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and organized the Little & Hays Investment Company. He married May R. Simon, a native of St. Louis and a daughter of the late Henry T. and Lucy ( Hall) Simon, the latter's father being Dr. Benjamin Harrison Hall, a prominent physician of Louisville, Kentucky. Henry T. Simon, the maternal grandfather of Alden H. Little, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and was a representative of an old and prom- inent family of that state. Mrs. Little is still living and makes her home in St. Louis. In the family were three children: Alden H .; Louise L., now the wife of Cary N. Weisiger, Jr., of St. Louis; and Margaret L., the wife of William B. Marsh, of New York city.
Alden H. Little was educated in private schools of St. Louis, in Smith Academy, in the St. Louis high school and in Cornell University, class of 1902. Prior to enter- ing college he was in the employ of the Little & Hays Investment Company for one year and thereafter in 1901 he reentered the employ of the company as secretary, becoming vice president thereof in 1913. In 1916 he entered business on his own account, organizing the firm of Alden H. Little & Company, specializing in municipal bonds. On May 1, 1918, he became connected with the Mortgage Trust Company of St. Louis aud organized the municipal bond department, of which he has since been in charge, becoming a vice president of the company in January, 1919. He belongs to the Bond Men's Club of St. Louis, of which at one time he was presi- dent, filling that office in 1917.
On the 7th of April, 1904, Mr. Little was married in St. Louis to Miss Blanche F. Niedringhaus, a daughter of F. G. and Dena (Key) Niedringhaus. Mr. Niedring- haus was at that time president of the National Enameling and Stamping Company. Mr. and Mrs. Little have two children: Marjorie Alden, who was born February 4, 1905; and William Alden, whose birth occurred in St. Louis, May 23, 1908. They reside at 4650 Pershing avenue.
Mr. Little was a member of the Home Guard during the war, serving with Company E of the First Missouri Regiment with the rank of sergeant. He belongs to Tuscan Lodge No. 360, A. F. & A. M., and St. Louis Chapter No. 8, R. A. M. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and is also a member of the St. Louis Country Club and Racquet Club. Mr. Little has always voted the repub- lican ticket in national politics and is a member of the Episcopal church.
HUDSON TALBOTT, M. D.
Dr. Hudson Talbott, a St. Louis surgeon with offices in the Metropolitan building, was born at Fairville, Saline county, Missouri, February 10, 1874. His father, the late Dr. Edward M. Talbott, was also a native of this state, his birth having occurred in Potosi, Missouri. The grandfather in the paternal line was the Rev. Nathaniel M. Talbott, a Methodist clergyman who became an early resident of Missouri. He was born in Virginia, representing one of the old families of that state. Edward M. Talbott became a physician, being graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine with the class of 1857. He was then engaged in active practice in Missouri from that year until 1903 when he retired and removed to southern Texas, passing away December 23, 1915, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He was a Civil war veteran, having served with the Confederate forces under Captain Ruxton. Soon after joining the army he was taken prisoner and was incarcerated at Alton, Illinois, and later in the Gratiot street prison in St. Louis.' At the latter place he attended professionally the federal and Confederate soldiers who were ill and wounded and was later released upon taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. He wedded Mary Mildred Hudson, a native of Virginia, where her ancestors had lived through several genera- tions. She was a daughter of Captain John M. Hudson, a prominent and well known Confederate veteran of the Civil war. It was in Saline county, Missouri, when sixteen years of age that Mary Mildred Hudson became the wife of Dr. Edward M. Talbott and to them were born ten children, eight sons and two daughters. The wife and mother passed away in 1877, when thirty-five years of age.
Dr. Hudson Talbott, the ninth in order of birth in the family, was educated in the country schools of Saline county and in the State University at Columbia, Missourl, there completing his more specifically literary course. He afterward entered upon preparation for his professional career in the Marion Sims Medical College of St.
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Louis, from which he was graduated in 1898. This school is now the medical depart- ment of St. Louis University. Prior to entering the medical college, however, he had taught school in Saline county and was also associated with his father in the drug business. Before his graduation he served for a time as interne in the Rebekah Hos- pital at St. Louis and thus gained broad and valuable experience, while later he became interne in the St. Louis City Hospital. In 1899 he entered upon the private practice of medicine and surgery, in which he continued until 1910. In that year he was made associate surgeon in the Rebekah Hospital and so continued until the institution was closed about 1912 when he became surgeon of the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium staff and has since maintained his connection in that capacity. Since 1910 he has con- centrated his efforts and attention entirely upon surgery and is an eminent repre- sentative of this branch of the profession. He belongs to the St. Louis City Hospital Alumni Association, to the Missouri State Medical Association, the St. Louis Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
On the 25th of June, 1902, Dr. Talbott was married in Kansas City, to Miss Frances Page Tabb, a native of Romney, West Virginia, and a daughter of Robert Peyton and Mary (Vandiver) Tabb, both representatives of prominent old families of Virginia. Mrs. Tabb's brother, Charles H. Vindiver, was a soldier of the Confederate army during the Civil war and at one time was state senator of Missouri. She was also a cousin of Willard D. Vandiver, who was for seven and a half years in charge of the United States sub-treasury at St. Louis, which was discontinued January 5, 1921. To Dr. and Mrs. Talbott have been born three children: Mary Frances, born January 7, 1904, in St. Louis, was graduated from Hosmer Hall and is now a student in the Washing- ton University; Charles Hudson, born October 29, 1908, in St. Louis, and Peyton Tabb, born April 29, 1910, are at home. The family residence is at No. 4229 Washington boulevard and they have a country home, Riverview Garden, situated in St. Louis county. The religious faith of the family is indicated in their membership in the Third Baptist church of which Dr. Talbott is now a deacon and chairman of the finance committee. He is interested in all those forces which make for the benefit and uplift of the individual and the progress of the community. His success in his profession is due in large measure not only to his broad scientific knowledge but also to his strong humanitarian spirit which prompts the most conscientious effort in behalf of his fellowmen.
CHARLES W. S. COBB.
Charles W. S. Cobb, president of the Glencoe Lime & Cement Company of St. Louis, was born in Rockland, Maine, October 6, 1849, and is a brother of Hon. William T. Cobb, former governor of Maine. His father, Francis Cobb, now deceased, was also a native of the Pine Tree state and a representative of one of the old fam- ilies there of Scotch-Irish descent. He engaged in the manufacture of lime and was also active in the granite and shipbuilding business, meeting with substantial suc- cess as the years passed on. His entire life was spent in Maine and he was a man of much more than local influence. He became active in politics, his opinions carry- ing weight in republican councils in the state, yet he never sought nor desired public office. He passed away in 1890, at the age of seventy-three years, respected and honored by all with whom he had been associated through the course of an active and useful career. He wedded Martha J. Chandler, also a native of Maine, and she, too, belonged to one of its old families, coming of Scotch-Irish ancestry. She died in 1895 at the age of seventy-five years. Their family numbered eleven chil- dren, six sons and five daughters.
Charles W. S. Cobb, who was the fifth in order of birth in the family, was educated in the public schools of Rockland, Maine, which he attended to the age of twenty-one when he was employed in a grocery store. A desire to try his fortune in the west led him to remove to St. Louis in February, 1881. His father had previously purchased the properties of the present Glencoe Lime & Cement Company at Glen- coe, St. Louis county, the business having been established by the firm of Goetz & Cobb in 1881. In 1890 the Glencoe Lime & Cement Company was incorporated and Charles W. S. Cobb has since been the president. This is one of the largest manu-
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facturing enterprises of the kind in the state, the business having now assumed exten- sive proportions. Mr. Cobb has bent every energy toward the development and upbuilding of the business, and not only has the patronage of the firm steadily expanded but throughout the entire period the company has maintained an unassail- able reputation for integrity and enterprise.
On the 15th of June, 1880, in Augusta, Maine, Mr. Cobb was married to Miss Sarah H. Haskell, a native of the Pine Tree state and a daughter of Erastus and Caroline Haskell. Two children have been born of this marriage, Ruth B. and Helen C. The elder daughter was a member of the Barnes Hospital Unit during the World war, serving in France throughout the period of America's connection with the allies.
Mr. Cobb in young manhood was a member of the staff of Governor Cyrus Davis of Maine, thus serving about 1880. In politics he is a stanch republican, giving unfaltering allegiance to the party yet never desiring office as a reward for party fealty. He is, however, keenly interested in public affairs and is now one of the directors of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the City Club and to the Pilgrim Congregational church, of which he is one of the deacons. His life is actuated by many sterling principles and wherever he is known he commands the goodwill, confidence and respect of his fellowmen and especially of his business colleagues and contemporaries.
JAMES THOMAS McANULTY.
James Thomas McAnulty, vice president and general manager of the Concrete Steel Fire Proofing Company with offices in the Syndicate Trust building in St. Louis, is a native son of the city in which he resides, his birth having here occurred August 17, 1872. His father, James A. McAnulty, was also born in St. Louis, his natal year being 1841, while his life record covers the intervening period to 1916. He became by occupation a granier of woodwork but during the Civil war his time was devoted to the interests of his country which he served as a drummer boy. He married Mary C. Kernan who was of Irish and German lineage, their marriage being celebrated in St. Louis in 1868. They became the parents of three sons and three daughters, all of whom are living.
James T. McAnulty, who was the second child of the family, pursued his educa- tion in Christian Brothers College receiving an equivalent to a high school course. At the age of eighteen years he became associated with his father who was in the work of graining wood and continued with him in that occupation to the age of twenty-seven. He next became representative of the Barber Asphalt Paving Com- pany of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acting as their agent in St. Louis to the age of thirty-two years or until 1904. He then became a salesman for the International Supply Company which he represented until 1913 when he organized the Building Material Company of which he became secretary and general manager, continuing to control the interests of that concern in his official capacity until 1917. In the latter year he became manager for the Concrete Steel Fire Proofing Company which had just been organized and he is now the vice president and general manager. The com- pany is engaged in the sale of reinforced steel known as Havermeyer bars, used in concrete work. They have had a very successful business and cover the territory of St. Louis and a large district in Southern Illinois and the eastern half of Missouri, in which regions their patronage is steadily increasing.
On the 5th of October, 1905, Mr. McAnulty was married to Miss Florence Haynes, a representative of an old English family and a daughter of Thomas and Mary Cecelia Haynes. They have become the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters; Helen; Florence; Mary; John; James; and George.
Mr. McAnulty's company received a diploma from the secretary of war in recog- nition of services rendered in the provision of all materials needed by the government in connection with the prosecution of war with Germany. Mr. McAnulty served on various war committees and did much to aid in financing the government by promoting the sale of Liberty bonds and advancing various war drives. He is a member of the Catholic church and belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He is also identified with the Chamber of Commerce, with the Amicorum Club, with the Automobile Club and
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the City Club. Moreover, he is well known in musical circles, possessing a fine tenor voice and has been connected with church choirs of St. Louis for the last thirty years. He does not hesitate to give his aid where he can advance the interests of his fellow- men and cooperated heartily in all movements for the general good as well as for the uplift of the individual. In his own career there is much that is worthy of credit and of emulation for through persistent effort that has led to steady advancement step by step he has reached the vice presidency of an important commercial concern and his life history shows what can be accomplished through individual effort intelli- gently directed.
OSCAR HERF.
Oscar Herf, president of the Herf & Frerichs Chemical Company of St. Louis, was born in Kreuznach, Germany, March 20, 1846. His father, the late Ludwig Herf, was a native of Germany and resided there throughout his entire life. He was successful in business and passed away in 1870, at the age of sixty-five years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Magdalena Weinzheimer, died in 1882, at the age of seventy-five. They had a family of three children.
Oscar Herf, the only surviving representative of the family, was educated in his native city and at Liege, Belgium. In 1862 he removed to Antwerp, in Belgium, and was there engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he successfully followed until 1865. He then went to Glasgow, Scotland, where he was in business until 1873. Through the succeeding decade he resided in London, England, and in Germany and on the expiration of that period came to the new world, arriving in New York on the 30th of April, 1883. He later returned to Germany but in 1884 again came to the United States and made his way direct to St. Louis, where he entered the chemical business in 1886. From a small beginning he has developed one of the largest ammonia manufactories of the country and employs about eighty people in the manufacturing plant, while the house is represented on the road and by its clerical force to the number of thirty people. The business has thus steadily advanced under the guidance and wise direction of Mr. Herf, who is an acknowledged leader in his line.
On the 30th of April, 1884, Mr. Herf was married in St. Louis to Miss Ida H. Haarstick, a native of this city and a daughter of Henry C. and Elise (Hoppe) Haarstick. Mr. Herf is a member of the St. Louis Club, the Noonday Club and the St. Louis Country Club, his appreciation for the social amenities of life thus finding expression. Not only by reason of his scholastic training in his native land but by reason of his broad travel and wide experience, Mr. Herf has become a cultured gentleman, looking at life from a broad standpoint and interested in all those ques- tions of vital concern to mankind.
CHARLES F. PRANTE.
Charles F. Prante, who is engaged in the grain and feed business as senior partner in the firm of Charles F. Prante & Company of St. Louis, was born June 29, 1868. in the city which is still his home, his parents being Henry and Louise (Rade) Prante, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father came to Amer- ica in 1844 and engaged in contract work, taking many contracts for city street work. He died in 1878 and his wife has also passed away. They were married in Germany before emigrating to the new world.
Charles F. Prante was educated in the public schools, in the Toensfeld private school and in the Bryant & Stratton Business College. He started out in the busi- ness world with the Smith & Owen Printing Company in the capacity of bookkeeper and occupied that position for several years. He then turned his attention to the feed and grain business on his own account at No. 214 Lesperance street and has recently removed to new and enlarged quarters at No. 2924 South Broadway. He has been engaged in business on his own account since the age of twenty-eight years and is today one of the successful grain merchants of the city.
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Mr. Prante was married in St. Louis to Miss Caroline Clara Kohler, a daughter of Richard Kohler. They have become parents of three children: Alvin C., Olivia M., and Myra. In religious belief Mr. Prante holds to the faith of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination and is now attending the Church of the Messiah. He belongs to the Merchants Exchange and to the Tower Grove Turnverein and his political allegiance is given to the republican party, which he has supported since age con- ferred upon him the right of franchise. He has never been an office seeker, how- ever, preferring at all times to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs which have been wisely directed, so that he is today numbered among the men of affluence in St. Louis.
BENJAMIN BELOVE, M. D.
Dr. Benjamin Belove, orthopedic surgeon of Kansas City, holding to advanced views and always endeavoring to stimulate activity for the prevention as well as for the cure of disease, was born in the state of Poltava, Russia, July 31, 1880, a son of Samuel and Anna Belove. The father was a teacher and business man.
Dr. Belove received his public school and high school education in Russia. In 1898 he crossed the Atlantic and made his way to Kansas City. Here he continued his studies in order to prepare himself for college. After passing the examinations he worked his way through the University Medical School and was graduated in 1904. That he provided the means for his education showed the elemental strength of his character and promised well for a successful future. For five years he engaged in the general practice of medicine and then went abroad for further study, going to Europe in 1909 and studying in Vienna, Berlin and London. He attended clinics in the finest hospitals at Vienna and for some time studied under and watched the operations of the famous Professor Lorenz. In 1910 he attended the New York Post Graduate School, also the New York Polyclinic and likewise became a post-graduate student at Harvard, specializing on general and orthopedic surgery and attending clinics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Carney and Children's Hospitals of Boston. In 1911 he returned to Kansas City and is now serving on the staff of the Wesley and Grace Hospitals, while for six years he was a member of the staff of the Kansas City General Hospital. He was orthopedic surgeon of the Kansas City General Hospital, was attending orthopedist at the Swope Clinic, was formerly pro- fessor in orthopedic surgery at the University Medical College, professor of surgery at the Kansas City Post Graduate School and was chief demonstrator of anatomy in the Kansas City Dental College. He was likewise connected with the Jewish Educa- tional and Swope Clinics and his professional work has been of a most important char- acter, especially along the line of constructive practice. For two and a half years he was surgeon at the Jackson County Jail Hospital and he belongs to the Jackson County Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Association, the Southwestern Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
Dr. Belove has prepared and read papers before various medical societies and has done much original research work on the measurement of the bones of the feet through the agency of the X-ray. In 1917 he wrote a paper entitled: "Experimental Measurement of the bones of the foot as an aid to a hetter diagnosis and more rational treatment," which was published in the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Asso- ciation for January. The object of this investigation of the measurement of the bones of the foot with the X-ray was an effort to determine more exactly the mechanical pathology in a given foot case. Heretofore no mention is found in the orthopedic literature of measuring the individual bones of the foot-skeleton as to their tendency to suhluxation or state of actual dislocation and the method of diagnosis in vogue conveys only a general idea of the mechanical pathology of the foot, which is far from satisfactory. Dr. Belove, therefore, began measuring all possible hones of the foot- skeleton. He is basing this investigation on the following theory: Without the
superimposed body-weight the mechanical pathology is at its minimum-with the superimposed weight at its maximum. Therefore the bones were measured in two ways-with and without the superimposed body-weight-and the difference in the measurements figured out. The result of these experimental measurements as recapi- tulated at the end of the article is as follows: (1) A better general understanding of
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the mechanical pathology is obtained; (2) Certain conditions of the bones of the feet overlooked by other methods of diagnosis may be ascertained by the measure- ments advocated; (3) The external and middle cuneiform bones also take part in the pathology; (4) Overcorrection of position of the foot bones is to be avoided as well as undercorrection.
Dr. Belove has not only won local recognition as an eminent orthopedist but is also known nationally in this connection. He has lectured before health boards and civic associations on health subjects and has become widely known in his championship of hygienic seats for the schools. In a paper entitled "Prevention and Treatment of Deformities," which he prepared for The Medical Herald for July, 1917, he said: “I take it for granted that all physicians understand the value of prevention of con tagious and infectious diseases. Now it is time that all physicians should also agree on this point-that it is important to prevent disabilities and deformities as well. Unfortunately we have not reached that stage yet, but just as soon as we do, then I believe we can talk to the people. We must first establish order in our own ranks; we cannot talk to the people while our house is divided. I am not at all pessimistic about our failure to do this so far, because it has taken a great deal of labor and agitation among the physicians to establish the idea of preventing infectious and contagious diseases. But now that we have passed that stage, let every one go back to his own city and agitate this question." Dr. Belove has most thoroughly discussed the question of prevention of deformities through the use of hygienic seats-seats adapted to the individual need of the pupil and to the height of the back. He has gone into the question most deeply and his researches and his illuminating addresses have awakened not only the deep interest of the profession but of the general public , as well. In his investigation work he has studied the seats provided in the schools of Boston, Massachusetts, of Basel, Switzerland, and other European countries and he sincerely believes that many deformities could be prevented under proper condi- tions-in fact not only deformities but many diseases like tuberculosis, eye strain, neuritis, orthostatic, albuminuria, compression of the heart, displacement of viscera, flat feet, weak feet and rheumatism.
In December, 1917, he published a paper in the Southwest Journal which he read before the Southwest Medical Association, entitled "Orthopedia-the Artistic Depart- ment of Medicine and Surgery." "Nature's design was to endow the individual with an artistic body: two limbs exactly alike, two arms exactly alike, the same exact set of muscles on each half of the body of the same size, strength and length. The most highly prized gift given to man is a beautiful, symmetrical and harmonious body. At this war time it is not only artistic to be strong for health's sake but also a patriotic duty, so as to give to our great and beloved country, the United States, the best that is in us. In the life of a woman it is almost superfluous to emphasize the importance of an artistic body. Even slight deformities are great hindrances to the young girl and a source of anxiety to the mother. A slight deviation of the spine, a high scapula, a deformed chest, a disharmonious foot, are serious things to the young woman. The arrangement of the internal organs must be artistic, harmonious and symmetrical. Even a slight deviation of the spine may push the heart away from its normal location and result in poor artistic arrangement and diseases of the heart. The same is true of the lungs, the liver and the kidneys. Orthostatic albuminuria is a frequent example. Inartistic arrangement of the bones of the foot or sacroiliac joint may result in rheumatism that baffles the skill of the internist and surgeon. The Since the body is moulded during school life, in order to insure the child an artistic, healthy body, the whole system of school equipment must be changed and let it be nation-wide. Let us install the most modern, hygienic furni- ture in our public schools so that we may be favorably compared with any civilized nation in the world in protecting the young generation and decreasing the number of disabled and deformed among the future citizens of our country, thereby lessening the number of the unfit to defend our great country when in dire necessity and let our slogan be 'Art in Medicine.'"
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