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Ile is also president of the Industrial Warehouse Company of East St. Louis. His plans are well formulated and carefully executed. He seems to recognize almost intuitively the real value of any business situation or condition and his efforts have been directed along lines that have produced substantial returns.
At East St. Louis, on the 24th of December, 1912, Mr. Broekman was married to Miss Anna Skibbe, a daughter of Mrs. Victoria Skibbe, of Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Brockman is widely known for his manly charitable acts, for he is con- stantly extending a helping hand to those in need, especially to destitute families and children through the cooperation of the St. Louis Police Department. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and he is active in all civic affairs for the betterment of St. Louis. He was chairman of the antomobile com- mittee for the twenty-four million dollar bond issue for St. Louis in 1920. In the same year he was made a member of the executive committee of the Safety First Council and there are few organized efforts for the benefit and improve- ment of St. Louis which do not receive his hearty support and cooperation, his labors at all times being far-reaching and effective. He is a valued member of the St. Louis Automobile Dealers' and Manufacturers' Association, of which he was elected a director in 1917, the vice president in 1918 and the president in 1919, being reelected to the highest office in 1920. He was elected to the execu- tive board of the sales manager bureau of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce
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for three years and was made district chairman of the state legislative commit- tee for the Missouri Good Roads Federation in the twelfth district.
There is still another phase in the life record of Mr. Brockman which is worthy of attention, as it indicates much of the nature of his interests and his eliaracter. He is a Master Mason, having joined the order on the 26th day of July, 1902. On the 18th of September, 1903, he was made a Royal Areh Mason and on the 14th of November, 1903, a Knight Templar, while on the 24th of February, 1911, he became a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. His appreciation of the social amenities of life is indicated in the fact that he has membership in the Missouri Automobile Club, the St. Louis Automobile Club, the Liederkranz, the Sunset Hill Country Club, the City Club and in the Missouri Athletic Association.
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Walter Lee Lampkin
ALTER LEE LAMPKIN, whose loyalty to the interests of his W clients is one of his marked characteristics as an attorney and yet who never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law, has long practiced successfully at the Kansas City bar. He was born in Dallas county, Texas, Jan- uary 25, 1871, and is a son of John B. and Luey Margaret (Davis) Lampkin, the former a native of Tennessee, while the latter was born in Missouri. Immediately after their marriage in Missouri the parents removed to Texas, traveling overland to the Lone Star state. Iney Margaret Davis was a danghter of Fred Davis, who was a very prosperous busi- ness man of Texas and finaneed the building of the first bridge over the Trinity river at Dallas. Leaving Virginia in his young manhood, he came to Missouri, where he became a slave owner and farmer. Long after they were freed, his former slaves remained with him and retained an affectionate regard and loyalty for him and his family. Mr. Lampkin of this review had three uneles in the Confederate army and was named for General Robert E. Lee. John B. Lampkin, father of Walter Lee Lampkin, took up the ocenpation of farming in Dallas county, but after some time removed to Missouri, settling in Osage eounty and later becoming a resident of Warreusburg. He was very active as a supporter of demoeratie principles, taking a prominent part in politics and serving for two terms as eounty treasurer.
Walter Lee Lampkin pursued a two years' course as a student in the State Normal School, after which he took up teaching at Miami, Missouri, one of the oldest towns of the state. Later he returned to Warrensburg, where he com- pleted the full four years' course of study, graduating in 1897, and with broad general learning to serve as the foundation upon which to rear the superstrue- ture of professional knowledge, he entered upon the study of law in the office of J. W. Suddath, one of Missouri's prominent attorneys. In 1899 he entered upon the practice of law in Warrensburg and while there residing also took an active and prominent part in polities as a leader of the democratie party. In 1901 he removed to Kansas City and practiced law until 1903, when he became private secretary to Senator Franeis M. Coekrell. At the expiration of Senator Cockrell's term of thirty years in the senate Mr. Lampkin returned to Kansas City in 1905 and resumed the general practice of law. Under Mayor Crittenden he served as attorney for the park board and also as assistant eity counselor. IIe has made steady progress in his professional career and is widely recognized as a man of sterling integrity, diligence and courage, combined with good ability and fidelity to his clients. He has sueeessfully handled large and complex cases and in meeting men of affairs has shown a quick grasp of a proposition.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane requested Senator James A. Reed
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to recommend a man to enforce the explosives law in the state of Missouri during the war. Senator Reed suggested Mr. Lampkin, who on the 23d of November, 1917, was appointed by President Wilson as explosives inspector for Missouri, and occupied the position until July 1, 1919. On the 1st of November, 1917, upon appointment by Wallaee Crossley, state fuel administrator, he was made chairman of the fuel committee of Kansas City and thus continued until March 1, 1919. As fuel administrator for Kansas City he gave most efficient service during the war period, being broad and businesslike in dealing with many diffi- eult situations, his eourse being pleasing alike to the publie and to the fuel dealers. When the country no longer needed his aid he again concentrated his efforts and attention upon his law practice. There is another phase of his character which is most interesting. In washing his own ear he saw the neces- sity of a handy device for eleaning automobiles, as a result of which he invented and patented the Lampkin Auto Washer, which so successfully answered the demand that it is being marketed on a royalty basis.
Mr. Lampkin was united in marriage to Miss Luthera Joy, of Kansas City, a daughter of C. Mason Joy, proprietor of the Centropolis Hotel at the time of its opening and for several years thereafter, at which time it was the leading hotel of the eity. He was a descendant of Thomas Joy, who built the first Town Ilouse in Boston, in 1657. Mr. Lampkin is a member of the Automobile Club of Kansas City, of Albert Pike Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and belongs to the Linwood Boulevard Christian church, while along strietly professional lines he is eon- neeted with the Kansas City, Missouri State and American Bar Associations. HIe is familiar with the elassies and with the best poetry and in matters of litera- ture displays a discriminating judgment. He is fond of music, both voeal and instrumental, and in the College Glee Clubs he taught and played the mandolin and guitar. He is constantly extending a helping hand where aid is needed and is a generous giver to meritorious charities. To know Walter Lee Lampkin is to know a real man-one who in every way measures up to the highest standards and whose worth is recognized by all with whom he comes in contaet.
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Isaac Stockton Taylor
SAAC STOCKTON TAYLOR, an architect of eminent ability in his profession, journeyed through life with powers con- stantly increasing through the exercise of activity until he was elassed with those whose names are synonymous with the best in the architectural adornment not only of St. Louis but of the entire Mississippi valley. Theodore Roosevelt onee said : "The thing supremely worth having is the opportunity, coupled with the capacity, to do a piece of work, the doing of which shall be of vital significance to mankind." Such an opportunity came to Isaae S. Taylor and he improved it to the best of his ability and that ability was of the highest order. I
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Isaae Stockton Taylor was born in Decem- ber, 1850, his parents being Isaac W. and Mary (Stacker) Taylor. He obtained a classical education in the St. Louis University and the work which he did in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis won for him the degree of Master of Arts from his alma mater.
Mr. Taylor was a young man of but nineteen years when he entered upon preparation for his profession in the office of George I. Barnett, then a well known architect of St. Louis. He made steady progress and for many years successfully engaged in business on his own account. The nature of his ae- complishments is shown in the statement of the fact that he was the architect of the Southern Hotel of St. Louis, also of the Liggett & Myers block, the Drum- mond tobacco factory, the Globe-Democrat building, the Republic building, the publie library, the Planters Hotel, the National Bank of Commerce and also many prominent structures in Texas and in Illinois. He had attained such eminence in his profession that he was made director of works for the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition when it was planned to hold a World's Fair in this eity, and his work set a new standard of beauty in the way of exposition building.
Mr. Taylor was a valued member of the American Institute of Architects and also belonged to the St. Louis chapter of that organization. He was iden- tified with the Business Men's League of St. Louis and was well known as a member of the Mercantile and St. Louis Clubs. Death ealled him on the 28th of October, 1917, when he was in the sixty-seventh year of his age. That the value of his work was recognized is indicated in the following address, which was made on the occasion of the presentation of a bust of Mr. Taylor to the Missouri Historical Society by his lifelong friend and attorney, R. M. Nichols :
"It is not obvious to human intelligence what most of us were born for, nor why almost anyone might just as well not have been born. Occasionally, how- ever, it is plain that a man is sent into the world with a particular work to per-
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form. If a man is actually, though not always, conscious of his mission, his con- temporaries as a rule are equally blind to his merits, and it then remains for after generations to discover that a man has lived and died for whom was set one particular task, and who has attempted and achieved it, and whose achievements have changed the whole course of procedure of that particular subject, and for ages thereafter remain the authoritative sources of all knowledge upon that subject. Blackstone is today the authoritative exponent of the common law, Story the American luminary of the principles of equity, Haeckel, Darwin and Tyndall the brightest luminaries of natural science, and so Isaac S. Taylor is the authoritative source of modern architectural knowledge in St. Louis, Chicago, and cities in Texas and Arkansas, in the planning and construction of large hotels and business buildings. Few of us can look back over life's struggle at anything that we have accomplished for the real good of the world or the perma- nent benefit of humanity, and we often marvel, with all of our struggles, that we have accomplished nothing that may live after us.
"Isaac S. Taylor has standing to the credit of his memory those enduring monuments of architectural beauty in the city of St. Louis, such as the Liggett & Myers tobacco factory, the largest in the world, the old Southern Hotel, now past its usefulness but one of the first buildings planned and built by him, at the beginning of his career; the Rialto, Columbia, Mercantile Club, Globe- Democrat, Republic, Mercantile Trust, Bank of Commerce, Rice Stix Dry Goods Company buildings, Planters Hotel, Jefferson Hotel and Municipal courts build- ings, as well as hotels in Chicago, Eureka Springs, Hot Springs, Dallas, and many others.
"He was the architect of this beautiful Jefferson Memorial, built to com- memorate the principles of Thomas Jefferson ; he was director of works for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which built a perfect wilderness of beautiful buildings near the spot of this Jefferson Memorial.
"Isaac Stockton Taylor was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in December, 1850. Just at what period in his age he arrived in this city is obscure, but certain it is that he obtained a part of his education at the St. Louis University, which at that time was located at Ninth street and Washington avenue. This is known from the fact that in his will he gave to that institution three thousand dollars, expressing his reason for the gift 'for the kindness and consideration shown me when I was a boy at school at said university.'
"Ilis business career extended over a period of about forty years, from 1879 to 1918. It seems that at that period he had performed his appointed work. His virtues were ripe. All that was mortal of him passed from life without a struggle apparently, into that dreamless drapery of eternal sleep. His day went down like an evening sun in a cloudless autumn sky. He has done nothing to sully his fair fame; no blot or soil of envy or calumny can now affect him. His character will stand upon the pages of the history of this great city as pure and unsullied as the Stars and Stripes.
"As Mr. Taylor progressed in the accumulation of property, it is known only among his intimate friends that he became very charitable. His charitable disposition was not only manifested by substantial gifts to those with whom he was associated, but also by his will. After remembering numerous persons
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with whom he had no ties of consanguinity, he gave very substantial gifts to Father Dunn's Newsboys' IIome and the Missouri Baptist Orphans' Home.
"Mr. President, I ask the acceptance of this bust of Isaac S. Taylor by the Missouri Historical Society and that it may be placed among the memorial col- lection of the World's Fair history."
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George L). Contrup
GEORGE HI. TONTRUP, president and treasurer of the National G Safety Car & Equipment Company, manufacturers of general railway supplies, both steam and electric, established this busi- ness in 1918 and it has sinee enjoyed a steady and satisfactory growth. Mr. Tontrup is one of the native sons of St. Louis. Ile was born October 25, 1876, of the marriage of Louis H. and Georgie (Corwin) Tontrup, whose family numbered five children, namely: Clara, Eleanor M., Aliee E., George II. and Louis B., of which number Clara and Louis B. have passed away. The parents are still living and the father has been for forty years with the well known real estate firm of Papin & Tontrup, one of the oldest and most prominent real estate interests of St. Louis. Prior to entering the real estate field he engaged in the wholesale dry goods business.
George H. Tontrup attended the public and high schools and later entered upon his business eareer in connection with the American Car Company, builders of street ears, with which corporation he remained for twenty-eight years. Gradually he worked his way upward from a humble position to various promotions until he became general manager of the business, so continuing until September 1, 1918, when, desirous of engaging in business on his own account, he resigned and organized the National Safety Car & Equipment Company, of which he is the president and treasurer. His business is located at Nos. 417-19 Pierce building. The company engages in the sale of ears and railroad sup- plies, both steam and electric. Their sales have extended to various parts of the country, particularly to many of the eities of the east. St. Louis is the known eenter of the ear industry in America and Mr. Tontrup has long been eonneeted with this line of business. The future holds out good indieations for the further adoption of the "one man ear," a method that will have been brought about through the use of the safety ear. Each car of this character in use saves from two to four thousand dollars per annum, by reason of the fact that there is less consumption of electric eurrent, less man power, less track- age, with quieker and better service and absolute safety. The ear handled by the company is most compaet and adequate in every partieular, with no waste spaee and yet built with a view to the comfort of patrons.
On the 6th of November, 1901, Mr. Tontrup was married to Miss Clara Rowe, a daughter of Charles II. Rowe, who for years was a resident of St. Louis and is now living retired in Virginia. Her grandfather, Joseph Rowe, was well known in St. Louis prior to the Civil war and afterward removed to Hannibal, Missouri, where he served as mayor and was recognized as a powerful faetor in the political cireles of the state.
For a quarter of a century Mr. Tontrup has resided in the west end of St.
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Louis, occupying an attractive home at No. 4200 Washington avenue. He belongs to the St. Louis Club, Missouri Athletic Club, the Sunset Hill Country Club and to the King's Lake Hunting & Fishing Club, of which he is the president, this being the oldest elub of the kind in the state so far as is known. Mr. Tontrup belongs to Tuscan Lodge, No. 360, A. F. & A. M .; St. Louis Chapter, R. A. M .; and Ascalon Commandery, K. T .; also to Missouri Consistory, S. P. R. S., and to Moolah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Ilis religious faith is that of the Baptist church and in polities he is a conservative republican. His course has been marked by a steady progress which indicates the wise use of time, talents and opportunities. Step by step he has advaneed owing to his persistency of purpose and the thoroughness with which he has accomplished every task, and from the faithful performance of each day's duties he has found courage and inspiration for the labors of the succeeding day.
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E. C. Reed
E. REED, president of Westminster College at Fulton, Mis- E. souri, was born in Fairfield, Iowa, January 1, 1862, a son of Dr. Charles and Ann C. Reed. The father was a graduate physician of the regular school and for eighteen years success- fully conducted practice in Ohio. In 1856 he removed to Fair- field, Iowa, where he purchased a large tract of land and reared his family of five sons upon the farm that they might have the benefit of outdoor life and experience.
Dr. E. E. Reed, in the acquirement of his education, attended Parsons Col- lege at Fairfield, lowa, from which he was graduated in 1884, leading his class during the entire period spent in college there. He afterward attended the Princeton Theological Seminary and took graduate work for his Master of Arts degree under Dr. MeCosh, president of Princeton University, receiving special praise for the work. During his seminary course he dropped out of school for one year to settle a brother's estate and then resumed his studies, being gradu- ated from McCormick Seminary in 1888. Following his graduation he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and remained in the pastorate for twelve years, when he accepted a call to the presidency of Buena Vista College, in which position he served for six years, raising over one hundred thousand dollars for the institution within that time. lle advanced the school from a junior college to full college work and secured state accrediting for it. In 1906 he accepted a call to the presidency of Lenox College and while connected there- with raised over two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the institu- tion and greatly advanced its standing in educational circles. After remaining at Lenox for nine years he accepted a call to the presidency of Westminster College and during the second year of his presidency put on a campaign for five hundred thousand dollars, which was carried forward during all the war drives and landed successfully December 31, 1918. The subscriptions have since grown till they have reached over seven hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars, on which there was collected within sixteen months (at the time of the writing of this sketch) all but about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, notwithstanding most of the subscriptions were made to be paid in five install- ments extending over three years. Westminster College now has assets amount- ing to over one million dollars, having been increased threefold during Dr. Reed's administration. One of the achievements of the campaign was the secur- ing of a pledge of seventy-five thousand dollars from the General Board of Education (Rockefeller). After his strenuous efforts Dr. Reed went away for needed rest, at which time the Westminster College Bulletin had this to say of him : "President Reed is away for his first vacation in two years, and it is one that is well earned. A letter recently received at the College Office from Dr.
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Rice, who is spending the summer with his son in Kentucky, says, 'I trust that Dean Reed will soon be able to take his much needed vacation and rest his tired nervous system. If ever a man was entitled to it, surely he is.' There were times during those strenuous months when it was due only to Dr. Reed's faith and persistence that the campaign was not postponed or abandoned. The S. A. T. C. brought with it a multitude of perplexities and problems that inspired grave doubts about there being no new thing under the sun. With questions of finance and new buildings and educational policy, with interviews with students and faculty and patrons, with a multitude of details that cannot be catalogued, there has been a burden upon him that only those who knew his daily work could appreciate. While his energy and enthusiasm have never slaekened, the vacation will bring new strength to work out his plans for a bigger, better Westminster."
In 1920 Dr. Reed secured another promise from the General Education Board (the Rockefeller board) of one hundred thousand dollars and also a promise from the General Board of Education (the Northern Presbyterian College board) of one hundred thousand dollars, these amounts being condi- tional on the raising of five hundred thousand dollars including these two gifts. These two handsome subscriptions are in addition to the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars mentioned above.
Dr. Reed received his honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from his alma mater in 1902, he being the first alumnus of Parsons College upon whom the degree was conferred. He was invited to deliver the commencement address at Emporia College, June 2, 1920, and was honored by them with the degree of Doctor of Laws. At a meeting of the board of trustees of Westminster College on the 8th of June, 1920, his salary was advanced for the third time and as an expression of appreciation for his work the board presented him with a seven- passenger Buick car. In January, 1920, he was elected president of the Pres- byterian College Union, which includes all the colleges connected with the Northern Presbyterian ehureh-some sixty in number. The position is honorary and does not interfere with his administration duties at Westminster College.
In May, 1890, Dr. Reed was married to Miss Margaret A. Murray, of Ottumwa, Iowa, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson A. Murray. Her father was a prominent farmer who served in various responsible positions in both civil and religious connections. Dr. and Mrs. Reed are parents of five children : Eller F., Elmer D., Helen A., Gertrude and Margaret A. The two sons both served in the World war and both, as well as Helen A., are graduates of Lenox College and all three have taken graduate work in various universities. Ger- trude, who was a junior in college, died on the 29th of February, 1920.
Dr. Reed is a man of untiring energy and of splendid executive ability as well as of high professional ideals. He never stops short of the successful accom- plishment of his purpose and his purposes are always those of which mankind is a direct beneficiary. He stands today as an eminent figure in the educational circles of Missouri and of the Mississippi valley and his entire life work has been actuated by the progressive spirit which has long dominated America.
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John Andrew Holmes
IIEN death called John Andrew Hohes on the 16th of April, W 1915, St. Louis lost one who had figured most prominently and honorably in her commercial eireles for many years. For more than four decades he had been at the head of one of the leading lumber interests of the city and throughout the en- tire period had maintained an unsullied reputation for in- tegrity and fair dealing, while his enterprise and energy car- ried him steadily forward to the goal of success. Like the day with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of completed effort, ending in the grateful rest and quiet of the night, so was the life of this man.
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