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Edwin Webster Keithly's life during his minority years was purely rural. He spent a year in school in Canton, Missouri, a similar period in the State University at Columbia, and took a commercial course in the Kentucky University, and engaged in merchandise first upon taking up a business career, being a Center merchant until he embarked in the real estate, loan and insurance business here. He also carried on farming, an industry he has engaged in more extensively with the pas- sage of years. In 1908 Mr. Keithly was elected president of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, but retained that position only a short time, resigning to take the business of the institution as cashier, in August, 1909. Mr. Keithly is one of the acknowledged leaders in financial and business circles of Ralls county, and is still in the prime of life with his best years before him. During his long and successful career, he has formed a wide acquaintance throughout this part of the state, among which he numbers many sincere friends. He has been mayor of Center and identified with its schools as a member of the board
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of education, and in his official capacities has shown the same enthusi- asm and conscientious performance of duty that has characterized his activities in behalf of his private interests. His participation in poli- tics has been as a Democrat, and altogether in the behalf of others. Fraternally, Mr. Keithly is a master Mason, and has reached the Royal Arch degree, and is also connected with the Knights of Pythias.
In December, 1894, Mr. Keithly was united in marriage to Miss Maggie A. Osterhout, a daughter of the late George W. Osterhout, who founded the Center Bank, the predecessor of the Farmers' and Mer- chants' Bank. Mr. Osterhout died in July, 1893, as the father of three children : Silas O., Mrs. Keithly and Ed H. Mr. and Mrs. Keithly have had one son: Ennis Webster. The family are consistent members and liberal supporters of the Christian church, and when Mr. Keithly has been able to excuse himself from his many responsibilities of a business nature, have been extensive visitors over the United States as travelers.
SENATOR ROBERT S. MCCLINTIC is a representative of that prominent agricultural family of Monroe county which identified itself with this county and state just after the close of the Civil war. Before indi- cating the facts of Senator McClintic's or of his distinguished father's career, we shall revert briefly to the genealogical background of both. Virginia was originally the home of the aristocratic household of the Mc Clintics. Shanklin McClintic, a native of the Old Dominion State, and his wife, Margaret Shields McClintic, occupied a large plantation and were served by numerous slaves. Among their children was W. Shields McClintic, born on their estate at Natural Bridge, in Rock- bridge county, Virginia, on November 29, 1843. In his boyhood he was sent to the Virginia Military Institute in the progress of his educa- tion. But his years of study were cut short. Before he was eighteen years of age, he passed from that institution into the Confederate army, enlisting in Rockbridge battery. Through all the service of the Army of Northern Virginia he served as a private in General Jackson's com- mand. He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Malvern Hill, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, besides numerous other great battles of the war. Three times he was wounded, but each time, on the healing of the wound, he resumed his place in the battery. At last the struggle was over; with his comrades he surrendered at Appomattox, on April 9, 1865, when the soldiers of Lee's army stacked their arms and again became civilians. But he returned to a wasted home, to plantations deserted by their former affectionate black servitors, to the mere shreds of a dissipated fortune and to a community in which earning one's bread with one's hands was counted a disgrace to his coat of arms.
Simplicity of soul and pride of spirit were mingled characteristics of the MeClintic race. W. Shields MeClintic was a young man, full of ambition and determined to submit neither to poverty nor to any unde- served ignominy. In 1868 he came to Missouri with no aids to success save his own personality, his own purpose, his own steady will. Home training had not endowed him with definitely productive qualities or trained capabilities for life's struggle, and the war had robbed him and his of financial aids to a career. He therefore made his start as a wage-earner on a farm. Husbanding his earnings, he was after a time able to purchase an eighty-acre tract near Monroe City. With this as his first foothold, W. Shields McClintic set a money-making pace as a farmer and stockman, which ultimately added to his estate a body of twelve hundred acres of land. His father and other members
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of his family eventually came also to make their home in this com- munity; and here Shanklin McClintic closed in comfort the life that had been so distraught by the ills of war, but retrieved to happiness by the power of a royal hearted son.
Twenty-one years W. Shields spent in demonstrating in practical affairs his ability honorably to achieve a desired worthy end. He had married and his family was growing up about him, while his fellow citizens observed his superior qualities as a member of the common- wealth. Thus it came to pass that they made him their representative to the thirty-fifth general assembly of Missouri, and in 1889 he did his maiden service as a law-maker in the lower branch of that body. Four years later he was nominated by the Democratic party as state senator for the thirteenth district, which comprised the counties of Shelby, Marion, Monroe and Ralls. After the expiration of his first term of service, he was again returned to the senate and continued to serve for eight years in that capacity. In 1899 Senator McClintic was president pro tempore of the upper house of the assembly. At the state capital his abilities as a man useful to the state elicited special recog- nition from the governors of his state. In 1896 Senator McClintic was appointed by Governor Stone as a member of the committee appointed to visit state institutions, and the senator was also made one of the committee whose duty it was to settle accounts with the state auditor. By governor Dockery he was appointed a member of the board of directors for the Hospital for the Insane at Fulton, Missouri. He was honored by Governor Folk, in his turn, by appointment to the board of control of the Confederate Soldiers' Home at Higginsville.
Not only did Senator W. Shields McClintic accomplish remarkable results agriculturally and give highly efficient service politically, but he was also concerned in various other affairs, of business and otherwise. One of these was his connection with the Monroe City Bank, of which he was a member of the directorate and incumbent of its vice-presidency. He had-as a result of having given four years of his life to military duty in behalf of the Southern cause-a lively interest in the organizations of those who had been his comrades in that struggle. He regularly attended their reunions and received offi- cial recognition at their hands. At the time of his death he held the office of brigadier general of the Eastern Missouri District of the Con- federate Veterans' Association. It has often been remarked that his every speech and address in public gatherings revealed the simplicity and sincerity of the man. He never affected high-flown oratory, never indulged in philosophical detours, but always expressed himself clearly, with dignified frankness, in that unpretentious vernacular which we call "plain United States." Senator Shields McClintic identified himself with Christian work and Christian people, holding member- ship in and long serving as an elder of the Presbyterian church. His life of modest and noble achievement closed on November 15, 1908.
Mrs. W. Shields McClintic was a native of Campbell county, Vir- ginia. Her father was Alexander Arnold of that place, her birth occurred in 1847, and she was named Bettie P. Arnold. To Senator Shields McClintic she bore the following children: Virginia I., who is the wife of Edmund P. Melson, president of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company ; Lena, who passed from this life at the age of nine- teen ; Harry A. McClintic, who is a well-known farmer of Monroe City; Robert S., the special subject of this account; Bessie, now Mrs. John Hampton, of Memphis, Tennessee; Maud E., who is Mrs. Harry Jack- son, of Monroe City; and Blanche, who is the wife of Dr. John E.
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Riley, superintendent of the Southern California State Hospital at Patton, California.
Born September 21, 1875, on his father's property near Monroe City, Robert Shanklin McClintic was reared in this community, where he pursued his preliminary education. His literary course was taken at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri. That completed, he went to the mother state of Virginia, where he entered Washington and Lee University, in Lexington; there he mastered the prescribed courses in the college of law and on his graduation returned to Monroe county, where he was admitted to the bar. His initiatory practice he gained in the city of Hannibal, where he spent the first three years of his career. In 1900 he established himself in Monroe City.
The political activity of Robert Shanklin McClintic began soon after he reached his majority. He was engaged from time to time in com- mittee work in Marion and Monroe counties; he served as a delegate to numerous conventions; he acted as secretary to the Missouri senate in 1909 and 1911; and in 1912 he entered the campaign as a pros- pective candidate for the senatorship in his district. His opponent was one "worthy of his steel"-a strong candidate from Marion, but Mr. McClintic won the candidacy and was sent to the assembly from the thirteenth senatorial district, which his father served so long and so ably. Because of recognized familiarity with legislation, etc., he was named on seven of the most important committees of the senate of the forty-seventh general assembly, being named chairman of two, a dis- tinction accorded no other new member. He was also named as chair- man of a special committee to investigate insurance rate conditions. During his official term he secured the passage of much important legis- lation. The larger proportion of Senator McClintic's career lies yet before him, and he will indubitably justify further his relationship to that late citizen of wide distinction whose name he bears.
The marriage of Senator Robert S. McClintic occurred on October 11, 1899. Miss Bessie Lay was one of the three children of John E. and Elizabeth P. Hornback Lay. Since she became Mrs. McClintic, the years have brought to her and the senator one son, named Robert Shields McClintic. The church relations of the senator's family are with the Missionary Baptist church.
Among the social interests of the Hon. R. S. McClintic is included his membership in the fraternal organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has the same deep and constructive interest in the great basic industry of agriculture which was so characteristic of his father. One of the movements to which he is at present lending his influence is that concerning good roads.
Many American families there are who boast an aristocratic position justified by nothing save a notable ancestry. It is therefore with peculiar pride that the historian pens an account like the above-one which records the results of an inheritance of true nobility. In the MeClintic family of Missouri it has been demonstrated that genuine worth is not a mere matter of recorded ancestry, but of that inherent aristocracy of character which is revealed in the work of a man's hands and in the fine control of his will. Of such material, in the dark ages, kings were made. Such, today, is the finest quality of "his majesty, the American citizen."
JOSEPH C. RAIBLE. Through his own well ordered endeavors this representative business man and loyal citizen of the city of Hannibal has gained distinctive success and prestige, and he is now one of the most substantial and progressive business men of the county which has ever been his home. He commands secure place in the confidence and .
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esteem of the community and his business and capitalistic interests are of broad scope and importance. He is the owner of the largest grocery in the city and in connection with the same operates a well equipped and thoroughly modern bakery. Mr Raible is also president of the German-American Bank of Hannibal and is a member of the board of directors of the Hannibal Trust Company.
Joseph C. Raible was born in Marion county, Missouri, on the 29th of September, 1858, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Schricker) Raible, both of whom were born in Germany. The father came to Missouri many years ago and became one of the industrious and successful wagon manufacturers of Marion county, where both he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. He whose name initiates this review gained his early education in the public schools and his advancement in life, as one of the world's productive army of workers, has been gained entirely through his own ability and well directed efforts. In 1884 he initiated his independent career in Hannibal and from a modest inception he has built up a large and prosperous business as a retail grocer, his fine es- tablishmnet being essentially metropolitan in equipment and appoint- ments and being the most extensive of the kind in the city, with a trade of thoroughly representative order. The grocery and bakery business of Mr. Raible now represents annual transactions in excess of one hundred thousand dollars, and the enterprise is one that is distinctively creditable to the city in which it is established, as well as to the man through whose honest and earnest endeavors and keen business integrity it has been developed.
Mr. Raible has identified himself thoroughly with movements and enterprises tending to advance the civic and material progress and prosperity of his home city and is known as one of the most liberal and public-spirited citizens of Hannibal. He was prominently concerned in the organization of the German-American Bank, of which he was made a director at the time, and of which he has been president since 1910. He is also a member of the directorate of the Hannibal Trust Company, another of the substantial and important financial institutions of Marion county. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he is a communicant of the Catholic church, in the faith of which he was reared, his wife holding membership in the Lutheran church.
In the year 1888 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Raible to Miss Carrie Gurleymann, who likewise is of stanch German lineage, and they have three children : Norman W., Anna, and Joseph C. W., all of whom still remain at the parental home.
Mr. Raible has bravely and successfully fought the stern battle of life and has proved himself a useful citizen, not self-centered but ever ready to do his part in supporting those measures and enterprises which make for the general good of the community.
JOHN J. FARRELL, M. D. It is gratifying to note that after gaining thorough technical training for his chosen profession, together with specially valuable and varied hospital experience, Dr. Farrell found it his good pleasure to return to his native city of Hannibal and to make this his field of professional endeavor. He has here been engaged in active general practice as a physician and surgeon since 1903. and his ability and personal popularity have gained to him a substantial and representative business, to the demands of which he subordinates all other interests, the while he is known as one of the representative mem- bers of his profession in Marion county.
Dr. Farrell. was born in Hannibal on the 25th of February, 1879. and is a son of Patrick J. and Catherine (Solan) Farrell, the former
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of whom was born in Ireland and the latter in the city of Alton, Illinois, of Irish lineage. Patrick J. Farrell was a child at the time of his par- ents' immigration from the fair old Emerald Isle to America and he was reared to maturity in the state of New York. As a young man he came to the west and he finally established his permanent home in Han- nibal, where his marriage was solemnized and where he and his wife have continued to reside during the intervening years. His vocation been the scene of his honest and earnest endeavors. He is a stalwart genial nature and sterling integrity have gained to him the confidence and respect of the community which has long represented his home and has been principally that of general merchant and he is a citizen whose in the camp of the Democratic party and both he and his wife are devout communicants of the Catholic church, as are also their two children, of whom Dr. Farrell is the elder. The younger child, Mae, is the wife of John B. Here, Jr., and they reside in Hannibal.
Dr. Farrell gained his preliminary education in the parochial and public schools of Hannibal, and he early formulated definite plans for his future career. Upon deciding to prepare himself for the medical profession he entered the medical department of Washington University, in the city of St. Louis, in which institution he completed the prescribed four years' course and was graduated in 1901, with the degree of doctor of medicine. Thereafter he served two years as an interne in the city hospital at St. Louis and one year as house physician of St. Francis' hospital, at Colorado Springs, Colorado. In these positions he gained most varied and valuable clinical experience, the scope of the same hav- ing been much wider than he could have acquired in general practice during the same interval.
In the fall of 1903 Dr. Farrell returned to Hannibal, where he has since been engaged in successful practice of a general order, and he holds secure prestige as one of the representative physicians of the younger generation in this part of the state. He is still a bachelor and resides at the parental home, his office headquarters being in the Farrell build- ing on corner Main and Bridge streets.
In politics Doctor Farrell is a gallant follower of the fine old standard of the Democratic party, and he takes a lively interest in public affairs, especially those of a local order. He is serving as county health officer in 1912 and is giving a specially careful and discriminating administra- tion. He has a wide circle of friends in his native city and county and was the first exalted ruler of the Hannibal lodge of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, in 1910. He was prominently concerned with the organization of this lodge and takes a deep interest in its affairs. As has been already noted, he is a communicant of the Catholic church. He has the high regard of his professional confreres, as is shown by the fact that he is at the present time secretary of the Marion county med- ical society. He is also identified with the Missouri State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
JABEZ BURWELL TIPTON, a prominent farmer near Stoutsville, is a native of Ralls county, Missouri, born there July 18, 1846. His father was William Leman Tipton, who came to Missouri in 1832 and settled in or near New London, Ralls county, and who was born in Montgom- ery county, Kentucky, in 1807, on June 25. He was the son of Alex- ander Tipton and the grandson of Jonothan Tipton, of Maryland. The father of Jonothan Tipton came to America from England and settled in one of the colonies in an early day, and he and his six brothers
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are said to have served through the War of the Revolution, coming out without injury in the many conflicts in which they participated.
Jabez Tipton brought his family to Kentucky from Maryland, being one of the pioneers of that commonwealth. He was twice married, having children of each marriage. One of his sons was Alexis, who married Sarah Tipton, after a courtship which was said to have been started in the harvest field, where she followed him as one of the field hands in harvesting wheat. Alexis reared his family in Mont- gomery county and died there. His children were William L .; Jabez; Burwell; Mahala, who married Dilliard Donahue; Rebecca, who mar- ried William Reynolds; Sabra became Mrs. Richard Oldham; Mary married Gilson Whitsett, and a son who married Matilda Brown.
William Leman Tipton became a trader and drover when he reached his majority, and he carried on an interstate traffic in hogs between Kentucky and South Carolina. It was while on one of his journeys with stock that he met his wife, Miss Sarah Splawn, of South Carolina. She was a sister of Colonel Splawn, well known to the people of Ralls county during and subsequent to the Civil war. Mr. Tipton served as deputy sheriff of Montgomery county under his father, who was then sheriff, and both proved themselves able officials. They were Demo- crats, and sturdy, faithful workers in the interests of the party. William Leman Tipton acquired, by careful application, a knowledge which made him a man of wide information and knowledge, and a factor of considerable consequence in his county. He bought books and applied himself assiduously to the task of educating himself, and he became a splendid public speaker. His wife had a rare talent for music and withal they were a most charming and entertaining couple. They were married on January 24, 1828, and their children were ten in number, of whom the following brief statements are made concern- ing them: Mary A. was born May 26, 1829-she was married February 28, 1867, to A. H. Fike, and died at Wellesville, Missouri; Benjamin died in infancy ; Amanda, born April 16, 1833, married James Bell on February 6, 1855, and died in Monroe City in 1899 ; Emily, born August 1, 1835, married Joseph Snesler on January 19, 1854, and died on May 22, 1910; Sarah, born September 22, 1837, married James Brown in 1867, and died in Audrain county, Missouri, on July 7, 1872; Eliza- beth J., born June 7, 1840, and died unmarried, on August 23, 1862; Harriet Caldwell, born July 9, 1842, died unmarried; Alexis, born May 6, 1844, was killed near Waynesville, Missouri, in the Confederate service, as a first lieutenant under Colonel Porter; Jabez Burwell, of this review ; and Laura A., born April 16, 1851, and died in childhood. The father of these children died on June 20, 1877, and the mother passed away on October 27, 1893.
Jabez B. Tipton received but a limited education from the pioneer . schools of Ralls county in his youth, which was some time before the Civil war came on, but his reading and studying, coupled with his wide business experience during the passing years, have equipped him with a practical and efficient education, which, though it may have cost him dear at times, as all practical experience may, has served him none the less faithfully. He was married in early life, being less than twenty- four years old at the time his marriage was solemnized, and he began life as a farmer in Audrain county. He and his young wife were utterly lacking in capital other than their industry and ingenuity. and as renters they saved the first money which formed the nucleus of the capital which enabled them to eventually own their own home. They purchased a small farm south of Santa Fe, in Monroe county. and came to the community of Stoutsville in 1885. Here they acquired the Vol. III-41
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farm of Mrs. Tipton's father, William J, Henderson-a tract of two hundred acres upon which Mr. Tipton has brought up his family and has demonstrated most forcibly his success in diversified farming. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' Bank of Stoutsville, and is a member of its board of directors. Mr. Tipton was reared a Primitive Baptist, and has allied himself with that church. He is a Democrat, like his ancestors, and has cheerfully and enthusiastically supported the principles of that party since he attained his majority.
On December 15, 1870, Mr. Tipton married Miss Addie Henderson, the daughter of William J. Henderson, who is elsewhere referred to in this sketch. She died on January 10, 1911, leaving seven children and her husband, concerning former of whom the following brief mention is here made: William L., the eldest of the family, is a real estate man of Los Angeles, California, and married to Mabel Moyer; Loneous J. married Minnie Willis and resides in Monroe county, Missouri; they have six children-Virgie, Ada Lee, Charles, Franklin, Mary and Aubrey. Frank is a real estate man of Hannibal, Missouri, and is married to Bessie Livesay; they have two children-Wilhelmina and Lanister. Burwell, a farmer near Stoutsville, married Clara Stribling, and they have children three in number-Stribbling, Erma and Dorothy. John A., of Yakima, Washington, is a carpenter, and married to Mary Emmons; they have two children-Shelby and Anna Mabel. Harry C. lives in Sims, Montana, and Leona Valentine, the youngest of the family, is the housekeeper and homemaker for her father.
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