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Mr Nunn's father, Ingram Nunn, was born in Kentucky, and re- moved with his parents to Illinois, when a boy. He chose as a life work carpentry and contracting and became identified with the state of Kansas in 1882. He later bought agricultural property and engaged in the great basie industry with great success, becoming the possessor of wealth, as well as the respect and confidence of his neighbors. He was born December 9. 1839, and took an active part in the Civil war as a member of Company A, One Hundred and First Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was with Sherman on the famous march to the sea ; parti- cipated in the battle of Shiloh, Resaca, Holly Springs and other notable engagements and was honorably discharged at the close of the confliet. The mother whose maiden name was Charlotte Breidenstein, was born in Germany in 1841 and was called to the Great Beyond in early life, the year of her demise being 1872.
Mr. Nunn, of this review, was united in marriage to Elizabeth Bugg, on Christmas Day, 1890. She is a native of Cherokee county, Kansas. and is a daughter of T. O. and Levina ( Hollingsworth) Bugg, the former a prosperous farmer of the Jayhawker state. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Nunn has been blessed by the birth of two promising young cit- izens. Chauncey Nunn, born JJune 23. 1892, at Scammon, Kansas. is
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a member of the senior class of the Joplin high school. Mary Frances, born May 31, 1900, in Joplin, is a pupil in the Sixth grade of Jack- son school.
Mr. Nunn is independent in politics, having never been able to dis- cern wherein it is admirable that mere partizanship should prevent the support of the best man and the best measure, no matter by which party advanced. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, Camp No. 3093, and his religious faith is the Presbyterian. He finds a favorite diversion in out-of-door sports. Mr. Nunn is a favorite in railroad as in other circles and in the social life of the city, both he and his wife hold a secure position.
S. A. Cook, the well known merchant in Duenweg, Missouri, is a man who has won the esteem and respect of his fellow townsmen. Per- haps the characteristic that is most conspicuous in Mr. Cook is his absolute honesty. The truism that honesty is the best policy has been corroborated and vindicated and exemplified many times. Mr. Cook believes it to be the best policy but that is not his reason for being honest. It is a question whether anyone who is honest simply from policy ever succeeded very much. Mr. Cook is honest simply because his na- ture will not permit him to be anything else.
He was born in Shelby county, Illinois, October 22, 1875, and was the son of Joseph and Nancy Cook, natives of Indiana. They were farmers and lived in Shelby county, Illinois, for a good many years, devoting their attention to the cultivation of their land.
S. A. Cook's earliest remembrances cluster around the farm where he was born, the fields through which he used to wander as a child, and the long road over which he journeyed to the country school. He stayed in Illinois until twelve years of age, when he accompanied his parents to Conway, Missouri. He attended school but a few months each winter and when old enough to work paid his own way, going without many necessaries that he might attend school. He attended Con- way Academy part of one year working for his board on a farm and walking to school. He also attended Carthage College, where he made a very good record and while there worked and paid his own way. During his college course he was undecided what line of work to fol- low, but circumstances led him to choose teaching. He taught for eight years after he left college, but at the end of that time he had decided that his capabilities as well as his inclinations were more suited to the commercial field than the pedagogical. He then worked a nuum- ber of years in the stores in Duenweg and when he had saved less than two hundred dollars he, in 1906, opened a grocery and feed store in Duenweg, and since that time he has built up a very fine trade. In the beginning both he and his wife worked in the store, but the business has prospered so well that Mrs. Cook does not find it necessary to give it any of her time. The people feel that not only are they sure of getting first class goods at the store, but they will receive the most courteous treatment and a square deal.
In 1898 he married Miss Stella McReynolds at Chetopa, Kansas. She is the daughter of William and America McReynolds and was one of the most popular young ladies in her town, nor has she lost any of her charm since she became a matron, calm and dignified, yet at the same time sprightly and sympathetic. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have three children, Vasca, born December 14, 1899, Ray, born September 5, 1901, and Frank A., born November 23, 1911.
Mr. Cook's political views are Republican, but he does not take any very active interest in politics. He is anxious at all times to see
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the right man in the right place, but party spirit does not receive much support from him. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and stands very high with the members of that fraternal order. Hle is a member of the Christian church and is a very strong believer in the doctrines of that little Disciples church. He is a most earnest Christian worker, nor does he confine his religion to the Sabbath nor to definite church work. He is at all times ready to lend a helping hand to those who are struggling, to speak a word of sympathy to those in trouble and to breathe encouragement to those in doubt or despair.
RICHARD LEE WALLACE .- Prominent among the business men of Webb City is Richard Lee Wallace, a member of the firm of the Wallaee Hardware Company established in that city a number of years ago. A good business man,-progressive, yet careful and conservative, and dis- playing a splendid capacity for management in all its details, the busi- ness conducted by this firm has continually expanded and broadened with the passing of the years, until it is today recognized as one of the solid organizations of the many ereditable concerns flourishing in Webb City, and much of the credit for the accomplishments of the Wallace Hardware Company rests with its junior member.
Richard Lee Wallace is the son of William Sherman and Louise Wallace, and he was born September 23, 1888, at Hiattville, Kansas, in Bourbon county. The father, William Sherman Wallace, was the son of Richard Sherman Wallace and Ellen J., his wife.
Richard Sherman Wallace was the son of Simon C. Potter, who originally founded the family in Rhode Island, but who later drifted to Connecticut, then to Illinois and on to Kansas, where he was engaged in the farming industry. His wife was Amy C. Potter, and they were Methodists in their religious faith. Their son, Richard Sherman, was born in Illinois, but removed with his parents to Kansas, where he has lived ever sinee. He is a man of moderate education, and has made considerable of a success of the restaurant business in his locality. William Sherman Wallace, his son, was born July 30, 1867, and early removed from Kansas to Missouri. His education also was of a some- what limited order, but he has been very successful in the hardware business which he has conducted in Webb City for many years, not- withstanding his earlier lack of schooling. His wife, Louise Wallace, was born at Ft. Scott, Kansas, April 25, 1866. They are also Method- ists.
Richard Lee Wallace received a common school education, was grad- nated from the Webb City high school, after which he completed a course in a Joplin business college as a preparation for active business life. On his gradnation, his father received him into the hardware busi- ness of which he has been the head of so many years, and since his as- sociation with the firm he has proved himself a worthy son of a worthy father. His efforts in connection with the business have been of an order calenlated to build up and strengthen the standing of the firm, and he is everywhere regarded as one of the coming business men of Webb City. Mr. Wallace is prominent in athletic cireles, and on the subject of basket-ball is a recognized authority. He has the enjoyable distinction of being a member of one of the picked teams which played at the St. Louis World's Fair for the championship of the United States and Canada. He has taken a most active part in the work of the Y. M. C. A. of Webb City, and his genial disposition and frank and kindly manner have been an important factor in the splendid degree of sue- ress which he has already attained.
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In his political affiliations Mr. Wallace is a Democrat, as is also his father, and he shares in the family faith as well, being prominent in all branches of the work of the First Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a valued member. Fraternally, he is an Elk, and he is also a member of the Bankers Life Association. On December 4, 1910, Mr. Wallace was married in Carthage, Missouri, to Miss Ida Meyer Beattie, a graduate of the Carthage high school, and the daughter of Walter T. and Mary Beattie.
GEORGE R. BERRY .- In circles particularly concerned with Joplin's great mining industry the name of George R. Berry is one which com- mands no small amount of respect and consideration. He has been an active factor in this field for a number of years and has not only found much personal success awaiting him, but has done a large work in the development of the rich natural resources of this section of the state. In addition to his connection with mining affairs, he is an ex- tensive real estate owner and is also prominent in Republican politics.
Mr. Berry was born May 11, 1868, in Toledo, Illinois. His par- ents, Joseph and Jane (Wyatt) Berry, removed to Joplin when he was a young man, but only remained here a short time, and then lo- cated in Neosho, Newton county, Missouri, in which place George R. received his education and attended the high school. With the intention of securing a higher education Mr. Berry was preparing for the state university, when he became so interested in mining, that he concluded to begin at once upon his career in the business world. He encountered financial success and his first adventure was at the Moseley Mine fif- teen miles south of Joplin, which proved one of the large producers of ore. He has ever since been actively engaged in this field and he has interested in his enterprises such well-known men as Messrs. Peakson, Weyman, and Holden.
Mr. Berry's father, Joseph Berry, was born in Toledo, Illinois, in the same house in which he afterward reared his large family of children. He was remarkably successful in his agricultural operations and now resides near Newtonia, Missouri, on a splendid, well-improved farm. The mother, whose maiden name was Jane Wyatt, was born in 1850 at Gosport, Indiana. Her father, Lemuel Wyatt, was born in 1820, in In- diana, and is still living making his home with his daughter at New- tonia, in the possession of his faculties and remarkably active for a man within nine years of the century mark. The paternal grand- father, John L. Berry, was born in Kentucky and came as an early pioneer to Illinois, with his good wife, Mary A.
Mr. Berry is the only son in a family of six children, his five sisters being as follows: Mrs. Emma Herron, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Maud Congdon, of Joplin, Missouri; Mrs. Jessie Pearson, of Newtonia, Mis- souri ; Mrs. Alice Boston, of MeCook, Nebraska ; and Mrs. Nina Kirk, of McCook, Nebraska.
By marriage Mr. Berry laid the foundation of an independent house- hold, his chosen lady being Miss Minnie Robertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson, of Joplin, Missouri, and the date of their nup- tials being November 1, 1896.
Mr. Berry stands high in social and fraternal circles being a thirty- second degree Mason and a member of Home lodge, No. 335. He also belongs to the Woodmen of the World and the Commercial Club. Mrs. Berry is a popular and efficient lady, being affiliated with the Haw- thorn Club and the Eastern Star, of the latter being Past Worthy Matron. Both are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics, since his earliest voting days Mr. Berry has ever given heart
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and hand to the Republican party, having ever proved himself ready to do all in his power for the advancement of its interests.
Mr. Berry has been recommended by a clean, useful record of cit- izenship, public-spirited, altruistic, progressive, and no measure or en- terprise tending to promote the welfare of the city in which his inter- ests are centered has failed to receive his encouragement and his sup- port when such were possible for him to render.
M. C. TERRY .- An eminently useful and esteemed resident of Car- terville, M. C. Terry holds a place of distinction in business circles, while his natural aptitude for affairs of importance has made him a leader in the advancement of the material interests of the community, whether relating to its agricultural, mercantile, mining. or financial growth and development. A native of Jasper county, he was born, March 5. 1864. on a farm lying within two miles of Carterville, coming on both sides of the house of Scotch-Irish stock. His father, Jesse K. Terry, who was born in Tennessee in 1834, was killed by bushwhackers, July 3, 1864.
Left fatherless in infancy. M. C. Terry was brought up on his grand- father's farm to the age of seventeen. He now owns a farm one and one half miles north of Webb City, and in the management of this he is much interested. making a specialty of raising thoroughbred Jersey cattle and Poland China hogs. Always one of the foremost advocates of the establishment of beneficial enterprises, Mr. Terry is identified with various organizations of importance, being a director and a stock- holder of the First National Bank of Carterville; secretary of the In- terurban Ice Company ; president of the Southwest Supply Company ; manager of the Billican Mining Company; one of the stockholders of the Carpenter & Shaffer Commission Company, of Joplin; and is secretary of the Henson Lumber Company.
Mr. Terry is a firm adherent of the Republican party, and has served his fellow-citizens in various official capacities. In 1899 he was judge of the western district of Jasper county; he has served as school di- rector, being president of the board five years; and a member of the City Council one term; and Mayor one term and is now president of the special road district. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, and of the Modern Woodmen of America. Religiously he belongs to the Presbyterian church.
On November 22, 1892, Mr. Terry was united in marriage with Kate N. Jackson, daughter of John A. Jackson, of Carterville, and they are the parents of five children, namely : Mabel Ann, born February 4, 1895, who will graduate from the Carterville High school in May, 1912; Jessie Kate, born November 12, 1897, was graduated from the grammar school May 18, 1911; Madge, born September 12, 1900; Milton C., born March 7, 1904; and Paul D., born November 22. 1909.
JOHN R. REED .- A man of unvarying energy and concentration of purpose, John R. Reed is actively identified with the promotion of the industrial interests of Jasper county, and during his business career in Joplin has contributed his share toward the material progress of the city. and its development along normal lines. A son of Joseph Reed, he was born March 18, 1862, in Canton, Ohio, coming from Pennsylvania Dutch stock. His paternal grandfather, John Reed. a native of Penn- sylvania, who subsequently migrated to Ohio, became one of the pioneer settlers of Canton.
Joseph Reed was a life-long resident of Canton, Ohio, his birth occurring in that city December 5. 1830, and his death in November,
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1889. He followed the trade of a saddle and harness maker during his active career, carrying on a substantial business. He was widely known throughout that locality, and was held in high esteem as a man of honor and integrity. His wife, whose maiden name was Amanda J. Raff, was born in Canton, Ohio, January 26, 1833, and is now living with a married daughter in Marietta, Ohio.
Having received a practical education in the public schools, John R. Reed learned the printer's trade, working in the meantime, in 1878, on the first daily paper ever published in Canton, its publication be- ing quite an event, and eausing a decided stir in the then quiet little town. Entering the employ of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, in 1880, Mr. Reed obtained a practical insight in the work of bridge construction, and having thoroughly mastered the busi- ness organized in 1892 the Canton Bridge Company, now one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country. Disposing of his interests in the company, in 1900, Mr. Reed, in 1907, came West as a repre- sentative of the Massillon Bridge and Structural Company for Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, having his headquarters at 605 Key- stone Building, Joplin, Missouri, the company's plant being located at Massillon, Ohio. Mr. Reed has been busily employed since coming to Joplin, having constructed bridges and structural work in many of the important parts of the four states included in his territory.
Mr. Reed married, March 18, 1885, Nettie B. Hammond, of Canton, Ohio, a daughter of David and Margaret Hammond. Her father was one of the pioneer bridge builders of the United States, and was well known through his work. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have two children, namely : Mildred, born in Canton, Ohio, July 14, 1890; and Donald, born in the same place, May 28, 1894, is attending the University Military Academy in Columbia, Missouri.
Fraternally Mr. Reed is a thirty-second degree Mason, having as- sumed the York Rite degrees in Canton, Ohio, and afterwards joining the Consistory in Joplin, Missouri, and becoming a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Spring- field, Missouri. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the First Methodist church. In his home and social relations Mr. Reed is most genial and cordial, and being a good mixer has won a large circle of warm friends, to the number of which he is constantly adding. Ac- tive in business, he enjoys his leisure moments, and is especially fond of fishing.
HARDY HARDELLA BALE .- Conducting on a high plane of excellence in workmanship and business management the largest cleaning, dyeing and feather renovating establishment in the Middle West, Hardy Har- della Bale, popularly called only Hardy Hardella, is rendering a very exceptional service to the people of Joplin and a large extent of the surrounding country, and contributing liberally and effectively to the augmentation of the industrial and commercial importance and influence of the region. He has had thirty-three years experience in the manu- facture of woolen goods and the cleaning and renovating industry, and to his present enterprise he applies all the accumulated knowledge gained in that long practical training accompanied by close and analytic study of his work in all its phases.
His mammoth plant at 216-220 West Sixth street, Joplin, is a model of complete modern equipment for its purposes. It is extensive in scope, employing twelve to sixteen persons regularly on a weekly pay- roll of more than $150, and very comprehensive and energetic in its activities, being provided with the most approved mechanism and labor
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of the highest skill to such an extent that it is able to do work that cannot be done elsewhere between the Mississippi river and the Pacific coast. The plant contains improved machinery that is not to be found even in the large Kansas City eleaning establishments, and has at hand the necessary qualifications in its employes to operate this machinery to the best advantage and the entire satisfaction of the patrons of the enterprise.
Mr. Bale was born in Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois, on April 14. 1866, and attended the public schools of that city until he reached the age of fourteen years and felt a longing to do something for him- self in life. He is a son of Hardy Hardella and Esther (Summers) Bale, who were born and reared in Kentucky. The father operated a woolen mill for more than forty years, learning the business in one owned and conducted by his father, which was the one in which Abra- ham Lincoln secured his first regularly remunerative employment. The mill was located at New Salem, Pike county, Illinois, and Mr. Lincoln, with no outward sign or inward feeling that the destiny of his country was to be placed in his hands and wronght out to a happy continuance by the sterling qualities of his elevated manhood a few years later, took his place and performed his tasks among the workmen in the factory in the most unostentatious and serviceable manner, making his home in the household of his employer. The proprietor of the mill was also a native of Kentucky and had served his country valiantly in the Mexican war, belonging to the flower of our army in that contest.
The present Mr. Bale's father died in 1881 at the age of fifty-seven years. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters, the subject of this memoir being next to the last born of the ten. Being of an adventurous disposition and longing to see something of the world, at the age of fourteen he stealthily left his home to make his own way in the world, being allured to this step by the hold which the circus of Charles O'Connor took on his youthful imagination and faney. He traveled with this circus one year, then joined the old Van Amburg circus, with which he remained six years. He became an accomplished horseback rider and all-round aerobat, per- forming in many different ways during his life in the ring, and winning great applause by his skill.
At length, however, he grew weary of the hardships of the life and the associations it forced upon him, and returned to his home. There he went to work for his older brother Douglas in the mill built by their father, and acquired a thorough knowledge of the business. He remained with his brother and worked in the mill for fifteen years, up to the time when the structure was destroyed by fire and its usefulness was at an end.
It was necessary for Mr. Bale then to seek another field for the furtherance of his designs, and he took time to consider the matter and make a selection in accordance with the outlook. The result was that in February, 1905, he located in Joplin and founded the Hardella Dye Works, of which he has ever since been the sole proprietor. He has built the business of the establishment up to large proportions and given it extension over all parts of the South and West, fixing it firmly in the confidence of its patrons and winning for his plant an almost country- wide reputation for the excellence and range of its work, and the prompt- ness and high tone of his methods in trade, and his dealings of every character.
In political affairs Mr. Bale is independent of partisan considerations, and regards only the best interests of the people. In fraternal rela- tions he is connected with the Woodmen of the World, and for busi-
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ness and social purposes he holds membership in the Commercial club. On November 6, 1903, he was married in Chicago to Miss Allie O'Con- nor, a daughter of Dennis O'Connor, and a native of Illinois born in March, 1868. They have no children. Of German ancestry on his father's side, Mr. Bale has many of the valued characteristics of the great race from which he sprang. And as his forefathers in this coun- try were long resident in Kentucky, he possesses also many of the ad- mirable traits which distinguish the people of that renowned state.
W. T. PATTERSON .- A man of excellent judgment and discrimination, capable and intelligent, W. T. Patterson has gained a noteworthy posi- tion among the substantial business men of Sarcoxie, and as proprietor of one of the best zine producing mines of Jasper county is actively iden- tified with the advancement of its industrial interests. A son of W. H. and Emma (Rankin) Patterson, he was born in Shelby county, Illinois, June 24, 1865, of patriotic ancestry.
W. H. Patterson enlisted in an Illinois regiment during the Civil war, and during an engagement at Little Rock, Arkansas, was severely wounded. He returned to his home, and there died in 1866 from the effects of the wound received on the field of battle. His widow now resides in Pomona, Kansas. She has been twice married, by her first union having four children, and by her marriage with Mr. Patterson be- coming the mother of three children.
Brought up on a farm, W. T. Patterson received very limited educa- tional advantages. When nineteen years of age he went to Perry county, Missouri, and there spent a year with his brother. The following five years he roamed through the Southland, going wherever his fancy dic- tated, becoming familiar with the country and the people. Locating then in Benton county, Missouri, he lived there until after the death of his first wife, when he was again seized with the wanderlust, and spent an- other brief time in traveling from place to place, settling down in 1893 to actual business. Coming to the mining regions of Jasper county in 1896, Mr. Patterson worked in Webb City and Carthage, in due course of time attaining a high position, becoming superintendent of the Optimo Mine, near Sarcoxie. For the past ten years Mr. Patterson has devoted his attention to the superintendence of his own mine, being the owner of a rich and highly productive zinc mine, which is located on the Sar- coxie Land & Development Company's property, and has a monthly out- put of seventy-five tons of mineral ore. Mr. Patterson has also other property of value, owning twelve city lots, and having a fine residence. He is interested in the growing of small fruits, and raises large quan- tities of strawberries each season.
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