Pettis County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1919 (part 10 of 14)

Colonel Jaynes' royal hospitality was extended to many of the na¬ tion's distinguished representatives, as well as fellow citizens in humbler walks. President Rutherford B. Hayes, wife and son, Burchard Hayes, Gen. W. T. Sherman and other distinguished guests, while on a <our through the west, came to Sedalia, September 24, 1879, and breakfasted with Colonel Jaynes and wife. President Grant, at one time, during his presidential term, made a tour of the Indian Territory with Colonel Jaynes and such strong attachments existed between them that when the Colonel was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, in June, 1880, with the "immortal 306," he voted thirty-six times for the nomination of the gallant general for president. Colonel Jaynes died in October, 1886 and his wife departed this life November 28, 1900.

Joseph Salisbury, a well-known and successful carpenter and con¬ tractor of Sedalia, has been identified with Pettis County for thirty-five years. Mr. Salisbury is a native of England and was born in South Hampton, September 16, 1856. He is a son of Joseph and Henrietta (Keeping) Salisbury, and is one of five children born to them.

Joseph Salisbury was born in Frampton, Dorset, England, in 1831, and died in 1917. In early life he was a cabinet maker and when a young man, enlisted in the British navy. He served in the Crimean War and for ten years, was warrant officer in the British navy. In 1864, Joseph Salisbury came to America with his family and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Shortly after coming to this country, he organized a volunteer company for service in the Union Army during the Civil War, but the war closed soon afterwards and his company was never called into active service. Shortly after the close of the Civil War, he went west to Salt Lake City, making the trip West from the Missouri River with ox-teams. He was a talented writer and soon after settling in Salt Lake City, he became a member of the original staff of the "Salt Lake Tribune." He afterwards published the "New Endowment," a paper devoted to min¬ ing. That was a time and place when it was necessary for a newspaper man, who wrote his convictions, to have as a part of his literary equip¬ ment, a pair of six shooters. Mr. Salisbury took an active and aggressive part in politics in the new countiy where he had settled and was the first candidate of the National party for Congress. After his arrival from the East, he was the first person to be ex-communicated for ad¬ vocating the cause of the nation against Mormon theocracy. He was one of the pioneers in the fight to Americanize Mormonism. He was a man of strong character and great ability, in fact, one of the mental giants of his time. After the death of his first wife, Joseph Salisbury was married to Jane Dummar, a native of England and thirteen children were born to this union. In 1885, he removed to Aspen, Colorado, where he spent the remainder of his life.

Joseph Salisbury, the subject of this sketch, came to America with his father and step-mother, his mother having died when he was about six years old. He went west with his father and remained with him until he was about thirteen years of age, and after that, made his own way in the world. His first employment was carrier on a paper route in Salt Lake City. When a youth he engaged as clerk in a general store and was thus employed for six years. He then began work at the car¬ penter's trade, building smelters and stamp mills. He saw much of the frontier life of the mining districts of the mountains, during the old stage-coach days. In 1884, he came to Missouri and settled in Sedalia and engaged in contract work and since that time has successfully fol¬ lowed this field of endeavor until the present time. He has specialized in building residences and has erected some of the fine homes of Pettis County. Perhaps the largest contract of this character which he has completed, is the William Reed residence in Houstonia township.

Mr. Salisbury was married December 25, 1886, to Miss Mary Ann Starks, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born September 13, 1869. Mrs. Salis¬ bury's real name was Bannahan, but she took the name of Starks, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas H. Starks being her foster parents. Her parents, Pat¬ rick and Sarah (Mack) Bannahan, natives of Ireland, died in Cincinnati when she was three weeks old. To Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury have been born four children as follow: Alice B., born May 16, 1888, and died October 24, 1888; Joseph H. Salisbury, the eldest son born to Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, was born in Sedalia October 19, 1889. He was educated in the Sedalia schools, including a course in the Sedalia High School. He learned the carpenter's trade and was associated with his father until the United States declared war against Germany. He then, with Harry B. Scott and Harry 0. Berry, organized a company at Sedalia, Harry B. Scott becoming captain; Harry 0. Berry, first lieutenant, and Joseph H. Salisbury second lieutenant. This company was mustered into the service, August 5, 1917, as Company D, Sixth Missouri Infantry, and six weeks later, was ordered to Nevada, Missouri, at the mobilization of the Mis¬ souri State troops. Later they were sent to Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, where Joseph H. became first lieutenant, and in the spring of 1918 the company was sent to Camp Mills, New Jersey, arriving in France May 5th as a part of the Thirty-fifth Division. Shortly after arriving at Camp Mills, New Jersey, Lieutenant Salisbury was transferred from Company D to Company M, One Hundred Fortieth Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division. Lieutenant Salisbury's company participated in the world famed fight against the Germans at Argonne Forrest, in which the Thirty-fifth Di¬ vision, American Expeditionary Forces, immortalized itself. Lieutenant Salisbury commanded Company M until he was made Third Batallion Sup¬ ply Officer and was later promoted to captain and is now serving in Europe with that rank. Arthur E. Salisbury, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, was born March 26, 1892. He was educated in the Sedalia schools and learned the cabinet maker's trade. In May, 1918, he enlisted in the cabinet and carpentry department of the army and when peace was declared, he was foreman at the Dupont Engineering Plant at Nashville, Tennessee. He was discharged from the service in November, 1918, and is now employed by the Dickmann Bank Fixture Company of Sedalia. He married Miss Fay Siler and they have one son, Arthur G. Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury's youngest child, Bessie, was born March 5, 1895, and died November 19, 1897.

Joseph Salisbury is a Democrat and his family are members of the Broadway Presbyterian Church. His lodge affiliations are with the Mod¬ ern Woodmen of America. Mr. Salisbury has had an interesting and successful career and has reared his boys well, and given them good edu¬ cations, and he may well be proud of their courageous conduct in the great World War at times and in places that tested the metal of which humans were made and tried men's souls.

Nelson Painter, a Union veteran of the Civil War and a Pettis County pioneer, is one of the well-known and prosperous farmers and stockmen of Dresden township. Mr. Painter is a native of Ohio. He was born in Richland County, August 23, 1838, a son of Hamilton and Matilda (Grub) Painter. Hamilton Painter was born in Virginia and was a son of John Painter.

John Painter was twice married and both his first and second wives strangely bore the maiden name of Rachel Red, although they were not related. To both of his marriages were born eighteen children. John Painter came to Ohio about 1818 with his first wife and children, one of whom was Hamilton Painter, who was about five years old at that time. Hamilton Painter was a farmer and spent his life in Ohio. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years.

Matilda (Grub) Painter, mother of Nelson Painter, was a native of Ohio. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and her father was killed in the War of 1812. She died in Ohio at about sixty years of age.

Nelson Painter was reared in Ohio amidst pioneer surroundings, the family home in the early days being a little log cabin. In 1860 he came to St. Louis, Missouri, the same year he set out for Kansas, but finally decided to go to Holt County, Missouri, where an uncle of his lived. After remaining there a short time he bought a small tract of land and planted a crop of corn. He had no team and his stock of farming implements con¬ sisted principally of a hoe. He was living here when the Civil War broke out, and on February 24, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Fourth Missouri Cavalry. He served in the army of the west under General Schofield and General Brown and participated in many battles and skirmishes throughout Missouri and Arkansas. At the close of the war he received an honorable discharge and was mustered out of service and in 1865 returned to Ohio, and on July 27th of that year he was mar¬ ried to Hannah P. Ewers, a native of Ohio, born October 19, 1841. This union was the culmination of a nine years' courtship. Mr. and Mrs. Painter celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary July 27, 1915. Their married life has been an ideal one. Mrs. Painter was a daughter

Mrs. Hannah Painter

In the fall of 1866, Mr. Painter and his wife came to Pettis County, Missouri. He bought a farm in Dresden township, which is his present home and where he has lived ever since. When he settled on this place it was unimproved. He broke the prairie with horses and ox teams, and has improved his place until it is one of the well improved farms of Pettis County. Some of the trees on the place which Mr. Painter set out him¬ self, are now two feet in diameter. He has a splendid farm of 173 acres and carries on general farming and stock raising, and has met with suc¬ cess.

To Nelson Painter and wife have been born six children as follow: Rebecca, married John Ritchey and is now deceased; Sherman, Quenemo, Kansas; Lucy, married James Crawford, and they reside in Blackwater townhsip; Mary 0., deceased; George W., Dresden township; and Elmer, Dresden .township. Mr. Painter has fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His grandson, Leslie Painter, son of Sherman Painter of Quenemo, Kansas, is now serving in the United States Army in France, and it might be said here that there has not been a war since the founding of this Republic but what some of Mr. Painter's ancestors or descendants have served in it.

Mr. Painter is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Church. He has been a close student of men and affairs all his life, and is an un¬ usually well-read man with a remarkably retentive memory. As a pio¬ neer soldier and citizen his career has been altogether creditable to him¬ self and his family.

William H. Powell. - Thirty-five years of endeavor and close appli¬ cation to the duties at hand in the banking field of Sedalia and Pettis County have resulted in placing William H. Powell, president of the Citi¬ zen's National Bank of Sedalia in the front rank of Missouri bankers. From messenger boy during his youth to the position of president of one of the most important financial institutions of western Missouri while still comparatively a young man is the record of Mr. Powell. Being a native born citizen of Pettis County, he has always evinced a keen and absorbing interest in the progress and development of his native county as will be attested by the various positions of honor and trust which he has held and is now filling to the satisfaction and well being of his associates and fellow citizens.

William H. Powell was born on a farm eight miles east of Sedalia on April 14, 1867. He is the only child of William H. and Sarah Jane (Rudy) Powell. William H. Powell, the elder, was born near Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1813, and died in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1900. He was reared to the life of a farmer and when a young man he migrated to Missouri and made a location in Heath's Creek township. After making a start in his farming operations in Heath's Creek township, he removed to a farm east of Smithton, where he developed and owned a fine farm of 300 acres. He resided upon this farm until he located on a larger tract near Green Ridge. Here he was extensively engaged in farming and stock raising and became one of the best-known and well-to-do stockmen in this section of Missouri. He was one of the organizers of the Citizen's Na¬ tional Bank of Sedalia and was always found in the forefront of move¬ ments intended for the further development of Pettis County. He served as president of the Citizen's National Bank for a period of ten years. Mrs. Sarah Jane (Rudy) Powell was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1817 and departed this life in 1884.

William H. Powell, subject of this review, was reared on his father's farm and received his primary education in the neighborhood district school. He then attended the Sedalia High School and pursued a busi¬ ness course in the Robbins Business College. At the age of seventeen years he entered the Citizen's National Bank as messenger and office boy. During the course of his successful career he has capably filled every post in the bank excepting that of janitor. Rising successfully to the position as bookkeeper, assistant cashier, then cashier and later president of the bank, he has grown in importance and influence with the bank.

In addition to his responsibilities as president of the Citizen's Na¬ tional Bank, Mr. Powell is vice-president of the McAllister Edwards Coal Company and is owner of a large tract of 640 acres of land. He is a stockholder and vice-president of the Sedalia Democrat Company. He is treasurer of the Missouri State Fair Board of Commissioners and is a member of the commission having charge of the Twelve Mile Special Rock Road Districts in Pettis County.

On January 14, 1889, William H. Powell and Miss Louisa Humphreys were united in marriage. Mrs. Louisa Powell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a daughter of David Humphreys, a native of Virginia, who was engaged in the commission business in St. Louis. Three children have been born to this marriage: William H., Jr., David H., and Janette. Lieut. William H. Powell, Jr., was born January 4, 1890. He was educated in the Sedalia public and high schools and graduated from Princeton Uni¬ versity. He filled the position of assistant cashier of the Citizen's Na¬ tional Bank until his enlistment in the National Army for service in the great World War in May, 1917. He became a member of the Three Hundred Forty-second Field Artillery, Eighty-ninth Division, and entered the offi¬ cers training camp at Camp Funston. He was commissioned second lieu¬ tenant and then promoted to a first lieutenant. Lieutenant Powell sailed for France with the Eighty-ninth Division in June, 1918, and has had command of a company on the western front during some of the hardest fighting in which the Eighty-ninth Division covered itself with imperish¬ able glory and drove back the Germans. With his command, he is now located on German soil with the American Army of Occupation.

David H. Powell, the second son, was born March 23, 1897. He gradu¬ ated from the Sedalia High School and attended college at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He enlisted in the National Army in May, 1918, and entered the officer's training camp at Funston where he was commis¬ sioned a second lieutenant. He was discharged from the service at the close of the war and is now a student in the State University at Co¬ lumbia.

Mr. Powell is an independent Democrat who thinks along an indi¬ vidual line in political affairs. He served as a member of the Sedalia School Board for a period of fifteen years and has always been interested in the cause of education. At present he is a member of Governor Gardner's staff. Mr. Powell is a member of the Christian Church. He is affiliated fraternally with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has taken practically all degrees of Masonry and stands high in Masonic circles.

Chris. Brunckhorst, a Pettis County pioneer, who has spent over fifty years of his life in Missouri, is now living retired at his home, 420 North Quincy avenue, Sedalia, after a long and successful career. He has acquired a sufficiency of this world's goods and is now the owner of 160 acres of land in Dresden township and also 160 acres in Arkansas. Mr. Brunckhorst was born in Hanover, Germany, July 18, 1846, a son of John and Anna (Brandt) Brunckhorst, to whom the folowing three chil- dren were born: Chris, the subject of this sketch; Jacob, who lives on the old homestead in Germany ; and Allie, married J. Steffens, who is now deceased, and she resides in Sedalia. The mother died in 1856 and John Brunckhorst married for his second wife, Miss Anna Hiens, and five chil¬ dren were born to this union as follow: Henry, Sedalia; John, Mrs. Anna Shroder, Paul, and Heinrich, all live in Germany. The parents both spent their lives in their native land.

Chris. Brunckhorst was reared and educated in his native land, receiv¬ ing a good education. In 1866, he came to America and first settled in Morgan County, Missouri. He taught school at old Sover and Buffalo Prairie, Missouri, for a time, when he engaged in saw-mill work and sawed timber for the construction of the Tipton and Versailles railroad. He operated a saw-mill at Hawk Creek, Morgan County, for a time. In 1874, he came to Sedalia and here he built a residence and for a time clerked in a grocery store. He then bought a saw-mill west of Sedalia which he operated for a time when he bought a farm five miles north of Sedalia, which was quite heavily timbered. Here he erected a saw¬ mill which he operated for a time and after clearing up his farm, he removed to Sweet Springs, Missouri. Here he operated a saw-mill, a grist mill and bought and shipped grain and at the same time owned a saw¬ mill at Smithton. He disposed of his Sweet Springs properties in 1881, and engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Sedalia. He closed this business out in 1884 and bought a farm near Green Ridge where he was engaged in farming until 1888. He then traded that for another and dur¬ ing the course of his career, has owned several different farms in Pettis County. For the past six years, he has been living retired in Sedalia.

August 15, 1872, Mr. Brunckhorst was united in marriage with Miss Frederika Steinbrink, a native of Morgan County, Missouri, born March 19, 1855. Her parents, Frederick and Minnie (Fige) Steinbrink, were natives of Germany and came to this country prior to the Civil War. Mr. Steinbrink served in the Civil War and was wounded. After the war he en¬ gaged in farming and also operated a saw-mill and a grist mill in Morgan County, and was a pioneer miller in that section of the State. To Mr. and Mrs. Brunckhorst have been born the following children: Kathrine, wife of J. Bierman of Sparks, Oklahoma; John, who operates a large ranch which consists of 3,200 acres, located near Columbus, Montana; William, a saw-mill and threshing machine man at Columbus, Montana ; Fred, lives at Winfred, Montana, where he is manager of a large co-opera- tive association; George, a farmer and thresher in Dresden township, Pettis County ; Edward, a farmer and stock man at Columbus, Montana ; Chris., a farmer and stock man, Columbus, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Brunckhorst have sixteen grandchildren, the oldest of whom is twenty-three years of age, and they have one great-grandchild.

Mr. Brunckhorst is a Republican and was reared in the Lutheran faith, although he is inclined to be liberal in both politics and religion. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a man of extensive and varied experiences. When he came to this country first, the vessel in which he made the voyage met with much rough weather and was nine weeks and three days in making the trip. In 1907, he made a trip to Germany and was gone o%er three months. He has traveled considerably in various parts of the United States and saw much of the earlv-day frontier life of the West. Operating saw-mills, has been his chief occupation and it is safe to say that he is the veteran saw-mill man of Pettis County. He began life practically with nothing and after being in this country a short time, his father gave him $200, and today, he is a well-to-do man. Besides his farm properties in Arkansas and Pettis County, he owns five residence properties in Sedalia. He has met with adversities and financial losses, but in spite of that, he has made good and reared his family in a way that they are a credit to themselves, their parents and the community.

Arthur Lee Crandall, a prominent loan and investment man, of Se¬ dalia, is a native son of Pettis County, and belongs to one of the wellknown pioneer families of this section of Missouri. He is a son of Ores¬ tes A. and Kate A. (Kidd) Crandall, the former a native of Syracuse, N. Y., and the latter of Calhoun, Missouri.

Orestes A. Crandall was born February 25, 1833, a son of Beman and Pollie (Tuttle) Crandall, natives of Connecticut. In 1835, 0. A. Cran¬ dall. when about two years of age, was brought by his parents to Illinois. They settled at what is now Crystal Lake, McHenry County, Illinois. This was in an early day in the settlement of that section of the West. The nearest settlement to where the Crandalls located was forty miles distant. Here 0. A. Crandall was reared and obtained such education as the coun¬ try afforded at that time, and he later attended normal school in Chi¬ cago. However, he obtained the greater part of his education by selfstudy. In 1853 he went to California, making the trip overland. Dur¬ ing the course of this journey across the continent, he walked about five hundred miles, carrying his few belongings on his back. He remained on the Pacific Coast about eight years, during which time he was engaged in mining. In 1861, he returned from California and settled in Saline County, Missouri. About this time the Civil War broke out. He was a decided Union man, and returned to his old home in Illinois, where he assisted in raising two regiments of troops for the Union Army. This being accomplished, he returned to Missouri, where he took part in the battle of Marshall, and also the battle which was fought at Sedalia and was taken prisoner by the Confederates at the latter engagement. How¬ ever, he was released shortly afterward, when the Union forces took pos¬ session of Sedalia.

0. A. Crandall was always an industrious student, and during his early career, in addition to his other extensive reading, studied law, and after taking the examination at Sedalia, where he had settled in 1863, he was admitted to the bar of Pettis County. Later he was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. He was an able lawyer, and practiced successfully in Pettis County for a number of years. In his legal capacity, he represented Pettis County in defending the railroad bond suits. By his skill and ability in handling these cases, he effected a compromise by which the county was saved over $100,000. During the course of his professional career he was retained in a great many important cases in Pettis County and western Missouri. In 1875, Mr. Crandall organized the Pettis County Bank, becoming the president of that institution at the time of its organization, a position which he held for five years. He then organized the Missouri Trust Company, becom¬ ing its president, and served in that capacity until that institution was removed to St. Louis in 1901. Mr. Crandall and others then organized the Sedalia Trust Company, of which he became president. However, he lived but a few months after the organization of this company. He died at Westchester, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1901, while there on business in the interests of the Sedalia Trust Company.

O. A. Crandall was prominent in the political affairs of Pettis County, and Western Missouri. He was a Democrat, and in 1868 was his party's candidate for State senator from the district composed of Lafayette, Saline and Pettis counties. From 1868 to 1872 he was a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee. He was conspicuous in the early day affairs of Pettis County and Sedalia, and was active and influential in every movement for the development, betterment and upbuilding of Pettis County. O. A. Crandall was united in marriage at Sedalia, Mis- souri, in 1864, with Miss Kate A. Kidd, and to this union were born four children, three of whom are living, as follow: Emma C., married Charles C. Evans, a sketch of whom appears in this volume; Arthur Lee, the subject of this sketch, and Stella May, who resides with her aged mother on West Broadway street in the old Crandall home, where the family has resided since 1871.

Arthur Lee Crandall was reared in Sedalia, and attended the public schools and the old Sedalia University. He then attended the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, where he took the civil engineering course. After following the civil engineering profession for three or four years in Texas, he engaged in the farm loan business at Fort Worth, where he remained until 1901, at the time of his father's death, when he returned to Sedalia, which has since been his home. For a number of years he has been successfully engaged in the farm loan business here.

Arthur Lee Crandall, since early life, has been interested in military affairs and identified with the local military organizations. When a young man he was a member of the Sedalia Rifles, and while a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, he was a member of the Fort Worth Fencibles. This was a crack military organization, and the only one from west of the Mississippi River to attend President Cleveland's second inauguration. Mr. Crandall served as company clerk and also served as aide-de-camp with rank of captain on General Smyth's staff, Texas National Guards. After returning to Sedalia, Mr. Crandall was identified with the Missouri State Militia, and served as quartermaster sergeant of Company K, Sixth Regi¬ ment, Missouri National Guards, and was later promoted to first lieu¬ tenant, serving under Col. Arthur L. Oliver, who is now United States District Attorney of the eastern district of Missouri.

Mr. Crandall is a member of the Sons of Veterans and was secretary of the local lodge. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge, the Benevo¬ lent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Work¬ men. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, as are the other mem¬ bers of the Crandall family, and he has served on the vestry and has been secretary. He is a Democrat and takes a keen interest in matters political. He has served as deputy county surveyor of Pettis County. In the interest of the Liberty Loan Campaign of 1918 and 1919 he devoted much time to the work as Director of Distribution and Supplies for^the Pettis County Organization. He also served as a member of the Red Cross Organization in the capacity of Director of Distribution and Supplies.

Vergil S. Reavis is one of the successful and progressive farmers and stock men of the younger generation of Pettis County, and is a de¬ scendant of a prominent pioneer family. He was bora in Elk Fork town¬ ship, May 23, 1896, a son of Daniel Haywood and Mollie (Pemberton) Reavis, both also natives of Pettis County.

Daniel Haywood Reavis was bora in Elk Fork township and was a son of Daniel Reavis, who was a very early settler in this section. Daniel Reavis was one of the pioneer ministers of the Baptist faith, who preached the gospel in Pettis and adjoining counties at a very early day. He also followed farming.

Daniel Haywood Reavis was prominent in the affairs of Pettis County, and was a successful farmer and stockman. He gave special attention to stock raising and met with considerably more success than the average man. He was a heavy stockholder in the LaMonte Bank, LaMonte, Missouri, and was president of that institution for nine years. He was an exceptionally good business man, and his judgment on mat¬ ters of business and finance was highly regarded by his business asso¬ ciates and those who knew him best. At the time of his death he was the owner of about 780 acres of land. He died June 25, 1916. His wife Mollie (Pemberton) Reavis, was also born in Elk Fork township, Pettis County, and her parents were early settlers here. She is a daughter of Allen Pemberton, and she now resides in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Vergil S. Reavis is one of a family of nine children born to his pa¬ rents and is the sixth in order of birth. He received his education in the district school and the LaMonte High School. He has always been engaged in- farming, with the exception of six months, when he was assist¬ ant cashier of the Farmers Bank, LaMonte. At the death of his father he inherited some land from the estate and has bought more land, and now owns a valuable farm of 343 acres, situated in LaMonte township. Here he carries on general farming and stock raising and gives special attention to breeding Poland China hogs. He is one of the successful breeders of the county.

Mr. Reavis was married June 2, 1917, to Miss Josephine Scott, a native of LaMonte township and a daughter of Albert and Mary (Ral¬ ston) Scott. Mrs. Reavis was reared in the family of John W. Johnson of LaMonte township.

Daniel Haywood Reavis

Victor H. Leffler, member of the firm of the Nafziger Baking Com¬ pany of Sedalia, is one of the progressive young business men of this city whose career has been marked by unusual success. Mr. Leffler was born in Sedalia, May 18, 1888, a son of James K. and Elizabeth (Edwards) Leffler, both now deceased. The father was a native of Virginia and the mother of Missouri. He was a railway trainman and was employed by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company for fifteen years. He died June 9, 1916, and hfs wife departed this life February 3, 1897.

Victor H. Leffler is one of a family of four children, three of whom are now living who were born to his parents as follow: Victor H., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. John L. Cousley, Sedalia, Missouri; Mrs. John Y. Boatright, Sedalia, Missouri, and James Leffler, deceased.

Mr. Leffler was reared in Sedalia and received his education in the public schools here. He began life as a grocery clerk at the age of six¬ teen years. When he was twenty-one years of age, he engaged in the bakery business in 1910, when he entered into partnership with L. F. Streng, under the firm name of Streng & Leffler. They operated the large bakery on South Ohio street where they built up an extensive business until August 3, 1918, when this business was consolidated with the Naf¬ ziger Bakery Company, under the name of the latter. Mr. Leffler was chosen vice-president and treasurer of the company. They proceeded to erect a new modern, up-to-date building to be used exclusively for a wholesale bread bakery on the corner of Main and Prospect streets, Se¬ dalia. This is one of the best equipped, modern bakeries in the State of Missouri. Every device to facilitate this important industry, both from a productive and sanitary standpoint is to be found in this insti¬ tution.

Mr. Leffler was united in marriage May 4, 1910, with Miss Stella Streng, of Sedalia and they have two children, Leonard and Victor. Mr. Leffler is prominent in lodge work. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 125, Sedalia, and is now serving his second term as exalted ruler of that lodge. He is a member of Se¬ dalia Lodge No. 236, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Sedalia Chap¬ ter No. 18, Royal Arch Masons, Order Eastern Star No. 57, Council No. 34 of St. Omer Commandery No. 11, Knights Templar, and of the Mystic Shrine, holding membership in the latter Masonic body, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was made bakery advisor and inspector for the United States Food Administration during the World War, and gave much time to

Mr. Leffler has a splendid voice and is considered one of Sedalia's best singers. In spite of his busy career, he often finds time to sing at various entertainments and in church services.

Henry Lamm, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Mis¬ souri, and a leading attorney of Sedalia, is a native of Ohio. Judge Lamm was born in Wayne County, Ohio, December 3, 1846. His great-grandfather was Peter Lamm, a native of Holland who came from Rotterdam to America in 1740. Peter Lamm settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and established a home there for himself and his descendants. Philip Lamm, grandfather of Judge Henry Lamm, crossed the Alleghany Moun¬ tains in 1803 and settled in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. In 1846, William Lamm, father of the subject of this review, settled in Wayne County, Ohio. His wife was Catherine Zuver, a native of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.

Judge Lamm was educated in Canaan Centre Academy, and later pur¬ sued a course in Western College of Iowa. He graduated from Michigan University. He settled in Sedalia in 1869 and for a time he taught school while pursuing the study of law. He was admitted to the bar of Pettis County in 1871. He was appointed to the office of circuit clerk by Gover¬ nor Woodson and also served in this capacity and as deputy county clerk until 1874. He practiced his profession until 1904 and was then elected to the supreme bench of the State of Missouri. The firm of Sangre and Lamm which had been in existence in Sedalia for thirty years was then dissolved. Judge Lamm took his seat in the Supreme Court in 1912 and served until 1916. He was then a candidate for Governor of Mis¬ souri on the Republican ticket.

Judge Lamm also served as prosecuting attorney of Pettis County for four years and was a member of the Sedalia School Board. He as¬ sisted in the organization of the Sedalia National Bank and the Missouri Trust Company. Upon the expiration of his term as justice of the Su¬ preme Court he resumed the practice of his profession in Sedalia.

Judge Henry Lamm was married at East Saginaw, Michigan, on June 18, 1874, to Miss Grace Adella Rose, a daughter of D. F. and Mary A. (Foster) Rose, a lumber merchant of East Saginaw. Six children were born of this marriage: Nellie R., a teacher in the public schools;

E. H. Milton, a progressive business man who is one of Sedalia's leading merchants, is a native of the province of Smolensk, Russia. He was born January 20, 1865. Mr. Milton was reared and educated in his native land and since he was twelve years old, made his own way in the world. His father was blind and it fell to the lot of young Milton in early life, not only to provide for himself, but to assist in maintaining his parents' home. He proved himself equal to the demands of the occa¬ sion and when a mere boy, engaged in business for himself in Russia. He was in the mercantile business and met with success. However, he saw greater possibilities in America and in 1912, disposed of his busi¬ ness in Russia, and came to this country. Unlike the average new-comer, he came here with some capital. After disposing of his business at home, he had about $5,000 in cash. He came directly to Sedalia and bought the mercantile business which had been conducted by Henry Edwards at Fifteenth and Osage streets. He immediately set about to increase and develop this business and in a short time, was carrying five times the amount of stock and doing as much more business as the place was when he bought it.

January 24, 1914, he bought his present business which is located at the corner of Seventh and Engineer streets. Here he conducts a gen¬ eral store, which includes a complete line of groceries, flour, feed, etc., with a meat market in connection where two butchers are employed. Mr. Milton employs on an average of seventeen clerks and assistants. This is one of the busy stores of Sedalia. By his square dealings and honest methods, Mr. Milton has built up in a comparative short time, one of the important business institutions of this city. The Milton store has a frontage of forty-five feet and is over one hundred feet deep. He carries a large stock of excellent merchandise, always buying in large quantities and giving his hundreds of customers the benefit of the best possible retail prices thereby.

Mr. Milton was married in 1890 to Miss Rona Chasnoff, a sister of M. Chasnoff, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. Milton have been born five children as follow: Samuel, a soldier in the United States Army; Freda, married Nathan Saffern, St. Joseph, Missouri ; Harry, who is assisting his father in the business ; Margaret, at home with her parents; and Bertha, at home with her parents.

George B. Goodrich, a well-known citizen of Sedalia, Missouri, has been identified with Pettis County since boyhood. Mr. Goodrich was born at Lehigh, Iowa, June 6, 1867, and is a son of E. L. and Emaline Eliza (Marrs) Goodrich. E. L. Goodrich, the father, was a pioneer settler of Webster County, Iowa, and a native of Ohio. He was living in Iowa when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted in Company I, Thirty-second Regi¬ ment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the war under Col. A. J. Smith. In 1879, E. L. Goodrich came to Missouri with his family, settling in Pettis County, where he lived several years. He now resides in California, where he is spending the sunset of his life in retirement. He is seventy-nine years old. His wife, who was a native of Indiana, died in Pettis County in 1913. Both the Goodrich and the Marrs families are of English descent, and were early settlers in New England. The Goodrich family has occupied a prominent position in England for cen¬ turies, and Goodrich castle takes its name from prominent members of this family.

George B. Goodrich is one of two children born to his parents. The younger brother, Hawley L., is a resident of Sedalia, and engaged in the United States mail service. George B. Goodrich was about nine years of age when he came to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Pettis County. Here he received his education in the public schools and grew to manhood. He is now successfully engaged in the shade tree business, in which he has been interested for a number of years, having practically spent his life in this work. He is recognized as an expert in this line of work and has built up a large business.

Mr. Goodrich was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Elizabeth Berry, a native of Virginia, who came to Pettis County with her parents when four years of age. They first settled in Dresden, Pettis County. To Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich have been born three children, as follow: Louis Dewey, who served in the World War as a member of the Second Engineers, and in July, 1918, he was decorated for distinguished service; Llewelyn, who is in the employ of the United States Government in Wash¬ ington, D. C., and Fern, who is a student in the Sedalia High School. Both Louis and Llewelyn are graduates of the Sedalia High School, and Louis attended the Missouri State University at Columbia two years.

men of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He and the other members of the family are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Goodrich is one of Pettis County's substantial citizens.

William W. Bolton. - The office of sheriff of a county of the size and importance attained by Pettis County is weighted with responsibility, and requires a man of decided executive ability and acumen to fittingly discharge the duties devolving upon him. Sheriff William W. Bolton, since taking charge of the office of sheriff of the county has given and is giving ample evidence of decided ability and tireless energy, in behalf of the citizens of Pettis County. His work as chairman of the Pettis County Exemption Board has been marked with singular diplomacy and honesty, in the discharge of the duties involved upon him, because of the drafting of Pettis County citizens during the World War in which Amer¬ ican valor has played such a signal and decisive part. The Pettis County Board has the distinction of being one of the foremost boards of the State of Missouri, as regards accuracy and its responsibilities in the number of men handled and examined, places its eighth in rank in the State.

Sheriff William W. Bolton is a native Missourian, born in Cole County, Missouri, January 7, 1869. He is the son of William W. Bolton, one of the best known of the early pioneers of Cole County who served as a sergeant in the Mexican War. William Bolton, Sr., also filled the office of sheriff of Cole County during the Civil War period, and spent the rest of his days in Cole County, dying on his homestead where his remains were laid to rest in Bolton Cemetery, located seven miles south of Jefferson City. His wife was Martha M. Donahue prior to her mar¬ riage. She died at Jacksonville, Texas, where she had gone for her health. Her remains were brought to Missouri and interred in the ceme¬ tery at Sedalia. The children of William W. Bolton and Martha M. (Donahue) Bolton were as follow: William W., of this review; H. L., Sedalia, Missouri; Mrs. Clara McGhee, 2319 Quincy Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. William W. Bolton, Sr., was twice married. By his first mar¬ riage he had two children: Benjamin F., Jefferson City, Missouri; Miss Millie Bolton, Williamsburg, Calloway County, Missouri. Martha M. Donahue was the wife of Captain Corbin prior to her marriage with Mr. Bolton and was mother of two children by this marriage: Mrs. Anna Y. Moore, Columbia, Missouri; and Mrs. Katie Villmore, deceased. Captain Corbin was a steamboat man who had charge of a steamer which plied up and down the Osage River during the pioneer days when the Osage was the only artery of traffic in communication with western Missouri, his route embracing both the Missouri and Osage Rivers.

William W. Bolton was reared to young manhood in the home of M. H. Sibert who resided on a farm west of Sedalia. He attended the dis¬ trict schools and Sedalia University, later completing a business course at Central Business College. For some years he followed farming and in 1908 he located in Sedalia where he was engaged in the livery and trans¬ fer business. He was elected constable of Sedalia township in 1912, and again elected in 1914. In November of 1916 he was elected to the office of sheriff of Pettis County for a term of four years, leading the Demo¬ cratic ticket in the number of votes received in all three times he ran for office. Mr. Bolton's term as sheriff will expire in 1921.

On September 22, 1897, Mr. Bolton was married to Gertrude V. Can¬ ning, a daughter of Daniel and Margaret Canning of Pettis County, Mis¬ souri. Daniel Canning died in 1895. His widow now resides in Sedalia, Missouri, having attained the great age of ninety-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Canning were parents of eight children: Bert Canning, Eureka, Kansas; Mrs. Sis Stillwell, Eureka, Kansas; Mrs. Anna Hunt, Eureka, Kansas; Charles E., Eureka, Kansas; Daniel, deceased; Mrs. Georgia A. Ford, 612 West Fifth Street, Sedalia, Missouri; Mrs. Clara Bergfelder, 914 South Vermont Avenue, Sedalia, Missouri; and Mrs. Gertrude V. Bolton, wife of the subject of this review. To Mr. and Mrs. William W. Bolton have been bom one son, Charles H., now attending the Sedalia schools. Mr. and Mrs. Bolton have a pleasant home at 601 West Fourth Street, Sedalia, Missouri.

Jack Truitt. - The Sedalia Theater, owned and managed by Jack Truitt, was leased by the present management in March, 1915. Mr. Truitt came to Sedalia from Kansas City where he was manager of the Willis Wood Theater. Prior to Mr. Truitt's advent in Sedalia, the local theater had not been very successful in a financial way; and the first thing the new manager did was to open the house for "one little dime," and give an excellent show for the money. The price was catchy with the theater-loving public and the shows being good, the house was soon crowded daily and nightly and the theater sprang into great popularity as "Sedalia's popular joy spot." Other catchy phrases used in advertis¬ ing the attractions of this popular playhouse which show the distinct genius of the manager are "The Sedalia Theater, Worthy of Its Name,"

The success of this theater is, in large measure, due to the rigid at¬ tention to details of management, such as cleanliness, beginning the plays on time, and always telling the truth about the various attractions. Admission prices are always the same, unless some unusual attraction is put on the boards, and then an advance notice of the increase is given to the public. Since taking charge of the Sedalia Theater, Mr. Truitt has expended over $5,000 on interior decoration and equipment. In Septem¬ ber, 1916, purchased the theater outright and it is a paying institution. Sixteen people are employed with a pay roll of $300 per week, irre¬ spective of the added expense when vaudeville attractions are placed before the public.

Jack Truitt was born in Osage City, Kansas in 1882. When sixteen years of age he went to Chicago and began his first theatrical work as usher in a city theater. He soon began to get an insight into vaudeville and musical comedy and for five years was general manager of the thea¬ ters owned and operated by the Crawfords of Topeka, Kansas. The Crawfords operated a vaudeville, a road show house and a stock house. While serving as agent or expressman for the Wells Fargo Company run¬ ning out of Cherryvale, Kansas, into Oklahoma, he became attracted to the idea of nickel and ten cent shows for the entertainment of the public. One night at Cherryvale he purchased a ticket, during a raffle held in a restaurant and was lucky enough to win a nickle in the slot phonograph. Taking the phonograph with him in the express car of the mixed train with which he was working, he invited the Indians and other passengers on the train to enjoy the music obtained by inserting a nickel in the slot of the machine. So popular was the innovation that he became imbued with the idea that the people at large would willingly pay nickles and dimes for entertainment. This idea grew with his advance in the theat¬ rical entertainment world and his present successful venture as owner of the Sedalia Theater is the outcome. Mr. Truitt rightly believes that his theater is a valuable asset to the city, as the city is valuable to the theater. The theater business in Sedalia has been placed upon a higher and better plane since he has become so closely identified with this city and his belief, that the public cares most for clean moral shows has been amply justified by the crowds which daily throng his theater.

John H. Connor, a substantial farmer and stockman of Dresden township, is a native of Pettis County and a descendant of one of the prominent early settlers of this section of the State. He is a son of John and Mary (Shay) Connor. The mother now resides in Dresden township at the age of seventy-six years. The father departed this life September 5, 1918, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He was one of Pettis County's honored pioneer citizens and was held in high esteem by his friends and neighbors who were legion. At the time of his death, the following article appeared in the local newspaper of LaMonte, which gives a brief resume of Mr. Connor's career and an esti¬ mation of the esteem in which he was held by his fellow man: "John Connor, one of the best known farmers of Pettis County, aged eightythree years, died at his home three miles east of LaMonte at 1:50 o'clock Thursday morning, following an illness of four or five months, the last nine weeks of which he was confined to his bed.

"Mr. Connor was born in Cahirciveen Parish, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1836, coming to this country when a lad of fourteen years, with his father, Humphrey Connor, and other children. They landed at New Orleans and journeyed up the Mississippi to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they lived for a short time. He came to Missouri in the early fifties and worked on the construction of the Missouri Pacific railway from Jeffer¬ son City to Sedalia. From the railroad work he entered the employ of William Gentry, and afterwards became his foreman, and had entire charge of the men who operated the farm of several thousand acres which Major Gentry owned. He saved his money and bought forty acres of land and through his energy and sound judgment accumulated enough money to purchase land from time to time, adding to the original forty acres, until at the time of his death he owned 400 acres of the best land in Pettis County.

"The deceased was married to Miss Mary Shay, at Jefferson City, in 1864, to which union thirteen children were born. The widow and nine children survive, as follow: Mrs. T. J. Buckley, S. C. Connor, J. H. Connor and Miss Mayme Connor, of the LaMonte neighborhood; W. D. Connor, Mrs. Margaret Brosnahan and Kathryn Connor, of Kansas City; Sister Mary Alexandrine of St. Louis, and Miss Anna Connor, a teacher in the Sedalia schools. Besides the widow and children, he leaves one brother, Dennis Connor, of LaMonte.

John Connor

"Mr. Connor was an upright, straightforward, honest Christian gentleman, a man of sound judgment and strong convictions. He was blessed with a host of sincere friends and loved and respected by all with whom he was acquainted. His judgment in farm matters went unques¬ tioned, and he was one of the finest judges of live stock in the county. He was a devout member of the Catholic Church and the estab¬ lishing of the LaMonte Mission of his faith was largely due to his untir¬ ing efforts in its behalf." He was a stockholder in the Farmers Bank of LaMonte.

John H. Connor was born February 3, 1877. He was reared on his father's farm in Dresden township and attended the public schools. Later he attended a private school at LaMonte. He remained on the home place until 1895 when he went to Sedalia and clerked in a clothing store about two years. He then returned to the home place in Dresden township and took charge of the place and made extensive improvements and he and his sister, Mamie, now own 230 acres of the old homestead. Mr. Connor operates 390 acres of land and in addition to general farm¬ ing and stock raising he is an extensive feeder and feeds a great many cattle for the market.

On October 30, 1918, John H. Connor was united in marriage with Miss Olive M. Hutchison. She was born in Richmond, Missouri, Novem¬ ber 3, 1890, and is a graduate of Woodson Institute. She is a daughter of Robert A. and Adaline (Banister) Hutchison, both natives of Ken¬ tucky and now residents of Chillicothe, Missouri. Robert A. Hutchison is a railroad contractor.

Mr. Connor is a Democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Pro¬ tective Order of Elks. He is an enterprising and progressive citizen, and a member of one of Pettis County's pioneer families, who occupy an im¬ portant place in its development. Mr. Connor is a stock holder of the Farmers Bank of LaMonte.

Mosley-Shafer Realty Company. - One of the thriving and important real estate firms of Sedalia, Missouri, is the Mosley-Shafer Realty Com¬ pany, with offices at 202 South Ohio Street.

This concern was established in 1908, by Mr. Mosley and has had a substantial growth of business during the past ten years, conducting a general real estate and loan office, and has handled thousands of acres of land in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri, besides many stocks

Geoige S. Mosley was born in 1874, on a farm in Callaway County, and the son of Robert and Susan (Bagby) Mosley, the former of whom died in 1916, at the age of eighty-six years, and the latter is still living aged eighty years. The Mosleys were pioneer settlers of Callaway County and quite prominent in the affairs of that county, being large land owners and always ready to lend a helping hand to any proposition that would be a benefit to the community. At the time of Robert Mosley's death no man had more friends; he was a Mason of high standing and all who knew him, old and young, greeted him as ''Uncle Robert."

George S. Mosley received his education in the public schools of his :ative county, and was there reared to young manhood. He engaged in farming and the raising and feeding of cattle in his native county, and met with substantial success. For years Mr. Mosley has made a busi¬ ness ox improving farms and increasing their marketable value, buying a farm which was in a run down condition as regards soil and buildings, fixing them up, improving their productivity and selling at a profit. This building of farm improvement is a real lasting benefit to the country and Mr. Mosley has accomplished much good in his work.

At the time of leaving Callaway County, Mr. Mosley was credited with buying, improving and selling more farms than any other man in south Callaway.

Having decided to move to the city, in order to give his children a better education, he moved to Sedalia, 1908, and opened a real estate office at 202 South Ohio Street (Pehl building). This company is now known as the Mosley-Shafer Company - George S. Mosley and Frances Shafer.

Frances Warren Shafer, partner in the Mosley-Shafer Realty Com¬ pany, is a daughter of Isaac and Mollie Warren, pioneer settlers of Pettis County, of which a complete history of the Warren family will be found elsewhere in this book. Mrs. Shafer was employed by Mr. Mosley in 1910, and later on became a partner in the business.

John F. Scally, grocery and restaurant proprietor, located at the cor¬ ner of Main and Lamine Streets, was born in Mononghela County, West Virginia, in 1856. He is a son of Peter and Ruth (Ruble) Scally. Peter Scally was born in Ireland and immigrated to America with his parents when eight years of age. The Scullys first located in Pittsburg, Pennsyl¬ vania, and later went to Monongahela County, West Virginia. In 1877

Peter Scally came to Pettis County and purchased the John Gibson farm four miles southeast of Sedalia and resided there until 1880. He then came to Sedalia and engaged in the grocery business on Engineer Street, later moving to Third and Brown Streets and selling out after a time. He again opened a store at Fifth ad Engineer Streets and moved to the present location, 123 East Main Street. In old age he disposed of his interests to his son and died in 1894. The children born to Peter and Ruth Scally are as follow: James, killed in a railroad accident at Inde¬ pendence, Kansas; Jane, wife of James McGinness, Sedalia; Thomas, San Diego, California; Mrs. Annie Dunlap, Parsons, Kansas; John F., subject of this sketch; Mrs. Mary Boyd, deceased; Mrs. Catherine Divine, Fort Scott, Kansas; Michael, accidently drowned at Pittsburg, Pennsyl¬ vania; Mrs. Bridget Ellen Enlightener, deceased; Daniel P., Los Angeles, California.

John F. Scally began his business career with a small stock of goods in 1883. His father closely observed his methods of doing business, and finding that the son was making a success of his venture, he took him into partnership, later disposing of his holdings, prior to his retirement from business. The Scully grocery and restaurant has an excellent trade and is nicely and conveniently located at the corner of Main and Lamine Streets.

John F. Scally was married June 11, 1883, to Sallie Dunlap, a daugh¬ ter of Matthew and Annie (Thompson) Dunlap, of Illinois, where the father died. Mrs. Scally's mother was accidently burned to death. The Dunlap family located in Pettis County in 1870 on the John T. Heard farm, in Sedalia township where Mrs. Scally was reared to maturity. Mr. and Mrs. Scally have a daughter, Annie, wife of C. N. Miller of Sedalia, mother of one child, Eva Ruth Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Scally have an imposing eleven room residence at 231 South Harrison Street. v

Mr. Scally is authority for the following reminiscences regarding prices for eatables over thirty years ago. A striking contrast is shown in comparing the prices for produce in those days with the present ex¬ tremely high war prices. For instance, from 1885 to 1890, eggs retailed at ten cents per dozen and often three dozen could be bought for twentyfive cents. Melons sold for from five to ten cents each. Chickens brought from $1.50 to $2.00 per dozen. One could buy a good sized chicken for from fifteen to twenty-five cents. Rabbits retailed for five cents each and were purchased by the dealer for two and three cents each in wagon¬ load lots. A trapped rabbit brought a nickel.

Mr. Scally recalls the following old-time grocerymen who were doing business in Sedalia in 1885: J. K. Yeater, lbig and Callis, Jacob Neusenberg, Peter Brandt, and Michael Whittlinger. Mr. Scally paid four cents per pound for his first wagonload of turkeys and retailed them for five cents per pound, losing eight dollars on the transaction, learning by ex¬ perience that turkeys shrink alarmingly in weight when placed in con¬ finement.

Thomas J. Robb, consul commander of Sedalia camp, No. 16, Wood¬ men of the World and also district manager of the Woodmen of the World, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1859, the son of Thomas and Margaret (Anderson) Robb, the former of whom was a native of Ireland and the latter of Scotland. The Robb family came to Pettis County in 1870 and Mr. Robb located on a farm two and a half miles southwest of Sedalia near the town of Green Ridge. Mr. Robb purchased eighty acres there and resided upon his land until his death in 1896. His wife had preceded him in death in 1892. There were five children in the Robb family : Elizabeth died at the age of three years ; John M., accidently killed while serving as conductor on the Santa Fe railroad when a collision occurred; James A., an express messenger, Se¬ dalia, Missouri, in the employ of the American Railway Express Com¬ pany; Thomas J., subject of this review; Annie died at the age of nine years.

After attending the public schools of Pettis County, Thomas J. Robb supplemented his elementary schooling with a course in the Mis¬ souri State University where he studied for three years. He then fol¬ lowed farming pursuits until 1898 when he removed to Sedalia and en¬ tered the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company as messenger. He remained in this position for eleven years and then resigned his posi¬ tion to serve as district manager for the Woodmen of the Worid. The district which Mr. Robb has charge embi'aces Pettis, Benton, Johnson, Henry, Cass and Bates Counties. Mr. Robb was elected head consul for the State of Missouri at St. Joseph, Missouri in 1911, and served as head consul until 1913. For the past twenty years he has been delegate to the State conventions and has filled the important post of delegate to three sovereign conventions held during the years 1903, 1911 and 1913. Mr. Robb's duties require that he visit the different camps in his district and boost the membership and encourage the growth of the order in every legitimate manner. His work in his district has been excellent and there are over 2,500 members in this district and he has assisted in the growth of the Sedalia Lodge of 1,400 members, the Clinton Camp em¬ bracing 500 members and the Rich Hill Lodge 400 members and the LaDue Lodge, 100 members, the last-named being the largest in the dis¬ trict outside of Sedalia, composed almost entirely of farmers.

Thomas J. Robb was married in September, 1881, to Miss Emma Johnson, of Iona, Pettis County, a daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Johnson, the former of whom was a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Robb departed this life in 1911. Seven children were born of this union: Ernest died, aged two years; Elmer D., em¬ ployed in the coach-making department of the Missouri Pacific railway shops; Myrtle M., wife of John H. Morgan, Pueblo, Colorado; Russell H., shipping clerk for the Nafziger & Leffler Baking Co., Sedalia ; Mabel, at home ; Porter, enlisted in the National Army on May 13, 1918, and now in France, a member of Company G, 34th Infantry, Seventh Division. He was killed in action November 2, 1918, about twelve miles southwest of Metz; Nellie, the youngest of the family, resides at home with her parents. Misses Mabel and Nellie Robb are graduates of the public schools of Sedalia. Mr. Robb has six grand children: Charles, Thomas and Nadine Robb; Marguerite and Beatrice Morgan; Esther and Howard D. Robb. The Robb home is located at 664 East 16th Street.

Charles H. Heynen, manager of the Heynen & Sons Marble and Gran¬ ite Works of Sedalia, is one of the pioneer business men of this section. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1853, the son of John and Mary Heyen. The Heynen family came to Missouri in 1869 and settled in Cass County where the father was employed on bridge construction for the Missouri Pacific railroad. About 1872, the family removed to Sedalia and later to Warrensburg where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. Their remains are buried in Pisgah Cemetery near Chilhowee, Missouri.

John and Mary Heynen were the parents of the following children: O'arFs H,, the subject of this sketch; William, who is an employee of the Missouri Pacific railroad and resides at Osawatomie, Kansas; Mrs. William Fitterling, Warrensburg, Missouri; Mrs. Emery Coulter, Pitts¬ burg, Kansas.

Charles H. Heynen did his first work at the marble business in Brooklyn, New York, when he was fifteen years of age. In 1869 he came to Missouri with his parents and for a time worked as a section hand.

About this time, when in Kansas City, one day, he saw the first street car that was operated in that city on its initial trip. .He then went to Joplin, Missouri, where he was employed by a monument firm until 1875, when he came to Sedalia. Here he entered the employ of Clay and Hathaway, as a marble cutter. Four years later he and one of his employers, Mr. Clay, opened a marble shop, which they operated for a time when Mr. Heynen bought his partner's interest in the business. This marble works was located on Ohio Street, north of the Missouri Pacific tracks, and here Mr. Heynen has continued the business for thirty-eight years. By reliable business methods and honest representations, he has built up one of the important business industries of Pettis County. His two sons, Clyde and Charles, are skilled marble cutters and are associated with their father in the business. This is now the oldest monument works in Sedalia. Mr. Heynen has done some of the most notable marble and granite works to be found in this section of the State. He handles a variety of granite which is calculated to meet the demands of the most exacting work. He handles native Missouri granite, as well as granite from Vermont, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Colorado, and granite from foreign countries, as well.

Mr. Heynen was united in marriage in 1878, with Miss Lola Cahill, a native of Pettis County. She was born at Georgetown and her parents were among the early settlers of this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Heynen have been born the following children : Elbe, married Miss Flora Mowrey, of Sedalia, and they now reside in Kansas City, Missouri; William C., married Miss Sallie Bertche, of Sedalia, and they live in Kansas City; Clyde, married Miss Margaret Heuchan, of Denver, Colorado, and they reside in Sedalia, Missouri; and Charles, married Edith Taylor of Sedalia and they reside in Sedalia. The two last-mentioned sons are associated with their father.

Emmett Dugan, a Civil War veteran and a highly respected citizen of Sedalia, now living retired, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was bora at Bridgewater, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1843. His parents were Talbot T. Dugan and Elizabeth (McLean) Dugan, both na¬ tives of Pennsylvania. Talbot T. Dugan was a veteran of the Mexican War and his father, John Dugan, served in the War of 1812. John Dugan was a son of John Duganne, of French Huguenot ancestry, who settled in eastern Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of the city of Carlisle. Elizabeth (McLean) Dugan was born in eastern Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent. She was a cousin of John R. McLean, well known as the publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The late Marcus A. Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio, was a cousin of Emmett Dugan of this review.

Talbot T. Dugan removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1852, and in 1874, the family came to Missouri and settled at Sedalia where the father died the following year, and his wife survived him for twentyfive years and departed this life in 1900. Talbot T. Dugan and wife are the parents of the following children: Albina M., married Judge George Blodget and is now deceased; Alonzo J., who was a captain on a United States transport on the Mississippi River during the Civil War and died at Vicksburg in 1864; Albert M., who was a steamboat captain for many years and was last heard from in 1883; Henry J., who served four years in the Union Army during the Civil War and died at New Orleans from disease contracted while in the service; George E., who came to Sedalia in 1872 and was engaged in busness here until his death in 1907 ; Emmett, the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth J., who was better known in Sedalia as Rosa Pearl. She died in Sedalia January 10, 1911.

When Captain Alonzo J. Dugan died in 1864 he left three children who were reared, cared for and educated by Emmett Dugan. They were: Alice Mary, died May 15, 1915, who was a capable newspaper woman and engaged in that line of work with her aunt for a number of years. Her first experience was with the "Sedalia Bazoo'" and later she and her aunt, Rosa Pearl, published a society paper known as "Rosa Pearl's Paper." Oscar, the second child of Captain Dugan, now resides in Topeka, Kansas, and has three sons, one of whom is in France with the American Expe¬ ditionary Force. Frank, the youngest child of Captain Dugan, went to California and is now deceased.

Emmett Dugan received most of his education in Warren County, Ohio, where his parents removed when he was about nine years of age. He spent his early life much as the average boy of his time and after the Civil War broke out, when he was about nineteen years of age, in 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry. He served about three years, during which time he participated in many important engagements, among which were the battle of Lookout Mountain. He was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain as result of which he was unable to accompany Sherman on his march to the sea. However, he recovered from his wound and joined his command at Goldsborough, North Carolina, and served until after the close of the war. He was honorably discharged June 30, 1865, at Washington, D. C., by general order of the war department.

In 1874 Mr. Dugan came to Sedalia and since that time has been identified with the interests of this city. For a number of years he was engaged in paper hanging and decorating but for the past three years he has been living retired. Mr. Dugan is unmarried.

Eugene B. Helman, a prominent farmer and stockman who is an extensive land owner in Sedalia and Prairie townships, has one of the best improved farms in Pettis County. His place consists of 815 acres of valuable land in splendid condition. The residence is located on Sec¬ tion 18, Sedalia township, within a short distance of the city of Sedalia. It has a neat modern bungalow with all modern conveniences, consisting of hot and cold running water, electric lights, and in fact, the Helman home has all the conveniences of modern city life, combined with a free¬ dom of the country.

Mr. Helman is a native of Ohio. He was born in Ashland County, August 30, 1865, a son of Jacob D. and Mary (Bower) Helman. Jacob D. Helman was born in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1832. In early life he was a farmer and merchant in Ohio and shortly after the Civil War broke out, he enlisted at Salem, Ohio, and served throughout the war in the Forty-second Ohio Infantry and for a time was regimental color bearer. At the close of the war he returned to his Ohio home, and in 1869 came to Missouri. He first located in Johnson County where he remained about a year, and in 1870, came to Pettis County and bought a farm in Prairie township, about one-half mile north of Camp Branch. Here he was suc¬ cessfully engaged in farming and stock raising until 1910 when he re¬ tired and removed to Green Ridge where he has since resided. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, and he and his wife belong to the Metho¬ dist Episcopal Church. She was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, and is now seventy-eight years old. To Jacob D. and Mary (Bower) Helman have been born three children as follow: Elvia, who resides with her parents at Green Ridge, Missouri; Eugene B., the subject of this sketch ; and Forrest E., who occupies the home place in Prairie township.

Eugene B. Helman was reared on a farm and was educated in the public schools of Pettis County and Central Business College, at Sedalia, Missouri. He has made farming and stock raising the occupation of his life and for a time was an extensive cattle feeder. He bought his first land about 1898, and in 1910 bought his home place which consists of 265 acres and was known as the old Sibert farm. Since purchasing the place, Mr. Helman has given it the registered title of "Westview Stock Farm."

Mr. Helman has been twice married, his first wife being Fannie, daughter of Isaac and Ann (Rhodes) Glover, natives of Pennsylvania, who came from that State to Pettis County. To Mr. Helman's first mar¬ riage two children were born: Elmer G., born January 28, 1898, now a student in the University of Missouri, where he is taking the agricultural course; and Clyde W., was born in 1900 and died 1913. The mother of these children died in 1906.

April 30, 1916, Mr. Helman was united in marriage with Miss Nellie A., a daughter of William H. and Susan (Lewis) Purchase, natives of Barnston, England, who located in Pettis County in 1881, and now re¬ side in Elk Fork township. A sketch of William H. Purchase appears in this volume. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Helman.

Mr. Helman is a Republican and has served one term as mayor of Green Ridge. During his administration, many improvements were made in the town. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Knights and Ladies of Security. He organized the Camp Branch Brass Band, of which he was leader for twelve years.

Brown-Evans Manufacturing Company is one of the important in¬ dustrial institutions of Sedalia and its marvelous growth and develop¬ ment from a small beginning to a position of commercial importance, as a manufacturing plant, evinces the capabilities of the owners and pro¬ prietors, Messrs. Charles P. Brown and Edwin C. Evans. The Brown- Evans Manufacturing Company's plant, which is located at 404-412 West Second Street, Sedalia, is devoted to the manufacture of working men's pants.

The company was organized in 1913 and in December, 1915, was in¬ corporated, with a capital stock of $15,000. In 1916, the capital stock was increased to $25,000, out of the accumulated surplus and in 1917 the capital stock was again increased to $50,000, from the accumulated sur¬ plus. The above figures show the remarkable growth and progress of this company, but a more comprehensive idea of the vast volume of busi¬ ness carried on by a concern, operating in our midst, of which manv of us know very little, may be gained by the following figures. During the first six months that this company operated, they did a business amount¬ ing to $7,000 and the increase in their business may be shown for periods of each succeeding six months as follows : The second six months $15,000 ; third six months, $30,000; fourth six months, $55,000; fifth six months $80,000; sixth six months $120,000; seventh six months $111,000; eighth six months, $155,000; and the ninth six months, $210,000.

During the World War, seventy-five per cent, of the products of this factory consisted of khaki uniforms. When this company began busi¬ ness, they operated ten machines and had ten employees. They now operate 140 machines and have over two hundred employees on their pay-roll. The value of such an institution as the Brown-Evans Manu¬ facturing Company, to the city of Sedalia, as a contributing factor to its industrial development, is far reaching in importance - much more so than the average person appreciates or understands.

Charles W. Rothgeb, a prominent contractor and builder, of Sedalia, Missouri, is a native Missourian. He was born in Cooper County, May 18, 1875, a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Carr) Rothgeb. The father, who was a native of Virginia, died in 1889, at the age of sixty-two years, and the mother, who is now in her eightieth year, lives on the old home farm at New Lebanon, Missouri. This old town is renowned in church history, for being the location of the first Presbyterian church, which was built west of the Mississippi River. The original church was a log struc¬ ture, and a monument has been erected to mark the site of this pio¬ neer house of worship. New Lebanon was the home of the parent Presby¬ terian Church of Missouri.

Charles W. Rothgeb is one of the following children born to his parents: James F., formerly a contractor and builder, now at the head of the Los Angeles Art Metal Works, Los Angeles, California; Abraham, also formerly engaged in contracting and building, now in the mercantile business at Joplin, Missouri ; Daniel L., a former county superintendent of schools of Cooper County, now engaged in farming and contracting at New Lebanon, Missouri; Charles W., the subject of this sketch; Rich¬ ard, who was formerly a Cooper County teacher, now a thoroughbred stock breeder, on an extensive scale, in Cooper County, and Soloman, a promi¬ nent farmer and stockman of New Lebanon, Missouri.

Missouri, and taught school for a time, and then engaged in the contract¬ ing and building business, with a brother. In 1909, he came to Sedalia, where he has since been engaged in building, and during that time has built some of the finest residences in the city, as well as a number of business blocks. Among the many residences that he has erected here might be mentioned the Gunther residence, Peter Pehl's residence, the Yeager residence, J. Waldman's residence, M. Chasnoff's residence, Dr. Bohling's residence, the entire block of bungaloes at Broadway and Ohio streets, and many others. Mr. Rothgeb employs from eight to thirty men, mostly skilled mechanics.

Mr. Rothgeb was united in marriage in 1904 to Miss Lena S. Jordan, of Otterville, Missouri. She is a daughter of B. A. Jordan, of Otterville.

Mr. Rothgeb is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Council Commandery and Shrine. Mr. and Mrs. Rothgeb are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Rothgeb is one of Sedalia's most progressive citizens.

George F. Fisher, a representative citizen of Sedalia, is a native son of Missouri. He was born in Morgan County, January 20, 1859, a son of J. H., and Elizabeth Fisher. The father came from Germany when a young man, landing at New Orleans, Louisiana. He first settled in Mor¬ gan County, and in 1875, came to Sedalia. Here he worked at his trade, which was that of a cabinet maker, for a number of years and later fol¬ lowed truck farming. He owned a small place, consisting of about thirtyfive acres near Sedalia, northeast of the city. Here he spent the latter days of his life and died, June 16, 1904. His remains are interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia. His widow still survives him and now lives in Sedalia. She was eighty-three years old, September 10, 1918.

To J. H. and Elizabeth Fisher were born the following children: J. H., an employe of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Sedalia, Missouri; L. E., deceased, a son of whom, F. W., conducts a garage in Sedalia; George F., the subject of this sketch; Tena, resides with her mother; F. W., died at Fresno, California ; J. C., an engineer in the employ of the Frisco railroad, resides at Cape Girardeau, Missouri ; Lettie, married Charles Tanner, a shoe merchant, and resides at Washington, Missouri; John O., resides on the home place near Sedalia ; Ida, married James Em¬ ery, dry goods merchant at Ada, Oklahoma; and Lulu, married Charles A. Emery, auditor and treasurer of the New Orleans and Lower Coast Railroad Company, New Orleans, Louisiana.

George F. Fisher was educated in the public schools of Florence, Mor¬ gan County, Missouri, and Sedalia. In early life, he learned the machinist trade and was employed in that capacity in the Missouri Pacific shops, at Sedalia, until 1886, when the big strike occurred. He then engaged in the cafe and restaurant business in Sedalia, which he has continued un¬ til the present time.

Mr. Fisher was united in marriage June 20, 1887, with Miss Mary K. Neitzert, of Florence, Missouri. Her parents are both now deceased and their remains are buried at Florence, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have been born the following children: Ruby, married Prof. W. J. Waldorf, Lebo, Kansas; Eva, married Herbert Schrankler, who is a member of the Stanley Coal Company, Sedalia, Missouri ; George W. Wilbur, a sergeant in the United States Marines; Otto F., asistant band leader in the United States Marines. Both of the boys are musicians and were members of Kroenckes' Band at Sedalia before entering the Marines.

Herman Kirchhofer, a substantial business man of Sedalia, who has been a resident of this city, for thirty years, is a native of Switzerland. He was born March 31, 1863, a son of Jacob and Anna Barbara (Summer) Kirchhofer, both natives of Switzerland. The Kirchhofer family immi¬ grated to America in 1869, and first settled at Pocahontas, Illinois, where they remained about one year. They then removed to Jonesburg, Mis¬ souri, where the father bought a farm of 300 acres which he improved and sold in 1874. He then removed to Herman, Missouri, where he bought a vineyard which he operated for a time and later sold it and re¬ moved to Berger, Missouri, and spent the' remainder of his life in re¬ tirement. He died in August, 1916. His wife died in 1910, and their remains are interred in the cemetery at Berger, Missouri.

Jacob and Anna Barbara (Summer) Kirchhofer were the parents of the following children : Fred, farmer, Herman, Missouri ; Adolph, in the automobile business ; Mary, resides at Berger, Missouri ; Herman, the sub¬ ject of this sketch; John, Berger, Missouri; and Anna, Berger, Missouri.

Herman Kirchhofer, received his education in the public schools of Herman, Missouri and began life as a clerk in a general store at Berger. In 1889, he came to Sedalia and was engaged in various employments until October 4, 1917, when he purchased the Missouri Pacific restaurant, which he has since conducted.

Mr. Kirchhofer was united in marriage in 1892 with Miss Mary Meyer, of Berger, Missouri. She is a daughter of William and Caroline Meyer, both now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Kirchhofer, have been born three children, as follow: Roy, who was in the employ of the Missouri Jacific Railroad Company for nine years, volunteered in the United States Army, July 20, 1917, when twenty-three years of age and after spending some time in training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, Indi¬ ana, was sent to France in July, 1918, and is in the United States train service there; Flora married Benjamin Rose, of Sedalia, Missouri, who was one of the first to enlist in the World War in 1917, and has been in France for over a year at the present writing and is a member of the United States Engineer Corps; and Edna May, a student in the Prospect School, resides at home with her parents.

Mr. Kirchhofer is a wide-awake business man and takes a commend¬ able interest in public affairs. He was elected city assessor of Sedalia in 1914, and was re-elected to that office in 1916, serving four years in all. He is a member of the Woodman of the World, the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

G. C. Loveland, who owns and operates the Capital Corn and Feed Mill, 205 East Main street, Sedalia, is one of the enterprising business men of Pettis County. Mr. Loveland was born in Mercer County, Missouri, January 28, 1863. He is the son of Richard Porter and Hanna (Austin) Loveland, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Maine. Richard Porter Loveland was a Union Veteran of the Civil War, having served as captain of Company B, Forty-ninth Missouri Infantry. He located in Mercer County, Missouri, about 1860 and was there when the Civil War broke out. After the war he settled in Illinois. He died at Rockford, Illinois, aged eighty-six years and his wife was also eighty-six years old at the time of her death. Their remains are buried at Rockford, Illinois.

Richard Porter and Hannah (Austin) Loveland, were the parents of the following children: Charles, Trenton, Missouri; Byron, deceased; Martin, Trenton, Missouri ; Amy, deceased ; Harve, Rockford, Illinois ; John, Sedalia, Missouri ; Sadie, Minneapolis, Minnesota ; two died in infancy ; and G. C., the subject of this sketch.

G. C. Loveland was educated in the public schools at Rockford, Illi¬ nois, and in early life began the manufacture of furniture, at Rockford, Illinois, and for twenty years was successfully engaged in that industry there. In 1903, he came to Pettis County, where he was engaged in farm- ing for three years, when he bought an interest in the Capital Mills, and for six years operated it in partnership with Mr. Zimmerman. He then bought his partner's interest, and since that time has been the sole owner and proprietor. The Capital Mills is devoted to grinding meal and feed in which Mr. Loveland has an extensive trade. He also is en¬ gaged in the retail coal and wood business in connection with his mill¬ ing enterprise.

August 12, 1885, G. C. Loveland was united in marriage with Miss Hattie Richardson of Rockford, Illinois. She is a daughter of Edward B. and Sarah Richardson, whose home is in Rockford, Illinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Loveland have been born the following children: Harry P., mar¬ ried Marguerite May, and is engaged in business with his father at Sedalia ; Dr. Clyde Loveland, now serving in the Medical Corps of the United States Army; Florence, married Carr Sanders, St. Louis, Mis¬ souri; Walter B., married Mabel Echard, of Sedalia and is now in the National Army in France, a member of Battery F, Three Hundred Thirtyninth Field Artillery; Leroy, a student in the Sedalia High School; Ruth May, also a student in the Sedalia High School ; Rex, attending the Broad¬ way School ; and Doris, died at the age of two years.

Col. John S. Banks, who now resides at Hartshorn, Oklahoma, is one of the very earliest pioneers of Pettis County, still living to tell the story of the primitive pioneer days of this section of the West. Colonel Banks is a native of Tennessee and a son of Jordan and Jane (Brumfield) Banks of Clarksville, Tennessee, where they both died and are buried. Mr. Banks has one living sister, Mrs. Lou Tucker, who resides at St. Louis, Missouri.

John S. Banks, came to Pettis County in 1850, with his guardian, Samuel H. Brown, who afterwards became a captain in the Union Army and while home on a furlough, he was accidentally killed by a gunshot, January 5, 1864. He was buried on his farm near Sedalia, with military honors.

Colonel Banks was educated in the Presbyterian College at Rich¬ mond, Ray County, Missouri. After finishing school he returned to his home, five miles northeast of Sedalia, where he was engaged in farm¬ ing until 1880. He then moved to the Ilgenfritz farm north of Sedalia, where he remained for fifteen years. He then went to Cooper County, remaining there until he went to Hartshorn, Oklahoma, where he has since made his home.

of Watson and Lucinda Wood. Watson Wood and his brother, Clifton, were the first merchants in Pettis County. Their store was located at Pen Hook Mills, which was then the county seat of Pettis County. The mill there was operated by a man named Cummings. To John S. and Addie (Wood) Banks were born the following children; Mrs. Woodie Reynolds, Harts¬ horn Oklahoma; John S., Jr., Hartshorn, Oklahoma; Watson, Hartshorn, Oklahoma; Grover Vest, Morgan County, Missouri; Frank Newton, now serving in the United States Navy, having enlisted in May, 1918; and Joe V., now serving with the United States Army with the American Expeditionary Force in France.

While a resident of Pettis County, Colonel Banks was extensively engaged in farming and stock feeding. He also took an active part in early day politics of this county. He served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff McCormick, who resigned and was succeeded by John Hubbard, Mr. Banks continuing as deputy sheriff to the end of Sheriff Hubbard's term. Georgetown was the county seat when McCormack was sheriff.

Colonel Banks recalls many interesting historic events in the early history of Pettis County. He recalls when the first city lots were sold in Sedalia, October 16, 1860. When a boy, he often hunted prairie chickens on the site of the present city of Sedalia. He was here during the Civil War, and remembers many instances connected with that conflict. He remembers when the trenches were dug to fortify against an expected attack from the Confederates. He says they were about four feet deep and extended on the north and east side of the town and Col. John D. Cradford was in command of the Federal troops here.

Mr. Banks says the first farm sold in Pettis County consisted of 460 acres, one mile east of Georgetown. It was sold by Milton Thompson to a Mr. Pilkington from Kentucky for ten dollars per acre. The early settlers of those days also had their social amusement and past-times and Colonel Banks tells of some of the early-day dances. He mentions one that was held in 1864, at the residence of George Hughes, west of Georgetown where there were fifty or sixty in attendance. They danced all night and the next day it stormed and the party remained and danced throughout the following night. Colonel Banks and Mrs. John B. Hughes are the only ones now living who were present on that occasion.

Mr. Banks is one of the interesting pioneers left to tell the story of Pettis County, and although now in his seventy-fourth year, he is as keen in mind and active in body as the average man many years his junior.

John Antone Yost, a Union veteran of the Civil War, and a Pettis County pioneer, is now living retired in Elk Fork township, Pettis County. Mr. Yost is a native of Germany, born in Nassau, April 14, 1840. He is the son of Antone and Kate (Schimerschied) Yost. The father was born in Nassau, Germany, in 1812 and died in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1903. He was a farmer all his life. His wife was born in 1813, and died in 1853. The Yost family came to America in 1846, when John Antone, the sub¬ ject of this sketch, was about six years old. They settled in Pettis County where the father bought land in Lake Creek township. They were early settlers in that section of the county. Here John Antone Yost was reared to manhood and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in 1861, and first served with the State Guards for three months. In 1862, he enlisted in the State Militia, becoming a member of Company E, Thir¬ teenth Missouri Regiment, which was known as mounted cavalry. In 1863, he re-enlisted, becoming a sergeant in Company E, Thirteenth Mis¬ souri Regiment. At the battle of Independence, he received a gunshot wound in the thigh and was sent to a hospital at Ft. Scott, Kansas, and four weeks later returned to his company. He served until the close of the war and received an honorable discharge in June, 1866. After the war closed Mr. Yost returned to Pettis County, which has since been his home.

John Antone Yost has been twice married. He was united in mar¬ riage first with Miss Mary Gerlt, a native of Pettis County, Missouri, who was born June 21, 1840. To this union was born two children, Her¬ man A., a sketch of whom appears in this volume, and Minnie, the wife of J. W. Smith of Green Ridge township. The mother of these children died October 2, 1870. Mr. Yost married for his second wife, Mrs. Mary Wagnor, and two children were born to this union : Charles E., who resides in Elk Fork township, and Mrs. Clara Embree of Elk Fork township.

Mr. Yost is a Republican and was reared in the Lutheran faith. In reflecting upon the past, it no doubt is a great satisfaction and pleasure to Mr. Yost to feel a sense of satisfaction that he has done his duty whether on the field of battle or in the quiet ordinary every-day details of life. He is one of the grand old men of Pettis County.

Samuel Allen Powell, a descendant of one of Pettis County's early pio¬ neer families, is a prominent farmer and stockman of Elk Fork town¬ ship. Mr. Powell was born in Elk Fork township, December 12, 1876, and is a son of Charles H. and Kate (Whiteman) Powell. Charles H.

John Antone Yost

Powell, the father of Samuel Allen Powell, was also born in Elk Fork township, January 29, 1854, and was married December 22, 1875. He was the son of Samuel A. Powell, a native of Virginia who came from that State to Missouri in 1836. He first settled in Callaway County and after remaining there one year, came to Pettis County. He became a very well-to-do man and owned several tracts of land in this County. He was an extensive stockman and bought and sold cattle. While on a trip buying cattle, he was taken suddenly ill and died, February 14, 1859. To Charles H. and Kate (Whiteman) Powell were born two children, Samuel Allen, the subject of this sketch, and Charles L., who lives in Camden, New Jersey. After the death of Charles H. Powell, which occurred in 1896, his widow married Henry Teliafero and they reside in Macon, Geor¬ gia. One child was born to this union, Myrtle Teliafero, who now resides with her parents.

Samuel Allen Powell was reared on the home farm in Pettis County and educated in the public schools. He purchased his present farm in 1901, where he has since been successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. He owns 100 acres of land which is well improved and is val¬ uable and productive soil.

Mr. Powell was united in marriage in 1897 with Miss Emma N. Zimmerschied, also a native of Elk Fork toAvnship, born October 5, 1877. She is a daughter of Lewis and Lena (Mossiman) Zimmerschied, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Wisconsin. They settled in Pettis County about 1865. To Mr. and Mrs. Powell have been born two children: Charles E., born June 10, 1899, now serving with the United States Army in France, having enlisted in the Medical Corps. He is a graduate of the Green Ridge High School and the Central Business Col¬ lege at Sedalia. The youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Powell, Bessie L., was educated in the Sedalia High School and the Green Ridge High School, being a graduate of both of these institutions.