Mason county, Kentucky. The
family is of English descent.
VVilliam Lashbrooke, emigrated from England in
I 7 3 5, and settled in Fauquier county, Virginia, where
he engaged in mercantile avocations until his death.
His grandfather, John Lashbrooke, was born in
Fauquier county, was an officer in the colonial army
during the Revolution‘, and in 1790. emigrated to
Kentucky, settling in Mason county, where he
engaged in farming until his death, about the year
1836.
Virginia, and sister of General Henry Lee, of Ken-
tucky. Peter Lashbrooke, father of Samuel, was
born in Mason county, Kentucky, in 1792. He
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and at the close of
that struggle engaged in farming and speculating.
He was a member of the constitutional convention
of 1849, a member of the legislature for three terms
and held various offices of trust in his native county.
After a life devoted to the welfare of his county and
state, at the age of eighty-six he has settled quietly
upon his farm. His wife, mother of Samuel, belongs
to the Morton family of Virginia. She is of Eng-
lish descent, and her ancestors emigrated to America
a great many years ago. '

Samuel G. Lashbrooke, until eight years old,

His great-grandfather, -

His wife was a member of the Lee family of i

I

was taught at home. He then entered the Lewis-
burg Academy, of Mason county, and attended that
school until sixteen years old. In 1864 he enlisted
in the 11th Kentucky Confederate cavalry, under
Colonel Dick Morgan, of Southwest Virginia. He
was afterward detailed to General Breckenridge’s
escort, participating in the battles of Bull’s'Gap,
Morristown, Strawberry Plains, and other lighter
engagements during the Knoxville campaign. In
the engagement at Kingsport, December I 3, 1864,
he -was made a prisoner of war and was retained at
Camp Chase, Ohio, until June, 1865. Returning to
Kentucky, he was sent to What is now known as
Washington—Lee University, Lexington, Virginia,
where he remained until the summer of 1868. In
the fall of that year he began the study of law in the
office and under the instruction of Judge E. C.
Phister, afterward completing his studies with Judge
Emory Whittaker, of Maysville. He was admitted
to the bar in 1870 and began the practice at Mount
Olivet, Robertson county, Kentucky.

In 1872 he left Mount Olivet and traveled through
Missouri and Kansas in search of an eligible location
to renew the practice. He selected Butler, Bates
county, Missouri, and has ever since resided there.
In October, 1877, he formed a partnership in the
practice of law with Hon. Charles C. Bassett.

730

In politics he is a Democrat, taking an active
part in political affairs. He was a delegate to the
state, state—national and congressional conventions in
Missouri in 1876. In religion, he is a believer in
the doctrines of Christianity, but confines himself to

THE UJVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTZO./VARY.

no particular creed. As a lawyer he stands among
the foremost at the Bates county bar; as a man of
business, he is highly respected for his integrity, in
social life, he is much esteemed, and has gathered
about him a host of admiring friends.

AUSTIN N. MCGINDLEY.

MOBERL Y.

USTIN N. MCGINDLEY was born in Wil-
A liamsburg, Clermont county, Ohio, December
30, 1832. His father, Manassah McGindley, was
a native of North Ireland, county Donegal, and was
a manufacturer of iron. He immigrated to America
in 1812, settling in Ohio. His mother, whose
maiden name was Sarah Reeder, was a native of
Parkersburg, Virginia.

Austin was reared in his native county and edu-

' cated in Cincinnati, Ohio, being at one time a stu-

dent of the distinguished professor and general,
Ormsby M. Mitchell. He also attended Farmers’
College, near Cincinnati, for a short period.

In 1853 he began the study of law in Harrison
county, Indiana, with the Hon. Simeon K. Wolfe,
a prominent attorney of New Albany, Indiana. In
1855 he was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon,
Illinois, and entered upon the practice of the law at

Newton, Jasper county, Illinois, where he remained
four years. In" 1856 he was master of chancery and
prosecuting attorney for Jasper county.

In 1859 he located in Quincy, Illinois, and prac-
ticed his profession there until June, 1866, when he
removed to Macon City, Missouri. In 1869 he was
appointed United States Commissioner, and in 1874
was the Republican candidate for circuit judge in
Macon county. In 1877 Mr. McGindley removed
to his present place of residence.

V Religiously he is connected with the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. April 4, 1861, he married
Miss Mary L. Clark, of Martin county, Indiana,
daughter of Judge Darwin A. Clark, of that place.

Beside his legal knowledge, both theoretical and
practical, he is a man of extensive general informa-
tion, taking a keen interest in whatever tends to
promote the interests of the West.

CHARLES MACON KING.

SHELBINA.

MONG the self-made men of the state of Mis-
souri, whose worth entiles them to a place in
this volume, is the man whose name heads this
sketch. Coming to this state when it was yet in
its infancy, and when the educational advantages
were very poor, he, by his own untiring efforts,
obtained an education and plodded his way to
eminence.

Charles Macon King was born in Mason county,
Kentucky, July 4, 1833. His father, Elbert Jones
King, was a native of Fayette county, Kentucky,
and followed both agricultural and mercantile pur-

suits, locating in Ralls county, Missouri, in 1837,
and removing to Shelby county in 1840. His mother,
Lucy Ann (Thomas) King, was a native of Harrison
county, Kentucky, and daughter of William Thomas,
an extensive farmer.

Charles was only four years old when his parents
emigrated to Missouri, and he was raised upon the
farm in Shelby county. While yet a boy he gave
evidence of a decided talent for the legal profession,
and in 1857 began to read law in Shelbyville. In
1868 he was admitted to the bar and began the
practice of his profession in Shelbina, where he still

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO/VARY. 731

lives and is actively engaged in his professional
duties.

During his entire legal course he was otherwise
employed and obtained his knowledge of the law
after his other duties were completed. From 1850
to I86! he labored assiduously at the carpenter’s
trade, when he engaged in teaching school until
1866. Thus it was that through difficulties which
would have crushed a less resolute man, he rose to
distinction. As a lawyer and scholar few men stand
higher in the estimation of’ the people than’ Mr. King.

In 1871-22 he was superintendent of public

schools in Shelby county, and filled his office with
great ability. With this exception he has‘ never
allowed his name to be used for public office. His
entire time and energies have been given to his pro-
fession. In politics he is a Democrat.

September, 1856, he married Miss Catherine
Lewis, a native of Shelby county, to which county
her father, Colonel William Lewis, emigrated from
Kentucky. Mr. King is a good citizen, a kind
friend and a. devoted husband, and has the confi-
dence and respect of all with whom he comes in
contact.

PATRICK MURPHY.

/OPLIN.

ROM the biography of every man may be
F gleaned some lesson of genuine worth; for it is
here that We find his source of power and discover
the secret of his success and failure. In the history
of Patrick Murphy, one of Missouri’s most promi-
nent business men, we find much to admire. He
was born in county Moneghan, Ireland, January 6,
1839, and when ten years old immigrated to Amer-
ica with his parents, Michael and Margaret Murphy.
They landed in Philadelphia in January, 1850, and
settled on a farm near the city.

Patrick obtained his education under great dis-
advantages, having to work very hard. In 1859,
upon the discovery of gold at Pike’s Peak, he went
to Colorado and engaged in mining. His success
varied, and on the 27th of August, 1860, he struck
the “Dead Broke Lode,” by which his capital
was increased. He then made a short visit to Phil-
adelphia, after which he returned to Colorado and
was engaged from 1861 to 1866 in freighting on
the plains, being the first to transport goods from
Fort Benton to Virginia City. His headquarters
were at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and he conveyed
freight through Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Col-
orado.

In 1865, under a government contract, he trans-
ferred goods from his headquarters to Fort Halleck,
and acted as wagon-master of his own train. He
crossed the plains thirty-one times, and though some
of these trips were made when attacks from the
Indians were hourly expected and they were scour-

ing the country in the front and rear of the train,
yet they never encountered them.

In 1866 he came to Fort Scott, where his partner,
W. P. Davis, had established a. store. Remaining
there a short time, he started a branch establishment
at Carthage, Missouri, it being the first store there
upon the rebuilding of Carthage after the war.

In 1871 Mr. Murphy and his partner, Mr. Davis,
became interested in lead mining in Joplin. They
purchased property where West Joplin now stands,
leased land, put up a furnace, and began mining
operations. They shipped their first lead in Octo-
ber, 1871. The firm also conducted a store in
Joplin until 1873, when they sold their mercantile
interests to Messrs. Porter & Roberts.

The partnership between Mr. Murphy and Mr.
Davis was dissolved in 1875, at which time the West
Joplin Lead and Zinc Mining Company was organ-
ized, of which Mr. Murphy was the principal stock-
holder and general superintendent. This company
owns a larger amount o_f mineral lands and more
mining property than any other company in Jasper
county. In June, 1876, the Grove Creek Mining
Company was organized, in which Mr. Murphy
owns a controlling interest. He has also a fourth
interest in the Miners’ Bank of Joplin.

He has always been closely identified with the
history of Joplin, and assisted in laying out West
Joplin, which in honor of him was called Murphys—
burg, until its consolidation with East Joplin in 1873,
under the general name of Joplin.

732 THE UNITED STATES BIOGIGAPIIICAI, DICTIOIVAIBY.

To the energy and business activity of Mr. Mur-
phy is largely due the development of the mining
interests of jasper county. Socially he is a gentle-
man of genial and courteous manners. In politics
he is a Democrat, and is a firm believer in the prin-
ciples of Democracy and their ultimate triumph.

In November, 1868, Mr. Murphy married Miss
Belle \Vorl<heizer, of Carthage, Missouri. To them

have been born four children: Ida, Howard, Lulu
and Frank. Their daughter Lulu died August 26,
187-.

Mr. Murphy has pursued an honorable, upright
course through life, bravely meeting and overcoming
every obstacle, and, by his patient perseverance and
promptness in all business affairs, has attained a
worthy success.

COLONEL JOHN FREEMAN WILLIAMS.

MACON.

OHN FREEMAN VVILLIAMS was born April
18, 1828, in Lynchburg, Campbell county, Vir-
ginia. Francis Epps Williams, his father, and

Martha Ann Talbot, his mother, were also natives of
Campbell county. Francis E. Williams was the son
of Thomas Williams, who was an officer in the Rev-
olutionary army. Martha Ann Talbot was the daugh-
ter of Charles Talbot, a merchant of Campbell
county, who resided there till his death in 18 32.
Captain Charles Talbot was an officer in the A1neri-
can army during the Revolution. The Talbots de-
scended from the Talbots of Maryland, among the
earliest settlers of that commonwealth, and were,
as the name imports, of English descent.

john F. Williams was reared on the farm of his
father, who had emigrated to Missouri and located in
Howard county, in 1835. Until sixteen years of age
he worked upon the farm during the spring, summer
and fall of the year, attending the best select schools
of the county during the winters. His subsequent
literary tra.ining was very liberal, having been obtained
at Masonic College, Marion county, and at the Mis-
souri University, from which latter institution he
graduated in 1848.

Immediately after graduation he began the study
of law under the instruction of Prewitt & Henry, the
former a distinguished jurist now deceased, and the
latter at present one of the justices of the supreme
court of Missouri. His studies were interrupted by
ill health occasioned by close study and sedentary
habits, and at the end of six months reading he deter-
mined to go to California. Here he remained until
October, 1851, engaged in mining and trading pur-
suits. He returned to Missouri in january, 1852,
making the return trip by the Isthmus’ route.

Arriving at home he immediately resumed the
study of law under his old tutors, and was admitted
to the bar in August, 1853. He at once began the
practice in Fayette, Howard county, and steadily
grew in the confidence of the people and the bar as
a lawyer of excellent promise. Here he continued
until the commencement of the civil war in 1861.

Mr. Williams was a man of positive convictions.
Had he chosen the one side or the other with the
View of gaining high position, there was every reason
why he should have joined the Confederate rather
than the Federal service. Almost all his relatives
and intimate friends were Southern in sentiment and
feeling. He, himself, was a Southerner by birth, edu-
cation and a long line of ancestry. Promotion for
him in the Confederate service would have been easy
and rapid. But if these considerations ever presen-
ted themselves to him they were rejected for the
more imperious demands of his convictions and the
warmer attachments he had for the old government
of his fathers. ‘

He therefore determined to join the Federal army
and was active in forming a regiment, of which Colo-
nel Oden Guitar, of Columbia, became colonel and
J. F. Williams lieutenant-colonel. The operations of
this regiment—9th Missouri cavalry, M. S. M.——were
confined wholly ‘to Missouri. In 1863 he was pro-
moted to be colonel. During 1863-4 he was in corn-
mand of the 7th Military District, with headquarters
at St. joseph. He remained inthe military service
three years, and no act of dishonor or cruelty or mil-
itary despotism stains his official record.

When war came on he became a soldier 3 when
peace arrived he was a civilian. In the spring of
1865 he located in Macon, Missouri, and began the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 733

practice of law. His business soon became exten-
sive and remunerative and is steadily increasing.

The civil and local offices Colonel Williams has
held are numerous- Soon after he began the prac-
tice of law he was made attorney of the State Bank
of that place. In 1854 he was chosen superintend-
ent of the public schools of Howard county. In 1856
he was elected circuit attorney of the 2nd ]udi-
cial District, discharging its duties for a period of four
years. In all these positions he did his duty with
manly independence, uninfluenced by fear, favor or
affection.

After the war in 1866, he was the Democratic
candidate for state superintendent of schools, but on
account of the “ Drake Test Oath,” and the disfran-
chisement of so many voters, he was defeated. In

1868 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress

"in the 8th Congressional District, but the same influ-

ences that operated in 1866 again defeated him. In
1876 he was elected as representative of Macon
county in the 29th General Assembly, and was elec-
ted speaker of the house over a number of experi-
enced legislators and popular gentlemen.

In politics Colonel Williams was a Whig till the
dissolution of that party. His first vote for a Dem-
ocratic candidate for President was cast for General
George B. McClellan in 1864. His religious con-
victions are strong, but he is not associated with
any religious denomination. He was married De-
cember 22, 1859, to Miss Hattie M. Overall,
daughter of Major Wilson L. Overall of St. Charles

 county.

REV. JAMES B. MITCHELL, D. D.

lflk/(S VILZLE.

in Washington county, Virginia. His father,

John Mitchell, was a native of Ireland, and his
mother, Nancy M. Mitchell, of Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, who was of Scotch-Irish descent.

TAMES B. MITCHELL was born June 21, 1821,

James B. Mitchell did not enjoy the facilities of i

a classical education, though he pursued a liberal
English course under the late Prof. William H. Van
Doren, and a select theological course under the
late Rev. S. B. F. Caldwell. Even when young he
had a taste for historical, scientific and religious works,

.the Bible being the foundation of the last named

class. He taught common and select schools for
several years, beginning in his twentieth year. This
he did because of a taste for teaching, and also to
assist him while taking his theological course. He
became a probationer for the gospel ministry under
the McGee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian churchin September, 184r,was licensed to preach
in September, 1842, and received ordination in
April, 1845. In December, 1845, he left Randolph
county, where he had resided since March, 1837, and
took charge of the New Bethel congregation in Mon-
roe county, remaining there till he moved to College
Mound, in October, 1853. His relations with the
New Bethel congregation were of the most pleasant
and spiritually profitable character, both to the pastor

and the people. While in charge of that church he
also conducted a farm. He was elected president of
McGee College early in 1853, and took charge in
October of that year. He sustained that relation to
McGee for nearly twenty-one years, and until it
closed in 1874. The school was temporarily sus-
pended in 1861, in consequenceof the war, when he
resumed pastoral work, in charge of Sugar Creek a11d
College Mound congregations. He was at one time
banished from the state by the military order of ]. B.
Clark, provost-marshal at Macon City, for reasons not
assigned, or known to him. He went to Montgomery
county, Illinois and took charge of a congregation as
pastor, where he remained till the military order was
revoked. He returned to Missouri in November, 1863.
The order of revocation was made by the provost—mar—
shal-general of Missouri in August, 1863, and as soon
as the case was reported to him. On his return to
Missouri, he took pastoral charge of Roanoke con-
gregation. In September, 1867, at the earnest
solicitation of the board of trustees, he resumed the
presidency of McGee College. The institution grew,
from a very small beginning in 1853, to be the most
extensively patronized college outside of St. Louis,
in the state, receiving students from all parts of Mis-
souri and from many other states. It sent out
annually young ladies and gentlemen of sound and

734 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

well extended scholarship, many of whom are in
the front ranks of active and useful lives. He was
called to the pastoral charge of the Kirksville con-
gregation in April, 1875, where he still labors.

He became connected with Free Masonry and

Odd Fellowship while. residing in Monroe county.
He served as Master, District Deputy Grand Master
and Grand Chaplain in the former for several years.
He has been active in the organization of temperance
societies — Washingtonians, Sons of Temperance,
Good Templars and the Murphy movement—ev.ery—
thing having for its object the abatement of intoxi-
cation by the removal of its cause. ‘

He embraced the Savior and united with the
Cumberland Presbyterian church in 183.8, in the
seventeenth year of his age. No marked change in his
religious views has taken place, except it be in the
increase of liberality toward others, accepting more

fully into fellowship all who love the Lord Jesus
Christ, simply because they are saved in and by Him.
The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on
him by the Cumberland University in 1808.

In politics he was an Old Line Whig, but has
belonged to no party since that one became disor-
ganized. He votes for the men whom he regards as
best suited for the positions they seek, regardless of
party affiliations. I

He was married November 3, 1846, to Miss
Martha C. Dysart, daughter of the late Colonel John
and Matilda Dysart, of Howard county, Missouri.
Her father was born in Maury county, Tennessee,
and her mother in Kentucky, whence they removed
with their parents to Missouri in early life.

Rev. Dr. Mitchell is a man of pure life, of fine
intellectual ability, of cultivated and elegant tastes
and a genuine Christian.

ETHAN ALLEN PINNELL.

CUBA

THAN ALLEN PINNELL was born Novem-
E -ber 17, 1834, in what is now known as Craw-
ford county, Missouri. His paternal grandfather,
Peter Pinnell, was a native of South Carolina, of
Huguenot ancestry, was a soldier of the Revolution,
served under General Nathaniel Greene, and soon
after removed to Kentucky, from thence to Missouri
where he died. Nancy Garber, his grandmother, was
a native of Holland. His maternal grandparents were
James Marquess and Margaret Kimberlin, who were
natives of France. His father, Wesley Pinnell, was born
in Christian county, Kentucky, in 1810; moved to
Missouri and settled in Crawford county, near Cuba,
in 1818, where he still resides. His mother, Maria
E. Marquess, was born in 1813, in what was then
known as Missouri Territory. She died in 1852,
aged thirty-nine years.

E. A. Pinnell is the second of a family of nine
children. Until fourteen years of age he passed the
ordinary life of a farmer’s son in a new country,
having the most limited opportunities for acquiring
knowledge. The school accommodations in every
respect were of the poorest quality. At the age of
fourteen he ceased attending the schools, and while
working on the farm employed all his leisure moments

in reading such books of a useful character as he
could procure. At twenty he went to Jersey county,
Illinois, and engaged in cutting cord-wood until the
following spring, when he assisted in the construc-
tion of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in Crawford
county. In January, 1856, he began teaching, and
taught in Gasconade, Franklin and Crawford coun-
ties until the beginning of the war. In 1861 he
enlisted in the 3d Missouri Confederate cavalry as a
private, but was made Ist sergeant. At the expira-
tion of the term of service he enlisted in Company
A, 8th Missouri infantry, and was elected 2d lieu-
tenant. This company was consolidated with Com-
pany D of the same regiment and he was elected
captain of the new organization, a position he held
until the surrender at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1865.
He had participated in the battles of Prairie Grove,
Pleasant Hill, Jenkins’ Ferry, and other minor
engagements.

At the close of the war he returned to Missouri,
but soon after went to Pike county, Illinois. He
again returned to Missouri in 1866, and commenced
farming and school teaching, studying law as oppor-
tunity offered. In 1869 he. went to Macoupin
county, Illinois, to teach, pursuing at the same time

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 735

his legal studies. In I872 he returned to Missouri,
settled in Cuba, was admitted to the bar and began
to practice. He has acquired a large practice and a
paying business, standing high as a lawyer and a
man of ability. In politics he adheres to the Dem-
ocratic faith, and is active in political circles.

In religion he embraces the doctrines of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church (South), of which he is a mem-
ber. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

He was married September 3, 1871, to Miss
Francis E. Collier, daughter of Preston Collier and
Rebecca Richmond, of Letcher county, Kentucky,
by whom he has had three children, all of whom
are living.

Captain Pinnell is an estimable and exemplary
Christian gentleman, pleasant and agreeable in the
social circle, prompt and energetic in business, with
a manner at once attractive and impressive.

DR. JAMES W. SOUTHWORTH.

GLASGO W’.

birth of the subject of this sketch, James
Walsh Southworth. It occurred, however, about
1807, and in the city of New York. At an early
age he was left an orphan, and went to live with an
uncle in the interior of the state, where he remained
until he was sixteen years of age and acquired a
fair education. Turning his steps westward, he came
to Louisville, Kentucky, and there for several years
engaged in clerking in a dry goods. store. Removing
to Frankfort, he commenced the study of law, but
not being pleased with it soon abandoned it. Going
thence to Woodford county, near Versailles, he com-

‘ N 7 E have failed to obtain the exact date of the

menced reading medicine, and in the spring of 1837 ’

graduated at Transylvania University, Lexington.

In the autumn of the same year he removed still
further west and settled in the vicinity of Glasgow,
Missouri, a town that had been laid out the previous
year in the northwest corner of Howard county,
near the mouth of the Chariton river. Here, in
1838, he purchased from Charles Purdin some lots
upon which the first dwelling house in the new town
had been erected, into which he soon moved and
where he continued to live until the house was
destroyed by fire at the battle of Glasgow, October
15, 1864. Dr. Southworth was very soon engaged
in a large and lucrative practice,in which he con-
tinued during life, a period of over thirty years,
never being known when sent for to ask a question

in regard to the probabilities of pay, and always.

going as readily and cheerfully to visit the poorest as
the richest member of the community.

When the expedition under General john B.
93

Clark was sent out to expel the Mormons from the
state, Dr. Southworth was appointed surgeon. He
was alsopost-surgeon to a regiment of enrolled Mis-
souri militia, while the same was stationed. at Glas-
gow during the late war.

He never held or desired public office, but was
for years a large stockholder and director in the
Glasgow branch of the Exchange Bank of Missouri.
In religion he was a decided Baptist and in politics
a Democrat.

In June, 1837, a few months subsequent to his
graduation, and previous to his removal to Missouri,
he was married to Evelyn, daughter of Germain
Bohannon, of Woodford county, Kentucky, a lady
of sterling worth, whose good judgment and wise
counsels were the guiding star of his life, and whose
every thought and effort in her declining years is
directed to the interests and happiness of their
sons.

September 19, 1867, while a majority of Dr.
Southworth’s family were in attendance upon an
agricultural fair at Roanoke, some twelve miles east
of Glasgow, by one of those mysterious providences
so frequently manifested in the community in which
he died, he came to his death. He was riding in a
buggy with a friend, the late judge Martin C.'Hurt,
for the purposeof visiting a patient. While descend-
ing a hill within the corporate limits of the city,
some part of the harness broke, and the horse,
becoming frightened, started to run. Dr. South-
worth in attempting to spring from the buggy, either
by entangling his foot in the wheel or from some
other cause, fell upon his head, the fall causing

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instant death, a son of the writer of this sketch,
then a ladiof some ten years, being the only witness
of the dreadful accident, except Judge Hurt, who,
within a few hundred feet of the spot, was himself
thrown from the buggy, receiving injuries from which
he died a few days afterward.

Dr. Southworth left a handsome estate which, by
mutual consent, was equally divided between his
widow and three surviving sons. He also left a
name and character for integrity and honor which is
to them a heritage of greater value than wealth.

He left three children, all sons. The eldest, James
W., inherited his father’s name and adopted his pro-
fession, in which he is actively engaged in the same
community where his father lived and died, and may
be said to be following in his footsteps. Albert
Bohannon, the second son, is now mayor of the city
of Glasgow. Clarence Hamilton, the youngest, in

personal appearance resembles his father more than

either of the others. A beautiful monument in the
cemetery at Glasgow has been erected to perpetuate
Dr. Southworth’s memory.

J. R. SNELL, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

OHN ROWAN SNELL was born in Callaway
county, Missouri, November 8, 1841. His
father, John Snell, was born in Georgetown,

Kentucky, in 1800, and died at Knob Noster, Mis-
souri, January 6, 1878. He was an extensive stock
trader and moved to Boone county, Missouri, many
years ago, but returned to Kentucky, where he
remained four years. He then came back to Mis-
souri in 1831 and settled near Fulton, the county
town of Callaway. There he continued farming
and stock raising ‘until 1859, when he removed to
Benton county. In 1861 the war excitement induced
him to move South with his stock and colored
people, and when peace was declared he returned to
Callaway county, Missouri, where his wife died in
1869, after which time he made his home with his
children, and finally died at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Julia A. Fisher, at Knob Noster.

John Snell married Miss Nancy Hamilton, of

Scott county, Kentucky, in 1819. They had eight

children, the youngest of whom is the subject of _

this sketch.

Dr. Snell received his literary education at the
schools in Callaway county, after which he entered
the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, where he
graduated in 1871. He had previously practiced
medicine in Texas four years and in Missouri three
years. After graduating he resumed his practice at
Knob Noster, Johnson county, Missouri, and con-
tinued there until January, I877. It was there the
writer of this sketch knew intimately Dr. Snell, and
knew him as one of the most successful physicians

in that section of the state. Being familiar with the
people, he had opportunities of noting the treatment
by Dr. Snell of many stubborn cases of different
diseases—but especially such as are peculiar to
females and children——and it is but justice to say he
never lost one patient, nor failed to cure, so far as
the writer’s knowledge goes, any that were curable.
Then he was proverbially prompt and decisive, but
kind and careful with his patients—indeed, no small
share of his success is attributable to his attentive
nursing. The Doctor speedily became the most
popular physician in that county and had a lucrative
practice, notwithstanding several old practitioners in
the same town and other parts of the county.

His practice in Johnson county was as we have
stated, lucrative, but desiring a larger field of opera-
tions, and one less laborious, Dr. Snell removed to
Kansas City January I, 1877, where he has since
continued to practice. March I, 1878, he formed a
partnership with Dr. H. F. Hereford, a native of

Alabama and a graduate of the medical department of '

St. Louis University, but for many years a practicing
physician in Kansas City and Jackson county. The
partnership still continues, both gentlemen having as
much business as they can possibly attend to.

Dr. Snell was made a Mason at Knob Noster in
1869, and at the same place joined the Odd Fellows
in 1872. His parents were Baptists, of whichvdenom-
ination he is also a member. .

He has always been a staunch Democrat, and
although conversant with political history and ever
interested in national and party events, he never

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would permit himself to be drawn into political life,
his father’s strenuous advice on that point had deci-
ded him. He never sought office, and only on one
occasion allowed his name to be used in connection
with a public office, and then only at the solicitation
of his fellow-townsmen of Knob Noster, who elected
him a member of the board of school directors’. On
other occasions he had been solicited to allow the
use of his name as the county's representative, but
he invariably refused. T

August 6, 1868, Dr. J. R. Snell was married to

Miss Lucie H. Craig, daughter of Reuben and Mary _

Jane (Guthrie) Craig, of Kentucky. They have had
two children, one of whom died, the living one is

named Mary Alma, and was born December I0, I87 I.
Although a comparatively young man, Dr. Snell
bids fair to become a model physician. His cheer-
ful confidence in the sick chamber is often as potent
as his medicines. He has been and still is a student
in his profession, ever grasping after new truths in
science. Keeping himself thoroughly posted in his
profession, his diagnoses are almost instantaneous
and Very rarely incorrect. He is also of a decided
literary taste, which he has carefully cultivated,
and which materially assists him in entertaining his
patients as well as to render him an acceptable addi-
tion to the social circle. He is no less popular as a
polished gentleman than as a successful physician.

PETER H. TIERNAN.

KANSAS CITY.

ETER H. TIERNAN was born, August 30,
P His father,
Peter Tiernan, born in Ireland, was a wagon manu-
facturer in St. Louis, a man of prominence in local
politics, a member of the city council and exercising
a good deal of influence in the city, but died when
his son Peter was a child. His mother, Ann
McVicker, was born in New York city,‘but removed
to St. Louis in her infancy. She is a woman of edu-
cation, eminent for her piety, and an active and use-
ful member of the Catholic church of St. Louis,
where she still resides.

On account of his father’s death, young Peter
Tiernan was thrown very much on his own resources.
His education was limited to a short time in the
public schools of the city, supplemented by the
instruction always incident to close application in a
printing-office, into which he‘ entered when fourteen
years of age. His first work was in the St. Louis
I72z‘e/Zzgezzcer office, but subsequently in that of the St.
Louis Democraz‘, where he served a regular appren-
ticeship when that paper was under the management
of ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown. His health failing,
he abandoned the “ case” for a time and worked in
an iron foundry nearly one year. On the restora-
tion of his health he resumed his regular business.
In the spring of 1862 he removed to Leavenworth,
Kansas, where he became foreman in the C02zse7'7/_a2‘z'w
office, and held the position for about three years,

I842, in St. Louis, Missouri.

when he established a job office in that city.

He was elected as a Democrat to the lower house
of the Kansas Legislature, from the city of Leaven-
worth, in 1868. The same year he was elected a
member of the city council. In August, 1869, he
resigned this position, removed to Fort Scott, and
associated himself with Hon. George A. Crawford
in the publication of the /llo/zz'z‘0r, then a weekly, but
soon issued as a daily newspaper. It met with great
success, being the first daily paper issued in South-
ern Kansas, and exercised a large influence in that
part of the state. In 1872, having participated
actively in the opposition to Senator Pomeroy, he
was,.by the influence of his friends, associated with
George W. Martin in the state printing, receiving
the binding of all the state work, and establishing
the best bindery in Kansas. Up to this time the
state work had been poorlyexecuted. Messrs. Mar-
tin & Tiernan, the former in the specialty of print-
ing and the latter in that of binding, made the
whole work, for the first time in the history of the
state, of a character to do honor to themselves as
mechanics and business men. In 1875, having
established a reputation as a first class business man
and his capacity as a workman in all his relations
with the work of the state, for political reasons he

-sold out his interest to Mr. Martin and returned to

Fort Scott, where he again became associated with
George A. Crawford in the Fort Scott foundry.

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This business not suiting his taste, he established, in
187 5, an extensive bindery and book and job print-
ing office in Kansas City, and in about one year took
into partnership with him "Mr. John W. Wainwright,
who. has since retired, leaving Mr. Tiernan sole pro-
prietor, in a remarkably successful business. In July,
1878, he was nominated for the legislature on the
Democratic ticket by a majority of over five hundred
votes. His district comprises a large part of the busi-
ness portion of Kansas City and is Democratic.

Having been educated in the Catholic faith by a

devout mother, his predilections are in favor of the
tenets of that church, but he is liberal in his religious
views. He has always ‘been and still is a Democrat,
but is an admirer of the southern policy of President
Ilayes. - i ‘
He was married, October 12, 1864, to Miss
Mary C. Basye, daughter of Henry Basye, a distin-
guished pioneer of Platte county, Missouri. She is
an educated, accomplished and cultivated lady.

FRANK P. WILEY.

MOBERL Y.

RANK P. WILEY was born, February 3, 1853,
F in McLean county, Illinois.

His educational advantages were excellent, and
the eminence to which he has already risen plainly
indicates that they were appreciated and improved.
He attended the Michigan University, and subse-
quently Hillsdale College, in Michigan. From
the latter institution he graduated in 1873, taking
the first honors of his class and delivering the vale-
dictory. During the winter of 1873 he attended lec-

tures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was admitted to

the bar at Moberly, Missouri, in 1874. In 1876 Mr.

Wiley was elected city attorney of Moberly, and dis-
charged his duties to the entire satisfaction of his con-
stituents. Politically he is a firm and consistent Dem-.
ocrat. His present position in society and in the confi-
dence of -the people is due to his own energy and
perseverance, and among the young men of the
great West, who have carved a name and reputation
by their own industry, he stands in the front rank.

His history lies largely in the future, but judging
from his past he has bright promises.

EUGENE R. LEWIS, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

UGENE R. LEWIS was born June 7, 1853,
E in Randolph county, Missouri. His ‘father,
Dr. R. K. Lewis, and his mother, Emma D. (Wright)
Lewis, moved to Randolph county in 1851, where
his father practiced medicine until 1858'. In that
year Mrs. Lewis died and Dr. Lewis moved to Fay-
ette, Howard county, where he could have the advan-
tage of established schools for his children. Dr.
Lewis survived his wife but about one year and a
half, and died in the Galt House, in Louisville, Ken-
tucky, while on his return from Philadelphia, whither
he had been to recruit his health. His remains were
brought to Glasgow, Missouri, and buried beside his
wife in the Lewis family burying ground, leaving

three orphan children,two boys and one girl. Eugene,
the oldest, and his brother, were taken by their
uncle, John F. Lewis, of Glasgow, and the sister,
Emma, was taken by their aunt, Mrs. Oglesby, of
Shelby county, Kentucky, to be reared.

Eugene received the benefit of the best schools of
the country, his literary education having been
received in Central College, Fayette, Missouri, where
he graduated in physical science. In the winter
after leaving college, he attended the medical lec-
tures at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, and gradua-
ted from that institution in the class of 1873-4, car-
rying with him as a token of regard, a cabinet of
materia medica, formerly the property of Professor

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Robley Dunglison, of that college, which is highly
prized by its present owner, as coming from the hand
of so illustrious a man. He at once moved to Kan-
sas City, Missouri, where he began the practice of
his profession. Soon after locating in Kansas City
he was appointed surgeon for the western division of
the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northwestern Railroad,
and was acting surgeon of that division at the time
of the wreck of the passenger train at Gower, while
crossing a bridge on the St. Joseph division of that
road. He is at present surgeon of Company A, Na-
tional Guards, governed by the Missouri state militia
laws. He is a member of several secret orders, promi-
nent among which are the Masons and Forresters,
and to the latter of which he is court physician.

He has always been an ardent democrat, but
takes no active part in political management." He is
the present acting coroner of Jackson county, having

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been appointed to that position by the county court
in 1876. He was made chairman of the reception
committee and made the reception speech on the
part of the National Guards and the citizens of the 8th
District welcoming Governor Phelps and staff to the
hospitalities of Kansas City, on the 8th of January,
1878. He was also secretary of the committee to
correspond with Washington officials relative to the
location of the custom house and post—office in Kan-
sas City.

He is a man of robust physique, weighing about
one hundred and eighty pounds, of pleasing address
and most agreeable manners, a mind clear, penetra-
ting and comprehensive , of studious habits and inves-
tigating turn , thoroughly posted in his profession and
a practitioner of decided merit. His future gives
promise of great usefulness, both as a citizen and a
member of the healing art.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL.

ROLLA.

OSEPH CAMPBELL was born August 17,1829,
in County Armagh, Ireland. He is of Scotch-
Irish descent. Little is known of his ancestry.

They moved from Scotland and settled in the north
of Ireland, where his grandfather, Felix Campbell,
was alarge landowner, inn—keeper and ferryman. By
the laws of primogeniture the greater part of his
property descended at his death to his oldest son,
which left the balance of the children in straitened
circumstances. The children, reared in opulence,
were improvident, and the wealth of his grandfather
was wasted in the next generation. His father, John
Campbell, though a delicate man, pursued the busi-
ness of a farmer until his death in 1855, in the sixty-
second year of his age. His mother, Catharine
Campbell, was a robust, healthy woman. I
Joseph Campbell received his education at the
primary schools of his native county, and worked on
his father’s farm until eighteen years of age. In
1847, having an uncle at Belfast, Ireland, who was
agent for a line of steamers plying between Belfast
and New York, he made application for a ticket to
America. His application was kindly entertained,
and he arrived in New York in May, 1847. He
first obtained work on a farm on Long Island, where

he remained until the fall of that year. He then
returned to New York, where he met a relative of
his mother, in company with whom he started to
Ohio, obtaining work and taking charge of a gang
of men on the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati
Railroad, then in process of construction. He next
went to West Virginia and accepted a situation under
a Mr. McGee in the building of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. After working on this road four
years he was employed on the Steubenville & Indiana
Railroad for one year. He then went with his
former employer, Mr. McGee, to Virginia and
worked four years. Having finished his contract, he
went to St. Louis and secured a contract on the
Iron Mountain Railroad, in partnership with Mr.
Lawrenson. He soon became
suit with his partner by which he lost $5,000, the
fruits of three years labor. In 18 58 he was awarded
a contract on the South-West Branch——now the St.

involved in a law-

Louis & San Francisco Railroad, and was here‘
engaged until the war closed active operations on -

this road.

In 1859 the failure of the banking institution of
John J. Anderson & Co., of St. Louis, caused Mr.
Campbell a loss of three-fourths of all his means—the

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labor of 1nany years. The excitement of the war
stopped operations on this road, and he was idle for
one year. In 1862 he opened a store of general

merchandise in Rolla with a capital of $2,000, in

partnership with Patrick Long under the firm style
of Campbell & Co.
continued the business alone until 1868. In the latter
year he formed a partnership with Love & Co. In the
the same year the firm purchased stock in the Rolla
Flouring Mills, the company having suspended on
account of want of means. Campbell, Love &: Co.
have been very successful in operating it._ The mill
has a capacity for two hundred and fifty barrels of
flour per day, and the company ship three car loads
daily to the markets of the East. In 1871 the firm

His partner dying in 1865, he.

disposed of their stock of goods, and now confine
themselves exclusively to the milling business. He
is vice-president of the Rolla National Bank and also
one of its directors. Politically he is a Democrat,
but takes little interest in politics, preferring to vote
for men rather than for partisans.

He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

He was married June I6, 1868, to Miss Elizabeth
Garvey, daughter of James and Catharine Garvey, of
St. Louis, by whom he has had four children, three
of whom are now living.

Notwithstanding his losses and misfortunes, he
has by industry, perseverance and economy attained
a competence and occupies an enviable position
among the business men of Southeast Missouri.

WALTUS LOCKET, WATKINS.

LA W50./V.

JALTUS LOCKET WATKINS was born
October 30, 1806, near Versailles, Woodford

county, Kentucky. His father, Benjamin Watkins,
was a native of Chesterfield county, Virginia, and
was born October I, 177 5. His grandfather, Joseph
Watkins, and great-grandfather, Stephen Watkins,
were both Virginians by birth. The family is of
Welsh origin. The family name of Stephen Watkins’
wife was Trabue, and they were of French Hugue-
His mother was a grand-daughter of
The wife of

not extraction.
the celebrated Bartholomew Dupuy.

Benjamin and mother of Waltus L. Watkins was a .

Miss Minter, born ‘March 6, 1781, in Pittsylvania
county, Virginia, daughter of Joseph Minter, a
respectable farmer, who removed to Kentucky in
1798, and died in 1801. They were married April
21, 1801, in Woodford county, Kentucky, where Ben-
jamin Watkins died June 13, 1830, having been
highly esteemed as a citizen, leaving a wife and thir-
teen children, three sons and ten daughters. Mrs.
Watkins immigrated to Missouri in 1839, and died
August 20, 1862, in Clay county.

The boyhood of W. L. Watkins was spent on the
farm, and his education was derived from the com-
mon country ‘school. At eighteen years of age he
went to live with his uncle, Jeremiah Winter, then of
Bardstown,Kentucky,now residing in Marion county,
Missouri, at the advanced age of eighty-one years.

Here young Watkins began to learn the art of man-
ufacturing cotton goods. He continued with his rel-
ative seven months, but learning that another uncle,
James Winter, had a larger establishment and improv-

ed machinery, he went to live with him and learn ,

his trade, and remained one year. Here he also
learned to make and repair machinery. To perfect
himself in his calling he went to Lexington, Ken-
tucky, and, under Charles Lewis, made himself com-
plete master of his trade, and having done so, acted
as superintendent of Colonel Dudley’s establishment
in Frankfort, for two years.

In September, 1830, he immigrated to Missouri,
and settled in Liberty, Clay county. Here he built
a small cotton factory, but the farmers raised but little
cotton, as the climate was not adapted to its growth,
and he abandoned the enterprise for want of mate-
rial. He then converted his cotton factory into a
wool carding establishment, which, though more
prosperous, was not sufficient to satisfy his ambition,
and he sold his factory, taking a deed of trust on the
mill to insure payment. The mill burned down soon
after and he thus lost the fruits of his labor. He then
concluded to engage in farming, and located about
fifteen miles north-east of Liberty. Here he remained
for twenty-one years, raising grain, hemp, tobacco,
and stock. He was very successful as a farmer, and
soon retrieved all his losses. In 1860-61 he builta

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large mill, doing custom work 3' but the war coming
on, those who were indebted to him were unable to
pay, and he found himself straitened for means.
His long life of probity enabled him to borrow money
and his energy and industry again came to his rescue,
and he became very prosperous in business.

The early truths taught him by his parents were
never forgotten or abandoned. Industry, integrity,

‘love of truth, honor and punctuality—these were the

lessons he imbibed, and their practice made him
respected and honored by his neighbors. Although
somewhat inclined to be skeptical in his youth,
mature thought and earnest investigation led him to
recognize the profound truths of the Bible and he
heartily embraced them at the age of forty-two, uni-
ting with the Baptist church.

He was for twelve years a justice of the peace in
Clay county, and for twenty years a trustee of Wil-
liam Jewell College.

His father and brothers were Whigs in politics,
but Mr. Watkins embraced the principles of the Dem-
ocratic party, and has consistently voted with that
organization, having cast his first presidential vote
for General Jackson. '

He was married March 4, 1834 to Miss Mary Ann
Holloway, a daughter of Spencer -Holloway, of Jes-
samine county, Kentucky. Her grandfather, Captain
James Holloway, was a soldier in the war for inde-
pendence, and her grandmother was a daughter of
Colonel Spencer, of revolutionary fame. They
have eight living children, two having died in infancy.
Catharine Jane Watkins married Dr. Atchison of St.
Louis, nephew of General Atchison, but died four
months after marriage. George Spencer Watkins,
born February 14, 1837, resides in Montana, and is
a prosperous farmer and stock breeder. Martha Ann
married M. D. Scruggs, one of the firm of Scruggs
& Cassady, dealers in live stock, St. Louis. ‘Mary
Elizabeth married William Atchison, nephew of Gen-
eral Atchison, dealer in live stock, Plattsmouth, Mis-
souri. Waltus Jewell VVatkins is at home engaged in
the factory. John Handy Watkins is also at home.
Adoniram Judson and Joe Barry Watkins are attend-
ing William Jewell College. Carrie Emma resides
with her parents. John is a thorough and active
business man and is a partner of his father, the firm
being Watkins & Son, All the children received a
good education.

Mr. Watkins is a man of temperate habits, having
used neither spirits, tobacco nor coffee for thirty years.
He claims that his success in life is due to his indus-

try, economy and promptitude. The first locomo-
tive built in the United States was constructed by
Charles Lewis and Joseph Bruin, assisted by Mr. Wat-
kins in July, 1828. It was exhibited in a large hall in
which was a circular track. Half a dollar was charged
each visitor as an admission fee, and among the crowd
of visitors who went to see the wonder was Henry
Clay, who remarked that he was proud to know that
Kentucky had built the first locomotive, and beat
the balance of the world.

The following legend is retained in the Watkins
family: Bartholomew Dupuy, the gallant Huguenot
who rendered his country good service during the
war with Flanders, was promoted to a high office and
wedded a countess of much influence and distinction,
who, with himself, was a Huguenot in faith. When
the Catholics obtained the ascendancy in France, he
became the leader of the defenders of his faith, and
led them successfully through fourteen battles; but
subsequently, after frequently befriending those whom
the king was persecuting, Louis XIV signed an edict
for his destruction. The providence of God was
over him and he was notified of his danger by a faith-
ful servant. He set out on horseback with his wife,
for the coast where a ship was waiting with many of
his brethren to set sail for the New World. After
passing through many dangerous adventures, and
when near the end of his journey, he suddenly heard
the quick approach of horses. He turned to behold
a band pursuing them, who opened fire on them.
At that moment the shriek of his faithful wife led him
to believe that the shot had proved fatal, and, as the
lion when frightened in his lair, he turned upon his
pursuers and waved his pistol and fired at the cap-
tain who fella lifeless corpse. Then drawing his
faithful sword, he charged the other members of the
party, and after cutting down several of them he put
the others to flight. Then turning to his companion
with a view of soothing her affliction, he rectived the
joyful intelligence that the ball had lodged in a small
psalm book that she had concealed in her bosom.
O! the mercy of God to those who put their trust in
Him I He succeeded in reaching the vessel, and set
sail for America, landing on the shores of Virginia,
where he lived out a useful life, raising a large fam-
ily. Just before the dawn of the Revolution, this
father in Israel fell asleep in Jesus. Like the patri-
arch of old, he called his children around him. After
admonishing them he took his faithful sword and
giving it to his first born, requested that that sword

should never be sheathed while there remained a

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cause of freedom and liberty of conscience for it to
be used in. That sword did good service in the
hands of a Baptist Dupuy on the plains of Guilford
CourtiHouse, drinking the blood of English aggres-
sion, and at several other places, and is now preserv-

ed as a relic among the descendants of Dupuy in.

Virginia. All of the descendants of Bartholomew
Dupuy, who are scattered over the South and West,
are Baptists, some of them most eminent in the min-

l istry. _

I-ION. FRANCIS MARION COCKRELL.

VVARRE./VSB URG.

RANCIS M. COCKRELL was born in John-
F His
father was a practical farmer, a man of good busi-
ness qualifications and everywhere respected for his
integrity and moral Worth. His son Francis inher-
ited the father’s characteristics, was studious, indus-
trious and practical. His education, like that of
farmers’ sons generally, was of that character that
develops the muscles while expanding the mind,
giving to both the culture so necessary to success in
life. The common schools of Johnson county were
employed to implant the rudiments of an English
education, and prepare him for the academic course
subsequently pursued. Having acquired a knowl-
edge of the ordinary branches, he was sent to Chapel
Hill College, Lafayette county, Missouri. This insti-
tution, before the establishment of more accessible
colleges, attained a high reputation as a seminary of
learning and turned out some of the best scholars in
the state. Young Cockrell entered Chapel Hill in
1850 and graduated with honor in 1853. '

In the West, taste and inclination generally deter-

son county, Missouri, October, 1834.

‘mine the pursuits of the young "men, for as they

must, in most cases, secure the means for their own
advancement, every occupation is open to them, and
patience and labor will secure the desired result.
Mr. Cockrell chose the profession of law and applied
himself with great industry to acquire the necessary
knowledge.’ He was admitted to the bar in 185 5.
Forming a business connection with James O. Silli-

man, a nephew of Lewis Cass, he immediately began '

the practice of law in Warrensburg, Johnson county.
His application and talents soon gave him promi-
nence at the bar and secured for him a lucrative
practice, in which he continued until the commence-
ment of the civil war. Although frequently solic-
ited to accept nominations for office, he uniformly
declined the honor sought to be conferred.

Long before the actual clash of arms, the public
mind was being agitated by events that all intelligent
men saw must, sooner or later, precipitate a con-
fiict, and there were but few who had not deter-
mined upon their course in certain contingencies.
When, therefore, in the winter of 1860- 61, the Mis-
souri Legislature made provision for the organization
of the Missouri State Guard, everybody knew that it
meant war if no compromise was effected in Con-
gress. Probably no man in the state more sin-
cerely regretted the circumstances that increased the
national difficulties, and probably no man in Missouri
was more thoroughly determined on his course than
Mr. Cockrell. Hence, when the army was actually
to be formed, no one responded with more alacrity
than he, enlisting as a private. He was soon
advanced to the rank of a captain, and during the
first three months of the War participated in the
battles of Carthage, Springfield and Lexington.
Soon after the latter battle he joined the regular
Confederate army and was assigned to the command
of the 2nd Missouri infantry, with the rank of cap-
tain. The engagement of Pea Ridge followed later,
and then Generals Price and Van Dorn moved their
commands to the east side of the Mississippi river,
the 2nd Missouri accompanying them.

To give anything like a detailed statement of
Colonel Cockrell’s military operations after this,
would be to write a history of the war in the South.
He was elected lieutenant-colonel in May, 1862, and
a month later was commissioned a colonel. He
participated in the battles of Iuka, Corinth and
Hatchie, was with Pemberton’s army in its retreat
from Holly Springs to Granada, Mississippi; took
part in the bombardment of Grand Gulf and the
battle of Port Gibson, was in the fight at Champion
Hills and that of the Big Black, and when the Con-
federate army Was driven back into Vicksburg, he

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took a prominent part in its defense and endured the
dangers and privations of the besieged. Within the
fortifications of that city he had command of Fort
Hill, the most important and conspicuous of the
city’s defenses, against which the heaviest columns
of the enemy were hurled. This fort was the key

to Vicksburg, and three days after its destruction by

the explosion of a mine, by which Colonel Cockrell
was severely wounded, Pemberton surrendered the
city to General Grant.

Colonel Cockrell was sent to the parole camp at

Demopolis, Alabama, and was promoted to the rank"

of brigadier-general. Recovering from his wound
and. being exchanged, he was in the army of Lieu-
tenant-General Polk in front of Sherman in his
movement from Vicksburg to Meridian, Mississippi.
He joined General Joe ]ohnston’s army near Rome,
Georgia, and was with it in front of Sherman, when
the latter marched upon Atlanta. He was-wounded
in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, was with Hood
in his march in the rear of Atlanta into Tennessee ,
was in the battle of Altoona, October 5, 1864, and
in that of Tilton, Georgia, on the 13th of the same
month; participated in the battle of Franklin, Ten-
nessee, where he was three times wounded ; was left
at Mobile, Alabama, in February, 186 5, in command
of the French division, and captured on the evening
of April 9, 1865, the day of Lee’s surrender. He
was sent as a prisoner to Fort Gaines, on Dauphin
Island, and paroled on the 14th of May follow-
ing.

The war being closed, he returned to Warrens-
burg, Missouri, and resumed the practice of law,
forming a copartnership with Colonel T. T. Critten-
den. In 1874 General Cockrell was a prominent
candidate before the Democratic convention for gov-
ernor, and was defeated by Charles H. Hardin, the
latter receiving one-sixth of a vote more than the

former. In January, 1875, he was elected by the
legislature of Missouri to succeed Carl Schurz in the
United States Senate, his term extending six years
from the 4th of M arch succeeding.

Politically, Senator Cockrell is an unswerving
Democrat, and without being obtrusive is ever ready
to discuss the principles of his party when occasion
demands it. About the year 1851 he became a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
which membership he still retains, and was for years
an elder in the Warrensburg congregation.

I He was, in July, 1853, married to Arethusa D.
Stapp, of Lafayette county, Missouri. The issue of
this marriage was three sons. Mrs. Cockrell died
in December, 1859. In April, 1866, General Cock-
rell married Anna E. Mann, daughter of James B.
Mann, of Mercer county, Kentucky. She died of
consumption in August, 1871. In July, 1873, he
was married in St. Louis to Anna Ewing, eldest
daughter of the late Judge Ephraim B. Ewing, of
the Supreme Court of Missouri. They have two
children, a son and a daughter.

Senator Cockrell’s_ social endowments are of the
highest order. Possessed of fair vivacity, ready wit
and large intelligence, his presence in any society is
always welcome. He is a man of pure life and
unsullied honor, and his endorsement of any enter-
prise is the highest evidence of its merits. Less
enthusiastic than practical and less brilliant than
argumentative, his steady progress in life is the
inevitable logic of unquestionable power. His busi-
ness qualities are of that class that succeed by steady
industry, persevering toil and incorruptible integrity.
No client fears his treachery, and no honest man,
his denunciation. In short, his prominent charac-
teristics are, moral principle that is never betrayed,
steadfastness of aim and honesty of purpose+an
upright, honorable, high-souled man.

WILLIAM B. MCANTIRE.

]0PL 12v.

HE subject of this sketch stands prominent
T among the influential men of his city and has
gained for himself a wide and honorable reputation
in the legal profession.

born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, October 14, 1848,
94

William B. McAntire was .

and is the son of William S. and Elizabeth E.
McAntire, natives of Kentucky, in which state they
were married September 13,- .1842, and from whence
they immigrated to Scotland county, Missouri, in
1849. They entered a homestead n_ear Memphis,

744 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY;

where the large family made a beautiful home.
The father’s health failing, he removed to Mem-
phis, the county seat, in 1856, and died there July
8, 1871.

William received his early education in the com-
mon schools of Scotland county, and subsequently
attended the Memphis high school for two years. His
preceptor was Prof. L. D. White, who was acknowl-
edged to be one.»of the most thorough educators of
his time in the state. He then attended the Mem-
phis Academy, under the-proficient management of
Professor Donnelly, after which he taught two terms
of school near Memphis. Mr. McAntire took a
course of study in the LaGrange College, in Lewis
county, Missouri. After returning from college he
began the study of law with Cramer & Peters, of
Memphis, and was admitted to the bar in 1872,
when he formed a partnership with J. M. Knott in
the practice of law; this lasted until May, 1873,

when, by mutual consent, it was dissolved, Mr.
McAntire having decided to “go west.”

In May, 1873, he located in Joplin, Missouri,
where he formed a partnership with his cousin, J.
W. McAntire, under the firm name of McAntire &
McAntire, which has constantly grown in favor
until it is one of the most reliable law firms of the
city. October I2, 1875, Mr. McAntire was elected
police judge of the city of Joplin , he still holds this
office and has ever been faithful to all of its trusts.

He is liberal in his religious views and believes
that every man’s life should be measured by the gold-
en rule. In politics he is identified with the Dem-
ocratic party. February I3, 1876, Mr. McAntire
was married to Miss Lottie Martin, of Joplin.

Personally, Judge McAntire is of rare qualities,
and, by his upright course of life, his manly deport-
ment and independence of character, has made for
himself an honorable reputation.

CAPTAIN PRESTON ROBERTS.

INDEPENDENCE.

PRESTON ROBERTS was born March 23,
1825, in Steubenville, Ohio. He is the son of
Matthew Roberts, born in Washington county, Penn-
sylvania, in 1801, and Jemima‘ McGee, of Jefferson
county, Ohio, at the time of his marriage, but born
in Scotland, in 1805. Matthew Roberts was a mer-
chant and government mail contractor, having large
contracts requiring heavy outlays and running over
a vast territory. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio in
1858. Robert McGee, the father of Jemima McGee,
-emigrated from Scotland when she was a little child,
and being a farmer, settled on a farm in Jefferson
county, where he died at an advanced age. Her
mother was also a native of Scotland and died in
Ohio when far advanced in years. Matthew Rob-
erts and wife had born to them seven children: Mary
Jane, married to H. B. Rex, of Ohio, Preston,
_Hannah, married to Mr. O’Rissy, of St. Louis,
Henry, deceased, Adaline, who died young, James,
now a railroad agentin Kansas City, and Frank, who
resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Preston Roberts received an education in the
common schools of Steubenville, finishing his literary
course at the college in that place. In 1844, at the

age of nineteen, he quitted college" and entered the
office as general manager of the stage routes under
his father’s contract, and was thus engaged for a
period of -four years. In 1848 he left Steubenville
and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he purchased
an interest in the steamboat Beacon, and filled the
position of clerk for about four months. At the end
of that time he bought a largerinterest in the boat,
and was made captain. With this steamer Captain
Roberts started the first through line between New
Orleans, Louisiana, via Mobile, to Montgomery,
Alabama. He found the trade a very profitable one,
and he was successful in securing a large and lucra-
tive business. In the spring of 1851 he sold his
interest in the Beacon, and going to Cincinnati had
a boat, which he called the Alabama, built especially
for the New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery trade,
and believing that the traffic between those places
would justify still larger expenditures, he purchased
an interest in two other boats, all of which he ran in
the same trade. The success of the enterprise justi-
fied his heavy expenditures, and in the course of
three years he accumulated a large sum of money.
He had charge of the whole line up to 18 54, at which

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 745

time he disposed of his interests and returned to
Ohio, where he undertook some heavy mail contracts,
carrying the mails in passenger coaches, the opera-
tions of which were very profitable.

In 1856 he went to Pittsburg and there had con-
structed a steamer which he designed for the Pitts-
burg and St. Louis trade. He took charge of the
boat and continued in that trade until the summer of
18 57, when he sold out and again engaged in carry-
ing the mails in different sections of the Union. In
January, 1858 he went to Washington, and was a
successful bidder for several of the most important
stage contracts in the Southern and Western States.
Among those awarded to him were those on both
sides of the Missouri river from Jefferson City to St.
Joseph, Missouri, and from the southern terminus of
the Iron Mountain Railroad to Little Rock,Arkansas.
The lines he thoroughly equipped with horses, har-
ness and coaches, and found his business very remu-
nerative till the beginning of the civil war. The
cessation of travel, the hazard attending the prosecu-
tion of his contracts and the frequent losses sustained
rendered the enterprise much less profitable during

.the continuance of the war.

In 1858, soon after securing these contracts, Mr.
Roberts emigrated to Missouri and located in Inde-
pendence. In 1861 he bought the interest of Hall
& Porter in the Santa Fe, New Mexico route, and
successfully operated that line. About the same
time he established an express line to Pueblo and
Canon City, Colorado. He was one of the first per-
sons to make the "trip over this route. The contract

however, only lasted about eighteen months, but he

continued in the staging business till 1864.

In the latter year he with others subscribed the
stock and opened the First National Bank of Inde-
pendence, under the national banking law. He was
made president of the bank and so continued until it
retired from business and closed its doors in 1878.
The bank was successful until the country became so
depressed by the panic of 1873 and subsequent years.
When it closed every dollar was promptly paid to
depositors and no one was embarrassed by its sus-
pension. In the year 1864 Mr. Roberts also engaged
with other gentlemen in large contracts with the gov-
ernment for transporting supplies across the great
plains. This required several hundred wagons and
a large number of cattle—each wagon being drawn
by eight yoke of oxen. In this, as in other enter-
prises he was well repaid for his large ventures, and

succeeded. in making handsome profits.

Since the close of the war Mr. Roberts has been
desirous of restoring the wastes of the civil strife,
and has borne a liberal part in assisting and encour-
aging all laudable enterprises. He contributed largely
to the creation of a public library in Independence,
and has given largely of his means to everyworthy
object tending to promote the public welfare and
advance the public good. In 1874 he became largely
interested in the Wyandotte, Kansas City and North-
western Railway, and did much to push the road
through from Kansas City to Lexington. He became
president of the company in— 1876, and under his
efficient management that institution became one of
the most important roads, in some respects, leading
out of Kansas City. It was thus made to penetrate
the Vast coal fields of Lafayette county, and to pro-
mote manufactures in Kansas City by bringing cheap
fuel to its doors. Beside this, the extension to Lex-
ington rendered it almost certain that the road would
pierce other and distant counties and reach the heart
of the agricultural areas of Missouri.

Mr. Roberts is largely interested in lands in Jack-
son county and in the state of Kansas. He also owns
numerous houses and lots in Independence and Kan-
sas City. He resides in an elegant country house
about two miles southwest of Independence, where
he has a beautiful and productive farm in a high state
of cultivation. .

He is a member of the Masonic order, and

attends the Catholic church. He takes comparatively
little interest in political affairs, voting for men who
he thinks best suited for the various offices, rather
favoring the Republican theory of government. He
was a Whig during the existence of that party.
, Mr. Roberts was married October I, 1851, to
Miss Agnes McGargill, of Washington county, Penn-
sylvania. She was born May 26, 1832, in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, where she attended school, finishing
her education at Emmetsburg Convent, in Kentucky.
Her father, Captain McGargill, was of Irish descent.
He was engaged in river commerce and commanded
different steamers on the waters of the Ohio and
Mississippi. He died at the residence of Mr. Rob-
erts, in Jackson county, Missouri, at the age of sixty-
seven years. Her mother was Ellen McGuire, also
of an Irish family. She died in Pennsylvania at the
age of fifty years, leaving to her husband four chil-
dren. Mrs. Roberts is a member of the Catholic
church.

Captain Roberts and wife have had twelve chil-
dren, all of whom are now living: Benjamin F. Rob-

746 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY.

erts, at the time of this writing, paymaster of the Kan-
sas City & Eastern Railroad; Edwin C., one of the
proprietors of the Crescent Mills in Independence;
Adaline; Preston, at a college in Kansas ; Matthew,
also at College; Agnes, Minnie, Albert, James,
Pazza, William and _Frank.

The most distinguishing characteristics of Captain
Roberts are his tireless energy and excellent judg-

ment. He has engaged in few transactions that have
not rewarded him with generous returns. Although
fond of society he is so absorbed in business that he
indulges but little in the pleasures and recreations of
the social circle He is known among his neighbors
as an honorable man and liberal citizen, and his loss
to any community in which he has ‘once resided
would create a void which it would be difficult to fill.

JAMES B. BELL, M. D.

KANSAS "CITY.

AMES BUCHANAN BELL is of Scotch-Irish
descent and was born in Lexington, Rockbridge
county, Virginia, August 24, 1824. His parents

were both born in Ireland, but emigrated to Vir-
ginia, where they were married. The father, Victor
Bell, removed with his family to Monroe county,
-Missouri, in 1828, where he died in 1829. The
mother, whose maiden name was Ann Hendron,
came from the north of Ireland and died in Chilli-
cothe, Missouri, in 1863.

James was educated in the common schools of
Monroe county, interspersing his studies with farm
labor, and gaining from his mother that moral culti-
vation which is best secured in the family circle.
After leaving school he completed his literary educa-
tion without a master, and as his mother had moved
to Linn county, Missouri, he there taught school,
studied, and carried on general trading until 1846.
While in that county he studied medicine with Dr.
Ralph, in the town of Linneus, beginning in 1842
and continuing three years. He attended medical
lectures at Pope’s Medical College in St. Louis dur-
ing the winter of 1845-6, and a second course in
1849-50. He located in Mercer county, Missouri,
where he practiced his profession twelve years. He
began without a cent and in the dozen years cleared
$25,ooo—more than any practitioner in the state
outside of St. Louis.

In 1860, his health demanding a change of busi-
ness, he went to Chillicothe, Missouri, and began
general merchandising in company with James Lee-
fer, under the firm -name of Bell 82: Leefer. After
four years of successful trading he bought his part-
ner’s interest and for: one year conducted the busi-
ness alone. In 1866 he formed a partnership with

P. Moore, and the firm of Bell & Moore continued
until the following year, when both parties sold their
interest in the store.

In 1867 Dr. Bell organized the Chillicothe Sav-
ings Association, of which he was president and
Greenup Bird, now of Kansas City, cashier. -He
carried on a general banking business with good
success until 187 3, when he sold out and in Septem-
ber of that year removed to Kansas City, bought a
controlling interest in the Kansas City Savings Asso-
ciation, and has conducted» its business until the
present time (1878), having been its president
throughout his connection with the institution.

Mr. Bell was treasurer of Livingston county two
terms, mayor of Chillicothe two years, and was also
for several years treasurer of the Chillicothe & Bruns-
wick Railroad. He has been a Mason for over
thirty years, during which time he organized Mer-
cer Lodge, No. 3 5, and was its Worshipful Master
about four years. He was raised in the Presbyterian
faith, but is not a member of any religious denom-
ination. In the late civil war he took the side of
the government, acting with the Republican party.

' Mr. Bell was married to Miss Harriet Ballew, of
Mercer county, Missouri. She is the daughter of
William Ballew, originally from Virginia. By this
union they have three children: Pocahontas, who
married J. A. Cooper, of the firm of J. A. Cooper
& Co., Kansas City; Rebekah, who married George
H. Lapsley, of the same firm, and Victor, their
only son, now (1878) clerk in the Kansas City Sav-
ings Association.

In personal appearance Mr. Bell is of average
height, carries himself erect, and has a very dignified
manner. Few business men are found more regu-

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 747

larly at their place of business than he, and when
not there his own home is his favorite place of resort.
He has ever been a man of steady habits, and his
success attests his rare business qualities. In the
social circle he is genial and affable, scattering the
blossoms of pleasantness around him wherever he
goes.

The firm of J. A. Cooper & Co., wholesale boot
and shoe merchants, No. 410 Delaware street, Kan-
sas City, was formed in 1876. Its members are

James B. Bell, V. B. Buck, hisnephew, and J. A.

Cooper, his son-in-law. George H..'Lapsley, another

son-in-law, is a silent partner in the concern. The
firm carry the largest stock in the state of Missouri,
and in addition to this stock manufacture largely at
the Missouri Penitentiary, with a trade amounting
in 1877 to $750,000. Their customers since the
beginning of their operations have been from the
states of the great New West, comprising Western
Missouri, Western Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colo-
rado, Northern New Mexico and Northern Texas.
The house is one of the most extensive and enter-
prising in Kansas City, and is now the leading boot
and shoe house in the state.

JESSE EDWARD THOMPSON, M. D.

SALEM.

ESSE EDWARD THOMPSON was born Octo-
ber 7, 1832, in Clermont county, Ohio. His
great grandfather, Moses Thompson, was born

in England, emigrated to America and died in Vir-
ginia. His grandfather, Moses Thompson, is sup-
posed to have been born in England, to have emi-
grated to Virginia, whence he moved to New Cas-
tle, ‘Delaware, and was farming until 1823, when he
moved to Ohio, where he died in 18 5 5, in about the
seventy—fifth year of his age. His father, Thomas
Thompson was born in New Castle,_ Delaware, in
1808; moved with his parents to Ohio, where he
married and reared a large family of children; has
been a farmer all his life, and is still (1878) living in
Clermont county, aged seventy years, forty of which
have been passed on the farm on which he now resides.
His mother, Mary Creamer, is now nearly sixty years
old and lives with her husband in Clermont county.
Jesse E. Thompson is the eldest of ten children.
His early life was spent on the farm. At the age ‘of
seventeen he attended the Wesleyan University, at
Delaware, Ohio, where he spent two years. In
1851 he entered the office of Dr. L. A. Hendricks,
Milford, Ohio, and began the study of medicine.
For two years he diligently applied himself to his
books and to such instruction as his preceptor gave.
In 1852 and 1853 he attended the sessions of the
Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. In the latter
year he moved to Millersburg, Callaway county,
Missouri, where he taught school for ten months.
At the close of his term, he was employed as apoth-

ecary in the state lunatic asylum, at Fulton, where
he pursued his medical studies under the supervision
of Dr. T. R. H. Smith, the superintendent In
March, 1854, he moved to Shipley's Landing, Mis-
souri, and practiced until the following fall, when he

returned to Cincinnati, and graduated receiving a,

diploma as doctor of medicine. He then moved to
Butler, Bates county, Missouri, where he remained
until the following, May, and went to Franklin county,
Arkansas, where he was practicing when the war
broke out. He then went to Powhatan, Lawrence
county, Arkansas, where he enlisted, in June, 1861,
in the 3rd mounted infantry, Arkansas volunteers,
General McCullough’s brigade, and was appointed
assistant surgeon. He was at the battles of Spring-
field and Elkhorn, after which he accompanied Gen-
eral Price to the eastern side of the Mississippi river
and participated in the battle of Corinth. He returned
with Colonel R. G. Shaver and assisted in raising
the 31st Arkansas volunteer infantry as examining
surgeon, of which regiment he was commissioned
assistant surgeon on the recommendation of the
Army Medical Examining Board, and with which he
remained until the fall of 1863. He was promoted
to be surgeon of the 2nd Arkansas cavalry, General
Cabel’s brigade, and participated in different engage-
ments until he was wounded at the battle of Marks’
Mills, Arkansas, when, unfitted for further active
duty, he was transferred to the hospital department,
in which he remained till the close of the war. After
the surrender of General Kirby Smith he returned to

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his home in Lawrence county, Arkansas, when he
engaged in the practice. In 1.866 he was elected a
member of the state senate. After serving his term
he returned to his profession. In 1872 he moved to
Salem, where he has gained the reputation of a suc-

cessful physician. He served two years as vice-pres-

ident of the Rolla district medical society and in
May, 1878 he was elected president. This society
holds semi-annual meetings at Rolla, Missouri.

In politics he is an energetic, working Democrat.

He was reared in the Methodist faith, but for
years was a professed infidel. Seeing the error of
his way, he embraced the doctrines of the Presbyte-
rian church and united with that body, taking a
deep interest in Sunday school work and the promo-
tion of the temperance cause, in the latter of which
he had delivered addresses that attained a wide cir-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

culation. He has taken the Knights Templar and
Scottish right degrees in Free Masonry.

Dr. Thompson was married March 10, 1854, to
Miss Elizabeth Ann Turner, of Monroe county,
Her father was a farmer in comfortable
circumstances. By this marriage he had six chil-
dren—only two of whom are living. His wife died
October I0, 1871. He was again married, October
I0, I87 5, to Miss Annie T. Copeland, daughter of
Ransom Copeland and Louisa Sims, of Dent county.
Mr. Copeland is also a farmer. By this last marriage
he has two children. .

As a physician, Dr. Thompson stands at the
head of his profession. He is a man of large benev-
olence, deep piety, strict business integrity and pos-
itive principle, well and favorably known in South-
east Missouri.

Missouri.

GEORGE M.

KANSAS

EORGE M. SHELLEY was born in Murray,
G Kentucky. His parents, Colonel James M. '
Shelley, and Louisa Stubblefield, were of English
parentage and natives of North Carolina. They
moved to Kentucky in 1838, and thence in 1848
to Keokuk, Iowa, where Colonel Shelley is now a
prominent citizen, largely engaged in manufactures
an_d merchandising, and has for years represented Lee
county in the Iowa Legislature with credit to himself
and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents

George M. Shelley received the best training that
the schools of Keokuk afforded, and was then sent
to college at Princeton, New Jersey, to complete his
l-iterary course. Applying himself diligently to his
studies he acquired a large fund of knowledge, and
on leaving the school resolved also to add to his
stock of business information by a thorough course
in Bryant & Stratton’s Commercial College of
Chicago. He there as elsewhere pursued his
studies with ardor, and formed habits of thought,
patience and research which have never been aban-
doned. Leaving the commercial school, with the
restless spirit of youth, eager to see the world and
observe the manners and customs of different coun-
tries, he bid adieu to his books and started on an
extended trip through. North -and South America.

SHELLEY.

CITY.

He traveled far and wide, noting carefully the habits

and characteristics of the people in the countries

through which he traveled, and exhibiting the frank,
fearless, independent demeanor of “ Young America
abroad.” .

Returning to North America he spent considera-
ble time in California, making himself acquainted
with the mining, manufactures and commerce of the
Golden State, and particularly noting the agricultural
science of the Pacific slope. But while thus gratify-
ing his thirst for knowledge at the expenseof his time
and means, he was not increasing but rather dimin-
ishing his stock of worldly goods, and he found that
if he was to succeed in business, he must settle down
to steady and active employment.

Beginning on a small scale he engaged in mer-
chandising and trading in stock and grain. Steadily,
by industry, economy and watchfulness, with unfal-
tering courage and unflinching integrity, he began to
see his way to broader fields of enterprise and use-
fulness, and was gathering slowly but steadily the
means of gratifying his ambition.

In 1870 the rapid growth and prospective great-
ness of Kansas City attracted his attention and he
removed there and opened a dry goods house. Here
his business tact and intelligence, coupled with integ-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. _ 749

rity and tireless energy, gained friends, secured cus-
tom and rapidly built up a large and lucrative trade.
His business now extends into Texas, Arkansas,
Kansas, Indian Territory, Colorado, New Mexico,
Nebraska and other sections of the West, where he is
recognized as an honorable trader and an upright man.
As an evidence of the high esteem in_ which he is
held by the people of Kansas City the fact may be
mentioned that in the spring of 1878 Mr. Shelley was
nominated by the Democrats for mayor of the city,
and although the party had been badly defeated the
previous year, yet such was his personal popularity
that not only himself, but almost the entire Demo-
cratic ticket was elected by a triumphant majority.
Certainly his business career in the city entitled him to

-improved his

their regard. He came there with but little means, and
in the face of powerful opposition, through the panic
of 1873 and the subsequent depression of five years,
has maintained himself and steadily enlarged and
trade, lengthening the cords and
strengthening the stakesof his business enterprises,
and to-day stands as he has stood from the beginning,
in the front rank of the active men who have given
Kansas City an enviable reputation and extended her
commerce over the entire West. He has already
demonstrated his ability and efficiency as the chief
executive officer of a proud and growing city and is
popular with all classes. Mr. Shelley was married in
December, 1872, to Miss Sciota McAdow, of Kansas
City. They have one child,‘ a bright boy of three years.

C. D. MCDONALD, M- D.

KANSAS CITY.

ALVIN D. MCDONALD was born in York
C county, Pennsylvania, January 23, I83 5. His
father, John McDonald, was a native of Maryland,
of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in I791. In Septem-
ber, 18r2, he married Miss Catherine Weinand, a lady
of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. They both trace their
ancestry among the Scotch, and share the bravest and
hardiest characteristics of those people. Mr. John
McDonald was a farmer, possessing a vigorous con-
stitution that enabled him to grapple with untiring
energies the difficulties that beset his early path. He
had always the enviable reputation of being an honest
man. It is said of him that if he broke a rail in
climbing a neighbor’s fence he could not rest until he
made it good. He still lives on the old homestead,
sharing the fruits of an upright and industrious life.
Calvin D. inherited more of the traits of his mother,
whose father was a noble soldier of the Revolution.
She was noted in her day and sphere for her superior
qualities of mind and heart. She early impressed
her son with the value of a worthy aim and a pure
purpose in life.

Calvin manifested when but a boy an utter dis-
taste for the drudgeries of the farm, always making
the best of every opportunity to inform his mind,
outside the realm of home duties. His early school
life was not calculated to render him an intellectual
prodigy; an old reader handed down from the eldest

Vania.

to the youngest of a family was in many instances
the only school book had in the wilds of Pennsyl-
But under the manuduction of his own
natural gifts, and the aid of a few extraneous helps
of an inconspicuous character, Calvin made his pre-
cursory steps toward usefulness and manhood. ‘His
first tuition at public school was paid with money
earned by peddling bee-hives. When he had pro-
gressed sufficiently he taught school to furnish means
for further advancement. When he had reached his
majority he went to Mt. Blanchard, Ohio, where he
again taught, devoting his leisure hours to reading
medicine. Opportunity occurring he put himself
under the care of Dr. Park Loring, a man of emi-
nence in his profession and of warm and generous
impulses. A growing interest and confidence in his
chosen work, together with the happy faculty of mak-
ing choice of a pursuit that his shoulders could bear,
and for which he had an original bias and predilec-

tion, soon opened to him an avenue for usefulness

and honorable mention in society. Although ‘his life
has been a laborious one, it has not been to produce
an artificial character, but one of natural becoming-
ness and ability.

In 1859 he was married to Miss Mary Shields,
daughter of Joseph and Maletha Shields, of Find-
ley, Ohio. For the perfecting of his education the
doctor attended the University of Michigan; also

750 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Starling Medical College of Ohio, at which institu-
tions he passed honorable examinations in the annual
systematic course, covering the general topics of
anatomy, including dissections, physiology, chemis-
try, materia medica and therapeutics, obstetrics, sur-
gery, pathology and the practice of medicine.

When the great Rebellion was inaugurated by
firing on Sumter that memorable Sabbath, he was
found the next day in the Federal ranks ready for the
defense of his nation’s honor and his‘ country’s
peace. A lieutenancy was granted, which he finally
gave upto return to his profession, which he has ever
since honored by many ennoblin g virtues, and made
a blessing to many by his conscientious care and
medical acumen. Public opinion awards to Dr.
McDonald an enviable reputation which his efficiency
and persevering constancy well deserve. I

In 1871 Dr. McDonald came to Kansas City
with nothing but his family, then helpless, and his
unflinching determination to compromise no interest
that would make for his own and others good. His
type of mind is independent. _Appreciating the
approbation and concurrency of others, he can nev-
ertheless meet the oppositions of life with undisturbed

courage and fortitude. Always guarded in his
actions, invincible in temper, and deliberate in
speech, he seldom has need to regret anything he has
said or done. Facile and friendly coincidence has
had no shaping quality in his worthy life. He does
good without expecting gratitude and without caring
for laudation.

Politically the doctor is a Republican." In reli-
gious matters he is a believer in the pure code of
Bible Christianity, and withal is liberal and full of
brotherly kindness.

His appearance is that of the thorough gentle-
man, his countenance is highly intellectual, and on
first view impresses one with the pleasant conviction
that he may find the pure humanities in his associa-
tion. As much as possible, amid the heavy’ duties
of his practice,his time is given to scientific research.
He is a member of the Medical Association of Kan-
sas City. Sharing the patronage of many, he has
many friendships, for he need only be known to find
kind and lasting remembrance. By the bedside his
presence brings cheer, and in counsel demands re-
spect. His sons are emulating his example, and fit-
ting themselves for the same responsibly useful work.

ALFRED HOMER TREGO, D. D. S.

KANSAS

LFRED HOMER TREGO was born in
A Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 21,
1830. His parents, Dr. Watson P. and Hannah
Trego, were descendants of the William Penn Qua-

kers, and reared their children in the faith of their

forefathers. Dr. Watson P. Trego was a prominent
physician in Pennsylvania from 1827 until his death

in 1872.

Alfred was educated at Friends’ school, taking
the ordinary English branches, also Latin, with a
View of studying medicine. When sixteen years old
he received a severe injury from a horse, which con-
fused his plans for his life work, and compelled him
to complete his studies at home under private
instruction, where he continued the study of medi-
cine.

In 1846 dentistry as a profession had its birth,
and Drs. Neal and Townsend, of Philadelphia, who
were considered its “fathers,” being “college

CITY.

chums” of Dr. Watson P. Trego, gave to the father
and son fine advantages for perfecting themselves in
the profession.

The subject of this sketch, when but nineteen
years of age, was proffered the chair of demonstrator
of mechanical dentistry in the Pennsylvania Dental
College, at Philadelphia, but on account of minority
he declined the honor. In April, 1862, he opened
an office at Lambertville, New Jersey, where he
practiced dentistry successfully for ten years.

Upon the breaking out of the war he was com-
missioned by Governor Olden, of New Jersey, as
“State agent, in charge of sick and wounded sol-
diers of New Jersey in field and hospital,” also
assistant agent for the New England and several of
the Western States. In the spring of 1863, by
request of Governors Olden,,of New Jersey, and
Andrew, of Massachusetts, and by order of Presi-
dent Lincoln, he Was commissioned by Edwin M.

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Stanton, Secretary of War, as “Superintendent of
transportation of sick and wounded soldiers to their
homes, in cooperation with the United States Sanitary
Commission.” He served in this capacity for about
three years, handling personally one hundred and
fifty thousand Federal .and six thousand Confederate
soldiers. His being a “special department,” for
the speedy, cheap and comfortable transit of the
unfortu_nates, everybody, from President Lincoln to
the police and firemen of the different cities, con-
tributed to its support, making it one of the most
useful institutions of the late war.

In 1865 he declined a position in the United
States Treasury, offered him by Charles Sumner, and
a year later resumed his profession in Philadelphia.
In 1867, on account of essays and specimens pre-
sented to the Odontographic Society of Philadelphia,
he was made an honorary member of -the same.
One year later he was solicited to accept a “ chair”
in the Dental College of Philadelphia, but declined,
and was made honorary graduate.

In 1872 Dr. Trego relinquished dentistry, to
engage in a manufacturing business under flattering
prospects, but unfortunately in time to be caught in
the panic of r873. Finding a superior field for skill
and experience opened for him in Kansas City,
he established an office there and returned to “his
natural forte,” under very favorable circumstances
and with flattering results. Dr. Trego doubtless
stands at the head, of his profession in the West.

His experience and education have fitted him for the
position which he holds.
He does not believe in secret societies and has a

-great aversion to politics, but is a “ Republican, pro

[20/20 pzz/2Zz'c0.” In May, 1877, he left the church of
his fathers and became a member of the 2nd Presby-
terian church of Kansas City. He believes that all
men should be “free and equal,” that the funda-
mental principle of religion is “ peace on earth and
good will to all,” and that sectarianism is the enemy
of Christianity.

November 25, 1856, he married Miss Christiana
Emery, of Clinton, New Jersey, one of the “ noble
daughters of the soil.” Their first child, Lillie, was
born in March, 18 58, and when four bright summers
had passed she was transplanted to the bright world
above, where the frosts of time cannot destroy the
pure white lilies. Their second child, Annette, was
born in 1868, and is a bright, beautiful girl of ten
years. I

‘Dr. Trego inherited »a good constitution and
seems to enjoy perfect liealtln H-is bearing is dig-
fied and commanding and his social qualities finely
developed. He is a kind friend, an indulgentfather,
a devoted husband and an honored citizen, and his
influence for good is felt byall with whom he comes
in contact. He is an able Writer, being a close rea-
soner and concise in his expressions. His entire life

has been one of diligence and promptness, and from

his sowing he will surely reap a bountiful harvest.

AQUILA J. REID.

IKAIVSAS CITY.

QUILA JAMES REID, the eldest of eleven
A children, all of whom are now living except
two, was born on the Pretty Prairie, about five miles
southeast of Urbana, in Champaign county, Ohio,
November 7, 1834. His parents, Robert S. Reid
and Jane Wynne (Bishop) Reid, are still (I878) liv-
ing. A little more than one year ago they removed
to McLean county, Illinois, and now reside in that
county about twelve miles from Bloomington. His
grandfather, James Reid and his grandmother Chris-
tian (Runner) Reid, who was a German lady, emi-
grated from Berkeley county, Virginia, to Buck

Creek, Champaign county, Ohio, about the year
495

"1809. James Reid was a successful farmer, a soldier
in the war of 1812, in which he did valiant service,
a man of intelligence and exten_sive reading and of
great firmness ; he was a model man in all the virtues
that go to make up the noblest work of God." His
maternal ancestors at an early day emigrated from
Fauquier county, and from Richmond, Henrico
county, Virginia, to the Pretty Prairie, Champaign
county, Ohio, which is called “The Garden Spot of
Ohio,” at which place his great-grandfather, John
Wynne, who married into the celebrated Irby family
of Virginia, and who was a distinguished mathema-
tician, entered three thousand acres .of land, and to

752 THE UNITEDJSTATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

this tract of land he gave the above name of Pretty
Prairie. His mother’s father, Aquila Bishop, who
married Miss Susannah-Wynne, resided on the Pretty
Prairie and was, up to the time of his death (which
occurred in 1837), extensively and successfully
engaged in farming and stock-raising. His great-
grandfather, James Bishop, emigrated at an early
day from Fauquier county, Virginia, to Clarke
county, Ohio, where he settled in the Buck Creek
Valley, about five miles north of Springfield and
about nine miles from Pretty Prairie. James Bishop
was a soldier of the Revolution, and also a dis-
tinguished Mason and a man of sterling integrity
of character and worth. He was named from his
grandfathers, Aquila Bishop and James Reid, and
his great-grandfather, James Bishop. His maternal
ancestors all originally came from England and set-
tled in Fauquier and Henrico counties, Virginia.
His paternal ancestors originally came from Scot-
land, Ireland and Germany and settled in Berkeley
county, Virginia. His progenitors were all agricul-
turists and the proprietors of the soil which they
successfully tilled. They were noted for their integ--
rity of character, their patriotism, energy and thrift.
His mother is noted for her generous heart and
excellent judgment. She was educated at Urbana,
Ohio, in the same school with the late Hon. John A.
Corwin, who was chief justice of Ohio. His father,
a successful farmer, is a man of untiring energy,
sterling integrity, and a man of great firmness and
of most excellent judgment. His parents ar-e both
worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Aquila J. Reid was sent to the common schools
of Champaign county and to the academy at Ur-
bana, Ohio, until he was about eighteen years old;
that is to say he was sent to school during the winter
and through the summer months he spent his time
working on the farm with his father, who taught him
farming as a science. One of his teachers in early
childhood was Mrs. Bales, a sister of the celebrated
Judges John A. and Ichabod Corwin, deceased; also
George W. Stipp, Esq., of Princeton, Illinois, who
is one of the most celebrated speakers and lawyers
in that state. At the age of eighteen he was sent to
the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, of
which institution the celebrated Dr. Edward Thomp-
son, afterward bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was president. Dr. Thompson was one of
his most valued instructors. He graduated in the
scientific course of that college June I 3, 185 5, and
received the degree of B. S.

Immediately upon'hi_s return home he commenced
reading law with Hon. John A. Corwin, at Urbana,
Ohio (his native town), and in the fall and winter of
1856-7 he attended the law department of the Cin-
cinnati College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in
April, 1857, and received the degree of LL. B.,
and at the same time he was admitted to the bar in
Cincinnati, and on the 30th of April, 1857, he was
admitted to practice in the United States Circuit
Court for the 7th Circuit. Hon. John McLean, of
the United States Supreme Court, was judge of this
circuit. In the spring of 1858 he and Major Benja-
min M. Piatt, now of Covington, Kentucky, opened
a law office at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county,
Indiana, under the firm name of Piatt & Reid, where
he continued in the practice until the spring of 18 59.
In May of that year he emigrated to Holton, Jack-
son county, Kansas, and opened a law office-. In
the fall of that year he was appointed circuit attor-
ney of Jackson county by Chief Justice Pettit. ‘He
was afterward appointed clerk of the district court of
Jackson county by Hon. William C. McDowell,
judge of the 1st Judicial District. In the spring of
1861 he was elected justice of the peace at Holton,
in said county.

On the 12th of May, 1861, he was married to
Miss Hattie B. Foote, only daughter of Russel N.
and Belinda W. Foote, who resided on a farm about
six miles north of Holton. Miss Foote was born
May I2, 1842, near Middlebury, Addison county,
Vermont. She is the niece of the late Victor Wright,
her mother’s brother, who resided near Middlebury
and was president of the Vermont Agricultural
Society, who was noted throughout the country as a
dealer in the finest and most expensive breeds of
sheep, for producing wool, in the United States. It
is a remarkable historical fact that he sold one fine
buck alone for $10,000. She is also related to the
late Solomon Foote, United States Senator. Her
ancestors came from England and settled in New
England, and were among its sturdy pioneers, they
always merited and received the approbation of their
fellow citizens. The fruit of this marriage with Miss
Hattie B. Foote has been five boys, only two of
whom are now (1878) living: Myron Llewellyn
Reid, born February 19, .1863 , Ethelbert Courtney
Reid, born on Christmas day, 1872. He removed
his family to Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas,
May I2, 1864, the spring following the “Lawrence
Raid,” which occurred August 21, 1863. A

In the spring of 1865 he was appointed by the

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governor one of the justices of the peace of the city
of Lawrence, and held that office one year. In
February, 1865, he was appointed deputy clerk of
the district court of Douglas county, which position
he held, and had sole charge of the business of the
office until the summer of 1871. Since then Mr.
Reid has been actively and successfully engaged in

the practice of law, and he is now in the prime of life.
In all of his official positions he gave entire satisfac-
tion to the public and did himself credit by meriting
and winning the confidence and esteem of those who
know him. On the 20th of September, 1877, he
removed his family to Kansas City, Missouri, and he
is now engaged in the practice of law in that city.

DAVID MULHOLLAND, M. D.

MAR YVILLE.

‘ ‘ l HEN we examine into the history and study

the characters of self-made men, persever-
ing, continuous and energetic effort seems to be the
great secret of their success. What is usually
termed genius has little to do in the success of men
generally. It is rather a matter that has to do with
experience, sound judgment and a determined power
of will.

David Mulholland in his early youth seemed to
realize that if he rose to position in life it must be by
his own untiring effort, thus with a determination
which baffled all failure he progressed slowly, but

surely.

He was born December 23, 1831, in County
Tyrone, Ireland. His parents were Charles and
Rose Ann (Quinn) Mulholland. His father was a
native of Ireland and immigrated to America about
1825, and died in Kansas in 1873.

David was liberally educated in the best schools
of the times, and in 1860 graduated from the ]effer—

son Medical College of Philadelphia, after which he
located in Maryville, where he has since resided in
the active practice of his profession.

Dr. Mulholland has never sought nor held public
office of a political responsibility, but has devoted
his entire energies to the building up of an extensive
practice.

In 1859 he was married to Miss Cynthia A. Pra-
ther, a native of Kentucky and daughter of Isaac
N. Prather, who was an early settler of Nodaway
county.

Dr. Mulholland is politically a Democrat, and in
religious faith a Catholic.

The doctor is a student and in his practice keeps
up with the times. He is aman of great steadfast-
ness of purpose, and seldom fails to accomplish
whatever he undertakes. He is tender and compas-
sionate, kind and considerate in the sick room, and
has many warm friends in the home of his adop-
tion.

FRANK HUBBARD KUMP.

KANSAS CITY.

RANK HUBBARD KUMP was born, Decem-
F His father,
Christian Kump, was born in 15500, immigrated to
to America in 1841, and settled in Buffalo, New
York, where he followed his occupation as a carpen-
ter. Frank began his education in Buffalo. Having
been reared in the Catholic faith, after confirmation

ber'17, 1834, in Bonn, Prussia.

he went to Detroit, Michigan, where he remained
a year working in the house of a Mr. McAllister.

-During his residence in Detroit the city was visited

by that terrible scourge, the cholera, but though
hundreds died around him he escaped. From
Detroit he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he was
employed by W. H. Hutchison in the soda water

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business. By his attention to his duties he rose rap-
idly in the favor of his employer, whom he had
known in Buffalo.’ He remained with Mr. Hutch-
ison until 1857, when he spent two years on the
Mississippi river. He moved to Kansas City in
18 59, when the city was active and began to feel its
power. He embarked at once in the soda water
business with Joseph Hoag, with whom he remained
in partnership for a period of ten years. In 1867
the- firm moved on to Main street, where they pur-
chased and prepared a building for the bottling of
ale, fearing sharp competition in the soda water
business would too greatly diminish their ‘profits and
desiring something else as a means of support.
Wishing still further to extend their business and
connect a brewery with their establishment, Mr.
Kump wrote to his brother in the East and desired
him to take a third interest in the enterprise, as the
firm had not means sufficient to build as extensive an

THE U./VZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

establishment as they wished The proposition was
accepted and the brewery was added. Within two
years Mr. Frank Kump purchased his brother’s
interest out of his share in the profits of the business;
but on refusing to divide the profits equally with
Mr. Hoag, the latter gentleman withdrew from the

firm in 1869. Mr. Dye, at present superintendent

of the Horse-car Railroad Company, of Kansas‘

City, purchased a half interest in the business and
was a partner of Mr. Kump for several years, but
for the past four years Mr. Kump has been sole
proprietor of the most extensive business in his
line in the city He employs eighteen men regu-
larly and ships to points in Missouri, Kansas and
Colorado.

He was married in 1863 to Miss Lucretia Arge,
anative of Kentucky but at that time residing in
Kansas City. They have three children: Frank,
Maggie, and an infant as yet unnamed.

WILLIAM MORRISON.

LEXZNG T0./V.

V ‘ 7 ILLIAM MORRISON is a very good exam-

ple of what can be accomplished by industry
and untiring energy. Without any aid but his own
indomitable will, and with little education, he has
fought his way from obscurity and poverty to his
present prominent position as one of the most solid
and influential men in the community. He was
born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1817,

being the elder of two children. His parents’ names

were John Morrison and Nancy Barnes, and they‘

both died while he was yet young, his mother when
he was only two years old. His father was a tinner
and coppersmith by trade, and he and his brother
served in the war of 1812 under General Harrison.

His father moved, when William was quite a
youth, to New Lisbon, Ohio, and there he received.
a common school education. At twelve years of
age he left school, so that his education has been
mainly a practical one, and what he has been able
to pick up during a very active life.’ Theonly legacy
he received from his father was a request that he
would learn the trade of a tin and coppersmith, and
on leaving school he went to Steubenville, Ohio,
and apprenticed himself for five years to that busi-

I

ness. In 1836, at the end of his apprenticeship, he
went South and worked at his trade in Mississippi,
Tennessee and Louisiana, until 1840, when he moved
to St. Louis. Previous to this he had started for the
same point, but the steamer on which he embarked
was sunk , he lost everything he had and returned to
New Orleans, where he worked until he had again
acquired the necessary funds. After a short stay in
St. Louis hewent to Lexington, and, in connection
with another gentleman, commenced business on his
own account, the means he had saved furnishing
him a start. He continued the copartnership four
years, when he concluded to transact business alone,
which he did for two years. He then associated
himself with a partner, and continued in business
seven years, when the partnership was dissolved and
he conducted the business alone up to the breaking
out of the war. Meantime the demand for his goods
became so large that he had to erect a foundry in
18 58, which he operated until 1861 with very great
success. In 1852 he established a branch store in
Kansas City for the sale of his goods, and for ten
years largely supplied the Mexican traders with

stoves, camp equipage, etc. During the war his

THE UIVITEI) STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 755

foundry was destroyed by the United States govern-

ment, to prevent its falling into the hands of the rebel

In 1862 he rebuilt it, and it is still in opera-
In 186 5 he sold out and turned his attention

forces.
tion.

exclusively to banking, in which he has ever since I

been engaged.

In 1844 he was appointed by Governor Austin
A. King, director on the part of the state in a branch
of the Bank of the_ State of Missouri, located at
Lexington, and continued so during its existence.
Immediately succeeding it was the Farmers’ Bank
of Missouri, with branches at Liberty and Paris, and
during his attendance in the legislature he rendered
valuable service in obtaining its charter. During
the twelve years it existed he was a director in it and
one of its stockholders. Owing to the heavy govern-
ment tax imposed upon banking (ten per cent.), it
was finally wound up without loss to any one. He
then associated with himself Mr. Wentworth, and in
1864 opened a private bank, under the style of Wil-
liam Morrison & Co., of which he became cashier.
In February, 1875, the firm organized under the
state law, with the style of the Morrison-Wentworth
Bank. Ever since its establishment the bank has
done a large and profitable business, and the bank-
ing—house is considered one of the safest and most
reliable in the district.

He was elected mayor of the city soon after it
obtained its charter. In 1857-58 he represented his
county in the legislature. He has been president of
the board of curators of Central Female College since
its organization in 1868. He also helped organize
the coal company which furnishes coal for the Pacific
Railroad, and is president of the board. He is also

cashier in the Morrison-Wentworth Bank, as well as
one of its principal stockholders. His travels have
extendedover most of the United States and Can-
ada. He has been a Methodist for thirty years and
has always been a strong Democrat.

He was married, in Lexington,'1844, to Miss
Elizabeth Funk, daughter of Henry Funk, a farmer
in_Illinois, and has four children, all living, one
daughter and three sons. His daughter is married
to Mr. Henry C. English, a teacher in the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, Fulton, Missouri. His eldest son
operates the foundry, his second son is in the bank,
while the third is still at school.

To no one, perhaps, does Lexington owe more"
for its growth and prosperity than to Mr. Morrison.
Since he settled there he has always done a large
business, and for nearly twenty years kept his foun-
dry running, employing continually from forty to
sixty men. To his efforts mainly is due the building
of the St. Louis & Lexington Railroad, and.in every
public enterprise he has shown himself to be a pub-
lic-spirited and liberal citizen. Upright and honor-
able in all his dealings, conscientious and reliable in
every respect, he enjoys the confidence and esteem
of all. In business he is most industrious and atten-
tive, and by his efforts he has amassed a fortune.
In every charitable enterprise he is one of the
first to be called upon for adviceand aid, and to
every deserving object he is liberal in his charities,
while his donations to churches and educational
institutes are very generous. Socially, he isvery
amiable and pleasant, and his manners are easy and
agreeable. In his domestic relations he is a model
of affection, liberality and kindness of heart.

JAMES MICKLEBOROUGH GREENWOOD, A. M.

KANSAS CITY.

AMES M., son of Edmund and grandson of
William V. and Ruth (Brooks) Greenwood, was
born in Sangamon county, Illinois, November

15, 1836. His father, born in Barboursville, Cabell
county, Virginia, January 8, 1814, removed with
his parents to Sangamon county in 1824, and was
married at Springfield, in that county, August 11,
1835, to Jennett, eldest daughter of Payton Foster,
who was the first child born in 1791 at Bryant’s Sta-

tion, Kentucky, where his father, William Foster,
settled after serving six and a half years in the
Revolutionary army. Edmund ‘Greenwood removed
with his family from Illinois in 1852 and settled in
Adair county, Missouri, his present residence. He
is a man of strong convictions and fixed principles
of action, does business for cash, becomes no man’s
security, and for the past thirty years -has never
givenany note of indebtedness. He is quiet and

756 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAI€Y.

unassuming in his tastes, avoids all litigation, and
notwithstanding that his early educational advantages
were quite limited, has become well informed on all
matters of public interest, and is especially convers-
ant with Biblical narratives, the history of the United
States, and the political annals of all countries.
James M. was the eldest of his five children, the
others were: Eveline, Payton F., Sarah and Polly,
all of whom were brought up on a farm and taught
to work. When nine years of age]ame's commenced
attending school in the winter and working on the
farm during the spring and summer. He learned
rapidly, was specially apt at “ doingjsums,” fond of
play, and made good use of his time while in school
until he was sixteen years of age, when his father
removed to. Missouri, where for four years all his
school advantages were at an end. During this
interval, however, his studies were by no means laid
aside. i He bought a Latin grammar, algebra, geom-
etry, Butler’s analogy, natural philosophy, chemistry
and physiology, istuded them carefully “nights, rainy
days and Sundays,” and made substantial progress.
In 185 5 the school district in which he lived was
organized and he was employed at $15 per month to
teach the first school. The next fall he was engaged
for the same school and received $2 5 per month.
During this winter he attended a school at Kirksville,
where he studied Latin, English grammar, algebra
and geometry. After working on the farm the fol-
lowing season he entered Canton Seminary, and dur-
ing the year passed the examinations of the entire
course, most of the studies being reviews of what he
had read before. Under this intense application his
health failed, and after preparing his commencement
oration, he returned home, laid aside his books, and
for one year gave himself up to rest and the recuper-
ation of his physical strength. From this time until
1867 he taught during the winter and labored on the
farm during the summer, studying closely and apply-
ing himself chiefly to the higher mathematics, his-
tory and philosophy. During these years he opened
correspondence with some of the most able mathe-
maticians in this country, which he still sustains, and
through which he has been most favorably known as
an expert in that science. When the North Missouri
Normal School was established at Kirksville, in
1867, he was chosen by Prof. ]. Baldwin to teach
mathematics, mechanical philosophy and astronomy,
which position he filled for three years, when he
accepted the same chair in the Mount Pleasant Col-
lege at Huntsville,where he taught with great accept-

ance until the North Missouri Normal School
was made a State Normal, when he returned to that

, institution as teacher of mathematics, astronomy and

philosophy. This position he resigned in the sum-
mer of 1874 to accept the superintendency of the
Kansas City schools, which office he continues to
administer with great acceptability, having refused
the principalship of three normal schools within the
bounds of the state, since he entered upon his pres-
ent duties. In August, 1878, he was telegraphed to
know if he would accept the principalship of the
normal department of the State University. He
declined the offer. From a financial standpoint it
would have been more profitable for him to have
accepted the position. ' He is a most able, efficient
and thorough administrator of educational affairs,
and under his management the city schools are
attracting attention in all quarters of the state for the
high standard of their scholarship, the thoroughness
of their instructions and the efficiency of their gov-
ernment.

In 1872 Prof. Greenwood received the well
merited degree of A. M. from the Missouri State
University. He is a most indefatigable worker 3 in
addition to the vast amount of labor he has per-
formed in the faithful discharge of his regular duties
during the last twelve years, he has delivered upwards
of five hundred lectures on educational topics in
Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. He has conducted
normal institutes since 1868, occupying all his vaca-
tions in such work at home and in neighboring
states, working on from year to year without rest or
recreation. In the meantime his pen has contributed
generously to the leading educational journals of the
state. He has also been employed in a careful
examination of some of the profoundest mathematical
dissertations of Europe, and possesses the finest
mathematical library in the state. At present he is
revising Ray’s higher arithmetic.

Mr." Greenwood was made a Mason at La Plata,
Missouri, in 1864, and belongs to Kirksville Lodge
No. I05. He is alsoa member of Knights of
Pythias Lodge, No. 39, Kansas City. He is a very
enthusiastic worker in the temperance reform,lectures
frequently in behalf of its objects, and with his wife
and children is a regular attendant at the Good
Templars Lodge. He has been a member of the
Methodist church for the past eighteen years, but
has no sympathy with either bigotry or dogmatism ,
recognizes the good in all, and makes his religion
a life of good rather than a form of service. In

i freedom from guile.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 757

politics he is a Democrat, but not a partisan 3 served
in the state militia of ‘Missouri from 1862 to i864.

November I, 1859, in Carroll county, Missouri,
Mr. Greenwood was married to Miss Amanda A.
McDaniel, a practical teacher, who taught school
for seven years prior to her marriage and the
same number since. They have three children:
Ada M., born August I, 1860, Hervey V., born
January 20, 1862, and Nettie E., born August 3,
1863.

Prof. Greenwood is a man of medium height,

pleasant countenance, courteous address, is very
substantial in his appearance, and when his clean,
clear eyes look into yours, you instinctively realize
that a man of worth and probity is before you, a
man whose thoughts are upon the things that make
for nobleness, and is too much in earnest and much
too busy to spend time unprofitably. To any one
who will meet him upon hisown plane of life, a
more genial, hearty companion it would be hard to
find than the really able superintendent of the
schools of Kansas City.

REV. HILLEN ARMOUR BOURLAND, A. M.

KANSAS CITY.

ILLEN ARMOUR BOURLAND was born
H in Paris, Tennessee, April 11, 1838. To this
village his father, Reece Bourland, M. D., came
when a young man, and was united in marriage with
Miss Mary E. Waddy, some time in the year 1833.
His father removed to Southern Kentucky when the
subject of this sketch was only two years old, and
enjoyed a large and lucrative practice of medicine.
The portion of country where he settled was known
as “]ackson’s Purchase.” Dr. Bourland exerted
coiisiderable influence in politics, _and represented
‘his county in the state legislature for several years.
No man ever excelled him in high souled honor and
Mrs. Bourland was a worthy
wife of such a man , but she died young, leaving him
to rear his family of three children.

Mr. Bourland’s early training was amid the scenes
and circumstances of a new country, which greatly
conspired to mature that energy of character and
clearness of perception for which he became early
distinguished. At the age of fifteen years he pro-
fessed faith in Christ, and awaked, as it were, in a
new world. Dreams of distinction in the political
arena vanished before the splendors of the new vision
which smote his eyes. He yielded to his moral con-
victions and settled upon the Christian ministry as
his life-work.’ Four years of severe college study
brought the coveted honors of graduation in St.
Charles College, St. Charles, Missouri, and the first
distinction in his class. He entered at once upon
the ministry of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal
Church (South), and was stationed at Fulton, Mis-

souri. Very soon the storm of war broke over our
land and there came times that tried mens souls.
Many ministers yielding to the pressure of the excite-
ment, became bitter partisans, and exchanging the
crook for the sword, entered one or the other of the
armies that made our state a common battle-ground,
and this, we blush to acknowledge, was a fruitful
source of mischief. Through all these years a gos-
pel of peace and love fell from his lips, and his min-
istrations were equally given, when sought, to the
suffering soldiers regardless of the blue or gray.

Callaway county suffered as much, perhaps, as
any other in the state, and it required uncommon
prudence to walk blamelessly before all men. With
the war came poverty to the people and especially to
his parish.

On the 25th day of August, 1863, he was most
happily united in marriage with Miss Priscilla F.
Howland, of Cottleville, Missouri, a lady of literary
tastes, a noble Christian woman, well qualified by nat-
ural endowments and acquired accomplishments to
aid him in every good work. Mrs. Bourland is a
branch of the Plymouth tree, her ancestor being]ohn
Howland, of Mayflower memory. It was found nec-
essary by them to support themselves, and they
opened a high school in the basement of the church,
which proved successful in an emiment degree. From
this time Mr. Bourland’s labor has been divided
between the pulpit and college work. Before the
civil war the Methodist Episcopal church (South) ope-
rated two colleges, one at St. Charles, with an endow-
ment of some $25,000, the other at Fayette, Missouri,

758 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPIIICAL DICTIONARY.

with a subscribed endowment equal to twice that
amount. Both these endowments were diverted in
ways that were not creditable to the actors, but which
is hardly germain to this sketch to relate. After the
war had passed, the church began to look about the
situation. It was gloomy, but there was no time to
hesitate, so they resolved to resuscitate these pros-
trate interests. The important question now to
decide was who will undertake this work for us?
Those in authority selected Mr. Bourland. By his
labors in Central College and his lectures Cover the
State, hope revived, two hundred students soon
crowded her halls, and at a convention of the whole
church in the state, held in the college chapel, June,
1868, it was resolved to raise an endowment of one
hundred thousand dollars for the institution. ' Rev.
William A. Smith, D. D., formerly president of Ran-
dolph Macon College, Virginia, was elected presi-
dent of the College under its new regime, and Dr.
Smith and Mr. Bourland were sent into the field to

raise the money. These gentlemen spent a year of
laborious effort, and succeeded beyond the expecta-
tion of the most sanguine in raising the princely sum
of eighty—five thousand dollars. It proved too much
for the aged scholar and eminent divine—Dr. Smith.
He died before the year closed. Central, College is
to-day in the very forefront of the forces that are
making. our state the center of attraction throughout
the Union.

Since Mr. Bourland’s labors ceased in connec-
tion with the college he has devoted himself to
his ministerial calling. This is his second year in
Kansas City, (1877) where he is pastor of a culti-
vated and ‘influential congregation, and is deserved-
ly popular, not only as a laborer in the vineyard of
the Lord, that needeth not to be ashamed; but
as a cultivated Christian gentleman, and fellow
believer with all who love the Lord Jesus in sin-
cerity, no matter what their name or ecclesiastical
affiliations.

ISAAC M. RIDGE, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

7 ‘HE Ridge family in_America are the descend-

I ants of an Englishman who settled in Mary-
land about 1700. His grandson, William Ridge,was
left an orphan when quite young, and at the age of
fourteen was bound apprentice to a blacksmith with
whom he served until nineteen years of age, when,
his apprenticeship having expired, he left his master
to commence business for himself without a dollar in
money, and with only one suit of very inferior cloth-
ing. After laboring for two or three years in Wash-
ington county, Kentucky, William Ridge removed
to Green river in the same state, where he followed
his trade about twenty years, accumulating some
property and making some investments in real estate.
Here he had the misfortune to lose his wife, and
being left with five small children, without any rela-
tives or near friends to assist in caring for them, after
a lapse of about twelve months he married Miss
Sophia Dillingham. The Dillinghams were one of
the first Scotch families that immigrated to America;
their descendants had become quite numerous in
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsyl-
vania before the Revolution. The oldest child of

William and Sophia Ridge was Isaac M., born in
Adair county, Kentucky, July 9, 1825.

When Isaac was nine years of age his parents
removed from Kentucky and settled in Lafayette
county, Missouri, ten miles southeast of Lexington,
where he was brought up as‘ a farmer and black-
smith’s boy, laboring on the farm or at the forge
until he was eighteen years of age, when, having
accidentally received a severe gun shot wound in the
right hand, which incapacitated him from labor, he
was educated a physician. He had previously
received the rudiments of a common school educa-
tion, and having spent one year in what_ was then
denominated a high school, where he was taught a
smattering of Latin, Chemistry, Philosophy and
German, he was placed in the office of Dr. Isaac S.
Warren, Dover, Missouri, where he spent two years.
He then entered the medical department of the
Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky,
where, after two years study, he graduated, receiving
his parchments in March, 1848."

. Dr‘. Ridge had a natural genius for mechanics,
and was of quite an inventive turn of mind 3. added

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 759

to this he had an ardent love for society, but the
studies and practice of his profession requiring his
attention he wisely sacrificed his inclinations to pro-
fessional success; yet has always considered that his
genius for construction and naturally close observa-
tion of the relation of parts to wholes has been of
great assistance to him in his professional studies and
practice. Leaving the university he returned home,
and after an extended tour through Northwest Mis-
souri, and down through the Indian Territory on the
west side of the Missouri river from Fort Leaven-
worth to Westport Landing, he concluded to locate
at the latter point. Westport Landing, now Kansas
City, had at that time a population of perhaps three
hundred souls, huddled together in a few log cabins
and occasionally a framed house, certainly not a
Very encouraging prospect for a young doctor. But
like every one else, Dr. Ridge seemed to have great
faith in the coming greatness of Kansas City, and
believing it would eventually become a desirable res-
idence fora physician, stuck his stakes accordingly,
june 1, I848. Renting a room in the second story
of an old frame building, the doctor displayed his
shingle and sat down to wait for patients, having for
the first few weeks abundant leisure to read up in his
profession. No calls for his professional services
were made for months, and as he had only $25 upon
his arrival, two months found him without funds and
utterly at a loss to know what he should do. The
misfortune of his landlady proved his fortune at this
juncture of affairs. She was taken with typho-ma-
lerial feverand grew rapidly worse under the hands
of an old fashioned botanical practitioner. Her hus-
band determined upon calling in Dr. Ridge as coun-
sel, to which the old physician objected, and when
he consented under pressure threw so many obstacles
in the way that Dr. Ridge refused to have anything
to do with the case which had become quite critical."
After some solicitations, the old practitioner being
dismissed, Dr. Ridge undertook the case and fortu-
nately effected a speedy cure. The lady, Mrs. John
Campbell, was a member of the McGee family, one

of the oldest in the community, and her speedy,

recovery was soon noised abroad so that from that
date his practice was assured. In a few years the
number of his patients so increased as to tax his
strength to the utmost, and usually to leave him bro-
ken down at the end of the sickly season. For twenty
years Dr. Ridge continued the regular practice of
his profession, passing through three severe epi-

demics of cholera and two of small-pox. Since 1870
96

he has retired from general practice, but still tends a
few of his old personal friends and the members of
his own family. Pecuniarily the doctor has had
quite a successful practice, and finds himself in his
comparatively old age with a handsome income as
the result of his twenty years professional labors.

Dr. Ridge is firmly of the opinion that a real
good physician must necessarily be possessed of no
small share of mechanical genius, a11d deems it indis-
pensible to a thorough comprehension of the. human
organism and the functions of the various parts.
Since retiring from his profession he has busied him-
self in cultivating his orchard and vineyard,in which
he has been quite successful.

Dr. Ridge was made a Mason in 1849, has filled
every position _in a Masters Lodge, and taken the
highest degrees in the order. He was made an Odd
Fellow in 1847, but holds no official position in either
fraternity at present. From his youth he has been a
Protestant, a believer in the teachings of Jesus
Christ and His Apostles, and in early life quite
bigoted, but years and reflection have mellowed the
crudeness of youth and in his riper years he has
grown tolerant and liberal, according to all the enjoy-
ment of their own honest opinions and practices.

His present political views are those set forth by
the National Greenback party, the principles of
which he has advocated since he forsook the Demo-
cratic ranks in 1868.

During the war Dr. Ridge was strictly neutral,
as he was during the Kansas troubles, when with one

or. two exceptions he stood alone in his township

battling the extremists who in his opinion had equally
violated the sacred right of franchise, and he has the
proud consciousness of being one of the very few
border men who never voted in Kansas. During
1861--5 he remained at home steadily engaged in
the practice of his profession, visiting those who
demanded his servicesboth in town and vicinity,
without expecting or receiving much compensation

for his services, and was never forced to leave his .

home but once and then only for a short period.

Dr. Ridge was married February 12, 1850, to
Ann Eliza, daughter of Thomas A. Smart, at pres-
ent a resident of Kansas City. She was a woman
of great judgment and sound common sense, not
given to the usual extravagances and frivolities of
life, but in all things a pattern of domestic Virtue,
whose excellencies were only known and appreciated
by her intimate acquaintances. She departed this
life july 22, 1878, after a shortillness of only two

760 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

days. For twelve months she had been a great suf-
ferer from heart disease and its concomitants, but to
all appearances had so far recovered as to give her
family reasonable hope that she was completely
recovered. But it was not so to be, her hours of
intense suffering closed Monday night July 22, at ten
o’clock, and “the golden bowl was broken,” her
spirit passed out of the earthly tabernacle and crossed
over the river to meet the loved ones gone before.
Dr. Ridge has had five children, two of whom
preceded their mother into the silent land. The
survivors are : William E., born September 25,1852,
now married ; Thomas S., born November 26, I8 59,

and Sophia Lee, born September 10, 1862, a young
lady of amiable disposition and rare promise, mak-
ing excellent use of the fine educational advantages
offered her.

Dr. Ridge is of a nervous lymphatic tempera-
ment, a man of great positiveness of character, and
to those superficially acquainted with him sometimes
appears hard and unsympathetic, but he is at soul
a most generous hearted man, full of the milk of
human kindness, genial and social with those among
whom he feels at home, with quite a reserve of dry
humor when the occasion sanctions its manufac-
ture.

SAMUEL F. SCOTT.

KANSAS CITY.

1849, at Port Hope, Canada West. He is the
son of James Scott and Rebecca Scott. His
parents are of Scotch-Irish descent They removed
to Canada about the year 1838, where theyreared a
family of eleven children, nine of whom are still liv-
ing. In 1859 they removed to Illinois, where they
engaged in farming.

S. F. Scott was reared on the farm and received
the advantages usually extended to the sons of
farmers to obtain an education. At the age of fif-
teen he Went to Beloit, Wisconsin, to learn the busi-
ness of a inoulder, but soon after entering upon his
apprenticeship he enlisted, February 12, 186 5, in the
I 53d Regiment Illinois Volunteers and went immedi-
ately to Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was elected com-
pany clerk and served until the close of the war in
that capacity and was honorably discharged. Hav-
ing saved about $1,100 from his earnings, he lifted
a mortgage from his father’s property in Illinois and
remained at home about two years, assistingin farm
duties and attending the select school in the neigh-
borhood. In the spring of 1867 he went to Wiscon-
sin with the design of pursuing the life of a riverman
on the Wisconsin river. In the fall of the same year
he returned home and engaged in threshing grain, he
and his father owning a threshing machine in part-
nership, which proved to be remunerative employ-
ment. In the spring of 1868 he returned to the

SAMUEL F. SCOTT was born September 3,

Wisconsin river and bought out a fleet of lumber
rafts which realized a handsome profit. He spent a
good portion of that summer and fall at home, and
again put his machine in operation for threshing
grain. He soon tired of the business, however,sold
his interest in the thresher and in company with two
other young men started across the country with a
wagon and team to visit Kansas. He arrived in
Kansas City December 4, 1868, and was highly
pleased with the city and its prospects, but as the
party had set out to travel through Kansas he con-
tinued the journey. He leased a farm in Anderson
county, Kansas, and raised a crop in 1869, but it
proved a loss instead of a gain. He therefore went
to Kansas City and obtained a position as clerk in a
wholesale house and remained there until the firm
quit business. He had accumulated about $500,
and with this sum he began trading in live stock,
realizing paying profits from his investments.

In the spring of 1873 he sold his interests in Kan-
sas City and going to Barrington, Illinois, ‘was there
married, January I, 1874, to Miss Mary ]. Lombard,
daughter of L. C. Lombard, a wealthy farmer of
that vicinity. ’ After his marriage he returned to
Missouri and selected Kansas City as his future
home, but having some interests in St. Joseph, he
spent several months there and removed to Kansas
City in the fall of 1874. He immediately opened a
real estate agency and began operations as a real

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 761

estate broker. The firm style is S. F. Scott & Co.,
which controls the best real estate in the city. The
capital of $500 with which he began business in Kan-
sas City has increased twenty fold, besides large
interests in real estate in the city and country.

In politics he is a Greenbacker, but he never
allows politics to interfere with business. He is lib-
eral in his religious views.

Mr. Scott is of medium height, light complexion,
active, industrious and carefully attentive to business.

REV. MINERSON ERASTUS BUCK, B. D.

KANSAS CITY.

_   INERSON BUCK, father of Minerson E.,

was born in Connecticut in 1809, of Scotch-
English parentage. He inherited many of the
Scotch traits of’ character, was honorable in all his
dealings, and remarkable for unusual energy and
mental vigor. His ancestors were a long lived fam-
ily, and he is now living at seventy years of age,
actively engaged in trade at Pokagon, Cass county,
Michigan. His :‘wife, Hannah Maria Pierce, was
born on the banks of Skaneateles lake, New York,
in 1807, and was a lady of very amiable disposition,
imbued with much religious fervor. She was alineal
descendant of the Earl of Northumberland, father
of “Harry Hotspur.” Three brothers, “Percy,”
descendants of the “ Old Earl,” immigrated to this
country and settled in different colonies 3 the name
preserved its original orthography until the days of
Rev. M. E. Buck’s great-grandfather, when it was
changed to Piercy,- which was afterward changed to
one syllable and spelled Pierce, as it now is. Min-
erson Buck and Hannah Maria Pierce were married
at Skaneateles, New York, in 183 5, and removed to
Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, where Minerson
Erastus, the fifth of a family of six children, was
born August 10, 1849. When’ he was about two
years of age his parents left ‘Ohio and settled in
Charleston, Kalamazoo county, Michigan. Here
his boyhood was passed following the usual farm
labors in the summer and attending the district school

in the winter until after his mother’s death, which -

occurred when he was fourteen" years of age. The
following year he left his father’s home to make his
own way in the world, and launched out upon the
great ocean of life to voyage unaided and alone
across its unknown waters. Although his family
were all Methodists, he was early attracted by the
beauty and impressiveness of the Episcopal church
worship, particularly its choralservice, and regarding

it as the most beautiful and impressive form of
religious devotion, was baptized and confirmed in
Trinity church, Saranac, Michigan, May 8, 1869.
Never having had the advantages of a collegiate
course, yet determined to prepare himself for the
office and work of the holy ministry, January 14,
I870,he entered the Nashotah Theological Seminary,
at Nashotah, Wisconsin, earning his own support by
following the reaper and doing other farm labor dur-
ing his vacations. His examinations were all most
creditably sustained, his average marking was high,
and on Ascension Day, May 14, 1874, he was grad-
uated Bachelor of Divinity. Ten days afterward, on
Whitsunday, he was admitted to the sacred order of
deacons by the Right Reverend Samuel Allen Mc-
Coskry, D. D., D. C. L., Oxon, bishop of Michi-
gan, in S. Luke’s church, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
was at once given special license to preach by the
bishop, and in June of the same year was called to
the rectorship of Trinity Parish, Three Rivers,
Michigan. At this time the parish had long been
vacant, was sadly embarrassed with a debt of over
$2,000, and financially weak. The rector believed
that church corporations should be “honest in the
sight of all men,” and accordingly set to work to pay
off the church indebtedness. As a result on the fol-
lowing Easter day, nine months afterward, an offer-
ing of nearly $2,500 was placed upon the altar for
the liquidation of the debt and the completion of the
church, which had remained in an unfinished condi-
tion for several years. By his personal exertions
the Rector soon added $500 to this sum, and ere
long a beautiful spire rose above the little gothic
church, pointing its slender finger to the upper tem-
ple, “the house not made with hands.” Having
thus “purchased to himself a good degree” in the
lower ministry, he was consecrated to the priesthood
by Right Reverend George D. Gillespie, D. D.,

» engaged in merchandising.

762 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

bishop of Western Michigan, in the presence of his
own congregation at Three Rivers, on Trinity Sun-
day, May 23, 1875.

After a pastorate of two years and eight months,
Rev. Mr. Buck was elected rector of S. Luke’s parish,
Kansas City, Missouri, and entered upon his duties
there on S. Luke’s Day, October 18, 1876. This
call was entirely unsolicited, he was unknown to the
people of the parish only by reputation as an able
preacher and successful church financier. On leav-
ing Trinity Parish, Three Rivers, the Vestry passed
a seriesof resolutions expressing their deep regret at

his departure, their high appreciation of his valuable’

services, and the deservedly popular estimation in
which he was held not only by his own parish, but

by the entire diocese, assuring him of their continued

friendship and embodying the most cordial expressions
of good will. When Mr. Buck assumed charge of S.

iLuke’s Parish it was embarrassed with a debt of over
$3 000. In less than six months, more than $2,000 of
this indebtedness was paid, and before the year expired
the debt was extinguished. The congregation rapidly
increased in numbers, and the fact that the church
had no indebtedness was greatly to its advantage as it
was at that time the only church organization in the

‘city. so situated. At the first Diocesan Convention that

Mr. Buck attended in the state of Missouri he was
associated with three of the oldest and most eminent
presbyters of the convention to arrange for a division
of the diocese. In the fall of 1877 he was elected

to the chaplaincy of the Craig Rifles, an independent
rifle company of Kansas City, and the most popular
military organization in VVesternMissouri.

Rev. Mr. Buck is universally acknowledged as one
of the most sincere, devoted, and self—sacrificing
ministers of the church in which he is destined to
occupy a very commanding and influential position.
From his youth he had a decided inclination for the
Work of the ministry,.and his fitness for his sacred
calling is demonstrated by his usefulness in the
church and the high position he has reached unaided
by influential friends, unsupplied with the accessories
of wealth. This station he has attained through his
own indomitable perseverance and energy, and his
past successes are only pledges of the grand work
he will accomplish in the future. As a church finan-
cier he has few equals, he takes a deep interest in
the choir of his church, and leaves nothing undone
to render it supreme in song among the sister
churches of the city. His missionary zeal is bound-
less, no services are too arduous, no sacrifices are
too great if therein he may advance the interests of
the church to whose success he has pledged all,
health and strength and self. Not yet thirty years.
of age, he has rescued two parishes from decay and
the discouragements of overwhelming debt, and has
planted them upon their feet. The Episcopal church
of Missouri has no more persevering, unselfish and
laboriou.s minister within its communion than the
able rector of S. Luke’s.

CAPTAIN JOHN S. SHAW.

ST. CHARLES.

‘ N IE have never met with a more interesting

life of adventure and remarkable escapes by
“ fire, field and flood” than is found in this sketch.
John Samuel Shaw was _born at St. Charles, Mis-

souri, March 10, I822.i His father, Samuel S. Shaw,

was born in Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
and was the son of Samuel and Charlotte Shaw, who

died in 1800 and the latter in 1804. Samuel S.

‘Shaw, then a minor, went to Trenton, New Jersey,

and lived with his cousin Thomas Sterling, who was
In 1818 he came west
and settled in St. Charles, where he began business
as a merchant. July 24, 1819, he married Ann

Berry Thompson, who was born at or near Schenec-
tady, New York, and came to St. Charles with her
half-brother, Dr. Andrew Wilson, in 1818. Three
children were the fruit of this union, viz , Charlotte
Wood and John Samuel, both now in St. Charles
county, and Julia Kelly Shaw, who died at the age
of twelve.

Their son, John Samuel, is the subject of this.

sketch. He received a fair English education, such
as was afforded by the ordinary schools of the coun-
try at that day, but early manifested a_ desire for
traveling through the western wilds,’ and determined
as soon as possible to gratify it.

. with Samuel Machette.

THE MVZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTIO./VARY. 763

In 1840 he was sent to Liberty, Clay county,
Missouri, to the mercantile firm of Rich, Wilson &
Co., with whom he remained one year and then
returned to St. Charles, where he engaged as second
clerk on the steamer General Leavenworth, Captain
White master, with David D. Moore first clerk. In
1842 he was on the steamer Mary Thompkins in the
same capacity, under Henry J. Beer, captain, and
Duncan S. Carter, clerk. His health failing, in
August of the same year he started, in company
with William Patteson, on a trip across the plains to
the Rocky Mountains. With two pack-horses they
traveled on horseback to Independence, Jackson
county, Missouri, then the starting point for western
traders, and there joined the trading company of
Sabille & Adams, from St. Louis, bound for Fort
Platte, at the junction of the Laramie and Platte
rivers, near the Black Hills. After a tedious journey
across the plains with ox teams, the party arrived at
their destination in November following.

After remaining at the fort a few weeks, Mr.
Shaw went to the Brulé village on White river, in
company with a man named Sigler, one of Sabille &
Adams’ traders. The Brulés are one of the bands of
the Sioux Indians. He started for the States from
Fort Platte, with Sabille and Adams, and a man by
the name of Stiles, on the 3d of May, on board a
small flatboat. On the 4th, 5th and 6th days of May
they were detained at Scott’s Bluffs by a severe snow

storm. After many trials, consequent on the diffi—

cult navigation of the Platte river, they arrived at

Sibley (then Fort Osage), Jackson county, Missouri,
and embarked on board the steamer Tobacco Plant
for home.

After a short time he engaged as second clerk on
the Tobacco Plant—H. J. Beer, master, and D. T.
Wales, clerk—with a view of learning the river. In
the spring of 1844 he engaged as pilot for a few
months, and in August, 1844, purchased a stock of
goods and started for the mountains to trade with the
Indians. Proceeding to the crossing of the Kansas
river in company with the trading firm of Malleson
& Richards, from St. Charles, at that placeihe was
taken sick and unable to proceed farther, disposed
of his outfit to Malleson & Richards, purchased a
canoe from an Indian, and embarked in company
In two days he arrived at
the mouth of the Kansas river, took passage there
on the steamboat Annawam, and arrived safely at
home.

In 1845 he purchased a stock of Indian goods

and again started for the Sioux nation. On this trip
he made a_profitable exchange for furs and peltries.
Not having teams to transport the peltries, he con-
cluded to build a Mackinaw boat and float them
down the Platte, in company with John Richards,
the two having a load for one boat—about two hun-
dred packs or two thousand robes. After arrange-
ments were made to build, they discovered that a

whip—saw was a necessary and indispensable article._

Mr. Shaw offered the American Fur Company one
hundred dollars for the use of one, which they jeal-

ously refused. He then sent two men to Bent’s

~Fort, on the Arkansas river (three hundred miles

distant), borrowed one and had to return it, so that
twelve hundred miles were traveled for that saw.
After the boat was complete-d and the peltries loaded,
Joseph Richards and Charles Bordeau, with a crew

of six men, started on the voyage and arrived at the=:-=

“Thousand Islands” (a short distance from where
Fort Kearney now stands), and were there taken by
the Pawnee Indians and robbed of everything. Mr.
Shaw’s robes were insured in the Union Insurance
Company of St. Louis, but, as is often the case,
they settled with him by paying about one-half.

After this ill fortune Mr. Shaw concluded to
go back to the river. He purchased the steamer
Tobacco Plant, in connection with Duncan S. Car-
ter, and ran her till August, 1847, when, finding it
an unprofitable investment, he sold her. Upon bal-
ancing accounts, he found about enough left to
winter on. An opportunity soon offered again to
try the Indian trade, and in connection with Major

.Robert Wilson,‘ sutler to the “Oregon Battalion

(raised for frontier duty during the Mexican war),
stationed at Fort Kearney, he started with alarge
outfit for the Sioux, made a profitable trade and
returned in I848. He then engaged in piloting on
the river and continued until 1849, when the gold
fever took so many to California. He left Inde-
pendence, Missouri, the last of July, and in about
twenty-three days reached Fort Loramie (now spelled
Laramie). It being late in the season for an over-
land trip to the gold regions, he concluded to remain
till spring. ‘ I

In May, 1850, in company with Timothy Good-
ale, he started for California, but was taken sick and
remained at Bridger’s Fort, on Black’s Fork of Green
river, _for some time. On recovering he went to
Salt Lake City and remained until the latter part of
July, and then went to Canon Valley. Goodale
stopped at Canon Valley while Shaw went to Sacra-

. '=¢'hard-earned gold.

764 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

mento-City and purchased provisions with which to
return to Canon Valley and trade with the emigrants.
While packing his mules in Sacramento the great
“squatter fight” was fought in the street and among
the pack mules he was loading, several squatters
and several city officials were killed, but strange to
say not one mule was touched, although an emigrant
just behind the mules was killed. After returning to
Canon Valley and disposing of the outfit at a large
profit he returned to Sacramento and remained there
till the Ist of November. In the latter part of that
month he left San Francisco on the screw stea.mer
Columbus for Panama, at Chagres embarked on the
Pacific for New Orleans and arrived there in Decem-
ber and at St. Louis in due time.

While in Sacramento City Captain Shaw bought
about $3,500 of Missouri notes, paying therefor his
On arriving at New Orleans he
learned that all but a $50 note was counterfeit. At
the same time he purchased the money, a young
man from Missouri had bargained for about $3,000
of the same money, but Mr. Shaw had some misgiv-
ing about the genuineness of the bills and prevailed
on his friend not to buy. It is needless to say the
young man expressed his gratitude on learning the
money was counterfeit.

In May, 1851, he purchased and commanded
the steamboat Saranak, ran her one year and sold
out. In 1852, with a large stock of emigrant and
Indian goods, he again started for Fort Laramie.
After making several trips, in 1854 he sold out to the
American Fur Company and returned to the states.

In October, 18 54, he purchased the Garden City,
one of the finest steamers of the day. On her fourth
trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, in January, 185 5,
at the head of Yellow bend she took fire and burned
to the water’s edge. In the following March he
bought the steamer Arabia and ran her very suc-
cessfully in the Missouri river during the summer,
making one trip to the mouth of the Yellow Stone
river. In that year she was one of a fleet of boats
that conveyed the United States troops to Fort
Piere, at the mouth of Little Missouri river, and had
on board the commanding officer, Major Wessels
and staff, one company of the 5th Infantry hand.
These were the first troops stationed in the Sioux
country on the Missouri river. Captain Shaw sold
the Arabia in March, 18 56, and, in connection with
Captain P. M. Chouteau, bought the steamer Clara,
and made one trip to the mouth of the Yellowstone
river, transporting the Indian agent, Major Vaughn,

, and Fredrica Elbert.
S Campbell B., John E. and Annie L. Shaw.
For rare adventure, energetic labor, success over

with the Indian annuity goods. On returning to St.
Louis he purchased the interest of Captain Chouteau
and proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky, where he
then built the steamer Twilight, using the machinery
of the Clara. He ran the Twilight until 1860, and
during that time made two trips to the Yellowstone
(one of which was extended to the mouth of Milk
river), each trip transporting the Indian annuity
goods and the government agents, Major Vaughn
and Colonel Redfield. In 1860 he sold the Twi-
light and built the Robert Campbell, ]r., which boat
was burned while in the United States government
employ, at Milliken’s bend in September, 1863,
above Vicksburg. About twenty lives were lost. In
1866 he built at Louisville the steamer Stonewall,
and ran her in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade,
also in the Missouri and Red rivers. In October,
1869, on a voyage from St. Louis to New Orleans
and in command of Captain Thomas VV. Scott, when
about one hundred and twenty—five miles below St.
Louis, she was consumed by fire, some two hundred
lives being lost by burning or drowning. In 1870
he built at Brownsville, Pennsylvania the steamer
Fontenelle, ran her in the Missouri (once as high as
Fort Benton), and in the Ouachita, Red and Arkan-
sas rivers. She was burned at Algiers, opposite
New Orleans, in 1873.

Captain Shaw purchased ninety acres of land one
mile from St. Charles, in 1864, and moved on and
improved it. But here, too, the fire—fiend followed
him, and in April, 1876, his dwelling house was
totally consumed. The captain says that having had
a fair share of fire in this life, he hopes to escape
that element in the hereafter. Since 1873 he has
remained quietly at home, “trying to keep himself
from burning up.” He follows no especial business
at present, but watches events with as keen a zest as
ever, his interest in the leading questions of the day
being as great as when he was in the active pursuits
of a trader or merchant.

Captain Shaw was raised a Whig and was an
ardent admirer of Clay and Webster 5 but after the
demise of the VVhig party he attached himself to the
Democratic party and has ever since voted that
ticket.

He was married in Lexington, Kentucky, July
24, 1860, to Mary Jane Elbert, daughter of john L.
Three children are living:

difficulties and continued determination, we -claim

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

that the subject of this sketch is a boat’s length
ahead of any man in history.‘ He has lain sick in’
the wilderness of the western plains and in the
Rocky Mountains, has- floated through the shutes of
wild rivers, camped amid the eternal snows and
traded with infernal Sioux; has been robbed by
Indians, cheated by insurance companies, four times
ruined by fire—but he “still lives” and prospers!
His health is good, his step firm, his eye keen,and his
courage great as ever. He is as ready for enterprise
now as when thirty-seven years ago he started in the

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battle of life as a man grown. Few men have seen
more “ups and downs” of life, fewer have had
more of the “downs,” and fewer still got up and
stood as firmly as he now stands.

His wife, after sharing for seventeen years his
trials and his successes, still lives to bless his home,
while his children gladden his household with their
presence. Loved there and honored everywhere,
Captain Shaw has commenced the descent of his
second half century with every prospect of seeing
the next century honoring his children.

ANTHONY SAUER.

IEOSEDAZLE.

NTHONY SAUER, son of Florian Sauer and
A Eva (Orth) Sauer,‘ was born in the Province
of Rhein, Hessian, Germany, on the roth of March,
1823. iHis father was a scrupulously strict and
punctual man in all his dealings and engagements,
and his mother especially saving and economical.
The subject of this sketch had two sisters and a
brother, the latter having died about three years ago.

Anthony Sauer received his education in Province
Hessian, City of Mentz, visiting the real school and
gymnasium, which education was finished in his fif-
teenth year. He was industrious and observing from
a child and took an interest in almost everything he
saw. He was brought up a merchant at the place of
his birth, and took his first step toward an indepen-
dent life by going to Russia, at the age of seventeen
years, taking a position as book-keeper in a large
chemical factory.
the mode of life in that country, he remained only

Not being very well satisfied with ‘

about a year and started for Vienna, Austria, with '

exalted ideas of what he would do, taking with him
many letters of recommendation, expecting to select
some very important position. He says he was
treated very politely and kindly, but that his services
did not seem to be in demand in such places as he
had fancied he would accept. A number were
offered, but not of the desired character. Here he
remained until his capital had dwindled down to
seven kreutzers, (about seven cents) when he made
up his mind to accept the next offer‘ that was made

him. He took the position of clerk in a chemical

factory in the country at the rate of four hundred (

florins per annum (about $200 in American cur-
rency). After staying there three months and being
promoted to the position of book-keeper and cashier,
his salary was advanced to the rate of one thousand
florins per annum, and at the expiration of three
months more to fifteen hundred florins per annum.
He served in this capacity until his marriage, when
he went into business on his own account. His
father—in-law proposed to loan him four thousand
florins but he declined, saying that he wanted to suc-
ceed by his own exertions, having saved about three
hundred florins out of his salary, which was all his
capital on which to start. His first business was
buying and selling chemical products, drugs, etc.
In this he worked hard from four o’clock in the
morning till late at night, and at the end of the year,
as a reward for his labor, he had made clear one
thousand florins. He continued for some time in
the same business with gratifying success when, upon
the death of a prominent wholesale wine merchant, he
was offered one thousand florins to wind up the busi-
ness for the widow, she desiring it done as soon as pos-
sible. He was authorized to take nine thousand florins
from any one who would buy the stock and accounts,
and pay the debts of the deceased. After examining
the books and papers he determined to take it himself,
receiving the thousand florins at first offered him for
winding up the business and paying one thousand
more down and the balance in quarterly installments
of one thousand florins each. At the end of eight
months he had paid the last fiorin, with a good stock
on ‘hand and an excellent trade. While thus engaged

766 THE UNITED STATES BIOGZBAPIJICAZ, DICTIOZVARY.

in a prosperous business, he made an unfortunate
indorsement for his father—in—law, from whom he had
declined assistance and who was engaged in printing
cotton cloths. In order to save himself from very
heavy loss he found it necessary to purchase the

_ grounds, machinery, etc., connected therewith, and

not being able to dispose of the same or to give per.-
sonal attention to both establishments, he sold out
his wine store and engaged extensively in the print-
ing business. He had everything put in complete
order, made a trip to Paris, securing the latest pat-
terns and getting the best coloring combinations in
Europe. He soon found himself ahead of many com-

,,peting establishments and. was doing finely until the

Revolution of 1848 when, learning the rabble were
destroying all the machinery in the place, he by a
ruse succeeded in saving his, and was thus in a very
short time in a condition for work without any oppo-
sition or competition, when at the end of three and
a half years, on account of failing health, he was
obliged to retire from business. He found that
he had made the handsome sum of seventyetwo
thousand florins. _

At the advice of his physicians he traveled
through Italy and Southern Europe for a year and

returned with his health restored. Being eager to.

again enter into active business, and not finding
anything to his liking, he unfortunately stepped into
the stock exchange and tried his hand in railroad
stocks,'which were then undergoing great fluctua-
tions on account of the threatened war between
Austria and Prussia. Here in fourteen days he lost
all he had with the exception of fifteen thousand
florins. He sat dispirited for a short time only and
then traveled through France, England, Germany
and other places, looking for an opportunity to
retrieve his losses. While in London, in 1852, and
listening to the excitement in regard to Australia, he
determined to invest in such goods as would be most
likely to sell there to advantage. He carried his
plans into immediate execution and went with the
cargo himself. In this enterprise he was entirely
successful. As an instance, he bought a lot of look-
ing glasses for which he paid one hundred and forty-
two pounds sterling and sold them for three hundred
and sixty pounds. Times were very brisk there for a
time, but the great influx of goods soon exceeded the
demand and reached» such a point that there was no
storage for them. They were consequently thrown
on the market at auction. These auctions he con-
stantly attended, making careful selections and buy-

ing at ruinously low figures. He re-shipped many
of them to the places of manufacture, realizing
handsome profits, but the bulk of his purchases he
took to South America and sold at very high prices.

From South America he had determined to return
to his home in Vienna, 72222 New York, whither his
mother and sister had immigrated during his absence.
Before leaving, however, he purchased a cargo of
Costa Rico coffee, expecting to make a large profit
on it, and shipped it to Liverpool. On his arrival in
New York, after visiting his mother and sisters, he
stepped into Adams & Co.’s express office where he
expected to find a remittance which their office in
San Francisco had collected for him. He was met
with the sad news that their house in San Francisco
had failed and by this failure he lost $3,000. Re-
maining in New York some time, and being favora-
bly impressed with the place, he concluded to embark
He went to Europe to make his
Being in

inbusiness there.
purchases and to look after his coffee.
Paris some fourteen days after his arrival, he learned
that his coffee had arrived in bad condition. . The
Persia, on which it was shipped, being‘ partly loaded
with guano, the coffee had become impregnated with
it, consequently it was sold at considerable loss.
With his remaining means he went through France,
Germany and Belgium and purchased goods for the
New York market, These safely arrived in 1855.
He commenced and continued in the importing
business with gratifying success until the great panic
of 1857, when his losses were so great that he was
forced to cease his importations.

While visiting the western portion of the United
States, in passing through Kansas City his attention
was attracted to the numerous wagons and mule
teams that were receiving goods from the steamers on
the river. He landed and received such satisfactory
answers in regard to the place, business, etc., that
he after a few days stay became satisfied with the
indications of prosperity and made up his mind to
move out-and settle there, which he did at once.
He commenced business first by dealing in hides,
tallow, wool, leather, etc., and soon afterward built
a tannery, in which he succeeded very well. In
1862 his tannery was burned, by which he‘ sustained
heavy loss, but his other trade was so good that upon
the whole his business aggregated a very satisfactory
result. About this time, having frequent returns of
the disease with which he was afflicted in Europe, he
determined to make a trip across the plains .to Mon-

tana. He fitted out a train of mule teams, perhaps

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 767

the best that ever started from Kansas City, loaded
it with goods and started in the spring of 1864.
After a very annoying and unpleasant trip he landed
at Salt Lake City in the latter part of June, and
there disposed of a part of his goods at fair profits
and started again for Virginia City, Montana
Territory, refusing before he left, on account of the
depreciated currency, an offer for his whole train and
goods at a very handsome profit on the investment.
He went ahead in his‘ ambulance to find out what
point in the mountains to stop his train with the
best prospect of a speedy and profitable sale. After
staying in Virginia City three days he received the
intelligence that his mules had been stolen and driven

off and his wagons were left on the plains. Hasten—

ing back he offered liberal rewards for the capture’

and return of the mules. He only succeeded in
getting back two of the thirty—four lost. At great
expense the remainder of the goods were taken to
Virginia City and disposed of. The balance of the
mules were a total loss. The cost of the outfit,
when he left Kansas City was $r9,ooo. VVhen he
returned he had just $5,500. At the close of the
war Kansas City took a fresh start, and Mr. Sauer
engaged in speculating in real estate in which he
was remarkably successful until 1873, when he
retired from business to the place where he now lives,
near Rosedale, Kansas, and about three miles from
Kansas City——a beautiful and romantic spot where he
has erected for himself a handsome and commodious

residence, surrounded with fruits and flowers and

shrubbery that “Shenstone might have envied,”
where he lives a retired but by no means idle life,
being from “ early dawn till dewy eve” constantly
engaged in planning and superintending, if not
actually engaged himself in beautifying and improv-
ing his delightful home. Mr. Sauer, though not a

member of any church, has great respect for ‘religion
and Christian men and women, believing that the
golden rule of doing unto others as we would have
them do unto us is the best maxim ever promulgated._

Though not considering himself a politician, in
National politics he usually votes with the Republi-
cans 5 ‘in local elections he votes for the man, who
has the best character for integrity and honesty.

He has been twice married, to his first wife, Fran-
cisco Sass, in Vienna, January 20, 1844. By her he
was blessed with five children,four sons and a daugh-
ter. His eldest son, Gustave O. L. Sauer, a
young man of fine business qualifications, is in the
commission business in Kansas City, Missouri. He
was for several years a partner in the well known
wholesale house of M. Diveley & Co., a. house which
stands deservedly high and does a thriving trade.
Mr. Sauer’s second ‘son, Anthony, is a young man
of intelligence and refinement 5 was for several
years in business in the South, but is now at home.
The third son, Julius, is in Texas in the post office
department. His fourth son., Emyl, was a boy of
excellent disposition and fine promise, but unfortu-
nately died in 1875. His daughter, Johanna, is
married to Adolph Bang, -a commission merchant in
St. Louis. Mr. Sauer’s first wife died in New York
in 1-868. He was married June 20, 1869, to Maria
Messerschmidt, of Kansas City, whose kind heart
and cheerful countenance make his home happy.
By her he has had five children, all daughters and
living, named as follows: Eva Maria, Antoinette,
Fosefa, Clara, and Frances.

Anthony Sauer loves his home and the evidence
of his healthy mind is seen in his “rest of heart and
pleasure felt at home.” He believes that “the strength
‘of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in
the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.”

ALFRED STONEBRAKER.

ST. CHARLES.

LFRED STONEBRAKER is the son of a
A family of long residence in St. Charles county,
members of which have intermarried with the most
distinguished families of their section. His father,
John Stonebraker, a member of an old German fam-
ily, came to Missouri, from near Funkstown, Mary-

land, November 7, 1843, and settled in the country
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on a farm one mile from St. Charles, he engaged in
agricultural pursuits and stock raising, becoming one
of the most extensive raisers and traders in the
county. He was very successful while in business,
and died in August, 1859.. The mother of our sub-
ject was Naomi McCoy, whose father was a Scotch-
man and died at the age of eighty-four, after having

768 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

married a second time. One of her daughters,
Urilla, married Hon. john Orrick, of St. Charles;
she and her husband are now living with their mar-
ried daughter, Mrs. john K. Mc‘Dearmon. ‘

Alfred Stonebraker, the subject of this sketch,
was-born near Funkstown, Washington county,
Maryland, October 10, 1822, and came with his
father to Missouri in 1843. He remained on the
home farm until 1855, receiving a common school
education, bu_t learning practical business lessons
from his father. In that year Alfred began farming
on his own account, three and a half miles below
St. Charles. For four years he was very. successful.
He then came to St. Charles to live, and in 1861
entered into partnership with his brother-in-law,
john Orrick, in the grain business. Their trading
was small at first 3 but the county rapidly developed
its wheat-growing qualities as new settlers opened
and cultivated the land, and of course their transac-
tions increased accordingly. During the war they
made a large amount of money. As an interesting
statistic they gave the information that the growth of
grain in St. Charles county has increased more than
ten—fold since they began business. In 1870 Mr.
Orrick retired from the firm, and Mr. Stonebraker
then formed a partnership with his nephew, Alfred
H. Stonebraker, when the firm name became A.
Stonebraker & Co. They are still in business, and
handle annually a large amount of grain.

In 187 5 Mr. Stonebraker bought the mill prop-
erty immediately adjoining his ware-house in the
rear, and runs it in connection with his grain busi-
ness. This mill is one of the most substantial struc-
tures in the state, it has a solid rock foundation,
with the first and second stories of hydraulic cement
three feet thick. He is preparing and expects to
have an elevator at the mill. The property fronts
on the railroad and river. These gentlemen (as well
as Mr. Orrick in his days of vigor) are energetic and
careful business men, and great confidence is reposed
in ‘them by the grain growers and commercial men
of their section. Their enterprise has probably done
as much to secure the present magnificent wheat
production of the county as anything else.

Mr. Stonebraker has always been interested
in every public measure or enterprise tending to
advance the interests of his city and county, but has
never accepted official favors or duties from them, de-
voting his whole time and talent to his legitimate line.
He is a stockholder in the Hannibal State Insurance
Company. A Democrat all his life, he has never
accepted any office. He was raised in the Lutheran
faith and continues to have strong preferences for its
tenets. As a commercial man he stands high in the
community, and being social and pleasing in his man-
ners, has many friends. He has accumulated a fair
competence for ‘his old age, but looks hale and hearty
enough to promise him many years yet of active life.

L. H. WARINNER.

KANSAS CITY.

EE HARRISON WARINNER was born
L April 24, 1836, in the town of Liberty, Casey
county, Kentucky. His paternal great—grandfather,
Jacob Warinner, was of English descent. He lived
in Virginia "during the American Revolution, and
was a preacher. The paternal grandfather, also
named Jacob, and a minister of the Christian church,
was born and raised in Buckingham county, Virginia,
and moved with his father to Kentucky, about the
year 1805. Subsequently, in 1837 he moved to
Missouri, anddied is Ray county in September,
1845. His wife, Polly Riffe, was of German
descent and died in 1848. Their eldest son, Willis
Warinner, father of our subject, was born in Ken-
tucky, june 25, 1810, and brought his family to

Camden, Ray county, Missouri, in November I836.
He survives his son, and now (1878) lives in Rich-
mond in the same county. He married Miss Clem-
ency Mason, daughter of Hugh Mason, of Lincoln
county, Kentucky, May 2, I833.~ Nothing is known
of her ancestors except that her mother, whose
maiden name was Frances Reynolds, was raised in
Virginia. Mrs. Warinner died at her husband’s
home in Camden, Missouri, May 7, 1847.

Soon after her death her husband engaged in
merchandising at Camden, and his son Lee was taken
into the store where he received his first lesson in
mercantile pursuits. The opportunities for an edu-
cation were not good at that time, but he was sent to
such schools as the country afforded. A At the age of

THE UNITED STATES BZOGIBAPTIZCAZL DZCTZOZVARY. 769

sixteen he was sent one year to the State University
at Columbia, Missouri, and then returned to assist
his father in the store. His progress in his studies
while at school was rapid and he generally stood at
the head of his class, while his report for good beha-
vior and industry was the highest given in the school.

After he had spent some time in the store with
his father, he became a partner in the concern, but
desiring to engage more largely in trade, and deter-
mining to fit himself therefor, he sold his interest to
his father and traveled some months. About the
year'1857 he went to Bethany, West V.irginia, and
entered college, intending to complete his education.
He, however remained but a short time when he
returned home, saying that his “head was so full of
business and trade he could not pursue his studies
profitably.”

In 1861 he purchased his father’s store and com-
menced his business career alone, first at Camden,
where he remained for .a while, and then at Rich-
mond, where he carried on business until July, 1866.
At the last mentioned date he removed to Kansas
City, and associated himself in the grocery business
with Messrs. Marsh, Coffee & Co, and from that
time was known as one of the prominent and reliable
business men of that city. The firm afterward
changed to Warinner & Co., then to Warinner, Greg-
ory & Dyas, and last to the firm name of Warinner,
Gregory & Co., wholesale grocers, at 51 and 53 West
Third street. In all these years Mr. Warinner was
recognized as one of the foremost men of the City of
Kansas. Since his advent there all that is grand and
material in its growth and development has been
accomplished, and no public enterprise having aten-
dency to advance the prosperity of Kansas City has
been completed without in some of its features carry-
ing with it the impress of Mr. VVarriner’s presence
and labor. In all his business relations he was pre-
eminently free from prevarication, and while of a
quick and nervous temperament, no man ever knew
him to use a harsh word in any of his dealings, either
with his partners, the public, or his employes.

The business of the firm became immense, and
in its ramifications extended through the Western and
Southern States. The trade of the house in 1876
and. 1877 reached, each year, nearly a million dollars.
Notwithstanding, its magnitude, some idea of the
rare business qualities of Mr. Warinner and his part-
ners may be formed from the fact that when death
rendered a settlement of their affairs necessary, it was
made to the satisfaction of every individual concerned,

not a dollar was lost by any one, and every cent
invested could be accounted for. But this careful-
ness and square dealing, nor the status of his busi-
ness, would never have been learned from his lips,
for of all the commercial men in Kansas City he was
well known as the most reticent. When business
required he was sufficiently communicative; but oth-
erwise he was silent.

On the 9th of November, 1864, Mr. Warinner
was married to Miss Augusta A. Menefee, daughter
of Henry R. and Susan (Slaughter) Menefee, of Coo-
per county, Missouri, the family being originally
from Rappahannock county, Virginia. Her father
died a few years before her marriage. By this union
were born two children, Frank, October 27, 1866,
and Jessie Lee, a daughter, April 9, I87r——both
remarkable for their intelligence and devotion to their
parents. Mrs. Lee’ Warinner is a highly intellectual
lady, and realizes the importance of her maternal
duties in the proper training and education of her
children, to which she gives her constant attention.

Is it not sad that such a life as Lee Warriner’s
should be cut off in its prime—that such a character
should be called away so'early——that such a home
should be darkened just as its brightest joys were
being realized. S2"; z‘rcmsz'z‘ glorzkz mzma’z'. Death came
and the ledger closed, the mart sorrowed, the com-
munity wept, and the light of gladness went out in
his home. On the 15th day of August, 1877, Lee
Harrison Warinner died at his residence in Kansas
City, surrounded by his mourning family and friends.
One of the newspapers of the city, the journal of Com-
flzerce, the day the sad announcement was made, said:

“One week ago yesterday the deceased left his
place of business for the last time. He had been
feeling unwell for nearly a week, but supposed it
was only the usual lethargy incident to the warm
midsummer season. After his retirement to his
home the disease rapidly developed into the worst
type of malarial fever and dysentery combined, and
although he early received the best medical attend-
ance, and loving hands did all that careful nursing

could do, the malady defied both skill and care, and
death claimed its victim.

“ He leaves a wife and two children, Frank and
Jessie, aged six and twelve years, to whom he has
been a kind husband and an indulgent father. In
this, the hour of their great affliction, human con-
dolence and human sympathy cannot turn aside the
great flood of sorrow that is rending their hearts,but
in after days when they have learned through time,
the healer, to bow in humble submission to the will
of Him who chastens that He/may bless, it will be
pleasant to know that with them in their hour of

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grief an entire community mourns 3 that with their
tears those of a multitude are mingled.”

The same paper gives an account of the passage
of the following resolutions and marks of respect:

“ At the close of the call board yesterday a meet-
ing of the Board of Trade members was called, at
which the formal announcement of the death of L.
H. Warinner, Esq., a member, was made, and a
committee appointed to draft resolutions expressive
of regret, and tendering the sympathy of the Board
to the bereaved family of the deceased. It was also
resolved by formal action that the members of the
Board attend the funeral in a body.

“At a meeting of the directors of the Bank 0
Kansas City, held yesterday morning, the death of
Mr. L. H. Warinner was announced and the follow-
ing resolutions of respect were passed:

DIRECTORS’ OFFICE, BANK OF KANSAS CITY,
August 16, 1877.

WHEREAS, This board of directors have learned
of the death of one of their number, L. H. Warin-
ner, now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Warinner, this
bank has lost a most valuable officer and this board
of directors a trusted, honorable and intelligent 1ne1n-
ber. The business community, too, has lost a most
exemplary gentleman, and society one of those
crowning honors that go to make up a model citizen-
ship, and while the announcement of the death of L.
H. Warinner gives pain to this board, yet we take
pleasure in commending his career in business, fault-
less and worthy of imitation 3 a citizen of spotless
integrity and a model gentleman in all the relations
of life. I

I€es0[72ea’, That to his grief-stricken wife and fath-

erless children we tender our heartfelt sympathies in
this hour of their affliction, and that a copy of these
resolutions be furnished by the clerk of this board to
the distressed family of the deceased.

Resolwa’, That this board attend in a body the
funeral services this afternoon, at the residence of
our departed associate.

Z3650/2'/ea’, That the various city papers be requested
to publish these resolutions.

“A large number of our leading citizens, in
addition to the above organization, a.ttended the
brief services at the late residence of the deceased,
No. 916 Wyandotte street, at four o’clock last even-
ing, and accompanied the remains to the Bridge
depot, where at five o’clock they were deposited on
board the North Missouri train, and accompanied
by sorrowing relatives departed for Richmond.”

He was buried in that town, and a handsome
Italian monument is being erected by his loved ones
to his memory. Not that this is necessary to coin-
memorate his virtues , for they live fresh and green
in the mindsand hearts of all who knew him, and
admired his integrity of character, his warm hearted-
ness, his faithful friendship—these and their memory
constitute his monument, as imperishable as human
intelligence.

Mr. Warinner had, since 1853, been a quiet but
consistent member of the Christian church. He
joined it during a series of meetings at South Point,
Ray county, Missouri. He ever took a deep inter-
est in the welfare of his church and greatly assisted
in all its enterprises. He was a deacon for some
years and up to the time of his death.

JOHN K. MCDEARMON.

ST. CHARLES.

T is somewhat remarkable the great proportion
I of men from Virginia who have had confided to
their care the officiali duties and responsibilities of
Missouri. In every county of the ‘state, in every
legislative and in every congressional delegation we
find the Old Dominion represented by some of her
honored sons.

John K. McDearmon, clerk of the county court
of St. Charles, was born in Prince Edward county,
Virginia, November 24, 1829. His father, James
R. McDearmon, was educated at St. Mary’s Col-
lege, Virginia, and was the descendant of one of
three brothers who came west in the regiment of

Colonel Braddock in I8-’—. After graduating, the
father married Miss Martha A. Gannaway, daughter
of Edmond and Rhoda Gannaway, of Buckingham
There were born to thein eight
children, seven of whom were boys, the subject of
this sketch being the eldest. In 1831 his father first
settled at Fee-fee, St. Louis county, Missouri. In
.1835 he removed to a farm he had purchased in

county, Virginia.

'Femme-Osage township, St. Charles county, and

soon became actively interested in local and national
politics. Hewas a Democrat and the county strongly
Whig, yet notwithstanding this, such was his popu-
larity as a neighbor, and throughout the county as

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a man, he was frequently made_ the custodian of
important trusts. He served acceptably as county
judge, and in 1845 was appointed state auditor by
Governor John C. Edwards, which office he held
until his death, in 1848. He had made his resi-

dence in Jefferson City since his appointment‘, and

died there.

John K. McDearmon, the subject of this sketch,
received his early education at home. At the age of
seventeen he entered the State University at Colum-
bia, Missouri, but ‘his father’s death prevented
him from graduating. The widow with her family
removed from Jefferson City to St. Charles, after her
husband’s death, leaving John in Jefferson City,
where he remained two years writing in the circuit
and county clerks’ offices. In that city he also read
law under General Monroe M. Parsons—killed in
Mexico by Mexican soldiers since the Rebellion.

In 1850 he came to St. Charles and entered the
law office of Robert H. Parks, Esq., where he com-
pleted his legal studies. In 18 51 he was admitted to
practice and kept his office in St. Charles two years.

His brother, Thomas H. McDearmon, county
clerk elect, died before entering upon his office, and
the public elected John K. to fill the vacancy thus

occasioned. He was afterwards elected regularly
to the office and held it until 1865, when he was
removed by the ordinance of the state convention
held that year for newly filling all the offices of the
state. Notwithstanding the continued confidence of
his fellow-countrymen and his own high standing and
and Union proclivities, he had to give way. In 1870
he was again elected to the same office, and has since
continued to hold it, his last majority being r,.ooo.

Mr. McDearmon has been a consistent Democrat
during his whole life and always a supporter of Ben-
ton doctrines. During the war he was an open
advocate of the Union cause. "

In 1854 John K. McDearmon married Miss Lucy
Ann Orrick, daughter of Captain John and Urilla
Orrick, an old and respected St. Charles family,
originally from Virginia. They have six children,
all living. ,

In all his official relations and as a man and citi-
zen, Mr. McDearmon stands high in the estimation
of all parties in the county, who entertain high hopes
of his being left to their profit and service many
years—and his robust health, preserved by temperate
habits, would seem to indicate that their hopes are
well founded.

COLONEL ANDREW G. NEWGENT.

IKAIVSAS CITY.

ANDREW G. NEWGENT was born October
13, 1816, in Clarke county, Indiana. He is
the son of Bennett and Lydia Newgent. His father
was one of the first settlers of the territory of Indiana,
and was a magistrate from early age until the time of
his death in 1845. _

He received only a common school education.
He was in mercantile, life in Indiana until 1852, and
from his birth until that time lived in that state. He
removed to Cass county, Missouri in March, 1852,
and farmed and speculated in lands for two years.

A Afterward he went into the mercantile business and

remained in it until 1861. He enlisted in Cass
county guards in that year, and they were mustered
into the United States service by Gordon Granger.
He held the rank of first quartermaster and in August,
1861, was authorized to raise four more companies,
which he did. In the same month he was commis-

sioned colonel. He was stationed in Western Mis-
souri and acted as the protector of property there,
being constantly engaged in fighting guerrillas and in
rendering aid to Union citizens in that section. He
was authorized February I, 1862, to recruit for the
Missouri state militia. On the 28th of the same
month his regiment was mustered out of service.
They all joined the '2d battalion Missouri state mili-
tia, where he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In
1864 Colonel Newgent was sent to the state consti-
tutional convention in St. Louis, from the district
composed of Cass, Bates and Jackson counties, and
there voted for the abolition of slavery, giving free-
dom to six of his own slaves at the same time.

He is a Mason and was made one in Dayton,
Cass county, Missouri, in 1856.

Colonel Newgent was in Washington from 1864 to
1871 settling claims of citizens of Western Missouri,

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and succeeded by his own personal effort in having
a bill passed to pay Kansas City militia, and an
appropriation of a quarter of a million of dollars was
made for that purpose. It was paid out by the First

_National and VVatkins Bank of Kansas City.

He was reared in the Baptist faith and has stead-
fastly adhered to it. He was a preacher of that
denomination from the time he was twenty years of
age until the commencement of the war, and then,
thinking that preaching and fighting did not agree,
he exchanged the pulpit for the field. As a preacher
he was very successful and there are many in VVest-
ern Missouri who owe their religious character to
Colonel Newgent’s teachings and example. He was
naturally quiet and steady in early life, was never
known to use an oath, and never has to the present
time indulged in any profanity.

He was a Democrat until 1861, and cast his first
vote for Jackson when only nineteen years old. As a

consequence he had to pay taxes and work out road
assessments two years sooner. He is now a Repub-
lican and an ardent supporter of Mr. Hayes and his
Southern policy.

He was married February 22, 1832, to Dorcas J.
Powers, a granddaughter of a revolutionary soldier
who was in Washington’s personal command seven
years, having enlisted when a boy fourteen years of
age. Her father was in the war of 1812. They
had ten children, five of whom are still living.

His first wife died January 15, 1873, in Washing-
ton, being struck instantly dead by paralysis of the
heart. In November, 1873, he married Mrs. Susan E.
Miner, an estimable lady, sister of T. B. Bullene,
one of the first merchants of Kansas City, and has
one child, a daughter, by this marriage, born in
June, 1874. He is yet hale and hearty, bears his

years well and is noted for his kindness of heart and

generosity to the poor.

THOMAS M. JAMES.

KANSAS CITY.

HOMAS MARTIN JAMES was born April
8, 1823, in Logan county, Kentucky. Of his
ancestry little is known. His grandfather, removing
from England to Virginia at an early day, settled in
Goochland county, whence the parents of Thomas
M., John and Polly (Poor) James, emigrated to Ken-
tucky, in 1807, and engaged in farming. ' ,
At the early.age of three or four years, Thomas
was left an orphan, with a few hundred dollars worth
of property as his portion of the family estate, and
committed to the c-are of a guardian, Mr. D. W.
Poor. His boyhood was spent on a farm, with the
occasional school advantages afforded in those times.
When about seventeen years old, better advantages
presenting themselves, his mind seized its task with
marked vigor, and applying himself to study with
diligence during a year and a half, such progress
was made that Mr. J. W. Rust—long distinguished
among the educators of Kentucky—associated him
with himself as assistant teacher. Five years young
James continued in the school-room, improving his
own mind and commending himself as a faithful and
successful teacher.
About this time, some business matters calling

him to Virginia, a new era of his history was intro-
duced. There, in Goochland county, near the old
family home,“ he met and married Miss Sallie Ann
Woodward, who, even in her girlhood, evinced many
of those excellencies of character which, throughout
their lives, have contributed so greatly to the happi-
ness and business success of the husband. Return-
ing to Kentucky with his bride, the few remaining
years of his life as a teacher passed quietly and
pleasantly. In 1852 the school-room was abandoned
for the store, and Mr. James began to find out those
talents which have elevated him to his present prom-
inence in the business world. Forming a partnership
with Mr. Waltus Gill, of Todd county, Kentucky,
a year or two was spent in general merchandising,
but the New West called loudly for energy and enter-
prise, and Mr. James was too well endowed with
these qualities to resist the call. In 1854, settling
all his business in the parent state, he came, with his
little family, an honorable record and-a small cap-
ital, to Kansas City.

He first bought a half interest of T. H. West in
-a steam saw and grist mill located at the foot‘ of
what is now Grand avenue, then Market street.

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Shortly after, they opened a store in general mer-
chandise on the Levee, between what is now Main
and Delaware streets, which was conducted by Mr.
West, Mr. James taking full charge of the mill
business. Among their iemployés in cutting logs
during the summer was Perry Fuller, who came
west without means or business experience. Recog-
nizing in him a man of good business qualifications,
they furnished him, in the fall of the same year, five
hundred dollars worth of goods, with which he
established an Indian tradingpost near the agency
of the Sac and Fox tribes. This was the begin-
ning of Mr. Fuller’s remarkably successful career as
an Indian trader with the various tribes. They con-
tinued to supply him with goods for three or four
years, holding an interest in the business, but
which they finally sold to him, receiving $14,000
in government claims, which remained unpaid until

1865.

In January, 1856, Mr._James and partner sold to
D. L. Shouse a third interest in their business in
Kansas City. The mill was disposed of a year later,
but the mercantile business continued until 1859,
when they sold out to S. D. Pitkin. Mr. Pitkin
died soon after, largely indebted to them, for
which they received only a small per cent., after
difficulties for two or three years in settling the
estate. . '

Mr. James was now without capital, and remained
in close circumstances for some time. He had bought

in 18 54 a small piece of land in McDaniel’s‘ addition

to Kansas City. As the town improved, Main street
was extended along the east side and included a
portion of this land. Here, in 1861, he erected a

frame building, where he opened a general produce

business, which he continued until 1864. He then
bought of Thomas Smart a small stock of queens-
ware, which was the beginning of the present exten-
sive business of T. M. James & Sons.

In 1871 he erected the James building, on the
corner of Main and Sixth streets. This splendid
establishment is unsurpassed in the city. Forty feet
on Main street, extending back to Delaware two
hundred and twenty-five feet, three stories in height,
it presents a truly imposing appearance, and affords
abundant facilities for the enterprising firm to employ
their energy and fine talents to their full extent.

The two sons of Mr. James, his only children,
are associated with him, under the firm name of T.
M. James & Sons. Both of these young gentlemen
have enjoyed the best social and educational advan-

tages, they having graduated at Brown University
with distinction, and enjoyed considerable opportu-
nities for travel and intercourse with men prominent
both in the world of letters and of trade. They
possess energy, education, tact and means, and with
their father, whose prudence, knowledge of men,
honesty and industry have laid so good a foundation
for them, they make up what is admitted to be one
of the most reliable and successful firms in the West.
Such men could not do otherwise than succeed, than
go forward, and it is but natural, that, beside the
extensive retail trade which long standing in the
city secures to them, they should make Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado, the Indian Territory and Texas
contribute to their prosperity. Already, the whole-
sale houses of Chicago, St. Louis, and even the great
cities of the East are made to understand that Kansas
City has a competitor in the field, able to import its

own goods, and determined not to be undersold or

surpassed in the quality of its wares.

Mr. James is not only one of the most successful
of the business men of Kansas City, but is a. devo-
ted Christian, whose precepts, good moral conduct
and example have had a wide and extended influence
in promoting the cause of Christianity in that city.
When he first came there he found but little interest
and but few advantages for religious instruction.
The Methodist Episcopal church, then the only
Protestant organization in the city, had commenced
a small Sabbath school, but it was not in a flourishing
condition. He assisted in reorganizing this school,
and was chosen its superintendent. It was a Union
Sabbath school, to which all were invited to attend,
and its influence and beneficial effects were widely
felt through the community.

Mr. James had united with the Baptist church
when a young man, and was the first to propose the
organization of the rst Baptist church in Kansas
City, in 1855. He became one of its most efficient
and active members, donated largely for its church
building, commenced in 1856, superintending and
assisting with his own hands in its construction. He
was superintendent of its first Sabbath school, and
for many years one of its deacon/s.

The population of Kansas City having increased.

rapidly within a few years, and the need of another
Baptist church being felt, Mr. James took great
interest in aiding and helping to establish the same.
He donated the lots on the corner of Grand avenue
and Eleventh street, was made chairman of a build-
ing committee, and Calvary church was commenced

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in 1877. In its construction he devoted both time
and means, as did his two sons, who are members
of the same church organization. Mrs. james has
also for many years been a member of the Baptist

church. She is a woman possessed of much force of

character, and her husband always takes pleasure in
acknowledging her great assistance during his many
struggles and privations in opening up business and
establishing himself so prominently among the busi-
ness men of the young metropolis.

 

REV. NATHAN SCARRITT, D. D.

KANSAS CITY.

1821, in Edwardsville, Illinois. His grand-

NATHAN SCARRITT was born, April I4,
father and father both bore the Christian name of
Nathan. His father, who was of Scotch descent,
was born in Connecticut, October 15, 1788, and
when thirteen years old removed with his father’s
family to Lyman, New Hampshire; was married in
I812 to Miss Latty Allds, a native of Lyman, but of
Irish extraction, he was in limited circumstances,
and was the possessor of a poor, second-hand farm
in Grafton county. ‘A desire to improve his for-
tune induced him to remove to the West. He left
New Hampshire in wagons on the 1st of September,
1820, for Illinois, at that time almost a wilderness,
and took nearly three months to make the journey.
He settled in Edwardsville and remained there. five
years, then moved to a small prairie about four miles
north of the present city of Alton——a prairie which
was, because of his first settling upon it, called Scar-
ritt’s prairie; that neighborhood is now called Monti-
cello, and is the seat of the celebrated Monticello
Seminary. I ‘

Nathan Scarritt, the subject of this sketch, is the
seventh of twelve children born to Nathan Scarritt
and Latty Allds. He worked on the farm of his
father until he was sixteen.
had his education been neglected, he could scarcely
read and write. He then started to school at McKen-
dree College, Lebanon, Illinois, commencing in the
preparatory department. Owing to his father’s con-
tracted means, and the large family he was compelled
to support and educate, young Scarritt was forced to
rely very much on his own resources in acquiring
his education, and to use great economy in the
expenditure of his money. The first year he was in
college, he took a contract from the trustees to clear
off the brush and fallen timber from the college
campus, a large and heavily timbered enclosure con-

’ expenses.

At that time, so much "

nected with the institution. He did the work at
intervals between regular study hours, and by moon-
light, and in this way paid a large portion of that
year’s expenses. Then he formed a club of three,
who boarded themselves in a lodge built for the
purpose on the edge of the campus. To reduce
expenses to the minimum, he cleared a small piece
of ground, fenced it with the brush, spaded it
up and planted a garden, mostly with potatoes.
Frequently, having neither time nor inclination to

prepare other food, he made his meals from roasted .

potatoes from the garden, using a little salt for flavor-
ing, and cold water from the well as a beverage. In
this way the expense of board was reduced to about
fifty cents per week. At the close of his junior year
his father was stricken down with a protracted illness,
and he returned home to carry on the farm. It was not
long, however, before his father began to improve.
The college faculty then urged him to return, and the
steward agreed to credit him for his board and other
He returned and graduated in the sum-
mer of 1842, delivering the valedictory of his ‘class.

Soon after graduating, he began teaching school
in Waterloo, Illinois, and paid out of his first two
years salary the expenses of his last year at college,
two hundred dollars due on a scholarship in the col-
lege held by his father, and fifty dollars to assist his
father in an emergency, leaving himself but a small
balance of his wages. In April, 1845, he moved to
Fayette, Missouri, arriving there with ten dollars, his
entire worldly stock. This sum he loaned to a friend
and it was never refunded, so that he made an even
start with life in his new home. At the time of his
arrival in Fayette, Prof. William T. Lucky (the late
Dr. Lucky, of California,) had just opened a school
and proposed to establish at that point a female
seminary of high grade. Young Scarritt joined him
in this enterprise and was successful beyond expecta-

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tion. Out of this have grown Central College", for
males, and Howard Female College, among the best
and most successful institutions in the state. After
laboring at that place three and a half years, he went
westward and took a position in the Shawnee Indian
manual school, located i_n what is now the state of
Kansas, and under the control at that time of Rev.
Thomas Johnson. He arrived there in the fall of
1848. The young men of Western Missouri, having
few advantages in the state, availed themselves of
this opportunity, and attended the Mission school.
In 1851 he resigned. his position in the school, and,
to carry out his original design, began to preach to
the Indians. His first charge embraced the Shaw-
nee, Delaware and Wyandotte missions. In the
spring of 18 52 he was detailed by the authorities of
his church to fill a vacancy in the pastorate at Lex-
ington, Missouri. In the fall of the same year he
was appointed by Bishop Paine to take charge of the
churches at Westport and Kansas City. I At West-
port he cooperated with the citizens in building up
Westport High School, but with the understanding
that he should be released when the school should
be placed on a successful basis and another suitable
superintendent could be secured. He remained in
charge until January, 185 5, and then abruptly left,
to avoid incurring the displeasure of his ecclesiastical
superiors, especially Bishop Early, who had assigned
him to the Kickapoo district, in Kansas, which was
at that time being rapidly settled by white immi-
grants. From that time for eight years, with the
exception of one year in which he served as provis-
ional president of Central College, he traveled exten-
sively through Kansas, preaching, making pastoral
visits and organizing churches. This work was of
the most arduous and hazardous character—crossing.
swollen streams without bridges, traveling without
roads, exposed to the heat of the sun and the pelt-
ing of the storm, often fasting for twenty-four to
thirty hours, and sometimes lying on the ground all
night during stormy weather with only a saddle-
blanket for a bed.‘ These are only a few of the
hardships to which he was exposed. The country
becoming greatly distracted by reason of the civil
war, he determined to seek a more quiet home, and
bought forty acres of land where he now resides,
three miles east of Kansas City, built upon it a log
cabin with his’ own hands, and on the 6th of May,
1862, moved to it with his family. In 1863, when
“ Order No. II ” was issued, although not included

in it, he found a residence so far from military pro-
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tection unsafe on account of the multitude of robbers
that infested the country. He accordingly moved
to Kansas City, where he remained till the war
closed. During 1864 and 1865 he taught school in
the city, and returned to his farm in the fall of I86 5.
On account of personal afflictions and a press of
those duties which he owed to his family, he has
ever since the war, except one year, desisted from
the regular work of the ministry. This withdrawal
was not a matter of choice, but from circumstances
he regarded as justifying him in quitting the active
work of the ministry.

In religion Dr. Scarritt is an Arminian of the old
Wesleyan Methodist type, as were also his parents.
He was converted and joined the Methodist Episco-
pal church when but a boy. When the separation
of the church took place, by his position and the
plan of separation, he became identified with the
church, South. He became a minister in 1846.

He has taken but little part in politics at any
stage of life. When a young man he was inclined
to the old line Whig party, but since its demise,
when he votes, he generally acts with the Democ-
racy. During the Kansas troubles, although dis-
charging his duties as a minister in the state, he did
not vote or act with either party. During the civil
war he sympathized with the South, but not with its
policy of secession.

He was first ‘married, April 29, 1850, to Miss M.
M. Chick, daughter of Colonel William Chick, one
of the first proprietors of Kansas City. She bore
him nine children, six of whom-——four sons and two
daughters——are still living. She died July 29, 1873.
He was married to his second wife, Mrs. Ruthie E.
Scarritt, October 6, 1875. She was the widow of
his brother, Isaac Scarritt, late president of the rst
National Bank, Alton, Illinois. Her father, Rev.
Cyrus Barker, was a Baptist minister and for many
years a missionary in the province of Assam, India,
where Mrs. Scarritt was born.

Dr. Scarritt has not only attained eminence as a
minister and educator, but also as a financier. He
made some fortunate investments in what was at that
time the suburbs, but is now the heart of the city,
and has been liberally rewarded in the enhanced
value of his property, so that he is now one of the
largest real estate owners in the city. At the reorgan-
ization of the Kansas City National Bank, now the
Bank of Kansas City, he was elected president, a
position he still holds. His increasing means afford
him the opportunity to exercise his benevolence in

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contributing to charitable objects and advancing the
interests of the church. Although not in the active
itinerant work of the ministry, he is not idle, but
preaches frequently and always acceptably, filling the
pulpits of the regular pastors when occasion requires.
He received the degree of Bachelorof Arts on
graduation. While teaching at Fayette, the Missouri
University, unsolicited, conferred the degree of Mas-
ter of Arts. Subsequently the degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred by McKendree, .which also
was unsolicited. Though frequently solicited to
become a candidate for political offices, he has stead-
fastly refused, holding that the duties of a Christian
minister were incompatible with political place.
Edward L. Scarritt, the eldest son of the subject
of this sketch, was born in Jackson county, Missouri,
near Kansas-City, August 30, 1853. His education
was commenced in Westport, under the tutelage of
Prof. C. C. Huffaker, who was then one of the most
prominent instructors in the West. He moved with
his father to the farm in 1861, where he assisted him
in building his house and attending to the farm,
until 1865, when he began attending school regu-
larly, taking the course of the 1st ward school in
Kansas City, and then the High school of the same
place, and in 1870 going to Pritchett Institute, at
Glasgow, Missouri, where he remained two years
under the instruction of Prof. C. W. Pritchett and
his able corps of teachers. He then entered the
law department of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where he remained a year, passing

creditable examinations in all his studies. He then
returned to Kansas City and entered the law office
of Hon. Warwick Hough, where he received inval-
uable instruction and gained never-to-be-forgotten
information concerning the science and practice of
his chosen profession, from one of the most excel-
lent gentlemen and able lawyers of which Missouri
can boast. He remained a year under the instruc-
tion -of the Hon. Warwick Hough, during which
year (in September, 1873), he was examined and
licensed to "practice law in any of the courts of the
state of Missouri, by Hon. Samuel L. Sawyer, who
was then the able judge of the circuit court of Jack-

son county.

July 8, 1874, he was married to Miss Annie
Swinney, the beautiful and accomplished daughter
of Rev. J. O. Swinney, of Glasgow, Missouri. The
two years subsequent to his marriage he was engaged
in farming and tobacco shipping, at the end of which
time he was thrown into the deepest grief and sorrow
of his life by the loss of his wife, to whom he was
devotedly attached. He has left him, as the fruit of
his marriage a beautiful little daughter, who is now
(1878) three years old. After the death of his wife
he left ‘Howard county and spent several months in
traveling through Colorado, Utah,’ Nevada and Cali-
fornia, for his health, and about the beginning of the
year 1877 he settled in his native city, where he
has been since, and is at present, practicing his pro-
fession. His political and religious proclivities are
the same as his father’s.

GEORGE L. TOWNER.

MACON CITY.

EORGE L. T OWNER was born September
G’ I, 1825, at Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
His father, Adam Towner, was a native of Loudoun
county, Virginia, was by occupation a saddler, and
was captain of a company in the war of 1812. He
died in Clarke county, Virginia, in 18 5 9. The mother
of George L. Towner was Nancy Pomeroy, a native
of Fairfax county, Virginia.

George L. Towner, until ten years of age,
remained at Fairfax Court House. At the age of four-
teen he engaged to carry the United States mails in
Clark and Warren counties, and continued at this

business for four years. , In 1843, at the age of eigh-
teen, he was employed as a clerk in a general store
at White Post, Clarke county, Virginia, and contin-
ued to sell goods in Clarke and Jefferson counties for
about four years. In A1847 he immigrated to Missouri,
locating at Bloomington, then the county seat of
Macon county. Here he remained only four months,

- and for the next four years acted in the capacity of

clerk in Howard and Callaway counties.

In 1851 he was married to Miss Fannie V.
Robion, daughter of Colonel Lewis Robion of Calla-
way county. While residing in the latter county he

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and his father—in-law laid off and named the town of
St. Aubert, which was for many years the landing on
the Missouri river for Fulton and a large territory
settled by wealthy farmers. Soon after his marriage
he returned to Bloomington, and in partnership with
his brother, Judge M. M. Towner, engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits, which he followed, almost without
intermission, until 1861.

In 1861 he quitted the mercantile business and
began to deal in tobacco in Bloomington. During
six months of that year he was in the Confederate
service as a captain in General'Price’s army. He

participated in the battles of Carthage, Wilson’s_

Creek (Springfield) and Lexington. At the expira-
tion of his term of service he returned to Macon
county, and began to deal in tobacco at Callao. Here
he remained about one year, when he moved to
Macon City. During that year, his wife having died

previously, he was married to Miss Mary E. Rider,
of Bloomington. He has resided at Macon City
since 1862, buying, selling and shipping tobacco.
He was a member of the city council of Macon City
for about five years. In 1870 he was a third time
married, Miss Susan E. Dibble, being his third wife.
In 1877 he was chosen president of the Farmers and
Traders’ bank of Macon, and in the same year
was elected judge of the county court of Macon
county.

Mr. Towner is a member of the Christian church,
having united with that body in 186 5. In politics
he is a firm and consistent Democrat. His first
vote for president was cast for General Lewis Cass.
In 1860 he voted for Stephen A. Douglas. Mr.
Towner has been distinguished through life for his
public spirit, temperate habits and sterling upright-
ness.

JEREMIAH C. CRAVENS.

SPRINGFIELD.

EREMIAH C. CRAVENS _was born near
Miami, Saline county, Missouri, February :8,
1838. He is the fifth son and eighth child of

Dr. John Cravens, of Gallatin, Missouri, who was
born in Rockingham, Virginia, and removed to Mis-
souri, settling in Saline county,_ a few months before
the birth of the subject of this sketch, and remained
there two years, when he located in Daviess county,
where he still lives -at the ripe age of eighty, enjoy-
ing good health and the highest confidence and
esteem of all who know him. Dr. Cravens, when in
the full vigor of manhood, obtained an extensive
practice, and perhaps no man in all Northwest Mis-
souri, has ever. achieved a greater reputation as a
skillful physician and surgeon.

His father, Joseph Cravens, was also a physician,
and enjoyed an enviable reputation as such in Rock-
ingham county, Virginia. He was one of two chil-
dren whose father was murdered by the Indians in
that country a few years previous to the breaking
out of the Revolutionary war. The thrilling adven-
tures of the flight of the hardy pioneer mother, as
she escaped carrying her two children—Joseph and
Wi1lia1n——on her back, are still related to her
descendants.

Jeremiah C. Cravens was educated at the Mis-
souri State University, located at Columbia, from
which he graduated in 1860 with the degree of A. B.
In school he was studious and ambitious, and 1nain—
tained an honorable standing in all his studies.

Previous to his college course he was engaged as
clerk and prescriptionist in his father’s drug store,
and acquired a good knowledge of the business. At
the age of nineteen his father decided to give him a
medical education, but in this the father found him-
self disappointed before the college curriculum had
been more than half completed, as the tastes and
inclinations-of the young man led him to choose the
legal profession.

At the time of his graduation the excitement of
the great political campaign of 1860 was at its height,
and although he refrained from taking any active
part in the discussions of the day, he was carefully
and thoughtfully considering the questions involved,
and when the canvass finally culminated in a war
between the states, he was moved by his sympathies
with the habits and institutions of the Southern
people, and from a conscientious regard for what he
believed to be the true construction of the compact
between the" states forming the American Union, to

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cast his lot with the “Confederacy,” and at once
entered the military service as a private. In the fall
of 1861 he was promoted by Brigadier-General Slack,
of the Missouri State Guards, to the position of aid-
de—camp, with the rank of lieutenant—colonel, and at
the battle of Pea Ridge, in March, 1862, was by the
side of his chief at the head of the division, when
the General fell mortally wounded. Colonel Rosser
then took command of the division, and young Cra-
vens rendered him valuable service as aid during the
battle, and in the Colonel’s official report of the
engagement, received most hearty comrnendations
for his gallant conduct. A

He accompanied the army to Corinth, and after
the evacuation of that place in June, 1862, returned
to the western department with Colonel ]ohn T.
Hughes on recruiting service, after which they
accompanied a small force into Missouri. This
formed thepnucleus of the force which fought and
won the battles of Independence and Lone Jack, in
Jackson county. In the latter engagement, Lieu-
tenant—Colonel Cravens commanded a company of
recruits, who fought gallantly. He was afterward
chosen captain and assigned with his company to the
6th Regiment of Missouri cavalry, which during the
remainder of the war served under Major—Generals
Marmaduke and Shelby, and participated in all the
more important engagements fought west of the Mis-
sissippi. During the remainder of his regiment’s
service he filled the positions of major and lieutenant
colonel of the same.

When mustered out he began the study of law,
and in 1866 was admitted to the bar at Batesville,

Arkansas. Owing to the unsettled condition of
affairs in that state, growing out of the enforcement
of the “Reconstruction laws” of Congress, he
determined to return to his native state, and in 1868
located in Springfield, where he has since resided,
giving his entire time and attention to the practice
of his profession, having been attorney for the city,
also a member of the city council. He is now and
has for the last five years been a member of the
board of curators of the State University.

Religiously, Mr. Cravens is an old school Pres-
byterian. He was ‘raised a Whig, but has always
been a staunch Democrat.

August II, 1864, he married at Batesville, Arkan-
sas, Miss Annie D. Smith, only daughter of Colonel
Robert Smith, an old and highly esteemed citizen of
that state. He was a member of the convention
that framed the first constitution for that state in
1837.

In personal appearance Mr. Cravens is very com-
manding, being strongly built and possessing great
recuperative force and nervous energy. He is a
man of most excellent habits, and has a penetrating
and comprehensive mind and a very retentive mem-
ory. Asa lawyer he stands at the head of his pro-
fession as a general practitioner, and has few if any
superiors in the state. He spends much of his time
in preparing his cases, and is seldom surprised by an
antagonist. His candor, clearness and correctness
have a telling effect -when ‘addressing a jury. He is
modest and unassuming, courteous and affable, self-
possessed and dignified, and possesses that delicate
instinct which characterizes the true gentleman.

REV. JAMES GREY ROBERTS, D. D.

KAIVSAS CITY.

AMES GREY ROBERTS was born February
II, 1831, in London, England. His father,

Evan Meredith Roberts, also a native of Lon— ~

don, was born in 1792 3 received a classical education
under the instruction of Dr. Pye Smith, studied
medicine and gave much attention to the science of
chemistry. He then established a laboratory and was
for a number of years a practical chemist in London.
He was president of the first gas company organized

in London, a position highly honorable as the object
sought proved of great utility, but to his personal
interests his connection with this corporation was a
misfortune, he being one of the bondsmen for the
treasurer of the company, who absconded to France
with a large share of its funds. In making up for
this loss, not only quite a large property which Mr.
Roberts then possessed was entirely absorbed, but
also that of his wife, which included several thous-

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and dollars. He was then offered an official posi-
tion in Canada, which. he declined, not being pleased
with monarchial forms of government. He brought
his family to this country in 1836, and became one
of the early settlers near Jacksonville, Illinois. He
first engaged in farming and the practice of medi-
cine , afterward opened a drug store in Jacksonville,
where he continued in business and the practice of
his profession for many years. He wasa Christian
man and a Congregationalist in faith and polity, and
though not an ordained minister was frequently
called upon and often accepted an invitation to
preach. He died in Jacksonville in 1868 at the age
of seventy—siX years. His two brothers, Rev. J.
A. and Rev. Jacob Roberts, came to this country in
early life. The former was pastor of a congrega-
tional church in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for
twenty-four years. He then visited England, and
on his return was settled in Berkley, Massachusetts,
where he died in his eighty—fourth year. Jacob was
a Congregational minister at Fair Haven, Massa-
chusetts, for twenty years, and East Medway, same
state, for sixteen years, and is now living at Auburn
Dale, Massachusetts. Evan Meredith Roberts mar-
ried, in 1825, Miss Sarah Ward, an only child of
James and Sarah (Arnold) Ward. George Arnold,
the celebrated historical painter, was her uncle. As
a wife and mother Mrs. Roberts was unsurpassed,
taking great interest in the religious and moral
training of her children, and was a woman of much
amiability of character, who delighted to be a peace
maker and to harmonize the discordant elements of
society. To Evan and Sarah Roberts were born
five children, only three now living: Evan Meredith
Jr., is a farmer living in Pike county, Illinois 3 the
youngest, George L., a Congregational minister, has
been settled at Tremont, Illinois, for twelve" years ;
James G., the subject of this sketch, spent his boy-
hood days on the old homestead, near Jacksonville,
Illinois. From early life his purpose was to prepare
for the ministry, but the country being new and
affording poor advantages for schools, he acquired
his education until eighteen years of age by study
at home, making in some branches good profi-
ciency. He then entered the preparatory depart-
ment of the Illinois College, at Jacksonville, and
taking a full classical course graduated with credit in
1854. He then attended the Theological Seminary
at Bangor, Maine, where he graduated in 1857; was
shortly after ordained pastor of the Mission church
at Frankfort, Maine, where he remained until 1860,

when he was called to take charge of the Congrega-
tional church at Hillsborough, Illinois, and was its
pastor for three years. He then, under a sense of
duty, accepted an urgent call coming from Jackson-
ville, to take charge of the Congregational church at
that place. This church was then in a disturbed
condition and involved in debt as well as divided in
sentiment, and could agree upon no other minister
for its pastor, but Mr. Roberts, after inducing his
brother, Rev. George Roberts, to take his place at
Hillsborough, he commenced his labors at Jackson-
ville, which continued for five years, being highly
prospered by uniting the interests of that society,
completing its church building then in progress of
construction, liquidating its indebtedness, and largely
increasing its membership. It was with much reluc-
tance that he severed his connection with this society,
but upon the earnest solicitations of Dr. Badger,
secretary of the Home Missionary Society, he came
to Kansas City, Missouri, to take charge of the First
Congregational church at that place, which was then
a Mission church largely dependent for support upon
the Home Missionary society.

He arrived there in January, 1869, where he still
remains, being the longest settled of any of the
Protestant ministers of Kansas City. At that time
the Congregational church numbered only thirty
members, but it remained a Mission church only two
years longer, becoming self—sustaining with a largely
increased membership; over three hundred have
been added since his labors commenced. The church
is now engaged in adding over two hundred new
sittings to its house of worship, also a lecture room.

Mr. Roberts frequently lectures upon scientific
subjects, and was one of the first to assist in organ-
izing the Academy of Science in Kansas City. In
1877 the honorary degree of D. D. was conferred on
him by Drury College.

He is a man of broad and liberal culture. In
every department of science, art and literature his
knowledge is not only comprehensive but critically
accurate. His mind is logical, his perceptions quick,
his judgment clear and discriminating. His mental
constitution is of the contemplative character, hence
the great interest that he takes in all psychological
questionscencerning man’s freedom and responsi-
bility. Owing to his liberal ideas he cannot be a
sectarian, but a Christian 3 not a narrow partisan,
but a conscientious patriot. With him the object of
thought is to find out what is truth, let the conse-
quences be what they may.

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He married Miss Matilda S. Tyler, of Frankfort,
Maine, in 1860. She is an estimable lady, among the
foremost in all good works, and was for several years
president of the Woma_.n’s Christian Association of
Kansas City. During the distressing times after the

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panic in the winter of 1873-4 she was appointed in
connection with one of the aldermen of the city to

investigate and recommend those asking aid of the A

city. They have three children: Jacob H., Charles
H., and Grace.

HON. HARVEY W. SALMON.

CLINTON.

OVERNOR SILAS WOODSON, while filling
G the executive chair of Missouri (I873-4), said
in one of his messages to the legislature, that “for
the honesty, perseverance and energy with which
Harvey W. Salmon had transacted the arduous
duties of State Treasurer, he was worthy of ,high
commendation.” And the writer of this sketch,
from along acquaintance with Mr. Salmon, gladly
corroborates the Governor’s praise. No man in the
VVest has a more honorable business record, and
none are more deserving the success he has met
With.

Harvey Wallis Salmon was born January 26,
1839, in Greenville district, South Carolina, and was
the seventh of nine children. His father, Ezekiel
James Salmon, was born July 5, 1798, in the same
place, where he engaged in farming until the fall of
1839, when he removed to Missouri and settled near
Versailles, Morgan county, where he followed agri-
cultural pursuits and also raised stock. He died in
1851, in his fifty-third year. Mrs. Narcissa R. Sal-
mon,"the mother of Harvey, died in 1846. George
Salmon, father of Ezekiel J. Salmon, was born Feb-
ruary 4, 17 54, in Albemarle county, Virginia. He
married Elizabeth Young, who was born December
22, 1759. They had seven children. He spent his
life in South Carolina and died there, in his eighty-

fourth year, August 18, 1837. ‘His wife_died in

Morgan county, Missouri, in 1849, ninety years old.
The father of George Salmon emigrated from Wales
to America at a very early date and lived in Albe-
marle county, Virginia, the remainder of his life.

Harvey W. Salmon spent his early years on his
father’s farm, and attended school in Versailles. At
the age of thirteen he left school, and until 1859
was a clerk in the general merchandise‘ stores of
J. Monroe and others in Versailles, and also in Clin-
ton, Henry county,,Missouri. I I

In 1859 he and his brothers, William and James,

began merchandising at Versailles, and continued

until May '13, I861. The war. of the Rebellion was
then being waged, and the Salmon brothers espoused
the Southern cause, locked their store door, leaving
their stock of goods to the chances of the times, and
enlisted in the Southern army. Harvey volunteered
for six months in Company F, of Robert McCul-
lough’s regiment Missouri state guards, and served
in the battles of Carthage, Wilson Creek, Dry Wood‘
and Lexington. The following October he was com-
missioned captain of the company. In November,
1861, the regiment was mustered out of service,
when he returned to Morgan county on recruiting
service, and was there taken prisoner, and confined
ten months at St. Louis, Alton and Johnson’s Island 3
he was then exchanged and rejoined Brigadier-Gen-
eral Parsons’ command in Arkansas, and served on
his staff as chief of ordnance, with rank of 1st lieu-
tenant of artillery, until the close of the war. He was
in all the campaigns with his command in the trans-
Mississippi army until the surrender at Shreveport,
Louisiana. He then returned to Missouri, remaining
in "St. Louis until November, 1866, when he settled
in Clinton, Henry county, Missouri, and there, in
partnership with his brother G. Y. Salmon and D.
C. Stone, he formed the banking firm of Salmon
& Stone. In 1869 he, in company with Paul F.
Thornton, G. Y. Salmon and D. C. Stone, estab-
lished the banking house of Thornton, Salmon &
Co. at Nevada, Vernon county, Missouri. In 1871
he and his brother disposed of their interest in that
institution and purchased the interest of D. C. Stone
in the Clinton bank, since which time he and his
brother have conducted the business under the firm
name of Salmon & Salmon, with a capital at the
present time. of $50,000. They are also largely
engaged in real estate speculations, owning now

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(1878) several thousand acres of fine land in Henry

county, beside extensive property in the city of_

Clinton. Harvey W. Salmon’s family residence in
that city is one of the most imposing and costly
mansions in VVestern Missouri.

In 1872 Mr. Salmon was elected state treasurer
on the Democratic ticket, and while occupying the
office decreased the state debt over $I,ooo,ooo—a
fact which men of all parties in Missouri have given
him the credit for, both in the incipiency and execu-
tion of the financial policy securing so great a good.
It was this administration of the finances of the state
which Governor Woodson so highly commended in
the language at the beginning of this sketch. He
takes great interest in political events, and is one
of the most influential workers in the Democratic
party.

November 16, 1871, Harvey W. Salmon and
Miss Kate Kimbrough were married. She is the
daughter of John S. Kimbrough, a leading merchant
and prominent citizen of Clinton, formerly of Spring-
field, Missouri. Mr. Kimbrough’s Wife was Miss

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Linna Wear, of Mount Vernon, Lawrence county,
Missouri. There have been three children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Salmon, all of whom are now living.
Mrs. Salmon is truly an excellent lady, in girlhood
she was no less popular than in her womanhood,
and few wives have accomplished more good in fain-
ily and neighborhood than she, fewer still are more
loved by family and friends. The writer will be
allowed to express what he learned by proximity to
to Mr. and Mrs. Salmon for two years: Such a man
deserved just such a wife, and they twain were
excellent neighbors, and that, too, in all that is com-
prised in that much-used word.

In business, Harvey W. Salmon is “ gold-edged ” 3
as a public officer he gained the esteem of all parties,
as a man he is loved most by those who know him
best; and although not a member of any religious
denomination, he is liberal in his views and benefi-
cent to all churches alike 5 while every enterprise in
his adopted city calculated to elevate and ennoble
the citizens, always has met with his assistance in
both counsel and purse.

HON. ALEXANDER MARSHALL ROBINSON.

CLINTON.

LEXANDER M. ROBINSON was born in
Greenville District, South Carolina, Novem-

ber I7, 1802. His parents, John Monteith and

Susan <McClanahan) Robinson, were natives of Vir-

ginia. His paternal grandfather was born in New
Haven, England, and his maternal grandfather was
from Scotland. About the year .1790 Alexander’s
parents immigrated to South Carolina, where he, the
seventh of a family of twelve children, was born.
In 1810 his father moved to Bourbon county, Ken-
tucky, where he received his education under the

care of Thomas A. Marshall, afterward judge of 3

the supreme court of Kentucky. After leaving
school he studied medicine, and in 1825-6 attended
lectures at Lexington, Kentucky, and practiced
his profession for upward of half a century with
distinguished success.

In 1826 he removed to Missouri, settling first in
Howard county, and in a few years after removing
to Boone county, from which he was elected in 1834
to the state senate, serving a term of four years, at

the expiration of which he served a term as one of
the secretaries of the senate. In I842 he removed
to Clay county, Where he remained a year, still
engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1843
he removed to Platte county, settling on a farm
which he had entered. In 1848 he represented the
county in the state legislature, and during the term
was speaker of the house of representatives. Few
men in the history of the state exercised more power
over this body. At the close of the session his por-
trait was painted by George Bingham at the expense
of the members and hung in representative hall,
where it may still be seen. In 1852 he was the sen-
ator from the district which then included Platte,
Clinton and Clay counties, and was reelected in 18 5 6,
the district being then composed of Clay and Clin-
ton. Before the expiration of the last term he
resigned, in consequence of removing his residence
from Platte to Lewis county. In 1857 he was
appointed by President Buchanan one of the super-
intendents of Indian affairs. The duties of this

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office he discharged with marked ability during the
four years of Buchanan’s administration, and six
months of Lincoln’s, when he resigned and returned
to Clay county, where he resumed the practice of
medicine a few months. Then he settled at Ridgely,
Platte county, engaging in his profession for six
years,when he abandoned his profession and returned
to his farm in Clinton county, where he now lives at
the advanced age of seventy—five years, in full pos-
session of his faculties and universally respected by
all who know him.

Dr. Robinson was married in 1822, in_ Bourbon
county, Kentucky, to Miss Louisa Baysie, daughter
of E. Baysie. Two children were born to them,
one of whom, a son, survives, and is now a practic-

ing physician in Texas. In 1833 Dr. Robinson
married Miss Catherine Ann Hughes, daughter of
William Hughes, a farmer of Boone county, Mis-
They have had six children, of whom three
sons and a daughter are living. »

In religion Dr. Robinson has always been a free
thinker. Politically he is a Democrat.

In 1825 he was made a Master Mason in Blue
Spring Lodge, Fayette county, Kentucky. He
afterward received the Mark Master’s degree in the
Chapter,but moved to Missouri and failed to advance
to the superior degree in this body. In person he is
six feet and one inch in height, and weighs about
one hundred and sixty-five pounds. His address
is polished and his general bearing dignified.

souri.

REV. DAVID WALK.

KANSAS CITY.

a suburban village of Cincinnati, December 9,
1833. His father, David Walk, Sr., was a native of
North Carolina, and his mother, Mary Divley, was a
native of Pennsylvania. His parents were poor,
thoroughly respectable, and deeply religious. They
had nothing with which to endow their children but
the best education the times and country afforded,
and an example of honesty, industry, frugality and
temperance. Few parents, in their circumstances,
ever did a nobler part by their children, and but few
families of children have reflected more honor upon
their parents. His ancestors, both paternal and
maternal, for generations, were characterized for the
depth and consistency of their religious convictions,
and this precious inheritance descended to the fam-
ily of David Walk, Sr., for every one of his children

/ I ‘HE subject of this sketch was born in Reading,

, became active Christians at a very early age, three

of his sons having become ministers of the gospel.
Nor has this striking fact of the family history
abated, for the son of David Walk, ]r., the'Rev.
George Edward Walk, A. B., afer graduating with
distinction at Bethany College, has entered the min-
istry, and though not yet twenty-one, bids fair to
eclipse the justly earned fame of his father as an
eloquent minister of the gospel. It seems to us that
these facts are very suggestive. While the subject
of this sketch was never regularly graduated from

any college, still, by a life of most laborious and
painstaking study, he has attainedto considerable
eminence as a scholar and writer. He has declined
the presidency of two colleges, and a professorship
in several others, being so wedded to his chosen pro-
fession that he will listen to no overtures to enter
any other field of activity. His active religious life
began with the Methodists at an early age, and he
was by them licensed to preach in his nineteenth
year. He continuedin this relation for nearly nine
years, when undergoing a change in his religious
views, especially with reference to baptism—action,
subject and design—he formally and voluntarily
resigned his pastoral charge——Latonia Circuit, Ken-
tucky Conference, Methodist Episcopal church
(South), to which he had been appointed three
months previously—and on the 3d of January, 1862,
was immersed by the Rev. Benjamin Franklin, editor
of the Az7ze7*z'am C/z7"z's/22222 Rwiew, in the city of Cin-
cinnati, thus becoming identified with the Disciples
of Christ. But he cherishes the greatest respect for
the church of his early choice, and attributes much
of the success which he has attained in his late years
to the stern and rugged discipline inseparable from
the life of a Methodist itinerant. In his sermons he
makes frequent and just references to those early
experiences. Since his connection with the Disci-
ples he has been noted as one of their most zealous

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

and laborious preachers and writers. From the
beginning of 1862 to the close of 1864 he was in the
field as a general evangelist, preaching the gospel in
many states of the Union. His labors were crowned
with great success. To say nothing of his travels
and other labors, he averaged more than a sermon a
day the year round.

January r, 186 5, he assumed the pastorate of the
Christian church in Paris, Kentucky. His labors
here were greatly b1essed—the membership was
more than doubled——and it became, perhaps, the
most important and influential church of the denom-
ination in Kentucky. His eminent ability pointed
him out for a larger sphere of usefulness, and in.the
summer of 1868 he reluctantly yielded to the oft-
repeated solicitations of friends, and became pastor
of one of the churches in Philadelphia. Here he
had every prospect of surpassing all his former
attainments, but his wife being threatened with pul-
monary disease, and being assured that she could
not live in that latitude, he felt compelled to resign
his charge near the close of his first year. This
necessity he has always regretted, for he felt pro-
foundly convinced that, could he have remained in
the Quaker City, a splendid future was before
him.

Shortly after leaving Philadelphia he received
and accepted a call from the Linden street Christian
church, Memphis. He entered regularly upon his
ministry in that city September I, 1869, and con-
tinued there for nearly nine years, his labors having
been greatly blessed. His character and standing may
be inferred from the universal expressions of all classes
of people, the pulpit and press especially. The
Pastor’s Association, of which he was an honored
member, united in a testimonial of which any man
might be proud ; while the following extracts from
appreciative and discriminating notices in the leading
journals of the city will sufficiently attest the popular
appreciation of his talents and services. From the
Daily Avalanche we take the following: i

“ An A7/alam/ze reporter has learned on what is
deemed reliable authority that Rev. David Walk has
tendered his resignation as pastor of the Linden
street Christian church. This is to be regretted, for
the loss of so able a divine is little less than a public
calamity. Dr. Walk came to this city more than
eight years ago, and during the whole of that period

he has been generally regarded as one of the most
earnest, able and faithful Christian workers our city

. —so singularly blest with diligent and self-denying

ministers——has ever known. A man of marked
characteristics, of strong and outspoken convictions 3
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783

of fearless espousal of what he believes to be the
cause of truth, whether it respects the religious,
political or social interests of society ; of broad and

liberal culture, of ready and eloquent utterance , it ‘

could not be otherwise than that he should leave a
distinct impression upon any community where he
long resides. Without intending any invidious com-
parisons, or saying anything offensive to the mem-
bers of that congregation of worshipers, it is not too
much to say that under the ministry of Dr. Walk that
church has emerged from a ‘position of comparative
obscurity to a front rank in our best known city
churches. Even those who do not agree with the
tenets of Dr. Walk’s church, give him credit for the
great ability and tact with which he has sustained
what, with many well—meaning people, is an unpop-
ular cause. Being the only preacher of his deno1ni—
nation in the city, and, indeed, in this part of the
country, he stood alone in his advocacy of the pecu-
liar views of the so-called Current Reformation 3 and
it is to be doubted if any man of his sect could,
und.er all the circumstances, have succeeded better.
While he has not compromised what he honestly
believed to be the truth, still he has uniformly pre-
sented his plea in such a way as to command the
respect of those who differ from him

“In works of public benevolence and charity he
has borne a conspicuous part, and has shown himself
the sympathizing friend of the poor and needy. He
has been a most diligent and untiring worker, both
in and out of the pulpit, and has had an eye to the
material as well as the spiritual interests of his flock,
so that the corner of Linden and Mulberry, on which
the church and parsonage are located, has become
one of the recognized ornaments of our city.

“The Avalanc/ze is without information either as
to Mr. Walk’s future intentions, or the successorship
to his pulpit, but desires to tender him its Very best
wishes, wherever his lot may be cast, and to express
the hope that his mantle may fall on worthy shoul-
ders. When it is said that he is an able and faithful
minister of the gospel, and that his character is
without blot, there is nothing more to be added.”

The following, which is understood to be from
the editorial pen of Colonel M. C. Gallaway, of the
Daily Appeal, speaks for itself :

“It will be seen from a notice among our per-
sonals that after nine long years of toil as a Christian
minister in this city, Rev. David Walk has tendered
his resignation, for the purpose of organizing- and
building up a new church at Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Walk belongs to that denomination which
rejoices in the broad and general cognomen of the
Christian church, which, through his great ability, is
now one of the most fashionable, intellectual and
popular churches in Memphis. The progress of the
Christian church in this city, and throughout the
whole country, is another evidence of the growth of
religious liberality and the decay of that despicable

spirit of bigotry which formerly made religious

784 THE UNITED STATES‘ BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

denominations so many warring factions, hating each
other instead of making a common cause in fighting
a common enemy. Only a few years since the
denomination called Christians were regarded as
rank heretics. But here in Memphis, through the

popularity of David Walk, this prejudice has been

eradicated, as is illustrated by the fact that he is a
prominent member of the Pastor’s Association, and
commands the respect and affection of this able and
exemplary body of ministers. Rev. David Walk
has been one of the ablest and most popular preach-
ers that has ever labored in Memphis, where the

‘friendship _of the people for. their ministers is as

fickle and inconstant as was that of the Roman
people for their rulers. The friends of the‘ late John
F. Sale, whose heart was as large as his brain, and
whose massive intellect was as clear as the streamlet
and as abundant as the ocean, will remember his
enthusiastic admiration of David Walk. He induced
many to attend the Christian church, and all con-
curred in his estimate of the pastor’s ability, and in
the opinion that he was not only a profound thinker
but a fine declaimer. Mr. Walk is a man of posi-
tive convictions, whose strength lies in his aggressive-
ness of opinion. There is no weakness or lack of
individuality or originality about him. This fearless,
positive trait of character has occasionally provoked
enmities. But David Walk is, no doubt, a just
man; a man whose nerve for condemning the wrong
and defending the right is overmastering; a man who
executes justice as he understands it, at whatever
expense to himself. There will be a general expres-
sion of regret in Memphis at the removal of Mr.
Walk. His church has prospered under his career
as pastor, and we congratulate the society of Kansas
City on the accession of a gentleman of such exten-
sive information and great conversational powers,

and who is regarded as one of the ablest men that '

ever filled a Memphis pulpit.”

And when, finally, he took his departure from
Memphis, and his new field of labor was known, the
Avczlcmc/ze editorially adds this testimony:

“In the departure of the Rev. David Walk for
the scene of his new labors, in Kansas City, Mis-
souri, the Memphis pulpit loses a bright, richly-
stored intellect, an eloquent orator, and a vigorous
divine who always finds labor in the vineyard to be
performed, and performs it well. He goes in a few
days to form a congregation in his new home, and
we shall be surprised if he should fail to do a great
work.. The people of Kansas City are to be con-
gratulated on the accession of so distinguished and
able a minister as Dr. Walk ”

Before leaving Memphis he had received many
flattering calls, but having visited Kansas City, and
being impressed with the rapidity of its growth as
well as its promised greatness, and believing that it
opened to him a door of great usefulness, he resolved
to make it his permanent home. Accordingly he

tative in its character.

accepted a call from the newly organized Second
Christian church of that city, and on July 1, I878,
entered upon his labors.

It is felt by the writer that this sketch presents

' but a very meager and imperfect outline of a won-

derfully busy life, and of one of the most striking char-
acters of the age. Amid his multifarious duties as
preacher, lecturer, editor, and writer for many peri-
odicals, he has found time for much travel, but gen-
erally in a professional capacity. He has visited and
preached in more than half the States of the Union,
and has also traveled extensively in Europe.

He was selected as one of twenty-eight men to
prepare a sermon for the “Living Pulpit of the
Christian Church,” a book designed to be represen-
In that volume will be found
a splendid steel plate engraving, a biographical
sketch and a sermon, of our subject.

On the 23d of April, 1855, he was married to
Miss Josie Blinn, of Covington, Kentucky. Three
children have been born to them, all sons—Henry
Bascom, deceased, August 18, I857; George Edward
and Charles Edmonds. As before intimated, the
elder of the two living sons is a minister of the gospel.

Mr. Walk has been peculiarly happy in his domes-
tic relations, and to the wise discretion and salutary
influence of his wife he attributes much of the success
which has crowned his labors.

Mr. Walk is now in the full prime of a vigorous
manhood, having just turned his forty-fourth anniver-
sary. His appearance is dignified and commanding.
He is six feet high, weighs one hundred and eighty-
five pounds, and is well and symmetrically propor-
tioned. He is slightly bald, and wears a full, dark beard.
The normal color of his eyes is gray, but the color
changes with his moods, and often appears jet black.

His carriage is erect, and his bearing that of a mili-’

tary man. _

He has written and published more sermons than
any man in his denomination, and he prepares them
with great care. His resources are very extensive.
As a speaker he may be characterized as earnest and

fluent, commanding the closest attention of his audi-

ence; as a pastor he is zealous, prompt and faithful ;
as a companion he is remarkably genial and sociable 3
as a judge of men he is quick, discerning and just.
His social qualities are such as are calculated to gain
for/ him the admiration and esteem of those with
whom he comes in contact. He is exceedingly neat
and punctilious in all his habits, and observes the
strictest order in all of his public and private duties,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 785

In concluding this imperfect sketch of David

‘ Walk we will only add that which is said of him

wherever he is known: Amongst the ministers of
his denomination he is unsurpassed in depth and
brilliancy of thought, he is a faithful and devoted
Christian; a just, pure and sympathetic man, and

an ornament to any society in which he moves.

This sketch was prepared by Walker Buckner,
Esq., of Kansas City, who has been for many years
the intimate friend and associate of its subject; and
who was also for some years a member of his pas-
toral charge in Paris, Kentucky.

ANDREAS WILHELM WINZENBURG.

CLINTON.

NDREAS WILHELM WINZENBURG was
born April 24, 1841, at Witzenhausen, prov-
ince of Hesse, Prussia, Germany, and is the fifth

child of Wilhelm and Wilhelmina Winzenburg.

Among the Hartz mountains, Hanover, Germany,
lie the ruins of _ the ancient castle of the Knights of
Von Winzenburg, and from these hardy old barons
has descended the present family of Winzenburgs.
His father was a graduate of the medical school of
Gottengen, Hanover, Germany. After his marriage
to a lady of wealth he turned his attention to grain
speculations, in which he sustained two heavy losses
that reduced him in finances, after which he began a
book and toy store and book bindery business in
Witzenhausen, Germany, in which he was employed
until his death in 1855.

Until fourteen years of age Andreas W. Winzen-
burg attended the public schools of Germany. He had
a great desire to travel and visit foreign lands, and so
earnest was he in his pleadings that even at so early
an age as fifteen he received his mother’s consent to
go abroad, and landed in New York, June I, 1856.
Here he remained a few months with an old friend of
his father’s family, Mr. William Schilling, and then
started to visit the interior of the country. He first
went to St. Louis, Missouri, and thence to Belleville,
Illinois. His funds being exhausted, he sought
employment, and at first worked in a bakery at
Mascoutah, Illinois, and afterward in a chair factory
of William Schroeder, of Belleville, Illinois. On the
22d of December, 18 56, he entered upon a two years’
apprenticeship with Fritz Kemper, of Belleville, in
the manufacture of cigars. In. the spring of 1859,
the rest of theifamily immigrated to this country and
settled at Belleville, Illinois, consisting of his mother,
and brothers Phillip twenty-four years old, Adolph
fourteen years old, and sisters Katharine twenty years

and Anna twelve years old. All of them have
lived at St. Louis, where his mother died. in 1870 at
the age of sixty-three years. His oldest brother

Henry, who was a bookbinder, left his parents in

W itzenhausen, Germany about 18 52 3 the last heard
of him was from St. Petersburg, Russia, and since
18 59 entire track of him was lost. A sister Kate, was
married at St. Louis, to Mr. Henry Riehl, and now
resides in Clinton, Missouri, where Mr. Riehl is one
of the proprietors of the large Tebo Mills. Sister
Anna was married at Clinton, Wissouri, in "1871, to
Herman Bernsch, a millwright, who is now established
in that business at St. Louis, Missouri. Brother
Phillip was married to Margaretha Staub, just before
he left Germany. Adolph is yet a single man and
carries on cigar manufacturing at Joplin, Missouri.
At the close of his apprenticeship he was made fore-
man of the establishment of Julius Rosenthal, where
he remained until the breaking out of the war. He
enlisted in the first company raised in Belleville, in
April, 1861. The company was sent to Springfield,
Illinois, and organized, when he was elected orderly
sergeant of Company F, 9th Regiment of Illinois vol-
unteers, three months service under Colonel Payne.
When his term of service expired he was commis-
sioned a lieutenant and detailed on recruiting service
in St. Louis, where he remained seven months.

Thence he resigned and went to Ottawa, Illinois,

and Chicago working at his trade as cigar maker.
At that time he went to St. Louis and with a
capital of twenty-three dollars began the manufac-
ture of cigars. In the course of three years he accum-
ulated one thousand dollars, disposed of his establish-
ment, and went to Memphis, Tennessee. Not real-
izing his anticipations, he returned to St. Louis, and
at the solicitation of his brother-in-law, Henry Riehl,
located in Sedalia, Pettis county, manufacturing the

786 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

first cigar ever made in that city. He arrived at Sedalia
in November, 186 5. He lost heavily by the fire of
November 7, I867, barely escaping from his store
with his life. He "renewed his work, however, and.
on the 28th of November, 1869, sold his factory and
business and purchased the establishment of William

Wallace, at Clinton, Henry county, Missouri. Here
he has engaged in the extensive manufacture of cigars,

employing sixteen hands, two traveling salesmen,

consuming twelve thousand pounds of leaf tobacco
annually, requiring a tax of three thousand dollars,

and a capital of sixteen thousand dollars and produc-
ing cigars to the value of $25,000 per annum.

He attributes his success to a thorough knowledge
of his business, to close application and attention,
and to fair and honorable dealing, without misrepre-
senting his goods. Upon certain brands, upon which
he has secured a government patent, he has made a
good reputation,and he does not allow these brands
to deteriorate.

In politics he is a Republican and takes great
interest in local affairs. He served two years as

treasurer of Henry county, having been appointed
by Henry Riehl, who was elected. He has been a
city alderman, and was reelected to that position
April 2, 1878.

He is liberal in religion, and confined to no par-
ticular creed. Of the various secret orders, he is a
member of but three, the Odd Fellows, Knights of
Pythias and Ancient Order of United Workmen, in
all of which he has held high official positions.

M. Winzenburg was married on December I,

V 1869, to Miss Angelina Marshall, daughter of Noyes

and Zilpha Marshall, of Pettis county, Missouri.
Her father was a native of New Hampshire, born in
May, r80r, and her mother a native of Rutland,
Vermont, born in June 28, I802. Noyes Marshall died
on November 22, I874, dropping dead at the Sedalia
post-office with heart disease. Since the death of her
husband, Mrs. Marshall lived with Mr. Winzenberg
until her death, on the morning of April II, 1878,
when she suddenly dropped dead from a chair with
apoplexy. She was taken to Sedalia, Missouri for inter-
ment and buried beside her husband and son Melvin.

JAMES M. CRAVEN.

A VILLA.

in Franklin county, Indiana. He is the son of
William Craven and Jennet Selfrage. His parents
were married in Indiana and settled on a farm in
Franklin county, where they lived until 1843, when
they, with their‘ family, moved to ‘Iowa and located
on a farm in Washington county.
James went to school a few months in Indiana,
and also attended a district school in Iowa in the

JAMES M. CRAVEN was born October 8, 1831,

winter, and worked on the farm during the summer, A

until he was twenty years old. At the age of sev-
enteen his father gave him permission to commence
farming on his own responsibility. He, like a great
many young men, had a great desire to travel. When
he was nineteen years old he made a visit to Chi-
cago, Illinois, and the next fall made his relatives a
visit to Indiana, and returned home in 1852. The
next spring he, in company with B. F. Tipton,
started to California by the way of Oregon.
arrived in the Williamette Valley, in Oregon, on the
8th of September, 1853, and remained there over

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winter. The next spring they concluded to see
what the Golden State had in store for them.
Desiring to make the trip as profitable as possible
they bought a small herd of cattle, and on the 1st
day of March started with their drove, bound for
Yreka, California. At that time they were in great
danger of being murdered and robbed by the Indi—
ans, but they, like a great many young men in that
country, had become adventurous, and the more
perilous the trip the more romantic it appeared to
them. At night they stood guard alternately until
they got within twenty—five miles of their destina-
tion. Then the settlers informed them there was no
danger of being molested by the enemy, and they,
believing that they wereperfectly safe, lay down and
slept soundly until’ morning. When they awoke
they soon found that their mules were gone. They
immediately went in search of them, and found part
of a carcass of one of them about a quarter of a
mile from their camp. They were then convinced
that the Indians had stolen the mules and butchered

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 787

them. They then had to drive their cattle to Yreka,
a distance of twenty-five miles, and walk all of the
distance themselves, keeping a close lookout for the
Indians, as they were confident they were now in
great danger. They reached Yreka with all of their
cattle, and sold them; and then went to mining
and dealing in stock, meeting with fair success.

Mr. Craven and B. F. Tipton were partners in
all of their business transactions in California and
Oregon. The name of the firm was Tipton & Cra-
ven. They left the former state June 2, I85 5, and
went by water to the Isthmus of Darien, crossing
the Isthmus on the railroad that had been completed
a short time before.
miserably managed by careless men, who were drunk
part of the time, and through their carelessness a
very sad accident occurred in which several lives
were lost. They then went to New York, and from
there to Iowa. Mr. Craven then engaged in farming.

The road was at that time,

He was married January I, 1857, to Miss Nancy E.
Dayton by whom he has had a family of four children.

After the close of the war he moved to Carthage,
arriving there September 30,1866 and lived there
until he purchased a farm near Avilla, to which he
moved January I0, 1867, and on which he is resid-
ing at present.

In November, 1872, Mr. Craven was elected
representative of Jasper county by the Republican
party, and faithfully represented the interests of his
constituents during his term of office. He took an
active part in all questions of public interest while in
the assembly, and made warm friends in both of the
political parties.

Personally and socially he is a man of most excel-
lent qualities. An affectionate father, a devoted
husband and a faithful friend, he has endeared him-
self to a host of friends and made a name that shall
long live in the memories of all who know him.

IRA BROWN.

MA YSVILLE.

RA BROWN was born September I, 1840, in
Winchester, New Hampshire. His father, Jacob
Brown, now residing in Maysville, is a native of
New Hampshire, and his mother, Mary Hartwell,
who was married to Jacob Brown in 1837, was
born in Concord, Massachusetts, and died in De
Kalb county, Missouri, in 1872. His grandfather,
Deliverance Brown,was a paternal uncle of the late C.
F. Brown, popularly known as “ Artemus Ward,” the
humorist. He had two sisters and four brothers.
One of the sisters is dead, the other is the wife of
Alfred M. Chesmore, formerly a merchant at Mays-
ville, but now associated in business with L. N.
Smith, of St. Joseph. Two brothers, Frank A. and
William H., reside in DeKalb county.

Ira Brown received a thorough classical and
scientific education at the public academy of Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts. At the age of eighteen, with-
out any definite plan, he left home to seek his fortune
in the West. Arriving in Missouri he settled in De
Kalb county and began the avocation of teaching at
a point five miles. south of his present home. This
business he followed for about two years. On the
refusal of John Doherty to take the convention oath

- geant.

and qualify for the office of county clerk, Mr. Brown
was appointed to fill the vacancy thus occasioned.
This office he held until May, 1864, when, having
been elected circuit clerk for six years, he resigned.
He was the first man ever elected to office on the
Republican ticket in DeKalb county. By a pro-
vision of the Drake constitution of 1865, all offices
were to be vacated in 1868. He was, however,
appointed his own successor and thus served out the
full six years for which he was originally elected. At
the beginning of the war he enlisted in the home
guards for six months, and was chosen orderly-ser-
During the war he organized a cavalry
company of which he was commissioned captain.
In 1867 he established the I’/V2’sz‘e/'72 Regzkzer, the first
paper published in Maysville, but sold it at the end
of a year. It-was a Republican journal. In 1871
he organized the Exchange Bank, the first institution
of the kind in DeKalb county.

At the age of eighteen he united with the Mis-
sionary Baptist church, of which he has ever since
been a member.

He has taken five degrees in Odd Fellowship 3
is a Mason and present Master of Parrot Lodge No.

788 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIt’Y.

308, and is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter
and a charter member of St. Joseph Commandery,
K. T. andK. M, ' .

He was married August -I2, 1860, to Miss Mary
A. Roberts, daughter of Hon. Littleton Roberts, a
prominent citizen and at one time a representative in
the state legislature from DeKalb county. He has
had six children by his wife, two of whom, Mary F.
the eldest, and Llewellyn, the youngest, are dead.

Mattie C., Frank A., Ira E. and Fred are living.

, He has ever taken a lively interest and active
part in forwarding the interests of his county. He
is now president of the board -of directors of the
Maysvillefgraded school, of which he has_ been for
ten years a member. He is a man of medium
stature, erect carriage and pleasant address, one of
the most energetic and successful business men in
the county and is universally respected.

COLONEL WILLIAM SAMPSON JENKINS.

KANSAS CITY.

‘ N IILLIAM S. JENKINS was born, April 13,
1834, in Zanesville, Ohio. His father, Abed-
nego W. Jenkins, is still living and doing business
at Indianapolis, Indiana, a prominent, influential
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which
he has been attached for fifty years. His mother,
Sarah Barbee, died when he was but eight years old,
a devout Christian woman and an active member of
the Methodist Episcopal church.

At the age of twelve, young Jenkins started in
the world to master his own destiny, the only instruc-
tion he ever received in school having been obtained
previous to that time. While pursuing his various
avocations, he applied himself to study, took lessons
as he could get them, and educated himself so far as
to acquire an extensive knowledge of business affairs
and was fitted to come in contact with the world in
the multitudinous transactions of life. His first
business was as a~boy in a grocery store at Indianap-
olis, where he acted as clerk for about one year,
when he went to learn the trade of a tailor, at which
he served an apprenticeship of three years, thor-
oughly qualifying himself for the business. On
emerging from his apprenticeship he opened a mer-
chant tailoring establishment at Shelbyville, Indiana,
which he continued for about one year. His health
being indifferent, he went to Indianapolis and
entered his father’s dry goods store as a clerk. Here
he remained a few years, acquiring a knowledge of
business details and preparing for the duties that
were to follow.

In 1856 he emigrated to Nebraska. Staying a
short time in Omaha, he located in a town just start-
ing, sixty miles above Omaha, on the Missouri river,

called Decatur, which he aided in building up. He
preempted a quarter section of land adjoining the
town, and engaged in dealing in city lots and real
estate generally. In the spring of 18 57 he moved to
Leavenworth, Kansas, and began dealing in stock
and merchandising, which he continued until 1861.
He then sold out his stock of goods and commenced
enlisting troops for the 7th Kansas cavalry, and was
mustered into the service as captain of company C,
September 5, 1861. May 27, 1863, he was advanced
to be major, and March 21, 1864, to ‘be lieutenant-
colonel. For a large portion of the time, after his
promotion to the latter rank, he had entire command
of the regiment, his colonel having been assigned to
the command of a brigade.

The regiment was in active service in Mississippi,
Alabama and Tennessee. He participated in the
battles of Morristown, Guntown, Okolona, German-
town, Jonesboro’, Tupelo, Rienzi, Coffeyville, Holly
Springs, Florence, Corinth, Ripley, and, in fact, in
all the numerous engagements of that celebrated
regiment. He was severely wounded at the battle
of Ripley, Mississippi, while in command of the skir-
mish line of the brigade, December 4, 1863. He
was several times selected as a member of military
commissions, and occupied a prominent position in
the whole history of his regiment. He was mustered
out, to take effect October II, 1864, by reason of
the expiration of his term of enlistment.

He returned to Leavenworth and engaged in
mercantile business, which employed his time until
1868. He then disposed of his goods and entered
into the real estate business in that city, continuing
it until February, 1871. In 1869 he was elected to

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succeed Hon. Stephen A. Cobb as department com-
mander of the Grand Army of the Republic, hold-
ing the position until he resigned, in consequence of
his removal to Washington, in 1875, having repre-
sented the state in the national encampment at
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1871, and at Harrisburgh, Penn-
sylvania, in 1873.

In 1868 he was a member of the Leavenworth
city council, acting as chairman of two important
committees. In 1871 he removed to Wichita, Kan-
sas, and in July of the same year was appointed by
President Grant, register of the United States land
office for the Arkansas land district, the office at
Wichita, a position heheld three years. In 1874 he
entered into the practice of law in the trial of land
cases before the local land office and the depart-
ments at Washington, and in December of that year
was admitted to practice in the several courts of
Kansas. In January, 1875, he removed to Wash-
ington City and entered into partnership with W. K.
Mendenhall, devoting himself to practice before the
several departments of the United States govern-
He remained in Washington until July 1,
1876, when, having visited the Centennial Exposi-
tion at Philadelphia, he returned to Wichita and con-
tinued in the practice in the land departments. He
also devoted a portion of his time to the cultivation
of a large farm near Wichita, which he had pre-
viously improved. There he remained until Decem-

and served as Noble Grand of his lodge.

ber, 1877, when he removed to Kansas City and
purchased the Leland Hotel, the only first-class pub-
lic house in West Kansas City, situated immediately
opposite the new union depot, where he is doing a
large and prosperous business.

He is an Odd Fellow, a member of Leavenworth
Lodge, No. 2, and has passed through the chairs
He is not
a member of any religious denomination, but is a
believer in the principles of the Christian religion.
His first vote was cast for John C. Fremont for Pres-
ident in 1856. He has always been a Republican
and an influential worker in the Republican cause,
attending and participating in nearly all the state
and congressional conventions.

He was married at St. Louis, Missouri, Novem-
ber 19, 1862, to Miss Laura Gertrude Weibling,
daughter of William G. Weibling, a soldier of the
war of 1812, who served with distinction, receiving
many marks of recognition for his bravery and effi—
ciency. She is a lady of education and an active,
useful member of the Congregational church. They
have had five children, only two of whom, Clara L.
and Laura Gertrude, survive.

Colonel Jenkins occupies the position of a man
of the strictest integrity, and of good business qual-
ities as well as generous impulses. He is ‘a good
speaker, a thorough organizer and a liberal contrib-
utor to every good work.

DANIEL POWELL STRATTON.

STOCZKTO./V.

ANIEL POWELL STRATTON was born Sep-
D tember I9, 1839, during a visit of his mother
to New Jersey. He is the second of eleven children
born to Rev. Daniel Stratton and Eleanor Hancock.
The family is of English ancestry, representatives of
which settled in Long Island, branches of which
afterward went to South New Jersey. His grand-
father, Daniel Powell Stratton, was born in the latter
place; was employed in the mercantile and milling
business for many years and until his death 3 a man
of benevolent ideas, an elder in the Presbyterian
church and a prominent and leading member in the
church organization of _South Jersey, having built
from his own private means a house of worship in

Bridgeton, died about the year 1840, in the sixtieth
year of his age. His father, Rev. Daniel Stratton,
was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, in the year 1812,
was a graduate of Princeton College and also of
Union Theological Seminary, of Virginia, entered
the ministry of the Presbyterian church and began
his labors at New Berne, North Carolina, where
he remained until 1852, when he accepted the
call of the church at Salem, New Jersey, of which
organization he was pastor until his death in
1866, aged fifty-five years; he was noted for Chris-
tian_piety and zeal in the work of the church and
ministry. His mother’s family were Quakers,
and were among the early settlers of the Fenwicke

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colony, and are quite numerous in South Jersey.

Daniel P. Stratton attended the common schools
of New Berne, North Carolina, and Salem, New
Jersey, until fifteen years old, and then the West
Jersey Academy, at Bridgeton, for nine months.
Returning to Salem he accepted a position, which he
held for eighteen months, as clerk in a mercantile
house. At the end of that time he commenced the
study of law in the office of Andrew Sinnickson, in
Salem, October 5, 1857, and prosecuted his studies
until August, 18 59. He attended the law school at
Albany, New York, and graduated in the spring of
1860. Soon after he was admitted to practice law
in the state of New York. Returning to Salem he
again entered the office of Mr. Sinnickson, with

whom he remained until June 5, 1862, when he was

admitted to the bar in Salem, and June 8th was
admitted as counselor.

He was &ppointed aide-de-camp on the staff of
Governor Parker, February I2, 1863, with the rank
of lieutenant—colonel. In 1864 he was the Demo-
cratic candidate in Salem county for the legislature,
but was defeated. He was elected city attorney in
186 5. He was also a delegate to the different Dem-
ocratic state conventions until 1867, when he aban-
doned his practice in New Jersey and took up his
residence in Stockton, Cedar county, Missouri, when
he was admitted to practice December II, 1867.
He immediately secured a large practice in Cedar
and adjoining counties, and stands to—day at the

head of the profession in the 25th Judicial Circuit.

In 1870 he was elected superintendent of the
public schools of Cedar county for two years. In
1872 he was elected prosecuting attorney, holding
the position two years and declining a renomination.
He was a delegate to the Democratic state conven-
tion of 1872, ’74 and ’76, and delegate to the con-
gressional conventions of 1868 and ’72, being made
chairman of the latter. In the convention of 1874,
he was a candidate for the congressional nomination,
but was withdrawn on the forty-ninth ballot. He
was a delegate to the state convention that elected
delegates to the Baltimore convention that nominated
Greeley for president, and was one of the few who
opposed that nomination. He was also an alternate
delegate to the national convention of 1876. He
was the only Democrat in the Southwest who spoke
on the liustings in favor of enfranchising the citizens
of Missouri who participated in the rebellion. He
has always been an uncompromising Democrat, and
opposed to the sacrifice of policy to principle, believ-
ing in the principles of his party, and in. making
them the issue in all political campaigns. He was
reared in the Presbyterian faith, but is a member of
no church. He is a member of the order of Odd
Fellows and also of Red Men. He was married in
November, 1866, to Miss Arabella Barnes, daughter
of Joseph and Phoebe Barnes, of Woodstown, Salem
county, New Jersey. He has had by this union
four children, three of whom are living.

RICHARD PRICE RIDER.

COLUMBIA.

ICHARD PRICE RIDER was born, April
R 24, 1837, in Carrollton, Illinois. Justus Rider
and his wife, Elizabeth Harris, were among the early
settlers of Illinois. Their home was at Carrollton,
where, at a time when privileges were few and all
elements of culture rare, Mrs. Rider, her sister, two
other ladies and one gentleman—five in all—organ-

ized a Baptist church. They. had occasional visits I

from “Father” Clarke and Rev. J. M. Peck, the
pioneer preachers of that region. Some years. sub-
sequent to this, Mr. Justus Rider became a Christian
and was baptized into the fellowship of the little

church by Rev. J. M. Peck. There is no injustice

to any of his co-laborers in saying that the early
planting and much of the training of this new vine
were linked with the labors of Justus Rider, who
became an honored deacon in the church, and with
Christian fortitude bore the trials and made the sac-
rifices incident to efforts in all religious and moral
enterprises of that day. Mrs. Elizabeth Rider _was
a daughter of Rev. James Harris, a Baptist minister
from Wales. She was a native of that country, so
noted for producing sterling. Baptists.

Richard P. Rider was the youngest but one of

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the children of this couple, than whom none of the
early inhabitants of Illinois’ were more loved and
honored for their Christian virtues. For a number
of years, in fact until approaching manhood, Rich-
ard resided with his parents upon a farm. Like so
many of the most useful of the workers mall the
fields of literary and professional labor in America,

he was first trained in the school of husbandry..

While yet scarcely grown he entered Shurtleff Col-
lege, Upper Alton, Illinois, and there devoted some
time to earnest study. He had already pursued his
studies as far as the schools in other localities could
afford any assistance. While at Shurtleff College he
made that decision which has, to a very great extent,
been the controlling influence of his life, and which
resulted finally in placing him where he now stands,
at the head of one of the leading institutions of
learning in the West. He was led to embrace
Christianity and was baptized into the fellowship of
the Baptist church by Rev. J. Bulkley, D. D. Of
this denomination he continues to-day a worthy
member. Upon leaving Shurtleff College he began
the work of teaching, first in the common schools
and then taking the situation of student-teacher in a
school of higher grade in another part of the state.
After spending some time in teaching and studying,
he went to North Reading, Massachusetts, and
attended a normal musical institute taught by Pro-
fessors Mason, Root and Webb. By this training
he acquired that accurate knowledge of the science
of music which has been of great service in every
community in which he has since resided.

After teaching in Carlinville, Bunker Hill and
Bethalto, he took charge of the public schools in
Edwardsville, Illinois. Here he organized the first
graded school of Madison county, and for five years
continued his unwearied toil in that place, seeing the
fruit of his labor in a well established school of high
grade which was sending out its pupils into the sur-
rounding country as teachers. In 1870 he was
induced to locate in Boonville, Missouri, and take
control of the public schools of that city. Having
always been conservative, he soon found that Mis-
souri was a field where congeniality of spirits could
be realized. He was at once at home in the church
and among the people. He resided in Boonville
four years, and while a resident there suffered the
loss of his first wife and only child, being left, so
far as his own loved family was concerned, absolutely
alone. Here he was afterward united in marriage

with Mrs. Bettie Ragland, a lady fitted by nature
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and culture for the place she now occupies, as wife
of the president of a female college. A model for
young ladies, she compels, by her loving, gentle con-
trol, the respect and love of the pupils.

From Boonville, Professor Rider was called to
fill the chair of languages in the Southeast Missouri
Normal School, located at Cape Girardeau. Here
he labored three years, during the whole of which
time he, in addition to his full work as teacher of
languages, gave gratuitous instruction to the school
in vocal music, and in this double capacity was ena-
bled to do much toward securing for that school its
high reputation. During the summer of 1877 he
was elected to the far more agreeable and responsible
position of president of Stephens Female College,
located at Columbia, Missouri. This college has
been adopted by the Baptist General Association of
Missouri as the institution around which they propose
to rally as the one Baptist female school of the state.
Prof. Rider is a Baptist in all his sympathies and
convictions. He is also a regularly ordained deacon
of the church, and is known to his own denomina-
tion and the state at large as a teacher of first—class
ability. In View of these facts, he was earnestly
solicited by the board of curators to accept the posi-
tion he now holds. His fitness for the position, all
who know him, acknowledge, and the wisdom of the
choice of the curators is already manifested in the
unexpected success of his first year’s work. He is a
teacher by profession. To this calling he has faith-
fully consecrated his life; for this work he studied in
youth; to it he has given all the qualities of both
head and heart, not merely as a means of livelihood,
but from a love of the work itself, and from a strong
desire to be useful to his. race and a profitable ser-
vant in the church of Christ. He undertook the
work of preparation for the office of instructor with
a full appreciation of the fact that a teacher must
himself be ever advancing into new fields of science
as well as rendering old ones more fertile to his
students, and he has, by unceasing effort, kept him-
self in the very front rank of true workmen, in this
period of rapid development. With capacity to thin
out all foolish innovations, and yet with sufficient
wisdom to profit by all the progress in the art of
teaching, he has been always acknowledged by the
best educators to be fully abreast with the age.

Stephens Female College, over which Professor
Rider presides, was incorporated in 18 57 and author-
ized to confer the literary degrees usually conferred
by such institutions. Its first name was Baptist

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Female College, but in r870 it was adopted by the

‘Baptist General Association of Missouri,was endowed

with $20,000 by James L. Stephens, of Columbia,
and the name of the institution was changed by the
next General Assembly to Stephens College. The
ground and buildings are valued at $35,000, the

endowment yields $1,600 per annum. The follow-
ing gentlemen have been president at different times:
Rev. J. A. Hollis, Rev. W. R. Rothwell, Rev. X.
X. Buckner, Rev. J. T. Williams, Rev. E. S. Dulin
and Prof. R. P. Rider. The school is in a prosper-
ous condition.

BENJAMIN E. TURNER.

CAIIOKA.

ENJAMIN E. TURNER, a native of Lewis
B county, Missouri, was born March 18, 1850.
His father, Joseph A. Turner, was a native of Mason
county, Kentucky, and immigrated to Missouri in
1838, locating in Clarke county, where he remained
two years, after which he removed to Lewis county.
He was by occupation a farmer, and reared his son
to the same calling, but the boy’s tastes soon led him
to broader fields. The mother of our hero was
Henrietta Hagerman Turner, a native of Loudoun
county, Virginia.

Young Turner had very good educational advan-
tages, he obtained his early education from the
Keokuk High School, and finished at Lagrange
College.

I In 1870 he began to read law, at Canton, Mis-
souri, under John C. Andfilburi, and ‘the following
year was admitted to the bar in Waterloo, Clarke

county, and immediately began the practice of his
profession in Alexandria of the same county. In
1875 he located at Cahoka, where he has since
resided in the active practice of his profession. In
1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Clarke
county, and in 1876 was reelected.

Mr. Turner is a thorough business man, and per-
forms whatever duties are his with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction of the people. Politically he
is a Democrat. He is a member of the Baptist
church.

April 27, 1875, he married Miss Mary G. Daggs
of Scotland county, Missouri. This estimable lady
only lived a few months after her marriage, dying
December 30, I875. ,

Mr. Turner is a fluent talker, a deep thinker_, and
ever kind and generous. He is surrounded by many
warm friends and is worthy of their regard.

WARREN JOHNSON LANSDOWN, M. D.

BUTLER.

‘ N I ARREN JOHNSON LANSDOWN was born
in Cole county, Missouri, May 22, 1840.

The family, as its name imports, is of Scotch origin.
About the middle of the eighteenth century, the
emigrants of the family came from Scotland to
America and settled in North Carolina, near the Vir-
ginia line, where the grandfather of Warren J. Lans-
down was born. He was by profession a farmer,
and, leaving North Carolina, he sought a home in
the more inviting territory of Missouri. He estab-
lished himself six miles south of Jefferson City,

‘ tinues the practice of his profession.

where he continued farming until his death. The
father of Warren J. Lansdown, Hon. George Lans-
down, was a native of Virginia and was born about the
year 1818. He came to Missouri with his father in
1830. When he arrived at the years of manhood,
he studied medicine, graduated at the Philadelphia
Medical College, and began the practice in Cole
county, afterward moving to Miller county, where
he still resides and, at the age of sixty years, con-
His wifewas
Miss Mary A. Dixon.

"of the neighboring town of Fayette.

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Until sixteen years of age, Warren J. Lansdown
attended the common schools of the county. In his
seventeenth year he began the study of medicine
with Dr. Bolton, in Jefferson City, and remained
with him until 1861. In that year, he and Dr.
Winston, of Jefferson City, located at Vienna,
Maries county, and began the practice _of medicine.
In 1862 he removed to Linn Creek, Camden
county, and continued the practice. Owing to a
want of means, he had attended no medical school.
All his information in his profession had been
derived from books, from the teachings of his
instructor and from his ‘own experience in practice.
In 1866, and again in 1867, he attended the lectures

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at the St. Louis Medical College, and graduated in
the latter year, when he returned to Linn Creek and
continued the practice. In 1874 he retired from
regular practice, and, removing to Butler, Bates
county, engaged in the drug business and specula-
ting in real estate. His ventures have been suc-
cessful and he has acquired a handsome property
in Bates county.

In politics, Dr. Lansdown is a Democrat, though
he takes little interest in politics. In religion he is
liberal. He was married September 18, 1862, to Miss
Mary F. Winds, daughter of William and Elizabeth

(Berry) Winds, of Camden county, by Whom he

has had seven children, six of whom are living.

HON. W. F. SWITZLER.

COL UMBIA

ILLIAM F. SWITZLER was born March
 iv 16, 1819, in Fayette county, Kentucky.
His paternal ancestry were from Switzerland, immi-
grating to Pennsylvania at an early day, subsequently
settling in Orange county, Virginia, where Simeon,
the father of William F., was born. In 1826 he
came with his father’s family to Howard county, Mis-
souri, where he alternately attended school at Mt_.
Forest Academy, and aided in cultivating the home
farm. During these youthful years he was develop-
ing a decided taste for literary pursuits, which was a
foreshadowing of his future career.
was engaged at home in the study of law, occasion-
ally instructed by Abiel Leonard and Joseph Davis,
On the 8th day,
of January, 1841 he went to Columbia for the pur-.
pose of pursuing his studies in the office of James S.
Rollins. Shortly after settling in Columbia he became
editor of the Patrzbl, a Whig paper published there.
At the same time he continued his law reading, and.
in 1842 was admitted to the practice by Judge John
D. Leland, of that circuit. The December following.
he purchased a half interest in the Pafriaz‘ newspaper
office, and in 1843 changed its name to the Mzks0urz'
Sfaieszzzaiz, and has conducted that paper for a period
of more than thirty-six years. This has been his life.
Work, and in it is to be seen a monument of his tal-
ents and his enterprise. No weekly newspaper in
the state, perhaps, wields a greater influence over

In 1839-40 he,

the public mind, or has more largely contributed to
the prosperity of the state, county and town in which
it is published than this, and no editor enjoys a wider
or more enviable reputation, professional or personal.
In 1845 Colonel Switzler retired from the bar and
devoted himself entirely to editorial pursuits.

In 1846, 1848, and again in 1856, he was elected
to the Missouri General Assembly from Boone county,
and during those sessions it may be safely said there
was not in the legislature a more industrious or effi—
cient member. In 1860 he was a delegate to the
Baltimore Whig National Convention, and it was
upon his mot_i_9_n that Mr. Everett was nominated to
the Vice-Presidency by acclamation.

During the late civil war Colonel Switzler was" a
decided Union man, but always conservative. Since
that time he has affiliated in politics with the Demo-
cratic party. In 186 5 he was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention, and as
active part against disfranchisement, and other
extreme measures proposed and adopted by the radi-
cal majority.

In 1866 and again in 1868 he was the Democratic
nomineein his district for Congress. In each case
he conducted an extensive canvass, meeting his
political opponents in joint debate, and was each time
elected by the popular vote 3 but the then Secretary
of State, Rodman, refused certificates of election to
him, and gave them to the opposing candidates.

such took an ’

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He therefore contested their election and with an
energy that knew no flagging, prosecuted the con-
tests before the United States House of Representa~
tives, addressing that body on both occasions in able,
exhaustive and eloquent speeches, wringing from the
proper committees, although largely opposed to him
politically in both cases, reports in his favor, but
the reports were voted down by a partisan house,
and the seats given to his opponents.

In 187 5 Colonel Switzler was a member of the
Constitutional Convention, and to him as chairman
of the committee on education, are the people
indebted for the admirable article on that subject in
the new constitution.

No citizenlof Missouri has evidenced a deeper
interest in the history of the state and of its public
men, or is more familiar with them, as is con-
clusively shown by his “History of Missouri,”
recently published in a large volume called “The
Commonwealth” an article which because of its
exhaustiveness, impartiality and accuracy will be
accepted as standard authority among all classes of
readers. ‘ ~

He is still in the pride of a vigorous manhood,
with a constitution unimpaired, able and willing to
labor for the advancement of those opinions and prin-
ciples upon the success of which, in his estimation,
the prosperity of the country depends.

In 1843 William F. Switzler and Miss Mary Jane
Royal were united in marriage. She was the daugh-

ter of the late Captain John B. Royal, formerly of
Halifax county, Virginia. Her mother was a sister
of the late General Sterling Price, of Missouri, whose
history appears elsewhere in this volume. Colonel

Switzler has by this marriage two grown sons and a‘

daughter, all of whom, together with himself and
wife, are members of the Presbyterian church.

In January, 1878, leaving the IlIz'ss0zm' S2‘a/esmmz
under the editorial control and business management
of his brother, Lewis M. Switzler, and his son, Irvin
Switzler,’ Colonel Switzler assumed a half ownership
and chief editorial charge of the St. Joseph daily and
weekly C/zrozzzde, but in April following disposed of
his interest, returned to Columbia, and resumed per-
sonal control of the Sz‘az‘esmcm.

A short time before he left Columbia for St.
Joseph his old neighbors and countrymen helda
public meeting, which was presided over by Elder
Joseph K. Rogers, and which was addressed by Hon.
James S. Rollins, Robert L. Todd, Professor George
C. Swallow, Rev. W. T. Ellington, Captain H. C.
Pierce and others, all bearing testimony to the high
character, ability and services of Colonel Switzler,
with expressions of personal regret at his leaving
Columbia. Resolutions were also passed by the
meeting eulogistic of him as a journalist,'legislator
and citizen———such resolutions as but few men of any
community of any state live to see passed and pub-
lished in commendation of them by their old neigh-
bors and friends.

COLONEL H. L. ROUTT.

ILIBER TY.

ENRY LEWIS ROUTT was born April 22,
H 1824, in Woodford county, Kentucky. His
father, Rodham Routt, was a native of. Fauquier
county, Virginia, and moved to Kentucky at an
early date, where he continued his former business
as a farmer. He died in 1850. The grandfather of
Colonel Routt was a native of Wales, immigrated to
America early in the eighteenth century, and was
subsequently a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

Rodham Routt married Miss Phoebe Blanton, a
native of Virginia. She died in 1850, two months
before her husband’s death. They had eight chil-
dren, four of whom are living—Henry being the

youngest. They educated Henry at the common
schools of the neighborhood and subsequently at
Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky,
where he graduated in both the literary and law
departments. His early intellectual inclinations led
him to prepare himself for the legal profession. His
father wa_s in good circumstances and gave his son
every facility for fitting himself for hischosen pro-
fession. He read law one year with Hon. Thomas
F. Marshall and with William B. Kincaid, at Ver-
sailles, Kentucky, before entering Transylvania law
school, and after graduating located at Versailles,
where he began practice as the partner of Herman

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Bowmer, Jr., an old lawyer there 3 but subsequently
dissolved the partnership and moved to Liberty,
Clay county, Missouri, where he entered into a law
partnership with Thomas W. W. DeCorsey, Esq.,
and the firm continued until 1846. During their
law partnership they bought the printing office of
the Lzfierzji Bcmmr, and conducted that journal
nearly three years. After disposing of his interest
in the paper, Colonel Routt also dissolved the legal
partnership with Mr. DeCorsey, and with a few
exceptions when he was for a short time in' partner-
ship with othergentlemen, he has been alone in the
practice. _

Colonel Routt rapidly grew in favor with the
people as a lawyer, and in three years had an exten-
sive criminal practice. In connection with Colonel
A. W. Doniphan he co.nducted the defense of almost
every criminal case in Northwestern Missouri. In
his long experience as a criminal lawyer the Colonel

was only the prosecutor in one case, and in that the ,

man was convicted and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary. After serving his term, he presented himself
in Parkville, Platte county, at a public meeting of
which Colonel Routt was orator, and after interrupt-
ing the Colonel, who was speaking, he announced
his intention of killing him, stating he had come
there for that purpose. Colonel Routt did not pro-
pose being killed, and the would-be assassin lost his
life by his foolhardiness.

Our readers will remember the celebrated libel
suit of James H. Birch 725. Thomas H. Benton. In
that litigation Colonel Routt was Mr. Benton’s law-
yer, assisted by Hon. Waldo P. Johnson. They
conducted the case from its beginning, carrying it
through several counties in Missouri, and, when the
verdict was rendered against Mr. Benton, appealed
it to the supreme court, where the decision was
reversed.

During the Mexican war Colonel Routt was adju-
tant of Colonel William Gilpin’s Missouri regiment
—known as the “ Indian Command.” Colonel Gil-
pin afterward became governor of _ Colorado, and is
still living there. The regiment served in New
Mexico, and Colonel Routt remained there until his
failing health compelled him to return to Fort Leav-
enworth. At the close of the war the regiment was
disbanded and he resumed his practice at Liberty.

In the war of the Rebellion Colonel Routt coin-
manded a Missouri regiment, and served with Gen-
eral Price 3 but again bad health caused him to quit
the service. On returning to Liberty he was arrested

for high treason and sentito the military prison at
St. Louis. At the instance of Provost-Marshal
J. O. Broadhead and other friends he was uncondi-
tionally pardoned by President Lincoln. He then
remained in that city until the close of the war when
he returned to Liberty, where he is still engaged in
the practice of his profession.

Colonel Routt has been a decided Democrat all
his life, but never an office-seeker. He was ap-
pointed judge of the common pleas court of Clay
county in 1854 and held the office until r8—. He
was also for a long time a stockholder in and
attorney for the Commercial Savings Bank of
Liberty.

Inhis religious views he. is extremely liberal,
respecting the opinions of other men, but tenacious
in his own—which are of the advanced independent
school. On all the prominent theological differences
he is a patient and untiring student and profound
thinker.

‘During the past four or five years he has been

‘an uncompromising advocate of the temperance

cause, with his money, his personal influence and
his powerful oratorical talent, tearing down the com-
mon enemy of our nation and building the temples
of temperance in villages and cities formerly cursed
with the dens of King Alcohol. Clay county was at
one time almost over-run by saloons and saloon
keepers, but thanks to. the fearless, unswerving,
unceasing war he made upon them through legal
processes, there is now but one liquor saloon in the
whole county.
Grand Worthy Chief Templar of Missouri.

In July, 1846, Henry L. Routt and Miss Cath-
erine M. Bright were married. She is a native of
Shelbyville, Kentucky, and a niece of Dr. John
Bright, of Louisville. There have been born to
them six children, only two of whom are now
(1878) living: Rodham, aged eighteen, now at Wil-
liam Jewell College 3 and Mattie Jane, twelve years
of age.

A prominent gentleman of Clay county, who has
long known our subject intimately, favors us with
this pen-picture : A

“ Colonel Routt is a man of a’z'sz‘z'77gue. He is six
feet two and one-half inches high, and, although he
measures forty—two inches around the chest, is so
perfect a physical form that the impression made in
looking at him is that he is ‘tall and slender.’ He
is a splendid horseman, and if he had been trained

for a cavalry‘ commander would certainly have been
the finest looking American general on horseback.

He is at present District Deputy

died there in .1872.

796 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

He is a man of sanguine, nervous temperament,
and whatever cause he espouses, does it with his
might. In early life he was given to dissipation,
forming a habit of drinking which would have
been the ruin of almost any other man. But with
his iron will he overcame it, and is now and has
been for the last five years an effective temperance
worker. V

“He is profoundly versed in medical jurispru-
dence, and few physicians would stand a better
examination in anatomy than he. Beyond that
branch, he is not a lawyer distinguished for profound
‘learning in the law ;’ but he is a practitioner of
wonderful acuteness and tact. As an advocate he
is not a man of pathos, but of strength, carrying a
jury, not by melting appeals, but by a strong and
striking presentation of the case. ‘Hence his forte is

not in a case where delicate feelings and sensibilities
are involved; but in grave matters of ‘men and
things’ his presentation of them to a court or jury is
overwhelming, almost irresistible. He is a close
observer of men and things, the strong and the weak
points in individual character seldomescaping his
observation.

“ He is an earnest opponent when he dislikes, a
warm friend when he likes. But he is never mean
or unmanly. So, that those who were his worst
enemies, often become afterward his best friends.
Never in office nor seeking office, his reputation is
local. Never selfish, he has not been a money-
getter. His abilityas a lawyer always commands
enough, and more, for a competence; but his public
spirit impels him to expend all his surplus in any
cause that he espouses.”

CAPTAIN CHARLES BINGLEY MCAFEE.

SPRINGFIELD.

HARLES BINGLEY MCAFEE was born
C March 28, 1832, in Fayette county, Kentucky.
His father, Robert McAfee, was a native of Ken-
tucky, a farmer by occupation, removed to Marion
county, Missouri, when Charles was an infant, and
His mother, Martha ]. Cava-
naugh, is a native of Virginia, and is still living at the
age of seventy-three years.

Young McAfee left his father’s roof at seventeen
years of age, to begin the battle of life alone. He
worked at the carpenter’s trade, making fanning mills,
until nearly twenty-one years old, employing his leis-
ure hours in the study of law. He was admitted to
the bar in 18 5 3, in Harrison county, Missouri, where
he practiced his profession until the breaking out of
the civil war. He enlisted in what was known as
Nevell’s battalion Missouri volunteers, and was 1st
lieutenant of his company. He was afterward unan-
imously elected captain. During the year 1864 and
1865 he was on'the staff of Brigadier-General
Sanborn, who commanded the district known as
Southwest Missouri, in the capacity of District judge
Advocate, with headquarters at Springfield. In
April, 186 5 he was commissioned major in the 13th,
Missouri Veteran volunteers, but soon after resigned
his commission, the war having practically closed.
During the time he was stationed at Springfield he

formed the acquaintance of Colonel, now Governor
John S. Phelps, and a warm friendship sprang up
between them which resulted in the formation of a
partnership for the practice of law in Springfield.
This partnership lasted until the election of john S.
Phelps as Governor.‘ Previous to the latter event
Benjamin M. Massey had been admitted to the part-
nership, and the firm style at present is McAfee &
Massey.

He has always been a Democrat and has taken a
deep interest in political affairs. In 1868 he was the
candidate of his party for representative from the 4th
Congressional District, and although defeated, ran far
ahead of his ticket. In 1872 he was again nomina-
ted for Congress, but was again defeated, this time
by less than a hundred votes, although the Republi-
cans carried the district for President and state offi-
cers by about seventeen hundred majority. In 187 5
he was elected a_ delegate to the state constitutional
convention.

He is regarded as one of the ablest lawyers,
soundest reasoners and most convincing speakers in
the Southwest. His practice extends through jasper,
Lawrence, Newton, Polk, Dallas, Christian, Webster
and Greene counties.

Physically, he is a man of full height, large mus-
cular frame and a constitution that will bear the most

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 797

arduous and protracted labor. He is a man of great
mental force, taking broad and liberal views, with a
comprehensive grasp of mind strongly impregnated
with practical common sense. Without education or
means, he has succeeded in occupying a front rank

in the bar of Missouri, and among the best trained
minds in the state. ,

He was married in 1863 to Miss Martha E.
Ritchey, daughter of Hon. A. H. Ritchey, of New-
ton county, Missouri.

JAMES GREGORY CLARK, A. M.

LIBERTY.

Jane A. (Gregory) Clark, was born in Millwood,

JAMES G. CLARK, a son of James H. and
His father was a lead-

Clarke county, Virginia.
ing merchant of that place.
James was educated at the University of Virginia,
and after graduating became assistant professor in
his Alma Mater. He always showed a decided pref-
erence for mathematics, and contemplated perfecting
himself in civil engineering and taking that as his
chosen life work 3 but after teaching he concluded to
devote his entire energies to that profession. In 1860
he was elected to the honorable position of professor
of mathematics in the Columbian College, District of
Columbia, which position he held one year, when he
enlisted in the Rockbridge artillery of the Confederate
army, and participated in the first battle of Manassas
and Jackson’s Valley campaign.
In 1862 he was appointed captain of artillery in
the ordnance department, and assigned duty at Ma-
con, "Georgia. In 1863 he was promoted to be chief

ordnance officer of Cheatham’s River division of the
army of Tennessee, which position he held until the
close of the war, when he surrendered with Johnson’s
army at Greensboro, North Carolina, after which he

returned to his former position in Columbian College.

He held this position for six years, when the college
becoming financially embarrassed, was compelled to
reduce the faculty to three. He then engaged in
teaching elsewhere for two years when he was elected
professor of mathematics in William Jewell College,
Liberty, Missouri, which position he still holds.

In 187 5 he wrote a very important work on math-

~ ematics, published in Ray’s Series, entitled “Ele-I

ments of the Infinitesimal Calculus.”

November 2, 186 5, at Portsmouth, Virginia, he mar-
ried Miss Jennie Hume, daughter of Rev. Thomas
Hume. Mrs. Clark only lived one year. June 30,
1868, he married Miss Kate M. Morfit, daughter of
the late Henry M. Morfit, of Baltimore, Maryland.
Professor Clark is a member of the Baptist church.

SAMUEL C. MAJOR, JR.

H0 WARD.

AMUEL C. MAJOR, JR., was born in Fay-
S ette, Howard county, Missouri, November 24,
1840. His father, Samuel C. Major, Sr., is a native
of Kentucky and emigrated to Missouri in 1821, set-
tling in Howard county, where some years after-
ward he was married to Elizabeth Daly. For nearly
half a century they have lived in that county, and
their house has ever been recognized as the home of
old Kentucky hospitality. Mr. Major, Sr., has been

for over thirty years public administrator of Howard
county, with the exception of four years that he held
the receivership of the United States land office at
Fayette, having received the appointment from Pres-
ident Taylor. He is now in the enjoyment of the
confidence and esteem of an extensive acquaintance
in the county and throughout the state.

Samuel C. Major, Jr., was educated at Central
College, in his native town, graduating with honor in

798 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

1858. In 1859 he went to Jefferson City, Missouri,
and read law with a brother-in-law—General James
B. Gardenhire, one of the ablest lawyers in the state
and at one time Attorney General. In 1860 Mr.
Major was admitted to the bar, being less than twenty
years of age. Owing to the disturbed condition of
the country, and Missouri in particular, he did not
commence the practice of his profession until 1863.
He then opened an office in Fayette, which has ever
had the reputation of having an array of legal talent
second to no other town in the state. Here he very
early took a leading position, for several years filling
the offices of county and prosecuting attorney with
distinguished ability. His practice has constantly
increased, and though still quite a young man, he has
attained a position at the bar equaled by few and
excelled by none of his years. He at present repre-
sents the 7th Senatorial District of Missouri in her
state legislature, and during last winter, which was

his first session, received the flattering compliment
from a correspondent of the Kansas City Times of
being the ablest debater in the senate. As a practi-
tioner in his profession, he has few superiors.

Mr. Major, though not a member of any church,
has a great respect for religion, his parents being
prominent members of the Baptist church, and his
wife of the Protestant Episcopal church. In politics
he has ever been a Democrat. I

He was married on December 20, 1866, to Ione,
daughter of the late Dr. john A. Talbot, of Howard
county, one of the most accomplished and best men
of the country, and his daughter is-worthy of her dis-
tinguished parentage. He has three children, a son
and twodaughters.

Mr. Major is still a young man, and if he does not
record his name still higher in the temple of honor,
he will greatly disappoint the expectations of his
friends.

MAJOR ROBERT JAMES MCELHANEY.

SPRINGFIELD.

AJOR ROBERT J. MCELHANEY, Presi-
M dent of the 1st National Bank of Springfield,
Missouri, was born in Granger county, Tennessee,
April 6, 1817. His parents, George McElhaney
and Lucy Pollard, were born in Botetourt county,
Virginia, of Scotch—Irish parentage. They had five
children, four of whom are now living, all in Greene
county, Missouri. Robert’s father died when he
was seven years old, in 1824, his mother in 1866.
Soon after his father’s death, Robert went to Blunt
county, Tennessee, and was there! employed working
on a farm until he was eighteen years of age. At
the age of twenty-one he left Tennessee in company
with Colonel john Bunch, and came to Springfield,
Missouri, where he engaged in mercantile business,
which he followed until 1867, in Springfield, St.
Louis and Rolla.

Under President Polk’s administration he was
postmaster at Springfield. He was major of militia
in 1840, and in the late war commanded a company
of volunteers in the 46th Missouri infantry. He
was a strong Unionist, and suffered severe financial
losses in the struggle. He was one of the founders

and original stockholders of the Springfield Bank,
under the old state banking system, and also organ-
ized the 1st National Bank of Springfield, in 1870,
and for eight years has successfully conducted’ its
business. He was commissioned by Governor

Fletcher to sell the Southwest branch of the Pacific  

Railroad, and in all has proved himself a man of
great financial ability. ’

Mr. and Mrs. McElhaney came to the town of
Springfield when it was a mere hamlet, forty years
ago, and have been identified with all its interests,
assisting in its development and liberally devising for
improvement, as well as for all that concerns the
prosperity of Greene county.

He was married in 1838 to Miss Cordelia M.
Bunch, a native of Granger county, Tennessee.
Her parents were of Scotch and German ancestry,
and lived to a good old age; The mother was a
Clay, sister of General C. C. Clay, of Alabama, at
one time a senator from that state. Mr. and Mrs.
McElhaney have had nine children, only three of
whom are now living: Margaret M., wife of Hon.
S. H. Boyd, whose sketch appears in ‘this volume ;

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 799

Robert L., cashier of the 1st National Bank at
Springfield; and Lula, wife of Colonel Campbell, a
large planter residing in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and
at one time a member of the Mississippi Legislature.

Major McElhaney has been a member of the M.
E. church thirty years, is active in the denomination
and for many years superintende_d its Sunday school.
His early political views were Democratic, decidedly
so, but during the war and since he has been an out-

spoken Republican. The Major has a strong and
vigorous constitution and is a well preserved man of
sixty years, possesses sound common sense and first
class business habits, of which his financial success
is the conclusive proof. Commencing life with no
capital but his energy and no education but the
instructions of poverty, he has won his way to wealth
and demonstrated his ability to conduct large
moneyed institutions with marked success.

EDWIN R. MCKEE.

MEMPHIS.

F all the different professions, none afford
O greater opportunity for the development of
native ability than the legal profession 5 a fair proof
of which may be seen in the successful career of
Edwin R. McKee, son of Thomas and Maria (Rice)
McKee, who were natives of Harrison county, Indi-
ana. He was born August 31, 1844, in Knox
county, Illinois, from which county his father was
sent to the state senate for several terms 3 he was

also an officer in the Black Hawk and -Mexican

wars. Edwin assisted his father in the work of the
farm, and prepared for college at the Lombard Uni-
versity, of Galesburg, Illinois, and, in 1863, gradu-
ated fr_o1n the Western College, of Linn county,
Iowa. In 1865 he began the study of law at
Galesburg, and in 1867 was admitted to the bar
in Clarke county, Missouri. Locating in Waterloo,
he practiced law one year, when he removed to

~Memphis, where he formed a partnership with the

Hon. Levi J. Waggoner, and continued his profes-

sional duties until 1869, when he returned to Clarke
county, and in 1872 served the county as prosecu-
ting attorney.

In 1875 Mr. McKee permanently located at
Memphis, where he is recognized as a leading attor-
ney. He is in politics a Democrat, but has never
held public office, aside from his term in Clarke
county.

In 1861 he entered, as a private soldier, com-
pany K, Ist Iowa infantry, and participated in the
battle of Wilson’s Creek, in which he received three
severe wounds. He was discharged at the end of
three months active service.

December 22, 1869, Mr. McKee married Miss
Frances A.,- daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel F.
Givens, a prominent attorney of Cahoka, Clarke
county, Missouri.

Mr. McKee, by his strict attention to business,
has steadily risen to a position of prominence, and
to a warm place in the confidence of the people.

THEODORE G. RECHOW.

BOLIVAR.

HEODORE GUSTAVE RECHOW was born
T December 8, 1847, in Polish Prussia, and is
the oldest of three children born to Frederick Rec-
how and Wilhelmina Pufahl. His father emigrated
from Polish Prussia in 1852, settled first in St. Louis

and afterward in Guttenberg, Clayton county, Iowa,
B 1

wherein 1858 he came to his death by drowning
in the Mississippi river. He was a stone mason by
trade.

Theodore G. Rechow attended the public schools
of St. Louis and Guttenberg prior to his twelfth year,

at which age he was apprenticed to the shoemaker’s ,

800 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY}

trade 3 but meeting with unkind treatment he ran away
from Cassville, Grant county, Wisconsin, and went
to Sparta, Monroe county. Here he worked at his
trade during evenings and spare moments, and by
this means paid his board while attending school.
This was continued until he was fifteen years old.
At that time he enlisted as a teamster in the service
of the quartermaster of the Missouri department.
This service he continued until July I4, 1863, when
he enlisted as a private soldier in a company of the
2d Kansas cavalry, and participated in the different
campaigns in Missouri and Arkansas until the close
of the war. The regiment was mustered out of ser-
vice at Lawrence, Kansas, August 17, 1865. He
remained in Lawrence a few months, then located in
Bolivar, Polk county, Missouri, where he opened

a shop and carried on his trade, employing his leisure
hours in the study of law. He was admitted to
practice January 4, I870. Heopened an office in
Bolivar where he has acquired a good practice, as
well as throughout the 14th Judicial District.

He has taken little interest in politics except of a
local nature but has devoted his entire time and
energies to the requirements of his profession. He
was a delegate to the Democratic congressional con-
vention in 1874, and also to the state convention of
1876. I

He is liberal in his religious views , is a member
of the_Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He was married May 21, 1866, to Miss Lydia
James, daughter of Hugh and Mary F. James, of
Osceola, St. Clair county. They have three children.

CAPTAIN EUGENE BARTLETT MILLETT.

KANSAS CITY.

MONG the first in importance of the great
interests of the New West is- the live stock
trade, of which the subject of this sketch, Captain
Eugene Bartlett Millett is a good representative.
He was the eldest son of Samuel and Clementine
(Bartlett) Millett, born in Washington county, Texas,
April 25, 1838. His father, a native of Maine, was
born at Brunswick, in 1800, of French and English
parentage. He received a liberal education, and
for several years engaged in teaching
In the year 1829 he removed to Texas and set-
tled near Houston, where he engaged in farming
and stock raising. He was a man fond of adventure
and possessed of great energy and nerve.‘ In many
encounters with the Indians he participated, and also
in nearly all of the battles between the Texans and
Mexicans, being at the Grass fight, the beginning of
hostilities, and at the battle of San Jacinto, which
ended in establishing the freedom of Texas and she
became a republic. In 1849 he fitted out an expe-
dition and made an overland" journey to the new
gold regions of California. He returned to Texas
two years after, where he continued to live until his
death in 1863.
The mother of our subject is still living, now
sixty-three years of age, having a beautiful home in
Austin, Texas, and with her a daughter, Laura, the

youngest of her children and a lady of fine culture and
taste. Her other two sons, Alonzo and Hiram W.
Millett, are interested with Eugene in his stock
business, and are both gentlemen of marked intelli-
gence, good business qualifications and exemplary
habits. Both are unmarried, and make their home
with their mother, when not required elsewhereby
their extended business operations. '

Eugene had good advantages for education in
the schools of Seguin. When sixteen years of age
his fearlessness and love of adventure was gratified
by joining Callahan’s expedition in pursuit of hostile
Indians into Mexico, which was attended with much
danger and loss of life, there being several engage-
ments, which terminated in the defeat of the Indians,
and for several years afterward they ceased their
depredations upon the frontier settlements.

After this eventful history in his early life, he
attended school for two years at Seguin, and then,
at the age of eighteen, with a capital of three hun-
dred and fifty dollars, commenced business for him-
self. He went about two hundred miles into the inte-
rior of Mexico and bought ponies, which he sold in
Texas at a good profit. His father vainly attempted to
dissuade him from this pursuit, because of the per-
sonal hazard attending it at that time, but perceiving
the success of his first year’s operations, withdrew

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his objections and increased‘: his capital.
Millett continued this trade until 1860, when he
established a ranch on San "Geramino creek, six
miles from Seguin, and commenced breeding horses.
When the war began, in 1861, he engaged in the
purchase of horses and mules for the Confederate
government, and in the fall of that year delivered
one thousand five hundred head of cattle at Prairie
Marmou, Louisiana, filling the first contract with
the Confederate government for their supply of fresh
beef from Texas.

Thoroughly Southern in his education and sym-
pathies, and realizing the magnitude of the impending
struggle, be determined to participate and returning
to Texas recruited Company B, Wood’s regiment of
cavalry, which, as captain, he commanded until the
close of the war. He served chiefly in the Trans-
Mississippi country and was in several important
engagements including the Red River expedition
against General Banks.

Returning to his ranch at the close of the war, he
collected what depredations of various kinds had left
of his stock, from which he realized eight hundred
and fifty dollars, which was his entire capital as he
commenced anew his operations in the stock business
which have since been such a magnificent success. .

In the spring of 1866 he took charge of a herd of
five hundred cattle belonging to Ewing, Myers &
Co., his own capital being invested.
tion to drive them to Westport, Missouri, but was
unable to reach that point on account of the opposi-
tion of an armed mob of citizens in Missouri, who
were alarmed about the Texas stock fever. He was
compelled to turn at once and leave the state, directly
on the route by which he had entered. But not to
be beaten in this way, he succeeded by another route,
after much opposition and delay, in driving these
cattle through the entire state of Missouri, crossing
the Mississippi river at St. Louis, into Illinois, and
thence into the interior of that state, stopping near
Springfield, where he purchased large quantities of
feed. The people in that vicinity were soon alarmed
and excited, and called a meeting to consider some
means of getting them removed from the state. Cap-
tain Millett attended this meeting, and after hearing
much talk of a threatening and excited character, he
addressed the people and gave them a history of his
experience with his Texas herd, frankly telling them
of the alarm and opposition which had been mani-
fested in Missouri, but that he had stopped where he
was with the intention of staying, and that if it was

Young ,

It was his inten- ’

necessary he should die in defending his rights, assur-
ing them at the same time that there was no cause for
alarm, and that he would be responsible for all dam-
ages. The result of this meeting was to create '2
general good feeling, and he remained without oppo-
sition until he had disposed of his herd, and also
another nearly as large, which had been driven
through for him to dispose of. He found a profita-
ble market for both herds, and realized for his share
twenty-six hundred dollars. Returning to Texas, the
following year was spent in buying horses and taking

I them to Mississippi for a market, realizing only a fair

pecuniary gain for his services.

In the winter of 1868 he commenced buying cat-
tle in Texas and delivering them in large herds to
shipping points on the Kansas Pacific, Union Pacific
and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads, in
Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and Nevada. In the spring
of 1868 he delivered five hundred beef cattle at Abi-
lene, Kansas, being among the first drovers there after
a shipping point was established, and realized a profit
of three thousand five hundred dollars in gold. The
next year he delivered a herd of a thousand head,
after a drive of eight months, to Argenta station,

on the Central Pacific Railroad in Nevada, on which,

he realized a profit of six thousand dollars. In the
year of 1870 he drove two herds, one of twelve hun-
dred beeves, which he sold at Abilene, and the other
of mixed cattle, he refitted at that point and drove to
Utah. His profits this y_ear were twelve thousand
dollars. In 1871 he drove another large herd, but
finding the market much depreciated, he secured a
contract to supply the Sioux Indians with beef, and
thus desposed of them.

In the fall of 1871 he entered into partnership
with Major Seth Mabry, a well known stock dealer,
for the purpose of more extensive operations. They
first located a ranch with over four thousand head of
young cattle in Idaho territory, the results of which,
not being satisfactory, they established another in
Nebraska. In the fall of 1874 Captain Millett and
his partner conceived the idea of controlling the
Texas cattle trade. To this end they united their
interests with Dewees & Ellison, and bought for the
trade fifty-six thousand cattle and nine hundred sad-
dle ponies. Major M abry went to New York City and
secured the contract for supplying beef to the Sioux
Indians, which contract, together with twenty-six
thousand head of cattle, they afterward sold to J.
W. Bosler, a former contractor. The remainder of
the herd was sold to feeders and grazers in Nebraska

802 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

and Colorado. Messrs. Mabry & Millett held a con-
trolling interest in the business, and realized as the
profits of the year, over one hundred thousand dol-
lars. He then established the Millett cattle ranch.
This ranch Mr. Millett located in Baylor county,
Northern Texas, in 187 5, at that time a dangerous
frontier, being one hundred and sixty miles west of

.Fort Worth and contiguous to the noted Blanco

Canon, the pass for Indians to and from New Mex-
ico to the Indian Territory and also for the Mexican
Raiders. From 1867 to 1873 the stock ranches of
that country were almost depleted by Indians steal-
ing cattle in bodies and transferring them to Mexi-
cans, who would sell them to Santa F e traders. In
1873 there was an expedition fitted Cup in Colorado
of Texans, ]ohn Hitson at the head, which re-cap-
tured about four thousand head of cattle, scattered
the dealers in all directions and having the effect to
break up that kind of traffic.

But another obstacle perhaps as much to be feared
in establishing this ranch was the indolence and care-
lessness of the buffalo hunters in neglecting their
camp fires, which required great vigilence in watch-
ing, and frequently caused days and nights of labor
by a large force of men in fighting prairie fires to
protect the ranges for the cattle.

These hunters had followed the trail of large
herds from Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas, down
into the Pan-Handle countryinear this ranch. At
first these buffaloes were to be seen in countless
herds, but "the daily slaughter for their hides,in which
one man killed enough to employ five skinners, and
has been known to kill seventy at one stand, has
caused them gradually to disappear even in Texas,
although an immense throng is still to be seen one
hundred miles west of this ranch.

Amidst the difficulties and dangers above men-
tioned Captain Millett bought and located in the fall
and early winter of I87 5 fifteen thousand cattle,with
his brothers in charge. By transferring these from
Southern Texas to a more northern latitude, parallel
thirty-two and one—half, it seemed toreradicate their
inter-breeding, and in one year’s time the improve-
ment was so great that the class as southern cattle
had to a great extent lost their identity. In the
spring of 1876 he purchased forty—four head-of good
graded Durham bulls of Mr. Curtright, a gentleman
of intelligence and enterprise, who had made great
efforts in Texas to introduce the Short Horns. Thirty
head of this stock afterward died, as the effect of
of too sudden a change of condition, but the result

' to utilize himself.

of the enterprise the following year was eight hun-
dred and fifty half-breed calves, some of which sold
when yearlings for twenty-five dollars each.‘ In the
spring of 1877 he bought thirty head of thorough-
breds, half males and half females, of Kentucky
Stock, paying first—class prices. In the fall of 1877
be expended $14,000 in grades and thoroughbreds.

He now has a herd of Short Horns numbering over '

three hundred, many of which as individual speci-
mens are not excelled for color, weight and beauty
—pedigrees perfect, the increase of which he intends
This season over one hundred of
his males of high grade and thoroughbred are with

thirty-five hundred of his best Texas cows, which are

placed to herd in two respective lots, and penned
during the breeding season. ’ His main herd is
guarded by one hundred and fifty half-breed year-

I ling males and some select specimens of his Texas

stock.

Captain Millett has devised a system of organiza-
tion and management of his ranch, equal toa well-
drilled military company. The line of circumference
around the ranges of his main herd are fully sixty
miles. On this line camps are established from six
to eight miles apart, where two herders are stationed,
who meet each day, riding along this line watching
and turning in stock. If perchance there should be
a trail showing that some had wandered outside these
limits, one herder is dispatched to headquarters, and
a “ boss-man” with five or six others, a wagon and
twenty or thirty extra horses sent in pursuit. On
this ranch last year there were turned loose thirty-
three thousand cattle, and the entire drift did not
exceed five thousand. He has bought and located
there about eleven thousand head of cattle this year
(1878), nine thousand steers and two thousand cows.
Aside from ranch matters, he has supplied for two
years ten thousand head each year in filling an Indian
contract for beef. V On this ranch two “ round—ups ”
are had each year, for the benefit of other cattle
neighbors, whose stock may have strayed into their
midst. On these occasions a notification to the
herders is given the day before, when they all grad-
ually commence driving in their lines. The next
morning from one—half to two—thirds of the entire
number will be found quietly submitting to the
“ round-up,” to be selected and driven out as needed
for any purpose. From this -ranch about eighteen
days drive over good grasses brings them to Fort
Dodge, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road, ten days to the terminus of the Texas Pacific,

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and twelve days to Denison, on the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad.

Captain Millett claims that where he is located
he can produce as good a quality of cattle for feed-
ing purposes, cheaper and more accessible to the
corn-producing sections of Missouri, Kansas and
Illinois, than elsewhere. The grasses, of which
there are various kinds, are of the finest quality,
together with an immense crop of Mesquit beans

every dry year, about six inches in length, full of

seed and saccharine matter, and very nutritious to r

all kinds of stock and four-footed game. Old, worn
out and broken down horses will put on a new and
sleek coat in twenty or thirty days, more glossy
than the groomed steeds of the crowded cities.

For his Durhams, Captain Millett has established
a separate ranch about six miles distant from that of
his main herd, with which they are never allowed to
mix. They are under the control and direction of a
competent man, who keeps a record of everything
concerning them. He is making many improve-
ments upon this ranch, which is already becoming
celebrated, and his short horn herd will undoubt-
edly soon be the largest of any in the West.

In this connection it is proper to say that much
is due to the untiring energy and devotion of his
two brothers—Alonzo and Hiram—to this great stock

enterprise, in which they are now quite largely inter-
ested. The entire interests of the three include a
herd next to the largest in the United States, and in
quality by none excelled. '

This is but a meager outline of the history and
operations of one who by his own enterprise and
square dealing has already accumulated a fortune,
and whose stock trade now reaches over five hun-
dred thousand dollars annually. His efforts and
experiments in introducing the short horns, and
improving the grades of a Texas stock, is a matter of
great interest to stockmen throughout the West, and

bids fair to be a grand success.

Captain Millett is a man of good personal appear-
ance, of medium height, stoutly built, weighing
about one hundred and sixty pounds. He is
chivalrous, whole—souled and generous in disposi-
tion, and good judgment and business tact he cer-
tainly evinces in
extensive operations.

On the 6th day of September, 1876, at Quincy,
Illinois, he married Miss Ida, the beautiful and
accomplished daughter of judge Burtner. He has
recently ‘purchased and now occupies the elegant resi-
dence on the bluff between Sixth and Seventh streets,
one of the finest and probably the most expensive in
construction in Kansas City.

SAMUEL C. RUBEY, M. D.

MACON CITY.

HE standing of every profession is marked by
T the character of the men who represent it.
Deplorable as it is, _it is nevertheless true, that the
inducements offered by the medical profession for
the gratification of personal ambition and the accom-
plishment of selfish ends, has drawn into it men
whose influence has been only to degrade the profes-
sion. When, therefore, we find a man of true worth
and genuine ability giving his energies to the eleva-
tion of the profession, it is but just that he should
receive the eulogies of men. In this class of the
medical fraternity we would place Samuel C. Rubey,
the subject of this sketch.
I5, 1803, in Wayne county, Kentucky. His father,
Thomas Rubey, was a native of Virginia, but subse-
quently settled in Cooper county,.Missouri, in 1820

He was born September I

He followed through life agricultural pursuits. His
mother, Jane Carson, was a native of Tennessee.

San1uel’s boyhood days were spent in Todd
county, Kentucky, and his early education obtained

from the common schools of that county. At the

age of seventeen he began to prepare for the minis- i

try, and attended theological instructions under Rev.
R. D. Morrow, D. D., of Cooper county, Missouri.
In 1824 he took charge of the Cumberland Presby-
terian church in Pike county, Missouri. He labored
assiduously as a minister of the gospel in the same
county for fifteen years. In 1842 he began to read
medicine and attended lectures at the McDowell
Medical College, of St. Louis, and the Keokuk
Medical College, of Iowa, graduating from the latter
in 1850. In 1855 he located in Macon City, and

so successfully conducting his _

804 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBY.

began the practice of his profession. Here he has
since resided, and by strict attention to his profes-

sional duties has won a wide reputation and built up -

an extensive practice. In 1827 he married Miss
Elizabeth Allison, of Pike county, Missouri, who
died in 1869. In 1870 he married Miss Catherine
Johnson, of Howard county, Missouri, who died

in 1876. In 1877 he married Miss M. D. Griffin,
of St. Louis county, Missouri.

Dr. Rubey is now (1877) seventy-four years of
age. His constitution is strong and his prospects
good for many happy years to come. Such is the
outline of the life of one whose true merit and gen-
uine worth entitles him to prominence and esteem.

JUDGE EDWARD W. KNOTT.

MACON CITY.

DWARD W. KNOTT was born in Marion
E 1833. His
father, Joseph P. Knott, was a native of Maryland,
followed the occupation of a farmer through life and
died in Meade county, Kentucky, in 1852. His
mother, Maria Irvine McElroy, was a native of
Marion county, Kentucky, and the daughter of
VVilliam E. McElroy, a farmer, who emigrated from
Virginia to Kentucky and settled in Marion county.

Edward W. Knott was reared on the farm of his
father. His early education was obtained in the
ordinary country schools of his day. In 1853, at
the age of twenty, he emigrated to Missouri and
began bookkeeping for a dry goods house in Mem-
phis, Scotland county. In this business he was
assiduously engaged for about six years. In 1861

county, Kentucky, March 11,

-he located in Randolph county and engaged in

agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1864, when
he removed to Lebanon, Kentucky, and again
engaged ‘in bookkeeping. In that occupation he

continued until 1870. In 1871 he returned to
Missouri and located at Macon City, where he has
since resided. He read _law and was admitted to the
bar in 1871, but never actively engaged in the prac-
tice. He was appointed in 1873, by Governor
Woodson, probate judge of Macon county, and in

J the fall of that year was elected to that position by

the people. In politics Judge Knott is a Democrat.
In religion he is a Presbyterian.

He was married in 1856 to Miss Mattie C. Mc-
Coy, daughter of Campbell McCoy, a farmer of
Jefferson county, Kentucky. Judge Knott has filled
every station to which he has been called with char-
acteristic energy and ability. His business educa-
tion has been of the most thorough character, and
while he is in social life known as a most affable
gentleman, he allows no recreation to interpose
between him and the business in hand. As judge
of the probate court, he has given entire satisfaction
to all who have had business relations with him.

THOMAS H. KEMP.

CIIILLICO THE.

~ HOMAS H. KEMP was born October 2, 1836,
T in . Queen Anne county, Maryland. His
father, Thomas H. Kemp, and his mother, Mary
Denny, were both natives of that state, the former
of Talbot county, the latter of Queen Anne county.
His father was of Scotch descent, his ancestors hav-
ing been among the first settlers of Maryland. His
mother was of Irish extraction, and her family was
among the oldest in the state.

Thomas H. Kemp, the subject of this sketch, was
reared on the farm of his father, and received a lib-
eral education at Queenstown Academy, from which
institution he graduated in 1856. Under the instruc-
tion of Hon. John M. Robinson, a prominent jurist
of Maryland, he pursued the study of law for two
years and was admitted to the bar in 1858, at Cen-
treville, Queen Anne county, Maryland. He
entered upon the active duties of his profession at

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 805

Denton, Caroline county, in that state, where he
remained in the enjoyment of an extensive practice
for seventeen years. In 1875 he immigrated to Mis-
souri and first settled at Oregon, Holt county, prac-
ticing there till March, 1877, when he removed to
Chillicothe, Livingston county. He was elected
public prosecutor of Caroline county, Maryland, in
1859, and held the office four years. In 1863 he

‘ was elected to represent Caroline county in the

Maryland Legislature, and on the assembling of that
body he was chosen speaker of the house. In 1867
he was elected clerk of the circuit court of Caroline
county, and discharged its duties six years. In

1873 he was again elected public prosecutor, but the
compensation was not sufficient to induce him to
undertake its duties, and he declined the office. He
removed to the West soon after. .

His practice in Oregon was confined to the
United States district and circuit courts at Jefferson
City.

In politics he is a Democrat.
of the Presbyterian church.

He was married November 25, 1858, to Miss
Sallie Elizabeth Turner, a native of Calvert county,
Maryland, and daughter of Dr. John Turner, a
prominent physician of that county.

He is a member

HON. G. W. MILLER.

_/EEEERSO./V CITY.

W. MILLER, the present judge of the First
G. Judicial District of Missouri, is a native of
Kentucky, having been born in that part of Chris-
tian county now composing Todd county. His
father, John Miller, settled there about the year 1804,
and made it his home until the spring of 1818, when
he emigrated to Missouri, which was then only a ter-
ritory, and settled in Howard county near where
Glasgow now stands. John Miller was a prominent
manin the state during his lifetime; he represented
his county in the Missouri Legislature in 1822 and
in 1824. In 1825 he removed to Cooper county,
and in 1828 was elected to the Senate of Missouri,
for several succeeding years he was a member of one
branch or the other of the State Legislature. Presi-
dent Polk appointed him Indian agent for the Omaha
agency. He has always been an earnest Democrat,
and was a member of the first state convention that
party held in Missouri; it met at Jefferson City Jan-
uary 8, 1828, and selected electoral candidates in
favor of Andrew Jackson for the presidency. Mr.
Miller was a man of marked characteristics, vigorous
intellect, and was very popular. He died in Cooper
county in 1866.

His son, G. W. Miller, went to Jefferson City in
the spring of 1828, and for a short time taught a
small school. In 1829 he commenced the study of
law in the office of R. W. Wells, then attorney gen-
eral of the state and afterward United States dis-
trict judge.

" and reelected in 1834.

He was admitted to the bar and began the prac-
tice at Jefferson City, in 1831, but did not engage
actively in his profession until 1837.

In the fall of 1829 Mr. Miller was appointed
postmaster at Jefferson City, and continued in that
office twelve years. In 1832 he was elected to the
Missouri house of representatives from Cole county,
In 1838 he was elected to
the Missouri Senate, and reelected for two consecu-
tive terms of ‘four years each 3 but after serving one
session of his third term, he resigned to accept the
appointment from Governor Edwards of state audi-
tor, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
James N. McDearmon.

About the year 1849 a. fierce political contest
’ sprang up between Colonel - Benton and a portion of

his old friends. The conflict was bitter, and each
party selected their strongest man—the anti-Benton
Democrats, as they were called, chose (the late)
Judge Scott for their champion, while Mr. Miller
espoused the cause of Benton, and on the points at
issue, became a candidate for the senate in 1850. Of
course, the canvass was active and determined.
Mr. Miller was elected, and served one session, when
he resigned.

In 18 51 he was elected judge of the circuit court
for the 1st Judicial District of Missouri, and was
reelected for two consecutive terms of six years each.
He was a candidate for the fourth term, but owing
to the proscriptive operation of the disfranchisement

806 TI-IE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

ordinance, was defeated. In 1874 he was again a
candidate for the same position, was elected by a
handsome majority, and still occupies the bench.

Judge Miller needs no eulogy at our hands.
Occupying the bench by the suffrages of the profes-
sion and people, for nearly a quarter of a century,
consecutively, speaks for him more complimentary
than he would permit us to. He was one of the
very few circuit judges who continued holding his
courts during the war.

In 1832 Judge Miller was married to Miss Louisa
Basye, daughter of Major Alfred Basye, (now
deceased), an old citizen of the state and of Jeffer-
son City. She was born in Bourbon county, Ken-
tucky, but came with her father to Howard county,
Missouri, about "the same time the elder Miller and
family moved there. Both Major Basye and Mr.
Miller represented Howard county in the legislature

of 1822-3 and of 1824-5. The Judge’s wife is an

estimable lady, and comes from one of the "most
respectable families in Kentucky , her sister married
Judge A. King, of St. Louis. Judge Miller has four
daughters, whose education was completed at Boon-
ville Female Seminary—the Judge making that place
his residence in 1854-5 for that purpose. All four
are now married, and each to a lawyer: one to H.
A. Clough, of Denver, one to John M. Kennedy,
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3 one D. A. McMillan,
of Boonville, and the other to W. S. Pope, of Jeffer-
son City—all highly respectable gentlemen.

Judge Miller has been a life—long Democrat, but
conservative in his view and feelings , he espoused
the cause of the Union in the late war, but opposed
the “Drake Constitution” for the state’s organic
law—which opposition probably secured him the only
political defeat of his life.

WILLIAM BRADFORD GRIMES.

KANSAS CITY.

‘ N IILLIAM BRADFORD GRIMES, only son

of Richard Grimes and Charlotte Bradford,
was born at Rocky Hill, Hartford county, Connec-
ticut, September 15, 1825. His father was of Scotch
lineage, born in Rocky Hill in 1789. He com-
menced his career as a Seaman at the age of ten,
bare headed and bare footed, but became the master
and owner of a brig at twenty-one. He followed a

seafaring life for over forty years, during a great

portion of which time he traded quite extensively
between New York and Liverpool, and afterward
between Quebec, Mexican ports and Trinidad, deal-
ing in horses and mules, the last years being devoted
to the Texas trade. Captain Richard Grimes ulti-
mately settled in Matagorda county, Texas, where
he was engaged in the stock business until his death
in 18 58. He was a sturdy, hard worker,‘ and at
sixty-nine years of age was active and vigorous.

The mother of William was born at Rocky Hill,
Connecticut, May 3 1,1797, and is a direct descendant
of the second colonial governor, William Bradford,
who was born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, in
1588, and is supposed to have been -a descendant of
the immediate family of John Bradford, the martyr,
who perished at the stake July I, 1555, being the

‘ afamily of eight children.

contemporary and friend of Rogers, Hooper, Sanders
and others, who about this time sealed their opposi-
tion to papal bigotry at the fiery stake.

William Bradford joined the Pilgrims and came I

to Plymouth Rock in the Mayflower, in 1620,
accompanied by his wife, Dorothy May. He was
chosen Governor of Plymouth Colony in 1621, and
filled that office thirty-one years. He died in 16 57.

William Bradford, the grandfather of our subject,
was the seventh William from the Governor, and
there are still relics in the family, said to have come
over from the mother country in the Mayflower.
Charlotte Bradford is the only surviving member of

been possessed of the fortitude and noble qualities
which characterized the Puritan mothers. She
braved the hardships and ‘perils incident to the
pioneer settler of the Republic of Texas, when that
country was yet a wilderness and its homes at the
mercy of the savage. After the death of her hus-
band she returned, accompanied by her only daugh-
ter—Frances Charlotte Bradford, now the wife of
J. W. Camp—to her early home, the house in which
she was -born. This house, which is beautifully
located on the Connecticut river, was built by her

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father nearly one hundred years ago. Its sturdy
oak timbers show no signs of decay, and it still is
and has ever since been occupied by the Bradford
family.

The subject of this sketch having, at the age of
twelve, been left in New York city to be educated,
returned to his native place when seventeen, to
begin the career of a merchant. After serving an
apprenticeship of three years in a country store, he
removed to Circleville, Ohio, securing there a better
opening for mercantile success. Remaining about
three years, and nearly falling a victim to malaria,
it was deemed advisable, in 1847, for him to visit
Texas, his father’s home. In 1848 (his health hav-
ing been restored by frontier experience) he.com-
menced a new career, engaging in cattle raising, to
which business he gave his entire attention-for about
ten years, when finding the home market not suffi—
ciently remunerative, he commenced shipping beef
to New Orleans, following this successfully several
years. ‘ q

The civil war compelled a new course of action
when Mr. Grimes, to meet the demand for general
supplies in his section, which the blockade had cut
off, commenced sending cotton to Europe by the
way of Mexico——which cotton was brought hun-
dreds of miles from the interior of Texas to the Rio
Grande, thence freighted down the river and ship-
ped to Havana, New York and Liverpool, bringing
supplies from all these points to the beleaguered Tex-
ans , this business was followed to the close of the
warwith pecuniary success. At the close of the
war, having surplus funds, Mr. Grimes, in connec-
tion with another party, furnished means to a couple

of young men to carry on the dry goods jobbing

business 3 not giving his personal attention to it, it
was a financial failure, thereby causing serious loss
of property and many years of perplexity and care.
In 1868, owing to the large quantity of cattle in
Texas and the want of home market, Mr. Grimes
put up at his home ranche, in Matagorda county,
“The Trespalacias Steam Rendering and Packing
House,” in which he slaughtered from five thou-
sand to fourteen thousand cattle per .annum for
several years, and in 1873 added beef-canning for
foreign markets, which was pecuniarily a success
as far as followed, but Indian depredations threat-
ening to destroy a large cattle interest which he had
established about 1860 on the Mexican frontier, he
was obliged to devote his attention to their removal,
and, in 187 5, he Stopped his canning works in the
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full tide of their prosperity, to take these cattle to
the Kansas market. Finding this a profitable ven-
ture, he has continued in the business to the present
time, his large cattle interests and his Texas home
being in charge of his son, Bradford Robbins Grimes.
The home-roof, once his father’s, is here, and is the
birth-place of all his children. Here on Trespalacias
Creek, Mr. Grimes commenced his life in Texas as a
bachelor, building a log house for a home and pur-
chasing at -this time, 1:848, about one thousand cattle.
In 1854 he purchased another ranche on Wilson’s
Creek, nine miles below. At that time, on both his
ranches, his cattle numbered five thousand head, to
which have been added annually by purchase,
with the exception of five years at the time of the
war, until now, 1878, his stock numbers about
twenty thousand head. In 18 54 his losses and dam-
ages were heavy by a disastrous hurricane which
visited that section. In 1855 Mr. Grimes brought
his bride from Hartford. He then built a frame
house for a residence, a country store and several
other buildings for various purposes. The packing
house and stock‘ interests required the help of from
fifty to seventy—five men, some of whom have been in
his employ fifteen or twenty years; at times his work
has required from one to three hundred horses. In
1875 Mr. Grimes handled in Kansas eight thousand
cattle, in 1876 about the same number, in 1877
something over ten thousand, wintering in Kansas
in 1877-8 some fourthousand head, which he is
marketing in Kansas City, Chicago and Buffalo the
present season (r878)._ Of course, to manage and
follow all these operations through all the varying
fortunes of so many years, Mr. Grimes must have
been a strictly temperate man and very systematic;
the early training for mercantile pursuits was carried
into the work of later life, and the energy inherited
from Plymouth Rock ancestry, coupled with the
obstinacy belonging to Scotch blood, enabled him to
cope with and overcome difficulties of circumstance,
climate and fortune, which would have discouraged
men of less sturdy natures. ‘

Mr. Grimes is a man above the medium height,
strong of frame, growing stout with years, has
brown eyes, wi1:h which he laughs constantly when
engaged in conversation, short, curling, brown hair,
and full beard and mustache, quite dark, save Where
the silvery lines of age appear.

Mr Grimes has never taken any active part in
politics, nor mingled any more in public life than his
large range of business compelled him, although very

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social in his habits and maintaining a large circle of
family and business friends with whom he has estab-
lished a character for integrity, reliability and suc-
cess, worth more to the man and to‘ his heirs than all
the thousands of dollars he has ever made.

At the age of thirty, Mr. Grimes married his first
wife, Maria Louise Robbins, daughter of P. F.
Robbins, a prominent citizen of Hartford, Connecti_
cut. This lady, then in the zenith of life, went with
him to Texas, where, for twenty years, she was the
light of his home, and where she died, beloved and
lamented, at the age of thirty-nine, leaving nine
children—four had preceded her and one immedi-
ately followed to her heavenly home. She was an
honored member of the Episcopal church, her firm
devotion to which had induced her husband to join
the same, where, for many years, he labored to build
up the service at home. He was a regular attendant
at diocesan conventions and several times chosen
delegate to the general convention of the Episcopal
church of the United States, at the first meeting of

which after the war, he was almost the only lay rep-
resentativefrom the _late seceded states, and, aided
and abetted by Bishop ‘Potter, of New York, and
the then Rev. Dr. Kerfoot, of Trinity College, now
Bishop of Pittsburg, his efforts to establish a better
feeling between the two branches of the church were
not without good results.

Mr. Grimes married, for his second wife, Mrs.
Irene Poole, widow of a well-known and highly
respected gentleman of Indianola, Texas, having
three children. She is a lady of culture and unas-
suming dignity, domestic in her tastes, and whose
well—conducted family testify to her noble qualities
as a wife and mother.

, Mr. Grimes has purchased a fine residence and
other real estate property in Kansas City, where he
intends to make his future home. His life has
indeed been a busy one, full of care and responsi-
bility, but abundantly rewarded financially. He
now purposes to devote his attention largely to his
family and to the good he may accomplish to society."

HON. HENRY H. CRAIG.

KANSAS CITY.

of fortune who rise to_ eminence. There is no

IT is not always those who are nursed in the lap
royal path to success. “Labor must conquer all
things.” Labor achieves grander victories, it wears
more durable trophies, it holds wider sway than the
conqueror. His name becomes tainted and his
monuments crumble. But labor converts his red
battle fields into gardens, and erects monuments sig-
nificant of better things. It rides in a chariot driven
by the wind; it writes with the lightning; it sits
crowned as a queen in a thousand cities, and sends
up its roar of triumph from a million wheels. It
makes the sinewy arm strong with liberty, the poor
man’s heart rich with content, and crowns the swar-
thy and sweaty brow with honor, dignity and
peace. '
The subject of this sketch, Henry H. Craig, born

in Woodford county, Kentucky, March 13, 1849,‘

fully realized all this, and early in life determined to
let no obstacles come between him and success if
earnest labor could overcome them. His parents,
Henry H. and Emily C. (Hancock) Craig, belong to

one of the oldest and most honored families of the
state of Kentucky, and can trace their genealogy
back several hundred years.

Henry was educated in his native state, and.

showed great taste for mathematics and the classics.
Although studiously inclined, he found time to
enjoy the out-door sports, such as hunting and fish-
ing, and was a very keen sportsman. When about
fourteen years of age he left home and joined Scott’s
Louisiana cavalry. When eighteen years old he
began to teach school, and followed this profession
for several terms. Like «a true philosopher, he found
that to conquer others he must first conquer self, and
bring all the elements of the physical in subjection to
the powers of his higher nature. This victory greatly
accelerated the road to self culture, to which-he bent
all the strong native energies of his soul.

In 1868 he began the study of law at Versailles,

Kentucky, with Governor Thomas P. Porter, and:

was licensed to practice law by two judges of the
supreme court of that state, Chief Justice Williams
and Judge Robinson. In 1869 he moved to Kansas

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 801

City, and began the practice of his profession. Mr.
Craig was elected by a large majority November, 1876,
to the Missouri House of Representatives from the 4th
District» of Jackson county. Although one of the

youngest members of the house, his power was felt, I

and he held a place there second to none and served
with universal satisfaction to all. He acted on sev-

eral important committees, among which were inter-

nal improvements, judiciary, federal relations and
manufactures.

He is Past Chancellor in the order of Knights of
Pythias. In religion Mr. Craig is quite liberal, grant-
ing to each one the right to act according to the die-
tates of his own conscience. Politically, he is, was,
and always expects to be a Democrat. He enjoys
single blessedness, of which he seems very proud,
and says he hopes to honor the ranks of “old bache-
lorhood” a long time.

Mr. Craig’s sketch would be incomplete if some
mention were not made of the company of “Craig
Rifles” of Kansas City. This superb military organ-

ization originated amidst the excitement of the labor
strike of July, 1877. The city was then without
available means of defense, and was hourly threat-
ened by riotous bands and gangs of vagrants made
bold by its helplessness. At this time the Honorable
H. H. Craig called around him a band of young m en
forthe defense of the city. The organization was
effected hurriedly one night in the new court house,
and Captain Craig had under his command one hun-
dred and sixty men rank and file. After the strike
was over the company disbanded, and the younger
members organized a permanent in dependent military
company, and out of compliment to their gallant
commander, named it “The Craig Rifles.”

Mr. Craig’s personal appearance is very command-
ing. He is about six feet high and weighs one hun-
dred and seventy—five pounds, is of fair complexion
and seems to enjoy perfect health. He is now but
twenty-eight years of age, but success has crowned
his efforts, and he bids fair to be one of the leading
men of Missouri.

RICHARD EARICKSON.

GILASGO 1’/V.

ICHARD EARICKSON, one of the oldest
R and most highly esteemed citizens of iHoward
county, was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, July
4, 1803. His parents, Judge James Earickson,
and Rebecca (Malone) Earickson, were natives of
Maryland, and emigrated from near Hagerstown, in
that state, about the commencement of the present
century to Kentucky. Schools were scarce at that
time, in that wild region, and the subject of our sketch
was only able to obtain the merest rudiments of an
English education in his youth.

Judge Earickson had three children, Sarah S., a
year older than our subject; and Gustavus, some years
his junior, who died before attaining his majority.
Gustavus, failing to manifest the same love of man-
ual labor that Richard did, was permitted to attend
the best schools and obtain a liberal education,while
his elder brother by hard work on the farm, laid the
foundation of his future financial success in life,
though in so doing he was deprived of those educa-
tional advantages which in after life he so much
regretted.

In 1819 our subject, together with his father’s
family and that of an uncle, Peregrine Earickson,
removed to Missouri and settled some ten or twelve
miles above Glasgow, in what was then Howard, but
is now Chariton county, on the eastern edge of Bow-
ling Green prairie. A few years after, the families of
the brothers removed, and settled about three miles
southeast of where the city of Glasgow now stands.
While in the Chariton bottom Richard attended school
a short time taught by one Ebenezer Rogers, a Bap-
tist minister, who also preached to the people on Sun-
days. ‘

In the campaign against the Mormons under Gen-
eral Clark, in 1839, Mr. Earickson was a soldier.
At the organization of the Glasgow branch of the
Exchange Bank of Missouri, Mr. Earickson became
a large stockholder and director, and as such contin-
ued during its existence. A greater portion of his
life was devoted to agricultural pursuits, and he was
truly a model far1ner——systematic and successful.

About the close of the late civil war, he purchased
abeautiful and comfortable residence just east of the

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city of Glasgow, to which he removed and engaged
in the banking business in Glasgow, forming a copart—
nership with John Harrison and Thomas E. Birch-
two old and tried friends—under the firm name of
Birch, Earickson & Co., where for a number of years
they transacted a large amount of business, the house
always maintaining the highest character in business
circles, for integrity and stability. This firm retired
from business in 1871, the Glasgow Savings Bank, a
stock company, to a certain extent taking its place,
in which Mr. Earickson was a stockholder until" his
death. .

In politics he was a Democrat, and was for more
than thirty years a consistent and active member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church (South), ever ready
to sustain its interests with his influence and his means.

IHe was married September 2, 1824, to Elizabeth,
daughter of John Harrison, Sr., and October 25,
18 5 3, to Sarah, daughter of Peregrine Earickson,
both of Howard county. "His first wife died many
years before his second marriage, and his second wife
still survives him. He was never blessed with chil-

dren, but he and his wives, the second one especially, ,

took great interest in them. Numbers, some of them
connected with the family and others not, were by

him largely and liberally aided in obtaining a fine edu-
cation. Among them we may mention Dr. William
A. Pile, lately deceased, who by Mr. Earickson’s
assistance was enabled to complete a medical educa-
tion that reflected honor upon its possessor, as well
as upon the generous helper. Other names might
be mentioned but it is unnecessary. He contributed
more than five thousand dollars to the Pritchett Insti-
tute in Glasgow, for the purpose of founding a seat
of learning for the benefit of the youth of the land.
Every interest of benevolence and religion had in
him a zealous and liberal friend. As in all matters
connected with this life, his motto and practice was
to be always ready for every emergency that might
arise, so, in the weightier matters of the great future,
he was always ready. Though with but a few min-
utes warning he was’ called away, his preparations
had been made.

On the 8th day of June, 1877, after attending to
the various duties of the day, enjoying’ his evening
meal and taking a short walk, he retired, complain-
ing of a slight pain. This rapidly increased to a
severe paroxysm, and in a few minutes he expired.
He left a large estate and the grateful fragrance of a
good name and useful life.-

JOHN M. BRYANT, M. D.

INDEPENDENCE.

OHN BRYANT was born, November 30, 1816,
near Lancaster, Garrard county, Kentucky. ’ He
is the son of George S. and Kesiah Bryant. His

grandfather, John Bryant, was a native of Virginia,
an early pioneer of Kentucky, and for some time a
representative of the legislature of that state.

John Bryant received his early educationin the
common schools of his day. Reared on the farm
and accustomed to daily toil, he embraced such
opportunities as presented themselves to acquire use-
ful knowledge, by reading such books as fell in his
way. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in

a drug store and .remained in that position for one '

year, after which he began the study of medicine
under Dr. John L. Price, a practicing physician of
Nicholasville. After a proper course of reading, he
attended the medical department of Transylvania
University, and graduated at the age of twenty-one,

in 1837. He commenced his professional career by
practicing with Dr. Huff, of Stanford, Kentucky,
an old reputable physician of that city, with whom
he stayed about one year. He then moved to Jessa-
mine county, about ten miles south of Lexington,
where he secured an extensive country practice and
remained about twelve years. In the fall of 1850
he removed to Independence, Missouri, where he
has since resided, engaged in alarge and laborious
practice. Ever since his graduation, he has applied
himself with great assiduity to his profession.

He received a strictly religious training from his
parents, both of whom were members of the Chris-
tian church. While attending school. at Lexington,

he united with the church of his parents, and has

lived a consistent_Christian life ever since, being at
present and since 1848 an elder in that denomina-
tion. His habits have been of the most temperate

THE UIVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 811

character in the use of alcoholic stimulant, and he has
never used tobacco. In politics he was a Whig dur-
ing the life of that party. ,He has since affiliated
with the Democrats. In stature he is six feet two
inches high, weighs about two hundred pounds and,
though now sixty-two years -of age, is very erect
and remarkably well preserved.

He was married, November 20, 1838, to Miss
Martha A. Vaughn, of Lancaster, Garrard county,
Kentucky.’ They have six children living, five sons
and one daughter: —

Thomas Vaughn Bryant was born, August 16,
1839, in Jessamine county, Kentucky, was educated

at Bethany College, West Virginia; when the war _.

began he was assisting his brother, George S.
Bryant, in teaching school at Independence, wrote
extensively for the Independence Sen/z'7ze/, and was
at one time its principal contributor, though his
name was never used; he also wrote for the Kansas
City Adz/erfzlser, was an independent and fearless
writer, and censured lawlessness from whatever
source it came, though he was a Union man, and
in those days and in that border county marauding

bands furnished abundant material for many scathing -

articles from his pen; his independence and unwil-
lingness to be controlled by cliques and rings,
caused his withdrawal from the editorial profession.
He then studied law under the instruction of Messrs.
Chrisman & Sawyer, both eminent lawyers, and

commenced practice in 1867; he is now the senior
member of the firm of Bryant & Holmes, Kansas
City, who have an extensive practice. He was one
of the prime movers in organizing the law library of
Kansas City, which has acquired considerable 1nagni-
tude and is a valuable adjunct to the private libraries
of the city.

George S. Bryant, A. M., the second son, was
born April 2, 184i ; is a graduate of Bethany Col-

H lege ; is now president of Christian Female College,

Columbia, Missouri; was married in July, 1:871, to
Miss Margaret Furgusson.

John Bryant, Jr., M.'D., was born March —,
1843; is a graduate of St. Louis Medical College
and also of Philadelphia Medical College, and is
now practicing medicine with his father at Indepen-
dence, Missouri, ‘was married, October 11, 1866, to
Miss Hattie Smart, daughter of Thomas Smart, an
old pioneer of Kansas City. "

William Lawrence Bryant was born April 5,
1845 3 received a good practical education; followed
civil engineering for five years, was married, May
29, 1871, to Miss Ella Hughes; and is now the jun-
ior member of the firm of Cunningham & Bryant,
Independence. C

Oliver P. Bryant was born November 23, 1848 ;
attended law school at Harvard College, and has
been practicing two years at Independence.

Martha A., the only daughter, is still at home.

HON. JOHN J. O’NEILL.

ST. LOUIS.

souri, June 25, 1846. Being the son of poor

parents, he received but little education. When
very young he -sold newspapers, and when thirteen
years old obtained a situation in the dry goods house
of William Bell. In 1867 he starteda gold pen man-
ufactory, continuing it four years, and in that connec-
tion became extensively and favorably known as a

JOHN J. O’NEILL was born in St. Louis, Mis-

business man.

At the organization of the Liberal Republican
party in Missouri he’ became its candidate for mem-
ber of the legislature, but was defeated by a small
majority. In 1872 he was elected to the legislature
by the Democrats and Liberal Republicans, and in

1874 and 1876 reelected by the Democrats. During
his three terms in the legislature he was distinguished
for the zeal and ability which he displayed in procur-
ing legislation in behalf of the working classes, being
the originator of laws to protect laborers on railroads
by making the company liable for wages if contractors
failed to pay 3 giving mechanics and tradesmen a lien,
without exemption, for materials furnished ; exempt-
ing two hundred dollars worth of goods from taxa-
tion, and to protect married women in the absolute
control of their separate property. He procured the
enactment of a law making the public school library

‘free, and appropriating five hundred dollars per

annum to provide proper reading matter for the con-

812 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

victs in the penitentiary. This last sufficiently attests
his appreciation of the good influence of education
and intelligence. In the sessions of the 29th general
assembly he served as chairman of the committee on
emigration, and as a member of that up fin insurance,
and procured the passage of laws to protect servants,
laborers and mechanics in the collection of wages,

and to protect the poor and ignorant against dishon-
est employment agents. p

November 30, 1872, he married a daughter 0
Solomon H. Robbins, of St. Louis, and has four
children. Mr. O’Neill stands very high in his native
city, as aself—made man of honesty, intelligence,
energy and kindness or heart.

JOSEPH HENRY LESLIE, M. D.

ST. LOUIS.

1848, in Montgomery County, Kentucky. His
father, Preston H. Leslie, was born in Clinton
county, Kentucky, a lawyer by profession, and for six

JOSEPH HENRY LESLIE.Was born April 15,

years Governor of Kentucky. His mother was Louisa .

Black, a native of Monroe county, Kentucky, and
daughter of Jerry Black, merchant and farmer, who
emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky early in the his-
tory of the latter territory. I

Joseph H. Leslie was reared in Barren county,
Kentucky. His literary advantages were of the very

best character, and he improved them with diligence ‘

and patient study. His classical course was completed
at what is now known as Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, from which institution he graduated with honor
in 1868. In 1869 he began the'study of medicine
under the instruction of Dr. C. C. Forbes, a promi-
inent physician of Glasgow, Kentucky. He afterward
attended medical studies and lectures at the Col-

lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and at
the University of Louisville. From the latter institu-
tion he graduated in March, 1872, with the highest

I honors of his class which numbered ninety, having
received the Professor T. S. Bell medal for the best.

written treatise on Bright’s disease of the kidneys.

He was, by competitive examination, appointed
physician to the Louisville city hospital, and dis-
charged its duties for eighteen months. In 1873 he
was elected physician to the city work house and
small pox hospital of Louisville, and served till 187 5,
In the latter year he removed to St. Louis, Missouri,
where he has since resided, engaged in the practice
of his profession. Though young in years and in
the practice, he has already attained an enviable rep-
utation in the medical faculty of that city, andhis suc-
cess in difficult surgical cases, has made his name
familiar to the people of St. Louis, and a large portion
of the territory tributary to that city.

  JAMES M. HURLEY, M. D.

CAR THA GE.

HE subject of this sketch, a native of Captina,
T Ohio, was bor.n August
8, 1836. He is the seventh of a family of twelve
children. His parents, Nehemiah and Elizabeth
Hurley, were natives of Washington county, Mary-
land. They immigrated to Ohio in 1832, and settled
in Belmont county. Dr. Hurley’s boyhood differed
but little from that of other country lads, assisting
his father on the farm in summer and attending dis-

Belmont "county,

trict school in winter, until he was eighteen years
old, when he was inspired with a desire of obtaining
a better education than he had or could obtain at
the schools in the county where he lived. His
father not being able to furnish means to enable him
to obtain_a collegiate course of study, he determined
to teach school. He obtained a certificate from the
proper authority, upon examination, but on account
of his youthful appearance he found it very difficult

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 813

to get a situation as teacher. He succeeded finally,
however, and taught acceptably a term of four
months. He afterward attended school six months,
and then became superintendent of a village school.
At the age of twenty he commenced the study of
medicine with R. M. Bane, M. D. After studying
one year his health failed, and for a time he almost
despaired of recovery ; but at the end of two years,
his health being restored, he attended lectures at the
University in Louisville, Kentucky, in the winter of
18 59. After the close of the term, in the spring of
1860, the excitement in regard to the oil business
along the Ohio river ran high, and he became a
member and secretary of an oil and mining company
which leased lands extensively along the Ohio river,
and commenced operations on the Little Kanawha
river, near the Burning Springs, in West Virginia.
The company had been at great expense in purchas-
ing and erecting machinery suitable for carrying on
the business, and had not more than made its
expenses up to the spring of 1862, but bright pros-
pects seemed to be in the future for the company,
until in June of that year, when they were rudely
awakened from their dreams of wealth by Imboden’s
command of Confederate cavalry, which swept
down the Little Kanawha Valley, and destroyed
nearly everything appertaining to the oil interest,
most of the works belonging to northern men.
This disaster left young Hurley nearly penniless, but
he decided to try again for a start in the world.
He raised a small amount of money by selling his
interest in the wreck, went to Cincinnati and com-
pleted his course of medical study at the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery in the following
winter, when he entered the United States army as
a medical officer from the state of Kentucky, and
was soon after transferred to the United States med-
ical department, as assistant—surgeon of the United
States army.

While Dr. Hurley was in the military service,
many incidents occurred which are worthy of note,
one of which we mention as a matter of considerable
interest. In the summer of 1865, Dr. Hurley was
placed in charge of the prison hospital at Louisville,
Kentucky. Among many ‘men of great notoriety
confined in that prison was the guerrilla, Quantrell,
whose conduct during the war is familiar to Missou-
rians, but how, when and where, he came to his
death is known to but few. While Dr. Hurley was
passing through the cells with his predecessor, on
his professional visit, his attention was called to

Quantrell. Upon making an examination of his
Wound he found that he had been shot through, the
ball entering his right breast and passing out near
the spinal column, and at every expiration of his
breath pus issued from the wound. The prisoner
had been neglected on account of some previous
trouble, but under Dr. Hurley’s' care he rapidly
recovered. The Doctor was ordered to the Depart-
ment of the Gulf before Quantrell was tried, and on
his departure the prisoner expressed his regret at his
leaving him, saying he was the only man that had
shown him any kindness since his capture. The
Doctor said he need not thank him, as he had only
raised him from the grave to grace the gallows, at
which Quantrell showed some emotion, and said he
hoped not. The Doctor, in the fall of I86 5, saw an
account of his execution in the Louisville journal.
He describes him as a young man of fine features,
rather small and sparely built, with every indication
of good breeding, and, from his appearance, would
expect him to be the last man to commit the crimes
of which he was guilty.

In February, 1867, Dr. Hurley obtained a leave
of absence, visited his parents in Ohio, and there
married Miss Laura J. Graham, who had been one
of his earliest friends. He then resigned from the
army, and going west traveled over Kansas and
Missouri, and finally settled in Sullivan county, in
the latter state. He there engaged‘ in selling goods
and practicing his profession for a few months, when,
in consequence of the prosperity of his mercantile
business, he quit the practice of medicine. After
six years it became apparent that his business was
keeping him too closely confined, as he suffered
greatly from bronchitis, the trouble of his early life.
He moved his family to Kirksville, Missouri and
spent a winter in Florida, returning in the spring
much improved in health. After the death of his
wife, which event occurred in July, 1874, he moved
to Milan, Sullivan county, Missouri, and organized
the banking house of ]. M. Hurley & Co., in which
business he was successful, but not liking the town,
and being alone in the world, his children having
died—the eldest in 1869 and the other in I874—he
concluded to travel for health and recreation, and
sold his banking interests to the firm of Hatfield,
Knight & McCullough. In the fall of 1876 he went
to Carthage, Missouri, and took an interest in the
Miners and Mechanics’ Bank, of which he is cashier.

Dr. Hurley has always been a Republican in
politics, but has never been active as a politician.

814

His career has been always marked by promptness
and integrity, and his success has been well deserved
by an industrious and u.pright life.

On the 31st of May, 1877, he was married to
Miss Ida B. Hewitt, of Sullivan county, Missouri.
Physically, Dr. Hurley is of medium height, stoutly
built, with dark hair and eyes, and a cheerful,
pleasant countenance. He is a gentleman of fine

PATTERSON

KANSAS

7 HE methodical arrangement and comprehen-
siveness of the encyclopedia of which this

‘sketch forms a part, necessitates that the number and

length of the articles should be duly considered, hence
the length and structure of this notice will depend,
not so much on the amount of materials accessible
to the writer, as on the effort to present with accu-
racy‘ and simplicity a brief picture of the life, doings,
opinions and habits of the individual. Want of
room compels the omission ‘of many interesting
details from this sketch. The outline will constitute
a memorial, not altogether unworthy of one in whom

the deficiencies of early advantages have been sup—.

plied by natural resource and energy.
eral features are here.

Patterson Stewart, the son of Madison and Celia
Stewart, was born in 183 5, near Mount Sterling,
Kentucky, that garden spot of richness and variety
where not only the fields and forests bear fruit wor-
thy of the soil, but where the households of men are
fruitful in sons and daughters of strength and beauty.
Although natives of Kentucky, his parent’s ancestry
were of those who tread with dauntless step the craigs
of the Scottish Highlands, and who have mingled
with the blood of American veins the elements of a
lofty strength and a superior courage. Patterson’s
father engaged largely in farming and especially stock
raising, for which the broad rich pasture lands of
Kentucky are so favorably adapted. The demands
of this enterprise were not so pressing, however, as
to retard his sustaining, with a keen interest, a
weighty share in all the contests of the political com-
pacts of his section. A member of the Old Line
Whig party, he was twice elected to the legislature of
his state, fulfilling his duties to the satisfaction and

But the gen-

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL IDICTIOIVAIPY.

native ability, scholarly tastes and high culture, of
quick wit and keen perceptions, genial and kind in
his intercourse with all. His domestic relations are
of the most happy character 3 his wife is a lady of
culture and refinement, adorning his home -with a
true womanhood, and presiding over the household
with that quiet dignity of manner which -gives an
indefinable charm to the home circle.

STEWART.

CITY.

pride of his district. Considering the almost equal
distribution of party power in his district at that time,
we must conclude that his success depended on per-
sonal qualities of a worthy cast. Later he filled the
office of sheriff for several years. T

Patterson, the subject of this notice, attended the
schools of Mt. Sterling, and by assiduous study
acquired a fair English education, which, to a great
degree he has extended and amplified with pleasure
and profit through subsequent years. At the age of
seventeen he quitted school and engaged to teach out
an unfinished term for his former preceptor. Natu-
rally timid, it required no small capital of determina-
tion to enter upon the undertaking. With this stim-
ulant he succeeded, receiving as compensation a few
dollars per month, which he paid to a hand employed
in his stead on the farm. From childhood up he had
been noted for a strong predilection for horses, which
as he grew older, ripened into a passion.
ness for the horse, his intelligent sympathy with all
the instincts of the noble animal, led him to watch
with the gaze of a lover every fine horse which he
saw, whether under the guidance of the bit and spur
amid the gay cavalcade, or sporting in proud unre-
straint on the smooth meadow. To many, no doubt,
his interest in the horse seemed unreasonable and
excessive, but they certainly misconceived his pur-
pose. He engaged in that with an eye to his future,
as the business of his life. He knew that minds of
no mean order had been interested in the same work
before him; and he was assured that well directed
efforts would add value and interest to that most help-
ful gift of God to man, and render service to the pub-
lic, as well as open up an avenue for his own personal
gain. Seeking no aid at his sire’s hands, and having

His fond— ii

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL _DICTIO./VARY. 815

nothing in the way of capital, he taught another term
of school at the rate of thirty dollars per month. At
the close of that engagement he was employed as
chief clerk by a smelting firm known as the Estill
Steam Furnace Company. At the year’s end he had
saved out of a salary of two hundred dollars the neat
sum of one hundred and twenty-seven dollars. He
then studied comparative anatomy and medicine in
the office of his brother-in—law, Dr. ]ohn T. Clark,
of Stanton, Kentucky.

Patterson Stewart had now reached manhood,
and realizing how much depended on his ow11
unaided toil, he had recourse to book—keeping for a
house in Stanton at aliberal salary.

About the year 18 5 5, after incurring the expenses
of a somewhat rambling and tardy journey, Mr.
Stewart reached Kansas City, Missouri, which he has
ever since made his home. Without sufficient means
at his command to engage at once, profitably in the
training and sale of horses, he was forced to Wait
with his cherished project. He therefore commenced
at fair pay to teach a public school in the then young
city. His connection with that same school, in that
capacity continued for seven years, which speaks with
a loud, strong voice of hisefficiency. At this time
he always had on hand one or more fine horses, in
the training and care of which he excited universal
admiration. He also carried on no inconsiderable
traffic in the western horse and mule market, by
which he gained slowly yet surely the money requi-
site for the enlargement of his enterprise. During
this period he made the purchase of a tract of land
of the Shawnee Indians in Kansas, negotiating directly
with Silas Dougherty, a noted chief of that tribe.
For the execution of the deed of conveyance he paid
forty dollars, quite a contrast with the present fee.
He also bought real estate within the corporate lim-
its of Kansas City. At the beginning of the Rebel-
lion Mr. Stewart put aside every‘ other engrossment,
and laid the foundation of his now extensive trade.
He supplied the great throng of American and l\/Iex—
ican traders that then operated in the “ New West”
with horses, mules and cattle. With remarkable
foresight he anticipated the wants of the Govern-
ment and prepared himself to meet them, supplying
squadron on squadron with staunch and nervy steeds.
Mr. Stewart needed no chartered or patented privi-
lege to enlist confidence and secure patronage. In
his choice of animals for different branches of ser-
vice he exhibited plainly how far his sagacity and
experience had placed him before the majority of his

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competitors. He knew what different proportions
and lines of character a horse intended for speed,
endurance and courage ought to have, wholly dis-
tinct from those needed for slow draft and quiet
paths. He needed only to hear the ringing tattoo of
the iron-clad hoof on the trampled street in the gloom
of night to distinguish its fitness and place for work.
The engineer who has guided his fire breathing steed

_over the steel-lapped ties for years, does not better

understand its conformation and the office of its
parts than does Mr. Stewart that of the horse.’
Whether you go among the mammoth percherons
that draw the rumbling drays at the St. Louis wharf,
or among the compact and heavy—maned normans of
the transfer teams, or visit the pebbled avenues of
San Francisco, where clean limbed-roadsters make
the fire fly, you will find many that have passed
through the hands of Mr. Stewart. His untiring
industry in this sphere has contributed largely to the
public good. Situated on the border, he often sus-
tained considerable loss from the marauding bands
that infested the country. For protection he built
high palisades about his corrals, and established a
nightly sentinel.

In 1864 he took an active part in raising a com-
pany of militia for the defense of local interests, and
was appointed Ist lieutenant. The company did
good service and received compensation from the
United States government. In 1865 Mr. Stewart
acted in the capacity of deputy marshal of the court
of common pleas, and the following year was elected
to the same office. The only objection made to his
official life was that he would stop to buy every good
horse he saw. Mr. SteWart’s business contracts have
been varied and extensive, bringing him in constant
association with men from all quarters of the globe.

His religious ideas are of a very liberal type, and
favor strict morality of life. Without being extreme
he is an earnest Democrat.

Mr. Stewart was married in 1865 to Miss Mary
C. Holmes, daughter of Robert]. and Mary A.
Holmes, who are old and respected residents of
Kansas City. The issue of Mr. Stewart’s marriage
is three sons—Robert ]., John T. and Thomas M.
Mrs. Stewart is a lady of high social and domestic
virtues, and of charming personal appearance.

Mr. Stewart is slightly above medium stature,
possesses an athletic form and handsome face,
carrying whiskers as black as the raven’s
wing. His countenance is expressive. He is warm-
hearted and generous in his affections and displays

816 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

an unfaltering attachment to his friends. Feeling
the weight of obligations brought by every relation
of life, he tries to discharge it to the best of his abil-
ity. Mr. Stewart is now the senior member of the
well known firm of Stewart & Ward, wholesale and
retail horse and mule dealers, situated on the west
side of Delaware street, Kansas City. The firm

‘West.

does annually the largest business in that line in the
The principal contributors to his success are
honesty, unremitting attention and a natural talent
for the business. At his spacious and beautiful
home Mr. Stewart now meets his many friends and
shares with them the rich fruits of an industrious and
energetic career.

SYLVESTER TUNNICLIFF SMITH.

KANSAS CITY.

YLVESTER TUNNICLIFF SMITH was born
June 20, 1840, in Buffalo, New York, being the
eldest son of Emery W. and Louisa (Tunnicliff)
Smith. Both parents were also natives of Buffalo and
of English origin, and the grandparents on both sides
were among the early settlers at Buffalo. The family
resided at Buffalo until the subject of this sketch was
about eighteen years old, and he was educated in that

city. In 1858, with their family of three boys, Syl-

vester, Albert and Charles, they removed to Kansas.‘

When the war of the rebellion began in 1861,
Sylvester, who was then about twenty-one years old,
entered as a private in Company B, Ist Kansas.

In about six months he was promoted to a
lieutenancy, and was subsequently appointed cap-
tain, and during the last year of his service was
assistant adjutant general on the staff of Brigadier--
General George W. Dietzler.

In the fall of 1863 he withdrew from the army
and took the position of auditor of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, the construction of which was then just
commenced at Wyandotte. This position he has
continued to occupy through all changes and all
managements, and as its auditor has seen the Kansas
Pacific come into existence and develop into one of
the most important lines of railway in the West.

In 1873 he married Miss Zillah M. Andrews, of
Chicago—a lady of culture and fine accomplishments.

Mr. Smith is Very_decidedly Western in his char-
acteristics, and enjoys the reputation of being a cor-
rect and systematic man of business. He has great
confidence in the future" of Kansas City, which he
has made his permanent home. He has built for
himself one of its finest residences, on Ioth street, on
the verge of the bluff—a picturesque and command-
ing location.

J. G. MCCLELLAN.

.97: LOUIS.

LITTLE over a quarter of a century ago there
A landed from a steamboat at the St. Louis wharf,
a poor and unknown young man whose worldly pos-
sessions consisted of $50 in money, a collegiate edu-
cation, a naturally brilliant intellect, an indomitable
will and all the pertin_acious industry of a New Eng-
lander. Though born in what was then a Southern
state, he was the son of a New England family, and
from his parents had imbibed those elements of success
which have made him one of the favored sons of the

West and one of the most useful citizens of St. Louis.

We say “ one of the most useful citizens,” because
there is not a property owner in St. Louis who will
not soon have to look to him for a clear title to his pro-
perty. Every one who has had occasion to enter
what was once the labyrinth of land titles in the city
and county of St. Louis, will recognize the truthful-
ness of our statement in thus heading this sketch of
Josiah G. McClellan, with whose title abstracts and
property index nearly every land owner in that sec-

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tion has practical knowledge. A reference to his
system of records will demonstrate its utility: It is
known as the “property plat system,” in contradis-
tinction to the one formerly used, and might be
designated as the “new system.” Mr. McClel-
lan i. e., gets from the official records the date and
references of original government grants with authen-
ticated plat, and on this foundation he constructs his
claims of title to each piece of land. And, While not
ignoring the names of the parties to whom granted
and surveyed, or to whom transmitted, he so accu-
rately bounds and locates the property in his index
and plats as to render it impossible for it to be lost in
the abstract of title. Next he takes the subdivisions
of the property with the plats, and, as streets (in the
city) may have been opened and blocks and lots
established, records accurately the number of block
and lots of such subdivisions, with the precise deeds
pertaining thereto. Then from the same authenti-
cated records taking the different deeds of transmis-
sion of every foot of said property, keeps its perfect
lineage, so to speak.

No wonder the courts of St. Louis county have
their records crowded with litigations involving the
title to property. And no Wonder the owners feel so
grateful to Mr. ,McClellan for his herculean labors in
unraveling the tangled thread of proprietorship. But
he has succeeded so well, that, although his indices
are not completed to date, and he may die, or for other
cause leave the work unfinished, his records are so
authentic, his plats so perfect, and the property so
well recorded from its beginning through all its sub-
divisions and changes, up to within a few years back,
that his successors may carry on the work to‘ a grand
completion. Already of incalculable benefit to the
city, his vast accumulation of records will become
one of the institutions of St. Louis. For he is still
laboring in his great enterprise, and with his corps of
skilled clerks is constantly progressing in his expen-
sive undertaking. Deeds accumulate on St. Louis
records at an average of fifty daily ; but he is track-
ing them with the perseverance of a ‘blood hound,
and at no distant day he can sit down to rest, leaving
to his family and city the most -valuable monument
to his industry that a life—time of labor and means
could build.

Josiah G. McClellan was born in Wheeling, Vir_
ginia, October I4, 1824. His father, Samuel Mc-
Clellan, was well known to the writer of this sketch.
He was a shoe and leather dealer, was highly respected
and venerated as one of Wheeling’s best citizens.

His mother was Miss Griswold, of Weathersfield, Con-
necticut, who died when our subject was but an
infant. Both his parents were natives of New Eng-
land, and moved to the West at an early day. josiah
was educated at a private school in Wheeling, in a
seminary opened through the means and influence of
his father and a few other gentlemen, who sent to
New England for a teacher—-for there was no system
of public instruction in Virginia at that day. The
boy was afterward ‘sent to Williams College, in Wil-
liamstown, Massachusetts, Where he graduated in
1847, with the honors of his class, being orator for
the valedictory.

He immediately entered the law office of Morgan
Nelson, in Wheeling, to study law. Mr. McClellan
at once took sides in the political discussions of that
day, and greatly to his fearless efforts in that behalf,
the men of the present’ “ West Virginia,” are indebted
for the system of public schools which blesses the
State. Virginia then was a state in which aristocracy
ruled. Her county court system vested royal prerog-
atives in the county judges, who chose their own
successors, and thus perpetuated their royal decrees.
Universal education was them tabooed, and only the
wealthy few could give their children an education.
Mr. McClellan at once attached himself to the poorer
classes and waged a fearless warfare against this dis-
crimination. In thus doing, he made bitter enemies
of the county judges and their aristocratic defenders.
Through the press and on the stump he favored a
system of free schools. Several times were decrees
issued for his prosecution for contempt of court.
But he was on the side of right, and so convincing
and clear were his arguments, that aristocracy finally
was overpowered, and the masses became the rulers.
Free schools were adopted, and Mr. McClellan had
the proud satisfaction of seeing the doors of educa_
tion thrown wide open to the children of rich and
poor alike.

He finished his preparations for the practice of
the law in Wheeling, and in 1850 removed to St.
Louis, with only $50 in money. He was appointed a
clerk in theoffices of Mr. Peter A. Ladue, assessor
of the county, where he remained one year, making
himself familiar with the land titles of the county.
In 18 51 he was admitted to the practice of law in St.
Louis, and soon afterward formed a law partnership
with William S. Hillyer, subsequently an officer on
General Grant’s staff. Judge Moody, afterward of
the circuit court, was admitted into the firm, and
under the name of McClellan, Moody & Hillyer,

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they built up an extensive and lucrative practice.
General Grant at one time occupied a desk in their
office. This partnership was dissolved.

Josiah G. McClellan married Miss Mary E. Sharp,
daughter of F..C. Sharp, Esq., of Hopkinsville, Ken-
tucky, who was one of the noted lawyers of that
State. They have had six children, only three of
whom survive. The war of the Rebellion necessi-
tated the removal of Mr. McClellan to Kentucky.
On_his return to St. Louis in 1863, he found himself
broken in fortune, like many other good men.
Almost penniless, but dauntless as ever, he began
again to earn a living for his family, determined, if
his life was spared, to recover the lost ground. At
this time he began the great work of his life. Devot-
ing his time and talents to the thorough investigation

of land titles, and mastering the laws.relating thereto,

, he began the preparation of his celebrated system of

land titles already alluded to. To the successful

: completion of that work he has devoted his life.

He has always acted with the Democratic party,

— but while an active partisan, has never allowed the

proffers of official preferment to lure him from his
office duties, nor political struggles to call him away,
further than give attention due from every good citi-
zen to the affairs of state. Mr. McClellan’s social
qualities have made him a host of friends. But
neither these nor the attractions of his family circle
are allowed to interfere with his great work. Almost
ceaselessly in the office on Pine street, he is still to be
found at his labor, as industrious, as active and eneg-
getic as any of his young clerks.

LYSANDER ROYSTER MOORE.

KANSAS CITY.

YSANDER ROYSTER MOORE was born
L January 3, 1831, in Mecklenburg county, Vir-
ginia. His father, Thomas Moore, was a man of
sterling ‘worth, noted for the purity _of his life and his
great goodness of heart. His mother was Judith
Royster, a lady descended from an old and honor-
able Virginia family, a woman of high spirit, uncom-
mon strength of mind and decision of character.
Thomas Moore and his wife settled on a farm in
Mecklenburg county, where the subject of this
sketch and five other children, three sons and two
daughters were born. The father’s health failing,
the care and education of the children. devolved
entirely upon the mother, who abundantly proved
her fitness for so responsible a station. The noble
precepts she taught her children were fully exempli-
fied in her own pure life and character, and she had
the satisfaction of seeing her principles deeply
imbedded in the character of her offspring.

The early education of Lysander R. Moore was
entrustedto his paternal uncle, whose instruction
was of a substantial and practical character, fitting
the young man for the high position he was so soon
to take. On his mother’s side he came from a fam-
ily of merchants—having at one time no less than
five uncles engaged in mercantile pursuits. It was
his youthful ambition to be a successful merchant, to

. wage battle with the difficulties of business life and

win, as his Royster uncles had done before him.
In 18 51 he left home and entered into business with
two uncles, Ajax and Royal Royster, merchants of
Montgomery, Alabama, and well known throughout
the state. .

In the summer of 1854 he met Miss Mary
Thomas, of Lowndesborough, Alabama, at the Sul-
phur Springs,and-an attachment springing up between
them, they were married the following winter. A

He spent much time in travel after his marriage
and visited many points of interest in America. His
father-in-law was a wealthy cotton planter and
induced him to" quit mercantile life and engage in the
culture of cotton. He was very successful as a
planter,‘ in which occupation he continued until two
or three years after the _war. Society having been
thrown into a chaotic state by the war, he deter-
mined to seek a more quiet home, and purchased
the well known Junius Ward farm near Georgetown,
Kentucky, moving his family there in the summer of
1867. He remained in Kentucky four years,
engaged in farming and stock growing to a limited
extent. This life became monotonous to him and he
began to long for more active employment. His
brother, L. T. Moore, had moved to Kansas City in
1870, and had become a partner in the house of Bul-

I and most costly fabrics.
advertised in the St. Louis local papers, challenging I

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lene Brothers & Emery.. He wrote such flattering
accounts of the business prospects that Mr. L. R.
Moore determined to sell his possessions in Ken-
tucky and try his fortune in the New VVest. Accord-
ingly, in the fall of 1871, he left Kentucky and took
up his residence in Kansas City, where he had
previously purchased a home. In January, I872,he
purchased the interest of L. Bullene, now of Law-
rence, Kansas, and immediately took control of the
financial department of the firm of Bullene, Moores
& Emery, a position he still holds. A history of
this great dry goods house would be of interest in
this sketch, but space forbids. Suffice it to say that
its growth has been rapid and unprecedented. It
was established in 1863 in a house 75XI00 feet. It
now occupies five floors with an area of forty-four
thousand five hundred square feet. Their sales have
increased from $75,000 in 1863 to nearly $1,200,000
in 1877. They buy at first hands—manufacturers
or their agents~—and carry in their stock the finest
Repeatedly the house has

competition with the best houses in that city. The
wholesale department is in charge of Mr. T. B. Bul-
lene, the retail in that of Mr. L. T. Moore, the
financial department is conducted by Mr. L. R.
Moore, and the New York office by Mr. Emery.

In personal appearance Mr. Moore is attractive.
He is six feet in height, weighs one hundred and
eighty -pounds, with florid complexion, light brown
eyes and hair and -a long mustache of the same
color 3 a manner frank, open and genial, quick
spoken, social and hospitable, fond of books and
society, he is a gentleman fitted to adorn any circle

in which he moves. As a business man, he is fair

«of the family.

and honorable; as a citizen and Christian, he is
above reproach. His wife is, an intellectual woman
of learning and culture. Her great-grandfather,
William Thomas, a Marylander, was distinguished
for his mathematical skill and was an astronomer of
note in his day. He constructed an orrery or plan-
etarium of his own invention, which was, however,
sold after his death and passed out of the possession
He was a soldier of the Revolution
and fought bravely, as did his son, her grandfather,
William Thomas. The latter had constructed for
himself, with modifications suggested by himself,

A the first cotton gin used in North Carolina, out of

which he amassed a considerable fortune. He was
a representative in the North Carolina Legislature
for many years, which, together with his fame as a
Revolutionary soldier and his high moral character,
gave him prominence throughout the state. Her
father, George Thomas, was a member of the legis-
lature in North Carolina for many years. He moved
to Alabama in 1840 and became a cotton planter.
He did not like political life, but preferred the pleas-
ures of reading and study, to which he devoted much
time. He was fond of books and spent many of his
latter years in travel. Mrs. Moore is a modest,
reserved, conscientious, pious woman, a devoted
wife and mother, and a kind,,true friend. They
have had eight chidren, five of whom, three sons
and two daughters, are now livi_ng.

Mr. Moore’s home is one of the most elegant in
the city, adorned with all that can make home
attractive—a handsome and valuable library, pic-
tures, paintings, rare works of art, articles of virtu,
and those thousand nameless attractions that make
home valuable.

 

LUTHER TODD COLLIER.

CHZLLICO THE.

HE subject of this sketch was born December
T 16, 1825, in Franklin, Howard county, Mis-
souri. His father, Lewis Collier, was a native of
Madison county, Kentucky, and followed through
life agricultural pursuits mainly. His ancestors
were from Virginia, and immigrated. to Kentucky at
an early day in the settlement of that region. He

emigrated from Kentucky in 1824, and settled in I

Howard county, Missouri. In 1829 he moved to
Randolph county, in 1853 to Livingston county,
and in 1876 to Ellis county, Texas. Theimaiden
name of the mother of our subject was Judith Cor-

-nelius, a native of Jessamine county, Kentucky,

and daughter of Abner Cornelius, a farmer and
trader, who emigrated from Kentucky in 1824 and
settled in Howard county, Missouri. He after-

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ward moved to Randolph county, where he died.

The subject of our memoir was raised on the family
farm, and as a boy worked hard. His education was
liberal, and in 1846 he graduated from the Univer-
sity of Missouri, at Columbia, taking the highest
honors of his class and delivering the valedictory
address. He then entered on the reading of law
under Hon. W. T. Wood, a prominent jurist of the
Lexington bar. In the fall of 1847 he went to St.
Louis and continued his legal reading under the
direction of Gamble & Bates, leading lawyers of
that city. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar and
opened an office in St. Louis. In 1851: he went to
Huntsville, Randolph county, where he practiced
law until the fall of 18 52, when he moved to Chilli-
cothe, where he has since resided, engaged in the

HENRY C.

KANSAS

was born in Beerfelden, Grand Duchy of Hesse-
Darmstadt, Germany, July I2, 1830. His father,
George Kumpf, was a manufacturer of broadcloths
at Beerfelden. In Henry’s early boyhood he atten-
ded the elementary schools of his native town, finally

’ | ‘HE subject of this biography, Henry C. Kumpf,‘

advancing to a higher grade of instruction in the

institutions of Michelstadt. During his boyhood,
especially during his school days, he evinced a high
development in boyish mischief, and his ebullition
of spirits and love of practical jokes often placed
him under censure, but never severe punishment, for
the same love of truth and honorable impulses filled
the heart of the boy then, as have characterized the
life and acts of the man even to his present mature
years.

Immediately upon leaving the high school at
Michelstadt, he went into a wholesale dry goods
house at F rankfort-on-the-Main, where he remained
until 1849, when, at the age of nineteen years, he
left the “ Faderland” and came to America, select-
ing the state of Missouri and the city of St. Louis
as his home. At the latter named place he found
employment in a grocery store for several years,
afterward securing and during the war efficiently
performing the duties" of the position of shipping
clerk at the St. Louis Arsenal.

active control and management of an extensive prac-
tice. He has never held political office, but has
taken considerable interest in educational matters,
and was for some years a curator of the ‘University
of Missouri. He took the degree of A. M. at that
institution in 1849.

He is a Democrat but was originally a Whig,
remaining in that party until its d-issolution. He
voted for Bell and Everett in 1860. During the
war he was a Southern man in sympathy and prin-
ciple. In religion he is a member of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church.

He was married, in June, 1856, to Miss Lizzie’
A. Fuqua, a native of Logan county, Kentucky,
daughter of Samuel Fuqua, a farmer of that county,
originally from Kentucky.

KUMPF.

CITY.

Mr. Kumpf settled at Kansas City in 1865,
directly after the close of the war, and there held
the position of United States Storekeeper from 1868
to 1871. In the spring of 1872 he was popularly
nominated for, and at the election elected to, the
office of auditor of the city, a position he held four
successive terms and with the "greatest satisfaction,
each time receiving the support of both parties, as
in every election he ran far ahead of the party ticket
on which he had been placed.

Mr. Kumpf is not demonstrative in political mat-
ters and, unlike a majority of his countrymen, has
never connected or identified himself with the vari-
ous secret labor or political associations of the coun-
try. The Republican party has always had his
ardent support and cooperation, and at the present
time he expresses a warm admiration for President
Hayes and his policy.

In 1871 Mr. Kumpf went abroad, sought his

‘native land, and spent a few months at his native

place, amid the scenes associated with his youth and
pregnant with fragrant memories of early boyhood,
returning again_to America with increased love for
the country of his adoption and the staunch young
city, his future home.

From the spring of 1876 to 1877 Mr. Kumpf
was engaged in the real estate business in Kansas

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City, but in April of the latter year was again called

, topublic station, being given the highest office, next

to the mayoralty, in the gift of his fellow-citizens,
that of comptroller of the city of Kansas.
Physically Mr. Kumpf is robust, easy moving,
and, like a majority of his countrymen has good
health to promote a full enjoyment of life and
its blessings. His face reflects his good humor
and candor of opinion, while his manner indi-
cates fully, and to all, that sterling integrity which
has won for Henry C. Kumpf the title of an honest

man, who has never been found wanting, either in
public or private station.

Mr. Kumpf haslbeen married twice: first, in
1856, to Jacobine Pfifer, who died in 1862, leaving
three children: Emma, born in November, 1866 ;
George, born in March, 1858, and Fred W., born
in August, 1860, all of whom at present are living.
In 1871 a second marriage was contracted with Mrs.
Christine (Nenco) Kumpf, who was spared to him
scarcely a year, leaving him again wifeless but sur-
rounded by his family.

REV. FATHER JAMES A. DUNN.

KANSAS CITY.

(\-Vhelan) Dunn, was born in Adams county,

Pennsylvania, September 25, 1840. His mother
was of Irish descent; his father was born in county
Kildare, Ireland, in 1820, and immigrated to America
in 1834, living for some years in Cumberland coun-
ty, Maryland, from whence he removed to Adams
county, Pennsylvania, and eventually to Dubuque,
Iowa, where he settled in 1848 and died in 1872.
Of his three children, two only are living: James A.
and Rev. Father William W. Dunn, pastor" of St.
Irenaeus church, at Lyons, Iowa, an able and highly
respected priest of the Dubuque Diocese.

James attended the common schools of Dubuque
and the Brothers’ school, under the jurisdiction of
Bishop Losas, until he was sixteen years of age, at
which time he assumed charge of his father’s store,
and managed the business ‘successfully for about
four years. During this time he gave considerable
attention to his studies, being very desirous of
acquiring knowledge and cultivating his mind. When
abouttwenty years of age, with his father’s assistance
he entered into partnership with an experienced

JAMES A., oldest child of Owen and Mary

- miner, for the purpose of prospecting for lead near

Dubuque. Their operations’ were exceptionally suc-

~ cessful; they soon opened up what was afterward

known as the “Dunn Lead Mine,” for a long time
the richest in that vicinity, and which yielded him,
as the result of one year’s labor, about $10,000.
True to that ambition for literary culture which
had led him to devote his leisure time to study, dur-
ing his four years of trade, all his spare time was

now given to books, his attention being specially
directedto English philology. In August, 1862, he
went to Niagara Falls, New York, and commenced
a thorough classical course in the “ Seminary of our
Lady of Angels,” located near Suspension Bridge,
at the same time occupying the chair of rhetoric and
history in that institution. Here he remained, dili-
gently pursuing his studies and discharging the duties
of his professorship, until the seminary was destroyed
by fire in 1864, when he entered at St. Vincent’s
College, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and continued
his course in classics, philosophy and theology, until
his ordination by Archbishop Kendrick, of St. Louis,
in St. Vincent’s church, July 4, 1868. This was the
supreme hour of his life, for in it was fulfilled all the
longing aspiration of his youth—in which he felt
moved by a divine impulse toward the priestly office
—and for which his irreproachable moral life was
no unfitting preparation. After. a vacation of two
months, during which time he celebrated his first
mass in the cathredral at Dubuque, in the presence
of his parents, he was appointed to St. Lawrence
O’Toole’s church, St. Louis, to take the place of
Father Henry during his absence at Rome. On
Father Henry’s return, Father Dunn was assigned to
St. Malachia’s church, St. Louis, where he remained
nearly five years and was then appointed to the
charge of St. Patrick’s church, Kansas City, Mis-
souri, where he commenced his labors_ March 4,
1873. Upon assuming charge of St. Patrick’s,
Father Dunn found a congregation financially poor,
and unprovided with a suitable church building.

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This has now become, mainly through his own per-
sonal efforts, the largest congregation in Kansas
City, and its church work and charitiesreach a
greater number of individuals than any other. To
this church he has been a living inspiration, reviving
all its interest and creating means by his own energy
and indomitable perseverance, as well as by his own
generousgifts, through which has been secured the
present beautiful location on the corner of Eighth
and Cherry streets, and the largest, and when com-
pleted the finest, church edifice in Kansas City.

The school which he has founded,. and in
which nearly two hundred children are receiving
instruction under the supervision of the Sisters of
Charity, is largely supported by his own private
means. He has purchased the sightly grounds on
the opposite corner from his new church building,

and will soon commence the erection of a convent

and school buildings for both sexes. The amount
already raised and expended in buying and i1nprov-
ing the grounds, and erecting the present church
edifice and residence, exceeds $40,000. The church
and convent site occupy a very commanding posi-
tion on the bluff overlooking the great bend of the
Missouri river, affording a magnificent view of the
valley for miles, and when completed will add
greatly to the appearance of the city from the river.

Father Dunn is still comparatively a young man,
and his five years pastorate of St. Patrick’s‘ give
ample promise that, should his life be spared, he will
leave such a monument behind him in the beautiful
structures and thoroughly appointed schools of his
parish, as will long perpetuate his memory in the
hearts of his parishioners.

AUTHER JAMES KELLY.

KANSAS CITY.

RTHUR JAMES KELLY was born in the
A township of Brock, Ontario county, Canada,
February 8, 1847. His father, Arthur Kelly, was
born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1782. When about
thirty years of age he immigrated to Canada and
became one of the first settlers in the township of
Brock. He married, in 1827, Miss Susan McGraw,
whose parents immigrated from Ireland when she was
a child and settled in Ontario county. Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly are still living in Canada. They have
had twelve children, Arthur James being the ninth.
He was accustomed to hard work on his father’s
farm until sixteen years of age, but had very few
advantages for education. Not contented with this
condition, and having an ambition to obtain an
education, he left home without his parents’ consent,
in the spring of 1863, to make his own way in the
world With ten" dollars, which he had earned by
cutting and selling cordwood, he was enabled to go
to Buffalo and from thence to Livingston county,
New York, where he remained for about two years
and a half, during which time he attended three
terms of school of four months each, and savedone
hundred and thirty dollars in money which he had
earned as wages by working on a farm. After
making a short visit to his parents in Canada in the

fall of 1865, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
attended school for three months at St. Xavier’s
College, in charge of the Jesuit brothers. He then
went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he attended
the public schools four months, paying his way by
manual labor.

Although it had previously been his intention to

study law, he now became interested iniarchitectural.

work and engaged to M. D. LaMoin to learn the
business. His brother, Eugene J. Kelly, assisted
him in paying for his board, while he worked in Mr.
LaMoin’s office without pay for six months, after
which he remained one year longer, receiving as
wages five dollars per week. He then worked at
the carpenter’s trade for six months, under the
instruction of a good mechanic, for the purpose of
getting a practical knowledge of building. ‘The
four months following he was employed at bridge
building on the Louisville and Memphis Railroad.
Returning to Cincinnati, he worked in a sash,
blind and door factory six months, and then engaged
to Walter & Steward, a well known firm of archi-
tects, with whom he remained one year. He was
then in the office of Anderson & Hannaford two
years. While with this firm they were the architects
of the Cincinnati Work House, one of the finest

  in the common schools of Wheeling.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL .DICTIO./VARY. 823

structures of the kind in the United States. His
efficiency and ability now secured good wages for
him, and he was enabled to pay his brother five
hundred dollars, which he had received to aid him
in learning the business and making a start.

He went to St. Louis early in the fall of 1870,
and was engaged by DeBond & McNan1ara to assist
in getting up plans for the new City Hall. From
there he went to Kansas City, in November of the
same year, and worked at his profession with A. B.
Cross until June, 1871, when he commenced busi-
ness for himself, which he has since continued, and
already established himself as one of the best archi-
tects in the West. He has been the architect in
Kansas City of many of its finest buildings, among
which may be named the Orphan Asylum, High
School, Stock Exchange, Merchants Exchange, etc.

To his profession Mr. Kelly gave almost his
entire attention until January, 1877)“-when he bought

the Kansas City Iron Works, located on the corner
of Charlotte and Front streets. He has since added
many improvements and introduced new machinery,
and it is now considered as one of the substantial
manufacturing industries of Kansas City.

Mr. Kelly enjoys the full confidence of the peo-
ple and has a constantly increasing trade, doing the
work for the Kansas Pacific Railroad and other cor-
porations. In politics he is a Republican, and
belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of
Pythias and Odd Fellows.

Though young in years, Mr. Kelly is regarded
as one of the substantial and energetic business men
of Kansas City, and an example of what pluck and
true grit can accomplish. He was married, October
6, 1874, to Miss Allie McBride, daughter of Austin
and Catherine McBride, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
They have one child, A. E. A. Kelley, nearly two
years of age.

L. P. CUNNINGHAM.

]0PL]./V.

' P. CUNNINGHAM was born January 15,
L. 1845, at Wheeling, then in Virginia, now in
West Virginia. He is the third of five children born
to John P.Cunningham and Elizabeth McCune. His
father is a distinguished physician of Joplin, Missouri,
and his mother a devout Christian lady, a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church. Both are of Scotch-
Irish descent.

L.‘ P. Cunningham received a limited education
At the age of
fifteen he entered the printing house of the Iroquois
Rcpuélzka/2, published at Middleport, Iroquois county,
Illinois, and his education was completed while
acquiring a knowledge of -his trade.
his apprenticeship he pursued the occupation of a
journeyman printer, visiting and working in various
cities and towns of the United States until 1864.
While" following his avocation he also studied law,
and on the 8th day of December, 1864, before he
had attained ‘his majority, he was admitted to the
practice of law in the courts of Missouri, by Hon.
William Heren, judge of the circuit court at Platte
City, Missouri. He at once opened an office at

Rockport, Atchison county, and continued there
B 4

After serving .

until August, 1866, when he removed to Carthage,
Jasper county, and resumed the practice of his pro-
fession. He soon began to receive business and so

demeaned himself as to acquire an extensive and

lucrative practice, extending not only into the sur-
rounding counties, the supreme court, the United
States circuit and district courts in Missouri, but also
into several counties in the State of Kansas.

In 1868 he was county attorney of Jasper county.
In 1871 he assisted in organizing the Memphis, Car-
thage & Northwestern Railroad company (now Mis-
souri & Western), and was elected president of the
company, a position he held until January I0, 1874,
when he resigned. During his administration the
road was completed, equipped and put in successful
operation for forty—five miles. He has been and still
is the attorney for several banking, mining and other
corporations, and is at present attorney for the
Joplin Railroad company. He established the
Carthage Banner, now the leading Republican paper
in southern Missouri, and has been connected
with several papers as an assistant editor; but has
never made journalism a professsion. He has also
dealt largely in real estate, and made a fortune, but

82-1 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

lost it in constructing the above named railroad.

He has always been a Republican. Hewas
urged to accept the Republican nomination for Con-
gress in the 6th District in I876,and was prominently
spoken of for the same position in 1878, but posi-
tively declined, his purpose being to take no
office.

He is yet young, is energetic and persevering,
devoted to his profession, and has brilliant prospects
in the future. As an advocate his merits are espe-
cially recognized in criminal cases. His speeches
are forcible, pointed and practical. He is a great
student, and is already profound inhis knowledge of
the law.

COLONEL WILLIAM SPENCER POPE.

ST. LOUIS.

TS old men do not constitute a nation. While
I they may give it prestige, and their efforts give
it vitality, there is required,» to carry forward their
plans and utilize their schemes, the vim of youthful
followers. Missouri has been peculiarly blessed in
having the class of young men who have built upon
the foundation furnished by the men of the past age,
and in building ornamented the structure.

William Spencer Pope is comparatively a young
man, yet he has already achieved distinction as a
scholar, a soldier, a legal practitioner and as a legis-
lator. He was born near Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
April 25, 1827. His father, Abraham Pope, was a
native of England, and an ardent admirer of Mr.
Burke 5 had sympathized with that statesman’s views
regarding America. He immigrated to this country
soon after the war of 1812, in company with his
brother Thomas, and located in Richmond, Virginia,
where he afterward married Miss Elizabeth Farley,
a beautiful and accomplished young lady and a native
of that city. He soon afterward removed with his
family to .Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he was
extensively engaged in manufacturing. During his
residence there, the subject of this sketch was born.
In 1836 the elder Mr. Pope removedwith his family
to St. Clair county, Illinois, where he engaged in
farming for a number of years, assisted by his
five sonseto whose education and training he
gave his personal supervision. He was an influen-
tial member of the Whig party and took an active
interest in its success. William shared his father’s
political enthusiasm and was a close student of all
books he could get pertaining to the history and
political record of the country. I Having deter-
mined upon a thorough education, in order to fit
himself for a sphere of life more in accordance with

his tastes, he entered McKendree College, Illinois.
But owing to a scarcity of means, heiconcluded to
take the scientific course only, and devoted himself
assiduously, day and night, to his studies, never per-
mitting himself to be behind in anything. After six
months he commenced Latin, resolving at some time

to complete a full course, although he did not then .

see where the necessary means would come from.
His Latin was recited to a tutor by candle-light, in
the morning before the regular day’s duties began.
Having previously" prepared himself well in science
and mathematics, he completed the scientific ‘course
during the first year in college. He then determined
to teach in order to earn money with which to com-
plete his collegiate training, or study the profession
he had elected to follow—the law.

While in preparation to leave college, he was
offered by the faculty (‘without solicitation or thought
on his part) the position of tutor of mathematics,
with pay sufficient to meet expenses the first year.
The offerwas accepted. During the year thus
employed, he taught classes in mathematics and at
the same time recited Greek and Latin. At the
close of his year he was offered the position of prin-
cipal in the school at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, which
afterward became an institution of high grade. But
he was persuaded to remain with the old college and
was promoted to the position of adjunct professor,
with increased pay. Here he remained teaching
and studying for three years. German and French
were added to his studies. Having graduated
in the full course, he was called to a professorship in
the Rock River Seminary, an old classical school in
Northern Illinois. Here he found a large school
building partly completed and another crowded with
students, and set himself to work to complete the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 825

building and attend to the students. Success
attended both efforts. For six years he applied him-
self to the education of others, meanwhile not neg-
lecting his own. His vacations were spent in the
law office of Goodrich, Farwell &‘ Smith, an old law
firm in Chicago, where he pursued his legal studies
during the three months of summer, taking his books
with him to his school in the fall for use during odd
hours.
marked out for him by his preceptors, after which he
was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1860. But
not being quite ready to enter upon the practice, he
returned to Mount Morris to close up the school
term of 1860-1.

While so engaged the great civil war burst upon
the country. During the preceding years Mr. Pope
had not been. unknown in political campaigns and
upon the rostrum as a lecturer upon various topics
of a literary and political character. He was called
on to aid in organizing the volunteer forces of Illi-
nois, and was engaged in raising and equipping a
regiment which he expected to accompany to the
field, when Governor Yates, of Illinois, telegraphed
him to repair at once to Springfield to accompany
him to Pittsburg Landing as his aid. He promptly
responded and was with the governor at that post
assisting in the organization and attending to the
Wants of Illinois troops. Subsequently he took the
steamer Henry Clay, under the authority of the

surgeon-general of that army, and had the vessel T

fitted out as a service boat for conveying sick
and wounded Illinois troops. Under his charge this
boat afterward did effective service and performed
work of signal value, in conveying the wounded from
the battle field of Shiloh to the hospitals of St. Louis.
His comprehensive views of affairs in detail and in
mass was recognized in his being selected by Gov-
ernor Yates to accompany him to Washington and
assist in making the settlement between the state of
Illinois and the general government. This settlement
being perfected, Mr. Pope was appointed a paymaster
in the army to serve during the war. Succeeding this
appointment he was ordered to report to Colonel

Andrews at St. Louis, who was then in charge of the‘

pay department here. . His official duties from that
time led him to the various camps, of which this was
the center, and brought him into pleasant association
with the officers and men of many different com-
mands, who afterward gave most unmistakable tokens
of the high appreciation in which they held him.

A large number, if not all, of the officers in his

Thus he completed a course of reading

department-—men coming from many other states as
well as from his own——united in saying of him,among
other things, that, “ Having served with him in the
field nearly three years, we regard him as second to
none in devotion to his country’s cause 3 he is cease-

.less in energy, spotless in integrity, scholarly in

attainments.”
Governor Yates, in speaking of Mr. Pope, in
an official communication, said: “I have known

Major William S. Pope for many years. He isa
finished scholar of splendid abilities, an eloquent
speaker, a high-minded, honorable and honest man.”

Such commendation, however, while grateful to
a high-spirited man, could add nothing to the esti-
mation in which he was held by those who knew
him.
brevetted lieutenant-colonel. When in Washington,
after the war, settling his accounts, General Grant—
then the head of the army——recommended and
directed his appointment as paymaster in the regular
army. '

Colonel Pope considered carefully and fully the
subject of his appointment and finally decided that

. as the war had ceased, his true line of duty and use-

fulness must be found in civil life. He therefore
retired from the profession of arms to take up the
temporarily neglected profession of law, and in doing
so made his permanent home in St. Louis. He had
acquired some lands in Illinois, which "were then
valuable, and the prices of such property were ruling
high ‘The lands he sold and re-invested in city
property in St. Louis, which has since largely
increased in value. His professional earnings and
judicous investments enabled him in a few years to
acquire a handsome competence, which he has man-
aged with liberality and discretion.

Colonel Pope has ever manifested a deep interest in
the commercial prosperity of St. Louis and of the
state, and has been connected with various enter-
prises to promote that end. He is also now a mem-
ber of many of the literary,social,business and benev-
olent associations of St. Louis. Whilst reared an
Episcopalian he holds the most liberal Christian doc-
trines of the “ Sermon on the Mount,” and seeks to
throw off, rather than gather about him any sectarian
rubbish.

In politics he has always been a Republican, but
not dogmatic in his views, and condemnsa wrong in
a political friend as well as foe. He acts upon the
belief that principles do not change, though parties
-may wander far from their original record.

For efficient service in his department he was .

826 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

Mr. .Pope was married in-I866 to Miss Caroline
E. Moore, daughter of the late Captain H. J. Moore,
and has an interesting family, now the subject of his
solicitude and manly devotion.

At the bar he has made his mark as an able and
unprejudiced lawyer, and has conducted, to success-
ful issue, some of the most difficult and important
cases, winning victories for his clients that have
stood the test-of the higher courts after older lawyers
had declared the cases unsound. Yet he has tri-
umphantly vindicated his propositions by the one
sole test applicable to legal questions.

Colonel Pope represented his district (the 4th
Ward) in the 26th General Assembly of Missouri,
and came to be recognized by his own political
party and by his opponents as the leader of the
Republicans of the House. He was again elected
to the State Senate from a constituency comprising the

3rd and 4th Wards of St. Louis, in 1876, in the first
legislative body sitting under the new constitution
of the state, where his experience, analytical mind
and keen perception of the necessities of the people
and of the various branches of the government were
found invaluable in solving the complications arising
under the first workings of that instrument. A ready
debater, concise in language, and vigorous in thought,
a keen logician, with the power of pressing his argu-
ments strongly and rapidly, he chooses his positions
only after he is himself assured of their strength,
and he then proves himself an antagonist not to be
baffied, or a powerful ally. With these qualities, his
legislative career has been a brilliant one 3 yet, as a
professional man, and as a citizen, among his associ-
ates and in social life, his record is no less one deserv-
ing of preservation from its amenity, and the kindly
feeling and respect which it inspires.

THOMAS M. SPEERS.

KANSAS CITY.

AN is the architect of his own fortune. Cir-
M cumstances may make or mar his prospects
to a certain extent, but a determined spirit will bend
even the force of circumstances to its will. Life is
an every-day battle for right and conquest, and the
victory is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Thomas M. Speers was born in St. Louis on the
23d of October, 1835, his parents being Cyrus and
Matilda Speers. His mother’s maiden name was
Farris. His father was one of the earliest settlers of
Missouri, and his spirit of adventurous enterprise
was bequeathed to the son. “Tom,” as he is
familiarly called, received his education in the public
schools of his native city, and devoted much of his
time to civil engineering.

In 1851, young in years and experience, he went
to Old Mexico, and after a short sojourn in its his-
toric capital, started for California. He remained
some five years in the Golden State, engaged in
mining and stock raising, and then returned to St.
Louis. For several years he carried on the business
of building and contracting, and in 1858 had the
honor of being elected one of the board of aldermen.

H of that city.

His next venture was freighting across
the plains, in which he continued seven years—seven
years of pioneer peril and hardship, in which the
camp fire, the “prairie schooner ” and the painted
Indian were daily experiences. . .

In 1868 Mr. Speers moved to Kansas City and
engaged largely in the manufacture of brick. Two
years later he was elected city marshal, and served
two terms, giving universal satisfaction. Upon retir-
ing from office, he went into the livery business, in
which he continued two years, when he received the
appointment of chief of police. This position he
filled so well and gave such great satisfaction that he
was reappointed for the next three years. As
an officer he is courteous, efficient, prompt and
courageous, doing his duty without fear or favor.

Mr. Speers is a Democrat in politics, of the
unterrified school. He was brought up under Pres-
byterian teachings, but is very liberal in his religious
views. He became an Odd Fellow in 1856, and is
now Past Grand in that Order. He is also a Knight
of Pythias and is Past Chancellor. . _

He has been married twice. First in St. Louis

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY. 827

to Sarah Harrison, by whom he had three chil-
dren: Fanny, Charles and Harry, aged respectively
sixteen, fourteen and eleven. The second mar-
riage took place in Kansas City, the lady being
Mary Ferguson, by whom he has three children:
Thomas, aged six, George, aged two, and an in-

fant daughter, Josephine, who died June 30, 1878.

Mr. Speers is of medium height, dark hair, eyes
and complexion, and his well—proportioned form is
strongly put together. He ‘enjoys good health and
good nature, and as a man and officer has made
many friends.

ALBE M. I SAXTON.

ST. /OSEPH.

R. SAXTON was born in the vicinity of Cleve-
M land, Ohio, on the 12th of February, 1821.
His father, James Saxton, came from Vermont and
settled in Ohio in 1813. He married Miss Rosetta
Schellhous, in Vermont, in 1810. She is still living.
A. M. Saxton came to Missouri in 1841.

The schools in the neighborhood where our sub-
ject was born, and the private academy of Cleveland
gave him opportunities of securing a substantial edu-
cation. At the time of leaving school at eighteen
years of age he dramatized a striking local incident
in Cleveland ridiculing the pretentions of some
aristocratic young men, recent arrivals in the city,
and published it under the title of “ The Last Night
of the Star Chamber ” By its sale he netted $100,
which amount, in the fall of 1840, he invested in
an orchard, gathered the apples himself, and shipped
them to Milwaukee realizing a handsome profit
thereon. With the proceeds he bought eighty acres
of land, near that then small town, and in 1841
went to St Louis. Failing to find in that city the
employment he anticipated, and being an entire
stranger, with a capital of $56 (all the money he
possessed) he began. a trade in country produce that
year, from country wagons, a venture which proved
successful, and was the first of a long series of com-
mercial operations which have been the means of
building up an ample fortune. A cargo taken to
New Orleans and disposed of in that market also
produced advantageous results. I

During the summer of 1842 he was clerk on a
steamboat running up the Illinois river. He lost no
opportunity of improving his mind and fitting him-
self for business. In the winter of 1841, he attended
the night sessions of a Commercial College in St.
Louis (of which Jonathan Jones was head), and grad-

uated from the institution. In April, 1843, meeting

Charles A. Perry in St. Louis, who was desirous of
starting a mercantile business at the Black Snake
Hills, as the site of St. Joseph was then called, he
formed a partnership with him, and with Perry’s
younger brother, Elias H. Perry, went to that point,

i and on May I, 1843, opened a store there. It was the

first store ever established in St. Joseph for the pur-
pose of trading with white inhabitants. The end of
Robidaux’s long log house was chosen as the most
eligible store house, it being the only building there.
No hotel or boarding house was then in existence
and Mr. Saxton and his partner boarded themselves
in the back room of the store, at night improvising
a couch on the counter.

In 1843 he preempted a quarter’ section of. land
near the present lunatic asylum, this required build-
ing and living in a log cabin one year, then entering
the land at $1.25 per acre which he sold a few years
after for $100.00 per acre. In 1848, the foun-
dations of the future city of St. Joseph having been
securely laid, he formed a partnership "with Robert
W. Donnell, now a banker of Wall street, in New
York city, and with him continued the mercantile
business. This partnership continued until 18 58, at
which time the transactions of the firm had grown
from aretail trade to a large wholesale business,
the most extensive at that time conducted in St.
Joseph.

Closing up the mercantile business in 1858, the
branch of the Bank of the State of Missouri at St.
Joseph was organized with $2 oo,ooo capital, of which
Mr. Saxton was made cashier, and Mr. Donnell, his
old partner, president, they having a large part
of the stock. This institution was -merged into
a National Bank in 1865, under the title of the
State National Bank and was a National Depository,
with the same officers. In 1870 the affairs of the

828 THE UNITED STATES B[0GRA_PHICAL DZCTIO./VARY.

State National Bank were closed up voluntarily and
profitably, and the State Savings Bank was organ-
ized with Mr. Saxton as president, which is now
in existence owned by him and his old partner,
Donnell, and C. B. France, the cashier, on the plan
of non-declaring of dividends.

Beside his connection with the mercantile and
banking business, Mr. Saxton has been interested in
other public enterprises. In partnership with T. D.
Hastings, he built some eighty miles of the Kansas
City and Northwestern Railroad, and two hundred
and thirty-nine miles of the St. Joseph &_Denver
Railroad. The two, as principal contractors and
equal partners, netted each over $500,000, or in
all over $1,000,000. At the time he was learning
geography in the country log school-house, when the
territory west of the Missouri river was laid down on
the Atlas as the Great American Desert, or unex-
plored regions, he little dreamed of being an active
man in building a long line of railroad through that
region, now known to be capable of becoming one
of the most productive portions of the United States.
In company with Milton Tootle and others, in 18 5 3,
he built and launched on the Missouri river two
steamboats, the “ Silver Heels” and the “Omaha.”
The capital invested in these enterprises also brought
profitable returns. '

Mr. Saxton has never aspired to public position,
and had never filled an elective office higher than
road overseer. Without any knowledge or request
on his part, however, when the state was building
that institution at a cost of $350,000, he was ap-

pointed treasurer of the State Lunatic Asylum in
I874—a position which he still holds.

His residence is near Saxton’s station, on the
Hannibal & Saint Joseph Railroad, five miles
southeast of St. Joseph, where he early acquired a
large body of land, which he carefully improved
without regard to expense, and the tract is now one
of the finest farms in Northwest Missouri. One
thousand acres are in grass and under cultivation,
with elegant mansion and barns, and this fa.rm he
still carries on personally, notwithstanding the great
change produced in the labor system of the state
by the war. Mr. Saxton visits St. Joseph daily, and
is always at his post during business hours in the
president’s room of the State Savings Bank. He is
hale and vigorous at the age of fifty-six, and as well
fitted for business as at anyperiod of hislife. He
married in 1856 to Mrs. Sarah Emeline Flint, of
Dorchester county, Maryland, a lady of culture,
uncommon intelligence and in every way a help-
mate, who sees after everything in his absence.

In his business career, than which that of no citi-
zen of the state has been more successful, Mr.
Saxton has confined himself strictly to -regular trans-
actions, speculations have never tempted him. He
has always aimed to be safe and cautious, deeming it
the greatest credit which any business man can claim
to go through life without failure. Though now in
affluence, he has grown up with habits of economy
and has no more wants than when he humbly and
modestly began life as a merchant at the Black Snake
Hills at an early day, a third of a century ago.

JOHN T. RUFFIN.

CAR THA GE.

HE following sketch of John T. Ruffin presents

one of those numerous examples to be found in

the state of Missouri, of rapid personal progress from

humble beginnings to a substantial and honored posi-

tion. He is a native of Robertson county, Tennessee,

born February 28, 1840, and is a son of Thomas W.

Ruffin, a native of North Carolina, and Ruth (Vaughan)

Ruffin, who reside near Springfield, Missouri, aged
respectively sixty-nine and sixty-seven years.

The subject of this sketch received his education

in the Elk Fork Academy, Robertson countv, Ten-

nessee. His father and family emigrated to Missouri
in 18 54, and settledon a farm near Springfield. At
the age of eighteen he engaged for three years as
clerk in J. S. Coleman’s dry goods and grocery store,
at Dallas, Missouri, after which he and his brother,
L. B. Ruffin, entered the mercantile business in
Ozark, Missouri, until after the battle of Wilson’s
Creek. They then locked up their store, which was
afterward taken by the Confederate soldiers. After
leaving Ozark, Mr. Ruffin did not engage in any
business until the fall of 1862, when he received the

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 829

appointment of deputy-sheriff of Webster county,
and served one year, when, owing to the unsettled
condition of affairs caused by the progress of the
war, he and the sheriff resigned.

In the fall of 1863 he engaged as a salesman in
the store of McElhaney, Jaggard & McDaniel, in

Springfield, and remained with them until October,

1866, and then formed a co-partnership with VV. J.
McDaniel & L. B. Ruffin, and opened a large dry
goods, boot and shoe store in Carthage, and that
partnership existed ten years, when Mr. Ruffin
bought Mr. McDaniel’s interest and took sole pos-
session of the store on the 1st day of October, 1876,
in which business he is now (1878) engaged, He
has one of the largest stocks of dry goods, boots
and shoes in Southwest Missouri.

Mr. Ruffin’s conduct and success was such as to

command the respect of his fellow—citizens, and he
has twice been a member of the city council, and is
now serving his second term as mayor of Carthage,
the queen city of Southwest Missouri. He is always
ready to take part in every useful work which is
calculated to benefit the city of Carthage.

In religion, although brought up strictly ortho-
dox, he is very liberal, acceding to all the rights of
conscience which he claims for himself. Politically
he is a Republican.

He was married, October 1, 1868, to Miss Pearl
Stephenson, of Carthage. They have one child, a
little daughter named Alta.

Although still a young n1an,.Mr Ruffin’s success
in life is already assured, and the industry and capac-
ity which marked his boyhood have reaped an early
and abundant harvest.

COLONEL LOUIS H. WATERS.

fEEEERSOIV CITY.

OUIS H. WATERS was born December 22,
L 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His par-
ents, John Waters and Rebecca Sparks, were natives
of Salem, New Jersey. Major Sparks, of Revolution-
ary fame, was the grandfather of Louis. In 1830
John Waters removed to Kentucky and engaged in
farming and wool growing. '

Louis attended the common schools in the coun-
try until I838, when he accompanied his father’s
family to Iowa, they settling in Madison. Here he
continued his studies until 1848, when he entered
the law office of Messrs. Miller & Williams. Two
years after being admitted to the practice of law, he
removed to Mount Carmel, Illinois, where he opened

an office and built up an extensive and lucrative

practice. In 1858 he was appointed by Governor
Bissell to the position of prosecuting attorney for the
5th Judicial District.

Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861,
he entered the army as captain of company D, 28th
Illinois infantry, and in August following was pro-
moted to be lieutenant-colonel, and joined General
Grant in the district of Cairo, Illinois. In the spring
of 1862 he organized and equipped the 84th Infantry
Illinois volunteers. This regiment was raised at
Quincy, Illinois, and mustered into service the fol-

lowing August with nine hundred and fifty-one offi-
cers and members, he being chosen colonel. On the
2 3d of September he was ordered to Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and assigned to the eighteenth brigade and
shortly after marched against General Bragg, via
Bardstown to Nashville, Tennessee, thence via Mur-
freesboro to Elk River and back via Hillsborough to
Manchester, crossing the Cumberland mountains to
Chattanooga, and participating in the famous battles
at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, and
then to Atlanta, Georgia, returning to Nashville June
8, 186 5, when the regiment was mustered out of ser-
vice. In the campaign five hundred‘ and fifty—eight
of his men were killed in battle, one was taken pris-
oner and but four were unaccounted for—a remark-
able record, of which he may justly be proud. Among
other hair-breadth escapes he encountered, his horse
was shot under him at the battle of Stone River.

At the close of the war Col. Waters resumed his
profession, spending some time at the South with a
View to establishing himself there. But he finally
abandoned this idea and returned to his old home in
I llinois, where he continued the practice of law with
success until 1869. Chancing to pass through Mis-
souri during the campaign of 1868, while delivering
some campaign speeches in the interest of the Repub-

830

tican party, his attention was drawn to the state as
presenting a fine field for professional labor. Select-
ing Carrollton, Carroll county, as the most desirable
point, he located there in 1869, and practiced with
success. In january, 1 876, he formed a partnership
with Hon. Charles A. Winslow, of Chariton county,
the firm being Waters & Winslow, and removed to
Jefferson City, where they have since been located
in the practice of law.

In politics Colonel Waters is a Republican, main-
taining his party relations from principle, considering
himself to a great extent out of politics and regarding
the application of the principles of his party honestly
to the administration of the affairs of the country as
the best for all. He is necessarily not an extremist,
but stands on all public questions with the thinking
and reasoning men of the party in favor of honest
administration and genuine reforms. In early polit-
ical life he was a Whig and followed the fortunes of
that great party while it lasted. He was a member
of the lower house of the Illinois Legislature during
the session that witnessed the memorable contest
resulting in the first election of Lyman Trumbull to
the United States Senate. Disagreeing with his
party friends on the policy of electing Mr. Trumbull,
he broke with them, and on the final ballot cast his
vote solitary and alone, for Hon. Archie Williams—

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a devoted Whig, great lawyer, and good man——and,
in doing this, lays claim to having cast the last gen-
uine Whig vote in Illinois. Declining a reelection,
he turned aside from political life and devoted his
attention to the law.

Colonel Waters enjoys a fine reputation, both in
Missouri and Illinois, as a lawyer and orator. As
a lawyer he is studious, careful and laborious, inves-
tigating every point of the case, weak and strong,
and applying to it the inflexible rules of judicial
interpretation. Hypothetical cases, nice points and
mooted questions are the toys with which he amuses
his leisure hours, thus making his profession contrib-
ute to his pleasure; while the working hours of the

- library are given to the profound investigation of the

great fundamental principles of justice, as laid down
by the eminent jurists of the world. This method
of investigation renders him ready in the application
of law, familiarizes him with the decisions, guards
him against mistakes and prevents him from being
taken by surprise. As an orator, he is ready, witty,
argumentative, ironical, at times brilliant, with a
happy faculty of presenting anecdote and illustra-
tion, and a diction at once strong, pure and elegant.
He is a popular speaker, both in the forum and on
the hustings, and commands the respectful attention
of his auditors, whether friends or foes.

LEVITTE FAYETTE CALHOUN.

KANSAS CITY.

He
was the eighth son and youngest child of a family of
twelve children, all of whom are now living prosper-

- ' EVITTE FAYETTE CALHOUN was born
in Mahoning county, Ohio, May 7, 1838.

ous and respected.

The father, Samuel Calhoun, was of Irish origin,
a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1786. He was a
soldier in the war of 1812, married in 1814, and
settled on a farm in Mahoning county, Ohio, where
he remained for a number of years. He afterward
removed to Trumbull county, and from there to Por-
tage county, same state, remaining in either but a
few years only. In 1853 he removed to Sullivan
county, Missouri, where he remained until his death
at the age of eighty-four years. He was a man of
strong vitality and an active temperament; a great
worker, upright in his dealings and very temperate

l

in his habits. His attention was confined to agricul-
tural pursuits, with no disposition for speculation or
commercial dealings of any kind, while his boys
seemed to have a natural love for trade and traffic—
four of whom are among the shrewdest and most
successful horse dealers in the West. I

The mother of Levitte was of Dutch parentage,
and a devoted wife and mother, thoroughly domestic
in her tastes, taking great interest in the welfare and
moral training of her children. She died in 1874,
being eighty—one years of age. Both parents were
for many years members of the Methodist Episcopal
church.

Levitte spent his boyhood on his father’s farm,
attending a common county school winters, until he
was fourteen years of age. He then went with his
brother, S. P. Calhoun, to Sullivan county, Mis-

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souri, engaging to work on his farm, and remaining
with him two years, receiving as wages, fifteen dol-
lars per month. At the age of sixteen, with fifty
dollars in money, he commenced business for him-
self, trading and dealing in horses, and meeting with
such success the first year that he was able to buy a
farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Sullivan
county, for which he paid seven hundred dollars.
He was thus engaged, without being permanently

-located, until 1871, when he went to Kansas City

and established himself in the livery business, con-
tinuing to deal in horses and mules. His livery,
feed and sale stable, now located on the corner of
Wyandotte and Fifth streets, opposite the Lindell
Hotel, is largely patronized, having fine livery

accommodations and being a general stock depot for
the traffic in horses and mules. Mr. Calhoun has,
at times, been the owner of several farms, which
were secured principally through his operations as a
stock dealer, in which he has been almost uniformly
successful.

His genial and social disposition, uprightness
and fair dealings, and his broad and liberal charities,
have won for him an extended acquaintance and
hosts of friends.

In 1876 he married Miss Mary A. Flickinger, of
Wayne county, Ohio, who has truly been to him a
help-meet, being an industrious, practical and eco-
nomical housekeeper, a lady very amiable in dispo-
sition, hospitable and kind toward all.

CAPTAIN JOHN ORRICK.

ST. CHARLES.

OHN ORRICK is a descendant of two of the
oldest and most respected families of Virginia.
His mother was Mary Pendleton, a family name

co—existing with the history of the Old Dominion.

.Nicholas Orrick, his father, was a successful farmer

in Berkeley county, Virginia. He had twelve chil-
dren, all of whom received the best school advantages
afforded in the mountains. John, the eighth child,
was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, January 12,
I80 5, and worked on the farm with his father during
the intervals of his school, until his thirteenth year,
when he was apprenticed to William Orrick, a
merchant at Reading, Pennsylvania, where he
remained nine years. In 1827 he removed to Lan-
caster, Pennsylvania, where he remained three years.
In 1830 he embarked in the coal business in Potts-
field, Pennsylvania, and was very successful in his
speculations there.

On September 22, 1833, Captain Orrick married
Miss Urilla Stonebraker, daughter of John and
Naomi Stonebraker, of Washington county, Mary-
land, and immediately after started for Missouri and
settled in St. Charles, where he has lived ever since,
successfully engaged in mercantile pursuits. In
company with his brother, Benjamin Orrick, he built
up a very large and lucrative trade. But by heavy
advances made to parties in the fur trade, and other

causes connected with the Upper Missouri trade,
B 5

the firm met with some heavy losses, but maintained
their honor and credit throughout.

Captain Orrick has once served his country as
justice of the peace, and in 1840 was electedtsheriff,
and again in 1842. In 1844 he was elected by the
Whig party a member of the lower house of the
Missouri Legislature. At the close of his term he
purchased a farm near the city and engaged in agri-
culture for about two years, when he embarked in
steamboating and for some time commanded the
Fayaway, running between St. Charles and St. Louis.
In 1851 he took the United States census for St.
Charles county, and soon thereafter formed a part-
nership with Mr. Francis Yosti in the grain business.
They continued in partnership for six years, when
Mr. Yosti withdrew. Captain Orrick then took
I-Iermon Burkledge into partnership in handling grain,
meeting with a reasonable share of success. Mr.
Burkledge died in 1861, and Mr. Alfred Stonebraker
succeeded him in the firm. After six years Captain
Orrick retired from business.

The captain was a Whig until that party disor-
ganized, and has since held himself free to choose
the best men from either party for office. During
the late war he was an outspoken friend of the Union.

Captain Orrick and his excellent wife are still
living, the most aged couple, perhaps, in the city,
surrounded by hosts of friends who revere the

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memory of the ancient couple for their usefulness,
and respect them for their many good quali-
ties. They have had nine children, but only raised
three, one of whom, Hon. John C. Orrick, now a
practicing lawyer in St. Louis, has served the state
in her councils on several occasions with credit to
his name‘ and profit to Missouri. Their daugh-
ter, Lucy Ann, married John K. McDearmon,
Esq., for many years county clerk of St. Charles,
and with them the old folks have a pleasant

home. Willoughby W. Orrick is now in Colorado.

In his religious views Captain Orrick has always
preferred the creed of the Protestant Episcopal church;
in his life he has striven to act so that his good family
name should remain untarnished, his fellow—men be
profited by his precept and example, and himself
elevated and ennobled in nature. That he has suc-
ceeded is evinced by the high esteem of his neigh-
bors after three-quarters of a century working among
them.

HON. FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR.

ST. LOUIS.

FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR was born at

Lexington, Kentucky, February 19, 1821.
When he was nine years old his father, Francis P.
Blair, moved to Washington, D. C., to take charge
of the Globe newspaper. There young: Blair attended
primary and preparatory schools, and ‘then entered
college at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but for good
reasons afterward entered Princeton College, New
Jersey, where he graduated with high honors at the
age of twenty. He read law with Lewis Marshall,
of Kentucky, with his brother Montgomery Blair, at
St. Louis, and completed his studies at the law
school of Transylvania University.’ He was admitted
to the bar and commenced practice in St. Louis in
1843. '

His health being impaired, he soon after made
a trip with traders and trappers across the great
plains to the Rocky Mountains, and in 1845 accom-
panied Bent and St. Vrain to their fort in New
Mexico, now Colorado. He remained in that wild
and hostile region until the arrival of the expedition
under General Kearney, when he joined the enter-
prise and served to the end of it, in a military
capacity. In 1847 he returned ‘to St. Louis with
reestablished health, and resumed the practice of his
profession. In the same year he was married to
Miss Appoline Alexander, of Woodford county,
Kentucky, who survives him. Of this union eight
children were born, seven of whom are living.

In 1848 his father gave him a considerable
amount of money which he invested judiciously,
and from it and his law practice derived a compe-
tency. He soon became an active politician and a

prominent leader of the Free Soil party. Making
speeches against slavery on slave soil was somewhat
dangerous and required a good deal of courage, but
Mr. Blair understood the temper and mettle of his
opponents, and knew how much to say and when to
say it. His political adversaries soon found that he
would not be put down by threats. In 1849 he
became one of the leading supporters of Colonel
Benton, in his appeal from the instructions of the
General Assembly of Missouri, known as the “Jack-
son resolutions,” and in 1852 was elected to the
lower house of the Assembly, from St. Louis, on
the Benton ticket, and was reélected in 18 54. The
Free Soil party made little headway in the state at
large, but it grew rapidly in St. Louis, where a large
German element existed. Under Mr. Blair’s lead-
ership it carried the municipal election in 1856, and
elected him to Congress, where he boldly and ably
advocated the principles of his pa.rty. In 18 58, run-
ning for reelection, he was opposed by J. R. Barrett,
who was declared elected. Mr. Blair contested
the seat and was decided to be entitled to it, but
declined it, relegating the strife with his rival to the
people. In the summer of 1860 the election for the
unexpired and a full term took place, Mr. Barrett
being elected for the former and Mr. Blair for the
latter. He was chairman of the committee on mili-
tary affairs, prominent on others, and exerted much
influence in Congress. In 1860 he was aleading
delegate in the Republican National Convention, at
Chicago, and originated the idea of the “Wide
Awake ” organization, a peculiar feature of the cam-
paign of that year.

 

HON. FRANK P. BLAIEE.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 833

At the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Blair

became captain of the first federal company enlisted,

in Missouri, and was unanimously elected colonel of
the first regiment organized. Colonel Blair first dis-
covered the plot to seize the Arsenal at St. Louis,
and on his advice General Lyon captured Camp
Jackson May I0, 1861, on which occasion Colonel
Blair commanded the 1st Regiment of Missouri vol-
unteers. In I861 he was the leader, the heart and
soul of the Union party in Missouri. In 1862 he
was again a candidate for Congress and was awarded
the certificate of election, but his seat was success-
fully contested by his opponent, Mr. Knox. During
that year he was active in Congress and the field in
devising and executing measures for the good of the
Union cause. He was appointed brigadier—general,
raised a brigade in Missouri, and joined General
Grant, in operations on the Mississippi and against
Vicksburg. He commanded the 1st Brigade of the
4th Division (Steele’s), which behaved so gallantly in
the unsuccessful attack on Vicksburg in December,
1862. He was conspicuous and effective in all the
operations of that celebrated campaign, until the fall
of Vicksburg July 4, 1863. He was soon after pro-
moted to be major-general, and from thenceforward
shared the toils and honors of the glorious Army of
the Tennessee, until the close of the war. 7

In the spring of 1864, on the organization of_
General Sherman’s army for the Atlanta campaign,
General Blair was placed in command of the 17th
Army Corps, succeeding Major—General James B.
McPherson, who was promoted to the command of
the Army of the Tennessee. ' It was a grand com-
pliment and lasting glory to be selected by Grant
and Sherman. to succeed, at the opening of a grand
campaign, the justly celebrated and favorite McPher-
son, one of America’s finest soldiers. General Blair

was distinguished during the Atlanta campaign, the

march to the sea and through the Carolinas, for all
the qualities of a great and chivalrous soldier. His
corps was a general theme of praise for its disci-
pline, courage, enterprise and esp/7'2‘ du 50775:. This
was largely owing to its being commanded by Mc-
Pherson and Blair. Itiis a somewhat singular cir-
cumstance that General Blair should be present, a
great military commander, at the surrender of Gen-
eral Johnston’s army, and the practical finish of the
war, at Chapel Hill, the place where, as a boy, he
first entered_college but a few brief years before.’

At the Jtermination of the war, General Blair
returned to his old home in St. Louis, where he was

. resigned in the previous autumn.

received with the warmest demonstrations of friend-
ship and affection by all classes of citizens. He at
once entered into political life and opposed, with
great vigor and characteristic generosity and magna-
nimity, the disfranchisement of the citizens of Mis-
souri who had been engaged in rebellion and against
whom he had so ably and bravely fought. In 1867
he was appointed one of the commissioners to inspect
and accept the work done on the Union Pacific
Railroad, in which office he continued until March,
1869. In the campaign of 1868 he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice—President, with Horatio
Seymour, of New York, as candidate for President.
In 1870 he was elected to the lower house of the
general assembly, from St. Louis, and in January,
1871, was elected to the United States Senate, to
fill the unexpired term of Mr. Drake, who had
In 1872 he sup-
ported the nomination of Mr. Greeley for President,
by the Democratic party, and contributed largely to
that event. He was very active in the campaign
of that year, particularly in Missouri, and a large
majority of the legislature elected that fall were
pledged to elect him to a full term in the United
States Senate. But it was not to be. On the 16th
day of November, 1872, he was struck down by
paralysis, and never recovered from the shock. He

rallied somewhat, but the hopes of himself and

friendswere only raised to be blighted. He was
able to take his seat in the Senate, in January, 187 3,
and took part, perhaps injuriously to himself, in its
deliberations until the expiration of his term, March
4, 1873. Then followed a decline, indications of
recovery were arrested, appearances and symptoms
varied from time to time, and ‘finally, on the 8th of
July, 1875, he went peacefully, quietly and hope-
fully to his last sleep. He was a professed Christian
in the communion of the Presbyterian church.

In the death of General Blair, Missouri lost one
of her greatest, wisest and best sons, albeit he was
an adopted one. He was a man of great and varied
powers of mind, a fine, terse and expressive writer,
an eloquent, logical and fluent speaker, and as a
conversationalist had few equals. He was eminently
possessed of the silver tongue and the persuasive
manner. He was of fine figure, commanding pres-
ence and ‘genial expression of countenance. His
integrity was beyond suspicion, and while he entered
public lifejwith abundant means, he died compara-
tively poor. Of the various motives which may
have influenced his actions in the different circum-

834 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DZCTZO./VARY.

stances_of his career, either in political, military or
business affairs, none were mercenary or malignant.
He was generous and magnanimous almost to the
point of weakness, and yet in strife, either political
or military, he was persistent, courageous and for-
midable. He was endowed with a supreme con-
tempt for danger, and morally and physically he was
eminently one of the bravest of the brave. His
judgment of affairs, his intuitive knowledge of men
and keen natural gift of insight into the future of
events, and the motives of others, was most re1nark—
able and exceptional. He was clear and firm in his
convictions, as a politician and statesman, and bold,
able and judicious in his advocacy of them. This

- was abundantly exemplified in his leadership of the

Free Soil party especially. He was no Abolitionist,
but early saw the importance of Missouri becoming
a free state, if she would take the place among her
sisters to which her natural resources entitled her.
Without abolition, and while slave property was in
great demand in the more southern states, the plan

was obvious to him and he advocated it firmly.
He was not a fanatic, and supported or opposed
public measures at all times from a wide and com-
prehensive grasp of the situation, and having
determined for himself what was best for his
state and country, he was firm, energetic and immov-
able, but charitable and fair toward his adversa-
ries.

At the outbreak of the Rebellion, no man in the
nation foresaw, more clearly than he did, what its
results would be. He knew that it portended the
death of slavery and modifications of the constitution
amounting almost to revolution of the government.
He espoused the cause of the Union with patriotic
fervor, never doubting its ultimate triumph or that
the success of the cause would redound to the great-
est good of his country and his race. That he was
thoroughly conscientious, no one who knew him
will doubt. Taken all in all, he was truly great, and
his history is an honorable and enduring part of that
of his state and country.

COLONEL DANIEL BOONE.

ST. CHARLES COUNTY.

I )ANIEL BOONE was born October 22, 1734,

in Exeter township, Bucks county, Pennsyl-

vania, and was the fourth child and son of Squire
Boone and Sarah Morgan. The authenticity of
this date, and of subsequent dates employed in this
sketch, is based upon the records of Daniel Boone’s
family Bible. This Bible he gave to his son, Daniel
Morgan Boone, who in turn gave it to his son, Dan-
iel Boone, who now resides five miles south of West-
port, Jackson county, Missouri, in whose possession
the book now is. The facts in regard to the family,

and the dates of births, marriages and deaths may, i

therefore, be regarded as indisputable. Daniel Mor-
gan Boone resided in St. Charles county, Missouri,

removed thence to Callaway county, thence to_

Gasconade, thence to Cole, and thence to Jackson
county, and settled on the farm on which Daniel
Boone, his son, now resides. The latter distinctly
remembers to have seen his grandfather, Colonel
Boone, at his father’s house in St. Charles county,
where he frequently visited, though he made his
home with another son, Major Nathan Boone, who

resided three miles distant, in the same county. He
vouches for the fact that the Bible referred to was
the property of his grandfather, Colonel Boone 3
that the records therein were made under the old
hunter’s personal supervision up to the time of his
death, and that the subsequent records of the family
have been carefully kept, in the same book, by James
Boone, a son of Major Nathan Boone. This Bible,
therefore, is an epitome of the family history, and is
the most reliable record in existence.

Colonel Boone frequently told his grandson,
Daniel Boone, that the family originally came from
Germany, moved thence to England and subse-
quently to America 3 but there are no known records
to this effect extant. George Boone and Mary, his
wife, were born, reared and married at the old seat
of the family, at Bradwinch, about eight miles from
Exeter, England. They emigrated to America, arriv-
ing at Philadelphia, October IO, i717, bringing with
them eleven children, only three sons of whom have
perpetuated their memories——~John, James and Squire.
The last named, Squire. Boone, was the father of

THE UZVITED STATES B10613/1.P[z’]CAiL DICTIO./VARY. 835

Daniel Boone. George Boone, when he arrived in
America, purchased a large tract of land in Penn-
sylvania, now embraced in the limits of Bucks
county. In honor of the city from which he e1ni-
grated, he called his purchase Exeter, and it is now
known as Exeter township. He seems to have spe-
cially desired the acquisition of land, and he made
various purchases in different parts of the country,
one of them, it is said, embracing the present site of
the City of Georgetown, District of Columbia, which
he founded and to which he gave his own name.

His son, Squire Boone, married Sarah Morgan,
in Essex township, Pennsylvania, and they had seven
sons and four daughters. Their names were : James,
who was killed by Indians in 1773; Samuel, Jona-
than, Daniel, George, Squire, Edward,'Sarah, Eliza-
beth, Mary and Hannah. Of the brothers and sisters
of this family, except Daniel, there is no authentic
history, but from this family sprang all the Boones
in the United States.

Daniel Boone’s elementary education was very
meager, his knowledge of reading and writing being
derived from a few months of training under an
Irish teacher in his neighborhood. When he was
eighteen years old, in 17 52, his father removed from
Pennsylvania with his family and settled on the
banks of the Yadkin, near Holman’s ford, eight
miles from where the town of Wilkesborough, North
Carolina, now stands. Here Daniel Boone met
and, as his family Bible states, married Miss Rebecca
Bryant, August 14, 1756. She was born January
9, I7 39, consequently they were, at the time of their
marriage, respectively twenty-two and seventeen
years of age. The children of Daniel Boone and
Rebecca Bryant were:

James Boone, born May 30, 1757, was unmar-
ried, killed by Indians at Blue Mountain, North
Carolina, on his return from a trip to “the Kentucky
country.” Israel Boone, born January 25, 1759,
was unmarried, killed by Indians at Blue Licks,
Kentucky. Susannah Boone, born November 2,
1760. Jemima Boone, born October 4, I76’2, mar-
ried in Kentucky to Flanders Callaway, who was
born June 9, 1753, in North Carolina, to whom she
bore four sons: James, John, Larkin and Boone.
Callaway county, Missouri, is named in honor of
their eldest son, Captain James Callaway, who was
killed in an Indian‘ fight on Loutre creek, near the
present eastern boundary of the county. Lavina
Boone, born March 23, 1766. Rebecca Boone,
born May 26, 1768. Daniel Morgan Boone, born

December 23, 1769, on the banks of the Yadkin, in
North Carolina. He removed with his father to
Kentucky, and in 1788 immigrated to St. Louis
county, Missouri, where he worked a salt well and
where he was married, March 3, 18oo, to Miss Sarah
Griffin Lewis, whose father removed from the vicinity
of Mount Vernon, Virginia. She was born January
29, 1786, and was consequently not quite fourteen at
the time of her marriage. The wedded pair moved to
St. Charles county, twenty-four miles from the county
seat and two from the Missouri river, where he
opened and worked Boone’s Lick salt wells. Here
he lived twenty years. In the war of 1812 he was a
captain of ranger scouts, commissioned by the United
States government. Leaving St. Charles county, he
moved to Callaway county, remaining one year, and
thence to Gasconade, where he lived five years and
where, in connection with others, he built the first
mill erected in the county. He then moved to
Jackson county, where he settled on what is known
as the “ Harper farm,” but subsequently located and
opened a farm six miles south of Westport, where
he died, July 13, 1837, and his wife, at the same
place, June 19, 1850. Both are buried in the Hays
cemetery, on the land he first entered.‘ In 1827 he
was appointed farmer for the Kaw Indians by Gen-
eral Clarke, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The
tribe was then located at the mouth of the Big Blue,
Kansas. He settled seven miles from the present
site of Lawrence, where he camped one week. At
the end of four years he returned to Jackson county,
Missouri. In 1837 he was one of three co1n1nission—
ers appointed by the United States government to
establish the line between the states of Iowa and
Missouri, which work he performed in three months,
a Mr. Brown, of St. Louis, being the surveyor, and
his son, Daniel Boone, chain carrier. The following
are the children of Daniel Morgan Boone and Sarah
Griffin Lewis: F

John W. Boone, born in St. Charles county, Mis-
souri, December I9, 1806, died single in Gasconade
county, in 1822. Nathan Boone, born in same
county, February 17, 1808, died single in Jackson
county in 1835. Daniel Boone, born in same county,
March 27, 1809. He was married in January, 1832,
to Miss Constance Philabert, orphan daughter of
Gabriel Philabert of Canada, a family of French
extraction who moved to St. Louis in 1810. On the
death of her parents, she with her sister Mary Ann,
was taken by her uncle, Joseph Philabert, and her
brothers, Gabriel, Joseph, John, Frank and Peter,

836 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

were apprenticed to trades. Her brother Gabriel was
subsequently appointed government blacksmith to
the Kaw and Osage Indians, and was stationed in
Kansas’ Territory, near the mouth of the Kaw. On
marrying he took his "sister Constance (called Mary
until she became known only by that name) to live
withhim. ‘There Daniel Boone met and married
her. They are both still (1878) living, hale, hearty
and vigorous. They had the following children:

Elizabeth Levica, born February 22, .1833, mar-
ried John S. Stewart, of Jackson county, originally
from Kentucky, who died 1877, leaving the follow-
ing children: Daniel B., Rebecca Jane,  Wesley,
Disa Frances, Napoleon Lee and Mary Josephine.
Delila, born February 7, 1834, married Samuel
Stewart, of Jackson county, formerly of Kentucky,
and has eight children: Mary Jane, Pamela Belle,
Theodore, David, William, Edith Constance, Mary
and Lizzie Josephine. Mary F. J., born July 27,
1838, married Leonard Fuqua, a Kentuckian,
November I4, 1859, and has one child, John Bell.
Alonzo H., Jr., born May 9, 1840, died single, Sep-
tember 24, 1859. Napoleon, born October 1, 1842;
married Jane Douglas, daughter of William and
Emily Douglas, of Jackson county, Missouri, and
has four children: William N., Benjamin F., Flora
and Wallace. Theodore, born October II, 1844,
married Miss Martha May, of Brownsville, Oregon,
now resides in Idaho territory, and has two children,
Ernest and Robert. Daniel, born October 25,
1846, married, Miss Martha" Webb, daughter of
Benjamin and Jane Webb, of Jackson county, Mis-
souri, formerly of Indiana, and has a son, Claude, and
a daughter, named Maude. Cassander, born March
14, 1849, married George Douglass, son of William
and Emily Douglass, of Jackson county, formerly of
Kentucky, and has four children: Rosella, Nathan,
Rannald and Warren. Nathan, born February 29,
1852. Sarah Margaret, born February 3, 1854,
married September 22, 1876, to William F. Gordon, a
native of Fauquier county,_ Virginia, and son of
William F. and Mary Jane (McCreary) Gordon, has
one child, Boone, born July 7, 1877. John, born
October 15, 1856. James, born June 17, 1862.

The other children of Colonel Daniel Boone
were : I

Jesse B., born May 23-, 1773, married Miss Chloe
Van Bibber, daughter of James and Louise Van Bib-
ber, of Maryland, died while a member of the Mis-
souri Legislature in December, 1820. His children

Were: Harriet M., married Colonel Hiram H._

Baber, of St. Charles, and a member of the first
constitutional convention of Missouri. Alphonso,
married a daughter of George Boone, of Kentucky.
Minerva S., married Captain Wyncoop Warren, U.
S. A., Steubenville, Ohio. Grant, married Governor
Lilburn W. Boggs, moved with him to California and
there died. Albert Gallatin, married Miss Ann R.
Hamilton, of Augusta county, Virginia. She died
and he married Miss Zerelda Randall, of Richmond,
Kentucky, and after her death he married Miss Kate
P. Phillips, of Philadelphia. A. G. Boone, was
appointed in 1860 by President Buchanan, to effect
a treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
for the cession of Colorado. This being accom-
plished he was appointed agent over those Indians,
but was subsequently removed on political grounds
by President Lincoln. President Grant appointed
him agent for the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne
Indians, and during the Indian war seven tribes were
placed in his charge. President Grant, in his sec-
ond term, appointed him and Kit Carson to make a
treaty with the Utah Indians, for the cession of the
San Juan country of Colorado, and afterward to
make a treaty with the Sioux Indians for the cession
of the Black Hills country, which being accomplished,
the Secretary of War chose him to locate the same
tribe in the valley of the Arkansas and Salt Fork of
Red River. President Hayes appointed him to the
agency of the Ponca Indians, a position he still holds.
James Madison married Miss McMurtree, of Ken-
tucky. Van Daniel married Miss Randall of Ken-
tucky, a sister of the wife of A. G. Boone. The
father of the above children, Jesse B. Boone, long
resided in Montgomery county, Missouri, and was
appointed one of the commissioners to select a site
for the state capital, but died before serving, and his
brother, Daniel M. Boone, was appointed in his
stead. During his residence in St. Charles county

he was a member of the first constitutional conven-

tion of Missouri.

Nathan, Colonel Daniel Boone’s youngest son,
married Miss Olive Van Bibber, a relative of Jesse’s
wife. He was for many years a resident of St.
Charles county, and during that time was a member
of the first constitutional convention. He died in
Greene county, Missouri. V

The remaining children of Major Daniel Morgan
Boone were : Lindsley, born October 22, 1811 3 mar-
ried Miss Sarah Groomes, of Jackson county, Mis-
souri, and died in February, 1834. Edward H.,
born July 30, 1813, and died single in 1860. Eliza-

, with them cattle, hogs and horses.

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beth Levica, born April 22, 1815, married Jesse
White, of Jackson county, Missouri, and died in
1850. Alonzo Havington, born March 22, 1817;
married Miss Elizabeth Stewart, a native of Ken-
tucky, but residing at that time in Jackson county,
Missouri, and died about 1873, his widow subse-
quently removing to Bates county, Missouri. James,
born in 1819, married Lorinda Carbo in Jackson
county, a native of Tennessee, she died in 1865,
he in 1852. Milton S., born March 11, 1820, and
died the following August. Cassander, born Novem-
ber 3, 1821, married a Mr. Cosby, of Kentucky,
and died May 20, 1845. Morgan, born August 3,
1824, married in Jackson county, Missouri, Disa
Stewart, a native of Kentucky, she died and he
married Miss Mary Ann Randolph, of Jackson
county 3 her father was from Tennessee; Morgan
died in 1852. Napoleon, born August 22, 1828, in
-Kansas territory, died single, May 20, 1850.
Colonel Daniel Boone made his first tripto the
west into Tennessee in 1761, going as far north as
Laurel mountain, in Kentucky, then the far western
portion of Virginia. He went with-the “Wallen
Hunting Company.” A tradition that he was in
Tennessee the year before, lacks confirmation. Cer-
tain it is, he hunted through Tennessee nine years
before its permanent settlement. In May, 1769, he
made another trip into the western wilds “in quest
of the country of Kentucky.” On the 7th of the
following June, after journeying through a dense
wilderness of several hundred miles, he and his
party first came in View of the Kentucky river, and
camped on one of its northern branches. He was
afterward joined by his brother Squire, and these
two men remained alone in that wilderness for more
than a year, the rest of the party having been killed
or carried away captives by the Indians. Three

months of this time Daniel was absolutely alone, his '

brother having gone to North Carolina for ammuni-
tion. He returned to his family in March, i771,
having been absent two years. Determining to settle
in Kentucky, he completed his preparations and,

’with his family and his brother Squire, started Sep-

tember 25, 1774, for the West, the company taking
After being out
one month," they were, October 26, attacked by
Indians, and among the six killed was Boone’s eldest
son, James. The party, against the wishes of Boone,
returned to the settlements on Clinch river, in South-
western.Virginia. The Governor of Virginia, June
6th of the same year, employed Boone and Michael

Stoner to proceed to the falls of the Ohio and con-
duct a party of surveyors. That task completed,
he returned home and was immediately commis-
sioned captain and given command of three frontier
garrisons. Having served through the war, which
resulted in the Indians giving up all claim to Ken-
tucky, Boone returned to his family on Clinch_river.
Early in 177 5 he met the Indians in council on the
Holston river, and on the part of his company made
the prelim-inary negotiations with the Cherokees
for the purchase of all the land embraced between
the Ohio, Kentucky and Cumberland rivers. He
then, as commander, conducted the first colony of
that company to the Kentucky river and encamped,
March 20, 177 5, where Boonesborough now stands,
and erected forts. Returning to Clinch river, he
removed his family to Boonesborough in the follow-
ing October, his wife and daughters being the first
white women to stand on the banks of the Ken-

tucky river. Colonel Richard Callaway and his

family, of North Carolina, joined them in the fol-'

lowing winter. July, 7, 1776, the Indians captured
Jemima Boone and two of the Callaway girls, but
Colonel Boone and a companion recaptured them
the next day. In June, 1778, he went with thirty
men to the Blue Licks, near Boonesborough, to
make salt for the people, and while thus engaged
was captured by the Indians, carried to Chillicothe,
thence to Detroit and back to Chillicothe. Here
he was formally adopted as one of their sons, but
in a few months made his escape and returned to
Boonesborough. During his captivity, his wife,
supposing her husband to be dead, returned with
the family to North Carolina. In the fall of 1778
he brought them back.

Boone remained at the old fort through all the
long and bloody scenes of the Indian wars. In or
about 1790, he removed into Virginia, having by his
ignorance of the technicalities of the law and the
criminal cupidity of men, lost the entire property he

had accumulated by grant and otherwise in Ken-

tucky. After remaining several years, he removed
to Missouri in 1797, when that country belonged to
Spain. His first residence was in the Femme Osage
settlement in the district of St. Charles, about forty-
five miles west of St. Louis. Here he resided with
his son, Daniel -Morgan Boone, who had preceded
him, and remained there until 1804, when he removed
to the residence of his son Nathan in St. Charles
county, with whom he lived until 1810. He then
went to live with his son—in-law, Flanders Callaway,

838 TI;/E UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

the husband of Jemima Boone. He was commis-
sioned commandant of the Femme Osage district,
July II, 1800, by Carlos Dehault Delassus, governor
of the district, which position, including both military
and civil authority, he held until the transfer of the
territory to the United States. Ten thousand arpents
of land were granted him by the Spanish government;
but in the transfer his rights were ignored by the
United States commissioner, because of a want of
legal formalities, and he again lost all his property.
During his continuance in office he made enough
money by hunting and trapping to pay off every debt
he owed in Kentucky, for which purpose he made a
trip to his old home, and returned with fifty cents,
saying: “Now I am ready and willing to die. I
am relieved of a burden that has long oppressed me.
I have paid all my debts, and no one will say when
I am gone, ‘Boone was a dishonest man.’ I am per-
fectly willing to die.”

His wife who had so long been his companion,
his solace and his strength, died March 18, 1813.

Congress eventually confirmed his title to a moiety
of the Spanish grant, viz: one thousand arpents of
land to which, in common with all the other emigrants
to Upper Louisiana, he was entitled, but declined to
confirm his title to the other nine thousand arpents,
although acknowledging the justness of the claim.
This was a great wrong, perpetrated by his own gov-
ernment against the man who made the West.

Colonel Boone died at the house of his son Nathan
in St. Charles county, Missouri, September 26, 1820,
aged nearly eighty-six years. Mr. Daniel Boone of
Jackson county, before referred to, settles a dispute

that has arisen in regard to the coffin in which the
old pioneer was buried. It has been said that he was
buried in a coffin which he had kept ready several
years—and this has been denied. Mr. Boone, his
grandson, says that “at the death of his wife the
Colonel ordered a coffin made for her from the lum-
ber of a black walnut tree he had selected for the
purpose, and at the sametime remarked, ‘boys, you
may as well make mine from some of the same lum-
ber.’ It was done as he ordered, and I went with
his negro, Davy, after it. It was made by a man
named Persley, at Jones’ tanyard, three miles from
father’s. We brought the coffin home 3 but the Colo-
nel, for some reason, was dissatisfied with it. That
coffin remained in the loft for a long time and was
finally used to bury a neighbor woman who had died.
Colonel Boone subsequently ordered another, which
was brought to his home, and I saw him lie down in
it to see if it would fit. He expressed himself satis-
fied with it. In this coffin he was buried.”

The citizens of Kentucky, with the consent of
the family, removed his remains August 20, 1845,
and re—interred them in a rural cemetery near Frank-
fort. John J. Crittenden, afterward governor of
Kentucky, was commissioned for the purpose by the
Legislature of Kentucky, and chartered the steamer
Daniel Boone. Coming to St. Louis, and thence to
the mouth of Charat creek on the Missouri river, he
received the remains of Daniel Boone and wife, and
conveyed them to their last resting place. Over
their graves the state erected a monument, which
now marks the tomb of these pioneers of western
civilization.

 

HON. WILLIAM Q. DALLMEYER.

_/EFFERSO./V CITY.

ILLIAM Q. DALLMEYER was born in

 i\/ the Kingdom of Hanover, now a part of the
German Empire, October 23, 1829. His father,
Mr. H. Rudolph Dallmeyer, was married to Miss
Catharine Horst in 1827. By this marriage they
had eight children—five sons and three daughters——
four of whom came to the United States ; one sister,
now living in Gasconade county, Missouri; a brother
settled in St. Louis and engaged in the dry goods

business; another brother in the same line of busi-

ness in Jefferson City, and the subject of this sketch,
who arrived in New York at the age of sixteen. He
had received good instruction in private schools in
his native country, and had learned the English lan-
guage. He remained in New York for one year,
acting as clerk and improving his leisure hours in
study. From thence he removed to New Orleans,
where he was engaged for seven years in an exten-
sive grocery house. After spending a year in Mem-
phis, Tennessee, he came to St. Louis, Missouri,

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZOZVARY. 839

and shortly afterward removed to the southern part
of Gasconade county, Missouri, and opened a store.

In 1874 he was elected to the state legislature,.

and in 1866 was reelected, thus serving two consec-
utive terms. He acted as chairman of the committee
on ways and means, and served on several other
important committees. At this time the finances of
the state were in abad condition, her bonds selling
at sixty cents, flat, with ten coupons attached. Mr.
Dallmeyer introduced a bill entitled “ An act to con-
solidate the bonded debt of Missouri,” which afforded
great relief to the money market. He also secured
the passage of several amendments that are now in
force in the state. In 1868 he was elected state
treasurer, serving for two years, making an efficient
officerand doing much for the state of his adoption.

In 1867 he removed.to Jefferson City. ‘In 1871
the 1st National Bank was established, with a capital
of $75,000, he being one of the directors. In 1874

he was elected cashier, which office he now holds.

I The same year he established a large dry goods and

grocery store in Jefferson City, under the firm name
of Dallmeyer, Crane & Co. His eldest son, who
bids fair to make an able business man, acts as clerk
in the dry goods department. Beside these great
financial enterprises, he is the senior partner in the
Jefferson City Agricultural Works, which manufac-
ture the Hubbard reapers. and mowers, gang plows
and the.Missouri drill, beside taking orders for other
implements of farming. In politics Mr. Dallmeyer

i is a Republican. . He takes no active part at pres-

ent, but devotes his time to his financial interests and
the general advancement of Jefferson City.

In 18 58 he was married to Miss Louisa Lange, a
daughter of Mr. Philip Lange, of Osage county.
They have five children living, three sons and two
daughters, whose names are Ferdinand P., Pauline,

Augustus W., H. Rudolph and Viola F.

COLONEL MANLOVE CRANOR.

MAR YVIZLLE.

Wayne county, Indiana, April 28, 1815. His
father, Thomas Cranor, a farmer and trader, was
born in Guilford county, North Carolina. He was

COLONEL MANLOVE CRANOR was born in

a soldier of the war of 1812 and married Elizabeth '

Lytle, a native of South Carolina. To them were
born eight children, of whom Manlove, the subject
of this sketch, was the third. In 1810 his parents
moved to Wayne county, Indiana, then a compara-
tively wild country, where Manlove was born and
received the benefit of such education as the schools
of that day afforded. Reared in habits of active
industry, he adopted his father’s calling and engaged
successfully in the raising of live stock and in pork
packing.

June 5, 1833, being then but eighteen years of
age, he married Miss Ellen Lee, a daughter of James
Lee, a hotel-keeper by occupation and a citizen of
the state of New York.

In 1843, ten years after his marriage, Mr. Cranor,
with that dominant spirit of enterprise for which he
has long been noted, determined to try his for-
tune in the wilder West, and moved to the territory
included within the limits of what is now Gentry

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county, Missouri. The country was not at that
period surveyed. Shortly after, he entered a piece
of land and determined to make it his future home.
By careful management and diligent attention to
business he soon acquired large landed property,
which he judiciously improved, contributing in no
small degree, by his individual exertions and their
example, to the development of that rich section of
the state, and by his fair dealing commanding the
unqualified respect of all with whom he associated.
Colonel Cranor is the father of a large family of
children, eight of whom—five boys and three girls-—
are now living.

R He early manifested a taste for military life, and
when a very young man was elected captain of a
cavalry company of militia in Indiana. For years
before the breaking out of the Rebellion, he com-
manded a regiment of Missouri State militia. At the
breaking out of the war, he raised in defense of the
Union a body of 3,2 50 men,‘ cavalry and infantry,
of which he was elected commander. Under Gov-
ernor Gamble’s proclamation he raised, in the fall of
1861, a regiment of six months militia, of _which he

was commissioned colonel. This was the 31st regi-

840

ment of Missouri State militia. The sub-district
which he commanded included six counties of North-
west Missouri. Of this comm_and he was relieved
during the last year of the war, when he retired to
his farm, with the respect and good will of all who
knew him. He resided on his farm until the fall
of 1875, when he moved to Maryville, his present
home, engaging in the grocery business in partner-
ship with his son, P. M. Cranor.

Colonel Cranor was reared in the teachings of
the Methodist church, but in 1854 united with the

‘Christian church, of which he is still an exemplary

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member. Politically, Colonel Cranor is, as his
father before him was, a Whig. On the death of the
Whig party he acted with the Douglas Democrats,
and, though an uncompromising Union man, he
never adhered to the Republican party, and now
takes but little interest in politics.

Personally, he is a man of dignified demeanor,
eminently popular as a citizen and neighbor. He is
five feet eleven inches in height and weighs two
In September, 1839, he united
with the Masonic order, of which he has ever
proved a consistent and honored member.

GEORGE FRANK GOULEY.

ST. LOUIS.

EORGE FRANK GOULEY was a native of
Wilmington, Delaware, and was born Febru-

ary I5, 1832. He received in youth a good aca-
demic education and studied law in the office of Hon.
James A. Bayard, at Wilmington, andiwas admitted
to the bar. In 1858 he Went to Washington and
occupiedia position in the General Land Office until
1860. He was afterward for a time private secre-
tary to Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. While in Wash-
ington he became acquainted with the public men of
the country and with national politics. In 1861 he
went west and was for a short time in Nebraska,
engaged in business connected with the public lands.
He then went to St. Louis, engaged in the commis-
sion business from which he soon retired, and entered

I the service of Messrs. Berthold, Smith & Co. as

book keeper.

Mr. Gouley was a very active and prominent
member of the Masonic order, and through his zeal
and activity as a Mason a new career soon opened to
him in St. Louis. He was made a Mason during his
residence in Washington. Soon after settling in St.
Louis he became a member of Missouri Lodge, No.
I 3 St. Louis Royal Arch Chapter, No. 8; and St.
Louis Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. In
1864 he became the assistant of Anthony O’SulliVan,
Grand Secretary of the Grand Masonic bodies of Mis-
souri; and immediately after Mr. O’Sullivan’s death
in 1866, Mr. Gouley was chosen Grand Secretary of
the Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
of Missouri, to which position he was annually elected

and held the office until his death. He also succeeded
to the office of Grand Secretary or Recorder of all the
other Grand Masonic bodies of Missouri, and was
appointed chairman of the various committees on
foreign correspondence, year after year for eleven
successive years. Mr. Gouley was Past Master of
his Lodge, Past Commander of his Commandery, and
also a Past Commander of the Grand Commandery
of Knights Templar of Missouri. He filled all his
Masonic offices with marked abilityand honor, and
performed all his Masonic duties with zeal and fidel-
ity. He was an acknowledged power in the Masonic
Fraternity of Missouri, and won a national reputation
as a Masonic writer. For several years he edited and

published in St. Louis, The I7reemasmz, a Masonic .
. journal, which gained a wide circulation and influ-

ence among the craft. This magazine was after-
ward merged into the. Voice 0]’ Masonry, to which he
became a regular contributor. He had a very orig-
inal and active mind, was a master of Masonic law,
a fluent speaker and strong writer. He was of an
essentially charitable nature, and no appeal for aid
which he could possibly meet, was ever made to him
in vain. Figuratively speaking, his heart was bigger
than his body—it reached all around. He lost his
life in the burning of the Southern Hotel, in the city
of St. Louis, April II, 1877. He was in the very
prime of his life and strength and usefulness, and his
deplorably tragic and terrible death cast a deep gloom
over the city of his home, and wrung the hearts of
the Masonic brotherhood throughout the country.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 841

His funeral, which took place on Sunday, April
15, 1877,‘ was one of the most imposing ever seen in
the city of St. Louis It was conducted by the Ma-
sonic fraternity, in full regalia, and with impressive
and imposing ceremonies. Thousands thronged the
streets in mournful, tearful silence, while the vast
procession moved through them, a distance of about
two miles, to a point where hundreds of carriages were
in waiting, and from thence the remains were escorted
to Bellefontaine cemetery, and placed in a tomb, the
beautiful Masonic service being performed, Grand
Master Ryland and Rev. G. C. Betts officiating, the
vast multitude converting the cemetery into a tearful
city of the living. A committee of the Grand Lodge,
as an escort, took the remains from Bellefontaine,
April 18, 1877, and proceeded with them to Wil-
mington, Delaware, where they arrived on the zoth.
Here they were taken in charge by an escort of
Knights Templar, and conveyed to the residence of
his sister—in-law, Mrs. A. F. White, where they
remained until the afternoon of the 2 1st, being visited
in the meantime, by hundreds of the best people of
the city, the friends of his early days. On the after-
noon of April 21, 1877, Mr. Gouley’s remains were
finally consigned to the grave in Brandywine ceme-
tery, at the city of his nativity, with the solemn ser-
vices of the Protestant Episcopal church and the Ma-
sonic Fraternity.

Mr. Gouley was a man of broad views; tied to
no creed, he respected all. He had a truly catholic

mind. He recognized the universal Fatherhood of
God and the universal brotherhood of man. He was
at the same time speculative and practical. His
dream was of human progress and the final emanci-
pation of man from error. His work-days were
spent in the search for truth, and the recognition of
its majesty employed his tongue and pen. He did
nothing from a cold sense of duty; everything for
love. His heart was in all his work, and he did it
well. Charity was the lever by which he raised a
crushing weight from many a drooping spirit. He
gave of his means to the very extent of his ability,
to exercise the divinest attribute of his nature. In
his death the poor lost a friend; humanity, an orna-
ment , the community which he adorned, a valuable
citizen; his personal friends, a golden heart; and the
Fraternity of Free Masons an example of the best
fruits of the great Masonic brotherhood. He
treated the natural change of death in a philosoph-
ical spirit, and often conversed cheerfully with his
friends of his own life’s end. While contemplating
the dark shadow which must finally envelope all, he
was radiant with his own essential sunshine. Death
had no terrors for him, but a long, helpless illness
had, and he hoped he would be spared such an
ordeal. He wanted his change to be sudden, and
he had an abiding premonition that it would be. So
it came. He leaped the bounds of time in the
enjoyment of perfect health, and solved the enigma
of eternity in an instant.

DR. GEORGE R. JACOBS.

BOOIVE.

EORGE RODNEY JACOBS, was born in
Nelson county, Virginia, on February 20,

He received his education at New Glasgow
After com-

1802.
Academy in Amherst county, Virginia.
pleting his academic course, he studied medicine in
the office of that eminent physician, Dr. Cobb,
upon whose advice, at the end of ten years, he
entered the University of Pennsylvania, where, two
years afterward, he received his degree of M. D.,
bearing upon his diploma the names of such men as
Chapman, Hare, Gibson, Cox, James and, though
last not least, that of the immortal Physic. On his
return home he practiced his profession in his native

county for a few years, the duties and responsibilities
of which becoming too irksome, and not at all con-
genial with his nature, he determined to abandon it,
which he did, and, in 1832, immigrated to Missouri

I for the purpose of devoting his time and attention to
agricultural pursuits.

More than forty-five years ago, and as is always the
case, “ Forzzmcz far/at forz‘z'&zzs,” he settled on Loutre
Island, Montgomery county, where he first saw Miss
Louise Parsons, at that time on a visit to some
friends from Virginia, with whom he formed a mat-
rimonial alliance, in 183 5, in Hampshire county,
Virginia. The fruits of this union were ten children

842 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

——nine of whom are living—eight sons ‘and one
daughter—occupying positions of honor and prom-
ise, in the enjoyment of a vast estate bequeathed
them by a kind and indulgent father. In the order
of seniority they are as follows: William H., who
resides on the Mile Prairie, in Boone county, and is
engaged. in agricultural pursuits and stock-raising;
Charles A. and John T. are both residents of Calla-
way county, James R. still resides in Boone, pur-
suing the same occupation as his two older brothers;
George R. resides in Bolivar county, Mississippi,
and is engaged in raising cotton ; Junius, in Boone,
farming and stock-raising, .Miss Anna remains on
the old homestead with her mother 5 while Edwin is
engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis; David
is also at home with his mother, and is in charge of
the farm.

About the time of Dr. Jacobs settling in Mis-
souri, the culture of tobacco was regarded as one of
the most promising fields of agriculture and he
devoted his entire attention to its culture for thirteen
years, consigning his crops to a brother then living
in New Orleans. Though largely successful, he was not

entirely satisfied with the business, and, in 1845,
upon the advice of his brother in New Orleans, he
moved to Louisiana and located some twenty miles
above the city on a sugar plantation. Being unfor-

tunate in this enterprise, on account of the frequent

inundations from the Mississippi river, and the loss
of some twenty or thirty negroes by disease, he
returned to Missouri in 1852, and settled in Boone
county, where he remained till his death, which
occurred on the 24th day of February, 1877, at the
advanced age of seventy-four years and four days.

In speaking of his social relations, says one who

I was on terms of intimate relations with Dr. Jacobs

from their early boyhood, and all through a long life
of usefulness, “he closed his earthly career with a
character unsullied” in everything which regards
honor and integrity. Much more might be said of
his urbanity and kindness, the faithfulness of his
friendships, the warmth of his affections, etc.——noble
qualities which will forever enshrine his memory in
the hearts of family and friends.

In politics Dr. Jacobs was a consistent Democrat,
and in religion an Episcopalian.

GEORGE I. WASSON.

RICHMOND.

EORGE I. WASSON was born September 19,
G’ 1819, in Wilson county, Tennessee. He was
raised on a farm and received an ordinary English
education in an old-fashioned country school house.
In March, 1840, he came to Richmond, Missouri,
where he has ever since resided. His first occupa-
tion in Richmond was attending to fine horses for
Colonel Brown. In August, 1840, he became dep-
uty sheriff under Colonel Brown, and continued in
that position for a year. In August, 1841, he
engaged as clerk and salesman in the dry goods store
of Major Robert Levier, and remained with him
until August, 1842, when he was elected constable
of Richmond township, and in 1844 was reelected
to the same :.‘.1ce. In August, 1846, at the expira-
tion of his second term of two years as constable,
he was elected sheriff of the county of Ray, and in
1848 was reelected. His official conduct as con-
stable and as sheriff was characterized by prompt-
ness and fidelity.

January I, 1849, while he was still sheriff, he
engaged in selling goods, the firm being Hughes &
Wasson. He continued merchandising until "1866,
there being several changes in the firm during the
last few years. He was president of the Richmond
branch of the Union Bank of Missouri from 1958
until 186 5. In the latter year he went into banking
on his own account, and in 1866 the well known
banking firm of Hughes & VVasson was established
in Richmond, composed of himself and Joseph S.
Hughes, in which business he continued until Feb-
ruary, I877, when he retired. He has several times
been elected mayor of Richmond, and is now (1878)
filling that office very acceptably to the people. His
prompt and judicious course of action on the occa-
sion of the Richmond tornado, in I878, is deserving
of the highest commendation. _ A

In 1863-4 he was engaged in buying and ship-
ping leaf tobacco, and while he paid the farmers
better prices than they had ever before received for

THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 843

tobacco, the advance in the price in the market
brought him large profits during the last of these
two years. From 1858 to 1877 he was extensively
engaged in farming and stock raising, and dealing in
fine thorough bred horses and cattle. During that
period he also dealt largely in real estate, becoming
the largest stockholder in the Lexington Ferry Com-
pany, by which he sustained heavy losses.

He was a stockholder and director in the St.

Louis and St. ]oseph Railroad Company, from its

organization to the completion of the road. VVhile
by his energy he contributed to the success of this
enterprise, the loss to him individually was the entire
amount of his stock and the time devoted to the

Work. Although he has no children of his own, he
has always stood in the frontrank in the cause of
education, and has for many years been an active
director in the public school in Richmond. He is
not a member of any religious denomination, but
has aided most liberally in building all the churches
in Richmond. His life has been one of great activ-
ity and usefulness, and the versatilityof his talents
as a business man, and the energy, fidelity and
love of justice which have characterized his conduct
in all his past life, will doubtless induce his fellow-
citizens to call upon him again to fill some public
office, and thus give to his country the benefit of his
ripe experience in an official position.

LOUIS ALLEN DICKENS CRENSHAW.

SPRINGFIELD.

OBERT CRENSHAW, the grandfather of
R Louis, was a resident of Amelia county, Vir-
ginia. Here in 1787 his son, William T., was born,
and lived until his tWenty—third year, when he
removed to Middle Tennessee, where for some time
he followed his trade as a house carpenter and joiner.
From 1829 to 1837 he was engaged in the wholesale
grocery business which he left for the Mississippi
river trade after the United States government had
thrown the Pontatuck lands open to settlers. These
lands formerly belonged to the Cherokee and Choc-
taw Indians, and upon being opened to settlement
were rapidly filled up, creating an extensive demand
for dry goods, ready made clothing, &c. Into this
trade Mr. Crenshaw entered, and continued for four
years, when by the repudiation of the Brandon and
Union Banks of Mississippi, he became a very heavy
loser, and retired from business, removing with his
family to Greene county, Missouri, where he died in
1845. His wife was Susannah Ward, daughter of an
old Revolutionary soldier, who moved from North
Carolina to Tennessee in I790.

Their son, Louis Allen Dickens Crenshaw, was
born in Tennessee, December 6, 1820, about ten
years after his father’s removal into the state from
Virginia. Louis received a common school educa-
tion, and in early years was engaged with his father
in the Mississippi trade. In 1843, two years after
his father had closed out his river. business, he went

to New Orleans, having accepted a position in a
commission house in that city; but the firm having
failed, he engaged as second clerk on the steamer
Republic, plying between New Orleans and Shreve-
port, in the Red River trade. In March 1844 he
became clerk of the Hunter, in the same trade, and
remained with her nine months, when, his health
failing, he returned to Missouri and engaged in stock
business, which he followed until 1850, at which time
he made an overland trip to California. Returning
in I85I he resumed his stock operations, which he
carried on very successfully until the commencement
of the war of 1861-5. Mr. Crenshaw, like his father,
was an Old Line Whig, strongly attached to the gov-
ernment, and from the very first took a very decided
stand against secession.

No section of the country was more divided by
political factions than was Southern Missouri at this
time. Men of influence and assured position were
afraid to make any movement that would commit
them one way or the other, for no man knew with
whom the authority of force would finally rest. With
his usual discernment Mr. Crenshaw perceived the
great advantage of having a post of the United States
army at Springfield without delay. He therefore
proceeded at once to Rolla, where General Sigel then
was, to urge upon him the importance of a move-
ment into the Southwest. Sigel was without funds
and could not move. -Crenshaw advanced the nec-

844 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIBI/.

essary sum and the march was completed to Spring-
field. In the fall of 1861 Mr. Crenshaw purchased
a stock of goods and prepared to enter trade at
Springfield; but Fremont’s troops appropriated his
stock, having broken into his store-room during the
night. When Fremont so unaccountably left South-
western Missouri to its fate, Mr. Crenshaw. removed
with his family to St. Louis and remained there until
General Curtis drove the rebels into Arkansas, when
he returned to Springfield and engaged in general
merchandise. In 1865 he closed out this business
and returned to his farm where he still resides exten-
sively engaged in stock operations. His farm of
twelve hundred and forty acres lies five miles south-
west of Springfield. He has one thousand acres
under cultivation and two hundred and forty acres
in pasture, producing in 1877 ten thousand bushels
of corn and five thousand bushels of wheat. During
this season he has shipped four hundred mules‘ and
three hundred hogs. In addition to this farm, Mr.

Crenshaw has large tracts of land in Dade, Jasper ,

and Benton counties. In May, 1850, Mr. Cren—
shaw was married to his cousin, Mary Louisa,
daughter of Crawford Crenshaw, by whom he had

five children, three boys and two girls Mrs. Cren-
shaw died October 5, 1865, aged thirty—five years.
She was a lady of very superior character and univer-
sally ‘beloved by a large circle of acquaintances.
June 20, 1867, Mr. Crenshaw married Fannie,
daughter of John T. Smith, of Springfield, Missouri.
She was born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1841. They
have four children, two girls and two boys.

In politics as in religion, Mr. Crenshaw is quite
independent—-previous to the war an Old Line Whig,
since then he has become Democratic in principle,
but confines himself to no mere party, casting his
votes for men and measures, not parties, and is
largely governed by the present issues in determining
his political action. '

Mr. Crenshaw is a warm friend and a fearless
enemy. A sharp, quick, decisive man, of generous
impulses and open heart, yet the last person it would
be safe to attempt an imposition upon. A lover of
law and order, in the early history of his county no
name was more a terror to the lawless than his, and
no man was more ready to assist the officers of law in

.maintaining peace and good government than Louis

D. Crenshaw.

MAJOR JESSE MORIN.

PLATTE CITY.

ESSE MORIN, one of the pioneers of the Platte
purchase and self-made men of the state, was
born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, November

His father, John Morin, a farmer by

His mother’s

21, 1808.
occupation, was a Virginian by birth.
maiden name was Sarah Fishback. She was also a
native of Fauquier county, Virginia. The family
immigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Bourbon
county in 1792. . '

Jesse is the seventh of nine children, all noted
for their unusual stature, himself, the smallest of the
family, measuring considerably over six feet. The
opportunities of education afforded him were exceed-
ingly meager, and when twenty years of age he could
hardly write his name. What education he after-
ward received he acquired in Christian Academy, an
institution taught in Clinton, Christian county, Ken-
tucky, by James D. Rumsey, and by his own efforts.
His early life was spent in working on his father’s

farm and in hunting. In 1816 his father moved to
Missouri and settled in Howard county, purchasing
land near old Fort Hemsted. He was a man in
good circumstances and the owner of slaves. He
sold out in 1820 and moved to the neighborhood of
old Chariton, in Howard county.

August 18, 1831, Jesse Morin married Miss
Zeulda V. Hughes, daughter of John Hughes, a
farmer and Baptist preacher of Jessamine county,
Kentucky. By this marriage he has had seven chil-
dren, of whom two sons and one daughter are living.

In 1832 he moved to Ray county, Missouri,
where he resided two years engaged in farming. In
1834 he moved to the territory of Ray county, after-
ward erected into the county of Daviess, and settled
on the west fork of Grand river. During the spring
of 1837 troops were raised by General Thompson,
then in command of the northern military district of
Missouri, for the purpose of suppressing a supposed

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 845

Indian insurrection. He was elected to a command
in this expedition, with the rank of major. The
insurrection proved to be a quarrel among a band of
robbers, in which one of the party had been killed,
and for which the murderer was afterward tried,
condemned and hanged.

In 1837 Major Morin moved to what is now
Platte county, settling near the falls of Platte river,
in the then territory of Clay county, and near the
site of the present town of Platte City, where he
entered a quarter section of land. A

In August, 1838, he was elected a member of
the state legislature from the territory of Clay county
at large, and David R. Atchison (afterward United
States Senator) and James M. Hughes from the
county proper. December 31:, 1838, the bill erect-
ing Platte county was approved, and in the following
spring he was appointed by Judge Austin A. King
(afterward Governor of the state), clerk of the cir-
cuit court. In August, 1840, he was elected to the
same office for six years. In June, 1846, he resigned
his office and raised a company of cavalry for service
in the Mexican war.
with Colonel Price’s command, .August 9, 1846.
He served in several engagements during the war,

returned home with his command, and was mustered

out October 14, 1847, at Fort Leavenworth.
In 1857 he was elected to the state senate
from the district composed of the counties of Clay

He left Fort Leavenworth

and Platte, serving till 1858, when he was appointed
by President Buchanan, register of lands at Fort
Scott, Kansas. He remained in the position till the
election of Lincoln, when he tendered his resigna-
tion, which took effect April I, 1861. Major Morin
has been a prominent member of nearly every Dem-
ocratic state convention held in Missouri. Since his
retirement from public life, in 1861, he has been
repeatedly solicitedto allow his name to go before
the public as a candidate for office, but has uniformly
declined. ' In 1850 he took a trip overland with a
mule wagon to California, where he remained a year
and returned home via Panama.

He was made a Master Mason when about
twenty-four years of age, and was a charter member
of old Platte Lodge, No. 56, ‘and of Weston Lodge,
in Platte county. He never united with any church,
but expresses himself inclined _to the old Baptist
belief.

Major Morin’s two surviving ‘sons, John and Wil_
liam, are both highly respected citizens of Platte
City. His last surviving daughter is the wife of
Thomas Moran, a farmer of Platte county. Major
Morin has recently (I877) prepared and published in
T he ILamZma7Kz a valuable and interesting “ History
of Platte county,” which is much sought after. In all
his various positions of honor and trust he has inva-
riably acquitted himself with credit, and no man in
the county is more respected by those who know him.

MAJOR B. F JONES.

KANSAS CITY.

ENJAMIN F. JONES was born in Gwinnett
B county, Georgia, on the zoth of June, 1831.
His father, Thomas H. Jones, was born in Virginia,
in 1799, and was of Scotch parentage. In early life
he removed to the mountain region of North Carolina,

I and thence to the same character of country in Geor-

gia, where he settled about the year 1828. His first
wife was Margaret Harriet Hoyle, a daughter of
Adam Hoyle, of Dutch descent, who also settled in
North Carolina and removed to Georgia. Of this
marriage the subject of this sketch was the third son.
His mother died before he could appreciate her worth
and his loss, and the family of children was brought
up principally by the household servants of the plan-

tation. As he grew to boyhood his education was
limited but substantial——such as was to be acquired a
quarter of a century ago in the select country schools
of the South. His father was an intelligent gentle-
man of the old style, with very positive opinions in
regard to the natural rights of men and the constitu-
tional limitations of government, and from him he
acquired ideas which are now considered revolution-
ary; but which he always has, and probably. always
will, cherish as forming the granite basis and substra-
tum of society.

Having completed his primary education and had
a couple of years experience as clerk in a country
storeat the nearest village, in his twentieth year he

846 TI-IE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

determined to see something of the world and seek a
wider sphere of usefulness and activity; and accord-
ingly provided with the usual letters of introduction
and recommendation went to New York, and without
difficulty obtained a situation in a dry goods and car-
pet house on Cortlandt street. A year later he found
more congenial employment with the well known
grocery establishment of Whitlock, Nichols & Co.,
which was subsequently changed to B. M. & E. A.
Whitlock.& Co. In the service of this house he trav-
eled all over the South, and at the commencement of
the war was in the South representing his firm. He
utilized the information and experience thus acquired
to the advantage of the newly organized Confederate
government, in some papers containing suggestions
on the tariff, export duties, &c., which may be found
among the proceedings of the first Confederate Con-
gress. When war actually came, he hastened to
Rome, Georgia, and in April, 1861, joined the
-“ Cherokee Artillery,” a company already organized,
and of which his brother was a non-commissioned
officer. The company went into camp of instruction
and was shortly afterward organized into a battalion,
of which Mr. Jones was made quartermaster, chiefly
because of his previous business training and fitness
for the position. The battalion served around Rich-
mond and Weldon, North Carolina, until the fall of
1861. During the winter of that and the succeeding
year it served in Tennessee, and afterward in detach-
ments between Knoxville and Bristol, being engaged
in overawing and keeping in order the discontented
elements of East Tennessee, and was finally sent to

"hold the mountain pass of Cumberland Gap.

In June, 1862 he was promoted to be brigade
quartermaster, and ordered to take charge of the post
at Chattanooga, where he was engaged doing all the
work at that important post, beside buying horses,
manufacturing wagons and preparing transportation
for General Braxton Bragg’s army. Upon the evac-
uation of Chattanooga, in September, 1863, he was

sent temporarily to organize the post at LaGrange,

Georgia. In May, I864,'Major Jones was ordered
by the Secretary of War to report for inspection duty
to General Bragg, who then occupied the position of
commander-in-chief, under the President, of the armies
of the Confederate States, and had his headquarters
in Richmond, and was instituting a most rigid inves-

tigation into the irregularities of the various depart- H

ments of the government, but more particularly of
the quartermaster and commissary departments.
Major Jones was selected as one of the confidential

inspectors for this important work. He immediately
addressed himself to the duty before him, and went
as far west as the Mississippi river, and examined
and reported upon every quartermaster and commis-
sary along his line. In many places he found great
evidences of demoralization, and his reports were so
full and comprehensive, and showed such perfect
knowledge of the subject matter in hand, that he was
highly complimented by those in authority, who sel-
dom complimented any one.

At the close of the war he settled in Rome, Geor-
gia, and did a prosperous business for several years ;
but the approach of hard times, the shrinkage of val-
ues and the low price of cotton impoverished the
people and caused him, as it did a great many others,
to withdraw from business. In 1871, however, he
became engaged in the manufacture of pig iron, but
the panic of 1873 demoralizedthe iron business, along
with most other private industries, and he was forced
to abandon that. About this time the water works
in Kansas City were built by a private corporation,
and trouble ensued between the company and the
city. This trouble increased as time went on, and
when the works were completed and the company
looked around for some one to take charge of their
affairs, they, fortunately for themselves, selected
Major Jones. He accepted the position of secretary
and general manager for the company, and, with his
family, took up his residence in Kansas City.

His labors in his new position were arduous and
delicate. A violent and most embittered feeling had
grown up between the company and the city govern-
ment and citizens. The acceptance or rejection of
the works by the city became an issue in municipal
politics to the exclusion of every other issue. Major
Jones devoted himself to the work of allaying the bad
feeling that existed, of "removing obstructions to a
better understanding, of making explanations where
explanations were necessary, and by uniform cour-

  tesy of demeanor transforming enemies into friends.

In a little while the officers of theicompany and the
city authorities were brought together in an amicable
conference, one by one difficulties were removed,
point by point the basis for a compromise of conflict-
ing interests was laid, and finally an understanding
was reached that was satisfactory to every body. For
this result the company as well as the city was more
indebted to Major Jones than to any other one man.

Major Jones has been twice married. He was
first married to Mary Ann Nesbit, the youngest
daughter of William Nesbit, an old and much respec-

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 847

ted citizen of Gwinnett county, Georgia. By this
marriage he had three children: Hattie Nesbit,
Charles Adam and Mary Octavia. His second mar-
riage took place in Alabama, November I0, 1864,
to Mary Caroline Smith, the eldest daughter of
Asahel R. Smith, who settled in Lawrenceville,
Georgia, about the year 1825. Two boys were
the result of this union—Bayard Franklin and George
Axson, born respectively October 9, 1869, and May
19, ‘1873. Mrs. Jones is a sister of Major Charles
H. Smith, a popu-lar and widely-known humorist,
who wrote many admirable papers and letters be-
fore, during and since the war, over the signature of
“Bill Arp.”

Major Jones is now in the full vigor of the matured
powers of his manhood. He possesses in a large
degree that most uncommon quality known as com-
mon sense. He is a fine business man——quick,
ready and accurate——Well informed from extensive
reading and from extensive intercourse with and
knowledge of the world——an accomplished conversa-
tionalist—a delightful companion——courteous and
polite with the courtesy and politeness that comes
from good feeling and kindly sympathy for others
—and gifted in a rare degree with that social tact
and intuitive knowledge that enables him always
to say the right thing at the right time to the right
person.

CHURCHILL J. WHITE.

KANSAS CITY.

HURCHILL J. WHITE was born in Wood-
C ford county, Kentucky, June 7, 1825. He
was the eighth and youngest child of William and
Mildred (Blackburn) White, who were Kentuckians
by birth and of English origin. The father was
born in Henry county, Kentucky, in 17.83, was a
farmer and slave owner, highly esteemed and pros-
perous, a noted Whig in politics and a great admirer
of Henry Clay, who was his intimate personal friend.
He married Miss Mildred Blackburn about the year
1808. Her parents, ‘ George and Prudence Black-
burn, removed from Virginia to Kentucky in 1785,

Where the family afterward became one of the most I

prominent in the state. Three of the sons, William,
George and Churchill, were eminent in the profes-
sions of law, theology and medicine. The other,
Edward, a noted horse dealer, was the father of the
able and well known present Congressman, Joseph
Blackburn. William married the daughter of Henry
Clay. He was a Whig, having great political influ-
ence.i The mother of Mr. Churchill White was a
superior woman, with deep religious convictions and
a conscientious sense of duty in regard to the moral
training of her children. She was left a widow
when he was only eight years of age, and required
his assistance on the farm, which gave him only the
advantages of the winter terms in the common
country school until he was seventeen. She then
sold her real estatein Kentucky, and removed to

Liberty, Missouri, where her daughter, Mrs. Abijah
B 7

Withers, resided. Churchill there attended school
until twenty years of age, when he engaged as a
clerk in the dry goods store of D. Roberts.

At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Amer-
ica Adkins, daughter of Judge Robert and Sallie
Adkins, and having about two thousand dollars as
his share of the estate left by his father, he purchased
an interest in the store of his employer, where he
remained four years. He then sold out to Mr.
Roberts, and entered into partnership with R. S.
Adkins, establishing a dry goods business which they
continued eleven "years.

During the war of the Rebellion Mr. White was
a conscientious Union man, but his partner’s sym-
pathies were with the South 3 consequently they
suffered much loss and annoyance by having goods
frequently taken from their store by both Union and
Confederate soldiers, but for those taken by the
former they were afterward compensated.

In the fall of 1862 he was commissioned as 1st
lieutenant in the 48th Regiment of Enrolled Missouri
militia, commanded by Colonel Moss. He was
soon after promoted to be adjutant of the same regi-
ment, with the rank of captain. When the Enrolled
militia were consolidated with the Provisional militia,
in the fall of 1:863, he was transferred to Colonel
Hale’s regiment, where he served as adjutant until
appointed by Provost—Marshal—General Fry as one of
the enrolling officers for the draft.

For one year Mr. White conducted the business

848 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

of the Farmers’ Bank of Liberty, but withdrew in
the spring of 1865, when he assisted in organizing
the_Bank of the Kansas City Savings Association,
of which as cashier he has now (1878), as he has had
for over thirteen years, the principal control and
management. From the first he was one of its
largest stockholders and assumed the responsibility
of its affairs, which- have been conducted in a man-
ner that has given it the reputation, at home and’
abroad, of being one of the safest and most reliable
of the banking institutions of the entire New West.
In I869——7o he was one of the city Councilmen and
has several times been given positions of trust with-
out his solicitation. In politics he was a Whig, but
is now a Democrat. He is liberal toward all church
organizations, though a member of none, believing
that each person must reap the consequences of
his own acts, and that truthfulness, purity and up-
rightness, with a charitable disposition, are essential
and desirable elements of character.

In personal appearance Mr. White is tall and

well formed, having a fine physique, an active ner- -

vous temperament and a very pleasant and agreeable
countenance-. He is kind and generous in disposi-
tion, just and courteous in manner toward all. He
is widely known and highly esteemed as one of the
most reliable and substantial of the business men of
Kansas City. I I

The happy married life of Mrs. White com-
menced when she was sixteen years of age. She is
amiable, practical and cultivated, loved and admired
by a large circle of friends. Of their three children,
William, their first born, died at the age of four
years. Robert, a young man of great promise—a
favorite in Kansas City business and social circles——
died in 1876, aged twenty—two years. He had been
assistant cashier in the bank with his father for sev-
eral years. Their daughter, Sallie, is the wife of R.
L. Hawkins, of the well known firm of Bird &
Hawkins, Kansas City.

ABRAM NAVE.

ST. LOUIS.

T. LOUIS is characterized by a very uniform
distribution of wealth among her citizens, yet

.she presents some examples of extraordinarily suc-

cessful financiers, whose business talents and unti-
ring energy have won for them preeminence—men
whose position entitles them to be called merchant
princes, but whose good sense leads them to reject
the idea of assuming such distinction above their fel-
low men on account of their greater wealth. Among

these merchants Abram Nave is especially distin-

guished for his success and for that most admirable
quality—common sense.

He was born in Cocke county, Tennessee, June
I 5, ISI 5, and is the son of Henry and Elizabeth
(Brooks) Nave, natives of Tennessee, who immigra-
ted to Missouri in 1816, and settled in Saline county
four years before the admission of Missouri into the
Union as a state. Henry Nave who is yet (1878)
living, was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
inuredhis sons to manual labor.
upon his father’s farm during the summer months,

A and in winters and at intervals of rest when the busi-

ness of the farm did not require his aid, attended the
country schools, and in this way, notwithstanding the

‘ clung to him to the present.

Abram worked ii

limited advantages, he secured a fair elementary edu-
cation, and by his habits of observation acquired a
keenness in investigating opportunities and a prompt-
ness in availing himself of their advantages that has
During his boyhood he
evinced a strong tendency to trade, and at twenty—one
years of age he had secured about one thousand dol-
lars——the result of economy and raising, and trading
in stock. With this capital, by the help of the excel-
lent credit he enjoyed among the farmers of Saline
county, he bought a drove’ of mules, taking them to
the New Orleans market, and by this enterprising
transaction cleared more than a thousand dollars.
Soon afterward he purchased the remnant of a stock
of goods at Arrow Rock, Missouri, which he trans-
ported by wagons to Savannah, Andrew county,
Missouri, and here he commenced in 1842, as a
country merchant dealing in general merchandise,
and continued successfully until 1858. During these
sixteen years he established branch stores at Oregon

and Forest City, Holt county, Missouri, and Haw- .

leyville, Page county, Iowa. In addition to this
business he was associated with James McCord from
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horses, mules and cattle in Missouri and driving them
to California in the spring and summer——four months
being required for a trip, starting from- Missouri
about May 1st and arriving at the ranches on the
Sacramento river the last of August. In the net pro-
fits of these transactions they more than realized
their anticipations.

‘Removing to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1856, he
with James McCord, the gentleman who had so suc-
cessfully managed Mr. Nave’s branch house in Ore-
gon, Holt county, Missouri, established the whole-
sale grocery house of Nave, McCord & Co. a
popular and permanently successful institution. In
1862 Mr. Nave purchased an interest in the whole-
sale grocery house of C. D. Smith & Co., of St.
Joseph, and in 1867 devoted considerable attention
to starting a mammoth wholesale grocery house in
Kansas City under the firm name of McCord, Nave
& Co. Five years afterward, he with James McCord
and others commenced business upon a largescale in
St. Louis, dealing wholesale in groceries as Nave,
Goddard & Co., resulting, if possible, in a greater
success than its very prosperous predecessors.

Mr. Nave is at present (1878) the senior member
of fou_r of the most substantial grocery houses in the
country—Nave, McCord & Co. and C. D. Smith &
Co., St. Joseph, McCord, Nave & C0,, Kansas City,
and Nave, Goddard & Co., St. Louis. In May,
1872, he removed to St. Louis, where he still resides.

He has secured a proud preeminence as a suc-
cessful merchant, and owes his position not only to
habits of punctuality, industry, and careful attention
to the details of his business, but to a strict integrity
of character, his course through life having been
governed by noble purpose and true principle.

Physically and mentally, Mr. Nave is one of the

849

most remarkable men of the country, although sixty-
three years of age he is very vigorous in health and
his mind is as clear, fresh and active as at any period
of his life. With strict propriety it may be said of
him that he has mm; mm: in 50770 co/pore.

He was married to Miss Lucy Jane McCord, of
Randolph county, Virginia, in 1842. They are
blessed and honored by four children living: William
Henry Nave, St. Louis; James McCord Nave, Kan-
sas City; Mrs. Emma N. Ranney, New York City,
and Samuel Miller Nave, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

Abram Nave was at one time a leading spirit in
the St. Joseph & Denver Railroad, and has been a
director in various banks, insurance companies and
other incorporations, but has always declined to be
a candidate for any public political office. He
joined the Masonic fraternity when a young man,
but owing to constant pressure of business seldom
attended the lodge. He has traveled extensively
throughout the United States, never as a pleasure-
seeker but always on business. He is not and never
was a partisan, although a Democrat in political
faith. Mr. Nave joined the Christian (Campbellite)
church in 1851, and has been a faithful and consist-
ent member of that church.

The biographies of men whose wealth or position
has been inherited from generation to generation,
afford little of profit or pleasure to the youth of this
country, but the life-work of men who have by per-
sonal effort carved their way up from humble and
obscure positions to distinction, encountering and
overcoming the obstacles to growth and progress,
affords examples stimulating their energies and inspir-
ing them to noble action. Of such a tendency, may
we hope, is this briefly and hastily prepared sketch
of Abram Nave.

PROFESSOR THOMAS JEFFERSON LOWRY, M. S., C. E.

COLUMBIA.

HOMAS JEFFERSON LOWRY was born
T November 29, I850, in Randolph county,
Missouri. His great-grandfather, who was a native
of Scotland, immigrated to the United States in the
time of Charles, the Pretender, and settled in Phila-
His grandfather, Dr. John J. Lowry, was
born in West Philadelphia in 1780, and was reared

and educated in that city. He emigrated to St.

Louis, Missouri, about the year 1818, and in 1830
removed to Howard county, where he resided until

4 his death at the house of his daughter, in Randolph

county, in 1863. He was for many years president
of the bank in Fayette. He was elected to the legis-
lature often by his constituents, and during his entire
life in Missouri was an active, influential and leading
mind in the politics of the state. Dr. J. J. Lowry was

850 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

married to Miss Malinda Gorham, daughter of Thomas
Gorham, who died in Louisiana. There were born to
him Thomas G., John J., Millard F., Henry F.,
Elizabeth, Frances, who married Henry T. F ort, Ann
E., who married Abel Jackson, who died, and she
then married Henry T. Fort, whose first wife was
dead ; Miller, who married William Jackson, Mary
Benton, who married William M. Neilson 3 Martha
Macon, who married J. C. Wilson, of California;
Van Buren, who married I. H. Pogue, and Louisa,
who married Rev. T. G. Pool, a Presbyterian cler-
gyman. M. F. Lowry, the father of the subject of
this sketch, was born in Howard county, Missouri,
in 1828. He was reared on a farm and educated by
a private tutor, a Scotchman named McEwing, who
was a ripe scholar, and who remained in the family
several years. In 1847 M. F. Lowry began the study
of medicine under Dr. Grizzard, of Randolph county.
He attended medical lectures in the Cincinnati Eclec-
tic School in the winter of 1848-9, graduating in the
spring of 1849.
and commenced practice with Dr. William Fort. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the
I. O. O. F. ,He is a professor of religion and wor-
ships with the Christian denomination. In 1848 Dr.
M. F. Lowry was married to Miss Georgia E. Yates,
daughter of John Yates, of Randolph county, Mis-
souri. Her mother was a Christian. M. F. Lowry
had born to him by this marriage one child, Georgia,
who subsequently married George Frye.
second time married in anuary, 1850, to Mrs. Sarah
E. Cooper, formerly Miss Sarah E. Turner, born in
1830, and reared and educated in Randolph county.
She was a daughter of Judge Joseph Turner, who
was a native of Tennessee, whose parents were from
North Carolina, and whose ancestors were Irish. The
wife of Judge Turner was Mary Lingo, born in Ten-
nessee. Judge Turner and wife had eleven children:
James, Matthias, Samuel, Isabella, Nancy, who
married Lee Alexander, Mary, who married Sam-
uel McCully, Margaret, who married Joseph Rich-
erson; Jane, who married G. A. Wright; Martha,
who married Gideon Haines; Louisa, who married I.
L. McCully 3 Sarah, who first married John Cooper,
and after his death was united with M. F. Lowry.
By this last marriage there were born three children:
Thomas J., John A. and Willie T., who married T.
J. Morrow. 4

Thomas J. Lowry, the subject of this sketch, was
reared in Randolph and Macon counties. He received
the ordinary tuition in the common schools and then

He was a

He returned to Randolph county ,

attended McGee College, in Macon county, until he
completed the Sophomore year. Desiring to pursue
a more thorough mathematical course than the facili-
ties of McGee College afforded, he left that institution
and entered the junior class of the Missouri State Uni-
versity at Columbia. He graduated from the Uni-
versity in June, 1870, and was awarded the first hon-
or in the scientific department, and also on a compet-
itive examination in international and constitutionaj
law, won the law prize, receiving the degrees of
Bachelor of Science and Normal Graduate. For his
proficiency in mathematics he was recommended by
the University for an appointment in the United
States Coast Survey, which he received in October,
1870. During the winter of 1870-1 he was engaged
in the hydrographic survey of Lake Pontchartrain,
Louisiana, and of the gulf of Mexico, off the mouths
of the Mississippi river. During the fall and winter
of 1871-2 he assisted in a hydrographic survey of the
Delaware and Schuylkill rivers at Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania. In the winter and spring of 1872 he made
a hydrographic and triangular survey of the upper
portion of Matagorda Bay, Texas, and in the summer
and fall of the same year, a triangular and hydro-
graphic survey of the northern part of Lake Cham-
plain. In December, 1872, he was ordered to the
Pacific coast for duty, and from January to June,
1873, was assistant astronomer on the Coast Survey,
Geographical and Hydrographic Reconnoissance of
the western coast of Lower California, from San
Diego to Cape San Lucas. From July to November
187 3 he assisted in determining the latitude and azi-
muth of Kalama, Washington Territory, and also the
difference of longitude by telegraph of San Francisco
and Kalama. During December, 1873 he was on
magnetic work at the mouth of Columbia river. From

April, 1874, till December, 1875, he was employed I

on reconnoissance for the coast survey trans-continen-
tal triangulation, from the Pacific coast eastward as
far as Austin, Nevada. From August to December,
1876, he was in this trans-continental triangulation,
and was of the party that occupied the stations
Mounts Diablo and St. Helena.
question of intervisibility of Mounts Shasta and Hel-
ena—a distance of one hundred and ninety—eight
miles. On May 4, 1874, Professor Lowry was elected
a member of the California Academy of Science at

San Francisco, and was an active and productive

member, as the Academy reports of 18 74-5-6 will show.
He is the inventor of a sextant for measuring two
angles at the same instant, and of a sextant for meas-

He settled the ‘

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 851

uring any angle from 0° to 180°. He has also
invented the protracting sextant and other sextants
and protractors. He is the author of several new
methods in hydrographic surveying. Some of these
are described in volume XIV of the American Cyclo-
pedia, and all are described in the proceedings of the
CaliforniaAcademy of Science, the Analyst and the
Nautical Gazette, of New York.

Professor Lowry was elected in June, 1877, pro-
fessor of civil engineering in the Missouri State Uni-
versity. In June, 1873, he received the degree of
Master of Science from the University. In August,

1877,he was elected a member of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science. The Uni-
versity in June, 1878, conferred upon him the
honorary degree of Civil Engineer, and elected him
professor of civil and topographical engineering, and
dean of the engineering faculty. He is an occasional
contributor to the Ar7a{ysz‘, of Des Moines, Iowa, the
/l[z'77z'ng and Scz'em‘z'/it Press of San Francisco, and the
Naulzkal Gazelfe of New York. He is at present
(1878), as opportunities offer, engaged in writing two
books—one on “ Hydrographic Surveying,” the other
on “ Trigonometrical and Topographical Surveying.”

HON. A. W. MORRISON.

GLASGOI/V.

LFRED WILLIAM MORRISON, one of the
A oldest and most respected citizens of Howard
county, was born in Jessamine county, Kentucky,
on the 25th of November, 1802. He was the only
son of a family of six children. His father, William
Morrison, was a native of Wales, and with his two

_brothers, Thomas and John, came to this country
if during the latter part of the last century. Thomas

located in Ohio, where he married and raised a
family. The other‘ two brothers settled in Ken-
tucky, where John died unmarried.

Alfred Williams, the maternal grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was a native of Virginia, and
in 1770 removed to and settled in Jessamirfe county,
Kentucky, where his daughter Elizabeth met Wil-
liam Morrison, by whom she was wooed and won in
marriage near the close of the century. William
Morrison died, and his widow married Lawrence 
Daly, a noted and accomplished teacher of that day,
under whose tuition Alfred received a liberal educa-
tion, particularly in the department of mathematics.
In 1820 the family removed to Missouri and settled
in Howard county. In 1822, Mr. Daly being
county surveyor, young Alfred, as his deputy,
became proficient in the practical work as well as in
the theory of surveying. H

After reaching the estate of manhood, Alfred
Morrison’s acknowledged ability and unswerving
integrity recommended him to the people of his
county for various official positions, in which he
served them almost continuously and always accept-

ably, in one way or another, for over twenty years.
For some ten years he was county surveyor, during
which period he laid off the towns of New Franklin,
Fayette, Boonesborough and Roanoke, as well as
filling several government contracts on the western
boundary of the Platte purchase. He subsequently
served for several years as sheriff of his county and
as a member of the county court. In 1851 he was
appointed by Governor King to fill the unexpired
term of Peter G. Glover, deceased, as state treas-
urer, and the manner in which he discharged the
duties of the office ‘ gave such general satisfaction
that he was elected three times successively to the
same position. He was state treasurer at the time
of the breaking out of the civil war, but rather than
take the test-oath he resigned the position, against
the earnest rem nstrance of Provisional Governor
Gamble, whose political views were directly opposed
to those of Judge Morrison. On leaving Jefferson
City he returned to his farm near Fayette, but soon
afterward bought the Joel Hayden farm, in the
Hurricane neighborhood, a tract of eight hundred
acres of as fine land as is to be found in Howard
county, where he still lives. '

In 1839 he was appointed by General John B.
Clark, Commissary of the expedition sent out to
expel the Mormons from the state, and without a
dollar in the military chest, by using the personal
acceptances of the general commanding, the expedi-
tion was carried to a successful conclusion, involving
the expenditure of over $200,000, which, however,

852 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

was promptly assumed and paid by the state.

Five or six years ago Judge Morrison joined the
Baptist church, and since his connection with it has
been one of its most devoted and active members
and liberal supporters. From early manhood he

has been a staunch Democrat, always a leader in its '

party work and prominent among its representatives
in its various conventions.

He has been twice married : March 15, 1825, to
Minerva Jackson, daughter of Captain John Jack-
son, one of the early settlers of Howard county,
formerly of Tennessee, and who served with honor
underiGeneral Andrew Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans. By this lady he had five sons and two
daughters. Four of the sons are still living: John
L. Morrison, a prominent merchant of Fayette and
formerly sheriff of Howard county, James R. Mor-
rison, a successful farmer on the_ old homestead;
Samuel M. Morrison, a commission merchant of
Shreveport, Louisiana; and Preston E. Morrison,
yet a young man living at home with his father.
William J. Morrison, the other son, ma-rried and
died in Howard county. Of the daughters, Susan

iginia.

died single at about the age of eighteen, and Irene
married Amos Cake and died in Howard county.
The wife and mother died September I0, 1858. On
the 17th of September, 1860, Judge Morrison was
married to his present wife, Mrs. Martha C. John-
son, widow of James H. Johnson, of Platte county,
and daughter of John Henderson, a native of Vir-
She had three children by her first husband:
Annie B. wife of Hon. B. J. Franklin, a lawyer of
Kansas City and Representative in Congress from
the 8th District of Missouri; Rebecca, widow of
Williain Ford, of Kentucky, and George, a farmer
in Chariton county, who died during the year
1878.

With the exception of the time passed by him in
Jefferson City as state treasurer, Judge Morrison has
lived in Howard county continuously since 1820.
He is now (1878) in his seventy-sixth year, but is still
hearty and vigorous, mentally and physically, and
personally supervises his large farming and other
business interests, and can, if occasion requires it,
stand as much exertion and fatigue as men ordi-
narily at fifty years of age.

WILLIAM HENRY FERGUSON.

STEEL VILLE.

ILLIAM HENRY FERGUSON was born
  September I, 1827, in Allen county, Ken-
He is the son of Obediah Ferguson and
Lucinda Collins. Little is known of his genealogy
farther back than the third generation. His paternal
grandfather, John Ferguson, moved from Albemarle
county, Virginia, to Allen county, Kentucky, about
_the year 1810, and engaged in agriculture until his
death, which occurred soon after his arrival. His
maternal grandfather, Harvey Collins, moved from
Virginia to Allen county, Kentucky, about the same
time, and located on a piece of land which he culti-
vated till his death, and on which he reared a large
family. He di.ed at the age of eighty. His father,
Obediah Ferguson, was born in Albemarle county,
Virginia, April 2o, 1800, and moved with his father
to Kentucky in I810. After the death of his father
he engaged in farming and also learned the trade of
a brick mason. In 1830 he moved with his family
to Washington county, Missouri, where he remained

tucky.

until 1837, when he removed to and settledin Craw-
ford county. Here he resided till his death in 1869,
at the age of siXty—three years. His wife died two
years afterward, July 30, I87I, in the sixty-fifth year
of her age. .

William H. Ferguson was early taught to work.‘

His father being poor he was compelled to work on
the farm during the fall and winter, and in the brick-
yard during the summer. Hence his early education
was of a very meager character, and was acquired by
attending the common schools at intervals. When
twenty years of age he began teaching school in the
winter and attending to brick making in the summer,
and continued these occupations until thirty years old.
He was elected county surveyor of Crawford county
in 1856 and held the office until 1867. In 1857 he
built the court house in Steelville.

On the 9th of September, 1862, he was commis-
sioned captain of company I, 6 3d regiment Enrolled
Missouri militia, and again, August 19, 1864, was

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZOZVARY. 803

commissioned captain of a provisional company of _

militia, organized. for home defense during the raid
of General Price. In 1866 he was elected sheriff of
Crawford county, and was reelected to the same
office in 1868. In 1872 he was again elected sheriff
and collector of the county for two years. At the
expiration of his time, in 1874, he was again elected
sheriff and collector of the county, and in 1876 was
reelected to the same position.

Mr. Ferguson was formerly an Old Line Whig,
but is at present identified with the Democratic party.

He is not a member of any religious organization,
but inclines to the faith of the Missionary Baptist
church, in the principles of which he was raised.

He was married April I4, 1860, to Miss Martha
O. Johnson, who died June 4, 1870, leaving no chil-
dren. He was again married April 16, 1873, to Mrs.

Amanda Millsaps, daughter of Reuben Vaughn,'of
Crawford county, by whom he has had two children.

He is a large land owner, having nine hundred
acres of farming and mineral lands in Crawford
county, and several tracts in Phelps, Maries and Dent
counties. He is also interested in one thousand eight
hundred and sixty acres of iron and farming landsin
Dent county. A

He is a man of prepossessing appearance with a
well developed physique. As a business man he is
prompt, energetic, and strictly honorable. By indus-
try and economy he has accumulateda -large prop-
erty. Temperate and moral in his habits, liberal in
his views, social in disposition, he has greatly endeared
himself to the inhabitants of Crawford county, and
his popularity is evinced by his repeated election to
prominent and lucrative positions.

PROFESSOR EUGENE C. CROSBY.

[KANSAS CITY.

UGENE C., son of Samuel and Elizabeth
E Crosby, was born in Perry, Lake county,
Ohio, March 3, 1845. -Samuel Crosby, great grand—
father of Eugene, was one of three brothers who
came over from France. He served in the Revolu-
tionary war-and received, as his pension from gov-
ernment, six hundred acres of land in Courtland
county, New York. One of the sons was a colonel
in the war of 1812, another, the grandfather of
Eugene, was a farmer of good native abilities and
fair education. Samuel, son of the above and father
of Eugene, was also a farmer; a sober, upright man
of strong mental powers but of limited education.
Elizabeth, wife of Samuel, wasa woman of feeble
health, quiet, gentle manners and superior intelli-
gence; she was well-born and among her ancestors
were several Methodist ministers and a judge.
Eugene was left an orphan at eleven years of age,
with two brothers and one half-sister, the father
expressing as his last wish that his children should
receive a good education. Deprived of the loving
care of his parents, his early experiences being
among the ordinary scenes of farm—life, and inherit-
ing, somewhat, his mother’s quiet disposition, Eugene
grew fond of seclusion, loving books more than soci-
ety, and, when amere youth, was strongly impressed,

as he says, by the “general thinness of common
conversation.” After the usual attendance at the
common country school,- he pursued various studies
both at Willoughby Collegiate Institute, Ohio, and
Alleghany College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, and a
complete course of analytical chemistry and phar-
macy in Michigan University. Professor Crosby is
a fair Latin scholar, has given some attention
to Greek, and made his scientific studies a specialty,
but inflammatory sore eyes prevented his regular
attendance in any school. Leaving college, he
adopted teaching as his profession, one of the
inducements being the opportunity for study thus
afforded. Coming to Kansas_City in 1867, the first
year of the establishment of the city free schools,
Professor Crosby was elected principal of what is
now known as the Humboldt school, but he was
obliged to resign his position on account of sickness,
and return to Ohio, before the close of the year.
Recovering his health, he purchased, in company
with his brother Arthur, the necessary apparatus for
illustrating studies in physical science, and engaged
in lecturing, with considerable success. Returning
to Kansas City in 1871, he took charge of the Ben-
ton school, then having a corps of five teachers.
The new impetus that the study of natural history

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854

received about this time from the published journals
of scientists, notably that of Agassiz, drew Professor
Crosby from the West to Penikese Isle, off the
southeast coast of Massachusetts, where Professor
Agassiz had founded a school for the study of natu-
ral history. Here Professor Crosby was forcibly
convinced of what he had long suspected, “the
wide difference between the study of animal forms,
and the purposeless memorization of what some one
says about them.” On one occasion he inquired of
Professor Agassiz the name of a certain organ and
received this reply: “After you have studied its
connections, form and structure, I will tell you its
name. When we learn the name, then we study it
no longer with the same interest, thus do we stop
with the symbol.” While here, Professor Crosby
was taught the great value of method, and the
“necessity of making method a permanent posses-
sion of the pupil.” While engaged in these practi-
cal studies, he received notice of his election as
teacher of natural science in the Kansas City High
School, in which position he was engaged until the
spring of 1875, when he was granted leave of
absence until September, 1876. The Professor had
long cherished a desire to visit the historical places
of Great Britain and the Continent, the seats of the
old universities, the summits of the Alps, the sul-
phur beds of fltna, the ruins of ancient civiliza-
tions, and all else that would help him answer the
query, “Are not the questionable, and what is only
barely probable, frequently mistaken for established
After thirteen months of delightful and
instructive travel, he returned to Kansas City in the
summer of 1876, where he has since occupied the

chair of natural science in the High School of that ,

TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

city, giving his classes the benefit of those studies
and experiments in which he has taken so deep a
personal interest.

Study and reflection have freed Professor Cros-
by’s mind from many of the superstitions of his
youth, and, no longer regarding doubt in religious
matters sinful, he has come fully to recognize its
necessity, accepting the individual conscience and
judgment as the court of final appeal. He has
taken but little interest in politics, usually favors as
much individual freedom as is consistent with the
good of the individual and the state, without any
class discriminations.

December 27, 1876, Professor Crosby was mar-
ried to Mattie E., ‘eldestdaughter of G. W. Hinck—
ley, Esq. Mrs, Crosby is a graduate of the
Chicago Ladies Seminary, class of 1876, in which
she took the highest honors. They have one child,
Francis Hinkley Crosby.

Professor Crosby is five feet four inches high,
weighs one hundred and seventy pounds , is a fair con-
versationalist in a small, select company, but is reti-
cent in general society. He is exacting in his men-
tal habits, states facts correctly, sometimes hesitating
for just the exact word, as it must be that or none;
decides nothing hastily, and gains what knowledge
he possesses by careful, patient study. His verbal
memory is not good, but his comprehension of an
author’s meaning once gained, the idea remains
and is forever after his own. He is deservedly
popular with his classes, an earnest student and a
conscientious teacher, well adapted to impart
instruction, with ‘nothing perfunctory in his method.
Kansas City is to be congratulated upon so able an
addition to her corps of public instructors.

HON. JAMES KELLY SHELEY.

INDEPENDENCE.

ORACE SHELEY, the father of james K.
H Sheley, was born May II, 1788, in Jefferson
county, Virginia. His father was also a native of
Virginia, though of German extraction, and his
mother a. native of Maryland, and of English stock.
About the year 1806 the grandfather of james K.
Sheley immigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Scott
county, where he lived till his death in 182 5. He

served in the colonial army during the entire Revolu-
tionary war, holding the positions, first of captain
and afterward of major. Horace Sheley and Sallie
Kelly, the parents of judge Sheley were married in
Scott county, Kentucky, February 14, 1814. He
was by trade a wagon-maker, and immediately after
his marriage, settled in Lafayette county, where he
pursued his calling. Early in the year 1821 he

_was appointed judge of the circuit court.

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTZO./VARY. 855

removed to Franklin county, working at his trade
there until the fall of 1828, when he immigrated to
Missouri and settled in Callaway county, then a
comparative wilderness. Here Mr. Sheley began
farming, an occupation which he followed, and on
the same tract of land, till his death in 1870. His
wife was a native of Scott county, Kentucky; she
died:iniiiI848, in the fifty-fifth year of her age. Her
father Was born and reared near Norfolk, Virginia,
when youngthe removed to the then wilderness of
Kentucky, and was married to his wife in a fort at
or near Great Crossings, in Kentucky. He was in a
number of Indian fights, in one of which he was
wounded. He died in 1832.

James K. Sheley, the subject of this sketch, was
born in Fayette county, Kentucky, March 17, 1815.
Prior to the removal of the family to Missouri, he
had acquired a fair knowledge of the rudiments of
education. His father settled in the woods, and,
being a poor man and having a large family to sup-
port (James being the oldest of seven children),‘he
necessarily required the services of all who were
able to assist him. For several years no opportu-
nity presented itself to attend school, and, indeed,
there were no schools in his neighborhood taught by
competent men. Many winter nights did the youth
spend studying by fire-light, endeavoring to increase
his limited store of knowledge. He finally received
the benefit of several winter schools, and by the
time he was nineteen years old, had acquired a good
English education, with some "little knowledge of
Latin. He then began teaching a common school,
and continued in that business till the fall of 1837.
During this time he steadily progressed in his studies,
frequently calling upon gentlemen in whom he had
confidence for information and assistance. 'While
teaching school, he also began the study of law with
Hon. John Jameson, an eminent lawyer of that day,
as his preceptor. He was admitted to the bar and
licensed to practice by Hon. John C. Edwards, one
of the supreme court justices. He immediately
began the practice in Fulton, Callaway county, in
partnership with Mr. Jameson, his preceptor. Here
he continued nearly fifteen years, and, in 1852,

moved to Independence and began the practice of

his profession with Robert G. Smart. In 1867 he
formed a partnership with Hon. S. H. Woodson, a
connection which extended to 1876, when the latter
He is
still (I878) engaged in the practice, holding a high
rank among the lawyers of the Jackson county bar.
B 8

In 1842 Mr. Sheley was elected to represent
Callaway county in the general assembly. During
that term he prepared and introduced the bill under
which the state constitutional convention that assem-
bled in 1845 was called, and also a bill to erect a
warehouse in St. Louis and establish a tobacco
inspection. In the year 1848 he made another race
for representative, and was beaten thirteen votes.
This was, however, a triumph, as the county was
Whig by nearly three hundred majority. In 185 5
Governor Sterling.Price appointed him judge of the
common pleas and probate courts of Jackson county,
then first established. Two years after, he was
elected to the same position, holding courts alter-
nately at Independence and Kansas City, and
rendered. general satisfaction by his rulings and
decisions. I

In the early part of the year 1861, the legislature
passed a law providing for the call of a convention,
the real object of which was to pass an ordinance of
secession and unite the destinies of Missouri with
those of the seceded states. To this, Judge Sheley
was opposed. He was elected one of the three del-
egates from the 14th senatorial district, then com-
posed of Jackson, Cass and Bates counties. That
body figured largely in the history of the times, and
made and unmade governors. During the last ses-
sion of that historic body, in 1863, an ordinance of
gradual emancipation was adopted; the first that
ever became a law in the state. Judge Sheley voted
for that ordinance, although before the war he had
been ultra pro-slavery in sentiment. In 1872 he
reluctantly gave his consent to represent the people
of the eastern district of Jackson county in the leg-
islature. In the election of speaker, Judge Sheley
received next to the highest vote, and was subsequently
appointed chairman of the judiciary committee. So
assiduously did he apply himself to the duties and
business of his position that the committee gave
general satisfaction, and such was the confidence
it inspired that the house sustained nearly every
report made. Since the expiration of that General
Assembly, he has peremptorily refused to permit his
name to be used in connection with a seat in either
branch of the legislature, and has turned his whole

4 attention to his profession.

Judge Sheley is six feet and half an inch in
height, weighs one hundred and ninety-eight pounds,
has fair complexion, blue eyes, prominent features,
hair, originally black, now almost white, and is sixty-
three years old, erect and vigorous. '

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He was married in November, 1837, to Miss
Mary Ann E. Smart, a native of Montgomery
county, Kentucky, but at that time living near Ful-
ton, Missouri. The union was a happy one, and
continued so till her death in March, I872. She
had nine children, two of whom died in infancy,
the remaining seven, five sons and two daughters,
are still living, five of them married; the youngest son
is now engaged in the practice of medicine. Feeling
keenly the want of early educational advantages, he
has taken great pains and spent much money in the
instruction of his children, and has given to all of
them a good education, and to most of them a clas-
sical one. In August, 1873, Judge Sheley married
Mrs. Mary C. Murphy, of Jefferson City, the fruit
of that marriage being one child, a daughter. Al-
though he has always been closely attentive to busi-
ness, and had a good practice, yet he has accumulated
comparatively little property.

He became a member of the Christian church in
1840, and has consistently lived in fellowship and
communion with that body till the present time.

Politically, he has always been a Democrat of the
Jeffersonian school. He has always been conserva-
tive in" his course and respected the opinions of those
with whom it has been his fortune to differ, politi-
cally or religiously. He has never. had a personal
difficulty with any man, and has led an upright and
honorable life. He has never been connected with
any secret organization, and is strictly temperate and
domestic in his habits, never, or seldom, leaving
home, unless business requires his absence, is warmly
attached to his family and contributes freely to their
comfort and advancement.

Judge Sheley was one of the first board of com-
missioners of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and, as
a director, assisted in the organization of a branch of
the Southern Bank in Independence.

HON. CARL-SCHURZ.

ST. LOUIS.

ARL SCHURZ is a native of the village of
C Liblar, near Cologne, Germany, and was born
March 2, 1828. A His parents were highly respectable
people, living in moderate style. He receiveda
preparatory education at the Gymnasium in Cologne,
and entered the celebrated University at Bonn,
where he took a thorough course of classics, history
and philosophy.

At the commencement of the revolution of 1848,
many of the students, young Schurz included, took
great interest in the agitation of the times, taking
part on the liberal side. Professor Gottfried Kinkel
of the University, with their cooperation and assist-
ance, started a liberal or revolutionary paper. Schurz

had charge of the paper while Kinkel was absent in I

the Prussian Legislature. After an unsuccessful
attempt to raise an insurrection at Bonn, Kinkel and
Schurz were forced to flee, and they took refuge in
the Palatinate. Here Mr. _Schurz took service as
adj utant to Gustav Nickolaus Tiedemann, commander
of the revolutionary forces. At the surrender of
Rastadt he was made prisoner. Tiedemann was con-
demned and shot August II, 1849, but Schurz had
previously escaped from the fortress, concealing him-

self three days and nights in a sewer, through which
he reached the river Rhine. During this time he
was without food or drink. He fled to Switzerland
and remained in seclusion at Zurich until early in the
summer of 1850. Professor Kinkel had been con-

demned and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, _

and was confined in the fortress of Spandau. Schurz
determined to attempt the rescue of his friend 3 and
with that object in view, he secretly made his way to
Berlin. Here he remained three months conniving
to get into suitable relations with the guards, and
finally Kinkel’s cell was opened November 6, 1850.
The prisoner was taken to the roof of the prison, and
lowered from the top of the outer wall to the ground.
The two friends fled across the frontier into Mech-
lenburg at night. Thence they went to Rostock,
from whence in a short time they escaped in a schooner
which carried them to Leith, arriving there about
December 1, 1850. Mr. Schurz soon after went to
Paris. He remained there corresponding for news-
papers in Germany until June, 1851, when he went
to London and there supported himself by teaching
languages and music until July, 1852, when he mar-
ried Miss Margarette Meyer, daughter of a wealthy

THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 857

merchant of the city of Hamburg, Germany. They
soon after came to America, landing at Philadelphia.
Here he resided about three years, studying English
and the history and laws of the United States. He
then removed to Watertown, Wisconsin, where he
bought a farm upon which he lived. I

In I 856 he espoused the cause of the Republican
party in VVisconsin, and became conspicuous as an
orator in his native tongue. In 18 57 he was the
Republican candidate for lieutenant-governor, but
was defeated. In 1858 he delivered his first public
speech in English, at Chicago, in support of Mr.
Lincoln in his canvass against Mr. Douglas for the
United States senatorship for Illinois. This speech
was published by the press far and Wide, attracting
great attention. «

In the spring of 18 59 he delivered a very able
speech in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Americanism.
Previous to this he had removed to Milwaukee, was
admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of
law. In the winter of 1859-60 he delivered many
lectures in Various parts of the country. He was a
prominent delegate in the Republican National Con-
vention which nominated Mr. Lincoln at Chicago in
June, 1860. He entered into the canvass with great
zeal, and delivered many able and eloquent speeches
in both English and German throughout the North-
ern states. He established a fine reputation as an
orator in both languages and thousands flocked to
hear him. He speaks English with great fluency,
fine expression and correct accent, idiom and pro-
nunciation. In this respect he has no superior, and
perhaps not an equal among Germans who have
attempted public speaking in English in this country.

Early in 1861 Mr. Lincoln appointed Mr. Schurz
Minister of the United States at the court of Spain.
He accepted and went to Madrid in the summer of
1861. In December of that year he requested to be
recalled, as he wished to enter the military service
against the rebellion. His desire was granted and
he returned to this country, entering the field as a
brigadier-general in Sigel’s corps. He served with
distinction in the campaign of 1862, at second Bull
Run, and in 1863 at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
where he won the rank of Major General.

On the 6th of March, 1862, he delivered a pow-
erful and eloquent speech, showing the necessity of
emancipation, and it is probably the best of all his
public addresses. In August, I863, General Schurz
joined General Sherman, taking command of a divis-
ion, which he held until the close of the war. He

went north in 1864 on leave of absence, and made
many speeches in support of Mr. Lincoln’s reelection.
In the spring of 1865 he went south at the request of
President Johnson to inspect the condition of the
country and the people, and report upon the course
to be pursued to bring about a proper state of feeling
in that region. 'Mr. Schurz traveled extensively,
examined the situation carefully, and reported hir
opinions and their basis. The report did not please
the President, but when the facts became known the
report was very generally sustained by the public
judgment.

Mr. Schurz went to Detroit in 1866, and took
charge of the Daily P052‘, but only remained a short
time, and in 1867 he purchased an interest in the

Wesllzk/‘Z6 P052‘, at St. Louis, removed to_ that city
and became principal editor of the paper. He was
cordially welcomed by the Republicans of Missouri,
and entered at once upon active political life. In
January, 1869, he was elected United States senator
by the Legislature of Missouri. His German friends
throughout the country were especially delighted
when this high honor was bestowed upon their distin-
guished countryman, and he received many heartfelt
congratulations from all parts of the country.

As a senator the career of Mr. Schurz added
greatly to his reputation as a statesman, scholar and
orator. He was not able to vote upon all questions
with the body of the Republican senators, but when
he could not he gave his reasons fairly and frankly.
He was not in accord with the President on many
measures, and was an intimate friend and great admi-
rer of the illustrious Charles Sumner of Massachu-
setts, and very generally agreed with him upon public
questions, but not all. He declared himself in 1870,
in favor of the removal of disfranchisement of the
citizens of Missouri who had engaged in rebellion,
although be well knew that this course would result
in defeating his return to the senate. He was hit-
terly denounced by radical Republicans, but pursued
the course which he had determined was right and
just. He joined the National Liberal movement in
1872, was president of the convention at Cincinnati
which nominated Mr. Greeley for President, and
afterward made many speeches in favor of that gen-
tleman’s election. In 1874 he assisted in the organ-
ization of the People’s movement in Missouri, and
stumped the state in favor of William Gentry, the
candidate of that party for governor. Mr. Gentry
received a large vote, but the Democratic ticket
was elected.

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He made a lecturing tour in the Northern States
and then went to Europe with his family, returning
in the spring of 1875. During the campaign of that
summer and fall in Ohio, he espoused the cause of
the Republican party, and aided very materially by
hard work and many able speeches in the election of
General Hayes to the Governorship. In the Presi-
dential campaign of 1876, he again supported the
Republican ticket, his exertions being constant and
effective. He is preeminently the leader of German
political thought and action in this country.

Upon his inauguration to the Presidency, Mr.
Hayes called Mr. Schurz to his cabinet as Secretary
of the Interior, which high position he fills with dis-
tinguished ability. He has introduced and steadily

enforces many reforms, especially in the Depart-
ments of Public Lands and Indian Affairs, which
command the general approval of the public without
regard to party. He delivered a powerful address
in support of Mr. Hayes’ administration at Music
Hall, Cincinnati, to a very large audience, on the
evening of September 28, 1878. He is incompara-

.bly the greatest and ablest citizen of the country of

foreign birth, and very few of our native statesmen
and scholars can excel him in the precision, fluency
and power with which he uses the English language,
either in writing or speaking. Mr. Schurz met
with a very sad affliction in the death of his be-
loved and accomplished wife, in the month of March,
1876.

REV. MARSHALL MCILHANY.

LEXIIV G T OIV.

ARSHALL MCILHALV x was born in Lou-
M doun county, Virginia, January 4, 1837, being
the eleventh of fifteen children. His parents were
Mortimer and Mary A. (Washington) McIlhany
—he a man of fine natural ability, liberal education,
profound piety and sound integrity 3 she a woman of
uncommon moral qualities, a loving mother, an affec-
tionate friend and an accomplished lady.
family were ardent admirers of literature and music,
and in that circle Marshall formed, and there was
fostered an early love of letters. The paternal
grandfather, James McIlhany, was a major in the
Revolutionary army ; a man of fine mind, genial
disposition, very popular and of considerable wealth.
The maternal grandfather, Edward Washington, was
also the owner of a large estate, the relative and inti-
mate friend of the Nation’s father. _

In I849iMarshall’s parents removed to Missouri
and, after remaining a short time in Monroe county,
settled in Montgomery county. john Mcllhany,
the eldest brother in the family and a man of superior
ability, fine scholarly attainments and literary tastes,
was the private tutor of our subject to whom he gave
the benefit of an academical course. When nineteen
years of age his pupil being fully prepared, entered
Howard High School (now Central College) Fayette,
Missouri, remained one year, and subsequently
directed his own studies. During this latter period

The entire:

he taught school in Montgomery county eighteen
months.

In the spring of 1858, the date of the first excite-
ment in regard to the fabulous auriferous deposits in
Pike’s Peak of the Rocky Mountains, he joined an
expedition and spent a year on the plains and amid
the mountains, greatly enlarging his knowledge of
nature. Returning in 1859 he commenced reading
law, with the view of adopting the legal profession ,
but soon after abandoned it, feeling pleasurably obli-
gated to a holier calling. In the fall of 1861 he was
accepted in the Missouri Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church (South), and commenced
preaching in the following fall, having charge of the
V\7aterloo Circuit, Clark county, Missouri. Next
year he had charge of Hydesburg Circuit, and sub-
sequently in turn the circuit of Darwell, in Callaway
and Montgomery counties, Palmyra Station, St.
Charles Station and Mexico——all in the same state.
In the fall of 1866 he resumed teaching and was
principal of the Palmyra (Missouri) Seminaryfour
years. He was then given charge of the Monticello
Seminary, Lewis county, Missouri, remaining five
years. In June, 1876, he was elected president of
the Central Female College, Lexington, Missouri——
the leading female educational institution belonging

to the Southern Methodists of Missouri. During

‘the first year of his term there was a manifest

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 859

increased vitality, and at the close there were very
promising indications of rapid growth.- On his
assuming the duties of the presidency the financial
affairs of the college were in a somewhat languishing
condition,owing to the depressed circumstances of its
legitimate patrons and to other causes3 but it is now
firmly established on a secure basis, is flourishing as
greatly as its friends could wish. in so short a time,
and has a flattering prospect. This institution was
inaugurated in 1868, and is for the young ladies of
the church and world the same that Central College
is for the young gentlemen, the principal institute
for learningof that denomination in Missouri—the
two being under the immediate control and supported
by the three conferences of the state. The location
is unexcelled for health, beauty and variety of
scenery and moral surroundings, by any similar
institution in the Union. The building presents to
the passing river traveler or to the Sojourner in the
city an imposing appearance. It is three stories
high, capable of accommodating seventy boarders
and many more day scholars. Before the war
between the states it belonged to the Masonic order
and by them was used as their college; but at the
commencement of hostilities the school was neces-
sarily suspended, never by them to" be resumed.
From that time the old Masonic College became his-
toric as the central. scene in one of the bloody
dramas of that war. The camp fire of the soldiers,
alternately of both contending armies, and the hoofs
of their chargers made a barren waste of the ground,
military necessity defaced the edifice, the shock of
battle tore open its sod to receive the bullets and
bones. of both “the Blue and the Gray.”‘ In 1868
the Masonic Grand Lodge of the state of Missouri
presented the building and ground (about six acres,
valued at $2 5,000) to the Southern Methodists on
three conditions: First, they must keep up a school
there for ten years without an intermission of two
years3 second, they to educate, free of charge, in
the literary department, the daughters of deceased
and indigent Masons, provided the number should
not exceed thirty 3 third, they shall expend $50,000
on the property, but giving unlimited time for the
expenditure. The new college opened with fair
prospects, but soon declined under the charge of
various able gentlemen, owing to causes already
mentioned, until 1876, when Prof.~ Mcllhany was
elected president. The catalogue of the institution
for 1877 gives a very favorable report for that scho-
lastic year.

Professor Mcllhany is preeminently an educator,
prominent in the state as such, and his works in and
outside of the school room prove him a success.
There are many excellent teachers 3 but a profes-
sional and successful educator is that one who insen-
sibly soars above the many upon the wings of some
grand idea and establishes his elevation by its demon-
stration. That of Professor Mcllhany might be
written in two words—Sanctified Education—but its
full explanation would require a book——which we are
glad to know he expects to give to the world, col-
lected from a series of lectures, some already pub-
lished in religious papers and the others of which he

is now preparing. For the purposes of this work

3 we may briefly state the main points of his theory:

I. VVhile a warm and influential advocate of
universal education, he is conscientiously the oppo-
nent of the present “ Free School System.”

2._ Society is divided into church and state, and
neither can perform the functions of the other in
this or any other government. Only one of these
parties must teach 3 because, as at present when both
are attempting it, there is developing an irrepressible
antagonism——which, in the nature of things, would
not be were both in the line of duty. One is wrong
and the immutable principle of right demands that
the trespasser should be ascertained and opposed.

‘ 3. Addressing himself to the citizens, he declares
the state has no right, under the constitution of the
United States, to teach 3 for it cannot do so without
violating the conscience of some, few or many, and
that Charter is equally the protector of one as of
all—of Infidel, Atheist, ]ew or Gentile. The proof
of this is found in the war of words and paper bul-
lets distracting the school rooms of this country
to-day. .

4. Addressing the Christian in the same language,
he says it is impossible to teach any science without
teaching God, for all truth is from Him. The state
is the civil protector, not the moral educator3 the
church is God’s depositary of truth, and is coin-
manded, “ Go, teach all Nations.”

5. The church must not hinder nor embarrass
the state in the performance of its natural functions3
and, vice versa. It being established that it is the
prime duty of the church to teach, the state is
wrong in usurping the task, and in doing so hinders
and embarrasses that party in society’s compact.

6. His theory acknowledges that all, poor and
rich, should be educated, and would be, under any
or no “system 3” because intelligence being a

860 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

natural good, all 1nen will seek it, for themselves and
for their children.

Wecan only give these few points of Mr. McIl-
hany’s views on education, in our brief biograpical
sketch.

The professor is a Royal Arch Mason, having
joined that order when twenty—one years of age. In
politics he is a-Democrat.

He was married to Miss Ann Mary Blackwell,
daughter of Joseph Blackwell, of Glasgow, Missouri,
who died October 2, I86 5 ; by this marriage they had
one child, a son, still living. January 5, 1867, he was
married to Miss Virginia C. Johnston, daughter of
Henry J. Johnston, of Hancock, Maryland, formerly
of England. She died March 3, I870, leaving a son

and daughter. On the 9th of June, 1874, he was mar-
ried to Miss Lucy T. Plant, daughter of M. Plant,
of Monticello, Lewis county, Missouri, and this
marriage has been blessed with two children.

President Mcllhany is slightly under the medium
size, compactly built, with a look of energy and
determination about him characteristic of the man.
His manners are agreeable and polished. While in
the conference he did good service for the church,
and stood well among his brother-ministers. His
preaching is vigorous and animated; his style clear,
argumentative and convincing these traits appear-
ing more prominently in his lectures which are more
logical. As an author he is equally perspicuous and
always addresses the reasoning powers.

HON. LEONARD JAMES FARWELL.

GRANT CITY.

EONARD J. FARWELL, is a ‘native of Water-
L town, New York, and was born January 5,
1819. He had one brother, George, younger than
himself, who died at Chicago, March 29, 1844. His
father was Captain James Farwell, a native of Mass-
achusetts, and his mother, whose maiden name was
Rebecca Cady, was born in Vermont. She died in
1824 and his father died in 1830, leaving the two
boys orphans when Leonard J. was but eleven years
of age. He remained at his native place, or in its
vicinity, several years and obtained a fair English
education in the common schools. In his youth he
entered a dry goods store where he remained about
one year, when he ‘became an apprentice to a tin-
smith. During his tutelage at his trade he improved

his leisure hours in reading and studying to fit him-'

self to master the elements and secrets of business
success. At the early age of nineteen, obeying an
impulse common to the young men of that time, to
penetrate the alluring and mysterious Far West, and
with an amount of capital so small that it would
astonish the young men of this day, he started from
his native place and first attempted business on his
own account at Lockport, Illinois. Here, with a
small stock of hardware and a few tools of his trade,
he soon succeeded in building up a thriving business,
considering the time and place. But the country
was new, the settlement slow, the point isolated, and

the field not -large enough for one so enterprising and
ambitious 3 so, in January, 1840, he sold out his
business and removed to Milwaukee, in the Terri-
tory of Wisconsin, which at that time was a mere
village but rapidly increasing in importance. Here
by judicious advertising, a critical knowledge of the
business, great industry and careful management, in
a few years he became the head of one of the larg-
est hardware houses in the great North—west.

Ten years later, for the purpose of recruiting his
health impaired by close confinement in his business,
having accumulated a large fortune for those days, he
withdrew from the active management of his 1ne.rcan-
tile pursuits and embarked in other enterprises. In
1846 he made a six months trip to Cuba and other
West India Islands, in pursuit of health and recrea-
tion. In 1847 Mr. Farwell visited Madison, the
territorial capital of VVisconsin, and effected a large
purchase of village property, embracing and inclu-
ding its then‘ unimproved water power, and having
completed this arrangement, in September of the
same year, he went to Europe, and remained abroad
a year and a half, visiting England, Ireland, France,
Ita.ly, the Holy Land, Turkey, Egypt and many
other countries, returning to the United States in the
spring of 1849. He contributed, while absent, a
series of sketches and incidents of travel, t_o the Mil-

_ waukee Se7zzz'7zeZ, which attracted much public attention. I

THE U1VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY. 861

The real estate which he had purchased at Madi-
son, embraced nearly half the site of the village,and
if the additions subsequently made are included, it
amounted to more than half the plat of the present
city. Here he built fine flouring mills, a woolen
factory and machine shop and foundry——the first
establishments of their kind erected at the place.
He was apartner in building the Capital House-—the
principal hotel for many years—the Lakeside Water
Cure—afterward widely known and patronized——the
gas works, and labored earnestly to secure water
works for the city. He erected the “ Bruen Block,”
one of the best in the city. He established the
Madison Museum, and subsequently donated its col-
lections to the State University. He assisted in organ-
izing the State Historical Society, ‘now unequaled in
the extent of its collections in any western state. He
also helped to organize the State Agricultural Society,
the system of graded schools, and the State Univer-
sity, and contributed more or less to the establishment
and support of several religious societies. He set
the first example of grading and filling streets and
building cross and sidewalks in the town. He built
the first plank road, and also stocked the neighboring
lakes with new varieties of fish. In the projec-
tion of railroads in the state he took an active part.
Indeed, every great enterprise of public utility and
benevolence in the place bears more or less the stamp
of his enthusiastic labors.

The personal popularity resulting from the char-
acter of his career, forced him, we may say, into
public life. ‘His genial address, noble generosity,
and frank, outspoken manhood, had laid up a fund
of good will and esteem on the part of the people
that waited but for its time to find the meansof ex-
pression. ‘

Numbers of emigrants were constantly arriving in
Milwaukee, unacquainted with the English language,
frequently victimized by sharpers or suffering from
sickness and lack of means. Whenever cases of
this kind came to his notice he made it a rule per-
sonally to assist them. His large warehouse was
freely opened for their reception, provisions furnished
and other material assistance afforded. Many of
these objects of his kindness have since achieved
success in life, and now, men of wealth and high
standing, live to bless their benefactor. Popularity,
engendered by these acts, called him into public
notice and in 1851 his name was placed before the
people of Wisconsin for the office of governor by the
Whig and Free Soil party. Notwithstanding the fact

that the Democratic party was at that time largely in
the ascendant in the state,he was triumphantly elected
—the Democrats electing all the other state officers—
no inconsiderable tribute to his personal popularity
and worth. His official career was an entire suc-
cess. Notwithstanding that during his ‘entire term
both branches of the legislature were politically
opposed to him, there was no measure of importance
suggested or recommendation made by him that was
not promptly adopted. At the close of his official
term of two years, he refused a renomination to the
office on any terms, his important private interests
needing his exclusive personal attention.

On retiring to private life, he among other things
of note, engaged largely in promoting the railroad
interests of the country, and was active in his exer-
tions to promote direct connections with Chicago by
the Beloit & Madison Railroad and also with Mil-
waukee, via Watertown. At a later period the panic
of 18 57 gave a fatal blow during several years to his

restless career of noble and unselfish usefulness. The s

new State Capitol, the Hospital for the Insane, and the
CentralUniversity edifice are public buildings for which
the city is deeply indebted to his efforts. The financial
revulsion of 1857 embarrassed him greatly, and his
endorsement of paper for the Watertown & Madison
Railroad, resulted in his business ruin. Finding the
catastrophe inevitable, he made every effort to meet
all personal obligations, paying his creditors in valu-
able real estate. Having decided to make no assign-
ment, the balance of his property was left to be equally
divided, and had time been given, and he been em-
ployed to manage the business, it would have more
than sufficed to cover every claim. For several years
he resided on a farm near the city of Madison.

In the spring of 1863 he was appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln an assistant examiner in the Patent
Office at Washington, and three months later was
made principal examiner of inventions——a position
which he held several years. During the Rebellion
he took an activepart in all measures to preserve the
national capital. He was vice president of the asso-
ciation for the relief of Wisconsin soldiers, and ren-
dered efficient service in that capacity. On April 14,
1865, he was present in Ford’s‘ theater, a spectator
of the assassination of President Lincoln and the
escape of Wilkes Booth. Apprehending danger to
other prominent officials, he rushed into the Kirk-
wood House, and was just in time to save the life
of Andrew Johnson from the knife of Atzerodt, who
was then in the building waiting an opportunity to

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strike. For this service Mr. Johnson sent for him,
and tendered him any position in the government he
might desire, notwithstanding a radical difference in
their political sentiments. But the well meant offer
was kindly declined, as he thought political prefer-
ment should not be accepted when offered from a
mere sentiment of personal gratitude.

In 1868 he moved to Chicago, where he engaged
in business, remaining till 1872. He was burned
out in the great fire of October, 1871.

Leaving Chicago he traveled for some time over the
New West, in quest of a location, and finally selected
Grant City, the seat of Worth county, Missouri, his
present home,where he has since been engaged in the
real estate business, and is doing much to encourage
immigration fromWisconsin and other Northern States.

On the zoth of September, 1853, he married
Miss Frances A. Corss, daughter of General A. N.

Corss, of Madison, Wisconsin, formerly of ,Water-
town, New York, a lady of rare attainments and
amiable traits of character. She died in Washington,
D. C., April I 5, 1868, after a lingering illness, the
result of a railroad accident, leaving three children:
two sons, William C., now (1878) aged twenty-one,
Leonard C., aged nineteen, and a daughter, Corne-
lia L., aged sixteen, all unmarried.

He was raised a Universalist, but never adhered
to any church, though he liberally assisted in the
building of churches for all denominations. He was
a Whig until that party disbanded and has since been
a staunch supporter of the principles of the Repub-
lican party. .

He is five feet ten and one-half inches high, and
weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, well built,
and prepossessing in appearance. He is genial in
disposition and eminently popular with all men.

WILLIAM HARRISON MILLER.

KANSAS CITY.

county, Missouri, ]anuary~r2, 1843. He was
the sixth child of Joshua A. and Nancyjane (Turner)
Miller. His father was a native of Bedford county,
Virginia, and of German descent. The original pro-
genitor of the family in America came to Philadel-
phia some time during the seventeenth century, and
forming a colony, went into what was then the wilds
of Virginia and founded the town of Woodstock,
which for many years was called after hi1n—Millers—
ville. The family has resided there since, and has
always been prominent in local affairs, mostly in
county politics and in efforts to advance the cause of
education in that locality.
Owing to family misfortunes, the father of our

’ I ‘HE subject of this sketch was born in Jasper

subject was deprived of educational advantages in his.

early youth 3 but after he was seventeen, at which age
he immigrated to Western Virginia, and while learn-
ing the business of wool carding and blacksmithing,
he managed to secure such elementary education as
fitted him for the transaction of any ordinary busi-
ness. About 1825 he went to Adair county, Ken-
tucky, where he met and married Nancy Jane Turner,
a native of that county, but descended from a family
of French Huguenots, who, at the time of the perse-

cution in France immigrated to North Carolina. In
1829 the family removed to New Salem, Illinois, then

a little town near Springfield, where Mr. Miller»

became the personal friend and associate of Abraham
Lincoln. In 1842 he removed to jasper county,
Missouri, where he attempted to open a farm, but
finding the country not well’ adapted to agriculture, he
removed the following year to Macon county, Mis-
souri. It was during the winter that he resided in
Jasper county that oursubject was born. In 1852
he removed to Atchison county, Missouri, and again
in 1867 to Nemaha county, Nebraska, where he still
resides with his aged wife and two daughters, at the
advanced age of seventy-three.

During his residence in Atchison county, William
worked on the farm and attended the country schools
during the winter months, where he acquired an ele-
mentary education. At the age of seventeen he went
to Rockport, the county seat, to learn the art of
printing in the office of the Rockport Ifemla’. He
remained here, however, but a few months, when
finding his employer remiss in the observance of the
contract, he left him, and afterward worked in Ore-
gon and Forest City in the adjoining county of Holt,
returning home to assisthis father on the farm during

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the summer of 1861. In October of that year he
availed himself of the first opportunity to enlist in the
ranks of the then rapidly filling Federal army. The
command to which he became attached was a detached
company of Missouri State militia, called out for six
months service, in which he held the position of cor-
poral. In January, 1862, this company was mus-
tered out at St. Joseph, Missouri, when our subject
at once re'e'nlisted in Company A, 1st Missouri State
militia, for three years, in which he was promoted to
be sergeant. The following summer, while on duty in
the cityof St. Louis, he was detailed on special duty
at the office of Governor Hamilton R. Gamble, where
he attracted the attention of Adjutant-General Colo-
nel William D.Wood, and was, at his instance, given
a commission as 2nd lieutenant in Company K,
35th Missouri infantry, on the [st of December, 1862.
There being no Ist lieutenant, and the captain being
on detached service, he had command of the compa-
ny, then at Benton Barracks, from the first, and on
account of the knowledge of the affairs and manage-
ment of a company which he exhibited, was promo-
ted to be 1st lieutenant on the 22d of the same month,
while at Helena, Arkansas. He continued in com-
mand of this company until June, 1863, serving
in several expeditions in Arkansas and Mississippi.
In June he was assigned to duty on the staff of
Brigadier—General Solomon, in which capacity he
was serving at the battle at Helena, Arkansas, July
4, 1863. Soon afterward, he received a commis-
sion as‘ captain of his old company, dating from May
26, and returned to it. A few weeks afterward he
fell 9, victim to the malarial fever, which was, at that
time, very prevalent at Helena, and lay sick until in
December, when he resigned. Returning to St.
Louis and recovering his health, he took, in Janu-
ary, a commission as 1st lieutenant in Company E,
11th Missouri cavalry, commanded by his old
friend, Colonel William D. Moore. With this com-
mand, he returned to Arkansas by the way of
Batesville and Jacksonport, and,_ at Duvall’s Bluff,
in July, 1864, he resigned and left the army.
Returning to his boyhood home in Atchison coun-
ty, we soon ‘find him publisher and proprietor of the
Brozozzszzllle Adoorlzker, of Brownsville, Nebraska.
Finding this an unpromising adventure, he disposed
of it in December and went to Omaha, where the leg-
islature was just convening, and was elected engross-
ing clerk of the upper house. After the adjournment
of the legislature, he was induced by friends found
there to take charge of the I€egz'sz‘or, at Rulo, in
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863

Richardson county. Finding this, too, unpromising,
he went to Nebraska City, in June, 1865, and took
charge of the Press, a daily paper, with which he
continued until 1870, having become its proprietor,
as well as editor. In 1871 he removed to Kansas
City and took an editorial position on the journal,
with which he continued until 1877, filling, at differ-
ent times, every editorial position on the paper.

In 187 3 he was elected secretary of the Board of
Trade, then a young and feeble organization,
demanding but little time. The development of the
markets having rendered a stronger and more effi-
cient organization necessary, the Board was reorgan-
ized and incorporated in May, 1876, and at once
undertook the erection of the present Board of
Trade building, on the corner of Delaware and
Fifth streets. By the beginning of 1877, the duties
of the secretary became such as to demand all of
his time and he, then, finally withdrew from the
fozm/zal.

While connected with the journal, in 1872,
he developed the idea of barge navigation on the
Missouri river, in a series of editorial articles, which
attracted much attention in St. Louis, as well as
Kansas City and throughout the West. The press
of St. Louis, however, opposed the scheme until,
in 1873, during a short visit to that city, he ex-
plained to Mr. Charles Davis, editor of the Glooo,
its effects on St. Louis, and, at Mr. Davis’ request,
wrote a series of articles for the Globe, which seemed
visibly to affect the feelings of St. Louis toward the
project. The agitation of this subject was con-
tinued by the journal until the past summer, when
such navigation of the Missouri river became a
realized fact, four. trips being made as follows, at a
saving in freight of about three cents per bushel:
July 25, Grand Lake No. 2, 83,540 bushels corn,
July 27, A. J. Baker, 62,038 bushels corn, August
I2, A.  Baker, 50,538 bushels corn, August 31,
A. J. Baker, 44,198 bushels wheat.

As commercial editor of the fomvzal, he com-
piled the annual reviews of that paper from 1873
to 1877, adding to the last a commercial history
of Kansas City, the most complete and compre-
hensive account yet written, and which has become

, the authority to which all future writers in the same

field must refer. Having the fullest faith in the
future of Kansas City, he used his position on the
journal to attract attention to its markets, and to
develop them, and contributed largely to the high
standard of that paper as a fosterer of Kansas City’s

864 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

interests, and as a commercial authority in the
\Vest. As a journalist he possesses ability of a
highorder and as a writer, he is ready, fluent and
correct, but his specialty is as an editorial writer on
commercial subjects, and, as such, he is not excelled
in this part of the state.

As secretary of the Board of Trade, he has
proven himself an active and efficient officer, is
popular with its members, and has attained a posi-
tion as a compiler of statistics which makes him the
highest authority in the city on the commercial sta-

I tistics of the city and the country adjacent thereto.

The Board of Trade now has two hundred and ten.
members, and owns the fine property occupied by it
on the corner of Fifth and Delaware streets, valued
at about $65,000, and brings an annual income for
rent of about $15,000. It is a part of Mr. Miller’s
duties to take charge of . the building, collect its
rents, etc. He was married, in Nebraska City,
in June, 1866, to Miss Ginevra Linton. He. is the
father of two children, one of which, a daughter,
died in 1876, at the age of nine years.

HON. JOHN F. PHILIPS.

SEDALIA.

OHN F. PHILIPS is a native of Boone county,
Missouri, and was born December 31, 1834.
His father had settled there in 1817. Young

Philips was reared on his father’s farm, and his

youth was passed in much the same manner as that ‘

of other farm lads in a new country. He attended
district school, entered the State University of Mis-
souri when seventeen years old, and afterward
entered Center College, Kentucky, and graduated
from that institution in 185 5. He read law in the
office, and under the direction of General John B.
Clark, at Fayette, Howard county, Missouri 3 and,
having been admitted to the bar, in 18 57 he opened
an office at Georgetown, which Was, at that time,
the county seat of Pettis county, where he rapidly
built up a fine practice, and was very attentive to
business and hence successful, especially as an advo-
cate before a jury.

Before the war of the Rebellion, Mr. -Philips was
a Whig, and, in 1860, he was a candidate for alter-
nate, or assistant presidential elector, on the Bell
and Everett ticket. During the canvass he made
his first political speech ; it was followed by many
others, and he attracted much attention as a bril-
lia.nt, eloquent and forcible orator.
a spirited struggle, he was elected by a large I major-
ity to the state convention, which was held to con-
sider the relations of the state of Missouri to the
Federal Union. He was one of the youngest mem-
bers of that distinguished body of men, which held
sessions during two years. He was influential and
zealous in opposition to secession and rebellion, and

In 1861, after I

made many eloquent and convincing speeches in
support of his patriotic opinions. He believed that
secession was a remedy for no evil; that it was ‘a
greater evil than any which it was expected to cure,
and that in the Union, and under the constitution,
was the place to stand for all rights.

In 1861-2 Mr. Philips raised a regiment of
Union cavalry, and was appointed colonel. This
command did fine service and good fighting in
Arkansas and Missouri, and was often complimented
in orders by commanding generals. For gallant
service against General Price, in 1864, Colonel
Philips was placed in comm-and of the central dis-
trict of Missouri, by General Rosecranz. He was
also appointed brigadier—general, by Governor Hall,
but, as he was not a Radical in politics, the state
senate refused to confirm him. He commanded his
regiment throughout the war, except when he was
placed in a higher command.

After the war, Colonel Philips resumed the prac-
tice of his profession at Sedalia. Judge Russell
Hicks became his law partner in 1866; George G.
Vest is now his partner and has been for many
years. In 1868 he was the Democratic candidate
for Congress, and made a stirring canvass in opposi-
tion to disfranchisement and proscription. He was
not elected, but the campaign was a memorable one
and aroused great enthusiasm and admiration for
him among the people. In the same year he was a
delegate to the National Democratic Convention
which nominated Messrs. Seymour and Blair for
president and vice-president, respectively. In 1874,-

THE UNITED STATES BIOGZBAPIIICAL DICT/'0./VARY. 865

after a very remarkable struggle in convention, he
became the Democratic candidate for Congress, and

after an active canvass, was elected, by a large

majority. From his first entry into Congress, he
commanded much influence and respect, by his
industry, talents and eloquence. His first prepared
speech was in opposition to Mr. Blaine’s proposed
sixteenth amendment to the constitution, in regard to
church and state, and attracted much attention as a
logical argument and an eloquent appeal. His
eulogy on the late Speaker Kerr was a very finished,
elegant and touching tribute to the memory of its
distinguished subject. , He served on the committee
on the Pacific railroads and on claims. He was also
a member of the committee sent to South Carolina
to investigate presidential election affairs, and chair-
man of the subcommittee. He performed his
duties with distinction and made a very able and

concise report ; he also supported his report and the
action of the committee in a speech of great force,
logic and eloquence.

Colonel Philips has been for many years a con-
sistent and zealous member of the Presbyterian
church, and represented the Synod of Missouri in
the convention at Edinburgh, in July, 1877; and
afterward traveled extensively in Europe.

He was married to Miss Fleecie Batterton, of
Danville, Kentucky, May 14, 1857. He has two
children—a son, Emmett, who graduated with high

‘honors, in June, 1877, at Center College, Kentucky,

and a daughter, Hortense.

Colonel..Philips stands very high in his profession,
and he is very generally successful before court or
jury, he is an accomplished orator, an able states-
man, a most excellent citizen, and bids fair to rise to
much greater distinction than he has yet attained.

JOHN B. WORNALL.

WESTPOR T.

OHN  WORNALL was born October 12,
1822, in Clarke county, Kentucky. His grand-
father, Thomas VVornall, was an honored citizen

of Kentucky, having received the approbation of his
countrymen by the frequentbestowal of official trusts.
His father, Richard Wornall, was a man who was
held in the highest esteem by his neighbors and
acquaintances, and left behind him a name unstained
by a single act of dishonor. His father moved to
Jackson county, Missouri, in 1844.

As a resident of Kansas City long before it aspired
to metropolitan honors, John B. Wornall was one of
those who foresaw its prospective greatness, and who
labored to give the place that prominence its position
and merit deserved. He was an indefatigable worker
and did much to promote its growth and influence.
The “ Wornall farm” has long been known to resi-
dents and travelers as the home of hospitality, and is
now one of the most pleasant suburban residences in
the vicinity of Kansas City. It was a well known
resort when the present site of Kansas City was only
“ a landing.” Mr. Wornall has been identified with
most of the important enterprises that have contribu-

-ted to the advancement of the city, and his sound

judgment, prudent action and practical business sense

have done much to elevate, improve and adorn the
section in which he resides. As a patron of public
schools, he did much for the cause of popular educa-
tion, and was a founder of the city schools, but was
not connected officially in their building. He has
always been the friend and advocate of that higher
culture which is not attainable in the public schools,
and he has, therefore, been a liberal contributor, in
money and labor, to the success of William Jewell
College, located at Liberty, Missouri, of which he
has been for many years a trustee, and much of the
time president of the board. At one time he gave
eight thousand dollars to its endowment fund, and
has contributed smaller amounts as the interests of
the ‘institution seemed to demand it.

In religion he is a decided Baptist, deeply con-
cerned for the welfare and prosperity of the church.
In I872-3 he presided over the general association of
Missouri Baptists, an assembly composed of the rep-
resentativesfrom upward of one thousand churches,
embracing 8o,ooo people and nine hundred min-
isters. -

He has been for a number of years president of
the Kansas City National Bank, now the Bank of
Kansas City. In 1869 he was nominated by accla-

866 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

mation for the state senate from the 14th District and
was elected by a large majority; he served with credit
to himself and his district for four years. He was
favorably mentioned by a number of Democratic
papers as a candidate for Governor of Missouri in
1874; but he made no caucus and took no pains to
secure the nomination.

He was first married in 1850 to Miss Matilda A.
Polk, daughter of William Polk, of Kentucky. She

died in 18 51, without living issue. He was married
to his second wife, Miss Eliza S. Johnson, daughter
of Rev. Thomas Johnson, in 1854.
were the issue of this marriage, only two of whom,
both sons, survive. He married his third wife,
Miss Roma Johnson, a cousin of his second wife, in
September, 1866, who_ has borne him two sons. She
is an exemplary Christian woman, remarkable for her
amiability and loveliness of character.

MILTON C. TRACY.

MACON CITY.

7 HE ancestors of Mr. Tracy are of Scotch-

F Irish origin. He is the eldest son of the late
B. N. Tracy, Sr., an eminent merchant and banker,
whose mother’s name was Fanny Cornelius, daugh-
ter of Abner Cornelius, one of the early pioneers of
Missouri. -

The subject of this sketch was born at Huntsville,
Missouri, on June 18, 1844. He received his early
mental training in his native place, and graduated
at Mount Pleasant College in the year 1863. He
subsequently read law in the office of H. M. Porter,
Esq.

In the year 1868, Mr. Tracy removed to Macon
City, Missouri. He took a prominent part in the

celebrated political campaign of 1870, and lent the
aid of his voice and pen to the enfranchisement of
disfranchised southern men of Missouri. Mr. Tracy
also took a very active part in the presidential con-
tests of 1872 and 1876, and is noted throughout
Northern Missouri as an influential and unswerving
Democratic worker and stump speaker.

The pursuit, however, best adapted to Mr.
Tracy’s talents and tastes, is literature. He has
achieved considerable distinction as a lecturer on
general topics, and is now superintending the publi-

- cation of a volume of miscellaneous essays, and is

engaged in writing a book, which will be ready for
the press by January, 1879.

REV. THOMAS JOHNSON FERRILL.

PLA T T 515’ U]? G.

HE parents of Thomas Johnson Ferrill were
T Rev. William Ferrill, born January 13, 1798,
and Elizabeth Ferrill, born February 20, 1805.
They removed to Missouri at an early day and set-
tled in Howard county, where, owing to the hostility
of the Indians, they were compelled to live in
Cooper’s Fort four years. Rev. William Ferrill was
present when the Mormons attacked Independence,
and assisted in driving them from the state. He
was one of the first Methodist ministers in4Western
Missouri and the Indian Territory. When the

Church South seceded, in 1844, although in slave
territory, he remained in the Methodist Episcopal
church and preached for those that would not secede.
In 1861 he was loyal to the old flag, and if age had
not prevented he would have gone and defended it.
In 1863 he departed this life, and his children had
engraved upon his tombstone, “He was loyal to his
country and his God.”

Thomas J. Ferrill, the subject of this memoir,
was born in Independence, Jackson county, Mis-
souri, December 24, 1831, was educated in a semi-

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THE UJVZTED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 867

nary in Western Missouri, in the common branches,
passed through a theological course before he was
twenty-two years of age, and became a minister in the
Missouri Conference. His early ministry in Missouri
was attended with extreme hardships, privations and
persecutions. Commencing in the exciting days of
the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas excite-
ment, when every minister of the Methodist Episco-
pal church was regarded as a common enemy, he
resolutely stood up for his church, made long rides
over a vast circuit, and became the target of pro-
slavery denunciation, taking his life in his hand and
valiantly battling for the right against all opposition.
Kansas being opened to settlement, he removed to
the new territory in the summer of 185.4, and settled
one mile west of Lawrence. He had scarcely got
into his cabin with his bride, whom he had married
a few days before, when a pro—slavery mob gathered
around him, threatening his life for no other reason
than that he was a Methodist minister, and about
the first rally of the pioneers of Lawrence for self-
defense, was a night reconnoissance to protect this
valiant minister. The two parties met, and finally,
on the pro—slavery men agreeing to desist from any
attack, the anti-slavery men of Lawrence returned
to their homes.

His first circuit embraced all the settled territory
south of the Kansas river. He was the first Meth-
odist preacher who delivered a sermon in Lawrence,
and the first of his denomination in Kansas. His
first sermon was preached in a tent covered with
prairie hay, and before another Sabbath it was
burned, supposed to have been the work of an incen-
diary. He afterward conducted services at the Lad
Hotel, and at other places, till the spring of 1856,
at which time a Methodist church was built by put-
ting posts in the ground, siding with slabs and roof-
ing with canvas. The seats were fair, the floor
sawdust and the pulpit good for that early day. He

had the honor of preaching the dedicatory sermon.

In October, 1856, the first session of the Kansas
Conference was held in that humble building,
Bishop Baker presiding. In the summer ‘of 1855
they held a meeting in the grove on Wakarusa
creek, south of Lawrence, Rev. William H. Good,
the presiding elder, being in charge of the services
and, Mr. F errill an active participant.

Early in 1857 he took a prominent part in a
camp meeting west of Clinton, on Elk creek, at
which Revs. A. Still, Holliday, Dennis and Piper
officiated, a large congregation attending and twenty-

five persons joining the church. In September of
the same year a camp meeting was held near Bald-
win City, conducted by Rev. L. B. Dennis as pre-
siding elder, assisted by Messrs. F errill, Pugh, Hoag
and Durand, attended by a large congregation and
at which twen.ty—five persons joined the church.

Mr. F errill was at first connected with the mer-
cantile firm of Hornsbys & Ferrill, whose store was
a half mile west of where the State University now
stands. Here he located a claim and resided until
1862, when he was appointed to the Mound City
circuit, and removedto that place, and in 1863 was
transferred to the Baldwin City station, where his
family remained until 1867. In 1866 he was the
pastor of the M. E. church in Ottawa, Kansas, but
in 1867 was transferred to the Missouri Conference
and stationed at Harrisonville, Cass county, Mis-
souri. In 1868 he was appointed ‘to the Pleasant
Hill station and remained there three years. In
1871 he was appointed to the Liberty street M. E.
church, Kansas City 3 in 1872 to Macon City station;
in 1873 to Brookfield station, and in 1874 to Kirks—
ville district, as presiding elder, where he remained
four years. In 1878 he was transferred to Platts-
burg, Missouri, where he is now stationed. Rev.
J. H. Hopkins and Rev. Thomas J. Ferrill are now
the only ministers that are able to do effective work,
that belonged to the Missouri Conference in 1851,
when it embraced in its territory Missouri, Kansas,
Arkansas and Texas.

Mr. Ferrill was a chaplain of the 16th Kansas
volunteers, participated actively in the Price raid
and served in the Indian campaign of his regiment
upon the plains.

He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and
has held the office of Chaplain of the Grand Lodge
of Kansas. He is a straight—out Republican; was
brought up an old-‘line Whig.

He was married February I4, 1854, in Johnson
county, Missouri, to Miss Minerva Hornsby, daugh-
ter of Brintley and Esther A. Hornsby. The family
were free state people, among the worthiest, truest
and best of the pioneers of Kansas. Mrs. F er‘rill was
one of the most amiable Christian pioneer women of
the state. They have two children: Mary A., an
accomplished young lady, especially proficient in
music, both vocal and instrumental, and William C.,
a graduate of Lewis College and a successful prac-
titioner of law in Kansas City.

His wife’s last illness commenced in the fall of
1860. Early in the spring of 1861 he took her

868 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAIEY.

home to Missouri to die, and find a resting place ~

beside her mother’s grave, and remained till May 5,
when he, with other members of the family, were
forced to flee to a land of safety at his home in Kan-
sas. Although at the door of death, yet with forti-
tude and patience she journeyed homeward to end
life’s pilgrimage in a land of peace. In three days
after their arrival home she crossed the line of
worlds.

In November, 1863, he was married to Miss
Cleopatra E. Lynch, a lady educated in Baker Uni-
versity, who graduated with honors, delivering an
address at the commencement which marked her as
a lady of high intellectuality.

The career of Mr. Ferrill was marked by many
incidents of thrilling interests in the pioneer history
of the state. He is a man of good address, indom-

itable will and great fearlessness of character. The
early camp meetings on the Wakarusa were con-
nected with many incidents peculiar to the times,
with all of which he was identified. At one time it
was believed that a mob was about to assail the
camp on account of the anti-slavery sentiments of
the Methodist preachers, and many men from Law-
rence appeared upon the grounds with bowie-knives
and revolvers in their belts, swearing that the free-
dom of speech and of religious worship should be
protected, some of them protesting that they cared
nothing about the Methodist religion, but that no
man’s right to worship God according to the dic-
tates of his conscience should be interfered with.

Mr. Ferrill is still in the vigor of manhood and
among the most faithful ministers .of Missouri in the
work of his church and the Christian religion.

MATTHEW KING SMITH.

SPRINGFIELD.

1830, on Huron Prairie, Erie county,
Ohio. His father, Hezekiah Smith, was a native of
Connecticut, of Scotch descent, and one of a family
of nine children who emigrated from Connecticut
at an early day, engaged in agricultural pursuits and
were honored and useful members of society. The
maiden name of his mother was Mary Calkins, a
native of Connecticut, who diedin 1839. On
account of his obliging disposition and desire to
help those in trouble, Mr. Smith’s father became
involved and lost his property, in consequence of
which Matthew’s opportunities for attending school

were limited, but he studied and read athome by

MATTHEW K. SMITH was born July 3,

lamplight, and at the age of nineteen he pur- I

chased his minority and determined to fit himself
for the duties of life. He attended high school in
Orland, Indiana, a part of two seasons, teaching a
district school during the winters I He then accepted
a situation in a dry goods and drug store, and shortly
after became a partner in the same, remaining until
the spring of 18 55. He then sold a small farm and
his interest in the store, went to Topeka, Kansas,
and immediately purchased a claim, before the land

had been surveyed, bought four yoke of oxen and a <

plow, and commenced breaking prairie and planting

corn. During the next season he built a mercantile
house, for which the town association gave him an
original. interest in the town. The Free State Legis-
lature held its first session in this building. He now
commenced merchandising, and did his part with
other citizens in protecting life and property during
the invasion of the state by pro-slavery mobs. In

1863, in company with M. G. Farnham, he did an

extensive wholesale and retail business. Their sales
to the Mexicans were large, as at that time Topeka
was an outfitting point. In consequence of a partial
sunstroke, which impaired his health, he settled his
business in Topeka and in the fall of 1868 moved to
Springfield, Missouri, where he had invested in land
adjoining the city. He saw the great need of manu-
factories in Springfield, talked and wrote encour-
aging them, and finally determined to commence the
manufacture of woolen goods himself. In the spring
of 1872, after investing all of his ‘means, he had by
energetic effort become well started, when his factory
was badly wrecked by acycloneor whirlwind, which
unroofed the building, tore much of it down to the
second story and scattered a fine stock of wool in all
directions. This was a heavy loss, but he immediate-
ly repaired the damages and has since had an increas-
ing trade and enjoyed the confidence of the public.

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In politics Mr. Smith has been a,Republican but
now believes in the principles of the Greenback
party. He has had no inclination to hold office, yet
has filled several positions of trust in public and
private associations and societies. He is now the
county agent to see that money appropriated for
railroad purposes is properly expended. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity.

In religion he was brought up as a Baptist, but is
now liberal, believing in the impersonations of the
invisible world, and that each individual must reap
the consequences of his own acts.

He was married in 1854 to Hannah Barnard, of
Orland, Indiana, who died in 1856. He_was married
again in 1858 to Almeda M. Caswell, of Quincy,
Michigan, daughter of Cyrus G. and Hannah Cas-
well. She is a natural musician and fine singer,
has often taken an important part in musical
entertainments and frequently leads the choir.
Their eldest daughter, Lena Leota, has enjoyed
good educational advantages, is a graduate of
Drury College, a composer of music and a fine per-
former on the piano. it Jessie, who is attending
school, and Mary and Gracie, the other two

daughters, each displays an unusual talent for music.

Physically Mr. Smith is slightly built, though of
medium height and weight, well formed and possess-
ing naturally a strong organization, capable of great
endurance. His health is somewhat impaired by
work and devotion to business. In his mental
make-up he is endowed with a fine nervous organi-
zation, in which the intellectual and moral faculties
predominate. He has a well-shaped head, a clear
blue eye and a thoughtful and expressive counte-
nance. His mind is clear and analytical and capable
of entertaining broad and liberal views upon all sub-
jects. He is a deep thinker and sound reasoner,
always looking after the why and the wherefore, the
cause and effect 3 is a devout lover of truth and jus-
tice, and frank and sincere in the avowal of his
opinions, however unpopular they may be. He is
modest and unassuming in manner, always respect-
fully regarding the feelings and opinions of others ;
is prompt, energetic and decisive in action, superin-
tending his business in almost every detail ; is genial
and affable in disposition, has a cultured social
nature, a warm and generous heart, and is liberal to
all worthy objects.

HON. JAMES S. ROLLINS, LL. D.

COLUMBIA.

0 record the life, in such a manner as to make
even a near approach to a biography, of such

a man as the one whose name is at the head of this
memoir, would require long time, much research,
and the work would make a large and instructive
volume in itself. His life has been long and active,
and its history is an important and honorable part of
that of his state and country. -
Mr. Rollins is a native of Richmond, Madison
county, Kentucky, and was born April 19, 1812.
His paternal grandfather was a native of the county
Tyrone, Ireland. His father, Dr. Anthony Wayne
Rollins, was a physician of great eminence in
Kentucky. His mother, whose maiden name was
Rodes, was a native of Albermarle county, Virginia.
Mr. Rollins had six brothers and sisters, all of whom
are dead except his youngest sister, thewife of Hon.
Curtis F. Burnam, former Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States. ‘

In early youth Mr. Rollins pursued an academic
course of study in his native town, and in 1827
entered Washington College, Pennsylvania. At the
end of the junior year Rev. Dr. Wylie, the presi-
dent, went to Bloomington, Indiana, taking charge
of the State [University of Indiana, at that place.
Mr. Rollins, as well as many other students, accom-
panied him, and he there entered the senior class
and graduated in 1830. He went to Missouri,
where his parents had already moved, took up his
residence in Boone county, and has continued to
reside there ever since. His father owned an excel-
lent farm and he assisted in its management about a
year, and then read law two years with Hon. Abiel
Leonard, afterward a justice of the supreme court of
Missouri. He also studied two years at the law
school of Transylvania University, at Lexington,
Kentucky, and graduated in 1834. Being admitted
to the bar, he commenced law practice at Columbia,

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but on account of ill health he devoted a portion of
his time to managing and improving a farm which
he purchased near the town.

When the Black Hawk war commenced, in 1832,
Mr. Rollins volunteered, and served about six months
on the staff of General Gentry, in the northeastern
part of the state. The Missouri troops were engaged
in no actions, but faithfully guarded the frontier until
the war was over. Mr. Rollins and his law partner,
Mr. Thomas Miller, became editors, in 1836, of the
Columbia Paz‘rz'0z‘, a Whig paper, and conducted it
many years. « I

On the zoth of April, 1836, a large railroad con-
vention met at St. Louis. It was the first ever held
in the state. Mr. Rollins was chairman of a com-
mittee which drafted a memorial to Congress asking
for a grant of public lands to aid in constructing an
extensive system of public works, which the conven-
tion favored.

Mr. Rollins was married on the 6th of June,’

1837, to Miss Mary E. Hickman, a native of How-
ard county, a very accomplished lady. They have
had eleven children, eight of whom are now (1878)
living. The oldest son is James H. Rollins, captain
of ordnance, United States army.

Mr. Rollins was elected to the legislature in‘ 1838.
He was astrong Whig and a great admirer of the
doctrines of Clay and Webster. Although quite
young, he commanded influence and respect from
the first. During the session of 1838-9 he was very
active in regard to educational matters, and drafted,
introduced and ably advocated the bill to found and
endow the State University of Missouri.
a law, and the institution was soon after established
at Columbia and has become a great and influential
seat of learning—a lasting monument to the wisdom,
patriotism and public spirit of its founders and the
pride of the state. Mr. Rollins was reelected to the
legislature in 1840. During both his terms of service
in the legislature he was energetic and earnest in the
advocacy of the prosecution of internal improve-
ments, and especially the building of railroads and
the improvement of rivers, at the public expense.
Young as he was, and while railroads were yet in
their infancy, even in the easternqstates, with no
important results yet achieved to recommend them
to public consideration, he clearly foresaw the vast
and beneficial results that they were destined to
bring forth, and the wondrous development that they
would ultimately accomplish. He cast his first vote
for President, in 1836, for General Harrison.

It became I

In 1844 Mr. Rollins was a delegate to the Whig
national convention, held in Baltimore, which nomi-
nated Henry Clay for President. Inthe campaign
of that year he made many effective speeches in
the state in support of Mr. Clay, and in 1846 Was
elected to the state senate from the district composed
of the counties of Boone and Audrian. In his sen-
atorial service he was distinguished for his support
of all measures of education, public benevolence and
enlightened progress, "and was the leading advocate
of the bill to establish the first lunatic asylum at
Fulton.

In 1848 he was the Whig candidate for governor,
but the state being largely Democratic, he was
defeated, although by a much less majority than his
opponents expected. He made a thorough joint
canvass of the state with his adversary, Mr. King.
In the General Assembly of 1848-9 Mr. Rollins was
the Whig candidate for United States Senator, but
the Democrats had a large majority and elected
Hon. D. R. Atchison. ‘

In 1854 Mr. Rollins was again elected to the
lower house of the general assembly, from Boone
county. The extension of slavery into the territo-
ries, and troubles arising therefrom, were exciting
and paramount questions at the time. Mr. Rollins
boldly and ably opposed the extension of slavery,
but was elected, nevertheless, by a constituency
among whom the slavery influence was very strong.
The session of this legislature was a very exciting
one, in a political sense, on account of the interest
arising from the slavery question, and the border
troubles on the subject, in Kansas. In the election
of United States Senator, Mr. Rollins supported
Colonel Doniphan, and in consequence of a debate
on this subject between him and Mr. Goode, of St.
Louis, Mr. Rollins attracted great attention as an
eloquent and accomplished orator. .

In 1857 Mr. Rollins was again the Whig candi-
date for governor, to fill the vacancy caused by the
election of Governor Polk to the United States Sen-
ate. Hon R. M. Stewart was his Democratic oppo-
nent. They made a joint canvass of the state and
the excitement was very great. Mr. Stewart was
declared elected by two hundred and thirty votes,
but many of Mr. Rollins’ friends thought that he
was really elected. At any rate, it was a substantial
and glorious triumph for Mr. Rollins, to bring the
Democratic majority of thousands so near to zero.

In 1860 he was elected to Congress from the 9th
District. He supported Bell and Everett, while his

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adversary, Hon. John B. Henderson, supported
Douglas and Johnson. He took his seat first in the
special session of Congress, called for July 4, 1861,
by President Lincoln, to take measures to suppress
the rebellion then raging. He ranged himself at
once upon the side of the Union, believing that the
rebellion and secession, in all their causes, phases
and pretenses, were entirely defenseless, as a matter
of law, morality or policy. We can, in this memoir,
but briefly allude to his labors in Congress. He
commanded great respect and influence in the House,
from the commencement, and gained more and more
by experience, study and observation. He made
many speeches which attracted wide and thoughtful
attention, for their wisdom, patriotism, eloquence
and convincing logic. .

Mr. Rollins was an active and able supporter of
the bill to provide for agricultural colleges in the
different states by a grant of public lands. Febru-
ary 5, 1862, he introduced a bill to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad and telegraph line from the
Missouri river to the Pacific. With some amend-
ments, it became a law in July, 1862, and under its
provisions the Union Pacific, Central Pacific and
Kansas Pacific railroads, and accompanying tele-
graph lines, were built across the continent. He
advocated, in a great speech, the adoption of the
thirteenth amendment to the constitution, abolishing
slavery in the United States, in the 38th Congress,
to which he had been elected by a very large major-
ity. It was regarded by Mr. Lincoln, and many
other distinguished men, as one of the very ablest
of all the speeches made upon that vast and all im-
portant question in the House of Representatives.
This amendment was introduced in the Senate by
Senator Jolm B. Henderson, Mr. Rollins’ old oppo-
nent. They were now upon one platform of wisdom
and eternal justice. Mr. Rollins opposed a resolu-
tion for the expulsion of Mr. Long, of Ohio, for the
expression of disunion sentiments in the House of
Representatives, and, on the 12th of April, 1864,
delivered a great and powerful argument in favor of
free speech in the debate upon that subject. Mr.
Rollins declined election to the 39th Congress, in
1864, a.nd the war being closed in 1865, he returned
to his home in Columbia and resumed attention to
his business affairs, which had suffered greatly dur-
ing his absence and from the disturbing effects of
the long and terrible war. In 1866 he was again
sent to the legislature, receiving nearly all the votes

Cast. During his term he was engaged in revising
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the statutes of the state, to adapt them to the new
constitution adopted in 1865, and to the new condi-
tions imposed by the results of the war and the
emancipation of the slaves. He was also greatly
interested in perfecting the common school system
of the state and the rehabilitation of the State Uni-
versity upon a firm and enduring basis, it having
been broken up by the war. He introduced and
advocated a bill which became a law, notwithstand-
ing great opposition, to establish a normal depart-
ment in the University, and to provide for rebuilding
the president’s house, which had been destroyed
by fire.

In 1867 President Johnson appointed Mr. Rol-
lins a director of the Union Pacific railroad com-
pany, which he accepted, but resigned in 1868. In
1868 he was again, contrary to his desires, elected
to the state senate, receiving a very decided 1najor-
ity of votes, but owing to the disfranchisement of
many citizens, and troubles arising therefrom, his
seat was contested by his opponent. After a long
and severe contest, he was unanimously seated by a
senate which was opposed to him politically. Dur-
ing this term in the senate, Mr. Rollins introduced
a bill, which had been previously defeated, establish-
ing the Agricultural and Mechanical College,
endowed with three hundred and thirty ‘thousand
acres of public lands, as a department of the State
University. After a heated struggle, it became a law.
He succeeded, also, in increasing the endowment of
the University, reducing charges for tuition and bring-
ing its benefits within the reach of all the sons and
daughters of Missouri, substantially free of expense
to them. He was the leading founder of that great
institution of learning, and has been for the past
eight years President of the Board of Curators. -He
has been its firmest and most active friend for forty
years, through good report and evil report. He has
been the author and advocate, in the legislature, of
all the great measures for its advancement and sup-
port and its proper endowment. He has encoun-
tered in its behalf, at times, obloquy, censure and

- hostility, but he has outlived -all this, and can point

with pride to this creation and triumph in the cause
of civilization and progress. He favored, in his last
senate term, the bills which passed to establish state
normal schools at Kirksville and Warrensburg, to
make permanent provision for the support of Lin-
coln Institute, for the higherleducation of colored
youth, and the bill to establish a state asylum for the
insane, at St. Joseph.

In 1872 he was a prominent candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor. While his
great popularity and statesmanship were very gener-
ally admitted, and that for his great and eminent
services, largely non-partisan in their nature, deserved
the most honorable reward from the people of the
state, adverse interests prevailed against his friends.

Mr. Rollins is not a mere partisan politician.
He has wide and enlightened views upon public

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questions, and discusses and examines them from
the stand—point of a true statesman. He has passed
a long, active and honorable life, devoted, in a very
great degree, to the advancement of his people, his
state and his country. In private life, Mr. Rollins
is polite, sociable, generous and kind to his family
and friends, and always earnest in promoting the
best interests of the people of the community in
which he has so long resided.

WILLIAM M. WYETH.

ST. /OSEPH.

‘ N JILLIAM M. WYETH was born in Harris-
burg, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1832. His
father was Francis Wyeth, whose familyemigrated
to America at an early date and settled in Boston.
Three of Mr. Wyeth’s great-uncles were in the Rev-
olutionary war, and one was engaged in throwing
the tea overboard in Boston harbor, under disguise
of a Mohawk Indian. His grandfather, a printer
and publisher, was engaged for a number of years
as state printer of Pennsylvania. His mother,
the daughter of William Maxwell, was of Scottish
descent, whose uncle, John Maxwell, a resident of
Southern Pennsylvania, was a general in the Revo-
lutionary army.

Mr. Wyeth received his education at the Military
Academy at Harrisburg, where he pursued an
academical course. After receiving his diploma he
removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he entered
a dry goods house as clerk. After retaining that
situation for nearly four years, the firm with
whom he was engaged went out of business and in
1852 he entered a hardware house as clerk. The
managing partner failing in outside business transac-
tions, the firm were anxious to sell out. In 1856
the stock and business were purchased by Mr. Wyeth
and a capitalistof the place. The business was con-
tinued until 18 59, when Mr. Wyeth sold his interest

to his partner, and started out in search of a better

location, traveling through Kentucky, Tennessee,
Arkansas and Missouri. Arriving at St. Joseph, he
was satisfied with its prospect of future growth, and
decided to remain. In 1860 he opened a hardware
store of very moderate character in Corby’s Block,
where he remained until 1865, when the block was

burned. About this time, several gentlemen associ-
ated with him in the business as clerks, were admit-
ted to the position of partners.

After the fire, they removed to the building
adjoining the Herald building, on Second street.
Here Mr. Wyeth remained until his new store on
Third street was completed, which he had commenced
previous to the fire. In addition to their extensive
hardware business, the house has also manufactured
largely of saddles, harness and collars, which, like
the hardware, are only sold at wholesale. The retail
business was made a separate branch in 1869 and is
carried on in a separate building. The business has
been enlarged constantly, and is at present the most
extensive business of any kind in St. Joseph, and
occupies more floor surface than any other mercantile
establishment. -

Mr. Wyeth has never solicited office and has

never held any other public position than director
of public schools and director of the Missouri river
bridge. He has, however, represented the city as a
delegate with others on many occasions.
4 He was married, September 28, 1858, to a daugh-
ter of the late Thomas Renick, of Ross county,
Ohio, a family of large connection and allied to most
of the prominent families of that ancient metropolis
of the state.

Mr. Wyeth spent two years of travel in Europe,
besides traveling through Egypt, up the Nile and
through the Holy Land. Nature and his extended
travel have bestowed upon him that polished and
attractive manner which has readily gained him so
many friends, who become the more attracted upon
an intimate acquaintance, which enables them to

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learn the sterling worth of a ch-aracter containing so
few defects and so great merit. While placed by his
circumstances above the ordinary level of mankind,
he is marked for his unassuming manners, the mod-
esty of his demeanor and the simplicity of his
habits.

aAs a business man he is prompt, energetic and
painstaking,a manof strictest honesty and integrity.
By his carefulness and long experience he is enabled

to carry on with ease his large and extensive busi-‘

ness, and add to it from year to year. In brief, it
may be said of William M. VVyeth that there are
few characters who have that universal high regard
of a whole community which he possesses. In addi-
tion to the large business at St. Joseph, a branch
house was opened at Kansas City, in 1876, under
the name of Duncan, Wyeth & C0,, and is in suc-
cessful prosecution of the business at that point.

NATHAN H. STIDGER.

UNION VILILE.

ATHAN H. STIDGER was born November
N 12, 1849, in Marshall county, West Virginia.
His father, George Stidger, was a native of Carroll
county, Ohio, and followed through life the profes-
sion of medicine. His mother, whose maiden name
was Mary A. Baker, was a native of Ohio.

The subject of this memoir was brought up in
Van Buren county, Iowa, where his parents had
moved in 1854. His early literary education was
liberal, and obtained at the common schools and the
University of Iowa. He entered on the reading of
law in the fall of 1870, in the law department of the
Iowa State University, graduating in June, 1871.
In 1872 he located at Unionville, Putnam county,
Missouri, where as an active attorney he has since

resided. In politics he is a Republican, in religion
a Methodist. He was married in 1873 to Miss
Sarah Lavenburg, of Unionville.

Mr. Stidger is a gentleman of genial nature,
affable, yet of marked decision of character. His
industrious and persevering habits enable him to
surmount difficulties that would entirely dishearten
many men. He felt keenly the loss of his home

residence, with its-contents, March 7, 1878, by fire, _

which swept away in an hour the earnings of years,
and yet in this, as in other life experiences, he rises
above and goes beyond all discouragements. He
has in his youth commenced a good record, which
he will continue faithfully to write full of good and
useful deeds to the end of life.

JAMES RICHARD WADDELL.

GALLA TIN.

Missouri, November 22, 1842. His father, John

S. Waddell, was born March 18, 1805, in the
state of Tennessee. His grandfather, Seth Q. Wad-
dell, was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and
his great—grandfather, John Waddell, was a native of
Ireland, and raised near Londonderry. He came
to America when fifteen years of age, and settled near
Philadelphia, where he married Miss Rachel Quee,
and near the close of the Revolution removed with

JAMES R. WADDELL was born in Springfield,

his family to Washington county, Tennessee——then
a territory of North Carolina. He took an active
part in the rebellion of the colonies against English
tyranny.

The great—grandmother of James R. Waddell
was of Scotch-German descent, though born in
Pennsylvania. Seth Q. Waddell married Mary Bur-
dine, a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, and
daughter of Original and Ann (Sampson) Burdine,
who were natives of Virginia. Her grandfather,

874 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY.

John Burdine, was a native of Wales, and came to
America while a young man. He married Nancy
Tanner, a native of London, England, though of
German parentage.

The father of the subject of this sketch received
a common school education in his native state, -and
when quite young taught school. He also filled the
office of deputy clerk of the county court. He
began the study of law with General L. A. Howard,
of Newport, Tennessee, who subsequently removed
to Indiana, after which, he was sent as minister to
Texas, and died at Galveston. He finished his
legal course under Judge Hyns and General Alexan-
der A. Anderson, the latter of whom was United
States senator from Tennessee. He was admitted
to the bar by Judges Peck and Keith, the former
gentleman being judge of the Supreme Court.

In 183 5 he removed to Greene county, Missouri,
and farmed one year, after which, he loeated in
Springfield, Missouri, and was appointed deputy
clerk of the‘Circuit. and County Court of Greene
county. In 1838 he was admitted to the bar in the
state of Missouri, and practiced his profession in
Springfield until 1861, iwhen he joined the Union
army and served four months. In the same year he
was appointed, by Governor Gamble, judge of the
18th Judicial district, which position he resigned in
1862. The following year Governor Gamble
appointed him judge of the 14th Judicial district,
and, at the first judicial election after the war, he

iwas elected judge of the same.

He was appointed, by President Johnson, reg-
ister of the land office of Springfield, and held the
position until the inauguration of President Grant.
He was a Whig, and held many important offices in
that party, and was on the electoral ticket when
General Winfield Scott was candidate for the presi-
dency. Since the Rebellion, he has acted with the
Democratic party. In 1833, Judge Waddell married
Miss Sarah Kellogg. They have been consistent
members of the Methodist church for nearly sixty
years. Both enjoy good health, and are highly
respected in the community in which they have so
long resided. J

The subject of this sketch received a good
English and classical education in the public schools
of Springfield. He was an apt student and applied
himself closely to his studies. He had a remark-
able taste for language and history. Before he was
eighteen years of age he had read Rollin, Hume
and Gibbon and, while attending school and daily

reciting in Cicero, geometry, algebra and English
grammar, he would read law and history. In 1861
he enlisted in C. B. Holland’s Home Guards, and
the following year enlisted for three years in the 8th
cavalry, Company A, commanded-by Colonel W. F.
Geiger. He was soon made Ist lieutenant of the
company, and was with them in several skirmishes
and the battles of Little Rock and Byametree.
health failing, he resigned his commission and came
home, and began to study law in his father’s office,
and was admitted to the bar in 186 5. He practiced
his profession in his native place until 1866, when
he formed a partnership with Samuel L. Kneeland,
and bought the Souzfize/esz‘ U/zzb/2 Press, the first
Democratic paper started in Southwestern Missouri
after the war. They edited this paper for one year,

when the office was destroyed by fire, being an

entire loss to the company.

Mr. Waddell then resumed the practice of his
profession, but, his health failing, was unable to
continue his labors, and went into the country,
where he built a log cabin, set out a large orchard

and opened up a farm, but returned the following‘

year, with health much improved, to the practice of
law. In 1871 he was appointed register in bank-
ruptcy for the western district of Missouri, which
position he resigned in 1874, when he was elected
prosecuting attorney for Greene county. During
the two years in which he held this office, he prose-
cuted to conviction, fort_v—seven persons for peniten-
tiary offenses. In 1877 he was the leading attorney
in what was known as the “ Leg murder case,” from
Christian county, Missouri, where George W. Davis
was assassinated, and, during that year, he prose-
cuted to conviction, three men, who were sentenced
to be hung. He has taken an active part in the
enterprise which resulted in the building of the
Springfield and Western Missouri Railroad.

Mr. Waddell has ever taken a great interest in
politics, being in every canvass since 1866. His
father being an old-line Whig, he was raised under
the influence of that political doctrine, but has ever
been a Democrat, casting his first ballot for George
B. McClellan. He took a decided stand for the
Union at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and was
a member of the state Democratic central commit-
tee from his congressional district. for eight years.

In 1865 Mr. Waddell married Rowena Emma
Leedy, daughter of Josiah and Margaret (Doran)
Leedy, who were natives of Virginia. Her ‘father
was a prominent architect and builder, and a very

His .

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 875

energetic and enterprising business man.’ Mrs.
Waddell is a woman, of most excellent qualities of
mind and heart, and their domestic relationsare
very happy. They have four.children, viz: Flor-

ence Belle, Charles F., John and Mary Elizabeth.

Mr. Waddell is prepossessing in appearance, and
by manly candor and integrity has won hosts of
friends in every walk of life. He possesses a per-
sonal magnetism which is nowhere more marked in
its salutary effects than his pleadings before a jury
when great interests are at stake. It is this quality,
supplemented by those other natural, and,-in his
profession, necessary, gifts of a pleasing voice, ready
flow of language, and an exceedingly sympathetic
nature, that has gained for him a fast spreading rep-
utation as an able and successful lawyer. His argu-
ments in the case of Samuel Orr and Albert Cox, for
‘the murder of Davis, (above referred to,) both of
whom were sentenced to be hung, were regarded as
among the strongest‘ and most eloquent efforts on

record before any bar in the state. In the prepara-
tion of his cases he spends great time and care, and
is a most indefatigable worker in acquainting himself
with the law and in ascertaining and thoroughly sift-
ingthe evidence.

Mr. Waddell has recently been nominated for
member of Congress by the Democratic party in the
6th Congressional district of Missouri. Of his elec-
tion, there is little doubt, and from happy impres-
sions formed by passing acquaintance, the writer is
convinced that he will grace the highest councils of
the nation by serving with dignity and honor the
people among whom he was born and has always
resided. As a public speaker, he is eloquent, logical
and terse, earnest, vigorous and ornate. His pres-
ence before an audience is commanding and his
hearers, before they are aware of it, become intensely
interested. He is yet a young man, and, from the
prestige he derives from past success, gives every
token of a still brighter future.

C. C. MORROW.

WARRE./VSB U}? G.

i D‘ C. MORROW was born April 14, 1842, near
C/. Columbus, Johnson county, Missouri. He
received a good English education, attending two
years a select school known as Science Hill High
School. Before he was seventeen years old he
entered a store, as a clerk, where he remained until
1862, when he opened a store at Sedalia on his own
account. He afterward removed to Dresden and
remained one year, when he sold out his business,
going to St. Louis and renting the Clarendon Hotel,
which he kept one year. After the war he returned
to his farm in Johnson county, and remained until
1870, when he was elected clerk of the circuit court,
which position he held four years.

In 1874 he purchased the Johnson County Dem-
omzz‘ and changed its name to Warrensburg Democrat.
He was successful in the management of the paper,
and, in the fall of 1876, purchased the Warrensburg
four/ml and consolidated the two papers under the
title of the Warrensburg jozmzal-Democrat’, the offi-
cial paper of the county, which had a large'circula-
tion and wide influence. A

Politically he is a Conservative Democrat. He
is a prominent memberof the Masonic fraternity, of
which he has been district grand lecturer for several
years. He is a worthy member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. He is six feet two inches high,
well proportioned and prepossessing in appearance 5
is a man of fine ability and is noted for his kind and
genial disposition and great popularity among all
classes. He has a remarkable memory, especially
of men, their names and residences, and can accu-
rately name nearly every man in his county.

Early in 187 5 he held a position in the office of
the auditor of state, at Jefferson City, and in Octo-
ber of that year was appointed cashier of the War-

rensburg Savings Bank and still holds that position,’

contributing greatly to the success and stability of
that institution. He is an intimate friend of General
F. M. Cockrell, and was prominent, active and
influential in support of that gentleman’s election to
the United States Senate, contributing not a little to
that event.

Mr. Morrow was married, April 11, 1861, to

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Miss Mary J. Farr, daughter of Hon. J. K. Farr, of
Warrensburg. They have five children, all daugh-
ters, the eldest of whom is attending normal school.
They have lost one son, who died in the fifth year
of his age.

The father of Mr. Morrow, Rev. John B. Mor-

row, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, came
to Missouri from the South while it was ‘yet a terri-
tory, and spent his life’s labor on Missouri soil. He
was very extensively known in the western portion
of the state as an earnest, zealous minister and a
very worthy man. ii

JOHN MARTIN SAMUEL.

COLUMBIA.

Missouri, and was born December 16, 1825.

His parents were Richard and Lucy (Marrs)
Samuel. They both died before he was six years of
age. He was reared and received his early educa-
tion under the care of relatives in Kentucky, and
returning to ‘Missouri he entered the State Univer-
sity at Columbia in 1842, being among the first stu-
dents in that institution. He attended College in
Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844. He studied law
afterward with Preston Loughborough and William
H. Field, of Louisville, and in 1848-9 attended a
course of lectures at the law school of Transylvania
University, at Lexington, Kentucky.

About this time he changed his mind in regard to
future pursuits, and concluded to engage in mercan-
tile business. He entered into the sale of merchan-
dise dealing in and shipping tobacco and packing
pork, which he has carried on extensively and suc-

JOHN M. SAMUEL is a native of Boone county,

cessfully, to the great benefit of the surrounding
country. He was elected sheriff of Boone county in
1857, and reelected in 1859. He was elected clerk
of the circuit court in 1867, and reelected in 1871.
In 1876 he was elected county treasurer, and now
holds the position. He has given entire satisfaction
to the public in all his official relations, and he has
performed all his public duties with ability, prompt-
ness and integrity. He is a gentleman of benevolent
and kindly impulses, a public spirited citizen, a wise
counselor and true friend; and is deservedly popular
in the community which has known him long and well.

Mr. Samuel was married September 2, 1847, to
Miss Elenora B. Vanhorne, of Boone county, Mis-
souri, a daughter of the late Ishmael Vanhorne, and
has three daughters, all married. Mr. and Mrs. Sam-
uel are faithful members of the Presbyterian church,
and usefully and actively interested in the general
good of society.

JEFFERSON CHANDLER.

ST. [.0 UIS.

Maine, in 1842. His mother, who was Miss

Mary St. Clair, of an old and favorably known
family, died when Jefferson was only four years of
age, and the father’s family, in consequence, was
broken up. This was a great affiiction, but espec-
ially a severe deprivation to the young boy, to be
left at that early age without a mother’s influence
and training.

JEFFERSON CHANDLER was born in Unity,

Although his life has been that of a '

moral man, yet no life can hardly be perfect without
the softening and ennobling qualities acquired from
a mother’s constant culture. Still, Mr. Chandler
now exhibits the tenderness of heart and integrity of
action seldom attainable under the most careful
training. _ .

His father, Alden Chandler, was financially able
and extremely desirous of giving his son a finished
education ; but after the death of his wife he was

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compelled to leave him with friends, where he
remained until the age of sixteen, working on the
farm in summer and attending public school in the
winter. The father had moved from Maine to Mich-
igan, soon after Mrs. Chandler’s death, and at the
age of sixteen, Jefferson and his sister rejoined him.
Two years afterward the father died, when the son
returned to Maine and entered upon aregular course
of study to fit himself for the profession of law.
No one assisted him in his laudable purpose, he
obtaining means by teaching school during the win-
ter months.

After attending college at Kent’s Hill, Maine, in
1861 he entered the law department of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and graduated in 1863, having
honorably completed a thorough course. In the fall
of 1863, young Chandler located in St. Joseph, Mis-
souri , but finding business of every kind suspended
on account of the war, he enlisted in one of the pro-
visional regiments of the state and served therein
until it was disbanded. "It was no new idea of the
young patriot, nor altogether forced upon him by the
circumstances then surrounding him, for he had
already given evidence of his loyalty to the old
Union by enlisting in a Maine regiment the next day
after the attack upon Sumter had fired the hearts of
the lovers of constitutional government. He ranked
as Ist lieutenant of his company, but was never
called into active service. Maine’s quota only called
for one regiment. Seven were organized and ten-
dered their services. Only two were accepted, and
the other five disbanded after five months drilling
and camp life. So Mr. Chandler was thrust back
into citizen life, and forced to move west to find vent
for his patriotism, or employment in his profession.

After being mustered out of service in the Mis-
souri Provisional troops, and the prospect for profes-
sional business still not at all favorable, Mr. Chandler
became connected with the St. foseplz Harald as city
editor, and so remained one year.

In the fall of 1864 he began the practice of law
in St. Joseph. In 1866 he was elected city attorney
and reelected at a subsequent date. In the fall of
1868 he was appointed circuit attorney of the then
12th Judicial Circuit of Missouri, which office he
held two years. -

Although a young man and citizen of the state,
Mr. Chandler already commanded great political

respect in Missouri, and in 1872 he was nominated

by the state Republican committee for the office of
attorney general.

On the Ist of January, 1874, Mr. Chandler removed
to St. Louis and at once entered upon the practice of
law. His local reputation there has grown as rapidly
and as favorably as before, and he soon was regarded
as one of the most promising lawyers at the city bar.
Indeed he had already gained an honorable reputa-
tion throughout the states of Missouri and Kansas
by his important and successful suits in his St.Joseph
practice.

Jefferson Chandler married Miss Kate O’Toole
on the 22d of February, 1865. Her father, James
B. O’Toole, came from Kentucky to Missouri. Her
mother was Miss Sophia Hickman, of Howard
county, Missouri, one of the most extensive and
honorable families in the state. To Jefferson and
Kate Chandler have been born four children—Mary,
now in her eleventh year; Blanche, seventh, Jeff.
Paul, sixth ; and Beatrice, now in her third year.

Of the social qualities and legal abilities of Mr.
Chandler, a member of one of the most renowned
law firms of St. Louis, and a gentleman who knows
well whereof he speaks, says:

“ ‘Jeff. Chandler,’ as he is familiarly known all
over this state, is one of the originals responsible for
the expression, ‘ he’s a perfect brick.’ No doubt the
expression was first used of just such a man by an
enthusiastic admirer. He is quiet in his intercourse
with men and almost taciturn, yet a shade of humor
may always be seen lurking in his eye or around his
mobile lips, which ever and anon break forth into
some quaint speech brim full of fun. Being mindful
of others’ feelings, kind of heart and an attentive
listener, he is always a pleasant companion. His
social qualities are preeminent, not only from his
rare humor and fun-loving temper,but his solid com-
mon sense renders his conversation always attractive
and his bandinage never condescends to the silly or
nonsensical. Generous in impulse,quick in repartee,
brave as a lion, tenacious of his opinions, deferential
to the views of others, quiet in demeanor except
when roused by excitement, Mr. Chandler is a wel-
come guest to the social circle, and is greatly beloved
by his friends.

“ As a lawyer he is philosophical, reasons from
principles and is no unquestioning adopter of prece-
dents. Every case that passes under his examination
must bear the authority of logic and sound judgment
as well as that of ‘being the law,’ before it is
adopted by him as a basis for his conclusions. He
is courteous to his fellow lawyers, ever ready to
acknowledge the merit of their arguments, or to
expose their sophistry, yet always in a gentlemanly
manner. He is earnest in the advocacy of his views
and seldom in error. At times he is carried away
with the subject discussed, and becomes truly elo-
quent even when speaking on ‘dry points’ of law.
As an advocate, on the stump or before a jury, he

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has few equals and no superiors in the state, being
peculiarly happy in his expressions and manner of
thought and extremely fascinating and eloquent.
His eloquence, however, is not so much the elo-
quence of beauty as that of logic. He convinces
rather than charms, and yet nine out of every ten
who hear him call him a ‘ beautiful speaker.’ This
is owing to his fluency of diction, ease of manner,
and eloquence of gesture.

“ Mr. Chandler has many friends as a man, and
many admirers as a lawyer and speaker ; and, being
industrious, sober and ambitious, will no doubt
occupy a place in Missouri history among her most
illustrious sons. It was said of him by a chief jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, that ‘he is
the best lawyer of his age in the state.’ Such an
encomium, righteously uttered, as the writer believes,
shows the position he has attained at so early an
age, and gives bright hopes of his future.”

Says another prominent gentleman of St. Louis :

“There is no question in my mind that Mr.
Chandler will, in less than five years, if he is blessed
with good health, be the acknowledged leader of the
St. Louis bar, both as a lawyer and advocate. More
than most men I have known does he combine the
strength of both. He can construct the best brief
and make the best speech of any practitioner now
at this bar,‘and is as thorough in the one as he is

engagingvand convincing in the other. All he needs

' is opportunity, and this is fast being afforded him.

“ It is a difficult matter for a lawyer to press for-
ward to the front rank in position, no matter what
his position, and especially difficult in St. Louis,
unaccompanied by enduring brass. The profession
is crowded, and business is, as one might say, adver-
tised for in different ways. But Mr. Chandler, dis-
daining to make use of said means, has in less than
a four years’ residence in this city, advanced to the
confidence and highest affection of the bench and
the bar. There is no one among the last named
whose judgment is more relied on, none whose ora-
torical efforts draw larger or more admiring audiences.

“Socially Mr. Chandler is one of the most agree-
able companions with those he knows and who know
him; with others he is reserved to the point of diffi-
dence. As modest as a woman, as brave as a lion,

‘ as thoroughly devoted to his clients as though the

case were his own, thoroughly grounded in law and
with the ability to apply its principles, so that the
humblest as well as the highest and most learned are

intelligently convinced of the correctness of his

opinions, with a capacity for any amount of work
and a love for it as well, his future rests alone with
him. Let it be never so bright and prosperous,there
is not a man within my knowledge who would envy
it or dispute that it is well deserved.” .

HON. THOMAS T. CRITTENDEN.

WARREIVSB URG.

HOMAS T. CRITTENDEN is a native of
T Shelby county, Kentucky, and was born Jan-
uary 2, I834. His father, Henry Crittenden, was
the younger brother of Hon. John J-. Crittenden.
Henry Crittenden did not interest himself very
greatly in politics, but was once a Whig candidate
for Congress against Hon. John Pope. Colonel
Thomas T. Crittenden’s mother was a daughter of
Colonel John Allen, a prominent lawyer of Ken-
tucky in his lifetime, and who was slain in the battle
of River Raisin, in the war of 1812. Mrs. Crit-
tenden was a devout and zealous member of the
Presbyterian church and devoted herself entirely to
the happiness, welfare and moral training of her
children. She was left a widow‘ when Colonel
Crittenden wasonly two years of age. She was
married some years afterward to David R. Murray,
of Cloverport, Kentucky. A son by this marriage
is General E. H. Murray, who was a distinguished

officer in the Union army, during the war of the
Rebellion, has been United States Marshal for Ken-
tucky,—and is a very prominent and influential citi-
zen of that state. .

Colonel Crittenden was educated at Center Col-
lege, Kentucky, and, after graduating, studied law
in the office of his illustrious uncle, Hon. John J.
Crittenden, at Frankfort, Kentucky, and was admit-
ted to practice by Chief Justice Simpson, at Win-
chester, in 1856.

In the fall of the same year, he was married to
Miss Carrie W. Jackson, daughter of Samuel Jack-
son, of Lexington, Kentucky, a lady of very
charming accomplishments.

He removed to Lexington, "Missouri, in 1857,
and entered upon the active practice of his profes-
sion. He was admitted to practice at the bar of
Missouri by Judge Russell Hicks, between whom
and himself the most intimate relations of friendship

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ever afterward existed. He entered into partner-
ship with Judge John A. S. Tutt, at Lexingtorr, was
kindly received by the old established members of
the bar, and very soon attained an extensive and
lucrative practice. Early in the war of the Rebel-
lion he entered the Union service, and was appointed
by Governor Gamble to be lieutenant-colonel of the
7th regiment of Missouri State militia (cavalry),
which was commanded by Colonel john F. Philips,
of Sedalia. This regiment performed much valuable
service, did good fighting in Missouri and Arkansas,
and was repeatedly complimented in orders by
commanding generals. Colonel Crittenden’s mili-
tary record and, service was of a very high order,
andshows him to be a gentleman of great gallantry
andlfine soldierly qualities. He served to the end
of the war, and was mustered out of service and
honorably discharged in 1865.

On returning to civil life after the war, Colonel
Crittenden moved to Warrensburg and reéntered the
practice of his profession, forming a partnership in
1867 with General F. M. Cockrell, now United
States senator for Missouri. He soon succeeded,
at his new home, in procuring a large, lucrative

and eminently successful practice. He was appointed,
during the war, attorney-general of the state, by

Governor Willard P. Hall, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Attorney—General Atkinson
P. Welch. This was a very high compliment to a
lawyer so young as he was at that time, and showed
the appreciation in which he was thus early held in
the state of his adoption. He was the nominee of

the Democratic party for Congress, in the 7th dis-
trict, in 1872, and was elected by fifteen hundred
majority, defeating Hon. S. S. Burdett, Republican,
who was running for reelection. In 1874 he was
defeated for renomination, in the famous contest
between Colonel Philips, A. M. Lay and himself 5
over six hundred ballots were taken, and Colonel
Philips was finally nominated. In 1876 he received
the nomination without solicitation or expectation on
his part, and was elected by about thirty-five hun-
dred majority, defeating Stover, Republican. This
was more than double the majority ever before given
for the Democratic ticket, in the district. At the
time that this nomination was tendered to him he
was making a very brilliant and successful canvass
of the state as a Democratic candidate for presiden-
tial elector at large, a nomination which had been
given to him almost unanimously by the state con-
vention, at Jefferson City, july 19, 1876. He
resigned this position to enter upon the canvass, in
his district, for Congress, which resulted as above
stated. .

Colonel Crittenden has been eminently successful
as a soldier, lawyer and politician. His services in
Congress have been important and valuable, his tal-
ents commanding high respect and influence in the
house of representatives. He is just in the prime of
his life, and has before him the promise of many
more years of usefulness to his country and his fel-
low men. As a private citizen his worth is above
estimate, and all classes of people hold him in the
highest esteem.

JOSEPH G. NORWOOD, M. D., LL. D.

COL UMBIA.

' OSEPH GRANVILLE NORWOOD is a native
of Woodford county, Kentucky, and was born.

December 20, 1807. His paternal grandfather
was john Norwood, who emigrated from England
and settled in Virginia in 1740. He was a teacher
under the auspices of the Church of England, of
which he was a devoted member. His oldest son,
Charles, the father of our subject, was born in
1753. He was a soldier in the war of the Revo-
lution, in Colonel Woodford’s regiment, and was

present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He
B 11

was twice married. After the death of his first wife,
about 179 5, he immigrated to Kentucky, where some
of her relatives had preceded him. In a few years
he married Mildred Dale, a sister of his first wife.
Of this union our subject was the only child that
survived infancy. He built a powder mill and man-
ufactured gunpowder during the war of 18x2, and
afterward pursued farming and market gardening
near Lexington, Kentucky, for some years. He
died in 1832.

The subject of this sketch, at the age of six

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years, was sent to a country school for six months,
and afterward to a graded school in Lexington. He
was in this school about five years. His father hav-
ing moved into'Lexington,the lad became acquainted
in the office of the I/Vesz‘er7z ./lIom'z‘or, and desired to
learn the printing business, but his father wished to
give him a good education and desired him to become
a physician. To this arrangement the boy strenu"
ously objected, thinking he had education enough.
He has been sorry since that he did not accede to
his father’s wishes. The result of the matter was
thatihe was placed in the office ofra Mr. Winn, a
banker and manufacturer. He remained in this
situation about one year, when his “employer closed
business and he was out of work. During the year
his curiosity and interest in natural science had been

greatly excited by a traveling exhibition, consisting

in part of chemical and philosophical experiments.
His father soon placed him in the office of John
Bradford, publisher of the Lexington Puélic Adver-
Zzlver, to learn the printing business. In about a year
Mr. Bradford stopped publishing the paper and sold
the office to a-nephew. Soon after this change young
Norwood was engaged upon the printing of a work
upon Pathology and Therapeutics, which subjects
interested him very much. After this he was em-
ployed for a time in the office of the Keizmcky W/zzgg.
The proprietor dying, his executor offered the office

for sale and Mr. Norwood purchased it. I About this ,

time some of the friendsof Henry Clay decided
upon the publication of some of his more important

speeches, and Mr. Norwood obtained the copyright,

He also commenced the publication, in the summer
of 1826, of the Nor!/2 A77zerz'am newspaper. In
November of that year he sold his paper and office,
including the copyright of “ Clay’s Speeches,” to
Mr. Thomas Smith, editor of the Kerzfucéy Eeporfer.
Mr. Norwood then left Lexington and traveled in

the southern and eastern states about a year. On

his return, in 1827, he purchased material in Cin-
cinnati and opened a job and book printing-office
in Lexington. His first job was a book on Bap-
tism, by Rev. Samuel Steele. He did all the
work on this himself, both composition and press-
work. After this, business increased so that he
had constant employment for a number of prin-
ters. He commenced the publication of the T ram-
sylwmkz journal of Medzkz'77e and 2726 Assoczkzfe Sciences,
in I828, and in 1829 the Cfirzkizlzn Exami/zer, a
monthly journal devoted to the defense of Chris-
tianity. Elder Jacob Creath, now a resident of

Palmyra, Missouri, was an editor of this paper,

In 1830 he formed a partnership with J. W,
Palmer, a bookseller but former printer, and they
moved the office to Louisville, deeming that a good
point at which to build up a large business. This
was eventually found to be an error. They estab-
lished a newspaper called the Louisville Price Cur-
rem‘, the first paper of its class ever published there.
It was edited by Mr. Norwood. They published
two or three books, on contract, and soon after

Mr. Norwood sold his interest in the business to his ‘

partner. He then entered into the produce and
commission business, but soon withdrew, as he did
not understand it and considered himself not adapted
to 1t. ,

He now determined to enter upon the study of
medicine and cognate sciences. He returned to
Lexington and commenced, but for the first year
assisted a great portion of the time in the publication
of the Lexington I7zz‘e’ZIz;.;re72cer, in the way of general
supervision and making up the forms. He then
devoted his time entirely to medical and scientific
studies, in the medical school of Transylvania Uni-
Versity. After attending two sessions at this school,
he went to Madison, Indiana, on advice of friends
and with excellent letters from the faculty, and
opened an office in March, 1835. He succeeded
far beyond his most sanguine expectations, and soon
had a very large practice. In January, 1836, he
attended lectures at Lexington, wrote a valuable

thesis on spinal diseases, and graduated at the coin- '

mencement in March.

The Madison ,Medical University, chartered by
the Legislature of Indiana, was organized in 1840,
and Dr. Norwood was appointed to the chair of
Surgery. In 1843 the trustees of the medical depart-

ment of the University of St. Louis appointed him

to the chair of Materia Medica, General Therapeu-

tics and Medical Jurisprudence in that institution.

He accepted, and after the close of the session of
1843-4, returned to Madison and practiced medicine
until the next session. He remained in this position
until 1847, when he resigned and was appointed
assistant geologist on the United States survey of the
region now embracing Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Dacota. He remained in this position until
1851, when he was appointed state geologist of
Illinois. He was at the head of this survey until
1858, when the Legislature of Illinois refused fur-
ther to appropriate money for its prosecution. "No
report of this work was ever published, except a

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brief abstract of a report on the Coals of Illinois,
which was paid for by the governor out of funds
under his own control. In 1854 he was appointed
to the chair of Chemistry in the Kentucky Medical
School, at Louisville, but was obliged to decline it
on account of duties connected with the Illinois
geological survey.

He was appointed an assistant in the geological
survey of Missouri, in 1:858, and remained in it
until 1860. He made a detailed survey of eight coun-
ties. In 1860 he was elected Professor of Natural
Science in the State University of Missouri. This
was done without his request, but on consultation
with his family and friends he accepted, has held the

position ever since, and performed its duties with _

distinguished ability.

Dr. Norwood was first married to Miss Louisa
Taylor, a native of Richmond, Virginia, daughter of
a prominent merchant, who died some years before
the marriage of his daughter. Of this union were
born a daughter and two sons. Mrs. Norwood_ and

her sons died in Kentucky. The daughter is the
widow of Colonel J. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, who
fell at the battle of Pea Ridge. In 1847 Dr. Nor-
wood was married to Miss Mary Frances, daughter
of John Pugh, of Madison, Indiana. Her mother
was Eliza Boone Lamond, who was a daughter of
Rebecca Grant, the second white female ever in
Kentucky. Dr. Norwood has had eight children
born of his second marriage. Two sons and a
daughter died in early childhood. The only sur-
viving son is Professor Charles J. N orwood, who is
Professor o-f Natural Science in Bethel College,
Russellville, Kentucky. His wife is a daughter of
the late Daw \Vhite, of Manchester, Kentucky.
Dr. Norwood has four daughters living, one of whom
is unmarried. Louise is the wife of Overton-A. Fitch,
of Madison, Indiana, they have one son seventeen
years old. Eliza Boone is the wife of Henry Mc-
Conathy, of Columbia, Missouri 3 they have two sons
and two daughters. Emma is the wife of John D.
Vincil, D. D., of St. Louis, they have one son.

BENJAMIN MARSHALL.

LEXI./V G T OIV.

ENJAMIN MARSHALL was born in Stew-
B ardstown, county Tyrone, Ireland, August 8,
1829, being the eldest of three sons. His parents’
names were Frederick Marshall and Margaret Dick-
son. His father was an extensive miller and farmer,
and his paternal grandfather was a seaicaptain. His
maternal grandfather was also a seafaring man, being
an officer in the British navy, but afterward settled
in ‘Glasgow, and was the first to start iron ship-
building on the Clyde, at the Dickson Iron Works.

Benjamin received his early education in Stew-
ardstown, and then went to College in Dungammon.
When sixteen years of age he was pursuaded by a
cousin, who was several years his senior, to leave
college and start for America, which he did without
apprising his friends of his intentions, nor did they
know of his whereabouts for two years. On his
arrival in this country he settled in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, and went to learn the trade of a machinist.
There he remained until 18 52, when he removed to
Wheeling, Virginia, and became an engineer on

one of the Ohio river steamboats plying between
that city and Louisville.

In 1854 he moved to Davenport, Iowa, and
purchased an interest in a saw mill. He remained
there until the spring of 1859, sold out and moved
to Lexington, Missouri, his present abode. He at
once engaged extensively in the grist and saw milling
business, which he still follows.

He has been councilman for three terms—first in

'I864—5, then in 1868 and again in 1873-4. In

1871-2 he served as county treasurer. In 1875 he
was elected mayor of Lexington and held that posi-
tion till the summer of 1878. He has been a local
director in the American Life Association, and is at

present one of the directors in the Lafayette Fire

and Marine Insurance Company.

He joined the Masons in 1861 and now belongs
to the Commandery as Past Master. He has trav-
eled extensively over the United States, and in 1851
took a nine months trip to Europe, confining his
travels, however, to Great Britain and Ireland. He

shire, November 25, 1828.
and second son of Nathan Smith and Susannah

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was raised a Presbyterian and is a member of that
church. At present he is a Republican, formerly
he was an old line Whig. He was married, March
31, 1853, to Minerva E. Clark, daughter of Robert
Clark, of Wheeling, Virginia, by whom he has had
ten children, nine of whom survive. .
Mr. Marshall is a man of imposing presence,
being six feet two inches high and proportionately

stout, weighing two hundred and fifty-four pounds,
His manners are frank and easy, yet tinged with a
certain degree of reserve so characteristic of people
of Scotch-Irish descent. He is shrewd, energetic
and industrious, and is always ready to lend his aid
to any public enterprise. He is respected and
trusted by the community and highly esteemed by
all his friends.

HON. ALBERT P. MOREI-IOUSE.

MAR I/VIILLE.

MONG the stirring and sturdy business men

of Maryville, no one deserves a more honorable
mention than the subject of this sketch. Albert
P. Morehouse was born July 11, 183 5, near Ashley,
Delaware county, Ohio. His parents were Stephen
and Harriet (Wood) Morehouse. His father was a
native of Newark county, New jersey, and was, by
occupation, a farmer and mechanic , immigrated to
Ohio in 1820, locating in Delaware county, and,’ in
1856, removed to Nodaway county, Missouri. He
was county and probate judge of N odaway county for
a number of years. His mother was a native of
New York, and daughter of Russell Wood, an early
settler of Delaware county, Ohio.

Albert was brought up to unremitting industry
in the employments of his father’s farm. His edu-
cational advantages were Very good and well im-
proved. When eighteen years old he began to teach
school in his native county, and, in 1856, accom-
panied his father to Missouri. He was engaged for
seven years in teaching school in Iowa and Missouri
and employed his spare time in studying law.

In 1860 he was admitted to the bar, and the
same year entered upon the practice of his profes-
sion in Montgomery county, Iowa, where he
remained six months. In 1861 he was commis-
sioned Ist lieutenant in Colonel Kimball’s regiment
of Enrolled. Missouri militia, and held the office for
six months. In 1862, in partnership with Colonel
Amos Graham, he began the practice of law in
Maryville. In 1865 Colonel Graham died, and the
following year he formed a partnership with M. G.
Roseberry, which continued until 1871, since which
time Mr. Morehouse has given his entire attention
to real estate. In 1872 he was a delegate to the
Baltimore national convention, and in 1876 to the
St. Louis convention. In the fall of 1876 he was
elected to the Missouri House of Representatives.
Politically, Mr. Morehouse is a Democrat.

In 1865 he married Miss Mattie McFadden, of
Lexington, Missouri.

He is naturally just, honorable and conscientious
in all his dealings. He acts out his best convictions
without either hope of reward or fear of punishment.

NATHAN  MORRISON, D. D.

SPRINGFIELD.

I P IATHAN J. MORRISON, President of Drury

College, was born at Franklin, New Hamp-
He was the fifth child
their

Morrison—the child of “old age,” his

mother being forty-five years old at his birth.

As the name indicates, he is of Scotch-Irish
descent—sprung from the famous colony from Lon-
donderry, Ireland, that, near the close of the seven-
teenth century, peopled an extensive district in New

THE UZVITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VARY. 883

Hampshire and called it “Londonderry.” His father
was a farmer and a lumberman. Most of Nathan’s
life, until nineteen, was spent in hard toil on the
farm, though, occasionally, he accompanied his father
in winter expeditions in the pine Woods, and for one
season Worked for his father as raftsman on the
Merrimac river, from near the foot of the White
Mountains to Lowell and Boston.

In politics, the father was a life—long Jeffersonian
Democrat, espousing, with enthusiasm, the doctrines
of the great Virginian during the period of “the
embargo,” when their advocacy was extremely unpop-
ular in New England.

In religion, the father belonged to a sect called
“Christians,” once numerous in New England. He
was a man of singularly earnest faith and broad
sympathies. His house was “ministers’ hotel” for
all sects. He was widely benevolent, using his

‘means with great liberality, alike in secret alms at

his own door and in promoting comprehensive plans
of beneficence in our own West and in the distant
isles of the seas.

These political opinions and religious habits of
the father are mentioned because they, in a large
measure, furnish the key to the life and work of the
son, though long since the latter had discarded the

political party to which the father was attached, and, »

for purposes of wider usefulness, had connected
himself with another church.

Mr. N. J. Morrison’s early advantages for educa-
tion were limited, amounting to scarcely more than
three months annual attendance at the public school
in a bacl<—country district school—house, until he was
eighteen. He, however, read all the books and
newspapers which he could lay hands on. His
especial delight was Isaac Hill’s ./Vew ffa77zpshz're
Ptzmm‘, a paper that for many years exerted a most
extraordinary influence throughout the Granite State.
He has often said that he was chiefly indebted to
this paper for his education, including his course
in college. He prepared for college at academies in
Meriden and New Hampton, entering Dartmouth
in 1849 and graduating with honor in 18 5 3. Fifteen
years later, his venerable Alma Mater still further
honored him, while traveling in Europe, with the
degree of doctor of divinity. .

Teaching one term in a high school in his own
state after graduating, at the beginning 'of 1854 he

came west to study theology under the celebrated

President Finney, at Oberlin, Ohio. While an

undergraduate, he had purposed pursuing the law

and a career in politics, acting in the fall of 18 52 as
chairman of the executive committee of a vigorous
“Pierce and King club,” but becoming convinced
that law and politics were, for himself, inconsistent
with an active, religious life, he discarded his former

‘plans and determined to enter the ministry. He

remained at Oberlin four years, supporting" himself
by teaching classes in the college. During the last
two years, he was also tutor, and, at the time of
leaving, was offered a permanent position in the
college. At about the same time, the distinguished
Horace Mann offered him a position in the faculty

‘of Antioch college.

On the 8th of February, 1858, he was ordained
pastor of the Congregational church in Rochester,
Michigan. In October, 1859, he resigned the pas-
torate of this church toraccept the professorship of
ancient languages in Olivet College, Olivet, Michi-
gan, then just organizing. He continued in this
position until June, 1865, when he was appointed
president of the college, which office he held for
seven years. During this period of nearly thirteen
years, with a singleness of purpose and self—sacrifice
rarely equaled, he devoted to the young college his
scholarly attainments, his property, his energies, his
whole soul, thus “raising the institution,” in the
language of a testimonial from the trustees on the
occasion of accepting his resignation, “from the
condition of a common village academy to that of a
true and successful college.”

In 1873, in connection with Mr. S. F. Drury, of
Michigan, he removed to Springfield, Missouri, and
that year organized and set in operation Drury Col-
lege, to whose interests he has since given his ener-
gies with unsparing devotion, building an educational
institution as thorough and complete as any in the
state of Missouri. It is supplying to the Southwest
a Want long since felt, and is being liberally patron-

_ ized;.its fifth annual catalogue, just issued (1878),

showing an attendance of three hundred and thirty
students—is neither sectarian nor sectional, and
offers to students of both sexes superior advantages
for a thorough English and classical education at
comparatively small expense. Its location at Spring-
field, a growing and prosperous city, having an unus-
ually salubrious climate, is very favorable to the
growth of a great institution of learning. .
Mr. Morrison is a man of great executive ability,
determination and perseverance. He commenced
the establishment of Drury College with but little
means at his disposal, but has met with magnificent

884 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVAEY.

success and has already secured a good endowment
and the promise of a much larger one in the future.
He is himself a man of broad and liberal culture, a
smooth and polished writer and speaker, and is
widely known for his classical and literary attain-
ments. He has thus been, though still in the prime
of life, a chief factor in the founding of two Chris-
tian colleges. In his hard and patient work he may
have Won little honor and still less pecuniary emolu-
ment, but he has the consciousness of having set in
operation important educating forces whose healthful

influence on the society of two great western states

will last while that society endures. _
In politics, Mr. Morrison is an Independent,
denying all claims of party on his fealty, a believer

in what were once recognized Democratic doctrines: I

limited powers of government, tariff for revenue,
zhe sacredness of national obligations, the world’s
standard in money, and the reform of the civil
service.

He holds connection with the Congregational
church, because he thinks he finds there less of
sectarianism and more of the spirit of practical and
unselfish beneficence than he sees elsewhere. ~ To
the fundamental principles of orthodox Christianity
he holds unswervingly. A

He has never held or desired a civil office, unless
it might possibly be that of street commissioner, that
he might have an opportunity to improve the high-
ways. He is not a member of any secret society,
save a literary one, the Alpha Delta Phi, of the
United States. He joined this in college, and values
membership in an order which embraces many of the
first scholars, poets, novelists, lawyers, teachers and
scientific men of the country. ‘

On the 8th day of July, 1863, in the cityof
Brooklyn, New York, he was married to Minnie

-Capen Dimond, of that city, Rev. R. S. Storrs, D.

D., LL. D., officiating. Three children, a daughter
and two sons, are the fruits of this union.

WILLIAM GENTRY.

SEDAILIA.

county, Missouri, and wa.s born April 14,

1818. His father was Renkin E. Gentry, who migra-
ted from Kentucky to Missouri in 1809. He located
at Boone’s Lick in 1811, and assisted in building
Forts Henstead and Kincaide. In youth Major
Gentry was only able to obtain the rudiments of an
English education, as the schools of Missouri at that
early day were not of very high grade. In 1824 his
parents removed from Howard county, and settled
on a farm about five miles north of the site now occu-
pied by the city of Sedalia. Here he spent his youth
and early manhood Working on the family farm.

4 In 1840 he was married to Miss Ann R. Major,
daughter of Lewis R. Major, of Pettis county. In
1846 he purchased and settled upon the farm where
he now resides, about two miles northwest of Seda-
lia. By his first marriage he hadieight children born
to him, and they are all now living. His first wife
died in 1873, and he was since married to Mrs. Eve-
lyn Witcher, who is a sister of his first wife.

His home farm comprises about twenty-five hun-
dred acres, is improved and fitted. up in the most

‘ N IILLIAM GENTRY is a native of Howard

approved manner, and is one of the model establish-
ments for agricultural purposes in the state. He
owns, all told, fully six thousand acres of land, nearly
all of which is under cultivation and highly improved.
His lands are mainly or_ entirely in Pettis county.
He raises almost fabulous quantities of corn and other
grain, and also has large numbers of fine bred live
stock. He has paid a great deal of attention to
breeding fine stock, and annually places hundreds of
fat cattle and other stock upon the market. «

He was elected county judge of Pettis county in
1855, and held the office eight years, performing its
duties to the universal satisfaction of the people.
After the death of his brother Richard he resigned
the office and administered the estate——this business,
together with his own affairs, requiring all his time
and active attention. He was appointed major of the
40th regiment of Missouri Enrolled militia, by Go.v-
ernor Gamble in 1862, and served until it was dis-
banded. He afterward served as major of the 5th
regiment of Provisional militia until the end of the
war of the Rebellion. He was the candidate of the
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but was defeated by Hon. Charles H. Hardin, the
Democratic candidate.

Major Gentry was elected in 1870, a director of
the Lexington & St. Louis‘ Railroad company, and
two.years later became president of the company. In
connection with others, by great exertions and after
overcoming many serious difficulties, the means were
secured and the road was built. He has also been a
director of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
since 1876. He is now and has been for several
years, agent for Pettis county in railroad matters.

He is a representative farmer, and his life, for-

tune and present position are apt and striking illus-
trations of what great results may be accomplished
by intelligence, industry and business application, in
the cultivation of Missouri soil. He takes great
interest in all enterprises calculated to advance the
interests of the farming guild, and is now president
of the Central Missouri Agricultural and Mechanical
Fair Association, which holds exhibitions annually
at Sedalia. As a citizen he stands very high in the
community in which he has so long resided, and no
man is more trusted and honored by those who know
him best.

ARCHIBALD WELLINGTON RIDINGS.

WARREIVSB UR G.

ARCHIBALD WELLINGTON RIDINGS was
born December 8, 1815, near Siloam, Surry
county, North Carolina, and is the son of Jesse Ri-
dings,a man of fine natural ability and of stern integ-
rity. He was a farmer in good circumstances, who
moved to Missouri in 1837, and settled in Lafay-
ette county, where he died in 1850. He was
descended from an old family of French Huguenots,
who were driven from their native country, took
refuge in England, and finally came to America,
landing in Virginia about the year of Bacon’s Rebel-
lion, and settling near the Roanoke river. About
the year 1760, John Ridings, the grandfather of A.
W. Ridings, removed to North Carolina, and settled
on the Yadkin river, where some of the family still
reside. Mr. A. W. Ridings is one of a family of five
children, two of whom are dead. The survivors, be-
side himself, are Thomas VVentworth Ridings,a farmer
residing in Wellington, Missouri, and Mrs. Berilla
McKinney, who resides at Kingsville, Missouri. His
mother’s name was Mary Wentworth Poindexter,
daughter of Thomas Poindexter, who was of Ger-
man extraction. ‘

Mr. Ridings received his early education at Pat-
rick Henry Academy, Henry county, ‘Virginia, and
finallyifinished his classical course at Randolph
Macon College, Virginia. He has always been
strictly temperate,’ has had absolutely no bad habits,
and at all times of life has maintained a very high
moral character. After completing his education,
he taught school, and in 1837 came with his

father to Missouri, and continued teaching, residing
at Lexington. In 1838 he was in the Mormon war,
and was present at the capture of Joseph Smith, the
great Mormon prophet. From Lexington he moved
to the southwest part of Lafayette county, Missouri,
entered a large body of land, and commenced im-
proving a farm, but was not considered a success as
a farmer. A

_He felt a deep and abiding interest in the educa-
tion of the masses of his adopted state, and he
naturally turned to a vocation in unison with the
noblest feelings of his mind. In 1845 he established
a high school, under the patronage of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church, and named it Chapel Hill,
in honor of the university of his nativestate. It
was almost immediately successful, and during the
years of its great prosperity it exerted a Wide-spread
influence in church and state. He must feel much
pride and gratification when he reflects on the high

‘positions many of his pupils have attained, one of

them, Hon. F. M Cockrell, occupying the second
position in the gift of the people, that of United
States senator. Among prominent lawyers are
Judge George Miller, of Denver, Colorado; Milton
Moore, of Kansas City, Vincent and John Marma-
duke, of St. Louis; and of bankers are George E.
Simpson, of Wall street, New York; Thomas Tid-
ball, of Fort -Worth, Texas, and James Ward and
L. W. Jack, of Warrensburg. Numerous ministers
of various denominations were educated by him free
of tuition. Among them were Rev. A. C. Davis,

886 TIIE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIOIVARY.

deceased, late of Memphis, Tennessee, a highly
gifted and talented man, who had few equals in ora-
tory; Rev. Wesley Gallimore, of California; Rev.
G. L. Moad, of Clinton; Rev. J. H. Houx, of

Warrensburg; Rev. W. W. Suddath, who died_

young, an eloquent and brilliant pulpit orator, and
as fine a classical scholar, perhaps, as Missouri has
ever produced; and last but not least is the name of
Andrew Jackson Wallace, of Decatur, Illinois, whose
“Commemoration” of William Cullen Bryant would
do honor to Bryant’s own gifted pen. In the early
training of these young men, and the pecuniary aid
extended to some of them, Mr. Ridings has woven a
beautiful garland to lay on his monument to educa-
tion. Thus the best years of his life were spent in
the cause of education and progress.

After leaving Chapel Hill, in 1858, he moved to
Jackson county and to several other places, but
finally settled down at'Lexington and engaged in
mercantile pursuits. In 1866 he executed a con-
tract to transport government supplies across the
plains to Fort Laramie. In August, 1866, he moved
to Warrensburg, and opened the banking house of
A. W. Ridings & Co. In 1872 this was changed to
the First National Bank and he became president,
which position he still holds. He is a business man
of more_than ordinary ability, a shrewd calculator,
and it seems almost intuitive for him to know the
consequences events will bring about. He has been
active and public spirited in building up the town
where he resides, and is always among the foremost
in aiding suffering humanity, whether from the

"W. Stapp, of Lafayette county, Missouri.

I. cyclone, the scourge or fire. ‘He has -been engaged’

for a number of years in raising stock at the well.
known “O.Z.” ranch, in Colorado, and is represented
there by Dr. Joseph Ragsdale, one of his old students.

He is a member of the board of regents of the
South Missouri Normal School, which is at Warrens—
burg; and has spent much time and money for its
progress. Its brilliant success for the last three
years is the capstone of his triumph over bitter
opposition. I

He became a member of the Cumberland Pres-
byterian church in 1840, and so remains. He
was a Whig until the dissolution of that party and
has since been a Democrat.

He was married October 8, 1840, to Miss Mary
J. Stapp, daughter of the late Judge John and Mary
Mrs.
Ridings is of a family of ten children—two brothers
and eight sisters. Mr. Ridings says there is no such
other family of sisters, ‘and that his wife is nearer his
ideal of perfection in form and face than any woman
he has ever met. He seems as devoted as when,
nearly forty years ago, he led her, . a blooming bride,
to Hymen’s altar. In his physical appearance there
is nothing uncommon, except his head, which is
rather unique, being small but very high above the
ears. He is tall and rather slender, but very erect
for a man of his years. His forehead is high, his
face oval, he has small brown eyes and wears no
beard. He is, at times, somewhat moody and little
inclined to talk, but is generally very pleasant in
his intercourse with others.

JUDGE ALEXANDER MAQQUEEN IRVING.

GA LLA TIN.

HRISTOPHER IRVING, father of Alexander,
a native of Nova Scotia, was a wheelwright

by trade. His wife was Mary Ramsbottom, of Fall

River, Massachusetts, and together they came into

Illinois and settled in Naples, Morgan county.
Remaining there only a short time, they removed to
Chambersburg, Pike county, where Alexander was
born, January 15, 1842; he is the second of a fam-
ily of eight children—four sons and four daughters.
He received a substantial business education in the
schools of his native town, where also he learned his

father’s trade. On the breaking out of the war of
Rebellion, before he was twenty years of age, he left
school and entered the Union army, in the 99th
regiment Illinois infantry, United States volunteers,
Colonel Bailey commanding. In this regiment he
served out his full term of enlistment, three years,
and, at the close of the war, removed to Missouri
and settled in Harrison county, where he taught
school one year. In 1866 he settled in Gallatin, his
present residence, where, for the first two years, he
worked as a Wagon-maker.

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November I4, 1868, he was married, in the city .

of St. Joseph, to Hattie J. Atchison, orphan daugh-
ter of a citizen of Shelbyville, Kentucky. Their
three children are: Emma Vassie, aged six years ;
Mittie Jose, two years younger, and Edward Fen-

‘ ton, two years old.

In 1870 Mr. Irving engaged in the drug busi-
ness in Gallatin, which he continued until 1872,
when he sold out, accepting the position of deputy-
sheriff, the duties of which office he faithfully dis-
charged for a term of two years. In 1874 he again
entered into the drug trade, but, finding his health
impaired by the close confinement, sold out and
established himself in the hardware business, which

he still follows quite successfully. Mr. Irving is

ranked among the representative business men of
Daviess county, a quiet, undemonstrative man, firm
in adhering to his convictions, and very reliable in
all his statements.

August I, 1877, he was appointed, by Governor

Phelps, one of the three judges of the county court,
under the new act abolishing the bench with five
judges heretofore existing.

Judge Irving is quite prominent in the benevo-
lent societies of his section. He is a member of the
I. O. O. F., of Gallatin, and an old member of the
Masonic body. He was made a Master in 1868,
and is now in the Past Master’s chair of Gallatin
Lodge A. F. & A. M. Exalted in 1870, he is now
Past High Priest of Gallatin Chapter, R. A. M., and
has filled the offices of District Lecturer, and Dis-

trict Deputy Grand Master. In 1873 he was

~ knighted in Kadesh Commandery, of Hamilton,

Missouri, of which he is still a member.

He has belonged to the communion of the Presby-
terian church since he was eighteen years of age.
In politics he has always been a Democrat.

Judge Irving is quite dignified in his appearance,
stands erect, about five feet, ten and one-half inches
high, weight, one hundred and eighty—five pounds.

JOSEPH HYANS.

KANSAS CITY.

land, October 21, 1840. His parents, Edward

and Elizabeth (Leggett) Hyans, were natives of
Ireland and removed to Liverpool, where the father
was engaged in the boot and shoe business for many
years. Joseph’s mother died when he was but ten
years old, and his early education was much neg-
lected, but he was self-relying and by his own efforts
made his way in ‘the world. His father came to
America in 1854, bringing Joseph and an only
daughter, landing in New York, where he resumed
his former business and where he still lives at the
ripe age of eighty years. ' '

Here Joseph, at the age of fourteen, was appren-
ticed to Honiwell & Brewster, to learn the trade and
business of manufacturing hats. This large firm
was favorably located opposite the Astor House
and did a first class and flourishing business, and
here for seven years Mr. Hyans enjoyed the best
advantages for becoming a proficient and skillful
workman and thoroughly posted in all the details of
the business. He was studious and industrious and

lost no opportunity for acquiring useful information.
B 12

JOSEPH HYANS was born in Liverpool, Eng-

At the expiration of his term of apprenticeship he
engaged with Seymour & Co. two years, when he
secured a partnership interest in this prosperous
firm and remained three years. He then established
himself in a trade which he successfully conducted
for five years, but greatly impaired his health by
close confinement and devotion to his business.

In 1871 he came west, seeking to improve his
health by the change of climate, and located in
Kansas City, where for one year he was in charge
of the hat factory of Hines & Gibson., at the end
of which time he established himself in his present
location, 526 Main street.

He is now the only practical hatter carrying on
the business in Kansas City, and has built up an
encouraging trade, extending through Western Mis-
souri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas and many
other portions of the great New West, and is con-
trolling much of the trade in a certain line of fine
goods, at one time held by St. Louis. ‘His orders
are largely from customers requiring special styles
and qualities of goods not found elsewhere in the
West. These orders are accompanied by the correct

888 THE U./VITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

measurement of size and shape of head and general
description of the form, features, complexion and
build of the persons for whom the hats are ordered,
all of which are important helps to the skillful and
practical hatter. Mr. Hyans gives his special and
personal attention and supervision to his thriving
business. As a workman and artist in his line he has
no superior, and has in his particular line of trade

given Kansas City a reputation equal to that of New
York or Boston, so far as the quality and style of
manufactured goods are concerned.

Mr. Hyans is erect and well formed, agreeable and
pleasing in his address, very temperate in his habits
and generous in disposition. In 1862 he was married
to Miss Mary Curtiss, of New York City. They
have three children: Thomas, Joseph and Edward.

LEE CI-IISWELL.

LAMAR.

EE CHISWELL was born October 15, 1848,
L in Frederick county, Maryland. He is the
fourth of twelve children born to Joseph N. Chiswell
and Eleanor White. His ancestors were from England
and settled in Maryland in the early history of that
colony. Beyond his father, however, little is accu-
rately known. His father is still living in Frederick
county, engaged in farming.

Lee Chiswell, till thirteen years old, attended the
common schools of his neighborhood; but at’ that age
he entered the Frederick City Academy, where he
remained two years. -On leaving the Academy he
was admitted into the Freshman class at St. James
College, Hagerstown, Maryland. At the end of a
year, owing to the difficulties growing out of the war,
the college was closed, and he was sent to Colum-
bian College, Washington City, where he remained
three years, and graduated in 1867, at the age of
nineteen. In selecting his profession he was governed
by his tastes, and chose the study of law. He began
his studies in the office of Messrs. Ritchie & Lynch
(Hon. John Ritchie and Judge John A. Lynch), in
Frederick City, with whom he read until he was

admitted to the bar in 1869. He immediately started
to the West, and at first located at Kansas City. where
he spent a few months. He then selected Lamar,
Barton county, Missouri, as his future home, and
established himself there. In 1870 the firm of Mor-
gan & Chiswell was formed. In 1871 he was
appointed prosecuting attorney of Barton county,
which position he has continued to hold, having been
elected four successive times.

Politically he is a Democrat. He was elected a
delegate in 1874, and again in 1876, to the congres-
sional convention of his district. He is a member of
no religious order, but treats all denominations with
respect. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity in
good standing. He was married September 30, 1872,
to Miss Anna B. Hall, daughter of Andrew Hall and
Martha Ramsey, of Barton county, formerly of Love-
land, Ohio. He has two children, both living.

Though yet younghe has already given earnest
of a future full of usefulness and honor. He stands
at the head of his profession in Barton county, is
highly esteemed as a citizen, and everywhere respec-
ted in business circles.

JAMES E. HAMBLEN.

CLINT O./V.

Virginia, May 3, 1813, and was one of nine

children of Champ Terry and Lavina Hamblen.
His father married‘ Miss Lavina Noble, of "Vir-
ginia.

The subject of this sketch removed to Missouri

JAMES E. HAMBLEN was born in Lee county,

in 1837, and followed the occupation of blacksmith
until about 1841, when he married Miss Judith
Whitloch, a daughter of Tarlton and Winniford Whit-
loch, natives of Rockbridge, Virginia, who removed
to Clay county, Missouri, in 1818, and there raised
a family of fourteen children. After the marriage

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of James E. and Judith, he turned his attention
solely to agricultural pursuits, and after locating and
improving two farms in Clay county, sold out, and
in 1852 moved to Clinton county, Missouri, where
he purchased a large tract of timber land, and from
that made a fine farm where he resided with his
family, with the exception of a few years, until his
death. Times becoming so troublesome in 1864, he
moved out of the state and did not return until
1866, when, still being unable to return home, he
purchased a farm in Jackson county, where he
remained until I87r.

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hamblen reared a family
of four children : Geneva E., wife of James R. Hud-
son, of Jackson county, Louvina Polk, wife of E.
J. Nickerson, a resident of Jackson county, and
Champ T., who now resides on the home farm with
his mother and youngest sister, Alice Virginia.

James E. Hamblen was widely known and deserv-
edly respected for his many sterling qualities of mind
and heart. Politically he was of the Democratic
faith. He died, after a short illness, 011 the 1st day
of April, 1872, having spent a pure and useful
life.

WILLIAM JEWELL, M. D.

LIBERTY.

‘ N IILLIAM JEWELL, M. D., was born in
Loudoun county, Virginia, January I, 1789,
and removed to Gallatin county, Kentucky," in 1800.

After completing his academic education, he
took the degree of M. D. in Transylvania Univer-
sity. In 1822 he settled, as a practitioner, in
Columbia, Missouri. In the same year he united
with the Baptist church in that place. He pursued
his profession with the fixed purpose of excelling,
and proved eminently successful.

As a citizen, he stood in the first rank. In all pub-
lic meetings to devise measures for the public good,
he was either chairman or a powerful speaker. No
other man did more for Columbia and Boone county

than Dr. Jewell. To secure the location of the State
University at Columbia, he gave eighteen hundred
dollars and was ever a true friend of the institution.

He was several terms a member of the Missouri
Legislature. He was one of the early and most
active advocates of the establishment of a college
for the Baptists of Missouri. He contributed
about seventeen thousand dollars, in addition to
the large fund raised in smaller sums, to the found-
ing of the college. He was superintending the
erection of the college building, in Liberty, Mis-
souri, at the time of his death, August 7, 1852.
The noble institution of learning which bears his
name is his most fitting monument.

JAMES R. WILLIS.

fEFFE[€S0./V CITY.

and was born May 2, 1830, in Dorchester
county. His father, Rev. Foster Willis, was a
native of Caroline county, Maryland, and a faithful
and zealous laborer in the Methodist Episcopal
church for forty-five years. In 1828 he married Miss
Ann Andrews of Dorchester county, Maryland, and
they reared a family of seven children. In 1843
Rev. J.R. Willis removed with his family to Buchanan

JAMES R. WILLIS is a native of Maryland,

county, Missouri, and continued his ministerial labors
in the northern part of the state, living upon a farm
which he cultivated and where he educated his chil-
dren in agricultural pursuits. Young Willis utilized
the meager educational advantages offered by the
country schools at that early day, and there, upon
that frontier farm, surrounded by the refining influ-
ence. of Christian parents, he formed habits of indus-
try and economy which have given coloring to his

890 THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO./VAIEY.

after life. In 185 5 he settled in Doniphan county,
Kansas, and the following year was appointed by
James Buchanan, United States deputy-marshal for
the northern District of Kansas and held that office
until that state was admitted into the Union. Upon
the breaking out of the war he returned to Buchanan
county, when he became probably the most extensive
grain dealer in Northwest Missouri- '

From 1864 to 1868 he was residing at St. Joseph .

engaged in freighting for the Government across the
plains. The firm of Willis & Clagett shipped 4oo,-
ooo bushels of corn from the Missouri river to places
at the base of the Rocky Mountains. In 1868 he
resumed the grain trade in St. Joseph, and in 1870
failed in business owing to the great decline in wheat.
In 1873 he became one of the lessees of the peniten-
tiary of Missouri. Eleven months after he surren-

dered his interest and in January, 187 5, was employed
by the St. Louis Manufacturing Co. On the 23rd
of November, 1875, and on the 23rd of January fol-

"lowing he was appointed warden of the Penitentiary.

He was married in April, 18 52, to Miss Rebecca
Kent, daughter of Absalom Kent, formerly of Ross
county, Ohio. To them were born seven children,
two sons and five daughters, of whom five are living,
as follows: Ralph D., aged twenty-four, clerk in the
penitentiary, Annie Belle, aged twenty 3 Lottie, aged
seventeen; Foster, aged ten and Georgia, aged
seven. Nellie D., the oldest daughter, was educated
at Christian College and died soon after graduating,
Alice. died at the age of seven years.

He is an active Democrat, and is a consistent
and exemplary member of the Methodist church
(South).

JOSEPH M. WOOD, M. D.

KANSAS CITY.

OCTOR JOSEPH M. WOOD was born in
Mercer county, Kentucky, March 27, 1810.
Having completed his medical education in 183 2, he
left Kentucky and settled in Clay county, Missouri,
where he remained, with the exception of a few
months, until 18 57, when he moved to Kansas City,
having, however, achieved a professional reputation
in Clay county. Since his settlement in Missouri,
Dr. Wood has always been in the front rank of his
profession. The operation of lithotomy is one of his
specialties. In this he probably has had as exten-
sive and successful experience as any man in his
profession.

Both as a physician and surgeon he stands very
high in his profession, commanding the respect and
esteem of all who know him. He is a broad and
liberally minded man, of general culture, genial dis-
position and is a leader in society.

‘He has been connected with the Kansas ( ity
College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was
incorporated in 1869, and is in successful operation
with the following faculty:

T. B. Lester, M. D., Professor of the Principles
and Practice of Medicine, President of the Faculty,
S. S. Todd, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Dis-
eases of Women; A. B. Taylor, M. D., Professor of
Surgery ; E. W. Schauffier, M. D., Professor of Phy-
siology, Secretary of the Faculty; T. J. Eaton, M.
D., Professor of Chemistry , G. Halley, M. D., Pro-
fessor of Anatomy; D. R. Porter,'M. D., Professor
of Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; J. D. Griffith,
M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. The course com-
prises a full and complete series of Didactic and
Clinical lectures on the usual branches of study,
practical anatomy, and daily examinations on the
subjects taught.

Abernathy, North & Orrison, Kansas City .

INDEX

Able, Captain Barton, St. Louis .

Abraham, M. D., 1. M., Harrisonville .'

Akers, Hon. Thomas P., Lex

ington .

Alexander, Joseph E., Maryville . .
Alexander, Joseph H., St. Charles .

Allen, Hon. DeWitt C., Liberty . . . . . . .
homas, St. Louis
. 460

Allen, A. M., LL. D., Hon. T

Allen, Hon. Albert 0., Jefferson City . .

Allen, Dr. John M., Liberty.
-"Allen, Col. Shubael, Liberty .

Anderson, Matthew W., Independence 

o 0 ' 0

Anthony, Cyrus A., Maryville .

Archer, Samuel, Kansas City
Armour, S. B., Kansas City .

Armstrong, Hon. David Hartley, St
Asbury, Captain Ai Edgar, Dover .

Asper, Hon. Joel F., Chillicothe .

—-Atchison, General David Rice,

Austin, Omar Dexter, Butler .

Babcock, George, St. Louis .

Gower .

Bailey, James Madison, Trenton .
Bailey, John W., St. Joseph . .

Ballingall, Hon. G. F., Kansas City  

Barnard, John Fisk, St. Joseph . . . .
Barney, M. D., Reuben, Chillicothe .
Barrett, Dr. Beverly A , Springfield. .

Barse, George Randolph, Kansas City '.

Barter, Nat. G., Nevada . .
Barr, Colonel Adam Johnston,

I Richmond 

4- Bates, Hon. Edward, St. Louis .
Beedy, John Creighton, Windsor .
Belcher, Daniel Price, Greenwood .
Belt, George W., St. Joseph . . . .
Bell, Col. Casper Wistar, Brunswick .
Bell, M. D., James B., Kansas City .

Bell, D. D., Hon. Samuel B., Kansas City 

.. Benton, Hon. Thomas Hart, St. Louis .

Berry, James L., Macon . .
 Birch, Hon. James H., Plattsb

urg .

Bircher, Rudolph, St. Louis . . .

. Louis .

. .440
- 454

. .516

. 162
.431
.105
.285
.123
.170
.510
.402
. 572
.560
.486

. 496
- - 554
. 268

72

318
228

. *. 314
.312

88

- 579
. 721
. .569
- 335
. 286
. 105
. 500

.665

.576
.746
.546
- 5
.684-
. 411
. 671

Bishop, E. W., Rolla. . . . .. . . . 279
Bishop, M. D., Galen E., St. Joseph . 388
Bissell, Col. Amos T., St. Louis . 492

Black, Col. James Witherspoon, Ricliinondi  83
Black, Francis Marion, Kansas City . . . . . 67

Blair, Hon. Francis P., St. Louis . . . . . . 832
Bliss, LL. D., Hon. Philemon, Columbia . . 2181)
Blodgett, Col. Wells H., St. Louis 450

Bogie, Ph. 13., M. D., Marcus A., Kans.as.City, 566
Bogy, Hon. Lewis Vital, St. Louis . . . . . .

136
Boone, Colonel Daniel, St. Charles county . 834
Botkin, Welcome A., Kansas City . . . . 654
Botsford, James Sherman, Jefferson City, . . 143
Boulware, Hon. Isaac Wingate, Fulton . . 687

Bourland, A. M., Rev. Hillen A,_, Kansas City 757

Bowman, Frank J., St. Louis . . . . . . . 556
Boyd, Hon. Sempronius H., Springfield. . . 526
Brace, Col. Theodore, Paris . . . . 263

Braham, D. D. S., James Willis, Ste. Genevieve 308

Brasfield, Judge John Strode, Platte City . . 584
Bray, Nathan, Springfield . . . . . . . . . . 409
Briant, Hon. A. C., Belton . . 168
Briant, George W., Westport . . . . . . . 420
-‘Broadhead, Hon. James 0., St. Louis . . 434
Broadhead, William F., Mt. Olive . . . . 243
Brockmeyer, Lt. Gov., Henry C., St. L0 is. . 181
Brown, H011. B. Gratz, St. Louis . . . . . . 200
Brown,’ Rev. Edwin T., Sedalia . . 127
Brown, George Tousey, Sedalia . . 701
Brown, Ira, Maysville . . . . .. . . . . . . 787
Brown, John C., Richmond . . . . . . . . 375
Brown, Mercileus Pliny, Lexington . . . 2.76
Brown, Robert A., Harrisonville. . 272
Bruere, Gustave, St. Charles. . . . . . 608
Bruere, Hon. Theodore, St. Charles . . 607
Bryan, Thomas Ross, Chillicothe . . . . . 580
Bryant, John M., M. D., Independence - . . 810
Buck, Captain Harvey Smith, Stewartsville . . 635

Buck, B. D.,Rev. Minerson Erastus, Kansas City 761
Buler, Edward, Lamar . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Bullene, Thomas B. , Kansas City . . . . . . 58

2 [NDEX

"«*Burckhartt, Judge George H., Huntsville . . . 570 Davis, Hon. T. G. C., St. Louis . . . . 17 5
Burden, Judge Eldridge, Lexington . . . . . I60 Davison, Dr. Alexander M., Jefferson City . . 32
Bush, Isidor, St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Dent, M. D., Philip Alexander, Maysville. . . 15
Bush, Captain William D., Marshall . . . . . 269 Dittmann, George Frederick, St. Louis . . . . 382
Butler, John P., Milan’. . . . . . . . . _. . 245 Diveley, Michael, Kansas City . . . . . . . 632
Cadle, James E., Chillicothe . . . . . .' . . 149 Dobson, Judge Charles Lee, Linneus . . . . . 548
Caldwell, S. H., Joplin . . . . . . . . . . . 727 Dockery, M. D., Alexander Monroe, Gallatin . 493
Calhoun, Colonel Alexander J., Liberty . . . 329 _Dodge, Judge Robert L., Gallatin . . . 534
Calhoun, Levitte F., Kansas City . . . . . . 830 Doggett, John, Kansas City . . . . . . . . . 446
Campbell, John, Kansas City . . . . . . . . 752 Doherty, Judge John Franklin, Stewartsville . 187
Campbell, Joseph, Rolla . . . . . . . . . . 739 Donaldson, William A., Richmond . . . . . 377
Campbell, D. D., R. S., St. Joseph . . . . . 91 -Doniphan, Col. Alexander William, Richmond . 80
Carson, Gideon Blackburn, Joplin . . . . . . 68o Donnelly, Rev. Bernard, Kansas City. . . . . 153
Carter, M. D., Charles Leonidas, Holden . . . 699 Dopf, John Dickinson, Rockport . . . . . . . 573
Case, M. D., Theodore S., Kansas City . . . 51 Dougherty, Charles, Independence . . -. . . 185

~'Cauthorn, A. M., William Andrew, Columbia . 203 Downing, Judge James Franklin, Aullville. . . 686
Chace, Charles A., Kansas City . . . . . . . 295 Drake, Albert M., Carthage. . . . . . . . . 509
Chandler, Hon. John T., Liberty ~ . . . . . . 331 Drennon, Robert H., Kansas City . . . . . . 336
Chandler, Jefferson, St. Louis . . 876 Duke, Basil, St. Louis . . . 129

Chase, M. D., D. D. S., Henry  St. ‘Louis . 354 Dulin, D. D., LL. D., Rev. E’.  Joseph  482
Cherry, John W., Trenton . . . . . . . . . 71 Dumars, James, Springfield . . . . . . . . .
Chick, Joseph S., Kansas City . . . 215 Duncan, Rev. Herman Cope, Kansas City . . 246

Child, Hon. Jacob Tripler, Richmond . . . . 580 Duncan, M. D., John Harris, Columbia . . . 195
Chiles, Hon. William Henry, Lexington . . . 658 Duncan, Dr. William Henley, Columbia . . . 233
Chiles, Judge William Pugh, Platte City . . . 677 Dunn, Hon. George W., Richmond . . . . . 337
Chrisman, Hon. William, Independence . I . 442 Dunn, Rev. James A., Kansas City . . . . . 821
Christian, John R., Huntsville. . . . . . . . 115 Dunn, Judge Lemuel, Kingston . . . . . . . 141
Christy, Ambrose D., Unionville. . . . . . . 649 Dunnica, William Franklin, Glasgow . . . . . 591
Chiswell, Lee, Lamar . . . . . . . . . . . 888 Dyer, Hon. David Patterson, St. Louis . . . . 39
Claiborne, Colonel Nathaniel C., St. Louis . . 383 Dysart, Benjamin R., Macon . . . . . . . . 549
Clark, A. M., James G., Liberty. . . . . . . 797 Eads, C. E., LL. D., James B., St. Louis . . . 94
Clark, Nathaniel Green, Cuba . . . . . . . . 575 -—- Earickson, Richard, Glasgow . . . . . . . . 809
Clemens, Jr., James, St. Louis . . . . . . . 562 Edwards, Hon. Albert Hamilton, St. Charles . 542
Cloud, M. D., Abel S., Chillicothe . . . . . . 728 Edwards, Judge James C., St. Louis Co. . . . 374
Coates, Colonel Kersey, Kansas City . . . . . 46 Edwards, John, Maryville . . . . . . . 505
Cockrell, Hon. Francis Marion, Warrensburg . 742 Egger, Fredolin, Appleton City . . . . . . . 527
Coe, M. D., William Hayden, Kansas City . . 481 Elliott, William Fielding, Moberly . . . . . . 643
Collier, Luther T., Chillicothe . . . . . . . . 819 English, Colonel George H., Kansas City . . . 339
Comstock, Colonel Charles Gorham, Albany. . 366 Engelmann, Edward D., Cape Gerardeau . . . 341
Cook, Isaac, St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Eubanks, Hon. Ambrose Clay, Milan. . . . . 536
Cook, William Washington, Harrisonville . . . 716 Evans, S. D., Dr. Holland B., St. Charles . . 535
Cooley, M. D., Franklin, Kansas City . . . . 234 Fairman, Chauncey Wilmot, Kansas City . . . 485
Corby, John, St. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . 404 Farmer, Rev. Jeremiah, Pleasant Hill. . . . . 221
Cowan, John Gilmore, Holt County . . . . 363 Farr, Rev. W. Benton", St. Louis. . . . . . . 147
Cowdon, Captain John, Cape Girardeau. . . . 348 Farris, James T., Stockton . . . . . . . . . 666
_Cowles, Manning S., Butler. . . . . . . . 372 Farwell, Hon. Leonard J., Grant City . . . . 860
Craig, Benjamin Franklin, Plattsburg . . . . . 400 Fellows. Col. Homer Franklin, Springfield‘. . . 619
Craig, Hon. Henry H., Kansas City . . . . . 808 Ferguson, William H., Steelville . . . _. . . . 852
Craig, General James, St. Joseph . . . . .’ . 89 Ferrill, Rev. Thomas J., Plattsburg . . .  866
Cranor, Colonel Manlove, Maryville . . . . . 839 Ficklin, A. M., D. P., Prof. Joseph, Columbia 203*’
Craven, James M., Avilla. . . . . . . . . . 786 Finn, John, St. Louis . . . . . .' . .. . .393
Cravens, Jeremiah C., Springfield . . . . , _ 777 Fisher, D. D., Rev. M'chael M., Columbia . . 196v’
Crenshaw, Louis A. D., Springfield . . . . . 843 Ford, Captain George W., St. Louis . . . - - I7
Crittenden, Hon. T. T., Warrensburg . . . . 878 F orrist, Judge William 0., Mexico . . . . . . 204
Crosby, Prof. Eugene C., Kansas City . . . . 853 Foster, Albert F., Macon . . . . . . . . . . 723
Cundiff, James Hampton Roads, St. Joseph . . 57 Foster, Matthew, Kansas City . . . . . . . . 635
Cunningham, L. P., Joplin . . 823 Frost, Cyrus H., Rolla . - 574

Dallmeyer, Hon. William Q., Jefifersoii City  . 838 Fyan, Judge Robert W ashing.to.n,.M.arshfiel'd . . 630

Dameron, Logan Douglas, St. Louis . . . . . 103 Gardner, James Coleman, Springfield . . . . . 550
Darnall, Richard Thomas, Platte City . . . . 641 Gardner, M. D., J. Wade, Osceola. . . . . . 648
Davis, James Luckey, Gallatin . . . . . - . 78 Garneau, Louis, St. Charles . _ - - 559

Davis, R. T., St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . .642 Garner, Christopher Trigg,R1cl1mond .i .. . .581

‘VGordon, John B., Columbia . .

Gamble, Hon. Hamilton R., St. Louis .
Gantt, Col. Thomas Tasker, St. Louis .
Gates, Colonel Elijah, Jefferson City . .‘ .

Gay, John Henderson, St. Louis . . . . . .
Gaylord, Frederick Graham, Platte City .
Geiger, Dr. Jacob, St. Joseph . . . .‘ . .
Geiger, Judge Washington F., Springfield . .
Gentry, Hon. William, Sedalia . . . . . -.
Gerstmann, Rabbi Simon, St. ‘Joseph . .
Gibson, Charles, St. Louis . . . . . .
Gilbert, Samuel A., St. Joseph . . . .
Giles, Richard P., Shelbina . . . . . .
Gill, Hon. Turner A., Kansas City . .
Givan, Noah M., Harrisonville . . . . .
Givens, Hon. Nathaniel F., Cahoka . . .
Goebel,’ Ruarrdolph H. 0., St. Charles . .

Gordon, John M., Mexico . . . . . . .
Gordon, M. D., William A., Lexington . .
Goslin, M. D., Asher,- Oregon . . . .
Gould, Captain E. W., St. Louis . .
Gouley, George Frank, St. Louis . .
Graham, William D., Appleton City . . .
Greeno, Dr. Harris Soper, Kansas City . . .
Greenwood, A. M., James M , Kansas City .
Gregory, W. S., Kansas City . . . . . . .
Griffith, Captain Thomas H., St. Louis .
Grimes,. William B., Kansas City .' .

».4

Haden, Joel H., Columbia ~. . .

Hale, James C., Shelbyville . . . . . .
Hall, Captain Daniel K., Harrisonville .
Hall, William A., Springfield .

Hall, U. S., Moberly. . . . . . 3. .
Halliburton, Judge Wesley, Milan. .
Hamblen, James E., Clinton .
Hammerslough, Louis, Kansas City .
Hammett, Joseph M., Huntsville. .
Hanna, Thomas K., Kansas City. . . .
Hardin, Hon. Charles Henry, Mexico .
Harper, Henry C., Westport . .

Harris, Judge James, Columbia .

Harrison, John, Glasgow . . . . . .
Harwood, Joseph F., Cameron . . . . . .
Hawkins, Judge David L., Cape Girardeau .
Hayden, Edwin, St. Louis .
Heddens, M. D., William I.,

Henning, Major B. S., Kansas City . .
Henry, Judge John W., Macon City . .
Henry, Judge William, Cameron. .
Herbert, Horatio Samuel, Rolla . .

Hertich, Dr. Charles S., Ste. Genevieve   
Hewett, Col. Robert Alexander, Maysville . .
Hickman, Captain Edwin Alfred, Independence

Hill, Judge Vandever B., Waynesville .

“Hinton, Judge John, Columbia .

Hockaday, Hon. John A., Fulton 
Hogan, Hon. John, St. Louis . . .
Holden, Howard M., Kansas City .

. 531
. 571
- 519
. 884
. 618
. 300
. 590
. .647

. 588
- -595
. . 626

- 5'43
. .255

. 649

. 532

- 647

- 364
. . 840

. 624
. 697
- 755
. 523
.47r
. . . . 806
Gronefeld, Judge Henry, St. Charles  - .. .~

st.’ Joseph 4'. I I
Henderson, Judge James Alexander, Mt. Olive

I./VDEX.

. I72
- 385
. . 522
Gatzweiler, Judge Frederick Wm., St. Charles .

551

22

540

. . . ._ . 198-
Haffner, John George Julius, Cape Girardeau .
. . . 487

. 54:

. . 407
~ 423

. . 419
. 888

322

Holmes, Nehemiah, Kansas'City . .
Holmes, Judge William, Kansas City

Holladay, Hon. Thomas, Jefferson City . . . I 52
. 438
- 453
- 499

Holland, General Colley B., Springfield .
Hornback, John, Carthage . . .

<;’Hough, Hon. Warwick, Jefferson   .
Houston, Major George Martin, Harrisonville .

Hubbard, Hon. Walter D., Springfield . .
Hughes, Judge Charles James, Richmond .
Hughes, James, Richmond . . . . . . .
Huling, Alonzo, Kansas L ity . . . . . .
Hunt, Colonel Robert H., Kansas City . .
Hunter, Andrew Jackson, Bolivar .
Hurley, James M., Carthage . .

Hurt, M. D., Garland, St. Louis. .

Hurt, Hon. Ossamus, Marshall .

Huston, Samuel H., Brownsville. . .
Hutchins, Hon. Stillson, St. Louis .

Hutt, M. D., William Sturman, Troy .
Hyans, Joseph, Kansas City . . . .
Irvine, Clarke, Oregon . . . . . .
Irvi11e, James H., Fairville . . .

Irving, Alex. M., Gallatin. . .

Jacobs, Dr. George R., Boone.

James, Thomas M., Kansas City .

Jamison, William C., St. Louis . . .
January, Thomas Thruston, Mt. Olive .
Jaynes, Colonel A. D., Sedalia, . . . .
Jenkins, Col. William Sampson, Kansas City.
Jeserich, M. D., Emile, .Macon City . . "
Jewell,'LJI.- D., William, Liberty . . . . .
Jewett, William Orrington Lunt, Shelbin
Johnson, Hon. Chas. P.,.St. Louis .
Jones, Major B. F., Kansas City. .
Jones, Isaac N., Clinton . . . . . . . . .
Jones, M. D., Leander J., Kansas City . .
Jones, William, Pleasant Hill . . . . .
Jones, Hon. Wm. Cuthbert, St. Louis .
Judd, M. D., D. D S., Homer, St.
Judson, Lucius, Salem . . . . . .
Karnes, J. V. C., Kansas City- . . . . . .
Kearney, Charles Esmonde, Kansas City . .
Keating, George J., Kansas City . . .
Kellogg, E. T., Kansas City

Kelly, Arthur J., Kansas City . . . .
Kemp, Thomas H., Chillicothe. . . .

Louis .

Kennard, M. D., Thomas, St. Louis .
Kennedy, Daniel Curran, Springfield. . . .5
Kerr, A. B., Rev. Robert Poll.ok, Lexington
King, Charles Macon, Shelbina . . . . . .
Kingsbury, Benjamin Barnes, St. Louis .

_Klippel, Adam, Oregon. . . .

Knott, Judge Edward W., Macon City   i

r Knott, Joseph M., Lancaster .

Kump, Frank Hubbard, Kansas City . .
Kumpf, Henry C., Kansas City . . .

La Due, Hon. Joshua, St. Louis. . . . .
Lansdown, M. D., Warren J., Butler . . .
Lashbrooke, Samuel B., Butler . . .
Lathrop, LL. D., J. H., Columbia . .
Latshaw, Henry J., Kansas City

i214

. i650
. 812
- 359
. 646
. 501
. 222
. 469
. .887
. I61
- 553
. 886
. .841
. 772
. . 50
-4371
. 40
. 788
. .591
. 889
. 606
. 506
. 845
- 449
. 267

. .480

. 378
. 441
. 645

3 I55

56

440

-5'7
.644

20

I9

. 822
. . . . 804
Kemper, A. M., Frederick Thomas, Boonville .

ZIP

. .290

- 577
.596
. 730
.387
. 710
. 804
. I49

. 820
. .389
. 792
. .729
. I56

52

4

.rLaws, D. D., LL. D., Samuel S., Columbia
Leach, M. D., William Sackette, St. Joseph .
Lemmon, Major Alexander Campbell, Boliva
Leslie, Joseph H., M. D., St. Louis . . . .
Lester, M. D., Prof. T. B., Kansas City .
Lewis, B. W., Glasgow. . . . . . . . .
Lewis, Hon. Charles J., Joplin . .
Lewis, M. D., Eugene R., Kansas City
Lewis, Major James Walker, Glasgow
Lewis, Colonel Warner, Mt. Olive .
Lincoln, Hon. James E., Liberty . . . . .
Lindsay, A. M., David Herndon, Plattsburg .
Lodge, Joseph G., St. Louis . . . . . . .
Logan, Albert B., St. Louis . .
Logan, Charles C., St. Louis . . .
Lohman, Charles T. A., St. Louis .

Long, Judge John F., St. Louis . . .

Long, M. D., David Frank, Gallatin .
Loughridge, John Anderson, Kansas City .
Lowry, Prof. Thomas J., Columbia . .
Lykins, Dr. Johnston, Kansas City . .
Lynde, Colonel Edward, Kansas City
McAfee, Charles B., Springfield . . . . . .
McAlester, A. M., M. D., A. W., Columbia
McAntire, William B., Joplin . . . . . . .
M5‘Canne, Asa Parker, Montgomery City .
McClellan, J. G., St. Louis . . . . . . .
McCord, James, St. Joseph . . . . . . .
McCown, Colonel William H., Carthage. .
McCuistion, A. A., Richmond . . . . . .
McDearmon, John K., St. Charles.
McDonald, M. D.,‘C. D., Kansas ‘City. .
McDonald, Witten, Carrollton. . . .
McDonough, James, St Louis. . . .
McDowell, M. D., John J., St. Louis
McDowell, M. D., Joseph N., St. Louis . .
McElhaney, Major Robert J., Springfield . .
McFarland, William Craig, Troy. . . .
McGee, Allen B. H., Kansas City .
McGindley, Austin N., Moberly. . . .
McGrath, Hon. Michael K., St. Louis . .
McHenry, Hon. James E., Jefferson City .
Mcllhany, Rev. Marshall, Lexington ~.
McIntyre, Captain Daniel H., Mexico .
McKee, Archibald Vigo, Troy.

McKee, Edwin R., Memphis .

McKillop, Malcolm, Rockport . . . . .
McLaughlin, Cyrus Sanders, Kingston. .
McLean, Benjamin, Kansas City . .
McLean, Dr. James H., St. Louis .
McWilliams, Sidney, Chillicothe . . .

Madeira, Rev. Addison Dashiell, Kansas City .

- - - 797
. 717
. 881
- 599
. 600

~5I4

Major, Jr., Samuel C., Howard . . . .
'Mansur-, Charles Harley, Chillicothe .
Marshall, Benjamin, Lexington . ‘. . .
Martin, Edward Lowe, Kansas City .
Martin, Horace, Corning . . . . .
Martin, Hon. John I. St. Louis . . . . . .
Martin, M. D., Meredith, St. Louis . . . .

Marvin, D. D., LL. D., Enoch M., St. Louis 
. 292
. 367

Mason, Anthony L., Kansas‘ City .
Mason, Captain Isaac M., St. Louis .

i 683
. 568
. 849

- 144
.796
. 262
- 743
-...2..LL
.816
.120
.723
.628
.770
~ 749
.684
.118
.125
.123

. 798

- 317
.730

.410

IN DEX.

.678
. 726
.612"
.812
. 167
.476
- 495
.738
.611
. .360

-327
.724
. 121
. 567
.392

33
98

48

.858
. 670
. .650
- 799

. 709
.668
.398
.710

66

2I

28

\

1-—-Miller, Hon. 0. W., Jefferson City’. .' .'

Massey, John A., Mt. Olive . . .
Mathews, Dr. Tennessee, Jefferson City
Melton, Major R. H., Warsaw . . . . . .
Mercer, Hon. Joseph Wayne, Independence
Miles, George D., St. Louis . . . . . . .
Millard, Alvin Marion, Rolla .

Miller, Robert Hugh, Liberty . . _

Miller, William H., Kansas City . .

Millett, Captain E. B., Kansas City . .
~M_inor, General James L., Jefferson City
.,...Min0r, General Wm. G., Jefferson City .
Mitchell, D. D., James B., Kirksville. .
Montgomery, M. D., Edward, St. Louis .
Moore, A. M., M. D., John Sidney, St. Louis .
Moore, Captain Friley W., Marshfield. .
Moore, Lysander R., Kansas City . .
Moores, William Parson, Kansas City .
Morehouse, Albert P., Maryville.
Morin, Major Jesse, Platte City .
Morris, William Bell,.Liberty . .
Morrison, Hon. A. W., Glasgow. . .
Morrison, M. D., Joseph Barr, Maryvill
Morrison, Nathan J., Springfield . . .
Morrison, Hon. Robert D., Milan .
Morrison, William, Lexington . . . . . . . .
Morrison, D. D S., William Newton, St. Louis
Morrow, C. C., Warrensburg . . . . . . .
Mosby, M. D., William Wallace, Richmond
ML1‘.1‘..'§l‘_",::;‘ l\/[. D_,, David, Maryville. .
Munford, Morrison, Kansas City
Murphy, Patrick, Joplin .
Nave, Abram, St. Louis . . . . . . .
Nave, James McCord, Kansas City. . . .
Nettleton, George H., Kansas City . . . .
Newgent, Colonel Andrew G., Kansas City .
Nofsinger, Dr. Francis B., Kansas City . . .
Nolan, Hon George N., Kansas City
Nichols, VVilliam 1., Kansas City. . . . . .
Nickerson, Hon._ Edmond A., Warrensburg .
North, John Henry, Kansas City . . . . . .
Northrup, Hiram Milton. Wyandotte, Kansas .
Norris, M. D., Thomas J., Macon City .
Norwood, Joseph G., Columbia . . . . . . .
O’Donoghue, Alfred Herbert, Cape Girardeau .
O’Neill, Hon. John J., St. Louis. . .
Oakes, Thomas F., Kansas City . . .
Oliver, Hon. Mordecai, St. Joseph . .
Onstott, John, Carthage . . .
Organ, John E., Salem. .  .
Orrick, John, St. Charles. . . . .
Orrick, John Cromwell, St. Louis .
Orrison, David S., Kansas City .
Osborne, James W., Phelps City .
Overall, Ezra, St. Charles. .- . . . .
Overall, M. D., Samuel, St. Charles . .
Overall, Major Wilson Lee, St. Charles .
Park, Major Thomas Woodson, Platte City .
Parker, Albert, Sedalia . . . . . . . . . .
Parrott, Lt. Col. Elias, Osborn. . . . . . . .
Parsons, M. D., Samuel Chauncey, Kansas City
Pattison, Captain John W., Jefferson City .

. 882
.844
- 397
.851
. 651
. 882
.275‘

.552

. I00

.458
. 492
. . 616

. 805
. 321
. 862
. 800
. 663
.663

- 733

164

.633
. 818

16

99

. 875
- 597
- 753
. .396
. . 731
. . 848

-483
- 474
. 771
.460
.426
.469
. 622

497
356

. 680

309

.811

.627
.700
.831
.502
. .498
.631
.209
. 213
.207
.638

361
F44

. 691

INDEX C 5

Payne, M. D., Henry Rice, Kansas City . . . 463 Russell, Benjamin Franklin, Steeleville . . . . 539
Payne, Hon. Milton Jamison, Kansas City . . 73 _Russell, Hon. W. H. H., St. Louis . . . . . 108
Pearson, Isaac, Fayette. . . . . . . . . . .689 Rutherford, William N., Moberly . . . . . .573
Peers, Hon. Charles Edward, Warrenton . . . 104 Rutherford, William Turner, Huntsville. . . . 138
Phelps, Governor John S., Springfield. . . . . 478 Ryland, Major John E., Lexington. . . . . . 512
Philips, Hon. John F ., Sedalia . . . . . . . 8‘6“4*-~--— Ryland, Hon. John Ferguson, Lexington . .. . 511
Pierce, Rev. John Nicholson, Sedalia . . . . . 615 Ryland, Xenophon, Lexington . i. . .' . . . 513
Pinnell, Ethan Allen, Cuba . . . . . . . . . 734 Salisbury, Judge Lucius, Salisbury . . . . . . 692
Plankinton & Armours, Kansas City . ._ . . . 431 Salmon, Hon. Harvey W., Clinton. . . . . . 780
Plant, George Poignand, St. Louis. . . . . . 165 Samuel, George Warren, St.-Joseph . . . . . 412
Pollard, M. C., Henry M., Chillicothe . . . . 578 Samuel, J. M., Columbia. . . . . . . . . . 876-’
Pope, Colonel William S., St. Louis . . '. . . 824 .~—-—Sappington, M. D., John, Arrow Rock. . . . 718
Porter,'M. D., Frank G., St. Louis . . . ._ . 42 3 Sauer, Anthony, Rosedale. . . . . . . . . . 765
Porter,—Judge Gilchrist, Clarksville . . . . . . 681 Sawyer, George M., Springfield . . . . -. . . 703
Powell, Trueman S.,Lamar . . . . . . . . .610 Sawyer, Judge Samuel Locke, Independence . 180
Pratt, Brig. Gen. Isaac Vinson, Laclede . . . 625 Saxton, Able M., St. Joseph . . . . . . . . 827
Pratt, Wallace, Kansas City . . . . . . . . . 126 Scarritt, D. D., Rev. Nathan, Kansas City . . 774
Price, Col. James Barry, Jefferson City . . . . 34 Schenck, Rev Walter, Westport . . . .- . . . 444
Price, General Sterling, Chariton . . . . . . 40 Schurz, Hon. Carl, St. Louis . . . . . . . . 856
Price, Gen. Thomas Lawson, Jefferson City . . 8 Schuyler, D. D., Rev. Montgomery, St. Louis 368
Price, Judge William Cecil, Springfield . . . . 695 Scott, Charles McC., St. Louis . . . . . . 178
Pritchett, James Bascom, St. Charles . . . . . 674 Scott, Samuel F., Kansas City . . . . . . . . 760
Proudfit, Gen. James Kerr, Kansas City . . . 258 Shafer, Col. John W., Shelbina . . . . . . . 583
Provines, M. D., William, Columbia . . 464 Shaw, Captain John S., St. Charles . . . . 762

Purcell, Lieut. William Quinn, Malta Bend  . 722 Shaw, Col. William Pinckney, Brownsville  . 664

Ragland, M. D., Benjamin Douglass, Wellington 340 Sheley, James K., Independence. . . . . . . 854
Ranney, Will... C., Cape Girardeau . . . . . . 333 C Shelley, George M., Kansas City. . . . . . 748
Rathbun, Col. George Solon, Lexington. . . . 655 Shelton, Colonel William A, Unionville . . . 188
Rechow, Theodore G., Bolivar. . .‘ . . . . . 799  Shields, Hon.‘ George Howell, St. Louis . . . 428
Reed, Captain Thomas B., Huntsville . . . . 353 Shore, M. D., John, St. Louis . . . . . . . 50
Reed, William, Reed’s Station . . . . . . . 617 Slavens, Hon. J. W. L., Kansas City . . . . . 694
Reed, William H., Kansas City . . . . . . . 494 Slayback, Colonel A. W., St. Louis . . . . . 116
Reid, Aquila J., Kansas City . . . 751 Sloan, Charles William, Harrisonville . . . . . 711

Rider, M. D., James Henry, Cape Girardeau  310 Smith, Judge Frederick W., St. Joseph . . . . 661

«Rider, Richard Price, Columbia . . . . . 790 Smith, Hon. George, Cameron . . . . . . 193
Ridge, M. D., Isaac M., Kansas City . . . . 758 Smith, General George Rappeen, Sedalia . . . 130
Ridings, A. W., Warrensburg . . . . . . . . 885 Smith, Rev. George William, Dover . . . . . 299

1/Ripley, A. B., LL. B. Prof. Erastus L., Columbus 206 Smith, Hon. Jared Ebenezer, Springfield . . . 653
Robb, M. D., William H., St. Louis . . . . . 102 Smith, Attorney-General J. L., Jefferson City . 690
Roberts, D. D., Rev. James Grey, Kansas City 778 Smith, Matthew K., Springfield . . . . . . . 868
Roberts, Captain Preston, Independence . . . 744 Smith, Sylvester T., Kansas City. . . . . . . 816
Robinson, Hon. Alexander Marshall, Clinton . 781 Smith, M. D., T. R. H., Fulton . . . . .. . 93
Robinson, Hamline E., Maryville . . . . . . 347 Smoot, John D., Memphis . . . . . . . . . 724
Roecker, Albert, Oregon . . . . . . . . . . 685 Snell, M. D., J. R., Kansas City. . . . . . . 736
Rogers, Capt. Jarvis Stokes, Cameron . . . . 529 Snoddy, Colonel William Wallace‘ S., Sedalia . 537

»-4:/Rollins, James S., LL. D., Columbia. . . . . 869 Snyder, Frederick D., Maryville . . . ”. . . . 629
Rollins, Nathaniel, Canton . . . . . . . . . 609 Southworth, Dr. James W., Glasgow . . . . . 735
Rose, George Washington, Maysvill . . . . . 418 Spalding, M. D., D. D. S. ,_ C_. W., St. Louis . 142
Roseberry, Matthew G., Maryville . . . . . . 346 Speers, Thomas M , Kansas City. . . . . . . 826
Rothwell, G. F., Moberly . . . . . . . . . 401 Steele, Dudley M., St. Joseph . . . . . . . . 280
Rothwell, D. D., Rev. William Renfro, Liberty 320 Steen, Col. ‘Enoch, Jackson County . . . . . 712
Routt, Colonel H. L., Liberty. . . . . . . 794 Steinmetz, Samuel, Glasgow . . . . . . . . 593
Rowell, Clinton, St. Louis . . . . . . . . . 199 Stephens, Edwin W., Columbia . '. . . . . . 226w
Rowland, Frederick, _Macon City . . . . . . 344 Stephens, James L., Columbia . . . . . . 284:
Rozier, Charles C., Ste. Genevieve . . . . . . 307 Stephens, Joseph Lafayette, Boonville . . . . 204
Rozier, Gen. Firman A., Ste. Genevieve . . . 352 Stewart, Patterson, Kansas City . . . . . . . 814
Rozier, Jules, St. Mary’s . . . . . . . . . . 306»... St. Gem, Augustus, Ste. Genevieve . . . . . 302
Rubey, M. D., Samuel C., Macon City . . . . 803 Stidger, Nathan H., Unioiivillfi . . . . . . . 873
Ruffin, John T., Carthage. . . . . . 4. . . . 828 Stone, Benjamin F., Macon . . . . . . . . . 696
Rush, Major James Lawrence, Marshfield . . . 405 Stone, William J., Nevada . . . . . . . i. '. 662
Rush, Jr., William Marion, Gallatin . . . . . 15 Stonebraker, Alfred, St. Charles . . . . . . . 767

Rush, D. D., William M., Boonville. . . . . 381 _ Stratton, Daniel Powell, Stockton . . . . . . 789

Tracy, Milton C.,,_Macon City. . .

"Turner, Benjamin E., Cahoka . . .
iTurr'1er, Edward Winslow, Plattsburg .

6

Swallow, M D., LL. D., Geo. C., Columbia
Swinney, Captain W. D., Glasgow . . . . .
Switzler, Hon. W. F., Columbia. .
Talbird, D. D., Rev. Henry, Lexington
Taylor, M. D., Alfred Bryan, Kansas City
Taylor, Thomas Benton, Lexington

Terrell, William Jones, Harrisonville .

Tevis, Daniel W. B., Lexington . . . . . .
Thilenius, Colonel George C , Cape Girardeau
Thomas, Joel, Kansas City . . . . . . . .
Thomas, Judge William Smith, Moberly . .
Thompson, Francis Marion, Phelps City . . .

INDEX.

. 586
. 72o
- 793
. 236
. 191
. 242
. 702

323
342

- 345
- 725

239

Thompson, Judge James Turner Vance, Liberty 324

Thompson, James William, Marshfield .
Thompson, M. D., Jesse Edward, Salem . .
Thompson, Colonel Philip Austin, Phelps City .
Thompson, Winfield Scott, Marshfield
Thomson, James S., Glasgow . .
Thornton, Colonel John, Liberty . . .
Threlkeld, Edward Reynolds, Kansas City
Tiernan, Peter H., Kansas City . ,
Todd, M. D.,’S. S., Kansas City

Tootle, Milton, St. Joseph . . .
Towner, George L., Macon City, . .

Trego, D. D. S., Alfred Homer, Kansas City .
Trigg, Dr. William H., Boonville . . .
Trigg, Captain William K., Lexington
Truex, Captain Joseph, Osborn .

Turner, R. E., St. Joseph

Turner, Talton, Glasgow . . . . . .
Turner, Colonel Winslow, Plattsburg .
Tutt, Judge John A. S., Lexington
Twiss, Stephen Prince, Kansas City . .
Twitchell, Hon. Daniel S., Kansas City
Van Horn, Hon. Robert T., Kansas City .
Van Petten, General John B., Sedalia
Vest, Hon. G. G., Kansas City . .
Vogel, John C., St. Louis

Von Phul, Henry-, St. Louis . .
Vrooman, Charles Elliott, Lancaster .
Waddell, James R., Springfield

Walk, Rev. David, Kansas City .
Walker, William H., Windsor .

i 682
. 521
. I74
.414
.252
.873
.782
~ 359

. 719
- 747

456

. 380
. 62o
. 602

60

- 737
. 159
. 192
. 776
.866

750

. 660
.623
.362

. .792
.261
.657

. .452
. 254
. 25o
. 240
.264

64

aéaa

00

Walker, William Madison, Marshall
Wallace, Hon. Henry C.,.Lexington .
Wallace, Thomas Bates,. Lexington .
Walton, John, Waverly. .  .
Ward, Captain James, St. Loui
Ward. John W., Pleasant Hill .
Ward, Seth Edmund, W estport
Warinner, L. H., Kansas City. . .
Warmoth, Colonel Isaac Sanders, Rol
Warmoth, Henry C., Rolla . . .
Warner, Major William, Kansas City
Wasson, George I.,"-Richmond. . . .

Watkins, VValtus Locket, Lawson .
Wear, Hon. William Gault, Warsaw .
Webb, John C., Webb City .
Webster, Ed. H., Kansas City

Wells, Hon. Erastus, St. Louis
White, Churchill J., Kansas City. . .
White, Judge Henry P., Kansas City
White, William C., Dover . . . . .
Whybark, Captain Levi E., St. Louis
Wiley, Frank P., Moberly. . . .

Williams, Major A. J., Macon City . . .
Williams, Col. John Freeman, Macon . .
Willis, James R., Jefferson City . °
Wilson, John Wright, Lebanon . . .
Winfrey, M. D., Caleb, Pleasant Hill
-Winn, Dr.‘J. B., Macon City . . . .

Winzenburg, Andreas Wilhelm, Clinton .
Wisby, Joseph, Marshfield . . .
Wolff, Marcus A., St. Louis

Wood, Judge William T., Lexington .
Woodson, Major B. L., Kansas City .
—.Woodson, Hon. Silas, St. Joseph .
Wooldridge, Drewrey Mackey, Stockton

Wyeth, William M., St. Joseph . . . .
Young, Grove, Aullville . . . .

Young, Judge Henderson, Lexington 
Young, William, Lexington .

00

J
00
O0
O0

Waters, Colonel Louis H., Jefferson City  

Wilkerson, A. M., BurwellGoode, Sedalia’. I
Wilkinson, Charles Brownell, St. Joseph. -.

Winslow, Hon. Charles A., Jefferson City 

Wood, M. D., Joseph M., Kansas City‘. I

Wornall, John B., Westport. . . . . .. .

"'~ Young, Lieutenant—Governor James, Lexington

. 235

. 226«
.231

1 688

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