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The second in order of birth in a family of six children. Henry Sabert received his early educational training in the public schools of New Minden. Illinois. and subsequently he spent three years as a student in the State Normal School at Carbondale. Illinois. Leaving school in 1852. he went to St. Louis. where he was employed as a grocery clerk for a short time. In the fall of 1882 he returned home and engaged in teaching school in Illinois. continuing to be engaged in that line of enterprise for the ensuing two years. in fact. until the family removal to Sarcoxie. Here J. H. Sabert purchased a mercan- tile business from Gilbert Schooling. but later he sold one-half interest to R. L. Hottel and the other half to his son Henry. After a year. in 1691. however. he repurchased Hottel's interest. which he later sold to Dr. Salem Goodner. and some time later S. P. Burress was made a member of the firm. Subsequently A. H. Forsythe was admitted to the firm. Burress withdrew. and Dr. Goodner disposed of his interest to .T. E. Forsythe. John Edwards. J. H. Hines and Tom Hammer were successively interested and at the present time the establishment is known as the Red Front Mercantile Company. this being one of the large department stores in southwest Missouri. The Red Front Mer- cantile Company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Mis- souri in 1902. with a capital stock of fifteen thousand dollars and the present members of the company are: Henry Sabert. John Edwards. W. E. Elmore. . J. H. Sabert. Mrs. G. M. Sabert. Allen J. Moore and Frank S. Jones. A splendidly equipped store is conducted and a very extensive and profitable trade is controlled. Mr. Sabert is a business
Jours Respectfully
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man of remarkable executive ability and tremendous vitality and his good judgment and keen foresight have proved very good assets in helping him to achieve success in the business world.
In February, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sabert to Miss Georgia M. Wilson, who was born in Jasper county, Missouri, and who is a daughter of George S. Wilson. Mrs. Sabert's father is engaged in the great basic industry of agriculture in Sarcoxie town- ship, this county, and he is an estimable gentleman who commands a high degree of popular confidence and esteem in the community in which he makes his home. Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Sabert three are deceased, namely : Ralph, who died at the age of three and a half years; and Bernice Louise and Blanche Lillian, both of whom died in infancy. Edison Reed, the only surviving child, was born on the twelfth of December, 1892, and he is now attending school at Quincy, Illinois.
In politics Mr. Sabert endorses the cause of the Republican party. In a fraternal way he is prominent in the time-honored Masonic order. He is affiliated with Sarcoxie Lodge, No. 297, Free and Accepted Masons, eighteenth degree. He is also connected with the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his religious belief he is liberal and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in the different de- partments of which she is an active worker. He is genial and pre- possessing in his daily intercourse, is affable and courteous under all circumstances and is ever ready to do his part in connection with for- warding the welfare of this section of the state.
HENRY B. BOYD .- If those who claim that fortune has favored certain individuals above others will but investigate the cause of suc- cess and failure, it will be found that the former is largely due to the improvement of opportunity, the latter to the neglect of it. Fortunate environments encompass nearly every man at some stage of his career, but the strong man and the successful man is he who realizes that the proper moment has come, that the present and not the future holds his opportunity. The man who makes use of the Now and not the To Be is the one who passes on the highway of life others who started out ahead of him, and reaches the goal of prosperity in advance of them. It is this quality in Henry B. Boyd that has made him a leader in the business world and won him an enviable name in connection with bank- ing and land interests in Jasper county, especially in the vicinity of Sarcoxie, which place has long represented his home.
Henry B. Boyd was born near Sarcoxie, Missouri, on the 27th of June, 1868, and he is a son of Josiah P. and Elizabeth Boyd, both of whom were reared and educated in this state. The paternal grand- father of him whose name forms the caption for this review was a native of the fine old commonwealth of Kentucky, whence he removed to Missouri in the early pioneer days. Josiah P. Boyd was a farmer, merchant and miller by occupation and he was associated with Mr. Prigmore in the ownership of the Boyd Mill at Sarcoxie. He was summoned to the great beyond in the year 1906, at which time he was sixty-nine years of age. His cherished and devoted wife, who still survives him, maintains her home on the old homestead farm near Sarcoxie. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd became the parents of seven children. of whom the subject of this review was the third in order of birth.
Mr. Boyd, of this review, received excellent educational advantages in his youth. After being graduated in the Sarcoxie high school he was matriculated as a student in De Pauw University at Greencastle.
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Indiana. in which excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892, duly receiving his degree of Bachelor of Science. After completing his collegiate course he returned to Sarcoxie, where he became associated with John Harlan in the banking business. From 1892 to 1896 he served as bookkeeper and in the latter year was made cashier of the First National Bank, retaining that position until 1911, when he was elected president of this solid and reliable monetary in- stitution. In addition to his position as president in this bank, Mr. Boyd is extensively interested in real-estate and mining projects in Jasper county and he is widely renowned as a man of affairs. He is the owner of nearly eight hundred acres of fine land, besides which he has charge of the old Boyd estate. On part of his land is located a very valuable lead vein which will yield an immense profit when opened up. Mr. Boyd is also interested in strawberry culture.
At Sarcoxie, in the year 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Boyd to Miss Hattie F. Scott, who was born and reared in Jasper county and who is a daughter of Dr. J. F. Scott, formerly a practicing physician at Sarcoxie. Mr and Mrs. Boyd are the fond parents of two fine children, Terry S., whose birth occurred on the 25th of January, 1902; and Virginia, born on the 6th of October, 1906. The Boyds are exceedingly popular in connection with the best social affairs of their home community where their spacious and attractive residence is recog- nized as a center of refinement and most gracious and generous hospi- tality.
In politics Mr. Boyd accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor. At one time he was a member of the county Republican central committee and from 1900 to 1905 he was the efficient incumbent of the office of mayor of Sareoxie, in which connection he proved a most able administrator of the municipal affairs of the city. In fraternal circles he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Free and Accepted Masons. He is also connected with the Scottish Rite branch of the time-honored Masonie order. In all the relations of life he has so conducted himself as to command the unalloyed con- fidence and regard of his fellow men in every station.
J. JAY BOYD, M. D .- Honored and esteemed by all, there is no man in Jasper county who occupies a more enviable position in farming and stock raising circles than Dr. J. Jay Boyd, not alone on account of the splendid success he has achieved but also on account of the honor- able, straightforward business policy he has ever followed. His close application to affairs and his excellent management have brought to him the high degree of prosperity which today is his. During prac- tically his entire life time thus far he has been a valued citizen of Jasper county and while he is a physician and surgeon by profession he has devoted his time and attention to farming and stock raising since 1903.
A native of Jasper county, Dr. Boyd was born on the old family homestead, eligibly located three miles distant from Sarcoxie, the date of his nativity being the 29th of January, 1875. He is a son of Josiah P. and Elizabeth Boyd, the former of whom was born in Barry county, Missouri. The Boyds came hither as pioneer settlers in Jasper county, and the father immediately entered a tract of government land, on which he continued to farm during the greater part of his active career. The fifth in order of birth in a family of seven children, Dr. Boyd re- ceived his preliminary educational training in the public schools of
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Sarcoxie and subsequently he attended the Carthage Collegiate Insti- tute. In 1895 he was matriculated as a student in the Kansas City Homoeopathic Medical College, and in that excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900, duly receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after graduation he inaugurated the active practice of his profession at Sarcoxie, where he maintained his home and professional headquarters from 1900 to 1903. In the latter year he decided to give up his medical work and to devote his attention to farming and stock raising. In that year, then, he removed to his present fine farm of two hundred and fifteen acres northwest of Sarcoxie. He is the owner of a splendidly improved farm and for the past five years has been interested particularly in the raising of high-grade stock. He is widely renowned as a hog breeder and fancier, having one of the finest, if not the finest, droves in southwestern Mis- souri. He makes a specialty of Duroc Jersey hogs and has invested considerable money in hogs. In 1907 he began breeding with six registered swine, all of which were prize-winners of the purest strain and for which he paid one hundred dollars. He now has one hundred swine, valued at over two thousand dollars, and he sells his stock to breeders and hog raisers, having made shipments in this connection to various points in the United States.
In the fall of 1903 Dr. Boyd was united in marriage to Miss Mary Almegomd, who was born and reared in Illinois and who is a daughter of M. J. Almegomd, a representative citizen at Sarcoxie. Dr. and Mrs. Boyd have two children,-Lorenz, whose birth occurred in July, 1904; and Thelma, born in July. 1907. Dr. and Mrs. Boyd are popular in connection with the best social activities of their home community and they are devout members of the Methodist church, to whose chari- ties and good works they are most liberal contributors.
In politics Dr. Boyd accords an uncompromising allegiance to the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor. He is no office seeker but is ever on the alert to advance progress and development in this section. He is affiliated with a number of repre- sentative fraternal and social organizations and as a citizen and busi- ness man is accorded the confidence and high regard of all with whom he has come in contact.
CHARLES L. WILSON .- An essentially prominent and influential agriculturist and citizen of Jasper county is Charles L. Wilson, who is the owner of a finely improved estate of two hundred and thirty-eight acres of bottom land, the same being eligibly located about one mile northeast of Sarcoxie. Mr. Wilson is engaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock, his specialty in the latter connection being Poland China hogs. He is a man of whose every effort has been exerted to advance progress and improvement in this section of the state and he is everywhere accorded the unalloyed con- fidence and esteem of his fellow men.
Charles L. Wilson was born on the old homestead farm on Center Creek, west of Sarcoxie, the date of his nativity being the 1st of May, 1862. He is a son of George S. and Jennie (Holman) Wilson, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom now resides in the home of the subject of this review. The father was born in West Vir- ginia and he came to Missouri about the year 1840, entering a tract of government land in Jasper county. A few years later, his father, William C. Wilson, likewise immigrated to Missouri from West Vir- ginia. The father, in addition to extensive farming operations, was a skilled carpenter and constructed a number of the early residences in
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the vicinity of Sareoxie and he worked on the old State house at Little Rock, Arkansas, before coming to Missouri. He also plied his trade at various points on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers prior to his advent in Jasper county. He was a man of considerable ability and extensive influenee and at the time of his death, which occurred in the year 1891, he was honored and esteemed as one of the most prominent men in this section. George S. Wilson went to California at the commencement of the gold excitement, making the journey over-land aeross plains and mountains, and he remained there two or three years, thenee return- ing to his Missouri home. He was twice married, his first wife having been Susan Eads, and to them were born two children, named Benjamin M. and Henry C., who now occupy the William C. Wilson estate. Subse- quently Mr. Wilson wedded Jennie M. Holman, and they reared two children, of whom the subject was the older and Georgie M. is the wife of Henry Sabert, of Sarcoxie. Before his death the father divided his estate amongst his children. The old homestead of one hundred and fifty-eight acres fell to the son Charles, of this notice.
Charles L. Wilson was reared to the sturdy discipline of the old homestead farm, in the work and management of which he early be- gan to assist his father. As a youth he attended the neighboring dis- triet schools and after the death of his father he became the owner of the homestead, as previously noted. During the greater part of his aetive career he has given his attention to general farming and the raising of Poland China hogs, in both of which enterprises he has met with fair success. In addition to the old home farm he is the owner of a tract of eighty acres of splendid land adjoining the original estate. His farm consists principally of fine bottom lands, the same represent- ing some of the most desirable land in the entire county. In his polit- ical convictions Mr. Wilson is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Democratie party. He is no office seeker but is deeply and sincerely interested in community affairs. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with Sarcoxie Lodge, No. 248, I. O. O. F., and with the Modern Wood- men of America, and his religious faith is in harmony with the tenets of the Methodist Episcopal church.
On June 7, 1896, at Sarcoxie, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Jennie Boyd, a daughter of Flavins and Eliza (Wood) Boyd and a niece of the late J. P. Boyd, to whose career a sketch is dedicated on other pages of this work. Mrs. Wilson was born in Howard county on the 31st of March, 1873, and she was reared and educated in Sarcoxie. She is a woman of most gracious personality and is deeply beloved by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle in- fluence. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have three children living, named Lela May, Maude Lee and Anna. Three others are deceased: George. who died at the age of eighteen months; Charles, who died aged three years ; and Ruth, who died at the age of two years. The family are popular factors in connection with the best social affairs of their home com- munity and by reason of their exemplary lives they hold a high place in the esteem of their fellow citizens.
ITARVEY O. EARL is a noble illustration of what independence, self- faith and persisteney can accomplish in America. He is a self-made man in the most significant sense of the word, for no one helped him in a financial way and he is largely self-educated. As a young man he was strong, vigorous and self-reliant. He trusted in his own ability and did things single-handed and alone. Today he stands supreme as a successful business man and a loyal and public-spirited citizen. Most of his attention has been devoted to agricultural pursuits and to
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stock-raising, and at the present time, in 1911, he is the owner of a tremendous estate of one thousand eighty-five acres and he holds pres- tige as being the largest stockman in Jasper county. IIis home is in Sheridan township, four miles distant from Jasper, Jasper county, Mis- souri.
A native of the fine old Keystone state of the Union, Harvey O. Earl was born in Elk county, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of November, 1854. He is a son of Josiah and Hannah (Brockway) Earl, both of whom are deceased, the father having passed away in 1900 and the mother a few years previously. Mr. Earl was reared to the age of ten years on his father's farm in Pennsylvania and in 1864 aecom- panied his parents on their removal to Illinois, where he was associated with his father in farming operations for the ensuing five years. In 1867 Josiah Earl had purchased a tract of two hundred and eighty acres of land in Jasper county, Missouri, and in 1869 the Earl family bade farewell to their Illinois home and removed to Missouri, where Josiah and his wife passed the residue of their lives. At the time of his father's death, in 1900, Mr. Earl, of this notice, gained control of the farm of two hundred and eighty acres by buying out all the other heirs and during the intervening years to the present time he has kept adding to his original estate until he is now the owner of an immense tract of one thousand eighty-five acres of land. He devotes his attention to general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of the latter line of enterprise and being recognized as one of the biggest stock men in Jasper county. At present, in the summer of 1911, he has on hand one hundred and fifty head of cattle, eighty-five head of mules and two hundred head of swine. On February 2, 1911, Mr. Earl sold at publie sale ten thousand dollars worth of mules, and on the 9th of May, 1911, he sold nine thousand dollars worth of cattle and hogs. In 1910 he sold wheat amounting to twenty-five hundred dollars, the same having been raised on a traet of two hundred and twenty-five acres of land, and at the same time he purchased ten thousand bushels of corn to feed his stock. The foregoing interesting data are ample indication of the extensive business operations of Mr. Earl and they show elearly the magnitude of his splendid executive ability.
On the 11th of October, 1879, Mr. Earl was united in marriage to Miss Bettie J. Sutton, who was born and reared in the state of Ohio and who is a daughter of William and Elizabeth Sutton. This union has been prolific of eight children, concerning whom the following brief record is here inserted,-Sallie, born in 1880, is the wife of E. W. Scott, of Jasper county ; Ethel B., born in 1882, is a popular and successful teacher in a business college in Oklahoma; Fred, whose birth occurred in 1886, is single and resides on a portion of his father's vast estate ; Chauncey B., born in 1889, is unmarried and remains at the parental home, as do also George H., born February 28, 1891, Leland H., born in 1894, Lester K., born in 1895, and Marion, born in 1901. All the boys have been given an interest in the farm and they are being afforded the best of educational advantages.
In politics Mr. Earl is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party and while he is deeply and sincerely interested in community affairs he has never had time for political preferment of any deserip- tion. He is a valued member of the Fraternal Aid Association and of the Anti Horse-Thief Association. In his religious faith he is a con- sistent member of the Christian church, to whose charities and benev- olenees he is a most liberal contributor. The life history of Mr. Earl is certainly worthy of commendation and of emulation, for along hon- orable and straightforward lines he has won the success which crowns
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his efforts and which makes him one of the substantial citizens of Jas- per county, where he is held in high esteem by all with whom he has had dealings.
ALBERT E. MAITLAND .- A business man of marked ability at Joplin, Missouri, and one who has ever manifested a deep and sincere inter- est in community affairs is Albert E. Maitland, who is here engaged in the mining machinery business, being head of the Joplin Machinery & Renting Company, one of the most prominent concerns of its kind in the distriet. He is also financially interested in a number of important mining propositions and in his various ventures has met with marked success.
A native of the fine old Empire state of the Union, Mr. Maitland was born at Geneseo, Livingston county, New York, on the 10th of May, 1867. He is a son of Edward Gamble Maitland, who was born at Lima, New York. The father was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and during his life time was engaged on some very important work in New York, having helped to build the New York Institute for the Blind and a number of other big structures.
In 1876 E. G. Maitland and family established their home at Fort. Scott, Kansas, then in 1879, after traveling through southeastern Kan- sas, they settled in Galena, Kansas. E. G. Maitland was a descendant of a sterling and well known Scotch-Irish family in the north of Ire- land, the original progenitor of the name in America having come hither about the early '30's. He married Melvina A. Barnes, a rep- resentative of an old Connecticut family, members of which removed to Livingston county, New York. At the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury the Barnes family originated in England, whence immigrants came to America as early as the seventeenth century. Melvina A. Barnes was a descendant of the Crosby family, who came to America in about the fifteenth or sixteenth century and also who were descend- ents of the Stirling family of Stirling, Scotland. Mrs. Melvina A. Maitland was born at Perry, Ohio, April 8, 1833, and passed from this life September 8, 1904. She is survived by two children, Albert E. Maitland and Mrs. Evaline Prouty.
Mr. Maitland of this review was a child of nine years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Kansas, to the public schools of which state he is indebted for his preliminary educational training. His boyhood and youth were passed on a farm until the year 1888, when he commenced working in the mines at Galena, Kansas, and leased a tract of land and mined on his own account. In 1890 he was instru- mental in the first discovery of ore immediately southwest of Galena, Kansas, and was decidedly successful in his mining operations. He also mined in other localities and in 1903 came to Joplin, where he was identified with the same line of enterprise until 1906. In the latter year he assisted in organizing the Joplin Machinery & Renting Com- pany, which enterprising concern he has built up until it is now one of the most extensive and best patronized mining machinery companies in this section of the state. Mr. Maitland is a business man of unusual executive ability and tremendous vitality. He has achieved a most gratifying success in the mining and business world of Jasper county and for that reason is well deserving of representation in this his- torical compilation.
At Carthage, Missouri, in the year 1892, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Maitland to Miss Marie E. Boucher, who was born at Vicksburg. Mississippi, and reared near Joplin, Missouri. Concerning Mrs. Maitland's family history further data appear on other pages of
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this work in a sketch dedicated to her brother, Leon S. Boucher, so that further information at this point is not considered essential. Mr. and Mrs. Maitland are the fond parents of two children, Stirling, whose birth occurred on the 14th of October, 1893, and Edna E., born on the 25th of July, 1897. In their religious faith Mr. and Mrs. Mait- land are consistent members of the Christian Science church.
In a fraternal way Mr. Maitland is affiliated with Fellowship Lodge, No. 345, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and with Joplin Chap- ter, No. 91, Royal Arch Masons. Politically he gives his support to the principles and policies promulgated by the Republican party, and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for political prefer- ment of any kind, his loyalty and public spirit in all matters affecting the general welfare are of the most insistent order. He is strictly a self-made man, his success in life being the outcome of his own well directed endeavors. All his dealings have been characterized by hon- esty and integrity and for that and other reasons he commands the highest regard of his fellow men.
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