Greene County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1915 (part 22 of 29)

Thomas E. Dabbs grew to manhood on his father's farm where he assisted with the general work. He received his education in the district schools and the old Springfield Normal, which he attended two years. On December 25, 1901, he married Eleanor Miller, a daughter of James Todd Miller and Christina (Stephenson) Miller. The father was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the mother in Henrv county, Illinois. James Miller, grandfather of Mrs. Dabbs, was a native of Ireland, from which country he immigrated to the United States when a young man and settled in New York, later locating in Philadelphia. He was a weaver by trade which he followed until about 1865 when he came to Bureau county, Illi- nois, where he purchased three hundred and sixty acres of land and there his death occurred seventeen years ago, at the age of seventy-seven years, and he was bund at Kewanee, Henry county, that state. His wife, Jane (Legette) Miller, was a granddaughter of Joseph Robert and Eleanor (Sloan) Legette. natives of Ireland, from which country they immigrated to the United States and died at Kewanee, Illinois, he at the age of ninetytwo years, and she at the age of eighty-eight years.

To James T. Miller and wife six children were born, namely: Eleanor, wife of Mr. Dabbs of this sketch; Christina lives at Meta, Missouri; Jean married Fred Krone and they live in St. Louis; James S. lives in LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Will T. lives in Lafayette, Indiana; Joe Marshall is at home.

James T. Miller was but a child when his parents took him from Philadelphia to Bureau county, Illinois, where he remained until 1899, when he came to Greene county, Missouri. He engaged in merchandising in Springfield, where he remained until 1904. then went to Meta, Missouri, and retired.

Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dabbs, namely: William James, born in 1903; Margarite Christina, born in 1907; Helen Miller, born in 1909; and Mary E., born in 1912.

Mr. Dabbs has devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits. He owns a productive and well-tilled farm of eighty acres in Campbell township, near Springfield, only a mile from the city limits. Here for four vears be conducted a successful dairy, but has abandoned this part of his operations. He has also devoted considerable attention to the live stock business.

Politically, he is a Democrat. He i^ a member of the Anti-Horse Thief Association. He has served his community as road commissioner. Our subject's wife is a member of the Calvary Presbyterian church, Springfield.

Effective management of one's affairs has ceased to lie a one-man game. A generation ago farmers and business men could and did carry on tlu-ir enterprises quite independent of each other. If they could not make a satisfactory deal with one man. there was another at hand with which they could open negotiations. But there has been a gradual breaking down of independent individual action ami a growing up of gigantic systems of combination. Small business establishments have been absorbed by the larger ones which have united their interests by working agreements. Planners

One of the farmers of Washington township, Greene county, who is alive to new conditions is John \Y. F. Beatie, who was born near St. Louis, Missouri, April 9, 1837. He is a son of Robert and Mary Anne (Smith) Beatie. The father was born in Lincoln county, Tennessee, July 29, 181 1, and was reared on a farm in that state, and when a young man he learned the blacksmith's trade. He remained in his native state until 1837 when he made the overland trip in a wagon to Missouri, Greene county being his destination, and our subject was born en route. The family settled about ten miles southeast of Springfield at a place now called Palmetto. Here the elder Beatie secured a tract of land which he cleared and worked in connection with blacksmithing, keeping a shop on his farm, and was one of the best-known blacksmiths among the pioneer settlers in that part of the county. There he spent the rest of his life, dying on March 22, 1884. His wife was born in Lincoln county, Tennessee, and there grew up and received a limited education. She did not live long after coming to Missouri. To these parents ten children were born, namely: Martha Jane, deceased; Lucinda, deceased; John W. F., of this sketch; Sarah Elizabeth lives in Webster county. Missouri ; David M. is living in Rogersville, Webster county ; Mrs. Frances Gault lives in Rogersville also; William R. makes his home at Rogersville; Anna Eliza, deceased; Lucretia G., deceased; the youngest child died in infancy.

Major Beatie grew to manhood on the home farm where he worked when a boy, and in the winter time he attended the district schools of his community. He has lived in Missouri all his life, and being now past his seventy-seventh birthday he is one of the oldest citizens of this township, which he has seen develop from a wild state to a fine farming community, and he has taken an interested part in the many improvements. When the Civil war began he soon took a stand for the Union and at first joined the Home Guards under Captain Waterson. After the battle of Wilson's Creek he entered the United States service, serving six months in Company D, Phelp's regiment, under Capt. J. W. Lisenby, then joined the Missouri State Militia, and later was a member of the Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry. He saw considerable service, but principally in his home district, and at the close of the war he was honorably discharged at Springfield.

Major Beatie was married in 1872 to Matilda Pickel. who was born in Tennessee, and from that state she removed with her parents at a very early age to Greene county, Missouri, the family locating just across the road from the Beattie family and there she grew to womanhood and received her education in the district schools. She is a daughter of Jacob B. and Malicia

To Mr. and Airs. Beatie five children have been born, namely: Mrs. Mary Alice Davis lives in Greene county; Robert M. is at home; Mrs. Emma Holland lives in Greene county; Mrs. Jennie Isabel Webb lives in Greene county, and Mrs. Bessie F. Painter resides in Springfield.

Major Beatie has always followed general farming, and soon after his marriage he moved to the farm where he is now residing, purchasing one hundred acres, to which he later added twenty-six and one-half acres, one hundred acres being under cultivation, the balance in timber. He has a good farm and a comfortable home and has made an easy living here. He has owned farms in different parts of the state.

Columbus Berry Russell

When Columbus Berry Russell, one of the substantia] farmers of Brookline township, Greene county, lost an arm in his boyhood it was regarded as a calamity, but this very circumstance ma)- have led to the arousing of dormant energies, courage, self-reliance, determination and ambition that could not be thwarted and thus the accomplishment of greater things in future years than otherwise would have been the case. Anyway he is certainly deserving of a great deal of credit for forging ahead from discouraging and humble environment to the commendable position he has attained in his locality.

Mr. Russell was born in Dade county, Missouri, December 20, 1852. He is a son of Jefferson X. and Elizabeth Russell, who came to Dade county from Virginia in the late forties. The paternal grandfather was a native of Germany. His wife was a native of Ireland. They immigrated to America early in the nineteenth century. Jefferson X. Russell owned a good farm in this county where he and his wife both died. They were the parents of the following children: Columbus 11. of this sketch; Granson, of Hico, Hamilton county, Texas; B. V. lives in Buena Vista, Texas; Calvin lives in Plainview, Texas: Ann is the widow of J. D. Robinson and lives in Little ( >ak. California; Arrena Jane is the wife of J. J. Gray, a tanner of Brookline township, this county; Sarah E. is the widow of J. Hale, of Kansas City.

Columbus B. Russell was a boy when his parents brought him to Greene county and lie was reared on a farm which formed a portion of the battlefield of Wilson's ("reek, and during this memorable engagement the Russell home was converted into a hospital. Our subject has a vivid recollection of the battle and tells many interesting- stories regarding it. Soon after the battle he passed over the field in search of some live stock that had been frightened away by the firing, and he saw many dead and wounded. Our subject's father was a member of the Home Guards and at the time of the battle was at home; however, he was careful to conceal himself from the Confederates and he was not disturbed. But during the war he lost all of his live stock - several hundred head, including sixty brood mares, which practically ruined him financially.

Columbus I!. Russell received his education in the district schools. He lias always followed farming. When fourteen years old he met with the accident that caused the loss of his right arm, by the accidental discharge of a gun, but nevertheless he began life for himself when fifteen years old by engaging in farming and has made his way unaided in the world ever since, and, managing well has been quite successful. He moved to his present location in Section 36, Brookline township, in 1874, where he bought a government claim of forty acres, since then acquiring eighty acres more, the entire one hundred and twenty costing an average of about nine dollars per acre. It is now well worth seventy-five dollars per acre, partly because of the general increase in land and partly because he has made many substantial improvements and has his land under excellent cultivation. He also owns one hundred and sixty acres in Section 23, of this township. He operates a part of his land, renting the balance.

Mr. Russell was married in 1873 to Visa Jane Crow, a daughter of Bryant and Bindy Crow, whose home was on Wilson creek in Wilson township. Here Mrs. Russell was born in 1853, grew to womanhood on the farm and was educated in the district schools. The following children were born to our subject and wife: Hubert, born in April. 1888, died when sixteen months old; Lula, born February 10, 1875, married John Baumbarger and lives in Oklahoma; Minnie A., born March 2, 1877. married John Ray, of Springfield; Alberta, born December 22, 1879, lives at home; Etta, born February 6, 1882, married William Robinson, of Greene county; Roy and Effie, twins, were born on February 11, 1885, the former is unmarried and lives at home, and the latter married James Robinson and they live in Barry county, Missouri; Homer \7., born on March 13, 1889, died in June, 1910, in Oklahoma; Phelix J., born on May 2, 1892, is single and lives at home; Leona, born on August 21, 1896, is also at home. These children were educated in the district schools.

Mr. Russell is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Politically, he is a stanch Democrat but is not active in public affairs, but is an advocate of all measures looking to the general upbuilding of his community and county.

Louis Lazzaro Rebori

It was Robert Louis Stevenson, the great Scottish author, who said that a man who follows his own virtuous heart will be always found in the end to have been fighting for the best ; that one thing leads naturally to another in an awakened mind, and that with an upward progress from effect to cause. The late Louis Lazzaro Rebori, for many years one of the best-known business men of Springfield, was a man who had evidently "an awakened mind," and whose career was marked by "an upward progress." And since it is true that individual success is determined, in true measure, by what one has accomplished, his name is deserving of a high rank in the list of Greene county citizens of a past generation who rose, of their own efforts, from an humble beginning to the top rungs of the ladder of material success.

Mr. Rebori was born near Genoa, Italy, August 31, 1867, a scion of an excellent old Italian family. He was a son of Jiacomo and Catherine (Gandolfo) Rebori, both also natives of the same locality in which our subject was born. There they grew to maturity, attended school and were married. The death of the father occurred in 1889 at the age of fifty-three years, being -killed by falling from a cherry tree. The mother is still living in Italy, at the age of seventy-three years. The father was in the fruit business all his life and was highly successful. In the early eighties he immigrated to the United States with his parents when our subject was eleven years old, the family locating in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the father engaged in the wholesale and retail fruit business for about fifteen years. He prospered and. branching out, established a retail fruit business in Knoxville, Tennessee, for his sMiis. he laying there the foundation for a large fortune, and was a very rich man at the time of his death. After retiring from active life he returned to Italy with his wife, and there they erected a beautiful home, along the American line of architecture, and there spent the rest of his life. He was not only a man of superior ability along business lines but was also of superior mental ability, and he was a scrupulously honest man, in fact, a devout Christian. His family consisted of three children, namely: Louis L., of this sketch; Andrew, who is engaged in the wholesale fruit business in Springfield; and Stella, who is living in Genoa, Italy.

Louis L. Rebori received a limited education in the public schools of Indianapolis. However, he became a well-in tunned man. by coming in contact with the business world, by close observation and by wide miscellaneous reading. He was a fine example of a successful self-made man. and was certainly deserving of a great ileal of credit for what he accomplished in a business way. lie assisted his father in the fruit business until he was twenty-three years oi age. lie went back to Italy with his parents where he remained two years, but, tiring of life there, he desired to come back to America to make his fortune where he deemed business conditions better and existence pleasanter in onr "land of the free." After spending four years in the fruit business in Knoxville. Tennessee, he came to Springfield in the year 1895, at the solicitation of his brother, who had previously located here, Andrew Rebori, being now president of the well-known Rebori bruit Company, which operates a large wholesale house between Mill street and Phelps avenue, near the Frisco depot. Andrew Rebori had opened a fruit store at South street and the public square. Louis L. Rebori entering the firm with a capital stock of less than six hundred dollars, provided by his father. Later he was in different locations, one stand being on Walnut street, another on St. Louis street, and still another on Commercial street, and other places. The loan was repaid within a year and after remaining in partnership with his brother nine years, he opened his first business on East Walnut street. The last stand he owned was on South Jefferson street, now the property of his widow.. He was apparently a genius at selecting good business locations, for he placed fruit stands at points where none had ever been established before, and usually selling them in a short time at material profits. A striking illustration of the success of this enterprising man of affairs is seen from the fact that he left an estate of over twenty-seven thousand dollars, amassed during twenty years of business in Springfield. During his two decades of business here on a small scale, he became one of the wealthiest merchants of his kind that the city has ever known. A large portion of his earnings were invested in Italy, the remainder being invested in Springfield. Mr. Rebori was married on September 2, 1891, in New York City, to Laura Crover, who was born in Springfield, Ohio, September 16, 1876. She is a daughter of Andrew and Columbia (Mousante) Crover, both born near Genoa, Italy, where they spent their earlier years, emigrating to America from their native land, and establishing their home in Springfield, Ohio. The death of Mr. Crover occurred in New York City, May 1, 1903, where he had located a number of years previously. The mother of Mrs. Rebori is now making her home in Springfield, Missouri, being now sixty-three years of age. Mr. and Airs. Crover were young when they came to America, and they were married in .Yew York City, from which place they removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and later to Springfield, Ohio, and finally moved back to Xew York City. Mr. Crover spent his life engaged successfully in the fruit business, being engaged for many years as a wholesale and retail merchant. His family consisted of four children, namely: Emma lives in Springfield; Laura, who became the wife of Mr. Rebori; Delia lives in Springfield; and Ralph, who is also a resident of this city. Mrs. Rebori ( 106)

The union of Mr. and Mrs. Rebori resulted in the birth of one child, Ralph A. Rebori, whose birth occurred on April 2. 1899. He is receiving a good education, and he gives promise of a successful business career.

Politically. Mr. Rebori was a Democrat, and while he was a strong man in his party, taking an abiding interest in public affairs, especially such as pertained to the general upbuilding and welfare of the city of Springfield, he was never an office seeker. He was a member of St. Agnes Catholic church, and was noted for his fair dealings with his fellow men, his upright character and his kindness. He was held in high favor by all who knew him, both in the circles of his countrymen and Americans. He was a man who had a prodigious working capacity, his average working day being seventeen hours or more, the common comment of his customers being that "be was the last one to go home at night and the first one to be out in the morning." He frequently returned to Italy for short periods, crossing the ocean twenty-three times, being accompanied on twelve of them by his wife and son. lie was always ready to help in any good cause, always gave a helping hand to those in need who appealed to him. and he did many a kind and generous act that the public never knew about, for he never gave from an impulse to gain the praise of men. but from a sense of duty and brotherhood.

Tbe death of Louis L. Rebori occurred after a brief illness, on March 23, 1915, in his forty-eighth year, when just in the prime of life and usefulness and when tbe future promised most to him.

Thomas Ii. Dorax

Wise farmers of Greene county are now planning their crops with safety first in mind. Dry years have impressed upon all of us the fact that the certain and regular production of ieed. every year, must be the foundation ot" a safe system of farming. Very tew are staking their all on one feed crop, and still fewer are placing their entire dependence on some "cash crop," expecting to buy their i^L-A. Thomas II. Doran, of Clay township, is one of our farmers who plans well and can see ahead, one to whom the previous successive dry years have taught valuable lessons. He is a man who is ever on the alert to learn something more than what he was taught by the early-day farmers, whose methods were all right then, but since conditions have changed very materially, a new system of farming has had to be adopted.

Mr. Doran was born in Greene county on March 9, 1871. He is a son of Alec. H. and Catherine ( Grubaugh ) Doran. The father was born in Tennessee, May 9, 1825, and was reared in that state, receiving the usual schooling of the times. When a young man he went to Illinois, but later moved to Greene county, Missouri, then located in Christian county. He sold patent medicine for awhile but farming was his main business. His death occurred in Greene county, April 14, 1898. His wife was born near Springfield, Illinois, in 1826, and was reared on a farm there. She was a member of the Methodist church. Her death occurred on the old home place in this county. November 24, 1889. to these parents nine children were born, namely: William is deceased: Jennie, Edward, James, Meaford, Sherman, Mrs. Emma Mutchler, Thomas H, of this sketch, and Mollie, deceased.

Thomas H. Doran was reared on the farm in Greene county and he received a common school education. He lived on the farm which his father owned in Christian county. He has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and has owned farms in different parts of Greene county. His present place consists of two hundred and sixty-six acres. He carries on general farming and stock raising, and deals in live stock on an extensive scale. He has a well-improved and productive place and a good home on the Rogersville and Galloway road.

Mr. Doran was married in November, 1895, to Annie Stephens, who was born cm June 22, 1866, and it is a singular coincidence- that she first saw the light of day in the same house in which our subject was ushered into the world. She was reared on a farm in Greene county, and received a common school education. She is a daughter of John and Cynthia B. (Owen) Stephens, both natives of Tennessee. Her father spent his active life on a farm. He was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war, under Captain Kirby and saw much hard service, remaining in the army until the close of the war. He came home from the front sick and did not recover, his death occurring on April 3, 1866. The mother of Mrs. Doran was born on July 4, 1837, and died on December 8, 1006. To these parents three children were born, namely: Mrs. Mary Smith. Mrs. Smathey Chaffin, and Anna, wife of Mr. Doran. The last named is a member of the .Methodist Episcopal church.

To Mr. and Mrs. Doran two children have been born, namely: Ralph, born April 11, 1899, is living at home; Mabel L., born on November 26, 1907, is with her parents.

Reuben R. Rose

Probably many of us never stopped to consider some of the factors which have contributed to the gradual depletion of our soil fertility. When we see a farmer hauling fifty bushels of corn to town, worth in an average year about twenty-five dollars, we hardly think of him as hauling away fifteen dollars' worth of soil fertility with that corn. Yet if he brought back home in the form of commercial fertilizer the same amount of fertility he hauled off that is what it would cost. Likewise when fifty bushels of wheat is sold sixteen dollars' worth of soil fertility goes with it. A ton of clover hay may bring seventeen dollars, but the seller is giving awav eleven dollars' worth of the soil fertility in the hay. One of the farmers of Brookline township, Greene county, who believes in putting something back in the soil and endeavoring to maintain its richness while he is gathering life-sustaining harvests from it is Reuben R. Rose.

Mr. Rose was born October 14, 1N74. in Brookline township, near the village of Brookline. He is a son of Reuben R. and Lucy A. (McElhany) Rose. The paternal grandfather of our subject came from Tennessee to this locality in the pioneer days and established the permanent home of the family here. He and our subject's lather devoted their lives to general farming and were well known in this part of the county. Our subject is one of a large family of children, namely: Sallie is the wife of Sol Owens and lives near Springfield; Jane is the wife of Amos Cooper and lives in Oklahoma; Kennard lives at Galloway. .Missouri; John lives in Brookline township, Greene county; Reuben R.. Jr., of this sketch; Martha is the wife of Charles Grothy and they live at Webb City. Missouri; Lucy is the wife of Wilson White and they live near Springfield; Homer lives in Brookline township; Frank also lives in Brookline township; two sons and one daughter are deceased.

Mr. Rose of this review grew to manhood on the home farm and there he worked during the crop seasons, and in the winter time attended the district schools, lie has always followed farming, starting out in life for himself when eighteen years of age. lie purchased forty acres in Brookline township in 1 Mi>. and he now Owns two hundred acres in section 36 and also two hundred acres in section 1. lie resides on the former, in a commodious residence, surrounded by substantial outbuildings and an excellent grade id' live stock. His land is also productive and well-improved, and he manages it in a skillful and successful manner, being rated as one of the best general farmers in the township. He is a noted mule breeder, and has been very successful. He owns "Greased Lightning." a very tine jack.

long thereafter, and in 1900 our subject married Mamie Van Wagon, a daughter of Fred Van Wagon and wife of Brookline township, where she grew to womanhood and was educated. To this union four children have

Politically, Mr. Rose is a Democrat. He was elected school director in his district, and has been incumbent of this office six years, and is a strong advocate for good educational work.

Levy-Wolf Dry Goods Company

One of the best known progressive mercantile establishments in Springfield is the Levy-Wolf Dry Goods Company, located in the southeast corner of the Public Square.

This business was founded here by Mr. M. Levy twenty-seven years ago, under the firm name of the Model Dry Goods Company, and was operated under that name until January, 1914, when the incorporation of the Levy-Wolf Dry Goods Company was effected, with increased capital stock, to take over the business, which had steadily grown during the man)- years of its existence to be one of the largest distributors of exclusive dr}- goods, millinery and women's ready-to-wear apparel in southwestern Missouri, and now has a force of sixty employees and counts among its patrons the best families of Springfield and surrounding counties. This store, which is still known as "The Model," has made a specialty of goods of quality and has won for itself an enviable reputation for dependability of its merchandise and for fairness and integrity in its dealings.

Mr. M. Levy before coming to Springfield was engaged in the mercantile business in Arrow Rock and Marshall in Saline county, this state, for twenty-one years, from 1866 to 1887, where he met with a verv reasonable degree of success, and is further said to have had more personal friends than any man who had ever been engaged in business in that section, and even to this day none of the old-timers of Saline county visit Springfield without looking him up.

Mr. Le\ y has always been identified with every enterprise for the advancement and good of Springfield, and has likewise taken an active interest in all charitable and philanthropic affairs.

The Levy-Wolf Dry Goods Company is capitalized for fifty thousand dollars, fully paid up, and the destinies of the company are successfully directed by the following officers: M. Levy, president; Ignace Glaser, vicepresident ; Sol R. Wrolf , secretary and manager, I. R. Levy, treasurer.

The building which for the past fourteen years has housed this progressive firm was entirely remodeled a few years ago, into an attractive convenient and modernly appointed store, which with its late style recess show windows would be a credit to any city. The first floor is devoted to staple and fancy dry goods, notions and toilet requisites; the second floor is given over entirely to the women's ready-to-wear department, and the third floor is very handsomely furnished for the departments of millinery and dressmaking. The latter department, being one of the principal features of the store, has a clientele while not large in numbers practically extends from Maine to California, and gives the store the distinction of almost a national reputation. It is such institutions that have contributed to the making of a greater Springfield.

George W. O'Neal

One of the men who has stamped his strong individuality upon the minds of the people of western Greene count}' in a manner as to render him one of the conspicuous characters of this locality is George W. O'Neal, who has had a somewhat varied career as a man of affairs, farmer, miller. banker and lumberman. Faithfulness to duty and a strict adherence to a fixed purpose, which always do more to advance a man's' interest than wealth or advantageous circumstances, have been dominating factors in his life, which has been replete with honor and success worthily attained. He is a scion of one of the sterling old families of the Ozark region, and many of the strong characteristics of his progenitors seem to have outcropped in him, and he has been most vigilant in keeping the record of the family untarnished, for the O'Neals have always been noted for their sterling honestv. their rare industry and their readiness to assist in the general upbuilding of the communities in which they selected as their homes.

Mr. O'Neal was horn on April 8, 1841, in Carroll county, Arkansas. He is a son of Charles G. and Martha (Hillhouse) O'Neal, natives of Tennessee, where they spent their earlier years eventually moving to Carroll county. Arkansas, where they located on a farm and were well and favorably known. They were parents of thirteen children, twelve of whom lived to maturity and eight of whom survive at this writing.

George \V. O'Neal grew to manhood on the homestead in Arkansas and there he made himself useful when crop seasons came around, and in the winter time he attended the district schools in his community, obtaining a practical education which later in life has been greatly supplemented by wide reading ami contact with the world until today he is an exceptionallv well-informed man on current events. He remained on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age, leaving home in 1862 to go to Springfield, Missouri, where he enlisted in the First Arkansas Cavalry, and served three years and three months in the Federal army during the Civil war in a gallant manner, seeing considerable hard service in the Southwest, and was honorably discharged. About the time the war closed his father moved from Arkansas to what was known as the old Tom Dodd farm, three miles northwest of Republic, and here spent the rest of his life, and to this place came our subject when he returned from the army and engaged in farming with success until 1885, when he bought out the lumber yards in Republic owned by W. W. Coover, Keys, King & Company. When the Bank of Republic was organized he took considerable stock in the company, and was for a time its president, finally resigning from this office after he had placed the bank on a safe and sound footing and made it a pronounced success. He also took a large block of stock in the Republic Canning Company, which was organized in 1888 and when the other stockholders of that -company became discouraged after a year's run, Mr. O'Neal got four other men interested and managed the canning company himself, clearing ten thousand dollars the next four years and paying off the old indebtedness. When the R. C. Stone mill burned in 1894 it was Mr. O'Neal who took the contract to rebuild the mill, while the balance of the citizens of Republic only contributed the necessary bonus to get the mill to remain. In this transaction he lost considerable money, but he considers himself fully repaid every time he looks at the big mill, knowing that it gives life and support to a town that otherwise w'ould be dead. Mr. O'Neal has had other reverses, including the loss on the contractor's bond of the new school building in Republic, but despite that fact he is a successful man and justly deserves the wealth he has attained. He has acquired a one-third interest in a flouring mill at Mt. Vernon, Lawrence county, in which mill his son is the prime factor. Our was for some time a stockholder, director and vice-president of the Monitor Printing plant in Republic, which publishes the Weekly Monitor, but has recently retired from this firm. He is a thorough business man, ready at all times to help in any cause that will benefit Republic and vicinity, and he has d«me as much as any other one man toward the material upbuilding of this town and toward the general welfare of the people in this section of Greene county. Fie has one of the most extensive lumber businesses in the county, having recently rebuilt his sheds, making them ninety by one hundred and sixteen feet and all covered with felt roofing and iron. He is a progressive man of high ideas and has long enjoyed the good will and confidence of all who know him. Religiously he is a worthy member of the Christian church, and while he is deeply interested in public affairs, he has never sought office.

Mr. O'Neal married Ellen Wallace, who died after a married life of eighteen years, leaving six children, who still survive. Mr. O'Neal married again in 1892, Zetta Bingman, of Greene county, and a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Lamb,) Bingman, whose family consisted of ten children.

John P. Griffin

The business of farming comprises among many other points the consideration of what crops to grow, how to grow them to the best advantage, whether for sale or for use on the farm. It brings out more than anything else the business acumen of the farmer, and is more or less the very keynote to success or failure. A man may be the best of farmer so far as raising crops and harvesting them is concerned, but it would avail him nothing if he had no market for what he had raised, or, in other words, if he had raised the wrong crop. John P. Griffin is one of the farmers of Republic township, Greene county, who seems to be very successful in raising the right crop, in the right manner, at the right time.

Mr. Griffin was born on August 7, 1863, in Iowa. He is a son of John and Ann ( Gilmore ) Griffin, the former born in 1840, in Ireland, and the latter born in 1842, in New York. The father of our subject was brought to the United States by his parents when three years of age, the family locating in Illinois, where he grew to manhood and was educated and where he remained until his marriage when he removed to Iowa, but after spending a few years there came to Greene county, Missouri, where he resided until bis death, having lived on his farm from about 1870 until 1910.

Thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters, have been born to John Griffin and wife, named as follows: John P. of this sketch; Joseph M., born in 1865, lives in Ashland, Oregon, married Alary Starr, of that state: James I'.. born in [879, is single and lives in Baker, Oregon; Frank born in c88l, lives in Springfield, married Anna Norfleet, there in 1901, and they had four children - Paul, born in 1902; Elizabeth, born in 1904; ami Mildred, born in [911; one child died in infancy. Thomas T., who lives in Carterville, Missouri, married Mary Daniels of that place, and they have two children, Emmel and Audrey; Mark, born in [877, is single, lives on the home place which he operates; M. P.. horn in 1880, is single and also works on the home farm: Mary A. horn in Redwing, Minnesota in 1862, died in [893; Sarah Katherine. a twin sister of John 1'.. married J. W. Robinson, a brother of our subject's wife, in 1801 : they live in Xew Mexico and have three children - Elizabeth, Paul and Barnard. Margaret Elizabeth, burn October 13, 1867, is single and lives on the homestead; Cora Alice, born on May 9, 1870, married C. C. Humphreys in 1891, and they have had four children - Erma, Maude, Mary, who died in 1905, and Cora Alice whose death occurred in 1898. Rose, born in 1874, died in 1896; Bertha Ellen, born in 1871, died in 1899. These children were given good common school educations. Joseph M. was of musical talent. Mary had a great local reputation as a nurse and her death was the result of service to others, she having contracted typhoid fever while nursing a neighbor afflicted with that disease. The entire family has always borne excellent reputations and are well thought of throughout this part of the county or wherever they are known.

John P. Griffin grew to manhood on the home farm and was a good student in the schools of his neighborhood. He has devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits and paid considerable attention to stock raising. His well cultivated and well improved farm in Republic township contains one hundred and twenty acres and he has a comfortable home. He was married in 1895 to Mary Robinson, who was born in 1863, in Greene county. She received a good education in the public schools. She is a daughter of Anthony and Hettie Robinson, of Republic township, Greene county.

Two children have been born to our subject and wife - Leo, born on July 25, 1897; and Bertha Frances, born on June 22, 1899, died when seven years of age.

George W. Thurman

In any rich and progressive agricultural country, like that contiguous to the town of Republic, Greene county. Missouri, the flour milling business is usually found to be one of the most important industries. Here a vast acreage is put to wheat annually and the total number of bushels produced after the results of the threshing season are known is enormous, so a great and modern mill in the center of this nature- favored locality has sprung up, known as the Republic Custom and Merchant Mill Company, of which George W. Thurman is manager. To conduct such a business successfully requires ability of a high order and characteristics that have been known to make for success whenever and to whatever they are properlv and persistently applied.

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Sevier county. Tennessee, in 1834, where he spent his boyhood and during the Civil war he removed to Arkansas, and after the close of the conflict came to Greene county, Missouri, and soon thereafter purchased a farm and devoted the rest of his life to general farming and stock raising here, making grain raising a specialty. He was a man of rare business ability and industry, and although he came here with little of this world's goods, only fifty cents in money and a pair of mules, he worked hard, managed well and prospered with advancing years, became owner of one of the finest farms in the western part of the county, which contained three hundred acres, and at the time of his death was worth twenty-five thousand dollars. He was a well-known man and influential citizen. His first wife was also a native of Tennessee and there spent her girlhood and they were educated in the common schools of their native state and were married upon leaving there for Arkansas. She proved to be a faithful helpmeet and is still living on the home place near Republic, at the age of eighty years. The death of Mr. Thurman occurred in January, 1909. at the age of seventyfive years. To these parents ten children were born, seven sons and three daughters, six of whom survive, namely: William II., I. J., Samuel G., Robert E., and Martha C, twins; James G, our subject; John died in infancy; Cyphronia A., and Mary Jane.

George W. Thurman was reared on the homestead in Greene county and there he did his full share of the work during crop seasons when he became of proper age. and he received a good practical education in the local schools. In August. [898, he was married to Hattie A. Orr, a native -of Greene countv. where she was reared and educated. She is a daughter of Klias R. and Martha Jane (Norman) Orr. Mr. Orr was of German -descent, and he came to Greene county, Missouri, early in the nineteenth century, from Ohio, and here became well established on a farm and spent the rest of his life, dying in Republic in October, 1007. His wife died in iNSij. Thev were the parents of seven children, one son and six daughters, namely: Mary Elizabeth, Gracy Alta, Libby Emma, Hettie A., wife of our subject-; Lula Mehelia, Homer Noah, and Edith Audry.

Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Thurman. named as follows: Gaynell II., born in October. 1899; Jewell Ivan, born March 7, [891;; Noel, born March 7. 1003; Geneva died in infancy: Ruth, born in .March. 10 14.

Mr. Thurman remained on the home farm until he was twenty-three years of age. then began working as a stationary engineer, which he followed for a number of years. In March. 1904, he and five others formed a stock company and built the Republic Custom and Merchant Mill and have operated the same ever since. 1 hiring the ten years of its existence it has been a marked success and iis volume of business has gradually increased with the years. Mr. Thurman is active manager of the mill, and its pronounced success has been largely due to his able management. He is a close student of everything that pertains to the flour-milling business and has mastered every phase of the same, keeping full}- abreast of the times in modern methods. This is one of the largest and best equipped mills in southwest Missouri. The building is a three-story substantial, well arranged and well located structure, and the equipment is up-to-date in every respect. In February, 191 1, an electric light plant was added to the equipment. The capacity of the mill is fifty barrels per day of flour and same of cornmeal, and the products of the same find a very ready market over the Southwest, owing to their superior quality. The following are the principal brands of flour produced here: "White Lily," "Satisfaction," and "Premium."

Politically, Mr. Thurman is a Republican and he has long been active and influential in local public affairs. He is now incumbent of the office of police judge of Republic and is discharging his duties in this connection in a highly commendable manner. He has also served as alderman, and has done much for the material and moral upbuilding of Republic. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Free and Accepted Masons. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman belong to the Knights and Ladies of Security, and the Eastern Star.

Endowed with a liberal share of good common sense and possessing sound judgment, backed by a well-founded purpose to succeed, George W. Jackson, well-known farmer and amateur botanist of Republic township, Greene county, has labored with the object primarily in view of making a good home for himself and family and acquiring a competency for his declining years. This laudable desire has been realized, and he is in what we sometimes call "easy circumstances," with a sufficient surplus for the proverbial "rainy day," which sooner or later comes to every individual, and which, when not provided for, results in at least much inconvenience and unhappiness if not downright suffering. After farming successfully in this vicinity for over forty years he is now living in retirement, spending quietly the mellow Indian summer of his years, and, having an eye for the beautiful in nature, is happy with her wonders spread about him, which he seeks to interpret.

He is a son of John and Christiana (Chenabury) Jackson, both parents natives of Tennessee, where they grew to maturity, were educated in a limited way in the old-time subscription schools and there were married. The father was of Scotch-Irish descent and the mother was of German descent. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a Virginian and he spent his early life in the Old Dominion, removing from there to Knox county, Tennessee, and establishing his future home on a farm. After their marriage the parents of our subject took up their residence on a farm in Knox county and resided there until 1870, when they removed to Greene county, Missouri, where three of their sons had preceded them, and here they spent the rest of their lives, the father dying in 1872 and the mother in 1879. Their family consisted of five children, four sons and one daughter, namely : James is deceased; George \V., of this sketch; John S. C, a sketch of whom will be found on another page of this volume; Edward L. and Mary Jane were twins.

George W. Jackson grew to manhood on the farm and worked there during the crop seasons, and in the winter time attended the district schools. He remained in Tennessee until 1867, when he and two brothers came to Greene county, Missouri, and purchased railroad land, and here they have since resided and prospered by their industry. His brother, John S. C, has accumulated four hundred acres, and our subject's finely improved and productive farm consists of one hundred and sixty acres, on which stands a good home in the midst of attractive surroundings, and he has numerous substantial outbuildings. Some time ago he retired from the active work of the farm and is now renting his farm, which is one of the best in Pond Creek township.

Mr. Jackson was married on September 14, 1871. to Charlotta O'Neal, who was born in [851 in Carroll county, Arkansas, and she received a common school education. She is a daughter of Charles and Martha (Hillhouse) O'Neal, natives of Kentucky, where they grew up and were married and resided until 1850, when they came to Carroll county, Arkansas, living there a while, then came to Greene county in aboul 1865. The O'Neals are a well-known family, and Mrs. Jackson is a sister of Judge A. J. O'Xeal and George O'Xeal. To Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal eleven children were born.

Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, namely: Mattie married Luther Wade, a fanner of Pond Creek township, this county, and they have three children; Jason G., also farming in Pond (reek township, married Delia Batson, and they have four children; Minnie married Benjamin Squibb, a farmer of Pond Creek township, and they have four children; Nellie, who married Lawrence Coggins, died November [3, 1006, leaving 1 me child. Gladys.

with plants of all kinds common to this locality, raising almost all the herbs and plants used in materia medics, and has had a very satisfactory income from this source. He has won a wide reputation in this field of endeavor, and is regarded as an authority in this line. Politically he is a Republican. and religiously belongs to the Baptist church. He is a man of fine mind and exemplary character and is popular.

Among the best-known of the younger generation of professional men in the western part of Greene county is Dr. Charles E. Pierce, of Brookline Station. He has always been a close student and having availed himself of every opportunity to widen the area of his professional knowledge and make him efficient in the practice, it is not at all surprising that his advancement has been rapid and satisfactory and that he now holds such a high and honorable place among the general practitioners of medicine in a field long noted for the high order of its talent.

Doctor Pierce was born at Lebanon, Missouri, May 23, 1875. He is a son of E. W. and Margery Ann (Webb) Pierce. The father was born near Terre Haute, Indiana. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a millwright by trade. He moved from Indiana with his family to Christian county, Missouri, when his son, E. W. Pierce, was a boy and he taught the lad his trade, at which he became quite proficient. E. W. Pierce enlisted in the Sixth Missouri Cavalry at the outbreak of the Civil war, and served in the Union army until 1865. He saw much hard service and was twice wounded. After the war he returned home and resumed his trade of millwright, which he followed until his death in September, 1913, at the age of seventy-six years. He and his brother, Enos Pierce, built the first flour mill of any importance in the city of Springfield, and they were well known in their trade over several counties of southwest Missouri. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born, reared and educated at Fair Grove, Greene county. Her parents died before the war of the states began, when she was a child. She is making her home now in Ozark. Christian county, and is seventy-four years of age.

To E. W. Pierce and wife four children were born, three sons and one daughter, namely: William, a traveling salesman, lives at Marionville, Missouri, is married and has two daughters; Dr. Charles E., of this sketch; Tela is the wife of L. B. Williams, a hardware merchant of Ozark; Frank is in the wholesale drug business in Kansas City, Missouri.

county to Christian county, and he received his education in the public and high schools of Ozark, graduating from the same. He studied hard at home, and might be said to have been self-taught. He practiced at the Frisco Hospital in Springfield three years, and during two years of that time studied pharmacy. He began studying medicine when but a boy. and he took the prescribed course in the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 191 1. Soon thereafter he began the practice of his profession at Ozark with Doctor Bruton, with whom he remained two years, during which he got a good start, then came to Brookline Station, Greene county, where he has since been engaged in the general practice and has enjoyed a large business all the while and has met with excellent success.

Doctor Pierce was married on February 19. 1913, to Jennie Glenn, of Christian county, where she was born, reared and educated. She is a daughter of John Glenn, a prosperous farmer of that county and a wellknown citizen. His family consists of eight children, one of whom, John Glenn, is at this writing treasurer of Christian county.

Politically, Doctor Pierce is a Jefferson Democrat, believing in the old-time principles of the party. Fraternally, he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons lodge at Forsyth, Taney count}-. He attends the Presbyterian church. Fie is a member of the Greene county Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Association and the American Medical \-sociation.

Andrew J. O'Neal

One of Greene county's most progressive farmers and stock raisers is Andrew J. O'Neal, of the vicinity of Republic, where he has resided lor over a half century, during which lie has seen wonderful changes "come over the face of the land." and in these changes from the old to the new order of things he has been by no means an idle spectator, being a publicspirited man and never withholding his aid from any worthy movement having for its object the general good of his township and county. He has ever had an honest determination of purpose and an obliging nature which impel him to assisl others on the highway of life while making the path of prosperity for himself and family.

Mr. O'Neal is a scion of one of the earliest settlers of Missouri, his grandfather invading the wilds of this domain of the red men one hundred and ten years ago. and from that remote day to the present, members of this family have been well known in southwestern Missouri and northern Arkansas. Mr. O'Neal, of this review, was born in Carroll county,

Arkansas, February i8, [848. He is a son of Charles and Martha (Hillhouse) O'Neal. The father was born in Kentucky, and when seven years. of age removed with his parents from that state to Missouri, hut after a short residence here moved on to Arkansas and estabished their home. The father of Charles O'Neal first came to Missouri in 1805, and later went to Kentucky. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. The subject of this sketch was fourteen years old when his parents left their old home in Carroll county, Arkansas, and moved to the western part of Greene county, Missouri, where they located, in iSoj, during the Civil war period, and here Charles O'Neal, the father, owned and operated a good farm during the rest of his active life, dying here at the advanced age of ninetyfour years, in the year 1904. He was a good man and good citizen, neighborly and hospitable, everybody knew him and respected him in this part of the county. His wife, who came from near Lebanon, Laclede county, Missouri, preceded him to the grave in 1897.

Andrew J. O'Neal grew to manhood on the home farm and there assisted with the general work when he became of proper age and lie received his education in the rural schools. When a young man he began fanning for himself and this has always been his occupation. He prospered with advancing years through good management and is now owner of one of the choice farms of this county, consisting of two hundred and thirty acres, which he has brought up to a fine state of improvement and on which he carries on general farming and stock raising on an extensive scale. He has a pleasant home and large, convenient outbuildings, and a good grade of live stock is always to.be seen about his place. His farm includes a portion of the old homestead.

Mr. O'Neal was married. January r6, 1868, to Nancy Jane Wallace, a daughter of Thomas J. Wallace, who was boras in middle Tennessee, v, here he spent his earlier years, and from there immigrated in an early day to Greene count)', Missouri, and here became a successful farmer and spent the rest of his life. His family consisted of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters.

Andrew J. O'Neal is also one of a family of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, four of the children being now deceased: some are living in Arkansas and some in Greene county.

Four children have been born to our subject and wife, namely: Charles Thomas, born July 13, 1870, died at the age of sixteen years; Wilson S., who is farming in Republic township, this county, married Ruby Franklin, and they have three children, two sons and one daughter; Nora, who was the wife of Albert Franklin, died at the age of twenty-six vears, leaving two children, Albert Loyd and Lola Ruth ; Nellie Alice married Ross Chriswell, and thev have one child, Irmyn.

Mr. O'Neal's father and four uncles were soldiers in the Civil war. Politically, our subject is a stanch Republican. In 1898 he was elected judge of the Greene County Court and served in that office two years, discharging his even" duty most faithfully and winning the hearty approval of his constituents.

Jesse E. Galloway

It is interesting to consider the pleasure and profit of farm life as compared with other vocations. We are told that business is nothing more than being industriously engaged in the affairs of some occupation from which we derive our support. Farming is the world's biggest business. It furnishes the nations with food and is the basis of all prosperity and happiness, in a material sense, and therefore should receive our closest and most enthusiastic consideration, and be safeguarded by our best brains and legislation. One of the large agriculturists of Greene county is Jesse E. Galloway, of Clay township, who takes a delight in his vocation, and, being at the same time a keen observer and a hard worker, has succeeded.

Mr. Galloway was born in Stone county, Missouri, March 9, 1854. He is a son of Charles and Susan (Carney) Galloway. The father was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, but he came to Missouri when a young man and settled in Stone county, and, prospering, became owner of five farms there, owning about five hundred acres at the time the Civil war began. He was an extensive dealer in live stock. He was a soldier in two wars, the Mexican and Civil, joining the Union army in 186] ; he became first a captain, then a major, and served for some time as scout for General Lyon. He made a fine record as a soldier, saw much hard service and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He returned to his farm, but his death occurred several years afterward in Springfield. He was a member of the Baptist church. llis wife was also a native of Tennessee and was a small girl when her parents brought her to Missouri. She was killed in the tornado that destroyed die Galloway home on April iN. 1880. She was a member of the Baptist church. To these parents nine children were born, namely: Mrs. Catherine King. Thomas. Jesse (subject), Charles, Mrs. Susan Thompson, Nathaniel, Alec. Abner. and Andrew Jackson.

Jesse E. Galloway was reared on the home farm, where he worked until he was twenty-three years of age. He had been educated in the meanwhile in the public schools. In starting out in life for himself he went to Kansas and purchased one hundred and sixtv acres, remaining on it seven vears.

n hen he sold out and came back to Greene county. He has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser, and is now owner of four hundred acres of well-improved and valuable land in Clay township, where he is carrying on general farming on an extensive scale. He deals heavily in

Mr. Galloway was married in 1888 to Elizabeth Meese, by whom three children were born, Charles, Jesse and Richard. After the death of his first wife, Air. Galloway married Lula Willoby, a native of this state. She was reared in Christian county and educated in the common schools. To this second union nine children have been born, namely: Mrs. Catherine Gibson lives in Colorado; Nathaniel, Finis, Ellis, Joe, Norma, Julia, Luella and Jake. They are all at home with their parents but the eldest daughter.

Politically, Air. Galloway is a Democrat, but preferring to devote his time to his home and his large farming and live stock interests, he has never been active in public affairs.

The medical profession in Greene county has two able and honorable exponents in the persons of Drs. William C. Carter and Oscar X. Carter, located at the town of Republic, and for many years their names have been household words in the western part of the county. Like many of our best citizens, they are Southern gentlemen, hailing from the grand old state bearing the proud sobriquet, ''the mother of Presidents,'- in which the Carter family has for a number of generations been influential, and we necessarily compliment the family when we say that the Carters have ever been regarded as true representatives of the Old Dominion, the cradle of the real and onlv commendable aristocracy of America. The two gentlemen of whom the biographer writes in these paragraphs are the possessors of many of the winning characteristics of the people of that commonwealth.

Dr. William C. Carter was born in Amherst county, Virginia, September 27. 1859. He is a son of Robert X. and Amanda M. ( Turpin ) Carter. The father was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and there he grew to manhood, received a common school education and devoted his life to general farming, the latter portion of it in Amherst county. His father before him also owned and operated a plantation in the former county. The Carters had a large grant of land in Colonial Virginia from King Charles of England. Col. Robert Carter, who finally became governor of that state, was among the first to form a colony in Virginia, where a (107) large number of this family located about that time, and now their numerous descendants are scattered all over the Union, but perhaps more are to be found in Virginia than anywhere. The father of the subject of this sketch and eleven uncles of the doctor were soldiers in the Confederate army, and four of them lost their lives in the service.

Seven children, four sons and three daughters, five of whom survive, were born to Robert N. Carter and wife, namely: Molly B. married Joseph H. Smith, a railroad man of Roanoke, Virginia, and they have seven children; George P. is farming near Staunton, Virginia, is married and has four children; Dr. Oscar N., mentioned later in this article; Emma is the wife of Thomas L. Worsham, a railroad man of Roanoke, Virginia; Dr. William C, of this review; two children are deceased. The parents of these children died a number of years ago.

Dr. William C. Carter grew to manhood on the home farm in Amherst county, Virginia, and he received his education in Hill Academy, Allwood, his native county, later attending medical college in Richmond, Virginia, also spent one term at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, and was graduated in 1888. Soon thereafter he began the practice of his profession at Burdett, West Virginia, where he remained eight years, then came to Lebanon, Missouri, where he practiced for six years, then located at Dixon, this state, and continued his profession there six years, after which he came to Republic. Greene county, and joined his brother, Dr. Oscar N. Carter, who had been practicing medicine here several years. He has been very successful as a general practitioner, and has enjoyed a good practice in the several fields that he has practiced in and now has a large business.

Dr. William C. Carter was married on August 6, 1S93, to Annie Elizabeth Carpenter, of Putnam county, West Virginia. She is a daughter of John T. Carpenter and wife, and was one of ten children. She grew to womanhood in her native locality and received a common school education. To our subject and wife five children have been born, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are: William ('.. Jr., born May jo, '003; Carl, born May 14. 1904; and Erma, born May 23, 1906.

Politically, the doctor is a Democrat. He attends the Baptist church, and fraternally is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Order of Eastern Star, and the Woodmen of the World.

Dr. Oscar X. Carter was born. April <), 1S74. in Amherst county. Virginia, and reared on the home farm in that county. He was educated in Mill Academy, in the town of Allwood, his native county, later attending medical college in Richmond, and he was graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in the class of 180/). He took one year of hospital training at Richmond, Virginia. He began the practice of his profession at Lebanon, Missouri, where he remained two years, then came to Greene county and located at Republic, in 1902, and here he has been engaged in the general practice to the present time, and has met with continued success, enjoying a rapidly growing patronage all the while. He and his brother practice together.

Dr. Oscar N. Carter married Anna Hovey, a daughter of Judge Hovey, a prominent man, a successful lawyer and jurist. Mrs. Carter was educated in the common schools. She has borne her husband four children, namely: Oscar. Mary E., Virginia and Helen.

Henry S. Anderson

The western part of Greene county can boast of few more progressivefarmers and stock raisers than the well-known gentleman whose name furnishes the caption of this article. His progenitors were among the pioneers who reclaimed the land in the vicinity of Elwood from the wild state, and Mr. Anderson has spent his life in this vicinity, and the last three decades on the fine farm he now occupies and owns, and while laboring for material success he has not neglected his duties as a public-spirited citizen, always being willing to aid in such movements as made for the betterment of his township and county, and it has been fortunate that such men as he have been contented to remain in their native locality instead of locating in other countries.

Henry S. Anderson was born in Greene county, Missouri, November 7, 1856. He is a son of Peter L. and Sarah (Hazelton) Anderson, and he has a brother and sister living, namely: George W., of San Antonio, Texas, and Martha J. Short, of Greene county, Missouri. The father of our subject was three times married. He was a native of Tennessee, from which state he came to Missouri when young and located in Greene county, where he followed general farming. His death occurred in the year 1903. The mother of our subject was born in the state of New York, and she accompanied her family to southwest Missouri when young. Her death occurred in 1883.

Henry S. Anderson grew to manhood on the home farm and worked hard when a boy and under his father gained a knowledge of agriculture that stood him well in hand in later life. He received his education m the rural schools of his district, and when a young man took up farming for himself. He was born and reared within a mile of the old homestead of his maternal grandfather, Mr. Hazelton having entered the place from the government and developed it. Our subject has lived on his present farm twenty-nine years. It consists of one hundred and sixty acres of productive and valuable land, on which he has made such improvements as were needed to make it the equal of any in the vicinity, and here he has made a success as a general farmer and has always kept a good grade of live stock. lie has a good set of buildings and keeps everything in ship-shape about the place.

Air .Anderson has been twice married, first, to Jessie Wile}-, by whom four children were born, namely: George E.. who is farming in this county, married Elsie Henshaw, and they have one child, Alary; Bertha married II. B. Morton, a merchant of Brookline, this county; Ardo D.. who is engaged in farming in Greene county, married Leota Pickering; Maud married Frank Blanton, a farmer of Brookline township, and they have two children. The death of our subject's first wife occurred in 1890, and he subsequently married on October 28, 1894, Mary C. McCullough. of Christian county. Missouri, and a daughter of William F. McCullough, a farmer. To this second union three children have been born, namely : Earl R.. born in 1895. lives at home; Lynn T.. born in 1903. is also with his parents; Claude died in infancy.

John S. C. Jackson

Horticulture 1- one of the mosl profitable as well as pleasant vocations, and Greene county has won a high place among her one hundred and thirteen sister counties a-- a favored section of Missouri for the successful carrying on of this calling. But it requires brains as well as industry to succeed .1 horticulturist; one must study, observe closely, experiment, investigate and know a little about many things; must exercise patience and caution; must know how to select the proper soil and right kind of nursery stock, when and how t< > fertilize, must watch for frosts, freezes, insect pests and diseases of plants, and know what they are when they appear and how to properly combat them. But the results are worth the cost in money and pains, and it is a healthful, independent and interesting business. One of tlie successful horticulturists of Greene county is John S. C. Jackson, of Republic township, a man who ;s well up in the various phases of his work. .Mr. fackson was born in Knox county. Tennessee. August 1, [845. He is a son of John II. and Christiana (Chanabary) Jackson, both natives of Tennessee, where they were reared and married. I lis father moved from Virginia to that state in a very early day. The mother's parents were of

German and Irish descent. The parents of our subject devoted their active lives to farming in Tennessee and Greene county, Missouri, and died in the latter place. They were the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter, namely: James is deceased; George W.. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume; John S. C., of this sketch; Edward L. and Mar)- Jane, twins.

John S. C. Jackson was reared on the farm and he received his education in the district schools. He left his native state in 1867, and he and two brothers came to Greene county, Missouri, locating in Republic township on a prairie farm, purchasing railroad land, where they still live, the place consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, which they have kept well tilled and well improved during their residence here of nearly a half century. But our subject has prospered and now owns four hundred acres. Their parents came to this place after the sons had settled it, taking up their residence here in 1870, and here they spent the rest of their lives, the father dving in 1872 and the mother in 1879, and were buried here. Our subject makes a specialty of horticulture, in which he is regarded as an authority. He is growing no less than nine varieties of blackberries, and is now making a feature of a berrv new to Missouri - the "Himalaya," also the "Star of the World."

Mr. Jackson was married on March 5, 1 87 1 , to Nancy J. Liles, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Green and Nancy (Collins) Liles, who spent their active lives engaged in farming. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson nine children have been born, namely: Marshall, a fanner of Republic township, married Ira Guiott and they have three children; Glapha married William Robertson, a farmer in Republic township, has been twice married, first to May Brown, and after her death he married Gertie Finley, and he had five children by his first wife; Quinn Kelly, who is farming near Piano, Missouri, married Miss Claude Taylor, and they have one child; Alfred, who is engaged in merchandising at Piano, married Pearl Batson, and they have one child; Molly, who received a business college education in Springfield, is at home; William, who is farming in Republic township, married Kate Crum. and they have one child; Carlos lives at home; Hattie is also with her parents.

Politically. Mr. Jackson is a Republican, fie was .school director of his district for a period of twelve years. Religiously, he is a member of the Christian church. He is well and favorably known throughout the western part of Greene count}', wdiere he is regarded as one of our most extensive, substantial and progressive farmers, stockmen and horticulturists, ik has gained and retained the undivided respect of all who knew him. He is always to be found on the right side of all questions looking to the betterment of his community.

I702 Greene County, Missouri Hugh B. Ingler

There is something admirable in the German character, something of wondrous gentleness and keen appreciation in the beauty which life holds, something fine and high. In music the Germans have given the world a magic gamut of sound, from the soft lullaby of the young mother crooning to her pink-cheeked babe to the mighty thunders of dynamic masterpieces. In art, the German school is easily first, at least so considered by many of the world's competent critics, with the wonderful galaxy of painters and sculptors whose frame is as broad as the earth, while in science and in literature, in poetry and in the sweet pastoral beauty of their folk lore the sons and daughters of the Fatherland stand almost without an equal. And what fathers and mothers they make ! What homes they build ! What gardenlike farms they till ! "This is a German settlement," we say, and behold ! on every hand are clean, fertile fields, neat hedge-rows, great barns bursting with plenty, grunting droves of fat swine, great herds of sleek cattle, and everywhere a scene of bounty and fruition, to say nothing of homes resplendent with good will, good health and honest contentment.

A large number of Germans live in Greene count}-, a number in the vicinity of Republic, and of this nationality the Ingler family is deserving of mention, one of the best-known members of which is Hugh B. Ingler, the present efficient postmaster at that place. He was born in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, July 7. 1870. He is a son of John and Lucinda (Saxon) Ingler. He has a sister. Addie, who married A. A. Pierce, a farmer of Christian county, Missouri, and they have one child, Leo.

John Ingler. father of our subject, was born in Germany, ami when five years of age he immigrated with his father's family to the United States, the family locating in Baltimore, Maryland, where the grandfather of our subject followed his trade of tailor, however, he purchased a farm near that city, on which he located his family. John Ingler grew to manhood there and received a common school education. When a young man he went to Carroll county, Illinois where he followed general fanning for many years, then removed to Greene county. Missouri, purchasing a good farm near Republic, which he sold later and is now living retired from active work. lie has a well-improved place and has made a success as an agriculturist. He was married in Carroll county, Illinois, and he and his wife are now advanced in years, but are comparatively hale and hearty.

Hugh B. [ngler spenl hi- boyhood days on the home farm in Illinois and there he remained with his parents until about eight years of age. when they moved to near Republic, and at the latter place he received his education in the public schools. He worked on the farm 'intil he was twenty years of age. Learning the trade of decorating and painting, he became quite expert and followed the same for a period of twenty years. He worked as an expert in a canning factory for a number of years, also worked in Louisiana for the Chicago Building and Manufacturing Company. Finally returning to Republic he served as deputy sheriff of Greene county for two years, 191 1 and Kji2. He was appointed postmaster at Republic May 6, 1913, and is still incumbent of this office, the duties of which he has discharged in a manner entirely satisfactory to the department and the people.

Politically, Mr. Ingler is a Democrat. Fraternally, he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Woodmen of the World, and Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his family are members of the Christian church.

Mr. Ingler was married in Lawrence county, Missouri, November 14, 1894, to Alice Ragsdale. She is a daughter of Branson Ragsdale, who died when she was four years of age. His family consisted of four children, two sons and two daughters. He devoted his active life to farming. Mrs. Ingler grew to womanhood in her native community and was educated in the common schools.

Nine children, six of whom are deceased, have been born to Mr. and Airs. Ingler. Those living are named as follows: Charles W.. born September 14, 1896; Ayo Recktor, born October 4, 1903; Louese, born June 1, 1909.

Joshua L. Jones

Farmers come nearer being their own business masters than any other class of workers. It takes considerable capital these days to go into farming properlv, but a farmer nowadavs does not need so much land as he has been taught to believe he should have. Where one hundred and sixty acres has been considered a necessity for a good farm, forty acres will soon he regarded as plenty; and for some kinds of crops ten acres is all a man can properly care for. Intensive cultivation with modern methods makes a successful farm out of few acres of land. Ownership and proper development of even a few acres will amply provide for the unproductive period in the lives of farmers.

One of the capable farmers of Republic township, Greene county, is Joshua L. Jones, who was born in this township and county, on the old Jones homestead, March 23, 1872. He is a son of Isaac N. and Martna (McClure) Jones, both natives of Monroe county, Tennessee, where they spent their earlier years. Isaac N. Jones was twenty-three years of age when he left his native state and immigrated to Greene county, Missouri. He received a fairly good education for a country boy in those days, and he taught school after coming to the Ozarks, continuing as a teacher until the commencement of the Civil war, during which period of strife between his fellow citizens, he acted as deputy sheriff under Elisha White. He was. also county suveyor at one time. He devoted the latter part of his life togeneral farming in Republic township, where his death occurred in 1883. His widow survived until 1902. outliving him nineteen years. They were the parents of ten children, an equal number of sons and daughters, four of whom are living at this writing, one son and five daughters being deceased.

Joshua L. Jones grew to manhood on the home farm and there he worked hard when a boy. He received his education in the district schools of his neighborhood, and he also studied at Marionville Collegiate Institute, Marionville, Missouri. His brother, Ben G. W. Jones, who is in partnership with him farming, and who is three vears vounger, was educated in the local public schools and later was graduated from the Marionville Collegiate Institute.

township and here they are obtaining very gratifying results as general farmers and stock raisers, being very close students of modern methods of agriculture and not afraid to experiment and adopt advanced ideas in husbandry. Both he and his brother have remained unmarried.

In placing the name of Willard .Major Barron, of Republic, in the front rank of Greene county's business men. simple justice is done to a biographical fact, recognized throughout this section of the Ozark region by those at all familiar with his history, for lie was the founder of the extensive manufacturing industry which bears his name. A man of wise discretion and business ability of a high order, he manages with tactful sue. an important enterprise ami lias"s<i impressed his individuality upon the community as to gain recognition among its leading citizens and publicspirited men of affairs. What of the man and what of his work? This is the dual query which represents the interrogation at least nominally entertained whenever that discriminating factor, the public, would pronounce on the true worth of the individual. The career of Mr. Barron indicates the clear-cut. sane and distinct character, and in reviewing the same from an unbiased and unprejudiced standpoint, interpretation follows fact in a straight line of derivation. In this publication it is consistent that such a review lie entered, and that without the adulation of ornate praise.

Air. Barron was horn in Northhampton county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1854. He is a son of Samuel C. and Sallie (.Major) Barron. Samuel C. Barron was reared in Pennsylvania and received a good practical education, partly in the schools of Easton, that state, and later in life started in the retail cigar business for himself, which he continued until his death, in 1906. He and his wife were both natives of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and were reared and married there. The Major family were in the cooperage business in that locality and were well known and highly respected, as were also the Barrons. During the war between the states Samuel C. Barron served three years as a soldier in the Union army, as a member of a regiment from his native state. For some time after the close of the war he followed blacksmithing. but later took up the cigar business. Toward the latter part of his life his eyesight failed and he finally went blind.

Willard M. Barron was the only child of his parents. He grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, remaining there until he was nineteen years of age, and there he was educated in the common schools. Leaving His native state he went to Michigan, locating twelve miles south of Kalamazoo, w here he engaged in the grocer}' business for himself, later took in partners, the firm, name becoming Barron, Frank Boner ec Company, continuing for two years. During those early years in Michigan our subject learned the cooperage business, for which he seemed to have a natural bent. Hisgrandfather had operated a cooper shop many years at Martin's ("reek, Pennsylvania, near the city of Easton, and there young Barron often visited and watched the workman at their tasks, however he did not attempt the work himself at that time. He worked under John 1!. Major, an uncle, wbi' was engaged in this line of endeavor in Michigan. Mr. Major is now deceased, fie was foreman of the cooperage plant owned by Jacob Johnson, win 1 had married the mother of our subject and was therefore at that time our subject's step-father. When twenty-two years old Willard M. Barron went to Winona, Minnesota, where he worked at the cooper's trade three years, then returned to Michigan and worked two years for his stepfather, then located in Schoolcraft, that state, and started a grocery store, which he conducted two years, then sold out and came to Missouri, buying a. farm in Jasper county, in 1880. In 1887 he came to Springfield and worked for the Springfield Lumber and Cooperage Company about six years, then went to Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, where he had charge of the Mammoth Spring Roller Mills cooper shop, which position he held sewn years, then went to Nashville, Tennessee, and took charge of the H. C Mocker cooperage plant, which employed on an average of forty-five men. After spending two years there he returned to Springfield, Missouri, and took charge of the Wunderlich cooperage shop here, which he operated a year, which ended his work for other people. In all the above responsible positions he gave eminent satisfaction in every respect, being an exceptionally highly skilled workman, energetic, reliable and handled the men under him in a manner to get the best results possible and retain their good will at the same time. He continued learning the various ins and outs of the business until he felt eminently qualified to manage a plant of his own, and thus he went to Republic and began in the cooperage business for himself. He was successful from the first and his business grew by leaps and bounds under his able management and wise foresight until it has now reached enormous proportions and he has thriving factories in a number of other cities besides his main plant at Republic. Upon establishing his plant in the last named place he contracted to make the barrels for the Becker, Langerberger Milling Company of Republic, which, however, was even at that time owned by the R. C. Stone Milling Company. He has three other plants, one at Joplin, one at Carthage, one at Aurora and, formerly, he operated similar plants at Mt. Vernon and Marionville. His main plant and head office are at Republic, and the combined output of all his plants averages one hundred and fifty thousand barrels per year, all handmade and of a superior quality and workmanship. The Barron Cooperage Company has a splendid financial rating and has from the first stood high in the industrial circles of the Southwest. Each factory is modern in every detail, equipped with up-to-date machinery and only the most highly skilled artisans are employed and the best material used. The various plants give employment to a large number of men.

Mr. Barron was married, first, to Mary Tweedy, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Tweedy. Mr. Tweedy was a native of Ireland from which country he emigrated to New York, where he married a native of that state. IK- was a tailor by trade. Mrs. Barron was born in Constantine, Michigan, and was one of live children. She died three years after her marriage, without issue. Mr. Barron was married on January 5, 1879, to Sarah Jane Baldy, who was a daughter of Paul R. and Jane (Finley) Baldy, natives of Pennsylvania and Michigan, respectively. They were the parents of two children - Frank Baldy, who lives 111 Mint. Michigan; and Sarah Jane, wife of Mr. Barron. The latter was quite small when her mother died. and when her father married again he took her into his new home, she having spent about four years after her mother's death with an aunt in Pennsylvania. The mother of Mrs Barron is living near Carthage, Jasper

Four children have been born to Mr. Barron and his last wife, named as follows: Sallie Annette is the wife of Edward Huckins and they live in Republic; Willard B. lives in Aurora, Missouri; Flora J. is the wife of J. C. McCleary, of Seattle, Washington; Lewis Whitfield lives in Joplin, Missouri.

We quote the following paragraph from the leading newspaper of Aurora, this state, which article recently appeared, and we deem it in keeping with the rest of this chronicle :

"There may be some persons in Aurora and this section of the state who do not know that Willard M. Barron has one of his largest cooperage plants in this city, but everyone who is in the market for these goods has long since learned that Aurora supports one of the largest plants of this kind in southwest Missouri. The branch of the W. M. Barron Cooperage Company, which is established in Aurora is under the personal direction of Willard B. Barron, who is a stockholder in the concern. He is the son of Willard M. Barron, who is known throughout this country as being the pioneer in cooperage works. The Barrons are a family of coopers. The father came to this country fourteen years ago and located in Springfield. After remaining there for one year he saw an opening at Republic and moved there. He has been established in that town for thirteen years, now. As he remained there he saw the development of the wonderful orchards throughout Missouri. It was at this time that Aurora became the center of large orchards and, knowing that great opportunities awaited him, he established his plant here. Willard B. Barron, who has been in charge of the plant for a number of years, has long since demonstrated that he is one of the true, live ones of Aurora. He is for everything that will develop the city, and progress is the motto of the plant which he manages. With a number of young men of Mr. Barron's type in this city, Aurora would soon forge to the front ranks of the cities of Missouri.

"Lewis W. Barron, youngest son of Willard M. Barron, is soon to take charge of the cooperage plants in Joplin and Carthage. These plants were established in July, 191.3. The Barrons have been spreading out until they are now the 'barons' of the cooperage business in southwest Missouri. From twelve to fifteen men are employed at the plant here whose salaries run from eighteen to thirty dollars a week. The coopers workmostly by piece. As in the other Barron cooperage plants, the workmen in this city are highly skilled and are ranked among the high-class laborers of the city. Despite the adverse conditions of last year, the plant here has done a very nice business the present season. Thirteen cars of material have been shipped into Aurora and fifteen cars of barrels and other produtcs of the cooperage plants have been shipped to points throughout the country. The products are not confined to this territory, but are sent to many of the neighboring states. Only recently a carload of the products was sent to Oswego, Kansas. Aurora is fortunate in having a large branch of such a concern. It means much to the city. Men are employed and money is brought here. It is such establishments as W. M. Barron Cooperage Company that have put Aurora on the map as a commercial centei."

Politically, Willard M. Barron is a Republican and is well-informed on current public matters. Fraternally, he belongs to the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of the Maccabees, Woodmen of the World and Woodmen's Circle. Mrs. Barron is a member of the Ladies of Maccabees and the Woodmen's Circle. Both belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, in which they are active workers, he being president of the board of stewards and is also a trustee of the church. He was formerly leader in the Sunday school.

We close this article by quoting the last lines in an account of our subject and his large business interests, which appeared some time ago in a newspaper at Republic:

"Air. Barron is a fervent Christian, being a member of the Hood Methodist Episcopal church. He has been Sunday school superintendent for four years. He is a member of nearly all the lodges in Republic. No better neighbor or honest man lives today than Willard Barron, of the city of Republic."

Among the things which the modern farmer has to become familiar with is the nature of the soil with which he is working, if he would reap the maximum results for his toil anil pains. Since the soil varies so much in regard both to it > organic and inorganic constituents, marked differences in character must necessarily result from the almost indefinite number of combinations which may he found. All these differences, however, may be traced to two sets of factor-: First, the character of the rock or material from which the soil has been derived: and. second, the processes or agencies by means of which this material has been changed from mere rock or rock debris into a medium suitable for the growth of plants. The former has to do with soil-forming material, the latter with soil-forming agencies. To these two groups of factors ajc to he attributed the numerous varieties in soil conditions found over v&riou6 parts of the earth. One of the farmers

Mr. Garton was born in Greene county, Missouri, February 18, 1862. He is a son of Jacob W. and Elizabeth (Rainey) Garton, both natives of middle Tennessee, where they grew up, received common school educations and were married. Shortly thereafter they immigrated to Greene county, Missouri, locating in Wilson township, on a farm now owned by R. Steury. They remained on this place three years, then the elder Garton homesteaded a place in this township, of one hundred and sixty acres, which he cleared, improved and farmed until his death, which occurred in 1902. His family, by our subject's mother, consisted of five children, namely: Alice, who married George McElhany, is deceased; John is deceased; George lives in Springfield ; J. Warren, of this review, and James, deceased. The mother of the above named children died in 1865, and in 1874 Jacob W. Garton married for his second wife Missouri A. Wallace, a daughter of Wash Wallace, who was one of the first settlers of Greene county, ami to this second union seven children were born, four of whom are still living, and are named, Artie, who is the wife of Alfred Garden; Cordy. Ruby is the wife of Lee Blanton, and Ella.

J. Warren Garton, of this sketch, grew to manhood on the home farm and worked hard when a boy. During the winter months he attended the district schools of his township, first the old-fashioned subscription schools, then went as far as the eighth grade in the public schools, and when about seventeen years old entered high school in Springfield, which he attended a little over two years, then he took a course in the Marionville Collegiate Institute, which he attended a little over two years, and later took a business course in Springfield, embracing bookkeeping and business forms. Thus he received an exceptionally good general and practical education which well prepared him for life's serious work. After leaving school he returned to the old homestead, where he remained until he was twentv-five years of r'ge, then launched out on his own account, buying ten acres of the old ho:n 'Stcnd, later purchasing twenty-six acres adjoining, and for many years lived in a small home he had built on his land, keeping bachelor apartments with his brother George. They worked their land during the crop seasons and thereby earned money with which to defray their expenses in school. Our subject is now owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and eighty-five acres on which he carries on general farming and stock raising success full v. his place being known as "Rainbow Farm," a name which his oldest daughter gave it. He handles a great deal of live stock and when he and his brother farmed together they bought and shipped stock quite extensivelv to the St. Louis and Kansas City markets. Mr. Garton built a new dwelling on his farm in 1914. It is modernly appointed and appropriately furnished. It has

I7Io Greene County, Missouri

Mr. Garton was married, September 4, 1893, to Alwilda Medora Owen, a daughter of Charles B. and Nancy C. Owen, her father being a native of Tennessee, from which state he came to Greene county when a young man. He was a son of Solomon H. Owen, one of the first settlers of Greene county, and who became one of the most extensive land owners and prominent citizens here. A complete chronicle of this worthy old family will be found under the caption of Charles J. Owen, appearing on another page of this volume. Our subject's wife was one of eight children, namely: Charles J., Bettie, deceased; George, Frank, Edward, Susie is the wife of Gary Martin, Alwilda, who married the subject of this sketch, and Joseph, who is the youngest.

Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Garton, namely : Lee, Urith, Owen, Howard, Cleo, Rollie, Lester, Sterling and Thelma. They are all at home with their parents at this writing.