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In connection with his other interests, Mr. Kelly has served as director of the Builders' & Traders' Exchange for several years, and was elected its president in 1892.
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He has four times been elected to the presi- dency of this society, which now numbers 180 members, and owns a fine five-story brick building. He was also a member of the Board of Public Works in 1890.
On the of 30th January, 1882, was con- summated the marriage of Mr. Kelly and Miss Katherine McCarthy, a native of Inde- dendence, Missouri. They now have three living children-Fannie, Regina and William P., and are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Kelly is a warm friend of the cause of education, and is found in the foremost ranks in advocating any measure which is calculated to advance the general welfare. In early life he laid the foundation of his success, upon which he has gradually built the superstructure of a prosperous business career. Unaided by fortune or influential friends he has, by his own ability, per- severance and industry, attained a position of honor and trust, and gained a com- petency that numbers him among the rep- resentative business men of Kansas City.
R L. YEAGER, attorney at law, is one of the well-known and success- ful practitioners of the legal pro- fession in the state. He is a native of Oldham county, Kentucky, born August 26, 1843, the son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Graham) Yeager, natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively, both of whom died in the latter state.
Our subject was raised on the farm until seventeen years of age, and received his pre- liminary education in the common schools and soon afterward graduated at Saint Paul's Episcopal college, at Palmyra, Mis- souri, in the spring of 1861.
The war breaking out about that time
his enlistment immediately followed, and he was mustered into Neisley's battery, in which he actively served a year and a half. He was then transferred to Prindall's bat- talion of sharp-shooters, Parsons' division of Price's corps, in which he served till the close of the war. His record is that of a gallant soldier, and although he participated in many of the most stubbornly contested engagements of the war he never received a wound.
After the cessation of hostilities he went to Mckinney, Texas, where for one year he studied law under the able preceptorship of ex-Governor Throckmorton, and in 1866 he entered the Kentucky Law School at Louisville, at which he graduated in 1867. The same year he located in Kansas City and opened an office where he has continu- ally practiced to the present time, being now one of the oldest and most prominent lawyers in the southwest.
He has never sought office or asked political favor, but in 1872 he was elected prosecuting attorney and was his own suc- cessor in 1874; again was he tendered the nomination, but his disinclination was so great he refused to accept the nomination. In 1890 he was appointed city counselor and after serving one year resigned. In April, 1879, he was elected a member of the Kansas City school board, and in April, 1882, he was elected president of the board, a position he has since held. Mr. Yeager has always taken great interest in educational affairs, and it has largely been through his untiring, zealous efforts that the Kansas City schools have attained their present efficiency and high standard. There are now thirty- seven schools in the city, with an enrollment of about 20,000. There were seven schools in the city, presided over by fifty-three
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teachers, when Mr. Yeager became a mem- ber of the board, and now there are 350 teachers. He is one of the most enthusi- astic public-school men in the city and is doing everything in his power to elevate the schools of the city to a still higher degree of proficiency.
He is a director of the First National Bank and president of the Safety Savings and Loan Association, and chairman of the democratic congressional committee. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Honor.
His marriage to Miss Leonora Forbis, of Independence, Missouri, was celebrated in 1870, and he has five interesting children, all of whom with their parents are members of the Christian church.
J W. JUDY is a progressive, intelli- gent and successful farmer of Prairie township, residing on section 34. The age has long since passed in which farming was thought to be on the plane below commercial pursuits, but now it is known to require as broad and com- prehensive a knowledge in his particular line for the farmer to successfully manage his lands as the merchant or the banker to carry on his chosen calling. The agricul- turist's study is nature, not men, and he must be thoroughly conversant with the needs of each crop which he wishes to cul- tivate, must know the possibilities and prob- abilities of climatic vicissitudes and the different elements found in the soil and what will best produce the finest qualities of grain. A well developed farm therefore indicates not only the thrift and enterprise of the owner but also a thorough understand-
ing of his business. To this class of progres- sive citizens belongs our subject.
Mr. Judy has descended from an old Vir- ginian family. His father, Enoch Judy, was a native of Hardy county, Virginia, born in ISIo, and when a young man removed to Ohio, where he met and married Miss Sarah McMurray, a native of Ross county, Ohio, born in 1824. For several years they con- tinued their residence in the Buckeye state, and in 1850 removed to Illinois, settling in Piatt county. There the mother died in 1854. The father continued to make his home in Illinois until 1880, when he came with our subject to Jackson county, Mis- souri, where he is still living, at the age of eighty-five. Mr. and Mrs. Judy had a fam- ily of five children, but only two are now living: Margaret, wife of Jeremiah Hod- kins, of Prairie township, by whom she has ten children; and J. W. The father is a member of the Methodist church, and his well spent life has gained him high regard.
Mr. Judy, of this review, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, on the 27th of April, 1849, but was reared in Piatt county, Illi- nois, spending his boyhood days in the usual manner of farmer lads. Through the sum- mer months he was employed in the fields and in the autumn, after the crops were harvested, he entered the common schools of the neighborhood, where he continued his studies until, with the return of spring, his services were again needed on the farm.
On the 24th of December, 1872, Mr. Judy secured as a companion and helpmeet one life's journey Miss Einma Rosebrough, a native of Charleston, Coles county, Illinois, and a daughter of James Rosebrough, an early settler of that locality. The lady was born January 10, 1844, and by her marriage has become the mother of one child, Lida.
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Upon his marriage Mr. Judy assumed the management of the old home farm in Illi- nois and continued its cultivation for eight years. He then determined to seek a home in Missouri, and in 1880 came to Jackson county, locating on the farm which he now owns. He has here 160 acres of rich and arable land, which was only partially im- proved when he located thereon. He broke the remainder, planted crops and now on all sides waving fields of grain delight the eye and give indications of abundant har- vests. He has made many excellent im- provements on the place, has fenced the farm, and by this means has divided it into fields of convenient size, has also erected a large and substantial barn for the shelter of his grain and stock.
The cause of education finds in Mr. Judy a stalwart champion, as he believes it one of the best preparations for life work. He is now serving as a member of the school board and does all in his power to raise the standard of the schools. In his political views he is an unswerving republican, but has never sought office, preferring to give his time and attention to his farming interests. He has the respect of all with whom he has come in contact, and his friends are many.
0 ANIEL BOONE HOLMES, of the firm of Karnes, Holmes & Krat- hoff, attorneys at law, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, March 13, 1850, and is a son of John and Sally A. (Gilbert) Holmes, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland. The father of our subject was a justice of the peace for a number of years. His death occurred in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1851, at which place his mother also died, in 1880. 21
To them were born seven children, of whom Daniel B. is the youngest and sole survivor.
His father died when he was an infant, and by his widowed mother he was tenderly cared for, all in her power being done to give her son a thorough collegiate and legal education. He attended the public schools and later the preparatory school known as Transylvania high school, at Lexington, in which he was carefully taught in the prelim- inary branches and well qualified himself for a higher collegiate course. In the fall of 1866 he entered Kentucky University, at which he was graduated in June, 1872, with the degree A. B. In his senior year he began reading law under a private tutor, which study, after graduation, was contin- ued under the instructions of Breckinridge & Buckner, and in the spring of 1871 was - admitted to the bar at Frankfort, by the judges of the Kentucky court of appeals, the highest court in the state. After his admnis- sion to the bar he decided to acquire still greater proficiency in the law, and for that purpose entered the law school of Harvard University, at which, in June, 1872, he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
Having formed a favorable opinion of Kansas City, and deeming it an auspicious location for a young man just starting in practice, he decided on casting his lot here, arriving in November, 1872. Previously, however, he had been invited to office with Hon. Warwick Hough, who subsequently became chief justice of Missouri. Six months later he received a proposition from Thomas V. Bryant, then a prominent attorney of the Kansas City bar, having a large practice, to become his associate and law partner. The proposition was accepted and the partner- ship proved agreeable and satisfactory in
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every way, and was continued for thirteen years, when Mr. Bryant's failing health necessitated the dissolution of the firm, Mr. Holmes continuing the practice alone until January 1, 1889. At this date he became associated with his present partners.
The law firm of Karnes, Holmes & Krauthoff is one of the largest in the state, its constantly increasing business best attest- ing its success and popularity. Mr. Holmes has represented for many years, as coun- selor, some of the largest corporations in the city. As a lawyer, he has few equals and no superiors in the southwest. He has been connected with some of the most famous cases of litigation in Kansas City, his practice having been largely of the cor- poration kind. As a general practitioner and counselor, Mr. Holmes takes high rank in the legal profession. He is cogent, in- cisive and clear in utterance, and his reason- ing is inspired by logic so forcible that his opponents rarely dislodge him; and in the preparation of his cases he is thorough, mastering to the minutest detail every scin- tilla of evidence, in the arrangement of which, it is said, he displays the sagacity of a field marshal. As a counselor, he is delib- ate, pondering well the points of law as they touch parallels in his wide range of reading and practice, and being somewhat conservative, reaches conclusions through a process of mental comparisons peculiar to the trained thinker. To his profession he is devoted, and is a close student in the literature of the law.
He is without political ambition, having never sought an office, solely applying his energies to reach the highest results obtain- able in his profession. He was one of the organizers of the Grand avenue cable-car system and electric line to Independence,
and since their completion has been the gen- eral attorney for these roads. Politically, he is a sound-money democrat.
He was inarried February 6, 1877, to Miss Lyda A. Massey, a native of Missouri, who has borne him three children: Massey B., born January 28, 1878; Miss Sydney, August 28, 1881; and Miss Mignon, June 27, 1884. Their son is a student at Har- vard University, being a member of the 1899 class. Mrs. Holmes is the accom- plished daughter of Hon. Benjamin F. Massey, who was secretary of state of Mis- souri from 1857 to 1861, and a prominent member of the constitutional convention of 1875, which framed the present state con- stitution of Missouri.
P. BROUGHTON, a worthy rep- resentative of the agricultural in- terests of Jackson county, who owns and operates a good tract of land on section 30, Prairie township, was born February 23, 1844, in Vermont, and is a descendant from one of the old New England families that was founded in Amer- ica prior to the war which gave to this country her independence. His grandfather, John Broughton, was born in that section of the United States; and the father of our sub- ject, Chauncey W. Broughton, was born in Massachusetts, in July, 1816. He wedded Mary Churchill, a native of Vermont, born in 1821, and a daughter of Samuel Church- ill, of New England. The wedding was celebrated in the Green Mountain state, and in 1844 they emigrated westward, taking up their residence in Kane county, Illinois, where the father purchased land from the government, becoming the owner of 800
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acres. This he improved, continuing his residence thereon until ten years had passed, when he sold and removed to Fayette county, Iowa. A year later, however, he returned to Illinois, locating in De Kalb county, where he again purchased raw land that he trans- formed into rich and fertile fields, making his permanent home there. His death oc- curred May 8, 1893, and the mother of our subject died May 12, 1860. The father af- terward married Caroline Churchill, a sister of his first wife, who died in 1879, leaving three children, namely: Mrs. Ella Woods; May; and Ben, who lives in Iowa. Mr. Broughton was married the third time, and by this marriage there are two children,- Charles B. and Chauncey W. The parents of our subject were both members of the Baptist church, and the father took quite an active part in political affairs. In early life he was a stalwart abolitionist, and afterward became a republican, and for many years was township supervisor.
Mr. Broughton of this review, the only child of his father's first marriage, was reared in Kane and De Kalb counties, Illi- nois, and was educated in the common schools and in Joliet, Illinois. He bought a ranch in southern Kansas, and made fre- quent visits to that state and to the Indian Territory. In December, 1875, he was united in marriage with Ettie Beers, a na- tive of Connecticut and a daughter of Charles Beers, also born in the Nutmeg state. The family removed to Illinois when Mrs. Broughton was about seven years of age, lo- cating in Kane county near Sycamore. Her birth occurred in 1852. Two children were born of the marriage but both are deceased.
In the year succeeding tlieir marriage, Mr. Broughton and his wife came to Mis- souri, and located upon their present farm.
He is now one of the extensive landowners of Prairie township. He at first purchased 160 acres, but to this has added from time to time until he now has 740 acres, all un- der cultivation and improved with the var- ious accessories and conveniences found upon a model farm of the nineteenth cen- tury. He carries on both general farming and stock-raising, and in addition to this property he has a ranch of 520 acres in Al- len county, Kansas, much of which has been placed under the plow and made to yield to him a good return. He is a man of excel- lent business and executive ability, displays fine powers as a manager, owing his success in life largely to this quality, and is energetic and persevering. His interests have by no means been confined to farming alone, as he is a stockholder in both of the banks at Lees Summit, and is a director in the Farm- ers' Bank at that place, etc.
Socially, Mr. Broughton is prominently connected with the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the blue lodge of Lecs Summit, the chapter and commandery at Independ- ence, and the mystic shrine at Kansas City. In politics he is a stalwart republican, but has never been an office-seeker. A man of broad mind, he is liberal in support of pub- lic interests calculated to benefit the com- munity, and the poor and needy have often found in him a friend.
e CHANDLER has for nearly thirty years had his abiding place on his present farm on section 28 of Wash- ington township, Jackson county, Missouri, and is well known to the people of this vicinity.
Mr. Chandler is a southern man and the
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son of southern parents. His father, Francis Chandler, was a native of Virginia. His mother, whose maiden name was Miss Eliza- beth Ross, was born in North Carolina. They were married in North Carolina and settled in Ashe county, that state, where she died in December, 1833. He, too, died in North Carolina. They were the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, two of whom are still living, our subject and Eli, the latter being a resident of Ashe county. The daughter was accidentally burned to death when nine years old. The other son was named William P. The par- ents were members of the Baptist church.
E. Chandler first saw the light of day in Ashe county, North Carolina, January II, 1822, and was reared on a farm in that county. He there served an apprenticeship of four years to the trade of tanner, and also learned the trades of boot and shoe and har- ness making. Born and reared in the south and early taught that the institution of slav- ery was right, it was natural that he should enter the Confederate army when the great civil war broke out. Earnestly and bravely did he fight for a cause he then believed to be a just one and which, after the lapse of three decades, he still thinks was right. His brother Eli also was in the Confederate army. It was in April, 1861, at the very beginning of the war, that our subject en- listed, and as lieutenant in company K, thirty-seventh North Carolina regiment, that he went to the front. Among the en- gagements in which he participated were those of Newbern, Hanover, Seven Pines, Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg, Reems' sta- tion, Chancellorsville and Chapin's Farm. At Chancellorsville he was shot by a minie ball which cut off the second finger of his 'left hand. Later he had the finger ampu-
tated at the knuckle joint. After this he was at Guinea station, Richmond and Peters- burg, left the army on a sixty-day furlough in July, 1863, and after an absence of forty days returned to his command. . In Febru- ary, 1864, he was honorably discharged and returned to his home, soon after which he was enrolled in the home guards, where he acted as orderly sergeant under Captain Ross, and took part in the following battles: Green mountain, where he took a black flag from a union soldier with his own hands, and sent it to Governor Vance of North Carolina; Redder's river, and Widow Brown's farm. At the last named place he met the enemy hand to hand. After firing one round, he and his men made a rush for the union soldiers, and, with a large knife he carried, Mr. Chandler killed seven of them ! This ended his war record. Two years of his service were in the army under General Lee.
In the fall of 1866 Mr. Chandler left North Carolina and came to Missouri and settled in Jackson county, where he has since lived, his farm at that time being all wild land. Here his time and attention have been given exclusively to farming, in which he has been fairly successful.
Mr. Chandler was married in 1843 to Miss Jane Richardson, who was born in Ashe county, North Carolina, in 1826, and who departed this life at her home in Mis- souri in 1890. She bore him two children, one of whom is living, --- Narcissa Elizabeth, wife of T. W. Wallace, of Kansas City. December 13, 1892, he wedded Mrs. Vir- ginia Victoria Moore, a native of West Vir- ginia, born in 1846.
Mr. Chandler is a Baptist in his religious views, while his wife is a Methodist. Politi- cally, he is a stanch democrat.
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A LDEN C. MILLARD .- The cities of the central Mississippi valley owe much to the enterprise and pro- gressive spirit of this gentleman. Although not a citizen of each locality, he has been prominently connected with the business interests of these commercial cen- ters of the west, and to-day Kansas City numbers among its valued residents this na- tive son of Massachusetts. The solemn beauty of the Berkshire hills can never be forgotten by one who has walked beneath their shadows. The county of Berkshire in Massachusetts affords a succession of pic- turesquely beautiful scenes. In the spring of the year the north branch of the Hoosac river, fed by mountain snows, rushes turbu- lently down to meet the broad and placid stream of the south branch rolling through a wide, rich valley. In summer the gorge cut by the impetuous north branch is nearly dry, showing only a shallow water course. At the junction of these two intensely di- verse streams, and at the west end of the Hoosac tunnel, lies the village of North Adams. Here on the 17th of July, 1838, was born Alden C. Millard.
His father, George Millard, was a well- known boot and shoe merchant of North Adams, and descended from a family of long standing in Massachusetts. His mother's maiden name was Chloe Macomber. In connection with other New England lads, the boyhood days of Mr. Millard were spent at the district schools until he was fitted to attend Drury Academy, where he received a higher grade of instruction, and then spent four years at the Literary Institute of Suf- field, Connecticut. To this excellent ground- work he added a course of instruction in bookkeeping at the Commercial College of Worcester, Massachusetts, which fitted him
for the position he assumed in 1856, that of bookkeeper and general assistant for his father, whose business then was of consid- erable proportions. He continued in that capacity for six years, when a partnership was effected between his father, brother and himself, and so remained for three years more.
At the end of this period, in 1865, Mr. Millard sold out his interest in the business and removed to Chicago, purchasing an in- terest in a stationery business. One year's experience, however, sufficed to show that under the existing management no money was being made, and that a large loss was sustained. A change in the business was then effected, and Mr. Millard took control. Soon there was a change noticeable in the business. Up to the time of the great fire there was a constant increase in the busi- ness of the firm, which was then known as Millard & Decker, but when that fearful visitation overtook the city a test of no ordinary character was presented. A stock valued at over $50,000 was destroyed, the insurance realized was small, notes were about maturing, and everything called for a courageous grappling with the existing cir- cumstances. The cool, mature judgment of Mr. Millard was equal to the task, for, notwithstanding the fact that the fire was still raging on the 9th of October, the next day a circular was issued from the press of Millard & Decker, printed on broad paper, which was the first work executed by any job firm after the fire, even then, however, the flames were still raging. This circular, however, was eagerly welcomed by the business public as a sign of returning hope.
In the spring of 1872 the firm of Millard & Decker disposed of its stationery printing business and the partners devoted their time
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exclusively to their real-estate interests. They made a purchase of a tract of land comprising a part of the present suburb of Lawndale, and Millard avenue was named in honor of our subject. He did much to improve property in that locality and was a prominent factor in the upbuilding of that district of Chicago. He took a very promi- nent and active interest in everything per- taining to the welfare of the city, was a charter member and one of the first directors of the National Bank of Commerce of Chi- cago, and for five years satisfactorily filled the office of one of the West Side park commissioners, to which position he was appointed by Governor Beveridge.
In 1878 Mr. Millard removed from Chi- cago to Saline county, Kansas, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising for five years. In 1883 he came to Jackson county, Missouri, taking up his residence in Inde- pendence, while he engaged in the farm machinery business in Kansas City. In 1 886 he began the publication of the Millard Implement Directories of Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis, and in addition now publishes one for Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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