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Garland, Hugh A., lawyer and author, was born in Nelson County, Virginia, in 1805, and died in St. Louis in 1854. He was edu- cated at Hampden-Sidney College, and after his graduation became professor of Greek at that institution. During the year 1830 he studied literature and law at the University of Virginia, and then began the practice of law at Boydtown, Virginia. Two years later he was elected a member of the Legislature of that State and served his county five years in that capacity. About 1840 he retired to rural and literary pursuits, but having lost his property through unfortunate business ven- tures, he removed to St. Louis, and resumeď the practice of law in 1845. He was author of the "Life of John Randolph."
Garneau, Joseph, manufacturer, son of Pierre and Marie Anne (Simon-Lafleur) Garneau, was born February 29, 1808-leap year-at Charlesbourg, near Quebec, Can- ada, and was baptized at the Basilica in the latter city. The Garneaus emigrated from France to Canada in 1655. The name has been spelled differently through several hun- dred years, the descendants now living in France spelling it "Garnault," the Canadian branch, "Garneau."
Joseph Garneau received his education at the parish school at Charlesbourg, and had as one of his classmates Francois Xavier Garneau, the eminent Canadian historian,. who was his kinsman. Leaving Quebec in 1829, Mr. Garneau went to Montreal, then a fair sized city with about 40,000 inhabit- ants. He then went south to Rouse's Point and Plattsburg, New York, on Lake Cham- plain, where, only fifteen years previously, the battle of Plattsburg had been fought on the lake between the British and Americans,. in which the latter were victorious. From Plattsburg he crossed the lake to Burlington, Vermont, and thence went to Albany, New York, and from there to New York City.
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It was in New York that he recognized the profitableness of the cracker business, which was a new idea just imported from England, and he decided to learn it and embark in it on his own account. His six months' resi- dence in that city as an apprentice to the business he considered as sufficient. He next spent some time in Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, and then started out for St. Louis, by way of Dayton and Cincinnati. Arriving at Dayton he found that no stage left for Cincinnati at the time that he desired to go, so he decided to proceed on foot. He ac- complished the distance of over sixty miles from sunrise to sunset of one day. From Cincinnati he went to St. Louis by boat, in those days the best means of transportation, reaching there in the summer of 1831. For a short time thereafter he managed a cracker factory for Page & Bacon, bankers, and in the following year engaged in the business on his own account. In the winter of 1859-60 his factory burned down. He rebuilt, but in a short while leased the factory to H. V. Kendall for a term of two years, at the end of which time he again took active charge of the business. In the summer following he went to New York to purchase the patent reel oven, now in general use, being the first one to adopt it in the West. The govern- ment was always one of his best customers, and he received as a regular thing the gov- ernment contracts for "hard-tack" for the army and Indians. In 1864 he was awarded a single contract for 6,000,000 pounds of "hard-tack" for the Union forces, by far the largest order of its kind ever awarded by the government. He bought up all the flour he could find available in the city at the time to make the goods, filling 120,000 fifty-pound boxes and running the factory at its full capacity, night and day, for two months in order to complete the contract. After the war he also supplied the Indian stations and army posts throughout the country, in ad- dition to his constantly growing regular trade. In the "seventies" he associated with him in business his two eldest sons, James Garneau and Joseph Garneau, Jr. The firm continued as Joseph Garneau & Co. up to 1881, when Mr. Garneau retired from busi- ness. In 1883 he built a factory in the rapid- ly growing city of Omaha, Nebraska, the control of which he placed in the hands of the above named sons. The plant was a flour-
ishing one under his ownership up to the time of the formation of the American Biscuit & Manufacturing Company in 1891. The latter is composed of most of the cracker factories in the West, and prior to its forma- tion Mr. Garneau bought up a plant each in Wichita and Atchison, Kansas. These, as well as the Omaha plant, were included in the consolidation, and Mr. Garneau at the time of his death was consequently one of the heaviest stockholders in that company. During his business career he shipped goods as far north as British Columbia; south to Trinidad and Cuba; west to California, and east to Charleston, South Carolina, and Wheeling, West Virginia.
On February 29, 1892, was celebrated with a family reunion one of the most interesting events of his life, namely, his twenty-first birthday, or coming of age, in leap year, he being on that date just eighty-four years of age. Mr. Garneau was the only one in the city at that time with whom such a singular circumstance was associated.
In 1855 Mr. Garneau married Mary Louise Withington, of Franklin County, Missouri. The Withingtons are one of the oldest fami- lies in this section of the State, having settled in Franklin County in 1820. They were granted numerous land patents by Presidents Madison, Monroe and Jackson, many of the sheepskin documents with original signatures of these executives being still in the posses- sion of the family. Mr. Garneau died July 23, 1895.
Garner, Edward S., physician and surgeon, was born November 28, 1861, at Richmond, Missouri, and died at his home in St. Joseph, July 7, 1899. The father of Dr. Garner was Dr. Henry C. Garner, of Rich- mond, Missouri, who was the son of Colonel Jesse Garner, a native of Virginia, and of Doshia Trigg Garner, the daughter of Gen- eral Stephen Trigg, of Bedford County, Vir- ginia. General Trigg's father, Colonel John Trigg, was an officer in the Revolutionary Army and was a member of Congress from the Bedford District of Virginia. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1797 and served in that body until 1804, his death occurring while he was yet a prominent member. General Stephen Trigg married Elizabeth Clark, the daughter of Judge Rob- ert Clark, a Revolutionary officer, in 1790,
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and removed from Bedford County, Virginia, to Clark County, Kentucky, with his family and the family of Judge Clark, in 1794. Judge Clark was a member of the convention that framed the second constitution of Kentucky at Frankfort, August 17, 1799. He was the father of Governor Clark, of Kentucky. Gen- eral Trigg was a member of the Kentucky . Legislature in 1816 and 1817. He removed to Howard County, Missouri, in 1818, and was a member of the House of Representa- tives of Missouri during the sessions of 1822 and 1823. He was made a major general of the Missouri militia. Dr. Henry C. Garner, the grandson of General Trigg, was born in Howard County, and graduated from a medi- cal college in Kentucky. He was an eminent physician and surgeon, as was also his lamented son, Dr. Edward S. Garner, the subject of this sketch. The latter acquired a good fundamental education in the public schools, and then proceeded to act upon the determination he had formed early in life, to become a physician. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York, and soon after entered the Pres- byterian Hospital, in New York City, as a surgeon. Dr. Garner removed to St. Joseph in 1885 and immediately entered upon a prac- tice that soon placed him in the front rank of his profession. Most of his skill and energy was directed toward surgery, and in this he became widely known. At the time of his death he was chief surgeon of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway, chief sur- geon of the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company, and consulting surgeon of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail- way Company. His death removed from the professional and social circles of St. Joseph one of the most brilliant and popular of men. His genius for surgery was well known. His character was one of high culture. He had achieved marked distinction early in life and
carried it with noble simplicity. He knew what the struggles of genius and character were. He wrested his laurels after patient, persistent battle. He laid the foundation most carefully, and the superstructure was the stronger and more enduring for his early labors. He emphasized the need and help- fulness of broad culture and general educa- tion. He was the better physician because he was the thorough scholar and the culti- vated gentleman. This tribute was paid a few hours after Dr. Garner's death: "Many a life has been prolonged by reason of his skill; many a sufferer has been relieved from acute anguish because of his ministrations ; many a man and many a woman will feel the sob of the heart rising to the lips when the good deeds that he has wrought will pass before the vision of memory. To have lived well is sufficient, even though we fall early in the eternal slumber. This can well be said of Dr. Edward S. Garner." Dr. Garner had been a member of the Missouri State Board of Health for several years. He was ap- pointed to that position of honor and im- portance by Governor Stone. Dr. Garner was a member of a Methodist family, but was himself not actively identified with church work. Dr. Garner devoted as much time to the enjoyment of social life as the faithful practice of his profession would allow. He was a member of the Benton and Country Clubs, of St. Joseph, and as a clubman he was always beaming with good nature and was a charming companion. He was also a member of the St. Joseph Commercial Club, and always took a lively interest in that which pertained to the advancement and wel- fare of the city in which he lived and which gave him his fame. Dr. Garner was married February 17, 1891, to Miss Louise Steinacker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steinacker, of St. Joseph. To Dr. and Mrs. Garner one child was born, Edward S., Jr.
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