Shelby County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1911 (part 3 of 16)

In this industry his interest is absorbed and to its study and development his time is given. He has become thoroughly familiar with all the details and features of the business and is recognized wherever he is known as an authority of extensive information and entire reliability on the subject and all matters connected with it. In this connection it should be noted that he served for years as secretarv of an industrial association made up of Shelby and Monroe county shorthorn breeders, and also as manager and conductor of its sales of stock, which took place annually, the two positions being awarded to him without opposition, so complete was his mastery and knowledge of the business considered.

Mr. Bailey has taken considerable interest in the public affairs of his county, state and country. He is an ardent believer in the principles of the Democratic party and an earnest and effective worker in its behalf. He is also prominent in the fraternal life of the community as a member of the Masonic order, having served as Worshipful Master of the Lodge, High Priest of the Eoyal Arch Chapter, and Worthy Patron of the local organization of the order of the Eastern Star. He and wife hold membership in the Southern Methodist church and are energetic and zealous workers. On September 1, 1892, he was married to Miss Frances Quisenberry, of Santa Fe, this state. They have had five children, three of whom are living and still imder the parental roof tree. They are Blanche, Twila and Phyllis.

Judge Newton Adams

This venerable citizen of Shelbina, has outlived the allotted time of man, as prescribed by the jialmist, but he is still hale and hearty, and takes an active interest in all that pertains to the progress and advancement of the people among whom he has so long lived and labored. Judge Adams is a native of the "Blue Grass" state, having been born in Henry county of that state on January 1, 1823.

His parents, James and Katherine (Thornton) Adams, were natives of Kentucky and V i r g i n a resi^ectively, the father, like himself, being a native of Henry county, and there passed the active years of his life engaged in farming. In 1864. however, he severed the ties that bound him to his native state, and joined his children, who had preceded him to the great state of Missouri, making his home with them until his death, which occurred in Monroe county in 1874.

He was twice married. His first wife, the mother of the interesting subject of the article, died in Kentucky, in 1845. Six sons and three daughters were born to them, all of whom are now dead but two sons and a daughter. The father chose for his second wife, Susan Kerlin, a widow. To them was born one son, Joseph W., who is now a resident of Chariton county, ]\Iissouri.

The grandfather of Judge Adams was AYilliam Adams, a native of Ireland. He emigrated to America just prior to the revolution and settled in Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the war of the revolution, serving for nearly two years. When the colonies secured their independence, and peace was at last restored he emigrated to Kentucky, and there passed the residue of his life. Pour of his sons saw service in the war of 1812, three of them were in the Northern campaign, and one was with General Jackson at New Orleans. One son, William, died in Canada, while in the service.

Judge Newton Adams grew to manhood among the pioneer scenes of his native state, and endured many of the hardships and dangers incident to the settlement and development of that great commonwealth.

He attended the primitive schools of the day, but was early in life compelled to make his own way in the world, and began laying the foundation of his own fortune by working on nearby farms. The wages were small and thinking to better his condition, in 1850, he severed the home ties and started for Missouri, which was at that time attracting so many of the young men of that section. The trip was made by water to Hannibal, and he arrived there on Christmas daj" of the same year.

The land was unimproved, and he at once set about making a home for himself, enduring all the hardships and privations incident to the founding of a home in a new countrj'. He continued to reside on that farm until 1864, bringing it to a high state of protluctiveness. In that year he disposed of the land and removed to Shelbina, where he made his home until 1883, when he purchased another tract of land in ^lonroe county, six miles southwest of Shelbina.

This land he improved and resided upon until 1889. when he disposed of it and removed to Columbia, ^fissouri, that his children might have the advantage of the excellent schools of that place. After a residence of two years in Columbia, he again returned to Shelbina. and purchased a farm one mile south of the city on which he lived imtil 1906, when he retired from all active pursuits, and is now j passing the eveuiug of his loug aud active life in the city of Shelbiua, surrounded by a host of friends who respect him for the many sterling qualities of mind and heart they know him to possess.

"While a resident of Shelby county, Judge Adams was called upon to serve as county judge of the county, being first appointed to fill an unexpired term in 1871, and elected in the fall following to succeed himself in the same office, and in this connection it might be well to state that he was the first Democrat elected to office in Shelby county after the war. While a resident of Monroe county he filled the office of justice of the peace for a number of years, and also of county assessor for one term.

In polities the judge was first a "Know Nothing," but after the death of that party he aligned himself with the Democratic party, and for many years was considered one of the leaders in Shelby county.

He was married in Monroe county, March 2, 1851, to Mrs. Martha (Sparks) Heridon, who like himself is a native of Kentucky. Ten children have been born to them, seven of whom are living - Sarah, William, Lucy, Mattie, Newton T., Jane and Vinnie.

In religion he and wife are members of the Presbyterian church, the judge having united with the church when he was twenty years of age. He was also one of the charter members of the church at Shelbina and an elder of the same. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, becoming a Master Mason in 1862, and has filled the chairs of Sr.,

Charles S. Barker

In the productive fields of peaceful industry, in military service during the great Civil war, in connection with the management of mighty utilities of every day service to the people, and again in farming for a period, and then in the employ of the national government, Charles S. Barker, of Shelbina, has been of great service to the citizens of Missouri and several other states. His life of sixty-five years to this time has been a very busy one fi'om the age at which he became able to work, and all his pursuits have ministered directly aud substantially to the comfort, convenience and general well-being of the public. His long and faithful devotion to duty and his excellent record in every way have brought him the continued esteem of all who know him and registered him in the regard of the people as one of the most useful and worthy citizens of this county.

Mr. Barker is a native of Shelby county and was born on November 17, 1844. He is of Scotch ancestry on his father's side, his grandfather, John Barker, having been born in the romantic land of Scott and Burns. In the war of 1812 he raised a company of soldiers, with his brother George as captain. He emigrated to this coimtry in early manhood, locating in Clinton county, Pennsylvania, where Jonathan Barker, the father of Charles, was bom on July 27, 1808. From his youth until November, 1840, he was boatman on the Susque- hanna river. In the autumn of 1840 he came to this state and founded a new home on Salt river, in Shelby county, buying a tract of land which gave him water power for a mill. He developed his land and made it fruitful, and also built up an extensive trade at his mill, which he continued to develop until the high water of 1846 swejDt it away, following these pursuits steadily, industriously and profitably until his death on May 3, 1894.

Besides Jonathan Barker, others of his immediate family were instrumental in aiding the development of the country they had chosen for a home. His brother Geoi'ge, who came to this country in 1820, was a surveyor for forty years. He also built the first mill at AValkerville, the place taking its name from Jonathan Walker, an own cousin of the father of Charles Baker, and the grandfather, Charles Smith, built the old court house in Shelbina.

In November, 1842. he was married to Miss Emeline E. Smith, a resident of this county at the time but a native of Kentucky. Their offspring numbered ten and five are living, widely scattered in location and pursuits, but all exemplifying the lessons and examples given them around the family hearth in useful avocations and contributions to the growth and development of our common country. They are: The subject of this brief review; Washington D., a resident of Gridley, California ; Mary F., now I\Irs. William Kealey, of Shelbina; Amanda, wife of Samuel E. Baker, of Shelbina; Helen N., who is married to James S. Barker and lives at Gridley, California ; and Jennie, who is Mrs. William Baird, of Spokane, Washington. The father was a ^Tiig in national politics imtil the death of the "Whig party and the formation of its vigorous and aggressive successor, the Republican party, after which he gave his allegiance to the new organization and faithfully supported it as long as he lived. He was also a devout and serviceable member of the Baptist church for a great many years. He died after nearly completing his eightyninth year of life on earth, and left behind him as a priceless heritage for his children a good name and the record of well spent years and powers, in addition to the material accumulation they had enabled him to gather.

Charles S. Barker grew to manhood on his father's farm in Shelby county and obtained his education at the district school of the neighborhood, his experiences in these respects being like those of nearly all the children of the frontier. When the Civil war began he was but sixteen years of age, but he felt a stern call to duty in defense of the integrity of the Union, and, boy as he was, enlisted in the Federal army in a company that was soon afterward placed under the command of General John McNeil, of St. Louis, whose principal headquarters were at Cape Girardeau, in this state. The company participated in the battles of Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield and Kirksville in Missouri, and in many minor engagements. Mr. Barker escaped uninjured from the war and soon after its close became an employe of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company, which he served with fidelity and ability for a period of eighteen months. He then moved to Loekliaven, Pennsylvania, to be still connected with the railway service and take an appointment in it under the Pennsylvania system, in which he was emi^loyed five years.

In 1878, with, the training he had secured in his experience in the railway service, and his faculties broadened and brightened by work in a different section of the coimtrj^, Mr. Barker i-eturned to Missouri and during the next five j^ears devoted his energies to building bridges. He next engaged in farming for eight years on the old family homestead. In 1901 he entered the postal service Bf the United States in Shelbina and is still connected with it. He has given his support loyally to the Republican party from the dawn of his manhood, for many years has found the consolations of religion as an earnest worker in the Baptist church, of which he is a member, and has enjoyed fraternal life as a member of the Masonic order. On December 15, 1891, he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Parrish, of Macon county, in this state. The two children that have blessed their union, their daughters Virginia Frances and Ruth, still abide with them in their pleasant home iu Shelbina, which is a favorite resort of their hosts of admiring friends.

Farmers' And Merchants' Bank Of Hunnewell

This valued financial institution, which has been of great service to the community in which it has been operating for about two years, has already secured a hold on the public regard and confidence that assures its continued and increasing success, and promises great things for the future in the way of covenience to the people and development of the town and surrounding country, which have been greatly in need of the facilities it affords for the ijuick dispatch of business and convenience in transactions.

The bank was founded in November, 1908, with a capital stock of $10,000 and the following directorate : President, Albert L. Vaughn ; vice president, W. B. Arnold; cashier, W. B. Herron; directors, Albert L. Vaughn, W. B. Arnold, John W. Carr, Harry Duer, Ben Parsons, Jerry Jeffries, E. A. Fiye and C. L. Landrum. Mr. Frye died in April, 1910, and he was succeeded by J. Weldon Hardesty. From the day on which its doors were opened for business it has been doing well and steadily increasing its trade, while the public appreciation of its wise management, liberal policy and manifest soundness has grown as its operations have expanded. Located, as it is, at the junction of three rich and progressive counties, and having the enterprising people of them all to draw upon for business, the bank is bound to succeed and make its mark in the financial world. It is, moreover, under the management of careful and capable men, who, in protecting and advancing tbeir own interests in connection with it, will do all in their power to promote the welfare of its patrons and facilitate their business operations to the fullest extent consistent with safety and good banking direction. The bank does a general banking business, embracing every approved and up-to-date feature, and lays all its resources under tribute to ]irovide for the wants of the community and its people in every possible way.

Albert L. Vauglin, the president of the bank and its leading business inspiration and controlling force, is conducting his new venture right among the people with whom his whole life, so far, has been passed. He was born, reared and educated in ^lonroe county, and found his partner for life in Hunnewell. Those who trade with him and his bank know well, therefore, what to expect from his high character and the record of his years, which is an open book before them. His life began on his father's farm on July 31, 1870, and was passed under the family roof until he reached the age of twenty-eight.

His parents were Fielding Pope and Eva (Williams) Vaughn, the former a native of Lexington county, Kentuckj% and the latter bom and reared in Platte county, Missouri. They were married on November 16, 1868, and Albert was the first born of their sis children, five of whom are living, the others being J. C. Vaughn, of Eocky Ford, Colorado; Mattie B., wife of Eugene Gardner, of Kampa, Idaho; T. B. Vaughn, of Shelbina, and Pattie, who lives in Shelbina.

In political faith and activity the father was a firm and loyal Democrat all the days of his mature life, taking a great interest in the welfare of his party and doing all he could to promote it. Fraternally he was connected with the ^lasonic order, in which he was a Knight Temjilar; and in religious affiliation he was a member of the Christian church, in whose benevolent and evangelizing work he took the share of a zealous and effective worker. The first few years of his life in this state were pa.^^sed on a farm in Platte countv, and from tliere he moved to Monroe county, where he lived until his death in 1903. His father, who also was named Fielding Pope ^"aughn, was a native of Kentucky.

Albert L. Vaughn located in Himnewell on May 25, 1898. His first venture into the business life of the community was as a livery keeper and dealer in horses, a line of industry and merchandising he still follows in addition to his services at tlie bank. He was made president of this institution when it was founded in November, 1908, and is still rendering valued and fruitful service in that capacity, showing a film grasp of the business, a high degree of capacity for its requirements and continued fidelity and strict integrity in attending to it.

In politics ilr. Vaughn is a staunch and unwavering Democrat ; and although he desires none of the honors or emoluments of public office for himself, he takes an active part in the campaigns of his party and gives its candidates energetic and effective support on all occasions. His fraternal relations are with the order of Modem Woodmen of America and his religious connection is with the Christian church. In both organizations he is zealous and productive in his work, exhibiting wisdom and prudence in counsel and productive industry in effort in their behalf. He was married on November 20, 1897, to Miss Lyda Mc- Atee, of Hunnewell. Four children have brightened and sanctified their domestic altar. Of these, three are living and still surround the parental hearthstone. They are two daughters, Gladys and Althea, and one son, AHiert L.. Jr. Mr. Vaughn is in the prime of life, with all his faculties in full vi2;or. his energies awake and potential, and the ambitions of his career still unsatisfied. But with the progress he has made as a standard of deduction it is safe to say that he will win the success he aims at in business, as he has already won the guerdon of a high place in the good will and regard of the people among whom he lives and labors, expending his efforts in their behalf as well as in furtherance of his own fortunes.

Old Bank Of Shelbina

This fine and sterling institution, whose history runs like a veritable thread of gold through the chronicles of .Shelbiua, was founded in 1873, with a capital stock of $25,000. It was the successor of the First National Bank, which was foimded by John F. Benjamin, who conducted it for a number of years. It was then turned into a private bank and operated as such by Messrs. Eeid & Taylor, who had charge of it until it was reorganized as the Bank of Shelbina. Under this last name it was known and did a flourishing business until 1903, when a new charter was granted and "The Old Bank" was founded. In the management of its affairs William H. Warren succeeded Mr. Eeid and served as president of the Bank of Shelbina until his death in 1898.

AVhen the Old Bank was organized in 1903 it started business with a capital stock of $50,000. Its officers were : President, Frank Dimmitt; vice-president, D. G. Minter; cashier, C. K. Dickerson; assistant cashier, E. J. King; directors, C. H. Lasley, George AV. Humphrej^ James F. Allgaier, J. William Towson, E. E. Smith, Silas Threlkeed and Frank Dimmitt. It has a very creditable career and has been an essential and exceedingly serviceable factor in the development and progress of the community, and has contributed vitally and steadily to the comfort, convenience and substantial welfare of the people, helping, by its liberal policy and enterprising methods, all forms of public improvements and private undertakings, and it is justly esteemed as one of the leading elements of all that is good and useful in the financial life of the community.

The Hunnewell Bank

After ten years of active and increasing business, in which it has fully justified the hopes of its founders and met the expectations and requirements of the people who trade with it, the Hunnewell Bank can confidently claim that it deserves the high regard in which it is held in the community and the excellent reputation it has in the financial world. It was incorporated on January 18, 1889, under the name it now bears and with the following official staff and directorate : President, J. V. Cox ; vice president, John Bohrer ; cashier, W. F. Blackluirn; directors, the above named gentlemen and Thomas Irons, A. C. Balliet, who is secretarj" of the board, W. IT. Sanders and Obe Thomas. The capital Sanders and Obe Thomas. The capital stock was $25,000, having been raised to that amount from $20,000 in January of the year 1909, when a general reorganization took place.

ders. In January, 1894, Mr. Thielioff was elected secretary of the board in place of A. C. Balliet, and filled it until September, 1909. In January, 1909. as has been stated, a general reorganization took place, resulting in the increase in the capital stock above mentioned, with the addition of a surplus of $1,230, and the election of the following officers : A. C. Balliet, president ; B. F. Broughton, vice president; Edward L. Blackburn, cashier ; and A. C. Balliet, B. F. Broughton, J. W. Nesbit. J. A. 0 'Daniel, Wesley Barker, R. H. Durett and W. B. Thiehoff. directors, the last named being secretary of the board. On February 22. 1909, Edward L. Blackburn died and J. A. O 'Daniel was chosen cashier in his place with C. P. Painter assistant cashier. In April, 1910, J. A. 0 'Daniel was elected president and C. P. Painter cashier. The official statement of the condition of the bank at the close of business on June 23, 1909, made under oath by the i^resident and cashier, showed total resources amounting to $93,564.47, with the sum of $(55,787.29 on deposit, subject to check or time certificates, and net undivided profits aggregating $2,777.28. The management of the bank from the beginning of its career has been wise and progressive. Its business has been of a general character, including all ap])roved features of advanced modern banking, and as its resources and the volume of its trade have increased, its good name and sterling character have correspondingly risen among the peojile, so that it is now recognized as one of the soundest, most complete and best directed financial institutions in this part of the country. "William B. Thiehoff, who is one of the leading potencies in the management of the bank and in popularizing it and spreading its influence among the people of the three counties at whose junction it is located, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, on September 23, 1844. His parents were Anthony B. and Cai-oline (Kibler) Thiehoff, the former a native of Germany and the latter of the same nativity as her son. The father was born in 1812 and came to the United States in 1834. He at once took up his residence in Shenandoah county, Virginia, and there he wrought faithfully and profitably at his trade as a tailor until 1861, when be brought his family to Missouri and located at Hunnewell, where he was engaged in general merchandising until his death in August, 1892. His marriage occurred in 1837 and resulted in a family of six children, three of whom are living : John H., of Austin, Texas ; AVilliam B., of Hunnewell ; and Isabelle C, who is now the wife of R. B. Durbin, of Hunnewell. His wife died after many years of faithful service to her home and offspring, and in September, 1862, the father married again, being united with Miss Sarah E. Spalding, a native of Kentucky. They had one child, their daughter, ^Nlary E., who is now the wife of A. C. Spaulding and lives in Hunnewell. The father was a Democrat in politics, a Catholic in religion and an Odd Fellow in fraternal life.

His son, AVilliam B., began his education in the district schools of AHrginia and completed it in those of Missouri. After leaving school he followed general farm work until 1869, when he embai"ked in the furniture and undertaking business in Hunnewell. He adhered to these lines of mereautile life uutil 1905, theu sold out his business aud moved to Hannibal in this state. Near that city he engaged in farming and raising live stock, and also in dairying on a large scale. He is still conducting those enterpi-ises with success and profit for himself and greatly to the advantage of the jieople living around him and in the city of his home, he has his principal market. Although living in Hannibal, he still serves the Hunnewell Bank faithfully and efficiently as the secretary of its board of directors. Always active and intelligent in working for the good of the community in wliich he maintained his home, he exhibited to the people of Hannibal such superior qualifications for administrative duties that they elected him mayor of the city and found they had made no mistake in their choice. He gave them a good administration of city affairs, promoting the ijrogress of the municipality and carefully guarding all its interests from neglect and spoliation.

In his political allegiance, Mr. Thiehoff has always been a pronounced working Democrat. The candidates and struggles of his party always enlist his active aid and his services are at all times found to be effective. In fraternal life he is a prominent member of the Masonic order, in which he has long been a hard and fruitful worker. He served the Hunnewell lodge of the order seventeen years as secretary, one year as senior warden and two as worshipful master, holding it up to the highest standard of Masonic work and regularity at all times, and infusing great interest and instruction into its meetings. He was married in 1880 to Miss Sarah Etta Jones, a native of Missouri. They have had one child, their daughter Augusta L., who is now the wife of C. D. Young aud a resident of Hannibal. In all the relations of life, Mr. Thiehoff has exhibited an elevated and elevating citizenship, and in all his business ventures he has shown great capacity and energy, involving zeal tempered with prudence, and a commanding progressiveness restrained and governed by an enlightened conservatism. He has been very successful and is regarded as one of the leadingbusiness men and best citizens of the portion of the state in which he lives.

Andeew B. Dunlap

Descended from long lines of sturdy and productive ancestors, Andrew B. Dunlap, of Hunnewell, had shown in several fields of human endeavor that heredity has weight, exem])lifying by his own industry, capacity, sterling character and success in life the strains from which he sprang and the fiber of which they were comi^osed. He has taken the qualities of his being as his capital and invested them in a career of great credit to himself and decided advantage to the community in which they have been employed.

Mr. Dunlap was born on August 1.3, 1874, in Hannibal, Missouri, and is a son of Robert H. and Delma C. (Smith) Dunlap. a brief account of whose lives is published elsewhere in this work. He was brought to Himnewell by his parents in his infancy, so that practically the whole of his life has been passed in that city. He was educated in its imblic schools, grew to manhood among its people, and learned his trade of printer in the office of its newspaper. He is therefore almost wholly a product of the community in which he now lives and labors. and the community is well pleased to have him taken as one of its most representative citizens.

For several years after acquiring a mastery of the craft with which he is still allied, he worked as a journeyman printer in different places in the state, enlarging in every day experience his knowledge of his business and extending his acquaintance among the jieople. acquiring extensive information of their aspirations, feelings and convictions by mingling with them in a variety of localities and imder a variety of circumstances. This experience was most valuable as a schooling and preparation for the work that was before him and in which he is now engaged.

In 1897 he purchased "The Graphic," a weekly newspaper published in Himnewell, of which he has ever since been the proprietor and editor. In conducting this paper and seeking to make it the expression of the interests, the progress and the ambitions of one section of the state - the character of its people and the high purposes that animate them - he is enabled to do better work and give clearer \-iews by reason of his knowledge of other portions. And it is much to his credit that, having acquired this knowledge, he makes free and projier use of it to the advantage of all sections.

energies in one line of effort. In addition to editing and publishing "The Graphic," he is also assistant cashier of the Fanners' and Merchants' Bank of Hunuewell. in which lie holds stock, and is secretary of its board of directors.

With so many business interests in the city, it is inevitable that Mr. Dunlap is earnestly, actively and intelligently interested in its welfare, and this he has shown on all occasions and in reference to every enterprise for its advancement and improvement. He could not be what he is in business if he were not progressive and far-seeing, and as he is these in his own affairs, he is correspondingly progressive and far-seeing in reference to the general welfare of the community. So manifest have been liis traits in this respect that in 1906, when he was but thirty-two years old. he was elected mayor of Hunuewell. and during the three succeeding years guided the fortunes of the city with a skillful hand and to the satisfaction of all the people, resigning the office in the spring of 1909. Eeelected in 1910.

In public affairs on a larger field Mr. Dunlap is also earnestly, actively and intelligently interested. His county, his state and his country engage his attention in the warmest manner and he does all he can to promote the general weal of each and all. He is a Republican in politics, but his patriotism is not limited by party lines. Whatever seems good to him in local or general jiolitical requirements secures his support and advocacy. In fraternal life he is connected with two of the benevolent societies so numerous among men, the Independent Order

On December 3, 1896, ^Ir. Dunlap was imited in marriage with Miss Lizzie P. Hightower of this county. They have four children, their son, Chester Howard and their daughters, Ethel Virginia, Eva Oneta, and Andrew Lewis, who are the ornaments and the light and life of their pleasant home. That the head of the household has been very successful in his business is a logical sequence of his natural endowments, his acquired powers, and the use he has made of them. That he is popular in the community follows from his warm interest in its welfare and his continuous efforts to promote it. As an evidence of his progressiveness it should be stated that he put up the tirst concrete building in the county. With youth, health and strength on his side, and a high ideal of citizenship as his inspiration, the future should have much in store for him, in business, in public life, or in both, according to his desire.

Edwin A. Feye

Like many others of our men of mold and consequence in business, industrial and public life, the late Edwin A. Frye, of Hunnewell, drew liis stature and his strength practically from the soil, growing from infancy to manhood on a farm, and, as soon as he was able, taking his place among those who were performing its useful labors and getting in return strength of l)ody and independence and self-reliance of spirit.

Permalia A. (Wilson) Frj'e, and was born in Shelby county on February 1, 1864. His grandfather, Henry Westfall Frye, was a native of Virginia before its division into two states in the lottery of civil war, living in Hardy county, in that part which is now AYest Virginia, and there the parents of Edwin A. Frye were born, reared, educated and married. The father's life began in September, 1826, and all of its maturity, excejit the last four years, as well as its boyhood and youth, was devoted to farming and raising live stock. These pursuits occupied him until 1860 in his native state. In that year he yielded to a longing that had long possessed him and determined to try his fortunes in the virgin region beyond the Mississippi. He came to Missouri and in this state continued the operations in which he had been engaged in the state of his nativity.

He took some time to look the ground over in his new location, and in 1868 bought a farm in Shelby county, and on that exerted his efforts for advancement and success until 1905. He then sold his farm and took up his residence in Hunnewell, where he has ever since been living, retired from active pursuits and looked upon as one of the most estimable citizens of the community, whose people know that he has borne well his part in the battle of life and is fully entitled to the rest he is enjoying. He was united in marriage with Miss Parmelia Wilson, and three children blessed their union. Two of them are living: Henry W., an esteemed citizen of Kansas City, Missouri, and Alary E., the wife of George T. Smithey, of Monroe county, this state. The father is an ardent Democrat in pol-

Edwin A Frj^e obtained his education in the public schools of Shelby county, ending his specific scholastic training with the course of instruction thej' afforded. After completing that he continued the assistance on his father's faiTu which he had been g'n^ing from Jiis boyhood, and then rented land which he farmed on his own account until 1896. In that year he turned his attention to another line of endeavor, engaging in the insurance business, with headquarters in Hunnewell, carrying on also operations in real estate and loans. He devoted himself to these avenues of business with success in a financial way and with growing eminence and esteem among the people. He was one of the stockholders in the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, of Hunnewell, and a member of its board of directors at the time of his death, April 29, 1910.

He was ever active and intelligent in his efforts to promote the welfare of the community in which he lived. In political allegiance he was a firm and faithful Democrat, loyal to his party and as earnest and zealous as any in his efforts to maintain its supremacy. Fraternally he was a member of the Court of Honor, and in church affiliation was allied with the Southern Methodists. No man in the city was more highly esteemed.

William B. Hebron

The family of which William B. Herron, of Hunnewell, is a scion illustrates in three generations of its life the general trend of American history from colonial times to the present day, or almost until this period. That history has been a continual flow of the tide of emigration from the Atlantic toward the Pacific and a conquest of one portion of ; the wilderness after another, the sons taking up the march of advance in the wake of the setting sun where the fathers f laid it down, until the whole continent became covered, settled and subjugated to the requirements of civilization.

Mr. Herron's grandfather, David Herron, was a native of Pennsylvania, and felt the "call of the wild" when he was a young man. He left the scenes and associations of his boyhood and youth and plimged into what was then the wilderness of Indiana, locating in the portion now forming Ohio county of that great, populous and progressive state. There the father of William B. was born and reared, and he in turn took up his pilgrimage toward the Farther West when his time came for the task, moving onward with the tide of progi-ess to Missouri, where he passed the remainder of his days.

William B. Herron was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, on January 28, 1866, and is the son of Jesse T. and Augusta (Lamkin) Herron, natives of Indiann, where the father's life began on July 21, 1834. The father grew to manhood in his native state and obtained his education there. On leaving school he turned his attention to the occupation to which he had been reared, fanning and raising live stock, and in that he was engaged during the remainder of his residence in Indiana and for a short time after his arrival in the state of Missouri in the spring of 1868, tilling the soil of Shelby county. In 1875 he abandoned farming and turned merchant, carrying on extensively as a grocer at Clarence until 1903, when he sold his establishment and retired from business. He died in Clarence on October 24, 1905. He was a Republican in politics, a Freemason in fraternal life and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in religious connection, and was zealous and faithful in his duty in all. Called upon to lay down his trust at the advanced age of seventyone, he went to his tomb respected by all who knew him and his memory is cherished bj^ the people among whom he lived and labored as that of one of the best citizens of the county.

On March 16, 1865, he was joined in marriage with j\Iiss Augusta Lamkin, whose life, like his own, as has been stated, began in Indiana. Of the four children born to them all are living: Their first born, William B. ; Cora, the wife of E. B. Smith, of Craig, Missouri; Kate, the wife of Dr. F. L. Magoon, of St. Louis ; and Minnie, who lives in Clarence, this county.

On the completion of his education, which was obtained in the public schools of Clarence, William B. Herron entered his father's grocery as a clerk and salesman, in which he was employed until 1890, when he entered general merchandising as an employe of B. P. Eutledge, of Clarence. He remained with Mr. Rutledge ten years, with the exception of a few months, and devoted himself to the business of the house with such close and studious attention that he acquired a thorough knowledge of it and became so confident of his proficiency that in

1901 lie entered the lists as a general merchant himself in Hunnewell. The next year he took H. Kirkwood in as a partner, and the firm then became Herron & Kirkwood. They disposed of this business December 1, 1909. Mr. Herron was elected cashier of the Fanners' and Merchants' Bank on March 15, 1909. He is still rendering satisfactory service to the bank and the community in that capacity and by his business acimien, personal influence and enterprise in his work is greatly helping to build up the trade of the institution and enlarge and strengthen its hold on the confidence and regard of the people.

Mr. Herron 's political faith is given to the Republican policies and principles in national affairs, and while he is not an extreme partisan, he acts upon his convictions by loyally supporting his party and its candidates at all times. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias, a Modern Woodman of America and a member of the Masonic order, being the treasurer of his lodge in the society last named. On March 25, 1884, he was married to Miss Belle Hill, a native of Shelby county, in this state, who was "reared and educated at Clarence. They have had two children, but one of whom is living, their son, Claude E., who is a resident of Hunnewell. Mr. Herron is a gentleman of fine public spirit, which he manifests by his cordial and intelligent interest in all the affairs of the community of his home and his earnest efforts to promote the welfare of the people in every waj^ He enjoys in a marked degree the regard and good will of all classes of the citizenship of the county.

All his life a resident and for more than fifty years an active physician and surgeon among the people of Missouri, and in eveiy relation and under all circumstances an exemplar of all the bland amenities of social culture and natural gentility. Dr. Eli C. Davis, of Hunnewell, is justly esteemed as among the finest tj'pes of citizenship the state has to offer for the consideration and high regard of men. The best estimate of his elevated character, extensive professional attainments and generous and courtly disposition is to be found among the people of this county who have dwelt with him and had the benefit of his labors for a period of half a century.

Dr. Davis was born in Marion county, this state, on March 3, 1830, and is a descendant of old North Carolina families, which dignified and adorned the professional, business and public life of that good old state for generations before the branch to which he belongs foimded a new home for the name in Kentucky, whither his grandfather, John Davis, moved in his early manhood. The Doctor's parents, John and Elizabeth (Dick) Davis, were born in North Carolina and reared in Kentucky, the father's life beginning in 1790. He farmed for a living, and while the fruits of his labors were considerable in the state of his adoption, either because they were not all he wished, or because he had inherited a love of adventure and conquest from his ancestors, he determined in 1824 to leave the region which had welcomed him into being and try his fortunes in the farther wilderness of that dav.

On his arrival in this state in the year last mentioned the elder Davis located in what is now Marion county and continued his farming and stock-raising operations until 1856, when he became an invalid and was forced to give up all active pursuits. He died in September, 1859, generally esteemed as a good man who was called from his earthly labors at an age when he was just prepared to enjoy the rest he had so richly earned. He was a firm believer in the principles and theories of government proclaimed by the ^^l\\g party and gave that organization his earnest and effective support from the dawn of his manhood to the close of his long and useful life. His religious feelings found a suitable field for their exercise and emploj-ment in the doctrines of the Baptist church, of which he was long a member and in which he was for many years an active worker. He was married in 1811 to Miss Elizabeth Dick, a native of North Carolina. They had twelve children, of whom the Doctor is the only one now living.

Dr. Davis obtained his scholastic training in the district schools of Marion county, the only means available to him for such discipline, and might have been expected to tuni his attention to the occupation of his father and his forefathers, situated as he was. But he had aspirations to a different career, and supplemented his slender academic acquisitions by industrious and reflective reading as a means to the end he had in view. In 1856 he entered the medical department of the Iowa State University at Keokuk, and from this he was graduated in 1858 with the degree of M. D. He at once began the practice of his pro- fessiou in Knox county, but a short time afterward located at Hunnewell, wliere he found a ripe field for his labors, and in this county he has ever since resided. He continued in active practice until 1906, when he deemed that he had earned the right to retire in obedience to the admonitions of advancing years. For a long time he has been an active member of the Shelby County and the Northern Missouri Medical associations and taken a prominent part in their proceedings, contributing to their deliberations all the light he could from his experience and observation and drawing unto himself from them all the benefit his opportunities allowed.

On November 9, 1858, the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Susan Day, of Marion county. They became the parents of thirteen children, ten of whom are living: Lily Jane, wife of Charles T. Cox, of Hunnewell ; John Thomas, a resident of Kansas; Jennie, wife of Dr. William T. Bell, of Stoutsville, Monroe county; Herman C; Myrta Ellen, wife of W. L. Pollard, of Montrose, Colorado ; Ida Elizabeth, wife of Fletcher Blanford, of Lebanon, Kentucky; Effie, of Lamar, Colorado; Alice, wife of S. C. McAtee, of Lamar, Colorado; Florence Dixie, of Denver, Colorado; and Susan, who is still at home.

The Doctor is allied with the Democratic party in national politics and has long followed its fortunes in success and defeat, at all times doing what he could to win the former, and bearing the latter with all the resignation of a philosopher and the enthusiasm of youth, which hopes for better results next time. He belongs to the Masonic order and the

Odd Fellows in fraternal relations and has been prominent and zealous in behalf of the enduring welfare of both orders. In his Masonic Lodge he has served well as Worshipful Master, and in his Odd Fellows lodge has occupied every chair in succession to the highest. In his profession he has been eminent in this section of the state, and as a citizen he has always been held in the highest esteem. The nearly sixty years of his mature life have been crowded with usefulness and its evening is full of benignant cheerfulness while he rests calmly under its retiring sun crowned with the laurels of a faithful performance of duty and a record of achievements not many men, even of his years, can surpass and but few can equal.

Frank Dimmitt

Frank Dimmitt, who is president of the "Old Bank of Shelbina," has been an important factor in connection with the industrial and business atTairs of Shelby county, which has represented his home from his boyhood days, and he stands today as one of the honored and influential citizens of the county in which he has attained to success and prestige through well-directed efforts along normal lines of iiroductive enterprise.

As a banker he has long been prominent and influential and as a citizen and man of affairs he stands exponent of the utmost loyalty an<l ])ublic spirit.

Mr. Dimmitt, who has been from the start its leading impulse and controlling spirit of the "Old Bank of Shelbina," was born on December 2, 1857, near Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri, and is a son of Dr. Philip T. and Frances (Agee) Dimmitt, the former born and reared in Kentucky and the latter in Virginia. A complete sketch of the father 's life appears on other pages of this vohune.

His son, Frank Dimmitt, grew to manhood on a farm in Shelby county and obtained his education in the Shelbyville high school. He was zealous and faithful in the performance of his duties on the faim, and admiring friends who observed his capacity for farm work and his steady adherence to its exacting requirements, looked upon him as one of the coming leaders in the agricultural life of the county. But he was not himself satisfied with his daily round of toil, blessed as it was with independence, plenty and good prospects, but felt within him a stirring impulse toward an occuiiation which would bring him more extensively and directly into contact with men and jirovide greater immediate and subsequent rewards for devotion to its claims and development of its possibilities. He was graduated from Shelbyville high school in 1874, then taught school for four years during the winter months, and after that clerked for a time in a mercantile enterprise. From 1878 to 1881 he was engaged in farming. In the year last named he moved to Clarence and gave his attention to the dry goods and clotliing trade for a period of six years.

At the end of that time he returned to Shelbwille, where he worked in his father's bank until 1890. In 1888 he was elected county treasurer for a term of two years, and when his term in this office ex])ired was chosen clerk of the circuit court and recorder, a capacity in which he served eight years with credit to himself and benefit to all who had dealings with his office. In September, 1898, he was made president of the Old Bank, and in this important and responsible position he has served the patrons of the bank and the people of the community faithfully ever since.

In 2)olitics Mr. Dimmitt is a pronounced and zealous Democrat. In fraternal relations he is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias, and in church affiliation a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was married on [March 13, 1879, to Miss Emma E. Jackson, who was born and reared in Marion county. They have three children living, James J., a resident of ]\Ionroe City, in the adjoining county of Monroe, and Clara C, of Chillicothe, Missouri, now ]\Irs. A. M. Shelton, and F. Ellison, who is living at home. The father stands well in the community and throughout his own and the adjoining counties. He has been serviceable in the progress and development of this ]iart of the state, performing with ability and uprightness all the duties of citizenship and illustrating in a striking manner in his daily life the best attributes of an elevated American manhood.

John A. 0 'Daniel

Descended from good old Maryland stock, with the family traits and characteristics seasoned by the residence of a generation in Kentucky, John A. 0 'Daniel, of Hunnewell, has within him the inspirations and incentives of two commonwealths of our common Union

histories are glorious in war and crowned with immortal bays for their achievements in the peaceful ])ursuits of industrial effort and the higher walks of learning and art. He was born in Himnewell, where he is now living, on October 6, 1866, and has passed the whole of his subsequent life in this community.

Mr. 0 'Daniel's grandfather, James O 'Daniel, was born, reared and educated in Maryland, and soon after attaining his majority struck out into the untrodden AVest to make a home and a name for himself amid scenes yet wholly attuned to nature and not yet freed from the wild denizens of the wilderness, savage beasts and still more sAvage men. He located in Kentucky and there hewed out from the wilds an estate for himself and reared a family whose members have reflected credit on his name and finely exemplified in their several callings the lessons given them by his teachings and example. His son, James P. O 'Daniel, the father of John A., the immediate subject of these paragraphs, was born in the Kentucky home in 1834. On leaving school he became a farmer on his own account, as he had previously been on the account of his fatlier by assisting the latter in the labors of the homestead, and followed the occupation of the old patriarchs, tilling the soil, until 1850 in his native state.

Tn 1850 James P. 0 'Daniel migrated to Missouri and located in Monroe countj% where he continued his operations as a farmer and stock-breeder until 1865. He then changed his residence to Shelby county, and here he has made his home and employed his energies ever since. He is still actively engaged in farming and raising live stock, and is one of the highly respected and most representative citizens of the county. He is one of the stockholders of the Hunuewell bank. He was married in 1865 to Miss Martha Leake, of Ralls county, Missouri, and by this union became the father of six children of whom John A. was the first born. The others are all living and are : Mamie, the wife of F. Selsor, of Kansas City, Missouri ; Eugene P., a resident of Washington, D. C. ; Joseph A., of Hunuewell; Eosie Alice, the wife of Augustus Gannon, of Brookfield, Linn county, in this state; and William F., of Hmmewell. In politics the father is a Democrat and in religion a Catholic. He is loyal to both party and church and stands well in each.

John A. 0 'Daniel obtained his education in the public schools of Hunnewell, and upon the completion of the course of study they made available to him, became a farmer and stock-breeder, occu]iations he had mastered while living at home and working under the supervision of his father, with whom he was associated in his new operations for about three years. Mercantile life was, however, more to his taste, and in 1887 he began a career in the drug business which he has continued and expanded to this time (1911), being still engaged in that necessary and helpful trade in connection with other duties.

On March 15, 1909, he was elected cashier of the Hunnewell bank, in which he is a stockholder and of which he is one of the directors, and in April, 1910. was elected iiresident of the bank. He gives the re(juirements of the bank his fir.st attention and it is flourishing under the stimulus of his enterprising and careful management, growing in jiopular favor and steadily enlarging the volume of its business. His drug store continues to be one of the established institutions of the city and holds its patronage because of the excellence of its stock, the wisdom of its management and the skill bestowed upon all its operations in its efforts to serve the public.

In addition to these two lines of endeavor, which would be enough to engross the faculties of a less comprehensive and active mind than that of ]\rr. 0 'Daniel, he carries on farming operations and is still interested in raising live stock on an elevated plane. In politics he is a Democrat, firm in the faith and active in the service, contributing to the campaigns of his party both wisdom in council and energy in effort which are highly appreciated. His religious affiliation is with the Catholic church, of which he is a devout and consistent member.

On November 16, 1905. he united in marriage with Miss Penelope A. Brown, of Shelby county. Two children have blessed their union and brightened their home, their sons James A. and George Eugene. Having passed all his life so far in Hunnewell, it is but natural that Mr. O'Dauiel should be warmly interested in the welfare of tl'.e city and its people. He has shown that he is by his approval of all worthy ])ublic improvements and his aid in promoting them, and by his zealous and energetic support of every moral and intellectual agencv at work in the community for its good. Among the leaders of enterprise and advancement in the town and countv he

Julian A. Wheeler

Born in Hunnewell, this county, on August 15, 1858, and living practically on the border during a part of the Civil war and the rest of the time within the actual boundaries of the Confederacy, Julian A. Wheeler, of Hunnewell, dwelt during the period of that awful contest '"in the midst of alarms," and had his childhood and youth darkened by its terrible shadows. In the exacting pursuits of peaceful industry and the struggles for material conquest and acquisition which have engaged his faculties since then the memories of the war have faded to a considerable extent, but nothing can ever wholly efface them. They were born of a time that tried men's souls, and were literally burned into the consciousness and recollection of those who took part in or were in any sense a party to the events of that date.

Mr. Wheeler's grandfather, Nathan W. Wheeler, was a native of New York state and a member of one of the noted families of that great commonwealth. He lived in Otsego county and tilled the soil for a livelihood, as his parents had done before him, and on his farm he reared his family, among them his son, Edwin R. Wheeler, who was the father of Julian A. and was born in Otsego county. New York, on September 14, 1824. He did not follow the occupation of his ancestors, but became a carpenter and builder, and in an extensive apprenticeship so thoroughly mastered all the de- tails of the trade, for which he had a natural aptitude, that iu 1857, when he was l)nt thirty-three years old, he was sent to Missouri to superintend the construction of railroad stations for the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad. After two years of excellent and appreciated service to the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad in the capacity named, he went to Beaumont, Texas, and helped to build the first railroad in that state. By the time the line was completed in 1863 he desired a change of occupation and settled down to farming in }'arker county, Texas.

This was no time, however, for peaceful industry in that section of the country. The Confederacy was in the last stages of its disastrous history, and needed every man it could get into the service to recruit its failing armies in the tield. Mr. Wheeler was a firm and loyal Union man and yet was face to face with conscription into the Confederate service. So he left his family in Texas and came to his old home city of Hunnewell to escape the fate that threatened him, and in the city last named engaged in the grocery trade for a period of six months. But he could not rest in seeking his own profit while his country was in danger. The love of the Union was strong within him and lie felt it his duty to make his faith practical by helping to defend the cause to wliich he was so warmly attached. Therefore, in the fall of 1864 he went to Quincy, Illinois, and enlisted iu the Union army as a member of Comjiany B, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was soon afterward assigned to the first regiment that followed in the wake of Sherman's march to

At Atlanta, Georgia, he obtained a furlough signed by General Sherman authorizing him to go to Weatherford, Texas, and take his family further North. In the fall of 1865 he l)ought eight yoke of oxen and with them and the rest of his equipment, conducted his family into Illinois, locating about fourteen miles south of Quincy, and being three months on the journey. Taking up his residence on a farm, he devoted himself to raising wheat and live stock for two years. At the end of that period he returned to the state of New York, where he followed contracting and building until 1871. He then moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania, and during the next two years carried on a flourishing business in the same line in that then enterprising and progressive city, to which the great wealth of fast flowing oil wells had given enormous prosperity and world-wide fame.

In 1873 he returned to this county and again took up his residence in Hunnewell, where he devoted the remaining years of his strength to contracting and building on a large scale. He built the first house in Shelbina and put ujd a number of the most notable buildings in this part of the state, among them the Prairie A^iew Baptist church in Jackson township. Failing health in 1877 drove him out of business and induced him to seek recovery amid the blandishments of the climate of California. He went to Santa Rosa in that state, where he lingered for a year, dying there on April 10, 1878.

first wife was Miss Joliauua Steer, a native of Connecticut, with whom he was united in 1853. They had two children, one of whom died in childhood and the other after reaching manhood. The second marriage of the father occurred on October 10, 1857, when he was united with Miss Mary Elizabeth Hickman, of this county. They became the parents of eight children, three of whom are Uving: Julian A., the immediate subject of this sketch; "William D., a resident, also of Hunnewell; and Lena M.. the wife of Herman C. Davis, of Lamar, Colorado. The father was a Eepublican in politics, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and l)elouged to the Baptist church. He was highly esteemed and his early death was universally deplored.

Julian A. "Wheeler began his education in the public schools of New York state and finished it in those of Shelby county. After completing his academic training he turned his attention to farming and raising live stock, in which he was extensively engaged until 1898. In that year he was appointed postmaster of Hunnewell. a position which he has ever since filled in a manner that has fully satisfied the government and the patrons of the office. He still owns and operates his farm of 200 acres, and also has a controlling interest in the Hunnewell telephone system, in the ownership and management of which his brother, "William D. AYheeler, is associated with him. In addition he owns a block of granitoid buildings and a very fine residence.

In politics ^fr. AYheeler is an ardent Eepublican and has considerable influence in the councils of his party, in whose service he is alwavs active and eflFective.

His fratei'ual relations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Court of Honor, and his church afiiliation is with the Southern Methodists. He is a zealous church worker, taking a leading part in all the benevolent and evangelizing efforts of his congregation, of which he is one of the stewai'ds, and renders excellent and appreciated service as su^.^erintendent of the Sunday school.

Two generations of this family of AYheelers have dignified and adorned pul)lic and private life in Hunnewell and given its people good examples of high character, ardent local and general patriotism, and fruitful and elevated citizenship. No name stands higher in the annals of the city than its name does, and none more truly deserves the esteem in which it is held. In business, in social and in domestic life its members have met every requirement of duty and in official station the one of whom these paragraphs are written has shown ability, fidelity and upright manhood of the highest order, greatly to his own credit and the substantial welfare of the people of the whole community.

William P. Jaxes

AYilliam P. Janes, one of the prosperous and progressive farmers of Shelbj' county, whose achievements as an agriculturist have given the people aroimd him strong lessons as to what skill and intelligence allied with industry and good .iuflgnient can accomplish on the fertile and responsive soil of Missouri, is a native of Washington county, Kentuckv, where he was born on Afarch 10,

Mr. Janes is a son of John H. and Rebecca (Gibbs) Janes, both born, reared and educated in Washington county, Kentucky, where the}' were married. They were farmers in their native state, and after their arrival in ^Missouri, in 1851, they followed the same line of effort on a tract of land of which they became possessed in Marion county. There was a mill on the farm which the father also operated until 1879, and which was known far and wide during his management of it as a source of great convenience and help to the people because of the excellent work it did and the superior quality of its products. It is still known as Janes 's mill, but has passed ovit of usefulness into history, being nothing now but an old landmark whereby some idea of the progress and development of the country can be gained, and standing in the public eye as a reminder of the strenuous days and nights of toil and privation, of arduous effort and constant })eril of the pioneer period of the past.

In 1879 the father sold the farm and the mill and took up his residence in Shelby county, where he died, having done well his part in the life and development of this section and laying down his burden crowned with the esteem of the whole people. He and his wife were tl;e parents of twelve children, six of whom are living: James G., a ])rominent citizen of Monroe county; Thomas B., who lives at Lakenan, in this county; John H., whose home is at Cortland, Nebraska; William P., of Hunnewell, the immediate subject of this writing; Katharine, the wife of Benjamin Green, of Santa Fe, Missouri ; and Rebecca, now ]\Irs. George Ruberson, of Marion county, on our eastern border. In politics the father was a pronounced Democrat, faithful in loyalty to his party and effective in its service. His religious affiliation was with the Catholic church, and to this also he gave firm and faithful support throughout his life, zealous in attention to his duties as a member and Unswerving in his devotion to its teachings.

William P. Janes was reared on his father's farm in Marion county and obtained his education in the district schools of the neighborhood. After leaving school he operated the farm in connection with his father for a number of years, then moved to Hunnewell, where he cari'ied on a flourishing business as a blacksmith and wagon maker until 1889. In that year he sold his business and outfit, and again engaged in farming, locating on a good farm in Shelby county, which he still manages, although practically retired from its more exacting duties and more arduous labors.

While living in Hunnewell Mr. Janes took an active and serviceable part in the public affairs of the city and contributed essentially to its growth, development and improvement. He was its first mayor and held a number of other city offices, all of which he filled acceptably, leaving a good record as an official and rearing monuments to his enterprise and public spirit in substantial contributions to the comfort, convenience and advancement of the people. He was also active, and still is, in national politics as a Dem- ocrat of the old school, seeing in the principles of his party the best assurance of public and private security and clean and upright government, and standing by them as with the tug of gravitation. For over forty years he has been a member of the Masonic order and has studied with zeal and clearness of vision the lessons portrayed in the symbolism of the order, all of which he has tried to exemplify in his daily life. His religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in whose good works he has long been an active and potential factor.

Mr. Janes has been married twice. His first union was with Miss Sarah Mefford, of Marion county, Missouri, and occurred on September 22, 1860. They had four children, all of whom are living. They are : Sarah Etta, wife of W. B. Thiehoff, of League City, Texas; William H., of Paris, Missouri; Vincie B., of Cameron City, ^lissouri ; and Lula E., wife of Bruce Blackburn, of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Janes' second marriage took place on May 11, 1881. In this he became the husband of Mrs. Elizal)etli Scratch, the widow of John D. Scratch, and a native of Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two children, both living : Lozetta, wife of William H. Jones, of Paris, Missouri; and Mattie, wife of James E. Spencer, of Hunnewell. Mr. Janes has known Slielby county from his childliood and has lived in it for more than a generation of human life. He is a living witness of its progress and also of the struggles and trials through which the advance has been won. He has borne his full share of the burden incident to the development of the countiy and is therefore fully entitled to enjoy the fruits of the labors he has shared with others in this behalf. The people accord him this right without stint, regarding him as one of their most useful and representative citizens.

John W. Laie

The interesting subject of this brief review, who has been one of the most successful and enterprising farmers in Shelby county, has passed the whole of his life until the summer of 1910, at which time he moved to Gordon, Nebraska. He was born in Shelby county on March 18, 1846, and is a son of Eobert and Elizabeth (Culberson) Lair, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of North Carolina.

The father's life began in 1810, and he became a resident of Missouri in 1828, coming to the state as a youth of eighteen with his parents, who followed the example given tliem by their parents and emigrated from their native heath to the farther west when it was a part of the almost untrodden wilderness of our wide domain. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Lair, William Lair, was a native of Pennsylvania and became a resident of Kentucky when he was a young man, striding boldly into the wilds in the wake of that hardy adventurer, discoverer and civilizer, Daniel Boone, and taking up his part in the work of improvement in the region that great man and his followers were wresting from the dominion of the wikl forces of nature and their offspring of the jilains and the forest. In Kentucky he transformed a tract of wild land into a good farm and on it he

I'eared liis family, but finally left the woi-n and wasted tenement of his adventurous spirit to be laid at rest in the soil of a newer state. He brought his family to Missouri in 1828, and again gave himself up to the demands and dangers of the frontier, repeating in Missouri what he had achieved in Kentucky.

A few years after his arrival in this state Robert Lair located in Shelby county and started farming and raising stock on his own account. To these lines of industry he adhered until his death in 188-4. He married Miss Elizabeth Culberson, a native of North Carolina, and they became the parents of six children. Of these three are living: Mary, wife of George Latimor of Shelby county ; John "W. of Shelbina, who is the subject of this review; and Frances Marion, wife of George Bowers, of Shelbyville. In politics the father was a Eepublican from the birth of the party to his death, standing by its principles throiigh all changes of conditions and firmly supporting them and its candidates in all campaigns.

John W. Lair was reared on his father's farm and obtained his education in the district schools of the vicinity. His natural bent was to farming and he yielded to it without murmur or hesitation, assuming charge of the parental homestead when he left school, and conducting its operations until 1870. He then bought a farm of his own and gave himself up wholly to its cultivation and improvement. His success was such as to inspire him to more ambitious efl'orts, and he became a dealer in farm lands, buying them, improving them and then selling them, his operations working greatly to his own profit and equally to the advantage of the county and its people. He has also been long engaged in raising stock on an extensive scale and has for years been ranked among the leading shippers in this part of the state. In all his undertakings he has been very successful, and furnishes an impressive examjjle of what good judgment and enterprise in the use of opportunities is capable of in this land of boundless chances and this state of rapid progress and development.

Like his father, Mr. Lair has given his faith, loyalty and support to the principles of the Republican party in national politics. But in local affairs his first consideration has been the enduring welfare of the county and its people without regard to partisanship or personal relations. He has been of great service in promoting that welfare and is esteemed on all sides as one of the most useful citizens of the county and one of its most worthy and representative men.

On December 25, 1869, he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Wilson, of this county. They have had seven children and have five living: Myrtle, wife of Nathan Cochran, of Gordon, Nebraska; Ella, wife of Howell Jewett; Maude, wife of Dr. John Hendricks, of St. Louis; William, one of the prosperous and influential citizens of Shelby county ; and Bonnie Jean, wife of Brooks Corwine, of Shelbina. These all, in their several localities, are exemplifying the family traits of enterprise, thrift and intelligent devotion to duty, and have won the regard and good will of all who know them.

Although the father has passed his three score years and lived a very industrious and exacting hfe, he is still vigorous and energetic, and as eager for any new undertaking for the good of the county, whether by private or public forces, as he ever was, and is as willing to undergo exertion as younger men, with the assurance that his efforts will be as fruitful as those of any. He is an example to all, active himself and of great servicfe through the activities he awakens and stimulates in others.

Now and for many years one of the leading- business men of Hunnewell, and held in the highest esteem throughout the surrounding country, in this and adjacent counties, James A. McAfee went through a variety of trying experiences before he settled down to the interesting and useful life of trade with which he has been connected for nearly a third of a century. He was born in the old colonial city of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, on December 30, 1849, and lived for a number of years in that then antique settlement which, as a suburb of the new capital of the country had an importance all its own. The conditions of travel and the surrounding countiy at the time made it remote from the capital, but still near enough to catch some reflection from that enterprising and ambitious municipality, especially as it was the residence of men eminent in the civil, military and naval life of that period of our country's history.

patriotism was quickened and intensified by the suggestions and associations of his boyhood in the old town which still bears the name of the last English king that had dominion over this countrj' or any part of it, although it has for years l)een a part of the city of Washington, it is a fact that he has at every period of his life manifested a very warm interest in the welfare of his country and done all he could, with the light he has had, to inomote that welfare. Living and flourishing on the plains of the great West, he has been able to take in the feelings and aspirations of the East and regard our nationality with a sweep of vision that reviewed every part of the country and looked upon all sections as equally important.

Mr. McAtee is a son of Samuel I. and Annie (Kidwell) McAtee. the former a native of Marion county, Kentucky, and the latter of the state of Maryland. The father came to Missouri in 1852 and liought farms in Lincoln and Ralls counties, which he farmed for a few years. He then became a grocer in New London, Ralls county, and continued in business as such until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he sold his business and retired to a farm just outside the limits of New London. The portion of the state in which he lived was torn by dissension during the war, both sides to the great sectional confhet laying it under tribute and harassing its people. By 1864 the atmosphere of sectional controversy became so hot that the family moved to IMonroe in that year, and there the father again entered the grocery trade, continuing his operations in this lino until 1867. He then took up his resi- clence in Hunnewell and retired from active pursuits altogether. For many years he served the several communities in which he lived as a justice of the peace, and was still in office at the time of his death, in ahout 1903.

The elder Mr. McAtee was married to Miss Annie Kidwell, a native of Maryland. They had ten children, seven of whom are living: Frank, who lives in Portland, Oregon; Rose, widow of the late P. J. ThiehofiP^ who resides in Himnewell ; Joseph, a prominent citizen of Hannibal, Missouri ; James A., of Hunnewell, the immediate subject of these paragraphs; S. S., whose home is in Los Angeles, California; W. N., of Kansas City, Missouri; and Agnes, the wife of James Willett, of Hannibal. The father was a devout Catholic in religion and an ardent Democrat in politics.

James A. McAtee obtained his education in the public schools of Hannibal and New London, Missouri. After leaving school he worked in the grocery store of his father, and when he left that establishment he started to learn the trade of buggy making. He served his apprenticeship faithfully and mastered the trade, then went forth to work at it on his own account, which he did at various l^laces during the next four years. In 1887 he started an enterprise in blacksmithing and wagon making which he carried on for thirty years, conducting in connection with the other departments of the undertaking an extensive trade in farming implements. At the end of the period mentioned he sold the blacksmithing and wagon business and outfit and since then he has devoted himself exclusively to his trade in implements.

He has been zealous and intelligently active in all efforts to promote the growth and development of the city, the comfort and convenience of its people and the power and fruitfulness of all its moral and mental agencies for good. He has also helped to keep the good name of its business men at a high position by giving an example of entire uprightness and fairness in all his dealings and by being square and manly in all the relations of life. He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Hunnewell and connected with other institutions of a helpful and stimulating character. In politics he is a Democrat and in religion a firm and faithful Catholic.

On December 28, 1878, he was married to Miss Celia Shearer, of Monroe county, in this state. Of the eight children born to them seven are li\'ing: Samuel C, who lives at Lamar, Colorado; Roy, a resident of Washington; Maud, the wife of John Woods, of Kansas City, Missouri ; Lyda, the wife of A. L. Vaughn, of Huimewell ; Ruth, who is living at home; Carl, whose home is at Kansas City, Missouri; and Lottie, who is also a member of the parental household.

Hon. James T. Lloyd

James T. Lloyd, present representative of the First district of Missouri in the United States congress, is one of the distinguished members of the bar of his native state and has been engaged in the ]iractice of his profession in Shelbyvillo for more than a quarter of a century, though he has not given close attention to his ]irofession since he assumed the duties of his office in congress, of which he has been a member since 1897, and in which he has most ably and acceptably represented and safeguarded the interests of his home state. He is known as a lawyer of high attainments, as a man of progressive ideas and mature judgment, and is ably upholding the prestige of his native commonwealth, which has sent many able and distinguished citizens to the national legislature. He is insistently loyal to his native state, whose interests he has made his own in a significant way, and this is shown by the high official prefennent which has been given him through popular franchise.

Mr. Lloyd, as the name implies, is a scion of staunch Welsh stock, but the family was founded in America in the Colonial epoch of our national history, having early been established in Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Zach Lloyd, who was born in Delaware, figures as the founder of the family in the state of ^lissouri. This worthy ancestor became one of the pioneer settlers of Lewis county, this state, where he continued to maintain his home until his death. He was a man of force and ability, strong in his individuality and of impregnable integrity, thus possessing the staunch timber that well fits into pioneer life and labor. His son Jerry, father of the present congressman, was born in the state of Delaware, on the 3d of July, 1826, and was there reared to maturity, receiving a good common school education and learning in his youth the trade of cooper. As a young man he accomjianied his honored father on the family emigration to ^lissouri, and for some time he followed the work of his trade in Lewis county, after which he turned his attention to faiTuing and stock growing, in connection with which he gained a large and generous measure of success, becoming one of the representative agriculturists of Lewis county, where he owned a fine landed estate of 200 acres. He resided on this homestead and gave his attention to its supervision from 1860 until 1887, when he retired from active labors and removed to the village of Clarence, Shelby county, where he passed the residue of his life, secure in the high regard of all who knew him and known as a man devoted to all that is best in connection with human thought, motive and action. He was sunuuoned to the life eternal on the 17th of September, 1897, at the age of seventy years, and his loved and devoted wife still survives him, maintaining her home in the family homestead and being held in affectionate regard by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. She is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as was also her husband, and in politics he was ever aligned as a staunch advocate of the generic principles for which the Democratic party stands sponsor. The old homestead farm, one of the best in this favored section of the state, is still owned by the family and is in charge of the youngest son, Frisbie Lee Lloyd.

In January, 1856, was solemnized the marriage of Jerry Lloyd to ^liss Frances Jones, who was boi'n in the state of Kentucky on the ."^d of ]\Iarch, 1827, being a daughter of "William Jones, who removed from that state to Missouri in 1829, when she was but two years of age. The familv settled in the vicinitv of Emerson,

Marion county, and Mrs. Lloyd has lived within a distance of fifty miles of the old homestead during the entire course of her life since that time. She is one of the venerable pioneer women of the state and retains in a remarkable way her mental and physical faculties. Jerry and Frances (Jones) Lloyd became the parents of three children, all of whom are living- - James T., the immediate subject of this review; Samuel R., of Kirksville, this state, and Frisbie L., in charge of the old home farm. The honored father was for many years affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, of whose noble ideals and works he was deeph' appreciative.

James T. Lloyd passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm, having been three years of age at the time of the family removal thereto from his native town of Canton, Lewis coimty, Missouri, where he was born on the 28th of August, 1857. He gained his prehminary education in the district schools and through study at home, and finally he was matriculated in Christian University, at Canton, his native town, in which institution he completed the prescribed four years' course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1878, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Wliile still an undergraduate he gave his attention to teaching in the public schools at intervals, principally during his college vacations, and after leaving the university he continued to follow the work of the pedagogic profession imtil 1881, meeting with marked success and having held the position of superintendent of the public schools of his native town of Canton, thus nullifying the application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.",For two years he served as deputy sheritf of Lewis county, and in 1881 he was chosen deputy circuit clerk and recorder for that county, and in that position remained for two years. During the time he was engaged in teaching and also while serving as a county official Mr. Lloyd prosecuted the study of law with marked earnestness and under effective preceptorship, thoroughly grounding himself in the science of jurisprudence and in due time proving his eligibility for membership in the bar, to which he was admitted at Edina, Knox county, in 1882. J\Ir. Lloyd initiated the practice of his chosen profession by opening an office at Monticello, Lewis county, this state, in 1883, and there he was associated in practice with Oliver C. Clay, under the firm name of Clay & Lloyd, until March, 1885, when the alliance was dissolved and he forthwith removed to Shelbyville, which city has since represented his home and the center of his work in his profession, which he has sigTially dignified by his abilities and services. He gained marked distinction as an able and versatile trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, and he has not only appeared in connection with much important litigation in the state and federal courts, but has retained a clientele of essentially representative character. He gave his undivided attention to the work of his profession until 1897, in June of which year he was elected to congress as representative of the First congressional di.strict of Missouri. In this high office he has since continued to serve by successive re-election, and the voters of his dis- triet have thus given positive and emphatic endorsement of his course and services in congress, where he has .shown naught of the elements of obscurity or apathy, but has ably and forcefully championed causes which he believed right and where he has also been influential in the councils of the committee room. His effective labors in congi'ess have been a matter of newspaper and official record, and it is not necessary to enter into details concerning the same in this article. Mr. Lloyd served as prosecuting attorney of Shelby county from January, 1889, until January, 1893, and in this office he greatly heightened his fame as a successful trial lawyer. He is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cau.se of the Democratic party and has been an effective exponent of its principles and policies, especially as a campaigTi speaker, in which connection his services have been much in reciuisition. He has .shown loyal interest in all that had touched the civic and material welfare of his home city, county and state, and is a progressive, liberal and publicspirited citizen. He was one of the oi'- ganizers and incoporators of the Citizens' Bank of Shelbyville, was its first vice-president and is still a member of its directorate. A brief sketch concerning the bank is given on other pages of this work. He was also one of the original stockholders of the Shelby Coufity Railroad company.

Mr. Lloyd is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America ; he is a member of the ^lethodist Episcopal Church, South,

On the 1st of March, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lloyd to Miss Mary B. Graves, who was born and reared in Lewis county, Missouri, and who is a daughter of Thomas A. Graves, an honored ^ind influential citizen of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd became the parents of four children, of whom three are living. There names are here entered in order of their birth: Oliver J., Thomas L. and Ethel Lee.

Fifty-five of the eighty-one years of life already vouchsafed to this venerable "Father in Israel" have been passed in Missouri and forty-four of them in Slielby county, in the productive industries of which he was engaged as an important factor for moi-e than thirty years. He is now living retired in Hunnewell, universally respected and esteemed and enjoying in vigor and the full activity of his faculties the rest he has so richly earned. Wliile his years have been occujued almost wholly in peaceful and inii)roving pursuits, such as minister to the comfort, convenience and general welfare of the people, he has not hesitated to bear his portion of the hardships and face his share of the dangers of war whenever duty called him to the field of conflict.

^Ir. Smith was born on August 1, 1828, in Oswego county. New York, where his parents were then living. They were Abel and Veneria (Parker) Smith, also natives of the state of New York, within whose borders they i)assed the whole of their lives. The father learned the trade of a cabinet maker in his youth, and at this useful craft, which is productive of many of the convenient and some of the most, beautiful and artistic articles of furniture in household and office use, he wrought diligently and with fair profit imtil his death in 1853. Of the seven children born in the household the interesting subject of these brief ]iaragra])hs of biographical notice is the only one now living. The father was a Democrat in political allegiance and a Baptist in religious faith.

Andrew J. Smith had no facilities for advanced education. He was born, at a time when every agency of the home was required to keep it going, and was therefore obliged to take his place among the workers of the family as soon as he was old enough. He did, however, obtain a good common school education, and on this basis he built up, by subsequent reading and observation throughout his long and fruitful experience, a considerable suijerstructure of general information. In the time of his school days the family was living in Chautauqua county. New Y^ork, and it was in the district schools of that now famous source of intellectual ins]uration that he acquired his scholastic training.

After leaving school he became apprenticed to a carriage and wagon maker, and he gave attention to his trade of a kind and for a length of time that made him a thorough master of it. In 1854, following the course of empire westward, he came to Missouri and locaiod in ^Marion conntv. where he oi)erated a saw mill until 1861. When the cloud of civil war that had been hovering so long in the American political skj' burst with all its fury upon our unhappy country, he promptly obeyed the call for volunteers to defend the integrity of the Union and enlisted in the Northern army as a member of Company K, Second Missouri Cavalry, the regiment becoming later a part of the division of the army commanded by General McNeill.

Mr. Smith was assigned to scout duty, one of the most hazardous and trying departments of military service and one requiring tireless energy, quickness of perception and good judgment. In this department he passed the greater part of his time during the war, but he also participated in a number of important engagements, among them the battles of Springfield, Cape Girardeau, Chalk Bluff and Bloomfield. He was mustered out of the service in 1866 at Port Leavenworth, Kansas. He also saw much service in fighting the Indians in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska. He made a good record in the Civil war, as he did in his other military service, and as he has done in everything he has undertaken.

On his return from the army in 1866 he engaged in farming for one year, then again turned his attention to his former occui^ation of milling, taking up his residence in Shelby county for the purpose, and carrying it on extensively here until he retired from all active pursuits in 1907. In the public affairs of the community of his home Mr. Smith has always taken an active and intelligent intei-est and a ]irominent part. Every worthy enterprise for advancement and imijrovement has commanded his zealous aid, every local interest his close and careful attention. He served efficiently and acceptably as mayor of Hunnewell for four years, although he had never before sought or desired public office. For this position he seemed so well qualified that he was chosen against his will, but did a good citizen's part in yielding to the desire of the people by accepting it and discharging his official duties to the best of his ability.

In national politics j\Ir. Smith is a Republican and in religious attachment he was reared a Baptist. But he now leans to the Christian church, which is the one his wife belongs to. She was born on August 14, 1829, and is still living in vigorous health. They were married on February 22, 1850, and have had four children. Two of these are living: Delma, the wife of Robert Dunlap, of Hunnewell, and Pearl, the wife of J. J. Johnson, of Victoria, Texas. Mrs. Smith, whose maiden name was Susan Salmon, was bom and reared in Pennsylvania, where her ancestors were long resident, and in various ways contributed to the growth, development and general welfare of the commonwealth.