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On the 15th of May, 1884, in St. Louis Mr. Appel was married to Miss Mary A. Primm, a daughter of John and Minnie Primm. They now have one son, Dr. O. W. Appel. Mr. Appel votes with the republican party and is a stanch advocate of its
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principles hut has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He has spent his entire life in St. Louis and is proud of the fact that he is a Missourian. While he does not belong to any particular church no good work done in the name of charity or religion seeks his aid in vain and he never misses an opportunity to assist any denomination that solicits his support. He finds his greatest happiness in doing something to promote the happiness and welfare of children and orphans and in fur- nishing helpful and attractive amusements for them. He has always made his home in St. Louis and he also maintains a summer home on the Meramec river near the city. His life has been fraught with good deeds, as well as characterized by husi- ness successes and joy and gladness seem to radiate when he comes into any as- sembly.
EDWARD JEWETT GOODWIN, M. D.
Dr. Edward Jewett Goodwin, who since 1904 has engaged in the practice of medicine in St. Louis and who throughout the intervening period has also been editor of the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, was born at Wash- ington, Missouri, August 3, 1864, his parents being Robert Allen and Harriett Amanda (Perryman) Goodwin. In the acquirement of his education he attended the public schools and the Smith Academy, while still later he attended Washington University, from which he was graduated in 1894 with the M. D. degree.
He was associate editor of the Interstate Medical Journal of St. Louis from 1903 until 1910. In the latter year he was elected to the position of secretary of the Missouri State Medical Association and has continuously occupied this position. He belongs to the St. Louis Medical Society, the American Medical Association, to which he has been a delegate at the national meeting since 1909, to the American Academy of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and various other organizations.
His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Baptist church, while his social nature finds expression in his mem- bership in the University Club.
REV. FRANCIS BRAND.
Rev. Francis Brand, pastor of St. Aloysius Catholic church of St. Louis, was born on a farm in Taos, Cole county, Missouri, December 11, 1861, a son of Gerhard and Anna Brand, who were reared and married in Hanover, Germany. About 1840 they came to the United States, settling in Cole county, Missouri, where the father pur- chased a forty-acre farm at twenty-five cents per acre. He afterward acquired another forty-acre tract, for which he paid fifty cents per acre, and later a third tract of similar size, for which the purchase price was twenty dollars per acre. His entire life from that time was spent on this farm, which he brought under a high state of cultivation and development.
Rev. Francis Brand was educated at the Salesianum at St. Francis, near Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, where he pursued his preparatory course, also his classical studies and his course in philosophy and theology. On the 30th of May, 1885, he was ordained at St. John's church at Sixteenth and Chestnut streets. Archbishop Kenrick officiating.
Following his ordination Father Brand was made assistant at St. Francis de Sales church at Ohio and Gravois avenues, there lahoring for three years, when he was assigned to a pastorate at Charleston and to missions which included several counties. He remained there for seven years, after which he was sent to Shrews- bury Park to organize St. Michael's parish. This work he accomplished and con- tinued his labors there for three years. He was next sent to Kahoka, Clark county, where his mission covered a section of forty miles along the Keokuk & Western Railway and a width of twenty miles. In 1903 he was made pastor of St. Aloysius Catholic church in St. Louis. He erected a school building at Charleston, a parish parsonage at New Madrid, a church at Sikeston, a church and school at Oran, Mis-
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souri, a church and school at Shrewsbury Park, a church and parish house at Kahoka, and in St. Louis he has built a parsonage, a new school building and a con- vent for the Notre Dame Sisters who have charge of the school, which now numbers three hundred pupils. These buildings are the tangible and visible evidence of his untiring efforts in the development of the work of the church.
Father Brand is a member of the Western Catholic Union, also of St. Aloysius Benevolent Society and of other organizations looking to the benefit of the church and its people. He has done eminent work in the mission field and his services in his present pastorate are productive of excellent results.
JOHN E. EGGERS.
The name Eggers is of Danish origin, the first in recorded history being one Chris- tian Eggers, a Danish priest and writer, who lived in the twelfth century. Later Petrus Eggerdes (Eggers) was a German Protestant controversionalist who lived 1555 to 1593, and Jacob Eggers, 1704-1773 was a Swedish soldier, military engineer and author. Others in history of the same name and the names Egardas and Eggerdes (corruptions of the same) are found scattered throughout Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Livonia. In 1848 from Holstein, then a part of Denmark, and the country of Christian, the first Eggers recorded in history came to the United States, John Eggers with his family consisting of his wife, four sons and one daughter. They settled at Two Rivers, Wis- consin, where the father, a skilled machinist, obtained employment in the machine shops of The Two Rivers Manufacturing Company, which position he held until his death in 1875. His children in the order of their birth were: Fred, John, William, Gustavus C. and Mary. The youngest son, Gustavus, was twelve years old when he came to America. He followed the trades of sailor, fisherman and millwright until his death at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903. He had five sons: Henry J., Gustavus C., John E., Edward L., and Walter H.
John E., the subject of this sketch, was born at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on January 2, 1867. Gustavus C. Eggers, father of John E. Eggers, was married on September 24, 1862, to Mary Buhse, who was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, and came to this country when three years of age. Her father, who brought her across the sea, was John Buhse and he also located with his family at Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Both of the parents of John E. Eggers became residents of Wisconsin in 1848, crossing the Atlantic at the same time as Carl Schurz and many other Germans who fled from the tyranny of that country to enjoy the liberty of the new world. Gustavus C. Eggers passed away in 1903, while his wife survived him for a decade, her death occurring in 1913.
John E. Eggers obtained a public school education in his native city, pursuing his studies through the grammar grades and then entering the high school at Wausau, Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1884. He became identified with business life in connection with the lumber industry and acted as bookkeeper for various firms until 1891, when he entered the University of Minnesota for the study of law and was graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1893. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the active practice of his profession, which he followed in Min- neapolis, Minnesota, until 1895, when he removed to St. Louis and continued the prac- tice of law for several years. He has never formally retired from practice and though his different business enterprises now claim nearly all of his time and attention he is still active professionally in an advisory and consulting capacity. He never cared for litigation and has always been more of a counselor than an advocate. Many corporate interests have felt the stimulus of his activity and cooperation and he is now an officer in several companies which feature largely in financial, commercial and manufacturing circles of St. Louis. In 1896 he became connected with the Antikamnia Remedy Com- pany as manager and still holds that position. His activities in business have been very diversified and have brought to him a most gratifying measure of success. He is secre- tary, treasurer and general manager of the Salvar Medicine Company, which was incor- porated in 1912 and capitalized for one hundred thousand dollars, for the manufacture and sale of proprietary remedies. He is also the vice president, treasurer and general manager of the Herriott Polish Company, which was incorporated in 1914 with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, for the manufacture of shoe and metal polishes, dyes and waxes. The Antikamnia Remedy Company was incorporated in 1890 and
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has a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars. He is also owner of a half interest in the Actoid Remedy Company. Although Mr. Eggers is active in the management of these various companies, which make heavy demands upon his time and energies, he has also entered the banking field and is now vice president and a director of the Trust Company of St. Louis County, which is the largest banking institution in the county. It was founded in 1902 and still retains its original capital stock of two hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars, but its resources are now one million two hundred thousand dollars. This company is doing business at its original location in Clayton and much of its success is due to the sound advice of Mr. Eggers, a man of keen busi- ness judgment and broad vision who never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose but co-ordinates seemingly diverse interests and activities into a unified and harmonious whole.
Mr. Eggers was first married September 24, 1890, when Miss Lucy Corriveau, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, became his wife. She was the daughter of Eugene Corriveau and his wife whose maiden name was Cabot. Both were of French descent. Mrs. Eg- gers passed away in 1905, leaving a son, John E. C. Eggers, born March 8, 1899, who was in school when America entered the World war. He went to the Harvard training camp at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent three months and was then trans- ferred to the training camp of Washington University and was so close to actual service that, he was ordered to Camp Taylor in Kentucky for final preparation for overseas service when the armistice was signed. He is now completing his education at Wash- ington University. On the 29th of June, 1912, the subject of this sketch was married to Louise Autenrieth at Clayton. They have one child, Robert Lee Eggers, born Feb- ruary 15, 1921. Mrs. Eggers is a daughter of George and Marie Autenrieth, the former a hotel proprietor and one of the most influential political leaders of St. Louis county up to the time of his death which occurred in 1897. The Autenrieths came to America from Germany in the '40s and at once settled in St. Louis county where the family has since been represented. Mr. and Mrs. Eggers reside at No. 510 Central avenue in Clay- ton. He is particularly fond of nature and a lover of flowers and he finds interest and recreation in farming. He is the owner of two farms of 175 acres in St. Louis county, which he is developing into the largest fruit orchard in the county, having now seventy- five acres in bearing trees of apples, peaches and cherries. One of these farms is located twenty miles from the St. Louis city hall and was originally a part of the estate of Governor Bates, who was the second governor of Missouri and who died in 1825 being buried on the estate. This farm contains what is said to be the largest maple sugar bush or orchard in the state, there being about eight hundred maple trees, from which Mr. Eggers now annually obtains much sugar and syrup. He is justly proud of his maple grove and of his farming interests as well, for he displays the same thoroughness and capability in the management of his agricultural interests as he does in the conduct of important manufacturing and commercial concerns.
Mr. Eggers is still a member of the St. Louis Bar Association and belongs also to the Royal League and the Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a republican and is now serving as one of the board of aldermen of Clayton. He belongs to the St. Louis Cham- ber of Commerce, St. Louis Drug and Chemical Company, National Association Manu- facturers of Shoe Polishes, St. Louis Advertising Men's Association, St. Louis Automobile Club, and the Mississippi Valley Apple Growers Association, while along more strictly social lines he is an active member of the Sunset Hill Country Club. His experiences have indeed been wide and varied and have been such as have called forth enterprise, diligence and determination. He is possessed of all those qualities which make for leadership in the business world and is one of the forceful and resourceful business men of St. Louis.
OSCAR F. HOEVEL.
Oscar F. Hoevel, president of the Hoevel Real Estate & Building Company of St. Louis, has, through his operations of this character, contributed in no small measure to the improvement and development of the city. He was born in St. Louis, November 12, 1877, a son of Louis and Anna (Tiekmyer) Hoevel, both of whom were natives of St. Louis, their parents having emigrated from Germany to the new world and cast in their lot with the early residents of this city. Mr. Hoevel's
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father was engaged in the retail hardware and stove business in St. Louis, spending the entire period of his active business life in this way and remaining a factor in the trade up to a short time prior to his death which occurred in 1900. His widow survives and yet makes her home in St. Louis, being quite active for one of her years. She has figured prominently in business circles, for after the death of her husband she was president of the Hoevel Real Estate & Building Company and carried on the interests under that style for several years, displaying sound busi- ness judgment, keen discrimination, and unfaltering energy. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoevel were born four children, two sons and two daughters: Mrs. Theodora Wurmb, whose husband is a druggist of St. Louis, being proprietor of the Watertower Drug Store at Grand avenue; Mrs. Henry Peterson, whose husband is superintendent of the A. Leschen & Sons Rope Company of St. Louis; Hugo, living in Dallas, Texas, where he is superintendent of an oil company; and Oscar F. of this review.
The last named was educated in the public schools of St. Louis and afterward turned his attention to the hardware trade as a salesman in connection with his father, continuing in that position for about ten years. He then became a traveling salesman for Koening Furniture Company of St. Louis and remained on the road as representative for that concern for about five years. In 1910 he established on his own account and organized the Furniture Manufacturing Agency of St. Louis, and has continued at the head of the business since that date. In 1917 he became president of the Hoevel Real Estate & Building Company.
On the 15th of September, 1920, Mr. Hoevel was married to Miss Thekla Ullrich, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ullrich, both of whom have passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Hoevel reside at No. 4522 Red Bud avenue in St. Louis. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, has always been a republican, giving unfaltering allegiance to the party and its principles. For forty-three years he has made his home in St. Louis and has seen wonderful changes as the work of growth and prog- ress has been promoted. He is well known in social, as well as business circles and his life record should serve as an inspirational value to others, showing what may be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do.
RALPH T. WHITELAW.
Ralph T. Whitelaw, who in February, 1917, became president of the Whitelaw Brothers Chemical Company of St. Louis, has been identified with this undertaking throughout his business career. He was born in St. Louis, September 21, 1880. His father, Robert H. Whitelaw, was born in Vermont in 1847 and came to St. Louis in 1866. He then engaged in business as a member of the firm of George P. Whitelaw & Company, chemical jobbers, the business having been established by George P. Whitelaw in 1853, who in 1873 sold the business to the firm of Barstow & Whitelaw. This partnership was dissolved in 1885 and a new partnership was formed by Rob- ert H. and Oscar L. Whitelaw under the style of Whitelaw Brothers, the business heing thus continued until the death of Robert H. Whitelaw in 1914. In early man- hood he had married Mary Westgate, who was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and who came to St. Louis in 1875. They were married in this city and Mrs. Whitelaw here passed away in 1891. They were the parents of two sons, Ralph T. and R. Malcolm, and one daughter, Mrs. Margaret W. Wilson of New York city.
Ralph T. Whitelaw was educated in the public schools of St. Louis, in the Smith academy and in Amherst College, being graduated from the last named in 1902 with the Bachelor of Science degree. He started out upon his business career in connec- tion with his father and has since remained with the firm. Upon his father's death in 1914 the business was incorporated under the name of the Whitelaw Brothers Chemical Company, doing business as jobbers and brokers in chemicals for industrial purposes and also acting as southwestern distributors for the products of The Solvay Process Company, the Philadelphia Quartz Company, the Semet Solvay Company and others. In February, 1917, following the death of Oscar L. Whitelaw who up to that time had been president of the company, Ralph T. Whitelaw was promoted from the vice presidency to the presidency while R. Malcolm Whitelaw is treasurer and Ham- ilton D. Whitelaw, son of Oscar L. Whitelaw, was made secretary. The business is
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now one of very substantial proportions and the interests of the house are most wisely and carefully directed.
Ralph T. Whitelaw spent fifteen months in the traffic department of the Young Men's Christian Association being overseas from February, 1918, until May, 1919. His political endorsement is given to the republican party but the honors and emolu- ments of office have never had attraction for him. He belongs to a family that has been very prominent in the civic life of St. Louis, however, and very active in support of all movements for the advancement and welfare of the city. Like the others of the name Ralph T. Whitelaw has supported every plan and movement for the general good since attaining his majority and his cooperation can at all times be counted upon to advance public interests of worth. He is a member of the First Congregational church in which he has held several offices including that of treasurer. He belongs to the University Club, Noonday Club, St. Louis Club, Meramec Canoe Club, the St. Louis Drug & Chemical Club, the Drug & Chemical Club of New York and the Ameri- can Chemical Society.
MURRAY CARLETON.
In the year 1873 Murray Carleton entered the business circles of St. Louis in connection with the wholesale dry goods trade, but while he has steadily developed his interests and has won notable success in founding and conducting the Carleton Dry Goods Company, this represents but one phase of his activity, for at all times the subjective and objective interests of his life have been well balanced. He has ever recognized his duties and obligations to his fellowmen and has been a con- tributing factor to the promotion of many lines .of work which have had for their object the betterment of conditions and the uplift of the individual. His life, broadly useful as well as substantially successful, should serve as an inspiration to the young and a source of encouragement to all.
Mr. Carleton is a native of Cumberland, Maryland, and the son of a merchant and railway contractor, Henry D. Carleton, who resided in that city. From an early age the present St. Louis merchant has been dependent upon his own resources and made his initial step in business as an employe in a newspaper office in his native town when a lad of thirteen years. There he remained for a period of six years, gaining valuable experience in his newspaper training, for such a work always brings the indi- vidual wide and comprehensive knowledge of things current in the world and pro- motes an alertness of mind that is perhaps manifest in no other business as quickly and forcefully as it is in the gathering of news.
With Murray Carleton's advent into the business circles of St. Louis in 1873, he became identified with the wholesale dry goods house of Henry Bell & Son and from that point has made steady progress, winning various promotions until he reached the presidency of the Carleton Dry Goods Company, which is the outgrowth of the old firm of Henry Bell & Son. In 1875 Daniel W. Bell became owner of the original establishment and conducted the business under his own name until his death in 1878, when the firm of J. H. Wear, Boogher & Company was organized by former employers of the Bell establishment, Jesse L. and John P. Boogher and James H. Wear. At a later date the firm style of Wear, Boogher & Company was assumed and on the 1st of January, 1884, Mr. Carleton became a partner in the undertaking, having in the meantime gained comprehensive knowledge of every phase and principle of the trade as affecting the sales and the office management. Three years after he acquired an interest in the business it was incorporated under the style of the Wear & Boogher Dry Goods Company, which on the 1st of January, 1900, was succeeded by the Carleton Dry Goods Company, organized by Murray Carleton, who has since occupied the presidency. This is today one of the large and important commercial institutions of St. Louis and stands as a monument to the business ability, keen sagacity and broad commercial vision of the founder. James Russell Lowell has said, "An institution is but the lengthened shadow of a man," and by this the measure of Mr. Carleton's business ability, his executive force and his undaunted enterprise may be taken. He has now long occupied a central place on the stage of activity in connection with the wholesale dry goods interests of
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St. Louis and has also extended his efforts into other fields, becoming identified with the St. Louis Transit Company and the United Railway Company, both of which elected him to the presidency. He is likewise a director and senior vice president of the Boatmen's Bank and his opinions upon business matters are considered a val- uable asset in the conduct of any public enterprise or undertaking. At the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition he was chosen one of the directors and like- wise served on its executive committee, contributing to the success of the fair which was here held and which was one of the epoch making features in the history of Missouri and the country.
In 1884 Mr. Carleton was united in marriage to Miss Annie Laurie Hays and they became the parents of eight children, one of whom, Susan R., has passed away, while those still living are: Murray, Jr., Hope D., who enlisted in the United States army as a private and was promoted to sergeant, being in overseas service in France and highly complimented in reports by his superior officers; Dorcas, now the wife of Louis Wynne Martin of St. Louis; Esther, the wife of Captain Richard Moore, Junior, of St. Louis; Ruth, the wife of C. L. Wood of Denver, Colorado; Patricia and Annie Laurie, both at home.
That the social interests of life have made strong appeal to Mr. Carleton is shown in his membership in the Log Cabin, St. Louis Country, Sunset Hill, St. Louis and Noonday Clubs and the Missouri Athletic Association. These interests, however, constitute hut one phase of his activity outside of business. He has always been mindful of his duties and obligations to his fellowmen and has long been a devoted and faithful member of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, contributing generously to its support, taking active part in its work and serving as chairman of its board of stewards. For twelve years he was also one of the trustees and the treasurer of the Barnes Hospital. For many years he served as Sunday school superintendent and is still a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association of St. Louis. He has heen quick to meet the needs which have arisen as the result of the World war and was chairman of the Missouri Division of the European Relief Committee for the starving children of the war-ridden countries, raising more than three hundred thousand dollars for this cause. His life has been fruitful of many good results. His standards and his ideals are high and he has improved every opportunity to bring about their practical acceptance. Strong and purposeful, he has accomplished much not only in the upbuilding of his own fortunes but in the promotion of the world's work along the lines of intellectual and moral advance- ment and of benevolent and charitable work.
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