Saline County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 14 of 17)

Father Hamil continued in charge of the church until called to his reward in 1889 and was succeeded by Rev. Father Mulve}-, whose able and efficient labors ceased with his death in the year 1893. The next pastor was Rev. Father Hogan, who took charge some time in the latter year and it was during his pastorate that the organization was moved to Shackelford and a new building erected. He continued his labors verv acceptablv until 1902, when he was transferred to Kansas City, his successor being Rev. Father Scanlan, who in 1905 was followed by Father Keyes, and he one year later by the present incumbent, whose able and faithful ministration has tended greatly to the building up of the church and widening its influence.

I'^alhcr |c'iinint;s has iioi only endeared himself to his congregation, bnt l)v his eminent social qnalities and courteous manner has gained the confidence and esteem of the i)eople of the community irrespective of church or creed. He is a student and thinker, an eloquent preacher, a judicious administrator and, although hut a short time with his present charge, he has made his influence felt as a leader and his friends are justified in predicting for him a large field and greater honors in the no distant future. His labors at Shackelford and elsewhere have been signally blessed and the coming years await him with great and abundant rewards.

heather Jennings is a son of Myles and Jane (Fitzgerald) Jennings, both of county Longford, Ireland, and descendants of old and honored Catholic families of the Emerald Isle. The father a man of sterling worth and fervent pietv. died in 1902; the mother still lives on the family homestead and despite her sevent}- Aears retains to a marked degree the possession of her faculties. mental and physical. Six sons and four daughters were born to this estimable couple, two of the sons, Michael, and the subject of this sketch, and three of the daughters, Mrs. Mary Murphy, Mrs. Martha Peltier and Mrs. Rose Yates, being residents of the United States and all except the subject li\'ing in Xew York citv.

Few ph\sicians of central Missouri were as widely known as the late Dr. J. F. Wheeler, of Saline county, whose distinguished professional service gained for him a conspicuous place among the leading men of the state. He was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and the eldest of eight children born to Johnson and Susanna (Wright) Wheeler, the names of his brothers and sisters being as follows : Prof. C. J. Wheeler, of Marshall, Missouri ; Mrs. Anna McCarter, deceased; R. H., traveling representative of a commission house; Mrs. Amanda Triplett, of Beaumont, Texas, and assistant superintendent of the public schools of that state; Laura J., whose husband, T. J. Wheeler, is engaged in school work in Missouri; John P., deceased, and Mrs. Doctor Scruggs, deceased.

Johnson Wheeler, the father, a farmer by occupation, for a number of years was overseer and manager of a large plantation in Virginia, but in 1858 di.s])o.sed of his interests in that state and moved to Pettis county, Missouri, where he engaged in farming and acquired a handsome competency. Upon his retirement from active life he took up his residence in the city of La Monte, w here he s])ent the remainder of his days, dving in the fall of 1908 in Alarshall.

He was a man of considerable prominence, highly educated and took a leading" part in public matters, having been mayor of La Monte at one time. He and his good wife, wdio died at the above city, were worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal and Baptist churches, respectively, and did much to promote the intellectual and moral welfare of the community, where they were long held in such high esteem.

Dr. J. F. Wheeler was born March i6, 1847, ^I'ld spent his early life on the family estate in Virginia, receiving his elementary education under the direction of competent instructors. In his young manhood he turned his attention to teaching and in this way earned sufficient means to enable him to complete his literary education, after which he entered the office of a prominent local physician and began the study of medicine. Later he added to his professional knowledge by taking a full course in the Medical College of St. Louis, where he was graduated in 1871, following wdiich, in 1874, he located at Herndon and in due time built up a large and lucrative practice.

Doctor Wheeler began his professional career under verv^ modest circumstances, his only earthly possession at the time he opened an office in Herndon consisting of a pony, saddle and bridle and the case in which he carried his stock of medicines, commonly called "pill bags." With everything to make and nothing to lose, he addressed himself earnestly to his chosen calling and it was not long until his abilities were recognized and appreciated, as is indicated by his growing patronage within a short time after hanging out his shingle. Without attempting a detailed account of his remarkable professional life, suffice it to state that he soon forged to the front among the leading phvsicians and surgeons of his county and not infrequently was he called to other and distant localities to attend cases requiring a high degree of medical skill or to perform operations wdiich the ordinary surgeon would not attempt. He early determined to excel in his profession and that he lived to realize this crowning ambition is abundantly attested by the fact that for a number of years he not only ranked with the most distinguished physicians and surgeons of his own and other counties of central Missouri, but occupied a commanding position among the eminent men of his calling throughout the state. Blessed with a strong physique and superb health, he was enabled to endure the great demands of his extensive practice, which frequently obliged him to be in the saddle both day and night for weeks at a time and to visit patients in nearly every part of the county. His financial success was in keeping with his professional advancement and by judiciously investing his earnings in land from time to' time he finally accumulated a handsome fortune, his estate at his death being conservatively estimated at considerably in excess

..i ..,,^ luiiulred thoiisancl dollars. The strain to which he was constantly subiected, however, eventually told upon his health and to preserve the same he nio\etl in 1900 to Marshall, where he devoted his attention principally to a large office practice, hut the dread disease which had fastened upon him and which neither his own nor the skill of the ablest of his compeers could check, finallv proved fatal, and on the 6th day of September, 1904, this eminent physician, distinguished citizen and broad-minded man of affairs ceased his labors and went to his reward.

Doctor Wheeler was a leader of the Democratic party in his part of the stale and long an influential factor in public affairs. He belonged to the county, state and national medical societies, stood high in the Masonic fraternity and gave his aid and influence to all enterprises for the material progress of the community and the intellectual and moral advancement of his fel- ](^w men.

In September of the year 1877, Doctor Wheeler was united in marriage with Bettie C. Wingfield, a native of Virginia, and the accomplished daughter of James and Elizabeth (Duling) Wingfield, both members of old and respected families of that commonwealth, the father afterwards a prominent manufacturer of West Virginia. James Wingfield served in the Confederate army during the late Civil war and lost the greater part of his fortune ere the struggle closed. After the death of his wife he moved his little family to Saline county, Missouri, whither his mother and a brother had preceded him in 1859. He purchased a mill which, being rebuilt and equipped wnth improved machinery, became the leading enterprise of the kind in the county and the means of recuperation of his fortune. He was a man of intelligence and his death, some years ago, removed from the county one of its most enterprising and praiseworthy citizens. His children, three in number, survive him, namely: Dr. U. B. Wingfield, a prominent physician of Shackelford; Mrs. Doctor Wheeler, and James Wingfield. who lives in the state of Washington.

The marriage of Doctor and Mrs. \Mieeler was blessed with five offspring, viz: Airs. Mary Virginia Glass; James B.. of Oklahoma; Mrs. Willie ^^^ AlcCuUough. of Kansas City: Joseph F. and George O.. the two younger still with their mother. Mrs. Wheeler proved a worthy wife to her distinguished husband, and not a little of his success was due to her judicious counsel and co-operation. She sympathized with him in all of his undertakings, encouraged him at all times and. in the most liberal meaning of the terms, was a faithful companion and true helpmeet. A lady of high character and beautiful life, she is esteemed l)y all who knew her and fills a large place in the hearts and affections of her associates. She is a consistent member of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal church South, and belongs to the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Hon. Leonidas Henry Tucker

The honored subject of this review is a native of Saline county, Missouri, and since early manhood has been actively identified with its development and progress. He was for many years prominently connected with the agricultural and live stock interests of this part of the state, besides inaugurating a number of enterprises which made for the advancement of the people along various lines and at dift'erent times has been called to positions of honor and trust.

The Tucker family is of Scotch origin and figured prominently in the history of various parts of Virginia in colonial times. Joshua G. Tucker, the Judge's father, was a native of NodaAvay county, that state, and a man of high character and wide influence in his day. He married, in 1836, Henrietta Harper, who was born in the same county and two years later migrated to Saline county, Missouri, and settled on the Pinnacles in Miami township, where he spent one winter, removing in the spring of 1839 to the ]Missouri river vallev in Cooper county, where he erected a cabin and addressed himself to the task of developing a farm. By reason of the great loss which he afterwards suffered from the floods, he disposed of his possessions in 1844 and returned to Saline county and entered land in ]\Iiami township, in addition to which he also purchased several tracts which had been previously surveyed for other parties. In the course of a few years he became one of the largest owners and most successful farmers and stock raisers in the county and to him as much as to any other man is due the credit of laying the foundation for the physical and moral development of a section of country which is now one of the finest and most progressive parts of the state. Joshua G. Tucker was a natural leader of men. and took the initiative in a number of important enter])ri?es. Possessing a strong individuality and mature judgment, he was frequently consulted on matters of business by his neighbors and by his judicious counsel in arbitrating difficulties and misunderstandings among the people he not infrequently prevented much useless and expensive litigation. His decisions in such disputes were invariably accepted as final and he made himself useful in many other ways, such as the division of properties, settlement of estates, etc., in all of which his efforts proved satisfactory to all con- iiiiK.i. I le w.i- "lie of ihc pioiiiincnt Democrats of Saline county, also took an active part in public affairs and as a neighbor and citizen his integrity and high sense of honor were ever above reproach. He departed this life in 1879, his wife preceding him to the grave b)^ four years, both dying in the faith of the Metli'"l!<< Fniscon.-il chnrcli South, of which they had been worthy members.

Toshua G. and Henrietta N. Tucker were the parents of five children, namelv: Leonidas H., of this review; Bettie, wife of John \V. Guthrie; Virginia, who first married James Tucker, after whose death she became the wife of James Turner; Martha died unmarried, and Harvey S., who owns and farms the family homestead. All except the subject were bom and reared in Miami township, Saline county.

Hon. Leonidas H. Tucker, whose birth occurred in Dinwiddle county, \'irginia, December 13, 1837, was about one year old when his parents moved to Missouri, since which time his life has been closely identified with the county of Saline. He spent his childhood and youth on the farm, received a good education in the common schools and Fairville Academy, and on attaining his majority began life as a tiller of the soil, in which ^honorable calling he soon rose to a position of prominence and influence among his neighbors. In 1862 he enlisted in Captain Brown's company of the State Guards and went into camp at Jefferson City, where General Price, of the Southern army, was in command. After some service at that place and other points, he returned home, but soon rejoined the army in Captain Ruckston's company and took part in the battle of Lexington, wdiere Mulligan surrendered and the Confederate forces suffered defeat. By reason of sickness contracted in the field, he was again granted a leave of absence to return home and recuperate, ascertaining which the Federals, who then held Saline county, caused him much trouble and annoyance. When sufficiently recovered he rejoined his command on the Black Water, where his company was soon afterwards captured and the men taken to St. Louis, thence to the Federal prison at Alton, Illinois, where after six months' confinement he took the required oath and was released.

Upon his return home Mr. Tucker found that the Federals had stripped the farm of everything to which they could lay their hands, including his horses, cattle and other livestock, implements, which were either carried away or destroyed, and nearly all of his slaves. When the w^ar closed, he was under the necessity of making an entirely new start, but by industry and good management, his progress was rapid and in due time he found himself on the high road to prosperity. Locating on one hundred acres which his father gave him, he devoted his attention to agriculture and stock raising and it was not very long until he was enabled to add to his possessions, purchasing land from time to time until he had three fine farms in cultivation, besides capital invested in various other interests. Mr. Tucker continued farming and stock raising with marked success until 1898, when he divided the greater part of his real estate among- his children and moved to the county seat, where he proposes to spend the remainder of his days in retirement. His ample fortune enables him to do this with no concern for the future and, after a long, strenuous and remarkably successful career, he is now enjoying not onlv the peace and quietude to which he is entitled, but the many material blessings which he has so honorably earned. Mr. Tucker has always Ijeen interested in agriculture and as president of the county fair association and an influential worker for its success, he did much to promote the interests of the farming community and make the residents of the rural districts contented with their lot. He was a leading spirit in establishing the above enterprise and also assisted in organizing the Miami Fair Association, of which he was made a director. Mr. Tucker's first attempt at farming was in raising hemp, but later he turned his attention very largely to live stock, which he found much more remunerative and satisfactory. In addition to feeding and marketing every year a large number of high grade cattle, he gave no small part of his time to the breeding and raising of fine horses, disposing of quite a number of excellent roadsters at fancy prices, besides influencing his neighbors to improve their various breeds of live stock.

Mr. Tucker took part, actixely, in establishing the Old Settlers' Association of Saline County, and has manifested a lively interest in the same ever since the organization went into effect. He was also an influential factor in organizing the Farmers' Insurance Company, of Saline Count)-, which he served fourteen years as secretary, and the success of that institution is very largely attributable to his leadership and interest. In 1886 he was elected presiding county judge and he discharged the duties of the position in such an able and praiseworthy manner that he was chosen his own successor in i8go. filling the ofiice with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents for a period of eight years, when he refused further to be a candidate.

Politically Mr. Tucker is a Democrat of the old school and has frequently enjoyed the distinction of representing his party in county and state conventions, besides rendering efficient service in its counsels and as a worker in the ranks. In his religious work he subscribes to the Methodist faith and for many vears has been a faithful and worthy member of the church and deeply interested in all work under the auspices of the same.

rersonallv. no man in the county is more highly esteemed, as his character has ahvavs hcen ahove adverse criticism and his integrity, honor and good name are beyond reproach. He has acted well his part in life, lived tip to his high ideals of duty and citizenship, and is justly reg-arded as one of the noted men of his day and generation in the county of Saline.

'Sir. Tucker, on June 7, 1862, vv^as united in marriage with Sarah B. Mercereau, a native of Broome county, New York, and a graduate of one of the noted musical conservatories of that state. She came south as a teacher of music and followed her profession in Saline county for several years prior to her marriage. She is a daughter of Job L. and Sarah (Wheeler) Mercereau. bt~ith natives of Broome county. New York, and of French and English descent respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker are the parents of six children, of whom two died in infancy. The names of the sui*vivors are as follows : Gilliam, a prominent rice farmer in Texas ; Frank W., a farmer of Saline county, residing in Marshall; Hai-vey, a physician and surgeon of Miami township, this county, and Minnie, w'ho married H. T. Robertson, a druggist of Pleasant Hill, Missouri.

Frank ^^^ Tucker, the second of the family, owns and operates a fine farm in Miami towaiship and has achieved much more than local repute as a successful stock raiser, devoting especial attention to mules, in which he deals quUe extensively. He also has a fine home in Marshall, consisting of a plat of ten acres which is tastefully laid out and improved and which represents many beautiful and attractive features. His wife w-as formerly Mrs. Maud Samuels, daughter of Michael Schreckler, one of the early settlers and prominent farmers of Saline county, also a leading citizen of the community in which he lived. By her former marriage Mrs. Tucker had three children. Her union with Mr. Tucker has been blessed with a son and a daughter, who are twins, their names being Harry E. and Sarah, their birth occurring in the year 1906.

When the tide of emigration to the West was at its height during the middle of the last century, Samuel Russell joined as a recruit from Greene county, Pennsylvania, of which he was a native. First settling in Ohio, he removed from there to Iowa in 1854. He secured a lot of the rich land of the young prairie state and became prosperous as a farmer and sheep raiser. At one time he owned thirteen hundred acres of land and owned the largest flock of sheep in the state. Born in 1836, he died February 16, 1893, after a career that was unusually busy and fruitful. He was a son of William Russell, a Pennsylvanian, who removed to Iowa in 1854 and died there in 188 1. Samuel Russell married Virginia, daughter of Ira and Elizabeth (Leeper) Tucker, the former of whom reached the advanced age of ninetyseven before being claimed by death. His wife, who was born in Virginia of a fine Southern family, was accidentally burned to death in California, at the age of ninety-three years. The Tucker family removed to Iowa about 1848. but left there for California in the following year, which witnessed the culmination of the gold excitement. Mr. Tucker remained in Iowa until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he located at Salinas. California, and there spent the remainder of his days. The five children of Samuel Russell and wife are all living and have met Avith success in their respective lines. W. W., the oldest, resides at Grand Junction, Colorado; Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes, the eldest daughter, is a resident of Marshall; Mrs. E. T. Hubbard lives at Kansas City ; I. T. is the junior member of the mercantile firm of Hayes & Russell of Marshall.

James L. Russell, youngest of the five children, was born at West Grove. Davis county, Iowa, February i, 1869. Fle grew up on the parental farm and remained there as a helper until the completion of his eighteenth year. Aleantime he had been attending the district schools and in 1886 entered the ^Missouri State Normal at Kirksville, where he remained until the close of the term in 1888. During the two following years he taught school near Kirksville, Missouri, and Monterey, Iowa. In 1890 he became a student of the Missouri Valley College at Marshall, remaining there until 1892, when he matriculated at the Missouri Dental College in St. Louis, for a year's study. The next two years were spent in the dental department of Northwestern University, in Chicago, from which institution he was graduated in 1895, as a Doctor of Dental Surgery. May 9th of the same year he opened an office at Marshall and since then has been one of the most popular members of the profession of that city. Doctor Russell is a member of the State Dental Association and fraternally is connected with the Masons, Modern Woodmen and Knights of Pythias. Aside from his regular profession. Doctor Russell has made some judicious investments in local enterprises. He is a part owner and director of the Marshall Ice Company, and for several years was one of the owners and directors of the Marshall Mill Elevator Company.

J\Iay I, 1895, Doctor Russell married Rose Lee, daughter of Dr. J. E. Sharp, pastor of the local Cumberland Presbyterian church for eight years.

ilc was a native of Kentucky and married a Tennessee lady. Doctor and Mrs. Russell have two children: Samuel Sharp, born October 17, 189O, and Louise X'iroinia, born July 2, 1899. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, of which the former is an elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. The family reside at No. 465 South o.irll ivcnnc in one of the hucst and most comfortable houses in Marshall.

Andrew J. Flynn

This well-to-do farmer and public spirited citizen is a native of Saline county, Missouri, and an honorable representative of one of the early pioneer families of this part of the state. His parents, Thomas and Bridget (Holmes) Mynn, both of county Mayo, Ireland, came to America man}- years ago and in 1847 mig-rated to Saline county and settled on a small tract of land near the site of Shackelford, which Mr. Flynn purchased of the government. After improving this he entered other land in the vicinity and by adding to his possessions from time to time finally became one of the largest land owners and extensive farmers in the community. About the time of his arrival. Catholic missionaries came into the settlement and it was not long- until a church was organized of which he became a consistent member. Thomas i'lynn was an earnest and devout Catholic all his life and labored zealously f<jr the faith of the Holy Mother Church and to him more than to any other layman was due the success of the little organization near the town of Shackelford, to which the early Catholics of the locality belonged. He was a ])rime mover in the erection of the first house of worship in 185 1 and during the remainder of his life he used his efforts and influence not only for the religious advancement of the community but in l)ehalf of all measures and enterprises having for their object the good of his fellow men. He ahvays stood for good government and a strict enforcement of the law, did much to counteract the prevailing evil of the times and the early settlers were accustomed to look to him as a leader and adviser in matters pertaining to their business affairs and general w^elfare. During the Civil war l)oth armies foraged on his place, but did him no bodily harm, and by keeping quietly at home and looking after his (wvn interests he passed through the troublous period without injury or serious loss. As a neighbor and citizen none stood higher in the esteem of the pul)lic and as a Christian he exemplified the teachings of his church b\ a life void of offense towvard God and man. He became widely and fa\orably known thronghont the county and his death, on the 1st of Jnne, 1880, at the age of sixt}--tive years, was a matter of profound regret in the community which he helped found and in which he li\'ed to such high and noble purposes. Mrs. Flynn survived her husljand about fifteen years, departing this life in March, 1905, at the age of seventy-six. This estimable couple reared a family of eight children, all of whom grew to maturit}', their names being as follows: Charles (deceased), James R., Catherine (wife of Johil McDonough), Thomas R. (died in 1906), Mary E., Andrew J. of this review, Nora and Sarah, the three unmarried daughters occupying the homestead and attending to its cultivation.

Andrew J. Flynn was born on the above farm March 24, 1863, and spent his early years in close touch with nature, learning while still a mere [ad the true meaning of hard work and the dishonor which attaches to a life of idleness. In the public schools of the neighborhood he acquired a fair education and after remaining on the famil}- homestead until 1895 he married and engaged in the pursuit of agriculture for himself. In 1903 he purchased the farm on which he now lives and which under his effective labors and excellent management has been greatly improved and brought to a high state of cultivation. His place is favorably located with church, school and market privileges near at hand and by the judicious expenditure of labor and money he now has one of the most beautiful and attractive homes in the communitv.

Mr. Flynn's domestic life dates from the year 1895, at which time he was united in the holy bonds of wedlock with Susan M. Oser, who was born in Saline county in the year 1875, being a daughter of Conrad Oser, and a lady of intelligence and sterling worth. Conrad Oser was a native of Indiana, but grew to manhood in Kentucky. He was married in the latter state in 1870, moved to Saline county, Missouri, and worked for some time at the carpenter's trade, later being appointed superintendent of the county fami, which he managed for a period of twenty-seven years with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the pul)lic. ^^'hile in charge of the above trust he was instrumental in bringing about a number of important improvements and he conducted affairs in such a way as to gain the reputation of' being the best superintendent the county has ever employed. Since resigning the position he has lived in Marshall, where he is now perfecting a power pump which he has ]3atented and the success of which is assured. Mrs. Flynn is the second pf six children born to Conrad and Dora (Louden) Oser, the names of the rest of the family being- as follows: Mrs. Emma Collier; Mattie (deceased), who married James F. Langan : William \\\, a farmer and trader, living in

Mr. and Mrs. Flynn have an interesting family of three children, namely : William V., born February 7, 1896; Dora B., born July 24. 1899, and Harold, whose birth occurred on November 15, 1903. Politically Mr. Flynn wields a strong influence for the Democratic party and, like all good citizens, aims to keep informed on the questions of the da}- and in touch with the times on all matters of public import. He is a good farmer and an excellent neighbor, and bv well directed efforts has accumulated a sufiEiciency of this world's goods to make him independent and insure his future against care or anxiety. He is highlv esteemed by the people of the county and Saline can boast of no better citi;?eii or worthier man.

John Jacob Witt

Editing papers for minority parties in counties where the "enemy" is in large majority and w-ell entrenched, is not a bed of roses and seldom proves a gold mine, but occasionally a genius comes along who is able to make a success of the undertaking. Missouri has been famous for her heated political struggles, greatly intensified in bitterness by the passions inherited from the Civil war. For a long time after that bloody struggle, during which the people were divided in support of the two governments and two armies, the political contests partook largely of the characteristic business vendettas. It took nerve and plenty of it to act with the minority party, whether Democratic or Republican, and a courage amounting to heroism to run a paper for the party that was (jut. These are better days for old Missouri, and that great state is improving in liberality, as it grows in population and increases in wealth. The editor of the Marshall Republican, to tell something about w^hom it is the object of this biography, has proven himself equal to all emergencies as an upholder of Republican principles in a dyed-in-the-wool Democratic county. He comes of fighting as w^ell as sturdy stock, his parents being- Henry and Frederika (Klump) Witt, who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1830. First settling at Peoria, Illinois, they removed in 1866 to W'arrenton, Missouri, where the father still resides at the age of eighty-three.

Mr. \\ itt sided strongly with the Union, joined the Federal army and served five years in defense of the national flag. His wife died in 1904, alter a long and useful life devoted to the welfare of her husband and children. Among the latter was John Jacob Witt, whose birth occurred at Warrenton, Missouri, April 7, 1870. Besides attendance in the public schools of his native town, he had the benefit of two years at Central Wesley College in the same place. In 1888 he entered the Banner office at Warrenton, and soon had learned the preliminary steps to becoming a printer and publisher. Three years in the office converted him into a journeyman with a fair mastery of the more practical details of the business. With this equipment he went to St. Louis, where he followed the printing business for fifteen years, during the seven years of which he worked on his own account. In 1902 Mr. Witt purchased the Marshall Republican, wdiich he has since conducted with remarkable success. He is a progressive newspaper man, active, able and enterprising, and his triumph over difficulties has been well earned. His paper exercises a wholesome influence and he enjoys a liberal and growing patronage. October 25, 1900, ]\Ir. Witt married Lora. daughter of Charles Schnacht, president of the Union Roller ]\Iilling Company at Pocahontas, Illinois. Their only living child, Bethany Alma, was torn May 17, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Witt are members of the First Presbyterian church and enjoy a welcome in the best circles of societv.

John Kennedy

Among the successful farmers and representative citizens of Saline county who have finished their life work and gone to their reward, the late John Kennedy is entitled to a worthy place. A native of county Mayo, Ireland, where his birth occurred in 1841, he grew to maturity on the farm which his father had long cultivated and in 1867 severed home ties to seek his fortune in the great American republic beyond the sea. After spending more than a year in York state he came in 1868 to Saline county, ^Missouri, where he secured employment as a farm laborer, and he continued in this capacity until 1874, saving his earnings the meanwhile with the object in view of ultimately becoming something more than a tiller of the soil for others. In the latter year he rented land on which he raised one crop, after which he married and in 1875 set up his domestic establishment in Vernon county, where he spent the ensuing seven years and a half as a renter, devoting his attention principally to the raising of cattle, in which his success was such as to enable him to obtain a good start and purchase land of his own. Returning to Saline county at the expiration of the period indicated, he invested his savings in a four-h unci red-acre farm and again embarked in the hve stock busiiiess. which in c<ninccti()n with agriculture proved eminently successful and within a few years made him one of the substantial and well-to-do men of the communitx .

Mr. Kennedy bought cattle which he fed and sold at handsome figures and dealt (juite extensively in hogs, which also proved the source of a liberal income. He understood the live stock business thoroughly and b}- purchasing judiciously and .selling at the proper time he added to his possessions at intervals and was long considered one of the ablest financiers in his part of the conntrv. Possessing great energy as well as sound judgment and wise foresight, his progress was something remarkable and from the humble position i)i a renter he rose within a coniparatively short time to a conspicuous place among the broadminded, wide-awake farmers and enterprising citizens of the county which he elected to be his permanent home.

Mr. Kcnnedv was a man of fine business abilit}', eminently honoraljle in all his dealings and his integrity and sterling worth, which were ever above repr(;ach. gained for him a prominent place in the esteem and confidence of his neighbors and friends. In the year 1875 was solemnized his marriage with Margaret Kellett, who was born in 1849 in the Emerald Isle, being a native of the same county in which her husband first saw the light of day. Her parents, Michael and Bridget Kellett, spent their lives on their native soil, the father bein.g among the better class of farmers of the count}- of Wayne and a man of intelligence and high standing in the community. The family of this excellent cou])le consisted of eight children. namel\- : Michael, Margaret, John, Thomas, Philip. Mrs. Mary ]\b)nigan, William and Patrick, all of whom came to the I'nited States except Thomas, who remained on the homestead in Ireland, where his death recently occurred. William died some years ago at Mt. Leonard. Missouri, and Patrick is now a gold miner in the faraway country of the Klondike.

Margaret Kellett came to this country in 1866, and since that time has lived in Missouri. She proved a loyal helpmeet to her husband, assisted him to obtain his fir.st substantial start in the world, and to her keen intelligence, well-balanced judgment and judicious advice he attributed much of the success which he subsequently achieved. After his lamented death she looked after his large and important interests and in connection with this duty actually increased the estate by the purchase of an additional tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land, a fact wdiich speaks well for her ability and judgment.

of his days continued a true son of the church. contril)uting- to its material support and by his daily life exemplifying- the beauty and worth of its teachnigs and influence. He was. in all the terms imply, a good man, a kind and affectionate husband and father and a considerate and obliging neighbor and steadfast friend, who stood high in the esteem of all who knew him. Enterprising- and public spirited, he did much in a quiet and unostentatious way to promote the material progress of the community and his death, which occurred on April 20, 1909. removed from the county of Saline one of its most estimable and praiseworhty citizens. Since his death the original estate has been divided among the children. Mrs. Kennedy retaining a comfortable home and being in circumstances which insure her future from the possibility of want. She is loyal in her allegiance to the mother church, and has spared no pains in rearing her children in the same, to the end that thev might become reputable men and women and fill honorable stations in life. She bore her husband four children, whose names are as follows : Mai*y, who married Dr. J. T. Phelan, of Marshall, Missouri ; Frank, a merchant of Kansas City; Ellen, wife of E. Keenan, and John, who lives with his mother and attends to the cultivation of the farm.

Merrill J. Barber. D. D. S.

The family of this name is of Canadian origin, though the ancestrv is Irish. David Barl)er. who was born at Dublin, migrated to Canada early in the last century, took up land near Alontreal and spent his life in farming He was passionately fond of fine horses and met with some success as a breeder of these fine animals. His son, John M. Barber, inherited his tastes and inclinations and as soon as he was of age branched out for himself as an agriculturist. He has devoted much time to stock raising and still resides on his farm near Montreal. He married Laura Benham, also a native of Canada and still living, by which union there were two children: Mrs. Eunice Flaws Cookshire, of Quebec, and the subject of this sketch.

Merrill J. Barber, his father's only son. was born in ^Montreal. Canada, in 1877. He grew up on the farm, learning the routine of work, picking up some general knowledge of the business and acquiring a strong constitution by outdoor life. At intervals he attended school, most of his primarv education being- received at the - Knowlton (Quebec) Academy. When sixteen years old he entered the dental office of Dr. E. A. Cleveland, of Knowlton.

,111(1 under liis al)le pvcceptorship applied himself industriously to the study (.t dentistry, in 1900 he entered the dental department of the University (.f Maryland at Baltimore, from which he was graduated with the honors of his class at the commencement held in 1903. In May of that year he came to Marshall and has since remained as a growing candidate for popular patronage. That he has "made good" is evidenced by the fact that he has one of the finest offices in the city, which is frequently visited on professional business by many of the best people of the community.

In September, 1905. Doctor Barber married Lelia E.. daughter of T. R. Bell, of Marshall. Doctor Barber was ((uite popular at college and was regarded as the brightest and most i)romising member of his class. During his term, he was vice-president of the senior class and a member of the Chi I'si Phi. one of the conspicuous fraternities at Baltimore University. He and his wife are members of the Christian church at Marshall. In politics he affiliates with the Democratic party, though he takes no active part and is not a seeker for offi'ce. He is a man of fine personal appearance and enjoys a popularity that grows with his acquaintance. Few young men have started life under more promising auspices and Doctor Barber is practicall}- assured of high rank as a dentist with the prosperity that awaits on talent, close application to business and good character.

James Lewis Lynch

It was not until after weary miles of travel, abounding in pitfalls and disappointments, something like those that beset the Christian in "Pilgrim's Progress," that J. L. Lynch found himself at the -summit of his ambition as superintendent of public schools for Saline county. His trouble began at the beginning, due to the curse of poverty, which long prevented him from obtaining an education. Even after he had a chance to go to school there were long and provoking delays of various kinds which retarded his efforts to get to ihe front in the educational world. Finally, after much struggle and not a little heartache, he succeeded in his life's endeavor and added to his reputation by election to the highest office given teachers in Missouri counties. Mr. Lynch was born in Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, November 19, i8.|8, of old Virginia parentage. He came with his parents to Saline county in 1855 and grew up on a farm with the usual experiences of country boys of that period. He had earnestly longed for a good education and was eventually enabled to gratify this desire. In the fall of 1865 Carr W. . Pritchett, celebrated as a minister and mathematician, opened a school for bovs and girls as well as young men and young women at Fayette and young Lynch was admitted as a pupil. He made the best of his opportunities by studying hard and paying strict attention to duty, so that in due time he was qualified to take a college course. Selecting Haverford, in Philadelphia, he entered that institution and by due diligence succeeded in taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1880. Meantime he had been teaching country schools to obtain means for his higher education, his first venture in the field of pedagogics being in 1869. He applied for a certificate to Professor Bierbauer, at that time county school commissioner of Saline countv, and after examination his request was granted. He obtained a school in what was known as the "Dick Thorp district," and made good in his first efforts to superintend and instruct children. Afterwards he taught in the southern part of the county, chiefly at Fair Play and Prairie Lawn and at four different times he was called from the country to positions in city schools, first, in 1874, when he was elected assistant principal of the Marshall public schools, next in 1882, when he was again called to Marshall, and served for three years as principal of the high school under T. E. Spencer. He was next called to the public schools of Fayette, his native town, where he served three years as principal of the high school under N. F. Frazier, whom he subsequently succeeded as superintendent. During his sojourn at Fayette Mr. Lynch was elected county school commissioner of Howard county and served two terms. He then entered the University of Missouri as a student and at the close of his term of school he returned to the home of his childhood in southern vSaline county and to the teaching of the same country schools that had been his care and delight years before. In these two country schools, after his return, he taught for five consecutive years, at the end of which time he was summoned to take charge as principal of the Slater high school, under W. C. Sebring as superintendent. This was in 1907 and about that time he had conceived the idea and ambition to become superintendent of Saline county schools. As this is an elective ofiice it was necessary for him to submit his name to the nominating primary convention. This he did and when the vote was taken he was given the nomination for the ot^ce of superintendent and in due course he was elected at the ballot box. He has given entire satisfaction by his management of the office, which was to be expected from his large and varied experience as an education. Professor Lynch was made a Mason in .1893, being affiliated with the lodge at Marshall. He is also a member of the Southern Presbvterian church of the same citv.

In iS()i when an inhirmed professor by the name of Thomas Jonathan lacks, in was a teacher in the Mihtary Institute at Lexington. Virginia, one of the puijils was a youth named George M. Francisco. He was a native of Missouri and enioved the reputation of being the first male child born in the now prospennis city of Marshall. When the Civil war broke out he was a cailet and graduate of the Lexington school and enlisted for the war in a compan\- which became a part of the army commanded by the above mentioned professor, who soon rose from obscurit\' and ol)tained immortal renown as "Slonewall" Jackson. Young h'rancisco got all the experience his ambition had craved while operating with the "foot cavalry" in the valley of Shenandoah, the western slopes of the Blue Ridge, the banks of the historic James and later across the Potomac. He escaped but few of the important engagements participated in by the celebrated First Corps, being at Gettysburg, the seven days fighting, Cedar Mountain. Manassas and others. He went clear through from start to finish, his service covering the four years of the war and after it was over he returned to Missouri to face the responsibilities of life with but a poor financial ec]uipment for the purpose. However, he was courageous and hopeful, had all of life before him and determined to make a man of himself. Embarking in the mercantile business at Marshall, he continued to sell goods for eight or ten years, when he was elected public administrator of Saline county, which office he held at the time of his death, Octoljer 3, 1903. For twenty-five years he was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Marshall. In 1865 he married Mollie. daughter of Dr. G. W. Hereford, of near \\'a\erly. Missouri. By this union there were four children : Harry C. Roberta Lee, of ^Marshall ; Martha, now Mrs. J. F. Houx. of Marshall, and b^rances, wife of J. T. Hereford, of Marshall.

Harry C. iM-ancisco, eldest of the familv, was born in the western part of Saline county, near W'averly, Missouri. April 8. 1869. His parents removed to AL'u'shall when he was a boy and he obtained a good education in the graded and high schools of that city. After leaving his books he was connected for two years with the Marshall Gas Company. In 1890 he became identified with the Bank of Saline, as assistant cashier and has since hel(! this position continuously. Besides his executive position, he also holds a directorship in the l)ank and is one of its responsible officers. He is interested in agriculture and owns two farms in Saline county. l)esides a stock ranch in Morgan county, Missouri. He ranks high in the business world, bein.e; regarded as one of the shrewdest financiers of his aee in the countv.

After his father's death- he was appointed to hll out his term as pnl)hc administrator and gave a good account of himself in the management of this important trust. Mr. Francisco has long been a member of the First Presbyterian church, in which he holds the offices of deacon and superintendent of the Sunday school. His politics are Democratic, and his only fraternal connection is with the Alasons.

The Francisco family is of Virginia nati\ity but sent out branches to other states through emigrating descendants. Mr. Francisco's father, though born in Missouri, was reared in the Old Dominion and his grandfather. Dr. Charles Francisco, spent his whole life in the same historic commonwealth. Mr. Francisco's maternal grandfather was also a native of Virginia, though the maternal grandmother was a Kentuckian. The great-grandfather on the mother's side was an aide-de-camp on the stafT of General Lafayette.

This name recalls much of interest in United States history and carries the memorv back to the stirring days of the Revolution. As Doctor Harrison is a lineal descendant of those worthies and thus related to two Presidents, a few remarks of a geneological character will prove of interest. His great-grandfather was Capt. Benjamin Harrison, who held a commission in the Continental army, but had previously gained distinction under Gen. Andrew Lewis at the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. He served on the right wing aligned along Crooked creek, and it was the stubljorn fighting of this force that won the day for the American troops. The records show that this gallant officer removed from Wheeling to Kentucky in 1790. He located at Cynthiana, where he built a mill and became so conspicuous that a county (Harrison) was named after him. He was the first member of the Legislature from Bourbon county wdien Harrison county was formed from Bourbon and Scott. He married a Miss Newell in Virginia, by whom seven children were born, as follows : Batteal. William, Aristides, Catherine, wh(~) married Andrew Miller, Jane, who married William Hinkson, ]Mary and Julian. Two sons. William and Batteal, had noted careers. William settled in Crawford county, Missouri, about 18 17, entered the first land that was taken up after Missouri became organized as a state. He had twelve sons and two daughters. Batteal Harrison, who was born in Virginia in 1788. was three years of age when his parents removed to Kentticky and was left at

W lu-eliiis' ^vith his uncle. W illiam Vance, on account -of Indian troubles then prcvaihnii- on tlie lower Ohio. In i8ii Batteal Harrison located in Belmont countv. Ohio, and on July C). iSt2, he received from President Madison a commission as 'ensign in the Nineteenth Regiment Infantry, United States .\rm\-. On February i, 1815, he was promoted to the captaincy of the Second Company of Riflemen, in ^yhich capacity he served until the conclusi(^n of hostilities. After the war he was appointed adjutant-general of Ohio, was subsequently made brigadier-general, and while sen-ing in that ofhce in 1835 refused to muster "corn stalk" militia for the government. In 18 1 7 he was elected the associate judge of the court of common pleas for Fa\-ette countv, and also served in the Ohio Legislature. He married Elizabeth SctUt. of Lexington, Kentucky, daughter of Col. Mathew^ T. Scott, who received his title during the w-ar of the Revolution. Capt. Scott Harrison, son of Gen. Batteal Harrison, was born February 22, 18 17, and gained distinction during the Civil war. In 1862 he organized Company D, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was elected captain, and served until the fall of Vicksburg, when he was discharged by reason of disability, occasioned by illness. When the colonel of his regiment fell, he \yas promoted to command, but his personal regard for the oflicer ranking ahead of him caused him to refuse to accept. Subsequently he also declined the office of major, to which he had been elected. After the surrender of Vicksburg, he entered the Ohio militia and commanded his regiment at Chillicothe, during Morgan's raid. He married Frances Young, of Pickaway county, Ohio, and the children by this union were Annetta, Batteal, \'ance, Job V., Elizabeth, William, Belle, John and Jim Cook. He came to Missouri and located in Cooper county in 1865, but the next year removed to Marshall, where he died October 5, 1875. William Harrison, fifth in the above list of children, was born in Madison township, Fayetlc county, Ohio, July 8, 1850, and consequently ivas fifteen years old when his father came to Missouri. He attended school in Fayette county, Ohio, and Saline county, Missouri, and Professor Newton's Academy at Marshall, after which preparation he entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1874. For thirty years he has practiced continuously at Marshall, part of the time with Dr. B. St. George Tucker, and for twelve years as a partner of Dr. John B. Wood. During Cleveland's second administration he served as pension examiner and for a time as local surgeon for the Chicago & Alton railroad. He served as county physician, was organizer of and chief medical examiner of the Home Protective Association, founded in Marshall in 1897, and for many years has been local examiner for leading- insurance companies. He is a member of the Saline County, Missouri Valley, district and American Medical associations, and has been president of the society first named. In Masonry he has reached the rank of Knight Templar, and in politics he has always been a staunch Democrat, but never sought or cared for office.

October 4, 1881. Doctor Harrison married Sallie Akin Marmaduke and their only child died in infancy. Mrs. Harrison is a daug-hter of the late Col. Vincent Marmaduke, a native of Saline county, who was o.ie of her most substantial citizens and largest landowners. He was a '^on of Hon. M. M. Marmaduke, former governor of Missouri, and a brother of John S. Marmaduke, another governor of the state. Henry Marmaduke, another brother, was a colonel in the Confederate army and a lientenant on the ship "Merrimac" at the time of its famous battle with the "Monitor." Vincent Marmaduke was born in Saline county, Missouri, April 14, 183 1. He received a district school education, then became a student in the Masonic College, at Lexington, Missouri, where he graduated. He then entered the law course at Yale University, where he was graduated in 1852, being the valedictorian of his class. After leaving Yale he returned to Saline county, but did not practice his profession, engaging extensively in agricultural operations two miles southwest from Marshall. He was a colonel in the Confederate army and was with Highman's brigade. He was a member of the Missouri Legislature at the outbreak of the secession agitation and voted to keep his state in the union, but after the passage of the ordinance he joined the Confederate forces. He was commissioned by President Davis to go to England and France to purchase arms for the Confederacy and conceived the plan of supplying arms to the forty thousand Confederate prisoners at Chicago. For events growing out of this scheme he was himself arrested and confined in prison until the war was over. He was an intimate friend of the late Senator Vest and a decidedly picturesque character. After the war he engaged in the commission business at St. Louis, but soon afterward he and his brother, ex-Governor Mamiaduke, published an agricultural paper in the Missouri metropolis. Subsequently he resided for a wdiile at Sweet Springs, but afterwards came to ]\Iarshall. where he died at the home of Doctor Harrison, his son-in-law. His first wife was formerly Julia Eakin, of Shelbvville, Tennessee, to whom he was married in July, 1853, and by whom he had two sons and two daughters : Mrs. R. W. Carey, of Kansas City, and Mrs. Dr. A\'illiam Harrison, the sons, Vincent, Jr., and John Eakin, being deceased. IMrs. Harrison's uncle, Claiborne Jackson, was governor of ]\Iissouri during the war. Mrs. Harrison died on September 18, 1861, at the age

Hi ihinv years, and 111 1S73 \ incciU ilarrison married Mrs. Katharine Ames, widow of tlenr\ Ames, who, at the time of his death, was the largest pork iiacker in Missouri. Mrs. Harrison's maiden, name was Scndder. She died on Se])temher ]8, 1893.

Doctor Harrison is hrmly convinced that his great-grandfather was the real signer of the Declaration of Indepeendence instead of the Benjamin Harrison to whom the honor is usually awarded. The Doctor has made an extensive investigation of the facts, going over all the available records at Washington and elsewhere. The main points of his contention when summed up certainly look formidable. This Benjamin Harrison became a captain in the Revolutionary war, and was an ardent supporter and friend of Patrick Henry, through whose efforts he was elected first revolutionary governor of Virginia. He resigned in favor of Governor l>ee and formed a military company, with which he captured Governor Dunsmore's outfit and brought the supplies to Williamsburg, w'here they were distributed to the state militia. This proceeding really formed the nucleus for rallying the revolutionary forces in Virginia and as such l)ecomes an historic fact of the first importance. Benjamin Harrison was a x'oung radical and an enthusiastic friend of Patrick Henry, while the other Benjamin Harrison was governor under King George. It seems quite logical that such a fiery young patriot should hasten to sign the immortal document of liberty, when more conservative men were holding back to watch the trend of events. In after years his heirs secured from the government a grant of six thousand and fourteen acres of land in Madison township, Fayette county, Ohio, for services rendered the government. The original deeds for this land are still in possession of his descendants and bear the signatures of Presidents Madison, Adams. Monroe and Jackson.

though young in years as well as practice, the firm of Nuckles Brothers has alrearly so popularized osteopathy at Marshall and in the surrounding country that they enjoy a good patronage. Thoroughly educated in their profession, attentive to business, of genial address and courteous to all, their fine offices in the city are the goal of many callers, and the enterprising young physicians begin to enjcn' the prosperity that comes from a numerous clientele. The father of the members of this firm came to Missouri al>)ut 1870. being a native of Virginia. He engaged in farming in

Pike county after coming to this state, and in 1892 moved to a place near Marshall where he still resides. He married Ella Robinson, of Pike county, ^^lissouri, by whom he has two sons. George T. and Robert H., who are associated together in the practice of osteopathy. R. H. Nuckles, the elder, was Ijorn in Pike county, Missouri, December 17, 1874, and was reared on a farm, obtaining his education in the country schools. In 1893 he entered Missouri Valley College, took four years' work and came out well equipped in those departments of learning taught at such institutions. His next step was matriculation in the American School of Osteopathy at Ivirksville, Missouri. He obtained a degree from that fine school in the fall of 1899 and immediately set about his entrance into a profession for a lifetime career. Selecting Marshall as a live city and a suitable location for a live man, he decided to "hang out his shingle" there and seek no further. All the signs indicate that he chose well, as there is every indication of prosperity about the premises of Doctor Nuckles.

In' 1900 Doctor Nuckles married Bessie B.. daughter of Jerry Baker, now a resident of Fresno, California. Mrs. Nuckles was born in Monroe countv, Missouri. The Doctor and wife have two children, Ella Frances and Florence Marie. Dr. Nuckles belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Maccabees, and is also a member of the National and State Osteopathic Associations. He and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

Robert S. Sandidge

The subject of this sketch is a pioneer of Saline county, both in the newspaper line and as a citizen. For nearly half a century Robert S. Sandidge has wielded an editorial influence as a moulder and reflector of public opinion in this section of Missouri, and his influence has permeated other parts of the state. To serve well a clientele, embracing the intelligence and worth of one of the richest and best counties in the great state of Missouri, is a task of no slight responsibility, whose faithful permanence entitles the one who does it to a high place in the county's history. Since 1865 the Progress has made its weekly visits to the homes of practically all the most substantial people of the county, conveying its message of current news of the town and country-side. It has always been on the right side of every question involving the public morals and general welfare. Its influence has been used for the iii)litt of the community, its o;ro\vth, development and progress along ri«dit lines. Mr. Sandidge is a versatile and comprehensive writer, with a line sense of discrimination and a just appreciation of his responsibihty to the communit\. Possessing a warm and generous nature and genial personality, his heartv friendship and interested sympathy appeal at once to all who share his acfjuaintance. This veteran editor was bom near Greensburg. Kentuckv. in 1838. his parents being Aaron and Polly (Thompson) Sandidge. the father a native of Albermarle county. Virginia, and the mother a Kentuckian. Grandfather John Sandidge was a planter in Virginia, who served in the Revolutionar\- war as a captain under General Washington, lie joined the early emigration to Kentucky, when it was acquiring the name of the "Dark and Bloody Ground," secured some wild land and farmed on an extensive scale until his death. His son Aaron followed in his footsteps as a farmer and devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits. His wife was a daughter of John Thompson, representative of a prominent Virginia family, who at a later period located in Kentucky and reared his children while farming on an extensive scale. Robert S. was one of the youngest of a large familv and had the misfortune of l)eing orphaned in his fourteenth year. He had the invaluable, though hard, training which comes to a boy on a pioneer farm. It w'as mostly work, amusements being few and far between, and opportunities for education were limited, owing to the poor quality of the schools and their scarcity. After his father's death, he decided to try his fortunes in the new state of Missouri, wisely selecting Saline county as a base of operations, and arrived at Marshall in March. 1855. Jo^i" ^V. Sandidge. one of his uncles, had preceded him and he found a temporary home under his hospitable roof. Vov three }ears he was in the employment of Col. George W. Allen, after which he became a student at Miami Institute, from which he was graduated in due course. Leaving college, he secured a school in Saline county, and followed the occupation of teaching until i860, when his real life's work l:>egan. From an early age he had had the "ink on his fingers" and longed to be an editor, with that enthusiasm which is half the ])rice of success. His first investment was the Saline County Standard, which he edited until the opening of the Civil war and then suspended to exchange the pen for the sword. In July. 1862. he enlisted in the United States Missouri Cavalry, was assigned to Compan}- E. and was mustered into the service at Lexington. Two of his brothers were in the Confederate army, jnit Mr. Sandidge stood firmly by the I'nion cause and risked his life for It on many a well-fought field. Among the more important battles in which he bore a part were those at Prairie Grove and Little Rock. Durinsr

General Steele's expedition to Shreveport. Louisiana, Mr. Sandidge was appointed sergeant under the commanding officer and has very lively recollections of that march, as the fighting was going on every day and night. In 1864 and the spring of 1865 he served at department headquarters, during which time his advancement to the rank of captain was recommended, but he did not receive his commission until the close of the war. In June, 1865, he was mustered out of the service at Little Rock and returned home the following month. His old ambition had not left him and he lost no time in starting The Jl'cckly Progress, which he has continuously edited since and made a household word all over Saline county. He has been in the midst of every political fight that has occurred since the surrender, his caustic pen being especially effective during the reconstruction period. He has a well equipped job ofifice in C(^nnection with his ])aper and enjoys a lucrative business.

In 1874 Mr. Sandidge married Alice Chastain. a native of Christian county, Kentucky. Although the}- have had no children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Sandidge have proven veritable good Samaritans in their assistance to others. Thev adopted two homeless unfortunates as their own, whom they have reared to maturity with tender affection, giving them every care that could be suggested by paternal regard. The names of these children are Robert and Alice Dunn, who looked upon Mr. and Mrs. Sandige with the affection of real children. Alice Dunn died at the age of twenty-four years in 1901. She was a young lady of rare attainments, a graduate of the Marshall high school and the Missouri Valley College, and her untimely death was a source of genuine regret to the entire community. For many years Mr. Sandidge has served as secretary of the Democratic county central committee and was honored by election to the mayoralty of Marshall. He belongs to the Odd Fellows lodge and, with his wife, is a member of the Christian church.

Edmund L. Brown

The family of this name were Virginians. \\ho came to Missouri in 1837 and settled near Arrow Rock, when tlie county was but sparsely settled, and ranked among the earliest pioneers of that section. Edmund Brown, head of the house, had l>een a planter in his native Virginia, and after reaching the west continued in agricultural pursuits. He brought with him a son. named Marshall A., who was born in Virginia in 1833. but grew up in Missouri, Avhere he studied medicine and became prominent and successful as a practicing physician. He served in the Confederate army as a surgeon and practiced medicine about ten years after the war, when he engaged in the drug business at Miami. In 1883 he removed to Marshall, where he re-entered the drug business and followed it with more or less attention until his death, in 1906, at the age of seventy-three. During the latter years of his life, though retaining his interests, he gave little attention to the active conduct of the store, which he left to younger hands. He was educated at the University of Virginia and Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, belonged to the Episcopal church, and had all the characteristics of the Virginia gentleman of the old school. As one of the pioneers of Saline county and a prominent physician and druggist in this section during the last fifty vears. few men were better known than Dr. Marshall A. Brown. He married ]\Iattie \\'aters, a native of ^Missouri, whose parents came to Boone county from Virginia some half century ago and were identified prominently with the affairs of their community. Doctor Brown's wife died in 1876, after becoming the mother of two children, the younger of whom is Gertrude W., of Marshall.

Edmund L. Brown, the only son, was born at Miami, Saline county, Missouri, March 26, 1872. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and Marshall. Entering the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, he was graduated from that institution in 1893, '^^^ i^ January of the same year was taken in by his father as a partner in the drug business at Marshall. He retained this interest and acted as the managing partner most of the time until January i, 1907, when he assumed full charge as sole proprietor. His store has become noted as "The Red Cross Pharmacy," and has long occupied the enviable position of being the leading store in town. Mr. Brown is a stockholder in the Mose H. Land Milling Company of Marshall. He is a Mason and an Elk, being the first exalted ruler of Marshall Lodge, No. 1096, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

October 26, 1888, Mr. Brown married Elizabeth, daughter of Clifton E. Denny, a prominent old settler of Howard county, Missouri. They have two children, Edmund M. and Elizabeth D. Mr. Brown belongs to the Episcopal church, while his wife is a Presbyterian. His father served under General Price during the Civil war. He joined immediately after graduating from the medical college in 1861, and was placed on the medical staff as soon as it was known that he was a physician. He was very fond of fishing and hunting as well as every other out-of-doors sport. He was also a student of botany for his own pleasure and knew the names of all the native plants.

A lover of music, he was an accomplished violinist, and his son has two old and very rare and valuable violins that used to be owned by this fine old gentleman.

Such men make good company and those who knew Doctor Brown intimately greatly valued his friendship. With a well trained mind, much information concerning the older times and ability to play on the king of musical instruments, he was a man to be sought after for information, enterlainment and instruction concerning many useful subjects.

Charles Dana Newton

All the older citizens of Saline county cherish pleasant recollections of the late George B. Newton, whose calling as an educator brought him in close touch with the children of the last generation. Many boys and girls from this county were pupils under Professor Newton at his college in Pettis county, which he made locally famous by its good instruction and popularity, his kindness and care to all under his charge. Born in Massachusetts, Professor Newton was a natural-born teacher, seeming to have breathed in the spirit of education with the crisp air of his New England home. The "Yankee Pedagogue" has long been famous and the South and West have in the past been much indebted to New^ England for masters she sent out to instruct the youth in a section sadly in need of schools during its formative period. Professor Newton was reared in Kentucky, and before coming to Missouri had charge of a college in Louisville. He also taught school a number of vears in Marshall, where he died about seventeen years ago at the age of seventy-two. He married Louise Haven, a native of Vermont, who died after becoming the mother of seven children, all of whom are living in Marshall ; the eldest is the wife of Judge Samuel Davis, and the others in order of birth are Mary G., Mrs. A\'. R. Redmand, G. W.. Sue. Leslie M. and Charles Dana.

Charles Dana Newton, youngest of this family, was bom in Pettis county, Missouri. February 12, 1865. He was instructed in private by his father, and as the latter was one of the best teachers in the state, it is needless to say that the son was well taught. His sister, who was also a teacher, gave him valuable lessons in the line of primary education. When eighteen years old he entered tlie Progress office as a printer's "devil." but soon rose from that lowly estate until he became business manager, in which capacity he worked until 1^04. In iliai _\car he purchased the Citizen , and has since successfully conducted that paper, advocating Democratic principles, but meantiuK' nc^t forgetting- to solicit advertising and job work, of which he has received a liberal share. Mr. Xewton is an energetic, ])rogressive and ingenuous newspaper man, with original ideas and up-to-date methods. He is <(uite popular as a citizen, stands high as a business man and enjoys a hue patronage in his mechanical dc])artment.

In i8gi. Mr. Xewton married Nora C, daughter of E. R. Page, a well known citizen of Marshall. The two children by this union are named Nelle and Louise \\. The parents are members of the old-school Presbyterian churcli ruid .Mr. Xewton is connected with the Elks and other fraternal orders.

William S. Booker, retired farmer and a descendant of a prominent old \'irginia family of Revolutionary fame, is a native of Virginia and a son of V'\nk D. and Martha A. ( I'owell) Booker, both parents being from the Old Dominion state. John Booker, the subject's grandfather, also a V^irginian by birth, served throughout the Revolutionary war and afterwards became a well-to-do planter and large slave holder. He reared a large family and died in his native state many years ago. Pink Booker being the younger of his children.

I'ink D. Booker was born in 1798 and when a young man married Ahirtha Powell and engaged in agricultural pursuits near the place of his birth, where he remained until 1837, wdien he migrated to Missouri and located in Saline county. He brought with him to his new home a large number of slaves whcMn he utilized in developing and cultivating the thousand-acre tract of land which he purchased, and which in due time he converted into one of the finest and most productive farms in the county. During the late Civil war he sympathized with the South, and the freeing of his sixty bondsmen by the Emancipation Proclamation caused him considerable pecuniary loss. Renting his lands about the close of the struggle he retired to the town of Miami, and afterwards disposed of his farm and lived on the proceeds until his death in the year 1872. Pink D. Booker at the age of fifteen enlisted in a X'irginia regiment and served in the war of 181 2. taking part in a number of battles and earning an honorable record as a soldier. He was a true tyj)e of the Virginia gentleman of the old school, intelligent, liberal to a fault and enterprising in tlie fullest acceptance of the term. He was an earnest member of the Baptist church, a \Mng- until 1856, when he joinefl the Democratic party, whose principles he continued to support during the remainder of his life. Airs. Booker survixed her husband until April 15. 1896. when she was called to her reward at the remarkable age of more than ninetyfive years. Her grandfather. Anderson Powell, was a Virginian, highly esteemed by all who knew him and a man of much more than ordinary intelligence and influence. To IMnk D. and Alartha .\. Booker nine children were born, viz: Elizabeth, deceased; Mrs. Mary P. Wooldridge ; Mrs. Mariah J. Scott; Pattie. who died unmarried; William S.. the subject of this sketch; Edward P.. deceased; Thomas H.; Airs. Emma Kitchen and Airs. Addie A. Lattimer.

\Mlliam S. Booker was born in Virginia. November 25. 1829. and at the age of eight vears was brought by his parents to Missouri, where he has since li\ed. He received a fair education in his youth, grew to maturity on his father's farm and when he began life for himself chose agriculture for his vocation, which calling he followed until his retirement from active labor a few years ago.

In 1862 Mr. Booker entered the Confederate army, joining Polk's division and taking- part in a number of engagements in Missouri and elsewhere, being first under fire at the battle of Boonville, shortly after which his six-months term of enlistment expired, when he returned home. Later, when General Price made his raid through Missouri, he again entered the service and accompanied that commander's force into Arkansas, where he took part in a number of hotly contested battles and experienced in full measure all the hardships and vicissitudes of a soldier's life. He was at Eort Ar- Inickle when the war closed and. making his wa}- home as soon as possible, resumed his farming operations, but without the help of all his slaves, although most of them remained with him for some time on account ()f his kind treatment, a few. however, leaving the old home and going to other parts of the country.

Air. Booker continued farming and stock raising, with gratifying results, until 1907. when he turned his farm over to other hands and moved to Alarshall. where, surrounded b}- many material comforts and blessings, he is passing the evening of a long, strenuous and useful life in quiet and content. He cast his first vote in 1852 for Gen. Zachary Taylor, the Wh\g candidate for President, but four years later tarnsferred his allegiance to the Democratic party, with which he has since acted and for which he has wielded a strong influence, but never in the direction of public or official honors for liiniself. A number of years ago he united with the Baptist church and began the Christian Hfe, being at this time a member of the local congregation in Marshall.

On January 13, 1852, Mr. Booker and Octavia White, of Madison county, Virginia, were united in the holy bonds of wedlock, their union being blessed with the following children: Thomas S., a traveling salesman for a St. Louis wholesale house ; Dunlap L., who is engaged in mining in Arizona ; Ernest F., of Cape Nome, Alaska; William P., a farmer of Saline county; Charles H.. also of this county and a teacher by profession, and Kate. Mrs. Booker's parents, Thomas and Catherine (Fry) White, came to Missouri, in [837 and located at Glasgow, where he built the second house, helped to lay nut the town, and where he engaged in the mercantile business. He was quite successful as a merchant and became one of the influential citizens of that town, but was cut off in the prime of life and usefulness at the early age of thirtv-two years. His wife subsequently married Jesse Hastings, of Glasgow.

Reuben Blakey Eubank

Though now retired, the venerable pioneer above named has for more than fifty- four years been one of the most progressive and prosperous farmers of Saline county. He comes of an old and highly honorable family whose origin is traceable to England and whose representatives have figured prominently in many different states. His great-grandsire emigrated tn this country as far back as 1727, being one of four brothers who settled in Virginia. A little account book kept by this old colonial and which is still in the possession of his grandson shows by its accuracy that he was a man of- , education and business ability. He married Margaret Lewis in Virginia and one of the children by this union was a son named Joseph, who was born ]\Iay 9, 1763. He was a farmer and dealer in merchandise, besides owning and operating a fiouring mill. One of his sons, also named Joseph, was a mechanical genius, and though he never patented it he claimed the honor of discovering the principle of a self-feeder for a cotton gin. He also invented the steam governor for engines and in other ways exhibited marked talents. He was a watchmaker by trade and surpassed all competitors by the skill and originality of his work. November 27, 1794. Joseph Eubank married Elizabeth ^^'hite. who was born in Virginia, November 8. 1774. They had ten children, all of whom lived to maturity, and among the number was Henry

Eubank, who was born in Virg-inia. September 14. 1795. In early manhood he migrated to Kentucky, where he became prominent as a merchant and trader and in other ways. Until 1829 he was engaged in business at Glasgow, but in that year retired to his farm and spent the closing years of his life in rural pursuits. Having considerable knowledge of military tactics, he held the offices of captain and major in the state militia. He was quite prominent in Barren county and was identified with many public interests. He married Maria Garnett, who was born in Barren county, Kentucky, May 19, 1807, and of this union seven children were born : America, born at Glasgow, Kentucky, May 11, 1827, now resides in Jackson, Tennessee; Margaret D., bom September 15, 1829, married Robert T. Grady, and both are residents of Saline county; James, born April 27. 1833. married Martha Thomas, and is at present a farmer and money lender in Texas; Richard Garnett, born October i, 1835. married Catherine Wolf skill and is engaged in farming and grape culture in California ; Elizabeth Frances, born September 9, 1838, married H. C. Irby and resides in Tennessee, where her husband is one of the faculty of a Baptist school ; Henry, born March 28, 1844, married Nancy Fishback, and makes his home in Barren county, Kentucky. Reuben B. Eubank, eldest of the seven children, was born at Glasgow, Kentucky, February 9, 1824. He left school at the age of eighteen to engage as clerk for David R. Young, a storekeeper of the town, receiving only his board and clothing as pay. After a year he entered the employment of Joseph Glazebrook, in consideration of one hundred dollars per annum, with board and washing-. He retained this position for three years and then went to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, but returned in a few months to his former employer. He was thus variously engaged until his marriage, when he went to farming, his wife having been presented by her father with a tract of two hundred acres of land. This, however, was afterwards traded for a money consideration and he embarked in the business of tobacco culture, to which five years were devoted, but becoming- dissatisfied with the narrow scope of his life and opportunities, he sold his little farm for ten dollars an acre and in 1855 crossed the Mississippi river into Missouri. Having picked out Saline county as a desirable place of abode, he rented a farm for two years and then purchased a tract of practically unimproved land, three miles northwest of Slater, to the clearing of which he bent all his energies for some years. From time to time he added to his original purchase until at one period he owned over four thousand five hundred acres of land in Saline and adjoining counties. Mr. Eubank has every tax receipt that he received, the first dated 1846, showing that he paid thirty-one cents for county levy and >i.uL iiNLiiuc. In after years the taxes amounted to five hundred dollars annually, lie has heen a very industrious man, of remarkably fine business judi^-nient. and one of the best practical farmers that ever turned the sod in the state of Missouri. He is now a resident of Marshall, living- there in di,i;nified ea.se and restful enjoyment, hale and hearty, at the advanced age of eight\-si.\. lie has heen a memher of the Christian church since i<S58. and has been conspicuous for his liberality in religious causes, as well as for his charital)le deeds in the community. Among his numerous gifts was one of one hundred and si.xty acres of land and h\e hundred cash to the Bible School of Columbia. .Missouri: two thousand h\e hundred dollars to the Christian Church University, at Canton. Missouri, and a three thousand dollar parsonag-e to the Christian church at Marshall. Impecimious youngmen of ambition and talent have found in him a read)", sympathizing friend and helper. He has gi\en lo his children over nineteen hundred acres of land and several thousand dollars in cash. Originally a Whig, he became a Democrat when the old ])arty went to pieces and has always taken an active interest in reform work.

(\-tol)er 30, 1848, Mr. Eubank married Martha, daughter of Robert S. Thom])son. member of an old and representative family of Hart county, Kentucky. By this union there were three children: Robert, deceased. Henry ;uid iveuben. The eldest was born in Barren county, Kentucky, in 1849, married Mar\- Bumbarger and resided near Slater, where he engaged in farming until his death, which occurred December 24, 1875. His only son is a resident of Bourbon county. Kentucky. Henry, who was born in Hart county. Kentucky, in 1852, married Jane Jenkins, of Slater, and now lives in Chariton county. Missouri, where he farms and preaches. Reuben, who was born in Saline county, married Mary Campbell, and is engaged in business at Lexington. Missouri. After the death of his first wife, January 25. i86f, Mr. Eubank was married to Elizabeth Whitaker, on June 22, 1861. She was born in Boone county, Kentucky, May 18, 1834, and died February 28, 1873, after becoming the mother of four children, the eldest of whom died in infancy. Those living are John, who was born in Saline county. April 12. 1863. married Lucy Smith and is engaged in farming. Ernest was born in Saline county. July 6, 1864, married Lillie (iaines. and has been farming for some years. Jerome, born October 3, 1865, married Zudie l\u-dom, and is engaged in stock-lniying at the Kansas City stock yards. The third marriage of Mr. Eubank occurred July 30, 1873, to Annie Eliza Keeper, who was born January 13, 1838, at Monticello, Lewis county, Missouri. She is die mother of three children, the eldest of whom, Charles, died in infancv.

Those li\"ing' are Preston Leeper. born March 3. 1877: married Okie Dver and resides at Slater; Katharine Alariah. born February 20, 1881. married Eugene Wesley Collier and resides with her parents in Marshall.

William James Herxdox

Piolding worthy prestige among the representative men of Saline county is William J. Herndon, a retired farmer who was born July 16. 1829, in Ken.tuck}-. being a son of Benjamin and Susan ( Fox) Herndon. natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively, (ieorge Herndon. the subject's grandfather, was a \"irginian by birth and of Scotch <lescent. his ancestors having been among the early colonists who settled in the Old Dominion state. He went to Kentuck}- when that country was on the frontier, took an active part in de\'eloping the locality in which he settled and in the course of time became a prominent planter and large slave holder. While the war of 18 12 was in progress he volunteered for ser\'ice. Imt hostilities having ceased before his command reached the scene of action, his military career was of short duration. He was one of the leading Democrats in his part of the country, a member of the Primiti\e Baptist church and a man of strict integrity and high sense of humor. He reared a family of eleven children and died man^- vears ago in the localit}- which he helped redeem from the wilderness.

Benjamin Herndon grew up and married in his native state and in 1830 mo^-ed to Cooper county, Missouri, where he settled and later purchased a farm upon which he resided until his death. He was widely known and greatly esteemed, having lived to a good old age in Cooper countv. His wife survived him ten years, during which time she lived on the family homestead and managed the affairs with ability and skill.

Benjamin and Susan Herndon were the parents of seven children, the subject of the sketch being the oldest of the family: the others were John (who died in young manhood), George (also deceased). Mrs. Martha Fray. Mrs. Mary Higgerson, Thomas (deceased), and Henr}-. who was killed during the Civil war, while at home.

William J. Herndon was a little over a year old when his parents moved to Missouri, and he remained with them until 1853. when he married and changed his residence to Saline county, with the interests of which his life has since l)een identified. He first purchased a small farm, giving a horse and five dollars on the deal, but by industry and oood manasfeiuent succeeded in iiRTiuig ilie other payments as they became due and it was not long until his place was free from encumbrance. The country at that time was new and the period duriui,'- the Civil war was troublesome. As soon as able he added to his original eight\-acrc tract and by making purchases from time to time finally became the possessor of seven hundred and eighty acres of fine land, the greater part of which he stocked with superior breeds of cattle and in this wav realized a handsome competency and a position of financial independence. ^Ir. Herndon remained on his farm until 1895, when he turned it over to other hands and moved to Marshall where he erected a commodious residence, in which he has since lived a retired life. Since becoming a resident of the city, he has divided his lands among his children, giving each an equal share, only requiring of them during his life a low rate of interest on a moderate valuation of the estate. During the Civil war Mr. Herndon, like the majority of his fellow citizens, favored the Southern cause, but refused to take any part in the struggle, though suffering much from the depredations of guerillas on both sides. At one time he was conscripted by the Confederates and held for several hours on account of his refusing to take oath and enter the ranks, but he finally succeeded in making his escape. After the war he prospered in all of his undertakings until his retirement in the year indicated and by his manly conduct and honorable life won the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and fellow citizens.

In his political views Mr. Herndon has always been an uncompromising Democrat, and as such has rendered valuable service to his party, though not as a partisan or office seeker. In religion he was originally a Missionary Baptist, but finding the Christian church more in accord with his ideas, he subsequently united with the latter and is now one of the influential workers in the society which worships in Marshall. As stated in a preceding paragraph, he was married in 1853, choosing for his wife Mary E. Mc]\Iahan, of Cooper county, and a daughter of Samuel W. and Harriet (Riddle) Mc- Mahan, natives of Kentucky and early settlers of Cooper county, where the father of Samuel W. was killed by the Indians. Mrs. Herndon was the oldest of a family of thirteen children and a woman of high social standing and sterling worth. She bore her husband thirteen children, whose names are as follows: Susan M.. who married James Hudson, after whose death she became the wife of R. P. Matthews; John; Elizabeth, now Mrs. James Clark; Martha E.. wife of T. M. Eisher; Mrs. Lucy Eenwick; Henry \\'. died in childhood; William L. ; Ella died young; Levert, deceased wife of Floyd I'leshman; Ann died in infancy: Benjamin; Maud married Finis Boatright, and Ella, whose death occurred in earlv life. The mother of these children dying October 7, 1877, Mr. Herndon, in the year 188 1, was united in marriage with Mrs. Adelia M. Harris, widow of WilHam J. Harris and a daughter of Stephen and Ehzabeth (Jones) Turley, w^ho has proven a faithful wife and devoted stepmother to the younger children left in her care.

Air. and Mrs. Turley were natives of Kentucky and pioneers of Missouri territory, to which they moved as early as the year 18 11. He often had to stand guard against the Indians and at one time was attacked in the woods by a savage, whom he shot and killed. He went to California in 1850 and died in that state. His widow survived him until her ninetieth year and departed this life in Cooper county. They reared a large family, Mrs. Herndon being one of the younger children and among the few left in the state of Missouri, her marriage being without issue.

George Young

Prominent among the leading farmers and influential citizens of Saline cou.nty is the well known and highly esteemed gentleman whose name introduces this sketch and who is now rounding out a long and useful career 1)y a life of honorable retirement in the city of Marshall, where he has made his home since the year 189 1. George Young was bom December 2. 1833, in Maryland, and is the son of Henry and Margaret (Chiswell) Young, both natives of that state. By occupation Henry Young was a tiller of the soil. He was a plain, practical man of sound intelligence and well balanced judgment, stood high in the esteem of his neighbors and friends and was long noted for his strict integrity and high sense of honor. He spent all of his life in his native state and died near the place of his birth in 1858, his wife surviving him until 1865. She belonged to an old and prominent Maryland family, and bore her husband children as follows: Mrs. Catherine Hughes; Joseph, who died while enroute to California in 1849; Henry lives in the old Maryland homestead; Margaret, wife of Isaac Young; John, of Marshall, Missouri; George, of this review; Elizabeth, who married Doctor Shaefer, and Sallie, now Mrs. Getzendiner.

George Young spent his early life at the family home and remained under the parental roof until twenty years of age, when he went to Springfield, Illinois. After spending the summer in that state, he came to Missouri and in the spring of 1854 to Saline county, where he decided to locate permanently. Here he turned his hand to any kind of honorable labor he could liiul and saved his eaniinss with the object in view of investino- in real estate and securino- a home of his own. Receiving some assistance from home, he afterwards purchased land and in due time improved a good farm. wJiich he cultivated with gratifying results until the breaking out of the Civil war caused the county to be overrun by bands of lawless Imsh whackers, to the great annoyance and dread of the law^ abiding and peacefully inclined citizens.

in the fall of 1864 Mr. with three or four other men. joined the command of General Price and while enroute to Arkansas, where they expected to secure arms, his horse received an injury which rendered it unfit for active ser\-ice. A young man having been wounded in the meantime, it was decided to lea\e him in the care of the subject and his comrades, who, as soon as practical)le shcnild acc(^mpany him to his home. When the injured man was able to travel the party started on what proved to be a very hazardous jouri^ev. the country .being infested with wild and lawless men who did not hesitate at anv kind of crime or commit upon the inofifensive all sorts of cruelt\-. On this account Mr. Young and his companions were obliged to travel bv night, and it was not until after a long and trying experience, lying in the woods, eluding the vigilance of the bushw-hackers and enduring hunger and much other suffering, that they finally arrived at their destination and rejjorted to the proper authorities. Mr. Young was told to go home and remain there until further orders, but a few weeks later he was arrested and taken to Warrensburg, thence to McDcnvell's College in St. Louis, where he was kept under surveillance for six weeks. At the e\]:)iration of that time he was transferred to the military prison at Alton. Illinois, where he remained in confinement until the close of the war, when he returned home. His farm ha\ ing been rented in the meantime. Mr. Young and wife seized uix)n the opportunity to pay a visit to his old home in Maryland, which being ended he returned to Saline county and resumed farming, which he follow^ed with most encouraging success until the fall of 1891, when he discontinued manual labor and moved to Marshall, where he has since lived a retired life.

By diligence and good management Mr. Young so conducted his agricultural and live stock interests as to accumulate a handsome c(^mpetence. and he is now in independent circumstances and one of the financially solid and reliable men of his city and countv. Tn addition to the fine farms which he still owns and which are operated bv his son, he has a commodious modern residence in Marshrdl. besides other propertx' in the citw to say nothing of capital invested in various ways, which returns him a liberal income.