A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 24

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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WALLER H. AND LEWIS T. SANDERSON compose the active head of the leading mercantile house of Bowling Green, known as the J. E. Sander- son Dry Goods & Clothing Company, and they are the successors of its founder and their father, John E. Sanderson. The business is now one of the solid and substantial firms of Pike county, and is the outcome and growth of a very modest beginning. Its founder and his successors de- voted their lives to the development of a business house which would meet the demands of an ever-growing and constantly developing com- munity, and this department store marks the culmination of their well placed efforts.

John Eubank Sanderson, father of the subjects, was a native of Vir- ginia, where he was born in 1821. Their mother was Katherine Wharton Thompson, who died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1873. The father gave practically all of his life to mercantile pursuits, and a fuller account of this well spent life is given elsewhere in this volume. His death occurred in 1911, on the 18th of October.

Waller H. Sanderson was born at Big Island, Virginia, December 21, 1858; he was educated chiefly in St. Louis in the public schools of that city, and came into the store with his father in 1876. He grew rap- idly into a fine working knowledge of the business of the company, and when it became a corporation in 1892, so far had he advanced that he was regarded as a fitting man for the office of vice-president of the new firm. In 1881, October 13th, he was married in Bowling Green, to Miss Pattie H. Frier, a daughter of James D. Frier and Mary (Luck) Frier. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson have six children : Eugene W. is a trav-

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eling salesman for Burrow, Jones & Dyer Shoe Company ; Raymond P. has charge of one of the departments of the Sanderson Company; Charles M. travels for the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, and resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma; John E. and Paul are engaged in the grocery busi- ness in Bowling Green and Mary, the youngest child, and only daughter, is yet a school girl.

Lewis T. Sanderson, the junior member of the Sanderson Company, was born in St. Louis on March 27, 1871. His education was obtained in the public schools of Bowling Green, and his training in business began with his father in 1886. He has ever been identified with the success of the big store and is vice-president of the corporation. The company was chartered for $19,000 at the time of its incorporation in 1892. N. M. Sanderson is the secretary of the firm. On September 20, 1893, Lewis T. Sanderson was united in marriage with Miss Cora E. Wright, at Ashley, Missouri. She is a daughter of John E. and Eliva P. (Wells) Wright, the father being a native of Bedford county, Vir- ginia. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson have three children,-Katherine, Cash and Elizabeth.

Both Waller H. and Lewis T. Sanderson are Masons and members of the Baptist church. Lewis T. is identified with the Order of Odd Fellows and is a Knight of Pythias. He was venerable consul of Bowl- ing Green Camp No. 274, Modern Woodmen, for ten years, which camp organized all the important camps in Pike county, and he was a dele- gate to the head camp meetings at Kansas City, Missouri; St. Paul, Minnesota, and Dubuque, Iowa, having also attended the state meet- ings of the order, where he served on the committee of per diem and by-laws.

The brothers are numbered among the wide-awake and progressive young business men of the city, where they are held in highest esteem by their friends and associates, and regarded as among the indispens- able citizens of the community, whose best interests they have ever at heart.

MRS. ANNA E. DANIELS POLLOCK. A woman of intelligence and refinement and one whose energies have been devoted to her home and children, that sphere in which woman has ever found her most unfad- ing laurels, Mrs. Anna E. Daniels Pollock, of St. John, Missouri, widow of the late Capt. David W. Pollock, well deserves mention among those who represent the best citizenship of northeastern Missouri. She has reared worthy sons and daughters, has instilled into their minds the virtue of useful and honorable living and thus has fulfilled the noblest mission of womanhood. A woman of strong traits and exem- plary character, she traveled life's journey with her husband forty- five years and as a faithful helpmeet bore well her part as mistress of the home. Capt. David W. Pollock, deceased February 26, 1910, and probably the wealthiest citizen of Putnam county at that time, was a Civil war veteran and for full forty years had been numbered among the most forceful business men of this section of Missouri. Both have borne that part in the history of their community that commands mention of them among the forceful factors in the development of northeastern Missouri.

Anna E. Daniels was born in Ohio, February 13, 1845, a daughter of William Daniels, Jr., and Mary Chenoweth Daniels, the former of whom was a son of William Daniels, Sr., and was born November 8. 1805, in West Virginia, and the latter of whom was born April 22, 1808. These parents were married October 29, 1829, and soon thereafter removed to Ohio. After a few years in that state they returned to West Vir-

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ginia and came from thence to Missouri in 1855, locating in Putnam county, where William Daniels followed farming until his death about 1881. William and Mary (Chenoweth) Daniels reared seven children, mentioned as follows: Mrs. Catharine Thompson, Mrs. Nancy E. Mor- rison, William C., Alison P. and A. H., all now deceased; Asa D. Daniels, now a resident of Seymour, Iowa, and Anna E., of this review. Anna E. Daniels and David Wilson Pollock were married October 5, 1865.

Capt. David W. Pollock was born October 10, 1841, a son of Thomas and Isabella (Wilson) Pollock, both natives of Scotland, where the former was born in 1805 and where they were married in 1830. Thomas was a sailor and followed the sea fifteen years, during which time he made seven voyages to the West Indies. His wife and two children, James and John, emigrated to the United States in 1838 while he was on his last voyage. The family settled in Pennsylvania, where Thomas Pollock was foreman in a brick factory ten years. In July, 1851, he removed with his family to Putnam county, Missouri, locating near St. John, and thereafter he gave the most of his attention to farming. Besides the two sons who emigrated from Scotland with the mother, five other children were reared, namely: David W. of this review ; Judge William L. Pollock, a prominent citizen of Putnam county; Mrs. Isa- bella Beary, of St. John, Missouri ; Agnes J. Daniels, of Seymour, Iowa ; and Mrs. Barbara E. Godfrey, of St. John, Missouri. Capt. David W. Pollock won his military title through service as one of the loyal soldiers of the Union. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company B of the Eigh- teenth Missouri Regiment of the Union army and served three years and eight months. He passed to the front as first lieutenant of his company and during the famous march to the sea was promoted to the office of cap- tain, which rank he held until the close of the war. A more detailed menion of the movements of his regiment will be found in the sketch of his son, Ira O. Pollock, which appears on other pages of this work and therefore need not be repeated in this connection. At the close of the war he returned to Putnam county, Missouri, and entered upon a business career that was remarkable for its accomplishment. For prac- tically forty-five years he was a merchant at St. John, Putnam county, a record probably unparalleled in northeastern Missouri. He was one of the organizers of the National Bank of Unionville and was president of that institution until his death. He also organized the Bank of Powersville in this county and was one of the organizers of the Bank of Lucerne, Lucerne, Missouri. He was the most extensive land owner in Putnam county and at his death his estate included 2,765 acres, the greater portion of which was in this county. He made the nucleus of his fortune as a cattle buyer and was one of the pioneer and most prom- inent trainload shippers in northern Missouri. His Civil war service was commemorated as a member of the Mansfield Post, G. A. R., at Powersville. He was a man of remarkable force and business genius. At his death his large estate was divided among his children and Mrs. Pollock received as her widow's dower 1,100 acres, some in Putnam county and some in Sullivan county, Missouri, and a large portion in Wayne county, Iowa.

Capt. David W. and Anna E. (Daniels) Pollock became the parents of seven children, viz .: Mary Isabella, deceased; Ira O., of Powersville, Missouri, who is mentioned individually in this work; Orrin O., de- ceased ; William H., a resident of Powersville, Missouri; David W., de- ceased; Mrs. Anna Ora Miller, of Unionville, Missouri; and Thomas H. and Perry Carlton, partners in business in St. John, Missouri, the latter of whom also receives individual mention on these pages.

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PERRY CARLTON POLLOCK, a merchant at St. John, Missouri, and a son of the late Capt. David W. Pollock, one of the most prominent busi- ness men and financiers of Putnam county, was born October 21, 1888, at St. John, Missouri. He was educated in the common schools of his native village and at the Wentworth Military Academy, at Lexington. Missouri. In 1909 he and his brother Thomas H. engaged in the gen- eral merchandise business at St. John and are yet identified with that line of business activity there. From the large Pollock estate he re- ceived 480 acres in Putnam county as a portion of his patrimony and continues to own it.

In September, 1910, Mr. Pollock was joined in marriage to Miss Thomas Newtown Wall, of Durango, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock have one son, Perry Carlton Pollock, Jr.

REV. OTTO E. KRIEGE, D. D., is president of the Central Wesleyan College at Warrenton; he is an educator and divine whose achievements are widely known; a contributor to the church literature of our country and an influential factor in the governmental affairs of the German Methodist church. He was born at Belleville, Illinois, on November 20, 1865, and is the son of Rev. E. H. and Mary E. (Lehr) Kriege, the latter of Bavarian parentage.

Rev. E. H. Kriege was born at Linen, Westphalia, Germany, in 1829, and was educated in the schools of his native land. He came to the United States in 1849 and engaged in the ministry of the German Methodist church in his early manhood. He spent thirty-five years as a pastor of that denomination in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, and was a presiding elder of the church at the time of his death, February 4, 1889. His widow resides in Denver, Colorado. Of the four children born to them, Dr. Otto E. is the third.

In his early childhood, Otto Kriege accompanied his parents from his birthplace to Lawrence, Kansas, where he lived during his boyhood and youth. He was graduated from the high school of that city in 1881, soon after which he went to Colorado and accepted a clerkship with the dry goods house of Daniels & Fisher, remaining with them for three years and then taking up his college work in Central Wesleyan, of which institution he is now the chief executive. In 1888 the young man took his A. B. degree from the Warrenton college and went to Germany, where he spent two years in careful study in the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. Returning, he engaged in the ministry at once and began his pastorate in the West German Conference of the Methodist church at Arlington, Nebraska. From there he was called to Omaha and subsequently to Sedalia, Missouri, as pastor. Leaving the latter church 'he came into the college at Warrenton as one of its professors in 1899, and in 1909 was elected acting president and in the year following, presi- dent of the school.

Doctor Kriege is secretary of the West German Conference and repre- sented his church in the general conference in 1908 at Baltimore, Mary- land, and in 1912 at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written a his- tory of the conference and a history of Methodism, both in the German, and his contributions to church periodicals are of frequent occurrence. He is a member of the National Educational Association, fraternizes with the leaders in public education, mingles with the laity, responds to invitations to speak in their meetings, delivers addresses and com- mencement orations, and the National Geographical Society has hon- ored him with a membership in its body. As a citizen Doctor Kriege has served as alderman in Warrenton, and is vice-president of the Bank

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of Warren county. In 1907 Baker University at Baldwin, Kansas, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

On September 16, 1890, Doctor Kriege was united in marriage with Emma R. Frick, daughter of Conrad Frick, one of the Colorado pio- neers of 1859 and a noted merchant of Denver. The issue of their union are Miss Edith, a graduate of Central Wesleyan College in 1911 and now a teacher in her alma mater, and Herbert, who is a freshman in Central Wesleyan College.

JNO. B. FLEET, M. D. One of the representative physicians and sur- geons of Howard county is Dr. Fleet, who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the thriving little city of New Franklin, and whose ability and gracious personality have gained to him a large and representative clientele.

Dr. Fleet takes a due measure of satisfaction in reverting to the historic Old Dominion as the place. of his nativity and he is a scion of the stanchest of southern stock. He was born in King and Queen county, Virginia, on the 3rd of March, 1861, and is a son of John A. and Lea Ellen (Maynard) Fleet, the former of whom was born in King and Queen county, in 1823, and the latter of whom was born in Maryland, a representative of one of the old and honored families of that state. John Fleet, now eighty-nine years of age and well preserved in mental and physical faculties, still resides in his native county, where for many years he was actively and extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits, and he has been an influential factor in civic and industrial activities in the community that has ever represented his home. Both the Fleet and Maynard families are of stanch English lineage and both were founded in America in the early colonial days. The mother of Dr. Fleet was a woman of most gentle refinement and was held in affectionate regard by all who knew her. She was summoned to eternal rest in 1882, at the age of forty-eight years, and is survived by four sons and two daughters. Col. A. F. Fleet, a cousin of the doctor, was a gallant officer of the Con- federacy in the Civil war and later became president of Palmyra Mili- tary Academy, at Palmyra, Missouri. Still later he had the distinction of becoming the founder of the Mexico Military Academy and the Culver Military Academy, at Culver, Indiana, and of this institution, one of the best of the kind in the Union, he continued president until the time of his death.

Dr. Fleet was reared under the benignant and invigorating conditions and influences of the fine old homestead plantation which was the place of his birth, and his early educational discipline was secured in the schools of Aberdeen Academy, Virginia, and in preparation for the work of his chosen profession he began the study of medicine under the effective preceptorship of Dr. Samuel R. King, a leading physician and surgeon at Gilliam, Missouri. Finally he was matriculated in the American Medical College, in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, and in this admirable institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887, duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. The original stage of the professional work of Dr. Fleet was at Gilliam, Missouri, and he has been engaged in practice at New Franklin, Mis- souri, since 1891. He has kept in close touch with the advances made in the sciences of medicine and surgery and avails himself of the best of standard and periodical literature pertaining thereto. His success has been on a parity with his recognized ability, and no citizen of Howard county commands more secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He is actively identified with the Howard County Medical Society, of which he has served as president, and is also identified with

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the Missouri State Medical Society and the American Medical Asso- ciation. On Main street in his home city he erected a substantial brick building of four rooms, and this he utilizes for his office, the equip- ment and appointments being of modern and attractive order. His residence is a most beautiful brick structure of ten rooms, and is not only one of the best in New Franklin, but is also known as a center of most gracious hospitality. In politics the doctor accords unswerving allegiance to the Democratic party, and as a citizen he is essentially progressive and public-spirited. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the K. P. and Masonic lodges, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church, in the work of which they take an active part.

In 1884, at Gilliam, Saline county, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Fleet to Miss Logie King, who was born in Randolph and reared in Saline county and who is a daughter of Dr. S. R. King, a representative citizen of that section of the state. Mrs. Fleet is a woman of most gracious personality and is a popular factor in the social activities of her home city. Dr. and Mrs. Fleet have five chil- dren: Leah, who is the wife of F. N. Clark, of Portland, Oregon; Josephine and Lucile, who are members of the classes of 1911 and 1912 in Stephens College; and Johnnie F. and Clara L., who remain at the parental home.

BEN ELI GUTHRIE was born on the 31st day of May, 1839, in Chari- ton county, Missouri, six miles north of Keytesville. He was the son of Rev. Allen Washington Guthrie, a minister of the Cumberland Pres- byterian church, and Elizabeth Ann (Young) Guthrie. She was the second daughter of Hon. Benjamin Young of Callaway county, who in the early days represented that county in the state legislature. The subject of this brief review was named in honor of his grandfather, who was popularly known as Ben Young, and his paternal uncle, Rev. Eli Guthrie, who was drowned in the Missouri river at DeWitt in 1837, in an attempt to rescue persons who were freezing on the ice.

Captain Guthrie was the oldest of ten children, the youngest of whom is Mrs. John A. Fox, of Buhl, Idaho. These two alone of the ten survive. The mother died in 1855 and the father in 1889. In 1848 the family moved to the Platte Purchase and settled in Andrew county, two and a half miles south of Savannah. Here Ben Guthrie, by reason of the frequent enforced absences of his father in his profession, soon came into many responsibilities which usually come with more mature years, and as a boy he spent his winters hauling wood to town, giving the best part of his summers to farming, though he found time to at- tend all the school sessions that the country afforded, and even spent two winters in attendance at the select school conducted by Reverend Mr. Goshen at Savannah. He then spent a season as driver for a livery stable in Savannah, his work as a driver taking him through Andrew and the surrounding counties. The years 1855-56 he spent at Chapel Hill College in Lafayette county, and on his return home found the family in St. Joseph, where he spent two years. attending the school of A. W. Slayback at that place. In September, 1858, he and his brother, Robert James Guthrie, were sent to McGee College at College Mound, Macon county, Missouri, where he was graduated in June, 1861, though he was not present at the graduation exercises, as he had an- swered the call of Governor Jackson for 50,000 volunteers. He failed to reach Booneville in time for the first action, but in August, he joined Col. Ed Price, at Marshall, Missouri, where the colonel was collecting recruits for General Price's army. He became captain of Company C, Vol. III-11

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Third Regiment of the Third Division of Missouri State Guards, and served as such until December of that year, when he enlisted in the Con- federate service, and in the spring following was elected captain of Company I of the Fifth Missouri Infantry, C. S. A. This regiment be- came a part of the First Missouri Brigade, commanded at first by Gen. Henry Little. It participated in Price's retreat from Springfield and in the battle of Elk Horn was a part of the Second Brigade under the command of General Slack. The Little Brigade went with General Price east of the Mississippi river in April, 1862, and served in Price's division in the Beauregard campaign around Corinth, and in the fall of that year took a conspicuous part in the Iuka campaign and later in the assault at Corinth. In the fall and winter of 1862 it followed the fortunes of Price in Van Dorn's retreat down the Mississippi Central to Grenada, and in the spring on to Jackson and Vicksburg. During all this campaign Captain Guthrie was with his company. In the spring of 1863, when Price was detached and sent to trans-Mississippi, Guthrie and quite a number of other officers were sent with him for recruiting purposes. While they were gone the siege of Vicksburg began and when they returned they went into special command under General Johnston at Jackson, and served with his army until the campaign was over. Guthrie was then ordered into camp where his command was stationed, and, after the command was exchanged, the Fifth Regiment was con- solidated with the Third and Guthrie became captain of Company C of the consolidated regiment. This command served through the Georgia campaign in 1864 under Johnson and Hood from Dalton to Atlanta. It went back to Nashville with Hood, taking a prominent part in the battles of Altoona, Franklin and Nashville. During much of this time, Guthrie commanded the regiment, field officers being absent or killed. In the spring of 1865 the command was engaged in defense of Mobile and was finally captured at Fort Blakely. They stayed until about the first of May in prison at Ship Island and New Orleans, and were finally exchanged at Vicksburg on the day that Taylor surrendered the de- partment of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Guthrie was with his com- mand all this time, and fully met his duties and responsibilities, and was paroled at Jackson in May of that year .

Captain Guthrie then spent some two years teaching in the south and in the fall of 1867 took a position as professor of languages at McGee College, Macon county, Missouri, where he stayed until that institution closed in 1874. Following the close of the college, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Macon in September, 1875, since which time he has pursued that profession. He was prosecuting attorney of the county for two terms; has taken an active part in politics locally and for ten years was chairman of the Democratic central committee. In 1889 he was appointed reporter of the Kansas City court of appeals, which position he held until October, 1909. He has since devoted his entire time to his profession, having quite an extensive practice in the state and federal courts.

On the 31st day of August, 1873, Mr. Guthrie was married to Susan Ann Mitchell, the daughter of Robert C. Mitchell, of College Mound. Macon county, Missouri. They have one son surviving, R. A. Guthrie, who is president of the Macon Telephone Company at Macon.

JAMES CAMPBELL JORDAN is a representative of the family three generations removed from the Jordan who pioneered the valley of Buffalo creek in Pike county, and was born within the sacred precincts of the frontier abiding place of his honored ancestor. In the house he now occupies he was born on March 21, 1841, and upon the hill over-

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looking the creek and valley he and his children and grandchildren have romped and played and filled their lungs with fresh air and their muscles with the pure blood that built rugged bodies and strong minds.

The valley of Buffalo creek first met the gaze of John Jordan in the spring of 1809, when he came out of his winter camp upon the site of St. Louis to seek a more desirable location for his family. The hills and bluffs upon which a great city has since been built promised noth- ing to a man inured to agriculture and Mr. Jordan passed it by with the others, in search of valleys to farm and pastures for grazing. He left York district, South Carolina, where he was born in 1765, and reached St. Louis after a journey lasting several weeks over land and water in the autumn of 1808. His brother, Capt. Robert Jordan, with his family, was a member of the company, and all found their ideal in the unknown and hostile regions of Pike county. The attitude of the Indians upon the encroachments of the whites was so alarming that a temporary fort was built for the protection of the few families of the valley, and while the exact site of the fort is not marked, it is known to have been near to the spring on the Allison farm, now the property of William Page. A large and spreading tree still shelters the fresh and sparkling waters of the spring as they emerge from the base of a big hill, and the permanent marking of any part of the ground adjacent to the spring would suffice a historic spot in the memory of the future.

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A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 24

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912