Buchanan County, Missouri - Chapter 28: Reminiscences, 1904 (part 9 of 18)

]\[adison & Indianapolis Railroad, and for various railroads, pikes and levees in Ohio, Kentucky, ^Mississippi. Arkansas and Louisiana. In 1843, ]vlr. Corby came west to St. Joseph, Missouri, and, being pleased with the then trading post, purchased of Joseph Robidoux. a number of lots. Tlie following spring he bought a large stock of goods and commenced merchandising, and also built the first brick house in St. Joseph. For some years he conducted the largest retail business in the city and immediate vicinity, investing his profits in real estate, and at the present time the estate left by him is one of the most valuable ones in the city. In 1857, Mr. Corby retired from the dry goods business and opened a bank, which became one of the soundest financial institutions of St. Joseph, and with which he was identified imtil his death. He was among the foremost in support of institutions and enter- ])rises calculated to benefit the city, and was one of the organizers of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company, of which he was one of the first directors. Resigning his office with the company, he took a contract for the construction of 25 miles of the road. The Roseport & Maryville (or Palmetto) Railroad Company was organized in 1857 with Gen. M. Jeff. Thompson as president and Mr. Corby as vice-president, the latter soon after becoming president. Under his administration it was consolidated with the Northern Railroad of Kansas under the name of the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad Company, the company securing by the consolidation, - 125,000 acres of land, a grant from the State of Kansas. At this time Mr. Corby was also a director of the St. Joseph & Topeka Railroad Company. In 1858 he was one of the incorporators and a director of the St. Joseph branch of the Bank of the State of Missouri, which in 1864 was merged into the State National Bank, of which he was a director luitil a short time before his death. He was also an incorporator and director of the St. Joseph Fire & Marine Insurance Company. In 1856 he Avas elected mayor of the city, and at different times has served as a member of the City Council. He was attacked with heart disease in 1867. and consulted with the best of the medical profession with but little benefit. In 1869 he went to Florida to spend the winter, returning home Febbruary 2, 1870, about three months prior to his death.

On May 30, 1852. John Corby was united in marriage with Amanda Musick, youngest daughter of Joel L. ^lusick of Florisant, St, Louis Count}". There being no children, the management of the estate devolved upon Joseph A. Corby, a nephew, until 1898, when a son of the latter, John Corby, assumed its management. Our subject was president of the Hibernian Benevolent Society from its organization in 1867 until his death. He was in many respects a remarkable man. He made liberal donations to the Academy of the Sacred Heart of St. Joseph and other institutions in early years. During one year he gave about $5,000 to St. Joseph Hospital : S5.000 to a female seminary to be located on St. Joseph avenue and Albermarle -street ; lots valued at Sio.ooo to aid in building the. Cathedral of St. Joseph ; and a 160-acre tract of land near the city, valued at from $8,000 to Sio.ooo. for a Catholic cemetery.

In the center of this tract of 160 acres, 10 acres are reserved as a church site. Mr. Corby ' erected a memorial chapel. 84 by 45 feet in dimen- ' sions. of beautiful architecture, representative of I the Gothic style of the 13th century. On the outside of the north wall, which is ornamented with i two beautiful columns, carved to symbolize mourning, is inscribed in raised letters : "Erected to the Memory of John Corby." The chapel will seat about 300 people, and is indeed a gem of beauty. Its massive durability and artistic elegance are a fitting and lovely expression of the genuine piety and wifely affection of her who so tenderly and practically ])ays loving tribute to him whom it is built to con.imemorate. A view of this memorial chapel is presented on another page in this work.

ICHARD FRAKES, one of the substantial citizens and extensive farmers of Lake township, Buchanan County, whc resides on his fine farm of 300 acres, situated in section 14. was born on the old Joseph Frakes homestead in Lake township. Buchanan County, z\ugust 26, 1864, and is a son ; of Joseph and Psyche (Clevinger) Frakes.

Joseph Frakes was born in Kentucky, where he spent his youth, and removed in early manhood to Ray County, Missouri. He brought with I him his love of outdoor sports and frequently at- , tended the shooting matches in his neighborhood, ' being considered a "crack shot.'' He enjoyed the excellent hunting that was yet to be found in manv sections of the countv. Later he removed to Doniphan County, Kansas, and then to Buchanan County. ^Missouri, following farming in both localities. His last years were spent on his farm in Lake township, Buchanan County, where he died at the age of 78 years. The venerable mother of our subject still survives, the beloved center of her faithful son's household. The children of Joseph Frakes and wife were : Nathan, Jasper. Sarah, Mason. Joseph. William. John, Emma. Richard, Jane and Mary.

Richard Frakes, the ninth member of his parents' family, spent his first 25 years on the homestead farm, from early boyhood following the plow and performing all those duties which make up the sum of a successful farmer's life. His educational opportunities were limited, but an active mind and quick intelligence have long since overcome any lack of book learning. During his first year of farming for himself, he lived at home and then took charge of a property locally known as the Fcnton place. This he operated until his father's death, when he returned to the homestead and assumed the care of his aged mother. ]Mr. Frakes has remained here ever since, owning one of the very best farms in the county along the Missouri River. In addition to this farm, he owns 120 acres in Texas and a considerable amount of valuable town ]:)ropcrty in Rushville.

( )n April 10. 18P9. Mr. Frakes was united in marriage with Ella X'anhoozer, who is a daughter of William X'anhoozer, a rural mail carrier, now residing at Rushville. Mr. and Mrs. Frakes have three children : Delia. Angle and Eddie.

Politically, Mr. Frakes has always been affiliated with the Democratic party, but he has never sought office. Like the other members of this representative family of Buchanan County, he is respected and honored for his many sterling traits of character.

more of that hoary-headed band who so many years ago assisted in founding the present prosperity of St. Joseph, and who through long and useful lives stood as examjiles of honor and integrity, of business enterprise and public spirit. Mr. Ferry was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, December 6, 1818.

place and was educated there as a merchant and remained in Montgomery County until 1839, when he removed to Clay County, Missouri. In 1 84 1 he removed to Platte County and settled at W'eston, which was then the great frontier trading point of Missouri. There he and his brother, E. H. Perry, entered into a mercantile business and in the following year they established a branch house in the then hamlet of Blacksnake Hills, the first suggestive name given the present noble city of St. Joseph. In 1843 business had prospered so well with the Perry brothers that they erected for a store house the first brick building in the place, locating it on ]\Iain street, near Francis, and stocking it with domestic goods,-^ queensware and all the various articles to supply a large contingent territory.

Their business expanded and they secured contracts for a large part of the Salt Lake City trade. At first they sent the goods by ox teams, the cattle later being taken on to California, where their sale brought excellent priced, but at a later date they substituted mules for the oxen. They continued to be actively engaged in the freighting business until the completion of the railroad to the Pacific Coast, when this once lucrative occupation became numbered with the things of the past.

In his long- frontier life ^Ir. Perrv had manv thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes. In 1845 '""c was the sutler of Col. Alexander W. Doniphan's command, in his celebrated expedition, and in 1854 he went through to Salt Lake City, in the same capacity, with Colonel Stephens, and was engaged in furnishing government supplies until 1857. When the post was established at Fort Riley, Mr. Perry took the contract for furnishing it supplies and, the better to facilitate this end, purchased a steamboat on which he shipped them up the Kaw River. It is history that Mr. Perry was the pioneer and the only successful navigator of this stream.

After the breaking out of the late Civil War. Mr. Perry took the contract for supplying the army of the plains with corn, and the magnitude of this undertaking may be inferred from the fact, that in 15 months it amounted to S250.000. At one time he had in his employ 1.200 teams. During this time his intereest in St. Joseph continued and he carried on here a commission and storage business, making a success as he did of every important venture in life. He knew how to grasp opportunities and to turn them to account and the extended historv of his life, with its

In 1840 Mr. Perry married Martha Young of Shelby County, Kentucky, and he is survived by three daughters and one son, as follows: Alverda (Jackson), who resides in Los Angeles, California; William A., who lives in Denver, Colorado; and Florence and Arcadia (Mrs. George W. Alarlow), who reside at No. 611 Bush street, St. Joseph. Mrs. Perry died in 1868 and in 1870 Mr. Perry was married to America Hamilton. To the second union were born three children, as follows : John A., of Lebanon, Tennessee ; Mrs. H. E. Truex of Mexico. Missouri ; and Robert H., of San Francisco, California.

Personally Mr. Perry was a man of dignified manner and striking appearance, and he possessed the urbanity and almost knightly courtesy which distinguished a generation that is fast -i:)assing away. His sympathetic nature is remembered by those who more than once experienced his liberal help in the early days at St. Joseph. He had the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens to a marked degree. His name and fame belong to the days when the brain was the dynamo of human activity and when almost superhuman courage and dauntless enterprise were needed to follow where it pointed the path.

TRAM C. BOONE, who has been extensively engaged in the milling business at Agency for many years, is proprietor of one of the oldest mills in Buchanan County. He was born in Agency township, Buchanan County, Missouri, December 5. 1852, and is a son of RatlifT R. and Sarah E. (Frans) Boone, his father a native of Indiana and his mother of Kentucky.

Ratlifif R. Boone was a boy when he accompanied his parents to Boone County, Kentucky, wdiich had been named in honor of Daniel Boone, who was a distant relative of the family. In 1842, he came West to Buchanan County. -Missouri, and entered a tract of land now owned by Maj. W. Farris, having just enough money to pay for making the entry. His struggle in earning a competency was a hard one. and frequently he found himself so short of funds that he was unable to pay the necessary 25 cents postage which was due on a letter upon its delivery. He was the owner of 27 slaves at the outbreak of the Civil War and w^hen all slaves were emancipated he sustained a severe financial loss. Although he did not go to the front in this war, he was a number of times arrested by soldiers and incarcerated at St. Joseph, where he was subjected to many hardships, upon one occasion nearly freezing to death. He retained ownership in his preempted claim some years, then sold it and acquired 220 acres on Sac Prairie, 80 acres of timber land, later buying and selling numerous tracts. At the close of the Civil War, W. B. and J. A. Smith established one of the first flouring mills in the county, and this Mr. Boone, in partnership with his son-in-law, J. C. Smith, purchased. Another son-in-law, E. M. Yates, later purchased a half interest and the Boone & Yates Mill Company continued in charge until Mr. Boone's death, when Hiram. C. Boone, our subject, succeeded to the ownership of the plant. Ratlifif R. Boone and his wife became the parents of seven children, as follov/s : Fannie (Smith); John F. ; Sallie (Gibson), who lives near Agency; Lliram C. ; Victoria (Yates), deceased; Susie (Ray), of Louisville, Kentucky; and Malvina, wife of Dr. R. F. Dow, of Agency. Politically, Mr. Boone was a Democrat.

Hiram C. Boone has always lived in Buchanan County. He was reared on his father's farm until he was 16 or 18 years old, and then removed with his parents to Agency, where he worked in the mill for some 10 or 12 years, after which he returned to the farm for a short time. He again removed to Agency and conducted the mill of Boone & Yates as head miller until the death of his father in 1886, when he purchased it. It has since been owned and conducted by him alone, and he does a regular merchant and exchange business. He is one of the substantial business men of the community, and is highly esteemed.

In 1873, Mr. Boone was united in marriage with Nancy Randall, a native of Buchanan County, and a daughter of William and Elizabeth Randall. Thirteen children, all living, were born to them, and are as follows : Robbie, wife of William Powell of Agency township ; Ada, wife of O. M. Smith, a merchant, of Agency; Issie M., widow of Howard Glenn, of the Indian Territory ; Hiram G., who assists his father in the conduct of the afifairs of the mill : John W. ; Claude ; Ratlifif; Victoria, wife of Robert Clinton, of Agency; Jesse; William; Nellie; Randall: and Pauline. The children were well raised, receiving superior educational as well as home training, and have become useful men and women.

And Represextative Citizens

;Mr. Boone has always been a Democrat in politics, and has held a number of township offices, such as school director and as member of the township board. Religiously; he is a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Fraternally, he is a ^lason and an Odd Fellow.

ILLIA^I B. BASS, one of the successful farmers and highly respected citizens of Crawford township, Buchanan County, as he is also one of the self-made men of his locality, resides on a farm of ii3,?4 acres situated in section Mr. Bass was born in Kentucky, ]\Iarch 14, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (A\'alker) Bass.

The parents of our subject were born in Kentucky. The father died when his children were still young, and in the winter of 1867 the widow came to Buchanan County, [Missouri, with her five children, namely : John R., a farmer of Lake township, who married a Miss Harper and has five children living : ^lary. who married W. W. Payne, a farmer of Lake township, and has six children: William B., the subject of this sketch; [Minnie, who died at the age of 12 years ; and Bettie. who married John C. Caulay, proprietor of the Hotel Faucett. and has had five children, - Gertrude, Elden D.. Hattie (deceased), and Eula and Ella.

Mrs. Bass had but limited means when she came to Buchanan County, but she had devoted and industrious sons. Our subject took his father's place as nearly as possible and his mother has always had her home with him. Such education as he secured was in the district schools, but his time has been pretty closely engaged in farming, either for others or on his own account. For about 10 years after coming to Buchanan County, he worked as a farm hand, saved his earnings, rented farming land for three years and by that time had accumulated enough capital to invest in land. He purchased 69 acres of well-situated land which was partly under cultivation. This property he continued to clear and add to until he now owns 113^ acres of as desirable land as can be found in Crawford township. He has neglected no desirable improvements, erecting substantial buildings, having a beautiful residence within 100 yards of the public highway, put in fencing and setting out orchards. He has quietly Avorked along on practical lines and the results do

In 1880 Mr. Bass was married to Sally Turner having preempted the present farm of our The Turners are old pioneer people here, ]\Ir. Turner having pre-empted the present farm of our subject. Mr. and [Mrs. Bass have one son, Leon Eddy Lewis, who was born in 1881, was educated in School District Xo. i, and is making his own way as a carpenter. He is one of the intelligent and self-respecting young men of the township.

]Mr. Bass is not a very active politician outside of local matters. He has always been an advocate of schools and good roads and has voted for the candidates who supported these measures. In fraternal life he is prominent both as a jMason and as an Odd Fellow, in the former being connected with Birmington Lodge Xo. 150. A. F. & A. M., and Tabernacle Chapter, X'^o. 54, R. A. [M., in which he has taken all the degrees, and in the latter has passed all the chairs in Truth Lodge, Xo. 216.

L GPI W. CRAIG, secretary and treasurer of the Craig-Barr [Mercantile Company, of St. Joseph, and one of the city's representative men, was born at Waltham, Kansas, December 17, 1870, and is a

The father of [Mr. Craig was born at Franklin, Ohio, and died at St. Joseph, [Missouri, Xovember 8, 1902, aged 71 years. He was an Ohio farmer boy until his majority, when he went to the village of Sidney and embarked in a mercantile business. Later he removed to Elwood, Kansas, opening up a store there which he continued to conduct until the close of the Civil War, and then removed to \\'altham. where he engasfed in merchandising until 1872. In that year he removed to St. Joseph and entered the employ of D. [M. Steele & Company and remained with this firm and its successors until its failure. Later he became one of the organizers of the Craig-Barr firm, which Mas later incorporated as the Craig- Barr [Mercantile Company, and he remained in active cooperation with this large business concern until his death. He was a stanch member of the Republican party.

the town, and they had a family of eight children born to them : Guy C, deceased ; Fisher A., of St. Joseph ; Annie K., of St. Joseph ; Kate, wife of O. C. Jones, of Waltham, Kansas ; Hugh W. of this sketch ; Harry S., of St. Joseph ; and Mary W., wife of George B. Smith, of Chicago. Mr. Craig was a member of the Unitarian Church.

Hugh W. Craig was given excellent educational opportunities and completed his education at Highland University, at Highland, Kansas. He decided upon a business career and immediately entered the employ of Steele, Walker & Company, as traveling salesman, meeting with very satisfactory success. Upon the organization of the Craig-Barr Alercantile Company, he became a member of the firm and upon its incorporation became its secretary and treasurer. This is one of the large and prospering enterprises of St. Joseph. Its officers are men of capital and experience and it adds materially to the reputation of St. Jose])h as a commercial center.

ON. WILLIAM. M. SHEPHERD, one of the conspicuous figures in the recent history of St. Joseph, for six years Mayor of the city, and prominently identified with its business life as well as political interests, was born at Medina. Lenawee County, Michigan, July 3, 1846, and died at Denver, Colorado, September 19, 1899. His father was Rev. Paul Shepherd.

Mavor Shepherd's early life was devoted to the drug business, and he conducted a drug store at Troy, Kansas, i)rior to coming to St. Joseph in 1875. His first business connection at St. Joseph was as business manager of the Daily Herald. In 1880 he was ap])ointed assistant under Postmaster F. M. Tracy, which position he filled for four years, and then returned to the Herald. In i8(jO he was first elected mayor of St. Joseph and his able management of municipal afifairs caused his re-election in two subsequent cam])aigns, and lie served until .April, 1896. Upon his return to private life, he became agent for the Barber As])halt Company, with which he continued imtil 1898, when he was appointed deinUv revenue collector. This position he filled until his death, wliicli occurred in another State and city, where he had gone in the hope of regaining health.

Personally, a figure of unusual manly proportions, he was big in mind and heart. He was noted for his generous charities and it has been said that on many occasions he was poorer than those who accepted his beneficence. He was distinguished for his public spirit, progressiveness .and civic pride. St. Joseph has great cause to remember him with honor and gratitude. He is survived by one son who is a resident of Michigan.

ICHOLAS P. DRAUT, deceased, was one of the leading business men of St. Joseph, president of the St. Joseph Buggy & Manufacturing Company and identified with the city's commercial, social and religious life. Mr. Draut was born in Germany, March 8, 1862.

The late Mr. Draut was eight years of age when his parents brought him to the United States and settled at Maryville, Missouri, one year later coming to St. Joseph, where he grew to manhood and acquired an excellent education in both the German and English languages, attending Christian Brothers' College. He learned the blacksmith trade under Mr. Miles, the carriage manufacturer, under whom he worked as a mechanic for some years and was then made president and manager of the St. Joseph Buggy & Manufacturing Company. His conduct of the affairs of this large organization resulted in great prosperity and, at the time of his death,, which took place at his residence. No. 731 South 16th street, on December 9. 1901, the company held a very prominent place among the important manufacttu-ing enterprises of Buchanan County.

Mr. Draut was married on November 8, 1889, to Bertha Battmer, who is a daughter of Henry J. Battmer, formerly of Illinois, but for the past 30 years a resident of St. Joseph. They had these children: Nicholas P., Jr., Thresia M., Hannah E., Michael A. and Frederick J. The family belong to the Roman Catholic Church and the late Mr. Draut was a consistent and valued meml)er of the congregation of Father Linnencamp.

Mr. Draut was a Democrat but took only a citizen's interest in political contests. His fraternal relations were with the Foresters and Woodmen.

In his death the city of St. Joseph lost a good, honorable citizen and his family a loving husband and father. A beautiful tombstone marks his last resting place in a beautiful spot in Mount Olivet Cemeterv.

Thomas R. Ashbrook

HOMAS R. ASHBROOK, comptroller of the city of St. Joseph, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, is a man of a hig^h order of business ability and has efficiently discharged the duties of this office, as well as other offices with which he has been honored in the past. He is one of the local leaders of the Republican party and through his able conduct of affairs enjoys the support of many of the opposition.

Mr. Ashbrook was born at Ashville, Ohio, December 9, 185 1, that town having been laid out by his father at an early day. His parents came to St. Joseph in 1858 and resided here the remainder of their lives, the mother dying in April. 1896, and the father in 1898. Thomas R. Ashbrook accompanied his parents to St. Joseph in 1858, and has made this city his home ever since. He was graduated from the St. Joseph High School in 1873. and thereafter spent two years in Phillips' Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire. He early evinced a liking for politics and in 1886 was elected on the Republican ticket as alderman from the Second Ward. In 1894, he was elected city auditor of St. Joseph to which office he was reelected in 1896 and again in 1898. He was elected to his present office, that of comptroller, in the spring of 1904 on the Republican ticket, receiving the handsome majority of 447 over A. W. Horn, the Democratic nominee. He has been a success in politics, his personal popularity giving him the solid vote of his party and many from the opposing party.

Mr. Ashbrook was united in marriage in 1880 with Emma S. Mast, and with his family of three children, - William R., Charles M. and Isabelle, - resides in a comfortable home at No. 1921 Jones street.

L'DOLPH F. HEIM. a well-known architect of St. Joseph, was born in Hamburg. Germany, January 30. 1874, and is a son of Adolph A'. A. and Anna (Gensen) Heim. Rudolph Heim. grandfather of our subject, was a native of L'avaria and filled the position of judge at Schehslitz. He married Ottila von Kretschmann. who was born in 1800 and died in 1870. She was a daughter of Theodore Conrad and Christian Frederika (von Stern) von Kretschmann, the former of whom was born in T762 and was minister of state and held important land offices. His father, Johann Adam von Kretschmann, was counselor of justice at Bayreuth, and his mother was Christiana Dorothea Keck. The grandfather of our subject, died in 1845. The whole family is one of distijiction in Germany.

The father of our subject was born in Bavaria. Germany, June 16, 1843, and prior to entering the army was trained as an architect. Upon entering into military life, with which he was connected a number of years, he was assigned to the general staff, which corresponds to the engineering corps in the United States. After fulfilling his military duties, he resumed study, at Munich and then settled permanently at Hamburg, where he still follows his profession. He has been the architect employed in the construction of some of the most substantial buildings on the Colonade. which is the main business thoroughfare of Hamburg. He is connected with the leading social organizations of his city and belongs to the Masonic fraternity. In 1869 he married Anna Gensen and they had eight children, the four who survived infancy being : Edward \\'.. who is an electrical engineer at Hamburg; Frida, who is principal of a youngladies' institute at Dresden ; Rudolph F., of this sketch; and Eva E., who is a very accomplished teacher in a private school in Berlin. The family all belong to the German Evangelical Church.

Rudolph F. Heim was instructed in a private school until he was nine years old. his studies including German, French and English. He then attended the gymnasium at Osterburg until he was 12 years old, paying attention to the classics, and then was transferred to a high class school at Arendsee, where he was instructed in the studies corresponding to those in the American high school curriculum.

In 1888, when 14 years of age. he prevailed upon his parents to permit him to come to America and join the family of his uncle, F. W. Gensen, secretary of the P'feiffer Stone Company, of St. Joseph. He made the long voyage and trip alone and after reaching St. Joseph took a business course at the Rittner Commercial College. He then devoted four vears to learning: the stonecutting trade and during his apprenticeship prepared many of the drawings used in the shop. After completing his time at the trade, he worked in California for a year as a journeyman. In February, 1895, he returned to Germany and entered the great technical school at Holzminden, where he was graduated in 1897. receiving the coveted degree of Master of Building.

After a few months of visiting and renewal of old friendships in Hamburg, Mr. Heim returned to America in 1897, entering the employ of E. J. Eckel, at St. Joseph, with whom he remained until 1901, when he opened an architect's office at Atchison, Kansas, where he stayed until October of that year. He then entered into partnership with John H. Felt of St. Joseph, under the firm name of Felt & Heim, which held until October, 1902. In January, 1903, he opened his present offices in the German-American Bank Building, where he can usually be found, one of the busiest men in the city. His work is mainly the making of plans for residences, flats and business houses and he has done considerable drawing for parties outside of St. Joseph, and with such accuracy and beauty of design that he finds his business constantly increasing.

In June. 1901, Mr. Heim was married to Helen L. Haefeli, who is a daughter of Wernhard and Catherine Haefeli, of St. Joseph. They have one little daughter, - Corinne Ida. They belong to the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Heim is a member of St. Joseph Lodge, No. 40, B. P. O. E.

ILLIAM FRAKES, one of the leading farmers of Lake township, Buchanan County, whose fine farm of 200 acres is situated in section 35, was born in Doniphan County, Kansas, June 13, 1856, and is a son of Joseph and Psyche (Clevinger) Frakes.

The Frakes family originated in Kentucky and there the father of the numerous Frakes of Buchanan County was born and reared. In young manhood he removed to Ray County, Missouri, where his feats of fine marksmanship are still recalled. Later he moved to Doniphan County Kansas, and still later to Buchanan County, .Missouri, where his death took place at the age of 78 years. His venerable widow, who has reached the age of 87 years, still survives, residing on the old homestead in Lake township. Our subject was one of 11 children. His opportunities were very limited. He remained on the home farm, working for his father, until he was 32 years of age, becoming master of all kinds of agricultural work before beginning for himself. For the past 16 years he has resided on his present farm, one of the best improved and carefully cultivated properties of the township. Mr. Frakes is one of the leading

Mr. Frakes married Anna Yazel, who is the estimable daughter of Kelly Yazel, who formerly operated a sawmill at Rushville. They have had five children: Mattie (deceased), Psyche, Virginia, OUie and William. Mr. Frakes has given his children the educational opportunities denied himself and they are worthy representatives of a prominent famil3^ Mr. and Mrs. Frakes are wellknown, kind and hospitable people. Like his brothers, Mr. Frakes has always been identified with the Democratic party, but he has never been an office seeker.

OHN F. BOONE, who has been a lifelong resident of Buchanan County, Missouri, is a well-known citizen of Agency, where he has been living a practically retired life for many years. He was born here December 4, 1847, 3^"<^^ was one of seven children born to Ratlifl: R. and Sarah E. (Frans) Boone.

Ratlifif R. Boone was born in Indiana, along the Ohio River, and when a boy moved with his parents to Boone County, Kentucky, where he grew to maturity. He came West to Buchanan County, Missouri, in 1842, and preempted a claim of 160 acres which he later sold. He then moved to Sac Prairie, where he became owner of 220 acres, 80 acres of which was timber land. He also bought and sold numerous other properties and proved himself a most capable business man. Some time after the close of the Civil War, in which he lost all of his slaves, numbering 27, he engaged in the milling business with his son-inlaw, J. C. Smith. He subsequently was in partnership with another son-in-law, E. M. Yates, under the style and title of the Boone & Yates Mill Company of Agency. This latter firm continued until Mr. Boone's death, when a son, Hiram C. Boone, became owner and has since conducted it. At the time of his death, RatliflF R. Boone left an estate valued at $50,000, which bespeaks exceptional business ability, as he barely had enough money to pay for entering land when he arrived in this county. He was joined in marriage with Sarah E. Frans, a native of Kentucky, who died here at the age of 62 years. The following children were born to them : Fannie (Smith) ; John F. ; Sallie (Gibson) ; Hiram C. ; Victoria (Yates), deceased; Susie (Ray), of

John F. Boone was reared in Buchanan County wdiere he has lived all his days, and during this time has made but two trips beyond the confines of the State, one to Texas and the other to Kentucky. He became the owner of i66 acres of land, known as the Bedford place, in Garrettsburg, along the Platte River, but did not live upon it, selling it four years after it came into his possession. During tlie past 20 years he has lived in retirement, although he still makes frequent loans of money. He is a business man of ability, and his years of early toil entitle him to the life of ease and comfort which have been his in late years.

In March, 1869, John F. Boone was united in marriage with Martha E. Taylor, a daughter of Charles M. and Katherine Taylor, both natives of Kentucky, who removed to Missouri where Mrs. Boone was reared. No children were born to bless this union. Our subject is a stanch Democrat in politics, and is deeply interested in his party's success. Religiously, he and his wife -are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Boone is a Roval Arch Mason.

OSEPH RITNER GOOD, now living in St. Joseph retired from business care, has long been identified with this city and its various interests. Mr. Good was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1832, and is a son of Edward and Elizabeth (Anspach) Good, a grandson of Edward Good and a great-grandson of William Good.

Edward Good, the father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania in 1795 and died in 1850. He was a miller in Berks County in his earlier years but later turned his attention exclusively to farming. In religious belief he was a Lutheran. He married Elizabeth x\nspach, who'was born in 1804 and died in 1889. Her father was a prosperous farmer and her grandfather took part in the Revolutionary War. The family is of German extraction.

father's farm and in addition to the educational advantages he enjoyed in the district schools he attended Strasburg Academy for three years. On completing his studies, he went to Philadelphia and secured employment in a drug store and in 1852 entered the College of Pharmacy and was graduated there in 1854. He continued clerking' until 1857, when he came West and after prospecting for three months in Kansas located in the fall of that year in St. Joseph.

For two years after settling in St. Joseph, Mr. Good worked as a clerk in a drug store and then went to Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, and engaged in farming in that vicinity until 1863. He then enlisted as a member of Company B, 39th Reg., Missouri Vol. Inf., and was mustered in at Hannibal with the rank of 1st lieutenant, but before leaving Macon was commissioned captain by Governor Fletcher. His service consisted mainly in guard duty, with frequent skirmishing in Missouri, in the neighborhood of Macon, St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve and in Tennessee, in the vicinity of Nashville. He remained in the service until the close of the war, and was mustered out and honorably discharged at St. Louis, in September, 1865.

In the fall of 1865, Mr. Good brought his family fo St. Joseph. He was first engaged as a clerk for Penick & Loving, but soon was admitted to partnership. In 1875 he sold his interest in this firm and bought out the establishment of Samuel Hayes, located on Market square, where he continued for a short time and again sold. Later he became the senior member of the firm of Good, Smith & Company, wholesale druggists, with store on the corner of Third and Edmond streets, where a large business was built up. Subsequently he sold out to Samuel I. Smith & Company and clerked for this firm for some six years until it was merged into the Van Natta-Lynds Drug Company, of which he became special house salesman. In 1887 he became a stockholder in the St. Joseph Show Case Company, buying a quarter interest, and was elected president ; in April, 1 89 1, he became general manager. In the following spring, in partnership w-ith his son, Edward S., he purchased the interest of the other stockholders, and Edward S. became treasurer and J. A. Aukerman, secretary. In 1893 Mr. Good retired from business. His long career had brought him ample returns and also the esteem of the business world.

vania, and is a daughter of the late Michael and Catherine (Hain) Seltzer. Jacob Seltzer, the grandfather of Michael, was born October 31, 1732, and died October 18, 1788. He married Maria Katherine Hiester, who was born February 20, 1735, and died June 5, 181 7. Their son Jacob Seltzer, the grandfather of ]\lrs. Good, was born September 5. 1764, and died January 5, 1825. He married Katherine Kaufman, who was born September 5, 1766, and died October 25. 1842. Michael Seltzer was born October 4, 1807, and died February i, 1896. On March 16, 1829. he was married to Catherine Hain, who was born October 17. 1807, and died February 11, 16/O. Catherine Hain was a daughter of Benjamin S. Hain, who died in 1867, aged 84 years. Joseph Hain, father of Benjamin S. and great-grandfather of Mrs. Good, was born May 21, 1754, and died January 21, 1834. Catherine, his wife was born May 21, 1764, and died January 28, 1835. The Hains came to this country during the reign of Queen Anne of England, under her protection, landing in New York City in 17 12. They settled in Schoharie County, New York. After having cleared and improved the land upon which they had located, their title to the property was disputed by persons in the New York government ; thereupon they left New York, losing their lands and the im])rovements made upon them, and removed to Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1728, where they took out patents for a large body of land, some of which is still owned by the Hain descendants. In 1766 a church (called the "Hains Church") was erected near Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, by the Hains and others : after having been remodeled three times, it still stands as a monument to the pioneer settlers.

Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Good, namely : Edward S., born in Adair County, Missouri, who married Mildred Klaus, and has two children - Lcota and Edward Wyeth, both born in St. Joseph; (ieorge M., born in Adair County, who married Donna Clark and has one daughter. - Emily Oace. born in St. Joseph ; Kate Elizabeth, born in St. Joseph, who married John I. Fidler and has one daughter, - Irene R., l)orn in Pennsylvania; Mary Annetta. born in St. Joseph, who married Thomas R. Wall and has two children, - Annetta, born in St. Louis, and Thomas R., Jr., born in St. Joseph ; and Ella born in St. Joseph, who married Frank W. Baker, of New York City. Edward S. Good has been traveling salesman for the Nave &

Mr. Good has always afifiliated with the Re- ]iublican party. In his earlier years he was identified with a number of fraternal orders, but takes no active part in any of these now. He has watched with interest the wonderful commercial developiuent of St. Joseph and must be ranked with the city's representative men.

OHN C. KELLER, a successful farmer of Bloomington township, Buchanan County, was born in Clark County, Indiana, December 14, 1829, and is a son of Martin and Polly (Robb) Keller and grandson of John Keller.

John Keller was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, as was his wife, whose maiden name was Sally Rader. They were parents of the following children ; Joseph ; Obecl ; Martin ; John ; Margaret ; Mary ; Ann ; Ruth and Eliza. All of the children married and reared families. John Keller moved with his family to Bartholomew County, Indiana, where he acquired a quarter section of land at a time when Indiana was a Territory.

Martin Keller was born in Virginia in June, 1803, and was reared near Wheeling. He went with his parents to Indiana at an early date, and was there married. He died there April 20, 1855, and his widow moved to Bartholomew County, Indiana, with her family. She was born in Clark County, Indiana, and died January 9, 1892. Martin Keller and wife were parents of nine children, two of whom died in infancy. The seven that grew to maturity were as follows : Milton ; John C. ; Elizabeth (Thompson); Alfred; Martin, of Oklahoma Territory ; Polly and Mahala. Our subject and his brother Martin are the only two now living.

John C. Keller was reared on the farm and received his educational training in the common scliools of Bartholomew County, Indiana. At the age of 21 years he began farming for himself and has continued at this vocation ever since. On October 12, i860, he came to Buchanan County, Missouri, settling in Lake township, on a farm now owned by George Montgomery, one half being under cultivation and the other half timberland. He continued there until the spring of 1872, then moved to section 30, Bloomington township, where he has since resided. For some years he lived in the log house on the place, with' its old-fashioned fire-place and with its ceiling, door and staircase made of solid walnut. The farm was heavily timbered, and hard labor was required to clear it and place it in tillable shape. He has 137 acres in section 30, Bloomington township, and a tract of 50 acres in section 25, Rush township. He follows general farming and stock-raising and has prospered more and more as each year has passed. He has always been public-spirited and alive to the best interests of this section, being especially interested in the matter of improving the roads.

On May 31. 1855, Mr. Keller was united in marriage with Clarinda Cox, who was born in Decatur County, Indiana, October 18, 1834, and died May 15, 1888, having given birth to the following children : jMartin, a farmer of Bloomington township, who married Ella Lawrence and has a daughter, - Ethel ; Myra, deceased, who was the wife of Benjamin Saunders and the mother of one son, - Arnold, of Platte County, Missouri ; James A. deceased, who married Nellie Elliott, and had three children, - Edith, Anna and Eula ; Mary J. deceased, who was the wife of Robert Brown ; Sarah E., deceased, who was the Avife of James Allison ; Martha, who lives at home ; Virtie, deceased ; and John C, Jr., who married Kate Allison and lives on the home place in section 30, Bloomington township. Religiously, our subject is a member of the Sugar Creek Christian Church, of which his wife was also a member. During the Civil War, in August, 1862, he became a member of the Enrolled Militia of Missouri, and served until December of that year, when the company was disbanded. In 1864. he joined another company and served until after the second election of Lincoln. He is a Republican in politics and cast his first vote for General Scott in 1852. He has served as township clerk and as school director.

BORING HUNDLEY. Among the prominent business men of St. Joseph, was the late John Boring Hundley, who for 32 years was identified with the mercantile interests of this city and who passed away here on August 31, 1896, a man of unblemished integrity. Mr. Hundley was born in Washington County, Tennessee, December 19, 1819, and was a son of John Simms and Mary (Boring) Hundlev.

The late Mr. Hundley was given the best educational advantages afforded by the common schools of his native locality and entered upon business life with a foundation well laid and with moral principles which had been instilled by a good mother. He was 20 years old when he left his home and went to Missouri, where he soon engaged in teaching school, a profession he followed for two years, or until he had accumulated enough capital to enable him to venture into business. INIr. Hundley then went to Gentry County, Missouri, where he opened a country store. In those days the country store was a point of general interest, it frequently being made the meeting place of neighbors for miles around who wished to discuss some political question or to agree upon some township improvement. Aside from it being a trading place for the good wives and mothers, it was a kind of social center, the elimination of which at that time would have made a great blank in the lives of the widely separated settlers. Mr. Hundley was just the right man to be proprietor of such a place, knowing how to select merchandise to fill the wants of his customers and possessing the pleasant, accommodating manner which made all welcome. He not only secured the confidence of the whole surrounding country, but their high esteem as well and was elected to one of the leading county offices, that of treasurer, by one of the largest majorities ever given in that county to any candidate. This office he faithfully filled for 12 years, when he retired voluntarily from public life.

At this time Mr. Hundley removed to St. Joseph, locating in this city in 1864. Here he engaged in merchandising and founded the large boot and shoe house which, under different styles, has developed into one of the largest wholesale houses in St. Joseph. For some 22 years Mr. Hundley continued to be active in the city's business afifairs, but in 1886 failing health caused his retirement. The 10 succeeding years of his existence were given to the quiet pleasures suitable to his years and state of health, and to carrying out various beneficent enterprises which were dear to his heart.

In 1848, ]Mr. Hundley was married to Tabitha A. Witten, who was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, and at the time of his decease their eight children survived. Two years later occurred the death of one son, Eugene. Mrs. Hundley still survives.

In 1869, Mr. Hundley connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and until the close of his life was one of its most active and liberal members. The name of John Boring Hundley will live in the memory of his fellow citizens in association with the Hundley Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of St. Joseph. His generous donations made the erection of this edifice possible, and the name of the benefactor was given this noble monument of his faith. Not only to the church of his choice was Mr. Hundley liberal, but to every good and charitable cause as well and also to public enterprises which appealed to his judgment as being designed to benefit his fellow citizens.

AMES McCORD. The death of James McCord on September 24, 1903, lost to St. Joseph a citizen of great commercial achievement and of exalted personal character. Conspicuous as was his business success, it did not represent the whole man, for few citizens have shown more interest or devoted more time or means to the developing and perfecting of those agencies which promote public welfare and bring about the largest measure of general happiness. His loss, therefore, was both a private and public bereavement.

The birth of James McCord took place on January 7. 1826, in Randolph County, Virginia, and his ])arents were William and Sally Moss (Field) McCord. In both the paternal and the maternal lines, the families were of enough distinction to have attained public mention. The McCords came of sturdy stock from the North of Ireland, whence they removed to Virginia early in the i8th century. The name appears in the public records of Albemarle County, where John McCord, in 1740, signed the document calling a Presbyterian minister. In 1750 record is found, in Albemarle County, of Robert Field, who was the maternal great-grandfather of James McCord, and honorable mention is made of John Field, his grandfather, as a captain in the Eighth Virginia Regiment, in the War of 181 2. The late James McCord, however, needed no accom])lishments of his ancestors to impress upon his fellow citizens his true value as a man.

Both parents of Mr. McCord were born and reared in Albemarle County, Virginia, where William McCord first engaged in the practice of the law. He was prosecuting attornev for Randolph County from 1829 to 1836. In the latter year he removed his family to^ Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a wonderful journey for those davs.

Two years later the family settled at Versailles,, in Morgan County, where Mr. McCord resumed the practice of the law, dying shortly afterward, in C3ctober, 1839. His widow survived him 13 years, dying in 1852, at Savannah, Missouri.

The death of his father left James McCord with many responsibilities in early boyhood and before he was 15 years of age in 1840, he entered upon a business career which, at that time no one would have been daring enough to predict, would later carry his name into almost every State of the Union. As clerk in a country store, at Calhoun, Henry County, Missouri, his duties were faithfully performed for the first year with no remuneration except his board, but he had become valuable enough to his employer by the second year, to receive a salary of $75, which was increased to $100 in the third year. In 1843 '""^ went to W^arsaw, Missouri, and working in the same capacity received his board and a salary of $150, which was increased to $250 in 1844. Better than this, he had by his fidelity to his employer's interests so won the latter's confidence, that he was made business agent to St. I>ouis and New Orleans, and later to other points. During this period of traveling, he visited the Platte Purchase, Weston, Savannah and St. Joseph, in all of these places studying business conditions and possibilities and laying up facts which he \\''as able to put to his own use when he entered into business for himself.

In 1846, feeling well qualified through his years of experience, he entered into business, forming a partnership with Abram Nave, his brother-in-law, at Savannah, Andrew County, where the latter was engaged in business at that time. This personal friendship and business association continued unbroken for a period of 52 years, the death of Mr. Nave terminating a connection which had in it the elements of a Damon and Pythias affection. The two partners established a business at Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, where Mr. McCord remained until 1849, when he made some preparations to make the tri]:) to the California Eldorado by sea, but later changed his mind and engaged in the produce business, shi])ping from St. I.ouis to New Orleans. He had not given up the idea of visiting California, however, for he crossed the plains in April, 1850, and remained on the Pacific Coast until the following year when he returned and resumed his business^ relations with Mr. Nave, at Savannah, Missouri. In 1852 he made a second trip to the Pacific Coast, in company with Abram

Nave, Charles L. Clark and D. M. Steele, on this occasion driving a herd of cattle across the plains. This business proved remunerative and was repeated for several years, or as long as it was profitable.

Our subject and his partner still continued their mercantile establishment at Savannah, but they now came to a realization of the business opportunities ofifered them, by the opening up of travel and the rapid settlement of new localities. That they were men equal to the occasion, the great commercial concerns in which millions are invested, which now recall their names in a half dozen States, fully attest. In 1857 a wholesale grocery business was established at St. Joseph. Missouri, under the firm name of Nave, McCord & Company; in 1861 followed the establishment of a similar concern at Omaha, Nebraska, with the late Charles L. Clark as resident partner. In 1863 t^ie fi^'" o^ C. D. Smith & Company was established at St. Joseph, INIissouri, with Abram Nave, James McCord, D. M. Steele and C. D. Smith as partners, the last named being the manager: in 1868, Leach, Nave & Company, which later become McCord, Nave & Company, was established at Kansas City, IMissouri ; and in 1 87 1, Nave, Goddard & Company, later Nave & McCord, entered into the commercial life of St. Louis, ^lissouri. At the time of his decease, James AlcCord was connected with these great business houses : The Nave-McCord Mercantile Company, of St. Joseph, of which he was president, - a business established in 1846, incorporated in 1880 and reincorporated in 1900; The Mc- Cord-Brady Company, of Omaha, Nebraska ; The McCord-Chapman-Greer Mercantile Company, of Pueblo, Colorado; The McCord-Collins Company, of Fort Worth. Texas ; The McCord-Collins Mercantile Company, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; The Smith-^IcCord Dry Goods Company, of Kansas City, Missouri ; The Kistler- Metzler ^vlercantile Company, of Topeka, Kansas ; The McCord Rubber Company, of St. Joseph, Missouri ; The Sentney Wholesale Grocery Company, of Hutchinson. Kansas ; The ]\lcCord- Harlow Shoe Company, of St. Joseph, Missouri ; The Henry Krug Packing Company, of St. Joseph, Missouri ; The James ]\IcCord Realty Company, of St. Joseph, Missouri ; and The Nave & McCord Cattle Company, the owner of a ranch of 100,000 acres in Garza County, Texas.

still survives. The nine children born to them are all living, namely: W. H., of Omaha. Nebraska ; James H., Samuel S., Susan and Lucy (wife of J. H. Parker, Jr.), all of St. Joseph; Mary Ada. wife of J. Burnett Collins, of Fort Worth, Texas ; George L., of Pueblo, Colorado ; Robert H., of Kansas City, Missouri ; and Francis, of New York City. The James McCord sons are all actively interested in the management of one or more of the mercantile concerns of which their able father was one of the founders, and are universally recognized in the business world as successful and sagacious men.

Although so immersed in the various cares, complexities and responsibilities unavoidably connected with active participation in so many gigantic enterprises, James McCord found time to take a deep interest in both public and civic aft'airs, to give personal attention to the distribution of his generous charities, to absorb good literature and enjoy travel, to give a part of himself to a most devoted family, and to cultivate those social amenities which go so far to rest and sweeten life.

"In looking back it is difficult to select the most prominent attribute of his character. His wide experience, extensive knowledge upon all subjects, together with his other excellent traits, made him a perfect type of the American citizen and gentleman. His constant attention to his business resulted in establishing the name of McCord as a synonym for honest dealing, from Texas to Dakota, and from the Missouri River to the coast."

In political sentiment. Mr. ]\IcCord was first a Whig and later a Republican, in national and State issues, but he reserved to himself the right to support, in local matters, the individual in whom he had the most confidence. He came of a Presbyterian family but never formally united with that or any other religious body, his faiths and tenets being best shown by his life and its moral influence. His charities were large but were given with no special recognition of any creed or condition, being generously bestowed upon the needy and unfortunate, wherever they were found.

Unassuming and quiet, totally opposed to any display of the wealth he had accumulated, he spent his busy years in cordial relationship with his neighbors and friends, gratified by their esteem and approbation. He was particularly blessed in his domestic life and had the satisfaction of seeing his children grow np to matnrity, inheriting the business acumen which had made him prosperous and the gentle, attractive attributes of their mother, whose companionship had been so important a factor in his life.

ARK J. FARBER, M. D., Ph. G., a well-known member of the medical profession at St. Joseph, now holding the position of. professor of dermatolog'v at the Ens worth Medical

College in this city, was born May 17, 1865, in the old city of Moscow, Russia, and is a son of Josei:)h S. and Matilda (Mendelstam) Farber.

The father of Dr. Farber was a large manufacturer of silks, satins and velvets in Russia, the work being carried on in the old way, with hand looms, 300 of these being used in his factories. He manufactured for a large wholesale trade. Joseph S. Farber was married twice and our subject is the third child of the first union, his young mother dying when he was but three days old.

Dr. Farber was educated in his native city at the gymnasium. He possesses a certificate from the Imperial University of Moscow, both in pharmacy and medicine. At the age of 24 years he left his own country to come to a land where talent and ability had a better chance of recognition and where a wider and freer field was offered men Of ambition. Hampered at first by his want of knowledge of the English language, he applied himself closely to its study and, to familiarize himself with medical thought and method in his adopted land, entered the medical department of the University of New York City. After one year of study there, he married and shortly after, in 1890, came to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he entered the Northwestern Medical College and was graduated in tSqt.

Dr. Farber then settled at Rochester. I\lissouri, and practiced his profession there for five years, retttrning then to St. Joseph, where he has been located ever since, in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice. He fills the ]:)Osition of professor of dermatology at one of tlie leading medical institutions of the State, and he belongs to the Buchanan County and the Missouri State medical societies and the American Medical Association, taking an active part in their discussions.

On March 10, 1889, Dr. Farber was married to Wilhelmine Schnee, and they had one son, - Raoul (pronounced Ralph in English). The mother died in 1896, aged 31 years. Dr. Farber Uiarried, as his second wife, Lillian Frank, a daughter of Solomon Frank, of St. Joseph.

Politically, Dr. Farber has identified himself with the Democratic party. His fraternal connections include Lodge 243, A. F. & A. M. ; St. Joseph Lodge, No. 249, A. O. U. W. ; Missouri Camp, No. 1893, Modern Woodmen of America; Enterprise Camp, No. 178, Woodmen of the World ; Select Knights and Ladies and the Fraternal Home Association.

EV. JAMES POWER, deceased, was one of the great factors in the early religious and educational advancement of St. Joseph, where his memory is perpetuated not only in the hearts of those he benefited, but by great structures founded by his energy and piety. Father Power was born May 13, 1815, in County Waterford, Ireland, and died at the Christian Brothers' College, St. Joseph, May 5, 1899.

Father Power was ordained in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1856 he came West, zealous in pushing the work of the church in the border towns. Prior to this he had established a colonization society

Reading, Pennsylvania, and in the interest of this society he bought a large body of land in Nodaway and Gentry counties, to which he brought a colony in 1858. He established his people at Conception, Nodaway County, where he erected the first Catholic Church in Northwestern Missouri. As a pioneer missionary, he was located for a time, in 1857, at St. Joseph.

Father Power induced a colony of Benedictine monks to come from Switzerland and to found what is now the abbey at Conception. But it is at St. Joseph that the hopes of his heart took root and flowered to such perfection and his last years were spent in retirement as chaplain at the Christian Brothers' College, for which he had erected the first building. It is now a part of the present imposing structure and its mission continues the same as when it first rose from its foundations under the eyes of the zealous priest. Father Power also founded the Convent of the Perpetual Adoration at Conception. He founded also the St. James Industrial School for Boys

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Father Power is recalled as a man of quiet, unassuming manner, one who devoted his life to the bearing of burdens for others and to fostering every holy inspiration for the benefit of those about him. A true Catholic in every sense of the word, he found his happiness in ministering to all who came within his sphere, irrespective of class or condition.

ANIEL MORTON, M. D., one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of St. Joseph, and widely known as an able speaker and writer on medical and historical subjects was born November 25, 1864, at Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, in the Logan Female Academy, of which his father was at that time president. He is a son of Rev. David Morton, D. D., and Hannah, Wilson (Bottomley) Morton.

His ancestors were among the pioneers of America, settling in \^irginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania prior to the Revolution. They came from England, Scotland, Holland and France. From John Morton the direct line is traced through Capt. John ]\Iorton. Jr. : Joseph Morton ; William Jordan Morton, of "Snowden," Logan County, Kentucky ; oNIarmaduke Beckwith Morton, of "The Knob," Russellville, Kentucky ; David Morton, D. D., to Dr. Daniel ^Morton, the subject of this sketch. The collateral lines are Ashton (Aston), Beckwith. Caldwell, Cocke (Cox), Cook, Davis, Dinwiddle, Dubois. Elten, Hawkins, Hite, Lane. Mountjoy, Means, j\Iorton, Perrin, Pryor, Smith, Thornton. Van ]\Ieter and Wood. From these families have come men distinguished in every walk of life. Among them, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, of Virginia and his son. Sir Jonathan Beckwith, the latter a signer of the Northern Neck Declaration of Independence ; Charles Smith, who was with George Washington at the battle of Great Meadows and Braddock's Defeat, losing his left hand in the latter fight ; Joist Hite, who ])lanted a colony in the Shenandoah \'alley, the first permanent settlement of whites west of the Blue Ridge ; Col. \^alcntine Wood : John Caldwell Calhoun, the statesman ; United States Senator Jackson Morton, of Florida ; Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, of the Confederate States Army, one of the most distinguished officers in the Southern Army ; Gen. James Barbour Terrill, commander of "Stonewall" Jackson's "Fighting 13th:" Col. John W. Caldwell, of the "Orphan Brigade" of Kentucky, C. S. A., a most gallant officer ; ^^'illiam H. English. Democratic vice-presidential candidate and author of the valuable history. - "The Conquest of the Northwest by Gen. George Rogers Clark." and David Morton, D. D., one of Kentucky's distinguished divines, and founder of the Church Extension Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South .

Until 1878. Dr. Morton was a student at Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky. After the removal of the family to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1879, Dr. Morton entered the High School of that city, remaining until 1882. In 1880. however, he had commenced to earu his own living, and with his brothers formed the firm of Morton Brothers, stationers, printers and binders. From this small beginning has grown the widely known stationers' supply house. The Office Supply Company of Louisville. In 1885 he disposed of his interest in order to begin the study of medicine. He was graduated from the University of Louisville Medical Department in 1887, ranking third in a class of 87. Th entire winter of 1887-88 was spent in attendance on medical lectures at Columbia College, New York City, ^ledical Department, which was then known as the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Morton left Louisville in 1888 and entered upon the practice of medicine, at St. Joseph, }^Iissouri. Surgery has always been his specialty, and he has built up a reputation in this branch of medicine extending not only through the territory contiguous to St. Joseph, but over the neighboring States, from which he draws a very extensive practice. During the winter of 1889- 90, Dr. Morton occupied the chair of dermatologv and rectal surgery at Ens worth Medical College. He has made for himself an enviable reputation as an instructor. lu 1889 he was appointed attending physician to the Ladies' Union Benevolent Association. This is the organization that managed the Home of the Friendless and the charities which grew out of it. He has been connected with this association ever since, serving as attending physician and consulting phvsician at the Home of the Friendless, the Home for. Little Wanderers and the ^lemorial Home for the Aged. His duties were further increased in 1893 by his acceptance of the position of associate editor of the St. Louis Medical Portnii^htly.

At this time he was appointed assistant surgeon of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway, by Dr. E. S. Garner, and on November 20, 1893, was sppointed United States pension examining surgeon, and served until June 19, 1899. On August I, 1898, he was appointed chief surgeon of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway and of the Kansas City & Omaha Railway, and served as such until January i, 1904.

The succeeding years continued to be filled with duties of a public character, while a private practice absorbed his time and energies far beyond that of ordinary practitioners. In 1899 he was appointed county physician and served as such until March, 1901. and from 1899 to 1900 he again was lecturer on rectal surgery at Ensworth Medical College. On June 25, 1900, he was commissioned major and surgeon of the Fourth Regiment Infantry, Missouri National Guard. In the same year he was appointed surgeon of the St. Joseph Terminal Company and served as such until 1904. On January 30, 1904, he was detailed acting Chief Surgeon of the Missouri National Guard, being the highest medical officer of the State on the active list. At present he lectures on the subject of abdominal surgery at the St. Joseph Hospital Training School for Nurses.

Dr. Daniel Morton has been identified with St. Joseph Hospital from its very beginning and in connection with the late Dr. E. S. Garner and other surgeons of that time was instrumental in inducing the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul to undertake the work which has grown into the present magnificent institution. On November 15, 1888, Dr. Morton became associate editor of the St. Joseph Medical Herald. Later he became editor and continued as such until May, 1891. His contributions to the medical press have been numerous and along the lines of medical education and surgery. Aside from these, he has also written a biography of his father, David Morton, and a history of the Morton family, entitled "The Mortons and Their Kin," as well as a history of the Ladies' Union Benevolent Association for the first 25 years of its existence. Dr. Morton has always been an active medical society man, belonging to all the local medical societies and to others, both State and National. He was a delegate to the International Association of Military Surgeons, which met at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904. He was one of the founders of the St. Joseph Medical and Surgical Society, and also of the Buchanan County Medical Society. In 1903 he was elected president of the St. Joseph Medical Society and has frequently held office in the various societies of which he is a member.

Dr. Morton was married on March 8, 1894, to Fannie E. Johnson, who is a daughter of William B. and Mary (Colhoun) Johnson, and a granddaughter of John Colhoun, one of St. Joseph's pioneers.

Dr. Morton has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since the age of 12 years. In 1889 he was elected a member of the board of stewards of the Francis Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of St. Joseph, and served as such until 1893. In the same year he was elected a member of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association, serving until 1895, and again from 1898 to 1899. In June, 1904, he was elected vice-president of the St. Joseph Church Extension Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In addition to the various responsibilities associated with so many offices. Dr. Morton has always been ready to perform the duties of a good citizen, taking an active interest in all that concerns the welfare of St. Joseph. On June i, 1903, he accepted the appointment as a member of the St. Joseph Free Public Library. Dr. Morton's position in St. Joseph, both as a citizen and as an eminent member of his profession, entitles him to the general esteem in which he is held. His portrait accompanies .this sketch.

OSEPH FRAKES, a prominent member of one of the old pioneer families of Northwestern Missouri, and a wellknown farmer of Lake township, Bu-* chanan County, where he owns and operates a well-cultivated farm of 86 acres in section 22, was born September 6, 1854, in Doniphan County, Kansas. He is a son of Joseph and Psyche (Clevinger) Frakes.

Joseph Frakes, father of our subject, was born in Kentucky, where he resided until manhood, when he came to Missouri, locating in Ray County. From there he removed to Doniphan County, Kansas, and then to Buchanan County, ?\lissouri, following farming as an occupation. His last years were passed in Lake township, Buchanan County, where he died at the age of 78" years. His widow still survives, at the age of 87 years, still living on the old family homestead

On account of the disturbing influence of the Civil War, our subject's boyhood was passed without the enjoyment of good educational advantages. Hard work on the farm was his portion for the first 25 years of his life, all this time on the homestead farm. Since then he has been engaged in farming on his present place, a wellwatered, admirably located tract of 86 acres. Mr. Frakes has this large body of land almost all under cultivation, and is counted among the good farmers and substantial citizens of Lake township.

On June 25, 1880, Mr. Frakes was married to Rillie Jane Warner, who is a daughter of Wilson Warner, a farmer and fisherman of Doniphan County, Kansas. They have had these children : Luther ; Goldie, who married Augustus Nitz, of St. Joseph, and has one child, - Hazel ; Myrtle ; Richard ; Millie ; Lena ; Josie ; Bessie ; Rillie ; and John and Millard (twins), George and Monty, all four of whom died young.

Mr. Frakes has always been identified with the Democratic party, to which organization the other members of this well-known family of Buchanan County have always given their support.

RANT C. THAYER, one of the leading business men and prominent and representative citizens of St. Joseph, engaged in a cement, lime and coal business, was born in 1849 i" New York, and is a son of Robert H. and Amma (Crawford) Thayer.

Mr. Thayer comes of old and honored New England ancestry. The Thayer family was established in Massachusetts in colonial days and many of its members still reside in the old "Bav" State. It is a family of honorable traditions which its descendants have lived up to. Robert H. Thayer was a contractor and lumber dealer. He died at Virginia City, Nevada, when his son was 13 years of age. The mother of our subject survived until 1892, dying in New York.

Brant C. Thayer was five years old when his parents went to California and he obtained his education in that State. After the death of his father, he accompanied his mother to New York. In 1867, he was in Michigan for a short period, and then went to Rockford, Illinois, where he entered into the employ of the reaper works. From Rockford he went to Chicago, and there entered the construction department of the American Bridge Company. Mr. Thayer continued with this company for about nine years and then became associated as assistant engineer with S. Waters Fox, in the government service on the improvements on the Missouri River. In 1884 he established his home in St. Joseph and was associated with Mr. Fox for 11 years. In 1895 he engaged here in a coal and building material business, having a partner for a short time, under the name of the Thayer Cement, Lime & Coal Company, and this business he has continued until the present, meeting with the success which comes as the result of experience, judgment and upright and fair dealings.

In 1874 Mr. Thayer was married at Chicago, Illinois, to Alice Dacy, a native of that city, and they have four children, all of whom are well established in life, viz : Amma, who married R. AL Nichols, of New York, and has one son, - John T. ; Brant C.-, Jr., an electrician of St. Joseph, who married Ota Saunders : Alice, wife of Perry A. Welty, of St. Joseph ; and May, who is the wife of R. M. Chaplin of Chicago.

Mr. Thayer is identified with the Republican party and has been prominent in city affairs for a number of years. He is serving as a member of the City Council from the Fourth Ward and is regarded as a citizen who faithfully performs his civic duties. He is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having passed all the chairs in King Hill Lodge. No. 19, of St. Joseph. He is also one of the leading spirits in the Commercial Club of this city.

lUDLEY ROACH is one of the representative farmers of Buchanan (Tounty, where he has resided for a period of 60 years. He has a fine farm of 568^ acres in Center township and has a comfortable home in section 17 of that township. He was born in Estill County, Kentucky, November 18, 1833, and is a son of Henrv and Molly (Wills) Roach.

Henry Roach, grandfather of our subject, was born in England and came to the United States during the Revolutionary War. in which he served seven years as a sailor in the United States Navy. He died in Madison County, Kentucky, when our subject was one year old.

Henr,v Roach, father of our subject, was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1802 and died in Platte County, Missouri, in 1854, aged 52 years. He removed to Buchanan County in 1844 and followed farming extensively, principally raising hemp. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and a Democrat in politics. He was a slaveowner, and after his death five of his slaves sold for $6,000. He married Molly Wills, who was born in Estill County, Kentucky, and died near Nortonville, Kansas, at the age of 84 years. Ten children blessed their union, as follows : Simpson, of Oklahoma Territory, who served one year in Jennison's artillery during the Civil War; Fred, deceased in Kansas in 1902, who served in the Kansas State Militia during the Civil War ; Dudley, our subject; Henry, of Kansas; Sallie Ann (Evans), of Oklahoma Territory; Polly Ann (Betts). deceased; Andrew, deceased; Michael, of Oldahoma Territory; Malinda (Knapp), of Kansas; and Jesse, of Oklahoma Territory.

When nearly 11 years of age, Dudley Roach moved with his parents to Platte County, Mis- .souri, the trip being made to Frankfort, Kentucky, by means of a boat of their own construction, thence by steamboat to Weston. Missouri. They walked out to a farm and resided upon it 10 years, living in two log cabins, one 14 by 14 feet and the other 12 by 12 feet in dimensions. In 1854 they came to Buchanan County, where his father purchased 175 acres in section 17, Center township, which is the nucleus of the present farm of our subject. This land was cleared and improved with the exception of about 40 acres, and .the family resided in a log cabin, 20 by 20 feet in dimensions, during the first seven years, at the end of which time the house was built which stands on the premises to-day. Dudley Roach purchased the farm of his father, and to this has added until at tlie present time he has 568^^ acres of exceptionally good land. Upon it he has built five good frame liouscs and a modern brick house, three barns, and granaries and necessary outbuildings. He has always raised considerable grain, and one year had 200 acres in wheat, harvesting 4,000 bushels. He also has raised stock on an extensive scale, having as high as 600 head of sheep at a time. At the present he has 40 head of horses and mules and a large number of cattle. He has an excellent apple orchard of 20 acres. He is a scientific farmer and has met with unusual success.

in 1839, and was a daughter of Fountain and Mary Finnell. She died in February, 1880, leaving the following children: Kate (Waller), deceased; Mary (Arthur), of Center township; John, of Center township : Simpson, of Oklahoma Territory ; Henry, who died at the age of 19 years ; and Fountain, who resides on the home farm. Our subject has 14 grandchildren. He is a Republican in politics. He is a ]\Iason and an Odd Fellow. He was a member of the Enrolled Militia of Missouri for three summers during the war and finally was made 2nd lieutenant. During two summers he slept out of doors at night, so the enemy could not capture him.

MOR JACKSON, now a highly respected retired resident of St. Joseph, has been identified with the interests of this part of the State for very many years and has an interesting personal and family history. Mr. Jackson was born in Surry County, North Carolina, August 28, 1838, and is a son of Irdell and Elizabeth (Whitlock) Jackson.

Thomas Jackson, our subject's grandfather, belonged to the old Quaker family of the name in Pennsylvania. He removed to North Carolina and established the family there and there his son, Irdell Jackson, was born on the old plantation near ]\!ount Airy. Prior to 1856 the father of our subject cultivated large tracts of land, owning many slaves, and raised immense crops of tobacco, corn and cotton. In the above named year he removed to Buchanan County, Missouri, buying a quarter section of land near Agency. This he devoted to stock-raising, in which industry he continued until his death, in 1861, at the age of 63 years. He married Elizabeth Whitlock. who was a daughter of Thomas Whitlock, a native of \'irginia. They had a family of seven children, namely : \''iolet, deceased, who married H. G. Gordon, and lived at Wyatt Park; Charles. and Jacob, both deceased : Alexander H., a resident of Garrettsburg, Buchanan County ; Amor, of this sketch ; and Thomas H. and Lucy Jane, both deceased. They all were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Amor Jackson was reared on his father'-s-., farm and continued to reside at home until his father's death. Then he came West and enlisted in Company I, 8ist Reg., Enrolled Militia of Missouri, as orderly sergeant and saw consider- able service during the progress of the Civil War. This war and its issues brought heavy tinancial loss on him, as the slaves he had brought from North Carolina became free. He then went into the freighting business between St. Joseph and Pike's Peak and continued in this profitable business for some three years. Upon his return to St. Joseph, he introduced an improved threshing machine in this section and operated it for some time through the county and then embarked in a grocery business at Saxton. He was made postmaster and railroad agent, and continued there for 13 years. In 1890 ]Mr. Jackson sold his property at Saxton, including his store and farm, the latter comprising 165 acres, and bought 200 acres near Easton. There he continued to raise grain and stock for some three years, and then began the milling business. He operated a large ilouring mill until 1896 and then retired from active labor, and took up his residence in St. Joseph, where he had owned some 24 valuable city lots since 1895. His time is mainly occupied in looking after his various investments and in an enjoyment of the ease which years of business precluded.

In 1867 ^Ir. Jackson was married to Hilary E. Jackson, a daughter of Alfred Jackson, of similar name but not of known kindred, and eight of their nine children grew to maturity, viz : Laura Elizabeth, Jacob. Robert L. and Alexander H., all of St. Joseph ; Susan, wife of Walter L. Lynch, of Kansas City : Nellie, wife of Harry Knowl. of St. Joseph ; Alfred, of St. Joseph, and Arthur, of Buffalo, New York. The family all belong to the ^Methodist Episcopal Church. ^^Ir. Jackson has been one of the trustees and is a class leader in Ebenezer Church, Agency township. Politically, he is a Democrat. Wherever he has lived he has filled township offices, serving faithfully on the School Board and for 10 years was road overseer.

Alfred Jackson, the father of Mrs. Amor Jackson, was born in Kentucky. When but 11 years of age his father died and he made his way to Richmond, Ray County, Missouri, where he entered the employ of a farmer, working one vear at mauling rails and later in a tanyard. As soon as he was old enough, he worked as a farm hand and at manhood first rented land and then bought a farm in Jackson County. Two years later he sold that property to advantage and moved to Rock House Prairie, in Agency township, and bought a farm of 160 acres. In 1865 he removed to Nebraska Citv. Nebraska, but six montlis later returned to Buchanan County and bought a farm in Center township on which he resided until his death in 1875, ^t the age of 63 years. In political faith he was a Democrat. He married Jemima Tarwater, of Richmond, Ray County, Missouri, formerly of Tennessee. Of their 13 children, 12 grew to maturity, namely: Samuel, of Tremont township ; William, deceased ; Andrew, deceased ; Joseph, of Amity, ^Missouri ; Thomas, of Nebraska City, Nebraska ; George W., formerly of Atchison County, deceased ; Levi, of Durbin, Missotiri ; Chesley, of Whitesville, Andrew County, ^Missouri ; Chesterfield, deceased ; Tabor, of Amity, IMissouri ; Charles of Clinton County, and ^Irs. Jackson. Alfred Jackson and wife were Baptists and for many years the former was a deacon in the church.

The name of Jackson is thus a very familiar one in this part of Missouri and wherever found will be associated with men of probity, integrity and good citizenship.

OHN O. GAUGH, one of the well-known and highly esteemed citizens of St. Joseph, who has been identified with the ^ painting trade here for hmany years, was born in 1853 ^^ Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Christian T. and Sarah Catharine (Henry) Gaugh.

Christian T. Gaugh was born September 25, 1834, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. When two years old, he was taken to Crawford County and was reared on a farm. Such education as he secured was in the old log school houses of his locality. When 16 years old, he was apprenticed to learn the painting and carriage-making trade at Hartstown. There he worked for four years, receiving a shilling a day and his board. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for a time for his old empolyer and then, with a partner, started a carriage and wagon shop at Jamestown, Pennsylvania. After some }ears he went to Newport, Kentucky, where he engaged in house painting for one year and then removed to Rock Island, Illinois. In the fall of 1856 he settled at Sioux City, Iowa, and in the spring of 1 861 he enlisted in Company I, Seventh Reg., Iowa Vol. Cav.. and was sent out on the plains, in the command under General Sully. The members of this company furnished their own horses and felt honored to be selected as their general'sbody-guard.

Mr. Gaugh was then detailed acting hospital steward and served as such very acceptably for i8 months, when an accidental discovery of the old surgeon in command promoted the soldier from the position of steward to that of baker, arguing- that hospital stewards might easily be found, while good army bakers were not very plentiful. Mr. Gaugh had learned the mysteries of the oven in his boyhood, and he became baker for the Sioux City hospital and afterward at Laramie. He remained in the service until his three-year term of enlistment had expired and then was honorably discharged.

In the spring of 1865 he came to St. Joseph, Missouri, purchased a lot and erected a home. He began taking contracts for painting and continued in the business, in 1880 admitting his son, John O., to a partnership. The firm style continued C. T. Gaugh & Son until Christian T. Gaugh's death, September 10, 1898.

Mr. Gaugh was a man of sterling character. His father, John Gaugh, had removed from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Crawford County as a pioneer, settling in the wilderness some three miles from the Ohio State line. There young Christian assisted in the clearing of the 160-acre farm and learned many lessons of industry and economy. His mother, Esther (Given) Gaugh, was a native of the North of Ireland and had been reared a Scotch Presbyterian. She carefully reared a family of 12 children in the wilderness and doubtless imparted to her son many of her excellent characteristics. She died in 1867, aged 85 years. John Gaugh died in 1852, aged 'JJ years. He had served in public office and for 20 years was a justice of the peace.

In July, 1847, i" Crawford County, Christian T. Gaugh was married to Sarah C. Henry, who died at St. Joseph, Missouri, in June, 1887. They had five children : Mary, who died at the age of four years ; Marquis Alexander, a graduate of the St. Joseph Medical College, who is a practicing physician at Chillicothe, Missouri ; John O., of this sketch ; William H., a graduate of the St. Joseph Medical College, who is a practicing physician at Sherburne, Minnesota; and Ida, deceased, who was the wife of A. M. Brown.

Ever since its organization until his death, the late" Christian T. (jaugh was identified with the Republican party and he had a personal acquaintance with some of its greatest leaders. In 1857, having some trouble about a tract of land in Bloomington, Illinois, and finding that he would need the services of a lawyer, he began to ask in the strange city the advice of various representative citizens as to who would be a good man to take his case. The universal answer he received was : "If possible, secure the services of honest old Abe Lincoln." Mr. Gaugh was fortunate in being able to employ him and thus was started a friendship that neither separation nor the honors of a nation ever disturbed. Mr. Gaugh was a member of Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He belonged to the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and at one time was one of its elders. He was a man who deserved the universal esteem in which he was held.

Our subject came to St. Joseph with his parents and has continued to be a resident here. Entering into partnership with his late father, in 1880, after an apprenticeship and journey work, he succeeded to the business upon the death of his father and has continued in the same since. He is one of the largest and leading contractors in the city.

In 1875 he married Mary Annis Sibley, who was born at Moline, Illinois, and is a daughter of Dr. William Sibley, who was the prominent physician of that place.

Like his father, Mr. Gaugh is a stanch Republican. He has been closely identified with a number of social and fraternal organizations and has filled official positions with a number of these. He belongs to Enterprise Lodge, No. 232, I. O. O. F. ; Pride of the West Lodge, No. 42, A. O. U. W., of which he is pastmaster workman ; Missouri Camp, No. 1893, M. W. A. ; and has twice been president of St. Joseph Council. No. 189, Knights and Ladies of Security, - the banner council of the order.

ARRY MARVIN HUNDLEY, one of the leading merchants and prominent citizens of St. Joseph, senior partner of the great mercantile house of Hundley-Smith Dry Goods Company, and identified with the city's best interests, was born January 30, 1868, and is a son of the late John Boring and Tabitha (Witten) Hundley.

Mr. Htmdley was educated in the common and high schools of St. Joseph, and soon after comi)lcting his education became an employee of the wholesale dry goods house of McKinney, Hundley & Walker, of which firm his late father was a member. Beginning at the bottom, he thorousrhlv mastered everv detail of the \vholesale business and, in 1893, when the former firm was succeeded by Kemper, Hundley & McDonald, he was advanced to a responsible position, and in 1896 was elected president and treasurer. In the following year the present style of Hundley-Smith Dry Goods Company was adopted, Mr. Hundley continuing at the head. He is recognized as one of the city's most reliable as well as able business men. The company has but recently removed into larger, more commodious and more modern quarters, ^securing increased floor space and expanding its scope, these improvements requiring many more traveling representatives and a large addition to the home working force. It stands well at the head of the jobbing concerns of St. Joseph and probably occupies the largest structures. Much of the company's success is due to ]\Ir. Hundley's enterprise and executive ability.

Our subject has long been one of the most active members of the Commercial Club of St. Joseph, and he has demonstrated his public spirit on many occasions when loyalty to the city was demanded. His work was especially valued and effective in the formulation and perfection of plans for the jubilee in 1898 and equally so in 1899. He is prominently identified with the Hundley ^lethodist Episcopal Church and a member of its official body. His late father, John Boring Hundley, was the generous benefactor who made the erection of this stately edifice possible, and in loving memory of him the church was named. There is scarcely any other name held in higher esteem in St. Joseph, standing as it does for business integrity and high personal character.

ERBY \Y. REYNOLDS, a prominent and successful farmer of Buchanan County, owning a well-cultivated farm of 160 acres, situated in section 21, township 56. range 35, in Center township, was born in this township, ]\Iarch 5, 1853, and is a son of Yerby W. and ]\Iary (Moore) Reynolds.

James Reynolds, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in \'irginia, was one of the pioneer settlers in Tennessee and came to j\Iissouri in 1818. His children were: William ^^^,

John W., James J., Hugh B., Levi, Martha, Cynthia and Yerby W. The last named was born in Jackson County, Tennessee, January 30, 18 16, and accompanied his parents to ^lissouri, where they settled in Clay County. In ]\Iarch, 1838, he came to Buchanan County, where he died July II, 1873. He had followed farming all his life. He married Mary Moore, who was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, ]\Iay 12, 1823, and died on the farm in Buchanan County at the age of 66 years. They had nine children, namely : Cynthia A. (^Irs. Barton), deceased; Fannie J. (Mrs. Farwell) ; James J., of Buchanan County; John F., of Center township ; Joseph L., of Buchanan County; Hilary L. (Mrs. Graham), of Agency ; Yerby W., of this sketch ; Martha E. (Mrs. Jackman) ; and Susan ^L, who died at the age of 11 years.

Our subject has resided on his present farm for the past 20 years, and, as he facetiously expresses it, he has put everything on the place except the "dirt." The improvements, all of a firstclass character, include a fine dwelling, commodious barns and outbuildings, an orchard of eight acres, cattle and stock on many pastures and crops of ripening grain. Only those who have labored hard and industriously can appreciate what it means to entirely improve a tract of virgin land. Mr. Reynolds has a very comfortable home here and is considered one of the good farmers of the neighborhood.

]\Ir. Reynolds was married first on October 6, 1878, to Sarah J. Haynes, who was born at Carmi, \Miite County. Illinois, and died April 23, 1890. aged 32 years, leaving four children: Hugh E., born October 10, 1879, who is employed at the State Hospital for Insane, No. 2 : ]\Iary L., born December 13, 1881, who is a teacher, making her home with her parents ; Yerby W., Jr., born October 2, 1883, who lives at home ; ^nd Joseph C, bom October 8, 1885, who is enlisted in the United States ]\Iarine Corps. On ]\Iarch I, 1892, }\Ir. Reynolds was married to [Nlary E. Wood, who was born in Center township, Buchanan County, Missouri, February 15, 1857. and they have two children : Isham F., born January 14, 1893 ; and Ruth M., born August 23, 1894.

Mr. Reynolds has always been an active member of the Democratic party. For the past 2^ years he has been a school director and has also served as school clerk, always having taken a great interest in educational matters in the township.

AMES N. HAYS, a veteran of the Civil War and a representative citizen of Buchanan County, is located in section 1 6, Center township, where he has followed farming for many years. He was born in Polk County, Tennessee, September 13, 1839. and is a son of Harold and Kate ( Fonts j Hays.