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Dr. David Wise began his scholastic training in the common schools in the vicinity of his Illinois home and completed it at the high school in Greenville in that state, from which he was graduated in May, 1890. The next fall he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis as a student of medieine. He received his degree from that in- stitution in the spring of 1892, but did not at once begin practicing. First he took a post graduate course in the medical department of Beaumont hospital in the same eity, remaining until the spring of 1893, when he received his diploma as a graduate of that institution.
He then felt prepared for active practice and located in Custer county, Nebraska, for the purpose of engaging in it. But he remained in that state only a year and a half. Missouri kept tugging at his
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heart strings, and in the fall of 1894 he yielded to her persuasive call and returned within her hospitable and appreciative fold. Locating at Carthage, he opened an office and gave himself up with exclusive devotion to the requirements of his profession. He was successful from the start and soon had a large and remunerative practive. This has grown steadily as the years have passed, and his reputation for judg- ment and skill in the treatment of his patients has kept pace with it, making him one of the most prominent as well as one of the busiest physicians in Jasper county.
The Doctor has been married twice. By his first marriage he be- came the father of one child, his son Clarence D. Wise, who was born on October 18, 1894, and is now a student in the high school. In De- cember, 1909, the second marriage was solemnized. On this occasion he was united with Miss Nina Seymore, a daughter of Mrs. A. B. Sey- more of Carthage. Like her husband, Mrs. Wise is a social favorite in the community and has hosts of admiring friends whom she always wel- comes cordially at her pleasant home and entertains with refined and considerate hospitality.
The public affairs of the city and county of his residence have al- ways deeply interested the Doctor, and he has given them studious at- tention in the effort to aid in securing their best possible administra- tion. Whatever has seemed to him likely to promote the substantial welfare of the people has had his active support in both judicious coun- sel and earnest effort. In politics he belongs to the Democratic party, and is at all times zealous in its service. His fraternal affiliation is with the Masonic order, in which he is connected with Home Lodge at Car- thage.
From the burdensome labors of his professional engagements and the cares incident to his participation in all designs for the improve- ment of the city and county, he seeks relief and recreation in hunting, fishing and other outdoor sports whenever he has opportunity. He is skillful with rod and gun and enjoys the use of them, and finds in- tense pleasure in the untrammeled life in the open air which that makes possible. He puts his soul in his sports, as he does in his business, and both have the zest which wisely directed enthusiasm gives to any enter- prise. From every point of view Dr. Wise is a most estimable citizen, and he is universally appreciated and esteemed as such.
HERBERT R. KING, M. D .- Noteworthy among the younger genera- tion of successful physicians and surgeons of Jasper county is H. R. King, M. D., of Jasper, who during the five short years that have elapsed since he received his degree has risen rapidly in public confidence and professional status, and is now enjoying a large and lucrative medical practice. A son of F. M. King, he was born August 17, 1878, in Jas- per county, Missouri. His grandfather, the late Charles W. King, a pioneer settler of the territory of Iowa, was one of the founders of the Republican party, in which he was ever after an active worker, serv- ing as a delegate to party conventions. His descendants for three gen- erations have been loyal to the political faith in which they have been reared, and have firmly supported the principles of that party.
Born and brought up in Iowa, F. M. King resided in his native state until 1868. Leaving Des Moines in that year, he came to Jasper county, Missouri, and is now one of the respected and highly esteemed residents of Preston township. He married Florence R. Young, who was born in Washington county, Iowa, and as a girl of sixteen years came with her father. John D. Young, to Jasper county, Missouri.
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where prior to her marriage she was a successful and popular school teacher.
The only son of the parental household, H. R. King received his elementary education in the public schools, and while yet in his teens his determination to enter upon a professional career became firmly fixed. Fitting himself for college, he entered the University of Kan- sas, and was graduated from its medical department in 1906, having a good standing in his class of fifty-eight students. Since beginning the practice of medicine and surgery, Dr. King has gained not only knowledge, experience and skill in the treatment of diseases, but has won marked success as a physician, and through his ability has built up a large and remunerative patronage in Jasper and the surrounding country. Ile has a very pleasant and attractive home, and a cozy of- fice on South Main street, a central location, convenient both for him and for his numerous patients.
Dr. King married, November 24, 1906, Bertha B. Thompson, a daughter of John S. Thompson, a well-known railroad man for many years, who came to Jasper county, Missouri, from Illinois, where Mrs. King was born and educated. Fraternally the Doctor is a member of Jasper Lodge, No. 398, F. & A. M .; of Jasper Lodge, No. 488, I. O. O. F .; of the Woodmen of the World; and of Modern Woodmen of America.
WILLIAM CASEBOLT .- Having by dint of persistent industry, pru- dence and wise management acquired a fair share of this world's ma- terial wealth, William Casebolt, who was for many years successfully engaged in general farming, is now living retired from active pur- suits at his pleasant home in Jasper, leading a life of comfort and pleas- ure. A son of Job Casebolt, he was born in Scott county, Virginia, in 1841, and is of German ancestry on the paternal side, his grandfather Casebolt having immigrated from Germany to the United States, set- tling in Virginia.
Joh Casebolt was born in Virginia, and there spent the carlier part of his life. About 1854, impelled by the restless American spirit that led so many people from the Atlantic states to seek new locations in the wilds of the then far West, he came to Jasper county, Missouri, performing the long journey of forty-seven days with teams, bringing with him his family and household belongings. Settling in Preston township, he began the improvement of a farm, on which his death of- curred a year later. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Gar- lick, died a few years later of malarial fever, leaving two children, namely : Job, a resident of Madison township, Jasper county, and William.
After the death of his mother William Casebolt lived for awhile with Seth Shumaker, and in addition to completing his school educa- tion was taught to work. On attaining his majority he migrated to Kansas, and soon after the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted, at Fort Leavenworth, in Company B, Seventeenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment, be- ing with his regiment on all of its marches, campaigns and battles. He subsequently bought land in Jasper county, Missouri, and in the im- provement of a farm met with good success. Since retiring from busi- ness he has occupied a snug little home in Jasper, and its latch string is always out, assuring his many friends of a warm welcome at his fireside.
Mr. Casebolt has been twice married. He married first. in 1865, Nancy Daisy, who was born in Missouri, a daughter of Jacob and
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Nancy Daisy. Three children blessed their union, of whom two are living, namely : Mrs. Melissa Matkin, of Seymour, Iowa; and Charles, of Fresno, California. The mother of these children died in early womanhood, her loss being mourned not only by her immediate family but by a large circle of friends. Mr. Casebolt married for his second wife, September 10, 1876, Mary J. Harris. Her father, Uriah Harris, was born and brought up in Virginia, and came to Missouri in early manhood. He settled in Jasper county as a farmer, and was here a resident until his death. Mr. Harris married Sarah Wolfe, a native of Sullivan county. She was a life-long resident of Missouri, her death occurring at the age of three score years. Mr. and Mrs. Harris reared three sons and five daughters; one of the sons, Joseph Harris, enlisted as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil war, and died of measles while in the service, being buried in the Southland. Bertha, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Casebolt, married Israel Paxson, and died, November 17, 1902, leaving an infant daughter, Ruth Paxson, now a bright and interesting girl of nine summers.
J. K. SCHOOLER, M. D .- A well-known, successful and popular physician and surgeon of Jasper, Missouri, J. K. Schooler, M. D., has attained deserved prestige in his professional career, and through his skill in diagnosing and treating the various ills to which the human race is heir has built up a fine practice. A son of James K. P. Schooler, he was born August 4, 1869, in Auglaize county, Ohio, near Wapako- neta, coming from a family of prominence.
In 1867 James Schooler came to Missouri on a prospecting tour, and after spending two years in Jasper county went back to his old home in Auglaize county, Ohio, where he continued a resident until 1883. Returning then with his family to Jasper county, Missouri, he bought land near Jasper, and embarked in agricultural pursuits, carry- ing on general farming with good results for several years. He mar- ried Hannah Harrod, who was born in Auglaize county, Ohio. She died in 1879, leaving three children, as follows: J. K., the special subject of this brief sketch: Martha, living in Saint Joseph, Missouri; and Joseph, who died in Keokuk, Iowa. J. K. P. Schooler is now a res- ident of Glencoe, Oklahoma. He belongs to a family of considerable note, among his kinsmen being Judge Schooler, of Jasper county, while the late Hon. J. M. Schooler, of Madison township, was his cousin.
Having laid a substantial foundation for his future education in the public schools, J. K. Schooler attended Scarritt College, in Neosho, Missouri, for two years, after which he taught school for awhile. In 1895 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and began the practice of his profession at Nashville, Missouri. Coming from there to Jasper. Dr. Schooler has met with eminent success as a physician and surgeon, having gained a large and remunerative practice in this part of Jasper county, being recognized as a skilful and able member of the medical profession. In 1903 the Doctor established a drug store in Jasper, and has now one of the finest and best equipped stores of the kind in this part of the state. having plate glass show cases. up-to-date shelving. and a very complete and well selected stock of staple drugs, while his facilities for the com- pounding of prescriptions are unsurpassed in the county.
In 1896 Dr. Schooler was united in marriage with Ethel Dodd, a daughter of Thomas and Harriet Dodd, well known and highly re- spected residents of Jasper. Politically the Doctor is a staneh Repub- liean. Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Or- der of Masons.
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JOHN C. STALTER .- Numbered among the many enterprising men extensively engaged in farming and stock growing in the rich and fertile country of southwestern Missouri is J. C. Stalter, who has brought to his ealling good business methods and excellent judgment, and is meeting with genuine success in his undertakings. His estate, "Pleasant View Farm," is pleasantly located in Jasper, Jasper county, and in regard to its appointments compares favorably with any in the locality, the neatness and orderly appearance of the property manifest- ing to the most casual observer the thrift and care of the proprietor as well as his good taste and good management. A son of Samuel Stalter, he was born in 1860, in Perry county, Ohio, where his grandfather, Nicholas Stalter, settled in pioneer days, moving there from Pennsyl- vania, his native state.
Coming from German ancestry, Samuel Stalter was born in Perry county, Ohio, and grew to manhood on the farm which his father pur- chased from the Government, as a boy assisting in its improvement. He became a tiller of the soil from choice, and subsequently moved with his family to Jasper county. Missouri, where he followed farming until his death, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Swinehart, was born in Perry county, Ohio, daughter of George Swinehart, a native of Germany. She spent her last days in Carthage and died at the age of sixty-seven years. Eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, were born of their union.
Brought up on the parental homestead, John C. Statler was edu- cated in the public schools, in the meantime acquiring a practical knowledge of agriculture on the home farm. Very soon after his mar- riage he migrated with his bride to Kansas, settling in MePherson county. Conditions in that locality proving unsatisfactory, he moved to Nebraska, and after living in Nuckolls county two years bought land in Hitchcock county, where he established himself in business, which he conducted successfully several years, winning a fine reputation for honesty and integrity, his dealings with his many patrons having been just and upright. Coming from there to Jasper, Missouri, Mr. Stalter purchased, in the fall of 1910, his present farm, and has since made a specialty of raising stock, his herd of Poland China hogs being one of the best in the county, belonging to the prize-winning class.
Mr. Stalter married, at the age of twenty-one years, Mattie Bosser- man, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, daughter of Elijah and Mary Bosserman. To them two children have been born, namely: Nettie May and Eula V. Nettie May married H. W. Woodford and resides at Jasper. Politically Mr. Stalter is a straightforward Republican, and has served as a delegate to various conventions, where he has made his influence for good felt by his fellow-workers.
FRANCIS MARION KING .- Holding high rank among the leading stock- growers and cattlemen of Jasper county is Francis Marion King, widely known as proprietor of "Red Bud Stock Farm," one of the finest and best improved estates in Preston township. In the development and promotion of his agricultural interests he has spared neither time nor expense, and the great success which has attended his efforts is to be plainly seen in his well-tilled fields, his substantial farm buildings, and his large and valuable herds of high bred cattle and hogs, everything about the premises giving ample evidence of the thrift, enterprise and ability of its owner. He was born. in 1856. in Greene county, Iowa, not far from Fort Dodge, a son of Charles Webster and Julia Ann (Busey) King. The father was a native of Bracken county. Kentucky, and a pioneer of Champaign county. Illinois, and of Greene county. Towa.
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He died in Jasper county at the age of ninety-four years, and his wife died aged ninety-one years. Charles W. King's father was named John King and he was a son of Robert King.
Francis M. King as a boy of ten years came with his parents to Jas- per county, Missouri, in 1866, where his father settled as a pioneer farmer. He received a practical common school education, and having as a youth become familiar with all the branches of agriculture se- lected farming as his life occupation. and the general appearance of his valuable estate gives proof of the wisdom which guided his choice. In his operations Mr. King has long made stock breeding and raising a specialty, and in the growing of Poland China hogs has no superior in Jasper county. At Red Bud Stock Farm he has annual sales of the animals which he has bred and raised, dealers in hogs coming from all parts of the state to buy from him. Mr. King has been a dealer in and has sold thousands of head of cattle and hogs, and at the various county and state fairs which he has attended, and at which he has made ex- hibits, he invariably carries off his full share of the blue ribbons and of the premiums bestowed on the winners of prizes. In the buying and selling of stock Mr. King has traveled extensively throughout the United States, being familiar with the country from the shores of the broad Atlantic to the Pacific slope, and in his judgment there is no finer tract of land in the Union than the little piece known as Jasper county, Missouri.
Mr. King married, at the age of twenty-two years, Miss Florence Rufina Young, a well-educated and cultured woman, who came from Iowa, her native state, to Jasper county, and was here successfully engaged in teaching until her marriage. Her father, John Davis Young, was born in Kentucky, a son of Alexander and Mary (Davis) Young. He removed to Iowa and lived several years in Washington county and later in Jasper county, Missouri. He spent his last years in Los Angeles, California, while his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Maria Eyestone, died at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. King, Herbert R. King. M. D., is a prominent and eminently successful physician of Jasper. A Republican in politics, Mr. King has served as a delegate to various conventions, and is ever loyal to the interests of his party. Socially he is a valued member of the A. H. T. A.
WILLIAM C. MACKEY .- Jasper county. Missouri, figures as one of the most attractive, progressive and prosperous divisions of the state, justly claiming a high order of citizenship and a spirit of enterprise which is certain to conserve consecutive development and marked ad- vancement in the material upbuilding of this section. The county has been and is signally favored in the class of men who have contributed to its development along commercial and agricultural lines and in the latter connection the subject of this review demands recognition, as he has been actively engaged in farming operations during practically his entire active career thus far. He has long been known as a prosperous and enterprising agriculturist and one whose methods demonstrate the power of activity and honesty in the business world. Since 1899 William C. Mackey has resided on his present fine estate of two hundred acres in Sheridan township and on the same is engaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock.
William C. Mackey was born in Cedar county, Missouri, the date of his nativity being the 9th of August, 1861. He is a son of James and Leah (Mitchell) Mackey, both of whom are now deceased. The father was identified with farming operations during the greater
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portion of his active career and was the owner of a farm of two hundred and twenty acres in Jasper county, this state. The fourth in order of birth in a family of eight children, William C. Mackey was reared to maturity on the old homestead farm, in Sheridan township, Jasper county, where his parents settled in 1867, and in the work and manage- ment of the farm he early began to assist his father. He received his preliminary educational training in the district schools and after reach- ing years of discretion began to farm on his own account, locating on a rented estate of three hundred and twenty acres in Barton county, Missouri, and residing on the same for a period of ten years, from 1889 until 1899. In the latter year Mr. Mackey returned to Jasper county, locating in Sheridan township, where he purchased a farm of two hundred acres. At the present time, in 1911, his estate is in in a fine condition, with every possible improvement, the beautiful buildings in the midst of well cultivated fields being ample indication of the thrift and industry of the practical owner. In addition to gen- eral farming Mr. Mackey devotes considerable attention to feeding and shipping high-grade stock. He has been eminently successful as an agriculturist and as a citizen and business man is everywhere esteemed by reason of his square and straightforward career.
In Jasper county, Missouri, October 20, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mackey to Miss May Wright, who was born in the state of Wisconsin and who is a daughter of R. S. and Jennie Wright, of Columbia county, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Mackey have five chil- dren, whose names with year of birth are here entered,-Myrtle, 1890; Ceola, 1892; Roy, 1895; Velma, 1898; and Lucile, 1902. All the chil- dren were born in Barton county, except Lucile, and all are at home at the present time, in 1911.
In politics Mr. Mackey accords an uncompromising allegiance to the principles and politics for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and while he has never had time nor ambition for political preferment of any description he is ever on the alert and enthusias- tically in sympathy with all measures and enterprises projected for the good of the general welfare. The religious faith of the Mackey family is in harmany with the tenets of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, to whose good works they contribute liberally of their time and means. The various members of the family are popular in connection with the best social interests of Sheridan township and the comfortable, spacious family home is widely renowned for gracious refinement and generous hospitality.
JAMES S. ROSE .- A veteran of the Civil war and a retired farmer. James S. Rose, who is enjoying a well-earned leisure at his pleasant home in Jasper, is a fine representative of the agricultural community, in the pursuit of his independent occupation having met with no mean measure of genuine success. A native of Missouri, he was born April 4, 1846, in Greene county, coming from substantial pioneer stock.
His father, Berry Rose, was born and reared on Tennessee soil. During the gold excitement of 1849 he traveled with an ox-team train across the plains to California, being five months in making the long and tedious trip. He was unusually successful as a miner, and at the end of a few years wrote to his wife that he was coming home well supplied with the precious metal. He started, but was murdered on the way. and all of his gold stolen. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Sublet, survived him, passing away at the age of sixty years. Four children were born to them. as follows: Kendall, now a resident of Texas, fought in the Union Army during the Civil war, being a
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member of the Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry ; Martha, deceased ; Mary, and James S.
Educated in the common schools and through varied experiences, James S. Rose began carly to be self-supporting, and found employ- ment in different parts of the state, including Saint Francois, Pike and Saline counties. Coming from the latter place to Jasper county, he lived for a number of years near Golden City. During the Civil war Mr. Rose enlisted, at Springfield, Missouri, in the Missouri Home Guards, with which he was connected for fourteen months, and later was a member of Company F, Fourteenth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, serving under Captain Roundtree, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gravelly. In 1864 his regiment was sent from Arkansas to Fort Riley, and thence ordered to the west to rescue a woman whose husband had been killed by the Indians, while she and her three chil- dren had been taken prisoners by the savages and were being held in confinement. The woman was rescued, and, with her family, sent to her eastern home. Later the regiment was sent South to the Little Arkansas River, thence to the frontier to quell the Indian uprising. Subsequently Mr. Rose, with his comrades, was honorably discharged from the service at Fort Leavenworth, with a good record for bravery and gallant conduct. Subsequently engaging in farming near Carthage, Mr. Rose made a specialty of raising cattle and horses, in that branch of industry being successful, his horses winning blue ribbons at various county fairs. As a farmer he used good judgment, making improve- ments of much value, including the erection of a good eight-room house, and substantial barns and outbuildings, his estate comparing favorably in its appointments with any in the neighborhood.
Mr. Rose married, at the age of nineteen years, in Greene county, Missouri, Virginia Buffington, who was born in Virginia. She died at the age of fifty-six years, leaving nine children, as follows: James, Ernest, Della, Lizzie, Hugh, Thomas, Nancy, Virginia and Grover. Three other children born of their union died in infancy. Mr. Rose married for his second wife, in 1904, Mrs. Bertie (Tallman) Baird, a widow, with seven children living, namely : Roscoe, William and James, who was engaged in milling southwest of Carthage; and Homer, Retha, Ralph and Cyrus, living at home.
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