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so continued until 1890, when the partner- ship was dissolved. Since that time Mr. Douglass has been practicing alone, and no member of the Kansas City bar occupies a higher position of dignity and honor than does he. Since his removal to Kansas City his practice has been altogether of a civil nature, the last five years having been de- voted to general litigation of important char- acter, and many of the suits involving large sums and weighty problems of law. In the capacity of referee he has especially given satisfaction, and he has been called upon frequently to sit in hearing over causes thus referred. As a special master in chancery under the jurisdiction of the United States Court he has shouldered the re- sponsibilities growing out of numerous important suits. He was recently ap- pointed special master in chancery in all matters connected with the receiver- ships of the Stilwell railroad lines north of the Missouri River, embracing the Omaha, Kan- sas City & Eastern Railroad Company, the Omaha & St. Louis Railroad Company, and the Kansas City & Northern Connecting Railroad Company. He has also been acting as one of the masters in chancery in the re- ceivership of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway. These cases have attracted wide attention in the railroad world and have involved many points of law that render then of unusual importance. Politically Mr. Douglass is a Democrat, and has frequently been identified with the working forces of that party. While he was a resident of Columbia he served as chairman of the Dem- ocratiç State central committee, and was an active member of that committee for several years, his judicious counsel being often sought in matters affecting the interests of the party. He is a member of the Christian Church and is connected with the Masonic fraternity. On September 8, 1880, he was married to Miss Hallie H. Burr, daughter of William E. Burr, formerly president of the St. Louis National Bank, and for many years one of the most influential men in financial affairs in the city of St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass have three children: Wil- liam Burr Douglass, Shannon Clay Doug- lass, Jr., and Harriette Brand Douglass. The members of this family are held in highest esteem in social life, just as the father is held high in the estimation of
those acquainted with his honorable methods of practice and his resourceful abilities.
Dower .- That portion of the lands or tenements belonging to a man's estate, his widow is entitled to, for life. In Missouri, the widow's dower includes the homestead, and one-third of all other lands owned by the husband at any time during marriage, to- gether with a child's share in the personal estate. If, during the husband's life time, the wife joins him in a deed of conveyance of land, this transfers her dower in the land conveyed, but if she does not join in the deed, her dower in the land remains, and she may claim and recover it, after the death of her husband. A dower is only a life interest, and terminates at the death of the widow. Under the Missouri law, the widow may, on the death of her husband, claim and take a child's share instead of her dower. In this case, if there be one child only, the widow gets half the estate ; if two children, she gets a third. If there be no children or other descendants, the widow gets one-half the estate absolutely.
Downing .- An incorporated city of the fourth class in Schuyler County, ten miles east of Lancaster, on the Keokuk & Western Railroad. It was founded by Henry Down- ing, after whom it was named. For some years it was known as Cherry Grove. The city has a good graded school, two churches, a bank, flouring mill, a newspaper, the "News," handle factory and about twenty other business concerns, including general stores, drug stores, and miscellaneous shops, Population, 1899 (estimated) 700.
Dozier, James, in the early years of his life in Missouri merchant, farmer and steam- boat owner, and later founder of one of the most widely known industries in St. Louis, was born January 7, 1806, in Nash County, North Carolina, and died in St. Louis, July 15, 1878. He was reared in North Carolina, and must have been an ambitious and pos- sibly a somewhat adventurous youth, because at eighteen years of age he left home, ac- companied only by a negro boy whom his father had given him, and from that time forward was master of his own affairs. Go- ing from North Carolina to Tennessee, he engaged for a short time in agricultural pur-
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suits near Paris, and then, in a small way, began merchandising. That he had a genius for trade was evidenced by his prosperity, and he continued in business in Tennessee until 1828. In the meantime he had married a Kentucky lady, and in the year last named, accompanied by his father-in-law's family and several others inclined to seek homes in the West, he came to Missouri. He settled in the upper part of St. Louis County, in a neighborhood peopled mainly by Virginians. There Mr. Dozier first embarked in business as the operator of a tanyard in company with his father-in-law, Mr. John Dudgeon, but later he resumed merchandising. Some years afterward he removed to the north side of the river into St. Charles County, Mis- souri, where he lived for many years, carry- ing on extensive farming and merchandising operations, which made him a man of con- siderable fortune for that period. In the year 1844 he extended his enterprise to the steam- boat business, then entering upon the palmy days of its prosperity. In 1854 Captain Dozier severed his connection with the river trade and retired to a beautiful home on the bank of the Missouri River, in St. Charles County, at what became known as "Dozier's Landing." There he carried on extensive farming operations for twenty years there- after, and his home was known far and wide as one of the old-fashioned Southern kind, where good cheer was always in evidence and hospitality of the most charming kind al- ways a distinctive feature. He was a slave owner in those days, but one of the most kindly and considerate of masters, and the strong sympathetic element in his nature was evidenced in many benefactions of which the public knew little by reason of the unostenta- tious manner of their bestowal. Immediately after the Civil War he removed to St. Louis, and in 1867 became interested with Joseph Garneau in the conduct of an ex- tensive cracker bakery. In 1872 this partner- ship was disssolved and Captain Dozier then formed the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company, since succeeded by the Dozier Cracker Com- pany, which has built up one of the largest cracker factories in the world.
Dozier, Lewis D., manufacturer, was born August 25, 1846, in St. Charles County, Missouri, son of Captain James and Mary Ann (Dudgeon) Dozier. He came to St.
Louis in 1860, and after attending the Wash- ington public school, and later the Wilcox private school, completed his education at the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College of that city, from which institution he was graduated. Soon after leaving school he be- came a silent partner in the bakery business which had been established by his father and Joseph Garneau, in 1867, under the firm name of J. Garneau & Dozier. This partnership expired by limitation January 1, 1872, and in April of that year he became one of the partners in the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Com- pany, a partnership firm of which his father was senior member. At the death of the elder Dozier this partnership was succeeded by a corporation bearing the name Dozier- Weyl Cracker Company, of which John T. Dozier, a brother of Lewis D. Dozier, became president. John T. Dozier died later and Lewis D. Dozier succeeded to the presidency of the corporation, which continued to be known as the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Com- pany. In 1888 Mr. L. D. Dozier purchased the interest of Mr. Weyl and conducted the business under the name of the Dozier Cracker Company until 1890, when the cor- poration was merged into the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company. In February of 1898 this corporation was in turn purchased by the National Biscuit Company, in which Mr. Dozier is a large stockholder, and of which he is also a director. He con- tinues to be prominently identified with this great manufacturing interest and is also man- ager of the Dozier Bakery in St. Louis. In- terested in promoting the moral and intellec- tual advancement as well as the material prosperity of St. Louis, he has been a generous friend and patron of the Young Men's Christian Association-in the com- pletion of whose building he was actively interested-the Provident Association and other institutions which have made for the betterment of the city. He is an attendant of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, of which his wife was a member. With other leading citizens of St. Louis, he has con- tributed liberally to the founding of Washington University upon a broad and permanent basis, and his interest in educa- tional matters was also evidenced by four years-1887-91-of faithful service as a member of the St. Louis School Board. He has been president of the Noonday Club, is
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vice president of the St. Louis Club, and also a member of the University Club and the St. Louis Country Club.
Drake, Albert Monroe, pioneer mer- chant of Carthage, was born September 5, 1841, at Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. His parents were Charles A. and Mary (Boyle) Drake. His father, a native of New Jersey, was a blacksmith by trade and later in life managed a farm and hotel; he died in 1852, aged fifty-three years. His mother was born in Ohio ; after the death of her husband, she made her home with her son Monroe, at Carthage, until 1872, when she took up her residence with her daughter, Mary Etta, at St. Paul, Kansas, where she died in 1876, aged sixty-nine years. Charles A. and Mary B. Drake were the parents of nine children, of whom five died in childhood. Of those living, Sarah E. is the wife of John Martin ; Charles Freeman became a resident of Fort Scott in 1858, and has ever been among the most progressive citizens of that place, assisting liberally in all local enterprises, and being now a leading banker there; Mary Etta is the wife of Captain I. S. Bahney, of St. Paul, Kansas, formerly known as Osage Mission. Albert Monroe, the seventh child, in his boyhood assisted his father in the hotel. His education was acquired in the high school at Mount Vernon, Ohio, but he discontinued his studies in 1860, before graduation. During the Civil War period, he was incapacitated for field duty, but per- formed service in the local militia. In 1862 hie removed to the West, locating at Fort Scott, Kansas, where he learned the tinner's trade with his brother, Charles F. Drake. The following years he returned to Ohio, and later went again to Fort Scott, where he remained until October, 1866, when he located permanently in Carthage, Missouri, where he has since been continuously en- gaged in the hardware business. For some time after becoming a resident of Carthage, lie transacted business almost in the open air, there being no buildings there and neither brick nor lumber on the ground. His was the second building erected on the east side of the public square, on the site of his present location, and there were but four stores in all. From the time of his coming, he has been energetic and liberal in fostering all enterprises conducive to the growth and
prosperity of the city, and he has subscribed generously to the stock of numerous manu- facturing companies which were entirely un- remunerative, being beneficial only in the way of providing employment for labor, and some of which involved entire loss of the in- vestment. He is a Democrat, earnest in interest for his party. He has been fre- quently a delegate in State conventions, and has made his influence felt in other bodies, aiding materially in the success of friends in whom he took interest, or whom he con- sidered useful to party purposes. He has never been personally ambitious, and the only office which he has ever held was that of city treasurer of Carthage, in 1875, under the administration of Mayor Harding. He was among the organizers of Grace Epis- copal Church, in 1868, and was one of the first vestrymen; he was baptized into that church in 1874. In Masonry, he has advanced to the Commandery degrees, and has served as eminent commander, beside occupying most of the other positions in that body, and in the chapter and the lodge. He is a Noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. Drake was mar- ried November 17, 1868, to Mrs. Sarah Gill Caffee, widow of Warden J. Caffee, a drug- gist, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who died in 1867. She is a native of New York, and was reared in Ohio. Two sons have been born of this marriage. Charles Freeman Drake was born in Carthage, May 6, 1870, and was educated in the Shattuck Military School at Faribault, Minnesota, and in the Carthage schools. His business life has been with his father, in hardware. His military record is most honorable. In 1887, at the age of seventeen years, he became a member of the Carthage Light Guard, in which he reached the grades of corporal, sergeant, orderly sergeant, and commissary sergeant. In 1894 he was commissioned second lieutenant, and held that rank when lis regiment, the Second of the Missouri National Guard, volunteered for service in the war with Spain. He was ill at the time, but in June rejoined his command in camp at Chickamauga, Tennessee. In September the command was transferred to Lexington, Kentucky, and in November to Albany, Georgia. At the latter post, November 28, 1898, he was promoted to the rank of first
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lieutenant. March 3, 1899, the regiment was discharged from the service of the United States and resumed its position in the military establishment of Missouri. In De- cember of the same year, Lieutenant Drake resigned, to the great regret of his comrades in arms, who were warmly attached to him on account of his soldierly qualities and com- panionability. Sherwood Albert Drake, the younger son of Albert M. and Sarah G. Drake, was born June 30, 1874, and was educated in the Carthage high school. In 1890 he engaged as bookkeeper with the Electric Light and Water Company of Carthage, with which he was connected for five years. He then took a position in the store with his father, which he retained until May, 1899. In that year he went to Fort Scott, Kansas, and became superinten- dent of the Fort Scott Electric Light & Power Company, of which his uncle, C. F. Drake, is president.
Drake, Charles Daniel, a distin- guished lawyer, United States Senator and jurist. He was a son of Dr. Daniel Drake, the celebrated physician, and was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 11, 1811. After re- ceiving a common school education he spent a short time at St. Joseph's College, Bards- town, Kentucky, and a term in a military academy in Connecticut. From 1827 to 1830 he was a midshipman in the United States Navy. Resigning, he returned to Cincinnati to prepare himself for the bar, to which he was admitted in 1833, and the following year he came to St. Louis. In 1847 he returned to Cincinnati, but three years later resumed practice in St. Louis. In 1859 he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives, and although a radical Democrat, became conspicuous in opposition to the secession movement. In the Legislature he was in- strumental in passing measures for the better observance of the Sabbath in cities, and for the abolition of a certain class of "concert saloons," prohibiting the employment of females in such. In 1864 he was a presi- dential elector on the Lincoln ticket. He was a member and vice president of the Con- stitutional Convention of 1865, and the author of the several clauses of the organic law it enacted requiring the test oath of loy- alty as a qualification for jurors, voters, school-teachers, lawyers and ministers of the
gospel. January, 1867, he was elected a Senator in Congress for the term ending in 1873, serving on the committees on naval affairs, Pacific Railroad, contingent expenses, and ordnance. During his term as Senator he caused an amendment to an appropriation bill declaring that no payment for damages sustained in the Civil War should be made unless the claimant had filed an oath that he had never been in rebellion against the United States government, which clause was afterward invalidated by the Supreme Court. From the date of the Constitution of 1865 he participated eagerly in the political affairs of Missouri, and was considered the leader of the radical Republicans, but in the last years of his life, especially after his retirement from the court of claims, his extreme opin- ions were materially modified. In 1871 he was appointed by President Grant chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, from which position he retired in 1885. In the summer of 1890 Judge Drake was a member of the commission to the Puyallup Indians. He was a Presbyterian, and enjoy- ing an unusual vigor of mind and body, took an active part in the affairs of that church. On the night of March 31, 1892, he walked from his home to attend prayer meeting at the Western Presbyterian Church, in Wash- ington, and returned seemingly in good health, but the next morning his aged wife, with whom he had spent nearly fifty years of married life, found him dead in his bed. Ac- cording to his expressed wish, his remains were cremated and the ashes brought to St. Louis for interment. He left no family but his wife and married daughter, Mrs. Wescott.
Drake, George S., was born at Hart- ford, Connecticut, October 11, 1825, his par- ents being Silas and Elizabeth (Warburton) Drake. In 1827, when he was two years old, his father moved to the West with his family and located in St. Louis. This was over three score years and ten ago, and St. Louis claims him, therefore, as one of the oldest of its citi- zens who are not native born. He received his education partly in the private schools of the city, and partly at Kemper College, in the county, and at the age of sixteen years engaged as a clerk in the dry goods house of Warburton & King. His good habits, re- spectful bearing and diligence in duties com- mended him to the proprietors, and at the
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end of six years' steady service he was taken in as a partner, being then only twenty-two years old. The name of the firm was changed to Warburton, Rossiter & Drake. He con- tinued in this house until 1852, when he with- drew and became a member of the firm of Manny, Drake & Co., dealers in boots and shoes. In 1865 he retired from mercantile pursuits, and since then has devoted himself to the management of the investments which an active and prosperous business had yielded, and to the tastes and social and do- mestic enjoyments and opportunities for use- fulness to which his nature and his habits incline him. But these do not take Mr. Drake out of constant and active relation with the business interests of St. Louis. The value of his opinion in matters of finance and investment is recognized by all who have had business relations with him, and there are few men-if, indeed, there are any-who are more minutely familiar with the course of business, banking and money in St. Louis for the last half century than George S. Drake; and there are none who excel him in legal habit of mind and quick discernment of the equities of questions. It is not strange, therefore, that his services should be claimed and his counsel desired by institutions with which he is connected. He is one of the men whose long relations with the Boatmen's Bank have been so fortunate to that institu- tion, a connection which began in 1859, and has been continued almost unbroken to the present time-1898. During the first twelve years of this period he was one of the direc- tors ; during the next twenty-four years of it he was vice president ; in 1895 he resigned this position, and in 1897 he was again elected a director, and is a director still. He has been for many years vice president of the Bellefontaine Cemetery Association, and contributed a full share toward making that noble burial place what it is to-day. With all his great capacity for administration and business, his habits are strongly domestic, and the home is to him the center of attrac- tion. He has been a staunch member of the Second Presbyterian Church for fifty years, and is an elder in his congregation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Home of the Friendless, an institution which he has liberally befriended ; and he is also a member of the advisory board of the Protestant Or- phans' Asylum. Mr. Drake has been twice
married, and is now a widower with two chil- dren-a son, George S. Drake, Jr., a medical student at John Hopkins Medical College of Baltimore, and a daughter, the wife of Henry C. Scott.
Drake, Nelson Asaph, physician, was born June 14, 1842, at Hinckley, Medina County, Ohio. His parents were Ransom and Electa Eason (Severance) Drake, both natives of Bristol, Vermont. The Drake family is of great antiquity. Before the Norman conquest, 1066, the clan Drago or Draco appears in England; this Latin name signifies "leader." As early as 1272 the anglicized form of the name, Drake, is found. From the earliest days of British heraldry the family bear the same coat of arms which be- long to their descendants of the present time, having upon the shield a dragon, whence their original name, and the legend, "Aquila non capta muscas," an eagle does not attempt to capture flies. Sir Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth's great admiral, was remotely connected. The American branch of the family was founded by Thomas Drake, of Devon County, England, who immigrated in 1653; he located at Weymouth, Massa- chusetts, and bore a part in King Philip's War. His grandson, Joseph, served in the French and Indian Wars. Thomas, son of Joseph, as shown by the Revolutionary rolls, was "out at the Lexington alarm," in Captain Williams' company of "Minnit Men"; he served as sergeant in the war from 1776 to 1780. His son, Solomon, removed from Massachusetts to Vermont in 1805, there founding the town of Bristol ; he was captain of a company at the Battle of Plattsburg, in 1812. Nelson Asaph, grandson of the latter named, passed the greater part of his boy- hood in Wisconsin. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, he was a student in Evansville Seminary in that State, just ready to enter the university. His purpose was to prepare for the study of medicine, but he laid aside his books and enlisted in the Twenty- Second Wisconsin Regiment. He endeav- ored to secure the position of hospital steward, and was rejected on account of his meagre knowledge of medicine. When the regiment was ordered to the front, however, he was attached to the field hospital corps, with which he served during the greater part of his enlistment period. When the regi-
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ment suffered the misfortune of capture, he was treated as a non-combatant. Volunteers being called for to go to prison with the command, to care for the sick, he proffered his services, greatly to the satisfaction of his comrades, and he shared their fortunes in Libby Prison for about four months. When his regiment regained their liberty by ex- change, he resumed his duties in the field, and was soon advanced to the position of hospital steward of the Third Division of the Twentieth Corps. In this service, he wit- nessed and assisted in almost every descrip- tion of operation for injuries received from bullet and shell, and he regards that expe- rience as an all-important part of his pro- fessional education. Upon the restoration of peace, he again entered upon school work, studying for two years at Hillsdale College, Michigan, reading Greek, Latin and the sciences. He then entered the medical and chemical departments of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and afterward took a course at Rush Medical College, Chicago; from which institution he received his diploma as a member of the class of 1867-8. He at once located at Ossian, Winneshiek County, Iowa, where for thirteen years he was engaged in a general country practice, which afforded him constant employment and a reasonable income. There was little opportunity for him in the department of surgery, for which he was pre-eminently fitted, and to which his tastes led him, and in 1881 he removed to Kansas City. Here his great ability found him a wide field, and his services have been particularly sought by railway companies. He is now, as he has been for years, surgeon for the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul and the Chicago, Rock Island. & Pacific Railways. He has served on the surgical staff of All Saints Hospital and the German Hospital, and is frequently called into consultation by private practi- tioners in the graver class of cases. He stands high in the esteem of his professional colleagues, and is influential in various medi- cal bodies. He is particularly active and is regarded with unusual confidence, in the In- ternational Association of Railway Surgeons, and his contributions to the "Journal of Rail- way Surgeons" are read with deep interest. Among other societies in which he holds membership, are the County and District Medical Societies, being ex-president of the
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