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plant, at large expense, and thus laid the foundations for the existing Carterville mines, the most productive in the district. Of these mines, Mr. Daugherty's son, James A., became manager. One hundred and twenty acres adjoining this tract were sub- sequently purchased by the same parties, in which Mr. Daugherty holds a one-third in- terest. He also owns one-third of the Corn- field tract. In all, his absolute ownership, or one-third interest, includes about 4,000 acres, of which one-third is undoubtedly mineral land, immediately underneath and adjoining the town of Carterville. Mr. Daugherty and his partners subsequently organized as the Carterville Mining and Smelting Company. Upon their property are the mines of the con- solidated North Carterville and South Carter- ville companies. Shafts have been sunk to a depth of 165 feet, and three distinct strata of mineral have been found, aggregating seventy feet in thickness. One lot, 200 feet square, has yielded a net profit of over $200,000 and one adjoining $125,000 in roy- alties alone. From one of these shafts was taken a mass of lead ore weighing 1,065 pounds, which was exhibited at the Trans- Mississippi Exposition of 1898, in Omaha, and was awarded the only medal for such an exhibit. Up to January 1, 1899, these tracts had produced mineral to a value of nearly three millions of dollars. Mr. Daugh- erty owns in fee one-third of eighty acres adjoining Carterville on the south, called "the Cornfield Tract," so named for the reason that miners began working it before the corn had been gathered. Much of this land is worked under lease, and is handsomely productive. He was the founder of the town of Carterville, having erected the first build- ing there and being the prime mover in in- corporation. He was the leader in the es- tablishment of the first bank, a private institution. He subsequently purchased the First National Bank of Webb City, of which his grandson, Charles Whitworth Daugh- erty, was cashier, and the youngest man in the State to occupy so high a position in a national banking establishment. The latter died in 1896, and the bank was removed to Carterville, consolidated with the Daugherty private bank and reorganized as the First National Bank of Carterville, of which Mr. Daugherty is president, his son, James A., a director ; G. P. Ashcraft, vice president, and
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W. B. Kane, cashier. This banking house, which has abundant capital, transacts prac- tically all the financial business of the Car- terville mining district. Mr. Daugherty has been a liberal aider in other business and public enterprises. In politics he is a Dem- ocrat, and in religion a member of the Methodist Church South. He holds mem- bership in the Masonic order-being a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine -- and in the order of Odd Fellows. He was first married in Tennessee, Novem- ber 4, 1846, to Miss. Nancy Riggs, who died at Austin, Texas, in June, 1867. Nine chil- dren were born of this marriage. The oldest, James A. Daugherty, lives on his farm, in the suburbs of Webb City, and is associated with his father in nearly all his business en- terprises ; Louisa Jane is the wife of E. L. Thornton, an engineer at Carterville; Ben- jamin A. is a farmer in the vicinity; Lucinda is the wife of B. F. Hatcher, a one-half owner in the realty of the Richland mines; Martha Melissa was the wife of Thomas E. Burch, and died, leaving two children ; Alice, who married G. W. Davis, also died, leaving two sons; Nancy Caroline is the wife of L. C. Gray, postmaster at Carterville; Ten- nessee died in Illinois, at the age of eighteen months, and an unnamed infant died in Texas. In June, 1868, Mr. Daugherty mar- ried Miss Sarah B. Davis, of Joplin, who was also a native of Tennessee. No chil- dren were born of this marriage. Now in his seventy-first year, Mr. Daugherty main- tains an erect and stately carriage, is in ro- bust health and gives daily attention to his banking and mining interests, immense in their extent and value, and to the personal management of a favorite farm. He enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him, and is honored as pre-eminently one to whose industry and perseverance is due the transformation of an almost desolate plain into a seat of mammoth industries and the abode of a large and prosperous popu- lation. Personally, he is genial and sympa- thetic, displaying unaffectedly all those traits which mark the modest and model citizen and warm-hearted neighbor.
Daughters' College .- See "William Woods College for Girls."
Daughters of the American Revo- lution .- This society is composed of
women not less than eighteen years of age, each of whom has proved her lineal descent from an ancestor who, with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of Amer- ican independence as a recognized patriot, as soldier or sailor or as civil officer. The society was organized to perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men who achieved American independence, by the ac- quisition and protection of historical spots and the erection of monuments; by the en- couragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution and the publication of its results; by the preservation of documents and relics and of the records of the individ- ual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and by the promotion of celebra- tions of all patriotic anniversaries. Through this means it is the object of the society to cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriot- ism and love of country, and to aid in secur- ing for mankind all the blessings of liberty.
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution ivas incorporated June 8, 1891, with headquarters fixed at tlie City of Washington. The St. Louis chapter of the society was organized January 31, 1895, with the following charter members: Mrs. James J. O'Fallon, Mrs. Western Bas- come, Mrs. Amos M. Thayer, Mrs. H. N. Spencer, Mary Polk Winn, Sarah Branch, Mrs. Randolph R. Hutchinson, Mrs. William A. Hardaway, Mrs. Isabella R. K. Clendenin, Mrs. Benjamin O'Fallon, Anna Branch, Mrs. George H. Shields; honorary member, Mrs. Daniel S. Tuttle. Mrs. Cockrell, wife of Senator Francis M. Cockrell, was the first State regent appointed to organize the Mis- souri chapters of the society. She was re- moved by death, and Mrs. James J. O'Fallon succeeded her in the regency. Mrs. Rufus Lackland was the first chapter regent of St. Louis, and upon her death was succeeded by Mrs. Randolph Hutchinson. Mrs. George H. Shields, on her return from a six years' residence in Washington, was the third chap- ter regent. Mrs. Shields was one of the earliest members of the national society, her number being "34" in a membership of over 19,000, and she was the first recording sec- retary general. Under her able regency the St. Louis chapter rapidly grew and soon re- gained the State regency, to which position Mrs. Shields was elected in February, 1896,
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Mrs. Western Bascome succeeding her as chapter regent. The St. Louis chapter, in June, 1897, numbered 126, and three new chapters were formed during that month, Mrs. Shields appointing the following re- gents : Mrs. Samuel M. Nave, St. Joseph ; Mrs. C. T. McCluney, Sedalia, and Mrs. David McAdam, Kirkwood. There had pre- viously been only two chapters in the State outside of St. Louis, one at Kansas City, Mrs. Hamilton Gamble, regent, and one at Jefferson City, Mrs. Thomas Towles, regent. In 1898 Mrs. Shields appointed two regents of new chapters in St. Louis-Miss Christine Tuttle, of the Dolly Madison Chapter, and Mrs. Margaret DeWolf, and also appointed regents of new chapters at Cape Girardeau and other points in the State. A number of ladies of Alton, Illinois, are enrolled in the St. Louis chapter, and Miss H. N. Has- kell, principal of Monticello College, is an honorary member. The meetings of the St. Louis Chapter are held at the homes of mem- bers on the last Saturday afternoon of each month from October to May. The commit- tees on literature and music arrange pro- grammes on historic and patriotic themes. The subject is often some event, the anni- versary of which is near the date of the meeting and in which the ancestors of some of the members participated. Traditions of descendants are revived and recorded, as, in the words of Mrs. Shields, "Fireside tra- ditions live altogether in the hearts of the women." Political and sectarian topics are excluded, and the association of women de- scended from Northern with those from Southern ancestors does much to bridge the chasm between North and South. The seal of the society, with the figure of a dame of the time of the Revolution, sitting at her spinning-wheel, with the thirteen stars above her, typifies the close union of lofty patriot- ism with the homely domestic virtues. The original of this figure is Miss Meklin, grand- daughter of Thomas Jefferson. As the soci- ety in Missouri is in its infancy, its work lies chiefly in creating an interest in its aims and extending its membership. It is gathering an appropriate library, has presented a por- trait of Washington to the Crow Public School, and has assumed custody of the bronze statue of Washington at Lafayette Park, which is one of the three replicas of Houdon's priceless original. It was through
the influence of this society that, on June 14, 1897, "Flag Day" was for the first time ob- served in St. Louis. Every vessel leaving the port commemorated the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the nation's emblem by flying the flag, which also floated from all the public buildings. The national society is taking steps toward the erection at Washington of a suitable memo- rial building in which to store its collected treasures, and in this work the Missouri chapters are assisting.
On April 16, 1898, the Daughters of the American Revolution passed resolutions of- fering their services "in case of war." These carried unanimously throughout the State, antedating all other patriotic resolutions of this society in the country, or of any other organization in the State. After war was declared the various chapters worked in every way, raising $1,000 in cash, providing garments, food, delicacies and other supplies for Missouri soldiers. They sent eighteen trained women nurses to the camps, paying their expenses in many cases. They also joined with the Daughters of the Confed- eracy, Council of Jewish Women and others in the same line of work. They have also contributed to the purchase of a bronze equestrian statue of Lafayette, presented to France in 1900 as the gift of the women of America.
In the fall of 1894 Miss Ethel Beecher Allen was appointed regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution for Kansas City. The chapter was formed in October and was named for Elizabeth Benton, wife of Thomas Benton, so long and favorably known in the history of the State of Missouri. Its first meeting was held in Mrs. Allen's parlor, and the following officers were chosen: Miss Allen, regent ; Mrs. W. B. Thayer, treasurer ; Mrs. Alfred Gregory, secretary, and Mrs. J. H. Austin, registrar. Kansas City proved a rich field for descendants of Revolutionary ancestors, and in the short space of four months the chapter had increased in numbers from a dozen to about one hundred mem- bers. For some time it has had more "Real Daughters" (that is, daughters of men who fought in the Revolutionary War) than any other chapter west of Connecticut, these daughters numbering six. The chapter did some good work in putting into the public library several books of reference in Revolu-
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tionary matters. Its regent, Miss Ethel Allen was, the following year, elected State regent for Missouri.
Daughters of the Confederacy .- In quick response to an appeal from the ex- Confederate Association to the women of Missouri for aid in providing a home for dis- abled Confederate veterans, an organization was formed under the name of the Daughters of the Confederacy, being, so far as known, the first in the United States bearing that name. The idea of interesting women in the work originated with Captain F. P. Bron- augh, who conferred with Mrs. A. C. Cassidy, and she, with the aid of the Southern women of St. Louis, whose response was ready and enthusiastic, organized the society. The meeting for organization was held in the par- lors of the Southern Hotel January 1, 1891, ninety-seven women responding to the call. After the objects were explained the follow- ing officers were elected : Mrs. M. A. E. Mc- Lure, president; Mesdames A. C. Cassidy, Randolph R. Hutchinson, T. H. West, Leroy B. Valliant, Thomas J. Portis and James Ban- nerman, vice presidents ; Mrs. John D. Winn, treasurer; Miss Harwood, recording secre- tary, and Mrs. A. C. Robinson, corresponding secretary. Upon the resignation of Miss Harwood at the second meeting, Mrs. E. R. Gamble was elected recording secretary, to which position she has since been constantly re-elected. Mrs. McLure, then eighty years of age, was the unanimous choice for presi- dent, which position she holds for life. The ex-Confederate Association had purchased a farm at Higginsville, Missouri, and the first work of the Daughters of the Confederacy was to furnish four of the just completed cot- tages, and for this they were given the privi- lege of naming the cottages, which they did in memory of Generals John S. Bowen, W. Y. Slack, M. M. Parsons and Henry Little. A fifth cottage was also furnished through con- tributions of auxiliary societies in the State, and named after General Martin E. Greene. The society was enabled to accomplish its work by means of receipts from a very suc- cessful strawberry festival, from fees and dues and from donations in furnishings re- ceived from prominent business houses irre- spective of politics. During the summer the newly formed St. Louis County Auxiliary, through Mrs. N. R. McKnight, president, and
Mrs. E. H. Daves, presented a check for $1,025, the proceeds of a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. A voting contest at the St. Louis Exposition in November netted a con- siderable sum, and additional funds were raised by the sale of tickets costing ten cents, each representing a "brick" in the Confed- erate Home. The receipts from the first grand ball, given on Thanksgiving eve, 1891, were nearly $8,000, over one-half of this sum being clear profit. The ball was a brilliant social event, and was opened by the venerable president leading the first dance. The spring festival and autumnal ball are annually recur- ring events, and the ball in November, 1896, was honored with the presence of Mrs. Jeffer- son Davis and her daughter, Miss Winnie Davis. During the first year the net amount raised from all sources was over $11,000. The maintenance of cottages for the veterans and their families proving too expensive, the St. Louis society, in conjunction with the State auxiliaries, erected and furnished a main building at a cost of $28,000, which was handed over to the ex-Confederate Associa- tion June 9, 1893. Not having sufficient funds on hand to complete the furnishing, the ex-Confederate Association advanced the regular amount to be repaid in the future, which debt was assumed by the St. Louis so- ciety and State auxiliaries. During the win- ter of 1895-6 the St. Louis society erected a hospital, which, with furniture and equip- ment, cost $4,700, with over $1,000 additional for its support. The Ex-Confederate Asso- ciation, feeling unable to longer maintain the home properly, turned it over to the State in March, 1897, "The Confederate Home of Missouri" having, by an act of the Legisla- ture, been made one of the eleemosynary in- stitutions of the State of Missouri, with an appropriation of $24,000 for maintenance for two years, and $24,000 for improvements and repairs. The property was deeded to the State, the State contracting to maintain the institution as a home for disabled Confeder- ate soldiers for twenty years from the date of said act. Through this transfer an entire change of work devolved upon the Daughters of the Confederacy. A meeting of the so- cieties of the State was called and new articles of association adopted, under which the as- sociation was incorporated September I, 1897, with the name of Daughters of the Con- federacy of Missouri, its chief office to be in
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St. Louis. The officers elected for the first year were Mrs. Louis Houck, of Cape Girar- deau, president; Mrs. J. S. Bowen, of St. Louis, secretary ; Mrs. William G. Moore, of St. Louis, treasurer; Mrs. Leroy Valliant, first vice president of the Twelfth Congres- sional District. The St. Louis Chapter, num- bering 200 members, has six vice presidents in the State association. Its meetings are held at the Jefferson Club in the afternoon on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The objects of the State Daughters of the Confederacy are monumental, his- torical and benevolent. Their first work was to complete the monument in the Confeder- ate Cemetery near Springfield, Missouri, at a cost of not less than $5,000. This monu- ment was begun some time ago through the efforts of the women of Springfield. They have also assumed the proper care and main- tenance of the Confederate Cemetery at Hig- ginsville. They hope to be able in the future to erect in St. Louis a handsome State monument to the Missouri Confederate dead, but are not at present ready to enter upon so great an undertaking. They have also com- menced the work of historical research, and Mrs. Paul Brown and Mrs. T. Davis Porcher are the present committee on Southern liter- ature, and will collect records and traditions of Missouri campaigns and deeds of Missouri soldiers. The benevolent efforts will be de- voted to the relief of needy Confederate sol- diers, who, for lack of room, can not be accommodated at the home. Mrs. Leroy B. Valliant is chairman of this committee.
MARTHA S. KAYSER.
Daughters of the Confederacy, United .- The United Daughters of the Confederacy, as an organization, was the re- sult of growth, and not of any preconcerted movement. The various State associations of the Daughters of the Confederacy were formed at intervals in the different States, in many instances in ignorance of the existence of such bodies elsewhere. The aim and object was the same in every instance, viz., the care and comfort of disabled Confederate veterans.
The fact seems to be settled beyond ques- tion that the first organization bearing the name was formed in St. Louis in January of 1891, by the personal efforts of Mrs. A. C. Cassidy, ably assisted by many Southern women.
Mrs. Lucien Hamilton Raines, of Savan- nah, Georgia, first conceived the idea of unit- ing the various then existing chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy in a national organization. To this end they labored un- ceasingly until it was an accomplished fact.
The first meeting was held at Nashville, Tennessee, September 10, 1894, and Mrs. Raines was proposed as president, but she de- clined. Subsequently at Atlanta, on Novem- ber 9, 1895, she was again nominated, but again declined. Mrs. M. C. Goodlet was nominated by Mrs. Raines and elected the first president, and Mrs. John C. Brown was elected to that office at the Atlanta meeting. During both of these terms Mrs. Raines mod- estly filled the office of first vice president.
In May of 1896 Mrs. Brown resigned and Mrs. Raines was forced to take the position she had twice declined. Until the following November she devoted all her time to the ad- vancement of the cause so dear to every Southern woman's heart. Mrs. General Fitzhugh Lee was elected in 1897, and the Convention of 1898, on Mrs. Lee's positive refusal to serve another year, elected Mrs. Kate Cabell Currie, of Texas, to the presi- dency.
After a lapse of four years the founder of the association now has the happiness of see- ing large and rapidly growing divisions in every one of the Southern States. The pri- mary object of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is the care of disabled veterans, the preservation of souvenirs and relics of the war, the writing of histories prepared under the supervision of able Confederates, who will see that justice is done the South in books put in the hands of Southern youth. Besides the building of monuments to the noble Southern dead, especially a fit and suitable one to President Jefferson Davis, the United Daughters of the Confederacy also propose to mark the graves of Confederates who died in Northern prisons, and to embellish the rooms of the Confederate Museum at Rich- mond. These are assigned to the different Confederate States, and it is hoped that in each room will be deposited the army and navy rosters of the soldiers and sailors of the respective States.
These and similar works, which may from time to time present themselves, constitute the objects of the association. The national body deals only with matters common to all.
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while the State divisions are perfectly free to map out and undertake any work of local in- terest.
The first chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Missouri was formed in St. Louis in July, 1897, on the application of seven ladies, and by the national by-laws theirs became the charter chapter of the State. The following officers were elected: Mrs. P. G. Robert, president; Mrs. A. C. Cassidy, first vice president; Mrs. Frank Gaiennie, second vice president ; Mrs. Thomas Buford, recording secretary ; Mrs. Bryan Snyder, cor- responding secretary; Mrs. W. P. Howard, treasurer.
A call was issued by the president of the charter chapter for a meeting at Fayette, Missouri, on January 12, 1898, to form a State division, other charters having been granted to chapters in Fayette, Lexington, Higginsville, Kansas City and Liberty. The meeting was called to order by Mrs. P. G. Robert, president of the M. A. E. McLure Charter Chapter of St. Louis, and the di- vision was organized by the election of the following officers: Mrs. R. E. Wilson, Kan- sas City, president; Mrs. Annie Washington Rapley, St. Louis, first vice president ; Mrs. O. H. Corprew, Fayette, second vice presi- dent; Miss Ethel Cunningham, Fayette, re- cording secretary ; Mrs. W. C. Howard, St. Louis, corresponding secretary ; Mrs. James Gibson, Kansas City, treasurer.
These ladies have taken up the work in a quiet, painstaking way, that argues well for the future. They fully realize that they are working for the rising generation, and that their work should be well and thoroughly done to merit the permanence they hope to assure it. The best and brightest women of the South have the work in hand, and they stand shoulder to shoulder with their broth- ers, the United Confederate Veterans, to whom they are auxiliary.
MRS. P. G. ROBERT.
Daughters of the Republic. - A women's political society, organized in Chi- cago in January of 1896 by W. J. Harvey, and designed to be an auxiliary of the Order of Patriots of America. Its purposes are to co- operate with the order last named in bringing about in this country the adoption of the Swiss system of voting, and in introducing other innovations intended to place the gov-
ernment more directly under control of the people. The institution has been represent- ed in St. Louis since 1897.
Davey, Thomas N., manufacturer, in- ventor and mine-owner, was born in Corn- wall, England, in 1835, and came with his parents to the United States in 1852, when he was seventeen years of age. The family settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and there Thomas N. Davey was apprenticed to the machinists' trade in the famous Baldwin Locomotive Works of that city. The bent of his mind inclined him toward the construc- tion of mining machinery, and after a time he left Philadelphia and apprenticed himself to a mining machine works at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. While there. he attended a mining school and labored diligently to per- fect himself in the knowledge of mining af- fairs, as well as in the knowledge of the construction of machinery used in mining operations. He did everything with that thoroughness characteristic of an English- man, and after serving the full term. of his apprenticeship he traveled over sixteen States of the Union to learn as much as pos- sible of the mineral and material resources of these different States, and of general busi- ness conditions. In the Southern States he made a study of the institution of slavery and its bearing on industrial development. Frugal in his habits, diligent and industrious, he made friends wherever he went, and added continually to his savings. In 1859 he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and there, in 1861, he married Miss Anna Stealey. For some years thereafter he continued to be a resi- dent of Kentucky, and in 1868 he established a foundry and machine shops in that State. This manufacturing establishment he ope- rated until 1872, when he sold out and came to Carthage, Missouri, to become superin- tendent of the Carthage Machine Works. He managed this plant successfully for four years, building within that time the first Cornish force pumps used in the lead mines of Jasper County. Two of these large pumps are still in operation, having been in con- stant service for more than twenty years. Turning his attention to the needs of the southwest Missouri mineral district in the way of mining machinery, he made many im- provements, and was the inventor of appli- ances which have aided largely in the
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