Linn County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1912 (part 4 of 15)

One of the elements in the case which had its bearing in directing his energies was the fact that on his arrival at Laclede the doctor had but twenty dollars in cash capital, all told, and his only other stock in trade was his professional education, which was to be governed and guided by a will and a spirit of energy that had stricken the word "fail" out of his lexicon. For some years he devoted himself wholly to his profession, then, as he made progress in a worldly way in that, he gave attention to other sources of revenue and usefulness, and made them also beneficial to the community and profitable to himself.

His first venture in business outside of his profession was in the drug trade, as has been noted. He is now president of the banking company of Lomax & Standly in Laclede, a director of the Central States Life Insurance Company of St. Louis, and president of the Laclede Electric Light Company, which was recently organized and of which he was one of the principal and most energetic promoters. He is also connected with other institutions of value to the community, and is always earnestly and effectively interested in every project involving its substantial welfare and wholesome progress, morally, intellectually, socially and materially.

It is to be understood, however, that Dr. Standly 's attention to these side lines in business has never lessened his devotion to his profession or his industry and zeal in performing the duties belonging to it. He has kept up his active practice without regard to his personal comfort or convenience, and it has kept pace with his diligent attention to it. He has been the surgeon at Laclede for the Burlington railroad system during all of the last twenty-five years, and has also been an industrious and thoughtful student of the best medical literature, and an active member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

The doctor has taken a cordial interest in the fraternal life of his community for many years. He belongs to the Masonic Order, the Order of Elks, the Order of Odd Fellows and the Order of Woodmen, and his membership in each is highly valued by its other members. Church affairs have also had a large share of his service, he having been an active, working member of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty-nine years. On June 2, 1872, he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Vance, who was of the same nativity as himself. They had three children, two of whom are living: Their daughter Catherine v., now Mrs. Walter Brownlee, who was a practicing physician in Brookfield, and their son Horace M., who is a resident of Mojave, California. The mother of these children died on June 7, 1882, and on May 1, 1895, the doctor was married again, uniting himself with Miss Ella B. Griflfin of Glidden, Iowa. Of this marriage one child has been born, a son named Harold G., who is still living at home with his parents.

Henry J. West

In the prime of his manhood, \vith all his faculties alert and active, well educated academically, ambitious for a high rank in his profession and eager for advancement, Henry J. West, junior member of the law firm of Bresnehen & West, is one of the most promising lawyers in this part of Missouri. He already has high standing at the bar and in the esteem of the people as a man and citizen, but nothing short of the best he can attain to will satisfy him or meet the expectations of his host of confident and admiring friends, who have watched his career with cordial interest.

Mr. West is a native of this county and was born on a farm northwest of Linneus on December 31, 1873. His parents, Robert N. and Susan K. (Mills) West, were born and reared in Washington county, Pennsylvania. The father moved to Putnam county, Illinois, early in his manhood and lived there until about 1870, then came to Missouri and took up his residence in this county. He Avas a farmer and followed his occupation in the neighborhood of Linneus until 1892. He then moved to Oklahoma and afterward to Eockyford, Colorado, where he retired from active pursuits, enjoying the rest he had so richly earned and the comfortable estate he had accumulated by his industry and good management imtil his death which occurred on February 29, 1912.

In politics he was always a Democrat but never an office-seeker. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, three of whom died in infancy and one, Harry K. West, a sketch of whose life will be found in this work, on June 16, 1907, at the age of forty-seven years. The other four are living, but the subject of this brief review is the only one of them who resides in Linn county. The paternal grandfather, Eli Mills, was a Pennsylvania Quaker and one of the early settlers of Illinois.

Henry J. West grew to manhood in this county and began his scholastic training in its district schools. He afterward attended Missouri Wesleyan College at Cameron, this state, and after leaving, that institution taught school two years. But he had aspirations toward professional life and began the study of law under the direction of his brother Harry K. West, at Mareeline as soon as he was through with his second year of teaching. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1895, and for a time practiced at Mareeline, then, until 1907, at Keytesville in Chariton county, always rising in professional rank and growing into enlarged popularity and esteem among the people.

On the death of his brother, Harry K. West, in June, 1907, he moved to Brookfield and took the place in the firm, of Bresnehen & West which his brother had occupied. While living in Keytesville he served as mayor of that city, and gave it an administration yet highly commended by its inhabitants, pushing forward every work of merit in the way of public improvement and carefully looking after every interest of the people and every means of progress for the community.

When the Spanish- American War began he was fired with patriotic zeal and enlisted in the service of his country in Company A, Sixth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was soon afterward commissioned second lieutenant. He remained in the service ten months, his enrollment taking place in July, 1898, and performed his duty with admirable devotion to all its requirements. During a portion of the time his regiment was on guard duty in Havana, and did excellent work for that city in helping to improve its sanitary condition and promote its general welfare.

in marriage with Miss Grace C. Egan, a resident of Keytesville, who now presides over their hospitable home in Brookfield with a grace and genuine consideration for all their friends which make it one of the attractive social resorts of the city and a fine representative of Missouri domestic life.

In partisan politics Mr. West is a pronounced Democrat and one of the effective and most highly valued workers for the welfare of his party. He has not sought a political office of any kind, however, as his professional work fully satisfies his desires and absorbs his time to the exclusion of other lines of endeavor except those which his public spirit leads him to engage in and the social claims of the community, to which he is always cheerfullj- and helpfully responsive. His fraternal connection is with the Order of Elks, of which he is an enthusiastic and valued member.

Dr. Robert Haley

This eminent physician and surgeon, who is well and favorably known in all parts of Missouri, and is everywhere held in the highest esteem, was born in Ontario, Canada, on April 12, 1859, but has lived in Missouri since 1868 and in Brookfield since 1884. He may therefore be called a product of Missouri without impropriety, inasmuch as nearly the whole of his life has been passed in the state, and he received his education, professional training and social tastes and habits among its people.

The doctor's parents, James and Mary (Hawkens) Haley, were natives of Canada also, but were born in the province of New Brunswick, where their ancestors settled on their arrival in this continent from Ireland and Scotland, the families having been domesticated in that country for many generations. The father was a farmer, and, after a residence of some years in Ontario, brought his family to Missouri, locating near Marceline in this county, in 1868. He took up a tract of wild land and improved it into a highly productive farm, which he cultivated until his death in 1877. He had been a sailor during his residence in New Brunswick, and followed the sea for a number of years. His wife died in Canada in 1867. They were the parents of a large number of children, but six of whom are living.

Dr. Haley reached his manhood and obtained the greater part of his academic education in Linn county, but for this attended only the public schools. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. E. J. Cantwell of Marceline in 1877, and later continued it under the direction of Dr. J. D. Smith, surgeon for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Eailroad in St. Joseph, remaining with liim one year. He then attended the Hospital Medical College in St. Joseph, and was graduated from that institution in 1881. He was not satisfied with his preparation, however, and pursued a full course of medical study at the St. Louis Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1884, with the degree of M. D.

He at once located in Brookfield and hegan the practice of his profession, and during all the subsequent years he has continued it with steadily increasing patronage and higher standing as a physician and a man in the estimation of the public. He has ever been progressive and zealously studious in his work. In 1893 he took a post graduate course at the Polyclinic Medical School in Chicago, and in 1895 another at the Post Graduate College in New York city. The doctor is a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and with a ^'iew to perfecting himself in knowledge for this line of practice he attended the Polyclinic Institute in New Orleans during the winter of 1904-5.

Dr. Haley uses all the means at his command to keep himself posted in his profession and abreast of its latest thought and discoveries. He has served as president and has long been a member of the Linn County Medical Society and the North Missouri Medical Association. He is also a member of the Grand River District Medical Society g nd its treasurer, and has served as its president. In the proceedings of these organizations he takes an active part both in seeking and in imparting information, and does all he can to make their work as valuable to their members as possible. He is also a member of the Ameriv?an Medical and Missouri State Medical Associations.

In polities the doctor is a pronounced Democrat and fervently loyal tt) his party. He is one of its energetic and effective workers in this county, and has weight and influence in its councils throughout the state. In 1900 he was a delegate to the national Democratic convention and an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Bryan for his second nomination for the presidency. He has served as chairman of the cotnty central c6mmittee of the party, and has proven himself to be a very judicious leader and effective organizer. Fraternally he is connected with the Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

Dr. Haley has been twice married. His first union of this land was with Miss Emma Redding, and occurred in 1885. They had two children, one of whom has died. The living son, Roy, is a student at the State University. His mother died in 1891, and in 1896 the father married Miss Jessie Turner, of Linn county. They have one child, their son Jesse. The parents are among the leading citizens of the county and are universally accorded a rank which makes them representative of all that is best and most admirable in the life and character of its people. They take a deep and helpful interest in all that ministers to the welfare of the locality, and are energetic in augmenting the power and increasing the usefulness of every good agency at work in it for its advancement and improvement.

Samuel P. Hartman

The wonderful possibilities in American industrial, commercial and professional life, which are portrayed in glowing advertisements and rainbow-tinted allurements on the printed page, powerfully arrest the imagination of foreigners, and engross their most ardent interest. Even the prosaic domain of agricultural pursuits, as governed by conditions in this country, is so presented to the foreign reader as to thrill him with the story and beget dreams almost as extravagant as those depicted in the Arabian Nights. Practical experience takes something out of the romance of these dreams, and shows that hei*e, as elsewhere, toil and trial, patient industry and endurance are necessary to win the promised triumphs, but that there is, even at the worst, a substantial basis of real opportunity which makes this land of promise a veritable Eldorado to the rest of the world.

So found Solomon and Laura fPoper) Hartman, the parents of Samuel P. Hartman, natives of the province of Bohemia, Austria, when they came to the LTnited States in 1864, and after a short residence in the city of St. Louis, located at Collinsville, Illinois. They passed their time well on toward the meridian of life in their native land, where the father was engaged in the live stock industry, on the small scale on which it is conducted in that country, and after their arrival at Collinsville he took a hand in the grocery trade.

He remained at Collinsville twenty-five years, actively occupied in business, and at the end of that period retired from active pursuits. He is now living in St. Louis, enjoying a well-earned rest and the fruits of his productive labor for the remainder of his days. He and his wife were married in their native land in 1846. They had ten children, five of whom are living: Adolph, at this time (1912) deputy sheriff of St. Louis county, Missouri ; Theresa, the wife of Solomon

Stampfer, of St. Louis ; Gus, a member of the state senate of California and a leading attorney of San Francisco in that state ; Samuel P., the subject of these paragraphs ; and Phil W., who lives in Chillicothe, this state.

The parents are still living and rejoicing in their own prosperity and the excellent work their offspring is credited with in the localities of tlie several homes which the enterprising sons and the faithful daughter occupy. For many years the father was interpreter in the employ of the courts of St. Louis, and he discharged his duty in that capacity with the same intelligence and fidelity that he displayed in every other call to service, either in public or private channels.

His son, Samuel P. Hartman, was but eight years of age when the family came to the LTnited States. He was born in the province in Austria where his parents came into being, and his life began there on April 13, 1856. He remained at home with his parents until he reached the age of twelve, and then, with characteristic self-reliance and force of character, took up the burden of life for himself, going to St. Louis and accepting employment as a clerk in a store in a very subordinate position and at very low wages, but by frugality in living, making his resources meet his wants.

In 1870 he came to Linneus and entered the employ of Emanuel & Brandenberger, with whom he remained six years. In 1876 Mr. Emanuel came to Brookfield and, after a brief investigation of conditions, opened a branch store at Bucklin, and others in other towns. In these enterprises he made Mr. Hartman his partner, and they were carried on for a time with advantage to both. Some time afterward Mr. Emanuel retired from busine»s and the Hartman-Tooey ]\Iercantile Company was formed. The men who formed this company were Mr. Hartman. Henry Tooey and Herman Baer, now a resident and business man of Beloit, Kansas.

Mr. Hartman is now engaged in real estate business at Kansas City in company with his son, Harold H., and they enjoy a large business. In addition he is vice-president of the Linn County Bank and one of its directors, and is also interested in lands in Kansas. Missouri and Oklahoma. The range and versatality of his mind give him capacity to conduct several enterprises at the same tiiue. and he attends to them all with his characteristic energy and progressiveness.

On September 19, 1884, he was married to Miss Emma Hanauer, who died November 22, 1897, leaving two children as the fruit of the union : Sette E., who is the wife of James Fore, of Denver, Colorado, and Harold H., who is living at Kansas Citv, Missouri. ]\Ir. Hartman is a Freemason of the Knights Templar degree in the York rite and the thirty-second degree in the Scottish rite and Shrine. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His membership in these orders shows his interest in the fraternal life of his community. What he has done and helped to do for the general advancement and improvement of the city of Brookfield and the county of Linn would be a long story and would involve support of every commendable project tending to this end that has been undertaken since he became a resident of the county, for he is foremost in every worthy enterprise involving the substantial and enduring welfare of the people. He is a successful merchant, and as such has contributed liberally to the mercantile enterprise and influence of the county. He is also an excellent citizen, and in that capacity has been of great benefit to this part of the state. No man in Linn county is more highly respected, and the services of none for the general weal are held in higher appreciation.

Two facts stand out strongly to the credit of this veteran physician and surgeon and give him a firm hold on the regard, confidence and good will of the people of Linn county. These are that he is the oldest practitioner of medicine in Brookfield in continuous work, and he is one of the best and most successful the county has ever known. His is a record of long and faithful service to the people of a character that has won their high approval, both by its excellence and by its zealous industry in their behalf, and it is one that they have shown they appreciate even wliile he is still among them and continuing his useful labors for their welfare and enduring comfort and peace of mind.

They have a peculiar interest in the doctor from the fact that he is wholly a product of the county. He was born in Baker township, Linn county, on March 17, 1847, the son of John W. and Eliza (Long) Huffaker, pioneers of that township and forceful factors in helping to lay the foundations of its government and give form to its civil and moral institutions. The father was a native of Indiana, and came from Illinois to Missouri in 1842, with his father. The family took up its residence in Baker township, this county, and there the doctor's grandfather cleared a farm and redeemed it from the wilderness. He later disposed of it and returned to Tennessee where he died.

He followed farming all his life, but also took part in public affairs, filling with credit a number of township and county offices, and always wielding an influence for good among the people. In 1851 he crossed the plains to California with an ox team and was engaged in mining there until 1856 meeting with success. He was for many years an active and devoted Freemason and prominent locally in the order. He died in Brooktield in 1903, and his widow passed away two years later. His father, Jesse Huffaker, at one time owned the ground on which the state capitol of Indiana now stands in Indianapolis.

Dr. James E. Huffaker was reared in this county on his father's farm and began his academic education in the primitive country schools of his boyhood. He was ambitious for mental development and a wider range of scholarship than they could give him, and when he was eighteen years old passed a year at the Carlisle Academy in Carlisle, Indiana. After his return from that institution he taught school in Linn and Chariton counties until 1868, then, still inspired by his desire for more extended academic attainments, entered the State University at Columbia, from which he received a full course of academic instruction and was graduated in 1871. He also studied medicine one year while there.

He began the study of medicine the same year under the tuition of Dr. L. E. Cross of Brookfield, and, after reading studiously one year, attended lectures at the Homeopathic Hosjoital College in Cleveland, Ohio, in the winter of 1872-3. He entered on his professional career in the spring of 1873, taking the place of his old preceptor. Dr. Cross, and continued in the field mth all his energy and the most dutiful devotion to business until 1878, when he attended the St. Louis Homeopathic College, receiving his degree of M. D. from it the same year. Two years later this college conferred on him the honorary degree of "ad eundem."

Dr. Huffaker 's practice has long been extensive and lucrative. It has often called him into each of several counties and won him golden opinions in all. For he has been a most careful and capable practitioner, with extensive theoretical knowledge of the science of medicine and abundant common sense and excellent judgment in the application of it. He understands human nature too, and uses his knowledge of it in proper influence over his patients for their benefit and thus makes his own ministrations to them more effective and successful.

so many years, the doctor has necessarily been deeply interested in all that concerns them and aids in promoting their welfare. He knows the whole county and its needs, and he had been sedulous in his efforts to further every undertaking which he has deemed beneficial to it or its inhabitants. He is progressive and public spirited, but his zeal in this respect is tempered by prudence and guided by good judgment. Eash, hasty and ill-considered projects have no welcome from him, but all that are worthy and promise good I'esults receive his hearty practical support.

On May 26, 1874, Dr. Huffaker united in marriage with Miss Dora Eooker, a native of Tennessee. They have had three children, Edith, who is the wife of W. C. Huffaker of Texarkana, Texas; Mabel, who died some years ago ; and Elva S., who is living at home, and is the wife of I. B. Cooper of Brookfield. In politics the doctor trains with the Democratic party and is loyal to its principles and candidates. But he has never been an active partisan or sought or desired a political office for himself. He performs all the duties of citizenship with fidelity and intelligence, but from the honorable post of a private station, and as a man deeply interested in the enduring welfare of his county, his state and his country.

William J. Carlon

Realizing that the law is a jealous mistress and ^^'ill accept no halfhearted attention from her votaries, William J. Carlon, one of the leading attorneys and counselors of Brookfield, has paid his devotions at her shrine with assiduous and studious diligence, and she has rewarded his zeal with a high rank at the bar, a large and lucrative practice and the confidence, esteem and good will of his professional brethren, together with the universal respect of the people of the city and county.

Mr. Carlon 's life began in Oneida county, New York, on April 3, 1875, and there he remained until he reached the age of nearly three. He is a son of James and Mary (Redmond) Carlon, natives of the British empire. The father was born in the town of Easkj^ County Sligo, Ireland, on December 17, 1832, and came to the United States with his parents in 1850, and found a new home with them at Boonville, New York. He had completed his education, as far as he had opportunity to go, in his native land, and when the New World spread before him all its wealth of chances for advancement he at once began to embrace them. He was engaged in the livery business ten years in

1878, one year after her arrival within its boundaries. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, all of whom are now deceased but their son William J. In 1877 the father brought his family to Missouri and located on a farm in Brookfield township, this county. In

1879, one year after the death of his first wife, he married a second, being united by this espousal to Miss Joanna Bums. They became the parents of six children, two of whom are living. The father is now living in Brookfield retired from active pursuits. The paternal grandfather, whose name was also William Carlon, was born and reared in Ireland and came to the United States in 1850, as has been noted. He was a farmer and died in Lewis county. New York, at the age of eightythree.

William J. Carlon, the immediate subject of these paragraphs, grew to manhood on his father's farm in Linn county and attended the country school in the neighborhood when he could be spared from the exacting duties of cultivating the farm and the other work incident to that. He completed his academic education in a school of a higher grade in Brookfield and one and one-half years at State University. In 1895 he entered the law department of the State University as a student, and obtained his degree of LL. B. from that institution in 1896. But he had been admitted to the bar some months before by the supreme court of the state in Jefferson City, and after his graduation he began his practice in Brookfield.

This he continued without intermission and with steady progress in the volume and value of his business and in public esteem until the beginning of the Spanish- American War, when he helped to organize Company A, Sixth Missouri Infantry, and was elected first lieutenant for that short but decisive contest. He was excluded from the service on account of defective eyesight, and immediately returned to his law business. By 1898 his rank at the bar was so well established that he was nominated by his party as its candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney. Owing to the large adverse majority in the county, he was not elected, but he made a very creditable run for the position.

Mr. Carlon has lived continuously in Brookfield since he entered on his professional career, except during one year, when he was in the new state of Oklahoma. He has been earnest, intelligent and practical in his support of all worthy undertakings for the improvement of Brook- field and Linn county, and the substantial and enduring welfare of their people. But projects of doubtful propriety or advantage never receive consideration from him. He has excellent judgment, and he is guided by it, not by rose-tinted prospects or sentimental considerations, in all he does.

In his political relations he has been a life-long Republican, zealous and energetic in the service of his party and much esteemed by its leaders and its rank and tile for his wisdom in council, his efficiency in action and his unwavering loyalty under all conditions. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has also served four years as one of the directors of the National American Society of Kansas City in United States. On all sides he is regarded as one of Linn county's best, most useful and most representative citizens.

Alpha L. Burns

Occupying a high rank in his profession, held in the greatest esteem as a man and citizen, and earnestly interested in everything that pertains to the progress and improvement of the city and county of his home. Alpha L. Burns, of Brookfield, the present prosecuting attorney of Linn county is a force for great good and extensive usefulness in his locality and an ornament to its progressive and elevated manhood. He is the second member of the law firm of Burns, Burns & Burns; his two partners being his older and younger brothers.

Mr. Burns was born on a Linn county farm on January 19, 1879. He is a son of John T. and Mary (Joyce) Burns, the former a native of Ireland, born near Dublin, and the mother born in Linn county but of Irish parentage. The father came to the United States at the age of seventeen and located at Albany, New York. He was a sailor, and from 1855 to 1861 cruised along the shores of the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean. Although a Democrat, he was ardently attached to the Union and soon after the Civil War began enlisted in Company B, Forty-fourth New York Infantry for a term of three years. At the end of that term he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company F in General Hancock's veteran corps.

He was in the Army of the Potomac and of course saw a great deal of active service, taking part in many of the historic battles of the war, among them the sanguinary contests of Antietam and the Wilderness. In the latter he was severely wounded, but he recovered rapidly from his wound and went again into the service in time to receive another in one of the latei' battles. When the war closed he still remained in the army for a time and did duty of a high order in various ways. He was mustered out of the service with the rank of corporal.

In 1866 he came to Linn county and located on a farm which he lived on and cultivated until his death in May, 1905. His widow is still living. They were the parents of twelve children, seven of whom are living: Thomas P., a lawyer, and the head of the firm of Burns, Bunrs & Burns; John E., a resident of Ashland, Montana; James H., who lives in Nebraska; Alpha L., the immediate subject of this writing; Charles B., the third member of the law firm; Lola J., who is the wife of J. L. Morey, of St. Louis; and Theresa, who is a school teacher and lives with her mother.

Two of the sons were sacrificed on the altar of the^r country during the Spanish- American War: William B., who was killed in the Philippines while fighting as a member of Company F, Forty-fourth United States Volunteers; and Joseph A., who belonged to Company A, Sixth Missouri Infantry, and died of typhoid fever in Savannah, Georgia. They followed the inspiring example of their father in an active exhibition of their patriotism and it cost them their lives. He was a Catholic in religion and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in fraternal life. He was a great student and a man of extensive and varied attainments in learning.

His son Alpha was reared and educated in Linn county, and here also he made his prejDaration for the professional career he is working out with so much credit to himself and benefit to the county. He studied law under the tuition of the late Harry K. West and was admitted to the bar of this county in 1902. He began practicing at once and soon afterward formed a partnership with his brother Thomas under the firm name of Burns & Bums. In 1906 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Linn county and in 1910 was re-elected. The excellent record he made in his first term he is extending in his second, gaining friends and popularity as time passes and the people are more and more impressed by his fidelity to duty and decided ability.

On November 20, 1907, Mr. Burns was united in marriage with Miss Anne McGowan, a daughter of John and Margaret (Meehan) McGowan. Three children have been born of the imion, John T. and Margaret T. and Mary C, twins. The father is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Order of Knights of Columbus and the Order of Woodmen in fraternal relations, and belongs to the Catholic Church in religious affiliation.

lawyers, and an older brother of Alpha, was born on June 14, 1868, on his father's farm in this county. He grew to manhood on the farm and obtained his academic education in the public schools. After a due course of preparatory study of law he was admitted to prac1,ice in 1894, then passed four years in Joplin, Jasper county, this state. At the end of that period he returned to Linn county and was soon afterward elected county attorney and re-elected for a second term. He is very prominent as a lawyer and is held in the highest esteem as a man and citizen, being progressive, enterprising and public spirited, with an earnest and helpful practical interest in everything involving the welfare of the people of his city and county.

On June 26, 1905, he was married to Miss Eleanor Downing, of St. Louis. He also is a Democrat in his political alliance, and belongs to the KJaights of Columbus and the Order of Elks fraternally. His religious allegiance is given loyally to the Catholic Church. In all the relations of life he is true to his manhood, faithful to duty and zealous in the performance of everything he undertakes, slighting nothing and winning good results in all. Brookfield and Linn county have no better or more useful citizen.

Charles B. Burns, another member of this influential family and the third partner in the law firm, was born on March 6, 1881, on his father's farm, and like his brothers, was reared and educated in this county. He studied law under the direction of his brothers, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1904, and at once became a member of the firm of Burns, Burns & Burns. He has already taken rank among the most promising lawyers of his age in this part of the state, is jjrominent and popular socially, and is in all respects a valuable addition to the citizenship of tlie city and county in which he lives. He is a Catholic in religion and a Knight of Columbus and a Modern Woodman of Americi'i fraternally. He has shown his cordial and intelligent interest in the city and county by active participation in everything that makes for their betterment and the increased comfort and general weal of their people. All classes of the population esteem him highly and he is worthy of the regard and good will of all.

Lomax & Standly

This much esteemed l^anking firm, whose enterprise and progressiveness have done a great deal of good in and around Laclede in furthering the development and improvement of the locality, and whose banking institution is a source of just pride to the people of Jefferson township, has the reputation of being among the most progi-essive concerns in Linn county, and its members are everywhere reckoned in the number of the county's best, most useful and most representative citizens. Their local patriotism is of a high order, and they give expression to it in energetic and effective support of every woi'thy enterprise undertaken for the good of the township and coimty in which they conduct their helpful operations. Their bank, which is a private institution, was founded in 1895. It has a capital stock of $5,000 and a surplus of $10,000. Dr. Z. T. Standly is its president, H. C. Lomax, his partner in the firm, is cashier, and the son of the latter, H. W. Lomax, is the assistant cashier. They are all excellent business men, and they carry on their business, which includes all features of general banking, in a manner very profitable to the bank and highly beneficial to the community.

H. C. Lomax, the ,cashier and controlling spirit of the bank, belongs to a family of bankers, special aptitude for this form of commercial enterprise seeming to have been given to several of its members, and they have found good opportunities for exercising their endowments in this respect. He was born in Adams county, Illinois, on September 21, 1844, and is a son of John and Anna (Shank) Lomax, the former born in Sevier county, Tennessee, in February, 1812, and the latter in Virginia on June 16, 1819. They were married in 1835, and had thirteen children. The father died in February, 1877, and the mother Anna Lomax, 1902.

Of the thirteen children born of their union eight are living : W. M., who resides at Laclede ; Melinda J., who is the widow of the late J. C. Carothers ; J. W., who also has his home at Laclede ; Hattie, who is now the wife of Gilman Eeed of Kansas City, Kansas ; Laura L.. who married W. C. Love and is living with him at Long Beach, California; George N., who dwells in Denison, Texas ; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Horace Alexander, also a resident of Denison, Texas ; and H. C, the Laclede banker who is the immediate subject of this writing.

In 1835, about the time of his marriage, the father moved from his native state to Preble county, Ohio, and the next year came to Missouri. But he did not remain long in this state at that time. In 1837 he moved across the ]\Iississippi into Adams county, Illinois, where he remained until 1859. In that year he returned to Missouri, and was variously occupied here until the beginning of the Civil War. He enlisted soon after hostilities began in the Eighteenth Missouri Infantry, on the Union side of the great sectional conflict, and remained in active serv- ice with his regiment until the fall of 1862. He was then taken prisoner by a band of guerrillas while recruiting a company in Tennessee. . After six or eight months of captivity, during which he suffered many hardships and privations, he was exchanged in June, 1863. But his patriotic desire to aid in the defense of his country was not yet sated, and it inspired him to a new engagement in the army.

He enlisted again, becoming captain of Company M, of the First Alabama Volunteer Union Cavalry, with which he remained until after the close of the war, during the latter part of which he was provost marshal of northern Alabama. He was also with Sherman in his historic march to the sea, and took part in the battle of Nashville and many other engagements. He was mustered out of the service in 1865, and immediately returned to his farm in this county in the vicinity of Laclede. He cultivated this farm, until 1871, then opened a grocery store in Laclede, which he conducted until his death six years later at the age of sixty-five.

H. C. Lomax came with his parents to Linn county and Laclede in 1859. He was then fifteen years old, and after completing his education here, found employment in a general merchandising establishment, with which he was connected until 1870. During the next twenty-five years he was engaged in general farming, then, in 1895, bought the banking business which he and Mr. Standly have ever since been carrying on. In 1897 Mr. Lomax gave up his farming operations and since then he has devoted his time and attention exclusively to the affairs of the bank. He was its president in 1895 and 1896, and in 1897 accepted the cashiership, which he has held continuously from then to the present time (1912), and the institution has flourished under his management.

During the Civil War he also had some experience in the military service as a member of the provisional militia under Captain Holland. On September 26, 1876, he was married to Miss Matilda A. Turner, and by this union he has become the father of six children, four of whom are living. They are : E. M. Lomax, president of the Linn county Bank in Brookfield, a sketch of whose life will be found in this work; J. C, who is prominent in the abstracting and loan business at Princeton ; John T., who is president of the Farmers State Guaranteed Bank of San Benito, Texas; and H. W., who has already been mentioned as the assistant cashier of his father's bank.

united with Mrs. Betty L. (Watson) Heryford, the widow of the late Walter Heryford of Hale, Missouri. Mr. Lomax is considered a leading citizen of Linn county, and he well deserves this distinction. For there has not been for years a project for the benefit of the county or the betterment of its residents in the i^romotion of which he has not been a leading factor. In business, in public affairs and in social life he stands high in the regard of the people and enjoys their confidence in full measure. His life has been open and serviceable among them, and they have found a great deal in it to commend.

Mr. Lomax has held his church membership at Laclede for 46 years. He has received his mail there since 1859 and is the oldest continuous voter in the township.

William L. Moore

Of the multitude of occupations which engage the ifaeulties and provide for the wants of men, William L. Moore of Linneus has devoted his powers and endeavors to but two, but he has succeeded in both of these, and by doing so has given strong indications that he would have done the same in any one of many others. For he has shown excellent judgment, constant industry and commendable enterprise, with fine business capacity, and these qualifications will win success in any undertaking.

Mr. Moore is a native of Anderson county, Tennessee, where his life began on July 20, 1839. His parents, Joseph C. and Jane (Pate) Moore, who belonged to old families long resident in Tennessee, brought him to Missouri and Linn county in 1842, when he was but three years old. He was reared on his father's farm and educated in the subscription schools prevalent in this part of the country in his boyhood. From the time of his arrival within its borders until now (1912) he has passed his life in this state, and during all his years of youthful and manly strength has been an active and productive factor in the great sum of its industries. He is therefore, to all intents and purposes, a thorough Missourian, and in many ways has manifested his cordial and helpful interest in the welfare of the state and its people.

From the dawn of his manhood until January 8, 1896, Mr. Moore was occupied in farming on his own account. On that date he began business as a banker in partnership with Major IMuUins under the firm name of Moore & Mullins. They have a private banking house in which tliey carry on a general banking business, including all forms of present-day banking, and by their close attention to business and liberal policy in conducting it they have made their institution popular with the people and of great service to them. The patronage they have won by this means has also made the bank strong, and given it a firm hold on the confidence and high standing in the regard of all classes of the population.

Mr. Moore has been the inspiring and controlling force in the management of the business, and it is to his business capacity and wide sweep of vision in financial matters that the bank owes its success and its high rank in the business world of this part of the country. He has studied matters of finance with zeal and thoughtfulness, and has become an authority on everything connected with them. He gives his patrons the benefit of his extensive and accurate knowledge on the subject, and they rely with confidence on his judgment. For they know him to be prudent as well as far-seeing, and strictly upright and reliable in all he does and says.

On September 18, 1870, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Miss Emily F. Mullins. They have three children: Greely, who lives in Linneus; Robert B., whose home is in Independence, Kansas; and Edith, who is the wife of Frederick H. Powers of Kansas City. The father is as well known and as much admired for his public spirit and enterprise in seeking to advance the development and improvement of the city and county of his home and promote the welfare of their people as he is for his high character as a man and his skill and progressiveness as a banker. The people look upon him as one of their best and most representative citizens and esteem him in accordance with this estimate. They know he can be depended on to do his part toward the successful development of any worthy undertaking for their good, and that their interests, when committed to his care, are safe in his hands, and will have proper attention.

Fred W. Powers

Entering the military service in defense of the Union soon after the beginning of the Civil War, and just at the dawn of his manhood, first in a provisional command and afterward in the regular service; taking part in several important engagements during the momentous conflict and also doing great work for the cause he had espoused in tlie domain of construction; then, when "the war drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furled," conducting the operations of a farm with success and profit, Fred W. Powers was well prepared by the nature and variety of his experience for the duties in public office and a business of importance that have since fallen to his lot and required his attention.

Mr. Powers was born in Linn county, Missouri, on May 6, 1841, 3 miles north of Bucklin and is the son of Dr. John F. and Isabel (Brovnlee) Powers, both of whom have been dead for many years. The father was a native of Mahoning county, Ohio, born on October 15, 1814, and the mother's life began on December 25, 1815, in Ayr, Scotland, -

She came to the American continent at an early age and located in Ohio, where she met with and married her husband. He was a physician in active practice in his native state, but longed for a life in the farther West.

Accordingly, early in the year 1841 he voyaged with the family he then had down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Missouri to Brunswick in Chariton county, this state, and from there journeyed overland to Linn county. He took up his residence in a rural community and from then until his death, which occurred in Jefferson City on February 20, 1865, he was engaged in a general practice of his profession in Linn county and those which adjoin it, except during the last six months of his life, when he was in the military service of the country as captain of Company I, of the Forty-second Missouri Infantry, a service in which he offered up his being on the altar of patriotism. His widow survived him a little over four years, dying in this county on April 9, 1869, after having endeared herself to all who knew her, by her sterling womanhood and genuine worth.

She and her husband were the parents of five children, four of whom are living: Mary, the wife of Noah Caton of Bucklin; Fred W., the immediate subject of this brief review; Leah J., the wife of C. G. Bigger of Marceliue; and Dr. Isaac V., of Brookfield. The paternal grandfather, Isaac Powers, was born on Long Island, New York, in 1776, and early in his manhood moved to what was then a part of Trumbull, but is now Mahoning county, Ohio, where he died in 1863. His wife, whose maiden name was Leah Frazee, died at the same place m 1865. The grandfather on the mother's side was Rev. John Brownlee, a Presbyterian clergjTnan in Ayr, Scotland, where he died when he was about forty-three years of age. The grandmother on the mother's side died in Linn county, Missouri, about 1842.

Fred W. Powers grew to manhood in Linn county and began his education in a subscription school conducted in the neighborhood of his home in his boyhood. In 1859 he attended Central College at Fayette, Missouri, and in 1861 McGee College at College Mound in Macon county. When he had completed his college course, and was ready to enter upon the active duties of life in his own behalf, he found his country engaged in a terrific sectional war, and felt it his duty to go to the defense of his convictions and the section of the country with which they allied him.

In 1862 he entered the military service, and the next year his company became a part of the Second Provisional regiment. Enrolled Missouri Militia. In the early part of 1864 he joined the Twelfth Missouri Cavalry as second lieutenant of Company L, and in that company he served to the close of the war. He took part in the battle of Nashville, Tennessee, and some other engagements of moment, and after that served as a pontoonier of Wilson's cavalry, especially during the raid made by his daring commander into the country of the enemy. The regiment and the rest of the body of soldiers to which it was attached pushed their way as far south as Macon, Georgia, and when they arrived there in May, 1865, found that the war was over and the cause they were fighting for was won.

Mr. Powers returned to Linn county and followed farming until 1871. In the fall of 1870 he was elected circuit clerk for the county, a position in which he served five successive terms. In the fall of 1891 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was engaged in an abstracting business for two years. At the end of that period he returned to Linn county, and during the next three years practiced law and did abstracting. In 1896 he was made cashier of the Moore & Mullins Bank of Linneus, and this position he has filled ever since with great credit to himself and advantage to the bank. He also practices law in connection with his duties at the bank.

On June 2.3, 1870, he was married to Miss Annie L. Roberts, a daughter of Morris and Jane Roberts of Linn county, Missouri. Two children have been born of the union, one of whom i^s living, Fred Harold Powers, who resides in Kansas City. The father is a member of the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

Robert J. Wheeler

Sucli a death as that of the late R. J. Wheeler, of Brookfield, least foreseen and soonest over, was that euthanasia, that peaceful and easy departure so much desired by the ancients. The severing of his vital cord came suddenly and was almost, if not entirely painless; and it was not expected by his friends, and seemed not to have been by himself, Avhen it occurred. It is true he was a patriarch in years, and had long been a sufferer from asthma. It is true also that he had shown signs of failing strengih and energy. But there was no indication in his case that his end was at hand, and for several days before it came, and even on the night when he reached it he was active and apparently as well as he had been for many months. His final summons came, however, in the twinkling of an eye, and in a few minutes his long, useful and highly creditable career was terminated.

While this occurrence shocked and profoundly grieved the community which had honored him as one of its best and most eminent citizens for almost twenty years, it was in accordance with ' ' the eternal fitness of things." He had lost no time in his busy and productive life, and had always kept his work up to the hour. So there was no unfinished business for his survivors to be troubled with. His house was in order, his record was complete, his work was done, and he could lie down to his long sleep in perfect peace.

Mr. Wheeler was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, on March 30, 1829; and was a son of Drury N. and Susan E. (Moss) Wheeler, both of the same nativity as himself. The father's life began in 1802 and the mother's in 1807. They were married in 1828 and moved to Missouri in 1831, locating in Chariton county, which then extended to the Iowa line, and the greater part of which was still a wilderness. They were the parents of five sons and five daughters. All are now deceased but their son Drury N., Jr., and their daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Forest. The father died on November 6, 1861, at the age of fifty-nine. The mother survived him twenty-five years, and died at Bucklin in 1886, aged seventy-nine.

Their son, Robert J. Wheeler, obtained only such an education as the primitive schools of the wilderness could furnish, so far as academic instruction was concerned. But he was studious and inquiring, and his bent was in the upward direction, and he amassed for himself, through his own efforts, a considerable fund of general information, especially along practical lines. He was but two years old when his parents brought him to this state, and he remained with them in Chariton county until he attained his majority. In the spring of 1850 he left them and began farming on his own account. He followed this occupation for fourteen years with decided success and profit. In 1864 he sold his two farms and moved to Bucklin in this county. Here he turned his attention to buying and shipping tobacco, of which there was a large quantity raised in Linn county at the time.

The tobacco business was profitable to him, as his farming had been, and as everything he put his hand to seemed to be. But he adhered to this line of trade less than a year, and after selling his stock in it, opened a general merchandising establishment in Bucklin, which at once secured an extensive and active patronage and jBourished, with augmenting business and profits, as long as he conducted it. He was not free from heavy losses, however. He took no part in the Civil War, although supposed to be in sjonpathy with the South during that conflict, and his neutrality made him the prey of the predatory warriors of both sides who infested this part of the country. His store was frequently levied on by partisans of each, and on one occasion he was forced to open his whole establishment to a wandering band and see it robbed of a large quantity of merchandise and $500 in cash taken from his safe. He was also burned out twice at heavy loss and without insurance.

In the course of time he quit general merchandising and confined his operations to handling farm machinery, running a livery stable and dealing in horses, mules and cattle. In October, 1886, he moved to Brookfield and here founded the Wheeler Saving Bank, of which he remained president to the time of his death. He also invested heavily in real estate in Brookfield, and when he died was possessed of fifty or sixty tenant houses in the best part of the city, a number of vacant lots, his blo,ck of business houses, including the bank building on Main street, and his fine residence facing the East park, in addition to his interests in the bank he founded.

Mr. Wheeler was married four times, first in 1850, to Miss Louisa F. Brooks. She died in 1852, and the next year he took as his second wife her sister. Miss Martha A. Brooks. They had ten children, six of whom are living: Lou N., now the wife of Harry Markham, of Brookfield; Martha S., James E., William N., Mrs. Fannie A. Stone and Robert L., a banker in Brookfield. Their mother died in 1880, and in 1881 the father contracted his third marriage, in which he was united with Mrs.

Elizabeth J. Nagel, who died in 1882. His fourth wife, whom he married in 1883, was Miss Eva Bryan, who is also deceased, having passed away in 1903.

In politics Mr. Wheeler was an old-time Democrat, and, although he frequently served his city and township in official capacities, among them that of judge of the county court, he had no taste for official life. If he had possessed this and sought to gratify it, he might have made a mark in the political world. His party and other parties in his time frequently made congressmen and governors of men who did not have a tithe of his natural or acquired ability. But he always preferred business to politics, and while he thereby lost honors and distinctions he might have won, he also escaped the excessive annoyances of political life.

Mr. Wheeler died at 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning, March 14, 1905. He had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for over fifty years, and his peace with his Maker had long been made and kept. The burial of his remains took place on Thursday, March 16, and was an occasion of solemnity and mourning throughout the city. Rev. J. W. Kimbrell pronounced a tender and touching eulogy on the life and character of the deceased, and Rev. W. C. Atwood, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, spoke eloquently of him as a citizen, a churchman and a Freemason. The Masonic fraternity of the city attended in a body and escorted the remains to the train which bore them to Bucklin for interment. The lodge of the order at Bucklin had charge of the services at the grave. Mr. Wheeler was made a Freemason at Westville, Chariton county, Missouri, in 1857. He dimitted to Bucklin Lodge in 1863, and from that to Brookfield Lodge in 1888.

Throughout his long life, and wherever he lived, he .contributed liberally to his church, his fraternity and all other worthy agencies at work among the people for their benefit, and did not limit his benefactions to his sect in religion, his order in fraternal life, or his personal friends in private relations. But his private charity, although always generous, was at all times bestowed judiciously and on meritorious claims. And it was unostentatious in accordance with the Scriptural injunction. His life and character would have adorned any community, and did adorn several, and he passed into history as one of the best and most useful citizens Linn county ever had, and one of the finest examples of elevated American manhood ever seen by the people of this section of our common country.

Sterling L. Bradley

This esteemed citizen and veteran business man of Linneus haa seen life and mingled with men under a variety of circumstances and in widely separated localities. His experience has been instructive in many ways, and aided in qualifying him for success in mercantile life and all the duties of citizenship. He is one of the pioneer druggists of Linneus, having been connected with the trade in that city for over half a century, with an interval of onlj'^ two years, during which he was in California. He has conducted a drug store of his own for a continuous period of forty years, and throughout that long lapse of time has enjoyed in a marked degree the confidence and good will of the people.

Mr. Bradley is a native of Missouri, having been born in Howard county on August 20, 1843. His parents, William E. and Sarah A. (Colvin) Bradley, were born and reared in Kentucky, and early in their married life left their native heath, which was no longer on the frontier, for a region that still contained most of the features of adventurous pioneer struggling against the wilds of nature and daily peril from the savage denizens of the wilderness, man and beast. They were farmers, and on their arrival in this state located in Howard county. There they partially redeemed a tract of land from the waste, then, in 1853, moved to Linn county, where they began a repetition of their good work in Howard in helping to improve and build up the country. But the father did not live long to advance his interests in this coimty. He died in 1856, after passing some time in the grocery trade and later keeping a hotel. His wife also died in Linn county.

Alexander Bradley, the grandfather of Sterling, also moved from Kentucky, where he was born, grew to manhood and reared a family, and found a new home in Missouri. He died in Ray county, this state, after some years of laborious farming, which he conducted with varying success, the condition of the country at the time making all agricultural pursuits difficult, dangerous and scant and uncertain in results.

Sterling L. Bradley grew from the age of ten years to man's estate in Linneus, beginning his education in subscription schools in Howard county and completing it in similar primitive schools in Linn county. "^'S^ien his limited facilities for scholastic training were exhausted, he began the battle of life for himself by carrying the United States mails between Linneus and Brunswick, Milan and Trenton. His routes were long, and were rendered difficult to cover by the rough state of the country, roads and bridges being few, and what there were badly con- structed. The way was often beset with danger, too; and there was comparatively little shelter from the rigors of the weather. But in spite of all trials and difficulties he persevered in his work, and made an excellent record in doing it.

In 1859 he entered the drug store of L. W. Clark as a clerk, and during the next two years carefully studied the business under the instruction of that gentleman. He passed the next three years clerking for other merchants, and by the end of that period, the adventurous spirit he had inherited from his ancestors asserted its dominion in a way that could not be resisted. He yielded to its demands, and, in 1864, went to California overland, driving a four-mule team across the plains. The company he was with was not molested by the Indians, and reached its destination in safety.

Mr. Bradley remained in California about two years, then returned to his home by water. On his arrival in Linneus he again found employment as a clerk until 1872, when he started in the drug business on his own account, and since then he has been continuously engaged in it. He has witnessed the subsequent growth and development of this part of the state, and has borne his full share of the labor and sacrifice required to promote its progress. In all undertakings for the advancement of his locality he has been one of the energetic and intelligent workers, and his contributions to the gratifying results have been highly appreciated.

On February 13, 1866, he was married to Miss Sarah E. Easley, a daughter of Thornton T. and Almeda (Alexander) Easley, of Linneus. Two children have been born of the union, one of whom is living, Henry T. Bradley, of Chillicothe, in this state. The father is a loyal and devoted Freemason of the Royal Arch degree, and has belonged to the fraternity since 1867. He has filled all the offices in the gift of his lodge, and is now the oldest member of that organization, which is Jackson Lodge, No. 82. Throughout Linn county and many of those that adjoin it he is well and favorably known as a business man and an excellent citizen, and everj^vhere he is held in the highest esteem by all classes of the people.

Thomas B. Bowyer, Esquire

Each human life has in it some element of special interest different and distinct from that of every other human life, and worthy of special consideration. Two facts stand out conspicuously in the history of Thomas B. Bowyer, Esquire, of Linneus, which give it an unusual claim on the attention of all observers. He is one of the oldest citizens of the city and was the first white boy born in Linn county. His life began on December 25, 1833, on the bank of Locust creek, one mile and a half southwest of Linneus, where his parents, William S. and Martha (Tyre) Bowyer, then lived.

The father was born in Tennessee and the mother in North Carolina. They came to Missouri early in the 20 's and located in Howard county; Henry Bowyer, the grandfather of Henry B., being one of the foremost pioneers of that portion of the state. He afterwards moved to Linn county, and here he passed the remainder of his days and ended his life, passing away after a long and creditable record of usefulness, during which he served under General Andrew Jackson in the war against the Seminole Indians in Florida. He was the father of two sons and six daughters, all of whom were forceful in the early life of this county and died among its people.

When William S. Bowyer came to what is now Linn county in the winter of 1831 it was a part of Chariton county. He located his family in a camp on Locust creek where his wife and three small children, and a slave girl, remained six weeks while he returned with his brother Jesse to Howard county for the family of the latter. In the meantime a heavy snow, which was on the ground, melted and swelled the streams to such an extent that it was impossible for anybody to cross them. Mrs. Bowyer, with the aid of her brother, Louis Tyre, then a youth sixteen years of age but a man in spirit and resourcefulness, guarded the camp and provided for the children through all the hardships and dangers which oppressed the little gathering of lonely wanderers, including frequent visits from the Indian village not far distant, the sa^-ages being troublesome in their calls but not hostile in their demeanor. The only annoyance they gave Mrs. Bowyer was their presence and their strong desire to take Ann, the young slave girl, away with them. She was black as ebony and very sprightly in manner and action, and made a great impression on the Indians, who had never seen another person of her race.

As soon as Mr. Bowyer and his brother Jesse returned to the camp with the family of the latter, they entered government land and built themselves log cabins to live in. William Bowyer added to his entry of laud until he owned 600 acres, and devoted all his energies to clearing, breaking up and farming what he had until the declaration of war against Mexico. Immediately after this he enlisted for the defense of his country under Captain Barbee, and in recompense of his fourteen months service in the army and his valor on several battlefields of the war, was given a warrant for land by the governnient. On this he selected an acreage adjoining that already occupied by his family, and so enlarged his estate.

His marriage with the mother of Thomas B. Bowyer occurred in Howard county, this state, in about 1828, and brought him five children, three sons and two daughters. Two of the children died in infancy, and the oldest daughter has since passed away. The two who are living are residents of Linn county and Colorado. Their father was a man of adventurous spirit and always on the lookout for some opportunity to do something for the benefit of his family. So, when the melodious voice of California filled the world with its golden music in 1849, he was captivated by the strain. In 1850 he became one of a party of four from Linneus who crossed the plains to the new Eldorado with mule teams and sought their fortunes on the Pacific slope. Mr. Bowyer passed nearly two years in California, but on his way home died of smallpox at Brunswick, less than forty miles from where his family was waiting for his arrival; the end of his life coming in February, 1852. His widow survived him fourteen years, passing away in 1866. His name is still revered in Linn county, where he is considered one of the greatest hunters this region has even known, one of its most typical pioneers, and one of its fairest and most equitable administrators of the law as county judge, a position which he filled with great credit to himself and benefit to the people for a period of eight years during the formative stage of the county's history.

Thomas B. Bowyer, his son, grew to manhood in Linn county and obtained his education in the primitive schools of his boyhood and youth. He began farming on his own account at an early age, starting the development and improvement of a tract of land in the wilderness, as his father had done, and remaining on it until 1902, when he moved to Linneus, where he now has his home. During the Civil War he served four months in a militia company in 1864, engaged mainly in guard duty; but seeing some active field duty in fighting the bush- Avhackers of the time, who made conditions in his part of the state very unpleasant, and life and property decidedly imsafe.

In October, 1855, he was married to Miss Mary A. Alexander, a daughter of Edmund and Eliza (Phillips) Alexander, esteemed pioneers of Linn county. Of the nine children born of the union, six are living: William, who is a resident of Brookfield; John, who resides in Linneus; Benjamin F., a prosperous Linn county farmer; Emma E., whose home is in Linneus; Minnie, the wife of J. Phillips, of Portland, Oregon; and Nellie K., who is the wife of D. Buckley, of Linn county. Their mother is still living and is held in high esteem by all classes of the people throughout the county, as her husband is, also, and always has been. He is a Democrat in polities and has at all times been loyal and effective in the service of his party. He has been a justice of the peace during the last twenty years, and has filled a number of other township offices with great credit to himself and substantial benefit to the people. He and his wife, with the other members of his family, belong to the Baptist Church. No man in Linn county is more widely known or more generally esteemed by its people, and none is more deserving of the high regard and good will of its inhabitants. He is a man of fine character, commendable public spirit and elevated and representative citizenship, a genuine type of Linn county's best manhood, sterling in attributes and highly useful in productiveness, a valued force in connection with the progress of the county and an ornament to its social life.

Hon. Edward G. Fetty

Receiving his summons to his final account suddenly on Saturday morning, December 11, 1909, after a serious illness of only a few hours duration, the death of the late Judge Edward Fetty, of Linneus shocked the whole community of which he had long been one of the most eminent and esteemed citizens, and shrouded it in universal gloom. His health had been frail for several years, and the people of his home city were so accustomed to his condition, in which there seemed to be no change, that his sudden demise came as a great surprise to them, and a corresponding source of profound and sincere grief.

On the succeeding Monday his remains were borne to their last resting place, attended by a large part of the population of the city and many admiring friends of the deceased from other places, and were carefully consigned to the tomb with every manifestation of popular esteem and affection. He had lived among this people forty-four years without a blemish on his public or private life. He had been a farmer, a merchant and a banker in business relations, and in all these lines of usefulness had made conscience his guide and the "golden rule" his code of ethics. He had also occupied an exalted and responsible official position as judge of the county court for two terms, and in the discharge of all his official duties, integrity had been his polar star, and had enabled him to hold a straightforward course over every sea, even amid the raging tempests of political contention, warmly and heartily supported by his friends and followers, and uncensured by even the most radical of his opponents. Under such circumstances, it was inevitable that the whole people should lament his death, and that every man, woman and child among them should feel a sense of personal loss in that event.

Edward G. Fetty was born in Marion county, Virginia, now West Virginia, on March 20, 1843, and was a son of Hartley and Catherine (Eoberts) Fetty, also natives of that state, who became residents of Sullivan county, Missouri, in 1851. The father was a clergjTnan of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and warmly sjnnpathized with the Confederacy during the Civil War. He found the atmosphere around him in his Missouri home uncongenial to his opinions at the beginning of that momentous conflict, and left the state. When "the war drums throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furled," he returned to Missouri and located in Randolph county, where he died at the age of sixty-five years. His widow survived him a long time, passing away at Fayette, in this state, in 1908. They had thirteen children, eight of whom are living, four sons and four daughters, but none of them a resident of Linn county.

Their son, the judge, began his academic training in the schools of his native state and completed it in those of Sullivan county, Missouri, where he located with his parents when he was eight years old. In 1862 he went West, and during the next four years lived in Idaho and Washington. He returned to Missouri in the autumn of 1865, and on February 24, 1866, was united in marriage with Miss Cornelia Schrock, a daughter of Isaac and Charlotte E. (Burns) Schrock, prominent residents of Sullivan county. The young benedict and his bride at once selected Linn county as their future home, and m this county the judge passed the remainder of his days.

For a number of years he was actively and extensively engaged in farming on a tract of very productive and highly cultivated land west of Linneus. In 1888 he was elected judge of the county court from the western district as the candidate of the Democratic party, and at the end of his tenn was re-elected. In 1891 he moved his family from his farm to Linneus and started an extensive business in the hardware trade. When the Citizens Bank of Linneus was founded in 1905 he was chosen its president, and he was kept in that office to the great advantage of the bank until his death. He also served as president of the Linneus board of education and in numerous other public positions with marked ability.

By the very nature and workings of his mind and character, Judge Fetty was a Democrat in faith and action. He believed in the integrity and common sense of the masses of the people, and at all times championed their rights and interests. So earnest, so sincere and so capable was he in his advocacy and defense of those rights and interests, that by common consent he was accorded a position of leadership in his party in this part of the state. He also followed the teachings and discipline of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church in religious matters, and for many years was a member of the congregation of that sect in this city, taking an active part in all its good work and exercising a strong and useful influence in its councils. His membership was serviceable to the church and highly appreciated by all who had the benefit of the activities it put in motion.

While in the West, in his young manhood, Judge Fetty followed mining to some extent and with a fair degree of success. In the hardware business his son, Marcus B. Fetty, was associated with him for a number of years. He and his wife were the parents of three children, two sons and one daughter, all of whom ax"e living, as is their mother. The children are: Marcus B., secretary and treasurer of the Superior Hay Stacker Manufacturing Company, of Linneus; Isaac H., who is general manager for the Central Coal and Coke Company, of Kansas City, Missouri; and Edna, the wife of Dr. W. R. Adams, of Linneus.

Marcus B. Fetty, tlie oldest son of Judge Fetty, was born in Linn county and educated in its schools. He was reared on his father's farm, drew his stature and his strength from its soil, and gained his social prestige and business capacity among its activities. All that he is he has become here, so that in all respects he is wholly a Lirm county product and representative. After completing his education, he taught school for three years, then became associated with his father in the hardware trade, adhering to that line of mercantile enterprise until 1903, when he was made secretary and treasurer of the large manufacturing company with which he is now connected in that official capacity.

Mr. Fetty is also a director of the Citizens bank and connected with other institutions of service to the city and county of his home. While warmly, intelligently and practically interested in public affairs, he is not an active partisan, and has never sought or desired a political office of any kind, although he has served as a member and the president of the local school board in obedience to the urgent wish of the people. He is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America in fraternal relations, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He ren-

Mr. Fetty was first married in 1889 to Miss C. Eva Wilhite, of Grant City, Missouri, and by this marriage became the father of one child, his daughter Viola. Her mother died in Augnist, 1894, and in September, 1897, the father contracted a second marriage, being united in this with Miss Nellie V. Stephens, a native of Linn county, and at the time of her marriage a resident of Linneus.

Col. E. C. Brott

Still hale, vigorous and active, although nearly ninety years of age, and still wearing the harness of public office, which was fitted to his form many years ago and has never since been put off, having enjoyed the pleasures of life as a farmer, dared its dangers as a soldier in the Civil War, and dignified and adorned it as a public official in various positions of importance from time to time before he was selected for the one he now holds, and having mingled with men in active pursuits in three of the great states of the Union and lived in four, Hon. E. C. Brott, the present police judge of Brookfield, has had a very interesting and varied career.

Judge Brott was born in Bath, Steuben county, New York, on December 7, 1824. His parents were Martin and Esther (Crandall) Brott, the former a native of New York state and the latter of Hartford, Connecticut. The father was a farmer and local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1830 he moved with his family to Medina county, Ohio, where he continued to farm and preach for a number of years. His Avife died in that county in 1834. Sometime afterward the father married again, and later moved to Knox county, Illinois, where he died at an advanced age.

By his first marriage he became the father of three sons and one daughter, all dead but our subject; and of a house full of children by the second. Five of his sons were Union soldiers in the Civil War, all entering the service from Knox county, Illinois. He was of German ancestry and inherited from his forefathers all the sterling and serviceable traits of character that distinguish the German people and make them so forceful, enterprising and progressive. With real German pluck he encountered all the difficulties of his trying life, and with real German persistency he battled with and conquered them.

His son, the judge, was reared to the age of nineteen in Ohio, working on his father's farm and as a clerk with a Mr. Boyal Hammond in Bath; attending the primitive schools of the period and Smith's Academy in Bath, in the county of Summitt, which adjoins Medina on the east. In 1843, when he was nineteen years old, he bravely set out to make his own way in the world, and took a flight toward the sunset for the purpose. He drove across the country to Knox county, Illinois, making the trip in the winter. It was a journey of near seven hundred miles, as he was obliged to make it, through a country wild for the greater part and but scantily supplied with roads and bridges, and it entailed on him a considerable amount of hardship and some suffering. But his spirit and endurance were equal to the requirements, and he persevered in spite of every difficulty until he reached his destination in safety.

On his arrival in the locality he had chosen for his new home he worked four years as a farm hand and received as part pay for his services eighty acres of land. When he married at the age of twentythree years he took up his residence on this tract of wild land, which was still rich with the unpruned growth of ages and whose soil was yet virgin to the plow. He broke up his land and converted it into a valuable and productive farm, living on it and cultivating and improving it until 1866, a period of twenty-four years in all. In 1860 he was elected sheriff of Knox county, and served in the office until June, 1862, when he resigned under the fervor of his patriotic devotion to the Union and enlisted as captain of Companj- E, Eighty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Before the regiment received its baptism of fire he was commissioned major, and even prior to this he was offered the position of lieutenant-colonel in three different regiments, but declined all the offers in order to remain with his own company.

The first engagement in which the regiment took part was the battle of Waverly, Tennessee, and the next that of the second battle at Fort Donelson, in both of which the Union forces were victorious. After the capture of the fort. Major Brott was placed in command of it by General Thomas. He held this command eighteen months, and was then ordered to conduct a train of supplies to the army at Nashville, Tennessee. In the advance of the Federal troops on Atlanta, Georgia, he was given the command of a brigade as a reward for meritorious service, and remained at the head of that brigade until his return to Nashville.

Donelson iu response to a request for this action from several hundred citizens for twenty-five miles in and around the fort. He held this position to the close of the war and performed its duties with eminent satisfaction to the soldiers and people in the neighborhood of the fort and the Federal authorities over him in the field and at Washington. At the close of the war he was mustered out of the service with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, having won his promotion by his gallantry in action and his fidelity in every part of the service in which he was engaged.

When Colonel Brott left the army he returned to Galesburg, Illinois, where he was soon afterward appointed deputy collector of internal revenue, and this position he held until 1866, when he moved to this county and bought a farm, which he lived on and cultivated until 1893. He was elected sheriff of Linn county in 1870 and again in 1872, but prior to that time he did considerable construction work for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad between Cameron and Kansas City.

In 1892 he was appointed a justice of the peace and soon afterward police judge of Brookfield. He has served the people well and wisely, and to their entire satisfaction in this office ever since. His political allegiance is given with unwavering devotion to the Republican party, and he is still active in its service in spite of his advanced age. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1856, and has ascended its mystic ladder to the degree of Knights Templar, and is also i^rominent in the Grand Army of the Republic.

Judge Brott was married in Illinois on February 15, 1848, to Miss Frances Vickery, a daughter of Ebenezer and Esther K. (Sheldon) ^^ickery, old residents of Tompkins county. New York, where Mrs. Brott Avas born. She died on July 19, 1887, and all but three of her seven children are also dead. The three who are living are: Edwin B., a resident of the state of Nebraska; Katharine, the widow of the late W. H. Truax, whose home is in Delaware ; and Susan E., who is the wife of J. V. McCune and lives in Brookfield.

Farmer, soldier and judge, this venerable patriarch has contributed to the success and advancement of American institutions and the glory of American manhood in three of the great fields of endeavor and sources of our strength, security and progress. He has lived worthily and serviceably among this people for nearly half a century, and now there is not one of them that does not do him reverence. If challenged to show a fine specimen of their manhood the people of Linn county might well point to Judge Brott and say, "Where can his superior be found ? ' '

Lorenzo S. Bowden

This venerable pioneer merchant of Brookfield, who has passed the limit of human life as fixed by the psalmist, and is now retired from active pursuits, furnishes in his long and fruitful career a fine example of the value of industry, frugality and enterprise, in the business sucees he has achieved, and of the worth of upright living and useful citizenship, in the universal esteem in which he is held.

Although not a native of the United States, he has lived in this country and in Brookfield forty-six of the seventy-three years of his life, and has become thoroughly devoted to its interests and its institutions. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, in 1838, and is a son of John and Elizabeth Bowden, also natives of that country, and belonging to families resident for many generations among its people and drawing their stature and their strength from its soil.

Mr. Bowden grew to manhood and obtained his education in his native land, and after he left school learned his trade as a stairway builder there, serving an apprenticeship of five years at the craft and mastering it thoroughly in all its details. In 1859 he came to Canada and located in Montreal, led to this continent by the persuasive voice of the New World which was pleading for volunteers in her great army of conquest over the wilderness and industrial development.

He remained in the Dominion until 1865, then crossed the line into the United States, and being determined to try his fortune in some portion of the country's imdeveloped interior, came to Missouri and took up his residence at Brookfield. Here he wrought zealously and profitably at his trade of general carpenter work three years, then turned his attention to another branch of productive industry, engaging in cabinet making and merchandising in furniture. He adhered to these lines of useful endeavor until 1892, when he sold his business to his son, Richard N. Bowden, and retired to a life of relief from all business cares and active toil.

He did not, however, give up his hold on all his sources of profit or sever his connection with the business world altogether. He is still a stockholder in the Linn County Bank and interested in other institutions of value in the commercial and industrial life of his community. Neither did he lose interest in the public affairs of his city and county, or forbear his energetic and effective efforts to promote their development and improvement. He has served as alderman and acting mayor of Brookfield, and in many other ways contributed to the substantial and enduring welfare of the people in his locality.

In political faith, with reference to national affairs, Mr. Bowden is a Republican and loyal in his devotion to the good of his party. But he has never been an active partisan or felt any desire for political office, only consenting to serve in the ones he has held at the behest of his friends who wished through his wisdom, public spirit and devotion to the public good to secure the welfare of the city. In fraternal life he has for many years belonged to the Masonic order and the Order of Odd Fellows, and in religious connection to the Congregational church.

He has been successful in business, acquiring a competency by his capacity and industry, and very useful as a citizen, winning a high and permanent place in the regard of the people around him by his sterling manhood, unwavering integrity and faithful performance of every duty in public and private life. No man in Linn county is more highly or more universally esteemed, and none is more deserving of the good opinion and confidence of its inhabitants. His day has been one of toil and many trials. Its evening is calm and benignant, filled with the retrospect of years well employed, duties faithfully attended to and services to his fellow men cheerfully rendered. It is also crowned with the cordial good will of the people among whom he has lived and labored, and to whom his presence, his nativity and his example have been full of benefit.

Richard N. Bowden, Jiis son and successor in business, who is still conducting successfully the mercantile enterprise he founded, was born in Canada on August 12, 1860, and came to Brookfield with his parents. He grew to manhood in this city and obtained a limited education in its public schools, his period of opportunity in this respect being short, as duty called Mm into business at the age of thirteen. In 1892, as has been stated, he bought his father's establishment, and since then has so managed it that he has made himself one of the leading merchants in this part of the state in his line.

He also has taken an active interest and a leading part in the development of the city and county of his home, giving attention in a practical and serviceable way to every undertaking designed to promote the welfare of the people and augment the industrial, commercial, intellectual, moral and social power of his community. He was elected mayor of Brookfield in 1898 and served four years. During his second term ir^ the office the paving of the city streets was begun through his productive influence and admirably carried forward under the impulse of his enterprise and fine executive ability and his superior business capacity.

member of the Order of Elks. He is devoted in his loyalty and very helpful m his services to his lodges in these fraternities, and in social circles is accounted one of the leading men in the city. In 1889 he was united in marriage with Miss Vina B. Ives. They have three children, two sons and one daughter, all of whom, like their parents, are held in the highest esteem throughout the city, in all parts of the county, and wherever else they are known.

Bernard J. C. Bettelheim

With Romance playing its fantastic tints around his birth; with the danger of privation and violence overshadowing his childhood ; with this period of his life leading somewhat along the points and pinnacles of great affairs where History holds her splendid march ; with a shipwreck and a rescue at sea on his way from the Orient to this country; with a residence of three years in one of the great states of the American Union and one of ten in its rival for supremacy among our commonwealths ; with forty-two years of active, practical business experience in Missouri, and with Tragedy standing warder at his death and demanding its grewsome toll in the awful suddenness of that event - with all these varying threads running through its warp and woof, the life story of this late lamented business man and citizen of Brookfield is one of unusual and thrilling intei'est.

Mr. Bettelheim was born on November 11, 1845, on board the William Jardine, an English sailing vessel bound from London to Loochoo Island, Japan. His father, Bernard Bettelheim, was a native of Hungary, and a man of great learning. He was a graduate of the medical department of the University of Leipzig, Germany, and was sent to Japan in the interest of several London merchants to promote the silk industry. Being a devout and enthusiastic Christian, he also determined to do missionary work among the people of the island to which he was sent. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth M. Barwick, was born and reared in England.

On their arrival at Hong Kong the parents had their infant baptized according to Christian rites, and named him Bernard James Gutzluff Bettelheim. The activity of the father became offensive to the authorities of the island and he was thrown into prison, where he languished until released through the mediation of Commodore Perry, the commander of the historic American fleet which opened the ports of

Japan to the trade of the world. Notwithstanding his imprisonment, the father acquired great influence over the natives at his station. He mastered their language and preached the gospel to them in their native tongue, and he also ministered to them when they were ill, and this dual service gave him a strong hold on their veneration and affection.