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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01053 8848
A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF
KANSAS CITY AND JACKSON COUNTY, MO.
ILLUSTRATED
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INDEX.
A
Adams, C. W 420
Adams, J. M .. 510
Adams, Washington. 407
Adams, William C.
48
Alch, George H.
561
Allen, T. J.
11
Anderson, M. W
77
Anderson, S. H. 263
Austin, J. H . 606
Axline, E. E. 347
B
Baird, F. J. 477
Bales, Walter. 242
Barber, H. A. 346
Barrett, S. M
378
Bartholomew, George ...
600
Beardsley, Henry M
310
Bedford, T. D.
401
Bell, Harmon
412 220
Berger, L. A.
237
Bernard, W. R ..
435
Bernauer, Henry
383
Black, F. M ..
29
Blackwell, J. R.
480
Coffin, G. O.
304
Cole, Jesse. .
364
Boggs, John O
131
Collier, L. T.
25
Bogie, M. A. 557
Collins, Ancel
83 428
Boland, J. T
599
Coombs, J. T.
Boone, Daniel. 353 Cooper, Z. G ... 554
Boone, Morgan 664
Cornell, G. W. 318
Cowherd, Wm. S. 610
G
Gentry, O. H .. 362
German, C. W 508
Gossett, E. B. 641
Greene, R. L. 471
Gregory, Alfred. 12
Grider, J. L. 426
Griffin, F. W .. 624
Grinter, P. H. 667
Briant, G. W. 247
Brooking, H. C .. 324
Broughton, C. P. 446
Brown, Marcy K. 630
Brownlee, J. C .. 257
Brumback, J .. 650
Bryant, John, Jr.
667
Buckner, T. B ..
351
Dexter, F. H. 373
Dibble, Leroy 222
Dickerson, D'E. 203
Dodds, T. A .. 117
Douglass, J. H 665
Dryden, T. G. 112
E
Eaton, T. J. 613
Edgerton, Mark. 176
Elliott, George N. 269
Ess, Henry N 370
Esslinger, F 367
F
Ferree, C. M. 483
Field, R. H 316
Fields, F. R .. 363
Flahive, T P .. 571
Ford, L. W 282
Ford, T. J. 286
Forster, Wm. A 411
Foster, Wm. D. 181
Fox, John M. 105
Franklin, J. L. H. 429
Freeman, F. A. 161
Freeman, R. Y .. 642
French, Paul D. 494
Boone, Napoleon. 353
Botsford, J. S. 47
Cox, John .. 644
Bovard, J. H.
500
Craig, J. T.
605
Bower, C. J ..
107
Cross, Robert O 384
Crowell, H. C. 193
Crysler, C. S ..
389
D
Dahl, Oscar .. 230
Dallin, Wm. J. 643
Dalton, J. G .. 155
Davenport, J. S. 264
Davis, F. N 594
Davis, Webster. 39
Deardorff, F. M 521
Deardorff, Lewis. 54
Burnett, E. A. 275
Burnham, C. E. 452
Burrus, John R 280
C
Caldwell, J. W .. 468
Canfield, Pauline E 291
Carter, C. M ... 133
Cartlich, J. W 279
Cassell, G. W 645
Chandler, E.
447
Chapman, C ..
646 98
Chappell, P. E.
Chappell, Wm. E 165
Childs, A. J. 492
Chiles, S. H.
661 543
Bell, S. B.
Chiles, Wm. G.
Chrisman, A.
Chrisman, Wm
Clark, C. E ..
Clements, J. A.
358 583 614 535
Blair, E. G .. 560
Bowker, S. D. 159
Bowlin, J. R. 526
Bowman, J. W. 235
Branaman, G. M 604
Brant, Alf ... 123
Breunert, August. 607
Grinter, P. N ... 368
Gross, George P. 231
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INDEX.
H
Jones, Wm. S. 119
Mosher, George C. 250
Joyce, M. H.
42
Moulton, C. F. 175
Judy, J. W .. 442
Muir, John S .. 654
Hall, C. L .. 177
Hall, T. G ... 100
Muse, J. M. 573
Halley, George. 150
K
Hamilton, C. C ..
552
Hamilton, C. G .. Hamilton, Wm.
75
Karnes, J. V. C. 9
73
Keefer, J. W. 423
Neal, G. A. 426
Hampton, G. S.
105
Kelly, W. A. 439
Nearing, C. H. 989
Hardin, Ben. T.
413
Keshlear, J. B., 408
Noel, J. W. 170
Hardin, C. B ..
341
Kidwell, J. W. 154
Norris, E. L. 616
Hardin, D. S.
586
King, W. P 135
Northup, E. S. 649
Harkless, J. H.
188
Kinley, 1. H .. 204
Harnish, M. W.
270
Harra, R. A.
381
Harris, J. H ..
531
Knoche, J. 1 .. 303
O'Grady, John
529
P
L
Payne, M. J .. 51
Peace, George E. 522
Lester, C. H .. 140
Peerson, J. D. 342
Peet, P. F. 419
Lewis, John H. 549 Pemberton, T. C. 502
Heitman, N. F.
Lewis, John R. 149
Phelps, J. L .. 112
Henderson, D. B.
Lilly, G. W 653
Pittenger, W. H. 457
Pomeroy, R. L. 337
Hennessy, J. C.
Love, G. W 35
Prewitt, G. W .. 486
Henry, J. P
Lowe, A. W. 403
Price, Wm. G .. 549
Henry, J. W ..
Lowe, Calvin V 390
Herrold, Maud M.
Lowe, J. M. 625
Pryor, John S 474
Punton, John. 287
Holmes, U. R ..
622
Hornbuckle, W. D.
M
Howard, Wm. B ..
Hudson, S. W
Mann, Ambrose 496
Quarles, R. W
152
Markham, J. H.
254
Quast, E. von
401
Marley, A. S. 615
Maxwell, E. C 591
R
Randall, Wm. M. 516
Rathbone, F. W. 187
Records, Benj. F. 64
Reed, Homer. 114
Reed, James A. 229
Renick, John T 550
Rice, Benjamin 463
Mc Millen, D. J.
Ridge, I. M. . . 19
McNeil, T. H.
512
McVey, Newton.
610
Meador, W. I.
493
Roberts, J. E 356
Robinson, J. L
Mercer, J. W.
15
Meriwether, D.
67
Jackson, J. P.
461
Meriwether, H. M
539
Merriman, C. S ..
636
Jamison, R. R ..
396
Meservey, E. C.
Jamison, Wm. T
285
Metcalf, E. M.
Johnson, F. G. .
219
Michaels, A. L
Millard, A. C
449
Johnson, Wm. A
472
Mills, H. S ..
84
Johnson, W. M.
92
Montgall, Rufus
330
Jones, B. F .. ..
95
Montgall, Wm. H. 320
Scott, J. M .. 357
Jones, Brummell 145
Mooney, J. H 274 Scrivner, D. M. 541
Jones, James M 241
Moore, J. A. 564 Sears, F. W .. 139
Jones, John R 562
Moore, John R. 509 Sechrest, J. R 473
Jones, P. C. 470
Morrison, H. C. 612
Senter, D. B. 513
1
McDonald, C. D. 335
McDonald, C. L.
404
McElroy, Hugh L
213
Ingraham, R. J. 395
McGee, A. B. H
197 76
Rieger, James C. 609
Ringolsky, I. J 89
Jaccard, D. C .. 209
Mefford, W. T
530
Jaccard, E. G. E 207
Jackson, J. N. 297
Roten, Thompson 596
Rule, W. A. 623
S
Scammon, James 307
Schaefer, George .. 434
Schwitzgebel, H. C 386
Scofield, R. E. 374
Johnson, Thomas.
89
McAuley, T. B
606
McCune, H. L. .
572
McCurdy, J. W. 276
450 313 640
Hudson, T. H ..
455 249
Hudspeth, William ..
Hulse, Melville. .
263
Hummer, F. D. 385
May, Roderick .. 336
Hunt, A. L. 338
Hyde, B. C. 326
467 652 302 340
Henley, H. G . .
Lipscomb, N. 272
127 128 641 445
Holmes, D. B ..
Lyman, A. S. 122
0
Knoche, Henry 621
Harris, S. B. 547
Kyger, John W. 611
Harrison, John S. 617
Harvey, William. 206 Harwood, J. T. 375 Hayes, Linville. 78 Hayward, F. M. 111 Heath, E. R. 251 558
Langhorne, M. M. 259
Lester, T. B .. . 141
Hedges, J. P ..
Procter, Alexander 13
Q
Ingalls, Ralph 595
Irwin, L. E. 505
J
Rosenwald, Leon 495
James, S. C. . 24
433 430 58
Hale, George C .. 183
Julian, H. S. 608
Mulkey, Wm. 522
N
Kirshner, C. H. 405
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INDEX.
Shannon, J. F.
392
Tiffany, F. B. . 417
Western Dental College. 76
Sharp, Joseph. 323
Todd, Simeon S.
101
Wheeler, W. S.
662
Slaughter, E. F
214
Topping, Henry. 61
White, Alson A.
253
Sloan, A. B
56
Trimble, J. M. D. 658
White, C. J.
258
Smith, A. E.
69
Twichell, Jerome 227
Whitsett, J. S.
309
Smith, E. O.
Twiss, S. P
31
Whittaker, Wm.
244
Smith, Jabez
Tyer, John W
525
Wilkins, Wm. F
533
Smith, P. C
191
Williams, A. G .
199
Williams, N. G.
660
Snider, A. J.
165
Wilson, C. E. .
920
Snider, C. A.
Ussher, C. D. 519
Wilson, E. K.
345
Snyder, R. M.
Winants, W. H
629
Southern, W. N
V
Winfrey, J. G .
663
Stanwood, J. H.
429
Wofford, John W
499
Wolf, 1. J . . .
406
Wollman, Henry.
506
Wood, J. D.
236
Strean, James G. 376
Wood, M. G.
668
Wood, N. P.
490
Woods, W. S.
589
Woodson, B. L
143
Ward, H. C.
570
Tainter, H.
656
Tait, D. M ..
172
Tatum, D. F
657
Waring, R. P
604
Tatum, J. W.
602
Waters, L. H.
36
Tenney, Rachel S.
563
Watts, Stubbins.
637
Thompson, Calvin 361
Webb, W. L.
134
Yeager, R. L. 441
Thompson, D. L.
361
Weller, J. R.
301
Young, S. V. . 543
Thomson, J. H.
186
Wells, Joel.
669
Yost, Charles C. . ......
577
489
Van Scoyoc, L. G. 615
Stolte, L. C.
654
Vaughn, Newton 515
Stone, J. B.
45
Von Quast, E. 401
Strother, Wm. D.
118
W
T
Wainright, C. F 121
Worthen, J. H. 317
Ward, S. E. 567
Ware, A. M ..
225
Wyne, Louis E
337
Y
666
Smith, Wm. J.
329
U
169
379 134
Steele, R. O.
Wyatt, Wyley .. 397
216
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MEMORIAL RECORD.
J V. C. KARNES .- Among the resi- dents of Kansas City who have through their achievements been brought into more than local promi- nence none has attained more eminent dis- tinction than he whose name heads this sketch. Mr. Karnes is widely recognized as one of the most able lawyers of the state of Missouri. With a keen, analytical mind, strong powers of comprehension and mental attainments of a high order, he has risen step by step through his own merit until he has attained an enviable position at the bar of his native state.
Mr. Karnes was born in Boone county, Missouri, February 11, 1841, and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Payne) Karnes, both of whom were natives of Virginia, and were of German and Holland descent. Their respective families were founded in America during early colonial days. The maternal grandfather, Joseph Payne, was an ensign in the Revolutionary war. His entire life was spent in the Old Dominion, and the paternal grandfather also lived and died in Virginia. The father of our subject emigrated from Virginia to Missouri in 1836, making the journey by team and reaching his destination after some weeks of travel. He located in Boone county, where he entered land from the government and 1
developed a good farm, on which he reared his family. The country was wild at that time, being situated on the frontier, and for some years their home was a rude log house. The experiences and difficulties of pioneer life came to them, but as the years passed the comforts of civilization were added and Mr. Kernes became the possessor of an excellent farm, which was their home until called to their final rest. Their family numbered four sons: Harvey, who resides in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Robert, who is located in Centralia, Missouri; John, a resident of Mexico, Missouri; and J. V. C., of this review.
The last named is the youngest. He was reared on the old home farm and early became familiar with all its labors, perform- ing the work of the meadows and fields, from the time of the earliest planting of crops until the harvests were gathered, when he entered the subscription school of the neigh- borhood, there pursuing his studies until at the opening of spring. when his work in the fields was renewed. He managed to ac- quire a good English education, and in the autumn of 1857 entered the Missouri State University, and, having completed the class- ical course, was. graduated in 1862. He had determined to enter the legal profes- sion, and in the fall of that year became a
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student in the Harvard Law School. While there pursuing his studies he was elected tutor of Greek and Latin in the Missouri State University, and, returning home, filled that position until 1865, keeping up his law studies in the meantime, his preceptor being Hon. Boyle Gordon, of Boone county, Mis- souri. Henry N. Ess, who was also teach- ing in the university, as professor of mathe- matics, pursued the study of law in connec- tion with Mr. Karnes, and together they came to Kansas City, in 1865, just at the close of the war.
On the Ist of August, of that year, the firm of Karnes & Ess opened a law office and with mutual pleasure and profit contin- ued in general practice until 1886, when Mr. Ess retired from the firm and Mr. Karnes entered into partnership with L. C. Krauthoff. This relation was sustained un- til January 1, 1889, when Daniel B. Holmes was admitted to an interest in the business under the firm name of Karnes, Holmes & Krauthoff. With the greater part of the important cases that have been tried in Kan- sas City this firm has been connected, and its reputation is second to none. Mr. Karnes is a man of superior ability, an able advo- cate, thoroughly versed in authorities, and his masterly handling of a case indicates thorough and painstaking preparation. He loses sight of not a single detail that may aid in winning success for his client, and in argument is logical and convincing, forceful and carnest. His oratory is often eloquent, always telling and seldom fails to convince.
In 1869 Mr. Karnes became a member of the board of education of Kansas City, and served in that capacity continuously until 1882, when he resigned. During that time he was for three years its treasurer, one year secretary and seven years president.
In 1893 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board of education, in 1894 . was again elected to fill a term of six years, and is now vice-president. There is no man in the city or county who has been more deeply interested in educational matters, who has done inore for the advancement of tlie cause than Mr. Karnes, and his name will forever be connected with the history of Kansas City's schools, which largely stand as a mon- ument to his progressive efforts. Another source of education he has been deeply in- terested in is the Kansas City public library, introducing the resolution which caused its establishment. He is pre-eminently public- spirited, and with unswerving purpose and fidelity he has aided in all that pertains to the city's welfare, and for many years has been recognized as a leader among those men who have most largely assisted in ad- vancing the material and educational inter- ests of the city. His political support is given the republican party.
On the 3d of December, 1863, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Karnes and Miss Mary A. Crumbaugh, of Columbia, Missouri, daughter of Henry Crumbaugh, an honored pioneer, and the granddaughter of Colonel Dick Gentry, who commanded the Missouri troops and was killed in the Florida war. Mr. and Mrs. Karnes have three children-John L., Josephine V. C. and Mary G. The elder daughter is now the wife of Alfred Gregory, of the law firm of Beardsley & Gregory, and they have a little son, the idol of all the family.
Mr. Karnes is one of the oldest practi- tioners in Kansas City and has seen its de- velopment from a town of six thousand to its present metropolitan proportions. He has been very successful in his profession, is now enjoying one of the most lucrative
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practices in the city, and in social life has the warm regard of all with whom he has been brought in contact.
J. ALLEN .- Thomas Jefferson Allen, one of the largest stock- growers and stockdealers in Kan- sas City, was born at Mount Ver- non, Illinois, December 28, 1841. His father, John R. Allen, a native of Sumner county, Tennessee, settled on a farm in Illinois in 1822. He served as a volunteer officer in the Black Hawk war, and in 1831-2 was stationed at Fort Leavenworth. He visited the western country, going as far south as New Mexico. In 1856 his name was presented as a candidate for congress from Illinois, which was at that time and place equal to an election, but he firnily de- clined to run, preferring to work for his friend, John A. Logan, who was elected. His farm in Illinois was devoted to the rais- ing of fine stock, and was one of the largest and finest of its kind in Jefferson county.
Our subject remained on his father's farın until of age; then he began to deal in stock on his own account. Thanks to the years of experience under the supervision of his father, and keen judgment, he had de- veloped a sagacity and intelligence in the selection of animals that would have done credit to an older head. Going to Texas, he bought 1,000 head of cattle, which he collected at Abilene, Kansas, and from there shipped to Chicago. This venture proving successful, he decided to engage in the busi- ness on a larger scale, and noting the ad- vantages that were offered in the west he removed in 1870 to Kansas City, when the stock trade was still in its infancy. As one of the pioneers in the business at this place
he has perhaps done as much as any man to develop this industry throughout the west.
In 1872 Mr. Allen went to Colorado, where he made his record as the first man to ship Colorado stock over the first railroad from Denver. His business increased rap- idly and that very fall he was enabled to fill 308 cars from Denver. This transaction in its immensity inade his fellow dealers in trade open their eyes and inclined them to dub him a reckless speculator. They changed their opinion, however, when the returns registered him a handsome profit. Two years later he went to Virginia City and Helena, Montana, where he bought 1, 200 head of cattle, drove them to Ham's Fork on the Union Pacific, where the road built switches and loaded them on. Mr. Allen was also the first man to ship from Montana to the east. He drove 800 miles to the railroad before the stock reached transportation. The Oregon short line now leaves the Union Pacific and branching off goes north over his old trail.
In 1875 our subject went to Texas, where he bought cattle and shipped them to St. Louis, handling about 10,000 head in all. Returning to Kansas City, he bought and shipped cattle to Chicago and New York. At that time there were but two packing-houses in Kansas City. Two years later he bought the first drove ever driven from Oregon. They numbered 2,000 head, and were the heaviest lot of cattle which had ever passed through the western markets. After being driven so long a distance they were shipped from near Cheyenne to Kansas City. The lot was purchased in Idaho, for $75,000, thus bringing a larger price than any other Oregon cattle ever brought.
In 1878 Mr. Allen formed a partnership with Wilson and Fenlon, of Leavenworth,
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Kansas, and took a contract to furnish gov- erninent beef and stock cattle to the Indians. The firmn, under the name of Wilson, Fen- lon & Company, furnished to the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Cheyennes, Arapa- hoes, Osages, Pawnees, Poncas, and several other tribes of the Indian Territory. The contracts required about 20,000 head within Indian Territory, and at Rosebush agency, Dakota, 11,000. Most of the cattle were driven from south of the Red river. Mr. Allen did the greatest part of the actual work, driv- ing the stock and delivering them to their respective distinations. £ For six years Mr. Allen gave to this contract his exclusive attention. This connection being severed in 1884, our subject went to New York and sold for E. B. Herold and E. J. Ikard, a ranch in Greer county, Texas, containing 68,000 head of cattle, with horses, etc., at $22. 50 per head, amounting to $1,400,000. The sale was made to the Franklin Land and Cattle Company, of New York, con- trolled by Charles Franklin, executor of the late Edwin Cunard, of the Cunard line of steamers. This was the largest sale made up to that time and resulted in a handsome commission for Mr. Allen.
In 1885 our subject invested in a 500- acre farm twelve miles south of Kansas City and stocked it with a superior breed of shorthorns. These he cared for exclusively, and at the end of three years sold them at a handsome profit. In 1887 he sold his farm, having two years previously taken another Indian contract, furnishing to the Apaches at San Carlos and Fort Apache, of Arizona, 4,000 head of cattle.
On the first of June, 1887, Mr. Allen was married to Miss Mary Lee Adkins, daughter of Judge R. S. Adkins, ex-county judge and ex-postmaster of Kansas City.
The remainder of the summer Mr. and Mrs. Allen spent in Europe, visiting all the places of interest which struck their fancy. Mr. Allen has traveled extensively in the United States, especially in the south and west, where he went in the interests of the Kansas City stock yards.
In politics he is a republican, though formerly a democrat. The tariff question, to which he has given thought and attention, and, as he says the incompetency of the democratic party, have changed his opinion and made him a republican on that issne. He takes an active interest in city affairs, but avoids holding office, preferring rather to use his influence in establishing men in office whose capabilities he modestly con- siders superior to his own. He has one son, John Robert Allen, a lad of seven years, whose education he has decided shall be of a practical character. He wisely argues that the most finished education, if not adapted to use, is worse than none at all, and he intends to avoid any such contingency in the molding of his son's future.
LFRED GREGORY, of the firm of Beardsley, Gregory & Flannelly, attorneys at law, Kansas City, is a native of the Peninsular state, born in the classic city of Ann Arbor, August 17, 1858. He is a son of John M. Gregory, who was born in Sand Lake, New York. John M. Gregory went to Michigan in the early settlement of that state, and was for a number of years the state superintendent of public instruction. Later he moved to Illinois and became president of the Univer- sity of Illinois, which important position he efficiently filled for a number of years. Dur- ing President Arthur's administration he was
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a civil service commissioner. At the pres- ent time he resides in Washington, District of Columbia, and is president of the civic federation of that city. To him and his estimable wife seven children were born, five of whom are now living.
Alfred Gregory, the subject of this brief review, was educated in the University of Illinois at Champaign, and was graduated in 1878. He then secured an appointment as private secretary to the commissioners sent by the state of Illinois to the world's fair at Paris, and spent five months in France, assisting in the preparation of the commissioners' report upon the industries of that country.
He returned to Illinois and went into a wholesale house as salesman, where he re- mained over a year. The life of a merchant was distasteful to him, and he began the study of the law; this, however, was inter- rupted by a trip to New Mexico and Ari- zona, which, as chance would have it, lengthened out into a two-years stay. His collegiate course had been full of mathe- matics, and one or two vacations had been spent on the lake survey and with railroad surveyors, so that he was invited to go out to New Mexico first as assistant to the bridge engineer of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, an old college friend, and soon afterward "inherited" from this friend his position as engineer. For two happy and vigorous years, under canvas by night and in the saddle by day, the young man enjoyed the exciting life of the frontier.
His law studies were resumed in 1881, when he took a course in Columbia law School in New York city. Immedately after this he went to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was admitted to the bar. He became associated there with Benj. H. Hill, Jr.,
and remained in Atlanta till January, 1887, when he removed again to his native west, and made his home in Kansas City. Upon his arrival here he entered into a partner- ship with Henry M. Beardsley, with whom his friendship dated back to boyhood and college days. In his profession he has already won a commendable degree of suc- cess, and is one of the busy men and safe counselors of the Kansas City bar. He finds time to do his share of public work when called upon, and is a director of the Art Association and of the Street Boys' Club, and a member of the First Congregational church.
He was married to Josephine Karnes in 1892, and they have one child, a boy named Joseph Van Clief.
LEXANDER PROCTER, pastor of the Christian church in Inde- pendence, Missouri, has spent nearly half a century in the work of the ministry, and, although he has passed his three-score and ten years, he is still on the sunny side of life, his genial presence giving evidence of the fact that he has mas- tered the art of growing old gracefully.
Mr. Procter was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, April 1, 1825, son of Rowland T. Procter and grandson of George Procter, the former born in Fayette county, Ken- tucky, in June, 1800, and the latter a native of Culpeper county, Virginia. George Proc- ter emigrated with his family from the Old Dominion to Kentucky at an early day and made settlement in Fayette county, where he passed the residue of his life and died. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary war. was under General La Fayette, and was a participant in the battle of Yorktown. When
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A MEMORIAL RECORD OF KANSAS CITY
General La Fayette visited this country in 1825 and stopped in Kentucky, his greeting to George, as he called him, was most cor- dial. The mother of our subject was before her marriage Miss Diana Chapman. She was born in Cumberland county, Kentucky, about 1803, and died in Randolph county, Missouri, in 1861. In their family were eleven children, seven sons and four daugh- ters, all of whom reached maturity. Alex- ander was their second born.
On his father's farm in Kentucky Alex- ander Proctor spent the first eleven years of liis life. Then the family removed to Ran- dolph county, Missouri, and settled near Moberly, where the father entered govern- inent land. Here young Proctor assisted in the clearing and improving of two farms, one of 380 acres and the other comprising 120 acres. Thus was his time occupied until his nineteenth year, and his educa- tional advantages during that time were necessarily limited. He was then sent east to Bethany College, in Virginia, where he spent four years and graduated in 1848.
After his graduation he returned to his home in Missouri, and in the fall of that same year was called to the pastorate of the South Street Christian church, in Lexing- ton, Missouri, where he remained for two years, or until the fall of 1850, the church prospering greatly under his ministrations. In 1850 he resigned his charge there and accepted a call to the Christian church in Glasgow, Missouri, where he labored most efficiently and acceptably until the fall of 1856, during this period also doing a large amount of outside work, such as preaching and organizing churches in various places throughout the country. In the fall of 1856, in answer to a call of the Christian church in St. Louis (there being only one Christian
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