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Mr. Johnson and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and he is well known in the club eireles of the city, having membership in the St. Louis, St. Louis Country, Noonday, Raequet, Bogy and Commercial Clubs, serving for one year as president of the last named. He was the president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce for the years 1918 and 1919, during which time the organization was developed into one of the most efficient of its kind in the United States. Mr. Johnson is also president of the Home and Housing Association of
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St. Louis and is a trustee of Washington University. During the World war he acted as regional adviser of the war industry board for the district covering the territory from St. Louis through the southwest to the Pacific coast.
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Paul Carroll Schnoebelen, A.D.
R. PAUL CARROLL SCIINOEBELEN, a prominent and most D successful young representative of the medical profession in St. Louis, specializing in internal medicine and diagnosis, was born at Riverside, Iowa, on the 15th of January, 1890, a son of Sigsmund W. and Mary (Carroll) Schnoebelen. The father is a descendant of the merchant prince Weber of Ilolland, whose daughter and her husband, Dominie Everadus Bogar- dus, arrived in New York in the seventeenth century and built the original Trinity Church of New York city, now at the head of Wall street. The mother is descended from John Carroll of Carrollton.
Paul C. Schnoebelen completed a course of study in St. Ambrose College of Davenport, Iowa, by graduation in 1910, while six years later the degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by the St. Louis University of St. Louis, Missouri. He aeted as medical interne in St. John's Hospital in 1916-17 and was resident physician there in 1917-18. In the latter year he became a member of the medical staff of St. John's Hospital, while in 1920 he was made assistant in medicine at the St. Louis University School of Medicine and in the present year (1921) is serving as a member of the medical staff as well as chief of the depart- ment of radiology of the Jewish Hospital. In his practice he makes a specialty of internal medicine and diagnosis, in which connection he has already gained a most enviable and well merited reputation that insures his continued success and progress in the profession. While a college student he served as president of the junior class in medicine in 1914-15 and at the same time acted as editor- in-chief of Archive in connection with the publication known as the St. Louis University Year Book. He became a member of the St. Louis Medical Society and the Missouri State Medical Association in 1918, joined the Mississippi Valley Medical Association in 1920 and in 1917 obtained membership in the American Medical Association.
In politics Dr. Sehnoebelen maintains a non-partisan attitude, considering the capability of a candidate as of more importance than his party affiliation. He is a Catholic in religious faith, belongs to the Knights of Columbus and also has membership in the University (lub and the Triple "A" Athletic Club. He is likewise past arehon of the Phi Beta Pi, a national medical fraternity, holding that office in 1915-16. During the period of the World war he served as a member of the medical advisory board of St. Louis. He adheres to the highest professional ethics and standards and has achieved marked success for one of his years, being already recognized as one of the leading specialists of his adopted eity.
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Irving L). Boemer, A.D.
D R. IRVING H. BOEMER, a St. Louis physician, with offices in the Metropolitan building, was born in St. Clair county, Illinois, September 13, 1889. His father, Henry Boemer, was also born in St. Clair county, while the paternal grand- father was a native of Germany. Henry Boemer is now living retired and makes his home in St. Louis. In early manhood he wedded Katherine Merod, who was born in St. Clair county and is a representative of an old French family. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boemer was celebrated in 1887 and they became the parents of two sons and two daughters: Irving H. : Lilburn, who is a student in the University of Illinois; Aurelia, the wife of Sidney Seligstein, of St. Louis; and Melba, living at home with her father.
Dr. Boemer pursued his early education in the public schools of St. Louis and after attending the Central high school became a student in the University Preparatory School of this city. He next attended the Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri, and then entered the St. Louis University, from which he was graduated in 1915 with the M. D. degree. He has specialized in surgery in both his studies and in his practice. He was an interne in St. John's Hospital from 1915 until 1917 and through the succeeding period has engaged in general surgical praetiee, having a well equipped office in the Metropolitan building. He also holds the position of assistant surgeon in St. John's Hospital and is assistant in surgery at St. John's Dispensary, visiting surgeon to the Missouri Pacific Hospital and assistant in surgery of the St. Louis University School of Medicine. During the World war he did local work for his country but was unable to take active part with the army owing to physical incapacity.
On the 1st of January, 1918, in St. Louis, Dr. Boemer was married to Miss Evylln Kinney, a daughter of William and Charlotte (Jones) Kinney of Taylor- ville, Illinois, the former now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Boemer reside at 6306 Enright street in University City.
Dr. Boemer belongs to the Beta Theta Pi and the Alpha Kappa Kappa, two Greek letter fraternities, is also identified with the University Club, the Sunset Hill Country Club and the Triple A Club. In politics his course is that of an independent republican and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He has high professional and social standing and his friends in St. Louis are many.
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(Sketch written by Judge Nelson E. Lurton, Commissioner of the United States Court at Shanghai, China, who served in Mr. Able's law office as his assistant from 1912 to 1916.)
I T IS so unusual to find real merit displayed in a man until he has been put through some of the trying experiences of life that it is a pleasure to find such in one born and reared as Sidney Thorne Able was, surrounded with all the comforts of life, the son of a southern banker and eotton planter.
In order to know a man well we must know something about his boyhood days. The photograph of his boyhood home reproduced from a small kodak pieture, shows Sidney Thorne Able, a bare legged boy about to enter the Mississippi home in which he lived until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to St. Louis to enter Washington Univer- sity. In the pony eart is his sister, Elise, now Mrs. George Doling Haynes of Kansas City. Much to the delight of the boy, the home was equipped with a complete gymnasium and with bowling alleys. As a boy he spent much time riding horses and upon Chatam plantation at Erwin, Mississippi, a plantation that extended almost the entire length of and along the north shore of Lake Washington and required over one hundred and twenty-five mules and a hundred negro families for its operation. Ile also spent many summers in Asheville, North Carolina, and about his mother's old home in Airlie, Halifax county, North Carolina.
Sidney Thorne Able was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, February 24, 1889. His father, George Dudley Able, was eashier of The Bank of Water Valley and a cotton planter. He owned and operated through managers, the Chatam plantation on Lake Washington at Erwin, just south of Greenville, Mississippi. The father, George Dudley Able, was mayor of the city for twelve years and vice president of the American Bankers Association for the state of Mississippi. His mother, Elizabeth Harris Thorne, as will be noted from page 480 of "The History of the Alston Family" was the daughter of Edward Alston Thorne and Aliee M. Harris and until her marriage lived in Halifax county, North Carolina, with her parents.
The family estate near Airlie, North Carolina, is known as Prospect Hill. The home is of colonial type and was designed and all the interior woodwork was manufactured and earved in England. It was built by William Williams Thorne, great-grandfather of Sidney Thorne Able in 1789. "The History of the Alstons" traces the family baek to William Alston of Saxham Hall, Newton, who was born there in 1537 and buried there January 13, 1617. The Alstons purchased Odell
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Castle. which commands a delightful prospect over the beautiful meandering Ouse County Bedford. England) from the Chetwoodes in 1640. Several of the towers and the walls remain today. The castle contained a number of good paintings, some of which were bought by Sir Thomas Alston in Italy in 1650. The honor of knighthood was first conferred upon Thomas Alston in 1642. Kimber and Johnson. Baronetage of England, 1771. Volume 1, page 457). And he was afterwards advanced to the higher dignity of a baronet (18 Car 1) The History of the Alston Family. page 21). The family coat of arms is thus described: "Arms azure. ten stars, 4. 3. 2, 1, Or, Crest on a wreath, a half- moon Argent, charged with a star Or in the Arms, Motto Immotus."
Sidney Thorne Able's paternal grandfather fought in the Civil war on the side of the south. while three of the brothers of such grandparent fought on the northern side. His maternal grandfather, Captain Edward Alston Thorne, fought on the side of the south.
Sidney Thorne Able attended the grade schools in Water Valley. Mississippi, and later attended high school and the Water Valley Military Academy. During several summers he attended summer school and in 1904, at the age of fifteen, was sent from his home in Mississippi to attend Missouri Valley College at Mar- shall. Missouri, from which he later graduated with the degree of A. B. A short time prior to 1904 his father had served as a delegate to the convention in Fresno, California, for the union of the two great Presbyterian churches and had there met and become acquainted with Dr. William H. Black. president of Missouri Valley College.
Sidney Thorne Able later entered the law department of Washington Univer- sity, from which he graduated in 1910, at the age of twenty-one years, with the degree of LL. B. In order to graduate from the law department of Washington University each senior is required to write a thesis upon a given subject and a prize is awarded. In 1910 the subject upon which each senior was required to write was "The Extra-Territorial Enforcement of Statutes Imposing Liabilities on Stock Holders." The thesis prize was won by Sidney Thorne Able. The thesis. about a year later, appeared as an article in the Central Law Journal. Sidney Thorne Able was a member of the Gamma Omicron (Washington Uni- versity) Chapter of the Sigma Nu Fraternity.
In 1906. his father, George Dudley Able, was elected vice-president of The Versailles & Sedalia Railroad Company and treasurer of the Corinth Woolen Mills (now Curlee Clothing Company) and moved from Water Valley. Missis- sippi. to St. Louis to live. He later became president of the Link Fabric Com- pany of America and is now serving in that capacity.
Sidney Thorne Able took the Missouri bar examinations and after success- fully passing them was licensed to practice law and in the fall of 1910 entered the law offices of Fordyce Holliday & White. After serving as an assistant in their offices for a year, to get the experience, he took a position, which paid him a salary of only fifty dollars a month, as an investigator in the St. Louis office of the American Fidelity Company and in less than a year was elevated to the position of counsel for such company for the states of Missouri and Illinois, a position which later paid him five thousand a year for legal services. In April, 1913. he opened his present law offices at 303-5 Pierce building, St. Louis, and shortly thereafter also became counsel for Missouri for the Georgia Casualty
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Company. In 1915 he started an insurance agency in offices adjoining his law office under the name of the Able Insurance Agency Company, which company was general agent in Missouri for the Georgia Casualty Company, but about a year later he found that this took too much of his time from his law practice and gave it up. From the very start his work has been of the character that required him to be in court almost constantly, which experience enabled him to make the remarkable showing he has made since 1916 as a trial lawyer. He is a member of the St. Louis, the Missouri and the American Bar Associations.
In the fall of 1913 he persuaded Miss Grace Shafer, who was then a sopho- more in Bryn Mawr College to postpone temporarily her collegiate work and on February 2, 1914, at the Kingshighway Presbyterian church in St. Louis, they were married. Dr. William H. Black, president of the Missouri Valley College, performed the wedding ceremony. They have three children: Mary Ellen, born September 27, 1915, who has attended Miss Wilson's kindergarten for two years and enters Mary Institute in the fall of 1921; Edward Thorne, born Aug- ust 21, 1917; and Charles Robert, born December 16, 1918. Mrs. Sidney Thorne Able is now completing her college course. She attended Washington University the year 1919-1920 and the half year ending June, 1921, and will grad- uate with the degree of A. B., June, 1922. She is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. They live in the Warwick Court Apartments on the corner of Clara avenue and Kingsbury boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri.
Index
Able, S. T 435
Jones, Breckinridge
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Jones, Paul 69
Bardenheier, F. G. A. 263
Barnes, F. M. 189
Kane, P. J 271
Berkowitz, W. J
251
Karling, F. W 111
Bascom, C. P. 291
Bausch, F. E. 243
Blanke, C. F. 341
Knight, W. J. 373
Boemer, I. H.
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Blodgett, W. H.
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Lebrecht, J. C. 345
Boyle, W. F.
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Lewis, R. D. 95
Briggs, G. C. 405
Cahill. T. F 325
Caradine, J. T.
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Carleton, Murray
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Caulk, J. R.
303
Chancellor, Eustathius 175
Charles, B. H
203
Clancy, J. F. 369
Nagel, Charles 33
Cobbs, T. H. 307
Newman, F. L. 125
Colburn, Webster 283
Nichols, A. D. 353
Conrades, E. H
333
Nietert, H. L. 117
Cook, S. B. 377
Nipher, F. E 211
Cramer, E. R 259
Nugent, Byron
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Drake, G. S. 207
Orcutt, R. L. 299
Ernst, E. C.
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Ewing, A. B.
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Ewing, A. E.
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Fauth, E. S. 193
Pfingsten, C. F 275
Pickrel, R. E. 227
Grabe, W. H.
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Pillsbury, E. S. 153
Primm, A. T., Jr 267
Haanel, C. F 171
Sauer, W. E. 389
Hall, W. A 337
Saunders, E. W 167
Hart, E. S. 409
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Scott, H. C. 161
Holtcamp. C. W.
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Hopkins, M. J.
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Shapleigh, A. F. 45
Shelton, Mrs. Theodore. 181
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Johnson, Jackson
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Singleton, M. E. 51
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Johnson, W. A. 349 Skinker, A. R
Meier, T. G. 133
Mesker, Frank 137
Minor, W. E. 157
Morris, C. C. 149
Moss, Mrs. J. T 77
Mylet. T. J.
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O'Reilly, Thomas 217
Overall, J. H. 101
Overall. J. H., Jr 107
Greve, Henry 357
Schnoebelen, P. C. 427
Hensel, E. R
Settle, J. C. 397
Hough, W. M
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Hurst, C. M. 237
Simmons, E. C
Simon, F. C. 247
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King, A. B. 199
Kirchner, W. C. G .. 361
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Skinker. T. K
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Thomy, J. P.
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Smith, H. A. .
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Tierney, J. L.
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Steigers, W. C.
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Tonnies, A. G.
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Summa, Hugo
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Swahlen, P. H.
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Wagner, E. H. 279
Swenson, Godfrey
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Wallace, H. B.
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Wendling, G. R., Jr ..
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Talbott, Hudson
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Wilson, Guy
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Taylor, T. W.
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Wood, B. A
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