Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. II, Part 1

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 800

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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF THE

HISTORY OF MISSOURI,

A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY FOR READY REFERENCE.

EDITED BY HOWARD L. CONARD.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS : THE SOUTHERN HISTORY COMPANY. HALDEMAN, CONARD & CO., PROPRIETORS.

1901.

THE SOUTHERN HISTORY CO.

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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

Clapp, Charles B.

Donovan, John, Jr. 303

Clarke, William B.

Drumm, Andrew 318

Clayton, Ralphı

Drummond, James T. .320

Coffin, George O.

Dubach, David

322

Collins, George R. 50

Dulany, William H. 334

Collins, Monroe R., Jr.

Colman, Norman J.

Comstock, T. Griswold 80

Eitzen, Charles D. 357

Conn, Luther H. 105

Elliott, Charles E.

370

. Connor, Thomas 108

Emerson, John W. 377

Corby, Amanda M. I35

Estill, James R.

383

Corby, John 136

Corby Chapel I38

Corrigan, Bernard 140

Ferree, Charles M. 424

Courtney, Caldwell C. 172

Finney, Thomas M.

441

Crane, Walter S. 181

Fleming, Alfred W. 472

Flory, Joseph

476

Forrist, William O.

487

Forsee, Edgar B.

489

Forsee, Zeilda

490

Foster, William D.

499

Fowler, William .500

Francis, David R. Frontispiece.

Frank, Nathan 509

Frederick, Philip A. 512

Fruin, Jeremiah

Dennis, George W. 259

Desloge, Firmin 268

Gallaher, John A.

549

Doniphan, John .295

Gantt, James B.

553

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Cresap, Martha P. 192

Crutcher, Edwin R. .201

Daugherty, James A. . 225

Daugherty, William A. 226

Dean, Oliver H. 246

De Menil, Alexander N. . 257

Crawford, Dugald 182

Cresap, Sanford P.

I91

Dockery, Alexander M. 284

Collier, William 48

Dulany, Daniel M. 333

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They who lived in history . seemed to walk the earth again. - Longfellow.

We may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal. -Sir Walter Raleigh.

Histories make men wise .- Bacon.

Truth comes to us from the past as gold is washed down to us from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles .- Bovee.

Examine history, for it is "philosophy teaching by example."-Carlyle.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies .- Carlyle.

Biography is the most universally pleasant, the most universally profitable, of all reading .- Carlyle.

Both justice and decency require that we should bestow on our forefathers an honorable remembrance .- Thucydides.

"If history is important, biography is equally so, for biography is but history individualized. In the former we have the episodes and events illustrated by communities, peoples, states, nations. In the latter we have the lives and characters of individual men shaping events, and becoming instructors of future generations."

Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri.

Civil War .- See "War Between the States."

CIan-na-Gael .- A secret organization composed of Irishmen and having for its ob- ject the establishment of Ireland's independ- ence of Great Britain. There were many branches of the society in the United States, and leading Irish Nationalists were identified with it until a faction which obtained control brought odium upon it by its violent and criminal methods. The Clan-na-Gael was, in a sense, the successor of the Fenian Broth- erhood, which was founded in New York in 1857 and spread over the United States and Ireland. A branch of the Clan came into existence in St. Louis after the Civil War, and some prominent Irish-Americans of that city were numbered among the members of that organization. None of these, however, were involved in the plottings which over- whelmed the Clan in Chicago and other cities and practically put an end to its existence.

Clapp, Charles, B., physician and sur- geon, was born in Danville, Illinois, Novem- ber 21, 1858. He is a son of George A. and Catherine Clapp, both of whom were of German descent. The original American an- cestry of the paternal line came to America in the early Colonial days and settled first in Massachusetts. Later on descendants of these Clapps drifted into North Carolina and here George A. Clapp, father of Dr. Charles B. Clapp, was born. In 1832 George A. Clapp, with his brothers, moved to Danville, Illinois, where twenty-six years later Dr. Clapp was born. The story of Dr. Clapp's experiences in life should afford encourage- ment and inspire confidence and ambition in many a struggling youth to whom the future may look dark and hopeless. It is a story of early bereavement and privation, of subse- quent struggle and effort against overwhelm- ing odds, and finally of success achieved

solely through persistent, intelligently direct- ed, never ceasing endeavor. It is a story that must command the admiration of the thoughtful and appreciative reader, for the heroism displayed, and at the same time the heart throb of sympathy goes out involun- tarily to the brave lad, who, with the stoical patience and sturdy bravery characteristic of his race, battles on and on with only the end in view, scorning the obstacles encoun- tered by the way. When Dr. Clapp was but seventeen days old his mother died; the infant was cared for by various kindly dis- posed persons for some six months following, and finally found a home in the family of his father's eldest brother. Here he remained eight years, when, his father having married again, he was taken under the parental roof together with a twin brother and a sister two years their senior. This was in 1866. The father was a farmer, and thus in rural surroundings and pastoral pursuits Dr. Clapp passed his boyhood until 1872, when the elder Clapp removed with his family to Nemaha County, Nebraska, where he still resides. In the meantime, Charles B. Clapp, now ap- proaching man's estate, felt the need of an education, and a longing for something dif- ferent in the way of a life's career from that of a simple farm hand. This aspiration and ambition grew with his growth and would eventually no longer be stifled. On the 2₫ day of March, 1874, with but four pennies in his pocket and the snow nearly a foot deep on the ground, he set out afoot from his father's house to fight, as best he might, life's battle and carve out for himself the best career future opportunity or environment might offer. After a journey of about forty miles, which brought him into the State of Iowa, he found employment as a farm laborer at $15 per month. The following winter he attended school. The succeeding summer he again worked on a farm, and with his ac- cumulated earnings entered the State Normal

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School as a student. When eighteen years of age he taught a district school in Ne- braska and in the autumn of 1879 went to Philadelphia and entered the College of Pharmacy, working on Sundays and all extra time for C. J. Biddle, on West Market Street, for his board. He graduated from this col- lege in 1882, and at once took charge of a large drug store at Chestnut Hill, Philadel- phia. The incessant demands he had so long made on his vital energies, however, brought about a physical collapse, and after a few months he found himself compelled to retire for a period of long needed rest and recupera- tion. He returned to his native town of Danville, Illinois, and after some four months' rest and nursing, felt himself again able for the conflict. He then assumed charge of the wholesale and retail drug busi- ness of W. W. Woodbury, of Danville, where he continued until 1884, when he went to Chicago and purchased a drug store on State Street, and the next year one also on Prairie Avenue. These properties he disposed of in 1886 and began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. H. W. Morehouse, of Danville. In the autumn of that year he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated from that institution February 19, 1889. Re- turning to Danville, he opened an office there March 4, 1889, and that year was appointed local surgeon of the Wabash Railroad. In October, 1890, he removed to Moberly, Mis- souri, and was at once appointed division surgeon for the Wabash, and on the comple- tion of the Wabash Employes' Hospital at that place, was appointed surgeon-in-charge, which position he still holds. He has been health commissioner of Moberly from the beginning of his residence there to the pres- ent time. Dr. Clapp now directs his prin- cipal attention to surgery, although he has an extensive general practice. He also de- votes all the spare time at his command to bacteriological researches. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and has filled all the offices in the Blue Lodge. He is a Knight of Pythias and has held all the offices in his commandery. He is also a member of the orders of For- esters, Modern Woodmen of America and Maccabees. He was married November 21, 1883, to Miss Laura Dell Lockhart, eldest daughter of J. R. Lockhart, of Danville, Illi- nois. Her father is of German parentage,

and her mother of English. Mrs. Clapp is a lady of culture and refinement. She grad- uated at the Danville High School in 1879, and from that time till her marriage was a teacher.

Clardy, Martin Linn, lawyer and member of Congress, was born in Ste. Gene- vieve County, Missouri, April 26, 1844, and was educated at St. Louis University and the University of Virginia. He then studied law and devoted himself to the profession. In 1882 he was elected to the Forty-eighth Con- gress as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth, serving three full terms as the representative of the Tenth Mis- souri District. He subsequently removed to St. Louis and became attorney for the Mis- souri Pacific Railroad Company.

Clarence .- A city of the fourth class in Shelby County, twelve miles west of Shelbina, on the Hannibal & St. Joseph division of the Burlington Railroad. It was founded in 1857 by the railroad company. It has five churches, a graded public school, a flouring mill, bank, two hotels, two newspapers, the "Courier" and the "Farmers' Favorite," and about half a dozen other business concerns, both large and small, including shops and stores. The leading fraternal orders have lodges in the city. Population, 1899 (esti- mated), 1,500.

Clark .- An incorporated town in Ran- dolph County, eleven miles southeast of Moberly. It is located at the junction of the Wabash and the Chicago & Alton Railroads. It has a substantial bank, a saw and grist mill, hotel, churches, excellent public school, a commodious operahouse, and about fifteen stores and shops. It is surrounded by an un- surpassed farming country. Population, 1900 (estimated), 250.

Clark, Champ, lawyer, journalist and member of Congress, was born in Anderson County, Kentucky, March 7, 1850. He re- ceived his education at Kentucky University and Bethany College, with the advantage of a course of law at the Cincinnati Law School. He served for a time as president of Mar- shall College, of West Virginia. After estab- lishing himself in the practice of his profes- sion in Missouri, he was elected city attorney

CLARK.

of Louisiana, Pike County, and afterward held a similar office in Bowling Green, and was elected prosecuting attorney of Pike County. He also served in the Missouri Leg- islature and as presidential elector. In 1892 he was elected, as a Democrat, to Congress from the Ninth District. In 1896, after an interval of one term, he was re-elected, de- feating the Republican antagonist, William M. Treloar, who had defeated him two years before, and in 1898 he was again re-elected. He is one of the limited number of members of Congress who are always listened to with interest and delight by the promiscuous crowds at Washington City. He has, in his varied life, worked for wages as a farm hand, taught school, clerked in a country store, assisted to pass laws in the State Legislature, practiced law, and had a wide experience in the making of stump speeches. He is cheer- ful, genial and humorous, often brilliant and entertaining, and there is never a failure of a full audience in the House when it is known that Champ Clark is going to speak.

Clark, Charles, was born in the city of New York, December 1, 1831. At the age of twenty-two Mr. Clark entered commercial life. In 1858 he removed from New York City to St. Louis and engaged in the insur- ance business until the Civil War. On July 22, 1862, he married Miss Susan McLure, daughter of William Raines and Margaret A. E. McLure, of St. Louis, and has two chil- dren, Louis Vaughan Clark and Charles McLure Clark. At the close of the war Mr. Clark went to Montana and spent several months studying the mineral resources of that State, then a Territory. Not deeming the time propitious in which to project min- ing enterprises, he returned to St. Louis and engaged temporarily in the grain commis- sion business. When the time seemed ripe for him to enter upon the business of mining he returned to Montana and engaged in it. Meeting with success, he formed the syndi- cate which purchased the Granite Mountain properties, and subsequently organized the

Bimetallic Mining Company, of which he was president and manager until it was a pro- nounced success. These companies, pro- jected by the foresight and propelled by the energy of Mr. Clark, have paid about $14,000,000 in dividends to the owners and placed ir circulation in St. Louis and Mon-

tana over $23,000,000, the greater portion of which was invested in St. Louis enterprises. These successful mines were no doubt some of the principal causes of the material pros- perity which St. Louis has enjoyed for the past dozen years. He is still largely inter- ested in mining. He was prominently identi- fied with the organization and erection of the St. Louis Merchants' Bridge and Terminal Railway system of St. Louis.

He is a director in the Mississippi Valley Trust Company (in which he is also a mem- ber of the executive committee) and in the Merchants'-Laclede National Bank. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Com- pany (of Kansas City, Missouri); of the Kansas & Texas Coal Company ; of the St. Louis Fair Association, and of other less well known business enterprises and associations.

He has always been active in the support of the parish of the Church of the Holy Com- munion, and is in the directories of many charitable and philanthropic institutions.

His interest in general enterprises is shown by holding membership in various business and social clubs of the city.

In business, social and religious circles he enjoys the favor and esteem of his intimates and associates, and sees the setting sun of life shedding roseate hues athwart his pathway. With excellent health and a sound mentality, he is fitted to enjoy life to its full, and bids fair to reap for many years to come the fruits and pleasures resulting from a well ordered life.

Clark, Charles N., Congressman, was born in Cortland County, New York, August 21, 1827, and was educated at Hamilton, in his native State. In 1859 he removed to Illinois. In 1861 he assisted to raise a com- pany of cavalry and served with it in the Union Army until 1863, when, being disabled, he left the service and settled at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri, where he took an active part in building the Sny Island levee, by which a hundred thousand acres of choice land was saved from overflow. This experi- ence led him into the movement for the im- provement of the Mississippi River, in which he became active and prominent. In 1894 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, from the First District, Missouri, receiving 15,786 votes, to 15,357 cast for WV. H. Hatch;

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4.270 for John M. London, Populist, and 228 for W. S. Little, Prohibitionist.

Clark, Cyrus Edgar, merchant and manufacturer, was born February 19, 1853, in the town of Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, son of Daniel and Harriet (Williams) Clark. His father, who removed front New Jersey to St. Louis in 1858, was the founder of the business which the son has since in- creased and expanded in keeping pace with the development of the country and the de- mands of trade. The elder Clark was a man of superior capacity and large enterprise, and during his business career in St. Louis built up the most extensive leather tradecontrolled by any house west of the Alleghany Moun- tains. He was recognized by the leather in- terests of the country as an authority on all matters pertaining to the trade, and in St. Louis he is remembered as an eminently suc- cessful merchant and a citizen noted for his benevolence and philanthropy. Coming to St. Louis in his early childhood, the subject of this sketch grew up in that city, receiving thorough educational training in the public schools. At the end of a scientific course of study, which included the higher mathe- matics, the Latin and German languages and English literature, he was graduated with honor from the high school in the class with Charles Nagel, John S. Thompson, Dr. Rob- ert Luediking and others, who have since distinguished themselves in various callings. In accordance with the practical views of the elder Clark he began, as any other boy would have had to begin, to learn the leather busi- ness, and worked his way upward from one position to another, as his merits justified promotion. When he had thoroughly mas- tered all the details of the business he was admitted to a partnership and became an active participant in its conduct and man- agement. Upon the death of his father, in 1895, his uncle and cousin, who had pre- viously been partners in the business, with- drew, and Mr. Clark then organized the James Clark Leather Company, a corporation of which he has since been president, and which has greatly extended the trade of the old house. He married, in 1876, Miss Mary Cliff Warren, daughter of Samuel D. and Josephine Warren, of St. Louis. The chil- dren born of this union are: Celeste W., Warren D., Arline and Robert E. Clark.

Clark, Cyrus F., farmer and legislator, was born November 17, 1847, in Strafford County, New Hampshire. His parents were John and Betsey (Jenness) Clark, both natives of that State, and of English par- entage. In 1855 they removed to Ohio, and thence to Audrain County, Missouri, in 1869. The father died in 1872, and the mother in 1899. The elder Clark was a Democrat until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he became a Republican. His wife was a most charitably disposed woman, delighting in kindly deeds. Their two oldest sons, Jacob Pike and John Everett Clark, were Union soldiers during the Civil War, and the first named lost an arm in battle in Virginia. Cyrus F. Clark acquired the rudiments of an English education in the common schools, and afterward entered the high school in Batavia, Ohio, where he mastered the pre- scribed course, and passed the final exami- nation most creditably. In 1867, when nineteen years of age, he removed to Audrain County, Missouri, and engaged in farming and school teaching. After teaching in vari- ous country schools, he taught in the graded schools in Mexico, Missouri, from 1869 to 1871, and for a year following in a school in Texas. Except for the time occupied in teaclı- ing, and a few months' visit with a brother, then land register in Washington Territory, his attention has been given to the conduct of large farming and stock-breeding interests in Audrain County, Missouri, in which he has been industrious, persistent and successful. His real estate holdings amount to more than two thousand acres, and he usually cares for from one hundred to three hundred head of cattle, and upwards of one hundred horses and mules, together with many hogs and sheep. He has had much of public concern to deal with, evidence of the confidence and esteem in which he is held by his fellows. For thirteen years he has been a director and the secretary of the Hardin College board, and for twelve years a director in the South- ern Bank. He has been a member of the Audrain County Fair board for ten years, and has served as secretary, treasurer and president of that body. His interest in high- grade horses led to his election to his present position of president of the Horse Breeders' Association of Missouri. Being a pro- nounced Democrat, and a man of command- ing influence in city and county, he has been

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frequently called upon to occupy important positions through the suffrages of the people. In 1886 he was elected to the City Council of Mexico, Missouri. His service in this body ceased in 1888, when he was elected from Audrain County to a seat in the General Assembly of Missouri, and he was re-elected on the expiration of his term. In both posi- tions his services were faithful and merito- rious. Not assuming to be an orator, his speech was always earnest and effective, and was heard with deep respect because of the honesty and good judgment of the man; while in the committee room, and in con- sultation, he was regarded with interest, and his influence was commanding. In both legislative sessions in which he sat, revision of the statutes occupied a large part of the consideration of the lawmakers. In the Fortieth General Assembly, Mr. Clark was chairman of the ways and means committee, and a member of the committees on banks and corporations, on accounts, and on agri- culture. He introduced and championed to a successful finish the bill establishing the State Fair of Missouri, a measure of vital importance to the farmers of one of the most prolific crop and stock-producing States in the Union. In advocacy of this important measure, he acquitted himself admirably, for he had given so much thought to the sub- ject, and had drafted the bill so carefully and exhaustively, that it was adopted substan- tially as it came from his pen. There are States that hold in grateful remembrance those who instituted. their fairs many years ago, and it may be that Mr. Clark will be similarly appreciated. He was also author of the bill establishing veterinary service in Missouri, for the abatement of disease, and of bills for the regulation of railways, for the taxation of favored classes, and of other salu- tary measures. Mr. Clark is an active mem- ber of the Baptist Church. His benevolent spirit holds him in warm sympathy with the Home for Aged Women, at Mexico, and he is treasurer of its board. He is a member of the American Order of Modern Woodmen, and of the King's Sons. He was married January 19, 1876, to Miss Wilmoth Sims, a lady of culture and benevolent disposition, and an active member of the Baptist Church. She was a daughter of William M. and Frances (Barnes) Sims. Mr. Sims was a prominent citizen of Audrain County, and

took an active part in public concerns. He served as county judge, and occupied other responsible positions, and was one of the founders and the vice president of the South- ern Bank, of Mexico. He was one of the most extensive land-owners and stock dealers in the county. To Mr. and Mrs. Clark have been born five children, of whom three are deceased.

Clark, Harvey Cyrus, lawyer and prosecuting attorney of Bates County, is a descendant of one of the most prominent families of English ancestry residing in New Jersey in Colonial times. Abraham Clark, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was a descendant of the first of the family to settle in the Colonies, and a distinguished patriot of New Jersey. The first of the family of whom there is extant any authentic record, was Joseph Clark. He settled in South Carolina, and some of the subsequent generations located in Kentucky. One of his sons, James Clark, was the father of James C. Clark, whose son, James Harvey Clark, was the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. James Harvey Clark, a native of Kentucky, practiced medicine in that State for many years. He was a veteran of the Mexican War, and served as captain in a Confederate regiment raised in Ken- tucky during the Civil War. His son, James Cyrus Clark, was born in Kentucky, and in young manhood removed to Otterville, Cooper County, Missouri. There he married Melissa M. Myers. Their son, the subject of this sketch, was born in Cooper County September 17, 1869. When he was two months of age his parents removed to But- ler, where his father immediately engaged in mercantile pursuits. The elder Clark was one of the early pioneers of Butler, the village numbering, at that time, not more than a dozen small frame houses. In 1875 he was elected sheriff of the county as the candidate of the Democratic party, whose principles he has always endorsed. In this office he served two terms. Subsequently he was elected county collector, serving in that capacity also for two terms. In 1880 he was elected cashier of the Bates County Bank, and is still the incumbent of that position. The career of General Harvey C. Clark has been a most noteworthy one, considering his age. Few men of his years rise so rapidly

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to positions of trust and responsibility, stand so high in the esteem of the public, or wield so potential an influence as he. As a boy he attended the public schools of Butler, and Butler Academy, from which he was grad- uated in the class of 1887. In the fall of that year he entered Wentworth Male Academy at Lexington, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1889. The two following years were spent as a student in Scarritt College, at Neosho, Missouri, which granted him a diploma in 1891. Soon after the conclusion of his college course he entered the law office of Honorable David A. De Armond, of But- ler, and in June, 1893, was admitted to the bar before Judge Lay, of the Twenty-ninth Judicial Circuit. The Honorable W. W. Graves, of the circuit court, at that time a practicing attorney of Butler, immediately offered him a partnership, upon which he entered, sustaining this relation until the elevation of the senior member of the firm to the bench, on January 1, 1899. Since that date General Clark has been engaged in professional practice in partnership with J. S. Francisco. In 1896, as the candidate of the Democratic party, he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Bates County. So satisfactory were his services to the public that he was renominated and re- elected in 1898, being the recipient of a large number of votes from the ranks of the Re- publican party. He is now (1900) closing his second term of office. General Clark is a Royal Arch Mason, and is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Wood- men of America. But it is in military affairs that he has risen to a position of the greatest distinction. In 1888, while yet under age, he organized Company B of the Second Regi- ment, Missouri National Guard, stationed at Butler, and was elected, without opposition, to the captaincy. In this position he served continuously until June, 1897. During his incumbency he was twice elected lieutenant colonel of the Second Regiment, but refused to accept the office, preferring to remain as an officer in the company he had organized. In June, 1897, he resigned the captaincy of Company B to accept an appointment as major and quartermaster on the staff of Brig- adier General Milton Moore. Upon the out- break of the Spanish War, in 1808, Governor Stephens requested him to raise and organ-

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. II, Part 1

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n Publication date: 1901 Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors Number of Pages: 800

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 800