Buchanan County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 5 of 12)

was born in the City of Boston, September 26, 1841, and upon reaching the requisite age he entered the office of the Lawrence Courier, where he served his apprenticeship as compositor. After this, he took the foremanship of the Dover Enquirer, at Dover, New Hampshire, in which capacity he continued until 1862, when he enlisted in Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire. At the battle of Fredricksburg he was severely wounded, being incapacitated for duty, was honorably discharged, returned to Massachusetts, and for two years was assistant foreman in the State Printing House, at Boston. In 1865, he came to Chicago, and pursued his trade in that city until 1869, when he became a resident of St. Joseph. He was one of the original members of the St. Joseph Steam Printing Company, organized in that year, and, in 1872, sold his interest. In 1875, with Mr. T. H. Hail, he bought the present establishment, which they conducted until 1879, when Mr. Kingsbury became sole proprietor, by purchasing Mr. Hail's interest. This establishment is one of the most complete in its appointments to be found in this vicinity, and the trade which he controls in job printing and bookbinding is large and increasing. Mr. Kingsbury traces his lineage to English ancestry. Is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1859, Miss Lizzie L. Moores, of Vermont, became his wife.

John- Peter Kirschner

was born in Germany, Kingdom of Bavaria, on the River Rhine, May 8, T821. He came to this country in 1843, and settled in Clay County, Missouri, near Parkville, then removed to Independence, Jackson County, and thence, in 1846, to St. Joseph, where he started the first bakery established in the city, and continued to operate it for many years with a good degree of success. He purchased a farm near the city of 160 acres, and moved on it in 1867. He married Miss Annie E. Groh, in Clay County, Missouri, April 18, 1846. They have a family of four children, John, Peter J., George E., and Lena. John is married and lives near his father. Peter J. was educated in the schools of St. Joseph until seventeen years of age, and then, in 1869, went to Cincinnati and attended a private school for two years. In 1875, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. Geiger, as preceptor, and in 1877, he attended the medical department of the University of Louisville, and in 1878-79, he attended Bellevue Hospital College, and was graduated from that institution. While pursuing his medical studies he taught school, and paid his way through the entire course by his own exertions. In 1879, ^^ commenced the active practice of his profession. In 1880, he was appointed City Physician, and re-appointed in 1881. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, for the session of 1879-80, and professor of physiology in 1880-81.

Arthur Kirkpatrick

Secretary and Business Manager of the Merchants' Insurance Company, of St. Joseph, is one of a family of seven children, four of whom were sons. His father, Judge W. Kirkpatrick, a native of Tennessee, was a large farmer and stock trader in his own state. Was also, at one period, an influential member of the county bench, and was all his life an active business man. When his son, Arthur, was eight months old, he moved with his family to Missouri, and settled in Cooper County, where his children were all reared in habits of industry and practical business. In 1843, Judge Kirkpatrick rhoved with his family to Johnson County, Missouri, and here the subject of this sketch received a practical business education. His first effort in the way of earning an independent livelihood was in the profession of teaching. An experience of two successive summers in this calling, however, determined him to select another course of life, and he accordingly engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which his efforts were generally crowned with success ; also, at different periods previous to the breaking out of the civil war, successfully engaged in the milling business. In March, 1863, he moved to St. Joseph, where he engaged in the grain, shipping and general produce business. He subsequently engaged in freighting across the plains. In 1866 and 1867, he was engaged in mercantile business in Utah and Montana, where his efforts were crowned with uniform success. In 1869, he married Miss Lettie J. (Ransom) Poteet, of St. Joseph. By this marriage he had two children, the eldest, a daughter, born in 1870, survives. In January, 1876, Mr. Kirkpatrick had the misfortune to lose his wife by death. In 1873, he engaged in the insurance business. Is at present (1881) a member of the Board of Managers of the Missouri State Lunatic Asylum, No. 2, and a Director and Manager of the Citizens' Railway Company. Mr. Kirkpatrick has, since his residence in St. Joseph, been more or less actively engaged in mercantile and other enterprises, and ranks prominently among the successful business men of St. Joseph, and deservedly enjoys a large share of personal popularity.

J. B. Kitchen

one of the firm of Kitchen Bros., and manager of the Pacific House in St. Josdph, Missouri ; was born in St. -Louis County, Missouri, May 25, 1832. His parents emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1829. Henry

Kitchen, his father, was by occupation a farmer. He died in Leavenworth City, Kansas, in 1862, at the age of sixty-five years. His mother, who still lives, is now (188 1) seventy-six years of age, and in the enjoyment of excellent health. No mother was ever more highly or deservedly respected. She raised ten children, five sons and five daughters. Six of these still live. James " Butter," the subject of this sketch, nanied after his mother's family, was the fifth child. He moved with his parents from St. Louis in the fall of 1848 to Platte County, Missouri. In 1854 he left his parents and went to New Mexico without pecuniary means, but with great ambition, a restless energy, and full determination to become a successful man. Arriving at Santa Fe, he obtained a situation as clerk in a large mercantile house. After a year's experience in this position he secured from the government a hay contract at Fort Union, New Mexico. He filled this contract from the Ocate Bottom, about twenty miles from the Fort, working all the summer in water over his shoe-tops. The grass, after being cut, was hauled on the high upland, where it was cured and stacked. The result of this, his first business venture, was a profit of $900. In the meantime, he had made a friend of Dr. Connelly, a rich merchant of Albuqurque, who set him up in business in a small town called Tecolate, in New Mexico, with a stock of merchandise worth $15,000, on which not a cent was paid for two years, the doctor, in the meantime, furnishing as required, the merchandise necessary to keep up the stock. At the end of seven years the doctor received his money in full, and Mr. Kitchen had made a few thousand dollars. In the meantime his brother Dick, who was yet with his parents in Platte County, went to Kansas and settled on a quarter section of land, the claim to which he sold, in i860, for $2,000. About this period J. B. sold out his business in New Mexico and returned home. The two brothers then joined capital, bought a few teams, and engaged in the freighting business. In this they met with excellent success, at times, during the war, having contracts with the government amounting to over a million of dollars. The two brothers have now (1881) been doing business together twenty years, in all of which time they have never kept an account against each other, everything being held in common. The completion of the railroad ruined the- freighting business on the plains. They were forced, in cpnsequence, to learn a new trade, and to-day the Kitchen Bros, are known to the world as the leading hotel firm of the West. This firm includes Charles W., the eldest, who. is in charge of the four houses on the Union Pacific Railroad ; J. B., of the Pacific, in St. Joseph, and Richard, the youngest, who is in charge of the Withnell House, in Omaha, Nebraska. It is a remarkable fact that J. B. Kitchen during his long period of residence in New Mexico, never indulged in gambling, drinking, or even smoking, a course which, while it rendered him unpopular with the common herd of humanity there.

accomplished for himself the great object he sought when he went out^ and he returned to the home he had left an honored son and brother. The Pacific, under his management, has become one of the most piopular houses in the West.

Anton Klos

was born November 30, 1829' atPrombach, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, where he recived his education. When sixteen years of age he emigrated to America, embarking for New Orleans, where he arrived in 1845'. Soon after he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he learned the' trade of cigar-making, and remained five years. In 1850, he came to St. Joseph, and engaged in the cigar and tobacco business, which he carried on fourteen years. In 1864, he commenced as a wholesale leaf tobacco dealer, buying and shipping leaf tobacco, which was raised from forty to fifty miles around St. Joseph. Having accumulated wealth, he invested much in real estate, and is among our large tax payers. In 1876, he retired from active business life. He married October 25, 1864, Miss Elise Deppen, who died November 17,. 1869. He has two children, Harvey, born May 13, 1865, and Edward, born December 23, 1867.

dealer in hardware, furniture and queensware, was born in Nashvi.lle> Tennessee, March 18, 1853. F- K. Knapp, his father, was an early settler of Buchanan County, coming here In 1854. Our subject was here raised and educated. For a number of years he was engaged in the marble trade with his father, and also conducted a jewelry store and engaged in the present business, in 1877. Carries a complete stock in his line, being favorably known in town and thoughout the county, he commands a large trade. F. K. Knapp, Sr., was one of the pioneer marble men of the county, and was prominent among its busirtess men to the time of his death, in 1874.

was born in Newburg, Orange County, New York, April 15, 1809, and came to St. Louis in 1819. Learned the painting trade in all its branches, becoming very skillful as an ornamental painter and grainer. Came to St. Joseph in April 1847, and opened a shop and established a large and successful business, which he conducted, for twenty years. In 1875, he was elected justice of the peace, in which capacity he served for four years. He was never an office seeker, but believed that the office ought to seek the man. Six canes were made from a log of the old market house and given to six old citizens,, ojie being given to Mr.

Knapp. He was a Democrat in politics, and in religion a Catholic. Was married to Emily Matlett, of St. Louis, in 1838. They have nine children living: George M., married to Misg Eva Brown; Mary F., married to Wm. Hand, who died in 1868, leaving one child, Anna A.; William F.. married to Miss Moran; John O., Emil V., Edward J., Margaret R., Felix and Josephine. They lost two. Mr. K., died July 8th, 1879, leaving a devoted family and a large circle of friends to mourn his loss.

dealer in general merchandise, was born in Strausburg, Ohio, December 25, 1857, and is the son of Jonathan Knapp, who was a prominent attorney in the Buckeye State. When E. R. was quite young, the family remove to Valparaiso, Indiana, residing there several years, and he was also a citizen of Philadelphia, Ohio. When eighteen years of age he located at Chicago, and became a clerk in the grocery house of E. A. Woodhull. In 1876, he came to St. Joseph, established himself in trade, which has steadily increased, and will compare favorably with the majority of houses in the city. Mr. Knapp's motto is, quick sales and fresh goods.

William Kneer

wholesale confectioner, was born July 15, 1828, in Westphalia, Prussia,. Germany, and emigrated to America in 1849, landing at New Orleans. There he remained for eight months, and then went to St. Louis, and afterwards to Brunswick, Missouri, where he remained nearly a year. He started from there with the intention of going to California, by the overland route. He came to St. Joseph, May 3, 185 1, and was so favorably impressed with the business appearance that he concluded to locate here. He soon engaged in the saddlery business, which he carried on for eleven years. In 1862, he started in the confectionery business, with the late Emil Vegely, under the firm name of Vegely & Kneer, which business he carried on until 1876. Then Mr. Kneer took charge of the business himself He married, in 1855, Miss Carolina Vegely. They had six children, William, Joseph, Mollie, Emma, Carrie and Johnny.

was born in Frederick County, Virginia, November 14th, 1829. . He attended school at the Greenway Court Academy and also the Winchester Academy, and read medicine with Dr. Hugh H. Maguire, of Winchester, Virginia, and graduated, in 1852, at the Winchester Medical College. He practiced three years at White Post, Clark County,. Virginia, and then, in 1855, came to St. Joseph, where he has beea actively engaged in the duties of his profession. He has been appointed health officer four terms, and was for a number of years the local surgeon for the Hannibal Railroad. He took a very active part in establishing the Hospital Medical College and was elected President of its faculty and one of its trustees ; also professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. He has been twice married, first to Miss Mattie Keyes, in 1861. She died in four months. In 1864, he married Miss Annie M. Keyes, sister of his first wife. They have six children living, five sons and one daughter. Among the many physicians in the city, few rank higher than Dr. Knight. He is one of the oldest of the regular physicians and has always taken a leading position as a surgeon and practitioner.

Charles E. Koch

Mr. W. F. Koch became a resident of this city in 1856, and for a number of years was engaged in the hotel business. His son Charles E. was born in Prussia, Germany, September 15th, 1844, and came to America with his parents when ten years of age, and to St. Joseph in 1856, and was here educated and has since made it his home. On the 9th of June, 1873, Miss Christena Weidman became his wife. They have five children : William, George, Sophia, Amelia and Harry. Mr. Koch is a member of the I. O. O. F., Humboldt Lodge.

William Kollatz

was born December 22, 1834, at Oderberg, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, where he was raised. In 1864 he emigrated to America and arrived at New York City, and from there he went to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and thence to Atchison, Kansas. In 1865 he came to St. Joseph, where he opened a first-class restaurant and coffee house which, being conducted in a superb style, became much frequented, and is the most popular business of its kind in St. Joseph. 'He was married in 1865 at Atchison, Kansas, to Katharina Kollatz. They have three children, Robert, born May 16, 1861 ; Louise, born July 13, 1862 ; Lina, born August 25, 1869.

William Krumm

gardener and raiser of small fruits. Section 22, post office St. Joseph, was born April 3, 1832, and is a native of Germany. He was there educated in the common and high schools, and also studied architecture. In 1848, he came to America,, landing at Quebec, Canada, and from there went to Cincinnati, where he learned the bricklayer's trade. After this he traveled till 1855, working at his trade in thirty-two different states and territories. In 185s, he went to Quincy, Illinois, and February 16, 1857, was married to Miss Margaret Buff. She was born in France, August

19, 1834, and came to America when about two years of age. In 1863, they moved to Macon City, Missouri, and in a few months moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, and in 1867, came to St. Joseph. Since then he has been engaged in his present business. His lot contains twentyfive acresj which is improved in good style and well watered. Mr. and Mrs. Krumm have had nine children, seven are living, Jasper Wm., Adeline L., John Wm., William H., Henry Wm., Frederick Wm. and Maggie.

merchant tailor, was born March 8, 1850, in Oldenbura, Holstein. After having been educated at the high school at Eutin, and naving learned his trade with his father, he left home when sixteen years of age, and went to Hamburg, where he was employed as a clerk in the wholesale grocery business. He emigrated to the United. States, arriving at New York in 1868. Soon after, he went to Chicago, and thence to St. Louis. From here he paid a visit to Memphis and New Orleans, and returned, but only to soon go to Omaha and Cheyenne. After a short stay at the latter place, he returned to Omaha, and in 1870, came to St. Joseph. Here he worked with CoUatz & LaCruneril up to February 26, 1871, when he bought the business, and formed a partnership with Mr. Long, under the firm name of Kuehl & Long. July i, 1871, Mr. Long retired, and F. C. Kuehl carried on business alone. Having a large, experience and good taste in selecting goods and executing his work, he deserves the patronage'which he receives from the public. Wai married April 10, 1872, to Miss Bertha Volk. They have had five children - Heinrich, born September 14, 1872, died July 29, 1873 ; Heinrich, born September 2, 1874; Friedrich, born March 26, 1875, died September 29, 1876; Friedrich, born June 29, 1878 ; and Caroline, born June 29, 1880.

car inspector and repairer for the Wabash St. Louis & Pacific Railroad, was born July ii, 1846, in Sorel, County Richelieu, Canada, and was there raised and educated. For a number of years he was engaged in working on the lakes between Quebec, Montreal and Whitehall, and stood prominently among the transportation companies -and boat owners until a serious loss befel him, his schooner and cargo being destroyed by fire. In 1 871, he came to Missouri, locating at Brunswick, and entered the employ of the Wabash Company as bridge builder, and was soon promoted to his present position. Mr. LaChapelle is a man of superior workmanship, and is well respected by his fellow citizens. He was married in 1874 to Miss Raphel Critser, of Indiana.

Israel Landis

a pioneer and representative citizen of St. Joseph, was born in Lancas-- ter County, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1808. Was one of a fam-ily of ten children, five of whom were sons. Clerked in the store of his father, a general merchant, till he was eighteen years of age, when he learned the trade of saddle and harness making. He determined, with that spirit of enterprise which has marked his course through life, tO' seek an ampler fortune in the West, and in 1833, landed in St. Louis, then a town of about six thousand. Here he established himself and soon built up a prosperous trade, continuing in the business of saddle and harness making for about eight years, when he sold out and purchased a farm, eight miles from the city, to which he removed. Continued to reside here till the spring of 1844, when he again made a westward move, landing and settling upon the site of what is now the city of St. Joseph. With an abiding faith' in the future of his then newly adopted home, a faith which he has lived to see confirmed in the splendid development of 1 88 1, he opened a small shop. With the growth of the town his business increased, till from $3,ocx3 it has reached tl^e aggregate business of $30,000 per annum, and given steady employment tO' twenty or thirty men. Mr. Landis has contributed in no insignificant degree to building up the business portion of the city. Among others, the large double brick store on the corner of Fourth and Felix, now owned, and until recently occupied, by R. L. McDonald & Co., was built by him in 1857- Subsequently he erected other business blocks, among which are included some of the best appearing of that character of buildings in the city. He is probably the oldest business man actively engaged in the state, and certainly the oldest engaged in the city of St. Joseph, having been forty-eight years in the former and thirty-seven years in. continuous business in St. Joseph. His capital, when he embarked in business in St. Louis, was fifty dollars. His general and ultimate success in life are due to uniform habits of industry, economy, and a fairness of dealing, which has always commanded for him friends. Among other investments, Mr. Landis was one of a company of three, which also included Reuben Middleton and Simeon Kemper, who laid out, for the purpose of a cemetery now known as Mount Mora, in the northwest corner of the city, a tract of twenty acres of land. This beautifully improved spot afterwards became, by purchase, the individual property of Mr. Landis, who subsequently sold it to the association who now (1881)' own it. Israel Landis early took a lively interest in the public affairs of his town. He was an active member of the first city council of St. Joseph, and a representative Odd Fellow, contributing largely, both in time and means, to the erection of that splendid building, the Odd Fellows' Hall, on the southeast corner of Fifth and Felix Streets, which afterwards became his by purchase, and was subsequently destroyed by fire, as referred to in our notice of that order. He married Miss Sarah Stibbs, in St. Louis, May 3d, 1836. She was a native of Berkshire^ England, and was born April 23, 1809. At the age of sixteen she came with her parents to the; United States, settling in Brooklyn, New York, where she received the advantages of a finished education. In 1834, her father moved with his family to St. Louis, where Miss Stibbs, with her three sisters, established a female seminary on a superior scale, then known as the St. Louis Female Institute, the first school of the kind of importance organized in that city. She remained connected with it till her marriage to Mr. Landis, as above stated. On their removal to St. Joseph, Mrs. Landis taught the first school established in the city, a reference to which enterprise will be found in our chapter on schools. Mr. and Mrs. Landis have, from the earliest settlement of St, Joseph, taken an especially active part in advancing the scholastic, literary and religious interests of .the city, and their efforts have been uniformly crowned with success. They have a family of five children living : John C, Benjamin F., Mary E., wife of George Connell, Anna Stibbs, wife of Dr. McDonald, Jr., and Lila. Colonel John Landis, the eldest of these children, served with distinction in the late civil war.. In 1861, he left St. Joseph in command of an independent company of infantry. He was afterwards appointed, by Governor Jackson, major of a battalion of artillery in the state service. This position he subsequently resigned and organized a battery of artillery in the regular Confederate service. This he commanded till he was appointed chief of the Missouri division of artillery with the grade of lieutenant colonel. He held this rank at the siege of Vicksburg. He was afterwards inspector of artillery for the Department of the Gulf, with headquarters at Mobile, Alabama, which position he held till the close of the war, when he returned to St. Joseph, where he has since continued to reside.

L. R. Lancaster

attorney at law, was born in Fulton County, Missouri, and received his education at the Plattsburg school. In 1861, he enlisted as private in the Thirteenth Missouri Regiment, under General Peabody, and was promoted to first lieutenant, and had command of the company for some time ; was captured at Lexington, Missouri ; participated in all the engagements with the regiment, which, in 1864, was consolidated with another regiment, and from that time forward belonged to the engineer corps; his time expired in 1865, and he returned home. In the spring of 1865, he commenced reading law under Gov. W. P. Hall, and acquired his knowledge by hard study and close attention to business ; was admitted to the bar in August, 1865, at St. Joseph, then went to Gallatin,

Daviess County, and formed a partnership with James McFarin, and took charge of the Torch Light, a Democratic paper, as editor. He came to St. Joseph in the fall of 1866 and commenced the practice of law ; was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court, which position he held until 1870, and then was appointed clerk and held the office until 1876. Mr. L. was married, in 1865, to Miss Kate Stuppy, a native of Missouri. They have been blessed with five children, four of whom are living. He has been doing an extensive and successful commercial business in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and the Northwest. January 1st, 1880, Hon. E. H. Fudge was admitted as partner, and the present firm is known as Lancaster & Fudge.

Frederick Langthimm

was born in Holstein, Germany, March 2, 1838, and came to this country and to St. Joseph in 1861. In June of the same year he enlisted into Company B, First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, and in December, 1862, was discharged on account of disability. After his health was restored he accepted a situation in the round-house of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, remaining in this capacity for seven years. In 1871 he commenced the grocery business in Pateetown on a small scale, but by diligence and strict attention to business, soon established a fine trade, and was enabled to build a commodious store for his large and increasing business. He continued in trade until July 12, 1878, when he died. He married Miss Catharina Hoyadone November 20, 1864, in this city, and by this union they had two children, Emma D. and Alvina C. Mrs. Lwas born in Germany, near her husband's birthplace, February 5) 1838' She has built a beautiful home between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, on Sylvania. She is educating her daughters with great care.

was born in Chenango County, New York, November 14, 1828. His father, Rev. Fowler Leach, was a native of Connecticut, and a minister of the Baptist Church. His mother's maiden name was Malinia Degrass Pardee. She was the daughter of Dr. Pardee, a celebrated physiciati of Paris, France. In 1800, the family moved to New York, where, twentyeight years after, the subject of this sketch was born. His earlier education he received at St. Gabriel's, a Jesuit College at Vincennes Indiana. He was graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, in 1847. He then removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he engaged in the practice of his profession till the close of the year 1848, when he started West, and, by chance, reached Robidoux' Landing (St. Joseph). Here he engaged in the practice of his profession, and, with a firm reliance on the 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 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. The result of this union was four children, a son who was drowned in childhood, and three daughters, all married. Bon Cora, wife of Colonel- Bradbury, of Peoria, Illinois ; Anna L., wife of John P. Hooper, of this city ; Helen A., wife of Charles Dinnbleby, of Peoria, Illinois.

John G. Lee

cooper, is a native of New Jersey, was born in Flemmington, September 7, 1818, and removed to Delaware with his parents when quite young. His father, William, was a cooper, and John G. adopted and learned that trade. In 1848, he came to Quincy, Illinois, where he did a large cooperage-business for twenty years. In 1870, he came to St. Joseph, and engaged in trade. Mr. Lee is an agreeable conversationalist and a courteous gentleman. In 1840, Miss Hattie Bannar, of Wilmington, Delaware, became his wife. They have had twelve children, ten of whom are living : George, Agnes, Julia, Fannie, Annie, Magdalene, Charles, Elkana, John S. and Nathaniel ; lost two : E. J. and Eva.

John S. Lemon

was born in Kentucky, August 15, 1833. He enjoyed the advantages of a fair education in the schools of BuUett County, and his first business experience was in a general store, where he was employed until 1850, at which period he came to St. Joseph, where he immediately embarked in mercantile business. After an experience of two years, he entered the extensive wholesale dry goods house of Powell, Levy & Co., remaining in the same till 1861, when the firm of Lemon, Hosea & Co., was formed. He continued a member of this partnership till 1871, when he purchased the interest of Mr. Hosea in the concern, and the new firm of J. S, Lemon & Co. was instituted. At the end of a period of two years, in view of ill-health, Mr. Lemon decided to retire from active business, and sold out his interest in the house. The two succeeding years found him out of active employment. In 1876, however, deeming his general health sufficiently improved to warrant a return to business, he became interested in the Blue Rapids, Kansas, and St. Joseph, Missouri, woolen goods factories. Of the company operating them Mr. Lemon is Secretary. In 1880, he was elected Councilman from the Second Ward, discharging with ability the duties of his position. January 13, 1870, he married Miss Anna Samuel, of St. Joseph. Of the children of this marriage there are (188 1) living: Flora, Todd S. and Mary M. As a private citizen, in an farmer and stock dealer, section 24, ptostoffice St. Joseph. The suject of this sketch is a son of Judge S. L. Leonard, deceased, of whom mention is made elsewhere. He was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, May 2, 1853, and was educated in the common schools of this county, also in the High School of St. Joseph. His landed estate consists of 250 acres in this county, and about 1,000 acres in Texas. He was married August 29, 1876, to Miss America J. Patterson, who was born November 13, 1853, and is' a native of Illinois. They have had two children, one of whom is living, Solomon L.

George Levrich

of the firm of Brown & Levrich, blacksmiths, was born in Gentry Country, Missouri, December 14, 185 1, and spent his early days in his native county, where he partially learned his trade, and also became proficient in the milling business. In 1875, he removed to Worth County, and for four years worked in a mill. In 1880, he came to St. Joseph, and formed a partnership with J. R. Brown. He is a live workman, giving the business his entire attention. In 1872, Miss Sarah E. Cox, of Gentry County, became his wife. TJiey have two children : Dillie and Charlie.

James H. Lewis

insurance and real estate agent, was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, May 24th, 1834. In 1836, his father moved to Booneville, Missouri, and purchased 1,000 acres of land, improving a fine farm. His father was a cousin of the person named Lewis, who, with a Mr. Clark, first navigated . the Missouri River and made valuable discoveries for the government. Young Lewis, at the age of twenty-one went into business in Tipton, Missouri, at that time the terminus of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, where he remained until 1865, when he came to this city and was employed by Messrs. Nave & McCord, for one year. He then established the insurance and real estate business, which has grown into one of the large and reliable agencies of the city. His reputation as an honest business man has secured to him many friends all over the county. . He married Miss Lucy R. Hackett, in Louisa County, Virginia, September 9th, 1859. They have four children; William Hackett, Nettie May, Lucy Rayland and Emma Theresa.

C. Q. Lewis

proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel. One of the early settlers of Pike County, Missouri, was Charles Thornton Lewis, who, with his family, migrated from Virginia and settled near Louisiana, in 1835, residing until the spring of 1837, when he became a resident of Cooper County, landing near Boonville, and engaged in cultivating tobacco. He was the pioneer in that industry in the county, and so extensively was he interested in this product, that he was familiarly known as " Tobacco Lewis." He was closely identified with the development of Cooper County until his death, which occurred May i, 1849. The ancestors of the Lewises are of the family into which George Washington married. The subject of this sketch has in his possession traditional relics, spoons, books, etc., said to have belonged to Robert Douglass, of Scotland, of whom the Lewis family are descendants. Charles Q. was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, March 6, 1826, and removed with his parents to Pike County, Missouri ; thence to Cooper County. He was one of the Fortyniners, and with a party, on the 1st of May, in that memorable year, crossed the state line, below Kansas City, and arrived at the mines, in California, August 10, making one of the best trips on record. Remained engaged in mining about three months very successfully, but at the cost of his health, which he did not fully recover for years, and returned home by the Panama route, arriving on the 14th of February, 1850. In 1855, engaged in milling and merchandising at Jonesboro, Saline County Missouri, and was favorably known in commercial circles in that section for a number of years. In a business sense of the word, his enterprises were a success^ but he met with many serious drawbacks in the form of floods, fire, and during the war. For several years was postmaster of Jonesboro. In 1 865, he made a tour to Montana, and did good service by furnishing the steamer Twilight with fresh meat and fish, which was much needed on a trip of seventy days. In 1877, took up his abode in St. Joseph, engaging in the insurance business, and, in 1879, opened the St. Charles Hotel, naming it after himself, and also the street upon which it is located. On the 23d day of October, 1845, at Charlottesville, Virginia, he was married to Miss Virginia Gooch, and by this union they have five children living : Lillian L., Ada B., Mary M., Lizza H. and Charles Q., Jr. Mr. Lewis has frequently been called upon to be a candidate for political honors. Is a Democrat, was strongly opposed to the rebellion, and took no part with either element. In his domestic habits, he is among the most social, genial and companionable men to be found. He is charitable in his judgments, ever seeking to put a favorable construction upon the actions of others. His wife is one of the best and most noble of her sex.

F. W. Lewis

stair builder. This gentleman has attained a wide reputation for assisting his fellow mortals to get up in the world, and a person who undertakes to get their by Lewis' route need not stop to stare at the stairs ; they have been weighed but not found wanting. Mr. Lewis was born February 28, 1842, in Park County, Indiana. When very yoUng he migrated to Carroll, thence to Tippecanoe County, where he was raised to manhood, educated and learned his trade. Was married to Miss S. C. Davis, a native of Livingston County, Missouri. They have one daughter: Mollie.

Isaac W. Lincoln

of the Lincoln Manufacturing Company, inventor, patentee and sole proprietor of Lincoln's patent combination dough kneader, flour chest and sifter, is a native of Clay County, Missouri, and was born in 1829. In 1864, he came to St. Joseph, and for a number of years was proprietor of the Pacific House. In later years he has been engaged in the manufacturing business, manufacturing all classes of machinery. The justly celebrated Lincoln dough kneader is here constructed. In the invention of this machine, Mr. Lincoln has given to the people a long-felt want. It is simple in construction, easy to operate and occupies a small space. For it Mr. Lincoln has received testimonials from several prominent physicians in St. Joseph ; also from a large number of the leading ladies, not only of the city, but in other states. Ths patent is only of a recent issue and promises, in the near future to come upon the markets of the world.

B. F. Loan

was born at Hardensburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in 1819, and in 1838, removed to Missouri. He chose the law as a profession and was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Buchanan County. In 1 86 1, when the rebellion broke out, he took an active part in military affairs, and was appointed Brigadier General. In 1862, he was elected to a seat in the Thirty-eighth Congress, and served during this term as a member of the joint committee on military affairs, with Wade, Chandler and Julian, and he was one of the most active members, and served as a member of the committee on Pacific Railroads, Freedmen, and debts of loyal states. He was re-elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, and was his own successor in the Fortieth Congress, and was chairman of the committee on Revolutionary pensions, and on that of Freedmen's affairs. In 1869, he was appointed visitor to West Point. As a public spirited citizen he was ever identified with the best interests and substantial progress of the city. Soon after commencing the practice of his profession, he began to develop those natural and acquired gifts which made him, ere his decease, one of its foremost leaders. He rose rapidly, and from the first his professional work was of a high character. His mind was singularly clear and comprehensive, and he was noted for his accurate and precise methods of work. In matters of legal doubt his opinions had great weight with his professional brethren, for they knew how profound and accurate was his knowledge of law, and how clear and exact were his mental processes. His study was as thorough as it was broad, and his opinions were tenaciously adhered to when arrived at. He was the intimate friend and trusted adviser of many of the leading citizens who have contributed to bring about the commercial greatness of St. Joseph. At the bar, in the active exercise of his profession, he always attracted attention. An excellent advocate, an impressive speaker, his legal opponents, bearing in mind his wide and accurate knowledge of the law, never underestimated his strength, and the result was that Mr. Loan's mental weapons were ever kept bright and his versatile abilities constantly active. His reading, outside the realm of his profession, was very extensive, and he was a well informed student of history and general literature. Extremely social in his nature, he possessed the rare gift of attracting friends and the still more rare gift of keeping them. .A lawyer, with too high a sense of honor to urge an unjust cause, a moralist without fanaticism, and a careful business man, who recognized personal integrity as the first obligation to his associates, and to society, his loss is a serious one to those circles in which he was a wise and steadfast friend, and to the city in which for so many years he filled an honorable and a useful citizenship.

Lockwood, Englehart & Co

Samuel Lockwood was born at Willow Grove, Kent County, Delaware, March 19, 18 12, the fourteenth of a family of eighteen. At the age of fourteen, as was then the rule, was apprenticed to a hat manufacturer at Frederica, Kent County, Delaware, serving seven years, and learning his business thoroughly. At the close of his time, he started for Louisville, Kentucky, but being of delicate constitution and threatened with consumption, he enlisted June 13, 1833, in the First Regiment of the United States Dragoons, then forming. Company C, of which Jefferson Davis was First Lieutenant, H. Dodge commanding. After three years' campaigning in the then wild regions of the West, the regiment was disbanded, and Mr. Lockwood settled at Liberty, Clay County, in old business. Found the Mormons there, after being driven from Jackson County, a quiet, intelligent, industrious people, always to be relied upon. When work was wanted, always on hand. Staying but six months at Liberty, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, working there as a journeyman hatter until 1850, when he came to St. Joseph, with $300 in his pocket, a stout heart, strong arm and intelligent brain. Opened the first store devoted to one branch of business - hats - and year after year, by patient industry, laid the foundation of his fortune. About 1857, he commenced jobbing, and having the nerve during ihe troublous times of the war to lay in a large stock early, although mortgaging everything he had in the world to enable him to do so, he made money when others were utterly ruined. In the spring of 1868, Mr. George J. Englehart, the present manager of the firm, became associated with Mr. Lockwood, and millinery was added to the stock, Mr. E., from this time, doing the buying, and from 1872, when Mr. L. retired from active business, although he still retained his capital interest, Mr. E. has had the entire management of the business, one of which any city might reasonably be proud. Mr. E. showed something of his mettle by the erection last year of the finest finished store house in the city, the finest indeed, for the purpose in the state, being more complete in its details than any hat house even in Chicago. In July, 1868, Mr. Robert Winning, the financial manager and dispenser of credits, entered the employment of the firm as bookkeeper and cashier, and has done much to place the firm in its present enviable position, appreciating which, the firm admitted him to partnership in its profits January, 1878. Mr. J. A. Johnston, employed as a traveling salesman for eight years on the Santa Fe Railroad, was admitted into the firm January, 1886. This year, 1881, the firm has added gents' furnishing goods to their stock, employing to take charge Mr. T. H. Murdow, of Chicago, a gentlemen of long experience in that line. Mr. Englehart came to St. Joseph from Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1865, as a partner of the dry goods firm of Tootle, Fairleigh & Co., staying in the same one year. Then formed a firm in the hat business with Major S. A. Garth, as the firm of Englehart & Garth, in the spring of 1868.

of the firm of Fuller & Locke, proprietors of the St. Joseph Steam Laundry. These gentlemen established their trade in the spring of 188 1 and do the largest laundry business in the city. Their successful aim is to give universal satisfaction. E. C. Locke is a native of Ohio and was born in Ravenna, September 6th, 1856, and was there educated and learned the art of photography. He is a nephew of Mr. Locke, who is known as Nasby, of the Toledo Blade. E. C. was engaged in operating photograph galleries, for several years, in the Buckeye state, and eventually drifted out on the Pacific Slope, where he pursued the same vocation, until taking up his abode in St. Joseph. He married Miss L. E. Morse, of Aleriale, Ohio, on the 21st of December, 1878. They have one child, Eli. Mr. Locke is a member of the A. O. U. W.

was born August 2, 1840, at Long Swamp, Berks County, Pennsylvania. His father, Daniel Long, was a prosperous farmer, and died a few weeks before his son's birth. Early training fell to a loving, intelligent mother. Received private instruction from William Schubert, Esq., an able teacher. At the age of sixteen he entered Mount Pleasant Seminary, at Bogerstown, Pennsylvania, and later, Union Seminary, at New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania. Commenced the study of medicine in 1863, attended the University of Pennsylvania, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and. Long Island College Hospital successively, graduating in 1865 from the latter institution ; was immediately after graduation appointed Resident Physician of his alma mater, serving one year. Came to St. Joseph, September 28, 1866, which place he has made his home ever since. During the location of the County Poor House in St. Joseph, for a period of one year, about 1870, Dr. Long was its efficient superintendent and physician. On the removal of the county poor to the present farm north of the city, he ceased to act as Superintendent of the same, but was continued as County Physician up to the period of his resignation. He has been since 1868 a member of the United States Pension Board, and is probably the oldest physician in this section of country in continuous service in that department. As a healer of chronic diseases Dr. Long has long enjoyed an enviable reputation in St. Joseph and tributary country.

Col. Joseph Loomis

was born in Colebrook, New Hampshire, in August, 1826, and received a good common school education, and at the age of fourteen commenced his railroad career by shoveling snow from the track of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, March 4, 1840. After working steadily for two years, he entered the machine shop, where he mastered the trade, and then was appointed conductor on a passenger train, which he held until 1853. In that yearhe came West and received a position as conductor on the Michigan Central, where he remained two years, and then was appointed Depot and Train Master in the new Central Depot, on Lake Street, Chicago, where he remained until 1857. I" 1859, he was appointed General Freight Agent on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railrpad, serving one year; was appointed Master of Transportation. On the 4th of June, 1861, the railroad men under his charge were formed into a regiment, and he was made Lieutenant Colonel, and remained through the war in charge of the railroad, and also of the regiment. In 1865, he was appointed Superintendent of the Quincy & Palmyra Railroad, and the Quincy Transportation Company. In 1868, he started the transfer boats from Blair Crossing for the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad, remaining three years. He then went to Carondelet and had charge of the Missouri Pacific transfer boats; in 1877^ took the position of Superintendent on the Smoky Hill Division of the Kansas Pacific, and remained two years, finally coming to St. Joseph, in 1879. He married Nancy F. Watkins, in Lowell, Mass. They have one adopted daughter - Julia, aged 16.

William Loving

for many years a representative business man of St. Joseph, was born in Russelville, Logan County, Kentucky, April 8th, 1830. His father, Willis Loving, was a merchant and his great grandfather, William Loving, was the founder of Lovingston, Nelson County, Virginia. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in his native county. He first engaged in the drug business in Springfield, Wa'shington County, Kentucky, and afterwards in Hopkinsville. In 1855, he moved to Missouri and settled in the town of Lexington, where he was engaged in business about the period of a year. In the winter of i856-'57, he moved to St. Joseph, where he established himself in the wholesale and retail drug business. Notwithstanding the want of facilities, such as now exist, for canvassing wide extents of territory and of transporting goods over the same, Mr. Loving early succeeded in building up a lucrative wholesale trade, in addition to his well-sustained retail business. During the long period of his residence in St. Joseph, he has steadily advanced with the progress of the city, and has always manifested a lively and liberal interest in the prosperity of St. Joseph. He married, in 1853, Miss Susan E. Wharton, of Springfield, Kentucky. The have, by this marriage, a family of three children : Phoebe, William and Arthur.

Frank H. Lovejoy

yardmaster of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and was born January 14, 1851. At an early age he removed to Wisconsin with his parents, his father Harry, locating with his family at Madison, where Frank was raised and educated. In 1869, he commenced railroading at Sterling, Illinois, on the R. R. I. & St. L., in the capacity of brakeman, remaining two and one-half years, after which for a time he filled the same position on the B. C. R. & N., in Iowa. Was next with the P. & R. I. for three years and for four years was in the yard at Peoria, for the Peoria and Springfield Company. Thence on the Hannibal and St. Joseph, and from their yard at Kansas City, took his present position June 11, 1881. He was married in 1873, to Miss Mattie E. Martin. By this union, they have two children, Alice and an infant.

William H. Love

proprietor of the Atlantic Hotel, is a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was born in 183 1. Was deprived of his father by death when quite young, and his mother again married, and the family left for the West, when our subject was in his seventh year. Unfortunately his stepfather was robbed of his money en route, and William and his sisters were left to the care of strangers. He was raised in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and learned the millwright trade, having many difficulties to contend with. In 1857, he drifted westward and located in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri ; worked at his trade, and erected the first steam flouring mill in the county. First visited St. Joseph in 1858, and in 1861, went to Nebraska, residing there until 1864, when he removed to Leavenworth. There he enlisted as a mechanic, and for a time was located at Union, New Mexico. In 1865, he came to St. Joseph, and engaged in the restaurant business, and in 1872, he opened Love's European Hotel, which was previously known as the Oregon House. Of this he was proprietor until 1876. For several years he was bridge builder on the St. Joseph and Des Moines Railroad and the St. Joseph and Western Railroad. May i, 188 1, he assumed control of the Atlantic Hotel. Was married May 7, 1867, to Mrs. Jane Barnett, nee Gallatin. By this union they have three children - Oscar M. and Ada - and lost one, Arthur. Mrs. Love had two children by her first husband - Florence and Effie - (wife of Hon. E. J. Crowther). Mrs. Love died October 28, 1880.

Robert Lovell

car inspector for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway. This trusted employe of the " Old Reliable " is favorably known on the line from the Missouri to the Mississippi. He is a native of England, and was born in London, September 26, 1830. Was there raised and learned his trade, after which lie went to Canada, residing there several years. In 1856, he came to the United States, locating at Hannibal, and entered the employ of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Company, and for a quarter of a century has been in their employ. His reputation for proficiency and reliability is an enviable one. Was married in England, to Miss Caroline Gutteridge. They have two children, Robert and Eliza, now Mrs. D. Lacy. Mr. Lovell is a Master Mason, and Robert is also a Mason, being a Knight Templar.

Isaac Lower

farmer and stock raiser. Section 36, post office St. Joseph, was born in Roane County, Tennessee, June 20, 1820, and when one year of age, his parents moved to Granger County. In the fall of 1836, he moved to

Jackson County, Missouri, and in December, 1837, came to Buchanan County. His vocation through life has been that of a farmer. In March, 1840, he was married to Miss Rebecca Nash, and in 1842, they moved to Platte County, and in the spring of 1844, to Jackson County. He returned to Buchanan County in 1848. His wife died in the fall of 1848, leaving four children, one of whom is now living, Louisa J. He was again married in August, 1849, to Miss Matilda Riley, of Kentucky. By this union they have six children, Sarah R., James K. P., Stephen A. D., Sarah E., Henry I. A. J. and William R. E. L. In 1861, Mr. L. moved to Andrew County, where he remained till 1863, when he returned to Buchanan County. His landed estate consists of 372 acres, his home farm containing 336 acres. He is a Mason, and a member of the Agency Lodge No. 10, also a Chapter member.

Alexander Lozo

This gentleman was born in Ogdensburg, New York, March 9, 1S40, and at the age of ten years removed to Canada. His father, Alexander, was a lumber mechant. Alexander learned his profession under the tutorship of the famous Notam, one of the master artists of the province. In 1864, he opened a studio at Belleville, and operated at different points until 1870, when he located in St. Joseph. His rooms are handsomely furnished, and in all lines of art he does a good business, embracing water colors, crayons, and the latest styles of photographing.

Lucas Brothers

show-case manufacturers. This is the only establishment of the kind in St. Joseph, and their business extends over a vast area of country. Their cases are to be found on sale in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, California, Oregon, Wyoming, and other States and Territories. J. W. Lucas is ai native of Highland County, Ohio ; was born in 1842, and there resided until August 19, 1862, when he enlisted in the Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in many notable engagements, Fort Donaldson, Chicamauga, and others. At the latter place he was taken prisoner, and for fourteen months his time was spent in Andersonville, Danville, Belle Isle, Macon, and Salsbury and several other " pens." He was honorably discharged in 1865. In 1866 he removed to Montgomery County, Iowa, residing there until 1879, when he became a resident of St. Joseph, engaging in his present business. Mr. C. B. Lucas was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1850, and was there raised to manhood and resided until the autumn of 1880, when he came to this city and associated himself with his brother.

Section 26, post office St. Joseph, was born in Cooper County, Missouri, March 28, 1820. She received a fair education and was raised in the country. She married Dr. C. B. Lykins, June i, 1837. He was born in Indiana, February 3, 1813. By this union they had twelve children: Andrew C, Mary V., Julia A., David A., John J., William C, Sarah E., Cynthia A., Emma V., James S., Charles R., and an infant who diedwhen young. Dr. L. died July 3, 1878. By industry and economy he saved 160 acres of land, which is all under fence, with fair improvements and five acres of orchard. The Doctor was two years in the Federal army. He was a Mason. Since his death his wife has been doing the best in her power to protect the property and raise up the family, so that they may be bright and shining lights in the community.

Geo. Lyon

was born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, May 22, 1823, and lived there until twelve years of age. The following eighteen years were spent mostly in Albany, his native place, and Brooklyn, Long Island. He .was raised with a mercantile experience, and continued the same until 1854, when he removed to Chicago and engaged in the lumber trade. In i860, he removed to St. Joseph, and continued the same business. In 1862, he was elected Treasurer of Buchanan County, and held the office eight years. He has also held the office of City Treasurer. During the late war he enlisted as a private in Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment E. M. M., and was commissioned Captain. Since he became a resident of the county, he has been of its representative business men, taking an active part in all things having a tendency to promote the interests of the city. He was the President of the first agricultural exposition of any magnitude in the county. He married Miss Jane C. Judson March 10, 1843. She is also a native of St. Lawrence Courity, New York. They have a family of nine children, Jno. F., Judson, George, David and Jennie (twins), Frederick W., Horace, Arthur, and May. Lost one daughter, Grace.

wagon maker, was born in Allen County, Kentucky, August 2, 1837, and when fourteen years of age, removed to this state, his father, William, locating in Buchanan County. In 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Missouri, but owing to ill health, was honorably discharged in 1863. For a number of years he was a resident of Troy, Kansas, but took up his permanent abode in St. Joseph in 1872. He has been twice married ; first, in 1858, to Miss R. A. Bradshaw, who died, leaving two children - engineer on the St. Louis, Wabash & Pacific Railway. Is a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and was born September i/, 1843. Was there raised to manhood, educated, and commenced railroading, and for fourteen months was fireman on the North British Railroad. In 1870 he came to the United States and thence to this city, and for seven years was in the employ of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad, the greater portion of the time as fireman. Since that time he has been with the present company. Mr. McBride is thoroughly familiarized with the details of railroading, and as an engineer has few equals. He was married in 1874 to Miss Margaret Priestly. They have four children, John, Isabelle, Mary, and Laura.

city engineer, was born in Ireland, October 25th, 183 1, and came to this country in 185 1, soon engaging in railroad engineering in St. Louis. In 186 he entered the U. S. service as Government Engineer, and remained in this position until 1866. In 1869, he came to St. Joseph, and, until 1876, was engaged as a railroad engineer, which has been, his life-calling. At that time he was elected City Engineer, and the city of St. Joseph owes him a debt of gratitude for the perfecting, in her midst, of one of the finest systems of water works in the state. His system of sewerage is excellent,, and, altogether, the citizens of St. Joseph have cause to congratulate themselves upon having an officer competent to fill so important a position. He married Miss Elizabeth F. Welch, in this city, in 1872. They have two children : Rose and Frances.

carpenter and builder, was born August 3rd, 1858, in Mercer County, Missouri, and wh^n young, the family removed to Fairfield, Iowa, where his father, J. C, engaged in merchandising and hotel keeping. They subsequently returned to Missouri, locating where J. C. McC. still resides. Our subject learned his trade principally in Iowa. In the spring of 1879, he came to St. Joseph, and has since been actively engaged in his business. As a mechanic he will compare favorably with many of the older workmen. On February 24, 1 881, Miss Luella Chapman, an estimable lady, of St. Joseph, became his wife.

was born in Randolph County, Virginia, January 7; 1826, and came with his parents to Missouri, in 1836, settling first at Cape Girardeau, and afterwards moving to Morgan County. After his father's death, in 1839, James left school at the age of fourteen, and obtained a situation in a store at Calhoun, Henry County. His finances not admitting of any other mode of travel, he walked from his home to Calhoun, a distance of sixty miles. After remaining here three years, he went to Warsaw in 1843, and remained there until 1846, excepting an absence of two months. In the spring of 1846, he made a trip to New Orleans in the interest of his employers, and upon his return in June, closed his engagement and went to Northwest Missouri, stopping until October in Savannah. Thence he went to Oregon, Holt County, and in company with Abram Nave opened a store under the firm name of Nave & McCord. This business continued three years, at the expiration of which time he withdrew and went to New Orleans. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, arriving in July of that year. In the month following he went to Nevada City and opened a provision store. Owing to ill health, he sold out and returned to Sacramento City, and met D. M. Steele, who had just arrived from Missouri. They immediately formed a partnership for buying emigrant cattle and feeding them until fat. Mr. McCord's health not improving, he sold his interest to Mr. Steele, and returned to Savannah, in January, 1851, and once more formed a partnership with Abram Nave, under the old firm name of Nave & McCord, which connection has been maintained in some form ever since. In January, 1852, the firm bought a drove of cattle for the California market. He was engaged in the cattle business for eight years. In 1857, '" company with Mr. Nave, he came to St. Joseph and engaged in the wholesale aad retail grocery business. In i860, they were burned out, their stock being a total loss, but, not discouraged, they re-established their business. The firm has houses in other cities doing a large business, and wherever their name is connected it is a synonym for success. Mr. McCord's success in life is due to sterling principles of truth, diligence and persevering application, and he affords a striking illustration of what a man can acconlplish by concentrating his energies on one subject. He was married, in 1854, to Miss Mary E. Halleck, of Jessamine County, Kentucky.

of the firm of F. McCoun & Co., importers and jobbers of queensware glassware, platedware, mirrors, lamps, etc., was born in Kentucky, May 31, 1836, and emigrated to Missouri in 1856, locating in Andrew County, where he followed farming until the war broke out. He became engaged as salesman with V. B. Buck, wholesale boot and shoe dealer, in 1866, and was admitted as partner in 1870^ remaining up to June, 1877, when he sold out to Patterson, Noyes & Co. He then returned to Kentucky, remaining over two years. Since that time he has lived on his farm, three and one-half miles north of St, Joseph. January i, 1 881, he engaged in his present business. September 3, 1868, he married Miss Helen M. Conway. She is a native of Missouri, and was born January 17, 1852. They have had six children : John C, born November 23, 1869 ; Cleota, born November 25, 1871 ; Mary E., born January 2, 1874 ; Ferdinand W., born June 28, 1876 ; Robert H., born September 29,. 1878, and an infant son, born June 15, 1880. Mr. McCoun is a Mason, and member of the Christian Church. In August, 1861, he was arrested at his home, in Missouri, cast into prison at Savannah, and finally paroUed. He was bitterly opposed to secession, but this unjust arrest fired up his soul, enthused his Southern heart, and he enlisted in the Tenth Missouri Regiment, under General Price. Was in the Confederate Army four years, less one month, participating in every engagement in which the brigade took part. His mother and but one brother are still living out of a family of nine. Mrs. J. I. McCoun was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, December 23, 1802. She is active, and enjoys good health. The benevolent heart of Mr. McCoun is always in sympathy with charitable and progressive enterprises.

cooper, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and was there raised and learned his trade in that city. After serving his time he opened a shop which he operated for a number of years. Then removed to Ohio, remaining some time, and returned to Pittsburgh, and after a short sojourn located in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1866 he went to Kansas and took charge of the government shops at Leavenworth. After which he was in other places until 1875, when he became a res'ident of St. Joseph. He is a first-class mechanic, a gentleman unassuming in his demeanor, and popular with all who know him.

was born near Harrisburg, Kentucky, May 19, 1832. His father was a farmer of that neighborhood, and here the subject of this sketch resided till he was nineteen years of age, when he left his home for the West, and settled in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he engaged as a clerk in the store of Donnell & SaTxton. In 1853, he was received as a partner in the business. A short time previous to the breaking out of the civil war, he purchased the interest of his partners, and became sole proprietor of the concern, a general retail dry-goods house, then located on the corner of

Fourth and Felix streets. In 1865, he associated with himself C.H. Buckman and F. L. McLain, and under the name and style of R. L. McDonald & Co., engaged in the wholesale trade. In 1867, F. L. McLain retired from the partnership for the purpose of engaging in the retail business alone. He was succeeded by George Henderson. In 1872, Colonel J. H. Dayton became a member of the firm. In January, 1877, Dayton and Buckman both retired from the partnership, and W. A. P. McDonald became a partner. Since that period, this gentleman and George Henderson, Jr., have composed the Co. of the concern. In December, 1880, the elegant structure of the present business house of this firm, a brick faced with cut stone, on the northwest corner of Fourth and Francis streets, was completed and occupied. This is the largest structure of the kind in the city, having a frontage of one hundred feet on Fourth street, running back one hundred and forty feet on Francis street, and is four stories high, with an elegantly lighted basement, opening on the grade of Francis street. The floor space of the entire building includes .70,000 square feet. The stories are of unusual height, the basement being twelve feet, the first iloor twenty feet, the second seventeen feet, the third sixteen, and the fourth story twelve feet. This house, the largest west of St. Louis, distributes its sales over twelve States and Territories, employing constantly about twenty traveling salesmen, besides the sixty or seventy engaged in the house. R. L. McDonald was married May 16, 1857, to Miss Mary A. Wilson, daughter of Gen. Robert Wilson, formerly United States Senator from Missouri, and niece of Armstrong Beattie, deceased. They have had seven children. Of these, John, Maggie, Mattie, Robert, Annie and Marie, survive.

was born in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri, August 17, 1847. His father, D. M. McDonald, now (1881) a prominent lumber dealer of St. Joseph, soon after moved to Stewartsville, in DeKalb County, where he was engaged in general merchandising till the breaking out of the civil war, when he sold out and entered the Confederate service. The subject of this sketch was the third son of a family of seven children, four of whom are living. He completed his education in Stewartsville Academy, an institution presided over by Rev. W. O. H. Perry. From his earliest boyhood he worked in stores and was bred to mercantile pursuits. In early youth he also had a varied experience, acquiring a knowledge of several trades, among which were sign painting, printing, etc. He was also at one time a railroad agent and telegraph operator. In 1865 he was employed by R. L. McDonald & Co., now the largest wholesale dry goods house in St. Joseph. He was soon promoted to the position of entry clerk, and subsequently to that of book-keeper, which position he filled till 1870, when he engaged as traveling salesman, continuing in this latter place till 1872, when he was appointed general salesman in the house. In 1873 he left the dry goods business, and engaged with the Merchants' Insurance Company. He remained general agent of this company for the space of four years. In 1877 he again associated himself as a partner in the firm of R. L. McDonald & Co. January, 1872, W. A. P. McDonald was married to Miss Forrestine Gower, daughter of Col. A. G. Gower, a prominent railroad man, and the builder of several roads through Buchanan County. By this marriage they have two daughters, Forrestine, aged about eight years, and R. L. aged seven.

Buchanan County, was fortunate in having among its early settlers men of solid worth. They contributed to that excellent reputation of the county of which it has ever had just cause to be proud. Of this number no one has contributed a larger share than Dr. McDonald. He was born in Washington County, Kentucky, April i8th, 18 12, and was there raised. After making choice of the practice of medicine as a profession, he attended his first course of lectures at Transylvania University, in 1834, and his second course was at the Cincinnati Medical College, in 1837. In 1836, he came to Missouri, and settled in Howard County, and in 1837 made a prospecting tour to Texas, but not liking the country, he returned, and made his home in this county. In January, 1838, he pre-empted a claim, and at the same time engaged in the active duties of his profession. He was the first physician to settle in what is now known as Buchanan County. Dr. McDonald is a man of acknowledged ability, as a physician, and his services as such are recognized by a host of appreciatory friends. His kind and sympathetic nature made him a welcome visitor in the sick room, and when in active practice, his calls were numerous and remote. He is well known throughout the county, and the respect shown him is as wide as his acquaintance. He has ridden hundreds of miles to administer to the necessities of the poor, at all seasons of the year, without any expectation of compensation. Day and night he answered calls, regardless of the pecuniary circumstances of the summoner. As a man he is a genial companion, positive in his character, and warm-hearted as a friend. Ten years ago he retired from active practice. Having acquired a competency, his time has been occupied with financial matters. He married Miss Sarah Donnell, October 30th, 1839. She was born in North Carolina. She is a lady of refined taste and domestic habits, whose life has been devoted to making home happy and attractive. Their family consists of seven children : Martha (now Mrs. France ;) . Daniel (late a banker at Forest City ;) John T., dairyman, was born in Ireland, in 1816, and when he was small his parents died. He was married in the fall of 1839, to Miss Ellen Short. By this union they had nine children, John, Patrick, Owen, William, Ellen, Charles, James, Barney and Kate ; four of them have died. He and his wife are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. McGinty emigrated to America in 1853, and located in St. Louis, and there followed the dairy business. In 1866, he immigrated to St. Joseph, and has been engaged in his present business ever since. He has been crippled with rheumatism for sixteen years, but otherwise enjoys good health.

job printer, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was educated, graduating as a compositor from the Leader office. He came to St. Joseph in the spring of 187 1, and was in the employ of the Steam Printing Company, until 1878, when he embarked in the job printing business. Previous to coming to this city he was engaged in working at Rand, McNally & Go's, and other first class printing houses in Chicago. For artistic card, railway and commercial printing, his work is on an equality with any done in the West.

proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, was born in the parish of Kilmurry McMahon, County Clare, Ireland, April 29, 1841, and came to this country in 1862, and settled in Freehold, New Jersey, where he worked in a hotel. In 1863, he went to Great Valley, New York, remaining there until early in 1864. At the beginning of the coal oil excitement he went to the oil regions in Pennsylvania, and worked there first in putting up machinery, and then at masonry till 1867, at which time he went to Meadville, Pennsylvania, remaining there speculating in oil and other stocks till early in 1869. He moved to Kent, Ohio, where he kept a billiard hall for some nineteen months, and then came West, settling at Rock Island, Illinois. Then he visited the principal towns of Iowa, Illinois and Dakota, and finally landed in St. Joseph, Missouri, in September, 1870, when he settled and bought the property now located on the corner of Mitchell Avenue and Tenth Street, then an open prairie. He purchased of Milton Tootle the property he still owns, on which stands the Commercial Hotel. Was married to Miss Mary Kelly, in Davenport, Iowa, October 3, 1871. They have two children living. Mr. Mclnerny attended school in Ireland with the lady who is now his wife. They had not seen each other for fourteen years, when they accidentally met in Davenport. Mr. McI. keeps an excellent house, and enjoys great personal popularity. For several years has been elected Alderman of his ward, a position the duties of which he discharged acceptably. Is President of the Land League of St. Joseph, and is notably active and liberal in all church and school enterprises. He is a Catholic and a Democrat.

County Judge,, was born in County Linford, Ireland, May 15, 1833, and came to this country in 1S49, stopping in Coldspring, New York, where he learned the grading business. In 1854, he came to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and remained for nine years, following his vocation. He married Miss Catherine Shaughnesey while there, and came to St. Joseph, in 1863, where he worked at his trade, and has done more, perhaps, than any other man, to level down the hills, fill up the valleys, grade the streets, artd ornament them by setting trees, etc. His work has not been entirely confined to the city, for he has done many large jobs in the country. Among his more important works were, the grading of the court house site, the cathedral lot, and some of the largest blocks in the city. He has also done much railroad grading. He graded the fair ground track, and does all kinds of work in his line. He was elected County Judge in 1880, and no man on the Board takes a deeper interest in the welfare of the county, and attends to its business with more zeal and good common sense, than does Judge Mclntire. He is a devoted Catholic, and a Democrat, always taking a lively interest in building up church and school interests.

is a prominent architect and builder, and is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, where he was born July 23, 1818. He was there raised, educated and learned his trade. Our subject, for eleven years, was in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, and constructed all the depot buildings on the line, including the depot at Washington, District Columbia, Camden depot at Baltimore, and also the first iron bridge on the road. In 1856 he came West and took up his abode in St. Joseph, and has been actively engaged at his trade since. Among the first buildings he worked on in the city were the Patee and Pacific Houses. Mr. McMachen has been twice married ; first, to Miss Mary Murry, of Maryland. She died, leaving one son, J. Robert, and he was married the second time to Mrs. Christena C. Parsons, nee Shotts. By this union they have four children, John Robert, Samuel D., Harry E., and Benjamin. Mrs. McMachen by her first husband has a daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. McMa- chen belongs to the Encampment I. O. O. F., King Hill Lodge, No. 19. Has been an Odd Fellow forty-two years. For a number of years he was Deputy Grand Master.

(Chief of the Fire Department, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, April 22, 1838, and came to this country in 1848, and with his father's family settled in Philadelphia, Pa. He there learned the bookbinding trade, and then went to Cincinnati and worked at it two years, and in 1857 came to this city and started the fif-st bookbindery. He is still carrying on the business, in connection with one of the largest establishments in the city. He married Mollie Elder, in this city in 1861. They have one child, Libbion Florence; lost one. McNutt has seen much of the substantial improvements, and has established a reputation as a first-class workman and a reliable business man that few enjoy. He has always taken an active interest in the Fire Department, was among the first to organize a company in 1874, was elected Chief Engineer of the Department, and held the position for six years.

carriage manufacturer, was born February 24, 1852, in Dubuque, Iowa, and was there raised, educated and graduated in the carriage works of Tom Connelly. He resided principally in the Key City until 1877, when he came West, taking up his abode in St. Joseph. He worked for a time as a journeyman, and then branched into trade, and is one of the best -workmen in the state, and the firm of McPoland & Farrell, is rapidly coming to the front.

«ole agent for the light running Domestic sewing machine, one of the representative sewing machine agents of Buchanan County, is our subject. He is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was born January 13, 1850. At an early age he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents, where he was raised and educated, graduating in the High School of that city, His father, John MacSpadden, was well known in Cleveland as a contractor and painter. In 1869, J. C. moved to Kansas, and engaged in the sewin§> machine business at Lawrence, Leavenworth amd Atchison, and was state agent for the Wheeler & Wilson Company. In 1877, he took up his abode in St. Joseph. He is a practical sewing machine man, and does a large and increasing business. He has the agency for several machines, but makes a specialty of the light running Domestic, which he considers superior to all others. He also carries a complete line of supplies., patterns, etc. In 1875, Miss Rosa Amann, a was born February 10, 1822, at Strempfelbach,' Germany, aud left his birthplace, when fourteen years old, with his uncle, who was on a visit from America, and came with him, in 1836, to Louisville, Kentucky, There he served his apprenticeship as butcher, for two years, and was also employed for twelve years. He came to St. Joseph in 1850, where he commenced his business, which he carried on very successfully for six years, when- he sold out. He retired from business, bought twenty acres of land, and commenced to become a wine grower, and was the first in this city. By his example he has animated others to follow, and has done much for St. Joseph. In acknowledgement of his merits, he was elected President of the Horticultural Society, of St. Joseph, and Vice President of the State Horticultural Society, of Missouri. In 1848, at Louisville, he was married to Miss Rosine Jant.

George R. Mann

of the firm of Eckel & Mann, architects. One who has attained a wide and well merited reputation in this important art, is George R. Mann, who was born in Elkhart County, Indiana, July 22, 1854. There he resided until he attained his thirteenth year, receiving the benefits of the common schools, after which for three years he studied architecture, in Indianapolis, and also for four years at the School of Technology, in Boston. From this he graduated with high honors, taking all the prizes in the diiferent classes, and the premium at the Centennial for the finest designs. He located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and after completing his studies, he' remained two years, after which he was employed in Detroit and Washington, D. C, and other cities, as draughtsman. In October, 1879, he took up his abode in St. Joseph. Among the many specimens of his skill are the edifices of Tootle, Hosea & Co.'s, Turner, Frazer & Co.'s and R. L. McDonald & Co.'s stores, and J. G. Englehart's and A. N. Schuster's residences, the Union Depot, also the Court House and Jail of Nodaway County, and the Union Depot at Hannibal.

S. H. Manly

- of the firm of Manly & Gray, carpenters and builders, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, August 2nd, 1822, and when seven years of age, removed, with his parents, to Wayne County, Ohio, where his father, John, engaged in agricultural pursuits. S. H. spent his early life in farming in Wayne County, and there resided until 1866, when he came to St. Joseph. He is a natural mechanic, and this combined with close application, has made him among the foremost of the craft. For over three years he was foreman for R. K. Allen. He was married, in 1867, to Miss Sarah J, Hunt. By this union they have had three children : Samuel B. and Lillie Maud, living, and Franklin, deceased.

Principal of the Young Ladies' Institute, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in January, 1812. He received a good academic education, and studied medicine with his father, Dr. Geo. Martin ; also attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1833. He practiced medicine exclusively for only about a year, yet he has been obliged to prescribe for his friends, more or less, ever since. In 1836, he entered upon the work of the ministry, in the Lutheran Church. In 1857, he became principal of the Lutherville Female Seminary, near Baltimore, Maryland. In 1859, he established the Collegiate Institute, at Warren, Illinois. In 1865, he became principal of the Hagerstown, Md., Female Seminary. Here he remained until he came to St. Joseph, in 1869, where, in September of the same year, he established the Young Ladies' Institute, a school of recognized merit and increasing popularity. The Doctor desires this to be the crowning masterpiece of his life work. He contemplates making large additions to the present buildings, and fitting them up in first-class style, to accommodate the increasing patronage of the institution. His first wife was Miss Eliza Carlton, of Maryland. By this marriage they had four children : George T., Elizabeth and Charles E., and Emma V., who died in 1833. Mrs. M. died in 1846. In 1865, he married Miss L. C. Robinson, of Easton, Maryland. They have three children : Maggie R., Martina W. and Endora L.

George W. Marlow

proprietor of the Elephant Boot and Shoe Store, in St. Joseph, is a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, where he spent his boyhood's days. In 1869 he went West and settled in St. Joseph, where he embarked in the boot and shoe trade, locating on the north side of Market Square, where he remained till 1875, when he moved to his present location on Felix Street. Mr. Marlow has always borne the reputation of an enterprising and honorable merchant. His business in St. Joseph proved a success from the start, and no retail house in the Northwest keeps a larger or more varied stock in his line. Every floor of the three-story building he occupies is filled with goods. His brother, Mr. John Marlow, a courteous and affable gentlemen, is the leading salesman of the establishment.

Desire Marechal

of the firm of Marechal & Son, proprietors of the Valley commission house, and dealers in baled hay, corn, oats, etc., is a native of Francci and was born November 13, 1826. Was there raised and educatfed, and served an apprenticeship to the brick and stone mason trade. In 1857, he came to America, and for a time was a resident of Wisconsin and Illinois, locating in St. Joseph in 1863. After a short sojourn he went to Montgomery County, engaging in trade for a time, when he again became a resident of St. Joseph. For a time he operated a feed mill on Frederick Avenue, previous to engaging in his present business. He is a worthy and honorable citizen. Was married, July 8th, 1848, to Miss Erenstine Rusel. They have a family of four children: Emeiale, Elish., Sarah and Theophelis. Himself and family are closely identified with the Baptist Church.

Joseph T. Martin

foreman of the St. Joseph Planing Mill, is a native of Maryland, and was born in Emmettsburgh, July 31, 1846. He there spent his youthful days, and resided, until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he tendered his services to the Confederate cause, enlisting in the Second Maryland Battalion, and served until the close of the war, participating in many stirring events, among which were the second battle of Bull Run and Antietam ; was three times wounded, once severely, and was taken prisoner at Petersburg, and held two months at Point Lookout. In 1865, he came West, taking up his abode in this city, and entered the St. Joseph Planing Mill. Being a man of mechanical inclination, he rapidly progressed, and in about two years was placed as foreman. The duties of this responsible position he has since faithfully discharged. Mr. Martin, in scroll work and ornamental designs, of which he makes a specialty, has but few equals. A large amount of this class of work, which ornaments many of the imposing structures of St. Joseph, and throughout the Northwest, are specimens of his skill. He is esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances.

real estate agent. Few citizens of St. Joseph have attained such a widespread and richly deserved reputation at home and in Europe than Major Markle. He is a native of Butler County, Ohio, and was born July 15, 1830. He graduated at the Miami University, in Oxford, attending the same period that Ben Harrison, and other, now prominent, officials were preparing for the voyage of life. At the breaking out of the rebellion we find him in the field as First Lieutenant of the

Forty-seventh Ohio ; after a time he recruited and became Major of the Sixty-ninth. During his term of active duty he was at Pittsburg Landing and many other notable events. During the latter part of the war he was inspector of provisions at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1866 Mr. M. came to St. Joseph, engaging in the real estate and government claim business. He was railroad commissioner for the Denver Railway, and made the first sale of their land. In 1872, in company with Moses S. Beach, of New York, he purchased one hundred and four thousand acres of timber land in Arkansas, one of the heaviest transactions in real estate on record, and it must be conceded that it was a venture of more than ordinary consequence. The panic of 1873 coming on so affected the money market that they were obliged to keep it all entirely on their hands. They engaged in getting out large amounts of black walnut timber, and exported it to Europe, and latterly have been supplying the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company with enormous amounts of material. Mr. Markle made three trips to Europe to make a sale of this vast domain to foreign capitalists, the first time remaining a year, the second time six months, and the last time a shorter period. He negotiated with the moneyed men of London and Glasgow, and several times was on the eve of effecting a sale, when some trifling technicality would arise and retard its progress. However, property is becoming more valuable, and in the near future will handsomely compensate the gentlemen for their venture. Mr. Markle has been twice married, first, in 1852, to Mary R. Give, who died, leaving two children, Charlie and Effie. He was again married in 1867 to Miss Lucy G. Give, and by this marriage they have four children, Frank, Willie, Jennie, and Miner.

Christian Mast

Revenue Collector, was born October 8, 1836, in the Province of Wurtemberg, Germany, and in 1842, moved to Attenstaig, Province of Nagold, where he was raised. In 1852, he emigrated 'to America, and went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he learned the trade of printer, and remained five years. In 1857, he came to St. Joseph, remaining with his brother, Charles Mast, for six months, and in 1858 enlisted in the United States regular army, and took part with his regiment, under the command of General Albert Sidney Johnson, in the Utah campaign. At the outbreak of the civil war he returned with his regiment, and joined the army of the Potomac, and served up to 1864, when, being honorably discharged, he returned to St. Joseph, and engaged in the ice business, which he carried on successfully, and is now President of the St. Joseph Ice Company. September i, 1875, he was appointed Deputy Collector of the Sixth District of Missouri, which position he still holds. Was married, June 30, 1868, to Miss Augusta Figge, of "Waidick, Germany. They have four children: Fritz, born May 3, 1869; Ida, born June i, 1871; Josephine, born September 10, 1873; Oscar, born September 11, 1875.

Mayers & Bennett

dealers in boots and shoes, 415 Felix Street. Among those who occupy a conspicuous place in the city's commercial circles and have contributed a full share towards its reputation, is the above firm. Mr. C. F. Mayers, the senior member, is a native of Switzerland, where he was born in 1820. He is of German and Swiss lineage, and was raised and learned the watchmaking trade in his native country. In 1848, he came to America, and for ten years pursued his vocation as a jeweler, in the city of New York, after which he came west, and until 1870 was engaged in various pursuits in Colorado and other parts of the distant west. In that year he came to St. Joseph, where he has since been a resident, engaged in the boot and shoe trade. He js a man of clear judgment, quick comprehension, and a close applicant to his business details. The boot and shoe house of Mayers & B. is well stocked with a line of superior goods, and their trade lucrative and steadily on the increase. They are representative gentlemen of the truest type and well merit their success.

Henry Mayer

bridge builder, house mover and contractor, was born in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, September 7, 185 1, and was there reared and learned the carpenter's trade. His father, Joseph, was an agriculturist, and Henry spent his early days on the farm. In 1869, he came to St. Joseph. Is well known throughout Buchanan County, and has attained an enviable reputation. Was married in 1873, to Miss Maria Riter, of St. Joseph, daughter of Joseph Riter, one of the old settlers in the county. They have three children by this union - Edward, Albert J. and Josephine M. Himself and family are' members of the Catholic Church, and he belongs to the St. Francis Society.

John Medley

salesman for W. J. Swope, was born in Madison County, Virginia, Decern-, ber 27, 1819, and at an early age removed with his parents to Mississippi, where he was educated and reared. His father, M. B. Medley, was a native of Madison County, Virginia,, and for thirty-eight years was a resident of the old homestead where he was born. In 1856, our subject came to Missouri, locating in Platte County, and residing there until 1863, when he took up his abode in St.. Joseph. Mr. Medley has lost two wives, the first was Miss Caledonia Adlcins, and the second Miss Mary Byrne. By his first marriage he has one daughter, Mary. He traces his lineage to English extraction, and is possesed to a large degree with an appreciative intellect.

George Meierhoffer

a native of Booneville, Missouri, and was born September 7, 1852. He was there raised, and learned his trade of his father, Jacob, who was the pioneer cooper of that town. George remained at home until 1869, when he came to St. Joseph, and, until 1875, worked as journeyman, when he established himself in trade, in a small way. It has been on the increase, until at present it reaches out in the distance. West and Northwest, proportionately. May 7, 1876, he married Louisa Herwig. They have three children : Nettie, Lena, and an infant. He is a member of the German Benevolent Society.

engineer on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, was born in Androscoggin County, Maine, December i, 1842, and was there brought up and educated. At the breaking out of the rebellion, in 1 861, he displayed that patriotism characteristic of his native state, by enlisting in the three months' call, and. served until the close of the war. He participated in the first battle of Bull Run, was in the first expedition to the gulf, and at the capture of New Orleans, the bombardment of Fort Phillip, and also with General Banks on his famous Red River expedition. Participated in all the principal engagements in the Shenandoah Valley and the majority of the hard-fought battles of the rebellion. Passing through the usual routine of promotion, he was mustered out as a Second Lieutenant. He received seven wounds, some of which were painful, but none serious. He had two brothers, also in the service - David V. and Joseph S. The former was a Sergeant, and was killed at the battle of Mount Bermuda. Joseph S. was a First Lieutenant, and was discharged before the close of the war on account of wounds received while discharging his duty, from the effects of which he died soon after returning liome. Mr. Merrill did his part towards suppressing the rebellion, and as a testimonial. Governor Joshua Chamberlain, of Maine, presented him with a memorial, signed by the members of the Legislature, for meritorious conduct and bravery. In 1867, he came West, locating at Hannibal, and engaged on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in the bridge 'department. Being a carpenter by trade, was soon superintendent of bridges, and continued in this line of work for several years, after which -he went in the train service, remaining until 1875, when he became assist- ant yard master with the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad Company in St. Joseph, holding this position until April, 1881. Was married December 24, 1868, to Miss Josie A., daughter'of Hon. John B. Lewis, of Hannibal, Missouri, her father being a prominent attorney of that city. By this union they have one daughter - Lurah A. Mr. M. is a member of the I. O. O. F. Encampment, and the K. of P., Apollo Lodge, Hannibal.