Shelby County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1911 (part 7 of 16)

Walter C. Bower

In the sketch of the career of John C. Bower, appearing on other pages of this work, is given data concerning the family genealogy of which the subject of this review is an honored representative, and by reason of the fact that ready reference may be made to the article mentioned it is not deemed requisite to rei)eat the data in the present sketch. Mr. Bower is one of the representative business men and highlv es- teemed citizens of tlie couuty that has been his home from his childhood days, and is now engaged in the retail hardware trade in the thriving village of Bethel, where he conti'ols a large and substantial business.

AValter C. Bower was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, on September 21, 18il, and he was about five years of age at the time of the family removal to Shelby county, Missouri, his father, the late John L. Bower, having been one of the early members of the staunch German colony which had as its center the village of Bethel. In the schools of this village Walter C. Bower secured his early education, and after completing his studies he worked with his father at the cabinet maker's trade until 1869, when he became associated with his brother, John C, in the purchase of the furniture business conducted by their father. After a short interval he bought bis brother's interest in the enterprise and lie continued to be successfully engaged in the manufacturing and sale of furniture and the conducting of a general repair shop in this line until 1893, when he sold the business and engaged in the hardware trade, in which he has since continued with success, having a commodious and well equipped establishment, in which are handled a full assortment of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, paints, oils, builders' supplies, etc. Mr. Bower has been a thorough and enterprising business man and has gained a large measure of success through his honorable and well directed efforts, so ordering his course as to maintain a sure hold upon the confidence and esteem of the community that has represented his home from his childhood days. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Bethel and also in the Farmers' Bank of this village. He is the owner of valuable real estate in the village and also has well improved farm land in the county.

Though never ambitious for public office of any description, Mr. Bower is aligned as a loyal supporter of the cause of the Republican party, he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and both he and his wife hold membership in the German Methodist Episcopal church in their home town.

In 1868 Mr. Bower was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Carroll, of Shelby county, and their only child died in infancy. Mrs. Bower died in 1870, and on December 8, 1876, Mr. Bower was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Fox, who was born in Germany, whence she came with her parents to America, the family home being finally established in Shelby county. Of the eight children of this union, seven are living, namely: Anna, who is the wife of Rev. William R. Velte, a clergjnnan of the Methodist Episcopal church and now a resident of Denver, Colorado ; Ida, who is the wife of Frederick Morris, of Green City, Missouri ; Walter G., who is engaged in business m Bethel ; and Nora, Adam, Clarence and Monroe, who remain at the parental home.

William T. Ziegler

Mr. Ziegler is one of the well known and popular citizens of his native village of Bethel, where he conducts a prosperous business as a blacksmith and where he is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the county. He was born in Bethel, September 9, 1856, and is a son of George and Sophia (Steinbach) Ziegler, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father was born in the year 1810 and was a boy at the time of the family immigration to America, having been reared and educated in one of the eastern states and having come to Missouri in 1844 and numbered himself among the sturdy German founders of the colony of Bethel, Shelby county, where he became a citizen of influence and one who commanded the unreserved esteem of the community. Here he followed the blacksmitli trade for nearly half a century, and here his death occurred in the year 1884. His marriage to Sophia Steinbach occurred prior to the removal to Shelby county and her death occurred in 1892. Of their thirteen children, ten are living, and concerning them the following brief record is consistently entered for perpetuation in this volume : Catherine is the wife of Michael Durrstein, of Quincy, Illinois; George is a resident of the state of Oregon; Henry resides in Bethel ; Sophia is the wife of Henry L. Hoffman, and they reside in the state of California; "Wilhelmina is the wife of Herman Erich, a farmer of Shelby coimty ; JMary is the wife of William Steinbach, of Bethel ; Matilda is the wife of Thomas Shadel, of Edina, Missouri; Julia is unmarried and resides in California and is a twin of William T., subject of this sketch ; and Christina is the wife of John L. Smith, of La- Grange, Missouri. The father was a staunch adherent of the Republican party and took an intelligent interest in

AVilliam T. Ziegler is indebted to the schools of Bethel for his early educational discipline, and after leaving the same he was engaged in farm work for three years, after which he followed the trade of tinsmith for two years. He then turned his attention to the stui'dy trade of blacksmithing, and he has followed the same consecutively and successfully during the long intervening years, being known as a skilled artisan and having a large and rei)resentative patronage. He is the owner of a nice home and other property in his native town, and he gives his support to all measures and enterprises that tend to further the progress and prosperity of the village and county. He and his wife are zealous in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which they are devoted members; he is affiliated with the Bethel lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and i. 0. 0. F., No. 603, Hebron Lodge; and in politics, though never an aspirant for public office, he gives a staunch support to the cause for which the Rejiublican party stands sponsor.

On December 2, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ziegler to Miss Emma Pflum, of La Grange, this state. She was born and reared in Missouri and is a daughter of the late S. Pflimi, who was a sterling citizen and successful business man of Clarion county. Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler became the parents of seven children, of whom four are living, namely: Carl P., who is engaged in business at Laclede, this state; Bertha, who is tlie wife of Harry C. Bair, of Bethel,

John G. Bauer

Among the sterling and honored citizens contributed to Shelby county by the great empire of Germany is John G. Bauer, who is a member of one of the honored pioneer families of the county and who has here gained a generous measure of success through his own well directed efforts. He is one of the representative business men and intluential citizens of Bethel, where he has maintained his home for more than sixty years and where his sterling attributes of character have retained to him impregnable popular confidence and esteem.

Mr. Bauer was born in the kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, December 1, 1835, and is a son of John G. and Nat Bauer, who immigrated to America in 18:59, when he was a child of four j'ears. The little family disembarked in the city of New Orleans, from which point they proceeded by packet boat on the Mississii^pi river to Muscatine, Iowa, in which vicinity the father purchased a tract of land and engaged in farming. He was one of the pioneers of that section of the Hawkeye state, M'here he continued his residence until 1845, when he came with his family to Missouri and numbered himself as one of the sturdy German colonists of Bethel, Shelby county. Here he engaged in agricultural pursuits, but he was not long ]iermitted to continue his endeavors, as his death occurred in 1846, less than a year after his settlement here. His wife preceded him by a number of years, her death occurring in 1836. He was a devout member of the Christian church. Of their five children, two are now living, the subject of this review lieing the younger and his sister, Christina, being the wife of Moses Miller, of Bethel.

John G. Bauer, whose name initiates this article, gained his rudimentary education in the common schools of Iowa and continued his studies in the Bethel schools, having been about ten years of age at the time of the family removal to Missouri and having been reared to manhood in the staunch old Bethel colony. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship to the shoemaker's trade, to which he devoted his attention for several years, after which he engaged in the jewelry business, in which he has since continued, being now one of the pioneer merchants of Bethel, where he has directed his efforts along normal and straightforward lines of enterprise and where he has gained a large and well merited success. After the close of the Civil war he took a course in pharmacy, i;nder the preceptorship of Professor Fink, of Bethel, and prior to the disbanding of the original colony he conducted a drug store for a number of years, in connection with his jewelry business, and still continues it.

In 1882 Mr. Bauer became associated with three other substantial citizens in purchasing the Bethel grist mill in Bethel, after the division of the colony, and in 1902 he purchased the interests of the other stockholders, since which time he has continued to ojierate the mill in an individual way. In addition to this valuable property he is the owner of other improved realty in his home town and also has about 225 acres of fine farming land in this section of the county. The major portion of this land is located in Bethel township, and the same is devoted to general farming and to the raising of live stock.

As a citizen Mr. Bauer has at all times stood exponent of the utmost loyalty and public spirit, and he has contributed a generous quota to the civic and material advancement and prosperity of his home town and county. In politics he accords an unwavering allegiance to the Republican party, taking a lively interest in local atfairs of a public nature, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Christian church. Mr. Bauer has not narrowed his life within the coulhies of mere material success, but has shown the utmost kindliness and good will in his intercourse with his fellow men, doing all in his power to alleviate distress and suffering and showing a high appreciation of his stewardship. Thus it is but a natural result that he holds the unqualified esteem of the community and is admired for his unostentatious but generous elements of character.

On October 30, 1864, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Bauer to Miss Louise Stark, who was born in Wiirtemburg, Germany, October 11, 1846, and who was a child at tlie time of the family immigration to America. Iler parents passed the closing years of their lives in Shelby county, where her father, Joshua Stark, was a successful stone mason. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer liecame the ])arents of six children, of whom four ar-e now living, namely: Julius IT., Christine E., Lulu

Irene, and Catherine, all of whom remain at the parental home except the one son, who is engaged in the fanning and milling business in Bethel, being associated with his father. He married i Miss Rosa Pepper and they have one child, deceased. Catherine is now Mrs. J. D. Taylor, of Bethel.

James W. Turner

A native of Shelby county, Mr. Turner is numbered among its representative farmers and stock-growers, being the owner of a well improved farm of eighty acres, in section 16, Black Creek township, and having also the supervision of the farm owned by his widowed mother. Of the family history, adequate details may be foimd in the sketcli of the career of his brother, William R. Turner, on other pages of this publication.

James W. Turner was born on the old liomestead fai'm of his father, in Black Creek township, this county, August 7, 1862, and is a son of the late William Ilolman Turner, one of the honored and influential citizens of this section of the county. ]\Ir. Turner was afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native township and as a boy and youth he contributed his quota to the work of the home farm, waxing strong in mind and body and gaining a thorough and vahialile ex])erience in connection with all dei)artmeiits of farm work. Ho has never wished or found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the great basic art of agriculture, and his home farm, eiglity acres of most arable land, all under cultivation, is one of the model i)laces of Black Creek township.

In the same towusliip is located the fine farm of his mother, the same comprising 1^00 acres, aud this is operated under his direct supervision aud management, being devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent grades of live stock. Mr. Turner was the first man to bring the famous Hampshire sheep into the state of Missouri, which is now so popular iu this section of the country, and is essentially enterprising aud progressive in his methods, bringing to bear indefatigable energy and marked discrimination in the forwarding of his farming operations, so that he is able to reap generous rewards from the efforts put forth. He is one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of his township and is well upholding the prestige of the honored family name which he bears, being held iu high regard by all who know him. Though never ambitious for public office he accords a loyal and zealous support to the cause of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife hold membershii^ in the Methodist Episcopal church. South.

In August, 1889, Mr. Turner was imited in marriage to Miss Euth A. Garrisou, who was born and reared in Shelby county and who died in 1887, being survived by one child, Gaynell, who remains at the paternal home. On March 1, 1899, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Turner to Miss Nora Shudy, of Shelbyville, who likewise was born and reared in this county and who is a daughter of Johanna Shudy, a representative citizen of Shelbyville. Mr. and i\Irs. Turner have two children - James Francis and Victor Ellis. Mrs. Turner is an active member of the Christian church, giving

From her sister county of Monroe on her southern border, Shelby county has received from time to time valued contributions in elevated manhood, fine business capacity and sterling citizenship in every sense of the word. Among them all none has stood higher, been more successful or attained to more general confidence and esteem than S. G. Parsons, the first pioneer of Shelbina and long one of the leading merchants of that progressive aud enterprising community. He was born at Paris, Monroe county, on August 29, 1843, a son of John N. and Jane M. (Gilbert) Parsons, the former a native of Frederick county, Maryland, and the latter of Virginia.

The father was born on July 24, 1804, and although a native of Maryland, was reared and educated in Virginia, where his grandfather lived. He came to Missouri iu 1829 and located in St. Louis, where he worked at his trade as a car- Ijenter and found a great demand for his services. He helped to build the courthouse of that day and many other imposing structures in that city. In 1832 he moved to Pike county in this state and there was engaged in the dry goods trade for a period of two years. In 1834 he changed his residence to Monroe county, and during the next four years sold dry goods at Middlegrove. At the end of the period last mentioned he took up his residence at Pai-is, and there he engaged in merchandising in dry goods until 1854, when he retired from business. He took a leading part in the local affairs of every community in which he dwelt and was always at the front in all undertakings for the development and improvement of the section. At Paris he helped to found the first hank in the county, and also represented the county in the legislature, being elected as a member in 1858.

It was in Paris also that the golden web of sentiment enmeshed him in its gleaming net. In that city in November, 18-t2, he was united in mai-riage with Mrs. Jane M. Gilbert, who was born in Virginia. They had six children, four of whom are living: S. G. Parsons, of Shelbina, the immediate subject of these paragraphs ; Sallie P., the widow of Taylor Thompson, who is now living in Oakland, California; Mary C, the wife of J. A. Dawson, of Chillicothe, Missouri ; and Annie E., the wife of E. E. Bodine, of Memphis, Tennessee. In politics the father was a Democrat and in fraternal life a member of the ^Masonic order. He was very successful in business and left a large estate at his death, which occurred on April 11, 1885, in Shelbina.

S. G. Parsons was reared in Paris and educated in the private schools of his boyhood in that city. At the age of twenty he located at Shelbina and started a dry goods store in-company with ^Ir. Miller, the firm name being Miller & Parsons. The firm lasted eighteen months. Then Mr. Parsons turned his attention to the grocery trade, with which he has ever since been connected, except during a period of five years, when he gave his time and energies exclusively to farming and raising live stock. He is still engaged ill tliis interesting pursuit, in addition to Iiis merchandising, and finds in it

His first marriage occurred on May 5, 1865, and was with Miss Mary T. Hanger, a native of Monroe county. They had eight children, seven of whom ai'e living. Jennie T. and Lelia; Kitty Belle, the wife of Lee Francis, of Shelbina; Newton H., who died in 1910; John R.. of Kansas City, Missouri; Annie E. ; Mary, the wife of Frank Henninger, of Shelbina; and Nellie, the wife of Charles Murphy, who is living in the state of Oregon. He was married a second time in 1904 to Mrs. P. A. Sparks, of Shelbina.

From the dawn of his manhood Mr. Parsons has been a firm and faithful Democrat in political faith and practice. And although he has never sought or desired official station for himself, he has always taken a zealous jiart in the campaign of his party and given earnest and effective su]iport to its candidates. At the same time he is not a hide-bound or narrow partisan, and never allows his ardent interest in the welfare of his community to be ovei'-borne by political or personal considerations. Living in an age of progress and a section of the country that is making rapid and substantial advances, he is not only in the procession of development and improvement but one of its trusted and influential leaders. Having helped to found the municipality of Shelbina, he has been constant and effective in his efforts to build it up to its highest and best development according to the demands of the time, and has left his impress on every mental, moral and mercantile agency at work among its ]ieo]ile. He has found nothing in which the welfare of the community was involved too small for his attention and nothing too great for his daring. Shelby county has no better, wiser or more progressive citizen, and none who is more generally recog-nized as a truly representative man of lofty ideals, right purposes and commanding resources. And on all sides he is esteemed in a just estimate of his worth and usefulness.

Edward C. Shain

A prominent and influential factor in the financial and business affairs of Shelby county is Edward C. Shain, who was president of the Shelby County Savings Bank, at Clarence, of which institution he was the founder, and of which he was the executive head from the time of its incorporation until he retired in January, 1911. He holds an untarnished reputation as an able and progressive business man and upright and loyal citizen, and such is his high standing in the community that be is eminently entitled to representation in this publication, on other pages of which may also be found a brief record concerning the stanch banking institution of which he was president.

Mr. Shain is a scion of a family that was founded in the Old Dominion state of Virginia in the colonial epoch of our national history, and in that state was born his paternal grandfather, John Sliain, who eventually became a pioneer in Kentucky, and who continued to reside in that state until 1830, when he I'emoved to Sangamon county, Illinois, and died there. William Shain, father of him whose name initiates this sketch, was born in Kentucky in November, 1803, and there was reared to manhood, receiving such educational advantages as were afforded in the locality and period. He in turn gained a full quota of experience as a pioneer, having come to Missouri in the year 1824, and having first settled in Randolph county, where he developed a farm, and whei'e he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits and stock-growing for a decade, at the expiration of which, in 183-1:, he removed to Macon county, this state, where he became the owner of a good faiin, and where he passed the residue of his life. He retired from active labors in 1870 and continued to reside on his old homestead until his death, which occurred in March, 1882. He had the distinction of being the first incumbent of the office of deputy sheriff and collector of Macon, Schuyler and Adair counties, all of which were then included in Macon county, and of this chial office he continued in tenure for a period of four years. He was a staunch Democrat in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife were zealous and consistent members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Shain likewise was a native of Kentucky, and her maiden name was Catherine Smoot. She was summoned to the life eternal in 1877, and her memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. Of the twelve children, seven are living, and concerning them the following brief record is entered for consistent perpetuation in this article: Bettie Jane is the widow of John Griffin, of Tishimingo, Oklahoma; Edward C. is the im- mediate siil)ject of this review; Thomas J. and William T. are residents of Atlanta, this state; Armstead A. resides at Kirksville, ^Missouri; Mary Ann is the wife of Dade Sears, of Macon county; and Charles M. is a resident of the state of Oklahoma.

Edward C. Shain was born on the old homestead farm in Independence township Macon county, Missouri, December 23, 1835, and he was reared to maturity in his native county, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of the pioneer days, including a well conducted school in the village of Kirksville. After leaving school he continued to devote his time and attention to farming for a period of four years, at the expiration of which, in 18()3, he entei'ed into partnership with "William B. Sears and engaged in the general merchandise ])usiness at Callao, Macon county. In September, 1864, he subordinated his private interests to tender his aid in defense of the Union, becoming first lieutenant in Company K, Forty-second Missouri Volunteer Infantry, under command of Colonel Forbes and Gen. Andrew J. Smith. He was in active service with his regiment, principally in Tennessee and Alabama, until victory crowned the Union arms, and after the final surrender he continued in service imtil the spring of 1866, when he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge.

After the close of his career as a leal and loyal soldier of the republic, ^Ir. Shain returned to Missouri and resumed his active connection with the mercantile business at Caliao, where he continued operations in this line until 1870, when he was elected sheriff and collector of ^lacon county. In this dual office he served one term, within which provision was made for the segregation of the offices, and he was re-elected sherifT under the new dispensation, continuing incumbent of the shrievalty until 1874, and giving a most able and acceptable administration. In the meanwhile he had become the owner of a good farm in his native county, and after his retirement from office he continued to reside on and supervise the work of this homestead until 1883, when he removed to Kirksville, in order to afford his children better educational advantages. He there continued his residence until 1890, and in the meanwhile showed his individual ambition and scholastic appreciation by devoting much attention to the study of both ancient and modern history. He finally became associated with his only son in the lumber business, in which connection, in 1892, they floated lumber in rafts down the Mississippi river to Warsaw, Illinois, where they manufactured the same into siding, pickets, moldings and general building material, continuing operations at that place imtil 1894, when Mr. Shain returned to Missouri and established his residence in the village of Clarence, Shelby county. Here he purchased a building and effected the organization of the Shelby County Savings Bank, which opened its business in the building mentioned, and of which he was president from tlie beginning, as already stated in this context. Full data in regard to the upbuilding of this jiopular financial institution will l)e found in the individual sketch devoted to the same on other pages of this volume. In addition to giving much of his time to the direction and supervision of the affairs of the bank, ]\lr. Shain also did an extensive individual business in the extending of tinancial loans upon approved real-estate securities, and he is known as one of the able, honorable and progressive business men and substantial capitalists of this section of the state.

Mr. Shain is loyal and liberal as a citizen and his entire life has been characterized by that integrity of purpose that ever begets popular confidence and esteem. In a generic way he is a staunch sujjporter of the cause of the Democratic party but in local affairs he gives his support to the man and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity and is a zealous and devoted member of the Christian church, in which he has been an elder and teacher of a Bible class for twenty years.

On August 19, 1859, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shain to Miss Emily Bristow, of Macon county, who died in Novemiier, 1866, and who is survived by one sou, Hopkins B. Shain, now a representative attorney of the city of Sedalia, Missouri. He was elected district judge of Sedalia county, Missouri, in 1910. His second marriage occurred in October, 1866, his second wife being Nancy Bristow, a sister of his first wife.

substantial order, implying public appreciation of its stability and effective service. The bank is located in the city of Clarence, and dates its inception back to the year 1894, in August of which year it was organized and incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. Six months later, to meet the demands of the rapidly expanding business, the capital stock was increased to $15,000, and at the expiration of its first year of operations the capital was augmented to $30,- 000, at which figure it was maintained until 1904, when it was increased to $50,- 000, which is the amount since represented in its stock; and $25,000 permanent surplus.

The personnel of the original board of directors was as here noted : Edward C. Shain, W. D. Crow, B. P. Eutledge, J. L. Sibley and H. B. Shain. Edward C. Shain was chosen president of the institution and remained incumbent of this office until in January, 1911, when G. T. Gilman was chosen president; H. B. Shain was the first cashier, and B. P. Eutledge the first vice-president. In 1895 A. W. Combs succeeded H. B. Shain as cashier, continuing incumbent of this executive position for seven years - up to the time of his death, in 1902, when Marson Dimmitt was chosen cashier, of which position he has since remained in tenure. B. P. Eutledge is vice-president, and J. 0. Callison, J. D. Fleming and H. E. Combs are assistant cashiers. The members of the board of directors are as follows: George T. Gilman, N. A. Edwards, C. W. Belsher. B. P. Eutledge, J^frs. A. K. Combs, J. C. Eodcs and D. White. The deposits of tlie bank now aggregate nearly two hun- dred and eigbteen thousand dollars, and a surplus of $25,000 is maintained. On other pages of this publication will be found a brief review of the career of the president of this popular financial institution.

William L. Hamrick

A native son of Shelby count}-, who has here gained prestige and success as an able member of its bar, and who is now incumbent of the office of prosecutting attorney of the county and also that of city attorney of Clarence, is William L. Hanirick, whose professional standing and personal iio])ularity find ample voucher in the official preferments which are his at the present time.

'Sir. Hamrick was 1)orn on the old family homestead in Taylor township, this county, and the date of his nativity was November 27, 1860. His paternal grandfather, Rev. Jesse Hamrick, was born in Virginia, where the family was early founded, and was a clergjnnan of the Methodist church. He removed to Kentucky when a young man and there passed the residue of his life. William F. Hamrick, father of him whose name initiates this article, was born in Kentucky, January 10, 1816, and he was reared and educated in the old Bluegrass state, where he continued to reside until 1854, when he removed to Missouri and took up his residence in Shelby county. He purchased a tract of land in Taylor township and dovelo))od one of the valuable farms of the county. He continued to reside on th.e old homestead until his death, which occurred September 24, 1873. He was a citizen of prominence and influence in his community, ever commanding the most unequivocal confidence and esteem, and he served for several years as justice of the peace, having been a staunch Democrat in his political proclivities. His first wife, whose maiden name was Melvina Savage, was likewise a native of Kentucky, where their marriage was solemnized, and she became the mother of four children, of whom two are living : Belle, who is the widow of Valentine iMcCully, of Cherry Box, Missouri, and Miss ISIelvina Hamrick, who now resides in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Hamrick died within a short time after the removal to Missouri, and in February, 1858, Mr. Hamrick contracted a second marriage, being then united to Miss Martha Shelton. a daughter of Griffith D. and Lavina P. Shelton, who were pioneer settlers of Shelby county. Mrs. Hamrick was summoned to the life eternal in 1904, and of the nine children of the second marriage only two are now living: William Loren, who is the immediate subject of this review, and Martha, who is the wife of Luther Kemji, of Leonard, Shelby county, this state.

William Loren Hamrick passed his boyhood and early youth on the old homestead farm and was not denied the privilege of contributing his quota to its woi-k, the while he duly availed himself of the advantages of the district schools of the locality, after completing the curriculum of which he continued his studies for three years in the Missouri State Normal School at Kirksville. Upon leaving this institution he continued to be associated in the work and managenient of the home farm, and in the meanwhile devoted close attention to the reading of law, under effective preeeptorship. He was admitted to the bar, upon examination in the Circuit court of his native county, April 11, 1903, pi'ior to which time he had been for fourteen years a successful and popular teacher in the district schools of the county. After his admission to the bar he continued his pedagogic labors for another year, and on February 14, 1904, he opened an office in the thriving little city of Clarence, where he has since been engaged in the ])ractice of his profession, and wliere his success as a trial lawyer and well fortitied counsellor has been on a paritj^ with his energy in and devotion to his chosen vocation.

In politics Mr. Hamrick accords an unswerving allegiance to the Democratic party, in whose faith he was reared, and he has rendered effective service in its cause. In April, 1904, he was appointed city attorney of Clarence, of which position he has since remained incumbent, and on November 3, 1908, he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of the county, receiving a gratifAnng majority at the polls, and entering upon the duties of his office on January 1, 1909, for a term of two years, and he was re-elected in the fall of 1910, with an increased majority. He has proved in his administration the wisdom of his choice for the office and has materially added to his professional laurels through his effective labors as i^ublic prosecutor. He is essentially a loyal and progressive citizen, and takes deep interest in all that tends to conserve the welfare of his native county and state. He is affiliated with Clarence Lodge, No. 305, Free &

Accepted Masons, and its adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, and also holds membershi]) in the M. W. of A. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

On July 26, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ilamrick to Miss Grace Kemper, daughter of William Kemper, a representative citizen of Clarence, this county, where she was l)orn and reared.

Walter M. Pritchard

The able and jjopular cashier of the Clarence Savings Bank is recognized as one of the representative business men of the younger generation in his native county, and his civic and business status in his native town of Clarence sets at naught all application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." Of the institution in which he is an executive officer, brief record is given on other pages of this work.

Mr. Pritchard was born in the village of Clarence, Shelby county, Missouri, October 11, 1879, and is the elder of the two children of James W. and Mina (Merrin) Pritchard, whose marriage was solemnized in this county in 1876: the younger child. Alma, is now the wife of John Ward, of Brookfield, Missouri. The honored father died in 1892, and -the mother was summoned to tlie life eternal in 1895. She was born and reared in Shelby county and was a member of an honored pioneer family of this favored section of the state. James W. Pritchard was born in the state of Virginia, and in 1876 he came to Missouri and took up his residence in the village of Clarence, this county, where he continued to maintain his home until his demise and where he became a substantial business man and honored and influential citizen. He was here identified with farming and stock-growing, in connection with which he became the owner of a large and valuable landed estate in the county, and he also conducted for a number of years a successful business in the shipping of timber and the manufacturing of lumber. In politics he was a staunch Rei)ublican, and at the time of the Civil war it was his to render valiant service as a soldier of the Union. He enlisted in Comjiany F, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued in active service during practically the entire period of the great internecine conflict between the states. He was wounded in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, but was not long incapacitated, and he was with General Sherman's forces on the ever memorable march from Atlanta to the sea. He was ever interested in his old comrades in arms and signified this by his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Christian church.

Walter M. Pritchard, the immediate subject of this review, is indebted to the public schools of Clarence for his early educational training, which included a course in the high school, and he later completed a thorough course in the Gem City Business College, at Quincy, Illinois, in which institution he was graduated as a meml)er of the class of 1898. In 1900, when nineteen years of age, Mr. Pritchard became assistant cashier of the Citizens' Bank of Clarence, retaining this position for a period of five years, at the expiration of which he disposed of his stock in the bank and assisted in the organization of the Clarence Savings Bank, which was incorporated in 1905, and of which he has been cashier from the beginning. His discrimination and effective executive administration have inured greatly to the success of this popular institution, in wiiich he is a large stockholder and wliicli is now one of the solid and important banking houses of the county. He is the owner of a well improved farm of 270 acres, located in Clay townshij), about two miles east of Clarence, and to the operation of the same he gives a general supervision, devoting special attention to the raising of high-grade live stock.

Though never imbued with office-seeking proclivities, Mr. Pritchard is ai'- rayed as a staimch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and is essentially ])rogressive and loyal as a citizen. He and his wife hold membershi]) in the Cliristian church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the j\Iodern Woodmen of America.

On August 3, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of ]\lr. Pritchard to Miss Ella Kemi)er, who likewise was l)orn and reared in Sliell)y county, being a daughter of AVilliam Kemper, a representative citizen and business man of Clarence. The three children of this marriage are Madge, Helen and Kemper. 'Sir. and Airs. Pritchard are popular figures in the social life of the community

Judge Nathaniel M. Shelton The Clarence Savings Bank

In the stability, scope and management of its financial institutions Shelby county has a source of just gratulation, and among the prominent concerns exercising important functions and fortified by all that is reliable in executive control and capitalistic reinforcement, is the Clarence Savings Bank, established L in the thriving little city of Clarence. The Clarence Savings Bank was organized in January, 1905, and was duly I incorporated under the laws of the state, ' with a capital stock of $20,000, which was increased to $40,00Q at the annual election of the stockholders in January, I 1907. The personnel of the original I board of directors was as here noted: I J. H. Merrin, Burrel Million, Dr. J. W. Megee, B. L. Glahn, H. C. AVilliams, M. L H. Lewis and W. M. Pritchard. The * executive officers of the institution have remained the same from the initiation of business until December, 1910, when .Tames O. Stribbling was elected president to succeed J. H. Merrin, who retired on account of his extreme age. Mr. Stribbling enjoys a wide acquaintance throughout the county and his connection with the bank will add to the strength and popularity of that now popular banking house. The other officers are : Burrel Million, vice-president (Mr. Million died in the summer of 1910 and J. B. Shale was elected in January, 1911); and Walter M. Pritchard, cashier. There has been no change in the directorate save that in April, 1909, upon the death of Dr. Megee, J. B. Shale was chosen as his successor. The present board of directors is composed of the following gentlemen : J. 0. Stribbling, J. B. Shale, B. L. Glahn, H. C. Williams, W. M. Pritchard, W. L. Hamrick and M. JI. Lewis. The bank now controls a large and representative support and its business is constantly expanding in scope and importance. Sketches of the careers of its president and its cashier may be found on other pages of this volume.

Hon. Nathaniel Meacon

Eminent as a jurist, occupying an exalted place in the confidence and esteem of the people as a citizen, and an ornament to any social circle of which he is a part, Hon. Nathaniel Meacon Shelton, of Macon, circuit judge of the Second judicial district of Missouri, is an honor to the state in which he lives,, the profession to which he belongs, and high-toned American manhood, of which he is so shining an example.

The Judge was born near Troy, Lincoln county, this state, on March 17, 1851. His parents were Meacon and Anna (Berger) Shelton, natives of Pittsylvania county, Virginia, where the father was an extensive i)lanter and owner of large tracts of land and numerous slaves. They were married in 1828, in their native state, and when they determined to migrate to the llien far distant and uncivilized region beyond the Mississippi from their ancestral home, tlu'v came to Missouri in IS.'i?, making the trip overland with teams and bringing with them a good herd of cattle and a number of their negroes. The father entered government land in what is now Lincoln county, which the family lived on, cultivated and improved until 1870, when the ]5arents sold their jiroperty and thereafter made their home with their daughters until death called them fi'om their earthly labors. The father died in 1873, aged 76 years, and the mother in 1887, aged 80 years. They were the parents of three sons and six daughters. Of these two sons and one daughter are living, and all are residents of Missouri. The family, like uncounted others, paid its toll to the awful slaughter of the Civil war, one son dying in the military service of the Confederacy, being a surgeon in the Southern army.

The father was a "Wliig until the party of that name died through the sectional strife in politics which preceded the war, and after that became a Democrat. For more than twenty years he was the \n-esiding judge of the Lincoln county court, and his name is revered by the people of all Missouri as that of a ca];)able and upright jurist and a citizen whose life was above reproach. He was twice married, his first wife, whose maiden name was Ann Evans, dying in her native state of Virginia.

The Shelton family is of English origin, the American progenitors having emigrated from Great Britain to this country early in the seventeenth century. Abraham Shelton, great-grandfather of the present Judge Shelton, was long a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, in which he served with Patrick Henry and other distinguished men of his day who gave the political history of the world a new direction and wrote their names in illuminated letters on its heroic pages. He was active in the agitation leading up to the Revolution, and was widely and favorably known throughout his own and the other American colonies as a wise counselor, a pure patriot and a fearless defender of his faith.

His son, Crisi^in Shelton, the judge's grandfather, was also an extensive planter in the Old Dominion, and died on his plantation there after many years of usefulness and elevated manhood. His widow came to Missouri and died some years later at the home of her son, the judge's father. In two of the great commonwealths of this country, members of this family have lived and labored for the general welfare, dignifying and adorning the citizenship of the nation and giving examples worthy of imitation everywhere by their readiness to take their places in- every crisis and their fidelity to every duty, whether in private or in public life.

Hon. Nathaniel M. Shelton grew to the age of eighteen on the paternal homestead in Lincoln county. He obtained his scholastic training in private schools, Parker Seminary in Troj', this state, and at William Jewell College, located at Liberty, Missouri, which he attended two years. He then taught school one year, and at the end of his service as a teacher was ap]iointed deputy clerk and recorder of Montgomery county, Missouri. During his two years of wise and faithful service in that capacity he studied law under the direction of Judge Elliott M.

Hughes. In 1874 he entered the law department of the Missouri State University. After passing one year of laborious study in that institution, he was admitted to the bar in 1875 in Montgomery county before Judge Gilchrist Porter at Danville, Missouri.

Judge Sheltou began the practice of his profession in the same year in SchuyjH ler county, and continued to practice in " that county until his elevation to the bench in 1898. He has been re-elected judge at the end of his term ever since then with a steady growth in popularity and strength before the people, whose confidence he has won and retained by his course on the bench, his demeanor

I as a man and his breadth of view and progressiveuess as a citizen. Prior to his election as judge he served as attorney for the Wabash railroad for a number of years in Schuyler county, rendering the company good and faithful service without contravening the rights or interests of the people. In 1884 he was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, and was re-elected in & 1886. In that body he was chairman of the committees on education and jurisprudence, and rendered such excellent service and showed himself so well equipped for the administration of public affairs that in 1888 he was elected to the state senate. In the senate he served capably and with high credit to himself as chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1902 the judge moved to Macon county, where he has ever since resided. In politics he has been a life-long Democrat, and before his election to the bench was very active in council and on the hustings in the service of his party, holding firmly to the belief that its political principles and theory of government are the correct ones, and that in their ascendency in state and nation rests the enduring welfare of the American people, collectively and individually. He has always been one of the progressive men in the judicial district, looking with favor on every worthy enterprise for its improvement and the strengthening of its mental, moral and material forces, and lending all the full measures of aid circumstances allowed him to advance. Fraternally he is a Freemason of the third degree and a member of the order of Modern Woodmen of America; and socially he is a gentleman of the old school, preserving against all innovations the high character and courtly manners of our earlier and, perhaps, better days, not as assumptions or from force of habit, but because they are inherent with him and as much parts of his nature as the organs of his body and the faculties of his mind. Professionally he is in the front rank of Missouri jurists, strictly upright, fair and just, learned in the law, wise in applying and interpreting it, and fearless in enforcing it.

The marriage of Judge Shelton occurred on November 21, 1878, and united him with Miss Belle T. Garges, a native and life-long resident of this state. Of the four children born to them three are living: Mabel, the wife of Wilbur M. French, M. D., of Chicago, Illinois; and Charles W., who is preparing for admission to the bar, and Anna E., both of whom are living at home. All the members of the family belong to the Christian church.

John C. Eickey

Mr. Rickey is known as one of the progressive business men and loyal and public-spirited citizens of Shelby county, where he has maintained his home since 1887. He is now incumbent of the office of postmaster in the thriving village of Clarence, where he is also identified with the cement-contracting business, in which connection a very successful enterprise has been built up. He has gained a secure place in the confidence and esteem of the community and as one of its representative citizens is well entitled to consideration in this publication.

John C. Eickey claims the fine old Buckeye state as the place of his nativity, as he was l)orn at Athens, Athens county, Ohio, July 11, 186.3. He is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of that commonwealth, in which his grandfather, John Rickey, was born in Belmont county and moved to Athens county, having there passed his entire life. Henry B. Rickey, father of him whose name initiates this article, was boi-n in Athens county, Ohio, November 16, 1844, and in his native state he was reared and educated. There he continued to be activelj' identified with the great basic industry of agriculture until 1885, when he sold his property in Ohio and removed to Eskridge, Kansas, where he remained about four months, at the expiration of which he located in Lawrence, that state, where he was engaged in the hotel business until 1887, when he came to Shelby county, ]\[issouri, where he passed the remainder of his life. Here he purchased a farm, in Clay township, where he continued successfully identified with farming and stockgrowing, becoming one of the substantial fanners and highly honored citizens of the county. He passed .the closing years of his life in the village of Clarence, and hei-e he was shot and killed January 9, 1909, while in discharge of his duty as village marshal. He was a citizen of sterling integrity of character and his genial personality had won to him a wide circle of friends in the community, so that his death was deeply del)lored. He was a stavmch Republican in his political proclivities, and he served as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, having enlisted in a regiment of Ohio volunteer infantry. He was a valued member of the Grand Anuy of the Republic up to the time of his demise, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was also his wife's, who died September 12, 1905.

In the year 1862 was solemnized the marriage of Henry B. Eickey to Miss Susan Ford, who was born aud reared in Harrison county, Ohio, and they became the parents of six children, all of whom are li^^ng, and concerning whom the following brief record is here entered: John C, subject of this review, is the eldest of the number; Samuel is engaged in the fur and hide business in Moberly; James A. is also a resident of Moberly, ^Missouri ; Cora is the wife of Charles J. Woolridge, of Sioux Citj-, Iowa ; Charles H. resides in Clarence, as does also Edna, who is the wife of John Larkin.

lie schools of Athens and Pleasanton, Ohio, and after leaving school he continued to be associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm until 1883, when he went to Mount Sterling, Illinois, where he was associated with his uncle, Dr. John C. Rickey, where he spent two and a half years after a severe spell of typhoid fever, at the expiration of which he returned to the parental home. He accompanied his parents on their removal to Kansas and was associated with his father in the hotel business in Lawrence, after which lie came with the family to Shelby county, Missouri, in 1887. For two years he was here associated with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Woolridge, in the grocery business in Clarence, and thereafter he wtis engaged in the same line of enterprise in an individual way until 1897, when he founded a successful business in contracting work for the constructing of cement walks, buildings and other structural work. He is still interested in this enterprise, which has grown to be one of no inconsiderable scope and importance. As a business man he has shown marked energy, discrimination and progressiveness, and his course has been so directed as to retain to him the unqualified confidence and esteem of tlie community, the while he has ever manifested a loyal interest in all that has tended to conserve the general welfare.

In politics ^Ir. Rickey is found aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and he has given effective service in its cause. On April 19, 1906, under the administration of

President Roosevelt, he received appointment to the office of postmaster of Clarence, of which position he has since remained the able and popular incumbent, besides which he served two years as a member of the village council of Clarence. He is affiliated with the Court of Honor, and his wife is a member of the Christian church.

On January 23, 1895, Mr. Rickey was united in marriage to Miss Emma Carey, of Clarence, who was born near Eldera, Pike county, Illinois, and who is a daughter of William Carey, a repi-esentative citizen of Shelby county. Mr. and Mrs. Rickey have two children, Merle and Claremont, both of whom are attending the public schools of their home village.

Citizens' Bank Of Clarence

One of the ably managed and essentially substantial financial institutions of Shelby county is that whose title initiates this paragraph and which is established in the thriving and attractive city of Clarence. This bank was organized in 1900, and its charter bears date of June 13th of that year. It began operations upon a capita-1 stock of $10,000, and the personnel of the original official corps was as here noted : John R. Jones, president; Jacob H. Merrin, vice-president; B. B. Asbury, cashier; and William B. Pritchard, assistant cashier. On September 2, 1902, the capital stock was increased to $15,000, and on September 8th of the following year the stock was raised to $20,000. On March 30, 1905, Theodore P. Manuel, Charles F. Afflick and others purchased the Interests of Messrs. Asbury and Pritchard and in- creased the capital stock of the institution to its present noteworthy figure - $40,000. Tlie bank is now one of the solid and progressive financial institutions of the county, controlling a large, representative and constantly expanding business and basing its operations upon ample capital and the best of executive direction. The present ofifieers of the bank are as here noted: Theodore P. Manuel, president; Charles F. Afldick, vice-president; and William J. Daniel, cashier. In addition to these executive officers the board of directors also includes John T. ^\jnick and J. E. Daniel. The bank has a surplus fund of $6,500 ; its loans and discounts, personal collateral and real estate, aggregate fully $140,000, and the institution owns its own well equipped banking house.

Dr. Roy is numbered among the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in Shelby county and is engaged in practice in the village of Clarence, being associated with his elder brother, Dr. Frank K. Roy, under the firm title of Drs. Roy & Roy, and both are recognized as able and successful members of their profession and as citizens of progressive ideas and distinctive public spirit, well worthy of the high regard in which they are uniformly held in the community.

Dr. James E. Roy was born in the village of Ilager's Grove, Shell)y county, Missouri, July 22, 1883, and is a son of James G. and Pauline (Bright) Roy, both natives of Marion county, this state, where tlie former was born March 10, 1846, and the latter February 2, 1849.

The father was reared and educated in Marion county and as a young man he engaged in the boot and shoe business at Palmyra, that county, where he continued to reside until 1878, when he came to Shelby county and located in the village of Clarence, where he owned and conducted a lumber yard for one year. He then sold the business and removed to a farm in Clay township, this county, where he devoted his attention to farming and stock-growing for the ensuing five years. In the spring of 1883 he sold his farm and removed to the village of Hager's Grove, where he continued to be associated with Joseph Hunolt in the general merchandise business until his death, which occurred November 2 0, 1908. He was also the owner of a farm of 160 acres at the tinfe of his demise. In 1868 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Pauline Bright, who survives him and who now maintains her home in Clarence. Of their four children, three are living - William E., of Hager's Grove; and Drs. Frank K. and James E., of Clarence, who are associated in professional and business lines, as already noted. The father was a man of exalted integrity of character and was a leader in thought and action in the community. In jiolitics he gave his allegiance to the Democratic party, and he served as postmaster and justice of the peace at Hager's Grove. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Indejiendent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a most zealous and devoted member of the Christian church, as is also his widow. He was an elder in the churcli at Hager's Grove and also served as superintendent of its Sunday school.

Dr. James E. Roy gained his preliminary education in the district schools of Shelby eoiiuty and later continued his studies in the high schools of Shelbyville and Shelbina. For four years after leaving school he was a successful and popular teacher in the vilhige of Hager's Grove, and for one year he was similarly engaged at Bacon Chapel, this county. For two years thereafter he was employed as clerk in different mercantile establishments in Clarence, and in the meanwliile he formulated definite plans for his future career, deciding to prepare himself for the medical profession. With this end in view he was duly matriculated in the University Medical College of Kansas City, in which excellent institution he completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated May 14, 1908, duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he sei'ved nearly a year as house surgeon of the University hospital, connected with his alma mater, and here he gained specially valuable clinical experience. In May, 1909, he became associated with his brother, Dr. Frank K., in the practice of his profession in Clarence, where he has been most successful in his work and where he has gained a secure hold upon popular confidence and esteem, both as a physician and as a citizen. He is identified with the Shelby County Medical Society, and is examining physician for a number of ]")rominent insurance companies and fraternal organizations. In politics he is aligned as a staunch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America.

On December 20, 1908, Dr. Roy was united in marriage to Miss Blanch Eberhard, daughter of Francis M. Eberhard, of Clarence, and they are prominent in the social activities of the community.

Dr. Bayliss, who is engaged in the l)ractice of his profession at Clarence, Shelby county, is one of the well known and essentially representative physicians and surgeons of the state, having served as a member of the medical staff of the Missouri State Hospital for the Insane at Fulton, and also having been promijiently identified with the establishing of the state hospital for the treatment of incipient tuberculosis. These preferments indicate his high professional standing, and in his private practice he has gained distinctive success and prestige, the while commanding unqualified popular confidence and esteem both as a physician and as a citizen.

Dr. Bayhss is a scion of a family early foiuided in the patrician Old Dominion state, of which he himself is a native son, having been born in historic Winchester, Virginia, October 12, 1850. His grandfather, Thomas Blackburn Bayliss, was likewise a native of Virginia, where he passed his entire life, and where he was the owner of a large ]>lantation, being a man of influence in his connnunity. John W. Bayliss, father of the doctor, was born in Fre^lerick county, Virginia, on January 7, 1828, and he was reared and educated in his native state, where he continued to maintain his home until 1858, when lie removed to Indiana, where he has since maintained his home, being one of the honored pioneer citizens of Hendricks county, that state, where he is now living retired, having been actively identified with farming and stock-raising from 1850 until 1900, in which latter year he resigned the active hd^ors and responsibilities to others, and he has since enjoyed the gracious rewards of former years of earnest toil and endeavor. He has wielded no little influence in public affairs of a local order, is a staunch adherent of the Democratic party, and in the community that has so long been his home he commands the high regard of all wlio know liim. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

In the year 1849 was solemnized tlie marriage of John Bayliss to Miss Frances V. Brill, who likewise was bom and reared in Virginia, and of their eight children, those living are, namely: William M., who is the immediate subject of this sketch; INlarshall W., who is a successful farmer of Hendricks county, Indiana; Lewis E., who is a car repairer by vocation, and is a resident of the city of Indiaanpolis, Indiana; John H., who resides in Mooresville, Indiana; James C. and Robert H., who are residents of Hendricks county, that state; Thomas, who resides in McGill, Nevada; and Ella, who remains at the parental home.

Dr. William M. Bayliss was a lad of eight years at the time of the family removal from Virginia to Indiana, in which latter state he was reared to maturity on the homestead farm, in Hendricks county, and there he was afforded the advantages of the public schools, after comjiletirig the curricuhmi' of which he was matriculated in DePauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, in the year 1872, there continuing his studies for two years, at the expiration of which he became a successful and popular teacher in the public .schools of Hendricks county until 1876, in which centennial year he entered the National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio, in which excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878. and from which he received his well earned degree of Bachelor of Science. During the ensuing two years he continued to follow the pedagogic profession in the state of Kansas, and in the meanwhile he began the study of medicine, under effective ])rivate preceptorship. In 1880 he entered the Kansas City ]\Iedical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1882, being valedictorian of the class, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he located at ^lillford, Texas, where he engaged in the practice of his profession, to which he continued to devote his attention in the Lone Star state until 1887, when he came to Shelby county, Missouri, and established himself in practice in the attractive and thriving little city of Clarence. Here he built up a large and representative professional business, to which he continued to give his imdivided attention until 1902, in the fall of which year he was appointed a member of the staff of physicians of the Missouri State Hospital, No. 1, for the care of the insane, at Fulton, proving a most able and valued official, and continuing incumbent of this ])osition for four years. Upon the election of Hon. Josei^h Folk to tlie office of governor of the state, in 1904. the chief executive appointed Dr. Bayliss chairman of the commission to which was assigned the work of selecting a location and instituting the erection of the state hosx)ital for the treatment of incipient tuberculosis. The hospital was established at Mount Vernon, and after the l)uildiug for the same was in part completed Dr. Bayliss was chosen superintendent of the institution, in which capacity he continued to serve for one year, at the expiration of which he resigned to resume the private practice of his profession in Slielby county. At that time he returned to Clarence, where he has since maintained his home and where he has even increased his professional precedence, his clientage being of representative order. He is a member of the Shelby County Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is a close student of his profession and keeps in touch with the advances made in both medicine and surgery.

In his political allegiance Dr. Bayliss is found arrayed as a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. South. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and the ]\Iodern Woodmen of America.

On May 29, 1884, Dr. Bayliss was united in marriage to JMiss Mary A. Nottingham, who was born in Pennsylvania, and of their five children, four are living: Paul, Charles, Maurine and Lucille, all of whom remain at the parental home and are popuhir figures in the social activities of the community. The doctor is local surgeon for the Cliicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad for Clarence.

Burrell Million

The honored subject of this short mention was for many years one of Shelby county's most highly respected citizens, and we regret that a more extended mention cannot be made of him in this work, but for lack of data we embrace the following brief notice, which appeared in the Clarence Courier at the time of his death, September 3, 1910 :

"The death of Uncle Burrell Million last Saturday was a sad shock and surprise to our community. Mr. Million had been on our streets only a couple of days befoi'e, and few knew of his sickness, and none realized the severity of his case.

"Mr. Million was one of our oldest and most substantial citizens. He was (juiet in disposition, a man who loved his fellowman and was always ready and glad to extend the helping hand.

"He was l)orn in Kentucky, in 1828, and moved to Missouri early in life. The greater part of his life was spent on his farm near Woodlawn. He moved to Clarence only a few years ago, and during his residence here lived a retired life.

"The deceased leaves a wife, three daughters - Mrs. Stoddard, Mrs. Farrell and Mrs. Jackson - also two sons - John and William - to mourn his departure. The funeral was conducted at the family residence yesterday at eleven

John R. Morgan

"Whatever this leading business man and highly esteemed citizen of Shelbina is, he is all Shelbina 's own. He was born in that city on June 20, 1873, and grew to manhood among its people. He obtained his education in its public schools, acquired his business training in active connection with its industries, learned his trade as a j^ainter under the direction of one of its leading mechanics, and has devoted all his energies in life so far to the promotion of its interests and the welfare of its people.

Mr. Morgan is a son of the late David and Mary E. (Williams) Morgan, a sketch of whose lives will be found elsewhere in this volume. At the age of seventeen he began learning the painting trade, and after he mastered it lie was made foreman in the painting department of his father's wagon factory. He held this position with credit to himself and benefit to the establishment \mtil he became of age. On attaining his majority he bought a harness manufactory. This he operated successfully for a period of twelve years, and in connection with it conducted a general hardware business of which he is still the proprietor. His trade is flourishing and profital)le, and he has shown in its management a high order of business capacity. In addition, lie has other valuable interests in commercial and industrial enterprises, being a stockholder and director of the Commercial Bank of Shelbina, and also a stockholder in the Trout Hardware Company of Chicago.

In politics yir. Morgan is a true and tried memlier of the Democratic party, and is at all times active and effective in promoting its welfare. He is an energetic worker in all political campaigns, but does not aspire to public office for himself. He feels a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of his country, and believes that it will be best promoted by the supremacy of the political principles to which he gives his support. In fraternal life he holds membership in the Masonic order, its adjunct, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Knights of Pythias. In these fraternities he takes an active interest, helping to make them as widely and progressively useful to their members and the communities in which they operate as possible. Their social features also apjieal to him strongly, and he finds a great deal of enjopnent in intercourse with liis fellow members at the meetings of his lodges.

Among the progressive and far-seeing citizens of Shelbina ^Ir. Morgan holds a high rank as one of the leaders. He is studious and acquisitive in the line of mental development, and makes it one of his prime activities to secxire the highest and broadest culture his opportunities will allow. He has traveled extensively in this and other countries, mingling freely with different people and obtaining a thorough knowledge of their manners, customs and pursuits. By this means and continuous and reflective reading he has gained a vast fund of general information, and is prepared to discuss witli intelligence and profit to his hearers almost every topic of general interest, and manj- of which knowledge among the ordinary run of men is very limited. So general and varied, and at the same time so accurate, is his knowledge of many topics of human thought and interest that he has become an authority on them and is looked to for light concerning them when his fellow citizens are in need of it.

In business Mr. Morgan has been very successful. In local matters of moment he is widely useful, and in the social life of the community of his home he is a prime factor. On all sides he is held in the highest esteem, the regard the people have for him being based on well demonstrated merit, broad and fruitful public spirit and clean and upright livj^ ing. Shelbina has no better citizen, and none who is more universally and deservedly popular. And what is more to his credit, he is as modest and unassuming as he is worthy and well esteemed, being seemingly as unconscious of his superior attainments as he is serviceable in the use of them.

On October 8, 1895, Mr. Morgan was married to Miss Mary Laura Eeed, who is, like himself, a native of Shelby county. She is an able second to all his aspirations and a valuable coadjutor in all his enterprises. And she, also, has a strong hold on the regard and good will of all classes of the people. The three children born of their union are all living and still members of the parental family circle. They are: Nell Eeed, Besse Irene and Mary Isabel, each of whom adds greatly to the brightness and warmth of the household and is a strong element in its popularity as a social center and the seat of a i-efined and'gracious hospitality.

John B. Shale

He whose name initiates this review has been a resident of Shelby county since his boyhood days, and now holds precedence as one of its representative and essentially wide-awake and progressive business men and as a citizen eminently entitled to the high esteem in which he is uniformly held. He has been prominent^ identified with the development of lumbering interests in Arkansas and Oregon, with which line of enter- ])rise he is still largeh^ concerned, and in his home town of Clarence he controls a large business as a buyer and shipper of live stock and grain, besides which he deals in lumber and operates a well equipped grist mill.

Mr. Shale claims the fine old Keystone state of the Union as the place of his nativity, having been born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. August 14, 1858. His' father, William Shale, was born in England in 1828, and was a child at the time of his parents' immigration to America. The family settled in Pennsylvania, where he was reared to maturity and where his marriage was solemnized. He there devoted his attention principally to agricultural pursuits until 1866, when he came with his family to Shelby count5% Missouri, where he and his devoted wife have since maintained their home and where they are held in unqualified esteem by all who know them. William Shale secured a tract of land in

Jefferson townsliip, where he developed one of the fine farm proiterties of the count)', and where he continued actively concerned in farming and stock-growing until 1895, when he retired from active labors, having also built up a successful enterjirise as a shipper of live stock. He is now living retired in the village of Clarence, and, though more than four score years of age, is well preserved in both mental and physical faculties. He is a staimch adherent of the Democratic party, is affiliated with the local lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and both he and his wife hold membership in the ilethodist Episcopal church. As before stated, his marriage was solemnized in the state of Pennsylvania, where his wife, whose maiden name was Susan Knox, was bom and reared. Of their ten children, all are living except Sai-ah. who died at the age of thirty years. Concerning the other children the following brief data are consistently entereci in this review: Samuel C. is a resident of San Diego, California; "William B. is a well-known resident of Shelby county; John B., subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; AVesley T. resides in the city of Spokane, Washington; Christina is the wife of Mr. Curtis, of Phoenix, Arizona ; George resides at Black Eock, Arkansas; Anna is the wife of John D. Bandall, of Salida, Colorado; May is the wife of Robert L. Jacobs, of Clarence; and Lawrence is a resident of Goldfield, Nevada.

John B. Shale, whose name introduces this article, was about eight years of age at the time of tlie family removal from Pennsylvania to Shelby county, Missouri, and here he was reared to maturity on the home farm, early beginning to lend his aid in its work and in the meanwhile duly availing himself of the advantages of the district schools of the locality and period. He continued to be associated in the work and management of his father's farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-five years, when he took up his re.sidence in the city of Clarence, where he was engaged in the livery business for eighteen months, at the expiration of which, in 1885, he engaged in the buying and shipping of grain, in which connection he now operates a modern grist mill, and he is also engaged in the lumber business and in the buying and shipping of live stock. These varied and important interests place exacting demands upon his time and attention, but his vital energy, his keen business sagacity and his administrative ability are adequate to meet all contingencies that may arise. He has directed his efforts in a splendid way along noiTual and legitimate lines of enterprise, and his honest and straightforward policy has gained to him the confidence of all with whom he has had deal- He is one of the alert and reinas.

sourceful business men who are upholding the industrial prestige of Shelby county, and as such he is well entitled to this slight tribute of recognition in the history of the county which has so long represented his home. 'Mr. Shale is a stockholder in the Clai'ence Savings Bank, of which he is a director, and is also a stockholder of the Shelby County State Bank, of Clarence. He is the owner of 160 acres of valuable farming land in Shelby county, and about one-half of this tract is under cultivation, the remainder

In politics ]\rr. Shale gives an unqualified allegiance to the Democratic party. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He has acliieved pronounced success in his business operations, and especially in connection with himbering enterprises in Oregon and Arkansas, where he has large interests at the present time.

In April, 1885, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Shale to Miss Abbie George, a daughter of David George, a representative citizen of Granville, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Shale became the parents of seven children, all of whom are living, namely: Roger, who now resides in Washington, D. C. ; Helen, George B., Corinne, Kathleen, Charles and Frances, all of whom remain at the parental home.

Elisha A. Callison

A scion of staunch Scottish stock, this well-known business man and popular citizen of the city of Clarence well exemplified the sterling traits of character that have ever designated the sturdy race from which he is sprung, his grandfather, Elisha F. Callison, having been a native of Scotland, and having taken up his residence in West Virginia u])on coming to America. There he passed the residue of his long and useful life, West Virginia at that time having been still an integral portion of the Old Dominion of Virginia. Mr. Callison is associated in the milling, grain and live-stock business with John B. Shale, a sketch of whose career appears on other pages of this work, and they control a large and successful enterprise in the various departments of their business, being large shippers of stock in addition to conducting successful operations in the other lines noted. This effective partnership alliance is maintained irader the firm name of Callison & Shale.

Elisha A. Callison reverts with a due measure of satisfaction to the fact that he is a native son of the state in whicli his honored father and grandfather acquitted themselves so well as productive workers and loyal and worthy citizens. He was liorn in Greenbrier county, W^est Virginia, on October 28, 1860, and is a son of Oscar and Margaret (Bright) Callison, both of whom were likewise natives of that county, where their marriage was solemnized, and where they continued to maintain their home imtil their death. The father was born in 1836, devoted his entire active career to agricultural pursuits and stock-growing, and remained on his fine old homestead farm until his death, which occurred in 1877. His wife, who was born in 1838, died in 1888, their marriage having been solemnized in the year 1849. Oscar Callison was a staunch adherent of the Democratic party, took an intelligent and loyal interest in public affairs of a local order, and served one year as sheriff of Greenbrier county, where he ever commanded the unipialified esteem of all who knew him. Both he and his devoted wife held membershi]) in the Presbyterian church, and their faith was well exemplified in their dailv lives. Thev became the jia rents of five children, of whom four are now living, namely : Elisha A., who is the immediate subject of this review; James C, who is a resident of Casjier. Kansas; ^[ary, who is the wife of (Jeorge E. Chinn. of Clarence. Shelby county, Missouri; and Austin, who is a representative farmer of Barber coimty. Kansas.

Elisha A. Callison was reared to maturity under the grateful influences and sturdy labors of the old homestead farm, and he was atforded the advantages of the excellent public schools of Lewisburg, AVest Virginia. At the age of sixteen years he went to Highland county. Virginia, where he assisted in the work of the fann of his uncle, John W. Bird, for the ensuing live years. He then, in 1881, when twenty-one years of age, came to Shelby county, Missouri, where he found emplojTnent by the month at fann work, being thus engaged for a period of three years, during which he was industrious and economical, carefully conserving his resources and formulating jilans for an independent career. At the expiration of the interval noted. Mr. Callison engaged in farming and stock-raising on his own resjionsibility. renting a farm in Jetferson township, about three miles distant from the city of Clarence. There he continued operations with all of energy and with unremitting care and discrimination for about three yeaii;, and he then removed to Barber county, Kansas, where he continued in the same line of enterprise, and where he finally became the owner of a well improved farm of 2,250 acres. He remained in the Sunflower state for a period of twelve years, at the expiration of which, in 1901, he returued to Shelby county, ^[issouri. and purchased a fann of 320 acres near Clarence, in Jefferson township, a jiroperty which he sold in 1903. In the autxnnn of 1902. however, he left the farm and took up his residence in Clarence, where he has since been successfully engaged in business in partnershi]i with John B. Shale, as noted in the opening paragraph of this article. Mr. Callison is recognized as one of the essentially progressive and re]>resentative business men of the county, and his success is the more gratifying to contemplate by reason of the fact that it is the result of his own well directed efforts and good business judgment. Xo citizen of the community commands a larger measure of popular confidence and regard, and he is loyal and public-spirited in his attitude, ever ready to lend his influence and tangible aid in the support of measures and enterprises tending to advance the general weal. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party; he is affiliated with the local organizations of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and his wife are members of the PresTn"terian church.

February 14. 1883, recorded the marriage of Mr. Callison to Miss Anna Erwin. who was born and reared in Highland county. Virginia, whither he returned to claim his bride, who accompanied him to his new home in ^lissouri, and who has jiroved a worthy and efficient helpmeet. They are the parents of seven children, all of whom remain at the parental home, except the elder daughter. The names of the children.

as here entered in respective order of birth, are: John 0., Elizabeth, Edward A., ^largaret, Harry, Charles and Anna. Elizabeth is now the wife of William Gillespie, and they reside in Miles City, Montana.

Minus H. Lewis

On other pages of this publication is entered a brief review of the career of Aaron Lewis, the honored father of the .'subject of this sketch, and by reason of this fact it is not necessary to repeat the data in this article, as ready reference maj' be made to the sketch mentioned. He whose name heads this paragraph is a native of Shelby county and is now numbered among its enterprising and essentially representative business men, while as a citizen he holds the unqualified esteem and confidence of the people of the county in which his entire life has been passed.

Minus H. Lewis was born on the homestead farm of the family, in Jefferson township, Shelby county, Missouri, May 29, 1872, and to the district schools of the locality he is indebted for his early educational training. After his school days were over he continued to be associated with his father in the work and management of the farm until 1900, when he took up his residence in the village of Clarence, where he erected a grain elevator of large capacity and modem facilities, thus showing a spirit of progressiveness and confidence that had not previously been manifested in a similar way by any other resident of the county, as this elevator was the first to be erected within the borders of Shelby county. He conducted a successful grain business for the ensuing two years, at the expiration of which he di.sposed of the elevator and business. While thus engaged he was also associated with William F. Hirrlinger in the conducting of a well equipped hardware, furniture and undertaking establishment, under the fiiTQ name of Lewis & Hirrlinger. In 1904 he purchased his partner's interest in this enterprise, which he thereafter conducted in an individual way until 1907, when he disposed of all his business interests in the village and purchased stock in the Clarence Savings Bank, of which he was elected assistant cashier in Januaiy of that year. Of this position he has since continued incumbent, giving the major portion of his time and attention to his executive duties in connection with this substantial and popular financial institution. He is the owner of an attractive residence and other improved realty in Clarence and is one of the loyal and public-spirited citizens who are conserving the material and civic progress of liis native county, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. He is a staunch Democrat in his political proclivities and takes a lively interest in public affairs of a local order.

On October 11, 1896, Mr. Lewis was imited in marriage to !Miss TjOu McCart\', who was born in Schuyler county, Illinois, and who is a daughter of Michael McCarty, now a resident of Clarence.

Aaeon Lewis

has been actively identified with the great basic industry of agriculture, in connection with which he has gained success and independence through his well directed energies and indefatigable application. He is now living virtually retired in the village of Clarence, where he has an attractive home, and is enjoying the generous rewards of former years of earnest endeavor and where he is known as a substantial citizen and as one well worthy of the unqualified esteem in which he is held in the community that has so long represented home and been the scene of his productive activities.

Mr. Lewis was born in Dorchester county, ^Maryland, on November 13, 1843, and is of staunch "Welsh and English lineage, the Lewis family having been founded in Maryland in the colonial era of our national history. He bears the full patronymic of his honored father, Aaron Lewis, who'was born in Marjiand in 1795, and who there passed his entire life, having been summoned' to eternal rest on September 23, 1843, about a month befoi-e the birth of the subject of this review. During the greater portion of his independent career he was identified with agricultural pursuits, and for some time he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Federalsburg, Maryland. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Adams, was likewise a native of Maryland, and she survived him by many years, having passed away in 1902. They became the i)arents of eight childi'en and concerning the four now living the following data are entered: Charles is a resident of Knox county, Missouri ; Abraham resides in the village of Novelty, this state; Lovey is the wife of AVilliam Sullin, of Knox county; and Aaron is the immediate subject of this review. In politics the father was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Whig party, and both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.

Aaron Lewis, subject of this sketch, was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and his early educational privileges were those offered in the common schools of the locality and period. After leaving school he continued to follow farm work for some time, and later was employed as clerk in a general store at Williamsburg, Maryland. He then became a sailor on a coasting vessel, and he continued to follow the seafaring life about two years. The merchantman on which he was engaged was chartered at intervals by the government during the progress of the Civil war and was lying at the mouth of the Appomattox river at the time of the evacuation of the city of Kichmond, Virginia. Upon retiring from the maritime sei'vice, ^Nfr. Lewis returaed home and learned the trade of carpenter, to which he continued to devote his attention for a period of five years, during which he maintained liis home at Federalsburg, Maryland.

In 1868 Mr. Lewis came to Missouri and took up his abode in Shelby county, where he has since maintained his home and where through his own efforts he has become a successful and representative citizen. For two years he followed his trade in the village of Clarence, and during the remainder of his active career he gave his attention to farming and stock-raising, eventually becoming the owner of a fine lauded estate of 240 acres near the village of Maud, in Jefferson township. He developed the property into one of the productive and valuable farms of the county, made excellent improvements upou the place, and continued to reside on this homestead until 1899, when he retired from active labors and removed to the village of Clarence, where he has since maintained his home. He disposed of his farm several years ago. He is a stockholder of the Clarence Savings Bank and has other substantial capitalistic investments in his home coimty.

In politics Mr. Lewis is found arrayed as a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, and he continues to take a lively and intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the hour, the while exemplifying the highest standard of loyal and public-spirited citizenship. He is affiliated with the local lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and attends and supports the ]\Iethodist Episcopal church. South, of which his wife is a zealous member.

On August 25, 1870, Mr. Lewis was united in marriage to Miss Rosa Conradt, who was born in Germany, on July 25, 1848, and who was a resident of Shelby county at the time of her marriage. Her father, the late Jacob Conradt, settled in this county many years ago and became one of its substantial fanners and honored citizens. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have been born six children, all of whom are living, nameh': Minus H., who is engaged in banking in Clarence; Katherine, who is the wife of Willis Cross, of Clarence; Delia May, who remains at the parental home; Mollie, who is the wife of Samuel Sanner, a prosperous farmer of this county; John E., who is now a resident of the state of Wyoming ; and Nora, who is the wife of Porter Robuck, of Shelby county.

William L. Jacobs

Bearing a name that has been long and prominently identified with the annals of Shelby county, where this well known and honored family was founded in the early pioneer days, William L. Jacobs has well upheld the prestige of the name and is now recognized as one of the representative business men and influential citizens of his native county, where he has a secure place in popular confidence and regard. He is now engaged in the general merchandise business in the thriving little city of Clareuce, and he is one of the leading and most progi'essive merchants of the county, coutrolliug a large and appreciative trade, which is based on fair and honorable dealings and which extends throughout the fine agricultural territory uovmally tributary to Clarence as a distributing center. Adequate review of the family history is given in the memoir dedicated to his honored father, the late John W. Jacobs, on other pages of this publication.

William L. Jacobs was born on the old homestead farm of his father, in Clay township, Shelby county, Missouri, and the date of his nativity was September 6, 1858. He has naught to regret in connection with the sturdy discipline which he received in connection with the work of the farm and under the direction of a father of marked energy and excellent l)usiness judg-ment. He was afforded the advantages of the well conducted public schools of the village of Clarence, and this training was supplemented by an effective course in the Gem City Business College, at Quiney, Illinois. In 1877, soon after attaining to his legal majority, Mr. Jacobs took up his residence in LacygTie, Kansas, where he was engaged in the grocery business for the ensuing five years, the venture proving successful and affo)ding iiim excellent business experience of a practical order. In 1882 he returned to his native county and for the ensuing two years he was identified with various business interests in the village of Clarence. At the expiration of this period, January 1, 1884, he engaged in the general merchandise business in this city, a line of enterprise with which he has here continued to be successfully identified since that time. The business Avas at the start eouducted under the firm name of Whitby, Jacobs & Company, his father being a silent partner in the concern and the other active member having been Stephen M. Whitby. The father continued to be passively interested in the enterprise until his demise, and after the death of j\Ir. Whitby the subject of this sketch continued the business in partnership with his brother, Eobert L. Jacobs, until 1898, when he purchased his brother's interest. Since that time he has individually conducted the business under his own name, and his large and well equipped establishment caters most effectively to its extensive and representative patronage. Clothing, boots and shoes, and furnishing goods are handled, and Mr. Jacobs has showTi unqualified discrimination in the selection of goods and in meeting the demands of his ever increasing trade.

Mr. Jacobs has not hedged himself in with his personal affairs and the promotion of his business, but has manifested a broad-minded, liberal and loyal attitude as a citizen, giving his influence and co-operation in the supjiort of all measures and enterprises tending to advance the material and civic prosperitj'^ of the conununity. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, and, while he has never been ambitious for public office, he has been called upon to serve as a member of the board of city aldermen, of which position he was a valued incumbent for some years. He is an appreciative and popular member of Clarence Lodge, No. 305, Free & Accepted Masons, of which he served as worshipful master for three terms.