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He was married April 27, 1877, to Miss Mary Jane Donohue, of this county, and they have six children, namely: Edward, John, William Harrison, Clarence, Walter and Birdic, -all of whom are still at their parental home.
Mr. Tatum belongs to the Baptist church of Blue Springs, in which he is an active worker and has been deacon for many years. In politics he is democratic, but he takes no prominent part in political affairs.
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He has the southern temperament, is warm- hearted and sympathetic, and is greatly re- spected by all who know him.
0 R. R. P. WARING, health officer of Kansas City, was born in Essex county, Virginia, August 26, 1848, and was a son of Robert P. and Martha A. (Campbell) Waring, natives of Virginia. The father was a very wealthy planter and at one time owned twenty-five farms and about one hundred and fifty slaves. He was one of the most prom- inent men of the state before the war, but by that contest he was broken up financially. He was generous to a fault, and his farms went for securities. He was the father of a large family. Two sons, George W. and William L., were in company F, ninth Vir- ginia cavalry, under William H. F. Lee, and served all through the war.
Our subject was reared on the planta- tion on Rappahannock river in Virginia, and was educated at Richmond College, Virginia. However, before entering col- lege, he served in the reserve forces and carried dispatches for General William H. F. Lee. He graduated at Richmond in 1869. In 1868 he came west and located at Potosi, Missouri, and engaged in the drug business, and had two drug stores, which he ran for two years. He graduated at St. Louis Medical College in 1879. In 1880 he came to Kansas City and began the practice of his profession, and has since been a resident of this city.
In 1890 he was appointed health officer, and has been one of the best officers the city has ever had. He has for five years run the health department without a com- plaint. Before he took hold of this the
city was in a bad condition, and since he has been in the office he has had an average of five men and with this force has kept the city in good order.
Dr. Waring introduced anti-toxin in Kansas City, which has become very popu- lar. He had a hard time to introduce this specific, and was made sport of by the medical profession, but Dr. Waring soon demonstrated its usefulness, and now they all use it. He has given up his general practice and has given his entire at- tention to his official duties, and as such has made a record he may well feel proud of. He is a member of the Jackson County Medical Society and a mem- ber of the Royal League.
He was married in 1874 to Miss Julia Van Allen, a native of Albany, New York, by whom he has had six children: George, Minnie, deceased, Cora C., Julia V., Rob- ert G. and Willie. They are members of the Presbyterian church. The Doctor is a democrat politically. He organized the Southern Society of Kansas City, which was afterward changed to Ex-Confederate Asso- ciation. He is a self-made man, and has made his own way up to his present high station.
M. BRANAMAN, of the Copeland & Branaman Institute, is a physi- cian in charge of Kansas City In- stitute. He was born in Jackson county, Indiana, June 2, 1862, a son of Christian Branaman, who was a tanner, and who also was born in that county. His fa- ther (Abraham) was one of the first settlers of that county, was in the late war, and is still a resident of his native county, and is retired.
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They had thirteen children, of whom our subject is the youngest. He was educated at Purdue University, and at the Central Normal College, at Danville, Indiana. He taught school for four years and was princi- pal of Sand Hill schools, in Shelby county, Indiana. He studied medicine at his oppor- tune moments and entered the university at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1888, and gradu- ated in 1890.
He came direct to Kansas City, Missouri. I11 1892 he became connected with the Cope- land Institute, which has become famous over the country, having offices established at St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, New York city, Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans and Kansas City. Dr. Branaman has charge of the Kansas City branch, which has been quite success- ful under his supervision. He is a young man, thoroughly posted as to his duties, and his practice is limited to nose, throat, lungs and chronic diseases. The Doctor is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He was married in 1893 to Miss Jessie Russell, a native of Vermont, and a mem- ber of the Congregational church. Politi- cally the Doctor is a democrat.
J T. CRAIG, M. D., supreme medical director of the National Reserve As- sociation, with headquarters at Kan- sas City, was born in Carroll county, Kentucky, June 26, 1850. He is a son of Lewis E. and Letitia (Tandy) Craig, natives of that state. The father of our subject was a cotton-planter, having moved to Chicot county, Arkansas, about 1852, and purchased a large plantation. He owned a number of slaves and became a well known planter of the south. The war coming, he,
like many others, lost all he had, and came to Missouri and located in Cooper county, where he engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1868. His wife died in 1887. They had seven children, all of whom are living.
Our subject, the fourth in order of birth, was educated in Kentucky,-in the public and high schools. While at school he studied medicine, and when nineteen years of age he took up the study exclusively and entered the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, and graduated in 1874, with the de- gree of M. D., and in 1879 received an ad-cundum degree from the saine college. In 1874 he began practice in Carroll county, Missouri, and was surgeon for the Kansas City & Northern Railroad, now the Wabash system, for about five years. In 1879 he came to Kansas City, Missouri, and has since been in the practice of his profession, as a general physician. When the Doctor came here, this city had about 55,000 pop- ulation, and Main street had a board side- walk. He has seen the greatest part of the city's improvement. He is physician and surgeon for the Masons' Fraternal Acci- dent, of Westfield, Massachusetts, is the examiner for a number of the insurance companies of the United States, and in 1889 he was one of the organizers of the National Reserve, and was made supreme medical director of the same at its organiza- tion, which position he has ever since held. The Doctor has the largest business as ex- aminer in insurance circles of all the Kan- sas City physicians. He was for several years physician to the county jail, and the United States physician for Kansas City. He is well known in this city and county, and indeed the southwest. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and deputy grand
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master of the twenty-fifth district, and mas- ter of Gates City lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 522, for four years, which is one of the best lodges in the city. He was a member of the Craig Rifles, an independent military company, and was surgeon of the same.
He was married in 1875 to Miss Lizzie Baker, of St. Louis, by whom he has two children, -Myrtle and Emmett. His wife died in 1887 and he was again married in 1893, to Lizzie M. Richards, of Paris, Ken- tucky.
J H. AUSTIN, M. D., member of the the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, of England, was born in Peel county, Ontario, Canada, April 17, 1871, and is a son of James A. and Susan (Graham) Austin, natives also of that do- minion. His father is registrar of the sur- rogate court of the county of Peel, and has held this office for about twenty-seven years, -the longest of those present in office. Ev-Gov. Hon. J. C. Aikins, of Manitoba, is an uncle of his, and Dr. J. E. Graham, one of the best known medical men in America, and member of Royal College of Surgeons, and holding the chair of professor of medi- cine in Toronto University, is a brother of our subject's mother.
The family is highly connected in On- tario. To the parents were born four chil- dren: James H., Ella, Arthur and Carrie. Our subject was educated at Brampton Collegiate Institute, and subsequently, in the fall of 1889, entered the medical depart- ment of the Toronto University and gradu- ated in April, 1893, before he was of age. He immediately went to London, England, where he studied for nearly two years. He
visited Paris, Ireland, and other foreign centers, and graduated in the two royal col- leges of England. This trip was taken for the purpose of obtaining more knowledge in his profession, and he studied in the royal museums and all places where he could gain information and knowledge of surgery and practice of medicine.
He came to Kansas City in January, 1895, and here hopes to build up a good business, and undoubtedly will do so. He is surgeon for the Employees' Liability and London Guarantee and Accident Companies. He was elected to the chair of practice of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Austin is one of the best educated young physicians in the west, and has a bright future before him. He is yet a young man, but in his profession he has well prepared himself. He is a member of Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and his resi- dence is at the Victoria Hotel.
B. MCAULEY, an attorney of Kan- sas City, was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, February 19, 1862, a son of John O. and Adaline (Whaling) McAuley. His father was a na- tive of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and his mother was a native of Luzerne county, same state, and of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather came from north Ireland when nineteen years of age, and settled in the Keystone state. He was a gentleman farmer and raised fancy stock, becoming well known. Physically he was a remarkably well built man.
The father of our subject came to Iowa about 1857 and was married in Mahaska county. He moved to Bates county, Mis-
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souri, in 1859, and was in the general merchandise business at Butler for a few years, in company with an old planter. The war becoming pretty warm and the people becoming well worked up, and many being killed, he left, leaving all his effects behind. Before his departure, however, the county clerk gave him the following document:
"BUTLER, MO., May 20, 1861.
"I, Robert L. Duncan, clerk of the Bates county court in the state of Missouri, do hereby certify that John O. McAuley, the bearer of this, a gentleman of high standing in this county, having resided here and at West Point many years, is a reliable busi- ness man, the owner of a house and lot in this town, well improved, and also the owner of other (unimproved) lots. Mr. McAuley has always stood well here, not only as a prompt, reliable business man and solvent in this community, but one who is also true and reliable as a southern man in feeling. He is away now on a visit to Iowa with his wife and sister, and will return in some few weeks; and should he need friends anywhere the public will not risk anything in placing confidence in him. These are troublesome times, and this is offered to him as perhaps a benefit among strangers.
"I have hereto set my hand and the seal of Bates county court at the office in Butler, May 20, 1861.
"ROBT. L. DUNCAN, Clerk."
He went to Mahaska county, Iowa, leav- ing all his property, which was afterward turned into a hospital for the soldiers. He never returned to claim the property but sold the lots by correspondence. After the war he moved to Osceola, Iowa, and en- gaged in the lumber business, which he car- ried on successfully until his death, May 14, 1889. His surviving wife is yet living. He ] 29
was a man of fine physique, six feet two inches in height, and weighing two hundred and twenty-five pounds. For fourteen years he was president of the school board, and twelve years president of the council. He was very prominent, both in public and so- cial circles. They had nine children, of whom five are yet living, viz .: Thomas B .; Wm. S., a banker in Nebraska; Catharine M .; John F., and Lucius C.
Our subject was educated in public schools at Osceola, Iowa, until fifteen years of age. He entered the State University of Iowa, and graduated in 1884, taking the de- gree of B. P. and diploma of special profi- ciency in literary pursuits bearing the same date, and in 1885 graduated with the degree of B. L. in the same school. Subsequently he took the degree of M. A. in the same col- lege. In 1887 he came to Kansas City, where he has since been in the practice of his pro- fession, having built up a good business. He is a bright young lawyer, with a bright future.
He organized the first chapter of the Sigma Chi west of the Mississippi river, of which he is a member. He was for several years prominent in the state militia affairs and as a member of the Craig Rifles, and aft- erward joined the seventh regiment, and after their disbandment he became a mem- ber of the Marmaduke Guards, and was ap- pointed chief bugler of the third regiment by Colonel Milton Moore.
UGUST BREUNERT, vice-presi- dent of the College of Pharmacy, of Kansas City, was born in War- saw, Poland, February 28, 1840, son of Ferdinand and Emily (Von Riedel) Breunert, natives also of Poland. His
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father was a major in the Russian army and died in Poland. They had a large family.
Our subject was educated partly in Po- land and partly in Germany. When four- teen years of age he sailed for America, coming alone, and landed in New York city. He immediately came west and stopped in Indianapolis, Indiana, and there worked in a grocery store for three years. He then came father west into Nebraska and subse- quently to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he learned the drug business. In 1862, having by economy saved a little money, he started a drug store on the corner of Fifth and Main streets, which was a branch of the Leavenworth house. Mr. Breunert ran the business here and his partner the one in Leavenworth. In 1874 he sold out and went back to Indianapolis, Indiana, and was there engaged in the drug business for about three years, when he returned to Kan- sas City and opened a drug store, and has since continued business, and for the past thirteen years his store has been at the cor- ner of Fourteenth street and Grand avenue. He is one of the representative business men of Kansas City and keeps a first-class drug store, stocked with fresh and pure drugs. He was a director in the College of Phar- macy for one year and was then elected vice-president. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was married in St. Louis, in 1867, to Miss Amelia Buettner, by whom he has two sons and a daughter.
Herman O. Breunert, one of the sons, is the demonstrator of microscopy in the College of Pharmacy, of Kansas City. He was born in St. Louis, April 13, 1867, edu- cated in Kansas City, and Indianapolis, Indiana, and afterward took a collegiate course at the Chicago College of Pharmacy,
graduating in the term of 1887-8. He then secured a position in the Walker & Deitz Pharmacies of Chicago, having charge of the business, and remained with them for some time, when he came to Kansas City and has been in business with his fa- ther. In 1894 he was made demonstrator of microscopy in the College of Pharmacy, of Kansas City.
Mr. Breunert is a young man well posted in his business and has held some important positions in Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. He is yet a young man with a bright future before him. He is a member of sev- eral social clubs.
ON. H. S. JULIAN, an attorney at law in Kansas City, was born in Franklin county, Kentucky, in July, 1862, and is a son of Alexan- der and Elizabeth (Laughlin) Julian, na- tives of that state. The ancestry on both sides participated in the Revolution and in the war of 1812. They were planters in an early day. The father of our subject was a farmer by vocation and died in 1892, and his mother died in 1877. They had a fam- ily of seven children, our subject being fifth in order of birth.
He was brought up on the farm, attend- ing country schools. He entered the Ken- tucky Military Institute, at which he grad- uated in 1881, and then entered the Uni- versity of Michigan, where he graduated in 1884, taking literary and law courses. He came to Kansas City in 1885 and was ad- mitted to the bar, and has since been in practice, without a partner, having built up a very lucrative business. He is one of the most able young lawyers of Kansas City. In 1890 he was elected to the state legisla -.
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ture, and re-elected in 1894. In that body he served on the judiciary committee, the committees on ways and means, on elec- tions, on fees and salaries, on agriculture and on commerce. He framed the bill reg- ulating the sale of franchises in cities, which passed both houses and became a law. He had a warehouse bill passed regulating ware- house receipts and compelling warehouse men to give bond for security of goods de- posited with them. Also he had the law passed known as the "usury law," also a law in reference to parks and boulevards of first-class cities. He also had a law passed regulating the return of legal writs, allowing any case to be docketed for trial fifteen days after being brought into counties or cities constituting a judicial circuit of themselves, which act was vetoed by Governor Francis. Mr. Julian has been a good lawmaker and has the esteem of all citizens.
He is a member of the Knights of Pyth- ias, also of the Kansas City Club; and he is politically a democrat.
3 AMES C. RIEGER, lawyer, was born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Sep- tember 30, 1854, a son of Henry and Frances J. (Davis) Rieger. She was a native of North Carolina and he of Baden Baden, Germany. Ten children were born to them, -nine sons and one daughter, and eight sons are now living: Agustine W., Joel H., William V., James C., Lawrence F., David V., Charles F. and John J.
The father of our subject was a loco- motive engineer many years and then a mer- chant in North Carolina; he is now retired and lives in Kansas City, at 1213 Wyandotte street. He came to America at the age of fourteen years, with his parents, who located
in Baltimore, and he grew to manhood there and then moved to North Carolina. He was city and county treasurer at Beaufort, that state, also school director some years. He was reared a Roman Catholic and she an Episcopalian. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a native of Germany, and his maternal grandfather was Joel Henry Davis, a farmer of Welsh descent.
Mr. James C. Rieger was raised in Beau- fort, North Carolina, and received his early schooling there, but graduated at the Kan- sas City high school in 1873. He then at- tended the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating there in 1876. He studied law with Judge Brumback in 1874 and later in the. law department of the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1876, and began practicing in Kansas City, and has practiced here continu- ously ever since, principally corporation work. He was attorney for the C. B. & O. system for a number of years.
On the 27th day of October, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss Lily A. Meily, daughter of John E. and Rebecca (Henney) Meily. Four children were born to them, namely: Earl C., Minnie L., Churchill W. and Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Rieger are members of the Episcopalian church.
He is a Mason, and politically a demo- crat. He was mayor of Westport for three years,-from 1891 to 1894. He was in Florida at the time of his nomination and knew nothing of it till notified afterward; had no opposition; was re-elected in 1892, receiving 600 votes out of 700; and was chairman of the city executive committee of his party two years and a member for eight years. He is the president of the Bank of Westport and a stockholder in a number of
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manufacturing and other businesscs. His home is at 3921 Wyandotte street, West- port. He has been a resident of Kansas City for twenty-four years.
a ILLIAM S. COWHERD, attor- ney at law, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, September I, 1860, and was a son of Charles J. and Emily (Strother) Cowherd. His fa- ther was a native of Virginia, and his moth- er of Kentucky. Charles J. Cowherd came to Missouri with his father in 1836 and set- tled in Jackson county, where they were among the pioneers. The great-grandfather of our subject was a captain under Gen- eral Nathaniel Greene in the Revolution. The family wcre prominent in the early days, and their first western representatives were among the first settlers here in Jack- son county. On the mother's side some of the male members were distinguished phy- sicians. The father of our subject was a farmer before the war and subsequently a merchant. He dicd in 1892. They had a family of three children: Sallic A., Mrs. E. H. Graves, of St. Joseph, Missouri, and William S., who was raised and educatcd in this county.
He graduated in the classical course in the University of Missouri, with the degree of A. B., in 1881, and graduated in law at the same school in 1882. He began prac- tice the same year in the office of Tichenor, Warner & Dean, with whom he remained until the spring of 1883, when he went into partnership with John J. Campbell, under the firm name of Cowherd & Campbell, which continued one year, when Mr. Camp- bell was elected city attorney, and in Jan- uary, 1885, Mr. Cowherd was appointed as-
sistant prosecuting attorney under Mayor Woodson, which position he filled for four years. In 1888 he was a candidate for the nomination of prosecuting attorney, but was defeated. Returning to private practice he became a member of the firm of Teasdalc, Ingraham & Cowherd, which is still in ex- istence.
Mr. Cowherd is an able young lawyer and has built up a lucrative practice. He is well known throughout the county. In the spring of 1890 he was appointed first assistant counselor and held office for two years. In 1892 he was elected mayor of Kansas City and held the office for one term of two ycars. He has taken great in- terest in politics, and although a young man has many strong and influential friends. Politically Mr. Cowherd is a democrat.
Hc was married at Denver, Colorado, in 1889, to Miss Jessie L. Kitchen, a native of Westport, Missouri.
0 R. NEWTON McVEY, house sur- geon, City Hospital, Kansas City, is a native of Indianapolis, In- diana, and was born October II, 1845, a son of Jamcs M. and Chloe C. (Brown) McVey, father a native of Indiana and the mother of New York state. His father, a farmer by occupation, came west in 1882, settled in Brookings county, Dako- ta, and died in March, 1895. The mother of our subject is yct living. His father was at onc timc a member of the Indiana legis- lature, and was a prominent man in politics. They had five children, of whom three are living: Dr. Newton, William R., deceased, formerly a member of battery B, first heavy artillery, Indiana volunteers; Ella, wife of John Irwin, in Dakota; Dersa, wife of Ncl-
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son Shimer, of Indianapolis, Indiana; and Myron, who was killed at an explosion at the fair grounds at Indianapolis a number of years ago.
Our subject was raised in Indianapolis, where he was educated. £ He attended As- bury University, at Greencastle, Indiana, for two years, and then entered the Medical College of Indiana and graduated in 1875. In 1864 he enlisted in the one hundred and thirty-second Indiana volunteer infantry, company C, and served a short time, and then enlisted in the one hundred and sev- enty-first Indiana volunteer infantry, com- pany A, and served until the close of the war. He was only eighteen years of age at the time of his enlistment.
After graduating in medicine he located at Alma, Wisconsin, where he practiced for fourteen years. He was a private student under Dr. Nicholas Senn, the noted surgeon now of Chicago, for four months, taking in- struction in surgery. He also received a post-graduate training at Rush Medical College, of Chicago, in 1883. While living in Wisconsin he was president of the Wa- basha County Medical Society and a inem- ber of the Wisconsin and Minnesota Medi- cal Societies.
He came to Kansas City in 1889 and has since resided here, and for two years has been pathologist at St. Joseph's Hospital. He is one of the ablest diagnosticians in the. west, but of that reticent nature that avoids publicity. He was appointed house surgeon of the City Hospital in May, 1895, and has since filled his position inost ably. The Doctor is professor of bacteriology and microscopy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City, Kansas; also pro- fessor of bacteriology in the Kansas City Veterinary College, of Kansas City, Mis-
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