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Lewis Benjamin Andrews
ANSAS CITY has long been one of the most important eenters K of the live stock industry of America and actively and prom- inently connected with this business at the present time is Lewis B. Andrews, who is a well known member of the Live Stock Exchange. He was born near Lena, Illinois, October 9, 1850. a son of William and Jane Andrews, both of whom were natives of Ohio. He pursued his education in the country school, while spending his youthful days upon the home farm, later attending Oberlin College in Ohio. He assisted his father until he was twenty-two years of age, when he took charge of his father's farm, which was largely given over to the raising of live stock.
In 1878 Mr. Andrews was married to Miss Elizabeth Moffett, daughter of James and Isabella Moffett, of Jo Daviess county, Illinois, who were both born in County Monaghan, Ireland.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews belong to the Second Presbyterian church of Kansas City, in which they are greatly interested. He gives his politieal allegiance to the republican party but has never sought nor desired public office, preferring to concentrate his time and energies upon business affairs. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City and is interested in all its activities for the benefit and progress of the city. He is also a member of the Kansas City Club.
In 1884 Mr. Andrews left Illinois and went to Comanche county, Kansas, where he proved up government and school claims. This government claim formed the nucleus of what has for many years been known as the Comanche County Raneh near Coldwater, Kansas.
In 1889 he came to Kansas City, where he turned his attention to the oil business. In January, 1896, Mr. Andrews and the Moffett brothers formed a partnership under the firm name of Moffett Brothers & Andrews Live Stock Commission Company, of which he is now the secretary and treasurer. This company handles cattle, sheep and hogs and has developed a business of exten- sive proportions. Mr. Andrews is the treasurer of the Live Stock Exchange and is recognized as one of the prominent representatives of this industry in Kansas City and the west. Upon a farm in Jackson county he is engaged in raising registered Herefords and shorthorns and in the breeding of horses and mules.
Mr. Andrews has also extended his activities into other fields of business and is a director of the Midwest Reserve Trust Company and president of the Peoples State Bank of Dodson, Missouri. He started out in the business world empty handed but diligenee and thrift have characterized his entire busi- ness life, and his record should serve as a source of encouragement and inspira- tion to others.
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James A. Moore
AMES A. MOORE, who for many years figured prominently in agricultural and banking circles in Linn county, was but seven years of age when he came to Missouri with his parents, the family home being established upon what was then the western frontier. Throughout his remaining days James A. Moore continued a resident of Missouri. He was born, how- ever, in Anderson county, Tennessee, November 3, 1835, and came of English ancestry, the family having been founded in America during colonial days. Ilis grandfather, James Moore, was born in North Carolina and at the time of the Revolutionary war joined the colonial forces in the struggle for independence. He afterwards removed to Tennessee, where he engaged in farming, and his last days were spent in Alabama, where he lived for a number of years prior to his death, which occurred when he was well advaneed in age. His son, Joseph T. Moore, father of James A. Moore, was born in Alabama, May 1, 1791, and devoted his time to the occupation of farming when not en- gaged in military duty. He had the same patriotic spirit as his father and at the country's call to arms for service in the War of 1812 he joined the army, with which he remained for five years. He was with General George R. Clarke at the capture of Vincennes, Indiana, and was there slightly wounded in the shoulder. In recognition of the military service he received a patent for one hundred and sixty aeres of land in Linn county, Missouri, from the government. Prior to this time Joseph Moore had wedded Jane Pate, a native of Alabama, and in 1840 came to Linn county to locate his land and two years afterward brought his family to his elaim, driving across country with horses and oxen and bringing his live stock with him. The family first lived in a tent but soon a log cabin was built. The wife and mother passed away in 1846, leaving a family of five sons and a daughter. Later the father married Miss Sophia Root and they became the parents of four children. As the years passed' Joseph T. Moore be- came an active factor in shaping the policy and promoting the progress of the distriet in which he lived. He filled various local offices and for three terms was county judge of Linn county. He was also an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and died in that faith in 1873. The land which he received as a grant from the government is still in possession of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Taggert, who resides in Linneus,
James A. Moore, whose name introduces this review, went through the hard- ships and privations of pioneer life and assisted his father in the ardnous task of developing a new farm, remaining at home until he reached the age of twenty-three years. His opportunity for attending school was limited, but he learned many lessons from nature and in the school of experience, and became a well informed man. Two years after attaining his majority he purchased a
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traet of wild land and with characteristie energy began to clear and improve the property, living thereon for many years. Ile brought his land under a high state of cultivation and added to his holdings from time to time until he was the owner of fourteen hundred acres, much of which he placed under the plow, and year after year gathered abundant harvests. He also engaged quite exten- sively in the raising of live stock, remaining upon his farm until 1899, when he removed to Brookfield, but continued to supervise the operation of his farm and his live stock interests. In 1904 he established a private bank in Brookfield, which has beeome one of the substantial institutions of this part of the state.
On the 17th of November, 1858, James A. Moore was married to Miss Sarah True, a native of Missouri, and they became the parents of four children : Mary, the wife of Dr. Powers; Joseph W .; Effie, the wife of C. HI. Jones, of Brookfield ; and Butler A., deceased.
Mr. Moore was a member of the state militia during the Civil war. Like his father, he was always keenly interested in the welfare and progress of his com- munity and contributed to all plans and measures for the general good. He passed away November 22, 1919, and his sterling worth was recognized by all, for he was true to every manly principle, his life being fraught with good deeds and characterized by honorable motives.
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Lon. James Marcus Johnson
ON. JAMES MARCUS JOHNSON, regarded as one of the ablest H judges that Missouri has ever produced and now successfully praetieing law in Kansas City, was born in St. Joseph, Mis- souri, July 5, 1862. Ilis father, James B. Johnson, was a native of Virginia who in 1856 came to Missouri, settling in St. Joseph, where he engaged in the stone and marble busi- ness. Ile was a son of James Johnson, Sr., also a native of the Old Dominion, and the ancestral line can be traced back to colonial days. James B. Johnson was a member of the Baptist church and he also belonged to the Masonic fraternity, his life being guided by the teachings and high purposes of the order and of the church. Ile married Henrietta M. Albertson, who was born in Indiana and is now living in California, but Mr. Johnson passed away in 1895. In their family were eight children, four of whom are yet living.
James Marcus Johnson was educated in the public and high schools of St. Joseph, Missouri, and, attracted to the legal profession, he began preparation for the bar. He read law under the direction of the firm of Crosby & Rusk, of St. Joseph, and was admitted to practice on the 7th of January, 1884. He then entered upon the active work of the courts in his native city, where he remained from 1884 until 1905, when he was elected judge of the Kansas City court of appeals, and remained upon the bench for twelve years. He possesses a brilliant mind, is an omniverous reader and has ever been a diligent student. This has given him wide general culture and broad legal learning. In practice he has succeeded because of careful preparation, experience, fair-mindedness, a knowl. edge of human nature, ingenuity and an attraetive personality. Hle has con- tinued in the general work of the courts and is formidable both before court and jury. Methodical and painstaking, the thorough preparation of his cases has ever been one of his strong points in the attainment of success at the bar and in his judicial position he was the embodiment of rectitude and judicial propriety. Retiring from the beneh on the Ist of January, 1917, he resumed the active prac- tice of law, in which he is now engaged, his clientage being of a very extensive and most important character. Ile rendered over fifteen hundred opinions while judge of the court of appeals and his court was never behind its docket. IIe averaged one hundred and twenty-five opinions yearly, while the average for appellate courts is but thirty-five. ITis opinions are models of English as well as sound legal exposition. He is a prolific writer and lecturer on jurisprudence, history and literature. Ile lectures upon The Trial of Christ and other religious and secular subjects, including Shakespeare. He leetures before the Men's Bible Class of St. Paul's Episcopal church and he is a member of the faculty and lec- turer on equity, court practice, pleadings, etc., in the Kansas City School of Law.
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On the 30th of November, 1887, Judge Johnson was married to Miss Jessie Ambrose, daughter of James W. Ambrose, president of the Ambrose Manufac- turing Company of St. Joseph and a representative of one of the pioneer fami- lies there. They have become the parents of four children : Donald W., a grad- uate of the Missouri State University, now associated with his father in law prac- tice, was married October 26, 1915, to Miss Reeve Alexander and they have one child, June Janet. Elsa, the second of the family, is the wife of Harry E. Mar- shall, of Seattle, Washington. Jessie Clayton is now a student in the University of Missouri. Sherratt M. is attending law school and also studying in his father's office.
The family are communicants of St. Paul's Episcopal church and Judge Johnson gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is a finished and interesting public speaker, more instructive than stirring in his appeals but capable of persuading people by appeal to their reason and finer sensibility. He is much interested in all those agencies which make for the uplift of the individ- ual and the betterment of the community and he has, moreover, been most active in Armenian relief work. He belongs to the Kansas City, the Missouri State and American Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Missouri Historical Society, of which he served as vice president, and of the Missouri Valley Histor- ical Society. His success, which does not merely cover his profession but extends to every field into which he has directed his activities, may be attributed to a rare capacity for making and retaining friends, to a very alert, well trained and powerful mind, to a vigorous imagination and a courage which never flags, combined with a gift of expression in both writing and speech which perfectly serves him in every necessity.
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Wheaton Crabens Ferris
3LUCK, perseverance, intelligence," was the reply given when a P friend of Wheaton Cravens Ferris was asked as to the cause of his sueeess, for he operates today as one of the prominent real estate men of St. Louis. Another termed him, "A man of integ- rity, with ability to organize, and a vision that few possess." With this vision Mr. Ferris has developed some of the impor- tant properties and subdivisions of the eity and all has been accomplished within the last fourteen years, for he did not become a resident here until 1906 and arrived a total stranger. He is fortunate in possessing character and ability that inspire confidence in others and the simple weight of his character and ability have carried him into important business relations.
Mr. Ferris was born in Clarksville, Arkansas, May 15, 1878, and is a son of Joseph Wheaton and Susie (Reid) Ferris. His father died when he was but a year old and the mother when he was a lad of ten. He was adopted, but when fourteen years of age ran away from the home in which he had spent four years and his first endeavor in the business world was made as a newsboy at Conway, Arkansas. He had to some extent attended the public schools of Conway and later he enjoyed the advantage of two years' study in Hendrix College, but not until he had earned the means necessary to pay his tuition. After working as a newsboy for a time he became a reporter on the Daily Light at Tahlequah, in the Indian Territory. He subsequently removed to Little Rock, Arkansas, and afterward resided at other points in that state, becoming associated with prom- inent business enterprises. Gradually his powers developed and increased and he eame more and more into control of important business interests. In 1899 he was the treasurer of the Sandefer-Julian Company of Little Rock, so eon- tinning until 1901, when he became president of the Ferris & White Company of Plumerville, Arkansas. When five years had passed he was chosen the president of the Arkansas Investment Company at Little Rock, but seeking a still broader field of labor in 1906 he removed to St. Louis. He had no friends in this city but he possessed a fund of knowledge gained through practical experience which soon placed him among the progressive and farsighted business men. He became the president of the Olive Street Terrace Realty Company of St. Louis in 1907, afterward was chosen president of the Kinloch Land Company and is now the president of the Twabrigs Land Company and the Wilston Land Company. In the latter connection he developed a negro colonization in St. Louis near Fergu- son, a movement highly valuable to the city in the segregation of the colored raee. Mr. Ferris also developed a large traet of land constituting an ideal resi- denee property, called South Hampton, in the southwestern section of the city. He was appointed a director of the Sixth United States District by the depart- ment of labor at Washington, D. C., and entered upon an "Own your own
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home" campaign in the district which comprises Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas, and is a member of "The own your home" committee of the National Real Estate Board. He belongs to the St. Louis Real Estate Exchange and also to the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Ferris' popularity with his employes is unusual. On several occasions they have surprised him with a "Welcome Home" program on his return from business trips. On one occasion a floral gift was given him, each flower in the bouqnet representing a lot sold during his absence with the card of the salesman making the sale attached thereto. Another time the surprise took the form of a birthday cake, with forty candles on it. Each candle represented a sale of one thousand dollars. On both occasions a special effort was made on the part of each employe to bring in the largest possible amount of new business as a means of showing to their friend and employer the appreciation of what he was doing for them. This shows the unusual relations existing between Mr. Ferris and his employes and the remarkable morale existing among his co-workers.
On the 17th of October, 1900, at Little Rock, Arkansas, Mr. Ferris was mar- ried to Ruby Bernice Hoshall and they reside at No. 6995 Washington avenue. Mr. Ferris is a democrat in his political views and he is a member of the Mis- souri Athletic and Century Boat Clubs. He finds recreation in tennis and literature and is particularly fond of English, of history and fiction. He attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm and when made a member of the War Savings Stamps committee of the St. Louis Federal District he gave to the work unstinted time and the abundant experience of the successful business man, the results achieved being highly satisfactory.
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Benjamin Carroll Dyde
BENJAMIN CARROLL HYDE, secretary and treasurer of the B T. W. Ballew Loan & Investment Company of Kansas City and long connected with the development of the oil industry, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, January 2, 1875, and is a son of Ira B. Ilyde, lawyer, soldier and congressman, who was born at Guilford, New York, January 18, 1838, and reared upon a farm in the Empire state. He supplemented his early edu- cation by study in Oberlin College of Ohio and after preparing for the bar located in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1861. There he entered upon the practice of his profession but in the following year joined the Union army as a private in a cavalry regiment, with which he served until the close of the war. In 1866 he came to Missouri and opened his law office at Princeton. where he served for one term as prosecuting attorney. In 1874 he was elected to the forty-third congress on the republican ticket by a vote of thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty- three against that of twelve thousand three hundred and eighteen given to C. H. Mansur, the democratic candidate. Ile is still living and makes his home at Princeton, Missouri.
Benjamin C. Hyde of this review, after attending the public schools, spent two years as a student in the University of Iowa and for a year studied in Oberlin College, his father's alma mater. Ile entered upon his business career as cashier of the Mereer County Bank, in which position he remained for a brief period. His father was at that time interested in telephone properties in northern Missouri and southern lowa and Benjamin C. Hyde acted for many years as auditor and manager of the business. Twelve years ago he came to Kansas City and is the secretary and treasurer of the T. W. Ballew Loan & Investment Company. He has beeome thoroughly familiar with many forms of investment and is a prom- inent figure in the financial eireles of his adopted city. He is also a director of the Security National Bank and has many other interests.
On the 28th of April, 1897, Mr. Hyde was married to Miss Jessie Beatrice Ballew, daughter of Thomas W. Ballew, of a prominent old Missouri family. They have beeome parents of two children: Florence Mabel, who is president of the senior elass of Mount Vernon Seminary at Washington, D. C .; and Benjamin Winfield, seventeen years of age, now a student in the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Mr. Hyde is a member of the Kansas City Club, the Kansas City Athletic Club, the Blue Hills Country Club, the Mission Hills Country Club, the Noon- day Club, and other prominent organizations. Ile is fond of golf and various phases of outdoor life.
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James B. Welsh
AMES B. WELSII is the president of the James B. Welsh Realty, Loan & Investment Company of Kansas City, in which connection he has built up a business of extensive and substan- tial proportions. He has closely studied every phase of the business, formulates his plans carefully and carries them for- ward to successful completion. There is no man more thor- onghly familiar with real estate conditions nor one whose valua- tions of property are more accurate than those of James B. Welsh. J
Mr. Welsh was born in Danville, Kentucky, on the 14th of March, 1852, and in that state he spent the first thirty years of his life. He supplemented his preliminary education by a course of study in Centre College, from which he was graduated in 1872, and then turned his attention to mercantile interests in Danville, being thus engaged until 1882. The latter year witnessed his arrival in Kansas City, Missouri, where he has been identified with the real estate, loan and investment business continuously since, or for a period covering nearly four decades. The James B. Welsh Realty, Loan & Investment Company occupies a fine suite of rooms in the Lathrop building, and associated with Mr. Welsh in the enterprise are B. Haywood Hagerman, vice president, and Byron G. Bliss, treasurer. They are large operators in real estate and also conduct an extensive business in insurance, loans and in the management of estates.
In early manhood Mr. Welsh was united in marriage to Miss Mary McKee, a daughter of Dr. John L. McKee, D. D., vice president of Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, for twenty-five years. In 1904, having lost his first wife, Mr. Welsh wedded her sister, Leila S. MeKee, who is a graduate of Wellesley College, which conferred upon her the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. She became a successful educator and was president of the Western College at Oxford, Ohio, for a period of sixteen years. She is now a director of the Young Women's Christian Association and is very active in philanthropie and religious work and in the social circles of the city. Mr. Welsh has two sons, MeKee and George W., both of whom are farming near Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Welsh is a member of the University Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Knife and Fork Club, the Mission Hills Country Club and is very prominent as a promoter of educational and moral progress. He served as a trustee of Park College, also as trustee of the Missouri Valley College and the McCormick Theological Seminary. He is an active member of the Second Presbyterian church and one of its most generous supporters. He is serving on the executive committee of the New Era movement, which is introducing a new era in moral development, where men with broad vision have seized the opportunities for co- operative effort in the moral guidance of the world. He is also a director of the Kansas City Young Men's Christian Association and his aid and influence
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are ever found on the side of development and progress. For thirty-eight years he has been a resident of Kansas City and during this period has made valua- ble contribution to Missouri's growth and upbuilding, his name being most prominently and honorably associated with its material, intellectual, social and moral progress.
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James Al. Herbert
NE of the ablest railroad executives in the country is James O M. Herbert, president of the St. Louis & Southwestern Railway Company. That he has reached sneh a position is due to certain qualities and characteristics. IIe is ealm, well poised, frank, fair, just and fearless, possesses large initiative, pa- tienee and capacity for work. Ile manifests also keen in- sight, a retentive memory, the practical judgment that en- ables him to make quiek, aeeurate and firm decisions and, moreover, he is an excellent judge of men and a natural leader.
Mr. Herbert was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1863. 1Tis father, John Herbert, was also a native of the Keystone state and was deseended from one of the old and prominent Pennsylvania families of Irish lineage. Throughout his entire life he remained in his native state, pass- ing away in 1889 at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Catherine Dixon, was also born in Pennsylvania, where her aneestors had lived through several generations, and she died in that state in 1899 at the age of seventy-eight. The family numbered eleven ehildren, eight sons and three daughters.
James M. Herbert, the youngest of the family, was educated in the publie schools of Delmont, Pennsylvania, and in the Delmont Academy, which he attended to the age of nineteen years. He then started out to earn his own livelihood and his first position was that of a railroad telegrapher. IIe devoted his attention to telegraphy for five years, at the end of which time he was made a train dispatcher on the Wabash Railroad in Illinois, with headquarters at Springfield. He continued to serve in that position for ten years, at the end of which time he was made trainmaster for the Wabash and filled that offiee for two years, after which he resigned and accepted a similar position with the Grand Trunk Railroad in Canada. In 1897 he was promoted to the posi- tion of superintendent of the Grand Trunk and held that office for four years at Montreal, Canada, when he resigned to enter into connection with the Mis- souri Pacifie as district general superintendent, with headquarters at Kansas City, Missouri. Later he was transferred to St. Louis as general superintendent of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, fully meeting every re- quirement of that office until he resigned to aeeept the position of manager with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company at San Francisco, California. When he had resigned that office he went with the Denver & Rio Grande at Denver, oceu- pying a similar position, which he held until he severed his connection with the road to become vice president of the Colorado & Southern Railroad at Den- ver. At length he retired from railroad service and was in other lines of busi- ness for four years in Denver, but again became connected with railroad interests
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