Macon County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 12 of 20)

A striking case in point is the life-story of Samuel L. Gash, which it is the purpose of these paragraphs to briefly record. Mr. Gash is a native of Macon county and has passed the whole of his life to this time (1910) with its borders. He was born in Easeley township on May 6, 1858, and is a son of Thomas and Maria J. (Dale) Gash, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Missouri. The father came to this state when he was a young man and located in Elmer, this eounty. He was a miller and wrought industriously and profitably at his trade during the years of his activity. In polities he has always been a Demoerat and has been firm and faithful in the service of his party, but has never held a political office of any kind. The mother, who died in 1905, was a daughter of Abraham and Effie Dale, long residents and highly esteemed citizens of Macon eounty. Mr. and Mrs. Gash had five children, all of whom are living. They are: Laura, the wife of W. H. MeDavitt of Mereyville; W. W., a resident of Elmer; Samuel L., the immediate subjeet of this review; A. D., who lives in Chieago, and J. L., who, also is a resident of Elmer. The father is still living and has his home with his daughter, Mrs. William H. MeDavitt. : Samuel L. Gash obtained a limited education in the distriet school of Mercyville, and after completing that worked as a farm hand until 1879. when he began farming on his own account. He had no capital for his enterprise but his own courage, ability and determined spirit, but these were of a fruitful kind and contained the elements of success ' within themselves when managed with prudence and good judgment, the direeting qualities whieh he applied to them. He eontinued farming with success and progress until 1907, when he retired from activity in this line of effort and turned his attention to real estate, insurance and loan business, in whieh he is still extensively and profitably engaged. He is a stockholder and one of the directors of the Farmers? Exchange Bank of Gifford and has been its president since 1906. He is also a member of the committee on eonstruetion of the Inter-Urban railway between Palmyra and La Plata, Missouri, and has been one of the most active and useful men in connection with the enterprise, promoting it by every means at his command and through the forces he has been able to invoke and bring to its aid through his influence and the force of his example.

In many other ways Mr. Gash has been of great and appreciated service to his township and county, and in the domain of publie affairs has at all times been very active and zealous in behalf of the best interests of the region in which he lives. He is an active, working Democrat in polities, but except a membership of more than eight years on the school board, has never been induced to accept a publie office of any kind. But when business interests are at stake, he is all energy and enterprise. He has been president of the La Plata and Western Telephone company for the last five years, and its present high state of development and efficiency are largely due to his progressiveness and skill in the management of its affairs. He owns and has farmed under his supervision a fine farm of 315 acres and possesses in addition extensive holdings of valuable eity property in La Plata. Beginning the battle of life for himself without a dollar, and now being one of the most substantial citizens of Macon county in a worldly way, his career has been suecessful from the beginning and furnishes a fine example of what enterprise, ability and persistent and intelligent industry can accomplish in a land where opportunity only waits the commanding might of mind to yield up its treasures to its master.

In fraternal life Mr. Gash is an Odd Fellow and a Modern Woodman, and in religious association a member of Missionary Baptist chureh. He was married in 1879 to Miss Mary J. Evans, a daughter of Allen and Hopey (Morris) Evans, who were born and reared in Kentucky and eame to Missouri in early life. Of the five children born of the union only three are living: Abraham H., of La Crosse, Missouri; Minnie E., the wife of Emory Enterline, also a resident of La Crosse, and Sanford N., who lives in La Plata.

One of the definite purposes of this publieation is to make speeifie record concerning those citizens of Macon county who stand representative in their various spheres of endeavor, and in this eonneetion there is all of consistency in according special recognition to Dr. Webb, who is engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Macon and who is known as one of the essentially able and successful physicians and surgeons of the county.

Dr. Webb finds a due mede of satisfaction in reverting to the state of Kentucky as the place of his nativity. He was born in Perryville, Boyle county, in the fine old Blue Grass eommonwealth, on the 6th of April, 1855, and is a son of William F. and Sarah E. (Balboa) Webb, both likewise natives of Kentucky, where their marriage was solemnized in the year 1850. The father was born in Greene county, that state, in the year 1824, and after due preliminary discipline he entered Central College, at Danville, Kentueky, where he completed a course of study. He engaged in the life insurance business and finally became general state agent for Kentucky of the Connecticut State Life Insurance Company. Later he engaged in the publishing business, in which he continued successfully for many years. He passed the closing years at the home of his son and died at Macon, Missouri. The doctor's mother is still living in Cineinnati, Ohio. Of their six children four are living, namely: Misses Sallie H. and Lulu, who are successful and popular teachers in the publie schools of the eity of Cineinnati, Ohio; Miss Ada, who resides in Cincinnati; and Dr. William E., who is the immediate subject of this review.

In polities William F. Webb w anch Demoerat, and though he had been the owner of a number of slaves he was stanchly opposed to secession and gave a loyal support to the eause of the Union at the time of the Civil war. He became captain of a company of home guard, and his northern sympathies eaused him to become persona non grata in his section of the state, from which he was finally compelled to remove, remaining in the state of Ohio until after the elose of the great fratraeidal conflict between the states. Both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

In both the paternal and maternal lines Dr. Webb is a scion of distinguished and patrician stock. His paternal grandfather, Edward Carey Webb, was born at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1792, and he passed his entire life in that state, where he died in 1868. He was a successful agrieulturist and a man of prominence and influence in his community. His father, Captain Louis Webb, was born at Richmond, Virginia, April 6, 1755, and was a member of one of the old and honored families, of English origin, that settled in that historie old commonwealth in the early period of its history. He died in Kentucky, on the 12th of July, 1841. He was ardently loyal to the patriot cause during the war of the Revolution, and in the same maintained a company at his own expense, besides personally rendering active service as an officer in the Continental line. In recognition of his devotion to and support of the cause of independence the government granted to him a large tract of land in Boyle county, Kentucky, to which state he removed with his family, becoming one of the pioneers of that section, where he improved his estate and attained to commanding influence as a citizen.

"The mother of Dr. Webb was a lineal descendant of the famous Balboa, the discoverer of the Pacifie ocean, and was praetically the last of the Balboa line, whose name she perpetuated until the time of her marriage. She was also a granddaughter of Colonel Harry Greenwood, who was born in Virginia, in 1750, and who passed the closing years of his life in Kentucky, in which state he had the distinetion of being the first member of the Masonie fraternity. He gained his military title through service in the Revolution. llis death occurred in the year 1831. Mrs. Webb was also a descendant of Major Fauntleroy Dye, who was born in 1763 and who saerificed his life while serving as a soldier and officer in the war of 1812.

Dr. William E. Webb gained his early educational discipline in the publie sehools of Louisville, Kentucky, and after having made choice of vocation he began the work of preparing himself for the same. In this connection he was finally matriculated in the Ohio Medical College, in the city of Cincinnati, in which well ordered institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1879, and from which he received his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine, coming forth well fortified for the active work of his profession. The doctor initiated practice in Athens, Ohio, where he remained four years, at the expiration of which he removed to Chanute, Kansas, where he continued in successful practice for the ensuing four years. He then, in 1888, came to Macon, where he has continued in active general practice as a physician and surgeon for more than a score of years and where his success is best indicated by the prestige which is his and the large and representative practice whieh he eontrols. For the past fifteen years he has served as surgeon for the Wabash Railroad Company, and is surgeon to Blees Military Academy.

In his political allegiance Dr. Webb is found aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles of the Demoeratie party, in whose cause he has rendered effective service. In 1904 he was elected a member of the eity council of Macon, as representative of the Second ward, and in 1906 he was ehosen as his own successor, retiring from office at the expiration of his second term, in 1908. He proved a most progressive and loyal member of the munieipal governing body, in whieh he served three years as ehairman of the light and waterworks committee and in whieh he was for one year ehairman of the finance committee. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the local lodge, chapter and commandery of the Masonie order, and he has held various official positions in the same, including that of high priest of his chapter, eminent commander of Commandery, of which position he was ineumbent for three successive terms. He is past exalted ruler of Macon Lodge, No. 999, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is one of the prominent and influential members of the Knights of Pythias in his state. In 1895 he was elected grand outer guard of the Missouri grand lodge of this fraternity, and in 1898 he was honored with election to the office of grand chancellor of the grand lodge. In the following year he was chosen brigadier general of the uniform rank of this order, and within his tenure of this position he was also eleeted supreme representative of the Supreme Lodge, retaining this incumbency for six years. Since 1902 he has served as surgeon general of the uniform rank of the world. He has done much to promote the interests of the Knights of Pythias

Dr. Webb was married to Emma F. Pickett, at Guysville, Ohio, in 1875. They have had two children: John P., who died in infancy, and Austin Webb, who for fifteen years has been on the stage. At present he is being starred under the Harris management in "The Traveling Salesman."

One of the able and popular representatives of the medical profession in Macon county is Dr. Miller, who is engaged in active general practice in the city of Macon and who is known as a physician and surgeon who is thoroughly fortified for the work of his exacting and humane profession, in which he has gained both success and distinetion, being one of its well known representatives in the state and having formerly been a member of the faculty of the medical department of the state university. Aside from his profession Dr. Miller is a business man of marked progressiveness and discrimination, and his capitalistic and industrial interests are of important order.

Alfred Beckett Miller was born on a farm in Liberty township, near. the village of Palmyra, Marion county, Missouri, on the Ist of February, 1852, and is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of this commonwealth, in whieh he is a representative of the third generation. He is a son of Abdel and Sarah Mary (Jones) Miller, the former of whom was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, in 1818, and the latter of whom was a native of Maryland, where she was born in the year 1828, and whence she came with her parents to Missouri when a child. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Miller was a native of Kentucky and a member of one of the stanch old families of Pendleton county. He came to Missouri in an early day and was one of the pioneers of the state. He first located in St. Louis county, whence he later removed to Marion county, where he improved a farm in the primitive forest, and continued to be identified with agrieultural pursuits during the residue of his long and useful life. Abdel Miller was one year old at the time of the family removal to Marion eounty, where he was reared to manhood, receiving a good eommon-school edueation, and there he continued to devote his attention to farming and stock-growing until his death, which occurred in 1868. He was a man of strong character and distinetive individuality, wielding a large and beneficent influence in his community and ever commanding the unequivocal confidenee and respect of his fellow men. Though never consenting to become a candi- date for public office he was thoroughly loyal and public-spirited as a citizen and was a stanch and intelligent supporter of the principles and os for which the Democratic party stood sponsor in his day and but his sympathies were with the south. Both he and his wife, whose death oceurred in 1872, were zealous and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh South. "They became the parents of four ehildren of whom one died in infaney ; William G. lives in North Macon; Alfred B. is the immediate subject of this review, and Medora A. is near Palmyra.

Dr. Alfred B. Miller passed his boyhood and youth on the old homestead farm in Marion county, and his preliminary educational training was seeured in the publie schools of the community and Palmyra Seminary, at Palmyra, after which he attended Central College, at Fayette, this state, for three years, In 1876, having formulated definite plans for his future eareer, he was matriculated in the historie old Jefferson Medical College, in the city of Philadelphia, in which institution he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1878, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine on the 12th of March of that year and coming forth admirably equipped for the active work of his ehosen voeation. Soon after his graduation Dr. Miller located in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Missouri, where he established himself in the practice of his profession and where he continued to maintain his home for a period of four years, at the expiration of which, on the 14th of June, 1882, he took up his abode in Macon, where he has since been engaged in active general practice as a physician and surgeon and where his success has been of the most unequivocal order, as indicated by the large, lucrative and representative practice which he has long controlled. He has continued a close and appreciative student of both branches of his profession and has kept in touch with the advances made in both medicine and surgery. He holds membership in the American Medical Association and is also a prominent and valued member of both the Missouri State Medical Society and the Macon County Medical Society. He has been an occasional contributor to periodical literature of his profession and has presented valuable technical papers before medical societies, but for eight years he was an influential member of the faculty of the medical department of the University of Missouri, at Columbia, where he held the chair of gynecology.

of his home eity and county, and as a citizen he is essentially loyal, progressive and publie-spirited. He has been president of the Macon Building & Loan Association since 1889; is a stoekholder in the Rhea Lead & Zine Company, of Cartersville, Missouri, and is a stockholder in the Union Sand Company, of St. Louis.

In polities Dr. Miller has ever been aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the Demoeratie party, but he has never had desire or leisure to enter the arena of ''practical politics." In 1901 the governor of Missouri appointed him a member of the board of managers of the state hospital for the insane at Fulton, but he resigned the office after one year's service. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Censor Lodge, No. 172, Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has passed the various official chairs, and also with Macon Chapter, No. 22. Royal Areh Masons. He has been loeal surgeon for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad for the past thirty years, and in 1893 he was president of the Missouri State Medical Society. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Macon, and are active in the support of the various departments of its work.

On the 9th of October, 1879, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Miller to Miss Lillian Rush, who was born in Liberty, Clay eounty, Missouri, and who is a daughter of the late Rev. Lilburn Rush, a representative member of the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which he was in the active work for forty years.

Andrew Edwin Riley

Among the successful business men and popular citizens contributed to Macon county by the fine old Buckeye state is Andrew Edwin Riley, who is engaged in the real estate business and also identified with agrieultural pursuits in the eounty, where he owns a farm.

Mr. Riley was born on the 12th day of September, 1863, in Allen county, Ohio, and was next to the youngest child in a family of nine children. He came with his parents to Macon county in the spring of 1866 and was reared on a farm near Redman, Macon county, and received his early education from the schools at that place. Later on he attended the State University at Columbia, Miss

On the 7th of May, 1891, he was married to Miss Lizzie A. Archer, nt the home of her parents, Joseph and Phoebe Archer, who were formerly from Harriettsville, Noble county, Ohio. Mr. Archer was a fifer in the Civil war and a member of the 196th O. V. I.

Mr. and Mrs. Riley bought a traet of land just north of town in 1902 and have divided it up into suburban homes unti! at present it forms one of the prettiest parts of town. Mr. Riley still owns a handsome home and twenty-five aeres of land adjoining Macon city.

Mr. and Mrs. Riley have three children, Thelma, born on September 16, 1897; Elizabeth, born on July 7, 1901, and Edwin Archer, born on December 28, 1906.

Mr. Riley has devoted most of his life to farming and earpentering. From the time of attaining to his legal majority Mr. Riley has been an aetive and effeetual worker in its loeal ranks, also a zealous worker in the cause of temperance. In 1898 he was elected constable of Hudson township, and as further evidence of publie confidence he was appointed to the position of justice of the peace for Hudson township for four years. His administration was a most able and faithful one in this office. Among several positions of importance he is at present acting as deputy sheriff for the county. He takes pride in raising fine fruits and berries and thoroughbred stock and poultry. His father, Leslie P. Riley, was one of Macon county's best known citizens, and this sketch would not be complete without a short sketch of him.

He was born in Burtington county, New Jersey, October 27, 1827. Reared in Allen county, Ohio. His father was Rev. George Riley, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Speaking of this learned and able man, his biographer in Ohio says: ''Father Riley was one of nature's noblemen, and his face wore the impress of moral excellence. He was a man of fine mental qualities." He was found writing an essay on mental philosophy at the age of ninety years. He was equally at home with the leading theologieal works of the church. His testament was marked by his own hand as having been read through at the family altar twenty-eight times. He died in 1882 at the age of ninetyone years.

Leslie P. Riley inherited many of the qualities of his father and upon eoming to Missouri in its pioneer state he immediately engaged in helping mentally and morally to uplift his community, and to that end spent much of his time in teaching and organizing churches and Sunday-schools.

On the 27th of October, 1848, he was married to Miss Susanna Cripp, daughter of Henry and Margaret Cripp, of Ohio, but formerly of Richmond, Virginia. In 1863 he was commissioned captain of Company B, First Regiment Ohio Militia. He died September 2, 1897, and

It was within the province of the late Dwight H. Payson to have wielded a large and beneficent influence in connection with eivie and business affairs in the city of Macon, to the promotion of whose progress and material prosperity he eontributed with all the loyalty of a thoroughly public-spirited citizen, and he was an exponent of that high type of manhood which ever stands indicatory of usefulness and subjective honor. He impressed his strong individuality on the community whieh so long represented his home, and it is most consonant that in this historieal publieation be entered a brief tribute to his memory as one of the representative business men of Macon county and as a citizen to whom was ever accorded the unqualified confidence and regard of all who knew him. He was the pioneer insurance man of Macon and here was identified actively with this line of enterprise for nearly twoscore years.

Dwight H. Payson was a scion of a family early founded in America and was a native of the state of New York, where he was born in the year 1845. When he was a child his parents removed to the state of Wisconsin, becoming pioneers of Rock county. His father purchased a tract of land near the present eity of Janesville, where the son was reared to manhood, duly assisting in the work of the farm and availing himself of such advantages as were offered by the common schools of the locality and period. In 1865, while a young man, he came to Macon, Missouri, and here for a time he devoted his attention to the selling of books, after which he engaged in the general insurance ageney, with the conducting of which he was thereafter identified until the time of his death, having been one of the first to here engage specifieally in this line of business and having built up a large and representative enterprise as an underwriter of both fire and life insuranee. He devoted thirty-seven years to the insurance business, and the ageney which he thus established is now eondueted by his only surviving son.

Mr. Payson was a man of excellent intellectual equipment and inflexible integrity of character, and he oceupied a position of prominence and influence as one of the progressive business men and loyal citizens of Macon county. He was charitable and tolerant in his judgment of his fellow-men and was ever ready to offer succor and sympathetic aid to those in affliction or distress. He was a man of energy and marked business acumen, and upon his career there rests no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil, so that he has left to posterity the priceless heritage of a good name and of kindly thought and action. In polities he was a stalwart supporter of the eause of the Republiean party, and, while he rendered active and effective aid in the promotion of its interests and in the furtherance of good government in his home county and eity, he never aspired to publie office nor would he permit the use of his name in this connection. Mr. Payson was summoned to the life eternal on the 20th of October, 1904, and his cherished and devoted wife did not long survive him, as she passed away on the 4th of the following month, so that in death they were not long divided. In the community their loss was felt with a sense of personal bereavement on the part of all who knew them and now that they rest from their labors their memories are revered by those who eame within the sphere of their benignant and gracious influence.

In the year 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Payson to Miss Margaret Patton, who was born and reared in Macon county, a daughter of the late Harvey Patton, who was one of the honored pioneers of this favored section of the state. Of this union were born two sons - Emery H., who died at the age of sixteen years, and Charles H. who succeeded his father in business and who is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume.

In the thriving little eity of his nativity Mr. Payson holds prestige as one of the essentially representative business men of the younger generation and is one of the prominent and popular citizens of Macon, where he conduets the successful insurance business established by his father nearly forty years ago. In the matter of definite accomplishment and high personal integrity Macon county has every reason to be proud of her native sons who are lending their aid in forwarding her industrial, commercial and eivie advancement, and such a one is found in the person of him whose name introduces this sketch. Mr. Payson is.a man of fine intelleetual attainments and marked business acumen, and he stands forward as a citizen of progressive ideas and utmost fealty and loyalty.

A son of the late Dwight H. Payson, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work, Charles H. Payson was born in the city of Maeon, Macon county, Missouri, on the 4th of January, 1875, nnd he is now the sole surviving member of the immediate family circle, To the excellent publie schools of his native place he is indebted for his early educational diseipline, and after leaving the same he entered East Greenwich Academy, at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, where he completed the scientific course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. In the autumn of the same year he was matrienlated in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, where he followed the scientific course for the ensuing two years, after which he entered the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895.

Shortly after his graduation Mr. Payson returned to Missouri and assumed a elerical position in the Baird National Bank, of Kirksville, in which institution he continued to be employed until 1902, when he resigned the office of teller and in the same town established himself in the insuranee business, to which he there continued to devote his attention until the death of his honored father, in October, 1904, when he returned to Macon county and assumed charge of the large and representative insurance business that had so long been conducted by his father and which he has continued with uninterrupted and eumulative success, the ageney being the oldest and most important of its kind in Macon county and controlling the best class of underwriting in this community.

Alert and progressive as a business man and public-spirited as a eitizen, Mr. Payson maintains an abiding interest in all that tends to conserve the welfare of his native eity and county, and though, like his father, he has never consented to become a eandidate for publie office he is known as a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, having been identified with the "grand old party'' from the time of attaining his legal majority. He is affiliated with Macon Lodge, No. 74, Knights of Pythias, and is president of the Commercial Club, whose high civic ideals and well ordered functions have been potent in forwarding the material and eivie progress of Macon. He and his wife are members of the Macon Presbyterian church, and he is leader of its choir, being especially interested in the ''divine art" of musice and possessing a well cultivated baritone voice.

On the 24th of December, 1900, Mr. Payson was united in marriage to Miss Lena Trowbridge, who was born and reared in Kirksville, Missouri, and who is a daughter of B. J. Trowbridge, a representative eitizen of that place. The two children of this union are Gilbert Trowbridge, who was born on the 19th of September, 1901, and Charles H., Jr., who was born on the 23rd of May, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Payson are prominent in connection with the social activities of their home eity

Silas A. Patterson

One of the aggressive and popular representatives of mercantile interests in the city of Macon is Mr. Patterson, who is here successfully engaged in the elothing and men's furnishing business and who has here maintained his home since his boyhood days.

Mr. Patterson is a native of Illinois and is a scion of one of the honored pioneers of that commonwealth. He was born at Mount Pulaski, Logan eounty, that state, on the 5th of August, 1861, and is a son of Milton and Jane (Moran) Patterson, the former of whom was born in Logan county, Illinois, and the latter at Milford, Ohio; their marriage was solemnized on the 1st of January, 1844, and of their nine ehildren six are living. The father was reared to manhood in his native eounty, where he received a fair eommon school education and where he assisted in the work and management of the home farm during his boyhood and youth. In Illinois he eventually became a successful stock-grower, making a specialty of breeding high-grade horses and training them for turf work. In 1879 he removed with his family to Missouri and took up his residence in Macon, where he continued successful operation in the buying and training of horses. He was a man of marked business acumen and his genial personality and sterling worth of character gained to him the unqualified confidence and esteem of those with whom he eame in contact. He was a loyal and uncompromising supporter of the principles of the Republican party, though he never sought or desired publie office of any description. He died in Macon, in November, 1882, and his wife died August 19, 1906, at Tyler, Texas.

Silas A. Patterson, the immediate subject of this review, was reared to the age of seventeen years in his native town, to whose excellent publie schools he is indebted for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented by a course of study in the Macon high school. He was seventeen years of age at the time of the family removal to this city, and after leaving school he secured employment as clerk in a local mercantile establishment. In this eapaeity he was thereafter employed by one firm for eighteen years in Macon and was made manager of the business of the firm of McKee & Smith most of those years, having won this preferment through his ability and his fidelity. With this concern he continued to be identified for a period of eighteen years, within which he formed a wide aequaintanceship and gained distinetive per- sonal popularity. In 1900 he became a member of the firm of Smith, Haberman & Patterson, dealers in clothing and gents' furnishings, and he retained a third interest in this concern until December 15, 1905, when he sold the same to his partners, and in the following month he purehased the stock and business of the Wallace clothing store and engaged individually in business. His resourcefulness, marked initiative and exeeutive ability, knowledge of business methods, and great personal popularity have been the faetors through which he has built up his large and representative enterprise, transforming a business which had reached the lowest ebb to one of the most important and successful of its kind in this section of the state. His establishment is well stocked in all departments and its appointments are of metropolitan order. He caters to a diseriminating trade and his store is one noted for its invariable offering of value received on every purchase made.

As a business man and also as a citizen Mr. Patterson is essentially progressive, and while he takes a deep interest in all that makes for the advaneement and material and social prosperity of his home city and is a stalwart in the camp of the Republican party, although he has never permitted the use of his name in connection with candidacy for publie office. He is identified with the local organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World, and is affiliated with Censer Lodge, No. 172, Free and Accepted Masons, and Macon Chapter, No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, and Emanual Commandery, Knights Templar No. 7. He is a lover of music and has distinctive talent in this direction.

On the 12th of November, 1886, Mr. Patterson was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Kingsnorth, who was born in St. Louis and reared in Macon county, and who is a daughter of John W. Kingsnorth, a representative citizen of the city of Macon. To this union were born four children, of whom only one is living, Don, who was born in 1896.

One of the representative business men and influential citizens of the eity of Macon is he to whom this brief review is dediented. He is here engaged in the general merchandise business, in connection with whieh he has a large and well equipped establishment. and his personal popularity in the county is shown when it is stated that he has been called upon to serve in the office of county recorder of deeds, of which position he was ineumbent for four years. He has been an

Mr. Pool was born at Higland, Kansas, on the 6th of March, 1868, and is a son of Rev. Thomas G. and Louise (Lowry) Pool, the former of whom was born in 1837, at Huntsville, Randolph county, Missouri, and the latter of whom was born in Fayette, Howard county, this state, on the 7th of May, 1838. Their marriage was solemnized on the 18th of January, 1866, and both now maintain their home in Macon. The father was afforded the advantages of MeGee College, at College Mound, Macon county, and after leaving this institution completed a theological course and was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, in which he has labored with all of zeal and consecration for nearly fifty years - prineipally in Missouri and Kansas - and he has also devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits, in connection with which he is the owner of a well improved farm in Macon county. In polities he has ever given a staunch support to the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, and he has held a position of no little influence in its councils. In 1907 he was elected and served as chaplain of the state senate of Missouri, and he is held in high esteem by the leading publie men of this commonwealth. He and his wife became the parents of four children, of whom one daughter died at the age of eighteen months. Of the three surviving, the subjeet of this review is the eldest; Birdie is the wife of James Y. Bradley, of Moberly, Missouri, and Anna is the wife of John H. Heather, of Huntsville, this state.

Claude L. Pool was about three years of age at the time of his parents' return from Kansas to Missouri, and his early educational discipline was secured in the public schools, after leaving which he was matriculated in his father's alma mater, MeGee College, in which he completed the literary course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After that he passed about four years on the home farm, assisting in its work and management, and thereafter he was employed for seven years as salesman in a general store at Ardmore, Macon county. In 1896 he became a traveling salesman for a wholesale shoe house in Chieago, which he represented in Missouri and adjoining states for a period of two years, at the expiration of which, in 1898, he became candidate on the Demoeratic ticket for the office of clerk of the cireuit court of Macon county, but met defeat with the rest of the party ticket. In 1902 he was elected recorder of deeds for Macon county, in which office, as already stated, he served four years, giving a most able administration and doing much to systematize the work of the office. In his election to this position he had the distinction of leading the ticket, receiving a most gratifying majority at the polls. He has been a.most active and effective worker in behalf of the eause of the Demoeratie party, and has served as delegate to many of its conventions in Macon county, as well as to congressional and state conventions.

In 1905 Mr. Pool engaged in the general merchandise business in Macon, and his store controls a large and representative trade, based upon the fair and honorable methods upon which the enterprise is condueted and upon the ample equipment of the various departments thereof.

In a fraternal way Mr. Pool is identified with the local organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He has long been a devotee of the great national game of base ball, and at one time held a distinet prestige as a performer on the diamond. He was also the chief promoter and the principal supporter of the ball team which has so ably represented the city of Macon in various contests of late years. As a citizen he is most liberal and publie-spirited and he takes a deep interest in all that tends to conserve the progress and material and eivie prosperity of his home city, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

Mr. Pool has been twice married. In 1893 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Ida Coleman, who died in 1894, leaving no children. On the Sth of October, 1895, he wedded Miss Mollie Lyle, a daughter of Alfred T., of Macon county, and they have three children, whose names, with respective ages (1909) are here entered: Claude L., Jr., eleven years; Anna Marie, eight years, and William L., three years. Mr. and Mrs. Pool are prominent in connection with the social activities of the city of Macon and their home is a center of gracious hospitality.

During the last six years Dr. William A. Welch has been actively engaged in practicing medicine in this county, allowing nothing to divert him from the course he has marked out for himself. His constancy and devotion to his profession have brought him a large reward in the general esteem of the people and a practice considerable in magnitude and representative in character. He has risen to the first rank among the physicians and surgeons in this part of the State by demonstrating his right to it, although his primary purpose is to serve the people well in his line of effort and make the most of his capacity and

Dr. Weleh is a native of Tennessee and was born in 1872. He is the son of Jonathan S. and Rebecca (Voiles) Weleh, also natives of Tennessee. The Welch family are of an Irish decent. The forebearers having emigrated to America in 1770. Four of the sons settled in Illinois as early as 1835, while the grandfather of our subject settled in Tennessee and died in that state in his seventy-second year. His wife died at the same age.

Jonathan S. Weleh was the youngest of a family of fourteen, including ten sons and four daughters, who located in Tennessee, Kentueky, Illinois & Missouri. He was born in 1847, and was united in marriage in 1871 on May 2 to Rebecca Voiles, who was born in 1851. His wife's parents were of English descent and were among the early settlers of Virginia.

Jonathan Welch displayed his patriotism during the rebellion by becoming a member of the second Kentucky Cavalry under the command of General Kilpatrick, Having enlisted at Atlanta, Georgia on March Mo. 1864. The regiment became a part of General Sherman's army, and took part in all the engagements incident to that historical campaign through Georgia, and thence through the Carolinas.

Mr. Welch was one of the party that first carried the terms of surrender to General Johnson at Raleigh, North Carolina, and was at Lexington, North Carolina when peace was declared. After receiving his honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentueky, he returned to his home in Tennessee, and shortly after moved to Rugby, Morgan county of that state, where he continued to reside until 1887. In that year he emigrated to Missouri and settled on a farm in Macon county, near the town of Callao, Missouri, where he and his wife still reside.

Dr. William A. Weleh was seventeen years of age when the family moved to Missouri, he received a common school education in his native place and supplemented this with a eourse of special instruction at the Kirksville Normal School in this state. After leaving that institution he taught school seven years. In 1899 he began the study of medicine at the State University, eompleting his eourse at Washington University, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1903. He began the practice of his profession at Ardmore but only remained there a short time. He then removed to Callao, where he has been actively engaged in an increasing general -practice ever since. He attracted attention by his skill and ability early in his practice, and while living at Ardmore was chief surgeon for the Central Coal and

Coke Company. Since his location at Callao his rise in the profession has been steady and continuous, and so exacting and varied has been his practice that he has felt the necessity of more extensive preparation to meet its requirements. So in 1908 he took a post-graduate course at the Post-graduate Medical School in New York City, the value of which has been manifest to him many times since he completed it. 3

The doctor is a diligent and reflective student of the literature of his profession and mingles freely with his professional brethren in the societies organized for the purpose of promoting its progress and power. He is a member of the State and County Medical and American Medical Associations, an earnest participant in the proceedings of each and a valued contributor to the researches of both. He is local examiner for the Bankers', the John Hancock and the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance companies and the International of St. Louis, In fraternal life he is allied with the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias. On November 4, 1903, he was united in marriage with Miss Myrtle Randall, who was born and reared near Callao. They have two children, their son, Eldred E., aged five, and their son, Martin D., one year old. Mrs. Welch attended school at Englewood, Illinois, seven years, graduating from High School of that place. Mrs. Weleh is a daughter of Captain Randall of Callao, further mention of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.

John W. Gellhaus

Among the native sons of Macon county who have here attained to prominence and distinctive influence in connection with eivie affairs is Mr. Gellhaus, who is the able and honored head of the Gellhaus Grocery Company, of the city of Macon, an important industrial concern that is doing both a wholesale and retail business, and who is also a valued member of the city council. He is a progressive and publicspirited citizen and to every worthy enterprise and measure tending to conserve the best interests of the community he gives a loyal support. He is one of the popular young business men of his native city and is well entitled to representation in this historical compilation.

John William Gellhaus was born in Macon on the 11th of December, 1873, and is a son of John Thomas and Dora (Souererip) Gellhaus, both of whom were born in Germany, whence they eame with their respective parents to Ameriea when they were children. John T. Gellhaus received his elementary education in his fatherland and was twelve years of age at the time of the family immigration to the United States. His parents took up their residence in Kentucky, where he was reared to maturity and where he completed his education. There he continued to maintain his home until 1865, when he eame to Macon, Missouri, where he established himself in the grocery business, beginning operations on a modest scale and eventually building up one of the largest and most substantial enterprises of the kind in this county. With this line of business he eontinued to be actively identified until his death, which occurred in January of 1903, at which time he was fiftysix years of age. The three surviving children are Dora, who is the wife of Fred W. Gieselman, of Macon; John W., who is the immediate subject of this sketch; and Gertrude, who is the wife of Albert Birdsell, of St. Louis, this state. In polities the father was a staunch advocate of the prineiples and policies of the Democratie party, and he was a citizen who wielded large and beneficent influence in connection with publie affairs of a local order, while he ever held a secure place in the confidence and esteem of the community which so long represented his home and to whose progress and prosperity he contributed in liberal measure. In 1901 he was eleeted mayor of Macon, having the distinetion of being the first Demoerat ever chosen for this office and thus showing his impregnable hold upon the regard of the citizens of Macon. He gave a most able and businesslike administration and continued ineumbent of the mayoralty until his death. He was a communicant of the Catholie church, as is also his wife, and was affiliated with the Catholic Knights of America and the Woodmen of the World. In his death the eity of Maeon lost one of its best and most honored citizens, and his name merits an enduring place on the roll of those who have figured as its upbuilders.

John William Gellhaus, whose name initiates this article, was reared to maturity in Macon, to whose parochial and publie schools he is indebted for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented by a three years' course of study in the Christian Brothers College in the eity of St. Louis. After leaving college he became associated with the work and management of his father's retail grocery business, in eonneetion with which he received a most valuable training, familiarizing himself with all details of this line of enterprise, in which he has attained marked suecess and precedence. After the death of his honored father he assumed sole control of the retail grocery business established by the latter so many years ago, and he continued the business under the same conditions until May 4, 1909, when he amplified its seope and importance by the organization of the Gellhaus Groeery Company, which, with the best of facilities, now controls both a whole-

Mr. Gellhaus has ever taken a lively interest in all that has tended to advance the civie and material progress of his native city, and in this connection he has ably carried forward the work of his father. In 1905 he was selected to represent the third ward in the city council, in which his influence has been exerted in a most helpful and loyal way and of which he was president for a period of two years. In 1906 he was elected a member of the road commission of Hudson township, of which office he continued in tenure for tliree years. No citizen commands more unqualified popular confidence and esteem and no one has shown a more vital interest in all that touches the welfare of the community which has been his home from the time of his nativity. In politics Mr. Gellhaus accords an unswerving allegiance to the Demoeratie party and he has rendered marked service in the promotion of its cause. He was reared in the faith of the Catholic church, in which both he and his wife are communicants, and he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, besides which he is an enthusiastie member of the Macon Gun Club.

On the 3rd of February, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gellhaus to Miss Anna E. Jurgensen, who was born and reared in Macon and who is a daughter of Ferdinand and Elizabeth (Brüll) Jurgensen, of this city. They have no children.

Dr. Thompson, an able physieian and surgeon, engaged in practice in the eity of Macon, is one of the distinguished and honored representatives of his profession in his native state and is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Macon county. He was born at Sioux City, this eounty, on the 31st of March, 18 nd is a son of Logan and Angelina (Sweeney) Thompson, both natives of Pulaski county, Kentueky, where the former was born on the 11th of September, 1811, and the latter on the 16th of August, 1816. Their marriage was solemnized on the 24th of December, 1836, and in 1839 they came to Macon county, Missouri, where the father purchased a tract of land, near Sioux City. He developed one of the valuable farms of the county and here he continued to devote his attention to agrieultural pursuits during the residue of his long and useful life, which came to a close in the year 1886. He was a man of strong individuality and impregnable integrity and commanded the high regard of the community which so long represented his home and to whose upbuilding and civie advancement he contributed his quota. He had the privilege of casting his ballot in support of General Andrew Jackson for the presideney of the United States and ever afterward continued a loyal supporter of the cause of the Democratic party. He took an intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the day and was well fortified in his convictions as to matters of publie polity. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Baptist church. They became the parents of nine children, of whom six are living, namely: Joseph, a resident of Macon county; John W., of Macon county; Zelphia, wife of Louis Lyda, of Macon county; Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin F. Taylor, of St. Louis, Missouri; Robenia, wife of William Costello, a retired farmer of Kirksville, this state, and Dr. Logan M., subject of this review. The mother died in 1885.

Dr. Logan Madison Thompson gained his early education in the schools of his native county, after which he continued his studies in the State Normal School at Kirksville, after leaving which institution he began reading medicine. Within a short period he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, in which he was graduated on the 2d of March, 1880, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1898 he took an effective post-graduate course in the Chicago Post- Graduate Medical College and Hospital. After his graduation Dr. Thompson established himself in the active practice of his profession in his native county, maintaining his headquarters at Economy for some time and later at Atlanta, where he remained until 1901, when he was appointed physician to the state hospital for the insane, at Nevada, Missouri. This incumbency he retained until 1903, in which year he was appointed superintendent for the colony of epileptie and feeble-minded children, at Marshall, this state - a comparatively new institution at that time. During his administration he there organized a sehool and various industrial departments, and to him is due in large measure the effective system now utilized in the institution. He resigned his office at the expiration of two years, and in June, 1905, located in the city of Macon, where he has since been engaged in the private practice of his profession and where he has a large and representative clientele. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association and the Missouri State Medical Society.

Tn polities Dr. Thompson is a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, and he is a recognized leader in its ranks in Missouri. He has been chairman of the county central committee of his party since 1905 and, while he has ever been a zealous worker in the party cause, he has invariably refused to become a candidate for political office. He is a stockholder and director in the Gary Investment Company and vice-president of the Times-Democrat Printing Company, of Macon. He has attained to the chivalric degrees in the Masonic fraternity, being identified with Emanual Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar, of Macon, and also holding membership in Aradth Temple, Ancient Arabie Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in Kansas City. He is a member also of the Knights of the Maceabees and the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church.

On the 21st of October, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Thompson to Miss Alice Nickell, who was born and reared in Macon county, and who is a daughter of Alexander Nickell, who followed the vocation of stock-raiser during the major portion of his active career. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson became the parents of three children, Maud, who is now the wife of M. A. Romjue, of Macon; Rodney E., who died in 1905, at the age of twenty-two years, and Ruby, who died in 1884, at the age of nine months.

John J. Chope

An honored eitizen and enterprising business man of Macon, which has represented his home from his ehildhood d is Mr. Chope, who is here engaged in the harness and saddlery busine

John J. Chope was born in Lake county, Illinois, not far distant from the city of Chicago, and the date of his nativity was March 7, 1862. He is a son of Thomas and Louise (Hoffman) Chope, the former of whom was likewise a native of Lake county, where he was born in 1839, a son of one of the sterling pioneers of that section of Illinois, where his father, of staunch English lineage, settled in a very early day. Louise (Hoffman) Chope was born in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, and was a child at the time of the family removal to America. "Thomas Chope removed with his family to Macon, Missouri, in 1867 and here he beeame a sueeessful eontraetor and builder and a citizen to whom was accorded the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in Macon and both were consistent members of the Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist ehurehes. "They beeame the parents of ten ehildren, of whom four are living. Frederiek Charles and John J. are twins, and the former is engaged in the mining business at Ardmore, Missouri; Frank maintains his home in Macon, and Minnie is the wife of John Colwell, of Bantry, North Dakota.

John J. Chope was reared to manhood in Macon, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational discipline. At the age of eighteen years he entered the employ of Frank Dessert, of Macon, in whose establishment he learned the trade of harnessmaking, in connection with which he became a specially skilful workman. He continued in the employ of Mr. Dessert about eight years, and, in May, 1894, he purchased the stock and business of William P. Dessert and engaged in the harness and saddlery business on his own account. In this line of enterprise he has since continued and he has built up a large and substantial trade, based upon fair and honorable dealings and effective service as well as upon his personal popularity, which is of the most unequivocal order.

In polities Mr. Chope is found arrayed as a stalwart in the local camp of the Republican party, and as a citizen he is loyal and publiespirited. In 1905 he was elected to represent the first ward in the city council, and he remained incumbent of this position until April, 1910, and in which he gave his aid and influence in the support of good munieipal government and the promotion of publie enterprises tending to conserve the general welfare and the civic and material advancement of his home city. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World and the Women's Circle. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

On the 27th of March, 1889, Mr. Chope was united in marriage to Miss Laura Z. Lyda, who was born and reared in Macon county, a daughter of John S. Lyda, a prosperous farmer of Lyda township. Of the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Chope, one, Frank, died in infancy, and the two surviving are Earl Chester and Gladys Louise.

Sidney G. Brock, A. M., Ph. D.

That man lives not to himself alone is an assurance that is amply verified in all the relations of life, but its pertinence is most patent in those instances where persons have so employed their inherent talents, so improved their opportunities and so marshaled their forces as to gain prestige which transeends mere local limitations and finds its angle of influence ever broadening in beneficence and human helpfulness. There are thousands of men of fine character and ability ever looming np among us, and in even a eursory review of the lives of such there lies much of incentive and inspiration. He whose name initiates this paragraph is one of the venerable and distinguished members of the bar of the state of Missouri and is still engaged in the active praetice of his profession, in the eity of Macon. He is a man of high intel- lectual attainments, a scion of one of the old and distinguished families of our Ameriean republie, a veteran of the Civil war, and a citizen who has not only exemplified the utmost civic loyalty but has also been called upon to serve in various offices of high publie trust. In offering perpetual record concerning the lives of such citizens a publieation of this order exercises its supreme function.

Sidney G. Brock was born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 10th of April, 1837, and is a son of Eleazer A. and Margaretta Maria (Platt) Brock, the former of whom was born at Danville, Vermont, in 1806, and the latter of whom was born at Plattsburg, New York, which place was named in honor of his paternal grandfather, who was the first district judge of Clinton county. Eleazer A. Brock gained his earlier educational training at Burlington, Vermont, and later continued his studies in an aeademy conducted by his father in Plattsburg, New York, where his marriage was solemnized in the year 1832. His father, David Brock, was a successful educator and continued to follow the pedagogie profession in the state of New York for many years. He there continued to reside until his death. David Brock was a son of Major John Brock, who served for seven years in the war of the Revolution, in whieh he attained to the rank of major, and who was sent to France by the government after the close of the war as a member of the escort of General LaFayette. By virtue of the military service of this distinguished ancestor, the subject of this review is eligible for and holds membership in the Sons of the American Revolution.

Eleazer A. and Margaretta M. (Platt) Brock became the parents of seven children, whose names are here entered: Sidney G., David, Nathaniel P., Anna M., Sophia B., Caroline M., and Margaretta. Those now living (1909) are Sidney G., David, Sophia B., Caroline M. and Margaretta. Eleazer A. Brock became one of the pioneer business men and influential citizens of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where he established and operated the first oil-cloth factory and where he also was engaged in the boot and shoe business for a number of years. In polities he was originally a Whig and later a Republican, and he served as a member of the city council of Cleveland, as representative of the first ward, which was at the time the richest ward in any city west of New York City. He held this office for two terms and was otherwise prominent in civie and business affairs in the Ohio metropolis, whieh represented his home for many years. He was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, at the time of his death, which occurred in 1878, and his devoted wife, a woman of most gracious personality, died at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1867. Both were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal ehurch.

Sidney G. Brock, the immediate subject of this sketch, was reared to maturity in his native city, where he received his early educational discipline. In 1855 he was matriculated in Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, in which institution he completed the classical eourse and was graduated as a member of the class of 1859, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. From the same institution he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1860, and in 1888 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy. At the time of his graduation Mr. Brock delivered the Greek salutatory for his class and also received first honors for an essay in English.

After the completion of his collegiate eourse Mr. Brock returned to Cleveland, where he began reading law under the direction of able preceptors, and, in June, 1861, he was there admitted to the bar of his native state. In September of the same year he subordinated all personal interests and considerations to tender his aid in defense of the Union, whose integrity was jeopardized by armed rebellion. He enlisted as a member of Company H, Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he held in turn the offices of first lieutenant, adjutant, captain and major. As major he was a member, in turn, of the staffs of Generals Joshua Howell, Foster and Terry. The history of his gallant command constitutes virtually the record of his military career, which was marked by his participation in twenty-one engagements, including a number of the most important battles marking the progress of the great internecine conflict. He was with his command in the Army of the Potomae during the major portion of his period of service, and he received his honorable discharge in February, 1865, with the rank of major. He has ever retained a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and signifies the same by his membership in the Grand Army of the Republie and Loyal Legion.

After the elose of his faithful and gallant military career Major Brock returned to Cleveland, where he remained until Spring, 1866, when he took up his residence in Macon, Missouri, where he entered into à law partnership with General Fielder A. Jones, with whom he continued to be associated under the most pleasing relations until the death of General Jones. He soon gained marked precedence as an able advocate and counselor, and the firm controlled a large and representative practice up to the time it was dissolved by the death of General Jones. In 1871 Major Brock and General Jones founded the Macon Republican, which they made an effective exponent of local interests and a distinet power in political affairs in this section of the state. He continued as editor and publisher of this paper until 1888, when he sold the plant and business. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him chief of the Bureau of Statisties at Washington, D. C., and he continued ineumbent of this governmental office until 1893, when he returned to Macon and resumed the work of his profession, in which he has since continued and in connection with which he controls a large and representative clientage. He has appeared in causes of much importance in the state and federal courts in Missouri and is known as one of the representative members of the bar of this commonwealth, where he is well known and highly esteemed by his professional confreres.

Major Brock has rendered effective serviee in promoting the cause of the Republican party, to which he has ever accorded a staunch allegiance. From 1885 to 1887, inclusive, he served as mayor of Macon, and his administration has passed on record as one of the most progressive and well ordered in the history of the municipal government of his home city. In 1888 he was the candidate of his party for member of congress, but was unable to overcome the normal Democratie majority in the distriet, being defeated by Hon. William H. Hateh. The major and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and, in addition to being identified with the Grand Army of the Republie, as already noted in this context, he is also affiliated with the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is a member of the National Geographical Society, whose headquarters are maintained in the city of Washington, and also of the Academy of Politieal and Social Science, in Philadelphia. He has retained his membership in the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, of which he became a member while a student in Allegheny college. Major Brock has ever continued his interest in scholastie and literary matters, and in his study and reading has covered a wide realm of literature. He has also contributed to various periodieal publieations and is the author of a number of able and valuable books, ineluding those designated by the following titles: '"'The Commerce of the Great Lakes," "History of the Hawaiian Islands," ** Resources and Commerce of the Pacific Slope States and Territories," "Commerce with South America," and ** Progress of the United States from 1790 to 1890."

On the 1st of December, 1861, Major Brock was united in marriage to Miss Louisa O. Williams, daughter of Professor Lorenzo D. Williams, who was at the time vice-president of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. The children of this union are Alson Williams, Sidney L. and Benijah B. Sidney L. is a merchant of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, also president of Chamber of Commerce. Benijah B. is assistant manager of the Cable Piano Company, of Chicago.

Milton Andrew Romjue

Among the representative members of the legal profession in Macon county is numbered Mr. Romjue, who is established in successful practice in the eity of Macon, the judicial center and metropolis of the county. His success is the more gratifying to note by reason of the fact that it has been gained in his native eounty, where he is well known and enjoys marked popularity and where he is a seion of one of the honored pioneer families of this favored section of the state.

Milton Andrew Romjue was born at Love Lake, Macon county, Missouri, on the 5th of December, 1874, and is a son of Andrew J. and Susan E. (Roan) Romjue, the former of whom was born in Scotland county, this state, on the 4th of August, 1840, and the latter of whom was born in Randolph county, on the 6th of February, 1843. She was a daughter of John Roan, who rode on horseback from North Carolina to Missouri and loeated in Randolph county in 1836, there remaining until 1846, when he took up his residence in Macon county, where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives and where their daughter, Susan E. mother of the subject of this review, was reared and edueated. Andrew J. Romjue was afforded the advantages of the common schools of his native county, where he assisted his father in the development and other work of the home farm and where he continued to reside until 1857, when he came to Macon county, where he became an extensive farmer and stock dealer and where he ever commanded the esteem and confidence of all who knew him. He was a man of excellent business acumen and he gained a position of independence and definite prosperity through his own well ordered endeavors. He died on the 27th of April, 1904, and his widow now maintains her home in Atlanta, Missouri. He was a member of the Masonie fraternity, and in polities was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, though he would never eonsent to become a candidate for publie office of any deseription. Of the nine children in the family, two died in infaney, and of the survivors, the names are here entered in order of birth: William H., James F., Edgar, Eudora F. (wife of U. F. Keteham), Milton A., Price, and Josie B. (wife of Hershel M. Goodding).

John H. Romjue, grandfather of him whose name initiates this article, was born in Kentucky, December 20, 1802, and there he was 'ed to maturity. He received good educational advantages for that time and place, and in his youth learned the trade of cabinet making. He beeame dependent upon his own resources for when a lad his father, whose name was also John H. Romjue, was a wealthy physician, but lost his fortune of $40,000 paying the obligations of friends for whom he was security, and bravely did he, the son, fight the battle of life, in which it was his to win a victory worthy the name. He had practically no financial reinforcement when he eame to Missouri, but he eventually became not only one of the representative farmers and stockgrowers of Scotland county, but also a citizen of prominence and distinctive influence in the community. He served for some time as judge of the county court of that county and he was called upon to serve in other offices of publie trust. In 1858 he purchased land in Macon county and here he continued to be identified with the great basie art of agrieulture during the remainder of his active career. He died in this county in the year 1878. His wife, whose maiden name was Speer, was summoned to the life eternal in 1857. They became the parents of twelve children, and of the number two are living at the time of this writing, in 1909.

Milton Andrew Romjue passed his boyhood and early youth on the old homestead farm, which was the place of his nativity, and after duly availing himself of the privileges of the publie schools of Macon county he continued his studies in the Missouri State Normal School at Kirksville, for three years. He later was matriculated in the law department of the University of Missouri, at Columbia, where he completed the preseribed technieal course and was graduated, with the highest honors of his class, in June, 1904, duly receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same month, upon examination before the supreme court, in Jefferson City, he was admitted to the bar of the state, and to the federal bar at St. Louis. Prior to thus fortifying himself for the practice of law«he had been a successful teacher in the publie schools, having devoted his attention to the pedagogie profession at intervals for about three years. After his admission to the bar he engaged in the practice of his profession in Macon, where he was not denied recognition of his splendid equipment for successful work as an advocate and counselor, and he continued to devote his attention to general praetice, with marked success, until 1906, when he was elected judge of the probate court of Macon county, of which position he has since continued incumbent and whose important and diversified affairs he has ministered with signal discrimination and ability. In polities Judge Romjue is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party. and as a specially effective publie speaker he has rendered yeoman service in the cause of his party. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Modern Wood- men of America, besides which he is identified with the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity and the Phi Lambda Epsilon, Missouri University, While in the law school Judge Romjue was valedietorian of his class, besides which he delivered the class oration at the graduating exercises. He was president of his class in the junior year. While a student in the normal school at Kirksville, in 1899, he won the declamatory medal, and the following spring he won in the oratorieal contest between the debating societies of the school. In 1900 he represented Kirksville in the oratorical contest participated in by representatives of the three normal schools of the state, at Cape Girardeau, and succeeded in carrying off the honors for the sehool he represented. He and his brother, Price, were students in Kirksville at the time of the eyelone which swept that place on the 27th of April, 1899, and thirty-one persons were killed. He and his brother were driven for a distance of sixty yards and were eovered with debris. It was thought they also had lost their lives, but both were fully recovered from their injuries within a few weeks. After the disaster, Judge Romjue facetiously states, several letters of his brother's sweethearts were found at a point twenty-five miles northeast of Kirksville and were returned to him, mueh to his discomfiture, as his attention had previously not been accorded in **assembly" form.

On the 11th of July, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Romjue to Miss Maud N. Thompson, who was born in Macon county and who is a daughter of Dr. L. M. and Alice (Nickell) Thompson, well known residents of this county. Her father is a well known physician in Maeon eounty. Judge and Mrs. Romjue have one child, Lawson Rodney, who was born May 6, 1907. Milton A. Romjue and wife are members of the Baptist ehurch. .

A distinguished and honored eitizen of Macon county was he to whom this brief memoir is dedicated. He served as brigadier-general in the state militia, represented Macon county in the lower house of the state legislature and later beeame a member of the senate of this eommonwealth, and in the city of Macon, where he maintained his home, he was known and esteemed as a reliable and progressive business man and as a citizen ever animated by the utmost integrity. His generous attributes of charaeter and his genial personality gained to him a wide circle of loyal and appreciative friends, and in all the relations of his signally noble and useful life he was a man worthy of unqualified esteem.

General Van Cleve was born in Clark county, Virginia, on the 4th of November, 1840, and was a son of John and Martha M. Van Cleve, both members of old and representative families of the patrieian Old Dominion. He received his early educational training in his native state and when he was fifteen years of age, in 1855, his parents removed to Randolph eounty, Missouri, where his father purchased a large tract of land and became a successful farmer and influential eitizen. Both of his parents eontinued to reside in Missouri until their death. General Van Cleve assisted in the work and management of the home farm after the removal to Missouri, and here he also became a successful teacher in the common schools, having followed the pedagogie profession for some time, in Randolph and Chariton counties. Later he returned to Virginia and completed a course of study in Winchester Seminary, a well ordered institution of higher academic lines. While in Virginia he was married, on March 11, 1862, to Miss Frances N. Van Cleve, only daughter of Elijah and Eliza Van Cleve, of Berkeley county, same state. He continued to reside in his native state until 1871, when he returned to Missouri and took up his residence in Macon, where he engaged in the general merchandise business in company with his brother, James G. Van Cleve. Later he was interested in the tie and grain business. He was an energetic, progressive business man and as a citizen he did much to further the development and civic and industrial advancement of his home city and county. He was the soul of generosity and, in addition to making liberal contributions to religious, charitable and educational institutions and objects, his private benefactions were many, though ever unostentatious. He was a man of distinctive eulture and represented the courtly type designated as gentlemen of the old school.

Tn polities General Van Cleve gave a staunch allegiance to the Democratie party as exemplified by Jefferson and Jackson, and he was well equipped for leadership in thought and action. In 1878 he was elected to represent Macon county in the state legislature, and in 1884 he was chosen a member of the state senate, as representative of the district then comprising Macon, Randolph, Adair and Schuyler counties. He also took a deep interest in military affairs and was an able tactician. He organized the First and Second Regiments of the Missouri State Militia, and during the administration of Governor Crittenden he held, by appointment, the distinguished office of brigadier-general of the militia of the state, being incumbent of this position as well as that of state senator at the time of his death, which occurred on the 15th of May, 1886. He and his wife were both zealous members of the Baptist church, and he was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he attained the chivalric degrees, having been a valued member of the commandery of Knights Templars in Macon. He was also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

General Van Cleve's wife was summoned to the life eternal on the 17th of February, 1880. They became the parents of three children, Lucy, who is the wife of H. Waitman Doneghy, of Macon; Frances, who died in 1896, and William M., Jr., of whom specifie mention is made on other pages of this work.

Henry M. Powell

For about sixty-nine years this venerable man and most highly esteemed citizen of the city of Macon has been a resident of Macon county, and in that period his contributions to its welfare and progress have been so considerable that he is one of the best known men in the county, and stands as high in the regard and good will of its people as any man within its borders. He is not a native of the county or the state, having been born in Caswell county, North Carolina, on December 9, 1833, but he was brought to this locality by his parents in 1841, when he was but eight years old, and he has lived here ever since. In all his long years of active and productive life he has been a potent force in the social, industrial and political affairs of the township and county of his residence, and has left his mark in enduring phrase and ereditable inscription on its civil and educational institutions and all elements of its progress.

Mr. Powell is a son of Henry A. and Nancy (Poteet) Powell, natives of the same county as himself and descendants of families resident in the Old North State for many generations. Their forefathers were prominent in the history and development of that state, dignifying and adorning almost every walk in life among its people in peace and war, and it was vouchsafed to them to bear the same relation to the progress and development of Missouri that their ancestors did to that of North Carolina. The father was born on June 23, 1803, and remained in his native state until 1841. He then moved his family to Missouri and located in Macon county, where he bought 300 acres of land and began raising tobacco. As his prosperity increased he kept on entering government land until he owned 1,000 acres. He was very enterprising and successful, and, as he managed his undertakings with intelligence and good business eapacity, he profited by them all, and became a man of considerable wealth as well as one of prominence and influence in the state.

In polities the father was a Democrat of the old school, and he held to the prineiples and governmental theories of his party with the utmost tenacity. In religion he was a Presbyterian and as loyal to his church as he was to his politieal party. By his marriage to Miss Naney Poteet, which occurred in 1827, he became the father of seven children. Only two of them are now living, Henry M. and his older sister Nancy, who is the wife of Captain Turk of Macon. Their mother died in 1839, and the father afterward married Miss Mary Shepard, who was also a North Carolinian by birth. They had three children, all of whom are living: Shepard, who resides in Macon county: Baswell, whose home is in Dallas, Texas, and Martha Sarah, the wife of Benjamin Stone, who lives in the eity of Macon. His second wife died in 1865, aged sixty-two years.

Henry M. Powell was educated in the distriet subseription schools of Bevier township, and as they were primitive in character, limited in scope, crude in appliances and of short duration every year, his instruction necessarily covered only the rudiments of learning. But it at least gave him an idea of the value of extensive information and taught him how to aequire it. He has used all his advantages since leaving school to good purpose, and by judicious reading and reflection has become one of the best informed men in Macon county. After leaving school he worked on his father's tobacco farm and generally assisted the family until 1855. He then rented a farm and began raising tobacco on his own account, continuing his operations on this basis until 1857. Then, with some money he had made and a legacy from his grandparents, he bought 300 aeres of land as a permanent investment and the foundation of the fortune he had determined to win. He lived on this land for forty-nine years, adding to his domain by additional purehases from time to time until he owned 800 acres. Here he spent his strength in vigorous and intelligent farming on a large scale and in raising live stock very extensively. He took great pride in this branch of his industry and was the first man to introduce Shorthorn Cattle into this part of the country, and later, the first to introduce the Polled Angus breed. In the latter years of his aetivity in the stock industry he made a specialty of mules. In 1906 he retired from active business and, dividing his land among his children, moved to Macon, where he now resides.

Mr. Powell is a stoekholder in the Citizens Bank of Macon and takes an earnest interest in its affairs. To the progress and development of the community in which he had his home he has always been ardently devoted, and he has spared no effort possible on his part to aid in pro- moting its advancement. In political matters he has always voted and acted with the Democratie party, and he is firm and unyielding in his loyalty to it and its principles. During the township organization he rendered excellent service to the publie as collector, but this is the only politieal office he ever held, as he always preferred private life. During a portion of the Civil war he was a member of the State Guards in the service of the Confederacy, and served under General Price in Gen. John B. Clark's division, for a period of eighteen months. He took part in the battles of Lexington, Pea Ridge, Dry Wood, Springfield or Winson's Creek and others of importance, and numerous minor engagements.

On November 15, 1855, Mr. Powell was married to Miss Artelia Mathis, a native of Macon county and a daughter of Drewry and Delaly (Jackson) Mathis, the former born in North and the latter in South Carolina, but for many years residents of this county, where they were among the early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Powell had nine children, of whom five are living: Susie, the wife of William Hyde, who resides in Macon county; Robert Lee, who is also a resident of this county; Stonewall Jackson, who lives in Arkansas; Orie, the wife of William Nesbeth of Bevier, and Ethel, the wife of Leonard Skinner, whose home is in St. Joseph, Missouri.

One of the representative younger members of the bar of Macon county is William M. Van Cleve, who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in his native city of Macon and whose labors in his profession have been attended with results that give ample justifieation to his choice of vocation. He is a son of the late General William M. Van Cleve, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work, so that a repetition of the data is not demanded in the present article.

Mr. Van Cleve was born in Macon, on the 10th of February, 1880, and after duly availing himself of the privileges of the publie schools he continued his studies in St. James Military Academy of this city, where he prepared for college. In 1898 he was matriculated in the literary department of Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee. Tn May, 1901, Mr. Van Cleve began the study of law under the able preceptorship of the firm of Guthrie & Franklin, of Macon, in whose office he continued his technical reading of the science of jurisprudence until the following September, when he entered the law department of Washington University, in the eity of St. Louis, where he completed the preseribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1903, with the well earned degree of Bachelor of Laws. He had secured admission to the bar of the state the year prior to his graduation and after leaving the law school he opened an office in Macon, where he has since given himself with all of ambition, zeal and devotion to the work of his profession in which his success has been of unequivocal order and in which he has a practice that is constantly expanding in scope and importance.

In polities Mr. Van Cleve is a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and he has been an active worker in its local ranks. In 1904 he was made the nominee of his party for the office of city attorney, and in the ensuing election he led the entire ticket, being elected by a gratifying majority and retaining the office for two years and enjoys the distinction of being the only Democrat up to the present time that has. His administration of the same was eminently satisfactory and inured not a little to the inereasing of his professional prestige. He is affiliated with the local lodge and chapter of the Masonie fraternity and also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On the 27th of June, 1907, Mr. Van Cleve was united in marriage to Miss Florence Wardell, of this eity. In the spring of 1910 Mr. Van Cleve was elected police judge for the city of Macon, which position he is now filling (1910).

Identified with lines of enterprise which are of significance and important value in every community, Mr. Hicks is one of the representative citizens of Macon, where he is engaged in the abstract, loan, and realestate business and where he is held in high regard as a reliable and progressive business man and liberal and public-spirited citizen.

Mr. Hicks finds due satisfaction in claiming the fine old state of Missouri as the place of his nativity. He was born on the old homestead farm of his father, near Thomas-hill, Randolph county, on the 26th of February, 1861, and is a son of George W. and Virginia L. (London) Hicks, the former of whom was born in Virginia in 1827, a scion of one of the old and honored families of the patrician Old Dominion, and the latter of whom was born in the state of Missouri.

The genealogy in both lines is traced back to English origin. George W. Hicks is a son of John Hicks, who was a child of four years at the time of his parents' removal from Virginia to Missouri. The family loeated in Howard county, where the father of John Hicks was engaged in farming about ten years, at the expiration of which he removed to Randolph eounty, where he became the owner of a large landed estate, which he developed into one of the fine farms of this seetion of the state and where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1879. "There also his devoted wife passed the closing years of her life. They beeame the parents of five sons and three daughters, and of the number one son and two daughters are now living.

George W. Hicks, father of the subject of this review, was reared to manhood in Randolph county, and there his entire active career was one of intimate and successful identifieation with the great basie art of agriculture. He became the owner of a valuable landéd estate of 300 aeres and was long prominent and influential as a eitizen of Randolph eounty, where he is well known and where he is held in unqualified confidence and esteem He still owns his farm in that county, though he is now living retired in the city of Macon. He is an Independent in his politieal proclivities. Our subjeet is the only child.

Oswald Hicks, whose name initiates this sketch, passed his boyhood and youth on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and he was afforded the advantages of the local sehools and the publie schools of Macon, after which he completed a course in Yale Business College, at New Haven, Connecticut, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886. He then returned to Missouri, and for some time he diversified his labors in teaching sehool and assisting in the work and management of the home farm. For a time he was engaged in the retail grocery business in Chillicothe, this state.

In June, 1887, Mr. Hicks established his present business enterprise in Macon, and in each of the departments of the same he controls a representative business. He has a complete and authoritative set of abstraets of titles to all real-estate holdings in Macon county, and in the handling of realty his books show at all times most desirable investments in both eity and farm properties. He has also properties for exchange and rent, and makes a specialty of financial loans upon approved real-estate security. His agency is one of the most important of its kind in this section of the state and through his honorable methods and progressive poliey he has built up this flourishing and substantial enterprise. He is recognized as one of the loyal and publie-spirited citizens of Macon and is ever found enlisted as an earnest supporter of all measures and enterprises that tend to advance the material and eivie welfare of his home eity and eounty. His politieal support is given to the Populist party, but he has never been animated by aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of publie office. He is affiliated with the local organizations of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.

In the year 1899 Mr. Hicks was united in marriage to Miss Mabel V. Williams, who was born in the state of California, and they have one daughter, Jennie Mabel.

One of the oldest business men and most honored and popular citizens of Macon is Mr. Walker, who is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Macon eounty, which has represented his home from the time of his birth and with whose annals the family name has been identified for fully three-fourths of a century. He is engaged in the real-estate business in the city of Macon, and is also the owner of valuable farm property in his native county.