Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 110

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856

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JESSIE BAIN COOPER.

The new faith was established in St. Louis in 1893, by Mrs. Julia Field King, who or- ganized the believers in it, about forty in number, into a congregation and became the first teacher. On the 25th of November, 1895, the church at 2726 Pine Street was dedicated, the congregation at that time num-

bering about fifty persons. Since then, under the encouragement of regular services, Sunday morning and evening, and Wednes- day evening, the faith has spread rapidly and largely increased the number of its adherents. In 1898 there were 200 members and in 1900 the church was often packed to its full capac- ity. There is no body of Christian worship- ers more diligent in attendance on their stated services, nor more enthusiastic and liberal in the performance of their religious duties. There were in the city, in the year 1900, one public reading room where the literature of the faith, including books, maga- zines and the "Sentinel," of Boston, the recognized organ, may be examined, two in- stitutes for the training of practitioners in healing, and seventy-five practitioners recog- nized and approved at the Boston head- quarters. The new faith is extending throughout the State also, and in 1900 had two churches in Joplin, and one in each of the following places : Carrollton, Chillicothe, Jefferson City, Lexington, Liberty, Marshall, Columbia, Lamar, Osborne and Sedalia. Nearly all the churches, or congregations number healers, male or female, whose life, public and private, must conform to the high standard of morality and personal deport- ment exacted by the faith. There are practi- tioners in the following places in the State : Blackburn, Butler, Chillicothe, Columbia, Holden, Joplin, Kearney, Kirksville, Kirk- wood, Lamar, Lexington, Liberty, Marshall, Maryville, Mexico, Oakland District, Os- borne, Parnell City, Rich Hill, Santa Fe, Sedalia, Springfield, St. Charles, St. Joseph and Wakenda.

Christian University. - An educa- tional institution at Canton, conducted under the auspices of the Christian Church for the education of young men and women. The board of trustees of the university was or- ganized December 4. 1851, and the institu- tion was granted a charter by the General Assembly, January 28, 1853. A notable feature of the charter was that it granted to women the same educational advantages as men; and it has the honor of being the first charter in the United States to embody this liberal and advanced provision. The univer- sity is pleasantly located on the most ele- vated land in the city of Canton, commanding an extensive view of the place and the Mis-

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sissippi River for many miles. The main building is large and of unique architectural design, adorned with Corinthian porch and columns, and has accommodations for five hundred students. The original cost of the building was $60,000. A campus oi eighteen acres surrounds the main build- ing, and amid stately trees are the homes of the faculty and the boarding hiall. The management of the university is vested in a board of trustees, eighteen in number. The university is entirely free from debt and has a liberal endowment. It consists of six colleges or departments, as follows : College of arts and sciences, college of the Bible, commercial college, conservatory of music, school of fine arts and school of expression. The degrees conferred are bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of letters, mas- ter of arts, and master of science. There are four literary societies connected with the university, and a monthly publication called the "University Magazine" is published. In 1899 Clinton Lockhart, A. M. Ph. D., was president of the faculty, which consisted of a corps of twenty-one professors.

Chula .- An incorporated village in Liv- ingston County, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, ten miles northeast of Chillicothe. It has two churches, a school, a flouring mill, bank, ax handle factory, a hotel, a weekly paper, the "Graphic" and about twenty-five business houses, including stores and miscellaneous shops. Population, 1899 (estimated), 300.

Church, Alonzo Christy, lawyer, who has been the representative of important property interests in St. Louis since his early manhood, and who belongs to the younger class of business men, now most active in ad- vancing the interests of the city, was born at Fort Wichita, then in the Indian Territory, November 3. 1859. His father, who was then stationed at Fort Wichita, was an officer in the United States army at that time and later served with distinction in the Confederate army until his death, in 1862. His great- great-grandfather, Colonel Timothy Church, and his great-grandfather, Renben Church, both served in the same regiment of militia from Cumberland County, New York, during the Revolutionary War, the one as lieutenant colonel commandant of the regiment and the

other beginning as lieutenant in his father's regiment, in 1782, the seventh year of our in- dependence. Alonzo Church, the grand- father of Alonzo C. Church, who was a l'res- byterian doctor of divinity, was at one time president of the State University of Georgia. Mr. Church's mother, who some years after the death of her husband, Colonel John Reu- ben Church, became Mrs. M. F. Scanlan, and whose charms of person and womanly graces have made her one of the social leaders of St. Louis, has been written of at length else- where in these volumes, and in that con- nection mention has been made of the notable Jarrot and Christy families, from which Mr. Church is descended in this line. Ilis education began in the Christian Brothers' College of St. Louis, and later he went abroad with his mother and spent some time at school in France and Germany, where he acquired, among other accomplishments, a thorough knowledge of the French and German languages. Returning then to St. Louis he matriculated in St. Louis Univer- sity, and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1880. Immediately after com- pleting his college course he studied law at the St. Louis Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1882. The responsibility of car- ing for his mother's estate and managing her property interests devolved upon him as he attained his majority, and as a result he became almost immediately officially con- nected with several of the leading corpo- rations of St. Louis. For several years he has been a director and vice president of the Wiggins Ferry Company. the St. Louis Transfer Railway Company and the East St. Louis Connecting Railway Company. He is connected professionally as well as officially with these corporations as their counsel. He is a member of the St. Louis Club, the University and the Noonday Clubs. A Democrat by inheritance and conviction, he has from time to time taken an active interest in political campaigns, and. in 1890 was elected to the Missouri Legislature, of which body he was a useful and able member. June 25, 1895, Mr. Church married Miss Carlotta Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Fallon Clark. Mrs. Church is the great-grand-niece of General George Rogers Clark, whose brilliant achievements won a vast territory for the United States, extend- ing its western boundary from the Alle-

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ghanies to the Mississippi. She is a great- granddaughter of General William Clark of "Lewis and Clark Expedition" fame, and later Governor of the Territory of Missouri from 1813 until the State was admitted to the Union. In the maternal line Mrs. Church is a great-granddaughter of Colonel Auguste Chouteau, the real founder of St. Louis, a sketch of whose life will be found in these volumes. Mr. and Mrs. Church have one child, a daughter three years of age, who is named Marie Christy Church.

Church of God .- A Christian organiza- tion, numbering in Missouri, in 1890, 221 mem- bers, having seven congregations with four churches, valued at $4,100. It was founded at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1830, by the followers of the converts of John Wine- brenner. They believe in the Bible as the authoritative revelation of God, in the trinity, human depravity, the vicarious atone- ment, and freedom of the will; they reject the doctrine of election, believe in baptism by immersion of adults only, and practice the washing of feet.

Church of the Apostolic Order .- A church founded by Rev. F. T. Shore, in St. Louis, in 1896, independent of all the then ex- isting denominations and professing primitive Christianity. Later it amalgamated with a congregation of the Church of God, which had been organized by Elder W. R. Covert, the two congregations reaching the con- clusion that their professions of faith were practically the same. Rev. Mr. Shore be- came pastor of the church thus formed, which took the name "Forest Park Church of God."

Church of the Living God. - A church founded in St. Louis in July, of 1897, with eight members, by William Christian, who had previously founded similar organiza- tions at Tyro, Mississippi; Texarkana, Ar- kansas: and 'Memphis, Tennessee. The church has no set creed or fixed form of gov- ernment, but draws its inspiration from the Bible and observes many of the enstoms of the primitive Christians. Water, instead of wine, is used at the communion service, and the purification of new converts is sym- bolized by feet-washing and baptism in a running stream of water. In 1898 the one

congregation in St. Louis professing this faith held regular services in a room at 918 North Twelfth Street.

Church of this World, Kansas City. In 1885 the Rev. John E. Roberts withdrew from the First Baptist Church of Kansas City, of which he had been pastor for four years preceding. His withdrawal was due to differences between himself and the denomi- nation with which he was connected, princi- pally in matters of polity, and he was followed by a portion of his congregation. He then conducted services in the Gilliss Opera House, at first clinging to the principal doc- trines of the Baptist faith, but finally forsak- ing them in greater part. After a year he was called to the pastorate of a Unitarian Church in Michigan, and occupied that posi- tion until 1887. In the latter year he was called by All Souls Unitarian Church of Kansas City, which he served as pastor for ten years. During this period he had con- stantly become more liberal in his views, and finally repudiated creeds altogether. In 1897 he resigned his pastorate and instituted what was termed a liberal movement, intended to be adapted to life in the present world, with -. out reference to Inturity. Sunday meetings were held in the Coates Opera House, and were attended by large audiences, among which were about two-thirds of his former congregation. No suitable name for the or- ganization occurred to those engaged in the movement until Mr. Roberts delivered a dis- course under the title of "The Church of This World," and the phrase met with such gen- eral approval that it was adopted. The body has no organization save a committee of twenty, who are charged with the financial management, involving an annual outlay of about $12,000. There are no articles of faith, and all attendants are regarded as members. These include agnosties, infidels, deists, spiritualists and those undecided in mind as to religions dogma. The Sunday audiences number about one thousand people, almost equally males and females, and rank with any local body of equal numbers in point of in- tellectuality and cleanness of personal life. No prayer is uttered, and no dogmatic senti- ment is expressed in song or discourse. Music is provided by a well trained orches- tra. and a secular solo is sung by a capable vocalist. In his discourses Mr. Roberts

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voices constantly the conviction of an early and total surrender of orthodoxy, as tested and found wanting. He asserts the impossi- bility of knowing God, and bases all upon entire loyalty to human affections, tenderness as to home relations, and the duty owing to society. A brilliant orator, and a master of language, he moves his hearers to tears, to laughter and to applause alternately. The congregation is habitually liberal in collec- tions taken for orphanages and other land- able works of charity. In the fall of 1900 was begun the accumulation of a fund for the foundation of a hospital and home for indi- gent people, and in connection therewith a training department for domestic workers and for nurses in the sick room.

Church Property. - In the year 1890 there were in the State of Missouri 6.121 churches, and the aggregate value of church property was $19,663.737. The apportion- ment of the church edifices among the vari- ous religious bodies was as follows: Ad- ventists. 8: Baptists, of all kinds, 1,755: Catholics, 402: Christians, 12: Church of God. 4: Church of the New Jerusalem, 4: Congregational, 69: Disciples of Christ, 830; Dunkards, 29: Evangelical Association, 20: Friends. 5 : German Evangelical. 115: Jewish. S : Latter-Day Saints, 18; Lutheran 148; Men- nonites. 7 : Methodist Episcopal, 742 : Metho- dist Episcopal, South, 921: Methodist Pro- testant. 38; African Methodist, 163: other Methodists, 24: Moravian. 3: Presbyterian. 193: Presbyterian, South, 116: Cumberland Presbyterian, 280; Protestant Episcopal. 86; Reformed Bodies, 7: Spiritualists. 3: United Brethren, 45; Unitarian, 8: Universalists. 4. The church property was apportioned as fol- lows : Adventists, $7.450: Baptists, regular. $2.386.898: all other Baptists, $593.418; Catholic. $4.070.370: Christians, $12,701 : Christian Union. $39,050: Church of God. $4,100: Church of the New Jerusalem, $24 .- 600: Congregationalist, $50.44 Disciples of Christ, $1,631.531 : Dunkards, $24.625 : Evangelical Association. $39.700: Friends. $10.800: German Evangelical, Protestant, $70,000; German Evangelical Synod, $575. 650; Jewish, $241,800: Latter-Day Saints. $58,650: Lutherans, all, $800.000: Meno- nites. $8.565: Methodist Episcopal. $1.835 .- 840; Methodist Episcopal, South. 82.046.380: Methodist Protestant. $20.000: African 250.

Methodist. $300.4202 other Methodists. Sio,- 870: Presbyterian, $1.328,700: Presbyterian, South, $750.490: Cumberland Presbyterian. $589.262: United Presbyterian. $104,200; Protestant Episcopal. $0;7,600; Reformed Bodies, $18,800: Spiritualist, $13,100; United Brethren, $47,825: Unitarian, $230,- 800: Universalists, $4.800.

In the same year there were in St. Louis 203 places of worship, nearly all church edi fices, a few being rented halls; and of this number 36 were Baptist, So Catholic. 12 Con- gregational. 5 Disciples of Christ, 17 German Evangelical. 5 Jewish. 15 Lutheran, 21 Methodist Episcopal. 10 Methodist Episcopal South, 8 Colored Methodist. 19 Presbyterian, 2 Southern Presbyterian, 5 other Presby- terian, 17 Protestant Episcopal. 4 Unitarian, Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints, 5 various bodies. The value of all church property in the city was $5.876,960 -- of which $431.375 was Baptist. $1,602,835 was Catho- lic. $333,000 was Congregational. $96,000 be- longed to Disciples of Christ. $364.900 was German Evangelical, $178,000 was Jewish, $422.400 was Lutheran, $274.450 was Metho- dist Episcopal, $388,500 was Methodist Epis- copal South. $86.400 was property of Col- ored Methodists, $503,700 was Presbyterian, $502,000 was Protestant Episcopal, $56 .- 000 was the property of Reformed bodies, $175.000 was Unitarian, $4.900 was the prop- erty of the Reorganized Church of Latter- Day Saints, and $35,500 of various bodies. It is estimated that the church edifices and other property added in the nine years be- tween 1890 and 1800 have increased the ag- gregate to $7.000,000.

The whole number of church edifices in Kansas City, in 1890, was tor, and the value of church property $2.672.355. The church property was apportioned as follows: Bap- tists. $356,000; Catholic $569.950; Congre- gational, $164.500: Disciples of Christ. $137,- 000: Evangelical Association. $13.000: Ger- man Evangelical. $350,000; Friends, $8,000; Jewish. $50,000: LaterDay Saint, $1.000; Lutherans, $05,000: Methodist Episcopal. $307.385 : Methodist Episcopal. South, $200,- 000: Colored Methods. $50.000; Presby- Terian. $160,200, Presbyterian, South, Soy,- 000: other Presbyterian. 873.500 : Protestant Episcopal. $200,500; Reformed bodies, 812 .-

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The number of church edifices in St. Jo- seph was 55, and the value of church property $803,175, apportioned as follows: Baptist, regular, $60,400 ; Catholic, $198,000; Congre- gational, $13,500; Disciples of Christ, $88,- 000; Evangelical Association, $5,000; Ger- man Evangelical, $30,000; Friends, $8.000, Jewish, $12,000; Latter-Day Saints, $12,500; Lutheran. $58,575; Methodist Episcopal, $64,000; Methodist Episcopal, South, $85,- 300; Colored Methodist, $5.500; Presby- terian, $31.500 ; Presbyterian, South, $54,000; other Presbyterian, $6.000; Protestant Epis- copal, $64,500; Reformed Bodies, $12,000; Unitarian, $14,000.

Cinque Homme .- A stream in Perry County, so named, tradition relates, in re- membrance of five men, who were drowned while attempting to ford it during high water.

Cities .- The Constitution of the State of Missouri, with the object of making the mu- nicipal governments of its cities and towns uniform, requires them to be divided and graded into four classes, and no more, and the cities belonging to each class to be gov- erned by the same laws, so that they shall possess the same powers, and be limited by the same restrictions. Fourth class cities are cities having 500 inhabitants, and not more than 3,000, and towns under 500 inhabitants possessing special charters. Third class cities are those having 3.000 inhabitants, and under 30,000. Second class cities are those having 30,000, and under 100,000; and first class cities are those having 100,000 and more inhabitants. The highest municipal powers are given to the cities of the first class, and they diminish gradually to those of the fourth class, the object being to allow the great populations to have the greatest ad- missible control over streets, water, lighting arrangements, police, health and other mit- nicipal interests. Before the Constitution of 1875, it was the custom for the Legislature to grant special charters to the cities and towns ; but under the present system cities and towns possessing those special charters are allowed to surrender them and reincorporate under the general law.

Citizenship. - A citizen of the United States is a person "born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction

thereof, and of the State wherein he resides," and no State may abridge the privileges or immunities of a citizen of the United States. The States may define the qualifications of their own citizens. A person need not reside in this country to be a citizen of the United States; he may reside in a foreign country and still have the right to claim the protec- tion of the United States government, and other privileges of citizenship. But, to be a citizen of a State, a person must reside in that State. He can not be a citizen of Mis- souri and reside in Illinois or Canada. A citizen of Missouri with the right to vote is a male citizen of the United States, or male person of foreign birth who may have de- clared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, not less than one year nor more than five years before he offers to vote, over twenty-one years of age, who shall have resided in the State one year before he offers to vote, and sixty days in the county, city or town where he offers to vote.

City and Town Debts .- The bonded indebtedness of cities and towns in Missouri, on the Ist of July, 1898, was $25,601,478, of which the bonded indebtedness of the city of St. Louis was $19,691,000, leaving only $5,- 910,478 for all the other cities and towns in the State.

City Debt of St. Louis .- In 1827, four years after the city of St. Louis was or- ganized under its first charter, it effected a loan of $13,000 for erecting a markethouse and city hall, and this may be considered the beginning of that city debt, which, continu- ally being paid, and continually being con- tracted, has been carried ever since. In 1831 another loan of $25,000 was effected, to pro- vide a system of waterworks, with water drawn in pipes from the river. This was the beginning of the St. Louis waterworks. Six years later. in 1837, the needs for greater facilities for steamboats and other river craft became so urgent that a loan of $100,000 for the improvement of the harbor was nego- tiated. This was a great obligation, but as the population of the city was over fourteen thousand, the taxable valuation $7,425,000, and the annual revenue $30,100, it was con- sidered justifiable. The river was in those days the source of the prosperity of the city, and the levee interests and needs were inces-

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santly enlarging. In 1845 another loan of $100,000 for the improvement of the harbor became necessary, and in 1851 another of $120,000 for the same purpose was effected. Other improvements also were needed as the city grew in population. In 1857 a loan of $137,000 was effected for building a city hall on Market and Eleventh Streets; and later on came additional loans for sewers, for gen- eral purposes, for the funding of the floating debt, for hospitals, for waterworks and for parks. In 1850 the bonded debt was $1, 192,- 992, and two years later, in 1851, it was $1,- 850,096. In 1854 it was $3.250,296, of which $1,260,000 was for the aid of railroads. In 1871 it was $12,379,500; in 1872 it was $13,- 409,500 ; in 1873 it was $14,086,500; in 1875 it was $16.318,000, and in 1877 it was $23,- 067,000. These large additions are explained by the purchase of the parks, the enlarge- ment of the waterworks, the extension of the sewer system, the successive refunding of the floating debt, and other municipal needs. The debt was increased by $2,246,000 in the purchase of the parks, $5.500,000 for water- works and $6,800,000 by the assumption of the old county of St. Louis debt, on the sep- aration of the city from the county. It was when this county obligation of $6,800,000 was assumed, in 1877, that the city debt reached its highest point up to that time. Then, un- der the larger control of the city over its own affairs, and the rigorous management of its fiscal business required by the new charter of 1876, the obligation began steadily to dimin- ish. At the close of the year 1898 it was $19,- 932,278, having an interest charge of $854,- 319 a year-an average of 4-33 per cent. The high standard of credit of the city of St. Louis is exhibited in the low rate of interest at which it is able to borrow money and the favor with which its bonds are regarded in the money market. In 1848 part of the debt paid interest at 6 per cent, part at 7, part at S and part at 10 per cent ; in 1898 its bonds were sold at a price that indicated less than 3 1-2 per cent. In December, 1898, the comptroller had occasion to call for bids for $675,000 renewal bonds, bearing 3 1-2 per cent interest, and they were awarded to the Lincoln Trust Company. a St. Louis institu- tion, at $1.045.42 for each $1,000 bond, the city receiving $705.658.50 for its $675,000 in bonds. This is a premium of $45.42 on each bond, or an aggregate of $30,658.50 on the

whole issue of $075.000, and it makes the i- terest rate 3.0125 per cent. The payment of the city debt, and of the interest on the bonds which constitute it, without default, is guar- anteed by the stern and peremptory pro- visions of the charter of 1876. This charter, while limiting the rate of taxation on prop- erty for "municipal purposes" to I per cent, permits such per centum for interest on the debt "as may be required," and it requires all taxes levied and collected for the payment of the public debt to be kept in a separate fund called "Interest and Debt Revenne," which "shall be held sacred for the payment of in- terest and the valid indebtedness of the city of St. Louis existing on the thirteenth day of November, 1875, and of the county of St. Louis existing at the time this charter goes into operation, and the bands issued for the renewal thereof, and for no other purpose whatever." In addition to this the whole net income from the waterworks is required to be used, first, for payment of the interest on the water bonds ( which in 1808 constituted about one-fourth of the city debt ), and of the bon Is themselves-and the water rates are required to be "fixed at prices that shall produce reve- nue sufficient, at least, to pay the interest upon the city water bonds and the running expenses of the waterworks department." The comptroller is "especially charged with the preservation of the credit and faith of the city in relation to its public debt and other liabilities," and in case of "any judgment ren- dered against the city for which no provision has been made by ordinance. or otherwise, he is authorized, with the approval of the mayor, to effect a temporary loan to meet the same, and to do and perform all other acts, with the approval of the mayor, neces- sary to preserve the credit and property or rights of the city." Before the separation of the city from the county there was a deti- ciency in the city revenues every year or two, which, after increasing to a point where it required to be funded, was added to the pub- lic debt. But there has been no deficiency and no floating debt since 1877; on the con- trary, the comptroller's budget since that year has usually shown a surplus, which is an additional guarantee of the city's good faith, and of the payment of its obligations.

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 110

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n Publication date: 1901 Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors Number of Pages: 856

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856