Johnson County, Missouri - - Biographical, 1918 (part 2 of 19)

Charles Houx, a prominent stockman of Centerview township, is a native of Johnson county and a member of a worthy pioneer family. He was born on the Philip Houx farm, the son of James H. Houx and the grandson of Philip Houx, who came from Kentucky to Missouri. About 1834 he settled on a farm in Centerview township. Philip Houx first located in Lafayette county upon coming from the South and later, when his son, James H., was seven years of age moved to Johnson county, where he lived the remainder of his life. His death occurred about 1854 and he was interred in the family cemetery. Charles Houx is one of seven children born to James H. and Mary Everett (Wilson) Houx, as follow: Charles H., the subject of this review; Edwin W. ; Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Williams, Columbia, Missouri ; Marie, who died in 1911; Albert, who died from drowning when seven years of age; Mrs. Roberta Edmiston, St. Louis. Missouri; and Samuel B., Houston, Texas. The mother, Mary Everett (Wilson) Houx, is a native of Virginia. She came to Missouri when about four 3'^ears of age, with her parents, who settled in Henry county. A sketch of Mrs. James H. Houx appears in this volume. James H. Houx died in 1903 and interment was made in the Warrensburg cemetery.

reared on the farm in Centerview township and nntil twenty-one years of age remained at home, assisting with the work of the farm. He then went to Colorado and for six years was engaged in the cattle business in that state, following ranch work. Wlien he returned to Johnson county he entered the stock business Jiere and has been thus engaged ever since. In 1900 Mr. Houx also became interested in a cattle ranch in New iVIexico. He is associated with the Felix Cattle Company in this connection and has at present five thousand cattle on the ranch, which is devoted exclusively to the breeding of white-face Herefords. At the present time Mr. Houx in addition ships to the market about twenty cars of cattle and hogs from Johnson county.

In 1907, Charles H. Houx was united in marriage with Ethel Clark, the daughter of H. F. and Rosa (Goff) Clark, of Warrensburg, Missouri, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. To Charles H. and Ethel (Clark) Houx have been born two children: Charles, Jr., and Edwin.

Mr. Houx has been director of the Bank of Centerview since its organization in 1893 and the president since 1900. The Bank of Centerview has at present a capital stock of fifteen thousand dollars and a surplus fund of fifteen thousand with deposits at the time of this writing amounting to one hundred thousand dollars. This bank is one of the soundest institutions of its size in the state. Mr. Houx is a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 673, of \\^arrensburg. Missouri. He is a fine, capable, promising young man who in a quiet and unassuming way is making a splendid success of life. i\Ir. Houx is the son of an old schoolmate of Senator Francis M. Cockrell. when he was a boy at Chapel Hill College.

R. H. Wood, ex-judge of Johnson county and a member of a pioneer familv, is a citizen of real worth. He was born March 22, 1841, in what is now Simpson township, Johnson county. He is the son of James M. and Angeline (Thornton) \\'ood, natives of Virginia. James M. Wood was born January 8, 1812. He came from Virginia to Missouri in 1831 and located temporarily in Saline county. In 1833 he moved to Johnson county and settled on a farm of eighty acres eighty miles north of Warrensburg, which land he entered from the government. This farm is now owned by his son, R. H. Wood, the subject of this review. Angeline (Thornton) Wood was born in 1817 in Orange (i6) county, Virginia, and when she was six years of age came with her parents, John and Ehzabeth Thornton, to Missouri. In 1833. they settled in Johnson county. Mrs. Wood was a writer of literary ability and in an article written relative to life in Missouri in the early days states that her father and mother ]i\ed in a tent on their land, which they entered from the government, until the double log cabin was built. James M. and Angeline (Thornton) Wood were the parents of eight children: Mary Susan, died at the age of twelve years; John William, died in infancy; Thomas, died at Virginia City, Montana; George Lewis, died in infancy; R. H.. the subject of this sketch; Benjamin, died in the Confederate service at Springfield, Missouri; James Leonidas, died in infancy; and W. W., a graduate of the Lexington Law School, Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The death of James M. Wood occurred in 1851 and interment was made in a private cemetery belonging to John Thornton, the father of Mrs. Wood. She survived her husband forty-seven years, and died January 8, 1908, at the age of ninety-one years. Her remains were interred in the Warrensburg cemetery.

R. H. Wood attended the public schools of Johnson county. .At the age of twenty years he enlisted in the Confederate army with a company formed at Lonejack which went south under the leadersiiip of Colonel Cockrell, and which was reorganized at McKittrick Springs. Arkansas, August 16, 1862, and served throughout the remainder of the war in Captain Crispin's company. Colonel Gordon's regiment and General Shelby's brigade. His regiment took an active part in the battles of Prairie Grove, Shelby's Ridge, Mark's Mill, and Saline river, Arkansas. They were after General Steel on his raid and participated in many skirmishes. Mr. Wood was in Louisiana when the war ended.

After the war closed, R. H. Wood returned to Saline county, Missouri, and at the expiration of two years returned to Johnson county and engaged in farming in Simpson township, where he resided until ten years ago, when he moved to Warrensburg. He was elected county judge of Johnson county, from the eastern district, and served two terms at the time Judge Stevens was the presiding judge, with I. G. Farnsworth as associate. During his term in office, the first concrete culverts were built in Johnson county. One culvert nurth and one south of Warrensburg were built to test their durability and to ascertain the cost. The experiment proved so satisfactory that no other kind are now built and the county road plan was adopted whereby three

December 3, 1867, R. H. Wood was united in marriage with Sarah D. Pemberton, of Saline county, Missouri. To this union were born seven children: James Madison, died in infancy; Edward R., resides in Colorado; ]\Irs. Sarah A. Foster. W'arrensburg; R. H., Jr., farmer in Simpson township; Thomas P., Parkin, Arkansas; James Madison, farmer, Simpson township; and Leslie M., Birmingham, Alabama. May 24, 1887, Mrs. Wood's death occurred and Inirial was made at Fair Oak cemetery. Later, R. H. Wood was married to Mrs. Agnes J. Foster, of Simpson township. She is a native of Indiana and was reared and educated in Iowa. Mrs. Wood attended the public schools of Ft. Madison, Iowa, and the Congregational Church school at Denmark, Iowa. By her former marriage, she has four children now living: Mrs. James R. Brown, Chickasha, Oklahoma; Mrs. Minnie Fryrear, Simpson township; D. E. Foster, Los Angeles. California; and Mrs. Nannie Taggart. Two children are deceased: James M., and George S. Mr. and Mrs. W^ood reside in W'arrensburg in their home, on Grover street, which they purchased in 1911 from Judge Bradley. Besides the city residence, Mr. Wood is owner of the home place of eighty acVes of land in Simpson township and an adjoining farm, comprising four hundred twenty acres in all. Mrs. Nannie Taggart is a resident of Simpson township.

For seventy-six years, R. H. A\'ood has been a resident of Johnson county. He has seen all the changes incident to the growth and development of the county and has always done his part in advancing the interests of his county and state. No man in Johnson county is more deeply interested than he in movements which have for their object public improvement and moral uplift and to them he has ever given his most earnest support and encouragement. Mr. Wood is a fine conversationalist, possessing a fund of interesting stories of pioneer and war days. He recalls the time when but two residences were between his old home and Warrensburg, a distance of eight miles, and there were only two stores in tlie old town, one of wliich was conducted by Mr. Tilford. In the early days, every country store kept a barrel of whiskev in stock as one of the staple articles and retailed it from the barrel by the drink, pint, quart, or gallon. The sales were almost invariably made in quantities, for if a man just wished a drink he helped himself or was invited bv the merchant to take one.

Benoia Scott, a veteran of the Civil War and prominent citizen of Johnson county, is a resident of Warrensburg of real v^'orth. He was born August 13, 1844, in Illinois, the son of Robert and Mary (McGinnis I Scott. Robert Scott was a native of Indiana and Mary (McGinnis) Scott was a native of Virginia. The Scott family moved to Illinois and located in Macoupin county, near Scottville, which was named in honor of Robert Scott. When Benoia Scott was a child two years of age, his mother died and two years later the death of his father occurred in Bloomington, Illinois, leaving four small children to be separated and reared by strangers. The children of Robert and Mary Scott are: Thomas, who was reared in Pike county. Illinois, and now resides in Montana, Kansas; John W., who was reared by James Moore in Johnson county, Missouri, and now resides in Laidlaw. Oregon; Benoia, subject of this review: and Eliza Ann, who graduated from the Jacksonville Female Seminary and later married John W. Morgan and whose address is now unknown.

The three Scott brothers enlisted in the Union army during the Civil War: Thomas W., in Company D. One Hundred Nineteenth Illinois Infantry; John W., in Company G, One Hundred First Illinois Infantry; and Benoia, in Company B. One Hundred Twenty-second Illinois Infantry. After the war had ended, Benoia Scott visited his grandmother, who informed him of the enlistment of each of his brothers and of their services in the Union army. Until that time not one of the brothers knew of the enlistment of the others nor, in fact, anything about them. The three brothers met for the first time, within their recollection, in October, 1865.

August 4, 1865, Benoia Scott received his honorable discharge at Springfield, Illinois. He served faithfully throughout the war and while he never missed a march, skirmish, or battle, in which his cc^mpany was engaged, Mr. Scott was never confined in the hospital and practically went through the war unscathed. A slight wound in the left hand, received at Ft. Blakely, April 9. 1865, where General Francis M. Cockrell's brigade surrendered, was the only injury he ever receixcd.

General John B. Stone, of Kansas City, Missouri, who was president of the Ex-confederate Organization of Missouri, and Benoia Scott are the best and closest of friends and yet the first time they met was when tlicy faced each other in the trenches in April, 1865, at Ft. Blakely. Alabama. Stone proposed an armistice one day when the troops lay on their arms and Scott agreed. The two captains met between lines for a few nionients and agreed to give thirty minutes' notice before liring should begin on either side up to a certain point on the line. The Yankees were shy on tobacco, the Rebels on coffee. Why not swap? They did, and in the trying hours which followed the Union boys enjoyed some good smokes while the Confederates were drinking fine, old, black cofifee. \\'hen the attack came, it sci Iiappened that John B. .Stone was made prisoner by Scott's men and the sword of Stone delivered l)y him to Scott. At Mr. Scott's recjuest, a parole was given John B. Stone. Before leaving Alabama, Mr. Scott was a guest of the Stone family, and father, mother, and sisters united in giving him a pleasant welcome, treating him with true Southern hospitality, "i'ears afterwards. Colonel Bob Dalton one day mentioned John B. Stone in a conversation held in Warrensburg. 'T wonder." said Benoia Scott, "if he might be John B. Stone whom I met at Ft. Blakeh'?" Dalton promised to find out, and an invitation to Kansas City, Missouri, for a visit with his old friend was the result. Benoia Scott accepted the invitation not once but many times and the Kansas City papers have repeatedly told of their meetings and of the handgrasp they now give one another and of the stories they tell of other days. Mr. Scott has in his possession many newspaper clippings of these comments and "writeups," which include pictures of both men. When the Confederate Reunion was held in Warrensburg, John B. Stone was the guest of Benoia Scott. The story of the "cementing of the Union" is no better illustrated than with the friendship of Benoia Scott and John B. Stone, wdio at one time faced each other in opposition at the battle's front. All honor and praise to them!

March 29, 1866, Benoia Scott came to Hickory county, ^Missouri, from Scottville, Illinois. lie purchased sixty acres of land in Hickory county and built a cabin home. For thirty-two years he remained there and gradually increased his holdings, until he at one time was owner of six hundred acres of land there. In September, 1898, he left Hickory county and moved to AVarrensburg.

November 11, 1866, Benoia Scott was united in marriage with Mary Annes Estes, the daughter of Elisha and Mary Estes, of Hickory county, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are the parents of seven children: Dr. W. C. Scott, Afton, Oklahoma: Dr. J. O. Scott. Holland. Michigan: Mrs. Bertha May Brown, who died in Hickory county, ^Missouri, and is interred in Cross Timbers cemetery: Dr. N. E. Scott, who is now state manager for the Tvansas City Eife Insurance Company in the state of

Washington and resides in Walla Walla, Washington; Ora Annas, Seattle, Washington; Mrs. Mary Gertrude Hemphill, Joplin, Missouri; and Benoia Beatrice, who will graduate from the Warrensburg State Normal School in the class of 1918 and she resides at home with her parents. Though Mr. and Mrs. Scott resided on the farm, each of their children was given the best of educational advantages. All have collegiate educations and all, with the exception of the youngest, Benoia Beatrice, have been teachers. Mr. and Mrs. Scott celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary November 11, 1916, at their home at 614 Highland avenue in Warrensburg.

Jacob Heberling, a leading merchant of W^arrensburg and a pioneer of Johnson county worthy of the highest esteem, is a native of Germany. He was born in 1841, the son of John and Margareta (Piskato) Heberling, who were the parents of the following children: John, who immigrated to America in 1835 and located in Ohio for two years when he came to Missouri in 1857 and entered the meat business as butcher in Warrensburg, in which business he was employed for more than forty years, when his death occurred, April 20, 1917, at the age of eighty-one years and twenty days, in Warrensburg; Jacob, the subject of this review; Fred, a retired merchant of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Kate Ringer, Chicago, Illinois ; and William, a prominent stockman of Warrensburg, who for years was engaged in the meat business as butcher.

Jacob Heberling immigrated to America in the spring of 1868 and located in Warrensburg, where he and his brother, Fred, opened a small boot and shoe factory. Later Jacob Heberling engaged in the manufacture of shoes alone. This factor}^ at one time made a thousand pairs of shoes a day . Both boots and shoes were made in the factory, which was located on the square in Warrensburg. One building was situated on Culton street. Jacob Heberling discontinued his business in 1891 when he moved the factory to Ft. Smith. Arkansas. Later, he sold his interest in the factory at Ft. Smith. The first retail store of the Heberling brothers was located on Pine street in Warrensburg. In the early days the Heberlings took measures for hand-made boots and shoes, in the case of special orders, and an extensive trade was then built, which still continues. Mr. Pleberling handles only first-class goods and the fact that he does not know how to build a shoddy shoe, and would not if he knew, has made the name of Heberling a splendid reinitation and a valua1)le business asset. Customers of exclusive tastes, who have been dealing with the firm for more than fifty years, still find their way to the Heberling store. The trade extends into Cass, Henry, Lafayette, and Pettis counties and Kansas City, Missouri. The present location of the Heberling store is at 208 North Holden street in Warrensburg, and here Mr. Heberling and his sons, Adolph and Otto, conduct a shoe store and repair shop.

In Germany. Jacob Heberling and Leonore Heberling were united in marriage. While they l)ore the same name. Jacob Heberling and Leonore Heberling were not relative.^. Within a short time after coming to America, Mrs. Heberling died, about 1870. In 1873, Jacob Heberling was united in marriage .with Mary Behron. of Warrensburg. To Jacob and Mary Heberling were born the following children: William, who is superintendent and engineer of a copper mine on the Glorieta Ranch in New Mexico: Jacob B.. a shoe merchant in Columbia, Missouri; Mrs. Julia Anderson. Warrensburg: Adolph B. and Otto, who are associated in business with their father in Warrensburg: Frances, who resides at home with her father; Lillian, who died at the age of sixteen years; Robert, who died at the age of three years; and one son and one daughter died in infancy. Mary (Behron) Heberling died in 1911 in Warrensburg. and interment was made in the Warrensburg cemetery. Mr. Heberling resides in North Warrensburg.

Besides his home. Jacob Heberling is owner of two store buildings on West Market street in \Varrensburg and the Heberling shoe store on North Holden street. He is one of Johnson county's most substantial and highly regarded citizens.

William E. Johnson, M. D., a well-known and successful physician of Warrensburg. is a native of ^fnnroe county. Missouri. He was born December 10, 187.^, a son of Dr. E. \\'. and Frances (Bradley) Johnson, natives of Monroe county. Three brothers of Dr. F. W. Johnson were physicians: G. A., Robert, and William. Dr. William F. Johnson was the only child born to bis parents. His father died in 1913 and interment was made in the cemetery at Centralia. His widowed mother now resides in Centralia.

Dr. \\'illiam E. Johnson is a graduate of the Centralia High School. Centralia, Missouri, and of Barnes' Medical College. St. Louis. Missouri. He is a post-graduate of the New York Polyclinic and the New York Medical School. He was graduated from Barnes' Medical College in the class of 1896. Doctor Johnson began the practice of medi- cine at Tulip, Missouri, in 1896. He remained tiiere four years, when he moved to Warrensburg in 1900 and located his office at 205 North Holden street. Two years later, he moved his office to his present location at 202 North Holden street.

In 1900, Dr. William E. Johnson was united in marriage with Mary Edna Young, of Monroe county, Missouri. To this union was born one child, a son, William. Mary Edna (Young) Johnson died in 1904. In 1906, Doctor Johnson was united in marriage with Martha (Young) Wetmore, of Monroe county, a sister of his former wife. Doctor and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of three children : James Young, Lynn Francis, and Charles. Doctor Johnson's home is located in Warrensburg at 210 East Gay street.

No physician in Johnson county is held in higher esteem than Doctor Johnson. He has an excellent practice, for which he is well qualified, possessing a well-trained mind, keen, deliberate judgment, and a quiet, attentive manner.

John A. Doak, retired pioneer of Holden, Missouri, is one of the oldest of Missouri's native-born pioneer settlers. Four score and three years ago, this patriarch was born in Missouri, a son of one of the earliest of the brave pioneer settlers, who redeemed this great state from a wilderness of plain and forest and made it habitable for mankind. Nearly ninety years have elapsed since the Doak family settled in Missouri and during that period a great nation has grown and the great state of Missouri has achieved a foremost place among the galaxy of states which make up the greatest republic on earth of which history has ever recorded the story. Probably no living man has witnessed more or greater changes than John A. Doak. the pioneer of Holden, Missouri.

John A. Doak was born in 1834 on a pioneer farm in Lafayette county, Missouri. He is a son of Alexander and Alary .\. (Campbell) Doak, both of whom were of old Southern pioneer stock, .\lexander Doak was a native of Tennessee and his wife was a native of Virginia. The two were married in Kentucky and resided in that state until 1828, when they came to Missouri, residing in Lafayette county until 1842. when they made a permanent settlement in Johnson county on a farm six miles south of Holden, on Bear creek. Here they developed a fine farm and spent the remainder of their lives. .-Mexander Doak entercd a small tract of government land and also bought land which was partly improved. He died in 1879, being followed to the Great Beyond by the wife and mother five years later, in 1884. This pioneer couple were parents of- eleven children, three girls and eight sons, only two of whom are now living: the subject of this review; and Mrs. Sarah J. Raker, who lives on a farm near Columbus, Missouri, in Johnson county.

John A. Doak was eight years of age when he accompanied his parents to the farm near Holden, J\Iissouri. He endured all the hardships of the pioneer era in the upbuilding of Johnson county and has a vivid recollection of conditions in Jolmson countv in the early forties. There was no city of Holden at that time and no one even dreamed of building a city on tiie present site. Lexington was the nearest trading point and this city was forty-five miles distant. The settlers followed the trail straight across country when it became necessary for them to go to Lexington for trading purposes, and the round trip would require several days. The settlements were all located along the creeks so that the pioneer families would be provided with two prime necessities in those days - water and timber, the latter for fuel and building purposes. There were no luxuries although food was plentiful and wild game, such as deer, turkeys and prairie chickens, abounded and could be killed from the front door. The settlers supplied their tables with plenty of wild game, such as would be an unheardof luxury at the present day. The pioneer iiad meats and food stuits which are high-priced at the present day and he had no longing for other luxuries which were beyond his means. All lived alike: none were overly rich: everybody tried to be neighborly and kind: all \ied with one another in making the newcomer feel at home and assisted him and his in every way possible. Mr. Doak has witnessed prairie fires and assisted in subduing them. Tliis patriarch attended the oldtime "subscription schools" in a little log school house, roughly and poorly furnished with crude, hand-made benches. The only ^-entiIation or light was admitted to the hut by means of a hole made by omitting a log in the side of the Imilding. His first teaclier was W. L. King. He was later taught b\- Wr. Emerson. Mr. Doak engaged in farming and became very prosperous as a successful farmer and stockman in the vicinity of Holden. He remained on his farm until 1901. at which time he removed to Holden and is now living in comfortable retirement and trulv enjoving the e\-entide of life after a long and productive period of energetic endeavor. Mr. Doak disposed of his farm lands and has carefully invested his life earnings so that the returns from his well-earned hoard will yield him a comfortable income for the remainder of his days.

John A. Doak was united in the bonds of matrimony with Susan J. Potts of North Carolina in 1855. To this union have been born seven children: Susan Ann, who died in childhood; William M., deceased; Tobias S., a farmer located near Chilhowee; Dora, deceased; Charles, now living in Arkansas; James, deceased; and Robert, deceased. The mother of the above named children departed this life in 1872. Two years later, in 1874, Mr. Doak was married to Martha C. Tuttle, a native of Cole county, Missouri, and daughter of John Tuttle, who was born and reared in Maryland and came to Missouri and made a settlement in Johnson county in 1866. The Tuttles spent their lives in useful farming pursuits in Johnson county and were well-respected citizens. To this second marriage of John A. Doak were born two daughters, as follow: Etta May, wife of Oscar Phipps, living on a farm south of Holden; and Mary E., deceased.

Mr. Doak has been one of the most useful citizens of Johnson county and has filled various olifices of trust and honor conferred upon him by his fellow-citizens . For a period of twenty-five years, he capably filled the office of justice of the peace and also served as a member of the school board. This patriarch also has an honorable war record of which his descendants may be proud. He, with five brothers, served in the Confederate Army during the war between the states and he was the only one of the six boys who came out of the terrible conflict alive. Mr. Doak enlisted in 1861 and served as a member of Company D, Sixteenth Missouri Infantry, Second Brigade, under Colonel Jackman with whom he enlisted, serving also under General Price. He fought at the Battle of Prairie Grove and at Helena, Arkansas, taking an active part in countless minor battles and skirmishes. The nearest he ever came to Ijeing wounded was when a bullet passed through his collar at Prairie Grove. His command operated extensively in Missouri and Arkansas awd Mr. Doak served the cause until the close of the war.

Mr. Doak is religiouly inclined and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Soutli. since 1856. He is a stockholder in the Blairstown Bank and is a stockholder and a director of the Farm- ers and Commercial Bank of Holclen. He is numbered among Holden's most substantial and respected citizens and has many warm and steadfast friends whom he has made by acts of kindness and by honorable and honest dealings during the many active years which he has been a factor in the development of Johnson county.

W. L. Hedges, M. D., vice-president of the Commercial Bank of Warrensburg, was born December 17. 1842, in Bath county, Kentucky, son of James F. and Ruth J. (Brown) Hedges. James F. Hedges was born in 1822 in Bourbon county, Kentucky. He was of English lineage and a descendant of the family of Hedges, who came to .\merica with the first colony sailing from England for ^laryland, which colony entered the Chesapeake late in February, 1634. Ruth J. (Brown) Hedges was a native of Nicholas county, Kentucky, and of Irish descent. To James F. and Ruth J. (Brown) Hedges were born the following children: W. L., the subject of this sketch; Benjamin F., who was principal of the Polk public school, St. Louis, Missouri, at the time of his death in 1881; Milton B., a retired merchant of Stillwater, Oklahoma: Mrs. Fannie E. Clark, Rich Hill, Missouri ; John F., who was a prominent merchant of Stillwater, Oklahoma, where his death occurred about 1912 as the result of a surgical operation: Mrs. Belle Shirley, Chanute, Kansas: James H., a railroad contractor residing in Springfield. I\Iissouri; and Mrs. Rolla J. Booth, Rich Hill, Missouri.

The Hedges family moved from Kentucky to Indiana in 1852 and located in Putnam county, where James F. Hedges purchased a farm of two hundred forty acres, upon which the town of Carpentersville was later built. Within a short time, Mr. Hedges disposed of this farm and bought another, upon which they resided until 1856, when the family moved to Illinois, locating on a farm which Air. Hedges purchased in ^Macoupin county. They remained upon this farm until the time of the Civil War, when they moved to Girard, Macoupin county. In 1869, on account of business reverses, James F. Hedges left Girard, Illinois, and went to Emporia, Kansas, near which he owned land. He moved to \\'arrensburg, Missouri, in 1872 and remained one year, when he moved to Fredonia, Kansas, and in 1881, to Rich Hill, Missouri, at which place Mrs. Hedges died in 1882. Fourteen years later her husband died in Rich Hill. Interment for both fatlier and mother was made in the cemetery at Rich Hill.

Scottville, Illinois and in an academy of that state. He enlisted in the Union army in 1862 and served throughout the war, returning to school when the war had ended. He entered Lunbard University at Galesburg, Illinois, in the fall of 1865 and was in attendance at that institution two years. Dr. Hedges began the study of medicine with Dr. F. Jones, an eminent ph3^sician of his day, and attended a course of lectures at the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College at Chicago, Illinois, in 1867-68, and the next year entered the St. Louis Medical College, where he was graduated February 24, 1869.

W. L. Hedges enlisted in Company B, One Hundred Twenty-second Illinois Infantry, August 13, 1862. He lacked three votes of being elected lieutenant. On account of his age, which was only nineteen years, he preferred to serve as pri\-ate. His company was assigned to the Army of Tennessee and in the battle of Parker's Cross Roads was cut to pieces. December 31, 1862. a l)ursting shell knocked young Hedges down, but no permanent injury was received. The following spring of 1863 he took an active part in the battle of Town Creek. Alabama, which lasted from April 15 until April 25. July 14, 1864, his company was engaged in the battle of Tueplo, Mississippi, and in October of the same year was in pursuit of General Sterling Price, marching from the barracks at St. Louis through Jefferson City, Sedalia. Lexington, Independence, Old Santa Fe, to Harrisonville and back to the barracks through Pleasant Hill, Lexington, Glasgow. Columbia, and St. Charles, a total distance of about six hundred miles within forty-one days. December 15-16 the battle of Nashville, Tennessee was fought, in which Doctor Hedges' regiment lost twenty-six men. They then marched to Eastport, Mississippi, whence they were transported to New Orleans and shortly after to Mobile. Alabama, by steamer. The regiment assisted in taking Spanish Fort and Ft. Blakely, Alabama, April 9-10, losing twenty men, killed and wounded. After a march of more than two hundred miles the regiment arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, where they learned of Lee's surrender. Doctor Hedges returned to Mobile, Alabama, where he was appointed mail clerk, his run Iieing from Mobile to New Orleans by boat. He receixed extra pay for his services in that capacity. He was mustered out July 15, 1865, and arrived in Springfield, Illinois, .August 4. 1865.

tice of medicine after the war. prior to his graduation from the medical school in 1869. In 1871 Dr. Hedges came to Warrensburg and opened an office. He was elected honorary member of the Kansas State Homeopathic Institute in 1873 and in 1876 Doctor Hedges became a member of the National American Institute, the oldest medical society in the United States. He has also been a meml)er of the Missouri Homeopathic Institute, of which he was president in 1879 and 1880.

May 30, 1877, Dr. W. L. Hedges was united in marriage with Virginia A. Gilkeson, of A\'arrensl)urg. Doctor and Mrs. Hedges celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary May 30. 1917, at their home at 215 West Gay street in Warrensburg. Mrs. Hedges has always taken an active interest and prominent part in religious and literary work. She has served as corresponding secretary of the Christian Women's Board of Missions and for five years was president of the Equal Suffrage Association of ^lissouri.

Dr. W". L. Hedges has filled many prominent offices within the gift of the Republican party, of which he is an influential member. In 1878 he was elected mayor of Warrensburg and continued in that capacity five years, and served as president of the Warrensburg school board at the same time, from 1878 to 1883. During his incumbency, the finances of the city were placed on a firm basis and the indebtedness satisfactorily arranged. He was appointed United States pension examining surgeon in 1879 and served eighteen years in that capacity. Doctor Hedges was a member of the Congressional Committee from the Si-xth district and chairman of the Congressional Convention, consisting of members from this district, which met at Butler. Missouri.

September 1. 1897, A. S. Mayes and Doctor Hedges founded the Com'mercial Bank of Warrensburg. Until January 1, 1917. Doctor Hedges was president of the banking institution. He resigned at that time and is now serving as vice-president. Prior to the organization of this bank, Dr. W. L. Hedges was a member of the board of directors of the Centerview State Bank and of the Peoples Bank of Warrensburg. He was also one of the organizers of the Johnson County Building Association, of which he was president for thirty-one years, resigning in April, 1916.

In 1865, Dr. W. L. Hedges was made a Master JMason and made a Roval Arch Mason in 1866. and in 1892 a Knights Templar. He is also affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He has been an active member of the Christian church since 1857. For many years he* was an elder and for more than five years served on the state board of missions and served as president of the Missionary Organization of Missouri one year.

Doctor Hedges has always been an active man of affairs and now at the age of seventy-five years is as alert physically and mentally as when he was appointed United States examining surgeon for pensioners of Johnson county in 1879. He attributes his remarkable strength and vigor to his war experience, which he believes hardened him and thus helped him bear the strain of the strenuous public life which followed. Dr. Hedges still stands five feet eleven inches, practically the same as when he entered the army. He is now, and has ever been, one of Johnson county's leading citizens.

H. F. Parker, M. D., the founder of the "Oak Hill Sanitarium" in Warrensburg, has not only pre-eminently succeeded in the practice of medicine in Johnson county but he has made a name for himself that is widely known and he is now only thirty-three years of age. Doctor Parker was born January 8. 1884, in Johnson county, the son of Col. J. H. and Elizabeth Ann (Field) Parker, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Missouri. Col. J. H. Parker was the son of William W. and Elizabeth A. (Higgins) Parker. The father of William W. Parker, Solomon Parker, was of Scotch descent and a lineal descendant of one of three brothers who emigrated from Scotland and settled in Jamestown, Virginia, during the earliest Colonial days.

William W. Parker came from Virginia to Missouri with his maternal grandfather, Mr. Higgins, and his son, J. H., and settled in Lafayette county in 1842, on tracts of land they had purchased and entered from the government. Their route to Missouri led over the Allegheny mountains and along the national road from Cumberland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Mr. Higgins died in Lexington, Missouri, in 1843 and in the same year his daughter, Elizabeth A. (Higgins) Parker, the mother of Col. J. H. Parker, also died. William W. Parker and his son, J. H., were engaged in the pursuits of agriculture in Lafayette county, as were also the family of Fields, prominent pioneers of Missouri. J. H. Parker and Elizabeth Ann Field were united in marriage in 1860 and to them were born the following children: William, a well-known farmer and stockman ; John, deceased ; Frank, deceased : Joseph, deceased: Sallie. deceased; James H., who is engaged in the real estate and stock business in Julesl)urg, Colorado; Bettie. deceased; and H. F., the subject of tiiis review. Col. J. H. Parker has l)een prominently connected with the early iiistory of Johnson county. Politically, he is af^liated with the Democratic i)art_\- and he represented Johnson county in the state Legislature. Colonel Parker has also filled a number of appointive offices. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted I\Iasons and the Cumberland Presbyterian church. While residing in Johnson county. Colonel Parker erected a church near his home and contributed generously toward its support. A sketch of Colonel and Mrs. Parker appears in the P>iographical History of Missouri in the edition of 1915.

Harry Field Parker was one of the youngest students wiio have attended the Warrensburg High School, graduating at the age of sixteen years. He entered the University of Missouri and was in attendance at that institution two years wdien he matriculated in the Medical School of Washington University. St. Louis. Missouri, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1906. For one year Doctor Parker w^as interne in the City Hospital of St. Louis, which was then under the direction of the board of health. Doctor Parker had charge of the Hearne Hospital in San Diego, California, for one year. In 1908 he returned to Warrensburg. Missouri, opened his office. and began at once an extensive practice. Three years after locating in Warrensburg. Doctor Parker founded the "Oak Hill Sanitarium." located at 519 South Holden street, which he still owns and maintains at a high standard. The hospital has the best and most modern equipment and is always filled to its capacity. The patients who have been taken there are among Doctor Parker's warmest friends and admirers upon leaving the sanitarium. It has proven of great value and has filled a long-felt need of the citizens of Warrensburg and adjoining counties. Doctor Parker devotes his time exclusively to his large practice. His practice is of a general nature and he has proven equally efficient as physician and surgeon. "Oak Hill Sanitarium" is open to all the physicians of Johnson county, wdio send many of their patients there. It is under the official management of Mrs. Maude M. Irwin, a trained nurse who has been connected with the institution since its founding,

November 25, 1908, Dr. Harry Field Parker was united in marriage with Martha Sousley, of Nebraska City. Nebraska. She is the daughter of Captain J. R. and Martha (Cheatham) Sousley, both of whom are now deceased. At the time of her marriage. Mrs. Parker resided in Lowville, New York. Doctor and Mrs. Parker reside in their home at 118 West Gay street in Warrensbiirg. Besides his city residence, Doctor Parker is owner of the "]\Ieadow Lawn Stock Farm," comprising four hundred acres of the best farm land in Hazel Hill township, and it is devoted to the breeding of Shorthorn cattle.

Thomas Lewis Des Combes, a retired farmer of Leeton, Missouri, is one of Johnson county's oldest pioneers. He was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, on May 1, 1838, the son of Charles Lewis and ]\lartha Ann (Wash) Des Combes, the former a native of Switzerland and the latter of Virginia. Charles Lewis and Martha Ann Des Combes were the parents of the following children : Thomas L., the subject of this review; Mrs. Mary Louise Crooks, Henry county, Missouri, born November 8, 1839; Adele Anne, born September 24, 1841, and was burned to death in 1857; Charles Edward, born, August 19, 1843, who enlisted in the Confederate service during the Civil War, serving under Francis M. Cockrell, and who is now deceased; William Frederick, born August 4, 1845, deceased; Rachel Rose, born October 11, 1849, deceased; Mrs. Martha Venable, Leeton, Missouri; John Nelson, who died at Leeton, Missouri; Susan Robertha, born November 30, 1854; Virginia Ellen, born September 3, 1867, deceased; and Eugene, who died in infancy. Charles Lewis Des Combes came to Missouri in 1821, an emigrant from Switzerland. He first located in St. Louis county, coming to Johnson county in 1856, where he entered four hundred acres of land in section 29 in Post Oak township. He and Mrs. Des Combes spent the remainder of their lives on this farm. Mrs. Des Combes died in March. 1893 and two years later, September 25, 1895, she was followed in deatli by her husband, nearly ninety years of age.

Thomas L. Des Combes was in the Confederate service almost three years. He took part in the liattles of Lonejack and Lexington, Missouri. From Lonejack his company was sent south and for seven days and nights Mr. Des Combes had no time for sleep, except that which he secured while on horseback. He belonged with the rear of the company but one time his horse carried him, while asleep, to the front. He was suddenly awakened by an officer calling. "Halt!" He was asked where he belonged.

The officer then commanded Air. Des Combes to disniouni and take a nap, telling him that he wouhl call him when the rest of his company came up to them. Mr. Des Combes was near Corsicana. Texas, when the war closed and he was mustered out at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1865. He returned home by way of St. Louis, Missouri.

After the war, Mr. Des Combes engaged in farming and until 1906 was thus employed. Eleven years ago he moved from the farm to Leeton, where he now resides. Besides his home in Leeton, Mr. Des Combes still owns the old home place, which com])rises two hundred forty acres of land southwest of Leeton, one and a fourtii miles, and forty acres in Henry county. One hundred si.xty acres of the farm are part of the original Des Comlies place, upon which both his father and mother died, ^^'hen Mr. Des Comities built his pioneer home, he bought the pine lumber in St. Louis, Missouri, shipped it to Lexington by boat, and then hauled the lumber from Lexington to his home, using a team of oxen. It took five days to make the trip.

On November 15, 1866, T. L. Des Combes was united in marriage with Sallie Virginia Bell, born July 3, 1843, in Morgan county, Missouri, the daughter of John and Martha Elizabeth Bell, pioneers of Cooper county, settling there in 1849. After the close of the Civil AA'ar they settled in Johnson county, where both died. Jolui Bell died in 1906. Mrs. Bell died in 1899.

To T. L. and Sallie A^irginia Des Combes ha\-e been born the following children: John L., W'arrensburg, Missouri; Mrs. Anna E. Holt, Warrensburg, Missouri: Mrs. Alary Eleanor Swigert, Leeton. Alissouri: AA'illiam T.. Leeton, Missouri : Henry C, Warrensburg. Missouri : Eugene, Leeton, Missouri : and Mrs. Sallie Catherman. Warrensburg, Missouri. Mr. Des Combes is now seventy-nine years of age and his wife is five years his junior, but both are as active and alert, physically and mentally, as many men and women twenty-fi\e )-ears younger. The Des Combes" name is destined to great longevity, for besides their four sons. Air. and Mrs. Des Combes have thirty-three grandchildren. It is a good, old name, one of which their descendants may well be proud.

On November 15, 1866, Air. and Mrs. Des Combes celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. All of their children with their families were present with thirty of the grandchildren present. It was a family reunion and a very happy one. On October 21. 1917, Sunday. ^Irs. Sallie Catherman gave a dinner in honor of the fifty-first wedding anni- versary and all the children excepting a daughter were present. The Des Combes family will make the family reunion an annual event. A purse of gold was gi\en to the aged couple by their children on the wedding anniversary reunion.

Mrs. Maude (Maxwell) Irwin, who is in charge of the "Oak Hill Sanitarium," located at 519 South Holden street in W'arrensburg, was born in Warrensburg. She is the daughter of Robert E. and Paralee (Baxter) Maxwell, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Kentucky. Robert E. Maxwell came to Johnson county in the seventies. He is a well-known and highly respected farmer and stockman now residing near Fayetteville, Missouri. Paralee (Baxter) Maxwell is the daughter of Newton H. and Sallie (Hawkins) Baxter. Newton H. Baxter was born December 13, 1828, in Madison county, Kentucky. He was united in marriage with Sallie Hawkins, August 5. 1850, and in 1870 they moved from Kentucky to Missouri, locating in Johnson county in 1871. Newton H. Baxter enlisted in the Civil War and served four years. He w^as actively and prominently identified with the commercial life of Warrensburg, Missouri, for forty-five years. Mrs. Baxter died in June, 1914, and August 30, 1914, the death of Newton H. Baxter occurred. Interment for both was made in the cemetery at Warrensburg. Newton H. and Sallie (Hawkins) Baxter were the parents of eight children and at the time of the death of Mr. Baxter in 1914 there were forty-eight grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, descendants of Newton H. and Sallie Baxter. To Robert E. and Paralee (Baxter) Maxwell were born the following children: R. F., who is now in San Antonio, Texas, with the United States Aviation Corps and is one of the two hundred ordered to France: Mark W., Chicago, Illinois; Alva D., a student in the Warrensburg State Normal School: and Mrs. Maude M. Irwin, the subject of this review.

Maude (Maxwell) Irwin attended the public schools of Warrensburg, and in Warrensburg began training for a nurse. She completed the nurse's training course at Washington University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Irwin came to "Oak Hill Sanitarium" one year after the institution was founded, serving in the capacity of head nurse. Two years later she assumed charge of the hospital. "Oak Ilill Sanitariimi" was established in 1910 by Dr. Harry F. Parker and all the physicians in the city send patients there. Acconnnodations can be made for as many as ten patients at one time and the hospital is always filled to its capacity. It has an excellent patronage and is one of the institutions of which Warrenslnirg and Johnson county are proud. Airs. Irwin is owner and manager, hut the Iniilding is the property of the founder, Doctor Parker.

John H. Wilson, merchant of Warrensburg, Missouri, was born in 1859 in Muskingum county, Ohio, the son of Alexander and Sarah (McCully) Wilson. Alexander Wilson was bom in Ohio. He came to Missouri in 1868 and located in Warrensburg, where he put in operation a foundry on the present site of the electric light plant. The foundry was devoted to structural iron work, making cultivators, field rollers, and other like machinery. Alexander Wilson operated this foundry until 1873. He had retired from business four years prior to his death, in 1877. Sarah (McCully) Wilson was also a native of Ohio. Her death occurred in Warrensburg in 1894. Interment for Ijoth father and mother was made in the cemetery at Warrensburg.

John H. Wilson is one of four children born to Alexander and Sarah (McCully) Wilson, as follow: Mrs. L. E. Coleman. Warrensburg; Mrs. Margaret Fisher, Marshall, Missouri: Mary C, who died about 1887 in Jefferson City. Missouri: and John H.. the subject of this review. John H. Wilson received his early education in the city schools of Warrensburg, Missouri. He later attended the Warrensburg State Normal School for two years, in 1872 and 1873. After leaving school Mr. Wilson was employed in the clothing business with Frank & Loebenstein, clothiers, in the store located on South Pine street. He was in their employ ten years, when he went into partnership with Mr. Loebenstein, wdiich partnership lasted three years until Mr. Wilson entered the business for himself on North Holden street. He continued in the clothing business at that location until 1906, when he went to Idaho, entering the clothing business in Lewiston, where he remained two years. From Lewiston. Idaho Air. Wilson went to AIuskogee, Oklahoma, and was there engaged in the mercantile business for seven vears. He then returned to \\'arrensburg and purchased the Buente Alercantile Company's grocery store, which he still owns and conducts.

brick paving in the cit)' was put in on Pine street and Holden street. This paving lias served as the nucleus for furtlier paving, which has proceeded steacUly. Mr. \\'ilson was a member of tlie school board at the time the ^^'arrensburg High School was erected. He is now one of W'arrensliurg's most active and prominent business men.

September 1, 1886, John H. Wilson and Elma Campbell were united in marriage. Elma (Campbell) Wilson was formerly of St. Louis. Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have been born four children : Estaline. a graduate of the Warrensburg High School, the Warrensburg State Normal School, the State University of Missouri, and Columbia University of New York City, who is now specializing in supervisor's work and is engaged in teaching in Columbia University, New York City: Olive, who is a graduate of the Warrensburg High School, the Warrensburg State Normal School, and Columbia University, New York City, a children's entertainer, who is now engaged in community chautauqua work, having made this work her specialty; Natalie, a graduate of the Warrensburg High School, the Warrensburg State Normal School, and the Sargent School of Physical Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now has charge of the physical education of girls in the Girls" Seminary and at the time of this writing is in charge of the military training camp for women at Camp Waupertown. Arkansas; and John. Jr., now lieutenant in the Philippine Islands, who graduated in June. 1916. from St. Jolm's Military Academy at Delafield, \\'isconsin, and was immediately commissioned third lieutenant, and in July, 1916. went to the Philippine Islands, where he attended school for a short time, learning the Spanish language, and is at present at Nato Barracks on the Island of Mindanao in charge of a company of native soldiers. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have reared and educated one of the finest families in the. state of Missouri. The Wilson home is a beautiful suburban home on Hurricane Hill, the highest point in the city of ^^^^rrensburg.

John C. Thiele, a prominent merchant, owner of "Thiele's Shoes" in Warrensburg. Missouri, is of German descent. His father. John C. Thiele, Sr., was a native of Germany. He came to \\'arrensburg. about 1869 and opened a shoemaker's shop on Pine street. He had learned the shoemaker's trade in Germany. His death occurred in Warrensburg about 1882 and February 24, 1884, Mrs. Thiele followed her husband in death and both father and mother were interred in the cemetery in

Warrensbm-g. John C. Thiele, Jr., is one of five children born tu his parents, as follow: John C, the sul)iect of tliis review: Julius. Parsons, Kansas; William, Johnstown. Pennsylvania: Isaac. Scott, Kansas: and Mrs. Benjamin Shackleford. \\'arrensl)urg-.

John C. Thiele, the subject of this review, was born Novemiier 22. 1871. in W'arrensburg. He attended the public schools of Warrensburg until he was twelve years of age. when his school days were ended. Both parents had died and the small orphan boy was obliged to seek work in the different stores in Warrensburg. He was first employed in a restaurant, on Holden street, which was owned bv Jacobs. He also worked for Upton, a restaurant man. and many other business men in W'arrensburg. While working in the Spess & Welch. Hoots and Shoes Store, 'My. Thiele learned shoemaking and later was in the employ of the Clark Brothers. From the start, as a boy. Mr. Thiele saved his money.

In 1901. John C. Thiele entered the mercantile business on Pine street in Warrensburg. putting in a stock of shoes and repairing outfit valued at six hundred dollars, I-'or almost twehe \-ears Mr. Thiele was in business on Pine street. In 1912 he remo\ed to his present location at 119 North Holden street, which building he owns. ' Mr. Thiele carries a complete and up-to-date line of men's, ladies', and children's shoes, specializing in the Packard shoe for men and the Selby shoe for women, and also does repair work of all kinds. The Thiele store is one of the most attractive and neatl\--kept shoe stores in the citv and enjo\-s an extensive trade. "Keep expenses down and buy right" has been Mr. Thiele's motto and that it is a splendid one is evidenced by his success.

In 1905, John C. Thiele was united in marriage with Xora Ross Mears. the daughter of Rol)ert and Ella (Ross) ]\Iears, who reside in Warrensburg. To Mr. and Mrs. Thiele has been born one child, a daughter, Helen. The Tliiele home, located at 311 Fast Gay street. is one of the beautiful homes of \\'arrensburg.

Mr. Thiele purchased the store building, which was located at his present location on North Holden street, in 1907. Three years later the building burned, which coming at that time was a heavy blow, but he iinmediatelv rebuilt and two years afterward moved into the new building from Pine street.

Society, was born May 14. 1861, in Lexington. Missouri, the son of Judge Jesse W. and Andalusia ( Eddy) Schofield, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of New York. Judge Jesse W. Schofield was born in 1801. He came to Missouri from \'irginia prior to the Civil War and located in Lexington, where he followed his profession of architect and bridge builder. He was at one time judge of the county court in Lafayette county, Missouri. Andalusia (Eddy) Schofield was professor of mathematics in the Female Seminary at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, prior to her marriage. To Judge Jesse W. and Andalusia (Eddy) Schoiield were born the following children: Mrs. W. L. Gott, Fayetteville, Missouri; Dr. Linn J., the subject of this review; F. C, of Palo Alto, California, who is a graduate of the University of Ohio, the University of Colorado, and Leland Stanford University and is now a professor, teaching in California; C. E., who is engaged in the mercantile business in Los Angeles. California; and Mrs. Anda Burton, Odessa, Missouri. By a former marriage, Judge Jesse W. Schofield was the father of two sons: Dr. John L., who v.'as a graduate of the University of Virginia and is now deceased; and George L., deceased. The death of Judge Schofield occurred in 1881, in Lexington, Missouri.

Dr. Linn J. Schofield attended the public schools of Lexington, Missouri, Doggett's Academy, the Warrensburg State Normal School, and Medical Department at the University of Louisville. Kentucky, of which institution he is a graduate in class of 1887. Two years prior to entering medical college. Doctor Schofield was engaged in teaching in the schools of Lafayette and Johnson counties. March 1, 1888, Doctor Schofield came to Warrensburg and opened an oflfice at 105 North Holden street and began the practice of medicine. He has been at his present location for the past twenty-nine years. Doctor Schofield spent one year in study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England, leaving for Europe in the fall of 1892. He is one of the best-read physicians in Johnson county, possessing unusual ability, a quick, clear mind, and a conscientious sense of duty. He is remarkably successful in his chosen profession. He has a large general practice and is at present president of the Johnson County Medical Society. He is a Fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society and is affiliated with the Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons and the Knights Templar.

IMorrow, daughter of W. K. and Xancv Morrow, of \\'arrensl)urg-. Mrs. Schofield died in 1896. In 1898 Doctor Schoficld and Edith M. Campbell were united in marriage. Edith M. (Campbell) Schofield is the daughter of Professor J. J- Campbell, one of the most able professors who ever taught in the Warrensburg State Normal School, now deceased. To Doctor and Mrs. Schofield have been Imrn two sons: Campbell, who is sixteen years of age; and Linn, Jr., wlio is now ten years of age.

Doctor Scliofield has been vice-president of the Peoples National Bank since its organization in 1892. He was apjiointed a member of the board of regents of the State Normal Scliool at \\'arrcnsl)urg and served a term of six years, (hiring which time he was secretary of the board.

Fred F. Miller, well-known pliarmacist of Warrensburg, was born in Illinois in November, 1864. His father. Dr. John G. Miller, was born in Pennsylvania. He came to Johnson county in 1867 and located in Warrensburg and opened a drug store at 126 Nortli Holden street. Dr. John G. Miller was united in marriage with Louisa J. Allred and to this union were born the following cliilch^en : Mrs. Lizzie Mitcliell, deceased; Fred F., the subject of this review: a graduate of t!ie Warrensburg State Normal School, is a teacher in the government service in Porto Rico; Ivory, in the employ of the Kansas City "Journal," Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Beck. Kansas City. Missouri; John G., Jr., who is associated with Fred F. in the drug business; and Mrs. Daisy Reed. Kansas City. .Missouri. Dr. John G. Miller continued in the drug business until 1878. when his son, Fred F., bought him out and continued the business, the store now being located at 313 Nortli Holden street. The death of Louisa J. (Allred) Miller occurred in Julv. 1916. Mrs. Miller was a native of Illinois. Dr. ?^Iiller now makes his home with his son, Fred F. Each day he makes a visit to the store of his son.

Fred F. Miller attended the \\'arrenslnn-g State Normal and the Kansas City Business College. After completing school he purchased the drug store from his father with whom he was associated in the drug business for some time. Mr. Miller has seen the time when the principal business portion of Warrensburg was covered with timber. He has watched \\'arrensburg grow from a village into a city and he has alwavs cheerfully given the heartiest support to every worthy enterprise which has for its object the ultimate good of the community. Mr.

In 1896, Fred F. Miller and Emma Volk, of Warrensburg, were united in marriage. To this union was born one son, Franklin G., who was born in 1906. Emma (Volk) Miller died in 1913 and was laid to rest in the Warrensburg cemetery. Fred F. Miller and son now make their home with Dr. Miller.

John M. Gillilan, a w^ell-known Confederate veteran and honored pioneer of Johnson county, is a native of West Virginia. He was born in Greenbrier county on June 16, 1837. and when sixteen years of age came to Missouri and located first in Lafayette county, where he rented a home for three months and then in October, 1853, settled on the farm in Columbus township, where he has resided almost continuously for more than sixty years. The only time Mr. Gillilan was away from the farm was during the Civil War, when he was in the Confederate service for four years. John j\I. Gillilan joined the army on Honey creek and served first under Vard Cockrell and later under "Fighting Joe" Shelby. He saw active service in Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in a skirmish at Mark's Mill, Arkansas, was dangerously wounded in the left lung and wrist. This was in May, 1864, and when the war ended in 1865 Mr. Gillilan had not yet fully recovered from the effects of his wound.

In October, 1865, John M. Gillilan returned to his home in Johnson county and he has ever since been engaged in general farming and stock raising. He owns two hundred sixty acres of valuable land in Lafayette county and Columbus and Hazel Hill townships, a farm which was originally entered from the government by Mont Cockrell, an uncle of Senator Francis M. Cockrell. This tract of land was obtained from the Cockrell heirs by Mr. Gillilan.

December 31, 1857, John M. Gillilan and Rachel Ruth Kelly were united in marriage. Mrs. Gillilan is a daughter of John Kelly, a \V\oneer of the early fifties, of Johnson county, and was l)orn March 1. 1842. To Mr. and Mrs. Gillilan have l)een born twelve children: Mrs. Martha Grinstcad, who resides near Kings\-ille, Missouri : \\'illiam Price, who died at the age of twenty-five years: Mrs. .\nna \'anMeter, Odessa, Missouri: Mrs. L\flia Violet, Hazel Hill township: George, Columbus township; Ray, who resides on tlie home place; Bertie, at home; Airs. Gertrude Anderson, Odessa, Alissouri ; Charles, the competent cashier of the American Trust Company of W'arrenshuro^. Missouri; Ethel, at home with her parents; Clarence, at home: and one child died in infancy.

Mr. Gillilan is now eighty years of age hut as alert mentally and physically as many men twenty years younger. He possesses a remarkable memory, and the exceptional faculty u{ readily recalling names. Among the "old timers" of the fifties, whom he knew personally in Johnson county, were: ^^'illial^ Dalton, Ahner Wood, Finley Barnett. William Frakes, John McNeal, .-\dam Wolfenberger, Frederick Rhodes, Levi Evans, James Norris, Lewis McCoy, Alex Cockrell, Samuel Kirby, Isaac Horner, John Kelly. Albert, Jonathan, and Isaac Groves, Thomas McBride, Bart West, Samuel Whitsett. Mrs. Katie Morrow. Sabina Renick, Samuel Ramsey, ^^'ilson Sammett, and Franklin Ramsey, who is now living in A\'arrensburg at the advanced age of ninety years. Mr. Gillilan remembers frequentlv hearing Senator Cockrell speak on \-arious occasions in the days before tlie Civil AA'ar. He heard Senator \'est deliver his famous eulogy on the dog at the trial resulting from the killing of a dog, when two l)rothers-in-law, Hornsby and Burton, were at law. Cockrell was employed as attorney opposing Senator \'est at that trial.

Sixtv-four vears ago. John M. Gillilan came from West Virginia to make his home in the thinly settled West, on the broad, open prairie land of Missouri. To young Gillilan, then a boy still in his teens, life on the plains must have presented a great richness of experience. For more than a half century, the Gillilan name has stood for the best in life and has become a svnonym for honor, honesty, and nobility. And "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."

H. S. Townsend, member of the firm of Baird X: Townscnd. .Marble & Granite A\'orks, of Warrensburg. Missouri, was born March 17, 1857, in Andrew county, Missouri. He is the son of Jonathan and Kittie Ann (Landers') Townscnd. the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Alissouri. Jonathan Townsend was born June 17. 1827. and when eighteen years of age came to Missouri from Indiana. He located in Andrew county when St. Joseph had but one store, which was conducted by a Frenchman named Rubiddux. who traded with the Indians. Jonathan Townsend settled on a farm near Savannah and there spent the remainder of his life. To Jonathan and Kittie Townsend were born the following children: \V. B., W'hitesville, Missouri; F. M., Whitesville, Missouri; James S., Bolckow, Missouri; E. E., Savannah, Missouri; Mrs. John Roe, Savannah, Missouri; Mrs. Louisa J. Todd, who died in 1891 ; and H. S., the subject of this review. Mrs. Townsend died in 1861. Jonathan Townsend's death occurred at the age of ninety years in Savannah, which had been his home for twenty years. Prior to moving to Savannah he had lived on his farm near that place fifty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend lived in the first home which he built for fifty-two years and in the seventy-two years they lived in but two different homes. The remains of both father and mother were interred in tlie cemetery at Savannah. Missouri. The father served in the State Militia under Capt. D. C. Stotts during the Civil War.

H. S. Townsend received his early education in the public schools of Andrew county. Missouri. He later attended Lagrange College, Lagrange. Missouri, for three years. Mr. Townsend entered the teaching profession after leaving college and for fifteen 3-ears was engaged in teaching during the winter and farming in the summer time. Twentythree years ago, in 1894 Mr. Townsend came to Warrensburg, and entered the dairy business. Fifteen years ago he went in partnership with J. B. Baird in the marble and granite business and in farming and stock raising. Baird & Townsend, Marble & Granite Works, are successors of the Farley Brothers. Four years ago they mo\ed to their present location on East Pine street, where they have two display rooms, 24 x 118 and 24 x 30 feet in dimensions respectively. The firm employs three traveling salesmen and has an extensive business all over the state of Missouri and extending into adjoining states. Frequently carloads of stone are shipped to a single point in the state. They import granite and marble in the rough from quarries in Missouri, A\'isconsin. Minnesota, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, \'ermont. New Hampshire, and Maine, besides obtaining some foreign shipments. This firm has undoubtedh" the finest stock on hand of any company in western Missouri. Mr. Townsend is well known throughout the state and is universally esteemed, possessing a pleasing personalit}' which has won for him scores of friends. In addition to the granite and marble business, the firm is also engaged in farming and stock raising, owning a splendid stock farm ten miles south of \\'arrenslnirg. This farm comprises one hundred sixty-nine acres and is devoted to dairy stock.

I. Clark, daughter of Silas and Marguerite Clark, of Andrew county, Missouri. Both parents of Mrs. Townsend are now deceased. To H. S. and Florence I. (Clark) Townsend have been born two children: Glenn, an only son, who died at the age of thirteen months, who is interred in the cemetery at W'arrensburg: and Nellie Grace, who is the wife of Harley Hoar, of \\'arrensburg. Mrs. Townsend is president of the Johnson County ^^'omen's Christian Temperance Union and has held this office for the past five years. She was elected delegate to the national meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union held at Seattle, Washington at the State meeting in 1915, but on account of illness was unable to attend.

Mr. Townsend is affiliated with the Modern \\'oodmen of America, of which lodge he has been one of the officers in W'arrenslnirg for many years, and with tlie Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been a memljer for tlie past ten \-ears. He has 1ieen a deacon in the Baptist church for twelve years and superintendent of the Sunday School four years.

William Lazenby, a retired farmer and Ci\ il War veteran residing in Warrensburg, was born July 15, 1840 in Morgan county, Illinois. He is the son of John and Sarah (Green) Lazenby, natives of England. John Lazenby emigrated from England to America in 1829 and settled in Morgan county. Illinois on a farm near Jackson\ille. John and Sarah (Green) Lazenby were the parents of the following children: Mary, who was born in h'ngland : John. Jr., who was born in Illinois and is now deceased: Jane, who died in Adams county. Illinois in 1857: William, the subject of this re\"iew: Charles, who died in February, 1916; and Isaac, Jacksonville, Illinois.

William Lazenby enlisted in tlie Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry August 12, 1861, serving under Captain A. J. Bozarth, whose widow now resides in Warrensburg Mr. Lazenb_\'s regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cuml^erland, first serving under Commod.ore Foote and after the battle of Shiloh under Genera! Grant. His company took a prominent part in the liattles of Belmont, Missouri: Union City, Tennessee: Corinth, Mississippi: Stone River, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee. Lazenby was in the very thick of the campaign for Chattanooga, whicli resulted in the restoration of all Tennessee to the Union, in a victorious army holding the key to Atlanta and the Georgia uplands. At the battle of Belmont. Missouri, Mr.

Lazenby was shot through the right knee and for thirty days was confined in the hospital. In the important engagement fought September 19th and 20tli in 1863 at Chickamauga. Tennessee he was again wounded, on September 19th being shot at this time through the hip. Mr. Lazenby was first wounded November 7, 1861 and again on September 19, 1863 and from the effects of these wounds he has been handicapped through all his later life. Mr. Lazenby himself states that he has never been a sound man since September 19, 1863. On account of the wound received at Chickamauga he was confined in the hospital sixty days. Mr. Lazenby was mustered out and honorably discharged September 20, 1864.

After receiving his discharge. Mr. Lazenby returned to Illinois. Within a short time he moved to Iowa, locating in Van Buren county, where he remained five years. From Iowa he moved to Missouri, locating on a farm nine miles north of Knob Noster. William Lazenby resided on the farm near Knob Noster until 1902 when he moved to a farm near Oak Grove in Simpson township. In 1907 he moved to Warrensburg and purchased the six building lots at 410 South Washington street, where in 1909 he built his present residence.

In 1902, William Lazenby was united in marriage w-ith Mrs. Ida (Higgins) Winkler, the widow of Franklin Winkler. She is the daughter of Eugenie and Susan Higgins, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of New York. They settled in Iowa in the early fifties. Both father and mother now rest in the cemetery at Carthage, Missouri. One brother and one sister of Mrs. Lazenby are now living: Horace. Oronogo, Missouri ; and Mrs. Susie Montague, Sedalia, Missouri. Franklin Winkler, the former husband of Mrs. Lazenby, was a native of North Carolina. He came from North Carolina to Missouri in 1847 and located in Lafayette county. He was united in marriage with Ida Higgins in 1877 at Carthage, Missouri and to them were born two children: Mrs. Alice May Gladish, who is now residing in Johnson county, Kansas, near Merriam ; and Belle M., who is employed as bookkeeper for the Long Construction Company. Kansas City. Missouri. The ^^^inklcr family made their home north of \\'arrcnsburg until Mr. Winkler's death in 189,^. Mis remains were interred in the cemetery at Oak Grove.

Dunksburg, Aiissouri; Harvey, \\ arrensburg; Airs. Delia Thornlon, Sedalia, Missouri; Arthur, Knob Xoster, Missouri; and Wesley, who resides in Howell county. Missouri. Mrs. Clara Tyler died in January, 1917 and three children died in infancy.

William Lazenby was justice of the peace in Simpson township for more than twenty years and the last two terms he served under a Democratic administration although he is Republican. In 1890 and 1900 Mr. Lazenby took the United States census in Simpson township. He is noted in the county for his splendid penmanship, and at the age of seventy-seven years writes a better, plainer, steadier hantl than the majority of the young people of today. Mr. Lazenby acquired his skill in writing while serving in the army as orderly sergeant.

Mrs. Lazenby has in her possession a priceless relic of the long ago. This is a Seth Thomas clock, which is still in good working order after seventy-five years of service. The clock was purchased threequarters of a century ago and brought to Lexington, Missouri by Charles Bradley, the former husband of the first wife of Franklin Winkler.

H. F. Clark, ex-mayor of Warrensburg, and a highly respected pioneer of Johnson county, was born in 1836 in Virginia. He is the son of Richard Harvey and Mary (White) Clark, natives of Virginia. H. F. Clark is the only survivor of a family of eleven children. One borther, A. P. Clark, died recently at the age of eighty-five years, in Lawrence, Kansas.

H. F. Clark received his education in the public schools of Ohio, to which state the Clark family moved when he was a child. When he was thirteen years of age. his mother died and he was obliged to leave school to seek work. Mr. Clark has at different times been a boatman, a miner, and a grocer. In 1861 he came from Ohio to Missouri and located on the Missouri river in Gasconade county. In the spring of 1864 he came to Warrensburg. where he opened a general store although he still engaged in farming near Warrensburg.

In 1861, H. F. Clark and Rosa Goff were united in marriage in Muskingum county, Ohio. To H. F. and Rosa (Gof¥) Clark were born the following children: John, who was a pharmacist in Warrensburg, died at the age of fifty-two years: Mary, died at the age of sixteen years; Stanton, who was reared to maturity and educated in the schools of Warrensburg, Missouri, and died at the age of twenty-three years at Norman, Oklahoma, where he was engaged in the drug business; two children died in infancy; H. C, a merchant of Warrensburg; W. S., who is at the head of the Warrensburg Wholesale Grocery business ; Mrs. Rose Bradshaw, wife of Ed. Bradshaw, a broker of New York City; and Ethel, who is the wife of Charles Houx, a prosperous stockman of Centerview township and president of the Bank of Centerview, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. Mrs. Clark died in 1907 and her remains were interred in the cemetery at Warrensburg, where the children who had preceded her in death were also buried. Mr. Clark, who is now eighty-one years of age, makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Houx. He is one of Senator Cockrell's most valued friends.

Mrs. Mary M. (Hooker) Robinson, one of the noble pioneer women of Johnson county, was born January 31, 1844 in Grover township, Johnson county. She is the daughter of a pioneer family, who settled in this county in 1834. Her parents, Larkin and Eliza J. (Thornton) Hocker, were both natives of Kentucky. Larkin Hocker was born in Lincoln county, Kentucky and in 1834 moved from Kentucky to Missouri, where he located on a farm comprising seven hundred acres of land, which he entered from the government, situated eight miles north of Knob Noster. The Hockers came by boat up the Missouri river to Missouri and then drove through to Johnson county. In those early days, wild game was in abundance and the Hocker children often saw^ herds of wild deer and flocks of prairie chickens, wild turkeys and wild geese. To Larkin and Eliza J. Hocker were born the following children; Martha Ellen, who was the wnfe of Willis HufT and is now deceased; Harrison, who died at the age of three years; Amanda J., who was the wife of James K. Tyler, and is now deceased; Mary M., the subject of this review; Henrietta T., who was married to Stanton Feagans in 1866, who is now deceased, and she is residing in the brick house which was built in 1850 on the old Hocker homestead in Grover township; and Larkin, Jr., who was born in 1848 and is residing at Knobnoster, Missouri. Larkin Hocker. Jr. is unmarried. All the children were born in a log cabin, which their father built in 1834. The cabin consisted of one and a half stories with a "lean-to" and shed, making three large rooms, two below and one above. Mr. Hocker brought four slaves with him, when he moved from Kentucky, and he was owner of twenty at the time the slaves were made free. Mrs. Hocker died December 3, 1894 on the home place and she was followed in death by her husband January 31, 1899. Mr. Hocker was at the time of his death eighty-seven years of age.

Mary M. (Hocker) Robinson was attending school in Warrensburg when the Civil War began. Dr. Warden was teaching in Warrensburg at that time. The school house was north of the old court house in the old town of Warrensburg, and is standing to this day. The Hocker family remained on the farm during the war, keeping the blacks with them until the close of the w-ar, when they were set free.

May 27, 1867, Mary M. Hocker and John E. Robinson were united in marriage at the Hocker home in Grover township. John E. Robinson was born August 23, 1841 in Grover township. He was the son of Jehu and Julia Ann (Oglesby) Robinson, who moved from Saline county, Missouri to Johnson county in 1833. A sketcli of Jehu and Julia Ann Robinson appears in connection with the biography of James L. Robinson, which is given in this volume. John E. Robinson was one of six children born to his parents, as follow: Mary, deceased; Mrs. Louisa Hull, deceased; John E., who was the husband of the subject of this review and is now deceased; Dr. J. E., Nevada, Missouri; Mrs. Sallie B. Reynolds, who resides near Leeton, Missouri; and James L., Warrensburg, Missouri.

John E. Robinson enlisted during the Ci\il War, at Warrensburg with Company A. Fifth Missouri Infantry, and was assigned to McCowan's regiment. First brigade, serving under General Bowen. Mr. Robinson was with that division two years, tjjen he was assigned to Company I, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, Marmaduke's brigade, with whom he served two years. He was first lieutenant in the latter company and had charge of a company when the war ended. Mr. Robinson was wounded October 4, 1862 in the right shoulder by a bursting shell, but as he was in fine physical condition and possessed a splendid, robust constitution, he soon recovered and was not handicapped in later life from the effects of his wound. When the war closed, John E. Robinson returned to the home of his father, who was at that time living in Boone county, Missouri, and assisted him in recovering from the losses inflicted by the war. Jehu Robinson had been financially ruined. Then in 1867 he was married to Marv M. Hocker.

John E. and Mary (Hocker) Robinson were the parents of four children: Dr. Jehu F., who died Januar\' 10. 1896 at the age of twentysix years, leaving a widow and a daughter, three wrecks old, Margaret Finis Robinson, wdio now resides with her mother, Mrs. George Gilhani : Larkin H., who died at the age of thirty-one years, June 30, 1907, leaving a widow; Eliza A., the wife of Henry E. Vitt, of Warrensburg: and Mary Margaret, who died March 26, 1888 at the age of three years, ten months, and one day. Mrs. Henry E. Vitt, the only child now living of the four born to Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, attended the Warrensburg State Normal School, where she specialized in music. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Warrensburg, Missouri and of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Francis M. Cockrell Chapter, Warrensburg.

John E. Robinson was a prominent and influential stockman of Grover township for many years. In August, 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson moved from the farm to Warrensburg and one year later Mr. Robinson died, November 10, 1897. Interment was made at the Hocker cemetery in Grover township, in which burial ground both his parents and the parents of Mrs. Robinson rest. John E. Robinson was a highly esteemed citizen of Johnson county, a man who possessed many qualities worthy of the greatest respect. His death was a source of universal regret and though a score of years have passed his friends still miss with sadness his familiar form and voice. Mrs. Robinson resides in the handsome, modern residence at 212 East Market street in Warrensburg, among a host of friends.

Henry E. Fewel. one of the founders of the city of Leeton, Missouri, and president of the Bank of Leeton, is one of the prominent pioneers of Johnson county. He was born June 6, 1855, in Jefiferson township, Johnson county, a son of Richard B. and Nancy (Avery) Fewel, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Tennessee. Richard B. Fewel was born April, 30, 1827, a son of Mason C. Fewel. who was born January 30, 1797, in North Carolina. Mason C. Fewel and his son, Richard B., came overland from North Carolina to Missouri many years before the Civil War and settled on land entered from the government six miles southeast of Leeton, Missouri. Nancy (Avery) Fewel was born in Tennessee, March 12. 1830. To Henry E. Fewel's parents, Richard B. and Nancy Fewel. were born the following children: Orlando, deceased: Hattie E., Montrose, Missouri;

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Henry E., the subject of this review; Dr. R. B., who has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Montrose, JMissouri, for the past thirtyfive years; Mace, Redlands, CaHfornia; Mrs. Molhe Wallace, Fort Worth, Texas; Green, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Mack, Calhoun, Missouri; and Walter, Murchison, Texas. Mason C. Fewel died and was buried on the home place near Leeton. February 24, 1880, the death of his son occurred and the remains of Richard B. Fewel were interred in the cemetery at Sardis church. His widow survived him twenty-two years. when March 12, 1902, she followed Mr. Fewel in death and was also laid to rest in the cemetery at Sardis church.

Henry E. Fewel attended the public schools of Johnson county and the Warrensburg State Normal School. He was in attendance at the latter institution two years. After leaving school, Mr. Fewel engaged in the stock business. He was reared on the farm in Jefferson township and all his life has been interested in agricultural pursuits and a stock buyer since he attained maturity. Mr. Fewel resided on the farm until 1896, when the town of Leeton was founded. J. R. Grinstead, J. J. Lee, and Henry E. Fewel were the founders of the present prosperous, flourishing, little city of Leeton, Missouri. In 1896 the town was laid out and at first embraced but eighty acres within the corporation limits, but since that time seventy acres more have been added. Leeton was planned and laid out before the Rock Island railway reached this locality. Leeton now has a population of about five hundred and is constantly growing. It has two splendid banks, an elevator, two lumber companies, and is located in the richest agricultural section of Johnson county.

October 10, 1889, Henry E. Fewel was united in marriage with Jennie Lee Cooper, the daughter of Daniel and Angie (McCray) Cooper. Daniel Cooper was born January 3, 1822, and came to Missouri with his father, David Cooper, in 1832. They settled in Jefferson township, and here Daniel's daughter, Mrs. Fewel, was born many years later. At the time of his death, December 8, 1893, Daniel Cooper was owner of nearly six hundred twenty acres of land. His widow still resides in Leeton. Mr. Cooper was a veteran of the Confederate service, serving under General Price, and he took an active and prominent part in the battle of Wilson's creek. To Henry E. and Jennie Lee Fewel have been born three children: Mrs. Belle Kennedy, who was a student at Liberty College, Liberty, Missouri, and is now the wife of J. T. Kennedy, assistant cashier of the Bank of Leeton; Floyd E., who is a graduate of the Military College of Mexico, Missouri, was a student at the State University at Columbia for three years and then engaged in farming and stock raising, and associated in business with his father in buying and selling stock, now in training for an officer's commission at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and also he attended the Military Training School, at the Presidio, San Francisco, six weeks during Panama Exposition; and Lee Lucile, who is a graduate of Stevens College, Columbia, Missouri, and is now a student in Central College, Lexington, Missouri.

Henry E. Fewel was one of the organizers of the Bank of Leeton, of which institution he is now president. Mr. Fewel still buys and sells stock, being associated in business with his son, Floyd E. In addition to his beautiful residence in Leeton, Mr. Fewel is owner ot the Snowberger place, located a fourth mile northeast of Leeton, the Harwood place, which comprises two hundred acres one and a half miles northwest of Leeton, and a farm of two hundred forty acres two miles southeast of Leeton, owning seven hundred sixty acres in all.

Henry E. Fewel is a man of whom Johnson county is proud. He possesses an unusually broad perspective of life. In a pretty, woodland home, surrounded by flowers and trees, he is spending his life in the city of his own building, for the growth and advancement of which he willingly gave the best years of his life.

Mary C. (Divers) Greenlee, widow of John White Greenlee, of Warrensburg, is one of the honored pioneer women of Johnson county. She was born in 1844 in Post Oak township, Johnson county, the daughter of one of the most distinguished pioneer families in Missouri. Her father, Frank Divers, was born in 1811 in Franklin county, Virginia, thirty miles from the famous Natural Bridge of Virginia. He was the son of Christopher C. Divers, who came with his family from Virginia to Missouri and located in Post Oak township about 1832. where he entered land from the government in Johnson county. His death occurred on the farm in Post Oak township and his remains were interred in the family cemetery in Post Oak township. Frank Divers, the father of Mrs. Greenlee, entered about one thousand acres of land from the government, located eight miles southeast of Warrensburg. He was one of the first settlers in that vicinity. Mr. Samuel Kimzey, the nearest neighbor, hved six miles away. Mr. Divers conducteil a general store near High Point church for many years, in the early thirties.

In 1840, Frank Divers and Amelia A. Bouldin were united in marriage in Pettis county, ^Missouri. Amelia A. (Bouldin) Divers was the daughter of Leonard Bouldin. who was a cousin of Henrv Clav, the famous Kentucky orator and renowned "peace-maker." The name Bouldin was originally spelled Boling or Bowling but an ancestor, through error or otherwise, always signed his name Bouldin, and thus through the years the name has continued to be. To Frank and Amelia A. Divers were born the following children: Marv C, the subject of this review: Lucy M., who died in infancy: Nannie, who was first the wife of Theodore Jones, who died, and she later became the wife of Felix Bibb, in 1915 her death occurred in Warrensburg and she left five children : Bernice, the wife of Mr. Appel, Great Falls, Montana: Da\"id, banker. Lewistown. Montana: Frankie, married James Calicote, Hobson, ^Montana: and Leonartl Greenlee and Robert Hunton, twins, ranchers near Hobson, Montana, all graduates of the State Normal School, Warrensburg, except the twins who attended school there; William Baxter, died in childhood: Leonard R.. who is a prominent ranchman of Hobson, Montana, married Cora Ridge, of Warrensburg, and they have one child, Cora Lee; Frank, Jr., a wellknown ranchman of Roswell, New Mexico, married Kate Greenlee, of Fayetteville, and he is a trustee of Baptist Theological School at Waco, Texas, and a liberal contril)utor to the church and is also one of the directors of the First National Bank at Roswell, New Mexico; Virginia, who was the wife of AMlliam Dean and is now deceased, leaving two children, Leonard and Frank, of Kentucky ; A'ivia H.. the wife of Reverend Earl D. Sims, a Baptist minister, state evangelist for Nebraska, who with his family is now located at Liberty, Missouri, but for five years he and his wife were missionaries in China, and they have one son, Rochester Ford, student at W'illiam Jewell College, Liberty, ^Missouri ; and Lelia H., the wife of Thomas Fisk, of Butler, Missouri, and they have one daughter. Helen Marie, married Raymond Percival, of Cole Camp. [Missouri. Both parents are now deceased. Mr. Divers died in 1874 and his remains were laid to rest in the family cemetery and the mother passed away three years later.

united in marriage at the Divers home in Post Oak township, the marriage ceremony being performed by Reverend J- H. Houx. John White Greenlee was born in 1845 in Lincohi county, Kentucky. He enHsted in the Civil War, April 15, 1861, in the Confederate service and served throughout the war. Mr. Greenlee was captain of Company F, Gordon's regiment, Alarmaduke's brigade, Shelby's division. His company served mostly in Missouri, Arkansas, and in the western states. Twice he was severely wounded in battle. His brother, William P. Greenlee, was with General Price during the war and was one of the general's escort. After the struggle ended he was one of the first regents of the Warrensburg State Normal School. He also represented Johnson county in the state Legislature in the early seventies. The Greenlee family have long been prominent in the public affairs of both county and state.

To John White and Mary C. (Divers) Greenlee were born three children all of whom are graduates of the Warrensburg State Normal School: Elmo M.. who was born March 17, 1873, and died May 28, 1912, in Mexico as the result of a railroad accident, where he is buried in the Masonic cemetery at La Colorado, and he was extensively engaged in mining and a successful business man ; Frank D., who was born Februarv i8, 1875, a successful farmer and stock raiser in Post Oak township, on a part of the old homestead, married Bettie Berry and they have two children, John B., who was born January 5, 1907, and Mildred Elizabeth, who was born November 3, 1909, and their mother is one of the successful teachers of Johnson county: and Mary Amelia, who was born February 5, 1879. married Lin Bartholomew, and they reside in El Paso. Texas, where Mr. Bartholomew is successfully engaged in the mercantile business. Mary Amelia (Greenlee) Bartholomew is principal of one of the city schools of El Paso. Texas, well known as a very successful teacher of large experience in New Mexico and Texas. She is a graduate of the State Normal School of \A'arrensburg and took oost-graduate work here, and now has a life certificate in Texas and New Mexico. In 1888 Mr. and Mrs. John Greenlee moved from the farm in Post Oak township to Warrensburg. For eight years prior to coming to Warrensburg, they had resided on the home place of Mrs. Greenlee's father. Mr. Greenlee entered the lumber business in Warrensburg with T. J. Caldwell under the firm name of Caldwell & Greenlee. Both men were reared in the same \icinit\' and were life- long friends. For many years Air. Greenlee was connected with the mercantile business of Johnson county and he was highly regarded by his business associates as an honoraljJe, intlustrious, capable business man. His death January 25, 1901 removed one of Johnson county's most valued citizens and left a vacancy which has never been filled. Mr. Greenlee was a member of the Baptist church, as is also Mrs. Greenlee.

Mrs. Greenlee has been a resident of Johnson county for nearly three-quarters of a century and possessing a bright, keen mind and remarkable memory, recalls vividly the life of other days and the men and women, who moved amidst the scenes of pioneer life. Among those whom she recalls, who lived in Post Oak township, were: Adam Fickas, Talton Embree, Harvey Dyer, Dr. William Huff, Judge Warnick, Uncle Nicholas Tow-nsley, and Daniel Marr, and those of Jefferson township; Jefferson Davis, Daniel Cooper, Samuel Kimzey, who was the father of Judge Lee Kimzey, George Peak, Dr. Warren, Charlie Snelling, Addison Draper, Reverend William Caldwell, who was a Baptist minister. Frank Goodwin, and Jesse Enlow, who owned the first carding machine in High Point neighborhood.

Mrs. Greenlee is active in church work, having been a member of the Baptist church since her marriage. She is a member of the Eastern Star, Roswell, Xew Mexico, and Cnited Daughters of the Confederacy. She was one of the charter members of the Francis Cockrell Chapter and she and her daughter organized the Joe Wheeler Chapter at Roswell, New Mexico and are both charter members and have been elected to all the offices. She has had an active club and social career.

Mrs. Greenlee comes from Revolutionary stock. Her father's oldest brother, John, served in the Revolutionary War. She just remembers seeing him when she was a small child. Slie sat on his lap and she recalls of him telling her about the war.

Jesse J. Gulp, proprietor of the Elevator Mills of Warrensburg, has twenty-four years of business life to his credit and is still a young man. He was born July 14, 1875 on his father's farm near Leeton, Missouri, the son of John and Mary A. (Miller) Culp. John Gulp was born in 1846 in Logan county, Ohio and Mary .\. (Miller) Culp was born in 1852 in Allen county, Ohio. They came from Ohio to Missouri in 1868 and located on the farm near Leeton. where thev remained several years, and then Mr. Gulp traded the Leeton farm for the Dr. Osborne place, which he later sold and in 1888 bought the Warrensburg elevator from Fitch & Smithton. John Gulp was the owner and manager of the Elevator Mills of Warrensburg for seventeen years, from 1888 until 1905.

To John and Mary A. (Miller) Gulp were born the following children: Lizzie G., who is the wife of M. J. Reggie, a well-known grocer of Warrensburg; Jesse J., the subject of this review; Abram B., a dentist of Kansas Gity, Missouri ; David D., the manager and owner of the Lakeside Hotel, Seattle, Washington; Lottie N., the wife of Samuel H. Davis, of Spokane, Washington; and Adelia H., the wife of Thomas H. Douglass, and resides in Bolivar. Missouri. John Gulp died at the age of fifty-nine years, December 31. 1905 and his wife died September 18, 1913. Both father and mother were laid to rest in the Warrensburg cemetery.