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To this union were born eleven children, four of whom are still living, four having died after reaching the age of thirty years and each having lived to estah- lish hospitable homes of their own. Though the family was a large one, all of the children were given the best possible advantages for acquiring a finished educa- tion and as a result each member, as well as the father and mother, was noted for culture in literature and the refined arts. The daughter, Jane Redd Gentry, reared at the family home, Oak Dale, near Sedalia, attended school in George- town, Missouri, and also became a pupil in the Forest Grove Seminary under Professor Anthony Haynes and Professor A. A. Neal. In 1864-5 she was a student in the Visitation Convent at St. Louis, Missouri, and throughout her life she has manifested a keen interest in literature and all those things which have cultural value. On the 20th of February, 1868, she became the wife of Theodore Shelton, of St. Louis, a leading merchant of the city, where they have sinee resided. Mr. Shelton throughout this entire period has continued in the wholesale hat, cap and glove business, having one of the largest establish- ments of this character in the central seetion of the Mississippi valley. To Mr. and Mrs. Shelton were born two children: Richard Theodore, who is now the president of the Shelton Panama Hat Company on Washington avenue in St. Louis; and William Gentry, president of the Shelton Electrie Company of New York city.
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Mrs. Shelton is entitled to membership in all the patriotic societies and has become identified with many of the patriotic societies of the country. She is now a member of the board of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Missouri; also belongs to the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry, which she joined on its organization; and is the first vice president of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century. She is a charter member of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of Missouri and has been the treasurer since its organization. She is a Daughter of the American Revolution under five Virginia ancestors and a member of the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 under two ancestors. Mrs. Shelton and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Gentry Skinner, were among the organizers and charter members of the Missouri State Society of United States Daughters of 1812, and the former at the first meeting was elected registrar, while Mrs. Skinner was chosen a direc- tor, and these offices they continued to fill through the first seven years. In October, 1915, Mrs. Shelton was elected state president, occupying the position for two and a half years when she was unanimously elected honorary state president for life. The state board presented her with a silver vase, with the insignia of the United States Daughters of 1812, Society of Missouri, engraved upon it, in token of their high esteem. In April, 1916, at the national council in Washington, D. C., she was elected the national auditor of the National Society. She attended the national board at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October, 1918, and at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1919. She served for two years as regent of the St. Louis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, an or- ganization of four hundred members, and she and her sister, Mrs. Skinner, were for many years delegates for the different organizations holding their national meetings in Washington, D. C. In April, 1917, at the national council held in Washington, she represented the 1812 Society as state president of Missouri and as national auditor. She was delegate to the Colonial Dames of America, representing Mrs. Eliot, the state president of Missouri. She was delegate to the congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution and has also been a delegate to the national convention of the Founders and Patriots of America.
Mrs. Shelton belongs to the State Historical Society of Missouri at Columbia, is a member of the Missouri Historical Society, Jefferson Memorial, St. Louis, and the Valley Forge Historical Society of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. For a number of years she has been the St. Louis county and city chairman of the Old Trails Ocean to Ocean Highway and she and her sister, Mrs. Skinner, are charter members of the Chart Club Drawing Rooms, an organization unique and beauti- ful in sentiment. She is a member of the St. Louis Woman's Club and first vice chairman of the Mortality Tablet Committee under Mrs. Ben F. Gray, the tablet to be erected in the city hall. During the war she was a member of the Women's Committee, Council of National Defense, under Mrs. B. F. Bush, and also a member of the Navy League. From the beginning of the war until now Mrs. Shelton has been untiring in her efforts to cheer and comfort the siek and wounded soldiers. Her grandson, William Gentry Shelton, Jr., was lieutenant in the air service. Her nephew, Harry Duke Skinner, went overseas as a member of the American Expeditionary Force. The youth of her family all over the country responded valiantly to the call to arms. In February, 1917, at the home of Mrs. Shelton, was formed a Red Cross unit among the Daughters of 1812, the
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first unit formed in St. Louis, on which occasion George Simmons was the speaker. The members of this unit were most enthusiastic in their work throughout the war period and accomplished great good. When Mrs. Shelton was not sewing at the Kinloch Red Cross Headquarters, making bandages, etc., at Washington University and Barnes Hospital, she was at home knitting for the Navy League or doing other war service that promoted the welfare of American soldiers in camp and field. She was awarded a medal by the United States treasury de- partment for patriotie service in behalf of the Liberty loans. Mrs. Shelton was chosen chairman of the patriotie organization for the armistice parade on the 1Ith of November, 1920, and marched in the parade from her home to the Municipal theatre.
Mrs. Shelton was appointed a member of the Missouri State Centennial Committee of 1916 and was requested to send the names of two delegates from the U. S. D. 1812 Society of Missouri. She named Mrs. C. C. Evans, of Sedalia, and Mrs. Ilugh Miller of Kansas City, thus representing the east, west and central sections of the state. Mrs. Shelton has worked hard and faithfully with the State Society U. S. D. 1812 of Missouri, for the bronze roll of fame of the Missouri Pioneers and takes great pride in this beautiful tribute of love to the foundation builders of Missouri. It is the most valuable contribution to early Missouri history that has been accomplished. This magnificent bronze tablet hangs upon the west wall in Jefferson Memorial, made by Gorham and designed by R. P. Bringhurst. Mrs. Shelton presided at this memorable meeting when it was presented and her grandson, Richard Douglass Shelton, drew aside the silken flag that unveiled it. The brass cylinders containing valuable data for each of the names are kept in the vault and added to from time to time.
Aside from the patriotie organizations with which Mrs. Shelton is connected she is much interested in the "Gentry Family of America," an organization which was formed by herself, her brother, Richard T. Gentry of Sedalia, Missouri, and her cousin, General W. H. Gentry of Lexington, Kentucky, At their first meeting in August, 1898, held at Crab Orchard Springs, Kentucky, Richard Gentry of Kansas City, Missouri, was elected president and historian and has published a history of the family which is found in many libraries.
Notwithstanding all of her many, varied and useful activities, Mrs. Shelton has been before and above all else a home maker for fifty-three years and gathers about her the loved ones from almost every state in the Union. She inherited the strong character, generous impulses and amiable qualities that distinguished her parents. Her nature, too, is as radiant as a day in June and her hospitality is unbounded. The year before the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was held in St. Louis she gathered the scattered branches of the Gentry family into a reunion at her palatial home and thereafter until the close of the Fair she entertained lavishly and untiringly, her guests coming from every section of the country. No home is more popular in St. Louis, nor are any citizens more highly esteemed than Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Shelton.
Francis Merriman Barnes, Jr., M.D.
D R. FRANCIS MERRIMAN BARNES, JR., a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and prominently known as a neuro- psychiatrist of St. Louis, was born in Middletown, New York, August 20, 1881, a son of Francis Merriman and Mary Drusilla (Reynolds) Barnes. The father, a native of Pennsylvania and a representative of one of the old families of that state of English lineage, is now a successful dentist. He was graduated from the Baltimore Dental College and is in active practice in Middletown, New York. His wife, a native of the Empire state, passed away in IS84. In their family were four sons. In the maternal line Dr. Barnes of this review can trace his ancestry back to 944 A. D., to Grethferth the Dane, king of Northum- berland, who was driven from England and took refuge in Normandy. One of his descendants, Reynolds Fitz Reynolds, later returned with William the Con- queror in 1066 and there are records of the family in England and Scotland through a number of generations. In 1634 John Reynolds emigrated from Ips- wich, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1635, in Watertown, was made a freeman. From this early record the family is traced down to the present time.
Dr. Francis M. Barnes, Jr., the youngest member of his father's household, attended the public and high schools of his native city and also the Delaware Literary Academy at Franklin, New York, from which he was graduated in 1899. Later he entered Hamilton College at Clinton, New York, and was graduated therefrom in 1903 with the Bachelor of Arts degree, while in 1906 his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. When his more specifically literary course was completed he matriculated in the Johns Hopkins University as a medical student and, pursuing his studies in Baltimore, was there graduated with the M.D. degree in 1907. His professional career has been one of extreme activity. He was assistant physician and director of the clinical laboratory of Sheppard and Pratt Hospitals at Towson, Maryland, from 1907 until 1910 and then became clinical director of the Government Hospital for the Insane at Washington, D. C., filling that position until 1913. He became an instructor in neurology and psychiatry at the George Washington University in 1911 and so continued until 1913, when he came to St. Louis and through the succeeding year was assistant professor of nervous and mental diseases in the St. Louis University. In 1914 he was made associate professor in psychiatry at the Wash- ington University Medical School, so continuing until September, 1920, when he returned to the St. Louis University. He is also neurologist to St. Mary's Hos- pital, is visiting psychiatrist of the St. Louis City Sanitarium, was aeting psychia- trist of Barnes Hospital, was contract surgeon, U. S. Army, is associate professor of nervous and mental diseases of the St. Louis University and in 1920 became neuropsychiatrist for the Federal Board for Vocational Education. His pro-
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fessional career has been a notably active one since he took up his abode here on the first Tuesday in September, 1913. His position is one of recognized promi- nence and his contributions to the work of the profession, to its educational fields and to its authorship are most valuable. He has written many articles for publication on nervous and mental diseases, these appearing in the leading medi- cal journals of the country, and he is also the author of "Notes on Mental Dis- eases," published in book form in 1919, with a second edition in 1920. His authorship also includes "Introduction to the Study of Mental Diseases, " pub- lished in 1919.
On the 17th of August, 1917, at Springfield, Illinois, Dr. Barnes was married to Miss Carlotta Kimlin, of Poughkeepsie, New York, daughter of John Hamilton and Susan (Anderson) Kimlin, of Poughkeepsie, New York. They have become parents of a son, Francis M. (III), born in St. Louis, July 19, 1918. Dr. Barnes belongs to the Old Orchard Club of Middletown, New York, and is a member of the University Club of St. Louis and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York City. Politically he maintains an independent course. Along professional lines he is identified with the Southern Illinois Medical Association, the St. Louis Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Medico-Psychological Association and is a fellow of the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology, the St. Louis Neurological Society and to other scientific organizations having to do with his chosen field of labor. The breadth of his interests and activities is still further manifest through his connection with the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Missouri Society for Mental Hygiene and the Eugenies Research Society of New York. Hle belongs to the Catholic Hospital Association and is a member of the board of directors of the Missouri Welfare League. During the World war he was seere- tary of St. Louis Medical Advisory Board No. 4, so acting from America's en- trance to the close of hostilities. He was also a contract surgeon with the United States army from the 1st of October to the 31st of December, 1918, and was in charge of the Psychopathic Hospital at Jefferson Barracks. Along many lines of investigation and research he has carried forward his studies and has displayed eminent ability in all that he has undertaken in his professional activities.
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Comond Spencer Fauth
NE of De Soto's most prominent citizens is Edmond Spencer O Fauth, superintendent of the International Shoe Company of that place. Like many enterprising men he is one of Missouri's sons by adoption, born on the 30th of October, 1881, at La Fayette, Indiana, a son of Maurice G. and Harriet Sibyl (Dailey) Fauth. Maurice G. Fauth, the father, is now living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is manager of a sewing machine office. Mr. Fauth, Sr., was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1850 and in 1864 came to the United States with his parents, who first settled in Philadelphia. About 1868 they removed to La Fayette, Indiana, where he was married. The father of M. G. Fauth was John Fauth, also a native of Germany, descended from the Free Staters engaged in the revolution against the German empire in 1848. Due to these activities the family was banished from the court. of Germany, royal engagements broken and the family estates confiscated. After being in exile for some time the grandparents took up their residence in Ameriea. Maurice G. Fauth became a naturalized American citizen and fought in the Indian wars under "Buffalo Bill" Cody as scout. The mother of Edmond Spencer Fauth, Harriet Sibyl (Dailey ) Fauth, was born in 1851, in Ripley county, Indiana, a daughter of John E. and Alice Dailey. She was descended from the early French settlers in the lower Mississippi valley and her father, John E. Dailey, was killed while serving in the Union army in the Civil war about the year 1864.
The early education of Edmond Spencer Fauth was received in the common schools of La Fayette, Indiana, and Chieago, the family having removed to Chieago when he was seven years of age. Here he resumed his studies and was graduated from the Northwest Division high school with the class of 1899, later taking a post-graduate course in advanced mathematics and seienee. This education was made possible for him by working all hours of the night and in his spare time at such work as eould be found, from newsboy to housework and far- tory work, making odd shoe parts at home and often sleeping in the streets to secure early morning newspapers for sale before school. In 1899 he went to Dix- on, Illinois, where he was employed in the cutting department of the C. M. Henderson Shoe Company, later being sent to the Amboy factory of the same company, where he remained until the company sold out. Following this Mr. Fauth accepted a position with the Barker & Brown Shoe Company of Hunting- ton, Indiana, with whom he remained for two years, spending time between seasons in the Hillsdale, Michigan, factory of the Seowden & Blanchard Shoe Company as general operator. In 1903 he removed to St. Louis to take a posi- tion with the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company's union factory as foreman. For seven years he was in their employ, being foreman of the several different
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Tiens toft position of assistant superintendent. In 1909 he en fastdry thevoice connected with the Peters Shoe Company
LE Afro- at St. Louis to be known as the Full-Value Plant. Mr. : there was in the capacity of assistant manager and F3 Iz 1911 -his kompany merged with the company of Roberts. This a & Hlad ind i-iane known as the International Shoe Company. Under perul pourestimating Mr. Faut was assigned to the De soto factory as : iz which position he is still serving. The De Soto factory is
the many siniflar factories of the company. and employs about three hun-
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In the Py-LE May 1900 M. Fauth was united in marriage to Miss Lona B .. obentak -: a daughter ve Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. shoemaker. a cement con- -rattur 0: Huaringto Indiana. Henry A. shoemaker. the father. was born on rear Huntington in 1859. his father having passed away when
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infumed an independent course in politics and al- Alters as president of the D- Soto Commercial 1. pdf. VEse battre refused many nominations perellop kim. odluding that of mayor. Fraternally Ybership it De soto Lodge. No. 119. A. F. & A. M .: R. A. M. sod De Sey Commandery. No. 56. K. T. He is er berchip in De Sono Lodge No. 659. of which he is her of the grand lodge. The religious T welche Merbullet Exempel church in the activities iske J pr. mirent par. Mr. Fauth is a member of the Bible class in the winday school for the Tode Mr .. Fauth is president of the Ladies Aid and Mis- SET- Bork Mr. and Mrs. Fauth are members of the Eastern Star. World war Mr. Fant was active in Liberty loan campaign- and -
arized the Red Cross society throughout the Lafrist if the Jefferson county chapter for four
2 . 07 a mechanical turn of mind and has written many Frade po arnals and other periodicals he has contributed -bom stories and Section. Mrs. Fauth's and mother although she possesses musical
M.F every sense of the word a self-made man and the community possesses the confidence Mustry ani close application to business
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interests. He devotes much time to the advancement of young men of the city through interest in their future by encouraging their moral uplift and directing their energies against adversity towards a definite goal of success.
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Alfred Byron King, D.O.
ISSOURI is the home of osteopathie practice. The original M school for instruction in this science was located within the borders of the state and many of the most successful prae- titioners have found their opportunity in the cities of this com- monwealth. Among this number is Dr. Alfred Byron King, a most capable osteopathic practitioner of St. Louis. He was born July 4, 1862, at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and is de- scended from English ancestry, the family having been founded in America in the early part of the seventeenth century, the great-great-grandfather of Dr. King settling near Philadelphia when he arrived in the new world from England. Several generations of the family remained in Pennsylvania and in 1870 the parents of Dr. King removed to Iowa, where he attended the high school at College Springs. IIe later became a student in Amity College from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1883. He initiated his business career as a elerk in a retail dry goods store in Rapid City, South Dakota, and after three years thus spent went to Sturgis, South Dakota. In 1887 he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and occupied a clerical position with the McCord- Brady Company, wholesale grocers, with whom he continued until he turned from commercial pursuits to take up the study of osteopathy.
Dr. King was planning at that time to become a medical practitioner and he directed his reading toward that end, but on account of some difficulty with his eyes during his senior year at college he was warned not to attempt a medical course until later. For this reason he entered the commercial field wherein he continued until his health failed, and being benefited by osteopathic treatments determined to enter upon the study of osteopathy and matriculated in Still College at Des Moines, Iowa, winning his degree upon the completion of his course there in 1901. He has since successfully practiced in St. Louis and is a member of the National Osteopathic Association and the St. Louis Osteopathic Association and has served as a director of the latter, while of the Missouri State Osteopathie Association he is the vice president. IIe is also a charter member of the Optimist Club, of which he is the treasurer, and in 1920 was a member of the house of delegates of the American Osteopathie Association. He is a men- ber of the Iota Tau Sigma fraternity and his social qualities make him popular wherever he is known. He belongs to the First United Presbyterian church and while his attention is chiefly given to his professional duties which he dis- charges with a sense of conscientious obligation, he never neglects the other interests of life that go to make a well balanced character. During the war period he served in the publicity department.
On the 13th of October, 1892, at Dorchester, Nebraska, Dr. King was married to Miss Lora Maud Kepler and they have one child, Louise King, who was
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married May 25, 1917, to Robert E. Zipp Prodt. Mr. and Mrs. Zipp Prodt have a son, Robert King, whose birth occurred November 13, 1918. Dr. King finds his chief sources of recreation in golf, fishing and motoring and enjoys an enviable position in social as well as professional circles of his adopted city.
Vigamin M. Thanks
Benjamin D. Charles
ENJAMIN H. CHARLES, who enjoys the reputation of being B one of the leading municipal bond lawyers in the United States and who in the practice of his profession is accorded an exten- sive elientage in St. Louis, where he makes his home, was born at Chester, Illinois, April 26, 1866, his parents being Benjamin H. and Achsah Susan (Holmes) Charles. The father was a Presbyterian minister of note who led a very active life. He was a man of positive character and high ideals and at different periods accept- ably served as pastor of churches in Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri. He was graduated from Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, in 1853 and among his classmates were the late Senator Vest, Judge Phillips and Governor Crittenden of Missouri. Dr. Charles became prominent in connection with educational interests, especially in girls' schools and was president of the Synodical College at Fulton, Missouri, from 1877 until 1888 inclusive, this being an excellent girls' college. His last pastorate was in Trinity church at St. Louis. His wife was a daughter of the late Joseph B. Holmes, one of the carly day river millers who owned two large mills at and near Chester, Illinois, the flour which he manu- factured being largely for the export trade, most of it being sent to Liverpool, England. In the maternal line Mrs. Benjamin II. Charles, Senior, was a grand- daughter of Shadrach Bond, the first governor of Illinois, and a grandniece of Shadrach Bond, Sr., who was with the George Rogers Clark expedition that captured Fort Kaskaskia from the British in 1778, this fort being situated about six miles above the present site of Chester. Shadrach Bond was also a delegate to congress and while there sitting was the author of the first homestead law. Ancestors of Mr. Charles in the paternal line were numbered among the early Huguenot settlers of Virginia.
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