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Politically Mr. Rose is a Democrat, and religiously he attends the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his first wife was a member, and to which his present wife belongs. Mr. Rose is a man of fine physique, six feet in height, and is well proportioned, tipping the scales at two hundred and forty pounds. He is of a genial disposition, kind- hearted and trustworthy, and is held in high esteem throughout the community.
WILLIAM J. DRIVER .- During the long period of years which cov- ered the active career of William J. Driver as a prominent agriculturist and stock-raiser in Jasper county, Missouri, he achieved a most phe- nominal success. From his farm of one hundred and ninety acres, comprising the townsite of LaRussell, the village was platted in 1903, and from this venture Mr. Driver realized a comfortable fortune. He has ever been loyal and public-spirited in his civic attitude, contribut- ing in generous measure to all matters affecting the general welfare of the community in which he resides and at present, in 1911, he is living virtually retired, enjoying to the full the fruits of his former years of earnest toil and endeavor.
A native of the fine old Bluegrass state of the Union, Mr. Driver was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, the date of his nativity being Vol. II-27
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the 6th of January, 1843. He is a son of Allen and Rebecca (Akers) Driver, the former of whom was born and reared in the state of Ten- nessee, and the latter of whom was a native of Kentucky. Allen Driver was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Kentucky during his early manhood and in 1848 he removed with his family to McDonald town- ship, Jasper county, Missouri, where he rented a farm for a period of two years, at the expiration of which he returned to his old home in Kentucky. In 1850, however, he returned to Jasper county and then invested in a farm at the mouth of White Oak Creek, where he was identified with farming and stock-growing during the remainder of his life time. His demise occurred in the year 1889 and his devoted wife passed to the life eternal about 1898. They were the parents of eight children and of the number six are living at the present time.
William J. Driver, of this notice, received his rudimentary eduea- tional discipline in the public schools of Jasper county, which he attended during the winter terms, working at home upon the farm during the busy seasons. He remained at home with his father until 1871 and in that year launched into the business world as a farmer on a rented farm in McDonald township, this county. In 1873 he removed to Kansas, where he entered a tract of government land in Cowley county and where he continued to reside for a period of a year and a half. He then sold his land there and, returning then to Jasper county, he rented a farm in MeDonald township for two years and in 1876 again ventured into Cowley county, Kansas, where he eventually disposed of his holdings. He then settled permanently in Jasper county, where he bought a farm of one hundred and forty acres, which he later sold. In 1880 he purchased a farm of one hundred and ninety acres in Sarcoxie township, on which he continued to reside for a long number of years, devoting the major portion of his time and attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock. His holdings gradually increased in value and in 1903 his farm was platted for the village of LaRussell. He realized a great deal of profit from this venture and soon thereafter invested in a two hundred and eighty aere farm on the prairie north of Avilla. Placing his son in charge of this farm, he removed to Carthage, where he remained for a period of three years, at the expiration of which he returned to LaRussell, where he erected a fine, modern residence and where he and his wife are now enjoying the comforts of their declining years.
In Jasper county, in the year 1871, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Driver to Miss Lodemay Eads, a daughter of Edward and Harriet (Keeling) Eads, natives of Iowa and Kentucky, and the father a prominent and influential farmer in Jasper county during the greater part of his active life time. Mrs. Driver was born in Monroe county, Iowa, and she received an excellent common-school education in her youth. She is a woman of great sweetness of character and one who is deeply beloved by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle influence. Concerning the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Driver the following brief record is here inserted,-Minnie, born in 1871; Effie, who married N. W. Henry and lives in MeDonald township, was born in 1878; William, born in 1881, is a teacher of athletics in Washburn College. Topeka, Kansas, and he was graduated in the Uni- versity of Missouri as a member of the class of 1908; Cloudy V., born in 1887, is engaged in farming operations in Jasper county ; Charles E., born in 1889, is a student of dairying and agriculture in the University of Columbia, Missouri ; and Lilia, born in 1892, remains at home with her parents.
In politics Mr. Driver is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the
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cause of the Republican party and while he has never been an office seeker he has done much to advance the material welfare of Jasper county. In fraternal circles he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
EDWARD E. HUBBARD .- At this juncture in a volume devoted to the careers of representative citizens of Jasper county, Missouri, it is a pleasure to insert a brief history of Judge E. E. Hubbard, who has ever been on the alert to forward all measures and enterprises pro- jected for the good of the general welfare and who has served his fellow citizens in various official positions of trust and responsibility. He was county judge of Jasper county for two term and for four years was probate judge, acquitting himself with all honor and distinc- tion in discharging the duties of those offices. He is now devoting the major portion of his time and attention to diversified agriculture and stock-raising, his finely improved estate of two hundred and twenty acres being located in Sheridan township. six miles distant from Jasper.
Judge Hubbard was born in Clay county, Missouri, on the 2nd of March, 1858, and he is a son of John and Sarah (Brooks) Hubbard, both natives of Kentucky. John Hubbard came to Missouri in the year 1840 and after residing for a number of years in Clay county, settled in Jasper county on the 1st of February, 1867. He was a farmer by occupation, and his death occurred here April 1, 1877. At the age of nine years Judge Hubbard accompanied his parents to Jasper county, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational training. He remained at home with his parents until 1879 and in 1882 he secured employment in a flour mill in Jasper county, con- tinuing to work in that concern until 1897. In that year he purchased a farm of sixty acres in Duval township, this county, but disposed of the same in 1901, subsequently buying two hundred and twenty acres in Sheridan township. The latter estate constitutes his present farm and on the same he is engaged in general agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock.
In the year 1887 Judge Hubbard was united in marriage to Miss Alice Duncan, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Duncan, natives of Ohio and coming from there to Jasper county about 1868. Judge and Mrs. Hubbard became the parents of the following children : Bernice, who birth occurred in 1888, is the wife of Arthur J. Probart, of Lincoln township, this county, and has two children, named Lucile and Max; Walker W., born in 1890, married Ethel Johnson and is interested in farming operations on his father's estate; Edward E., Jr., who died, age six years; Clara Alice, born in 1894, remains at the parental home, as do also Geneva, born in 1896; Kenyon, born in 1899; John, born in 1901; and Paul Ernest, born in 1903.
In his political adherency Judge Hubbard is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party. In 1902 he was honored by his fellow citi- zens with election to the office of county judge of Jasper county and he was reelected to that office in 1904. In 1906 he was chosen as judge of the probate court and he served in that capacity with the utmost efficiency for a period of four years, retiring from office in 1910. He exercised the greatest good judgment in the handling of difficult cases and it is gratifying to note that but very few of his decisions were ever appealed. In a fraternal way Judge Hubbard is a valued and appreciative member of the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is unusually popular as a citizen and business man and on his entire career there rests no blemish.
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JOSEPH POWELL .- It is always pleasing to the biographist or student of human nature to enter into an analysis of the character and career of a successful tiller of the soil. Of the many citizens gaining their own livelihood, he alone stands pre-eminent as a totally independent factor, in short "Monarch of all he surveys." His rugged honesty and sterling worth are the outcome of a close association with nature and in all the relations of life he manifests that generous hospitality and kindly human sympathy which beget comradeship and which cement to him the friendship of all with whom he comes in contact. Successfully engaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of high- grade stock, Mr. Joseph Powell is decidedly a prominent and popular citizen in Sheridan township, Jasper county, where he has resided during most of the time since 1879.
Joseph Powell was born in Illinois, on the 11th of April, 1858, and he is a son of William and Henrietta (Burkhart) Powell, both of whom are now deceased. In 1869, when the subject of this review was a child of eleven years of age, his parents removed from Illinois to Texas county, Missouri, to the public schools of which place Mr. Powell is indebted for his early educational training. He remained on the home- stead farm, helping his father in the work and management thereof, until 1879, at which time he decided to launch out into the business world on his own account. In that year, then, he rented a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jasper county and continued to work the same until 1887, when he went to the Pacific coast, remaining in the west for a period of two years. In 1889 he returned to Jasper county, where he rented a tract of eighty acres, which he farmed until 1891. He continued renting until 1896, when he purchased a farm of eighty acres in Sheridan township, this county. In 1908 he dis- posed of it and bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in the same township. He still owns the latter farm and is most successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising thereon. His place is in a high state of cultivation and his buildings and various improvements are all of the most modern type.
In 1891, in Lincoln township, Mr. Powell was united in marriage to Miss Myrta Magoffin, who was born and reared in Jasper county, Missouri, and who is a daughter of James and Matilda (Hedges) Magoffin, natives of Ohio, and now residents of Carthage. Mr. and Mrs. Powell have five children, as follows: Fern, born in 1892, a teacher in the public schools and lives at the parental home, as do also Corwin, whose birth occurred in 1894; Merritt, born in 1896; Pearl, born in 1898; and Helen, born in 1908. In their religious faith the Powell family are devont members of the Presbyterian church, in the different departments of whose work they are most active and zealous factors.
Mr. Powell is a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description, he gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises advanced for progress and improvement. He is a man of genial personality and affable address and in all the relations of life has so conducted himself as to command the unqualified confidence and regard of his fellow men, who honor him for his sterling integrity and high moral worth.
GEORGE A. BOYD .- Graven deeply and with marked distinction on the history of Jasper county are the name and works of Josiah P. Boyd, father of him whose name initiates this review. Though now deceased, he is still revered as an honored member of a striking group of men
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whose influence in the social and economic life of the state has been of the most beneficent order. He was born in Barry county, this state, in the year of 1837, which date bears significant evidence of the fact that he was a scion of one of the pioneer families of Missouri. As a young man he served with all of valor and efficiency as a soldier in the Union army in the war between the states and after the close of that sanguinary conflict he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1879, when he turned his attention to the general merchandise business. Later he became interested in the Victor mills at Sarcoxie and during his life time he managed to accumulate a landed estate of some thousand acres in Jasper county. One of the provisions of his will at the time of his demise was that all the mineral wealth in the above land should be held in joint ownership by his respective heirs. As several rich zinc mines have been operating on the Boyd lands in recent years this pro- vision has proved a wise one for his children. Josiah P. Boyd was called to eternal rest in the year 1907. His beloved wife, who still survives him and whose maiden name was Elizabeth Haggard, is now residing on the old Boyd homestead, located three miles northwest of Sarcoxie.
George Albert Boyd, of this notice, was born at Sarcoxie, Missouri, on the 13th of January, 1883. As a youth he worked on the old home farm and attended the neighboring district schools. Later he attended and was graduated in the Sarcoxie high school and for two years he was a student in the Carthage Institute. In the year 1902 he was matriculated in Drury College, at Springfield, Missouri, and he con- tinued to attend that excellent institution until 1905, when he was forced to give up his college career on account of the impaired condi- tion of his health. Thereafter he was engaged in work on the farm for one year, at the expiration of which he became associated with his father in the milling business at Sarcoxie, eventually, at the time of the latter's death, in 1907, succeeding to the management of the Victor mills, which he conducts in partnership with R. Prigmore. In 1910 he purchased a third interest in the Sarcoxie Supply Company, be- coming an active partner in that business. In conjunction with his brothers he holds an heir's interest in the Boyd estate, as previously noted, and in addition thereto he is also the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres in Sarcoxie township. He is an enter- prising and progressive business man of the younger generation and is well worthy of the honored name which he bears. On other pages of this compilation appear sketches dedicated to Henry B. and Richard C. Boyd, brothers of George A. Boyd.
In politics Mr. Boyd endorses the cause of the Republican party and in Scottish Rite Masonry he is a valued and appreciative member of Sarcoxie Lodge, No. 293, Free and Accepted Masons. His religious faith is in harmony with the doctrines and teachings set forth by the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he and his wife are consistent members. He is essentially loyal and public spirited in his civic atti- tude and no matter ever projected for the good of the community ever fails of his heartiest and most sincere cooperation.
On the 16th of October, 1907, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Boyd to Miss Fay Trantham, who was born and reared in this state and who is a daughter of J. A. Trantham, a drug salesman of Springfield, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have no children.
RICHARD C. BOYD .- Many of the ablest men in America are ardent devotees of the great basic industry of agriculture, and it is well that this is so because the various learned professions are rapidly becoming crowded with inefficient practioners so that in a few years it will be
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practically impossible for any but the exceptionally talented man to make good or even to gain a competent living therein. The independent farmer who, in addition to tilling the soil, cultivates his mind and retains his health is a man much to be envied in these days of strenuous bustle and nervous energy. He lives his life as he chooses and is always safe from financial ravages and other troubles of the so-called "cliff dweller." An able and representative agriculturist who has done much to advance progress and conserve prosperity in Jasper county, Missouri, is Richard C. Boyd, who owns and operates a finely improved farm of six hundred acres, eligibly located some three miles northwest of Sarcoxie.
Richard Clay Boyd was born in Jasper county, Missouri, on the 8th of August, 1865, and he is a son of Josiah P. and Elizabeth (Hag- gard) Boyd, old pioneer residents of this county. Josiah P. Boyd was born in Barry county, Missouri, and he was a son of Josiah and Jane Boyd, both of whom were natives of the old commonwealth of North Carolina. He was reared to adult age under the invigorating influenees of farm life and received his early educational training in the public schools of Barry county. As a young man he enlisted as a soldier in Company C, Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry, serving with all of gallantry and faithfulness from 1862 until July 1, 1865. He re- ceived his honorable discharge and was mustered out of the army at Springfield, Missouri. After the close of the war he devoted his time and attention to farming operations until 1879, in which year he en- gaged in the general mercantile business with Gilbert Schooling, at Sareoxie. Subsequently he disposed of his interest in the above estab- lishment to Mr. Schooling and purchased the Vietor Mills at Sarcoxie. He was married on the 13th of February, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth Hag- gard, a daughter of Judge James Haggard, of Jasper county. This union was prolifie of six children, of whom the subject of this review was the second in order of birth. Josiah P. Boyd was widely re- nowned as a remarkably able business man and farmer. At the time of his death, on the 13th of November, 1906, he was possessed of an estate of over one thousand acres of most arable land, the same having on it considerable mineral wealth. A peculiar and wise provision of his will decreed that the mineral rights on his land should be held in common by all his children. Inasmuch as several rich zinc mines have been operating upon the Boyd lands this has proven to be a source of great wealth to his heirs. Mrs. Boyd, who is still living, resides upon the old home farm, some three miles northwest of Sarcoxie.
Richard C. Boyd passed his boyhood and youth in Jasper county, to whose public schools he is indebted for his elementary education. He continued to attend school until he had reached the age of eighteen years, when he turned his attention to farming. He is now residing on the old home estate with his mother. He is the owner of upwards of six hundred acres of fine farm land, the same comprising four farms, in addition to which he still retains an interest in the old Boyd estate. In his political proelivities he accords a stalwart allegiance to the cause of the Republican party and he is ever on the alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all measures and enterprises advanced for the good of the general welfare. He is a thorough sportsman, being unusually fond of out-of-door life. A great deal of his time is taken up with travel and he is a great hunter and fisher. Mr. Boyd is unmarried.
JOHN EDWARDS .- Among the prosperous farmer citizens of Sar- coxie, Missouri, whose contribution to the progress and development of this section of the state has ever been of the most insistent order John Edwards takes a foremost rank. He has resided in Jasper county for
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nearly half a century and is one of the fine old veterans of the Civil war. In addition to a fine farm of two hundred acres in Jasper county he is also interested in the Red Front Mercantile Company, one of the prominent business concerns of Sarcoxie.
John Edwards was born in the city of London, England, on the 11th of June, 1845, and he is a son of William and Mary (Worrell) Edwards, both of whom were born and reared in England. The Ed- wards family immigrated to the United States in the year 1852, locating in Livingston county, Illinois, where the father turned his attention to agricultural pursuits on a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land. In the fall of 1865, just after the close of the war, William Edwards came to Jasper county, locating in Sarcoxie township, where he pur- chased one hundred acres of farming land. He was successfully en- gaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock until the time of his death, which occurred in 1896, at the age of eighty- two years. The mother died in 1857, aged seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were the parents of eleven children, five of whom are living at the present time, in 1911.
Under the sturdy and invigorating influences of the old homestead farm John Edwards was reared to maturity, his early educational training consisting of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools of Illinois. When nineteen years of age, in September, 1864, he enlisted as a soldier in the Union army for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He participated in a number of skir- mishes and at the battle of Averysboro was severely wounded in the head. After he had recovered from his injuries he was in the expedition under General Sherman which made the famous march to the sea and after the close of the war he participated in the Grand Review at Washing- ton. He received his honorable discharge and was mustered out of service in June, 1865. After the close of his military career he engaged in farming in Jasper county and in 1872 purchased a farm of eighty acres on Spring River. in Vineyard township, Lawrence county. Later disposing of that tract, he purchased an estate of four hundred acres in Sarcoxie township, Jasper county, of which he still retains two hundred and eighty acres, which are located close to the famous Cave Springs. In 1901 he became a heavy stockholder in the Red Front Mercantile Company at Sarcoxie, in addition to which he is also inter- ested in a number of substantial financial projects in this county. He is a business man of splendid judgment and keen foresight and all his dealings have been characterized by square and straightforward methods.
In the year 1869 Mr. Edwards was united in marriage to Miss Augusta W. Wilson, who was born and reared in Jasper county and who was a daughter of Dr. Andrew and Mary Wilson, old pioneer citizens of Sarcoxie. To this union were born five children, concerning whom the following brief record is here entered: Albert, aged forty (1911) is in the employ of the Sarcoxie Supply Company; William, aged thirty, is residing on the old home farm in Sarcoxie township; and Mary is the wife of Elmer W. Lawson and maintains her home at Sarcoxie; Laura died, aged eight years; Carrie, who married Chester Rankin, died at the age of twenty-six years. Mrs. Edwards was a woman of most gracious personality and was a potent influence for good in the home and community, being admired and beloved by all with whom she was brought in contact. She died in January, 1910.
While Mr. Edwards has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description he en- dorses the cause of the Republican party in his political convictions
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and gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises advanced for the well being of Sarcoxie and of Jasper county at large. He is a man of fine mental caliber and generous impulses. has held out a helping hand to many who have not been so well favored by fortune as himself and is generally conceded to be one of the most popular citizens in Sarcoxie, where he has figured promin- ently in all matters affecting the general good. Mr. Edwards resides in his beautiful home at Sarcoxie and he is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. North, in the various departments of whose work he is a most zealous factor. Mrs. Edwards was a member of the same church.
HENRY SABERT .- An essentially prominent and influential citizen of Sarcoxie. Missouri. is Henry Sabert, who was born in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. on the 16th of June. 1865. and who is a son of J. H. and Louisa Schierbecker Sabert. both of German extraction. J. H. Sabert was born and reared to the age of fifteen years at Melle. Germany. and after coming to America he learned the cigarmaker's trade. In 1:51 he immigrated to the United States, proceeding im- mediately to St. Louis, Missouri. and residing there until 1860. in which year he removed to Belleville. Illinois. From 1863 until September. 1865. the Sabert family home was maintained in St. Louis. whence removal was made to New Minden. Illinois. In the latter place the family resided for a period of nineteen years. at the expiration of which. on the 24th of December. 1854. location was made at Sarcoxie. Here J. H. Sabert has been exceedingly prominent as a business man and as a citizen. his loyalty and public spirit having figured prominently in many matters projected for the good of the general welfare. He served as justice of the peace of Sarcoxie and for three successive terms he was the popular and efficient incumbent of the office of mayor of the city. Under his able administration many important improve- ments were instituted and business progress and development fostered.
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