Buchanan County, Missouri - Chapter 28: Reminiscences, 1904 (part 10 of 18)

Harold Hays was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1808, and when a young man went to Scotland, and thence to France. He was married at Paris and shortly afterward came to the United States, locating in North Carolina. He later moved to Tennessee, where he became a wealthy planter, acquiring a competency through his individual efforts. When the war broke out, his sympathies were enlisted with the Union cause, and he was incarcerated by the Rebels and died in Tuscaloosa Prison in 1862. Religiously, he was of the Catholic faith. He was united in marriage with Kate Fonts, who was born in Paris, France, and died in Tennessee during the early part of the Civil \\'ar, aged 50 years. Our subject is the youngest of eight children born to his parents, and is the only one now living. They were as follows: Henry, Helen. John. Isabelle, James N. and three who died in infancy.

James N. Hays was reared on his father's farm until he was 22 years of age and received his educational training by attending the common schools until he was past 17 years, then one year at Benton Academy, and four years at Bat Creek College. The war interfered with further pursuit of his studies and in 1861 he went to jNIurfreesboro. Being a Union man, he enlisted in Company B, 9th Reg., Michigan Vol. Inf., under Capt. O. C. Rounds. In the first engagement, in June or July, 1862, he was taken captive with his entire company by General Forrest, and paroled. They were sent North to Camp Chase, near Cincinnati, Ohio, to await exchange. He remained there until fall of that year, and then was detailed in Capt. A. 15. Dodd"s office at Columbus, Ohio, where he wrote discharges. In the fall of 1863, he was sent to Wisconsin and attached to Company H. 30th Reg., Wisconsin \'ol. Inf., under Colonel Dill. In the si)ring of the following year he was sent to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and attached to the Third Minnesota Battery, under Captain Jones. \\'ith this battery he crossed the plains and fought the Sioux Indians. Returning, he was sent under Lieutenant \\'hipple to Fort Ripley, Minnesota, where the detachment of troops wintered ; from there he went to Detroit and was discharged after a service covering a period of three years. At Murfreesboro he received a bayonet thrust in the hip and a minie-ball in the leg, but his wounds were not serious and kept him in the hospital but a short time. After the war he entered Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Detroit, Michigan, and completed his course, after which he was employed in the freight department of the C, C. & C Railroad Company at Columbus. In 1868, he went to Jefifersonville, Indiana, and accepted a position as foreman in the military clothing department, under Captain Hull. In the spring of 1869 he journeyed West to Wyandotte County, Kansas, and purchased a farm of 48 acres, on which he raised one crop. In the fall of that year he removed to Platte County, Missouri, and taught school until 1870. He then followed farming until 1880, when he came to Buchanan County. He purchased a farm of 204 acres north of Dearborn, improved it and built a fine dwelling and barn. After living upon this farm 14 years, he sold out and purchased 220 acres near Faucett, which was sold by him in 1902. He then purchased his present farm of 117^ acres, located in section 16, Center township, where he has since resided. He has engaged extensively in general farming and stockraising, has greatly improved the place by building a new barn and remodeling the farm dwelling. He set out 300 cherry trees, 100 peach trees and 100 apple trees. He makes a specialty of raising Shorthorn and Durham cattle and has the farm well stocked.

Mr. Hays was united in marriage with Martha C. ]\Iaget, who was bom in Platte County, Missouri, March 16, 1849, ^"d died in Buchanan County, July 29, 1893. She was a daughter of Rufus and Jane ]\Iaget. The issue of this union were the following children : Ole May, who died at the age of 13 years ; Alva, who died when nine months old ; Montie, who died at the age of 13 \ears ; Delia Pearl, who died at the age of 17 years ; Lulu Ethel, aged 20 years ; flattie, aged 14 years, who is attending school at the present time ; and [Morgan R., born March 27, 1872, who is in the mountains of the West. \n 1895, our subject was married to Elizabeth Alice blathers, who was born in Buchanan County, [Missouri, [March 16. 1863, and is a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Mathers. Two children have been born to them : Edna May, born November 9, 1896: and Sarah [Melissa, born August 4, 1899. [Mr. Hays has always been a stanch supporter of Democratic principles, and is deeply interested in his party's success. Religiously, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Fraternally, he is a Mason and Knight Templar, and a member of the I. O. O. F. He is a man of high principles and enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow men to a marked degree.

ASON FRAKES, one of the prominent agriculturists of Lake township, Buchanan County, owning a fine, well-improved farm of i6o acres, in section 22, was born April i, 1855, in Doniphan County, Kansas, and is a son of Joseph and Psyche (Clevinger) Frakes.

The Frakes family came from Kentucky, where Joseph Frakes was born and grew to manhood. He settled first in Ray County, Missouri, one of the early settlers, but later moved to Doniphan County, Kansas, and still later, to Buchanan Comity, Missouri. His occupation was farming and, with the assistance of his numerous sons, he operated large bodies of land. His death , took i)lace in Lake township, at the age of 78 years. His venerable widow still survives, remarkably preserved in mind and body, having reached the unusual age of 87 years.

The outbreak of the Civil War, when our subject was but six years of age, interfered with his boyhood attendance at school, educational improvements being almost at a standstill for several years in. country localities. He assisted in the work on the home farm and remained with his father until 25 years of age, and then started into work for himself on his present property. Mr. Frakes is a practical, experienced farmer and has closely devoted himself to the cultivation of his land, engaging in general farming, stockraising and fruit-growing. His improvements are of an excellent kind and his property is one of the attractive and very valuable ones of Lake township.

On December 25, 1882, Mr. Frakes was united in marriage with Montie Warner, who was born in Doniphan County, Kansas, September 3, 1867, and is a daughter of Wilson and Samantha (White) Warner. Mr. Warner was born in Kentucky and remained there until after his marriage, when he moved to Kansas. His four children were: Mack, deceased in 1900 at Wellington, Missouri, who married Cora Craiglands ; Louis, residing in Kansas, who married

Mr. Frakes like the other members of the family, residing chiefly in Wayne and Lake townships, has always been noted for his active support of the Democratic party. He is a good, representative citizen of Lake township and commands the respect of all who know him.

AJ. JOHN L. BITTINGER, one of .St. Joseph's most distinguished public men, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was consul general of the United States at Montreal, Canada, from 1897 until May, 1903. He is now living a i:)ractically retired life after many years of activity in the field of journalism. He was for many years the publisher and editor of the St. Joseph Herald, whose prestige he established. Since the organization of the party, he has been a leader in the Republican politics of the State, one with whom the national leaders cotinsel.

Major Bittinger was born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1833, and is a son of John and Susan (Ritter) Bittinger, with whom he sttbsequently removed to Rowsburg, Ohio. There he attended the village schools until he was 12 years old, when his father died. He then secured employment near his home, with a farmer, who afterward removed to Green County, Wisconsin, taking our subject with him. There the latter worked on the farm and attended school for three years, besides reading such books as were obtainable. In 1852 he became an apprentice in the office of the Freeport Journal at Free]:>ort, Illinois, and at the end of six months was advanced to the position of foreman. During the remainder of his three years connection with that publication, he made all selections for the paper, collected and wrote the local news and assisted largely in the editorial work. In 1854, he was selected as a delegate to the congressional convention held at Rockford, which nominated Hon. Flihu B. Washburnc, that worthy having just completed a term in Congress as a Whig Representative. This was the first convention of the Republicans in the State of Illinois. In 1855, Mr. Bittinger accepted the position of assistant foreman of the St. Louis Intelligencer, and in 1857 became foreman of the 67. Lojiis Democrat. The following year he was elected delegate to represent the St. Lotiis Typographical L'nion at the National Typographical Convention in Chicago, and the succeeding year at Boston. He became publisher of the St. Louis Evening Bulletin, but disposed of his interests in the fall of 1859. In June, i860, he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he has since resided, with the exception of such times when he has been temporarily absent, engaged in the discharge of official duties that have called him elsewere. He was appointed postmaster by his boyhood personal friend. President Lincoln, and as the Civil \\'ar had just begun he was looked to by his party for all information and recommendations from his section of the State, the utmost confidence being reposed in his judgment by party leaders. In the summer of 1861, he turned the management of postal affairs to his deputy and clerks and volunteered for army service as a private. He was soon after advanced to rank of major and served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Willard P. Hall, commander of the Department of Northwest Missouri.

In 1862, Major Bittinger was elected a delegate to the first Republican State Convention and served as its secretary. He was appointed a member of the State Central Committee that year, and has served as a member of the committee ever since. He was elected in the fall of 1862 to represent his district in the State Legislature, and was re-elected at intervals five terms, serving 12 years in all. During his first term he served as Speaker pro teiii of the House and gave evidence of striking parliamentary ability. He secured many benefits for the city of St. Joseph, among other things the incorporation and inauguration of the street railway system. He secured the location at St. Joseph of the State Hospital for Insane, No. 2. He was the first to suggest the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River at this point and helped in organizing the company, of which he was a director and auditor of accounts. The bridge stands today as a monument to his persevering eft'orts.

In 1862, RIajor Bittinger purchased a half interest in the .9/. Joseph Herald, and becoming managing editor soon made it the most powerful and influential journal west of the Mississippi River. He temporarily retired from journalistic work in 1878, but in 1881 accepted a call to the position of managing editor of the Kansas City

Journal. Resigning in 1885, he made a tour of Europe, holding himself free from business engagements ttntil 1889, when he again assumed control of the St. Joseph Herald. His long press and political experience have given him a wide acquaintance and a commanding influence. He was the first temporary president of the Missouri Press Association, which was organized in 1867. He has traveled extensively in America and abroad, an interesting account of these journeys having been given the public from his pen. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1872 at Philadelphia, which renominated President Grant, and also to the convention at St. Louis in 1896, which nominated William McKinley for President. In 1897, he was appointed by President McKinley as consul general of the United States at Montreal.

On June 10, 1862, Major Bittinger was joined in marriage with Annie M. Smith of Freeport, Illinois, and they live in their beautiful home at No. 224 South loth street, St. Joseph. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Legion of Honor, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Royal Court. He is honorary member of the Missouri Editorial Association and of other organizations having connections with the profession he graced so long. He is now practically retired from the activity of his strenuous life, but is doing some literary work, among other things writing a sketch of St. Joseph for the "World's Fair Book" to be published in 1904.

lOHN A. VANHOOZER, postmaster at Rushville, Buchanan County, and proprietor of one of the leading mercantile houses of the town, was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, October 15, 1858. He is a son of David and Malinda (Campbell) (Sasseen) Vanhoozer.

The Vanhoozer family, as its name indicates, came originally from Holland. The founder of the family in America was John Vanhoozer, the great-grandfather of our subject, who settled at what was called Bays' Mountain, in Eastern Tennessee, where he followed the trade of hatter. His son, William Vanhoozer, was born in Tennessee, followed farming and died early in the "sixties." He ])articipated in the W'ar of 1812. His children were : Sampson, Isaac. John, David, Betsv, Lettie, Nancy and Sarah. -

4, 1827, enjoyed the best educational advantages the times afforded, and was instructed in young manhood in two self-supporting trades, those of blacksmith and shoemaker. In January, 1867, he came to Buchanan County, Missouri, and followed farming the remainder of his life, dying here May 15, 1894. He married Mrs. Malinda (Campbell) Sasseen, a daughter of Jesse Campbell, of Jefiferson County, Tennessee. Mrs. Vanhoozer died February 14, 1904, survived by her one child, - John A.

John A. Vanhoozer was eight years of age when his parents came to Buchanan County. After completing the common-school course, he entered Bryant's Commercial College, at St. Joseph, and was graduated at the age of 18 years, fully prepared to enter upon a business career. He first accepted a clerkship in the store of \V. W. Wells, at Rushville, and remained there two years. In order to see something of the world, he visited Atchison and Muscotah, Kansas ; Central City and Blackhawk, Colorado, and other points, clerking for a time in these places, and returning three years later to Rushville. During the summer of 1885 he followed farming but in the spring of 1886 he opened a mercantile business at Rushville, which he has continued to operate ever since, becoming one of the leading business men of .the town. For the past six years he has also been postmaster and is active and prominent in all public movements.

On November 12, 1866, Mr. Vanhoozer was married to Mary Allison, a daughter of Louis and Nancy (Patton) Allison, of Rush township, and they have had five children : Malinda ; Eva, who died in infancy ; a babe, that died unnamed ; David Louis ; and Agnes. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Politically, Mr. Vanhoozer has always been a zealous Republican and in 1896 he was chosen by his party as its candidate for county treasurer. The county is normally Democratic, but Mr. Vanhoozer was defeated b}- a very small majority.

IIOMAS W. STAMEY. the efficient city building inspector of St. Joseph, and a citizen who is held in high esteem, was l)c)rn in 1849 i" Caldwell County, North Carolina, and is a son of James Pinckney and Lauretta (Coleman) Stamey.

The Stamey family was established in North Carolina by John Stamey, a native of Pennsylvania and the grandfather of our subject. The father was born in Catawba County, North Carolina, and died in Burke County, in the same State, at the age of 60 years. He worked at his trade of millwright until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he entered the Confederate Army, as a member of the band attached to the 55th North Carolina Regiment. He was taken prisoner in the noted battle of Gettysburg by the Federal troops and was confined at Point Lookout for 22 months. After the close of the war, he resumed work at his trade and passed the remainder of his life in his native State. In politics he was an ardent Democrat and exerted considerable influence in his locality. The mother of our subject died in North Carolina. The two survivors of their three children are Thomas W. and William.

During the first 16 years of his life, Mr. Stamey attended school and learned his father's trade and also gained a very fair knowledge of the cabinet-maker's trade. After the war he spent two years in Virginia, engaged in milling, and then removed to Saline Count}', Missouri, where he followed farming for 10 years. He sold this farm and bought another in Andrew County, which he operated for some four years and then concluded to join some friends, who had been attracted by unusual inducements, in their removal to Kansas. This did not prove a successful venture, and two years later be returned to Missouri, with added love for this State, and in 1889 settled at St. Joseph, Here he entered into a general contracting business which he continued until a recent date, when he transferred his interests over to his two sons. Since September, 1904, Mr. Stamey has been city building inspector, a position for which he is eminently qualified by long years of experience.

In .1870, Mr. Stamey was married to Mary J. Welch, who was born in Missouri, and they have six children, namely ; James Thomas, born in Saline County, Missouri, who married Nora Lewis, of St. Joseph, and has two children, - Olla and Myrtle: John Wesley, born in Saline County, who married Ella Widows and has one son, - Roy ; Mora, born in Pettis County, Missouri, who married' Lavelle Elliott and has one child, - Thomas Henry ; Olive, born in Pettis County; Mary, born in St. Joseph; and Walter C, born in Andrew County, who married Lois Walthrop, of St. Joseph.

County and on the School Board. He belongs to several fraternal organizations and has been officially connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. Stamey is a type of the self-made man. His early opportunities were contracted, but through energy, persistence and industry he overcame what would have seemed insurmountable difficulties to some. He enjoys public confidence and the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens.

LFRED MICHAU, for almost a half century an esteemed and honored citizen of St. Joseph, has been one of the most prosperous of her business men and one of the wealthiest in the city. He was born in JeiTerson County, Missouri, in 1824, and has spent his entire 80 years within her borders. His father, St. Amant Michau, moved to Carondelet, St. Louis, when our subject was a small lad and there engaged in the manufacture of shot, a business which he conducted until some time in the "forties" and in which he amassed considerable wealth.

In 1846, soon after the death of his father, Alfred Michau located in IMaryville, Nodaway County, and engaged in the dry goods business and it was but a short time before he became a partner of John Saunders, who conducted a store at Maryville. The new firm of Saunders & Michau was continued for several years with the best results, then Mr. Saunders withdrew from the company and opened a hotel - the Saunders House - at St. Joseph, which he conducted until his death in 187 1. He was a man of superior ability and was highly esteemed by those who met him in a social or business way and is still kindly remembered by many of the older residents of St. Joseph. A brother of our subject was taken into the firm and it was then known as A. & L. Michau ; later die firm became Lieber, Michau & Company. The store at Maryville was continued until 1866 when Alfred Michau disposed of his interest to his brotlier and moved to this city. He purchased a half block of land on Felix street, between Sixth and Seventh streets, and subsequently erected the handsome buildings now occupied by the Sampson Dry Goods Company. The Leader, etc., which are the best and most (lesiral)le property in St. Joseph, yiv. Michau has been retired from business for several years but still takes a lively interest in it.

Mr. Michau was married in 185 1 to Nancy J. Saunders, a daughter of John Saunders. Mrs. Michau was born in 1830 in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, and was 13 years of age when her parents took up their residence in St. Joseph. Later they moved to Maryville where she married Mr. Michau, so it was not as a stranger that she accompanied her husband to their new home here. Of the children born to this worthy couple, three are living, namely : J. T., residing with his parents, who is a rising ycjung attorney and also an author of some note who is now engaged on a work on archeology ; E. F., who is with the Tootle, Wheeler & Motter iMercantile Company : and E. B., who, as his father's agent, relieves him of all care in looking after their extensive business. The family are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Michau is a Republican.

ATHAN FRAKES, one of the prominent farmers and representative citizens of Wayne township, Buchanan County, owning a well-improved farm of 320 acres, in section 19, was born in Clay County, Missouri, in 1838, and is a son of Joseph and Psyche (Clevinger) Frakes.

Joseph Frakes, father of our subject, was born in Kentucky, where he remained until manhood and then removed to Ray County, Missouri. During his residence there he engaged in hunting and was a noted ''crack shot" at the shooting matches in his neighborhood. He later removed to Doniphan County, Kansas and then to Buchanan County, Missouri, following agricultural pursuits in both localities. His last years were spent in Lake to\\;nship, Buchanan County, where he died at the age of 78 years. His children were: Nathan, Jasper, Sarah. Mason, Joseph, ^^'illiam. John, Emma, Richard, Jane and Mary. The mother of our subject still resides on the old homestead, with her son Richard. She has reached the age of 87 years and is remarkably active both in body and mind.

Our subject came to Buchanan County with his parents and has been engaged in farming here all his life. He owns one of the fine farms of Wayne township, almost the whole of which is under cultivation. His improvements are modern in character and his surroundings give every evidence of good management, thrift and prosperity.

IMr. Frakes was married, first, to ^Martha Louisa Seibert, a daughter of Henry Seibert. and they had these children : Emehne, wife of D. Barnes ; Martha, wife of James Bunton : Sarah, wife of \\'ilHam Ebhng; Syna, wife of Edward Stevenson ; Louisa, wife of John Yeager ; and MeHssa and Sidney, who died }oung. ATr. Frakes was married, second, to Sarah Jane Dockery, in 1878. She was a daughter of Merrill Dockery, a farmer of Buchanan county. Two sons were bom to this union : William, who died at the age of 15 years; and Jasper, who resides at home. On ]\Iay 28, 1886, Mr. Frakes was married to Amanda Dockery, a sister to his deceased wife, and their children were : Psyche, Joseph Merrill, Nathan. Mason. Richard, George, Ella, Belle and William.

Mr. Frakes has always been a Democrat in his political convictions. He has witnessed manv wonderful changes during his long life in Buchanan County. He is well known and enjoys the esteem of his fellow citizens.

AMUEL M. NA\'E. The passing of so honorable and upright a man as the late Samuel M. Nave, whose death took place at his beautiful home at No. 2019 Clay street, St. Joseph, on April 10, 1901, affected many circles in the city where he had spent so many useful, happy and prosperous years. He was born at Savannah, }*lissouri, on February i, 1849, and was a son of Abram and Lucy J. (?\IcCord) Nave.

On both paternal and maternal sides the ancestral line reaches to old and distinguished Southern families. The paternal grandfather, Henry Nave, after giving loyal service during the War of 1812, located in Tennessee, where his son Abram was born, and from there the family removed to Missouri. On the maternal side, the line reaches to English forebears who established themselves generations ago in \*irginia. There William McCord the grandfather, became a ])rominent figure in professional life, and later a leading legal practitioner at \^ersailles, ^lissouri. The father of the late Samuel M. Nave was for many years identified with the mercantile interests of St. Joseph, and connecting branches at Kansas City, ^lissouri, at Omaha, Nebraska, and elsewhere. His death took place at St. Jo- .seph on June 23, 1898. In association with his brother-in-law. Tames McCord. of whom a sketch

The late Samuel M. Nave secured his primary education at Savannah. Missouri, continued his studies at St. Joseph, to which his parents had removed in 1859. and completed a very liberal education at Princeton, where he was graduated in the classical course in 1871. Putting aside the pleasure of travel and the other recreations which wealth and education and social environment offered, he returned to St. Joseph and entered the wholesale grocery house of Nave & McCord, determined to master the details and prepare himself for a useful business career. Practically, he was a member of the firm and. upon its incorporation under the name of the Nave-McCord }dercantile Company, he became the vice-president, an honorable and responsible position he held until his death. He was distinctively a man of business and was capable of handling other large interests and of guarding their affairs and molding their policies with a carefulness and foresight which brought them safely through times of financial stringency and business depression. He was treasurer of the Henry Krug Packing Company of St. Joseph ; was president of the Townsend Wliolesale Grocery Company, of South McAlester. Indian Territory, and was vice-president of the Nave-McCord Cattle Company. He was one of the founders of the Tootle-Lemon Bank, and was a director in The National Bank of St. Joseph. In addition to these great business responsibilities. ]\Ir. Nave took a citizen's interest and pride in St. Joseph and served one term as police commissioner under the administration of Governor Francis. Possessing a strong mentality, and personal magnetism, had he desired political honors, they would have been his for the asking, but his business and his home possessed more charms for him than did the public arena.

On [March 28. 1877. Mr. Nave was married to Minnie Holliday. who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a daughter of John J. and Lucretia (Force) Holliday. the latter of whom was born in. Kentucky, a niember of one of the distinguished old families of the "Blue Grass" State. The father of Mrs. Nave was one of the largest iron merchants in St. Louis, a very prominent politician there and was the first president of the St. Louis School Board. The Holliday family belongs to St. Louis' most exclusive social circle, made up, as it is, of families of large wealth, age and the refinement which is a heritage. ]\lr. and Mrs. Nave had two children : Lucile, who married Irving Brokaw, of New York City ; and Samuel Fritz, who married Ruth Addy, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Samuel Fritz Nave is the secretary of the R. H. Faucett Mill Company, wdiich is located at Nos. 821-827 South Seventh street, St. Joseph, one of the city's large industries. Of this company R. H. Faucett is president and J. F. Faucett is vice-president, both large capitalists and leading citizens.

OHN BRODER, now one of the highly esteemed retired residents of St. Joseph, and formerly one of its valued officials, was born at Middlebury, Vermont, July 14, 1830, and is a son of William and Mary (McGee) Broder.

Upon leaving home, John Broder worked on a farm in Massachusetts for three years and then entered the employ of the Boston & Worcester Railroad Company. He continued to follow railroafl work, in Stark and Wayne counties, Ohio, luitil 1854, when he was engaged on construction work on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, in Illinois, and later he was employed in the yards of this company, at St. Louis, Missouri. In the meantime he was becoming more and more proficient in railroad work and he was made foreman on the Alton extension, the first road built between Alton, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. From 1855 to i860, Mr. Broder was in charge of railroad construction in Tennessee and came to St. Joseph in the spring of the latter year. His first work here was in the laying of the four and one-half miles of track west of the Missouri River of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad, a very important enterprise of that time. Mr. Broder then took employment with the old \'alley road and in 1866 he superintended the laying of TOO miles of track out from Atchison on the Central branch of the Union Pacific road. In the fall of 1868 he was appointed roadmastt^r on the Valley road, with headquarters at St. Joseph, and remained in that position eight months.

Until the fall of 1872, Mr. Broder continued to be one of the busiest and most successful railroad men of this section, building and fillingcontracts for miles and miles of railroad, including the superintendence of the laying of the track of the St. Joseph & Grand Island road ; as roadmaster of the St. Louis (S: St. Toseph road to

Lexington (now a branch of the Santa Fe) and the laying of the track from St. Joseph to Atchison, of the Hannibal & St. Joseph road. His last railroad work was the filling of the contract for the narrow-guage road between Union Star and x\lbany. His long years in railroad building had brought him substantial returns and had also established him in the confidence and esteem of the owners and operators of these many lines.

Mr. Broder invested in property at St. Joseph and has made this city his home almost from -his first coming here. In 1874-75 he was city marshal of St. Joseph. In 1884 he was appointed deputy sheriff, under Sheriff' John Carey, and in 1885 was made chief of the police force of St. Joseph, which position he filled most efficiently for 15 years, having a large force of men and officers under his charge and ample funds at his command with which to work. His administration was marked with m^ny reforms and the public interests and private rights were guarded as never before in the history of the city. Mr. Broder retired from office with the most cordial feelings for the other members of the city board. For a number of years past he has been interested in mining.

On September 15. 1869, Mr. Broder married Florence C. Cole, and they reside in a handsome home situated at No. 1014 South nth street. He has long been a very prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to these organizations: Charity Lodge, No. 331, A. F. & A. M. ; St. Joseph Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M. ; St. Joseph Commandery, No. 4, K. T. ; and St. Joseph Council, No. 9, R. & S. M. ; and Moila Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., all of St. Joseph.

capacities and as a public servant he has alwa}s done his work well and in a manner that has w(mi the commendation of the people. He is superintendent of the St. Joseph Plow Company, and in his private aff'airs has given evidence of the same enterprise, progressiveness and ability as has characterized his public acts.

ents moved to Casanova, New York. His mother dying when he was three years old, he was taken to a relative to live, about 10 miles south of Utica, in (3neida County, and there he resided some 14 years. He began life for himself at an early age, his first venture being upon the sea and in th's work he made a trip around the world. He then returned to Massachusetts and later went to Rhode Island, where he enlisted in 1862 in Company C, ist Reg., Rhode Island Light Artillery. He served until the close of the war and although he saw much hard fighting never received the slightest injury himself. He was in the Army of the Potomac for two years, and was then transferred to the navy in which he served during the last year of the war. Returning to Rhode Island at the close of the war, he engaged in various lines of business, spending a year or two of this period in a wagon shop. In 1870 he came \A'est to r^Iissouri, and in ]\Iacon County was identified with a plow factory. He came to St. Joseph in 1883 to accept the position of superintendent of the Patrick Frazer Plow Company, which was shortly after reorganized as the St. Joseph Plow Company. The officers of this company are : J. M. Ford, president ; j\I. C. Powell, secretary ; and Charles J. Borden, superintendent. The plant, which is the only one of its kind in the city, gives employment to about 80 men and is located on Eighth street, between Duncan street and Doniphan avenue. Mr. Borden has mainly devoted his attention to this business, and has entire charge of the manufacttiring branch of it. The reciuirements of the position are so exacting, it is doubtful whether ^Ir. Borden can again be prevailed upon to accept ptiblic office. He served faithfully in the City Council six years, was a member of the Board of Public Works in 1901, and v.-as elected a member of the Board of Education for a term of six years. but resigned at the end of the fourth year whenelected mayor in igo2. During his incumbency of this ofiice the city made wonderful progress, much credit being due his progressive and business-like administration of its afifairs. During his administration he was called upon bv Topeka, Kansas, for assistance and succor because of the devastations of the great flood. Upon his own responsibility, he engaged some 60 men and did valiant service there in rescuing from the turbulent waters some 500 men, women and children and placing them upon dry land in safety.

salesman of Sioux City, Iowa, who died in December, 1903, at the age of 35 years, leaving a family of three children. Our subject is a Mason and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United \\'oodmen. He is a member of Custer Post, G. A. R.. of which he is past commander. Religiously, Mrs. Borden is a member of the Presbvterian Church.

r)HN S. LEMON, who has been identified with the business interests of St. Joseph for more than half a century, is president of the Tootle-Lemon National Bank, the largest banking institution, in point of volume of business, in the city.

John S. Lemon was born in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, in August, 1833. His father was a farmer by occupation, and lived there ail his life, our subject being the only one of the family to come West. He was a boy of 20 years when he started West for Hannibal, Missoviri, with the intention of entering the mercantile business. He went down the Ohio by boat, then up the Mississippi to St. Louis, where he changed boats. He did not stop at Hannibal as he originally intended, but came on to St. Joseph, which at that time could be reached only by water or by horse. There were a small number of stores and the trade came principally from the Indians. He was here six weeks before securing a position with the general mercantile house of Powell & Levy, at a small salary. Two years later he acquired an interest in the business, and three years later the firm name was changed to Powell, Levy & Lemon. The store was first located on what is now Main street, and subsequentl}' was removed to Fourth street. This I firm continued until after the Civil \\'ar. when the j old members withdrew, Mr. Powell going to St. Louis, and the firm became Lemon, Hosea & Company, doing a general mercantile business. The firm continued for several years, doing a large Indian business, then Mr. Lemon sold out. He became interested in the banking business soon after the war and was identified with the Merchants' Bank until it sold out. In association with IMilton Tootle, he established the private bank of Tootle, Lemon & Company, which has since become the Tootle-Lemon National Bank. For the past 20 years, our subject has been pres- ident of this bank, giving it the greater part of his attention until 1902, since which time it has been practically in charge of Milton Tootle, Jr., and Graham G. Lacy. In addition to his banking interests, he is interested in various mercantile and commercial enterprises, and is the owner of a large amount of property in the city. He began his career without capital, and the great success attained by him has come through hard work, well-directed efforts and judicious investments.

John S. Lemon was united in marriage with Annie I. Samuel, of Savannah, jMissouri, a daughter of G. W. Samuel, who located in Savannah at an early day and had large banking and other interests there. He lived at the home of our subject during the last 25 years of his life. Mrs. Lemon has two sisters, namely : ]\lrs. H. W. Yates, of Omaha, Nebraska, where her husband is president of the Nebraska National Bank ; and Mrs. J. T. Johnson, of St. Joseph, whose husband is retired from business. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon are parents of the following children : Florence, wife of W. W. Farish, of New York, wh© is in the dry goods commission business ; Mary M. (Sipple), whose husband is in the commission business in St. Louis ; Henry Y., who was a student in Princeton University, but who is at, the present starting his business career with the Tootle-Lemon National Bank ; and Letitia Todd, who is at home. Politically, Mr. Lemon is a Democrat. Fraternally, he has been a Mason ever since coming of age. Mrs. Lemon is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In the early "seventies," our subject built a home at No. 517 North Fifth street, where he and his family have since resided.

^RICH SCHNEIDER. The passing from life of the late Ulrich Schneider removed from St. Joseph an honored pioneer, a veteran of the Civil War, a business man whose interests touched manv of the leading industries of the country, and a valued member of many societies and benefactor of hundreds of charities. Mr. Schneider was born ^larch 30, 1837, in Zainingcn, Wurtcmburg, Germany, and died at his home in St. Joseph, November 10, 1902, after a year's serious illness.

upon his own resources and his own undirected efforts for his success in life. What he accomplished stands to-day as a monument to energy, industry and integrity. From 1857 until 1861, when he came to St. Joseph, he resided in Tuscarawas County. Ohio. He was one of the early volunteers when the war broke out, entering the 43d Regiment, Missouri Yol. Inf., and continued in the service until the close of the war, being finally mustered out at St. Louis.

At tlie battle of Glasgow, Missouri, he was captured by the Confederates and was reported killed. The fact was that a minie-ball tore off the head of the man at his side, and the stricken soldier fell against his commander. Lieutenant Schneider, just as they were crossing a gully. The impact threw both living and dead into the trench, and the soldiers of General Price thus made him a prisoner. Exchanged soon afterward, he immediately rejoined his regiment and made a still further record for gallant services.

In 1865 Mr. Schneider returned to Buchanan County and located at DeKalb. In 1870 he w^as appointed deputy county clerk imder County Clerk John B. Harder. In 1877 he first entered into the insurance business, with which his name was so prominently identified through the remainder of his life. In addition to numerous interests, he was, at the time of death, president of the Guaranty Abstract Company, and a director in the German- American Bank. His 25 years of continuous connection with insurance, real estate and abstract interests had made him known in the highest commercial circles and his business reputation was one of unimpeachable integrity. He was a man of warm heart and generous instincts, ever willing to assist the needy and to encourage the worthy, in a practical way. His charities were large although unostentatious, and his influence was ever given to assist movements of true benevolence. He was a worthy member of Zion German Evangelical Church.

Mr. Schneider's death resulted from stomach troubles which the most skilled specialists of St. Joseph, St. Louis, Kansas City. Columbus (Ohio) and Chicago could not cure. Change of climate only stayed the disease and did not cure. At his own request, Mr. Schneider was brought to his home, where, surrounded by an unusuall}^ devoted family of children and anxious friends in every walk of life, he was permitted to breathe his last. The funeral services were conducted by the Masons, of which order he had long been a member of high degree. He was past eminent commander of St. Joseph Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar and a Shriner, a Pythian Knight, an Odd Fellow, and belonged also to the Red Men, Woodmen of the World, Order of the Eastern Star, Grand Army of the Republic, St. Joseph Turn-\'erein and Schwabcn-Verein.

J\Ir. Schneider's wife died in 1880. He was survived by nine children, namel}': John G., vicepresident of the German-American Bank, who resides at Krug Park place ; Karl U., residing at the old family homestead, No. 1018 Powell street, who succeeded his father in the insurance, loan and abstract business ; Mrs. James Richmond ; Mrs. Snelson Chesney, residing at No. 15 19 Charles street, whose husband is vice-president of the St. Joseph Stock Yards Bank: Mrs. William Rainalter, residing at No. 401 North 22d street, whose husband is credit man for the National Biscuit Company : and Lena, Ada, Mamie and Lillian.

In every circle in which he moved, Mr. Schneider left a noticeably vacant place. He was so companionable, so genial, so hospitable that he won friends on every side, while his old-time integrity and solidity of character brought him the entire confidence of the business world.

OHN H. FELT, President of J. H. Felt & Company, architects, of St. Joseph, whose reputation in his profession is enviable in character, is still comparatively a young man, his birth having taken place on August 6, 1867, at Greenfield, Indiana. His parents were Sylvester W. and Rebecca J. (Latshaw) Felt.

Joseph Felt, the paternal grandfather, was born in Packersfield. New Hampshire, June 17, 1789, the family being evidently of colonial descent. He followed the milling business, but when his country needed the services of loyal men, in the War of 1812. he performed a soldier's <luty. He died at Winchester, New Hampshire, October 30, 1871. His son, the father of our subject, was born March 21. 1823. at Nelson, New Hampshire, where he was reared and educated. He did not adopt his father's calling, but went to Virginia in early manhood and there became a skilled worker in stone masonrv. Subsequently he was entrusted with the stone construction work for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, building, among other notable structures, the bridge at Bull Run and the ^^'ashington aqueduct.

When the Civil War was precipitated, Sylvester W. Felt removed to Indiana, settling for 10 years at Greenfield, where he filled the office of assessor, and followed farming in Hancock County. Politically, he was affiliated with the Democratic party. He was married December 25, 1856, in Augusta County, \'irginia, to Rebecca J. Latshaw, who still survives, a resident of Greenfield, Indiana. She was born November 9, 183 1, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Joseph Latshaw, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent. Mrs. Felt has always been an active worker in the Baptist Church. The children born to this marriage were: Henrietta, wife of James S. Clift, residing near Morristown. Indiana; Edward \\'., judge of the i8th Judicial Circuit of Indiana, a resident of Greenfield ; Frank V., also of Greenfield ; Cora v., wife of Joseph M. Fisk. of Greenfield : John H., of this sketch : and Minnie, who died at the age of eight years.

Our subject, John H. Felt, was educated in the public schools of Greenfield and numbered among his acquaintances the poet, James AMiitcomb Riley, a native of the same place. From boyhood Mr. F"elt was more interested in architecture than in any other line, but in his earlier years no opportunity was afforded him for its serious study. After leaving school, he entered a planing mill, at Greenfield, of which he was superintendent for six years, and during all this time he was using every spare moment in the study of architectural works. His natural ability in this direction combined with his perseverance in study and constant observation of all manner of construction, gave him enough courage to open an architectural office, in connection with his mill duties, which he continued for two years. During this period he received so much encouragement and furnished plans which proved to be of such utility, that he decided to open an office in the city and to devote his life to this ])rofession. His work at Greenfield, which included school houses, churches and residences, testifies to his ability and established his reputation as a competent architect in his native city.

In 1898 ^Ir. Felt came to St. Joseph, ^Missouri, and here formed a partnership with Homer H. Carr, who had formerly been employed by Mr. Felt, in Indiana, the firm name being Felt & Carr. This partnershi]) continued until 1901, when, on account of failing health. Mr. Carr withdrew from the firm. Since then the business has been conducted as J. H. Felt & Company. In

1904 this company entered into a new enterprise, the pubHshing of a monthly magazine nnder the appropriate title of Modern Avchitcctiirc. The aim of this work is to create a demand for a better class of architectnre and architectural service, for the country is unfortunately Hooded with cheap designs which are accepted by ignorant builders, whose completed work is never satisfactory. This publication has met with a flattering reception and seems to fill a long felt want.

Among the leading buildings constructed by our subject's designs may be mentioned: the King Hill Building ; residence for Dr. Heddens ; residence of William Bergman ; residence of George J. Englehart : the high school buildings at Savannah, Grant City and Alacon, Missouri, and York, Nebraska ; the ( )dd Fellows' School at Literty, Missouri; the Missouri College for the Feeble ]\Iindcd and Epileptics, at Marshall, Missouri, and like buildings all over the country.

Mr. Felt enjoys outdoor sports, is particularly fond of hunting, and belongs to the Hunting Club of this city. He has long been pronlinent in fraternal life, actively identified with all the leading secret societies and with business, political and social organizations. He is an Elk ; a meml)er of Zeredatha Lodge, No. 189, A. F. & A. M., Hugh de Payens Commandery, No. 51, K. T., and Moila Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. ; a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 232, L O. O. F. ; senior past sachem of the lotlge of Red Men at Greenfield, ^lissouri ; and belongs to the Lotus, Commercial and Monroe clubs of St. Joseph. His portrait accompanies this sketch.

EORGE W. ALLISON, one of the prominent citizens and successful farmers and fruit growers of Rush township, who owns a well-cultivated farm of 160 acres in section 13, was born in Rush township, Buchanan County. Missouri, October 18, 1852, and is a son of William and ?\Iary A. (Parkison) Allison.

The Allison family is of old Kentucky stock and the ])aternal grandfather of our subject John Allison, farmed within seven miles of Bowlino: (jreen until 1819, when he came to Missouri and settled in Lafayette County. There he reared his family of eight children, viz: William, Posey,

William Allison, father of our subject, was born near Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1802. He was a youth of 16 years when his parents removed to Missouri, and he assisted his father in farminer in Lafayette County until July, 1823, when he was married and started for himself. He farmed in Lafayette County until the spring of 1838, when he moved to Buchanan County and located in what was still a wilderness, in Rush township. Here the remainder of his life was spent, engaged in tilling the soil and raising cattle and stock. He was a man of noble character and was early chosen for the office of justice of the peace, one which he filled with good judgment and impartiality, which resulted in his retaining as long as he lived the esteem of his fellow citizens. He was an elder and leading member of the pioneer Christian Church and ministered in that body for many years. He was twice married, first, to Mary A. TrapiJ, of Lafayette County, Missouri, who died July 10, 1847. leaving eight children, viz : Louis, deceased ; James Henry ; Rachel, wife of Alexander Brown, of Sugar Creek; Jemima, deceased, who was the wife of James Golden ; Martin, deceased, who married Polly Taylor; John William, who married Elizabeth Wells ; Rowena. deceased, who was the wife of Joseph Ham, and Nancy Adeline (Johnson).

William Allison married, second Mary A. Parkison, who was a daughter of George Parkison, a farmer of Lafayettte County, Missouri, and they had two children : Eliza, who died in infancy ; and (Jeorge A\' ., of this sketch. William Allison died April i, 1891, and was survived by his widow until December 25, 1902. Both were laid to rest in Sugar Creek Cemetery. They are recalled as people of sterling worth, the father a man of liberal mind and enlightened understanding, and the mother as endowed with all the Christian virtues that go to make a perfect wife, mother and neighbor.

Our subject obtained his education in the schools of Rush town.ship, completing his studies at the age of 19 years. His first work away from home was as a clerk in a dry goods establishment at Atchison, Kansas, but he did not remain away long, his father, on account of failing health and many res])onsibilities, requiring his assistance on the farm. This farm has continued his home ever since and under his management has been made one of the most productive in the locality. Tt is well improved and all of it is fenced. Mr.

Allison has given a great deal of attention to his orchards, having 20 acres in apples and peaches, and grows some of the finest fruit to be found in local agricultural exhibits.

On December 2},. 1875, our subject was united in marriage with E. Alice Gillespie, who is a daughter of Hon. G. \\'. and Frances (McRunalds) Gillespie of Atchison, Kansas. They have four children : Kate G.. who married J. C. Keller. Jr., of Bloomington township, and has one child. - Alice ; Fannie A., who married A. T. Steele, of Rush township, and has one child, - Ethel ; and Lavilla E. and Lucy A.

ICHAEL K. GOETZ, deceased, whose long business career in St. Joseph brought him into prominence as one of the city's commercial factors, and whose upright life made him an honored citizen, was born in Ingenheim, Alsace, Germany, on January 16, 1833, and he was a son of ^lichael K. and Mary C. (Koell) Goetz.

Both parents of the late ^Ir. Goetz were natives of Germany, where the father died at the age of 28 years, in the year of our subject's birth, and the mother, at the age of 64 years. The family consisted of two children.

Michael K. Goetz remained with his mother on the home farm until the age of 21 years and then decided to break old ties and find a new home across the Atlantic Ocean. On June 24. 1854, he took passage at Havre, in the sailing vessel "Connecticut," and after being tossed on the waters for 61 days reached the welcome port of New York in August. His destination being Buffalo, he made his way there and soon was employed in a grocery store owned by a cousin, and there he worked for a period of three and a half \ears. By this time he had learned the language and had saved some money and concluded to make his way to California, the land in which so many had succeeded. First he went to St. Louis and then took a steamer up the Missouri River to St. Joseph, arriving here in April, 1858. Ere long his business sense foretold that this point had every advantage to make it an important center and. giving up his plans for Western prospecting. he found employment in the brewery of Henrv Nunning. with whom he worked 10 months. That the insight he gained there was not lost was evidenced by his starting successfully in the same line himself, in 1859, when he founded what is now the ^I. K. Goetz Brewing Company, an enterprise which prospered from the first and was incorporated in 1895.

^Ir. Goetz commenced business in a small way, erecting a small frame building in which to house his plant and was one of the very first to carry on scientific, modern brewing in this section of the W est. The increase in his business soon required improved buildings and the plant now covers several blocks and is located on the corner of Sixth and Albemarle streets, where are also the offices of the Company. ]\Ir. Goetz adopted modern methods and machinery and in 1885 he installed an ice plant, one of the very first brewers of the West to thus add to his equipment. The fame of his product soon spread until n.ow the company does a business of 50,000 bar- ' rels of beer a year, gives employment to 60 people and ships all over the country. It is a very inter-

- large plant of this concern and see the careful. ' scientific processes employed, the use of all mod- ! ern .sanitary surroundings and the latest per- ; fected machinery, by which the product is placed

In addition to the brewery. Mr. Goetz had ; other business enterprises in hand and owned considerable valuable property, including 25 business - tracts and six residences in St. Joseph. He was : a man of liberal spirit, took an interest in public matters in which the welfare of the city was concerned, but he identified himself with no particular political party. He was always ready to perform a citizen's duty but he had convictions of his own and relied much upon his personal judgment, which seldom failed him.

At St. Joseph, in 1864, ^Ir. Goetz married Caroline Klink, who \\as born at W'urtemburg. Germany, and came to the L'nited States at the age of 10 years. Mr. Goetz died August 1 1, 1901, and his wife, ^larch 13, 1902. They had six children, viz : Emma, who was educated at St. Joseph : William L.. a practical brewer, a thorough chemist and a graduate of the American Brewing Academy at Chicago and of Bryant & Stratton's Business College, who is president of the !M. K. (ioetz Brewing Company ; Frank L., a graduate of Rittner's College, v,ho is vice-president of the company : Albert R., also a graduate of Rittner's College, who is secretary and treasurer of the company ; Henry E., who is assistant secretary and treasurer ; and Anna, the only daughter, who is the youngest of the family. All the members of the family are married and living in their own homes, except Henry E., who lives with his brother Albert R. in the old homestead, which is one of the fine homes of St. Joseph.

The late Mr. Goetz was a member of the United States Brewers' Association and his social connection was with the Turners. In every relation of life he was an honorable man and must be uumbcred with the early builders of St. Joseph's prosperity.

ILLIS M. SHERWOOD. The late Willis M. Sherwood was a citizen of whom St. Joseph was justly proud, being a successful business man, a public-spirited citizen and one whose life was replete with kind actions and ennobling influences. Mr. Sherwood was born in Geneseo, Livingston County, New York, November 15, 1818, and died December 6, 1902. He was one of nine children born to John and Lucy (Barber) Sherwood, of whom but one still survives.

A brief account of the ancestry of the late Mr. Sherwood will be of general interest. The family originated in the North of England, where Thomas Sherwood was born in 1586. In 1634 the early records tell of his settlement at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1655 he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he became a man of affairs. Two children were born to him and his wife Alice. One of these, Isaac, who married Elizabeth Jackson, resided for a time in Fairfield and then removed to New York but, finding the country too unsettled, returned to Connecticut. Their son, Joseph Sherwood, was born in 1712, married and became father of a son, Nathan, who was born at Fairfield, Connecticut. January 6, 1738.

During the Revolutionary War, Nathan Sherwood was one of the early patriots who offered sword and life in defense of the rights of the Colonies. After the war was over, he followed the trade of shoemaker, first in Connecticut and later in Vermont. In 181 5 he accomi)anied his son, John Sherwood, to Ontario County, New York, but later removed to Orleans County, New York, where he died February 7, 1824.

John Sherwood, son of Nathan and father of our subject, was born in Connecticut, March 19, 1782, and died in 1862, on the anniversary of his birth. His occupation was mainly farming, but he later became a large contractor on the Erie Canal. In 1819 he removed to Orleans County, where he engaged in farming imtil the close of his life. The mother of our subject was a daughter of Hon. Elisha Barber, a native of Connecticut, but an early settler in Franklin County, Vermont, where he was an attorney and county judge. Mrs. Sherwood died in 1872.

Willis i\l. Sherwood was reared on his father's farm and was educated in the district schools and Millville Academy. He then engaged in teaching and later took up the study of medicine under Drs. Ford and Hill at Medina, New York. Before settling down to medical practice, he spent one year (1839) in Augusta, South Carolina, but subsequently returned to New York and in 1844 was married. With his wife he returned to the South and practiced medicine for 12 years in Duplin County, North Carolina. He also engaged in a wholesale grocery and commission business in Wilmington.

In 1857, Mr. Sherwood removed to Otoe City, Otoe County, Nebraska, and came to St. Joseph in the following year, immediately taking a place with the leading men of the city. Before a year had passed he had been appointed a justice of the peace, the duties of which office he filled for a year. In 1861, when a call came for the State's loyal citizens to respond, like his ancestor of other days he was found ready. He was made quartermaster of the first troops raised in Northwestern Missouri, later entered the State Militia and was stationed the greater part of his term of service on detached duty. A loyal Union man, he found it best for all concerned to be careful, quiet and discreet, one of the men so useful in times of excited public feeling.

In 1863, Mr. Sherwood was elected clerk of the County Court, a position in which he served for six years with the greatest diplomacy and served also for two years as clerk of the Probate Court. He also studied law and in 1873 was admitted to the bar, although he never practiced. For two years he was alderman from the First Ward, elected by the Republican party. Of this organization he was always a zealous member and was a delegate to many conventions.

For a few years Mr. Sherwood traveled as representative of commission houses and upon his return to St. Joseph embarked with Mr. Wade in an insurance business, the firm of Sherwood & Wade being one of the city's most prosperous concerns for a number of years. Failing health, however, warned him that rest was necessary and

In 1844 he was united in marriage with Charlotte C. Hall, who was born in Connecticut. The children born to this union were : Martin K., a resident of St. Joseph and has for the past 34 years represented importers in teas; Willis H., an insurance man of St. Joseph; Marv (Mrs. McNeil) ; Dr. David H. ; and Ella, wife of William F. Dyer, of St. Joseph.

Mr. Sherwood was a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church and he was one of the active workers in the Sunday-school, in which he had given generous service as a teacher and as superintendent. He assisted in the organization of this church in 1853 and during life was interested in all its charities and benevolences. The public schools also came in for a share of Mr. Sherwood's attention and he was generous in his support of all educational movements. He was one of the originators and promoters of the system of public fountains which were placed in 1881 and add so much to the city's attractiveness. He served on various directing boards of charitable and civic bodies and at the time of his death was vice-president of the Humane Society and one of its most earnest advocates.

Mr. Sherwood was not connected with the various secret organizations of the day, but he held membership in Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he served at one time as chaplain. Air. Sherwood has passed to his haven of eternal peace and just reward, but the results of his manly, beneficent life remain to inspire others and to prove the worth and sweetness of a noble, unselfish life.

VAIUEL BALL GREEN. The late distinguished citizen of St. Joseph, Samuel Ball Green, was born January 21, 1850, near Savannah, Andrew County. Missouri, and died at his home in St. Joseph, June 26, 1890. He was a son of Samuel and Amanda (Davis) Green, both of whom were natives of Virginia.

The early years of Mr. Green's life were passed on a farm, and he obtained his carlv education in the country schools. At the beginning of the Civil War, he and his mother went to AIobile, Alabama, taking with them a large number of slaves, hoping that their slave property would be secure midcr the Confederate srovernmcnt. At the close of the war, they returned to Missouri and settled at St. Joseph, where Samuel was graduated from the High School. In 1867 he accompanied Judge Alexander Davis to Montana, and became the latter's pupil in the study of the law. When only 18 years of age, he was appointed clerk of the Circuit Court, at Virginia City, Montana, and faithfully and efficiently performed the duties of the position.

In 1870, Mr. Green returned to Buchanan County, Missouri, and for one year was engaged in farming and then located in St. Joseph and embarked in a wood and coal business. Although his affairs prospered on account of his sagacity as a business man, the bent of his mind was in the direction of the law, and he completed the studies he had commenced under Judge Davis, and was admitted to the bar, in 1874, by Judge Grubb. In 1878 he was elected city recorder of St. Joseph, and was a conspicuous figure in the conduct of city affairs during the administration of Mayor Finer. Thereafter, until his death, he applied himself assiduously to professional labors, and became recognized throughout a wide extent of territory, as one of the ablest members of the Missouri bar. He accepted the appointment of city counselor of St. Joseph, and in 1882 he became a member of the law firm of Woodson, Green & Burnes, which was composed of Judge Silas Woodson, Samuel B. Green and D. D. Burnes. Two years later, the Criminal Court was established at St. Joseph and Judge Woodson was appointed to the bench of this court, and the former business was continued as Green & Burnes, until the death of Mr. Green.

While Mr. Green was never a seeker after official preferment himself, he took an interest in politics and public affairs, and was the confidential friend and adviser of Col. James N. Burnes. while that gentleman was in public life. When Colonel Burnes died, our subject was pressed to accept the nomination for Congress, as Colonel Burnes' successor, but he declined the honor, saying that he thought it should go to one of the other counties of the district. As a practitioner of the law, he was remarkably successful, not only in his championship of the interests of his clients, and the winning of cases, but in exciting the respect and esteem of the general public, and of his contemporaries of the Buchanan County bar.

Mr. Green's high standard at the bar is best attested by the action of the Buchanan County P.ar Association, at the time of his death. At that

Tile closing hours of this* term of court are called upon to witnes's an event profoundly sad and sorrowful - the death of Samuel B. Green, one of the ablest, noblest and most successful members of this bar. He was born in this vicinity, and hi? life was spent in this city and community. At an early age he was thrown upon his own resources, but he went forth to battle with every opposing difficulty, animated by that noble heroism and lofty determination which brook not defeat. At the time of his death he had been a member of this bar about 15 years. During that time he achieved a success in his profes'sion such as few men of his age have ever achieved. He was endowed with qualities and characteristics which meant success. He was remarkable for his untiring energy, for his strong, clear, vigorous thought, the great analytical powers of his mind, his profound, even philosophical, knowledge of men, his invincible logic, his convincing eloquence, and his unswerving fidelity and noble devotion to every trust committed to his care.

He prepared his cases with great industry, outlined them with a keen, clear comprehension of all the difficulties, forecasted with rare and remarkable accuracy the points of opposition, went into trials thoroughly equipped, conducted them with consummate skill and won. Although cut down upon the threshold of mature manhood, he had advanced to the front rank of his profession in this State, and fell crowned with a success nobly and well deserved.

In all the relations' of life, he was remarkable for his fidelity to friends - he was true as steel - and in his devotion in this respect, he was never known to falter. He had many friends, and, what is better, by his candid, straightforward course in life, he deserved them. The high, the low, the rich, the poor, stood ready to do him honor. He was well known throughout different parts of the State, was highly regarded wherever known, and to-day thousands of the best citizens in this city and elsewhere mourn his sad and untimely death. As husband, father and brother, he was kind, gentle, loving and affectionate. Therefore be it

Resolved, that in hi? death, this bar has lost one of its ablest and most successful lawyers, and the profession in this State one of its noble and most worthy members : j

That we hereby tender his grief stricken widow and family, and his sad and sorrowing relatives, our profound sympathy in their sore bereavement :

That we request the Circuit Court in both divisions', and the Criminal Court, to set apart upon their respective records a memorial page, and that these resolutions be recorded thereon as evidence of the high esteem in which he was held by us':

That a copy of these resolutions, duly engrossed and properly attested, by the president and secretary of this meeting, be transmitted to his widow and family.

On this occasion numerous tributes were paid to his virtues and abilities, and his worth as a man and a citizen, by members of the bar of St. Joseph, who honored him for his high character and loved him for his many noble qualities. His old law partner, Hon. D. D. Burnes, said of him : "He was as noble as he was fearless and true, and as gentle as he was brave," and this seems to have been the sentiment of all who knew him. A touching incident of the obsequies was the placing upon the casket of a large pillow of roses, surmounted by swinging gates, upon which perched a white dove. It bore the inscription "True to his friends."

The obsequies were impressive in character and the remains of Mr. Greeii were followed to Mount Mora Cemetery by one of the largest concourses of people, representing all classes of citizens, which has ever shown respect in this way to the memory of a deceased citizen of St. Joseph.

Mr. Green is survived by his widow and three children. He was married June 25, 1873, to Martha Taylor Mitchell, who is a daughter < . Alexander J. and Harriet (Rowan) Alitcheli, residents of St. Joseph, but natives of Kentucky. Three children were born to them, viz : Leslie Mitchell, Helen B. and Nelson M. Helen B. died December 22. 1898. Mrs. Green resides in a beatitiful home in St. Joseph, situated at No. 1710 Francis street.

FNJAMIN F. CORNFLTUS, a prominent retired farmer of St. Joseph, now residing in his comfortable home at No. 2007 Mulberry street, owns a fine farm of 280 acres, in section 15. townrange 34. in ]\larion township, upon which he lived for many years. He was born in Clay County, Missouri, April 25, 1834, and is a son of Benjamin and Polly .Ann (Davis) Cornelius.

reared. Subsequently he lived both in Indiana and in Tennessee, and tlien located in Clay County. ^lissouri. about 1818. He was a great s]:)ortsman and the heavy timber then covering the country afforded him opportunities for hunting, which he greatly enjoyed. Some of his hunting trips covered six weeks time and the family larder was well supplied with bear meat, venison and wild turkeys. His farm was a government claim and was wild and entirely unimproved when he settled on it. He lived in Clay County for some 20 years. About 1836 he came to Buchanan County and settled on a claim in section 15, township 57. range 34. He built on his wild land a double log cabin and started into clearing the land. At that time his was the only settled farm within a radius of four miles. Our subject still keeps standing one of his father's old log stables, which is still stanch although erected in 1838. Corn, wheat and hemp were the main products of the soil, but Mr. Cornelius also raised much stock, especially cattle. His death took place in i860, his wife having passed away in 1855. Their children were: James B., deceased : Susan, deceased, who was the wife of John Blakely : Alzadia, deceased, who was the wife of John Spencer : William, deceased, who was a farmer of ]\Iarion township ; ^^largaret. who married Nathan Walker, and resides at McPherson, Kansas : Lucinda, who married Henry Barker, and died in Arkansas; Benjamin F.. of this sketch: Columbus G., formerly of Buchanan County, who is deceased ; and Eliza, who died in 1902, unmarried.

Our subject had but few educational opportunities and these were confined to such as were oft'ered by the subscription schools. He had been his father's main dependence on the farm and he managed the place until the death of his parent. After this event he married and in 1861 moved to Doniphan County, Kansas, but in 1862 he returned to the home farm, where he continued to reside until 1896, when he retired to St. Joseph. He has leased his land and enjoys a large income from it. During his active operation of it. he carried on general farming, stock-raising and fruit-growing. The farm is well cultivated and improved and ranks as one of the best in the township.

In i860. Mr. Cornelius was married to Eliza J. Blakeley. who was born in Buchanan County. Missouri, and died February i, 1900, aged 55 years. She was buried in the old Blakelv graveyard in Marion township. She was the mother of three children, of whom but one survives : Thomas Emmett, who married JNIargaret Brigham and resides in St. Joseph, operating a feed and fuel business. He has one child, Lessie E. Two of our subject's children died young: \\'illiam Price, aged eight years, and Laura B., aged three years.

^Ir. Cornelius has always been identified with the Democratic party but has not been an office seeker. He belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a man noted for his upright life and exemplary character, one whose simple word satisfies as well as a legal document, and he is a worthy representative of one of the oldest pioneer families in this section of the State.

OHN WILLIAM ALLISON, who is a member of one of the oldest pioneer families of Rush township, Buchanan County, owns a highly cultivated farm of 20 acres in section 21. Rush township. He was born on the old family homestead in Rush township, on ]March 16, 1839. ^"^^ ^^ ^ son of William and Mar\- A. (Trapp) Allison.

The Allison family came from Kentucky to Missouri as early as 1819, when the grandfather, John Allison, settled in Lafayette County. He had eight children : William, Posey, Ewing, ]\Iartin, John H., Robert, Ruth and Jemima, all of whom have passed out of life.

William Allison, father of John William, was born in 1802, near Bowling Green, Kentucky, and he was a youth of 16 years when his parents moved to Missouri, where he assisted his father until his own removal to Buchanan County, in 1838. The balance of his life was passed in farming in Rush township and in attending to the public matters which came under his jurisdiction as a justice of the peace. He was a prominent man in his day. For a number of years he was one of the pioneer ministers in the Christian -Church in his locality. He was twice married, first to ^Nlary A. Trapp, of Lafayette County, who died July 10, 1847, leaving eight children : Louis, deceased ; James Henry, who married Martha Eastbourn ; Rachel, wife of Alexander Brown, of Sugar Creek : Jemima, deceased, who was the wife of James Golden : Martin, deceased, who married Polly Taylor; John William, of this sketch; Rowena. deceased, who was the wife of Joseph Ham; and Nancy Adeline (Johnson). His second marriage was to Mary A. Parkisnn. His

John William Allison completed his schooling at the age of 17 years, having attended the old log house school in Rush township. He remained with his father on the farm until he became of age and then began for himself. He has carried on general farming, stock-raising and fruit growing ever since, and has one of the most highly cultivated small farms in Rush township. His improvements are also of excellent character and make his property very valuable.

On April 23. 1863, Mr. Allison was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wells, who is a daughter of William S. Wells, of Rush township. They have had six children, the survivors being : Stella, who married John Crook, of Rush township, and has three children, - William, Lola and Beulah ; Molly, who married, first, Charles C. Conard, and, second, Augustus Nagle, of Kansas City, and has four children by the first marriage, - Elizabeth, Inez, Frances and Captain J\I.; and Nellie, who married Julius Smith, and had three children, of whom one is now living, - Harry P. Gertrude died at the age of 14 years, and George B. and Nora died in infancy.

Mr. Allison and family all belong to the Christian Church. He has always been identified with the Democratic party. Formerly he was an active member of the Odd Fellows. Mr. Allison has lived to see great changes take place in the southwestern section of the county and he has always done the full duty of a good citizen in furthering movements of educational and moral importance. He is a mmeber of a family that is noted for its agricultural prosperity and its sterling character.

APT. CHARLES F. KELLER, a prominent member of the Buchanan County I'ar, has been a resident of St. Joseph since 1866. He was born at Columbus, Ohio, February 9, 1864, and is a son of Jacob Keller, who is well known in the grocery line.

Our subject came to St. Joseph with his parents in 1866, and his education was acquired in this city, first in the public schools and later at the Christian Brothers' College. For a time he assisted in his father's business, then learned the cigarmaker's trade and still later engaged in a grocery business for himself. He then decided to enter the law, and after sufficient reading in the office of Kelly, Crosby, Rusk & Craig, he entered the Missouri State University and was graduated in the law department, in 1890 beginning his practice.

During the Spanish-American War, Captain Keller won distinction as an officer and commanded one of the best drilled companies of the Fourth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. Prior to the opening of the war, Mr. Keller had been judge advocate of the Fourth Regiment, Missouri National Guard, with the rank of captain. He recruited Company I, which was mustered in with the Fourth Regiment, and commanded it all through the service until mustered out at Greenville, South Carolina, February 10, 1899.

Captain Keller is a strong Democrat, and at the time he entered the army was a candidate for prosecuting attorney. He possesses all the qualifications for leadership and the fidelity he dis- ]:)layed as a soldier is but indicative of his political and professional fitness for future honors. In 1904 he was delegate to the Democratic convention, held at Joplin, Missouri. He and the mem- ):)ers of his family are Catholics, identified with the Cathedral parish. He is past head consul of jurisdiction E, Woodmen of the World, and major of the Third Battalion of Foresters, of Modern Woodmen of America, at St. Joseph.

ILLIAM HURST, a prominent farmer of Buchanan County, resides on the old family homestead in section 6, Ijloomington township, which was preempted by his father in 1843. He was born on this place February 7, 1854. and is a son of Armsterd and Matilda (Paris) Hurst.

Armsterd Hurst was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, November 10, 1819, and was a son of Henry and Nancy (Staggs) Hurst, a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Harper) Hurst, and great-grandson of Harrison Hurst, the earliest ancestor of whom there is record. At an early date the familv was established in Mrginia. Armsterd Flurst had one brother, Ambrose Dudley, who is deceased. The latter married Rachel Hurst; as he and his wife were preparing to join his brother in Missouri both were taken sick and died, after a marriage of l)ut a few months.

Armsterd Hurst received his education in the district schools of Fleming County, Kentucky, and always engaged in farming. He was married on December 9, 1841, to Matilda Paris, and in the following spring came with his wife to Missouri, proceeding by boat to Weston, Platte County, in which county he located and lived until the spring of 1843. They then moved to Buchanan County, where he preempted and cleared the present home farm of our subject, in section 6, Bloomington township. It was a heavily timbered tract and it was with the greatest difficulty placed in tillable condition. The implements used in the culture and reaping of crops in those days were most crude, and consisted of the old wooden mold-board plow and the reaping hook, the latter being followed by the cradle and that by the dropper, which delivered the sheaves of grain on the field unbound, as the binding had to be done by hand. Weston was the nearest trading point at that early day. Hemp was the principal crop for the first few years, and the grinding was done at a water-mill. Mr. Hurst and liis estimable wife were among the early members of the Christian Church at Sugar Creek, first attending church in the log school house conducted by Rev. William Allison, father of James H. Allison, of DeKalb. To Armsterd Hurst and wife were born the following issue : Mary Frances, wife of Philip Staggs, of Agency; Nancy Elizabeth, deceased; Geneva, wife of R. C. Dunlap, who lives in section 17, Bloomington township; Amanda (wife of Joseph Long) , deceased ; Armikla, deceased ; William, our subject; Ella (twin sister of William), who is the wife of William Roundtree, of St. Joseph ; James, who married Aha JMoore, of Missouri ; Henry, who married Anna Davidson, of Missouri; Monroe, who married Jane Kneaves and is deceased ; and one who died in infancy. Armsterd Hurst died April 20, 1897, 'i"^' the funeral sermon was delivered by his old friend. Rev. James C. Creel. Mrs. Hurst survives him and is living on the old homestead, which has been her home for more than 61 years. She has witnessed the wonderful change of this country from a wilderness, sparsely settled, with trails crossing it here and there, to a community of finely cultivated farms. She has a wide acquaintance among the older residents of the county.

William Hurst has always lived on the home farm, receiving his early education in the schools of the district. He has made great improvements on the farm, which he devotes to general farm- ing and stock-raising. He has 224 acres of good tillable land, and has made a decided success at his vocation. He is a man of public spirit and has taken an earnest interest in everything that would in any way benefit the community. He has served as director of Sleepy Hollow School District for a number of years.

On June 14, 1893, William Hurst was married to Mollie Martin, a daughter of Prior and Elizabeth (Barnes) Martin. She was bom in Buchanan County, iMissouri, March 17, 1862. She attended the district schools and later Kirksville Normal School one year, after which she tught school in this county for a period of 14 years. Mrs. Hurst's father. Prior Martin, is a son of John ]\Iartin, and was born in Union County, Tennessee, November 11, 1840, and came to Buchanan County with his parents when he was two years old. He and his wife now reside in Atchison County, Kansas, wither they moved from Buchanan County in 1890. Our subject and his wife are parents of the following children : Elizabeth ; William, Jr. ; Clifton L. ; Genevieve ; and James. Religiously, they are members of the Sugar Creek Christian Church. In politics Mr. Hurst is a Democrat and is alwavs interested in the success of his party.

ON. JOHN KELLY. The death of the late Judge John Kelly, at the family home in St. Joseph, on August 12, 1904, removed from Buchanan county a citizen who was held in the highest esteem, both on account of his high personal character and by reason of his efficiency in public office.

Recent bereavements in the death of several of his beloved children had brought the deepest affliction upon him and had undermined a constitution, which originally had been strong. Onlv those in the closest sympathy with him, realized how deeply these bereavements had weakened his hold on life.

By every possible token, his associates of the County Court and the civic authorities endeavored to show their deep sorrow and their high esteem for one whose life and character were such as to excite regard and admiration.

Judge Kelly was born in County Claire, Ireland, May 17, 1839, and came to America when 13 years of age. He remain.ed in New York a year or so and then came to St. Joseph, Missouri, where his mother and two of his brothers were already hving. After a short time, he and his brother Peter went to Montana, where he was employed for eight years in the mines. He returned to St. Joseph in 1861, and with his brother Peter embarked in a grocery business on South Eleventh street.

A staunch Democrat, Judge Kelly took an active interest in politics from early manhood. After becoming one of the substantial and representative business men of this city, he was elected a member of the County Court, and served with efficiency during three terms, retiring from the bench in 1889. He then became a deputy in the office of the county recorder and served under Recorders Gates and Kearns. In 1903 the death of Judge Harry D. Bassett made a vacancy in the County Court,' and Governor Dockery appointed Judge Kelly to fill the same, and in the following May he was nominated for the office, and it is safe to say that had he lived he would have been elected.

Shortly after locating in St. Joseph, Judge Kelly married Mary INIcNamara, a daughter of Thomas McNamara, who is an old resident of this city, now in his 88th year. ]\Ir. McNamara v.-as one of the first men employed at the old Union Depot in St. Joseph. The death of Judge Kelly left a deeply bereaved family, which included his widow and one son and three daughters, viz : James M., who is a bookkeeper at the McDonald factory ; Annie and Agnes, who reside at home; and Mrs. J. H. Sifers, of St. Joseph. Judge Kelly was a man devoted to his home and intense in his love of his family. He was a devout Catholic, as are all the members of the family, and was a member of the Catholic Knights of America, of which he was first vicepresident ; St. Patrick's Benevolent Society, of which he was secretary ; and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was a member of the Monroe Club from its organization. The family reside at No. 1 32 1 Penn street.

1ST &'HUTCHINGS, the leading photographers of St. Joseph, occupy a l)rominent position in both the business and the artistic circles of this city. This strong firm is composed of Carl Rudolph Gist and Otis L. Hutchings, the former of whom has gained an enviable reputation as a portrait painter, although still a young man, and the latter of whom has long been acknowledged

Carl Rudolph Gist was born in Maysville, Missouri, July 30, 1873, and is a son of John A. and Eveline (Wilson) Gist. The family originated in the notable American State of Kentucky, and there the paternal grandparents, Joseph and Permelia (Murphy) Gist, were born. John A. Gist w^as born in Missouri, and was a successful merchant at Maysville for a number of years. His death took place in 1880, at the age of 42 years.

Carl R. Gist completed his education in the public schools at Maysville by the time he was 16 \ears of age. From childhood he had been noted for the possession of artistic abilities and it was a fortunate circumstance which brought about his association with a traveling portrait painter. This German artist had already become known at Berlin and during the five years of association with the talented and ambitious youth imparted the necessary technical knowledge which young Gist's abilities supplemented. The time came when the pupil was capable of assuming the role of teacher. Mr. Gist located for one year in the city of Topeka, Kansas, where his fine portrait painting brought him into deserved prominence, and then ' he came to St. Joseph to settle permanently. This city has been his continuous home with the exception of the year 1900-01, which was profitably spent in the art schools of Munich. Since 1904 he has been associated with Otis L. Hutchings.

In 1893 Mr. Gist was united in marriage with Maude Barnes, who is a daughter of Stephen Barnes, of Elmdale, Kansas, and they have one daughter, Salome.

Mr. Gist is not of the temperament to be an active politician, in fact, he belongs to no particular party, casting his vote independently. His fraternal associations include the Knights of Pvthias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Elks.

Otis L. Hutchings, the second member of the firm of Gist & Hutchings, was born near Muncie, Indiana, April i, 1864, and is a son of John L. and Eliza Ann (Ribble) Hutchings.

John L. Hutchings was born in A^irginia in 1826 and died in 1871. The greater part of his life was passed in Indiana, where he was a farmer, and for a number of years a merchant at Muncie. He was well known, was prominent in Masonry, and both he and his wife were leading members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

After his father's death, Otis L. Hutchings accompanied his mother to Clarinda, Iowa, where he was reared and attended the pubhc schools. His elder brother was a competent photographer and the youth early became interested in the art and soon mastered the mechanical details. In 1885 he went to Dayton, Ohio, where he was fortunate enough to secure employment in the gallery of Wolfe, the noted inventor of the clockwork solar camera. Two years later he went to the Pacific Coast and was employed in the studio of Taber, at San Francisco, where he assisted in turning out some of the fine work for which that studio is justly celebrated. Two years later he located at Washington, Kansas, where he remained some years and then removed to Marshall, jMissouri. During his six years residence there he made a reputation for artistic work which prepared for his welcome, when he located permanently at St. Joseph, in 1901. His association with Mr. Gist, in 1904, made a combination of talent by which the public has been benefited.

Mr. Hutchings is prominent in fraternal life, a member of the Elks and of all the Masonic bodies at St. Joseph, including the Scottish Rite.

St. Joseph is fortunate in having a house of such acknowledged artistic merit as that of Gist & Hutchings. Entirely aside from the satisfactory photographic work done at this handsome studio in the King Hill Building, a visit to these artistic parlors is, in a way, an education, especially if either proprietor can find time to call attention to a few of the beautiful portraits and specimens of photographic work. The developments of the art of photography in the past few years has, indeed, been wonderful and the public has only to glance through his favorite magazine to see its triumphs. The fact remains, however, as Mr. Gist has but recently remarked, that "so many photographers are still mere mechanics, expert, perhaps in handling their machine and chemicals, but knowing little of the art of lighting the face and figure and of posing."

Just here lies the difiference between the work of such artists as Mr. Gist and Mr. Hutchings. Their collection includes work of the most delicate expression, clear of tone and true of line. ]\Ir. Gist has the happy faculty of catching that subtle interpretation of character and temperament which makes the difference between a picture and a portrait, while Mr. Hutchings has no less skill in the use of his camera. These modern days are full of demand. We want the best, the very best, and perhaps no profession has more demands made upon it than the artistic, which fills our eye with the beauty of line and feature, charms with color and preserves for the delight and enlightenment of future generations glories which the hand of Time would otherwise pass into oblivion.

Aj. Henry R. W. Hartwig

AJ. HENRY R. W. HARTWIG, recently elected presiding judge of the County Court of Buchanan County, ex-mayor of St. Joseph, and capitalist, soldier and politician, is one of the city's distinguished and honored citizens. He was born at Niedermoellrich, near Hesse-Cassel, Prussia, on April 11, 1837, and is a son of Frederick Oswald and Elizabeth (Rosenblath) Hartwig.

The family of which Major Hartwig is so worthy a member was one of high standing in the fatherland. His grandfather was a preacher of the German Reformed Church and traveled for the faith over a large extent of country. While on a sacred mission to the island of Surinam, a Dutch possession, he married Maria Louise von Choillet and with her returned to Prussia. There they reared a family, several members of which attained military prominence. One son, Gustave C, was a lieutenant under Blucher and participated in the battles of Leipsic and W^aterloo. The father of Major Hartwig was an agriculturist and lived and died on his own estates in Prussia.

The boyhood of Henry R. W. Hartwig was passed on his father's farm and in attendance upon the local schools. A quiet, agricultural career was open to him there, on the family estates, but his ambition reached out for another career. After considering the advantages offered to young and ambitious men by the great land across the ocean, he decided to try his fortune in America and reached the port of New York in 1854. His business career was commenced as a dry goods clerk at Cleveland. Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1857, when he was infected with the fever which sent hundreds of the young men of the East to build up the enterprises of the undeveloped West. He spent one year at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and in Nebraska, and in 1858 he located at St. Joseph, Missouri.