Bates County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1918 (part 6 of 19)

Although Reverend Lewis had been importuned many times to enter the ministry and preach the gospel according to the Baptist faith, he had refrained until such a time as he felt that he was able and could conscientiously give his services with a whole heart and soul to his Creator. It was not until he had settled in Bates county that his noted ministerial career began and met with such signal success. For over a period of forty years he preached in this county and made hundreds of converts to the cause of Christianity. His name became a byword in the county for earnest endeavor and right living. He assisted materially in the building of many Baptist churches and in the organization of many congregations of that faith in the county. His work also extended into Cass county where he was equally well known as a devout and conscientious man in whom the people reposed the highest confidence. Frequently, this reverend gentleman would travel a distance of twentyfive miles twice at the week end to his ministerial charge and make the return trip in order to be at home by nightfall so that he could care for his invalid wife. There are many Bates county citizens who will remember for long years the great work done by this Christian gentleman who left an indelible imprint upon the religious life of this section which will endure forever.

Hon. John W, Lewis, farmer and stockman of West Point township and former member of the Missouri State Legislature, has a splendid farm of two hundred fifty acres located northeast of the town of Amsterdam in Bates county. Air. Lewis has resided upon his farm for the past thirty-seven years and first burned off the prairie grass from the virgin soil preparatory to beginning its cultivation in 1880. He has an attractive appearing farm residence of thirteen rooms which stands on an eminence north of the highway and is reached by a driveway. This home was begun in 1880 when Mr. Lewis erected a small habitation and it was finally remodeled and enlarged in 1894, making one of the most imposing and comfortable homes in this section of Bates county. The barn on this farm is forty by fifty-four feet in size, and the cow barn is seventy feet in length. Other ecjuipment is the tool shed, and a shedded crib twenty-six by thirty-two feet. Formerly the Lewis tract had considerable timber but Mr. Lewis during past years has cleared away about one hundred acres and now has fifteen acres covered with woods. The Miami river runs through the land and always furnishes" plenty of water for all purposes. During 1917, ninety-two acres of the place were planted to corn which yielded a total of four thousand bushels. The farm is partly operated on shares by Mr. Lewis' son-in-law, and produces hogs, cattle and horses. Over one hundred head of hogs are annually sold. The Shorthorn breed of registered cattle are kept on the farm and from twelve to twenty cows are milked.

John W. Lewis w^as born in Culpepper county, Virginia, March 14, 1853, a son of Rev. A. H. and Geraldine L. (Covington) Lewis, concerning whom an extended review is given elsewhere in this volume. The history of the Lewis family goes back three hundred years in America and members of the family have fought in every war in which the Nation has been engaged. Rev. A. H. Lewis came to Missouri in 1857 and settled near Marshall, Saline county. In the spring of 1864 he removed to Ray county where the family resided until they came to Bates county in 1872. John W. Lewis assisted his father in developing the parental farm and when married he purchased a part of the home place of two hundred forty acres. Mr. Lewis was educated in Richmond College, Ray county where he studied for four years after the Civil War and was taught by Professor Gibson, a graduate of Washington University, Virginia, and by Prof. Fayette W. Graves, a graduate of Yale and who taught languages and science at Richmond College. S. J. HufTaker was president of the college during Mr. Lewis' student days.

Mr. Lewis was married October 13, 1878 to Miss Dora C. Berry, who was born April 21, 1857 in West Boone township, Bates county, a daughter of Franklin R. and Armilda O. Berry, natives of Mason county, Kentucky, and who came to Westport, Missouri as early as 1849. Mr. Berry was a wagon maker and blacksmith by trade and did work for the freighting outfits which passed through old Westport. He made a permanent location in Bates county in 1854. Franklin R. Berry died in 1897. Mrs. Berry was born in January, 1834 and died in March, 1917. They were parents of the following children : Mrs. Belle Taylor, who died in 1887, leaving a son, Frank Taylor, living at Merwin; Mrs. Dora C. Lewis, deceased; Benjamin F. died at Topeka, Kansas in 1911; Anna, Topeka, Kansas; George, living in Oregon; J. B. lives in Stafford county, Kansas; Mrs. Susie Berry, Burlingame, Kansas; W. C. Berry, Mt. Pleasant township.

Eight children have been born to John W. and Dora C. Lewis, seven of whom are living: Leila, at home as her father's housekeeper; Claude W., a farmer, West Point township, served as a private in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, and is father of three children, Nina, Marvel, and Leona; Mrs. Eula White, Stafford county, Kansas, has two children, Harold, and Louise ; Mrs. Kate Wright, Reno county, Kansas, has four children, Bernardine, Dorothy, Walter, Marjorie; Mrs. Pearl Dye, Amsterdam, Missouri, has two children, Harry and Madge; Mrs. Opal Megnin, Kiowa county, Oklahoma; Mrs. Elpha Kauffman, living on the home place, has a son, Raymond, born October 6, 1915. The mother of the foregoing children departed this life on January 22, 1901. She was a good and faithful wife, and a kind and wise mother to her children.

The Democratic party has always had the allegiance of Mr. Lewis and he has generally taken an active and influential part in matters political in Bates county. He was elected as representative from Bates county in 1910 and served as a member of the Missouri State Legislature during the ensuing session. He served in the sessions of 1910 and 1911. Prior to holding this office he served as township clerk, assessor and tax collector for over sixteen years.

While a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Lewis served .on the committees having charge of legislation affecting' the railroads, agriculture, mines, mining and militia and made a splendid and commendable record as a legislator. He introduced and had passed the bill providing for "free transportation of rural district school children." This bill which was considered a radical and far reaching innovation in

Missouri aroused ^vide comment and its author received hundreds of commendatory letters from prominent educators and people who are interested in the cause of higher education and better school facilities for the children of the rural districts. This bill was the forerunner of later legislation which provided for the establishment of consolidated and central township high schools and had a far reaching influence in advancing the cause of education in Missouri.

He became a member of the Baptist church in Richmond, Ray county in 1867 and in 1872 united with the old ^^'est Point Baptist church and has remained a member for forty-six years. The old A\'est Point church is now the Amsterdam Baptist church. Mr. Lewis was ordained a deacon of the Amsterdam Baptist church when twenty-three years of age. He is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, being a member of the Amsterdam Blue Lodge and the chapter and council at Butler.

W. W. Parish, ex-postmaster of Adrian. Missouri, a prominent real estate agent of Bates county, is one of the county's most successful and substantial citizens and a worthy representative of a good. old. pioneer family of Missouri. Mr. Parish was born in ]^liami county, Kansas in 1867, a son of A\'. D. and Salina Parish. ^^^ D. Parish came to Cass county, Missouri in 1857 from Morgan county. Indiana and for four years was engaged in farming and stock raising in this part of the state. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. ^Ir. Parish enlisted with the Union forces and served throughout the war with the Fourteenth Kansas Infantry, receiving the commission of lieutenant. When the war had ended, he purchased a farm in Kansas, a tract of land comprising one hundred sixty acres located in Miami county, which he sold in 1867 to the authorities of Miami county to be used for the county infirmary. In 1868. ^Mr. Parish purchased a farm in Cass county, Missouri, as the boundaries were at that time, land now a part of Bates coimty in East Boone township. He engaged extensively in stock raising, keeping both graded and pure bred stock, and succeeded well, being the owner at one time of three hundred twenty acres of choice land in Bates cotmty. W. D. Parish was considered a wealthy man in his day and he was highlv respected and esteemed in his community as an honest, upright, honorable citizen. He died August 26. 1907 and the widowed mother is now making her home at Galena in Chariton county, Kansas. W. D. and Salina Parish were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Laura Bower. Colorado Springs. Colorado; Mrs. Dora Cook, deceased; and W. \\'.. the subject of this review.

In Kansas, W. W. Parish acquired his elementary education and at SedaHa, Missouri, he finished his school work with a most thorough business course. After completing his education, Mr. Parish accepted a position with the Altman-Miller Manufacturing Company as traveling salesman, which position he ably filled for five years. In 1892, he moved on a farm, which he had purchased, in Bates county and for eight years was engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Parish sold his country place in 1900 and moved to Adrian, where he entered the real estate business, in which he was employed at the time of his appointment as postmaster of Adrian, on January 15, 1905. He served faithfully and well nearly nine years as postmaster until August, 1913, at the time the rural routes were being adjusted, examinations were being held for carriers, and the Postal Savings System was being installed, all of which meant an enormous amount of careful, detailed, tedious work. After his term of office had expired, Mr. Parish again turned his attention to the real estate business and in his line of work has been remarkably successful. His business methods, which are very efficient, require that he should do a large amount of traveling, as he handles vast tracts of land and his transactions extend far beyond the confines of Bates county into many dififerent states.

W. W. Parish and Mary A. Hopwood were united in marriage on February 28, 1893. Mrs. Parish is a daughter of Charles and Ruth Hopwood, early settlers of Cass county, Missouri. Charles Hopwood was a native of England. He was educated in the schools of London and was a master mechanic and skilled architect. To Mr. and Mrs. Hopwood were born five children: Mrs. Emma Bouse, Westphalia, Kansas; Mrs. W. W. Parish, the wife of the subject of this review; John P., of Lane, Kansas; Charles W., Harrisonville, Missouri; and Mrs. Sadie Stephens, Harrisonville, Missouri. Mrs. Parish possesses a remarkably tenacious memory and talks most interestingly of the early days in Bates county. She remembers well the time, when she was a little child, that the settlers would drive across the open prairie when the grass was as high as the horses' backs. In those days, no one thought of raising hay, for anyone was privileged to cut as much as he desired out on the prairie. Vividly she recalls the day the first train on the railroad came into Adrian, as the tracks passed through her mother's garden. Mrs. Parish states that the two places, Adrian and Archie, were named in honor of two sons of the railroad contractor. She obtained her education in the district schools of Bates county. To W. W. and Mary A. (Hopwood) Parish have been born three children: Lyman T., who has answered the coun-

Politically, Mr. Parish is a life-long Republican in his belief and he has been an active worker in the ranks of his party for many years, having many different times been sent as delegate to the congressional conventions and taking a keen interest in local politics. Mr. Parish is fraternally affiliated with the Royal Arch Masons and derives much benefit and pleasure from lodge work. He is a most creditable descendant of one of the old colonial families of North Carolina, a grandson of Larkin Parish, an honored pioneer of Indiana, who died in Bates county, Missouri many years ago. Personally, W. W. Parish enjoys great popularity in this part of Missouri and his conduct in all relations of life has been that of the true gentleman. He discharges the duties of a good citizen with commendable fidelity and his influence in the community has always been exerted in behalf of all that is best and noble in life. The people of Bates county consider Mr. and Mrs. Parish one of their best families and Adrian is proud to claim them as its own representative citizens.

Edward Crabb, late esteemed resident of Osage township, was a man of pronounced individuality and industry who achieved a splendid success in Bates county as a farmer, pioneer breeder of thoroughbred livestock, and citizen. He was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, December 24, 1846, and died at his home in Osage township, this county, May 18, 1910. He was a son of Daniel and Margaret (Bailey) Crabb, natives of Ohio who were pioneers of Tazewell county, Illinois, being the third family to settle in that county. Edward Crabb was reared and educated in his native county in Illinois, and in December of 1869, came to Cass county, Missouri, where he remained until the spring of 1876. He disposed of his farm in Cass county in that year and made a purchase of land in Osage township which he developed into one of the finest and richest tracts in Bates county. He improved his place with an imposing farm residence, set out trees and otherwise beautified the place. Mr. Crabb accumulated a section of land in this township and was accounted one of the well-to-do farmers of his locality. Bates county owes much to him as having been one of the pioneers in the introduction of purebred livestock into the community. He was a great lover of horses and for a number of years was engaged in breeding standard bred and trotting and pacing animals, as well as Percheron draft horses, a vocation in which he achieved a pronounced success and which won him a wide and enviable reputation. The Crabb stables produced some very fine animals, and the "Redwood Redman" breed of racers originated by W. H. Gotten of Osage township, whose progeny became famous throughout the country, were bred from a dam raised by Mr. Crabb and sold to Mr. Gotten. The history of the track achievements of the descendants of this dam and of "Redwood Redman," her son, form an epoch in the history of track racing which has rarely been surpassed for record breaking and fast time. Mr. Grabb brought to his farm the first imported English Shire horses ever seen in Bates county. For many years he was an extensive breeder of thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle and handled several hundred head of cattle yearly. When Mr. Grabb came to Bates county, he was comparatively a poor man. He bought his first quarter section of land with the assistance of his father but it was not many years until he had made good in his own right and by his own endeavors. Mr. Grabb was an exhibitor of his fine live stock at the county fairs and won many premiums upon the excellence of his stock at fairs in western Missouri and Kansas.

Edward Grabb was married January 30, 1870, to Miss Maria Thomas, born in Wayne county, Indiana, May 15, 1846, a djiughter of Edward S. and Lorena (Kidwell) Thomas, natives, respectively of Ohio and Indiana. Edward and Maria Grabb were married at Pleasant Hill, Missouri, where the future Mrs. Grabb was visiting her sister. The children born of this union are: Mrs. Lillian Riley, Kansas Gity, has four children - Lillian, Edward E., Alice, and Edith; J. Rolla, sheriff of Phillips county, Montana, married Jessie Wilson of Bates county, and has one daughter, Rollive; Daniel, owner of the old home place in Osage township; and Mrs. Margaret Gibson, Nevada, Missouri, has a son, Edward; and Edward, deceased. Mrs. Edward Grabb resides on the old home place with her son, Daniel. She is a member of the Ghurch of Ghrist, Scientist. The late Edward Grabb was a Democrat in politics but his home was first in his heart and mind and he was a devoted husband and kind father to his family. He was also a member of the Ghurch of Ghrist, Scientist, and was possessed of a kindly, generous nature, hospitable to the core, honorable and upright in all of his dealings, enterprising and ever ready to lend his assistance to worthy projects for the good of his adopted county. "Lest we forget," this memoir is intended to perpetuate his name among those of his fellows and forever give Edward Grabb a foremost place among the builders of Bates county.

1876 on the Crabb homestead in Osage township and has lived all of his life on the home place. He was educated in the district and Rich Hill public schools and is farming a large tract of three hundred fourteen acres which he owns. He is an extensive feeder of live stock and handles from one hundred to two hundred head of cattle annually besides raising about one hundred fifty hogs each year. He was associated with his father in his breeding enterprises for a number of years and learned to be a thorough livestock man. Mr. Crabb is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Modern Woodmen lodges of Rich Hill and is a genial, approachable citizen who is highly popular among his many friends and associates.

R. A. Murray, proprietor of the Adrian Cheese Factory of Adrian, Missouri, is one of the most prominent and successful dairy men in this section of Missouri. Mr. Murray was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, a son of William and Elizabeth Murray. The birthplace of R. A. Murray, Oxford, Canada, is the center of the great dairy industry in Ontario. His grandfather, Alexander Murray, was a native of Scotland.

Mr. Murray, whose name introduces this review, attended school at Oxford until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the dairy business in the employ of the Strathallen Butter & Cheese Company, serving as an apprentice for three years. At that time the Strathallen Butter & Cheese Company received sixty thousand pounds of milk daily. Mr. Murray then entered Guelph Agricultural College and Dairy School, from which institution he graduated in the class of 1895. After completing college, he assumed charge of a cheese and butter factory owned by an English company in Liverpool, England, and at the same time attended the Strathroy Dairy School, from which he graduated in 1898. In the spring of the same year, he resigned his position as manager of the factory owned by the English company and located in Richland county, Wisconsin, at Richland City. He well recalls his first experience in and impressions of Richland City. He arrived a total stranger in the city and was at once sighted and accosted by two tenacious cabmen, who represented the two leading hotels of the city - the Park Hotel and the Mitchell House - and as he saw no method of escape but to choose one of the two cabs he climbed into the one driven by the more respectful of the drivers, and he was taken to the Mitchell House. After the clerk of the hotel had extracted an outrageous amount of Mr. Murray's hardearned cash, a room was assigned the newcomer in the third story of the building, a back room having no ventilation, no sunlight, and no heat. Here R. A. Murray uncomfortably and unhappily spent his first night in Richland City - the longest night probably he has ever experienced. He was up and out with the first beams of the morning light and on reaching the city streets the first sight which attracted his attention was a team of mules hitched to a wagon heavily loaded with furniture which were foundered and were floundering in mud. Mr. Murray's first day in Richland City was haunted by his first cheerless impressions and the day was "cold and dark and dreary." He is not the type of man to be easily daunted, but the rare kind that "sticks," and in spite of a very discouraging welcome, Mr. Murray succeeded well at Richland City. At the time he located there, there was but one cheese factory in the entire county and he opened the second one. At the present time, in 1918, there are seventy-two cheese factories, fifty-four creameries, and three condenseries in Richland county, Wisconsin, making this county one of the foremost in the dairy industry. It is Mr. Murray's firm belief that Bates county, Missouri, will in the near future develop like interests.

In 1901, R. A. Murray graduated from the Madison Dairy School, at Madison, Wisconsin. He won, shortly afterward, the gold medal at the Cheese Makers' Convention in Wisconsin for the best cheese, scoring ninety-nine and one-fourth points. Mr. Murray later operated the Boaz Cheese Factory at Boaz, Wisconsin. In 1902, he purchased a factory at Yuba, Wisconsin, where he remained four and a half years. When he assumed control of the establishment, the factory was taking in four thousand gallons of milk daily and after he had owned it for several months, the factory was handling thirty thousand gallons of milk daily. Mr. Murray purchased another plant in 1908, a factory located in Michigan, of which he disposed in 1912, when he and his wife began an extended trip covering two years. December 28, 1914, Mr. Murray assumed charge of the Prairie City plant in Bates county and on November 1, 1916 located at xA.drian and has since been engaged in the manufacture of cheese in this city. He is now owner of the Adrian Cheese Factory at Adrian.

The marriage of R. A. Murray and Maude Finch was solemnized in 1902. Mrs. Murray is a daughter of Andrew and Louise Finch, of Dorchester Station, Ontario, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Murray are highly respected and very popular in the best social circles of Adrian and of Bates county and they have a large number of friends and a wide acquaintanceship throughout the country.

Farmers Lumber Company of Adrian, Missouri erected the building and sold it to R. A. Murray for four thousand dollars. The factory has prospered from the beginning and is now receiving the hearty support of the dairymen of the community. During the month of August, 1917, forty-seven cents v^as paid a pound for butterfat to all w^ho delivered their milk at the factory, while those farmers who shipped their milk elsewhere received but thirty-seven cents.

Mr. Murray's methods of work are extremely interesting and instructive. He places the milk in a huge vat, having a capacity of seven hundred gallons, and provided with steam heat, and this milk is kept at a temperature of one hundred four degrees for an hour and a half, at which time the curd is tested. In testing the curd, Mr. Murray presses a handful of it together until it resembles a tile in shape and putty in consistency and, after heating an iron rod, touches the hot iron to the curd and closely observes how the tiny threads were formed, when the curd was pulled away from the hot iron to which it was sticking, and also the odor which resulted from the burning. It smells then very much like burnt hair, which means that it requires twenty more minutes of cooking before it gives forth an odor like that of toasted cheese. The building is painted white throughout the interior and all the floors are of concrete. Purity and cleanliness reign everywhere within and all the openings of the building are well screened. The whey, that which remains after the curd has been extracted, which George Eliot describes in "Adam Bede" as possessing "a flavor so delicate that one can hardly distinguish it from an odor, and with that soft, gliding warmth that fills one's imagination with a still, happy dreaminess," valued highly in England as a beverage, has considerable food value and from it large cheese factories make what is known as "Premost" cheese. The Adrian Cheese Factory pumps the whey into a large tank and it is taken back home by the farmer, who feeds it to his hogs. Eighty-five per cent, of the weight of the milk, wdiich the farmer brings to the factory, is returned to him in whey. At the time of this writing in 1918, the dairy farmer is receiving two dollars per hundred pounds for his milk and the whey returned to him. There is no doubt that the Adrian Cheese Factory is destined in the very near future to be one of the largest and most important industries in western Missouri.

Dr. John R. Hull, a successful dentist of Adrian, Missouri, is one of the prominent citizens of Bates county. Dr. Hull was born July 19, 1878 near Knob Noster, Missouri, a son of Frank and Louisa Hull. His

In 1894, Dr. John R. Hull entered Butler Academy and for four years was a student at this institution. After completing the academic course. Doctor Hull went to Los Angeles, California, where he entered the mercantile business and for eighteen months conducted a grocery store. He then returned to Butler, Missouri and in 1900 matriculated at Western Dental College, Kansas City, Missouri, from which college he graduated with the class of 1903. Dr. John R. Hull began the practice of dentistry associated with his brother, Dr. J. T. Hull, of Butler, and for one year was engaged in the practice of his profession at Butler. In 1904, Dr. John R. Hull opened his office in the First National Bank building at Adrian and in this city has since been successfully employed in dental work. His office is one of the best and most completely equipped dental offices in Bates county and Doctor Hull possesses great natural ability, excellent training, and a world of patience. He is a member of the Western District Dental Society, of which he has served as secretary, of the executive council of the Missouri State Dental Association, and of the National Dental Association. He does not permit himself to fall behind the times in his profession, but by close study and careful, thoughtful research keeps well abreast of this most progressive age in all matters relating to the dental science, perusing thoughtfully the best professional literature of the day.

The marriage of Dr. John R. Hull and Josephine Walter, a daughter of Henry W. and Mary E. Walter, one of the leading pioneer families of Bates county, Missouri, was solemnized November 29, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Walter came to Bates county in 1867 among the first settlers and experienced all the countless privations and hardships of pioneer life. They obtained their supplies, in the early days, from Pleasant Hill. Mr. Walter died in 1897 and the widowed mother makes her home at Adrian, Missouri. Dr. and Mrs. Hull reside in Adrian, where they have a beautiful home, an attractive, modern bungalow. Doctor Hull is also owner of a farm, comprising eighty acres of land, located on the Adrian and Butler road. He takes much pleasure in overseeing the work of his country place and is interested in both general farming and stock raising. His farm is one of the splendid stock farms of Mound township, conveniently located, abundantly watered, and productive. Dr. and Mrs. Hull are worthy and valued members of the Methodist church.

Fraternally, Doctor Hull is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights Templair, the Eastern Star, the Iviiights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America. He takes an active part and deep interest in lodge work and is past Master Mason, past Patron of the Eastern Star, past Chancellor and Commander of the Knights of Pythias, and ex-secretary of the Modern Woodmen of America.

In his relations with his fellowmen, professional, business, or social, Doctor Hull's conduct has been open and straightforward, his integrity unassailable, his actions those of a true gentleman, possessing to a marked degree sincerity and purity of motive. The nature of his professional duties and business enterprises affords him little time to devote to r-ocial affairs, but he is personally one of the most amiable and genial of men. Both the doctor and Mrs. Hull are held in the highest respect and esteem in Adrian.

Edward H. Wyatt, a retired farmer and stockman of Adrian, Missouri, is one of Bates county's prosperous and most highly respected citizens. Mr. Wyatt is a native of Ohio. He was born in 1855, a son of Charles and Harriet (Henry) Wyatt, natives and life-long residents of Ohio. Charles W^yatt was a son of John Wyatt, of Ohio, and Harriet (Henry) Wyatt was a daughter of Matthew Henry, of Ohio. CharlCv- Wyatt was a member of the teaching profession in his native state, being employed in teaching in the public schools and also in teaching music. He was ruling elder of the Presbyterian church and superintendent of the Amesville Presbyterian Sunday School for many years and choir leader for at least a score of years. He was the owner of a splendid farm, a tract of land comprising five hundred acres, in Athens county, Ohio and was engaged extensively in stock raising. Charles Wyatt was considered a wealthy man in his day and a very successful citizen. To Charles and Harriet (Henry) Wyatt were born ten children, eight of whom are now living: Edward H., the subject of this review; C. E., Lawton, Oklahoma; W. P., Athens, Ohio; Mrs. Cora M. McCune, on a farm near Adrian, Missouri; Charles, Amesville, Ohio; Mrs. Mary McDaniel, Amesville, Ohio; Emma, Amesville, Ohio; and Mrs. Lucy Stires, Guysville, Ohio.

Brown, of Athens county, Ohio. To this union has been born one child, a son, who is now hving: George B., who is general manager of the Farmers Elevator Company of Adrian, Missouri, married Lulu Steele of Warrensburg and they have two sons: George Steele Wyatt and Dugald Edward Wyatt. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt are consistent members and workers of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Wyatt has been ruling elder of the Fairview Presbyterian church for many years. They reside in Adrian, where they have a most pleasant and comfortable home.

E. H. Wyatt and his brother, A. T. Wyatt, came from Ohio to Missouri in 1881 and purchased a herd of one thousand sheep and engaged in the sheep raising industry in Bates county. Open prairie furnished an abundance of grazing territory in those days, for one might drive for miles and miles in this section of the state and not encounter a single bit of fencing. The WVatt brothers purchased tracts of land at different times and constantly added to their holdings until they owned a vast tract comprising one thousand acres. After some time, they disposed of their herd of sheep and devoted their time and energies to general farming and stock raising. They had bought their land in some instances for as little as five dollars an acre. A. T. Wyatt finally decided to leave Missouri and settle in Kansas and E. H. Wyatt was left to continue the work alone. He is now owner of a farm in Bates county, a place embracing four hundred eighty acres of land, which he rents. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Adrian, Missouri, in the Farmers Elevator Supply & Manufacturing Company, and in the Farmers Lumber Company of Adrian, Missouri.

The life-story of E. H. Wyatt has been the story of a worker, of a busy man of afifairs, of a Christian gentleman, whose ideal in life has been to worthily discharge his duty toward the Master and his fellowmen as he sees and understands it. There are few better types of the enterprising, "self-made" business men in Bates county than Mr. Wyatt. From small beginnings, by prudence, industry, and perseverance, and the ability of the pioneer to conquer all discouraging obstacles, he has succeeded in carving a name that shall endure as long as the history of Bates county is written and achieving a success in life that should be an inspiration to the young men of the rising generation. And now, in the eventide, surrounded by everything calculated to make the remainder of his earthly sojourn agreeable and pleasant, E. H. Wyatt can enjoy the consciousness that all that he has and all that he is he has justly, honestly, honorably earned by his own personal exertions.

William C. Hedden. - For over fifty-two years, William C. Hedden has resided in the Fairview neighborhood of Osage township. He is one of the best known of the Bates county "old timers," and has become wealthy as a tiller of the soil in this county. Mr. Hedden is a large land-owner, his home place comprising two hundred twenty acres of splendid, rich prairie soil which is one of the finest improved places in Bates county. The first home of Mr. Hedden in Osage township, was a story and a half affair of two rooms, to which various additions and improvements have been added until he has an imposing nine-room house which sits on a rise of land west of the roadway and which is reached by a driveway bordered by magnificent maple trees which have grown from seed planted years ago by Mr. Hedden. When Mr. Hedden made his first purchase of land in March of 1871, a tract of two hundred acres at a cost of five dollars an acre, the country round about was a vast prairie with but few trees in sight. Now, his home is situated in a beautiful setting of giant trees which he has caused to grow where not a tree stood before. Mr. Hedden also owns a farm of one hundred forty acres across the line in Vernon county. The view from the front door of the Hedden home is a very attractive one, the fertile prairie stetching as far as the eye can reach and dotted here and there with beautiful farmsteads and the cities of Rich Hill and Nevada can be seen in the distance. As advancing age has compelled his relinquishment of the arduous duties of the farm, Mr. Hedden has turned over its management to others younger and more able to till the large acreage and he is now living in comfortable retirement in his pleasant home, his interesting diversion being the weekly letters which he writes to the "Rich Hill Mining Review," a pleasant occupation which has been his enjoyment under the pseudonym of "Gabe" for over thirty years.

W. C. Hedden was born February 22, 1844, in Shelby county, Kentucky, the son of Lee and Susan (Moreland) Hedden, who were natives of Kentucky. When eighteen years of age young Hedden enlisted (1862) in Company D, Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, and served with the Union forces on provost duty in the Kentucky mountain region for one year. He was honorably discharged from the service in 1863. In 1866 the entire family came to Bates county, and Lee Hedden settled in the southwest part of Osage township, dying on his home place in 1878. The Moreland family came to this county and settled in Osage township in 1867. Mrs. Hedden, mother of the subject of this review, departed this life in 1876. There were three children in the family of which

William C. Hedden

William C. was the eldest, the others being Mary, wife of J. A. Borron, former well-known residents of Osage township, both of whom are now deceased; Florence, wife of D. E. Jarnette, Sheridan, Wyoming. W. C. Hedden was married October 5, 1865 in old Kentucky, to Mary E. Yates, who was born May 3, 1847, in Kentucky, a daughter of Enoch and Matilda (Watts) Yates, who accompanied the Hedden family to Missouri in 1866 and made a settlement just over the southern boundary line in Vernon county. For the first five years of his residence in Missouri, Mr. Hedden and his wife made their home with the Yates family. The children born to W. C. and Mary E. Hedden are as follow: W. E. Hedden, born December 24, 1866, lives at Moscow, Idaho; J. W. Hedden, was born November 7, 1868, lives at Sedalia, Missouri, where he follows the business of cement contractor; E. L., a farmer in Vernon county, born April 20, 1873; Susan M., born January 21, 1875, died July 16, 1887; C. A., now managing the Hedden home place, born September 29, 1879; one child died in infancy; C. R. Hedden, Sheridan, Wyoming, born April 17, 1884. C. A. Hedden married Loma Griggs, and has two children: Ruth, and Harold. W. E. Hedden married Jennie Welch and has seven children: Lois, Raymond, Susie, Fred, Forrest, George, and Catherine. J. W. Hedden married Lillis Estes and has three children : Juanita, Lawrence, and Minor. E. L. Hedden married Hattie Hanley, and has two children: Carl, and Clyde. The mother of the foregoing children of W. C. Hedden died September 11, 1913. She was a good and faithful wife and kind mother to her children. She and Mr. Hedden became -Christians at the same time and Mrs. Hedden was a devout member of the Baptist church. Mr. Hedden has been a life-long Democrat and has taken considerable interest in the affairs of his party during his long residence in Bates county. He is widely known and universally respected by all who know him. As the Fairview correspondent of the "Rich Hill Mining Review" he has achieved more than a local reputation as an able writer who employs the vernacular in presenting the doings of the folks of the Fairview neighborhood in a more or less philosophic and humorous vein. In fact his fame has spread over Missouri to a large extent and the familiar title of "Gabe" which is always appended to his articles appearing each week in the "Mining Review" is known to thousands of interested readers who are always entertained by the quaint sayings and productions from the pen of the Fairview correspondent.

William F. Duvall, president of the Duvall-Percival Trust Company of Butler, Missouri, president of the Farmers Bank, is one of the prominent and influential citizens of Bates county. He was born May 1, 1868, a son of William Penn and Sarah J. (Whisler) Duvall, both of whom were natives of Highland county, Ohio, the former a descendant of Marquis Duvall, a native of France, who settled in Maryland in the early colonial days. William Penn Duvall came to Missouri in 1868 with his family and they located on a tract of land two miles south of Virginia, a farm which the father purchased and improved and where he resided for twenty years. Mr. Duvall, Sr. moved from the farm near Virginia to a country place adjoining Butler on the west, where he lived until 1895 and then retired from active participation in farm work and moved to Butler, in which city he was an honored and highly respected resident at the time of his death in 1917 at the age of nearly eighty years. Mrs. Duvall, widow of William Penn Duvall, still resides at Butler, one of the most esteemed of Bates county's pioneer women. To William Penn and Sarah J. (Whisler) Duvall were born the following children: Laura B., an instructor of voice culture at Chicago, Illinois; the second daughter died in infancy; William F., the subject of this review; Mrs. J. A. Nicholas, of Pomona, Los Angeles county, California; J. B., vice-president of the Duvall-Percival Trust Company of Butler, Missouri ; Arthur, treasurer of the Duvall-Percival Trust Company of Butler, Missouri; and Homer, cashier of the Farmers Bank of Butler. Missouri.

In the public schools of Bates county, Missouri, William F. Duvallreceived his elementary education, which was supplemented by a thorough course at Butler Academy, from which he graduated, after which he completed a business course at Butler Commercial College. When he left the last named institution. Mr. Duvall accepted a position as bookkeeper at Sherman, Texas, which place in the business world he resigned after one year and returned to Bates county to enter the teaching profession and for one year was employed as teacher in the public schools of this county. Mr. Duvall then entered the real estate and abstract business at Butler and had been thus engaged for two years when, in 1891, he associated himself with H. E. Percival, of Burlington, Vermont, in the organization of the Duvall-Percival Trust Company, which is now one of the largest, best, and most aggressive financial institutions in this part of the state.

united in marriage. Mrs. Duvall was a daughter of T. W. and Sarah J. Childs, of Butler, Missouri. To William F. and Jessie S. (Childs) Duvall were born two sons : Thomas Warren, who is a lieutenant in the army of the United States and is located, at the time of this writing in 1918, at Camp Funston, Kansas; and William Leslie, a student in the Butler High School. The mother died in June, 1899. The marriage of William F. Duvall and Regina Rosser was solemnized in December, 1900. Regina (Rosser) Duvall is a daughter of W. F. and Marian Rosser, of Butler, Missouri. Mrs. Duvall's mother is now deceased and her father is a well-known resident of Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Duvall reside at Butler, their home being located on the corner of Fort Scott and High streets.

William F. Duvall has capably served as mayor of the city of Butler. He was elected in 1900 on the Republican ticket, overcoming a Democratic majority of one hundred fifty votes by one hundred fifty votes. He was elected president of the Bates County Drainage Board in 1914 and has been twice reelected and is still a member of the board at the time of this writing. Mr. Duvall is the owner of the Duvall ranch, a farm comprising sixteen hundred acres of land, an unimproved, uncultivated, timber-covered tract at the time of his purchase in 1911. The larger part of the ranch has been cleared, leveled, tiled, placed under cultivation, and there are now six sets of improvements on the place. A lateral ditch of the large main drainage ditch touches the ranch on the east. Mr. Duvall has been interested in growing alfalfa on his place and, finding the crop a very valuable and profitable one, he has been instrumental in getting other men interested in alfalfa growing. He is one of the most intelligent and progressive agriculturists in the state as well as a successful efficient business man and financier.

The Duvall-Percival Trust Company of Butler, Missouri, was established December 1, 1891 by the association of William F. Duvall of Butler, Missouri and H. E. Percival of Burlington, Vermont under the firm name of Duvall & Percival. They paid in as capital one thousand dollars each, making the capital two thousand dollars, and their first book, containing a record of their business, is a little brown book, still in existence, about eight by twelve inches and less than one inch thick. The business w^as continued under this management for three years when J. B. Duvall, a brother of W. F. Duvall, associated himself with the firm and the business was continued under the same name, Duvall & Percival. The capital was gradually increased as their business demanded it and the business was carried on under the same management until the capital had increased to fifty thousand dollars, and on March 1, 1907, the Duvall-Percival Trust Company was incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. The ofificers were : William F. Duvall, president; J. B. Duvall. vice-president; Arthur Duvall, treasurer; and with Homer Duvall and W. D. Yates as additional members of the board of directors. This management continued from March 1, 1907, constantly adding to their business and building up their surplus, until June 1, 1912, being five years from the time of incorporation, when the surplus had increased to fifty thousand dollars, the same amount of the capital. During this time, the Duvall-Percival Trust Company had paid ten per cent, dividend. The business of the company had gradually increased until it was found necessary, on June 1, 1915, to increase the capital stock. The reports showed at that time fifty thousand dollars capital; fifty thousand dollars, surplus; and forty thousand dollars, undivided profits. The capital stock was then, on June 1, 1915, increased to two hundred thousand dollars, leaving a surplus fund of fifty thousand dollars and at the present time, in 1918, the capital stock of the Duvall-Percival Trust Company is two hundred thousand dollars; surplus, fifty thousand dollars ; and undivided profits, twenty-five thousand dollars and the company has continued under the same management ever since its incorporation, the present board of directors being, as follow: W. F. Duvall, president; J. B. Duvall, vice-president; Arthur Duvall, treasurer; and Homer Duvall and W. D. Yates. The trust company has now outstanding some ten million dollars in farm loans in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The annual business in new loans amounts to one and a half million to two million dollars, aside from the renewals on one and a half million dollars of maturing loans each year.

In January 1907, Mr. Duvall was elected president of the Farmers Bank of Bates county, one of the most important financial institutions of western Missouri which has had a wonderful growth since its inception in 1889. This bank was first organized in that year by Bates county farmers and was promoted by D. N. Thompson who had associated with him : J. K. Rosier, Dr. J. Everingham, J. J. McKee. and others. The bank was continued under the original management until 1906 when the controlling interest iii the bank passed to the Duvall brothers of Butler, Missouri. Under their capable and ambitious management it has prospiered as never before and has taken high rank among the banks of Bates county and western Missouri. In January, 1906, W. F. Duvall was elected cashier and held this position until the following year when he was elected president of the bank. Homer Duvall was then elected to the post of cashier.

The Farmers Bank was started with a capital of twenty thousand dollars. In January, 1906 the capital was fifty thousand dollars and surplus of ten thousand dollars, and the deposits were around two hundred thousand dollars. Since that time both capital and deposits have increased with leaps and bounds until at the present time, the capital is fifty thousand dollars, surplus fifty thousand dollars and undivided profits ten thousand dollars. Its deposits are over one-half million dollars. During eight years time from 1906 to 1914 the bank added forty thousand dollars to its surplus and on December 1, 1914, was passed as a roll of honor bank by reason of its surplus being equal to its capital.

The present of^cers, January, 1918 are: W. F. Duvall, president; O. A. Heinlein, vice-president; Homer Duvall, cashier; H. H. Lesee, assistant cashier; the directors being as follow: E. A. Bennett, J". J. McKee, O. A. Heinlein, Clark Wix, J. W. Choate, Frank Holland, F. N. Drennen, W. F. Duvall, Joseph M. McKibben, T. S. Harper, J.. B. Duvall, and Dr. T. W. Foster.

James E. Williams, postmaster of Butler, ex-city treasurer, ex-councilman, and ex-mayor of Butler and the present proprietor of the Williams' Grocery in this city, is a native of Bates county, Missouri, a member of a well-known and prominent pioneer family of this section of the state. Mr. Williams was born in 1866 near Altona, son of James T. and Elizabeth (Quisenberry) Williams, the former, a native of Kentucky and the latter, of Sedalia, Missouri. James T. W^illiams'came to Missouri, when he was a boy twelve years of age, with his parents and the Williams family settled on a farm in Pettis county. In 1854, the son, James T., came to Bates county and located on a tract of land near Altona. He went to Sedalia at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War and for two years served with the Confederates in the regiment commanded by Generals Price and Shelby. After the conflict had ended, Mr. Williams returned to Bates county in 1865 and resumed his interest in agricultural pursuits. He took an active and prominent part in public and political affairs and for a long time was one of the leading and most influential men in his township, filling with much credit to himself and universal satisfaction to his constituents a number of offices within the gift of the voters of the township. To James (34)

T, and Elizabeth (Quisenberry) Williams were born six children: Mrs. Mary Wright, of Kansas City, Missouri, the widow of Dr. L. M. Wright, a late prominent physician of Butler, Missouri; Mrs. Bettie Harrison, Adrian, Missouri; Z. J., who was for many years one of the leading businessmen of Butler, whose death occurred in Texas in January, 1916 and interment was made in the cemetery at Butler; Mrs. Jennie Bowden, Sherman, Texas; James E., the subject of this sketch; and Mrs. Ella Ewing, who is deceased and whose remains are interred in the cemetery at Butler. The mother died in 1911 and the father in 1914 and both parents were laid to rest in the cemetery at Butler.

James E. Williams attended school in Altona- and Butler. He is a graduate of the Butler Academy and of Weaver & Dever Business College at Butler. Since he was twenty years of age, Mr. Williams has made his own way in the world. He began his mercantile career in the employ of his brother, Z. J., who for several years conducted a grocery establishment in Butler. After a few years, the two brothers formed a partnership and added hardware and implements to their stock of merchandise and this firm continued in business fof twenty years, when James E. purchased Z. J.'s interest in the store and the latter moved to Texas. James E. Williams has continued the business here since that time. He is not only prominent in business circles in Bates county but he has been a dominant factor in the political life of Butler and has filled several important positions in the city government. Mr. Williams served eight years as chairman of the Democratic committee, one term as city treasurer, ten years as city councilman, and two terms as mayor of Butler. During his term in the mayor's office, the first paving in this city was laid around the public square and a walk made to the cemetery. In April, 1914, James E. Williams was appointed postmaster of Butler and, at the time of this writing in 1917, he is now serving his city in that capacity.

In 1895, James E. Williams was united in marriage with Susie Steele, daughter of John and Martha (Baker) Steele, both of whom are now deceased. John Steele died at Butler, Missouri in April, 1917. He was a Union veteran of the Civil War and an active participant in the work of the Grand Army of the Republic at Butler in late years. Mr. Steele was a worthy and consistent member of the Baptist church and he ever remained loyal and true to the beautiful faith, the teachings of which were so nobly exemplified in his life. To James E. and Susie (Steele) Williams have been born three children: James S., who is now a student at the State University at Columbia, Missouri; Walter E., a senior in the Butler High School and a member of the class which graduates in 1918; and Martha, who is a pupil in the graded schools of Butler. The Williams home is in the city of Butler at 206 Havanna street.

For many years, Mr. Williams has been closely connected with the business interests of Butler and with important municipal enterprises: He is a practical man of affairs, possessing superior executive ability, and as a citizen he stands far above reproach.

Charles E. Fortune, the well known county recorder of Bates county, is one of the county's most capable officials. Mr. Fortune is a native of Illinois. He was born in Cass county in 1875, the oldest of three children born to his parents, Michael and Elizabeth (Kirscher) Fortune, the former, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and the latter, of Germany. Their children are, as follow: Oliver C, Kansas City, Missouri; Julia, the wife of Glenn Earl, Kansas City, Missouri ; and Charles E., the subject of this review. Michael Fortune was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1838. He came to Missouri from Illinois in 1880 and located at Freeman in Cass county, where he entered the mercantile business. One year later, Mr. Fortune moved to Rich Hill and engaged in the grain business in addition to following his trade as barber. For the past twenty-two years, he has been employed by the government as tax collector in Rich Hill. Michael Fortune is now seventy-nine years of age, but he is still as alert and active physically and mentally as many men twenty years his junior.

In the public schools of Rich Hill, Missouri, Charles E. Fortune received his education. He assisted his father in the feed and grain business and did a man's work when still a mere lad. Mr. Fortune studied and mastered telegraphy and became an expert operator and for eight years was employed in this capacity by the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, being located for a few months at Panama, Missouri and then at Rich Hill. In the election of November, 1914, Charles E. Fortune was elected county recorder of Bates county and he is the present incumbent in this office, at the time of this writing in 1917. Mr. Fortune has fully justified the choice of the people of the county, proving himself to be a thoroughly trustworthy and efficient official.

July 22, 1909, Charles E. Fortune and Elmira Fry, daughter of Corbin Fry, a late prominent citizen of Rich Hill, were united in marriage and to this union has been born one child; a daughter, Carolyn E., who is now seven years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Fortune reside in Butler at 210

As a citizen and public official, Charles E. Fortune stands high in his community. As a business man, he maintains an honorable record and he deserves much credit for the rapid strides he has made from an humble position in his father's feed and grain store to one of influence and affluence in the community. His career has been marked by fidelity to duty and upright, straightforward business methods.

Daniel Cresap. - The career of Daniel Cresap and his devoted wiie, residing on their large estate in Osage township in the evening of their long and eventful lives, is an interesting one and involves an account of hardships undergone and difficulties overcome, the mere confronting of which would have daunted souls less brave than Mr. and Mrs. Cresap. Through all of his career Mr. Cresap has been handicapped by the early loss of a limb, but his indomitable courage and will, and restless energy combined with the assistance of his noble wife have carried him onward and upward until he is now one of the largest land-owners in Bates county. The Cresap estate comprises seven hundred sixty acres in a single body in Osage township, all of which is in cultivation but two hundred forty acres which are used for pasture land. A resume of the output of crops from this large tract in 1917 gives the reader an idea of the magnitude of the farming operations carried on from year to year on the Cresap place. In that year there were one hundred forty acres of corn harvested which produced an average of forty bushels to the acre; thirty-five acres of wheat were sown which produced fifteen bushels to the acre; one hundred acres of oats yielded thirty-live bushels per acre ; one hundred twenty acres of hay were cut which yielded over a ton to the acre. Mr. Cresap now rents out the greater part of his land. He formerly handled hundreds of cattle yearly. He is a real pioneer of Bates county and has lived here since July, 1866, and has resided on his home place since March, 1878. Mr. Cresap bought his home place of one hundred sixty acres in 1878, at a cost of five dollars per acre and has been continually investing in land since that time, paying all the way to twelve dollars and fifty cents an acre.

Daniel Cresap is descended from one of the oldest and most prominent of the American families. He was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, February 20, 1835. He is the son of Daniel (IV) and Margaret (Humes) Cresap, the former of whom was a native of .Virginia and the latter of

Daniel Cresap, Sr

Pennsylvania. Daniel, Sr., was a son of Robert Cresap, a native of Virginia. The genealogical record of the Cresap family compiled some years ago states that the founder of the family in America was Thomas Cresap (I), who was born at Shipton, Yorkshire, England, in 1702 and died at Oldtown, Maryland, in 1789. He was a colonel of American soldiers in the Indian wars and probably served in the French and Indian War. His son, Daniel (II) was born in 1727 and died in 1798. Robert (III) was the son of Daniel (II) and was born in 1765. Members of this family have occupied prominent places in American history. Michael Cresap, a son of the original ancestor, Thomas Cresap, was an associate of George Washington in his surveying expeditions and was accused by Logan the Indian chief, with having brought about the killing of Chief Logan's family. In 1854, the parents of Daniel Cresap moved to Piatt county, Illinois, and lived on rented land. At this period the elder Cresap was an old man and his sons tilled his farm. The children of the family were: Hamilton, deceased; Benjamin Franklin, a captain of a company in the One Hundred Seventh Regiment of Illinois Infantry during the Civil War, now deceased; Mary, deceased; Daniel, subject of this review; and Wesley, deceased.

At the early age of thirteen years, Daniel Cresap met with an accident which caused the loss of his right limb, and thus seriously handicapped through life he has managed to achieve success. He was a young man when the family located in Illinois in 1854. Two years later, in 1856, he made the trip to Texas, and was engaged in the cattle business in that state when the Civil War broke out. He lost all of his possessions and narrowly escaped with his life in making his way out of the South back to the old home in Illinois. He boarded a steamboat at Jefferson, on the bayou on Red river and made his way up the Mississippi as far as Memphis when the boat was stopped by the Confederate authorities and not allowed to proceed further. He made his way by train through Tennessee and Kentucky to Cairo, Illinois. The train was loaded with northern refugees like himself and he landed at Cairo practically penniless, and was forced to borrow a dollar to pay his fare home. During the war he managed his brother's farm near Champaign, Illinois and saved money to the extent of two thousand dollars. This fund, he brought with him to Bates county, Missouri, in 1866, placed one thousand five hundred dollars in the bank at Butler and lost it all in five days by the failure of the bank. He first settled in New Home township at the head of the island on the shores of the Marais des Cygnes where he paid thirteen doUars an acre for land. He built a home on the hill overlooking his land and lived there for fifteen years, and then sold the farm which he had improved at thirteen dollars an acre. All of his fifteen years of hard work had gone for naught. Floods washed away his crops so often that he gave up the hopeless task of trying to even make a living in the flood lands of the river. He came to his present location in 1878, "dead broke." He broke up his first ground with a yoke of oxen and a horse abreast, and he and his faithful wife were hard put to it in order to make ends meet during the first few years in Osage township. Mrs. Cresap worked like a hired hand, sold butter at seven cents a pound, and she and one hired man milked thirteen cows daily. She eked out their slender resources by taking in sewing, doing washing for the neighbors and keeping boarders. Soon the clouds began to lift and prosperity smiled upon them ; the memory of their hard struggles became dimmer and the Cresap farm grew larger and larger and the days of plenty were at hand for this deserving couple who were so ambitious that a little would not content them. Their ambitions have been realized and the splendid farm stretching away from the home which they built on the first quarter section is actual testimony of their achievements.

Mr. Cresap was married on February 25, 1873 to Mary Elizabeth Frazee, who was born September 23, 1843, in Cumberland county, Maryland, a daughter of William and Susan (Kirkpatrick) Frazee, both of whom were members of old American families. In 1847, William Frazee moved to Champaign county, Ohio, where he resided until 1868, and then came to Bates county, Missouri, settling in New Home township. A former ancestor of the Frazees owned a tract of land on Manhattan Island, New York which was leased for a period of ninety-nine years and is still claimed by the descendants of the lessee. William Frazee died in this county, October 3, 1870, aged forty-seven years, eleven months, and fourteen days. Susan Frazee died June 25, 1880. aged fifty-nine years. The Frazee children were: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Cresap of this review; Mrs. Barbara Ellen Black, died in Osage township ; Mrs. Frances Ann De Armond, a widow, residing with her daughter in Pleasanton, Kansas; William Harrison, New Home township, and Mrs. Eliza Jane Johnson, Butler, twins ; Edmond Austin, Bristow, Oklahoma. The children born to Daniel and Mary Elizabeth Cresap are as follow: Susan, wife of V. A. Brundage, Sheridan, Wyoming; Uda, proving up on a homestead near Sheridan, AVyoming; Sara, on a homestead near Arvada,

The nearest trading post for the Cresaps forty years ago was at Fort Scott, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Cresap hauled their wheat and produce to this point. Mrs. Cresap marketed her turkeys, chickens and sweet potatoes at Fort Scott, also. In politics, Mr. Cresap has been a life-long Republican but was identified with the Populist movement when it was at the height of its strength in this section. Mrs. Cresap is a Presbyterian and Mr. Cresap has endeavored all of his long life to live according to the Golden Rule. His creed of living is best expressed by the words, "Do what you know to be right, and don't do what you know to be wrong."

Joseph A. Flammang, the efficient highway engineer and county surveyor of Bates county, Missouri, is one of the widely and favorably known, young citizens of Butler. Mr. Flammang is a native of Henry county. He was born in 1887 at Montrose, a son of N. and Margaret Flammang, who were the parents of six children, as follow: Mrs. Charles Ingram, Franklin, Kansas; N. Flammang, Jr., deceased; Nora, Rich Hill, Missouri; Mrs. M. J. Sturdevant, Herington, Kansas; Joseph A., the subject of this review; and Mary, who died in childhood at the age of four years. N. Flammang, Sr. is a native of Luxemburg and in the old country had mastered the stonemason's trade. He emigrated from his native land about 1873 and came to America, locating first in Minnesota, from which state he moved to Texas, whence he came to Missouri and located at Montrose in 1887. In 1889, the senior Flammang settled in Rich Hill, where he is now residing. During the active years of his long life, which has spanned three score and sixteen years, N. Flammang, Sr. followed his trade as stonemason in connection with farming in his early manhood, but for many years prior to his retirement he was engaged in coal mining. He has never sought or desired official distinction, but has been content to pursue the even tenor of his way in life as a stonemason, farmer, or coal miner, doing good in a quiet, unostentatious manner whenever opportunity presented itself and measuring up to the highest ideals of American citizenship.

Joseph A. Flammang obtained his elementary education in the public schools of Rich Hill, Missouri. He is a graduate of Missouri University in the class of 1910, completing the four years' course in civil engineering and graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Upon leaving the university, Mr. Flammang accepted a position with the Great North- ern Railway Company at Wellington, Washington, which place he held one year, when he was appointed highway engineer of Bates county, Missouri in February, 1911 and was thus obliged to resign his former position. In the election of 1912, Joseph. A. Flammang was elected county surveyor of Bates county and in the election of 1916 was reelected, continuing to satisfactorily fill both positions, that of highway engineer and county surveyor, and, in addition to his ofificial duties, he was employed as chief engineer of the Marais des Cygnes River Drainage project, a ditch which was completed in 1914. The main ditch is twenty-three miles in length and there are seven or eight miles of laterals. Mr. Flammang himself planned the Athol and Lone Oak systems.

Mr. Flammang is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Butler. The true w^estern spirit of progress and enterprise is strikingly exemplified in the busy life of Joseph A. Flammang, a young citizen whose energetic nature and laudable ambition have enabled him to conquer and subdue countless adverse conditions and to advance steadily and rapidly until at the early age of thirty years he has won and still retains one of the most important positions within the gift of the people of Bates county.

Charles R. Bowman, a member of the Bowman & Company Real Estate firm of Butler, Missouri, is one of Bates county's most enterprising citizen. Mr. Bowman is a native of Ohio. He was born January 22, 1873 in Pickaway county, the youngest of ten children born to his parents, Conrad and Ruth (Ritter) Bowman. The father, Conrad Bowman, was born in Germany and at the age of nine years emigrated from the fatherland with his parents and came to America. The Bowmans first located in Virginia and thence Conrad Bowman later went to Pickaway county, Ohio. Ruth (Ritter) Bowman was a native of Winchester, Virginia. The children born to Conrad and Ruth Bowman were, as follow: James, Williamsport, Ohio; John, Mount Sterling, Ohio; David, Pendleton, Oregon; Rachel, the wife of William Hulett, New Holland, Ohio; George, Mount Sterling, Ohio; Frank, Hillsboro, Ohio; Elizabeth, the wife of Caleb Taylor, Mount Sterling, Ohio; Matthias, Mount Sterling, Ohio; Thomas, Cathlamet, Washington; and Charles R., the subject of this review. The mother died in Ohio in 1884 and interment was made in the cemetery at Hebron church. Eleven years after the death of his wife, Conrad Bowman left Ohio and came West, locating on a farm two miles east of Amoret in Bates county, Missouri in 1895. He resided on his Missouri farm for five or six years and then

Charles R. Bowman obtained his education in the public schools of Ohio. When a young man, twenty-four years of age, Mr. Bowman came to Missouri from Ohio and settled in Bates county. He first engaged in farming, in 1897, and for fourteen years followed agricultural pursuits near Amoret. In recent years, he has been interested in the real estate business, in which he was engaged for five years at Amoret. In April, 1914, Mr. Bowman moved to Butler and opened his present office in the American building on the north side of the public square. Charles R. Bowman is a gentleman, a man of pleasing personality and courteous manners, and a "hustler." During the dull season of 1916, he sold forty-three Bates county farms and at the time of this writing, in 1917, he has this year sold thirty-three country places. Mr. Bowman is intensely interested in his work and firmly believes that Bates county farms, at the present prices, comprise the cheapest yet most valuable body of land on this earth today. He handles only Bates county real estate, both farm and city property, but puts his trust and hopes in farm land.

In 1899, Charles R. Bowman w^as united in marriage with Anna Payne, daughter of William and Harriet Payne, at Butler, Missouri. William Payne is now deceased and his widow resides on a farm near Amoret. To Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have been born four children: Mona, w^ho is at present a student in the Butler High School; Pearl, who is a student in the Butler High School; Clyde and Pierce, who are pupils in the graded schools of Butler. The Bowman home is in Butler on North Fulton street. Though Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have been residents of Butler but a very short time, they have made a vast number of friends in this city and have an enviable standing in the city's best social circles.

Mr. Bowman is well known in Bates county as a substantial citizen. He is a man of liberal views and a worker, a member of the large and valuable class who, by deeds rather than words, do so much to build up the country and promote its material and moral interest.

W. H. Holloway, Union veteran, an honored and highly respected pioneer citizen of Butler, Missouri, is a native of Tennessee. Mr. Holloway was born in Monroe county, October 31, 1840, a son of William and Mary H. A. (Peck) Holloway, who were the parents of four children, three of w^hom are now living: Mrs. Sarah M. Clemments, Harrisonville,. Missouri ; Mrs. Cordelia A. Warren, Harrisonville, Missouri;

Mrs. Martha M. Olds, deceased; and W. H., the subject of this review. The mother, Mary H. A. Hohoway, was a daughter of Col. Nicholas S. Peck, of Monroe county, Tennessee. He was a veteran of the War of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. William Holloway came to Missouri from Tennessee among the first settlers and on May 3, 1843 settled near Harrisonville, Cass county. Nine years later, the former died October 2, 1852 and interment was made in the cemetery near Lonetree. Mrs. Holloway departed this life in 1887 and her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Harrisonville.

W. H. Holloway attended school in Harrisonville, Missouri and for two terms, 1850 and 1851, was a pupil of William Jones. Mr. Holloway was a young man, twenty-one years of age, at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War and he served as a member of the state militia at Harrisonville during the conflict from September, 1863 to July, 1865. He and his widowed mother were residing at Harrisonville when General Ewing's famous Order Number 11 was put into effect in 1863. After the war had ended, Mr. Holloway engaged in farming in Cass county until 1868, when he moved to Bates county and entered the nursery business, selling trees and shrubbery for Blair Brothers of Lees Summit for several years and then opened a nursery, about 1873, and until 1895 was engaged in conducting this business. Since that time, he has been employed in buying and selling fruit and in gardening. Mr. Holloway is the owner of two acres of land located within the city limits of Butler at 213 South Broadway street, where he has a pleasant and comfortable home. He purchased this place in 1869. It soon will be a half century since W. H. Holloway came to Butler, Missouri and he has moved his place of residence but twice during all those years. He states that there were not to exceed two dozen people living in Butler, at the time of this writing in 1917, who were residents of this city when he came here, and that estimate includes infants and children as well as adults. Mr. and Mrs. Holloway are the only married couple surviving of those living in Butler in 1868.

March 18, 1868, W. H. Holloway and Nannie A. Woolery were united in marriage. Mrs. Holloway was born in Cooper county, Missouri in 1845, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Wadley) Woolery, both of whom were natives of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Woolery came to Missouri from Kentucky immediately after their marriage and located in Cooper county. Both parents are now deceased and their remains are interred in the cemetery at Dayton in Cass county, Missouri. Mrs.

Holloway has two sisters now living: Mrs. Martha Eddy, Hickory, Missouri; and Mrs. CorneHa Randall, Paonia, Colorado. To W. H. and Nannie A. Holloway have been born three children: Jessie C, the wife of Elmer D. Fuller, Spokane, Washington; Edgar O., who died at the age of fourteen years ; and Harry H., who is a well-known and prominent merchant of Butler, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Holloway celebrated their Golden Wedding A.nniversary, March 18, 1918. Mrs. Holloway has been a noble and worthy helpmeet and deserves much praise and credit for her constant faithfulness and sympathy as a wife and mother and for her prudent and careful management of the manifold duties and responsibilities of the Holloway household.

Still in the prime of his mental powers, W. H. Holloway has before him the prospect of many future years of usefulness. He has been a potent and prominent factor in the industrial and general business activity of Butler and of Bates county. Mr. HoUoway's career has been one of continued advancement and unabating industry. Strict integrity, sound judgment, and honorable business methods have won for him permanent success and the unfailing regard and esteem of his fellowmen. No family in Bates county stands higher in the respect of the community than the Holloways. Mr. Holloway has always been an inveterate enemy of the whiskey traffic and has fought on the side of temperance and prohibition during his entire life.

Dr. J. T. Shadburne, a well-known and successful dentist of Butler, is one of the capable young professional men in Bates county. Dr. Shadburne is a native of Missouri, born at Windsor in 1889, a son of Dr. R. L. and Mary Garnet' (Fowler) Shadburne, the former, a native of Henry county and the latter, of Benton county, Missouri. Dr. R. L. Shadburne is a son of Dr. T. P. Shadburne, a prominent pioneer physician of Troy, Missouri, who located at that place prior to the time of the Civil War and later moved to Windsor. The senior Dr. Shadburne is now deceased and his son. Dr. R. L., is still one of the leading men of his profession at Windsor. To Dr. R. L. and Mary Garnet Shadburne have been born three children, all of whom are now living: Mrs. R. E. Ball, Windsor, Missouri; Lieutenant L. W., National Army, who was one of the first boys in attendance at Fort Riley Of^cers' Training School; and Dr. J. T., the subject of this review.

Dr. J. T. Shadburne is a graduate of Windsor High School and of Kansas City Dental College. He completed the dental course at the latter institution, graduating with the class of 1916. After leaving col-

July 28, 191 7, Dr. J. T. Shadburne and Marjorie Scott, daughter of L. H. Scott, of Steelville, Missouri, were united in marriage. ^Irs. Shadburne was left motherless when she was a child, live years of age. Dr. and Mrs. Shadburne reside in Butler at 404 Delaware street.

Frank Holland, the well-known and efficient county clerk of Bates county and an ex-trustee of Summit township, proprietor of the "Holland Farm" in Summit township, is one of the county's most prominent and successful citizens. ]Mr. Holland was born January 27, 1868 on his father's farm in McLean county, Illinois, a son of G. W. and Edmonia (Johnson) Holland, who were the parents of three children, all of whom are now living: Frank, the subject of this review; Mrs. Gertrude ^^'illiams, Appleton City, Missouri ; and IMiles, Appleton City, Missouri. G. W. Holland was born in Logan County, Kentucky in 1840, one of seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Joel Holland, their children being as follow: John, who resides in Logan county, Kentucky; \A'. A., who was born in Kentucky and died in May, 1914 near Appleton City, Missouri; G. W., the father of Frank Holland, the subject of this review; J. ]M., of Logan county, Kentucky; Mrs. Mary McKenzie, of Logan county, Kentucky; Mrs. Angelina Lawler, of Logan county, Kentucky ; and Mrs. Jane Browning, deceased. Joel Holland was a native of Maryland. He came to Missouri among the earliest pioneers and located in Henry county, where he entered a section of land in 1856. In the latter part of his life, he divided his vast holdings among his children, giving to each son one hundred sixty acres of choice land in Henry county and he then returned to the old home in Kentucky, where he died. G. W. Holland came to Henry county, Misouri in October, 1871 and located on the farm which was given him by his father and upon which he resided for forty-one years, devoting the best years of his life to farming and stock raising and improving his land. In 1912, Mr. Holland retired from the active pursuits of agriculture and moved to Appleton City in St. Clair county, where he died July 31, 1914. Interment was made in the cemetery at Appleton City. The widowed mother, who is a native of Virginia, still resides at Appleton City.

Frank Holland obtained his education at Appleton City Academy and Missouri University at Columbia. Until he was twenty-four years of age, he remained at home with his parents. At that time, he purchased a farm adjoining his, father's place in Henry County, a tract of land he afterward sold to his brother. Miles, and then moved to Bates county, purchasing two hundred forty acres of vahiable land in Summit township, to which tract he later added eighty acres. This farm, now comprising three hundred twenty acres, is one of the best in the county and is widely known as the "Holland Farm." Mr. Holland has built two barns and remodeled the residence since he acquired the ownership of the farm. The Holland home is a handsome, modern, country place. The residence and barns are lighted by electricity from a plant installed by Mr. Holland.

For eight years, Frank Holland was trustee of Summit township and for six years was chairman of the Democratic township committee. Mr. Holland is primarily a man of the people and his genial manners and pleasing- social qualities win and retain for him countless friends. The capable manner in which he administered the multitudinous affairs coming within the sphere of his duty as trustee and as township committeeman inspired in his behalf the utmost confidence and trust of the voters of Bates county and in the autumn of 1914 Frank Holland was elected county clerk of Bates County and at the time of this writing he is the present incumbent in that office. Careful and methodical in the management of the office, Mr. Holland has won the respect and good will of the people in Bates county, regardless of party affiliations. The draft law has recently added an immense amount of extra labor as a part of the county clerk's duties, hard work for which no additional pay is allowed, but Mr. Holland is only glad that in this way he can "do his bit."

January 27, 1892, Frank Holland and Alma E. Adamson were united in marriage. Mrs. Holland is a daughter of W. W. Adamson, of Montrose, Henry county, Missouri. To this union has been born one child, a son, Roy D., who is employed as deputy clerk of Bates county. The marriage of Roy D. Holland and Fay Harper, of Butler, Missouri, was recently solemnized. The Hollands have a wide circle of close personal friends and no family in this section of the state stands higher in the respect and esteem of the community than the Holland family.

In Frank Holland are combined the two most marked characteristics of the South and the West, the careful, conservative caution of the Southern planter and the enthusiastic enterprise, that overleaps all obstacles and makes possible almost any undertaking, of the Western pioneer. Mr. Holland is still a young man and the future awaits him with much that is full of promise. He is a man of unquestioned integrity and high moral principles.

Thomas L. Pettys, merchant and the treasurer of the Old Settlers' Annual Reunion Association of Bates county, Missouri, is one of the leading citizens of Butler and at the age of sixty-nine years an active and prominent business man of this city. Mr. Pettys is a native of Ohio. He v^as born in 1848 at Republic in Seneca county, son of Jobe and Augusta (Bishop) Pettys. The mother died w^hen her son, Thomas L., was an infant and the father died in northern Michigan a few years later. Thomas L. Pettys has one sister living, Mrs. Susanna Augusta Cowan, of Bend, Crook county, Oregon. The mother is interred in the cemetery at Republic in Seneca county, Ohio.

Thomas L, Pettys acquired a good common school education in the public schools of Republic in Seneca county, Ohio and completed the prescribed course of study in the Republic High School. He came to Missouri with his uncle, Dr. Lyman E. Hall, who at one time was county judge of Bates county. Judge Hall died on his farm in Homer township and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Mulberry. Mr. Pettys made his home with his uncle. Dr. Hall, until the death of the doctor. He then left the farm and accepted a position with William Robinson, a general merchant and honored pioneer of Mulberry, and for two years young Pettys worked as clerk in Mr. Robinson's mercantile establishment. Mr. Pettys thought that Colorado offered superior advantages to the ambitious, young man and he resigned his position as clerk and went to that state, where he remained four months and returned to Missouri to enter the employ of Mr. Levy at Butler and for six years was thus engaged in the same building in which the Levy Mercantile Company now is located. At the close of that period of time, Mr. Pettys again left Missouri and took a claim of land in western Kansas in Gray county and, after having proven it, he sold this tract and came back to Butler, investing his money in a grocery store owned formerly by Charles Denny, Butler's pioneer groceryman, and taking into partnership with him his son-in-law, Dell Welton. This firm continued in business two years and then Thomas L. Pettys disposed of his interest in the store, selling the same to Mr. Welton. The former purchased the grocery store located on the southeast corner of the public square. After conducting business for two years at the old stand Mr. Pettys moved his establishment to the John Steele building, and at this place has continuously been in business ever since. For thirty-three years, Mr. Pettys has been prominent in the business and financial circles of Butler. He states that when he first came to this city there was a little frame building

December 25, 1889, Thomas L. Pettys and Mrs. Mary E. (Porch) Glass were united in marriage. Mrs. Pettys is a native of Cole county, Missouri, a daughter of Henry H. and Lucinda (McLean) Porch, the former, a native of North Carolina and the latter, of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Porch were honored and widely known pioneers of Cole county. They were the parents of the following children: Andrew J., deceased; William N., Berlin, Oklahoma; J. W., who has been a resident of Butler, Missouri since 1865; and Mrs. Thomas L. Pettys, the wife of the subject of this review.

Of the early days in Bates county, Mr. Pettys can tell much and in his own delightful, inimitable rrianner relates stories of pioneer times in this section of the state. He has done much toward making the Old Settlers' Reunion an annual success. The association was organized in 1896 and the reunion is one of the biggest and most important events of the year in Bates county. The last meeting was held October 10, 1917 on the public square in Butler. Mr. Pettys was personally acquainted with many of the leading and influential men of the days gone by and he recalls that William Robinson was the first merchant at Mulberry. Mr. Robinson opened a store at that place about 1870. Dr. Lyman E. Hall was one of the most prominent citizens of western Bates county, a highly respected and intellectual pioneer physician whose practice was very extensive in the early days. He frequently made calls far beyond the confines of this county and at that time there were no fences to obstruct travel over the prairie and no roads to guide the traveler. Dr. Hall and William Robinson were the benefactors of the orphan boy, Thomas Pettys, friends whom he has always held in grateful remembrance and the highest esteem.

Like the majority of young men, Thomas L. Pettys had to win recognition by merit alone. A multitude of obstacles in the pathway to success had to be overcome before the future looked very bright or promising. Left an orphan when but a small child, he w^as dependent for many years upon the mercies of an unmerciful world. A close observer, keen thinker, and diligent worker, Mr. Pettys seized every opportunity to profit by the knowledge of those older than he in years and experience and exceptional success has crowned his efforts. W^hile attenditig primarily to his own business affairs, Mr. Pettys is not unmindful of the claims every community has upon its citizens and public-spir- ited in an unobtrusive way he takes a deep interest in all movements which have for their object the betterment and uplift of the community.

Thomas Franklin Lockwood, M. D., a prominent physician of Butler, Missouri, is a native of Illinois. Dr. Lockwood was born January 11, 1865 in Sangamon county, a son of Isaac S. and Sarah (Dunbar) Lockwood, the former, a native of Ohio and the latter, of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac S. Lockwood were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Mary Jane Bartley, Denver, Colorado; Francis Marion, a successful farmer of Kay county, Oklahoma ; George Harrison, of LaClede county, Missouri; Dr. Thomas Franklin, the subject of this sketch; Dr. William Albert, Ponca City, Oklahoma; Isaac Otis and Ira Elmer, twins, the former of whom was drowned at the age of twenty-one years in a vain attempt to save the life of a friend who also drowned in Osage Fork in LaClede county and the latter is now residing on a farm in LaClede county; and two children died in infancy. Isaac S. Lockwood was of Scotch descent. He was a widely known and highly respected pioneer of Barton county and was a resident of that part of the state of Missouri when the Civil War broke out and at that time he returned to Illinois. The Lockwoods had come to Missouri in the early fifties. Mr. Lockwood was a carpenter and millwright and built and operated several mills in the Ozark region and rebuilt many more. In the later years of his life, he devoted his time and energies to agricultural pursuits in LaClede county, to which he came after the Civil War had ended. Isaac S. Lockwood died in 1903 at the age of sixty-six years and Mrs. Lockwood joined him in death in 1913. Both father and mother w^ere interred in the cemetery at New Hope.

Dr. Lockwood's childhood and youth were spent in Illinois and Missouri and the public schools of both states afforded him the means of a good elementary education. He early determined to devote himself to medical work and entered Northwestern Medical College, from which institution he graduated in 1887. Dr. Lockwood completed his work at Northwestern Medical College, St. Joseph, Missouri, with a highly creditable record and then entered the Medical College of Nashville, Tennessee, from which he obtained his degree in 1895. Dr. Lockwood began the practice of his profession at Conway, Missouri, in LaClede county and was there located for six years, coming to Butler in the autumn of 1895. He moved to his present office, on the north side of the public square in this city, about 1900.

were united in marriage. Mrs. Lockwood is a daughter of Dr. S. B. F. C. Barr, who before his coming to Missouri, was a leader of the medical profession in Lebanon, Tennessee. Dr. Barr was a native of Tennessee as is also his daughter, Mrs. Lockwood. Dr. Barr was a graduate of the old Vanderbilt Medical College, of Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Barr died about the year 1881 in LaClede county, Missouri, where he had retired on a farm.

To Dr. and Mrs. Lockwood have been born two children: Eda Ethel, the wife of Talmage D. Crawford, of Nevada, Missouri, and the mother of two children, Mary Carmen and Franklin DeWitt ; and Oscar Harris Lockwood, who is at home with his parents. Dr. Lockwood is a valued and worthy member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Yoemen. He is also affiliated with both the Bates County and Missouri State Medical Associations. He has served as secretarv of the Bates County Medical Society and was vice-president of the State Medical Association in 1913. At the 1914 session of the latter association, Dr. Lockwood was the orator on medicine and he delivered an address on professional reminiscences, a plea for unity in the medical profession, a scholarly talk which displayed profound erudition and elicited much praise from the different members of the society. Dr. Lockwood is the local surgeon for the Missouri Pacofic Railway Company and secretary of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons.

Dr. Lockwood does not belong to the class of professional men who are content with past achievements, but he is a constant student, keeping in touch with the latest discoveries and researches of medical science. In various ways, the doctor has been and is identified with the material prosperity of his city and his name is almost invariably found in connection with all enterprises for the public welfare.

J. B. Lotspeich, an honored pioneer citizen. Confederate veteran, and prosperous agriculturist, is a native of this state. Mr. Lotspeich was born October 16, 1841, at Springfield, Missouri, son of Ralph and Nancy (Gilliland) Lotspeich. Ralph Lotspeich was a native of Georgia. He came to Missouri among the earliest settlers, about 1841, and located near Springfield, later settling on a farm in Cooper county, where he died in 1895. Nancy (Gilliland) Lotspeich was a native of Tennessee. She died in 1899 and her remains were laid to rest in Pilot Grove cemetery in Cooper county, beside those of her husband. Ralph and Nancy (35)

Lotspeich were the parents of the following children : J. B., the subject of this sketch; Robert, a Confederate soldier of the Civil War, who served under General Price and was killed in the battle of Pearidge, Arkansas; James, a veteran of the Confederacy, who served under Generals Price and Shelby and was shot through the hips in a skirmish in Arkansas, whose death occurred in 1898; Sarah, the widow of Marion Burney, who was killed while serving in the Confederate army in a skirmish in Arkansas; Ossin, Yelton, Oklahoma; William, Pettis county, Missouri; Ollie, the wife of R. S. Nelson, Springfield, Missouri; and Charles, who died in Cooper county, Missouri about 1907.

When J. B. Lotspeich was a youth, there were no public schools in Missouri and he was instructed at home and in private schools in Cooper county. He was a young man, twenty years of age, when the Civil War broke out and he enlisted with the Confederates and served until the close of the long struggle of four years. Mr. Lotspeich actively participated in battles fought in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee and at the time of General Lee's surrender was in Mississippi. About 1870, he located on a farm in Saline county and there remained ten years, coming to Bates county in 1880 to reside on a rented farm, which was situated where the townsite of Adrian now is, for one year. He then purchased eighty acres of land, lying near the present site of Amsterdam, and four years later traded it for a tract of one hundred sixty acres of land five miles north of Butler, paying the difference in the value of the two farms, and the latter country place is still in Mr. Lotspeich's possession and it has been his home for the past twenty years. He has been very successful in farming, stockraising, and feeding and in addition to his home farm has bought and now owns one hundred ten acres of land in section 21 and one hundred forty-five acres of land in section 33 in Mound township, a portion of which is the townsite of Passaic in Bates county. Mr. Lotspeich was residing on the rented farm, the townsite of Adrian, when the railroad was built through in 1880. He recalls how the town "boomed" from the very beginning, and, contrary to the general rule of places of mushroom growth, Adrian is today still one of the best towns in the county. Prior to the building of Adrian, the principal trading point for the people of that vicinity was Crescent Hill, where Henry Fair and Nelson and Henry Moudy were the leading merchants. Mr. Lotspeich well remembers how the whole town of Crescent Hill literally moved to Adrian, when the railroad came.