Jackson County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 2 of 12)

O. P. W. Bailey

Judge of the Probate Court. The subject of this sketch stands prominent among the influential men of this city, and has gained for himself a wide and honorable reputation. He was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, where he lived' and received a liberal education. Arriving at the age of seventeen years he removed with his parents to Jackson county, Missouri, in 1852, and here accepted a position in the clerk's office, holding it for a term of one year. After this he was appointed United States Deputy Marshal for the western district of Missouri, which office he held for a period of two years. In 1858, he was elected to the office of county treasurer, filling it two years when he resigned, and at the death of the acting sheriff .was appointed to fill the unexpired term, holding the office until - 1862. Then he resigned and went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He returned to his former home and in 1866 was elected to the office of sheriff, which he held for two terms of two years each, and in the fall of 1880 was elected judge of the probate court, of Jackson county, which office he now holds. On the 20th day of April 1859, he was married to Miss Frances A. Hall, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Their family consists of three children : Fanny A., Ella H. and Charley H.

Peter Baker

Homeopathic physician. Was born in Baltimore, Maryland, April 6th, 1818 where he was educated. He began the study of medicine in 1841, and in 1844 went to Memphis, Tenn., where he practiced medicine six or seven years. He removed to Warsaw, 111., in 1854, and engaged in the mercantile business until 1 86 1, when he again resumed the study and practice of his profession, and in 1863 graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. After graduating, he went to White Water, Wisconsin, but left this place in 1 864 and went to Monmouth, III, where he settled and practiced until the spring of 1868. In the fall of 1867 he met with a severe accident, being thrown from his buggy, dislocating his ankle and fracturing his leg. He being the only homeopathic physician in the place, his services were in demand, and he was called on before being fully recovered. 'He imprudently went and attended to the case, which exposure caused the erysipelas to set in. To get rest and opportunity to recover, he made a trip to Kansas City; and while there was so favorably impressed with the future progress and growth of the place, that he concluded to permanently locate in the city. He left a large city and country practice at Monmouth for an exclusive city practice at a smaller place. In his anticipation of the growth of Kansas City and extensive practice, he has not been disappointed. He is the oldest established homeopathic physician in the city and has a very large practice. December 24th, 1845, he married Miss Rebecca A. Wiley, of Memphis, Tenn., by whom he has two children: Charles E., (a farmer, near Wyandott,) and Myra, (wife of W. E. Winner, of Kansas City). Himself and wife are members of the Unitarian Church. He was at one time the president of the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical Society, and is a member of the Western institute of Homeopathy, and of the Western Academy of Homeopathy.

B. J. Baker

Tin and sheet-iron works. Was born in London, July 28, 1846, and was there reared and educated. When fifteen and a half years old he commenced serving an apprenticeship to the trade of tin and sheet-iron worker, continuing until twenty-one. He was engaged in working in London for two years and then commenced traveling through Europe, following his occupation in different cities. Soon afterward he came to America, landing in New York, where he remained but a short time, then coming to St. Louis. For six months was employed in different shops in that city and succeeded in saving some money, which he invested in a team and a wagon and commenced traveling throughout Iowa and northern Missouri. This he followed for several years, principally along the lines of railroads. During our severe winter he made headquarters at Des Moines, and at another time at Ames, in Story county. In the spring of 1880 Mr. Baker arrived in Kansas City, purchased a set of tinner's tools and opened a shop in the eastern part of the city, which he still operates. He has worked up a large trade in his line and devotes himself earnestly and faithfully to his work.

H. E. Barker

H. E. BARKER, Proprietor of Eastern Marble Works. Was born in Richmond, Province of Quebec, Canada, October 6, 1856, and there was reared. Received his education partly in the schools of that city and afterward attended the High school in Montreal. When sixteen years of age he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of marble cutter, with Mr. G. Z. Hill, serving under him for three years. Then went to Montreal, worked at his trade there one year and then came to Kansas City, being employed under J. P. Daley for three years. In 1880 he started in business for himself and is very successful, having few equals. He is a fine workman, and at the State Fair of Missouri in 1879, received the first specimen for the best specimen of marble work. Though but a young man he has built up a fine

M. H. Bartlett

Livery-man. Was born in Jefferson county, New York, in 1825, and resided there until he reached his majority. His early education was received in the common schools of his neighborhood, after which he removed to Illinois in 1854. While living in Troy, N. Y., he learned the trade of carriage trimmer, and was there married in 1 84 1 to Miss Eliza Burns of that place. Mr. Bartlett remained in Illinois for two years and in 1857 came to Kansas City, soon after engaging in the carriage business. Afterward commenced the grocery business, and soon embarked in his present business, in which he has been successful. While a resident of Liberty, Clay county, Mo., our subject was appointed to the office of deputy sheriff, holding it for two years and held the same office here. They have had two children.

W. R. Bernard

Abstract and real estate dealer. Was born in Augusta county, Virginia, December 8, 1823, and came with his parents to Missouri in 1839, settling in Callaway county. There he lived with them until 1844. He received his education in the common schools of Virginia and Missouri, and studied geological surveying by field practice in the summer season, and was instructed by Dr. C. T. Jackson, of Boston, and C. C. Douglas, of Detroit, during the winter months. In 1844 he went to the copper regions in the northern peninsula of Michigan as second assistant of the United States geological survey, and in 1846 and 1847 was employed by the Boston Mining Company. In the summer of 1847 he came to Jackson county and settled at Westport in the fall of that year, and engaged in geoeral mercantile business with Alberg G. Boone, the nam? of the firm being Boone & Bernard. Their sales were confined mostly to the Indian traders of the border and Rocky Mountains and New Mexico. In the spring of 1848 the firm of Boone & Bernard received the first large consignment of New Mexican goods, it being to Messervy & Webb, of Santa Fe, requiring sixty-three wagons drawn by six yoke of cattle each, and taking six months to make the round trip. By their promptness and business management they induced many heavy Mexican traders to ship through them, the most important being Jose Chavis, Manuel Arraijo and the Pereas, and these were soon followed by the great overland traveler F. X. Aubry, a freighter and trader. In 1853 Mr. Boone having retired from the firm, Col. Charles E. Kearney became connected with Mr. Bernard, and the firm was changed to Kearney & Bernard, and they extended their trade to Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico. In 1856 Col. Kearney retired, when a brother, J. Bernard, of Baltimore, became connected with him. The business had so increased that their sales amounted to $250,000 yearly. In i860 their books show that they hadoutfitted and started for other parties to Mexico and beyond, 2 r,ooo freighting wagons, called prairie schooners. By the breaking out of the war in 186 1 the trade was destroyed, and they were obliged to close their freighting and commission business. During the war and up to 1873 he was engaged in overland transportation, transporting army camps and Indian supplies for the Government to Fort Union, in New Mexico, and to Forts Doragi, Sill and Laramie, and from then until 1879 he mined in Colorado, and was also interested in mines in Joplin, Missouri. He still resides in Westport on the grounds from which he cut the hazel brush in 1850. He established himself in the abstract business in Kansas City in 1879. I" 1^65 he organized the private bank of Bernard & Mastin, of Kansas City, which afterward became the Mastin Bank, he retiring in 1867. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Margaret Buckner, daughter of Col. Robert R. Buckner, of Callaway county, Missouri, whom he married in 1850, and who died the following year. He married his second wife. Miss Susan Harris, of Westport, in 1853, by whom he has two daughters: Nettie, born

John Bauerlein

Was born in Hollfield, Bavaria, July 10, 1828, and when nineteen he came with his parents to the United States, landing in Baltimore in July, 1847. After a visit with friends in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, they went to St. Louis, Missouri, and settled. He received only an elementary education in the old country, and after arriving at St. Louis attended the St. Mary's Seminary, at Barnes, in order to famiharize himself with the English language. Also served an apprenticeship at boot and shoe making. October 20, 1853, he married Miss Barbara Friederitze, of St. Louis, and in March, 1854, he came to Kansas City and established himself in the boot and shoe business, opening his shop on the levee in a building near where the Gillis house now stands. Two years after he removed to the corner of Main and Fifth streets, which he purchased and improved, where Hammerslough's clothing house now is. Selling that place in May, 1857, he bought on the corner of Sixth street and Grand avenue, where he lived and carried on the grocery business from 1869 to 1880. He has been successful in business in Kansas City, and is now enjoying the fruits of his industry and thrift. Has a neat residence on Harrison street in the midst of an interesting family : James (an engraver, with Cady & Olmstead, with whom he has been eight years), Frank (attending college at Columbia, Missouri), Louis (clerk and collector in Whipple, Cowherd & Co.'s bank), and Anna.

William F. Bayne

Was born in Roanoke county, Virginia, in 1816, and when very small was taken by his father to Louisville, Kentucky. There he was reared, his educational advantages having been such as could be obtained from the common country schools. In 1843 he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, being among the earliest settlers of the county, and has made his home hereabouts since that time. After arriving he engaged in farming, and continued to follow it until a few years ago. Since that time he has been engaged in contracting for the city and private individuals. Mr. Bayne was married in January, 1844, to Miss Lucy M. Hudgens, a native of Cumberland county, Virginia, born in May, 181 8. They have two children living : Lucy C. and Julia A. Two are deceased : Mary J. and James D.

Buyer for Plankinton & Armours. Was born in Morgan county, 111., April 14, 1846, and was there reared and educated in the common schools. In 1863 he entered the Western University, of Bloomington, 111., graduating June 21, 1867. While in his native county, was engaged in the stock business, principally feeding. October 9, 187 1, he came to Kansas City, where he has since been engaged in the live stock trade, except the winter of 1876-7, which he spent in St. Louis and Chicago. Was married to Mrs. Maggie G. Scott (Gentry), of Boyle county, Kentucky.

Valentine Bicking

Merchant tailor. Was born in the Province of Nassua, Prussia, February 14,1833. When thirteen years of age he went to the city of Maintz, where he learned his trade of tailoring, and where he remained until he was nineteen, when he came to the United States, arriving in New Orleans on Christmas day of 1851. Shortly after he went to Indianola, Texas, and from there to San Antonia, by ox team, in company with friends who came with him from Prussia; there engaged in his business as a tailor, remaining until 1853, when he returned to New Orleans. He worked at his trade in that city and afterward in Louisville, Ky. , Florence, Ala., Tuscumbia and Pocahontas, Miss., and Memphis, Tenn. , until 1855, when he went to Philadelphia and worked until 1863; then came to Kansas City, and was employed as foreman in the tailoring department of Louis Hammerslough's house, being with him until 1867, when he established himself in his present business, which compels him to employ twenty-iive hands. In 1858 he married Miss Jane Crogan, of Philadelphia; she died April 10, 1880.

J. A. Bent

Attorney at law. Was born in West Virginia, July 15, 1853, and there was reared and attended school until fifteen years old. At this early age he started in business for himself and since then has been his own support. About 1868 he came to Kansas, and took charge of a farm for his brother, and two years afterward entered the academy at Topeka. After completing his education there, he entered college, and remained therein two years. At the age of twenty-two commenced the study of law with Crumrine & Vance, of Topeka, with whom he remained one year and then moved to Atchison ; continued there for one year, and on account of some business matters in the east, went there and was for some time unsettled. He returned to Kansas and afterward engaged in the law business in this city. Mr. Bent is quite notably connected, being a cousin of Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Ilhnois, and also of "Stonewall " Jackson. His grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, having been with Washington at the battle of Valley Forge. Two of Mr. Bent's brothers were killed while in the Confederate army at the Seven Days' fight at Richmond.

Mrs. Mattje A. Bingham

Nee Livingston. Is a native of Kentucky, and was born near Frankfort, in January, 1824. Being deprived of her parents by death when she was only three years old, she was taken and reared by her grandmother. She received her elementary education in the schools of Frankfort, completing it at Shelbyville, Kentucky. She left the latter place when sixteen, and Uved with a married sister, Mrs. Thomas J. Hughes, of Jefferson City, Missouri, and afterward lived alternately with her and another married sister, Mrs. W. W. Owen, of Shelbyville, until 1847. Then she went with Mrs. Hughes to Lexington, Missouri, and soon after opened a private school for young ladies and taught until 1850. On October 12th, 1851, she was married to Dr. Johnston Lykins, and after spending the winter in Washington, D. C. , she came with her husband to Kansas City, where they made their home. Here she was the companion of her husband, a devoted noble wife, even assisting him to relieve destitute and suffering humanity. His death occurred in 1876. When she was fourteen she became a member of the Baptist church, and she and her husband were two of the original eight members who organized the first Baptist church of Kansas City. June :J4th, 1878, she was married to her second husband, Gen. George C. Bingham, who was at the time filling the chair of Fine Arts in the State University, at Columbia. He died July 7th, 1879. In the late war she favored the Confederate cause, and was not sparing in her energy or means to alleviate the wants and sufferings of Confederate widows and orphans at its close. She, aided by many noble ladies, founded the Widows' and Orphans' Home, located at Kansas City, and which afterward became the Industrial Home and School for the orphans and indigent children of the State of Missouri. She served as president from 1866 until 1880, when, declining to act longer was elected treasuress. In 1877, after the society had donated the building and grounds to the State, it became a State institute, by an act passed in the Legislature, in 1874; but the State seemingly not appreciating its beneficence, let it revert back to the society. Mrs. Bingham, prompted by a benevolent spirit, instituted a boarding school for young ladies, and all the proceeds over contingent expenses were devoted to the support and education of orphans remaining in the Home, being five in all, the others being returned to the counties from whence they came, or were sent to homes found for them. She

M. A. Bogie

Physician and surgeon. Was born on the 20th of December, 1841, and is a native of Richmond, Madison county, Ky., at which place he was partly brought up on a farm. He received good educational advantages, and attended the Kentucky University, from which he graduated in 1862. He commenced the study of medicine in i860, and went to Philadelphia, where he attended lectures. Thence to New York and graduated M. D. first in 1 864. He returned to Kentucky, engaged in practicing a short time, and in January, 1865, went to Mexico. There he followed his profession until August, 1870, he left that country and went to New York. Spent .eighteen months in the hospitals and medical schools, and graduated while there twice more. Dr. Bogie took up his residence here in the winter of 1871, and since that time has been enjoying a good practice. He was married November 19th, 1872, to Miss C. E. Park, born in Kentucky, October 27th, 1846. She died March 6th, 1876. Lost one child.

Bouscaren & Kenyon

This law firm was established in Kansas City, January i, i88r. O. Bouscaren, the senior member, is a native of Kentucky, having been born in Grant county. May 9, 1856. He was educated at St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, graduating from that institution in 1876, and immediately began the study of law under Judge G. W. Craddock. He completed his studies in the spring of 1879, and was immediately admitted to the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, and in the fall of that year went to Washington, D. C, where he resumed the study of mining and patent laws. There remained until September, 1880, when he came to Kansas City, and here made the acquaintance of C. A. Kenyon, the junior member of the firm. Mr. Kenyon was born in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, May 9, 1857. His parents moved to Logan county, Illinois, in 1859, where he lived until coming to Kansas City in 1881?. He was educated at Illinois College, graduating from that institution in 1877, and soon after began the study of law in the office of Bason & Blinn, of Lincoln, Illinois. He completed it, and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1880, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Michigan in April of that year. He came to Kansas City during that fall. They are a young firm, favorably received by the older practitioners, and have promise of a successful career.

J. Dallas Bowser

Editor of the Gate City Press. Was born near Weldon, Halifax county. North Carolina, February 15th, 1846, of free parents of whose ancestry nothing is known, further, than that his grandfather derived his name from being found one morning when but a few weeks old, at the door step of a family named Bowser, who cared for the little stranger, gave him their family name, and adopted him for their son. When the subject of this sketch was but six weeks old, his parents disliking the restraints of slavery upon the free people of color of the State, and desiring to secure for their children the advantages of an education, removed to Ohio, arriving at Chillicothe in May, where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits in summer and school teaching in winter. At the age of twenty James left home to take charge of a school in Jamestown, Ohio, teaching without intermission or vacation in various parts of the State until March, 1868, when he came to Kansas City, taught a spring term of school at Westport, Missouri, and in the fall took charge of the colored schools of Kansas City, holding the position of principal for eleven consecutive years. Some unpleasant controversies arising, he resigned his position in Kansas City in August, 1879, to take charge of the public schools of Wy.

andott, Kansas. In July, 1870, Mr. Bowser returned to Ohio to wed a Miss Christie A. Lett, but who died within a week after his arrival. In July, 1873, he married Miss Dora S. J. Troy, of Zenia, Ohio, who for six years has been teaching in the Kansas City schools. In 1875, Mr. Bowser was- nominated for supervisor of registration, but was defeated by Mr.- J. W. Bell, the Democratic candidate. In religion as well as in politics he is a liberal, choosing to think and act for himself. In theology, he is a follower of Henry Ward Beecher : in philosophy, of Herbert Spencer. Mr. Bowser is the fortunate possessor of a handsome residence property on East Tenth Street.

H. C. Bower

Photographer. Was born in Illinois, on the loth of February, 1852, and there lived until about ten years of age. His parents then removed to Kansas and settled in Linn county, and in this new and lonely country the subject of our sketch was brought up and educated. He followed farming about ten years and then learned the business of a photographer which he has followed ever since. He is now located in Kansas City, Kansas, where he is prepared to do all kinds of work in the picture line with neatness and dispatch.

Lee E. Bowers

Dealer in groceries and provisions. Was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 14th, 1850, and when about three years of age accompanied his parents to Illinois, settling in St. Clair county, where he was reared and educated. At the age of about seventeen, he commenced learning the trade of carpenter and joiner which he followed while in that State. About the year 1870, he moved to St. Louis, followed his trade for about one year and then came to Kansas City, becoming engaged in the manufacture of crackers, with Taylor Brothers. This he followed for about four years and then commenced in the saloon business. Four years later he engaged in his present business. He keeps a large and well assorted stock and enjoys a liberal patronage as he well deserves. His marriage was April 12th, 1876, to Carrie Wirtz, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, a pleasant lady who assists her husband in the store. They have one child, Mabel. Mr. B. is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Brabrook & Knowles

This firm was established January i, 1880, and is composed of W. F. Brabrook and J. W. Knowles. They both came from Worcester, Mass., where they had been previously employed in the estabhshment of Ware, Pratt & Co., the former as superintendent for eleven -years, and the latter as cutter for six years.

The senior member was born in Sterling, Mass., June 12, 1848. His father died when he was four years old, and after his father's death Mr. Brabrook lived with his mother until he was eight years old, when he was sent to live with his guardian. Burgess Taylor, of Chattanooga, Tenn. He lived with him until December, 1859, when he returned to Worcester, and attended school until 1861, then enlisting in Company E, - Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers, and served until July, 1862, when he was discharged on account of sickness. He returned to his native town, and April 5, 1863, married Miss Ida E. Pope, of Hardwick Vt. They have four children: Arthur G., William, Daisy and George W. The junior member, Mr. Knowles, was born in Providence, Mass., June 28, 1846, and there lived until he was eighteen. When seventeen he went into the shop of William Boyne to learn to be cutter, being with him one year when he went to Boston, and was there employed in the house of Ryder, Crocket & Co.; worked with them until 1868, and after working as cutter in various places he went to Worcester, Mass. , where he was employed by Ware, Pratte & Co. , as before stated, being with them until he came to Kansas City, in 1880. January

Prominent among the early settlers of Jackson county who have passed the ordeal of pioneer life and whose early struggles well deserve a place in these memorials is the subject of this brief notice. Mr. Briant is a native of this State, born in Cooper county on the 12th day of March, 1830. Five years later he with his parents removed to Lafayette county. Mo., where they lived until 1842, when they came to this county. - Mr. Briant was educated at the Highland Academy, and on reaching his majority he engaged in the freighting business with the Hon. W. F. Ewing, in the Santa Fe trade, occupying a prominent place of trust for one year, at the end of which time he embarked in the same business for himself, commencing with but two teams and continued successfully, making upward of sixty-six trips from Jackson county, Mo., to Santa Fe, New^ Mexico. In 1865 our subject formed a partnership with Mr. J. L. Watkins in the banking business in Kansas City under the firm name of Watkins & Co. He retained his relation with this firm until 1877, when he retired from the business, since which time he has given his attention to the stock tiade, which business he started before his retirement from the bank, and is also interested in the Eagle Flouring Mills, of Kansas City. Mr. Briant is a man of good business qualifications and by close attention to business has gained a fair share of this world's goods. He is a true neighbor, never forgetting the injunction of the Savior to remember the poor. His charities are distributed in a quiet and private manner. He is also a warm friend of the young, often giving them, in an unobtrusive and most kindly manner, words of advice which are like apples of gold in pictures of silver. He was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Lobb, October 6, 1858. She is a native of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Briant are both members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Brooks' Sign Works

This is the leading establishment of the kind in the west, and their handiwork can be found in many places in this part of the country as in others. The business in Kansas City is carried on by the firm of Charles Brooks, and his son Charles Brooks, whom all the banks, telegraph and express companies and every railroad centering here they have as their patrons. The elder Brooks for many years prior to the war, carried on business at Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan. When the tocsin of war sounded in i860 he threw up his business and joined the Fifth Michigan Cavalry as sergeant, serving through the war under the ill fated Custer. After being mustered out at Leavenworth, Kansas, in June, 1865, he closed up his business in Michigan and started out to seek fresh fields for his labor. Coming to the City of Kansas, then numbering less than 4,000 souls, he started, the business that has assumed such vast proportions. His sons George C, Charles and James F. , as they grew up " took to the business like ducks to water,"' and they are now classed among the best sign painters of the country. During the depressing times of 1875, the elder Brooks went to San Francisco where he started the business soon to make the name of Brooks Sign Works familiar on the Pacific Coast. For his assistants he had his two sons, and leaving the business in their hands, he returned to Kansas City where his son Charles held the business during his absence. Concord and unanimity are characteristics ,of the firm, and between employer and employees are cherished the most friendly feelings. Their foreman, Mr. Vincent Whelan, has been in their employ for ten years, and is esteemed by them almost as a partner. The firm contemplate starting a branch of their works at El Paso or some other point in Arizona, where the younger son, James F., will locate.

P. S. Brown

Was born in Bedford county, Penn , October 14, 1833, and received his early education in the schools there. At the age of seventeen he received instruction from Dr. John McKinny, an eminent teacher and noted for his ability, and continued with him for some time, dividing his attention between school and the duties of the sheriff's office. Then was engaged with the Cambria Iron Company for two years, after which he removed to Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged in the grocery business. Some time after he commenced the study of law with J. W. Thompson, and was associated with this eminent gentleman three years. In 1857 was admitted to the bar in Scott county, practicing in the district court, and in March, 1858, he came to Kansas City. November 3, 1858, he married Miss Julia A. Shaffer, of Pittsburg. Soon after he commenced practicing law, and has been actively engaged at it since. In 1866 he was elected a member of the city council, serving two terms, and during this time introduced an ordinance granting the right of way to the Pacific Railroad Company, for which the city received $35,- 000. Was also actively engaged in promoting the completion of the Kansas City, Galveston & Lake Superior Railroad, doubtless one of the turning points in the history of Kansas City. He contributed his services one year as their attorney, and was instrumental in establishing the road on a firm basis, building the bridge, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had nine children, six of whom are living - Julia A. (now Mrs. Edward Shillito, of Cincinnati), Lulu K., William H. (at University*at Columbia), P. S., Ralph and Sadie L. (twins). Mr. Brown is an elder, and has been connected with the First Presbyterian church since 1859. His wife is also a member.

Dr. R. Wood Brown

Is the son of Henry E. Brown, a wholesale grocer of long standing in New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 11, 1852, and when eight years old entered the military school at Danbury, Conn. , attended for four years and then removed with his father to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he lived with them until he was eighteen, when he went to Philadelphia ; there took a full course in the Philadelphia Dental College, graduating from that instiution in the spring of 1873, thus finishing a course of study which he began when sixteen. After graduating he returned to Brooklyn and opened an office for the practice of dentistry, and at once entered upon the study of medicine in the Long Island College Hospital, also holding, at the same time, the position of surgeon dentist, which he filled for two years, graduating as M.D. in June, 1876. In the fall of that year he made a tour to Europe, visiting Liverpool, London, Paris, Turin, Rome, Naples and Milan, consulting with many of the eminent physicians and surgeons of those cities for the purpose of making himself proficient in the profession. He made a nine months' trip, returning to Brooklyn in 1877, where he remained only a short time, being called to Green Bay by the sickness and death of his mother. In the fall of that year he came to Kansas City and established himself in the dental profession, and has a lucrative practice. He is assistant secretary of Academy of Science, as well as holding membership in the Kansas City Histological and Pathological Society, the Dental Society of Kansas City and the Kansas City Medical Society.

Weigh Master at cattle scales for Kansas City Stock Yards, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1842, and in the spring of 1857 he left his native State with his parents and moved to Warren county, Illinois. He was reared a farmer's boy, and followed the same till the fall of 1868, when he came to Kansas City, and July i, 187 1, he accepted the position as shipping master for the Kan-

Thomas B. Bullene

The subject of this sketch was born in Oswego county, New York, August 10, 1828, and is the youngest son in a family of sixteen children. His father was a successful farmer and merchant in his native county, and afterward identified himself with the lumber business in Albany. At the age of seven years our subject accompanied his parents to Albany, where he lived until ten years of age, and in 1837 went to Southport (now Kenosha), Wisconsin. Here he was reared and educated, receiving an academic education only, which he supplemented with a discriminative course in ancient and modern literature and history. At the age of twenty-one he entered actively into the mercantile business at Lyons, Wisconsin, in partnership with another brother, remaining until 1856, prospering and laying the foundation of his future enlarged operations in business. In 1851 he was married to Miss Amareit Hickock, daughter of Harris Hickock, Esq., of Bridgeport, New York. By this union they have a family of five children : Thomas C. born in Lyons; Lathrop B. born at Independence, Iowa; Harris Hickock born at Independence, Iowa; Fred S. born in Kansas City in 1864 and Lora Amarett born in Kansas City in 1870. In 1856 Mr. Bullene removed to Iowa, there being engaged in business until 1863, when he removed to Kansas City and purchased property, buying, at that time, the land on which now stands the great mercantile house of Bullene, Moores & Emery, it being then far removed from the business portion of the city. On arriving here he found the city under martial law, some very prominent mercantile estabhshments being closed by order of the provost marshal, among them the house of Gillis & Coates. ' Mr. Bullene bought the interest of Mr. Gillis, and, in connection with his brother, L. Bullene, of Lawrence, and K. Coates, Esq., organized the dry goods house of Coates & Bullene. Mr. Coates only rerhained in the firm one year, the business being continued until 1867, when Mr. W. E. Emery was admitted, constituting the firm of Bullene Brothers & Emery. Early in 1870 Mr. L. T. Moore, of Kentucky, joined in the business, and the firm then became Bullene, Moore & Emery, and in 1871 Mr. L. R. Moore, of Montgomery, Alabama, and a brother of L. T., took an equal interest in the business, and the title became Bullene, Moores & Emery. Mr. Bullene was one of the founders of the Kansas City Agricultural and Mechanical Association, and has always been one of its directors ; is also a director in the Merchants Exchange. He has a fine literary taste, contributing to public journals in the most unobtrusive manner, characteristic of the man. He is of unquestioned integrity, a close reasoner and a prpfound thinker. To a thorough knowledge of his business, he joins the general culture derived from a varied and extended course of reading and observation.

Walter A. Bunker

Manager of the Kansas City house of the Western Newspaper Union, was born at Bethlehem, N. H., March 12th, 1847. When he had reached the age of seven years the family emigrated to the Northwest, setthng in the southern part of Minnesota. In 1865, at the age of eighteen, he purchased a half interest in a flouring rnill in the locality in which he then lived, and operated it with marked success for about three years, when, feeling the need of a more thorough business education than could be acquired in the village in which his mill was located, he disposed of that property and removed to St. Paul. Entering the business college of that city as a stuaent, he soon became so proficient in the science of accounts that he was chosen, out of a class of one hundred, to take charge of the bookkeeping department of the institution, This position he filled acceptably till the year 1870, when he asked to be relieved that he might accept the more lucrative office of head book-keeper in the Second National bank of St. Paul. Having dis- charged the duties of this responsible position to the entire satisfaction of the officers of the bank for seven years, he resigned and removed to Kansas City for the purpose of engaging in business for himself, having been united in marriage, in the meantime, to Miss Blanche Monroe, of Minneapolis, Minn. In Kansas City he, with some other gentlemen, founded the first *' ready print" or "auxiliary" publishing house west of the Missouri river. In 1878 his firm purchased a controlling interest in the Kansas Ciiy Journal, but he continued to devote his entire personal attention to the "ready-print" business, which so prospered under his able management that in June, 1880, it was consolidated with the Iowa Printing Company, of Des Moines, a stock company was organized with a paid-up capital of $100,000.00, and Mr. Bunker having sold his interest in the Journal retained the management of the Kansas City house. Although still a young man, he has attained a degree of success in business of which he might justly feel proud if it represented the results of a lifetime of effort, instead of the first fruits of his ability and industry.

J. W. Burd

Dealer in Real Estate, Kansas City, Kans., was born in Warren county, New Jersey, Dec. 6, 1839. Was there reared and attended school. With the exception of one year Mr. Burd lived in N. J. until 1880. During that year he was in Monroe county, Penn., engaged in the flour and saw mill business. For three years he was in the cabiriet business and the remainder of the time has been engaged in tilling the soil. On the I St of May, 1880, he came to this city. For six months he made his residence in Allen county and then returned here, where he has since been engaged in his present business. On the 28th of June, 1867, he was married to Miss Carrie H. Lawrence, of Morris county, N. J. They have theee children : Alonzo, Arnold and an infant.

William Byers

Manufacturer of cider and vinegar. The subject of this sketch was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in January, 1845, ^^^ ^^^ there raised. In 1872 he went to southern Kansas, remained but a short time, and then engaged in railroading, continuing but a little while. Thence to Colorado, and while there was engaged in trading in buffalo hides. After this he commenced the cider business in 1877, which he has since followed. He became a resident of Kansas City in the fall of 1880, and then established his present business.

Michael E. Burnett

Of the firm of Burnett & Kane, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, at which place he lived until five years of age, when he went with his parents to St. Louis, Missouri. After attending school for seven years he went to learn the butcher trade, at which he worked in St. Louis until the year 1868, when he came to Kansas City. Here he also engaged in the butchering business until he went with Gen. Wright and was one of the party that surveyed the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains. After leaving the employ of this gentleman he joined Col. Greenwood's party and went as far as Denver, Colorado. After this he visited Central City and Cheyenne, subsequently going to Fort Sanders, in the employ of Mr. John Finn, as quartermaster, issuing meat to the United States soldiers. This business he followed for about one year, when he went into business for himself at Bryan City. Continued it one and one half years, then returned to Kansas City, where he engaged in buying stock and carrying on the meat trade. While engaged in this business he helped to organize a hook and ladder company, and was elected foreman, which position he held until the aboHtion of volunteer companies, when he was appointed by the city as running foreman of engine No. i. While in this capacity he was appointed chief of the fire department, consisting of three steam fire engines, one Babcock on wheels, four hose carriages, and one hook and ladder company, holding the position of chief about one and one-half years. After leaving the fire department he engaged in the retail grocery and meat business, where he is now located. Mr. Burnett was married January 12, 1873, to Miss Margaret Connor, of Kansas City, by which union they have three children : Agnes (now dead), John, Edward, and Joseph.

James Burk

Proprietor of the Sterling Stone Works, was born in Vandreud county, Canada? June 23, 1844, and there lived until he was thirteen. He attended school until twelve, when he went into the country store of Donald McDonald, and was employed as clerk one year, and then went to an adjoining county, and was employed as clerk by Angus S. McDonald, with whom he stayed three years. Leaving him in the fall of 1862, he was engaged as foreman in a lumbering camp, making square timber, which he followed until 1865, when he came to Chicago, and was employed in the office of the Northern Transportation Company. Soon after, he made a tour through Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, and finally located in Kansas City in 1868, when he engaged in lathing and carpenter work. He was city carpenter for three years, and was employed as such one year by the city waterworks. In 1875 ^^ t)uilt the jetties in the Kaw River, under contract, for the Stock Yards Company, and afterward, up to 1878, he was a general contractor and builder, and in that year he established himself in the grocery business, at which he did a successful business. In 1880 he sold out, to engage in the manufacture of the Sterling stone, under the Greer patent, he owning the full right in Jackson county, Missouri, and one-half of the United States. He manufactures window and door caps and sills, walks and curbing, burial vaults, and lawn ornaments of the most beautiful designs. He has been twice married; first, to Emma Malone, of Kansas City, in 1870, who died in 1874. They had one child, John T. In 1876 he married his second wife. Miss A. C. Mansfield, also of Kansas City, by whom he has three children : May, Frances and Rose, all living at home.

John W. Byers

Is a Virginian by birth, having been born near Shepherdstown, November 12th, 1833. There he spent his early childhood. His father removed to Washington county, Maryland, when he was eight years old, where he lived until attaining his majority. His education was mostly obtained under the tutorship of his father, who was a practical teacher and taught many years. When ten years of age he entered the office of the Pledge, published at Hagerstown, Maryland, as an apprentice to learn the printer's trade, and made such rapid proficiency that by the time he was thirteen he was foreman in the office. He left that office in 1845, when eighteen years of age, and was employed as a clerk by Tice & Hammond, in the hardware business, of the same place, for eight years. Leaving there in 1854 he came to Missouri, and settled in Fayette county, where he was engaged as an accountant in a general business house until 1857. Then came to Kansas City, or what was then Westport Landing, where he was employed as an accountant by Alexander Majors, a freighter. Was with him until 1859, when he spent one year in visiting in Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, and on returning to Kansas City was employed by C. E. Kearney, having general charge of his office business, until the spring of 1864, when he went to Leavenworth, Kansas. There took charge of the office of the Government Transportation Company, and was employed as such until 1867. In the following year he, with his family, made a trip east, to regain his health, which had been somewhat impaired by close application to business. Returning to Kansas City in 1869, in company with J. L. Kelley, he embarked in the wholesale hardware business under the firm name of J. L. Kelley & Co., and although Kansas City, at that time, had no railroad transportation, their business amounted to one-fourth of a million dollars during that year. In 1870 he retired from the firm to accept the position of cashier in the Mechanics' Bank of Kansas City, it being a branch of the Mechanics' Bank of St. Louis, which is still in existence. The bank having closed up its business here in 1875, he again engaged in the mercantile business in Kansas City, retiring from it in 1878, when he became engaged in the real estate business, which he is still pursuing. He is among the enterprising men to whom Kansas City is indebted for its many substantial business blocks and fine residences. He has built two business blocks on Delaware street, and a fine residence on Charlotte street. April 14th, 1858, he married Miss Lucy C. HoUoway, of Fayette county, Missouri, a granddaughter of Mathew G. Scott, so long connected with the Northern Bank of Kentucky. They have one daughter. Lulu Lee, wife of James M. Love, of Kansas City.

Physician and Surgeon, was born in Adams county, Illinois, and is'now forty-three years of age. His father was a farmer and the son helped with the duties of the farm. He attended school at Quincy College and also McKendree College in Illinois. Took a course in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating therefrom in 1863; also graduated in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1866. From the spring of 1863 until the close of the war Dr. Caldwell was assistant surgeon in the 97th Ohio Regiment. He found a wife in the person of Miss Isabell Calvin, of Adams county, Illinois, whom he married in October, 1866. By this union they have one child, Victor, twelve years of age. Dr. Caldwell came to Kansas City in 1868, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, with a large degree of success. He is well and favorably known among his brother practitioners, and to the sick is always a welcome visitor.

Proprietor of Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, was born May 7th, 1838, in Mahoning county, Ohio, and moved to Indiana when thirteen years of age. There remained till nineteen, when he came to Missouri and settled in Sullivan county, and engaged in farming. Followed the business some eight years and came from thereto Kansas City in 1868, and commenced the livery business in which he has since been engaged. He keeps an average of about thirty head of horses and a good stock of buggies and carriages. He is the youngest of a family of twelve children, and they are all living. He was married to Miss Mary Flickinger, in 1866. She is a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and was born in 1843.

Of the firm of Elliott & Campbell, was born in West Virginia in the year 1847, and lived in that State until he was twenty-three years of age, attending medical and literary colleges, also took a medical course at Cleveland, Ohio. After completing his studies, at the age of twenty-four, he went to Powhattan, Belmont county, Ohio, and entered into the practice of medicine. Stayed in Powhattan until the year 1878, and then went to Great Bend, Kentucky, and practiced medicine two years, and then came to Kansas City, Missouri, where he is now in the real estate business. Mr. Campbell was married in 1873 ^° ^iss Mary A. Campbell, of Manteno, Kankakee county, Illinois, and by this union they have two children : Alice L. and Lizzetta. The firm of Elliott & Campbell is No. 605, Main street.

Capt. J. S. Cannon

Attorney at law, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 12, 1832, and there lived with his grand-parents until fourteen, his parents having died when he was very young. At that age he went to sea on a vessel called the

" Two Sisters," his relations being ship-owners and interested in the vessel. He followed the sea one year and then returned to his native town and entered Rutger's College, graduating in 1850, at the age of eighteen. He immediately began the study of law in the office of Wm. L. Dayton, where he studied three years, and after attending, the law department at Princeton one term, was admitted to the bar in Trenton, in 1853. He opened his first office in New Brunswick, where he practiced a short time, then he went to New York City and established himself in his profession, where he was for a long time retained by Horace H. Day in his numerous suits against the Goodyear Rubber Company. In 1855, being broken down in health, he gave up the practice of law and again went to sea, and became interested in the Charleston and Savannah Steamship Company, being connected with them until their business was destroyed by the events of the late war. In 1861 entered the navy as an ensign and served during the war on the southern coast, being promoted through the various grades from ensign to lieutenant-commander, and when he was mustered out held the rank of captain. He participated in the bombardments of Port Royal and Forts Sumter and Pulaski, and in the capture of many of the coast towns. Immediately after being mustered out of service he came to Missouri, and settled near Lee's Summit, in the spring of 1866, where he purchased a large tract of land and engaged in farming, which he is still following in connection with his law practice and real estate business. He became a resident of Kansas City in the winter of 1878, and, in connection with his other business, he is heavily engaged in building residences and business houses for rental. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth Chestnut, of Philadelphia, whom he married in 1855, and who died in 1864, leaving two children : Spencer and Elizabeth. His second wife, Miss T. N. Barrett, of Savannah, Georgia, he married in 1866. She died in Kansas City in, 1879. By her he has five children : Mary, Robert, Nellie, John, and Richard. He is a member of the Grand avenue M. E. Church, and is the teacher of. the auditorium bible class of that Sabbath-school.

Attorney, was born in Barbour county, Virginia, May 20, 185 1. When a child his parents moved to Clarksburg, Harrison county, where he was raised. His father, John S. Carlile, held an office of public trust in that State for about thirty years, as senator, etc. His mother, Mary E. , whose maiden name was Gettings, was a cousin of Stonewall Jackson. The subject of this sketch received his primary education in the common schools of Clarksburg, and spent one year in the Military Institute of Maryland. In 1866 he entered the University of West Virginia, with the intention of taking a thorough classical course, remaining two years. At the end of his junior year, on account of failing health, was compelled to give up this undertaking. The following year he was engaged in teaching school and working on a farm. In the fall of 1870 he entered the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he remained one year. He then accepted the position of travehng agent for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Michigan, which he retained about three months, and then was appointed manager of the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company for West Virginia and the District of Columbia, continuing in this three months, when he resigned, and devoted his time to the study of his present profession. May 20, 1872, was admitted to the Harrison county bar, where he was engaged in practice till October, 1874, when he was elected to the Legislature for two years.

The summer of 1876, he went to Chicago, and was there engaged in the practice of his profession till 1878, with considerable degree of success. In March, 1878, was taken sick, and took a trip to CaUfornia, and on his return, spent six months in Denver, Colorado. January, 1879, he moved to his present location. Was married December 15, 1875, to Miss Mary S. Foster. She is a daughter of Geo. F. Foster, one of the pioneers of Chicago, where she was born, October 6, 1854. They have one child, Mary Seville, who was born in Kansas City, June 26, 1879.

Geo. Carman

Architect, was born in Milwaukee county. Wis., December 24, 1852, and was there raised and educated in the common schools, spending four terms in the High School at Broad Head, Wis. In 1872 he went to St. Paul, and immediately began the study of his profession under the instruction of Radcliffe & Buffington, the most prominent architects of Minnesota, taking a year's course. In the spring of 1875 he went to Milwaukee, where he was engaged at his profession, and also in the furniture business with Mathews & Co. for three years. In the spring of 1879 he located in Kansas City, and is considered one of the prominent architects of the city.

Theo. S. Case

There are few men in Kansas City who are more highly esteemed, by all who know him, than Theodore S. Case, the present postmaster of that city. He is native of Georgia, but his parents were both natives of Connecticut, who removed to Jackson, Butts county, Georgia, soon after their marriage, and where Theodore was born, January 26, 1832. Soon after his birth they returned to the north, and settled at Columbus, Ohio. He obtained the rudiments of his education in the best schools of Columbus, and was graduated from Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio, in tSsr. He began the struggle of life for himself as a teacher, being the principal of the schools in Dublin, Ohio, and filled the chair of mathematics in Esther Institute, at Columbus, Ohio. In 1853 he began the study of medicine under Prof. S. M. Smith, M. D., graduating from Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1856, and afterward practicing with his preceptor until May, 1857; then he came to Kansas City, where he practiced until 1861. At the time of his arrival, Kansas City was an unsightly town built on hills and in hollows, but was the headquarters of western emigration and transportation. He soon built up a lucrative practice, and identifying himself with the interests and growth of the new city, became associated with the men to whom Kansas City now owes her rapid growth and prosperity. In 1 860 he, with Dr. G. M. B. Maughs, began the publication of a medical journal, which was discontinued on the breaking out of the late war, his colleague giving his services to the Confederate army, and he enlisting in the Union army as a private in the spring of 1861, in Company C, of Col. R. T. Van Horn's Battalion of the U. S. Reserve Corps, which was afterward the 2Sth Missouri Volunteers. Two weeks after his enlistment he was elected second-lieutenant, and one year after, was appointed by President Lincoln, captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers stationed at Kansas City, filling that position until the spring of 1863. He was promoted by Gen. Thomas Ewing to chief quartermaster of the District of the Border, his headquarters being at Kansas City.

The District of the Border being abolished in the spring of 1864, he was appointed by Gen. E. B. Brown chief quartermaster of the District of Central Missouri, with headquarters at Warrensburg. Resigning his command at the close of the war, in 1865, he was immediately appointed quartermaster-general of the State of Missouri by Gov. Fletcher, stationed at St. Louis, filling that position until June, 1866, when he again resigned and returned to Kansas City. Finding its prosperity and growth blighted by the war, its business crippled, and the population reduced from 7,000 to 3,000, he, with renewed energy and zeal, began, with others, to build up the city, being ever ready to aid with work, influence, advice or money as far as he possessed it. He was also engaged with John R. Balis in the real estate business, which he successfully followed until 1870. when, with Col. Coates, John R. Balis, Major L. K. Thacher and W. S. Ide, he organ- ized the Commercial Bank, of which he was president, and at the same time was connected with his brother, Oliver Case, in the manufacturing of wagons and farming implements, in which, on account of the severe drouth and grasshoppers of 1872 devastating Kansas, they failed, losing heavily, but maintaining their character for honesty and integrity unspotted. In 1873 he received the appointment of postmaster of Kansas City, a position which he still holds. He has been twice married, first to Julia M. Lykins, daughter of Dr. J. Lykins, of Kansas City, October 12, 1858. She died in 1872, leaving three children, Lilah, Johnston and Ermine. He married his second wife, Miss Fidelia O. Wright, of Kansas City, in June, 1846.

Col. Case is of decidedly a literary turn of mind, having, as before stated, published the- Kansas City Medical Review before the war. He also wrote a military work for the use of army officers, in 1864, called the Quartermaster's Guide, which was highly recommended by the quartermaster-general offthe army, and many other prominent officers. For the past five years he has added to his other avocations the publication of the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, a popular periodical which has a wide circulation in the west, and which has received the approbation of many of the most distinguished scientists in this country and Europe.

P. Casey

Was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 3, 1833, ^'^^ '^^^ principally reared and educated in Ashland county. In 1856 he came to Iowa, locating in Iowa City, then the capital, and remained four years, and during '59-' 60 he went to the mountains. After returning he was engaged in the mercantile business until 1862, when he enlisted in the nth Iowa Infantry, served during the war and was mustered out at Detroit, Michigan. Again went to Iowa in the summer of 1865, and thence to Kansas City in September, immediately embarking in the coal trade, thus continuing until 1880. Since then he has been engaged in various enterprises. In 1877 was elected alderman on the Republican ticket, serving for two years. Was married in 1861 to Miss Catharine Givans, of West Liberty, Iowa. By this union they have seven children, five boys and two girls : Frank, Lizzie, James E., Phihp R., Eva B., Stanley C, and Norris M.

Charles A. Chace

Among those who have been prominently identified with railroad interests in this State and others, is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Austerlitz, Columbia county, N. Y., and his father, who was a farmer in that county, educated Charles in the common schools of Monroe county and also in the Rochester Collegiate Institute, his course being chiefly in the commercial branches. Having completed his schooling at Rochester, he went to Brighton, Monroe county, and while living there was elected superintendent of schools in the town, and served for two years. Then came west, locating at Rockport, 111., and there became connected with the Chicago and Galena Union Railroad ; was first made ticket agent, but after six weeks was sent to the end of the road at Warren, being placed in charge of all stations from Freeport to Warren. From this time on he had charge of all new stations as the road progressed. After the road was opened he was ordered to move to the Dixon Air Line, at Dixon, 111., and opened all the stations from there to Fulton, on the Mississippi River, and appointed agents between the two places. In 1859 Mr. Chace resigned his position and in the spring of 1861 came to Missouri and was appointed station agent at latan for the H. & St. Joe R. R. , holding the position two years. As the road advanced he was removed to Weston, where he lived four years. On the completion of the road to Kansas City in 1867, he came here and was appointed general agent of the company at this place, and so many years continuous employment as a railroad official indicates a confidence in his business ability and integrity that must be very grateful to Mr. Chace. He has always felt a deep concern in the subject of education ; in 1873 was elected a member of the Board of Education, and at the expiration of his first term, which was for three years, was re-elected for another term. Mr. C. is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order, having been made a Mason in Dixon, in 1855. He was Master of the Lodge in Fulton, 111., three years. His marriage occurred in 1852 to Miss Martha E. Dryer, of Brighton, N. Y.

S. E. Chamberlain

Architect. Was born in Hedgetown, Seneca county, Ohio, and was reared in his native place, learning the carpenter trade. In i860 he went to Peru, Ind., followed his trade till April 19, 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, Thirteenth Indiana, and was discharged June 26, 1862, on account of physical disability. Participated in the battles of Rich Mountain, Green Brier. Winchester, Va., and other skirmishes. From the service he went to Lambertville, N. J. ; remained four months, went to Ohio, and there remained till the spring of 1863, when he went to Fort Wayne, Ind. Stayed till August and went to Chicago, remaining till October, 1864, when he went to Niles, Mich., and in January, 1869, returned to Chicago. In 1878 he moved to Kansas City, commenced following his trade and also studying architecture till 1869, since which time he has made architecture his exclusive business. Was married to Miss Annette Corell, Septembei 25, 1867. She is a native of Pennsylvania and was born in Erie county, December 25, 1843. Have one child, Robert E.

Carpenter and contractor. Was born in Fremont, Sandusky county, Ohio, November 29, 1834. When eighteen years of age he went to Princeton, Bureau county. 111., and i860 to Des Moines, Iowa. Remained three years and then returned to Illinois, where he lived until 1865, and then removed to Kansas City. Has resided in Jackson county since that time and has followed his present trade from boyhood. His principal work since locating here, has been erecting public school buildings ; has built several, in different parts of the county.

A. L. Charles

General commission merchant. Was born in Charleston, Pa., in 1820. His father dying when he was very young, he was early thrown upon his own resources to procure a livelihood, and chosing the trade of a miller he became apprenticed to that business. In 1843 he left his native town and went to Dayton, Ohio, where he was employed by Joseph H. Dryden to superintend his milling and distilling business. Upon leaving him, in 1854, he went to Middletown, Ohio, and established himself in the same business, which he followed until 1865, and then closed up. After prospecting in various States, he came to Kansas City in the fall of 1867, and in the same year estabhshed himself in general commission business, where he has been successful in his business career, and, having grown up with the new city, his commission business is one of its permanent establishments. In 1849 he married Miss Frances Dryden, near Dayton, Ohio, and they have six children: Joseph D. (clerking for his father), and Oscar (who is- his father's head bookkeeper), A. Lester (a graduate of the Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons, and now a practicing physician at Bunker Hill, Kansas), Nancy (attending the Central high school), and Catherine (attending the Lathrop school).

Joseph Chew

Physician and surgeon, was born in Fredericksburg, Va. , October 16, 181 2, where he received a good common school education. Leaving there with his parents in his eighteenth year, he went to Lexington, Ky. , and from that time until he was twenty-five he was more or less engaged in the mercantile business.

In 1827 he began the study of medicine under Dr. Joseph G. Chinn, of Lexington, and graduated from the medical department of the Transylvania University, of Kentucky, in the spring of 1842. Soon after he caaie to Missouri and located at Richmond, where he built up a lucrative practice and where he lived until i860, when he came to Kansas City, and here he has had a good practice for over twenty years. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Lamme, of Fayette county, Kentucky, whom he married December 23, 1833, and who died June 11, 1844. They had two children, V. T. Chew, M. D.' (of Collins county, Texas,), and Maria Helen (wife of E. M. Sloan, of St. Louis). He second wife was Miss Mary A. Moore, of Ray county, Missouri, by whom he has four children, Addie (wife of W. W. Morris, of Virginia City, Montana Territory), Virginia (living with her sister, Mrs. Morris), Mary Price and Robert Lee, living at home.

Grain and produce merchant, was born in Meriden, New Hampshire, in 1826 residing there until his majority. He received a liberal education, and after this removed to Vermont, locating at Barre. Here he remained a period of eight years and then went to Faufox, making this his home until i860. During this time he was engaged in the milling and lumbering business. Leaving here he removed to the town of Georgia and engaged in railroading and after remaining six years he returned to Faufox; thence to Kansas City in the spring of 1871, and has here made his home since, having been engaged in many enterprises tending to advance the growth of his adopted city. In 1855 he was married to Miss Amanda B., daughter of Dr. A. G. Taylor, a prominent physician of Sedon. They have one daughter, Ruth.

Harry P. Child

Superintendent of the Kansas City Stock Yards, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 1848, and is a son of Dr. A. L. Child, who is Hving a retired life in Platsmonth, Neb. In 1854 the subject of this sketch, moved to Monmouth, Ills., and located on a farm, where he remained till the fall of 1859, and then he came to Kansas City; in the spring of 1861 went to Chicago, and spent his time in a school until the spring of 1863, when he apprenticed himself to the printer's trade, and was engaged in the Journal office for two years. Then had to retire from this position on account of his faihng health, and accepted the position as clerk for the Union Stock Yards, C. B. & Q. Division, continuing till the fall of 1869, when he returned to Kansas City and was engaged with J. L. Mitchener in buying and shipping live stock. June 2, 187 1, he was appointed yardmaster of

Henry E. Clark

Superintendent of the Gas Works, is a native of Massachusetts, born in Roxbury in 1829. He early immigrated to Pennsylvania, locating in Philadelphia, and in 1853 removed to Bloomington, III., and was for ten years connected with the gas works. In 1870 he took a trip to Denver, Col., and in 1871 came to Kansas City, taking charge of the gas works here. Since then he has been connected with them, and under his directions, the business has increased so rapidly that the company contemplate enlarging the building the coming year.

Thomas C. Clary

Dealer in drugs and medicines, was born in Lewis county. New York, on the 24th of July, 1846, where he lived with his parents until about eight years of age, and then removed to Wisconsin, settling in Waukesha county. Was brought up on a farm and attended the public schools. At the age of about twenty years he came to Kansas City, where he becime engaged in railroid business, first in the capacity of a fireman which he followed on the Fort Scott & Gulf road for the period of two years, and then as an engineer, in which capacity he continued for eleven years. He then worked at lead mining at Galena, ICausas, where he was very successful, following this for one and a half years. Then came to this city and embarked in the drug business, still retaining an interest in the mines. He has a fine brick residence and property on the bluff and flat in West Kansas City, besides a fine drug business, where he carries a stock worth about $2,000. He was married in the year 1872 to Miss Anna Flanery, of Kansas City; they have four children : James A., Thomas F., Joseph, and Anna M.

Architect, is a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Osburn) and was born in Linton Greene county, Ind. , July 5, 1852. When twelve years of age they moved to Menomee, Wis, his physical labor till nineteen years of age being that of a carpenter. Then went to Champaign, 111., taking a course of studies in the State Industrial University, graduating in his profession in 1875, after which he took a post-graduate course of two years, having charge of the practical part of the architectural school. In the spring of 1878 he located in Kansas City, and immediately began the practice of his profession, which he has pursued with a considerable degree of success. He was married to Miss Alice Lee, June 15, 1876. She is a native of Mt. Auburn, 111. They have one child, Corinne.

William H. Coe

Physician and Surgeon. The subject of this sketch was born in DeKalb county, Georgia, July 17, 1849, ^^^ removed with his parents to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was reared. He received a good English and classical education at the schools and academy, at Atlanta, and at Conyers Institute near that city, and at the age of eighteen entered upon a regular course of medical study under the instructions of Dr. J. F. Alexander, a physician of fine professional attainments and much practical skill. Graduating from Atlanta Medical College in 1871, he formed a partnership with Dr. Alexander, which continued for three years. In 1872 Dr. Goe was elected city physician of Atlanta, and a member of the board of health. During the same year he was also elected adjunct professor to the chair of diseases of the eye and ear and clinical surgery, in Atlanta Medical College, which position he held for two years. In 1874 he was elected secretary of the board of health, and two years later was made its president and became the chief health -officer of the city. He was a member of the State Medical Association of Georgia, and also a member of the Atlanta Academy of Medicine. For a man of his years Dr. Coe has had a large experience, and has been intimately associated with the ablest physicians of Georgia. He attended Hon. Alexander H. Stephens during his severe illness in 1876, at Liberty Ha,ll, Crawfordsville, Georgia, and has since Tcceived from that distinguished statesman a most flattering testimonial of personal respect and professional appreciation. Dr. Coe is a man of pleasing address and progressive ideas. He is a devoted medical student and a close observer of human nature. He came to Kansas City in March, 1878, and bids fair to make his mark in his chosen profession in his new home.

W. H. Collins

Druggist, was born in Howard county, Missouri, October 4, 1848, and when ten years of age removed with his parents to Clinton county, this State, residing there a short time ; thence to Henry county, where he lived until his majority. In 1869 he commenced the study of his profession under the direction of J. D. Trolinger, of Clinton, Missouri, where he continued to live and follow his profession for several years. From this place, came to Kansas City, where he has made it his home ever since. Shortly after coming here he accepted a clerkship in a drug store, which position he held for eight years, daring four of which he took full charge of the store. In 1878, he established his business in the large room, where he does a large business, and has built up an enviable reputation as a careful prescriptionist. On the i8th day of July, 1880, he married Miss Lota Gage, of Kansas City, but a native of Kansas, born in Leavenworth, and the daughter of Henry Gage, Esq.

John Conlon

Machinist and plasterer by trade, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1845, and when eighteen years of age immigrated to the United States, landing at St. Louis, Mo. He early entered the Model National School, where he pursued his studies faithfully until 1864, when he graduated. He continued to reside in St. Louis, working at his trade of carpenter, until 1868, when he came to Kansas City, and resumed his former occupation ; and he has built many fine buildings here. In May, 1880, he became engaged as book-keeper in the establishment of R. B. Farley, where he is now employed.

John D. S. Cook

Was born in Ulster county. New York, and when an infant removed to Oswego county, receiving a common school education there and in Ulster county, where the family returned in [847. In 1845, his father went to Sullivan county and to Wayne county, Pennsylvania, in 1850, and during this time, John was attending the Delaware Literary Institute, of Franklin, Delaware county. New York, where he completed preparations for college in 1852. Then taught school in northern Pennsylvania until the fall of 1855, when heentered Union College, at Schenectady, graduating therefrom in 1859, in the last class taught by the famous Dr. Nott. He studied law in Kingston, N. Y. , and also at the Albany Law School, where he graduated in 1861, and then returned to Kingston, remaining in the office of his former perceptor until October, 1861. He was mustered into the U. S. service as first-lieutenant of Company I, 20th regiment N. Y. S. M., and commanded his company at the battles of Norman's Ford, Warrentowa Springs, Second Bull Run, and Chantilly, Va., in August and September, 1862, and at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 15-17, 1862. Was promoted to captain in March, 1863, and promoted provost marshal at Aqua Creek, Va., in May and June, 1863. He also commanded the company at the battle of Gettysburg, Penn., and after that fight was attached to the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, taking part in its campaign in Virginia, at Mine River, under General Meade, and in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and before Petersburg, under General Grant. December 19, 1864, he resigned from the army, on account of the death of his father, returned to Pennsylvania, and settled up the estate, and in the fall of 1865 was married to Rose E. Barlow, of Scranton, same State. Then he removed to Caldwell county, Missouri, and engaged in the practice of law, holding the positions of county attorney two years and assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1867-8. In 1870 came to Kansas City, and has since been practicing his " profession. Was register in bankruptcy in June, 1874, holding the office until the repeal of the law. He is Republican in politics, and has been a delegate to several State conventions, and was alternate delegate to the Chicago National Convention in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have four children, two sons and two daughters.

James W. Cook

Was born in Lexington, Kentucky, March 3r, 1821, and resided there until his majority, receiving his education in the schools of that city. In 1856 he removed to Kansas City, and soon after engaged in the dry goods business, con- tinuing it until i868. During this time was also engaged in the real estate business and ran a dairy for eight years, milking as many as thirty cows at a time. In 1859 he was elected a member of the city council, and again in 1868, serving for two years. He is the originator of what is known as the Kansas City Greenback Scrip, which was the result of saving to the citizens of thousands of dollars. As a citizen, he stands high in the estimation of the people. Has been twice married. First, in 1846 to Miss Eliza A. Pickett, of Lexington. She died March 15, 1880, leaving six children : William P., George W., Thomas H., Jennie C., John R. and Henry C. His second marriage occurred in April, 1881, to Miss Fannie A. Baird, of Lexington, and a sister-in-law of the celebrated temperance lecturer, Geo. W. Baird.

D. J. Coon

Dealer in mantels, grates, brass andirons, fenders, etc. This is a branch of business quite new west of the Mississippi. The beautiful designs in mantels, brass findings and floor tiles, both American and imported, are enough to convince purchasers wishing to ornament their houses that they cannot be excelled anywhere. He has had a long experience in the business. He is a native of New Jersey, having been born at Plainfield, April 21, 1848. His first experience in the business was in the house of W. D. & A. S. Nichols, of New York City, as clerk, being with this firm from 187 1 to '78. He came to Kansas City in January, 1879, and opened his business in 716 Main street, where he has two rooms, each twenty-two by sixty-five being his sample and sale-rooms, also having a large stock in store in his store-room on Grand avenue. His patrons are in many of the western towns of Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.

George C. Cowart

Attorney. Was born in Canton, April 23, 1846. He was educated in Columbia College, New York, graduating in 1869. After graduating he went to Newark, New Jersey, where he studied law under Hon. A. S. Hubbell, and was admitted to the bar at the same place in February, 1871, and where he practiced until July, 1877. Then came to Kansas City and opened an office in No. 16, West Fifth street.

Henry H. Craig

Is a native of Woodford county, Kentucky, and was born March 13, 1849. He was the son of Henry H. and Emily C. , who belong to one of the oldest and most honored families of Kentucky, and who can trace their genealogy back several hundred years. Henry was educated in his native State and showed a taste to no small extent, for mathematics and classics. He also enjoyed outdoor sports, and when about fourteen years of age left home and joined Scott's Louisiana Cavalry. When eighteen years old he began to teach school, and followed this profession several terms. In 1868 he began the study of law at Versailles, Kentucky, with Gov. T. P. Potter and was licensed to practice by two Supreme Judges, Chief Justice Williams and Judge Robinson. In 1869 he moved to Kansas City and began the practice of his profession. Mr. Craig was elected in November, 1876, by a large majority to the Missouri House of Representatives from the fourth district of Jackson county. He acted on several important committes, notwithstanding he was one of the youngest members of the house. He has held the position of Past Chancellor in the order of Knights of Pythias. We should mention the company of "Craig Rifles," of Kansas City. This military organization originated amidst the excitement of the labor strike of July, 1877. The city was then without available means of defense and was hourly threatened by riotous bands and gangs of vagrants, made bold by its helplessness. At this time Mr. C. called around him a band of young men for the defense of the city. The organization was effected one night in the new court house and

Capt. Craig had under his command i6o men rank and file. After the strike was over the company dis"banded, and the younger members organized a permanent military company which they named " Craig Rifles," in honor of our subject. In 1880 Mr. C. was appointed by the Governor, Police Commissioner, which position he now holds.

Seneca L. Crane

Weighmaster at Kansas City stock yards, Pacific side. Was born in Portage county, Ohio, July 23, 1840, and was reared and educated in his native county. His father, Edward M., was born in the same county June 16, 1810, where he yet resides, and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits from youth. In the fall of 1861 the subject of this sketch went to Michigan for a short time and soon returned to Ohio. In the fall of 1862 he went to Wisconsin and was there engaged in the pineries. In June, 1863, went to Minnesota for a short time, and thence to Hancock, county, Illinois, where he was engaged in the stock business till December, 1864. From there to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was employed in the quartermaster department from January, 1865, till June, 1865, when he went to his native home. Remaining two months he went to Hancock county, Illinois, and in November, 1867, came to Kansas City, where he was engaged under the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, holding different offices till November, 1878. Then began work for the Kansas City stock yards company as night yardmaster, retaining this position one year, when he was appointed to his present situation. Was married to Miss Addie McGowan, of Albany, New York, November 9, 1871. They have one child, Frank A., born February 5, 1877.

A. B. Cross

Architect. Was born near Camden, New York, December 9, 1826, where he lived with his parents until he attained his majority, obtaining a good common school education. When twenty-one, in 1847, he went into the office of A. B. Stone, an architect, of New York City, where he studied the principles of architecture for two years, and then went to St. Louis, Missouri, finishing his studies with John Johnson, studying with him two years, and then, in 1851, became connected with him in the business in that city, and remained with him until 1858, when he came to Kansas City. He is the pioneer architect of the city, and to whom it is indebted for many of its beautiful buildings. His patrons are not only found in Kansas City, or the State of Missouri, but his designs are to be seen in the cities and towns of Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. In April, 1858, he married Mrs. R. Taylor, of St. Louis.

Louis Daenzer

Dealer in fruits, confectionery, cigars, etc. Was born in Prussia, on the Rhine, March 8, 1828. At the age of fourteen he started out for himself, and found employment at Griessen University, where he remained three years. Then went to various places until he found himself at Heidelberg, where he remained during the revolution of Baden, being employed as waiter in several principal hotels, more particularly the Prince Karl, and while there served many important personages, among whom were the Queen of England, Emperor of Germany, and Emperor of Russia. Leaving he went to London and found employment in the Cafe Verry, the famous French restaurant, remaining there during the exhibition of 1851. Then went to the Royal Hotel, Manchester, England, there meeting one of the proprietors of the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York City ; he engaged with him as head waiter for that hotel, sailed at once for New York, where he arrived in April, r854; remained in that position one year. Came thence to Chicago, where he formed a co-partnership with a Mr. May ; they started one of the first first-class European hotels in that city. Sold his interest to his partner in the fall of 1857, and came to Kansas City, where he opened a fruit and confectionery store on Main street. In 1874 he removed to Wyandott county, Kansas, there following farming until opening his present place. He was married at Chicago, Illinois, in November, 1856, to Miss Emelia Steiger. Six children have been born to them, five now living. Mrs. Daenzer died in Kansas, September 14, 1876.

Physician and surgeon. Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of October, 1848, and was educated in the schools of that city, where he received a fine education. At the age of seventeen years he entered a noted college, at which school he was a student for about two years, when he entered the University of Pennsylvania. There he took a four years' course, including his medical education. He began the study of medicine in 1868, and graduated on the i2th of March, 1872. After graduating he went to Bedford, Bedford county, where he engaged in the practice of his profession, and continued in business there for eight years. He served three years in the capacity of surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and in this secured a good education in surgery. He was also county physician for Bedford county for two years. He came to Kansas City on the 20th of April, 1880, and commenced the practice of his profession, and by attention t© business has succeeded in working up a nice practice. He was corresponding secretary of the Bedford County Medical Society while in Bedford.

W. T. Dawson

Physician and surgeon. Was born May 22, 1857, in Columbus, Georgia, and is of Scotch descent. He was principally reared in Baltimore, Maryland, and received excellent educational advantages, graduating from Princeton (New Jersey) College with honors in 1877. He then took a two years' course of medicine at the University of Maryland, and graduated from there and received his diploma. Then spent one year in the hospital there, and came to Kansas City in December, 1880. He intends making a permanent residence here, and possessing the true spirit of industry, and as he understands his profession thoroughly, he is already becoming very popular with the people of Kansas City.

Upholsterers. This firm is composed of H. L. DeLong and C. C. Baker. The former was born in the city of Utica, New York, on the nth day of March, 1843, where he was brought up and educated. There learned the trade of an upholsterer, where he worked under instructions from 1865 to 1868. After finishing his apprenticeship, he became engaged as a journeyman mechanic, serving, however, but a short time, when he traveled from city to city and followed his trade for several years. Finally settled at Binghamton, New York, where he was engaged at his trade for five years. In 1880 he came to Kansas City and entered into a partnership with a Mr. Reynolds in the upholstery business. January ist, 1881, the firm was dissolved and the present partnership was formed. He was married in 1871 to Miss Frances Reynolds, of New York. They have two children : Charlie R. and Dora Mary. Clarence C. Barker was born in Lee, Massachusetts, on the 25th of March, 1853, and, while young, his parents removed to Lenox, same State, where he was brought up and educated. There remained till the year 1880, except one year when he worked in Albany, New York. During his younger days he was engaged as a wholesale dealer in dressed cattle at Lenox, Massachusetts. In April, 1880, he came to Kansas City and engaged in a confectionery store, and on the ist of January, 1881, engaged in his present business. He was married on the 21st of September, 1871, to Miss Mary J. Fitch, who died on the 3d of August, 1878, leaving one child: Helen. These

With Thompson & Payne, live stock commission merchants, is now one of the oldest book-keepers in the yards, having begun in June, 1871. First with John B. Hunter & Co., till January, 1874, and from then was engaged in buying and shipping of stock till January, 1877, when he accepted his present position.

B. Dennis

Of the firm of Addison & Dennis. Was born in Lancaster county, Penn., December 9th, 1843, ^^'^ there resided with his parents until three years of age, when his father died. His mother being in poor health, he was taken to live with an uncle in Illinois. There they remained about two years and moved to Kansas in 1849, settling near Fort Scott. Here his uncle resided about one year removing to Allen county where our subject was reared and partly educated. Owing to tlie inefficiency of the schools he was sent to Lexington, Illinois, and remained in school there nearly three years. Then returned to Kansas, conducting the uncle's farm, and for six or eight years was largely engaged in raising cattle. Then commenced in the livery business at Humboldt, continued it a short time and again resumed farming. Soon after this in company with others, he took an extensive trip southwest by team, visiting the Gulf of California and other places of interest. Spent about two years traveUng, and for three years was engaged in the barber business at lola, Kansas. Thence to Independence, same State, resumed his business three years longer. During the troubles at the close of the late war he was connected with an association of detectives under the pay of the Government, rendering valuable service. Though young in years, he is old in experience. His marriage was to Miss Clara Bodley. In November, 1880, he became connected with Mr. Addison, and still continues the same.

Joseph C. Dickinson

Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 12th, 1817. His father dying when he was four years old, he lived with his mother on a farm near Christiana, in Lancaster county, where he received a good common school education, and pursued farming until 1847. Then he embarked in the mercantile business at Christiana, and did much in building up that place, erecting several dweUings, a large hotel and a warehouse. In 1847-8, he represented his district in the Pennsylvania Legislature. In 1857 he came to Missouri on a prospecting tour, and permanently located in Kansas City in 1859, where he is largely interested in real estate. He has been twice married. First, to Miss Sarah M. Sellers of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1842, who died in 1858 leaving four children: Esther, (wife of Isaac W. Haines, of Chester county. Pa.), Samuel S., Henry C, and Edgar P. He married his second wife, Mrs. Matilda McFarlan, of Indianapohs, in 1868. He was brought up a Quaker and still adheres to that faith. His wife is a member of the Second Presbyterian church of this city.

Was born in Trier, Prussia, in 182 1, where he was reared and had the advantages of a high school education. His father being a brewer, he was brought up to that business. On account of the revolution in Germany in 1848, he was obliged to leave his native country, he being president of the Lance Weir and favoring the assembly in opposition to the Government, had either to submit to a court martial or emigrate. Chosing the latter, he came to the United States and settled in Burlington, Iowa, and engaged in brewing with Charles Mahhnger. They did business together until 1852, when he retired from the firm and went to Musca- tine, Iowa, where he did an extensive coopering business until 18.156. Then changed from that to rectifying liquors, which he carried on in that city until 1861, when he removed his business to Kansas City. Continued it here until 1870, when he had to give it up on account of poor health. In 1869 he became president of the German Savings Bank of Kansas City, holding that position up to 1871, when he retired from business. In 1850 he married Miss Julia Geiss, of Barlington, Iowa, who died in Kansas City in 187 1, leaving four children ; Charles L. (police sergeant), Peter W. (sign painter), Henry (druggist clerk) and Ascora (mechanic).

Michael Diveley

Was born in Somerset county, Pa., December 8, 1828, and is of German descent. His father was a volunteer in the war of 1812, entering as captain, soon after was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and subsequently became brigadier-general. After receiving an academic education, Michael spent a year at Washington College, Pennsylvania, taking a commercial course, and in 1855 removed to Iowa City, Iowa, and engaged for a short time in land speculation. Then opened a wholesale grocery store, and continued in this until 185.8, when he came to Kansas City. In 1862-3 was a member of the city council, and filled the office of mayor in the early part of the latter year, while Mayor Payne was in the State Legislature. In 1867, in connection with several prominent men, Mr. Diveley organized the First National Bank of Kansas City, and was chosen its first president, a position he held for six years, when he resigned and became one of its directors. Was also president of the old Mechanics' Bank three years, and director six years. In 1872 was again elected a member of the city council, and appointed chairman of the finance committee, and while serving as such introduced a resolution for the investigation of the finances, which resulted in the discovery of frauds and defalcations to the amount of $150,000. In 1874 he opened a wholsale commission house under the firm name of Diveley & Co. In 1873 he was commissioned by Gov. Woodson as the representative of Missouri to the Vienna Exposition, and while on that side of the Atlantic, made an extensive tour through Europe. He is a member of the Board of Trade, and was one of the first directors of the Cameron Branch of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and, in connection with other enterprising men, secured the Kansas City & Santa Fe road, now the Ottawa branch of the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. September 13th, i860, he married Miss Hattie E. Sherman, of Elmira, N. V., a distant relative of General Sherman. They have one child, George S. Mrs. Diveley died March 17, i88o.

Architect. Was born in Brookfield, Worcester county, Massachusetts, August 13th, 1842. He was educated in the common and high schools of his native town and Worcester Academy, graduating from the latter in 1861. When eighteen, he enlisted in the Union army, being a member of Company I, 24th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers, going out as sergeant. In May, 1862, he was promoted to a commander of a battery of artillery, in which he served until December 4th, 1864. While in service he participated in thirty-six battles. When discharged he returned to his native town, and soon after engaged as builder and architect at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he followed that business until 1873. Then went to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he followed the same business until 1876. In 1877 ^^ designed and built the first buildings at Falmouth Heights, a watering place on the coast of Massachusetts, consisting of cottages, a chapel and a hotel. He came to Kansas City in 1879, and in the short time that he has been in the city has designed, drafted and superintended the construction of twenty buildings, among them the Wales Block, corner of