Macon County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 11 of 20)

In polities Judge Edwards was originally aligned as a supporter of the principles of the Republican party, but he transferred his allegiance to the Populist party, with which he continued to be identified until its dissolution, since which time he has given his support to the cause of the Democratic party, whose principles and policies best represent his convictions as to matters of public import. He has been a zealous worker in the party ranks, has served as delegate to its state conventions, as well as to its congressional and county conventions in his district, and he has twice been a delegate to the national conventions of the party. He was the second man to be elected mayor of Bevier after its incorporation as a city, and he served two years in this office, giving an excellent administration and doing much to perfect the new system of municipal government. He has several times been elected a member of the board of aldermen, and has also served as a valued member of the board of education, in which position he advocated a broad and progressive policy in the advancing of the interests of the publie schools of his home city. In 1907 he was elected presiding judge of the county court, of which office he has since remained incumbent, proving himself well qualified for the adjudication of causes brought before his court and showing an essentially judicial attitude. In a fraternal way he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, and his wife holds membership in the Congregational church.

to Miss Hannah Davis, who, likewise, was born in Ohio, whence she came with her parents to Missouri when a child. She is a daughter of Robert J. Davis, who was long identified with mining in Macon county and who is now dead. Judge and Mrs. Edwards have one child, Pro, who was born in 1884.

Thomas Edwards

The honored president of the People's State Bank of Bevier is reeognized as one of the progressive business men and loyal citizens of this thriving little eity, where his interests are varied and important and where he is held in high regard by all who know him. In the sketch of the life of his brother, Judge James G. Edwards, with whom he is associated in the general merchandise business in Bevier, is given a brief review of the family history, and it is not necessary to repeat the data in this article, as ready reference may be made to the one mentioned, the same appearing on other pages of this volume.

Thomas Edwards was born in the village of Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, on the 11th of September, 1850, and is a son of Robert and Catherine (Michael) Edwards. He secured his early education in the common sehools of Ohio and was a lad of fifteen years at the time of the family removal to Macon county, Missouri, where he assisted his father in the work of the home farm and where he was later employed in the coal mines about three years. In 1871 he became associated with his father in the conducting of a general store in Bevier, and in 1875 he removed to Osage county, Kansas, where he became foreman of a coal mine. He continued to reside in the Sunflower state until 1881, when he returned to Bevier and entered into partnership with his brother, James G., under the firm name of Edward Bros. "They have since continued to be associated in the general merehandise business in Bevier and eontrol a large and substantial trade throughout the prosperous seetion of eountry tributary to this thriving little eity. In addition to being president of the People's Bank of Bevier, Mr. Edwards is also president and one of the chief stockholders of the Bevier "Telephone Company, whieh has a well equipped plant and gives the best type of serviee to its patrons. Mr. Edwards is essentially progressive and publie-spirited in his attitude and is valued as one of the staunch and successful business men and enterprising citizens of the county which has long represented his home and in which he has gained success and independence through his own well-direeted efforts.

ber of the board of aldermen of Bevier, serving one term and doing much to promote wise and progressive policies in the municipal government. In 1894 he was elected county judge, and of this office he continued ineumbent for two years, making an admirable record on the bench.

In the year 1873 Mr. Edwards was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Jones, who was born in the state of Vermont, a daughter of Rey. Griffith and Elizabeth (Clos) Jones, both of whom were of Welsh lineage, as is he himself. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards became the parents of three children, of whom two died in early childhood. Waldo, the surviving child, is one of the popular and representative business men of the younger generation in Macon county and is now cashier of the People's Bank of Bevier. Waldo is also a practicing attorney and a graduate of Columbia Law School of Missouri.

Honored as a'citizen of sterling worth and as one who has manifested the utmost loyalty to the land of his adoption, Mr. Franeis has maintained his home in Bevier, Macon county, except for a short interval, during the long period of forty years. He has been prominently identified with the coal-mining industry in this state and also in Kansas, and his life has been one of honest and earnest endeavor as one of the world's gallant army of produetive workers. He is one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Bevier, where he has held the office of postmaster for more than ten consecutive years.

Mr. Francis was born in the county of Glenmorganshire, in the southern part of Wales, on the 18th of February, 1844, and was reared and edueated in that seetion, where his early experiences in conneetion with the practical duties of life were in connection with the coal-mining industry. His father, David Francis, also was born and reared in Wales, as was, likewise, his mother, whose maiden name was Lishan. Their marriage was solemnized at Taibach, Wales, where they maintained their home for many years and where the father's death oceurred in 1864, the mother surviving until 1866. David Franeis was identified with practical mining interests during the greater part of his active eareer, and was a man of intelligence and sterling integrity of character. He and his devoted wife reared their children to lives of honor and usefulness, and gave to them the best advantages they were able to afford. Concerning the ten children the following brief data are properly perpetuated in this sketch: John died in Taibach, Wales, in 1905; Catherine is the wife of David Michael, of Abervon, Wales;

Margaret is the wife of Griffith Lewis and they also reside in their native land; David maintains his home in Taibaeh; Eleanor is the wife of Hopkin Thomas, likewise a resident of Wales; Thomas is the immediate subjeet of this sketeh; William is deceased; Mary is the wife of Edward Thomas, of Taibach, and there also reside the two youngest of the ehildren, Samuel and Ann, so that the only representative of the immediate family in the United States is he whose name initiates this article and who has had no cause to regret that as a young man he severed the home ties and started forth to seek his fortunes in America.

Thomas Francis was reared to maturity in the town of Taibach, Wales, and there his early edueational privileges were those afforded by the eommon schools of the day. He early found employment in the mines, and he continued to be identified with work in such connection until 1865, when, at the age of twenty-one years, he immigrated to the United States. Soon after his arrival in the port of New York he started for the west, and he made his way to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, which thriving and attractive little city was then searcely more than a lumbering camp, and there he remained about six months, at the expiration of which he went to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1867, in the spring of whieh year he betook himself to Alton, Illinois, where he identified himself with coal mining. In the following year he came to Missouri and located in Bevier, where he continued in the same oceupation, in the employ of the Central Coal Mining Company. His ability in this field of industry did not escape the attention of the offieials of the company, and within a short time he was sent into the state of Kansas to prospect for coal, the company assigning as his associates in this work Messrs. William S. Watson, William Pierce and William Wareen. These three sturdy prospeetors had the distinetion of discovering the first coal in Kansas, and in that state Mr. Francis remained as a representative of the company mentioned until 1870, when he returned to Bevier and was given charge of a mine. In 1879 he was promoted to the important office of superintendent of the local mines of the Central Coal Mining Company, and of this position he continued the able and popular incumbent for the long period of nearly twoscore years, having retired from the same in 1898, when he resigned to assume the duties of the office of postmaster of Bevier, in which position he has since continued to serve, his first appointment having been given under the administration of the late and lamented President MeKinley.

Mr. Francis has ever maintained a lively and intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the hour, and is well fortified in his convie- tions as to matters of publie poliey. He has been aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the Republican party from the time of gaining naturalization as a eitizen of the United States, and he has been one of the leaders in the party ranks in his section of the state, having served as ehairman of the Republican congressional eommittee of the first distriet of Missouri and having taken an aetive part in the manoeuvering of forces in the various campaigns. He was among the first aldermen eleeted in Bevier after its incorporation as a city, and he has ever done all in his power to further the material and eivie advancement of this eity, which has so long represented his home and the center of his interests. He has won success through worthy means. has conserved his financial resources with much c and through judieious investments has gained a competency. He been treasurer of Eskridge Lodge, No. 253, Independent Order of Odd Fellows for the past thirty-five years, and takes much interest in the affairs of the organization. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church, and both are held in unqualified esteem in the community with whose social affairs they have so long been identified. In the year 1865, just prior to his immigration to the United States, .

Mr. Franeis was united in m ge to Miss Ann Howell, who was born and reared at Aberavon, Wales, and his young bride accompanied him to America. She has been a devoted companion and helpmate, and the home life has been one in whieh the deepest sentiments of love and loyalty have found place during the long years since the young eouple united their destinies in a land far from that of their nativity. Mr. and Mrs. Francis became the parents of three children - Mary Elizabeth, who is now the wife of William O. Jones, of Bevier; Margaret Linna, wife of Judge A. D. Nortoni, who died September 30, 1894, and Thomas Elmer, who is a successful member of the bar of the eity of St. Louis, where he is identified with the representative law firm of Boyle, Priest & Co.

Not only is Mr. Edwards numbered among the leading young business men of his native city of Bevier, where he is cashier of the People's Bank, but he is also one of the representative younger members of the bar of Macon county and is the able ineumbent of the office of eity attorney of Bevier at the time of this writing. ;

Mr. Edwards was born in Bevier, on the 24th of June, 1883, and is a son of Thomas Edwards, of whom speeifie mention is made in an individual sketeh appearing on other pages of this volume, so that in the present connection further review of the family history is not demanded. Waldo Edwards duly availed himself of the advantages of the excellent publie schools of his native city, and thereafter he was matrieulated in the law department of the University of Missouri, in whieh he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar of his native state and initiated the aetive praetice of his profession in Bevier. His labors in his profession proved him well equipped for its praetice and he has shown himself an effective trial lawyer as well as a counselor well fortified in the minutiae of the science of jurisprudence. In 1900, prior to entering the law school, Mr. Edwards assumed a clerical position in the State Bank of Bevier, in which he was later promoted to the office of assistant cashier. He continued to be identified with this institution for two and one-half years and then resigned to take up his work in the University of Missouri. In 1907, upon the organization and incorporation of the People's Bank of Bevier Mr. Edwards was chosen cashier of the same, and in this executive office he has shown much ability and diserimination, - fortuitous forces which have conserved the upbuilding of the substantial business now controlled by the bank. In addition to thus having control of the practical operations of this institution Mr. Edwards is rendering efficient service as city attorney of Bevier, to which position he was elected in Spring, 1909. He is a stockholder in the bank of which he is cashier and is also a stockholder, as well as manager, of the Bevier Telephone Company, whose equipment and service are of the most approved order. He enjoys marked popularity in his native county and his enterprising and progressive spirit is exerted in behalf of all measures which tend to advance the civie and material welfare of the community.

Mr. Edwards has taken an aetive interest in the promotion of the cause of the Republican party since he was seventeen years of age, and in 1906 he was a member of the Republican central committee of Macon county. He is affiliated with the Masonie fraternity and its adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, and also with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, besides being an appreeiative member of the Bevier Fishing & Boat Association.

Recognized as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Macon eounty, Dr. Brewington is established in the successful praetice of his profession in the thriving city of Bevier, where he is held

Dr. Brewington was born near the village of Clarence, Shelby county, Missouri, on the 25th of November, 1863, and is a son of Sampson M. and Sarah Elizabeth (Webb) Brewington, the former of whom was born at Clarence, this state, in 1837, a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of that section of Missouri, and the latter of whom was reared in the same locality, whither her parents removed from her native state of Maryland when she was a child. Sampson M. Brewington was reared to manhood in his native county, where he received a common-sehool education and where he has been identified with agricultural pursuits from his youth to the present time. He is known as one of the prosperous farmers and influential citizens of Shelby county and his name has ever stood synonymous of impregnable integrity and honor. His devoted and cherished wife still remains by his side, having been his companion and helpmeet for more than half a century, as their marriage was solemnized in 1856. Both families are of English extraction and were early founded in the state of Maryland. Sampson Brewington resides on the fine old homestead which was the place of his birth and is one of the venerable pioneer citizens of that section. He is an uncompromising advoeate of the principles of the Demoeratie party and at the time of the Civil war his sympathies were naturally enlisted in the cause of the Confederacy, which he served as a valiant soldier in a Missouri regiment for about three years of the great conflict between the states. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Of their six children two died in infancy. Mary L. is the wife of Monas Gray, of Clarence; George F., is the immediate subject of this review; Sarah A., who became the wife of C. Emmett Hill, of Clarenee, this state, died in 1903; and Wililam B., a suecessful teacher in the publie schools, is now located at Boulder, Wyoming.

Dr. George F. Brewington was reared to maturity on the old ancestral homestead which was the place of his nativity and his early educational advantages were those offered by the publie schools of the village of Clarenee. That he made good use of the opportunities thus afforded is evident when we revert to the fact that when twenty years of age he engaged in teaching in the country schools of his native county, and that thereafter he devoted himself to successful work in the pedagogie profession until he had attained to the age of twenty-five years. Inthe meanwhile he had formulated definite plans for his future eareer and he thus began the work of preparing himself for the work of the exaeting profession in which it has been his to gain much of sue and prestige. In 1888 he began the study of medieine under effective preceptorship and he was finally matrieulated in Ensworth Medical College, in St. Joseph, Missouri, in which well ordered institution he completed the preseribed technical curriculum and was graduated as a member of the class of 1892, with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Shortly after his graduation he located at Woodville, Macon county, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for five years. He then, in June, 1897, came to Bevier, where he has continued in the suecessful work of his profession and where he finds a wider and more acceptable field for his endeavors. His practice is distinetively of representative character, and in addition to this he owns and conducts a drug store, in which he has built up a most satisfactory trade. He is a member of the Missouri State Medical Association and also of the Macon County Medical & Surgical Association. Dr. Brewington has kept in close touch with the advances made in both branches of his profession, having recourse to the best standard and periodical literature pertaining to the same, and in 1903, as well as in 1909, he took effective post-graduate courses in the celebrated Post-Graduate School of Medicine in the city of Chieago. He is local medieal examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, of New York city and the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company. of St. Paul, as well as for the endowment rank of the Knights of Pythias and for the Modern Woodmen of America.

In politics Dr. Brewington is aligned as a loyal supporter of the principles and policies for which the Demoeratie party stands sponsor, but he has never had aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of political office. He and his wife hold membership in the Christian church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He has been deeply appreciative of the time-honored Masonie Order, in which he has attained to the chivalrie degrees. He is now district deputy grand master of the grand lodge of Free & Accepted Masons for the fourteenth district of Missouri, is past master of Bloomington Lodge, No. 102, Free & Accepted Masons; past high priest of Maeon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and past eminent commander of Emmanuel Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templars, of Macon, Missouri.

On the 27th of September, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Brewington to Miss Rose L. Farrell, who was born in Monroe county, Missouri, a daughter of J. R. and Anna (McGee) Farrell, who still reside in that eounty. Dr. and Mrs. Brewington have three children, - Anna E., born July 22, 1889; Franklin R., born November 23, 1891; and Ida L., born May 10, 1:

John T. Barker

The family to which this eminent citizen, prominent lawyer and faithful tribune of the people belongs has dwelt in heroie times for at least three generations and in two of the states of the American union which have had to build themselves to consequence through great trial, arduous effort and marvelous endurance. These states were born amid conflict and peril. Their infancy was shrouded in danger and privation. All their progress has been through difficulties and strugglings. They have had to literally hew their way forward and upward, making their advances over natural obstructions, through assaults from without and dissentions within, marking each step with the tomb of some stubborn foe. The men and women who fought the battles and won the triumps were of heroic mold and dealt with their opponents, natural, political and economical, as heroes always do.

Among them were the grandparents of John T. Barker of La Plata in this county, who shared the hardships and dangers of Daniel Boone and lived with that great man in the fort at what is now Boonesville, Kentucky. "They were pioneers in the state and bore their full share of the burden of frontier life. And when they had helped to conquer the wilderness there, they carried their weapons of aggression and defense into this county as a part of the advance guard of civilization here. And here their deseendants have repeated, under somewhat similar eireumstanees, but with variations due to different conditions and surroundings, the history they made there.

John T. Barker was born in Carrollton, Carroll eounty, Missouri, on August 2, 1877, and is a son of Lucian and Mary E. (Withers) Barker, the former a native of Kentucky, born in 1838, and the latter of Carroll eounty in this state. The father was a farmer and merchant. He came to this state at the age of twenty-one and located in Carroll county, where he followed the oceupation of his forefathers for two years. At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted for the Confederacy under General Sterling P. Price, and with the valor of his race, remained in the service through all the vicissitudes of the war, until the Southern flag went down at Appomattox in everlasting defeat. He took part in many engagements, some of momentous import and others of minor consequence, and after the close of the struggle returned to his Missouri home and resumed his farming operations. In 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Withers and they became the parents of four children, all of whom are living. The father died at Carrollton in 1906 at the age of sixty-eight years. 'The mother is still living.

Their son John T. was reared in his native county and obtained the greater part of his education in the publie schools, those rustie temples that stud the surface of our republiean empire, where liberty receives her purest worship, and where, though in humble and lowly guise, she seeretly breathes her strength into the heart and sinews of the nation. Mr. Barker completed his scholastic training at the high school from which he was graduated with honors. He had already ehosen his profession and at once entered upon his preparation for it, reading law undet the direction of one of the leading attorneys and being admitted to the bar of his native county in July, 1898. Armed with his certificate of qualifieation and license to practice, he located in this county and began his professional career at La Plata, where he is still practicing with an increasing clientage and augmenting reputation as a lawyer and man of affairs. He was married at La Plata in 1899 to Miss Mayme Fisher of that town. They have one child, their daughter Mildred, now (1909) three years old:

In the publie affairs of the county Mr. Barker has taken a very active and serviceable part. He is a Democrat in political faith and devoted to the welfare of his party. He has been very earnest and effective in his work for its success and advancement, and by that means, as well as in many other ways, has shown himself well qualified to lead the people to the defense and development of their best interests. In 1902 he was elected city attorney of La Plata, and he served with fidelity and energy in that office four years, during which he saw that the laws were strictly enforced. In 1906 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature and was re-elected in 1908 by an increased and very large majority of the votes. In the house since his term began he has served on several important committees, giving every proper claim on his time and energies, careful attention and steadfastly standing by the interests committed to his keeping. It has been his aim to support the moral side of evety question without regard to personal or party considerations, and the universal testimony of the people is to the effect that he has done this. At the last session of the legislature he was the eaueus nominee of his party for the speakership of the house, and this gave him the minority leadership on the floor.

third term of eourt at La Plata, of the one providing state aid for the publie sehools, the one providing that no person under the age of eighteen years shall be confined in the state penitentiary, and of other laws bearing on the reformation of youths. He is also the author of the statute providing state aid for county fairs and of several in the interest of miners. His knowledge of publie affairs, his readiness and resourcefulness in debate and his unwavering fidelity to the interests of the people have been so amply demonstrated in his legislative serviee that they have given him a very wide and high reputation throughout the state and so impressed the people of this and the neighboring counties that he has been conspicuously mentioned as a suitable and well qualified man to represent his distriet in the Congress of the United States. In that exalted forum he would doubtless make a record of which the distriet would be proud and be of signal service to the people of the whole country.

In the matter of material acquisitions Mr. Barker has been as successful as he is distinguished in his professional work and his publie services. His residence is one of the most imposing and attractive in the county and it is as renowned for its refined and generous hospitality as it is for its architeetural beauty, artistie landscape surroundings and interior equipment and adornment. In the fraternal life of the community around him he has long been active, prominent and influential. He is a Freemason of the thirty-second degree and a Noble of the Mystie Shrine. He also belongs to the Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of Americ a member of the Presbyterian church he has been for years a very active worker in the moral and religious field, delivering many leetures on the Bible as view from a legal standpoint. All his triumphs are the results of his own eapabilities and efforts, and the people give him full eredit for his achievements, holding him in high esteem as one whom Fortune has never favored, but who has hewed out of his own opportunities and shaped even adverse circumstances to his purposes and made everything minister to the general weal as well as to his own advantage.

E Edward Elias

One of the representative business men and honored citizens of Bevier is he whose name initiates this paragraph and who has been a resident of Missouri for more than fort ars.

Mr. Elias was born in Llanidloes, Wales, in the year 1850, and is a son of Edward Elias, Sr., who immigrated to Ameriea when the subject of this sketch was a child, locating in Pomeroy, Ohio, and passing the residue of his life in the old Buckeye state, as did also his wife. He rendered loyal service to his adopted country as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which conflict he served as a member of a battery in the Seventh Ohio Light Artillery. Edward Elias, Jr., was reared to maturity at Pomeroy, Ohio, in whose publie schools he seeured his early educational training, and in 1868, when eighteen years of age, he eame to Missouri, where he was identified with mining operations, principally in Maeon eounty, for a period of twenty years. For the ensuing sixteen years he was employed as clerk in the drug store of Rowland Brothers, of Bevier, and in 1904 he here established himself in the retail shoe business, in which he has since eontinued and in conneetion with which he has built up a trade of substantial and representative order, giving him prestige as one of the leading business men of the thriving little city in which he has so long maintained his home. In polities he is aligned as a supporter of the Republiean party, and in a fraternal way he is identified with the local organization of the Woodmen of the World,

In 1875 Mr. Elias was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Hughes, who was born in Wisconsin and who died in 1882, being survived by three children, - Alfred, Zella and Roscoe, In 1884 Mr. Elias wedded Mrs, Lenora S. (Davis) Hughes, widow of Joseph R. Hughes, of Bevier, concerning whom more definite mention is made in the sketch of the eareer of his son, John G. Hughes, on other pages of this work. Three children were born of this second marriage, - and the first child, Edgar, died at the age of five years. The two living are Raymond and Lenora, both of whom remain at the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Elias are members of the First Congregational ehureh. Mr. Elias's mother is still living and makes her home in Bevier, aged seventy-nine years,

One of the representative mercantile firms of the thriving village of Bevier is that whose title initiates this paragraph and whose interested prineipals, in order of seniority, are Dr. Daniel D., Dr. William P. and Thomas J. Rowland. The three brothers are numbered among the most influential and honored citizens of Macon county and are well upholding the prestige of the name which they bear. "Their father was a man who did much for the eivie and material upbuilding of Bevier, where his memory is revered as that of a man of impregnable integrity and as one whose life, in all its relations, was ordered upon the loftiest

Daniel Rowland, father of the three brothers noted as member of the firm of Rowland Brothers, was a native of Wales, where he was reared to manhood and received limited educational advantages. There also was born his loved and gracious wife, whose maiden name was Mary Price. Their marriage was solemnized at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Both parents eame to the United States at about the age of nineteen and eighteen years. None was ever more appreciative of the institutions and advantages offered in our great American republie than these worthy folk, who came as strangers in a strange land, and their loyalty was of the most insistent type, so that they never had aught of desire to return to their native land. They first located in the southeastern part of Ohio, on the banks of the Ohio river, and about two years after there taking up their abode the father joined the valiant band of argonauts making its way across the plains to the gold fields of California, - then considered a new Eldorado. Daniel Rowland left his young wife and their first born child, Daniel D., in Ohio and after remaining four years in California he returned to his loved ones. Through arduous toil he finally was successful in his quest for gold. He and his three partners tunneled deeply into a mountain and finally developed the Christie mine, which at one time was considered the richest in California; located at Portwine, north of San Francisco.

In 1865 Daniel Rowland removed with his family from Ohio to Bevier, Missouri, which was then a mere eoal-mining eamp, with not more than one hundred and fifty population. Here he opened a small general-merchandise store and later, at the solicitation of the coal eompany, he purchased the eompany's store, which he conducted about three years, at the expiration of which he sold the same to the company, whose request that this transfer be made was tantamount to a command, as the company practically controlled all property in the little village. Mr. Rowland's health had become much impared and he was not again aetively engaged in business until 1882, when he established a lumber business, in whieh he continued until his death, in 1893, at which time he was sixty-three years of age. His devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal in 1886, at the age of fifty-four years. Both were zealous members of the Congregational church and in polities he gave a staunch allegiance to the cause of the Republiean party.

of his somewhat meager educational training in his youth. He combined excellent judgment and foresight with marked business acumen, and his success was won by legitmate means and in normal lines of enterprise. He was essentially progressive and publie-spirited as a citizen, kindly, generous and philanthropie, and no man has ever held a more secure place in popular confidence and esteem in the village of Bevier. At the time of the incorporation of the village he became president of its first board of Trustees and he held this office for a number of terms, within which he maintained a progressive poliey and did much to further the best interests of the community. He contributed liberally to the support of religious and benevolent causes and his private eharities, now known to be numerous, were in his life extended so unostentatiously as to be known to the recipients only. Provisions for the continuance of many of his charities was made by him before his death and only a short time ago did the last of these cease.

. Daniel D. Rowland is a graduate of St. Louis Medical College, graduating with the elass of 1884. He was married June 1, 1886, to Miss Elizabeth A. Evans of Bevier. "They have two children: Wm. A. and Eva A.

Daniel D. Rowland has inherited much of his father's marked business ability and has been most successful in the administration of the -large and important enterprise controlled by the firm of which he is the eldest member. Te firm eonducts the leading drug and hardware store of Bevier and the same is metropolitan in its equipment and facilities. Daniel D. Rowland has been president of the State Bank of Bevier from the time of its organization, and the Bevier Building & Loan Association had a most presperous and beneficient existence under his executive guidance. The fine Odd Fellows' Temple in Bevier was brought into existence mainly through his suggestion and financial support, and represents the tangible results of his able handling of the fiseal affairs of the fraternity in this village. His capacity as a financier is thoroughly recognized and his advice is much sought by other business men, who thus indicate their confidence in his judgment. He was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, on the 17th of December, 1854, and received his education mainly in the publie schools of Bevier, which has represented his home from his boyhood days. He was married June 1, 1893, to Miss Alice H. Kealey of Hannibal, Missouri. They have one child living, Helen Price.

stituting the firm of Rowland Brothers, was born at Pomeroy, Ohio, on the 24th of May, 1861, and his time and attention are given primarily to the work of his profession, in which he has gained prestige as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Macon county. He was graduated in St. Louis Medieal College, in the eity of St. Louis, as a member of the elass of 1888, and is a man of high literary and professional attainments. Though essentially loyal and publie-spirited as a citizen he has not consented to become a candidate for office save on one occasion, when he was elected mayor of Bevier, in which position he gave a most liberal and effective administration of the municipal government. He held the office for one term (two years) and within his regime the eity hall was ereeted. He pushed forward the promotion of this important enterprise in the face of strong opposition, but the wisdom of his eourse is now thoroughly recognized by all of those who were most strenuous in their efforts to thwart the project. He has served as president of North Missouri Medieal Association in 1906. He is a member of the County Medieal Society and North Missouri Medical Association, Missouri State Medical ociation, American Medical Association and of the St. Louis City Hospital Alumni.

Thomas J. Rowland, the youngest of the three brothers, has given his attention more especially to the lumber business founded by his father, and under his direction the enterprise has been made most suecessful. He has given much consideration to public, religious and philanthropie causes, which he has supported with much of diserimination and generosity. The largest church edifice in the city, that of the First Congregational church, was erected largely through his energy and liberality, and his contributions to other worthy causes have been equally beneficent. He is a member of the board of education of Bevier and has shown much zeal in bringing the publie schools of the city up to the highest standard of efficiency, placing them on the approved list of the state university and other leading academic institutions. He is a native of Bevier, Missouri, where he was born on the 10th of March, 1873.

He was married December 26, 1900, to Jemima Thomas, and to that union three children were born, as follows: Horald D., Ruth Louise and Mary Frances.

The Rowland brothers are all aligned as loyal supporters of the cause of the Republican party and as liberal and progressive citizens they well merit the popular confidence and esteem so uniformly accorded them. Thomas J. Rowland died in the Spring of 1910.

Thomas E. Wisdom

As a business man and publie official of Macon county Mr. Wisdom has long held a position of prominence and influence, and he commands the unequivocal confidence and esteem of the people of his native county. He now maintains his home in the city of Macon, of whose municipal council he is a valued member, besides which he is now serving (1909) as secretary of the county committee.

Thomas Eugene Wisdom was born in Maeon eounty, Missouri, on the 14th of June, 1867, and is a son of William L. and Martha F. (Seutehfield) Wisdom, who are now dead. William L. Wisdom was born at Huntswell, Missouri, on the 3d of January, 1842, and was there reared and edueated. As a young man he located in the eity of St. Louis, where he was engaged in the tobaeco business for two years, at the expiration of which he removed to Macon county, where he became a successful farmer. His old homestead, which eomprises 120 acres, is located about two miles north of the city of Macon. He was one of the well known and highly honored citizens of the county and was a man whose life was characterized by the most signal integrity of purpose. He never had aught of ambition for publie office but was a loyal advocate of the principles and policies of the Demoeratie party. He was affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees and he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian church. Their marriage was solemnized in 1864 and Mrs. Wisdom is a native of Macon county, - a member of an honored pioneer family of this section of the state. Of the two children the subject of this review is the younger, and Minnie L., who is the widow of Elmer L. English. "The father died November 6, 1906 and the mother on June 12, 1907.

Thomas E. Wisdom was reared to maturity in Macon county, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational training. When seventeen years of age he went to Kansas, where he passed one year, engaged in farm work, and in 1885 he returned to Macon county and took up his residence in the city of Macon, where he was employed for the ensuing year by the Massey Wagon Company. In 1886 he entered the employ of the firm of Riley & Reed, proprietors of the Macon marble works, and about one year later he purchased Mr. Riley's interest in the enterprise, which was thereafter conducted under the firm name of Wisdom & Reed until 1890, when Mr. Wisdom purchased his partner's interest and assumed full control of the business. which he thereafter conducted successfully until 1898, when he sold the plant.

1905 he has had as his able eoadjutor in this enterprise Mr. Oscar Sandusky. The firm, whose title is Wisdom & Sandusky, has operated suecessfully and upon an extensive scale, as is evident when recognition is had of the well authenticated fact that the firm has handled more land and closed more important deals than any other of its kind in the county. On its books are at all times to be found represented most desirable investments in both eity property and farming lands and the business is conducted according to the highest principles of fairness and integrity. Mr. Wisdom is a recognized authority in the matter of real estate values in Macon county, owing to his previous service in the office of recorder of deeds.

Mr. Wisdom has been a zealous worker in behalf of the eause of the Demoeratie party and is one of its leaders in Macon eounty. In 1897 Governor Stephens conferred upon him the appointment of state oil inspector for this county, and in 1898 he was elected county recorder of deeds, of which office he continued incumbent four years. In 1906 he was elected a member of the county committee and after his re-election, in 1908, he was made seeretary of the body, of whieh position he is now in tenure. His term of office will expire in 1910. In 1907 Mr. Wisdom was elected a member of the city council and he still holds this office, besides whieh he is a member of the road commission of Hudson township. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church, and he is affiliated with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen of Ameriea, and the Court of Honor.

In February, 1889, Mr. Wisdom was united in marriage to Miss Margaret E. Wood, who was born and reared in Macon, a daughter of Wm. M. Wood, and they became the parents of five ehildren, of whom four are living, - Ralph, Emily, Mildred and Thomas. Lloyd died at the age of three years.

In tracing the history of lives conspicuous for achievement the most interesting feature of the study is to find the key to the success thus gained. The more critically exact this study becomes, the more convincingly certain it is that the key is in the personality of the man himself. Usually the men who achieve most, do it against the very obstacles before which other men succumb. They gain it not more through natural gifts than from the rallying of the full forees of mind and body into the service of their purposes. He whose name initiates this sketeh has admirably illustrated in his eareer the power of con- centrating the resources of the entire man and lifting them to the plane of ot material achievement; of supplementing excellent natural endowments by close application, impregnable integrity and marked tenacity of purpose. Along the manifold lines in which he has directed his energies and abilities he has made of success not an aecident but a logieal result. He has conquered adverse forces and has gained precedence as one of the representative business men and influential citizens of his native state. He maintains his home in the city of Macon, and his loyalty to the same has been manifested in divers lines of en enterprise and in the support of worthy measures,

William Early McCully was born on a farm near Done Macon county, Missouri, on the 16th of June, 1853, and as on other pages of this publication is entered a memorial tribute to his honored father, the late Henderson MeCully, it is not necessary to further review the family history in the present article. Mr. MeCully was reared to maturity in the eity of Bloomington, where his father was a representative business man, and there he was afforded the advantages of the excellent common schools, including the high school. He initiated his association with the practical activities of life when a mere boy, but he was eventually enabled to carry forward his high educational work, which was completed by a course in Central College, at Fayette, Missouri, in which institution he was a student in 1868-9. When but fourteen years of age he began service as train boy on the line of the North Missouri, now Wabash, Railroad, and after leaving college he became associated with his father in the control and operation of a lumber camp at Sioux City, Missouri. Though he went to that place without eapitalistie resourees other than the equipment provided by his father, within six years he had become the owner of the entire village, ineluding buildings and business enterprises. In 1881 Mr. MeCully removed to Atlanta, Missouri, where he engaged in the general merchandise business. In April of the following year, during the general finaneial panie in that loeality, he met with financial reverses which left him without a dollar but with an unblemished reputation and unflinehing courage. The leading business men of the county practically all deserted the place, but he remained, and by energy and determination partially recouped his losses within the ensuing few months. In 1 he assumed the position of traveling saleman for a wholesale clothing house in the city of Cineinnati, and one year later he became n stockholder and traveling representative of the Warfield Grocery Company, of Quiney, Illinois, with which he continued to be identified for the ensuing six years, within which he made advancement to a

In 1890 Mr. MeCully sold his interest in the business just mentioned and took up his residence in Macon, the thriving little capital city of his native county. Here he purchased the Palace hotel, which he conducted for the ensuing thirteen months, at the expiration of which he sold the property, upon advantageous terms. In 1891 he became associated with Messrs. Thomas E. Wardell and Harry M. Rubey in the ownership of the Macon Gas Electric Light Power Company + and with this important publie utility in his home eity he has been actively eoncerned during the intervening years. Since 1897 he has held the offices of seeretary, treasurer and general manager of the Macon Gas & Electric Light Company. Of the same triplicate executive office he is also incumbent with the Northwestern Electric Heat & Power Company, of Kearney, Nebraska, the Palmyra Light & Water Company, of Palmyra, Missouri; the Rhea Lead & Zine Company, of Jasper county, this state; the Ward-Mere Mineral Company, of Jasper county, Missouri; the Wardell-MeCully Orchard Company; and the Macon Publishing Company.

In 1893, still associated with Messrs. Wardell and Rubey, Mr. MeCully was interested in the installing of eleetrie plants in Mexico and Marshall, Missouri; of similar plants in Kearney, Nebraska, in 1901, and in Palmyra, Missouri, in 1902. He has been identified with lead and zine mining enterprises in Jasper county, this state, since 1904, and he is still concerned in the various other enterprises noted in this paragraph. In 1899 Mr. MeCully effected the organization of the Wardell-MeCully Orchard Company and which represents the most extensive enterprise of the kind in North Missouri. The company owns an orehard of twenty-five thousand trees, located one mile north of the eity of Macon, - a section admirably adapted for the cultivation of the best types of fruit. Mr. McCully was one of the organizers and ineorporators of the State Exchange Bank, of Macon, of which substantial and popular institution he has been a direetor from the time of its inception.

As an alert man of affairs and as a loyal and publie-spirited citizen, Mr. MeCully has not hedged in his interests in the demands of his extended and varied business connection, but has ever stood ready to lend his influence and tangible aid in the promotion of enterprises and measures tending to advance the general welfare of his home eity and native county. In politics he accords an unqualified allegiance to the cause of the Democratie party and in the same he has given zealous and effective service, In 1899 he was eleeted a member of the state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners, and, nothwithstanding the exactions of his private business interests, he rendered most efficient service in this office, of which he continued incumbent for six consecutive years. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and since 1894 he has been president of the official board of the ehureh of this denomination in Macon. He has attained to the chivalrie degrees in the time-honored Masonie fraternity and is past eminent commander of Emmanuel Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templars, of Macon. He is also affiliated with the Macon lodge of the Benevolent & Proteetive Order of Elks.

On the 5th of March, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. MeCully to Miss Georgia E. MeCully, who was born and reared in Shelby eounty, Missouri, and who is a daughter of the late William McCully, a representative citizen of that section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. MeCully have three children, - Gertrude, who is the wife of Frederick H. Tedford, editor of the Macon Times-Democrat ; Velma Eugenia, who is the wife of Waldo F. Smith, of Macon; and Harry, who remains at the parental home. The family is prominent and popular in connection with the social and church activities of Macon, and the beautiful home is one in which a gracious hospitality is ever in evidence.

It is most eonsonant that in this publieation be entered a memoir to the late Henderson MeCully, who was one of the honored pioneers and influential citizens of Macon county, with whose eivie and industrial progress he was intimately identified during the eourse of a long and peculiarly active and successful business career. The city of Macon represented his home at the time of his death, and when he was called from the scene of life's activities the entire community manifested a sense of personal loss and bereavement.

Mr. MeCully was born in Powell's Valley, Tennessee, on the 24th of January, 1819, and he met his death as the result of an accident in one of his lumber camps, at Peach Orchard, Arkansas, in 1887. His remains were interred in the cemetery of his home city, where also rest those of his cherished and devoted wife, who was summoned to eternal rest in 1906. Mr. McCully gained his rudimentary education in the common schools of his native state and when he was a lad of about ten years, in 1829, his parents removed from Tennessee to Missouri and settled in Howard county, where he was reared to maturity

In 1844 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. MeCully to Miss Mary Jane Harvey, who was born in Howard county, Missouri. Fairfax county, Virginia, was where the family had long been one of prominence and whence came her parents to Missouri. In 1847 Mr. MeCully took up his residenee in Macon county, settling on a farm on the Sheridan river, near Bloomington, which was then the eounty-seat. In purchasing this property he also became the owner of an old over-shot water wheel, whieh was used for the operation of a saw mill and also a grist mill and which was long an object of interest, as it was the only one of the kind between the Missouri river and the state of Iowa. In 1856 Mr. MeCully removed from his farm to the village of Bloomington, where he became associated with Alfred Tobin and Albert L. and George Shortridge in the general merchandise business and the manufacturing of tobacco. With the same representative citizens he was also prominently identified with the organization of the Bloomington Bank, which was the first to be established in the county and of which he was one of the largest stockholders, as well as an executive officer. Mr. McCully was a man of great business acumen and his activities were diversified and of wide scope and importance. As a manufacturer of lumber he operated upon an extensive scale, buying large tracts of timber land in Missouri and Arkansas and operating four saw mills. He contracted for the construction of one of the first railroad bridges at St. Joseph, Missouri, and later was the leading bridge and tie contractor for the Missouri & Mississippi Railroad in Macon county.

Mr. MeCully was a man of impregnable integrity of character and his life was guided and governed by the highest principles and ideals. Tn the earlier days he was the owner of a large number of slaves, but he never sold one and freed them all long prior to the inception of the war between the states. During this great internecine conflict his sympathies were with the south and in the perpetuation of the institutions under whose influences he had been reared. During the war he maintained a neutral attitude so far as active service was concerned. He was a stanch adherent of the Democratie party but never sought the honors or emoluments of publie office, as he was intrinsieally and essentially a business man. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, to whose support they contributed in liberal measure.

of seven children, of whom four are living: Walter G. is general manager of the Columbus Electrie Light & Power Company, at Columbus, Nebraska; Wiliam E. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Ada is the wife of William J. Brasfield, of St. Louis, Missouri; and Arthur P. is auditor of the Rhea Lead & Zine Company, at Joplin, Missouri.

William E. Jones

The aggressive enterprise and strong initiative that have caused so wonderful industrial progress in all sections of the United States within the past deeade find exemplifieation in no uncertain way in the person of this able and popular young business man of Macon, where his energy and ambition have been so coupled with discrimination and business prescience that he has gained a place of prominence as one of the essentially representative citizens here identified with industrial and commercial activities. Though he is not yet thirty years of age he is president of the W. E. Jones Cutlery Company, which is engaged in the manufaeturing of razors and other artieles of eutlery and which is rapidly forging to the front as one of the leading concerns of its kind in the country. Its operations are based upon adequate capital and mechanical facilities, and under the effective direction of its president its affairs are being administered with most excellent results, so that it proves a valuable acquisition to the industrial interests of Macon county and the state of Missouri.

William Edward Jones was born at New Cambria, Macon county, Missouri, on the 8th of August, 1881, and is a son of Dr. Evan Jones, who was born in Wales, in the year 1845, and who was there reared to maturity, receiving a good common-school education. In 1870, at the age of twenty-five years, he left his native land to seek his fortune in America, to which Wales has contributed a most valuable element of citizenship. He was variously engaged for some time after his arrival in the United States and finally entered a medical college in the city of Keokuk, Iowa, in which institution he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon afterward he located in New Cambria, Missouri, where he engaged in the active work of his profession and where he built up a large and successful practice, becoming known as one of the able physicians and surgeons of that section of the state. He still maintains his home in New Cambria, but has been virtually retired from active professional work since 1905. He is identified with the Missouri State Medical Society, is a Republican in polities, though never a seeker of publie office of any description, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church. He is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees and other fraternal and social organizations, and is one of the honored and influential citizens of the thriving town in whieh he has so long maintained his home and in which he has rendered effective service to suffering humanity. In New Cambria, in the year 1880, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Elizabeth James, who was born in Australia, whence she came with her parents to America when a child. Dr. and Mrs. Jones became the parents of nine children, all of whom are living, their names, in order of birth, being as follows: William E., Alice, Nell, Thomas C., John K., Ida, Robert L., James L, and Virgil C. William E. Jones, the immediate subject of this review, is indebted to the excellent publie schools of his native town for his early educational training, which included a course in the high school. He later completed a course in a business college at Quincy, Illinois, and thereafter was employed for one year in the New Cambria State Bank, where he held the office of bookkeeper. In 1900 Mr. Jones eame to Macon to assume the position of quartermaster and instructor in commercial branehes in Blees Military Academy, with which institution he was thus identified until 1904, when he beeame manager of the Macon Shear Company. He resigned this position in May 1905, and effected the organization of the W. E. Jones Cutlery Company, which is incorporated under the laws of the state, with a eapital stock of five thousand dollars, and of which he has been president and general manager from the beginning. "The company has a well equiped plant, provided with the most modern facilities for the handling of the various details of manufaeturing, and its output has gained a high reputation for superior excellence. The principal products are razors, of both the ordinary and safety types, and though the enterprise may yet be classed with the "infant industries" it is certainly a sturdy youngster, strong in sinew and fostered under the most auspicious of surroundings, as is evident from the fact that its products are now shipped into the most diverse sections of the Union. In the establishing and maturing of this important industrial enterprise Mr. Jones has shown the utmost courage, confidence and self-reliance, and none can doubt that he has wisely applied his powers and that the splendid success of the business has amply justified his faith in himself and in the concern of which he is the executive head. He is not a man of idle moments but one who crystallized dreams into deeds, and, in his quiet, unassuming way, he gives the evidences of intrinsic strength and follows a definite course with that tenacity of purpose and that comprehensive viewpoint that augur well for the still greater success of the enterprise with which he has thus identified himself. "Though one of the youngest business men in Macon he is one of the most progressive as well as most popular, and he is duly appreeiative of the advantages and attraetions of Macon as a place of residence and as an eligible manufacturing and distributing center. His loyalty is manifest in publie spirit as well as in his fostering of a business that has large direct and collateral influence on the commercial precedence of the city. He is one of the enthusiastic and valued members of the Macon Commereial Club, of whieh he served as secretary in 1906-7 and of whose directorate he isa member at the present time. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, his religious views are in accord with the faith of the Presbyterian church, and he is affiliated with the Macon lodge of the Knights of Pythias. It may be stated that this representative young citizen of Macon still elings to a life of celibaey.

William D. Cook

This prominent and progressive farmer, dairyman and stockraiser of Callao township, who occupies a leading position in the industries with which he is connected and is generally esteemed as one of the forceful and influential citizens of his locality, was born March 22, 1862, at Elmer, Macon county which his grandfather helped to found and where his father grew to manhood and passed the remainder of his days at Callao. "The grandparents and the parents were all natives of Kentueky, and the paternal grandfather moved his family to this eounty in 1838 and located on a traet of wild land on a part of which the town of Elmer now stands. There he redeemed his land from the wilderness and made it over into a good farm, helping to start the influx of population and the spirit of improvement that have resulted in the present high grade of development of the region.

The parents of William D. Cook were James Wade and Mary Ellen (Truitt) Cook, natives, as has been stated, of Kentucky, the former born in Barren county and the latter at Bowling Green in Pike county, of Missouri. They have seven children four of whom are living. They are: Victoria, the wife of Robert L. Wilkin, of San Juan, New Mexico: Ida, the wife of James Smith, of Ethel, Missouri; William D. and Phineas G., of Callao. The father died in 1902. He was a prosperous farmer and a well esteemed citizen. "The mother is still living and has her home in Elmer. She is advanced in years but enjoys good health and is hale and vigorous. Her experience has been highly interesting, although it has been repeated many, many times in American history. She came to this county when it was very sparsely populated and the greater part of it was still under the dominion of its savage denizens of forest and plain, man and beast, and yet bore on its surface the wild appearance it has worn for ages. The soil was virgin to the plow, the forests were unbroken, the whole region, except in spots, was an unpeopled waste, untouched by civilizing influenees and with all its powers and possibilities still slumbering as they had been from the time when the land emerged above the surface of the great deep. She has lived to see it a veritable garden in produetiveness, the home of a progressive, enterprising and all-conquering people and rich in all the achievements of modern times. And she and her kindred have helped to accomplish all the improvements.

Her son, William D. Cook, attended the distriet sehools in the neighborhood of his home and eompleted his scholastie training at St. James Academy in Macon. After leaving that institution he taught school for a number of years and had the benefit of the self-knowledge and knowledge of others which that instructive oceupation gives its wideawake and observant pupil. He had aspirations, however, for a broader if not a higher field of effort, and with the savings he had aceumulated he bought a farm and started a dairying business on a small seale. He has continued both his farming and his dairying ever since, steadily expanding both and also inereasing his enterprise in raising stock for the markets, until now all are of magnitude and highly important in a commercial way. He owns 209 acres of good land improved with good buildings and fully equipped for advanced farming, and he cultivates it with spirit and intelligence, His stock interests are extensive and profitable, and his dairy work not only adds considerable to his revenues but also aids largely in supplying many wants of the community.

Mr. Cook has given full attention to the development and advancement of the region and the enduring warfare of its people. He is a stockholder and direetor of the Callao Fair sociation and also a stockholder in the Macon Creamery. He has served ten years or longer as a member of the school board, and in many other ways has ministered to the welfare of the township and its inhabitants. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Pythias, and takes an active part in the meetings and proceedings of his lodge in each. He is a member of the Christian church in religious affiliation and earnest in promoting the activity and usefulness of the congregation to which he belongs. In his church membership he has departed from the example of his father, who was a Prim-

On December 31, 1884, Mr. Cook was united in marriage with Miss Laura D. Gentle, a native of Callao but of Kentucky parentage. They have two children, their son Herbert V. and their daughter Pauline.

Not only by reason of his distinctive technieal ability in a profession that represents both a science and a mechanic art but also through his invention of an appliance that has proved of inestimable benefit to his profession the world over and a boon to those who utilize artificial teeth in plate form, has Dr. Bridgeford gained a wide reputation in his ehosen calling, and he is today numbered among the widely known and distinguished exponents of the dental profession in the United States, being estabished in practice in the eity of Macon, where he is also president of the Pioneer Manufaeturing Company, which manufactures his special dental appliance or preparation, to which further reference shall be made in this context.

Dr. Joseph Luckie Bridgeford is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Missouri, of which he is a native son and to which his fealty is of the most appreciative and insistent type. He was born in the village of Paris, Monroe county, Missouri, on the 16th of September, 1871, and is a son of William Henry and Rachel Julia (Luckie) Bridgeford, the former of whom was likewise a native of Paris, this state, where he was born in 1840, and the latter of whom was horn in Kentucky, whence her parents removed to Missouri when she was a child. The paternal grandfather of the doctor was William Bridgeford, who was born and reared in Kentucky, where the family was early founded and whence he came to Missouri in the pioneer days, becoming one of the prominent and influential citizens of Monroe county, where he continued to reside until his death.

William H. Bridgeford was reared and educated in the town of his nativity and as a young man engaged in the general commission business in the city of St. Louis. Later he turned his attention to the raising and handling of live stock, at Paris, where he became an extensive shipper of cattle. In 1885 he engaged in the general merchandise business at Mexico, this state, but he retired from active business in 1889, after which he returned to the city of St. Louis, where his death oceurred on the 2nd of December, 1892. His widow now maintains her home in Mexico, Missouri. Of their two children the subjeet of this review is the younger, and his brother, Dr. Emmet MeDonald Bridgeford, is a representative physician and surgeon of Mexico, this state. The honored father was an active factor in connection with the cause of the Democratie party in his native state, but never sought or held publie office. He was a man of strong intellectual force and of the highest personal integrity, ever commanding the unreserved esteem of all who knew him. He was a consistent member of the Baptist ehurch, of which his wife also is a devoted member, having been active in church work for many years.

Dr. Joseph L. Bridgeford was about fourteen years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Mexico, Missouri, to whose publie schools he is indebted for his earlier educational discipline, which was supplemented by a literary course in Washington University, in the eity of St. Louis, and also by the completion of the preseribed teehnieal curriculum in the dental department of the same institution, in which he was graduated as a member of the elass of 1892 and from which he received the degree of Doetor of Dental Surgery, besides winning the honors of his class in examination in prosthetic dentistry, in which connection he received a valuable prize offered by the St. Louis Dental Manufaeturing Company. It should be stated that Dr. Bridgeford has ever stood exponent of the highest professional ethies and has done all in his power to raise the standard of the same and to discourage the granting of licenses to those not thoroughly fitted for the important work devolving upon the practitioner of dental surgery. After his graduation Dr. Bridgeford loeated in Moberly, Missouri, where he was associated in practice with Dr. James T. Fry until the winter of 1893, when he came to Macon county and established himself in praetiee at Bevier, where he continued his professional work until 1897, since which year he has maintained his home in Macon, where he has built up a large and substantial professional business, drawn from representative and appreciative sources. He is a valued member of the Missouri State Dental Association and the Missouri Dental Club, whose headquarters are maintained in the city of St. Louis.

In 1906 Dr. Bridgeford invented and placed on the market a substance or preparation known as the Bridgeford plate paste, in the exploitation of whose merits he organized the Pioneer Manufacturing Company, which turns out the product upon a large scale, as the same is now in demand on the part of dental practitioners in all parts of the world.

In polities Dr. Bridgeford elings to the faith in which he was reared and is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Demoeratie party, though he has never evinced aught of ambition for politieal office. He manifests a deep interest in all that touches the welfare and progress of his home eity and is one of the most zealous members of the Macon Commercial Club, which stands representative of high civic ideals and which has done much to promote the industrial and commercial advancement of the city. He was secretary and treasurer of this organization, is identified with the loeal lodges of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World, and is a member of the alumni association of his alma mater, Washington University.

On the 11th of December, 1907, Dr. Bridgeford was united in marriage to Miss Mary Melinda Stone, who was born and reared in Macon county and who is a daughter of Benjamin F. Stone, of Macon eity.

Paul W. Tutt

One of the alert and progressive young business men and popular eitizens of Macon is Paul William Tutt, who is a native of Germany and of distinguished and patrician ancestry. He is the only representative of the immediate family in America, and here his success has been such as to offer the best indication of his ability and his integrity of purpose.

Mr. Tutt was born in the city of Metz, Germany, on the 14th of September, 1881, and is a son of Colonel Dogobert F. and Catherine (Melchers) Tutt, the former of whom was born at Bensberg, near the city of Cologne, Germany, and the latter of whom is a native of Dusseldorf. They now maintain their home in Metz, Germany, and the father there holds an important government office. Colonel Tutt was edueated in the eity of Cologne, and after leaving school he entered the German army, in which he rendered gallant service and from whieh he was finally retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1864 he was an active participant in the war between Prussia and Austria, in which he took part in the battles of Munchengratz and Sadowa, and later he partieipated in many of the important confliets marking the progress of the Franco-Prussian war. After the close of this war he married Miss Catherine Melehers, and they have four children, concerning whom the following brief record is apropos in this connection: Carl holds the office of first lieutenant in the German army; Elizabeth is the wife of Gardy S. Knox, a Prussian army officer stationed in Berlin; Paul William is the immediate subjeet of this review, and Henry remains at the parental home.

Paul William Tutt was afforded the advantages of excellent schools in his fatherland, having availed himself of the facilities of the Lyceum

In 1898, when seventeen years of age, Mr. Tutt severed the gracious ties which bound him to his home and fatherland and set forth to gain for himself a place as a loyal American citizen. He landed in New York city, and from the national metropolis came directly to Macon, Missouri, where he soon afterward assumed a position with the Macon Shear Company. In 1899, more thoroughly to familiarize himself with the English language, he attended the Blees Military Academy, at Macon, Missouri, and in 1901 he became bookkeeper for the Blees MeViear Carriage Company, of Macon, continuing to be identified with the office affairs of the company until January, 1904, when he assumed the position of traveling representative of the concern, in which connection he covered important territory in the northern states. In the same year he was assigned to the office of assistant manager of the company's branch establishment in Shreveport, Louisiana, and in April, 1905, he was ealled baek to Maeon to assume the office of manager of the Macon Shear Company. In November of 1906 he was elected secretary and manager of the Blees Carriage Company, of which position he has since continued ineumbent, and he has gained precedence as a business man of mueh initiative power and fine administrative ability. His record since coming to America has been one of definite and worthy accomplishment, and he has so ordered his course as to gain and retain the inviolable confidence and regard of those with whom he has been associated, both in commercial and social e s. In politics he has aligned himself as an ardent supporter of the cause for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and he takes much interest in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of his home city, where he is deservedly popular, owing to his gracious personality and his careful consideration for others.

On the 14th of January, 1909, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Tutt to Miss Mary Morrison Kern, daughter of Judge Robert H. Kern, a prominent and honored citizen of St. Louis, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Tutt are active in the best social life of Macon and in the same their popularity is of the most unequivocal type.

Charles L. Farrar

The name borne by the subject of this brief review has heen identified with the annals of Macon county for more than half a century, and his father was one of the prominent and influential citizens of this section for many years prior to his death. The son has well upheld the prestige of the name and is to-day one of the representative citizens of his native county, where he has been prominent in publie affairs and where he is now the able and popular ineumbent of the office of postmaster of the city of Macon.

Mr. Farrar was born on a farm in Ten Mile township, Macon county, Missouri, on the 29th of May, 1861, and is a son of John and Selina (Thornton) Farrar, both natives of England, where the former was born in the year 1815 and the latter in 1817. John Farrar was reared and educated in his native land and as a young man came with his parents to the United States. The family located in the state of North Carolina, where he remained until 1857, when he settled in Macon county, Missouri, where he seeured land and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, to which he continued to devote his attention for a number of years and in which connection his well direeted endeavors brought him a due measure of material suecess. He finally took up his residence in Macon, the county seat, and here he was prominent in business and in publie affairs. He espoused the cause of the Republican party at the time of its inception and ever afterward gave to the same an unwavering allegiance. In 1866 he was elected county clerk, and of this offiee he continued ineumbent for four years. He also served as city colleetor for some time, and in 1888 was eleeted police judge, in which capacity he continued to preside on the bench for three years. During the Civil war he served four years as postmaster of Ten Mile. He was a man of superior intellectual and moral force, and no citizen of the county was aceorded a fuller degree of popular confidence and esteem. In 1871 he became senior member of the firm of Farrar & Bourke and engaged in the wholesale and retail lumber business in Macon. He continued to be identified with this enterprise until 1877, when he disposed of his interest in the same, after whieh he lived virtually retired from active business until his death, which occurred on the 2d of November, 1882. He was a member of the Episcopal church, of which his wife also has been a devoted member for many years. She still maintains her home in Macon and has attained to the venerable age of ninety-two years (1909). 'Thev became the parents of nine children, of whom six are living, namely: William, who is engaged in the insurance business at St. Louis; Sarah, who is the wife of William B. Gilbert, of Macon; Alice, who is the wife of William B. Barnes, of this county; Eliza, who is unmarried and resides with her mother; Carrie, who is the wife of Albert D. Strong, of Macon; and Charles L., who is the immediate subjeet of this sketeh. It is interesting to record that six generations of the family are now found represented. Mrs. Farrar, the venerable and revered **mother in Israel," represents the first generation; her daughter, Mrs. Gilbert, has a daughter, Viola, who is the wife of Pittman Lindley, of Livingston, Montana, and their daughter, Pearl, is the wife of Mr. Gilman, of Livingston, Montana, in whose daughter, Cordie Nell, is found the representative of the sixth generation.

Charles L. Farrar, whose name initiates this review, gained his early educational training in the schools of Macon, and after leaving school he became clerk in a local mercantile establishment. In this eapaeity he was thereafter employed by several other loeal concerns of representative order, and his business career aside from such oceupation has mainly been that of city elerk (twenty-two years).

Mr. Farrar has long been a potent factor in connection with political affairs in his native county and has been one of the wheel-horses of the Republiean party in this seetion of the state. In 1904 he was chosen seeretary of the Republican committee of Macon county, in which office he served four years, within which he did effeetive work in the maneuvering of political forces in the various local and state campaigns. In 1902 he was elected chairman of the Republican city committee of Macon, and he retained this ineumbeney until 1908. In 1886 he assumed the office of eity elerk, and he held this position for a period of twenty-two consecutive years, resigning the same in May, 1908. In the following month he received his commission as postmaster of Macon, and he has given a most able and effective administration of the affairs of the office, having done much to systematize and facilitate the service and having gained unqualified popular approval. He is signally interested in all that tends to advance the material and eivie prosperity of his home city, and is loyal and progressive as a citizen. He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, holding membership in the local parish of St. James, and he is affiliated with the Masonie fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Order of Foresters, and the Woodmen of the World. He enjoys unqualified popularity in his native county, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

On the 19th of June, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Farrar to Miss May Bennett, daughter of Edward F. Bennett, of Macon, and they have one child, Nelle.

In a reminiscent way it may be stated that Mr. Farrar's mother was a passenger on the first railroad train operated between Manchester and Liverpool, England. The engineer of this train is still living and is now a resident of the state of Iowa. A model of the primitive engine used in hauling the train was on exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in the city of St. Louis in 1904.

Nathaniel M. Lacy

One of the representative members of the bar of Macon county, where he formerly served as assistant prosecuting attorney, Mr. Lacy has been most successful in the practice of his profession and is recognized as a strong and versatile advocate and well fortified counselor. He maintains his home and professional headquarters in the city of Macon, and is one of the loyal and publie-spirited citizens of the eounty.

Mr. Laey claims as the place of his nativity the fine old Hoosier state, having been born at Nineveh, Johnson county, Indiana, on the 6th of August, 1874, and being a son of James D. and Tamar (Maris) Lacy, whose marriage was solemnized in the year 1873 and who now reside in Johnson county, Indiana, where the father is living virtually retired, having long been numbered among the representative agrieulturists and stock-growers of that county and having been influential in publie affairs of a local order. He now has his home in the village of Nineveh. James D. Laey was born at Coshoeton, Ohio, on the 6th of Mareh, 1846, and is a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye state. He was reared and educated in his native place, and for a number of years his vocation was that of contracting and building, which line of enterprise he followed after his removal to Indiana. Later he engaged in farming and stock-raising, becoming the owner of a valuable farm in Johnson county, and he continued to be identified with its work and management until about 1907, since which time he has lived retired, though still retaining possession of his fine farm. His wife is a native of Brown county, Indiana, and they became the parents of three children, all of whom are living, namely: Nathaniel M., William J. and Mary E. William J. is a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mary E. remains at the parental home. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the ooi has long been a zealous worker in the ranks of the Republican party, ® which he has wielded no little influence in a local way. He has held various local offices of publie trust and is at the present time a member of the board of equalization of his eounty. He is affiliated with the Masonie fraternity, in which he is past master of his lodge.

Nathaniel M. Lacy was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and gained his early educational training in the public schools, after whieh he eontinued his studies for four years in Franklin College, at

Franklin, Indiana. In preparation for the work of his chosen vocation he was matriculated in the Indiana Law School in the city of Indianapolis, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar of his native state shortly after his graduation and was engaged in practice at Franklin, Indiana, until 1901, when he came to Missouri and took up his residence in Macon, where he has built up a substantial and representative law business, having an excellent clientele and having appeared in connection with much important litiga- _ tion in the local and state eourts. In 1904 he was chosen assistant prosecuting attorney of Macon county, in which office he gave ve service and added materially to his professional prestige. He re this incumbency until 1906, and simultaneously held the office of city attorney of Macon.

In polities Mr. Lacy gives an unqualified allegiance to the Republiean party and he has been an active worker in its cause. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity.

On the 9th of September, 1903, Mr. Lacy was united in marriage to Miss Daisy L. Strickler, who was born and reared in Indiana and who is a daughter of H. C. Strickler, of Franklin, that state,

On other pages of this publication is entered a review of the interesting career of Theodore Gary, whose capitalistic and industrial interests in Missouri and elsewhere are of wide scope, and as his son, the subject of the sketch at hand, is intimately associated with him as private secretary and as an executive officer of the many enterprises with which he is identified, reference should be made to the review of the father's career in connection with that of the son. Under such referatory facilities it will not be necessary to repeat the data in this article. Hunter L. Gary is recognized as one of the essentially representative business men of the younger generation in Macon, and has shown distinctive aeumen and initiative, while he has had the benefit of the counsel and effective training of his father, whose suecess has been of a most pronounced order, especially in the field of telephone development.

indebted for his early edueational training, which was supplemented by a course of study in Blees Military Academy, at Macon, where he continued a student for a period of three and one-half years. In 1903 he completed a thorough technical course in telephony in the International Correspondence Schools, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, thereby fortifying himself in a practieal way for the supervision of the large telephone interests with which he is associated in an administrative capacity.

After leaving the military school Mr. Gary entered his father's office, and he has since been intimately associated with the latter in his varied business operations. He showed, even as a boy, a distinetive predilection for practical business affairs, and while attending school voluntarily sought employment during his leisure hours as collector for various business concerns in his home city, also acting as collector and bookkeeper for the Macon Telephone Company. His advancement has not been merely one of paternal or other fortuitous influences, for he is of the timbre from which strong business ability is naturally evolved, and his ambition has been one promotive of definite personal accomplishment. The importance of the enterprises with which he is concerned may be understood by referring to the previously mentioned sketch of the life of his father, to whom he is his private secretary in connection with all of the latter's operations. He is secretary and assistant manager of the Macon Telephone Company, and also assistant manager of the Atchison Telephone Company, of Atchison, Kansas; assistant manager and treasurer of the Nevada Telephone Company, of Nevada, Missouri; secretary and director of the Hudson-Gary Land Company, of Macon; a direetor of the Theodore Gary Investment Company, of Macon, Missouri; and a director of the Topeka Independent Telephone Company, of Topeka, Kansas, as well as of the Macon, Atchison and Neveda telephone companies, already mentioned.

In polities Mr. Gary is aligned as a stanch supporter of the prineiples and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and he is identified with the Masonie fraternity, in which he has attained to the ehivalrie degree, being identified with Emmanuel Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar. He also holds membership in the local organizations of the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Eiks, and Knights of the Maeeabees. He and his wife are zealous communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church and are specially active in the work of St. James, parish in Macon. He is superintendent of its Sunday school at the time of this writing and has also been for twelve

Mr. Gary has taken a deep interest in athleties and outdoor sports, and he has served as vice-president of the Missouri Trap Shooters' Association and as secretary and treasurer of the Macon Gun Club, which latter dual office he held for three consecutive years. He is one of the loyal young men of his native eity and shows much interest in every enterprise tending to advance its eivie and material welfare. He and his wife hold a prominent position in connection with the social activities of the community, and their popularity is of the most unequivocal order.

On the 28th of June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gary to Miss La Mora Sauvinett, who was born at Macon, this state, and who is a daughter of Hon. J. M. Sauvinett, a prominent and influential citizen of Macon, of which eity he was formerly mayor. Born to this union one child, Mary La Mora, July 15, 1909.

Among the distinguished representatives of the medical profession of Macon Dr. Edward S. Smith is numbered and is well known in professional and scientific circles.

Edward Sanborn Smith is a native of Salina, Kansas, where he was born on the 25th of April, 1875, and in his ambition and vital initiative he well exemplified the progressive spirit of the west. He is a son of S. Edward and Eunice (Webster) Smith, who are now residents of Macon, Missouri, where the father is engaged in the clothing business. The doctor was a child at the time of his parents' removal from Kansas to Macon, and here he attended St. James Military Aeademy, at Macon, for six years. In this institution he was prepared for college, and in 1894 he was matrieulated in the Johns Hopkins University. He had taken up a pre-medieal course during his regular university work in the academie department, and afterward he entered the medical department of the University of Maryland, in the eity of Baltimore, in which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in May, 1900. During that year he served as senior interne in the university hospital at the quarantine station of the port of Baltimore, and in this connection he gained invaluable clinical experience, so that his reinforcement for the active work of his profession was most admirable when he initiated his independent practice, his profession have contributed to his splendid success not less than has his unequivocal personal popularity. He is associate medical director of the International Life Insurance Company, of St. Louis; is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, with the title of major, conferred by the governor of Missouri; is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the National Geographie Society; and is also identified with the American Medical Association and the Missouri State Medical Society. Heis unswerving in his allegiance to the cause for which the Republiean party stands sponsor and takes an active interest in the same, as does he also in all that tends to advance the material and eivie advancement of his home city and state, but he has never had aught of desire for the honors or emoluments of publie office. Member of vestry of St. James' Episcopal church.

On the 14th of October, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Smith to Miss Emily Montague Frey, who was born and reared in the city of Washington, D. C., being a daughter of Robert E. Frey and a lineal descendant of Montague Barron, who fought under La Fayette in the war of the Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Smith are prominent in the social life of their home city and their home is a recognized center of gracious and generous hospitality. They have no children.

Y Samuel L. Gash

The personal history of American citizenship in all parts of the country, but particularly in the Middle and Farther West, is a sueion of stories of men who have risen to consequence, and in many cases to celebrity, through their own efforts, because they have been quick to see, alert to seize and resourceful in using their opportunities to their own best advantage and for the benefit of the community around them. Fortune has not smiled upon them except as they have forced her to, and they have not needed her smiles. All they asked was a fair field and freedom of opportunity, and their own native ability has done all the rest. In many instances, even when circumstances have been unfavorable, they have compelled the adverse conditions to minister to their progress and become wings or weapons for their advancement.