Linn County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1912 (part 7 of 15)

Mr. Phillips was born in Howard county, Missouri, on May 31, 1835. His father, Jeremiah Phillips, was a native of Shelby county, Kentucky, where his life began on January 22, 1802, and the mother was of the same nativity as the son. Her maiden name was Jemima Lay, and she was the father's second wife. His first marriage was with Miss Martha Hackley of Howard county, this state, who died in that county in about 1825. She was the mother of four daughters, all of whom are now deceased. The second marriage of the pioneer farmer who helped to open Linn county to civilization, was a fruitful one, resulting in eighteen children and giving the immediate subject of these paragraphs seven brothers and ten sisters. Three of Mr. Phillips' brothers are living; George D., who is a resident of Portland, Callaway county; William J., whose home is in Howard county; and Jeremiah, who lives at Aurora, in Lawrence county. Their mother died in 1861 and their father in 1876. But some years before the death of the latter he contracted a third marriage.

He first came to Missouri in 1821 on a prospecting tour. At that time he bought some land in Howard county and remained in the state one year. He returned to his Kentucky home, where he passed the next twelve years. In 1833 he came to this state, locating on the land he had previously purchased, and making such improvements on it as he was able to in the four years he spent on it. In 1837 he moved to Linn county and started another Missouri home in the wilderness, building a little log house for himself and his family about two miles north of the site of the present city of Linneus, which had just been indicated as the county seat, but was not declared such with full legal formality until three years later by an act of the legislature passed in December, 1840, legalizing all that had previously been done toward making that town the seat of justice and center of government in the county, including the change of its name from Linnville to the one it now bears, and under which its history has been developed.

Mr. Phillips bought considerable land in this locality, most of it from the government, and owned 260 acres at the time of his death. He served as county treasurer and later as sheriff and collector of taxes. He was also circuit clerk and recorder for twelve years, his tenure of this office ending in 1861, when he resigned rather than take an oath of allegiance to the government of the United States at that time, the Civil war having begun and his sympathies being with the Confederacy. After his resignation he lived retired until his death. For many years he was an active and devoted member of the Masonic order, and throughout his life a firm and faithful Democrat of the old school in his political faith and allegiance. His father, George Phillips, a native and life-long resident of Kentucky, was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and the son of pioneers in the Blue Grass state.

John C. Phillips was brought to Linn county by his parents when he was but two years old. He grew to manhood on his father's farm and secured what education he could in the primitive schools of the period of his boyhood and youth, when the schoolhouse was a crude log structure furnished with slab benches, and open for the instruction of the aspiring progeny of the surrounding country only during the few winter months of the year. He began the struggle for advancement among men on his own account as a clerk in a store at Milan, Sullivan county, in 1855, where he passed three years, fruitful in valuable experience but meager in financial recompense for his services. While living there and clerking in the country store of his employer he found the great happiness of his life in his marriage, on October 22, 1856, with

Of the nine children born of this union seven are living: Leonidas C, a resident of Linneus; Eliza, the wife of W. B. Craig, of the same city; Ernest H., who lives in Rock Island, Illinois; William J., who also dwells in Linneus; Sarah E., the wife of Robert Smith, of Brookfield; Maggie M., the wife of George W. Menefee, of Kansas City, Kansas; and Dr. Nova G., who has his home in the same great and growing metropolis. Their mother is still living also, venerable in years and strong in the regard of all who know her.

In 1858 Mr. Phillips came to Linneus to live, having been appointed deputy circuit clerk and recorder. In 1861 he went out of office with his father and began clerking for Prewitt & Combs, dealers in general merchandise, with whom he remained until 1865. Two years later he started a grocery and hardware store of his own, which he conducted until 1875, when he was elected county treasurer. At the end of his term in 1877 he was re-elected, and when his second term closed in 1879 he once more turned his attention to mercantile life, forming the firm of Phillips, Myer & Brinkley for the purpose of carrying on an enterprise in the general merchandise trade. This enterprise continued with Mr. Phillips as a member of the firm until 1885, and the next year he opened a dry goods store in association with his sons Leonidas, John W. and Ernest, and for ten years thereafter gave the affairs of this his constant attention. In 1896 he retired from all active pursuits, determined to pass the remainder of his days at rest from arduous labor and free from the cares of business as conducted in the rush of our twentieth century life.

Mr. Phillips has been a life-long Democrat in politics, loyal in the support of his party and at all times devoted to its welfare, although not an aspirant for anything in its gift for himself. He and his wife have for many years been zealous and devout members of the Christian church, their connection with it dating from 1865, and their activity in its work for the good of the community being continuous from the start. They are esteemed in all parts of their city and county, and by all classes of the people, as most estimable and worthy citizens, whose years of active effort have been employed for the good of their fellow men and women, and whose record of usefulness fills out the gospel measure, according to their capacity and opportunities, and will live after them, a perpetual benefaction to the community which has the benefit of it in direct results and in the force of its high examples of sincere, serviceable and upright living.

Henry Brown

The native shrewdness, thrift and self-reliant resourcefulness of the Scotch people are well illustrated in the character, make-up and career of Henry Brown, one of the leading merchants of Marceline and senior member of the firm of Brown & Taylor, hardware dealers in that city. He has been a resident of Marceline since 1895, and during the whole of his life in this county has been engaged in the hardware trade. He has prospered in his undertaking, given the community in which he operates a fine example of upright and straightforward merchandising, attained the first rank in business circles in this part of the state, and won the lasting regard and good will of the people of all .classes and conditions.

Mr. Brown was born near the village of Stuartfield, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on December 17, 1858. His parents, George and Mary (Innes) Brown, were of the same nativity as himself, and passed the whole of their lives in the locality of their birth, where they died and were buried at the end of their estimable lives, universally respected and lamented. They had two sons and three daughters, their son Henry being the only one of their otfspring who became a resident of the United States.

He was reared and educated in Scotland and learned the hardware business there. But his native land did not seem to offer him opportunities for advancement commensurate with his desires, and he determined, even as a youth, to seek better chances elsewhere. Accordingly, in 1880, when he was twenty-two years old, he came to this country and took up his residence in Chicago. In that city he was employed for a period of fifteen years as stock clerk by the hardware firm of Hibbard, Spencer & Co.

In 1895 he moved to this county and located in Marceline, where he at once founded the Brown Hardware Company, of which he was sole proprietor for a number of years. He then took M. H. Taylor in as a partner, and the firm has since been known as that of Brown & Taylor. It occupies a leading place among the business establishments of the city, and is one of the most enterprising and progressive mercantile institutions in this section of the state. The members of the firm know their business thoroughly, the marts of supply intimately and the wants of the community exactly, and they use all their knowledge for the benefit of their patrons and the good of their locality and the territory tributary to their trade in general.

of this state. They have three children: Mary I., who is now the wife of W. G. Ennis; Amelia, who was a student in the Pookville s,chool, and Frances A., who is also attending school. The father has always taken a leading part in the public affairs of the city of his home. He served as an alderman two terms, during which the city water works and electric light plant were constructed. Every interest of his city, township and county has his intelligent attention, and all good undertakings for their welfare have his cordial and effective support. In fraternal life he is a Freemason of the Eoyal Arch degree, and takes a prominent part in the work of the fraternity in this community. His church connection is with the Presbyterians, and in the congregation in which he holds his membership he is one of the elders. Linn county has no better merchant, man or citizen, and none for whom the people have a more extensive or genuine regard. They know his worth and esteem him in accordance with it.

Every physician of any practice is called upon to preside over the birth of many a child, but there are not many who, like Dr. John H. Perrin, of Marceline, are called upon to preside over that of a new town. He was on the site before Marceline was laid out, heard its first sound of life, aided at its baptism and helped to bind on its swaddling clothes. He has ever since been one of the watchers over its growth, promoters of its progress, contributors to its enlightenment and substantial aids in every way.

Dr. Perrin was born in Howard county, Missouri, on December 1, 1847, and is a son of William H. and Sarah E. (Winant) Perrin, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Boone county, in this state. The doctor's father was born in 1819 and was brought to Missouri by his parents in 1821. He grew to manhood and was married in Howard county, and in 1849 moved to Macon county, locating near Callao. When the Mexican war began he promptly enlisted for the conflict in a Howard county regiment, in which he served to the end of the war.

He was also a soldier in the regular Confederate army under Colonel Bevier in the Civil War, and was discharged after the battle of Lexington, Missouri, on account of illness incurred in the service. In 1868 he entered the ministry of the Baptist church, and remained in it until his death in 1873. The mother is still living. They were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living, the doctor being the only one resident in Linn county. His paternal grandfather, Charles Perrin, was born and reared in Virginia, from whence he moved to Kentucky, and in 1821 came to Missouri, making the journey with teams. He died in Macon county.

Dr. John H. Perrin was educated in the schools of Macon and Chariton counties and by private study. He taught school until 1877, and while doing so studied medicine under the direction of Dr. J. W. Proctor, of Lagonda, Missouri. In 1877 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Keokuk, Iowa, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1878. He practiced at Bynumville, Missouri, until 1887, then came to Marceline, being the first physician to locate in the neighborhood and arriving and taking up his residence here before even a village was started.

From the time of his arrival until now (1912) he has remained here and been engaged in a large and active general practice, but devoting special attention to diseases and affections of the eye. He has been very successful in his work and is highly esteemed as a physician of extensive and accurate knowledge in his iDrofession, both by his professional brethren and the people of the county in general, and his practice extends, with his reputation, over large portions of the adjoining counties of Macon and Chariton. Wherever he is known his knowledge and skill are appreciated, and his genial nature makes him universally popular.

Dr. Perrin was first married in 1881 to Miss Levina Logan, who died in 1899. They had one child, their daughter Mary H., who is now at home. On September 4, 1907, the father contracted a second marriage, in which he was united with Miss Amanda Scherer, a native of Clark coimt}', Missouri, who still abides with him and is one of the most esteemed matrons in the city.

The doctor has served as an alderman of the city from the First ward two terms. He has also served one term in the lower house of the state legislature. He has always taken an earnest and intelligent interest in public affairs, and while in the legislature demonstrated his wide and comprehensive knowledge of matters of governmental principle and policy, local, state and national. He applied this knowledge in an effective way for the benefit of his constituents and the people of the whole state.

For a number of years Dr. Perrin has been one of the prominent and influential members of the County and State Medical societies, and in their meetings his counsel has been always considered of high value and been much sought by the other members. He is a Knight Templar in Freemasonry, and in church connection is a Baptist, having been a member of the church since 1873. One of the oldest physicians in the county, and with a life of usefulness distinguished for professional success, civic enterprise and public spirit and uprightness in all relations, it is an evidence of the virtue and intelligence of the people among whom he has so long lived and so effectively labored that he is crowned with their universal esteem, confidence and good will.

William E. Parks

A pioneer resident of Marceline, and now one of its leading business men, William E. Parks is entitled to double credit for his share in promoting the development and progress of the city, and giving it name, standing and influence in the commercial, industrial, political and social life of the county. He selected it as his residence in its infancy, has abode in it during all its subsequent years of advancement, has ministered to the welfare of its people in many ways, and is now providing for their comfort and convenience by conducting one of the best marts of trade within its limits, and aiding in the beneficial realization of every project undertaken for its enlargement, improvement and adaptation to its rapid growth.

W. E. Parks is a native of McDonough county, Illinois, where his life began on December 2, 1856. He is a son of William H. and Elizabeth (Crane) Parks, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer and a son of James Parks, who moved from Ohio to Illinois, where his life ended after a long career of upright living and usefulness as a good farmer and sturdy citizen. His son, William H. Parks, grew to manhood in Illinois, where William E. was born, and while yet a young man moved to Missoui'i in 1869, locating in Chariton county, six miles south of Marceline. Here he lived on a farm which he improved, remaining until 1892. He then took up his residence in Marceline, where he died in 1906. His widow is still living and is now past eighty years of age. He was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, enlisting in Company H, Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1864, and served tmtil the close of the war.

William E. Parks reached his manhood on the Chariton county farm near Marceline and obtained his education in the district schools, at Brookfield Academy and in the State Normal School at Warrensburg. After leaving the last named institution he taught school for twenty-three consecutive years. He located at Marceline in 1889, one year after the town was laid out, and built a dwelling for himself, which was among the first erected within the limits of the present city after it was founded and started on its noble career of progress and development.

In this same year, 1889, W. E. Parks was married to Miss Ella M. Akers, a Missourian by nativity. They have had five children, all of whom are living: Eowena J., Chelsea C, Addison D., George A., and Ermine J. After his marriage the father continued to teach school for a number of years. He was principal of the Marceline High School from 1896 to 1900, and of the Bucklin school in 1901-1902. In the year last mentioned he began merchandising in the hardware trade, and in this he has ever since been engaged. His store is one of the leading business places in the city, and is conducted according to his rule of the strictest integrity in everything.

While taking a decided and earnest interest in public affairs, as every good citizen should, W. E. Parks is independent in polities, casting his vote with a view to securing the best interests of the township and county, according to his light and knowledge on the case. In the affairs of the township, moral, educational and social, he is a prominent personage and a potent force for good. He has been a member of the school board during the last seven years, and the schools are the better for his aid in the supervision of them. Fraternally he is a Freemason and an Oddfellow, and in church connection he is a Presbyterian. Marceline township has no better citizen, and the people cheerfully admit this.

George W. Early

Belied on with all confidence as a financier, everywhere highly esteemed as a man, admired for his social qualities and universally popular as a public official, George W. Early, cashier of the First National Bank of Marceline, is easily one of the leading citizens of the community in which he lives. In many ways he has shown his deep and abiding interest in the welfare and progress of its people during the nineteen years of his residence among them, but in no way more than through his earnest and intelligent support of every worthy project designed to promote their betterment and augment their moral, intellectual and commercial influence in the state, and their comfort and convenience at home.

28, 1854. His father, Le\\ds J. Early, was a native of Ohio, and his mother, whose maiden iiame was Sarah Walker, was a Kentuckian by birth. The father was a farmer in liis native state and also in Illinois and Kansas, and moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1880. He died in Kansas City, Kansas, January, 1912. The mother died in 1875. Their offspring number four, George W., and his three sisters, all of whom are living.

Mr. Early's paternal grandfather, Andrew Early, was a farmer in Ohio for many years and died in that state. He was descended from old Scotch-Irish ancestry, and the salient characteristics of that combination in the formation of human traits, habits and tendencies, ^11 of which are admirable, have been prominent in all members of the family for generations, and have formed the basis of the successes they have won in their various localities and stations in life.

George W. Early grew to manhood in Ohio and Kansas and obtained a good common school education, with considerable special training which well prepared him for the duties in which he is now engaged and others that have occupied him at different times and in various places. His entrance into the world of business was as a bookkeeper. He was treasurer of the Great Western Manufacturing Company in Leavenworth, Kansas, for fifteen years, and engaged in banking at Atchison in the same state for a time.

In 1892 he came to Marceline and took charge of the old Bank of Marceline, of which he had control until it was reorganized as the First National Bank of Marceline, and since then he has been its cashier. Under the impulse of his quickening spirit of enterprise and progressiveness, his breadth of view and accurate knowledge of the banking business, his prudent management and his genial social qualities, the bank has enjoyed great prosperity and a considerable increase in its business.

Mr. Early was married on February 11th, 1880, to Miss Mary Callahan, a native of Platte county, Missouri, and the daughter of Dr. H. B. and Sarah (Metcalfe) Callahan, esteemed residents of that county for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Early have two children, their son Henry B., who resides in Prescott, Arizona; and their daughter Elizabeth, who is now Mrs. Henry Eeed, of Kansas City, this state.

Mr. Early has long been connected with the official life and public life of Marceline. He has served on the school board and as township trustee for fifteen years, and his length of tenure of these offices is the best evidence of the value and appreciation of his services in them. Fraternally he is a Freemason and in religious affiliation he is connected

the Baptist church. In all the relations of life he has shown himself worthy of the full confidence and high esteem of the people, and he has them.

First National Bank Of Maroeline

The original of this enterprising, progressive and highly valued financial institution, which is such a credit and of so much service to the thriving and expanding city of Marceline, and the country which surrounds that pleasing municipality, was the Bank of Marceline, a state institution, which was organized on January - , 1888, with a capital stock of $35,000, the president of which was Benjamin F. Sights. In 1898 the capital stock was reduced to $25,000, and in 1900 the institution absorbed the Santa Fe Exchange Bank. With this addition to its resources the Bank of Marceline had a better outlook and prospered more extensively.

In 1902 the gentlemen who now control the First National Bank took charge of the institution, and in 1904 reorganized it under its present name, and with the officers who still direct its affairs. These are: William G. Lancaster, president; George W. Early, cashier, and F. G. Lancaster, assistant cashier. The board of directors is composed of the gentlemen named and Dr. W. S. Woods and H. W. Pratt, of Kansas City, Missouri. Under its new birth and baptism the bank has prospered steadily and has steadily gained friends, patrons and business. It is now one of the strong and sound fiscal institutions of Linn county, and has an excellent reputation throughout the state for safe and skillful management, an enterprising and up-to-date spirit, and a disposition of liberality toward the business houses and private citizens of the territory tributary to its operations, which is extensive and increases year by year.

William G. Lancaster, the president of the bank, is a native of Clinton county, Missouri, where his life began on November 27, 1856, and has been continued in many places and amid a great variety of circumstances. He is a son of Green B. and Rebecca J. (Roberts) Lancaster, who were natives of Estill countj', Kentucky. The father came to Missouri with his mother about the year 1834. The family located in Clinton county, where he grew to manhood, completed his education and is still living, and, although advanced in years, continues the farming operations which have form'ed the occupation of his life.

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present with a past in our country's history which seems remote in this age when time is counted rapidly. He was interested in public events when General Jackson retired from the presidency; felt the thrill of the historic "Log Cabin" campaign of 1840, which swept General Harrison, of Tippecanoe fame, into the same office; took part himself in the Mexican War, and was deeply concerned over the events which brought on the Civil War. He has also witnessed the remarkable growth and development of our country since that awful sectional conflict wiped the stain of chattel slavery from our proud escutcheon, and is now able to rejoice over the wonderful wealth and power of the land; and it is to be said in his favor that, according to his means and opportunities, he has contributed to the results the American republic has wrought out.

The elder Mr. Lancaster was married in 1847 to Miss Eebecca J. Roberts, and by this marriage became the father of five sons and seven daughters, one of the sons being William G. Lancaster of this sketch. The mother of these children died in 1869, and in 1871 the father married again, uniting himself with Miss Ella Martin, who bore him six daughters and one son, making him the father of nineteen children in all, a number that would have done him credit in the patriarchal age of human history.

William G. Lancaster grew to manhood in Dekalb county, Missouri, and obtained his education in country schools. In 1874, when he was eighteen years of age, he went to Wyoming, where, during the next ten years he was engaged in ranching. On the wide plains of that state he had many thrilling and some hair-raising adventures, some narrow escapes from death by violence, many hardships from the rage of the elements, and a continuous experience of life in an atmosphere of excitement and hazard.

In 1883 he returned to Missouri and located at Winston, Daviess county, where for four years he was engaged in the drug trade. He then became cashier of the Bank of Winston, a position which he filled with great acceptability until 1901. In the meantime, however, in 1897, he assisted in organizing the Bank of Altamont, Missouri, and acted as cashier of that also. In 1901 he sold his interests there and became interested in the Bank of Excelsior Springs in Clay county, this state, which he served as president one year. In 1902 he sold out there and moved to Marceline, and here he has ever since resided and been engaged in business.

is the wife of Charles S. Steiner, of Marceline; Fred G., assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Marceline; Glenn E., who is also connected with the bank; and Tracy M., who is living at home with his parents. Like their parents, the children are held in the highest esteem by all classes of the people throughout the county, and wherever else they are known.

Mr. Lancaster is a Democrat in his political aflfiliation and loyal to his party, but he has never held or sought a political office. Fraternally he is a Freemason of the Eoyal Arch degree. He is regarded as one of the best and most useful citizens Linn county numbers among its people.

Charles Willis Green

Native force of character, general capacity for development, selfreliance and resourcefulness are qualities of manhood that will always tell to the commanding advantage of their possessor, and if he has at Ihe same time industry, integrity and a strong sense of duty, his success in life is assured from the beginning under almost any circumstances that do not deprive him of the power to work. And in a country of such wealth of opportunity as ours presents, such circumstances are scarcely to be feared.

Charles Willis Green, founder, owner and editor of the Brookfield Argus, is a gentleman who possesses all the qualities enumerated above, and others of great value and usefulness, all of which he has exemplified before the residents of Brookfield in his daily life from boyhood, and in a manner so forceful yet unostentatious, that he has won their universal admiration. He began life on his own behalf at the very bottom of his calling, and by his industry, ability and excellent management he has risen to a position of great influence and high standing in it.

Mr. Green was born in Lake county, Ohio, on July 29, 1860. He is a son of Nelson L. and Maria C. (Williams) Green, of the same nativity as himself. The father was a farmer and nurseryman, and brought his family to Missouri and Linn county in 1866. Here he followed the same pursuits as in his native state, locating for the purpose on a farm onehalf mile south of Bucklin. He lived on this farm four years, then moved north of Brookfield. He died in 1908. The mother is still living in Brookfield. They became the parents of two children, their son Charles and their daughter Alma, who is now the wife of W. A. Kaup of Brookfield.

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setts, then moved to Lake county, Ohio, where he was a pioneer. He also was a farmer and passed the remainder of his life in the county to which he moved from his native state. He married Miss Cynthia Lovett. Both died many years ago, but well advanced in years, having lived long enough to see the wilderness in which they located in early life grow into great fruitfulness of production and become fragrant with the odors of industry.

Charles Willis Green was but six years old when his parents brought him to this county. He grew to manhood here, was educated in the Brookfield public school, and at the age of fifteen began his craft and business career by becoming a printer's devil in the office of the old Brookfield Chronicle. He finished learning his trade in the employ of the Brookfield Gazette, and worked at it until 1883. Tn that year, although he was but twenty-three years old, he founded the Brookfield Argus, which has occupied his time and attention ever since, and had the benefit of his business, mechanical and intellectual ability, until he has made it one of the best newspapers in northeastern Missouri. For a more extended account of it see the chapter on Newspapers to be found elsewhere in this work.

The journalistic creation of his enterprise and capacity has been one of the objects of greatest solicitude to Mr. Green. It has been his purpose from the beginning to raise and develop his bantling, as it was at first, into an influence for good in the community, and he felt that he had the power to do this. All who know of it agree that he has succeeded and that the paper well deserves its rank. He is a strong, incisive and sparkling editorial writer, a good business manager and a man of clearness of vision who always sees the needs of his community and has the courage, energy and progressiveness to aid in providing for them through the columns of his paper and other channels.

Socially Mr. Green is very popular. He is genial, courteous and companionable at all times, a good conversationalist, and also a good listener, which is a rarer trait. He is a warmly welcomed addition to any social gathering, and always one of its radiant sunbeams. He is a genuine good fellow in the best sense of the term, and probably has now every friend he ever made, even though he has long been very active in politics and has encoimtered some of the asperities of journalism.

The interesting subject of this brief review has twice "bowed beneath the flowery yoke of Eros. ' ' He was first married in September, 1885, to Miss Nellie J. Jones, a daughter of Eev. Thomas A. and Jane Jones, and by this marriage became the father of one child, his daugh- ter Frances Loraine, who is now a teacher. Her mother died on December 10, 1896, and on November 2, 1899, the father contracted a second marriage in which he was united with Miss Florence Burnett of Brookfield, a daughter of James and Mary (Ware) Burnett, early settlers in Linn county. Of this union two children have been born, Howard Elliott and Marion, both of whom are living.

Mr. Green's political affiliation has always been with the Democratic party, and he has been very energetic and efficient in its service. He served as commissioner from Missouri to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the later Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In 1897 he was chief clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives. He has also been a member of the city council and president of the board of education. At the present time (1912) he is one of the regents of the Kirksville State Normal School and president of the Commercial Club of Brookfield. His religious connection is with the Episcopalian church, and he is one of the vestrymen of the parish to which he belongs.

As an evidence of the extent to which his ability and usefulness are appreciated it should be further stated that his political party has chosen him on several occasions as one of its representatives in state and national conventions, and he has been for years the local correspondent for the leading daily papers of Kansas City and St. Louis. But none of the distinctions bestowed upon him can abate his great love for his home and his library, or his warm and enthusiastic attachment to Brookfield. He is a great booster for the city and Linn county and edited the chapter on Brookfield which appears in this work. In fact it is one of his sources of commendable pride that he is an ardent champion for the present attractions and future promise of his home city, and he also has pride of the same kind in his paper as one of the city's established and influential institutions. The publishers of this history run some risk of seriously offending his modesty by saying so much in his favor, but they know and the residents of Brookfield know that he deserves it all.

Dr. William W. Ellis

Having been engaged in a large and active general practice as a physician and surgeon in the eastern part of Linn county during the last twelve years, and with headquarters at Marceline all the time excejit the first two. Dr. William W. Ellis, whose home is now in Marceline, has become well known to the people of this section, and his services to them have been such as a doctor and a citizen, that he is held in the highest esteem by every class and condition of them. He is well and favorably known throughout the county, in fact, and is everywhere regarded as a good representative of all that is best and most admirable in their citizenship.

Dr. Ellis was born near Keytesville, Chariton county, Missouri, on November 8, 1873, and is a son of Wesley and Adelia (Doughty) Ellis, also natives of Chariton county, this state. The father has been a merchant and farmer, and has prospered in both lines of his business. He is now, however, retired from active pursuits, and he and his wife are residents of Marceline, where they located in 1898. He was twice elected mayor of Marceline, and his administration of the affairs of the city brought him great credit while it was in progress, and is still remembered with gratification by the people and often highly commended yet.

The mayor's father, Pilliman Ellis, came from Kentucky, and the doctor's mother's parents from Tennessee. The doctor's grandparents on both sides died in Chariton county, where they passed many years of their lives. They became residents of this part of the state when it was still wild and largely unsettled, and their fortitude was often called into requisition by the privations and hardships they encountered, while their courage was severely tested by the dangers which surrounded them at all times for some years after their arrival in the country. But they lived to transform portions of the wilderness into good and fruitful farms, and so left their impress on the region they improved by their labors and their influence, and the proofs of their usefulness and fidelity to duty in a form that makes them manifest and is enduring.

Dr. William W. Ellis obtained his academic education in the public schools of Chariton county. He began the study of medicine when he was but eighteen years of age, entering what is now Drake University, in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1891, as a student in the medical department. He was graduated from that institution in 1895 with the degree of M. D., and at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Westville in his native county.

In 1897 he came to Marceline, but soon afterward moved to New Boston. There he remained two years and was married in 1899, uniting himself with Miss Susie Jones. They have no children. After his marriage the doctor returned to Marceline and opened a drug store. He also continued his practice, and during all of the subsequent years he has been actively and busily occupied with his dual occupation of doctor and druggist, and has been very successful in both lines of his work.

Dr. Ellis believes in progress, and as his profession is a very progressive one he makes every effort to keep pace with it. To this end he is a zealous member of the County and State Medical Societies, and takes an active part in their proceedings. He is also a diligent and thoughtful student of the best literature of his profession, particularly that which has a bearing on his work as physician and his business as a druggist.

In the public affairs of his township and county Dr. Ellis has taken a cordial interest and an active part from the time of his arrival here. He served as county coroner two years, and in many other ways has been of great benefit to the people outside of the direct channels of his profession and his business. While not an active partisan, and not eager for official consequence in any way, he is loyal to the political party to which he belongs, and at all times energetic and effective in the promotion of the general welfare of his locality in every way open to him. Fraternally he is a Freemason of the Knights Templar degree, and he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in the Masonic order. His practice is large and remunerative, his business is extensive and profitable, and his standing with the people of the county is in the first rank of manhood and business enterprise. Linn county is well pleased to name him as one of its most estimable and representative professional men, merchants and citizens.

Dr. William A. Cater

An early arrival at what is now Marceline, having located there about the time the town was founded, in fact, and since then prominent in the professional, mercantile and public life of the place. Dr. William A. Cater may well be put forward by the people of Bueklin township as one of their most estimable, useful and representative citizens. He has been earnestly and actively interested in the growth and development of the township, the increased comfort and convenience of its people and the promotion of all its beneficial activities from the time of his arrival, and his sei-vices to the community in every way are highly appreciated.

Dr. Cater is a native of Ohio, born near Barnes\ille, Belmont county, on May 13, 1854. His parents, Elijah B. and Elizabeth (Barnes) Cater, were also born in Ohio, and reared, educated and married there. The father is a Methodist clergyman, and now resides at Kirksville in this state. He brought his family to this state in 1865, and since then has lived in all parts of northeastern Missouri. He is an indefatigable worker for his church and very liberal in dealing with it. By his industry, zeal and persuasive power, he has been instrumental in the erection of more church edifices than any other man in Missouri, and has given $200 to each one he has had erected, not with a view to making himself popular, but solely as an evidence of his great devotion to the work in which he is engaged.

The mother died in 1856, and the father afterward contracted a second marriage in which he was united with Miss Mary E. Elliott, who is still living. By his two marriages he became the father of eleven children, of whom nine are living. He is of English descent, and can trace his ancestry back through the chronicles of England for many generations. His forefathers in this country numbered several generations also, the American progenitor of the family having come to this country at an early date.

Dr. William A. Cater was but eleven years of age when his father moved to this state, and but two when his mother died. The son of a preacher in the itineracy, and with no mother to look after his welfare, guide his footsteps right in childhood and youth, and with frequent changes in his home, the doctor grew to manhood almost according to his own inclinations, and secured such education as he could in the migratory life he was obliged to lead during his minority. He attended the public schools in various places, and having, for some years, his professional career in mind, he made good use of his opportunities.

At the age of twenty-one he began the study of medicine, and after a due course of preparation, entered the American Medical College in St. Louis, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1878. He began practicing at Macomb, Illinois, where he remained three years, then located at Edina in Knox county, and there he remained considerably longer. From Edina he went to western Kansas, and, after passing some time there, located at Marceline in 1888, being among the first physicians to arrive and take up residence in the promising village which had just been spoken into being by the enterprise and foresight of its founders.

After his arrival here Dr. Cater was actively engaged in and exclusively devoted to general practice for a number of years. He then opened a drug store, which was badly needed in the community, and which he is still conducting. Since starting this enterprise his time has been divided between it and his practice, which still continues to occupy him and helps to make him a very busy man and greatly in demand. His practice has been very extensive and made him well known to the residents of all parts of the county, and wherever he is known he is held in the highest esteem for his professional knowledge, , his wisdom and skill in the application of it, his high character as a man and his usefulness as a citizen.

In business circles he also stands high as a conscientious and upright merchant, modern in methods except as to the tricks of the trade, and enterprising and studious concerning the needs of the community in his lines of commodities and in his efforts to supply them. With regard to the material atfairs of the city, township and county of his home he is public spirited and progressive, always willing to aid in the promotion of any worthy project involving the betterment of his locality, and energetic and intelligent in the application of his infiuenee and force. He has taken a deep interest in local political matters also, and served the city well and wisely as its mayor, being the second man elected to the office and receiving a majority of more than 300 votes at the time of his election.

Dr. Cater has four children. His son Roy is a physician in active practice. His son Donald is a druggist. The other two are his daughter Ruth and an invalid son. For almost thirty years Doctor Cater has lived among these people, with his life an open book before them, and the universal esteem felt for him and manifested toward him demonstrates that his record is a good one, and that his life here has been useful and estimable. Bucklin township claims no better or more elevated citizen, and none for whom its people have a higher or more sincere and cordial regard.

Dr. Benjamin B. Putman

The oldest physician and surgeon in Linn county, and with a record of forty-seven years of active practical work in the i^rofession to his credit. Dr. Benjamin B. Putman, of Marceline, has rendered the people amwng whom he has so long and so elTectively labored services that may be estimated in the universal regard and good will of the communities which have had the benefit of them, but whose value cannot be measured by any computation of figures or mere statement of facts. He is entitled to rest from his arduous endeavors to ameliorate the sufferings of his fellow beings for the remainder of his life, but he is as energetic in his work and as diligent and conscientious in the performance of it as he has ever been, and in this he is impelled by

Dr. Putman has more than an ordinary interest in Linn county and its residents, for it is the i^lace of his birth, his academic education, his early and his later associations, and the work of his entire life to the present time. He came into being in North Salem township on June 10, 1844, and is a son of William and Sarah (Head) Putman, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia. The father was a farmer and came to Missouri in 1840, taking up his residence in Sullivan county. Two years later he moved to Linn county and bought a tract of wild land, on which he lived until 1866. He then changed his residence to Brookfield, and later moved to Bueklin, where he died in 1888. The mother died in 1864. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the doctor is the only one now living. The father was married three times, but had children by none except the first marriage.

The doctor's grandfather, James Putman, was born and reared in Kentucky, but passed the last half or more of his life in Indiana, where he died, universally respected as a citizen and as a man. He was a farmer in his native state and also in the state of his adoption. His father, whose name was also Henry Putman, was a Kentuckian, too, by nativity, and passed almost the whole of his life in that state. But his long and useful career was closed in Indiana, where he located a few years before his death.

Dr. Benjamin B. Putman began reading medicine soon after completing the course of instruction in the public school near his home on his father's farm in North Salem township. His first studies in the profession were pursued in the office and under the direction of Dr. D. I. Stevenson in Linneus, which he entered as a student in 1863. In 1864 he took one course of lectui'es at the St. Louis Medical College, after which he practiced until 1872. In that year he again entered the St. Louis Medical College, and before the year ended he was graduated with the degree of M. D.

The first year of his practice was passed at North Salem, and at the end of that period he moved to Bueklin. In that town he remained twenty-eight years, during twenty of which he was engaged in the drug business in connection with his practice. In 1894 he changed his residence to Marceline, and here he has lived busily occupied with a large and active practice throughout the surrounding countrj^ ever since. From the time of liis arrival at Marceline he has also been surgeon for the Santa Fe Railroad, and during the last fifteen years he has occupied the same professional relation to the mines.

Feeling the need and realizing the value of organized effort in his work, in order that he might have the benefit of the knowledge and experience of his professional brethren, and give them the benefit of his own, Dr. Putman many years ago joined the State and District Medical Societies, and he has been active in his membership and fruitful in his contributions to the advancement and usefulness of these societies ever since, and his membership in each is highly valued by the other members.

Busy as he has been in his professional work, and ardently as he has devoted himself to it, the doctor has not allowed it to take all his time and energy. He is a man of great public spirit and enterprise, and earnestly and warmly devoted to the welfare of the city and county of his home. His interest in their progress and improvement in every way has always been active and manifested in intelligent and energetic support of all commendable undertakings for their betterment in every way, moral, mental, social and material. He has served as mayor of Marceline and looked after its needs with earnestness and zeal governed by breadth of view and excellent judgment. The good of the city was his only aim in the performance of his official duties, and he discharged them in a way that was highly satisfactory to the people, beneficial to the city and creditable to himself.

In political relations Dr. Putman is affiliated with the Democratic party, and is an elTective advocate of its principles in word and deed, although he cannot be classed as an active partisan and is by no means an intolerant one. In fraternal connection he is a Freemason of the Knights Templar degree, cordial in his admiration of the fraternity and ardently devoted to its welfare everywhere and in every way. The people of Linn county of all classes and conditions look upon this hightoned and honorable gentleman as one of their leading physicians and surgeons, best men and most estimable and useful citizens.

From keeiJing a little store in a small country village to being the proprietor of a big department emporium in a city which numbers its residents by the thousands, and conducting the most extensive and up-to-date business of its kind within a large range of populous and progressive country, seems a long step to the casual observer, and would in many cases be more than could be taken in a lifetime. But it is a step that J. E. Ellis, the leading merchant of Marceline, has taken in less than fifteen years, and without any great effort. But Mr. Ellis has that within him as part of his makeup which enabled him to do easily what others would have to strain at, or could not accomplish at all. And he has never been in doubt as to what he could do. For he has known himself and has relied on the business capacity he felt that he possessed with unfaltering faith, and this has been one great element in his success.

Mr. Ellis is a Missourian by birth, education, social training and all the experience of his life to the present time (1912). He was born near the village of Wien, in Chariton county, on June 18, 1871, and is a son of Wesley and Adelia (Doughty) Ellis, a short account of whose lives will be found in the sketch of Mr. Ellis' brother. Dr. William W. Ellis, elsewhere in this volume. The father was a merchant for a number of years and his sons appear to have inherited the mercantile instinct from him. At any rate, they possess it in large measure and of high quality, and they use it for the benefit of themselves and their community.

J. E. Ellis grew to manhood in Chariton county and obtained his education in its district schools. He began his business career in Westville in 1892, keeping a small country store there, and for four years enduring the humdrum life, narrow range and small profits of such an enterprise, while all the time his spirit longed for an undertaking of far greater magnitude and with the spice of more extensive activity and variety in a business way. But he was simpling biding his time and laying his plans, and when his hour of opportunity came he vaulted easily and gracefully to the height he was fitted and destined to occupy in mercantile circles.

In 1896 he moved to Marceline and, in company with his brother, Dr. Ellis, opened a small drug store and grocery. This expanded rapidly in volume and value, but not rapidly enough to satisfy the desires of Mr. Ellis. Accordingly, in 1905, he built the business block he now occupies and started his present large department store, which is the only one in Marceline and has the most extensive trade in this part of the country. The block in which the business is housed is one of tlie most massive and imposing in the eit}\ It is commodious in size, complete and modern in appointments, and arranged with every consideration for the comfort and convenience of those Avho patronize the business it contains.

Mr. Ellis is very enterprising in his business. He studies the wants of the community and the best methods of providing for them. He makes a specialty of buying whole stocks of goods at low rates, and is thereby able to supply bis customers witb whatever they need at moderate cost to them, giving them, at the same time, a comprehensive mass and wide range of commodities to select from, all first rate in material and workmanship and up to the latest turn of the factories in style and finish.

While taking all of a good citizen's part in public affairs, Mr. Ellis has never been an active partisan in politics, although a man of decided convictions in reference to public questions, and has never sought or desired a political office of any kind. He prefers to leave the management of state, county, township and city affairs to those who have a taste for the work, while he devotes himself to the line of usefulness for which he feels best fitted and most completely qualified.

But where the interests of his locality in a moral, mental, social or material way are involved, he is full of energy and wide-awake in attention with a view to securing the best results from everj' imdertaking, and helping to direct all the forces at work along lines of the most wholesome and substantial progress and development. He is very public-spirited and enterprising with reference to the improvement of the region in which he lives, and conducts his business and spares no effort possible on his part to advance it as rapidly as the circumstances allow.

On June 29, 1892, Mr. Ellis was united in marriage with Miss Hortie J. Seatt, a native of Chariton county. They have one child, their son James Ellis, Jr. The parents are reckoned among the leading people of the city and county of their home and looked upon as potent forces for good in every phase of the life of the residents of this part of the state. They are modest and unostentatious in their demeanor, but they discharge their duties to their community faithfully and furnish excellent examples of estimable citizenship, which are well appreciated by the people among whom they live and labor to such good purpose.

William N. Wheeler

This leading business man and influential citizen of Marceline, who is one of the pioneers in the real estate business in this locality, is not a native of Linn county, but has been a resident of it from the time when he was but two years old. From the soil of Bucklin township he has drawn his stature and his strength. In its district schools he secured his education. His social habits were acquired in association with its people, and his business enterprise has been employed among them greatly to their advantage as well as to his own. He is therefore practically a product of this county, although his life actually began in Chariton county on December 7, 1862. Two years later his parents moved their family to Buckliu township, and he has never known any other home.

Mr. AVheeler is a son of Judge Robert J. and Martha Ann (Brooks) Wheeler, the former born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, on March 30, 1829. The father was an early arrival in Chariton county, Missouri, being brought there by his parents when he was only two years old. He was a prosperous farmer in Chariton county, and as such accumulated a good estate. In 1864 he moved to Bucklin, and for many years thereafter was actively engaged in merchandising. He first dealt in leaf tobacco, and after selling his business in this line of trade, became a general merchant, and also owned and operated a lumber yard, and a flouring, saw and carding mill. For three years after his arrival at Bucklin he was the agent for the American Express Company at that place.

During the Civil War, owing to his neutrality in the great sectional conflict, he siiffered severely from the depredations of both the Union and the Confederate soldiers, and because of the unsettled condition of the country during the strife and for some years afterward, he lost heavily through bad and absconding debtors. His establishment was also twice destroyed by fire, and he had no insurance to cover the loss. Yet, notmthstanding these reverses and business hardships, he became a wealthy man, at one time owning valuable land in Linn, Chariton, Macon and Sullivan counties in this state and some in

For a time he was one of the judges of the county court, and was always an enterprising, public spirited and progressive citizen, earnestly and actively interested in the growth and development of his township and county, and doing his full share to promote their advancement. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church, and for many years was a member of the Masonic order. His religious usefulness and generosity were not, however, limited to his own sect, for he aided liberally in supporting all denominations and charities of every kind. Linn county has known no better citizen, and its people have held none in higher esteem throughout its history.

William N. Wheeler may properly be said to have inherited the mercantile instinct, and to have cultivated his natural gift for it by force of habit from his childhood. For he was constantly in the atmosphere of trade while growing to manhood and attending school. He began business for himself in association with A. J. Stone, conducting a general store at Bucklin. The partnership lasted eighteen months, and after that Mr. Wheeler was in business alone for four years at the same place.

In 1888 he moved to Marceline and started the Bank of Marceline, which he conducted for three years, at the same time carrying on a flourishing real estate business, in which he is still actively and extensively engaged. In this line of mercantile operations he is in the front rank in this part of the state, and deserves to be. He is wise to his business and all its requirements, and he conducts it on a high plane of integrity, with great enterprise and breadth of view, and with an eye always to the substantial and enduring welfare of the region in whieh he operates. He is also, at this time (1912) agent for the Maxwell automobile in Marceline.

On February 17, 1885, Mr. AVheeler was united in marriage with Miss Stella Price, the daughter of James and Mary A. Price, esteemed residents of Chariton county, Missouri. One child has been born of the union, a daughter named Esther B. The head of the house has long been active in local public affairs as a Democrat, and has rendered his party excellent service in its campaigns for a long time. He has also given his home city good service as one of its leading men, and as a city councilman for a period of eighteen years. He came to Marceline in the infancy of the city and has been one of the potential forces that have made it what it is. He is a fine representative of its best and most elevated citizenship, and is esteemed by the jjeople of the whole county as one of their wisest and most progressive business men, most hightoned and upright gentlemen and most serviceable agencies for promoting the general welfare of all.

- Born and reared on a farm, and acquiring strength and flexibility of body and resoluteness and self-reliance of spirit by participation in its useful but exacting labors; laying the foundation of his academic education in the district schools, and completing it in a good college in which practical instruction leading to ser\-iceable ends is the rule and specialty instead of the frills and furbelows of mental culture; and then thoroughly trained in both the theory and the practical work of his profession at a leading medical college and in hospital service. Dr. Edmund D. Standly of Brookfield entered upon his life work well pre- pared for its duties, and in his career since starting in it, he has demonstrated that the time he passed in preparation was well and wisely employed.

Dr. Standly was born in Coles county, Illinois, on January 28, 1872, and is a son of William S. and Phama J. (Dawson) Standly, who were farmers in that county. The father was a brother of Dr. Zaehary T. Standly, in a sketch of whom to be found in this volume a brief resume of the history of the family will be found. Both parents of Dr. Edmund D. Standly are dead and he is the only one of their children now living. He attended the district schools in his native county and completed his academic training in the college at Westfield, county of Clark, from which he was graduated in the summer of 1894.

In the autumn of the same year he began the study of medicine in University Medical College in Kansas City, Missouri, and from that institution he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1897. He then passed one year and a half as interne in the general hospital in the same city, and near the close of 1898 located in Linneus and began the general practice of his profession, remaining in that city until November, 1909. He then spent three months more in hospital work in Kansas City, and in February, 1910, came to Brookfield and formed a partnership with his cousin. Dr. Catherine Standly under the firm name of Standly & Standly.

The doctor is now practicing alone, and gives attention to all departments of work in the line of his profession. He has been very successful in his practice, being recognized by his professional brothers and the general public as a wise, judicious and skillful practitioner, and making every effort to keep on deserving in full measure the reputation he enjoys. To this end he studies diligently the best literature on medical science and takes an active part in the proceedings of the Linn county and Missouri State Medical Societies, to both of which he belongs.

On May 28, 1901, Dr. Standly was united in marriage with Miss Ida M. Williams of Linneus, and since then has maintained an attractive home in the city of his residence, making it a center of social culture and genuine but unostentatious hospitality. He has taken a very active and helpful part in the public affairs of Linn county, serving four years as county physician and seven as a member of the pension board. He has also been earnest and serviceable in his support of all undertakings designed to promote the progress and improvement of the county and the enduring welfare of its residents.

of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Masonic order,32 degree YorkRite and Shrine. Socially he moves in the highest circles and is an ornament to them. Professionally he is in the front rank in this part of the state, and in citizenship he is elevated, public spirited and attentive to every duty, giving all public questions discriminating examination, and acting on all with unalloyed consideration for the general welfare. Throughout the county he is highly esteemed.

Dr. Thomas P. Fore

Having been engaged in an active and exacting general practice of his profession, with special attention to affections of the nose, ears, eyes and throat, and having also taken an energetic part in the affairs of his township and county during the last seventeen years. Dr. Thomas P. Fore of Brookfield has endeared himself to the people of this portion of the state by the great services he has rendered them. They have found him highly capable in his professional work, with a mastery of both the theory and the practice of the science of medicine, and great skill and excellent judgment in the application of his knowledge. They have found him also upright, progressive and judicious in the exercise of his citizenship, with a warm practical interest in the welfare of his locality, and highly commendable energy in giving it expression in work of value. They therefore have many reasons for holding him in high esteem, and they do in all parts of the county.

Dr. Fore was born on July 3, 1871, on a farm northeast of Linneus in this county. His parents, Peter T. and Mildred E. (Brown) Fore, moved to this locality from Howard county more than forty years ago. The father's parents were born, reared and married in Virginia, and came to Missouri early in their married life. They made the journey from the Old Dominion overland in a wagon, and found it long and tedious, with danger from various sources at numerous places along the route, and privations and burdensome conditions in every mile. It was while making this journey that the doctor's father was born, so the state and place of his nativity would be difficult to determine but the year of his birth was 1833.

The family located in Howard county and remained there, the parents passing the rest of their lives in that county. There the son grew to manhood, obtained a common school education and acquired a knowledge of farming, which he made his occupation through life. He was married, too, in that county, but soon afterward located in

Linn county, and here lie has passed all the subsequent years of his life, doing general farming, raising some live stock, and performing his duty to the people as a worthy, estimable and useful man in all the relations and requirements of upright and progressive citizenship and devoted to the general weal of his community.

Dr. Thomas P. Fore began his academic education in the district schools and completed it at the high school in Linneus. He began the study of medicine in the office and under the instruction of Dr. A. J. Berry of Purdin. In 1891 and 1892 he attended the medical department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1892 and 1893 Barnes Medical College in St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1893. He located at Lemonville, Putnam county, and began his practice there immediately after his graduation.

In 1894 he came to Brookfield and purchased the practice and good will of Dr. B. B. Putman, and here has lived ever since, giving his attention without reservation to his patients, who have increased in number from year to year as his skill has grown and become more widely known. But he has not devoted himself wholly to the general calls on his faculties and professional attainments. Realizing at an early period in his work that there was need of special knowledge for the relief of many of his cases, he took a post graduate course on diseases and treatment of the eyes, ears, nose and throat, and he has since made a specialty of that branch of the practice. His post graduate course of instruction was pursued at the St. Louis Medical College, and was of decided advantage to him, as it has been of great benefit to the people of this county.

Dr. Fore has been studious of his profession in a general way also, employing all means at his command to keep abreast with its progress and himself informed as to all its continuous discoveries of value and its advances in every way. He is an active member of the Linn county and the Missouri State ]\Iedical societies, and an industrious and reflective reader of the best literature bearing on his work, giving close attention to everything that is revealed in the science of medicine and all that is taught or suggested with reference to improvements in practice.

On February 11, 1896, he was married to Miss Nellie E. Ehoades, a daughter of John and Amanda Rhoades, respected and valued residents of Brookfield, Missouri. Mrs. Fore died on July 30, 1911, and her untimely demise is still a source of universal sorrow throughout the city and township in which she lived. For she was warmly esteemed as an excellent woman, and a foi'ceful agency in the social, intellectual and religious life of the community. There were no children born of her union with the doctor.

In fraternal life Dr. Fore is connected with the Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically, while he is not an active partisan, and has never sought an office of any kind, he believes fii*mly in the principles of the Democratic party and supports them loyally. He sees in them the promise and in their supremacy the fulfillment of the highest and most enduring good to his county, state and country, but he is not intolerant to the views and opinions of other men. He is an excellent citizen and the county holds him in cordial regard as such.

Dr. John S. Evans

Although born in Denbigshire, "Wales, Dr. John S. Evans of Brookfield has been a resident of Linn county, Missouri, for about thirty years and has practiced his profession here for a period of about twenty-one years. During that period his services to the residents of the coimty have been so signal and extensive that he has endeared himself to the people as much as he ever could have done if he were native among them. He has also become so thorough in his sympathy with their aspirations and purposes and so loyal and devoted to their institutions, that he is, for all practical purposes, as much an American as any of them.

Dr. Evans' life began on February 27, 1865, and he is a son of Eev. Ebenezer and Mary A. (Jones) Evans, both Welsh by nati\'ity and long descent. The father was a Presbyterian clergyman, and died in his native land when his son was about eleven years of age. lea\'ing his widow and three children, the other two being daughters, to deeply mourn their early bereavement. The mother accepted the duty of rearing her offspring thus thrust upon her, with the resignation of a sturdy Christian woman and the fortitude and self-reliance of a Roman matron, and she performed her duty faithfully to the full extent of her powers.

The doctor began his academic education and also his professional training in the land of his birth, but his studies in both were interrupted when he was fifteen by an event of the greatest moment in his life, as it seemed to him then and has since proved to be. When he was at that age, that is, in 1880, the family emigrated to this country, and on their arrival came at once to Missouri and located in Macon county. The doctor soon afterward came to Brookfield and accepted employment as a bookkeeper, and while performing his duties as such attended the Brookfield Academy, which was then conducted by Dr. Findley.

He completed his course of instruction at the academy in June, 1884 and then determined to continue his medical studies, which, however, he had not wholly neglected in the meantime. In 1887 he entered the St. Louis Medical College, and later matriculated at the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri, from which institution he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. D.

He immediately returned to Brookfield, and located here to take up the duties of his chosen profession and he has been kept busy mth an extensive and very exacting practice ever since. He has devoted himself especially to surgery and grown eminent in that department of the medical science. He is called for many miles distant on critical cases requiring the highest skill and attention, and is very successful in treating them.

Always eager to get information, and at all times equally as willing to impart it, Dr. Evans has availed himself of all opportunities for the former and cheerfully responded to all calls for the latter. He is a diligent student of the best literature of his profession, especially all that bears on his favored lines of practice.

In the public affairs of his home city and county the doctor has always taken an earnest interest and an active part. He has long been a member of the school board, and from the dawn of his manhood has been a zealous worker for the progress and improvement of the section in which he lives.

Dr. Evans was married on March 25, 1891, to Miss Margaret J. Shaw, the daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman and a native of this state. They have two sons and a daughter, Paul, Lane and Alice G-. The father is a member of the Presbji;erian church and attentive to its claims upon him, both with reference to the good work it under-^ takes, in which he is always a helpful force, and in the exemplification of its teachings in his daily life and his relations and dealings with fellow men. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order, and in that, too, he takes a serviceable interest, regarding it as a force of considerable i^otency for the betterment and social enjoyment of mankind.

Isaac Newton Wilber

"We have the sanction of Holy "Writ for the declaration that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country. But, however this may he with prophets, it is not always true of men who devote their best faculties and long years of their time to the service of great corporations and other lines of business of commanding importance. This was testified in a glowing manner in the case of Isaac Newton Wilber on Saturday afternoon, December 28, 1907, when the citizens of Hannibal, Missouri, and the railroad men connected with the Burlington Railroad in that city assembled in the court house to show their appreciation of Mr. Wilber 's fifty years of zealous and effective work for that system of railroading.

On this occasion, which was just before Mr. Wilber 's retirement from the service of the road, all honors to a private citizen, who had nothing to recommend him but his ability and fidelity to duty in several trying and arduous capacities, were outdone by the testimonial given Mr. Wilber. Music, flowers, song and oratory were features of the meeting, and several men high in the councils of the road paid him glowing tributes for his long and faithful and at all times efficient service, and the general verdict was "Well done, good and faithful man, in a continuous round of duty for fifty years."

Mr. Wilber was born in Dutchess county, New York, on February 24, 1836, and was reared to the age of eighteen on a farm. He received a good common school education, and in November, 1854, when he was eighteen, moved with his parents and the rest of the family to Moline, Illinois. He remained at Moline, working in a saw mill, until November, 1857, then changed his residence to Missouri and his occupation to work for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, beginning his engagement on the road December 1, 1857. His first work was making ties in a saw mill which the company leased in Kansas.

This occupied him until the fall of 1858, when he went to the end of the track then built and delivered ties and rails to track layers until February 13, 1859, when the track was finished. From that time until October, 1860, he worked as a laborer with a gang of carpenters erecting depots and other necessary structi;res on the line of the road. He next secured a position as brakeman and continued to serve the company in that capacity until February, 1862, at which time he became fireman on one of the locomotives. He served as fireman until May, 1863, wlien he was promoted to the position of engineer.

roundhouse foreman in Hannibal, remaining as such until September 1, 1877, and then again went on the road as engineer. On O.ctober 1, 1884, he was again made foreman of the roundhouse in Hannibal and remained in charge of it until May 1, 1887. At that time he was sent to Brookfield as division master mechanic, which position he filled until the death of N. J. Paradise, in January, 1896, when he was made master mechanic with headquarters at Hannibal, and he continued to serve the road in this capacity until his retirement on January 1, 1908.

Mr. Wilber is a son of George W. and Mary A. (Stewart) Wilber, who were also natives of the state of New York. The father was a farmer, but after removing his family to Moline, Illinois, in 1854, worked for a lumber company in connection with his farming until the death of the mother in 1876. He then changed his residence to Hannibal and passed the remainder of his life, and where he died on January 24, 1890, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years.

Nine children, five sons and four daughters, were born in the family, and three of the sons and two of the daughters are still living. Two of the sons reside in Brookfield. One son, Jacob E. Wilber, served in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Volunteer Infantiy three years during the Civil War. He was in the army commanded by General Sherman, and saw a great deal of active service during the momentous and sanguinary conflict. He is now an engineer on the Burlington railroad. The grandfather of these children was Jacob Wilber. He died in the state of New York.

In the early days, when Mr. Wilber was firing on a locomotive, all the engines were known by names. His berth was on the Old Hannibal, No. 2. During the Civil War he also saw service in defense of the Union, enlisting in a company of the Home Guard under a ninety days' call. There was considerable turbulence in his neighborhood at the time, and he was called into active hostilities on more than one occasion, especially while doing guard duty on the river front in Hannibal.

Mr. Wilber was married on April 7, 1861, in Hannibal, to Miss Levina Kain, a native of Pennsylvania. They have seven children: Mary L., who is now Mrs. M. A. Cooley; Henrietta, who is the wife of George Chapman; George S., who is now master mechanic of the St. Joe division of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Jacob E., who is a machinist for the Iron Mountain Railroad; Isaac N., Jr., who is a machinist for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at Grand Junction, Colorado; Sarah E., who is the wife of Charles Betebenner, of Han-

Mr. Wilber has been a member of the Masonic Order since 1865 and has always taken a great interest in the fraternity in general and his lodge in particular. He is now the only surviving member of the old guard of railroad men in Missouri and he is beloved as few men in the state have ever been. His character and services were well epitomized by Hon. George A. Mahan in an eloquent address delivered by that gentleman at the testimonial given Mr. Wilber at the time of his retirement from active work for the railroad. Mr. Mahan said in part: "What more splendid tribute than the presence of this large gathering of the friends and associates of Mr. Wilber could be paid to his worth as a man and his good citizenship! The people of Hannibal long since learned to love and honor him for those sterling qualities which make the true man. The life of this master mechanic has been one of construction and not destruction. He builded always for the better interest of the railroad company, the men who worked under him and the city and state in which he lived. To emulate the life and follow in the footsteps of Mr. Wilber would surely bring its just reward and make us all the best of citizens."

Thomas Halliburton

From the dawn of his manhood Thomas Halliburton has been engaged in merchandising, and the success he has made of his calling shows that whether Nature intended him for it or not, she endowed him highly with the necessary qualifications for following it on an elevated plane. He is now the leading merchant of Brookfield and has the best and most popular general dry goods store in northeastern Missouri, as well as one of the most extensively and completely equipped and stocked.

Mr. Halliburton was born at Linneus on September 20, 1851, and is a son of Wesley and Armilda (Collins) Halliburton, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Kentuek>\ The father was born in 1812 and brought by his parents to Huntsville, Randolph county, Missouri, in 1822. He grew to manhood in that county, and there studied law and taught school. After his admission to the bar he practiced in several counties in northeastern Missouri, being a circuit attorney, according to the custom of the time.

wards was made receiver of the government lahd office at Milan, Sullivan county, by President Pierce. During his tenure of this office he handled a great deal of money, which periodically he carried to St. Louis on horseback. He resumed his residence in Linneus in 1860, and in 1861 moved to Brunswick, Chariton county, where he lived until after the close of the Civil war. He was one of the first promoters of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and one of its first directors. When he moved from Brunswick he took up his residence in St. Louis county, but three years later settled on his farm near Milan, where he died in June, 1890. His second wife, the mother of his son Thomas, died in 1870.

Mr. Halliburton, the elder, was a member of the constitutional convention of 1872 and afterward served in the state senate. He was married three times, his first wife having been a Miss Holemon, who bore him three children, one of whom, a son, is living and has his home in Milan. She died in Macon county. The second marriage was with the mother of Thomas Halliburton and resulted in the birth of ten children, six of whom are living. The third wife, whose maiden name was Judith Owens, is living and resides in Carthage, Mo.

The husband was a pronounced Democrat and a leader of his party in the state. But he was opposed to its secession from the Union and a potent factor in preventing that disaster. In fraternal life he was an Odd Fellow and in religious affiliation a Baptist. His father, Ambrose Halliburton, was born in Tennessee and was a farmer. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and as a reward of his patriotism was given a grant of land by the government, as were his five brothers, who were also soldiers in that war. He located his grant in what is now Linn county, and became a pioneer of Randolph county in 1822, and there passed the remainder of his days.

Thomas Halliburton was reared and educated in Linneus. In 1872 he started in business in that city as a general merchant, opening a fine store, which he conducted for a period of fifteen years. In 1887 he moved to Brookfield, and since then has been at the head of the imposing and popular dry goods emporium which has made him known throughout the state, and a man of special prominence and influence in this county. He is also a stockholder in and one of the directors of the Brownlee Bank, and has been president of the Brookfield Commercial Club two years.

Mr. Halliburton was married at Linneus on September 1, 1874, to Miss Mollie Russell, a daughter of David and Deborah A. (Trumbo) Russell. Three sons have blessed the union and brightened the home- stead: Fred E., who is connected with his father in business; Eussell B., who is a commercial tourist, and James C, who is president of the Halliburton Company of Brookfield. The father is a member of the Order of Elks, the Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. He is one of the leading men and merchants of this part of the state, and is most highly esteemed wherever he is known.

He began his mercantile enterprise when he was just twenty-one and on a small scale. But he had great aptitude for the business and he increased his qualifications by close and intelligent study of his imdertaking in all its bearings, expanding his operations as he had opportunity and means, and from the beginning building as if he knew the magnitude he could reach and the necessity for his making every step of the progress sound and enduring. He has contributed very largely and substantiallj^ to the commercial greatness and power of Brookfield, and helped to put many forces in motion for its growth and advancement. And by his steady, upright and successful course, his ceaseless enterprise, his originality and resourcefulness and his adoption of every worthy new idea, he has made himself one of the most influential and representative business men in the West. He is also one of Linn countv's best and most useful citizens in manv other wavs.

William J. Tuite

By the death of the late William J. Tuite on April 4, 1911, the city of Brookfield lost a valued citizen and one of its honored pioneers. He arrived at the city in 1866, just six years after it was laid out, and lived there until his death. He was very helpful in the work of laying its foundations, and to the end of his life took a warm and energetic interest in its growth, development and improvement. He had progressive ideas and considerable versatility in efforts to realize them, and his public spirit was always equal to any demand made on it.

Mr. Tuite was a native of Ireland, born in the city of Dublin on 'Maj 12, 1824. His parents, Richard and Eliza (Baguell) Tuite, were also natives of that ,country, but moved to the province of Ontario, Canada, in its pioneer days and during the childhood of their son William, and there they passed the remainder of their days, djdng at advanced ages and after long records of usefulness and upright living.

school he learned the trade of a stonemason, and soon after completing his apprenticeship moved to New York state. There he was united in marriage with Miss Gussie Thomas, and by this union became the father of two daughters, one of whom is living, Mrs. Eveline Quinn, who is a resident of this county. Her mother died in Hampton, Washington county, N. Y., on March 15, 1865, and on May 30, 1886, the father contracted a second marriage, being united on this occasion with Miss Nancy M. Dodge, a native of the state of New York, and the daughter of Otis Dodge, who came to Brookfield in 1868. The second Mrs. Tuite is still living and is one of the most respected and estimable matrons of Brooktield.

Mr. Tuite was a Republican in his political faith and allegiance, but not an active partisan and never sought or desired a i^olitical ofiQce of any kind. He was content to give his attention to his own affairs and leave tJie administration of those of the city and county to persons who desired the honor of attending to it. Fraternally he was connected with the Order of Odd Fellows, and in religious faith adhered to the teachings of the Baptist church, and in his daily life he exemplified them and those of his lodge on all occasions and in all his dealings.

Not far from the age of ninety years when he died, for a number of years he lived retired from all active work, but he never lost interest in the welfare of Brookfield and Linn county, and passed his declining period of earthly existence revered as a pioneer and patriarch of the city for whom all its people had high respect as a man of worth and fidelity to duty at all times, an example to the whole community by reason of his integrity of character, his usefulness as a citizen and his abiding straightforwardness as a man. When he passed away in the fullness of years and of public esteem, all classes of the residents of Brookfield testified to his genuine merit in forceful and impressive wavs.

James Carpenter

Bom in County Kent, England, and endowed by nature with many of the sturdy and sterling qualities which have made the "bright little, tight little isle" the commanding commercial and naval power of the world, James Carpenter, the pioneer grocer of Brookfield, has proven himself to be a valuable addition to the enterprise, progressiveness and business ability which characterize American manhood in its best development, and has risen to the first rank in business circles and

Mr. Carpenter's life began on January 3, 1848, and he is a son of James and Jane (Cormvell) Carpenter, both of the same nativity as himself. The father was a carpenter by trade as well as by name, and worked industriously at his craft for years in his native land. Seeking to better his condition in life, he came to the United States to found a new home for his family, which he left in England. His hopes Avere not realized here, as he died soon after his arrival in the country.

His son James was but five years old when his mother brought him and his two brothers to this country and located in Waterville, New York. In that city James grew to manhood and obtained his education in the district schools. After leaving school he farmed in the neighborhood of Waterville, Oneida county. New York, until 1869, then came to Missouri, located in Linn county and in company with his brother George F. bought a tract of 160 acres of wild land four and one-half miles southwest of Bucklin.

In company with his uncle, Stephen Sliarp, he improved that land and lived on it sixteen years, making it over into a valuable and productive farm, and prospering in the operation of it. In 1885 he changed his residence to Brookfield and started the grocery business in which he is still engaged in that city. His mother died in Brookfield in 1899, and the surviving members of the family are Mr. Carpenter, his brother Cornwell, who lives in the state of New York, and their sister, Mrs. Jennie Tooey, whose home is in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Mr. Carpenter was married in 1881 to Miss Laura F. Codj^ a daughter of Michael Cody, who located in Linn county in 1870. Four children have been born of the union, three sous and one daughter, all of whom are living. The sons are Arthur C, George P. and J. Encell, all of whom are associated with their father in the grocery business. The daughter is Laura W., who is still living at home with her parents. The grocery firm trades under the name and style of James Carpenter Sons.

In the public affairs of the city and county of his home Mr. Carpenter has taken a cordial and helpful interest. He has served on the school board for fifteen years and been twice a member of the city council of Brookfield. In fraternal relations he is connected with the "Woodmen of tht World and the Knights and Ladies of Security, and his religious affiliation is with the Christian church, in which he is one of the elders of the congregation to which he belongs.

and square in his dealings and worthy of their high regard in everyway. In business, in public office and in private life he has shown himself true to every duty, zealous for the welfare of his community, active in helping to promote every form of public improvement and a fine type of manhood from every point of view. They esteem him fully in accordance with his demonstrated worth and the high character of his citizenship.

Marvin C. Post

The worthy son of a distinguished father, and his capable and enterprising successor as the owner and manager of the largest hardware business in Linn county, Marvin C. Post of Brookfield is one of the most respected and influential men in this part of Missouri. From his boyhood he has shown admirable traits of character and business ability, and ever since the dawn of his manhood he has taken an earnest, practical interest in the welfare and improvement of the city and county of his home. He has therefore fully justified the confidence and esteem the people bestow upon him, both in reference to his business acumen and the uprightness and usefulness of his life in other respects.

Mr. Post was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in March, 1864, and when he was but little over one year old his parents, Jerome C. and Julia P. (Hollister) Post, moved to Brookfield. A sketch of their lives will be found in this volume. The son grew to manhood in Brookfield and obtained his education in its public schools. At an early age he became associated with his father in business, and later opened a store of his own on the south side of the city. This was in 1891, and he conducted this store for about ten years. In 1901, having bought his father's business some years before, he opened his present establishment, conducting the two as separate stores until 1904, when he consolidated them, and has carried them on as one ever since.