Harrison County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1921 (part 8 of 15)

Mr. Ross was married in 1893 to Miss Atta Ragan of Ridgeway, Missouri. She is a daughter of 0. P. Ragan, who is a well known business man of Ridgeway. To Mr. and Mrs. Ross has been bom one child, Owen, who is a student in the Bethany public schools.

Mr. Ross is a Democrat and takes a commendable interest in political affairs. While a resident of Cainsville he served as mayor of that town, and during his administration the big coal strike took place there. As mayor of Cainsville, Mr. Ross took a positive stand for the law enforcement against the illegal sale of liquor and accomplished satisfactory results along that line. He was a candidate for prosecuting attorney on the Democratic ticket and was defeated by only 116 votes. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, Royal Neighbors and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Jacob Foreman, an enterprising farmer and stockman of Hamilton Township, is the owner of 200 acres of land which he has improved. He belongs to a family that settled in this county before the days of the Civil War, when it required foresight and fortitude to take up life in the sparsely settled districts. Mr. Foreman was born in Harrison County, April 22, 1860, the son of James H. and Elizabeth (Bennett) Foreman.

James H. Foreman was born in Butler County, Ohio, August 19, 1819, and was a farmer all of his life. He came from Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1856, and located in Union Township in Harrison County. He sold his farm there in 1868, and moved to the farm now owned by his son, the subject of this sketch. Here he built a small frame house and made other improvements. 'His nearest market was St. Joseph and it required a week to make the trip there and back. Mr. Foreman was married to Elizabelsii Bennett, born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, February 28, 1831. She died February 25, 1889, and her husband died on the home farm. May 15, 1899. The remains of both are buried in the Masonic Cemetery at Eagleville. To their union nine children were born, seven of whom are still living: John H., of Beaver County, Olvlahoma; Barbara, married to C. B. Little of Hamilton Township ; Jacob, the subject of this review; Mary Elizabeth, nov/ Mrs. Copeland of Chase County, Kansas ; Angeline, marrieii to Robert Seives of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas ; Danie, who keeps house for her brother, Jacob ; and Nancy, married to Fred Monroe of Hutchinson, Kansas.

James H. Foreman was a veteran of the Civil Wai'. He enlisted at Eagleville in Company F, 3rd Missouri Regiment, and remained in service for three years. He was wounded while in cavalry service by a horse which fell on him. Mr. Foreman was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post and was an adherent of the Methodist Church. He was one of the substantial men of his community.

Jacob Foreman attended the district schools and grew up on a farm. He has operated a farm ever since he began working for himself. He bought the estate of his father and is now conducting it as a general farm. Mr. Foreman is a republican in politics. He is a reliable man who has been successful in his work.

Dr. A. H. Vandivert, a prominent physician of Bethany, Missouri, has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine in Harrison County for over forty-one years and is a member of one of the pioneer families of this section of Missouri. Doctor Vandivert is a native of Ohio, born in Muskingum County, April 6, 1853, a son of Dr. Robert Henry and Agnes (Berry) Vandivert, both of whom were natives of Ohio, the mother being of Quaker descent.

Dr. Robert Henry Vandivert was one of the pioneer physicians of Harrison County. Upon locating in this state, he settled in Harrison County just south of Bethany, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession. He not only was widely known as a successful physician but was prominent in politics and stood high in the councils of the Republican party. In 1860 he was the presiding officer at the first Republican

Convention held in Harrison County. An unusual coincident in this connection is that his brother, S. S. Vandivert, who was a Douglas Democrat, was the presiding officer at the Democratic Convention held in Harrison Countj' the same year.

Dr. Robert Henry Vandivert was honored at various times with offices of trust and responsibility and served two terms in the Missouri State Senate and was recognized as one of the leaders of that body. Both times that he was a candidate for the State Senate he received every vote in Salem Township, a fact which speaks in unmistakable terms of what his neighbors who knew him best thought of him. He died at Bethany, in March, 1887, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife preceeded him in death a number of years, having departed this life in 1858, at about the age of forty years.

Dr. A. H. Vandivert was one of four children born to his parents who grew to maturity as follows: J. W., who was an attorney and died at Bethany at about the age of twenty-five years; Dr. A. H., the subject of this sketch ; Arthur H., who was a chemist is now deceased and Judge S. W., of Bethany, Missouri. After the death of his first wife the father was again married and to that union was born one child, Mrs. B. M. Reinick. Professor Reinick is now the head of the Department of Mathematics of the Kansas Agriculture College at Manhattan, Kansas.

Dr. A. H. Vandivert was educated in the public schools of Harrison County and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan and was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Michigan with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1877. He first engaged in the practice of medicine at Eagleville, and in 1880 located at Bethany. He has been engaged in the practice here continually since that time except when he served as physician at State Hospital for the Insane, No. 2, at St. Joseph, Missouri. He has always enjoyed a large practice and for a number of years has been recognized as one of the able and successful physicians and surgeons of northwestern Missouri.

Doctor Vandivert was first married in June, 1878, to Miss Rosa Templeman of Bethany, Missouri. She died in February, 1880, leaving one daughter, Bessie Agnes, who is a prominent teacher in Seattle, Washington, having taught Home Economics for several years and now teaches Americanization. In 1886, Doctor Vandivert was married to Emma Buckles of Madison County, Illinois, and to that union three children were born as follows : Robert H. died at the age of twenty-two years ; Dr. W. W., and one who died in infancy.

Dr. W. W. Vandivert received his medical education at the University Medical College of Kansas City, where he was graduated in 1913 with a degree of Doctor of Medicine, and since that time has been engaged in the practice at Bethany. He has won a well merited reputation as a successful physician and surgeon and stands high in his profession and in the community.

Dr. A. H. Vandivert has always been a Republican and takes a keen interest in political matters. He holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Christian Church.

Andrew Cumming, vice-president of the Harrison County Bank of Bethany, Missouri, was for many years successfully engaged in the mercantile business at Bethany but is now living retired. Mr. Cumming is a native of Scotland and was born in 1841 in Dalkeith, Parrish, about six miles from Edinborough. His father died in his native land when comparatively a young man, and in 1852 the mother came to America with the family of whom Andrew, the subject of this sketch was the youngest. They settled in Pennsylvania and in 1858 Andrew Cumming and his mother removed to Illinois. In 1877, they came to Missouri and he settled at Bethany.

After coming to this county, Andrew Cumming engaged as clerk in a store for about a year. He was then in the mercantile business with Mr. Bryant about two years, when he entered a partnership with Mr. Wren, under the firm name of Wren and Cumming. They did an extensive mercantile business until 1893 when Mr. Cumming retired from the mercantile business and since that time has devoted his attention to his various other interests. He was one of the organizers of the Harrison County Bank and has been vice-president of that institution since its organization. He is the owner of farm land in Harrison County and is recognized as one of the successful men of affairs of this county. He was superintendent of construction at the building of the county home.

Mr. Cumming was married in Illinois in 1866 to Miss Isabelle T. Brown, a native of Pennsylvania but at the time of her marriage a resident of Illinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Cummings have been born two children, as follows: Mrs. Charles A. Sherer, of Bethany, Missouri, and Alexander S., a well known and successful attorney of Bethany, Missouri.

and is highly respected in the community. Mrs. Gumming and daughter are members of the Methodist Church. He was a member of the building committee when the M. E. Church was built.

W. H. Shumard, a well known and successful produce dealer of Bethany, Missouri is a native of Harrison County and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section of the state. He was born in Jefferson Township, March 4, 1877, a son of Henry and Amanda (Trotter) Shumard.

Henry Shumard is a son of Rev. Thomas Shumard who was a pioneer Methodist preacher of Harrison County, who came here from Cambridge, Ohio and settled in Jefferson Township in 1856 and homesteaded government land in Jefferson Township. He reared a family of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls. He was not only prominent as a pioneer minister and well known throughout this section of the state but he also had a successful business career and accumulated large land holdings and at the time each of his sons became of age he gave each of them forty acres of land. He died in 1882 and his wife departed this life in 1876 and their remains are buried in Morris Chapel Cemetery. Three of their sons, William, John and Frank, served in the Union army during the Civil War. Henry Shumard was engaged in farming until 1901 and since that time he and his wife have lived in Bethany.

W. H. Shumard is one of a family of iive children born to his parents, four of whom are now living, as follows: Mrs. Judge Burgen, Bethany, Missouri; W. H., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Charles Edson, Bethany; and Mrs. R. V. McColIum, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Murtle B. died at the age of two years. W. H. Shumard was reared on the home farm in Jefferson Township and was educated in the pubhc schools and the Stanberry Normal School. He taught school for two years in Harrison County and then engaged in farming in Jefferson Township. He bought a farm from his father and followed farming until 1909, when he engaged in the produce business in Bethany and since that time, with the exception of two years, he has carried on business at the corner of Eighteenth and Main streets. He handles flour, feed, seeds, poultry, hides and fur and does an extensive business and has won a wide reputation and his many patrons by fair dealing and honest methods.

ated in the class of 1921 at the University of Missouri in the Civil Engineering course and is now engaged in his profession in Chicago, Illinois. On August 17, 1916, Mr. Shumard was married to Mrs. Guyman, widow of the late F. W. Guyman. By her former marriage Mrs. Shumard has two children, Harold and Leah Guyman.

Mr. Shumard is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of which he is Past Grand, Past Chief Patriarch and is now District Deputy. He also holds membership in the American Yoeman and the Modern Woodman of America. He is a member of the Methodist Church and is a Republican and has served as township clerk and assessor in Jefferson Township and Bethany. He is one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of Harrison County.

W. H. Cruzan, of Bethany, Missouri, has been a resident of Harrison County for over forty-two years and for several years has conducted a private sanitarium in Bethany where he has devoted himself to the treatment of cancer and is widely known throughout the country for his successful treatment of this disease. He is a son of Dr. R. Johnathan and Martha E. (Evans) Cruzan, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Indiana,

Dr. Johnathan Cruzan removed from his native Kentucky to Indiana with his parents when he was about eight years old. He was reared in Indiana and after receiving a good preparatory education, he entered the Cincinnati Medical College and was graduated from that institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Shortly after graduating he went to Wisconsin. Soon after he removed to Fayette County, Iowa, and was a pioneer physician of that section. He built the first house in West Union, Iowa and later removed to Brush Creek and from there to Mt. Moriah. Missouri. He was a successful doctor and practicing his profession for over thirty years. For many years he specialized in the treatment of cancer in which he was eminently successful. During the course of his professional career he made exhaustive research along the line of his chosen specialty and developed a formula which has proven to be remarkably successful in the treatment of this disease. This is the sam.e formula which his son W. H. Cruzan has used with such success on hundreds of patients during the past few years. Dr. Johnathan Cruzan died at Harlan, Iowa and is buried there and his wife died at Mount Moriah, Missouri and her remains are buried there. They were the parents of four children, the only survivor of whom is W. H. Cruzan whose name introduces this sketch. There was one brother who was a Congregational minister and two sisters.

W. H. Cruzan is a native of Wisconsin and when he was about ten months old the family removed to Iowa and was reared and educated in that state. In 1879 he came to Harrison County, Missouri, and engaged in farming and stock raising and for a number of years was one of the most extensive stock raisers in this section. He removed to Bethany in 1900 and still continues his interest in fanning although not on such an extensive scale as in former years.

Since locating in Bethany, Mr. Cruzan has been engaged in the treatment of cancer as above stated. He treats cases from all over the country and maintains a private sanitarium at Bethany for that purpose. Patients here are under the care of a regular practicing physician.

Mr. Cruzan was married September 8, 1867 to Miss Ellen Mary Etta Liggett, a native of Buchanon County, Iowa. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cruzan, as follows : John Archie, a farmer in -Jefferson Township ; Mary Ellen, married Orrin Clinkinberd and they live twelve miles east of Bethany; Albert, a teacher and osteopathic physician, Colorado Springs, Colorado ; Evelyn, who is now engaged in teaching at Bethany, Missouri.

Mr. Cruzan is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Christian Church. He has served two terms as mayor of Bethany, having served the unexpired term of Charles Williams and was elected to that office at the expiration of that term. The Cruzan residence is a splendid modern structure and is located on a tract of four and one-half acres in the south part of the city.

George W. Myers, a Civil War veteran now living retired at Bethany, has been identified with Harrison County for over seventy years and is a member of one of the early pioneer families of this county. He was born in Decatur County, Indiana, October 31, 1844, a son of Abraham and Mary (Bryant) Myers, both natives of Kentucky.

Abraham Myers came to Missouri in 1850. driving through the entire distance with a team and wagon. He brought his family with him and settled in Adams Township, Harrison County, and there spent the re- mainder of his life in farming and stock raising. He died July 30, 1888, aged seventy-six years, three months and three days, and his wife died September 24, 1900 at the advanced age of eighty-two years, seven months and twenty days. They were the parents of fourteen children, two of whom died in infancy and four are now living as follows: George W., the subject of this sketch; John H., who served in the Union army in the Civil War and novv' lives at Bentonville, Arkansas ; Mary, married Charles A. Eads, Bentonville, Arkansas; and Sarah Ellen married Leon Powell, Buffalo, Oklahoma.

George W. Myers was educated in the schools at Trenton, Missouri and St. Joseph. In 1862, when he was about eighteen years old, he enlisted in Company F, 3rd Regiment, Provisional State Troops and served with his command in western Missouri. In 1864 he enlisted in Company E, 43rd Regiment, Missouri Voluntary Infantry. During an engagement at Glasgow. Missouri, against Price's Confederate forces he was wounded which resulted in the loss of an arm. He was one of six hundred soldiers who were taken prisoners by the Confederates under the command of Clark and Shelby. Shortly afterwards he was discharged from the service on account of disability, although he remained with his regiment until spring and did considerable scout duty after he had lost his arm.

After returning from the army Mr. Myers taught school for a time when he was appointed deputy county recorder. He served for several years in that capacity, during the administrations of two county recorders. In 1868 he was elected county treasurer and at the expiration of his first term he was reelected to that office. In 1876 he engaged in farming, remaining on his farm until 1908. He then removed to Bethany where he has since resided. He has various interests in Harrison County and is a stock holder in the Bethany Trust Company.

Mr. Myers was married December 15, 1868 to Caroline Rupe, a native of Indiana who came to Harrison County with her parents at a very early date when she was a child. To Mr. and Mrs. Myers have been born ten children as follows: Warren D., a carpenter who is also engaged in farming in Harrison County ; Wallace, a carpenter at Lamar, Colorado ; Walter, Richmond, Kansas; William A.. St. Joseph, Missouri; Wilbert W., druggist, Bethany ; Nona May, married George W. Wells, Bethany ; Daisy, married Albert W. McKee, Santa Ana, California; Mary, married John S. Graves, Olney, Illinois; Myrtle, married Dennis York, Cherokee, Oklahoma; and Edna, married Joe Miller, Clovis, California.

Wilbert W. Myers is a veteran of World War. He entered service in 1917 and was sent to Camp Funston, Kansas, a member of the 89th Division in the infantry. Was in St. Mihiel drive and was finally transferred to headquarters in Paris and was there when armistice was signed. He v/as slightly gassed. He was taken from the front on account of sickness and then served at headquarters.

George W. Myers is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a Democrat. He holds membership in the Christian Church and is one of Harrison County's most highly esteemed citizens.

Henry Wilson, deceased, was born in Perry County, Ohio, March 28, 1839. His parents were James and Nancy (Good) Wilson. They had a large family of which Henry Wilson, the subject of this sketch, was the fourth child born.

James and Nancy (Good) Wilson were natives of Ohio. They lived on a farm in that state until after the Civil War when they moved to Iowa where they settled in Marion County. There Mr. Wilson died. His wife died years later in Colorado.

Henry Wilson was reared on a farm and worked as a farmer m Ohio until the turbulent days of the Civil War. He enlisted for service in the army as a "hundred day" man, enrolling May 2, 1864, and serving until August 24, 1864, when he was discharged. He was a member of Company F, 151st, Ohio National Guards. After his term of service was over he returned to his home and farmed there until he moved to Clark County, Illinois, where he began work in a saw mill. Later he went to Missouri, where he settled on a farm near Chillicothe. where he remained until 1970, when he came with his family to the practically unsettled territory of Harrison County. About 1874, he bought the present Wilson farm of 200 acres in Clay Township and began at once to make the extensive i;iiprovements that enhanced the value of the land. This was a policy continued by Mr. Wilson all of his life. He had the farsighted business acumen that sees the necessity of building up the land that is expected to yield a good return.

Mr. Wilson was married January 15, 1859, to Malinda Powell, born in Monongalia County, West Virginia, November 30, 1841, the daughter of John and Rebecca (Wilson) Powell, early settlers of Knox County, Ohio, where Mrs. Wilson was reared. To the union of Henry and Malinda

Mr. And .Mrs. Henry Wilson

(Powell) Wilson ten children were born: Mary, deceased, was married to Nathaniel Seymore ; Charles T., a resident of Oakland, California ; John M., a blacksmith, now living at Akron ; James H., deceased, Luther 0., living at home and conducting the home farm in Clay Township ; Howard M., a blacksmith at Pleasanton, Iowa; Ella R., married to Harry Thomas of Colorado; Minnie B., wife of Green Hawk, Decatur County, Iowa; Ellis E., operating the J. A. Jeffries farm in Clay Township; and Cora L., wife of Everett Arnold. Mrs. Wilson has thirty grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren- Henry Wilson died January 5, 1919. His widow now owns the home place of 200 acres in Clay Township and also a farm of 100 acres lying on Grand River. Mrs. Wilson recalls the hardships and trials of the days when she and her husband were new-comers in the county, then a vast stretch of uncultivated and sparsely peopled land. The nearest market town was Leon, Iowa, twenty miles away and as the journey there and back had to be made by wagon, "going to market" was not then the commonplace occurrance that it is today. The life in the new country was hard but Mrs. Wilson says that her pride in her large family has well repaid her for those early struggles.

Mr. Wilson was a democrat in his political views and was identified with the Methodist Church. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr.. Wilson was a man whom it is well to name in a volume such as this. His work was of the kind that forms the very foundation of the development of the county for upon the successful tilling of the soil depends all the industrial growth of a community, and this Mr. Wilson did in a highly efficient manner.

R. E. Speer, a prominent citizen of Jefferson Township who resides on his farm, one and three-fourths miles north of the city, has been identified with the interests of this county, since boyhood. He was born in Grundy County, Missouri, seven miles north of Trenton, February 13, 1850, a son of Robert and Margaret (Kelso) Speer, natives of Indiana. Robert Speer was a prominent pioneer preacher of northern Missouri, in the early days, and is remembered by many of the older nioneers who are still living. He came to Missouri, and settled in Grundy County, in 1842, when he was about twenty-two years old. He preached the gospel to the early settlers in that vicinity and for seven years, he preached north of Chillicothe, at what is now Julia, and vicinities. He came to Harrison County about the time the Civil War broke out and organized the Pres- (33) byterian Church here. He organized the Mount Olive congi-egation in Jefferson Township. He died May 9, 1876, at the age of fifty-six years and twenty-five days. His wife died in 1903, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. They were the parents of three children as follows: Nancy D., married T. M. Alexander, and lives in Bethany, Missouri; Samuel P., who is now living retired at Trenton, Missouri ; and R. E., the subject of this sketch.

R. E. Speer was about ten years old when the family settled in Harrison County, and here he was reared to manhood. He began farming one mile east of his present place and in 1889 he purchased his present place. He owns 155 acres, which is located conveniently near Bethany, and is a productive and M^ell improved farm.

Mr. Speer was married in 1879, to Sarah Phillabam, a native of Ohio, who came to Harrison County, with her parents when she was a little girl. To Mr. and Mrs. Speer was born one daughter, the wife of Harvey McCollum, who lives in Jefferson Township.

George W. Barlow. - In the many years of his active practice at Bethany, George W. Barlow has distinguished himself for solid ability as a lawyer and at the same time has devoted much of his time and energy to the public welfare. Mr. Barlow began practice in Harrison County in September, 1879, and for many years has been known as one of the leaders of the local bar, and at the same time the community has often looked to his interest and support for many enterprises and movements that would advance the city and surrounding county. Among Missourian Republicans, Mr. Barlow has been a strong and influential leader and has a large acquaintance with leading members of the party both in the state and throughout the nation.

George W. Barlow came to Harrison County in 1869 and to the state of Missouri in 1865, at which time his parents settled in Chillicothe, Livingston County. They were from Jackson, Ohio, where George W. Barlow was bom October 14, 1855. He was well educated in the public schools, but worked for his higher education, and after taking the normal course at the University of Missouri engaged in teaching school for forty months in Harrison County. It was through his profession as a teacher that he first impressed himself upon this section and came to know hundreds of people young and old. His work as a teacher was done in the country schools and from the means acquired through that profession he took up the study of law and in 1878 was graduated from the law department of the State University. Having finished his education and training for his profession, Mr. Barlow returned to Bethany and in September, 1879, formed a partnership with Thomas D. Neal as Neal & Barlow. After the death of Mr. Neal he formed a partnership with Judge George W. Wanamaker i|n 1882, and they were long regarded as the leading firm in Harrison Coanty. Their associations continued until the elevation of Judge Wanxmaker to the district bench in 1905. Since then Mr. Barlow has been in practice with his brother, Gilbert Barlow and the firm was Bai'low & Barlow from January 1, 1905, to January 1, 1914, at which time L. R. ICsiUtz was admitted to the firm which is now Barlow, Barlow & Kautz.

Mr. Barlow entered politics as a Republican, casting his first presidential ballot for Rutherford B. Hayes and for nearly forty years has never missed a pi-esidential election. He has been to many local conventions, was assistant sergeant-at-arms of the national convention at St. Louis in 1896, which nominated McKinley, was a delegate from his congi-essional district in 1908 and cast a vote for President Taft, and in 1912 was a spectator in the national convention at Chicago and witnessed the turbulent scenes which marked the walkout of the progressive element of the party. Mr. Barlow was chairman of the committee on credentials in the famed Excelsior Springs District Republican Convention of 1912, one of the first held in the state, and one whose acts were reported as important political news all over the country, and resulted in severe criticism. Mr. Barlow wrote a history of that convention from intimate knowledge of his inside workings and published the article in the press dispatches just before the meeting of the Republican leaders held in Indianapolis that year, and his article had an important bearing on the consultations in that meeting.

As to his own public service, Mr. Barlow in the fall of 1888 was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County, and was reelected in 1890, having succeeded Judge W. H. Skinner in that oflSce. His administration was one of aggressive and efficient sei-vice, during which time he convicted more men for crimes than had been the record of any of his predecessors. Mr. Barlow traced up through Pinkerton detectives one man charged with rape who had crossed the Gulf of Mexico, and after getting him back to the Missouri courts prosecuted him and sent him to the penitentiary for ten years. During this term Mr. Barlow continued his partnership with Judge Wanamaker, who was his assistant in the office and at the close of his second term resumed his large private practice. For many years Mr. Barlow has been local attorney for the Burlington Railway and his firm now handles the litigation for that company. He was one of the organizers of the Grand River Coal & Coke Company of Harrison County, the largest corporation in the county, and is a director and attorney for the company. Mr. Barlow was also one of the chief stockholders and builders of the Heilbron Sanatorium at Bethany and is still chief stockholder and treasurer of the company. He and his brother built in Bethany the Barlow Block in 1913, the best business building in the county. The first floor of this building is occupied by the Bethany Trust Company which Mr. Barlow assisted in organizing, and the south half of the first floor is leased to the trust company for twenty years. The upper floor is used for offices and the north half of first floor is for mercantile business. He is the owner of other property in the city and has one of the best residences located in the midst of spacious grounds on Elm street, and it is easily one of the most attractive homes in the county. The residence contains ten rooms, is modern throughout, and is finished in oak and walnut, with floors of heavy oak.

Mr. Barlow was married October 9, J 879, in Bethany to Miss Elizabeth Hockridge, daughter of Nelson A. Marette (Hart) Hockridge. The Hockridge family formerly lived in the vicinity of Utica, New York. Mrs. Barlow's great-grandfather, Daniel Wherry, whose remains are buried at Plessis, New York, was a Revolutionary soldier from that state. Mrs. Barlow was the oldest child and other members of her immediate family are: William H., a farmer in Harrison County; and Emma, who died as Mrs. F. H. Nally. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow have a daughter, Mabel, wife of L. R. Kautz, a young lawyer of Bethany, and they have two children, George Barlow Kautz and Elizabeth Ruth Kautz. Mr. Barlow also has as a member of his family Maretta Barlow, the daughter of Mrs. Emma Nally, sister of Mrs. Barlow. She specialized in vocal music and is a prominent singer. She has been reared in the Barlow home since childhood and is being educated and trained as carefully as if she were an own child. Mr. Barlow is a Knight Templar Mason and also aflSliated with the Knights of Pythias and some years ago served as judge advocate of the Missouri Division of the Sons of the Revolution.

George W. Barlow comes from an old Virginia family. His grandparents were George and Sarah (Ubanks) Barlow, both natives of Virginia and born about 1786 and 1789, respectively. They were married in 1811. George Barlow enlisted as a private during the War of 1812, but was soon detached from the field service and sent out as a recruiting officer. He died in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1854, and his wife passed away in 1866. They were members of the Baptist Church.

James Barlow, father of the Bethany lawyer, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1832, and spent his active career as a farmer. In 1836 his parents moved to Ohio and he was married in Jackson County of that state to Miss Lucinda Nally, daughter of William and Patsy Nally, who were likewise from Virginia. James Barlow, in 1863, enlisted in Company I of the One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served as sergeant of his company and was in several engagements before he was discharged in the fall of 1864. During the Morgan raid through Ohio he was captured, but was soon released. James Barlow was a Republican and one of the active influential men of Northwest Missouri after his removal to this state in 1865. He became a prominent Methodist Church leader in Harrison County, and built there a church largely by his own funds. His death occurred in April, 1907, and he is survived by his wife. Their children are: Emma, wife of Frank P. Burns of Harrison County; William C, assistant cashier of the Bethany Savings Bank ; Henry A., a farmer in Harrison County ; Lola, wife of John Ballard, of Bethany; Howard, of Daviess County, Missouri; Doctor Edward, a prominent physician at Pattonburg, Missouri, where he died in 1902 ; Harvey K., a Harrison County farmer and Gilbert, who practices law in partnership with his brother, George W., under the firm name of Barlow, Barlow & Kautz.

C. A. Stoner, the popular and efficient postmaster of Ridgeway, Missouri, is a native son of Han-ison County and a descendant of one of the early pioneer families of this section of Missouri. He was born in Trail Creek Township, May 2, 1877, a son of A. W. and Martha (Trainer) Stoner.

A. W. Stoner is now living retired in Ridgeway. He was bom in Ohio and came to Missouri with his mother and brothers and sisters when he was about eight years old, his father having died in Ohio. A. W. Stoner was one of a family of ten children, seven boys and three girls all

C. A. Stoner was one of a family of nine children born to his parents, six of whom are living, as follows : Mrs. Olive Smith, Herford, Texas ; Oscar H., Hollister, Missouri ; Mrs. Minnie McCall, Amoret, Missouri ; C. A., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. A. L. Pi-eston, Trail Creek Township, Harrison County; and Chester, Lamoni, Iowa.

C. A. Stoner was reared in Harrison County and educated in the public schools and the Stanberry Normal School. He then attended the University of Missouri and was successfully engaged in teaching for twelve years. He was superintendent of the Mount Moriah schools at Mount Moriah, Missouri, for two years. He was engaged in the grocery business from 1907 until 1914 and in 1915 he was appointed postmaster of Ridgeway and has capably filled that office until the present time. Mr. Stoner is a painstaking and obliging public official and the high class service of the Ridgeway post office is recognized and highly appreciated by the numerous patrons of the several rural routes out of this office as well as by the people of the town. Mr. Stoner is also an attorney, havmg read law, passed the bar examination and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Missouri.

On December 10, 1897, Mr. Stoner was married to Miss Carrie Pittman of Madison Township, Harrison County, Missouri, and a native of Monroe County, Ohio. She is a daughter of Sampson M. and Rebecca (Stine) Pittman, the former a native of West Virginia and the latter of Ohio. The Pittman family came to Missouri and settled in Marion Township, Harrison County, in 1887. The mother died in 1908 and the father now makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Stoner in Ridgeway. To Mr. and Mrs. Stoner have been born two children, Charm and Amber. Charm Stoner married Miss Myrtle Butler, a daughter of Fox Butler of Harrison County. She died March 25, 1921, leaving two children, Keith and Lavonia. Miss Amber Stoner was graduated from the Ridgeway High School, as was also her brother and she is now a student of the University of Missouri and a member of the junior class.

Mr. Stoner is a member of the Independent Oi'der of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America and the Brotherhood of American Yeoman. He is a member of the Christian Church and is president of the board of trustees. For a number of years Mr. Stoner has been active in Sunday School work and for the past ten years he has been superintendent. This is one of the best Sunday schools in northern Missouri and for the past six years has maintained an average of 100%. The average attendance is about 150. Mr. Stoner has only been absent a few times in the past ten years. He takes an active interest in pubhc affairs and for twelve years served as secretary of the school board and is now secretary of the chamber of commerce. He is one of Harrison County's public spirited and enterprising citizens.

Elbert S. Miner, vice president and general manager of the Miner and Frees Lumber Company with general offices at Ridgeway, Missouri, is one of the progressive young business men of Harrison County. He was born at Ridgeway, Missouri, September 11, 1885 and is a son of W. A. Miner, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.

Elbert S. Miner was reared to manhood at Ridgeway and attended the high school there and was graduated in the class of 1902. After working for one year in the Miner and Frees Lumber yard at Ridgeway, he entered the University of Missouri, at Columbia. He did one year's work in the academic department and then entered the law department and was graduated in the class of 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Law and was admitted to the Missouri State Bar.

After completing his course in the University, Mr. Miner returned to work in the lumber yard. He has kept in touch with the lumber business since boyhood, having worked in the Ridgeway yards during school vacations. After completing his course in the University, Mr. Miner began work in the Ridgeway yard of the company and later was made manager. He remained in that capacity until the death of E. M. Crossan, treasurer of the company, on December 27, 1914. The company was then operating nine lumber yards and at that time the management was consolidated under one office and W. A. Miner, father of Elbert F. Miner, was vicepresident and general manager and Elbert S. Miner became treasurer. He served in that capacity until the time of his father's death, March 22, 1920, when he succeeded his father as vice-president and general manager of the company.

The Miner Frees Lumber Company have their general offices at Ridgeway and do an extensive business and have a very complete system and thorough organization for handling the details of this enormous business. Their capital and surplus is $350,000. They handle lumber, brick, coal and cement and all kinds of building materials and have fourteen branch yards at the following places : Trenton, Missouri ; Brimson, Missouri ; Oilman City, Missouri; Spickard, Missouri; Coffey, Missouri; Mound City, Missouri; Oregon, Missouri; Bethany, Missouri; Blythedale, Missouri; King City, Missouri; Leon, Iowa; Ridgeway, Missouri; New Hampton, Missouri ; and Ford City, Missouri.

Mr. Miner is a Knight's Templar Mason and a member of the Shrine. He is a deacon in the First Christian Church and a member of the board of trustees. He is a Republican and takes an active part in his party organization and is township committeeman and treasurer of the Fourth Congressional District. He is vice-president of the First National Bank of Ridgeway and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. He is public spirited and enterprising and one of the substantial business men of Harrison County.

M, Y. Hillyard, of Jefferson Township is one of the honored pioneer settlers of Hamson County. He was born in Barber County, Virginia (now West Virginia) July 28, 1849, a son of Isaac and Sarah Jane (Yokem) Hillyard, both natives of Virginia and descendants of old English Colonial stock.

Isaac Hillyard v,as born in eastern Virginia and came west with his family at an early day, driving through from Virginia to Iowa with teams and wagons. They remained in Iowa one winter and in the spring came to Harrison County, Missouri, and settled in what is now Jefferson Township. He rented land for three yeai's and then bought a fann and built a house on the place during the Civil War. He was a miller, also, and operated a mill in Virginia before coming West. After coming to Jefferson Township he built a saw and grist mill about three-fourths of a mile from the present home of M. Y. Hillyard. He and his son M. Y., operated this mill for a number of years and in 1886 the dam was washed away by high water. As a relic of the old time grist mill, Mr. Hillyard, has placed the old buhr-stones which were used in that mill in the walk at his front gate. M. Y. Hillyard and his father operated in partnership during the life time of the latter. The operation of their grist mill, saw mill and farm were conducted in partnership and after the death of the father, M. Y. Hillyard carried on the business and has also operated a threshing machine. Mr. Hillyard owns 160 acres of valuable and well improved land and carries on general farming and stock raising. He is also one of the successful horticulturists of Harrison County. He has a splendid orchard of fourteen acres where he has been very successful in the production of apples, peaches and pears. During the season of 1919 he sold $800 worth of fruit from this orchard.

Isaac Hillyard and wife were the parents of nine children as follows : M. Y., the subject of this sketch; Prudence married John Neal, Blue Ridge, Missouri; Joe, Independence, Kansas; William, died in early manhood ; Dora, married John Dyer, and is now a widow living in Oklahoma ; Lewis, Jefferson Township ; Soloman, Jefferson Township ; Newton, Jefferson Township; and Rosa, married Charles Kembro, Blue Ridge, Missouri. The father died in 1891, aged sixty-six years, and the mother died in 1907.

M. Y. Hillyard was married January 15, 1870, to Mary Ann Whitman, a native of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Three children were born to them, as follows: Charles Monroe, lives near Coffey, Missouri; Fred, and Jesse both living in Jefferson Township. The mother died October 26, 1917, and Mr. Hillyard was afterward married to Mary T. Bell, of Jeffei'son Township; she died on June 2, 1821, aged sixty-six years, six months and twenty-seven days.

Mr. Hillyard is one of the few pioneers now living in Harrison County who has seen this county grov/ up, so to speak. When he was a boy Harrison County was practically in its primitive state and he remembers of having seen deer, wild turkeys and was familiar with the howl of the wolves in the early days here. He was not a hunter to any great extent although he has frequently killed wild turkeys.

Mr. Hillyard has always supported the policies and principles of the Democratic party and he is one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of Harrison Countv. He is a member of the Presbvterian Church.

J. P. Simpson, of Grant Township, is a Civil War veteran and a prominent pioneer settler of Harrison County. He was born in Franklin County, Missouri, January 28, 1842, a son of John and Sarah (Enloe) Simpson, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of North Carolina.

John Simpson came to Harrison County with his family in 1843. They settled on Big Creek, west of what is now the town of Blythedale. The father was a farmer and followed that vocation in Harrison County for some years when he sold his place here and removed to Iowa and died in Folk County, Iowa, in 1850. His wife died in 1848, when J. P. Simpson of this review was six years old.

J. P. Simpson was reared amidst the pioneer surroundings of the early days in Harrison County and was about nineteen years old when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted at Bethany, August 3, 1861, becoming a member of Company E, 23rd Missouri Infanti-y. Later he was transferred to Company A, of the same regiment. He served in the Army of the Cumberland and participated in a number of important battles of the Civil War as well as a number ot' skirmishes and minor engagements. He served under General Thomas and was at the battle of Shiloh and Chattanooga. He was with Sherman on his memorable march to the sea and participated in many engagements of that campaign. He was with his command in North Carolina when General Lee surrendered and the war closed. From North Carolina he marched through to Washington, D. C. and was in the Grand Review. At the expiration of his first temi of enlistment he reenlisted as a veteran volunteer at McManville, Tennessee. After the close of the war he received his honorable discharge at St. Louis and was mustered out of the United States service at Louisville, Kentucky. During his long and hazardous military service Mr. Simpson was fortunately never wounded nor taken prisoner.

After the close of the war, Mr. Simpson returned to Harrison County and for a time worked out by the month. Shortly afterwards he bought eighty acres of land which is a part of his present place. He went in debt for his first farm and bought inore land from time to time until he became the owner of 840 acres which constitutes the Simpson farm now. He carried on farming and stock raising and has met with success. He has experienced all the hard and good times of the past sixty years and in speaking of present day conditions, Mr. Simpson says, they are not so bad as he experienced on many former occasions. He remembers of having sold hogs for $1.7-5 per hundred and other farm produce in proportion.

Mr. Simpson was married September 12, 1867 to Miss Sarah Jane Gillispie, a native of Jackson County, Ohio and a mem.ber of a pioneer family of Harrison County. She died in 1883, leaving two sons, J. P. Jr. ; and J. N., who operates the home farm, the father having retired from active business about 1916.

J. P. Simpson, Jr., who operates a part of the home place was reared in Grant Township and has always been engaged in farming on the home place with his father. He was married to Miss Dora Lilly, a native of Harrison County and they have five children as follows : Jasper Roy, Garland Russell, Edith Erlene, Joseph Lee and William Howard.

J. N. Simpson, the youngest son of J. P. Simpson, Sr. was born on the home place in Grant Township, where he now resides, October 17, 1880. He was married March 1, 1902, to Miss Pear Slingerland, of Trail Creek Township and they have the following children; Oliver, Nort, Jr., and John.

G. T. Smothers, cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Ridgeway, is one of the progressive young bankers of Harrison County. He is a native of this county and was born April 11, 1896, a son of Daniel and Rosa B. (Glaze) Smothers, a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

G. T. Smothers was educated in the public schools and the Central Business College of Kansas City, Missouri. After completing his business course he accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Commercial State Bank of Ridgeway and was serving in that capacity when the United States entered the World War. On June 14, 1918, he enlisted in the United States army and was attached to the Medical Corps. He was in training at Columbia, Missouri, for two months when he was transferred to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. On June 13, 1919 he was transferred to United States General Hospital, No. 38, New York City. On July 19. 1919, he was transferred to Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he received his discharge July 21, 1919. He then returned to Ridgeway and became assistant cashier of the Commercial State Bank and served in that capacity until February 1, 1920 when he was elected cashier and since that time has filled that responsible position.

Mr. Smothers was married June 26, 1921 to Miss Dorothy Swartz, a native of New Hampton, Missouri. Mrs. Smothers was educated in the public schools of New Hampton, graduating from the high school and then attended Howard Payne College at Fayette, Missouri, where she specialized in music and English. She was a teacher in the Ridgeway High School prior to her marriage. She is a daughter of C. E. Swartz of New Hampton.

Lorraine Lodge, No. 128. He is a member of the Methodist Church and one of the substantial young men of this county. He is a close student of the intricate problems of finance and banking and by his courteous and obliging manner he has won the esteem and confidence of the business world.

The Commercial State Bank of Ridgeway is one of the substantial and well conducted financial institutions of Harrison County. It was organized with a capital stock of $15,000 in 1908. The surplus of the bank is $11,000.

The first officers of the Commercial State Bank were: C. T. Webb, president; J. N. Homan, vice-president; E. Scott, cashier; and Ora C. Scott, first assistant cashier. The present officers are: Daniel Smothers, president ; P. F. Emry, vice-president ; G. T. Smothers, cashier and D. A. Leazenby, assistant cashier. The directors are: Daniel Smothers, P. F. Emry, H. A. Rinehart, J. F. Milligan and C. T. Mitchell.

The bank building which is a two story brick structure, the lower floor which is occupied exclusively by the bank was built about the time the bank was organized. The furniture and fixtures are modern and afford every convenience to the patrons and oflficers of the bank and present a neat and rich appearance. This bank has been under capable management since its organization and has had a substantial growth.

J. H. Cunniflf, a prominent farmer and stockman of Jefferson Township, is a native of Harrison County and was born on the place where he now resides March 17, 1869. He is a son of John and Deborah (Leeds) Cunniff, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Ohio.

John Cunniff settled in Harrison County in 1866, reaching here May 3rd. He engaged in farming and stock raising in Jefferson Township and met with success. He was a substantial citizen and highly respected by all that knew him. He died May 28, 1905 at the age of seventy-one years and his wife died at the age of sixty-nine years. They were the parents of three children: J. H., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Emma SchrofF, who lives in Harrison County and Mrs. Mary Morris, Harrison County. By a former marriage of the mother to Mark Harris the following children were born: Mrs. Lydia Maniwaring, Acton, Montana; C. R. Harris, Cherokee, Iowa and F. L. Harris, who died at Blythedale, Missouri, in 1921.

cated in the district school. He has always followed farming and stock raising, he is the owner of 363 acres of well improved and valuable land, 160 acres of which is located in Grant Township twelve acres in Bethany Township and the balance upon which the residence is situated is in Jefferson Township. In 1918, Mr. Cunniff erected a large modern residence which is one of the fine homes of Harrison County.

On November 15, 1894, Mr. Cunniflf was married to Miss Bessie Buzzard, a native of Harrison County and a daughter of Isaiah Buzzard, now deceased and his widow lives in Bethany. To Mr. and Mrs. Cunniff were born five children as follows: 0. Avery, who entered the United States Army during the World War, July 24, 1918, was trained at Camp Funston, was a member of Company I, 70th Infantry, 10th Division, and was discharged February 6, 1919, married November 7, 1919 to Ethel Haselten of Blue Ridge, daughter of Bert and Minnie Haselton who now resides in St. Joseph; Gladys, married Ray McDaniel and they five south of Bethany; Blanche, Bethany ; Fay, a student and Nina. The mother of these children died March 10, 1908, and in January 24, 1914, Mr. Cunniff was married to Miss Ethel Tilley and they have one child, William Henry. She was bom in Cypress Township, a daughter of W. L. and Rose (Francisco) Tilley, both natives of Harrison County and now five in Bethany - she was reared in this county and educated in Bethany schools.

Mr. Cunniff is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Encampment and the Knights of Pythias. He is an entei-prising and progressive citizen and is widely and favorably known in Harrison County Mrs. Cunniff is a member of the Baptist Church.

Robert M. Ballard, a prominent farmer and stockman of Grant Township, is a native of Harrison County and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section of the state. He was bom in Cypress Township, August 15, 1871, a son of Boone and Caroline (Salmon) Ballard, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Marion County Ohio.

Boone Ballard was a pioneer settler of Harrison County. He came here in 1852 and settled on a farm seven miles south of Bethany, in Cypress Township and was a successful farmer and stock raiser. During the Civil War he served in the Union Amiy, being a member of the famous Merril Horse. He was first married to Anna Brown, and to that union the following children were born: William, who was a pioneer of Colorado and helped to erect the first cabins in that state and also was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in the same company with his father and now resides at Aspen, Colorado; Eliza, married G. W. Dort, and they both spent their lives at Washington, Kansas ; Mrs. Chloe Smith, died at Hutchinson, Kansas; Chapman, Taos, New Mexico; and Mrrs. Jane Johnson, Morganville, Kansas.

Robert M. Ballard is one of the following children bom to his father's second marriage: N. J., a merchant, Hutchinson, Kansas; John, Bethany, Missouri ; Boone, Seattle, Washington ; Anna, married H. P. Joseph ; Maxey, Colorado; Charles, Stockton, California; Robert M., the subject of this sketch; Henry, Bethany, Missouri; and Clara, married H. K. Barlow, Bethany, Missouri.

Robert M. Ballard was reared on the home place in Cypress Township and educated in the public schools. He engaged in farming and stock raising on his own account in early life and in 1909 bought his present farm in Grant Township. His place consists of 159 acres and is well improved, with a good residence and other farm buildings. It is one of the attractive places of Grant Township.

Mr. Ballard was married December 24, 1896 to Miss Lillie Stinson, a native of Harrison County and a member of one of the pioneer families of Harrison County. She was born in Washington Township and is a daughter of Peter D. and Mary (McLaughlin) Stinson, both natives of Ireland. The father was born in the western part of Ireland and the mother was a native of Belfast. They were both reared in Liverpool, England, and married in that city. They came to America in 1852 and after remaining a short time in Philadelphia, went to New Orleans and from there to Chicago. They then lived on a farm near Iowa City, Iowa for a time. In 1857, they came to Harrison County and were among the first settlers in Washington Township. The father learned the coopers trade in early life and worked at it some after coming to this county, but his principal occupation was farming and stock raising. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1890 he and his wife retired from the farm and removed to Bethany, where they spent the remainder of their lives. He died May 9, 190.3 and his wife died February 27, 1906. They were the parents of ten children as follows : Mrs. Elizabeth Peak, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Mrs. M. A. Bram, deceased; Mrs. Lucinda Heller, Kanona, Kansas; J. A. Kanona, Kansas; Mrs. Lettie Chivington, Dresden, Kansas; Mrs. Arabelle Willard, Norcatur, Kansas; W. H., Fairbury, Nebraska;

To Mr. and Mrs. Ballard have been born three children, as follows: Verbal S. resides at home with his parents; Lester R. died at the age of ten years ; and Charles B. died when four months old. Verbal S. Ballard was in the service during the World War and was taking a course of training at Columbia, Missouri, when the Armistice was signed.

Mr. Ballard is a Republican and is the present clerk and assessor of Grant Township. He is a progressive and enterprising citizen and fie and his family rank high as representive people of Harrison County.

J, P. Jackson, a progressive and well known farmer and stock man of Grant Tov^oiship, is a native of Iowa. He was born in Wapello, County, Iowa, August 1, 1856, a son of Aaron Jackson. His mother bore the maiden name of Lewis and his parents were both natives of Indiana. They came to Iowa in 1854 and after remaining two years in that state returned to Indiana when J. P. Jackson of this review was only six weeks old. They made the trip across the plains in a prairie schooner. The mother died' in Indiana in 1863 and the father in 1864. There was one other child in the family besides J. P., Jacob, who now lives in Indiana. Two sisters died when young.

J. P. Jackson was only seven years old when his mother died and his father died the following year. Thus he was left an orphan at a very early age. He was reared by an uncle in Indiana with whom he made his home until he was twenty-one years old. He received his early education in the public schools and later attended Purdue University where he took the agriculture course, working his own way through college. In 1890 he v/ent to Iowa where he was engaged in farming and stock raising until 1896. He then came to Harrison County and bought a farm just east of the town of Ridgeway, near the corporation limit. He owns 160 acres of valuable and well improved land where he carries on general farming and stock raising. Since coming here Mr. Jackson has made a number of substantial improvements. He has remodeled the residence and his place presents an attractive and well kept appearance and is one of the pretty places of Harrison County.

School, Teachers State College at Warrensburg, Missouri, the State University and is now a teacher; Mary, who is also a graduate of the same institutions and is a teacher; Keith, a graduate of the Ridgeway High School and the State Teachers College at WaiTensburg, is a manual training teacher, and Roger who is a graduate of the Ridgeway High School, and is now farming with his father.

Mr. Jackson is a Democrat and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a public spirited and substantial citizen and the Jackson family stands high in Harrison County.

Riley Hurst, a prominent farmer and stockman of Colfax Township, has land holdings of 475 acres and lives five and three-fourths miles south of Lamoni, Iowa on the Jefferson Highway where he has a fine modern residence.

Mr. Hurst was born a half mile south of his present home in Colfax Township, May 4, 1870. His parents were James A. and Susan C. (Justice) Hurst to whom thirteen children were born. Eight of the children are still living. James A. Hurst was born in Sangamon County, Illinois in 1834. and died in this county. September 8, 1908. He was a practical farmer all of his life. He came to Harrison County in 1865, with his mother, his wife and four children and located in Colfax Township. They drove through from Illinois with a team and settled in a country that was all unbroken prairie land. Mr. Hurst built a frame house, quite a rarity in those days, which was considered one of the fine homes of the township. The timbers for the house were hauled from Priceton, Missouri and the shingles were brought from Afton, Iowa. At that time the men who farmed were confronted by the necessity of breaking up the land and Mr. Hurst at once began this work, making as time went on, many improvements which enhanced the value of his land. Susan C. (Justice) Hurst was a native of Tennessee born in 1842. She was married in Illinois and died in Missouri in 1911.

Riley Hurst has followed the vocation of farming all of his life. He attended the district schools of the county and started out to work for himself when he was a young man. He had practical training for his life work on his father's farm of 400 acres and he at first rented land for farming. About thirty-five years ago, however, he bought 100 acres of land in Colfax Township to which he soon added the forty acres where he now lives. Later on, he added to his land as he could. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst have purchased land that now adjoin the holdings, until they have acquired the present large tract. Mr. Hurst does general farming and raises stock, in both of which pursuits he has achieved success.

Riley Hurst was married on June 5, 1900, to S. Eugenia Hill, born in Caldwell County, February 6, 1872, the daughter of Morris H. and Lucy (Davis) Hill, the former a native of Boone County and the latter born in Caldwell County. Mrs. Hill died in Caldwell County in 1882, and Mr. Hill brought his children to Han ison County in 1885, where he died in 1900, at the age of fifty-nine years. To the union of Riley and S. Eugenia (Hill) Hurst one child was born; Woodson R., married to Nellie Martin and living a mile east of his father's farm. To this union two children have been born.

Mr. Hurst is a democrat in i^olitics and his wife is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Hurst is one of Harrison County's enterprising citizens. His marked success has been achieved because of his business insight, his integrity, and his progressive methods in his line of work. Such men build up the community of which they are a part and well merit the esteem in which they are held.

In 1919, Mr. Hurst was appointed special road commissioner of the Jefferson Highway road district of Harrison County. He has always been a stiong advocate of good roads. ,

Dr. Lake Brewer a prominent physician of Harrison County, who is successfully engaged in the practice of her profession, at Ridgeway, is a native of Harrison County. She was born at Ridgeway, January 4, 1882, and is a daughter of George W. and Delia (Warner) Brewer, both natives of Ohio and descendants of old American families.

George W. Brewer was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 12, 1840 and was the eldest son of William and Nancy (Hanes) Brewer. He was a druggist. Prior to coming to Ridgeway, Missouri, he lived at Danville, Illinois. He died in New Orleans in 1898.

The Brewer family was founded in America in 1633, and the first record of them is found in New York. The name was originally Brower, and they came from Holland, and Jacobus Brower was the first member of the family to come to this country. (34)

Nancy Hanes Brewer, mother of George W. Brewer, was a daughter of Joseph Hanes, who was bom in 1750, and served in the American army with the rank of captain in the Revokitionary War.

George W. Brewer was married January 2, 1868, in Champaign County, Ilhnois, to Miss Delia Warner and three children were born to them as follows: Dr. Lake Brewer, the subject of this sketch; a son bom Januaiy 13, 1883, died in infancy; and a daughter. Leaf, born November 24, 1886.

Delia Warner Brewer was born at Wooster, Ohio, in 1850, and is a daughter of Amasa and Ellsie Ann (Lowery) Warner. The Warner family date back to a very early day, in the settlement of New England. Amasa Warner, Doctor Brewer's grandfather was born in North Hampton County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Nathan Warner, who was born in Dutchess County, New York, October 31, 1765. and died in Ohio. Nathan Warner was a son of Nathan Warner, who was bom in Windhan, Connecticut, in 1744. He was a son of Daniel Warner, who was born in Windhan, Connecticut, in 1714. Daniel Warner was a son of Ichabod, who was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1684. He was a son of Isaac Warner, who was born in 1645, at Northfield, Massachusetts, and Isaac was a son of Andrew Warner, who was the founder of the Warner family in this country. The first mention that is found of Andrew Warner, appears in the town records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which at that time was known as "Newtowne". On January 7, 1633, and subsequent dates, the name of Andrew Warner, frequently appears. He was born in Essex County, England, in 1595, and probably came to New England in 1629. He was the son of John Warner, a prominent resident of Essex County, England.

Dr. Lake Brewer was reared in Ridgeway and attended the public schools here and was graduated from the high school in the class of 1899. This was the third class which was graduated from the Ridgeway High School. Miss Brewer, then entered the University of Missouri, at Columbia and was graduated in the class of 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and at the same time received a teachers life certificate. She afterwards entered the Medical Department and was graduated in 1908, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine and immediately engaged in the practice of her profession at Ridgeway and has built up a large practice. She is an able physician and is a close student of the advance made in the great science of medicine.

Doctor Brewer is a Republican and was a delegate at the Republican state convention in 1920. She is a member of the Methodist Church, and holds membership in the Yoemen, P. E. 0., and the Daughters of 1812. She is a member of the County, State and American Medical Association.

C. C. Fordyce, of Grant Township has been prominently identified with the development of Harrison County in various ways for a number of years. He was born near Dallas, West Virginia, July 7, 1853, a son of John and Margaret Ann (Cameron) Fordyce.

John Fordyce was a native of Stubenville, Ohio, and a son of pioneer parents of that state. Margaret Ann Cameron was a native of Scotland and came to America with her parents who returned to their native land some time after her marriage to John Fordyce. The Fordyce family came west in 1875 and settled in Iowa. The father died in Harrison County, Missouri. The mother died in Taylor County, Iowa. They were the parents of six children: Mrs. Elizabeth Potter, Bethany, Missouri; Mrs. Margaret McConnell, Washington County Pennsylvania; Mrs. Caroline Power, Spirit Lake, Iowa; C. C, the subject of this sketch; George, deceased and Mrs. Lou Johnson, who lives near Bedford, Iowa.

C. C. Fordyce was educated in the public schools and when about seventeen years old began working out by the month. About two years later he came to Missouri, landing at Chillicothe, and walked from there to Bethany, a distance of about fifty miles in one day. When he came to Harrison County, Mr. Fordyce had $305.00. He worked one year for eighteen dollars per month and then returned to Pennsylvania for a short time and came back to Harrison County in the spring of 1875 and was married. He farmed and rented land for two years when his wife was given eighty acres of land by her father. Later they sold that fann and bought 160 acres in Trail Creek Township. Later Mr. Fordyce sold that place at a profit of $2,000.00. He then bought a farm in Grant Township, two miles northeast of his present home and in 1889, bought the eighty upon which his residence is located. He bought more land from time to time and is now the owner of 766 acres besides some timber land. Mr. Fordyce was extensively engaged in farming and stock raising for a number of years and met with success. During recent years he has rented his land to his sons who are now successfully operating it.

In addition to his farming operations, Mr. Fordyce has been and is still interested in a number of other enterpi'ises in which he has investments. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Ridgeway, and served as president of that institution for eleven years.

Mr. Fordyce was married April 21, 1875, to Miss Ida F. Boyce, a native of Harrison County, Missouri. She was born near Blue Ridge, and was a daughter of Daniel D. Boyce, a pioneer settler of Harrison County, who came here about 1855. He served as lieutenant in the Union Army during the Civil War and for many years was prominent in Harrison County. He served as county judge and held various other offices. To Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce were bom the following children: Gertrude, married C. E. Smith, Bethany Township; Bessie, married R. D. Swain, Grant Township ; Daniel, Oswego, Kansas ; Orrie, a farmer in Sherman Township ; Roy, Bethany, Missouri; Ralph, Grant Township; and Lela, married Clifford Polley, Sherman Township. There are fourteen grandchildren in the Fordyce family.

Mr. Fordj'ce is a Republican and has held a number of local offices and served as justice of the peace for four years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Church and are among the highly respected and dependable citizens of Harrison County.

H. J. Hallock, an enterprising and progressive farmer of Grant Township is a native son of Harrison County. He was born in Bethany Township, August 20, 1867, a son of Uriah and Electa (Fuller) Hallock, early settlers in Harrison County.

Uriah Hallock was a native of Ohio and when a young man came west and settled in Appanoose, County, Iowa. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in an Iowa regiment. He participated in a number of engagements and was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, which practically disabled him for life. A minnie ball passed through his forearm and through his arm between the shoulder and elbow and through his side. Shortly after the war he came to Harrison County and settled east of Bethany. Here he was engaged in farming and stock raising for a number of years. He always took a prominent part in public affairs and held local office of various kind. He served as justice of the peace. He died September 13, 1918, at the age of seventy-six years and his wife departed this life September 12, 1917 and their remains are buried in the

Dale Cemetery. They were the parents of four children, as follows : B. C, who lives in Grant Township; John, lives near the old home in Bethany, Township ; and Orrie, who lives on the old home place and H. J., the subject of this sketch who is the oldest of the family. The mother was first married to Jeff Dale, who was a very early pioneer settler of Harrison County and the following children were born to them: Mrs. Victoria Foster, of Ridgeway, Missouri; and S. A. Dale, a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

H. J. Hallock was reared on the home place and educated in the public schools and the Stanbery Normal School at Stanbery, Missouri. He taught school for about five years and when he was twenty-five years old he engaged in farming for himself. He first bought 120 acres of land and has added to that from time to time until he is now the owner of four hundred acres of valuable and productive land. His place is exceptionally improved and under a high state of cultivation. He carries on general farming and stock raising and is specializing in Whitefaced cattle and now has about thirty Whitefaced cows. For a number of years he was an extensive hog raiser. The Hallock home is modern and up to date in every particular being lighted by a private plant and Mr. Hallock has also installed a complete water system. The other buildings about the place are conviently arranged and well kept and altogether the farm presents a very attractive appearance.

Mr. Hallock was married April 6, 1893 to Miss Dora Fransham, of Ridgeway, Missouri. She is a daughter of Charles Fransham who conducted a lumber business at Ridgeway, Missouri for a number of years. He was a native of England and he and his wife are both now deceased.

George S. Bridges, a well known and successful farmer and stockman who operates a farm in Marion Township and resides in Eagleville, is a native of Harrison County and a descendant of early pioneers of this section of the state. He was born in Marion Township, November 2, 1864, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Patton) Bridges.

James Bridges was a native of Illinois and came to Harrison County with his parents at a very early date. He was a son of Charles Bridges, who settled in Marion Township upon coming to this county, and here he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives.

James JBridges followed farming and stock raising in Marion Township, where he and his wife both spent their lives and are buried at the Masonic Cemetery, at Eagleville. Elizabeth (Patton) Bridges was a daughter of Thomas Patton, who settled in Marion Township, and spent the remainder of his life there. Thomas Patton homsteaded government land in that township and followed farming and stock raising throughout his active career. His son, George Patton served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

To James and Elizabeth (Patton) Bridges were born six children, three of whom are living as follows : Mrs. Anna Montgomery, Eagleville, Missouri; George S., the subject of this sketch and Charles, county clerk of Harrison County, resides at Bethany.

George S. Bridges was reared in Marion Township and attended the District No. 5 School. He has made farming and stock raising his chief occupation and since early life has been successfully engaged in that business. He owns a farm of seventy-three acres in Marion Township, which is a valuable and well improved place. He carries on general farming and stock raising and makes a specialty of pure bred Shorthorn cattle. His farm is located a short distance from Eagleville and he makes his home in town where he has a nice residence.

Mr. Bridges is a Republican and a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He is one of the dependable citizens of Harrison County and the Bridges family ranks with the old and honorable families of Harrison County.

G. D. Cramer, a prominent hardware and implement dealer at Eagleville, is a native of Harrison County. He was born at Eagleville, October 6, 1871, a son of Andrew and Louisa (Manor) Cramer, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Canada.

Andrew Cramer came to the United States when he was twentyseven years old and settled in Wisconsin where he was married. In 1868 he came to Harrison County, Missouri and located at Eagleville. He was a shoemaker by trade and worked at his trade here until 1886. He then engaged in partnership with his oldest son, A. E. Cramer, and they were engaged in the mercantile business until the time of the father's death. He died in 1896 at the age of sixty-three years, and his widow now resides at Eagleville at the age of seventy-eight years.

dren as follows: A. E., who was in business at Eagleville with his father for a number of years, now lives at Moline, Illinois ; J. F., died in Chariton County, Missouri, at the age of fifty-three years; and G. D., the subject of this sketch.

G. D. Cramer was reared at Eagleville and educated in the public schools of that place and the National Business College at Kansas City, Missouri. He began his mercantile career clerking in the store at Eagleville, which was conducted by his father and brother. In February, 1894, he engaged in the hardware business for himself at Eagleville. He added a harness department in 1900 and in 1906 he added implements. Mr. Cramer does an extensive business. His is the only hardware and implement store in Eagleville and his business extends over a large scope of rich farm territory and by his straight forward methods as a dealer he has built up a large trade. His hardware and implement stores occupy separate buildings. The hardware store has a frontage of twenty-seven feet and is ninety-six feet deep and the implement store has a frontage of fifty feet and is eighty feet deep.

Mr. Cramer was married October 1, 1893 to Miss Lena Martin, who is also a native of Harrison County and a daughter of William Martin, an early settler here. To Mr. and Mrs. Cramer have been born three children: Frank, who assists his father in the business at Eagleville; Ruth, married Carl G. Jones and they reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Helen who is a student in the local school.

Mr. Cramer belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and is a Republican. He is one of the dependable citizens of Harrison County and is widely and favorably known.

G. G. Collins, a prominent farmer and stockman of Trail Creek Township is one of the widely and favorably known citizens of Harrison County. He was born in Hancock County, Indiana, April 13, 1861 and came to Harrison County, Missouri, with his parents when he was five years old. He is a son of T. W. and Nancy (Bussell) Collins.

T. W. Collins was a native of Ohio and his wife of North Carolina. They removed from Indiana to Harrison County in 1866, driving through with teams and wagons. They settled on a farm in Trail Creek Township just southwest of Mount Moriah. Here the father spent his life and is now deceased and the mother died in February, 1921, at the advanced age of eighty-five years.

G. G. Collins has one living sister, Mattie, now the wife of N. N. Stoughton, and they reside at Mount Moriah. G. G. Collins was reared to manhood on the home place in Trail Creek Township and received his education in the public schools. He began farming for himself when he was twenty-three years old and shortly aftei'wards bought eighty acres of land four miles west of Mount Moriah. Later he sold that and in March, 1898 bought 240 acres of land which is located one and one-half miles south of Mount Moriah. This is one of the valuable farms of Trail Creek Township and is well improved with a good residence and other farm buildings. Mr. Collins carries on general farming and stock raising and specializes in pure blood Durham cattle of which he has a valuable herd.

Mr. Collins was married in 1884 to Miss Vinnie Stoughton, of Trail Creek Township and a native of Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Collins have been born four children as follow: Mona and Cecil who reside at home; Nat, a farmer and stockman of Trail Creek Township and Cappie at home. The wife and mother died January 14, 1916.

Mr. Collins has been a life long Democrat and is a member of the Methodist Church. He is one of the progressive citizens of Harrison County and is recognized as a dependable citizen.

Winfield H. Scott, one of the prominent citizens of Harrison County and a well known merchant of Blythedale, has been connected with mercantile pursuits for practically all of his life. He has served in various capacities in the business word and has been a marked success in every line of work in which he has engaged.

Winfield H. Scott was born at Albany, Indiana, May 24, 1862, the son of Herbert and Nancy (McKinley) Scott who were the parents of fifteen children, Winfield H. being the sixth child. The fourteenth child, Z. E. Scott, is the superintendent of Public Schools at Louisville, Kentucky and was one of the lecturers at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City in August, 1921. Herbert Scott was born in Virginia, 1829. When he was a young man he went to New Albany, Indiana where he was a farmer, and a teacher in the district schools. He also preached at times in the Christian Church of which organization he was a staunch supporter, acting as the president of the Southern Indiana District of the Christian Church. His wile, Nancy (McKinley) Scott was born at Borden, Indiana in 1835. She was a fourth cousin of ex-president McKinley. The Scotts were sturdy people, good citizens and standing high in the esteem of their community. Both Mr. and Mrs. Scott died at New Albany, Indiana in 1907.

W. H. Scott was reared on a farm in Floyd County, Indiana and was educated in the public schools of New Albany, where he taught for one year. In 1884 he came to Leon, Iowa and engaged in teaching until 1887, when he accepted a position as clerk in the Young Brothers General Merchandise store at Blythedale.

In 1891, he bought a general store in partnership with John E. Gee. This partnership continued for three years when Mr. Scott purchased his partner's interest and the store became known as the W. H. Scott and Company firm. The title later changed to the Scott Mercantile Company and was conducted by J. F. Scott, a brother of Win field H. Scott. W. H. Scott began to buy and sell general merchandise stores at various places in the United States handling in all, seventy-five stocks of goods during this time. He remained on the road for sixteen years conducting a profitable business. In 1919 he became a manager of the Leader Department Store in St. Joseph and remained there for one and one-half years. In January, 1921, he returned to Blythedale to continue the work of the Scott Mercantile Company of which he has complete control. The store is housed in a large building and Mr. Scott carries a full line of groceries, hardware, dry-goods, and shoes.

Winfield H. Scott was married February 19, 1885, to Mary Belle McGrew, born at Macomb, Illinois, the daughter of J. A. and Sarah A. (Jones) McGrew, both deceased. To this union one daughter, Maleta, was born in 1897. She died in 1901, and during that same year Mr. and Mrs. Scott adopted a daughter, Lalia Kent. They educated their adopted daughter and she graduated from the State Normal at Emporia, Kansas, afterwards teaching school for a number of years. She is now the wife of L. H. Stubbs of Tela, Honduras where Mr. Stubbs is the manager of a banana plantation. Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs have one child, a son named Scott in honor of the subject of this review.

Mr. Scott is identified with the democratic part in politics and is a member of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the following lodges: Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias, and the

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He served as the township assessor for six years to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. Mr. Scott is a man whose versatility, energy and progressive business methods make lum an asset to a communtiy, where he can always be relied upon to further the cause of civic interests and improvements.

W. P. Chambers the capable and well known cashier of the Bank of Mount Moriah, has served in his present position since this bank was organized in 1898, and is the oldest bank cashier of Harrison County, in years of service. Mr. Chambers is a member of one of the pioneer famihes of Harrison County. He was born at Mount Moriah, Januarj' 8, 1866, and is a son of James T. and Timander (Reynolds) Chambers. His mother died when he was thirteen years old and his father now lives at Ridgeway, Missouri. A sketch of him appears in this volume.

W. P. Chambers was reared at Mount Moriah and received his education in the public schools there. He learned the l^arbers trade early in life and followed that vocation at Mount Moriah for ten years. When the bank of Mount Moriah was organized he was elected cashier and has held that ijosition continously for the past fwenty-three years.

The bank of Mount Moriah was organized May 28, 1898 by the following gentlemen: John Norton, L. H. Bussell, J. J. Ross, the Miner Brothers, B. M. Frees, N. N. Stoughton, Thomas Gray, W. P. Chambers, and J. S. Twadell.

The first officers of the bank were : W. P. Chambers, cashier ; Thomas Gray, president; and L. H. Bussell, vice-president. L. H. Bussell, who is now president of the bank succeeded Thomas Gray to the presidency in 1909. At that time J. S. Twadell, became vice-president and served until January 1, 1921, when he was succeeded by E. A. Miner, the present vicepresident.

The bank was organized with a capital stock of .$10,000, which was increased to $20,000 later. It is one of the prosperous financial institutions of Harrison County and has had a substantial growth from the beginning. The present resources are about $112,000. The bank owns its own building.

W. P. Chambers is interested in other enterprises in Mount Moriah in addition to banking. He is a owner of the Chambers Block which is a substantial brick building which was built in 1919 and is occupied by a

Mr. Chambers was married April 5, 1891, to Miss Alice Ross, o Trail Creek Township. She is a daughter of James and Margaret (Lloyd) Ross. James Ross was born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 21, 1841, and died in Trail Creek Township, May 15, 1921. He always followed farming and stock raising. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army and was a member of Company D, 23rd Regiment, Missouri Infantry. He was a great hunter and fisher and in the early days in this section he killed a great many deer and wild turkeys. His wife was born at Warsaw, Missouri. Mrs. Chambers has one sister, Zelpha, the wife of L. H. Bussell, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. Chambers has been born one son, Arthur, who married Esther Gathman. Mr. Chambers is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and belongs to the Baptist Church. He has served as tax collector for the past eighteen years and served on the school board for several terms. He is a progressive and public spirited citizen and is widly and favorably known in northern Missouri.

W. S. Williams, who is the owner of one of the attractive places of Harrison County, close to Ridgeway is one of the substantial and well known farmers and stockmen of this county. He was born in Monroe County, Indiana, July 14, 1863, a son of Mathew and Elizabeth (Bails) Williams, both natives of Indiana.

The Williams family came from Indiana to Missouri in 1879. The father drove through from Indiana to Harrison County in the fall of the year and the following spring the family came by rail. They settled in the southern part of Grant Township and later settled on a farm near Brooklyn, where the father was engaged in farming and stock raising during the remainder of his life. He died September 18, 1911. His wafe died March 20, 1901 and their remains are buried in the Kirkley Cemetery. They were the parents of nine children, six of whom are living as follows: W. S., the subject of this sketch; Charles, lives in California; Isaac, Grant Township ; Wiley, Horton, Kansas ; James P. died in Colorado in 1917 and Mattie married Ed. Wolcotte, Walla Walla, Washington.

years old he went to Lane County, Kansas and homesteaded a farm and after remaining there five years and having proved up on his. claim he returned to Harrison County and was married. He began farming rented land in Grant Township and shortly afterwards bought a farm in Jefferson Township about one and one-half miles south of Brooklyn. He operated that farm about fourteen years when he sold it and bought 160 acres in Trail Creek Township. He was successfully engaged in farming and stock raising there until 1920, when he sold that and bought his present place of eighty-one acres adjoining Ridgeway on the east in Grant Township. This is a valuable farm and well located. Mr. Williams carries on general farming and stock raising and is recognized as one of the successful men of Harrison County.

January 26, 1891, Mr. Williams was married to Leatha Parrish, a native of Illinois. She is a daughter of Joseph Parrish, who was an early settler in Grant Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams have been born the following children: Mrs. Pearl Guttridge. Union TowTiship; Mrs. Altha Burke, Howell County, Missouri; Mrs. Belle Beaver, Grant Township; Delia; W. S., Jr.; and Bernice, residing at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are rearing Ruth Parrish who is a niece of Mrs. Williams, her brother's child.

Mr. Williams is a Republican and belongs to the Modern Woodman of America Lodge. He is a public spirited and entei-prising citizen and the Williams family are among the representative people of Harrison County.

Dr. George W. Sellers, a well known physician and surgeon who began the practice of his profession in Hari'ison County at an early day is now living retired at Mount Moriah. He was born in Green County, Ohio, July 15, 1839, a son of Daniel and Mary (Minic) Sellers, both natives of Pennsylvania.

In 1840, when Doctor Sellers was less than a year old the family came West and settled in Peoria County, Illinois. In 1856 they came to Harrison County and settled seven miles north of Bethany, in what is now Jefferson Township. The mother homesteaded government land here and the father went to the Pacific coast where he remained a number of years and returned to Indiana, where he died. The mother died in Harrison County and is buried at Mount Moriah. Of the children born to them three are now living as follows: Joseph, Ponca City, Oklahoma; Mrs. M.

Dr. George W. Sellers was thrown upon his own resources at an early age. He obtained what education he could in the common schools whicli he supplemented by self study. He was always ambitious and a close student and after acquiring a good general education, he entered the American Medical College at St. Louis where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1878. Shortly after graduating he engaged in the practice of his profession in Mount Moriah. He practiced over a large scope of territory during the early days when the roads were bad and in many instances there were no roads at all. He endured all the hardships incident to the life of the pioneer doctor. He traveled much on horseback, responding to calls at all times of night and day and during all manner of weather conditions. He had a large practice and was one of the most successful doctors of Harrison County. For a number of years his son, Dr. C. J. Sellers, practiced in partnership with him. About live years ago on account of failing health he retired from the practice and since that time he has lived retired in Mount Moriah, his son continuing the practice alone.

Doctor Sellers was married Jub^ 21, 1861, to Catharine Eades, a native of Crab Orchard, Kentucky. To Doctor and Mrs. Sellers have been born six children, three of whom are living as follows: Evyline, married Charles Webb, Bethany, Missouri ; Dr. Charles J., a sketch of whom appears in this volume and Cora A., married Dr. John T. Price, of Sham- I'ock, Oklahoma.

Doctor Sellers is a Democrat and takes a commendable interest in public affairs. He was the first constable of Jefferson Township but since that time has refused to accept public office. He is a member of the Christian Church and a highly esteemed citizen of the county.

Dr. C. J. Sellers, a prominent and successful physician of Mount Moriah, Missouri, is a native of Harrison County. He was bom about a half a mile south of Lorraine, June 24, 1871, and is a son of Dr. George W. Sellers, one of Harrison County's pioneer physicians, who is now living retired at Mount Moriah after a long and successful professional career. A sketch of Dr. George W. Sellers appears in this volume.

Dr. C. J. Sellers was reared in Harrison County and was educated in the public schools at Mount Moriah and Edenburg College and the Chillacothe Normal School. He then entered the American Medical College,

Upon completing his medical course. Doctor Sellers engaged in the practice with his father and has constantly been engaged in the practice here ever since with the exception of the years of 1906-1907, when he was away on account of his wife's health. He and his father practiced together for a number of years but on account of his advanced age and failing health, the father gradually withdrew from the practice and for the past five years Dr. C. J. Sellers has practiced alone. He is the only physician at Mount Moriah and has a very large practice. He is an able physician and surgeon and has met with uniform success in his professional work.