A history of northwest Missouri, Volume III, Part 11

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864-1935 editor
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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Willis G. Hine was born at Garden Grove, in Decatur County, Iowa, April 8, 1861, a son of Hiram and Evaline (Bradley) Hine. On both

Willie D. Hine

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sides Mr. Hine comes of old and distinguished American citizenship. He holds membership, by right of ancestry, in the Missouri Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and there were soldiers on both the paternal and maternal side in that war. His mother was born in Wood- ford County, Kentucky, May 6, 1840, a daughter of William Bradley, who in turn was a son of John Bradley, who was born in North Carolina in 1780, and emigrated with his father to Kentucky about 1784. Ken- tucky was then a wilderness and the Bradleys were pioneers in the "dark and bloody ground" and assisted in wresting that fair state from the dominion of the wilderness and the Indians. The founders of the Bradley family were John and William, brothers, who emigrated from England in 1740 and located in Yadkin County, North Carolina. Sen- ator Bradley of Kentucky, one of the most prominent figures in Ameri- can public life for a number of years, was a cousin of Mr. Hine's maternal grandfather. Three of Mr. Hine's ancestors served on the American side during the War of the Revolution-Colonel Webb of Maryland, Ebenezer Hine of Connecticut, and William Bradley, just mentioned. (Although William Bradley never enlisted, he was, however, at the battle of King's Mountain and served with Colonel Sumter.) William T. Bradley, the maternal grandfather, after his marriage brought his family out of Ken- tucky to Illinois in 1842, went to Iowa in 1843, when that state was still a territory, and in the following year entered Government land in Marion County, lived there until 1853, and then transferred his residence to Decatur County, Iowa, where he lived until death. Hiram Hine, father of the Savannah lawyer and banker, was born at Milford, Con- necticut. in 1840, and in the same year his parents went to Iowa, where they were likewise among the pioneers. His death occurred in 1880 at Garden Grove, and his wife passed away in 1886 at Fillmore, Missouri. His father was a farmer in early life, and later a merchant and brick manufacturer. In the family were three sons and three daughters who reached maturity, and three are now living. Willis G. is the oldest ; Florence is the widow of Franz S. Cole, of Rea, Missouri; and Harry E. lives in Seattle, Washington.

Willis G. Hine spent the first twenty years of his life in Decatur County, Iowa, and starting life with the inheritance of good qualities from his parents, has had to fashion his career largely through his own efforts. He was graduated from the Garden Grove High School in 1876, attended the Shenandoah Normal School of Iowa, and was in the State University for one year until the death of his father called him home. His first efforts in earning a living were as a teacher, and for two years he was principal of the schools at Humeston, Iowa, and for five years was principal of the schools at Fillmore, Missouri. During his residence at Fillmore Mr. Hine was admitted to the bar in 1887, and in 1888 was elected county surveyor of Andrew County, the duties of which office kept him employed about two years. Since 1891 Mr. Hine has been estab- lished as one of the lawyers at the county seat of Savannah. In asso- ciation with William B. Allen he organized the Allen & Hine Land and Loan Company, which subsequently became the Hine Land & Loan Company, and this business in 1914 was merged with the State Bank of Savannah and incorporated as the Wells-Hine Trust Company, of which Mr. Hine is vice president. As a lawyer he practiced alone until 1908, except a year or two with Judge James M. Rea, and in that year formed a partnership with Kipp D. Cross under the name of Hine & Cross, and on September 1, 1914, Walter B. Wells was admitted, making the firm style Hine, Cross & Wells. For several years Mr. Hine was vice president of the First National Bank of Savannah, and though he still retains his stock, resigned the office on September 1, 1914. For twenty-three years

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in addition to his law practice he has been engaged in the land, loan and abstract business.

Mr. Hine has been identified with the republican party since casting his first vote, has served as mayor of Savannah, and was on the school board twelve years. Since his nineteenth year his membership has been with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, enjoys associations with both the Chapter and Consistory branches of Masonry, was past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias during his residence in Iowa, and belongs to the Elks Club in St. Joseph.

On August 15, 1887, Mr. Hine married Mary Gregory, who was born at Fillmore, Missouri, a daughter of Rufus K. and Mary (Crawford) Gregory. Her parents were married in Kentucky about 1847, came to Missouri in 1854, and spent the rest of their lives in this state. Mr. Hine and wife have three children: Raphael G., who was educated in the University of Missouri, now has charge of the insurance department of the Wells-Hine Trust Company; Marjorie E., graduated B. A. from the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, in the class of 1913, receiving the Phi Beta Kappa degree; Ruth is still in the Savannah High School.

WALTER T. LINGLE. At different places in Northwest Missouri the name Lingle has for many years had familiar associations, especially with the grain and milling business. For the past ten years Bethany has been the center of operations, where the late Elmore Lingle located in 1904, after returning from Salt Lake City, and where he leased the Bethany mill and operated it as the Bethany Mill and Elevator Company until his death in 1911. The business has since been conducted by his son, Walter T. Lingle, who is one of the stirring young business men of Bethany.

Elmore Lingle was born in Wauseon, Ohio, in 1842, the son of a farmer who spent his active life there, and was of German stock. Elmore was the third in a family of children, and one of his brothers is O. B. Lingle, long a prominent business man of Cameron, Missouri. Elmore Lingle had a limited education so far as books and schools were con- cerned, but was a thoroughly competent man of affairs. During the war, when a young man, he entered the volunteer service in an Ohio regiment, was in the Atlanta campaign and then with Sherman on the march to the sea. He served as a private and the only serious injury he sustained was a sunstroke. He was a pensioner in later years, and always an inter- ested participant in Grand Army circles. While a stanch republican, he was never a practical politician. During his residence in Pattonsburg he was active in the Odd Fellows order, and his church was the Congre- gational. After leaving the army Elmore Lingle came out to Missouri and joined a number of Ohio people in Cameron, where he found em- ployment in a flour mill conducted by Mr. Cline, a veteran miller, whose enterprise has since been continued by his son and grandsons and is now one of the oldest mills under one continuous ownership in that section of the state. Mr. Lingle eventually became associated with the Cline brothers, and many of the older residents remember the flour manufac- tured by the firm of Cline and Lingle. On leaving Cameron Mr. Lingle located at Concordia, Kansas, where with one of his former associates he bought a mill and continued its operation for seven years. Selling out, he moved further west, to Salt Lake City, and there bought the plant of the Salt Lake Mill and Elevator, which was operated under his owner- ship five years. During that time he won the medal for the best flour on exhibition at the Utah state fair in 1899. After selling this mill Mr. Lingle returned to Missouri and took up business at Bethany. At Came-

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ron Mr. Lingle married Miss Mary C. Cline, who was born in Williams- port, Pennsylvania, in 1850, a daughter of the pioneer miller in Came- ron, who was of Pennsylvania German stock.

Walter T. Lingle, the only son and child of his parents, was born at Cameron, Missouri, June 13, 1877, and learned the milling business under the eye of his father, and is a thoroughly practical man in all its details. He attended the public schools of Cameron and made his education count toward a practical training for business. He was a student in the Mis- souri Wesleyan College at Cameron, and while there helped to dig out the trees for the athletic grounds. He also attended the Wesleyan School at Salina, Kansas. He was with his father in all the changes of busi- ness and locations, and became manager of the Bethany mill when his father died. He is also interested in the grain and feed business, owns a fourth interest in the Schmid Drug Company of Bethany, and a half interest in the elevator at Garden Grove, Iowa.

Mr. Lingle was married at Bethany in October, 1904, to Miss Emma Jennings, a daughter of John and Mary Jennings, who came to Missouri from Virginia, and spent their last days in Bethany. Besides Mrs. Lingle the Jennings children were Verne, Oma, Lillie and Jacob. Mrs. Lingle was born in Harrison County, Missouri, December 16, 1880. To their marriage have been born two children, Bedonna and Elmore. Mr. Lingle is a member of Lodge No. 204, Knights of Pythias. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

HARVEY NALLY, M. D. A resident of Cainesville for a period of twenty-eight years, Dr. Harvey Nally has been one of the most important factors in the development of this thriving community of Northwest Missouri. While he has won distinguished eminence in the ranks of the medical profession, his activities have by no means been confined to his labors therein, for in the fields of finance and business, in the promotion of education and good citizenship and in the encouragement and support of movements which have contributed to the city's prestige in various ways, he has taken a most active and prominent part, and at all times his name has been synonymous with the maintenance of high principles and ideals.

Doctor Nally was born in November, 1854, on a farm in Jackson County, Ohio, a member of a family which originated in England. His father, William Nally, was born in Westmoreland, Virginia, and when eleven years of age accompanied his parents to Jackson County, Ohio, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. In the fall of 1865 he came to Missouri and settled temporarily four miles north of Chillicothe, Liv- ingston County, but in 1869 moved to Harrison County and settled seven miles southeast of Bethany. There he died December 31, 1888, at the age of eighty-two years. He was a republican in politics, but had no political aspirations, nor did he have a military record. He married in Jackson County, Ohio, Miss Patsy Gillespie, who died at the old home- stead, and their children were as follows: Mrs. Lucinda Barlow, of Bethany, Missouri; Mrs. Sarah Gibbons, of Chillicothe, Missouri; Susie, who is the wife of Edward Poor, of Jackson County, Ohio; W. J., of Saint Louis; W. S., a resident of Southwest Kansas; Moses, who died in . Harrison County, Missouri, at the age of thirty-one years, leaving a family; O. H., of Blue Ridge, Harrison County; Dr. Harvey, of this review ; and Frank H., who died in 1914, in Harrison County, leaving a family.

Harvey Nally was eleven years of age when he accompanied his par- ents to Missouri, and his education was largely secured in the public schools here. Having chosen medicine as a profession, at the age of

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nineteen years he went to the university and entered the medical depart- ment, which was then located at Columbia, and graduated with the class of 1876. On January 1, 1877, he came to Cainesville, applied himself faithfully to his practice, and has continued to do so to the present time. He is a member of the Harrison County Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is local surgeon of the Burlington Railway, as well as city physician and health officer of Cainesville.

In the business affairs of Cainesville, Doctor Nally has taken a promi- nent part. He was one of the organizers of the Cainesville Bank, in 1883, and save a year or two has been a director during all these years, having seen the institution grow from a capital of $13,000, to one of $20,000, then to $30,000, and finally, in 1914, to $50,000. Its surplus is $12,000, and its officers are J. H. Burrows, president; G. R. Wilson, vice- president ; H. T. Rogers, cashier, and Dr. Harvey Nally and T. O. Wick- ersham, assistant cashiers, the official board being composed of J. H. Burrows, S. N. Glaze, M. F. Oxford, G. R. Wilson, C. H. Woodward, H. T. Rogers and Harvey Nally. The stockholders are scattered' about over Harrison and Mercer counties and a few shares are held in Des Moines, Iowa. When the Cainesville Bank opened its doors for busi- ness, Mr. C. B. Woodward was cashier and bookkeeper and did all of the work of the bank for years, filling these positions until his death twenty years later. The first bank occupied an old frame building where the present new edifice stands, the latter being erected in 1897, and now a force of three in the institution is required to do the work, while an- other bank in Cainesville, with a capital of $25,000, requires the work of two. In 1913 the whole bank inside was refitted and furnished in marble, giving it a metropolitan appearance.

Doctor Nally was identified with the drug business at Cainesville for twenty-five years as a partner of I. B. Woodward. He was also engaged in the dry goods business here as one of the firm of the Shaw-Nally Dry Goods Company, and in addition has been interested in the promotion of enterprises which promised something for the town, but which have since gone out of existence. Among the latter were the Enterprise Manu- facturing Company and the handle factory. He was one of the factors in securing the right-of-way for the Narrow-Gauge Railway here, and in company with J. H. Burrows brought the first railroad surveyor to Cainesville to look over the route. As they came down from Iowa the three mapped out in a general way the route of the new road, which was built, but later went into the hands of a receiver and was sold to the Keokuk & Western, which made a standard road of it and finally sold it to the Burlington System.

Doctor Nally is a republican, having been brought up in that political faith. He has served as a school director here for twenty-seven years, and has seen the Cainesville system grow from a little frame building with two teachers to a high school of the first class, this being affiliated with the state educational institutions, while the equipment compares favorably with that of any school in this part of the state. He is a member of the Baptist Church, is a Master Mason, and also holds member- ship in the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. His life has been a busy and useful one, his labors have been of the greatest importance, . and his activities are by no means over. His tall, erect and energetic figure is a familiar sight on the streets of Cainesville, and his frank and open countenance shows all the characteristics of the man who was born to be a leader.

Doctor Nally was married at Cainesville, November 29, 1881, to Miss Charlotte E. Pickens, daughter of Enos Pickens, an early-day farmer who

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came from New York State, and Charlotte Ann (Earle) Pickens, of New Jersey. To Doctor and Mrs. Nally there have been born the following children : Dr. Enos Clifton, a graduate of the Cainesville High School and of the Northwestern Dental School, Chicago, who is engaged in practice at Rockford, Illinois; Hortense, the wife of F. D. Lawhead, of Cainesville; Bronna, who married Dr. H. A. Scott, of Cainesville; William H., engaged in farming near this place; and Eugene Field, a high school student at Cainesville.

REV. JOSEPH H. BURROWS. The various and diversified activities which have enlisted the attention and talents of Rev. Joseph H. Burrows, of Cainesville, president of the Cainesville Bank and one of his com- munity's most prominent and progressive men, have extended over a long period of years, and in each of his fields of endeavor he has dis- played fidelity to high principles. Coming to Missouri in 1862, and settling in Harrison County, he established himself in business among the few small stores then located in Cainesville, and for forty years was identified as a member of different firms. His business was opened and conducted for many years as J. H. Burrows, and during that same period he was interested in a harness shop and collar factory conducted as Bur- rows & Truax. Burrows & Webb succeeded J. H. Burrows & Company, which was formed by the admission of J. B. Woodward into the house, and following Burrows & Webb came the firm of Burrows & Shaw. Bur- rows & Oden and Burrows & Neal did business together after that, and Mr. Burrows retired from the latter firm about 1904. In 1885 he formed a partnership with W. C. McKiddy, as a hardware and implement con- cern, and Burrows & McKiddy did business for twenty years.

Rev. Mr. Burrows participated in the organization of the Cainesville Bank and has been a director thereof since, the organization being effected in 1883, and for the past three years has been president of this institution. In 1884 the Enterprise Manufacturing Company was formed at Cainesville by the citizens and Rev. Mr. Burrows became president of the concern. The object of the factory was to manufacture cheap furni- ture, but the expensive building of brick, 40x100 feet, two stories in height, absorbed most of the paid in capital, and the venture entered upon its career cramped for ready money. This feature, added to the fact that no cost price for manufacturing stuff was kept and the goods were being sold unconsciously for a time for less than cost, caused the concern finally to give up the struggle, and the building subsequently went into the hands of the coal company here.

In procuring the railroad connection for Cainesville with the outside world, Rev. Mr. Burrows, associated with Doctor Nally, brought a sur- veyor over the route selected to demonstrate that it was practical, and they succeeded in raising the $10,000 bonus required, Rev. Mr. Burrows giving his private obligation for nearly twelve miles of right-of-way for the road. The station of Burrows on the road is one of the lasting monuments to him that has come to Rev. Mr. Burrows. This was a narrow-gauge road at first, but it was later standardized and is now a part of the Burlington System and the terminus of the Des Moines branch. Rev. Mr. Burrows moved to his present home, on the farm in Mercer County, in 1865 and has been here since. Here he became a stockman and a feeder, and bought and shipped stock extensively while he was merchandising.

Rev. Mr. Burrows entered politics as a republican and his first cam- paign for office was for the Twenty-sixth General Assembly for Mercer County, in 1870, serving in that body and being reelected to the Twenty-

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seventh Session, the first man to ever achieve the honor of reelection from this county. In the Twenty-seventh Assembly he, in connection with Captain Harmon of Nodaway County, wrote the present township organ- ization law twice, introduced it in the house and pushed it through as a law. He also introduced a number of temperance measures, and al- though none of these bills was acted upon, this was the earliest effort to- ward temperance legislation in the state. The body was democratic and elected Senator Bogee to the United States Senate, while the republicans supported Gen. John B. Henderson. Rev. Mr. Burrows' next election to the general assembly was in 1878, at which time he was the candidate of the "greenback" party. In 1880 he was nominated as the "green- back" and "union labor" candidate for congress from the old Tenth District, which included the counties of Harrison, Mercer, Daviess, Grun- dy, Livingston, Linn, Chariton and Randolph. He opposed Col. Charles H. Mansur, the democratic candidate and defeated him by sixty-five votes, and entered the house of the Forty-seventh Congress, being the last man elected from the Tenth District as then composed. In this congress he introduced the bill which reduced letter postage from three to two cents an ounce, and was on the Pension Committee, the department of the interior and the improvement of the Mississippi River. Gen. J. Warren Keifer was speaker of that house. His service in Congress con- cluded his public labors in politics, although he was renominated to succeed himself in the new congressional district, but the democratic majority of several thousand could not be overcome and he only made a skeleton canvass of the district.

For the past twenty years Rev. Mr. Burrows has voted the prohibi- tion ticket and his campaigning has been purely local. He throws his influence toward the local option fights and has been a factor in winning a dry town at home. Rev. Mr. Burrows made a profession of faith in Christ February 14, 1867, at Cainesville, under the teaching of Elder John Woodward and was induced to take the floor and start preaching the next night. He was ordained three months later and served the Cainesville Baptist Church for more than thirty years. His knowledge of the Bible was only such as he had acquired as a Sunday school pupil, and he therefore became a student at the same time that he assumed responsibilities as a minister. He has been pastor of the churches at Mount Moriah, Eaglesville, Blythedale, Mount Pleasant No. 2, Freedom Church, Pleasant Valley, Zion, Princeton, River View (Iowa), James- port, Jameson and Gilman City. He built the church at Freedom and organized and built the church and house at Pleasant Valley. Rev. Mr. Burrows has been clerk of the West for the Baptist Association for twenty-five years and moderator twelve years, and is at present acting in the latter capacity.

Rev. Joseph H. Burrows was born in the City of Manchester, Eng- land, May 15, 1840, and came to the United States in 1842 with his parents, his mother passing away en route on a Mississippi River boat and being buried at Wellington's Landing, Louisiana, near New Orleans. The family settled at Keokuk, Iowa, and there made the brick and built the first brick house of that city. The father, who was a brickmaker and mason and came of a family of that trade, was Thomas Burrows, born at Manchester, England, 1816. He died of cholera, July 19, 1851, at Keokuk, leaving Joseph H. and a brother alone. The mother was Mary (Pendleton) Burrows, and there were but two children in the family : William, who died in 1852; and Joseph H., of this review.

After his father's death, Rev. Mr. Burrows came under the influence of his guardian uncle, James Burrows, and while he was a boy worked in a brickyard and secured his education in the high school at Keokuk.

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He began his mercantile experience as a clerk at that place at a salary `of four dollars a month, but subsequently secured employment at six- teen dollars a month, and remained with his employer until his salary had been raised to thirty dollars a month. When he left Keokuk he went to Centerville, Iowa, and clerked for his father-in-law, lived there about two years, and was married in January, 1860. Leaving Iowa, Reverend Burrows went to St. John, Missouri, and opened a store with his brother-in-law, and the firm of Young & Burrows did business two years, following which the stock was moved to Cainesville, where Rev. Mr. Burrows began his permanent career.

Rev. Mr. Burrows first married Miss Louisa A. Whittenmyer, a daughter of William Whittenmyer, and she died in February, 1862, with- out living issue. On November 16, 1862, he married in Appanoose County, Iowa, Miss Mary A. Shaw, a daughter of Lorenzo Shaw, who was a native of Orleans County, New York. Mr. Shaw married Cornelia Lewis, also of Orleans County, and their children were as follows: Charles, of Carrollton, Missouri; George W., of Cainesville; Albert, who passed away at Cainesville; Ernest, a resident of this place; Martha A., who married Lyman D. Westgate and resides at Wichita, Kansas; and Mrs. Burrows. The children of Rev. and Mrs. Burrows have been as follows: Alva Lewis, who died at the age of fourteen years; Gara M., who is the wife of S. P. Davisson, of Bethany, Missouri; Maggie C., who is the wife of Herbert T. Rogers, of Cainesville; Minnie M., who is the wife of Charles E. Oden, of Cainesville; Bertha G., who married William Lewis, of the firm of Lyster & Lewis, grocers of Cainesville; and William J., who married Cora Oxford and resides at Cainesville.

Rev. Mr. Burrows has been a Mason for almost fifty years. He joined Mercer Lodge at Princeton during the Civil war and belongs to the chapter there, as well as to the commandery at Bethany. He has also had an experience as a newspaper man, having helped to start the old Mercer County Advance, at Princeton, in association with A. O. Binkley ; aided in establishing the People's Press, a "greenback" paper at Princeton, and afterward merged into the Princeton Post; acted as editor of the Cainesville News for some six months, and also published The Searchlight, a religious paper issued at Cainesville, monthly, for two years.

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A history of northwest Missouri, Volume III, Part 11

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864-1935 editor Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864-1935 editor
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912