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Dr. Samuel S. Glasscock was born in Ray county, Missouri, on the 13th of April, 1862, and is a son of Archibald and Rachel (Titus) Glassrock, of whose five children three are now living. The father was born in Tennessee in 1822, and in 1832 his parents moved thence to Missouri, of which state they became pioneers and in which they passed the remainder of their lives. There Archibald Glasscock was reared and educated and his active career was one of close and duly successful identification with the great basic industry of agriculture. Both he and his wife continued to reside in Ray county, Missouri, until their death, and both were summoned to the life eternal in the year 1898. even as both were born in 1822, Mrs, Glasscock having been a native of Vol. II-17
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North Carolina and both families having early been founded in the southern portion of our great national domain. In politics Archibald GHlasseoek was a stanch and intelligent supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife were consistent members of the Methodist church.
Dr. Glasseoek was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and thus gained the physical vitality and buoyaney that have enabled him to bear so well the labors and manifold exactions of his chosen profession. He gained his preliminary education in the schools of his native state and supplemented this by a course of study in the University of Mis- sonri, though he was not graduated in the literary or academie depart- ment of any institution. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, one of the greatest medical schools of the country, and in the same he was gradnated as a member of the class of 1887, with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He soon afterward engaged in active general practice at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where he remained until 1889, when he went to Vienna, Austria, and took a special post-graduate course in the diagnosis and treatment of nervous diseases in the celebrated medical department of the great University of Vienna. Upon his return to the United States in 1890, Dr. Glasseock established his residence in Kansas City, Kansas, where he has since maintained his home and where he has gained splendid success in the work of his profession, in which he has specialized in the treatment of nervous and mental diseases. More particularly for the treatment of this most deplorable class of human disorders he established his fine sanitarium, in 1903. and the institution, in its beneficent work, has well justified his appreciation of the need for the same and his liberality and enterprise in providing so admirable accommodations and facilities. The Doctor is also a valued member of the staff of Bethany Hospital, in which he has charge of the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. He has been a close and appreciative student, has done a large amount of original research work and has made valuable contributions to the standard and periodical literature of his profession. He is a member of the Wyandotte County Medical Society, the Kansas State Medical Society, the Southwestern Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Kansas City Academy of Medicine. Devoted to his profession and appreciative of its dignity and responsibilities. he has been an exponent of its best ethical code and has retained the inviolable confidence and regards of his confreres.
Notwithstanding the demands made upon him in connection with the work of his profession. Dr. Glasscock is signally alert and public- spirited in his vivie attitude and has shown a loyal interest in all that touches the wellbeing of the community. He is aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party and has given effective service in its behalf. In 1904 he was elected to represent Wyandotte county in the state legislature, in which he made an excellent record. but he refused to become a candidate for re-election. IIe is affiliated with Wyandotte Lodge, No. 3. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in this time-honored fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which his affiliation is with Caswell Consistory, No. 5. in his home city.
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On the 29th of November, 1888, was recorded the marriage of Dr. Glasseoek to Miss Ollie Hunter, who was born in the state of Illinois and who is a daughter of Milton B. and Sallie (Reed) Hunter, both of whom were natives of Ohio and both of whom passed the closing years of their lives in Kansas City, Missouri, the father having been a carriage manufacturer by vocation. Dr. and Mrs. Glasscoek have three dangh- ters,-Edith, Rachel and Catherine. Edith is a student at the Uni- versity of Kansas. Dr. and Mrs. Glasscoek are active members of Washington Avenue Methodist church, and the Doetor has been for years president of the official board, while Mrs. Glasseoek is president of the Foreign Missionary Society.
AVE SIMMONS, proprietor of the Art Paint Works of Rosedale, has devoted his whole life to art. He does everything in the way of pie- torial painting, lettering and seroll work for autos, coaches, carriages, signs, etc., and he eounts among his customers the most important corporations and the most exelusive of individuals in Rosedale and the two cities, Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. He is a master in the profession which he follows.
Mr. Simmons is a native of Christian county, Kentucky, where his birth occurred in the month of November, 1858. He is the son of Elijah and Margaret (Mitchell) Simmons, the father a native of Vir- ginia and the mother of Kentucky. Mr. Simmons, Sr., passed his boyhood and youth in his native state and as a young man migrated to Kentucky, where he married and lived for several years. In 1868 he, with his family, removed to Cass connty, Missouri, where he and his wife both died and are buried in the cemetery at. Pleasant Hill.
When he had reached his ninth birthday, Ave Simmons went with his parents to Cass county, Missouri, where he was edueated in the public schools and was apprenticed in a carriage factory. The branch of the work which pleased him most was the painting department, where he showed such marked abilities that it was deemed advisable to specialize in that line. To that end he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and studied art under Mrs. Kester, one of the noted artists and teachers in Boston at that time. After two years of elose application to the details of the profession he went to Mount Vernon, Illinois as coach painter in the shops of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and to him was entrusted all the fine finishing, such as the headings and decorating of the coaches. After six months in the employ of this corporate concern he moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and for abont nine months he engaged in business for himself, making a specialty of sign painting. Then for one season he was engaged by Flesh & Mook of St. Louis to paint signs. In 1882 he came to Kansas City, where he worked for Mr. Grimes at the foot of Main street and later at Four- teenth and Grand avenue, Conway, four years in all. At the expiration of that period he spent a like term with H. A. Cain at Twenty-third and Grand streets and following that connection he established a busi- ness of his own, where he executed orders for earriage and wagon letter- ing and sign painting. After a short time he sold out the business and engaged with Swift & Company ; indeed he has several times done work for this concern. After coneluding the work which Swift & Company required he worked for Joe Bicchley at Third and Kansas
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avenue, with whom he remained about two years, when he again opened a place of his own situated at 108 E. Twentieth street and since that time has continued to take independent orders. In 1903 he came to Rosedale, on account of the floods at Armourdale, and his present loca- tion is at 103 Southwest boulevard.
In 1884 Mr. Simmons married Miss Mary Thompson, daughter of Marvin Thompson of Jacksonville, Illinois, who was married in Olathe, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons' only son, Marvin, is a baker. Mr. Simmons is a prominent lodge man, having become affiliated with the Masonic order in Rosedale in which he has taken various degrees. He has also been a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the tribe of Red Men. For a period of eighteen years he held membership with the American Painters' Union Workers, during which time he held various offices. ITis fellow citizens regard him as a successful business man and a master of his profession.
OSCAR HTYOORT .- It is always most gratifying to the biographer and student of human nature to come in close touch with the history of a man who, in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties, has plodded persistently on and eventually, through his determination and energy, made of success not an accident but a logical result. Oscar IIvoort, who maintains his home at Bonner Springs, Wyandotte county. Kansas, is strictly a "self-made" man, and as sneh a perusal of his career offers both lesson and incentive. ITe has been eminently suc- cessful as a business man and land speculator sinee his arrival in Kansas. in 1889, and he has ever manifested a deep and sincere interest in all matters pertaining to the good of the general welfare.
Oscar Hyoort was born in Sweden, on the 15th of March, 1865, and is a son of Peter and Andrega (Gulen) HIvoort, both of whom were likewise natives of Sweden, where both were born in 1836. During the major portion of his active career Peter IFvoort was identified with the blacksmith line of enterprise and he is now residing with his sons in Bonner Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Hyoort became the parents of two children,-Oscar, the immediate subject of this review; and Carl, who is now engaged in railroad work at Bonner Springs. Oscar and Carl Ilyoort were reared to adult age in their native place. to whose public schools they are indebted for a good elementary education. They, together with their father, immigrated from Sweden to America in the year 1888, proceeding immediately to Kansas and locating at Bonner Springs, in Wyandotte county, where they turned their attention to the blacksmith's trade. They were eminently successful in their work and with the passage of time succeeded in accumulating some valuable property in this section of the state. Osear Hyoort was one of the most zealons boomers of Bonner Springs and he is now the owner of property in Kansas City, Kansas, and in Bonner Springs amounting to some twenty-five thousand dollars. He is a business man of unusual ability and shrewdness and never fails to make the most of every opportunity for advancement that comes his way.
In his politieal convictions Mr. Hyoort is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and while he has never manifested anght of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description he is ever on the alert to
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do all in his power to advance the best interests of the community which represents his home. His father and brother are also aligned as stal- warts in the ranks of the Republican party. In a fraternal way Mr. Hvoort is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and religiously he is a consistent member of the Swedish Lutheran church, in the different departments of which he is an active and zealons worker.
At Kansas City, Missouri, on May 15, 1899, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Hyoort to Miss Clara Sheen, who was born in Bonner Springs and reared in Denver, Colorado, and who is a daughter of Edward Sheen. To this union has been born one son, George Hyoort, whose birth occurred on the 26th of March, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Hyoort are popular and prominent in connection with the best social activities of Bonner Springs, where their spacious and attractive home is recog- nized as a center of most gracious hospitality.
WILLIAM H. SMITH, M. D .- Other men's services to the people and the state can be measured by definite deeds, by dangers averted, by legislation secured, by institutions built, by commerce promoted. The work of a doctor is entirely estranged from these lines of enterprise, vet withont. his capable, health giving assistance, all other accomplish- ment would count for naught. Man's greatest prize on earth is physi- val health and vigor; nothing deteriorates mental activity so quickly as prolonged sickness, hence the broad field for human helpfulness afforded in the medical profession. The successful doctor requires something more than mere technical training, he must be a man of broad human sympathy and genial kindliness of spirit, capable of in- spiring hope and faith in the heart of his patient. Such a man is he whose name initiates this article. In connection with his extensive private practice at Kansas City, Dr. Smith condnets a sanitarium here and is deeply interested in hospital work in Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas. He is a man of splendid education, is possessed of a brilliant mind and is specially talented in many directions. Hle is a great mechanical genius, an eloquent lecturer and a poet and writer of unusual ability.
Dr. William Henry Smith was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the date of his nativity being the 2nd of August, 1862. Ile is a son of Emannel H. and Elizabeth (Keeny) Smith, and the first in order of birth in a family of seven children. Dr. Smith was reared to the age of seven years in his native eity and at that time he accom- panied his parents to Fulton, Illinois, where his preliminary eduea- tional training included a course in the high school, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884. Subsequently he attended and was graduated in the Western Normal School, at Bushnell, Ilinois, and in 1889 he was graduated in the pharmacy department of the Chieago School of Chemistry. For a time he was also a student in Musselman's Law and Commercial school, at Quincy, Illinois, and eventually he attended the University of Chicago, in the medical depart- ment of which now widely renowned institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medieinc. Prior to his graduation he had practiced chemistry and medicine under an old doctor in Chicago but after obtaining his degree he immediately initiated an independent practice at Paris, Missouri.
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His success was of most gratifying order from the very beginning and on the 1st of May, 1899, seeking a wider territory for his life work, he came to Kansas City, Kansas, where he opened offiees and where he has continued to reside during the intervening years to the present time. Ilis work now extends to hospitals in a number of large western cities and his territory ineludes Oklahoma and Missouri. He himself drew the plans for and superintended the construction of his present fine place of business, which includes a sanitarium with accomodation for thirty patients, four private offices and his home. In connection with the work of his profession he is a valued and appreciative member of the American Medical Association, the Tri-state Medical Society, which he has served as vice president; the Missouri State Medical Society; and the Wyandotte County Medical Society. He has contributed a num- ber of important papers to medical journals of note and has been called upon to read papers before each of the above organizations. A splen- did article, compiled by Dr. Smith, which appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine, under date of April, 1909, was that en- titled "Membranous Croup and Diptheria, " the same being a discussion of the relationship existing between laryngeal diptheria and mem- branons croup. It would be a matter of great interest to physicians and surgeons, especially, if this article could be here reproduced in full but the brevity of this review forbids. Ilenee but two introdue- tory paragraphs and three short paragraphs from the conclusion are here inserted, the same being taken verbatim.
"It is very difficult indeed to remain stationary in educational matters, while thinking. The general object of human thought is to broaden our mental scope, give us a grander individuality, and make us better beings. The special object of doetors thinking on medieal subjects in medical society meetings is to make them better practitioners. I shall then be satisfied if in my humble manner I ean provoke some thought on this subject.
"Of all the pathological conditions with which the general praeti- tioner comes in contact, those of the throat, larynx and trachea perturb him most. And I feel that of these those of the larynx cause the greatest degree of worry and anxiety. Where is the doctor who has not had these hours of trial, when he felt his utter insignificance, felt his professional dignity fading away like a thin mist !"
Following a lengthy and particularly intelligent discussion of the subject in hand, it ends up with an appeal to individual practition- ers to do everything in their power to help the local boards of health to rid the world of infectious diseases.
"Let each practitioner help ever so much by educating his patients that they should be clean, sanitary in their surroundings, that most of the germs of the infectious diseases enter the body by the mouth-very few being able to enter by the nose as most of them die soon after entering; that the nose should be kept open all the time and the mouth closed-most of the time; that the mouth should be kept elean, the teeth kept clean and sound.
"Don't you know that if the government compelled people to live cleanly, and have clean mouths and teeth, many of the infectious dis- eases would be far less prevalent ? It would be the greatest weapon yet used in our fight to rid the world of infectious diseases.
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"In closing my paper I will venture one further digression. Let us work for a sound system of guarding the health of the children. Let us feel that a scientific, non-political inspection of school children is a moral public necessity. Let us work until it becomes a legal crime for parents to neglect their childrens' mouths. Let us work for a school inspection that is not a farce. Let us work until this is accom- plished intelligently. The report should read, 'See your dentist,' or, 'See your doctor' -- one or both. On the report should be a space for the report of the dentist or doctor. Each state can well afford to pay a handsome sum for the intelligent inspection of the children. Who can calculate the amount each state would save financially, morally, by so doing?"
The Doctor is a graduate from the three schools of medicine, Homeopathic, Allopathic and Eclectic. In the year 1907 Dr. Smith was made a member of the faculty of the Western Eclectic College of Medicine and Surgery, at Kansas City, Kansas, and in that excellent institution he was elected president in 1908, is professor of surgery, and is likewise a member of the college board. In connection with his office practice, Dr. Smith has a static electric machine and he also gives X-ray treatments. He has never participated actively in political affairs but gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises advanced for the good of progress and improvement. In fraternal circles he has passed through all the official chairs of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a member of the Moose and for the past ten years has been one of the chief examiners of the Germania Life Insurance Company for the state of Kansas.
In the state of Illinois, on the 3rd of April, 1887, Dr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Etta J. Trotter, a native of Illinois and a daughter of William and Catherine (Trone) Trotter. Dr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of two sons, namely, Don L. and Jay L. Both boys were graduated in the Kansas City High School and both are now students in the Kansas City Medical College, the medical department of the University of Kansas.
Dr. Smith is a man of sterling integrity and worth, and his citizen- ship is a most valuable adjunct to Kansas City, in whose sanitary work and improvement he has figured so prominently. In conclusion of this sketch, a short poem, dedicated to "The Nurse," and written by the Doetor in September, 1910, is here incorporated.
"And dowered with the wealth of perfect health,
Life's Guardian Angel rare, stands sweet and fair;
Through many hours of weary trials great- When friends and relatives had yielded up The last strained hope for that beloved one, The 'Silent Messenger' had shadowed o'er These many weary days and gloomy nights -- By lingering touch of health and look of hope And with a grace beyond the reach of pen, And by a sense of duty richly hers, And through a dauntless courage, fair to see,
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She woos the infant back to conseiousness ;
And like a well versed mariner at sea She rows him to the billowed shores of health.
So now her task is done, the battle won, And she with modest grace, now takes her place, Among the Red Cross Soldiers of the World."
WILLIAM E. BURNETT .- A prominent business man and influential citizen at Kansas City, Kansas, is William E. Burnett, who has long been successfully engaged in the meat-market business and who has served with all of efficiency on the city council for three terms. Ile is a man of splendid exeentive ability and unusual vitality and in the business world is universally known for his fair and honorable methods.
A native of Missouri, William E. Burnett was born in the city of St. Louis, on the 16th of June, 1868. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Weber) Burnett, the former of whom was born in New York and who died at the age of forty-eight years, in 1884, and the latter of whom elaimed the old commonwealth of Virginia as the place of her nativity and who was summoned to the life eternal at the age of sixty years. To Mr. and Mrs. John Burnett were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born. John Burnett was twice married, his first wife having been a Miss McGrath, of St. Louis. To this union were born three children. He was a buteher by occupation and he went to St. Louis, Missouri, when a mere youth, engaging there in the meat-market business until 1868, when he removed to Kansas City. Kansas, where he was interested in the meat business with his brother William Burnett for a number of years. Subsequently he conducted a meat market individually and in 1882 retired from aetive participation in business affairs.
He was a Democrat in his political convictions and he served as the first marshal of Kansas City. Kansas.
William E. Burnett, of this notice, was a mere infant at the time of parents' removal to Kansas City, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational training. He also attended the neighboring parochial school for a number of terms and as a boy learned the butcher business from his father. In 1884, when but sixteen years of age, he engaged in the meat-market business on his own responsibility, but in 1885, after selling out his concern, he entered the employ of the Armour Packing Company and later he worked for the Fowler-Dold Packing Company. In 1889, however. he again engaged in the meat business for himself, and he has continued to devote his time and attention thereto until the present time. In politics he is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Republican party and while he has never manifested aught of desire for the honors or emoluments of public office of any deseription he has been prevailed upon to serve in the city conneil, to which he was first elected in 1904. He was re-elected as a member of the board of aldermen in 1906 and again in 1908, and in discharging the duties connected with that office he acquitted himself with all of
honor and distinction. In his religions faith he is a devout communi- cant of the Catholic church and in a fraternal was he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Modern Woodmen of America, Wyandotte Lodge, No. 440, Benevolent and Proteetive Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
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On the 11th of May, 1890, Mr. Burnett was united in marriage to Miss Margaret C. Cassidy, who is a native of Wyandotte county, Kansas, and who is a daughter of Mark and Margaret Cassidy, both of whom were born and reared in Ireland and both of whom are now deceased. Mark Cassidy was called to the life eternal in 1902 and his cherished and devoted wife, who survived him for a number of years, passed into the Great Beyond in 1910. The mother attended the old settlers' pienie in 1909 and she was then next to the oldest old settler in Wyandotte county, Kansas. Mark Cassidy was a quarry man and stone mason by occupa- tion and he came to Wyandotte county, Kansas, in the territorial days, having iminigrated to America from his native land as a young man. During the latter years of his life he was engaged in the great basic industry of agriculture. In politics he maintained an independent attitude and in his religious faith he was a devout Catholic. Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. Burnett was the fifth in order of birth and of the number five are living in 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett became the parents of seven children, of whom the following are living, their names being here incorporated in respective order of birth,-Florence, Margaret, Dorothy, Elizabeth, William and ITarrieta.
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