A history of northwest Missouri, Volume III, Part 6

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

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The father of Shelton M. Stockwell was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, who had all the Kentuckian's love for fine horseflesh and was a dealer in and breeder of that animal, also engaging in general farming pursuits. Some time after his marriage to Miss Goff, a Ger- man woman whose family was prominently known in Bourbon County, he moved to Rush County, Indiana, and there continued to be engaged as a farmer during the remainder of his life. He was also a local preacher of the Christian Church, and both he and his wife are buried in Indiana. Their children were as follows: Eliza, who became the wife of a Mr. Cowan and spent her life in Indiana; Parson, who died in Missouri; Elisha, who died in Ray County, Missouri; Shelton M., the father of Samuel B., and born in Bourbon County, Kentucky ; Mar- garct, who married Hugh Cowan and died in Indiana; and Robert, who passed away in Harrison County, Missouri.

Samuel Bob Stockwell was born on the farm on which he now lives, December 28, 1870. His life as a boy and youth was brought into close connection with stock and he began buying cattle when he was but thirteen years of age, in the meantime securing his education in the community schools, and in which, to use Mr. Stockwell's own words,

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"he went as far as he could." He was about eighteen years of age when he became manager of the home farm, and eight years later was put in full control of it. He fed his first load of cattle in 1896, and has been identified with feeding every year since, his operations gradu- ally increasing in scope and importance until he is now accounted one of the leading stockmen of the county. Mr. Stockwell's ranch com- prises land in sections 12 and 13, in township 63, range 29, aggregating 240 acres; in Bethany Township he owns land in sections 7 and 18, same township and range, aggregating 160 acres, all joining and mak- ing a handsome ranch devoted to horses, mules and cattle; and he also operates a leased ranch near Hatfield, Missouri, an important part of his industry.

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In politics Mr. Stockwell is a republican, but he is entirely without political ambitions, and has never even attended local or other con- ventions. He cast his first presidential vote for Benjamin Harrison, in 1892. Possessing a pleasing personality and being an intelligent and interesting conversationalist, Mr. Stockwell has formed many acquaint- ances in Harrison County and has retained them as friends. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, having taken some interest in fraternal matters, and with Mrs. Stockwell attends the Chris- tian Church, with which both are affiliated.

Mr. Stockwell was married April 17, 1910, at Saint Joseph, Mis- souri, by Rev. M. M. Goode, to Miss Sadie J. Sutton, a daughter of John H. and Ellen (Hubbard) Sutton, of Rush County, Indiana. Mr. Sutton was reared in Davies County, Missouri, and has lived in Har- rison County since 1888, has been a prominent contractor for many years, and has four sons following the same line of work. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are: Leonard H., Henry G., Fred K., Ralph H., Mrs. Stockwell, Nell K., who is county superintendent of schools of Harrison County, John H., Jr., and Herbert D.

GEORGE W. BARLOW. In the many years of his active practice at Bethany, George W. Barlow has distinguished himself for solid ability as a lawyer, and at the same time has devoted much of his time and energy to the public welfare. Mr. Barlow began practice in Harrison County in September, 1879, and for many years has been known as one of the leaders of the local bar, and at the same time the community has often looked to his interest and support for many enterprises and movements that would advance the city and surrounding country. Among Missourian republicans, Mr. Barlow has been a strong and influential leader and has a large acquaintance with leading members of the party both in the state and throughout the nation.

George W. Barlow came to Harrison County in 1869 and to the State of Missouri in 1865, at which time his parents settled in Chilli- cothe, Livingston County. They were from Jackson, Ohio, where George W. Barlow was born October 14, 1855. He was well educated in the public schools, but worked for his higher education, and after taking the normal course at the University of Missouri engaged in teaching school for forty months in Harrison County. It was through his pro- fession as a teacher that he first impressed himself upon this section, and came to know hundreds of people young and old. His work as a teacher was done in the country schools, and from the means acquired through that profession he took up the study of law and in 1878 was graduated from the law department of the State University. Having finished his education and training for his profession, Mr. Barlow re- turned to Bethany, and in September, 1879, formed a partnership with Thomas D. Neal, as Neal & Barlow. After the death of Mr. Neal he

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formed a partnership with Judge George W. Wanamaker in 1882, and they were long regarded as the leading firm in Harrison County. Their associations continued until the elevation of Judge Wanamaker to the district bench in 1905. Since then Mr. Barlow has been in practice with his brother, Gilbert Barlow, and the firm was Barlow & Barlow from January 1, 1905, to January 1, 1914, at which time L. R. Kautz was admitted to the firm, which is now Barlow, Barlow & Kautz.

Mr. Barlow entered polities as a republican, casting his first presi- dential ballot for Rutherford B. Hayes, and for nearly forty years has never missed a presidential election. He has been in many local con- ventions, was assistant sergeant-at-arms of the national convention at St. Louis in 1896, which nominated McKinley, was a delegate from his congressional district in 1908 and cast a vote for President Taft, and in 1912 was a spectator in the national convention at Chicago, and witnessed the turbulent scenes which marked the walkout of the pro- gressive element of the party. Mr. Barlow was chairman of the com- mittee on credentials in the famed Excelsior Springs District Repub- lican Convention of 1912, one of the first held in the state, and one whose acts were reported as important political news all over the country, and resulted in severe criticism. Mr. Barlow wrote a history of that convention from intimate knowledge of its inside workings, and published the article in the press dispatches just before the meet- ing of the republican leaders held in Indianapolis that year, and his article had an important bearing on the consultation's in that meeting.

As to his own public service, Mr. Barlow in the fall of 1888 was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County, and was reelected in 1890, having succeeded Judge W. H. Skinner in that office. His administration was one of aggressive and efficient service, during which time he convicted more men for crimes than had been the record of any of his predecessors. Mr. Barlow traced up through Pinkerton de- tectives one man charged with rape who had crossed the Gulf of Mex- ico, and after getting him back to the Missouri courts prosecuted him and sent him to the penitentiary for ten years. During his term, Mr. Barlow continued his partnership with Judge Wanamaker, who was his assistant in the office, and at the close of his second term resumed his large private practice. For many years Mr. Barlow has been local attorney for the Burlington Railway, and his firm now handles the litigation for that company. He was one of the organizers of the Grand River Coal & Coke Company of Harrison County, the largest corpora- tion in the county, and is a director and attorney for the company. Mr. Barlow was also one of the chief stockholders and builders of the Heil- bron Sanatorium at Bethany, and is still chief stockholder and treasurer of the company. He and his brother built in Bethany the Barlow Block, the best business building in the county. He is the owner of other property in the city, and has one of the best residences located in the midst of spacious grounds on Elm Street, and it is easily one of the most attractive homes in the county. The residence contains ten rooms, is modern throughout, and is finished in oak and walnut, with floors of heavy oak.

Mr. Barlow was married October 9, 1879, in Bethany to Miss Eliza- beth Hockridge, daughter of Nelson A. and Maretta (Hart) Hockridge. The Hockridge family formerly lived in the vicinity of Utica, New York. Mrs. Barlow's great-grandfather, Daniel Wherry, whose remains are buried at Plessis, New York, was a Revolutionary soldier from that state. Mrs. Barlow was the oldest child, and other members of her immediate family are: William H., a farmer in Harrison County ;

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and Emma, who died as Mrs. F. H. Nally. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow have a daughter, Mabel, wife of L. R. Kautz, a young lawyer of Bethany, and they have a son, George Barlow Kautz. Mr. Barlow also has as a member of his family Maretta Barlow, the daughter of Mrs. Emma Nally, sister of Mrs. Barlow. She has been reared in the Barlow home since childhood, and is being educated and trained as carefully as if she were an own child. Mr. Barlow is a Knight Templar Mason and also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and some years ago served as judge advocate of the Missouri Division of the Sons of the Revolution.

George W. Barlow comes from an old Virginia family. His grand- parents were George and Sarah (Ubanks) Barlow, both natives of Virginia and born about 1786 and 1789, respectively. They were mar- ried in 1811. George Barlow enlisted as a private during the War of 1812, but was soon detached from the field service and sent out as a recruiting officer. He died in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1854, and his wife passed away in 1866. They were members of the Baptist Church.

James Barlow, father of the Bethany lawyer, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1832, and spent his active career as a farmer. In 1836 his parents moved to Ohio, and he was married in Jackson County of that state to Miss Lucinda Nally, daughter of William and Patsy Nally, who were likewise from Virginia. James Barlow, in 1863, en- listed in Company I of the One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, served as sergeant of his company, and was in several engagements before he was discharged in the fall of 1864. During the Morgan raid through Ohio he was captured, but was soon released. James Barlow was a republican, and one of the active influential men of Northwest Missouri after his removal to this state in 1865. He be- came a prominent Methodist Church leader in Harrison County, and built there a church largely by his own funds. His death occurred in April, 1907, and he is survived by his wife. Their children are: Emma, wife of Frank P. Burris of Harrison County; William C., assistant cashier of the Bethany Savings Bank; Henry A., a farmer in Harrison County ; Lola, wife of John Ballard, of Bethany; Howard, of Daviess County, Missouri; Dr. Edward, a prominent physician at Pattonsburg, Missouri, where he died in 1902; Harvey K., a Harrison County farmer ; and Gilbert, who practices law in partnership with his brother, George W.

CHARLES F. DAUGHERTY. For twenty-five years Mr. Daugherty has been one of the active educators in Missouri, has been in all branches of public school work, from a country school to the organized city sys- tem, and since 1913 has been superintendent of the Bethany public schools. Mr. Daugherty early in life chose school work as his profession, and his experience and talent have constituted him an able executive, a successful worker among the young, and he has likewise taken a prom- inent part in the organized activities of teachers and has performed his part in raising the standard of education in this state.

Mr. Daugherty began his work as a country teacher in the Carlock School near Dadeville in Dade County, Southwestern Missouri. His early training had been largely of the country, with a country school education, and he has a keen appreciation of educational conditions as they were in the rural districts twenty or thirty years ago. Early in his career he was a student for some time in the Ash Grove Christian College, alternating his work as a student with teaching in the country, and later was a student in Drury College at Springfield, in the Spring- field Normal, and also in the University of Missouri. He finished the

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course in the normal schools, and is at the present time eligible to a degree at the State University.

Professor Daugherty began his greatest school work as principal at Everton, and afterwards was at Republic, Fairplay and Willard, then became superintendent of the Monett schools, followed by a similar position at Deepwater, and for four years was supervising principal in the Joplin schools. Thus his early experiences were all in the South- west Missouri counties. From Joplin Professor Daugherty went out of the state for a brief time, and was superintendent at Fredonia, Kansas. Returning to Missouri, he became superintendent at Albany, spent three years there, and then accepted his present position at Bethany in 1913.

Aside from his regular work in the various schools mentioned, Mr. Daugherty has on various occasions been an instructor in county teachers' institutes. He was at one time secretary of the Southwestern Teachers' Association, and in the Missouri Teachers' Association was a member of the committee on time and place in 1910 and 1913, and is now one of the directors of the School Peace League, which originated with the State Teachers' Association, and continues to work as an independent league for the preservation of peace among nations and people. Professor Daugherty has frequently appeared on the programs of state meetings with papers on educational topics, and is a man who has progressive ideas on school work, and his formal papers and informal discussions have always been worth listening to. Among his many papers and addresses there is no occasion to speak with particularity but an address on the subject of "Youth" delivered at the commencement exercises at Fairplay was considered by his friends and associates as probably one of his best efforts. Mr. Daugherty is a member of the executive board of the Athletic Association of Northwest Missouri. He drew up the courses of study for the schools of Deepwater, and at Fredonia, and is credited with having placed Fredonia, Deepwater and Albany on the eligible list of schools for affiliation with the higher state educational institutions. During his career as superintendent Professor Daugherty has graduated about one hundred and thirty pupils, and he states that twenty-six per cent of them have followed him into school work. During the past four years forty-five per cent of the graduates have entered colleges and universities for higher education. Out of a class of twenty- nine in 1914 at the Bethany High School, fifteen are now attending higher institutions of learning. Fourteen were graduated from the teacher's training course, and of this number one is now in the State University while twelve are teaching in Harrison County. Mr. Daugherty is unmarried. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Rebekahs, the Knights of Pythias, and the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of Masons. His church is the Christian.

Charles F. Daugherty was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, Decem- ber 28, 1866. He has lived in Missouri since 1868 when his parents came to this state, spent a short time at Albany and then went into Southwest Missouri and located in Dade County. Professor Daugherty grew up in Dade and Greene counties. Mr. Daugherty's remote American ances- tor is said to have brought a cargo of silk to New York, and after selling it settled in North Carolina. He was a native of Ireland. The grand- father of Professor Daugherty was John L. Daugherty, who spent his life in Virginia, and was a local official and proprietor of a hotel at Tazewell, where he died. His children were: Isaac, James, David, John, George and Mary. George G. Daugherty, father of Charles F., was a native of Tazewell County, early in the war entered the Confederate

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service, was captured and in a northern prison until exchanged, then returned to his command and continued until the close of the war. He was a tailor by trade, and after coming to Dade County followed farm- ing until his death in 1881 at the age of fifty-six. George G. Daugherty married Mary Jane Gillespie, daughter of William Gillespie, a Virginia farmer. This family of Gillespies furnished also the maternal ancestors for James Gillespie Blaine, the great statesman and presidential candi- date of the republican party in 1884. George Daugherty and wife were members of the Methodist Church, South. His wife died in 1895. Her children were: John L., who died in Hiattville, Kansas, in 1908; James W., of Fort Collins, Colorado; Mrs. M. C. Potter, of Bolivar, Missouri ; Charles F. Daugherty ; and Miss Maggie A., of Kansas City.

ASHMAN H. VANDIVERT, M. D. One of the old and honored families of Harrison County, belonging to the pioneer age in this section, members of which have been identified with commercial, agricultural activities and various learned professions in this state and elsewhere for generations, is that of Vandivert. Dr. Ashman H. Vandivert, who is the son of a pioneer physician in Harrison County, has practiced medicine at Bethany for more than thirty-five years, and by his native ability and devotion to his calling has won high distinction in his profession.

The Vandivert family was established in America by Holland-Dutch ancestors, who came from Holland with Peter Stuyvesant and settled at New Amsterdam, now New York. During the Revolutionary war there were four New York soldiers named "Vandervoort." The grand- father of Doctor Vandivert was Barnett Vandivert, who died in Jackson County, Ohio, at the age of ninety-six. He married a Miss Henry, and among their children were: Joseph, John, James, Barnett, Dr. Robert, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Akin, and Samuel. Joseph was a graduate of the Mussey Medical College at Cincinnati, went South and entered the Confederate army when the Civil war came on, had a home in Mississippi, and after losing his family subsequent to the war went West and died at Empire, Colorado. The son Samuel came West and died in Harrison County, Missouri. Barnett moved to Illinois and died in the southern part of that state. John and James both died in Ohio, and the daughters spent their years in the same state.

The late Dr. Robert H. Vandivert, father of Dr. Ashman H., came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1856, locating in the country south of Bethany and spending most of his active career in that vicinity. He was born November 14, 1819, and it is believed that Pennsylvania was his native state. The family afterwards located in Muskingum County, . Ohio, and he graduated in medicine from the Starling Medical College at Columbus about 1850, practiced in Muskingum County until his removal to the West, and made the journey to Missouri by railroad as far as St. Louis, and then by boat up the Missouri River to St. Joseph. He was accompanied by his wife and three sons.

After coming to Harrison County, Dr. Robert H. Vandivert invested his surplus money in land, and after the war bought some large tracts in Daviess County. While busy with his profession, he did something toward the improvement of the land and was known as a farmer and stock raiser. The practice of his profession he carried on after the war until 1875. He was a member of the state militia until he passed the military age, and as a republican was present at the first meeting by that party in Harrison County in 1860 and was elected chairman. Just one week later, it is a matter of interest to note, the democrats organized for the campaign of 1860, and his brother presided over that

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meeting. The senior Doctor Vandivert, in 1868, was elected to fill an unexpired term in the State Senate, and in 1870 was elected for the full term. His service for six years covered the period of the building of the Lincoln Institute, the colored school at Jefferson City, one of the early institutions of the kind for the race. While Doctor Vandivert was not gifted as a speaker, he was an organizer and worker, and a man of varied interests and did a large and important service to his com- munity and state. Fully impressed with the value of public education, he advocated schools as long as he lived, and educated his own children liberally. His oldest son, J. Worth, was graduated from the College of the Christian Church at Canton, and died as a lawyer at the age of twenty-six. Another son, Arthur Hubert, finished the course in pharmacy at the University of Michigan, but died as a farmer in Harrison County in April, 1913. Samuel W., another of his children, graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, became district judge in Kansas, subsequently went East and while living in New Jersey became prominent as a lawyer in New York City, but is now engaged in the newspaper business at Russellville, Arkansas. Dr. Robert Vandivert was married in Belmont County, Ohio, to Agnes Hannah Berry, daughter of Samuel Berry. She died in June, 1858. leaving children as follows, some of whom have already been mentioned : Joseph Worthington ; Dr. Ashman H .; Arthur H .; Samuel W .: Harriet Agnes, wife of Prof. Ben L. Remmick of the State Agricultural College of Kansas. While Doctor Vandivert was identified with the Christian or Disciples Church, his wife was an adherent of the Quaker faith.

Dr. Ashman H. Vandivert was born in Muskingum County, Ohio. April 6, 1853, and was about three years of age when the family came to Northwest Missouri. His education was supplied by the public schools of Bethany, and in 1874, at the age of twenty-one, he took up the study of medicine in the office of Doctor Walker at Bethany. In 1877, Doctor Vandivert was graduated M. D. from the University of Michi- gan, then returned to Harrison County and has since been actively identified with his large practice in town and country, with the excep- tion of four years. In April, 1909, Doctor Vandivert was appointed by the board of control as a physician at Hospital No. 2 in St. Joseph and gave four years to that work. Doctor Vandivert is identified with the Harrison County Medical Society, and at one time served as vice president of the Missouri State Medical Association, and is a member of the American Medical Association.

Doctor Vandivert is a republican and has been actively identified with the party. In 1888 was an alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention, and during his long professional career has endeavored wherever possible to serve his community with the disinter- ested publie spirit which has always been his characteristic. He was for fifteen years a member of the school board of Bethany, finally resigning that office. Doctor Vandivert is a large, broad-shouldered man, and with his splendid physical make-up combines earnest sincerity in all his work, and has a highly successful and influential position in Harrison County. He is the owner of the Vandivert Drug Store at Bethany, is a stockholder in the Bethany Republican Printing Company, and owns farm lands in the vicinity.

Doctor Vandivert was married, in June, 1878, to Rosa Templeman, daughter of William A. Templeman. At her death, in February, 1880, she left a daughter, Bessie Agnes, who is now a teacher in the public schools of Seattle, Washington. Doctor Vandivert was again married on September 29, 1886, to Emma Buckles. She was the oldest of nine

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children, all of whom are living, and was born near Grafton, Illinois, a daughter of William and Harriet (Ripson) Buckles, who were early settlers of Illinois, and her mother is still living. Doctor Vandivert and wife have the following children : Robert Henry, who died July 1, 1912, while serving as foreman with the Arnold Construction Company at Evansville, Indiana, and was unmarried; Dr. William Worthington, who graduated from the University Medical College of Kansas City in 1913, is in practice at Bethany, and married Lillian Guise of Dale, Indiana; Ashman Hubert, the youngest, died in infancy.

DR. JOSEPH S. HALSTEAD. At the time of this publication there are probably no men in the medical profession and very few citizens in Northwest Missouri who have so long a retrospect over the past as the venerable Dr. Joseph S. Halstead of Breckenridge.

Doctor Halstead has farmed and practiced medicine in Caldwell County since 1860, though for a number of years his activity has been merely nominal, and he is now suffering from the infirmities of age and his time has been largely spent in retirement and in association with the past. Doctor Halstead was born at Lonisville, Kentucky, March 4, 1818. Incidental to the date of his birth it may be noted that Doctor Halstead is opposed to the proposed change for the date of inauguration of presidents. He says the nation has been observing his birthday every four years for ninety-six years, and he wants the same consideration he has always had. At the time of his birth James Madison was still Presi- dent of the United States. The greatest statesmen, soldiers and leaders in the field of the arts and literature during the nineteenth century in America were at that time hardly at the beginning of their careers. As a boy, youth and young physician in Kentucky, Doctor Halstead knew such great personalities as Henry Clay and Gen. Andrew Jackson, and met General Lafayette on his last visit to America. The span of this one man's life covers practically every phase in the development of the United States from the beginning of the era of westward expansion. Missouri was not admitted as a state until after he was born, and he was in the full pride of manhood when the Mexican war was fought and gave to the United States its great possessions in the Southwest.

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A history of northwest Missouri, Volume III, Part 6

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