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- JOSEPH GOLDBERG.
Joseph Goldberg, senior member of the firm of J. Goldberg & Sons, structural steel workers, was born in Austria, May 12, 1864. His father, Meyer Goldberg, was a silversmith who during the childhood of his son Joseph removed to Russia and there the lad attended school. Before leaving Russia Mr. Goldberg was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Polak and to them have been born seven children: Rebecca, who is now the wife of Joseph Roseman, of Kansas City; Jacob; Max; Meyer; Harry; Lillie; and Minnie. To Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg had been born their eldest daughter when they left Russia and crossed the Atlantic to the new world. They made their home for a time in New York city and in Brooklyn.
Before leaving Russia Mr. Goldberg had attended school to some extent and had became a sheet metal worker, being employed on the construction of high buildings and church steeples. After coming to America he worked by the day for two years and during that period he attended night school in order to acquaint himself with the English language. From New York he went to Seattle, Wash- ington, and spent some time in the northwest, where he continued to work at his trade. The year 1898 witnessed his arrival in Kansas City, since which time he has been engaged in structural steel work. For a time he was in partnership with L. J. Coen and after the memorable flood in Kansas City carried on business inde- pendently until his sons grew to manhood, when they were admitted to partner- ships. Mr. Goldberg gave his children excellent educational advantages, thus qualifying them for life's practical and responsible duties and the sons have received thorough business training under the direction of their father. The plant was largely used for turning out war material while America was in the world con- flict with Germany. The son Max served as sergeant and was assigned to Camp Funston. The firm of Goldberg & Son helped complete the contract, under an emergency, of laying the steam pipe for heating the barracks at Camp Funston in November, 1917. They also during that period fabricated steel for the locomotive repair shops at Logansport, Indiana, which entailed the manufacture of ahout one thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of steel, of which Austin & Company of Cleveland, Ohio, were the engineers.
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The company has supplied the steel for many great buildings in Kansas City
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and in other parts of the country. In Kansas City their structural steel has been used in the building of the plant of the Southwest Milling Company, the Bray hotel, the public library, the Ford Motor Company, the First Presbyterian church, Father Key's church and various school buildings, including the Bancroft, Lin- wood, Benjamin Harrison, Longfellow, Gladstone, Switzer, Thackeray, Whittier, Mark Twain, Kump, Garfield and Sugar Creek. At Newton, Kansas, they erected the high school building and have also put up extension buildings in Oklahoma, Texas and Iowa.
Mr. Goldberg takes an active interest in civic affairs and lends the weight of his aid and influence to all projects for the public good. He belongs to the Cham- ber of Commerce and is a member of the Builders' Association of Kansas City. Fraternally he is a Mason, loyally following the teachings and purposes of the craft. While he has been a very successful man, he takes little credit to himself, saying that the right kind of a man can succeed under most any conditions and anywhere. Nevertheless those who know aught of his career recognize the fact that his advance- ment has resulted entirely from his industry, determination and indefatigable energy and his life should serve to encourage and inspire others, showing what can be accomplished through individual effort.
RICHARD SIMRALL HAWES.
Richard Simrall Hawes is the senior vice president of the First National Bank of St. Louis and that as a financier his vision is broad, his policies well defined and his methods progressive is indicated in the fact that in 1919 he was elected to the presi- dency of the American Bankers Association, the highest honor to be conferred by the banking fraternity of the country. His opinions have long carried weight and influ- ence among the leading American financiers for the soundness of his judgment and his enterprise have been manifest in a career that has brought him from the humble position of bank messenger to a position of administrative and executive control of one of the largest financial concerns of the Mississippi valley.
Mr. Hawes was born in Covington, Kentucky, December 15, 1873, and is a direct descendant of the Nicholas, Carter, Smith and other prominent old families of Vir- ginia. His grandfather in the paternal line was Hon. Richard Hawes, of Paris, Ken- tucky, at one time governor of that state. His parents were Smith N. and Susan Elizabeth (Simrall) Hawes. The former was a merchant of Covington and during the Civil war served as a captain of the Confederate army while his father was acting as Confederate governor of the state and at different periods was also a judge in Kentucky and representative of his district in congress. The son was a youth of nineteen when he joined the First Regiment of Missouri Confederates, serving through- out the entire period of the war. He passed away in 1889 at the age of forty-five years, in St. Louis, Missouri where he had resided for several years prior to his death, during which time he had engaged in the wholesale lumber business. His wife was born in Madison, Indiana, was a representative of an old Kentucky family and was of French Huguenot descent in the maternal line while on the paternal side she came of Scotch ancestry traced back to the fifteenth century. She died in St. Louis in 1899 at the age of fifty-four years. She had but two children, Richard S. and Major Harry B. Hawes.
The former was educated in the public schools of St. Louis and of Kansas City, Missouri, and at the age of fifteen years started out to provide for his own support by securing employment with the Altman Jewelry Company of Kansas City. In 1889 he became connected with the Mississippi River Commission at St. Louis and his con- nection with the hanking business dates from 1892, at which time he became messenger for the Chemical National Bank of St. Louis. In March, 1897, this bank was con- solidated with the Third National Bank and Mr. Hawes advanced through various positions in that bank until he was made vice president in 1911 and became senior vice president in 1918. In July, 1919, the Third National Bank consolidated with the St. Louis Union and Mechanics American Banks to form the First National Bank of St. Louis and Mr. Hawes is now senior vice president of the newly created organ- ization. He has long figured prominently among the bankers of the state and nation and in 1912 was elected treasurer of the Missouri Bankers Association, while in 1913
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he was chosen vice president and in 1914 was elected to the presidency. In 1915 be was made a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association and was appointed to the finance committee. In 1916 he became a member of the admin- istrative committee of the American Bankers Association, in 1918 was elected to the vice presidency, was made chairman of the finance committee and in 1919 was elected president which office he is now holding.
The banking interests of Mr. Hawes, however, constitute but one phase of his public activity. He has always been a stalwart champion of interests and movements which relate to the public welfare of St. Louis and has done most effective work in connection with the Chamber of Commerce. In 1912 he was made chairman of the members conference and the following year was elected to the vice presidency of the chamber. In 1916 he was re-elected to that office and in 1917 was made president. He has been president of the Association Reserve City Bankers, was chairman of the free bridge campaign and also chairman of the Buy in St. Louis League. In 1916 as America more and more closely approached a break with Germany he was made chairman of various war activities and in 1916 became chairman of the bankers' com- mittee on Liberty loans, of the Red Cross and other war activities. In 1918 he served as chairman of the United War Work Campaign and was chairman of the Home Guard committee. He likewise served as state treasurer of the United War Work Campaign and was a captain of the Y. M. C. A. drive.
On the 30th of June, 1897, Mr. Hawes was married to Miss Mary Theresa Kemp, a native of St. Louis and a daughter of Thomas.and Jennie (Hart) Kemp, the latter a native of Dublin, Ireland. Her father is now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Hawes have been born four children: Richard S., Jr., Mary Bartow, Robert N. and Susan Elizabeth, all natives of St. Louis.
Mr. Hawes is a member of the St. Louis Club, the Missouri Athletic Association, the Algonquin and several other social clubs, but while well known in these organ- izations he is a man of domestic habits and next to his home enjoys social affairs among his intimate friends rather than the larger activities of the club. He is a man of pleasing personality whose life has been characterized by industry, who is fair and impartial in dealing with employes and who has ever manifested the ability to approach a subject with an open mind.
ISAAC H. CADWALLADER, M. D.
Time gives the perspective that places each individual and each event in its proper relation to the history of the world. The memory of some men passes into oblivion while that of others becomes brighter as the years go by owing to their valuable contribution to the world's work. Such is the record of Dr. Isaac H. Cad -. wallader who for many years was in charge of the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium of St. Louis and who was a specialist on gynecology and displayed expert knowledge and skill in the field of professional duty. The story of his life contains much that is of exceptional value and sets an example that may well be followed by younger representatives of the profession.
Dr. Isaac H. Cadwailader was born in Warren county, August 29, 1850, and was the son of Dr. John T. and Rachel (Farquhar) Cadwallader who moved with their family to Iliinois. The son Isaac, therefore, became a pupil in the public schools of Lincoln, Illinois, and later continued his education in the Lincoln University from which he was graduated in 1868. In the choice of his profession he followed a course pursued by several of his ancestors including his father, and was, as it were, to the manner born. At an early age he became interested in the practice of medi- cine in which some of the representatives of his family had won fame and promi- nence and he determined to enter the medical profession with the hope of himself making valuable contribution to the world's work through that avenue. A contem- porary writer has said of him, "From his early years all his aspirations were in that direction, a predisposition he may be said to have inherited, from his father; while from his mother-a woman of rare force of character, yet withal gentle, unassuming, self-sacrificing, ever seeking the welfare of others rather than her own-he received as a precious heritage those ideals which have characterized and dominated his life and which should be the peculiar endowment of all who aspire to that nobiest of
DR. AND MRS. ISAAC H. CADWALLADER
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professions, whose guerdon is humanity and whose watchwords are loyalty, service and sacrifice."
Dr. Cadwallader pursued a course in pharmacy as well as a thorough course in the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in preparation for his professional duties and won his M. D. degree upon graduation with the class of 1875. In the same year, be opened an office in St. Louis and won success and prominence in the general prac- tlce of medicine, his business assuming large proportions as the years passed by. To his scientific knowledge and training he added broad human sympathy which contributed much to the understanding of his patients and his consequent success. In 1891 he was made a member of the medical staff of the Missouri Baptist Sani- tarium and his valuable hospital work lead to his appointment in 1900 as physician in charge of that institution. He became the director of one of the large and fine hospitals of St. Louis. The brick buildings are commodious and stand in the midst of a three acre tract of land made beautiful with fine shade trees and flowers. Dr. Cadwallader surrounded himself with an able staff of physicians and surgeons and more than that he had the assistance and wise council of his wife, who was made superintendent of the institution. In fact Dr. Cadwallader always attributed much of the success of the sanitarium to Mrs. Cadwallader, whose kindly nature, whose tact and sagacity were continuously manifest in her work. The activities of the hospital were thoroughly systematized and a New York health report called atten- tion to the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium an "an institution second to none of its kind in the country, where high quality in such institutions is readily conceded by the medical profession of the entire civilized world. From whatsoever viewpoint we consider it, the establishment in question is entitled to foremost rank, and a con- sideration of its essential features will demonstrate good reason for singling it out from among similar establishments in St. Louis.
"Primarily, the selection of a location for this institution indicates noteworthy judgment, for while wisely situated sufficiently near leading car lines to be readily accessible, it is located far enough away from the hurly-burly of downtown to escape the dust, noise and confusion accompanying the daily traffic and business turmoil naturally incident to a large city. Moreover, its environment is of healthful char- acter, and this fact, in connection with most excellent advantages of drainage and readability to ventilation, gives the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium decided sanitary features not often found.
"In point of equipment this sanitarium deserves unqualified praise, for few of the magnificently endowed hospitals found in the eastern states are as thoroughly prepared in this respect, and we know of none in our own city of New York that has more promptly availed itself of modern hospital equipment or demonstrates greater zeal in securing for its use the auxiliaries for treatment offered in the steady progress of advanced surgical knowledge and evolution in the field of medicine. Every authentic appliance recognized by the leaders of the mastermarch of curative science is made use of; every commendable feature is utilized, and keeping, as it does, in close touch with the advancement of the science of medicine, nothing for the benefit or the convenience of its clientele is overlooked; and herein is found one of the salient reasons for the popularity of the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium both with the laity and with the recognized leaders in the medical profession throughout the state and even adjacent states.
"Dr. Pancoast once declared that the physician offered one-third and the nurse offered two-thirds toward the recovery of the patient, and conceding the truth of this statement, there is but small cause for wonder at the remarkable successful record of this sanitarium, the nursing afforded is such as to exact praise from every physician familiar with the routine work of the corps of trained and intelligent nurses connected with this institution. With neither space nor inclination for per- sonal eulogium, we cannot but mention the recognized skill and high personal worth of the physician in charge and the earnest, conscientious efforts of the superintend- ent that have aided so materially in placing this establishment in the high position this institution occupies. These are some of the essential features that help make. it a leader among its kind and entitle it to the unreserved editorial endorsement of the New York Health Reports."
In his profession, Dr. Cadwallader long specialized on gynecology and obstetrics and became a recognized authority on that branch of professional service. He car- ried his researches far and wide and learned many scientific principles which he
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generously shared with his professional brethren. He belonged to the St. Louis Medical Society, Missouri State Medical and American Medical Associations, and through their proceedings kept in touch with the advanced thought of the profession.
It was in 1896 that Dr. Cadwallader was united in marriage in St. Louis to Miss Ella C. Brown, a sister of George Warren Brown, chairman of the board of the Brown Shoe Company, and of the late A. D. Brown of the Hamilton and Brown Shoe Company, a most noted philanthropist, both brothers being pioneer shoe manu- facturers of St. Louis, their efforts being a most potent force in making this one of the great shoe manufacturing centers of the country. Dr. Cadwallader was ap- pointed head of the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium and Mrs. Cadwallader was made superintendent, and throughout her connection with the institution manifested marked executive ability and administrative force. She studied every phase of the hospital life and her ideas were at once practical and progressive. Dr. Cadwallader was continually giving her credit for the successful development of the institution. However, their aims and interests were one and their labors were most harmoniously carried on to the benefit of the sanitarium which they represented. Both Dr. and Mrs. Cadwallader had membership in the Third Baptist Church and the doctor attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Masonry. He belonged also to the Missouri Athletic Club, the Amateur Athletic Association and the Ohio Society. His associates in professional and in private life ever spoke of him in terms of the warmest regard. His philanthropy ever constituted an even balance to his scientific knowledge and professional skill. He passed away July 22, 1919, but it will be long ere his influence ceases to be a factor for good in his profession and in the lives of those with whom he came in contact.
REV. FREDERICK G. HOLWECK.
For seventeen years Rev. Frederick G. Holweck has presided over St. Frances de Sales church of St. Louis as its pastor and through this period has accomplished great good in the organization of the work of the church and the extension of its influence among the people of his parish. Rev. Mr. Holweck was born in Wiesloch, Baden, Germany, on the 29th of December, 1856, and is a son of Sebastian and Mary Holweck, who came to the United States in 1886, settling in Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri. In 1888 they removed to St. Louis, where they resided until called to their final rest.
Frederick G. Holweck acquired his early education in Ettenhelm, Germany, where he attended the Real Gymnasium, there studying for three years. He next entered the Freiburg Gymnasium, where he continued his classical course and subsequently completed the course at Karlsruhe Gymnasium in 1875. In the year 1876 he came to the United States and entered the Salesianum at St. Francis, near Milwaukee, Wis- consin, there pursuing his studies in philosophy and theology. On the 27th of June, 1880, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Heiss, of La Cross, Wisconsin, and following his ordination he served for a few months in the absence of the priest, at Jackson, Cape Girardeau county, Missouri. In November he was sent to Jefferson City as assistant to Father Hoog, pastor of St. Peter's church, and in April, 1883, was appointed assistant at St. Francis de Sales church in St. Louis. In August, 1884, he was assigned to the pastorate of St. Joseph's church at Louisiana, Missouri, and in December, 1885, he was sent to River aux Vaaes, Missouri, as pastor of SS. Phillp and . James parish. He remained there until July, 1888, when he returned to St. Francis de Sales church of St. Louis as assistant and remained in that position for four years. On the 27th of May, 1892, he was appointed the first pastor of St. Aloysiua church and remained in that position for eleven years. On the 27th of May, 1903, he was appointed pastor of St. Francis de Sales church, over which he has since presided. For the third time he thus took up his labors in this parish and has remained its pastor for seventeen years. While in River aux Vases he built a parish house and school. At St. Aloysius he completed the church structure and built the basement for a new church. He also was instrumental in erecting a school building and a Sisters' house at that place. Since assuming his pastoral labors at St. Francis de Sales he completed the upper structure of the church, which is now one of the finest eccleslastical edifices in the city of St. Louis, having been erected at a cost of
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more than three hundred thousand dollars and at a time when all building materials were much cheaper than today. He has also built the Sisters' house and in September, 1920, opened a free school in the parish which has an enrollment of about seven hundred and fifty pupils. The parish numbers twelve hundred families, this heing one of the largest in the city.
St. Francis de Sales' church was founded April 22, 1867, and dedicated on the 24th of May, 1868. The first pastor was Rev. Louis Lay, who officiated there from 1867 through the year of 1868. The second pastor, Rev. P. Wigger, assumed his duties in 1869 and continued his pastorate throughout the succeeding years until 1878, build- Ing the first schoolhouse and establishing the convent of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. After his death his assistant, Rev. P. I. Lotz, was appointed pastor and served from 1879 until 1903. He enlarged the church and built the second schoolhouse In 1888. On August 11, 1895, the cornerstone of the new church was laid, the plans of which were designed by E. Siebertz in Berlin, Germany, the architect being Joseph Conradi. In order to finish the basement of the church it was necessary to tear down the old church, this work being providentially done by a cyclone in the year 1896. In 1899 the new parochial residence was built. Father Lotz died May 14, 1903, and one of his former assistants, Rev. F. G. Holweck, was appointed his successor. The new residence for the Sisters was built by him in 1904, and the following year the congregation resolved to finish the upper church but the original plans being some- what enlarged the undertaking was not resumed until April 6, 1907. The church, which is one of the largest in St. Louis, was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day in the year 1908.
Mr. Holweck is a member of St. Francis de Sales Benevolent Society, the largest Catholic benevolent society in the country. He is also president of the Married Ladies' Christian Mottoes Society, which has a membership of six hundred and thirty-two. He is likewise a member of the Western Catholic Union and the work of the church is thoroughly organized in every department and great good is being accomplished among the people of his parish, who are cooperating heartily with him in his efforts to upbuild the church and advance the Catholic cause in the city.
CHRISTY M. FARRAR.
Christy M. Farrar, attorney and counselor at law whose recognition of opportunity and employment of his native talents has brought him to a position of distinction as a representative of the St. Louis bar, was horn October 31, 1880, at Higginsville, Missouri. His father, Willlam C. Farrar, is a native of St. Louis and a representa- tive of one of the old pioneer families of the city originally from Carter county, Vir- ginla, and of English descent. The family was founded in the new world by Nicholas Farrar who came to America among the colonizers who established Jamestown, Virginia. The great-grandfather, Dr. Bernard G. Farrar, was the first representative of the name in Missouri. He arrived in St. Louis in 1803 and was the first American physician to settle in the city. He was also the first president of the first medical society of St. Louis and he passed away during the cholera epidemic of 1849. William C. Farrar, father of Christy M. Farrar, is mentioned at length on another page of this work. He wedded Clara Jennings, a native of St. Louis and a granddaughter of James G. Jennings who was a prominent agriculturist and in whose honor Jennings Station was named. The family came originally from Virginia and is of English lineage. To Mr. and Mrs. William C. Farrar were born two children: Christy M., of this review; and a daughter, Katherine, at home.
Christy M. Farrar began his education in the public schools, passing through con- secutive grades to the high school and afterward attending Washington University from which he was graduated in 1904 with the LL. B. degree. He was admitted to practice, however, in May, 1903, and with the exception of the years 1917 and 1918, while serving with the army, has been continuously in active and successful practice, concentrating his attention upon civil law. He is a member and secretary of the St. Louis Bar Association.
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