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numbered among the most responsible, worthy and enterprising of the community in which he lives.
In Scott county, Illinois, on the 5th of August, 1883, were performed the marriage rites which united him to Miss Elizabeth Morris, a daughter of John P. and Anna Morris. Mrs. Boney is one of twelve children that were born to these parents, namely : John, deceased; Samuel, now of La Grand, Oregon; Thomas H., of Pawnee Rock, Kansas; Benjamin F., of Franklin, Illinois; Edward, a resident of Scott county, Illinois; George and William, of Morgan county and Albert of Scott county, Illinois ; Annie, the wife of William Parkins, of Canton, Illinois; Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Boney ; Mary, deceased ; and Ella, now Mrs. Robert Coats, of Morgan county, Illinois. One son, Mentor M., has come to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Boney and was born in St. Clair county, Missouri, on Janu- ary 5, 1889. As previously mentioned, he has been afforded good educa- tional advantages and is now a supervisor of schools in the Philippine Islands.
JOHN E. HINMAN. The state of Missouri contains many old and honored families of Colonial origin, members of which have been promi- nent since the period of the Revolutionary war, in which many of them participated, and among these representatives of the Empire State are numerous. In this class stands the Hinman family, which is of old Puri- tan stock, its members being also eligible to membership in the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, and one of its worthy repre- sentatives is John E. Hinman, of Moberly, Missouri, whose chief activities have been in the line of raising standard bred running horses. Mr. Hin- man was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, November 16, 1843, and is a son of William A. and Grace A. (Kingsbury ) Hinman.
William A. Hinman was born in the city of Utica, New York, July 11, 1802. Granted an excellent education, he studied law in his native city, and was there admitted to the bar, subsequently going to Illinois, where he had as associates such noted men as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. In 1869 he came to Centralia, Boone county, Mis- souri, and interested himself in various movements for the benefit of the community, having been instrumental in securing the common school law for the state of Missouri through Major Rollins. His death occurred April 14, 1886, his wife having passed away October 1, 1885. They had two children : John E .; and Edward Morris, who was an employe of the Department of the Interior at Washington, D. C., during the administra- tion of Secretary O. H. Browning, and directly under Captain Cassell.
John E. Hinman received excellent educational advantages, and accompanied his parents to Missouri in 1869. He has interested himself in raising standard bred and running horses, and in this connection pro- moted the Centralia Fair Association, of which he was vice president for several years. He became city clerk of Centralia, and was later elected mayor of that city, an office in which he served two years. At this time he is the owner of several valuable tracts of real estate near Centralia, and also has holdings in Moberly, where he makes his home at No. 428 South Fourth street. He is a popular member of the Knights of Pythias, and for some time was financial secretary of the A. O. U. W. With his family, Mr. Hinman attends the Methodist church.
Mr. Hinman was married (first) to Miss Sarah Bywater, of Nashville, Tennessee, who died October 30, 1872, leaving one child : Grace, now the wife of Monroe Beagels, of Mexico, Missouri. On July 15, 1877, Mr. Hin- man was married (second) to Miss Flora Helen Johnson, daughter of William E. and Esther (Hamm) Johnson, and they have had three chil- dren : Edwar W., wife of Harry A. Horn, a contractor and builder of
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Moberly, who has two children: Helen Louise, who is thirteen years of age, and Mary E., who is two and one-half years old ; Ida, wife of Leonald Smedley, a conductor on the Wabash Railroad; and Helen E., wife of Rev. John R. Abernathy, a divine of Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Mr. Hinman has a wide acquaintance throughout this part of the state, and has at all times been ready to assist movements calculated to benefit his community.
LEONARD WATKINS KELLY. The present postmaster at Moberly, has long been an influential citizen of Randolph county, where he has been identified with business affairs, political leadership, and in that prac- tical good citizenship which speaks the highest welfare of the community.
Mr. Kelly is a native of Potosi, Missouri, where he was born Feb- ruary 6, 1869. The founder of the Kelly family in America was Stephen Kelly, who was an immigrant from Ireland, where he had attained an education in the common schools, and was a communicant of the Catholic faith. In America he followed the occupation of farmer, and was a good substantial citizen. The parents of the Moberly post- master were Dennis and Elizabeth (Fea) Kelly. The father, who was born in Ireland in 1840 received his education in the common schools, and after coming to America and locating in southeast Missouri was a merchant in that part of the state. He was a member of the Catholic church. In politics a Republican, and gave some service as a member of the state militia. His wife, Elizabeth Fea, was born in Falkirk, Scotland, June 24, 1843, a daughter of Thomas Brown and Ann (Lid- dle) Fea.
Leonard Watkins Kelly, as a boy, attended the public schools in Northeast Missouri and graduated from the Moberly high school. On attaining manhood engaged in the mercantile business. He has also been connected with insurance and for some years was in the postal service. For about twenty years he has been active in Republican polities of Missouri. He was assistant sergeant-at-arms in the national convention of the party in 1896. He has served as chairman of the county committee, member of the congressional committee, and in 1908 was alternate delegate to the national convention. From 1909 to 1913, he was a member of Governor Hadley's staff.
Mr. Kelly has identified himself with a number of the more notable public movements at Northeast Missouri. He was a delegate to the Deep- water convention of 1910. He has aided in the organization of the Good Fellows Club, which has given much substantial aid to the needy of this city. Fraternally, he is a Mason, having attained the Knight Tem- plar degrees, and being affiliated with the Shrine, and also has men- bership with the Elks lodge. He is a member of the Commercial Club, and a director of the Fair Association in Randolph county.
At Moberly on June 22, 1904, Mr. Kelly was united in marriage with Miss Myrna Mae Kent. Mrs. Kelly is a great-great-granddaughter of a member of General Washington's staff, and belongs to one of the old American families. She is a graduate of the Moberly high school, and is a talented musician. Her musical education was obtained first in the Goetze Conservatory of Music, where she studied piano and violin, and she then continued her work in the Virgil school of piano technique of New York City. This is one of the most famous training schools in the country, and as a product of its system, Mrs. Kelly has acquired more than local note as a musician and composed Governor Hadley's march. Mrs. Kelly's father was Harry H. Kent, who was a railroad man.
JULIUS C. MILLER has been identified with the state of Missouri since his boyhood, having settled in Saline county with his parents in 1858 Vol. III-20
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when he was about fifteen years of age. A veteran of the Civil war and a representative business man of Moberly since 1872, he has given solid evidence of his good faith and sincerity as an adopted son of the United States, and is in every way worthy of the title of citizen, with all the best. that that name implies in our land. He has given valuable public service, aside from his career as a soldier, and as county judge of Ran- dolph county, he dispensed a justice worthy of a higher court. So well did he conduct that office that he was re-elected to it in 1906 without opposition.
Born in Friederichsbrunen, Germany, on March 29, 1843, Julius C. Miller comes of an old and highly esteemed German family, of the Begieremgbezirk Magdeburg, in his native country, and is the son of F. H. L. and Frederika (Rose) Miller, and a grandson of Fredrick Miller, who was an officer in the army of Napoleon, distinguishing him- self in a number of important conflicts in Germany and in Spain. F. H. L. Miller was born at the Comopolis of Neuhallerisleben in Prussia, near the Fortress of Magdeburg, and was educated at the seminary of Magdeburg for the teaching profession. He engaged in educational work, for which he was well and thoroughly trained, and in his young manhood married Frederika Rose, the daughter of Karl Rose, a master mechanic in charge of the government iron and steel works at Magde- burg am Harz, one of the most beautiful and romantic villages to be found in northern Prussia. It was there the mother of Mr. Miller was born and reared. Her marriage with F. H. L. Miller was solemnized in 1840, and to them four children were born, named as follows: Mathilda, Julius C., Anna E. and Robert W. When the Revolution broke out in 1848 the senior Miller was compelled to resign his position on account of his too liberal views and the active aid he rendered to the Revolution- ists in their attempts to overthrow the government. He engaged in business at Onedlinburg, there continuing in operation until his emi- gration to America in 1853. Unable longer to endure the despotism which had set itself up in Prussia, Mr. Miller chose America for his future home, and he straightway made his way to the United States with his family, settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and continued there suc- cessfully engaged in business until 1858, when he moved to Missouri, which state has ever since represented the home of the family.
The Miller family located in Saline county, and there the father of the house bought land and turned his attention to farming. Julius C. Miller was a boy of fifteen years at the time, and he continued there until he was about seventeen or thereabouts. At that time the feeling of the southern people toward northern sympathizers assumed no very tender phase, and in February, 1862, Julius C. Miller joined the Union forces, becoming first a non-commissioned officer and later winning rank as a lieutenant. He served throughout the remainder of the war, giving willing service to the cause of the Union in his new country, and proving the calibre of his citizenship in the doing. With the close of the war young Miller engaged in business, but his first venture was not crowned with any great degree of success. In 1872 he came to Moberly, in Ran- dolph county, and here engaged in the wholesale beer and ice business, in which enterprise he was joined by his brother, Robert W. Miller. The two experienced an agreeable measure of success, but after two years of activity a disastrous fire, which found them without insurance, cleaned up their profits of two years, and their capital as well. The rugged and sturdy traits of their German natures came well to the forefront in this crisis, and the brothers determinedly set themselves about recouping their fallen fortunes. They reengaged in the same line of business as soon as circumstances would permit, and for more than twenty years
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they have successfully conducted this business in Moberly, today oc- cupying a central position among the business men of the place, and hav- ing contributed their full quota to the development and progress of the city as such. Mr. Miller recalls his early residence in Moberly, when the now flourishing city was little more than a village, and betrays a pardonable pride in his share in the upward and onward growth of the community. No enterprise that had for its object the betterment of the city has ever received aught but the warmest and most efficient sup- port from Mr. Miller, and his public-spiritedness and progressiveness have ever been of a high order. He bore an admirable part in the se- curing to the city of such institutions as the Merchants Hotel and the Fairground Park and has in many and varied ways assumed his share of the civic burden and responsibility since he has been identified with this fair city.
In 1906 Mr. Miller was elected county judge for Randolph county, his election following the earnest solicitation of many of his friends to become a candidate to succeed himself in the office which he had filled by the appointment of Governor Folk. His service was of that worthy character that might be expected from a man of his calibre and re- flected naught but credit upon himself and his constituents.
In 1906 Judge Miller organized the Moberly Trust Company and was its president for four years, doing much to build up the splendid organization which he had established on a sure foundation, with a capital of $50,000 and resources of half a million of dollars. Failing health compelled Judge Miller to resign from his position as president, the arduous duties of which, together with his other business, proved too great a tax upon his strength, and since 1910 he has been living a quiet and practically retired life, devoting his entire attention to his home and family, comprising his wife and three children,-two sons and a daugh- ter. The eldest son of a former marriage lives in Texas, and is there engaged in the mercantile business. Robert Miller, the brother and long time business partner of Mr. Miller, died in 1896, but two sisters, Mathilda and Anna, yet survive with him. The former is a resident of Quincy, Illinois, and the latter in Ennis, Texas.
THOMAS E. HULETT. The well-improved homestead farm of this rep- resentative agriculturist and popular citizen of Callaway county is situated two and one-half miles northeast of Fulton, the county seat, and his status in the community life is such as to justify most fully his recognition in this publication, the while further consistency is given to such consideration by reason of the fact that he is a representative of one of the old and honored families of Northeastern Missouri.
Mr. Hulett was born on a farm about eight miles south of Stur- geon, Boone county, Missouri, on the 10th of November, 1869. He is a son of George P. and Margaret F. (Butts) Hulett, the former of whom was born in Boone county and the latter in Howard county, this state. George Parker Hulett was a son of Harrison Hulett, who was one of the early settlers of Boone county, where he became the owner of a large landed estate. He also conducted for a number of years a hotel, the progress and further upbuilding of which place was stopped by the building of the Wabash railroad through Northern Missouri, the line of the same having passed some distance from the town, the fortunes of which consequently waned. He had also done an extensive livery busi- ness prior to the construction of the railroad, and was one of the well known and influential citizens of Boone county. His farm was operated with slave labor and he was a wealthy man at the time of his death, which occurred when he was but thirty-five years of age. He was a
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native of Kentucky and after coming to Missouri he wedded Miss Jane Brink, daughter of Herbert Brink, who was one of the pioneers of Boone county and a millwright by trade. Mr. Brink attained to the age of nearly one hundred years and his daughter Jane (Mrs. Hulett) main- tains her home in the village of Sturgeon, Boone county, her age at the time of this writing, in 1912, being nearly ninety years. George P. Hulett and his wife finally removed from their farm near Sturgeon to another place, near Centralia, Boone county, where they continued to reside until about 1882, when they established their home on their pres- ent farmstead, near Hatton, Callaway county. George P. Hulett has lived a quiet and unostentatious life, marked by industry and inflexible integrity of purpose, and he is held in high esteem by all who know him. He rendered valiant service as a soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, during the progress of which he served in the command of General Price. Of the six children one died in infancy ; Robert K. was nineteen years of age at the time of his death and Rosa May, who became the wife of Robert H. Baldridge, died at the age of twenty-seven years. Of the three surviving children Thomas E., of this review, is the eldest; Hattie is the wife of O. P. Leach, residing in Callaway county, near Hick- ory Grove church; and Bertha remains with her parents on the home- stead farm.
Mrs. Margaret F. (Butts) Hulett, mother of him whose name initiates this article, was born in Howard county, Missouri, in the year 1845, and is a daughter of Elder James Butts and Mary (Yeager) Butts. Her father was a native of Virginia and was a minister of the Hard Shell Baptist church in which he served with all of consecrated zeal and devotion during the pioneer days in central and northeast Missouri. He died at his old home farm, three miles northwest of Sturgeon, Boone county, about the year 1898, and was eighty-seven years of age at the time of his demise. He continued in the work of the ministry until he had passed the age of three score years and ten, and in the meanwhile continued to reside on his farm, from which he provided for the main- tenance of himself and his family, as his ministerial labors were those of consecration and yielded him but slight temporal reward. He was a man of strong individuality and marked intellectual power, was a close student of the Bible and well fortified in his faith, which he exemplified in his daily life. He left a definite and benignant impress upon the history of this section of Missouri, and his name will be honored so long as there remain those familiar with his character and godly services. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Ann Burton, who survived him by about a decade.
Thomas E. Hulett continued to be associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm until his marriage, at the age of twenty-three years, and in the meanwhile he had not only availed himself of the advantages of the public schools but had also taken a course of study in the Gem City Business College, at Quincy, Illinois.
On the 22nd of March, 1893, Mr. Hulett was united in marriage to Miss Laura B. Tincher, daughter of Judge Hugh Tincher, who is indi- vidually mentioned on other pages of this work and who has long served as judge of the probate court of Callaway county. Mrs. Hulett was afforded excellent educational advantages, including those of the pub- lic schools of Fulton, the judicial center of her native county, and she was twenty years of age at the time of her marriage. After marriage Mr. Hulett farmed on rented land for two years and then purchased a farm five miles northwest of Hatton, Callaway county. Three years later he sold this property and purchased a farm south of Hatton. There he continued active operations in the lines of diversified agri-
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culture and stock-growing until 1906, when he removed to Fulton, the county seat, to give his children the privileges of the excellent public schools of this attractive little city. In 1908 he exchanged his farm for the one which he now owns and which is one of the fine places of Calla- way county. He has also sold the farm near Hatton, the same hav- ing been a part of the old homestead of his wife's father. Mr. Hulett's present farm was formerly known as the David Dunlop place and com- prises one hundred and eighty acres of most productive land, the im- provements on the same being of the best order and the farm being de- voted to agriculture and the raising of high-grade live stock, including Jersey cattle and Percheron horses. Mr. Hulett has shown himself energetic, progressive and far-sighted in his operations and has achieved success worthy of the name, the while he holds secure place in the con- fidence and esteem of the community in which he maintains his home. Though never a seeker of political preferment, he is a staunch sup- porter of the cause of the Democratic party and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Fulton. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. and Mrs. Hulett have four children, all of whom remain at the parental home and all except the youngest are students in the Fulton high school. Their names are here entered in respective order of birth : Nora Eva, Robert Leonard, Anna, and Francis Marion. The elder daughter is a member of the class of 1913 in the high school at Fulton, and is specially popular in the younger social circles of her home county.
JOSEPH MILAM. Success in any of the pursuits of life usually chal- lenges the admiration of the world. It matters not whether in the pro- fession of law, medicine or literature, or in the theological domain, in the military or civil life, in mercantile pursuits or in agriculture, it is the one distinguishing and distinctive feature of all business transac- tions. In the agricultural world, alone, the subject of these lines, in his sphere of labor and activity, distinguished himself as an active, energetic business man, and demonstrated the fact that to a man of merit belongs the full measure of success and worldly prosperity. Joseph Milam, who has been living retired in Clifton Hill, something more than eight years, was for a long period engaged in farming in Randolph county. He was born in this county, January 21, 1838, and is a son of Daniel H. and Mary E. (Baker) Milam, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. They were married in Ran- dolph county, Missouri, where the father came in 1832 and the mother in 1819, when a child. They settled down to agricultural pursuits, and there spent the remainder of their lives in farming. They had a family of three children, and the son Joseph is the only survivor.
Joseph Milam received his education in the district schools of Ran- dolph county, remaining on the old homestead with his parents and working for them until attaining his majority. At that time he pur- chased the old homestead, to which he added improvements as the years went by, developing an excellent property and greatly enhancing its value and adding to its attractiveness. A thoroughly skilled agriculturist, he was able to make his land yield large returns, and in 1904 was enabled to retire, and since that time has resided quietly at his comfortable home in Clifton Hill. At the outbreak of the Civil war, Mr. Milam's sympa- thies caused him to adopt the principles of the Confederacy, and for four years during the Civil war he fought bravely under the Stars and Bars. His business life was one of unquestioned integrity, and at all times he so conducted his affairs as to win the highest confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens in whatever community he found himself. He still
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owns 120 acres of the old homestead property, in addition to his Clifton Hill residence.
On October 14, 1866, Mr. Milam was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth F. Summers, who was also born in Randolph county, and to this union there were born four children, as follows: D. H., residing in Randolph county; Josephine Allie, the wife of W. H. McClain, also living in Randolph county ; and E. D. and Eva, twins, the latter the wife of R. L. Patton, of Randolph county. Mr. and Mrs. Milam are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mr. Milam is serving as a member of the board of trustees.
GEORGE A. MAYO. From the beginning of the postal service the rep- resentative men of each community have been chosen to fill the important office of postmaster. And so much responsibility rests in their hands, it is necessary for them to be men of strict honesty, reliability and solidity. George A. Mayo, postmaster at Huntsville, Missouri, is one of the most valued employes of the postal authorities, and is discharging his duties in a way that awakens the admiration and brings forth the commenda- tion of his fellow citizens on every side. Mr. Mayo was born on a farm in Randolph county, June 15, 1858, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah Frances (Mathis) Mayo. His father, who was born in the same county, April 17, 1832, has been engaged in farming all of his life and still resides on a farm, while his mother was born in Randolph county. She died in 1869, having been the mother of six children, of whom five are surviving at this time : George A .; Maggie, who is the wife of E. D. See, of Randolph county ; Mattie J., the wife of D. Mathis, of Callao, Randolph county ; Cassie M., the wife of Fred Skillen, of Randolph county ; and Sidney J., a farmer of this county. All the children were given good educations and were well fitted to take up the duties of whatever positions life held open for them.
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