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WILLIAM M. WALLIS, M. D. While it was nearly forty-five years ago that Dr. William M. Wallis, Sr., began the practice of medicine in
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Nodaway County, he is inveterately young in his enthusiasm and pro- fessional outlook, and is today regarded as one of the most capable physicians in that section of the state. He began practice in the county in 1870, having his residence at Pickering until about ten years ago, since which time he has been located at Maryville, and now has two capable associates in his sons.
Dr. Wallis was born in Genesee County, New York, January 12, 1848, one of six children whose parents were Miles and Lavinia (Tuller) Wallis, both natives of New York State. The father was a farmer and stock raiser and dealer, had a large farm in Genesee County, and there his children grew up. After the death of his first wife he married a second time, and finally moved out to Nodaway County, Missouri, for several years was proprietor of a hotel at Pickering, and then retired from business activities. His death occurred at Pickering at the age of ninety-three. There were no children by his second marriage.
Dr. Wallis while a boy in New York received an academic educa- tion in the Genesee and Wyoming Seminary in his native county, and prepared for professional work in the medical department of the Uni- versity of Buffalo, where he was graduated at the end of the session of 1869-70. In the fall of the latter year, when a young man of twenty- two years, Dr. Wallis came out to Missouri and located at Pickering, which was his home for thirty-four years. Throughout that time he was actively engaged in general practice, and his patients lived in all directions from the town so that he was compelled to cover a large ter- ritory in his daily rounds. When Dr. Wallis began practice in Noda- way County there were few of the improvements and facilities which make the life of the modern physician comparatively pleasant. In the early days he even mixed his own drugs, and usually carried a general supply of medicines about the country with him. He rode horseback and drove a buggy over the country roads both summer and winter, and was already one of the older physicians of that section before the intro- duction of the telephone and many years more passed before the era of improved highways and automobiles. Dr. Wallis is a physician who has never failed to keep up with the rapid advance in professional attainments, and has gained an enviable reputation as an able and skill- ful physician. Several times he was honored with office as president of the Nodaway County Medical Society, and is an active member of the Missouri State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In 1904 Dr. Wallis, after a course of post-graduate study in the Post- Graduate School of Medicine at Chicago, returned home and moved his office and residence to Maryville, where he now practices with his two sons.
Though a stanch democrat, Dr. Wallis has never shown extreme par- tisanship, and has never sought political honors. He worships in the Christian Church, and is a Master Mason. In 1875 in Nodaway County Dr. Wallis married Augusta H. Leach. She is a native of New York State. Their three children are Frank C., William M. and Helen Augusta.
Dr. Frank C. Wallis, the older of the sons of the senior Dr. Wallis, was born at Pickering in Nodaway County February 2, 1876. After his public schooling he attended Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa, graduating in 1898, and pursued his medical studies in the Rush Medi- cal College at Chicago, finishing in 1903. Since 1904 he has been asso- ciated with his father in practice at Maryville. While successful in general practice, he has gained special distinction in pathological work. He is a member of the Nodaway County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association, has taken thirty-two degrees in the
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Scottish Rite Masonry, is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Christian Church.
Dr. William M. Wallis, Jr., was born in Pickering September 4, 1880, was educated in the public schools of his native town and the high school of Des Moines, and at Drake University. In 1903, after the regu- lar course of study, he was graduated M. D. from the Central Medical College of St. Joseph, Missouri, and the following two years were spent
as an interne in the Sisters Hospital in that city. He continued in regu- lar practice of medicine at St. Joseph for four years, and then joined his father and brother at Maryville. His special reputation is based upon skillful work as a surgeon. Dr. Wallis is a member of the county and state medical societies, the Missouri Valley Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a member of the Christian Church. In 1907 he married Miss Nettie Douglas of Kansas City, Missouri.
GEORGE S. BAKER. The pioneer banker of Nodaway County, now retired from an active control of affairs which he directed forty years, George S. Baker has been one of the group of business men chiefly responsible for the direction and management of the larger commercial and financial interests in and about Maryville. His success and position have been honorably won, and his beginnings were made in an environ- ment where the labor of his hands was the chief source of his liveli- hood. Mr. Baker represents one of the older families of Nodaway County, and himself has lived there since boyhood.
George S. Baker was born in Madison County, Kentucky, June 19, 1836, a son of Charles and Fannie (Saunders) Baker. His parents, who were also natives of Kentucky, came to Missouri in 1846, and after five years in Buchanan County located in Nodaway County, where the father died soon afterward at the age of fifty-three. The mother passed away in 1879 aged eighty years. There were three daughters and one son in the family.
Reared on a farm, educated in country schools, and with little oppor- tunity to gain an education, George S. Baker had to create his own des- tiny. In 1854, at the age of eighteen, he left the farm and found a posi- tion as a poorly paid and hard working clerk in a store at Maryville. That was the start of a business career which the subsequent years have marked with unusual success. His business was interrupted during 1861-62, in the course of the war, when he served as a quartermaster of the Missouri State Troops under General Price. Returning to Mary- ville, he continued employment in different stores, and in 1867 engaged in the livestock business. It was his operations in that line that developed the need of a bank at Maryville, and he became one of the most active among several associates who organized the private banking firm of Geo. S. Baker & Company. His associates in that company were Joseph E. Alexander, E. S. Stephenson, W. C. O'Rear and J. B. Prather. Mr. Baker remained at the head of the bank until 1873, and after he sold his interests the Nodaway Valley Bank was organized to succeed the private company. In 1873 Mr. Baker and others organized the banking firm of Baker, Saunders & Company. This was succeeded by the Mary- ville National Bank, which was organized February 1, 1890, and that institution in turn gave way in 1913 to the present Farmers Trust Com- pany of Maryville. Mr. Baker was president of the Maryville National Bank until 1893, when he was succeeded by Mr. George L. Wilfley. Then for three years Mr. Baker was out of active banking and spent his time in looking after his farming interests. In September, 1896, Mr. Baker and others organized the Real Estate Bank of Maryville, accepted
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the position of president, and continued to give active direction to its affairs until 1906, since which time his place has been among the retired business men of Maryville, though he still looks after his private invest- ments and various holdings. His has been an enviable reputation, not only as a pioneer banker, but as a man who for many years has assisted to uphold and maintain the integrity of business in his home city.
Mr. Baker was reared under the influences of the whig party in politics, but for many years has been identified with the democratic interests and always active in political affairs. In later years he has reserved a choice in casting his ballot, which classifies him almost as an independent. He has never sought office, but at one time was honored by appointment to the office of postmaster at Maryville, and gave that position a creditable administration, though he resigned after a short time. He is a member of Maryville Lodge No. 165, A. F. & A. M. His church is the Episcopal.
April 14, 1863, Mr. Baker married Margaret Ellen Prather, who passed away September 4, 1878. Few families in Northwest Missouri are better known and more prominent than the Prathers, and Mrs. Baker was a daughter of Isaac Newton Prather, one of Nodaway County's pioneers, and long prominent in business, farming and stock raising. Mr. Prather is given credit as having been the first to intro- duce blue grass pasture and thoroughbred horses into Northwest Mis- souri. Mr. and Mrs. Baker became the parents of five children: Maud, wife of M. G. Tate of Maryville; George B. Baker, now president of the Real Estate Bank of Maryville; and the three, Fannie, Hubert, and Charles, who died in infancy.
GEORGE BASIL BAKER. A son of the retired banker of Maryville, George S. Baker, and the active successor of his father in financial affairs, being now president of the Real Estate Bank, George B. Baker practically grew up in banking and for twenty-seven years has given almost undivided attention to the banking business in Maryville.
George Basil Baker was born at Maryville February 19, 1871, a son of George S. and Margaret Ellen (Prather) Baker. He was educated in the public schools of Maryville, and for six years was identified with the old banking house of Baker, Saunders & Company, which in 1890 was succeeded by the Maryville National Bank. With the reorganized institution he continued until 1896, and then became one of the group of men who established the Real Estate Bank, in which he accepted the post of cashier. Mr. Baker was cashier of the Real Estate Bank until June 26, 1911, at which time he was elected president to succeed the late Mr. E. J. Williams, who had been president after the retirement of George S. Baker. Mr. Edward E. Williams succeeded Mr. Baker as cashier. Besides his banking interests Mr. Baker owns a large area of farm lands, and until a few years ago found a great deal of pleasure and profit in maintaining a herd of fine thoroughbred horses and Here- ford cattle.
Mr. Baker is a democrat, a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His church home is the Methodist. Of public service he has given his time to the Maryville Library Board for some time, and at the present time is serving by appointment from Governor Major as a member of the board for the State Insane Asylum No. 2 at St. Joseph.
On October 12, 1892, Mr. Baker married Miss Sarah Scott Campbell, daughter of the late Dr. Smith V. and Carrie S. Campbell of Mary- ville. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have a daughter, Carrie Margaret, who is now a student in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois.
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THOMAS FOSTER STONE. Of citizenship and individual character that must be described of more than representative degree, the position of the Stone family in Platte County is second to none among those solid and excellent people who have been most closely identified with this community during the past seventy years. The late Thomas F. Stone was a fine old pioneer, measuring well up in personal qualities with those ideal pictures of western early settlers so often depicted in history. His widow is still living, and Northwest Missouri has no finer example of venerated motherhood and womanly character.
Thomas Foster Stone was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, Jan- uary 1, 1821, and died on his farm in Platte County, Missouri, May 21, 1896. His father, Elijah, who was the oldest son of Kinsey Stone of Virginia, was an early settler of Bourbon County, locating within a mile of Paris. Elijah married Eliza Foster, whose father, Thomas Foster, was from Maryland and located near Frankfort, Kentucky, where he died.
The only child of his parents, Thomas F. Stone was seven months old when his father died, and after that lived with his grandfather Stone until his mother married a Mr. Mitchell. His stepfather gave him a common school education and taught him the value of honest toil as a means of advancement in the world. It was in 1844, at the age of twenty-three, that he first came to Missouri, visiting his stepfather in Lincoln County and later an uncle in Platte County. While here his grandfather, who was getting old and wished to retire, sent for his grandson to come and live with him the rest of his days. Mr. Stone accordingly remained in Kentucky with his grandfather until his death, and then in 1846 set out for Platte County, which was to be his future home for the half century remaining to him of life. Platte County then had a heavy forest covering that can hardly be imagined by the present generation. His purchase of 320 acres is included in the present home- stead. It had a growth of fine black walnut timber, which, if still stand- ing, would be worth a fortune in itself. The two-room frame house on the land was the second house of frame in Platte County. The larger timbers were hewed out of walnut logs, the siding was of walnut boards, the shingles were hand-riveted and also walnut, and a whip- saw had been used to make the interior finishing, also of walnut. This remarkable structure, of a timber that is now used only in more expen- sive furniture and interior finishing, is still standing, and part of the fine old residence on the Stone farm.
Into this home came Mrs. Stone as a young bride. They had been married in Kentucky on May 31, 1846, and at once left by stage for Maysville, and from there embarked on a river boat and came by water to the landing at Weston, where they arrived on June 15th. Mrs. Stone recalls that when the boat stopped at Westport, now Kansas City, the hills were covered with Indians, and in the early days she saw as many as six hundred of the red men in Weston at one time.
Mr. Stone set to work with an industry that was characteristic of him to make a home in this wilderness. He cleared off many acres for cultivation, and from time to time bought more land until at his death his estate comprised 425 acres. This is now owned by Mrs. Stone and her son, Thomas F., Jr. In 1872 Mr. Stone began breeding thor- oughbred Shorthorn cattle, and in time had one of the finest herds in Northwest Missouri, and that branch of the business is still carried on by his son. How early Mr. Stone was a factor in affairs in this part of Missouri is well indicated by the fact that he was present at the first sale of lots at what was then called Roubidaux's Mills, the present City of St. Joseph. When he first began voting he was a whig, and a stanch
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admirer of the great Kentuckian, Henry Clay, but afterwards allied his fortunes with the democratic party.
Mrs. Stone, who before her marriage was Miss Mary Anne Flana- gan, was born in London, England, November 25, 1831. Her father, Francis John Flanagan, was a man of remarkable attributes and experi- ences. He had the brilliant qualities of the Irish race, refined and cul- tured by association with great people and by extensive travel. He studied law under the noted Daniel O'Connell at Dublin, and for a number of years practiced in England. In early youth he was present in Belgium when the battle of Waterloo was fought. He had accom- panied a sister whose husband was an officer in the Scotch Greys, and who held herself in readiness to aid her husband should he be wounded or to carry away his body should he be among the slain. Many years afterward he was a friend of Louis Napoleon during his exile and pov- erty in London, and gave him many a goldpiece to buy clothes and food, and when the tide of politics and fortune turned in his favor was present at Paris at the crowning of the second Napoleon as emperor of France. The emperor gave Mr. Flanagan a prominent seat as a spec- tator of the ceremony and also presented him with a set of valuable books, which Mr. Flanagan donated to the College of Notre Dame. In the course of his career he visited every civilized country except South America, and could speak fourteen languages and dialects. After com- ing to the United States he became interested in some of the pork packing concerns at Louisville and St. Louis. He was the author of several books, and while a resident of Louisville became a friend of Henry Clay and entertained that statesman at his home in Louisville. The Flana- gans were an aristocratic house, and the family crest was a bent armored arm with a dagger in the hand, and a motto, meaning "Fortune favors the Brave."
Mr. Flanagan was first married September 3, 1819, to Catherine Malloy, who died October 23, 1823. Of their children a son, John, entered the priesthood and spent his life in a monastery at Birming- ham, England. February 18, 1831, Mr. Flanagan married Catherine Knight Greening, a native of England. They were married in the Warwick Street Catholic Church in London, and on the same day had the service repeated before a Protestant minister, as the English laws then required. Of this marriage there were six children, and the two still living are Mrs. Stone and Mrs. Catherine Healy, the latter of Philadelphia. When Mrs. Stone was an infant she was brought to America, the voyage from Liverpool to Sandy Hook lasting six weeks. Her father first went to Zanesville, Ohio, and later to Louisville, where her mother died October 6, 1844, at the age of thirty-six. Mr. Flanagan married for his third wife Agnes Carter of Bourbon County, Kentucky. He finally moved to St. Louis, where he died February 21, 1861.
Three of Mr. Flanagan's sons were educated in the College of Notre Dame. Mrs. Stone was educated in a Catholic convent in Louisville. Now in her eighty-fourth year, she has lived not only many years, but a life remarkable for her interests both at home and in the world. She has always been a reader, and is informed on the history of the day as well as the past, and knows the fashions, too. She thoroughly enjoys every minute of her life, and it is a delight to hear her recount her early experiences in Platte County. Her home and children have been the shrine of her life, and it has been a matter of careful study and pride that her house should be the most attractive place in the world for her boys, and she kept it open for the young people of the community while those men now in the prime of their powers were growing to manhood.
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Mr. and Mrs. Stone became the parents of nine children, and there are five sons still living. All of them were educated in the Christian Brothers' College in St. Louis, and the five of them sat on the platform at one time and received their degrees. The Stone family are devout members of the Catholic faith. The sons are: Elijah Francis, an attorney in St. Louis; Walter, librarian of the law school at the Uni- versity of Missouri; Terence, president of the United States Banking and Trust Company at Grand Junction, Colorado; Thomas F., who conducts the old homestead and has made a success as farmer and stockman ; and Robert Lee, who lives in Reno, Nevada.
HON. CHARLES HYSLOP. Now serving as representative from Nod- away County, in the State Legislature, Charles Hyslop has lived in this section of Northwest Missouri and has taken an active part in business, public and church and social affairs for more than forty years. He is a veteran of the great Civil war, and the same qualities which made him an efficient soldier have been exhibited in his work as a business man, his fidelity to the responsibilities of public office, and he is easily one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Nodaway County.
Charles Hyslop was born in New York at Penn Yan, July 21, 1843, and represents a fine Scotch ancestry. His father, William Hyslop, was born in New Galloway, Scotland, and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary McAdam, was born at Castle Douglas in Scotland. After their marriage the parents emigrated to America, arriving in the spring of 1843, and after a brief residence in New York moved on to Illinois and in June, 1844, settled at Carthage in Hancock County. In the year of their arrival, in August, the father died, and a few years later the mother married James Baird, who was also a Scotchman and a successful Hancock County farmer.
It was on the Baird farm in Hancock County that Charles Hyslop grew up, and while there attended the common schools. On July 21, 1861, the day he was eighteen years of age, Mr. Hyslop was sworn in as a private in Company G of the Black Hawk Cavalry, which was later consolidated with the Seventh Volunteer Cavalry of Missouri. He saw some hard campaigning in the states of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana and also in Indian Territory and along the western frontier. He was ont a little more than two years, and on account of physical disability was honorably discharged. For many years Mr. Hyslop has taken a prominent part in Grand Army circles, and has filled all the positions in his post, Sedgwick Post, No. 21, G. A. R. In 1882 he was commissioned captain of Company G, M. N. G., by Governor Crittenden, and served three years.
In February, 1873, Mr. Hyslop moved to Northwest Missouri, and has since had his home in Maryville. For several years he was a merchant, but in 1880 opened an office to handle real estate, loans and general insurance, and that has been his principal line of business activity down to the present time. Always a republican in politics, Mr. Hyslop has been frequently honored with positions of trust, and in 1884 was elected public administrator for Nodaway County, and gave a capable administration of its affairs for eight years. He also served as justice of the peace. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Legis- lature to represent Nodaway County, and the interests of this section of Missouri will be well taken care of as long as he remains in the legislative body.
Fraternally Mr. Hyslop is a Knight Templar Mason, has taken thirty-two degrees in the Scottish Rite, is past high priest of the Royal
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Arch Chapter and at the present time commander of the Knights Templar. For many years he has been identified with the Knights of Pythias, and has filled all the chairs in the local lodge. Mr. Hyslop is well known for his prominence in the Baptist Church in this section of Missouri, has served as clerk of the local church, and has been a mem- ber of several state boards, being now on the Board of Curators for William Jewell College at Liberty. In December, 1867, Mr. Hyslop married Delia M. Mann. Her father was Miles B. Mann, a prominent citizen of Hancock County, Illinois, who was postmaster at Carthage at the time Joe Smith, the Mormon leader, was killed.
LIONEL CLARENCE GOODEN. A veteran journalist of Northwest Mis- souri, Lionel Clarence Gooden, editor and proprietor of the Sentinel, of Parnell, has been connected with the newspaper business throughout practically his entire career, and is not alone a shaper of public opinion in connection with his journalistic activities, but also occupies a promi- nent place in public life, having served almost continuously in offices of responsibility and trust since his arrival in Parnell in 1900.
Mr. Gooden was born at Willow Grove near Dover, Delaware, December 14, 1864, and is a son of John Cooper and Elizabeth Ann (Broadaway) Gooden, and a member of an old family which originated in Wales and which originally spelled the name "Godyn." John Cooper Gooden was born March 3, 1839, and for many years was engaged in educational capacities. He is still a resident of Dover, Delaware, and is a man of scholarly mind and marked literary attain- ments, being a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. A democrat in politics, he has held various public positions, being recorder of deeds of Kent County, Delaware, and in 1877 was appointed state librarian by Gov. Benjamin Biggs. He is a Lodge and Chapter Mason. Mrs. Gooden died at Dover, in 1890, the mother of two children: Lionel Clarence, of this review; and Mrs. Anna Evelyn Culver, of Dover.
After attending the public schools of his native place, Lionel C. Gooden took a course at Wilmington Conference Academy, and, inherit- ing a predilection for literary and newspaper work, was in 1880 ap- prenticed to the printing trade in the book and job printing office of James Kirk & Son. Four years later, in partnership with his father, he engaged in the general merchandise business at Willow Grove, but in 1887 decided to seek his fortune in the West, and accordingly went to Stevens County, Kansas, locating at Dermot, and there establishing a newspaper known as the Enterprise. This he conducted successfully for two years and then moved to Nodaway County, Missouri, but soon went to Fairfax, Atchison County, where he established the Fairfax Star. In 1891 he disposed of this paper and went to Maryville, where he purchased a one-half interest with W. M. Carr, of Mound City, in the Evening News. A short time later he sold his interest and moved to Burlington Junction, there becoming half-owner of the Post, from that place going to Stanberry where he was foreman of the Sentinel for six months. In 1892 he established the Westboro Wave. After six months he disposed of his interest therein and accepted the position of foreman with the Tarkio Independent, but after six months returned to Stanberry and became connected with the Sentinel. Mr. Gooden in March, 1894, went to Sheridan, Missouri, where he purchased the Ad- vance, from J. L. West, and remained there six years, in the meantime serving in the capacity of mayor and as a member of the town board. Still he had not yet found the locality which he wished to make his permanent field of activity but this was discovered in 1900, in July of which year he came to Parnell and purchased from Charles J. Colden
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