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Fruit Experimental Station .- The Fortieth General Assembly of Missouri pro-
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vided for the establishment of an experi- mental fruit station to be located in the southern part of the State. The Governor appointed a board of commissioners com- posed of Dr. N. M. Baskett, of Moberly; John A. Knott, of Hannibal, and D. F. Rush, of Weston, to select a location. Many of the enterprising towns in the southern counties entered into a friendly contest to secure the station. On November 15, 1899, the board unanimously selected, by vote, a tract of 198 acres of land situated about one mile from the town of Mountain Grove, in Wright County. The land was valued at $9.500, and was donated to the State for experimental station purposes by the citizens of Mountain Grove. The station is under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture.
Fry, Benjamin St. James, clergy- man, was born in east Tennessee, in 1824, but early went to Cincinnati, and was edu- cated there at Woodward College. He be- came a minister in the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1847. He served three years as president of Worthing- ton Female College, and was three years a chaplain in the Union Army. From 1865 he was in charge of the Methodist Book Deposi- tory, in St. Louis, till 1872, when he became editor of the "Central Christian Advocate," of St. Louis, published under the direction of the Agents of the Western Book Concern, at Cincinnati. He continued in the editor- ship by quadrennial elections by the General Conference till his death, February 5, 1892, covering a period of almost twenty years. He wrote biographies of Bishops Whatcoat, Mc- Kendree and Roberts.
Fryer, Harry Milton, physician and surgeon, was born May 8, 1866, at Janesville, Wisconsin. His father, Peter Jay, who was descended from Holland ancestry, was a native of New York. He removed to Wiscon- sin, where he engaged in farming and stock- raising, and married Anna M. Doty, daugh- ter of a merchant doing business in Madison and Janesville, Wisconsin. They are now living in retirement in Kansas City. Their son, Harry Milton, began his education in the public schools of his native town, and then spent six years as a student in the ward and high schools of Chicago. In 1881 his parents removed to Kansas, he accompany-
ing them, and assisting his father upon a stock farm until 1884, when he entered the Normal Institute at Iola, Kansas, where he was a student for two years, completing the course with first, second and third grade State certificates as a teacher. From 1886 until 1892 he was a successful teacher in schools in and near Neosho Falls, Colony and Geneva, Kansas. During the same years he studied medicine industriously, and engaged in practice in that State until 1894, when he located in Kansas City, Missouri. In the following year he became a licentiate under the Missouri State Board of Health, and was also graduated from the Kansas City Ho- meopathic Medical College. The same year he was appointed to his present position as professor and demonstrator of anatomy, and secretary of the Board of Trustees, of the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College. He also occupies the positions of staff sur- geon for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, of court physician to Court Inde- pendent, No. 611, Independent Order of For- esters, and of physician of Kansas City Court, No. 143, Order of Select Friends. He is a member of the Missouri Institute of Home- opathy, secretary of the Kansas City Ana- tomical Association, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Missouri State Ana- tomical Association. He is a regular contributor, principally upon general topics in surgery, to the "Medical Progress" of Louisville, Kentucky, and to the "Medical Arena," of Kansas City, Missouri. He is numbered among the most progressive and capable men of his school, and enjoys the confidence of the highest leaders in the pro- fession. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Fryer married Miss Grace Denny, daughter of Nathan A. Denny, a native of Columbus, Ohio, and a resident in that vicinity until his death.
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Fulbright, William, one of the pio- neers of Greene County, was a native of North Carolina ; he was of German descent, and spoke the language of his ancestors. fluently. He married Ruth Hollingsworth, and removed to Tennessee, where he became a wealthy land and slave-owner. In 1830 he came to Missouri, traveling by wagon, and bringing a number of slaves, and made a home at the spring known by his name, near the present shops of the Kansas City, Fort
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Scott & Memphis Railway, in Springfield. He also built a gristmill near the Fulbright Spring, where is the source of the present water supply for the city of Springfield. He was a man of rugged constitution, untiring industry, and great business sagacity. He devoted himself to farming and stock-raising. Among his peculiarities was his fixed adher- ence to his own established prices for his farm products. He invariably held corn at fifty cents per bushel ; at one time the market price was one dollar, but he held to the lower figure. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church, and intensely devoted to their religion. Their home was open to all comers, and for many years was the tem- porary abode of immigrants until they had selected lands and made their settlements. They were the parents of eleven children, and their descendants are among the most prosperous and exemplary people of Greene and adjoining counties. Mr. Fulbright died at the age of sixty years, and his wife some time afterward.
Fulkerson, Jacob Johnston, physi- cian and surgeon, and county collector of Lafayette County, is a son of Jacob V. and Catherine C. (Ewing) Fulkerson, and was born in Lee County, Virginia, October 3, 1849. Both his parents were natives of Vir- ginia. The Fulkerson family is of Scotch- Irish descent, the founder of the family in America having immigrated to Virginia in early Colonial times. The Fulkersons and Ewings were represented in the Revolution, and descendants of both families have occu- pied positions of distinction in later genera- tions. Jacob V. Fulkerson, who had followed a mercantile career in Virginia, removed to Missouri about 1876, residing in this State until his death, in 1883. His wife died in Virginia, in 1869. Dr. J. J. Fulkerson was educated in the common schools and Emory and Henry College, in Washington County, Virginia. In the fall of 1864 he entered the Confederate Army as a sergeant in the Thir- teenth Virginia Regiment, serving nine months, or until the close of the conflict. Soon after his return home he connected himself with a wholesale hardware house at Baltimore, Maryland. In 1870 he came to Lexington, Missouri, where he began the study of medicine under the direction of his brother, Dr. Putnam S. Fulkerson. In March,
1875, he was graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine from the St. Louis Medi- cal College, locating at once for practice at Oak Grove, Jackson County, Missouri. From February, 1881, to January, 1901, he prac- ticed continuously at Higginsville. Upon the latter date he retired from practice to as- sume the duties of collector of rev- enue for Lafayette County, to which office he was elected in November, 1900, as the nominee of the Democratic party. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Dr. Fulkerson organized a company for service in Cuba. It was mustered in as Company K, Fifth Missouri Volunteer In- fantry, but on account of the brevity of the war his command, of which he was commis- sioned captain, did not succeed in reaching a point further south than Chickamauga, Ten- nessee. In his professional relations Dr. Ful- kerson is a member of the Missouri State and the Lafayette County Medical Societies. Since its establishment in 1890 he has served as surgeon to the Confederate Soldiers' Home, at Higginsville. Fraternally, he is identified with the .Masons, having passed all the chairs in the local lodge and chapter, and is a member of DeMolay Commandery of Knights Templar at Lexington. He was one of the founders of the Higginsville Building & Loan Association. His marriage, October 17, 1877, united him with Mary P. Godwin, daughter of William Godwin, of Shreveport, Louisiana. She died August 16, 1899, leav- ing five daughters, namely: Lillian C., Blanche C., Janie, Helen B. and Pearl E. Fulkerson.
Fuller, Homer T., clergyman and ed- ucator, was born November 15. 1838, in Lempster, New Hampshire, son of Sylvanus and Saralı M. (Taylor) Fuller. He is a lin- eal descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, who was physician to the good ship "Mayflower," which landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. The line of descent is as follows : Sam- uel II, Samuel III, John, Issachar, Noah, Sylvanus. Homer T. Fuller received his aca- demic education at Dartmouth College, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1864. In 1869 he was graduated from Union Theological Seminary. Previous to this last graduation, and from 1864 to 1867, he was principal of Fredonia Academy, at Fredonia, New York. From 1867 to 1868 he
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was a student at Andover Theological Semi- nary. After his graduation from Union The- ological Seminary he came west and was in - stalled as pastor of the Congregational Church at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, which posi- tion he filled until 1871. From 1871 to 1882 he was principal of St. Johinsbury Academy, at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. From 1882 until 1894 he was president of the Worcester (Massa- chusetts) Polytechnic School. He left New England in 1894 to accept the presidency of Drury College, at Springfield, Missouri, and he has since been one of the most dis- tinguished of Western educators. From 1886 to 1894 he was a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and since 1886 lie has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a fellow of the Geological Society of America-of which he was one of the orig- inal members-and since 1896 has been a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He has been an extensive traveler, as well as a student and scientist, and spent a portion of the years 1879 and 1880 in Europe, and again visited the Old World in 1882-3. The honorary degrees of doctor of philosophy and doctor of divinity have been conferred upon him. June 15, 1870, Dr. Fuller married Miss Ameretta Jones, at Fredonia, New York. Their children are Mary Breese Fuller, in- structor in history at Smith College, North- ampton, Massachusetts; Henry Jones Fuller, manager of Fairbanks & Co., at Montreal, Canada, and Anna Taylor Fuller, a teacher of kindergarten in Alabama.
Full Gospel Mission .- A non-denomi- national mission, established in 1895, at 1701 Lucas Avenue, St. Louis, by H. W. Peffley, a laborer in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and Emma R. Peffley, his wife. Feeling that they had a divine call to engage in evangelical work, they rented the three-story dwelling house' at the above mentioned number, and began holding religious services there every night, making their appeals especially to the unfor- tunate and vicious classes. Great good re- sulted from their labors, and in 1898 they had founded, in all, six missions in the city, at which regular services were held during the winter months. During the summer months of 1897 and 1898 they held nightly
services in a tent, which was moved front one part of the city to another as occasion required. The mission originally established at 1701 Lucas Avenue has become known as "The Full Gospel Cliristian Home," one of the features of the work carried on there being to provide a temporary home for those without means and seeking employment.
Fulton .- The judicial seat of Callaway County, a city operating under special char- ter, located in the central part of the county, on the Jefferson City branch of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, 114 miles by rail from St. Louis. It is pleasantly situated, in the cen- ter of a rich farming district, and has well graded streets, of which sixteen miles are macadamized and laid with granitoid, brick and stone sidewalks, and splendidly shaded with trees on either side. The town was laid out in 1825, on fifty acres of land donated to the county by George Nichols. As the town increased in population additions were added, until the town at present includes within its limits several times the original area. The town was incorporated first on March 14, 1859. It owns its electric lighting plant and waterworks, and is supplied with a fire de- partment well equipped. There are numer- ous fine business blocks, and the city is the seat of Westminster College, founded in 1852; Synodical Female College, founded in 1871, both under the direction of the Presbyterian Church; the Orphan School of the Christian Church, State Lunatic Asylum, No. I, and the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. There are three public schools, one of which is for colored children; Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, South, and Methodist Episcopal Churches, and two Baptist Churches, one Christian and one Methodist Episcopal Church supported by the colored population of the town. There are two daily papers, the "Sun" and the "Independent," and four weekly papers, the "Telegraph," the "Ga- zette," the "Journal" and the "Sun," pub- lished in the city, besides two school journals, the "Collegian," published at Westminster College, and the "Record," published at the Christian Orphan School. The city has four banks, two good hotels, two large brick man- ufacturing plants, flouring mill, ice plant, steam laundry, a large pottery and crucible works, a dye works, opera hall, and more
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than a hundred other business places, in- cluding a number of well stocked stores in different branches of trade, shops, etc. Sur- rounded by a rich farming country, Fulton is important as a trading and shipping point. The population in 1900 was 4,883.
Fulton, Charles Marion, physician and surgeon, Kansas City, was born Septem- ber 9, 1858, at Independence, Kenton County, Kentucky. His parents were Samuel James and Massie Jane (Howland) Fulton. The father, who was a native of Virginia, died in Kansas in 1894. The mother was born in Ohio, and is yet living at Bonner Springs, Kansas. Their son, Charles Marion, ac- quired a fair education in the common schools in his home neighborhood, but the larger part of his attainments was self- acquired, and in a considerable degree he gained knowledge himself while imparting it to others. During the winter months of eight years he taught school, while industri- ously engaged as a student himself. He be- gan teaching when he was only sixteen years of age, and was at the same time gaining a knowledge of Latin, German and the higher mathematics. In 1882 he began the study of medicine in the Kentucky School of Medi- cine, at Louisville, from which he was grad- uated in 1883. During all these student years he intermitted during the winter months to teach school, in order to secure means for. the completion of his own education. Upon his graduation in medicine he removed to North Dakota, locating at Dawson. He was there engaged in practice for five years. His skill as a physician was recognized in his ap- pointment as county physician, and his in- terest in education and in the material development of the community in his appoint- ment as county superintendent of schools. In June, 1888, with a bright future before him, the rigor of the climate proved too se- vere, and he removed to Missouri, locating in Kansas City, where he has since resided and practiced his profession with a high de- gree of success. In general practice he is highly reputed, and while he does not seek distinction as a surgeon, his ability in that branch of professional work is generally recognized. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a member of the Christian Church. His fraternal relationship is re- stricted to Odd Fellowship and the Modern
Woodmen of America. He was married, June 10, 1891, to Miss Belle S. Carswell, at that time a teacher in the Kansas City pub- lic schools. Dr. Fulton is one of the unpre- tentious, capable men, fully satisfied with taking a modest part in the affairs of life, doing the duty of the moment as it comes to him. He stands high in the esteem of the community, and in none is there reposed greater confidence in a professional way or as a citizen and neighbor.
Funeral Directors' Association .- The Missouri Funeral Directors' Associa- tion seeks to "educate and raise to a higher plane the undertakers of the State, so that they may be able to protect the living, while caring for the dead, and prevent one fu- neral from becoming the cause of others; also to learn and practice the laws of sani- tation and bacteriology, with the view of pre- venting the spread of contagious diseases." It was founded at Tobner's Hall, in Kansas City, on the 9th, Ioth and IIth of May, 1888, G. B. Hickman, of Butler, being the first president ; M. H. Alexander, of Marshall, the first secretary, and W. H. Wellington, of Memphis, the first treasurer. The meetings are held annually, the time and place being fixed by the association.
Funkhouser, Robert M., physician, was born December 10, 1850, in St. Louis, son of Robert M. and Sarah Johnson Funk- houser, his father having been a well known St. Louis merchant and banker. He is a de- scendant in the maternal line of the Spencer and Russell families of England, his mother having been Sarah Johnson (Selmes) Funk- houser, a daughter of Colonel Tilden Russell Selmes, who served in the Civil War. His great-grandfather on his mother's maternal side, was John Ennis, who served in the New Jersey troops during the Revolutionary War. Reared in St. Louis, Dr. Funkhouser re- ceived his early educational training in pri- vate schools of that city, and under the tutorage of the late Bishop Dunlap. Later he was graduated from the University of Virginia, and in 1871 from Dartmouth Col- lege, of Hanover, New Hampshire. Soon after his graduation from Dartmouth lie be- gan the study of both law and medicine, and in 1873 was graduated from the Columbia Law School, of New York, with the degree
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of bachelor of laws. Subsequently he was admitted to the bar in New York State, and also in St. Louis. Continuing the study of medicine, he received his doctor's degree from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of New York in 1874. Preferring medicine to the law, he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in New York, but at the end of a year returned to St. Louis. There he at once became identi- fied with medical educational work, and at the same time began building up a practice which has since grown to large proportions. Be- ginning with 1875, he served three years as assistant demonstrator of anatomy in Mis- souri Medical College, and in 1876 helped to found Beaumont Medical College, of St. Louis. Thereafter 'he filled the chair of clin- ical surgery in the last named institution until 1891, and both in this educational field and in the field of operative surgery he has ac- quired well merited distinction. He has been consulting physician to the city and female hospitals and has given freely of his time and professional labor in aid of numerous chari- table and beneficial institutions. Progress- iveness has been one of his dominant characteristics throughout his professional career, and he has kept in touch with the best minds of his profession through close observation of the results of medical and scientific investigation and attendance at the meetings of leading medical societies. He is a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation, the Missouri State Medical Society, and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of St. Louis, in all of which associations of phy- sicians and surgeons he is an active and in- fluential worker. He is also identified with various other associations and societies, scientific and otherwise, among which are the Masonic order, the Legion of Honor, the Royal League, and the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He has made original re- searches in physiology, psychology and surgery, and has contributed to medical literature various papers on topics coming within the field of his observations. In later years his practice has been confined prin- cipally to surgery and gynecology, and in these fields of professional labor he is one of the most prominent of Western physicians. Dr. Funkhouser has been twice married; first, to Miss Virginia C. Cantrell, and after her death, to Miss Alice M. Cantrell, both
daughters of Dr. A. M. Cantrell, of Vir- ginia, and great-granddaughters of Leon- ard Daniel, of Cumberland County, Virginia, who entered the Revolutionary Army at the age of seventeen years, and was stationed first at Norfolk and later at Yorktown, wit- nessing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The father of Leonard Daniel, William Daniel, who was one of the early colonists of Cumberland County, served in the Colonial Army throughout the entire period of the Revolutionary War. Dr. Funkhouser has two sons, Robert and Selmes Paul Funk- houser.
Funny Fellows .- A mystic society or- ganized in 1894 to participate in the autumnal festivities, for which St. Louis has become famous. Parades were given under the au- spices of this society on the Saturdays pre- ceding the opening of the St. Louis Fair, in 1894, 1895 and 1896. The arrival of the mystic crew was heralded some days in ad- vance, in each instance by a proclamation from "King Hotu," in which mysterious al- lusions were made to their landing and forth- coming parade. The parade was headed by men on horseback, in fantastic costumes, and these were followed in turn by comical and mirth-provoking floats. The Society of Funny Fellows numbered about 400 mem- bers, and their parades attracted many visit- ors to St. Louis, and were among the most pleasing entertainments which have been provided for the people in connection with the fall festivities. No parade was given in 1897, but the society is still in existence, and the followers of "King Hotu" will respond to the command of their ruler when occasion requires.
Furniture Board of Trade, St. Louis. - An organization which had its be- ginning in a meeting held October 26, 1879, which chose Daniel Aude, president ; D. S. Horne, vice president, and J. H. Koppelman, treasurer. After a few years the interest of its members declined, and the attendance of the meetings fell off until they were aban- doned. This condition of things continued until the year 1888, when the growing im- portance of the furniture interest called for an active and compact organization of the manufacturers and dealers for the protection and advancement of it. On the 18th of
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August of that year a meeting was held at which the board was reorganized, with J. G. Smith for president ; J. H. Conrades, for vice president ; James A. Reardon for secretary ; H. S. Tuttle for manager ; and Gustave Wolff for treasurer. In 1893 it was incorporated, its objects, as stated in its constitution, being "to promote a feeling of confidence and good will among those engaged in the furniture and kindred industries of the city of St. Louis ; to exchange information by means of lectures, discussions, reading of prepared papers, and demonstrations; to advance science and skill in the industrial arts, and generally for the intellectual advancement of its members." At the first meeting held after the incorporation, at which the constitu- tion and by-laws were adopted, Edwin H. Conrades was chosen president; L. G. Kregel, first vice president; N. H. Foster, second vice president ; George T. Parker, secretary, and F. D. Gardner, treasurer. Monthly meetings are held at the hall of the board, and its rooms are open every day to its members.
Fur Trade .- The fur trade, which had so much to do with the early history of St. Louis, may be said to have begun with the very beginning of the city itself, and had there been no fur trade and no material for such a business, there would have been no St. Louis, probably, for half a century after the post was established. Kentucky and Tennessee, the two oldest States west of the Alleghanies, were settled by explorers and hunters from Virginia and the Carolinas in search of adventure, who were attracted by the abundant game that roamed at will in their boundless forests, and, perhaps, by the danger they would encounter, in hunting, from the Indians who claimed the game, and the hunting grounds along with it, as their own by ancient right. It was natural enough, after the close of the Revolutionary War, that thousands of officers and soldiers who had served in the Continental Army, and lost everything they possessed, should come over the Alleghanies, or down the Ohio, Cumber- land and Tennessee to Lexington, Louisville and Nashville, to find, in the glowing future of the new settlements the means of repair- ing their broken fortunes, and of becoming eminent in the States of which these settle- ments were the beginnings. And had the
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