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Thomas F. Cahill received his education at St. Patrick's Parochial school, Seventh and Biddle streets, conducted by the Christian Brothers. At the age of fifteen he started out as an office boy for Sheffield & Stone, advertising agents, located at Fourth and Olive streets. In an adjoining office, at the same time, Festus J. Wade, a well known citizen of St. Louis, was employed in a similar capacity. Later Thomas F. Cahill engaged his services in a clerical capacity with Francis Whittaker & Sons, pork packers, at Sixth and Carr streets. About this time he had reached a decision as to the line he preferred to follow and en- gaged his services with M. C. Bignall & Company, dealers in heavy hardware supplies at No. 810 North Second street, where the groundwork was laid for his later success in business life. The firm was succeeded by Goulds & Ostrander and a few years later was taken over by the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Com- pany. In the intervening years Thos. F. Cahill had worked his way up until he eventually became the purchasing agent for the N. O. Nelson Company.
In the year of 1886, at the age of twenty-nine, the progressive spirit of success and self-confidence had awakened in him to such an extent that he resigned his position with the Nelson Company and formed the partnership known as Clegg, Cahill & Collins, manufacturers and jobbers of plumbing, heating and mill sup- plies. This partnership was succeeded by Cahill, Collins & Company; and later became Cahill, Swift & Company. The business was incorporated in September, 1898, as the C'ahill, Swift Manufacturing Company and Thomas F. Cahill became president of the corporation. His instinet and ability to foresee market conditions, coupled with a liberal spirit towards his employes and the happy faculty of being able to surround himself with a capable, loyal corps of assistants, has made the business one of the most substantial and successful in their line.
In 1884 Thomas F. Cahill was united in marriage to Miss Nora E. Sullivan, of St. Louis; and out of this happy union there was born to them seven sons and a daughter. The eldest son, John F. Cahill, is eashier and director of the Austin
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National Bank, Chicago, Illinois; Mary E. Cahill, the daughter, lives with her parents at their beautiful home at Cahill avenue and Laelede road, Webster Groves, Missouri; Joseph died in infancy; Thomas F., Jr., is vice president of the Cahill, Swift Manufacturing Company; Roswell B. is receiving clerk for the same company; Francis J. is associated with the company as traveling salesman; Louis B. is in the office of the company; and Richard V. is a student at St. Louis University.
Thomas F. Cahill and family are members of the Roman Catholic church and he gives his political endorsement to the democratic party. He is a member of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Columbus. He has always been an active man and displayed a real enthusiasm for whatever partic- ular undertaking he interested himself in. His genial mannerism and kindly, charitable disposition have won for him a host of friends and admirers who esteem him highly and recognize the latent talent which has enabled him to build up a high place in the business and social life of the community. But above all he is a home loving man, devoted to his family and asks nothing better than an evening at home surrounded by those he loves and who love him.
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Arthur Eugene Ewing, A.D.
R. ARTHUR EUGENE EWING was born near Cartersville, D Georgia, April 26, 1855, his parents being Whitley Thomas and Hannah Jane (Pettingill) Ewing. The father was also a practicing physician and in his college work had received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine. He provided his son with liberal educational advantages, the latter attending private schools in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1862 until 1874, when he entered Dartmouth College, where he studied for four years and received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878. He then took up the profession of teaching and was principal of the public school at Gadsden, Ala- bama, through the succeeding year. He regarded this, however, merely as an initial step to other professional labor, for during his teaching period he devoted his leisure time to the study of law in the office of Aiken & Martin and was ad- mitted to the bar at Gadsden in 1879. However, he had not yet taken up the line which was to become his life work and in 1880 entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he was graduated with the M.D. degree in 1883. In 1912 he received the M.A. degree from Washington University in the department of zoology.
During his medical course he was assistant to Drs. John T. Hodgen and Henry H. Mudd of St. Louis in 1881 and from 1882 until 1886 held a similar position with Drs. John Green and M. Il. Post. He afterward went abroad and did post-graduate work in ophthalmology and general pathology at the Koenig- liche Christian-Albrechts University at Kiel, Germany, from 1886 to 18SS. Following his return to America he again became associated with Drs. Green and Post, a relationship that existed during the lives of his associates-more than twenty years.
While serving as assistant to Dr. Green, who was professor of ophthalmology at the St. Louis Medical College, he was instrumental in founding the eye clinic at the O'Fallon dispensary of the St. Louis Medical College, which later merged with the eye clinic of the Missouri Medical College and the eye clinic of the St. Louis Children's Hospital into the present ophthalmie elinie of Washington University. For a number of years he was in charge of the eye clinic of St. Luke's Hospital until it was transferred in 1895 to the eye elinie of Washington University. In 1895 he was appointed elinieal leeturer of ophthalmology in the medieal department of Washington University and elinieal professor of ophthal- mology in 1902, a position which he held until 1921, when he was honored with the title of professor emeritus of ophthalmology by the University. In his con- nection with the University it was his purpose to found an ophthalmic depart- ment which should be ably represented in every branch of ophthalmology. This he has lived to see accomplished. Also he has been active in encouraging the
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growth of the medical department of the University from a semi-private medical college to a great university medical institution with all the connections necessary to a finished medieal eduetion. For many years he served on the staff of the Deaconess Home and Hospital. Resigning from this position he became a mem- ber of the staff of the St. Luke's Hospital, a position which he still holds. He is also a member of the staff of the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital, the St. Louis Children's Hospital and the Barnes Hospital. He is a member of the St. Louis Academy of Science, the St. Louis Medical Society, the St. Louis Ophthalmie Society, the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Academy of Ophthal- mology, Otology and Laryngology, the Phi Beta Pi and the Sigma Xi.
Dr. Ewing was married in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Josephine Willard, a daughter of Charles Abner and Harriet Frances Willard. Their family consists of two children: Margaret Frances and Charlotte Eugenia.
Dr. Ewing is an able physician of international prominence. He is widely known as an educator and his medieal investigations have secured for him an honorable place in medical literature.
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DWIN H. CONRADES was born in St. Louis, Missouri, July 22, 1861, a son of John H. and Mary C. (Freese) Conrades. He was educated in the schools of St. Louis and on the 11th of October, 1887, was married in this city to Miss Louise R. Stifel, by whom he has two children, Paul E. and Otto S. Conrades.
Mr. Conrades is the president of the Donk Brothers Coal & Coke Company, the St. Louis, Troy & Eastern Railroad Company, the St. Louis & Illinois Belt Railway, the East St. Louis, Columbia & Waterloo Railway, the St. Louis Material & Supply Company, the Merchants & Manufacturers Investment Company, the Tyler Street Realty Company and the Stifel Estate Company, vice president of the Conrades Manufacturing Company and the General Protestant Orphans' Home and a director of the Liberty C'entral Trust. Company and the St. Louis Altenheim.
Fraternally Mr. Conrades is known as a Knight Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and he has also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Missouri Athletic Association, the St. Louis Club, the Sunset Hill Country Club and the Riverview Club. His office is at No. 316 North Fourth street, St. Louis, while his residence is at No. 2013 St. Louis avenue.
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R. WILLIAM ANTOINE HALL, whose connection with the D St. Louis, Missouri State and American Medical Associations keeps him thoroughly informed concerning the progress that is being made by the medieal profession, has for twenty-seven years engaged in practice in St. Louis. He was born in Clinton county, Missouri, October 3, 1869, and is a son of Jeremiah S. Hall, a native of Clinton county, Missouri, and a representa- tive of one of the old families of this state that came from Tennessee, the grand- father, Elisha Hall, removing from the latter state to Missouri, where he took up the occupation of farming, settling in Clinton county about 1830. He there secured government land and thus early became identified with the agricultural development of the state. He was accompanied by his two brothers, James Cal- houn and John Hall. Throughout his remaining days Elisha Hall continued a resident of Missouri, passing away in 1858, at the age of forty-two years. His son, Jeremiah S. Hall, was reared and educated in Clinton county and he, too, followed the occupation of farming after attaining his majority. Later, however, he turned his attention to merchandising, but later lived retired, making his home at Edger- ton, Missouri, where in well earned rest he enjoyed the fruits of his former toil until death called him, October 12, 1920. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church and his political belief that of the democratic party. He was an ardent supporter and enthusiastic member of the Masonic fraternity and exemplified in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He married Julia J. Aker, a native of Clay county, Missouri, and a daughter of Martin J. and Ann (Rollins) Aker, the latter a direct descendant of William Penn. The grandfather in the Aker line came from Virginia and was of German lineage. The mother of Dr. Hall passed away in 1875, at the age of twenty-eight years, leaving two chil- dren, the daughter being Bertha Hall, who became the wife of Moses M. Standi- ford and passed away May 15, 1913, at the age of thirty-nine years.
Dr. Hall was educated in the public schools of Clinton county and in Platts- burg College, from which he was graduated. Before completing that course, how- ever, he studied medicine for two years under direction of his uncle, Dr. Wil- liam H. Lewis, and later entered the Marion Sims Medical College of this city, winning his professional degree in 1893. Following his graduation he served for two years as interne in the St. Louis Baptist Hospital and thus gained the broad and valuable experience obtained through hospital practice. Since that time he has been continuously and successfully engaged in the general practice of medi- cine and surgery and his practice makes steady demand upon his time and ener- gies. He keeps in touch with modern methods and the latest scientific researches and discoveries concerning the laws of health and displays much ability in the
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diagnosis of his cases. Ile is also the president of the Cap-Keystone Printing Company.
On the 9th of December, 1903. Dr. Hall was married in Belleville, Kansas, to Miss Grace Caldwell, a native of Savannah, Missouri, and a daughter of Judge John R. and Elizabeth (Farley) Caldwell, who belonged to one of the old families of Savannah, Missouri. She is also a direct descendant of Judge Shannon, who was governor of both Ohio and Kansas. To Dr. and Mrs. Hall have been born eight children, six of whom are living: Preston C .; William C .; Lee Aker and Lawrence Shannon, twins; Robert Antoine and Grace Eleanor.
Politically Dr. Hall is a democrat where national questions and issues are involved, but easts a local independent ballot. He belongs to Lambskin Lodge, No. 460, A. F. & A. M .; Shekinah Chapter, R. A. M .; Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Missouri Consistory, S. P. R. S .; Alhambra Grotto; and the Eastern Star, his identification being with Barber Chapter, No. 31, of which he is past patron. He is in charge of the Grotto band and finds his chief recreation in instrumental music. He also belongs to Wilde Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F. The major part of his time and attention, however, is concentrated upon his profes- sional duties, which are arduous and extensive, for aside from the general practice of medicine he is acting as chief surgeon for a large number of industrial plants, including the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company and others and the profession and the publie recognize his ability in his chosen field of work.
Cyrus F. Blanke
Cyrus F. Blanke
YRUS F. BLANKE, president of the C. F. Blanke Tea & Coffee C Company of St. Louis, was born October 24, 1862, in Marine, Illinois, a son of Fred G. and Caroline (Ortgis) Blanke. The father was born in Germany and came to America in 1847. He carried on general merchandising at Marine, Illinois, for a number of years, but his marriage was celebrated in St. Louis. To him and his wife were born ten children, seven sons and three daughters, of whom Cyrus F. is the fifth in order of birth. Four children, three sons and a daughter, have passed away, while those who survive are: Emma, the widow of Charles Spies; Maude, the widow of Harry Amanda; Albert G., who is engaged in the real estate business in St. Louis and who married Lillie Verborg; Richard, who wedded Hazel Thompson; Fred; and Cyrus F. of this review.
The last named was educated in the public schools of Marine, Illinois, and also attended a commercial college in St. Louis, thus qualifying for the responsi- bilities of business life. He started out as a clerk in a retail grocery store in St. Louis when sixteen years of age and between the ages of seventeen and nineteen years was a clerk in a St. Louis wholesale tobaeco factory. He then became connected with the Steinwender-Stoffregen Coffee Company and acted as collector for that house for two years. On the expiration of that period he went on the road as a traveling salesman for them and spent seven years in that connection, thus reaching the age of twenty-eight. He next embarked in busi- ness on his own account under the name of C. F. Blanke & Company, teas and coffees. This was in 1890 and through the intervening period he has successfully engaged in business, his trade having steadily grown until his is one of the leading concerns of the kind in the southwest. They roast eoffee, manufacture spices and handle teas and other lines. Mr. Blanke is also the president of the St. Louis Tin & Sheet Metal Working Company, which does an annual business of two million dollars and employs three hundred and fifty people. He is like- wise the president of the Blanke-Baer Extract & Preserving Company, is the president of the St. Louis Soluble Tea & Coffee Company and has other important business eonneetions. In fact, his cooperation and his judgment are considered a valuable asset in the successful conduct of any business enterprise with which he becomes associated. He is a man of broad vision and of keen sagacity, readily recognizing the opportunities which business conditions present and the chances
for improving such conditions. During the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, he served as a director the entire time, from the early beginning until the fair was closed and its business interests wound up. At the time of the World war Mr. Blanke furnished eoffee in soluble form for the army at the request of the government and twenty-four hours after receiving the order had doubled
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the capacity of his factory. His tin and sheet metal factory also turned out hard bread cans for the army, increasing their output to forty thousand a day.
On the 30th of December, 1889, in Clinton, Missouri, Mr. Blanke was married to Miss Eugenia Frowein, a daughter of A. P. and Augusta (Mueller) Frowein, the former now deceased, while the latter resides in Independence, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Blanke have one child, Eugenia, now the wife of Walter S. Graham, who is a director of the St. Louis Tin & Sheet Metal Working Company and resides in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Blanke make their home at Webster Groves. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Tuscan Lodge, No. 360, A. F. & A. M .; St. Louis Chapter, R. A. M .; Ascalon Commandery, K. T .; and Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Elks lodge and is well known in the club circles of the city as a member of the Sunset Hill Country Club, the Century Boat Club and the Riverview Club. He likewise belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Con- vention Publicity Bureau. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. The greater part of his life has been spent in St. Louis, where he has long been recognized as a most enterprising and progressive business man and one whose cooperation can also be counted upon to further plans and measures having to do with municipal projects and civic development and honor.
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John C. Lebrecht, M.D.
D BR. JOHN C. LEBRECHT, a St. Louis physician with offices in the Park building, was born July 28, 1859, in the city which is still his home, his parents being John and Louisa J. (Ludwig) Lebrecht. The father was a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College and was associated with Professor Charles Pope, who founded the first O'Fallon dispensary, located at Seventh and Clark avenue in St. Louis. During the Civil war he served on the Union side from Missouri as a surgeon, being on duty throughout the period of hostilities. He survived his military experience for only a brief time, passing away December 4, 1865. In the maternal line Dr. Lebrecht also comes from ancestry connected with the medical profession. Among his mother's people was Dr. Valentine Ludwig, a leading practitioner in St. Louis in 1840. Her brother, Charles V. F. Ludwig, served as a surgeon from Mirssoui in the Civil war and in days of peace devoted his attention to the practice of medicine. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John Lebrecht was celebrated in St. Louis and they became the parents of but two children, the younger being a daughter who died in infancy.
Dr. John C. Lebrecht of this review, the only son, was educated in private schools of St. Louis and in the St. Louis University, pursuing a classical course through six years and then taking up the study of medicine. He was graduated from the Washington University Medical College in 1882 with the M. D. degree and afterward served as an interne in the St. Louis City Hospital. From 1883 to the present time he has been a successful general practitioner, specializing to some extent on diseases of women and children. His office is now located in the Park building and his practice is extensive and of an important character. During the World war he made application to serve and was placed on the reserve list.
Dr. Lebrecht is married and has four children, two sons and two daughters: Josephine L., living at home with her father: Louise J., also at home: Charles P., who died at the age of four years; and John, who died at the age of six and a half years.
During the World war Dr. Lebrecht subscribed liberally to all war activities and has always been a progressive and publie-spirited citizen. He belongs to Keystone Lodge, No. 243, A. F. & A. M .; to Bellefontaine Chapter, No. 25, R. A. M .; Asealon Commandery, No. 16, K. T .: and Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Knights of Pythias and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He has ever been a close student of his profession and along strictly professional lines his membership connections are with the St. Louis Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
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Walter A. Johnson
ALTER A. JOHNSON, president of the Missouri Life & Acei- W dent Insurance Company, with offices in the Metropolitan building, was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on a farm, November 23, 1869. His father, B. P. Johnson, is a native of Tennessee, and is now a farmer near Waco, Texas. An uncle, Willis Johnson, was killed while serving with the Confederate forces in the Civil War. The mother of Walter A. Johnson bore the maiden name of Ella Norman and was born in Tennessee. The family has been represented in America through several generations. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson was celebrated near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to them were born five children, three sons and two daughters: Walter A .; E. N., who married Fannie Williams; R. E., who wedded Mary Emma Magill and is living in Waco, Texas; Kate, the wife of Charles Childs, a resident of Mart, Texas; and Mary, the wife of Alfred Looney, residing in Axtill, Texas.
Walter A. Johnson was edneated in the country schools near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, his training being equivalent to a high school education. In 1895 he turned his attention to the insurance business as a solicitor for the National Life & Accident Insurance Company of Nashville, Tennessee, and was there until 1902, during which time he rose to the position of superintendent. In the year indicated he went to Louisville, Kentucky, for the above company in the capacity of superintendent and remained in that city until 1907. He then came to St. Louis and organized the Missouri Life & Accident Insurance Company, of which he became the president, and throughout the intervening years to the present time he has wisely and successfully directed the affairs of the corporation, which has its offices in the Metropolitan building. The business under his able guidance has greatly developed and the corporation has become one of the strong insurance companies of the state.
On the 25th of December, 1904, in Louisville, Kentucky, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Pearl Tinsley, daughter of J. A. and Mary E. Tinsley, of Louis- ville, Kentucky, and a sister of James A. Tinsley, who served in the World war as a member of the Tank Corps in France.
Mr. Johnson during the World war period spent much of his time in securing subscriptions for the Liberty loans and in promoting various other branches of war work. In polities he is an independent democrat, usually voting for the party, yet not considering himself bound by party ties. His religious faith is that of the Baptist church. He belongs to the Glen Echo Country Club, also to the Sunset Hill Country Club and his social qualities have won for him many friends in elub circles and among those with whom he has come in contact through other relations of life.
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Adrian D. Richols, D.O.
HE school of osteopathy has a worthy representative in Adrian T D. Nichols, who is a successful practitioner of St. Louis, and since his graduation from the Kirksville School of Osteopathy has practiced in this eity. He was born on a farm near Nash- ville, Illinois, April 17, 1870, and is a son of David William and Tabitha (Ballard) Nichols. The father, a native of the state of New York, was born in what was then known as Bath Village, but is now the city of Syracuse. He was a son of William Nichols who came to America from Scotland in early life. David W. Nichols was born in 1832 and pursued his education in the schools of Michigan, to which state his parents removed when he was quite young. Later the family home was estab- lished at Quincy, Illinois, where he was residing at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war. Upon President Lincoln's call to arms he was one of the first to enlist, joining Major Wood's One Hundred Day Men. The commander later turned his troops over to the Mulligan Brigade at Lexington. They were exchanged as prisoners of war at Jefferson Barraeks, after being kept there for a time. They were paroled and discharged at Hannibal, Missouri. Later Mr. Nichols joined the forces of General Curtis at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and at Corinth joined the troops under General Dodge as a scout, serving in that capacity until the close of the war. He was then invalided and sent to Cairo, Illinois, for he was a member of the Fiftieth Illinois Regiment and claimed Cairo as his home. While at Corinth he was under the direct command of Captain Von Sellers. When he had regained his health, following the elose of the war, he settled near Cairo, and there turned his attention to farming. He was ever a staneh republican, standing loyally by the party which was the defense of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war and has ever been the party of reform and progress. Fraternally he was connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He passed away in March, 1910, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years, and thus closed a life of activity and usefulness in which his patriotie duty was ever an outstanding feature in his career. When Abraham Lincoln became the candidate for presi- deney in 1860 David W. Nichols east the only vote for him in his precinct, which was situated just across from West Quiney. When it became known who was the "offender" in this matter things were made very unpleasant for him in the neighborhood and he was obliged to keep striet watch that no harm would befall him. He never hesitated to support his honest convictions, however, and when the trouble between the north and the south culminated in the outbreak of the Civil war he at once responded and valiantly fought for the defense of the Union, while in the later years of his life, through all the period of peace that followed, he was consistently loyal to the stars and stripes just as he had been when he followed the nation's starry banner on the battle fields of the south. His wife
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