Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 73

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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sons, John, the grandfather of Mr. Brum- back. This grandfather, with his family, in- cluding the father (John) of our subject, moved to Licking County, Ohio, about 1820. John Brumback, the father, was born in 1808 and died in 1899. The maiden name of Mr. Brumback's mother was Rebecca Davis. The ancestors of Mr. Brumback were farmers and some of them lived to old age. Jefferson Brumback is the oldest of eleven children, and grew up as a country lad, attending the public schools until he entered Granville Col- lege in Ohio, from which he graduated in 1852. He read law in the office of Lucius Case at Newark, Ohio, and when, in 1854, he was admitted to the bar, he began the practice of his profession in the same place. In 1862 he was active in raising the Ninety- fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry and became its major, and subsequently its lieu- tenant colonel. He served with the regi- ment until it was mustered out August 14, 1865. At the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 30, 1862, he was badly wounded and taken prisoner, but was soon paroled and ex- changed in the spring of 1863, when he en- gaged again actively in military service. He took part in both captures of Jackson, Mis- sissippi, in 1863, and his regiment was among the forces that besieged Vicksburg, which was captured July 4, 1863. Much of the year 1864 the regiment had headquarters at Mem- phis, Tennessee, and was engaged in the bat- tles of Guntown and Tupelo. Afterward the regiment constituted part of an infantry force which, under the command of General A. J. Smith, pursued General Price and his army through Arkansas and Missouri during their raid north in 1864. The infantry forces to which Colonel Brumback's regiment was at- tached then went to Nashville, Tennessee, where the regiment was engaged in the two days' battle in December, 1864, which re- sulted in the defeat of General Hood's army. The Confederate army under General Hood having become badly disorganized after the defeat and having left that section, the Nine- ty-fifth Ohio, with other troops, went to Mobile, Alabama. There the regiment aided in capturing the forts above the city in the early part of 1865, while Grant and Sherman were delivering the final blows against the armies of Lee and Johnston. When Lee and Johnston surrendered, the Ninety-fifth Ohio was in central Alabama, and in due time was

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transported to Columbus, Ohio, where it was paid off and disbanded. Colonel Brumback commanded the regiment much of the time while it was in service, and he and his men endured many of the hardships and trials incident to active warfare.

After quitting the army Colonel Brumback resumed the practice of law at Newark, Ohio. In 1866 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the district which included Licking County. He filled the office until he resigned in 1869 to settle in Kansas City, Missouri, where he practiced his profession until May, 1900, when he retired. He served the city one term as an alderman and several terms as city counselor. He was never ac- tive as a politician. He preferred to be studious and painstaking in his profession and to deserve respect and confidence for good work as a lawyer. Hc belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and is a member of the Loyal Legion. In politics he has been a Republican, though never a strong par- tisan. Hc married, October 18, 1859, Miss Catherine Fullerton, by whom he had five children, three of whom, sons, are still living. Frank F. and Hermann are lawyers in Kan- sas City. His wife died in 1880.

Brumley .- A village on Mill Creek, in Miller County, ten miles south of Tuscumbia. It was laid out in 1858. It has a school, two churches, a sawmill and four general stores. Population, 1899 (estimated), 200.

Brunswick .- A city of the fourth class. in Chariton County, on the Missouri River, near the mouth of the Grand, ten miles west of Keytesville on the Council Bluffs branch of the Wabash, and the junction point of the St. Louis & Kansas City branch of the same road. The town was founded in 1835 by James Keyte, the founder of Keytesville. It was incorporated in 1845. It has. Cath- olic, Christian, Episcopal, Lutheran, Bap- tist, Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches. A library is maintained in the town, and a fine graded school for white children and one for colored children. The town has a public hall, two banks, a brick and tile works, tobacco factory, stave and heading mill, grain elevator, box factory, planing and sawmills, three papers, the "Brunswicker," the "Republican" and the "News." There are about sixty other business places, includ-

ing stores and shops. Population, 1899 (esti- mated), 1,400.

Bryan, Bennett, was born in Mason County, Virginia, July 27, 1839. The year following his father, Robert Bryan, moved with his family from Virginia to Washington County, Missouri. The eller Bryan was a farmer by occupation and the son, Bennett Bryan, who has always followed the occupa- tion of husbandry, is to-day considered one of the most successful men in that line in Washington County and is the owner of one of the most valuable and best conducted farms in Belgrade Valley, his farm compris- ing two hundred and seventy acres. In his boyhood there was no public school system in vogue, and the only opportunities offered to the youth of the county, particularly in the rural districts, in the way of educational ad- vantages, were such as were furnished through the medium of subscription schools. Young Bryan was by nature of a studious turn and he not only diligently pursued his studies at school, but has through life been an assiduous and earnest reader, particularly in the higher lines of literary thought. His knowledge of the writings of both the ancient and modern poets is indeed remarkable. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Bryan enlisted in Company K, Thirty- third Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, in August, 1862. He was afterward transferred to Company H of the same regiment. The regiment was first commanded by Clinton B. Fisk, afterward major general, and later Governor of New Jersey and candidate of the Prohibition party for the highest office in the gift of the American people, the presidency of the United States. Colonel William A. Pile succeeded Colonel Fisk in the command oi the regiment and Mr. Bryan was promoted through the various ranks of color sergeant, company clerk, orderly sergeant, until at the close of the war he was in command of his ,company with the rank of first lieutenant. He participated in numerous battles and minor engagements, among which may be mentioned Helena, Arkansas; Pleasant Hill, Grand Cove, Henderson Hill, Yellow Bayou, the capture of Fort de Russey, Louisiana ; Chicot, Arkansas : Holly Springs, Greentown and Tupelo, Mississippi. He followed Price through Arkansas and Missouri and was an active participant in the battle of Nashville,

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Tennessee, the siege of Mobile, and the fight at Blakely, Alabama. Mr. Bryan has been a consistent Republican from the organiza- tion and birth of the Republican party to the present time, but has never been an aspirant for political office. In religion, he is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Bryan was married October 28, 1868, to Marietta Breckenridge, daughter of Judge Breckenridge, of Dent County, Missouri, and related to the cele- brated family of that name in Kentucky.

Bryan, Edward H., physician, was born June 17, 1830, in Caledonia, Missouri, a son of Dr. John Gano Bryan and Eveline (MeIlvaine) Bryan. His ancestry was Scotch- Irish, and he inherited many of the distin- guishing characteristics of that sturdy race of people. As a boy he excelled in feats of horsemanship and out-door sports, and was noted for his fine physique and activity. In 1849 he went to California, and for some time led a life of varied adventure on the Pacific Coast. His academic education was obtained in the schools of Potosi, Missouri, and he then studied medicine at McDowell Medical College, of St. Louis. In 1852 he went to Paris, France, and completed his medical studies in that city. In 1855 he be- gan practicing medicine in St. Louis, and had attained professional prominence when the Civil War began. Immediately after the breaking out of the war he went to Rich- mond, Virginia, and was appointed colonel of a cavalry regiment in the Confederate Army by President Davis. This appoint- ment he declined, preferring a professional commission. In 1862 he was appointed med- ical inspector on the staff of General Van Dorn, and held that position subsequently under General Pemberton. He also served as special agent of the Confederate States Government upon secret and open missions. After the war he resumed his practice in St. Louis, but in 1867 removed to San Francisco, California, where for seventeen years he held the position of superintendent and physician of the city and county hospital, resigning be- cause of bad health. He was a member of the State Democratie committee of Cali- fornia for a time, and also of the California Pioneer Society, was a Knight Templar, and belonged to the Catholic Church. Some

years before his death. he was United States consul at Paris, France, holding that position until ill health caused him to resign it. He then returned to St. Louis, and died there in 1888.

Bryant, Walter Guy, manufacturer, was born March 24, 1860, in Fairfield, East Ontario, Canada. His parents were Guy and Mary Bryant. The father was reared in Fair- field, East Ontario, and died aged forty-five years. The mother was reared at Eastern Corners, Ontario, and is now living at Brock- ville, Ontario. They were the parents of ten children, of whom eight are living; three daughters are married and reside in the same city with the mother ; one lives at Westport, Ontario, one in Dakota, and one in Cali- fornia. A son died in infancy. Walter re- ceived a good common school education in Canada, and when sixteen years of age came to the United States, locating at Oregon, Illinois : here he remained for four years, dur- ing which time he completed a thorough com- mercial course of study. Upon attaining his majority, he became a citizen. He gained a mastery of iron-moulding, and became an expert machinist, in shops at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and afterward removed to Independ- ence, Missouri, where he took charge of a foundry for Mr. Clow. Later he bought the Sheffield Foundry, which was destroyed by fire. He then removed to Carterville, Mis- souri, and with a Mr. Schultz bought and operated the Carterville Foundry and Ma- chine Works. He afterward bought the in- terest of his partner, and subsequently built the Galena (Kansas) Iron Works. He is now sole owner and proprietor of both of these extensive plants, of an aggregate value of $150,000, specially designed for the manu- facture of all classes of high-grade mining machinery, in which various ingenious de- vices of his own invention are utilized. His working force comprises one hundred and thirty men, about equally divided between the two establishments. He is a staunch Repub- lican in politics, holding to the financial prin- ciples of that party as affording the only secure foundation for business enterprise and stability, but is without personal political am- bition. He has never sought a public office, and has never filled but one, that of council- man. Ile is a member of the Methodist Church, of the Knights of Pythias. and of the

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order of Modern Woodmen of America. He was married September 8, 1885, to Miss Nina May Loomis, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Of this union have been born three children, of whom are living Hilda, born September 2, 1886, in Iowa, and Guy B., born in Carter- ville, Missouri, October 15, 1895. Edith, born in Carterville, died at the age of three years. Mr. Bryant is one of the enterprising and successful, practical men, through whose ability and effort the great mineral region of the Southwest has arrived at its wonderful development, uniting in himself various qual- ifications not often found in one person. To a full knowledge of all the resources of the mineral belt, and of the means necessary to reach the crude ore, as well as of the pro- cesses to which it must be subjected, and the purposes to which the various products may be applied, he adds the practical knowledge of the expert machinist, capable of design- ing machinery, and the mechanical ability to direct, and if need be, perform the work of manufacture. He is highly esteemed for his integrity, and those personal traits of character which inspire confidence and regard.

Bryant, William McKendree, edu- cator, was born in Lake County, Indiana. in 1843, son of Eliphalet W. and Esther Eliza (Brown) Bryant. The first twelve years of his life were passed at his birthplace, and his earliest education was obtained in an old- fashioned log schoolhouse, and at his own home, where he was taught by an older sister and brother. In 1861 (then just eigh- teen years of age) he was the second in his county (Warren, lowa). to enlist in the Union Army for service in the Civil War. The fol- lowing is from the official history of the Thirty-fourth Iowa Regiment of Volunteers (report of adjutant general of Iowa, 1864), by Colonel George W. Clark. "I can not close this short history of the Thirty-fourth Iowa without making special mention of its gallant and accomplished adjutant, William M. Bryant. He was appointed adjutant at the original organization of the regiment, and remained in that grade until the consolida- tion (November, 1864), when he was mus- tered out at his own request. He has been a most thorough and faithful soldier. He served in the ranks of the Third Iowa from the spring of 1861 until the fall of 1862, when,

on my recommendation, he was appointed adjutant of the Thirty-fourth. I have often congratulated myself on the happy selection I made for this important position. Brave, dignified and honorable, he possesses the highest qualities of a soldier and gentleman." From the army he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Delaware, Ohio, where he studied for the ministry, and at the end of a full classical course was graduated from that institution in 1869. But teaching rather than preaching proved to be his mission. From 1871 to 1873 he was superintendent of schools at Burlington, Iowa. From the latter place he came to St. Louis, attracted chiefly by the personality of Dr. Wm. T. Harris. He was a principal in the city schools from 1873 until ISSI, when he accepted a position in the St. Louis high school, to which he was invited for the special purpose of interesting classes in psychology and ethics. These subjects were elective, and his first class consisted of fourteen pupils. Within ten years the num- ber had risen to one hundred and fifty ; thus, as Dr. Soldan expressed it, "from small be- ginnings, making this one of the strongest departments in the school." At the end of that time, however, for reasons not explained to him, the study was dropped from the high- school course, being continued only as a part of the "normal course," on fusion of the nor- mal with the high school. On Dr. Harris' resignation as superintendent of the public schools of St. Louis, Mr. Bryant was urged by several members of the board of educa- tion to become a candidate for the position, his work in the district schools being de- scribed by the then president of the board as in the nature of a reformation. By this time, however, he had become so deeply in- terested in the study of philosophy that he resolved to devote himself to researches in that field, and, convinced that one "can not serve two masters," refused then, as he has since refused, to consider any proposition looking to the division of his energies as be- tween this and other pursuits. He has de- clined professorships tendered him in several universities, and in addition to his work in the class room, has conducted a number of classes outside the school in the study of various aspects of philosophy. He has also delivered courses of lectures in the interpre- tation of art and mythology, and to him is due the plan of reorganization through which

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the St. Louis Society of Pedagogy was, in 1894, developed into a school doing work in higher education. and according to methods characterizing the movement known under the name of "University Extension," an ini- mediate result being an increase of member- ship from fifty to more than five hundred. He is the author of four published volumes entitled respectively, "The World-Energy and its Self-Conservation," "Life, Death and Im- mortality" (the last essay in which gives what may be called his "inner biography"), "The Philosophy of Landscape Painting," and "Hegel's Educational Ideas." These vol- umes have been highly commended in repre- sentative journals as among the "signs point- ing toward the foundation of an American school of philosophic thought." He has also contributed to various magazines, and has published, besides, a "Syllabus of Psychol- ogy" and a "Syllabus of Ethics," a number of essays in pamphlet form, and has (1899) sev- eral works in course of preparation, an ex- tended treatise on psychology being well on the way toward completion. From child- hood up he was a member of the Methodist Church, but in later years, being a resident of Webster Groves, it has been more con- venient for him to affiliate with the Congre- gational Church. August 8, 1868, he married Miss Sarah Augusta Shade, whom he met while a student at college. Mrs. Bryant was born near Lancaster, Ohio, and was gradu- ated from the Ohio Wesleyan Female Col- lege, in 1865. She is a landscape painter of acknowledged merit, and has been especially successful as a teacher of painting. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant is Max Mueller Bryant, a classical scholar, and a graduate of Washington University, who is fitting him- self to follow in the footsteps of his father as a teacher.

Bryson, John Paul, physician, was born April 16, 1846, at Macon, Mississippi, son of James and Eliza (Banks) Bryson. Reared on an old-time Mississippi plantation, Dr. Bryson received careful educational train- ing in his youth, partly in schools in the neighborhood of his home and partly under private tutorship. The Civil War diverted his attention for a time from his books, and in 1863, when he was seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Con- federate Army and served thereafter until

the close of the war, being on duty most of the time in Virginia. Returning to his home at the close of the war, he read medicine un- der the preceptorship of Dr. S. V. Hill, of Macon, one of the most learned and skillful physicians and surgeons in the South, and in all respects an accomplished gentleman. In 1866 he matriculated at Humboldt Medical College, of St. Louis, and in 1868 received his doctor's degree from that institution. Soon after his graduation from the medical college, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the city hospital, and after serving in that capacity one year, entered upon the private practice of his profession, in the fall of 1869. His connection with the medical educational work of the city began in 1870, when he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Missouri Medical College, a position which he filled for two years. In 1872 he became quizmaster at the St. Louis Medical College, and in 1876 was appointed clinical lecturer at that institution on the genito-urinary organs. In 1882 he was made professor of genito- urinary surgery in the same college and has since filled that chair, gaining an enviable record as a lecturer and educator. His career as a physician and surgeon in St. Louis has been a record of constantly in- creasing patronage, growing usefulness and expanding influence in his profession and in the community at large. Since 1869 he has been a member of the St. Louis Medical Society, and he is also a member of the Med- ico-Chirurgical Society of that city and sim- ilar local medical societies. He was a char- ter member of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, and in 1886 served as vice president of that association, and as president in 1887. He has served also as a member of the executive committee of the Congress of American Physicians and Sur- geons, and has been conspicuously active in seeking to elevate the character of his pro- fession to the highest plane through these various associations of medical inen.

Buchanan, George V., educator, was born February 14, 1859. in Belmont. Illinois. His father was Hiram Bell Buchanan, a civil engineer and farmer, at one time a prominent member of the engineering corps of the Illi- nois Central Railroad Company. Hiram B. Buchanan was a son of Walter Buchanan, a noted mathematician, who was widely known

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throughout Illinois and the West. Walter topics, which have received high commenda- tion, and has delivered many lectures before teachers' institutes on pedagogical and lit- erary themes. For twelve years he has been an active member of the National Educa- tional Association, and for seven years he has taken a prominent part in the work of the National Association of School Superinten- dents, serving in 1898 as president of one of the important departments. He has been a regular contributor to various educational journals, is actively identified with the Chau- tauqua movement and was for several years an officer of the Summer Assembly of Mis- souri. Recognizing the great value of good literature as an educator, he has taken a leading part in sustaining reading clubs and was the organizer, and is president of the Nehemgar Literary Club, a cultured circle which considers leading questions and em- braces in its membership the ablest thinkers and most scholarly people of Sedalia. This club has done much to promote intelligent study and masterful discussion of leading questions in literature, education and history. Professor Buchanan has had interesting ex- perience in military affairs. While a student in the Southern Illinois State University, he was for two years a cadet and won special distinction as a valuable officer in the corps. When professor of mathematics in the same institution several years later, he served as commandant of the corps of cadets, which was composed of two hundred and sixty young men. In this capacity he filled the place of a West Point officer, usually detailed to such institutions by the government. In politics he has affiliated with the Republican party, but has been in no sense a strong partisan. Since 1877 he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For years he has been an officer of the church and one of its liberal supporters. A member of the State Chautauqua Board and also of the Young Men's Christian Association Board for several years, he has aided materially to Buchanan was a born mathematician and his knowledge of all branches of that science, including trigonometry and calculus, caused him to be regarded as a wonder among col- lege men, who held him in high esteem. Many knotty problems were sent to him at his home in Lawrence County, Illinois, and his solutions pleased and astonished mathe- maticians. He was well known to the public men of both Illinois and Missouri. The mother of Professor George V. Buchanan, whose maiden name was Helen Blood, is still living at Carbondale, Illinois. After obtain- ing the rudiments of an education in a coun- try school, .Professor Buchanan completed the high-school course at Olney, Illinois. He then took a teacher's course at Central College of Danville, Indiana, and later com- pleted a classical course of study at the State Normal University of Carbondale, Illinois, from which institution he was grad- uated in the class of 1884. During his col- lege days, mathematics and philosophy were his favorite studies, as they have been since, and in recognition of his accomplishments McKendree College, of Lebanon, Illinois, conferred upon him, in 1894, the degree of master of arts. He began teaching school when he was eighteen years of age and worked his way through the educational in- stitutions which he subsequently attended. After serving as principal of the high school at Mt. Carmel, Illinois, he was made prin- cipal of the public schools at Salem, Illinois. Then from 1886 to 1893, he filled the chair of mathematics in his alma mater, the State Normal University at Carbondale. During this time he was an active and useful mem- ber of the State Teachers' Association of Illinois and the Southern Illinois Teachers' Association, and did much in a general way to promote educational interests. In 1893 he was elected to the superintendency of the public schools of Sedalia, Missouri, and is now rounding out the seventh year of his service in that capacity. Since his coming to . advance the interests of these institutions. this State he has been a prominent member of the Missouri State Teachers' Association and has served as an officer of that organiza- tion. He served in 1899 as president of the superintendents' department of that associa- tion and was unanimously. re-elected to the position for 1900. At different times he has read papers on philosophical and educational In Sedalia he planned the movement which Professor S. A. Weltmer, then librarian, and a few other friends helped to carry out, which resulted in making the Sedalia public library a free institution. In 1888 he became a Mason and is now a member of the Sedalia Commandery of Knights Templar. In De- cember of 1887 Professor Buchanan married

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 73

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