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Daniel, Charles G., lawyer and bank- er, was born August 12, 1849, in Trigg County, Kentucky, son of Andrew Broadus and Matilda (Greenwood) Daniel. His grandfather Daniel, emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky in the early part of the present century, and his father grew up in the last named State, and married Matilda Green- wood in Trigg County in 1837. Of this union ten children were born, eight of whom, two daughters and six sons, were living in 1900. Charles G. Daniel came with his parents from Kentucky to Missouri in 1855. They settled on a farm in the western part of Audrain County, and the son lived on this farm until
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he was seventeen years of age. In his youth he attended the country schools during a por- tion of each year and worked on the farm the remainder of the year. In 1870 he en- tered the University of the State of Missouri, at Columbia, where he was a classmate of Eugene Field, the author and poet, during the years 1870 and 1871. In 1873 he matricu- lated in the law department of the university, where he attended the courses of lectures until the close of the law term in 1874. Re- turning then to Mexico, Missouri, he con- tinued his law studies in the office of Judge W. O. Forrist, of that city, until the spring of 1875. He was then employed by the board of trustees of the new town of Vandalia, Audrain County, to draft the first code of ordinances for the city government of that place, for which service he was paid $100. While thus engaged he made up his mind to make Vandalia his future home, and in May of 1875 he opened a law office there. He was at once elected city attorney, which posi- tion he filled for several terms. In 1880 he was elected representative in the Legislature from Audrain County, and served in that body during the ensuing general and special sessions. At the special session, held in 1882, he was author of the congressional redis- tricting bill, which became a law and which, while pending, was known as the "Daniel bill." At the close of his term of service in the General Assembly he returned to Van- dalia and bought out the banking house of Mayes & Burkhardt and embarked in the banking business in January of 1883, chang- ing the name of the financial institution, of. which he had become the owner, to Daniel's Bank. He continued in business as a private banker until 1889, when his bank was merged into the present banking corporation char- tered by the State under the name, Vandalia Banking Association. This institution has a paid-up capital of $50,000, and is in all re- spects an admirably conducted banking house. The officers elected in 1889 have been re-elected each year since that time. Their names are as follows: Aaron McPike, presi- dent ; W. S. Boyd, vice president ; Charles G. Daniel, cashier, and H. G. Davis, assistant cashier. Ever since he became a resident of Vandalia Mr. Daniel has been prominent in promoting its business interest, and besides serving the public as city attorney, he has twice been elected to the office of mayor.
His first presidential vote was cast for Hor- ace Greeley in 1872, and he has since affiliated with the Democratic party. In religion he is a Baptist churchman. His fraternal connec- tions are with the order of Freemasons, the Independent order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He has filled the office of master of the lodge of Masons at Vandalia during two terms, and at different times has filled all the offices in the lodges of Odd Fellows and United Workmen with which he affiliates. October 19, 1876, he married Miss Fanny McPike, youngest daughter of Colonel Aaron Mc- Pike, the founder of Vandalia. Of this union eight children have been born, seven of whom are living at the present time (1900). They are Claudia B., William McPike, Beaulah B., Charles G., Jr., Effie Fee, Margie Lou and Sallie A. Daniel. Andrew A. Daniel died in March, 1899, when a little over one year old.
Dannaker, Christian Augustus, physician, in charge of Agnew Hospital, Kansas City, was born October 20, 1848, in' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Christian Augustus and Evanna (Segee) Dannaker. The father was a native of Phil- adelphia, a tanner and currier, who conducted a large business; he was born of German parents, who immigrated to the United States in Colonial days; his father served in Colonel Miller's regiment of the Pennsyl- vania line during the Revolutionary War. The mother was a native of Connecticut, daughter of Louis C. Segee, a capitalist of Bridgeport. Their son, Charles Augustus, was educated in Philadelphia, and was about to graduate from the high school when ill health obliged him to discontinue his studies. For two years he was a customhouse clerk for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in Philadelphia. In 1868 he began reading medicine under the tutorship of Dr. William Watson, in Bedford, Pennsylvania; he after- ward entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated March 12, 1872. He was almost immediately appointed house surgeon in the Soldiers' Orphans' School at Titusville, Penn- sylvania, but relinquished this position six months later to enter upon practice at Bed- ford, in which he continued until 1880. Dur- ing this time he was county physician of
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Bedford County, division surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and physi- cian in charge of the miners of the Kimball Coal and Iron Company. May 1, 1880, he located in Kansas City, and entered upon general practice, in which, for several years past, obstetrics has become a leading feature. April 26, 1894, he secured the incorporation of the Kansas City Training School for Nurses, which he has conducted until the present time. This school grew out of his appreciation of an actual necessity, and its beneficent work is manifest in the city and railway hospitals, where its graduates have rendered invaluable services. It is now an accessory of the Agnew Hospital, founded by Dr. Dannaker in July, 1897, and of which he is physician in charge. This hospital owes its establishment to an emergency case, for which he provided a borrowed bed in a single room at the northeast corner of Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Two months afterward the institution was re- moved to another building, where eight patients were provided for. In October, 1898, another removal was made to the present location at 637 Woodland Avenue. In the last three months of 1898 forty-two soldiers of the Third and Fifth Missouri Regiments were treated, without a single case of mor- tality. During that year eighty-two patients were received, and 112 between January I and November 25, 1899. Dr. Dannaker is pro- fessor of obstetrics in the Woman's Medical College, and in the Medico-Chirurgical Col- lege, and served as vice president of All Saints' Hospital. He is a member of the Jackson County Medical Society, of which he has been president, and for seven years treasurer, resigning in 1899; of the Kansas City District Medical Society ; of the Missouri State Medical Society, in which he has served as chairman of the committee on obstetrics ; of the Western Society of Surgeons and Gynecologists, and an honorary member of the Hodgen Medical Society of western Mis- souri. He has read numerous papers before the bodies with which he is connected, and has frequently contributed to the "Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet," the "Kansas City Medical Record" and the "St. Joseph Medical Herald." Several of his addresses and contributions have appeared in pamphlet form, and attained wide publicity. He has always taken a deep interest in educational
concerns, and the establishment of the Kan- sas City Manual Training School was largely due to his effort, the first tangible interest in that direction taking form as the result of an address which he delivered before an audi- ence of 1,800 people, in which he presented an elaborate argument in behalf of the object he sought to attain. His zealous effort found recognition in 1894, when he was invited to deliver the address before the first Manual Training School class, to which he responded with an able paper on "Opportunity." In politics he is a Republican. He is a Master Mason, a member of the United Workmen, and of the Society of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution. Dr. Dannaker has lived an exceedingly useful life, rendering efficient aid to various professional and humanitarian in- terests, at times in face of determined oppo- sition. In the prime of his powers of body and mind, his zeal is unabated, and he is accounted among those who have a deep and unselfish concern for the welfare of the com- munity, and for those of its classes who are illy prepared to contend for themselves.
Dante Club .- The famous Art Society and Philosophical Society of former days, of which Dr. William T. Harris was the leader, have been followed by numerous circles, varying in duration from one season to many years, each led by a prominent member of the parent societies. The spirit of what was known far and near as the "St. Louis move- ment" now survives in the Dante Club, which includes in its membership of one hundred many who pursued kindred studies in the old societies. The Dante Club was organized in March, 1898, with the following officers : Mrs. Edwin Harrison, president ; Mrs. Charles L. Harris, secretary .; Mrs. Theodore C. Meier, treasurer. The meetings of the club are held in St. George Guild rooms on Thursday aft- ernoons, beginning in November and con- tinuing through April, and all are invited to participate in its studies and discussions. The Dante Club is an association formed for the philosophic study of poetry, and its studies are led by the Rev. Dr. Robert A. Holland, S. T. D., who was prominently associated with Dr. Harris in the earlier societies, and whose scholarship and brilliancy have drawn into the Dante Club many of the most in- tellectual people of St. Louis. The pro- gramme began with the study of "Music and
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Poetry," followed by "Epic and Lyric Poetry" and "The Drama," and the remain- der of the first year was devoted to the "Idyls of the King," which were concluded early in the following season, when the works of Browning were taken up. The analysis of the underlying philosophy expressed through the perfect art forms of our greatest poets has aroused the deep and sustained interest of the members of the club.
Danville. - The judicial seat of Mont- gomery County, an incorporated town, five miles west of New Florence, on the Wabash Railroad. It was founded in 1834 by Judge Olly Williams and became the county seat the same year. During the Civil War the old house used for a court room, and the records were destroyed, and the town suffered from raids of Anderson's and other bands of guer- rillas, and several citizens were killed in a skirmish. The town has now a good court- house, a good public school, two churches, a grocery store and a blacksmith shop. Dur- ing the past ten years its population has de- creased. Population, 1899 (estimated), 200.
Darby, John F., was born in Person County, North Carolina, December 10, 1803. His father, John Darby, came with his family to Missouri in 1818, settling on a farm in St. Louis County, the subject of this sketch working on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, and devoting himself assidu- ously to the study of Latin without a teacher. In 1825 he went to Frankfort, Kentucky, and studied law in the office of John J. Crittenden, doing copying work to support himself and studying late at night to hasten the progress. In 1826 he returned to St. Louis, and the following year embarked in the practice of his profession. He was a young man of affable manners and popular address and an effect- ive leader, and was successful from the be- ginning. In 1834 he was chosen alderman, and the next year mayor of the city, serving till 1837; and in 1840 he was again elected mayor. He was one of the first citizens of Missouri to foresee the future importance of railroads, and it was at his suggestion that the first railroad convention in the State was held at St. Louis in April, 1836. This con- vention proposed two roads, which afterward were incorporated in the railroad system of Missouri-one to the Iron Mountain and the
other on the north side of the Missouri River west to the border. It was during his ad- ministration and through his active efforts that the work of building the dykes on the Illinois side of the river to protect and secure the harbor of St. Louis was commenced, and the first steps taken toward the purchase of Washington Square, on which the City Hall is located. In 1850 he was elected to Con- gress, and after the close of his term engaged in banking in St. Louis, his banking house being Darby & Poulterer, and afterward Darby, Barksdale & Co. He was active in many enterprises undertaken to advance the interests of St. Louis, and for fifty years was one of its most conspicuous and influential citizens. He was one of the founders of the St. Louis Law Library, and his name is held in the highest esteem in the profession. In 1880 he published "Personal Recollections," a book whose charm of style and bits of per- sonal biography give it great local interest and value. Mr. Darby was married in 1836 to the daughter of Captain Wilkinson, of the United States Army, a granddaughter of Francis Valle, commandant at Ste. Gene- vieve, the Valles being one of the early French families of Missouri.
Darby, William Lambert, minister and pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Kirksville, was born at Evansville, Indiana, November 29, 1875, son of Rev. William Johnson and Mary Belle (Lambert) Darby. Both his parents were Kentuckians by birth, his father's parents coming to that State from Virginia and settling in Living- ston County. Rev. William J. Darby took his college course at the University of Michigan, graduating with honors in 1869. He then took a course in the Theological Seminary at Lebanon, Tennessee. Just before his graduation he was called to the pastorate of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Evansville, Indiana, and served for eighteen years with marked success. At the end of that time he resigned to take charge of the publishing work of the church as its general manager. About a year and a half from this time, overwork brought on nervous pros- tration, and he was compelled to resign this position. On his recovery, two years later, he became corresponding secretary of the Board of Ministerial Relief, and later of the Board of Education, which position he
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still holds. His wife comes of a family that is well known in western Kentucky. It has furnished many preachers, her father, Rev. William Lambert, having been before his death the pastor of the church at Evansville over which Dr. William J. Darby afterward presided. She is president of the Woman's Board of Missions of the dénomination and has made a very efficient officer. In 1884 Dr. William J. Darby was a delegate to the Gen- eral Council of the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance held at Belfast, Ireland, and he has had much interest in that organization. Since 1885 he has represented his denomination on the Board of Trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, and has frequently spoken at international conventions. After attending the common schools in Evansville and at Montgomery Academy at Nashville, Tennessee, William L. Darby entered the Sophomore class of Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee, from which he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1895. He then entered the Theologi- cal Seminary at the last named place and took a three-years' course, graduating in 1898 at the head of the class, although he was the youngest member of it by two years. Even before graduating he was called to the pastorate of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kirksville, Missouri. The call was accepted and the young pastor entered upon his duties with a diligence and zeal that en- deared him to the people and marked him for a career of influence and usefulness in the Master's service. A proof of the success of his labors is afforded in the fact that during his two years of work 120 members have been added to the church. He was chosen. commissioner to the Cumberland General Assembly at Chattanooga, Tennes- see, May, 1890, and on one occasion was called by the moderator to preside over the assembly's session, the youngest man prob- ably ever called to that dignity in the church. In April, 1900, he was elected moderator of Kirksville Presbytery, of which he is a mem- ber. His political affiliations are with the Re- publican party. The church he is now serving has lately secured a fine pipe organ, thus add- ing to the beauty of the audience room and to the impressiveness of its services as well.
Darksville. - An unincorporated town in the northwest part of Randolph County,
about eleven miles from Huntsville. It con- tains a drug store, two general stores and several other business places. It is not on a railroad and its shipping point is Huntsville. Population, 1899 (estimated), 200.
Darlington .- An incorporated village on the Grand River, in Gentry County, lo- cated at the crossing point of the Wabash and the St. Joseph branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroads. It is five miles southwest of Albany, the county seat. It has a flouring mill, handle factory, a bank, two hotels, a newspaper, the "Record," and about twenty miscellaneous stores and shops. Population, 1899 (estimated), 600.
Daugherty, James Alexander, farmer, mine-owner and merchant, was born August 30, 1847, in McMinn County, Ten- nessee. His parents were William Armstrong and Nancy (Riggs) Daugherty, both natives of the State in which he, their eldest child, was born and reared. They were of that hardy race which peopled the mountain re- gion, and their rugged physical vigor and strong mental traits descended unimpaired to their offspring. In 1864 the family removed to Illinois, and in 1867 to Texas, where the mother died the same year. The father then removed with his children to Missouri, locat- ing five miles south of the present town of Carterville, and engaged in farming and stock-raising. In a few years, the land upon which he settled became the wonder of the world for its inestimable wealth of mineral deposits, revealed largely through the in- dustry and perseverance of himself and his son. He was identified with the earliest min- ing operations in the Carterville field, built the first house in Carterville, was one of the incorporators of the town, and assisted in establishing many of its business interests. The son, James Alexander, has been an asso- ciate of the father in nearly all of his mining and financial transactions. In 1876 the fa- ther, W. A. Daugherty, with T. N. Davy, C. C. Allen and W. M. McMullen, purchased eighty acres of Leroy Carter, on the present town site of Carterville, of which tract Mr. Daugherty owned one-third. Mining opera- tions were at once begun, with the son, James A., as superintendent, in which position he developed the highest ability as a mining di- rector and man of business. This was the
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beginning of the North and South Carterville mines, which have proven the richest in the Joplin district, producing, from 1877 to 1896, 119,812,000 pounds of zinc, valued at $1,- 307,919.78, and 12,158,075 pounds of lead, valued at $262,253.38, all of this output being on the north side of the town. The mines on the south side, from 1881 to 1896, pro- duced 69,001,720 pounds of zinc, valued at $856,780.91, and 8,012,470 pounds of lead, valued at $215,758. The aggregate amounts and values of the output of these properties, from 1896 to 1899, was 8,583,540 pounds of zinc, worth $118,534.86, and 1,284,060 pounds of lead, worth $27,099.92. Subsequently the same parties purchased 120 acres adjoining the above described tract. Of this purchase twenty-eight acres, between 1880, and Oc- tober 10, 1891, yielded 2,814,740 pounds of lead, valued at $73,870.73, and 15,644,000 pounds of zinc, worth $171,025.71. For eight years following 1891 little work was done on this tract, but during the fall of 1899 eight plants were erected thereon. When the Cen- ter Creek mines were sold Mr. James A. Daugherty became largely interested in the Cornfield tract, which, since its opening in 1891, has produced about 8,000,000 pounds of lead, and 11,000,000 pounds of zinc. In all, about thirty-three shafts have been sunk upon this property, and while some portions of it are difficult to work, the aggregate output, in quantity and quality, places it in the front rank of mining properties. Mr. Daugherty was a partner in the establishment of the pioneer grocery house of Webb City-the James Gammon Grocery House-from which he afterward retired. He is now (1899) president of the Spurgeon Wholesale Grocery Compa- ny, in the same city. He is also a large stock- holder in the First National Bank of Carter- ville, and a member of its board of directors. Politically he is a Democrat ; in religion, his connection is with the Southern branch of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is affiliated with the Joplin Commandery of Knights Tem- plar, and with Ararat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Kansas City. He was elected Asso- ciate Judge of the Western District of Jas- per County, in 1890, and was re-elected in 1892. In 1896 he was elected to a seat in the General Assembly. For two years he was a member of his District School Board, retir- ing from that position two years ago. Mr.
Daugherty was married December 30, 1867, to Miss Susanna Freeman, a native of Mis- sissippi. Of this union were born eight chil- dren, of whom two are deceased ; Dora May died when quite young; Charles Whitworth, who was a most accomplished business man, cashier of the First National Bank of Webb City, died February 3, 1896; Nancy Eliza- beth is the wife of W. A. Corl, of the Webb City Mercantile and Mining Company ; Wil- liam Alva, who was a capable mining super- intendent, died November 19, 1899; James Arthur, a graduate of the Sedalia Business College, is at the farm on which his father lives west of Webb City; Lee Alexander is now a student in the institution from which his brother graduated at Sedalia ; Myrtle and Lulu Alice are attending Webb City Col- lege. Mr. Daugherty is a man of enterprise and excellent judgment; while energetic in the prosecution of a purpose, he is conserva- tive in all that precedes action. Integrity is a marked feature of his character, and his ac- ceptance of a trust is assurance of its thor- ough and conscientious discharge. A most commendable trait is his interest in educa- tional affairs. His own school advantages were of the poorest, though his converse and conduct in business affairs would not betray it. Appreciating the value of a liberal edu- cation, he cheerfully served his school dis- trict as a director, aiding by his best effort in providing suitable instruction for the chil- dren of his neighbors. His own family have had every available educational advantage, and he has been a liberal donor to the estab- lishment of the Webb City College.
Daugherty, William Armstrong, banker, was born August 19, 1829, in Mc- Minn County, East Tennessee. His parents were Mathew and Nancy (Cass) Daugherty, the first named a native of Tennessee, born of Irish parents, and the last named a native of North Carolina. Charles Daugherty, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and also served as a major in the army during the War of 1812. William A. Daugherty attend- ed school not more than three months in all, and his. education has been wholly self- acquired. His boyhood and youth were occu- pied in farm labor. He married at the early age of seventeen years, and began life on a borrowed capital of $21 to furnish his log
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cabin, and went into debt to the amount of $200 more to purchase hogs; these debts he paid out of his first year's sales. From 1849 to 1861 he was engaged in farming and stock- raising. The war interrupted all civil pur- suits, and he entered the Confederate Army as a lieutenant in the Fifty-ninth Tennessee Regiment. A large part of his service was at Knoxville, where he was at times in com- mand of a guard over Parson Brownlow, the famous Unionist, who was restricted to his home. He saw service at Cumberland Gap and in the Atlanta campaign. He was cap- tured by the Federals at his own home, and promptly discharged, without being asked to take the oath of loyalty. In 1864 he removed to Washington County, Illinois, and in 1867 to Texas, where his wife died the same year. Immediately afterward he came to Missouri, locating in Jasper County, which he had traversed when on his journey to Texas. He rented a small house and barn four miles southeast of the present Carterville. The country was then almost uninhabited, the few settlers being widely separated. Until 1872 his life had been occupied with farming and stock-raising. That year, J. C. Webb found float mineral upon his farm on Center Creek, and entered into an arrangement with one Murrell, a miner who had chanced that way, to develop it. Murrell became disheartened on account of the shallow shaft filling with' water, and at the solicitation of Webb, Daugherty bought out the former, paying him $25 for his tools. Webb and Daugherty were associated in mining for about a year ; they were not practical miners and did most of their own work. Webb becoming dis- couraged, the work would have been aban- doned had it not been for the determination of Daugherty, who used the returns from his stock pens as capital, and prosecuted work in connection with G. P. Ashcraft, who suc- ceeded Webb, the latter leasing land to them for their operations. The new partners were successful almost from the outset. In the sinking of their shaft they took out nearly 20,000 pounds of mineral, and afterward reached a cave deposit, which added a like quantity. In 1876 Ashcraft retired, and Daugherty formed a partnership with T. N. Davy, C. C. Allen and W. M. McMullen, Daugherty holding a one-third interest. This firm bought the Carter lands, eighty acres, on the town site of Carterville, put in an ample
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